The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1351 - Shocking Republican Win Could Doom Democrats

00:00:00.000 After a week of brutal news, a little glimmer of hope, Republicans have officially flipped

00:00:06.220 Louisiana red. After eight years of Democrat rule, Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry

00:00:12.640 just won the Louisiana governorship. And he didn't just win by a little, he won by a lot,

00:00:19.420 by over 25 points. And not only is Landry a Republican, he's a conservative. And not only

00:00:25.860 is he a conservative, he's a Trump endorsed conservative, which given that regardless of

00:00:31.920 whether you love or hate Trump, it is looking like the Donald will almost certainly be the GOP

00:00:37.560 nominee in 2024. That means that maybe, just maybe, Republicans actually have a shot of retaking some

00:00:45.880 power after all. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:55.860 Welcome back to the show. Over there in California, Gomorrah by the sea, things have gone from bad

00:01:14.440 to worse. They now have a pro-prostitution bill that has women wearing dental floss thongs just 0.90

00:01:20.400 out in public, brazenly selling their bodies for sex to men. And the local residents don't really 0.93

00:01:27.180 like it, but they can't quite articulate why not. And they can't quite express why not through their

00:01:34.700 political institutions. So Mussolini's hellscape gets worse and worse by the day. We'll get to that

00:01:40.100 in a second. First though, speaking of conservatives winning elections, Jim Jordan is trying to become

00:01:48.800 the Speaker of the House. The only problem I have with that is that I like Jim Jordan too much,

00:01:53.720 and I think he's a good guy and quite conservative. So I wouldn't wish that terrible job on him.

00:01:59.000 But you know the crazy chaos. The chaos was that Kevin McCarthy was the Speaker. He got ousted by

00:02:05.700 a handful of his own Republicans and then all of the Democrats. Then Steve Scalise, who was a little

00:02:12.720 bit more establishment, he ran for it. He gets the nomination of the GOP caucus. He doesn't get the votes

00:02:17.660 to become Speaker. He drops out of the Speaker race. Then Jim Jordan, who is a terrific guy,

00:02:22.860 he gets the nomination of the GOP caucus. Still unclear if he's going to get the votes. But a very

00:02:28.980 promising sign for Jim Jordan is that he's got the support of disparate wings of the GOP. So Kevin

00:02:37.660 McCarthy, who just got ousted, who obviously has had his ego bruised, he has been speaking with

00:02:43.080 Jordan. And here's what he said. Look, I think Jim Jordan can get there. I'm one who understands

00:02:50.100 how difficult it is. I did walk in with more support during this time, but I believe at the

00:02:54.800 end of the day, Jim can get there. And I'm doing everything I can to help him be able to become

00:02:59.800 Speaker. Now, some conservatives are going to say, well, that's a bad sign. If Kevin McCarthy likes

00:03:05.300 somebody, I don't like him. Just like if John Boehner likes somebody, I don't like him. Just like if Paul

00:03:09.480 Ryan likes somebody, I don't like him. And in fairness to Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy as Speaker

00:03:14.940 was much more conservative than Boehner, than Paul Ryan, than anyone we've seen in recent history.

00:03:20.500 In many ways, he was more conservative than Newt Gingrich. And you might say he was the most

00:03:25.080 conservative Speaker since the 1950s, though I'm damning with faint praise. But what does this mean?

00:03:29.640 Does this mean that now the squishes and the establishment types there for Jordan, so we should 1.00

00:03:33.440 be against him? Not quite. Thomas Massey, who is one of the most conservative members of the House

00:03:38.560 of Representatives, he's just come out, too. And he is trying to rally the troops to get behind Jordan.

00:03:44.620 Here's what he said. He said, quote, some Republicans want to cut a deal with Democrat leader Hakeem

00:03:50.320 Jeffries to elect a Speaker. With Democrats controlling the White House and the Senate, we must not give up

00:03:56.360 control of the House. Republicans should unite behind Jim Jordan as our Speaker. So the point that Massey

00:04:03.440 is making here is if the Republicans can't pick a Speaker, then the Democrats are going to decide who

00:04:08.620 the Speaker is. And the Democrats will either try to get a Democrat through, pry off enough Republicans

00:04:13.360 to actually elect a Democrat to be Speaker of the House, which is basically unimaginable, or more

00:04:18.500 imaginable, they pick one of the squish Republicans, then the Democrats throw their support behind. They 0.99

00:04:22.920 only need to pick off a handful of other Republicans. And bam, there you've got a Speaker who is much

00:04:27.600 more liberal than Kevin McCarthy, potentially more liberal than Ryan, potentially more liberal than

00:04:31.820 Boehner. So Republicans are in a little bit of a precarious spot here if they can't get behind

00:04:36.660 Jordan or some unknown unity candidate who has not presented himself here. But what this means is

00:04:44.440 if Jim Jordan can wrangle enough votes to become the Speaker, this means that Matt Gaetz's showboating

00:04:54.520 crazy stunt to kick Kevin McCarthy out of the House of Representatives leadership was pretty good.

00:05:01.820 Because Jim Jordan is much more conservative than Kevin McCarthy. This means that the conventional

00:05:08.320 wisdom that we heard from the political class and the pundits and the electeds and the strategists 0.83

00:05:12.520 who said, Matt Gaetz, he's completely insane. This is a terrible idea. Republicans are shooting

00:05:16.480 themselves in the foot. They're clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. If we end up, after all of

00:05:21.400 this craziness, with a much more conservative, much more anti-establishment Speaker of the House

00:05:28.020 as a Republican, that's pretty good stuff. Not bad at all. Now, speaking of Congress, getting back to the

00:05:35.460 actual business of Congress, not just the little leadership games, Representative Jamal Bowman, Jamal

00:05:40.840 Bowman, who is known for pulling fire alarms and calling his opponents, including yours truly, Nazis.

00:05:47.540 Jamal Bowman has just said the U.S. should welcome Palestinian refugees. So already this war in the state of 0.99

00:05:56.080 Israel has barely begun. We had the horrible terror attack a week ago. We've now seen the beginning of 0.97

00:06:02.620 the Israeli retaliation against Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip. This war is going to go on for a long

00:06:09.620 time. It's already brought in Lebanon. It's already brought in Syria. It might bring in Iran in a more 0.68

00:06:14.740 direct way rather than merely through proxies. This could lead to world war. All right. We are one week

00:06:19.620 into this thing. And already you are hearing from the liberals. Well, we have to take in those

00:06:24.340 Palestinians. We, oh yes, the people who elected Hamas, we need, where else are they going to go? 0.91

00:06:30.360 We can't just leave them where they are. And we couldn't possibly expect the Arab Muslim states 1.00

00:06:35.100 around them to take them in. No, no. We in the United States, who have taken in more migrants than 0.98

00:06:41.440 anyone ever, we in the United States, which has seen the largest movement of human beings

00:06:45.380 into a country over the last 60 years ever. It's the largest number in recorded history. 0.91

00:06:50.140 We need to take them in. Egypt, which has a border with Gaza, they've closed the border with Gaza. 1.00

00:06:56.040 They're not letting anyone come through, but the United States has to do it. And here's my question.

00:07:00.300 I actually feel sympathy for the Palestinian people. I know there's a lot of talk about how

00:07:06.320 they're just animals and they don't deserve any sympathy. I feel sympathy for plenty of civilians in

00:07:10.660 Palestine or the Palestinian territories or Gaza or the West Bank or whatever.

00:07:15.380 How does it benefit America to take in the refugees? How does it benefit America? That's just one 1.00

00:07:25.860 question. And what the pro-mass migration people are going to say is, how dare you even ask that

00:07:30.900 question? You heartless monster, you call yourself a Christian. How dare you ask how accepting millions 1.00

00:07:38.240 and millions of people every single year benefits your own country? You just have to do it. Why do we

00:07:44.220 have to do it? Well, because you're the shining city on a hill. Yeah, shining city on a hill is

00:07:50.740 supposed to provide a light and example to all nations in their own nations. It's not a magnet.

00:07:56.080 It's not a shining magnet on a hill. Why? Why do we have to do it? Well, because you're Christian. 0.81

00:08:00.900 Yeah, we're Christian. Does Christianity prohibit national borders, national identity,

00:08:06.880 a distinction between citizen and foreigner. That's a novel innovation in the history of

00:08:13.800 Christianity. What they're really saying is that the United States has an obligation to commit 0.69

00:08:20.100 national suicide. That's what they're saying. And they'll justify it based on our classical liberal

00:08:24.980 values or conversely on our Christian values or conversely on some stupid poem at the foot of the 0.99

00:08:31.640 Statue of Liberty from about a hundred years ago or conversely on whatever. They'll just make up 0.99

00:08:36.600 the reasoning. But the end result is always the same. That you, if you want to be a good person,

00:08:41.120 you've got to be able to commit political and national suicide. They say this to Republicans

00:08:44.960 and conservatives all the time. Oh, you've got to put country over party, whatever that means.

00:08:49.920 I'm a member of a party because I think that party is better for my country than the other one.

00:08:53.820 They're not in opposition. The only reason I would join a party is because I think it helps the

00:08:56.960 country. They say, no, you need to forget about your partisan commitments. You've got to forget

00:09:00.940 about your ideological or philosophical beliefs. You've got to forget about your national borders

00:09:06.940 and identity. You've just got to, for goodness sakes, you just got to kill yourself. That is 1.00

00:09:13.140 contrary to natural law. We have a natural inkling towards self-preservation. And we in the United

00:09:22.980 States uniquely among the nations, certainly we in the West uniquely, have decided that it's somehow

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00:10:43.460 ago, and he was right. The nations that are sending us people to be migrants, they're generally not

00:10:51.880 sending their best. I was just in New York over the weekend at a pal's wedding, and I was staying

00:10:58.480 in Midtown, very close to the Roosevelt Hotel. I love the Roosevelt Hotel. I've stayed there many

00:11:04.560 times. It's one of those iconic New York hotels that, because it hadn't been refurbed in like 50

00:11:09.460 years, was pretty cheap. So for 20 years, 15 years at least, I've stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel.

00:11:15.340 And then it closed down during COVID, one of the, unfortunately, many victims of the COVID shutdowns.

00:11:23.360 But the hotel's still there. It's still a nice hotel. And so now, instead of being filled with

00:11:27.420 paying patrons, tourists to New York, American citizens, it's just filled with illegal aliens, 1.00

00:11:34.500 because our joke of a law enforcement apparatus does not send the illegal aliens back to their 0.99

00:11:41.520 country of origin, the countries in which they have citizenship and to which they have obligations.

00:11:47.280 They just put them up in nice hotels in the middle of Manhattan and some of the most prized real estate

00:11:51.660 in the entire country. And so I coincidentally was staying right down the street from the Roosevelt

00:11:57.760 Hotel. And before I knew it, I wasn't even thinking about it. I noticed there's a lot of

00:12:02.340 young fighting age men standing on the street, speaking foreign languages, loitering, not really doing

00:12:10.280 much of anything, not seeming to help anybody or help their own situations, wearing clothing and

00:12:16.020 gear that was obviously donated. It looked spick and spam, pretty new and nice. And I realized, oh,

00:12:23.140 these are the migrants. These are the dreamers that we're told about. And there were some women. 0.74

00:12:29.380 It's not that there were none. There were a handful of young women. There were a very small number of

00:12:35.120 children. But most of the vast majority of these people were young fighting age men who we've

00:12:42.940 imported to our country and won't deport them, even though they are breaking some of our most basic 1.00

00:12:46.980 laws. How is that? What can't we just ask the question how this helps us? Is that even that is no

00:12:59.320 longer permitted? But we all know it's not helping. We all know that we have imported too many migrants 1.00

00:13:05.580 from too many bad places that are damaging our social fabric. And it's no knock on them. They

00:13:11.740 potentially could be wonderful people. It's not even a knock on the bad countries that they've left.

00:13:16.700 They're not nice countries, and you probably wouldn't want to be there if you were there either.

00:13:21.900 But you can't take in everybody from around the world and continue to have a functioning

00:13:26.020 political order. It doesn't work. When that happens, these guys don't magically all become

00:13:32.760 Rockefellers. And even more important than Rockefellers, all little mini Uncle Sams, who just 0.53

00:13:38.520 by osmosis have taken in the American political tradition and memorized the Constitution forwards

00:13:44.460 and backwards, they don't speak English. And they don't even seem to have much of an interest in 0.54

00:13:48.440 assimilating to the country. What happens is you just take the nice communities that citizens have

00:13:54.140 built up over centuries, and you make them more dangerous, and you make them not only more

00:14:01.100 criminal, but just less nice. There's just dirt and trash and things that aren't pleasant. And then

00:14:08.080 you don't visit those places, and your community suffers. It's not a good idea. The question for

00:14:14.680 immigration is, how do the immigrants benefit the country? They're going to clip this out on Media

00:14:22.100 Matters and say, I'm the second coming of Francisco Franco. I'm such a far-right authoritarian.

00:14:27.300 This is what every single American thought about immigration until, what, 10 years ago? Until Obama,

00:14:33.280 basically? This is how Bill Clinton talked about immigration. This is how Democrats and Republicans

00:14:38.840 talked about it for a very long time. And Ron DeSantis now has been very clear on this, especially on the

00:14:44.000 Palestinian issue. He said that every presidential candidate should pledge to accept no Palestinian

00:14:52.440 refugees.

00:14:54.580 We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees. I am not going to do that. If you look 1.00

00:15:02.240 at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic. 0.68

00:15:08.140 Well, first of all, my position is very clear. Those Gaza refugees, Palestinian Arabs, should go 1.00

00:15:14.260 to Arab countries. The U.S. should not be absorbing any of those. I think the culture, so they elected 1.00

00:15:21.160 Hamas. Let's just be clear about that. Not everyone's a member of Hamas. Most probably aren't, but they did 0.97

00:15:26.600 elect Hamas. Okay, everything he said here is right, and his position on the issue of immigration 0.99

00:15:33.760 from the Palestinian territories is obviously correct, too. But it's a weird kind of logic.

00:15:42.560 It's an interesting way that DeSantis feels he has to make the argument. Because we live at a time

00:15:47.780 when you are not ever allowed to suggest any restriction of immigration under any circumstances,

00:15:53.300 according to our liberal elites. He says, well, the reason that we can't accept these Palestinians 1.00

00:15:59.720 is they're anti-Semitic. Yeah, I don't want to import a bunch of people who hate the Jews into the 0.97

00:16:04.860 country. But why is that the kind of discrimination? We can discriminate against anti-Semites. 0.69

00:16:14.960 Good. Yeah, I think we should. I think that's a good idea. You do want to discriminate against

00:16:18.200 those people. But we can't discriminate in favor of Christians. If you came out and you said,

00:16:28.180 hey, I'm going to have a new immigration policy, we're going to give priority to Christians. Because 1.00

00:16:32.180 this is a Christian country, and it was founded by Christians on the Mayflower and in the Massachusetts

00:16:36.860 colony. And Governor Winthrop said this was going to be a model of Christian charity, and the Founding

00:16:42.200 Fathers were all basically on board with that. And George Washington talked about God a lot. And

00:16:47.880 Abraham Lincoln's oratory basically came straight out of the King James Bible. And anyway, we've always

00:16:53.800 been Christian, and so that's what we're going to do. The ACLU would be knocking on your door before

00:16:59.240 you finish the sentence. So we can say we don't want to import them because they're anti-Semitic.

00:17:06.120 And we're allowed to do that because, at least in that particular framing, Jews count as enough of 1.00

00:17:14.000 a victim class that it confuses people who are trying to argue that the Palestinians are a victim

00:17:21.440 class, and it's just kind of a little bit unclear, and then you get away with that. But what we're

00:17:27.580 really talking about is who we want to take in and who we don't want to take in. Why can't we make a

00:17:31.440 more direct argument? We want people who are more in line with what America believes, the traditional

00:17:37.900 American way of life, the spirit, the faith that has animated America and made it such a great country

00:17:44.600 and could make the country great again. Why do we have to hide the type of discrimination that we're

00:17:51.820 practicing? Discrimination is a terrible word, but when you're forming an immigration policy, you must 0.63

00:17:58.980 discriminate. Especially when everyone wants to come to your country. Unless you say everyone

00:18:03.940 gets to come, borders don't exist, the American citizens have no right to decide who gets to be

00:18:08.540 part of the country. If you're saying there will be any limits to immigration, then you are necessarily 1.00

00:18:13.800 discriminating, meaning discerning one thing from another thing and setting priorities on who you

00:18:19.960 would like to come in. But we don't want to use the D word. We don't want to say that we're

00:18:26.220 discriminating. So we have to, we have to use all of this politically correct language. Well, no, we

00:18:29.980 don't want to take them in because they're racist and racists are bad, but we would never. And so

00:18:36.660 we're not going to let their race in because that race is racist, but it doesn't hold up. We're going

00:18:42.680 to discriminate inevitably. A serious country will do this consciously in a way that benefits the 0.56

00:18:48.920 country. Discriminating, no, I'm not saying discriminating on race. I'm not saying discriminating on

00:18:53.620 sex, though. We do have a lot of young fighting age men. It's probably taking on a few too many of

00:18:57.340 those. Discriminating on religion. One could discriminate on any number of categories. I'm

00:19:04.900 making an even more basic point. A serious country deals with these questions consciously. An unserious

00:19:13.700 country does not, just sort of lets it happen such that now we only take in people who have come across

00:19:21.340 the border with the help of MS-13, a bunch of young fighting age men who probably are not in the near

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00:22:08.520 information about that in the coming weeks. Speaking of discrimination and war and refugees

00:22:19.080 and the Israel-Palestine conflict, Lindsey Graham is saying, point blank, totally bluntly,

00:22:27.820 that we are in a religious war.

00:22:30.540 Iran and Hamas believes that the Jewish people should die as a result of religious teachings.

00:22:35.960 We're in a religious war here. I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend 0.94

00:22:40.920 yourself. Level the place.

00:22:43.440 We're in a religious war, he says. We'll get to the last part of what he says in a moment.

00:22:47.940 He says, we're in a religious war. That's true. We are in a religious war. All politics is ultimately

00:22:54.640 religious because all human conflict ultimately is theological. But in this case, we're in a more

00:23:01.400 overtly religious war because the belligerents are speaking about religion and speaking from

00:23:06.620 religious perspectives. But then the follow-up question is, what's our religion? The religious

00:23:15.160 war in the Israel-Palestine conflict is the Jews versus the Muslims. And much as we like the Jews and 0.57

00:23:23.480 the Muslims, America has never been a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. The West broadly has not been

00:23:28.880 Jewish or Muslim. It's Christian. So what's our religion? Is Lindsey Graham arguing that we as

00:23:37.300 Christians have some obligation in this war? Maybe he's arguing that, but he doesn't say it overtly.

00:23:45.760 He says we're in a religious war, but he won't say what the religion is. Because in the West,

00:23:50.160 even though the West was once called Christendom, even though the religion of Christianity is what has

00:23:55.040 animated the West and made our whole civilization, the West has apostatized in many ways. So we don't

00:24:02.800 believe it anymore. The number of self-identified Christians has declined. The seriousness of 1.00

00:24:07.960 religious practice has declined precipitously. The clarity of the dogmas and doctrines of the faith

00:24:15.460 has become so modeled that someone says they're Christian, you would be hard-pressed to separate 0.99

00:24:22.900 a self-described Christian from some new age hippie type guy. The way people talk, what's the

00:24:28.760 religion? In this religious war that the United States is in, that the West is in broadly,

00:24:35.080 the religion is much more likely to be liberalism than Christianity. It's much more likely to be

00:24:43.840 raising rainbow flags all over the world. That is a deeply held religious belief

00:24:49.100 in the absolute sanctity and inviolability of weird sex stuff for everybody, no matter their

00:24:56.820 age. Oh, that's something that Westerners will get really riled up about. Mass migration, 0.53

00:25:04.360 that's something that Westerners, they'll get really riled up about that. There should be no 1.00

00:25:08.580 limits whatsoever to migration. But actual dogmas and doctrines of the Christian faith, not so much.

00:25:14.120 And then the follow-up question is, all right, that's a religious war. We're now looking at the

00:25:20.980 brink of World War III. We were already teetering on it because of the conflict in Ukraine. Now, with

00:25:26.700 this blow up in the Middle East that looks like it's going to spread throughout the entire region, 1.00

00:25:30.340 we see much closer to that. Do you want to go die for a religious war for liberalism?

00:25:36.520 I don't like liberalism that much. I think the American interest in this war is to contain the 0.90

00:25:45.420 war. I think the American interest here is to support the bad guys getting taken out. I think

00:25:54.060 the American interest here is to recognize that the state of Israel obviously has a right to defend

00:25:58.620 itself from this historic terror attack from Hamas. And then I think the American interest is

00:26:05.040 contain the war. The belligerents might have broader objectives than that.

00:26:11.320 The Palestinians want a nation state. And they've got a lot of allies, notably Iran,

00:26:17.460 to try to help them get to that point. The Israelis want regime change in Iran. That's been the official

00:26:22.780 policy of the state of Israel for my entire lifetime. But what is the U.S. interest here?

00:26:30.040 Is to contain this war so that we don't even need to worry about these questions of refugees fleeing,

00:26:37.480 so that we don't need to worry about the prospect of a nuclear conflict, especially as we are the

00:26:41.680 global hegemons. We are going to be the drivers and we're going to face a lot of the consequences

00:26:46.760 of just such a war. But it is a religious war. And so a lot of people are a little blurry on what

00:26:54.400 exactly we're supposed to do and what side we're supposed to be on and if we're supposed to have

00:26:58.320 a side because of this more fundamental problem in the West, which is that we gave up our actual

00:27:04.600 religion. And we gave it up for some mealy-mouthed, nonsensical, soft-soap liberalism that doesn't

00:27:12.160 clarify a damn thing. And when it does have clear objectives, those objectives are bad. 0.53

00:27:17.020 Now, speaking of liberalism and bad political objectives, California has just passed a really

00:27:22.540 important bill to make prostitution much, much easier. So this is a bill. It was signed into law

00:27:29.800 by Governor Bateman, Patrick Bateman of Gamora by the Sea. But the bill was authored by none other than

00:27:37.760 Democrat State Senator Scott Weiner. Senator Weiner is aptly named, of course, and because all nature is

00:27:48.420 but art unknown to the all-chance direction, which thou canst not see in Providence Winks frequently.

00:27:53.580 Senator Weiner is best known for authoring legislation that reduced crimes for pederasts, 1.00

00:28:00.280 so for grown homosexual men who would engage in statutory rape and molestation with young teenage 0.96

00:28:08.640 boys. He wanted to reduce the penalties for those men. So that's kind of what he's known for, 0.99

00:28:14.400 tells you a lot about his political views and agenda. So now he's got a new bill out, which

00:28:20.720 decriminalizes loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, which doesn't seem like a huge deal,

00:28:28.500 except that it effectively legalizes prostitution in California, because the way that law enforcement

00:28:35.360 stops prostitution is by driving around, seeing the hookers standing around on the corner.

00:28:41.180 They're not hard to spot, and so they pull up, and then if they can get them on loitering with

00:28:48.100 intent to commit prostitution, they can suppress the vice, and it's a lot easier to prosecute.

00:28:53.900 A lot of Californians hate this. National City Mayor Ron Morrison, who is an independent politically,

00:29:01.040 he criticized the law and said that the prostitutes are now wearing less than you would consider a

00:29:05.760 scanty negligee. They're flaunting it in everybody's face. I mean, you can see it, the video clips,

00:29:09.820 they're wearing dental floss. My question is, why? I get why Senator Weiner wants to do this because

00:29:20.200 he's a pervert and a weirdo, but why is anyone tolerating this? Why did Governor Bateman, who 0.98

00:29:26.220 thinks that he's going to run for president, why did he sign it into law? Why are there liberals who

00:29:32.600 are normal people, who are not perverts, who are not weirdos, not that weird, I guess,

00:29:37.460 why are they going along with this? Why do people feel obligated to tolerate things

00:29:43.720 that universally make life worse? Prostitution doesn't make life better for anybody. Doesn't 1.00

00:29:50.300 make life better for the hookers. Doesn't make life better for the johns. Doesn't make life better 1.00

00:29:54.680 for the neighborhoods. Doesn't make life better for the kids who are going to see this stuff on the

00:29:59.380 street corners and be scandalized. Doesn't make life better for anybody. So why do we tolerate that?

00:30:05.280 Because we're told that's liberty? Because we're told that's freedom? It's not freedom. I mean,

00:30:14.760 I've talked about the distinction between liberty and license so many times. I'm not going to rehearse

00:30:19.500 it now. That's not true freedom. Freedom isn't just a neutrality in the face of good and evil,

00:30:24.720 right and wrong, true and false. True freedom is dependent upon a perfect will, and a perfect will

00:30:32.540 is dependent on perfect understanding, and this is why the truth will set you free, and vice and lies

00:30:38.660 and delusion will make you a slave. But even putting all of that aside, if we all know that

00:30:44.740 this thing makes life worse, then why would an argument, even from this ridiculous definition,

00:30:49.860 misdefinition of liberty, why would that be persuasive? Aren't we putting the cart before the

00:30:55.000 horse there? What's the point of liberty? It says right in the Constitution what the point of liberty is,

00:31:00.360 which is that our framers of our Constitution, the founding fathers of our country, they wanted to

00:31:08.220 establish a political order that would ensure the blessings of liberty. We hear this all the time.

00:31:15.400 But the phrase blessings of liberty implies that liberty is not an end unto itself, that liberty is

00:31:22.520 a means to an end, that liberty is instrumental. The Constitution doesn't say we established this

00:31:29.760 framework to secure liberty. It's the blessings of liberty. Because of course liberty is not the end.

00:31:36.400 The end of society, just the end of our society, the end of all political societies, is the good life,

00:31:44.060 a good, nice place to live. That's what it's always about. The fundamental rule of politics is do good

00:31:53.640 and avoid evil. Happens to be the fundamental rule in our personal lives too. Why do it? If your ideology

00:32:01.060 is forcing you to come to political conclusions that make life worse for everybody, whether we're

00:32:09.140 talking about hookers in California, whether we're talking about mass migration of people who are

00:32:14.140 usually mobbed up with the cartels and who at the very least are young fighting age men who are economic

00:32:19.920 migrants, who are a drain on resources and who are not assimilating. In any of these issues, 1.00

00:32:27.820 if your ideology is leading you to conclusions that harm everybody, then ditch your ideology. You have a

00:32:33.640 stupid ideology and you should be normal and sensible and reasonable and not choose an abstract theory 1.00

00:32:42.960 over the practical realities that we all know to be true. Look at this kind of liberty. The irony of 1.00

00:32:49.580 this view of liberty, of course, is that it always ends up looking tyrannical after it's been implemented

00:32:58.160 for a little while. You say, we need tolerance, okay? And in the name of tolerance, we're going to

00:33:05.700 tolerate everything except for intolerance. If you're intolerant, then we're going to ostracize you

00:33:10.280 and we're going to kill you and we're going to arrest you and that would be absolutely terrible. 1.00

00:33:13.760 That's what you're seeing here in the UK. The labor government has just decided to make misgendering 0.99

00:33:19.700 a crime punishable by two years in prison. Here's the argument. The argument is we need more liberty,

00:33:24.740 so-called, for transgender people, so-called. And so we need them to be free to express themselves,

00:33:32.560 to be whoever they want to be. But their ability to do that is impaired by those nasty retrogrades

00:33:40.320 who insist on calling big husky dudes with beards wearing stiletto heels him and he. That is a great

00:33:50.260 imposition on their freedom of expression and to be who they want to be in public. So

00:33:53.920 now the left-wing labor party wants to make misgendering a crime punishable by up to two

00:34:00.380 years in prison. Labor is trying to elevate misgendering to an aggravated offense and put

00:34:06.880 it on the same level as assault or harassment motivated by race or religion, which comes with

00:34:12.380 up to two years in prison. Here's what Carolyn Fiske of Conservatives for Women says. It says,

00:34:18.160 thousands of women dispute the notion of gender identity and particularly the idea that it should 0.96

00:34:23.320 be prioritized over biological sex. We have serious and legitimate concerns over being expected in the

00:34:28.600 workplace when using public services or in public life to refer to a man as she, her. Is there a risk

00:34:33.520 with this policy that a woman could be accused of harassment for correctly sexing a man and then for

00:34:38.800 that to be treated as an aggravated offense? And of course, what she's saying is right. And of course,

00:34:42.760 the labor policy is crazy, but what's driving me up a wall here is that even the argument against

00:34:50.980 these terrible policies is kind of liberal. Even the argument against these terrible liberal predations

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00:36:43.940 SneezannaCassidy8745, who says, Michael celebrating Halloween tells me everything about his Christian

00:36:52.100 beliefs. Now, I think that comment is criticizing me for liking Halloween. I just talked about Halloween

00:36:59.480 with Jeremy's chocolates. And this was news to me. I didn't really know this growing up, but some people

00:37:06.140 believe that Halloween is unchristian. But that is not true at all. Halloween is a Christian 1.00

00:37:12.360 festival. Because Halloween is the night before All Saints Day. So it's All Hallows' Eve. And then

00:37:19.980 All Saints Day is an ancient Christian celebration for all the saints who are up in heaven. So

00:37:27.760 Halloween is very good. You don't want to go out into the woods and worship demons and stuff. But

00:37:32.520 you don't want to do that any day of the week, like on a Tuesday or a Wednesday or Halloween. None of

00:37:37.240 those days should you do that. But if you want to dress up and eat some delicious Jeremy's

00:37:40.920 chocolate, that is totally fine. Obviously, labor in the UK is completely insane to try to make

00:37:50.100 misgendering, meaning calling dudes dudes, a crime punishable by two years in prison. Of course.

00:37:58.860 Obviously, this is bad for women. Yeah, sure. The reason this is bad, by the way, is not just because 1.00

00:38:05.380 it constrains free speech, but because it compels lies. So the issue is not just that the Brits are

00:38:11.880 saying, well, you can't, well, you know, hey, matey, you can't, I don't know, my accent's a little

00:38:16.120 weak these days. Crikey, governor, you know, you're not allowed to have shrimp on the barbies and also

00:38:20.820 misgender people. Is that, that was a little Australian. I don't, however they speak, however they speak, 1.00

00:38:26.800 they're restricting speech in some way. That's true. But what's much more egregious than that,

00:38:33.080 because all societies constrict speech, is that this law is compelling you to lie, which is a

00:38:39.580 mortal sin, which means that this law is no law at all. I mean, this law is a species of violence.

00:38:44.880 Sure, all that's true. But what drives me crazy about the arguments against the law

00:38:49.800 is that the way it's being presented by conservatives for women is it's only a problem 1.00

00:38:54.740 because some women don't like it. You see, women, they're an oppressed group. 1.00

00:39:00.880 Men, they're the oppressors. So forget about what men think. Some women might not lie. So the reason 1.00

00:39:05.040 that we can't do this, the reason that we should think twice about throwing people in prison for

00:39:10.900 calling men, men, and women, women, is because some women might not like that law. What about the men?

00:39:17.760 This is similar to the argument at the top of the show from Governor DeSantis. The reason we shouldn't

00:39:22.460 take the Palestinian migrants is because they're anti-Semitic. Yeah, that's bad. But also, you know, 0.98

00:39:30.640 they elected Hamas. That's not good. And also, they're probably not going to assimilate very easily. 0.86

00:39:35.460 And also, we already take way too many people into the country every year anyway. And also,

00:39:39.520 they wouldn't help the United States. Why is it that we can't make blunt, direct arguments? Why is it

00:39:45.820 that we've got to frame everything as a matter of some liberal victim class? Why is it that an

00:39:53.420 argument against some racial policy in the United States always has to be made from the perspective

00:39:58.120 of actually, this policy is not great for black people? Actually, the reason that we need to get 1.00

00:40:03.000 rid of affirmative action is because it, in a roundabout way, actually makes life harder for 0.88

00:40:09.440 black people. Yeah, I think a lot of that is true. But also, if the law just unjustly discriminates

00:40:14.860 against white people, for instance, that would be sufficient reason to get rid of the law.

00:40:19.980 Even the way we talk about affirmative action, the only reason the Supreme Court struck it down

00:40:23.560 was because Asians, who in some circumstances are considered a victim group, were harmed by the laws.

00:40:33.260 That's why the lawsuits were all brought by Asian students. That's why the media framing of it was

00:40:37.720 all about Asian students. Because white people are evil and they deserve what they get, 1.00

00:40:41.360 according to our liberal establishment. Oh, any unjust discrimination against white people, 1.00

00:40:46.880 it's not possible. It's not possible. All discrimination against white people is just,

00:40:51.640 according to our liberal elite. So it can never be from the perspective that, hey, some white kid

00:40:57.600 in some middle of nowhere community applied to college and he studied really hard and he was

00:41:03.500 really smart and he got a perfect score in the SAT and he was valedictorian and he lost his spot in the

00:41:08.320 college to someone else who got race-based preferential treatment and that's no good.

00:41:13.200 No, you're not allowed to say that. And it drives me crazy because even the conservatives buy into

00:41:18.820 this framing. Well, no, forget about discrimination against white people. It's really, it's the Asian

00:41:23.020 people. They are much better. Forget about the men that are going to get thrown in prison for

00:41:29.220 misgendering. Actually, some women might not like it. So that's what really matters. 0.98

00:41:34.840 Speaking of women's issues, and actually getting back to prostitution, this is a very prostitution 0.91

00:41:39.660 heavy show. There's a British soccer lady whose name is Alicia Lehman. I am told she's very young. 0.93

00:41:47.040 She's 24 years old. She's called the sexiest soccer star in the world. I had never heard of her 0.98

00:41:53.240 before this news story, but she gives me a little hope for soccer, which I have very low hope for

00:42:01.020 women's soccer. Because women's soccer is not known for its glamour. It's known mostly for Megan Rapinoe. 0.99

00:42:08.360 And this lady is very nice looking. And she just came out on a podcast and said that she was offered

00:42:13.160 more than $100,000 to spend the night with a very well-known celebrity. She said, the message said,

00:42:21.780 I will pay Alicia 100,000 Swiss francs to spend a night with her. But my answer was, no way.

00:42:27.760 And just 100,000. And 100,000 Swiss francs is around $110,000. It's pretty, almost one-to-one

00:42:35.040 Swiss francs to USD. And she's a very nice looking lady. I know. She is a nice looking lady. 0.99

00:42:42.560 But, and I'm a married man, and I try not to think of other ladies. But I was, I tried to think about

00:42:48.740 this circumstance, this very, very well-known actor, or not actor, just celebrity of some sort

00:42:54.600 or another who she has not yet named. And I thought, would that really be fun? Would that

00:43:00.160 really, even if she's a really pretty lady, would it really be fun to pay this lady $100,000 1.00

00:43:07.160 and then, you know, have some moments of physical pleasure and then you're done with it and that's

00:43:14.080 it? Would you feel good after that? Even if she's super duper hot, would you, I, I don't think I would 1.00

00:43:20.400 feel good after that. Even if I had a billion dollars to burn, I think that would, that would

00:43:26.020 not be great. There's an old line in Hollywood about prostitution and why rich, famous, successful 1.00

00:43:32.180 people will go to prostitutes. And I, the line is attributed to Cary Grant or no, or is it Cary Grant

00:43:38.160 or Clark Gable or I don't know, who knows, some old Hollywood guy. And the line is, you don't pay the

00:43:43.140 prostitute to come over. You pay the prostitute to go home. In other words, yeah, you're a big movie 1.00

00:43:49.980 star. You could attract a woman with a wink and a smile, but that's the point because then they all 1.00

00:43:54.100 want something from you. Whereas, you know, if you pay a hooker, in this case, if you turn a soccer 0.77

00:44:00.340 star into a hooker, then they'll go home and they won't expect anything from you. But is that really, 0.89

00:44:06.040 is that really fun? Or does that just make you an animal? And you, you get your physical gratification

00:44:13.380 and you, you do whatever weird thing kind of titillates you. And then I think at some point

00:44:20.400 you remember that the, the woman is a person with a soul and like reason, you know, and is judging 0.93

00:44:29.360 you. Even if you pay her $200,000, you say, Hey, here's $100,000 for the sex. And here's another 1.00

00:44:34.260 $100,000 not to judge me, please. And don't, and for me to still be an upright person, but it doesn't

00:44:40.160 work that way. The very fact that you have done that diminishes you and diminishes her and diminishes

00:44:48.180 everybody. And she made the right decision here. I'm glad she didn't take the money, but this is not

00:44:57.760 merely a matter of personal choice or taste. We know that this stuff is bad and normal good

00:45:04.080 societies that flourish, recognize that it is the role of the political order and community

00:45:10.520 to discourage people from doing weird stuff like this and to encourage people to do good things

00:45:16.520 that will give them good lives. If we can't do that for whatever reason, we're just ideologically,

00:45:23.060 we've convinced ourselves we can't make decisions. We can't discriminate between good and bad and right

00:45:26.900 and wrong. We don't, we just don't know. We don't know what our religion is. We don't know what we

00:45:30.580 believe. We don't know what we think is moral. Then we have effectively ceased to be a country

00:45:38.160 already. And we've still got, well, maybe the borders. I don't know. We've still got maybe

00:45:42.840 some of the institutions that kind of, we still, but if you can't do that, if you can't tell who you

00:45:50.180 are and what you want and where you're going and what's good and what's bad, for all intents and

00:45:54.960 purposes, you're no longer a country. That's our show on that happy note. I am going to be flitting

00:46:00.980 about the world this week. Maybe I'll give you some clues as to where I am. Maybe we'll see. We'll

00:46:06.320 find out. And then you'll know much more about this secret project that I'm involved with

00:46:12.600 soon enough. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you next time.

00:46:24.960 Bye.

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