The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1381 - Elon Musk Says ＂Go F＊＊＊ Yourself＂ To Corporate Cowards

00:00:00.000 As the left continues its organized assault on Elon Musk and X,

00:00:05.120 the owner of the only non-leftist social media platform has a three-word message for those who

00:00:10.480 would censor him. There's a public perception that that was part of a apology tour, if you will,

00:00:16.700 that this had been said online. There was all of the criticism. There was advertisers

00:00:21.040 leaving. We talked to Bob Iger today. I hope they stop.

00:00:24.280 You hope? Don't advertise.

00:00:26.620 You don't want them to advertise? No.

00:00:28.020 What do you mean?

00:00:31.480 If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money,

00:00:35.980 go yourself.

00:00:40.400 But go yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob, if you're in the audience.

00:00:51.540 Well, let me ask you then.

00:00:54.520 That's how I feel. Don't advertise.

00:00:58.020 In case there's any confusion, the guy has no idea what to say. And Elon is absolutely right.

00:01:03.980 If the richest man in the world is not allowed to speak his mind, if the richest man in the world

00:01:09.540 is not even allowed to let other people speak the truth as we see it, then why even go on pretending

00:01:17.440 that we live in anything resembling a free country anymore?

00:01:20.760 Welcome back to the show. This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. Head on over to

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00:01:50.840 of 10% off today on top of their December sale. Greta, Greta Thunberg has switched her activism away from 0.98

00:02:01.340 defending the sun monster and saving the earth toward crushing Zionism, in her words. We will get to that 1.00

00:02:09.580 in just one moment. First, though, I don't want to move off Twitter too quickly because while Elon Musk

00:02:15.000 is resisting the private sector attempts to censor him through advertising boycotts to get him to fall

00:02:22.480 in line and stop speaking his mind, at the same time, Elon is fighting public sector attempts to

00:02:28.960 intimidate his users as well, all for the same purpose. And that is coming from Jack Smith. Jack Smith is

00:02:34.280 this lawyer who is special counsel investigating Donald Trump for, I don't know, putting too much

00:02:39.420 ketchup on his hamburger or something, whatever the latest DOJ attempt to put Donald Trump in prison

00:02:44.480 is. And as part of that investigation, Jack Smith is demanding information on every single Twitter user

00:02:53.480 who has ever in any way interacted with Donald Trump's Twitter account, which is to say every Twitter

00:03:03.560 user. Is there, is there any account on Twitter that has not interacted with Trump on Twitter at some

00:03:11.180 point? I'm not just talking about a private message. I'm not even just talking about a public

00:03:16.020 message. I'm talking about anyone who's ever liked, retweeted, in any way interacted with his account.

00:03:23.580 We're talking about millions and millions of accounts. We know this now because we've seen the heavily

00:03:29.300 redacted search warrant, and that heavily redacted search warrant includes all associated accounts,

00:03:35.920 the names of those accounts, as well as logs and metadata pertaining to those accounts.

00:03:42.700 This is maybe the most expansive information grab from the DOJ ever. And what is the purpose of this?

00:03:53.020 It's clear enough to me that the purpose of this request is, one, to figure out who the political enemies

00:03:58.900 are, who the enemies of Joe Biden are. But two, it's to intimidate Americans. The very fact that the DOJ is

00:04:06.700 making this request is going to intimidate people. It's going to tell people, goodness, I better stop

00:04:12.060 interacting with these Republican accounts. I better stop amplifying them. I better stop responding to them.

00:04:16.500 I better stop quote-tweeting them. I better censor myself. And this is one of the great tools of

00:04:23.380 left-wing censorship. I talked to a couple guys yesterday who were swinging by the office,

00:04:28.600 and I was speaking in a politically incorrect way. And I said something. I felt totally anodyne.

00:04:35.020 But the guy said, hey, you can't say that. I said, what do you mean I can't say that? They said,

00:04:38.560 well, what you said is very offensive. I said, I don't think it is. They said, oh, no, it is.

00:04:44.160 You're not allowed to say that anyway. I said, oh, well, did I offend you? They said, well, no,

00:04:48.340 you didn't offend me. I said, can you point to anyone that I did offend, any real person? They

00:04:53.100 said, no. I said, so what's the big deal? They said, well, no, in theory, there's a hypothetical

00:04:57.380 person. And so you got to refrain from saying that. And this is how the left works. Yes, there is the

00:05:05.100 overt censorship. Yes, YouTube will take down an episode if you say something that's too politically

00:05:11.260 incorrect if you contradict the woke agenda. Yes, it's true that Facebook will pull advertising or

00:05:17.780 something if you contradict the woke agenda. But that's only a minor part of the censorship plan.

00:05:23.480 The bigger part is when they intimidate you and harass you and make your life much more difficult

00:05:29.720 when you contradict them so that you censor yourself. You don't refer to a man who identifies

00:05:37.380 as a woman as he. Maybe you don't use any pronouns at all. You just don't want to talk about it.

00:05:43.240 Maybe you don't raise questions about the efficacy of the COVID vaccine, the Fauci ouchie. Maybe you

00:05:48.820 don't raise questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 election because you just don't want to hear

00:05:54.480 it. And you don't want to come under the magnifying glass of the DOJ, which now is not so much

00:06:01.840 investigating with a magnifying glass as with a gigantic fishing net to take all of those data in

00:06:07.680 and look at all of us. This is not just happening in America. In Ireland, it's even sadder. So this is

00:06:15.740 being reported by the BBC right now. There was a little bit of graffiti written on a wall in Ireland.

00:06:21.840 It says Irish lives matter. Now, I don't like graffiti. I like that statement, though. I think

00:06:30.520 Irish lives do matter. And according to the BBC, this is anti-immigration signage. Here's how the BBC

00:06:39.020 is reporting it. Graffiti reading Irish lives matter was daubed on the wall of the Kennedy Center

00:06:45.220 on the Falls Road overnight. People Before Prophets' Jerry Carroll said there was, quote,

00:06:49.980 no place in our society for this kind of racist poison. Racist poison to say that the people of

00:06:58.000 your country matter in any way. Racist poison. Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey described the signs as

00:07:07.480 disgraceful, adding that they had been erected in an attempt to create fear and intimidate people.

00:07:15.860 Disgraceful to say that the people of your own country matter in any way.

00:07:19.980 It's to intimidate people. Yeah. No. You know what's to intimidate people?

00:07:23.820 That news report. That's to intimidate the Irish from in any way standing up for themselves

00:07:28.420 and their culture and their history and their own interests and their own self-government.

00:07:33.060 If it is a hate crime to write a little bit of graffiti that says the people of our country matter,

00:07:40.960 then what that means is your country is no longer governed by or for the people of your country.

00:07:47.740 Ireland is no longer governed by or for the Irish. The Irish have had a difficult history.

00:07:56.720 The Irish have not always had the best political luck. John Lennon had a song which was,

00:08:00.620 if you had the luck of the Irish, you'd be sorry and wish you was dead. If you had the luck of the 1.00

00:08:04.500 Irish, you'd wish you were English instead. Well, it looks like their political situation has not

00:08:09.900 improved at all. Now, of course, some of the MPs, some of these politicians look Irish. They've got 0.99

00:08:17.280 Irish names. They've got lilting Irish accents, but they're not really Irish. They're not governing

00:08:25.040 in the interests of Ireland. They're governing in the interests of some far distant imperial capital.

00:08:30.280 They're governing in the interests of Brussels, for instance.

00:08:32.800 They're governing as satraps for some imperial power, a liberal imperial power that does not

00:08:41.440 have the interests of the nation first. This is why you're seeing a surge of nationalism,

00:08:45.600 perhaps not in Ireland, certainly not among the political class. I guess among the people,

00:08:49.200 you see a little bit. That's why they're spraying the graffiti. But it's why you're seeing a surge of

00:08:52.820 nationalism in Britain through the Brexit, in Italy through the Maloney election, in Sweden,

00:08:58.380 in the Netherlands, in the United States, all over the place. Why? Because we are being told

00:09:07.300 all over the West that our nations are not only unimportant, but evil, wrong. To have any care

00:09:15.380 for your own country and its history and its people is disgraceful and totally unacceptable.

00:09:23.300 And people don't want to hear that. So you're now seeing an opposition, not so much between the

00:09:28.260 left and the right, as between the people and the political ruling class, which is raising a much

00:09:34.280 deeper governing problem than the usual battles between left and right, because it's raising a

00:09:39.460 crisis of regime. It's causing people to ask, hey, do we actually govern ourselves? Does our government

00:09:46.660 in any way have the interests of our country first? Does our government have the interests of our country

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00:11:08.160 preborn.com slash Knowles. Speaking of the British Isles, Meghan Markle. You know Meghan Markle. She was the

00:11:16.880 Duchess of Sussex. Princess Meghan, sort of. She married Prince Harry. I've long had a conspiracy

00:11:22.860 theory that Meghan Markle is a biological weapon constructed in America to get back at the British

00:11:28.760 Crown for the War of 1812. We built her here. We assembled her perfectly to just go over to England

00:11:35.880 and completely destroy the royal family and the monarchy. She's doing a pretty good job at it. 1.00

00:11:40.940 Well, Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, they've come over here to America. It's a little bit

00:11:46.260 like a boomerang, unfortunately. The weapon has come back on us. And reportedly, Meghan Markle has

00:11:52.020 said she never wants to set foot in England again, which is a little awkward because her father-in-law

00:11:56.380 is the king of England. The only reason I care about this story is not because, I do sort of like the

00:12:03.340 royals. I'm a little bit anglophilic, but they can sort out their own politics. The reason that I care

00:12:08.840 about this story is what it tells you about marriage. The state of modern marriage, not just among

00:12:15.240 aristocrats and nobility and royalty overseas, but among everyone right here. Which is, did she not

00:12:21.800 think of this issue before she married the prince? Did she not consider whether or not she wanted to

00:12:28.820 ever step foot in England before she married the second most notable prince of England?

00:12:35.240 You would think that's the sort of thing you would consider. Did she not recognize that when she

00:12:40.240 married a member of the royal family, a senior member of the royal family, that she might have

00:12:45.620 some duties and responsibilities that go along with that? And then the moment that she encountered

00:12:51.120 those responsibilities, she said, oh no, I want to go play pretend. I don't want to actually be a

00:12:54.500 princess. I just want to go play a princess in Disney movies. I don't want to be the real thing.

00:12:58.420 I just want to play pretend and then go off to my Malibu mansion, Montecito mansion, and I don't know,

00:13:04.240 sip Shabli and not have any responsibilities. You don't have to agree on everything before you head

00:13:13.820 into a marriage with somebody, but you do have to agree on what a marriage is. I get asked for marriage

00:13:20.040 advice all the time from young people because marriage is unusual these days, because people

00:13:26.500 are delaying getting married, because our stupid culture tells people don't get married. Put your

00:13:30.200 career first. Put yourself first. Don't think about another person. Don't have children. For goodness

00:13:34.500 sakes, children are a sexually transmitted disease. You need to use contraception. You need to have 1.00

00:13:39.060 abortions. You need to put that off and freeze your eggs and maybe have a kid when you're 50. 1.00

00:13:43.060 And this is not conducive to people's happiness. And so there's a crisis of marriage, a crisis of

00:13:48.300 marriage because the Supreme Court redefined what marriage is in an absurd way. So we can't even answer

00:13:53.560 that question. But that is the fundamental question of political society. What are we all doing

00:14:00.360 together? What are we aiming at? What do we think is good? What are we pursuing here together?

00:14:05.080 And at what level? There's the national level of government. There's the state level of government.

00:14:10.660 There's the community level of government. And then there's the basic political unit,

00:14:13.960 which is the family, which is a marriage. And when you get married, I don't think you need to have

00:14:19.840 some clinical job interview kind of procedure. I don't think you need to sit across from your

00:14:24.440 prospective wife and have a 10 bullet point checklist and say, okay, well, you check off 1.00

00:14:30.780 seven of the 10. So I guess that's a passing grade. You can only get a C, but okay, close enough. Maybe

00:14:36.500 we'll get married. No, that's not the most romantic thing I ever heard. You don't need to agree on every

00:14:42.300 single thing, at least not when you first get married. Because by the way, over the course of

00:14:45.540 marriage, you will grow together or you can grow apart. But if you have a real proper functioning

00:14:52.480 marriage and you're spending time together and you're deferring to one another in their respective

00:14:56.220 realms and you throw feminism at the window, then you're going to grow together, most likely. 1.00

00:15:01.980 That's the question you have to answer. Not what are we going to have for dinner? Not whose house are

00:15:06.180 we going to go to for Christmas? Not even what school are we going to send the kids to? You have to

00:15:10.920 ask what is marriage? That should be the next Daily Wire documentary. We had the smash hit,

00:15:15.300 what is a woman? Now we need something just as basic, which is what is marriage? 1.00

00:15:21.500 And today, most people don't know. For Meghan Markle, marriage means live out a fantasy from a 0.69

00:15:28.980 Disney movie. Have a little arm candy prince to accompany your handbag and your high heels. 1.00

00:15:38.180 Prince Harry probably had a different understanding of marriage. The more traditional people have a

00:15:44.020 different understanding of marriage than that. And it creates a big, big problem if you guys don't

00:15:48.480 agree on that when you are going in. Now, speaking of foreigners, there's an unusual, unexpected story

00:15:53.760 out of Argentina. The eccentric new president-elect of Argentina, Javier Millet, radical libertarian,

00:16:01.040 populist candidate who won unexpectedly, according to the experts in Argentina.

00:16:05.920 He's considering converting to Judaism. This is according to Bloomberg News.

00:16:15.580 Why is he converting to Judaism? I don't know for certain. It's unusual to convert to Judaism.

00:16:22.240 Judaism is not a proselytizing religion. In fact, it's very, very difficult. You have to go through an

00:16:27.800 extensive process and try multiple times. But here's one potential explanation. Millet, who has all sorts of

00:16:35.360 eccentric views on tantric sex and all kinds of unusual spiritual and even sexual topics. He said,

00:16:45.400 the truth is, I did not get to know the Rebbe personally, a major figure in Chabad, Lubavitcher

00:16:51.340 Judaism. But just in the last year, I had the privilege of visiting the Rebbe's grave twice.

00:16:57.520 There, I asked for his holy blessing to be elected president of Argentina. And this blessing became a

00:17:03.320 reality this week. So some are saying, well, he's just this kook mystic who thinks that because he

00:17:08.480 visited a grave and said, I want to be president of Argentina, and then he got it, he now credits the

00:17:12.660 Rebbe of Judaism with giving it to him. And so he's going to convert to Judaism out of gratitude for 0.95

00:17:19.480 that. I think there's a much simpler explanation here as to why Millet would be interested in converting

00:17:25.640 to Judaism. The answer is because he's a radical libertarian. And as such, Millet feels uncomfortable

00:17:35.840 with the religion in which he was raised, and that's Catholicism. There are plenty of libertarians

00:17:40.960 who are just fine in the Catholic Church. There's the Acton Institute. In fact, we've interviewed

00:17:48.200 Father Sirico who runs the Acton Institute on here. There are libertarians among the Catholics. But

00:17:54.240 Catholic social teaching does not totally accord with libertarianism. Libertarianism is a modern

00:18:02.440 movement. Liberalism is a modern movement. And Catholicism is not modern. Whatever you want to

00:18:08.780 call Catholicism, it ain't modern. Now, Judaism obviously is not modern either, but Judaism better 1.00

00:18:15.700 accommodates itself to some of those modern movements. I was talking to a friend of mine

00:18:18.680 one time. I said, why is there so much anti-Semitism? Why do people hate the Jews so much?

00:18:23.520 And he said, one theory I've got as to why people hate the Jews so much is that the Jews uniquely

00:18:28.980 have been able to thrive in modernity while still maintaining their culture and their traditions

00:18:34.700 and their heritage. And no other group has really been able to do that. It's usually one or the other.

00:18:40.920 Either you thrive in our modern material society and give up your whole culture,

00:18:45.700 become totally deracinated. Or you go off into the woods and you, you know, you become Amish or

00:18:52.220 something. But you get to maintain your culture, but you're not particularly financially successful.

00:18:58.580 And the Jews, perhaps uniquely, have been able to do both at the same time. 0.80

00:19:05.840 Catholic social teaching says that one can't just be a radical libertarian. One doesn't want to

00:19:12.840 eradicate the state. One doesn't want to just completely dismiss any kind of social welfare

00:19:16.840 program out of hand. And Millet hates that. He's accused the Pope of all sorts of terrible things

00:19:22.480 and the church of all sorts of terrible things. And I know a lot of people aren't thrilled with the

00:19:25.640 Pope. And he's said, certainly, he's made questionable declarations about politics. But I think this goes

00:19:32.140 to a deeper philosophical issue, which is, if one is a true, perfectly doctrinaire, radical libertarian,

00:19:41.400 then the traditional teachings of Christendom with regard to political economy don't quite work.

00:19:48.920 And it reveals that libertarianism, while there's much to recommend it on the right,

00:19:54.400 also is kind of a left-wing movement. It doesn't fit exactly on the left-right political spectrum.

00:20:03.700 Now, speaking of the Jews, Greta Thunberg wants to crush them. We'll get to that in one second. 1.00

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00:22:39.220 Greta wants to crush the Jews. Here is Greta Thunberg in Stockholm shaking up her usual climate 0.99

00:22:49.760 activism, doing a rain dance and screaming at the sun monster to do some other kind of dance

00:22:55.600 and scream at the Hebraic people. So I can't quite make a Swedish either, but apparently the chant 0.98

00:23:15.980 there is Krosasinoismen, which means Sionismen, which means crush Zionism. This was at a pro-Palestine 0.84

00:23:26.640 rally, which leads me back to one of the only points I've made as this war broke out, because

00:23:34.840 there are high passions about this war in the Middle East. Some people have a strong connection

00:23:41.800 to Israel. Some people have family members in Israel, for instance. Some people have spent a lot

00:23:45.400 of time there. Some people believe in the theological premises of Zionism. This includes Jews. This even

00:23:52.360 includes certain evangelical Christians. Some people on the flip side have strong affinities for the

00:23:59.940 Palestine liberation cause, mostly on the left, but a little bit on the right. And I'm not all that

00:24:07.540 interested in those nuances of the conflict. I want to protect innocent people. I want to avoid

00:24:11.620 World War III, but that's about where my interest ends in that there are a lot of conflicts all

00:24:16.380 around the world. I have an interest in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and

00:24:22.480 Azerbaijan. We have an interest in the Ukraine-Russia conflict also because we don't want to go into

00:24:26.760 World War III, but there are a lot of different conflicts. How does one make any sense of the

00:24:31.460 Israel-Palestine conflict, which has gone on for a long time in its present form for a hundred years

00:24:34.880 and in some form or other for centuries and millennia even? And the answer is, my little

00:24:42.560 rule of thumb is, if Greta Thunberg is on one side of an issue, I'm probably on the other side. Just 0.91

00:24:50.700 as a rule of thumb, okay? If Greta Thunberg hates something, then that's probably a pretty good 1.00

00:24:59.420 recommendation of it. One of the arguments I've heard from people trying to take a more pro-Palestine

00:25:09.100 side here is, not the Greta Thunbergs, not the Ilhan Omars, not the Rashida Tlaibs, but sane,

00:25:16.600 normal people, is they say, well, I just don't agree with the way in which the Israeli state was

00:25:21.760 established because the Israeli state, the modern Israeli state, was established as a consequence of

00:25:27.140 the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which is a way for the British Empire to curry favor and win some

00:25:34.080 support from Jews around the world and to support the political project of Zionism, which had predated

00:25:39.080 it by some decades. And then after World War II, because of the atrocities that happened to the

00:25:45.180 Jews as a result of Nazi Germany, then there was even more political impetus for the official

00:25:50.460 founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and it received a UN charter. But as a result of that,

00:25:54.880 it displaced a lot of people and it created a new entity on the map and no one had any right to do

00:25:58.600 that. And that's just a kind of imperialism. And I've heard all of the arguments. I totally agree.

00:26:02.820 I totally agree that it's a complicated issue. Sorry, I don't agree with all of the arguments

00:26:06.860 that people make, but I certainly agree it's a complicated issue. But what are you going to do now?

00:26:13.340 Even if you think that the establishment of the modern state of Israel was questionable,

00:26:17.960 it was established. What are you going to do? What on earth are you supposed to do? What is

00:26:23.220 Greta Thunberg's answer here? What is Rashida Tlaib's answer? What is Ilhan Omar's answer?

00:26:29.320 Seems to me pretty clear the answer is just wipe the place off the map and then things are not going

00:26:34.320 to work out very well for the present occupants. But they don't really have any answers. Just like

00:26:39.460 the Libs on other issues don't really have any answers. They just want to tear things down. 1.00

00:26:43.280 They just want to scream and yell. And even they apply this to America. They say we need to give

00:26:49.660 the Black Hills of South Dakota back to the Lakota Sioux. That's your answer. We're going to give away 1.00

00:26:56.480 an area of the United States that has four U.S. president's faces carved into it. Mount Rushmore.

00:27:03.660 We're going to give away an area of the United States that has a quarter million Americans living

00:27:06.340 on it. To who? To the Lakota Sioux. We've had the land longer than the Lakota Sioux have.

00:27:13.280 And by the way, the Lakota Sioux stole the land from the Cheyenne. Why don't we give it to the 1.00

00:27:16.320 Cheyenne? Who did the Cheyenne take it from? I discussed this topic in a speech a couple nights

00:27:20.880 ago at Vanderbilt, which you can get on the YAF YouTube channel. So I don't just want to own

00:27:25.260 the Libs here. I don't just want to have a nice pithy zinger. My question is, what are you supposed

00:27:29.300 to do? What's your answer? These people don't have any answer. They just whine and scream and pretend

00:27:35.100 to be so much more virtuous than the rest of us. Now, speaking of political polarization,

00:27:38.660 conversation, this story, man, this is our, this is the weird sex stuff segment of the day. And this

00:27:45.760 one, man, there's sex stuff. And then there's weird sex stuff. And then there is whatever the

00:27:55.880 Washington Post is writing about in this article. Washington Post publishing a leather mask of a

00:28:05.140 donkey with chains and spikes and stuff and a leather mask of an elephant. And it says,

00:28:11.240 in the world of sexual fetishes, crossing the political aisle is a kink. Does a forced vote 0.81

00:28:20.060 for the other side get your pulse racing? There is a dominatrix for that. And so I'm going to cut out

00:28:27.640 some of the more lurid details here where they talk about all sorts of sexual objects.

00:28:35.140 And fetishes. They say a fetish is an inanimate object, technically. Say stiletto shoes,

00:28:41.740 a body part, feet, for example, or situation required for sexual arousal. Though it's frequently

00:28:46.280 used interchangeably for the broader term kink, which includes pleasurable if unorthodox role

00:28:51.500 playing and you name it. And these are all sorts of fantasies. Well, put aside those somewhat more

00:28:58.700 common fetishes and fantasies. The new one, the big one, is a political sexual fetish.

00:29:08.940 Guys who want their sexual partners to make them vote for the opposite party.

00:29:16.920 Guys who are, and this is, I assumed this was a fake thing. No, the Washington Post details,

00:29:21.260 in lurid detail. All these different groups online and on various sex social media sites.

00:29:29.340 Thousands of people joining these groups to say, yeah, I'm a liberal, but I want a Republican

00:29:34.380 to just call me a dumb idiot leftist. So here's just one paragraph. This is one of the

00:29:41.340 more wholesome paragraphs in an otherwise truly degenerate article.

00:29:46.540 He said he came up with the idea for the group after he received messages from a handful of users

00:29:52.380 all asking for the same thing. Quote, I'm liberal leftist and proud, but I really want to be

00:29:58.380 dominated by a conservative. Nearly all of the group members merely want to text their fantasies

00:30:04.080 to him, not act them out. One man who wanted to meet up, but changed his mind, described his fantasy

00:30:09.860 as wearing a Trump dog collar sold on Trump's campaign website. So apparently that's actual Trump merch

00:30:15.620 and being walked by Wright makes mites, which is one of the users, I guess, around Walmart to pick

00:30:23.500 out a dog bone. So I'm going to leave it there. If you want to read the rest of the article, I got

00:30:29.160 to hand it to the Washington Post. This is the single most entertaining piece of journalism I have read

00:30:35.280 in a very long time. It's very, very funny. It's definitely revolting. But the reason that I mention it

00:30:43.040 on the show is because there clearly is a deeper significance to this. And the deeper significance

00:30:50.680 is a lot of what the author details as kink or fetish, right? Fetish, by the way, the basic meaning

00:30:59.900 of that word is an idol. So you could have a pagan tribe that has its fetishes, disconnected largely

00:31:09.000 or totally from sex, but it's just the idols that the people worship. And so it's applied to all these

00:31:14.200 kind of weird sex things. And so at that deeper level, what you're seeing is a kind of taboo.

00:31:22.240 What is a taboo? A taboo is a separating of something that is either extremely sacred or extremely profane

00:31:29.720 or just something you don't want to touch. It's something, it's something taboo. And in our culture

00:31:36.520 now, the taboos are not just some bizarre fringe desire you ever heard of. The taboos are political

00:31:45.540 disagreement. You're not allowed to do that anymore. That's naughty. It is naughty to disagree with Joe

00:31:51.060 Biden. It is naughty to have any independent political thought. It is naughty. It's shameful.

00:31:56.580 You got to whisper it in the back alleys and on weird sex sites if you in any way break from,

00:32:02.460 not even just the liberals, from your political tribe. It does appear to be mostly the liberals

00:32:06.800 here though, who are signing up for this stuff, who want the conservatives to smack them around or

00:32:10.520 something. That is the sign not only of an unhealthy psyche, that is the sign not only of an unhealthy

00:32:18.700 libido and sexual desire, that's the sign of an unhealthy society, of an unhealthy political order.

00:32:25.960 But of course, this is the case. If you're a conservative now, if you're a pro-lifer,

00:32:29.800 the FBI might come knocking on your door. If you're lucky, they'll knock. They might just kick

00:32:33.200 the door in. If you're a Catholic, the feds might be shown up to your mass to spy on your mass,

00:32:38.800 to try to infiltrate your church. If you're a totally peaceful protester on January 6th,

00:32:46.080 the worst day in the history of the world, you could have a US marshal show up to your house,

00:32:49.340 arrest you, throw you in solitary confinement for voicing your questions about an obviously

00:32:55.280 very dubious election. Which means that political discourse is taboo. And for some people, that's

00:33:05.820 sexy. For some people, it's terrifying. For these guys, it's probably both because they appear to get

00:33:12.420 a kick out of things that are terrifying or disgusting or revolting or, broadly speaking,

00:33:18.540 taboo. Yikes. When political disagreement is enough to titillate you and get your rocks off because it's

00:33:25.400 so naughty, then our culture is effectively no longer a free republic. Now, speaking of finding

00:33:33.960 significance in otherwise shallow things, there's going to be a course taught at Harvard by a transvestite 1.00

00:33:41.800 on Taylor Swift music. Stephanie Burt, I don't know what his real name is, probably Stephen,

00:33:49.100 is a man who identifies as transgender. And he's going to be teaching a course called Taylor Swift

00:33:54.500 and Her World. The class will include some details about Taylor Swift's current highly publicized

00:34:02.980 romance with that football player. And Professor Burt says it's a literature course. And it has a lot of

00:34:09.600 songs and songwriting. It's going to be focused on Taylor Swift's lyrics and creative composition

00:34:14.740 and how they're connected to other page-based poets and authors. This is how you know that this course

00:34:19.920 is going to be awful. The notion that a poet needs to have the distinction page-based added before his

00:34:26.640 title. The other kind of poet, according to this person, would be a slam poet, which is the absolute

00:34:33.040 death of art. And if you think the slam poetry is anything even resembling an art form, then you

00:34:38.180 certainly shouldn't be shaping young minds. But this person is. It says, you know, William Wordsworth

00:34:43.100 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote some of their poems in the Lake District, which Taylor has visited

00:34:48.080 and has a song about. Look at all these literary connections here. Oh man, this is so pathetic.

00:34:53.860 But this is nothing new. This sort of stuff has gone on at elite schools for a long time.

00:35:01.560 The gut class is where every kid in this class is going to get an A. They're not going to learn

00:35:05.300 anything. They're going to listen to some Taylor Swift music and try to put some kind of academic

00:35:10.040 patina over it, but it's going to be pretty shallow. But this has gone on for a long time because it is

00:35:16.200 still hard to get into these schools. It is actually hard to get into Harvard, but it's very easy to

00:35:22.760 graduate. It's much harder to get in than it is to graduate. You have to have decent test scores,

00:35:28.320 at least for now, or you have to be reasonably accomplished in school and be able to check a

00:35:33.460 bunch of politically correct intersectional identity boxes. But once you're in, you're in.

00:35:40.080 I was once told by my alumni interviewer for college that it would take an act of violence for

00:35:45.360 me to get thrown out of school. The grade inflation is so rampant because it doesn't really matter what

00:35:50.160 these kids learn. The purpose of the schools right now is a credentialing institution and a finishing

00:35:56.340 school to channel you into consulting, law school, finance, investment banking, these sorts of

00:36:04.900 Washington, D.C., the State Department, the deep state. That's what it's for. It's a finishing school

00:36:10.860 for the would-be political elite. But our political elite, as we all know, they don't really know much

00:36:17.100 of anything at all these days. And they don't have to. In fact, it's better for the ideologues if

00:36:24.460 they don't really know very much of anything. Because when you know things, when you have a

00:36:26.900 proper education, then you can think for yourself and you can see through shallow ideologies.

00:36:31.880 So what do they do? They got to fill their time. The kids have to take some classes in these schools.

00:36:35.700 So what do they learn? They go and they sit and they listen to Taylor Swift music and they all

00:36:40.400 rock back and forth and then they get their degrees and then they run the world. That's what they do.

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00:38:16.960 My favorite comment yesterday is from Kaylee Ann, 1994. Lady Ballers has to be the funniest 1.00

00:38:22.580 sports comedy since basketball. The fact that you guys got Ted Cruz to make a cameo appearance nearly

00:38:29.320 sent me into shock. I cannot wait to watch. And we have many other great cameos there.

00:38:35.420 You know, I spent much of the night with all of the stars of this, including Senator Cruz. But with

00:38:43.340 all the stars of this movie, everyone was ecstatic about how this thing turned out. We had hundreds

00:38:48.720 of people in the movie theater for the premiere. Maybe two or three of us had ever seen the movie

00:38:52.960 before. Jeremy and I don't know, maybe one of us had ever seen the movie before. And universally,

00:38:58.560 we were all thrilled that we cannot wait to share with you. That will be tomorrow. Now, speaking of

00:39:03.660 the universities, you're gonna be shocked to hear this is breaking news. Stop the presses. Graduate

00:39:09.640 students are complaining. Here's why. We're PhD students. Of course I have an emotional support

00:39:16.080 animal. We're PhD students. Of course I'm on prescription anxiety medication. Of course I

00:39:20.880 question my decision to do more school every day. I got a 38 on my last midterm and I don't even care

00:39:25.980 that much. We're PhD students. Of course I care more about disappointing my advisor than my own

00:39:30.860 parents. My entire self-worth is based on how this next experiment goes. I have no idea what my

00:39:35.400 expected year of graduation is. We're PhD students. Of course every single major life milestone is on

00:39:40.940 hold. I don't know what a 401k is. We survive off of Costco frozen meals. We're PhD students. Of course

00:39:47.180 I get offended when people think I'm an undergrad. We're PhD students. You will be calling me doctor

00:39:51.560 when I graduate. We're PhD students. Of course I spend every day googling the jobs that I'll have

00:39:56.440 after graduation. We're PhD students and their salaries which are looking pretty good compared

00:40:00.920 to what I'm getting paid right now. We're PhD students. I want to get an advanced degree and

00:40:04.200 then go into academia and make zero money. Of course I use Wikipedia to teach myself the things I need to

00:40:09.560 know to read papers. I have a list of papers that I should read but I'm never going to. We're PhD students.

00:40:15.560 Of course I just use a calculator and add two plus two. We're PhD students. Of course we're gonna cry in our

00:40:20.520 advisor's office. I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. Okay. They're PhD students but not in

00:40:28.680 comedy. They're studying something else. Part of this is a little self-effacing. We're PhD students.

00:40:36.200 We need a calculator to say that two plus two equals four. Sure. Some of it I suspect is real which is

00:40:43.000 when they say yeah I'm looking at the job market and I'm not going to make a lot of money and I don't

00:40:48.060 make any money now and I've got all this work and I don't get any credit for it and some of it's kind

00:40:54.480 of hard and boring and I don't even want to read the papers that I signed up for and it's just a kind

00:40:58.060 of a miserable life. Which raises the question. Why are you PhD students? We do not suffer from a

00:41:08.300 national shortage of PhD students. We have plenty. We have so many fake academic departments now.

00:41:14.860 We have such a glut of PhD students and the standards have been so lowered in recent decades.

00:41:20.500 We don't. We have plenty. And we know that the job market for professors is absolutely brutal and

00:41:24.960 a lot of these people will never get jobs in academia. So you don't need to do it. Why do you

00:41:29.180 do it? You become a PhD student and then you become a scholar because you are one of the really weird

00:41:35.900 people who wants to dedicate your life to sitting in a small room reading books and not making a lot

00:41:41.340 money but you care so much about the great conversation taking place in our civilization

00:41:45.180 that you want to and you believe you can contribute to it. Very few people can actually do that

00:41:53.380 and will thrive doing that. The people for whom that is not the best path are going to be miserable.

00:42:02.340 It's a really, really hard life. But no one's making them do it. A lot of people do this because

00:42:07.840 they've been conditioned for their whole lives to think that this is all that they can do

00:42:11.560 and because they think that after they graduate from college, this is an easy enough next step.

00:42:18.800 And some of them want to be perpetual students. They say, I don't have no idea when I'm going to

00:42:21.320 graduate. And a lot of them are in no rush whatsoever. They'll just keep deferring,

00:42:25.860 entering the workforce, they'll keep deferring adulthood.

00:42:28.600 It gets to a theory that Antonin Scalia got in trouble for bringing up in a Supreme Court

00:42:37.660 opinion once, which is the theory of mismatch. We are told today that everything is for everyone

00:42:44.400 and everyone is perfectly well-prepared to do every single thing. And if you ever suggest otherwise,

00:42:49.900 then you are not equitable. You are unjust. You're probably a racist and a sexist and a thisist and a

00:42:55.840 sadist. But it's not. Not everything is for everyone. Not every school is for everyone.

00:43:02.020 And not only will the admission of people who are not up to snuff into these schools harm the

00:43:09.380 other students because it'll reduce standards, it'll harm the students who are admitted because

00:43:13.080 they're not going to do very well and they're either going to flunk out and be in debt or they're

00:43:18.560 going to waste a lot of time. Or what they're going to do is they're going to stay in the schools

00:43:22.420 and the schools are going to create fake departments to accommodate them because they can't

00:43:25.660 hack it in certainly not physics or mathematics, but probably not history or English either. So

00:43:32.280 they're going to have some fake critical studies department and they're going to get their A's in

00:43:35.400 it and they're going to graduate not really knowing anything. And because there's no job for a gender 1.00

00:43:40.280 studies major, they're probably going to go to graduate school because the only job really for a

00:43:43.860 gender studies major is to teach gender studies. Maybe you can work in some DEI office or something 1.00

00:43:50.380 like that. But in any case, you're likely going to go on to graduate school and then you're going to

00:43:55.560 be miserable. Not everything is for everyone. Now there's a story I really wanted to get to today.

00:44:02.640 This is an important social issue. It's a crisis. And the crisis is that people, you know, you get a

00:44:08.000 water bottle, like a plastic water bottle and you drink it and then maybe you leave a little bit in

00:44:11.640 it and you leave it somewhere. Maybe you throw it out. Well, there's a woman who has gone viral for 1.00

00:44:17.520 saying that this is going to deplete all the water of the earth because that water will never escape

00:44:23.480 and we will all die of thirst. I don't have time to get to this today because I've got to turn to a

00:44:29.880 very dear friend of mine who is seeing firsthand the craziness going on on our campuses. He's seeing

00:44:37.060 it firsthand at Yale University. That would be my friend Rabbi Shmuley Hecht and that will happen in

00:44:43.100 the member room segmentum of this show. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 30, 2023

Ep. 1381 - Elon Musk Says ＂Go F＊＊＊ Yourself＂ To Corporate Cowards

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