The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1559 - Taylor Swift & Beyoncé SHAFT Kamala Harris？

00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris spoke last night at the DNC, and it was completely unremarkable.

00:00:06.160 I don't have a single clip of note to play from her speech. I got plenty of clips from the other

00:00:12.300 speakers. If I had to find highlights from Kamala's speech, she called her husband her partner,

00:00:19.960 as if they were lesbians or owned an accounting firm or something like that. 1.00

00:00:23.460 She promoted infanticide, and she was vaguely supportive of Palestine. 0.99

00:00:30.000 And she wore a masculine suit jacket. That's it. Those are the most remarkable takeaways.

00:00:35.160 Otherwise, Kamala's big speech was completely bland. Which was the point? Kamala isn't running 0.82

00:00:43.120 for president. The Democrat machine is. As far as the party is concerned, Kamala doesn't have policy 0.69

00:00:50.240 views. The views that she actually holds on policy are unpopular, freebies for illegals and transing 1.00

00:00:56.220 the kids, for instance. And Kamala's record on policy, inflation, immigration, etc., is a litany

00:01:01.720 of failure. So she won't talk about policy. She doesn't have a political record, unless you happen

00:01:08.400 to like it. And then they'll say she does. She isn't part of the current administration, unless

00:01:14.260 somehow you like the current administration, in which case she's responsible for everything. 0.74

00:01:17.980 She also doesn't have a particular platform. She is just a warm body babbling vague encomia to freedom. 0.99

00:01:25.900 And also, she isn't Donald Trump. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:29.800 Welcome back to the show. CNN says that Kamala's running mate, Tim Walls, and her husband,

00:01:55.620 Doug Emhoff, speak to men who aren't testosterone laden. Nothing I've said about either of those two

00:02:03.580 men is nearly as brutal as what CNN has said about them. We'll get to what that means. But first,

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00:03:12.740 cents. Thecandleclub.com. Kamala's speech, totally unremarkable. It's not that it was terrible. It

00:03:22.080 wasn't terrible. It was fine. It wasn't great. It was just, it was totally fine, which was exactly

00:03:27.220 what they were going for. The other speeches were less than fine. We kept waiting all night for a big

00:03:32.800 surprise. It was reported by TMZ, and then it was being promoted by all sorts of other people

00:03:37.860 that Beyonce was going to appear. So we were waiting. Daily Wire had Michael Knowles doing

00:03:44.540 the live stream, and the DNC was going to have Beyonce Knowles doing the big performance. So 0.92

00:03:49.000 it was going to be a really Knowles-filled DNC, and then Beyonce didn't show up. People were

00:03:55.760 speculating, will Taylor Swift show up? We were waiting. Taylor Swift didn't show up. Some people

00:04:01.480 wondered if George W. Bush was going to show up. His spokesman quickly put that rumor to rest.

00:04:07.860 The big surprise of the night, I guess, was that two-bit, barely-in-Washington Congressman

00:04:14.880 Adam Kinzinger, who is a squish-fake Republican whose most notable achievement was sobbing while

00:04:20.440 discussing January suits and opposing Donald Trump. Well, he went out there to explain why

00:04:28.220 he, a true principled conservative Republican, is now embracing the most radically left-wing

00:04:33.860 Democrat ever to run for president. The Republican Party is no longer conservative.

00:04:39.900 It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose 0.93

00:04:49.180 is himself. Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big. 0.99

00:05:00.900 He's a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He's a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim.

00:05:11.060 He puts on, listen, he puts on quite a show, but there is no real strength there. Tarnished by a man

00:05:18.580 too fragile, too vain, and too weak to accept defeat. How can a party claim to be patriotic

00:05:27.700 if it idolizes a man who tried to overthrow a free and fair election? How can a party claim to stand

00:05:34.660 for liberty if it sees a fight for freedom in Ukraine? An attack pitting tyranny against democracy,

00:05:41.460 a challenge to everything our nation claims to be. And it retreats.

00:05:47.300 Everything our nation claims to be, Ukraine. I don't know when we became Ukraine. We hold these

00:05:53.360 truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and we are Ukraine. So wrote Thomas Jefferson.

00:06:01.700 This was a really silly speech, but what's the claim? At the very top of it, he says, 0.92

00:06:05.440 the Republican Party is no longer conservative. It's abandoned. It's conservative principles. I'm

00:06:11.180 the last principled conservative. What principles has the Republican Party abandoned? The GOP is still

00:06:19.520 pro-life. We got Roe v. Wade over. Actually, Trump got Roe v. Wade overruled. It's pretty big.

00:06:23.400 It's the biggest pro-life win in half a century. The conservative party is still in favor of supporting

00:06:31.120 American business and American workers. The Republican Party is still in favor of enforcing

00:06:36.260 our borders, unlike the Democrats. The Republican Party is still in favor of supporting American

00:06:41.440 families. The Republican Party is still in favor of most things that it's been in favor of since I

00:06:49.780 was a kid. In some ways, it's changed. It's a little bit more protective of American workers and

00:06:54.280 American manufacturing. But I don't know. That's really more a return to the tradition of the Republican

00:06:59.920 Party. It went a little bit awry in the 90s and 2000s. But the Republican Party is a little bit

00:07:05.560 more restrained when it comes to foreign policy. We're seeking peace through strength. But that's

00:07:10.560 really a return to the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan. The foreign policy of George W. Bush went a

00:07:17.260 little bit more adventurous abroad. But really, it's a return. Otherwise, what principles has the GOP

00:07:23.940 abandoned for this one man, Donald Trump? As far as I can tell, I mean, look, we like Trump. Trump's

00:07:29.120 great. But I don't think we've abandoned really any principle. We've strengthened some principles

00:07:34.100 under Trump. I don't view politics as about one man. The irony is Adam Kinzinger does. That whole

00:07:42.600 speech was about one guy. It was all about Donald Trump. He never explains how he, the principled

00:07:47.880 conservative, would show up to speak at a Democrat National Convention that has been consecrated in the

00:07:53.740 blood of innocent little babies in the abortion van outside. He never explains the conservative

00:08:01.380 principle of supporting transing the kids, which the DNC openly supports, the conservative principle

00:08:07.740 of left-wing identity politics, the conservative principle of an increasingly socialist economic policy.

00:08:16.220 Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Marxist economist who supports socialist health care,

00:08:21.820 including for illegal aliens. Tim Walls, who says socialism is just another word for neighborliness.

00:08:27.360 Tim Walls, who's had a fascination with communist China, visited many times and described it to his

00:08:33.320 high school students as a place where everyone shares and everyone has food, extolling the virtues

00:08:37.780 of Chinese communism. What's the conservative virtue of that? No, for the Republicans, politics is not

00:08:44.040 about one man. We have a great nominee, and that's Donald Trump, and he's the best president of my

00:08:47.700 lifetime. And so in as much as we nominate a person, I guess there's a guy that you can point

00:08:54.300 to. But politics is not about one man. For Trump's critics, politics is entirely about one man,

00:09:01.260 especially Trump's critics who are supposedly on the right. That guy, Adam Kinzinger, and all those

00:09:07.080 never-Trump Republicans sold out every single actually conservative principle that they have ever

00:09:12.160 purported to believe in just to oppose the mango Mussolini whom they hate so much because he sends 0.91

00:09:17.200 mean tweets. Next up, we had Oprah. Oprah actually spoke not last night but the night before. I really

00:09:23.500 want to get to her, though, because Oprah addressed this joke that J.D. Vance told some time ago where

00:09:32.780 he pointed out that our country is run by this caricature of the childless cat lady. He's not

00:09:37.800 talking about people who suffer from infertility. He's not talking about people who are not called

00:09:42.340 to parenthood who have some other vocation in life. He's talking about a caricature, and we all know the

00:09:46.740 type. We saw a lot of that type at the DNC. We're talking about the people who are hostile to family,

00:09:52.700 who are hostile to human flourishing, the kind of people who would have an abortion van outside their 1.00

00:09:56.300 political convention. So Oprah seizes on this comment, and it inadvertently became the funniest

00:10:03.720 moment of the DNC. Here's what she said. To a childless cat lady. 1.00

00:10:10.380 The camera's on Oprah.

00:10:13.280 The camera's on Oprah.

00:10:15.800 Oh, no.

00:10:18.260 Then the camera just cuts to some random woman, and you see the woman. She's just a woman sitting 1.00

00:10:24.380 there. How many thousands of people are in that arena? And it cuts to her, and then she kind of

00:10:29.680 looks around. She goes, wait, what? Hold on. Wait, why are you looking? Can we play the clip again,

00:10:32.820 please? To a childless cat lady. 1.00

00:10:40.260 And the camera cuts to this bored. Nice, nice enough looking lady in a blue dress. She's kind 1.00

00:10:46.260 of looking down. And then she, I don't know, people, maybe they're cheering around her. She

00:10:50.980 looks up. She goes, wait, what? Why are you looking at me? This is the real life version

00:10:55.680 of an old Key and Peele sketch about politics, where a politician is given a town hall, and then

00:11:02.380 it keeps cutting to one guy who doesn't want the camera on him.

00:11:07.640 I will work for everyone. Whether you are young, whether you are old, whether you are Asian or

00:11:18.140 Hispanic, whether you are straight, or whether you are gay, I will work for all of you. And

00:11:27.980 that's why I also support marriage equality.

00:11:30.660 Why are you calling me gay?

00:11:32.400 Folks don't choose to be gay any more than I choose to be straight.

00:11:38.220 Could you imagine if someone told you that you couldn't marry the person that you loved?

00:11:44.560 I'm sorry. I think gays are people too. Gays are not different.

00:11:51.260 He looks at the camera. Hey, no, wait, cut it out, man. 0.95

00:11:53.440 Gays, they are just like us. They love.

00:11:59.240 Puts his arm around a woman. That was the lady. Oprah did the thing. The Democrats are doing the

00:12:05.800 Key and Peele sketch when they talk about the childless cat lady. They're doing the Monty Python

00:12:09.900 sketch when they talk about transgenderism. Old Monty Python sketch. I say, 1.00

00:12:13.720 I want to be a lady. I want to have babies. Now that's the actual platform of the DNC is that men 0.98

00:12:21.720 should be allowed to do that. Really delightful. It's delightful because it's absurd. And what makes

00:12:29.280 it distressing is that that absurdity actually governs our country. And absurdity in power can be a

00:12:36.340 really nasty, ugly thing. One of the most lunatic leaders famously and infamously in all of history 0.79

00:12:43.760 is Nero. And he caused a lot of suffering. He was really into weird sex stuff too. That, you know, 0.71

00:12:49.560 story for another time. It would be funny if these people didn't have power. They do. 0.98

00:12:56.600 And so it focuses us on the stakes in November. Oprah then hit a darker point than just calling

00:13:05.960 some poor woman in the audience a childless cat lady. She vigorously defended killing babies. 0.99

00:13:12.680 If you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose

00:13:24.600 to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American 1.00

00:13:31.700 dream. Unless you can kill your kid, there's no American dream. We hold these truths to be self 0.98

00:13:39.920 evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

00:13:44.820 Among these, life, except for babies, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to murder

00:13:51.760 your baby. That's why I had the exception in the first right, the life one. That's why I excluded

00:13:57.920 the babies from it. So wrote Thomas Jefferson way back in 1776. I don't think so. I think,

00:14:06.560 call me old-fashioned, call me crazy, I think there is an American dream, even if you can't murder your 0.99

00:14:12.600 kid. But this is what they're pushing. It reminded me, this speech reminded me of just how awful 0.87

00:14:20.900 Oprah is and has always been. Because Oprah is not merely a political figure. She's even become a kind

00:14:30.700 of religious figure. She pushes all that weird new-agey nonsense and the secret, you know, 0.86

00:14:36.860 and all of it. And she pushes a view of morality, a view of anthropology. She's really transcended the

00:14:44.240 merely political. And everything she believes is hideously wrong. So much so that she would articulate

00:14:52.740 what the Democrats already acted out at the DNC, which is that murdering kids is the central

00:15:01.200 sacrament of modern liberalism. Peter Kreeft, I think it was, the philosopher, observed how satanic 0.60

00:15:09.940 this is. Because he said that even the phrases that they use are a satanic parody of Christianity.

00:15:17.160 You know, in Christianity, at the consecration of the Eucharist, of the Holy Communion, you know,

00:15:23.460 the priest will say, reading the words of Christ, this is my body, which will be given up for you.

00:15:29.940 This is my body. And abortion, as the satanic parody of the sacrifice of the mass,

00:15:37.320 uses the exact same words, right? This is my body. This is my body, but to an entirely inverted meaning.

00:15:44.260 But that was basically it for the DNC. There was one more dumb argument I really want to take on 0.98

00:15:52.800 before we move on from a relatively uneventful party convention. And this was the argument 0.98

00:15:58.180 from Josh Shapiro, who is the jilted would-be running mate for Kamala Harris. He's the governor

00:16:03.280 of Pennsylvania. He was not picked to be her running mate, even though he would have probably

00:16:09.560 brought a lot more to the ticket than that wacko Tim Walls over in Minnesota. You know, 0.68

00:16:15.660 Pennsylvania is a must-wing state for Democrats. Some have speculated that Shapiro was passed over

00:16:20.760 because he's a member of a certain ancient nomadic tribe that many of the Democrats don't like very

00:16:26.300 much right now, and that his last name is the reason he couldn't do it. But I don't know,

00:16:31.620 actually, because after you listen to this guy speak, you realize that he's pretty weak.

00:16:35.960 Josh Shapiro used his time at the DNC to invade against Republicans for making the audacious 0.99

00:16:43.400 suggestion that little kids shouldn't read gay porn in schools. 0.53

00:16:48.840 It's not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to read. 0.98

00:16:53.720 It's not freedom!

00:16:55.620 You know, they made the theme freedom. Freedom previously was democracy. But because Kamala was 0.90

00:17:02.340 not democratically nominated because there was actually a coup within the Democratic Party,

00:17:06.980 and they took the nomination from Biden, who was democratically nominated, they can't use

00:17:11.860 democracy as much anymore. So now it's all about freedom. And Shapiro says, it's not freedom

00:17:17.600 to tell our kids in schools, presumably, what books they can read. Tim Walls made basically the same

00:17:26.720 argument. We're banning books from their schools. We were banishing hunger from ours.

00:17:36.840 You hear that? These Republicans are banning books from schools, and there's no freedom in

00:17:40.900 banning books. And so this is a big charge the Dems are making. And the Republicans are totally

00:17:47.140 taking the bait, and I think reacting in a way that is really stupid, and it's only going to help the Dems. 1.00

00:17:51.020 The Republicans are reacting. We're saying, we're not banning books. We're not banning books from 0.99

00:17:56.340 schools. Why would you suggest that? Yes, we are. But the Democrats are banning books too.

00:18:03.860 Everyone has to ban books from schools in the sense that there is only so much time in a given

00:18:10.660 semester. There are only so many books you can teach. Every book you add into the curriculum

00:18:14.600 means there's some book that you're not going to teach in the curriculum.

00:18:17.200 And all societies have standards. We all exclude certain things. I don't think any,

00:18:22.700 even the Democrats, I don't think are going to argue that we should have a Playboy section

00:18:25.480 in the elementary school library. So everybody wants to ban certain books.

00:18:31.140 The question is, which books do the Democrats want to ban and for whom? 0.96

00:18:38.440 Republicans want to ban gay porn from public schools. I think, again, call me old-fashioned and 0.94

00:18:46.480 crazy. I think we should ban gay porn from public schools K through 12, the whole way through. 0.99

00:18:52.540 Many Republicans are merely arguing that we ought to ban gay porn from the elementary schools. And even 0.99

00:18:57.140 that is far too much for the Democrats. They want genderqueer and all sorts of other gay porn in 1.00

00:19:02.980 kindergarten and first grade and second grade. But that's it. The books we want to ban pretty much 0.99

00:19:08.400 is gay porn in schools. The Democrats want to ban the Bible. And they have successfully banned the 0.97

00:19:14.060 Bible. In the middle of the 20th century, the libs were able to get a preposterous court ruling that

00:19:19.380 said that you can't have students read the Bible in schools. Now, the Bible, even if you're an

00:19:25.360 atheist, a non-Christian certainly, but even if you're an atheist, you think all religion is bunk,

00:19:31.580 you would have to admit the Bible is the most important book ever written. It's the most influential

00:19:36.380 book ever written. You can't really understand almost anything of Western civilization without having

00:19:42.040 read the Bible. As my friend Spencer Clavin pointed out the other day during the member block,

00:19:45.760 you can't be an educated person if you haven't read the Bible. That book totally banned from schools.

00:19:51.740 Democrats totally in favor of banning that. But they will get up in arms if you suggest that maybe

00:19:58.520 we shouldn't have gay porn in the fourth grade classroom. So if Josh Shapiro really means what he 0.98

00:20:04.520 says, if Tim Walls really means what he says, can't ban books in schools. Cool. We can have the Bible

00:20:08.720 back in schools. Is that what you mean? No, that's not what they mean. And this is the way to argue

00:20:15.300 it, I think. This is going to be much more convincing than adopting a liberal premise that

00:20:20.600 you can never circumscribe any kind of reading material, even in an elementary school classroom,

00:20:26.060 something that not even the liberals believe. Yeah, both sides are trying to ban books.

00:20:31.160 We want to ban gay porn in the schools and the libs want to ban the Bible. Which side are you on? 1.00

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00:21:54.540 tripled. My favorite comment yesterday is from SoldierOfChrist4545, who says,

00:21:58.900 that poetry, I assume you mean the slam poetry from Amanda, what's her name, Amanda Gorman?

00:22:05.880 I think it's Gorman or Gordon at the DNC. That poetry was definitely unburdened by what has been.

00:22:10.920 That's true. Namely, culture, English grammar, art, artistry. That is, it was very much unburdened

00:22:20.380 by what has been. Speaking further about education, the New York Times is up in arms

00:22:28.020 because last year, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can no longer discriminate on the basis

00:22:38.220 of race in admissions. For decades now, the Supreme Court has discriminated on the basis of race when it

00:22:47.440 comes to admissions. They discriminate against Asians, they discriminate against whites, 0.85

00:22:52.640 and they discriminate in favor of Hispanics and black people and Native American Indians and

00:22:59.320 any other number of small minority ethnic groups. This is just a matter of law for decades. And so

00:23:08.500 the Supreme Court said, oh, actually, you're not really allowed to do that. That's actually

00:23:12.420 unconstitutional. Here's how the New York Times is reporting what has happened since.

00:23:17.440 At MIT, black and Latino enrollment drops sharply after affirmative action ban.

00:23:26.220 That would be expected. If those two groups are having their qualifications artificially inflated

00:23:33.400 just on the basis of their race, and other groups are having their qualifications suppressed,

00:23:39.320 then once you reinstitute a more merit-based admission system, just looking at test scores,

00:23:48.040 preparedness for the curriculum at MIT, etc., then yeah, you would expect the group that was

00:23:54.060 artificially inflated to deflate a little bit and the group that was artificially suppressed to

00:23:57.380 increase a little bit. Then the sub-headline, Asian American students made up almost half of the

00:24:03.220 2028 class. So the big beneficiaries aren't really white people. The big beneficiaries are Asians,

00:24:08.280 which is the only reason we're even allowed to talk about this, by the way. If the affirmative

00:24:12.200 action policies merely discriminated against white people, they would still be on the books today 0.64

00:24:15.960 because we live not just in a legal system that discriminates against white people, but in a culture

00:24:23.600 that encourages that discrimination against white people. If you ever suggest that perhaps we should

00:24:29.980 not, as a matter of law, discriminate against white people, you will be called a racist for that,

00:24:34.620 especially if you're a white person. You'll be called every name in the book to the point that

00:24:39.860 most people, and especially most white people, won't even raise an objection to the legal discrimination

00:24:45.540 that they face. But because the Democrats made a big mistake and they also discriminated against

00:24:51.720 Asians, their own dominant liberal identity politics were able to be used against them.

00:24:59.560 So they could claim that Asians are an oppressed minority group, non-white, don't partake of white

00:25:04.620 supremacy, and therefore that's why the policy was wrong. And now Asians are making up half of the 1.00

00:25:11.800 class since the end of affirmative action. Okay, that's true. How else, though, could we report on

00:25:19.000 this? You know, the New York Times is obviously furious about it. The New York Times wants fewer

00:25:22.220 Asians and fewer whites at MIT, even if those kids are qualified, and they want more blacks and Latinos 0.99

00:25:27.280 at MIT. But think about the kids. It wasn't so long ago that I was applying to college, 0.90

00:25:33.640 and I was applying to a very competitive school. Imagine that you're the kid who has worked really

00:25:43.520 hard his whole life. And in this case, let's say you're not just an Asian American student,

00:25:50.100 but you're an Asian American immigrant. I know plenty of these kids whose families came here with

00:25:55.380 nothing. The parents worked very, very hard. And, you know, tiger moms drilled academic discipline 1.00

00:26:01.560 into their kids. And these kids, you know, give up other opportunities to go out and hang out with

00:26:06.060 friends, to, you know, to do extracurricular activities. You know, they're really focusing on

00:26:11.020 their academics doing a lot of test prep. They work really, really hard. And they do better than

00:26:15.640 other students. And they've put in their all, and they're ready for the curriculum. But because

00:26:22.720 they're Asian, or dare we say, because they're white, they don't get to go. And so they go to a 0.97

00:26:30.160 school that is less prestigious. That's going to have effects for the rest of their lives, very possibly.

00:26:36.500 It's not always the case. You know, there are plenty of people who go to Harvard and Yale,

00:26:40.160 and they're just total flunkies, and it doesn't help at all. But it can help. It can help you get

00:26:44.840 into that really big law firm. It can help you get into that big consulting firm, or investment bank,

00:26:49.140 or, you know, it can be the difference between millions and millions of dollars over the course

00:26:54.220 of your life. Doors opening for you, the graduate school you get into. And you don't get that

00:27:00.840 because you're Asian, or because you're white. Isn't that really, shouldn't we, rather than being

00:27:07.440 sorry for the black and Hispanic kids who didn't do as well on the tests, who didn't do as well in

00:27:13.260 school, who now won't be going to MIT, and they'll be going to some other school, or plenty of other

00:27:16.900 schools that will be happy to have them? Shouldn't we be happy for the kids who did do well on the test,

00:27:22.080 and did do well in school, and who are getting in now? The whole way that the Libs are framing this

00:27:29.520 issue, and the whole way they frame politics, really, is purely from the perspective of one

00:27:35.500 group, whatever their preferred group in that case happens to be. But when we think about politics,

00:27:42.160 we're supposed to be thinking of the common good. Don't the Libs tell us, we've got to think about

00:27:45.380 everybody. We've got to include everybody. But they're not. The only way that this racial 0.99

00:27:49.060 discrimination was ever justifiable was if you say that whites and Asians don't really count. 0.87

00:27:55.120 They're not really people. Screw them. They don't have any feelings. They don't deserve anything. 1.00

00:27:58.540 They don't have any rights. That's the only way that it ever made sense.

00:28:02.860 Furthermore, there were really negative academic consequences to it. Antonin Scalia wrote about

00:28:07.540 this, and he got in big trouble for writing about it. But there is the problem of mismatch.

00:28:11.260 If a kid has his grades artificially inflated or his test scores artificially inflated to get him

00:28:15.740 into a school simply on the basis of his race, one of two things is going to happen. Either the school

00:28:21.840 is going to lower its standards to meet the students, which is really why you have all of these

00:28:25.560 grievance studies departments proliferating. It's because students who are not really able

00:28:30.220 to hack it at these schools can't take the serious academic disciplines. So they've got to take gay 1.00

00:28:35.160 studies or something like that. And they'll get an easy A in it, but they won't really learn anything.

00:28:40.120 So either the academic standards will decline or the kids will flunk out. And maybe the kids have

00:28:45.060 taken out some loans to go to these schools. Certainly the kids would have wasted time if they spent a

00:28:49.680 semester or two semesters at these schools. And then they flunk out. They're set a year back.

00:28:53.860 They've got nothing to show for it. It actually hurts their resume because they've been expelled

00:28:59.060 from a school. That's called the mismatch theory of higher education. And it happens. That's very

00:29:06.520 real. So it's not even good for the supposedly favored racial groups that these policies are

00:29:12.360 supposed to benefit. The New York Times is crying. I think this is really, really good stuff that

00:29:17.740 we're eliminating racial discrimination in college admissions. Now, speaking of great

00:29:23.840 court decisions, this is a big one. And this is really going to matter when it comes to the

00:29:28.140 election. The Supreme Court has just ruled that Arizona must reject state voter registration forms

00:29:34.020 without proof of citizenship. This just came out yesterday. This follows an emergency appeal

00:29:39.380 from the Republican National Convention. Arizona was trying to sneak these voter registration forms

00:29:45.580 through without proof of U.S. citizenship. The libs recognize if this is going to be a close election,

00:29:51.620 they're going to need to use every trick in the book. And one of those tricks is just getting a lot

00:29:55.720 of ineligible people to be registered as voters. Supreme Court just said no. The only reason that

00:30:03.820 anyone would throw a hissy fit about this is if they were trying to rig the election. And take a look

00:30:10.520 at who's throwing a hissy fit. Before we get to the mailbag, which I'm very excited about as always,

00:30:16.000 I do have to get to this one clip from CNN where CNN, Dana Bash, made the cruelest remark that I've

00:30:25.500 heard yet from anyone about Tim Walls and Kamala's husband, Doug Emhoff.

00:30:30.560 It has been noteworthy to see how they are learning about what to do and how to confront

00:30:38.600 Donald Trump as the opponent to a woman. 2016 and now, very different campaigns,

00:30:44.060 very different female candidates. But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures,

00:30:53.080 Tim Walls being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who

00:31:01.280 might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy.

00:31:10.280 Yeah, they speak to men who are not, there's not so much like, oh, I have a Y chromosome.

00:31:17.560 Oh, I identify as a man. They speak to a different kind of man, you know?

00:31:23.380 What do we call them? Arnold Schwarzenegger called them girly men. CNN. Hey, that wasn't Daily

00:31:28.940 Wire. That wasn't The Blaze. That wasn't Fox News. That was CNN saying that Walls and Emhoff

00:31:35.600 appeal to girly men. Very, very rough. But it's true. You know, part of the reason I think that

00:31:42.200 Kamala picked a male running mate is she recognizes that her being a woman is a vulnerability. Forget 1.00

00:31:49.500 about the Democrat identity politics. We've never had a woman president. There's probably a reason 1.00

00:31:55.060 throughout history that most political leaders have been men. Not all, but most have been.

00:31:59.640 There might just be something in human nature that inclines us toward male political leaders,

00:32:03.100 and so she's trying to balance that out. This is why she wore a big masculine blazer last night

00:32:07.800 with big, wide, sturdy shoulders in it, single-breasted, big, wide peak lapel, big pants. She's 1.00

00:32:14.420 trying to lean into a more masculine image. I think picking a male running mate was supposed to 0.87

00:32:20.460 help her on that front. CNN saying, uh, not quite doing the trick. Ready to refresh your space and

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00:33:32.200 Dun, dun, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I sing that every day. Michael Knowles, you are an English

00:33:39.880 major. You analyze everything like a brilliant English major. I will be teaching English 2030 this semester,

00:33:53.380 and I was wondering if you could teach any novel, any drama play, any poem, and any short story. What would

00:34:03.600 those four texts be? Thank you so much.

00:34:09.320 One correction. I was actually not an English major. I, you know, I do write in English, and I spend most of

00:34:15.960 my time in the English language, but my majors were history and Italian, Italian literature specifically,

00:34:21.120 because I knew Italian going into school. So, uh, but it's kind of funny, but I'm happy to answer

00:34:25.440 the question anyway. Uh, my, the novel I would recommend, the novel, the, if I could pick one,

00:34:31.560 this teaching in high school, I assume that I would probably pick Crime and Punishment,

00:34:38.920 Dostoyevsky. I, it's, it, it, it might be the greatest novel ever written. I'm not sure,

00:34:44.780 I'm not sure it's the greatest novel ever written, but it's, it's maybe the greatest novel that a high

00:34:49.520 schooler can appreciate. So, I would do that in terms of the play that I would teach. I would teach

00:34:55.600 Hamlet, probably. Uh, if I, if I only get to pick one, I'd probably pick Hamlet. In terms of the poem I

00:35:02.600 would teach, at a high school level, hmm, maybe The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot. It might be a little

00:35:13.760 advanced, but then that way you get, you know, you, you're covering modernism, but you're also,

00:35:18.700 he's a traditionalist and you're, you're getting a lot in there. So, probably that's, that's what

00:35:25.620 I would go for. And, uh, for short story, I guess, what would I say? Maybe like The Raven or

00:35:32.960 something, you know? Well, that, no, I mean, I guess that would, that would, uh, maybe fit in with

00:35:36.920 poetry. Uh, I'll, I'll give a hat tip to my friend Andrew Clavin here. And I would say maybe The Great

00:35:41.640 Good Place by Henry James would be a good short story to read. It's really good. I mean, people

00:35:46.820 probably in high school, you'd be more inclined towards something from Hemingway or something,

00:35:50.420 but, uh, The Great Good Place by Henry James would be, would be a good one. And it would teach them

00:35:55.180 more important, true things than, uh, Hemingway probably would. Next question.

00:36:01.600 Hello, Mr. Knowles. Uh, thank you for talking about the difficulties that you and sweet little Lisa had

00:36:06.160 when you were trying to conceive children. Me and my wife, we've been married for just two or five years now,

00:36:10.820 and you gave me a lot of hope. Um, we currently have a six month old, incredibly beautiful baby

00:36:16.940 daughter. And I want to thank you for that. Uh, two quick questions. First, uh, when sweet little

00:36:23.420 Lisa gives you a mortadella, um, is she giving you the mortadella with pistachios in it or is she giving

00:36:30.340 you the bad stuff? Uh, secondly, um, when you are enjoying your delectable and aromatic Mayflower

00:36:37.860 cigars, uh, do you hide that from your children? Um, or is it just after they go to bed? Um, I mean,

00:36:47.360 obviously it's not something that's shameful, but it's certainly not for children. Uh, must be 21 to 0.93

00:36:52.520 buy restrictions and exclusion supply. Uh, but how do, how do you approach that? I mean, I guess the same

00:37:00.000 thing could be said about having a couple of Coca-Colas. Um, thank you for your feedback.

00:37:04.500 Great. I'll run through. So glad to hear that you got a kid and I'm very happy to hear, maybe in a way

00:37:11.060 more happy to hear that my mentioning that it took us a little while to get our first kid, uh, you know,

00:37:15.860 got you through that difficulty. Cause when people are struggling with infertility, uh, you know,

00:37:20.060 I've seen it, it, uh, it, it really can drive you crazy. So that's, uh, that's all great news.

00:37:25.140 Terms of the mortadella, I'm actually trying to remember, I think it would, it might be the

00:37:31.240 pistachio kind. I agree. The pistachio kind's better. I'm just trying to remember cause we,

00:37:35.240 you know, we're not in New York anymore. So we got to get the package stuff and, but it's a,

00:37:39.280 it's a decent packaged mortadella. And, uh, then on the stogies, I usually just out of habit,

00:37:48.060 I usually have a cigar when the kids are asleep because that's the only time I get to sit outside

00:37:53.740 and do some work or read a book. And that's usually when I would have a cigar. So it's usually

00:37:57.860 when they're napping or in bed, but I don't hide the cigars from them. I've had cigars with them,

00:38:01.880 not like, like they're not smoking, you know, they're, they're a little bit too young. Uh,

00:38:05.320 but if we're, you know, if we're sitting outside or if I'm, we're going for a walk or something,

00:38:08.940 I might have a cigar. I don't hide it. I don't, as you say, I don't think it's anything to be ashamed

00:38:12.420 of. Um, you know, if I were like chain smoking cigarettes and it were an impeditive kind of action,

00:38:17.740 then you might not want to do that, but they're aware of that. You know, they see this cigar.

00:38:22.180 I got cigar boxes all over the house. They put their little cars in different boxes,

00:38:25.160 little Mayflower boxes and things like that. So, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't think it's anything

00:38:29.360 to hide from them. And then my children will say, they say, they does that your cigar. I'll say,

00:38:34.000 that is my cigar. I'll say, but I can't have that. I'm too young. I said, that's right. You are too

00:38:37.920 young. Yeah. Not until we're older. And then sometimes this is really, this makes my heart just,

00:38:43.040 you know, beat out of my chest. Someday we can have one together when I'm grown up. And I say,

00:38:49.680 yes, we can, buddy. Same thing with wine. If I'm having a glass of wine and say, they does that wine?

00:38:53.120 I say, yeah, it is wine. I say, oh, I can't have that. I'm too young. You are too young. That's

00:38:57.520 right. But someday when I'm grown up, we can have a glass together. I said that we absolutely can,

00:39:01.780 buddy. You're right. Love that. It's a beautiful thing. So they kind of get it. I don't,

00:39:05.860 I don't see my toddlers busting into my humidor. Next question.

00:39:11.380 Good morning, Michael Knowles. I've been thinking about if as Christians, there are Bible verses and

00:39:17.160 explicitly New Testament Bible verses we can use to justify utilizing political power to wield

00:39:23.000 the state's power of the sort to compel non-Christians to do what is right. One such 1.00

00:39:28.220 example would be creating and enforcing laws that compel people to take such actions. Thank you for

00:39:34.160 your help. Have a good weekend. Yeah, you can point to that in the Bible, but it's not, you don't,

00:39:40.100 you don't even really need the Bible to do that. You know, obviously St. Paul says that

00:39:44.580 the civil authority does not bear the sword in vain and that the civil authority is there for our

00:39:49.480 good. So that's, that would be a verse of the Bible. Our Lord says, give to Caesar what is Caesar's

00:39:55.640 and give to God what is God's. But, but when you say, you know, can we as Christians wield the state

00:40:02.820 to make non-Christians do good things? You don't really need to bring the Bible or religion into that 0.95

00:40:09.080 at all. It's, that's just a question of justice. Really, really the question is just, can we do

00:40:16.580 politics? You know, can we be in political power and, uh, enact ordinances of justice, namely laws,

00:40:25.060 and then enforce them? But yes, of course, of course we can. And, you know, that's just,

00:40:28.780 that's just what politics is. Politics is, uh, an enactment of justice. Law is an ordinance of

00:40:36.040 reason. It's not an ordinance of revelation necessarily. It's an ordinance of reason

00:40:39.960 for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated. So, you know, you don't,

00:40:45.820 you really don't need to bring in revelation at all there. I mean, if you're asking me,

00:40:51.180 should Christians wield the power of the state to force people to convert to Christianity or 0.78

00:40:55.440 something? Certainly not. I mean, that's never been the position of the church. Um, there, there've

00:41:00.480 only been a couple of times in history when that's even really happened. I'm thinking of, uh, Charlemagne

00:41:06.640 and the Spanish Inquisition were too, and even when it comes to Charlemagne, his theological advisor,

00:41:11.500 Alcuin of York told him not to do that, that you really can't, uh, compel people to, to be baptized.

00:41:16.660 That's not how it works. Um, but, but other, other than that, uh, I don't even think that's really

00:41:22.060 what you're asking. I think you're just saying, can, can the state, you know, wield its authority to

00:41:26.200 encourage people to do good and discourage people from doing bad? Yeah. That's just the law. That's

00:41:30.480 just what justice is. You can, you can, you know, take your particular religious views out of it.

00:41:37.460 Uh, next question. Hi, Michael. Um, I wanted to leave a message. I'm not sure if you can play this.

00:41:47.780 Um, I'm in my fifties. This is about abortion. I'm in my fifties. So when I was, uh, 40,

00:41:56.200 one, I got pregnant and this is embarrassing, but I was addicted to, uh, addicted to drugs.

00:42:06.420 And my doctor said, how dare you bring a baby into this world when you're addicted to drugs? It's

00:42:14.780 going to be damaged or neurologically damaged. And, um, I felt so bad. He was so angry. So I,

00:42:24.920 um, asked if I could go to detox and he said that that was out of his purview. So I got really upset

00:42:35.780 and I had an abortion, but when I had the abortion, I told the doctor that I wanted to stay awake

00:42:43.460 and he thought that was crazy, but he said, okay. And, um, he said, why? And I said, so I never do this

00:42:52.260 again. And, um, um, I was awake for the whole thing. And I think, and there was a red medical trash can

00:43:06.720 and I watched him throw my baby in the trash. And it was the most painful experience of my life.

00:43:18.080 And there were, you know, they heard you into this waiting room and they shut the door

00:43:25.220 and you can't go out. Um, you have to go through the procedure room and all the girls, they're really 1.00

00:43:33.940 young and they were crying. They're crying. And, um, the place put boxes of tissue out.

00:43:42.220 And now I look back and how disgusting that was that they knew how hard it was. And they put boxes of

00:43:49.540 tissue out. Anyway, so now I'm older and I could never have children again, and I don't have

00:43:57.280 grandchildren. So people don't tell you about that, that you regret not having grandchildren.

00:44:04.360 Okay. That's it. Thank you.

00:44:06.900 Oh, man. Uh, really, really sorry to hear all of that, uh, from the horrible advice from the doctor

00:44:15.040 to the drug addiction, to this awful decision, to, you know, all of it. So even your, your sense that

00:44:22.020 you, you knew it was so wrong. That's why you, you know, stayed awake during it. And really just,

00:44:26.660 uh, totally heart-wrenching to then even the notion of in the, in the waiting room, all these girls are 1.00

00:44:32.280 crying. Why are they crying? It's not tears of joy, obviously. And it's just so, so dark. Uh,

00:44:39.460 there was no question in your story, you know, I appreciate your, your telling, telling us that,

00:44:43.460 uh, if, if there were a question of, you know, what do I do or how do I think about it? I, I would

00:44:48.620 recommend, um, sacramental confession would, would be my, uh, spiritual recommendation here.

00:44:56.360 Since, you know, there's, there's nothing that God can't forgive, uh, if you're, if you're seeking

00:45:00.820 forgiveness. Uh, and I, I, you know, uh, if one were to look at all for the kind of silver lining in

00:45:09.180 the storm cloud, I think it's this, what you've just told to a lot of people, many, many people

00:45:14.280 listening to this show on the podcast, on YouTube, on terrestrial radio and all over the world, even,

00:45:20.960 uh, a lot of people haven't heard that. A lot of people don't hear that part. They hear about how

00:45:26.400 it's abortion's freedom and you're going to feel really great. And you need this. This is, Oprah's

00:45:30.020 going to tell you, this is the American dream. That's the American, it sounds like an American

00:45:32.600 nightmare to me. And this is, uh, the sort of thing that you say is so, so gravely damaged your

00:45:39.440 life to say nothing about the life of your child. And, uh, there's a van pushing this at the DNC.

00:45:47.500 This is the side that you're not going to hear. They want it to, the liberals want to talk about

00:45:52.440 banning books and suppressing information. They're suppressing a lot of this information,

00:45:56.760 aren't they? So at the very least, I think it's a very, uh, helpful to others as a, as a warning.

00:46:02.600 So thank you for that. Okay. That's our show. Uh, we've got a lot more coming up. The

00:46:06.580 Membrum Segmentum is here. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:20.660 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.96

00:46:25.560 Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much. At least 0.98

00:46:29.540 not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this

00:46:33.700 journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

00:46:39.100 They don't say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certifications.

00:46:44.960 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this 0.97

00:46:48.500 for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the

00:46:52.880 George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. 0.88

00:46:57.020 So inherently. Yeah. This country is a piece of... 0.98

00:46:59.740 White. Folks. White. Trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person 1.00

00:47:05.640 around here? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist? They don't say I'm racist. 0.65

00:47:09.880 Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:47:15.060 Never be too careful. They gonna say you racist. Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th. Rated PG-13.

00:47:20.000 K besieken pc. Rated PG-13. Rob Tôi Поэтому.

00:47:34.740 , tím briby, Huh?

00:47:37.140 People will be guilty.

00:47:40.900 Oh, I had to think Hey, people can do this.

00:47:44.920 Hmm.

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