The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1398 - Trans-Identifying Shooter Kills 6th Grade Student

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00:00:37.740 Yesterday, a high school student shot up a school in Iowa, killing a little child, a 6th grade student,

00:00:44.000 and injuring five other innocent people, after which the shooter killed himself.

00:00:49.060 According to news reports, the shooter left a final social media post of a duffel bag, hinting at his crime.

00:00:55.000 His TikTok page, which has since been wiped, featured an anime girl as his avatar, and a bio highlighting the LGBT pride flag.

00:01:06.360 Another account, reportedly linked with the shooter, featured transgender pronouns,

00:01:10.920 and a Reddit account reportedly belonging to the shooter interacted with transgender pages.

00:01:16.280 Which is why you can expect to hear nothing more about this story.

00:01:19.900 When a politically convenient villain commits such a crime, a straight white male, say, or a Christian, 0.99

00:01:26.820 the shooting is blamed on the shooter's race, or sexual desires, or religion.

00:01:32.060 When the shooter's identity is ambiguous or politically neutral, the crime is blamed on guns.

00:01:37.700 But when the shooter's identity is politically inconvenient, when the shooter calls himself LGBT,

00:01:45.200 and especially when the shooter identifies as trans, the media cover it up.

00:01:50.420 It's been 284 days since a trans-identifying criminal shot up a Nashville elementary school.

00:01:56.900 Still, the political authorities refuse to release any relevant information as to the motive.

00:02:01.660 The only hope of stopping these sorts of crimes is to tell the truth about what motivates them.

00:02:08.560 Lies and delusion endanger citizens, including the most innocent among us.

00:02:14.020 But telling the truth endangers the politically convenient narrative.

00:02:19.040 Guess which one our political and journalistic leaders are going to choose to protect.

00:02:24.220 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:24.960 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:25.740 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:46.000 Shia LaBeouf is now a Catholic.

00:02:48.160 He was just received into the church.

00:02:49.420 There's a little bit of good news.

00:02:50.780 Turning back to government corruption for a moment, though.

00:02:53.500 You know that Colorado has kicked Trump off the ballot there.

00:02:58.680 That was a court in Colorado that did it.

00:03:01.460 The state of Maine also kicked Trump off of the ballot.

00:03:03.960 That was just a Democrat secretary of state who did that. 1.00

00:03:06.960 Now Trump is appealing the Colorado decision.

00:03:11.160 Presumably, this will have some effect for all of the blue states that want to kick him off the ballot.

00:03:14.980 He's appealing that all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:03:16.720 He filed an appeal yesterday, or rather on Wednesday, to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision.

00:03:25.240 The appeal says the question of eligibility to serve as president of the United States is properly reserved for Congress, not the state courts, to consider and decide.

00:03:32.680 By considering the question of President Trump's eligibility and barring him from the ballot, the Colorado Supreme Court arrogated Congress's authority.

00:03:40.220 That's true if this provision of the 14th Amendment is to be considered really at all, it would be considered and interpreted by Congress, not by some court 150 years later because they don't like the mean orange man.

00:03:54.840 What do we do about this?

00:03:56.060 Obviously, the decision to kick Trump off the ballot is completely indefensible, but the Supreme Court follows public opinion polls sometimes.

00:04:05.520 The Supreme Court reads the newspapers too.

00:04:07.400 So I don't know that we could count on a Justice Gorsuch or a Justice Kavanaugh, certainly not a Justice Roberts, to do the right thing here.

00:04:14.020 I don't know.

00:04:14.300 I hope we can count on them to do the right thing.

00:04:16.200 I just don't know.

00:04:16.980 So what can we do to increase the odds that Democrat operatives are not able to bar the most popular presidential candidate in the country from the ballot in the defense of democracy to prohibit the people from voting for the popular candidate?

00:04:31.540 What can we do?

00:04:33.080 I've got an idea, and this idea is not actually my idea.

00:04:37.640 This is Jeremy's idea, but because someday I would be really tickled if I became the president of Harvard, I'm just going to claim this as my own idea, and we can leave it at that, even though Jeremy came up with it a couple nights ago, and I thought it was pretty smart.

00:04:53.960 A red state governor needs to have a red state secretary of state kick Biden off the ballot. 1.00

00:05:01.540 I guess we could just skip the first step, go right to the red state secretaries of state, but the governors tend to have a little bit more political influence and a little more interest in the presidency. 0.74

00:05:10.220 So however it gets done, I don't really care, but we need a red state secretary of state to kick Biden off the ballot now, and they can come up with some explanation.

00:05:19.620 It will probably be a more credible explanation than the one that the Democrats have come up with for kicking Donald Trump off the ballot, and then you give the Supreme Court.

00:05:31.540 The freedom to say, no, no, you guys can't be kicking any presidential candidates off the ballot.

00:05:37.620 We're going to let the people decide.

00:05:38.960 But you've got to give the Supreme Court some room, some grace, some plausible justification that will appease half of our country, which has completely lost its mind, as to why they're going to let Donald Trump remain on the ballot.

00:05:55.060 If the Supreme Court can look as though it is being neutral on partisanship here and is just defending democracy, it's going to be a lot easier for five or six justices or more to say, no, actually, Donald Trump gets to remain on the ballot.

00:06:09.300 And the way to do that is to use the left's tactics against them. 0.80

00:06:13.200 What they've done in Colorado is ridiculous. 0.99

00:06:15.320 What they've done in Maine is even more ridiculous. 0.89

00:06:16.900 Yeah, I agree, but in war and in politics, your opponent has a say as to how things go, and the libs are really going there.

00:06:25.820 The libs are really trying to prohibit the most popular presidential candidate in the country from appearing on the ballot.

00:06:31.460 So we've got to respond in kind, not in a way that's immoral, not in a way that's unjust.

00:06:37.080 We've got to respond in a way that will, one, be justifiable in and of itself, and I think as a political operation this is.

00:06:46.380 And then, two, give the Supreme Court the opportunity to make a ruling that is just, that is within the American legal tradition, and that actually does defend democracy.

00:06:59.380 That's how you're going to do it.

00:07:00.100 You want to keep Trump on the ballot?

00:07:01.480 Some red state secretary of state needs to grow some gulions and kick Joe Biden off the ballot. 1.00

00:07:07.500 It would be very easy to do that.

00:07:10.100 There are so many crimes.

00:07:12.620 There is so much evidence of corruption.

00:07:15.400 There is, you know, you could even forget about Joe Biden for a second.

00:07:21.700 I responded to Jeremy when he presented this idea that I'm now going to claim as my own because I want to be the president of Harvard.

00:07:26.980 I responded to Jeremy, I said, you know, no one claims that Joe Biden led an insurrection.

00:07:32.480 He said, yeah, okay, then forget about Joe Biden.

00:07:34.020 Make it Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:07:35.840 Certainly, we can say Kamala Harris led an insurrection. 0.96

00:07:37.760 She personally fundraised for rioters and criminals who were insurrecting against cities around the country during the George Floyd riots.

00:07:47.580 There you go.

00:07:48.640 She was raising money.

00:07:49.740 She herself on her Twitter account said, give us money to bail out the criminals, to bail out the rioters, the people who were sowing civil discord, the people who were, you might say, engaging in an insurrection.

00:08:03.120 So, okay, make it Kamala Harris, and then Kamala can't appear on the ticket, and you don't even need to go after Joe Biden.

00:08:08.540 But however you're going to do it, give the Supreme Court the opportunity to say, this isn't about partisanship.

00:08:16.520 This isn't about Donald Trump.

00:08:17.660 It's about all political candidates of all political parties.

00:08:20.220 You don't get to just be some two-bit political hack in some random state and kick the candidate you don't like, the opposition party nominee, off the ballot.

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00:08:58.980 Speaking of the radical left, there is a leftist politician in Boston, a new Boston city councillor.

00:09:07.740 This woman is an immigrant, and she has become a Boston city councillor.

00:09:12.220 Well, she was about to be sworn into office.

00:09:14.800 She and her fellow politicians were being sworn into office, but she refused to raise her hand or take the oath.

00:09:20.640 I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially discharge.

00:09:27.780 She doesn't move her lips, no?

00:09:29.640 No hand up.

00:09:30.280 ...form all the duties incumbent on me as a member of the Boston City Council.

00:09:39.400 She's looking down.

00:09:40.420 According to the best of my ability and understanding, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution and the laws of this common law.

00:09:57.820 So help me God.

00:09:58.520 Yeah, can't do that.

00:10:01.080 She can't do that, can she? 0.88

00:10:03.120 Because she doesn't support the political order of Boston or Massachusetts.

00:10:07.660 She doesn't support the Constitution.

00:10:09.960 I'm not convinced she supports God.

00:10:12.420 She's not going to do any of that. 0.97

00:10:13.580 She wants to be on the Boston City Council, but she doesn't want to take the oath to uphold the very basic requirements of the job.

00:10:18.720 So she should obviously be thrown out of office. 0.98

00:10:20.520 As far as I'm concerned, she should be deported. 0.99

00:10:22.220 She doesn't like this country.

00:10:24.540 She won't uphold the absolute most basic principles of this country. 0.95

00:10:29.600 Why do we want her? 0.99

00:10:31.020 Why do we want her here? 0.94

00:10:31.860 What good is she for America? 0.99

00:10:34.120 If you come to America and we take you in and then you say, yeah, I won't even say that I will support the Constitution, then go away.

00:10:45.180 We don't want you here.

00:10:46.680 That should be, I think, the minimum threshold.

00:10:50.040 There should be many more requirements.

00:10:52.220 We have a country that is teeming with a non-native-born population, and that creates all sorts of social problems because you need to assimilate if you want to have a country. 1.00

00:11:02.120 So there are so many more layers of requirements that we should have for immigration.

00:11:06.060 But I think the basic one is, hey, you like the country?

00:11:10.040 You'll support the Constitution?

00:11:11.640 Oh, no, you won't?

00:11:12.360 Okay, bye-bye.

00:11:13.200 See you.

00:11:13.960 See you later.

00:11:14.400 Her name is Tanya Fernandez Anderson, and she's got a track record of radicalism.

00:11:23.880 She's offered resolutions in the past for September 23rd to be Boston's hijab day, which, by the way, this is going to be an unpopular take.

00:11:35.800 I'm not totally opposed to.

00:11:38.740 I guess I'm opposed to that day for Boston because Boston is not a Muslim city, and America's not a Muslim country. 1.00

00:11:43.560 But I actually don't hate the hijab.

00:11:46.580 I actually think hijabs can be kind of pretty, sort of a very traditional piece of headwear. 0.99

00:11:52.580 We've had all sorts of similar pieces of headwear in the West for a long time.

00:11:56.500 It's very modest.

00:11:57.440 It's not a full burqa, okay?

00:11:58.800 Not even a niqab. 0.99

00:12:02.520 It's just a nice little headscarf. 1.00

00:12:03.980 I have no problem with it.

00:12:05.560 I don't think we need hijab day in Boston, but okay. 0.99

00:12:07.720 Actually, that's probably the best thing this woman's ever done in politics. 0.97

00:12:12.420 It's like a further eastern mantilla.

00:12:15.160 That's okay.

00:12:16.840 She has called on Boston to apologize for the Atlantic slave trade.

00:12:21.380 Boston had very little to do with the Atlantic slave trade compared to other parts of the Western Hemisphere.

00:12:27.480 Had basically nothing to do with the Atlantic slave trade.

00:12:30.940 And by the way, slavery has existed everywhere on Earth for all of human history.

00:12:35.340 What distinguishes the West from the rest of the world is that we actually ended slavery.

00:12:39.420 Slavery still exists in a large part of the world today. 0.90

00:12:42.580 The place it is least likely to be found is in the West, so that's obviously ridiculous. 0.99

00:12:46.900 This woman has a history of anti-white tweets. 1.00

00:12:50.400 She doesn't like white people. 0.94

00:12:51.440 She doesn't like white people holding government positions, so that's no good. 1.00

00:12:55.280 Oh, she married a murderer? 0.89

00:12:57.480 She married a convicted murderer while he was in prison for life. 0.71

00:13:00.520 This is crazy.

00:13:01.000 This is just according to news reports.

00:13:02.180 It's hard to believe all this stuff.

00:13:03.120 She referred to the October 7th pogrom by Hamas onto the state of Israel as simply a military operation.

00:13:11.600 Which, if it was anything, it was not simply a military operation because it targeted civilians.

00:13:16.480 So it was a terrorist attack.

00:13:18.780 There are military operations that are just.

00:13:20.860 There are military operations that are unjust.

00:13:22.460 But something that would distinguish a mere military operation from a terrorist attack would be the targeting of civilians, which Hamas obviously engaged in.

00:13:30.140 So anyway, the woman seems like a complete nut, and a just society would not only remove her from the city council, but would deport her. 1.00

00:13:37.740 Okay, we have a major, major immigration crisis. 0.78

00:13:39.560 Because I like all sorts of immigrants.

00:13:42.500 A lot of us descend, at least in some part of our family, from immigrants.

00:13:46.340 So I'm not saying I'm totally anti-immigrant.

00:13:48.740 But immigration always, we see this in political philosophy and history going back to antiquity, all the way consistently through up to the present day.

00:13:56.520 Immigration creates many, many political problems. 1.00

00:13:59.340 And so while we will tolerate and sometimes even encourage some degree of immigration, we've got to be very, very careful about it. 0.55

00:14:06.800 And people who come to your country and demonstrate quite clearly that they hate everything about your country, they've got to go.

00:14:14.580 They've got to go, man.

00:14:16.120 Now, we're not bringing the best.

00:14:18.060 We're not hiring the best.

00:14:19.280 And speaking of not hiring the best, DEI is facing a major credibility crisis.

00:14:25.940 It's brought on largely by this Harvard president debacle because the Harvard president, the former Harvard president, was a big promoter of DEI.

00:14:35.820 She herself is a DEI or proto-DEI kind of hire. 0.91

00:14:40.300 She had a ridiculously pathetic academic record. 0.96

00:14:44.020 She had 11 scholarly publications. 0.99

00:14:45.680 She seemed to have copied a lot of it.

00:14:47.220 But even if she hadn't plagiarized much of her publication history, to have 11 publications by the time you reach the pinnacle of academia is very sad.

00:14:58.300 You should have 11 academic publications when you're in graduate school, okay?

00:15:01.860 Forget about throughout your faculty career and then becoming the president of Harvard. 0.96

00:15:05.720 It's pathetic. 0.97

00:15:06.540 We all know that this woman got her job because she ticked all the politically correct boxes. 1.00

00:15:10.900 And that's why it was difficult to fire her until it wasn't, until finally she was out. 1.00

00:15:14.540 So a big DEI debate has erupted.

00:15:18.800 And Mark Cuban, who is the liberal owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he comes out and he defends DEI.

00:15:27.480 So J.D. Vance, the conservative senator from Ohio, he says, hey, Mark, did the Dallas Mavericks reflect the demographics of America as a whole?

00:15:37.600 This is one of the lines from the DEI people, including Mark Cuban.

00:15:39.880 We need to have racial quotas in our companies and our schools and our organizations because we need these organizations to reflect the diversity of America.

00:15:50.000 And by diversity, we mean certain racial and sexual criteria.

00:15:55.600 Now, it turns out the Dallas Mavericks do not reflect the racial demographics of America.

00:15:59.740 They don't reflect all sorts of demographics of America.

00:16:01.880 So Cuban responds to him and he doesn't actually respond to the point.

00:16:08.020 He doesn't acknowledge the point.

00:16:09.180 He just goes on a tirade.

00:16:10.420 But the tirade, I think, undermines the whole DEI movement. 1.00

00:16:14.460 Mark Cuban says, if you were trying to make a stupid comment, you nailed it. 0.99

00:16:18.160 First, as an organization as a whole, yes, we do. 1.00

00:16:22.840 What does that mean?

00:16:24.200 The executives are white, but the players are black?

00:16:27.060 Is that what he's saying?

00:16:27.880 I don't know that that reflects very well on him either.

00:16:30.360 He says, yes, we do.

00:16:31.020 More importantly, though, if you understand the value of DEI, it's not in checklists and quotas.

00:16:37.380 It's in understanding how to best compete as a company.

00:16:41.100 We hire the people who put us in the best position to succeed.

00:16:45.600 Now, we all know that that isn't true.

00:16:47.860 Mark Cuban, I think, knows that that isn't true.

00:16:50.140 I think he's got to be lying here.

00:16:52.380 It's the most charitable read I can have here is that he's lying. 1.00

00:16:54.500 He couldn't possibly be this stupid. 1.00

00:16:56.000 If it were the case that DEI policies make companies more competitive, 1.00

00:17:05.960 then why do the big activist investor funds and the government regulators have to mandate the DEI policies?

00:17:15.620 Why do they have to ram them down the company's throats?

00:17:18.100 Why do they have to threaten the companies if the companies don't comply with DEI?

00:17:21.300 Why do the activist investor funds have to say, we're going to pull our money out of your company?

00:17:25.760 We're going to tank your stock price if you don't comply with DEI, if DEI is so good for the company?

00:17:32.140 That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

00:17:33.820 If DEI policies just naturally made a company better, the companies would eagerly adopt them.

00:17:40.820 It's the same error that you see when feminist activists say that women make 75 cents on the dollar, that men do.

00:17:50.020 And we just know that isn't true.

00:17:51.440 That might literally be true in that women leave the workforce to become mothers, 1.00

00:17:56.460 in that women are less aggressive about negotiating raises, 1.00

00:17:59.480 in that women work shorter hours as a whole. 1.00

00:18:02.720 And that's true.

00:18:03.860 Men and women are different.

00:18:04.600 They behave differently.

00:18:05.320 So maybe ultimately they get paid differently.

00:18:08.040 But the feminist claim that women make 75 cents on the dollar for doing the exact same work as men, 0.99

00:18:13.160 that's obviously ridiculous. 0.88

00:18:14.600 If that were the case, companies would only hire women. 1.00

00:18:18.380 You think companies hate women or something?

00:18:19.680 You think you'd tell a Fortune 500 company, hey, you can save 25% of your labor costs if you hire women. 1.00

00:18:28.760 But Rich Uncle Pennybags in the C-suite says, no, I hate those women. 1.00

00:18:32.100 You kidding me? 0.91

00:18:33.340 I'm not letting some skirt in here. 1.00

00:18:35.260 No way.

00:18:35.760 I don't pay.

00:18:36.480 I don't care if we have to pay 200% more for our labor costs. 0.92

00:18:39.340 I just hate those bras, those ladies. 1.00

00:18:41.660 I don't think so. 0.82

00:18:42.320 I think they would hire the women in two seconds. 1.00

00:18:44.540 But it's just not true.

00:18:48.280 And the DEI thing is not true.

00:18:50.140 And it's very clear.

00:18:50.940 DEI is being exposed here.

00:18:53.200 DEI policies prioritize leftist social engineering over competitiveness, over productivity, and over, this is the important part, over fairness.

00:19:07.080 We all know that this is so deeply unfair.

00:19:11.940 Most people have been raised to believe that racial discrimination, that being told you can't do something, you can't get a job, you can't go to a certain school because of the color of your skin, that that is unfair and ugly and not nice.

00:19:24.640 And what DEI does is exactly that.

00:19:28.320 It says, oh, yeah, you're a little too pale.

00:19:29.900 Sorry.

00:19:30.320 No job.

00:19:31.220 Sorry.

00:19:32.020 No admission to schools.

00:19:33.960 Yeah.

00:19:34.200 Oh, no, you're a little too straight. 0.99

00:19:35.760 If you gay yourself up a little bit, then maybe we'll consider you. 1.00

00:19:39.080 But no, you straight guy. 0.99

00:19:40.140 Oh, no.

00:19:41.480 You're a Christian?

00:19:42.560 Nah.

00:19:43.340 Not going to work.

00:19:44.320 Sorry.

00:19:45.620 We all know that's unfair.

00:19:46.740 And so the best defenses they have are the bloviations of a guy like Mark Cuban, which is not very persuasive.

00:19:51.600 My favorite comment yesterday is from Eric K.

00:19:55.340 Ah, he says, I hate how right you are about the Epstein prediction.

00:19:59.060 I know.

00:19:59.500 There was a moment when I made my predictions for the new year.

00:20:03.260 Noel Stradamus took out his crystal ball.

00:20:04.800 I made my predictions.

00:20:05.880 And then truly within 24 hours, I said, we're not going to get any significant new information on Epstein.

00:20:13.040 We're not going to really see the client list.

00:20:14.960 24 hours later, the headlines, we're going to see the client list.

00:20:18.340 We're going to get the documents. 0.94

00:20:19.420 And I said, oh, darn, maybe I was wrong. 0.97

00:20:22.040 Nah. 0.98

00:20:22.720 No, I'm not wrong.

00:20:23.840 This is a total fake out.

00:20:24.920 This is a total sigh off.

00:20:26.340 And then, sorry to tell you, I was totally right.

00:20:31.480 Speaking of hiring people on criteria other than merit, there's a woman who works for MSNBC. 0.98

00:20:38.020 She's an anchor there.

00:20:40.100 Perhaps a perfectly nice woman. 0.95

00:20:41.580 I have nothing against her.

00:20:42.620 But she was just put in a very bad position.

00:20:44.520 Her name is Alicia Menendez.

00:20:48.020 And she was conducting an interview on MSNBC.

00:20:51.120 But she had to stop because there was breaking news.

00:20:53.180 And it was breaking news that she could not really break herself.

00:20:56.040 It was already awkward enough as it is.

00:20:58.020 She had to hand off the newscast to one of her colleagues because the breaking news was that her father is being brought up on even more corruption charges.

00:21:07.200 Thank you so much for your expertise and for spending some time with us.

00:21:10.640 We're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with some breaking news right after this.

00:21:14.200 Hello, I'm Ari Melber with some breaking legal news.

00:21:20.640 New Jersey United States Senator Robert Menendez now facing new allegations in a second superseding indictment,

00:21:26.700 which is filed by a federal grand jury from his DOJ prosecution.

00:21:31.220 Pretty awkward.

00:21:32.620 Pretty awkward.

00:21:33.560 And it's not the first time that we've seen this.

00:21:35.840 Do you remember during COVID, you had Chris Cuomo, the Fredo of the Cuomo family.

00:21:42.100 He was on CNN.

00:21:42.940 He was a journalist, a neutral, serious news anchor.

00:21:48.280 And you had his brother, Andy Cuomo, was the governor of New York, who had a pretty good PR team, at least at first.

00:21:54.920 And everyone said that he was doing the greatest job.

00:21:57.360 Even though people kept dying in New York at really high rates, somehow everyone said, oh, Cuomo, he's doing the best.

00:22:03.240 Oh, I'm so attracted to what Cuomo's doing here.

00:22:06.040 There was a video that went viral.

00:22:07.160 A girl said, I'm a Cuomo sexual.

00:22:09.200 That's how beautiful and attractive what he's doing is.

00:22:12.260 And then it turned out he was cooking the books.

00:22:14.080 He was killing senior citizens in nursing homes.

00:22:15.900 He just completely blew it.

00:22:18.120 And ultimately, they threw him out of office.

00:22:19.620 But at the time, it was awkward for Fredo Cuomo on CNN because he would interview his brother and give him these puff piece interviews.

00:22:27.200 Oh, you're doing a great job, brother.

00:22:29.020 Don't forget to call mom.

00:22:31.040 Anyway, you're doing amazing, bro.

00:22:33.420 Ah, yeah.

00:22:34.380 Backslap, backslap. 0.95

00:22:35.080 And then the news comes out that it was all a big lie.

00:22:37.740 And Chris is stuck on air.

00:22:39.320 And he's like, all right, we got to go.

00:22:41.100 We're going to cut to someone else now.

00:22:42.240 Because he can't cover his brother critically.

00:22:45.680 Just like Alicia Menendez.

00:22:47.020 You can't expect her to cover her father's newest corruption allegations.

00:22:50.620 But the reason this is a problem for people like CNN and MSNBC is because of the incestuous political environment where the journalists, the so-called fourth estate, and the politician class and the lobbyists, they're all related. 0.98

00:23:08.140 Sometimes they're literally in bed together because they're sleeping with each other.

00:23:13.780 Sometimes they're under the same roof because they're brothers or sisters or fathers or sons or married or whatever.

00:23:19.580 But they're all just related.

00:23:22.000 The Democrats have a very incestuous political apparatus.

00:23:26.900 The Republicans really don't.

00:23:28.760 But it really knocks their credibility.

00:23:31.020 Because while CNN and MSNBC claim to be the intrepid journalists doing a dangerous job speaking truth to power, they can't do that.

00:23:40.260 They can't even speak truth to their brother.

00:23:41.580 They can't even speak truth to their father.

00:23:44.940 Then how did they get their jobs?

00:23:47.020 Chris Cuomo, he's a somewhat articulate, decent enough looking guy.

00:23:52.380 And I guess he could be on TV.

00:23:54.880 But did he get his job because he's the greatest TV presenter ever?

00:23:57.900 Or did he get his job because he's a Cuomo?

00:23:59.420 And his dad was the governor of New York, and then his brother became the governor of New York, and he's a very prominent Democrat.

00:24:04.420 How did it happen?

00:24:06.800 The Menendez family, there are many other political families where the big star is a politician, and then a lot of the rest of the family goes into journalism.

00:24:17.000 How much can we trust that journalism?

00:24:18.700 Not very much, I think.

00:24:19.660 Speaking of the Democrats' political apparatus, Democrats are facing a major crisis of popularity.

00:24:26.180 A lot of it driven by immigration.

00:24:27.900 Immigration, we're not really allowed to say it, but immigration is the issue.

00:24:33.200 It is the issue that is motivating major populist uprisings, not just in America, but throughout the West.

00:24:38.880 It motivated the Brexit.

00:24:40.520 It has fueled Viktor Orban's prime ministership in Hungary.

00:24:45.980 It fueled George Maloney's election in Italy.

00:24:50.040 It's fueled Donald Trump's election.

00:24:52.860 Don't forget, his big issue, and we're going to build the wall. 0.99

00:24:55.780 Mexicans are rapists and murderers, and some, I assume, are good people. 1.00

00:24:58.680 And it's a big issue. 1.00

00:25:00.400 And you just look at the numbers now.

00:25:02.900 If you look on any chart of U.S. border encounters, illegal immigration was pretty high under Obama, and then it dropped for a little bit under Trump, and it spiked up again because the libs wouldn't let Trump enforce border policies.

00:25:17.100 It kind of went down.

00:25:17.820 That was roughly on par with Obama's.

00:25:19.320 And then under Biden, it just shoots through the roof.

00:25:21.860 It doubles.

00:25:23.860 The only explanation for that is that the Biden administration is encouraging mass migration, and we know that.

00:25:28.520 I mean, Joe Biden said, come, please, surge.

00:25:30.580 Come, come to the border.

00:25:31.440 We're not going to enforce the Trump policies anymore.

00:25:33.540 We're not going to build it.

00:25:34.300 We're going to dismantle this wall, actually.

00:25:36.780 Now he's had to kind of try to reverse course and say, well, maybe we'll build part of the wall, but they have no idea what they want to do.

00:25:42.480 The message is totally contradictory.

00:25:43.960 And then we hear the real story from the DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, who says that they're not going to implement policies that discourage immigration.

00:25:55.560 We need additional asylum officers to really accelerate the asylum adjudication process so people are not waiting six years before they receive their results, which is, in effect, a pull factor.

00:26:09.080 The fact that people can stay here for six years before their asylum case is adjudicated is a powerful example of how broken our immigration system is and has been for so long. 0.61

00:26:21.600 We are focused on the fundamental solution to a long existing problem.

00:26:27.500 And that fundamental solution is legislation.

00:26:31.000 We have taken actions already to build lawful pathways, to deliver consequences and do what we can.

00:26:37.940 We've promulgated regulations to do what we can within the confines of the law.

00:26:42.980 But fundamentally, the laws themselves must change.

00:26:48.220 And this is something about which everyone agrees.

00:26:51.300 And that is quite rare when one is speaking about immigration.

00:26:54.640 Hey, did you hear anything practical in that rambling nothingness?

00:27:02.100 I didn't.

00:27:03.360 You know what I heard from Alejandro Mayorkas?

00:27:05.020 Because Alejandro Mayorkas was asked, will you re-implement the Remain in Mexico policy?

00:27:11.520 There's a policy that Trump reinstituted, which said, hey, if you say that you're fleeing Guatemala or Honduras or Nicaragua or wherever because of political persecution, then, all right, you got to stop in countries where you're free from political persecution.

00:27:29.540 You don't need to go through 10 different countries.

00:27:34.200 Unless you're an economic migrant, you want to come to the U.S. to make a buck, which is obviously what a lot of this is about. 0.51

00:27:38.260 But if it's about fleeing persecution, if it's about fleeing disease or whatever it is, then, okay, then stay in Mexico. 0.60

00:27:46.460 The very latest, remain there.

00:27:47.700 And Mayorkas says, no, we're not going to do that because they want to flood the country with migrants because they think it gives them a political advantage.

00:27:54.540 And, in fact, it does.

00:27:55.720 Now, before we get to my favorite time of the week, the mailbag, a little bit of happy news.

00:27:59.860 Speaking of bringing people in, which is that Shia LaBeouf, Shia LaBeouf is now a Catholic. 0.83

00:28:06.940 He was received into the Catholic Church by Bishop Barron, who was on this show a couple of weeks ago.

00:28:11.520 And this is really great news.

00:28:13.440 We'd heard while Shia was making this movie about Padre Pio that he was interested in converting to Catholicism.

00:28:20.200 He said that the traditional Latin mass is what really attracted him.

00:28:24.500 That's true of so many young people and young converts.

00:28:27.020 They're not attracted by the church trying to wed herself to the spirit of the age, which leaves – when you wed yourself to the spirit of the age, you become a widow in the next age.

00:28:35.400 Shia was attracted to the mass of the ages, the enduring mass that formed the vast majority of saints throughout history.

00:28:42.580 And now he's been received into the church, and that's really great news.

00:28:45.680 And the reason I mention it, it's not just because I think it's good for Shia or because I'm a mackerel-snapping papist myself, 0.99

00:28:50.960 but because it's a reminder that the worst times are often the best times.

00:28:55.000 We're living through very, very difficult times for the country, for our culture, in the church.

00:28:59.780 There's a crisis in the church going on right now.

00:29:01.600 And yet, think about this in your own life.

00:29:06.340 The worst times, the most stressful times, the most difficult times, you look back on them often.

00:29:10.660 You say, well, those were the best times.

00:29:11.900 Why?

00:29:12.480 Because they can either destroy you – I guess that's not good – or if you survive them, those are often the most edifying times.

00:29:18.840 Those are often the most sanctifying times.

00:29:20.600 Those are the decisive moments.

00:29:22.140 And, you know, we believe in providence.

00:29:23.880 You're here for a reason.

00:29:25.220 It's a great honor to be placed in the world at a difficult and challenging time, and so that's good.

00:29:32.080 It might be the worst time, but the worst times are often the best times.

00:29:34.700 Okay. 0.89

00:29:35.620 It's no question that we are living in a clown world.

00:29:39.520 Basic notions of right, wrong, justice, truth, even reality itself have been thrown out the window.

00:29:43.620 How are we to make sense of all of this?

00:29:44.760 Well, join my friend Jonathan Pajot in the new four-part series, End of the World,

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00:30:34.740 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:30:37.780 This mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

00:30:39.120 Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, today.

00:30:42.100 Take it away.

00:30:42.600 My best friend has a doctorate in English and spent much of his education studying feminism and gender theory,

00:30:49.700 so he maintains that gender is a purely social construct that is in no way informed by biological sex.

00:30:56.300 I attempted to argue the idea that a majority of men or women would inform the idea of the genders at a base level,

00:31:02.600 and he denied that, stating that there is no individual aspect of either masculinity or femininity

00:31:08.340 that holds up under concentrated scrutiny.

00:31:10.580 For example, women are more likely to desire to be the primary child care provider is not something he'd agree with,

00:31:17.520 because he'd say that there's no objective way to prove that this is true from a biological standpoint as opposed to cultural influence.

00:31:24.380 Just because a majority conforms to those characteristics or believes they exist doesn't mean that they are rooted in reality.

00:31:30.800 He points to supposedly gender-based concepts throughout history that have been proven false,

00:31:35.520 like the belief that women are less intelligent than men,

00:31:38.440 as evidence that my argumentation methodology is flawed,

00:31:42.200 and that because it's based in the concept of the majority,

00:31:45.280 it doesn't hold up to his counter-arguments.

00:31:47.700 I know that he would welcome a compelling and intellectually sound rebuttal.

00:31:52.760 Your friend seems rather confused.

00:31:57.140 He says that you can't prove that women are more likely to desire a certain thing,

00:32:03.080 but of course you can prove that. You would just take a public opinion poll.

00:32:06.540 Hey, women, are you more likely than men to desire to be mothers? 0.98

00:32:09.520 Obviously, the vast majority of women would say yes. 0.98

00:32:13.100 So that proves it.

00:32:14.360 He says, well, there's no scientific way to prove it.

00:32:16.200 What are you talking about scientific?

00:32:17.240 What's the scientific way to prove desire?

00:32:20.100 You ask somebody, and they describe their will and their desire to you,

00:32:23.720 and then you have your answer.

00:32:24.780 Well, okay, but they shouldn't desire that.

00:32:30.420 That's the next question, right?

00:32:31.420 Well, there's nothing natural about that desire.

00:32:33.280 Well, I don't know.

00:32:34.620 Most women for all of history have desired that. 0.99

00:32:37.080 So is there not something natural about that?

00:32:39.840 More to the point, is there not something natural about culture?

00:32:45.840 Are these things totally divorced one from the other?

00:32:49.900 Your friend brings up this argument and says, 0.99

00:32:51.580 for a lot of history, people thought women were stupider than men. 1.00

00:32:56.260 Women are different from men. 1.00

00:32:58.080 Women's brains work differently from men. 1.00

00:33:00.060 Women reason in a different way than men do. 1.00

00:33:02.860 Larry Summers got fired from Harvard,

00:33:04.420 another president of Harvard who got fired.

00:33:05.820 He was pushed out of the Harvard presidency for making this point in 2006.

00:33:09.360 He just pointed at a chart and said that the IQ bell curve for men and women are different.

00:33:13.880 And for men, it's just, it's wider.

00:33:15.820 So, he said, at the high, at the absolute highest levels of intelligence,

00:33:22.540 levels much higher than the IQs of me or anyone else that we're talking about today,

00:33:26.460 the very, very highest IQ people on earth, almost certainly to be men. 0.92

00:33:30.840 And the dumbest people on earth, almost certainly to be, certain to be men. 0.97

00:33:34.220 Because the bell curve is just wider. 0.98

00:33:35.760 And some evidence for this would be that no woman had ever won the Fields Prize,

00:33:42.260 the Fields Medal, which is the highest award in mathematics,

00:33:46.140 until this became a big controversy.

00:33:47.900 And then something like 10 years after that, a woman finally won the Fields Medal.

00:33:51.860 But that would be it.

00:33:53.180 Because women have won all sorts of prizes and done all sorts of great scholarly work.

00:33:57.740 I'm not denying any of that.

00:33:58.680 But the very, very, very highest outlier peak, there are some differences.

00:34:02.800 Yeah, so, it's politically incorrect to say, but, you know, if your buddy's so obsessed with science,

00:34:08.180 you know, I suppose one would want to follow the science.

00:34:10.500 That when you do follow the science, then you get fired from Harvard, if you're Larry Summers.

00:34:14.620 Other people get fired from Harvard for other reasons.

00:34:17.680 I guess what I would ask your friend is, where does culture come from?

00:34:24.740 Where does society come from?

00:34:26.280 Why do we do the things that we do that are socially constructed?

00:34:30.580 Do those social constructions have any basis in reality?

00:34:34.700 In physical reality, even.

00:34:38.020 Do physical things imply metaphysical things?

00:34:45.300 Is this Leftist Tears Tumblr?

00:34:47.700 Can we deduce from the physical characteristics of the Leftist Tears Tumblr

00:34:50.800 that it is good for certain things and bad for other things?

00:34:56.240 That it's better for some things than for other things?

00:34:58.440 Can we deduce, just looking at the Tumblr, that the Tumblr is better for bringing Leftist Tears into my mouth

00:35:04.200 than it is for playing guitar?

00:35:08.840 We can do that.

00:35:10.860 Okay.

00:35:12.900 Can we not say the same thing about people and our roles in society?

00:35:17.240 I think we probably can.

00:35:18.000 Next one.

00:35:19.600 Good morning, Michael.

00:35:20.500 This is Arun.

00:35:21.120 A year ago, you gave an epically triggering and based speech entitled Science is Fake,

00:35:27.160 in which you made a distinction between reality and what we think of as objective physical truth.

00:35:32.440 I don't disagree with anything you said, but I was bothered by the potential loss of objective truth.

00:35:37.960 Your colleague, Dr. Spencer Clavin, recently cited a passage from Einstein's book on the theory of relativity,

00:35:43.660 which may help explain your view.

00:35:45.160 Einstein states that in Newtonian physics, and even the special theory of relativity,

00:35:49.700 so, you know, relativity with no gravity,

00:35:52.260 any point in the universe can be uniquely defined by its coordinates,

00:35:55.400 so three spatial and one temporal.

00:35:57.600 But in the general theory of relativity, this no longer holds,

00:36:00.740 because any matter distribution that is present

00:36:02.860 will create a gravitational field that warps the coordinate system itself.

00:36:07.200 Einstein states that the unique definition of a point can thus no longer be defined solely by its coordinates,

00:36:12.240 but by its encounters with other points, with other matter.

00:36:17.000 What I think he means here is that while the objective truth of a point's coordinates can be faked,

00:36:22.140 simply by doing a coordinate transformation, I suppose,

00:36:25.340 its interactions with other matter cannot be.

00:36:28.280 So, we cannot say whether the Earth or the Sun is the center of any defined coordinate system,

00:36:33.160 but we can say that the Earth and Sun are definitely orbiting each other around some common barycenter.

00:36:38.100 Would you say that this is the equivalent of defining reality in terms of objective reality,

00:36:43.960 coupled with the subjective reality of our experience with it?

00:36:47.780 And does that better comport with your understanding of truth?

00:36:52.100 Thank you, as always, for your insight.

00:36:54.240 It's a very astute and erudite way to put it, Arun, as always.

00:36:57.820 And yes, that's quite good.

00:36:58.940 The way I put it, because I don't have all that good science jargon,

00:37:02.780 would be a phrase like Owen Barfield's saving the appearances,

00:37:08.520 or Pierre Duhem's keeping the phenomena.

00:37:11.620 I forget which way, but they're saying much the same thing.

00:37:13.580 And that's what you're describing as well.

00:37:15.220 Very good.

00:37:15.960 As always, very good, Arun.

00:37:17.780 Next one.

00:37:19.300 Michael, in episode 1187, you talked about who Democrats could feel that could beat Trump,

00:37:24.960 whether it was only Biden who could do so or somebody else.

00:37:28.200 Actually, nobody really cares who Democrats put up for their nominee.

00:37:33.260 We know Biden didn't beat Trump first time.

00:37:35.920 Trump won by over 15 million votes, but their mail ballot fraud machine made up 20 million votes.

00:37:42.180 Biden is just a puppet for Democrats' Marxist shadow government.

00:37:45.960 Their mail ballot fraud has enabled them to win the last three years,

00:37:49.880 as well as squashing Republican hopes by falsely blaming Trump policies

00:37:54.200 that 80% of the country wants brought back.

00:37:57.080 If Republicans don't do something to stop them from cheating,

00:38:00.900 then even Trump can't win in 2024.

00:38:03.540 They could nominate a cockroach and win unless their ballot fraud machine is dismantled.

00:38:08.500 I agree in principle.

00:38:11.180 I don't know about the numbers and the extent.

00:38:13.460 And, you know, I actually don't think they need to generate all those millions of fake ballots

00:38:17.740 or, you know, do anything in some shadowy bunker all throughout the country.

00:38:21.800 I think really elections come down to like three places in the country

00:38:24.980 and tens of thousands of votes, hundreds of thousands at the most could swing elections.

00:38:29.880 So, I agree that there was obviously rigging.

00:38:33.700 And I think there's solid evidence of fraud in crucial places.

00:38:36.780 There's no question about any of that.

00:38:39.120 So, where does that leave us for 2024?

00:38:42.200 I don't think that they could run, you know, a snail.

00:38:46.440 I don't think they could put a literal corpse up there and win.

00:38:48.820 I mean, I do think either the rules have to be so thrown up in the air

00:38:54.360 or elections have to be somewhat close in order for fraud really to make a difference.

00:39:02.360 Now, they haven't done COVID again.

00:39:04.440 They've tried to do COVID again and people haven't really gone for it.

00:39:07.720 But they did try to push, okay, we're going to mask a little more

00:39:09.820 and social distance a little more.

00:39:11.040 And they obviously wanted to push the widespread mail-ins.

00:39:13.300 It didn't really take, it would be very difficult for them to say,

00:39:19.780 oh, Joe Biden wins by 50 gazillion votes at a time when all the public opinion polls reflect

00:39:24.520 that he's the least popular president ever by a long shot.

00:39:27.720 So, I agree.

00:39:29.780 The ballot fraud is a major issue.

00:39:32.860 Some of that's been tightened up.

00:39:34.620 And barring another pandemic, perhaps that'll be enough to make it through.

00:39:40.040 Next one.

00:39:41.560 Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here.

00:39:43.300 I wanted to talk to you about something you said on Monday about January 6th, 2020,

00:39:48.100 running on that sort of issue, how you can't really move on

00:39:50.820 and the only way to get past it is through.

00:39:53.540 My question is, for Trump or DeSantis or Haley, whoever ends up winning the nomination,

00:40:00.600 couldn't they just not talk about January 6th with the running,

00:40:03.580 since it's proven pretty much that people in the middle, moderates, independents,

00:40:07.680 nobody wants to talk about that anymore.

00:40:09.020 They want to be done.

00:40:09.640 They want to move on.

00:40:10.320 It seems like constantly harping on 2020 is going to cost whoever is on our side the election.

00:40:16.160 So, why don't they just not talk about it and then do something about it when they're actually in office?

00:40:21.600 So, I don't think anybody's going to actually stop the election from being rigged.

00:40:26.560 Trump doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.

00:40:29.100 DeSantis has said he would use leftist tactics against them, like ballot harvesting and stuff where it's legal.

00:40:34.080 But regardless, wouldn't it be better to not talk about something that will cost you an election

00:40:38.280 and just do something about it once you're elected?

00:40:40.460 Thanks.

00:40:40.720 It would be.

00:40:42.340 We just don't have that opportunity because they're prosecuting the president for January 6th.

00:40:46.380 So, you know, it will be in the news.

00:40:48.820 It will be an issue.

00:40:49.940 It will be a major issue.

00:40:51.160 And so the way to respond, I guess it's one of two ways.

00:40:54.680 Trump can say, look, look, I want to move on.

00:40:58.340 I just want to talk about taxes.

00:41:00.520 Okay, I don't want to talk about 2020.

00:41:03.000 That's behind us.

00:41:04.220 Kumbaya. 0.96

00:41:05.220 Or he can say, they rigged it and they're trying to throw me in the can because they're the most corrupt people ever.

00:41:10.080 And I think not only is he certainly going to say the latter response, but he kind of has to.

00:41:19.640 The prosecutions are an issue and they're all around January 6th.

00:41:23.920 And I don't think it necessarily will cost us the election.

00:41:26.600 There's a poll that just came out.

00:41:28.680 I forget which outlet.

00:41:29.340 Put it out.

00:41:30.100 Which showed that among all three political groups, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents,

00:41:36.180 Americans today are less likely to believe that the Biden election was legitimate than they were in 2021.

00:41:43.900 In 2021, the numbers were anywhere from three to six points higher in terms of believing that the election was credible.

00:41:52.820 So the January 6th propaganda really hasn't worked for the Democrats.

00:41:57.500 Why?

00:41:57.620 Because they told us that a Capitol officer was murdered by a crazy right-winger who threw a fire extinguisher at his head. 0.96

00:42:07.900 We know that was a lie. 0.58

00:42:09.080 We were told that this was an insurrection to overthrow the government.

00:42:12.200 We know that these people didn't have any weapons.

00:42:14.460 We were told that they overran the cops.

00:42:16.100 We know that the cops led them through the Capitol in certain cases.

00:42:19.240 We were told that poor public servants were killed as a result of this.

00:42:23.780 We know the one person who was killed in the political violence of January 6th was a Trump supporter killed by a trigger-happy cop.

00:42:28.920 We were told that these were racist neo-Nazi people.

00:42:33.060 It wasn't.

00:42:33.660 It was Midwestern grannies and eccentric people wearing horn hats. 1.00

00:42:36.680 It was all lies.

00:42:38.060 And we now know that they're lies because we've gotten some of that footage.

00:42:41.740 We've seen some of the prosecutions.

00:42:43.920 We've seen that these guys have been held in solitary confinement for a very, very long time.

00:42:46.800 And most Americans, including Democrats, think that the prosecutions of Trump are politically motivated and banana republic kind of stuff.

00:42:54.380 So, you know, ironically, the focus on January 6th has really, I think, helped the Republicans.

00:42:59.920 Now, would it be better if we could just avoid it all together and just focus on what a terrible President Biden is?

00:43:05.300 Yeah, I guess so.

00:43:05.940 But we can't.

00:43:06.520 We don't have that opportunity because the Democrats are not going to let us have that opportunity.

00:43:10.680 All right.

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