The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1620 - Trump's Win Triggers Mass Firings For Collapsing Lib Media

00:00:00.000 The post-election liberal media meltdown continues as the Associated Press prepares to fire 8% of

00:00:06.200 its staff while desperate left-wing media figures cling to their careers by trying to make peace

00:00:12.780 with President Trump. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Some really great news coming out of Congress, which is that five days

00:00:40.780 ago, I called attention to the fact that the first ever trans-identifying member of Congress

00:00:47.960 was just elected. This guy, Tim McBride, Democrat from Delaware, obviously Democrat. And I said,

00:00:54.040 look, no one's really talking about this, but this is a pretty shocking turn of events,

00:00:57.320 and the Republicans are going to have to deal with this issue, which is that this guy is

00:01:00.620 probably going to want to use the women's bathroom. And so Republicans need to either hold the line 1.00

00:01:06.480 and show that we actually do oppose trans ideology for the purpose of justice and its good politics, 0.73

00:01:11.380 or the Republicans are going to let this guy use the women's bathroom. And then we're implicitly

00:01:17.180 going to be giving up the whole trans ideology premise. We're going to be saying, yeah, 1.00

00:01:21.260 for all intents and purposes, a man really can become a woman because the Republicans don't

00:01:25.840 want to have courage and grow a spine along with some other appendages, perhaps. So in any case,

00:01:30.500 I said, Republicans have to hold the line on this. They got to make sure that this guy,

00:01:34.100 no disrespect to him, they got to make sure this guy uses the proper bathroom. And Nancy Mace has 1.00

00:01:37.920 done it. A Republican member of Congress has done that, introduced a resolution to ban men from the

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00:02:50.780 Before we get to trans bathrooms on Capitol Hill, the establishment media continue to collapse.

00:02:59.160 The Associated Press is expected to cut 8% of staff in layoffs and buyouts. 8% of the workforce,

00:03:08.500 it's not all in news, but a lot of it is in news. Looks like half or maybe a little bit less than

00:03:14.580 half of the staff reductions will hit the news division. So you especially feel bad for the guys

00:03:20.520 who are working back office, behind the scenes. You don't feel so bad for the news division because

00:03:26.640 the Associated Press is one of the most egregious peddlers of fake news out there, in many ways worse

00:03:33.180 than the New York Times and the Washington Post. But what the Associated Press is saying is we all

00:03:40.480 know this is a time of transformation in the media sector. Our customers, both who they are and what

00:03:45.780 they need from us, are changing rapidly. This is why we focused on delivering a digital first news

00:03:49.580 report. We now need to accelerate on this path. Yeah, apparently they're not going fast enough because

00:03:53.220 they're going to have to fire almost one in 10 employees. Couldn't happen to a nicer media

00:03:57.600 organization. You always feel bad when people lose their jobs, even when they lose their jobs from

00:04:03.980 bad companies. You don't know. Some of these guys, they're just trying to feed their families.

00:04:07.420 So you feel bad. However, they can go get other jobs. The Associated Press needs to be taken down a

00:04:15.440 peg. The Associated Press is so radical. And because it has this patina of neutrality or objectivity,

00:04:26.460 even in the name, the Associated Press, this isn't the Daily Democrat, it's the Associated Press. It

00:04:31.880 makes you believe, because the Associated Press appears in so many other newspapers, it makes you

00:04:37.340 believe that it's this objective kind of paper or news organization. It's not. The Associated Press has

00:04:44.200 led the way on so much propaganda. The Associated Press in the style guide banned the phrase illegal alien

00:04:54.460 a few years ago. The phrase illegal alien, they say you can't do it. An illegal alien no more.

00:05:01.380 You can call them undocumented Americans. You can call them dreamers. You can call them whatever,

00:05:06.160 but you can't say the phrase illegal alien. Now, how's that? Illegal alien is the most 0.96

00:05:10.080 technically precise way to refer to a foreigner alien who has come into our country against the law,

00:05:17.340 illegal, and who continues to be here against the law. Any other way you refer to an illegal alien

00:05:23.300 is a euphemism, becomes charged with polemic or propaganda value. But that's, of course,

00:05:29.980 what the Associated Press wants. They want you to call these people undocumented Americans,

00:05:33.480 because though that is literally false, they're not Americans. Whatever they are, 0.94

00:05:38.000 they're not Americans. They want people to view the illegal aliens as Americans so that they will be 0.99

00:05:44.540 less likely to enforce immigration law, so that they will be less likely to deport them,

00:05:48.460 so that they will be more likely to make them citizens and give them amnesty. Black and white, 0.82

00:05:53.620 the Associated Press style guide says, you have to capitalize the B in black, but you should lower

00:05:58.120 case the W in white. So the Associated Press comes out and says, black people, better, more important,

00:06:03.840 deserve more prominence than white people. White people need to be taken down a notch, 1.00

00:06:07.680 need less prominence. I mean, just overt racism, if that word has any meaning anymore, 0.99

00:06:12.000 certainly it is being pushed by the Associated Press. The Associated Press pushes the trans ideology

00:06:17.920 by demanding that people use the singular they. The singular they is how demons refer to themselves

00:06:24.860 in the Bible, the singular plural pronouns. My name is Legion for we are many. But they insist on this 1.00

00:06:32.440 because while traditionally he and him and his are the singular gender neutral pronoun, not first person,

00:06:41.020 obviously third person, singular gender neutral pronoun, because of feminism and then certainly with 0.85

00:06:46.080 transgenderism, the Associated Press says, no, no, no, we'll have to say they. So, hey, my buddy John, 0.99

00:06:52.140 they is a great guy. They are a great guy. Are they plural? Hey, go talk to them. Them, but it's a him,

00:06:59.720 but it's just illiterate beyond being ideological. And then finally, story I covered yesterday on the show,

00:07:06.600 the Associated Press is now trying to persuade people that a 1,000-year-old Christian motto,

00:07:11.740 Deus vult, God wills it. This was the response of the audience when Pope Urban II said that he would

00:07:18.660 give aid to Eastern Christians who were being slaughtered by Muslims. They said, Deus vult,

00:07:23.200 God wills it. That phrase is now apparently a white supremacist motto, according to the Associated Press.

00:07:28.580 These guys are probably the worst of the worst when it comes to so-called news organizations,

00:07:35.360 and they're getting smacked. 8% reduction in staff. I feel bad personally for the guys who are losing

00:07:41.380 their jobs, for some of them at least, maybe not all of them, but this had to happen to the

00:07:46.240 Associated Press. Reality has to reassert itself in the end. There needs to be a correction. Now,

00:07:52.480 some Democrats understand this. Spokesman for Jill Biden, current first lady, maybe current president,

00:07:59.540 depending on how decisions are being made in the White House. A Jill Biden spokesman says,

00:08:04.060 Democrats need to stop with the constant accusations of white supremacy. This guy, Michael LaRosa,

00:08:12.260 says that the notion that opposing DEI makes you a white supremacist is insane, 0.92

00:08:18.480 and it makes Democrats look insane, and it repels voters. This was in response to a clip I played

00:08:24.900 yesterday of an MSNBC gal. I played it either yesterday or on Friday, an MSNBC gal calling Pete

00:08:30.120 Hegseth a known white supremacist. Pete Hegseth, as mainstream a conservative as it gets,

00:08:37.400 says he's a white supremacist based on nothing because he's got a cross tattoo, a Jerusalem cross,

00:08:43.480 another 1,000-year-old Christian symbol, and deus volt, a 1,000-year-old Christian motto,

00:08:48.600 and he's got a we the people tattoo. I don't know what else she's saying makes him a white

00:08:51.660 supremacist. So Michael LaRosa, this Democrat spokesman, says, this SHIT has to stop. Opposing 1.00

00:08:58.160 DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization

00:09:01.640 like this are a big part of the reason we got our ASSES kicked. The answer to extremism is not more

00:09:07.720 extremism. Voices like this on the left are turning the Democratic Party into a joke. Fact

00:09:13.640 check, 100% true. We've got to knock it off and get serious guests who are going to diagnose

00:09:18.600 politics, not make it worse. Notice, he's speaking about this guest on MSNBC. So he's not even saying

00:09:23.680 we need to get better candidates. He's not even saying we need to get better consultants. He's

00:09:27.320 saying we need to get better guests. We need to get better communicators in the media. We need to

00:09:33.080 get people, serious people opining about policy and politics, not one upping each other for or

00:09:38.520 competing for who can make the most provocative insult about a Trump nominee you oppose. This is

00:09:45.600 really good practical advice. And I say this as someone in the business of giving political opinions on

00:09:53.380 camera. He says we need serious guests who are going to diagnose politics, not make politics worse,

00:10:00.780 but give an accurate and precise interpretation of what's going on in politics.

00:10:09.480 Not just try to one-up each other with the most provocative and crazy statements.

00:10:14.300 This is good practical advice. I have sometimes thought that if I were a little less measured,

00:10:19.420 if I were a little bit more of a bomb thrower, if I were a little looser with my tongue,

00:10:23.900 maybe I would get bigger ratings. But that's only ever true in the short term.

00:10:27.780 In the long term, if you say things that are crazy, that over time are revealed to be disconnected

00:10:34.340 from reality, people are going to tune you out. It's a great short game. People come up,

00:10:39.260 but they burn real fast and they fizzle. But if you want any staying power, if you want people to

00:10:45.460 continue to listen to you in the long run, you have to say things that are true. And you have to say

00:10:50.320 them in a way that is serious and responsible. Responsible in the fullest sense of that word,

00:10:55.160 meaning responsive to changing circumstances, responsive to people. Most people voted for

00:11:00.520 Trump. Almost half of Hispanics voted for Trump. One in five black guys voted for Trump.

00:11:08.420 Say what you will about Trump. It's hard to call him a white supremacist. 0.93

00:11:13.060 You want to call Trump a sexist, a misogynist? Most married women voted for Trump. 0.99

00:11:18.140 40% of women under the age of 30, we're talking about largely single women here, 0.99

00:11:22.020 voted for Trump. Say what you will about him to call him a misogynist.

00:11:26.060 The first two women ever to win presidential campaigns, running presidential campaigns, 1.00

00:11:31.040 both of them worked for Trump. Okay. Trump's administration is largely

00:11:35.460 staffed up with strong, intelligent women to prove Mark Cuban wrong. 0.99

00:11:42.260 He didn't do it in order to prove Mark Cuban wrong, but that does prove Mark Cuban wrong.

00:11:45.960 Okay. And I think Michael LaRosa is totally right. He says, the more we go on TV and say crazy,

00:11:52.980 preposterous things, the more likely people are to tune us out. And then Trump's going to win even

00:11:57.460 more votes next time. If he ran for a third term, could you imagine? Could you imagine? No,

00:12:00.980 whoever the next Republican is, they're going to win even more votes maybe because Democrats are

00:12:05.160 disconnected from reality. I've noticed this. I have a lot of liberal friends and family members.

00:12:08.660 I'm from New York, went to a very liberal university, lived in Los Angeles, worked around

00:12:13.280 liberal industries. And I have a lot of libs in my family. Their tone today is very different than

00:12:21.540 it was in 2016 or 2020 even. They hate Trump still, but they'll come out and they'll say,

00:12:28.740 you know, whatever. If they even address the election at all, they'll say, look,

00:12:32.900 man, he won the popular vote. All right. Obviously, something isn't working in the

00:12:38.460 Democrat party. And I include within the Democratic party, the liberal media establishment.

00:12:43.960 You think the Democrat politicians are getting punished by losing their elections?

00:12:46.960 Look what's happening. CNN, massive layoffs over the summer. And then it looks like they're

00:12:51.580 planning layoffs again. MSNBC might not even exist in a couple months. And now the AP firing almost

00:12:57.020 one in 10 employees. That's what happens. That's what happens when you deceive your audience.

00:13:02.820 And that's what happens when you disconnect what you are doing from reality. There's so much more

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00:14:03.520 apply right now. Head on over. R-A-M-P slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. While the liberal media are getting

00:14:13.480 absolutely pummeled into the ground by changing political realities, some liberal media figures

00:14:21.580 are desperately trying to cling to their careers. Most notably, Morning Joe and Mika Brzezinski on

00:14:30.020 MSNBC, who have been some of the most vitriolic voices against Trump for years. They knew Trump

00:14:37.220 years ago. They have been absolutely vicious against Trump up until yesterday, I guess.

00:14:44.460 And then now, now that Trump has won with the popular vote, with the Rust Belt, with the Sun Belt,

00:14:52.620 with all sorts of people that the Democrats said Trump couldn't win. Now, all of a sudden,

00:14:57.680 they're striking a tone of reconciliation. Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from

00:15:02.820 so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply dismayed by several of President

00:15:09.880 Elect Trump's cabinet selections, and they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns

00:15:16.420 on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the President-elect

00:15:21.740 himself. On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet

00:15:31.260 personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.

00:15:39.160 Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political

00:15:44.680 retribution against political opponents, and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit.

00:15:50.380 And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past

00:15:56.940 year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues. And we told him so.

00:16:04.000 What we did agree on was to restart communications.

00:16:08.160 We agreed that we don't want to lose our jobs. We agreed. Well, Joe and I agreed. I don't know if

00:16:13.620 Trump agreed with that. But we agreed, look, we'd rather have our show than not have our show.

00:16:20.540 Until yesterday, these guys, for years, have been calling Trump Hitler.

00:16:29.760 Now, they said, then they come on their show after Trump wins in a landslide. They come and they say,

00:16:35.440 look, we might not see eye to eye with Hitler on every issue. Okay? And when we sat down with Hitler, 0.75

00:16:43.420 we told him, Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Hitler, we don't totally agree with all of your policies. 0.78

00:16:50.640 But I think it's really important, Hitler, that we talk. I really just, please call me Hitler. 0.80

00:16:57.220 Please, Mr. Please, Adolf. Oh, these guys. Wow. I was wondering at first, why did Trump take the

00:17:08.120 meeting? I'll tell you why Trump took the meeting. Because it is delightful to watch these people

00:17:14.120 eat crow. It is delightful to watch these people, in their very bearing, in their very comportment,

00:17:22.220 admit how wrong they were. How they were totally wrong, how the American people proved them wrong,

00:17:28.540 and how if they don't admit that they're wrong in some way, they're going to lose their whole careers.

00:17:33.680 That's how wrong. You know how Joe Biden lost that first presidential debate so badly

00:17:40.380 that after the debate, he was no longer the nominee. There's losing debates, and there's losing

00:17:47.200 debates. And Joe Biden lost so badly, he ceased to be the nominee for president.

00:17:54.580 A similar phenomenon is happening with the media here. There is getting a story wrong,

00:17:59.200 and there's getting a story wrong. There's getting a story wrong, and then there's going to Mar-a-Lago

00:18:05.200 and begging, pleading, as if on bended knee, please, Mr. Trump, don't destroy our whole careers.

00:18:12.600 We're sorry we called you Hitler. Oh, man. Is this really how one would deal with Hitler? 0.85

00:18:19.960 I don't think so. It seems like they were wrong about that. But they know. That show will be,

00:18:29.260 if Trump wanted to, he could end that show tomorrow. And they know that. That's why they're

00:18:36.280 going down and begging him. Some Democrats are a little less placid over the election victory.

00:18:41.760 That would be people like AOC, who went on this bizarre rant about how progressives should react

00:18:51.340 to the Trump election. Because no is not a final answer. We need to have the mentality that no means

00:19:01.200 find another way. No means try again. No means look somewhere else. No does not mean stop trying.

00:19:10.500 Okay? The party of consent, ladies and gentlemen. From the party that brought you the Me Too 0.90

00:19:18.160 movement, here is AOC's rant on how no means try harder. That's right. Do these people hear

00:19:24.620 themselves? They don't. They don't hear themselves. Four years. Wow, man. Talk about a realignment.

00:19:32.860 Talk about, at least they are introspective in a certain sense. AOC doesn't realize she's being 0.77

00:19:37.100 introspective here. Because she's saying, no, the voters said no, and I don't care. We're going to

00:19:41.080 keep pushing our unpopular policies. But she is undermining much of what the Democrats have said.

00:19:48.040 Consent is not only the most important moral criterion, it's the only moral criterion.

00:19:53.060 If two people agree to do something, then they have every right to do it. What consenting adults

00:19:58.160 choose to do, even now, it's consenting children, even though children can't give consent.

00:20:01.640 But if a consenting child wants to castrate himself, that's absolutely his right, and he

00:20:06.860 has to go through with it. Even though we have age of consent laws because children can't give

00:20:11.400 consent. No, it's all about consent. Not only do they say it's the most important moral criterion,

00:20:15.040 they say it's the only one. Notions of virtue, justice, all out the window. Consent is all that

00:20:23.880 matters. No means no. Until the voters say no to the progressives. They say no actually means try

00:20:31.220 harder. Imagine she gives this advice to a guy in a bar. Hey, listen, buddy, I know that woman said 1.00

00:20:39.060 she doesn't want to talk to you. No just means try harder. There's no such thing as no. No is not

00:20:45.120 final. You go up there, you pester her until she says yes. Yeah, she doesn't. She has the right to

00:20:50.460 say no to you. You go there, you say, you say, I won't take no for an answer. She was saying to the

00:20:56.220 voters. We won't take no for an answer. Okay, lady. See how that goes. See how that goes. 1.00

00:21:03.360 Now, the Democrats are trying to push this very policy right now in the House of Representatives

00:21:08.660 because women, to use the example of men and women, women generally like having their own 0.87

00:21:16.360 bathrooms. Women like having their own spaces where they get changed, where they're a little 1.00

00:21:19.580 bit vulnerable, and this is because there are sexual differences between men and women,

00:21:22.680 and this is also because it's just proper and nice, and they want that. And Democrats are trying

00:21:28.960 to force women to give up their private spaces, to say, no, you're going to use the bathroom in 1.00

00:21:34.080 front of men. You're going to get naked in front of men. You're going to change in front of men in 0.63

00:21:37.100 the locker room. And Democrats are trying to push this now, not only from Capitol Hill, but actually

00:21:41.340 on Capitol Hill, and Republicans, I'm happy to say, are standing up to it. Before we get to that story,

00:21:46.780 I want to tell you about my yes or no game with Tim Poole. So you know the yes or no game. You can get

00:21:51.440 it at dailywire.com slash shop. You can get the yes or no game along with multiple expansion packs.

00:21:56.180 It is a great way to figure out how well you know your friends and family. It's a great way to spur

00:22:00.980 conversations that are a little provocative. It would be a good game to have for Thanksgiving.

00:22:05.660 So, you know, maybe Christmas, the eggnog starts flowing, you see what people say.

00:22:09.120 I just sat down with my friend, Tim Poole.

00:22:12.100 The average 4B woman oath will last as long as Tim's cancellation of IRL.

00:22:18.860 Wow. To be fair, it was never an actual cancellation.

00:22:23.060 It wasn't a full-on, it was a raising the prospect of canceling.

00:22:27.520 Yeah. But for the 4B women, these women are just sad and angry about other stuff. 1.00

00:22:31.880 That's one way to put it. I'd say histrionic.

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00:22:55.580 Really, really good news coming out of Capitol Hill.

00:22:57.800 So, five days ago on the show, well, six or seven days ago, I pointed out in a Twitter thread

00:23:04.420 that a trans-identifying lawmaker has now been elected to Congress. This is the first time ever.

00:23:10.700 And I said, no one's really talking about this, but this is going to be a big issue because

00:23:15.640 Republicans are in control of Congress, and they're going to need to figure out

00:23:19.060 if they're going to let this guy use the women's bathroom, as he certainly will want to do, 1.00

00:23:23.200 or if they're going to hold the line and say, no, buddy, we'll be nice to you,

00:23:27.420 but you got to use the men's bathroom because you're a man.

00:23:30.520 This is a significant question because if they let him use the women's bathroom,

00:23:35.140 they are implicitly accepting every premise of transgenderism.

00:23:39.080 They are implicitly saying, okay, we go along with the trans ideology.

00:23:41.960 President Trump just won the election. Republicans just won the election,

00:23:44.540 in no small part on popular opposition to trans ideology.

00:23:48.420 Beyond the political considerations, trans ideology is just wrong. 1.00

00:23:51.220 It's a matter of justice. We should not accept it. It's not good for anybody,

00:23:55.040 including the people who identify as trans. But if the Republicans allow the 0.61

00:23:59.580 trans-identifying lawmaker to use the women's bathroom, they're saying, we accept transgenderism. 0.72

00:24:06.480 Or they can hold the line and say, nobody, and it's going to create a big controversy,

00:24:11.120 which Republicans are broadly averse to doing.

00:24:13.660 So then on the show, I made this point and this call to action.

00:24:16.780 You now have transgender ideology for the first time ever in Congress, in a member of Congress.

00:24:27.400 This guy, presumably, is going to want to use the women's bathroom. 1.00

00:24:31.980 The Republicans control Congress. Are they going to permit this for the GOP leadership?

00:24:36.760 Are they going to hold the line on this ideology? Are they going to defend their female members? 0.96

00:24:40.800 Are they going to say, hey, hey, Buster, you can pretend to be a woman, I guess, 0.87

00:24:43.960 and there's not much we can do about it, but we ain't going to let you use the women's bathroom. 1.00

00:24:48.000 Or are they going to go squishy and say, oh, this is going to be a big headache.

00:24:51.620 We don't want to make a big deal of this. Fine. We'll just look the other way when you use the

00:24:54.920 women's bathroom. Well, if they do that, they are implicitly accepting all of trans ideology. 1.00

00:25:04.840 This isn't just a trivial matter. The left knows it's not a trivial matter. That's why they spend so

00:25:09.260 much time and energy trying to force these kinds of crazy upheavals upon us, focused in no small part

00:25:16.380 on bathrooms. If I were a female member of Congress, I would object to this. I would hold 1.00

00:25:22.280 firm on this, guys. I know for any members who are listening and for staff members who are listening,

00:25:27.060 there is a lot more being smuggled in here than just some confused man from Delaware into a bathroom.

00:25:33.100 Well said, Michael. I couldn't have said it better myself. Anyway, I'm really glad to say

00:25:37.220 that a Republican member of Congress has taken up the charge. Nancy Mace, who is not the most

00:25:44.400 conservative member of Congress, but in many ways that's helpful that it is her who's raising this

00:25:51.980 issue. She is a relatively liberal on certain issues member of Congress. She's a woman. I believe

00:25:58.540 she has been public about having experienced sexual assault before, so she's got some real ethos.

00:26:03.020 She's got some real authority on this matter, and she says, never thought this would have to happen,

00:26:08.800 but we're introducing a resolution banning biological men from entering protected spaces

00:26:13.460 for women on Capitol grounds. Protecting biological women starts here and starts now. Great stuff. 1.00

00:26:18.760 Great stuff from Nancy Mace. I've mentioned before, I don't really like those terms, biological man,

00:26:23.020 biological woman. I think those terms implicitly accept trans ideology as well because they imply

00:26:29.380 that there's some other kind of man, some other kind of woman. You could be a biological man,

00:26:32.900 but a spiritual woman, which is absurd. It's a Gnostic heresy. But regardless, the fact that Nancy 0.84

00:26:40.700 Mace is willing to use this kind of more liberal language to say, look, I'm not some far right-wing

00:26:47.200 Bible-thumping, whatever they say about us, but women get to have their own bathrooms, okay? 1.00

00:26:53.200 Great stuff on Nancy Mace. Wonderful stuff. GOP leadership better get on board. That's all I'll say

00:26:58.640 about that. GOP leadership better get on board. It's the right thing to do. It's a matter of

00:27:02.960 justice, and it's a total political winner. This is a no-brainer. The guy, Tim McBride,

00:27:09.200 who calls himself Sarah now, this Democrat member of Congress, he just posted, he said something to

00:27:14.260 the effect of, well, I'll just pull it up. I actually pulled it up on my phone just before the

00:27:17.760 show started. He says, everyday Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different

00:27:23.420 than their own and engage with them respectfully. I hope members of Congress can muster that same

00:27:27.940 kindness. Yes, I'm sure your future Republican colleagues will be kind to you, will be very

00:27:32.720 respectful to you, but we're not going to lie for you, and we're not going to violate the legitimate

00:27:38.420 rights of women to accommodate your fantasies and maybe sexual fetish. We're not doing that,

00:27:45.260 okay? We're going to be really kind, but we're not going to lie. You can't make us lie. That's

00:27:48.920 very disrespectful for you to expect us to lie for you. And in fact, it would be disrespectful to you

00:27:55.280 for people to lie to you because they think that you don't possess the rational faculties to deal

00:28:00.540 with reality. And it's especially offensive to tell women that they no longer have any of their

00:28:05.760 legitimate rights because you've decided to throw on stilettos one day. Not going to happen, okay?

00:28:11.680 That's not kindness. That's not respect. You, sir, are being very disrespectful

00:28:16.840 by demanding that of others, especially of women. I bet you act like a man and act like a gentleman

00:28:22.320 and stay out of the women's bathroom. Now, this is all really great news, obviously, 1.00

00:28:28.900 assuming the Republicans hold the line, which, you know, 50-50, I guess. Speaking of Republican wins,

00:28:36.400 there's another win from the RNC. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just shut down

00:28:41.360 the Pennsylvania County's scheme to try to steal the Senate seat. Bob Casey is the Democrat incumbent

00:28:46.460 there. He lost. Even the Associated Press, which is very liberal, as I've mentioned on the show today,

00:28:51.140 the Associated Press called this race shortly after election night. It's over. Dave McCormick,

00:28:56.140 the Republican, won. And the counties are trying to steal it. And the way the counties are trying to

00:29:00.700 steal it is by counting ineligible ballots. You don't need to take my word for it. That's not me

00:29:05.720 putting some spin on it. The counties themselves have admitted that the ballots they're trying to count

00:29:12.040 are being counted in violation of a previous Supreme Court order. And they've joked about this.

00:29:17.920 They've said, yeah, well, we all know people violate court orders. We all know that the law

00:29:21.220 doesn't really matter in this country anymore. They're being provocative. They're admitting we're

00:29:25.620 violating the law. Okay. Well, yesterday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled again,

00:29:31.220 said that the counting will not continue. These votes are not legit. So Bob Harvey Jr.,

00:29:40.160 chairman of Bucks County Elections Board, says, it is a pretty stupid thing to not count someone's 0.96

00:29:45.400 vote simply because they didn't date an envelope for a ballot. The law needs to be changed. 0.83

00:29:50.840 You know, you got to sign your ballot. You got to date your ballot. Otherwise,

00:29:53.480 you don't know. The person could have voted a week after the election. You don't get to vote a

00:29:57.320 week after the election. There are rules to elections, and the people have the right to set those rules.

00:30:01.740 So this Bucks County Elections Board chairman, he doesn't like that because his guy lost. So he says,

00:30:08.000 I'm just single-handedly going to change the rules. I think it's stupid, so I'm going to ignore the 0.98

00:30:14.020 Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court says, nah, sorry, buddy. This rule shall be authoritative 1.00

00:30:19.100 and controlling, says the court. Done. Happy to report yet another Democrat potential insurrection

00:30:26.020 quelled. But it's not for lack of trying. The Democrats try to steal this stuff. What they were

00:30:30.380 trying to do in Pennsylvania was exactly what they did in Minnesota successfully in 2008.

00:30:36.040 2008, he had a Republican, liberal Republican senator, but still a Republican in Minnesota.

00:30:42.040 He was running against Al Franken, the guy from Saturday Night Live. And Norm Coleman seemed to

00:30:48.380 have won. Then the Democrats ordered recount after recount. And then a Minnesota majority,

00:30:56.860 a conservative organization, looked at some of the ballots that were being counted. And they noticed

00:31:00.760 that hundreds of felons had illegally cast ballots. And felons are overwhelmingly likely to vote for

00:31:07.020 Democrats. And actually, so many felons illegally cast ballots that there were more of those ballots

00:31:13.100 than the margin of victory for Al Franken. In other words, very, very likely, almost certainly in my view,

00:31:20.760 the Democrats stole that election through recounts and by counting ineligible votes. Exactly the same

00:31:26.960 sort of thing that they were trying to do in Pennsylvania. Happily, the Pennsylvania Supreme

00:31:30.740 Court shut that down. But in Minnesota, just this election cycle, an election judge was just indicted

00:31:36.580 for allowing unregistered people to vote. This Minnesota judge, Hubbard County, sorry, Hubbard

00:31:44.360 County Auditor Kay Rave looked into this, could not find any completed voter registration forms from the

00:31:51.780 ballots that she received from Badura Township head election judge, Timothy Michael Scouton.

00:31:57.160 This is according to a criminal complaint that NBC Chicago has obtained. So this judge allegedly

00:32:05.340 allowed people, even encouraged people to vote without being registered.

00:32:11.780 Now, this is a small township. It's just 100 people in this township, 170 miles northwest of

00:32:17.140 Minneapolis. This is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. And this guy said, yeah, okay,

00:32:21.320 you don't register to vote. No big deal. You vote here. I'll deal with it. Now he's been indicted

00:32:25.200 for that, which is good, which is good. I feel bad when people go to prison needlessly. You know,

00:32:32.040 I feel bad when people lose their jobs needlessly, when this didn't have to happen. If they had just

00:32:37.580 followed the rules, if they had just done their jobs, had they just acted in good faith in the

00:32:43.040 first place? Had the Associated Press acted in good faith, almost one in 10 of their employees would

00:32:50.180 not be fired right now. CNN employees would still have their job. MSNBC might not be on

00:32:54.860 the chopping block. This Minnesota judge might not be going to jail, but they just can't help

00:32:58.300 themselves. So this is a very serious violation. We have to protect the integrity of our elections.

00:33:05.860 Democrats have been telling us that for years when it suits them. Now, speaking of Democrat

00:33:11.340 politicians going away, there's a great meme, an amazing meme that hit the internet yesterday.

00:33:16.600 This would be Joe Biden giving one of his valedictory speeches in the Amazon rainforest,

00:33:23.120 finishes speaking, and then just wanders off, apparently into the forest.

00:33:28.820 Biden there in aviator sunglasses, wearing some kind of blue Panama shirt,

00:33:33.260 just wandering. It would seem off the path and just, I don't know, into the forest. He's done. He's

00:33:40.040 going into the forest. What was he doing? He was giving a speech on conservation and the climate.

00:33:45.400 When I first saw this, I said, this has got to be AI or something. I don't, why is he dressed like

00:33:49.700 that? He looks so confused. He's now wandering into the rainforest in the Amazon in Brazil.

00:33:55.860 But I guess that makes sense. The only way that this election cycle could possibly be crazier is if

00:34:01.780 it ends with Joe Biden being eaten by a jaguar. God forbid. I don't want Joe Biden to be, but that's

00:34:07.000 the only way, right? You get the, the sitting president loses a debate so badly that it's clear

00:34:14.640 he's in serious dementia. He ceases to be the nominee. They replace him with a woman who's like 0.99

00:34:19.060 the least popular woman in America. Then president Trump gets shot in the ear after Democrats call him 0.89

00:34:24.400 an existential threat for years. And, but he survived somehow because of a last minute turn of

00:34:28.800 his head. And then he doesn't change his campaign schedule really at all. And then his opponents try to

00:34:35.180 shoot him again. That doesn't work. And then he wins in a landslide. And then Joe Biden gets eaten

00:34:39.820 by a jaguar in Brazil. That's the, that's the only way to, to keep the narrative up at this pace.

00:34:46.780 You know, the number one documentary of the decade, Am I Racist, is now Academy Award submitted.

00:34:55.180 The most asked question about the movie that we get is, was it real? The answer is yes.

00:34:59.860 Everything you see in the movie is real. Lucky for us, Matt included exclusive bonus footage

00:35:04.040 where he breaks down exactly how he pulled it all off. The only place to watch Am I Racist and all

00:35:08.400 the exclusive bonus content is on Daily Wire Plus. Stream it now. My favorite comment yesterday is

00:35:14.680 from Mylene Morico, who says, if I'm called a white supremacist as a Dominican woman for following

00:35:20.080 a Middle Eastern man who is fully God, I wouldn't even blink an eye at that absurdity. Of course, 1.00

00:35:25.120 the Christians are white supremacists now. The African Christians, the Indian Christians, 0.98

00:35:30.840 the Dominican Christians, and it's unclear. Are you talking about Dominican the order? Are you

00:35:34.980 talking about Dominican the island in Latin America? It's very, very confusing, but no matter

00:35:40.960 the complexity, any Christian is a white supremacist. So implies the Associated Press.

00:35:48.280 Now, turning away from Biden, but sticking on people of a certain age, there's a story really

00:35:54.860 hit me yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. Two days ago, it hit me actually. It's called

00:35:58.420 these baby-chasing grandparents are turbocharging demographic shifts. From Austin, Texas to Charleston, 0.97

00:36:05.900 South Carolina, golf and grandbabies beckon. The story is that millennials are leaving the

00:36:12.360 coastal cities. They're leaving the liberal states, and they're moving to places like Nashville,

00:36:17.300 where I live. They're moving to Texas. They're moving to South Carolina or Florida. They're moving

00:36:23.280 there because it's a lot easier to raise a family. It's much less expensive. Taxes are much lower.

00:36:29.640 The people are more normal. You can send your kids to normal schools. It's really great. Highly

00:36:33.900 recommended if you're conservative. If you're lib, stay in California. I don't want to hear it. You

00:36:38.260 stay there. You screw up your own politics. I don't need that in my state. But a lot of people are doing

00:36:44.440 that. And then what this article is about is that those millennials' parents are following them

00:36:51.420 to the southern suburbs. And they're doing it in no small part to raise their kids.

00:36:57.640 So just a little bit from the article. It all started in the 1960s when baby boomers became

00:37:02.940 the first generation to routinely move hundreds of miles for school or work. So it started with

00:37:07.740 the boomers. Previously, people generally stayed in their towns. Maybe you'd go west, young man,

00:37:12.820 but that was the exception, not the rule. Boomers were the first that said, okay, we're going to go far

00:37:17.500 away for school. We're going to go move far away from our families and our communities.

00:37:20.260 We're going to get things moving. Nashville, Tennessee-based Kinloch Partners,

00:37:24.940 which rents out homes near large corporate offices in the southeast, estimates that the

00:37:28.220 retired parents of newly transferred executives live in and around 10% of them. They have a

00:37:34.520 guaranteed income. They don't trash the house, says Chief Executive Bruce McNeilidge. Some pay a

00:37:39.780 year of rent up front. So these are great tenants. They move down. They're retired. They have

00:37:43.680 steady, reliable income. They don't have much to do. Jillian Held and her husband, Jordan,

00:37:49.560 employ a nanny three days a week. Her parents take Tuesdays and Wednesdays, staying overnight at

00:37:53.620 the couple's home where they have their own bedroom. We fully talk to them like they're

00:37:57.000 employees, said Jillian, 32. It's an ongoing joke that when they want to go on vacation,

00:38:01.160 they have to take PTO. Ha ha ha. So, and I know people who do this, where the grandparents

00:38:07.720 essentially raise the kids. And why are they doing that? This is the question that the article is not

00:38:13.580 asking because the answer is a little too politically incorrect. In some ways, it's really

00:38:19.160 nice that the families are ending up together. The extended families across the generations are

00:38:24.480 ending up together. Used to be you were born in a town, you lived in that town, you died in that town.

00:38:29.600 So maybe you'd have intergenerational housing, maybe, but you'd at least be near grandma and

00:38:33.940 grandpa. And now kids don't really grow up near grandma and grandpa. So the way to fix that today is

00:38:38.760 not that the kids moved back to the parents' house. It's that the parents follow the kids and

00:38:43.000 they raise the grandkids. Okay. In some ways, that's nice. The families are ending up together,

00:38:47.820 but it is a little weird, isn't it? Especially when you factor in, there's this real practical

00:38:53.460 aspect to it, which is that the millennial kids need the parents, the grandparents to raise the

00:38:59.860 grandkids. Why is that? In part, it's because childcare is so expensive these days. Okay. Well,

00:39:05.900 what does that even mean that childcare is so expensive? It means that people go out and pay

00:39:12.960 someone else to raise their kids for most of the day, much of the day. Why do they do that? This

00:39:18.700 is the part that even the Wall Street Journal article, which is quite good, I encourage you to

00:39:22.620 read it, that they won't mention because it's politically incorrect. All of this is happening

00:39:26.520 because women feel obligated to work outside of the home. Women always have worked, but now they feel 1.00

00:39:34.360 obligated to work outside of the home. It's not just because women have the option to work outside 1.00

00:39:40.200 of the home. The reason that the childcare is so expensive and they need grandma and grandpa to come

00:39:43.600 down to raise the kids a couple of days a week is because they have financial problems. They have

00:39:47.320 financial problems because they require, at least in their minds, two incomes. It is not that women 1.00

00:39:53.800 now have the opportunity on occasion to go out there and work outside of the home. It's that women, 1.00

00:39:59.760 by and large, feel obligated to do so, which was the heart of the debate between feminist 1.00

00:40:04.580 Betty Friedan and feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Feminist Betty Friedan said women should have 0.99

00:40:09.100 the option to work outside the home if they want, but they should have the option to raise their

00:40:11.840 families if they want, to be homemakers. And Simone de Beauvoir said no. Women cannot have the option 1.00

00:40:17.760 to stay home and be homemakers and raise their kids because if they have that option, too many of them

00:40:23.140 will take it. And the women, therefore, will not be liberated as the feminists wanted them to. 1.00

00:40:27.760 And that's what you're seeing here. Wouldn't it be so much easier, though? Think about how this is

00:40:33.280 now. Many, many women wish that they could stay home, at least when their kids are little, 0.96

00:40:39.460 and raise their kids. Many, many women wish that they didn't have to wake up every 45 minutes at 1.00

00:40:45.560 night with the little baby and then go into the office the next day. Many, many women, but they just 1.00

00:40:50.160 feel that they can't do that. They don't get enough maternity leave and it's just too hard.

00:40:53.340 So now we have a system where, where for many people, you say, my wife has to go out and work 1.00

00:41:01.300 for some other guy so that this other guy can give her a paycheck that she will give to me so that I 1.00

00:41:07.500 can either hire some other woman to raise my kids for me or, when that's not enough, so that we can ask 1.00

00:41:16.200 our retired parents to move down to where we are to uproot their lives, to move to where we are 0.98

00:41:21.860 to raise the children for us. Which is, I guess, marginally better than paying someone else, a daycare

00:41:29.600 worker, someone to raise your kids for you. But it still seems pretty inefficient, doesn't it?

00:41:34.740 What would happen if we just allowed women to raise their own kids again? 1.00

00:41:38.960 I guess that might affect GDP. You'd have fewer economic transactions.

00:41:44.320 But it seems simpler and probably better for the kid. But we don't permit that.

00:41:50.400 Because the culture tells women, you have to go out, you have to have a job, you have to be totally 1.00

00:41:54.340 independent of a man, you have to prioritize your career, you should put off getting married,

00:41:59.280 you should put off having kids. This is another issue, is now women aren't having kids in their 1.00

00:42:03.400 early 20s, they're having kids in their early 30s or mid-30s or even later.

00:42:06.480 So they're mid-career, they're working, it's even hard even if they are staying home,

00:42:11.860 so then they need the extra help from the grandparents moving in. It's just so inefficient,

00:42:15.340 it's so discombobulated. But that's what's happened. And this is not just a problem of the

00:42:21.380 left. The left has pushed this through feminism. But it's also a problem of the financial right, 1.00

00:42:26.380 the right that is disconnected from morality and traditional behaviors. This kind of joke that

00:42:30.720 the couple has with the parents in this article, where they say, yeah, we treat them like employees.

00:42:36.100 We say if they want to take vacation, they need to take PTO. There's a little truth to that joke.

00:42:42.420 We treat all of these relationships as though they're purely financial, transactional,

00:42:47.540 that you can swap out a mother raising a kid for an employee raising a kid or a grandparent raising a

00:42:52.820 kid. Just seems a little inefficient to me. Entirely caused by a demand that we now make of women 1.00

00:43:01.720 that they work outside the home. Now, speaking of women in history, one story I have to get to. 0.97

00:43:07.140 At my dear alma mater, Yale, Yale is offering a new course, Beyonce Makes History.

00:43:13.860 The course is, it gets better. Beyonce Makes History, Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory, 0.55

00:43:19.380 and Politics Through Music. This is a class that will focus on the period of Beyonce's 2013 self-titled

00:43:26.960 album through this year's Cowboy Carter. So it's not even all of Beyonce's career. We're so specialized

00:43:33.740 in the universities now, it's only the last decade of Beyonce's career. It will be taught by Yale's

00:43:41.200 African American Studies professor, here we go, Daphne Brooks, who is going to include footage of live

00:43:48.020 performances for students to learn about black intellectuals from Frederick Douglass, okay,

00:43:52.240 Frederick Douglass is good, to Toni Morrison. Oh, good grief, good grief. Toni Morrison. Do we really

00:43:57.940 need to read Toni Morrison? Okay. Now, it's funny to say Beyonce makes history. Beyonce did not make

00:44:05.440 history. Beyonce did try to intervene in this political race. She endorsed Kamala, and Kamala lost.

00:44:11.320 So she failed to make history, at least this time around. This is proof of something else.

00:44:15.880 We talk about the cracking of authority and credibility of previously elite institutions,

00:44:21.160 the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Democratic Party. Well, you got to throw Yale

00:44:26.720 in there too. I say this as someone who, I love my alma mater. I don't know if some of the people

00:44:32.260 at my alma mater might not love me anymore, but I love my alma mater. Very grateful for everything

00:44:37.240 Yale's done for me. However, this is a reminder that these elite schools are now,

00:44:44.660 the value that they actually do bring, or the merit that they do convey, is really more just about

00:44:51.740 getting in. It's not really about graduating. It's really easy to graduate these schools.

00:44:58.860 It is still hard to get in, unless you can say that you're a transgender Native American 1.00

00:45:04.940 Zoroastrian, which will give you a leg up. But barring that, you still need usually a high SAT score

00:45:09.960 and, you know, you have to be valedictorian or something like that. But it's hard to get in,

00:45:15.560 very easy to graduate. So you don't necessarily learn all that much. You could take a class on

00:45:20.880 Beyonce's radical tradition, culture, and theory. The institutions, like Yale, like Harvard, like

00:45:27.920 Princeton, the institutions like the AP, the New York Times, they are losing their credibility.

00:45:33.940 They can still claim to maybe have a little bit, but I don't know. How much longer can these

00:45:39.280 institutions maintain their prestige and their influence before reality catches up with them?

00:45:44.700 Okay, I'm real excited to have a couple guests coming on the Membrum Segmentum today.

00:45:50.140 And that's because I'm really excited to announce that Mayflower Cigars are now available in another

00:45:56.200 state. They are available now for the first time in the state of Nevada. We will get to that in a

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 19, 2024

Ep. 1620 - Trump's Win Triggers Mass Firings For Collapsing Lib Media

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