The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1482 - Libs Shocked After 2,000 Woke Campus Protestors Arrested

00:00:00.000 A day after police across the country arrested some 2,000 gender queer jihadis of the campus

00:00:06.380 intifada, President Joe Biden is ready to take a stand on the major political crisis that's already

00:00:12.820 over. In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential

00:00:20.340 issues. But, but, neither are we a lawless country. We are a civil society. An order must prevail.

00:00:30.000 Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big, diverse,

00:00:35.020 free-thinking, and freedom-loving nation. And moments like this are always those who rush

00:00:40.920 in to score political points. But this isn't a moment for politics. It's a moment for clarity.

00:00:47.780 So let me be clear. Peaceful protest in America, violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest

00:00:55.240 is. It's against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest.

00:01:01.940 It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses,

00:01:08.220 forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest.

00:01:14.140 Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest.

00:01:19.340 It's against the law. My favorite line, this is not a time for politics. It's a time for clarity.

00:01:26.900 Usually, my politics is about obfuscation. Usually, my politics is about avoiding the issue. But,

00:01:33.220 but now it's time for clarity. It's not time. Protest is not about politics. What are you talking about?

00:01:39.420 Now, to give the dotard his due, this is probably the best way Biden could have handled it. 1.00

00:01:45.240 Wait until it looks like everything is resolved. Then prevaricate with a special wink to the 0.97

00:01:51.500 political establishment. You know, oh, both sides are great, but I'm more on the side of the

00:01:55.280 establishment. And then hope everyone moves on. It is downright Clintonian. But the problem is

00:02:01.840 that Joe Biden is not Bill Clinton. And 2024 is not the relatively peaceful, cohesive 1990s.

00:02:09.680 And even after thousands of arrests, perhaps because of thousands of arrests, I strongly suspect

00:02:16.900 the keffia-clad Democrat protesters aren't going anywhere. And that is a big headache 0.70

00:02:23.120 for Joe Biden. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:03.540 The protests are a big threat to Joe Biden. If you didn't know that before yesterday,

00:04:09.880 I think the impromptu presidential address probably should have called that to your attention.

00:04:15.200 This is not just some weirdos on college. It is weirdos on college campuses,

00:04:18.920 but it's not just weirdos on college campuses. This is a nationwide campus protest that represents

00:04:25.280 a major fissure on the American left. It comes from a major wedge issue, which is this Israel-Gaza war,

00:04:32.780 because the leftist base fanatically hates the state of Israel, and the leftist donor class and

00:04:39.040 political establishment generally likes the state of Israel, and the American people generally like

00:04:44.500 the state of Israel. So it creates a big political problem, and the activists, the base, which the

00:04:50.580 Democrats need, they're probably not going anywhere. Even if you arrest 2,000 of them, there's a good

00:04:56.800 chance they come back, and that could have effects on Biden, not just for the election season,

00:05:01.380 not even just for four years. It could be a generational effect, at least if you listen to

00:05:07.700 the liberal analysts on MSNBC.

00:05:11.740 It's hard to imagine that this imagery of the NYPD storming Colombia in this moment is not going to

00:05:23.320 reverberate in ways that we cannot yet see across the political divide.

00:05:27.700 Well, and I think that we should remember what the kind of images of protest disorder did in the

00:05:34.360 late 60s, because even as the Vietnam War became increasingly unpopular, so did the anti-war protests.

00:05:41.480 And it was in part the backlash to that, as well as to urban crime, that gave us not just Richard

00:05:46.800 Nixon, but, you know, kind of, except for the four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter, kind of unbroken

00:05:53.020 Republican rule until Bill Clinton. You know, and so I would expect that, and we're already seeing

00:05:59.180 the backlash to this, but I would expect it to be ferocious.

00:06:02.100 Yeah, the late 70s were a period of retrenchment, and then 1980s saw Ronald Reagan and a conservative

00:06:07.940 agenda that was fiercer, more focused, and more effective than maybe any other conservative agenda

00:06:14.500 in ways that we're still grappling with to this day.

00:06:16.480 That's right. That's right. I like the honest history here. I pretty much totally agree with

00:06:22.540 these MSNBC analysts. The revisionist history that we're all taught is the 1960s was an age of

00:06:28.640 Aquarius, and, you know, America was on the brink of cultural revolution, and in fact, the libs did

00:06:34.800 manage to score a lot of victories. It wasn't in the direct political institutions. They scored a lot

00:06:41.340 of victories in academia. They scored a lot. We're seeing the flowering of that in academia today

00:06:46.460 at Columbia and NYU and UCLA. They scored a lot of victories in Hollywood. They scored a lot of

00:06:51.400 victories in journalism. But in the direct political order, the actual government institutions,

00:06:56.880 they got totally creamed because after the radical, largely campus-focused protests of the late

00:07:03.800 1960s, we got Richard Nixon, the president that was elected with a more significant majority than,

00:07:13.720 I guess, basically any president before him, just totally swept the country. And then the deep state

00:07:20.820 threw him out. Then she says, well, we got this four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter. So you had Nixon,

00:07:28.240 then his VP, Ford, who no one voted for. Then you get Jimmy Carter for four years, and then you get

00:07:34.740 Reagan. And I'd go even further. She says, you have more or less unbroken Republican rule from the

00:07:40.500 election of Richard Nixon to the election of Bill Clinton. But even Bill Clinton was kind of

00:07:46.240 conservative. Bill Clinton ran as, I'm a Democrat, but not that kind of Democrat. He ran as a dino. 0.98

00:07:50.880 You know, we have the rhinos. They had the dinos. He ran as a new Democrat. And he was awful in many

00:07:56.600 ways, but he was a more moderate, more conservative Democrat. And then you get George

00:08:00.240 Bush. So it's true. The reaction to the insanity of leftist politics in the late 60s gave us a

00:08:06.280 quarter century, at least, of basically moderate conservative rule. It at least stymied the radical

00:08:13.720 plans of the leftists. Could these campus protests have the same effect? Seems to me it's quite possible.

00:08:22.440 These are, we often hear about how this Trump MAGA Republican Party, it's not your grandpa's

00:08:29.540 Republican Party. Yeah, well, I think the Democrats wearing keffias screaming death to America. I don't

00:08:35.380 think that's your grandpa's Democrat Party either, is it? I don't think the, you know, gender bending 1.00

00:08:41.400 lunatics waving the Palestine flag. I don't think that's exactly your grandpa's Democrat Party. 0.84

00:08:49.640 That is where the extremism is. And the normal people who are in the middle who aren't all that

00:08:54.560 political, the kind of people who were really put off by the 1960s radical protests, I think those

00:09:01.380 people are going to be just as put off by the campus intifada. Now, speaking of conservative

00:09:08.800 politics, one of my absolute favorite right-wing leaders in the world, Naib Bukele, is the leader of

00:09:16.940 El Salvador. He cleaned up crime. He took that country from being the most dangerous country in

00:09:22.300 the world to being one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Naib Bukele just called

00:09:30.620 his cabinet together, and he made a big, important announcement that American conservatives could

00:09:39.120 learn from. I will translate. President Bukele says, in fact, you can see that everyone here is

00:09:45.440 from the executive branch, from the executive branch that I oversee, except for one person,

00:09:54.160 the attorney general. He's not part of the executive branch. He's here for a simple reason.

00:10:01.240 It's because I want to ask him publicly to investigate everyone sitting here retroactively and into the

00:10:14.560 future. I imagine that there should be no problem with that. Someone once asked me,

00:10:20.640 are you afraid of death? I said, of course, no one wants to die. I don't want to die.

00:10:26.900 But I know that I'll die someday, like everyone else. Death is the one thing we can't escape. But

00:10:33.620 if there's one thing I fear, it's leaving a bad legacy. For one president, President Duterte,

00:10:41.200 there was a sort of promise, the president isn't a thief. They said he's surrounded by thieves. That 0.70

00:10:45.540 won't happen to me. That won't happen to me. So I'm investigating all of you. My closest advisors,

00:10:51.940 I'm going to investigate all of you. That's so, so important for conservatives to think of,

00:10:59.420 especially as we look forward to 2025. President Trump, best Republican president,

00:11:06.620 best president period of my lifetime. But he had some clunkers in the executive branch. It was tough.

00:11:12.860 No one wanted to work for him. They were so afraid of being investigated, of being thrown in jail,

00:11:18.160 of being persecuted by the liberal establishment. The Trump administration had a hard time hiring

00:11:23.100 people. And so they had some really good people in the executive branch under Trump, but they had

00:11:29.680 some clunkers too. And this is why it's so, so important that the Trump transition begin right now,

00:11:39.340 because personnel is policy. We're talking about politics here. And we live in a modern liberal age

00:11:46.080 where we, where we think that people are just machines. And we think that computers run the

00:11:50.560 world and personality doesn't matter. Soul and spirit don't matter. We're all just kind of

00:11:55.300 algorithms, beep booping and computing. And we're not, we're not. White papers don't mean a whole lot.

00:12:02.720 The formal text of some regulation or statute, even that doesn't matter all that much. The letter

00:12:09.260 killeth and the spirit giveth life. Okay. And personnel is policy. So if you got crooks and losers

00:12:16.460 in your administration, you're done. It doesn't, this is true even of the elected officials. 0.99

00:12:21.680 We vote for these guys who say the right thing. They have the right hair. They, you know, they,

00:12:27.700 but then the minute they get to Congress, they squish. They don't, they don't have the judgment.

00:12:34.980 They don't have the courage to stand up for what we want. Personnel is policy. It's all about people.

00:12:40.340 Okay. Politics is all about people. And one of the greatest conservative leaders in the world right

00:12:45.800 now gets it. We should get that too. So you want, this is why I don't really knock Trump when he makes

00:12:53.960 some errant comment about public policy while he's trying to, you know, hit the right line to continue

00:13:01.760 to win votes without selling out conservative principles. I think that that's kind of a

00:13:05.780 distraction to me. You know, did you see the latest Trump truth social post? Did you hear

00:13:11.580 the latest Trump? I don't really care. You know what I care? What actually gets done. And you know

00:13:15.560 what determines what actually gets done? The people that Trump puts in charge. We hear, oh, Donald Trump

00:13:20.040 won't pick good judges because, you know, he, he didn't attend federalist society dinners or something

00:13:25.600 like that. Uh, yeah, maybe, but you know, Trump, Trump's not picking the judges himself. Donald

00:13:29.980 Trump has advisors who picked the judges and he picked in the case of the judges, he picked a good

00:13:34.900 advisor and then he got good judges. And that's how it works, man. You got to make sure you're

00:13:39.680 surrounded by smart people, people who are not corrupt. You got to keep, keep a good eye on them.

00:13:43.940 And you got to remember personnel is policy. There's so much more to say first though, you know,

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00:15:05.920 beloved movie actor Jeff Goldblum, has just announced that, you know, he's somewhat aged. He's

00:15:13.160 something of an elderly father. He's got younger kids than men his age typically would. And so he's

00:15:19.800 thinking about the future, what happens when he's gone, and he says he's not going to leave his

00:15:24.660 kids any money. Now that I'm raising kids, I'm no, you know, conventionalist, but I know the system

00:15:33.840 that we're in, and I think sooner than later, but I don't want to scare them. They should figure out,

00:15:39.620 I mean, I love the creative life. It saved my life. But also this idea that, hey, you know,

00:15:45.020 you got to row your own boat. Yeah. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to teach kids. Most people

00:15:50.860 don't. Right. Right. I mean, I'm not going to do it for you and you're not going to want me to do it

00:15:55.740 for you. You got to figure out how to find out what's wanted and needed and where that intersects

00:16:02.580 with your love and passion and what you can do. And even if it doesn't, you might have to do that

00:16:08.220 anyway. Yeah. Okay. I think we all hear this advice and we think, good on Jeff Goldblum.

00:16:16.820 Very American. You know, kids, I've made a zillion dollars, but you got to cut your own path.

00:16:22.280 You're not just going to rest on daddy's money. You're not getting daddy's money. You got to figure

00:16:25.960 things out yourself, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And there's, there's some wisdom to

00:16:29.940 this because many of us know rich kids who just inherited some money and wasted their lives and

00:16:37.620 it didn't make them happy and they didn't flourish. And okay, sure. So we say, go out there, cut your

00:16:42.500 own path. That's good. But, but that can be taken to an extreme too. That is, I think, a consequence

00:16:51.100 of liberalism. That, because what is liberalism about? Liberalism is about the individual. It's

00:16:59.020 about forgetting about tradition, forgetting about legacy, doing what you want, being innovative,

00:17:06.640 creative destruction, individual effort, individual everything. And that, that isn't really how society

00:17:15.400 has worked for all of history. And it's not really how human nature works as we talk about on this show a

00:17:20.120 lot. So Jeff Goldblum, it seems to me, is going way too far in the other direction to say, I'm not

00:17:26.520 giving my kids any money and they just have to figure everything out themselves because otherwise

00:17:29.580 they'll become wastrels. Well, what if they don't? What if, yes, you teach your kids to, to cultivate

00:17:37.040 good desires and to work really hard and to be diligent and to find things that turn them on and

00:17:43.480 get them excited to get out of bed in the morning and also give them your money and also give them a

00:17:49.340 financial legacy and also give them some generational wealth? How about instead of saying, I've got to

00:17:56.300 keep this wealth from you because you might squander it and, and thereby ruin your life. What if we say,

00:18:03.300 hey, I'm going to teach my kids to be good stewards of their inheritance? That, that I think is missing

00:18:09.360 from the American ethos right now on the left and on the right. And I think it's a consequence of

00:18:17.400 liberalism, which ignores the past, which says we don't need anything to do with our forebears. 1.00

00:18:23.280 They were probably racist and stupid and we're so brilliant. We're going to do everything on our own. 1.00

00:18:28.620 But, but generational wealth is a good thing. And I'm not just talking about money. I'm talking about

00:18:32.880 generational wisdom. That's an important thing. Generational homes. You know, there was, there was a

00:18:39.080 home, I think it burned down in the nineties, but there was a Knowles family home in New Hampshire.

00:18:43.820 It wasn't a particularly nice home. It's not like they, the Knowles family had any,

00:18:47.600 any particular amount of money, but it had just been standing on this plot of land since the 17th

00:18:53.740 century. It had just been there since like 1635 or something like that. And they made some additions

00:18:58.760 to it, but it was, it was a visible expression of a family legacy. Without much money, without much

00:19:06.020 fanfare, it was just there. And you could say, oh, that's cool. That, that was my family.

00:19:09.260 Oh, there, there's some history there. There's a tie to the land and to the culture. And that part

00:19:15.620 is really missing. That's the, that's the problem with the individualism that the right has embraced

00:19:21.020 in recent decades is, you know, we're conservatives guys. We want to conserve stuff. I, I think it was

00:19:26.900 Jim Mattis who, you know, General Mattis, before he fell out of favor on the right, there were all

00:19:32.260 those great quotes of his going around where he'd, you know, go up to a bunch of terrorists and say, 0.96

00:19:35.880 I'm going to kill all of you if you don't do exactly what I say. But one of them, 0.97

00:19:39.820 one of the quotes that was going around was about how he loves to read books. And he said,

00:19:43.840 he loves to read books because he wants other people to make his mistakes for him. He doesn't

00:19:48.240 want to make his own mistakes. He wants to learn from other people's mistakes. That's a kind of

00:19:52.220 inheritance. That's a kind of generational wisdom. And, and I think the conservative movement

00:19:58.740 in America is moving more in this direction. It's much more in the classical direction, which is,

00:20:02.340 hey, we want to conserve stuff. And that means conserving traditions, conserving ways of life,

00:20:10.220 conserving institutions, conserving buildings, conserving borders, conserving laws, and yes,

00:20:16.380 conserving money. You know, being conservative with your money, it means kind of saving it and

00:20:22.120 spending it prudently first on the ones that we love and those to whom we have the nearest obligation.

00:20:28.120 And then to others outside of that, the liberals always flip this on its head though. And the

00:20:33.360 liberals bleeding heart is basically to ignore, I don't mean to beat up too much on Jeff Goldblum.

00:20:38.380 I'm using him as a point of departure to talk about this broader political problem,

00:20:41.240 but to say, forget about the people around me, forget about the people in my community.

00:20:46.520 I'm going to care about humanity in the abstract. So I'm going to leave my money to some charity that,

00:20:50.540 you know, does something in Djibouti and ignore the, the actual, the community around me that I,

00:20:55.680 I engage with every single day. Very, very backwards. There, there are priorities of

00:21:01.180 charity. There's an order of charity begins with those to whom you have the nearest obligation and

00:21:05.400 out from there and out from there and out from there, just as the, the nation state is, you know,

00:21:11.040 patriotism is an extension of filial piety, the love that you would have for your parents,

00:21:17.400 the love that you would have for your family. We want to be conservative with that,

00:21:21.080 but we're not conservative anymore, especially with our money. The conservative, the conservative

00:21:26.220 so-called just want to spend, spend, spend all their money on a bunch of nonsense, sending their

00:21:30.440 money overseas. For goodness sakes, we saw it this week, sending our money. We'll send our money to

00:21:34.760 Ukraine. We'll send our money to Taiwan. We'll send our money to Israel. We'll send our money

00:21:38.020 everywhere else. Uh, well, you, you can't, you're not going to conserve very much if you have that kind

00:21:45.380 of a flippant attitude toward your inheritance. Whether we're talking about financial one,

00:21:49.680 we're talking about a cultural one or religious inheritance or, or, uh, or a family inheritance.

00:21:55.540 Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from Elizabeth Harris, 317, who says clearly the

00:22:00.840 Republicans have not learned the lesson from Napoleon in his saying, if your enemy is making

00:22:06.720 a mistake, don't interrupt him. Yes. I don't know if Napoleon, there are all these quotes that are

00:22:11.180 attributed to Napoleon and Churchill and especially Napoleon. There are a lot of erroneous quotes,

00:22:16.120 but whether it was Napoleon or just some guy on the, on the back of a Cracker Jack prize or

00:22:21.380 something, it's very true. When your enemy's making mistakes, do not interrupt. What you should do is

00:22:26.860 subscribe to the Michael Knowles show YouTube channel, smash and subscribe, ring that bell,

00:22:32.080 ding that dong, hit that button. Let's go. Speaking of spending money, fourth circuit court of appeals says

00:22:38.860 that, uh, the state must fund transgender surgeries. This is from a federal appeals court.

00:22:48.160 Eight Democrat judges just made this order. I think it was in, was it in North Carolina?

00:22:53.260 I forget. It doesn't even really matter which state this applies to because it's coming to a state near

00:22:57.620 you. Uh, they forced a transgender surgery into the realm now, basically of being a constitutional right 1.00

00:23:06.120 the, uh, this decision. And people are really shocked about this. I was talking to Megan Kelly

00:23:10.680 about this on her show a few days ago. And she said, ah, this is just so crazy. Why do we have to

00:23:16.020 pay for it? Why do we, you know, if you want to get a trans surgery, I, I don't know, I guess you can do 0.99

00:23:22.420 that, but why do we have to pay for it? And the reason we have to pay for it is because we live in a

00:23:27.460 society and we have, uh, certain communal medical obligations. We pay our taxes. Our taxes go towards

00:23:37.120 certain medical programs at the very least for the poor through Medicaid and for the elderly through

00:23:42.080 Medicare. I don't know how many 90 year olds are, you know, having their, uh, their family jewels

00:23:47.600 chopped off, but who knows? I guess it could happen in principle. And then you've got to make a hard

00:23:51.400 decision, which is, do we, do we do the surgery or do we not? It's being paid for by the public.

00:23:59.080 So the decision is not, uh, you know, should, should the public pay for, for medical care?

00:24:05.440 We have that. We've had that for many decades in this country. The quest you, you have to deal

00:24:10.400 with the substantive question is transgenderism real. And should people who are confused about

00:24:17.140 their sex, be able to go into a doctor and have their appendages chopped off. You, you can't just 0.73

00:24:23.500 rest on this liberal procedurism of proceduralism rather of, uh, you know, well, you can get this

00:24:30.740 one, but you got to pay for it privately and, or you can get this kind of surgery, but it'll be paid

00:24:34.680 for by the state or this surgery will be somewhat subsidized. No, we, we subsidize medical care.

00:24:40.160 And even if we didn't, we live in a society and we set medical regulations and we determine how the

00:24:44.940 Hippocratic oath is expressed visibly in medical clinics. And we tell doctors what they can do

00:24:50.640 and what they can't do. And right now, if you go into a medical clinic and you've got body

00:24:54.800 integrity identity disorder, which is for now a rare disorder where people go in and they say,

00:25:00.560 you know, I've got, I've got two healthy arms, but I, on the inside, I feel like someone who only

00:25:04.560 has one healthy arm. So chop off my right arm doc. If you go into at least most medical clinics in

00:25:11.260 America and you say, I've got body integrity identity disorder. This is a clinically

00:25:14.620 recognized disorder. The doc will say, Oh, I'm, I'm sorry for you, but you know, you got two arms.

00:25:18.940 I'm not chopping off a healthy limb. And you got to go talk to a psychologist and maybe a,

00:25:23.060 ideally a priest and maybe an exorcist, but they're not going to chop off your healthy limb.

00:25:27.620 However, if you go in with the exact same condition, albeit pertaining to your genitals,

00:25:34.040 you go in and the docs will chop you up and they'll charge either you or they'll charge the state

00:25:38.220 a lot of money for it. We're already funding this stuff. So the only question is if that is valid

00:25:47.120 medical treatment as the libs all the way up to Joe Biden insists that it is, if it is valid

00:25:52.500 medical treatment for a, you know, a little kid to go into a doctor and say, I feel uncomfortable in

00:25:56.780 my body. So I want you to sterilize me. I want you to chop off my healthy limbs. I want you to give me

00:26:03.240 bone problems and reduce my life expectancy. The question is, will we tolerate that?

00:26:11.540 Or will we say no? Because if we say no, we're cutting against liberalism. We're cutting against

00:26:17.580 individualism. We're cutting against you do you. We're cutting against America is the place where

00:26:23.540 you can do and be anything you want. I mean, the liberal ideology is so deeply embedded that even

00:26:28.500 many things that we like, you know, this is a free country. We say this is a free country in America.

00:26:32.500 In America, a man can be whatever he wants. Well, can he really be whatever? Can he be a woman? 0.97

00:26:37.540 Oh, he can't be a woman because that's illogical. It's contrary to reality. Okay. Then we have to 1.00

00:26:41.000 acknowledge a man can't really be anything he wants. He can be anything he wants in accord with

00:26:47.200 nature and reality. Okay. Well, that's a real limit. Do we have the guts? Do we have the wisdom

00:26:52.520 to impose those kinds of limits? No. Okay. If we don't today, I think maybe in the long run,

00:26:58.600 maybe we do because people are going to wake up and reality will prevail in the end. But today,

00:27:03.440 if we don't have that wisdom, then you're not just going to tolerate it, you're going to pay for it.

00:27:08.060 And you are going to have a little bit of blood on your hands, folks, because we live in a society.

00:27:13.040 Speaking of sexually confused kids, there's a disturbing report out. New survey from the Trevor

00:27:18.840 Project, which is an LGBT organization, says that more than 1 in 10 LGBTQ youth attempted suicide last

00:27:27.380 year. This is really, really disturbing. 12% of LGBT identifying youth between the ages of 13 and 24

00:27:40.800 say that they attempted suicide last year. 39% of that group said that they seriously considered

00:27:47.760 attempting suicide within the last year. And then when you look just specifically at the

00:27:52.900 trans identifying and the non-binary, the other version of trans youth, 46% of these people said

00:27:59.320 that they seriously considered attempting suicide. Really, really disturbing. But the policy implication

00:28:07.260 of this report, I think is probably the opposite of what the LGBT activists think it is. The policy

00:28:15.900 implication that the LGBT activists take from this is, we need to normalize LGBT ideology. Can you see

00:28:22.960 these young people who are afflicted by this LGBT ideology, who have this identity, that they are really 0.97

00:28:30.540 unhappy. And so we need to promote the ideology more. We need to encourage it. We need to normalize it.

00:28:37.400 Because in recent years, the rate of anxiety, depression, and suicide among LGBT identifying youth has not

00:28:56.020 shrunk. If anything, it's gotten worse. 12% of people, if anything, it's, if anything that has gotten worse in

00:29:04.580 recent years. But the number of LGBT identifying youth has vastly expanded. The numbers are completely

00:29:12.860 crazy. I mean, there's a, here's a headline. What's behind the explosive growth in LGBTQ youth 1.00

00:29:19.360 numbers? The number of LGBTQ identifying youth 20 years ago would have been something like two to

00:29:26.060 three percent. Now the number is over 20 percent, according to a recent survey. 20 percent, one in

00:29:33.780 five. What's, so the, the, the identity has exploded. That the normalization has exploded. The

00:29:40.960 encouragement of this ideology and identity has exploded. And what we were promised was, if you

00:29:46.080 normalize it, if you, if you encourage it, if you teach it in elementary school classrooms, then that's

00:29:51.300 going to make the people who identify this way feel much better about themselves and their anxiety is going

00:29:55.540 to decline and their depression is going to decline and they're going to stop committing suicide. But

00:29:58.440 that hasn't happened. None of that has happened. There is no evidence whatsoever that normalizing

00:30:03.000 disordered sexual identities and behaviors makes anybody feel better. If anything, it makes them feel 1.00

00:30:10.360 worse, according to their own numbers, according to their own advocacy organizations. So it seemed to me,

00:30:18.200 if you see these numbers, you should say, there is an identity that gives you a greater than one in

00:30:23.340 ten chance of wanting to kill yourself. It, it would seem to me the logical conclusion is we should

00:30:30.800 discourage this identity. Now the LGBT advocates would say, well, the identity is immutable. It's 0.99

00:30:39.060 just in you from birth. You can't possibly change it or ameliorate your whatever desires or anything.

00:30:45.240 Maybe not. Maybe, maybe certain desires do come from nature. I don't know. But what I do know is

00:30:53.040 the numbers of this identity went from 2% to 20% in a matter of, of a small number of years. 0.98

00:31:00.180 So unless Alex Jones is right and there's something in the water turning, not only the freaking frogs gay, 1.00

00:31:04.380 but also the zoomers gay and LG and trans and questioning and non-binary and whatever, 0.97

00:31:09.980 then obviously this is a social fad that can be encouraged or discouraged. The identity can

00:31:16.200 increase or decrease. And if the suicide rate and depression and anxiety isn't really changing,

00:31:22.180 or if anything, if it's getting a little worse, that's very clear. The number that you can change

00:31:26.300 is the identity. You can discourage that identity. You can stop castrating little kids in your gender 0.88

00:31:33.380 clinics. And at the very, at the very least, you can stop encouraging identity. We're heading into

00:31:37.340 pride month, the first of, I think now we have pride half of the year. And there are all these

00:31:43.300 sorts of liturgical rituals that go along with this, the coming out day. I remember when I was

00:31:47.340 in college, they had, it was like, you'd walk through a, a fake little door on the campus.

00:31:53.360 And it was the coming out, coming out of the closet and all of these rituals and all of this

00:31:57.940 celebration. But if it's, if it's not helping anyone, if it's actually only making more and more

00:32:03.780 people miserable, and if it's, if it's only leading more and more people into depression,

00:32:08.400 anxiety, and suicide, shouldn't we try the opposite approach? Shouldn't we believe what

00:32:12.760 the LGBT organizations tell us? And then in order to help them and everyone else and to have a

00:32:19.640 society that lives in accord with reality, which is a prerequisite for flourishing, shouldn't we say,

00:32:25.160 hey, let's take a pause here. Let's skip pride month this year. Let's just see how it goes. 0.98

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00:34:47.960 Well, before I give you this, I'm going to give you just a little tease. 1.00

00:34:50.740 Because I teased it at the top, and I guess we'll have to talk about it next week. You know me.

00:34:53.740 I'm going to tease.

00:34:55.620 A Mexican senator ritually sacrificed a chicken to a demon in order to get rain to fall down.

00:35:04.100 We'll get into the details next week.

00:35:06.800 Just a reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.

00:35:12.880 There's nothing new.

00:35:13.600 You think you've got a new ideology.

00:35:16.100 You can go out and do a kumbaya and hug the trees and talk about the climate monster

00:35:20.740 and how we need to save the Delta.

00:35:25.300 Paganism, nature worship, has been around for a long, long time.

00:35:30.260 And we think, you know, this Christian society, this is really bad and cruel. 1.00

00:35:34.860 Well, if you think Christian society is bad, just wait until you see un-Christian society. 1.00

00:35:39.340 Just wait until you see post-Christian, neo-pagan society. 0.77

00:35:43.360 No bueno.

00:35:44.540 No bueno.

00:35:44.980 You know, everybody's still talking about, you know, Christy Noem shooting her poor little pooch.

00:35:49.560 What about the chickens?

00:35:51.020 They're being sacrificed to demons.

00:35:52.680 I don't know.

00:35:53.200 We don't talk about them.

00:35:55.120 We don't.

00:35:55.580 Why aren't we allowed to talk about them?

00:35:57.200 Well, we'll talk about them next week.

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00:36:06.800 Hi, Michael.

00:36:08.880 I have a question about sheltering your kids.

00:36:11.540 I know a lot of people, including some Christians, who say you shouldn't shelter your kids because

00:36:16.660 it doesn't prepare them for the quote-unquote real world.

00:36:20.060 The argument is basically that you shelter your kids from a very young age, and then when

00:36:25.460 they grow into adulthood and move away from the home, they don't have the proper tools

00:36:29.820 and principles to deal with life's difficulties and evils that every person has to face throughout

00:36:38.800 their life.

00:36:39.940 Now, I'm in favor of sheltering your kids, but it has made me question whether or not

00:36:46.580 there's a right and wrong way to shelter your kids.

00:36:49.420 So I was wondering if you have had this experience with your own kids and learning the right way

00:36:55.160 to shelter your kids so that they grow up to be virtuous, good people who are able and

00:37:01.020 equipped to deal with the difficulties of life, but so that they're not so sheltered that

00:37:07.160 life basically destroys them.

00:37:09.920 Thanks.

00:37:10.720 Yes, you're just talking about building up an immune system.

00:37:14.100 So you can't shelter your kids forever, and if you don't expose them to anything that

00:37:19.660 threatens their virtue, then when they are shoved into the real world and they leave the home,

00:37:24.480 they're going to be very vulnerable to that.

00:37:27.320 Also, if you expose them to things that threaten their virtue at a too young age, then that

00:37:33.400 could also poison them and destroy them and make it very difficult to undo because kids

00:37:36.660 are so impressionable and malleable.

00:37:37.860 So what do you do?

00:37:38.320 Well, it's just like building up an immune system.

00:37:43.220 When your kids are very, very young and could die from the flu or something, you really take

00:37:51.240 a lot of extra steps to protect them from that stuff.

00:37:53.460 Then, as they get a little bit older, they're, I don't know, seven, eight years old now.

00:37:59.140 Maybe then, when chickenpox comes around, I guess no one gets chickenpox anymore because

00:38:02.980 there's a shot for it, but now no one takes Vaxes anymore, so maybe they're going to get

00:38:06.660 chickenpox again.

00:38:07.440 In any case, when they're old enough that chickenpox won't be a huge threat to them,

00:38:11.780 then they can build up that immunity.

00:38:13.000 Then maybe it's okay to expose them to that a little bit.

00:38:15.560 And the same thing is true with drinking.

00:38:20.740 I'm happy to say I've never had a problem with drinking.

00:38:25.300 I have a problem when my glass is empty.

00:38:26.840 That's when I have a problem.

00:38:27.560 No, I have.

00:38:28.780 I've had friends who really have had problems with that, and they become addicts, and they

00:38:32.580 have to go to rehab, and it really messes up their life.

00:38:35.440 I like to have a drink, but I don't, you know, if there's a, if I have half a whiskey, and

00:38:40.720 then I'm ready to go to bed, I just, I can leave the glass of whiskey.

00:38:43.620 I don't really care that much.

00:38:44.960 Why is that?

00:38:46.000 Because my mother, especially coming from an Italian family, she exposed me to a little

00:38:54.480 bit of alcohol at a young age.

00:38:55.840 You know, it's Christmas time.

00:38:57.100 You're a kid.

00:38:57.780 You get a little tiny glass of wine.

00:38:59.100 Oh, that's nice.

00:38:59.840 And then I remember when I was 16, I said, Michael, we're on vacation.

00:39:02.700 She goes, Michael, you're going to go to college soon.

00:39:04.540 You're going to be exposed to a lot of booze.

00:39:06.720 So you should, you should have a beer on vacation.

00:39:09.560 You should, you know, have a little drink.

00:39:11.240 It's okay, but you're going to kind of learn how to do it and learn your limits and boundaries

00:39:15.400 and do it responsibly.

00:39:17.020 And I did.

00:39:18.000 And then, you know, when I went to college, a lot of my friends ended up in the hospital

00:39:22.880 or the health clinic because they drank too much.

00:39:25.080 And that never happened to me.

00:39:26.260 It was kind of nice because I learned my limits and the real world didn't totally knock me down.

00:39:33.060 And so it's, it's not so much a question of what you expose your kids to.

00:39:36.840 It's at what time.

00:39:38.340 Your kids are going to learn about transgenderism at some point.

00:39:40.940 Wish they didn't have to, you know, it's like, it's awful that we've normalized that ideology,

00:39:45.960 but it is going to happen.

00:39:47.900 So what you have to do is take the steps in the schools that you choose for your kids or

00:39:53.420 homeschooling, in the church you attend, in the community that you engage with and the

00:40:00.140 people that you see to make sure that when they're forming their ideas about what sex

00:40:05.360 is, they're not taken by that ideology.

00:40:08.240 But then, you know, before they go off to college or before they go get a job,

00:40:12.620 they recognize that there is such a thing as transvestitism.

00:40:16.520 And so they're not shocked when they see, you know, Husky Hank wearing a dress at day one on

00:40:20.600 the job.

00:40:21.500 And you've got to make sure that they've built up the ethical and anthropological framework to

00:40:26.960 even understand what that is and recognize that it's a fallen world and we have charity for people.

00:40:31.140 And, you know, we don't just emulate every behavior we see because it can be very harmful.

00:40:36.720 That's how you do it.

00:40:37.560 Just like with a pathogen, just like with any behavior.

00:40:42.580 Next question.

00:40:44.080 Hello, Mr. Knowles.

00:40:44.960 Thank you so much for your show.

00:40:47.540 I'm very curious what you think about the student protests and to what extent you think that

00:40:52.780 the police actions against them is giving them a larger platform or if it's just something

00:41:00.680 that that has to be done.

00:41:02.640 Thank you.

00:41:04.480 It has to be done in the sense that the liberal elite donors to these schools are demanding that

00:41:14.600 it be done.

00:41:15.240 It doesn't have to be done as a matter of law and order because we know that our system of law and

00:41:21.220 order is very corrupt.

00:41:23.120 So if we had a really robust and healthy system of law and order, they would have shut that BLM 1.00

00:41:28.760 protest down within a few days.

00:41:30.900 Instead, it raged for eight months coast to coast.

00:41:34.180 So no, it wasn't just that our justice system realized this is too dangerous.

00:41:40.000 No, no, they don't care about that when it serves their liberal political interests.

00:41:43.320 The reason that the police were called in and they arrested 2,000 people is because the liberal

00:41:49.300 donors didn't like the protests because it made them look bad and it threatened their interests.

00:41:53.580 That's what it's about.

00:41:54.320 So I kind of get a kick out of that.

00:41:58.420 Obviously, I feel bad for the students who weren't able to go to class.

00:42:01.340 I feel bad specifically for the Jewish students who were being really directly targeted by the

00:42:05.180 campus intifada.

00:42:06.280 I feel bad for the people who live around these neighborhoods with these schools and they have

00:42:10.640 to deal with these lunatics all the time.

00:42:12.380 I feel for them. 0.92

00:42:14.280 But as a political matter, I get a real kick out of it because it's just left on left violence.

00:42:19.720 It is just an internal contradiction within the American left working itself out in a

00:42:24.900 very painful way that's very repellent to moderate, normal voters.

00:42:30.240 And so I don't think that the cops coming in with a heavy hand is going to put an end

00:42:35.540 to it.

00:42:35.880 But as long as the Gaza war goes on, as long as the IDF might invade Rafah, as long as there 0.99

00:42:46.480 is a prospect that this is going to continue, frankly, as long as the Palestinian people don't 1.00

00:42:51.960 have their own nation state.

00:42:53.140 But certainly, as long as the war is hot, the libs are going to be furious about this

00:42:59.040 because the young leftists view it as just an extension, maybe even the apotheosis of

00:43:07.380 Western colonialism and oppression.

00:43:11.720 And so they call the state of Israel an apartheid state, just like they did to South Africa in

00:43:15.840 the 80s.

00:43:16.320 They accuse the state of Israel of oppressive, white settler colonialism of an oppressed brown

00:43:24.120 people, just like they do to Americans and Europeans. 0.99

00:43:27.300 And this has just been beaten into them since they were little kids, and they are not going

00:43:33.100 to give that up.

00:43:34.520 And one does not want to acknowledge schadenfreude.

00:43:41.000 But the fact that these university administrators have been pushing this stuff, and the liberal

00:43:47.240 donors, and the whole liberal establishment has been pushing this stuff for decades, now

00:43:52.520 that they're seeing the fruit of their efforts, I don't want to interrupt them.

00:43:57.040 That's what I'm saying.

00:43:57.660 I just, I don't feel like we should interrupt.

00:43:59.600 Next question.

00:44:01.460 Hey, Michael.

00:44:02.440 Trying to fragrance Max.

00:44:03.720 I know you've heard of Luxemaxing. 0.99

00:44:06.000 I was just wondering, what is your significant scent?

00:44:08.400 And if you've heard of Jeremy Fragrance.

00:44:12.940 I think there was some novel language in there.

00:44:17.520 Fragrance Max, because you Luxemax, that's when you work out, you get nice clothing and 1.00

00:44:22.660 stuff.

00:44:23.000 So if you want to fragrance Max, it means you want to put on a certain type of cologne.

00:44:28.020 So what is my signature scent?

00:44:30.280 It's evolved over the years.

00:44:31.900 I do like a cologne every now and again.

00:44:33.480 When I was really young, I was given a bottle of a cologne called Pheromone.

00:44:40.300 It's a very like kind of old man, like 80s kind of thing.

00:44:43.980 Then in the 2000s, I wore Armani Code, like a good Italian boy from New York.

00:44:51.360 Then when I got to college, I started checking out Old Bay, you know, St. John's kinds of

00:44:55.960 a little bit waspier, maybe a little bit subtler.

00:45:01.540 And now, I still like the St. John's ones.

00:45:05.280 But there was my favorite cologne I've ever worn.

00:45:06.880 It was given to me by a friend of mine.

00:45:08.720 He was a wealthy liberal lawyer in New York.

00:45:13.520 But kind of like a reasonable liberal, very, very amiable.

00:45:16.360 And at one time, one of his clients gave him an $800 bottle of cologne from Arabia called

00:45:22.160 Julescence Blue, Passion of the Desert Shake.

00:45:26.880 And this, you just take the lid off of this cologne.

00:45:30.720 You don't even spray it.

00:45:31.640 And you feel like you are swimming in a Persian used car lot in, you know, Glendale or something, 0.98

00:45:38.180 Beverly Hills.

00:45:39.640 And I did wear this for years.

00:45:41.400 It's gone now, and I'm too cheap to buy another bottle.

00:45:43.260 But that was a signature cologne for a while.

00:45:46.320 Really takes me back to my days as a desert shake. 0.75

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 03, 2024

Ep. 1482 - Libs Shocked After 2,000 Woke Campus Protestors Arrested

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