The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1286 - Transgenderism Is Destroying Kids Lives

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00:00:30.000 A Texas school district is now requiring students to provide a birth certificate

00:00:34.980 before auditioning for the Texas Boys' Choir or the Singing Girls of Texas.

00:00:41.600 We are not permitted on a certain big tech video platform to articulate the precise ideological reason

00:00:50.660 for which they are now requiring birth certificates for boys' and girls' choirs.

00:00:56.360 But I think you catch my drift.

00:00:58.260 And you can hear more at Daily Wire Plus and the RSS feed and Twitter, MNOLS Show.

00:01:04.580 And actually, actually, that particular ideology is not even the most depressing part of this story.

00:01:12.380 Sadder even than recent eccentric theorizing is the clearly collapsing rates of social trust.

00:01:21.140 We have observed this trend in society for years.

00:01:25.960 Your grandparents didn't used to lock their doors.

00:01:28.860 You have security systems and cameras filming from your doorbell 24-7.

00:01:33.300 Your grandparents trusted your parents to their children's teachers.

00:01:38.020 Today, if you're a sane parent, what that means is you've probably strongly considered homeschooling,

00:01:44.140 if not engaged in it yourself.

00:01:45.860 Social trust has collapsed.

00:01:49.480 Now to the point that little kids need to carry notarized government documents to sing in chorus in school.

00:01:57.080 And for good reason.

00:01:58.660 Our society no longer agrees on the most basic facts of life.

00:02:02.700 We no longer speak the same language with which to communicate these facts of life.

00:02:06.500 And so we view one another as barbarians.

00:02:09.660 And sadly, at least some of us are right.

00:02:12.980 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:13.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:15.860 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:24.040 In just a moment, some lady I've never heard of sings about how much she hates America by rewriting the national anthem. 0.82

00:02:29.640 We'll get to that, and we'll get to what that means in just a moment.

00:02:31.960 First, though, I said that opening, that's the sort of opening that can remain on a certain big tech video platform

00:02:38.800 without being kicked off and having us cast into outer darkness where there's wailing and gnashing of teeth.

00:02:43.580 This part can't stay on that particular social media platform because the biggest, shocking, most breaking news story of the day, of course,

00:02:54.340 is that CNN misgendered Dylan Mulvaney.

00:03:02.520 America is really split on a lot of topics when it comes to voting, but this Bud Light really seems to send a chasm right down the middle in terms of talking to folks.

00:03:12.500 We went to Nashville. We went to Nashville. We even talked to a bar in Chicago.

00:03:15.840 One bar was telling us basically they're not going to serve it because they don't like the way Dylan Mulvaney was treated after this whole controversy started.

00:03:24.540 He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with Bud Light. 1.00

00:03:30.720 They didn't like how Bud Light didn't stand by him after all this.

00:03:34.040 This is so much better than when I refer to Dylan Mulvaney by his proper pronouns, him and he and his, call him a man.

00:03:51.660 It's so much better because this was CNN.

00:03:54.100 And this guy, I don't know what this reporter's name is, he clearly wasn't intending to dispute transgender ideology.

00:04:03.000 He clearly wasn't intending to call this obvious man who thinks that he's a woman or pretends to be a woman, a man.

00:04:09.480 He just did it naturally because we all know he's a man.

00:04:13.360 We all know it.

00:04:14.240 Every single person, the transgenderists more than anybody know that these people are, they're real sex, not the sex they're pretending to be. 1.00

00:04:22.280 And so when they get caught falling into natural speech patterns and accidentally acknowledging reality,

00:04:29.780 it is a level five, DEFCON 27 level catastrophe.

00:04:37.060 And they won't just pass by it.

00:04:40.280 They won't just try to forget about it.

00:04:43.160 CNN has to issue an on-air apology.

00:04:46.660 Before we wrap up today, we do want to make an important note.

00:04:50.480 Yesterday in a segment about transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who was featured in Bud Light's recent campaign,

00:04:58.220 she was mistakenly referred to by the wrong pronoun.

00:05:01.400 And CNN aims to honor individuals' ways of identifying themselves.

00:05:05.800 And we apologize for that error.

00:05:08.540 We apologize.

00:05:09.560 We would like to assure you that reporter and all of us here at CNN have undergone a re-education training.

00:05:16.660 We salute our great, glorious leader, Dylan Mulvaney.

00:05:20.700 And we will never again refer to men by the pronouns he or him.

00:05:26.460 Very, very sorry.

00:05:28.140 I prostrate myself.

00:05:29.340 And now I will commit ritual seppuku on the air.

00:05:32.900 So evil was it of me not to accept transgenderism.

00:05:37.980 That is the degree of ritual mania that we have fallen to in this country.

00:05:50.320 North Korean state television seems much more honest than CNN.

00:05:56.400 Or frankly, any of them.

00:05:57.460 Even the supposedly right-wing cable channels.

00:06:00.220 Even they use the fake transgender pronouns and all of that. 0.99

00:06:03.540 This is out of a movie.

00:06:04.820 This is out of a, I was going to say a horror movie.

00:06:07.500 It's not out of a horror movie.

00:06:08.640 It's out of a parody.

00:06:09.580 It's out of a comedy movie.

00:06:10.940 And how about Dylan Mulvaney himself?

00:06:12.600 How is he doing?

00:06:13.340 Well, if you follow his social media feeds, which I do not, but I sometimes see them float around Twitter.

00:06:19.320 Dylan Mulvaney has fled the country because he feels so unsafe.

00:06:22.980 Presumably because CNN anchors occasionally accidentally slip into reality.

00:06:27.160 And so Dylan Mulvaney is in Peru.

00:06:30.440 Hi, is this an okay time?

00:06:32.360 Okay, surprise.

00:06:33.160 Guys, I'm in Peru and I'm at Machu Picchu.

00:06:36.880 Isn't this just so beautiful?

00:06:38.920 I'm here by myself and I used to do a ton of solo traveling.

00:06:42.180 I'm telling you, it's the best.

00:06:43.540 If you could ever do a solo trip somewhere, it is such a good way to get to know yourself better.

00:06:48.380 Um, but I came here to feel something, you know what I mean?

00:06:52.520 And I definitely have.

00:06:54.140 I've done shaman ceremonies that were like 10 years worth of therapy.

00:06:58.320 It was wild.

00:06:59.900 Um, I've seen a lot of llamas and the people here are so kind.

00:07:03.480 I feel very safe here.

00:07:05.040 It's a little sad that I had to leave my country to feel safe, but that will get better eventually.

00:07:09.140 And I am dying for some Trader Joe's rolled chili lime chips.

00:07:13.040 But other than that, I am so content.

00:07:15.520 Still haven't been kissed yet, but I'm holding out hope.

00:07:19.200 And most of all, you know, this trip has just has me feeling like I'm my own best friend again.

00:07:25.380 And that is the best feeling in the world.

00:07:27.220 And I hope that you feel that way about yourself too.

00:07:30.580 And I love ya.

00:07:32.600 Okay.

00:07:33.600 Bye.

00:07:35.160 Machu Picchu.

00:07:36.260 Wow.

00:07:37.420 Gorgeous.

00:07:37.900 Love ya.

00:07:39.900 Man, this is sad.

00:07:41.140 I actually do.

00:07:42.020 I'm not going to make fun of it.

00:07:43.280 I'll make one.

00:07:43.820 I'll make one little joke about it, which is Dylan Mulvaney has presented this as him fleeing America because America is so awful towards sexually eccentric people that he's got to flee to Peru.

00:07:58.380 Which has much more restrictive laws about these sexual eccentricities, by the way. 0.78

00:08:01.760 They don't have as strong a government, I guess.

00:08:03.400 But he says, I've got to flee my country.

00:08:06.340 I don't feel safe in my country.

00:08:07.280 I've got to flee to Peru.

00:08:09.140 I'm a political exile, basically.

00:08:12.640 I'm a refugee.

00:08:13.600 But of course, what is really going on?

00:08:16.240 Another term for what Dylan Mulvaney is doing is called going on vacation in July.

00:08:21.980 Dylan Mulvaney is going to a nearby exotic place and traveling to one of the most desired tourist attractions in the world and taking in some sights at Machu Picchu.

00:08:35.480 And then he's going to go home.

00:08:36.900 But even that, even going on vacation in July, which is something a great many people do, even that in Dylan Mulvaney's world has to be extraordinarily dramatic and fantastical and adventurous and unique.

00:08:48.800 And obviously, it's not.

00:08:50.040 But the uniqueness is what's really sad about this.

00:08:53.140 And it's why I actually don't want to make fun of him.

00:08:55.020 Because he's just lost in a very isolated, alienated view of the world.

00:09:06.180 So he says, I want to travel alone.

00:09:09.440 Okay.

00:09:09.900 Sometimes people travel alone.

00:09:11.420 It's more fun to travel with other people.

00:09:12.760 But sometimes you travel alone.

00:09:14.020 But he says, oh, yeah, I always used to travel alone.

00:09:15.820 This is a lonely guy.

00:09:17.280 This is obviously a lonely guy.

00:09:19.020 People who spend all of their lives talking into a camera, this is kind of ironic coming from me because I do this for my job.

00:09:25.120 But I mean, people who do it obsessively, compulsively, because of personal desire, not because they're working towards something or they're part of a political movement.

00:09:34.720 They're just always talking to their camera.

00:09:36.940 Very often, those are not the most social people.

00:09:39.400 Very often, those are fairly lonely people.

00:09:41.380 And that's what he's describing here.

00:09:42.680 He says, I'm my own best friend.

00:09:44.260 That's very sad if you are your own best friend.

00:09:46.220 You should not be your own best friend.

00:09:47.540 A man wrapped up in himself makes a small package indeed.

00:09:50.500 My best friend is my best friend.

00:09:52.980 And that should be the case for you as well.

00:09:55.320 And there are a lot of lonely people out there.

00:09:57.360 Friendship's a hard thing to come by.

00:09:58.640 But then in that case, and I guess ultimately for all of us, God ought to be our best friend because God is the source and summit of all of our good.

00:10:07.280 So when you're sitting apparently alone, if you are a religious person who recognizes spiritual reality, recognizes that we didn't just pop into existence out of nowhere,

00:10:16.080 but that there is an intelligent being who loves us, who created us in the entire cosmos.

00:10:22.120 That can give one a great sense of comfort and belonging and love, even when one physically appears to be alone.

00:10:31.440 But if you don't have any of that stuff, and if you've just turned yourself away from the God who calls himself I am that I am,

00:10:37.500 you're going to be left with a pathetic question, which is who am I?

00:10:40.300 And you're going to fall prey to all sorts of bizarre identities and ideologies, as Dylan Mulvaney obviously has.

00:10:50.780 We've all made a lot of jokes about Dylan Mulvaney, and he's invited a lot of it, and he's encouraged a lot of it, and he's made a fair amount of money on all of it.

00:10:57.360 But you're beginning to see the Dylan Mulvaney brand really turn a corner.

00:11:01.500 Bud Light was the big turn there, where brands saw, oh, goodness gracious, there's a cost sometimes to embracing the LGBT ideology.

00:11:09.300 And specifically, there's a cost to embracing Dylan Mulvaney, and they're going to start to back away.

00:11:14.060 He's still going to get sponsorship deals, he's still going to make some money.

00:11:16.680 But I think you've seen peak Mulvaney, and now things are beginning to look a little bit darker.

00:11:22.840 He's obviously trying to garner some more attention by broadcasting his vacation in Machu Picchu.

00:11:27.320 But it's hard to see how this ends well for anybody, when you've alienated yourself so much from ideology,

00:11:36.020 and when you've become so self-obsessed that you have denied even the complementarity of the sexes,

00:11:42.920 even the need for community.

00:11:44.460 And you've said, no, I am my own complementary sex, and I am my own best friend, and I am all that I need.

00:11:50.540 Well, if you pursue selfishness in your view of the world and in your indulgence of desire to that degree,

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00:13:27.180 Speaking of fleeing things, if you were on YouTube and you didn't catch what I was just

00:13:33.360 talking about, you got to go to the RSS feed in Daily Wire Plus and Twitter at M. Knoll's

00:13:38.220 show to see what segment was just cut out there.

00:13:40.440 But speaking of fleeing things, President Trump appears to be fleeing the early presidential

00:13:46.620 primary debates.

00:13:47.800 Here is his advisor, Jason Miller, going on TV explaining why the president's probably

00:13:52.020 not going to come.

00:13:52.460 And at the moment, President Trump has indicated that he's unlikely to participate, at least

00:13:57.140 in the first two debates.

00:13:58.600 He's up by 30, 40.

00:14:00.480 And even new polling shows he's up by almost 50% in certain places.

00:14:05.220 It really wouldn't make much sense for him to go and debate right now with a bunch of

00:14:08.460 folks who are down at 3, 4, and 5%.

00:14:10.420 Even Ron DeSantis, who's the second place candidate in the race currently, is at least 20, 30,

00:14:15.960 or 40 points behind.

00:14:17.320 And so ultimately, President Trump will make a decision as we get closer.

00:14:20.540 He has not said anything definitive one way or the other.

00:14:23.140 I'm not expecting him to participate, though.

00:14:25.760 There you go.

00:14:26.560 Top advisor to Trump saying, I'm not, or rather, Trump is not likely to go to the debates.

00:14:34.480 There's a candidate for him in Iowa tomorrow.

00:14:38.400 All the candidates are going to be there.

00:14:39.640 Donald Trump is not going to be there.

00:14:41.060 So there seems to be evidence he's going to make good on this threat.

00:14:44.140 Trump's critics in the Republican Party, liberal Republicans like Chris Sununu in New Hampshire,

00:14:49.260 they are pouncing on Trump and saying he looks like a wimp.

00:14:53.820 Former President Trump, the tough guy, the guy that says he's going to fight for America

00:14:57.360 and fights for, but he's not willing to stand up.

00:14:59.400 He's going to wimp out, wimp out and not get on that debate stage.

00:15:03.020 We don't know for sure anything yet.

00:15:04.900 He's going to wimp out that, that clown, that child, that coward.

00:15:08.760 Why won't he get on the debate stage?

00:15:13.780 Why would he?

00:15:15.880 Why would he?

00:15:16.720 I don't want you to shoot the messenger here, okay?

00:15:19.400 I'm not working for any campaign.

00:15:21.500 I have told you I do my level best not to endorse in primary campaigns.

00:15:26.820 I think I might be the only conservative pundit in America right now who is not actively working

00:15:31.760 for one of the presidential campaigns.

00:15:33.200 I like pretty much all of the candidates in the field.

00:15:36.680 I know a great number of them personally, and I have a great deal of respect for all

00:15:41.300 of the ones that I know and even for some of the ones that I don't know.

00:15:44.560 So I'm just calling it like I see it, fellas.

00:15:47.400 And you can not like the message.

00:15:49.020 You can be angry about these political facts on the ground.

00:15:51.380 But I'm just telling you what it is.

00:15:54.120 Trump has no incentive to debate right now.

00:15:56.440 He has no incentive.

00:15:57.140 I've got the RealClearPolitics average of polling.

00:16:00.000 Trump is up, according to the RCP average, Trump is up 32.4 points.

00:16:06.900 Now, the RCP average is a very reliable, fairly conservative average of polls that includes

00:16:13.180 Morning Consult, Economist YouGov, Fox, Emerson, NBC, Yahoo, Harvard Harris, CNN,

00:16:18.560 The Messenger, Harris X poll.

00:16:20.260 We've got all of them there.

00:16:21.660 Trump is crushing the field.

00:16:24.540 32.4 is the average.

00:16:25.960 Harvard Harris has him up 45 points over the rest of the field.

00:16:29.440 This is a 10-person field.

00:16:31.740 It's not even close.

00:16:34.740 So with a commanding lead like that, that he does not appear to be losing.

00:16:40.240 In fact, his lead only appears to either remain the same or to be increasing as his most intense

00:16:46.580 and serious primary challenger seems to be losing ground.

00:16:51.540 Why on earth would Trump get on that stage?

00:16:53.440 Well, because the voters have a right.

00:16:56.200 They demand the right to see the candidates debate.

00:16:59.000 They don't demand that.

00:17:00.560 If those poll numbers start to change, then that will indicate that the voters are demanding

00:17:04.480 that.

00:17:04.900 But as of now, the voters seem to be extraordinarily supportive of Trump without seeing him debate

00:17:10.220 the other candidates.

00:17:11.780 Well, but the voters should demand it.

00:17:13.960 Well, maybe you think they should demand it, but they're not demanding it right now.

00:17:16.660 Well, I just think it's the right thing to do.

00:17:20.520 Maybe you would prefer that Trump get on the debate stage.

00:17:24.200 I would prefer it in many ways because it would give me more content for my show, and I'm sure

00:17:27.620 it would be extremely entertaining.

00:17:30.020 But there is no moral imperative for Donald Trump to engage in a primary debate, and there

00:17:36.700 is no law that says he has to do it, and there is no particular rule in the Republican

00:17:41.920 Party that says he has to do it.

00:17:44.620 I'm sure the Republican Party would prefer that he do it, but don't forget, Trump engaged

00:17:48.240 in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.

00:17:50.420 Trump doesn't give a damn what the party apparatchiks want.

00:17:53.880 If the other candidates want Donald Trump to debate, they have to create the political

00:17:59.260 circumstances that force him to debate.

00:18:01.820 And the way to create those political circumstances is to knock his poll numbers down.

00:18:06.680 If the other candidates cannot knock his poll numbers down, then Trump showing up on that

00:18:12.420 debate stage presents all risk and no upside.

00:18:17.740 That's how politics works.

00:18:21.200 Candidates have one goal in a campaign, and that is to win the race.

00:18:27.440 The race right now is not against Joe Biden.

00:18:30.680 The race is for the Republican Party nomination.

00:18:34.440 You might say, well, I just think Trump's not going to be a good general election candidate.

00:18:37.620 Doesn't matter.

00:18:38.320 That's not what we're asking right now.

00:18:39.620 Well, I just think he looks cowardly.

00:18:42.860 Maybe he does.

00:18:43.820 And if enough voters think that he looks cowardly for ditching the debates, that will be reflected

00:18:47.620 in the polls, and then he will be forced to engage in the later debates.

00:18:50.860 But right now, I'm not prescribing anything.

00:18:54.680 I'm not advocating anything.

00:18:56.160 I'm just telling you why it is the case that Trump is inclined not to engage in the debate.

00:19:02.640 He has very little to gain and quite a lot to lose.

00:19:06.340 Now, on the other side of this, look at the Democratic Party.

00:19:09.740 Joe Biden is up 54 points on his next most serious primary rival, RFK Jr.

00:19:15.860 So this is a Kennedy, albeit a somewhat kooky one.

00:19:19.400 This is a mainstream Democrat who's been in public life for a long time.

00:19:23.020 Biden's up 54 points on him.

00:19:25.040 Trump is not quite up 54 points, but he's up a similar amount on his nearest primary

00:19:31.140 arrival.

00:19:31.520 And don't forget, there are three candidates right now in the Democrat field.

00:19:34.000 It's Biden, Bobby Kennedy, and Marianne Williamson, who's much lower.

00:19:38.800 However, if Biden's not going to debate, which he almost certainly is not, then why would Trump

00:19:43.580 debate?

00:19:44.040 Well, you might say, well, because Biden is the incumbent, and Trump's not the incumbent.

00:19:48.360 Yeah, kind of, kind of.

00:19:52.460 We have not had a one-term president run for a rematch in over 130 years.

00:19:59.140 The last president to do it was Grover Cleveland.

00:20:02.720 It's only happened once in American history that a president won non-consecutive terms.

00:20:07.580 So I grant you, Trump is not literally the incumbent here.

00:20:13.920 But practically speaking, for most intents and purposes, Trump is the incumbent.

00:20:21.680 You might say, well, he shouldn't be treated that way.

00:20:23.960 That's wrong.

00:20:25.040 That's not, I'm not telling you what should or should be, whatever.

00:20:27.560 I'm just explaining.

00:20:29.380 I am describing to you why the circumstances in this primary are different from the other

00:20:34.960 primaries.

00:20:35.300 You can like that, you can not like that, you can pull your hair out and scream to the

00:20:39.220 heavens.

00:20:40.500 If you don't accept those political realities, you're going to become increasingly frustrated

00:20:44.700 as this inevitably unusual primary unfolds.

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00:22:46.700 Speaking of the 2024 primary, looks like we might get a new presidential candidate on the

00:22:54.520 Democrat side.

00:22:55.240 That would be Joe Manchin.

00:22:57.440 West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, who is probably the single most moderate Democrat

00:23:03.100 in the country, certainly at the federal level, along with Kyrsten Sinema, and really more than

00:23:07.820 Kyrsten Sinema even.

00:23:09.600 Joe Manchin is also the most vulnerable senator looking at re-election next year.

00:23:15.660 So you got a Republican challenger who's way up on Joe Manchin right now.

00:23:21.920 So what is Manchin doing?

00:23:23.860 Is he campaigning around West Virginia?

00:23:25.220 No, he's campaigning around New Hampshire.

00:23:27.100 He's going to be at an event sponsored by a group called No Labels.

00:23:30.400 No Labels is this kind of squishy middle ground group, which pretends that losing political

00:23:38.080 distinctions is somehow good.

00:23:40.220 That's the premise.

00:23:41.340 No labels.

00:23:42.440 We should have no clarity in our political process.

00:23:45.080 We should just all be part of the uniparty, is the real meaning of their phrase.

00:23:50.420 But they think it sounds nice because they think it sounds nonpartisan and not nasty and

00:23:54.260 icky and really nice and moderate.

00:23:56.020 And so this would be a natural place for Joe Manchin to go.

00:23:58.300 And he's campaigning with them to potentially consider a third-party presidential ticket on the

00:24:04.200 ballot in all 50 states.

00:24:07.020 The Republican governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, is leading Manchin in a hypothetical

00:24:11.440 U.S. Senate matchup in 2024 by 22 points.

00:24:14.600 He's absolutely destroying Manchin right now because the people of West Virginia are pretty

00:24:18.600 conservative.

00:24:19.360 But it's a holdover Democrat state.

00:24:21.940 So you got the last remaining blue dog Democrats, conservative Democrats, are there. 0.68

00:24:26.520 Manchin has to satisfy his party leadership.

00:24:28.620 He's got to satisfy his constituency.

00:24:31.580 Those are increasingly pulling in different directions.

00:24:34.540 They're ripping Manchin apart.

00:24:35.620 And so it opens a wide window for a Republican like Jim Justice to come in and beat Manchin.

00:24:41.580 So what is Manchin going to do?

00:24:44.020 His only option, really, if he wants to continue his political career, is either to suck up to

00:24:49.840 Joe Biden to try to get an appointment in a hypothetical second term or to run for president

00:24:54.160 himself on a third-party ticket.

00:24:56.800 I mention the story not because I think Joe Manchin is going to be president or the Democrat

00:25:00.200 nominee or anything like that.

00:25:02.080 I mention it because it shows the point on the Republican debates, which is that politicians

00:25:11.660 are often motivated by raw, hard circumstance.

00:25:19.020 They're going to go where their opportunity is.

00:25:21.460 This is true of all of us.

00:25:22.500 This is true in our careers.

00:25:23.660 This is sometimes true in our personal lives.

00:25:25.240 This is true in how we move from city to city.

00:25:28.340 This is true in impelling so much of our action.

00:25:33.280 We follow opportunity.

00:25:34.800 And this is especially true for national-level politicians who are extremely ambitious men.

00:25:40.120 So if you want to impel a different kind of behavior, if you don't want Joe Manchin to

00:25:47.460 run for president, well, then you've got to give him another option to maintain his political

00:25:51.620 career, if you want Donald Trump to engage in the first primary debates, well, you need

00:25:55.400 to create the political circumstances that will force him to do that, whether by damaging

00:26:00.140 his poll numbers, changing some rules with the RNC that's never going to work, or something

00:26:04.360 else that I haven't thought of.

00:26:06.040 But you can't just whine and say, oh, no, why are circumstances the way that they are?

00:26:10.080 This is something that drives me crazy about political pundits, and specifically conservative

00:26:15.660 pundits, is they just whine all the time.

00:26:18.180 They just whine, and it's not that they whine about things that they can change.

00:26:23.640 I like the idea of targeted and productive criticism to change things and to improve the

00:26:30.600 state of the country.

00:26:31.760 That's not what I'm talking about.

00:26:32.980 Trump describes that as you whine, whine, whine until you win.

00:26:35.300 That's not what I'm lamenting here.

00:26:38.260 What I am constructively lamenting here is the tendency among many conservatives, and specifically

00:26:43.560 in the pundit class, to just pointlessly moan about circumstances that they are not going

00:26:50.180 to change and that are not going to change on their own.

00:26:52.300 Say, oh, no, if the voters just weren't so stupid, they wouldn't nominate this person I

00:26:56.020 hate.

00:26:56.260 Or, oh, no, if the political apparatchiks in the Senate or in the bureaucracy would just

00:27:02.900 get along with this legislation that I really want, then the country would be better.

00:27:06.180 Yeah, well, bro, if you want that to happen, then you have to engage in politics.

00:27:11.640 Politics is an art very closely tied to reality.

00:27:18.340 It's not pie in the sky.

00:27:19.820 It's not some fantasy you make up in your own head.

00:27:22.760 You got to create the hard circumstances.

00:27:25.180 Now, speaking of Southern politicians, turn to a politician in Alabama now.

00:27:31.060 This would be Tommy Tuberville, a great U.S. senator who fell into some real hot water.

00:27:36.960 What did he say?

00:27:37.860 I don't know exactly what he said, but CNN's calling him racist.

00:27:40.760 Tuberville just continues doubling down on his comments.

00:27:45.260 Originally, he made these comments weeks ago, basically arguing that white nationalists

00:27:51.460 weren't necessarily racist.

00:27:53.160 And he was pressed repeatedly by our Caitlin Collins yesterday and then pressed repeatedly

00:27:58.580 by reporters again today.

00:28:00.600 Here's what he said.

00:28:01.260 Why do you continue to insist that white nationalists are American?

00:28:06.920 Listen, I'm totally against racism.

00:28:09.640 And if Democrats want to say that white nationalists are racist, I'm totally against that, too.

00:28:13.900 But that's not a Democratic definition.

00:28:15.660 The definition of a white nationalist is someone...

00:28:17.260 Well, that's your definition.

00:28:18.240 My definition is racism bad.

00:28:20.160 The definition is that the belief that the white race is superior to all other races.

00:28:27.180 Racism is totally out of the question.

00:28:28.280 So do you believe that white nationalists are racist?

00:28:30.900 Yes.

00:28:31.280 If that's what a race is, yes.

00:28:33.140 Thank you.

00:28:33.880 But that is the definition.

00:28:34.720 What's your impression?

00:28:37.160 And he just continues to double down.

00:28:41.220 Double down on what?

00:28:42.740 He's...

00:28:43.340 Senator Tuberville, why are you such a terrible racist?

00:28:46.720 I'm not.

00:28:47.500 Racism's bad.

00:28:48.440 But yeah, but why are you super-duper racist?

00:28:50.660 Why are you a racist, white, evil, white, nationalist, white, cis, male, baddie, Nazi, Hitler, bad, bad? 0.73

00:28:59.560 Can you please answer that?

00:29:01.220 I'm not.

00:29:02.080 I don't think I'm those things.

00:29:03.540 I don't.

00:29:04.400 What?

00:29:05.600 Yes.

00:29:06.120 So back to you, Jim.

00:29:07.720 Yep.

00:29:08.180 That's really...

00:29:09.300 You can see Senator Tuberville there calling for pogroms and burning crosses.

00:29:13.740 That's right.

00:29:14.880 Senator Tuberville, a genocidal racist because...

00:29:20.040 I don't know.

00:29:21.560 Obviously, Tuberville has the right answer here.

00:29:24.220 His clear bemusement and funny contempt for these stupid questions from CNN is the right answer.

00:29:34.640 Don't ever grant them the premise on this stuff.

00:29:36.560 It should go without saying at this point.

00:29:38.380 But you don't need to defend yourself.

00:29:40.280 No, really, seriously, some of my best friends are black, and I totally disavow everything, any made-up term that you can throw at me.

00:29:47.760 I'm sorry.

00:29:48.560 I'm sorry.

00:29:49.560 No, you just kind of bat it away, huh?

00:29:51.180 Yeah, racism is really bad.

00:29:52.780 Yep.

00:29:53.360 Really?

00:29:53.720 Oh, it's very, very bad.

00:29:55.800 All the...

00:29:56.220 Bad things are really, really bad.

00:29:57.940 That's so true.

00:29:58.980 But are you a nationalist?

00:30:00.360 What does that even mean?

00:30:02.020 What is white nationalism?

00:30:03.160 What is it?

00:30:05.080 It's just a term that the Libs popularized in recent years because they knew that there was a nationalist and a populist movement that was going on.

00:30:16.560 And they don't like that because they're liberal globalists.

00:30:19.620 And so they need to describe that as bad.

00:30:23.400 They need to paint that nationalism as bad.

00:30:26.260 And in America, the way that you call something bad is to call it racist.

00:30:29.480 Those terms are synonymous. 0.99

00:30:30.460 So when they use the term white nationalism, all it means is it's racist nationalism, which is to say bad.

00:30:38.120 Are you bad?

00:30:39.080 No, I'm not bad.

00:30:40.000 I'm not.

00:30:41.160 Now, obviously, the nation state is far preferable to the liberal globalism that all of these awful people are trying to thrust upon us.

00:30:52.580 But let's take the question seriously here because I'm not a U.S. senator.

00:30:58.560 I don't need to bat away these stupid reporters.

00:31:00.580 We have a little more breathing room here to discuss these things.

00:31:04.360 What is even the premise of white nationalism?

00:31:08.120 That some people want America to be an exclusively white country?

00:31:11.500 America's never been an exclusively white country.

00:31:13.600 The Libs are wrong.

00:31:16.220 When the Libs pretend that all the white people are really bad and all the people who have done all the really great stuff in America have been black and Native Americans.

00:31:24.980 Sometimes they say they're Muslim.

00:31:26.220 There weren't Muslims here until relatively recently.

00:31:28.420 But okay, fine, whatever.

00:31:29.980 Obviously, the Libs are wrong about that.

00:31:32.720 The people in the most conspicuous positions of power, the settlers of America, the people who crafted much of the country, by and large, were white people.

00:31:43.300 Absolutely.

00:31:44.300 The Libs want to revise that.

00:31:45.260 They got angry at the Abraham Lincoln movie because the Abraham Lincoln movie points out that Lincoln freed the slaves.

00:31:50.240 They say, you can't say that because Lincoln's a white man.

00:31:52.740 The slaves had to have freed themselves.

00:31:54.260 But of course, they didn't do that.

00:31:55.200 So, okay, obviously, yeah, that's crazy.

00:31:57.080 But then on the flip side of it, there are some people who will say America is exclusively white, strictly white.

00:32:02.200 All the good stuff comes from the white people. 0.98

00:32:03.880 None of the good stuff comes from the other people.

00:32:05.920 And that's wrong, too.

00:32:07.200 And the person who, oddly enough, had one of the more insightful visions of this kind of thing is Carl Jung.

00:32:19.220 You might have heard of Carl Jung because Jordan Peterson talks about him all the time.

00:32:22.320 Carl Jung was a psychologist and a pretty interesting writer.

00:32:28.240 I don't agree with him on everything, but he made some interesting points.

00:32:30.860 And Carl Jung observed in America this strange phenomenon whereby he was walking on the streets of Buffalo

00:32:38.980 and he turned to someone he was walking with and he said,

00:32:43.040 wow, I didn't realize how much Indian blood was in America.

00:32:46.340 I didn't realize how much intermingling and marriage and birth there was with the Indians.

00:32:51.220 And the guy said, what are you talking about?

00:32:52.380 We don't have much intermarriage at all with the Indians.

00:32:54.480 These are Irish people and German people.

00:32:56.040 He said, no, they look Indian.

00:32:57.880 But it's not that their skin looked Indian.

00:32:59.560 There was something about their comportment that seemed foreign as compared to an Irishman 0.98

00:33:05.720 or as compared to a German and that seemed a little bit more akin to a Native American Indian.

00:33:10.260 What's that about?

00:33:11.660 Jung observed that there's something in the American character that seems more similar

00:33:16.980 to what one would stereotypically consider a black man to be like, an African to be like,

00:33:21.700 than, say, a Frenchman or an Englishman or a German or an Irishman,

00:33:25.720 even though the people exhibiting these behaviors were white as the driven snow.

00:33:30.140 What's that about?

00:33:32.980 And what Jung sees there is that this is a matter of acculturation and behavior,

00:33:39.720 that there are ideas that motivate countries and cultures.

00:33:44.060 And his ideas don't just come from genetics or something like that.

00:33:46.440 They come from culture.

00:33:47.640 So Germany, for instance, is obsessed with the idea, capital I, idea.

00:33:54.060 That's a theme that has motivated Germany.

00:33:56.900 England is obsessed with the gentleman.

00:33:59.380 Gentlemanliness is a motivating, driving concept in England.

00:34:06.380 France, it's glory.

00:34:08.480 Le jeu de gloire est arrivé.

00:34:10.400 And in America, it's greatness.

00:34:12.980 And it's just different.

00:34:14.200 And these things distinguish Americans from other sorts of people.

00:34:19.400 And the way that culture works is not deriving purely from biology or something like that.

00:34:26.500 Far from it.

00:34:27.440 That culture is created by this mixing of peoples and geography and history

00:34:34.640 that has occurred since the very beginning of the country,

00:34:37.740 since the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Harbor.

00:34:40.400 I assume CNN would not understand any of that and would not be interested in hearing any of that.

00:34:46.820 But it is a reminder as to why the premise of their question,

00:34:52.800 when they hurl this at you, and they're going to hurl this at you all the time,

00:34:55.080 white nationalism, racism, this ism and that ism,

00:34:58.460 they're attacking something that nobody really believes at all.

00:35:02.540 And they're doing it because of their extraordinarily shallow and vindictive views of things that they are projecting onto their political opponents.

00:35:14.780 But the reality, as always, in matters of history, politics, philosophy, as always,

00:35:20.220 the reality is much richer and more interesting than,

00:35:22.960 duh, who, white people, bad, white nationalism, disavow, disavow.

00:35:26.660 Much, much more interesting what has really gone on in our country.

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00:36:42.540 My favorite comment yesterday is from Rewind Gaming 9000, who says,

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00:36:48.780 It's almost like YouTube keeps making more and more of his show against their guidelines.

00:36:51.840 They do, and they're doing it capriciously, and they're not even telling us,

00:36:55.740 what violates their guidelines.

00:36:57.280 And so we are called in this culture to be wise as doves, not wise as doves and innocent as serpents,

00:37:02.940 quite the opposite.

00:37:03.740 Wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

00:37:06.700 And so I've said I'm not going to censor myself, period, punto e basta.

00:37:10.320 So my full show with my full commentary that might violate any other number of big tech guidelines,

00:37:18.000 that's available on the RSS feed, on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, on Daily Wire Plus, of course.

00:37:23.160 You can get that on Twitter at M Knowles Show.

00:37:25.160 So as for YouTube, if they're looking for some excuse to nuke my channel, I'm not going to give it to them.

00:37:31.280 I'm going to remain on YouTube.

00:37:32.580 I'm going to do my level best to follow their guidelines, and then I'm going to redirect people and say,

00:37:37.220 well, if you want the content that YouTube is censoring from this platform, then you've got to go to the other platforms here.

00:37:42.780 And maybe they'll try to nuke me anyway just because they don't like the cut of my jib.

00:37:46.300 But we're not going to give them any excuse to do that.

00:37:48.960 So I don't know, maybe the YouTube episode will be 30 minutes.

00:37:51.120 I don't know, maybe it'll be 35 minutes, 25 minutes.

00:37:53.640 I don't know what it is, but you'll get that full episode, Daily Wire Plus, Twitter, and the RSS feed.

00:37:58.300 Speaking of American identity, how do you feel about your country?

00:38:02.560 We just had the 4th of July.

00:38:04.080 Some people don't like their country very much.

00:38:05.940 People like the singer Jill Scott.

00:38:07.680 Oh, say can you see

00:38:15.520 By the blood in the streets

00:38:27.680 That this place

00:38:33.060 Doesn't smile

00:38:37.980 On you, colored child 1.00

00:38:46.460 Whose blood

00:38:53.540 Okay, I think we get the point.

00:38:55.060 It's bloody.

00:38:56.020 The blood built this land

00:38:58.360 And the white people are evil

00:38:59.400 And the black people did all the good stuff

00:39:01.360 And they're always oppressed

00:39:02.060 And okay, whatever.

00:39:02.900 Here is the attention you ordered, ma'am. 0.97

00:39:05.380 Here you are.

00:39:06.820 Do you want it?

00:39:07.600 Here, can I give you some attention hors d'oeuvre

00:39:10.320 And some, perhaps an attention digestif

00:39:12.720 Along with your meal and entree of attention.

00:39:15.280 Well, she got it.

00:39:15.880 No one had ever heard of this woman before.

00:39:17.160 And now, now we've mentioned her name.

00:39:21.580 There are plenty of people who agree with her.

00:39:23.880 At least plenty of people who say that they agree with her.

00:39:27.240 And this poses an existential threat to the republic.

00:39:31.400 As we talked about at the very top of the show today

00:39:33.140 We now need

00:39:36.080 In Texas school districts

00:39:38.320 We need children to present

00:39:40.660 Government-issued, notarized birth certificates

00:39:43.700 To join the school choir

00:39:45.140 Because social trust has broken down so much

00:39:48.840 And common language has broken down so much

00:39:50.900 And community has broken down so much

00:39:52.900 And this would be another example of this

00:39:55.540 Polybius has a good observation

00:39:58.760 The ancient Greek historian of Rome

00:40:00.560 Who pointed out that democracy can persist

00:40:03.760 Only when there is reverence for the gods

00:40:07.780 Only when there is serious, disciplined, limited behavior

00:40:12.460 Only when there is respect for parents and elders 0.62

00:40:16.720 And we talk a lot about how democracy and republics

00:40:19.980 Are built for moral and religious people only 1.00

00:40:21.720 So there is your reverence for the gods

00:40:23.540 We talk about how people need to be able to control themselves

00:40:25.940 Or a government is going to come in and control them

00:40:27.500 More heavy-handedly

00:40:29.220 Sure, that's true

00:40:31.100 We don't talk enough about respect for elders

00:40:33.240 And why you have to respect your elders

00:40:36.040 Politically, that is

00:40:39.200 One, it's to have a stable society

00:40:40.880 Two, it's to preserve the basic unit of society

00:40:44.040 The basic political unit, which is the family

00:40:45.940 And three, because it's what connects society

00:40:51.420 Through the generations

00:40:52.660 The older generation cares for the younger generation

00:40:55.120 The younger generation owes reverence

00:40:58.260 And respect for the older generation

00:41:00.960 If you hate your parents

00:41:02.880 You're going to hate your country

00:41:05.000 Because your country was built by your forefathers 0.93

00:41:07.880 A friend of mine

00:41:09.580 A very perspicacious friend of mine

00:41:10.920 I've used that word a lot recently

00:41:12.220 It keeps coming to mind

00:41:13.520 Maybe because of all these incisive visions

00:41:16.460 That keep popping up

00:41:17.660 A friend said that

00:41:20.200 All of liberalism

00:41:21.760 Can be boiled down to

00:41:23.660 F you, dad

00:41:25.160 That's all you need to know

00:41:27.260 Forget John Locke

00:41:28.060 Forget John Stuart Mill

00:41:29.320 John Rawls

00:41:30.020 A lot of Johns among the liberals 0.97

00:41:31.280 Throw all of their books out

00:41:32.620 It doesn't matter

00:41:33.100 All you need to know about liberalism

00:41:34.540 Is that it boils down to

00:41:36.020 F you, dad

00:41:37.780 And that's what you see

00:41:38.800 That's what this woman is yelling about here 1.00

00:41:40.320 The blood in the streets

00:41:42.480 In this awful place

00:41:44.420 Because all of my forebears and forefathers were bad

00:41:47.220 And I hate you, dad

00:41:48.100 And this is terrible

00:41:48.840 And this is the liberal view of history

00:41:51.620 The past was bad

00:41:53.480 The present is a crisis

00:41:54.840 The utopia is right around the corner

00:41:56.820 But we've got to urgently pursue progress

00:42:00.060 And it rips up everything

00:42:02.760 On which your society previously had relied

00:42:06.580 That's it

00:42:08.020 If you got daddy issues

00:42:10.200 That's not just a personal problem

00:42:12.440 That's going to bleed over 0.89

00:42:13.520 Into a political problem

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00:42:57.920 The viewership

00:43:00.220 Has continued to decline

00:43:01.620 Wells Fargo

00:43:04.040 Downgraded the Fox Corporation stock

00:43:06.280 Because Fox News

00:43:07.880 Because Fox News' viewership

00:43:08.460 Has not rebounded

00:43:09.420 Since they fired Tucker

00:43:10.440 Tucker who was their biggest name

00:43:11.820 And actually the biggest name

00:43:13.000 In the history of cable news

00:43:14.280 In May

00:43:15.580 Ratings for Fox

00:43:17.500 Took a nosedive

00:43:18.820 Because they kicked out Tucker

00:43:20.440 The network dropped

00:43:22.600 From a 3 million viewer average

00:43:24.020 To a 1.65 million viewer average

00:43:26.900 In the 8pm hour

00:43:29.000 It's almost

00:43:29.460 50% drop

00:43:31.060 And they haven't really rebounded

00:43:33.640 So Wells Fargo

00:43:34.500 Is deemed

00:43:34.880 Fox Corporation

00:43:35.920 Underweight

00:43:36.440 Because Fox News

00:43:37.040 Drives so much

00:43:38.160 Of the profits

00:43:38.860 Of the Fox Corporation

00:43:40.340 And now with ecosystem risks

00:43:43.720 Also elevated

00:43:44.580 Wells Fargo finds

00:43:45.720 The estimate outlook

00:43:46.920 More negative

00:43:48.660 And below the street

00:43:49.880 Below Wall Street

00:43:50.920 Okay

00:43:51.300 Fox might not be able

00:43:53.060 To ride this one out

00:43:53.900 Previously

00:43:55.260 The corporate understanding

00:43:58.580 Of boycotts

00:43:59.400 Was that

00:44:00.540 Boycotts usually

00:44:01.480 Don't matter all that much

00:44:02.740 If they do matter at all

00:44:04.140 They're going to matter

00:44:04.640 From the left

00:44:05.440 Because the left

00:44:06.020 Has the institutional power

00:44:07.360 And so

00:44:08.360 If the libs

00:44:09.420 Call for a boycott

00:44:10.400 They'll probably cave

00:44:12.720 At least to some degree

00:44:13.840 And then everything

00:44:14.560 Will be fine

00:44:15.140 If the conservatives

00:44:15.760 Call for a boycott

00:44:16.500 It doesn't matter

00:44:17.120 Conservatives are not

00:44:17.860 Sufficiently organized

00:44:18.640 They don't have

00:44:19.480 Sufficient institutional power

00:44:20.780 So ride it out

00:44:22.440 You wait a week

00:44:23.500 Bud light sales

00:44:24.100 Are going to increase again

00:44:24.980 Okay

00:44:25.260 You wait a week

00:44:25.900 The conservatives

00:44:26.500 Are upset that

00:44:27.260 That the main

00:44:29.080 Conservative host

00:44:29.980 Left at Fox

00:44:30.740 Is gone

00:44:31.300 Okay

00:44:31.860 But whatever

00:44:32.540 In a week or two

00:44:33.100 They'll come back

00:44:33.660 They haven't come back

00:44:34.660 They haven't

00:44:36.240 Something has changed here

00:44:37.340 Two things have changed

00:44:38.780 Actually

00:44:39.240 One

00:44:39.940 The

00:44:40.440 Political landscape

00:44:42.460 Has changed

00:44:43.120 There is a

00:44:43.780 Populist movement

00:44:45.160 And there are greater

00:44:45.800 Platforms for populists

00:44:47.420 To speak

00:44:47.920 And there has been

00:44:48.700 A flattening

00:44:49.440 Of the public square

00:44:50.900 Which the big tech

00:44:51.940 Platforms are doing

00:44:52.520 Their best to counteract

00:44:53.660 By censoring conservatives

00:44:55.580 But then you see

00:44:56.940 Chinks in the armor 1.00

00:44:57.540 You see

00:44:57.980 An open minded

00:45:00.900 If not conservative

00:45:02.340 At least non leftist

00:45:03.580 Like Elon Musk

00:45:04.220 He buys Twitter

00:45:04.780 Conservatives get to speak again

00:45:06.340 You see people

00:45:07.580 Cutting cords

00:45:08.140 And pulling out

00:45:08.700 Of traditional cable

00:45:09.480 To begin with

00:45:10.540 You see

00:45:11.460 Conservatives

00:45:12.600 Recognizing that

00:45:13.820 The uniparty

00:45:14.880 Establishment

00:45:15.580 Doesn't serve

00:45:16.280 Their interests

00:45:16.900 Either in its

00:45:17.560 Republican form

00:45:18.180 Or its Democrat form

00:45:18.860 So you're seeing

00:45:19.480 Alternatives pop up

00:45:20.500 People like Donald Trump

00:45:22.160 Taking over the

00:45:22.860 Republican party

00:45:23.480 Even though Trump

00:45:23.960 Has no particular

00:45:25.260 Affinity or loyalty

00:45:26.420 To the Republican party

00:45:27.600 And then the other

00:45:28.640 Side of that is

00:45:29.280 That the corporations

00:45:30.480 Even the supposedly

00:45:31.400 Conservative ones

00:45:32.200 Have become more liberal

00:45:33.880 Fox made an intentional

00:45:35.960 Choice to become

00:45:38.160 More liberal

00:45:38.760 To fire its most

00:45:40.460 Prominent conservative host

00:45:41.560 To get rid of a lot

00:45:42.840 Of other conservatives

00:45:43.520 On the platform

00:45:44.140 To blacklist conservatives

00:45:45.220 From the platform

00:45:45.960 To indulge in

00:45:48.520 Radical leftist ideologies

00:45:50.220 Even in the very language

00:45:51.240 That they use

00:45:51.860 And they just thought

00:45:53.380 That they could get away

00:45:54.060 With it

00:45:54.300 But there's just

00:45:54.940 Sometimes you reach

00:45:56.200 A bridge too far

00:45:57.100 And because we're still

00:45:59.760 On YouTube right now

00:46:00.860 I'll speak

00:46:01.340 Ambiguously

00:46:02.960 Back in the 90s

00:46:05.700 The social

00:46:07.320 Ideologies and movements

00:46:09.080 They didn't push

00:46:11.540 The conservatives

00:46:12.080 Too far

00:46:12.580 Conservatives didn't like it

00:46:13.860 But they didn't push it

00:46:14.520 Too far

00:46:14.800 In the 2000s

00:46:15.900 Didn't totally push it

00:46:16.740 Too far

00:46:17.060 Even in the early part

00:46:18.560 Of the 20-teens

00:46:19.600 Didn't push it too far

00:46:20.440 But they reached a point

00:46:22.500 On some of the social stuff

00:46:23.840 Where a flip

00:46:25.860 Just switched

00:46:27.080 Or a switch

00:46:29.140 Just flipped

00:46:29.660 Or a switch switched

00:46:30.940 I don't know

00:46:31.360 And parents said

00:46:33.900 No more

00:46:34.680 And suburban voters

00:46:35.920 Said no more

00:46:36.920 And cable news viewers

00:46:38.000 Said no more

00:46:38.760 And beer drinkers

00:46:39.660 Said no more

00:46:40.860 And the corporations

00:46:42.360 Are waiting for that

00:46:43.020 Bounce back

00:46:43.600 I hope they don't

00:46:44.340 Hold their breath

00:46:45.780 Now today is

00:46:47.240 Theology Thursday

00:46:48.620 And I have my friend

00:46:50.100 Angela Ucci

00:46:51.020 Joining

00:46:51.500 You might remember Angela

00:46:52.360 She came on 0.78

00:46:53.000 And described how she

00:46:54.700 Had previously lived

00:46:56.320 As a kind of

00:46:57.080 New age

00:46:57.680 Hippy dippy

00:46:58.280 Astrology

00:46:59.120 Reiki practicing

00:47:00.080 Person

00:47:01.340 And then

00:47:02.580 Got on the right track

00:47:03.540 Of things

00:47:03.840 I've been feeling

00:47:05.520 Depressed since I was 13

00:47:07.000 Like that's

00:47:08.300 Something's wrong

00:47:09.880 That's a lot

00:47:10.380 I don't want to do this anymore

00:47:11.520 I'm just ready to die

00:47:12.880 At this point

00:47:13.320 And I'm bawling my eyes out

00:47:14.880 I just said out loud

00:47:16.000 Jesus save me

00:47:17.500 And

00:47:19.380 Something happened

00:47:20.960 The rest of the show

00:47:30.020 Continues now

00:47:30.560 If you have questions

00:47:31.080 For Angela

00:47:31.520 Make sure you put them

00:47:32.180 Into your chat right now

00:47:33.140 You do not want to miss it

00:47:34.220 Become a member

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00:47:36.960 Free

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 13, 2023

Ep. 1286 - Transgenderism Is Destroying Kids Lives

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