The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1715 - Libs Defend Ancient ＂Non-Violent＂ Child Sacrifice

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00:00:37.680 Breaking news this morning, a new leftist euphemism has dropped.

00:00:41.300 We can credit this one to an ancient altar recently discovered in Guatemala.

00:00:45.960 The altar is pre-Aztec.

00:00:48.040 It dates to between 100 B.C. and A.D. 750.

00:00:52.000 We all know the Aztecs sacrificed humans to the tune of 80,000 a clip. 0.62

00:00:57.540 Well, this pre-Aztec altar seems to have been used for human sacrifice as well.

00:01:02.140 And in the words of the archaeologist who discovered it, it was used in the sacrifice, quote, especially of children.

00:01:09.380 But the archaeologist and the liberal media outlets reporting on the archaeological find want you to know that, I'm quoting directly here,

00:01:17.520 it's not that they were violent.

00:01:20.760 It was just their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.

00:01:26.080 Fiery but mostly peaceful protests are out.

00:01:28.780 Nonviolent child sacrifice is in. 0.81

00:01:32.520 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:33.280 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:15.760 I guess it's kind of fitting to talk about colostrum as we talk about child sacrifice.

00:03:20.760 I think that this one might take the cake.

00:03:25.480 Non-violent child sacrifice.

00:03:28.840 That is, you know, the libs always have these euphemisms that don't make any sense.

00:03:33.120 Like undocumented American. 1.00

00:03:35.420 It's an American without documents because they're foreigners because they're not Americans. 1.00

00:03:39.400 You know, it's a contradiction in terms.

00:03:41.280 Justice involved person.

00:03:43.200 It's a criminal, you know, so he's not involved in justice.

00:03:45.940 He's involved in injustice.

00:03:47.400 And they always do this.

00:03:48.380 We've talked about it for years.

00:03:50.500 Fiery, but mostly peaceful.

00:03:53.040 Those things don't go together.

00:03:54.460 And then non-violent child sacrifice.

00:03:56.680 Just a reminder, despite what you learned in public school, the conquistadors are among the greatest men who ever lived.

00:04:06.480 Even pre-conquistador.

00:04:08.040 Starting with Christopher Columbus, really one of the greatest men who's ever lived.

00:04:12.360 Followed by men like Hernan Cortes, who ended these barbaric societies that would just slaughter tens of thousands of people at a time.

00:04:22.940 And in this case, especially little children.

00:04:25.620 There were multiple bodies found around this altar under four years old.

00:04:31.500 Okay?

00:04:31.860 These people just had a totally demonic society.

00:04:36.080 Of course, we sacrifice over a million babies a year in our country.

00:04:38.940 So, a little bit of an indictment of us, too.

00:04:40.820 But good grief.

00:04:42.540 Our civilization, when we actually behave in a civilized way, has absolutely nothing to apologize for whatsoever.

00:04:49.880 Conquistadors vindicated yet again.

00:04:51.980 Okay.

00:04:52.360 Speaking of babies, this one was a little bit surprising.

00:04:55.520 SNL just took on the relatively recent phenomenon of homosexuals going to the baby store to purchase the eggs of a woman and rent the womb of another woman to acquire babies, which is obviously gravely disordered because two fellas can't make a baby together. 0.98

00:05:14.120 So, it involves all this extra stuff and commoditizing human life and picking babies out of a catalog and killing a bunch of the extra embryos that were created to find the exact perfect baby.

00:05:25.000 But SNL is super-duper lib.

00:05:27.320 So, you would expect, if SNL takes on this issue, it would be very sympathetic to the homosexual baby purchasers and the non-homosexual baby purchasers, for that matter. 0.92

00:05:36.880 You would think it would be very harsh on the critics or the people who have questions about this.

00:05:42.800 And yet, the SNL sketch was exactly the opposite.

00:05:48.320 Oh my gosh, whose baby is that?

00:05:52.180 Excuse me?

00:05:53.280 It's ours.

00:05:54.680 Wait, but how?

00:05:56.460 Okay, I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby? 1.00

00:06:00.760 Yeah, but like, where did it come from?

00:06:03.320 Excuse me?

00:06:04.640 Excuse me?

00:06:05.580 Wow, you are not allowed to talk like that.

00:06:08.500 That is so invasive.

00:06:09.900 Okay, but like, we were with you last night, and you did not have a baby.

00:06:15.860 Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner, you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon, and now today you have a baby.

00:06:23.320 What we're asking is, how did this happen?

00:06:26.680 Okay, I'm sorry, why is it when it's us, an interrogation?

00:06:29.740 I don't ask you why you're poor.

00:06:32.220 It's not okay, you can't ask this question.

00:06:34.040 It goes on, it's really funny.

00:06:36.980 The gay guys are the clowns in this sketch. 1.00

00:06:41.480 The straight people are the straight men in this sketch, which is fitting, I suppose. 0.92

00:06:46.540 The joke is that two fellas can't make a baby, and it's super weird that multiple, many pairs of two fellas have babies. 1.00

00:06:56.420 And it's morally dubious, and everyone's suspicious of it, and they should be, because it involves bioethically suspect practices.

00:07:07.860 Let's just call it what it is, downright immoral practices to commoditize a human being.

00:07:12.400 Go to a baby store, purchase an egg, rent a womb, and pick a baby out like you'd pick out a designer handbag. 0.65

00:07:18.000 It's wrong.

00:07:18.900 It shouldn't happen.

00:07:20.320 Also, one of the jokes is that babies need their mothers.

00:07:24.220 So the straight group asks, well, where's the mother?

00:07:28.020 And the guys in the clown position in the sketch say, oh, well, you know, I'm a little more emotional, and I'm not as good a driver or something.

00:07:35.080 So I guess I'm sort of the mother.

00:07:36.780 That's the punchline.

00:07:38.060 This is the most pronounced vibe shift example I've seen.

00:07:45.140 I think, period, full stop.

00:07:46.340 I think more than the election, more than the public polling after the inauguration, more than the shift in how the liberal media and liberal institutions are treating Trump and Republicans.

00:07:57.600 This is Saturday Night Live.

00:08:00.080 This is the liberal comedy show par excellence.

00:08:04.000 And they are mocking the idea of gay rights, of gay marriage, of surrogacy, of IVF, of the whole baby industry.

00:08:16.500 Huge, huge vibe shift.

00:08:19.060 And all of those examples that I just mentioned are obviously related.

00:08:22.580 The fact that CNN and MSNBC and all the liberal networks are now starting to have to cater to conservatives is a direct reaction to the 2024 election.

00:08:32.620 The fact that even SNL, even the entertainment, comedy, popular media are having to shift their political tone is a reaction to the election.

00:08:41.660 Because Trump not only won the election, he won the popular vote.

00:08:45.000 And he not only won the white guys, he won plenty of white guys, but he also won half of Hispanics almost, one in five black guys, 40% of women under 30.

00:08:54.200 He just won a lot.

00:08:56.680 And he ran on mass deportations.

00:08:59.620 And he ran on cutting out the excesses of the sexual revolution.

00:09:02.920 And he ran on normal.

00:09:04.260 Really good stuff.

00:09:05.340 A reminder too, during the real high point of social, especially sexual liberalism of the last, I don't know, maybe about 10 years ago, redefining marriage, open up baby stores, pushing transgenderism, all of that kind of stuff.

00:09:23.600 Those of us who resisted and said no, not just to no transiting the kids, but no to the redefining marriage, it's not possible, no to the baby industry, no to all of these social experiments. 0.67

00:09:35.800 We were called idiots and rubes and passe and on the wrong side of history and all the rest.

00:09:42.240 And look who's laughing now.

00:09:43.460 The reason that I can feel confident, and you should be able to feel confident, that innovations such as baby stores and gay marriage and all the rest of it are not going to last forever is that they are so out of accord with reality, they are so ultimately indefensible, that it's like a castle built on sand. 1.00

00:10:03.660 Okay, it can't last because logic is eternal, human nature is eternal, we can have all sorts of experiments, societies can go downhill, we can say,

00:10:13.460 sacrifice babies on altars for hundreds of years, but eventually reality is going to kick back in.

00:10:20.960 Okay, really, really good stuff.

00:10:22.860 On this very same point, there is something that I called for in a viral clip about a month, two months ago, that is now, people laughed at me, they mocked me when I said it, and it is now national policy in a major Western country.

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00:12:30.460 Hungary's parliament has just moved on from the rainbow mafia, from the LGBT Pride Day that became Pride Week, that became Pride Month, that became Pride Two Months, that became Pride Year. 0.97

00:12:48.520 Remember, Hungary's parliament just passed an amendment to the Constitution that allows the government to ban Pride and really all public LGBT displays.

00:13:00.740 This is so beautiful.

00:13:01.860 We'll get to exactly what it means, how it passed.

00:13:03.400 But I was on the Jubilee show, Surrounded, a couple of months ago, and we filmed it even earlier than that.

00:13:11.480 And I was surrounded by 20 or 25 LGBT LMNOP activists.

00:13:14.900 And one of the prompts that we were debating was that we should ban Pride.

00:13:19.760 Of course, we talked about, you know, get rid of transgenderism. 1.00

00:13:25.020 Of course, we talked about all of the issues that you usually hear about.

00:13:27.660 But one that even some people on the center right told me was too far, too crazy, was the notion that we should ban Pride parades.

00:13:36.400 But to me, it seems so obvious.

00:13:41.060 I'm a citizen.

00:13:42.600 I have the right, at least some right, to set standards in the town square.

00:13:49.180 And the Pride parades are not things that happen in people's backyards.

00:13:51.880 They happen in the town square.

00:13:53.380 They happen on Main Street.

00:13:54.480 And I should not be expected to walk my little kid or to walk my elderly grandmother through the town square when they're weird fellas wearing leather costumes, smacking each other around, doing gross stuff.

00:14:06.980 They don't have the right to do that.

00:14:08.700 I have the right, in part, to my town square.

00:14:12.400 And even people on the center right, they mocked me for this.

00:14:16.580 How could you possibly ban Pride?

00:14:18.360 Well, I'll tell you how hungry just did it.

00:14:19.720 The vote passed along party lines, 140 votes for it, 21 against it.

00:14:25.980 Pretty good, pretty good victory.

00:14:28.760 The amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical, and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including that to peaceably assemble.

00:14:40.060 Love this.

00:14:41.440 This is great.

00:14:43.460 You don't have a right to obscene weird stuff in the public square.

00:14:47.180 Now, in Hungary, kids are not going to be exposed to and propagandized with LGBT nonsense in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade.

00:15:00.580 This is common sense.

00:15:02.720 One reaction is going to be, well, Michael, that's Hungary. 0.59

00:15:05.540 And Hungary is a far-right authoritarian government.

00:15:09.200 We would never tolerate that here in America.

00:15:11.500 We have our constitutional rights.

00:15:12.980 Until very, very recently, we had, in practice, the exact same policies in America.

00:15:22.260 And in principle, we still do.

00:15:24.560 There is no free speech right to obscenity.

00:15:28.760 Pride parades are not as American as apple pie.

00:15:32.080 Benjamin Franklin didn't show up to the pride parade, okay?

00:15:34.300 Pride parades are a relatively recent phenomenon that come about as a result of the weakening of American laws against obscenity, that come about as a weakening of the American political right to set community standards, and a strengthening of the individual license to autonomy and libertinism and all the rest of it.

00:15:57.240 Well, we made more sense before that.

00:16:01.720 We have political rights.

00:16:03.280 We have the right to an exalted freedom beyond the degraded pseudo-freedom of the individual license to do gross stuff in public.

00:16:13.320 Really, really good stuff.

00:16:14.840 And it reminds me of that line from Cardinal Manning.

00:16:16.660 There is a day to come that will reverse the confident judgments of men.

00:16:23.360 People who say, oh, there's no way.

00:16:24.700 Look, it's the same people who said Roe v. Wade will never be overruled.

00:16:27.840 And I was one of the people who was skeptical of Roe v. Wade getting overruled.

00:16:31.240 How quickly things can change.

00:16:33.500 Settled precedent.

00:16:34.500 The most sacred Supreme Court decision ever for the American left.

00:16:39.320 Overturned.

00:16:39.920 By President Trump.

00:16:41.000 A guy who, for much of his life, was a kind of Democrat, socially liberal New Yorker.

00:16:44.540 These things can flip.

00:16:48.480 The pushback against transgenderism, which even five years ago we were told is the way of the future. 0.97

00:16:53.960 Now it's a punchline.

00:16:56.340 Gay marriage, we were told, here forever.

00:16:58.860 Now it's a punchline on Saturday Night Live.

00:17:01.900 Pride parades in public.

00:17:03.820 I don't know that they're all that long for this world, even in America.

00:17:07.680 Now, speaking of family.

00:17:08.640 New report at the Wall Street Journal that young people increasingly are turning away from cutting their own path, from going to work for some corporation somewhere else in the country.

00:17:21.760 Young people increasingly are working for family businesses.

00:17:24.560 They write,

00:17:54.560 in taking over a business that already exists.

00:17:57.740 So, for pretty much all of my life, there has been this sense that there's something wrong about taking over the family business.

00:18:05.980 There's something kind of unmanly about it, you know.

00:18:09.180 You're not really free.

00:18:10.600 You should cut out on your own.

00:18:12.080 Do whatever you want.

00:18:12.980 Go work for some other corporation.

00:18:14.060 That it would be better to go work for some guy you never heard of, doing some business that you've really got no experience in, than it is to work for the family business.

00:18:24.320 A similar kind of reasoning, I think, to the idea that women must go out and work in some corporate environment. 0.99

00:18:32.440 Not that they can go out and work, but they must.

00:18:36.820 That it's somehow wrong.

00:18:38.000 They're not liberated if they stay at home and raise children and homeschool and bake cookies and do all the things that women once did. 1.00

00:18:45.660 That it would be wrong to do that.

00:18:49.000 And I think that judgment, too, is being reversed here.

00:18:53.300 There's a popular sense that it's wrong to go work for your family business, but really it's just natural and reasonable.

00:19:00.180 You know, I didn't grow up with a family business or anything like that, so obviously I didn't work for one.

00:19:03.680 But I was thinking about my own employment history.

00:19:08.400 I've had all sorts of crazy jobs, going back to when I was 14 years old.

00:19:11.980 And it occurs to me, I don't think I've ever gotten a job by submitting a job application.

00:19:19.500 You know, going to some kind of random recruitment website and just submitting a blank application.

00:19:24.260 I've submitted job applications, but it was to people I knew or to people who knew people that I knew.

00:19:29.580 And it's not like I came from money.

00:19:30.740 It's not like I came from connections.

00:19:32.140 But even my first job, I worked at a Subway sandwich store, but it was a store that we would go into a lot.

00:19:38.500 And, you know, I would talk to the owner.

00:19:41.640 My mother kind of knew the owner.

00:19:43.480 Said, hey, you know, maybe you could give my kid a job.

00:19:47.140 Other jobs I've had.

00:19:48.620 In politics, it was kind of people that I knew or people that I knew that I knew or someone heard about me from some campaign that I worked on.

00:19:55.220 And we kind of were aware of each other.

00:19:58.220 Obviously, the Daily Wire.

00:20:00.300 We were all kind of friends.

00:20:01.280 We were all in the same social circle before this company even existed.

00:20:06.600 And I think that's the way it works.

00:20:08.200 When young people, I go to these universities and young people ask me for advice.

00:20:10.780 How do I break into politics?

00:20:12.020 How do I do?

00:20:12.460 One joke I say is, well, the best way to break into political media is to be friends with Jeremy Boring.

00:20:16.720 That's the first thing I would recommend.

00:20:18.380 But there's a lot of truth to that.

00:20:22.840 You know, humans are social creatures.

00:20:26.120 And so we're not just clinical, you know, independent robots floating throughout our space with no connections to each other.

00:20:33.720 It actually makes sense to work with your friends or at least to work with people who know your friends or people that you can trust in a way that is sometimes inarticulable and goes deeper than just the terms of a contract.

00:20:48.240 Businesses actually work better that way.

00:20:53.060 There is a reason that there is such a thing as a family business.

00:20:57.700 That isn't wrong.

00:20:59.080 It isn't wrong to follow your natural inclinations and the relationships that you've cultivated in all other areas of life, in your professional life as well.

00:21:07.240 This would, everyone knew this for all of it.

00:21:09.540 So much of our time is just rediscovering things that people have known intuitively for all of history.

00:21:17.820 Now, speaking of business and businessmen, you remember that lunatic, that young guy, Luigi, who murdered the healthcare CEO in New York some months ago in an act of cold-blooded murder?

00:21:30.760 Well, a prominent left-wing journalist has just gone on a prominent left-wing cable channel to explain how that murderer is clearly, obviously, a morally good man.

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00:23:01.900 Taylor Lorenz, one of the more eccentric figures from the left-wing media space.

00:23:08.740 She is a totally mainstream left-wing journalist.

00:23:12.220 She's worked for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Daily Beast, the Daily Mail, Business Insider.

00:23:19.140 She's worked for everyone.

00:23:21.080 Now she's going on CNN to explain why the young man who murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood

00:23:28.120 and deprived that man's wife and children of a husband and father, why he is obviously a morally good man.

00:23:35.360 Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone standing a murderer

00:23:42.620 when this is the United States of America, as if we don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have, you know,

00:23:49.260 we don't stand murderers of all sorts and we give them Netflix shows.

00:23:53.980 There's a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles that sort of mainstream media pushes

00:23:59.460 and what the American public feels.

00:24:01.720 And you see that in moments like this.

00:24:03.720 And I can tell you, I saw the biggest audience growth that I've ever seen.

00:24:07.640 Because people were like, oh, somebody, some journalist is actually speaking to the anger that we feel.

00:24:14.500 The women who got her outside course in New York. 1.00

00:24:17.900 So you're going to see women especially that feel like, oh my God, right? 0.99

00:24:21.260 Like here's this man who, who's a revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart.

00:24:29.380 He's a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.

00:24:37.640 But you can tell in the eyes, you can tell in the eyes and the mouth and Taylor Lorenz is exactly the kind of woman who would have married Ted Bundy. 0.88

00:24:49.220 You know, she's got, and she's always had that in the eyes.

00:24:51.880 So I'm not denying that she seems a little, little bit kooky.

00:24:56.420 However, this is the view of the mainstream left.

00:25:00.800 This is, this is not just a fringe view.

00:25:04.920 She's not a fringe journalist.

00:25:06.120 She's worked for all the major outlets.

00:25:08.040 She's here on CNN and she's laughing with the interviewer.

00:25:10.980 He's a morally good man.

00:25:12.200 It's kind of hard to find.

00:25:13.060 He's so hot.

00:25:14.540 Oh yeah.

00:25:15.020 And we lionize murderers all the time in America.

00:25:17.940 Correction.

00:25:18.600 Hold on.

00:25:19.100 Interjection here.

00:25:21.040 No, you do.

00:25:22.360 I don't lionize murderers.

00:25:24.280 You do.

00:25:24.840 The American left does.

00:25:26.980 No, but we give them Netflix shows.

00:25:28.620 Right.

00:25:29.020 You run Netflix.

00:25:29.780 I don't, conservatives don't run Netflix.

00:25:32.500 Yeah, but just, I mean, I don't know.

00:25:34.220 He's just so hot, you know, and he's so obviously morally good.

00:25:37.540 Why is he morally good?

00:25:39.740 Because he murdered a husband and father in cold blood, a husband and father who is

00:25:44.000 probably richer than him, I guess.

00:25:48.600 Although I don't know.

00:25:49.140 Luigi was a rich kid too, apparently, or is a rich kid.

00:25:52.320 He's still alive for now.

00:25:54.880 Oh, he, he, he, he's so, and so I'm sure many on the left would like to say,

00:25:59.600 oh no, this is not representative of us.

00:26:01.560 She says, I had the largest audience growth during the period in which I talked about how

00:26:05.460 hot and wonderful he is.

00:26:06.720 But second of all, we have that survey that came out a week ago.

00:26:10.780 That's that survey that showed that 55% of Americans who identify on the left say that

00:26:15.780 it would be justified to murder Trump.

00:26:17.180 And we have all the statements from the mainstream liberals, Biden, Kamala, all the rest of them,

00:26:24.360 justifying the murder of Trump, calling him an existential threat to America.

00:26:29.440 We have all the statements of the mainstream leftists saying that you shouldn't be civil

00:26:34.280 with Republicans, as Hillary Clinton said, of Maxine Waters saying you got to push back

00:26:38.320 on Republicans in public where you see them, of people justifying this stuff.

00:26:42.400 So, you know, she seems totally nuts. 1.00

00:26:44.640 And what she's saying is repulsive and deeply immoral.

00:26:49.820 That is the mainstream left-wing position.

00:26:52.920 She says it in a particularly kooky kind of way with that wacky looking, that wacky look

00:26:57.740 on her face.

00:26:58.620 But that's it.

00:27:00.440 There is no equivalent on the right.

00:27:03.360 There might be some fringe lunatics on the right who would be condemned by every serious

00:27:06.700 person on the right.

00:27:07.360 But for her, that's the mainstream view.

00:27:11.080 Now, speaking of men and women, my friend Sour Patch Lids, you know Sour Patch Lids from,

00:27:16.720 she was on Tim Pool's show, and you might know her from various places on social media now.

00:27:21.160 She made a really great point the other day on men and women.

00:27:25.960 Did not involve Luigi, the murderer.

00:27:28.500 She said, what is an example of a third space for men?

00:27:32.000 A third space, not work, not home, somewhere men can go in their free time that is majority 0.86

00:27:38.820 slash completely occupied by men.

00:27:41.860 Seems like a lot of male frustration could be traced back to this third space disappearing.

00:27:47.300 I think this is totally, totally right.

00:27:51.640 Because this space did exist, it is one of the reasons that you're seeing explosive growth

00:27:55.980 in cigar bars right now.

00:27:57.520 It's one of the reasons I like to go to cigar bars.

00:27:59.500 I know there are women who smoke cigars. 1.00

00:28:00.800 I'm very grateful to them.

00:28:02.280 I'm glad that they keep buying Mayflower cigars.

00:28:04.260 That's great.

00:28:04.980 But generally, cigar bars are men.

00:28:09.340 And I like that.

00:28:10.300 I like cigars just in themselves, and I've been a cigar enthusiast since I was 15 years old.

00:28:14.500 But another reason that I like cigars is that when I go to a cigar bar, I'm just hanging with guys.

00:28:21.840 And sometimes I just want to talk to guys.

00:28:23.900 I talk to women plenty of times in my life. 1.00

00:28:25.700 Sometimes I want to just talk to guys.

00:28:26.980 And furthermore, if I go out and I have a drink, if I'm on the road, if I'm doing a public event,

00:28:33.020 I don't even want the risk of a scandal for someone to take a picture of me getting a late night drink with a young woman.

00:28:40.200 I don't even want to see that.

00:28:41.680 I like the fact that the cigar smoke is a kind of woman repellent. 1.00

00:28:46.320 Not because I don't love women.

00:28:47.460 I do love women, but because it is appropriate for men in certain occasions, certain times, to just be around men.

00:28:56.060 There used to be such a thing as a gentleman's club.

00:28:58.820 Now we use that expression just to refer to strip clubs. 0.99

00:29:01.180 But there used to be a thing as a gentleman's club.

00:29:03.660 Some people were responding to Sour Patch Lids over there.

00:29:06.060 And they said, oh, these mail spaces, they never really existed.

00:29:09.200 Nostalgia is history after a few drinks.

00:29:10.740 You're just imagining that.

00:29:11.800 No, no, no.

00:29:12.080 They really did.

00:29:12.720 I was in New Orleans for the Premium Cigar Association trade show over the weekend where we had a great time seeing a lot of friends in the industry.

00:29:20.620 We won the best booth, our great ship booth of the Mayflower for our size of booth.

00:29:25.480 So anyway, thank you to PCA.

00:29:26.620 It was a great time.

00:29:27.500 On Saturday night, I went out to one of these old Southern gentlemen's clubs.

00:29:32.260 You know, you put on a tuxedo for dinner and you go, you have a nice time with the fellas and you throw some drinks back.

00:29:37.740 And it was such a throwback.

00:29:40.120 And it used to be a lot of private clubs were like that.

00:29:41.840 And women had their own spaces too. 1.00

00:29:44.560 And that's appropriate sometimes, okay?

00:29:48.040 Even going back to Aristotle, who comes up on the show at least every other day, Aristotle pointed out the importance of friendship.

00:29:56.240 Friendship not just of the networking kind, friendship of utility.

00:29:59.740 Friendship not just of convenience.

00:30:02.080 You know, you guys both happen to be in the same place.

00:30:05.160 Friendship not just of pleasure.

00:30:06.260 You both like Pinochle.

00:30:07.060 But friendship of virtue.

00:30:09.040 Friendship of the good.

00:30:10.700 Where you can really sit down and have a proper conversation.

00:30:13.220 This is in large part why people, why men and young men in particular, really love cigars.

00:30:18.620 Why there's cigar bars opening.

00:30:20.140 It's because of this point.

00:30:21.580 And I think there's one group of men that doesn't have to deal with this.

00:30:25.360 And it's the incels.

00:30:26.300 Weirdly enough.

00:30:28.400 Because the incels intentionally are never around women. 0.97

00:30:31.300 They just exclude themselves from female life. 0.98

00:30:33.960 And that's bad for them in many ways too.

00:30:36.280 Because it means that they probably can't grow up.

00:30:38.360 And they can't get married.

00:30:39.100 And they can't have kids.

00:30:39.700 And they can't do the things that men want to do.

00:30:41.220 But they do at least have their male-only spaces.

00:30:44.640 Which is why they don't need to go to cigar bars or whatever.

00:30:46.900 You know, join some gentleman's club.

00:30:48.480 But for those of us who really want a full human life and are fine growing up, getting married, having kids, being in society, being a normal person.

00:31:02.560 Sour Patch Lids is right.

00:31:03.900 And the incels kind of have a point too.

00:31:06.100 Men need their own spaces. 1.00

00:31:08.260 We need, that is appropriate.

00:31:10.440 And liberalism in the form of feminism is really leveling.

00:31:15.300 And this is where the gender dysphoria really begins. 0.94

00:31:18.480 The claim that men and women are exactly the same for political purposes, for social purposes, is the beginning of that gender dysphoria.

00:31:25.260 And you've got to fix that.

00:31:26.460 Or just head to a cigar bar and have a Mayflower.

00:31:28.460 Now, I want to go back to co-ed spaces for a minute.

00:31:31.220 You know about the University of Austin?

00:31:33.100 It's that university that was founded in Texas to oppose wokeness. 0.93

00:31:37.340 It's a non-woke university.

00:31:39.560 They believe in free speech and merit and none of this coddling, none of these safe spaces.

00:31:45.080 Well, the University of Austin has just announced its new admissions process.

00:31:50.100 And it is revolutionary in higher education.

00:31:54.360 And a lot of conservatives are cheering this on.

00:31:57.060 And I can't give it three cheers.

00:32:00.920 I can give it one cheer, maybe two cheers.

00:32:04.340 I can't give it three cheers because I think conservatives are getting tripped up a little bit and we're falling for liberalism again.

00:32:11.320 I'll get to that in one second.

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00:32:37.340 My favorite comment yesterday is from Will GD, who says,

00:32:43.140 Michael's best defense of daylight saving time is that when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.

00:32:49.480 Okay, I think there was a little more to my defense than that.

00:32:52.780 But look, maybe Kamala Harris has a point there. 0.96

00:32:55.820 She was right about the coconut tree.

00:32:57.360 She was right.

00:32:59.320 We're not, we didn't just fall out of a coconut tree.

00:33:01.780 And there is, in fact, great significance to the passage of time.

00:33:04.680 Maybe this woman, she's really growing in my estimation. 0.60

00:33:07.960 The University of Austin is not one of these safe space, woke, affirmative action kind of universities.

00:33:15.700 No, no.

00:33:17.060 University of Austin is getting back to meritocracy with this admissions process announcement.

00:33:23.000 No extracurriculars, no personal essays, no personality scores, no nepotism, no GPA.

00:33:34.560 University of Austin just unveiled our new admissions policy.

00:33:41.200 It's all in this kind of 90s like VHS format.

00:33:44.720 To bring back merit to higher education.

00:33:47.940 SAT 1460, automatically let in.

00:33:52.040 ACT 33 plus, automatically let in.

00:33:54.240 No correct opinions, only correct answers.

00:33:59.500 Automatic admission, if you get, or classical learning test 105 plus, you get in.

00:34:06.460 Students pay $0 tuition, that's cool.

00:34:09.360 Merit over mediocrity, intellect over identity, excellence over equity, education over indoctrination.

00:34:19.860 University of Austin, come here and conquer the world.

00:34:25.320 Nothing is in your way.

00:34:26.800 Okay.

00:34:27.260 And it's all, for those of you who are only listening, it's very pointedly done in this 90s kind of VHS format.

00:34:35.500 Because the ideas behind this kind of a university come from not a kind of deep conservatism, but a non-woke liberal nostalgia for the 90s.

00:34:49.840 The 90s are the new 50s.

00:34:52.100 Back in the 70s, the good old days were the 1950s.

00:34:54.800 Now in the 2020s, the good old days are the 1990s.

00:34:59.780 Do you remember how great that was when we were kids and everything was cool?

00:35:02.840 It truly, I think this is history after a few drinks.

00:35:05.020 I really don't want to counter-signal the University of Austin here, because the University of Austin is so preferable compared to many of the institutions of higher learning today.

00:35:16.920 But what the University of Austin is describing in its admissions policies is not really conservative.

00:35:24.780 It's in many ways hyper-liberal.

00:35:27.840 It says all we look at is test scores.

00:35:31.260 If you get a relatively high test score, you get in.

00:35:33.900 Merit over mediocrity.

00:35:36.380 But what do we mean by merit?

00:35:38.120 It says no extracurriculars.

00:35:39.660 What if a kid doesn't do that well on a standardized test?

00:35:42.400 Or, you know, he doesn't get a 1460, he gets a 1450.

00:35:45.120 But he started a business when he was 16.

00:35:48.520 And he's the class president.

00:35:51.940 And he's the captain of the football team.

00:35:54.580 And, you know, he's got a lot of leadership potential.

00:35:57.280 And he's got a lot of discipline.

00:35:59.540 And he's a well-rounded person.

00:36:02.100 Isn't that the kind of person you would want at your school?

00:36:03.860 Aren't those qualities good to have in your student body?

00:36:09.780 I'll go further.

00:36:10.460 It says no nepotism, meaning no legacy admissions.

00:36:13.320 Okay, I was not a legacy admission when I went to college.

00:36:16.920 And we didn't have money.

00:36:18.180 And I wasn't captain of the football team.

00:36:20.040 I'll tell you that too.

00:36:20.620 But one of the reasons that one goes to an elite university is because there are legacy admissions there.

00:36:30.220 Because there are people who come from means, who come from established families, who come from different walks of life than you.

00:36:38.500 And one can pick up some of the habits of, you know, the old blue bloods or something. 0.88

00:36:44.500 One can hobnob with people who, you know, in a really kind of crass way, might be able to help you out down the road.

00:36:53.420 If you go to school with, you know, I don't know, the descendants of J.P. Morgan and the Rockefellers and Carnegie and I don't know who else.

00:37:03.040 That actually can help you out a little bit down the road if you're trying to get a job.

00:37:06.960 One wishes also to have friendships for the good, virtuous friendships.

00:37:10.840 But, you know, that can help.

00:37:11.860 You go to an elite university in part for that kind of networking.

00:37:15.140 You go to an elite university in part for the kind of finishing that that gives one for manners, political behavior, how to socialize, how to move among elites in society.

00:37:29.640 Especially, actually, especially if you come from circumstances that are less privileged.

00:37:34.540 That's one of the benefits of it.

00:37:35.900 So, for the school to say, no, no, we don't want any of that.

00:37:39.920 All we want, no GPA even.

00:37:41.880 What if a student, what if a student is really, really good at history?

00:37:45.520 Has a deep interest in history.

00:37:47.060 Could be one of the great historians of his generation.

00:37:49.540 But he's not that good at math.

00:37:50.980 I don't know, maybe his SAT is 1450.

00:37:52.840 It's not 1460.

00:37:53.960 But he really specializes.

00:37:57.360 To me, that's the kind of person you should have in your school.

00:37:59.860 It's kind of like the IQ bell curve meme.

00:38:06.460 You know, at the lower end, the Philistines of the culture say that the way you get into college and the way you succeed at college should be based on everything but standardized test scores. 0.90

00:38:18.120 You know, it should be based on your identity and what you do and all these intangible things.

00:38:25.160 And, you know, your true self, man, that can't be quantified.

00:38:28.500 And then in the middle of the cultural bell curve meme, they say it's all just about merit and standardized tests.

00:38:34.120 But when you get back up to the top again, I don't know.

00:38:37.960 I actually do think that students benefit from a little variety on campus.

00:38:41.480 The problem is not the notion of taking into account extracurriculars and even identity.

00:38:47.600 It's how that is being done right now.

00:38:50.060 Right now, you've got to be part of all the liberal clubs and you've got to come from some socially favored or politically favored racial group or sexual group.

00:38:58.620 And that's how you get in.

00:39:00.300 And so if you're just a regular old white kid who's good at his schoolwork, you're in a bad spot. 0.66

00:39:05.480 If you're a regular Asian kid who's good at his schoolwork, you're in a bad spot. 1.00

00:39:09.560 But we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater here.

00:39:11.980 Right now, you know, the system selects for leftism and favored races.

00:39:20.560 But this kind of thing is not ideal.

00:39:25.220 So I say one or even two cheers for the University of Boston.

00:39:28.240 I like the idea.

00:39:29.160 I get it.

00:39:29.660 You know, this is kind of the 90s nostalgia ideal of merit.

00:39:33.440 But even if this is a refreshing improvement over the status quo, there's more to it.

00:39:39.340 There's actually more to the idea of merit than just how you did on your SAT.

00:39:42.940 And I did do.

00:39:43.520 I wasn't captain of the football team, but I did do well on my SAT.

00:39:45.700 But there's more.

00:39:46.480 There's more to life than how you do on your SAT.

00:39:48.540 Okay, back to racial politics.

00:39:51.760 You know the guy, the young man who murdered Austin Metcalf?

00:39:56.240 His black kid and he murdered this white kid who was a football star.

00:40:01.060 Had a bright future ahead of him.

00:40:02.200 Stabbed him in the heart.

00:40:03.440 Because the white kid, allegedly, because the white kid asked him to move out of his seat.

00:40:08.920 So the alleged murderer was being held in jail, $1 million bond.

00:40:14.700 And that bond was just reduced to $250,000.

00:40:17.560 And now the kid's walking free.

00:40:19.380 And he was able to pay the bond because there was a GoFundMe set up immediately

00:40:23.460 after this black kid allegedly murdered the white kid.

00:40:26.680 A GoFundMe was set up.

00:40:27.940 And it's raised something like $400,000.

00:40:30.840 So not enough for the million dollar bond.

00:40:33.120 But don't worry, the judge is going to lower it to reach the still absurd huge amount of money

00:40:39.760 that the black kid was able to raise because he allegedly murdered a white kid. 0.55

00:40:45.700 Regardless of this alleged murderer's guilt or innocence, he raised that money as a reward for being a black teen who killed a white teen.

00:40:57.640 That's why he raised that money.

00:41:01.520 We all know if it were the other way around, he would not have raised that kind of money.

00:41:06.640 No one would have donated.

00:41:08.380 Or GoFundMe would have shut it down. 0.80

00:41:10.680 The bond would not have been lowered.

00:41:12.060 It would have been raised.

00:41:12.980 He might have been executed already in a fast-tracked kind of capital punishment.

00:41:19.480 We have a social and political incentive in this country, undeniable from this case,

00:41:30.000 to reward a black teen not just for being arrested, not just for being misunderstood by society,

00:41:38.580 specifically for allegedly murdering a white teen.

00:41:44.640 And the reason for that is we have all been told through our schools, through our popular media,

00:41:51.180 for decades, for many of us since we were kids, that white people are bad and black people are good.

00:41:57.260 And it's as simple as that.

00:41:58.240 And when black people are bad, it's actually because of white people. 0.92

00:42:02.440 And white people are so bad that whiteness itself needs to be abolished. 0.99

00:42:06.500 There are universities, speaking of the university, university classes on the need to abolish whiteness. 1.00

00:42:15.880 So when a young black kid takes it into his own hands to abolish at least one instance of whiteness, 0.64

00:42:24.520 that is rewarded.

00:42:26.220 None of this should be unexpected.

00:42:28.240 This is all perfectly predictable if you understand the incentives in our culture.

00:42:37.540 Speaking of death, a woman has just been accused of selling human bones on Facebook for as little as $35.

00:42:45.140 And she was arrested for this. 0.95

00:42:47.540 And I just got to ask why it's wrong.

00:42:51.960 I think I might have to start a segment on this show.

00:42:54.360 Why is this wrong?

00:42:55.200 Why can't you take an example of something that's obviously wrong?

00:42:58.620 But according to the popular understanding of morality and pop culture, it would not be wrong?

00:43:03.660 Why is it wrong?

00:43:04.620 We'll get to that story tomorrow.

00:43:05.740 We've run out of time for today, and it's Teeheehee Tuesday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 15, 2025

Ep. 1715 - Libs Defend Ancient ＂Non-Violent＂ Child Sacrifice

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