The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1269 - Space Force Goes Woke

00:00:00.000 President Biden has finally responded to mounting evidence of his public corruption

00:00:05.040 involving multi-million dollar bribes by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma,

00:00:14.340 a man who, according to an FBI informant, referred to Biden as the big guy in the

00:00:19.420 bribery scheme. Lots of evidence, serious allegations. Here's Joe Biden's response.

00:00:24.660 Why did you frame an FBI informant by overpervius to the big guy? Why is that

00:00:32.840 such a dumb question? Why did you ask such a dumb question? Why are you such a big, fat,

00:00:41.360 ugly, stupid head? I'm rubber and you're a glue, Jack. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na. If I didn't

00:00:47.980 already think Biden was guilty before, and to be clear, I very much did think that he was guilty

00:00:53.380 before. I certainly would now. He's got no answer. He's got basically no defense.

00:01:01.980 And the crazy thing about our political system is it probably won't matter. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:06.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:23.780 Today, a lot of new presidential candidates in the race, and they're raising a lot of important

00:01:29.460 points, not about who's ultimately going to win or become president, but about the way the political

00:01:33.600 system works, including Cornel West, a radical leftist who seems to have more in common with

00:01:39.300 Trump supporters than he does with Biden supporters. We'll get to that in just a little bit. First,

00:01:43.640 though, Joe Biden actually could lose the first two 2024 presidential contests.

00:01:49.800 I don't say primaries because, you know, some states do caucuses. Some states do primaries.

00:01:55.000 They're a little bit of a different system. Biden could lose the first two.

00:01:59.660 And it's for a whole sort of fakakta reason about how Biden wanted the primary contests to begin in

00:02:09.380 South Carolina because, one, it's easier to control South Carolina in terms of the Democratic Party

00:02:15.380 machine. But, two, he thinks he's going to do better there than in, say, Iowa and New Hampshire.

00:02:20.280 The party hasn't totally gone along with that. Iowa and New Hampshire are not happy about that.

00:02:23.580 So, if Iowa and New Hampshire continue to be the first states, Biden could lose if he doesn't really

00:02:28.640 campaign there, if he doesn't appear on the ballot there. And if RFK Jr. does campaign there,

00:02:34.140 RFK Jr., who is doing a lot better than many people who would challenge an incumbent president,

00:02:41.000 RFK Jr. is polling somewhere between 15 and 20 percent right now. And RFK could win New Hampshire,

00:02:48.000 could win Iowa. And it still won't matter, but it will be pretty embarrassing for Joe Biden. It won't

00:02:54.780 matter in particular because the Democratic Party rigs their nominating contest even more than the

00:03:02.500 Republican Party does. You saw a lot of Bernie bros make this complaint back in 2016. The Democrats have

00:03:08.960 something called superdelegates. So, these are party leaders and oligarchs who can come in and place a

00:03:16.700 more weight behind one candidate instead of another if the primaries and caucuses start to go in the

00:03:22.500 wrong direction. But it will be embarrassing. And RFK Jr.'s candidacy is in no small part to expose the

00:03:30.400 way that our political system, and the Democratic Party in particular, is rigged. Frankly, that's what

00:03:34.940 Donald Trump's candidacy was about in 2016. And it's what it's about now, is showing how rigged the system

00:03:41.520 is for an oligarchic elite class, which is very liberal, against the far greater number of people, the

00:03:50.340 people party, which is much more conservative. The ruling class has become shameless in the way that they rig

00:03:58.820 these sorts of things. You saw a great example of this the other day with Space Force. Space Force, the newest branch

00:04:05.440 of the United States military. The top brass over there at Space Force, that this lieutenant general

00:04:13.740 lady, her name is Deanna M. Burt, openly, not only embracing Pride Month and Pride ideology, not only

00:04:24.720 attacking conservative duly elected Republican officials in red states, but saying that she would

00:04:31.620 prioritize the availability of gender-affirming care, she would prioritize transgender ideology over 1.00

00:04:39.160 qualifications when looking to promote people within that branch of service.

00:04:44.420 Transformational cultural change requires leadership from the top. And we do not have time to wait. Since

00:04:51.440 January of this year, more than 400 anti-LGBTQ plus laws have been introduced at the state level. That number is

00:04:59.400 rising and demonstrates a trend that could be dangerous for service members, their families, and

00:05:04.600 the readiness of the force as a whole. When I look at potential candidates, say for squadron command,

00:05:10.560 I strive to match the right person to the right job. I consider their job performance and relevant

00:05:16.320 experience first. However, I also look at their personal circumstances, and their family is also an

00:05:22.620 important factor. If a good match for a job does not feel safe being themselves and performing at

00:05:29.460 their highest potential at a given location, or if their family could be denied critical health care

00:05:35.040 due to the laws in that state, I am compelled to consider a different candidate and perhaps less

00:05:41.160 qualified. Perhaps a less qualified candidate. That's how committed I, General Woke, am to the

00:05:48.100 trans ideology. Absolutely insane. What she just did here is illegal. It violates, presumably it violates all 1.00

00:06:00.020 sorts of military regulations because she's politicking while in uniform. And at a broader level, this is 0.99

00:06:06.080 almost certainly a Hatch Act violation. She's politicking. As an employee of the government, she is 0.99

00:06:10.700 campaigning against Republican governors for instituting Republican policies, duly elected officials.

00:06:17.800 She is implicitly campaigning for Democrats here. And she's saying that she's going to compromise the

00:06:24.960 readiness of the American military to push her insane leftist ideology. So this ridiculous woman 1.00

00:06:30.500 certainly should be fired. She should be removed from service. Maybe she should be court-martialed. 1.00

00:06:35.480 Her name is Lieutenant General Deanna M. Burt. How this woman ever became a general is beyond me.

00:06:42.820 But all of the GOP candidates should focus on this and issues like this in the military.

00:06:51.480 Every GOP candidate should promise to fire this woman the moment that they enter office. 1.00

00:06:58.060 And they should campaign against this kind of thing because this is not just some school board

00:07:02.880 in San Francisco putting gay porn in the library or whatever. This is a general. This is a lady with a 1.00

00:07:11.620 lot of brass on her saying that she will weaken our military. She will consciously weaken our military 1.00

00:07:19.920 just so that she can override the desires of the American people in certain states expressed by their 0.99

00:07:29.620 duly elected representatives and push transgender ideology, a preposterous anthropology that says that 1.00

00:07:37.320 men can really be women. You know, I hate to say I told you so, but this gets back to something that

00:07:43.060 I said at CPAC this year that raised all sorts of ire on the left and made them lie about me because

00:07:48.680 they were threatened by what I said and the political potential of what I said, which is that

00:07:52.600 for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to this

00:07:57.300 confusion, transgender ideology must be eradicated from public life entirely at every single level. 0.99

00:08:04.740 It's not just in the schools. It's not just in transheiser bushes, woke, beer. It's everywhere.

00:08:14.040 It's in the military. It's the top brass. It's in our government. It's all over the place.

00:08:19.000 And if we do not eradicate, rip this ideology out at the roots, say that these premises are not true

00:08:25.280 and we will not establish them in law, then we're going to have ladies like this running our military. 1.00

00:08:29.900 Do you think we're ever going to win a war again? I don't think so.

00:08:32.300 It's going to be very hard to attract top talent. It's going to be very hard to have a really solid

00:08:37.860 fighting force. If the top brass are saying, we don't care about qualifications, we don't care

00:08:42.060 about readiness, all we care about is woke ideology. That's our top priority. How the hell are we

00:08:46.400 supposed to win a war? How are we supposed to protect our country with people like this running 0.97

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00:10:08.020 GOP candidates certainly should promise to fire that woman. They should make a lot of promises 0.99

00:10:11.360 right now, and some of them are playing coy with those promises. Mike Pence, Vice President Mike Pence,

00:10:19.040 is now in the GOP race. He just appeared on the Clay and Buck show, and they pressed him. Clay,

00:10:27.120 Travis and Buck Sexton pressed Mike Pence on whether or not, if he were elected president,

00:10:32.920 he would pardon Donald Trump should Donald Trump be convicted for this nonsense that the Democrats are

00:10:38.280 attacking him on. Here was Vice President Pence's answer. I just think it's premature to have any

00:10:43.600 conversation about that right now, guys. Why would you, but hold on, let me just ask you that,

00:10:47.380 because I, look, I think as a matter of principle, I think as a matter of principle, if you believe,

00:10:53.160 as both Buck and I do, that Donald Trump is being prosecuted to a large extent for political-based

00:10:59.320 reasons, something that has never happened in the 240-plus year history of the United States,

00:11:04.980 that we are setting an awful precedent here. To me, not answering is a no.

00:11:08.960 Well, look, number one, I don't think you know what the president's defense is, do you?

00:11:16.540 I mean, what are the facts? I mean, look, we either believe in our judicial process in this

00:11:22.000 country, or we don't. We either stand by the rule of law, or we don't. I just, what I would tell you

00:11:27.680 is, I think, as someone who has exercised... But what I'm hearing is you're fine with Donald Trump

00:11:31.440 being put in prison, sir, and that, to me, since you were his vice president, feels pretty disrespectful.

00:11:36.840 I had a standard rule. I don't talk about hypotheticals. Look, we don't know what the

00:11:41.720 president's defense here is. I think he's entitled to make his defense, entitled to have his day in

00:11:46.860 court. I get why Mike Pence is answering this way. I get it. I think Mike Pence is a very nice guy,

00:11:55.740 and he knows that Trump destroyed his political career, and Trump has attacked him, and I bet Mike

00:12:04.260 Pence doesn't like Donald Trump very much, and I get it. And I think probably Pence thinks that this

00:12:10.320 is the principled position to say, look, we're going to hear this out. We're going to let both

00:12:13.680 sides make their arguments, and then we'll see where justice is. I get it. But this is a terrible

00:12:19.040 look for Pence because no matter how much he hates Trump, Trump right now is the object of the ire of

00:12:32.640 a very, very corrupt liberal establishment who we all know is being not only selectively prosecuted,

00:12:39.820 but intentionally, selectively persecuted, now going back seven, eight years, by a justice department

00:12:47.500 that is corrupt. So when Pence says, we either believe in our justice system or we don't,

00:12:54.060 I think we can all agree that the Department of Justice under Democrat leadership has proven itself

00:13:02.440 to be unworthy of our respect, unworthy of our blind faith. It's proven itself to be corrupt.

00:13:10.960 Going back to 2016, when they made up out of whole cloth an excuse to spy on the campaign of the

00:13:17.900 political opposition, and when they persecuted him for years and years over a bunch of bogus charges,

00:13:23.100 and now that they're going after him and trying to let the man die in prison, first time a former

00:13:29.460 president has ever been prosecuted on federal charges. It's certainly the first time a former

00:13:34.500 president who is the current leader of the opposition is being prosecuted. They're going

00:13:39.080 after him for something that Biden did and Hillary Clinton did and Bill Clinton did for that matter.

00:13:44.520 And so I get it. I think Mike Pence, I think he's a good guy. I think he's a nice guy. I think he's

00:13:49.660 got plenty of reason to be irritated at Donald Trump. But this prosecution is so obviously unjust.

00:13:58.620 It's a great threat to the American political order. I think he and all the other candidates

00:14:04.480 need to just come out and say, yeah, if somehow they convict Trump, I don't care what that guy did.

00:14:08.580 I don't care if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue. This is deeply unjust. It's a threat to the American

00:14:15.580 political order. And yes, we will certainly pardon him. And we will go after the people who are going

00:14:20.360 after him. I think it would make them look much better. I think actually politically in 2024,

00:14:25.840 it would help them. We now have a new candidate in the race, by the way. It's not just...

00:14:31.700 Who do we have now? We have DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, Chris Christie,

00:14:39.760 Asa Hutchinson, I guess. Do we have any others? Mike Pence. And this new guy, Miami Mayor. He's going

00:14:50.220 to be the Mayor Pete of this race. Actually, for a few reasons, he probably will be the Mayor Pete of

00:14:54.000 this race, which you will see in a second. Francis Suarez, running for president.

00:14:59.460 My dad taught me that you get to choose your battles. And I am choosing the biggest one of my

00:15:05.160 life. I'm going to run for president. I'm going to run for your children and mine. Let's give them

00:15:11.260 the future they deserve. It's time to take things into our own hands. It's time to get things started.

00:15:24.000 It's time we get started. Is it Francis? I'm not so sure about that. Francis Suarez,

00:15:30.160 Mayor of Miami, he's a big lib. He's compared to where the GOP is right now. He's just a huge lib.

00:15:36.880 He posted a picture of himself wearing a rainbow. It looks like a beauty pageant sash. He tweets out,

00:15:43.460 June is Pride Month. What began as a statement of defiance against outdated laws now serves as a

00:15:49.460 reminder and commemoration of where this movement all began over 50 years ago. This movement that

00:15:54.600 we're all so proud to stand behind, the LGBT, LMNOP movement. As Mayor of Miami, I stand with the

00:15:59.300 LGBTQ positive community and celebrating all month long. Okay. This wasn't 10 years ago, by the way.

00:16:05.040 This was two years ago he sent this tweet out. So yeah, I don't think so. I don't think that's

00:16:10.560 going to work. Complete, complete joke. We're conserving the hard won rights of the transvestites 1.00

00:16:19.000 to read books to five-year-olds or something. I don't think so. Total joke of a campaign. Not a

00:16:26.880 chance, man. Not good grief. What? I get it. Miami is very gay. So he's pandering to his constituents, 1.00

00:16:34.780 but okay, that means you're going to stay in Miami. Or maybe he comes out now and he says,

00:16:40.180 no, actually I oppose all the rainbow stuff and I don't think we should trans the kids and I'm 1.00

00:16:43.800 against all that. Okay. So now you don't believe anything. Now I have no reason to believe you have

00:16:49.620 any integrity at all. I don't think so. I don't think, I'll keep an open mind. Maybe I'll interview

00:16:54.880 Mayor Suarez, but not, not looking great. Speaking of weird sex stuff, scientists have reportedly created

00:17:02.880 synthetic human embryos without sperm or egg. That's not great. This, according to a report

00:17:10.860 out now, report says that the scientists are referring to it as synthetic embryos,

00:17:18.700 but these are not truly synthetic in the sense that they're not created from scratch. They're

00:17:22.800 created from stem cells. And he said, they're doing this because if you want to understand really

00:17:28.760 what's going on as embryos develop normally, or when things go wrong earlier, leading to a miscarriage

00:17:33.520 or certain congenital disorders, for example, then people have had to use embryos that are donated

00:17:39.020 for research, which are leftover after in vitro fertilization. So let me translate that clinical

00:17:43.820 gobbledygook into reality. People are giving their children over to these quack doctors to poke and prod

00:17:53.460 and test things out on until they ultimately destroy them. The embryos created for in vitro

00:18:00.200 fertilization are human beings. They're human persons who are created by people who undergo an 0.94

00:18:05.360 immoral process to create their babies. And then a result of this, and I know a lot of people engage

00:18:11.420 in this process and a lot of them don't even pay any thought to what the process looks like. They just

00:18:16.460 think about their children who come out at the end of this process and they love their children. And so

00:18:20.860 they say, okay, whatever it took to create these children is worthwhile. And no, you can value good

00:18:25.600 ends of processes without justifying the immoral means that it took to get them. And the immoral

00:18:31.020 means here is IVF. And so they say, when we want to experiment on little tiny babies, little embryos,

00:18:35.580 we usually have to do it by taking them from parents who don't want the rest of their kids.

00:18:39.580 But now, now we get something even better, which is we can create these human embryos from scratch or

00:18:45.180 almost from scratch, and then we can test things out on them. It reminded me of an article.

00:18:50.860 I just saw in the Daily Wire, 3,000-year-old mummy offered as human sacrifice discovered in Peru.

00:18:58.360 You read that and you say, wow, it's pretty amazing how they know it was offered as a

00:19:01.120 sacrifice. Okay, because maybe some of the ritual stuff around it. And isn't that crazy? People

00:19:05.300 used to have human sacrifice. And then you read stories about weird cults that still exist in

00:19:09.980 different parts of the world today, and some of which still practice human sacrifice. Say, man,

00:19:13.960 that's so weird. We live in modern fancy society where we have iPhones and stuff. And isn't that crazy

00:19:19.320 that in other primitive societies, they used to sacrifice human beings? And then you read stories

00:19:23.520 like that, like the scientist embryo story, and you realize, oh, right, we still do that.

00:19:30.920 In fact, we practice more human sacrifice today than any people ever throughout all of human history.

00:19:37.320 We practice it through abortion, which kills about 800,000 little babies per year,

00:19:42.140 and sacrifices them to the gods of career and money and individuality. And we also sacrifice

00:19:51.020 little babies on the altar of science and progress and to give ourselves greater fortune and health.

00:19:57.560 Well, we have to sacrifice the babies. We have to create these babies and sacrifice these pure 1.00

00:20:01.740 little babies because then we might discover the cure to an illness that affects us. And maybe we'll get

00:20:06.240 to live for another six months or six years, who knows, maybe a long time. We keep doing the same

00:20:12.980 thing. And the reason we keep doing it is the human nature never changes. And the reason that we don't

00:20:18.200 even realize that we're doing it is because human nature never changes. And it's very easy to delude

00:20:24.260 ourselves about the immorality of the things that we engage in when we think that we're going to get

00:20:31.160 some kind of a material benefit for it. We've been doing that for all of human history, and we do it

00:20:36.520 still today. And we flatter ourselves that we're so advanced now that we don't do it anymore. We are so

00:20:42.040 advanced now. We're much more advanced than these primitive tribes. And the scary part is the more 0.93

00:20:47.620 advanced we get, the more wickedness we engage in. We can also engage perhaps in more good, but when we engage in

00:20:54.600 evil stuff, we can do so to a far greater degree than some random tribesmen in 1000 BC Peru. We got

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00:22:06.480 Pure Talk Wireless by Americans for Americans. As you may know, we have been in an ongoing battle with

00:22:13.920 some of the biggest social media platforms out there. Last month, Mr. Walsh was demonetized on

00:22:18.980 YouTube. Then Candace and I were both suspended by YouTube for seven days. Then even Jordan Peterson

00:22:26.500 was given a channel warning. Most of these so-called violations stemmed from our coverage

00:22:32.680 of the transgender inanity that the libs keep pushing on us. And we were expected to push 1.00

00:22:40.340 transgenderism. We were expected to, when discussing it, embrace transgender ideology.

00:22:45.900 There are lots of constantly changing rules. But we were told if you discuss this issue,

00:22:50.100 you have to do so from a neutral position, which doesn't exist, or from the pro-trans position. And I

00:22:54.500 can't do that because I will not lie on behalf of YouTube or anyone else. These rules contradict

00:23:00.580 everything that we stand for. So we're not going to stop speaking the truth. We're not going to allow

00:23:05.280 these libs to restrict us from reaching the audiences that need to hear this debate the most.

00:23:09.220 As our CEO, the God King Jeremy Boring, recently tweeted, quote,

00:23:13.600 if platforms like YouTube believe in free speech, then they must change these vague and capricious

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00:23:48.740 and join the fight. Speaking of technology, big tech platforms and our dystopian future, Elon Musk,

00:23:57.480 CEO of Twitter and many other platforms, and companies rather, says that we need not fear the cyborg future

00:24:07.480 because the cyborgs are already here. We are already cyborgs, according to Elon. He says,

00:24:14.340 we're already cyborgs. Our memory is overwhelmingly outsourced to computers. They remember everything

00:24:19.420 with extreme precision down to the pixel. Our thinking is much less outsourced as there are

00:24:24.500 still many things we can do that AI cannot for now. It's a really important insight because, yes,

00:24:31.960 we're all afraid of the chip going into our brain, getting plugged into the matrix, wearing some stupid 0.84

00:24:36.660 headset or whatever and walking around like robots. But in many ways, we already are cyborgs.

00:24:41.480 How much of your day do you spend like this, looking up important information, communicating

00:24:47.260 with people through this? It's true you just hold this phone device in your hand, but would it really

00:24:54.440 be all that different if the phone were just stitched to your hand? Would your life really be

00:24:58.940 all that different? How about people who wear the iWatch? How about people, well, no one really wears

00:25:02.720 those stupid goggles yet, but soon people will. How much of your day are you focused on these things?

00:25:09.260 And how much do you rely on them for? And what does that do to your humanity? I remember when I was in

00:25:14.200 high school, I was told that we are more knowledgeable than Socrates, that we today,

00:25:20.660 because we have all this information at our fingertips. Socrates didn't have that.

00:25:26.840 We're smarter than Aristotle, aren't we? No, of course not. We're much stupider than Aristotle.

00:25:30.620 Because as we've come to rely on this technology, we memorize things less. That's Elon's point.

00:25:37.080 And when we memorize things less, we just are less conscious. This is why it's really important. I

00:25:43.400 highly recommend you take a moment, memorize a poem, memorize some lines of a play or something

00:25:48.940 like that. It's a really important exercise, because then you'll be able to recall information.

00:25:53.720 When you encounter a work of art, let's say in a museum, you see a guy in a hair shirt eating bugs,

00:26:00.620 you can know, you can remember that that is probably referring to John the Baptist,

00:26:05.340 because you've read something else. You've read the Bible, and you've seen other works of art.

00:26:09.380 You've actually engaged with this yourself. The alternative to that is we outsource all of our

00:26:17.420 memorization, and to some degree, we outsource our thinking to computers.

00:26:20.960 And then we just deprive ourselves of culture and humanity, and we become basically nothing other

00:26:27.420 than consumers, which is what the ruling class wants us to be. That's what the corporations want

00:26:34.460 us to be. That's what our political masters want us to be. That's what the people at the top want us

00:26:41.740 to be. They want us to be mindless consumers. And this is something that's pushed not just by the left,

00:26:46.220 it's also pushed by the right. The right that has made an idol out of, say, the free market and

00:26:52.380 consumer choice, the right that has put that cart before the horse, they've done that too.

00:26:57.820 And I think, I think of when I have a moment free, what do I want to do? I want to smoke a cigar,

00:27:04.000 maybe. I want to have a drink, maybe. I also want to strum my ukulele or play some other musical

00:27:08.680 instrument. I also want to read a book. I also want to maybe paint. I'm a very bad painter,

00:27:12.880 but I kind of like doing it. And I don't even have that many hobbies. People used to have much

00:27:18.060 more serious hobbies. I have relatively few hobbies. Many people have fewer hobbies even than I do.

00:27:23.980 And so what we become in that case is just passive consumers. And I strongly suspect that the uptick in

00:27:30.340 depression, the uptick in alienation that people feel in society is because of that, because they're

00:27:35.200 not engaged in human pursuits. They're just consumers. And eventually we all just, we just get fat and lazy

00:27:42.240 and tired and bored of the things that we're watching. Everything has a cost. Even education

00:27:49.960 now is an example of consumerism. This is just a quick little reminder that when we go to college

00:27:55.680 campuses, the libs really hate that because we're offering alternative viewpoints. And so the libs

00:28:02.780 are now at the University of Buffalo, where I spoke this past semester, they've now disbanded the

00:28:07.100 GAF chapter. And at the University of Pittsburgh, where I spoke to lots of, I was going to say

00:28:13.200 protest. It was really a riot outside where they burned me in effigy, let the street on fire and

00:28:16.880 threw an explosive at the building. There at the University of Pittsburgh, they're trying to shake

00:28:20.820 down the student group that invited me for $18,000 to cover security costs for their people, the people

00:28:26.160 that they agged on to come and try to attack us. So ADF, the Alliance Defending Freedom, is suing

00:28:32.760 Young Americans for Freedom, is taking these guys to court. These groups are fighting back.

00:28:41.240 And it is kind of odd that it's both of the events that are at the center of these lawsuits happen to

00:28:47.660 be events where I was speaking. Little old me, can you imagine? Anyone wouldn't want me to come speak.

00:28:52.300 But conservatives need to get a lot more comfortable engaging in this kind of stuff,

00:28:56.560 in serious lawfare, in wielding the power of the state against these institutions,

00:29:00.860 going after the university endowments, just going after the libs at their power centers and taking

00:29:08.140 that power back. Now, speaking of academic life and professors, Cornel West is running for president.

00:29:15.900 He is a leftist who taught at Harvard and he taught at Princeton and he's very eccentric and he's

00:29:21.340 produced rap albums and he's a really colorful figure. Cornel West was asked what he thought about

00:29:28.120 appealing to Trump voters. And he had a very telling answer. What specifically do you think

00:29:34.520 that people who are ardent Trump supporters are going to be receptive to in your message?

00:29:40.720 Well, one, I don't believe that they're homogeneous and monolithic. About one out of 10 of them voted for

00:29:49.280 Brother Bernie himself. They were looking for an alternative because they see through the hypocrisy of the

00:29:56.740 Democratic Party talking about justice on the one hand, but tied to big money on the other.

00:30:02.060 And so I want to go back to those folk and recognize when I see a Trump supporter, I don't see a stereotype.

00:30:09.640 I see a human being, many of them who are wounded and too many of them follow a neo-fascist Pied Piper

00:30:16.860 rather than an alternative. It's like a jazz band, my dear sister, like Bill Evans on the piano with Miles Davis's

00:30:23.860 Quintet. He's a white brother. He ain't a white ally. He's in the band.

00:30:28.980 It's Bill Evans in a Miles Davis Quintet. I really like that imagery. And it's not just some silly

00:30:35.760 line from a fringe candidate. Say what you will about Cornel West. He's got a lot of academic

00:30:41.740 pedigree. He's taught at the top institutions in the country, some of them at least. And he's a more

00:30:48.920 serious political thinker than many people in the Democrat Party. And he's got more in common

00:30:55.760 with Trump supporters than he has in common with Biden supporters in many ways. He calls Trump a

00:30:59.660 fascist. He's a radical leftist on his policy. But he's got more in common with the Trump people.

00:31:05.980 How is that? Because as Patrick Deneen writes in a great new book called Regime Change, Patrick Deneen

00:31:13.160 is a conservative professor who wrote this book, Why Liberalism Failed, where he said,

00:31:16.500 we need to move past liberalism, not just progressive liberalism, but classical liberalism

00:31:20.260 too. Professor Deneen points out that the old political battles between the left and the right,

00:31:27.260 the conservatives and the leftists or whatever, is breaking down into a more fundamental political

00:31:32.700 distinction. The few and the many, the few elites who happen to be liberal elites today in both parties,

00:31:38.400 in the uniparty, and the many, the people who are disenfranchised, sometimes explicitly

00:31:44.100 and more often practically. And so you'll see candidates on the left and on the right and

00:31:51.760 candidates who are really hard to pin down. You'll see a RFK Jr. He's a Kennedy. The guy's

00:31:56.160 a Democrat. You'll see a Cornel West. He's a leftist. You'll see a Donald Trump. He's kind

00:32:00.800 of a conservative Republican. He's kind of not though. You see all of these guys talking about

00:32:05.760 the same sorts of issues and be broadly appealing to the people. And as that liberal elite establishment

00:32:13.320 sees its power and popularity with the people being pulled away, it's going to clamp down a lot

00:32:19.660 harder. It's going to erect big fences in Washington, D.C. It's going to change the election rules such 0.83

00:32:23.800 that people are disenfranchised through fraud and through widespread mail-in ballots and ballots being

00:32:28.360 stuffed in lockers in Michigan and all the rest. It's going to use the power even of the military

00:32:33.700 when it can or the top brass of the military to undermine the people's representatives and the

00:32:39.300 people's preferred policy outcomes in red states, and even in blue states, frankly, to say we don't

00:32:45.300 want to trans your kids or the rest of it. It's going to clamp down harder and harder and harder. 0.89

00:32:52.060 And you're going to see more of these apparently fringe candidates talking in a populist way.

00:32:56.300 You're going to expect more populism though, and they're going to be less and less fringe over time.

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00:34:03.460 on gold. That is Knowles. Text Knowles to 989898. Now, finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite

00:34:10.440 time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

00:34:14.300 Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles for 50-50% off your first month when you sign up for unlimited talk

00:34:20.980 text and unlimited data. Take it away. Hello, Michael. I met my wife eight years ago when we

00:34:28.300 were both hardcore libs. When we got engaged, I was somewhat skeptical. And by the time we were

00:34:35.160 married, I was officially red-pilled. She remains a diehard liberal feminist. And I listened to the

00:34:44.180 Michael Knowles show. This has become a difficult marriage. I'm committed to my wife. I love her

00:34:50.780 absolutely and respect the vows I have made. But our different views of the world are an extreme

00:34:57.060 problem now. Do you have any advice? Sorry to hear that. That's very tough.

00:35:05.760 You're not the first guy that this has happened to. And there might be a happy ending here.

00:35:10.120 I would dig in and say, okay, why did your views start to change? What did it? Maybe it was me. I

00:35:17.160 don't know. You say you listen to the show. That'd be great. Or maybe it was you heard something from

00:35:20.600 someone else. Or maybe it was a conversation at work. Or maybe it was something in politics.

00:35:24.120 I would start there. And I would have some patience with your wife. Because it's probably a pretty 1.00

00:35:29.140 jarring thing. You guys were both libs. You got into this thing being both libs. And then you really

00:35:33.080 changed your view of the world. So I'd have some patience with her to bring her along with it. 0.55

00:35:38.120 But in the past, people would say, oh, who cares if you disagree on politics?

00:35:42.600 You know, it's okay. The best marriage I've ever seen in my life is the marriage of my

00:35:46.140 grandparents, who were married for nearly 70 years. And my grandmother's a Democrat. My

00:35:51.300 grandfather was a Republican. And it was never a problem. But that was back when the parties

00:35:55.640 weren't all that different. And when the differences within the parties were not quite so fundamental as

00:36:02.340 they are now. I mean, now the differences in the parties are what is a man? What is a woman? What is

00:36:06.160 marriage? What is a country? Really fundamental stuff that we used to all agree on. So it does

00:36:12.960 matter. It's going to be very hard to have a divided political household that way. I would just gently

00:36:17.240 try to pull your wife along and answer questions that she has. I would allow her to lead it.

00:36:26.420 You know, if she goes off about some Trump person or whatever, say, well, why do you think that guy's

00:36:31.700 so wrong? Yeah, look, I used to think it was wrong too. You know, I would always come from a position

00:36:36.240 of love and understanding. Yeah, I was there too, but this is kind of what changed my mind. And maybe

00:36:40.280 you're not there yet, but I don't know. I think you'll see over time. I think you're going to come

00:36:43.620 to agree with me on these things. Because what you don't want to have happen is have her follow her

00:36:48.560 political party further and further and further away. Because one of the things the parties disagree on

00:36:54.580 now is what marriage is. And so that's a real threat to you. Because you could find yourselves

00:36:59.900 in a marriage where you don't even really agree on your common endeavor. So I would try to

00:37:06.640 try to pull her along gently with sugar now while there's still hope. Next question.

00:37:14.940 Hey, Michael. So I am in my early 20s. I have had guys ask me out before. But I have always said no,

00:37:26.060 primarily out of fear of I don't even know what. I've never been in a relationship. I've never had

00:37:35.820 my first kiss. I've never been anywhere close to either of those. I guess I'm scared of what a family

00:37:44.140 would say because they always poke fun at me for being innocent, I guess you could say. And I'm just

00:37:51.800 scared. I don't know. But someday I do want to have kids. I do want to be married. So I just want your

00:38:02.100 advice because you are the love guru of the Daily Wire. Thank you.

00:38:07.300 Great question. No need to feel embarrassed about this. In many ways, your position is much better

00:38:16.540 than the opposite and probably the more common alternative these days, which is someone has never

00:38:23.320 said no to a date and has gotten into some trouble and done some naughty things that she shouldn't have

00:38:28.800 done with lots of different guys. So if you had to choose between very, very innocent and slutted it 0.97

00:38:35.320 up for many years and now regrets it, you're in the better position. But you're not in a permanent

00:38:42.420 position. It's not ideal. You want to get married and have kids. Okay. So what should you do? Probably

00:38:49.260 say yes to the dates. What are you afraid of? That your family will giggle at you? Okay.

00:38:55.600 Who cares? What are you afraid of? That maybe the date won't go well? Okay. Then you go on another

00:39:04.120 date with another guy. What are you afraid of? That you won't know how to kiss the guy? Don't worry.

00:39:09.120 You're lucky. You're the woman. So you're in the more passive role traditionally in the courtship 0.85

00:39:15.620 process. Well, what are you afraid of? That you might let your emotions get carried away with you? You

00:39:22.820 might fall in love with the guy? You should be so lucky. What are you afraid of? That it's too late

00:39:28.340 and you're in your 20s and you're going to be embarrassed? Oh my goodness gracious.

00:39:34.720 People ruin their lives for fear of failure. The only way to guarantee failure is to never try

00:39:44.120 anything and never allow yourself the risk of failing. That's the only way to guarantee that you

00:39:49.520 will fail. And plenty of people fail in love all the time and you probably will, you know, once or

00:39:55.060 twice. And so best get started. It doesn't sound like your problem is meeting men, which is what a

00:40:00.500 lot of people write in this. I don't know where to meet people. It sounds like you're meeting people.

00:40:03.920 You're being asked out. If you're not, you know, then go to meet people at church. You can meet people

00:40:08.440 through, well, your family might not be that helpful. So meet people through some friends or

00:40:12.000 maybe at work that's a little dicey or friends of people at work. And you can do that

00:40:16.640 and then say yes and go get drinks and that's okay. And you might not know exactly where you

00:40:22.580 stand and you might, a lot of women fall prey to this, especially sweet, young, innocent women like 1.00

00:40:27.540 you. They feel such anxiety that they would rather rush toward an unpleasant outcome, the outcome of

00:40:34.940 being alone or the outcome of not going on the date or whatever. They would rather rush toward that

00:40:40.900 and say no, then live in the anxiety of, does he like me or where we're going to go on the date?

00:40:48.560 Should I have said that thing that I said? Should I know? But love induces anxiety and longing and all

00:40:56.640 of those feelings, butterflies in your stomach. Yeah, right. That's it. That's what it's all about.

00:41:02.620 That's part of the process. It's very pleasant, even if it doesn't always feel that way. So yeah,

00:41:07.380 say yes. Next one. Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here again. Thanks for taking my

00:41:12.700 call last time. I had a political hypothetical for you. Wondering if this has crossed your mind

00:41:19.600 about how this whole Trump indictment going to jail thing could actually blow up in the Democrats'

00:41:24.160 faces. Do you think it's possible, likely, or what are your thoughts on if Trump gets convicted,

00:41:31.220 if he goes to jail, obviously DeSantis would win the nomination for the Republican Party

00:41:35.680 and say he wins the election, then he pardons Trump, Trump gets out, and the Democrats have

00:41:42.200 now set the precedent for indicting and arresting all of these corrupt political officials on their

00:41:47.920 side who the Republicans have just ignored for a very long time. Do you see this sort of thing

00:41:52.680 possibly turning into almost a Supreme Court situation where because of the Democrats making

00:41:59.200 it easy to confirm Supreme Court justices, they ended up several years down the road having Roe v.

00:42:03.260 Wade overturned? Do you see something similar with this?

00:42:06.680 Hmm. Oh, you're saying with like lifting filibusters. Okay. Well, there's a little

00:42:11.680 confusion, I think, in your view of things, and it's a little bit of a rosy picture.

00:42:16.960 Would that it were so simple, wouldn't that be great? But I go back to the first part. You said

00:42:20.220 Trump gets indicted. Well, he's already indicted. Trump is convicted. He goes to jail. So then

00:42:25.300 DeSantis is the nominee. I don't think that's what happens. I think Trump would still be the nominee

00:42:30.860 probably even if he were convicted. He'd probably be the nominee especially if he were convicted

00:42:37.560 because it would seem so unjust. And it makes the whole story of 2024 about him. And he can run for

00:42:44.520 president from, he could win the presidency from prison. So that's the first part. Second part

00:42:50.340 is who, would either of those guys beat Joe Biden? Right now there's a poll just came out. I forget who

00:42:55.460 put the poll out. Shows that Trump beats Biden national. It is a national poll too though, so it

00:42:59.880 doesn't get into the details of all the states. But at least from the national perspective, Trump

00:43:03.880 right now is narrowly beating Biden and Joe Biden is beating DeSantis head to head. So again, those

00:43:10.580 numbers could all change, but that's where it stands right now. And then three, let's say a

00:43:15.840 Republican gets in, would they start to go after the Democrats? Probably not. One, because Republicans

00:43:19.600 are often very squishy, but two, because we would have to be able to wield the machinery of the state

00:43:26.560 to go after them. And Democrats right now own that machinery of the state, regardless of who's the

00:43:31.580 president. So I think that would be much, much harder to do. And then will that, will the Democrat

00:43:39.580 overreach impel some kind of conservative, you know, revolution, making it easier to confirm Supreme

00:43:44.980 Court judges? Well, don't forget the Democrats first made it much harder to confirm Supreme Court

00:43:49.240 justices. With the torpedoing of Robert Bork's nomination and the later attempted torpedoing of

00:43:56.060 Clarence Thomas's nomination, the Democrats made that much, much more contentious. And so yes,

00:44:03.540 the conservatives finally have gotten some of our judges through, and maybe that's fired up the

00:44:07.400 judges. The one thing I would be hopeful for is that it shows conservatives the stakes here,

00:44:12.140 that we're not all just playing by the rules and there's not just some nice, you know, happy

00:44:15.820 principled stance on, you know, rolling over and letting our opponents win. I hope they realize

00:44:22.640 how serious the stakes are to pardon not only Trump and go after the opponents, but, you know, is this

00:44:28.620 secretly, this is going to fire us up? No, we might lose now, but we're going to win later. No, you win

00:44:33.200 by winning. You don't win by losing. Okay, let's get to the last voicemail bag question.

00:44:37.640 Hey, Michael, you helped me get rid of the body, last mail bag, and now I'm able to ask you this

00:44:42.960 question. So I wanted to know what is your opinion on languages and should the USA maybe focus more on

00:44:52.560 learning them? I'm here in Croatia, we lean quite heavily on the languages because we speak Croatian,

00:45:01.740 which is kind of the same as Serbian. So the English is practically a necessity to be able to

00:45:10.780 leave the Croatian work and be competitive on the job. And obviously, you studied Italian,

00:45:18.220 which is quite close to us. I live in Rijeka, which has been under Italians for a long time, 1.00

00:45:26.540 so it is quite integrated in the culture. Yeah, love what you do, even from Croatia.

00:45:33.420 We still haven't reached the USA level yet and interested to know.

00:45:37.240 Yeah. I'm so pleased to hear that we're being played in Croatia. This is really fabulous.

00:45:43.440 And yes, the Croatians, they're like the stepbrothers of the Italians, sometimes and 1.00

00:45:48.740 under the same household, sometimes not. And I do think it would be good for Americans to study more

00:45:53.740 languages. In part, not because we need to, I don't know, we need to be able to speak to the

00:45:58.360 Venezuelans better or something like that, which is what the liberals say we need to study languages for.

00:46:02.660 But because when you study languages, it allows you to see the world in a different way. It actually

00:46:07.820 changes your consciousness in a way. So you can engage with other cultures. Yes, that's true.

00:46:15.060 You can read other literature, which is very, very helpful. But it also just

00:46:19.740 shakes you out of your narrow vision of the world. Because words not only color the way we view the

00:46:28.300 world, but in many ways, they constitute the way that we view the world. That's why the libs try

00:46:32.140 to manipulate language so much. That's why they make that such an important part of their political

00:46:36.160 program. I mean, this is what I wrote about in my number one national bestselling book.

00:46:42.700 I was testing the guys. No, guys? No, I didn't say it. I didn't say it.

00:46:47.580 I was, they were too quick on the draw there. So I think it's very good to do that. And one thing we

00:46:52.300 could study here would be Latin. I would recommend that. If you study Latin,

00:46:55.920 there's a reason all the libs in the 19th century tried to kill those, and the 20th century,

00:47:01.800 the so-called dead languages, you know, Latin, ancient Greek. They don't want us to read those

00:47:06.520 because that's, if we can't read those things, it's going to cut us off from the traditional

00:47:09.840 culture, traditional works of art and literature and liturgy. So it'd be good to get back into those

00:47:14.140 as well. Okay, it's Fake Headline Friday. I need your help to ascertain which the real and fake

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 16, 2023

Ep. 1269 - Space Force Goes Woke

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