The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1361 - Libs Beg For COVID Forgiveness On Bill Maher

00:00:00.000 After locking us all down for the better part of three years, depriving people of their livelihoods,

00:00:04.940 forcing them to inject themselves with an experimental drug based on reasons that

00:00:09.180 proved false, taking students out of school, forcing elderly loved ones to die alone,

00:00:14.200 destroying businesses, closing churches and synagogues, and so on and so on,

00:00:19.000 the COVID alarmists are now demanding that we just forget about everything and move on.

00:00:25.480 Here is an NYU professor on Bill Maher explaining his reasoning.

00:00:30.320 While I was on the board of my kids' school during COVID, I wanted a harsher lockdown policy,

00:00:35.040 and in retrospect, I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer

00:00:40.820 was greater than the risks. But here's the bottom line. Myself, our great people to CDC,

00:00:47.920 I'd like to thank the governor, we were all operating with imperfect information and we

00:00:52.400 were doing our best.

00:00:53.400 So let's learn from it. Let's learn from it. Let's learn from it. Let's hold each other

00:01:04.800 accountable. But let's bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness in the show that West

00:01:09.700 COVID.

00:01:10.000 First correction. They were not all operating on imperfect information. Some of them were

00:01:18.820 manufacturing that false information. One of those guys was Andrew Cuomo that that professor

00:01:25.320 pointed to. He was sitting right on the panel. Andrew Cuomo intentionally cooked the books and

00:01:30.720 lied to everyone to hide his own negligence. And he was just one of many liberals who did that.

00:01:37.000 But to the professor's broader point, yes, we should, of course, have the charity to forgive

00:01:42.840 people from our hearts. We should also have the prudence to deprive those people of the power that

00:01:49.960 they abused. And we should prosecute them whenever possible for the abuses and crimes that they

00:01:55.840 committed for which they have thus far faced zero consequences. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:02:01.700 Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:07.000 Welcome back to the show. A dangerous communist leader just met with Xi Jinping, the leader of

00:02:32.060 China. That would be Gavin Newsom, who wants to take Joe Biden's job. We'll get to that in just a

00:02:36.260 moment first, though. The lies that we saw during COVID, that we all lived during COVID, that we all

00:02:44.800 had to suffer under during COVID, were based on fantasies, on preposterous little rituals and

00:02:50.980 superstitions. The notion that putting a hanky on our face would stop the spread of a contagious

00:02:56.020 airborne virus. The notion that standing six feet away, not five feet, 11 inches, not six feet and one

00:03:02.860 inch, six feet away, that would prevent us from giving this disease to one another. The notion

00:03:10.580 that if you got the magical experimental injection that you would not contract COVID, you would not

00:03:15.820 spread COVID, you would not. Then we found out, no, actually, you can contract it and you can spread it.

00:03:21.560 But okay, now we're being told that it's a good way to prevent you from getting extra super duper sick

00:03:26.960 or whatever. It just kept being proven wrong. And people kept taking more and more of the drugs.

00:03:32.640 Maybe it'll work this time. Maybe it'll work that time. Total superstition. And now those libs who spent 1.00

00:03:40.740 years peddling those superstitions have the audacity to make fun of conservatives for being religious,

00:03:49.100 for having ordinary traditional religion that has endured through the millennia. Jen Psaki is attacking 0.99

00:03:58.100 Mike Johnson, the new conservative leader of the House of Representatives, because Mike Johnson is

00:04:05.100 a Christian. The Bible doesn't just inform his worldview, it is his worldview. In fact, during his first speech

00:04:13.800 in his new job, Johnson suggested that his election as speaker was an act of God. Talk about a bit of a

00:04:20.600 humble brag there. So what exactly has God apparently called on Mike Johnson to do? Well, his views on

00:04:27.940 policy are essentially what you'd expect from a religious fundamentalist. They're more divisive than they are

00:04:33.840 divine. So this reminds me, obviously, of when Dianne Feinstein, RIP, made fun of Amy Comey Barrett. 0.72

00:04:43.800 And attacked her by saying that she feared that the dogma lived loudly within her, the implication

00:04:50.680 being that a Catholic should not be on the Supreme Court. Maybe a fake Catholic is okay, like a Joe 1.00

00:04:56.480 Biden type or a Nancy Pelosi type. But an actual practicing Catholic should not be permitted on the 0.99

00:05:02.400 Supreme Court. This reminds me of when Joy Behar mocked Mike Pence, I think it was, for, it was some

00:05:10.000 conservative at least, for believing that he would speak with God. And he said, oh, Joy Behar said,

00:05:18.180 that's, that's crazy. Maybe you can pray to Jesus, but once Jesus starts talking back, then that's

00:05:23.020 when you got to worry. Like, like anyone who prays is a crazy person. And you see that same kind of 0.73

00:05:29.400 ignorance here with Jen Psaki. He says, this, this guy, he thinks, this, this man who is in a position

00:05:35.860 of civil authority, he thinks he was, he was placed there by God, which is a very basic Christian

00:05:41.480 belief. St. Paul writes about this in the letter to the Romans, that the civil authority is given to us

00:05:47.220 by God for the execution of justice and for our own good. If you are a Christian of any sort, you

00:05:56.940 most certainly believe in providence, the notion that, that God has a plan that unfolds throughout

00:06:03.820 history. Ours is a very historical religion. In fact, there's a pivot of history known as the

00:06:10.680 incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection. This is like Christianity 101, folks. And, and

00:06:16.500 what's shocking here is not that a liberal would make fun of Christianity. They tend to be opposed

00:06:21.900 to Christianity. In fact, the very terms left and right come from the French revolution when the

00:06:26.760 Christians sat on the right side of the national assembly and the revolutionaries and the atheists 0.99

00:06:31.960 and liberals sat on the left side of the assembly. So that's been baked in for a long time.

00:06:37.200 What's, what's shocking is the ignorance and the kind of proud glib ignorance that she had, 0.84

00:06:42.960 she would mock this guy for being a Christian when she clearly doesn't understand the first thing 0.96

00:06:47.560 about Christianity. And then there's this final little irony here, which is that the liberals

00:06:55.120 are so irate at the notion of, of religious politics. One, they are as super, the liberals

00:07:01.600 themselves are as superstitious as they come. They think that a man can become a woman and they think

00:07:05.500 that a baby can magically cease to be a baby when the mother doesn't want him. But, but beyond that,

00:07:11.500 they, they suggest that they hate the idea of religious politics. And let me, I promise you

00:07:18.760 to any liberals who might share that view who are listening to the show right now, if you think

00:07:23.240 religious conservatism is bad, just wait until you see your religious conservatism. If you think 0.94

00:07:29.680 politics informed by true religion broadly is, is not a great thing. Just you wait until you see

00:07:35.720 irreligious politics. Just you wait to see how bad things can get because everybody's got to serve 0.99

00:07:40.800 somebody. So if you're serving God, if you're orienting your society and your personal life

00:07:46.620 toward the good, you're going to fail. It's a fallen world, but you'll be headed in the right

00:07:51.120 direction. If you're just turning away from all that and you throw morality aside and you ignore

00:07:56.600 God and you, you pursue only that which is evil and convenient, man, things can get bad real fast,

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00:09:07.960 is MediShare.com slash M-I-C-H-A-E-L. Now, what exactly did Mike Johnson say that Jen Psaki doesn't

00:09:17.320 like? Mike Johnson said that he believes he's in the position of speaker as a matter of providence.

00:09:23.260 He prays to God openly, even on the floor of the House of Representatives. And he did just say

00:09:28.300 something that has gone viral that is a little theologically suspect, which is that he grounded

00:09:35.500 his support for the nation state of Israel, his unwavering support for the nation state of Israel

00:09:40.000 in religion. In the week ahead, House Republicans will work swiftly to pass legislation to provide

00:09:45.800 Israel much needed resources in their fight against these barbaric terrorists. We will stand

00:09:50.460 with Israel strongly. There will be a ceasefire only when Hamas ceases to be a threat to Israel.

00:10:02.300 Israel and the U.S. enjoy an unbreakable bond that's forged over decades, of course,

00:10:08.000 of bilateral assistance. And there are lots of reasons that we do that. They are obviously our

00:10:12.820 greatest ally in the Middle East, and clearly they are one of our most important friends.

00:10:16.940 The prime minister called me, and I used those very words myself. I said,

00:10:20.300 I said, Bibi, it's good over evil. It's light over darkness. We all see that. I assure the prime

00:10:26.040 minister of our unwavering support of Israel and her people, and I assured him that our Congress,

00:10:32.400 and under my leadership, we will be there until the end. We will be there until the end of this

00:10:36.260 conflict. As a Christian, I know and we believe that the Bible teaches very clearly that we're to

00:10:46.840 stand with Israel, that God will bless the nation that blesses Israel, that we're to

00:10:50.200 take the peace of Jerusalem. Exactly. So that's the part that's a little bit 0.60

00:10:55.120 theologically eccentric, the conflation of the people of Israel in the Bible with the modern

00:11:02.120 secular nation state of Israel. It's a view that's held by some people, and it's a view grounded in

00:11:08.120 a relatively novel theological belief called dispensationalism, which is a distinction between

00:11:14.460 Israel and the church. The traditional Christian view that endured basically without challenge for

00:11:21.080 the first 1,800 years or so of Christianity and the church is a conflation of Israel and the church,

00:11:29.920 the notion that with the new covenant, you get a new Israel, the notion that Christ is the 0.81

00:11:35.960 fulfillment of the law, that the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. So that's been

00:11:40.080 broadly the view. There are some views, especially popular among some evangelicals, especially in

00:11:47.040 America, that this is distinct. And so then you see, as Mike Johnson says, unbreakable support for the

00:11:56.640 modern secular nation state of Israel. Okay, I understand why some people are raising their

00:12:03.080 eyebrows theologically there. And the other reason, putting religion aside for a second, is that

00:12:08.460 listening to the speeches of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, many great statesmen in American

00:12:14.280 history, a lot of people rightly are skeptical of enduring unbreakable alliances between the United

00:12:20.740 States and any other nation state, period, anywhere in the world. We should avoid entangling alliances,

00:12:26.400 and we should have strategic alliances, but not to say that these are totally unbreakable and

00:12:32.480 enduring for all time. Okay, I understand that reservation as well. However, Mike Johnson

00:12:38.580 is doing something really clever here, which is by going down so hard on protecting the state of

00:12:47.140 Israel. One, he's saying we don't stand for terrorism. We're not going to tolerate attacks like

00:12:52.760 the horrific attack that Hamas carried out on Israel a few weeks ago. But he's also decoupling aid

00:13:00.120 from to Israel and to Ukraine. So what Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden and the Uniparty in D.C.

00:13:09.460 wanted to do is they wanted to pass a massive defense bill that would fund the war in Ukraine

00:13:16.260 and the war in Israel and potentially a war in Taiwan. Now, support for Israel is still,

00:13:24.460 even with the pro-Hamas students running around Harvard Yard, is still quite popular in the United

00:13:29.460 States. Support for Ukraine is a little more 50-50. In fact, it's actually less than 50-50 at this

00:13:35.920 point. Most Americans do not want to continue supporting the war in Ukraine. And Taiwan remains

00:13:41.900 to be seen what Xi Jinping does. If Mike Johnson can go really hard on supporting the state of Israel

00:13:50.320 and providing war funding for the state of Israel and saying, this is going to be the first bill we

00:13:53.960 passed, this is the most important thing we do. All of a sudden now, he's ended that financial

00:14:00.840 support for the war in Ukraine, which is not just because we don't like Ukrainians or anything like

00:14:07.040 that, but it's because people have rightly recognized that the breakout of the first major

00:14:10.840 war in Europe since World War II threatens to send the entire world into another global conflict,

00:14:16.000 into World War III. And this is extraordinarily dangerous. And the Ukraine situation is quite

00:14:21.400 complicated as it has been for at least a millennium or so. And the longer this war drags on, the more

00:14:28.340 innocent Ukrainians are going to be killed, the more Russian soldiers are going to be killed, which the 0.95

00:14:33.380 U.S. views as a strategic victory. But there's basically no chance that Ukraine wins the war unless the 0.92

00:14:38.780 United States comes in as a direct belligerent, which would be completely disastrous. So I think it's 0.74

00:14:44.300 actually a pretty clever move here by Mike Johnson, even if some of the political and theological

00:14:50.060 claims are a little suspect to a lot of people. Now, speaking of this conflict in the Holy Land,

00:14:56.000 speaking of Hamas, the leader of Hamas has just come out and made a statement that actually sends

00:15:02.520 chills down the spines of even the most hardened political observers. Here's what he said.

00:15:06.920 I have said this before, I say it time again. The blood of the women, children, and elderly, 0.99

00:15:16.740 I'm not saying that this blood is calling for your help. We are the ones who need this blood.

00:15:23.860 We are the ones. So it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit. So it awakens within us,

00:15:32.200 resolved. So it awakens within us, the spirit of challenge and pushes us to move forward.

00:15:40.880 He's saying, no, no, no, don't mistake my meaning here. I'm not saying that the blood of these

00:15:45.540 innocent Palestinian women and the elderly and children are calling out for revenge against

00:15:50.400 the Israelis. No, no, no. We need their blood. We, Hamas, we, the Palestinian liberation movement,

00:15:55.600 we need their blood so that it can awaken in us a revolutionary fervor.

00:15:59.600 This is very, very demonic stuff. But it's not uniquely demonic. This is always the argument

00:16:08.740 of the revolutionaries, of revolutionaries going back centuries. They say, we need this kind of

00:16:17.900 devastation. We need this kind of carnage to get our own blood up, to awaken within us the

00:16:24.720 revolutionary fervor to commit acts that are obviously immoral and unconscionable. We need

00:16:29.720 to be sent out of our minds so that we can convince ourselves to commit terrorism, so that we can go

00:16:34.360 target civilians for the great revolution that heretofore our conscience and the political order

00:16:40.840 has prevented us from achieving. This is the same kind of rhetoric. This is somewhat more eloquent,

00:16:46.040 but it's the same kind of rhetoric that you heard from the Black Power Movement in the 1970s,

00:16:50.860 from the radical leftists like the Weather Underground in the 1960s and 70s. This is the

00:16:55.480 same kind of rhetoric you hear from Antifa and BLM and all the rest of the revolutionary left.

00:17:00.900 And this kind of rhetoric here also helps to explain why Bibi Netanyahu, as the leader of the state of

00:17:12.180 Israel, has not encouraged the strength of Hamas in Gaza, but not totally discouraged it either over

00:17:21.740 his now many governments. You may have seen this meme going around that Netanyahu, that the state of

00:17:27.800 Israel was the one propping up Hamas. And that's somewhat dishonest, but there is a grain of truth 1.00

00:17:33.280 to that, which is that the Netanyahu government, and this has been widely reported throughout Israeli

00:17:39.240 journalism, and I see it as a pretty wise political strategy, in fact. They decided that the way to

00:17:45.940 prevent Palestinian statehood, which the state of Israel views as an unacceptable solution, at least

00:17:50.480 Netanyahu views it as an unacceptable solution, is to split off the West Bank from Gaza. So you've got

00:17:57.220 these two Palestinian territories that are separated by the state of Israel, and if they have a unified

00:18:02.360 government, then the cause for Palestinian statehood is relatively strong, especially given

00:18:08.640 all of the international support that it receives, including from the UN. So if the West Bank and Gaza

00:18:14.720 are being run by the Palestinian Authority, which is viewed as relatively moderate, the cause for

00:18:19.580 Palestinian statehood is relatively strong. If the West Bank and Gaza are being run by even the PLO,

00:18:25.360 the Palestine Liberation Organization, the cause for Palestinian statehood is somewhat strong.

00:18:30.900 But if the West Bank is being run by the so-called moderates of the Palestinian political movement,

00:18:37.760 and Gaza is being run by the most ghoulish demonic terrorists you could possibly come up with in a 0.82

00:18:43.000 Hollywood cartoon, then there is no cause for Palestinian statehood. If Gaza is being run, if Gaza will 0.96

00:18:49.700 elect someone like that guy who is saying, we demand the blood of women and children and the elderly,

00:18:55.820 then it's a complete non-starter. But it was a dangerous strategy for Netanyahu because it does 0.52

00:19:01.880 embolden Hamas then as the leaders of Gaza, and then you see horrific terrorist attacks like you saw

00:19:08.520 on October 7th, which is obviously a very hot debate within Israel right now, although amid the fog of

00:19:15.560 war, which Netanyahu is now calling an existential war, a second war for independence, he'll probably

00:19:22.260 maintain some support. But that guy, I mean, that demoniac there that you hear calling for the blood

00:19:28.120 of the innocents, that guy is the argument against Palestinian statehood. And as long as he remains 1.00

00:19:35.840 prominent in power, I don't see how anyone could really make a counterargument.

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00:21:41.660 jeremyschocolate.com today. Speaking of dividing and conquering, there is a new Democrat in the race

00:21:49.400 against Joe Biden. And it's not the kind of woo-woo, new-agey lady Marianne Williamson. And it's not

00:21:56.360 the fairly eccentric, quasi-populist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is an ordinary Democrat congressman.

00:22:07.780 Are you running for president? I am. I have to. I think President Biden has done a spectacular job

00:22:14.760 for our country. But it's not about the past. This is an election about the future. I will not

00:22:20.380 sit still. I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we're

00:22:25.720 going to be facing an emergency next November. This is Congressman Phillips. I don't even know

00:22:31.640 what his first name is. But he's a fairly wealthy congressman. And most interestingly, he's not Bobby

00:22:38.200 Kennedy Jr. This is not a guy who's running for president because he says, Joe Biden's gone crazy

00:22:44.820 or Joe Biden pushed the wrong policy or Joe Biden this or Joe Biden that. This is a guy who voted with

00:22:53.480 Joe Biden 100% of the time. According to analyses, Phillips has voted with Joe Biden's stated public

00:23:03.240 policy positions 100% of the time. This makes him more liberal than average in the 117th Congress

00:23:11.920 when predictive scoring is used. So Bobby Kennedy, he differs from the Democrats on an issue like

00:23:19.760 vaccines. Bobby Kennedy differs from the Democrats even on other policy issues in that he is somewhat

00:23:26.500 more moderate on immigration, somewhat more moderate perhaps on abortion, somewhat more moderate even on

00:23:32.420 energy. Though at other times he's also been extremely environmentalist. But Kennedy is running as a

00:23:38.160 1960s Democrat and the party's obviously moved far to the left since the Kennedys. This guy's not.

00:23:44.360 This guy is just running as Joe Biden but younger and more competent. A mainstream left-wing Democrat

00:23:52.680 running against Joe Biden's age and frailty. That means that actual Democrats are smelling blood in the

00:24:01.520 water. And they're looking at Biden's approval rating and they're thinking, hmm, maybe we won't

00:24:05.480 be able to rig this thing up quite so well to overcome the gap in enthusiasm that Joe Biden is

00:24:10.680 going to face. So now we've got a few Democrats and one serious Democrat running against Biden.

00:24:16.880 And there's another one waiting in the wings because Governor Patrick Bateman over there from

00:24:20.200 California, Mr. Newsom has just, for some reason, met with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping.

00:24:29.300 So Newsom makes a little trip to China, you know, just a little jaunt overseas and takes pictures

00:24:38.240 smiling, dealing with Chairman Xi. He says that he's there to push for climate cooperation.

00:24:45.660 But now, because the U.S. and China are potentially hurtling toward a conflict if we do end up in

00:24:55.540 World War III, this is seen as a little bit more serious. It's similar to when Ron DeSantis,

00:25:04.520 as governor of Florida, took a Florida business-sponsored trip to East Asia. And everyone

00:25:11.520 knew he was only doing that to give him some foreign policy cred when he ran for president.

00:25:15.780 The same thing applies here with Newsom. Newsom has been even less subtle than DeSantis was before

00:25:20.620 he declared his run for president. Governor Bateman over here just recently told Politico

00:25:25.920 regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, I wish I was president of the United States.

00:25:30.520 And this is how Politico reports it. I wish I was president of the United States,

00:25:34.840 he said sarcastically, before clarifying that he was joking. I could start doing all those things,

00:25:42.200 whatever needs to get done in Israel-Palestine. And I love Politico carrying the water. Oh,

00:25:46.320 yes, he said this sarcastically. The extremely ambitious politician who's been raising money

00:25:51.600 like he's running for president, who's been traveling all around the country like he's running

00:25:54.540 for president, who's going to have a debate with the number two guy who's running for the Republican

00:25:59.880 nomination for president, who just visited China to meet with the leader of China, our number one

00:26:05.120 geopolitical adversary in the entire world. Yeah, that guy, he's just being sarcastic. He's just

00:26:09.380 joking. It's just a joke. He just wishes he could be president as a joke. Because he'd do a much

00:26:16.220 better job than Joe Biden as a joke, as a joke. This guy is effectively running for president already.

00:26:22.760 Now, the difference between someone like Congressman Phillips and Governor Newsom is Congressman

00:26:28.520 Phillips is just going to run. He's going to openly challenge Joe Biden. He doesn't have much of a shot

00:26:34.360 ever to succeed at running for president. So, okay, why not go all in? Newsom is considered a

00:26:42.160 relatively top-tier candidate for president. If not this cycle, then next cycle. If not next cycle,

00:26:47.780 then maybe even the following cycle. So, he's got more to lose here. So, Newsom's not going to openly

00:26:53.680 pit himself against Joe Biden. He's just going to run. He's just going to effectively run. He's going

00:26:58.860 to do all the things other than declare that candidates do when they're running for president.

00:27:03.140 And he's basically going to hope that Joe Biden slips and falls. Hate to say it. I don't wish ill

00:27:08.140 on the president whatsoever. I especially don't because I don't want Gavin Newsom waiting in the

00:27:11.800 wings. But that Gavin Newsom is running a campaign that can only succeed if Joe Biden is actually

00:27:21.980 incapacitated and unable to run for president. That's what Governor Bateman does. Now, speaking of

00:27:28.300 people who remind me of serial killers, there's an actual serial killer, this Ohio woman who was just

00:27:36.220 charged in connection to the deaths of at least four men that she had met for sex. This according

00:27:43.300 to the cops here. It could be more men. Her name is Rebecca Auburn. She's only 33 years old. Clearly 0.98

00:27:51.160 lived a little bit of a hard life if you look at her mugshot. She's accused of robbing and fatally

00:27:56.860 drugging victims in January, April, two in April, one in June, according to a joint statement from the

00:28:03.820 Attorney General of Ohio and the Columbus Police Chief. And here is what the AG said.

00:28:10.240 AG said, don't buy sex in Ohio. It ruins lives and could cost yours. Obviously true. So the woman was 1.00

00:28:19.720 a hooker, I guess. And these sad sack men were paying her for sex and they wind up getting killed 1.00

00:28:26.820 for their trouble. Which underscores a point that I've made for some years now against legalizing or 0.99

00:28:35.940 decriminalizing sex work, against the hookup culture, against swipe right culture. It is better to sleep

00:28:46.880 with people you know. And it is even better to sleep with people you like. And it is best of all

00:28:56.020 to sleep with your spouse. And that, I guess, is controversial today. In fact, that is controversial.

00:29:04.860 If I were running for office and I said, hey, I used the Norm Macdonald line. I said, hey, sex is 0.97

00:29:12.920 obviously a filthy, shameful thing that's only meant for procreation and you should only do it with your 1.00

00:29:16.060 wife. If I came out and said that, the Jen Psaki's of the world, the liberal commentators, the Democrat

00:29:23.380 politicians, they would laugh at me. They would call me crazy. They would mock me. They would pretend 0.52

00:29:28.960 that my view was totally fringe. That is the view that has been held by most people in most civilized

00:29:35.540 places on earth for all of human history. And it's been mocked in recent years. And then even the

00:29:44.580 Attorney General of Ohio, then even some of the liberal media, if they report on that story,

00:29:49.780 they're going to have to admit it's true. It's what Rudyard Kipling called the gods of the copybook

00:29:54.920 headings. The knowledge that we've all had for so many years that the radicals and the revolutionaries

00:30:01.120 overthrow. And they say, our ancestors, our grandparents, and all the people before them,

00:30:05.160 they were just dumb idiots. They didn't know anything. We, we've invented the world anew. It's all 1.00

00:30:10.280 different now. And men can be women and babies don't have to be babies and all the old rules no 0.99

00:30:15.060 longer apply, but they do. The rules keep coming back because it's not up to you. It's up to reality.

00:30:22.120 Okay. And the more that you twist your political ideology away from those sometimes inconvenient,

00:30:29.960 sometimes undesired facts of reality, the more likely you will be to find yourself a victim, 0.95

00:30:36.060 a victim of political chaos, or in this case, a victim of a serial killing psycho hooker. 0.76

00:30:42.700 Speaking of famous women, Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She's become a billionaire because 1.00

00:30:48.740 of that concert tour that she went on last year, the Aras tour. I, other than on this show,

00:30:57.060 when my producers have made me do it, I don't think I've ever consciously listened to a Taylor Swift

00:31:02.020 song. I'm sure I would recognize some of them if I, if they came on the radio, but I, the one that

00:31:09.520 comes to mind is, is, uh, I'm the problem. It's me because we did it on the show, but I, I, I just

00:31:15.900 haven't paid attention to Taylor Swift. And yet when she launched her tour and I came into the office,

00:31:20.880 all the girls in this office were on their computers. This is, I don't know what it was right 0.99

00:31:25.880 at, right after my show, first thing in the morning, they're refreshing ticket master because

00:31:30.400 they've got the American express extra pass to, to buy the tickets early. And the tickets were

00:31:35.840 a bazillion dollars and they were, they were so excited. So what I had friends of mine,

00:31:41.540 female friends, very serious women, very normal people went crazy for Taylor Swift, paid lots of 0.88

00:31:49.680 money and inconvenienced themselves to go see the show. I didn't get it, but obviously 50 million

00:31:56.820 French men can't be wrong. The tour has brought Swift's net worth to $1.1 billion, according to

00:32:02.900 Bloomberg. Why is it? I think I'll expand on this. I'll even expound on this in, in the coming days

00:32:12.200 and weeks. But I think the reason that Taylor Swift is singularly successful, probably the most powerful

00:32:18.980 woman on earth right now is because she's basically normal. She is pretty. She's not, she's not a 1.00

00:32:28.600 runway model. She's pretty. She's sounds pleasant. She's not, not Mozart. Okay. She's not Pavarotti,

00:32:36.780 but she sounds pleasant enough, totally inoffensive. She doesn't have a ton of tattoos. She doesn't have 0.85

00:32:41.020 crazy hair. She doesn't have a million weird piercings. She's just, she doesn't go screech and 1.00

00:32:46.720 scream. Although if she has political views, they're relatively mildly stated. She just, she's just 1.00

00:32:52.140 normal and nice and pleasant. And for much of our nation's history, that would have made Taylor

00:33:05.000 Swift totally unexceptional. No one would know her name. But at this moment, which is so absurd,

00:33:10.340 which is so insane, which is so divorced from reality, just a little bit of normal

00:33:15.080 is refreshing and desired. And if you are that normal person, you can make a billion dollars,

00:33:21.980 apparently. Speaking of what people want, there is a new number two candidate in Iowa for the

00:33:31.100 Republican Party. And that would be Nikki Haley, who in the picture on the screen is wearing a sweater 0.94

00:33:35.560 that I own. It's one of my favorite sweaters. It's that cool Ralph Lauren flag sweater. And Nikki Haley

00:33:41.140 also looks good, sounds good, is basically inoffensive. She doesn't fire up the base 1.00

00:33:47.620 necessarily, but she is firing up a portion of the GOP that desires some kind of return to normal.

00:33:57.440 And this is really bad news for DeSantis because DeSantis was the number two guy in Iowa.

00:34:01.440 Trump still has a big lead, but the DeSantis campaign was doubling down, moving a lot of their

00:34:05.580 campaign staff and resources to Iowa. And so the news that Nikki Haley is now tied with him in Iowa

00:34:10.360 is not going to be welcome. Why is it? Why is DeSantis failing to catch fire? I really like Ron

00:34:17.940 DeSantis. I think he's a good guy personally. I think he was a great governor. I think he'd make

00:34:21.460 a good president. Why is he not catching on? Because, you know, I hate to say I told you so,

00:34:28.560 but it's because of what I've observed as DeSantis' biggest challenge from the beginning,

00:34:33.760 which is that his candidacy was pitched as Donald Trump without the baggage.

00:34:38.320 And Trump without the baggage only works if Trump is not in the race. Because if Trump is in the race,

00:34:43.880 people are going to want the original. Even if new Coke tastes better than old Coke,

00:34:49.160 people want the OG. They want the Coca-Cola classic. So for the people who like Trump and

00:34:54.600 they like the ways in which Trump changed the GOP and, in my view, returned the GOP to something much

00:34:59.980 more traditional, much more in line with its own history. But if you kind of like that,

00:35:05.020 and even if you think that Trump, he tweets too much, he says crazy things, whatever,

00:35:10.580 you're still probably going to be with Trump. Maybe some people will spin off, but you're still

00:35:14.800 probably going to stick with Trump. And if you don't like Trump, then you're going to hate Trump

00:35:22.080 without the baggage. Because Trump without the baggage, the pitch at least, is that it's just a

00:35:28.220 more effective version of Trump with all the same priorities and with all the same potential

00:35:32.520 achievements. Maybe even more achievements in that direction, which you don't like because you

00:35:37.940 are opposed to Trump. You are opposed to the ways in which Trump changed the Republican Party.

00:35:42.620 So where does that leave you? The pitch of it was, Ron DeSantis is the best of all worlds.

00:35:48.280 And I think the guy would be terrific. But the reality on the ground, as some of us predicted,

00:35:55.760 and as is being borne out in the polls now, not just with Trump's numbers, but with the other

00:35:59.160 candidates' numbers, is that it leaves you without a constituency. Because your natural base is going

00:36:05.440 to your chief opponent. And the people to whom you're trying to also appeal, so you get a little

00:36:11.900 bit broader slice of the electorate, is going to go to someone who is totally distinct from the

00:36:18.180 frontrunner. So it leaves you now in second place, but who knows how much longer. And Nikki Haley, who many

00:36:23.880 people were calling to drop out of the race early on because they said she doesn't have a snowball's 0.98

00:36:27.800 chance in hell. She's out of touch with the current GOP base. I always thought she might

00:36:32.280 have a bit of a shot because she's offering an alternative. She's offering a distinct view to 1.00

00:36:37.920 Trump, which could at least have some runway. Now, my favorite comment yesterday is June Turner,

00:36:46.080 8331, who says, I'm a boomer and I never want to see sex scenes. I agree with Gen Z. Oh, yes. 1.00

00:36:51.140 In response to this survey that showed that Zoomers are less interested than older generations 1.00

00:36:56.760 and seeing sex in movies. That's true. You're one of the reasonable boomers.

00:37:01.460 There are reasonable boomers, reasonable Gen Xers, reasonable millennials.

00:37:05.240 But it's a minority. It's a distinct minority, a remnant, if you will.

00:37:10.560 Now, also in Iowa, also in the GOP primary, Tim Scott

00:37:13.400 is pinning his candidacy on Iowa. In fact, he's come out and said

00:37:17.860 that he is running on Iowa or bust.

00:37:21.060 That's one of the reasons why we're heading to Iowa and staying there consistently because we

00:37:26.260 realize that, historically speaking, Iowa voters, they break late in the cycle. And that's great

00:37:32.660 news. Having an opportunity for us to continue to share our message and to do it full time in

00:37:37.860 Iowa will be very helpful. And also, we have to remember historically, 2011, 2015, it was Herman Cain

00:37:44.920 and Ben Carson were leading in the Des Moines Register poll. So, we are excited about where

00:37:50.300 we are. We have made the decision that it's Iowa or bust for us, and I'm looking forward to being

00:37:55.980 there.

00:37:57.000 Iowa or bust. And so, his argument is, Tim Kaine was leading in 2012. So, just because Trump is

00:38:05.060 leading now or DeSantis or Haley, don't forget Tim Kaine, not Tim Kaine, he was almost the second

00:38:12.400 woman president. Herman Cain was leading in 2012. And then what happened? Then, Rick Santorum won.

00:38:22.120 And I love Rick Santorum, and it would have been great if he were president, but he wasn't. He didn't

00:38:25.860 get the nomination. Mitt Romney did. So, if the argument is, look, some other guy was leading in

00:38:31.820 2012, but then another guy beat him, and we're going to be that guy who beat him, but the guy who

00:38:35.060 beat him didn't win the primary. What happened in 2016? Ben Carson was leading in 2016. Oh, yeah?

00:38:41.000 And then what happened? And then, Ted Cruz won Iowa. And then he lost the Republican nomination.

00:38:48.160 Oh, that's no good. Okay, let's expand it out a little bit. What happened in 2008? In 2008,

00:38:54.880 I don't know who looked like he was leading, but then Mike Huckabee won Iowa. And then,

00:38:58.700 what happened? Then John McCain won the nomination. What happened in 2000? That was the last time

00:39:05.420 in a Republican primary that the guy who got the nomination actually won in Iowa.

00:39:14.940 So, this doesn't seem like a great strategy for Tim Scott if he wants to be the nominee.

00:39:18.960 But presumably, Tim Scott is not running to be the nominee. The numbers just don't bear it out. But

00:39:23.720 Tim Scott's a very talented politician. He's a nice guy. So, it would seem to me that his strategy

00:39:29.760 right now is just stay in the race as long as possible. And a win in Iowa would allow him to

00:39:34.860 stay in the race longer. And so, then some of the also-rans will drop out. He'll be in a stronger 0.98

00:39:39.700 position. Then, assuming he doesn't have this breakthrough moment, when he does endorse the

00:39:46.020 eventual nominee, he'll have more leverage. He could maybe get a cabinet position. He could maybe be

00:39:50.240 considered as a running mate. That is what it seems he is running for. Tim Scott's a smart guy.

00:39:56.700 His campaign staff, I'm sure, is smart. They must be hearing their own argument. And if their own

00:40:02.060 argument is, no, look, we're going to be like Rick Santorum in 2012. We're going to be like Ted Cruz

00:40:07.140 in 2016. Then, the argument is, we're not going to be the nominee. Now, speaking of people making

00:40:14.480 choices, like in elections, we're going to turn our attention to someone who refuses to make choices.

00:40:20.320 That would be the non-binary teacher who has just gone viral on TikTok for begging for money to buy 1.00

00:40:27.840 weird sex books for kindergartners. Hi there. My name's Katie, and I'm a non-binary teacher.

00:40:35.520 This isn't what I'd normally wear to teach, but we're closed down today for cleaning. Thanks,

00:40:40.980 COVID. But anyway, I wanted to show you guys a little something and tell you about a project

00:40:46.400 that I'm doing. So follow me. This is my classroom. I'm pretty fond of it. It's looking a little spare

00:40:53.160 right now, but we're in a bit of a transition as far as holidays go. And this is my classroom library.

00:41:00.740 And as you can see, it has a lot of books, but there's one big problem with it. None of them

00:41:12.740 look or act or feel like me. So you can help by going to the link in my profile and donating to

00:41:20.260 my Donors Tubes project to get more LGBTQ plus friendly books in our school from kindergarten

00:41:26.560 all the way to eighth grade. Thanks. Next time the libs tell you that that isn't happening, 0.99

00:41:32.880 just send them the video of a teacher in her classroom. I don't think it's an elaborate set.

00:41:37.680 I think she's a real teacher. I think it's a real classroom. Not just saying we want weird sex books

00:41:43.240 for high school seniors. No, no, no. We want weird sex books for elementary school students,

00:41:49.580 for kindergartners. We don't just even want it in the library down the hall. We want it in the classroom.

00:41:53.720 That's what she's calling for. What do we do about this? The only option that we have politically,

00:41:59.520 look, you can pull your kids out of school. You can homeschool if you're able to do that.

00:42:02.540 You can send them to private school if you can afford that. But most people can't. Most people

00:42:05.860 have a real hard time with that, especially in our economy, which for a lot of people requires two

00:42:11.200 incomes to maintain the standard of living that is usual today. So what do we do? We've got to be

00:42:18.840 political about it. We need to take political action, not just personal action.

00:42:21.700 The only political answer here is to discriminate against these people. This woman needs to be fired 1.00

00:42:28.220 for advancing her political ideology, her sexual political ideology in the classroom.

00:42:35.140 She needs to be overtly discriminated against for that reason. And we don't like the D word. We don't

00:42:41.660 like to say discrimination, but discriminating just means discerning. It just means making choices.

00:42:46.580 It means seeing distinctions between things and then acting upon those and choosing one thing over the

00:42:50.920 other. And all reasonable people will acknowledge that it is wrong to put weird sexual propaganda in

00:43:00.680 front of five-year-olds. All normal people know this. If this were my kid that this woman were 0.98

00:43:05.760 doing this to, I would blow a gasket. I would have steam coming out of my ears. Who knows what I would 0.94

00:43:15.000 be yelling at the walls? And then, but then I would take political action. And the only way to take

00:43:19.040 political action would be to undo the expansion of the civil rights laws that we've seen in recent

00:43:24.100 years. We have civil rights laws to prevent black people from being discriminated against in public

00:43:30.000 accommodations. And somehow in recent years, that has become expanded to the point that we're not

00:43:36.900 allowed to say that men can't really become women. And we're not allowed to say that you shouldn't

00:43:41.760 peddle sexual propaganda in front of five-year-olds and groom kindergartners. But we've obviously got 1.00

00:43:47.360 to roll that back. And we have got to impel people who, for whatever reason, get their jollies by

00:43:54.540 sexually grooming five-year-olds, like this disturbed woman in the kindergarten classroom. 0.55

00:44:00.620 We need to make it clear that communities have the right to say no to that and to kick that woman out 1.00

00:44:06.820 of the classroom. And maybe not, maybe arrest her. But even if we don't arrest her, we say,

00:44:12.060 go have a good life, go work some nice job. You can do whatever job you want, but you can't groom 0.99

00:44:17.880 the little kids. That can't be part of your job. Now, fittingly, it's Trans Tuesday. So the rest of 1.00

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 31, 2023

Ep. 1361 - Libs Beg For COVID Forgiveness On Bill Maher

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