The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1411 - Trump's Huge Win Shakes Up The Primary

00:00:00.000 President Trump won the New Hampshire primary yesterday. The New York Post is reporting that

00:00:04.700 a woman has become pregnant. And Chuck Schumer wants to take away your six-milli-lip pillies

00:00:10.460 of Zinn nicotine. All of those stories in ascending order of newsworthiness and importance.

00:00:16.860 And more. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. The libs who want all of you smoking the devil's lettuce, 1.00

00:00:43.720 who want to legalize the Zinn spinach, the Haitian oregano, the Peruvian parsley.

00:00:49.160 You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about pot. Those same people want to take away 0.79

00:00:55.300 your tasty little pouches of salt and nicotine. As far as I can tell, forget the Trump indictments,

00:01:03.760 forget the 2024 election. No issue is more likely to bring America to civil war than the libs taking 0.56

00:01:11.080 away the rights Zinn. Okay? No issue. The American right is extremely peaceful. I think they could go 0.97

00:01:21.860 berserk if you try to deport them from Zimbabwe. So we'll get to that very important story in a 0.95

00:01:29.160 second. First, though, the far less newsworthy story, the story that we all knew, most of us,

00:01:34.220 the reasonable people knew it was going to happen for a long time. President Trump won the New

00:01:39.360 Hampshire primary by a considerable margin. It wasn't a complete and total blowout. It wasn't,

00:01:45.020 you know, 90 to 10 or something. But this is now effectively a two-person race. Ron DeSantis

00:01:52.300 barely showed up in the polls, obviously, because he suspended his campaign a number of days ago.

00:01:57.620 Trump won 54.6 to 43.1 at last update. The numbers are still going to change as those last

00:02:04.820 votes come in. But that's a sizable margin and 11 and a half points in a two-man race.

00:02:10.740 We're told that Trump is this despised figure. He divides the base. We've all heard he's got a

00:02:16.240 ceiling. He can't get above 30 percent support, 40 percent support. That's not true. He's got a

00:02:21.000 clear majority of Republican support, even when it comes down to a two-person race, even where there's

00:02:25.160 a clear distinction. Do you want the candidate who's more moderate and more centrist and more

00:02:31.940 friendly, friendly or rather with the Chamber of Commerce and the GOP establishment? Or do you want

00:02:37.740 this crazy populist, maniac Donald Trump? Even there, when it's a really clear distinction, 1.00

00:02:43.980 Trump wins by over 11 points. And he's very happy about it. And he gives a victory speech.

00:02:49.900 Today, I have to tell you, it was very interesting because I said, wow, what a great victory.

00:02:54.700 But then somebody ran up to the stage all dressed up nicely when it was at seven. But now I just walked

00:03:02.060 up and it's at 14. But she ran up when it was seven. And, you know, we have to do what's good

00:03:11.220 for our party. And she was up and I said, wow, she's doing like a speech like she won. She didn't win.

00:03:18.760 She lost. And, you know, last last week we had a little bit of a problem. And if you remember,

00:03:26.260 Ron was very upset because she ran up and she pretended she won Iowa. And I looked around. I

00:03:33.880 said, didn't she come in third? Yeah, she came in third. So Trump turning up the attacks just a

00:03:40.080 little bit on Nikki Haley. Notice these, by Trump standards, are not vicious attacks at all. This is

00:03:46.620 not Nikki Haley's dad killed JFK. OK, this is not Nikki Haley is the worst politician in America,

00:03:53.700 soldier down the river to the globalists. All he's doing is poking fun at her concession speeches

00:04:00.500 because Nikki Haley is an extremely talented politician. And she has framed her concession 1.00

00:04:05.120 speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire as quasi victory speeches. And clearly it's worked. She

00:04:09.780 had a great showing here. 43.6% for a campaign that most people wrote off at the very beginning

00:04:15.500 is impressive. And, you know, some of us hate to say I told you so, but some of us at the beginning

00:04:20.360 said, don't write off Nikki Haley. She's very impressive. She's been able to do very well

00:04:25.660 with the establishment part of the GOP when she was governor of South Carolina and since she's left

00:04:30.460 the Biden administration, Trump administration rather, during the Biden administration. But also

00:04:35.840 she did pretty well when she was working for Trump, when she was UN ambassador with the populist side

00:04:39.960 and the more conservative side and the right wing side. So I said, don't write her off. And there

00:04:43.900 were a lot of great candidates on that stage in the early days. Ron DeSantis was considered

00:04:48.380 the real challenge to Donald Trump. And she lasted longer than he did. And she did better in the

00:04:53.760 polls and she's going to perform better in the primaries. But still, the numbers just aren't

00:04:58.840 there. New Hampshire was Nikki Haley's best shot. And she did very well. 43.6% is an impressive

00:05:06.060 showing, but it's not good enough. So she has no path to the nomination. And that is why the

00:05:13.560 Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, is calling on her to drop out.

00:05:17.360 I'm looking at the math and the path going forward. And I don't see it for Nikki Haley. I

00:05:23.340 think she's run a great campaign. But I do think there is a message that's coming out from the

00:05:27.780 voters, which is very clear. We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to

00:05:32.540 be Donald Trump. And we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden. It is 10 months away till the November

00:05:38.900 election. And we can't wait any longer to put our foot on the gas to beat the worst president,

00:05:44.700 to beat a president that's kept our borders open, allowed fentanyl to pour through,

00:05:48.540 allowed inflation to go rampant. He is hurting the American people. And we need to do everything

00:05:53.760 we can to unite so that we can defeat him.

00:05:57.280 I totally agree with Ronna here. I almost totally agree with Ronna. I agree it's in the best interests

00:06:04.340 of the RNC for Nikki to drop out and to rally around Trump, who is the presumptive nominee, 0.86

00:06:09.440 barring a lightning strike from the sky or from some Democrat. Trump is going to be the nominee.

00:06:15.260 I agree that it's better for the Republican voters. I agree that it's better for the conservative

00:06:19.980 movement. I agree that it's better for the country because it will give Republicans a chance to unite,

00:06:25.840 to win over moderates and independents and maybe some Democrats to conserve their money.

00:06:31.260 Every dollar that's spent in a primary that's going nowhere is a dollar that cannot be spent on

00:06:35.320 a general election against Joe Biden. I agree with Ronna there. I don't agree that Republicans

00:06:40.120 absolutely have to do it now. And this is the moment we have no time to waste. I'm not sure of

00:06:45.880 that. We have a primary for a purpose. And Nikki Haley has every right to stay in this primary 0.98

00:06:51.160 as long as she wants. The problem here is all the incentives that the RNC has and the Republican 0.92

00:06:58.900 voters have and the conservative movement has, all of those incentives don't line up with Nikki

00:07:04.200 Haley's incentives. Because if I were Ronna, I'd be calling for Nikki to drop out. But if I were Nikki,

00:07:09.420 I would not drop out. Nikki Haley has no incentive at this moment to drop out of the race. And so she's

00:07:17.100 not. Now you've all heard the chatter among the political class. They're falling all over themselves

00:07:24.520 saying this race is over. Well, I have news for all of them. New Hampshire is first in the nation.

00:07:33.380 It is not the last in the nation. This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go. 0.82

00:07:42.480 And the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina. At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us

00:07:51.520 running. And we were at 2 percent in the polls. Well, I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy.

00:08:00.900 And now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump. And today we got close to half of the vote.

00:08:08.620 We still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up.

00:08:13.340 All right. What Nikki said here is at least half true. She is scrappy. She did wind up the last 0.98

00:08:21.920 person on the stage fighting Donald Trump. She doesn't want to drop out of the race. Sure. 0.94

00:08:29.440 Something she says that isn't true, she says our next state is South Carolina. That's not true. The

00:08:33.640 next state is Nevada. Nikki Haley is not even on the ballot in Nevada because the Nevada primary slash 0.82

00:08:39.820 caucus is divided between a primary and a caucus. And all the Republican candidates chose to

00:08:44.160 participate in the caucus organized by the Republican Party. Nikki Haley chose to participate

00:08:48.540 in the primary that was pushed by Nevada state legislators over the objections of the Republican

00:08:54.100 Party. She's the only person in that primary. So it won't count. It won't help her in any way toward

00:09:01.240 the nomination. But Nikki Haley is not running to beat Donald Trump. It is not possible for Nikki Haley

00:09:08.200 to beat Donald Trump in the primary. And she's a smart woman, so that's not what she's doing. 0.99

00:09:13.380 She is staying in this race for other reasons, and those reasons remain likely to serve her. We'll get 1.00

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00:10:43.480 Save big this new year. Goodranchers.com, American meat delivered. Nikki Haley has no incentive to drop 0.99

00:10:48.640 out of this race because she might wind up the number two person. And historically, the GOP

00:10:55.680 allows the number two person to become the nominee in the next cycle. We're in a weird cycle right now

00:11:03.860 where President Trump is running for a non-consecutive second term. We haven't seen

00:11:06.620 anything like that for ever a hundred years. But in prior cycles, in 2008, Mitt Romney was the number

00:11:15.020 two guy. 2012, he becomes the nominee. In 2000, at the beginning of the Bush term, John McCain was the

00:11:22.540 number two guy. In 2008, he becomes the Republican nominee. Bob Dole had been running for president

00:11:29.180 since, what, 1980 or earlier? 1996, Bob Dole, he'd paid his dues. He worked real hard. He becomes the

00:11:37.760 Republican nominee. 1992, obviously, George H.W. Bush was the number two guy in 1980, the beginning

00:11:45.020 of the Reagan term. He became vice president. A lot of the conservatives didn't even like George

00:11:48.560 Bush. He was a compromise candidate to unite the party. Pat Buchanan primaried him as the

00:11:53.760 conservative candidate. There were a lot of conservatives who really didn't like him, and yet

00:11:57.820 he gets the tap. 1976, the number two guy was Ronald Reagan. 1980, he becomes the nominee.

00:12:03.220 And on and on and on. So, Nikki's saying, okay, maybe I could be the number two person,

00:12:09.420 and then I could be the nominee. Or maybe I could seem like the alternative for the Republican Party,

00:12:14.420 or maybe I could just raise my profile, or maybe I could do this, or maybe I could do that.

00:12:18.460 She's got a ton of money from the Koch network. She's already put herself on the outs with the 0.99

00:12:22.820 Trump administration. I don't think there's any world in which Trump hires her for some cabinet post 0.82

00:12:27.200 because she worked for him. She was popular there. Then she turned on him. He got angry about that.

00:12:33.320 Then she supported him again. Then she turned him again to run. I just don't think he's going to

00:12:36.680 hire her again. So what's, why not? It's kind of just a free option for her. She basically only can 1.00

00:12:44.620 gain. She has very, very little to lose unless Trump goes scorched earth on her, but he's probably

00:12:50.140 not going to because she doesn't represent a real threat. So he's going to remain largely focused on

00:12:54.300 Joe Biden. Now, much more important story than whatever's going on in the GOP race.

00:13:01.780 These little guys, these little six millilip pillies, you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking

00:13:07.240 about Zin. Chuck Schumer, top Democrat out there in the Senate, one of the leading Democrats in this

00:13:17.580 country for decades. He wants to take away your tasty little nicotine patches. 0.97

00:13:24.300 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for federal action to crack down on a product

00:13:28.800 called Zin. He says the nicotine pouches pose a danger to teens as they use them as an alternative

00:13:34.920 to e-cigarettes. Pouch packed with problems, high levels of nicotine. So today I'm delivering a

00:13:43.320 warning to parents because these nicotine pouches seem to lock their sights on young kids, teenagers,

00:13:49.760 and even lower, and then use the social media to hook them.

00:13:54.280 Senator Schumer is urging the FTC and the FDA to investigate Zin for concerns relating to marketing

00:13:59.640 and health effects. We reached out to Zin for comment, but have not yet heard back.

00:14:04.220 I agree with almost everything Senator Schumer just said. These little nicotine pouches, they can pack

00:14:12.140 a punch. Some of them just basically have the same dose of nicotine as a single cigarette,

00:14:17.880 but some it's more like three cigarettes or four cigarettes or more. So I agree.

00:14:23.520 I'm not the leader of Zimbabwe, okay? I didn't lead a revolution in Rhodesia to become the leader of

00:14:29.600 that state. I'm not the prime minister of Zindia. I'm not, I'm not even the mayor of Cincinnati,

00:14:34.340 but I've popped in a nice little lip pilly every now and again. And it's amazing. I think that's

00:14:40.780 actually what Neuralink will feel like. It feels like you're just taking an electrical charge and

00:14:45.780 plugging it into your brainstem and then all your synapses fire on again and you just start

00:14:50.320 working. I have a friend of mine who is now hopelessly addicted to Zin. He says that that substance

00:14:55.800 makes him a better husband and a better father. And now he no longer needs these trivialities,

00:15:01.300 these silly little things like sleep. He can just stay awake all the time and be very productive.

00:15:06.860 But so I agree. It's extremely addictive. Young people are getting hooked on it.

00:15:11.860 I told, and I'm not, I'm not saying that's good, but I'm just a little confused that Chuck Schumer's

00:15:16.600 coming after the Zin because Chuck Schumer here just about a year and a half ago partnered up with

00:15:22.620 other top Democrats in the Senate to try to legalize pot. The Cannabis Administration and

00:15:30.800 Opportunity Act, this comprehensive legislation would end federal cannabis prohibition by removing

00:15:37.420 cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act. Empower states to create their own cannabis laws,

00:15:44.480 ensure federal regulation, protect public safety and health. How are you going to protect public

00:15:49.560 safety and health by legalizing, by encouraging a substance that not only is a gateway to other 0.95

00:15:56.960 harder drugs, but just in itself makes people really fat and dumb and slow and is extremely 0.95

00:16:02.580 addictive, even though all the potheads say it's not addictive at all. But these are the people who 0.95

00:16:07.300 always insist that marijuana is not addictive are the ones who wake and bake and just rip the old

00:16:13.000 California cumin. I don't know. I'm running out of terms for pot, but they do it all day long.

00:16:20.640 Oh man, it's not addictive. I could quit anytime and it's my whole personality. It cures every disease,

00:16:27.360 man. And Chuck Schumer wants to legalize that. If you legalize pot, who do you think is going to use

00:16:34.920 it? You think it's just going to be a granny for the first time is going to spark up a bong? 1.00

00:16:39.560 No, I think kids largely are going to use it in exactly the same way that kids are now testing

00:16:45.580 out these Zen packets. I don't think that's a good thing, but why is Schumer okay with one and

00:16:51.240 not the other? Tucker had a great monologue on this a while ago. I don't think he was the first

00:16:56.280 person to point it out, but he articulated what a lot of us were thinking, which is that today

00:17:00.940 marijuana is left coded. Marijuana is a thing that libs do. I know there are plenty of people who

00:17:07.160 listen to this show who love just puffing on the old devil's lettuce, but broadly speaking,

00:17:13.380 it's a left-wing thing. And broadly speaking, nicotine is a right-wing thing. The cigars and

00:17:19.440 the pipes and even the cigarettes today are a right-wing thing. Yes, there are people on the

00:17:24.540 left who smoke tobacco and use nicotine. Mostly it's right-wing. You think of some big cowboy hat

00:17:32.520 wearing good old boy from the down south wearing spurs on his boots and packing a big fat lucky

00:17:38.280 lipper of dip? That's not a left-wing person. That's not some vegan lesbian in Brooklyn. That's 1.00

00:17:42.540 a right-winger. So that's how it's coded now. And Chuck Schumer supports the left-wing substance.

00:17:49.160 And the left-wing substance, coincidentally, makes you kind of lazy and dumb and passive, 1.00

00:17:55.300 as Tucker noted in his viral monologue. And the right-wing substance makes you more alert. 0.99

00:17:59.920 It makes you think more quickly and more clearly. It keeps you up so that you can

00:18:06.600 do more work. It's not a party drug. It's not the sort of thing where you just put on some stupid

00:18:13.040 cartoon and eat a bowl of ice cream. When you're thrown in Zin packets or even ripping cigarettes or 0.99

00:18:19.620 something like that, the image you get is someone who's frenetic. It's someone who's really active.

00:18:25.760 And that's a right-wing thing. That's why. And so the reason that Schumer and the Democrats are

00:18:33.740 going after this, I think, is not even just because they, in part, it's because they want 0.99

00:18:37.420 to encourage people to be passive and lazy and dumb. But even more than that, it's because they 0.98

00:18:43.080 want to support their own taboos. And they want to oppose the right-wing taboos. They want to support

00:18:50.400 their own standards. They want to oppose the right-wing standards. This is the exact same

00:18:54.920 point I've made with free speech, notably in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling

00:18:58.960 Minds. Thank you. The battle here is not between free speech on the one hand and censorship on the

00:19:05.240 other. It's about competing sets of standards and norms. It's the same thing with the substances.

00:19:09.800 I don't even really like Zin. I mean, I'm making a lot of Zin puns right now, but I don't like any

00:19:14.320 addictive substances, really. I don't have an addictive personality. I love cigars. But I am

00:19:21.220 not just saying I could quit any time. I actually have quit for very long periods. And you don't

00:19:25.220 feel any physical drive. I like it, but you take them or leave them. Okay, tobacco has—there's a

00:19:31.380 good piece by the theologian Mike Foley who points out that tobacco relates in a way to the tripartite

00:19:37.040 soul. The tobacco pipe, that's like the logical part of your soul. You think of the philosopher. You

00:19:42.260 think of the stem and the bowl, the male and the female. Then the cigars, they're the thumatic part

00:19:47.260 of the soul. You know, they relate to the chest. You puff it out. You don't really inhale it ever.

00:19:51.600 And cigarettes, and I guess you'd include Zin and Dip in that, that's more the appetitive part of the

00:19:55.660 soul. I don't like the appetitive stuff. I don't like anything that's really addictive. But I would

00:20:01.380 much rather live in a culture that exalts working hard and being more alert and being more conscious

00:20:11.200 and being more fastidious about your work than a culture that supports the choom gang and munchies 1.00

00:20:20.080 and giggling at stupid cartoons and getting fat and voting for Democrats. And that's what it's 1.00

00:20:24.840 about. It's what it comes down to for Schumer. He wants to oppose the right-wing substances,

00:20:31.580 promote the left-wing substances, oppose the right-wing rituals, support the left-wing rituals,

00:20:35.900 because if you create a culture that is left-wing, you're going to get more left-wing

00:20:40.020 voters. Now, speaking of pharmaceuticals, shocking, breaking news. If you're driving,

00:20:44.500 pull over. If you're standing up, please sit down. The New York Post is reporting that a woman has

00:20:50.160 become pregnant. Yes. Yes, that's true. The headline here is a little different, but it means the same

00:20:59.160 thing I just said. Trans man who had mastectomy discovered to be five months pregnant, making

00:21:05.000 rare seahorse dad. That's the New York Post. I love the New York Post, but what on earth does that

00:21:11.000 mean? Trans man, okay, that means woman, who had a mastectomy, so who chopped her breasts off, 0.99

00:21:19.260 is pregnant. But women who have mastectomies can become pregnant. That's not the female body part that 1.00

00:21:27.160 relates to conceiving a child in your womb. Discovered to be five months pregnant, making

00:21:35.460 rare seahorse, a seahorse dad. They call this woman a seahorse dad because they believe in

00:21:41.340 transgenderism, I guess, so they think a man can become a woman. So she's not a mother, she's a 0.96

00:21:45.180 father. Seahorses are apparently one of the few species in which the men carry the babies. But this

00:21:53.380 woman is exactly as much a seahorse as she is a man. She's 0% of either. She's a woman. And there's 0.99

00:22:00.800 nothing surprising here at all. So everyone's laughing about this. Probably every single

00:22:04.800 right-winger has mentioned this on some social media platform or on a podcast or a TV show or

00:22:09.660 something. And it's funny, I guess. But there's something really not funny about it, which is this

00:22:17.800 woman is injecting herself with all sorts of hormones that are totally changing her biochemistry. 1.00

00:22:23.780 They're very dangerous. And she's doing that while she has a baby inside her. I hope she's stopped.

00:22:30.320 I hope they've cut this off. But I'm not totally sure that they have. And in fact, some doctors are

00:22:35.760 advocating that she go so far as to kill her baby to continue to live out her fantasy that she's a man. 0.99

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00:25:09.440 I guess seahorse identifying lady now, according to the New York post that she is taking pose a major

00:25:13.640 risk to her baby. So according to a consultant at a gender dysphoria clinic in Palermo, pause right

00:25:21.640 there. They have gender dysphoria clinics in Palermo, the hometown of, of my people on my mother's side

00:25:27.580 in Sicily, they're promoting transgenderism. I'm not surprised they do this craziness in 1.00

00:25:32.700 the UK or in France or in some of the other countries that have fallen, but even not only

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00:25:46.600 According to Matilde Vigneri, a consultant at this Sicilian gender dysphoria clinic,

00:25:54.660 psychological stress from this unusual maternity, nothing unusual about it, unusual behavior from 0.51

00:26:01.260 the mother, but nothing unusual about a woman becoming pregnant could justify a therapeutic abortion.

00:26:08.480 A therapeutic abortion. You got to add that one to the list of the most Orwellian terms you've ever

00:26:14.100 heard. Therapeutic abortion? What on earth could that possibly mean? A therapeutic murder of an

00:26:22.080 innocent. Not therapeutic for the innocent, not therapeutic for the murderer either. That's

00:26:27.720 something that will live with them for the rest of their lives, probably cause them immense trauma and

00:26:32.180 guilt. If Marco's pregnancy, I guess this woman goes by Marco. If Marco's pregnancy goes ahead, Marco will 0.99

00:26:39.480 find himself, Lal, to be both a biological mother and a legal father, according to this gender dysphoria

00:26:46.360 consultant. It will be a shock. Here, same-sex families are still without rights. Just imagine a 1.00

00:26:53.760 child born in such special circumstances. I'm imagining a child being born. You're imagining killing a child.

00:27:00.460 And when you're not imagining killing that child, you're imagining encouraging that child's mother 0.97

00:27:05.380 to take all sorts of insane hormones that are obviously very, very unhealthy, very dangerous for

00:27:11.600 the little child developing in the womb and for the mother herself. If you've ever been pregnant,

00:27:18.340 if your wife has ever been pregnant, you know, every little thing can affect that baby. Pregnant mothers 1.00

00:27:24.340 who are concerned not just for their own sexual fantasies, but concerned about their child,

00:27:30.380 they won't drink a certain type of water because they're afraid it's going to hurt the baby.

00:27:34.520 They won't eat a certain kind of cereal because they say, oh, the cereal's got a chemical or it's

00:27:38.380 got too much sugar and I don't want to hurt the baby. And here you have a woman injecting herself 1.00

00:27:46.320 with cross-sex hormones, which are extremely unhealthy for her, while pregnant. Even if she 0.97

00:27:52.040 didn't know she was pregnant at the time, well, it was possible that she could become pregnant.

00:27:55.260 And a doctor saying, oh yeah, isn't it so sad? It's going to cause a lot of stress for the mom. 1.00

00:27:59.060 She should probably kill that baby. What a backwards culture we have ended up in. 1.00

00:28:07.260 You know, it's a funny headline. In a way, it's a funny story in a really, really dark way.

00:28:11.960 But it's just yet another, it's another reminder that the rot at the heart of the story, the thing

00:28:19.420 that unites all of these kinds of news stories is that we've not only perverted our culture a little

00:28:24.180 bit, we've totally inverted it. And when it comes to a child, when we talk about reproductive rights,

00:28:31.640 the only person with any genuine rights in reproduction is the baby. And yet we invert that.

00:28:37.040 We say that the baby's the only person without any rights. So evil. So it would be hilarious if

00:28:45.320 there weren't so much suffering involved, if it weren't so completely backwards. This is society

00:28:53.620 without any self-control. According to a video that has gone viral, self-control now is colonialism.

00:29:02.780 One of the many ways that colonial mental health, wellness, self-help culture shows up in our society

00:29:08.700 is through the framework of control, power, and domination. And the way that that looks like

00:29:14.300 is using verbiage, like we just need to be able to control our thoughts, our feelings, our mind,

00:29:20.760 our bodies. This idea that you need to force yourself into a state of discomfort in order to

00:29:26.340 regulate your emotions. Ultimately, this extends into the medical and psychiatric industrial complex

00:29:32.880 where these very tools of force are used as an extension of policing, of coloniality, of systems of

00:29:40.920 oppression that are at play. Tactics of domination can never be used to heal from complex trauma and

00:29:48.320 ongoing forms of trauma that the marginalized are experiencing on an everyday basis. And it becomes

00:29:53.280 dangerous when we conflate things like regulating our emotions with controlling them.

00:29:57.760 This is a totally wrong view of psychology, the field and what goes on in your head. But I really like

00:30:07.900 this video because I love being proven right. Even if I hate to say I told you so, I love being proven

00:30:14.160 right. And in this case, I've said for years now that the left-wing version of liberation, it's going to

00:30:23.580 start out with talking about systems of oppression and colonialism and the patriarchy and society.

00:30:30.940 But what it's really going to come down to is a much more radical liberation, not just from some

00:30:35.220 political order, not just from some system of laws. It's going to be a radical liberation from morality

00:30:41.160 and from self-control and from the self itself. And that's exactly what this woman is saying.

00:30:48.880 She's saying if you are told to control yourself at all, it's a form of oppression.

00:30:58.040 In a way, I guess it's limits. It's placing limits on certain desires so that you have the freedom

00:31:05.260 to enact other desires. Yeah, it does restrict certain things because you can't really be free

00:31:12.140 if you don't restrict certain things. If you don't restrict your intake of heroin, you're not going to be

00:31:16.720 free to not be addicted to heroin and to go do other things. That's totally true. She says any

00:31:22.760 form of psychology that makes you uncomfortable is oppressive and bad. She has a static view of

00:31:30.700 comfort. I agree that there are all sorts of problems in the psychological profession, obviously,

00:31:36.340 but psychology at its very, very best, counseling at its very, very best, just discipline at its very,

00:31:41.480 very best, is not going to make you feel uncomfortable all the time. It's going to make

00:31:46.280 you feel uncomfortable at first because you've got a problem. That's why you're going to see the

00:31:51.760 psychologist. It's going to make you feel uncomfortable at first, and then it's going to

00:31:55.200 change what gives you comfort and what gives you discomfort. People who have psychological problems

00:32:02.440 get comfort from perverted things that harm them, and so they go to a psychologist to try to change

00:32:08.260 that. Comfort just means to give you strength, right? And so sometimes we need a little tough

00:32:13.500 love, and that will make us feel a little less comfortable, but in a deeper sense, it will give

00:32:18.540 us much more strength. If you have some really perverse desire, you know, you're a, I don't know,

00:32:26.820 you're a masochist. Let's say you're an anorexic, and you go to the psychologist. You say, 0.97

00:32:30.460 I get comfort from starving myself. You say, well, yeah, maybe that makes you feel good because

00:32:35.180 you've got a perverted psychology, but it's going to kill you if you don't fix it. So what you've got 0.90

00:32:40.140 to do is shift what you understand to be good and what you understand to be bad, shift your perception

00:32:47.060 of reality, which is currently defective, and desire good things, and then those good and true things

00:32:52.460 will give you comfort. Eating a sandwich will give you some comfort. Being a healthy body weight will give

00:32:58.600 you some comfort. That's what you've got to do to shift things. Absolutely the case, but we have

00:33:06.780 this radical view of liberation now, including on the right, that says freedom is just do whatever

00:33:11.840 the heck you want, whatever that even means. And so this was always where that kind of view of freedom

00:33:18.280 was going to end up. We can't control anything anymore. The president of the United States can't

00:33:25.320 control his own voice. This is the soaring and sophisticated rhetoric today coming out from the

00:33:31.300 president. We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson. Don't mess with the men in America unless

00:33:39.120 you want to get the benefit. At least Biden still has the intonation to some degree. He's still got the

00:33:49.440 physical movements, the politician gesticulations. He just doesn't speak coherently anymore. He was

00:33:57.420 never, you know, he was never Pericles, but he doesn't even speak intelligibly anymore. So it's

00:34:04.780 like a baby. It's kind of sad, but it's, there's something almost cute about it. You know, when you

00:34:09.760 got a little baby and the baby's learning to talk and the baby will mimic your facial expressions and

00:34:15.100 your intonation and your, and your, your, uh, dynamics in volume. So I say, what's up, but

00:34:21.900 that's the president. Can we play it one more time? I just, I want to see if there's any lesson I can

00:34:30.500 take away there. We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson. Don't mess with the men in America unless you

00:34:38.600 want to get the benefit. Don't, okay. Don't mess with the women of America unless you want to 1.00

00:34:45.080 part of this could be physical too, because Biden obviously has artificial teeth and that's no knock

00:34:55.040 on it. Our first president, arguably our greatest president had artificial teeth too. So, but his

00:34:59.260 are not, they're not glued in the right way. So sometimes that's, what's kind of messing them up.

00:35:04.000 And I think it's probably goes a little deeper than that too, but it's a reminder. This is the

00:35:11.200 guy at the top. This is the leader of the country. We, we, we comfort ourselves, even those of us on

00:35:18.540 the right who recognize that all the, the grassroots of the left has gone totally crazy and all the

00:35:24.060 snowflakes on the college campuses, they've gone totally crazy. And even now the corporations,

00:35:27.020 they've gone totally crazy, but you know, at least there are some adults in charge, right?

00:35:30.700 No. And no, there, there, there are no adults in charge. The degree of institutional knowledge and

00:35:40.320 self individual and political discipline that we are losing every single day is immense. And

00:35:45.740 once it reaches a turning point, we're just not really going to have a country anymore,

00:35:50.540 which is why people are taking things into their own hands at the more local level.

00:35:54.680 The Texas national guard has responded to a Supreme court ruling, which ruled that the Biden

00:36:02.860 administration is permitted to tear down modest border fencing that the Texas national guard

00:36:10.080 had erected to try to stop the foreign invasion into Texas, to try to protect Texas's territorial

00:36:15.520 integrity. The Texas national guard has responded by rebuilding the fence. I love this.

00:36:22.480 This is so great. Biden won't enforce the border. Biden actually encourages foreign nationals to flood 0.98

00:36:31.000 across into our country, into Texas in large part, uh, because it will give him more votes down the

00:36:36.320 line. Record numbers, never seen anything like it in America, twice what we saw under Obama and Texas

00:36:44.340 says, okay, you're not going to enforce the border. We're going to build a little fence. And then Biden

00:36:47.400 orders his feds to go in and tear down the fencing. He wants to make it easier for the

00:36:52.400 foreign nationals to invade the country run by the cartels. By the way, we're not even just talking 0.67

00:36:56.780 about, you know, a nice young family fleeing poverty or something. We're talking about the

00:37:01.100 cartels. So he tears that down and then Texas says, okay, cool. That's great that you made your

00:37:07.880 decision, Supreme court. We're going to put it back up again. This is how the country was set up.

00:37:14.620 You, you know, you're going to hear the Libs say, Texas doesn't support the rule of law. 0.99

00:37:20.500 They're a threat to our sacred democracy. They're no Texas. What Texas is doing is far more in line

00:37:27.180 with the founding vision of America than anything you've seen out of Washington in recent years.

00:37:34.300 Texas is enacting federalism, subsidiarity, protecting that which is most local, most dear.

00:37:39.440 Why do we have a federal system in America? Why do we have power reserved, at least in theory,

00:37:44.720 to the states and the counties and the townships and the local communities and the family ultimately

00:37:50.080 because of a deeper principle called subsidiarity, according to which we know that people are going

00:37:57.940 to be most accountable to things that are near to them, that are dear to them, their family and

00:38:03.320 their extended family, you know, their tribe, their kin, their community, their state. They're

00:38:10.100 going to be much less accountable to the, to the national government and the national government

00:38:13.880 is going to be much less accountable to them. So we're going to try to keep power at as local

00:38:18.540 a level as possible at the sort of level at which that power can be efficiently and justly

00:38:24.120 wielded. Texas is doing that. I hope more, more states follow suit. My favorite coming

00:38:29.740 yesterday is from El Skeletor, 3566, who says, if I were Texas, I would ignore the ruling just like

00:38:36.320 Andrew Jackson did. Hey, great point and good timing, actually, because that was the story I just

00:38:40.420 got to. Yes, Andrew Jackson, perhaps he really said it. I always thought it was maybe apocryphal

00:38:45.560 when a justice, Chief Justice Marshall on the Supreme Court ruled against him. He said,

00:38:51.520 Justice Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. And whether Jackson said it or not,

00:38:58.400 it is a reminder that there are checks and balances. There is a division of power and not

00:39:05.840 just at the federal level, but among the feds, the national guys, you know, and the states and

00:39:12.920 local government and the local and state governments should step up. Really beautiful. I can't wait to

00:39:18.780 see that big, beautiful, completed wall, 30 miles of fencing down there in Texas. Speaking of works of

00:39:24.520 art, I'm torn today. I'm torn. I'm elated, but I'm also a little bit upset. Why am I elated?

00:39:37.040 Ryan Gosling has received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars, which nobody watches and

00:39:42.880 nobody watches 90% of the movies that are even nominated at the Oscars this year. But we all saw

00:39:47.240 Barbie. And some people hated Barbie, like my colleague down in Boca Raton, because he didn't

00:39:54.080 understand the movie. And some of us who did understand the movie loved Barbie because it's

00:39:58.620 a conservative masterpiece and the most clearly anti-feminist movie since Greta Gerwig's first

00:40:05.280 movie called Lady Bird. I didn't see Little Women. That might count too. So Ryan Gosling,

00:40:11.820 for all of his kenergy that was teeming out of him, maybe he had some of those little nicotine

00:40:16.320 patches. I don't know. He gets the nomination. Margot Robbie, who did a great job in the movie,

00:40:23.020 gets snubbed for Best Actress. Worse still, Greta Gerwig, one of my favorite current directors.

00:40:32.680 And I watch very few movies, so maybe she'll be the only director I'll watch for a year or one of

00:40:37.560 three. But Greta Gerwig, arguably the most conservative and Christian director working 0.99

00:40:44.420 in Hollywood today at the Hollywood level. And in that depraved place, Gamora by the Sea,

00:40:49.700 some of us call it. She got snubbed as well for Best Director. I think that's outrageous.

00:40:53.520 Some people think I'm joking or trolling because they think that Barbie is really woke or whatever.

00:40:57.700 It's not. It's really not. I actually don't see how one can watch Barbie paying even a modicum of

00:41:05.400 attention and come away thinking that that is a left-wing movie. It's not. It's not even a kid's movie,

00:41:10.840 by the way. Some people said, I'm not going to watch Barbie because it's a kid's movie selling

00:41:13.700 toys. It's not even a kid's movie. But I see why some are confused. Barbie is a movie for adults

00:41:21.540 masquerading as a kid's movie that has a conservative message masquerading as a woke

00:41:29.620 polemic. There are all these lines in the movie about feminism and the patriarchy and that's all 1.00

00:41:36.840 people here. But they're not paying attention to the context of those lines. The lines are ironic.

00:41:43.240 Barbieland, which is this feminist fantasy, is a fantasy. It's a bad place. There's something 0.99

00:41:49.280 rotten and broken about it. And the protagonist, here's a spoiler alert, chooses to leave and go

00:41:55.160 to the real world, the world supposedly dominated by men. Here's another spoiler alert. The movie opens

00:42:00.840 with girls being nice and playing with their little dolls and loving their little baby dolls.

00:42:04.180 And then Barbie comes along, the Barbie toy phenomenon, and the girls start killing their 1.00

00:42:10.080 babies and becoming feminists. The whole thing is presented as a feminist revolution and it leads 0.98

00:42:17.300 to women killing their babies. And then at the end of the movie, big spoiler alert, the protagonist 0.99

00:42:23.180 chooses to leave Barbie land specifically because she wants to have a baby. She has a conversation with 0.96

00:42:30.580 the God character, the Rhea Perlman character who created her. And she has a vision of the future

00:42:36.600 that she wants. And the vision is pretty much just her being a mom and having kids. And so she leaves

00:42:42.300 Barbie land. And the final funny scene of the movie is she's waiting in a little reception area

00:42:50.480 in some nondescript office building. And you all think, okay, this is Barbie leaving the fantasy world

00:42:55.580 to go get a job and go be the real Barbie, you know, be the real feminist. And she's not. She says, 1.00

00:43:00.860 I'm here to see my gynecologist. Even the very final joke is, no, I'm not going to go be a career

00:43:08.340 woman. No, I'm not going to go be this feminist icon. I'm going to be a mom. So anyway, I've got much

00:43:14.440 more to say about Barbie, but it's just clearly conservative. I don't know any, sometimes I will grant

00:43:23.340 you. I read a little deeply into things and I try to admit it when I do. This one, I just think you

00:43:28.800 could be, you don't need to have read the collected works of Edmund Burke to recognize this has a

00:43:35.100 conservative message to it. So what does it mean that they got snubbed? I think it actually buttresses

00:43:39.600 my argument because it's a conservative, it's very popular movie and it's kind of conservative and

00:43:46.920 maybe that's why it got snubbed. It is at least funny. I'm not sure that that's the reason. Maybe

00:43:52.060 there were other internal politics in Hollywood. It is at least funny that the Ken character is

00:43:56.660 trying to advance the patriarchy within the feminist utopia of Barbie land. And Ken is the

00:44:02.760 only one who gets the nomination. That's Kennergy, patriarchy, undefeated. But that question is even

00:44:10.700 grappled with in the movie. Highly recommended. Highly recommended that you go see that movie.

00:44:14.620 Speaking of a return to patriarchy, there is a terrific bill coming out of Oklahoma.

00:44:22.560 A bill that would ban pornography, which is something that pretty much everyone wants.

00:44:30.500 Other than the perverts and the weirdos, everyone wants this. And everyone has wanted to ban or

00:44:36.400 severely curtail pornography forever. It's not a Republican thing. It's not a Democrat thing.

00:44:42.700 Forever. Obscenity, pornography was banned in America for most of our history in most places.

00:44:52.340 And then even in the 90s when the internet came out and lawmakers had to grapple with this new

00:44:56.700 technological problem, both parties came together to regulate and severely limit pornography. They did

00:45:02.700 it through two pieces of legislation, the Communications Decency Act, which is where you get the Section 230 that

00:45:08.200 protects big tech companies in some ways from oversight. And in the Child Online Protection Act,

00:45:15.280 both passed by Republicans, Democrats, signed by Bill Clinton. It was just some libs on the court who

00:45:20.560 shot it down and pretended that there was a First Amendment right to weird, hardcore porn.

00:45:25.560 But most Americans forever have recognized that there's no right to watching perverts degrade

00:45:33.400 women on camera so that other perverts can degrade themselves in a dark room. It's just degrading. 1.00

00:45:40.220 It's not conducive to human flourishing. And so there is a lawmaker in Oklahoma, a state senator,

00:45:46.260 who would make watching porn a felony and ban sexting among people who are not married.

00:45:51.420 So some are saying, okay, maybe the guy's gone a little far. And maybe it's a little aggressive,

00:45:55.640 but he's starting a negotiation here, okay? And his position is far closer to the traditional

00:46:02.080 American view of these things. His position, which is, what is he really saying? He's saying,

00:46:07.400 hey, discourage people from being perverts and discourage people from committing adultery.

00:46:11.700 That has been the law in America. It's certainly been the cultural norm in America and in every

00:46:16.460 reasonable country for all of history. His position is much closer to the reasonable one than the

00:46:22.420 position of the liberals who say, yeah, go out, cheat on your wives, have a throuple, chop off your body 1.00

00:46:26.800 parts and be a pervert all the time. This state senator, Dusty Devers, much, much closer to 0.99

00:46:33.240 reality. How are we going to get this across for those of us who recognize that, at least in

00:46:40.000 principle, this law is a good thing? We're going to need to make some new coalitions. We're going to

00:46:45.260 lose some of the libertarians. Some of the libertarians are going to support us. We're going

00:46:48.040 to lose some of them. We're going to lose a lot of Democrats, especially these days. Some of the

00:46:51.480 Democrats are going to support us. But speaking of Barbie and confusion about feminism and what 1.00

00:46:57.100 feminism even means, conservatives should ally with the feminists here. Not all the feminists, 1.00

00:47:04.040 the sex-positive feminists are lost. But feminism used to be deeply anti-pornography. Sex-negative 1.00

00:47:14.060 feminism was a major strain of feminism, and they opposed it because pornography exploits and degrades 1.00

00:47:20.040 women. Always. All the time. And some of it is particularly degrading and particularly violent 0.99

00:47:27.980 even. The conservatives, this is not just some pie in the sky, wouldn't it be nice if we could work

00:47:33.360 with the feminists? We did this on the trans issue. The traditional conservatives lost some 0.85

00:47:39.840 libertarians on the trans issue, but we allied with the TERFs, the trans-exclusionary radical feminists,

00:47:45.620 and we've been immensely successful. We have gone a decent way, not the whole way. We still have a

00:47:51.380 lot of work to do, but we've gone a decent way toward eradicating transgenderism from public life 1.00

00:47:57.540 entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level for the good of society, and especially for

00:48:01.060 the good of the poor people who fall in prey to that confusion. We did that with a weird political

00:48:05.260 coalition that included a group traditionally considered on the left and feminist, but they

00:48:09.840 were on our side on this issue. Same thing could happen with porn, and we should do it. The rest of the

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2024

Ep. 1411 - Trump's Huge Win Shakes Up The Primary

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