The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1458 - The Trans Day of Visibility

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, while many people were celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and the redemption of mankind, the most significant event in the history of the world, our supposedly Catholic president decided to focus on a new holiday, which he inaugurated three years ago, the Trans Day of Visibility.

00:00:19.480 Because we just hadn't seen enough of these people, you know, we hadn't heard about them, the trans activists, they're just too timid and unassuming. 1.00

00:00:27.800 So we needed more visibility. Three years ago, Biden established March 31st as the date for the new holiday.

00:00:36.400 And because it's not an actual federal holiday yet, he has had to reissue this proclamation every year.

00:00:43.440 He did it in 2022 and he did it again in 2023.

00:00:47.080 When the controversy popped off this year, defenders of the new trans holiday claimed that the day did not intentionally fall on Easter, the date of which changes each year.

00:01:01.480 They're sort of right about that, but that's not the point.

00:01:04.820 The point is, the new trans holiday did fall on Easter this year.

00:01:09.420 And the liberals, up to and including the president, all leaned into it.

00:01:14.540 The governor of New York lit up her state's most famous landmarks, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, Niagara Falls even, in trans colors.

00:01:24.280 California Governor Gavin Newsom published a lengthy video monologue with his wife on the importance of cross-dressing to his state and to America.

00:01:31.840 Joe Biden chose Good Friday, the most solemn day of the Christian liturgical year, the day on which Christ was crucified, to announce the 2024 trans feast that would be held on Easter Sunday.

00:01:46.640 The way the date fell might have been accidental.

00:01:51.080 The reaction, however, was not accidental.

00:01:55.120 It was intentional.

00:01:57.000 Holidays are holy days.

00:01:58.920 That's what the word means.

00:01:59.840 And the trans day of visibility is the liberals' new feast for their new religion, which, as is often the case, is a parody, a satanic parody, of the old religion. 0.93

00:02:10.820 Both religions recognize that something has gone wrong with human nature.

00:02:14.880 Christians call that original sin. 0.92

00:02:16.900 The trans religion calls it being born in the wrong body.

00:02:21.580 Both religions hold that this defect in our condition can be remedied only through ritual death and rebirth.

00:02:27.640 Christians call this process baptism, which crucifies the old man, frees us from sin, and gives us eternal life in Christ.

00:02:36.280 The trans religion calls this process the gender transition, which kills the old self, then referred to as a dead name, then frees us from facts and logic, and gives us a different kind of life, albeit still mortal and statistically much shorter.

00:02:53.760 The old religion has always been controversial, no more or less so today than 2,000 years ago. 0.97

00:03:01.180 In the words of St. Paul, the old religion is foolishness to Gentiles and scandalous to Jews. 1.00

00:03:08.440 Everyone finds it shocking. 0.99

00:03:11.600 And fair enough. 0.99

00:03:13.240 Christianity can seem like the most foolish and scandalous religion in the world until you compare it to all the other ones that have ever been tried. 1.00

00:03:20.900 Certainly when you compare its supposed foolishness and scandal to the new religion that the liberals decided to exalt on Easter Sunday. 0.99

00:03:30.060 But the trans day of visibility will come and go.

00:03:33.600 And Easter will remain.

00:03:35.520 Because a man has never become a woman. 0.95

00:03:37.860 But a man really did rise from the dead.

00:03:40.820 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:41.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:42.300 Welcome back to the show. 0.92

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00:04:10.280 Does not seem to me the best way to win friends and influence people. 0.89

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00:05:48.020 The clumsy libs like Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom and the rest of them, they go full bore on the Trans Day of Visibility.

00:06:00.700 Even though they say, look, we didn't intend for this holiday to exactly line up with Easter.

00:06:07.040 That's just kind of how it fell this year.

00:06:09.200 Yeah, right.

00:06:09.880 And then you doubled down.

00:06:11.060 You quadrupled down.

00:06:12.580 This is the first time most people had ever heard of this fake new holiday.

00:06:16.040 And you did that.

00:06:17.720 You capitalized on the publicity precisely because it was Easter Sunday, the date of a real and very important holiday.

00:06:24.460 The slightly cleverer libs hedged their bets.

00:06:28.280 So Nancy Pelosi came out. 0.99

00:06:29.920 And first, she tweeted, on Easter Sunday, as families Sunday morning, happy, good morning, good morning.

00:06:37.180 No, she said, on Easter Sunday, as families gather in prayer for blessings bestowed on our communities and our country,

00:06:42.640 may this holy season be a time of renewal, hope, and peace from my family to yours, wishing you a glorious Easter.

00:06:47.600 Okay, that's the normal one.

00:06:49.380 Don't forget, Nancy Pelosi has been at politics for a very long time now.

00:06:52.560 I think there's a picture of her meeting President Kennedy.

00:06:55.660 She's been around a while.

00:06:56.980 That's the normal one.

00:06:58.040 The next one then was the Trans Post.

00:06:59.980 So she comes out, she says, as transgender Americans continue to face hate and harassment,

00:07:06.060 it is more important than ever to stand with the trans community.

00:07:09.220 On Trans Day Visibility and every day, let us reaffirm our commitment to uplifting trans people

00:07:14.700 and ensuring a future free of discrimination.

00:07:18.240 And then, just in case there was anyone she left out on Easter Sunday,

00:07:22.260 she said she had to get a third holiday in there.

00:07:24.900 So she tweets out, happy Cesar Chavez Day.

00:07:27.840 Cesar Chavez?

00:07:28.500 I was talking about Cesar Chavez.

00:07:30.720 Lady, it ain't the 70s anymore.

00:07:32.800 Okay, that is, all that pro-worker, labor movement, Cesar Chavez stuff, that's out.

00:07:39.840 But anyway, just to make sure that she ticks all the boxes, she says,

00:07:44.120 happy Cesar Chavez Day.

00:07:45.520 His legacy is a fearless and tireless champion for justice and dignity for all,

00:07:49.100 continues to inspire our nation.

00:07:50.740 Today, his fight for better pay and protections for workers lives on

00:07:53.800 as we work to build and realize a better life for all Americans.

00:07:56.820 Okay, that one, I don't think, maybe there are a few old school commies,

00:08:02.520 you know, the Bernie Sanders types who are part of the old left, the left that channels

00:08:08.780 its resentment and envy into socioeconomic class warfare, not into racial and sexual class warfare.

00:08:19.340 I guess those kind of people might appreciate the Cesar Chavez shout-out.

00:08:24.920 Otherwise, it's just the people who celebrate Easter and then the people who celebrate the trans day. 0.85

00:08:30.520 And she's trying to appease everybody. 0.99

00:08:33.460 But you can't appease everybody.

00:08:35.480 Man cannot serve two masters.

00:08:36.880 So you're going to have to pick.

00:08:39.120 A holiday is a holy day.

00:08:41.120 And a holy day reflects the things that you hold holy and that a society holds holy.

00:08:46.360 It's not just individuals.

00:08:48.680 If it were just individuals, we wouldn't have any federal holidays at all.

00:08:51.960 The point is that we live in society and we all need to recognize that certain things are sacred

00:08:56.320 and certain things are taboo.

00:08:58.140 And we do these things together because we're a political community.

00:09:01.040 And if we don't have anything that we hold in common, then we cease to be a republic.

00:09:04.980 Because republic actually comes from res publica, the things that we hold in common.

00:09:09.960 The point of the state is to pursue the common good, to do good and avoid evil for all of us.

00:09:16.560 But now we've got these overlapping and mutually exclusive holidays.

00:09:22.640 Which one is it going to be?

00:09:24.780 If you ask the cultural executives over in Hollywood and in the news media and even at Cartoon Network,

00:09:33.380 you know which one they're going to pick.

00:09:34.800 They're going to pick the trans day. 1.00

00:09:36.140 Cartoon Network posted on Easter Sunday a trans flag.

00:09:42.880 And then beneath it, a caption says, I am growing into my fullest self.

00:09:48.340 And then the caption, this is a channel for five-year-olds.

00:09:51.260 Underneath it says, affirmations for our trans and gender non-conforming family.

00:09:57.960 You are valid just as you are.

00:10:02.380 Hashtag transgender day visibility.

00:10:04.820 The creepiest one, of course, because while I guess some kids might be listening to Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden,

00:10:11.420 probably their audience is mostly adults.

00:10:13.220 Whereas for Cartoon Network, the audience is exclusively stoners, stoner adults, and children.

00:10:22.140 That's it.

00:10:23.260 Most of the people watching Cartoon Network are going to be kids.

00:10:28.320 Teenagers at most.

00:10:30.020 And then a handful of stoners who never grew up.

00:10:32.640 But that's very creepy that the cartoon channel, the channel for the little kids,

00:10:37.380 is pushing all of this pro-trans propaganda.

00:10:41.120 And yet, that's inevitable.

00:10:43.820 That is inevitable.

00:10:45.640 I know in recent years we've heard a lot of conservatives bemoaning, bewailing the indoctrination of little kids.

00:10:55.220 But that's inevitable.

00:10:57.100 That's called education.

00:10:58.780 You indoctrinate and educate come from the same term.

00:11:03.680 They basically mean the same thing.

00:11:05.140 It's just one is kind of bad and one is kind of good.

00:11:07.840 And when it comes to the education of little children, it's pretty much all indoctrination.

00:11:12.940 If you want to parse a distinction between the two, you would say that indoctrination is more of an imposition on the student.

00:11:24.960 Whereas education, let's say if you're in college and you're studying the liberal arts,

00:11:29.260 that's more of a conversation, a challenge to engage with these texts for the students themselves.

00:11:36.620 But when we're talking about little kids, you're not asking them for their grand theory on the ABCs.

00:11:41.020 You just tell them, okay, here's the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

00:11:43.840 You don't ask for their thoughts on abstract mathematics.

00:11:46.540 You tell them 2 plus 2 equals 4.

00:11:48.220 Write it down.

00:11:48.800 If you say 2 plus 2 equals 5, you're going to lose points.

00:11:50.900 And you do that enough, you're going to the principal's office.

00:11:52.840 So that is indoctrination, and you have to indoctrinate little kids because they're not in command of their reason yet.

00:11:59.020 And the only way that they're going to become in command of their reason is if you teach them basic facts about the world.

00:12:04.260 So I don't really blame the libs and the weird sex people and stuff when they try to indoctrinate the kids 1.00

00:12:09.740 in as much as that is the only way to have any kind of political movement.

00:12:16.260 Kids are like sponges.

00:12:17.580 They absorb everything.

00:12:18.620 And so if you sincerely believe that your ideology is the truth, then absolutely you're going to want to get it to the kids

00:12:25.660 because if you don't teach it to little children, then their malleable little sponge brains are going to harden over time,

00:12:33.600 and they're not going to be as malleable, and it's going to be a lot harder to affect your political agenda.

00:12:39.760 So of course they're going after the kids, just like we take kids to Sunday school with CCD.

00:12:44.560 We have kids pray at home or read them their Bible or whatever.

00:12:50.160 That's just how it goes.

00:12:52.020 But there is a very concerted effort now among the official commercial culture factories that are targeting your kids,

00:12:59.100 Cartoon Network, Disney, obviously, basically all of them other than maybe Bent Key over here at Daily Wire,

00:13:05.940 to indoctrinate your kids in this very particular way.

00:13:08.460 And it happens to correspond with the way that the whole political order is indoctrinating people,

00:13:12.500 and that is toward liberalism, leftism, and in its most recent expression, transgenderism.

00:13:21.420 Now, speaking of that particular political issue,

00:13:25.340 there's a great new special out on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel, and that is Cross the Picket Line.

00:13:31.160 You know, when I go to colleges, sometimes I get attacked.

00:13:33.700 Sometimes I get burned in effigy.

00:13:35.280 Sometimes they try to blow me up, and I frequently get protested.

00:13:40.160 And on a rare occasion, my producer, Mr. Ben Davies, is able to convince the people who protest me,

00:13:45.460 yell at me, ask me questions, to come sit down and do an interview afterward.

00:13:50.760 Well, that is what you will see in the latest episode of Cross the Picket Line,

00:13:54.260 University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:13:55.920 Check out this short clip.

00:13:57.640 Hundreds of people came in, they filled all the seats, and they were polite for almost the whole time.

00:14:05.900 I'm standing here now, a biological male, wearing a dress with a pair of leggings.

00:14:09.620 Do you sincerely believe that I should be subject to punitive justice on the basis of what I'm wearing? 0.92

00:14:14.200 And if so, are you willing to turn yourself in for wearing women's panties in your gay college film?

00:14:17.960 I say almost the whole time because a couple students, one who called himself transgender and another who called herself non-binary,

00:14:28.440 became a bit more pointed during the Q&A.

00:14:31.720 I was happy to answer their questions.

00:14:33.720 So happy, in fact, that we all decided to sit down and have a conversation after the event.

00:14:39.060 This series is about finding one or two students with even a modicum of courage,

00:14:46.160 some of them have a lot of courage, who oppose my views and they're willing to sit down and have a discussion face-to-face.

00:14:51.440 Watch the full episode now on YouTube.

00:14:52.740 If you are planning to come protest my YAF speech at the University of Utah next week

00:14:58.040 and you want to discuss our difference in viewpoints, well, just find Mr. Ben Davies, my producer, and yell at him.

00:15:05.060 And then we can sit down and you can be on the next episode.

00:15:07.920 Before we move on to Beyonce, because I want to get, this is a very important story with Beyonce,

00:15:12.540 but I want to put a little bow on the whole trans day of visibility thing,

00:15:16.280 because I am of the opinion that we've all talked about the difference between men and women plenty,

00:15:21.320 and it's a national disgrace that we even have to talk about this issue.

00:15:25.040 But it's not me.

00:15:26.060 It's not me pushing it.

00:15:27.900 It's not Matt Walsh pushing it.

00:15:29.480 It's not Ben Shapiro pushing it.

00:15:31.060 It's the left pushing it.

00:15:32.280 The left is the one that's trying to replace Easter with this weird transvestite day. 0.90

00:15:36.120 And then the moment that we observe that that's a strange thing,

00:15:40.300 they say that we're, you know, aggressors in the culture war.

00:15:43.380 We're not.

00:15:43.880 We're articulating the view that has been held for a very long time.

00:15:48.340 We're suggesting that the new thing that the libs are pushing is not a great idea.

00:15:53.100 But why does this appear to have taken hold?

00:15:55.740 There's a good essay in Compact magazine, which is Saurabh Amari's magazine.

00:16:02.080 I don't actually, I didn't catch who wrote it.

00:16:05.100 But it's on the development of ideology around the world and specifically around the West.

00:16:11.500 And it points out that this wokeism, which is just the new term for political correctness,

00:16:16.260 is perhaps the one uniquely American ideology.

00:16:20.860 America, we take parts of other ideologies, but, you know, we didn't invent fascism.

00:16:26.460 We didn't invent communism.

00:16:27.820 We didn't invent liberalism.

00:16:29.040 We didn't invent any of these things.

00:16:30.940 Political correctness, wokeism, that does seem to be something that we have made.

00:16:34.480 And Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, he said that.

00:16:37.700 He said, we don't want that wokeism.

00:16:38.800 That's an American thing.

00:16:39.680 We don't want to import that over here.

00:16:41.260 This is the French.

00:16:41.880 These are some of the most left-wing people ever. 0.93

00:16:43.860 They invented the term and they chopped people's heads off. 0.99

00:16:45.920 I mean, they're crazy. 0.97

00:16:47.080 But even they said, no, we don't want this political correctness. 0.86

00:16:50.020 But why?

00:16:51.800 Why is it?

00:16:52.440 Is it just that, you know, the cultural Marxists came in and scrambled our brains?

00:16:57.020 Well, there's a little bit of truth to that.

00:16:58.900 Is it just that, I don't know, everyone's so hooked on porn that they're all just getting

00:17:03.540 these kind of weird sexual ideas?

00:17:05.060 Yeah, maybe there's a little bit to that.

00:17:07.080 But I think the deeper explanation is, and the reason why this has really cropped up as an

00:17:11.380 American phenomenon is because of an idea that in America, you can be whatever you want.

00:17:19.040 Here in America, unlike in the old world, unlike in the East, unlike in the global South, 0.91

00:17:25.260 here in America, you can be whatever you want.

00:17:30.740 That idea has some beauty to it.

00:17:34.800 But taken too far, it becomes very, very ugly and grotesque.

00:17:38.560 Like any other beautiful idea, if you blow away all of the limits, all of the constraints

00:17:45.420 to it, it's going to run out of control and be very, very ugly.

00:17:49.060 And the notion that in America, you can show up here penniless, an immigrant from some other

00:17:52.980 awful part of the world, and you can make it here.

00:17:55.420 And you can have a family, and you can have 2.3 kids, and a car in every garage, and a chicken

00:18:00.340 in every pot.

00:18:01.200 And that's the American dream.

00:18:03.420 Yeah, it's true.

00:18:04.040 There's a lot of opportunity in America.

00:18:05.840 But even in America, there is not the opportunity to rewrite reality.

00:18:13.120 Even in America, there is not the opportunity to liberate yourself from logic, and fact, and

00:18:20.820 reality.

00:18:21.580 And unfortunately, the liberals and the leftists have taken it that far.

00:18:26.560 And transgenderism is just the logical conclusion of that flawed premise that you can really be 1.00

00:18:33.460 whatever you want.

00:18:34.220 Well, if I can be an astronaut, if I, a poor kid from the ghetto, can be an astronaut, if

00:18:39.060 I, a guy born in Massachusetts, can end up establishing myself in Colorado, if I, if I,

00:18:47.540 if I, if I can do all these things, well, why can't I, a man, become a woman?

00:18:52.560 Because there are limits.

00:18:54.200 There are limits.

00:18:55.140 And that, that truth about American opportunity, if it becomes an ideology, the ideology of

00:19:02.840 freedom from all limits, it's going to, it's going to drive you nuts.

00:19:05.660 And you're going to make an idol out of it.

00:19:07.100 You're going to make a false religion out of it. 1.00

00:19:08.740 And you're going to end up replacing Easter with the transvestite day. 0.94

00:19:11.920 Not a good idea.

00:19:13.080 Speaking of pop culture, Beyonce, I think a distant cousin, it would have to be, right?

00:19:20.600 We share a last name.

00:19:21.980 Beyonce has just rewritten one of the beloved pop songs of the 20th century.

00:19:28.280 That is Jolene.

00:19:30.860 Jolene, Jolene. 0.99

00:19:32.400 You know, the Dolly Parton song, she has not only done a cover of it, but she's rewritten

00:19:37.460 the song.

00:19:38.720 So the, the original song, I don't, I'm not going to do my Dolly Parton impression.

00:19:42.260 You know, I don't have my little short shorts and cowboy boots, but you know the song, Jolene,

00:19:46.180 I won't even sing it.

00:19:47.140 I'm just going to read it.

00:19:47.920 Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you, please don't take my man.

00:19:52.980 Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, please don't take him just because you can.

00:19:57.320 That's the original song.

00:19:58.420 Here is the Beyonce version.

00:20:02.400 Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm warning you, don't come for my man.

00:20:22.400 Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, don't take the chance because you think you can.

00:20:32.400 You're beautiful beyond compare, takes more than beauty and seductive stares to come between

00:20:40.680 a family and a happy man.

00:20:46.840 Jolene, I'm a woman too, the games you play are nothing new, so you don't want no heat 0.89

00:20:52.560 with me, Jolene.

00:20:54.400 I hate to criticize my presumed cousin.

00:21:02.680 This is a bad cover.

00:21:04.500 She's got a good voice, the music's fine, but the change is really bad because what she

00:21:10.400 has done is taken a song that gets to a real concern, a real aspect of the relation of women

00:21:23.580 to other women and women to men and aspect of human nature and denied it, and she's totally

00:21:28.840 flipped it.

00:21:29.360 The first version, the Dolly Parton version, is a pleading, please, Jolene, you're beautiful,

00:21:38.580 you're young, you're seductive.

00:21:41.320 You could take my man, and I'm just asking you, as a fellow woman, please don't.

00:21:46.820 I know you can.

00:21:47.800 You have the power to do it if you want, probably, because my man, he might love me and everything,

00:21:53.680 but to quote Andrew Klavan, every man is two drinks and a wink away from ruining his life.

00:21:59.200 And if you really, Jolene, you're so beautiful, you're so young, you're so hot, if you really

00:22:06.020 wanted to take him, I bet you probably could, but please don't.

00:22:11.480 And our modern culture can't tolerate that because we live in a modern culture of self-affirmation.

00:22:18.640 We live in a modern culture of self-love and positivity, and you won't end a modern culture

00:22:25.900 of just asserting the will.

00:22:29.480 This is girl boss. 1.00

00:22:32.080 It's sort of like the shift from rest in peace, where you say, look, someone died.

00:22:35.360 It's a sad thing.

00:22:36.020 That's what happens.

00:22:36.700 May he rest in peace.

00:22:37.500 To rest in power.

00:22:38.700 We're never giving up the power.

00:22:39.800 I got the power, Jolene. 1.00

00:22:40.960 I'm going to kill you. 1.00

00:22:41.940 I'm going to chop your head off. 1.00

00:22:43.120 Have you ever taken? 1.00

00:22:43.560 You can't take my man.

00:22:44.960 I'm so hot.

00:22:45.960 I'm so beautiful.

00:22:46.820 I'm so powerful.

00:22:47.320 And it's just not true.

00:22:53.600 The thing that's great about the original Jolene song is it kind of resonates for women.

00:22:58.800 It kind of resonates for men.

00:23:00.220 It speaks to something real.

00:23:02.580 And this new girl boss, queen bee, I never age.

00:23:06.040 I never get uglier.

00:23:07.140 I'm always the hottest.

00:23:08.460 I'm always the strongest.

00:23:10.020 That doesn't actually describe people's experiences.

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00:24:39.780 Compare the lyrics.

00:24:40.800 I have the lyrics here.

00:24:41.600 I'm neither going to do my Queen Bey nor my Dolly Parton impression.

00:24:47.440 Dolly Parton.

00:24:48.160 Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.

00:24:52.180 Your voice is like a breath of spring.

00:24:53.520 Your smile is like a breath of spring.

00:24:55.400 Your voice is soft like summer rain.

00:24:56.680 And I cannot compete with you, Jolene.

00:25:00.020 Compared to.

00:25:00.720 Your beautiful beyond compare takes more than beauty and seductive stares to come between a family and a happy man.

00:25:04.900 Yeah, maybe.

00:25:06.060 Jolene, I'm a woman too.

00:25:07.200 The games you play are nothing new.

00:25:09.340 So you don't want no heat with me, Jolene.

00:25:11.720 We've been deep in love for 20 years.

00:25:13.420 I raised that man.

00:25:14.800 I raised his kids.

00:25:15.700 I know my man better than he knows himself.

00:25:19.780 I can easily understand why you're attracted to my man, but you don't want the smoke. 0.99

00:25:23.040 So shoot your shot with someone else. 1.00

00:25:24.080 You heard me. 1.00

00:25:24.580 Okay.

00:25:24.880 No, that's not how it works.

00:25:27.860 Would that it were so simple.

00:25:29.500 Would that it were so simple.

00:25:30.920 But it's not.

00:25:31.760 I wish it were the case that as women aged, men saw no difference. 1.00

00:25:42.280 And one can have a happy.

00:25:44.720 The one line here that's kind of truthful is it takes more than beauty and seductive stares to come between a family and a happy man.

00:25:50.540 It's true.

00:25:51.200 I would abhor nothing more in life than cheating on my wife.

00:25:59.120 The very thought of it horrifies me.

00:26:01.260 My life would come crashing down.

00:26:02.540 It would be awful.

00:26:03.620 And why is that?

00:26:04.840 In part, probably it's because I'm a happy man.

00:26:06.620 But if you deny the reality that as you get older, your wife is going to get older.

00:26:14.220 And that little 20-something is going to look hot. 0.81

00:26:17.760 And when you've been married for 20 years and you're now in your 40s or 50s, your wife is not going to look as hot as she did in her 20s.

00:26:25.560 That's just a fact.

00:26:26.460 And if you deny that reality, you, the man, are going to be much more vulnerable to the predations of a young little trollop like Jolene. 0.83

00:26:38.440 And you, the wife, if you deny that and you say just through sheer tyranny of will, I'm going to stop my husband from having red blood. 0.90

00:26:46.160 You're going to be much more liable to the predations of Jolene.

00:26:53.020 You're going to be much more liable to allow things to spin out of control.

00:26:58.180 And everybody's going to be unhappy because this, Jolene, Jolene, I'm warning you, I'm warning you, find your own man.

00:27:05.940 Yeah, maybe.

00:27:06.620 Jolene, I know I'm a queen, Jolene.

00:27:08.400 I'm still a Creole, Creole, Banji, B-I-T-C-H from Louisiana.

00:27:13.320 Yeah, sure, you're a queen, bae. 0.99

00:27:16.600 Yeah, you bet.

00:27:17.620 We're all, but time goes on.

00:27:21.800 Life happens.

00:27:22.380 A woman is not going to be able to count on her looks for her whole life. 1.00

00:27:26.220 There's going to have to be something more.

00:27:29.120 There's a thousand girls in every room that act as desperate as you do. 1.00

00:27:33.920 Your peace depends on how you move, Jolene.

00:27:37.160 And then it's just all this, me and my man cross those valleys, highs and lows, everything in between.

00:27:44.100 Yeah, yeah, right.

00:27:44.980 I know that's what makes it even more tragic if a husband cheats on his wife 20 years down the line with someone like Jolene.

00:27:51.180 But Dolly gets it.

00:27:52.720 He talks about you in his sleep.

00:27:54.300 There's nothing I can do to keep from crying when he calls your name.

00:27:56.800 I can understand how you could easily take my man.

00:27:59.520 She could.

00:28:00.880 But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene.

00:28:02.260 And then here it is, the punchline of it.

00:28:04.300 You could have your choice of men, but I could never love again.

00:28:09.120 He's the only one for me, Jolene.

00:28:10.620 The woman who's been married for 20 years, her youth is gone.

00:28:18.680 Jolene could have her pick of men, but her youth is gone.

00:28:22.020 Really, the only man for that woman is her husband. 0.98

00:28:24.780 And if some young trollop steals her husband, then she actually is really in a terrible place. 0.99

00:28:31.220 And it's a terrible injustice done to her.

00:28:33.860 And if we, again, if we deny all this, and if we act like Beyonce and say, nah, what are you talking about?

00:28:39.100 Age doesn't change us.

00:28:40.260 And even the difference between men and women, it's not all that different.

00:28:43.920 You know, we're just, it's kind of all the same.

00:28:45.940 I'm just tougher.

00:28:46.640 I'm just stronger than you.

00:28:47.820 I'm just, so you back off.

00:28:50.560 You're going to find yourself in a bad spot.

00:28:52.360 And obviously, this version of Jolene is the version that comes from a culture where divorce is normalized, 1.00

00:28:59.400 where we pretend, we tell women and we tell men that, oh, if you divorce, if you split up after 20 years of marriage, it's okay.

00:29:05.440 You'll just find someone else, and it'll be no different.

00:29:08.120 You'll just be single again.

00:29:09.040 It'll be like you're 21.

00:29:09.880 You'll go to brunch again.

00:29:11.840 It'll all, it just time stops.

00:29:13.700 Nothing moves on.

00:29:15.020 Nothing changes.

00:29:15.740 It's, it's no big deal.

00:29:17.180 Men and women, they're basically the same anyway. 0.93

00:29:19.180 It's, don't worry about, no.

00:29:20.900 Women have a special power. 1.00

00:29:22.520 They have a seductive power to them.

00:29:24.860 That's real.

00:29:26.260 You got to be on guard.

00:29:27.460 If you're the wife, if you're Dolly Parton, or if you're the husband.

00:29:30.840 We deny all this, though.

00:29:32.080 We deny it at our peril.

00:29:33.200 Is it any wonder that the thing that is supposed to be protected here, the family, the marriage, is falling apart?

00:29:41.880 You're not going to be able to protect a thing if you don't even know what it is.

00:29:46.700 Speaking of fighting the culture war, enough Beyonce for a moment. 0.97

00:29:50.940 Great news coming out of Florida.

00:29:52.360 I was just in Florida for Easter, for Trans Day of Visibility, and Ron DeSantis just won a major victory.

00:30:00.860 You remember a year, maybe two years ago at this point, DeSantis picks a fight with Disney.

00:30:05.740 Actually, that's not fair.

00:30:06.760 Disney picks a fight with Ron DeSantis because DeSantis has a socially conservative agenda.

00:30:14.760 Disney decides they're going to throw their weight around in the state of Florida because they're a big player down there.

00:30:19.760 And DeSantis says, no, we're not going to let you do that.

00:30:22.160 And if you try to undermine the will of voters, we're actually going to take away all the special little protections that you've had for a long time.

00:30:29.280 One of which was the Reedy Creek Settlement District.

00:30:34.160 It was this special tax district where Disney basically got to govern itself outside the constraints of the state of Florida.

00:30:44.600 So DeSantis comes in and says, yeah, we're taking that away from you, Disney.

00:30:48.320 You want to start throwing your weight around and undermining the will of voters, you unaccountable lib woke corporation?

00:30:53.700 Well, we're going to take your special tax benefits and your special self-government benefits and see what happens then.

00:30:58.900 And of course, Disney sued, and they've been fighting this out in court for quite a while.

00:31:02.560 Well, this kind of quietly passed over the past few days, barely made the headlines.

00:31:10.260 Disney dropped the lawsuit.

00:31:12.800 The governor's comms director, Brian Griffin, says, we are glad that Disney has dropped its lawsuits against the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, which is what replaced Disney's Reedy Creek District, and conceded that their last-minute development agreements are null, void, and unenforceable.

00:31:27.160 No corporation should be its own government.

00:31:29.560 Moving forward, we stand ready to work with Disney and the district to help promote economic growth, family-friendly tourism, and accountable government in Central Florida.

00:31:38.440 Love it.

00:31:40.040 It also said, so Disney was trying to attack Ron DeSantis 50 different ways, 50 different angles.

00:31:46.400 And one angle was a federal complaint against him.

00:31:51.300 The settlement also said that Disney might drop that complaint, quote, pending negotiations among other matters of a new development agreement between Disney and the district.

00:31:59.100 So, for now at least, DeSantis won, Republicans won.

00:32:04.260 And it's instructive because we've been told by some of the squishier Republicans in recent years that we can never win cultural battles by using the government.

00:32:16.700 You know, we've been told that politics is totally downstream of the culture.

00:32:20.740 Well, no, here it would be the culture downstream of politics, of the government, and it worked.

00:32:24.700 We've been told that conservatives should never wield the government and use power that we've been given by the people because then, hypothetically, the libs might do that when they get power, even though they already have the power and they're already doing it.

00:32:36.700 Well, I think this would be a good example.

00:32:38.380 DeSantis came in.

00:32:39.820 He wielded that government power, and it worked.

00:32:43.440 And now we don't have a million other left-wing governors trying to do the same thing as a mirror image. 0.96

00:32:51.260 And in part, we don't have that because it's already happened.

00:32:54.680 The libs have already wielded that political power for their advantage. 0.98

00:32:58.120 Now we're just trying it out ourselves.

00:33:00.380 How does this work?

00:33:01.340 Except the difference is the libs wield the political power in a way that is unjust and immoral, and Ron DeSantis here is wielding it in a way that is just and moral.

00:33:08.940 They're saying, hey, stop pushing the weird sex stuff on the kids.

00:33:12.580 Biggest kids company in the world.

00:33:14.220 Hey, cut it out, or if you don't cut it out, we're going to take away your special tax benefits. 0.85

00:33:19.180 And Disney called DeSantis his bluff.

00:33:22.980 DeSantis called Disney's calling of his bluff.

00:33:25.280 And Disney backed down.

00:33:27.580 They played a game of chicken.

00:33:29.200 And DeSantis won.

00:33:30.060 Great.

00:33:32.320 I think every Republican governor around the country should emulate this.

00:33:35.680 It didn't even take all that long.

00:33:36.840 What did it take?

00:33:37.260 A couple years?

00:33:38.720 All right.

00:33:39.060 I guess that's a long time in politics, but a couple years.

00:33:41.140 You can do that in one term.

00:33:42.860 Great, great stuff.

00:33:44.120 Now, the rot runs a lot deeper than Disney.

00:33:47.760 I'm sorry to report.

00:33:50.020 Billboard Chris.

00:33:50.760 Do you know Billboard Chris?

00:33:51.940 Billboard Chris, a great activist.

00:33:55.180 I don't even want to say he's an anti-transgender ideology activist.

00:33:58.560 He is a pro-reality activist.

00:34:00.420 And he walks around, and he's just got a billboard.

00:34:02.220 He says things like, you know, boys aren't girls, and men can't become women, and that kind of thing.

00:34:06.280 Well, Billboard Chris has just aroused the ire of the Australian government, and as a consequence, big tech platforms around the world.

00:34:20.840 Billboard Chris tweeted out.

00:34:22.540 I meant to get to this on Friday, but I really don't want to miss it because it's very important, and also because I called this 15 months ago.

00:34:28.380 I hate to say I told you so.

00:34:29.960 Billboard Chris says,

00:34:31.040 The Australian government has ordered my tweet below to be taken down.

00:34:37.900 X, formerly known as Twitter, can face a fine of up to $782,500 Australian if they do not comply.

00:34:45.280 What was the tweet?

00:34:45.880 The tweet was over misgendering.

00:34:48.300 If you call a man he, and the man thinks he's a woman, or if you call a woman she, and she thinks that she's a man, then you're guilty of misgendering.

00:34:57.440 This was a policy that was in place at Twitter, where Twitter would censor you if you, quote-unquote, misgendered.

00:35:06.420 That is to say, correctly gendered someone. 0.94

00:35:08.800 Then Elon took over.

00:35:10.020 He got rid of the ridiculous misgendering policy.

00:35:13.160 But the powers that be didn't like that.

00:35:15.460 So, the liberal political order actually did a runaround through the government, but even beyond the government, around the big tech platforms, to get people like Elon Musk and Billboard Chris to take a name.

00:35:30.760 What this comes down to is something that I mentioned 15 months ago.

00:35:39.960 Safety by design.

00:35:42.380 The Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

00:35:45.660 The World Economic Forum.

00:35:47.340 The Australian government.

00:35:48.560 I posted a long Twitter thread that Elon actually responded to last January.

00:35:53.640 In which I said, hey guys, this is all great news that Elon is going to give us free speech back on Twitter.

00:36:01.300 And by free speech, we just mean, there are still going to be standards.

00:36:04.380 There are still going to be things that are outside the bounds.

00:36:06.580 But Elon's just going to restore the normal standards, not the crazy, pro-trans, radical leftist standards. 0.85

00:36:13.080 And I said, this is all great news.

00:36:14.480 But the libs aren't going to lie down easy here. 1.00

00:36:17.040 And here's just one example.

00:36:17.980 This woman, Julie Inman Grant, who was the Australian e-safety commissioner.

00:36:26.220 She previously had worked at some other big tech platforms.

00:36:29.560 And she was too pro-censorship.

00:36:31.840 She was too leftist, even for them.

00:36:33.760 So she got booted out of them.

00:36:34.900 She finds her way.

00:36:36.000 I think she's American, but she found her way into the Australian government. 0.99

00:36:39.340 And she starts working on this project, safety by design.

00:36:43.580 And as usual, the libs begin with a real problem.

00:36:47.660 And then they really just use that problem.

00:36:51.580 And the solution to that problem is a Trojan horse to fix all the other non-problems that they want to fix.

00:36:56.540 So she comes in, she says, you know, there's this problem.

00:36:59.120 There's like child pornography and stuff like that on these big tech platforms.

00:37:02.060 So what we need to do, we're not going to be able to constantly respond from the perspective of the technology to all the ever-changing laws that might pop up in a region or a country, either a continent.

00:37:17.400 So you know what we're going to do?

00:37:18.460 We're going to build in the speech standards into the coding of the tech platforms themselves.

00:37:25.660 And who's we, you might ask?

00:37:28.200 Is it going to be Elon Musk?

00:37:29.660 Is it going to be Mark Zuckerberg?

00:37:30.640 No, it's going to be we in the Australian e-safety commissioner's office.

00:37:36.300 It's going to be we in the World Economic Forum.

00:37:38.660 It's going to be we in this new thing, GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

00:37:43.580 And we're going to use international institutions like the World Economic Forum to impose it, to get governments on board, to get the big tech platforms.

00:37:52.660 And the reason they're going to do it is, if I, as the head of e-safety in Australia, say we're going to shut down, it's not just going to be child pornography.

00:38:00.740 It's barely going to even involve really illegal, heinous things like child pornography.

00:38:04.580 It's going to involve misgendering.

00:38:07.260 It's going to involve COVID vaccine misinformation, also known as true information back during the COVID days.

00:38:15.040 It's going to involve climate change denial.

00:38:18.140 It's going to involve all these left-wing hobby horses and speech codes. 0.91

00:38:22.140 And rather, Twitter's not going to be able to adjust its service to every single country, every single state.

00:38:27.120 So we're just going to form this thing, this blob, multinational institution, and it's going to be run by radical leftists.

00:38:34.740 And it's going to have so much power and so much buy-in that people like Elon Musk are going to be pretty much impotent to stop it.

00:38:44.440 I really hate to say I told you so, but, you know, sometimes, I'm not saying I use this term, I'm just saying sometimes people have suggested that I'm a little bit like an Olstradamus and I can predict the future.

00:38:53.840 In this case, it doesn't take an Olstradamus.

00:38:56.820 It doesn't take a crystal ball to know this is what they were going to do.

00:39:00.800 This is what they told us they were going to do.

00:39:02.520 Now it is being implemented.

00:39:04.700 And even the wealthiest man in the world, the most powerful guy in the private sector, doesn't seem able to stop it yet.

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00:40:14.620 My favorite comment on Friday is from pathacker4963, who says, how did a shipping accident become a racial issue?

00:40:22.640 Oh, this is in Baltimore, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, hit by that cargo ship and just comes tumbling down.

00:40:27.600 It immediately became a racial issue because it was already a racial issue before the ship hit the bridge.

00:40:35.400 That's why.

00:40:37.640 You're trying to think of it in the actual chronology, which is ship hits bridge, and then the race hustler politicians try to turn it into a racial issue.

00:40:47.640 It's the opposite.

00:40:48.260 When all you've got is a hammer, then every problem starts to look like a nail.

00:40:54.540 And for some of these race hustling politicians, every issue is a racial issue.

00:40:59.360 That's the only lens through which they can view the world.

00:41:03.060 So when the ship hits the bridge or when Mayor Pete looks at bridges on the Long Island Expressway and says the bridges are racist, the roads are racist, that was the premise.

00:41:14.440 And the conclusion is not something that is logically followed from the premise necessarily.

00:41:19.940 It's just a restatement of the premise.

00:41:23.760 Speaking of state things and also speaking of the deep state, there is a new report out that the CIA is embracing gender ideology.

00:41:32.260 Cliff Sims, I teased this story on Friday, but I want to get into it a little bit more.

00:41:36.640 Cliff Sims, who has served as deputy director of national intelligence under President Trump, has a new book out where he is exposing the pro-trans propaganda at the CIA.

00:41:47.280 The CIA apparently has an office of inclusion and diversity, of course.

00:41:54.800 That office has many posters, quote, touting its various programs and initiatives and proclaiming the importance of each officer's identity.

00:42:02.080 It's kind of, it's so funny, you know, the CIA, when you think of the actual spooks in the field, like their job is to not take their identity seriously.

00:42:13.860 Their whole job is to deny whatever identity they personally feel in order to assume other identities so they can spy on behalf of the country.

00:42:24.760 And now, just as with everything else, they've totally flipped it.

00:42:28.720 Gone are the days of Felix Leiter and Boris and Natasha and all the spy versus spy. 0.55

00:42:33.480 Now it's just going to be some hulking transvestite other. 1.00

00:42:36.240 Hey, hey, Vladimir, can I have some secret codes, please?

00:42:43.100 Can you tell me about the nuclear information?

00:42:46.020 Sir, I will not.

00:42:47.220 How dare you call me, sir? 0.84

00:42:48.780 Sir, I am a transvestite American woman spy. 0.94

00:42:55.400 And you will accept, you are telling me you are a spy?

00:42:59.040 Yes, I would never deny my identity.

00:43:00.860 Anyway, it goes on.

00:43:02.620 As I turned the corner to walk into the CIA's cafeteria for the first time, it became clear that the agency's diversity focus had a political angle as well.

00:43:10.940 Trans lives are human lives, read the poster.

00:43:15.780 Yeah, right.

00:43:17.000 That's how it goes.

00:43:21.920 None of this should be surprising.

00:43:23.960 This is the state religion.

00:43:27.280 Period.

00:43:28.000 It's just the state religion.

00:43:30.300 We're trying to figure out some tactical advantage here.

00:43:33.000 They go on, they say, even in the case of the State Department, they try to pressure people to list their pronouns.

00:43:38.240 They try to pressure employees' pronouns in all email headers, whether the employees liked it or not.

00:43:44.040 They want to pressure them to share bathrooms and locker rooms with people of the opposite sex. 0.99

00:43:47.340 Yeah, stop trying to think of what is the CIA's actual secret advantage.

00:43:55.120 No, this isn't unique to the CIA.

00:43:56.620 Every one of these government departments, every one of the corporate departments in the country has a diversity and inclusion office.

00:44:03.400 They all adopt all this stuff because it's the state religion, and it's not much deeper than that because that's as deep as politics goes.

00:44:10.480 Because as Cardinal Manning points out, all human conflict ultimately is theological.

00:44:15.940 So that's it.

00:44:16.500 That's why.

00:44:17.260 If the CIA wanted to resist it, they would not be able to.

00:44:20.100 We have this rosy image of the CIA as controlling the whole world or as being kind of above it all.

00:44:26.260 But they're not really above it all.

00:44:28.100 They're part of it.

00:44:28.780 They have an office building.

00:44:29.700 They have federal mandates.

00:44:31.260 They have to abide by certain federal laws that push all this nonsense.

00:44:34.820 And maybe they get a strategic advantage out of it.

00:44:37.680 Probably they don't.

00:44:38.520 Probably they just have to go along with it.

00:44:40.380 Like in a confessional state, even the government departments that aren't particularly faithful or believing, they would still have the icons.

00:44:52.940 They would still have the imagery.

00:44:54.000 They would still use the language of the state religion.

00:44:56.500 Well, that's what we have here.

00:44:57.700 That's exactly what we have right here.

00:45:00.300 Now, speaking of foreign affairs, some pro-Palestine people just interrupted an Easter vigil mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

00:45:10.880 This is considered America's parish church, probably the single most beautiful church in the United States.

00:45:16.520 They decided to interrupt one of the most important masses of the year.

00:45:20.920 Often at the Easter vigil, people who have been preparing to enter into the faith, to convert, they will be baptized there.

00:45:28.420 They'll receive the sacraments.

00:45:29.480 It's a very important mass.

00:45:30.720 And they decide to interrupt this to push their foreign political ideological campaign.

00:45:39.440 Here it is.

00:45:39.960 There they are.

00:45:51.020 They're holding a sign.

00:45:52.320 It's hard to see because there's a woman standing in the way. 1.00

00:45:57.200 I'm waiting for a cleric to just go punch one of these people in the face. 0.92

00:46:01.180 Though the clerics really are not supposed to do that. 0.99

00:46:03.520 Maybe they could, maybe they could punch. 0.82

00:46:08.400 They're not allowed to really kill people. 0.99

00:46:09.760 They could, I'm thinking of the bio tapestry when Bishop Odo just starts smacking his own guys on the head to give them comfort.

00:46:15.780 You know, maybe, maybe they could have used a little tougher love.

00:46:17.660 But they finally dragged the pro-Palestine people off of the altar at the Easter vigil.

00:46:23.660 You want me to support this organization?

00:46:25.520 You want me to support this political movement?

00:46:27.060 I don't really see how I could.

00:46:32.760 I don't think these pro-Palestine liberation people are so great at winning friends and influencing people.

00:46:38.020 Certainly not winning a friend of me.

00:46:40.300 One good step.

00:46:41.340 If they wanted to persuade me of their view.

00:46:43.100 Look, what do I, I'm an American, Christian.

00:46:47.400 I don't, I don't have particularly strong feelings on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:46:52.820 I have some thoughts about it.

00:46:54.100 I've paid some attention, but I haven't paid a lot of attention to it.

00:46:57.440 And each new war raises new questions.

00:47:00.040 And so if they wanted to convince me that the Israeli policy, especially now that the Israeli government seems to suggest it will not be able to eradicate Hamas as the government of Gaza, then you could convince me that the war should come to an end.

00:47:15.080 You certainly could convince me that the war should come to an end now, now that there doesn't seem to be a strategic objective in sight.

00:47:20.240 Now that the cause for, now that the justifications for the war, in the conduct of the war, don't seem to really meet the criteria of reasonable probability of success or of proportionality.

00:47:36.580 Yeah, you could convince me of that.

00:47:37.960 But you're not going to convince me of that from the altar of St. Patrick's when you interrupt a mass.

00:47:42.960 I mean, this has been the problem from the moment that this all broke out.

00:47:47.420 Because I thought, look, I don't, obviously, I don't share the theological premises of either the pro-Palestine people or of the Zionist movement.

00:48:01.780 I don't really, I have sympathies, I have prudential arguments that one could make in defense of some of the agreements in that region.

00:48:10.680 But, you know, I don't exactly have a strong dog in the fight.

00:48:14.680 So when I have to make a judgment of how the war is being run, I have to use rules of thumb.

00:48:19.160 I need to use, like, political coding here.

00:48:21.540 And the simple fact is the pro-Palestine liberation movement is left-coded.

00:48:26.240 It's the weirdos and the leftists and the anarchists and the socialists and the communists who tend to be supporting it.

00:48:33.260 And the way that you see the expressions of this is they shut down traffic in Manhattan when I'm trying to drive from the airport and they invade these churches.

00:48:43.780 I don't, how is that supposed to convince me to support their cause?

00:48:47.200 I really do not know.

00:48:50.220 Which ties into another story that over the trans day of visibility, CNN couldn't resist. 0.66

00:48:55.780 CNN has a big question here.

00:48:57.660 Maybe we'll get to it tomorrow because we're probably running out of time.

00:48:59.420 But the question is, was Jesus a man of color?

00:49:03.860 Why this question matters more than ever?

00:49:09.320 Of course, they're going to talk about Easter at all on Easter Sunday.

00:49:12.580 So they're going to make it about race and some ridiculous historical point about our Lord and his skin color.

00:49:19.580 But in fairness, it actually does matter somewhat.

00:49:24.220 And it matters not just to the way we're talking about here about the politics of the Levant.

00:49:28.300 But it actually matters to the faith and the way we view ourselves.

00:49:31.900 And, well, this whole question of who we are and what our identity is and where transgenderism fits into all of that as a state religion.

00:49:38.840 It actually does kind of come down to CNN like a stop clock twice a day.

00:49:43.360 It does actually come down to that.

00:49:44.660 But we don't have time to get to it today.

00:49:45.620 We'll have to get to it tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 01, 2024

Ep. 1458 - The Trans Day of Visibility

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