The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1401 - Suspected Jan 6th FED Gets Shocking Sentence

00:00:00.000 Ray Epps, the most prominent and vocal instigator of the riot at the Capitol on

00:00:05.120 January 6th, has finally been prosecuted and sentenced. Years after countless peaceful

00:00:14.780 demonstrators such as Midwestern grannies and smiling selfie takers were locked in the clink,

00:00:20.360 some in solitary confinement, for months and even years on end, the guy who most clearly

00:00:26.740 egged the supposed insurrectionists on went uncharged. This strange fact led some people

00:00:34.360 to conclude that Epps was actually a plant working for the federal government. In fact,

00:00:40.080 many Trump supporters suspected that Epps was a Fed the moment he started making his incendiary

00:00:45.560 demands before January 6th. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol, into the Capitol.

00:00:53.540 What? No! No! Peacefully! Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed!

00:01:03.160 Tomorrow, I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested. Well, let's not say it.

00:01:07.540 We need, we need to go, I'll say it. All right. We need to go in. Shut the f*** up, Boomer.

00:01:13.060 To the Capitol. Face Fed posting? All right. We need to go into the Capitol. I didn't see 1.00

00:01:19.440 that coming. Okay.

00:01:20.680 Monument Hill.

00:01:21.680 The President is now speaking. We are going to the Capitol, where our problems are. It's

00:01:28.440 that direction. We spread the word. All right. No, Dave, but one more thing. Yeah, so can we go up there?

00:01:36.680 No. When we go in. Are we going to get arrested when we go up there?

00:01:39.760 Yeah. You don't need to get shot. You're going to arrest us all?

00:01:43.720 Pretty weird, huh? But years later, he was finally charged. And now he's been sentenced. So

00:01:52.260 that probably should shut up the right-wing conspiracy theorists, right? Ray Epps has been

00:01:56.940 convicted and sentenced to a year of probation and some community service. Unlike all the far

00:02:07.440 more peaceful insurrectionists, Ray Epps will face no jail time, no solitary confinement. He won't even

00:02:14.220 be called a traitor by the media. In fact, he will be praised. This is how the Associated Press is

00:02:20.760 reporting on Epps' sentencing. Quote, a man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about

00:02:28.440 the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation for joining the January 6,

00:02:35.160 2021 attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. Joining? Joining is what he was doing?

00:02:43.440 He basically led the damn thing. And now he's a victim? Earlier this year, after the security camera 1.00

00:02:50.140 footage was released, contradicting the earlier narrative of a violent insurrection, here is

00:02:54.720 how the AP reported on that. Quote, handed some 41,000 hours of January 6 security footage, Fox

00:03:02.120 News' Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack.

00:03:09.660 Now, however, it is the AP that is explaining away and even excusing the actions of one of the main guys

00:03:17.500 who led the supposed attack. I was previously on the fence about Ray Epps being a Fed.

00:03:25.580 I kind of thought he was, but I was a little bit on the fence. The purpose of the prosecution,

00:03:30.540 it seems, was to prove to people that he was not a Fed. And as with so many machinations of the

00:03:37.800 geniuses who run our government, the actual effect has been the opposite. If I didn't think that Ray

00:03:44.360 Epps was a Fed before, I am now 100% convinced that he is. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

00:03:51.760 Knowles Show.

00:03:52.220 The Gen Z girl is complaining about working. There's something more going on here. People are 1.00

00:04:17.260 either defending her or they're just mocking her as a silly little snowflake. I think there's more 0.99

00:04:22.580 going on. We'll get to that in a second. First, though, speaking of the Fed's not sending their

00:04:27.460 best. You remember when that airplane just kind of like exploded the other day? An American airplane.

00:04:34.040 This was an Alaska Airlines flight that was going from Oregon to California. And then they get to 16,000

00:04:41.860 feet and part of the wall just blows off the plane. And they managed to land safely, but obviously it was

00:04:48.180 a very dangerous situation. So now the National Transportation Safety Board is explaining how that

00:04:55.360 kind of third world accident could happen in America. Now our systems group began looking at all

00:05:04.800 the aircraft systems. They documented the entire flight deck and they asked about the auto pressurization

00:05:14.420 fail light that did illuminate in three previous flights. There was a decision by Alaska Airlines to

00:05:24.620 a restriction, actually, they put in place. They call it an ETOPS restriction that prevented that plane

00:05:33.240 from being flown to Hawaii over water. So that it could, if some light did illuminate, it could return

00:05:41.860 very quickly to an airport.

00:05:45.640 So they knew about this? What the NTSB is saying is Alaska Airlines knew that there were major mechanical

00:05:55.420 problems with the plane. So much so that they feared that if they flew the airplane over the Pacific Ocean,

00:06:00.700 where there was nowhere nearby to land, the plane could go down and everyone would die.

00:06:05.360 They knew that there were pressurization problems. They knew that the side of the plane could blow off.

00:06:11.780 So they said, okay, the thing we should do here is not retire the plane and get a new plane.

00:06:17.180 What we'll do is we'll just fly it from Oregon to California.

00:06:21.440 This happened multiple times. I said, well, you know, look, it'd be very awkward if a light were to go

00:06:27.660 off while we were over the ocean. What if half the plane blew off? I don't know. Wouldn't that,

00:06:31.120 that seems like that's the real fear here. And that's what happened. Not a whole half the plane,

00:06:35.400 but a major chunk of one side of the plane blew off. Someone's shirt was ripped off of him.

00:06:40.860 A teddy bear flew out the window. The air masks came down. Everybody started freaking out.

00:06:45.120 And they luckily, thankfully, thank God, managed to land the plane. What kind of incompetence is

00:06:53.920 required at private industry and at the level of the federal government to allow this many warning

00:06:59.800 signs to go completely unheeded? Things are breaking down. If you've ever traveled anywhere around the

00:07:07.180 world, in Europe, in certainly in third world countries, you'll notice that one of the big

00:07:15.460 things that we take for granted in America is just that things kind of function. For all the

00:07:20.820 ideological strife and all the battles and all the policy preferences that we might have and we might

00:07:25.940 not get and blah, blah, blah, at least things kind of work. The cops, at least a few years ago,

00:07:32.320 would show up on time at least until a few years ago. Food supply systems worked just fine at least

00:07:40.280 until a few years ago. There was generally rule of law. At least the airplanes worked, you know,

00:07:46.180 and the roads worked and things. The society just moved. And we are in for a very rude awakening

00:07:53.380 because for decades now, we have eschewed basic competency training in favor of highly

00:08:01.220 ideological so-called education systems, just indoctrination and a bunch of liberal gobbledygook.

00:08:08.680 And we have neglected the basic functions that allow society to work. Expect more doors to blow

00:08:14.300 off more airplanes. Now, speaking of infamous airplanes, the Jeffrey Epstein saga gets even more bizarre.

00:08:24.760 They start teasing around New Year's Eve that there are new revelations that are going to come out

00:08:30.120 about Jeffrey Epstein, new documents to be unsealed by the courts. And I said, don't get your hopes up.

00:08:34.820 This is going to be a big distraction. And then I was proven completely correct about that. And all

00:08:39.720 the news that we got was just stuff we'd already heard. Oh, yes. Donald Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein.

00:08:45.060 Oh, yes. Prince Andrew was photographed with girls and Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, yes. Bill Clinton likes

00:08:49.080 young ladies. Wow. Shocking. Stop the presses. The new information that came out, at least semi-new 0.94

00:08:56.920 information, was that one of Epstein's accusers who said that she had first or at least secondhand

00:09:02.620 knowledge of Prince Andrew with these girls, of Bill Clinton, of all the big high-profile clients.

00:09:12.220 She said she had tapes. That Jeffrey Epstein recorded these people, that we already knew.

00:09:18.240 But she said she had tapes. She had access to the tapes. She'd seen them. Her friend recorded them.

00:09:23.920 Whatever. She got a hold of them. But that turned out to be fake news because she made that accusation 0.52

00:09:29.840 in 2017. By 2019, she said, oh, no, I made up the story about having access to the tapes. That wasn't real.

00:09:35.880 I just did it to spook Jeffrey Epstein so that he wouldn't come and try to kill me.

00:09:39.700 And I also did that to bring more attention to the Epstein story. Well, now she's recanting the

00:09:44.380 recantation. She said yesterday, these are videos that exist. The people that know they exist,

00:09:49.960 I'm sure, are very frightened of them being released, meaning the guys like Prince Andrew.

00:09:55.720 There were apparently hidden cameras all over Epstein's island. She said, it's no secret that

00:10:00.760 everything was recorded. Multiple victims have come forward confirming my account along with others.

00:10:04.560 I have also seen recordings in his office. She said, in the time that I was with Epstein,

00:10:10.080 Ghislaine Maxwell, among others, regularly enforced that if I ever did come forward,

00:10:15.560 myself and my family would be harmed. She said she's willing to testify in court that she has seen

00:10:21.300 CCTV footage, allegedly recorded by Epstein, showing these high-profile men

00:10:27.800 doing naughty things with her unnamed friend. So now she's saying, I have seen this footage.

00:10:35.120 It exists. I have seen it. I can testify about it. She goes on, when my friend had sexual intercourse

00:10:40.460 with Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate 0.79

00:10:44.700 occasion by Jeffrey. Thank God she managed to get a hold of some footage of the filmed sex tapes,

00:10:51.800 which clearly identify the faces of Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Branson having sexual intercourse 0.93

00:10:55.760 with her. But she goes on to say, frustratingly enough, Epstein was not seen in any of the 0.53

00:11:00.640 footage, but he was clever like that. Okay. So this actually is new information. We already knew

00:11:06.160 the tapes existed. It would appear that the FBI, when they raided Epstein's place, took the tapes

00:11:12.260 because a safe went missing, and we don't have the tapes, and that would be the evidence that you'd

00:11:16.500 want to collect. So Epstein's not in it, but all these high-profile guys are. Okay. Now the next

00:11:22.240 question is, where are the tapes? And this ties in with the point I made earlier. I actually don't

00:11:28.220 really care that much. I really don't want to see Bill Clinton doing anything naughty on a videotape.

00:11:33.320 It's okay. I lived through the 90s. I remember the stories. We all know it happened. I don't need

00:11:37.340 to see it. I don't want to see Prince Andrew or Richard Branson, for that matter, either.

00:11:42.040 I don't really even care about the Epstein client list being unmasked. I mean, it's good. It should be

00:11:47.900 unmasked. The people should be brought to justice. I think that would be great. But what is much more

00:11:52.620 politically relevant is who Jeffrey Epstein was working for. So the way this plays into that is

00:11:59.740 someone has those tapes. Someone is covering those tapes up. Whoever is in possession of those tapes,

00:12:06.760 if they are a law enforcement agency or an intelligence agency, is protecting the clients

00:12:11.500 of Jeffrey Epstein. We know that Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who is a spy for

00:12:19.480 maybe three intelligence agencies, Israeli intelligence, British intelligence, maybe even

00:12:25.020 Russian intelligence. We know that from British intelligence, actually. We know that Jeffrey Epstein

00:12:32.580 was very likely connected to American intelligence because of the testimony of Alex Acosta, the U.S.

00:12:37.860 attorney who prosecuted him in Florida and then was up for labor secretary under Trump.

00:12:41.500 The next question is, where are the tapes? Who is holding those tapes? Which agency very likely is

00:12:50.360 holding those tapes? Why is the agency holding those tapes? What was that agency's relationship

00:12:57.180 with Jeffrey Epstein before he was arrested the first time, before he was arrested the second time,

00:13:04.660 before he totally killed himself, and afterward? Even if they had no relationship with Epstein before,

00:13:11.500 it seems unlikely, but let's say they didn't. And they just found these tapes. Why are they hiding

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00:14:30.660 details about credit card costs and terms. Speaking of matters of the heart, I'm not sure

00:14:37.420 that what was going on on Epstein Island was exactly a matter of the heart, but I guess it's

00:14:41.560 somewhat related. There's a study out, breaking study. Love really does change how the brain works.

00:14:51.480 An amazing study just came out of Australia says that romantic love has a connection to the release

00:15:00.700 of oxytocin, often called the love hormone, and this helps to explain why we seem to go all kooky

00:15:08.760 when we fall in love. It is thought that romantic love first emerged some 5 million years ago after

00:15:15.720 we split from our ancestors, these researchers conclude. Love can be an elevating and amazing,

00:15:24.800 but also a traumatic experience. Wow, really, that's a really interesting finding of the study.

00:15:30.040 They find out that when people fall in love, our brains react differently, and our romantic flame

00:15:36.000 becomes the center of our lives. And this study sheds light on the mysterious mechanisms that underlie

00:15:43.720 that experience. According to Dr. Phil Kavanaugh from the University of Conberra, he says that

00:15:51.040 romantic love is associated with changes in behavior as well as changes of perception and emotion.

00:15:56.420 He says, we know the role that oxytocin plays in romantic love because we get waves of it circulating

00:16:01.160 throughout our nervous system and bloodstream when we interact with loved ones. The way that loved ones

00:16:06.380 take on special importance is due to oxytocin combining with dopamine. That's another chemical that our brain

00:16:13.000 releases during romantic love, meaning that, quote, love activates pathways in the brain

00:16:19.960 associated with positive feelings. You can read more about this groundbreaking study in behavioral sciences,

00:16:26.060 except it would be a total waste of your time because it doesn't tell us anything new about love.

00:16:30.500 And I mention it not just to make fun of this study or these researchers or anything,

00:16:34.960 but to make fun of the scientific, modern scientific endeavor broadly.

00:16:42.400 Modern science is supposed to shed new light on all the mysteries of the universe. It's going to

00:16:47.980 unlock all the keys to all those mysteries. And yet, we didn't learn anything new there. Yet,

00:16:52.600 anyone who has ever had a crush on the girl in math class in seventh grade knows that love makes you

00:16:59.960 feel different and behave different and talk different. Yet, we all know that. So many of

00:17:07.640 these scientific studies do not tell us anything new. They don't explain anything. They just code

00:17:15.520 common sense in scientific jargon. Well, you see, our new groundbreaking scientific study shows

00:17:22.980 that you get a rush of dopamine and oxytocin when you see that pretty girl that you love.

00:17:29.960 Oh, you mean I go a little gaga? Okay. Can you tell me anything more about it? No, not at all.

00:17:36.240 We don't know anything about why that happens or how that came to be or the purpose that it might

00:17:40.800 serve. But listen, we're very scientific. So stop talking about elation and infatuation and love

00:17:49.060 affairs and start talking about oxytocin and dopamine. That's going to explain it. It actually

00:17:53.120 does the opposite. Oxytocin and dopamine mean nothing to me. I don't know what that means.

00:17:58.200 I know what love is. I don't know what those things are. You see this even in the gender debate.

00:18:05.620 What is a woman? The question that fascinated the entire world for a year, but maybe still it's 0.55

00:18:12.200 fascinating the world. And not only the liberals, but even the conservatives were giving all the

00:18:17.760 stupidest answers. Well, a woman is someone with two X chromosomes. I don't know what X chromosomes are. 1.00

00:18:22.740 That means nothing to me. When I think, hey, close your eyes. Think of a woman. Did you think of two 0.75

00:18:29.260 X chromosomes? No, you didn't. Sugar and spice and everything nice goes a lot further to describe a

00:18:37.620 woman than two X chromosomes or a human person with a uterus or whatever. 1.00

00:18:43.320 However, the problem here is not that the left attacks us for being anti-scientific or uneducated 0.99

00:18:51.860 or rubes or idiots or not curious or whatever. I think conservatives are much more curious. I think 0.99

00:18:56.800 we're much more intellectually engaged generally than the leftists and the materialists and the libs are.

00:19:01.940 The problem here is that the whole modern scientific endeavor that comes out after the enlightenment,

00:19:09.880 after the scientific revolution, which doesn't expand our horizons of perception. It narrows them.

00:19:19.000 It tries to pretend that everything in life is just material. It's just chemicals and stuff. But that

00:19:25.140 isn't true. We know that that isn't true. We know that there are things beyond the physical,

00:19:28.360 beyond matter. We know that there is form. We know that there is metaphysical reality. We know that

00:19:34.780 there is a moral order. We know that there's mathematics. I can't touch mathematics. I can't

00:19:38.860 pull mathematics out of the air. We know mathematics exists. We know morality exists, even if Reddit-tier

00:19:44.920 atheists want to deny that. We know it exists. We know that there's a natural moral order that we can all

00:19:49.700 know everybody on earth using his reason. I think we know that our reason is pretty reliable.

00:19:56.600 Some people deny that too. They say, oh, it's just a delusion or what we consider to be our reason,

00:20:01.580 what we consider to be our perception of objective reality is just socially constructed. But we don't

00:20:06.020 behave that way. We all behave as though it's objectively true. And we argue and we debate and

00:20:11.380 we have all sorts of policy battles based on the assumption that these things are true. 0.92

00:20:15.920 Even the most silly materialist lib will, in moments of weakness, appeal to human rights and to 0.67

00:20:22.220 what's good and even what's true. The takeaway here is that there is a lot more to knowledge 0.95

00:20:30.940 than modern science. There's a lot more to science than what we call modern science. Now,

00:20:35.940 speaking of the science and that gender debate, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, who is a Republican,

00:20:42.960 allegedly, made waves last week when he vetoed a bill that would ban the sexual mutilation of children

00:20:54.020 and that would keep dudes out of the women's locker room. He vetoed it. He said, no, we can't do that. 1.00

00:21:00.320 Totally squished on the easiest political issue of our time. Well, now he's trying to walk that back.

00:21:06.420 He just signed a limited executive order on Friday, banning transgender surgeries on children.

00:21:12.740 That is just one week after vetoing the bill that would have gone much further and actually gotten

00:21:19.320 the job done. Why? Why is he doing this? Well, he's been absolutely excoriated by every sensible person,

00:21:26.100 the right, the middle, even centrist liberals. He was attacked by Donald Trump. Trump said,

00:21:31.460 I'm done with this stiff. This guy's a complete joker, which he obviously is.

00:21:34.520 So he tries to undo it with an executive order. An executive order is much weaker than legislation

00:21:40.740 that he could sign. If he's having regrets here, then go back, have the legislature, pass it again,

00:21:46.600 and he should sign it. He should override his own veto if he's realized that he was wrong.

00:21:54.860 But if he's trying to find a middle ground on transgenderism, it's not going to work.

00:21:59.520 Transgenderism is all or nothing. When you try to find a middle ground, you give up your entire 1.00

00:22:03.340 argument. Because what the Libs say is, we're not charitable. We're not nice. We're cruel and

00:22:07.740 we're mean. And that's why we won't let young trans people live their truth because we're just 0.89

00:22:14.320 mean-spirited and nasty. And the conservative response to that is, no, no, no, we're the

00:22:19.560 charitable ones. We're the ones who are being kind to these people because it is simply a fact that a

00:22:25.000 man can't become a woman. And so if we pretend to any degree that a man can become a woman, we're 0.99

00:22:29.580 going to hurt this person. We're going to lead him further into delusion. We're going to deprive

00:22:33.260 other people of their legitimate rights within society, like the right of girls to have their 0.97

00:22:37.040 own bathrooms and their own sports teams and whatever. But we're also going to be engaging

00:22:41.320 in a very cruel act toward the trans-identifying people because a man can't really become a 0.54

00:22:46.120 woman. It's all or nothing. As I pointed out at CPAC almost exactly one year ago, can't wait

00:22:50.600 for my speech this year? On certain issues, you've got to be clear. Clarity is always charity.

00:23:00.020 And on certain political issues, there's no middle ground. Mike DeWine wants a middle ground. He's

00:23:03.800 going to upset everybody. And he's, in fact, digging that hole he started digging even deeper.

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00:24:30.920 required. Price varies based on product and subscription plan. Speaking of weird trans stuff, 1.00

00:24:37.100 got to give a hat tip here to our friends over at Libs of TikTok. There is some kind of queer 1.00

00:24:43.620 identifying person who demands that if you have genital preferences, you are transphobic.

00:24:51.620 Yes, genital preferences are always transphobic. You're welcome. No, but seriously, deciding that 0.97

00:24:58.360 you don't want to be intimate with someone because of the genitals they have is transphobic, particularly

00:25:05.000 like if you think about in this case, this means that this person is not open to dating

00:25:10.900 trans women, which invalidates their womenhood. Not only that, it makes assumptions about the way 1.00

00:25:17.020 that trans people are going to want to use those genitals. The idea that trans people use the body 1.00

00:25:22.580 parts that they have in the same way that cis people with those same body parts do is transphobic. 0.61

00:25:28.220 Say it with me. Genital preferences are always transphobic.

00:25:34.120 Obviously, the point that this individual is making, I can't quite tell. I think

00:25:37.640 she is a woman with short hair. I don't know though, especially when the camera's really up close. It's

00:25:44.480 sometimes hard to tell. I guess that's the point of this gender bending androgyny that we're all 1.00

00:25:48.680 living in. Surface level, yes, she's making a stupid argument. If you're a man and you like women, 1.00

00:25:55.780 that makes you normal, that doesn't make you a phobe of any kind. But there's something

00:26:01.900 more interesting to this video, and it gets a little deeper at the gender issue, which is

00:26:07.940 have. The verb have, if you have this, if you have that. The key to understanding this error

00:26:21.440 is the view of the body as something that you have rather than something that you are. 0.96

00:26:29.440 And the most extreme version of this from some of the trans activists is they'll refer to penis owners

00:26:35.200 or uterus owners as though you own part of your body, which gets at another problem, this liberal

00:26:43.620 premise of self-ownership, which even libertarians like. But let's not even get into that debate right

00:26:50.960 now. Not even get into that issue. The body, your body is not something that you have. It's something

00:26:56.660 that you are. You're not merely your body, but you're also not merely your soul. You are your body

00:27:04.280 and your soul together in a hylomorphic union. This person probably has not given this very much

00:27:12.700 thought, certainly not much rigorous thought. And the way that we speak can be very, very slippery.

00:27:17.560 This is why I wrote this book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you.

00:27:22.200 Is because language not only allows us to communicate the ideas that are already formed

00:27:28.760 in our heads. Language forms our very picture of reality. Language forms our very consciousness.

00:27:36.500 Language sets the boundaries of what we are even able to conceive of. And so when we regularly use

00:27:43.740 language such as, I have this body part, I have that body part, we are implicitly alienating ourselves

00:27:51.380 from our bodies. And once we've done that, we've conceded the transgender debate. The whole transgender 0.76

00:27:55.880 debate hinges on, do you have anything to do with your body? Does your actual identity have anything to

00:28:03.560 do with your body? If it does, then transgenderism is fake. Because it's completely nonsensical in that 1.00

00:28:10.620 case to say, well, you have the body of a man, but you're not really a man. Because you are identified

00:28:17.980 with your body. If you have nothing to do with your body, then transgenderism is very likely true. 1.00

00:28:25.400 And the arguments against transgenderism by the Christians and the Jews and the Muslims and

00:28:30.340 every reasonable person ever, then those arguments are fake.

00:28:34.380 So which is it? You don't just have, and this gets down to the very liberal assumptions of

00:28:44.920 self-ownership. Do you own yourself? Are you your own God? Or are you an island unto yourself? Are you

00:28:52.600 totally self-sovereign? Or are you actually responsible to and accountable to some other reality?

00:29:00.480 Are you accountable to your family, to society, to the moral order, to your country, to biological

00:29:08.560 reality? Is your ability to choose your own adventure circumscribed by those limits?

00:29:17.880 The answer is yes, it is all circumscribed. But the politics of liberation is going to blow up all of

00:29:25.380 those limits. And the language that we use, the language that liberalism has foisted upon us,

00:29:30.860 is going to trick, I don't know if that person's so normal, but even normal people into accepting

00:29:36.500 those premises without even thinking about it. Speaking of young people, a young Zoomer girl 1.00

00:29:42.240 has just broken down in tears in her car on TikTok because she doesn't like working.

00:29:48.340 I cannot stand how the news has been dogging Gen Z and calling them lazy for not wanting to work a

00:29:53.920 nine to five for the rest of their lives. Let me put it in perspective for everybody who's a little 0.98

00:29:57.920 confused here, okay? I work five days out of the week, 40 hours a week, okay? I do not make enough

00:30:04.540 to live on my own. I would not make enough to pay rent, water, electric, and eat all by myself.

00:30:11.460 I would not be capable of doing that. 20 years ago when you were getting started, you could live on your

00:30:16.040 own. 20 years ago when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do.

00:30:22.240 Let me add another perspective here. You've been working for 20 years. You have 20 years of

00:30:26.960 working experience behind your belt. You have 20 years of experience in a career that has allowed

00:30:32.920 you to gain raises, to get more money, to profit you in an economy that you created. You could sit

00:30:39.540 here and you can call Gen Z lazy all you want, but I've been working my tail end off just to barely

00:30:43.620 make it by. And respectfully, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life.

00:30:46.600 So the usual talking points, conservative cable news reaction to this is, listen to this crazy 0.71

00:30:54.740 snowflake. She needs to learn how to work hard. Nine to five, that's only eight hours of the day. 1.00

00:30:59.820 That's not even all that much work. You know, I worked 16 hours a day. I walked uphill both ways

00:31:05.240 in the snow and the sleet. I worked in the coal mines when I was eight years old and I worked my way.

00:31:10.360 Okay, fair enough. Yeah, that's true. I work more than eight hours a day. And well, maybe I don't

00:31:16.180 though. Technically I do. And if you just log the hours that I'm working on something that pertains

00:31:22.460 to my professional life, it's way more than eight hours a day. But in another sense, I really don't

00:31:26.420 work at all because I love everything I do and I'd probably do it for free. And so that's great.

00:31:31.640 Now, it wasn't always like that. When I was in my early twenties, I was working plenty of jobs that

00:31:35.700 I didn't really want to do and I wasn't being paid that well for it. And I was so sure. And over time,

00:31:40.240 if you keep working at a career and maybe you catch some lucky breaks here or there, then,

00:31:44.880 you know, your professional life gets a little bit happier, but it doesn't for everybody. Some

00:31:48.620 people work a job that they hate for their whole lives and they just do it because that's their

00:31:52.080 responsibility. And all of that is fair enough. And we've heard all of that commentary before.

00:31:58.140 The part that no one's focusing on is that part she says right at the beginning of the video,

00:32:03.760 she says, I'm working eight hours a day. I'm working 40 hours a week and I can't even afford

00:32:10.380 all of the things that I need to live alone. Why does she want to live alone? 1.00

00:32:18.380 Why do you want to live alone? A lot of people do live alone. Some people do it because they don't

00:32:24.320 have any other choice or they don't think they have any other choice. Some people do it because they

00:32:27.900 think that they want to do it, but living alone is not ideal. That's not really what you want.

00:32:33.940 Doesn't this girl want to get married? Man is a coupling creature. Don't you want to get, 1.00

00:32:38.180 marriage is great. Most people are called to marriage. Not everyone is called to marriage.

00:32:44.500 Some people are called to religious life, let's say. But when you don't live alone,

00:32:49.000 when you're in religious life, you're not going to get married, but you're going to go live maybe

00:32:51.700 with a religious order. You're going to go live in a rectory with a full community around you.

00:32:57.240 Some people are not called to marriage. Some people are also not called to religious life.

00:33:00.380 Some people live a single life for whatever reason, but often they'll have a roommate or

00:33:08.380 maybe they'll live with some family member or at the very least they will live within a community

00:33:13.440 to be around people. Man is not meant to live alone. Modern liberal society says we're supposed

00:33:20.120 to be totally alone, as independent as you can possibly be. Independence good, dependence bad.

00:33:24.240 Do whatever you want whenever you want to do it good. Constrain yourselves to the rules of society

00:33:30.300 bad. But that's just wrong. You are not supposed to be completely 100% self-sufficient and go live

00:33:38.380 in the woods somewhere. It's not how society is supposed to work. This woman is complaining 1.00

00:33:42.740 about something that she thinks she desires that is totally unnatural and not conducive to her

00:33:48.000 flourishing. I'm not saying there aren't problems with the political economy, and I'm not saying there

00:33:50.920 aren't ways to, I don't know, have debates over wages. But in the good old days, families lived

00:33:58.720 together. They were bigger families. They lived together for longer, and then they got married

00:34:03.180 much, much younger, and then they built new families, and they built strong, thriving communities.

00:34:08.620 And we lived as citizens and social creatures. Now we don't, and it creates all sorts of problems.

00:34:16.700 Yeah, you're right. There is something really wrong with working full-time and not being able to have

00:34:22.720 everything that you need. Maybe we need different things than modern society tells us that we do.

00:34:30.900 Now, speaking of judgment, it's a little bit of a weak transition. Judge Judy has just made her 1.00

00:34:41.660 political endorsement for 2024. I know you were all waiting. Bated breath. Drum roll, please.

00:34:47.840 Judge Judy is endorsing Nikki Haley. Yes. What'd you think? I didn't really know. I assumed she was a 0.74

00:34:57.700 little bit right-wing, but not totally right-wing. I don't, you know, she's a New Yorker,

00:35:03.540 and she's, and actually it makes perfect sense that she would endorse someone like Nikki Haley.

00:35:08.300 Why, why is she doing it? She said, I'm proud to endorse Nikki Haley because she's whip smart, 0.99

00:35:11.520 has executive credentials, and was a superb governor. I truly think she can restore America

00:35:15.140 and believe she is the future of this great nation. There are a lot of people like Judge Judy out

00:35:22.040 there. For everyone who wrote off Nikki Haley early on because she's more centrist and she

00:35:26.600 is more inclined to compromise on issues that are really near and dear to conservatives. So a lot of

00:35:32.780 conservatives don't really like Nikki Haley. There are a lot of people like Judge Judy 0.55

00:35:37.280 out there whose political views are maybe not totally coherent, but they're still kind of

00:35:46.060 popular. You know, these days, if you run in really plugged in political circles,

00:35:51.960 politics is getting a little more polarized and extreme. The conservatives are becoming more

00:35:58.260 conservative. The leftists are becoming more leftist. Gone are the days of the Bill Clinton,

00:36:03.580 New Democrats. Gone are the days of Tony Blair, New Labor. Gone are the days of the social liberal

00:36:09.520 fiscal conservative, which was a mainstream way to identify yourself, especially in yuppie and urban

00:36:17.940 circles. I'm not sure it ever had a ton of cachet ideologically throughout the rest of the country,

00:36:23.300 but it was popular. Bill Clinton got elected to two terms, the Bushes. Bush, one, was socially liberal

00:36:30.760 and fiscally conservative. He got elected at least one time. And Bush, too, was a little more socially

00:36:36.300 conservative. Still, he gets elected twice. And that view, which is deeply unsatisfying to people

00:36:42.280 who are really, really plugged into politics, I think remains fairly popular still. Ever since Tony

00:36:48.260 Blair, that has defined the politics of the United Kingdom. Even when the right-wingers win, it's usually

00:36:54.220 on a fiscally conservative, socially liberal platform. I think a lot of people look at that

00:36:59.080 today, they say, that's passé. That kind of view has led to so many of the problems that we have

00:37:03.860 today. It's led to all the economic problems that the left complains about, the inequality of wealth

00:37:10.980 and the depression of wages and the outsourcing of jobs, which that's an issue that the right

00:37:16.840 complains about. But it's also led to all the social problems that the right complains about,

00:37:20.680 the breakdown of the family, the redefinition of the basic building block of society, all the weird

00:37:24.860 sex stuff. In some ways, this fiscally conservative, socially liberal thing, it's the worst of all

00:37:31.940 political views. And yet, electorally, it still seems to have some power. And the 2024 election is going to

00:37:41.020 be a bellwether. Are we moving into a new political era? Or does that view that really took shape in

00:37:52.740 the 1990s, is that still a holdover? The really plugged-in political people, the ones who are

00:37:59.340 terminally online, they say there's no way that sort of thing could work. We'll find out. Was the

00:38:05.300 radicalism of Barack Obama and the reactionary radicalism of Donald Trump, was that an aberration?

00:38:11.800 And now we're returning back to regular old Clintonian center-left kind of politics? Or

00:38:18.540 was there a real break and there's a new political era dawning? We will see. And Judge Judy will be 1.00

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00:39:12.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music, who says,

00:39:17.100 maybe there was a giant tablet buried under that synagogue and Indiana Jones was trying to take a

00:39:22.360 look. It could be the case. You know, I'll tell you, I have been dragged online, a little bit in

00:39:28.420 the comments section on the show, all over Twitter, for suggesting that I am skeptical

00:39:36.400 that the Jews were committing human sacrifice and trafficking babies and harvesting organs 0.77

00:39:41.880 in the little tunnel by the Chabad place. I have been dragged. I've been called all sorts of, 0.65

00:39:48.620 I've been called an idiot and a rube. And I don't know. I just, it seems to me, I could be wrong. 1.00

00:39:54.220 I guess I've been wrong on occasion before. It seems to me unlikely that the Chabad Lubavitcher 1.00

00:39:59.960 rabbis are sacrificing babies and trafficking children and committing human sacrifice and stuff 1.00

00:40:07.000 underneath that little area of the synagogue. It could be, I'm not saying it can't be, but

00:40:13.600 I don't really see any evidence for it. You know, there's the piece of evidence that keeps going

00:40:20.440 around is they say that, that in the video where the cops show up and they say, clean up this hole,

00:40:26.380 the people take a stained mattress out of the tunnel. So I go back to the tape and they don't

00:40:33.900 though. They take it out of the wall, the space between the wall paneling and the closed off part

00:40:39.820 of the tunnel. It's not in the tunnel. The tunnel isn't open there. So I don't know if you have

00:40:43.740 evidence that the Chabad next are doing human sacrifice in this tunnel from one building they 1.00

00:40:51.900 had to another building that I think they used to have, or it was closed down or whatever,

00:40:54.900 like a block down. I'm, I'm open to seeing it. Okay. I'm not, I'm not, the tunnel is weird. I'm not

00:41:01.280 going to deny that the tunnel is weird, but without any good evidence of that, I don't know. It would

00:41:06.760 it seems to me the prudent and reasonable thing to err on the side of not human sacrifice. I don't

00:41:12.940 know. I could be wrong, but that seems reasonable to me. Now, speaking of complex political shifts,

00:41:19.480 as actually pertains to the Hebraic people and their enemies over in the Middle East,

00:41:25.640 some pro-Palestine protesters a couple of days ago were vandalizing U.S. military,

00:41:33.160 a U.S. military cemetery and blocking highways. So you might've seen the videos going all around

00:41:39.340 this free Palestine stuff, graffitiing at cemeteries and then, and then blocking all sorts

00:41:46.340 of highways. And there was a great video of a guy, he's pulling up and you got these pro-Palestine

00:41:52.420 people shutting down the highway. And this guy pulls up and he screams at them and he says,

00:41:57.360 hey, I got a daughter in Brooklyn. I want to get to Brooklyn. Get out of my way. 0.51

00:42:03.160 You're destructing traffic, idiots. You can't do that. That's against the law. 1.00

00:42:23.720 Bro, I'm not going to start wilding them. I'm not going to start throwing fists at you, bro.

00:42:27.360 I'm not going to run you over. Get away from my car, bro.

00:42:30.080 Okay! Go! 0.97

00:42:32.180 Get away from my car! 0.99

00:42:37.260 Get away from my car! 0.99

00:42:39.540 Don't touch him!

00:42:40.940 Bro, get away from my car!

00:42:43.020 I have a daughter in Brooklyn!

00:42:45.060 Don't touch him!

00:42:46.060 Get in your car!

00:42:46.960 Get out of the way! 0.99

00:42:48.040 He pushes him over.

00:42:51.900 They're still not really moving.

00:42:53.120 And one of them went down like a ton of bricks, but the other ones don't move.

00:42:56.420 And then he just starts slowly driving his car.

00:42:58.360 He has a lot of restraint, this guy.

00:43:02.520 Slowly driving.

00:43:04.720 But he's kind of like tapping him a little bit, and then he just goes.

00:43:07.680 Which is very admirable restraint and the right thing to do.

00:43:12.880 Absolutely.

00:43:13.940 You got to go get to your daughter.

00:43:14.960 You are not going to let these wackos slow you down or stop you from doing it entirely. 1.00

00:43:20.460 The reason I bring it up is the Israel-Palestine conflict is not the biggest issue for me.

00:43:27.600 I'm not saying I don't care about it at all.

00:43:28.900 I do care about it in a general way.

00:43:30.620 But it's not very high up the list.

00:43:33.220 There are other political priorities that I have.

00:43:35.580 I care about other international conflicts too.

00:43:37.640 I care about the Ukraine war to some degree.

00:43:40.420 It's kind of low on my list.

00:43:41.800 I care about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia, the oldest Christian nation in the world,

00:43:47.260 and the Muslims in Azerbaijan.

00:43:50.220 I care about it.

00:43:51.260 It's still not way at the top of my list.

00:43:54.140 And there we're talking about the oldest Christian nation, so I'm inclined to care about it even more.

00:43:58.880 But I can look at the way that these issues are coded.

00:44:04.400 Political conflicts tend to be coded left-right.

00:44:08.200 In the case of the Israel-Palestine issue, it doesn't map perfectly onto U.S. politics.

00:44:12.720 It's a foreign conflict.

00:44:14.380 But inasmuch as it is bleeding over into U.S. politics, the pro-Palestine side is left-coded.

00:44:21.900 Those people blocking traffic are not conservatives.

00:44:25.740 They disagree with us on everything.

00:44:27.820 Those people who are vandalizing military cemeteries, they're not right-wing.

00:44:34.840 They're not conservatives.

00:44:36.880 So it seems to me, just as a matter of practical prejudice, I'm not going to go down into the weeds of every single political issue.

00:44:48.180 I'm not going to go write a 150-page thesis on every issue to really figure out what I think about, especially international conflicts that don't really involve me all that much.

00:44:57.000 I'm just going to use rules of thumb.

00:44:59.460 I'm going to use little heuristics.

00:45:02.180 And it seems to me that in this case, all the most ardently pro-Palestine people with the Palestine stuff in their Twitter bios are left-wing.

00:45:14.180 Now, I'm sure there are plenty of pro-Palestine people in the Middle East who would not call themselves left-wing.

00:45:18.460 I'm just saying that's how it codes onto American politics.

00:45:21.020 And so I'm not going to join the pro-liberate Palestine protest in America because, frankly, the pro-Palestine protests in America aren't even really about Israel and Palestine. 0.94

00:45:33.340 When some purple-haired transsexual shows up and says, we need to free Gaza, it's obviously ridiculous, and the person would be thrown off a rooftop in Gaza. 0.99

00:45:42.700 But they're not really protesting anything about Gaza or Israel. 0.97

00:45:45.640 They don't know anything about it, and they don't really care.

00:45:47.220 They're protesting American conservatives. 0.69

00:45:51.560 They're protesting the white man.

00:45:52.720 They're protesting the patriarchy.

00:45:53.980 They're protesting George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, okay?

00:45:57.240 And they're using the Israel-Palestine conflict as a way to express their anger, probably at their own fathers, but at all of the rest of us.

00:46:06.000 So that's the issue that's really being debated here.

00:46:08.960 The Palestine liberation protests in America, around the world, it probably does involve a land conflict in the Middle East.

00:46:19.800 But in America, it's not so much about the Palestine as it is about the liberation.

00:46:23.880 And the ideology of liberation is very, very bad, and it's very, very leftist, and it has to be opposed because they're going to be toppling.

00:46:32.700 They are the same people who are toppling statues of George Washington, who want to abolish the prisons, who want to let the criminals roam the country, who want to get rid of our borders, who want to upend everything.

00:46:42.020 That's the way I think about it.

00:46:43.160 I've said from the beginning the American interest in the Israel-Palestine war is to contain the war so that it doesn't expand throughout the region or, God forbid, become a major world war that drags us in.

00:46:52.260 Because I have no interest in the U.S. getting particularly military involved in that, particularly militarily involved in that.

00:46:59.780 But when it comes to blocking roads in Brooklyn, that's not what we're dealing with.

00:47:04.920 We're dealing with the same people that show up to the Antifa rallies, the same people that tried to blow me up at Pittsburgh, the same people that shut down the country, that rioted over George Floyd.

00:47:14.960 Well, George Floyd wasn't even over George Floyd.

00:47:17.600 It was all just over the same enemy that they perceive themselves to have, which is us, which is normal people.

00:47:28.000 Speaking of racial and ethnic conflict, Joe Biden has been a race hustler for a long time.

00:47:34.120 It's gotten worse in recent years.

00:47:35.220 He launched his 2020 presidential campaign on a lie that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis.

00:47:39.280 Very fine people in Charlottesville.

00:47:40.460 It's totally fake.

00:47:41.060 Like, now he's explaining, he's giving a damning example of that systemic racism that he's been fear-mongering about for years.

00:47:49.700 So a home owned by today, a home owned by a black family on one side of a highway, built by the same builder on the other side of the highway, and a white guy living in it, the white guy's home is valued more than the black guy's. 0.85

00:48:02.120 No, I know you know it.

00:48:04.520 But guess what?

00:48:06.120 That's how you build generational wealth.

00:48:07.980 Now, listen, I got standing there on the side of me, so over on the home of the house, I said, I might be coming there for a little bit, but I think the point, if there was a point in that, he said, you got two homes in two different parts of town, one on one side of the highway and one on the other.

00:48:24.220 You know, the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks.

00:48:25.980 And they're both built by the same architect.

00:48:28.240 But one is worth more money than the other.

00:48:29.920 You know what they always say in real estate?

00:48:35.060 They always say, the three most important words in real estate are architect, architect, architect, right?

00:48:39.740 Is that what they say?

00:48:40.340 No, they say it's location, location, location.

00:48:42.420 So he's saying, yeah, this one house in a nice neighborhood is worth more money than the house in the bad neighborhood.

00:48:49.740 And the bad neighborhood is a bad neighborhood for all sorts of reasons.

00:48:52.600 Maybe it's not as geographically ideal, and there's probably a lot of crime going on, and maybe it's economically depressed.

00:48:58.420 And the good neighborhood is nice and safe, you know, and it's beautiful to look at, and it may be more accessible to certain places.

00:49:07.980 But, yeah, that's true.

00:49:11.460 Where's the systemic racism?

00:49:13.880 Where's the example of that?

00:49:14.940 I don't quite see it.

00:49:16.600 As with many things Joe Biden says, I don't quite see it.

00:49:19.560 The rest of the show continues.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 10, 2024

Ep. 1401 - Suspected Jan 6th FED Gets Shocking Sentence

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