The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1515 - Libs Are Trying To Ban ZYN Because They Hate White People


Summary

A man who pretends to be a woman who flashes his prosthetic breasts at the White House is now being accused of sexual assault by women who think he's a man. Plus, a story about the new sacred holiday, Juneteenth.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 White people have officially become second-class citizens.
00:00:03.940 This has been building for a while.
00:00:06.100 Affirmative action disadvantages white people in college admissions and hiring.
00:00:10.400 Reparations policies are already in motion to redistribute money from white people to black people for 19th century slavery.
00:00:18.120 But now, now, the libs are trying to ban Zin.
00:00:25.280 Zin, for those who don't know, is smokeless nicotine.
00:00:30.000 It's a little pouch that does not involve tobacco.
00:00:34.520 Zin's parent company has officially suspended online sales nationwide as it faces threats of expanded regulation and even bans at both the local and national level.
00:00:44.960 Now, I'm not saying that Zin is a health product.
00:00:48.740 Each little 6-milli lip pili carries a hefty dose of nicotine, so over time it might make your heart explode.
00:00:54.480 But that's about it.
00:00:56.040 Compared to cigarettes and the Zin spinach marijuana, Zin is a relatively restrained vice.
00:01:01.560 So why are the libs going after Zin?
00:01:04.800 Because white guys like it.
00:01:06.340 I'm not even joking.
00:01:07.940 Barack Obama, you might recall, banned flavored cigarettes with one exception.
00:01:12.820 Menthol, which coincidentally happens to be the preferred cigarette of 85% of black smokers.
00:01:18.200 He banned all the flavored cigarettes that all the people like, except for the one that black people like.
00:01:24.920 Why?
00:01:25.540 Because the menthol are healthier than the cherry cigarettes?
00:01:28.640 No, it was a purely political play to advantage one demographic group over another.
00:01:36.060 Joe Biden just announced that he is postponing his menthol ban.
00:01:40.260 Indefinitely.
00:01:41.240 Wants to keep those black voters for November.
00:01:42.960 However, marijuana is terrible for your lungs and your brain, but the libs' favored ethnic and racial groups love the old Haitian oregano.
00:01:52.380 Black people are more likely than any other group to puff the Peruvian parsley, and so the party of BLM could not think of banning it.
00:01:58.300 But Zin is consumed almost exclusively by fratty white yuppies who wear Patagonia vests, so Zin must go.
00:02:07.180 The libs are fine with legalizing and even subsidizing an ever-expanding array of mind-altering drugs.
00:02:13.560 They're fine with doling out dangerous puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to little kids, for that matter, if it furthers their ideological goals.
00:02:20.880 But they are not okay with smokeless nicotine packets for white frat stars.
00:02:27.520 They don't like the product because they don't like the users.
00:02:31.620 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:32.340 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:50.880 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:53.360 Listen, I got in big trouble yesterday, and I owe an apology to everyone.
00:02:57.300 I promised at the top of the show that we would talk about how the man who pretends to be a woman who flashed his prosthetic breasts at the White House is now being accused of sexual assault by women who think that they're men.
00:03:11.060 This is a very, very important story, of course, and I didn't get to it.
00:03:15.960 I ran out of time.
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00:04:18.380 Speaking of white people and black people, another oversight is I did not mention yesterday the name of the new sacred holiday,
00:04:27.120 that very important feast on the liturgical calendar of liberalism that, of course, would be Juneteenth.
00:04:35.080 The term that no one outside of a few towns in Texas had ever heard of until about five minutes ago,
00:04:40.860 and now we have to all pretend it's a really important sacred national holiday that black people treat like Christmas,
00:04:46.620 even though most black people had never heard of it either.
00:04:49.520 Juneteenth.
00:04:50.040 And what is Juneteenth?
00:04:51.040 Is that the day that slavery ended?
00:04:53.220 No, it wasn't the day that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, nor was it the day that the 13th Amendment was ratified.
00:05:01.500 No, no, it was the day that a mailman made it to a town in Texas and told people that slavery had already been abolished or something like that.
00:05:10.020 I don't know.
00:05:10.500 The libs are making a big deal out of it, though, and they really want you to celebrate.
00:05:13.740 And they want you to celebrate not only by taking the day off of work and closing the banks and the dumps and the city services,
00:05:21.720 which irritated a lot of people yesterday, but they also want you to engage in some rituals.
00:05:27.400 They want you to cook some food.
00:05:28.520 Here I have, and I can't believe this is real, the Associated Press Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth.
00:05:37.240 Page three of this article asks, are there special foods served on Juneteenth?
00:05:45.840 I'm just reading verbatim.
00:05:48.040 Aside from barbecue, the color red has been a through line for Juneteenth food for generations,
00:05:53.100 even though it's only been around for about 18 months.
00:05:56.140 Generations now, they always like the color red, because red symbolizes the bloodshed and sacrifice of enslaved ancestors.
00:06:04.560 A Juneteenth menu might incorporate items like barbecued ribs or other red meat, watermelon, and red velvet cake.
00:06:14.140 Drinks like fruit punch and red Kool-Aid may make an appearance at the table.
00:06:20.660 Well, now, if y'all want to be celebrating us some Juneteenth, you better get yourself some Kool-Aid and watermelon.
00:06:27.520 Hey, don't get angry with me for saying that.
00:06:30.040 I'm reading the Associated Press.
00:06:31.900 This is what the liberal press is saying you're supposed to do.
00:06:35.100 And then you ought to go out there and sing some old minstrel tunes, why don't you now?
00:06:38.800 Take your time, Miss Lucy.
00:06:40.320 Are you kidding me?
00:06:41.660 This is so outrageous.
00:06:43.540 This is such a caricature of black culture in 2024.
00:06:49.380 It reminds me of when I was a freshman in college.
00:06:52.960 Very liberal college.
00:06:54.440 Very Northeast liberal, prestigious, fancy left-wing college.
00:06:59.480 They decided on Martin Luther King Day that they were going to serve in the dining halls Barack Obama's favorite fried chicken.
00:07:08.160 I remember at the time I said, wait, what?
00:07:10.200 It's not a Barack Obama holiday.
00:07:12.620 I'm kind of skeptical that Barack Obama even really likes fried chicken all that much.
00:07:15.980 His dad is a Kenyan Muslim, so he didn't grow up in African-American culture.
00:07:22.200 His mom is a white lady, and he grew up in Hawaii.
00:07:24.860 I don't think they're really known for that.
00:07:26.760 Maybe a luau or some pork or something.
00:07:29.180 But no, well, it's Martin Luther King Day, and Barack Obama's also a black guy, and all them black people love fried chicken.
00:07:35.700 So the Yale dining hall is going to serve a racial caricature, just as the Associated Press is serving up a racial caricature for the supposedly traditional holiday that was contrived at the national level a few years ago.
00:07:51.800 I have to thank my friend Steve Guest for calling my attention to this.
00:07:54.980 When I first saw just the screenshot of, you know, serve your watermelon and Kool-Aid on Juneteenth, I said, this can't be real.
00:08:03.740 This is from 4chan or something.
00:08:05.680 This is some racist joke about Juneteenth.
00:08:08.880 No, no, no, it's the liberal press, of course.
00:08:13.040 So then it got me thinking, why is this offensive?
00:08:18.680 What is offensive about this?
00:08:19.940 Well, one, because it reduces black culture to the silliest and most shallow caricatures, watermelon and Kool-Aid.
00:08:34.400 That's something that's offensive about it.
00:08:36.900 But the other thing that's offensive about it, and this is not just what's offensive about the menu or the AP's article.
00:08:43.220 It's what people find offensive about Juneteenth, is not celebrating black culture.
00:08:49.160 I don't think Juneteenth celebrates black culture at all.
00:08:51.260 I think Juneteenth is a total contrivance made up and forced upon us by a small subset of extraordinarily ideological fringe black and to some degree white activists.
00:09:04.480 I think Juneteenth just coincidentally hit the national scene around the same time as the 1619 Project and the BLM riots, the George Floyd Summer of Love, where radical black activists largely spurred on by self-proclaimed Marxists burn the country to the ground from sea to shining sea.
00:09:30.280 Nate Hockman had a really good thread on this yesterday, the cultural context around Juneteenth.
00:09:35.600 There are some conservatives who are trying to cope, and they're trying to say, no, this is actually a win.
00:09:41.220 Juneteenth is a win for the right because the people who freed the slaves are Republicans.
00:09:47.200 We freed the slaves from the Democrats who wanted to keep the black people in slavery.
00:09:52.160 And actually, it's a celebration of freedom.
00:09:54.260 The libs hate freedom.
00:09:55.060 We love freedom.
00:09:55.600 So Juneteenth is a great conservative holiday.
00:09:58.220 Yeah, as Nate Hockman pointed out, that's true if you ignore all of the context around the Juneteenth holiday, which was pushed by leftists to advance a leftist agenda.
00:10:13.000 So what is it about the holiday that's offensive?
00:10:15.980 What is offensive about the holiday is that it is hostile to the predominant culture.
00:10:22.780 Juneteenth, as I said at the time, you know, I hate to say I told you so.
00:10:27.880 Juneteenth is a replacement for the 4th of July.
00:10:32.040 They call it the Juneteenth Independence Day.
00:10:34.420 That's the federal holiday name, official name.
00:10:37.780 The Juneteenth National Independence Day.
00:10:40.900 That is obviously intended to be a replacement for the first Independence Day, known as the 4th of July.
00:10:47.660 And you don't just need to take my word for it or think that this is going to perhaps come true in the future.
00:10:53.700 It's coming true now.
00:10:54.720 Tyson Foods got in trouble yesterday for offering t-shirts to employees for Juneteenth that had the 4th of July crossed out.
00:11:04.180 Forget about the 4th of July.
00:11:05.760 Juneteenth.
00:11:06.280 This is the new Independence Day.
00:11:07.560 And it's a new national holiday.
00:11:09.520 The day that is supposed to celebrate the true birth of the country, they're replacing the holiday so that they can replace the country.
00:11:17.600 That's the point.
00:11:18.860 You need a new holiday.
00:11:21.720 You need a new flag.
00:11:22.900 You need new rituals.
00:11:23.760 You need a new national anthem, which the leftists are also trying to push.
00:11:26.780 The new notion of the black national anthem to be sung alongside that old national anthem at football games.
00:11:31.660 You need all of these new expressions of a nation because what the leftists are really after is a new nation.
00:11:40.620 And they're going to use racial grievance to do it.
00:11:43.520 They're going to use the notion of liberation.
00:11:46.080 They're going to try to use black culture as a cudgel, even if their version of black culture is a pitiful caricature of a real culture.
00:11:54.320 And they're going to make sure that that culture is hostile to the actual traditional way of life that the vast majority of Americans want to maintain.
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00:13:16.620 Speaking of the South, I think Juneteenth started in the South, didn't it?
00:13:22.220 Texas, right?
00:13:23.620 We turn to Louisiana.
00:13:24.980 Some really good news coming out of Louisiana.
00:13:27.320 Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.
00:13:33.740 This is being pushed by Republican state legislators and the Republican governor.
00:13:41.900 They demand that there be a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in, quote,
00:13:46.180 large, easily readable font in all public classrooms from kindergarten up through state-funded universities.
00:13:52.940 And the Ten Commandments must be paired with a four-paragraph context statement, defending the display, describing how the Ten Commandments, quote,
00:14:03.220 were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.
00:14:07.160 And it's got to be in classrooms by the start of 2025.
00:14:09.980 This won't be funded by the state.
00:14:11.400 This will be funded by private donations, but it will be mandated by the state.
00:14:14.880 This is terrific.
00:14:16.400 This is really, really good news.
00:14:17.720 And the context statement is really important here, too.
00:14:20.140 It seems as though the context statement might be somewhat defensive.
00:14:23.740 Because you're trying to jump ahead of the objections that inevitably will come up, the public objections, the legal objections to this.
00:14:32.840 They're saying, no, look, this was part of American public education for three centuries.
00:14:37.620 So what changed?
00:14:39.200 It's a reminder that the modern liberal notion of America and American freedom and the supposed separation of church and state and individual rights and our modern conception of that is actually rather different.
00:14:52.940 From the old conception of it.
00:14:55.700 So what changed?
00:14:57.440 Were the first 20 generations of Americans just wrong?
00:15:01.540 Or is it more likely that we're wrong?
00:15:04.540 Probably not 20, I guess 10 generations of Americans.
00:15:06.660 Were they just wrong?
00:15:08.280 Or is it more likely that we are misunderstanding what they are doing?
00:15:11.540 This is really good stuff.
00:15:13.520 And it's also a reminder.
00:15:15.380 I like homeschooling.
00:15:16.280 We're probably going to homeschool our kids.
00:15:18.760 Homeschooling is a defensive measure.
00:15:22.000 Homeschooling is a tactical retreat, is what homeschooling is.
00:15:25.280 Homeschooling is not the final goal.
00:15:27.500 The final goal is to bring public education back into alignment with the things we actually want to teach kids.
00:15:35.560 If we just retreat to homeschooling, then it's going to be the same boiled over quasi-libertarian defensive measures that right-wingers have been taking for decades that have effectively ceded the entire culture to the left.
00:15:53.760 Oh, yeah, you liberals want to take over the universities?
00:15:57.340 Fine, you can have them.
00:15:58.260 We're not going anymore.
00:15:59.100 Okay, well, now the libs have Harvard and Yale and Stanford, all the big state schools, and they have basically every school.
00:16:04.540 You libs, you want to take over Hollywood?
00:16:06.580 Well, that's fine.
00:16:07.220 We don't need Hollywood.
00:16:08.140 Okay, well, now the chief engine exporting American culture around the world, the libs just totally have it.
00:16:13.120 You libs want to take over the media?
00:16:14.680 All right, you can have it.
00:16:15.680 Well, all right, now they have the powerful organs.
00:16:17.980 Now they have big tech.
00:16:18.960 Now they have this.
00:16:19.540 Now they have that.
00:16:21.900 Sometimes you need a tactical retreat so you don't get completely obliterated.
00:16:24.840 I'm telling you, I'm in favor of homeschooling for that purpose.
00:16:29.000 And I probably will homeschool my kids.
00:16:30.580 But that can't be the end of it.
00:16:31.640 We need a political solution, not just a personal solution, not just a cultural solution.
00:16:36.520 We need a political solution.
00:16:38.160 And this is a great example of this.
00:16:40.400 Why on earth should the Ten Commandments not be taught in school?
00:16:44.120 Why on earth should the Ten Commandments not be at the front of the classroom?
00:16:48.180 You have pride flags at the front of the classroom.
00:16:51.040 So don't give me any separation of church and state or don't teach morality in the classroom or whatever.
00:16:55.920 You're teaching people that pride, the deadliest of the seven deadly sins, is good and worth celebrating.
00:17:01.580 You're teaching people all sorts of messed up stuff about sex.
00:17:05.660 You're telling them that sin is actually virtue.
00:17:08.320 You're screwing up their biology education by saying that a man can become a woman on the basis of your heretical Gnostic cult of transgenderism and LGBT LMNOP.
00:17:21.940 So don't tell me that this is about a separation of the educational system from religious views.
00:17:26.920 No, the left is merging those things ever more closely every day.
00:17:30.540 They just have false religious views.
00:17:32.540 So how about we correct that with true religion?
00:17:36.420 And I'm not saying that we need to have a bishop overseeing every public school classroom in America.
00:17:43.020 Might not be the worst thing, although it depends.
00:17:44.880 You know, so the bishops are a little bit hit and miss sometimes with their politics.
00:17:49.880 What I am saying is I think we can all agree on the Ten Commandments, can't we?
00:17:52.760 What's the argument for not teaching a student that it's wrong to commit murder?
00:18:00.700 Is there anything wrong with that?
00:18:03.800 I guess the libs would say there is something wrong with that.
00:18:07.100 The libs insist that we need to teach children that it is good to murder unborn babies.
00:18:11.760 So it's not that they're, you know, leaving it up to the children to decide.
00:18:15.400 They are actively in the classrooms teaching kids it is good to commit murder.
00:18:19.360 They are actively in the classrooms teaching kids it is good not to honor your father and mother.
00:18:26.000 Because they're saying that if the kids have a different sexual view than their parents,
00:18:30.440 then they ought to hide it from their parents.
00:18:32.080 And the school will actually help them hide it from their parents.
00:18:34.060 The school will actually call them by the name of the opposite sex without telling their parents.
00:18:38.980 The kids might put them on the track to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones
00:18:42.300 and the transgender transition without telling their parents today.
00:18:46.480 So they're teaching them that that commandment's wrong.
00:18:49.360 They're teaching them to make all sorts of false idols engraven images.
00:18:54.860 They're obviously teaching them to engage in weird sex stuff, violation of the sixth commandment.
00:18:59.380 They're teaching them to lie, to deny the truth if the truth conflicts with one's preferences and feelings and irrational will.
00:19:08.980 They're teaching them all that stuff.
00:19:10.220 They're teaching them right now the opposite of the ten commandments.
00:19:13.600 So it seems to me the correction for that is not to say, well, let's just be totally secular and not teach kids anything.
00:19:20.620 Well, if you're not going to teach kids anything, why are they in the classroom?
00:19:23.120 You got to teach them something.
00:19:25.160 We're currently teaching them the opposite of moral reality.
00:19:27.960 How about we teach them moral reality?
00:19:30.300 Sounds good to me.
00:19:32.120 And we ought to do that in public schools around the country.
00:19:34.620 Keep it up.
00:19:35.000 Good job, Louisiana.
00:19:35.620 Now to the important story, the important story that I didn't get to yesterday on themes that we've been discussing today.
00:19:45.480 Do you remember the guy who pretends to be a chick who showed up to the White House when the White House had the Pride Progress flag centered with the American flags flanking it on the White House portico?
00:19:57.300 And this guy flashed his fake breasts on the White House lawn.
00:20:03.780 He's posing with Joe Biden for pictures.
00:20:07.020 So that guy, his name is Rose Montoya.
00:20:09.800 I don't know what his real name is, but he goes by Rose Montoya.
00:20:13.340 That guy is now being accused by women who think that they're men of sexually assaulting them.
00:20:18.180 According to one such woman, Rose Montoya sexually assaulted me while I was recovering from phallosurgeries, surgeries to, I guess, make it look like she has a phallus.
00:20:31.300 She, but it's really, she who says she's he is really referring to him who says he's her.
00:20:39.800 She, meaning Mr. Montoya, confessed to violating me in an email sent from her, meaning his, official Gmail.
00:20:46.340 My friend Elijah was also groomed and abused by her, really him.
00:20:50.140 She, really he, has abused at least three other trans-mask folks besides us, so that is women who pretend to be men.
00:20:57.720 Here's a thread.
00:20:58.800 And there's a long thread here.
00:21:00.040 This is brought to our attention by our friends over at Libs of TikTok.
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00:22:20.080 I want to put a little button on the story of the man who thinks he's a woman who showed his fake breasts at the White House who's now being accused by women who think they're men of sexually assaulting them.
00:22:28.820 Of course, this is happening.
00:22:34.300 This guy is extremely depraved.
00:22:38.260 And he spends a lot of time thinking about weird sex stuff and worse than that.
00:22:43.740 I mean, I guess on this show and in the media broadly these days and in public school classrooms and in Hollywood and everywhere, people are spending a lot of time thinking about weird sex stuff because the libs are forcing that upon us.
00:22:54.660 And so whether you accept it or object to it, you're still thinking about it because it's just everywhere.
00:22:59.320 June, the flag is everywhere.
00:23:01.200 The weird sex stuff is everywhere.
00:23:03.760 They think about it a lot.
00:23:05.980 They do it a lot.
00:23:06.960 And so, of course, they're going to engage in depraved behaviors.
00:23:10.640 That's how it works.
00:23:11.440 They argue that this is just an expression of freedom, that they need to be, come on, man, just be free.
00:23:19.880 Just let me be free.
00:23:20.960 How does it bother you?
00:23:21.960 Just let me do what I want.
00:23:23.060 Let me be free.
00:23:24.140 You're just fuddy-duddies.
00:23:25.760 You're just authoritarians trying to restrict my freedom.
00:23:31.580 And it is true that we are trying to restrict some of the things that these people are doing.
00:23:37.900 I don't think that dudes should have prosthetic breasts surgically implanted into them.
00:23:44.760 I certainly don't think they should be permitted to flash those prosthetic breasts on the White House lawn.
00:23:50.460 I don't think they should be sexually assaulting women.
00:23:53.060 I don't think those women should be permitted and encouraged to pretend that they're men and undergo mutilations to do that.
00:23:59.320 Yeah, I don't think we should redefine marriage.
00:24:01.900 I don't think a couple of men or a couple of women should be able to purchase eggs or sperm or children on the open market.
00:24:08.700 I do want to restrict a lot of that stuff.
00:24:12.260 But that does not represent a restriction of freedom.
00:24:16.820 It doesn't even represent a restriction of what you can do.
00:24:20.960 The reason to restrict all that bad stuff is so that you can do more good stuff.
00:24:29.180 It's so that you can expand people's freedom to do good stuff.
00:24:35.300 That kind of traditional ethic, and in this case we're talking specifically about a sexual ethic, is not restricting.
00:24:44.120 It just opens up new avenues.
00:24:46.460 When you are told that you can't shoot up heroin, that restricts you in a certain way, but it actually opens up a lot of opportunities in another way.
00:24:57.320 Because there are only so many hours in the day.
00:24:59.240 There's only so much energy that you have.
00:25:01.440 And if you're devoting your time to shooting up heroin for hours and hours on the streets of San Francisco, you are not able to study, get a job, build a family, serve your community, make a pie for the widow down the street, go to the gym, learn the banjo.
00:25:20.200 You are giving something up.
00:25:22.520 Freedom is not, as the liberals pretend, just some infinite quality, and it's not even a totally abstract quality.
00:25:31.640 We live in a contingent world of time and space, and when you do one thing, that necessarily closes off other things that you can do.
00:25:43.160 And if we all just stopped thinking about and being indoctrinated by and having to affirm and celebrate and march and parades for weird sex stuff all the time, we would be able to do a lot of other things.
00:25:58.240 It's a huge waste of time.
00:26:00.180 It's bad for people to do this stuff.
00:26:02.600 It's bad for the individuals.
00:26:04.840 It's bad for society.
00:26:06.060 It's bad for the people who then are sexually assaulted because these depraved behaviors are being encouraged.
00:26:11.540 It's bad in all sorts of ways.
00:26:13.660 But it's, at an even deeper level, it's bad because every second that we spend on this lunacy and nonsense is time that we are not spent doing things that are good for us and will lead to our flourishing and will lead to us having a decent society where people are safer, where people are freer,
00:26:34.660 where people are more successful, where people have better families, and more money, and more leisure time, and greater virtue, and a closer relationship to God, and everything in between all of that.
00:26:48.540 That's why.
00:26:49.620 So much sin is a huge waste of time in addition to all the other bad stuff.
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00:27:26.000 Now, speaking of sick, disgusting stuff, before we move on from this Pride Month special of stories, we might as well get this story out of the way now.
00:27:35.040 It's really gross, and I hate that we even have to talk about it.
00:27:40.320 There's a report out from the New York Daily News.
00:27:42.120 A bus full of animals was just pulled over, and the driver was arrested because the bus allegedly is a bestiality bus.
00:27:54.320 It's a bus with dozens of animals, animals that were going to be used for depraved acts by human beings.
00:28:04.100 I'll just read a little bit of it.
00:28:08.260 Cops contacted the animal rescue workers who said on Facebook the cargo included 30 birds, four shepherd breed dogs, a bull, and a pony.
00:28:16.240 They were able to secure the animals, remove them from their squalid conditions.
00:28:19.240 According to the SPCA, the animal rights group, the dogs were being fed the chickens,
00:28:25.700 and the bull and the pony were being used for bestiality purposes in another state.
00:28:30.240 And they figured this out because the driver had already committed past crimes, this guy Sean Hirschbein.
00:28:38.660 And so they're going to spend $10,000 to check the animals for human DNA.
00:28:42.460 You know what?
00:28:42.820 Let's just leave that.
00:28:44.400 Let's stop reading that story for now and just ask one question.
00:28:50.060 Why is any of that wrong?
00:28:53.360 Why is it wrong?
00:28:54.380 Why pull over the bestiality bus?
00:28:56.880 Why conduct this big investigation?
00:28:59.340 What's wrong about it?
00:29:04.380 The chickens were being fed to the dogs.
00:29:06.380 Yeah, chickens are fed to humans every single day.
00:29:09.860 We don't have laws against that.
00:29:11.520 Maybe the arch animal rights people, the super vegans, could make an argument as to why that's wrong.
00:29:18.820 But I would like a non-vegetarian liberal to explain to me why the bestiality bus is wrong.
00:29:24.480 It can't be because the dogs are eating the chickens.
00:29:28.940 I don't think it can even be because the humans are doing depraved things with the animals.
00:29:34.760 We kill animals.
00:29:36.100 If we tolerate killing animals to eat them, surely those sorts of depraved things with animals are a lesser crime.
00:29:46.200 Think about the way that we arrange our punishments in our own justice system.
00:29:52.020 Murder is considered to be a more serious crime than rape.
00:29:54.980 Putting aside for a moment that animals don't actually have free will and can't really consent to anything because they don't have rational souls.
00:30:02.100 But even put that aside for a second.
00:30:03.240 Let's say that the animals are being raped.
00:30:05.320 We consider murder to be a more serious crime than rape, and we kill animals all the time and eat them.
00:30:09.680 So, if you're a non-vegetarian liberal, it's obviously wrong and depraved, and everyone involved should be arrested.
00:30:16.980 But why is it wrong?
00:30:20.780 It's wrong because it violates the natural law and the objective moral order.
00:30:29.820 It's not wrong because of consent or something.
00:30:33.120 The animals don't consent to be chopped up and eaten.
00:30:35.500 And you're not a vegetarian, non-vegetarian liberal, so what's wrong of it?
00:30:39.840 There's something that can be wrong about acts, including and especially sexual acts, beyond a lack of consent.
00:30:50.700 There's things that are just wrong.
00:30:52.520 And we know they're wrong because we have a conscience and because the natural law is inscribed on every human heart.
00:30:56.640 And if it's true of the bulls and the cows and the chickens and the dogs, maybe that's true of humans as well.
00:31:06.840 And maybe we can finally start to restrict things, restrict certain behaviors, so that we can expand the opportunity for other behaviors.
00:31:14.140 Just putting that out there.
00:31:15.220 Because if you know this is wrong, then you've got to follow, but you can't quite explain why.
00:31:23.480 Maybe it's because there's something wrong with the way you're thinking about sexual ethics.
00:31:28.680 Now, speaking of moral opprobrium, we'll turn to an even more serious issue.
00:31:32.760 Socks.
00:31:36.040 Millennials wear low-cut socks.
00:31:38.700 Zoomers wear high-cut socks.
00:31:40.700 This, according to one famous tiktoktor, Phoebe Parsons, is the distinction between the two generations.
00:31:48.560 This is exactly how you can tell the difference between a millennial and a Gen Z just by looking at their feet.
00:31:54.180 Are their socks up?
00:31:55.920 Or are they wearing hidden ankle socks?
00:31:58.260 Because Gen Zs exclusively wear their socks up and millennials still wear ankle socks.
00:32:04.660 I'm a millennial.
00:32:08.540 I think this might be true.
00:32:09.920 Now, I don't wear socks because I'm lazy and I certainly don't want to launder them.
00:32:15.640 Not that I would anyway.
00:32:17.160 But I don't even want that extra step.
00:32:19.880 So I, being somewhat waspy, even the Italians, though, do sockless loafers sometimes.
00:32:25.440 I don't.
00:32:26.440 I just wear my loafers.
00:32:27.800 Then I don't have to worry about it.
00:32:29.700 So I have a little bit of remove to consider this very important issue.
00:32:33.900 The Zoomers wear big socks.
00:32:36.340 The millennials wear short socks.
00:32:37.700 That's true.
00:32:38.080 This is why you want styles and behaviors and especially ideas and desires that are timeless.
00:32:48.240 Because I remember when ankle socks and even the little shorter socks came into vogue.
00:32:53.960 And we thought, this is so cool.
00:32:55.620 Only boomers are wearing those long socks now.
00:32:58.580 But we're cool.
00:32:59.280 This was when I was 12 or something.
00:33:00.580 Yeah, this is hip and cool, man.
00:33:02.660 But then styles change.
00:33:04.280 This is the teaching of Fulton Sheen, variously attributed to Dean Inge and other people, which is that the, if you marry yourself to the spirit of the age, you'll find yourself a widow in the next.
00:33:15.060 Fashions, fads are always changing.
00:33:17.460 I have not changed my haircut since I was six years old.
00:33:19.860 When I was five years old, I had a slightly more to the side haircut than when I was six years old.
00:33:23.720 And I asked if it could go back a little bit more because I liked Elvis.
00:33:26.920 But that's pretty much it.
00:33:27.700 I've had the same haircut the whole time.
00:33:29.200 And it's never been super in fashion.
00:33:31.260 But it's really never been all that out of fashion.
00:33:33.060 It's the kind of haircut that guys have been wearing for probably 100 years now or more.
00:33:38.080 My clothing.
00:33:39.360 You know, I kind of just wear clothing that you could wear this kind of clothing in the 1940s or 50s or 80s or 90s.
00:33:46.720 And it's never like super hip or cool, but then you're never caught out when the fashions drastically change.
00:33:53.120 You know, you wore the big powder blue wide lapel tuxedo with the bell bottoms to prom and now you look ridiculous 20 years later.
00:34:01.580 You want something that's a little bit, that's more classic and that's more timeless.
00:34:06.980 That's my aesthetic advice.
00:34:08.280 But it ties into a moral advice, which is you don't want to totally abstract yourself from your time because we live in time and space.
00:34:19.960 We live in history.
00:34:21.000 We're born at a certain date.
00:34:22.200 We're going to die at a certain date.
00:34:23.840 And we're not going to meet people who lived 200 years prior.
00:34:26.780 We might meet them through books.
00:34:28.040 We might meet them through an engagement with tradition, which lends itself to classics and timeless ideas.
00:34:35.240 But we're not going to meet those people.
00:34:36.520 What we want from the contingent world of time is people, is encounters with real people.
00:34:43.860 We are bodies as well as souls.
00:34:46.160 We live in time and space.
00:34:48.060 We're going to die at some point.
00:34:49.060 So you don't want to totally remove yourself in a weird, Gnostic, hippy-dippy, new agey kind of way or some Eastern religion kind of way where you think you're just, I've had past lives, man, and cycles of reincarnation.
00:35:00.420 No, that's not true.
00:35:01.560 You're born.
00:35:02.360 You're created.
00:35:02.960 You're born.
00:35:03.340 You're going to die at some point, and then something's going to happen to you after you die.
00:35:07.460 That's what you want.
00:35:08.320 It's those people.
00:35:09.380 That's the urgency of time and contingency.
00:35:12.100 And the way that you treat those people, the way you engage with those people, the things that you can do with those people ought to tie into things that are timeless and classic and that are not going to change.
00:35:24.400 And if you can reflect that in your style, all the better, and then you won't get made fun of on TikTok for wearing short socks.
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00:37:18.360 My favorite comment yesterday is from SlapMyBase3825 who says,
00:37:22.400 Since we live in a world where we are what we pretend to be,
00:37:26.400 then I am a Nicaraguan immigrant.
00:37:27.900 Where is my free stuff? Andele. Andele, andele.
00:37:30.680 SlapMyBase, you're so right. You're so right.
00:37:32.760 If you are a Nicaraguan immigrant too,
00:37:34.460 you should also come up here and help me roll some more cigars so that we can meet the demand.
00:37:39.560 Speaking of millennials, President Biden and illegal aliens.
00:37:44.560 President Biden has turned over his lectern to an illegal alien.
00:37:50.820 My resilient parents brought me to this country to give me a chance at a better future
00:37:57.720 when I was just three years old.
00:38:01.220 I am a dreamer.
00:38:03.800 Growing up undocumented was not easy.
00:38:07.120 Like thousands of other immigrants,
00:38:10.420 my parents endured hard labor in order to provide for the family.
00:38:14.540 They are a symbol of the American dream.
00:38:21.480 And they helped me with my dream.
00:38:23.780 It is a privilege to personally thank President Biden for delivering on his promise
00:38:27.420 to protect American families like mine.
00:38:30.840 We're much better and stronger nation because of dreamers like Javier.
00:38:35.760 Okay. Much better and stronger nation.
00:38:39.140 He said, we're a nation of immigrants, which we're not.
00:38:42.820 That's a term that was brought up by Vice President Dan Quayle in the early 1990s.
00:38:50.600 We are not a nation of immigrants.
00:38:52.180 We're a nation that was founded by settlers that then had waves of immigration,
00:38:56.380 but then that shut down immigration for decades and decades at a time
00:38:59.660 because we realized that immigration can create all sorts of problems,
00:39:02.960 as it is today when the vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce
00:39:07.580 the level of all immigration, legal and illegal.
00:39:10.100 And when the, an even greater vast majority of Americans want to shut down illegal immigration,
00:39:15.360 Biden decides it's a good idea to invite this guy who's an illegal alien
00:39:18.680 to come to the White House and complain.
00:39:24.600 The guy, this young man who's my age, came over here when he was three, apparently.
00:39:29.440 I am not saying that he must be immediately deported.
00:39:31.960 I recognize there can be some nuance with the enforcement of immigration policy.
00:39:36.200 He should be deported.
00:39:37.100 This kid should be deported for sure, but people in his position are not necessarily
00:39:42.940 the sort who ought to be departed.
00:39:44.460 The reason that this kid should be deported is because of his awful attitude.
00:39:47.720 He clearly has acclimated to America because of his clear sense of entitlement and whining.
00:39:53.460 It was so hard.
00:39:55.360 It was so hard growing up as an illegal resident being treated with a red carpet in this country.
00:40:01.900 It was so hard.
00:40:02.520 It was so terrible.
00:40:03.020 That's why I demand legal status and I demand citizenship.
00:40:07.040 How about you demand nothing?
00:40:08.140 How about you shut your mouth and say thank you?
00:40:10.820 Thank you to the country that has been so good to you that should have, by all rights,
00:40:15.000 deported you and your parents 30 years ago.
00:40:17.300 How about you do that?
00:40:18.120 How about just a simple thank you?
00:40:20.460 But there is no simple thank you.
00:40:22.360 It's wah, wah, wah.
00:40:23.660 Woe is me.
00:40:24.200 My life is so terribly hard.
00:40:25.540 And I demand that you Americans give me even more than my family has already been given,
00:40:29.560 which is more than any other country would have ever given my family in the history of the world.
00:40:34.960 Absolutely enraging.
00:40:37.860 And this is it.
00:40:38.760 If this is the attitude, if the attitude of the illegal aliens is now one of entitlement
00:40:45.680 and demanding even more than the extraordinary gifts that they've already been given by the extraordinarily generous American people,
00:40:53.020 deport them all.
00:40:54.960 That's going to be the attitude of Americans.
00:40:57.500 I don't know what Biden was thinking here.
00:41:00.460 I think that Biden has memory problems and he thinks it's still 2010.
00:41:05.840 He thinks it's still 2008 when people are broadly in favor of migration and we want to come to a compromise
00:41:14.040 and give a path to citizenship for the poor.
00:41:17.440 This ain't 2008.
00:41:19.500 This ain't 2010.
00:41:21.080 Immigration is causing a lot of problems.
00:41:22.800 We have an unprecedented invasion at the border.
00:41:25.440 We have millions and millions of people coming here every single year.
00:41:29.980 This has created economic problems.
00:41:31.680 You're seeing major crime problems.
00:41:33.800 Crime problems, American citizens being raped and murdered by illegal aliens.
00:41:37.700 The White House denies any responsibility whatsoever.
00:41:40.320 The DHS secretary, Mayorkas, denies any responsibility.
00:41:43.680 No big deal.
00:41:44.340 Every crime committed by an illegal alien that is encouraged to come here by this administration
00:41:48.120 is the responsibility of the White House in addition to the responsibility of the criminal.
00:41:54.200 And now they say, hey, give them more.
00:41:56.380 That is not going to play in Peoria.
00:41:58.120 Not going to play at all.
00:42:00.180 A little gratitude goes a long way.
00:42:01.700 The left does not want any of it.
00:42:04.540 Now, there's a story I was going to get to yesterday.
00:42:08.580 And now I probably shouldn't get to because it turns out the story was fake news.
00:42:11.860 Noam Chomsky, the famed linguist, who's probably more famous for his extremely leftist political views
00:42:17.480 and his opposition to the Vietnam War and his opposition to all sorts of American policies.
00:42:22.840 Noam Chomsky was trending because people said he was dead.
00:42:24.940 And then, a few hours later, people said he was not dead.
00:42:30.320 And it reminded me of when Tom Petty died.
00:42:32.500 Tom Petty, the guitarist, said, Tom Petty's dead.
00:42:34.660 No, Tom Petty's not dead.
00:42:36.040 No, Tom Petty might be dead.
00:42:37.060 And then a few hours later, he said, Tom Petty's dead.
00:42:39.480 Now, in this case, it said, Chomsky's dead.
00:42:41.220 R.I.P. Noam Chomsky.
00:42:43.880 But then his wife came out and said, no, he's not dead.
00:42:46.120 Stop saying he's dead.
00:42:46.940 Apparently, he's still alive.
00:42:48.820 But in any case, by the time we figured out he was still alive,
00:42:51.380 I already considered the significance of Noam Chomsky and put him into my show.
00:42:55.000 And I want to talk about it.
00:42:57.240 Better to eulogize Noam Chomsky now while he's alive and can appreciate it than once he's dead.
00:43:04.120 Because it got me thinking about how we should relate to our enemies,
00:43:09.400 how we should relate to our opponents.
00:43:11.560 Yes, we want to destroy them with facts and logic.
00:43:13.820 Yes, we want to totally own them online.
00:43:15.960 Sure.
00:43:16.360 But is there anything more that we can get out of it?
00:43:19.160 You know, someone like Chomsky, who just hates America,
00:43:21.340 who's extremely leftist, who's really annoying.
00:43:23.400 I thought, yeah, there's actually a lot to recommend Noam Chomsky.
00:43:26.300 Noam Chomsky is a brilliant linguist.
00:43:30.700 His ideas about linguistics are quite compelling, especially to conservatives.
00:43:37.000 He believes in universal grammar, the notion of a genetically based language faculty,
00:43:44.340 which, you know, language is near and dear to my heart and the heart of many conservatives
00:43:47.020 and certainly to the heart of many Christians.
00:43:48.280 We believe that the second person of the Trinity is synonymous with the word,
00:43:53.180 the divine logic of the universe.
00:43:54.760 We believe that God made everything that was made through an act of speech, fiat lux.
00:44:03.680 God said, let there be light, and there's light.
00:44:06.240 God, you know, we believe that our Lord, Jesus, is synonymous with the divine logic of the universe,
00:44:16.640 with the logos.
00:44:17.580 We believe that speech is what distinguishes human beings from all the other animals,
00:44:23.480 from all the other created things.
00:44:24.860 Christians believe that angels and demons don't have language,
00:44:27.920 that they communicate perfectly and intuitively.
00:44:34.180 Whereas with human beings, there's a gap between what we're thinking and the way we express it.
00:44:41.260 We represent that with words.
00:44:42.440 And there's a further gap because we communicate these things through the sound of words.
00:44:49.340 So there's a symbol, which is the sound of the word, which is the symbolized.
00:44:52.820 And the word is a symbol, and it symbolizes the thing that we're referring to.
00:44:56.260 So there's a lot to recommend that.
00:44:58.120 He has, there are older theories of universal grammar, but that's a pretty insightful one.
00:45:03.480 Then, putting aside his work in linguistics,
00:45:05.780 Noam Chomsky recognized that the media are totally full of it,
00:45:08.540 as he made clear to an interviewer some years ago.
00:45:11.420 Well, I know some of the best and best-known investigative reporters in the United States,
00:45:16.480 I won't mention names, but I'm like,
00:45:18.500 whose attitude toward the media is much more cynical than mine.
00:45:21.620 In fact, they regard the media as a sham,
00:45:24.580 and they know and they consciously talk about how they try to play it like a violin.
00:45:31.020 If they see a little opening, they'll try to squeeze something in that ordinarily wouldn't make it through.
00:45:36.220 And it's perfectly true that the majority, I'm sure you're speaking for the majority of journalists who are trained,
00:45:42.800 have it driven into their heads,
00:45:44.980 that this is a crusading profession, adversarial,
00:45:48.700 we stand up against power, a very self-serving view.
00:45:51.820 On the other hand, in my opinion,
00:45:53.440 I hate to make a value judgment,
00:45:55.360 but the better journalists,
00:45:56.940 and in fact, the ones who are often regarded as the best journalists,
00:46:00.500 have quite a different picture,
00:46:01.940 and I think a very realistic one.
00:46:03.620 How can you know that I'm self-sensory?
00:46:05.980 How can you know that journalists are...
00:46:07.000 I don't say you're self-sensory.
00:46:07.860 I'm sure you believe everything you're saying.
00:46:09.620 But what I'm saying is if you believe something different,
00:46:12.100 you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.
00:46:15.300 Brutal, devastating,
00:46:16.440 and I think he's absolutely right
00:46:18.520 about the way that the corporate media are shaped.
00:46:21.360 So the guy was wrong about a bunch of things.
00:46:24.160 He hated America,
00:46:25.480 and he was just...
00:46:26.400 He got basic facts wrong about a lot of things.
00:46:28.520 He denied the Cambodian genocide, for instance.
00:46:30.780 That was kind of a big one.
00:46:32.240 But he had some interesting views, too.
00:46:33.860 And the lesson I take away from it,
00:46:36.640 whether Chomsky is alive or dead,
00:46:38.200 or he's going to die at some point,
00:46:39.540 he's pretty old.
00:46:41.900 One should learn from one's opponents.
00:46:43.720 One should never be so incensed and passionate
00:46:47.780 that one can't learn from one's opponents.
00:46:51.400 Because if you learn from your opponents,
00:46:54.180 at least they're good for something.
00:46:55.920 If you can't even learn from your opponents,
00:46:57.580 they're good for nothing,
00:46:58.660 as far as you're concerned.
00:47:00.160 But if you can learn from them,
00:47:02.380 whoever it is,
00:47:03.020 some jerk in your office,
00:47:04.840 I'm talking about Mr. Davies, of course,
00:47:06.340 or someone you don't really like in your community,
00:47:10.260 or a political adversary,
00:47:12.400 like Noam Chomsky.
00:47:15.820 If you can learn from them,
00:47:16.860 at least they're good for something.
00:47:17.800 Okay, there's no member block today,
00:47:19.320 because I've got to go pick my wife
00:47:20.940 and newborn baby up from the hospital.
00:47:23.420 So I suspect you will forgive me for that, at least.
00:47:26.040 I'm looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow.
00:47:27.280 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:47:28.200 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:28.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:44.400 This is The Michael Knowles Show.