The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1485 - Black Kids Don't Know What A Computer Is, According To Libs

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00:00:37.680 I learned something new about black people yesterday.

00:00:40.360 This new discovery came to me by way of New York's Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul. 0.96

00:00:46.460 Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is.

00:00:51.880 They don't know. 0.95

00:00:52.660 They don't know these things.

00:00:53.740 And I want the world to open up to all of them because when you have their diverse voices innovating solutions through technology,

00:01:02.500 then you're really addressing society's broader challenges.

00:01:06.860 Hmm.

00:01:07.700 Could we just get that one more time so I can make sure that I heard her correctly? 0.95

00:01:12.860 Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is. 0.90

00:01:17.980 They don't know. 0.95

00:01:18.860 They don't know these things.

00:01:19.920 They don't know these things.

00:01:21.960 They don't know big, big words like that.

00:01:25.160 Computer.

00:01:25.720 That's three syllables. 0.99

00:01:26.620 You expect those black kids in the Bronx to know that?

00:01:28.820 Now, I know a fair number of black people.

00:01:32.840 And I've spent a fair bit of time in the Bronx, actually, growing up.

00:01:36.160 And even when I go back to visit New York.

00:01:38.380 And I'm pretty certain that every black person that I know, both in the Bronx and outside of the Bronx, knows the word computer.

00:01:49.620 You might have read recently.

00:01:51.660 Here, I have the articles right here.

00:01:53.840 You might have read about a significant shift in the political orientation of black people and other minorities.

00:02:00.520 We hear it every election cycle.

00:02:01.980 I'm always skeptical.

00:02:03.280 It has not panned out yet.

00:02:04.880 But what makes this year different is that the headlines are not just coming from right-wing outlets, wish-casting.

00:02:12.200 This is the year the black vote is going to go to the Republican.

00:02:15.180 No.

00:02:15.660 The warnings of a major shift in the minority vote, black and Hispanic, are coming from left-wing outlets.

00:02:22.160 These are two pieces from the Washington Post right here.

00:02:24.940 Left-wing outlets that are terrified that it's going to cost them the election. 0.97

00:02:28.520 If it happens, big if, it will not happen because black people don't know the word computer. 1.00

00:02:36.680 It will be because Democrats no longer know their constituents, don't care to know their constituents, 0.95

00:02:42.240 and are confident that they can rule in perpetuity without any connection to the people that they are supposed to serve.

00:02:50.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:50.900 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.660 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:12.120 We've got a really important update on the subject of fat phobia.

00:03:17.040 This by way of TikTok.

00:03:18.420 We'll get to that important news item in just a moment.

00:03:20.880 First, though, I want to stick on New York a little bit because there have been major breakthroughs in President Trump's trial in New York.

00:03:29.060 The New York trial is the first of four trials, criminal trials, where the libs are going to try to throw this guy in prison rather than let him make it to the White House.

00:03:38.180 The first one is about a supposed hush money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.

00:03:45.940 Well, anyway, yesterday during the trial, Stormy Daniels took the stand of porn actress testifying against the former president, current Republican nominee.

00:03:59.100 What does it mean for the trial?

00:04:00.660 I think it means a lot of great stuff for Trump.

00:04:02.360 We'll get to why in a second.

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00:05:12.720 Stormy Daniels takes the stand at the Trump trial in New York.

00:05:17.240 How on earth could this be good for Trump?

00:05:20.620 It's so embarrassing.

00:05:21.980 I know previously Stormy Daniels had said she did not take this hush money payment,

00:05:27.660 and so now if she's testifying that she did, that makes her a liar.

00:05:31.620 It means you can't really trust anything she says. 0.99

00:05:33.220 But, you know, it's a porn star, and if Trump did sleep with her, it makes him, 0.99

00:05:38.140 I mean, look, we know he's been a playboy for 40 years, 0.98

00:05:40.600 and so it was part of his image already, kind of baked in.

00:05:42.560 But still, it's not nice, and no one wants to hear that about themselves.

00:05:45.840 So how could this be good for Trump?

00:05:47.260 Now, this is great for Trump.

00:05:51.100 This is great, relatively.

00:05:53.060 It'd be better if the Democrats weren't trying to imprison the leader of the opposition,

00:05:55.880 but given that as the bar, this is really great for Trump,

00:06:00.340 because it makes the prosecution look even worse than before.

00:06:04.500 And the reason for that is Stormy Daniels cannot add anything to this trial 1.00

00:06:09.820 that is of legal substance,

00:06:11.340 because Stormy Daniels has really nothing to do with the substance of this trial, 0.99

00:06:17.340 because the substance of this trial does not hinge on whether or not Donald Trump slept with Stormy Daniels.

00:06:23.240 This trial hinges on whether or not Trump committed a federal crime,

00:06:27.620 albeit, I think, a relatively minor federal crime,

00:06:30.180 which is not filing the right paperwork when he made an in-kind contribution to his own campaign

00:06:36.120 in the supposed hush money payment that he gave to this pornography actress 0.78

00:06:42.520 to try to shut her up before the election,

00:06:44.920 allegedly, according to the New York prosecutors.

00:06:47.480 But wait, hold on.

00:06:49.300 Hold on a second before we even get to the Stormy Daniels of it all.

00:06:52.460 If it's an election crime, then that's a federal matter.

00:06:56.520 That's a matter for federal prosecutors to pursue,

00:06:58.720 not for some New York prosecutors to pursue.

00:07:02.340 What does New York have to do with it?

00:07:04.040 Well, what New York has to do with it is there's an attorney general there,

00:07:06.640 Letitia James, who got elected on the promise to throw Trump in prison.

00:07:10.640 So she's going to pursue that.

00:07:12.060 But the New York AG really doesn't have very much to do with a federal election issue.

00:07:18.580 If the federal prosecutors wanted to take that up, they could.

00:07:21.120 And then the parts that do supposedly pertain to the New York trial,

00:07:26.280 like the testimony today from Stormy Daniels,

00:07:28.060 has nothing to do with the supposed crime,

00:07:30.720 because the supposed crime is the failure to report this in-kind donation

00:07:35.020 to the Federal Election Commission.

00:07:38.440 It has nothing to do.

00:07:39.740 So the only thing that could possibly be served by Stormy Daniels' testimony in this trial

00:07:46.400 is to embarrass Trump, which is all the prosecutors are after,

00:07:49.400 because it's all they can do.

00:07:50.760 It's all that's possible.

00:07:51.440 So then when you hear the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, Judge Mershon saying,

00:07:57.180 Mr. Trump, I will not allow you to turn this court into a circus.

00:08:02.020 You cannot go campaign.

00:08:04.080 And you cannot go speak about this trial,

00:08:05.780 where we're persecuting you and trying to throw you into jail for 700 years.

00:08:08.360 No, no, no.

00:08:09.620 You are not allowed to go and start blabbing your mouth

00:08:13.140 while you deliver pizza to the firefighters,

00:08:14.940 or while you go visit that bodega and visit the worker

00:08:17.480 who was unjustly prosecuted by us,

00:08:19.940 all the crooked legal apparatchiks in New York.

00:08:22.300 No, no, sir. 0.70

00:08:23.140 This is a dignified courtroom.

00:08:25.280 And you will not besmirch the dignity of this courtroom. 0.97

00:08:27.600 Now, please bring in the porn star. 1.00

00:08:29.220 That's right. 1.00

00:08:29.880 Please bring in that sexy little porn star 1.00

00:08:32.160 so she can give all of that completely legally irrelevant scintillating testimony. 0.93

00:08:38.840 That's right.

00:08:39.620 You got any good dirt, honey?

00:08:42.000 Dish.

00:08:42.600 Dish girl. 0.95

00:08:44.100 Enough of your circus, Mr. Trump. 1.00

00:08:45.480 I want to hear from the porn star.

00:08:47.820 Whose testimony has nothing to do with the criminal charges.

00:08:49.900 That's where we're at right now.

00:08:51.420 And so I think it looks great for Trump.

00:08:54.240 There's nothing new in the allegations anyway.

00:08:57.300 It's not as though now some voter is going to hear the allegation

00:09:00.760 that was denied by Trump.

00:09:02.340 It was once denied by Stormy Daniels, too,

00:09:04.160 that they, you know, had this illicit,

00:09:07.280 not only affair, but the hush money payment.

00:09:09.840 But none of that is new information.

00:09:12.480 That doesn't move any votes.

00:09:13.720 That wouldn't have moved any votes for the last eight years.

00:09:15.740 So the only thing you get from this is, oh, they, they, they accused Trump of something.

00:09:22.460 They're doing it themselves.

00:09:24.380 And this has been the case since 2016.

00:09:26.720 Since 2015.

00:09:28.820 Donald Trump is colluding with the Russians.

00:09:30.560 He is colluding with Russian intelligence sources to rig this election.

00:09:36.480 Then we find out what happens.

00:09:37.340 Not only is Trump not doing that, the Democrats were doing that.

00:09:40.200 Hillary Clinton and the FBI colluded with this spook 1.00

00:09:44.120 who made a dossier based on bogus Russian intelligence

00:09:48.180 to try to rig the election against Trump.

00:09:50.100 Everything that Donald Trump, he's profiting off of his position in government.

00:09:55.540 Then we find out the Bidens have been raking in millions and millions of dollars

00:09:59.440 by selling American influence overseas.

00:10:01.960 And then just anything they accuse him of.

00:10:03.940 Donald Trump's making a circus of our legal system.

00:10:06.660 You're making a circus?

00:10:07.600 You're bringing in a porn star whose testimony cannot have anything to do

00:10:10.740 with the legal charges here.

00:10:11.800 Legally irrelevant, politically very relevant,

00:10:15.620 because it buttresses the opinion of the majority of Americans,

00:10:20.960 according to polls, not just Republicans, but independents and Democrats as well,

00:10:24.660 which is that this is an unjust political persecution of Donald Trump.

00:10:29.620 Works for me.

00:10:30.320 Now, also over in New York, there were some pro-Palestine liberation protesters

00:10:35.620 who decided that a great way to win Americans over to their cause

00:10:40.800 would be to drape a Palestine flag over a World War I memorial

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00:11:55.440 Those pro-Palestine liberation people, they really know how to win friends and influence

00:12:00.480 people, don't they?

00:12:01.400 They decided, be really smart, head on over to the 107th Infantry War Soldier Memorial

00:12:06.900 in New York City and then drape a Palestine flag over it.

00:12:13.080 Because I'm sure that's what their great-grandfathers, well, many of their great-grandfathers, I suspect,

00:12:18.440 did not fight in World War I, probably were not in the country at that time.

00:12:23.140 But for some of our ancestors who did fight in World War I, that's what they were fighting

00:12:27.860 for, right?

00:12:29.220 For the cause of Palestinian liberation, right?

00:12:32.740 I don't think so.

00:12:34.640 So that doesn't look great. 0.64

00:12:35.960 And then they thought, well, if this doesn't irritate enough people, let's burn the American

00:12:39.560 flag.

00:12:40.020 That should be a good idea, right?

00:12:41.020 And just in case they don't get the point, let's spray paint Gaza and free Palestine on 1.00

00:12:46.540 the base of the memorial, just to make sure everyone hates us.

00:12:50.660 Maybe we're not quite odious enough yet, so that's what we're going to do.

00:12:54.900 And we're going to explicitly tie, it had already been kind of implicit, but we're explicitly

00:12:59.960 going to tie this Palestine liberation rhetoric to anti-American rhetoric.

00:13:05.460 That's a good idea.

00:13:06.020 They did this on the day of rage.

00:13:11.340 They called it a day of rage.

00:13:12.560 And that phrase, for me, called to mind another leftist protest.

00:13:17.540 You remember back on April Fool's Day, the Libs decided to hold to the trans day of vengeance. 1.00

00:13:24.600 Not the trans day of solidarity, not the trans day of peace and prosperity.

00:13:30.300 It was the trans day of vengeance. 0.99

00:13:31.660 I seem to recall reading that vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, and I will repay.

00:13:38.320 And, you know, his foot shall slide in due time and all that sort of stuff.

00:13:42.000 So, okay, the trans day of vengeance, that's not very inviting. 1.00

00:13:45.360 And then this is basically the same thing.

00:13:47.040 The day of rage, the day of vengeance, the day of pride or week of pride or month of pride

00:13:51.760 now, whatever it is.

00:13:52.620 This is not, it's all the same people.

00:13:54.700 And it seems like it's totally disparate causes. 0.79

00:14:00.260 You've got the transvestites and the homosexuals and the Palestinian Muslims, sort of. 1.00

00:14:06.240 I don't know how many of these people are actually Muslim, but there are at least four Palestinians. 0.95

00:14:10.400 And the feminists and the liberals and the socialists and the communists and the anarchists.

00:14:15.840 All these groups that seem like they don't necessarily have anything to do with one another,

00:14:19.800 except that they all don't like America.

00:14:24.800 And they all, to varying degrees, disrespect the American flag.

00:14:27.720 And they all use this kind of language of the deadly sins.

00:14:31.320 And they all partake of a radical liberationist ideology

00:14:38.780 that seeks to liberate people from national allegiances,

00:14:45.280 that seeks to liberate people from the family, from morality, from their bodies, actually,

00:14:50.620 in the form of gender ideology. 0.83

00:14:52.560 That's what it's about.

00:14:54.340 It's the libs.

00:14:55.140 And this week they care about Gaza.

00:14:56.780 Next week they'll forget about Gaza again. 1.00

00:14:58.400 And they'll move on to some other stupid thing. 0.99

00:15:00.120 And three weeks before the Gaza thing, they were on to BLM. 0.99

00:15:03.460 And three weeks before BLM, they were on to Occupy Wall Street.

00:15:06.120 And it's just all the same stuff.

00:15:07.640 And you might say, well, but the cause of Palestine liberation really is just,

00:15:11.780 well, maybe it is.

00:15:12.560 I don't know.

00:15:12.920 You know, it doesn't rank that high on my list of political priorities.

00:15:18.040 But it doesn't matter if it's a legitimate cause.

00:15:22.440 That's not what these protests are about.

00:15:25.280 They're burning the American flag.

00:15:26.800 Believe them.

00:15:27.240 Believe them when they tell you.

00:15:28.660 They're using the exact same language as the radical transgender activists 0.56

00:15:32.060 and all the other radicals who shut down our cities conveniently once every four years.

00:15:37.780 Isn't that so strange?

00:15:38.760 Now, speaking of the issue itself of the Israel-Gaza war,

00:15:42.920 the national security spokesman for the White House, John Kirby, who would be the White House press secretary, 0.94

00:15:49.040 except the Biden administration can't replace a black lesbian with a white man, a straight white man. 1.00

00:15:55.280 So even though John Kirby is relatively much better at representing the administration's views than whatever, 0.96

00:16:01.360 Christine Jean-Pierre, who barely can articulate any points of view, they just can't do it.

00:16:08.940 So he's the backup guy and he weighs in specifically on national security.

00:16:12.040 And he's weighing in now on the Israel-Gaza war as Israel prepares another offensive.

00:16:18.040 Kirby was asked, does the U.S. back Israel's intention to eliminate Hamas?

00:16:24.100 Kirby says, representing the Biden administration,

00:16:26.980 we of course back their right and responsibility to go after the Hamas threat, to eliminate that threat. 0.95

00:16:32.520 Now, look, Jackie, I've said many times here, you're not going to eliminate an ideology through military operations.

00:16:41.220 But does Israel have a right and responsibility to eliminate a threat that they suffered on the 7th of October?

00:16:45.880 A hundred percent.

00:16:46.560 Absolutely, they do.

00:16:47.800 And we've been nothing but very steadfast on that.

00:16:51.020 Okay.

00:16:51.120 Anyway, I hear this a lot from the libs and I've heard it for years.

00:16:58.180 It's not just the Biden administration, but they're the latest to say it.

00:17:00.740 You can't defeat an ideology militarily, except you can.

00:17:08.520 If you've ever read even like one page of a history book, you can.

00:17:12.900 We have done that.

00:17:14.280 We, to use the only example that anyone uses from history really, we defeated Nazism, the ideology, the German ideology of Nazism. 0.53

00:17:23.480 We defeated that with a military.

00:17:26.400 Italian fascism, a somewhat related, albeit distinct ideology, we defeated that militarily.

00:17:32.160 A third related ideology, also from the Second World War.

00:17:35.120 Japanese militarism, we defeated that through the military. 0.90

00:17:40.140 Moreover, you see a lot of other examples throughout history.

00:17:45.380 Want to go a little bit further back?

00:17:47.060 There was the ideology, really a heresy, of Albigensianism, also called Catharism.

00:17:54.980 And this threatened Christendom, we now call it the West, used to be called Christendom.

00:17:59.220 And so the church, which was unified at that time and understood to be unified at that time,

00:18:04.100 decided to defeat that ideology militarily and successfully did so.

00:18:09.260 In the Catharic Crusade, you go back even further than that.

00:18:12.580 You go back even before the church had its visible form after the resurrection.

00:18:18.100 And you know what happened?

00:18:19.560 We found a very troublesome ideology.

00:18:22.580 It was called Carthaginian paganism.

00:18:25.000 And those Carthaginians, man, they got up to some bad juju. 0.98

00:18:28.520 You know, they were sacrificing babies to their balls and their demons, and it was bad. 0.96

00:18:33.340 And then do you know what the Romans did? 0.97

00:18:35.400 And the Romans, which also they had some pagan problems, but it was a little bit of a different

00:18:39.720 and less severe kind of paganism than the Carthaginians had.

00:18:43.260 You know what they did?

00:18:43.760 They defeated it militarily at Carthago Delenda Est, okay?

00:18:47.440 They, it can be done.

00:18:49.200 It can be done.

00:18:49.980 I suppose you cannot abolish an idea.

00:18:54.320 You know, if everyone forgets the idea, you know, you can go a long way towards suppressing

00:18:59.840 it, though it might even crop back up throughout history.

00:19:01.780 All of these sorts of ideas crop back up throughout history, including Albigensianism.

00:19:05.940 But you can very much stop the visible physical expression in time and space and history of

00:19:12.300 an idea through a military.

00:19:13.800 In fact, that's really the, the grand purpose of the military.

00:19:18.760 We have a military to protect against direct threats.

00:19:21.740 That's a very practical and elementary purpose of a military, but also we're protecting our

00:19:29.580 way of life and a way of life is expressed often through an ideology.

00:19:34.820 And so, yeah, that's what we do.

00:19:37.560 We, we have our military to protect not only people, but institutions and people and institutions

00:19:44.780 are animated by ideas and ideologies and even by religion.

00:19:50.340 You can, you can do it.

00:19:51.720 Now, speaking of ancient things, only slightly older than the Carthaginians, Bernie Sanders

00:19:57.660 is running for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.

00:20:02.340 Senator Sanders, take it away.

00:20:03.980 Let me thank the people of Vermont from the bottom of my heart for giving me the opportunity

00:20:09.720 to serve in the United States Senate.

00:20:12.100 It has been the honor of my life.

00:20:15.260 Today, I am announcing my intention to seek another term.

00:20:19.580 And let me take a few minutes to tell you why.

00:20:22.320 As the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, as part of the

00:20:26.900 U.S. Senate Democratic Leadership Team, as a senior member of the Veterans Committee,

00:20:31.780 the Budget Committee, and the Environment and Public Works Committee, I have been and will

00:20:36.680 be, if re-elected, in a strong position to provide the kind of help the Vermonters need

00:20:42.100 in these difficult times.

00:20:43.800 In recent years working together, we have made important progress in addressing some very

00:20:50.540 serious challenges.

00:20:52.180 But much, much more needs to be done if we are to become the state and the nation our

00:20:58.680 people deserve.

00:20:59.540 Bernie Sanders has been in politics so far for 53 years, more than half a century in politics.

00:21:13.420 Bernie Sanders has been in the United States Congress for 33 years, more than three decades.

00:21:19.580 Bernie Sanders has been in the United States Senate for 17 years.

00:21:27.860 What's he really going to do with another six?

00:21:30.940 That's it.

00:21:31.720 He's going to say, now listen here.

00:21:33.120 I needed 53 years to get my bearings.

00:21:36.960 I needed just to get my sea legs for a little more than half a century.

00:21:41.000 But now I think I understand how the process works.

00:21:45.180 And so finally, I'm going to accomplish anything in politics at all whatsoever.

00:21:49.760 Has Bernie Sanders ever championed, really deserved credit for any piece of legislation whatsoever?

00:22:02.020 I know he's been a leftist and the party's moved more to the left, though.

00:22:05.920 Some would credit him as the cause of that.

00:22:07.800 I think maybe he's more a symptom of that.

00:22:10.500 Has he done anything other than just be liberal?

00:22:17.260 I don't see the evidence of that.

00:22:20.380 So good.

00:22:21.080 Okay, give him another six years.

00:22:22.280 That's fine.

00:22:22.520 Give him another 12 years.

00:22:23.260 I don't care.

00:22:25.160 What all of this means is that Bernie Sanders, contrary to his publicists, contrary to the

00:22:31.120 deeply felt desires of his supporters, Bernie Sanders is a status quo guy.

00:22:36.960 Bernie Sanders is an establishment guy.

00:22:40.080 He doesn't talk like one necessarily.

00:22:43.060 He doesn't pitch himself as one, but he is that.

00:22:46.620 Bernie Sanders is, for all of his radical rhetoric, nothing but another warm body in the U.S. Capitol.

00:22:54.860 And so he wants to be a warm body in the Capitol for as long as his body stays warm.

00:22:58.700 Okay, fine.

00:23:00.720 Doesn't really move the needle either way.

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00:25:32.260 Now, turning our attention to much more pressing matters than the United States Senate and the presidential election and the trial in New York, the war overseas.

00:25:40.340 Fat phobia.

00:25:42.020 Fat phobia is a major social crisis.

00:25:45.680 We've heard about it before.

00:25:47.060 Well, our friends over at Lives of TikTok deserve some credit for exposing some of its more pernicious and recent and urgent expressions.

00:25:59.520 If you do not date fat people because you just happen to view fatness as neutral but not be particularly attracted to it, fine.

00:26:08.540 That's a preference. 0.95

00:26:09.360 If you don't date fat people because you think being fat means that they are gross, lazy, live an unhealthy lifestyle, or are embarrassing to be seen with in public, that's fat phobic. 0.97

00:26:22.840 But to insist your preference is for people who aren't lazy, sloppy, and disgusting, and unhealthy, meaning that means you prefer skinny people because all fat people are those other things, that's actually bigoted. 0.93

00:26:38.140 That's actually deciding that one group is all the same because of how they look.

00:26:44.500 Hope that makes sense.

00:26:45.620 Have a good day.

00:26:46.320 So it does not make sense, but I'd like to go back to make sure that I understand exactly how it does not make sense.

00:26:53.500 She's saying, as I understand it, she's saying to have a preference where you don't want to date a certain person because said person is fat, that's a preference. 0.59

00:27:03.380 But if you don't want to date fat people, as a rule, that's very bigoted and fat phobic. 0.75

00:27:12.300 That is what I think I understood.

00:27:13.840 Can we play it again just so I can be sure that that's what she's saying?

00:27:17.380 If you do not date fat people because you just happen to view fatness as neutral but not be particularly attracted to it, fine.

00:27:26.260 That's a preference.

00:27:27.400 Okay, hold on, pause, pause.

00:27:28.460 It's different than I thought.

00:27:29.340 But if you don't date fat people because you view fatness as neutral but you're not attracted to it, that's fine.

00:27:40.140 That's a preference.

00:27:40.900 But hold on.

00:27:42.360 If you're not attracted to something, that would mean you are repelled by that thing, right?

00:27:48.500 I guess I doubt that there's such a thing as neutrality here.

00:27:51.680 If I see a girl on the street, well, not me because I'm happily married to sweet little Elisa.

00:27:57.300 But before I was married, when I was a single guy, I'd see a girl, I would very rarely feel neutral about the girl.

00:28:03.300 I would say, oh, I desire that girl or I don't desire that girl. 0.79

00:28:08.700 I would not, I actively do not desire that person.

00:28:12.400 And so if you're saying, well, I'm not attracted to that person, I'm actually repelled by that person because that person is overweight or unhealthy or whatever.

00:28:23.560 She's saying if you're neutral about it, if you're neutral, then you're not repelled.

00:28:29.480 It's very confusing.

00:28:30.620 Because she's almost being reasonable and saying, look, if you're not into fat chicks, it's okay. 0.75

00:28:35.080 It's all right.

00:28:35.460 It's a preference.

00:28:35.920 But then she goes on and she contradicts herself, I think. 0.99

00:28:39.020 Date fat people because you think being fat means that they are gross, lazy, live an unhealthy lifestyle. 0.99

00:28:46.460 Put a pause there. 1.00

00:28:47.100 That's all you need to say.

00:28:48.500 That's all you need to say. 0.99

00:28:49.960 If you don't want to date the fat girl because you find the fat girl gross, then that's very bigoted. 0.99

00:28:54.900 But hold on. 0.97

00:28:56.280 If I say I'm not attracted to that girl and I say I think that girl is kind of gross, those are semantically identical statements.

00:29:05.240 They are synonymous.

00:29:08.260 At least, I don't know.

00:29:09.160 I can't speak for women. 1.00

00:29:09.940 That's at least how men are.

00:29:12.200 We've got a little active libido sometimes, you know.

00:29:14.700 And so either you're drawn towards someone or you're repelled from someone.

00:29:20.400 There's no neutrality here.

00:29:22.200 So they're the same thing.

00:29:23.900 And so then what she's really saying is, look, I want to sound reasonable and not force everyone to date me.

00:29:29.320 But if you don't think that I'm attractive, you're not the sort of person who wants to date me, then you're a bigot. 0.97

00:29:35.860 Then you're awful.

00:29:36.520 And so really, despite what she says in the preface, what she concludes with is that preferences are not acceptable to her.

00:29:45.280 But it's actually very telling that she has to complement and exalt preferences at the beginning.

00:29:52.080 Because this is what liberalism does.

00:29:54.160 Liberalism exalts preference.

00:29:57.200 Liberalism makes subjective preference the be-all and end-all.

00:30:00.680 Don't yuck my yum.

00:30:01.680 You do you, man.

00:30:02.760 You know, it's like you do you, I'll do me.

00:30:06.200 You can't tell me what's good for you.

00:30:08.340 It's not necessarily good for me, man.

00:30:09.980 It's all about my preferences and my individualism.

00:30:12.320 So liberalism has to exalt preference.

00:30:15.600 But liberalism also paradoxically condemns preference.

00:30:21.000 Because when people express preferences that contradict the liberals' preferences, they don't like that.

00:30:30.320 That's no bueno.

00:30:31.320 You can't do that.

00:30:33.300 And this should be expected.

00:30:34.680 If we were to live in a normal, rational society where we accepted objective truth and reality and standards, including standards of health and beauty, then we could all use our reason and come to conclusions that we all agree to.

00:30:50.040 But if we live in this radically subjectivist world, where it's all just about preference and you do you and nothing's normal and nothing's abnormal and nothing's good or bad.

00:30:57.900 It's all just whatever you want, man.

00:30:59.460 If we live in that world, then all of a sudden society ceases to be a reasonable discussion about objective truth.

00:31:07.380 And it becomes a battle of wills, of preferences.

00:31:14.060 Because the fat girl, the self-identified fat girl could say, look, I want to date the super giga Chad Sigma guy.

00:31:24.660 I want to. 0.94

00:31:25.720 That's my preference.

00:31:26.620 And I'm going to do it if I want to do it. 0.94

00:31:27.960 Now, the super Sigma Alpha Chad frat guy, he might say, I don't want to date the fat chick. 1.00

00:31:36.100 Well, now his preference is encroaching on the satisfaction of her preference.

00:31:44.340 And one preference has to win.

00:31:46.560 Her desire to date the Chad or the Chad's desire not to date her. 0.63

00:31:51.080 And what she's saying is he has no right not to date me.

00:31:55.400 He thinks I'm gross. 0.57

00:31:56.760 He thinks I'm unhealthy. 0.82

00:31:58.300 Well, how dare he? 0.96

00:31:59.760 He's a bigot. 0.98

00:32:01.300 He ought to be sent out of society. 0.99

00:32:04.880 He ought to be ostracized, thrown where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. 0.65

00:32:09.740 If he doesn't satisfy my personal preference.

00:32:12.780 Because it's just preferences.

00:32:13.800 And it's just going to be one group is going to win or another group is going to win.

00:32:16.060 Or one individual is going to win or the others.

00:32:18.520 That's all it is.

00:32:19.340 There's no more reason to it.

00:32:22.560 And in fact, it's right there in the phrase.

00:32:24.420 Because the liberal accusations are so often confessions.

00:32:28.840 I'm not the first to observe it.

00:32:31.000 Just as we were talking about the top of the show, the libs accused Trump of colluding with the Russians to rig the election.

00:32:35.040 Well, guess what?

00:32:35.600 It turns out they did the exact same thing.

00:32:37.160 The libs accused Trump of using his position in government to enrich his family.

00:32:40.100 Well, guess what?

00:32:40.640 It turns out, actually, it was them.

00:32:42.060 They did that exact same thing.

00:32:43.420 And same here.

00:32:44.940 When they use this language of phobia.

00:32:47.000 I don't use the language of phobia.

00:32:48.900 Because I think a lot of the things described as phobias are not irrational.

00:32:51.740 I don't think it's irrational to have sexual desire for people who are more beautiful than I.

00:33:00.300 I'm not saying big girls can't be beautiful. 0.79

00:33:02.000 They can be.

00:33:02.460 But these angry, shrieking, entitled, feminist, body-positive people. 1.00

00:33:07.780 It's not the most attractive thing in the world.

00:33:11.300 It's not phobic.

00:33:12.240 It's not irrational.

00:33:13.840 But that accusation is a confession, too.

00:33:15.580 Because their politics is not only irrational in practice.

00:33:19.360 It's irrational even in principle.

00:33:21.260 Because so much of it comes down to a denial of either objective reality or, at the very least, of our ability reliably to perceive and come to conclusions about objective reality.

00:33:35.300 Hence, the line from Robert Frost.

00:33:37.280 I mentioned it on the show yesterday.

00:33:39.300 That a liberal is one who can't take his own side in a debate.

00:33:42.100 Now, speaking of liberalism and debates, actually, there's, I think, pretty good news.

00:33:51.900 The Trump campaign is not going to be debating RFK, which I think is smart.

00:33:55.140 But before we get to that, just to put a little bow on this, give you a little glimmer of hope as you think this world is collapsing into chaos and irrationality.

00:34:03.100 MIT has just become the first elite school to ban diversity statements.

00:34:10.060 If you have applied to college or graduate school or maybe even some jobs in the last 10 years, you have been required to write a diversity statement.

00:34:20.980 You have been required to state how your presence in the mathematics PhD will benefit the diversity of the school.

00:34:30.740 You might have a beautiful, elegant mathematical proof.

00:34:38.540 You might have solved Fermat's last theorem.

00:34:42.040 But if you're a straight white guy, as is the guy who solved Fermat's last theorem, actually, Sir Andrew Wiles, if you're a straight white guy, you're not contributing to the diversity of the school.

00:34:51.800 You might be breaking new ground in the field of mathematics or physics.

00:34:55.860 You might be expanding and deepening humanity's knowledge. 0.96

00:35:02.220 But if you're a white guy, too bad, you're out. 1.00

00:35:04.980 You can't come because you're not like a black lesbian pygmy Zoroastrian. 1.00

00:35:11.160 So, you know, what good are you at this school? 1.00

00:35:13.860 Well, MIT had these ridiculous statements.

00:35:16.780 And then on Saturday, an MIT spokesman confirmed in an email that, quote, requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT.

00:35:30.040 The students, I don't know, perhaps that's another story.

00:35:32.200 But at least for the faculty positions, with the support of the provost, chancellor, and all six academic deans, it's out.

00:35:38.240 This is really, really important.

00:35:39.540 At the height of the diversity statement craze, there was a dean at Emory who said that the theory on hiring was diversity statement, then dossier.

00:35:53.280 I don't want to see your CV.

00:35:54.820 I don't want to see your academic work.

00:35:56.460 I don't want to interview you.

00:35:57.940 I want your diversity statement first, then everything else.

00:36:03.920 So why is this?

00:36:04.500 There's a really good report on this in Unheard.

00:36:06.300 This was in late 2023.

00:36:10.380 The university's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering sought an assistant professor in fields from fundamental nuclear science to practical applications of nuclear technology and energy security and quantum engineering.

00:36:21.500 Applicants were required to submit, quote, a statement regarding their views on diversity, inclusion, and belonging, including past and current contributions, as well as their vision and plans for the future in these areas.

00:36:32.420 Now, just not, I don't want to get myself canceled here.

00:36:39.380 The field of nuclear engineering is not the most, I'm not saying there's no diversity in it, but it's not, like maybe in gender studies or Africana studies or studies studies or any, all those critical, or even literary fields.

00:36:56.740 There's a little bit more diversity.

00:37:01.440 Nuclear engineering, it's, even, I mean, there actually are representatives of all sorts of different groups there, but those people, too, they're not really focused on race and sex.

00:37:14.280 They're focused on nuclear engineering, okay?

00:37:16.180 They've dedicated their lives to something that's complicated and difficult and worthwhile.

00:37:22.280 And so it was just the apotheosis of the whole DEI craze.

00:37:26.160 It was so crazy, and now it's gone.

00:37:29.900 And why is it gone?

00:37:30.920 Because what did that sound like to you?

00:37:33.320 What did that statement, even for a field that seems so outside the realm of DEI, what does that sound like?

00:37:39.720 That sounds like something that's actually pretty traditional, which is a statement of faith.

00:37:45.660 If you're going to go teach at a Catholic school, at least until recently, you had to, you know, sign a statement that you support the Catholic faith.

00:37:55.180 Maybe some exception could be granted here or there, but there's, you know, if you're going to, if you're going to take part in a kind of education,

00:38:00.380 you're going to assent to the fundamental principles and fundamental things always come down to religion of that field, of that institution.

00:38:12.540 What's going on here with the academia turn against DEI?

00:38:19.440 This is not, I'm sorry to say, well, I'm not even sure that I'm not, that I'm sorry to say it.

00:38:25.060 I'm just, this is just what it is.

00:38:26.880 It's not the conservatives beating the left.

00:38:30.380 This is not about the conservatives won some victory on DEI.

00:38:33.840 The reason the diversity statements are going away is because some liberals are upset with it.

00:38:40.120 It's because the Bill Maher types of the world, the some secular liberals are upset with it.

00:38:45.680 And so what you're seeing here is more akin to a kind of Protestant revolution for secular liberalism.

00:38:52.660 Not for Christianity, but for secular liberalism.

00:38:54.880 You're seeing this schism taking place, okay? 0.56

00:38:57.060 It's a schism on the left between the hard left intersectional DEI lunatics and the slightly more reasonable liberal types like the Bill Maher's of the world.

00:39:11.320 Conservatives are really not even in that conversation.

00:39:13.600 In the same way that the Protestant revolution wasn't really about Muslims or Jews or anyone.

00:39:18.400 It was about disputes within Christendom, largely political, but somewhat theological too.

00:39:25.640 That's what's going on here.

00:39:27.920 We can applaud this.

00:39:29.120 We can be happy.

00:39:29.740 But this is, conservatives didn't really do this.

00:39:33.380 This is an internal debate within liberalism.

00:39:35.800 And so one way we can exploit that is by realizing it's a wedge issue.

00:39:39.460 Okay, good.

00:39:39.960 We use that wedge to divide the left.

00:39:41.720 But don't be mistaken about what this is.

00:39:45.080 This is because the left is having an identity crisis.

00:39:47.380 No surprise.

00:39:47.880 They don't know what a woman is. 1.00

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00:40:22.440 No, we can't say intolerance.

00:40:24.360 We have a zero tolerance policy for mentioning intolerance.

00:40:28.240 When I was a kid, men were men.

00:40:30.500 Now everyone's wrapped up in feeling.

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00:41:25.540 For the premiere of Mr. Burcham.

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00:41:35.800 Now, speaking of splits on the political left, President Trump has been asked for some weeks

00:41:44.600 now if he will debate Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:41:47.580 Trump obviously plans to debate Joe Biden.

00:41:50.100 Joe Biden almost certainly does not want to debate Donald Trump because Joe Biden can't

00:41:54.800 say his own name anymore reliably.

00:41:57.020 But Trump has also been asked if he will debate the other Democrat now running as an independent

00:42:02.620 candidate in the race, Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:42:05.220 Here's Trump's answer.

00:42:07.000 Would you pay RFK Jr?

00:42:08.920 RFK, I don't know anything about him.

00:42:10.940 Look, RFK is polling very low.

00:42:14.020 He's not a serious candidate.

00:42:17.000 They say he hurts Biden.

00:42:18.740 I don't know who he hurts.

00:42:19.820 He might hurt me.

00:42:20.600 I don't know.

00:42:21.480 But he has very low numbers, certainly not numbers that he can debate with.

00:42:26.120 And he's got to get his numbers up a lot higher before he's credible.

00:42:29.520 So, but the numbers, the numbers that he's taken away, they say will be against Biden.

00:42:36.280 I don't know.

00:42:36.780 I'm not so sure.

00:42:37.700 It could be a little bit against me, but I don't see him as a factor.

00:42:41.000 OK, I basically agree with all of that, especially including the last part.

00:42:47.260 He says, you know, some in the media say Bobby Kennedy will take away more votes from Biden

00:42:52.020 than from me.

00:42:53.140 I think that's true.

00:42:54.960 Trump says, I'm not so sure.

00:42:56.080 Maybe he'll take some votes away from me.

00:42:57.420 Yeah, maybe he'll take some votes away from Trump, too.

00:42:59.940 I don't think very many.

00:43:01.140 I actually, I guess in that regard, I feel much more confident about the Kennedy candidacy

00:43:06.000 than Trump does.

00:43:07.460 I think, and I've said it from the beginning, and pretty much all the polls have showed me

00:43:12.100 to be correct so far.

00:43:12.980 I hate to say I told you so.

00:43:14.320 Kennedy hurts Biden a lot more than he hurts Trump.

00:43:17.680 I don't really see a Trump voter turning to Kennedy.

00:43:25.220 I see Biden voters who realize that Biden's a complete failure, and he's underwater on

00:43:28.700 every single policy issue, and the vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with his performance,

00:43:34.080 and our money's worth a lot less than it was when he took office, and the border's totally

00:43:37.800 open, and he's getting us into wars all over the world, and, and, and.

00:43:42.540 I could see a disaffected liberal voting for Kennedy.

00:43:46.160 He's a, because he's a Kennedy, you know, the Kennedy is a royalty in the Democratic Party.

00:43:51.380 So I could see that.

00:43:53.280 I could see a Bill Maher type, you know, the kind I was just talking about, they're liberals,

00:44:00.060 they're not conservatives, they're not with us, but they're liberals, but they're not totally

00:44:03.440 bought in on radical, transgender, anti-fat phobia, wave the Palestine flag, and burn the

00:44:10.760 American flag kind of activism.

00:44:12.280 They're a little bit more reasonable.

00:44:13.460 Well, I could see, given Joe Biden's radical leftist turn, where he's now embracing transing 0.99

00:44:20.180 the kids, and continues to reaffirm his support for transing the kids, including through signing

00:44:25.740 orders flanked by supposed trans kids, I mean, that kind of radicalism, I could see them voting 1.00

00:44:32.040 for Bobby Kennedy.

00:44:32.680 But who's the Trump voter who votes for Bobby Kennedy?

00:44:34.780 Now, you might say, well, no, it's not the Trump voter, it's the, it's the Nikki Haley

00:44:37.780 voter.

00:44:38.800 What?

00:44:39.220 Are you kidding me?

00:44:39.900 The Nikki Haley voter, and, you know, I really like Nikki, certainly personally, and I think

00:44:44.840 she's got very good political jobs, generally.

00:44:47.340 But the Nikki Haley voter, the really, really passionate Nikki Haley voter, you think that person's

00:44:54.120 going to go for Bobby Kennedy?

00:44:56.960 In my experience, the passionate Nikki Haley voter wants a normal, calm, respectable kind 1.00

00:45:04.900 of Republican.

00:45:05.620 And there are a lot of people who want that type of candidate.

00:45:09.240 They don't want someone who's kooky, and fringe, and all that colorful.

00:45:15.160 So they're going to vote for Bobby Kennedy?

00:45:16.840 I don't think so.

00:45:17.800 This is the guy who made his career on yelling about vaccines.

00:45:22.760 This is the guy who, he's had some colorful moments on the campaign trail.

00:45:26.440 This is a guy who's a, he's a liberal Democrat.

00:45:29.560 He's, he's an environmental lawyer.

00:45:31.180 He's been ranting about, you know, the sun monster for his whole career.

00:45:34.940 I don't think so.

00:45:37.040 Who's, who's the other one?

00:45:38.000 The DeSantis, DeSantis has endorsed Trump, and now they're working together on the campaign.

00:45:42.560 DeSantis is a, a very MAGA-like candidate.

00:45:47.800 You, what, just because a DeSantis supporter is a little miffed that his guy didn't win

00:45:52.420 the primary, he's going to now vote for Bobby Kennedy?

00:45:55.120 You got Trump, who agrees with DeSantis on 95% of things.

00:45:58.680 You got Bobby Kennedy, who agrees with DeSantis on like 15% of things.

00:46:03.600 So the guy is going to vote for, no way.

00:46:06.220 In fact, the way I know that's not true is that DeSantis didn't win the primary.

00:46:10.400 There are a lot of people who really, really like DeSantis, who just didn't feel it was

00:46:14.440 his time to be the nominee.

00:46:15.420 And so they voted for Trump.

00:46:18.080 I just don't buy it.

00:46:20.020 But at the very least, I totally agree with Trump at what he says at the top.

00:46:23.180 He says, I'm not going to debate him.

00:46:24.360 There's no reason to debate him.

00:46:25.260 Of course not.

00:46:26.340 How, how crazy would it look if Donald Trump, who wouldn't debate DeSantis and Haley and all

00:46:34.120 the other also-rans, Vivek, actually, as Vivek's numbers were going up, but then also the Christie's

00:46:40.300 and all the also-rans, he wouldn't debate them because there was no reason to, because 0.99

00:46:44.480 he had a greater than 50% support in the primary.

00:46:47.160 But now he's going to debate Bobby Kennedy, who's got, what, 5% support?

00:46:50.320 No way, man.

00:46:52.400 Doesn't make sense.

00:46:53.600 I love that Bobby Kennedy's in the race.

00:46:55.360 I think Bobby Kennedy being in the race helps us.

00:46:58.080 The best part of Bobby Kennedy being in the race is that it is a battle on the left.

00:47:02.460 And one issue that Republicans, especially in Congress, have been screwing up in recent weeks

00:47:07.380 is while our enemies are destroying themselves, we want to interrupt.

00:47:12.640 Oh, we Republicans, we can't take the anxiety.

00:47:14.900 We got to interrupt and stop them from harming themselves.

00:47:17.840 No, man.

00:47:18.460 Let them tear themselves apart.

00:47:21.120 It is okay.

00:47:23.760 It's A-okay, man.

00:47:24.960 Totally fine by me.

00:47:29.140 Kennedy can push for the debate with Biden.

00:47:30.940 Biden almost certainly won't take it.

00:47:32.580 Then Biden will look weak and there will be Democrats who are miffed.

00:47:35.680 Fine.

00:47:36.100 Totally love it.

00:47:37.120 Now, speaking of men who are seeking jobs, there is a very troubling headline out.

00:47:46.180 The headline is that men don't want to work anymore.

00:47:50.140 The story comes from Newsweek headline or the first paragraph.

00:47:55.240 For many, it's not an issue of not being able to find a job.

00:47:57.900 They have simply opted out altogether.

00:47:59.680 The Bureau of Labor Statistics found only 89% of working-age men have a job or are actively looking for work.

00:48:09.560 In 1950, that number was 97%.

00:48:14.080 Whoa.

00:48:14.860 So we're not just talking about guys can't find a job in a tough economy.

00:48:17.520 Guys are just not even trying to get a job anymore.

00:48:21.520 I have many thoughts on why this is happening, but you know me.

00:48:24.680 I'm a tease.

00:48:25.380 Guys, so we're going to have to hold it there, get to it more later on this week.

00:48:31.240 I'm very sorry to say I've been informed by Professor Jacob.

00:48:35.560 There is no member block today because I have to get back to Tennessee, back to my beloved wife and children,

00:48:41.640 and to my less beloved but still somewhat liked producers.

00:48:46.420 So there will be no member block, but we will have member block again tomorrow.

00:48:49.660 I will look forward to that.

00:48:51.280 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:52.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:53.460 See you then.

00:48:53.800 The Michael Knowles Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - May 08, 2024

Ep. 1485 - Black Kids Don't Know What A Computer Is, According To Libs

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