The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1435 - LGBTQ Propaganda Gets Banned In TN Classrooms

00:00:00.000 Breaking news this morning, Mary Poppins is officially racist. It took 60 years,

00:00:07.200 but the beloved children's classic has officially been dubbed racist by the British Board of Film

00:00:12.620 Classification, which upped the movie's rating from U, which is British for G, to PG, which is

00:00:20.320 apparently the same in both British and proper American English. Mary Poppins lost its U rating,

00:00:26.680 which indicates that the movie contains no material likely to offend or harm because of a

00:00:32.000 single word that virtually no one had ever noticed in the movie, hottentot. What's a hottentot? A

00:00:40.740 hottentot is apparently a, quote, racially insensitive term for the koi-ko. Who are the koi-ko? The 0.70

00:00:50.220 koi-ko, who used to be known as the koi-koi, are apparently an indigenous group of South African

00:00:56.400 nomads. Now, some have suggested that people are getting just a wee bit overly sensitive here,

00:01:04.040 since virtually no one had ever heard of the hottentots or the koi-ko or the koi-koi.

00:01:09.380 But in many ways, we are not nearly sensitive enough. Over the past decade or two, pretty much

00:01:15.440 every word that you were once not allowed to say on TV has made it to TV, to streaming,

00:01:21.920 to basic cable, even to some degree to network TV. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo were not able to share a bed

00:01:29.040 as a married couple in the 50s. Now, you can hardly find a show that does not regularly promote

00:01:35.240 extremely weird sex stuff. And beyond the simple swear words, TV shows regularly demean whole groups

00:01:41.560 of people, straight white men in particular, some others as well. And they mock the United States and 0.91

00:01:47.460 they blaspheme God. All things that would have been unthinkable even just two or three decades ago.

00:01:54.500 Those taboos were overturned. You can pretty much say anything you want. You just can't say

00:02:02.160 hottentot. Ah, progress. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:07.980 Welcome back to the show. Hot and Tot. George Takei, who you might remember from Star Wars or

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00:02:45.800 said that the murder of Lakin Riley, a poor university student who was allegedly murdered

00:02:51.200 by an illegal alien, that that murder will be used, will be pounced upon by the far right

00:02:55.580 to in turn illegal aliens. We'll get to that in just a moment. First though,

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00:03:37.940 delivered. We do have some good news on the taboo front. It's not all hot and tots and koi kois and

00:03:42.820 Mary Poppins, you know, getting a triple X rating. Pride flags have been banned in the classrooms of my

00:03:52.260 state, Tennessee. This is really, really great news, and the libs are upset about it. Here from

00:03:57.740 the Daily Mail, this is being reported on from all the way over the pond, headline, pride flags will be

00:04:02.320 largely banned in classrooms across Tennessee as Democrats scream out in the statehouse when GOP vote

00:04:08.900 through the law. So you remember that image of the woman when it was announced that Trump won,

00:04:15.060 and she goes, no. No, that was the Democrat representatives in the Tennessee statehouse.

00:04:24.040 Tennessee House passed a bill that would ban pride flags from schools. Democrat representatives

00:04:28.420 and protesters disrupted the proceedings. I love this. It's not just the weirdos. It's not just the

00:04:33.440 eccentrics. It's not just the activists. Whenever some eccentrics or activists on the right side,

00:04:39.820 on the conservative side, go into the Capitol and, I don't know, take selfies or whatever,

00:04:43.540 we're told that's an insurrection. That's the disruption of an official government proceeding.

00:04:47.540 These people need to go to solitary confinement. But when it's Democrat representatives who are in

00:04:59.980 the Capitol who show up and start screaming and whining and crying, all of a sudden, that's totally

00:05:05.740 fine. They interrupt an official proceeding. No big deal. The Senate has a stricter version of the law

00:05:10.460 where parents can sue over the flag. So the law hasn't passed yet because the House has its version.

00:05:16.000 The Senate has its stronger version. Then obviously, it's got to go be signed by the governor.

00:05:23.840 Beautiful stuff. Even the way it's being framed is so silly. The law does not ban pride flags. 0.97

00:05:29.800 The law says that the only flags in a public classroom are going to be the American flag or,

00:05:36.040 if you like, the Tennessee state flag. Why is that controversial? And why is that suddenly a law

00:05:43.500 about the pride flag? You can't fly a Nazi flag in the classroom. I don't think you should. Okay,

00:05:48.820 that's gone. You can't fly a hammer and sickle flag. I certainly don't think you should. The

00:05:52.220 libs probably think you should. But, okay, you can't fly that one either.

00:05:57.580 Why is it always about the pride flag? The reason for that is that the pride flag, 0.96

00:06:02.780 the gay flag is the flag of the liberals. They have more loyalty to that flag than they have 0.99

00:06:07.740 to the star-spangled banner. And of course they do. Just following their own premises and their

00:06:12.240 own logic, they certainly would because they say that America is evil. And the flag, the star-spangled

00:06:16.860 banner is the symbol of America. So what does that symbolize to them? To me, it symbolizes a great,

00:06:22.080 wonderful nation, our patrimony that we've inherited, the great vision and sacrifice of our ancestors,

00:06:27.900 truth, justice, and the American way. But what it symbolizes to the libs is colonialism, genocide,

00:06:37.340 slavery, empire, all the, name any bad adjective, that's what it symbolizes. And so there's no

00:06:45.200 surprise that they're trying to replace that flag with the rainbow flag or even the really militant

00:06:49.380 rainbow flag, you know, with the BLM lines and they keep adding colors to it. So it's not only

00:06:55.360 justified, but it's actually important, it's urgent for Tennessee legislators to say, no,

00:07:03.760 we have, we're one state, we're not two states, we're one country, we're not two countries,

00:07:08.360 and we have a symbol. When, this is a hobby horse of mine, and I wrote a whole book about it called

00:07:13.900 Speechless. Thank you. When you change all the symbols, when you change the way people talk and

00:07:22.600 the words we're allowed to use and the things we call men and the things we call women and how we

00:07:26.160 view art, you change the way people view the world and the way that they view themselves.

00:07:30.920 You change the whole country. The fact that the Democrats are shrieking about this should be a

00:07:35.800 good sign that the Tennessee legislators are really onto something here. Now, speaking of education,

00:07:42.600 time magazine is attempting to normalize suicide. So we remember a couple of days ago that airman,

00:07:53.900 that very poor confused airman lit himself on fire because he really supports Palestine liberation or 0.92

00:07:59.740 whatever. And some people exalted him as a great example of noble protest or something, or a great

00:08:07.500 example of dying for a good cause. That is totally antithetical to the Christian tradition, at least. 0.91

00:08:15.200 It's antithetical to the tradition in our civilization. Certain pagans have done that. Certain

00:08:20.760 leftists have done that. But it's very wrong. There is no excuse for suicide ever. It's never justified

00:08:26.500 for any reason. Certainly not for... Could you imagine you're just some random guy from America,

00:08:33.120 some random leftist. You've signed up to serve your country. That's an honorable thing to do. Then you

00:08:37.660 decide to set yourself on fire in this horrific display for the cause of Palestine liberation, of all 0.78

00:08:43.200 of the causes. Could be the Nekorno-Karabakh conflict. Could be, I don't know, any cause seems more

00:08:50.080 reasonable than that. Could be a conflict that directly pertains to your country. Anyway, now Time

00:08:54.960 Magazine, a lot of leftists are trying to justify and normalize this. And here's what they say. Forget

00:09:00.480 about what they say about the airmen. They say, the practice of self-immolation dates back centuries

00:09:05.860 according to ancient Hindu tales of Sati, the wife of a Hindu god who got married without her father's

00:09:12.000 approval. Some retellings of her life say that Sati burned herself to death on her husband's funeral

00:09:17.460 pyre and are used as justification for the practice of ritual suicide that has long been banned in India.

00:09:22.700 I want to put a pause there. That's true. There was a practice. It wasn't all that widespread, but it did

00:09:26.880 occur where wives would be, they usually wouldn't choose to throw themselves on the funeral pyre. 1.00

00:09:32.880 If they did it in any way of their own volition, it was because they had resigned themselves to their

00:09:36.960 fate. They were pressured and coerced to be burned alive with their husband's burning bodies.

00:09:44.740 And do you know why that's long been banned in India? Because British Christians came in and 1.00

00:09:50.540 outlawed it. That's why. It was not, whenever you see the passive voice in any of these left-wing

00:09:56.660 articles, just ask yourself, why are they putting this in the passive voice? Who actively did this?

00:10:02.240 And the people who actively did this were the British and specifically Christians, because this 0.73

00:10:07.260 is obviously immoral. But then Time Magazine goes even further. They say, self-immolation was also seen

00:10:14.040 as a sacrificial act committed by Christian devotees. Hold on. What's a Christian devotee? 0.61

00:10:20.880 This reminds me of when the Libs referred to a bunch of massacred Christians as Easter worshipers.

00:10:26.040 Do you remember that? I think it was Hillary Clinton who said that. Easter worshipers. 1.00

00:10:30.000 Christian devotees. You mean a Christian. You mean a Christian is what you're talking about.

00:10:34.500 So you're saying self-immolation was also seen as a sacrificial act committed by Christians who chose 0.93

00:10:40.500 to be burned alive when they were being persecuted for their religion by Roman Emperor Diocletian around

00:10:45.700 300 AD. Okay. So look, I was just an undergraduate history major. I don't have a PhD. I'm not an

00:10:52.840 academic historian. But it seems to me that those Christians who were burned alive under Diocletian

00:10:59.380 didn't exactly choose it. They chose not to worship the pagan gods. They chose to keep their faith in the

00:11:08.060 one true God. But they didn't douse themselves in gasoline and light themselves on fire. They were

00:11:13.880 burned to death by Diocletian and the pagans. And so all of this, there are so many layers to this

00:11:22.140 kind of a news report. The erasure of the good that Christians have done and the courage that

00:11:27.600 Christians have shown and the papering over of cultural and religious differences. But the thing 0.97

00:11:33.940 that I can't get over is just the blithe ignorance. This is Time Magazine. These are people who are

00:11:40.060 supposed to know. I'm not saying they know the intricacies of debates between the scholastic 0.72

00:11:45.280 philosophers. I'm not saying they know the precise chronology of Babylonian history. But you don't know

00:11:53.360 about the Diocletian persecution. This is basic stuff. This is stuff that high school students would

00:11:57.860 have known a couple of centuries ago. Does anybody know anything anymore? The answer is no. And that's

00:12:07.180 fine. Some people, they have other interests. But if your job is to be a journalist and your job is to

00:12:13.220 cover these precise stories, how about you read like one book ever? Like one, just one book would be

00:12:19.380 enough to not write this. I hope this was written by AI. Sadly, I think AI would have done better. AI isn't

00:12:25.440 all that impressive either. But AI would have done better than whatever know-nothing journalist wrote

00:12:30.540 this drivel. It's humiliating, not just for this individual, not just for Time Magazine. It's

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00:13:45.860 Speaking of imperial leadership, big news out of Michigan, President Trump won the Republican

00:13:51.440 primary, which no one knows. I didn't even lead the show with it because obviously he won the

00:13:56.000 Republican primary in Michigan and he's going to win every other state and it's not even going to be

00:13:59.620 close and he's obviously the nominee of the party. This one, I haven't even checked the latest

00:14:04.260 results. When I checked last night, they had already called the race. It was something like

00:14:07.300 66 to 30. The numbers may have expanded or contracted since then. It doesn't really matter.

00:14:13.980 Right now, President Trump in the race has 119 delegates. Nikki Haley has 20 delegates.

00:14:21.740 Ron DeSantis has nine delegates. Vivek has three. So Vivek and DeSantis have dropped out unless,

00:14:28.980 for whatever reason, a huge number of voters in the future states decide to cast a ballot for

00:14:33.340 Vivek and DeSantis. They're going to stick at three and nine, respectively. Haley, I guess,

00:14:40.280 is going to stay in the race as long as she can until the money runs out to try to keep gobbling 1.00

00:14:44.620 up more delegates. The issue is you need 1,215 delegates to win. And so if this pace keeps up,

00:14:54.080 Haley is just going to get clobbered because she's not going to increase in the percentage of 1.00

00:14:59.640 the vote she's getting. As she runs out of money and as she runs out of campaign staff,

00:15:03.840 her percentage is going to drop significantly. So she was able to massively outspend Donald Trump 0.64

00:15:08.880 in South Carolina. She still came in 20 points behind. Then you move on to Michigan. Then you

00:15:13.980 move on to Super Tuesday. So I see why she remains in the race. I guess it's savvy enough for now because 0.89

00:15:19.620 she can position herself as the clear number two in 2028. But she's already the clear number two.

00:15:26.720 DeSantis and Vivek are not getting any more delegates. No one else is getting any more

00:15:29.720 delegates. So she could still make that claim with a straight face. I guess she has nothing to lose 1.00

00:15:33.780 in that if she stays in it longer, she will lose the nomination. But if she stays in it longer, 0.95

00:15:38.740 she can get a few more delegates and she can come in a few more delegates stronger to make her pitch 1.00

00:15:44.960 in 2028. But that said, it's just over. I will keep mentioning the primaries on the show because I feel

00:15:53.540 that we probably have to talk about the Republican presidential primary. But

00:15:57.220 for all intents and purposes, it's over. And it's been over for some time.

00:16:01.860 Another piece of evidence for this is not just the results coming in from the states.

00:16:06.680 It's what's going on in the national party. So Ronna McDaniel, who has led the RNC for a long time,

00:16:12.080 she's one of the longest leaders in modern Republican history, maybe ever in Republican history.

00:16:17.720 Ronna has stepped down in the middle of her term as the chairman of the RNC. She said,

00:16:25.360 it has been the honor and privilege of my life to serve the Republican National Committee for seven

00:16:28.900 years as chairwoman to elect Republicans and grow our party. I've decided to step aside at our spring

00:16:33.400 training on March 8th in Houston to allow our nominee to select a chair of their choosing.

00:16:38.600 Now she says of their choosing. It's obviously Trump. She's using the kind of transgender singular 0.62

00:16:44.440 they, but it's Trump. She doesn't want to say his or her choosing also because it's Trump who's

00:16:50.480 pushing her out. The RNC has historically undergone change once we have a nominee and it has always

00:16:54.780 been my intention to honor that tradition. Okay, so she's doing it in a way that can save a little

00:16:59.360 bit of face. That's fine. This was inevitable. People are attacking Ronna because they say she

00:17:05.380 didn't have a particularly good run and she entered in 2017. So that was after the Trump 2016 run

00:17:11.080 and Republicans have complained about disappointing results in all of the elections since then.

00:17:16.340 I go softer on Ronna because I just don't think the RNC matters all that much. I think that the

00:17:22.080 most important thing in these races is candidates and political circumstances. You know, you've got

00:17:28.080 the individuals and you've got the political context. I guess they're kind of vying for top spot.

00:17:33.380 And then after that, you've got donors, you've got the grassroots support, you've got cultural

00:17:39.960 changes that are going on. I guess that ties in with the political context then and global context

00:17:45.220 even. You know, these things tend to come in waves. So the election of Trump comes along with

00:17:48.180 Brexit. It comes along with right-wing movements in the rest of Europe. So you get all of that.

00:17:54.340 Then you've got the super PACs. That's really important. That's in the number two or number three

00:17:58.060 spot. Then you've got the other candidates who are running to see what kind of alliances you can

00:18:03.940 make there. And then way, way, way down that list, you get the party committees, especially in the case

00:18:09.100 of the RNC. The DNC exercises a little bit more control over the Democrats than the RNC does.

00:18:13.680 So anyway, she's out. And the reason the story matters is it is just further proof. Trump owns

00:18:21.260 the RNC and Trump owns the Republican Party. And there might be 20% of Republicans who really don't

00:18:28.200 like it or more, even call it 30%. I don't know, whatever. The kind of people who are still going

00:18:32.320 to be voting for Nikki Haley here. But that means that you've got 60, 70, maybe 80% of Republicans

00:18:37.720 were perfectly fine with Trump leading the party. And when you hear people complain about the Trump

00:18:42.960 takeover of the Republican Party, ask yourself why that was allowed to happen. Before you go blaming

00:18:48.580 the big mean orange man for why he took over the Republican Party, how did that happen? How did

00:18:52.820 a New York billionaire come to take over the grand old party, supposedly the Southern Conservative Party?

00:18:59.700 Because the party had been rotted out. It had been so corroded by stupid ideas and failed strategies and 1.00

00:19:12.520 misplaced loyalties and priorities that the rank and file Republicans said, forget about this. We don't 1.00

00:19:19.860 want these guys anymore, these squishes and these establishment types. We want someone to shake it up.

00:19:25.560 And that would be Trump. And I think that broadly speaking, that has been a very good thing. Now,

00:19:30.900 there's a big debate in the GOP right now. And I have somehow found myself at the center of this

00:19:35.520 debate, even though I didn't really intend to. I just stated my views as I see them. Happens to be

00:19:40.180 the view of many, many Christians, certainly of Catholics, many other Protestant Christians as well.

00:19:46.120 Tends to be the view of most of the pro-life movement. And it's the view that IVF and the

00:19:53.080 surrogacy industry are just maybe, let's say, a little bit morally dubious. And you could probably

00:19:58.780 go a little further than that. But at the very least, say it's a new technology where it's touching

00:20:03.280 on the origin and destiny of human life. It entails buying and selling people and creating people in a

00:20:09.860 dish, establishing the domination of science and technology over the origin and destiny of human

00:20:14.020 life. And maybe we should just slow down a little bit here, okay? This really came up because the

00:20:21.480 Alabama Supreme Court correctly ruled that the state constitution recognizes that life begins

00:20:29.040 at conception. And if life begins at conception, then this poses a problem not only for Planned

00:20:35.360 Parenthood. It's good. We all want to get rid of Planned Parenthood. We all want to get rid of the

00:20:38.220 abortionists. But it also poses a problem for the surrogacy industry and the IVF industry. Because

00:20:44.340 if life begins at conception, then it raises all sorts of questions about how one can be permitted to

00:20:49.860 to purchase new life or to create a lot of little babies in a test tube and then put them in a

00:20:55.200 freezer forever. Or then after that, destroy, as happens most of the time with IVF, destroy the

00:21:00.680 babies who have been kept in the freezer forever. Or what happens when a married couple decides to put 0.93

00:21:06.520 some babies in a freezer and then they get divorced? What happens to those babies? Or if one or more of 0.97

00:21:10.420 the parents dies, what happens to those babies? And so it creates all of these bioethical problems.

00:21:14.840 The Supreme Court of Alabama was simply ruling on the state constitution.

00:21:18.020 But then certain Republicans said, hey, hold on, we don't want to be seen as being opposed to IVF

00:21:22.480 because a lot of people have had their kids through IVF and a lot of people like IVF.

00:21:25.740 President Trump came out in support of IVF. Carrie Lake came out in support of IVF.

00:21:29.540 Senator Tommy Tuberville was kind of caught in the middle on this. And so here I am. I'm under fire.

00:21:34.860 I was just attacked this morning by the Biden campaign of all places. Kind of funny. I was attacked by

00:21:40.860 our supposedly Catholic president for quoting directly from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

00:21:46.060 Which happens very often, I suppose, these days. But the Biden campaign came after me on this.

00:21:51.860 I think Republicans are somewhat missing the point on why the Democrats are pushing this IVF issue

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00:23:09.220 annoying and I don't think particularly funny or insightful, but John Oliver is a major voice of

00:23:16.760 the Democrat Party in America. Not American, annoying, not that funny, missing the point on

00:23:24.140 a lot of things. The guy's the perfect Democrat. And John Oliver just ran a segment that I think

00:23:29.800 was really insightful on IVF and that Republicans can really learn from when we're trying to deal

00:23:35.740 with this new political issue. Some politicians suddenly seem alarmed to have to deal with the

00:23:41.040 consequences of a movement that they have actively empowered. Nikki Haley, for instance,

00:23:45.300 spent the week trying to reconcile her position that when you're talking about an embryo,

00:23:49.400 you're talking about a life with what that actually means in legal terms. Meanwhile, watchers,

00:23:55.440 Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville seemed to realize the problems with his position in real time.

00:24:00.600 Do you have a reaction to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on the fact that embryos are children?

00:24:06.140 Yeah, I was all for it. We need to have more kids. We need to have an opportunity to do that. 1.00

00:24:10.380 And I thought this was the right thing to do. But IVF is used to have more children. 0.59

00:24:14.400 And right now, IVF services are paused at some of the clinics in Alabama. Aren't you concerned

00:24:18.480 that this could impact people who are trying to have kids? We need more kids.

00:24:22.740 Well, guess what, Tommy? I've got great news. Since your political philosophy seems to begin

00:24:27.320 and end with, we need more kids, you'll be thrilled to know that thanks to a judge in Alabama,

00:24:31.540 there's now whole freezers full of them. Go play with all those frosty kids, Senator. 0.51

00:24:36.720 Or maybe that's not what you had in mind when you think of children, 0.98

00:24:39.300 which is exactly the f***ing point here. There it is. There it is. Not a good argument from John 0.96

00:24:45.560 Oliver, but a great demonstration of why the Democrats are trying to push this IVF issue on

00:24:52.480 us right now. And they're trying to get Republicans to embrace IVF. They're trying to do it. One,

00:24:59.780 it's a really good wedge issue because it's a novel issue. People haven't really thought about

00:25:03.280 it very much. Everyone knows someone just about who has at least tried IVF. IVF isn't always that

00:25:09.620 successful, but they've at least tried it. Or maybe they've got a niece or a nephew who was

00:25:12.920 conceived via IVF. The technology has been around long enough. It's still new, but it's been around

00:25:17.340 long enough that people have seen some of the effects and they haven't really thought through

00:25:21.060 the bioethical implications of it. So they know that it's a good issue that people just don't

00:25:26.180 quite have strong opinions on yet. And if they lean anyway, they probably lean toward liking it for the

00:25:30.360 reason Tommy Tuberville just said. Because we want more life. We want more life. But the reason

00:25:35.140 that they're trying to get us all on the record here and they're trying to get us all to embrace IVF

00:25:39.740 is not just because they think that the contrary would alienate suburban independent voters or

00:25:47.540 something. The reason they're trying to get us to embrace IVF is because they know that it

00:25:53.400 undercuts our argument on abortion. Because the conservative, the pro-life argument on abortion is that life

00:25:58.660 begins a conception. You shouldn't kill people, basically. When the sperm and the egg come

00:26:05.480 together, that's life. That's the beginning of life. And so you don't just magically become a human

00:26:10.760 person at five years old. You don't magically become a human person at three years old. You

00:26:16.180 don't magically become a human person at three months old in your mother's womb. You become a 1.00

00:26:20.260 human person at the beginning of your life. And so we say life begins a conception. It's like a

00:26:24.940 truism to say life, the beginning of life is the beginning of life. Okay. But if that is true,

00:26:31.440 then no matter how grateful we are to IVF technology because it gave us our niece or nephew,

00:26:37.120 no matter how grateful we are or dazzled we are by scientific advancements, 50 years ago,

00:26:41.600 we couldn't create human beings in a test tube. Now we can. Isn't that amazing?

00:26:44.200 We have to grapple with the reality of the situation, which is that if life begins at

00:26:51.520 conception, then the thing that we're creating in those test tubes is human lives. And it raises a

00:26:58.380 ton of profound ethical questions about how we are to make human lives. Is it good to create new life

00:27:07.100 by going to the marketplace and paying $200,000 and ordering a child out of a catalog? As many

00:27:13.860 people do through the IVF industry, going, finding a surrogate somewhere in some third world country,

00:27:18.300 renting her womb, finding some woman, purchasing her eggs, intentionally creating a child to deprive 0.99

00:27:22.780 that child of his natural mother or father so that the child can be raised either by a single parent

00:27:27.660 or by two fellas or by two women, or even by a married couple that is having trouble conceiving.

00:27:33.640 Even in that case, which to most people seems by far the most justifiable, even then it raises all

00:27:39.060 sorts of ethical questions. And then we haven't even gotten to the most obvious ethical problem

00:27:44.020 here, which is that we're creating people to put in a freezer forever. And then you put them in a

00:27:49.460 freezer forever until the people who own the freezer or even the parents who conceive the child

00:27:54.440 don't want them to be in the freezer forever. And then what happens? They kill them. They kill the

00:27:58.260 kids. So it's a smart wedge issue for the Democrats and probably the politically prudent thing to do. 0.98

00:28:05.020 As I have said from the very beginning, if I were advising President Trump, who I think is great,

00:28:10.100 most pro-life president in my lifetime, or if I were advising Carrie Lake, or if I were advising

00:28:13.680 Senator Tuberville, I would say probably the wise thing to do here, knowing that this is a novel

00:28:20.300 technology, this is a bioethical issue that people haven't really thought through, and this poses a

00:28:26.280 major political hazard, and the Democrats know it, and that's why they're pushing it, is maybe don't come

00:28:32.860 out totally endorsing IVF and the surrogacy industry right now. Maybe just proceed a little

00:28:39.300 bit with caution here. Maybe recognize that this is a trap being laid out for the Democrats, and you

00:28:44.580 don't need to undercut the wise conservative judges in Alabama who are simply interpreting the

00:28:48.700 Constitution as it necessarily ought to be interpreted. And maybe don't undercut the pro-life

00:28:56.560 movement. Maybe don't undercut lots of Christians, and it's not even just Christians who have moral

00:29:04.100 qualms about this kind of technology. It's lots of other people too. Maybe just don't fall for the

00:29:09.680 trap. That's what I would, that would be my recommendation anyway. Democrats are very, very

00:29:15.000 crafty. Of all people, John Oliver just showed it. Now, speaking of Democrats, George Takei,

00:29:22.740 who was in Star Trek, and for some reason we need to listen to his views on politics,

00:29:28.380 George Takei just brought up the murder of Lakin Riley, who I haven't even really covered this

00:29:35.140 story. It's just so terribly sad. It's a University of Georgia student, young gal, who was allegedly

00:29:39.880 murdered by an illegal alien when she was out on a run. George Takei is very upset by this. Not that an 0.55

00:29:46.200 illegal alien who had no business being in this country murdered a young American girl. Not that Joe 1.00

00:29:50.780 Biden and the Democrats have invited these illegal aliens by the millions into the country so that 1.00

00:29:55.920 they have blood on their hands. They are responsible for these murders and all the other crimes associated

00:30:01.860 with it. We'll get to some of the other crimes in just a moment. George Takei is not upset about any

00:30:06.560 of that. George Takei is worried that if we keep even talking about all the crimes the illegal aliens 1.00

00:30:12.780 are committing and the murders they're committing, the blowback on innocent illegal aliens could just be

00:30:18.400 so terrible. Norm Macdonald had a bit on this, the late great Norm Macdonald. He said, you know,

00:30:21.920 my biggest fear is that someday a Muslim terrorist will smuggle in a dirty bomb into a major American 1.00

00:30:28.580 city, killing tens of millions of people because then the blowback on peaceful Muslims would be 1.00

00:30:36.400 terrible. And his guests didn't know how to respond. He said, yeah, yeah, exactly. Right. Okay. 0.98

00:30:41.320 George Takei is now doing that bit. He's now embodying that bit. He says, quote,

00:30:47.640 I know your type of politician. He's speaking to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

00:30:52.240 Men like you smeared my community, I guess George Takei's Japanese, during World War II by preying upon 1.00

00:30:58.800 people's fears of others who didn't look like them. It led to the internment and 125,000 shattered lives

00:31:05.960 never again. Okay. Okay. This one's going to get me in trouble. I just, but I, I just have to,

00:31:15.840 there were a lot of Japanese spies in America during World War II. Okay. There were a lot of

00:31:20.620 Japanese spies. You don't need to take my word for it. I'm not saying I'm justifying any of the 0.99

00:31:25.460 Franklin Roosevelt policies. I'm not a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt, but there were a lot of

00:31:29.880 Japanese spies in America. Actually, this is from the CIA. This was declassified by the CIA.

00:31:34.500 We, we see this in Washington Times, May, 1983. A substantial number of Japanese Americans living

00:31:44.660 on the West Coast during World War II were spies for the Japanese government, according to secret

00:31:48.440 Japanese diplomatic codes of the period. So the United States government interpreted,

00:31:54.040 received Japanese diplomatic codes and interpreted them and discovered that the Japanese had a lot of

00:32:01.120 spies in the United States. The Japanese foreign ministry's own cables appear to contrary

00:32:04.480 findings of a federal commission, which reported February 24th, that there was no military reason

00:32:09.940 for confining some 117,000 Japanese Americans to isolated camps from 1942 to 1945. So the US

00:32:16.260 government apologized for this and, you know, Roosevelt had a lot to apologize for. But the irony,

00:32:22.560 the historic irony here is that the Japanese actually admitted that they had a lot of spies in the

00:32:27.580 United States. And this ties into the very story that George Takei is talking about, because this

00:32:32.920 is one of the big threats posed by mass migration, by unvetted large-scale migration. This is what's

00:32:39.760 going on right now. Do you know, last year, we're no longer all that worried about going to war with

00:32:43.920 Japan. We are worried about going to war with China. We're worried about going to war with China 0.72

00:32:47.760 over Taiwan, over the South China Sea, because China's a rising power. And three quarters of the time 0.94

00:32:53.300 in recent history, when rising powers challenge dominant powers, a major conflict ensues. Well,

00:32:58.380 last year, US Border Patrol and Customs reported 37,000 Chinese citizens apprehended crossing illegally

00:33:06.840 from Mexico into the United States. That's a lot of people. And you might say, well, that's kind of

00:33:11.220 strange, because I don't think China, how does geography, we don't learn a lot about geography in

00:33:14.680 America, but is it America, Mexico, China, Guatemala? I don't, where is, I kind of forget where all the

00:33:20.960 countries are. No, China's on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. So how did they get there? They're 0.91

00:33:24.720 flying in through the southern route to our neighbors, then crossing illegally. That 37,000

00:33:30.720 number is pretty large. That is more than 50 times what we saw just two years earlier. 50, why is there

00:33:40.340 a 50-fold increase in Chinese illegal immigration into the United States across our southern border?

00:33:45.800 Is that at all troubling? That's a little bit troubling to me. If we had good vetting, if we had

00:33:54.120 a reasonable migration policy, and we had a process of assimilation, you wouldn't worry about

00:33:59.340 these things. The government wouldn't have worried about these things in the 1940s. Japan would not 0.99

00:34:04.640 have sent spies to America in the 1940s. China would not be a big worry right now. But that is what is

00:34:11.240 happening. The big fear. Also, what do you think is going to happen? We're not even talking about,

00:34:18.560 in the case of the Japanese, we're talking about legal immigrants. In the case of these illegal aliens 0.99

00:34:24.140 from America, they already should be interned in jails and then sent back to their countries, 1.00

00:34:29.620 deported, just according to the law that already exists on the books. Totally incomparable stuff.

00:34:37.580 But when we don't know about history, we don't. We just repeat it, or we come very close to

00:34:42.580 repeating it. Now, speaking of protecting young people, I mentioned one of the biggest problems

00:34:46.760 with the southern border right now. It's not even just the people coming across. It's not even just

00:34:52.160 the social chaos that causes and the economic problems that causes. It's the fentanyl. It's the

00:34:59.460 drugs. And this involves the southern border, and it involves China. Fentanyl is a drug that kills kids,

00:35:04.460 often who are experimenting with drugs, period, for the first time. Between July of 2019 and December

00:35:12.400 of 2021, according to the CDC, 86% of adolescents who died of a fentanyl overdose had never previously

00:35:19.680 experienced a drug overdose. There's a really, really good report on this in the Free Press.

00:35:24.400 That's Barry Weiss's outlet. This is by James Fishback. Highly recommend you check out the whole

00:35:29.860 thing. Last year, the DEA seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills. That is the most in a single

00:35:37.300 year. One of these pills can kill you. One of these pills could probably kill two people or more.

00:35:44.300 This is killing 200 Americans per day. This is totally gut-wrenching. And it's not as though we

00:35:51.520 don't know where it's coming from. We know exactly where it's coming from. The materials that are used to

00:35:56.720 make these fentanyl pills come from China. Coincidentally, they come from Wuhan and around

00:36:01.000 Wuhan. They come from China. The Chinese ship them in to Mexico. Then they cross by the cartels. The 0.76

00:36:08.060 cartels create the drugs. They ship them into the United States across the open border, the border

00:36:12.880 that the Biden administration is intentionally opening. When Texas creates its own border wall,

00:36:17.640 because the federal government won't do its job, Joe Biden sends his thugs to take the border wall down,

00:36:22.560 to bring this stuff into the country. The people who are dying, the 200 Americans, forget about the 0.78

00:36:26.860 Americans even, who are being murdered by the illegal aliens. The 200 Americans who are dying 0.74

00:36:31.120 every day from these fentanyl overdoses, that blood is on Joe Biden's hands. He is doing this

00:36:37.000 intentionally. It's not that he hasn't had warning. It's not that he doesn't know what's going on.

00:36:40.400 Even Joe Biden, who doesn't know what end is up, he knows exactly what's going on in this issue.

00:36:43.800 And the Democrats have made a very cynical play to keep that border open because they think it will

00:36:48.080 help them politically. And if the cost is 200 American kids dying every day, well,

00:36:51.740 so be it. That's just the cost. Tomorrow only, Jeremy's Razors is offering an insane deal for

00:36:57.760 leap day. You can get the Precision 5 trial set, a toiletry travel bag, Leftist Tears tumbler,

00:37:04.420 and Jeremy's microaggression chocolates all bundled together for $29. That is an $80 value. You don't

00:37:10.100 want to miss this deal. This once in every four-year sale is tomorrow, February 29th. It is for one day

00:37:15.620 only. Get it tomorrow at jeremysrazors.com before the offer ends. My favorite comment yesterday is from

00:37:21.100 Dan Labue, who says, if Lincoln were around today and running against the Democrat party,

00:37:27.620 they would have impeached him. They would have murdered him, as they did. Actually, you don't

00:37:33.180 go quite far enough. They would have murdered him. And who knows? I got to pray for President 0.64

00:37:37.660 Covfefe because they clearly want to take him out too. Speaking of matters of diversity, Microsoft is very

00:37:45.720 proud of itself. Microsoft has just issued its diversity and inclusion report for 2023. And it has

00:37:54.220 the results of its pay equity agenda. And the results of the pay equity agenda, they're very proud to brag

00:38:00.840 about, are that racial minorities who are eligible for rewards earn $1, $1.007 in total pay for every $1

00:38:13.860 that white employees earn. So you might say, well, that's not a huge difference. No, but they're just, 0.97

00:38:19.240 they're pointing out there is a difference and the racial minorities make more money for the same jobs.

00:38:25.220 Specifically, according to the report, black and African-American employees, I'm not quite sure what the

00:38:29.860 distinction is there, but they make a distinction, earn $1.004. And Asian-American employees earn a higher

00:38:37.740 $1.012 for every $1 earned by white employees with matching job titles and levels and tenure.

00:38:48.140 So you might say, okay, well, hold on. Is this just some kind of bogus statistic like the gender pay

00:38:52.620 gap? You always hear about this, how women make 75 cents on the dollar for every man for the same work 1.00

00:38:58.800 except that turns out not to be true because when you control for experience, for hours worked,

00:39:07.460 when you control for everything that would go into a job, when you even control for the aggressiveness

00:39:14.460 with which men and women negotiate for higher pay, the gender pay gap totally disappears, which of

00:39:20.380 course makes sense. If employers could save 25% on labor costs, they would only hire women for every 1.00

00:39:25.940 job if you were actually getting the same work. The same logic does not quite hold up here.

00:39:30.920 Are we really to believe that black and Asian employees are working that many more hours?

00:39:36.980 We're told this is basically for the same work. Are we to believe that black and Asian employees 1.00

00:39:40.660 are that much more aggressive and talented at negotiating raises and higher pay than the white 1.00

00:39:48.060 employees? I just don't think that's quite true. I think the distinction in human nature between men and

00:39:51.960 women is far greater than the distinction between the races. So I suppose the caveat here is

00:39:57.420 I have no doubt that Google hates white people. Google's made that pretty clear with the Google 0.98

00:40:02.820 Gemini AI, which erases white people from all of history and all of modern society. I think it's 0.95

00:40:07.860 quite clear with the leftist political activism that the Google personnel engage in. I think it's quite

00:40:15.240 clear from the very fact that they have this diversity and inclusion report. See how much we stick it to

00:40:19.820 whitey? See how many more advantages we give to non-white people and to women? So they obviously 1.00

00:40:27.160 have that preference, and they might even have a fear. We live in a culture now where by law you are

00:40:34.520 told to discriminate against white people. Even after the affirmative action case, where the Supreme

00:40:39.900 Court said this is obviously racial discrimination, you can't take points off white applicants for

00:40:44.960 colleges and Asian applicants for colleges. Even after all of that, you still have a lot of DEI 0.97

00:40:51.600 initiatives, which are intended to punish white people and to give some advantage to non-white

00:40:56.520 people. So even then, you might have employers, even if they weren't big leftists, who would say, 0.68

00:41:01.660 look, I don't want to deal with the racial discrimination lawsuit. I know that there's an entire

00:41:06.700 bureaucracy on the side of claims, real or imagined, of racial discrimination. So I'm just going to pay

00:41:16.180 the racial minorities more because I just don't want to have to hear it. Yeah, whitey's bad. Go get 0.98

00:41:20.480 whitey. He's terrible, right? I guess that's the only way I could see racial minority men being all 1.00

00:41:29.860 that much better at negotiating higher pay than white men. Either way, it seems pretty perverse, 0.81

00:41:34.780 pretty perverse that one of the largest companies in the history of the world is discriminating.

00:41:43.520 And by the way, we're talking about Microsoft here. So we're not talking about Facebook. We're

00:41:47.580 not talking about Google. We're not talking about, okay, we're talking about what I thought was one

00:41:53.020 of the more restrained when it comes to woke activism. And even still, you see them touting,

00:41:59.200 yeah, go get whitey. That guy's terrible. Go get him. We'll see how wonderful it is that we're 1.00

00:42:02.880 paying him less. Okay. Speaking of relations between the sexes, a man has gone viral for

00:42:10.060 defending his wife's polyamory. Take it away. So your wife's dating another woman. Nice. All right.

00:42:18.620 Whatever's in your head. No, just no. What? You're telling me you're not going to have some fun with

00:42:24.400 them? Probably not. We're not dating this person together. It's not my relationship. Then what do you

00:42:29.900 get out of it? Nothing. It's not for me. It's not my relationship. I would never let my woman 1.00

00:42:37.020 let my woman let my woman. And I'm done. What's going on? Ooh, unfortunately that means you have

00:42:45.700 lost this round of talk to a douchebag about polyamory. You had to keep up a conversation 0.89

00:42:50.320 for one minute and you made it about 25 seconds. Fortunately, you do have an opportunity for a

00:42:56.120 bonus round. Nope. Pass. I'm out. Okay. So this video has gone viral on TikTok. I don't know if

00:43:02.800 any of this is true. It's hard for me to imagine this man is married, but let's say he is. I don't

00:43:08.700 see any kids around in the background. He doesn't sound like a father. I don't see toys. I see probably

00:43:16.200 his own toys. He seems like an overgrown adolescent saying, oh, I'm not. Are you kidding me? My wife can

00:43:22.060 go date whoever I, I'm just glad to, I'm glad to go along for the ride. Which raises the question to

00:43:27.320 me, in what way is this guy married? I guess maybe he went to a judge. Maybe he even got married in a

00:43:36.140 church or something. I don't know, but probably not. But like, I guess legally he's married, but what,

00:43:41.140 what is marriage to that guy? This ties in with a lot of the debates we've all been having recently

00:43:48.980 on, on what marriage is. This is the subject of my CPAC speech, uh, on what men and women are,

00:43:57.000 what it, it all gets really blurry. And it proves the social conservatives were obviously totally

00:44:01.680 correct as they always are about everything. But when the social conservatives said, hey,

00:44:05.320 if we really start tinkering around with marriage, if we really start tinkering around,

00:44:08.680 even with the sexual revolution, we're going to lose marriage. We're going to lose the very 0.81

00:44:11.720 distinction between men and women. That's exactly what happened with this man. This man says his wife

00:44:16.660 is half a lesbian and goes out and dates some girl. I wonder if he would be this passive if it 0.95

00:44:20.740 were a man. Maybe he would. He, he seems to suggest that he would. He says, well, I don't,

00:44:24.640 I don't let my woman do anything. She, you can do whatever she wants. And we, okay. So if you,

00:44:29.000 if you and your wife have no obligations to one another, if you can just go do whatever you want,

00:44:35.080 you can never tell the other person anything, you know, to do anything and you, you can never be

00:44:40.040 jealous even, or how are you married? It sounds like you're just roommates. And that's, that's

00:44:46.740 what marriage is probably a lot of the time these days. You just, you're sort of roommates. And this

00:44:52.280 goes a lot deeper than just, you know, the dastardly homosexuals. Sometimes the conservatives are a 1.00

00:44:57.800 little too quick to blame those who are a little light in the loafers, you know, a little bit sweet,

00:45:01.340 got a little sugar in the tank. When actually these problems go back a little bit further than that.

00:45:05.460 Marriage, I made the audacious claim that marriage is a union of a man and a woman for the sake

00:45:13.780 ordered toward the education and procreation of children. That's, that's what it's for. You know

00:45:20.260 a thing by what it's for. The leftist tears. Tumblr is for giving me leftist tears. The microphone is

00:45:23.700 for conducting my mellifluous tones to you. And that's what marriage is for. Okay. We got rid of

00:45:31.220 that with contraception. We got, we got rid of that. It's 50 years ago, more than 50 years ago at

00:45:38.000 this point. Okay. So then what's next? Well, marriage is a union of a man and a wife for the

00:45:46.140 good of the spouses. Well, why has it just got to be a man and a wife? If we're, if we're taking

00:45:49.000 children out of the equation, then why has it got to be a man and a wife? Okay. All right. Fair enough. 0.66

00:45:52.920 It can be a couple of dudes. Hey, by the way, if now that we've taken children out of the equation

00:45:57.340 and that children are the stickiest part about a marriage, why does it have to be a lifelong union?

00:46:02.140 Can't we just kind of split it up? What if you just don't like this person anymore? Okay. Yeah,

00:46:05.560 we can split it up. We can have no fault of worse and we can erase the distinctions between the sexes 0.92

00:46:09.740 and we forget about having children and we can. So then what is it? What is it? It's not that it's

00:46:16.140 become something new. It's not that it's expanded to become something larger or greater. It just

00:46:20.560 disappears and husbands end up like this cuckold who, who brags about being a cuckold on TikTok 0.97

00:46:30.340 to show how progressive he is. Yeah. We're, we're all, we're all really being cuckolded. Not only of 0.97

00:46:38.840 losing the people dearest to us as this guy has, of losing our whole civilization. That's what's

00:46:45.080 happening. That's a, that's a really supreme kind of cuckoldry. The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 28, 2024

Ep. 1435 - LGBTQ Propaganda Gets Banned In TN Classrooms

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