The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1276 - The Libs Are Doing This To Your Pizza

00:00:00.000 I spoke too soon. Yesterday, I mentioned that Pride Month was coming to an end,

00:00:05.380 but I said that before Assistant Health Secretary Richard Levine weighed in on the matter.

00:00:11.740 And here is what Dick Levine had to say.

00:00:14.400 Hello, my name is Admiral Rachel Levine, and I have the honor of being the Assistant

00:00:19.620 Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

00:00:24.020 Happy Pride. Happy Pride Month. And actually, let's declare it a summer of pride.

00:00:29.100 Happy summer of pride.

00:00:31.520 Now, I have a counterproposal. My counterproposal is that we ban that evil pride flag from every 1.00

00:00:38.200 public space forever. We could do it. We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces. Nazi flags, 0.89

00:00:45.000 hammer and sickle flags would not be that hard at all. And you might say that's extreme. But is it

00:00:51.860 more extreme than turning pride day into pride week, into pride month, into pride summer,

00:00:58.360 into left unchecked? I promise you, pride always? We're living in polarizing times,

00:01:04.520 and you can't simultaneously exalt opposites. So which is it going to be? Do we follow good old

00:01:11.780 Uncle Sam and salute the red, white and blue? Or will we follow Assistant Secretary Dick and worship

00:01:17.620 the rainbow standard? What kind of summer and what kind of country do you want to have? 0.96

00:01:23.200 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:44.140 Use my code Knowles today. The presidential race is heating up. Ron DeSantis is releasing a southern

00:01:50.880 border immigration plan. We'll get to that in just a little bit. First, though, unbelievably,

00:01:58.720 trans the kids Richard Levine is somehow not the most unpopular, prominent politician in the Biden

00:02:06.540 administration. Or should I say, not the most prominent, unpopular politician in the Biden

00:02:11.440 administration. That honor would go to Kamala Harris. And you don't need to take my word for it, 0.91

00:02:16.780 and you don't need to take your hunch for it. We have polling on this from NBC News. Kamala Harris

00:02:21.580 is the least popular vice president in recent memory. The poll conducted this month shows 32%

00:02:29.120 of registered voters have a positive view of Kamala Harris compared with 49% who have a negative view of

00:02:36.240 her. This is a net negative rating for those of you who are not mathematically inclined of negative 17

00:02:42.520 points. The lowest for any vice president in the polls history. And if you compare it with other

00:02:49.140 polls, you're looking at at least the least popular vice president since 1995, St. Al Gore,

00:02:56.600 and maybe even less popular going further back. This is, of course, very bad news for Kamala Harris.

00:03:04.320 Really good news for Biden, though. And it's not a coincidence, I don't think.

00:03:08.020 Biden picked Kamala Harris because he said that he was going to pick a black woman. And there were

00:03:13.420 like three options among prominent politicians. And so it was either her, Karen Bass, who is an

00:03:18.660 actual communist, or Susan Rice, who is the fall man for the Benghazi terror attack under Barack Obama.

00:03:24.080 So not a lot of options. And he picked Kamala Harris. And I think one of the other reasons that

00:03:28.720 Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris is because she's deeply, deeply unlikable. And this is a factor that goes 0.96

00:03:34.960 into picking a vice presidential candidate is you want to pick a VP who will not be more popular

00:03:40.740 than you and who will give your opponents pause when they're thinking about impeaching you.

00:03:45.760 So Joe Biden has nothing to fear from Kamala Harris. Kamala obviously wants to run against Joe

00:03:51.040 in 2024, but she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Pete Buttigieg is another cabinet member who

00:03:56.760 wants to run against Joe Biden. And Pete Buttigieg also is a complete joke of a candidate and going

00:04:01.980 nowhere. So the only real challenge that Joe Biden can get right now is from Gavin Newsom in California.

00:04:06.940 And he is running a shadow presidential campaign. But the Democrat Party is so rigged and it's so

00:04:13.220 controlled by party elites that it would be very difficult for Gavin to mount some kind of an

00:04:18.600 insurrection. You're seeing RFK Jr. trying to do that right now. Difficult to see how that ultimately

00:04:23.480 works. And so Newsom is just waiting in the wings to see if Joe Biden, you know, God forbid,

00:04:27.500 falls down a flight of stairs or something. Gavin Newsom can come in and take over the mantle.

00:04:32.720 But as of now, no serious threat to Joe Biden, certainly not from his vice president. Kamala

00:04:39.600 was just out giving a speech and reminded us why people don't like her very much.

00:04:43.740 Here is her take on pro-life and abortion advocacy.

00:04:48.560 The majority of Americans, I do believe, agree that one does not have to abandon their faith

00:04:57.780 or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body.

00:05:08.400 Now, of course, the majority of Americans do not believe in this. This is why it's a very

00:05:12.220 contentious issue. And even for people who are pro-abortion, nobody really believes this.

00:05:18.620 Christianity has been clear from day one that abortion is completely unacceptable. The Catholic 0.94

00:05:24.720 Church has never wavered in this position, going all the way back to the didache, the first sort of

00:05:30.640 proto-catechism of the Catholic Church. You see that abortion is immoral, unacceptable. This teaching

00:05:35.520 has been reaffirmed throughout the ages. Christians, in order to support legal abortion, 0.97

00:05:42.900 Christians do have to abandon their faith. And Pope John Paul II made this very clear when he said that 0.70

00:05:47.500 the right to life is not just one right among many. We've got the right to life. We've got the

00:05:51.700 right to drive a car. We've got the right to own a gun. The right to life is the fundamental right

00:05:56.540 on which all of the other rights rely. So yes, you would have to abandon your faith. And that's

00:06:02.320 what many libs have done. Many pro-abortion people will tell you, yeah, I'm not a Christian. I'm not

00:06:07.900 this religion. I'm not that religion. Yeah, I am a liberal. That's my religion. So she's wrong about

00:06:13.740 that. But put that aside for a second. Politically, what's so stupid about this line is that the

00:06:19.660 principle she's appealing to appeals to nobody right now. She's appealing to a principle of small

00:06:24.560 government. She's saying, we need to get the government out of people's lives. But that doesn't

00:06:29.140 appeal to anybody. It doesn't appeal to the liberals who are infamously in favor of bigger and bigger

00:06:37.640 government. But it also no longer really appeals to the conservatives, who for some recent decades

00:06:44.140 have created an idol out of small government. But they've moved away from that over the last

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00:08:08.820 both parties have, in different realms, exalted small government. The libs have done so on the

00:08:16.480 social issues. They've said, get the government out of my bedroom. Get the government out of my 0.65

00:08:21.020 social interactions. Get the government out of my weird sex stuff. Get the government out of my

00:08:25.440 drug use. Get the government out of all these, what we call social issues. The conservatives have

00:08:30.660 done so on the economic front. They've said, get the government out of my business. Get the government

00:08:35.300 out of my wallet. Get the government out of my bank account. Okay. Both parties are increasingly

00:08:41.940 moving away from that because there's no such thing as a small government in a country of 330 million

00:08:46.820 people. And there's no such thing as a small government in any society because we have questions

00:08:55.120 that we have to agree upon and we have laws that have to be enforced. So even in the earliest days

00:08:59.960 of the American Republic, there might've been a much smaller federal government, but there was a much

00:09:03.840 bigger local government. The local government had a lot to say about when you could buy things.

00:09:08.020 There were Sabbath laws. The government had a lot to say about what kind of weird sex stuff you could

00:09:11.320 engage in. Deviant sexual behaviors were illegal and some were harshly punished. The government

00:09:16.740 had a lot to say about what kind of things you could import and what kind of things you could

00:09:22.420 sell. The government had a lot to say about who could live in the country, who could vote,

00:09:26.160 who could do this, who could do that. So the government was very, very big at that more local

00:09:30.100 level on social issues and economic issues. And both sides embraced libertarianism in specific

00:09:36.400 spheres in the latter part of the 20th century, early 21st century. But now both are moving away

00:09:40.500 from that. The, the, Hey, just accept us, be tolerant. Let us do what we want to do. Get out of

00:09:46.120 my bedroom. That kind of liberalism has given way to, you will worship the pride flag or else you 0.96

00:09:51.280 will sit through the pride diversity inclusion session in your school, or you're going to be

00:09:56.540 punished. You'll do it in your office or you're going to be fired. And on the right, the shrink the

00:10:02.780 government, let me spend my own money kind of libertarianism has given way to a more robust

00:10:07.640 focus on rebuilding American manufacturing, on using protective tariffs as a way to balance out

00:10:15.540 some inequalities in foreign trade, has given way to the government going in and pummeling big tech

00:10:22.580 companies when big tech is censoring conservatives. Both sides are favoring a more active role of

00:10:27.280 government right now because they recognize that as they've ceded that power, it has benefited

00:10:31.860 their political opponents. In this case, it's benefited the left way more than it's benefited the right.

00:10:37.120 I guess you might say it's benefited the uniparty establishment against populist movements on the

00:10:41.840 left and against the right. So Kamala Harris, not preaching to anybody. Her, her message is not 0.55

00:10:47.240 resonating at all. The other prominent woman in the Biden administration, Karine Jean-Pierre, 0.99

00:10:52.680 the president's press secretary has come out and, and she's, she's articulating the Biden 2024

00:10:59.220 campaign message for the campaign trail.

00:11:01.180 We believe Reaganomics doesn't work. We've been very clear. We believe that trickle down,

00:11:07.400 a trickle down economy doesn't work. It has not worked. That has shown to be the case for decades

00:11:13.220 now. And so what we have been very clear, you hear me say this all the time, building an economy

00:11:18.280 from the, from the middle out and bottom up. That's what we want to do. And every piece of historic

00:11:24.000 legislation speaks to that, speaks to what the president wants to do, very loud and clear in historic fashion.

00:11:30.020 Ronald Reagan died almost 20 years ago. Ronald Reagan has been dead for almost 20 years. Ronald

00:11:36.940 Reagan left office 34 years ago. Can we shut up about the Reaganomics already? Have, does this,

00:11:45.580 does this talking point still work? Reaganomics? Are we going to start talking about Coolidge and

00:11:50.100 Coolidge-nomics don't work? Listen, James Garfield-nomics are bad for this country. And I recognize that Joe

00:11:57.420 Biden remembers the election of James Garfield and Chester Arthur, but most people, for most people,

00:12:03.020 this is the distant past. Okay. And it's just the same tired, old lines from Biden and from Kamala

00:12:10.640 Harris and from Corrine Jean-Pierre and the whole liberal establishment. Maybe that doesn't matter.

00:12:14.820 Maybe they've rigged the elections enough that it really doesn't matter what the people think.

00:12:17.880 But I can't imagine this is resonating. And in fact, it's reflected in the polls because not only

00:12:23.380 Kamala Harris, but Joe Biden are down in the doldrums in terms of popularity. And then this

00:12:28.160 line that Corrine Jean-Pierre says, she says, we don't want an economy from the top down, 0.62

00:12:33.260 the trickle down. We want an economy from the bottom up. No, you don't. You obviously don't.

00:12:38.480 Because it was you and the libs who were pushing all the COVID lockdowns, which was the largest transfer

00:12:42.920 of wealth in human history from the lower classes to the upper classes, from the multitude of small

00:12:48.840 businesses to the handful of oligarchic large businesses. That's what you want. Who's the party

00:12:56.320 of the rich, would you say today? The deplorable, irredeemable, filthy, dirty, hillbilly, bitter

00:13:01.440 clinging MAGA Republicans that the liberal establishment despises? Or the jet-setting John

00:13:08.400 Carey's, Joe Biden's, cutting deals with China and Ukraine, sipping lattes, preening and sneering at

00:13:15.980 the rest of their countrymen. Who's the party of the people? I don't think this is fanciful,

00:13:20.600 wishful thinking here. I think we can all agree, whatever the Republican Party was 10, 20 years ago,

00:13:26.360 whatever the Democratic Party was 10, 20 years ago, today, the GOP is the party of the people.

00:13:32.320 And the Democrats are the party of the elite. Who disagrees with that?

00:13:36.580 And they have the audacity to say, we're building an economy from the bottom up. No, you're not. It's

00:13:42.920 the same thing that you hear from the Democrats when they say, we're the party of democracy. And

00:13:48.140 it's the party that constantly is chipping away at democracy. The Republicans are the party saying,

00:13:53.080 hey, we need voter ID. Hey, we need to make sure that these elections don't get stolen. Hey,

00:13:57.380 we need to make sure that we have representation for marginalized people. And it's the Democrats saying,

00:14:03.760 no, you don't. It's even in the way that the parties are run. The Republican Party basically

00:14:08.660 has a free and open primary process. The Democrat Party has party elites, very influential, usually

00:14:13.760 very wealthy people who come in and pick the nominee through superdelegates if there's any confusion.

00:14:19.500 It just doesn't resonate. Nobody really buys this. And so the outcome of this is not necessarily

00:14:25.260 that the people are finally going to have their voices heard and they're going to throw Biden out

00:14:28.480 of power and they're going to put their representative in. It might be the case that

00:14:33.100 the electoral system is so rigged now and both parties believe that the electoral system is rigged

00:14:37.480 according to polling. And if you have eyes and two brain cells to rub together, you can see that.

00:14:42.200 You can see that in the run up to the 2020 election, when the libs change all of the election rules to

00:14:46.360 benefit them and to make it harder to have any transparency or accountability of the vote,

00:14:50.700 that that constitutes a rigging. You might say, well, now the system is just so rigged,

00:14:55.640 it's going to be very, very difficult to overcome that. But let there be no confusion about where

00:15:00.740 things stand. The people preening about Reaganomics and whatever, they are very clearly the party

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00:15:42.020 You want to talk about bad economic policies that are deeply unpopular with people? New York City.

00:15:48.480 I couldn't believe this. I had to read this multiple times to find out it wasn't a joke. New York City,

00:15:53.700 is telling pizza places that they need to cut their emissions by three quarters or they're going to

00:16:05.140 be put out of business. Now, before I get into this story, what do we say? Do we say pizzerias?

00:16:12.220 Do we say pizzeria? Do we say pizza, like the Italian pronunciation? Do we say pizza places? Do we say

00:16:19.660 pizza parlor? Remember we used to call them pizza parlors? No one really says that. I don't know.

00:16:22.940 What do you call a pizza shop? Pizza shop? I don't know. Anyway, it's a digression. It's a,

00:16:27.820 it's a linguistic point for another time. New York City is telling these pizzeria that they need to cut

00:16:34.460 their emissions by three quarters. That's the Department of Environmental Protection,

00:16:37.740 new rules that say that wood-fired good pizza places need to change the way that they make pizza

00:16:43.840 or they're going to be shut down by the city. They're saying that there are harmful pollutants

00:16:49.380 in neighborhoods with poor air quality and we need to control emissions because people are going to

00:16:54.600 choke on the pollution of a delicious, tasty pizza. I wish that I had the emissions from a delicious

00:16:59.900 pizza place down the street or downstairs from my apartment. How wonderful would that be?

00:17:04.640 That would be the most delightful fragrance that I could imagine in my apartment.

00:17:09.840 But instead, they're saying that's a very bad thing and everybody hates the smell of pizza,

00:17:13.760 of course, and that's why we're going to shut down the pizza shops. 0.99

00:17:17.500 Does anyone really believe, does anyone really believe, first of all, that the

00:17:21.560 emissions are going to cause the sun monster to end the world? No. The people who do believe that

00:17:28.280 have already said it's too late. Don't forget, Greta Thunberg, more than five years ago now,

00:17:32.100 came out and said that if we don't cut off fossil fuels within five years, it will be too late and

00:17:36.740 humanity will be wiped out. And we've passed that point. So according even to the most prominent

00:17:42.220 environmental activist in the world, it is too late. There is nothing we can do to stop catastrophic

00:17:47.700 global warming that will wipe out the human race. So the only reasonable conclusion that one could draw

00:17:52.460 from that, even if one believed the ridiculous premise, is to eat, drink, and be merry, and specifically

00:17:57.020 to eat tasty wood-fired pizza. But they're going to keep it up. Even though they already say it's too

00:18:01.860 late, it doesn't matter. We've still got to suffer. We've still got to sacrifice. We've still got to

00:18:05.440 give up our pizza. And that's the point. That's the point. The reason that they're going after your

00:18:10.980 pizza is not because your pizza is causing global warming. Compared to all of the other pollutants in

00:18:16.340 the world, New York City wood-fired pizza represents 0.0% of the pollutants. They're going after

00:18:23.040 your pizza specifically because it will make you suffer. Specifically because it is a sacrifice.

00:18:27.860 Because sacrifices and suffering are an important part of religion. And environmentalism represents

00:18:35.780 the pseudo-religion of the left. And because dietary rules, rules around what you're allowed to eat,

00:18:43.200 what's clean, what's unclean, they make up part of religion. And because liberalism is a mockery

00:18:49.620 religion, it's a pseudo-religion to replace the traditional religion of our civilization, 0.98

00:18:53.860 which is Christianity, they've got to have all that stuff too. And because societies are defined

00:18:58.200 by their taboos, and taboo is a religious concept, they're going to make the thing that you really

00:19:02.960 like taboo. A lot of people are curious as to why the liberal establishment seems so hell-bent on

00:19:08.600 making us all eat bugs. You're seeing encouragements for us to eat bugs from institutions like the World

00:19:13.720 Economic Forum, from popular celebrities like Nicole Kidman, from liberal politicians,

00:19:18.360 from social media influencers on the left. Why? Why do they want us to eat bugs? Well, they say

00:19:22.900 these bugs are really environmentally friendly, and you can grow them anywhere, and they don't,

00:19:28.500 they're not going to cause the sun monster to kill us all. And so despite how gross it seems,

00:19:35.000 you have to eat the bugs. But the despite is what people are misunderstanding here. They're not

00:19:40.280 trying to get you to eat bugs despite how gross they are. They're trying to get you to eat bugs

00:19:44.700 because of how gross they are. Because it will violate one of your traditional taboos in your

00:19:50.020 culture. And by changing the taboos, that will change your culture, and it will change the entire

00:19:54.540 political order. There is nothing that is more New York than pizza. That is what New York is. That is

00:20:04.580 old-timey traditional New York. And so if you are a social and political revolutionary, and you want to

00:20:11.060 change the culture of New York, you're going to go after the thing that defines it. And pizza is at the

00:20:19.560 top of that list. And so they're going to come, and they're going to take your pizza. And you know

00:20:22.360 what I say? I'll channel my inner Charlton Heston. You can take my pizza from my cold, dead hands

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00:21:58.020 BMI, which is one of the ways that we measure obesity, that is now racist according to the

00:22:05.700 American Medical Association, which is the largest council of doctors in the United States.

00:22:11.620 They're going to say goodbye to it because BMI, they say, has racist roots. The report from the AMA

00:22:16.440 says that, quote, BMI does not appropriately represent racial and ethnic minorities because

00:22:21.540 it's based on the imagined ideal Caucasian of the 19th century without considering a person's gender

00:22:28.420 or ethnicity. So the reason that they're saying it's racist is because black women in particular

00:22:36.780 are very obese as a group. They are the most obese group of anybody. This became a political talking

00:22:43.520 point during COVID because people who were more obese were more likely to suffer complications from

00:22:48.480 COVID. And so the Libs said that COVID is racist, but COVID obviously is not racist. There are just

00:22:53.960 certain unhealthy behaviors and conditions that are more associated with black people than with

00:22:59.680 white people and specifically black women than other people. And so they say it's all racist and

00:23:03.780 it's all because of white supremacy because everything has to be white people's fault.

00:23:06.700 So the AMA goes on. They say South Asians in particular have especially high levels of body fat

00:23:11.360 and are more prone to developing abdominal obesity than whites, which may account for their very high risk

00:23:17.280 of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In contrast, some studies have found that blacks have

00:23:22.520 lower body fat and higher lean muscle mass than whites at the same BMI and therefore may be at lower

00:23:28.200 risk of obesity-related diseases. Notice they don't compare BMIs of the different groups. They're just

00:23:31.820 saying at the same BMI, here's muscle to fat. And of course that's true. Different peoples are 0.99

00:23:37.340 different, obviously. I'm a little swarthy here. My ancestors come from Southern Italy and at least on one

00:23:44.680 side of my family. And so, yeah, my skin is going to be a little darker than people from Scandinavia.

00:23:49.060 It's going to be a little lighter than people from Nigeria. My hair is going to be a little bit 1.00

00:23:52.800 different than the hair of people from all over the world. And so, sure, it naturally follows that all

00:23:58.020 sorts of aspects of my body are going to be different from other people's. Does that mean that body mass

00:24:05.500 index is no longer useful? No, of course not. That's a complete non sequitur. Does that mean that BMI is

00:24:12.500 racist? No, of course not. But racism, as we've observed on the show before and is becoming

00:24:21.680 increasingly clear in our culture, racist just means white. If a thing is white, if a thing has 0.67

00:24:30.440 connection to white people, if a thing is more closely associated with white people than non-white

00:24:36.700 people, it is racist. In our modern culture, white just means bad. So because BMI was developed by white 0.87

00:24:45.580 people on white people using experiments that involved white people, it's just bad. Because

00:24:52.180 America historically was a white country, America's bad. Because Europe is the continent of the white people, 1.00

00:25:00.440 then Europe is bad. And those places will be blamed for things that take place in Asia, 0.64

00:25:08.520 that take place in South Asia, that take place in Africa, that take place in Pacific Islands,

00:25:13.520 slavery, cannibalism even. Cannibalism which wasn't actually practiced in the West. And the word comes

00:25:19.540 from the indigenous peoples of the Americas and specifically from the care of islanders. Doesn't 1.00

00:25:23.720 matter. I mean, anything, anything that has existed everywhere, it's bad when white people do 0.99

00:25:30.380 it. It's not bad when other people do it. And that's that. And you can try to make sense of it,

00:25:35.240 and you can bang your head against one and say, wait a second, this is so crazy. These libs have gone

00:25:38.580 too far. How on earth could you say that ways to protect the health, specifically the health of black

00:25:43.200 people, could ever be racist? It doesn't. Come on, the logic. It's not logical. You have to recognize

00:25:48.440 that the libs are beginning with the conclusion. The conclusion is white people are bad. 0.90

00:25:54.100 Okay. White people, they're the only group against whom you can legally discriminate and socially 0.61

00:26:02.320 discriminate. Asians you can also legally discriminate against in college admissions and

00:26:07.300 employment, and really specifically college admissions through affirmative action. But

00:26:12.260 white people are the only group where you not only can legally discriminate against them, 0.90

00:26:17.000 but it is socially acceptable and encouraged to insult them, to discriminate against them socially,

00:26:22.260 to ostracize them. It's the only group. So that's the conclusion. And you're going to fill in all

00:26:26.660 the absurd background such that you've got the American Medical Association saying, oh, obesity is

00:26:31.720 great. Obesity is great. If you lose weight, you're racist. And you see this in the body positivity

00:26:36.740 movement and the now worship of a pop singer like Lizzo. If anyone suggests that maybe Lizzo ought to get

00:26:43.820 a little bit more healthy, that that would be good for her, that's considered racist. Speaking of racial 1.00

00:26:48.600 issues, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, number two guy in the Republican race for president,

00:26:54.020 has a new border plan.

00:26:55.920 The crisis at the southern border, a record 2.76 million migrants crossed the border during the

00:27:02.940 2022 fiscal year, shattering the previous annual record by more than 1 million. Some not old enough 0.78

00:27:09.860 to walk, but have already traveled hundreds of miles. So there's been this record surge of migrants.

00:27:15.060 Border patrol agents have rehended more than 10,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday.

00:27:20.260 That is the record.

00:27:20.840 Humanitarian crisis at the southern border.

00:27:23.220 The drugs coming across the border here are fueling an unpresser than an epidemic across the

00:27:27.840 country, the toll of which could be counted in the skyrocketing number of overdose deaths.

00:27:33.260 But what's been happening under President Biden's watch is that they may be safe.

00:27:37.820 There we go. We see all the numbers.

00:27:41.160 127 terrorists apprehended trying to cross the border. So true. 1.00

00:27:46.020 We will secure the border.

00:27:47.080 We will stop the portails.

00:27:49.540 We will build the wall.

00:27:53.320 We will stop the invasion.

00:27:55.040 I like that he's using the word invasion. That's very strong. No excuses. Okay.

00:27:59.360 The plan might be good. The commercial's weak. And the commercial's weak because the commercial

00:28:03.480 doesn't include specifics. And because the commercial is diagnosing the problem, recognizing

00:28:08.520 the problem, but not getting specific on the solutions. Other than all the stuff that Republicans

00:28:13.980 have been talking about for a long time that they haven't really done.

00:28:18.440 Trump had a real advantage here in 2016 because he offered new solutions. We're going to build

00:28:23.720 the wall. We're going to deport all these people. We're going to end birthright citizenship. Okay, 1.00

00:28:28.060 great. Wow, that was new. That sounded exciting. People voted for him on that premise. But then

00:28:33.540 he didn't really do it. He built some of the wall. Illegal immigration dropped in the first months of the

00:28:39.660 presidency. But then the illegal immigrants and the cartels realized that the law wasn't really going 0.76

00:28:44.000 to be enforced. Maybe that was Trump's fault. Maybe it wasn't Trump's fault. Maybe Trump just

00:28:46.820 couldn't wield the bureaucracy. Effectively enough, regardless, illegal immigration jumped right back

00:28:51.920 up. So now the idea of building the wall or whatever, even that is not novel. People need more

00:29:00.760 specifics. And we need to believe that you can actually get it done. Now in his speeches,

00:29:05.960 Governor DeSantis has been more specific. And he's talked about how he intends to wield the levers

00:29:10.600 of power, which is good. I mean, that's a big improvement. I wish that that sort of thing were

00:29:14.900 in the campaign commercial. This commercial doesn't really do anything for me. I'd rather

00:29:18.540 just see DeSantis explain in nitty gritty detail what he's going to do. Because nobody really believes

00:29:23.820 that it's going to get done. I don't think anybody really believes that Trump is going to get it

00:29:27.040 done. I don't think anybody believes that DeSantis or any of these other candidates are going to get it

00:29:30.820 done, no matter how much they want to. Because the feeling is that even if a president is totally

00:29:36.440 sincere about stopping illegal immigration, that the deep state is going to cut them off at the

00:29:41.500 knees. That it's going to be held up in court. That it's going to be held up by the executive

00:29:46.820 agencies. And that all that time, the borders are going to remain open. And the illegal immigrants 0.99

00:29:51.220 are going to come over to the tune of three and a half million per year.

00:29:54.280 You know, it's not totally fair to attack DeSantis for this because the reason that

00:30:01.980 he needs to get so specific, the reason he doesn't really have credibility here is in part because

00:30:06.860 even Trump failed to do it. Even Trump, who is the most anti-immigration presidential candidate for

00:30:13.960 a major party in my lifetime, even he couldn't get the job done. So now I wonder if immigration is

00:30:21.140 even going to be a big issue in 2024. I think a lot of Republicans have just written it off.

00:30:26.340 Just said, yeah, we tried. There's really no solution on the horizon. We've got to focus our

00:30:30.460 attention elsewhere. Speaking of unwelcome entities invading our space, here's a disturbing story from

00:30:36.760 the Daily Wire. AI teddy bears could be reading customized bedtime stories to your kids within five

00:30:45.160 years. This is according to VTech Holdings, which is a, has always been a kind of higher tech toy

00:30:52.320 company, Hong Kong based toy and electronics company. They're looking very closely at the use of AI within

00:30:58.180 toys, and they would equip the toys with a chat GPT style intelligence. They're hoping to do it by 2028.

00:31:04.180 And so what they'll say is you can incorporate not only the kid's name, but the kid's daily activities.

00:31:08.960 Knows you go to which school, who your friends are. It can actually be telling a story and talking

00:31:14.160 almost like a good friend. The kids can actually talk to the toy and the toy can actually give them

00:31:20.720 a response. I think this is a very bad idea. You'll be shocked to hear that I, who am rather skeptical of

00:31:29.220 technological progress and progress generally, I think this is probably a bad idea. This technology

00:31:35.260 is designed to alleviate loneliness. That's the idea of it. Because even if you're isolated,

00:31:44.140 there are a lot of lonely people out there, especially in this day and age, there are a lot

00:31:48.300 of people who don't have a lot of friends. Maybe they don't feel like they have any friends in real

00:31:52.720 life. And what they will try to do is turn to technology to alleviate that loneliness. And so

00:31:59.140 this sort of technology, the, the industry is talking about implementing it into retirement homes,

00:32:06.520 into hospice care, into little kids' bedrooms where they're sitting alone at night. And now mommy and

00:32:12.300 daddy don't need to read a story to the kid. The teddy bear is just going to read the story to the

00:32:15.460 kid. And that's going to make the kid feel like he's talking almost like to a good friend. But

00:32:19.920 all of the evidence that we have is that the result is really the opposite. That as technology becomes

00:32:28.820 more personalized. As the media and the technology become more social, people feel more alienated and

00:32:35.740 more isolated. And the reason for that is we know that it's just a computer. We can tell the

00:32:43.480 difference between a person and a computer. And I think even if ChatGPT and AI gets to the point where

00:32:48.800 it is almost indistinguishable from a human being, we're still going to know. We still know at a deep

00:32:54.060 level, the difference between reality and simulation. We can watch a conversation on a

00:33:01.740 YouTube video and that's great. And it might pass the time, but it's not really going to make us feel

00:33:06.140 less lonely. It's not, not really going to alleviate that at all. And, and the more that we rely on these

00:33:13.880 technologies, the, the, the more alienated we become. I mean, I have talked to people with a whole

00:33:19.340 host of social pathologies and different conditions. A notable one, a notable one of those conditions

00:33:25.760 we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube, but I think, I think we know which issue we're talking

00:33:29.080 about here. And they will say that they've fallen into some of these pathologies because of technology,

00:33:34.600 because they go onto Tumblr, they go onto various social media networks, and they get lost in this

00:33:41.660 network of virtual friends, but they're not really friends. And so all of the insecurities remain

00:33:47.000 and they just become exacerbated and they fall further and further into fantasy and away from

00:33:52.880 reality. Not, not a good thing. Not a good thing for the kid. Just read your kid a story. You lazy

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00:35:08.020 When Dr. Jordan B. Peterson made the decision to join Daily Wire Plus, it was a major win for those

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00:36:00.280 is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music. I absolutely love that commenter. That commenter

00:36:08.860 has popped up a lot in the show. And the comment is, to quote Joe Biden's dad, Joey, it's simple.

00:36:14.540 They're coming for your children. Very simple. They are. They are, in fact, coming for your children.

00:36:20.620 Speaking of kids, speaking of the youths, Disney has cast its first transgender actor in a major role.

00:36:33.340 Disney has hired a British man who identifies as a woman, YouTube personality, who calls himself

00:36:39.660 Abigail Thorne. I don't know what his real name is, but he calls himself Abigail, for a role in the

00:36:44.740 upcoming Disney Plus series, The Acolyte, according to multiple reports. And this is obviously very bad

00:36:54.100 and shouldn't happen. And it's another reason never to let your kids watch Disney and any, certainly any

00:36:58.080 new Disney and to only go over and watch Daily Wire Plus kids content and other conservative kids

00:37:02.240 content. But it's created a little bit of a division on the right between the conservatives

00:37:09.160 and the squishier, more kind of live and let live. You have the right to do whatever you want kind of

00:37:17.080 people. And the division has come down to this issue of, well, look, the free market can decide

00:37:24.380 who gets cast for what roles. And come on, let's not be extreme here. Transgender people have the right

00:37:31.620 to a job, right? They have the right to be. And now there's a difference between a right to a job,

00:37:36.800 first of all, and a right to be in children's content from Disney. But let's put that aside

00:37:41.900 for a second. Let's just take the, transgender people have the right to work. Transgender people

00:37:46.200 have the right to a job. No, they don't. And they don't because there's no such category as transgender 1.00

00:37:54.140 people. There are just people. There are people and people are defined in a certain way. And people

00:38:00.260 are defined by things outside of their own self-perception and their own disordered desires.

00:38:05.720 There is no such thing as a transgender person. There are just people. And some people are 1.00

00:38:12.780 confused. And some people have fallen into fantasies. And some people are pursuing disordered

00:38:17.580 sexual desires and fetishes. But that doesn't change who and what they really are. And so a man

00:38:24.840 does not have any right to dress up in public life as a woman. And a man does not have a right 1.00

00:38:32.980 to dress up like a woman to go do whatever job he wants. The Supreme Court, unfortunately, 1.00

00:38:40.040 has ruled that a man does have that right. And you saw this specifically in the Harris Funeral Homes

00:38:44.280 case just a few years ago. And you've seen this in the Bostock decision, which says that civil rights

00:38:50.700 protections on the basis of sex are actually, when you really think about it, civil rights protections

00:38:55.260 on the basis of gender identity. And this is an absurd Supreme Court ruling. And it should certainly 0.98

00:38:59.440 be overturned, as many Supreme Court rulings have been overturned in American history. But you don't

00:39:03.580 have the right to do it. And transgenderism is such a hot issue that sometimes it's difficult for the

00:39:08.920 liberals to see past it because they just are so invested in transcending the boundaries of reality.

00:39:15.000 But let me put it in another way and say that I really like frogs. And I really like the idea of,

00:39:22.460 maybe I don't even view myself as a frog. I just really like the idea of being a frog.

00:39:27.880 I don't have a right to show up to work in a big frog costume.

00:39:33.800 Even if I really like it. I mean, in this line of work, I've worn all sorts of crazy costumes in

00:39:38.240 show business and politics. But even in this line of work, I don't have the right to show up to the

00:39:43.160 show and then say, well, hello, everybody. Someday we'll find it. The Rainbow Connection.

00:39:47.460 I notice my accent is becoming a little bit like Jordan Peterson's. But okay, now we're really,

00:39:54.220 it's like this is inception of Daily Wire personalities and views and costumes. But

00:39:59.960 nobody has that right. If you pull up to your McDonald's and you order a hamburger and then

00:40:06.980 there's a guy in a big frog costume in the window, you would think that's a little bit weird. And I

00:40:11.960 think the manager would think it's a little bit weird. The manager would say, hey, go home and put

00:40:14.720 on your uniform, put on your clothing that you're supposed to wear. And the same principle holds

00:40:21.820 for men and women. Men don't have the right to dress up like women. Women don't have the right 1.00

00:40:28.840 to dress up like men. And if you are going to persist in those kind of deviant, disordered,

00:40:35.380 scandalous, absurd, ridiculous behaviors of make-believe and dress up, an employer is not

00:40:44.480 obligated to hire you and an audience is not obligated to watch you. And we need to get a

00:40:51.480 little bit more clear about that. That's the only way that we are going to eradicate the preposterous

00:40:58.180 ideology of transgenderism from public life entirely for the good of society and especially 1.00

00:41:04.260 for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to that delusion, such as this Disney actor.

00:41:11.980 Speaking of legal issues, Justice Sam Alito, one of the greats on the Supreme Court. Possibly my very

00:41:20.940 favorite justice on the Supreme Court. Certainly right up there with Clarence Thomas. And I think

00:41:25.340 probably even, I agree with Alito a little more than I agree with Thomas. Sam Alito has a big target

00:41:32.000 on his back and the Libs are going after him. So there's a hack, liberal, journalistic outlet called

00:41:38.840 ProPublica, which is trying to attack Sam Alito and gin up a scandal where there is none. And that's

00:41:44.760 no surprise. The Libs have been doing this for years. They've done it to Brett Kavanaugh. They've

00:41:50.100 especially done it to Justice Thomas. Now they're doing it to Sam Alito. What's different

00:41:55.160 here? When they've done it to conservative judges in the past, the conservative judges have gone on

00:42:01.900 defense. So Brett Kavanaugh mounted that very strong defense at his confirmation hearings.

00:42:07.400 You know, I like beer. I still like beer. That whole thing. And it worked. And I felt did a pretty

00:42:11.720 good job of dispelling the silly nonsense, the obviously concocted nonsense of that woman, 1.00

00:42:18.100 Christine Blasey Ford, where there's no evidence that you ever even met Brett Kavanaugh.

00:42:21.860 You saw this with Justice Thomas in the high-tech lynching confirmation hearings where Thomas

00:42:28.500 mounts his defense. He says, this is a national disgrace. This is a circus. This is a high-tech

00:42:33.340 lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. And Joe Biden, who was 0.97

00:42:37.180 chairing that meeting, immediately put his head down. He thought, oh no, wait, I can't. I look bad

00:42:42.440 now that we're going after Thomas. In this case, though, Alito's going on the offense.

00:42:47.620 Sam Alito published an op-ed a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal and says,

00:42:52.480 ProPublica misleads its readers. The publication levels false charges about Supreme Court recusal,

00:42:57.120 financial disclosures, and a 2008 phishing trip. Now, the issue at play here is that some guy invited

00:43:05.120 Sam Alito to fly on his private airplane to a place that they were both going to. And this guy,

00:43:14.280 through some indirect means, had business before the court at some point. And so they're saying,

00:43:19.000 this is awful, and Alito should have recused himself, and this is corruption, whatever.

00:43:22.240 And Alito does a very good job of knocking this down. He says, first of all, this issue has come

00:43:25.440 before the court many times, long before I ever flew on this airplane. And my views haven't really

00:43:30.520 changed on it. And I was invited on this airplane. This was an empty seat. It didn't incur any extra

00:43:35.740 cost for the guy who did it to me. And I've been totally above board in all my financial

00:43:41.640 disclosures. And he just totally knocks it down, takes the wind out of the sails.

00:43:45.860 The lesson here for conservatives, though, is that this unusual action of going on offense,

00:43:51.960 even before an attack comes out, this needs to become the norm. Okay? We used to

00:43:57.960 let things lie a little bit, not try to get too aggressive, try to maintain an above-it-all

00:44:04.820 sort of approach. That's not going to work. Any semblance of neutrality in the public institutions,

00:44:10.600 that's gone. You're either with us or against us. That's the place that we're at now. I'm not sure

00:44:19.140 if that was always the case, and we're just seeing it more clearly now, or if this is a real change for

00:44:24.640 our political order. But whatever it is, we're now engaged in a fairly, clearly defined battle.

00:44:30.900 And this laissez-faire, you do you, I don't have an opinion, proceduralism, proceduralism,

00:44:37.280 that has defined our politics for a long time, that's over. Pick a side, fight very hard.

00:44:44.520 We've got a guy coming up. Who knows a thing or two about that? That would be my friend,

00:44:49.060 Jesse Kelly. The rest of the show continues now in the member block. You don't want to miss it.

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00:44:58.660 We'll see you next time.

00:45:16.900 We'll see you next time.

00:45:17.460 Bye.

The Michael Knowles Show - June 27, 2023

Ep. 1276 - The Libs Are Doing This To Your Pizza

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