The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1505 - WWII Vets Feel Like Foreigners In Their Own Country

00:00:00.000 Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944.

00:00:06.460 There are not many World War II vets still with us. 16.4 million Americans served during the war.

00:00:12.040 My grandfather, probably many of your fathers and grandfathers among them,

00:00:16.000 as of last year, only 119,550 or 0.7% were still around. And on the anniversary of perhaps their

00:00:24.040 greatest triumph in that war, some of the remaining vets are feeling decidedly untriumphant.

00:00:31.200 When you're here with all of these brothers and people who experienced the war as you did,

00:00:37.060 and also the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam, what do you think about the state of our country

00:00:43.340 today? How do you feel about the country that you worked so hard to stay free, to keep free?

00:00:48.760 The real truth? Yeah. I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times. And I don't like it.

00:00:57.180 It makes my heart real heavy. And I just hope we can pull out of this. There's too much Hollywood

00:01:04.980 going on in Washington all the time. The important subjects they don't cover. So the thing is,

00:01:11.500 I hope all the guys will rally up and we'll go back and straighten it all out.

00:01:18.760 So that's the kind of tough attitude that's very typical of that generation.

00:01:22.520 But the feeling he's describing is devastating. I feel like a foreigner in my own country.

00:01:29.440 And it is brutal because that feeling is not just the typical kind of feeling that comes to everyone

00:01:35.520 with age. This is the consequence of a deliberate campaign to make Americans strangers in their own 0.75

00:01:41.460 country. This is an intentional campaign to replace our country's traditions, laws, customs, 0.77

00:01:48.160 language, social order, even people with something else. We all sense that America has not simply

00:01:56.360 progressed or developed, but that it's been changed on some fundamental level. This is not

00:02:04.360 the same country. And it is going to take another historic effort to straighten it all out.

00:02:10.600 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:52.080 just the veterans at the Normandy anniversary that are telling us this, and it's not just our politicians

00:03:57.540 who are telling us this. Anyone with eyes can see it. Here's just exhibit 552,321 that our political

00:04:07.800 order is falling apart. A dead guy just won a Democrat primary for Congress. This took place

00:04:15.460 in New Jersey. Representative, the late Representative Donald Payne Jr., just won the Democrat

00:04:21.600 Party's primary on Tuesday with a little more than a month in the grave. So he, this guy died at the age

00:04:32.420 of 65. It's very sad. Obviously, we pray for his soul, pray for his family. But he died over a month

00:04:37.600 ago, and then he won the Democrat Party primary for Congress. Voters could have submitted a write-in

00:04:45.820 alternative, but they didn't. They voted for a corpse over any living person. Now, there's a

00:04:53.180 Republican who's running, Carmen Bucco. He's considered a long shot, even against a dead man

00:04:59.180 in this race. Presumably, what the Democrats will do is at their convention, they'll just swap out the

00:05:03.760 guy who won the primary, who obviously can't run for some other candidate, and the Republican almost

00:05:08.520 certainly will not win. This is an indictment of the Democrat Party, in part. I guess so many of the

00:05:14.640 Democrat voters are dead people that it would stand to reason that, you know, like is attracted to

00:05:19.040 like, so they would vote for a dead guy. But it's not just an indictment of the Democrat Party. It's

00:05:26.360 kind of an indictment of democracy, and not to be too catastrophic about it. In a functioning

00:05:34.440 government, in a functioning body politic, even if you're a rabid partisan, and you have to choose

00:05:42.400 between a dead person and anyone else, you should vote for anyone else, if you're serious about

00:05:49.260 government. But we're not. A lot of people probably didn't even know the candidate was dead,

00:05:54.880 and it doesn't really matter. We joke about how they wheel in Biden, and they, you know,

00:05:59.380 either reanimate him with drugs, or they put him on marionette strings, and they just, you know,

00:06:03.320 traipse this cadaver through the White House as though he were the real president. But they're kind

00:06:07.340 of proving that in New Jersey. They don't, they would vote for a dead person over a Republican.

00:06:12.600 Because no one's really focused on the judgment of the politicians. That's something that we're

00:06:17.360 supposed to take into account when we elect our representatives in a representative democracy.

00:06:22.920 No one really cares about the individuals. No one really cares about their character. No one really

00:06:27.380 cares about any of that. They just are NPCs, right? They just are zombies who are going about and who

00:06:35.360 will, and who will vote for dead people. There's that old line that, from an old Bob Hope movie that

00:06:40.680 makes the rounds every election year, where the doctor is saying, these zombies, they're not like

00:06:46.020 you and me. They're brainless. They're mindless. They just walk around not having any idea where 0.99

00:06:50.200 they're going, any idea what they're doing. And Bob Hope says, oh, you mean like Democrats? Oh,

00:06:53.200 here it is. They did it. They did the meme. They proved the joke.

00:06:55.420 How long can a country endure and flourish when our government is being run by dead people or 0.99

00:07:06.700 zombies? When the people who elect those who are supposed to run our government don't even look

00:07:12.260 into whether or not these people are alive. Now, speaking of Biden and the Democrats' electoral

00:07:17.740 pitch, Joe Biden's campaign spokesman just made a very unusual admission about the

00:07:25.160 brain function or lack thereof that is necessary for candidates.

00:07:31.600 How much should a candidate's cognitive function factor into that decision when someone votes?

00:07:38.780 I don't even know what that question means.

00:07:41.200 Okay, how much does cognitive function matter in a campaign spokesman then? I guess we're

00:07:46.680 going to have to ask that question at one further level of remove. You don't know what the phrase

00:07:52.260 cognitive function means. Of course. Of course. Par for the course, I should have expected that.

00:08:00.180 This is not a trick question. This is not a particularly complicated question. The words

00:08:05.220 cognitive and function are not particularly complex or sophisticated. To what degree does a politician's

00:08:13.900 brain need to work for him to be elected? Huh? What's that mean? Now, I hope she knows what it means and

00:08:23.900 she's just trying to duck the question because Joe Biden is obviously senile and in decline. But maybe

00:08:29.020 she doesn't know what it means. Maybe it's just, excuse me, could you use some synonyms? Could you define

00:08:33.260 those words for me, please? I don't know. Yeah, of course you don't know. That's how we got in this mess

00:08:37.240 in the first place. They don't know. And more importantly, they don't care whether or not a

00:08:47.020 politician's brain is working. And they don't care because they're electing a politician to be 0.94

00:08:52.180 nothing more than a rubber stamp for an ideological agenda that they pretty much totally agree on.

00:08:58.160 There are a few wedge issues within the Democrat Party. We've seen the Israel-Gaza war is a big wedge

00:09:03.200 issue right now. But other than that, they're totally in lockstep. There are no blue dogs.

00:09:09.920 There are no conservative Democrats anymore. It's just progressives. That's not true for the

00:09:14.280 Republicans. It's not true for conservatives. Conservatives are divided on all sorts of

00:09:17.900 questions. We're divided on the Ukraine-Russia war. I suppose the Israel-Gaza war to some degree, too.

00:09:24.120 We're divided on tariffs. Some Republicans are total free traders. Some are pro-tariff.

00:09:29.680 We're divided on immigration. Some Republicans want more immigration. Some Republicans want less

00:09:34.280 immigration. We're divided on the brashness of our candidates. Some like the kind of brash 1.00

00:09:39.620 street rhetoric of Donald Trump. Some want the country club types. We're divided on everything.

00:09:49.380 Gay marriage, quote unquote, divided. Even there are some pro-abortion Republicans divided on abortion,

00:09:54.540 divided on everything. There are all sorts of Republicans. And so the individual judgment of

00:09:58.900 candidates really matters to conservatives. For the Democrats, they don't care. That's how they end up

00:10:03.320 electing these sorts of cadavers. Because the Democrat agenda is very ideological. It's five

00:10:10.420 bullet points on the back of a napkin. And it amounts to overturn everything. Overturn tradition,

00:10:17.020 upend the political order, abolish norms and standards, all in the name of liberation. It's a

00:10:23.760 liberal political movement. And maximizing individual autonomy and choice and mocking and pulling down

00:10:31.280 the order of norms and taboos. That's the name of the game. And anyone can do that. Even the staffers

00:10:38.720 pulling the marionette strings of the cadavers currently running our government. Now, this woman 1.00

00:10:45.340 couldn't even give a simple yes or no to should candidates have working brains. That does not play

00:10:51.760 very well in Peoria. It doesn't play very well with the American people. You're seeing this reflected

00:10:56.060 in Democrats' poll numbers. So what are they going to do? They're going to try to rig the game.

00:11:02.500 Obviously, they're prosecuting Trump. Obviously, they've imprisoned Trump associates. I think of

00:11:06.460 Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro, a senior presidential advisor. He was the trade advisor who ends up being sent

00:11:15.060 to prison. He's currently in jail because he refused to go along with the Democrats' hack

00:11:20.740 partisan January 6th commission. And so he's the first senior presidential advisor ever to be thrown

00:11:25.400 in jail for contempt of Congress. We know they're doing all of that, but it's not just the executive

00:11:31.200 branch they're going after. They're not just trying to undermine executive privilege and the separation

00:11:35.080 of powers between the Congress and the White House. They're also attacking separation of powers

00:11:39.260 between the Congress and the judiciary. Dick Durbin, who's one of the most senior Democrats

00:11:43.880 in the Senate, he's the Senate Majority Whip, he just got up and demanded that Justice Alito recuse

00:11:49.680 himself from the politically important cases. Displaying the upside down American flag and appeal

00:11:55.460 to heaven flag creates the appearance that Justice Alito has already aligned himself with the Stop the

00:12:01.840 Steal campaign. He cannot credibly claim to be an umpire calling balls and strikes in these cases.

00:12:09.260 He has donned the jersey of his favorite team. That's why I called on Justice Alito to recuse himself

00:12:15.680 and why I urged Chief Justice Roberts to finally step up and take the steps necessary to ensure that

00:12:23.880 Justice Alito does not sit on those cases and rather that he recuse himself. The most charitable take

00:12:30.400 one can have on Dick Durbin here is that he's a complete idiot. That's the charitable take. The more 1.00

00:12:35.640 likely take, I don't think he's a complete idiot, so the more likely take is just that he's lying. 0.99

00:12:39.260 He says, the upside down flag is a symbol that you've aligned yourself with the Stop the Steal 0.99

00:12:43.460 campaign. The upside down flag is a universal symbol of distress, and its particular expression

00:12:49.160 is usually distress at sea. If a ship is flying the flag upside down, it means they're probably

00:12:52.600 going down and they're calling for help. But obviously, symbolically, it is a symbol of

00:13:00.680 political distress more broadly. Fair enough, since liberals were trying to murder the Supreme Court 0.91

00:13:06.980 justices after someone on the court, almost certainly a liberal, leaked the Dobbs decision,

00:13:12.100 which was practically speaking a call to arms for someone to go murder the judges so that if the

00:13:19.040 conservatives didn't have a majority, the Dobbs decision wouldn't be ratified. That's what that

00:13:25.180 came down to. That would give me some distress. If prominent liberals were implicitly calling for my

00:13:32.020 murder, and then liberals actually showed up to the houses of at least my colleagues and tried to

00:13:37.080 murder us, that would give me some distress. So I think he was probably justified in flying the flag 1.00

00:13:41.920 upside down. And then the Appeal to Heaven flag, I have this collection of flags on my desk here.

00:13:47.720 This is a flag, I don't know, I guess there's an extra flag. I don't know where that slot goes.

00:13:52.880 I'll put that in my drawer. I've got too many revolutionary flags on my desk. I've had this

00:13:58.980 since I started at Daily Wire, long before the Stop the Steal campaign. The Appeal to Heaven flag is

00:14:03.080 one of the earliest American flags. It was flying on government property in San Francisco, of all

00:14:08.500 places, until very, very recently. This is one of the great symbols, a flag flown on ships commissioned

00:14:14.620 by George Washington. But Dick Durbin's got to rewrite that history, too. They have to rewrite the

00:14:18.900 history. They have to prosecute their rivals. They have to pressure judges. Why do they have to do

00:14:23.380 those things? Because they know that they can't win fair and square. And as they tighten their grip

00:14:29.340 on power in a way that is off-putting to an increasing number of the American people, you're

00:14:33.620 going to see public opinion shift even more in Trump's direction, which means that the Democrats

00:14:37.260 have two options. They can let up, fight a fair fight, and let Trump go back into the White House,

00:14:41.700 or they can tighten their grip even more. Which one do you think they're going to pick?

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00:16:06.100 So speaking of fairness, Maya Hawk. Maya Hawk is a young actress. She played that character

00:16:13.060 in Stranger Things who was a kind of delightful character. And you thought that she was going

00:16:16.820 to end up hooking up with the guy. I think Steve was the character's name. And it was a

00:16:21.980 great story. And then because the libs have to ruin everything, out of nowhere at the end 0.99

00:16:26.300 of the season, spoiler alert, they decided to make her a lesbian because you need, everyone 1.00

00:16:29.980 needs to be a lesbian now because everything's super gay because we live in 2024. Anyway, that's 0.97

00:16:34.800 a slight digression. Maya Hawk, nice young actress. And she was asked recently about how 0.95

00:16:43.900 she got her start in the acting business, how she was cast in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 movie

00:16:49.620 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And on the red carpet, she said, oh, well, when I auditioned

00:16:54.320 for the part, X, Y, and Z happened. And people made fun of her for this because they said, you

00:16:59.120 didn't get the part because you auditioned. You got the part because your mother is in every

00:17:02.720 Quentin Tarantino movie and your father is a major movie star and you got it because

00:17:07.140 of nepotism. You're a nepo baby, Maya Hawk. And then Maya Hawk responded to that and said, 0.96

00:17:13.520 yeah, yeah, sorry, duh, I didn't mean to insinuate anything else. Of course I got the

00:17:17.440 job because my mother is Uma Thurman and my father is Ethan Hawke. Yeah, of course. She

00:17:22.120 says, I've been wildly made fun of for this clip when I sat on the red carpet that I auditioned.

00:17:26.380 I never meant to imply I didn't get the part for nepotistic reasons. I think I totally

00:17:29.880 did. She goes on and she says, you know, look, what am I going to do? She said, I could

00:17:34.660 get a nose job and change my name and go to open casting calls, but this is my name. This

00:17:39.500 is who I am. This is how I was raised. And I don't think there's really anything wrong

00:17:43.040 with that. And Maya Hawk is totally right. She's totally right. Nepo babies are good, actually. 0.94

00:17:52.480 A healthy nepotism is actually good for society. And that's not a liberal or leftist idea. That's

00:18:03.420 actually very conservative because why does Maya Hawk get these parts? Why is she able to just 1.00

00:18:12.160 act in movies? It's not a super easy job. Actually, acting can be kind of difficult. And I'm not saying

00:18:19.740 she's the greatest actress in the world. Maybe she could be. I don't know. I'm not totally

00:18:22.660 familiar with her work. But if you grow up and your parents do a thing, you're going to be more

00:18:30.640 familiar with that thing. If that thing is just around you for your whole life and you're raised

00:18:36.620 in it and you're steeped in it, you're going to be more inclined toward that thing. That's how

00:18:44.660 education works. That's how culture works. That's how tradition works. If you plucked a random person

00:18:51.340 off of the street and said, hey, today you're the king of England, go. Do you think that person would

00:18:58.160 be better or worse equipped to be the king of England than, say, Prince William? Prince William,

00:19:06.160 whose family has sat on the throne in England for centuries? Probably Prince William because he was

00:19:12.240 just raised in it. And he knows how the palaces work. And he knows who the butlers are. And he

00:19:17.720 knows what the events are like. And he saw his father do it. And he saw his grandmother and

00:19:21.400 grandfather do it. And you kind of know. Generational continuity is a good thing.

00:19:28.300 Nepo babies are a good thing. I'm not a Nepo baby. I like that there's opportunity for it. But there's 1.00

00:19:37.060 nothing wrong with going into the same line of work that your parents are in. There's nothing

00:19:42.440 wrong. That's actually good for society and provides some stability. And it provides and

00:19:48.100 encourages the continuation of expertise. The notion that you should never have any privilege because of

00:19:55.040 how your parents live their lives. The notion that we should never have any continuity within

00:20:01.240 families. That's a radically liberal notion. The calls for radical meritocracy or whatever. Those are

00:20:07.640 very liberal, radical, left notions. The conservatives, we like conserving things. And we recognize that

00:20:15.860 there's more to growing up in education than just reading a manifesto or just starting the world anew with

00:20:22.320 each generation. There is such a thing as generational knowledge. That's the sort of thing we're trying to

00:20:26.680 conserve. Now, there is a dark side to nepotism. I turn, of course, to Hunter Biden. This would be

00:20:33.360 Hunter Biden. He did not take whatever advantages his father gave him and then build on them and cultivate

00:20:41.640 them. No, he actually just traded him in. He just traded on his name and any virtues that Joe Biden might

00:20:47.840 possess. So there's probably one or two of them. He ignored those and he lived a life of total vice and traded on

00:20:54.580 his dad's name and made millions and millions of dollars from some of the worst people on earth.

00:20:58.360 Here we have another conspiracy theory proven true. The DOJ is now prosecuting Hunter. They tried

00:21:05.560 not to prosecute Hunter. They tried to give him a sweetheart deal to let him off the hook without any

00:21:09.640 consequences for his many, many crimes, his gun crimes, his sex crimes, his financial crimes,

00:21:14.520 his political crimes, all of his crimes that we've seen on his laptop. The laptop that we were told was

00:21:19.760 fake Russian disinformation. The laptop, which when the story broke, New York Post, October 2020,

00:21:25.760 right before the election, look at this. Hunter involved in lots of crimes. Hunter implicating Joe

00:21:30.700 Biden in lots of crimes and political corruption. We were told it's fake news. The intelligence

00:21:35.220 agencies told us it was fake news. The big tech companies censored the story. Not only could you

00:21:40.540 not post that extremely relevant political news story, but you couldn't even private message it

00:21:45.800 on some social media platforms. Then we find out totally true. And we found out it's totally true

00:21:54.260 because the DOJ is submitting it as evidence now that they weren't able to give Hunter the sweetheart

00:21:59.640 deal. Now that they have to actually prosecute him for at least some of the crimes he committed,

00:22:04.440 not the most serious ones. Turns out it's totally true. The FBI agent Erica Jensen testified in court

00:22:12.580 that the agency had verified the laptop as belonging to Hunter through its serial number and records from

00:22:18.080 Apple, according to CNN. I'm really glad we found that out four years after it mattered.

00:22:24.800 Four years after we were called conspiracy theorists and Russian stooges and crypto KGB agents for

00:22:30.160 observing that the Biden family is extremely corrupt. Really glad we figured that out four years after a

00:22:36.960 poll was taken following the election, which showed that a huge number, something like 12% of Democrats

00:22:41.580 would have changed their vote had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop, which would have swung the

00:22:46.860 election, of course. And it's a great moral victory, but they got their political victory. And Hunter is

00:22:52.140 almost certainly going to get off the hook anyway. And so the question is, are we going to keep fighting

00:22:56.960 that fight? See, we were right. We were right about COVID. We were right about Fauci. We were right

00:23:01.340 about Hunter. We were right about this. We were right about that. Or are we going to look, what are

00:23:04.120 they doing right now? What is the lie? What is the hoax that they're pulling right now to steal the

00:23:09.680 election? And the obvious answer is the prosecution of Donald Trump on ridiculous grounds. He just got 0.67

00:23:14.600 convicted of 34 felonies without the Democrats even articulating what crime he committed.

00:23:20.400 That's what they're doing now. That's the Hunter Biden laptop of 2024. And it's going to be

00:23:24.580 controverted in the press. And four years from now, everyone's going to admit, okay, Trump maybe

00:23:31.680 didn't really commit any crimes, but that's going to be after it matters. There's always a new one of

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00:25:58.040 methods, and one eye-opening aspect of the clinical trial has been listening to women and hearing what

00:26:02.980 it meant to them to be in the study, especially when they were able to stop using their birth control

00:26:07.560 for a year. Yeah, I totally agree. Hormonal birth control is terrible, and the fact that we prescribe

00:26:12.100 it in this country, not only to grown women, but also to really young girls. They'll put 12- and 13-year-old 0.60

00:26:17.420 girls on this, and they'll come up with all sorts of fake reasons why they're doing it, but it's to get 1.00

00:26:21.320 them on birth control, and it's bad. And they say, look, this has no effect on your long-term fertility

00:26:26.240 or health. It's a little hard for me to believe that when you're just radically altering the hormones of

00:26:32.840 very young girls and then keeping them on it for a decade, two decades. You don't think that has

00:26:37.060 any effects whatsoever. I'm a little bit skeptical. But, the article goes on, the only effective forms

00:26:44.580 of birth control on the market for men are vasectomies, which are not easily reversible,

00:26:48.560 and condoms, which have a low acceptance rate. Now, this is really telling. This is really telling.

00:26:56.240 Vasectomies, obviously, a lot of men are opposed to this, one, because it's very difficult to reverse

00:27:00.940 them, but two, most men don't want to geld themselves. They don't want to castrate themselves.

00:27:05.300 And I know it's like a little bit different. But that's kind of what it feels like, right? You go

00:27:10.000 in, and you get a little snip-snip. Most guys don't want to do that. They do not want to become

00:27:14.940 vasectomites, okay? And for whatever reason, that has a low acceptance rate. But what else has a low

00:27:23.120 acceptance rate here? The really simple method of contraception, which is condoms. Why does it have

00:27:27.560 a low acceptance rate? Because most people know that it's icky and wrong. Most people know that there's

00:27:33.700 something disordered about that kind of artificial contraception. Most people recognize that it is a

00:27:39.320 symbol of withholding from your sexual partner, withholding something of yourself. So you're not

00:27:44.900 giving of yourself totally, which is supposed to be what love is. And we all know that implicitly.

00:27:50.240 And obviously, you're only supposed to do that act when you are married. And so if you use condoms when

00:27:56.860 you're married, then it seems even more disordered somehow. Because you've pledged your whole life

00:28:02.520 to this spouse. You said, we're going to come together and become one flesh. And what God has

00:28:06.620 joined, let no man separate. But actually, I'm going to let this little piece of plastic separate us.

00:28:10.560 Because I want to withhold something from you that would realize our love. It would make our love so

00:28:17.120 real that it would actually create another person. And most people just realize implicitly,

00:28:20.640 that is icky and wrong and gross and offensive. So they don't use it. Again, don't say that it's me,

00:28:27.860 the social conservative or the prude or the whatever that's going on and invective against

00:28:33.320 condoms. The article itself is admitting most people hate condoms. I'm just explaining why that

00:28:39.460 is. I'm explaining why they're pushing for this gross birth control. Because what they want with 1.00

00:28:45.340 contraception, what I think people really want is they want contraception. They want to be able to have

00:28:50.440 promiscuous sex. They don't want to deal with the consequences of sex, which is children. 0.99

00:28:54.760 But they don't want to be conscious of that fact. They want it to seem like they're having

00:29:01.660 normal relations. But they don't want to deal with the consequences of normal relations.

00:29:08.140 They want to have their cake and eat it too. So how does this work? The way it works,

00:29:12.040 according to the article, is the five milliliter hormonal gel is applied once daily and split between

00:29:19.420 the shoulder blades. Okay? That's not where I would have expected, but all right, you get a little

00:29:23.400 shoulder massage. The gel's segesterone acetate component, which is a synthetic progesterone,

00:29:30.800 suppresses hormones needed to maintain testosterone concentrations in the male sexual organ,

00:29:37.440 which is where the sperm are made, thereby inhibiting sperm production. The testosterone component

00:29:43.920 in this two-part system ensures that testosterone levels are essential for male physiological processes 0.84

00:29:48.860 and health are maintained at stable levels. Okay. So you just rub a bunch of lady hormones on your 1.00

00:29:53.500 shoulders and then your virile potent center of your body stops producing the male hormone or it 0.97

00:30:04.080 stops doing the things that happen in the vital center of the male reproductive organ. But then they'll 0.97

00:30:09.760 also give you a little testosterone to kind of offset it. And this is so

00:30:13.240 fitting for pride month because this is so gay. This is like the gayest thing ever. 1.00

00:30:21.300 You imagine 100 pride parades walking down the street, hate Ashbury in San Francisco. That is not 0.93

00:30:29.080 half as gay as this male birth control gel that kills your male hormones and gales you. This is, 1.00

00:30:35.800 and I mean that word, which I'm, is probably being censored on YouTube in a really technical way.

00:30:43.240 It's not, I don't mean gay just like a schoolyard taunt. I mean gay in that this partakes of a, 0.98

00:30:48.780 of a gay anthropology. Okay. Because it's, this is sterile. The whole point of this is sterility. 1.00

00:30:55.580 The whole point of this is to have, to engage in sexual acts that will not be fruitful and will not

00:31:01.880 produce anything, will not come to any end. And so then my second takeaway reading this is, man,

00:31:08.720 this is a lot of effort and a lot of money, a lot of really smart people with a lot of really fancy

00:31:14.500 degrees devoting their lives to helping people avoid one of life's greatest blessings. Like, 0.50

00:31:21.220 wow, that seems like a lot of misdirected energy. Just have kids, guys. Kids are great. Okay.

00:31:27.440 Just get married and have kids and be normal and have a good life. People are just so

00:31:33.540 hell bent on not having a good life. It's crazy. Men are, you know, that meme, you know, men would

00:31:41.060 rather X, Y, and Z than talk to a therapist. Men would rather rub a weird expensive jelly that took 0.97

00:31:49.120 a hundred years to produce that, that effectively gelds them on their shoulder blades than just like

00:31:55.700 have kids and have a good normal life. Just why would you, this is so degrading. Every aspect of this

00:32:02.320 is so degrading. It's so emasculating. It's so, so gay. I can't, oh man, good grief. Guys, just have 1.00

00:32:12.580 kids. A lot of people want to have kids and they can't have kids. And these weirdos are buying expensive

00:32:19.140 gels and rubbing it all over themselves to avoid having kids. What a bunch of weirdos. Now, one of 0.99

00:32:25.720 the consequences of not having kids is that our political elites push for mass migration. So our

00:32:33.800 country has not been having kids for about 50 years. Like we have kids, some people have kids, but

00:32:38.040 we don't have enough kids to replace the people who are dying. So that's been true since 1971.

00:32:45.860 And what have we done as a response to that? We've imported people from foreign cultures, 1.00

00:32:51.360 and this has led to social instability as mass migration always does. And that's, it's led to

00:32:58.180 a decay of trust in our political institutions and upending of our political traditions and just

00:33:02.960 a ton of different people in the country. And, you know, a country is, is made up of its people.

00:33:09.960 So if you have totally new people in a country, when you have a kind of a totally new country,

00:33:13.840 you will feel like a stranger in your, you're in your own country because when, when you dial up

00:33:17.580 customer service, you're going to have to press one or two for English. That's a crazy thing in

00:33:21.980 your own kind of America to have to press a special button. If you want to hear instructions

00:33:27.560 in your native tongue, that's, that is a sign that your country is unrecognizable. That is a sign that

00:33:36.540 you are a stranger, a foreigner in your own land. So what do we do about this? Well, it's a little bit 1.00

00:33:42.380 chicken and the egg. Part of the reason that people have fewer children now is, is because 0.73

00:33:48.220 of mass migration, because wages have been suppressed. It's hard to raise a family. It's

00:33:52.060 expensive to have kids. That's part, it's not, I'm not even saying that's the primary reason why

00:33:55.360 people aren't having kids, but that is one of the reasons. One of the reasons people aren't having

00:33:59.800 kids is because of a leftist liberationist ideology that says that all limits are bad. The limits of

00:34:07.160 borders are very bad. The limits of the moral order and the sexual ethic are very bad. So if you 0.99

00:34:11.580 were, if you were to correct that, that extremely liberal ideology that might bring behaviors back

00:34:16.900 into line, but it's a little bit the chicken or the egg. You can't stop the mass migration

00:34:21.620 while people aren't having kids because then the economy implodes, but you're not going to have

00:34:26.020 people start to have a lot of kids while you still have mass migration, which is demoralizing for the

00:34:30.560 political order. So Tom Cotton has a solution. Tom Cotton is proposing a bill that would ban birthright

00:34:37.400 citizenship for the kids of illegal aliens. It's called the Constitutional Citizenship

00:34:43.040 Clarification Act. It's a bill that aims to enshrine in statute the ambassador's and invader's

00:34:49.600 exceptions to birthright citizenship. So we get this notion of birthright citizenship from the 14th

00:34:56.140 Amendment, and then it's expressed elsewhere in our law. And it says that if you're born here and

00:35:04.900 subject to the jurisdiction thereof, you're a citizen. And this was put into our Constitution

00:35:10.520 to deal with what to do with the freed slaves, who the Supreme Court previously had said could

00:35:17.800 not become American citizens. So what do you do? You have this huge portion of the population that

00:35:22.280 can't ever be citizens. No, the 14th Amendment says they are citizens. But this was extrapolated to

00:35:28.380 say that now, you know, anyone who's born here automatically becomes a citizen. This is not the norm

00:35:34.240 throughout the world. It's the norm throughout the Anglosphere, but it's not really the norm

00:35:37.060 throughout the rest of the world. And it's led to all sorts of political problems, and it's created

00:35:41.820 bad incentives. And now you have people just coming over with the help of criminal cartels to have

00:35:45.360 anchor babies because they know it's going to get them a lot of political advantages. So it's not true

00:35:50.420 of anyone who's born here. If you're the child of an ambassador, if you're the ambassador from Sweden

00:35:54.540 to the United States, the Swedish ambassador's wife has a kid while she's here. That kid does not 0.98

00:35:59.800 automatically become a U.S. citizen. So there have always been exceptions to this. And Cotton's bill

00:36:04.260 would clarify those exceptions, would bar children of illegal aliens, foreign terrorists, and foreign

00:36:09.680 spies from being entitled to birthright citizenship. It would amend Section 301 of the Immigration and

00:36:14.680 Nationality Act. And it would therefore clarify that, quote, a person born in the U.S. shall not be

00:36:20.680 considered subject to jurisdiction of the United States in the person of alien parents who are

00:36:25.740 unlawfully present in the United States, present in the U.S. for diplomatic purposes,

00:36:30.920 engaged in a hostile occupation of or a hostile operation in the United States. There you go. Simple

00:36:35.800 as. Who would oppose this? The people who would oppose this are the people who think that they will

00:36:42.980 get a political advantage. Either are the people who think that citizenship is bogus and nations are

00:36:48.580 bogus and borders are bogus. And so they just think we're all citizens of the world, man, and there

00:36:53.800 should be no limits. Radical liberals think that. Or cynical liberals who think that they get a

00:36:58.180 political advantage by flooding the country with foreigners to radically change the country because 1.00

00:37:02.460 they don't like the country because they, in the words of Barack Obama, want to fundamentally

00:37:05.880 transform America, which is a sign that you hate your own country, which they do. The Center for 0.62

00:37:11.280 Immigration Studies found in a study about six years ago, there were about 300,000 births per year

00:37:19.320 to illegal aliens. Now, that might not seem like a lot in a country of 330 million people. 300,000

00:37:26.200 births per year to illegal aliens is larger than the total number of births in any other state in

00:37:32.340 the country other than California and Texas. So illegal aliens are the most fecund, fertile state in the 1.00

00:37:41.700 country if you took them all as a whole other than these two gigantic states, California and Texas.

00:37:50.560 How long does that continue before you have a radically different country?

00:37:56.160 Are we assimilating these illegal aliens? No, we're actually, we discourage them from assimilating. 1.00

00:38:01.960 Are we bringing in migrants gradually? No, we're flooding the zone with the migrants. 1.00

00:38:08.260 Are we doing this because this is what our founding fathers want, or this is what even the authors of

00:38:15.360 the 14th Amendment wanted, or the people who were alive at the time of the ratification of the 14th

00:38:19.860 Amendment? No, it's just a loophole. There has always been, as I mentioned earlier, in the Anglosphere,

00:38:27.680 for a very long time in the Anglosphere, a notion of birthright citizenship. And in America,

00:38:32.860 this was clarified by a Supreme Court case about 125, 130 years ago. But even going back further,

00:38:37.800 there's this notion of the idea of use solely, the right of the soil. This is contrasted with

00:38:43.460 use sanguinis, the right of blood, blood right citizenship. And most countries in the world have,

00:38:49.700 the vast majority of countries in the world have blood-based citizenship, right? Use sanguinis. 0.98

00:38:56.960 But okay, we're in the Anglosphere, we're in the English tradition, so we have this idea of use solely.

00:39:02.860 Okay, that's fine. But even the countries with the tradition of birthright citizenship have laws

00:39:08.980 that regulate it. So we're not saying obliterate birthright citizenship entirely. We're just saying

00:39:13.020 there's this loophole that's causing lots of political problems that's obviously being exploited

00:39:17.000 in recent years by very bad actors. And so we're going to correct that. That is a very common sense

00:39:22.200 proposal. What Tom Cotton is suggesting here is not throwing bombs. It's not an upending of the

00:39:28.060 American tradition. It's a relatively modest proposal, a common sense proposal, to clarify

00:39:33.580 a very contentious and silly aspect of the law. Pay attention to who opposes it, because it's not

00:39:39.160 just going to be the libs. There are going to be a lot of squishes who oppose it too, out of ignorance

00:39:42.940 or out of cynicism, because they're the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism whose only job is to

00:39:48.000 lose. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mr. Drew One, who says, Amazon Tribe gets the internet 0.89

00:39:54.060 and immediately gets addicted to social media and weird sex stuff. Thanks, Al Gore. Yeah, real nice,

00:40:00.380 Al Gore. This is what we get. Imagine if that guy had become president. Every little untouched tribe in

00:40:06.640 the world would be addicted to Facebook and porn by now. Do people still use Facebook? TikTok, I guess,

00:40:12.860 would be the more up-to-date reference. But speaking of social media, I'm very sorry to say

00:40:18.380 that X, formerly known as Twitter, is now officially allowing pornography. So I guess

00:40:26.940 this is good for that Amazon tribe, because now they can get everything they want on the internet

00:40:31.280 in one place. We've all seen a ton of porn on, if you use Twitter or X, rather, in recent months,

00:40:38.220 you've seen a ton of porn. Because everything you tweet, there's some bot will respond and will say,

00:40:43.840 nudes in bio, in all kind of weird fonts. So they try to evade some of the censorship.

00:40:50.420 I've started posting, you know, banjo videos in bio, right? Whatever I'm trying to push. Cigar

00:40:57.520 links in bio. But I don't know, those get censored more than the porn, probably. Well, now they don't

00:41:03.480 need to censor it. They don't need to try to get around it because X added clauses to its rules,

00:41:08.880 officially allowing porn. Quote, we believe that users should be able to create, distribute,

00:41:13.020 and consume material related to sexual themes, as long as it is consensually produced and

00:41:16.720 distributed. Sexual expression, visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression.

00:41:22.440 Well, hold on. Hold on. This is under the adult content policies. Sexual expression can be a

00:41:28.780 legitimate form of artistic expression. There are sexual themes described in great literature,

00:41:37.980 depicted in great paintings, written about in the Bible, for goodness sakes. But that's different

00:41:45.340 from pornography. An artistically significant sexual depiction or description is different

00:41:55.940 from pornography in actually a pretty clear way. Everyone wants to blur these lines. We go back to

00:42:01.860 the Justice Potter Stewart line. I can't define it, but I know it when I see it. No, you actually can define

00:42:06.540 it. It's just that pornography appeals primarily to the prurient interest. It's just about arousing you.

00:42:13.600 Whereas sexual scenes that do have artistic merit, and literary merit, and philosophical or theological

00:42:20.540 merit for that matter, do not appeal primarily to your loins. They appeal primarily to your head. 0.66

00:42:26.920 They appeal primarily to your reason. That's the difference. We used to know these things.

00:42:33.560 So what X is doing here is they're blurring the lines intentionally. They're saying, what? You think

00:42:39.580 that there's no sexual content that could have artistic merit? No, of course there is. But that's

00:42:43.980 not what you're doing. You're allowing some OnlyFans people to go out and just prostitute themselves on 0.99

00:42:48.760 the platform and entice young men into giving them a bunch of money and, at the very least, giving them 0.79

00:42:53.720 their attention and messing up their heads and screwing up their souls. That's what you're doing, and you're

00:42:58.240 pretending it's some matter of artistic expression. But it's not. Later on, X gets to what this is

00:43:03.920 really about. X says, we believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that

00:43:11.340 reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality. We balance

00:43:16.500 this freedom by restricting exposure to adult content for children or adult users who choose not

00:43:20.600 to see it. Okay, good. I'm glad we can opt out of it. I'm skeptical that that will work, but that's

00:43:26.100 fine. I'm glad that children can opt out of it, or it won't be presented to children. I'm not sure

00:43:30.100 why children are on X anyway. But this is the whole game. We believe in the autonomy of adults to do

00:43:37.640 whatever the hell they want. That's it. This is the supposedly conservative social media platform.

00:43:43.320 Ah, conservatism. Ah, sweet, sweet conservatism, also known as liberalism from five years ago.

00:43:51.780 Oh, it's so sweet, isn't it? What big victories we have. We now, now that Elon Musk has purchased

00:44:01.780 Twitter from the evil liberals, now, finally, we conservatives can get porn all over the platform. 0.83

00:44:08.420 What a win. And I'm not, I like Elon Musk. I think he's a net force for good in politics. But 0.60

00:44:15.340 Elon Musk is a radical liberal in his own words. He's a classical liberal or libertarian or something

00:44:22.600 like that. And liberalism and conservatism are different. Liberalism is about the autonomy of

00:44:32.300 adults to do whatever the hell they want. And conservatism is not really about it. Conservatism

00:44:36.820 just has a different view of how the will works and how freedom works and how the intellect works.

00:44:40.740 And we just think that, yeah, if I want real freedom, I don't want to see porn anywhere because

00:44:47.900 porn clouds my freedom because it appeals to my loins and it makes me go crazy. Like my reason

00:44:53.760 has less control over my person when I'm constantly in a state of arousal or temptation. That's the

00:45:02.480 conservative view. That's the classical view of freedom. It's not the libertarian view, of course.

00:45:05.640 16 years ago in this country, we sent a pornographer to federal prison for obscenity,

00:45:13.120 not for filming children, not for rape, not for just for obscenity. Okay. That was 16 years ago.

00:45:20.340 That wasn't so long ago. Now, not even the conservatives would defend that. Now the conservatives

00:45:25.420 are defending what? Porn on Twitter. That's the great win. Why? Because of free speech, 0.67

00:45:31.320 because of unfettered free speech, that's a liberal value too. What are we conserving?

00:45:37.720 And then we take that as a victory. You want to hear the great victory. You might've heard this

00:45:41.800 reported this week. Great news this Pride Month. 11 NFL teams didn't issue Pride Month tweets.

00:45:50.840 And here are the teams. The teams are the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals,

00:45:54.360 the Titans, the Chiefs, the Broncos, the Cowboys, the Packers, the Saints, and the Falcons.

00:45:58.320 Oh, this is a big win. The tide is turning against the Rainbow Coalition, the Gay Stapo in the Pride 1.00

00:46:05.440 Month. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I Google. First of all, the Packers did issue a tweet. So now we're

00:46:11.400 down to 10, maybe nine. I don't know if more have issued since then. But then I just Googled. I said,

00:46:14.960 all right, Steelers Pride. Now it pulls up on the Steelers website, a whole Pride section of their shop.

00:46:21.100 Love wins. Love, love, love. Pride, pride, pride. Rainbows on all their stuff.

00:46:26.860 Then I said, what about the Bengals? I don't know. Let's look up the Bengals. Same kind of thing.

00:46:30.440 I said, what about the Cowboys? The Cowboys are actually a pretty conservative team.

00:46:33.800 I thought, at least. Same thing. Same thing. We take these great victories that would have been

00:46:41.960 radical liberalism 20 years ago. If you told someone 20 years ago, every NFL team on their

00:46:48.780 website is going to be promoting LGBT. People wouldn't have even known what that acronym meant

00:46:54.720 back then, probably. But they'll be promoting gay pride on their NFL websites. People would say,

00:47:00.300 what? How far left has our country gotten? But now the country has moved so far to the left that now we

00:47:05.560 say, oh, great. All the football teams are just promoting the rainbow flag on their website. Wow,

00:47:11.520 what a victory. That's not a victory. That's a cope. That's a total cope. We allowed the Supreme

00:47:18.020 Court to radically redefine marriage in our law, obliterate the basic political institution. 0.94

00:47:22.480 And then, that was the Obergefell decision. Then in the Bostock decision, we allowed the Supreme

00:47:28.120 Court to redefine sex for the purposes of our civil rights law and say that there's some right of a man 0.99

00:47:32.820 to wear a dress at work. It's all just cope until we overturn those things. Any supposed victory

00:47:40.280 we're making is just a cope to habituate ourselves to a radical kind of liberalism that no one,

00:47:45.980 including the Clinton Democrats, would have tolerated even 20, 25 years ago. Okay, today is

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 06, 2024

Ep. 1505 - WWII Vets Feel Like Foreigners In Their Own Country

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