One in 18 American high school students doesn t know what their gender is, according to the CDC. A Venezuelan prison gang takes over an American town, and Tim Walz tries to go pheasant hunting. But I ve got you covered.
00:00:00.000One in 18 American high school students doesn't know what gender he is, according to the CDC.
00:00:07.120A Venezuelan prison gang takes over an American town, and Tim Walz tries to go pheasant hunting.
00:00:13.400I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:01:12.240Before we get to what I think is the biggest news story in the world right now, which is about how one in 18 American high school students doesn't know what his gender is,
00:01:23.000I guess I have to mention there might have been a third assassination attempt on President Trump over the weekend.
00:01:30.840This was at Trump's massive Coachella rally that looked bigger than the Coachella festival that's been going on for years now.
00:01:39.180There are reports that a half a mile outside the security gate, a man was arrested with a bunch of guns, potentially trying to assassinate President Trump again.
00:01:56.820There's not a lot of information about this one.
00:01:59.700The only reason I even mention the story yet with so few details is it is a crazy thing that President Trump almost assassinated again is the kind of headline that now we don't even bat our eyes at.
00:02:14.760President Trump, presidential candidate, former president, nearly assassinated.
00:02:23.640No wonder someone's trying to kill him again.
00:02:26.560That to me, that's the big the fact that this is not a major news story is the news story.
00:02:31.660Democrats have so normalized trying to assassinate Trump that we don't even really pay attention to it.
00:02:38.460There were prominent leftists the first time that Trump was very nearly killed and the bullet actually did hit him in the ear who said, well, you know, that's the consequence of spreading hate.
00:02:48.680You know, well, what do you expect when you're a threat to democracy when you're Hitler 2.0?
00:03:09.240Real indictment of our political order.
00:03:10.800But I want to get to our most important news story of the day that is being completely neglected and I guess you'd say even suppressed by the establishment media.
00:03:21.980Over 3% of American high schoolers now identify as transgender.
00:04:08.780Now, what do we know about students who identify as transgender or who are questioning their gender?
00:04:18.320We know that they try to kill themselves at extraordinarily high numbers.
00:04:23.160Roughly 70% of trans identifying or gender questioning students report feeling persistent sadness or despair, despair, hopelessness for a period of more than two weeks in the past year.
00:04:41.840When you compare that to girls, you know, teenage girls are totally nuts.
00:04:46.420But even just regular normal teenage girls, that half of them report persistent sadness.
00:04:52.500When you get to boys, regular normal boys who know they're boys, it's about a quarter.
00:05:00.800But if you identify as trans or question your gender, you are much, much more likely to feel despair and persistent sadness.
00:05:10.520On top of that, 10% of trans identifying students reported receiving medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse for attempting to kill themselves in the past year.
00:05:23.260So that's not even taking into account all the kids who have tried to kill themselves in the past year.
00:05:28.860That is specifically the kids who have received medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse for trying to kill themselves.
00:05:34.060That is compared to 2.6% of girls who know they're girls.
00:05:40.180So 4x the rate of girls and 1% of boys.
00:05:45.44010x the rate of regular boys who know that they're boys.
00:05:50.740You need to find alternatives to regular American high schools for your kids.
00:07:03.160But it seems like it's a curriculum problem.
00:07:05.400If one in 30 high school kids is identifying as trans and one in 18 doesn't know what his gender is, that seems to be a much higher rate than any other institution in the country.
00:07:17.780It seems to me like the schools are teaching that kind of stuff.
00:07:20.540They're impelling students to have that identity, and that identity has a very, very high likelihood of killing your kid, okay?
00:07:27.760This is no longer just, well, we're going to have to fix all that claptrap the teachers put into their heads when they get home or, you know, over the summer or something like that.
00:07:35.800No, this is like life or death right now, which is why there is a political problem that has to be addressed.
00:07:43.300Conservatives have to take control of the schools back again.
00:07:46.040We have to fire the leftist activists who are trying to lead your kid to suicide.
00:09:00.880And for the parents who have trouble doing that, financial trouble or trouble because both parents are out there working and it's hard to homeschool or kids who are in an area where it's not as easy as in other areas, we need a political solution.
00:09:12.320You can't keep pushing this issue off.
00:09:15.380The schools are actively pushing this stuff.
00:09:16.840LAUSD, the Los Angeles School District, has just celebrated 36 years of Coming Out Day.
00:09:24.560Coming Out Day is a day when school staff encourage kids to identify as gay and now trans and queer and questioning or whatever the initialism has come out to.
00:09:34.940LAUSD tweets, National Coming Out Day was started in 1988 on the premise that prejudice thrives in silence.
00:09:41.740Every year on October 11th, many people come out as LGBTQ.
00:09:44.760Many more come out as allies on behalf of their students and family members.
00:09:51.200Los Angeles public schools might not teach your students to read, probably won't teach your students to read, but they will encourage them to do disordered sex stuff.
00:09:59.700So, you know, at least taxpayers in California, you're getting your money's worth.
00:10:06.820Is the libs in recent decades have invaded against what they call conversion therapy, which is when someone, you know, has disordered affections and desires and they go to a therapist.
00:10:17.980They say, hey, I want to have normal desires, right?
00:10:19.760I'd rather, I'd like to mitigate some of these disordered and harmful desires I have.
00:10:23.340And the therapist says, okay, well, here's some ways to work on it or whatever.
00:10:53.680It's creating incentives to do that and disincentives to hold traditional views, the views of Christianity, the views of Judaism, the views of Islam, the views of traditionalism, even a kind of less religious traditionalism.
00:11:09.920It's going on in the biggest school districts in the country.
00:13:32.520And then the mom looks at it and says, where'd you get this?
00:13:35.700The kid says, my teacher gives it to me for sleeping.
00:13:38.860They find out the teachers are giving it to all these kids.
00:13:41.940And the drugs that they're giving them, the original Sleep Z Patch, has melatonin, L-theanine, GABA, Cosmoparine, Passion Oil, Lavender Oil, Valerian, Censor, Aguaganda, and Hops.
00:15:15.640Because to be normalized into this culture, which is extremely abnormal, means your kid has a 1 in 18 chance of not knowing if he's a boy or a girl.
00:15:25.280You want your kid to be normalized that way?
00:15:56.98097% of the time, the homeschool kids I meet are better educated, more confident, more articulate, more mature than the kids who went to public school or even the fancy private schools.
00:16:12.420When you have this question of normalizing something, socializing something, those terms don't exist in a vacuum.
00:16:21.220You're always being normalized into some norm.
00:16:24.360You're always being socialized into some social group.
00:16:27.120And today, the dominant social groups are extremely disordered.
00:16:32.040And it's not just a matter of going through a little rebellious phase and getting a nose ring or something.
00:16:36.860We're talking about people castrating themselves, permanently messing up their biochemistry, or leading themselves into anxiety, depression, and suicide.
00:16:47.140And in one of the less egregious bad outcomes, your four-year-old is getting drugged by his teacher to go to sleep because no one cares about your kids like you do, allegedly.
00:17:02.200Speaking of libs endangering your family, unbelievable news story out.
00:17:38.820He's talking to Martha Raddatz, who is a liberal propagandist par excellence.
00:17:44.120And Martha Raddatz does her best, does somersaults, to defend this policy by pointing out, well, you know, it's only a handful of buildings.
00:17:58.000The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complex, apartment complexes.
00:18:05.860And the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.
00:18:16.120Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
00:18:21.140And Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border.
00:18:24.780Americans are so fed up with what's going on and they have every right to be.
00:18:29.520And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.
00:18:46.060I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here.
00:18:50.960We've got to get American communities in a safe space again.
00:18:54.460And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't know who they really are, you're going to have problems like this.
00:19:19.160Your boss, the president, says that Venezuelan prison gangs are overrunning apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado after they were let in by Kamala Harris.
00:19:30.600And fact check, it's only a handful of apartment buildings.
00:19:34.460Okay, fact check, the Venezuelan prison gang that Kamala Harris imported into the country has only taken over like half the city, not three quarters of it.
00:19:45.660So, you know, 17 Pinocchios, it's total fake news.
00:20:44.240This is, I think, the typical liberal reaction.
00:20:48.800Our enemies are always right and justified, even when it's a Venezuelan prison gang, even when it's MS-13.
00:20:55.560MS-13, which is literally a satanic cult.
00:20:59.040They worship Satan, they have overt satanic rituals, and they rape, murder, behead as a matter of fun, as a matter of delight for them, okay?
00:21:10.040And gangs like Trendy Aragua and gangs like MS-13, they have to be right.
00:21:30.360Christopher Columbus, you know, he took the land from the Indians or whatever.
00:21:34.460So that's why we need to let satanic gangs and prison gangs overrun our towns and take over our apartment buildings.
00:21:42.460Because, I don't know, because Cortez, you know, conquered the human-sacrificing Aztec empire that was ripping young virgins,
00:21:53.400still beating hearts out of their chest and rolling their bodies down Tenochtitlan's temple.
00:21:59.040Because of that terrible injustice of Spanish explorers and Italian explorers who are with the Spanish, bringing Christianity to this pagan, savage land.
00:22:11.640Because of that, we need to give the land over to some of the most pagan, savage people who have ever existed.
00:22:19.920These gangs that Kamala Harris is importing and turning a blind eye to while they take over American towns.
00:27:53.740This is the problem for the Harris campaign right now, is they're not doing well enough in the polls to sit back and the momentum actually seems to be working against them.
00:29:08.240CBS News, 60 Minutes, has to actually edit her clip and pull different responses here from this question, move it over here, to try to make it seem like she's even coherent.
00:29:57.180Coach Tim Walls did the coin toss tonight at the school where he used to teach football for their rivalry game.
00:30:02.920Coach Walls is truly an amazing person.
00:30:05.400So, did you catch that phrase in there?
00:30:09.680Listen, I was never the biggest athlete in the world, okay?
00:30:13.720I did not have the makings of a varsity athlete, never played on the football team.
00:30:17.680And yet, even I know, one does not teach football.
00:30:22.300Did Coach Walls teach football to all the varsity performers at all of the football rehearsals?
00:30:29.000Did he make sure they all wore fabulous matching costumes during the football rehearsals for the big football performance at the end of the season?
00:30:38.200But even the people who are paid by Democrats to be propagandists for them, to put out the most crystal clear, precise message, are not capable of doing it.
00:30:56.500The Democrats wanted to castigate masculinity, to smear masculinity as toxic and evil and disgusting and something that no civilized person would ever take part in.
00:31:12.760Now, they're upset that they became what they wanted to be.
00:31:29.400Barack Obama put pajama boy in that commercial.
00:31:31.440Some of you are too young to remember this.
00:31:33.200I think it was before Thanksgiving or Christmas.
00:31:35.880There was this picture of this millennial guy with his little glasses on wearing onesie pajamas, holding hot cocoa in an advertisement about how to talk to your family about how great Obamacare was.
00:33:46.480Harrison Butker, first of all, this guy has no fear of the libs whatsoever.
00:33:51.200He gave that great speech at Benedictine College where he said, women enjoy being wives and mothers, and men need to be trads, and it's good to live a normal life.
00:34:01.060So he is willing to step out there, even though, look, he's got a huge NFL contract.
00:34:06.920He's a big player in a game that is controlled by a lot of liberals.
00:34:11.220So, but his answer on Trump is a perfect answer, even as a political matter, because he doesn't shy away from the fundamental issue here.
00:34:23.380He's not saying, look, I want to vote for Trump because I think he'll have a better tariffs policy than President Kamala.
00:34:27.800I want to vote for Trump because he has a better position in the war in Ukraine than Kamala does.
00:34:33.840No, that stuff is all really open to debate.
00:34:35.500He says, oh, no, the other side kills babies, and I'm opposed to that.
00:34:38.860So I'm pro-life, and we need to protect life.
00:34:41.220You would think that's a really controversial issue, that Butker should talk about any issue other than that.
00:34:47.200But actually, that's the safest issue to talk about because there's really no arguing with it.
00:34:51.800You could say, well, how dare you, Harrison?
00:34:53.760I oppose your view of circumscribing what women can do with their bodies.
00:34:58.980But he can just say, look, it's really basic.
00:35:01.160I believe a baby is a baby from the minute the baby exists, and I think it's wrong to murder babies.
00:35:06.180So I'm going to vote for the president who's the most pro-life.
00:35:08.300And Trump has a nuanced view of abortion, and maybe Trump's not as pro-life even as the pro-lifers would like.
00:35:14.880But I, as a pro-lifer, recognize that Kamala wants to murder babies up until the moment of birth or afterward.
00:35:20.540Tim Walz certainly wants to murder them afterward.
00:35:23.200He inscribed that license into law as governor of Minnesota.
00:35:28.360And so I'm going to vote for Trump, simple as.
00:35:43.960I don't know, people could claim this about any core aspect of their identity.
00:35:47.100And they say, look, I have a deeply held religious belief.
00:35:49.020And the liberals today, even the radical liberals, will still have a kind of understanding for that.
00:35:56.700Because there's still going to be this little hangover of all the liberal claptrap about tolerance and how we need to accept people's belief and multiculturalism.
00:36:41.620At The Daily Wire, we are dedicated to preserving free speech, defending conservative values, and exposing the truth the media won't show you.
00:37:24.660I agree it would be good if she behaved like an adult, but our political class now is basically indistinguishable from juvenile TikTok influencers.
00:37:32.560So she can get away with it, and she very well might.
00:37:40.480Speaking of football players and sports, the Democrats are not really all that concerned about football or sports.
00:37:48.920Tim Walz, he undermined the men for Kamala strategy yet again a few days ago when, I forget if this would have been Friday.
00:37:58.100I forget exactly when the games were, Friday or Thursday.
00:38:02.900Tim Walz shows up to a bar, some kind of campaign event.
00:38:06.960Now, this was the day after a Major League Baseball playoff game, the day after ALDS, and the day after an NFL game.
00:38:19.240And what does Tim Walz choose to talk about?
00:38:22.360Tim Walz chooses to focus on the WNBA game that occurred during those two actual sporting events.