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00:00:19.580 A Republican senator wants to get rid of dual citizenship. A star of Stranger Things gushes 0.98

00:00:25.140 over how happy she is that her mom aborted her sister. And the FDA finally admits five years late

00:00:31.380 that you were all right, that we were all right, that Fauci ouchie killed people, 0.80

00:00:37.000 actually specifically killed American kids. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:55.140 Welcome back to the show. A disturbing report out in The Wall Street Journal that college students

00:01:04.120 can't do basic math. Not really surprising, actually, to anyone who's taken a look at

00:01:08.860 colleges over the last 15 years, but pretty jarring. Also ties in with a story that I really,

00:01:14.580 really want to get to about an Oklahoma University student who was flunked on a paper by a trans 1.00

00:01:20.660 professor because she quoted the Bible. We'll get to that because I think everyone's getting that

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00:02:42.280 to 98-98-98. The dual citizenship question. The dual citizenship question finally making it to the

00:02:50.280 U.S. Senate. And I think it's a simple issue, really. I think it's totally obvious, and there

00:02:55.900 really should be no controversy at all. Before that, though, Maya Hawke. Maya Hawke, one of the 0.96

00:03:00.520 stars of Stranger Things. I think Stranger Things is out again. I don't know. I kind of lost interest

00:03:05.080 in Stranger Things. I watched the first season. I thought, this is campy and fun and fine and

00:03:09.920 whatever. And then, as with every Hollywood product, they had to make it political and gay. 0.62

00:03:16.400 And now, I think we're on season 72 or something like that. But it's out. It's one of the last few

00:03:23.280 kind of almost common cultural touch points. And so, just to put the final nail in the coffin,

00:03:30.540 that product, one of the stars of Stranger Things, goes on a late night show and explains how happy she

00:03:38.100 is, how grateful she is that her mother murdered her sibling. I'm on with this really beautiful essay.

00:03:46.380 about her abortion that she got when she was really young, and about how if she hadn't

00:03:52.160 have had it, she wouldn't have become the person that she'd become, and I wouldn't exist, and

00:03:55.640 how both of my parents' lives would have been totally derailed, and she hadn't had

00:03:58.700 access to safe and legal health care, fundamental health care. And I, of course, wealthy people

00:04:06.060 will always be able to get abortions. But so many people will not only not be able to pursue

00:04:11.740 their dreams, but actually lose their lives and be unsafe.

00:04:16.300 This is Uma Thurman's kid. So Uma Thurman's the mom, Ethan Hawke's the father.

00:04:20.700 And she goes on the show, and people are pilloring her for this. This has gone insanely viral. And

00:04:26.360 they're pilloring her because, on the surface, this is just such a ghastly, horrible thing to say.

00:04:33.000 Hey, I'm so happy that my sibling was murdered by my mom because then I was allowed to exist.

00:04:40.660 And how could I possibly have existed if my mom didn't murder my sibling? It's not like you can

00:04:46.300 have more than one kid, right? No, you can only have one kid. And so I'm so, so happy that my

00:04:51.340 sibling's dead so that I can live. And even more important than that, my mom wouldn't have been

00:04:57.220 able to play pretend on camera had she not murdered my sibling, right? You can't play pretend on camera.

00:05:02.520 If you don't murder your kids, if you don't sacrifice your children to Baal or Moloch, 1.00

00:05:07.760 you can't, how could you possibly put on makeup and play pretend on camera? It's not possible.

00:05:12.860 And so that's obviously worth it too. Obviously. I mean, have your child or at the very least not

00:05:21.460 murder your child or play pretend. That's not a difficult question, right? Obviously playing

00:05:28.780 pretend it's much more important. People are pillorying Maya Hawke for this. And I think it's

00:05:34.900 actually unfair because I can see exactly what she's doing here. Everyone thinks this reaction

00:05:41.020 to knowing about the abortion that her mother performed on her sibling, that they all think

00:05:47.900 this makes Maya Hawke evil, but it's not. This reaction does not express something evil about

00:05:54.000 Maya Hawke. I think it actually expresses something good about her. And the good thing it's expressing

00:05:58.980 is she's trying to defend her parents. You see this a lot with the kids of divorced parents,

00:06:04.340 which for millennials and zoomers is like every kid basically, not to make light of it, but it's

00:06:09.580 divorce has become very, very widespread. And you'll notice that the kids of divorce,

00:06:14.140 most of the time, desperately try to defend the divorce on the grounds that, well, my parents

00:06:21.560 were happier and it would be sad if they were stuck in an unhappy marriage. And so it was really good,

00:06:25.980 actually. I think it was really good, and they did the right thing. And it's actually the same

00:06:30.060 thing that you see from the kids of same-sex couples. You'll notice that when you ask kids of

00:06:36.660 same-sex couples, do you support same-sex marriage, quote unquote, largely they will say,

00:06:42.060 yes, oh, it's great. No, it's wonderful. But when you start to dig in a little bit

00:06:46.060 and you get anonymous responses or private responses, a lot of them say, no, it was actually

00:06:52.660 hard. I wish I had a mom, or I wish I had a dad, or it's really confusing. And I don't, you know,

00:06:57.680 I lacked something, I long for something, and you get the reality of it. And so what this tells you is

00:07:04.040 kids have a good instinct to defend their parents in everything, to make their parents happy,

00:07:10.540 to not make their parents angry, and to try to defend them. Because they love their parents,

00:07:14.620 and that's a really good thing. Growing up means that you need to be able to do both of those

00:07:22.400 things. You need to be able to love your parents, and you need to be able to admit that all of our

00:07:29.440 parents do things that are wrong, because all of us do things that are wrong, because this is a fallen

00:07:32.980 world. And one of the traps, one of the scandals, is when you allow for, in your own personal life,

00:07:40.060 in the life of your family, in the life of your whole political community, one of the real scandals,

00:07:44.380 one of the real stumbling blocks, one of the tricks of the devil, is to say, okay, you have

00:07:49.140 committed a sin, and now you can never admit it. You can never admit it, because that would be

00:07:55.960 to acknowledge that you have some evil in you. That would be to call your parents evil, to call

00:08:02.220 your, I don't know, your community evil. So you can't ever admit it. You just have to deny till

00:08:07.100 you die, baby. You got to stick with the story. But no, the healthy response is to say, no, no, 0.97

00:08:14.900 we love, we have a proper love of ourselves, so we don't hate ourselves because we sin.

00:08:20.120 We love our parents, obviously for many reasons. We love our communities, and the truth exists,

00:08:28.060 and sin is wrong, and abortion's always wrong. And you know, mommy who killed my sibling, 1.00

00:08:34.120 mommy was wrong to do that. And she might have had all sorts of reasons, but she did something 1.00

00:08:39.100 wrong. And I still love her, but she did something wrong. And it obviously wasn't worth it.

00:08:47.500 There's this meme that's been going around. It's heartbreaking, brutal, and it's why it's right.

00:08:53.400 And it's this meme of a little drawing, almost like a little kid's drawing of an actress, looks

00:08:58.500 like Uma Thurman, actually, who's receiving some golden award. And then there's a baby up in a cloud

00:09:04.380 in heaven saying, was it worth it, mommy? And the answer is, of course, obviously not.

00:09:11.640 Winning an Oscar is not worth killing your kid. Nothing in this world is worth killing your kid. 0.85

00:09:17.360 To take it actually one step further, nothing in this world is worth committing a mortal sin.

00:09:23.340 Because, well, I'm not the first to observe it. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world,

00:09:33.040 but to lose his soul? Ultimately, we are here for a relatively short period of time. And then we go

00:09:38.140 take a dirt nap, turn to worm food, you know, we shuffle off this mortal coil. But because we have

00:09:43.460 rational souls, we are also eternal creatures. And the amount that we're walking on earth is relatively

00:09:51.220 small relative to eternity. And so what's it all for? You know, what's the point? Why do you wake

00:09:57.580 up in the morning and do your job? Whether your job is to be a Hollywood actress or your job is to

00:10:02.020 be a construction worker or your job is to be an electrician or your job is to do spreadsheets at

00:10:05.980 the widget factory? What is the point of it? Is the point to make money? Not really, because money is

00:10:10.700 just stuff and stuff corrupts and corrodes and goes away. No, you say, well, it's to make money so that I

00:10:15.660 can buy stuff so that I can feed my family, so that I can keep a roof over my head, so that I can buy a

00:10:21.740 car to drive my kids to school, whatever it is. Okay, what's all that for? What's it all ultimately

00:10:26.640 for when all of those things are going to pass away? The only thing that it can ultimately be for

00:10:31.220 is something eternal. And ultimately, all of it is for the glory of God. And that's not just like

00:10:36.700 Bible thumping, sentimental, nice, soft soap stuff. That is the only conclusion that one can reach 1.00

00:10:42.600 if one applies one's reasons to the facts of life. And so it's obviously not worth it.

00:10:48.980 And this girl is mistaken every step of the way. You don't need to kill one child to have another

00:10:53.220 child. You don't need to kill your kid to have a career. You don't need to kill your kid to play 0.99

00:10:59.660 pretend on camera. It would not be worth it even if those things were true. And so this girl, she goes

00:11:07.240 viral. And we do this all the time. We just keep digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper.

00:11:10.800 You see this at the political level. We have to go through all of these twists and turns of logic

00:11:16.320 to try to defend bizarre aspects of the law, bizarre policies, and to try to make them seem like

00:11:23.500 they're constitutional. Because we just keep making all these mistakes. We have to double down

00:11:30.000 to use the example we're talking about, Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a ridiculous Supreme Court decision 0.83

00:11:35.320 that invented out of whole cloth a license to kill babies in the Constitution. It's not there. 0.85

00:11:40.240 It was never there at all. When the federal law addressed abortion at all for most of our nation's

00:11:45.320 history, it outlawed it. But because in 1973, these judges pretended that there was a license to

00:11:51.440 abortion, then they had to come up with all of these other ridiculous reasonings, substantive due 0.52

00:11:56.800 process, and the right to privacy, and the right to define our own concept of existence, the sweet

00:12:02.360 mystery of life passage from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the care of the romantic poet Justice

00:12:07.800 Kennedy. And you don't have to do that. You don't have to do that. You can just say,

00:12:14.660 yeah, we want women to feel that they have an appropriate control of their bodies, 1.00

00:12:19.040 and you can't kill kids. Yeah, we love ourselves and our parents and our country, but we acknowledge

00:12:24.740 that we do things that are wrong sometimes. You can do that. You don't. Maya Hawke, there is a better

00:12:29.500 way. There is a better way. Okay, speaking of kids and bizarre ideologies, I am so dead set on getting

00:12:38.720 to this story about a young Christian student at an Oklahoma university who wrote a paper for a

00:12:45.820 trans professor, and she cited the Bible, and she got zero points on the paper. And the libs are

00:12:52.940 mocking her, the conservatives are mocking this girl, and everyone's getting it wrong. We'll get to

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00:14:55.740 is a student named Samantha Fulnecki. Nice, cute, normal-looking, apparently conservative Christian

00:15:03.840 girl. She's taken a class from a trans-identifying professor, Mel Curtis, who looks like you would 0.89

00:15:10.440 expect him to look. Let's put it that way. You can see there's a little, in the professor's comment,

00:15:14.720 you can see he looks like he should not be teaching at university. He looks like he should be in a padded

00:15:19.820 cell. Why did this young woman decide to take this guy's class? I have no idea, but I don't know. These

00:15:26.660 days at universities, maybe there's not much choice. In any case, she was asked to respond to an article

00:15:33.700 and to give her opinion, her reaction to the article. She did that. It was an article about

00:15:41.740 gender identity, and she said, yeah, I'm not really persuaded by this stuff about gender identity,

00:15:45.460 and here's why. Here's what I think about gender identity, and she cites the Bible. 0.93

00:15:49.020 And the professor loses it, goes off. The professor says to call an entire group of people

00:15:56.000 demonic is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population. How did this professor

00:16:03.640 graduate from the third grade, much less become a university professor? Minoritized? What is

00:16:08.340 minoritized? This is what the professor wrote on the grading platform. Now, the liberals are saying,

00:16:14.040 this girl's a big dummy, and she's just a hillbilly citing the Bible, and she shouldn't have gotten any 0.99

00:16:18.560 points on this because you're not allowed to cite the Bible on scientific papers, and she doesn't 0.98

00:16:22.640 know anything, and she deserved her grade. Then you have the fancy pants conservatives who are saying, 0.98

00:16:27.620 well, actually, I read the paper, and it's not very well written. So it's like, why are we defending

00:16:33.960 this girl? It's like, she needs to write a little bit better, okay? And they're both totally wrong.

00:16:38.620 So I have here, very briefly, we're just going to look, I have the essay, I have this trans

00:16:46.760 identifying professor's grades, and I have the prompt. Here's the prompt.

00:16:55.800 Reaction papers are graded on a 25-point scale, evaluated on the basis of the following. Does the

00:17:00.320 paper show a clear tie-in to the assigned article? 10 points. Does the paper present a thoughtful reaction

00:17:04.980 or response to the article rather than a summary? Is the paper clearly written? That's it. Those are

00:17:09.220 the three things. This is not like you're writing a dissertation from the University of Oxford. Okay,

00:17:15.160 this is a very basic thing. Read a paper, react to it, be on topic, talk about the topic that the

00:17:21.240 paper talks about, but give your personal reaction. Don't just summarize it, give a reaction. Bring

00:17:26.480 something into the article and write it clearly. And here is the paper that the left and the fancy

00:17:34.940 pantses on the right are making fun of. The article was very thought-provoking and caused me to thoroughly

00:17:40.260 evaluate the idea of gender and the role it plays in our society. The article discussed peers using

00:17:44.260 teasing as a way to enforce gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem.

00:17:49.120 Awesome. Love that. It's great. Not cruel teasing, but just a little bit. It's okay.

00:17:52.300 God made male and female and made us differently from each other on purpose and for a purpose. 0.95

00:17:57.080 God is very intentional with what he makes, and I believe trying to change that would only do more

00:18:01.220 harm. Gender roles and tendencies should not be considered stereotypes. Women naturally want to do 0.99

00:18:06.700 womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts. The same goes for men. 0.95

00:18:11.320 God created men in the image of his courage and strength, and he created women in the image of 0.99

00:18:15.580 his beauty. He intentionally created women differently than men, and we should live our lives with that in 0.83

00:18:20.480 mind. It is frustrating to me when I read articles like this and discussion posts from my classmates

00:18:24.180 of so many people trying to conform to the same mundane opinion so they do not step on people's

00:18:29.080 toes. But pause here. I just want to point out, I'm not saying that this quick little response to an

00:18:34.160 article is Anna Karenina, okay? I'm not saying it's the most soaring prose ever written. I have read a lot of

00:18:40.000 college and even graduate student papers and these kinds of responses over the years.

00:18:45.840 This is the bard compared to the prose stylings of what most people are writing.

00:18:55.140 Okay, yes, I agree. 50 or 100 years ago, these standards for writing in universities probably

00:19:03.000 would have been higher than all of these things. Relative to what most university students are

00:19:07.500 turning in, this is quite well written. It uses the word mundane, let's say. It uses generally,

00:19:13.860 with some exceptions, an economy of words. It goes on. I think that is cowardly and insincere way to

00:19:18.360 live. It's important to use the freedom of speech we've been given in this country, and I personally

00:19:21.900 believe that eliminating gender in our society would be detrimental as it pulls us farther from God's 1.00

00:19:26.460 original plans for humans. They say, you can't cite the Bible. Why not? Well, it's a psychology class.

00:19:36.020 Hear me, hear me. The Bible is, whether you believe in God, whether you're a Christian,

00:19:41.740 whether you're Jewish, whether you're none of those things. The Bible is, I think beyond dispute, 0.87

00:19:48.340 the best account of human psychology that we have. It is better than ancient or modern works

00:19:56.300 of philosophy. It is certainly better than any works of psychology. Psychology, which only really

00:20:01.460 becomes a discipline in the last 150 years or so with the work of William James, who himself was a

00:20:06.200 philosopher. And then, obviously, it's greatly expanded by Freud and plenty of psychologists

00:20:11.560 and philosophers since then. The Bible is a much better work of psychology than all of that. It's

00:20:16.500 obviously pertinent. The Bible begins in its very first chapters with a discussion of this topic,

00:20:21.900 which is pertinent to the modern nonsense that the person's responding to. And here's the trans 0.98

00:20:25.920 professor's comment. Please note, I'm not deducting points because you have certain beliefs,

00:20:29.340 but instead I'm deducting points for you posting a reaction, also not grammatical,

00:20:34.620 paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses

00:20:38.400 personal ideology over empirical evidence. Personal ideology over empirical evidence. This is a dude

00:20:43.600 who thinks he's a woman and dresses up like a woman and says in the comment that his pronouns are

00:20:48.500 she slash they. But you used your personal ideology instead of, I encourage all students to question

00:20:56.320 your challenge course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses. But using your

00:21:00.260 own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of

00:21:03.980 countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice. Yeah, don't

00:21:08.860 inject your personal baseless beliefs into science, said the she they. Ridiculous, ridiculous. I've read 1.00

00:21:17.420 enough of Samantha's essay to say not only should she not have been given zero out of 25, she should

00:21:24.340 have been given a full score. 25 out of 25. Okay, this is totally preposterous. And the fancy pantses

00:21:32.440 who want to pretend that they're so much better educated than this girl are absolutely out of

00:21:37.480 their minds. Absolutely out of their minds. I strongly suspect that this girl had the best reaction

00:21:43.980 posed of anyone in her class. It is far above the average writing that you get out of universities.

00:21:50.380 And this professor, the trans thing, should be fired, should never have gotten a job in the first place. 1.00

00:21:57.600 It's absurd. And so the university says they're looking into this. TPUSA has come out, or at least 0.61

00:22:03.520 the TPUSA chapter, perhaps the national organization. I haven't looked into it. They've come out and

00:22:07.300 backed the student. They absolutely should. And the fancy pants conservatives who want to pretend like 0.98

00:22:11.080 this isn't the greatest pros or whatever. I guess it isn't the greatest pros. But relatively, it's quite

00:22:16.880 good, and they need to get off their high horse, and they need to get over it. They need to recognize

00:22:19.820 that this girl has a lot more to say, even than many, I don't know, professional prognosticators

00:22:25.400 and pundits, even on the right. Ridiculous. And just to bring it full circle on the politics, 0.99

00:22:31.800 while we happily have political power given to us by the people through elections, we need to

00:22:39.060 eradicate the presence of this kind of preposterous pseudo-academic, pseudo-scholar,

00:22:47.100 Mel Kurth, or whatever, from faculty lounges across the universities. This person can go get a job

00:22:53.760 somewhere else. I hope he lives a good, nice life. But he has no business at a university. This girl 1.00

00:22:58.700 should be totally vindicated. The professor should be punished and fired. And the girl should be given

00:23:03.840 full credit. Totally absurd. Totally absurd. I lament the decline of standards in the university

00:23:10.760 as much as the next guy. The decline of standards is on the part of the faculty here, not on the part

00:23:14.740 of the student. Okay. We'll get to the problems of the universities, because apparently college

00:23:19.260 students can't do basic math. We'll get to that in a second. And then a very, very important race

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00:24:43.900 sales running on their website. Wall Street Journal, college kids who can't do elementary math.

00:24:49.640 A top-rated public university says many of its students can't round numbers or add fractions.

00:24:53.980 Yes, duh, of course, we should all understand this. Harvard, which is supposed to be the number

00:24:59.840 one university in the country, it's not really, but it's supposed to be. Harvard, several years ago

00:25:06.420 now, had to institute a remedial math course for freshmen because the freshmen couldn't do basic

00:25:12.380 algebra. At Harvard, it's the first university, first college in America and supposed to be the

00:25:20.040 most prestigious. So yeah, I bet all the other colleges have kids who can't do math too.

00:25:26.940 What is to be done about this? This is referring to the University of California, San Diego,

00:25:33.800 ranked sixth nationally among public schools by U.S. News and World Report. Roughly one in eight

00:25:39.140 freshmen lack rudimentary high school math skills defined as geometry, algebra, and algebra two.

00:25:44.960 Students have been placed in remedial high school math classes in 2023, had roughly fifth grade level

00:25:49.240 abilities. Only 39% could correctly round the number, 374,518 to the nearest hundred, a third

00:25:56.800 grade skill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised. Not surprised at all. Why is this? This is because

00:26:03.380 we told everyone that they had to go to college. This is because we told everyone that they could go to

00:26:08.340 college, that they were suited for college. This is because the government forced colleges to admit

00:26:13.620 people who were not suited for college. And this is because the government subsidized all of those

00:26:19.460 colleges. And now students come out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and it's a terrible

00:26:22.780 cycle. And it's because we've established our country on supposedly meritocratic grounds. But then

00:26:29.840 in a democracy, that doesn't really work because everyone wants to be number one. And so it just levels

00:26:33.860 down everything in a Harrison Bergeron kind of dystopian way. So we're all a bunch of babbling idiots. 1.00

00:26:38.480 And on top of that, it's because not only do we all have calculators and smartphones, 1.00

00:26:44.200 now we all have AI. So you never have to do any work at all. At least that's the theory.

00:26:52.100 Many, many factors have contributed to this. However, there's a silver lining.

00:26:56.340 Because when I was a student, I remember I was told in math class, hey, don't use your calculator to

00:27:01.980 do the problem set or whatever, because you're not always going to have a calculator on you in the real

00:27:06.540 world. But of course we do. We always have calculators on us all the time. And pretty

00:27:10.620 soon we're going to have chips in our head that are going to turn our retinas into calculators.

00:27:14.720 So you do have a calculator all the time, and you do have chat GPT at your fingertips all the time.

00:27:19.540 So what's the purpose of education? That's what we have to come down to. Is it to get passed up to

00:27:28.560 the next grade so we can get a diploma so that we can go to college? Because we all have to go to

00:27:32.480 college. Because when I graduated school, 70% of kids went to college. And that's happily declined

00:27:37.900 a little bit since then. But is it so we can go to college so that we can also not learn anything

00:27:42.880 so that we can get a job, so that we can make money, so that we can so, so, so, so what?

00:27:49.240 The problem here is, if you rely on calculators or now AI to do everything for you,

00:27:56.900 eventually you have to know what to put into the calculator. You have to know what to put into AI.

00:28:02.120 You have to be able to understand what question is even being asked. You have to

00:28:07.540 contribute something, or you end up worshiping a dumb idol like the Psalms warn us against. 0.96

00:28:15.240 So what is education for? It is not, as I've been yelling from the rooftop for years, 0.93

00:28:22.500 over the contrary calls of my fellow conservatives. The purpose of education is not primarily to get a

00:28:27.960 job. The purpose of education is not because that's just the thing you have to do. A greater

00:28:35.080 purpose of education is to form good citizens, but that's not even the chief purpose. The purpose of

00:28:39.860 education ultimately is to know and give glory to God. That's funny. It's kind of like the same answer

00:28:47.300 that gave to God. But that's also not just soft soap sentiment and Bible thumping. That is ultimately

00:28:52.780 what it is about. It is so that you can become acquainted with the truth, not just so that you

00:29:01.980 can cram your head full of facts, but because we live in a reality that has objectivity to it.

00:29:08.800 And so all that is for us to do is to recognize that reality and to correspond with it. And that

00:29:17.040 reality comes from somewhere. And ultimately, what we're after is not just to make money. It's not

00:29:24.740 just to pass a test. It's not just to get a job. It's not just to do this, that. It's not just to

00:29:28.060 become a Hollywood actress. Ultimately, we have to be after something eternal. So there needs to be a

00:29:34.520 delight in learning, not even learning for its own sake, learning for the sake of coming to know and

00:29:43.320 glorify truth, goodness, and beauty, which are ultimately found in their very subsistence in God.

00:29:57.300 That's what it's for. This is why St. John Henry Newman, doctor of the church,

00:30:01.540 points out that a university that doesn't teach theology is a joke. It's incoherent because it

00:30:08.880 purports to universal knowledge, but it ignores the thing that makes knowledge universal and have

00:30:13.900 some kind of coherence with it, with itself. That's what it's for. And so it's amazing because

00:30:20.680 some of the conservatives, they're starting to catch up. They realize, you know, these universities

00:30:24.140 aren't really achieving their purpose anymore. But even the conservatives don't know what the

00:30:27.500 purpose is, or they're not willing to admit what the purpose is. They're not willing to take it all

00:30:30.560 the way. They're still stuck at, the purpose is to get a good job. Yeah, we all need to eat, man.

00:30:35.900 I agree. But that's not, the purpose is to make good citizens, kind of. The purpose is to make sense

00:30:43.720 of our freedom and our leisure time. Yeah, that's a lot closer. What's it for? It's got to be for

00:30:49.460 something. Or what's going to happen, if you don't acknowledge that, if you think I'm just some kind

00:30:55.160 of like backwards Bible thumper or something like that, if you say it's for all those other 0.99

00:30:59.240 ancillary, secondary things, this is what you're going to end up with. You're going to end up with

00:31:05.200 university kids at supposedly top-ranked schools who can't do basic geometry and algebra.

00:31:10.500 Because the university will not make sense anymore. That's fine. And wait, great. I, for one,

00:31:18.340 welcome our AI overlords. I love it. Because it's going to clarify a lot of things.

00:31:22.140 And it's going to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not just even among people,

00:31:27.940 but among ideas, among institutions. It's going to clarify a lot.

00:31:32.320 Speaking of rough math, there's a race. There's an election today. If you're in Tennessee's

00:31:38.200 seventh congressional district, right around Nashville, I've talked about this race a number

00:31:41.820 of times. But you have to go vote today. Because the race is between Matt Van Epps, a Republican,

00:31:48.460 and Afton Bain, who is a lunatic, a cartoonish villain, who's running as a Democrat on the 0.98

00:31:55.600 platform that she hates Nashville, hates country music, hates the people in Nashville, hates 0.99

00:32:00.220 Tennessee, is as radically leftist as it comes. This is supposed to be a major Republican district.

00:32:06.800 There's a Republican congressman who's retiring. We're going to see who replaces that person.

00:32:10.320 This should be a runaway race. And yet, the polling today, Matt Van Epps, 48, Republican,

00:32:17.080 Democrat, Afton Bain, 46. It's a two-point race. Margin of error is almost four points.

00:32:24.020 It's a dead heat. Dead heat. I don't, you know, sometimes congressional district polling is not as

00:32:30.860 good as other polling. And it's an off year. It's not even in a midterm year. It's off of a midterm

00:32:36.340 year. And if the Democrat wins this race, we're going to have to start preparing for a bloodbath

00:32:45.740 in the midterms. First, what's going to happen is, if the Democrat wins this race, then you're going

00:32:50.820 to see even more members of Congress start to retire or resign, a la Marjorie Taylor Greene, 0.90

00:32:56.020 because they're going to see the writing on the wall in either their own races or the fact that

00:33:00.280 the Republicans are going to lose the majority. And then they're going to be in the minority after

00:33:04.780 the midterms. And it's going to be miserable. And the Democrats are going to subpoena everyone

00:33:08.120 and try to, they're going to impeach Trump. And it's going to be a bloodbath.

00:33:14.060 They, this is getting real guys. This is starting to really get real. So

00:33:18.620 there are going to be all sorts of excuses after the, after the election. If the Democrat wins,

00:33:23.640 ah, it's an off year. Ah, we didn't have a good grand game. Ah, the Republican didn't campaign

00:33:26.780 enough. Ah, the Democrat campaign really well.

00:33:28.260 Well, this is a real, this is a bigger bellwether, I think, than the Momdani election in New York,

00:33:36.360 than New Jersey, than the Democrats in Virginia. This is a, this is a big one. If you're in Tennessee

00:33:40.540 seven, get out to vote, get out to vote, please. And then we'll see what we'll be and we'll race

00:33:45.840 ourselves. Okay. Now, speaking of Congress, really important story. Bernie Moreno, a Republican

00:33:52.280 senator, great Republican senator, new Republican senator, Bernie Moreno has just come out

00:33:57.200 and proposed ending dual citizenship. Big issue.

00:34:04.620 A big issue that pertains to a lot of fights in the GOP right now over foreign policy,

00:34:09.320 I guess in part over Israel, which has become one of these flashpoints, 0.98

00:34:12.540 in part over immigration, in part over Latin America, in part over all these things.

00:34:17.300 Bernie Moreno comes out and he says, hey, it's kind of crazy that people have dual citizenship.

00:34:21.960 Isn't it? I think we need to get rid of that. And there is going to be, talk about just bloodbath,

00:34:29.340 vicious intraparty fighting. There's going to be a major fight within the Republican party over this

00:34:33.680 issue. If it gets, if the issue is able to rise to the level of getting traction, as I think it

00:34:39.120 should, because Bernie Moreno is completely right. Dual citizenship is preposterous. Given what 1.00

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00:36:14.900 for everyone on your list before it's too late. My favorite comment yesterday from the

00:36:19.340 Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music. Wow, of course. Oh, you know what? I actually didn't even pick it

00:36:22.660 yet. I didn't pick the comment, so the producers picked it. We're going to see if this is right.

00:36:26.820 Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music is usually pretty good. Wajahat Ali is the type of guy to eat an 1.00

00:36:31.920 entire meal at a restaurant and ask for his money back because he thought it was too salty.

00:36:36.580 Hmm. That's true. That's true. I'd like to see the other comments. It didn't.

00:36:41.000 Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music, he's got a lot of hits, but I don't know. I want to see the other

00:36:45.420 comments. Bernie Moreno says we got to get rid of dual citizenship. Bernie Moreno was a citizen

00:36:53.220 of another country. He writes, one of the greatest honors of my life was when I became an American

00:36:58.580 citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so. It was an honor to pledge an oath of allegiance

00:37:04.180 to the United States of America and only to the United States of America. Being an American

00:37:08.460 citizen is an honor and a privilege. And if you want to be an American, it's all or nothing. It's

00:37:11.940 time to end dual citizenship for good. Totally right. I don't see any controversy on this. 0.93

00:37:16.980 We should not have dual citizens. Dual citizenship is absurd. It's incoherent. It's contrary to the 1.00

00:37:25.040 nature of citizenship. Citizenship is an expression of loyalty you have to a nation.

00:37:37.340 You cannot simultaneously be loyal to two nations. You cannot simultaneously be the same thing with

00:37:46.140 respect to two things of the same kind, but more generally. I could be loyal to McDonald's and to

00:37:54.980 America and to the New York Yankees. I can be loyal to all of those things because there are different

00:37:59.660 kinds of things, a restaurant, a country, and a baseball team. But I can't simultaneously be loyal

00:38:06.440 to the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox or even the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs.

00:38:11.680 They don't even have to be direct rivals. They just, you can't simultaneously be loyal to both

00:38:18.220 things. You can't simultaneously be loyal to two countries. It's ridiculous. And the idea of dual 0.99

00:38:25.940 citizenship in America is quite recent. It really comes from this case, Afraim versus Rusk, 1967.

00:38:32.780 Anything that started in the mid-60s has a 99.73299% chance of being bad because pretty much

00:38:40.900 everything's gotten worse since the 60s. So what was the case? The US government tried to take

00:38:45.080 citizenship away from a guy named Bez Afraim, who is a Polish Jew who voted in an Israeli election.

00:38:50.720 So Polish becomes an American citizen. Israel, the state of Israel is relatively new at this point,

00:38:56.700 votes in the Israeli election. US government says, well, hold on, you can't, what are we doing?

00:39:00.080 Are you Polish? Are you American? Are you Israeli? We can't, you're not an American citizen anymore. 0.99

00:39:05.720 You were, I guess you were naturalized, but you're not going to have that anymore.

00:39:08.260 There was, the court came in and overturned that. The court said in 1967, when the court was saying

00:39:14.500 a lot of dumb things, said citizenship must be given up accidentally, sorry, must be given up

00:39:19.520 voluntarily. That decision overruled a decision not that much earlier, which was Perez versus Brownell 0.85

00:39:27.040 in 1958, which said that Congress can revoke citizenship for certain reasons, which is obviously

00:39:32.780 true. The decision to uphold dual citizenship was further affirmed in Vance v. Tarasas in 1980. So

00:39:40.920 it's pretty recent. And then it was in the Carter administration. Jimmy Carter abandoned the

00:39:46.100 Bancroft treaties, the Bancroft treaties in which the US government said you can't have dual citizenship.

00:39:51.320 This issue, though, actually goes way back. This goes back to 1874. U.S. Grant, President U.S. Grant,

00:39:58.960 in his message to Congress, lamented that there were people, quote, claiming the benefit of

00:40:04.420 citizenship while living in a foreign country, contributing in no manner to the performance

00:40:07.980 of the duties of a citizen of the United States, and without intention at any time to return and

00:40:11.840 undertake those duties to use the claims of citizenship of the United States simply as a

00:40:15.460 shield from the performance of the obligations of a citizen elsewhere. Yeah, that's great.

00:40:19.360 So there he was talking about the Irish. Here, the citizenship question is really,

00:40:23.760 really pertinent because of the mass migration from Latin America. But it's true just generally

00:40:27.420 all around the world. There are plenty of people who have dual citizenship. Even half of my people,

00:40:33.780 the Italians, they'll do this. They'll say, oh, my grandma, great-grandma was from Italy,

00:40:36.880 and so I got dual citizenship. Isn't that cool? Now, someday, I could buy a house in Italy that I'll

00:40:41.260 never afford and never actually buy. But yeah, now, isn't that cool? It's like Pokemon cards to them.

00:40:45.680 Oh, I got a citizenship from Portugal. Oh, I got citizenship in the U.S.

00:40:49.360 It's actually hard in the U.K. Oh, I got, and they're collecting them.

00:40:52.620 Like, it's all special. Or really, what people want is the U.S. citizenship because it gives

00:40:55.760 you so many privileges. But it's ridiculous. It is of a relatively recent vintage. It generally 0.96

00:41:04.340 hasn't worked out very well. It's undermined national identity and actual loyalty to the

00:41:09.460 United States, which is at historic lows. And it's totally incoherent. Bernie Moreno's totally right.

00:41:15.320 I don't want to see Republicans opposing this. This is basic stuff, guys.

00:41:21.280 You know, they always say, conservatives are just conserving the liberalism of five minutes ago.

00:41:24.660 Yeah, well, if you oppose Bernie Moreno on this, you're basically conserving the liberalism of the

00:41:31.480 1960s and 80s. I'm a conservative. I conserved the liberalism of the 1980s. Give me a break. Come on.

00:41:38.500 This is simple. Now, speaking of citizenship questions, this was a delicious little treat.

00:41:45.140 And a lot of people missed it because it happened last week.

00:41:50.080 Democrats have just said the quiet part out loud on the illegal aliens in this country. Do you

00:41:55.480 remember? Do you remember that Democrats have said over that whole government shutdown fight,

00:42:00.540 they said, illegals do not receive federal benefits. Illegals do not receive. They don't.

00:42:07.580 They don't get welfare. You Republicans, you're accusing us of shutting down the government to

00:42:10.780 give welfare to illegals. They don't. They cannot get welfare. Here is a Democrat representative

00:42:16.320 Pramila Jayapal just accidentally oopsie daisy admitting the truth. 0.71

00:42:21.280 Yesterday, I was at a food bank in my district talking about the snap cuts, the horrible snap cuts

00:42:26.620 and Medicaid cuts. And they told me that people are not even showing up to Head Start where they get

00:42:34.360 their food. They're not showing up to the food banks because they're afraid. And it's not just

00:42:40.020 undocumented immigrants. It is people of all legal statuses. It's undocumented immigrants who have 0.72

00:42:46.320 been here for 20 years.

00:42:48.200 Hold on. She almost could have gotten away with it. She goes, yeah, people aren't even showing up to the

00:42:52.780 welfare lines anymore. You know, I mean, and it's not just undocumented. And she stopped there.

00:42:58.720 She could have given herself a leeway to say, no, they don't. They don't show up. It's not. It's

00:43:01.800 the because it's people of all legal statuses. It's undocumented. It's undocumented people.

00:43:06.120 It's illegal aliens who have been here for 20 years. Getting welfare. But hold on. 1.00

00:43:13.760 Democrat Senator Mark Kelly told me this.

00:43:18.000 Federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to Medicare, Medicaid,

00:43:24.560 food stamps, even the Affordable Care Act. That's the law. So this is a red herring from my

00:43:31.900 Republican colleagues. That's the law. They don't get welfare. That's a red herring. They don't get

00:43:36.260 food stamps. That's the law. This is a red herring. Well, hey, Mark, you better talk to your colleague

00:43:40.700 in the house, Pramila Jayapal, because Pramila seems pretty convinced that the illegals do get foods

00:43:47.040 because they obviously do. And they do get health care subsidies and they get an insane amount of

00:43:51.520 taxpayer benefits. And frankly, I'm happy when they get their taxpayer relative. They shouldn't

00:43:57.040 be getting welfare benefits. But if they're going to get them, I'd rather they get food and health

00:44:00.920 care than what was going on with the Somalis up in Minnesota who are defrauding the taxpayer and 1.00

00:44:05.900 sending it over to Al-Shabaab. They get it and they've admitted it. Bookmark that. Bookmark this clip. 0.88

00:44:12.780 The next time when you're going to be at Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving's over, you're going to be at

00:44:17.040 Christmas dinner. You're a liberal. Your lesbian cousin is going to say, hey, no, they don't. 1.00

00:44:21.060 The illegals don't get welfare. Here you go. It's not. Don't take my word for it. It's Pramila 0.99

00:44:24.460 Jayapal. Stephen Miller, as usual, a man on a true, on a righteous jihad to end mass migration.

00:44:33.540 Deputy White House Chief of Staff, he put it pretty, pretty bluntly.

00:44:38.440 That's it for your audience. Perfectly, Sean. This was not a loophole. The Biden administration,

00:44:44.060 Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, devised a scheme to fly illegal aliens into the

00:44:52.360 country and then to escort them in mass across the border by the millions and to give them something

00:44:57.740 known as parole, which gives them a work permit, which gives them a social security number,

00:45:03.820 which gives them access to the voting booth. This was the plan all along, to get them here illegally 1.00

00:45:09.480 so they can get free government benefits, get hooked to welfare and be able to participate

00:45:14.280 in American elections. This was an attack on democracy by the Democrat Party. It's the same

00:45:20.960 attack that we see, Sean, when you have California, a sanctuary state that is refusing to turn over

00:45:27.960 even illegal alien criminals and gang members to ICE. So these are illegal aliens in California

00:45:34.480 who have been arrested by California police, by California law enforcement.

00:45:39.780 That's it. That's what it's about. They bring them over here so they can get them hooked on all

00:45:42.900 the programs so that they can get them onto the voter rolls so that they can rig the elections.

00:45:46.660 That's it. And we know it. We got the goods on it now. We even have Democrats admitting it.

00:45:51.420 One last one we have to get to. It's brutal, brutal, though we all knew it. Most of us, I would say,

00:45:56.860 knew it, though very few people wanted to say it. The FDA has admitted for the first time

00:46:03.220 that the Fauci-ouchie, the COVID vaccine, killed kids, killed at least 10 American kids.

00:46:12.140 You don't need to take just the conservative word for it. NBC reports, FDA claims COVID shots killed

00:46:18.300 10 children, vows new vaccine rules. And then I love this. This is the subheadline. So FDA

00:46:23.600 says this is what happened. The Fauci-ouchie killed 10 kids at least. Subheader. Vaccine experts said the

00:46:31.700 memo was irresponsible and that it omits key details about how officials arrived at that

00:46:35.240 conclusion. Vaccine experts, you just quoted the FDA. Who's more expert than the FDA? Because

00:46:40.900 during all of COVID, what I was told is you had to listen to the FDA and the CDC about everything,

00:46:46.300 and the NIH about everything. You had to listen to them. They were the experts. They knew everything.

00:46:51.760 You knew nothing, even though you had eyes and ears and a functioning brain and you could see what

00:46:56.400 was happening before you. And even though all those supposed experts kept getting things wrong,

00:47:00.160 you were told you had to listen to them because they were the experts. They had the authority.

00:47:05.380 So now that President Trump has cleaned house over there, cleaned house much more so than he did in

00:47:11.440 the first term, because obviously the first term was largely before COVID. Now we're told, no, no,

00:47:16.840 don't listen to the FDA. The real, who are the experts? Who are the experts? It's a moving target

00:47:21.520 for the libs. The experts are whoever agrees with the libs. But what did the FDA say? Director of the

00:47:28.220 FDA's vaccine division told agency staff in a memo that an internal review found at least 10 children

00:47:33.580 died after and because of receiving the COVID vax. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA's Center for

00:47:41.000 Biologics Evaluation Research, is the guy who wrote this memo. It's a 3,000-word memo. It wasn't like a

00:47:49.100 University of Oklahoma quick little response. It was a 3,000-word memo after an internal review

00:47:52.960 obtained by NBC News, said they determined no fewer than 10 of 96 child deaths reported to VAERS,

00:48:00.160 the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, between 2021 and 2024 were related to COVID vaccine.

00:48:05.580 The true numbers, he said, though, could be much higher because VAERS is a voluntary reporting

00:48:10.040 system. So the libs sees on that and they say, well, it's voluntary reporting. We don't really

00:48:13.540 know if it's true or not. No, no, we can know if it's true because then we can follow up and

00:48:16.600 investigate these claims. That's all point of VAERS. That's why it was established by Congress in the

00:48:20.100 first place. But second of all, to report something to VAERS requires a very, very motivated individual

00:48:25.640 because it's all voluntary and it's kind of complicated. So the reality is the vaccine

00:48:31.020 injuries reported to VAERS are not much larger than the actual number of vaccine injuries.

00:48:37.000 If anything, it would be much, much smaller. That's the problem. And it raises another question.

00:48:44.380 Okay, well, if VAERS is so unreliable, why don't you have a reliable way of reporting these things?

00:48:47.980 Because they don't want to have to deal with the legitimate vaccine injuries. That's obviously

00:48:52.940 what it's about. Experts who reviewed the memo say it is misusing information from VAERS,

00:48:57.120 an unverified reporting system that, hey, if it's so, if it's unverified, if it's so stupid, 0.96

00:49:01.560 then how come, how come that's the one that all the experts set up? Give me a better one. 0.98

00:49:06.280 Ah, you can't have a reliable system because then you have to be accountable.

00:49:12.460 The system's own website warrants that submissions can contain inaccurate,

00:49:15.600 incomplete or biased information. Yeah, yeah. Which is why there was an internal review,

00:49:19.520 which is why it was quite conservative in its findings and said that at least 10 of the 96

00:49:25.080 that were reported can be confirmed to be because of the COVID vaccine.

00:49:30.660 There is no evidence that would satisfy these people. You understand that. There's no,

00:49:35.280 it doesn't matter. The FDA said it. Well, no, nevermind that the FDA said it. They don't know

00:49:39.120 anything. It's, there's no evidence. There is no evidence that you could present

00:49:43.360 that would satisfy these people. They have, they are beginning with their conclusion

00:49:48.700 that the COVID vaccine is good. And it doesn't matter even when their own experts are forced

00:49:55.780 to change the story. They are, they are still going to stick by their defense of the COVID vaccine.

00:50:02.080 Fauci comes out, says, if you get the shot, you dumb, stupid jerks, 1.00

00:50:05.960 then you're not going to get COVID. And then five seconds later, everyone gets COVID who got the 1.00

00:50:10.920 shot. And he says, well, come on. I never said you wouldn't get COVID. I just said you wouldn't

00:50:15.640 transmit COVID you, you dopes. And then what happened five seconds later, they transmit it

00:50:20.280 to everybody. I said, well, no, hold on. You misheard me. You misheard me. You get the cotton 0.87

00:50:24.560 out of your ears. What I said was that it wouldn't be as bad as if you hadn't gotten the shot.

00:50:30.220 Of course, you're going to get it and transmit it to all your relatives, but trust me,

00:50:33.820 it would have been a lot worse if you didn't do what I said.

00:50:37.580 And then all the lemmings, they say, well, I guess he's right. That's what it means. And 0.98

00:50:40.780 they, it's like truly just brainwashing. But I just, we need these moments every so often

00:50:47.220 because what the libs do is they run the lies on page one, and then they run the retraction

00:50:52.060 six weeks later on page 10,000 of the newspaper. No one reads newspapers anymore, but they run it,

00:50:57.240 they hide it. The first tweet gets 10 billion retweets. And then the correction tweet gets like two

00:51:03.700 likes. And we need to take these moments to stop and say, hey, the COVID regime skeptics

00:51:12.540 were right about everything. And the experts, the liberal technocrat experts were wrong about

00:51:21.060 everything. And this wasn't just some academic discussion. This had very practical effects.

00:51:28.480 10 kids died because of Fauci's stupid vaccine. And look, people die because of vaccines. People 1.00

00:51:34.260 die because of medical interventions. You're never going to eradicate that from the medical system.

00:51:38.580 So frankly, even that is not the chief problem. The problem is you all lied to us and you told kids

00:51:43.940 who didn't need the vaccine that they had to get it. And now 10 kids are dead because of it.

00:51:47.740 And all of us who you called rube, stupid, dumb, idiot, conspiracy theorists, 1.00

00:51:51.520 we're totally right. We're completely right. We were proven more and more correct every single day. 1.00

00:51:55.720 We are still being proven more correct five years later. And you are all wrong.

00:52:01.260 And you have the temerity to call us dumb, to call us backward, to call us threats to public health, 0.81

00:52:07.140 and to say we should be excluded from the political order. 0.96

00:52:12.440 The chief takeaway from this, obviously, pray for the kids who died because of the perfidy of the

00:52:17.620 liberal ruling class. The chief political takeaway is you were right and you will never get credit

00:52:25.440 for it. But you were right. And the next time this happens, which will be tomorrow, which will be

00:52:31.280 these things, these kinds of ops are being run all the time. These kinds of information campaigns,

00:52:39.380 propaganda from the liberal political institutions that lie to you about everything,

00:52:44.040 that fail a sweet little university student because she had the temerity to politely and 1.00

00:52:50.320 succinctly tell the truth to her lunatic androgynous tranny professor. 0.98

00:52:56.600 They are constantly going to tell you lies. 0.94

00:53:01.380 And you need to have the confidence to tell the truth and to push back on them as best you can.

00:53:06.940 And when you have the advantage of having a little political power

00:53:09.720 to prevent them from having political power in the future in all sorts of just ways circumscribed

00:53:15.860 by morality in the constitution. Okay. Today's Tee Hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 02, 2025

Ep. 1866 - Stranger Things Star DEFENDS The Child Sacrifice Of Her Sibling

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