The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1702 - Conservative Student ASSAULTED with Bike Lock

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00:00:27.260 When conservatives want to get one over on leftists, what do we do?

00:00:32.020 We come up with zingers for debates on YouTube.

00:00:36.140 We destroy them with facts and logic.

00:00:39.640 Sometimes we even win elections.

00:00:42.440 When leftists want to get one over on conservatives,

00:00:45.980 they beat us in the head with a bike lock,

00:00:48.540 as the TPUSA chapter president at UT Dallas just found out.

00:00:53.760 Oh, that's a bowl of salt.

00:00:55.440 Go, go, lock up.

00:00:57.260 Yikes.

00:00:59.160 It is also being reported, it's not, I don't know if it's been confirmed,

00:01:03.140 that that person who smacked the conservative girl in the head with a bike lock 0.74

00:01:08.080 is actually a fella who dresses up like a woman. 0.89

00:01:11.800 I don't know.

00:01:12.580 That's what people are saying on Twitter.

00:01:13.940 Apparently, he's got a man's name.

00:01:15.300 In any case, even if it's a gal, it's not good. 1.00

00:01:17.540 And that's not an aberration.

00:01:19.440 Leftist violence against conservatives is an increasingly common occurrence.

00:01:23.920 I have personally been attacked twice while giving speeches, physically attacked.

00:01:28.400 There is a leftist in prison right now because he injured a police officer while he was trying to blow me up.

00:01:34.740 Had he just tried to blow me up and exploded something outside of his school,

00:01:38.240 he probably would have been let go.

00:01:39.360 But he did injure a police officer.

00:01:40.980 He's in prison.

00:01:41.780 And I'm not the only conservative who's been physically attacked in public.

00:01:46.080 Far from it.

00:01:47.300 This should not surprise us.

00:01:49.360 The left, being more radical, is generally more prone to political violence than the right is.

00:01:54.960 That has been true since the origin of the political terms left and right,

00:02:00.160 since those terms were invented in the French Revolution.

00:02:03.220 But violence is especially likely to appear during major shifts in the political order.

00:02:09.420 You don't see a ton of political violence in the boom times when everyone basically just kind of agrees and we all get along.

00:02:16.120 But when there are shifts in the political order, then you see political violence spike.

00:02:20.840 You saw this in our own country in the 1770s, the 1850s, the 1930s.

00:02:28.080 You know, 1770s, obviously, it's the revolutionary era.

00:02:31.000 The 1850s is the lead up to the Civil War.

00:02:33.280 We saw a lot of political violence before that.

00:02:35.260 The 1930s, you have major instability.

00:02:37.880 You've got fights between unions and law enforcement.

00:02:43.280 You see fights between fascists and communists, anarchists.

00:02:46.720 Then in the 1960s, you see a lot of political violence.

00:02:49.080 And if right now we really are in the midst of a political upheaval,

00:02:54.960 if we are witnessing the end of the liberal consensus and we're living in the dawn of a new golden age,

00:03:02.320 then what that means is expect more violence,

00:03:06.800 specifically more violence from the people who don't want their own power to come to an end.

00:03:12.320 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:13.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:14.120 Welcome back to the show.

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00:05:41.240 Speaking of violence, good news out of Utah.

00:05:44.100 Utah just passed a law to protect kids from YouTuber parents.

00:05:51.300 Specifically, not just from abusive parents generally, but specifically from parents who would exploit their kids

00:05:58.080 to put them on YouTube and other social media platforms to get clicks.

00:06:01.140 So the new law says that online creators who make more than $150,000 a year from the content that they make that features children will be required to set aside 15% of those earnings into a trust fund that the kids can then access when they turn 18.

00:06:18.220 Now, this is just the latest iteration of laws and efforts to protect child actors.

00:06:25.060 You remember, I remember the 90s.

00:06:26.620 This was a big story.

00:06:27.480 These poor child actors who were dragged from audition to audition, from job to job by their parents, kids who were often abused by directors and producers and casting directors.

00:06:38.320 They would make all this money, and their families would live high on the hog managing the little kids.

00:06:43.520 And then by the time the kids turned 18, 22, there was no money left.

00:06:48.220 Kids were just exploited, used as a cash cow, and then they usually don't end up very well.

00:06:53.120 So this is the latest version of it, spurred in part because of the story of Kevin and Ruby Frank.

00:06:58.080 They had a YouTube series called Eight Passengers.

00:07:00.520 They would post videos with their kids up to five times per week.

00:07:03.620 They had two and a half million subscribers by 2020.

00:07:06.760 And then Ruby Frank went completely insane and shacked up with her therapist, some other woman, 1.00

00:07:12.120 and she took some of her kids with her, her younger kids. 0.96

00:07:14.360 And then there was this big police bust, and the kids were found extremely malnourished, overworked, bleeding.

00:07:19.760 I mean, it was really horrifying, like true horror movie level stuff.

00:07:25.320 And she's the spurring on of this law to protect the kids of YouTubers. 1.00

00:07:30.000 But even though Ruby Frank quite visibly abused her kids, it's important for us to remember right now,

00:07:37.540 all exploitation of children for social media clout is child abuse.

00:07:46.460 In some way, this law doesn't go far enough as far as I'm concerned.

00:07:48.820 It's a good start.

00:07:50.140 But you've got to make $150,000 a year from social media that features kids.

00:07:56.640 I don't know, what if you make $149,000?

00:07:58.280 You've got your kids working five days a week making videos for you,

00:08:01.400 and you're coming in just under that threshold.

00:08:03.700 You don't need to set aside any money for them.

00:08:06.440 Even beyond that, even if you do set aside 15% for the kids,

00:08:09.680 I don't think it's worth it.

00:08:11.420 I don't think we should tolerate that.

00:08:13.260 I hate when I see people post pictures of their kids for social media clout.

00:08:20.380 I know there are some people who don't have a lot of followers on Instagram,

00:08:24.800 don't have a lot of friends on Facebook,

00:08:26.460 and they post a picture with the kids because they think,

00:08:30.040 that's mostly very close friends and family who are watching this.

00:08:32.520 Even that, I would say, be careful.

00:08:34.680 There are creeps on the internet.

00:08:35.980 What's on the internet is on the internet forever.

00:08:38.040 You don't, I wouldn't post pictures of your kids even.

00:08:40.460 But then I understand it.

00:08:41.700 However, I also see people, and it's not just celebrities,

00:08:44.740 and it's not just YouTube stars.

00:08:46.200 It's not just influencers.

00:08:47.580 It's people who aspire to be influencers and Instagram stars.

00:08:51.360 They will post pictures with their kids or of their kids for clout.

00:08:57.580 And I hate that.

00:09:00.120 I hate that.

00:09:01.000 And the people who do it should be ashamed of themselves and stop.

00:09:05.120 And frankly, we should maybe pass laws against it.

00:09:08.220 That is wrong of you to do.

00:09:10.760 Your kid did not consent to become a celebrity.

00:09:15.220 You have an, even beyond the politics of consent,

00:09:17.900 which I think are overrated, frankly,

00:09:20.220 you have a duty as a parent to protect your kid.

00:09:23.920 Posting pictures of your kid all over the internet does not protect your kid at all.

00:09:27.260 It makes your kid vulnerable.

00:09:28.440 Don't do that.

00:09:31.220 That's very tempting because your kids are very cute, and you'll get a lot of likes.

00:09:34.560 Don't do that.

00:09:35.440 Resist that urge.

00:09:36.140 Really dark stuff.

00:09:37.240 Do not.

00:09:38.100 Hear me now.

00:09:39.460 I forget about what Utah said.

00:09:40.960 I am issuing a full fatwa.

00:09:43.880 No pictures of your kids on social media for clout.

00:09:48.540 Cut it out.

00:09:49.660 Maybe delete social media altogether if you struggle with that.

00:09:52.380 Nihal Obstat.

00:09:53.360 You heard it here.

00:09:54.540 Speaking of women desperate for attention. 1.00

00:09:57.380 Meghan Markle.

00:09:58.820 Meghan Markle.

00:10:00.400 She just flits from one public failure to another.

00:10:04.200 Meghan Markle is launching a new podcast.

00:10:05.740 Because all of her other projects have been so successful ever since she broke up the British 0.99

00:10:12.160 royal family.

00:10:13.560 Meghan Markle is launching a new show called Confessions of a Female Founder.

00:10:20.000 This is Meghan Markle's podcast to share all of the great business acumen she's developed.

00:10:30.500 I'm Meghan, and this is Confessions of a Female Founder.

00:10:34.340 A show where I chat with female entrepreneurs and friends about the sleepless nights, the

00:10:39.420 lessons learned, and the laser focus that got them to where they are today.

00:10:44.060 And the kind of advice that turns small ideas into billion-dollar businesses.

00:10:50.340 And of course, we're going to get some girl talk.

00:10:52.780 Are you saying you're not single now?

00:10:54.500 Have I missed something in the past couple of weeks?

00:10:56.620 What's happening?

00:10:57.860 Can we stay focused, please?

00:11:01.900 And through it all, I'm building a business of my own and getting all sorts of practical

00:11:07.280 advice along the way that I'm very excited to share with you.

00:11:10.500 I might watch it just in the same way that I turn my head to see a car accident.

00:11:19.860 I might, or I guess it's just an audio podcast.

00:11:21.680 I might listen to it maybe to one episode just to see how bad, that trailer, that seems

00:11:29.340 like the worst show that I've ever heard of.

00:11:32.540 The nearest thing Meghan Markle ever had to a billion-dollar idea was marrying a prince. 1.00

00:11:37.120 And even that didn't work out because she decided she didn't want to be a real princess

00:11:42.880 because to be a real princess involves duty and responsibility and caring about other people.

00:11:49.220 And so she just wanted to be a pretend princess in Hollywood.

00:11:51.440 So she split her husband off from his royal family and then inked a zillion-dollar deal with

00:11:57.220 a bunch of media companies, and then all her projects flopped.

00:11:59.820 So naturally, she's going to start a podcast about business.

00:12:03.640 But there's a little girl talk in there too.

00:12:06.420 I don't mention it only to make fun of Meghan Markle.

00:12:10.340 I mention it to point out the Joe Rogan problem.

00:12:14.400 The Joe Rogan problem that the left has encountered.

00:12:18.560 Trump goes on Joe Rogan.

00:12:19.920 It's a huge hit.

00:12:20.760 Zillions of views, very popular, probably moved votes.

00:12:24.400 Elon Musk can go on Joe Rogan.

00:12:26.180 It's great.

00:12:26.800 J.D. Vance, he can hang on Joe Rogan.

00:12:29.000 Go for however many hours you want.

00:12:31.500 It helps him.

00:12:32.560 Kamala Harris can't go on Joe Rogan. 1.00

00:12:34.980 Joe Biden certainly can't go on Joe Rogan.

00:12:36.880 Couldn't stay awake for more than 15 minutes.

00:12:39.960 The libs can't handle podcasting.

00:12:43.280 The right has dominated podcasting.

00:12:45.600 It's not that there are no left-wing podcasts.

00:12:47.100 There are some.

00:12:48.020 But the right and the center and the center-right own podcasting.

00:12:53.520 Why?

00:12:53.940 Because podcasting requires, one, a systematic thought.

00:13:00.560 And the left, these days, whatever systematic thought has ever existed on the left, it has just absolutely crumbled under the weight of its own inconsistencies.

00:13:07.500 And the right is able to sustain that.

00:13:09.840 But even beyond that, even for people on the right who don't have particularly systematic thought, the right can hang.

00:13:17.000 The right does not feel that it needs to put up artifice all the time.

00:13:23.440 That's what's most offensive about Meghan Markle's podcast is it sounds so artificial.

00:13:27.600 We, you know, we love girl power. 0.93

00:13:29.900 We're going to learn from these female business leaders. 1.00

00:13:32.660 There are women in business. 1.00

00:13:33.760 Statistically, 100% of men who have, of people who have succeeded in business have been men, including today.

00:13:40.960 So it's not about business insight.

00:13:42.780 It's about pushing this ideology of feminism, which is, which is false. 1.00

00:13:46.040 And we're going to, we're going to have a little girl talk too.

00:13:49.400 Does anyone believe that Meghan Markle has like girlfriends?

00:13:54.140 Women generally don't have girlfriends because women generally kind of hate each other. 1.00

00:13:58.260 I'm just, the left can't talk about that kind of stuff.

00:14:02.520 See, on the right wing podcasts, we can say things that are not totally politically accepted or politically correct.

00:14:08.960 But, but one can speak authentically about those things.

00:14:12.080 The left can't do it.

00:14:13.160 And we have girl talk, tee hee hee.

00:14:15.240 And you know, it's a lot of fun.

00:14:16.580 Hey girl, you're still single. 1.00

00:14:17.620 It's just so inauthentic.

00:14:19.760 Why would I watch it?

00:14:21.560 With podcast, podcasting can be weird.

00:14:23.160 You can lose your train of thought.

00:14:24.180 You can sometimes say things that are offensive or whatever, but it's a much more intimate medium.

00:14:30.320 And the left has lost its intimacy with, with the people because of its artifice.

00:14:38.280 The right has increased in intimacy with people because it has embraced common sense.

00:14:44.120 And there is no greater expression of that than Donald Trump and the 2024 election, the vindication of Trump's political career.

00:14:50.520 But you see it.

00:14:51.160 It's not just Trump.

00:14:51.860 You just, you see it everywhere in the media, in corporate America, in politics.

00:14:57.420 Not expecting Meghan Markle's show to get many views. 0.75

00:15:00.140 They might get one view, at least for me.

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00:16:25.960 I love to listen to that chant in the background.

00:16:27.980 That's lovely.

00:16:29.500 Make your home smell like a 12th century monastery.

00:16:31.880 Can we just, I just kind of want to sit here silently and listen to that beautiful chanting.

00:16:36.720 Mr. Davies, am I permitted to do that?

00:16:39.080 Can I?

00:16:40.500 I call the shots around here.

00:16:41.860 I'll do it if I want, but I know we have to move on with the show. 0.63

00:16:44.220 So, we're going to turn away from Meghan Markle, but we are going to stick with insufferable women in media. 1.00

00:16:54.420 We turn to the CEO of NPR, National Public Radio.

00:16:59.200 That is Catherine Marr, who just testified before Congress.

00:17:03.600 And Representative Brandon Gill, the Republican freshman class president in Congress, first-termer, up-and-comer, really sharp guy, really has his finger on the pulse.

00:17:17.320 He obliterated this woman with her own words. 0.97

00:17:21.960 It's interesting, because a lot of your thinking, as expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism.

00:17:31.840 Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

00:17:35.640 I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.

00:17:42.500 It has evolved.

00:17:43.580 Why did you tweet that?

00:17:45.160 I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.

00:17:49.100 Okay.

00:17:49.820 Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? 0.84

00:17:54.180 I don't believe that, sir.

00:17:57.080 You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.

00:18:03.160 I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.

00:18:05.320 You tweeted about it.

00:18:07.240 You said you took a day off to fully read The Case for Reparations.

00:18:11.480 You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.

00:18:14.940 Apologies, I don't recall that I did.

00:18:16.800 Okay.

00:18:17.040 I have no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that.

00:18:21.600 Okay.

00:18:22.420 Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?

00:18:26.360 I do not.

00:18:27.220 You don't?

00:18:27.740 You tweeted something to that effect.

00:18:29.860 You said, I grew up feeling superior.

00:18:32.160 How white of me?

00:18:33.560 Why did you tweet that?

00:18:35.260 Put a pause right there.

00:18:36.500 This is just an absolute master class. 0.93

00:18:38.720 So he hits her.

00:18:40.060 She knows that he's going to hit her.

00:18:41.400 And she says, my thinking has evolved, which can be a true statement. 0.67

00:18:46.320 Our thinking, I guess, is always evolving.

00:18:48.440 It doesn't mean you're changing your opinions to contradict what they previously were.

00:18:51.740 They might be deepening. 0.99

00:18:53.360 Her opinion might have started out as, I don't know, white people are evil, men are evil. 1.00

00:18:59.080 And her opinion might have evolved to, white people are even more evil than I thought they were. 1.00

00:19:03.460 Men are even more evil than I thought they were. 0.99

00:19:05.980 But then she gets caught in a lie, which is, he says, okay, you read this book, right?

00:19:12.260 And you really liked this book.

00:19:13.320 She goes, I don't think I've ever read that book.

00:19:15.760 And he says, well, you tweeted about it.

00:19:17.260 You said, I just read this whole book in a day.

00:19:19.140 Now, I've read a lot of books, actually.

00:19:22.480 Not bragging.

00:19:23.020 It's a little humble brag, I guess.

00:19:24.240 But I've read a lot of books.

00:19:26.080 I don't remember the content of every book I've ever read.

00:19:29.660 But I generally remember that I read the book.

00:19:33.600 Even a book I read 10 years ago, 15 years ago.

00:19:36.720 Certainly a book I read five years ago.

00:19:38.880 Certainly a book I would have posted about having read five years ago.

00:19:42.000 So either she's lying now or she was lying then and she didn't actually read the book.

00:19:47.900 Or, I don't know, maybe it was some staffer who tweeted this and she's pretending that it's her. 0.53

00:19:51.980 But either way, this is a dishonest woman and Gil doesn't let up.

00:19:55.580 He keeps going.

00:19:56.800 Why did you tweet that?

00:19:58.280 I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be, to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.

00:20:05.540 It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.

00:20:08.680 I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir.

00:20:11.600 I was just reflecting on my own experience.

00:20:13.680 Okay, that also doesn't make any sense.

00:20:15.340 She said, you know, this was my experience as a kid, you know, and I wasn't aware and how superior I felt and blah, blah, blah.

00:20:22.900 How white of me.

00:20:24.980 So she says, how white of me.

00:20:27.320 All of a sudden, she can't be referring just to her personal subjective experience.

00:20:31.920 She's making a claim about white people. 1.00

00:20:34.580 Oh, I just did a thing that is characteristic of white people. 0.87

00:20:38.900 So he says, oh, that's how you think about white people?

00:20:42.000 And she says, no, no, I'm just talking about myself.

00:20:43.440 That is contradicted by the plain text of what she's saying.

00:20:45.840 This woman is, in principle, the head of a major journalist organization. 0.70

00:20:52.420 She doesn't know how the English language works.

00:20:55.420 Maybe she doesn't know.

00:20:56.440 I'm not talking about arcane and obscure political devices.

00:21:00.900 I'm talking about, like, the basic functions of grammar and the basic meaning of words.

00:21:05.420 She doesn't know?

00:21:07.400 Yikes.

00:21:07.900 Probably shouldn't be in that job then.

00:21:09.660 Or she's lying.

00:21:12.460 And Brandon finally finishes his absolute clobbering of the head of NPR.

00:21:18.500 Do you think the white people should pay reparations?

00:21:21.660 I have never said that, sir.

00:21:23.720 Yes, you did.

00:21:24.760 You said it in January of 2020.

00:21:26.740 You tweeted, yes, the North.

00:21:28.500 Yes, all of us.

00:21:29.300 Yes, America.

00:21:30.540 Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.

00:21:33.380 Yes, reparations.

00:21:34.600 Yes, on this day.

00:21:35.740 I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

00:21:38.740 What kind of reparations was it a reference to?

00:21:40.980 I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

00:21:45.700 That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

00:21:50.720 Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid?

00:21:55.140 Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.

00:21:59.120 Okay, just for everybody else.

00:22:00.940 I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations, sir.

00:22:02.300 Seems to be what you're suggesting.

00:22:04.340 Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?

00:22:06.340 I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to it as counterproductive.

00:22:10.100 I think it should be prosecuted.

00:22:11.120 Do you believe it's morally wrong, though?

00:22:12.900 Of course.

00:22:13.640 Of course.

00:22:14.120 Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?

00:22:16.900 It's a very different way to describe it.

00:22:19.840 It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as being illegal.

00:22:23.200 You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests.

00:22:28.720 Okay, so this is what I don't get about this woman. 1.00

00:22:31.440 She knows what's coming.

00:22:33.380 She goes, oh, I called it counterproductive.

00:22:36.080 But, you know, and I obviously think they're perfectly moral.

00:22:38.280 But I'll say now that they're immoral.

00:22:40.500 She saw it coming, but then when it comes to a remark about reparations, she said, I've never endorsed reparations.

00:22:46.920 She knows that Brandon has the receipts.

00:22:49.720 She knows he's a smart guy.

00:22:50.900 He's got all the receipts, her own words.

00:22:52.780 And yet she goes so brazenly.

00:22:55.180 Says, no, I've never said that.

00:22:56.400 He says, okay, well, here are your own words.

00:22:57.960 Reparations are awesome.

00:22:58.700 I love reparations.

00:22:59.440 Let's have more reparations.

00:23:00.380 Not a verbatim quote, but that was pretty much what she was saying.

00:23:03.560 And she has the temerity to look him and really all of us right in the face and say, oh, no, I didn't mean financial reparations.

00:23:12.940 When I was talking about reparations, a word is almost exclusively used to refer to financial reparations in the context of a book called The Case for Reparations, which is explicitly about financial reparations.

00:23:25.200 No, I didn't.

00:23:26.200 Where did you get the idea I meant financial reparations?

00:23:29.000 And he starts laughing.

00:23:31.220 He says, okay, if you didn't mean that, what'd you mean?

00:23:33.900 She goes, I just mean we should be grateful to our forebears.

00:23:37.900 He laughed.

00:23:38.920 What else are you going to do but laugh?

00:23:40.100 She's lying.

00:23:41.740 And she's not even lying effectively.

00:23:44.780 That's what's most offensive about it.

00:23:46.360 She's not even lying plausibly.

00:23:49.620 We need to defund NPR.

00:23:52.320 Period.

00:23:53.140 Full stop.

00:23:54.040 Defund it.

00:23:55.140 If NPR had any wisdom whatsoever, they would have fired this woman. 1.00

00:23:59.000 A long time ago.

00:24:00.600 But regardless, we should fire all of NPR.

00:24:03.740 Defund NPR.

00:24:04.720 And you know what the libs are going to say.

00:24:05.900 They're going to say, Michael, you've fallen for the disinformation because NPR is not really funded by the government.

00:24:14.920 What the left is going to say is only 1% of NPR's budget comes from the government, specifically from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

00:24:25.680 That's not quite true because NPR does get a lot of funding from its stations, which pay programming fees, which are much higher than 1%.

00:24:35.140 They're more like 10%.

00:24:37.040 So the stations get around 10% of their funding from the government.

00:24:41.480 And the stations pay the programming fees to NPR.

00:24:44.180 So how much does NPR rely on the government for its budget?

00:24:48.820 I don't know.

00:24:49.000 Maybe it's more like 3%, 4%.

00:24:50.680 And the libs are still going to say, well, that doesn't matter.

00:24:53.560 That's not a lot.

00:24:54.180 Okay.

00:24:54.420 Well, then what I say is, great.

00:24:56.300 We agree.

00:24:57.040 We say that NPR doesn't need to get government funding.

00:25:04.180 We say it with an angry tone.

00:25:05.960 We say NPR does not need to get government funding.

00:25:07.820 But you, libs, when you're defending NPR, you say NPR doesn't need to get government funding.

00:25:14.000 NPR would be just fine on its own without government funding.

00:25:16.480 In the end, the government funding is negligible to NPR.

00:25:18.940 Great.

00:25:19.320 Well, it sounds like we agree.

00:25:21.320 How amazing.

00:25:22.040 In our polarized world, we have found one issue on which we agree, which is that NPR

00:25:26.540 does not need that government funding.

00:25:30.320 The Republicans should end every red cent that goes to NPR tomorrow, which will actually

00:25:36.900 be harder to do from the perspective of government funding of the stations, which pay the programming

00:25:41.500 fees.

00:25:41.780 But we should defund NPR.

00:25:44.660 Let them make it on their own.

00:25:46.180 Unless you think your taxpayer dollars should go to a group that is led by a woman who thinks 1.00

00:25:54.520 that white people are terrible and we should pay racial reparations to black people and 1.00

00:25:59.400 believes a whole bunch of other nonsense that Congressman Brandon Gill just masterfully 1.00

00:26:03.960 exposed. 0.99

00:26:06.080 Crazy. 0.97

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00:27:11.100 Speaking of Trump initiatives, I hope it becomes an initiative to defund NPR.

00:27:17.480 Right now, though, we're getting some really good ones.

00:27:19.340 President Trump has just issued an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal

00:27:23.780 elections.

00:27:25.500 Also in the executive order, it requires that all ballots be received by election day.

00:27:32.340 That's it.

00:27:34.360 That should not be a news story.

00:27:36.160 No one should care about that.

00:27:37.500 That should be boring.

00:27:38.400 It should be a fait accompli.

00:27:39.280 There shouldn't be an executive order for that because there shouldn't need to be an executive

00:27:42.640 order for that.

00:27:44.200 But the left makes it controversial.

00:27:47.520 Go out on the street.

00:27:48.520 Ask 100 people.

00:27:49.240 Do you think that, since we're going to have mail-in ballots anyway, which even that is

00:27:55.480 a little outrageous to me, but if we're going to have widespread mail-in ballots, then should

00:28:01.460 all of them be counted by election day?

00:28:04.580 Or should we, should you just be able to mail it in whenever you want?

00:28:07.800 You know, like the elections in 2024 and people go to vote and Trump wins and becomes the president,

00:28:13.240 but you don't really like what he's doing.

00:28:14.600 So maybe somewhere around mid 2025, you mail in your ballot finally, and you say, no, I actually

00:28:19.300 don't like him.

00:28:20.100 Do you, what do we do then?

00:28:21.280 Do we just remove Trump from office?

00:28:22.720 Do we, what's the limit on mail-in ballots?

00:28:26.360 Well, we have a limit, a natural limit, it's called election day.

00:28:28.880 And there are a small number of people who rely on mail-in ballots.

00:28:31.820 I don't think we need them to be as widespread as they currently are, but in any case, I think

00:28:34.940 100% of people almost would agree with that.

00:28:38.660 I think 100% of people almost, not quite 100, but let's call it 80%.

00:28:44.020 Believe that people should have to prove that they're citizens of the country in order to

00:28:50.180 vote in federal elections.

00:28:52.300 In fact, I know that 80% of the people believe that because I've seen the consistent public

00:28:57.540 opinion polls on voter ID.

00:29:00.440 So this is some political brilliance here from Trump.

00:29:04.100 Trump issues the executive order, which will have a direct effect on elections, at least

00:29:09.240 federal elections, not state and local elections.

00:29:11.160 Maybe state and local elections in as much as people want to vote for everything at once.

00:29:16.000 So it's going to encourage more people to register to vote, discourage more people,

00:29:19.780 encourage more people to present their proof of citizenship, discourage more people who

00:29:23.040 are not citizens from voting.

00:29:24.960 But what the libs are going to say, this is what you're going to hear when you mention it

00:29:28.020 at the water cooler tomorrow.

00:29:29.600 The libs are going to say, well, the amount of voter fraud is negligible.

00:29:35.060 The number of non-citizens voting, it's negligible.

00:29:39.240 First of all, you don't really know that because you don't know what you don't know.

00:29:42.980 You don't.

00:29:44.200 These are, voting is so diffuse in America.

00:29:48.160 It's, especially with mail-in voting, it's virtually impossible to track fraud.

00:29:52.140 So you don't know.

00:29:53.100 You don't know what you don't know.

00:29:53.980 We hear about high profile cases.

00:29:55.600 That's enough for me to say, okay, we got to prove it.

00:29:57.140 And just the principle is enough for me to say, you need to prove that you are a citizen

00:30:00.840 in order to vote.

00:30:03.680 But then the libs are going to say, well, we didn't always require this.

00:30:07.440 This is a novelty in America.

00:30:09.100 We don't traditionally require proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections.

00:30:12.300 Yeah, you're right.

00:30:13.040 We didn't always have 16 million illegal aliens in America either.

00:30:16.660 But you forced conservatively 11 to 16 million illegal aliens on us by opening the borders

00:30:23.480 and inviting them in.

00:30:25.040 So now we have to react.

00:30:26.340 If we're going to continue to have a democracy, if we're going to continue to have self-government,

00:30:30.840 the bare minimum that we can do is require proof of citizenship to vote.

00:30:37.540 And guess what?

00:30:38.760 80% of Americans agree with us.

00:30:40.680 So why would Democrats oppose this kind of a measure?

00:30:44.840 Because they think it is that politically helpful to them to allow the conditions for

00:30:52.100 illegal aliens to vote.

00:30:53.840 It's the only way to explain it.

00:30:55.280 There's no principle of justice that says that illegal aliens should vote in elections. 1.00

00:31:01.620 There's no principle of law that says that illegal aliens should vote in elections.

00:31:05.840 And it's politically very unpopular to say that illegal aliens should be permitted to vote

00:31:11.820 in elections, that we shouldn't have voter ID laws.

00:31:14.060 So the only reason that Democrats would possibly oppose this would be because they think they

00:31:23.300 rely on it.

00:31:26.020 I don't know.

00:31:26.880 And that fact alone, I think, could tick this from an 80-20 issue to, I don't know, 85-15,

00:31:31.860 90-10.

00:31:32.620 So the libs are in a bad spot.

00:31:36.760 The best way they can hit Trump right now is the signal group chat, top boys of the

00:31:44.280 Trump admin texting about the Hootie terror strikes story.

00:31:50.640 You remember the story?

00:31:51.520 We talked about it yesterday.

00:31:52.260 It's probably the biggest story in the country right now because the libs control the media. 0.97

00:31:56.520 There is a group, and because it is a legitimately pretty bizarre story, there's a group chat

00:32:00.900 between J.D. Vance, SecDef, Pete Hegseth, NSA, Michael Walls, John Ratcliffe, head of the

00:32:10.000 CIA, was in there.

00:32:11.240 I think Rubio might have been there, Secretary of State.

00:32:13.180 So there were a lot of real top dogs in the Trump administration.

00:32:16.140 And Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, a liberal magazine.

00:32:22.020 How did he get in there?

00:32:22.860 He publishes this article.

00:32:23.720 He says, the Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans.

00:32:27.800 It's unclear.

00:32:28.500 It seems as though the national security advisor, Mike Waltz, added Jeffrey Goldberg inadvertently.

00:32:34.360 It's unclear.

00:32:35.340 In any case, it's caused a lot of trouble in the press for the Trump administration, and

00:32:40.620 he's doubling down.

00:32:42.560 So Hegseth came out, the admin came out, and was trying to tamp down the story.

00:32:49.560 The Atlantic says, here are the attack plans that Trump's advisors shared on Signal.

00:32:53.720 So they've changed it now.

00:32:54.720 You notice, it's not, no longer calling it war plans.

00:32:57.480 They're calling it attack plans.

00:32:59.000 So that's a shift in the Atlantic's rhetoric.

00:33:01.020 Maybe they're trying to tone it down a little bit.

00:33:03.300 But they're trying to counter Pete Hegseth, who said no one texted war plans.

00:33:07.480 So, okay, we'll call it attack plans.

00:33:08.900 But still, we were in these texts, and the texts were pretty weird.

00:33:11.020 And it's a weird story.

00:33:16.220 It's notable.

00:33:18.080 Not good.

00:33:19.280 Nobody would say it's good that they added this lib journalist.

00:33:21.560 And some people are saying it was 5D chess, and actually they wanted it to leak because

00:33:24.960 they wanted to signal to Europe how upset they were that Europe wasn't ponying up for

00:33:29.140 defense and opening the shipping lanes in the Middle East.

00:33:31.900 And I think that's all too clever by half.

00:33:35.600 I don't think administrations usually leak information in a way to intentionally make

00:33:44.000 themselves look bad in order to send a message.

00:33:47.300 I just, I don't buy that.

00:33:48.500 It was probably a mistake.

00:33:51.140 But no one really cares.

00:33:54.120 No one really cares.

00:33:55.500 All of the libs trying to get Pete Hegseth to resign are the same libs who were fighting

00:33:59.540 tooth and nail not to confirm him in the first place.

00:34:01.400 Their hatred of Pete Hegseth has pretty much nothing to do with this.

00:34:06.040 Pete Hegseth wasn't even the guy who added Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat.

00:34:09.580 The people now who are making a big hullabaloo about classified information being stored

00:34:15.180 improperly, all these people on the left supported Hillary Clinton, who stored classified

00:34:19.620 information in a far less proper way.

00:34:21.680 All these people on the left calling this the worst foreign policy blunder, national security

00:34:26.060 blunder in recent memory.

00:34:28.080 Susan Rice did that recently. 1.00

00:34:29.320 These are people, Susan Rice actually in her defense was not actually involved in the Benghazi

00:34:34.440 attack, but she became the fall man in the face of the Benghazi attack.

00:34:37.100 These are people who totally bungled Benghazi.

00:34:41.320 These are people who in more recent memory totally bungled the pullout from Afghanistan, gave billions of

00:34:45.640 dollars of weapons to our enemies, saw American troops killed.

00:34:50.400 I mean, you know, give me a break, give me a break.

00:34:54.320 No one really cares. 0.74

00:34:56.920 The left obviously is, is being ridiculous about this, but even on the right, no one really 0.69

00:35:02.700 cares because our politics right now is simply too polarized to care. 0.53

00:35:08.140 There was a time when politics seemed a little bit more kumbaya, you know, after the, after

00:35:15.840 the tumult of the 1960s, the political establishment kind of congealed a little bit more in the 1970s.

00:35:23.060 And you had a situation where Republicans would help Democrats to oust Richard Nixon, which was

00:35:29.000 absurd, but it's because there was a little bit more of a consensus.

00:35:33.600 But as I mentioned at the top of the show, during periods of political shift, a changing of the

00:35:40.720 political order, you don't see that kumbaya.

00:35:43.740 In fact, sometimes it can bleed over into political violence.

00:35:46.000 We're in one of those moments right now and no one is going to turn on Trump or Pete Hegseth

00:35:53.940 or J.D. Vance or even Mike Waltz or any of these people over a group chat.

00:35:59.500 It's not going to have, the stakes are too high.

00:36:01.660 If the Democrats were more reasonable, if the Democrats weren't transing little kids and 1.00

00:36:06.960 slaughtering babies and opening our border to a mass invasion of face tattooed criminals, 0.96

00:36:11.320 if the Democrats were a little more normal, maybe the Republicans would be more willing to slap 0.97

00:36:15.920 their own on the wrist.

00:36:17.660 But with stakes like this, uh-uh.

00:36:20.980 We ain't turning on our own over a group chat, okay?

00:36:24.180 It's going to take a lot more than that.

00:36:26.860 Maybe there's pretty much nothing that would get us to relax our fists, reconsider our position

00:36:36.840 in this kind of a pitched battle of the culture war.

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00:37:05.400 My favorite comment yesterday is from Nathan by Water, 3888, who says,

00:37:12.580 To be fair, I've called Governor Abbott Hot Wheels for years.

00:37:15.400 I've also voted for him multiple times.

00:37:16.920 I think he's doing a great job.

00:37:18.260 The bros understand.

00:37:19.180 That's so true.

00:37:20.580 That is so true.

00:37:22.760 You can, I'm going to let you in, you know, on a little secret.

00:37:26.560 You can make all sorts of nasty, offensive, politically incorrect jokes. 0.77

00:37:31.900 You can make sexist jokes, racist jokes, all sorts of jokes, if they're jokes.

00:37:40.540 If they are done with charity toward your friends, it's fine.

00:37:44.740 I'm sure Governor Abbott's buddies make jokes about his wheelchair too, and it's all fun.

00:37:49.360 The problem is Jasmine Crockett was just making a very nasty comment mocking a man for his disability 1.00

00:37:56.260 because he's been a paralytic since he was a young man.

00:37:59.140 And people don't like that.

00:38:00.100 Even many Democrats don't like that.

00:38:02.540 Not a good look.

00:38:04.860 Not a good look.

00:38:05.440 You know what else is not a good look?

00:38:07.100 When LGBT activist teachers with their trans-identifying husbands invite minors, teen girls, into their home 0.51

00:38:20.120 against the wishes of the teen's mother.

00:38:22.540 I know I'm being very specific here.

00:38:23.840 This is a very specific news story written by Daily Wire's very own Mairead Elordi.

00:38:31.700 Mairead, thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:38:34.460 Michael, thank you so much.

00:38:36.100 Mairead, I want to, whenever I say your name, I want to say it like a leprechaun with a little bit of a little...

00:38:42.460 It's just a beautiful name.

00:38:44.340 I really like it.

00:38:45.420 Thank you so much.

00:38:45.560 And I wish we had more beautiful musical names like that at the Daily Wire.

00:38:49.740 But we don't.

00:38:50.440 We just have clunky nonsense like Ben and Matt.

00:38:54.280 Anyway, we need more Maireads. 0.98

00:38:55.580 I digress.

00:38:56.600 Tell me about this story.

00:38:57.520 So, this story, you can almost hardly believe it when you read it, but I spent a few weeks

00:39:05.760 reporting on this.

00:39:06.820 It's a vulnerable 17-year-old girl in Durango, Colorado.

00:39:13.560 She identifies as a boy, and she had a fight with her mom.

00:39:18.800 She went to her math teacher's house, now her former math teacher, and this teacher is married

00:39:27.720 to a trans-identifying man who ran for state senate as a Democrat in Colorado.

00:39:33.620 These two people, they're both, you know, they're the teacher's Facebook page is full of LGBT

00:39:41.300 activism posts.

00:39:43.420 They took in this 17-year-old girl, and her mother would like her to come home.

00:39:50.580 She actually has turned 18 now, but when she was 17, her mother wanted her to come home.

00:39:55.000 She even called the police to this teacher's house to try to get her child to come home with her, 0.98

00:40:02.460 and the police say there's nothing we can do.

00:40:04.900 They did a welfare check.

00:40:06.560 Basically, they say tough luck, and now her child is 18.

00:40:10.780 There's nothing she can do, and the child is still living.

00:40:13.420 Well, now an 18-year-old is still living with her former math teacher and this trans-identifying 1.00

00:40:19.240 man who is married to the teacher.

00:40:21.960 So it's just an example of a vulnerable teen.

00:40:27.400 Things were tough at home when she decided to start identifying as a boy.

00:40:31.080 Her mother had cancer a couple years ago, and her mother thinks that that really made her

00:40:37.300 become withdrawn from the family.

00:40:38.980 She also has several diagnoses, depression, anxiety, and eating disorder.

00:40:44.940 She's autistic. 0.99

00:40:46.800 I think we've seen a lot of autistic kids identify as trans in the last few years, and this is just 1.00

00:40:54.740 from what I know, and I've reported a lot on these transgender issues, and especially the public

00:40:59.660 school issues, this, to me, is one of the most serious cases I've seen of what happens when a

00:41:08.080 child identifies as transgender.

00:41:09.980 They end up living with their teacher, and their teacher's trans-identifying male husband,

00:41:15.500 and for some reason, the police can't do anything.

00:41:19.920 So this town, I covered a story just a few weeks ago out of Durango, Colorado.

00:41:26.060 The school's promoting all this radical LGBT nonsense. 1.00

00:41:30.060 You know, they hate the American flag, but they love the rainbow flag, want to plaster it everywhere. 0.95

00:41:34.280 It seems like there's something in the water in this town.

00:41:36.580 What I don't understand what this town's police department is, or Child Protective Services,

00:41:41.160 or whichever agency went over to actually get this girl, how do the cops not have the ability

00:41:47.480 to take a minor out of someone else's home, some teacher's home, a teacher who obviously engages

00:41:56.440 in aberrant, deviant sexual desires, and return the minor?

00:42:01.840 I get it at 18, you can't do anything, but the mother doesn't have any recourse? 0.94

00:42:05.520 The law says, no, your child wants to go live with some sex freaks down the street, 1.00

00:42:11.300 one of whom was her teacher. 0.85

00:42:12.760 Sorry, our hands are tied.

00:42:14.700 What?

00:42:15.260 Well, I asked the police department, I don't understand why were you not able to bring her

00:42:21.480 home with her mother?

00:42:22.440 Her mother's at the bottom of the driveway saying, can you please go get my kid? 0.55

00:42:26.980 And the police department said to me, well, our policy is for juvenile non-offenders,

00:42:34.120 we can take them into custody if they're under the influence, if they're situations like that,

00:42:42.040 but not this.

00:42:43.820 And we got the police body cam of this incident, and the officers who show up, they tell the mom,

00:42:53.500 well, minor and child are not the same thing.

00:42:56.100 So, and they told the girl when they spoke to her, things get a little more complicated

00:43:03.320 when we're 17 years old and we can decide who we hang out with.

00:43:08.220 So, I really am still confused, to be honest.

00:43:11.340 I guess they have decided that 17 is basically an adult, and we're not going to physically

00:43:18.240 remove her from this home.

00:43:20.600 Well, bully for the cops that they've decided this, that's not what the law says.

00:43:25.660 I mean, that's what's so bizarre.

00:43:27.380 I remember when I was 17, I sure felt like an adult.

00:43:30.540 When I was 12, I felt like an adult, but I wasn't.

00:43:33.980 So, it just, I don't know, this whole, they need to film a horror movie in this town or

00:43:39.100 something, because something is clearly deeply wrong here.

00:43:41.980 That even the cops are in on this, even the cops are promoting this bizarre, sexually abusive 0.88

00:43:48.900 ideology and behavior, totally insane.

00:43:53.320 The teacher has been fired, I hope.

00:43:56.040 She doesn't work for Durango High School anymore, but she was the girl's math teacher.

00:44:00.180 I'm not sure if she was let go or how that happened, but she doesn't work there anymore.

00:44:05.080 Totally gross, freaky, scary, and I don't think it's just Durango.

00:44:09.940 I mean, you've covered these sorts of issues for a while.

00:44:13.620 How pervasive is this kind of stuff in schools?

00:44:18.900 Well, I think it really blew up under the Biden administration of public schools having policies

00:44:25.180 that interpret Title IX in a way that includes gender ideology.

00:44:31.620 So, I remember a couple years ago when I first started reporting on how pervasive kids being

00:44:37.940 exposed to gender ideology is in classrooms and public schools. 0.95

00:44:41.580 People were very skeptical, and they thought, oh, surely it's, you know, this is just in

00:44:45.560 liberal cities, this is not every public school, but it really, it was, appeared to be virtually

00:44:51.100 every public school.

00:44:52.140 It's every public school.

00:44:52.920 It's getting exposed to this ideology.

00:44:55.100 Now, before I let you go, just to be fair to the libs, or to give them more than is their

00:45:00.300 due, actually, in this case, I understand the lib perspective.

00:45:04.160 Here's the lib perspective.

00:45:05.920 You're going to say, this poor LGBT child, LGBT youth, was being raised in an oppressive,

00:45:13.940 conservative household that would not allow her to be her true self.

00:45:18.380 And she sought comfort and freedom in the home of one of her open-minded teachers who

00:45:25.580 would allow her to explore her true identity and live.

00:45:30.060 And actually, they'd say him.

00:45:31.740 They would say him.

00:45:32.500 That's right.

00:45:32.880 They would call her a him. 0.51

00:45:35.340 And they would say this, and this, even among people who are kind of centrist, this ideology

00:45:41.920 has a certain appeal, the poor, beleaguered LGBT youth with the evil, oppressive parents 1.00

00:45:50.120 who probably, deep down, want to subject the child to conversion therapy.

00:45:55.080 All therapy is conversion therapy.

00:45:56.480 But if there's conversion therapy, and who knows, they'll probably use electrodes or something.

00:46:01.860 How do we combat that myth?

00:46:05.840 Well, I think we have to start looking at the results of children who went down that road.

00:46:14.760 And we are seeing that with detransitioners, obviously. 1.00

00:46:17.440 But there's also more research coming out about what happens to people after the newness

00:46:24.000 of a trans identity wears off. 0.51

00:46:26.860 Because we really didn't have that for a while.

00:46:30.200 You know, all this research saying, oh, it improves people's depression, anxiety.

00:46:34.720 They were looking at very short periods of time where, you know, oh, I've got a new identity.

00:46:41.180 It's new.

00:46:41.540 It's exciting.

00:46:41.980 People are affirming me.

00:46:43.320 I'm getting attention.

00:46:44.820 And now I think we're starting to see research that looks at over 10 years, over 15 years,

00:46:49.580 what happens to these people.

00:46:50.860 And it doesn't look good so far.

00:46:53.060 So I think just results are powerful.

00:46:55.380 And I think hopefully more of that will come out.

00:46:57.820 That's a great point.

00:46:58.540 How do you puncture this mythos, reality?

00:47:01.720 Reality is a good way to do it. 0.92

00:47:02.740 Exactly.

00:47:03.480 Maraid, thank you so much for the report and for coming on the show and for allowing me

00:47:08.320 to pronounce your name, which has improved my day after all of these news stories.

00:47:13.400 Good to see you.

00:47:14.360 Thank you so much, Michael.

00:47:14.860 See you next time.

00:47:15.660 I'll see all of you next time.

00:47:17.000 I can't do the Membrum Segmentum today.

00:47:18.820 I have to fly to Washington.

00:47:20.520 I have to go to the White House, which is cool.

00:47:23.300 Maybe I'll try to get a glimpse of the great man himself, the great President Covfefe.

00:47:27.760 But we'll have much to report on anyway next time I see you.

00:47:31.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:32.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 27, 2025

Ep. 1702 - Conservative Student ASSAULTED with Bike Lock

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