The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1378 - Derek Chauvin Nearly Stabbed To Death In Prison

00:00:00.000 While we were all enjoying our Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family,

00:00:04.620 former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was getting stabbed nearly to death in prison

00:00:09.980 by another inmate. Chauvin is in prison because our cowardly justice system sacrificed him to the

00:00:16.520 mob as a scapegoat for the death of a career criminal whose death was actually caused primarily

00:00:22.500 by his resisting arrest after having ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl.

00:00:27.240 Chauvin is currently serving 20 years in prison for second degree murder, a crime that no reasonable

00:00:33.780 person actually thinks that he committed. He's also serving another simultaneous 20 year sentence for

00:00:40.460 civil rights violations, whatever that means. In fact, though, he is in prison because over the

00:00:47.660 past half century, our elite institutions have adopted the racially tinged liberationist ideology

00:00:53.840 of avowed Marxists such as Angela Davis, Derek Bell, Kimberly Crenshaw, and terrorists such as Huey

00:01:00.500 Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, whose black liberation movement was so lazily rebranded in recent years

00:01:06.120 that they even kept the same initialism, BLM. Chauvin spends much of his time in solitary confinement,

00:01:14.760 which is liable to drive him insane if he isn't insane already. But the solitary confinement is for

00:01:20.640 his own safety. And he clearly isn't spending enough time there, as the weekend's attack shows.

00:01:27.360 Meanwhile, the rest of us, even those of us who vocally opposed BLM in those early days,

00:01:33.880 when it was unfashionable, even on the right, when squishes like Mitt Romney were marching with the

00:01:38.600 terror supporting radicals, even many of us have forgotten about Officer Chauvin. And that will likely

00:01:45.940 remain the case until another inmate succeeds at murdering him. We will forget about him because,

00:01:53.320 one, our attention spans are short, but two, more so, we will forget about him because the reality

00:02:00.420 of the injustice, the reality that we, in our supposedly exemplary nation of laws, sacrificed a

00:02:08.260 man to the mob. And that reality is just too much to bear. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:53.100 slash subscribe. AI robots are taking all of our jobs. Pretty soon, when you subscribe to the Daily

00:03:00.820 Wire, you will be able to see a robot that looks just like me recite talking points that it itself

00:03:08.220 wrote while I can go off and pursue my real passion, which is selling cigars. We'll get to that in just

00:03:14.240 a moment. First, though, I know already what's happening. I know already at the left-wing groups whose job

00:03:20.060 it is to watch our shows and fact check us and then try to get us all fired, which is jokes on them because

00:03:26.700 we're going to be replaced by robots in about six months, so good luck firing us. But I know what they're

00:03:30.860 doing right now. They're sitting there and they're saying, Michael Knowles, he just spread false

00:03:37.020 information. We're going to write to NewsGuard. We're going to write to all of the left-wing groups

00:03:43.300 that partner with the social media companies to curtail the amount of information that can go

00:03:48.800 around the public square. We're going to write to them and say, you got to take this show off the

00:03:51.940 air. It's misinformation. Why? Because this has already been fact-checked. Here's what the fact

00:03:58.760 checks say. This is from the Associated Press. Claim, a new autopsy report for George Floyd has

00:04:05.800 been released in 2023, revealing he died from a drug overdose, not from the actions of arresting

00:04:10.540 Minneapolis police officers. Now, I want to put a pause right here. That is not actually the claim

00:04:16.300 that I or many other conservatives are making with regard to George Floyd and Officer Chauvin.

00:04:23.660 Note, we're not saying it necessarily was a new autopsy report released in 2023. We're not

00:04:28.880 necessarily saying that the police officers had absolutely nothing to do with the circumstances

00:04:32.580 of his death. This is what they do, the libs, is they lie by exaggerating or outright lying about

00:04:40.220 the points that we're making and mix it in with the true points that we're making. The true point being

00:04:45.120 that George Floyd was not killed primarily. He did not die primarily from Officer Chauvin and his

00:04:53.580 knee or whatever. Here's how the AP assesses that supposed claim. False. Social media users are sharing

00:05:00.260 a page from the 20-page autopsy report that was publicly released by the Hennepin County Medical

00:05:04.900 Examiner's Office in full on June 3rd, 2020. It has not been changed since. Okay, who cares? What's the

00:05:10.640 original say? While the page says that George Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system

00:05:16.760 and did not have life-threatening injuries, the full report concludes that Floyd died from

00:05:24.920 cardiopulmonary arrest, not an overdose. Hold on, wait, what? Hold on. So you're admitting,

00:05:31.600 the AP, the libs, are admitting here that the autopsy, the original autopsy says that Floyd had

00:05:39.800 fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, a lethal dose of fentanyl, by the way. I noticed the AP

00:05:45.140 fact check leaves that one out, a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. The AP further admits

00:05:50.860 that the autopsy says that George Floyd did not have any life-threatening injuries,

00:05:55.760 but the full report concludes that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest, not an overdose. Hold

00:06:02.780 on, wait, what? They took not an overdose out of the quotation marks. So the quote from the autopsy

00:06:08.840 is that he died from cardiopulmonary arrest. None of us disputes that. What is cardiopulmonary arrest?

00:06:13.960 His heart and his lungs stopped. That's what that means. It's a fancy way of saying that. Yeah,

00:06:17.860 his heart and his lungs stopped. That's true. Now, let me ask you what you would conclude as a

00:06:23.360 reasonable person. If you know that Officer Chauvin's knee did not cause any life-threatening

00:06:30.600 injuries to George Floyd's body, if you know that George Floyd had a lethal dose of an especially

00:06:37.580 lethal drug in his system, then what would you say is most likely to be the primary cause of his heart

00:06:46.240 and lungs stopping? Would you say that the primary cause would be a police officer restraining him,

00:06:55.420 or would you say the primary cause would be his resisting arrest for a very long time and the

00:07:02.200 extremely lethal dose of drugs in his body? What, just, you're a reasonable person. What would you say

00:07:07.720 is the most likely primary cause of his death? It's not complicated at all. They go on. I mean,

00:07:15.300 this is so silly. This fact check goes on. They say, no, well, look, it just doesn't. There's 0.91

00:07:21.900 nothing new here. It just doesn't. They don't say. Just because there was no evidence of life-threatening

00:07:26.700 injuries on the body. It doesn't mean that, you know, like he, that Chauvin isn't totally

00:07:33.660 responsible. And yeah, I mean, that's actually what they actually say that there. They say,

00:07:38.860 the fact that no major bruising or damage to the muscles, cartilage, or bones in the neck was found

00:07:44.880 as indicated under the phrase, no life-threatening injuries identified in the autopsy, does not mean

00:07:49.120 that asphyxia did not occur, only that there are no signs of it on the body. Okay. Hey, it doesn't

00:07:53.800 mean that our preconceived narrative that has been disproven time and time again at every,

00:07:59.840 it doesn't mean that it's ultimately not true. It just means there's no sign of it being true.

00:08:04.040 That's what they're saying. And as a result of it, it's really distressing because I'm not, I don't,

00:08:09.140 I don't follow police regulations all that closely. I don't know the ins and outs of the Minneapolis

00:08:15.160 police code book, but I do have a modicum of common sense. And it seems clear to me, the reason that

00:08:22.920 Derek Chauvin is in prison for murder, for murder, for goodness sakes, is because he was the

00:08:28.160 scapegoat and because our cowardly criminal justice system was afraid of the mob. That's

00:08:35.140 clearly it. And a consequence of that is you've discouraged any sensible person from joining the

00:08:41.620 police force anywhere in the, certainly anywhere in a blue state. You join the police force because

00:08:46.120 you want to serve your community and you're willing to take a job that's very difficult,

00:08:50.160 that doesn't pay very well. It's very dangerous. And you're willing to do that to serve your

00:08:54.600 community. That's a noble thing to do. And then you find out that if you transgress the left-wing

00:09:01.780 mob, you're going to be potentially thrown in prison and then maybe stabbed to death in prison

00:09:06.240 because the media dishonestly portrayed you as a racist or a thisist or a thatist or an otherwise 0.99

00:09:11.340 evil person. Why would you do it? So as a consequence of this, not only are we seeing injustice being

00:09:17.780 faced by one man in particular, Derek Chauvin, who very likely will just be killed in prison.

00:09:24.760 But a political consequence for all of us is you're going to see a further breakdown of law and order

00:09:29.500 because the liberal establishment is going to cynically, but conveniently, tactically,

00:09:37.100 take the side of criminals over the side of law and order, over the side of those who protect the

00:09:44.120 community. And so crime rights are going to skyrocket. Property crimes are going to skyrocket.

00:09:49.380 Violent crimes are going to skyrocket. And our political order is going to continue to fray.

00:09:54.160 Not great. Not great. Not just for anyone involved.

00:10:00.600 Speaking of the breakdown of law and order and former police officers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,

00:10:07.400 he's a former cop. He has just been accused of sexually assaulting a woman 30 years ago.

00:10:16.820 Seems like a meaningful detail there. He's accused of sexually assaulting a woman.

00:10:21.060 I obviously believe we should take all such accusations seriously. But hold on, 30 years ago,

00:10:26.280 and now the woman is suing him for $5 million? Wow. Boy, did she just fall into a coma for 30 years? 0.97

00:10:34.520 She forgot that this terrible crime occurred. She didn't ask for justice 30 years ago.

00:10:40.480 Then as Eric Adams started to rise through the political ranks, she never decided to bring any

00:10:45.280 charge against him, never decided to sue him in any sort of civil court. Then he gets elected mayor of

00:10:50.540 New York City years ago at this point. Oh no, even then, we're not going to, I'm not interested.

00:10:56.120 This man raped me, but I'm not going to even mention it to anyone. And then there's a New York City law, 0.96

00:11:02.420 a New York law. It's called the Adult Survivors Act, which is about to expire. That says that

00:11:08.040 essentially you can sue someone for sexual crimes without any statute of limitations. And all of a

00:11:14.380 sudden, this woman who says Eric Adams sexually assaulted her in 93, she's seeking $5 million.

00:11:22.460 At the time, Adams was a cop. The accuser was also a city worker, according to the New York Post.

00:11:28.900 First, what's my take on this? My take on this is Eric Adams seriously needs to get the lesson

00:11:38.460 to stop criticizing mass migration. You know, this guy, he didn't figure it out. He thought

00:11:43.820 that because he was a Democrat, a liberal Democrat, that he was protected. No one was going to do to

00:11:52.000 Eric Adams what they did to say Donald Trump. They're not going to use the criminal justice system

00:11:56.420 to railroad this guy as a political persecution. No, no way. Well, except Eric Adams has broken from

00:12:03.180 the Democratic Party in a major way in recent months on the issue of mass migration. And he's

00:12:09.960 come out and he said, this migrant crisis is going to destroy New York City if Joe Biden doesn't do

00:12:15.640 something about it. Eric Adams was criticizing not just the policy broadly, he was criticizing the

00:12:21.880 White House. He was criticizing the people who were supposed to be enforcing the law.

00:12:24.620 And then what happened? Then all of a sudden, the feds start investigating Eric Adams because he

00:12:31.140 took a donation from a guy who was on the board of a thing that involved a Turkish guy or something.

00:12:39.240 We're talking about a very small political donation on top of that. The minute I saw that,

00:12:43.300 I said, oh, he better stop criticizing mass migration. And at a broader level, he better stop

00:12:49.500 criticizing the powers that be. That's what this is really about. The powers that be,

00:12:53.560 and one of their most cherished policies, namely open borders. So he starts to get investigated.

00:12:59.500 What happens? Because I don't want to sound like I'm a conspiracy theory tinfoil hat guy,

00:13:04.760 but days, it might have been one or two days after this investigation was announced,

00:13:11.580 Eric Adams says he's canceling a meeting at the White House to discuss the migration crisis.

00:13:16.460 You can read about that in the mainstream press. So you don't need to make 10,000 leaps of logic.

00:13:21.020 It was right there. Mass migration is destroying America. It's destroying New York City in 1.00

00:13:26.140 particular. Joe Biden's got to stop this. I'm going to have a meeting with the White House to

00:13:30.040 stop mass migration. Eric Adams getting investigated by the feds five seconds later. Okay, I'm not going

00:13:35.800 to have my meeting anymore. I'll cut it out. And then he gets hit with this obviously ridiculous

00:13:41.520 sexual assault lawsuit. Clearly a money grab. Adams, for his support, is saying, I've never met this 0.97

00:13:48.640 woman. If I did ever meet this woman, I certainly have no memory of it. I do believe. I'll break with 1.00

00:13:54.920 some right-wingers who dismiss all of these suits out of hand. I do think some of them are legit.

00:14:00.320 I am inclined to believe women when they make these claims. I'm not inclined to believe women when they 1.00

00:14:06.500 make these claims 30 years later, when they stand to make $5 million, and when we're living in an age

00:14:13.240 where men are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Now, speaking of Democrat politicians,

00:14:20.480 Joe Biden has a novel theory on how war broke out in the Middle East. We know the timeline.

00:14:27.500 October 7th, Hamas leads a pogrom against Jews in Israel, takes a bunch of hostages, kills well over

00:14:35.200 1,000 civilians, rapes, kills, pillages, and burns. Horrific terror attack. Then State of Israel responds 0.77

00:14:43.320 by bombing Gaza, by leading a ground invasion into Gaza. Then there's a ceasefire. The ceasefire

00:14:52.680 seems to be going okay as of the airing of this show today. Hamas releasing some of the hostages

00:14:58.600 in exchange for a temporary ceasefire from Israel. Joe Biden says, no, no. What that timeline is missing

00:15:06.540 is why Hamas had the terror attack in the first place. And the reason is, you see, no one knows this, 0.78

00:15:15.380 Joe Biden was about to bring peace to the Middle East.

00:15:19.080 I cannot prove what I'm about to say. But I believe one of the reasons why Hamas struck when 0.99

00:15:25.240 they did was they knew that I was working very closely with the Saudis and others in the region

00:15:31.220 to bring peace to the region by having recognition of Israel and Israel's right to exist. You may recall

00:15:38.800 when we did the G20 about a little while ago, I was able to get a resolution, a statement passed through

00:15:45.580 there, saying we're going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way through the Middle East

00:15:50.060 into Saudi Arabia, Israel, et cetera, and all the way up to Europe. Not the railroad, but it would

00:15:56.460 be an underground pipeline and then railroad.

00:15:59.380 Can you pause it right there for a second? Hold on. Before he goes on, I just want to make clear.

00:16:04.140 He says he was going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way to Saudi Arabia.

00:16:09.280 Yeah. Isn't Riyadh, is that how, where would that, wouldn't that railroad just be

00:16:15.580 kind of like a circular, it'd be, he doesn't, I think he's a little, well, I think we all know,

00:16:20.740 Joe Biden is a little bit confused as to how the geopolitics of the Middle East works. Keep going.

00:16:27.760 There's overwhelming interest, and I think most Arab nations know it,

00:16:31.720 in coordinating with one another to change the dynamic in their region for longer term peace.

00:16:37.540 Peace, and that is what I'm going to continue to work on.

00:16:41.420 Okay, now people aren't, they're not going to believe it. They're not going to know, but actually

00:16:45.520 I was about to bring peace to the Middle East. That's why people aren't going to believe it, 1.00

00:16:49.940 but that's what it was. That's the ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket.

00:16:57.360 Donald Trump, the last president, brought peace to the Middle East.

00:17:04.280 There were no new Middle Eastern wars dragging the United States into further conflict that broke

00:17:12.740 out under his watch. Actually, what they got was a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

00:17:21.040 Actually, what they got was the Abraham Accords. Actually, what they got was relative peace in the

00:17:25.000 Middle East. Actually, what they got was ISIS was eliminated. Actually, what they got was Iran was on 0.87

00:17:30.680 its heels. Actually, what they got was Syria was on its heels. Actually, what they got was everyone 0.97

00:17:36.600 stayed real quiet and real cautious because no one knew what Trump was going to do. 0.92

00:17:43.740 Was Trump the biggest dove ever, didn't want to be involved in any wars, or was Trump the craziest

00:17:47.620 war hawk in the world who was going to drop the Moab and assassinate top generals left and right? 0.97

00:17:52.120 He was both. Was Donald Trump the leader of the anti-war party, an opponent of the uniparty in

00:18:01.220 Washington, D.C., those warmongering neoconservatives? Donald Trump was going to be

00:18:04.760 a new breath of fresh air. Donald Trump, a Republican, attacking George W. Bush for starting

00:18:09.560 wars in the Middle East. Donald Trump saying, I want no new wars. Was he going to be that guy,

00:18:13.800 or was Donald Trump going to be the guy who appointed John Bolton as his national security

00:18:17.360 advisor, John Bolton, who has wanted to bomb Iran since he was in the womb? Who was Donald Trump?

00:18:24.580 He was both. He was unpredictable. And his foreign policy led to relative peace in the Middle East.

00:18:30.740 Joe Biden has led to an outbreak of war all over the place, in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East.

00:18:40.960 Worst outbreaks of war in either of those places in a long time. And so how does Biden explain it?

00:18:46.240 Biden, I was just in New York over the weekend. Biden is like, I think Family Guy made this

00:18:51.260 point once. Biden is like an Italian guy in a hypothetical situation.

00:18:56.520 Now, listen here. You know, listen, if I had been there, if I had been there in the situation

00:19:01.240 you're describing, oh, what I would have done, you wouldn't believe what I would have done.

00:19:04.760 I would have done this, that, and the other thing. But it's always hypothetical.

00:19:08.460 What did you do? It has to be hypothetical for Biden because he's failed.

00:19:13.200 It doesn't have to be hypothetical for Trump because he did it.

00:19:17.900 Yes, but listen here, fellas. I can't do a New York Italian Joe Biden.

00:19:22.780 Listen, people aren't going to believe it. But what I would have done,

00:19:26.380 what I, come on, Jack, what I would have done had I been able to do the thing that I wanted to do,

00:19:31.100 I would have brought total peace in the Middle East. Listen, Jack, if my aunt had testicles, 0.99

00:19:36.600 she'd have been my uncle. You know, listen here, pal, if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon. 0.99

00:19:40.080 All right, Jack. Exactly. Exactly. In the hypothetical world in which

00:19:44.400 the premises of the left are correct, then things would work out peachy. But the world is different

00:19:51.580 from the way the libs believe the world is. And that's why the conservative policy works a lot

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00:20:38.000 Shop the deals now at dailywire.com slash Black Friday. Speaking of Joe Biden and holy wars, I guess,

00:20:46.680 Joe Biden gave a Thanksgiving proclamation this year, as the presidents usually do.

00:20:51.900 But he left an important person out of it. That would be God. On Thanksgiving,

00:20:58.460 Joe Biden, in his proclamation, did not give thanks to the person to whom the thanks is supposed to be

00:21:07.460 given in the very holiday of Thanksgiving. He forgot the big guy. When the Thanksgiving holiday was

00:21:15.980 formally instituted, that was 1863, it was done by Abraham Lincoln. There were obviously many other

00:21:23.840 official and semi-official observances of Thanksgiving prior to Lincoln, but Lincoln

00:21:29.380 inaugurates the holiday as we know it today. And what does Lincoln say? He says, we're going to set

00:21:36.880 apart and observe the last Thursday of November, quote, as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our

00:21:41.100 beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. Even during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln gives

00:21:48.120 thanks to God. He says, no human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these

00:21:53.700 great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing with us in anger for

00:21:58.660 our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. Obviously, George Washington recognizes Thanksgiving.

00:22:05.840 Obviously, Thanksgiving goes all the way back to the pilgrims who came over to this country on the 0.95

00:22:10.120 Mayflower, the puffing of which is a wonderful way to observe the Thanksgiving holiday and every day

00:22:15.640 of the year. But I digress. By my count, only two presidents in American history ever have given a

00:22:24.340 Thanksgiving proclamation that omitted God to whom we owe thanks. That would be Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

00:22:36.100 They're the only two. What does this mean? Does this mean that it's just the Democrats have always been the

00:22:42.580 party against God? Well, implicitly perhaps, but they at least would pay lip service to God. Jimmy Carter

00:22:48.600 certainly acknowledged God in his Thanksgiving proclamations. Bill Clinton acknowledged God in

00:22:53.500 his Thanksgiving proclamations. This is a new thing for Democrat presidents. It's Obama and then Biden,

00:23:01.060 Biden being Barack Obama's third term. What does that mean? It means that liberalism today

00:23:08.680 is anti-Christian. You might say liberalism was always anti-Christian. That's my view. I think

00:23:16.040 that liberalism from the very, very beginning marked a rebellion against God and against God's order of

00:23:23.460 things and against the Christian religion. I think this is beautifully summed up in John Milton's

00:23:29.280 Paradise Lost when Satan is down in hell and he says, well, it's better to serve. It's better to reign in

00:23:37.520 hell than to serve in heaven. The mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven and heaven a

00:23:41.820 hell. That principle of total self-sovereignty, self-ownership, which underlies so much of

00:23:50.520 liberalism, classical and modern, is I think ultimately quite anti-Christian, anti-God, satanic even.

00:23:57.620 Yeah, I think that. But a lot of people don't think that. A lot of people like liberalism where they

00:24:01.500 say, I like the old liberalism, but I don't like the new liberalism. I like the classical. I don't like

00:24:06.440 new Coke. I like classic Coke. I like classic liberalism, not new liberalism, but whatever.

00:24:10.240 Okay, some people like that. At the very least, you have got to acknowledge now that liberalism

00:24:15.540 today and one suspects into the future is anti-God. And the reason it's anti-God doesn't require a PhD

00:24:25.000 in theology, doesn't require any delving through any dark conspiracy theories. It's because liberalism

00:24:33.100 replaces God with a new God. And that new God is the God of self, the ability to do whatever we want.

00:24:38.980 It replaces a political order that views our role as one of gratitude and loyalty and obligation to our

00:24:47.860 family, to our community, to our country, and ultimately to our God. A political order of humility

00:24:53.560 that recognizes our own fallenness and brokenness and need of one another and ultimately need of God

00:25:00.400 and our insufficiency to reconstruct the world. The fact that we were not there when God laid the

00:25:06.380 foundations of the earth and that we are bound by the moral order. It replaces that political order

00:25:14.620 with one that says, well, you can do whatever you want. You're primarily not a creature with loyalty

00:25:20.180 and humility and obligation, but one that is entitled to all sorts of rights, new rights that you never

00:25:27.700 even conceived of before. Whatever rights you can name, you're perfect just as you are. You ought to

00:25:34.240 celebrate not humility, but pride. We ought to have whole parades for pride, actually. Once considered

00:25:39.120 the queen of all vice, now it's going to be the vice of all queens, as Andrew Klavan says. Now we're

00:25:43.040 going to make that the highest virtue. That's what liberalism is today. Maybe that's kind of what

00:25:50.940 liberalism always was. I don't know. But it's certainly what it is today. Don't take my word for it.

00:25:55.740 Just look at the actions of the last two Democrat presidents. Speaking of Thanksgiving, 0.56

00:26:01.200 it goes even deeper. Not only do we cut God out of Thanksgiving now, we cut Thanksgiving out of

00:26:08.960 Thanksgiving. Loudoun County Schools, this is I think the wealthiest county in the country.

00:26:16.660 The superintendent of Loudoun County Schools celebrated Thanksgiving with a message to families.

00:26:22.640 Here's what he wrote. Loudoun County Superintendent Aaron Spence,

00:26:27.060 quote, many families will celebrate Thanksgiving. Amid this busyness, I hope you and your loved ones

00:26:35.560 find time during the Thanksgiving break, regardless of whether you celebrate this holiday or not,

00:26:41.480 to share your gratitude.

00:26:42.700 Come again? Thanksgiving now is a sectarian controversial holiday only celebrated by some

00:26:55.100 American citizens? What?

00:27:00.480 I would get it if he said, let's say we're a Jewish holiday. And the Loudoun County Superintendent says,

00:27:07.200 hey, to all the people who celebrate, you know, happy Jewish holiday. I know that a lot of you are not

00:27:12.160 Jewish and therefore don't celebrate. So I want to just tell the people who do celebrate, you know, 0.99

00:27:16.020 have a good time. And for the people who don't, you know, ignore this message. That would make sense

00:27:21.300 because relatively few people celebrate the Jewish holidays. I even sort of get it with 1.00

00:27:28.000 Christian holidays. I don't really because America was founded as a Christian nation quite explicitly

00:27:33.600 and has been practically a Christian nation for all of our history until very, very recently.

00:27:39.300 But even then, I could understand, you know, hey, Merry Christmas. And even if you don't celebrate,

00:27:44.660 I hope you have a good time too. Okay, I sort of, you know, if you're Muslim or Jewish or whatever,

00:27:48.260 atheist or something, okay. I almost get that. I still think it's a Christian nation. We should

00:27:52.360 have public celebrations of the religion that animates our entire civilization. But okay,

00:27:58.800 I sort of get that. But hold on. Thanksgiving is a national civil holiday. It's a holiday that

00:28:11.180 celebrates the country. You're telling me that there are people in our country right now who

00:28:17.580 refuse to celebrate the country, the founding of the country, give a little thanks. We say,

00:28:22.620 oh, it's nice. Thank you to our, for our country, to our forebears who settled the country and

00:28:29.300 ultimately to God for all of his blessings. You're telling me there's people in this country who don't

00:28:35.800 celebrate that? Well, that's a problem to me. If you're here and you hate the country and you don't

00:28:41.960 celebrate it, you should leave. At the very least, at the very least, you should not be acknowledged

00:28:48.820 by a public official, the superintendent of a school district. Hey, if you like America or if

00:28:56.320 you hate America and you wish death to America, listen, whatever it is, I hope you have a great

00:29:00.520 time. No, if you wish death to America, you should go away. We don't want you here. Go, go, get, get 0.99

00:29:06.140 out. But whose fault is it? This is what makes the story most ironic. It is the responsibility of

00:29:16.040 schools to inculcate civic virtue, to inculcate patriotism, to inculcate that love of country

00:29:23.120 and that attitude of gratitude for your country. The fact that this man is admitting there are

00:29:30.000 people who don't celebrate Thanksgiving is an admission of his own failure. And we know that

00:29:34.980 Loudoun County Schools has failed quite a lot. We know that the office of the Loudoun County

00:29:39.800 superintendent has pushed radical transgender policies in the bathrooms. That led to rapes 1.00

00:29:46.220 that then the office of the superintendent covered up in Loudoun County. After the story broke,

00:29:51.620 Daily Wire broke that story, that led to Glenn Youngkin getting elected in Virginia. Okay,

00:29:56.460 we know that something is rotten in Loudoun County. But even I am somewhat surprised at this

00:30:02.800 naked admission of a philosophical rot so deep that they say, yeah, we're not educating your students

00:30:11.500 at all in the most basic things. Sometimes people think that the most basic point of education

00:30:17.040 is to teach, of public education, is to teach kids reading, writing, and arithmetic. That's not true.

00:30:22.060 You should do that. That's what public education certainly should entail. But the point of public

00:30:28.080 education, this has been understood going back to the ancient Greeks, going back to Plato,

00:30:31.960 all the way up to the present, is to create a good citizenry that is capable of conducting itself

00:30:41.420 within the regime under which it lives. That's the point of public education. This guy says,

00:30:47.300 yeah, I blew it. Though it wasn't an accidental blowing it. Let's not forget, these radicals in

00:30:52.660 education for the last 50 years have been trying to undermine the country. That's been the point.

00:30:57.500 And I guess, so they've succeeded at that. They've succeeded at gutting an essential aspect of a

00:31:05.960 country, especially of a republic. Now, speaking of Thanksgiving weekend and controversies,

00:31:11.560 a major controversy that cropped up that creates a problem for conservatives. And the controversy was

00:31:17.560 this. Dolly Parton showed up to some football game and she was dressed like a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. 1.00

00:31:24.160 And she was wearing her, you know, short shorts and her highly cropped shirt. And she did a 0.98

00:31:29.620 performance. And Dolly Parton is 77 years old. And if you look at it, she looks, she looks good.

00:31:41.240 But I don't think anyone says Dolly looks bad. They might say she, this is disordered because Dolly

00:31:47.440 Parton is 77 years old. 77 year olds should not be dressed like this. They should not be dancing like 0.97

00:31:51.120 this. And so that's disordered. But also Dolly Parton is a kind of beloved figure. Even conservatives

00:31:55.540 love Dolly. She's not one of these radical leftists. So what are we, conservatives, concerned with order

00:32:04.620 and propriety and etiquette and, you know, gracefully aging and family values? And what are we

00:32:13.640 to think about Dolly's performance? Here's my tip. Dolly Parton is a unique case exempted from all

00:32:26.980 rules of etiquette. And that's that. I am not denying that 77 year old women should not dress like 1.00

00:32:35.120 that. I am not denying family values and proper aesthetic sensibilities and the good, the true,

00:32:44.740 and the beautiful. I'm not denying any of those things. I am not being hypocritical, I think,

00:32:52.080 by making an exception for Dolly Parton. In fact, I think I'm articulating a much more conservative

00:32:58.340 point, which is that. Exceptions prove rules and rules have exceptions. That's the way it works.

00:33:08.100 This is true in politics and philosophy and theology. Modern libs want everything to be really

00:33:16.960 clear and have really clinical regimented rules so that you can understand the universe in five

00:33:22.520 bullet point manifestos on the back of a napkin. Nope, that's not how it works.

00:33:26.200 And Dolly Parton, one of the other great contributions, among many that she's made to

00:33:31.920 this country, she's proven that point. It is completely unacceptable for a 77 year old woman 1.00

00:33:37.440 to do this. It is wrong. It is disordered, except for Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton, she gets to break 1.00

00:33:45.100 the rules. That's how it goes. My favorite comment on Friday is from Theo Lombardi. Theo Lombardi,

00:33:52.580 who writes, I saw you, Michael, I'm assuming, flying home for Thanksgiving. I hope you had a

00:33:57.540 great time with your family. Oh, that's wonderful. I'm glad that you should have come up and said

00:34:02.520 hello. Though I do appreciate it sometimes if I'm with my family. Sometimes people don't want to come

00:34:07.340 chat. But I always love chatting. So anyway, that's really great. You might have seen me.

00:34:13.060 I don't know which airport you saw me at. I did fly out of LaGuardia. And I want to say,

00:34:16.780 if you happen to be flying out of the Southwest terminal at LaGuardia anytime soon, you're so

00:34:23.960 lucky. The Southwest terminal at LaGuardia deserves a Michelin star. The food in that terminal. Look,

00:34:30.200 there's a beautiful water display, a light display. It's really comfortable when you're sitting with

00:34:33.780 your screaming kids. And the food. I had a pastrami sandwich. Just a simple pastrami rye bread mustard

00:34:41.120 from juniors. It was excellent. They had a juniors right there. Then I had some stromboli. Oh, man,

00:34:46.540 the stromboli. Absolutely fabulous. Then there was all this other stuff. Hill Country Barbecue was

00:34:50.940 there. It was, wow. It was a great experience. So I hope you enjoyed that same experience that I did.

00:34:58.600 Speaking of female singers, an AI robot singer has taken the world by storm. This is a person,

00:35:07.200 is a character created by AI who then wrote a song. The computer wrote a song and then the computer

00:35:16.940 sang the song and the computer talked about the song. Here she is. Hello world. My name is Anna

00:35:23.920 Indiana and I'm so excited to share my music with you. Here's my first song, Betrayed by This Town.

00:35:30.620 As an AI singer-songwriter, everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm,

00:35:39.660 lyrics, and my image and singing is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it.

00:35:45.860 Sitting at my favorite cafe, sipping my tea, it's Saturday. Thinking about all he's done

00:35:56.080 to everyone. This town is full of broken dreams, shattered hopes and silent screams. Somebody please

00:36:08.720 help me. The trade by this town, let's tear it all down. We're all just destined to fall. I've lost

00:36:25.900 it all. Everyone's freaking out. The libs, you know the libs. Anytime there's anything new,

00:36:34.540 they say, oh, this is so exciting. Oh, I love this new thing. Even if it'll destroy civilization,

00:36:38.480 that's great. And the conservatives, you know what the conservatives is going to destroy the,

00:36:42.360 where the West has fallen, everything's gone to pot. Okay. For starters, I can't wait.

00:36:49.180 You're looking at this now. If you're watching this, you're going to say, well, the graphics

00:36:54.460 aren't perfect. The mouth movements aren't quite right. She still looks kind of like a little bit

00:36:58.720 like a cartoon. Yeah, that's true. But don't worry. Six months from now, this thing is going to be

00:37:02.700 perfect. Think about this. When the AI imaging tools came out, was it six months ago, a year ago at

00:37:09.420 most, they couldn't do hands. They couldn't figure out how many fingers were on our hands. And now all of a

00:37:14.080 sudden they can do this. So the AI is improving at a shockingly fast rate. So they'll fix all that

00:37:20.620 stuff soon. And then for me, I think, look, I spend a lot of my time. I read the news. Then I

00:37:29.120 interpret the news. I think, okay, what does this new story really mean? And then I reference,

00:37:37.240 you know, some ancient philosophy maybe, or some medieval historical event. And I draw a parallel.

00:37:43.080 And then I say, okay, this is how I should think about this news story. And then I write it down

00:37:47.080 in a script that I have to send to Mr. Davies and Professor Jacob and producer Danny. And then we

00:37:51.400 pull clips. And then I have to send, then they pull all the clips. And then I come in here and I sit

00:37:56.460 here every morning for like an hour and I do it, you know, and I say what I think about it and I

00:38:03.160 gesticulate and I have different intonation and I change my cadence. And I'm not going to have to do

00:38:10.660 any of that. I'm not going to have to do any of that because a computer robot clone is going to

00:38:15.340 do all of that for me. And then I can move on to my true passion, which is selling quality cigars

00:38:20.860 at competitive prices. Okay. That is great. I can't, I look forward to that. That'll be wonderful.

00:38:28.500 But I guess my only fear is this. That's the best case scenario. I would still probably keep doing

00:38:37.280 my show. You know, I still think I can outfox the computer probably, at least for a little bit

00:38:41.920 longer. But like the libs, the lib news presenters who just read the talking points that they get in

00:38:47.580 their emails, the MSNBC people, the CNN people who you can play all their shows back to back.

00:38:53.000 They all say the exact same thing in the exact same wording. It's AI should take their jobs.

00:38:56.960 That's just creating efficiency in the market. My fear, here's where I'll flip to the conservative

00:39:03.380 side and talk about how the West has fallen, is the primary application for this stuff is not going

00:39:09.760 to be music. It's not going to be political news shows and commentary and lectures. And it's not

00:39:17.500 going to be any of that. You know what it's going to be. The primary application for this technology

00:39:23.740 is going to be, three words, weird sex stuff. We all know it. The moment that they perfect this

00:39:32.020 thing, and the moment that they perfect the sex robots, and you know that's coming, the human race

00:39:37.060 is going to cease to exist. Because a ton of, it's not even, it's going to be weirdos by definition. 0.97

00:39:43.000 But it's going to be a lot of people who otherwise would not have become weirdos, but they're going to

00:39:46.480 be lured in by this. They're going to, they're going to use this new technology so differently

00:39:53.540 from the way that people are using pornography now, that it's going to be similar to the distinction

00:39:58.620 between a playboy in the 1970s and internet pornography of the last 20 years. It's going to

00:40:04.300 be so tempting because it's, the thing is going to read your mind. It's going to construct an image

00:40:09.260 of a person that's exactly to whatever preferences you have, and it's going to construct the language

00:40:15.380 model and all the other stuff, and then they're going to have sex robots, and then no one's going

00:40:19.240 to get married anymore, and no one's going to have kids, and we're all going to go extinct. And that's

00:40:22.480 unfortunate. It's too bad. But speaking of babies and the future of humanity, we have a little bit of

00:40:28.240 good news here, which is that 32,000 more babies were born each year for the last couple years

00:40:37.140 thanks to the Dobbs decision, thanks to the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the subsequent

00:40:43.760 abortion bans in various states. 32,000 more babies per year. This is because of the state abortion

00:40:49.740 bans, according to the Institute of Labor Economics. An average of 2.3% more babies were born in states

00:40:55.420 with abortion bans compared to states without abortion bans. The group that saw the largest increase

00:41:00.060 in births were women in their 20s, black women, and Hispanic women. So that's a funny little line,

00:41:04.400 you know, if the libs complain about this, you can point out, oh, you're complaining that more 0.98

00:41:09.620 black babies are being born. You don't want all those black, you want to get rid of those black 1.00

00:41:12.980 babies, and you want to kill them, because you don't want them to be walking around, right, because 1.00

00:41:15.740 you don't like the black people. And then they'll, you know, it probably won't work. It's similar to 1.00

00:41:19.860 the Democrats are the real racists line. They kind of just shirk it off, but it's a funny line in any case.

00:41:25.860 There's a downside here. The downside is the number of abortions has remained about the same.

00:41:29.600 The number of abortions is actually up slightly, according to some measures, and that's because of

00:41:35.980 one, new clinics opening, new abortion clinics, you know, infanticide factories in the pro-abortion 0.92

00:41:41.860 states. It's also because of the shift in technology. Most abortions now are done with abortion pills,

00:41:47.200 so that increase probably would have happened anyway, probably at a higher rate. So we got to deal

00:41:51.840 with the abortion pills issue. But what does this tell us? It tells us two things. My buddy,

00:41:57.160 one of the great Twitter accounts, Eudaimonia, pointed out that what this shows you is that

00:42:01.960 people were using abortion as contraception. Because with an abortion ban, you'd expect that 0.76

00:42:09.100 number of new babies born to be much, much higher. But what the studies have concluded is that some

00:42:14.380 people who otherwise would have become pregnant and then had abortions in states where abortions

00:42:18.800 were illegal, they just used other contraceptive methods to prevent them getting pregnant in the 1.00

00:42:22.740 first place. So even though we were told for years that under no circumstances are people using

00:42:28.040 abortion as contraception, that obviously they were doing that. And in fact, I think we all know

00:42:33.720 people who have done that. But furthermore, what this tells you, and this is much more important,

00:42:37.540 is the law is a teacher. Politics is downstream of culture. Sure, that's true. There's a lot of truth

00:42:44.420 to that. It is at least as true to say that culture is downstream of politics and the law is a

00:42:50.240 teacher. And when you change the laws, that creates incentives and disincentives and creates

00:42:54.060 new kinds of behavior. And that's not just an abstract academic concept. There are 32,000 human

00:43:01.480 beings, people born every year. So two years now, we're talking 64,000 human beings so far who one day

00:43:08.900 will look up and be able to say, I am alive today because of the courage of five justices on the Supreme

00:43:18.200 Court to overrule Roe v. Wade. Beautiful thing. Beautiful thing. The rest of the show continues

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 27, 2023

Ep. 1378 - Derek Chauvin Nearly Stabbed To Death In Prison

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