The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1999 - NYT Push Bearded Lesbians To Destory Father's Day

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00:01:29.220 The New York Times celebrates Father's Day by publishing a cartoon strip about children's

00:01:34.400 responsibility to make their lesbian mothers feel more like men. You thought woke was dead

00:01:41.180 when in fact it has just been lying in wait, perfectly intact, just waiting for the right

00:01:47.660 to destroy itself. And it might have its chance. Then the prime minister of the UK resigns.

00:01:53.280 Turns out that flooding your nation with an endless procession of foreign rapists 1.00

00:01:57.260 and then covering up their crimes for decades is not good politics. 0.76

00:02:01.700 We will examine the supposedly subtle, nuanced political forces at play in the UK.

00:02:07.840 Then one of the whitest towns in America goes all out for Juneteenth. 0.84

00:02:12.840 We will bring you all the important coverage on this beautiful Juneteenth.

00:02:17.960 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:18.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:23.280 welcome back to the show smash that like button and subscribe also check us out on spotify where

00:02:42.460 you can download full episode audio and video to watch or listen whenever you want without using

00:02:47.180 your data. Do not miss an episode. A British colonel has just spoken out to a Jewish audience

00:02:53.680 and he prefaced his remarks. He says, I speak as a goy, a mere goy. And then he goes on to talk

00:03:00.700 about how we all need to worship the state of Israel. And I wish people could be normal. Can

00:03:07.200 we not be normal? Does everybody have to be totally crazy? Does everybody on all sides of

00:03:12.840 every single political issue have to be totally crazy? We'll get to the answer. Spoiler alert,

00:03:16.980 the answer is yes. First, though, I hope everybody had a good Father's Day. I had an absolutely

00:03:22.420 magnificent, delightful Father's Day. So much so, my kids wake me up in bed. They give me nice

00:03:27.480 little cards they made. Happy Father's Day. We're playing baseball outside. My eldest boy,

00:03:32.360 he just looks at me. He's holding the bat. He's got his little Yankee cap on. I'm about to throw

00:03:35.960 the wiffle ball. He looks at me. He goes, hey, Dada, happy Father's Day. It was so beautiful.

00:03:40.060 It was a beautiful Father's Day, or as we now know it in the liberal calendar, June 1st. It

00:03:46.480 was Juneteenth. Obviously, Friday was Juneteenth. Saturday was Juneteenth. Sunday, Father's Day was

00:03:54.140 Juneteenth. Today is Juneteenth. How did the New York Times celebrate Father's Day? You can guess.

00:04:00.460 Well, I just told you. But even if I hadn't told you, you could guess. Guest essay in the New York

00:04:06.060 Times, like 10,000 pages long. To my daughter, my gender was never complicated. So you know,

00:04:15.580 right off the bat, okay, we're delving into the trans stuff. Now, this is a little confusing

00:04:19.460 because it says guest essay, but it's not an essay. Actually, it's just a comic strip,

00:04:26.880 but it's a comic strip, a very lengthy comic strip drawn as a full New York Times column.

00:04:34.760 This is no surprise to anyone who's followed the New York Times in recent years and decades

00:04:39.020 who have noticed the literacy standards just plummeting among the staff and the editors,

00:04:44.760 along with the audience, presumably.

00:04:46.920 So little funny strips is probably about as sophisticated

00:04:50.560 as we can expect from New York Times readers now.

00:04:53.440 What does the comic strip show?

00:04:55.460 Here's just a little smattering. 0.98

00:04:59.080 It's a daughter next to her dad,

00:05:02.460 and the daughter pulls up an old picture of her dad.

00:05:04.500 But in the old picture, the dad is a woman.

00:05:08.800 And so the daughter says, oh, you look really different.

00:05:12.140 Yeah, says the dad.

00:05:14.060 Yeah, you look cool.

00:05:16.860 Then or now, asks the dad.

00:05:21.020 Do we have the next strip?

00:05:24.340 Then or now?

00:05:25.840 Then, uh-oh, uh-oh.

00:05:27.940 Then you see these on the playground.

00:05:31.480 The one girl says, you can't grow a beard, you're a girl.

00:05:34.540 And the daughter says, my dad did, and he was a girl.

00:05:38.540 And then you hear the narration.

00:05:39.900 goes, you know, moving past it was hard sometimes. Next frame.

00:05:47.440 They can move between complex topics, you know, these little daughters. How long did you have 0.96

00:05:51.960 breasts for, dad? I won't subject you to the whole thing. It goes through, says, I've been living as 0.94

00:05:58.020 a trans man since I was 18 years old, but I had to learn how to be a trans dad when my wife and

00:06:04.500 I had Elliot, and all these questions. Now, this is my favorite part of it. It says,

00:06:11.920 I wasn't out to everyone as trans. This is when the daughter finds that picture. I wasn't out to

00:06:17.240 everyone as trans, but with Elliot, I had to learn how to talk about it. But you look different. Yeah, 1.00

00:06:22.880 yeah, it was hard. There was some adjusting. Took the daughter a little bit of time, but she

00:06:27.760 figured it out. Okay, that's great. Right off the bat, I wasn't out to everyone. Yes, you were.

00:06:33.800 You were. This is one of the silliest delusions of transgenderism, is the people who think 1.00

00:06:41.280 that they're convincing everyone else. You're not convincing anyone. You can always tell. 1.00

00:06:48.140 It's always totally obvious. I wasn't out to everyone. They know. They know. Don't worry

00:06:51.980 about that. They know. Number two, so perverse on Father's Day. One of the theses of the comic

00:07:00.940 strip is that it is the job of children to affirm the delusions of their parents and to make their

00:07:08.740 parents feel comfortable in those delusions. In reality, it is the job of parents to educate

00:07:16.220 children out of their delusions, to educate them and bring them up into accord with reality so that

00:07:23.480 they can be comfortable in their own skin and in the real world. But now we got this flipped 180

00:07:28.780 degrees where it is the burden of the children to miseducate, to affirm the absurdities and

00:07:39.140 delusions of the parents in order to make them feel more comfortable with their sexual perversions.

00:07:44.520 And then number three, and this is really what it all comes down to, I think,

00:07:48.060 ultimately. It's not just the trans ideology. It's can liberal women let men have one single

00:07:55.620 thing ever. Can liberal women tolerate men having just one thing in the entire world? 0.78

00:08:03.820 No. The answer is no, they can't. Father's Day. That's just the one. Okay, maybe we don't get to 0.81

00:08:09.960 carve the Thanksgiving turkey anymore. Maybe we, I don't know, maybe we don't get to be the head

00:08:14.840 of the household. Come home. Father knows best. We don't have Donna Reed waiting for it. I do.

00:08:19.540 But a lot of people don't have Donna Reed waiting for us. Okay. Can we have one thing,

00:08:23.440 though, can we have Father's Day? No. Father's Day actually is about lesbian women. So says the

00:08:30.720 New York Times. It's not just the New York Times, by the way. There was a piece, this was the Toronto

00:08:34.560 Star or something like that. You saw a number of these. Opinion, on Father's Day, it's crucial to

00:08:40.180 recognize the importance of mothers. It's not, actually. It's not. That's the one thing you

00:08:44.880 don't have to do on Father's Day. Mothers are great. Love mothers. I had the best mother in 0.99

00:08:50.040 the world. I'm married to the best mother currently in the world. Mothers are great,

00:08:57.060 but one thing that Father's Day is not about is mothers. But the left can't tolerate that.

00:09:04.060 It's not just the New York Times. But the real takeaway for us politically

00:09:07.040 is that woke never went away. It never went away. It went a little bit underground,

00:09:16.500 but it didn't permanently go away. We didn't utterly vanquish it. We revealed its toxicity

00:09:25.540 to the voters. We demonstrated its absurdity, especially with the transgender ideology, 1.00

00:09:32.140 but the left never gave up on it. You'll notice the left will try to downplay it now like Abigail 1.00

00:09:37.960 Spanberger in Virginia, but they don't disavow it. James Tallarico in Texas, he doesn't disavow

00:09:44.260 his comments about how God is non-binary. He doubles down on them. He doesn't disavow his 0.98

00:09:49.100 description of women as neighbors with a uterus. He just kind of tries to downplay it. In other

00:09:55.320 words, that peak wokeness of 2020 to 2022, it's dormant right now. It's a little hidden right

00:10:03.500 now, but it is waiting to spring back and destroy your life again. It's waiting. The left has not

00:10:09.240 learned a single lesson other than to shut up occasionally. They're waiting to do it.

00:10:14.480 And this, to me, puts a lot of the right-wing infighting into perspective.

00:10:19.320 Because the Republicans control the whole government, all the focus in politics is on

00:10:25.000 the right. And it's on all the factional disputes among the right and all the personality disputes.

00:10:29.720 Because especially the political media have become more independent, more focused on new media,

00:10:33.980 because everyone's fighting everyone. There's even more competition than there used to be with

00:10:37.260 the networks. Because of that, there's a major incentive for the new media voices, the podcaster

00:10:41.720 class, to oppose the government. Because you don't get great ratings if you say, oh, things are

00:10:45.700 actually going pretty well, and here's how they could be better, but here's how they could have

00:10:48.860 been a lot worse. You don't get ratings for that. You get ratings for opposition. So the very same

00:10:54.520 people who were totally opposed to Biden supporting Trump, the minute Trump gets into power, they have

00:10:58.180 to oppose Trump in some way. It's just, they might not even be aware of that, but that's where all

00:11:01.480 the incentives are. So politics right now is all about the right. It's the neocons versus the

00:11:08.320 paleocons versus the groipers versus the libertarians versus the reactionaries versus 0.51

00:11:14.280 neo-reaction. It's all this infighting. Then at a more mainstream level, you have all the former

00:11:20.880 never-Trumpers are coming out against J.D. Vance right now. There's a very concerted effort to

00:11:24.820 attack the vice president. And I can't help but notice all the people leading it, the Venn diagram

00:11:30.640 is almost a perfect circle of the people who were hardcore Trump in 2016, who finally came

00:11:35.540 around to Trump. If for no other reason, then you would be totally irrelevant in Republican politics

00:11:39.480 for the last decade if you were opposed to Trump. But then a lot of those people immediately,

00:11:44.800 first chance they had, they tried to back the primary challenge to Trump in the DeSantis

00:11:48.700 campaign. It has nothing to do with DeSantis. DeSantis is great, but they're just trying to

00:11:52.800 find an alternative to Trump. And then now they're going after J.D. Vance, who is the heir apparent

00:11:57.760 And clearly, just looking at who's really attacking him, he is clearly the avatar of that Trump movement from 2016.

00:12:06.260 So you got the Never Trumpers going after Vance.

00:12:08.880 You've got a bunch of podcasters going after Trump because they're complaining about Iran or whatever other policy.

00:12:15.360 You've got all of, I'm not even saying these are minor issues.

00:12:18.180 The right always has factional disputes.

00:12:20.340 I'm just pointing out, while the right is doing all of this infighting, and to some degree a lot

00:12:27.440 of navel-gazing, settling personal petty grudges in some cases, while that's going on, the left is

00:12:33.700 waiting. The left is waiting to bring this back. The left is waiting for the right to destroy itself

00:12:42.640 so that they can bring back transing your kids. That's what this is about. This Father's Day, 1.00

00:12:48.060 just remember, we want to trans your kids. So says the New York Times.

00:12:52.080 It's just waiting to bring back all of the racial politics of 2020. It's just waiting to bring back

00:12:57.120 all of the heavy-handed government suppression of 2020, 2021. Waiting to bring back all of it.

00:13:04.860 I'm not saying the right needs to sit down and shut up. I'm just saying that as the right

00:13:09.040 works out all of its problems in the lead up to the primary for 2028, what happens after Trump,

00:13:14.980 it. As that happens, I am just, I am imploring the American right. Please keep some perspective.

00:13:25.280 Your enemy is not some podcaster. That's not your chief threat. Your enemy is not J.D. Vance

00:13:33.840 or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis or Ted Cruz or Ron Paul, sorry, Rand Paul or this guy or that guy

00:13:43.460 this guy, anyone who might run for president. This is your enemy. This is the threat. These

00:13:48.940 are the people who want to castrate your kids. These are the people who want to fling open the

00:13:51.980 border. These are the people who want to take control of your life. That's the threat. And

00:13:57.400 that threat is crouching in the corner, waiting to pounce on you while you play fiddle on the

00:14:03.800 Titanic. Okay. Speaking of division, one of the big sources of division has been over not just

00:14:09.500 the Iran war, but the broader issue of the U.S.-Israel alliance and Israel's purported

00:14:17.660 influence on U.S. foreign policy. A video has just gone viral from a retired British colonel

00:14:23.460 who presents himself as a mere goy, giving a view of Israel that is a little, shall we say, 0.81

00:14:29.740 extreme. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, speaking of Israel, I want to tell you 0.90

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00:16:00.220 Ultimis Fund Distributors, LLC. British Colonel, retired Richard Kemp, was just speaking at the

00:16:07.100 JNSA, this is the Jerusalem News Syndicate, in which he presents his view, a very popular view

00:16:16.800 in the UK and America, of the meaning of the state of Israel. I speak as a goy, a mere goy.

00:16:26.840 the Jews were put on the face of the earth to be a light unto nations.

00:16:33.160 And Israel is being that light in defense of its own country.

00:16:38.380 And I think most particularly, not just in military technology,

00:16:42.120 but in the way in which those extraordinary men and women of the IDF

00:16:46.300 have shown the world how to fight.

00:16:49.620 And many countries in Western Europe which are going to face this violence 0.63

00:16:52.820 will be looking to Israel to see how they're going to fight.

00:16:56.840 So the narrative is one thing, but action, I think, is even more important.

00:17:03.800 I have one request of people across the political spectrum, especially when it comes to the issue

00:17:10.300 of Israel. Can we please be normal? Can we please be normal? Can anybody in politics just be normal?

00:17:20.860 you can support the state of israel as i do without being a total weirdo about it it's

00:17:29.280 possible i know it seems like it's impossible you either have to believe that israel is the worst

00:17:35.080 rogue state puppeteer of all the nations protocols of the elders of zion you know a cult demonic 0.66

00:17:43.500 monstrosity you either have to believe that especially if you're a podcaster or you have 0.82

00:17:48.460 to believe that Israel is the most blameless nation, the greatest state above all rules 0.93

00:17:56.800 and order, that we must all serve as slavishly as possible, and no one can ever criticize it. 0.81

00:18:02.880 Those are the only two options that you're allowed to hold, I guess, in public life.

00:18:06.340 But what I would suggest, humbly, is that you just be normal for like five seconds.

00:18:12.540 The way this retired colonel presents himself, he says, I'm a goy, a mere goy.

00:18:18.400 Goy, the singular of goyim, the plural, which does not have to be a term of derision.

00:18:24.520 It's often used, usually jokingly, as a term of derision, but it just means a Gentile. 0.84

00:18:29.220 It means a non-Jew.

00:18:30.640 And so he says, I present myself as a mere non-Jew.

00:18:33.220 And maybe he's being a little cute with this.

00:18:35.320 Maybe there's a little irony to it, but maybe there's not.

00:18:38.080 Maybe he really is just being obsequious.

00:18:39.840 in any case, he says, Israel is here as a light to the nations. God chose Israel to be a light

00:18:46.440 to the nations. That's all true. If you're a Christian, you believe that. Of course, though,

00:18:50.940 there is quite a lot of debate over the relation between that belief and the modern nation state

00:18:56.940 of Israel that was founded in 1948. It is not, in fact, a mandate of the Christian religion

00:19:02.520 that you have to believe that the nation state of Israel from 1948 is the light to the nations

00:19:08.860 specifically chosen by God, above reproach, and you don't have to believe that.

00:19:14.040 And the traditional Christian understanding is that, yes, Israel is chosen, is taken as a

00:19:19.720 particular people, as the type of all the people. The history of Israel is the type of all of

00:19:24.720 history, and that the fulfillment of that type in the Old Testament is in Christ and in the church

00:19:31.620 as the new Israel, as Christ who comes as the new covenant in the new arc of the covenant,

00:19:37.760 who is Mary, to establish the new people of God who do not exclude the Jews, but who rather

00:19:45.000 invite the rest of the world in, who say there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free man

00:19:49.960 nor male nor female, but all are one in Christ Jesus. And this is the figurative meaning of the

00:19:56.480 particular people of Israel, that God actually brings an offer of salvation to all people.

00:20:01.360 You don't need to believe that a modern nation state that arose out of a 19th century nationalist political movement that was then established through UN declarations and a war of conquest in the middle of the 20th century, you don't have to ascribe to that any prophetic or scriptural or religious meaning.

00:20:21.100 You can just kind of support it.

00:20:23.420 Why would you support the state of Israel?

00:20:25.780 Why would you be favorably inclined toward the state of Israel?

00:20:30.200 Well, because of international law, because it was established by the United Nations after a declaration from the empire that previously controlled that territory, the British Empire, because there is a lot of cultural similarity and affinity and cooperation between Jews and Gentiles in the West, because we have Israel as a strategic ally, and that has helped us a number of times.

00:20:56.080 though our interests have diverged on other times, on and on and on. You can just be kind

00:21:01.060 of normal about it. This stuff, I think, really turns a lot of people off. And it's a big problem

00:21:06.300 for the state of Israel, especially at a time when you see support for the state of Israel collapsing,

00:21:10.920 even in the United States, which was its biggest backer, even among Republicans,

00:21:15.920 even among conservatives, who were the biggest backers of the state of Israel, even within the

00:21:19.200 United States. I think that if we just reestablish the facts here and we recognize, you know, a lot

00:21:26.900 of our political adversaries, geopolitical adversaries, Russia, Iran, China perhaps,

00:21:33.380 really want to stoke a lot of the anti-Israel sentiment because it plays on a division that

00:21:39.200 has existed in the West, which is a tension between Jews and non-Jews. They want to exacerbate that

00:21:44.560 tension. They want to promote powers that are hostile to ours, like Iran, which has been 0.99

00:21:50.340 opposed to the United States for 47 years. And we recognize that the leading anti-Israel voices

00:21:58.580 are radical leftists, people like Greta Thunberg and all of the radical left going back many

00:22:03.840 decades. You can just be normal about it. But the less normal we are about it, the worse the

00:22:09.640 situation is going to get. That's basically my view. The low but solid ground of alliances and

00:22:16.240 international relations is going to bode a lot better for the United States and the state of 0.94

00:22:19.680 Israel. The hysterics and the insistence upon adopting novel theological stances that is only

00:22:29.720 going to help America's enemies and Israel's enemies for that matter. Okay, speaking of racial 0.66

00:22:33.860 and ethnic tensions. Portsmouth, New Hampshire has gone all out for Juneteenth. There's just

00:22:41.700 something a little weird about the vibrant, widespread Juneteenth celebrations in Portsmouth,

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00:24:21.680 Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

00:24:23.500 We look back from this Juneteenth 2nd on how they celebrated the sacred feast of the Juneteenth National Independence Day. 0.73

00:24:36.740 We see the one black person who accidentally stumbled into New Hampshire is dancing, doing some odd kind of dance next to the whitest woman you've ever seen in your entire life, Senator Jean Shaheen. 0.74

00:24:47.600 wearing a pink pantsuit, doing what appears to be the Macarena, or I don't know, 0.89

00:24:57.300 doing some kind of pseudo-tribal dance, surrounded by all the other white people

00:25:03.480 in New Hampshire. There was a meme going around of this performance that said that

00:25:09.840 New Hampshire, this town in New Hampshire, was mostly white. It was 88% white or something,

00:25:16.140 and only two to three percent black. And that's actually not true. The town is 86 to 87 percent

00:25:21.120 white and less than one percent black. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by the records that I could find,

00:25:29.460 is about 0.2 percent black. And they're celebrating Juneteenth. And by the way,

00:25:37.060 they're not celebrating Juneteenth by adopting the culture of black Americans. They're celebrating

00:25:44.320 Juneteenth by doing some contrived African thing that has nothing to do with the cultural experience 1.00

00:25:51.140 of black Americans for the last 400 years. They're doing it in New Hampshire because 0.97

00:25:58.220 Juneteenth is really not about black people. The idea of the Juneteenth federal holiday,

00:26:06.240 it definitely uses black people and it plays on black grievance, which is sometimes promoted by

00:26:12.500 black people, though often promoted by white liberals as well. But it's not really about

00:26:16.740 black people. And the opposition among some conservatives such as myself to Juneteenth,

00:26:22.540 it has nothing to do with opposition to black people or black history or the end of slavery

00:26:28.140 or any of that. Obviously not. I saw some people, some conservatives who were trying to be good

00:26:34.160 little boys who were trying to prove their anti-racist bona fides over the weekend.

00:26:39.140 they said, no, we have no problem with Juneteenth. We love Juneteenth. Why would a conservative ever

00:26:43.600 object to the Juneteenth holiday? We love it. It's awesome. It's our favorite holiday. I actually

00:26:47.040 prefer it to Christmas. For me, I don't know about you, but just for me, I think Juneteenth is better 0.96

00:26:52.960 than Christmas and Easter and the 4th of July combined. Yeah, okay, you're trying a little too

00:26:56.560 hard. Juneteenth is bad. There was actually a tweet of Charlie's, Charlie Kirk's, from a year 0.62

00:27:03.500 or two ago, saying Juneteenth is bad. He should not celebrate Juneteenth. And Charlie was right,

00:27:07.900 as he was about many, many things. I've been opposed to the Juneteenth federal holiday from

00:27:11.760 the very beginning. And it really has nothing to do with black people. It has to do with Gene 1.00

00:27:16.220 Shaheen, and it has to do with liberalism more broadly. The most offensive part of the Juneteenth

00:27:23.040 holiday, well, I shouldn't say that. There are like three or four most offensive parts. But

00:27:26.280 one of the most offensive parts is the way in which it became a federal holiday.

00:27:32.300 juneteenth came out of the george floyd riots that's real i know that there was a local custom

00:27:38.740 that's been practiced for a long time but juneteenth as a national matter came out of

00:27:43.800 the george floyd riots and all of the black grievance politics that the democrats cynically

00:27:47.560 stoked and exploited during 2020 and 2021 and then when they contrived this thing the federal

00:27:55.940 Juneteenth holiday. What was most personally offensive to me was they demanded that we all

00:28:02.760 pretend that this was a real thing for a long time. No one had ever heard of Juneteenth.

00:28:07.440 Like seven people in Texas had ever heard of Juneteenth. And then we all just had to pretend

00:28:11.900 it was a thing. Most black people had never heard of Juneteenth in 2019. But we all just had to 0.76

00:28:19.080 pretend it was a thing. And then we all had to pretend it was totally awesome. And if you oppose

00:28:23.420 Juneteenth, you hated black people and you love slavery. And it was never about that. 0.97

00:28:27.260 What Juneteenth is really about is displacing the 4th of July. That's why the federal holiday is

00:28:32.380 called the Juneteenth National Independence Day. We already have a National Independence Day. It's

00:28:37.420 called Independence Day. It's called the 4th of July. But the left doesn't like that because they

00:28:42.100 hate the actual founding of our country. So they need a new National Independence Day. And the new

00:28:46.660 National Independence Day cannot be a discrete particular event because that would assert that

00:28:51.300 we have already won our independence and that we are free, and the left can't have that.

00:28:54.700 The left, constantly revolutionary, always needs to assert that liberty is just around the corner.

00:29:01.740 It's not here yet. The past was evil. The present is a crisis. Liberty is around the corner. Just

00:29:06.220 give us more power. Just go along with what we say, and then you'll truly be free.

00:29:10.040 Viva siempre la revolución. This is why revolutionary leaders wear military fatigues

00:29:14.280 a lot of the time, is because the revolution has to be perpetual. It has to be ongoing.

00:29:18.580 And Juneteenth is actually perfect for that because Juneteenth does not really celebrate

00:29:22.640 a discrete event.

00:29:23.720 It's not about the Emancipation Proclamation, which frees a lot of the slaves.

00:29:27.560 It's not about the 13th Amendment, which abolishes slavery in the United States.

00:29:31.100 Those are discrete acts that took place and then they were done.

00:29:34.340 It's about the day that the mailman got to some town in Texas and told them that the

00:29:38.260 slaves were free-ish.

00:29:40.140 That's what it's about.

00:29:40.680 It's this kind of nebulous and ambiguous event that tells us that independence is around

00:29:46.220 the corner if we give the left more power.

00:29:48.060 that's what it's about it's it in as much as juneteenth involves black people it's just as

00:29:54.620 an excuse they just use black people as a tool to advance a liberalism that is embraced perhaps

00:30:01.040 most clearly in a town that's 88 percent white that has like three black people in a 300 mile 0.73

00:30:06.160 radius it's it's about jean sheen okay it's about left-wing politicians and that's why that's why

00:30:14.080 it's never going to end that's why it's juneteenth today and it's going to be juneteenth

00:30:16.900 3rd, tomorrow, and June 24th, the next day. It's ongoing. The revolution is ongoing. Now,

00:30:23.260 speaking of New Hampshire, here's a little update also to relate to that first story we were talking

00:30:27.480 about from the New York Times. Do you remember the story? Big, big celebration on the left,

00:30:33.060 especially among the sexual revolutionaries. Finally, it was about 10 years ago or so, 0.68

00:30:38.060 finally, we had elected the first openly transgender state legislator in the United

00:30:46.040 States. Finally, after the transgenders were oppressed for millennia, finally, in our era

00:30:55.080 of freedom, an openly trans legislator can enter a state house and emerge in public life. 1.00

00:31:04.880 And then about five seconds later, it emerged that he was a chomo. He was a pedophile, 0.99

00:31:10.920 a child abuser, and he was arrested for this, thankfully. He's just been sentenced, 0.96

00:31:16.920 just over the last few days. He's been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child exploitation.

00:31:22.480 Now the story goes away. No more do we hear about the valiant first ever transgender politician to

00:31:27.480 become a state legislator. They're going to sweep that one under the rug until the next 1.00

00:31:31.140 trans legislator, who they hope will not be a pedophile, and then they'll make him the big 0.90

00:31:36.480 star. But this was the guy. He was the one. He was the groundbreaking pioneer for trans rights

00:31:42.240 in politics. And it turns out he's a chomo. So the question then becomes, were there signs? 1.00

00:31:51.420 Were there signs? Because if you look into this guy's history, it should really not come as a

00:31:56.220 surprise to anyone. The picture of him going around is him wearing a trans-colored shirt

00:32:00.780 with a gay flag colored mask, I guess during COVID, and a little tag that says clergy.

00:32:08.700 I don't know what denomination he's a part of, but I guess he's a member of the clergy too. 0.64

00:32:13.420 No surprise for lots of the liberal offshoots of Christianity.

00:32:17.220 Were there signs? Yeah. In 2008, long before this guy got into politics,

00:32:23.760 this guy had been sentenced to seven and a half to 15 years in prison for a conspiracy to commit

00:32:28.480 credit card fraud, and three and a half years to seven years in prison for falsifying physical

00:32:33.140 evidence. The guy not only committed the crimes, he was arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced for

00:32:38.300 the crimes. Somehow this never came up in the campaign. They had to suppress that. The story

00:32:43.960 was too good, the first openly transgender legislator. This guy then turned himself into 0.94

00:32:48.940 police, 2015, after a warrant was issued because he had made a bomb threat at Southern New Hampshire

00:32:56.120 Medical Center. He made a bomb threat. The guy is clearly very violent, has a lot of problems,

00:33:03.480 kind of criminal. You've seen these. You've heard this song before when it comes to the trans

00:33:07.900 people. In 2019, this state legislator paid $2,000 in restitution because he would not have

00:33:16.240 been able to run for public office with these crimes on his record. So he pays $2,000 in

00:33:21.580 restitution to be cleared to run for public office again. He formed an exploratory committee

00:33:27.540 to get back into government. He then ran for and won a selectman seat in Nashua, New Hampshire

00:33:34.880 in 2020. Beginning of peak woke, he runs again for the New Hampshire House of Representatives

00:33:41.420 and he wins. And then he was reelected, by the way, in 2022. And now he's going to prison because

00:33:46.360 he's a chomo, but he wasn't just a chomo or he's not just a chomo. He also is a terrorist 0.98

00:33:51.960 or at least a psycho because he called in that bomb threat at the hospital. 1.00

00:33:57.300 And he also is a fraudster because he committed credit card fraud. 0.90

00:34:02.880 And he also obstructed justice because he destroyed physical evidence. And

00:34:06.060 it's always the ones you most expect. The whole trans movement was really predicated on 0.96

00:34:17.820 ignoring warning signs. Because one big anthropological error that people make 0.97

00:34:26.500 is they think that talents, virtues, and vices are distributed basically equally. 1.00

00:34:34.320 that, you know, if someone is really handsome, he's probably really stupid. Actually, that's a 0.99

00:34:41.120 very popular stereotype, the dumb jock. By the way, the dumb jock stereotype is totally disproven 1.00

00:34:46.920 by social science. The jocks are actually more likely to be intelligent than your average guy. 0.99

00:34:55.740 There is a positive correlation between good looks and physical prowess and intelligence.

00:35:00.760 But our culture, the stereotypes tell us it's the opposite.

00:35:04.520 We believe that if you have one virtue, you probably have some other vice.

00:35:08.480 So it all kind of evens out in the end.

00:35:09.660 But I don't think that's really true.

00:35:11.040 That's not how virtue and vice work.

00:35:13.740 It's not that ugly people can't be smart or talented or anything.

00:35:17.560 But it just means that, though frankly, actually, going back to virtue and vice, as Aristotle writes about it,

00:35:23.940 Aristotle actually is kind of a looksmaxer.

00:35:26.520 Aristotle is a very early clavicular.

00:35:28.060 Aristotle does think that there's a link between at least physical athletic prowess, good looks, and other virtues.

00:35:37.000 But nevertheless, what a virtue is, is it's a habit that inclines the will to, or rather, it's a habit formed over time, which is rational, which is a type of an excellence, and which ultimately leads you to happiness.

00:35:52.880 And it kind of spreads out.

00:35:54.160 so if you have one vice you're more likely to have a second vice and a third vice and the

00:36:00.160 more vices you have the more vicious you become likewise the more virtues you have the more

00:36:04.900 virtuous you are likely to become and with transgenderism it's not just one vice or let's 0.88

00:36:11.900 be even less judgy about it it's not even just one defect this defect that you know you think 0.98

00:36:16.400 you're the opposite sex it's like a billion vices and defects because transgender ideology 0.53

00:36:21.820 transgender identity is positively correlated with depression, with anxiety, with suicidality, 1.00

00:36:29.460 with a whole host of other sexual deviancies. LGBT identity is correlated with a higher 0.94

00:36:35.920 likelihood of being a chomo, for instance, pedophilia, all of these other issues that go 1.00

00:36:41.320 along with it. Emotional regulation problems, all the rest of it. And so what transgenderism 0.99

00:36:49.320 tried to do is tell us to ignore the warning signs, that things that are manifestly abnormal 0.97

00:36:54.220 and absurd have to be normal. And I think this was the real political value of transgenderism 1.00

00:37:01.820 for the left. It's not just that there are sex freaks and perverts. That is true also. But I 1.00

00:37:06.360 think even more powerfully than that, the reason the left really glommed onto transgenderism is

00:37:11.360 it offered them the opportunity for a final triumph of the will over reality, for the final 0.86

00:37:17.680 triumph of the will over the intellect, over reason and logic, for a final triumph of man

00:37:22.900 over nature and over nature's God, an ability for us finally to become as gods, the promise

00:37:29.420 from the Garden of Eden. If we can force our own will upon the most basic elements of biology and

00:37:37.600 nature, we can do anything. And furthermore, if we can enforce that in the political community,

00:37:42.480 if we enforce everybody to go along with that, to believe the greatest absurdity we've ever seen,

00:37:48.620 at least in my lifetime in politics, then we can do anything. I think that was the real thrust of

00:37:56.760 it, even if the left wasn't totally aware of it. But warning signs are still warning signs.

00:38:02.820 And this is no surprise. If you had asked an American 60 years ago, hey, do you think the

00:38:07.580 first transgender state legislator is going to be a pedophile? 100% of them would have said, 0.96

00:38:12.020 Yeah, probably. At least very likely. Yeah, probably because he's like a sexual weirdo.

00:38:17.940 So like he's more likely to be even more of a sexual weirdo. That's it. And now we're beginning 0.99

00:38:24.200 to read warning signs. You know, this is what a lot of the kind of edgy, often sort of racist and

00:38:30.160 unpalatable discourse on the internet is about. The idea of being woke, being awakened to something

00:38:37.180 or being red-pilled, in other words, being awakened to something, or noticing, or whatever

00:38:42.500 the lingo is, it all basically on the left and the right redounds to the same thing, which is that

00:38:47.600 we're seeing patterns. We're acknowledging things that we weren't previously allowed to acknowledge

00:38:53.180 because of political contrivance and ideology. And with the trans issue, it's so clear. And it's

00:38:59.500 why the left won't give it up. It's why the left is insisting upon it even today in the year of

00:39:03.020 our Lord, 2026. Okay. Speaking of warning signs, the Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

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00:40:27.760 First, though, my favorite comment on Friday from Spotify.

00:40:32.160 Spotify, which can leave comments now.

00:40:33.940 So I find that the Spotify comments might be better than the YouTube comments.

00:40:37.520 I can't tell if it's just a bias because I didn't know you could leave comments on Spotify.

00:40:41.780 So now I'm really taken with that.

00:40:44.180 But what I always say is, YouTubers, you got to get your comment game up

00:40:47.580 or go leave the comments on Spotify.

00:40:49.320 it's from over toast who says who says don't forget to leave cookies and milk out for george

00:40:55.980 floyd tonight that was on juneteenth that's not nice that's not nice okay you shouldn't say that

00:41:01.700 i mean i know that the juneteenth federal holiday like literally became a thing because of george

00:41:07.100 floyd and i know that they've tried to make george floyd out into a mythological figure and a saint

00:41:13.080 much as santa claus came from saint nicholas and i know it's a perfect analogy but that's not nice

00:41:17.980 you shouldn't do that okay is the straight of hormuz open can anyone tell me mr davies

00:41:25.180 are you are you refreshing your google news feed is we're talking about schrodinger straight here

00:41:30.660 or is the uh potential of the straight being open has it collapsed into any reality at this very

00:41:36.560 moment at 907 a.m on monday morning according to ai on google it's not sure

00:41:44.720 i love i love everything about your answer you won't look at a news site you're looking at ai

00:41:52.000 and you're looking at the weakest ai but you know the ai it's supposed to be really intelligent and

00:41:57.860 not even the not even the ai the supercomputer that people are worshiping has got not even

00:42:02.940 ai knows all right cnbc from like five minutes ago said it's closed again it's closed again

00:42:08.540 that's what cnbc said yeah but then but i checked the ap or whatever it was this morning and said

00:42:13.980 it was closed, but it was open. It was closed, but the ships were getting through. Okay,

00:42:17.800 you get the point. We appear to be in something of a quagmire, and the vice president has the

00:42:24.860 most difficult job on planet Earth right now, which is to effect President Trump's policy.

00:42:32.500 Don't forget, the MOU, the Memorandum of Understanding, is Trump's policy. He wants this.

00:42:39.200 He's the one who signed it.

00:42:40.460 In fact, when the White House presented that the MOU was being signed,

00:42:44.800 they didn't even include J.D. Vance in the picture.

00:42:47.040 It was Trump and Rubio who were standing there because this is the administration's policy.

00:42:51.060 And a lot of the former Never Trumpers are trying to pin it on J.D. Vance

00:42:53.740 because they don't want to actually come out against President Trump for his own policy

00:42:57.660 because they don't want to get on the wrong side of the White House.

00:43:00.300 So they're trying to scapegoat it to the vice president.

00:43:03.920 They hate the MOU, but they want to scapegoat it to the vice president,

00:43:06.660 who's one of the people who's negotiating this thing.

00:43:08.700 but it's the Trump policy and the vice president who it would appear was opposed to the war in

00:43:15.120 the first place. He is now the one who is negotiating the peace deal, which what's funny

00:43:19.920 is a lot of that faction, the hawkish faction is trying to pin this on Vance because they think

00:43:24.220 it's going to destroy him. I think a lot of people want some kind of a peace deal. Now,

00:43:27.660 of course, the devil's in the details. And this is the big problem

00:43:29.840 because I think we were a little cavalier about going to war in Iran. As I said, not the bunker

00:43:38.260 busters last year, which I think was simple enough, and we got out quickly enough. It took, what,

00:43:42.880 like seven hours, and we were done. And that was pretty effective at setting back Iran's 1.00

00:43:46.600 nuclear program. The more recent war in Iran, Operation Epic Fury, I was very skeptical before,

00:43:53.340 during, and after, and I remained so. Not because the Iranian regime doesn't deserve it, but because 1.00

00:43:57.600 I feared that our likelihood of success at the things that we would need to do to make the war 1.00

00:44:05.160 more generally a success, I thought the likelihood was relatively low. And the reasonable chance of

00:44:09.840 success is one of the criteria for a just war. The other one being proportionality, that the 0.70

00:44:14.640 goods to be achieved are outweighing the costs that will be inflicted. And so here the question

00:44:21.340 is, what was the goal of the war? The goal of the war, most importantly, was to get rid of Iran's 0.99

00:44:28.360 nuclear program. Now, ostensibly, we had already done that a year ago. But the argument was that 0.89

00:44:34.180 Iran's ballistic missiles program had gotten so good that they would reach a point of immunity

00:44:37.760 after which they could redevelop their nuclear program. They would reach breakout capacity and 0.94

00:44:42.840 we wouldn't be able to stop them from getting nukes. So it was this opportunity to take out

00:44:46.360 the Iranian leadership and end the nuclear program, or at least severely set it back. 0.68

00:44:51.260 Okay, all well and good. The problem is, once the war is over, what's to stop the regime from 0.96

00:44:57.200 just building back its ballistic missiles, as it's very likely going to do, and restarting the 0.55

00:45:01.560 nuclear program. I mean, they still have a lot of ballistic missiles and they still have something

00:45:07.020 of a nuclear program. So what's to stop them after that? Well, I guess the answer would be regime

00:45:11.760 change. Okay, well, now you're kind of shifting the goals of the war. And it's not that I don't

00:45:15.320 want regime change in Iran. I certainly do. But I just didn't, I thought the Iranian regime was

00:45:20.520 more durable than a lot of people who had a more cavalier attitude thought that it was. And I think

00:45:24.940 that that's been proven to be correct. Don't forget the Islamic regime has lasted twice as 0.99

00:45:28.480 long as the CIA-backed regime from 1953. So they're a lot stronger than propaganda would

00:45:33.460 have it seem. All of which recalls, for those fans of ancient history, Herodotus, the founder

00:45:39.980 of the discipline of history and history writing, who famously recounts the story of King Croesus,

00:45:48.380 the Lydian king, going to war with Cyrus the Great, the Persian king. And the oracle at Delphi,

00:45:55.300 per Herodotus, warns, famously warns, if King Croesus crosses the Halas River,

00:46:01.920 a great empire will be destroyed. And so the oracle, it would seem, is saying the Persian 0.96

00:46:08.800 empire will be destroyed, but actually it destroys the empire of the belligerents.

00:46:12.420 This is another, for those fans of ancient history, I'm thinking of that line of Julius

00:46:16.920 Caesars from the Gallic Wars, where he points out that men are at all times inclined to believe

00:46:23.120 the things that they wish to be true. A key to politics is understanding. I forget the Latin.

00:46:30.600 I can't recite the Latin, but it's a beautiful, concise Latin phrase that men are really inclined

00:46:37.700 to believe to be true that which they wish was true. And I think that's a lot of what was going

00:46:43.260 on in Iran. It's not that America can't dominate the Iranians. We obviously can. We're the world's 0.51

00:46:49.400 superpower. They are a backwater, albeit one, they're a kind of semi-savage regime, albeit in

00:46:56.480 a very civilized place, which is Iran, which is Persia. It's not that we can't dominate them. We 0.99

00:47:01.800 can. We're basically the only military on earth that can project power forward. It's that we don't

00:47:08.420 want to, really. We don't want to get bogged down in a regime change war for 10 years. We don't want

00:47:13.100 to have election watchers monitoring their elections to usher in the new democratic regime

00:47:17.780 of the crown prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah of Iran. It's that we're not really committed

00:47:24.280 to doing that. And so if you're not going to go all the way, it probably was not the best idea to

00:47:31.100 go in in the first place. This is what the Trump administration is dealing with right now. It's

00:47:35.720 very, very difficult. They will be able to claim many victories in the war. They set back the

00:47:40.980 nuclear program. They might get the nuclear dust. They destroyed a lot of the ballistic missiles.

00:47:44.500 that killed the top two or three layers of Iranian leadership. They can claim a lot of

00:47:48.120 kinetic victories. They can claim that the United States and the state of Israel are better off than

00:47:52.820 they were before the war in some ways. However, the fact that Iran now controls the Strait of 0.75

00:47:58.440 Hormuz means that we're worse off than we were before the war. So that's a real sticking point.

00:48:03.340 It means that Iran now has a more powerful weapon than the nuclear weapon that we're trying to keep 0.90

00:48:07.060 out of their hands. And it means it's going to be very, very hard to extricate ourselves 0.99

00:48:10.400 from this war. It means, in fact, that we might go back to war. Those are the stakes.

00:48:18.400 It's very easy to go to war. It's a lot harder to get out of wars. Okay.

00:48:22.420 Speaking of foreign affairs, before we go, this one I have to get to,

00:48:25.240 as I promised it at the top. The prime minister of the UK is resigning, Keir Starmer.

00:48:30.280 Do we have the video of him resigning? Yes, here he is.

00:48:34.240 every decision i've taken has been about putting the country i love first

00:48:40.740 that is why i will resign as leader of the labor party we fixed this with close

00:48:47.260 i have spoken to his majesty the king this morning to inform him of my decision

00:48:52.060 i will ask the national executive committee of the labor party to set out a timetable

00:48:58.120 with nominations opening on the 9th of july and completed by the summer recess okay so

00:49:04.220 this is happening fast. July, it's over. They've already got the guy who's going to come in after

00:49:08.560 him. Keir Starmer was in office for less than two years. And I'm particularly irritated at this

00:49:13.420 whole thing because when I was in the UK, I was supposed to go on the BBC. And then I got bumped.

00:49:17.660 I got bumped for the only person that I kind of accepted I should be bumped for, which is the

00:49:22.620 incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham. People have known this for a while, that Keir Starmer

00:49:27.020 was on the ropes. He's out. Why is he out? There are people I notice in some of the commentary

00:49:31.000 saying, Keir Starmer's government is falling, and no one can quite see why. No one really knows why

00:49:38.920 the government is falling. Well, it's part of a larger trend. It's not just about Keir Starmer.

00:49:44.660 How many prime ministers has the UK had in the last seven to 10 years? You had this guy,

00:49:50.140 you had Rishi Sunak, you had Liz Truss. I mean, it's crazy. You used to have prime ministers of

00:49:55.700 the UK, who would govern for decades sometimes. Wasn't Walpole governed for like 20 years?

00:50:02.420 Maggie Thatcher was 11 years. Used to be a lot more stable. Now the UK, once a stiff upper lip 1.00

00:50:07.860 model of stability, now it's becoming like Italy, which changes its prime minister every 37 seconds

00:50:13.180 and hasn't had a functional government since Octavian. Why is the UK becoming like this?

00:50:19.380 Well, the simple answer actually, I think, explains it. 1.00

00:50:23.500 The simple answer is that the UK government keeps letting a bunch of foreigners in, 1.00

00:50:28.360 a bunch of foreigners who don't assimilate, who are particularly criminal, and who, oh, yes, 1.00

00:50:33.040 by the way, do you remember our interview from last week? 1.00

00:50:35.520 I spent the last number of decades raping a quarter million British girls.

00:50:40.400 So, yeah, it turns out the people don't like that. 0.92

00:50:43.220 It turns out, look, it's about more than that.

00:50:45.400 It's about the economy.

00:50:46.820 It's about the next spate of elections.

00:50:49.680 It's about government corruption, and it's about all these different things.

00:50:52.900 But like really what it's about, it's pretty simple. 1.00

00:50:55.980 It's that the British people don't want a bunch of foreigners coming in and raping and killing them. 0.99

00:51:00.240 That's really what it's about. 0.99

00:51:01.360 And that's what a lot of these elections and the instability in Europe and even in the United States is about.

00:51:08.100 The British people have voted time and time again to defend their island.

00:51:13.320 They voted for the Brexit.

00:51:15.420 They didn't get the Brexit.

00:51:16.540 They voted for immigration restriction.

00:51:18.080 They didn't get that.

00:51:18.640 You know what they got? 0.99

00:51:19.260 They got the police mocking a white kid while he was bleeding out and joking with his murderer, who was the son of immigrants. 1.00

00:51:28.600 That's really what this is about. 0.93

00:51:30.800 It's a recognition that the governments are not responsive to the people at all, and they're prioritizing foreigners over the citizens.

00:51:37.100 That's it.

00:51:38.460 And unfortunately, in the UK, what they're doing is they're going to replace this guy with another lefty, Andy Burnham.

00:51:45.220 And they're going to do that because they see a groundswell of support for the right-wing party.

00:51:49.200 But the right-wing party is not even the conservative party.

00:51:51.160 It's not even the Tories because the Tories and the conservatives are basically just as bad as the left in the UK.

00:51:55.320 So you had this new party emerge from Nigel Farage, Reform UK.

00:51:59.000 And some people thought that didn't go far enough.

00:52:00.560 So you have an even further right party emerge, Restore, but with Rupert Lowe.

00:52:04.900 and you're seeing these alternatives keep coming up and the problem is reform just won some 1500

00:52:11.240 seats in the elections a little under that labor lost a ton of seats in the election so keir

00:52:16.280 starmer realizes okay he's out the labor is trying to put in a better candidate to put a little more

00:52:22.020 lipstick on the pig to try to stop this wave of right-wing populism it's probably not going to

00:52:26.440 work the problem is that the way these governments are set up even if you get the right-wing populist

00:52:30.720 governments. They're probably not going to be fixing the fundamental problems.

00:52:35.520 So the people are going to become more irate. They're going to feel more betrayed.

00:52:38.920 You're going to get even more instability. And the UK hasn't figured that out. The Europe hasn't

00:52:44.320 figured that out. America figured it out to some degree with the improbable, dramatic,

00:52:49.340 theatrical election or re-election of Donald Trump. But what comes next remains to be seen

00:52:53.780 because the left is crouching in the corner, waiting to reimpose its will over the demands

00:52:58.320 of the voters. Okay, much more to get to, but it's Music Monday. It's June 22nd. The rest of

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 22, 2026

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