The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1282 - Culture Splits On Viral ＂Was That Person Real？＂ Video

00:00:00.000 A woman freaked out on an American Airlines flight over the weekend, and since we now live in a

00:00:05.160 culture that encourages people to film people in distress rather than to help them, the poor lady

00:00:11.080 has gone viral. Say whatever you want. I'm telling you, I'm getting the f**k off, and there's a reason

00:00:18.400 why I'm getting the f**k off, and everyone can either believe it or they cannot believe it. 1.00

00:00:23.920 I don't give two f**k, but I am telling you right now, that motherf**k, that motherf**k back there is 1.00

00:00:32.160 not real. And you can sit on this plane, and you can f**k die with them or not. I'm not going to. 1.00

00:00:41.220 So what happened? Was the woman having a psychotic break? Did she have a few too many drinks at the 1.00

00:00:47.820 airport bar? Was her seatmate not real? I don't know. Seems unlikely, but maybe Matt's right, 1.00

00:00:56.060 and she saw an alien. Or maybe, since Matt is not right, maybe she saw a demon. I don't know.

00:01:01.540 I don't know. I have very little interest in observing a woman's apparent meltdown on an 1.00

00:01:08.040 airplane, but I have a great interest in observing culture. And I can't help but notice, in this case,

00:01:14.040 how different the reaction is from the last big viral moment that our whole culture embraced.

00:01:21.140 A couple of months ago, a vagrant, violent criminal with a rap sheet a mile long, a man who had

00:01:27.580 recently beaten up elderly men and women, walked onto a New York City subway train and threatened

00:01:33.720 to kill people. And our culture makers, our media, our political establishment, they treated that man

00:01:40.200 as the most innocent, downtrodden, sympathetic break dancer ever to moonwalk onto the F train.

00:01:48.000 An oppressed black man struck down by the scourge of white supremacy, that ubiquitous deadly scourge. 0.63

00:01:56.640 And then, this past weekend, a white woman had an emotional outburst and walked off an airplane 0.98

00:02:02.520 without threatening anyone. And she is now a universal object of mockery and derision, 0.66

00:02:07.620 a dumb, stupid Karen who should probably be arrested and put on some meds. 1.00

00:02:13.080 What matters about the airline freakout video is not whether that lady thought her seatmate was a 1.00

00:02:19.620 real person or not. More significant about the video is whether the viewers think the lady

00:02:26.660 freaking out is a real person herself. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:52.020 Knowles today. Speaking of viral moments, there's another one that's gone viral now because a mainstream

00:02:58.560 network news outlet is celebrating a video of two men taking a baby and claiming it as theirs. We'll get into

00:03:06.860 that a little bit later. First, though, I don't want to move off the lady on the airplane just yet 0.97

00:03:10.840 because there was a major update this morning. When I saw that video, I thought,

00:03:15.540 look, maybe she had a few too many at the airport. It's happened to the best of us.

00:03:21.580 But what did she see? She probably saw something. She's clearly afraid of something. And because I

00:03:27.800 recognize that there is spiritual warfare in the world, I thought, I don't know, maybe,

00:03:31.520 I don't know, maybe she saw something that at least signified or symbolized something that might

00:03:38.020 be real and genuinely scary. And then my associate producer, Young Jacob today, was it Mr. Davies?

00:03:44.720 One of the two of them points out that there's a follow-up video by a guy who says he's the one

00:03:50.360 who freaked the woman out. And the guy turns out to be a face-tattooed Freemason who called himself

00:03:56.980 Lucifer. All right. So the internet has heard the story of the woman on the plane with the

00:04:01.560 reptilians. But thanks to her delaying the flight, I just got home. So now it's my opportunity to tell

00:04:06.260 my side of the story as the guy in the hoodie. So we're attempting to fly out of Dallas, Fort Worth.

00:04:11.020 And then basically this woman, she sits next to me and she's clearly been drinking. I'm minding my 0.97

00:04:16.100 own business. And sure enough, she sees my hoodie that has this Freemason logo on it. Put a pause

00:04:19.920 right there. I'm just minding my own business. This, you know, Ben Shapiro of every

00:04:26.600 observation he's ever made in his life, his best one, is the observation about face tattoo syndrome,

00:04:33.020 which is someone tattoos their whole face. They make a huge spectacle of themselves in a way that

00:04:37.780 is really spooky and grotesque. And then they just wait for you to notice it. And then they get angry

00:04:43.420 when you notice it. See, what are you looking at? What are you looking at? Oh, I don't know. The

00:04:47.660 attention you demanded. That's what I'm offering you because you've tattooed your face in a way that

00:04:52.260 is menacing and spooky. And you've got all these occult symbols all over you. And then you get angry

00:04:56.300 at me for noticing the thing that you were begging me to notice. Keep going.

00:05:00.940 And on top of that, she noticed my ring. So she started to ask questions. Nothing dramatic. Just

00:05:05.220 ask me, do I know what these symbols mean? Why am I wearing it? What's the purpose? Yada, yada,

00:05:09.720 yada. And long story short, I basically just say, hey, I'm a Freemason. I even briefly explained how I

00:05:15.300 educate about Freemasonry here on TikTok. Next thing I know, she basically starts to grill me about low

00:05:20.600 level Freemason and that it's all Satanism and that it's ruled by reptilians and blah,

00:05:25.360 blah, blah. So I simply put my hood up and I started to ignore her and basically just mind

00:05:30.220 my own business. She starts getting louder and louder. And then basically she's like,

00:05:34.140 you know that they worship Lucifer at the top, right? So I looked at her dead in her eyes and I

00:05:38.860 said, I am Lucifer. I heard one individual laugh behind me. So I figured somebody got a kick out of

00:05:44.280 it. At least she starts running up and down the aisles, freaking out, saying I'm a reptilian. And then

00:05:48.460 all this other stuff, she's going to get off the plane, yada, yada, yada. It doesn't show all the

00:05:52.000 footage. It just says that she's trying to get off the plane because of, you know, I'm not going to

00:05:55.420 say it here on TikTok. I don't want to get banned. But then also talking about how like I'm secretly

00:05:59.480 also trying to take over the world. So I looked back at the guy that was basically chuckling before

00:06:03.500 and I winked at him. So I basically whispered something under my breath saying that Freemasons 0.93

00:06:08.640 don't care to rule the world. We rule the universe. And I looked back at the guy that was laughing

00:06:12.980 before and just kind of winked at him because he started laughing again. Well, I didn't think that she

00:06:17.100 could hear me, but evidently she did. And it's a big joke, huh? Further. And then they delayed flight

00:06:21.880 and so on and so forth. So moral of the story, don't believe everything you hear on the internet

00:06:26.020 and Freemasons don't care to rule the world when we rule the universe. So 0.84

00:06:31.320 this was a twist that not a lot of people expected. The woman, especially if, if we're assuming she had a 1.00

00:06:39.500 few drinks at the airport bar, pretty much totally vindicated, right? He puts yourself in her shoes

00:06:47.100 and you're sitting there next to a face tatted up guy who's got a cult symbolism all over his body,

00:06:54.560 who says that he's Lucifer and controls the universe. I think she's pretty vindicated and justified. Now

00:07:01.200 you might say, well, he's just joking. He's just being ironic. And I guess my objection to that point

00:07:09.380 is I think irony ends once you tattoo your face. I think that's pretty much the end of irony. I've

00:07:16.800 observed on this show before that if you behave in an ironic way for your whole life, it's no longer

00:07:23.300 ironic. It becomes earnest because there's no way to distinguish between irony and sincerity.

00:07:28.060 I think the moment that tattoo gun hits your face, that's when the irony ceases. I think you're

00:07:34.420 pretty committed to the bit at that point. And esotericists and hermetic sort of cults that

00:07:45.180 worship illumination and all that sort of thing. I don't know if you're, if you're calling, if you're

00:07:50.140 saying that you control the universe and you got the tats and the symbols, I don't, you know,

00:07:54.500 I'm not saying I would have stormed off the plane. I probably just would have said a couple of

00:07:58.760 prayers, you know, maybe talk to the guy, figured out what he actually believes beyond all these kinds

00:08:04.380 of slogans. But maybe if I'd had one or two too many rosés like that lady perhaps did, I might've

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00:09:23.100 Americans by Americans. Speaking of the culture, speaking of women who seem incoherent and less 0.93

00:09:34.480 justifiably so in this case, Kamala Harris, our vice president, she has thoughts on our culture.

00:09:43.060 Well, I think culture is, it is a reflection of our moment and our time, right? And present culture

00:09:55.060 is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment. And we should always find times to express

00:10:02.660 how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy because, you know, it comes in the morning.

00:10:09.220 We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having

00:10:20.420 language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that

00:10:26.880 way too.

00:10:29.340 Culture is the norms, rituals, and behaviors of a given people. That's the answer she was looking

00:10:36.140 for. It was, it's just, it's ninth grade English class when you haven't read the book and you,

00:10:43.760 you are in the, you're in the honors class, but you, maybe you don't belong in the honors class and

00:10:50.020 you haven't done the work anyway. You said, well, you know, culture, where do I begin? It's,

00:10:55.980 you know, culture is an expression of our moment and that's, and culture is how we react to our,

00:11:06.380 the expression of the moment and it's the moment and it's joy in the morning. And well, I think we

00:11:15.760 pretty much, yeah, but do you have an answer to what that is? No, there's something really profound

00:11:25.180 in Kamala's circular and meaningless description of culture here, which is that our culture presently

00:11:31.240 is circular and meaningless. So a keen insight about culture was given to us by the sociologist

00:11:37.340 René Girard, who, who pointed out that culture is mimetic, that we human beings develop our

00:11:45.120 personalities, our behaviors, our language, our thoughts, our desires even by imitating what we see

00:11:50.580 from other people. And so a culture that values honor is going to, you know, let's, let's say a

00:11:59.320 monarchy traditionally, that's a culture that places a high value on honor. That culture is going to

00:12:05.540 increase in honor and in the desire for honor because we're all going to be imitating each other.

00:12:10.720 Republics traditionally are understood as cultures that value virtue. And so they're going to be,

00:12:16.960 they're going to look different than monarchies. They're going to look different than aristocracies.

00:12:19.380 And that's going to spread too, because we're going to imitate one another. The reason that you

00:12:23.760 want the nice Rolex watch is not because you know anything about horology or timekeeping or Swiss

00:12:30.540 arts and crafts. It's because people that you admire and people who you would like to be more like

00:12:36.860 want the Rolex watch. That's, that's how, that's how we come to even desire these sorts of

00:12:42.340 luxury goods. That's, and that would be one of the artifacts that defines a culture. And so all of

00:12:49.160 that to say, our present culture doesn't really value much of anything at all. We don't value honor.

00:12:58.400 We don't believe in honor anymore. We don't value virtue. We don't believe in virtue anymore.

00:13:02.180 We don't, we do value stuff to some degree though, actually decreasingly. So if you see

00:13:08.640 surveys about millennials and zoomers, especially, we don't really value cars anymore. We don't really

00:13:13.900 value having a house anymore. We don't really value high fashion anymore. We don't even value

00:13:17.940 stuff. We value nothing other than the satisfaction of our most animalistic desires. And so human

00:13:25.940 culture starts to go away. Anything resembling high culture disappears. We don't have beautiful

00:13:30.300 architecture. We don't have beautiful art. We don't have beautiful music. We don't have beautiful

00:13:35.080 customs or rituals anymore. It's all just kind of base level, satisfy your sexual appetite,

00:13:39.760 satisfy your physical appetites, not even with high cuisine, with kind of cheap nothing cuisine,

00:13:45.320 where we're just eating slop basically from fast food places or from impossible burgers or from

00:13:51.260 what is soil and milkshakes or whatever else you're going to have. So that's an anti-culture

00:13:57.600 perfectly expressed by Kamala Harris in this circular rambling because we don't have any sense of what we

00:14:04.760 value anymore because we don't have any grounding in reality anymore. And as our society moves further

00:14:12.080 away from grounded tangible reality into the metaverse, into virtual digital social media,

00:14:19.020 into the abstraction of the self from the body, saying that our true selves have nothing to do with

00:14:24.760 our bodies anymore. As that happens, the culture is going to collapse even further. And it's become

00:14:29.740 almost cliche now to observe that we today could not build medieval cathedrals. We couldn't do it.

00:14:35.220 We don't even know how they were built. Notre Dame in Paris, the roof burns down. We don't know how

00:14:41.600 to fix it. We've got, we're just gonna have to replace it with something uglier. We can't do it

00:14:45.640 anymore. That culture has been lost. The apotheosis of that culture is the incoherent rambling that

00:14:53.000 you're getting from now the vice president of the United States. Speaking of our culture and the

00:14:59.460 fleeting aspects that could even define our anti-culture as it exists, St. Greta, Greta of

00:15:06.340 the Blessed Selbut, Greta Thunberg was just arrested in Sweden. She was arrested for protesting fossil fuels

00:15:14.420 or something. And they arrested her. She's 20 years old now, by the way. They keep pretending she's like

00:15:18.780 12. But, you know, she's an adult now. And she was arrested and could be charged with a crime and

00:15:25.240 could be sentenced to six months in prison. But she won't be. Even the media outlets who are reporting

00:15:30.180 on this, who are liberal and very sympathetic to Greta, are saying she'll probably just get off

00:15:34.340 with a fine. And some of her big liberal backers will pay off that fine and it won't matter at all. 0.98

00:15:38.520 And she'll just go back to getting arrested next time. That's because this protest, 0.91

00:15:44.240 which presents itself as being opposed to the system, opposed to the established powers,

00:15:50.440 it is actually part of the system. Protesting is part of the liberal ruling order. That's why 0.94

00:15:58.320 the liberal ruling class encouraged the BLM riots a few years ago. The riots were not in opposition to

00:16:04.300 any system. They were part of the system. And protests have been part of the system for at least

00:16:10.180 500 years. I guess about 500 years of modernity. And you see that especially kick up in something

00:16:15.600 like the French Revolution, which puts modernity into overdrive and tears down the order. You see 0.60

00:16:20.920 this in the Bolshevik Revolution. You see this increasingly. The protests that tear down the

00:16:27.760 edifices of the old regime, of the old culture, of Christendom, of the West, they tear that down.

00:16:33.300 But they tear it down not in spite of the liberal ruling class that currently runs our civilization,

00:16:39.640 but with the encouragement of that ruling class. Because that ruling class is a liberal ruling class

00:16:43.640 that wants to tear down all the old stuff, that wants to tear down tradition, that wants to tear

00:16:47.260 down the church, that wants to tear down the family, that wants to tear down the high art,

00:16:50.420 that wants to tear down all the stuff that makes us us as a society. This is also why it's mostly

00:16:59.080 futile for conservatives to engage in the same kinds of protests and activism that the left has

00:17:06.460 been engaging in for centuries. We occasionally try to do it. And it's usually half-hearted because

00:17:11.220 it's just not really in the conservative sensibility to take to the streets and scream and yell in

00:17:15.820 protest like we're great at Unberg or something like that. But also it's not going to work because

00:17:19.380 the system will clamp down on us. The system won't clamp down on them. BLM can go burn down the country 1.00

00:17:24.520 for eight months. The system's going to, at the most, give them a little slap on the wrist.

00:17:28.600 St. Greta can go make a nuisance of herself everywhere. The system will not punish her ever. 1.00

00:17:34.000 But a Midwestern granny shows up to the Capitol Rotunda and takes a selfie, you know, next to 1.00

00:17:38.520 Nancy Pelosi's lectern or something. She's going into solitary confinement. So the system reacts

00:17:44.220 differently because the system is built for liberal protests that furthers the goals of the regime.

00:17:49.440 conservative protest, which is mostly incoherent. You know, the great strides that conservatives

00:17:55.840 and proto-conservatives have ever made have not been won through activism in the streets,

00:18:03.220 screaming and yelling like we're the weather underground or something. That doesn't,

00:18:06.260 that's not how we roll. The greatest strides that the right, the conservatives, the people who are on

00:18:14.120 our side of the culture have ever made are, are the martyrs dancing as the lions eat them in,

00:18:19.600 in the early church because the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. That's a,

00:18:23.600 that's a hard lesson to learn and none of us really is eager for that probably. But, but that's,

00:18:29.920 that's more in our sensibility than, you know, going out and yelling and screaming to, to, to no good

00:18:37.020 end because we'll, we'll just be rounded up and arrested. And meanwhile, Greta will go down and hold 1.00

00:18:41.560 another, another, another big show. We're not going to beat the system by being part of the system.

00:18:48.600 It's one of the big battles right now on the American right is we're recognizing that we have

00:18:55.040 unknowingly im imbibed and accepted so many of the Libs premises. This is why conservatives,

00:19:04.460 at least for the last 50, 60 years, have basically just been liberals driving the speed limit.

00:19:09.100 As I think Michael Malice has popularized that phrase, other people have said it too.

00:19:13.980 And that's true. You don't, you don't want to just be liberals driving the speed limit. You want

00:19:17.260 to offer a choice rather than an echo. Moving on from Greta, getting into famous children,

00:19:24.560 there's a big update on Coke gate. You know, you remember how they found a little bit of that old

00:19:29.820 first son favorite booger sugar in the West Wing? You know what I'm talking about? You know,

00:19:33.260 I'm, you know what I'm saying? I'm talking about that old Peruvian nose candy. You know what I'm

00:19:37.040 talking about? I mean, that Yale college baking powder, you know, cocaine. They found some in

00:19:43.200 the white house and the Biden administration is doing its damnedest to, to bury it under the rug, 0.81

00:19:50.380 bury it under the carpet, bury it up in the first son's nose. But the excuses are pretty weak, 0.51

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00:22:42.420 My favorite comment yesterday is from Master Kenobi, who says, Michael, your talking points are great

00:22:48.780 and all, but your style never disappoints. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Glad you think

00:22:54.000 I got that drip and that riz. It is Tom Ford Friday over here at the Daily Wire. I have gotten

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00:23:07.940 goodness I'm married. Could you imagine if I got this kind of a wardrobe, this kind of a drip when I

00:23:12.600 was single? It would have been over, man. It would not have been conducive to virtue, not a chance.

00:23:19.720 Speaking of things that are not conducive to virtue, the first son, Hunter Biden, visited the White

00:23:25.200 House and then a little bit of that Colombian cumin was found. You know what I mean? A little bag of that

00:23:33.140 old powder was found in the White House and supposedly we have no idea where it came from.

00:23:39.600 Initially, we were told it was always in the White House residence. So then you think it was the

00:23:42.940 Biden family. Then we were told, no, actually it was in a really highly trafficked area of the White

00:23:49.500 House. So it could have been anybody. It could have been some tourist walking in, someone just getting

00:23:52.780 a quick view of the White House. Then we were told, no, it was in a much more secure area of the White

00:23:58.840 House. You pretty much would have had to be a member of the Biden family or a cabinet secretary to get

00:24:05.640 into this part of the White House without being fully searched. So the White House deputy press

00:24:10.800 secretary, Andrew Bates, was asked about Cocaine Gate. Here's his non-answer.

00:24:17.780 One more. Former President Trump has made some pretty wild posts recently on social media. One of

00:24:24.100 them was that the cocaine found in the White House had belonged to either the president or his son.

00:24:30.100 Are you willing to say that that's not the case, that they don't belong to them?

00:24:35.000 I don't have a response to that because we have to be careful about the Hatch Act. What I will say

00:24:42.440 is that I have noticed there does seem to be some increasing frustration coming from that corner

00:24:48.920 in general. And I think it is probably rooted in the contrast between their substantive policy records.

00:24:56.700 Humana, humana, humana, humana, I can't, uh, the Hatch Act.

00:25:01.440 The Hatch Act is the weakest sauce answer you can ever give as a press secretary to a question that

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00:25:20.320 And everybody violates this thing all the time and it's pretty much never enforced.

00:25:23.940 Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, the boss here of, of this guy.

00:25:30.080 She will frequently use the Hatch Act as an excuse not to give answers to tough questions about Joe 0.99

00:25:35.460 Biden, but she was found herself to have violated the Hatch Act on at least one occasion. I suspect

00:25:41.680 she's done it on many more occasions because if you're working in politics in any role, then you're 1.00

00:25:48.020 working in politics and it's very muddy and it's a, it's a stupid answer. Even if the Hatch Act were 1.00

00:25:54.980 legit and were ever seriously enforced, how would it be a violation of the Hatch Act to comment on the

00:26:02.940 illicit drug, on the narcotic that was found in the West Wing? In what way could that possibly violate

00:26:10.240 the Hatch Act? It's just an answer they don't want to give because most people have a strong

00:26:14.780 suspicion on where it came from and they know that the Biden family will never be held to account for

00:26:23.560 anything. If you can take tens of millions of dollars in bribes from hostile foreign powers by

00:26:28.140 selling American influence and not face really any, any consequences for that, you're not going to face

00:26:35.100 consequences for a dime bag of Coke. It's just not going to happen. Okay. Speaking of things that

00:26:41.180 should be illegal and laws that should be enforced, CBS News just celebrated a moment

00:26:47.120 on social media. CBS News tweeted out, this is the moment Ben and his husband, Aaron, met their

00:26:57.680 daughter. Is that how that works? Is that how daughters are made? Charlotte for the first time.

00:27:03.420 Here's the video. What's so telling here is the guys have no idea what to do. Neither of them has

00:27:29.920 the instinct to actually take supposedly their baby into their arms. The nurse has to shove the baby 0.70

00:27:36.380 at one of them. And then finally, oh, what do I do? I pick this thing up because men and women are

00:27:40.580 different and babies need their mamas. And this is just so evil. It's just so, so evil to deprive a

00:27:46.740 child intentionally of his mother, just her mother, I guess in this case, because it's a little baby girl.

00:27:53.860 Off camera, by the way, without any of the music playing, without any of the sweet emojis, the little

00:28:00.320 tearing up happy emojis from CBS News, there's a woman who's in a bed bleeding somewhere. It was my

00:28:07.120 colleague, Merid here at the Daily Wire, pointed this out. She said, there's a woman bleeding in a bed 0.97

00:28:14.560 with nobody in her arms right now because that woman was treated as a commodity and this baby is 0.98

00:28:19.380 treated as a commodity. And now the baby will be denied a proper upbringing and her natural right

00:28:25.900 to a mother and a father joined together in holy matrimony in order to satisfy the fantasies and

00:28:33.520 very selfish desires of two men. That's awful. It's just awful. And it should obviously be not

00:28:41.400 only discouraged but illegal. And this wouldn't have even been thinkable just a few years ago. Now it's

00:28:47.560 becoming increasingly common. And having said all that, it's also important, I think, to point out

00:28:56.240 these guys might not have known. These guys might not know how evil it is what they're doing. I think

00:29:04.280 there are a lot of people, definitely homosexual couples, but even straight couples or single people

00:29:10.900 or whatever, who engage in surrogacy, who don't realize that it is evil or why it is evil. And so

00:29:18.660 I'm really sympathetic to them because the baby is a good thing. The baby is good. It's a good end.

00:29:27.100 The means by which the baby was conceived and the way in which the baby is being brought up is evil.

00:29:33.200 And good ends do not justify evil means. But in our culture that has completely destroyed its

00:29:41.580 capacity for moral discourse, in our culture which says if it feels good, do it, is the only moral

00:29:47.540 maxim, I have a great deal of sympathy for guys who just didn't know. And now they're in this

00:29:52.540 position where they say, shoot, what do I do? What do I do? There are a lot of people who have not

00:29:58.740 engaged in surrogacy who used to approve of surrogacy from afar. They don't see the reality

00:30:03.420 of it. Then we see the reality of it. And we recognize there's a woman bleeding off camera who's

00:30:08.060 being used as a vessel for rich gay men. And we realize, oh, that's wrong. And then people start to 0.56

00:30:15.880 think about it for a second. They say, okay, why is surrogacy wrong? I have a sense that it's wrong,

00:30:19.380 but why is it wrong? Oh, it's wrong because it's wrong to treat people as commodities. It's wrong to

00:30:25.100 treat people as things. And surrogacy treats a person as a thing. There's a great priest on

00:30:34.560 Twitter who made this very simple logical point yesterday. Father, I think it's Matthew Schneider

00:30:40.820 is his name. I could be getting that wrong. It's wrong to treat people as things. Surrogacy treats

00:30:45.380 people as things. Therefore, surrogacy is wrong. And that's it. And while the conservatives were getting

00:30:51.760 on our high horse here, and even many people who hadn't considered surrogacy very much are now

00:30:56.840 beginning to realize, oh, this is evil. This should obviously be banned. But we can't just point the

00:31:01.720 finger at the libs here and their sexual revolution, which has driven a lot of this evil. We also need 1.00

00:31:07.460 to point out that this surrogacy thing is also a logical consequence of making an idol out of

00:31:15.080 capitalism. What you're looking at there is not communism. What you're looking at there is not

00:31:20.560 merely the logical end of the sexual revolution. What you're looking at there is capitalism.

00:31:26.700 Buying and selling wombs and time, gestation, and bodily resources, and ultimately buying and selling

00:31:36.700 people. And that is evil. It's the same type of thing as human trafficking and slavery.

00:31:44.000 And it's particularly insidious and evil because you're intentionally depriving a child of his or

00:31:51.320 her parents. And in this case, of a mother, which a relationship between a baby and a mother is so,

00:31:56.820 so important. Deeply, deeply evil, but it's a systemic problem. It's not just the libs. It's not

00:32:01.720 just the homosexuals. It's not just the sexual revolutionaries. It's the whole liberal system 0.99

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00:33:31.220 Hey, Michael, you talk a lot about how the DeSantis versus Trump race is about the original

00:33:38.320 versus the derivative. And I agree that if Ron DeSantis is going to have a clear path to victory,

00:33:43.780 he needs to reframe that contest entirely. And the way that he has to do it is to convince

00:33:49.980 Americans that this is not between the original and the derivative, but between the ultimate and

00:33:54.760 the derivative. In which case, Ron DeSantis would be the ultimate conservative president

00:34:00.000 and Donald Trump would be a mere stepping stone towards achieving that ultimate conservatism.

00:34:06.600 The way he needs to do this is by being an explicitly Christian candidate, by saying that

00:34:12.860 all of his policies are going to be viewed through a Christian lens and his driving governmental

00:34:20.160 philosophy is going to be that of Christianity. Conservatism at its heart is Christian. So if 0.69

00:34:26.620 he would do this, I think that he would make a big leap forward. And I would like to hear your

00:34:31.140 thoughts on it. Thanks.

00:34:33.400 I basically agree with that. And that question may have come in before I made a very similar

00:34:37.480 point yesterday on the show. That's true. I think probably the consultants around DeSantis might fear

00:34:45.200 that a deus volt, explicitly Christian campaign might hurt him with the supposed suburban moms or,

00:34:56.020 you know, the suburban women and the moderate voters and all these kinds of people. But I agree

00:35:01.820 with you. It's really his only shot. Probably DeSantis' only shot right now in this race is to run as

00:35:08.760 Ted Cruz, which wouldn't work had Ted Cruz decided to run in 2024. But because Senator Cruz has not run

00:35:15.140 in 2024, Cruz ran as the Christian conservative candidate. Now, Senator Cruz is more libertarian

00:35:22.320 probably than Governor DeSantis, which right now that distinction would benefit DeSantis given where

00:35:29.340 the conservative movement is at the moment. So he could try to run as the more traditionalist type

00:35:37.300 of Ted Cruz. But people will poo-poo that strategy because they'll say, well, Cruz lost to Trump.

00:35:43.100 Yeah, he did. But we blur over a lot of the details in hindsight. Had Marco Rubio dropped out

00:35:51.780 before Florida, Ted Cruz probably would have been the Republican nominee. Ted Cruz was very,

00:35:55.720 very close to beating Donald Trump in the 2016 primary. And he ran as a distinct figure. Trump ran

00:36:01.060 as this wild populist who totally bucks the system, who is not from the elite, who kind of attended one of

00:36:08.880 the fancy schools, though he was a transfer student and he was never really accepted by them.

00:36:14.480 He doesn't come from old money. He doesn't hop around to all the classic institutions

00:36:19.260 of the political establishment. He is not invited to nice cocktail parties. And Ron DeSantis did go to

00:36:28.860 the fancy schools. He went to Yale and Harvard. And Ron DeSantis did serve in Congress for a while.

00:36:34.300 And Ron DeSantis has been a governor of a state. And so it's not a knock on him. I think he's a

00:36:38.240 very effective politician. But he can't run as that total outsider. Ron DeSantis has support from

00:36:43.180 a lot of the GOP establishment. Again, I still don't think that's a knock on DeSantis. I think

00:36:49.100 they're just supporting him because he's not Donald Trump and he's the only guy who could take Trump

00:36:52.460 out. But that's something that DeSantis has to deal with. And I think maybe the way to deal with that

00:36:57.300 is to just lean in and say, look, I am going to be the candidate to the right of Donald Trump. And he's

00:37:02.240 starting to do that, by the way. You're seeing this with a great ad from Casey DeSantis going after

00:37:05.960 some of the eccentricities of the left, hitting the left for going after conservatives' kids.

00:37:13.720 You're seeing this in the anti-Pride Month ad that DeSantis put out. And so he's starting to do that.

00:37:18.060 But yeah, he's got to distinguish himself. Because if it's a battle between Coke and New Coke,

00:37:22.460 New Coke might perform better in the taste tests that are blind. But when you take the blindfold off,

00:37:26.540 people are always going to go for the OG. Next one.

00:37:28.840 Hey, Michael. I'm in a little bit of a pickle here, and I'm hoping you can unpickle me with

00:37:34.000 some words of wisdom. Throughout the month of June, I posted a lot of anti-Pride things. Very

00:37:38.240 simple things like men cannot be women, we shouldn't affirm transgender's mental delusions, 0.96

00:37:42.600 and that the Rainbow Coalition will be the downfall of America. My husband has two siblings who are a

00:37:47.100 part of the Rainbow Coalition, and they, of course, became incredibly upset about this and were

00:37:52.280 screaming at me that I was being hateful and all sorts of other things. It got so bad that they

00:37:57.640 called their parents crying, and so now my husband's parents are upset with me for creating

00:38:02.900 this contention in their household. And even though they agree with me 100% and have no issue

00:38:07.640 with what I said, they don't want me to talk about or post these things for the sake of not upsetting

00:38:12.940 their two children. In the Bible, you know, Christ encourages us to be peacemakers as He is,

00:38:17.760 and that contention is of the devil. My question is, where is the line between stating what is true

00:38:24.020 and what we believe in and standing firm in the faith and not creating contention because we know

00:38:29.600 that those subjects will upset certain people in our lives? Am I responsible for the contention or is

00:38:35.140 it up to the two children to control their emotions and be tolerant of opposing ideas? Thanks so much,

00:38:42.460 Michael. It's even further. It's important for the children to be raised in accordance with the

00:38:49.120 truth. Not just to be tolerant, but to be raised in a way that is correct, to be shaped properly and

00:38:56.680 oriented toward the truth rather than toward falsehood. So it's even further than that. And

00:39:00.620 you ought to state your views in the proper media and the proper platforms. I don't think you need to

00:39:08.580 show up to Thanksgiving dinner wearing a MAGA hat, you know, dancing around, setting off fireworks

00:39:13.540 for the conservative revolution or anything like that. But if it's on your own social media page,

00:39:19.100 if it's in your own book club, I don't know, if it's a dinner with like-minded people, then of

00:39:26.440 course you bring that up. And then when you go to the family function, then maybe you're a little

00:39:30.340 bit more diplomatic. There's nothing wrong with being diplomatic. You don't want to be a flatterer.

00:39:34.500 You don't want to be a liar. You don't want to say things that aren't true. But you don't need to

00:39:38.380 be flamboyant all the time with your views. Kind of funny to use the word flamboyant when we're

00:39:42.360 talking about your opposition to the pride movement. So I would speak the truth at all 1.00

00:39:49.620 times. But you can be a little more bold and a little more subdued depending on the circumstances.

00:39:58.080 But I would never try to find a conciliatory middle ground between truth and falsehood.

00:40:03.200 That's where you're going to get into trouble. Because if you try to back away from your views,

00:40:08.200 say, well, no, I don't really mean that. No, I actually, I kind of look, I sort of see, but maybe

00:40:13.400 in the, then you're going to look guilty. Then you're going to look like your views are wrong,

00:40:18.460 which they're not. If you're asked by your relative, you say, do you really believe that

00:40:22.960 you don't believe in gay marriage? You say, no, I don't. I just don't think that's what marriage is. 1.00

00:40:27.740 I think that marriage essentially has to do with sexual difference. And so no,

00:40:30.980 don't mean any ill will toward anybody, but it's just, that's just what it is. I can't, I can't lie.

00:40:37.500 Then you're in a much safer position because you can't, they're not going to be able to argue with

00:40:42.640 you and you're not going to seem nervous. You're not going to seem like, like what you're doing

00:40:46.760 is something shameful. You're stating your views clearly might even be persuasive. Next question.

00:40:51.860 Hi, Michael. This is the Shuckmeister. I have probably the most important question to ask

00:40:56.700 regarding the lore of the Michael Knowles show. There seems to be a reoccurring antagonist. And I

00:41:01.580 was once again reminded of him during your interview with S.D. Williams. Who is Mr. McGillicuddy

00:41:07.080 and why does he want to steal my future trad wife away from me? Thanks. Love the show.

00:41:12.340 Well, Mr. McGillicuddy, you know, he owns the widget factory at which your wife works so that you

00:41:19.100 can get money so that you can pay another woman to raise your children. That Mr. McGillicuddy is

00:41:25.260 perhaps the defining man in our modern life predicted by James Burnham with the rise of the

00:41:34.440 managerial elite in the earlier parts of the 20th century and now really has flourished where we live

00:41:44.180 in a society that is undifferentiated by almost anything and especially sex. Everybody's got to go

00:41:50.060 work and just produce widgets to tick up GDP and then consume products rather than focus on things

00:41:56.400 that don't have a price tag like family. Mr. McGillicuddy is not a communist. A lot of

00:42:02.480 conservatives want to blame all the problems on communists and I blamed Marx and Marx's acolytes

00:42:08.040 for all sorts of issues. I wrote a whole book about it called Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:42:11.240 Controlling Minds. But there are, hello, thank you. But there are other evils in the world besides

00:42:18.300 Marxism. There are other antagonists and Mr. McGillicuddy is a real insidious antagonist.

00:42:24.760 Because Mr. McGillicuddy, though he is liberal, is a capitalist. Capitalism is a word that was

00:42:31.520 popularized by Karl Marx and capitalism is not great. Markets are good. A flourishing economy is good.

00:42:42.400 Material prosperity can be a wonderful thing in its proper place. But capitalism,

00:42:48.860 as the greatest, highest point of politics, makes conservatives no different than the mammon

00:42:56.300 worshippers on the left that we deride and that we distinguish ourselves from. That's who he is.

00:43:02.640 Next question.

00:43:04.380 Hey there, Big Mike, Smokey Mike, Sexy Mike, Dirty Mike. Media Matters for America's

00:43:10.820 favorite quote-unquote failed actor. I wanted to inquire a question for your answering pleasure.

00:43:17.180 I wanted to get some information on a topic you are well-versed in. Cigars. Not marijuana, no.

00:43:22.920 If I wanted information on the Red Pitchfork Man's favorite crop, I would have just asked a goofy 1.00

00:43:27.060 little leftist, but I digress, I digress. I was hoping you could give me a general explanation about

00:43:32.220 cigars, like what they're made of, what makes two cigars different, general information that's

00:43:37.220 important to know for somebody trying to get into this. And also, as someone who has dealt with

00:43:41.560 asthma in the past, but doesn't really affect me now, would it still be possible for me to get

00:43:45.780 into this activity? Really appreciate the response. Keep up the good work and God bless. Oh, make sure

00:43:52.720 to tell your folks I says, hey. All right. Good deal. Bye now. What a question. What an amazing

00:43:58.460 question. I don't really know anything about asthma, so talk to your doctor, I guess.

00:44:02.220 If you're not asthmatic now, I don't see what the problem would be. I don't really know the relation

00:44:06.180 between tobacco and asthma anyway. In terms of cigars, what are they made of? They're made of

00:44:10.520 tobacco. They're made of tobacco leaves. Unlike a cigarette, which is made of chopped up cheap

00:44:15.240 tobacco and chemicals and paper, a cigar is all tobacco. It's long filler tobacco. It comes from

00:44:20.300 different countries. Cuba, most famously, but then because of the Cuban embargo and because the

00:44:25.040 communists stole the crops and the plantations from the cigar makers, a lot of the great cigar makers

00:44:30.340 left. They went to places like the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, increasingly

00:44:33.980 Ecuador. Some tobacco is grown in Mexico. Some of the best tobacco is grown in Connecticut.

00:44:40.680 Shade tobacco and darker broadleaf tobacco, which is very toothy, kind of nice, oily, juicy

00:44:46.280 tobacco. Though a lot of that tobacco, now there's a shortage of it because the Connecticut farms have

00:44:51.460 sold to other places. So a lot of that is actually grown in Ecuador now. The cigars taste different

00:44:58.620 because you blend different kinds of tobacco together. I've considered making cigars a bigger

00:45:04.740 part of this show because it's such a great pleasure. It's given me such great pleasure over

00:45:09.180 the course of my life. I've smoked cigars for the majority of my life at this point. I try to in

00:45:13.560 moderation, understanding the risks, trying to minimize them. And I think it really has helped me.

00:45:19.300 It helps me to relax, helps me to think about things, wonderful conversations. So we'll try to do a

00:45:24.240 little bit more with cigars moving, moving forward. But today's Fake Headline Friday. I want to get to

00:45:28.800 some more questions from the member block. I want to read my iPad. Where is it? Where is it,

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 07, 2023

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