The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1260 - Taylor Swift Was Accidentally Right

00:00:00.000 Taylor Swift is celebrating Pride Month by pandering to the LGBT LMNOP mafia, 0.98

00:00:05.860 the gay shtapo, if you will. And that, of course, is not surprising. 1.00

00:00:10.120 What is surprising is that Taylor's message is accidentally correct.

00:00:16.960 I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people in the LGBTQ community. I really wish

00:00:24.060 to. Because, you know, we can't talk about Pride Month without talking about pain.

00:00:32.300 There, right now, and recently, and in the recent years, there have been so many harmful pieces

00:00:41.800 of legislation that have put people in the LGBTQ and queer community at risk.

00:00:46.320 It's painful for everyone, every ally, every loved one, every person in these communities.

00:00:56.620 And that's why I'm always posting, this is when the midterms are. This is when

00:01:01.020 these important key primaries are. Risk. Threat. Risk. The suicide rate for transgender 1.00

00:01:12.780 identifying people is 41%. The biggest threat to trans-identifying people, by far,

00:01:18.320 really the only threat, statistically, is themselves. And at a deeper level, the ideology

00:01:24.680 that leads them to reject reality and attempt, in vain, to live according to delusion.

00:01:31.140 Taylor Swift is right that we can't talk about Pride without talking about pain. The ideology of Pride,

00:01:39.680 in all its forms, well beyond the sex stuff, inevitably leads to pain because Pride goes

00:01:46.060 before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. And everyone knows it. The transgender 1.00

00:01:51.800 activists know it. That's why they're always screaming for the affirmation of their delusions. 0.92

00:01:57.960 The Pride paraders jiggling in the streets know it. Hence the frenzied bullying that all of a

00:02:05.000 corporate America and everyone else falls in line. It's so obvious, even Taylor Swift knows it too.

00:02:11.920 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:21.160 Welcome back to the show. I've got a great testimony of a former Transheiser Bush executive

00:02:28.880 on why companies like AB InBev, Bud Light, all the rest of them, are going rainbow, and

00:02:36.280 specifically are going trans. We'll get to that in just a second. First, though, speaking of the pain

00:02:42.560 of pride, this story from Reuters, I think this sums it up. Reuters here is quoting the World Health

00:02:51.900 Organization. You know, that very scientific, very credible, not at all political, just plays

00:02:58.720 it straight. Whatever the science says, that's what they promote. That organization, this is last

00:03:03.800 year when monkeypox was surging. Monkeypox spread no reason to shun pride parades.

00:03:13.260 An unusual spread of monkeypox does not mean people should shun LGBTQ plus pride parades this summer,

00:03:20.340 a World Health Organization expert said on Monday, adding that it was important to show support.

00:03:25.220 First of all, an unusual spread of monkeypox? What's unusual about it? Monkeypox spreads at

00:03:30.600 gay orgies. It's true that it can spread in other ways, but practically speaking, the way it spreads is 0.99

00:03:36.620 gay orgies. That's how this recent epidemic of monkeypox began, because of weird, fetishistic 1.00

00:03:43.260 gay orgies in Belgium and Spain. That's how it began. It is, for all intents and purposes, a gay, 1.00

00:03:51.580 sexually transmitted disease. And there are going to be a bunch of political activists who insist, 0.99

00:03:57.160 no, it's not. Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease. It can be spread in other

00:04:01.680 ways. That's true. HIV can be spread in other ways, too. HIV can be spread by sharing needles on

00:04:07.820 the street. But HIV, practically speaking, is a gay, sexually transmitted disease. The same is true 1.00

00:04:13.600 of monkeypox. Why is it important to show support? Well, not for health purposes, of course, but for

00:04:22.000 ideological purposes. They go on. The usually mild illness that can cause flu-like symptoms and skin

00:04:28.000 lesions is disproportionately affected men who have sex with men. That's the new term. Health officials

00:04:32.860 have stressed the disease can be transmitted to anyone who has close contact, such as skin-to-skin,

00:04:36.180 infection with an infected person. A usually mild illness that can cause flu-like symptoms.

00:04:47.940 That sounds familiar to me. Hold on. There's a usually mild illness that can cause flu-like symptoms

00:04:53.900 that is spreading like an epidemic. But in this case, people should just go out and not worry about

00:05:00.400 it at all. Now, the last time we had a usually mild illness that causes flu-like symptoms, we were told

00:05:05.680 we had to lock down the entire world for three years. We were told that we couldn't go see our

00:05:10.020 grandparents dying in the hospital. We were told that we couldn't go to funerals. We couldn't go

00:05:13.640 to school. We couldn't go to work. We couldn't go to church. We couldn't. We could go to the pot

00:05:16.660 dispensary. We could go to BLM riots. But we couldn't go to any of the other things. Okay.

00:05:25.720 Monkeypox seems a lot worse, actually, than that last usually mild illness that causes flu-like

00:05:29.740 symptoms in that monkeypox causes skin lesions and it's just generally way grosser. Well, why is the WHO

00:05:34.900 encouraging people to go out there? Quote, it's important that people who want to go out and

00:05:40.020 celebrate gay pride, LGBTQ plus pride, to continue to go and plan to do so, says Andy Seale, strategies

00:05:46.080 advisor at WHO's Department of Sexually Transmitted Infections Programs. That's what he said at a WHO

00:05:50.720 social media briefing. Why is that important? It's certainly not important to public health.

00:05:54.800 If you wanted to protect public health and stop the spread of monkeypox, you would shut down all the

00:05:58.060 pride parades. Why is it important? It's important because the WHO is not exclusively or even

00:06:03.420 primarily a health or scientific organization. It's a political organization. It's made up of

00:06:08.100 political apparatchiks who set public policy, which is what conservatives have been saying from the

00:06:12.240 beginning of the COVID lockdowns. But at that time, we were told by all the libs that the WHO and the

00:06:19.620 CDC and all the rest of these groups merely were presenting the science. I'm not political. I've never

00:06:25.220 had any political opinion publicly. I'm just talking about the science.

00:06:28.300 But here we have WHO saying explicitly, forget about the science in this case. The ideology is

00:06:36.480 more important than the spread of this epidemic. And I know there are going to be a lot of people

00:06:39.380 who say, what about COVID? Where was this idea during COVID? And the answer is, this was the exact

00:06:45.180 same story during COVID. This is exactly what they told us. Don't forget, there was that letter signed

00:06:49.060 by some 1,200 public health officials who insisted that it was important to go riot for the George Floyd

00:06:56.020 protests. Because they claimed that white supremacy is a public health emergency that predates and

00:07:02.760 exacerbates COVID-19. They just made it up. They said, if you're a normal person who lives a normal

00:07:09.200 life and you want to go do normal things, you have to stay locked up in your home. But if you're a

00:07:13.200 leftist terrorist, you need to go out in the streets and burn things down. Now, that's good for public 0.99

00:07:17.620 health. But you going to granny's funeral, that's bad for public health. It's the same story.

00:07:23.940 The libs always exempt themselves from their own rules. And furthermore, even the most over-the-top,

00:07:34.840 clearly scientific program, any of these programs that are within public policy that claim to be

00:07:41.280 neutral, they can never be neutral. They're always within a political context. They always take part in

00:07:47.960 philosophical and often ideological premises. And the trick that the libs play is they tell us all,

00:07:56.200 ostensibly free citizens of a self-governing republic, that we're not allowed to question

00:07:59.760 their public policies. When they do something, it's always science and unassailable. When we do

00:08:06.120 something, it's always politics. It's not scientific at all. And they can always trump us with their

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00:09:24.840 info kit on gold. That is Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 989898. Liberalism always protects itself.

00:09:33.980 And who does liberalism have to protect itself from? Liberalism has to protect itself from the people.

00:09:40.600 Liberalism and democracy, we've seen this increasingly in recent years, are in opposition

00:09:44.960 to one another. And so what the liberals do is they redefine democracy as liberalism. So when the

00:09:51.580 majority of the people oppose liberalism, we're told that's a threat to democracy, even though that's

00:09:55.540 a completely incoherent statement. The majority of Hungarians have elected Viktor Orban. This poses

00:10:01.260 a great threat to democracy. The majority of Americans or American electors have elected Donald

00:10:07.100 Trump. This poses a great threat to democracy. Now, of course, by definition, the majority of people

00:10:12.180 voting for something can't pose a threat to democracy, but they just mean liberalism. And liberalism is an

00:10:16.580 elite ideology that looks on the people with a great deal of skepticism and tries to suppress the

00:10:23.400 desires of the people. And liberalism is a revolutionary ideology, so liberalism's aims get

00:10:29.160 increasingly crazy. We've seen this within our own lifetimes. We've seen this within the last decade or

00:10:33.060 two. Liberalism, which begins from the starting point of skepticism. Hey, we can't really know what's

00:10:40.800 good. Hey, we can't really know what's true. So you do you, I'll do me. We're not going to harm each

00:10:44.980 other. We're not going to interfere in each other's lives. We're just going to do our own thing,

00:10:48.000 okay? We're individuals. We've got our own views of the world, and we're just going to respect each

00:10:51.540 other's views. Okay, that's how it starts. Relatively modest way to begin. And then that

00:10:56.880 becomes, hey, we can't really know what marriage is. I know it's the fundamental political institution,

00:11:04.640 but maybe it means one thing for you and one thing for me. Who's to say? We'll just redefine it to

00:11:08.020 mean pretty much whatever we want it to mean. Hey, who's to say what a man is and what a woman is? 0.54

00:11:14.420 You can't know. Your view of man might not be my view of man. So we're going to let hulking dudes 0.98

00:11:18.060 into the women's locker room. Hey, look, all this religion stuff, man, that's really harsh in my

00:11:26.340 mellow. It's really harsh in my vibe, man. So we got to kick the Bible out of schools. We got to kick 1.00

00:11:30.360 prayer out of schools. We got to kick all public religion out of the public square. I mean, not our 1.00

00:11:35.440 religion. We're going to put our pride flags everywhere. But your stuff, like a nativity scene 1.00

00:11:39.260 at Christmas, yeah, we're going to get that out of the public square. Now, this is in opposition to what

00:11:43.260 the people want. The vast majority of the American people don't support transgenderism.

00:11:47.520 Vast majority of the American people don't support the weird rainbow pride progress flag everywhere.

00:11:51.840 The vast majority of the American people don't support any of this nonsense. And yet it continues

00:11:56.060 to advance. How? Because liberalism has little tricks up its sleeve, one of which is the judges.

00:12:02.680 The judges very often will overrule the wise conservative impulses of the people. You're seeing

00:12:06.800 this right now in Tennessee. Federal judge ruled on Friday that a Tennessee law that shields children

00:12:13.740 from sexually explicit performances is unconstitutional. Tennessee passed a law which

00:12:18.940 said, hey, if you're going to go jiggle around in provocative sexual ways, you're going to have 1.00

00:12:22.720 weird drag queens flaunting their goods in front of kids. It's really flaunting their bads in front of 1.00

00:12:29.460 kids. That's illegal. You're not allowed to do that. Okay, pretty reasonable, right? We don't want our 1.00

00:12:34.800 kids to be groomed by these weirdos. And then a federal judge comes in, U.S. District Judge Thomas

00:12:40.840 Parker, and says that this is unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad.

00:12:50.960 Would you imagine? Unconstitutionally vague, substantially overbroad. Don't groom the kids. 0.84

00:12:56.360 Don't take them to weird sex shows. That's unconstitutional. Can you imagine James Madison

00:13:01.220 rolling over in his grave at this absolutely debauched federal judge's ruling? Thomas Parker.

00:13:08.200 Well, when you really think about it, actually, when you really think about it, don't you think

00:13:12.940 Thomas Jefferson woke up in the morning with the stated goal, fought the revolution to sexualize

00:13:20.580 the little kids? I don't think so. But that's what the revolutionary liberals want. And when the

00:13:26.060 people say no, and the people through their representatives pass laws against it, the revolutionary

00:13:29.560 libs come in through the courts or wherever else, and they say, nope, too bad. This same thing happened

00:13:33.920 with porn laws in the 90s. Porn is one of the big social pathologies today. It's ubiquitous.

00:13:41.780 It's leading people into all sorts of problems. People write into the show about this. They say,

00:13:45.640 porn has really messed up my view of the world. I was exposed when I was 10 years old. It's really

00:13:50.060 messed up my relationships. It causes divorce. It causes all sorts of problems. It causes people to

00:13:55.800 take a really violent, abusive, narcissistic view of each other and the other sex and all of it. It's 0.75

00:14:01.120 just dreadful. So in the 90s, people saw this coming, both Democrats and Republicans, and they

00:14:05.260 tried to do something about it. They passed the Communications Decency Act, which we now talk about

00:14:09.840 mostly in the context of big tech regulation. But the Communications Decency Act was really about

00:14:14.280 decency in communications. They also passed the Child Online Protection Act, COPA.

00:14:19.920 This was passed under the Clinton administration, which had a Republican Congress. This was passed by

00:14:26.940 both parties. They said, we got to regulate porn on the internet. And then the key provisions of

00:14:33.180 those laws were struck down by judges, who said, nope, liberalism demands that we have porn everywhere,

00:14:38.440 and so we're going to strike down your censorship of it. Even though your censorship of it is perfectly

00:14:44.840 in line with the American tradition, the vast majority of the American people want it. Too bad.

00:14:47.860 We're going to strike it down. Liberalism protects itself. And so the revolution goes marching on,

00:14:51.940 no matter what the people of either party try to do about it. You're seeing this reach a fever pitch

00:15:00.100 down in Utah right now. A Utah school district, a Utah school district, at a time when we cannot ban

00:15:08.940 gay porn from elementary school classrooms and libraries, in many cases, at a time when we cannot 0.97

00:15:16.880 pass laws prohibiting perverts from jiggling around for little kids. Utah, Utah's Davis school district 0.98

00:15:26.960 has just banned the Bible, rather, from its libraries and classrooms for vulgarity and violence.

00:15:35.860 This is really clever. The school district said that the Bible could be considered pornographic,

00:15:42.260 this after a parent filed a complaint. And so elementary and middle school students in Utah's

00:15:47.060 Davis school district, north of Salt Lake City, will no longer be able to find the Bible at school

00:15:51.180 libraries. Now, of course, the Bible already could not be taught in schools because some liberals on

00:15:56.060 the Supreme Court just decided that out of thin air in the middle of the 20th century. Now it won't

00:16:00.420 even be found in the libraries. The book will remain in circulation, quote, only at the high school level

00:16:07.060 based on age appropriateness due to vulgarity or violence. That according to school district

00:16:12.140 spokesman Christopher Williams and NBC News. Why? Now the parent is filing the complaint because

00:16:18.800 this parent is upset that conservatives are banning actual gay porn, like genderqueer by Maya 0.97

00:16:26.300 Kababi, graphic visual depictions of disturbing sex and disordered sex being presented for little kids. 0.96

00:16:37.760 Because that is now being kicked out of some schools, this parent says, well, we're going to kick the

00:16:40.780 Bible out of schools. What's the complaint say? The complaint says, incest, onanism, bestiality, 1.00

00:16:48.260 prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide. 0.97

00:16:54.200 You'll no doubt find that in the Bible. Under Utah code, section 76, blah, blah, blah. The Bible has, 0.99

00:17:01.680 no serious values for minors because it's pornographic by our new definition. That's

00:17:06.660 what they're saying. See? Got you. Got you, conservatives. Tell me that the Bible doesn't

00:17:13.520 include descriptions of those things or at least allusions to all those things. It does. You're

00:17:20.320 right. The Bible alludes to incest, onanism. That's where we get the word for onanism.

00:17:28.860 If you don't know what it is, don't look it up. Bestiality. Yeah, okay, fine. It alludes to all

00:17:34.020 these things. This is why the current milquetoast conservative approach to this issue is not going

00:17:42.080 to work. The current milquetoast conservative approach, the kind of squishy, hey, listen,

00:17:46.140 I'm being reasonable here. I don't want to go after the pride people. I'm just neutral on this 0.99

00:17:52.200 issue. Forget it. We don't need to ban gay porn from elementary schools. We want to ban all sexual 1.00

00:17:57.400 teaching. That's the current kind of milquetoast view, but that will never work. You actually can't

00:18:04.900 ban all teaching that in any way alludes to sex from elementary school because sex, including and

00:18:13.100 especially the sexual distinction between men and women, is fundamental to human nature. If you teach

00:18:18.640 a book to elementary school students about Mr. John and Mrs. Jane and their dog, Spot, and their son,

00:18:27.640 Jack, you are teaching something about sex. You're teaching something about family and how men and women

00:18:32.440 relate to one another and what family looks like. You are teaching something about sex.

00:18:37.440 When you teach the Bible, there are plenty of references in the Bible to all of these

00:18:44.140 sorts of unpleasant things. The question is not what do these books allude to,

00:18:52.840 but what do the books teach about those things? Yes, the Bible references incest, onanism, bestiality,

00:19:00.360 prostitution, general mutilation, the list goes on and on and on. And the Bible says those things are bad.

00:19:05.700 And the pride people also teach about all of these things, onanism, fellatio, infanticide, obviously, 0.85

00:19:16.740 all these weird sex things. And the pride people say that those things are good.

00:19:24.060 And a value-neutral approach to education is not going to be able to discern between the two things,

00:19:30.560 which means that a value-neutral approach to education is just going to be exploited by the

00:19:34.920 leftists who know what their values are and who are willing to enforce their values in public square 0.97

00:19:38.820 to install gay porn in elementary schools and to kick out the Bible. The only coherent response to 0.99

00:19:45.320 that is going to be for us to stop pushing this value-neutral nonsense, which can never exist in

00:19:51.060 practice, and to say, hey, yeah, you're right. The Bible and Maya Kababi both teach about these things.

00:19:57.160 But one of them says they're bad. One of them says they're good. And we know that these are bad

00:20:01.460 things. And so we're going to teach kids that they're bad things. We're going to teach kids

00:20:05.060 that men can't become women. And we're going to teach kids that the way you have a family is mommy

00:20:09.780 marries daddy. And they have a child together. And the family is the basic building block of society.

00:20:16.140 And it's good to do that. And it's good to be fruitful and multiply. And it's bad to do all this

00:20:21.300 weird sex stuff that the libs are trying to teach five-year-olds. Yeah, we're going to have values. 0.55

00:20:25.560 It's either going to be ours or it's going to be theirs. Which view do you want to teach? 0.61

00:20:31.740 Gender queer or Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy? You tell me. I know which one I want to teach.

00:20:39.840 I think Utah and the rest of the country needs to get a little bit more serious about it.

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00:22:04.840 Speaking of education, Minnesota's just announced it will give free college education to illegal aliens.

00:22:10.880 This is being touted as a way to, quote, provide historic investment for student support

00:22:15.260 and our institutions. There are going to be a lot of people who have paid for college in Minnesota

00:22:21.140 who are going to be furious about this. People who are American citizens, Minnesota taxpayers,

00:22:25.820 they had to pay for their education. Meanwhile, these illegal aliens come in, they break our laws, 1.00

00:22:29.860 and they get free education. This isn't fair. Yeah, you're right, it's not fair. Why would the state

00:22:34.040 do this? The state would do this because education, public education, is not primarily about the

00:22:40.360 individual. Public education is primarily about the state. The state of Minnesota, the liberal people

00:22:46.260 who rule Minnesota, are not doing this because they really care for the well-being of the Venezuelan

00:22:52.120 migrants, or I guess more likely Somalian migrants into Minnesota. The liberal rulers of Minnesota are

00:22:58.020 doing this because they know that forcing these people into classrooms will shape their minds and

00:23:03.920 and impel them to conform to the liberal ideology that governs the state. That's what education is

00:23:11.400 for. Education just means bringing somebody up, raising somebody, teaching somebody. That's why we

00:23:17.920 have to do it, inevitably. You need to be educated. You're going to be educated one way or the other.

00:23:22.760 Now, previously, we had a little bit of a mixture of education in our country. For a long time,

00:23:27.840 it was just private education, various forms of private and very local education. Then the liberal

00:23:31.820 reformers came in and they imposed ever more national forms of public education. And then they

00:23:37.420 started to extend the timeline on it. So it used to be you'd go to public education, first grade

00:23:44.040 through eighth grade, and then later on, 12th grade. Okay, first through 12th. That's great. Then they added

00:23:51.180 kindergarten onto that. Then they added preschool onto that. Then they started to insist upon college

00:23:57.480 for everybody. So all of a sudden, the 12 years that you were going to spend in public

00:24:01.760 education, which was going to be offset by all the time you were spending at home,

00:24:05.440 those summers with your family, the time you're spending in church, the time you're spending in

00:24:08.940 your community, all of a sudden, all that extra time with all those other influences starts to

00:24:13.280 get crowded out. And it's crowded up by the liberal state, which is going to spend more and more time

00:24:17.440 influencing you. From preschool, starting at age three these days. I know some people who send

00:24:22.080 their kids to preschool, which is really just daycare, but it's daycare with an ideological bent to it.

00:24:27.780 They'll start doing that at age two. And then now everyone has this view that they have to go to

00:24:32.860 college. Then you had another four years on the end of that. And then some people who can barely

00:24:38.540 spell their names, frankly, are going on and getting master's degrees. To get a PhD still requires a fair

00:24:45.260 bit of sophistication. But to get a master's degree, that's been watered down greatly. And it's too bad for

00:24:52.400 the people who actually are seeking a further higher education because the quality of the education

00:24:57.160 at virtually every level has been watered down. And it's been watered down intentionally by the

00:25:02.020 state, which is just seeking to bring as many people into the system as it possibly can. Of course,

00:25:08.380 the rulers in Minnesota are going to do this. It benefits them politically. Speaking of people up

00:25:13.020 north, Canada has a new public health campaign. Canada's public health campaign will be to print

00:25:22.320 warnings on cigarettes. Now, we've had warnings on cigarettes for many decades at this point.

00:25:27.740 And if you ever travel to Europe, you'll know that the warnings get even more intense. Here,

00:25:31.060 it just says, Surgeon General's warning, cigarettes are bad for you. They can cause cancer. They can cause

00:25:35.100 birth defects. Okay. When you go to Europe, it's just these big letters. Smoking kills. Quit smoking now.

00:25:41.740 It's all sorts of diseased organs. It's jokes about erectile dysfunction. It's really intense

00:25:47.240 and in-your-face. Canada's now going further, as Canada seems to go further on everything.

00:25:52.540 The nicest people in the world seem to go extremely, to the extremes of offensiveness and absurdity

00:26:00.120 more than anyone else on earth. And yet, they're so nice about it. They're like, oh, well, you know,

00:26:04.360 hey, hey, don't you know, we're going to go kill all the elderly and the homeless? Well, yes. 1.00

00:26:08.140 Ha-ha. Don't you know? So, Canada has decided they're going to print the warnings not just on

00:26:13.020 the cigarette cartons, not just on the cigarette packs, on the cigarettes themselves, which is

00:26:17.820 really genius, right? You've already, you got the tobacco and you got all the added chemicals that

00:26:21.360 the cigarette companies put in. And now, Canada's going to add ink to that as well. That's probably

00:26:24.940 healthy for you, right? And Canada's announced that they're going to put them on all the cigarettes,

00:26:30.060 first country in the world to do so. They're hoping other countries follow suit.

00:26:33.300 My question is, is Canada going to do the same thing for doobies? Is Canada going to require 0.96

00:26:40.660 warning labels on big, fat blunts? Is that the next step? No. No, Canada's not going to do that.

00:26:47.480 Even though marijuana is, in many ways, much worse for you than cigarettes,

00:26:54.380 will leave your lungs filled with more tar than cigarettes will. That doesn't matter.

00:27:00.680 Canada has legal marijuana, not just for medical purposes, but for recreation too.

00:27:05.800 The liberals in Canada are all fine with you filling your lungs with very toxic, mind-altering

00:27:10.640 smoke when it's the smoke that they like, just not the smoke that we like. Tobacco broadly

00:27:16.620 is preferred by conservatives. We like cigars. We like dip. We like even cigarettes. People who smoke

00:27:28.540 cigarettes tend to be of the working class. And so while it's true that many of them might vote

00:27:34.660 Democrat, the working classes broadly tend to be temperamentally conservative, constitutionally

00:27:43.160 conservative. They're not the radical activists out there. They're the kind of normal people who

00:27:48.680 like their norms and customs. That's who likes tobacco, broadly speaking, the conservative people.

00:27:54.500 Who likes doobies? I know that there are right-wingers who like to smoke the devil's lettuce,

00:27:58.240 puff on a few jazz cigarettes every now and again, spark up the Peruvian parsley. But broadly speaking,

00:28:03.560 the people who like marijuana are the libs. It's a lib thing, okay? And so in Canada,

00:28:11.620 you got two substances that you could smoke, one of which actually is worse for you, and it's marijuana.

00:28:17.660 The marijuana, no warning label. It's fine. Go do it. It's great. Peace and love, man. It's a wonder

00:28:22.120 drug. It cures everything. Tobacco, which sharpens your mind, makes you quicker if it does anything

00:28:27.180 at all, in addition to all the health concerns. The way it affects your mind is it just makes you

00:28:33.240 smarter and faster. That's the one that needs the warning label. This is just a matter of imposing

00:28:41.820 political preference and culture on people and ideology. We're going to punish the conservative

00:28:49.200 thing. We're going to support the liberal thing. This is why during COVID, the libs locked down the

00:28:53.880 churches. They kept the pot dispensaries open. This is why. The reason why is that they're going to

00:29:01.020 punish the conservative thing. They're going to reward and encourage the liberal thing. The libs view

00:29:07.400 politics as little more than a distinction between friends and enemies. You're seeing this now in some of

00:29:18.180 what's coming to light from COVID. The new CDC director, a woman named Mandy Cohen, just recounted

00:29:23.560 how she, as then North Carolina health director, came up with her COVID mandates.

00:29:31.220 I would call, probably the person I called most was the Secretary of Health and Human Services in

00:29:35.700 Massachusetts. She worked for a Republican governor just to, but when she was like, are you going to let

00:29:42.520 them have professional football? And I was really like, nope. And she's like, okay, neither are we,

00:29:47.900 neither are we. So, you know, it was like conversations like that. So, or, or I'd be like,

00:29:55.900 so when are you going to think about lightening up a mess? They were like, so you're like next Monday.

00:30:00.200 I'm like, okay, next Monday.

00:30:01.480 Just a couple of girls gabbing. You know, hey, hey, Shirley, are you going to let, are you going 1.00

00:30:07.940 to let your guys go to their grandparents' funerals? Nah, okay. Yeah, I didn't know. I was

00:30:13.260 sort of like, just flip a coin. I don't know. So, how was your day? What do you think?

00:30:21.200 This was just a couple of girls gabbing. This was not the inerrant, infallible voice of science

00:30:28.380 with a capital S. This was politics, not science. Hey, you think we can get away with this? Nah,

00:30:34.240 okay, we won't push that hard. What about this? Yeah, we could probably do that. We probably can't

00:30:38.580 shut down these BLM riots, right? And anyway, it's really important that they go out there and they 0.83

00:30:42.820 riot. But we can stop the conservatives from going to church, can't we? Yeah, okay, good. Okay,

00:30:47.460 we'll do that. That's good. Hey, do you think we should tell the orgy people to stop doing the 1.00

00:30:56.680 orgy stuff? Because monkeypox is spreading a lot. No, we like pride. Yay, pride. Okay, 0.94

00:31:03.100 that's fine. Forget about that one. But we'll tell the conservatives that they have to shut down

00:31:06.820 their businesses, right? Yeah, okay, good, good. Politics, not science, of course, which frankly

00:31:11.740 is how it should be. Dr. Fauci was always wrong and he was always a liar. Maybe he was just totally 0.96

00:31:21.080 ignorant of what politics and science are. I don't put just total benighted ignorance past the 0.97

00:31:29.200 man. But public policy is always about politics and trade-offs and what kind of society we want

00:31:36.460 to live in. When the Libs say, look, it's more important to us that we have the big rainbow

00:31:40.320 parades than that we stop the spread of monkeypox, that's a legitimate political position to hold.

00:31:47.300 It's not a very smart one, but it's a legitimate political position to hold. You're saying we want

00:31:51.420 a cultural and sexual revolution more than we want to stop people from catching this STD.

00:31:58.120 When the Libs came out and they said, we support the BLM riots, even though it'll spread COVID, 0.55

00:32:04.460 we support the BLM riots. It's more important that the Libs go out and burn down the buildings 0.93

00:32:09.820 and loot the Nike stores than that we stop the spread of this flu-like disease. That's a legitimate

00:32:16.760 political position to hold. The problem is we were told that it wasn't political. We were told that

00:32:21.180 we're not allowed to have political views ourselves, and we're not allowed to support them.

00:32:25.800 This is an admission of what the conservatives knew the whole time, and it's a return to something

00:32:30.620 that's more normal and more basic, which is self-government. Now, science, for all of its flaws,

00:32:35.740 you know I'm very skeptical of science. Skeptical not just of scientism and the lab coat people and

00:32:41.240 those who have perverted science. I'm skeptical of basically the entire scientific project.

00:32:44.500 I'm skeptical of the way of thinking that has characterized the Western mind since the

00:32:48.680 scientific revolution. I'm skeptical of arguments about what a woman is, let's say, 1.00

00:32:53.380 that merely boil down to two X chromosomes and a uterus. I just think that's reductive and soul 0.92

00:32:58.820 denying and ignores the metaphysical basis of reality. So I'm kind of down on science. But there's some

00:33:05.360 good stuff that comes out of scientific and technological advancement.

00:33:09.180 One piece of evidence for this would be the baby boxes, and specifically a baby box in Knoxville.

00:33:18.060 Have you heard of baby boxes? Baby boxes are exactly what they sound like. It's a safe haven box

00:33:23.880 where mothers who choose not to kill their children through abortion, who choose to give birth to the 0.97

00:33:30.760 children, but don't know what to do with them once the children are born, they can just drop the baby

00:33:35.120 off, usually at a firehouse or police station, put the baby in a box, and the baby will then be put up

00:33:42.260 for adoption. We'll go into a sort of orphanage foster care system, but then hopefully be put up

00:33:48.080 for adoption. This used to happen. People would leave babies at the fire department, but the babies

00:33:58.060 could die of exposure. I mean, this has happened before. Abandoned babies will die of exposure very

00:34:01.960 quickly. These are very vulnerable creatures. So the baby box was invented to be climate controlled,

00:34:07.140 to be very safe, to give first responders an opportunity to come and help the babies out.

00:34:12.160 This has now been used in Knoxville, Tennessee's first safe haven baby box. It was used for the

00:34:18.040 first time, this was about a couple of weeks ago, according to the Knoxville Fire Department.

00:34:24.120 And the baby was approximately 30 minutes old. Firefighters called an ambulance,

00:34:28.620 they took the baby to the hospital. The baby is doing very well. Great stuff. Reminder that

00:34:33.800 conservatives cannot totally turn our back on technology. I don't really like modern technology

00:34:38.340 at all. I'm not a big fan of having screens everywhere. I basically never text anybody back.

00:34:44.000 But this is a great example of saying, as technology advances, let's turn it to our own good.

00:34:48.760 While the libs are turning technology toward creating babies in laboratories and insisting upon 1.00

00:34:54.920 these designer baby eugenics campaigns that are ghoulish and anti-human. Well, while the libs are 0.94

00:34:59.940 turning the technology toward killing babies, the conservatives are going to turn that technology

00:35:04.220 toward saving babies who are in danger. And that is great news. Now I mentioned this question of what

00:35:09.360 is a woman? You might have seen this phrase in the news the last couple of days. Daily Wire,

00:35:14.720 we just had the fight of our lives and we won. Yet again, we won. It was the beginning of Pride

00:35:22.300 Month and the one year anniversary of Matt's groundbreaking documentary, What is a Woman? So we

00:35:26.660 decided to celebrate by making it free for everyone to watch on Twitter for a day or two.

00:35:30.800 We all thought that Twitter 1.0 was coming back from the ashes with the censorship and the suppression

00:35:36.320 of conservative voices when that movie was marked hateful conduct for misgendering. Well, the great news

00:35:42.440 is Elon Musk made good on his promise. Not only did he remove the restrictions, but he personally tweeted

00:35:49.220 out the movie. He said, every parent should watch it. It was a huge victory for the message of the

00:35:53.580 film. The tweet now has over 170 million views, has made headlines around the world. For the second

00:35:59.500 Pride Month in a row, it was the number one streaming movie on Rotten Tomatoes of all films in all

00:36:04.480 categories. It's gotten more views than CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News combined. Daily Wire, I'll say it. I

00:36:10.720 don't want to toot our own horn too much. It's a culture-changing engine. No other conservative media

00:36:15.480 company can say that. We owe a debt of gratitude to those of you who have supported our mission.

00:36:19.600 We wouldn't have been able to do it without you. And for those of you who saw What is a Woman for

00:36:22.840 the first time this weekend, this kind of content is what we do best. There's a lot more to come.

00:36:27.380 There's still a lot of work to be done. We have to keep pushing back against the libs. We have to

00:36:32.380 shine some light into that darkness. So thank you to those of you who have joined. And if you haven't,

00:36:36.760 sign up. What are you waiting for? Now is the time, because if you sign up today,

00:36:39.940 you'll get 25% off your membership when you use code WOMAN at checkout. Go to

00:36:43.120 dailywire.com slash subscribe today. My favorite comment on Friday is from Old Skooled. Love

00:36:49.420 Old Skooled. He keeps cropping up in the comments. Who says, congratulations to Joe Biden for being the

00:36:55.700 most down-to-earth president of all time. Down to earth. Do you get it? Do you get it? That was a good

00:37:04.540 one. That was a really good one. The liberal system is designed to advance this radicalism.

00:37:13.920 It's not just one company. It's not just one guy. It's the whole system, as a former executive for

00:37:19.660 Transheiser Bush explained just a couple of days ago. So how does this actually work? These guys

00:37:26.960 are telling the truth? Here's how it works. It's pretty simple. You just have to follow the money.

00:37:31.800 If you take a look at BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they manage $20 trillion worth of capital.

00:37:36.880 But it's not their own money. This is the money to everyday citizens, firefighters, police officers,

00:37:41.220 doctors who generally have their money either via 401ks or, in a lot of cases, large pension funds.

00:37:46.540 Large pension funds like the state of California, which manages the largest pension fund in the U.S.,

00:37:51.140 and the state of New York, and then European pension funds as well. And a lot of the politicians

00:37:55.580 in those states, in California, for example, they recently have mandated those large pension funds

00:38:00.160 that they divest from things like fossil fuels and oil and gas. And then when Bill de Blasio,

00:38:05.460 mayor of New York, was there, did the same thing. But they also tell BlackRock, State Street,

00:38:09.040 and Vanguard, if they're going to manage their money, they have to commit to things like ESG,

00:38:12.780 diversity, equity, inclusion, and adopt firm-wide commitments that they therefore then force

00:38:17.220 onto all the major companies in corporate America.

00:38:20.680 So, obviously, this guy, Anson Fredericks, knows what he's talking about.

00:38:24.440 And Anson is also one of the founders of Strive Asset Management, which is Vivek Ramaswamy's

00:38:30.500 asset management company, to fight against woke investment. What he's describing, this ESG

00:38:38.040 movement, is this idea that the asset managers are able to use your money to throw your weight

00:38:43.980 around for their ideological celebrated causes, and then force the corporations to get in line. 0.88

00:38:52.600 Very true. And as this issue becomes more prominent, which it will over the next year,

00:38:57.280 that's going to be very good for Vivek's presidential campaign, because everyone's

00:39:01.380 looking for a lane. Trump is Trump. He's running in the Trump lane. Populism, old right,

00:39:09.560 old conservative kind of lane, correcting a lot of the ideological preferences on the right of the

00:39:17.340 last 20, 30 years. Ron DeSantis is running in that same lane. He's just running on an efficiency,

00:39:23.280 competency platform. So he's saying, I'm going to do all the Trump stuff, but I'm going to be better

00:39:27.700 at it. I'm going to get it done in a way that Trump was not able to get it done, and I'm going

00:39:30.680 to win in a way that Trump's not going to be able to win. Okay, that's where they're running.

00:39:34.500 You've got Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, very likely Mike Pence running in the same lane, the sort of

00:39:41.240 moderate, acceptable, centrist, appeal to suburban housewives kind of lane. And then you've got

00:39:48.060 Vivek is running in this out of left field ESG lane. He's running on the woke incorporated stop

00:39:54.120 the woke takeover of corporate America lane. That's an issue that is kind of unique to him.

00:39:59.700 This is good. This is good news for his presidential campaign. Now, it's a system. I've said it's a

00:40:05.860 system. One great evidence of this, it was the most egregious reporting I've seen in weeks,

00:40:11.780 and it has to do with what is a woman. NBC News. NBC News tweets out, 1.00

00:40:19.200 on Thursday, Twitter was roiled by an organized pressure campaign by conservative pundits seeking

00:40:26.760 to promote a 95-minute anti-transgender video. The incident resulted in two high-level departures

00:40:34.920 within 24 hours. This is a really amazing example of rhetoric and dishonesty in rhetoric.

00:40:44.840 A 95-minute anti-transgender video. Is there a word for 90-minute videos? Do we have another word

00:40:52.340 in our language for videos that are an hour and a half long? Oh, we usually call them movies or films.

00:40:57.380 Does a 95-minute anti-transgender video make you think it's shot on an iPhone or something,

00:41:01.260 and it's this kind of weird, bizarre rant. What is a woman is a multi-million dollar movie. It's the

00:41:06.080 most popular movie of the year and one of the most popular documentaries of all time.

00:41:10.560 Oh, it's just a 95-minute anti-transgender video. It was an organized pressure campaign by

00:41:15.180 conservative pundits. They're referring there, I assume, to the Twitter spaces that kicked off

00:41:20.080 this controversy, and that was a Twitter spaces that was run by Jeremy, Ben, me, Matt, Drew,

00:41:28.400 Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens. Oh, it's just some conservative pundits. No, it's the head of one

00:41:34.580 of the biggest media companies on the right, one of the most prominent media companies these days in

00:41:41.320 the country. Jordan Peterson, the most prominent public intellectual in the world. It's true,

00:41:46.200 some of us are conservative pundits, but it's not just people mouthing off on TikTok exactly,

00:41:50.920 okay, it's a little bit more of an organized, serious, institutionalized kind of situation that

00:41:58.120 we're talking about here. They say, oh, no, it's just, it's all on the fringe. This is what the

00:42:03.160 libs always do. They say, oh, your views, your views, ordinary Americans, they're very fringy.

00:42:09.760 They're out of the mainstream. The fact that these people have the audacity to call themselves

00:42:13.220 mainstream media is hilarious. It's risible. Mainstream, if you think that marriage is what

00:42:22.480 it has always been for all of human history, you know, it involves men and women, sexual difference, 1.00

00:42:28.280 oh, you're fringe, you're crazy. If you think men can't become women, you're fringe, you're crazy now. 1.00

00:42:32.620 Oh, you're just one of these weirdo little pundits with a long video that roiled Twitter. Well, it 0.98

00:42:37.460 worked. Why did it work? Because the vast majority of people know that we're right. And we do now have

00:42:43.940 the richest man in the world who is standing up for free speech and for the truth in this case.

00:42:50.600 The headline of the NBC article, Musk's response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at

00:42:58.920 Twitter. 24 hours of chaos. It's chaos. No, it just caused some like libs to quit basically, right?

00:43:08.380 That was it. And then Elon promoted the video. Okay, right. You see this all over, this pressure

00:43:16.520 campaign. This is a story near and dear to my heart. I spoke at the University of Buffalo a few

00:43:23.360 months ago. There were lots of protests and all sorts of nonsense. I was condemned by not only the

00:43:28.900 administration of the school, I was condemned by the chancellor of SUNY, the entire state university

00:43:33.760 of New York system. Why? For this issue. Because I said men and women are different. Because I said 0.98

00:43:38.060 that for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who fall on prey to this

00:43:41.400 delusion and confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole 1.00

00:43:46.420 ideology at every level. There was that little controversy. So as a result of that, the U Buffalo was

00:43:53.460 forced to allow me to speak because it's a publicly funded institution. And I have First Amendment

00:43:57.440 rights and the students at the school have First Amendment rights. Well, now U Buffalo has decided

00:44:01.640 to cancel the entire Young Americans Foundation chapter because they invited me to speak.

00:44:08.600 They used a bunch of little procedural loopholes to ban this group of students from campus,

00:44:16.340 from meeting on campus, and from operating as a student group because they had the temerity to invite

00:44:24.280 me, a conservative speaker, to come speak there. So they're suing. YAF is suing. And they've got ADF,

00:44:32.120 the Alliance Defending Freedom, helping them with that lawsuit, which is really, really great news.

00:44:37.480 The libs view politics as a matter of friends and enemies. If you're their friend, you can get away

00:44:43.200 with anything. If you're their enemy, nothing you do can ever be right. You will be destroyed.

00:44:48.060 This is how they view things. There's no mainstream. There's no neutrality. There's no meeting in the

00:44:54.340 middle on these sorts of issues. Either we're going to win or we're going to lose. Right now,

00:44:59.240 we're winning. We need some more backbone. We need some more clear vision. We need some more

00:45:04.180 support to keep on winning. You know, it's Music Monday, baby. The rest of the show continues now.

00:45:08.900 You don't want to miss it because we started the show with Taylor Swift. And coincidentally,

00:45:12.600 providentially, Mr. Davies has given us a new Taylor Swift song to analyze, to critique,

00:45:22.520 to parse and understand. This song's been up for nine days. It's already got 14 million views.

00:45:27.460 This Taylor Swift, I don't know why, is pretty much the most popular person on planet Earth.

00:45:33.700 I couldn't tell you a Taylor Swift song. I don't think I've ever consciously intended to listen to

00:45:38.480 a Taylor Swift song. And yet, everyone absolutely loves her. So, we'll get to that. Dailywire.com

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 05, 2023

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