The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2075 - Uno Reverse： Cornell Seven Accuser Gets Accused

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00:00:58.520 Good Rancher's American Meat delivered. We are 28 days out from the midterm elections and the

00:01:04.740 polls are looking bloody. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Early voting is currently underway

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00:01:22.460 Republican states are looking like they could fall to the Democrats. Then the plot thickens in the

00:01:27.900 case of the Cornell 7, as one of the boys accused of raping has turned around and now accused his

00:01:35.360 accuser of raping him. We will examine who, if anybody, raped whom. Then a trans-identifying

00:01:42.420 New York Times executive gets murdered by her in-laws, but she identifies as a he,

00:01:47.260 and she got murdered by her in-laws. The whole episode teaches us all a political lesson about

00:01:52.980 what happens when we take things a little too far. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

00:01:57.340 show. Welcome back to the show. One of the big issues in the midterm elections, AI data centers.

00:02:22.460 The Dems have totally glommed onto this issue. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,

00:02:26.640 wants you to know exactly what that issue is about. It might surprise you. It might be about

00:02:32.120 more than just the apocalypse and high energy prices. First, though, I want to start off

00:02:36.520 briefly. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but the Cornell 7 case, every single day,

00:02:42.540 the plot thickens more and more. We find out that this girl, Jane Doe, the accuser, she says

00:02:49.780 she was raped at a Cornell frat house. Then when the text messages and the testimony comes out,

00:02:56.340 It turns out that she very explicitly consented to just about everything.

00:03:01.680 Then we find out that she says, well, she was too drunk to consent.

00:03:06.020 But according to the law, she was not too drunk to consent.

00:03:08.520 And maybe the guys who she says raped her were drunker than she was.

00:03:12.280 Now we get the reverse Uno card from one of the accused rapists who says, actually, he

00:03:19.080 did not do the raping, but he was raped himself by the girl.

00:03:24.240 What is the story?

00:03:25.440 I'm still not going to use their names.

00:03:27.400 I feel it's too salacious.

00:03:29.480 It's too gossipy.

00:03:30.920 I think the plain facts of this case reveal that everybody did basically everything wrong,

00:03:36.620 but nobody violated the law other than all the ketamine that they did.

00:03:40.740 And so I don't know.

00:03:41.540 I don't want to further get into the tabloid gossip.

00:03:45.400 The real issue here, I mean, look, I guess their names are all public now because this

00:03:48.640 is a criminal case.

00:03:49.740 It's a civil suit.

00:03:51.320 But the main guy, you remember the first guy who the girl came over to see because she wanted to hook up with him at the frat house, and then the guy very weirdly invited another guy in, and the girl was apparently cool with it before, during, and after the incident.

00:04:06.580 And then the other guys invited more guys.

00:04:09.520 And okay, so the first guy, one of the seven Chi-Fi frat brothers told Cornell University

00:04:17.120 police that not only did he not rape Jane Doe, he in fact was too intoxicated from booze

00:04:25.340 and the aforementioned ketamine to consent on that night in 2024.

00:04:31.680 And therefore, according to ABC News, he says that she raped him.

00:04:38.040 He says that the victim, the alleged victim, who might now be the alleged perpetrator,

00:04:43.620 was a 20-year-old student, this girl.

00:04:45.900 She was the one who assaulted him.

00:04:48.060 Not the other way around.

00:04:49.900 This is a very extreme version of you can't fire me, I quit.

00:04:53.760 This is a really extreme version of sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

00:04:59.480 This reminds me of a Norm MacDonald bit in Norm MacDonald's excellent memoir,

00:05:03.740 which is really a novel based on a true story.

00:05:07.040 Norm has this whole bit about prison rape.

00:05:10.960 You know, it's a little dark.

00:05:11.740 Norm was known for dark humor.

00:05:13.240 And he has this whole bit about reverse raping in prison.

00:05:17.920 It's a pretty funny bit.

00:05:20.480 Anyway, now this is the real-life version of that.

00:05:22.540 You know, Norm had that bit about how his greatest fear is that there'd be a massive Muslim terror attack

00:05:26.700 because the backlash on peaceful Muslims would be so bad. And then we joke about this because

00:05:31.480 now news organizations very earnestly do that bit. Well, he had this other bit about prison

00:05:36.360 rape, and now the Cornell frat brothers are doing that bit. This is a very, very

00:05:43.900 potent weapon against feminism. Feminism is basically the cause of this whole incident

00:05:50.260 at Cornell. If you had to identify any ideological cause, it is feminism. We conservatives love to

00:05:58.660 play this game. We say, when did everything go awry? Was it the new left in the 1960s?

00:06:02.860 Was it Marxism in the 19th century? Was it the Protestant revolution? Was it the French

00:06:07.220 revolution? Was it nominalism from William of Ockham? We always play this game. What was the

00:06:11.940 chief cause of all of our ills? In this case, in this very specific case, it's feminism because

00:06:16.700 feminism says that men and women are exactly the same. They relate to sex in exactly the same way.

00:06:21.940 They have the exact same kinds of sexual desires. You can put them at a university together through

00:06:26.560 co-education. Heck, you can put them in the same dorm room. Because they're all basically the same,

00:06:31.980 nothing could go wrong. And things go wrong because men and women are not the same.

00:06:37.100 So here, what happened? I think the plainest reading of this is boys are kind of dogs sometimes,

00:06:43.200 especially when they're pretty drunk. And even if they get enthusiastic verbal consent from the

00:06:49.020 woman, this is not a chivalrous thing to do. Guys should not be doing this stuff with girls,

00:06:53.580 whether they're sober, especially if they're inebriated. And so they did the same thing to

00:06:58.440 each other. Jane Doe might have been drunker than the guys. The guys might have been drunker than

00:07:05.620 Jane Doe. We don't know. Regardless, they did the same thing to each other. And yet we all kind of

00:07:11.460 no, the guys bear more responsibility because guys have a greater desire for sex, and women

00:07:18.320 are the weaker sex, and guys are supposed to protect women, and you're not supposed to take

00:07:22.940 advantage of a girl if she's drunk, even if she's enthusiastically consenting. We all kind of know

00:07:27.400 that, but feminism won't let us say that. I remember this even in elementary school. I

00:07:31.920 realized that feminism was wrong in about third grade because we were being taught in school

00:07:38.160 that boys and girls are exactly the same. We're identical other than a few cosmetic differences.

00:07:43.760 We can all do the same jobs. We should all pursue the same things. We're exactly the same.

00:07:48.900 Also, boys should never hit girls. That was another lesson we were taught.

00:07:52.920 And I knew at the age of eight that that didn't make any sense. I guess you're never supposed to

00:07:57.320 hit anybody, but we were taught, no, it's especially bad for boys to hit girls. Also,

00:08:01.340 boys and girls are exactly the same. Well, those two sentences cannot be simultaneously true.

00:08:05.960 And so if you apply that to giving someone a little punch on the playground, all the more should we apply that when it comes to sex.

00:08:11.820 But the feminism will not allow us to do that.

00:08:16.300 So then you have that absurdity, that men and women are the same.

00:08:19.720 On top of that, we have this new absurdity that's about to be enshrined in New York state law, which is that whenever two people have had a few drinks and then engage in sexual congress, that they are raping each other.

00:08:32.420 which means that statistically, maybe not all sexual activity, but maybe the majority of it

00:08:40.440 is rape. Does anybody really believe that? No. This brings us back to Andrea Dworkin or something,

00:08:48.680 radical feminists saying that essentially all heterosexual sexual intercourse is rape, which

00:08:54.180 is, look, if you're some crazy lunatic fringe feminist, maybe you believe that, but no normal

00:09:00.160 person believes that. So according to what Kathy Hochul is going to make the New York state law,

00:09:06.000 and we'll get to some of the other Democrat governors in a second as it pertains to the

00:09:08.720 midterms, but according to what is about to become the New York state law, all sexual activity

00:09:13.840 is technically rape, but people are still going to do it. They're still going to bump uglies.

00:09:19.060 It just means that people will now be liable. They'll be vulnerable to accusations of rape,

00:09:25.400 and they will not have the law to protect them. So you say, okay, well, maybe you have this

00:09:29.860 mutually assured destruction. Maybe there's some game theory working out here. If two people are

00:09:34.660 always at risk of being accused of rape and being prosecuted for it, then maybe they won't accuse

00:09:40.740 each other. But the thing is, we all know that the men are more legally vulnerable than the women.

00:09:45.860 And at a deep level, we all know probably they should be because men are stronger than women.

00:09:50.380 And men, some would say, are a little more calculating, maybe even more reasonable in

00:09:56.080 these situations, and women are a little more emotional. And you start saying these things,

00:10:01.900 the feminists are going to try to bite your head off, but what else are we supposed to say?

00:10:06.860 On the surface level, the idea that any two even slightly buzzed people getting it on is rape,

00:10:14.520 on the surface level, that's kind of crazy. But there is a deeper reading of that,

00:10:19.560 which tells me that in a weird way

00:10:23.720 we're kind of reinventing freedom

00:10:25.340 from first principles.

00:10:26.560 You know, we have the modern liberal view of freedom

00:10:28.420 which is just do whatever you want.

00:10:29.820 Do a bunch of ketamine off of people's naked bodies

00:10:32.060 and engage in menage a wheat

00:10:34.300 and do all sorts of freaky stuff.

00:10:36.260 It's freedom, you know, it's your choice.

00:10:39.140 Freedom's just neutrality and choosing.

00:10:40.760 And yet we all suspect at a deep level

00:10:42.380 that's not really what freedom is

00:10:43.400 because the older and sturdier

00:10:45.120 classical conception of freedom is,

00:10:46.740 no, no, no, those people aren't free.

00:10:48.280 Drug addicts aren't free.

00:10:49.560 degenerates aren't free. Freedom is willing predicated on knowledge. So you have to have

00:10:55.520 a disciplined will, and you have to have some knowledge in order to be free. This is why we

00:10:59.540 have age of consent laws, which is at least tangential to this conversation about Cornell.

00:11:04.720 We have age of consent laws because kids don't have disciplined wills. They're famously

00:11:09.760 undisciplined, and kids don't know that much. That's why they go to school. That's why these

00:11:14.580 kids are at school in the first place. So they're not really free, and that's why we limit the

00:11:19.540 the kinds of rights that they can exercise. It's not to oppress the kids. It's because they are

00:11:23.600 not capable of exercising their freedom. And so in a weird way, this case, I know everyone's

00:11:27.660 focused on all the salacious details and the identity of the alleged perpetrators. I guess

00:11:32.320 everyone now is an alleged perpetrator. But what's more interesting about the case is that it's just

00:11:37.120 revealing all of these inconsistencies, all of these contradictions within liberalism, the liberal

00:11:42.920 view of sex, within feminism, the feminist view of men and women. It's revealing all of these

00:11:47.460 inconsistencies all the way down to what freedom even means. It's like, it's like the IQ bell curve

00:11:53.520 meme. Like all the, the, the dummy says drunk sex is non-consensual, you know? And then it's kind

00:12:01.420 of like the midwit in the middle says, no, no, no, it is as long as people give their verbal consent,

00:12:05.840 then it's totally consensual. And then there's this really traditional, deeply conservative view,

00:12:11.140 which is no, no, no. If you're out of your wits, if you're out of your minds, if you're,

00:12:13.800 if you're out of your inhibitions, in a way it isn't consensual.

00:12:18.200 But what that means is we need to reimpose standards and norms around sexual behavior.

00:12:24.760 And if the old feminist liberal ones that we tried out from the 1960s,

00:12:28.680 beginning of co-education, free love, sexual revolution, feminism,

00:12:33.220 if those are leading to this, then something is wrong with those ideas.

00:12:39.000 If your principles have gotten you to this point, what good are your principles?

00:12:43.800 Maybe some of your principles are wrong. And maybe, I don't know, look, maybe I'm a little

00:12:48.160 glass half full kind of guy. I look on the bright side a little too much. There is a chance,

00:12:52.660 though, that looking at this just universally condemned, disgusting orgy at Cornell,

00:12:58.840 maybe we can say, okay, look, the guys probably didn't violate the letter of the law in any way.

00:13:04.200 And the girl might be hoisted with her own petard because the things that she's accusing

00:13:10.060 the boys of, she, by her own logic, committed to a greater degree. But if we all acknowledge that

00:13:15.980 this is wrong, I have an idea. Maybe boys and girls should be kept a little more separate at

00:13:20.700 the universities. Maybe the schools should clamp down on alcohol or at least ketamine. Maybe the

00:13:27.480 teachers and the culture makers should stop encouraging promiscuous sex. Maybe we should

00:13:32.060 stop leading women into these dangerous situations. Maybe, look, people say that one in four women on

00:13:39.500 a college campus is going to be raped, which would make the Cornell campus or Harvard Yard

00:13:44.360 more dangerous for women than the back alleys of Botswana. I don't think anybody actually thinks

00:13:48.640 that. But if you are perceiving that there is something wrong with the hookup culture,

00:13:54.220 if you're even going so far as to call it a rape culture, then look, that culture is wrong.

00:13:58.780 And guess what? That culture is entirely the product of liberalism and feminism. It is

00:14:04.900 entirely the product of that. So if you want to fix that culture, you can call it rape

00:14:09.440 culture. It isn't really rape, but okay, you want to call it that. If you think that culture is

00:14:12.880 wrong, great. Then let's rip out the root of that, which is liberalism and feminism, and let's go

00:14:17.660 back to a more traditional Christian morality and ethic when it comes to sex. It'd be very,

00:14:23.600 very funny. It would be delightful in many ways if it were the leftists and the feminists on campus

00:14:28.240 who got us to re-implement Christian sexual ethic. It probably won't happen. They'll just

00:14:32.680 live within the consistencies and just unfairly go after men. But if we could get that, I'm in.

00:14:38.960 sign me up. Let's go, sister. It's the feminists, the liberals, and me. We can all unite in making

00:14:45.460 everybody more conservative and Christian. Okay. I mentioned Governor Kathy Hochul in New York.

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00:16:38.100 Down in Texas, deep in the heart of Texas,

00:16:41.020 red Republican Texas, things are looking bad.

00:16:45.360 You have this hot Senate race,

00:16:46.840 one of the most hotly contested in the whole country.

00:16:49.920 This is James Tallarico versus Ken Paxton.

00:16:54.040 James Tallarico says God is non-binary.

00:16:56.920 James Tallarico says the thing he loves most is trans kids.

00:17:01.380 James Tallarico invokes the Blessed Virgin Mary to defend slaughtering babies in the womb.

00:17:05.820 James Tallarico should be laughed out of any town hall in Texas.

00:17:12.440 He's winning.

00:17:13.540 He's winning right now.

00:17:14.560 We have the polls.

00:17:16.180 Let's get to, I'll get to Texas governor in a second.

00:17:18.700 Let's get to Texas Senate right now.

00:17:20.060 This is from RealClearPolling, which has pretty reliable averages.

00:17:23.740 right now, Tallarico is at 48.2. Paxton is at 45.4. And some of the polls that constitute the

00:17:34.400 RCP average are much worse than that. The latest poll is to come out of New York Times, Siena,

00:17:40.660 puts Tallarico at 51, Paxton at 45. It's a six-point gap for the Democrat,

00:17:47.680 an egregiously bad Democrat in Texas. Now, you say, okay, well, I don't believe the New York

00:17:52.940 Times. Okay, here's the Fox News poll. 51 to 49. Tallarico. What do our friends over at Kalshi

00:17:59.800 say? Kalshi says James Tallarico has a 66% chance of winning. That's the latest Kalshi average.

00:18:08.020 You got Paxton right here in the prediction markets at 34%. Moving in the wrong direction.

00:18:13.600 Tallarico's up two points according to Kalshi. Paxton is down two points. So you say, okay,

00:18:18.700 New York Times poll, whatever. I don't believe New York Times. You say Fox News,

00:18:21.840 they can get a little squishy sometimes. I don't believe Fox News. How about Rasmussen?

00:18:24.860 Rasmussen is a very reliable, right-wing, conservative-leaning pollster. Rasmussen,

00:18:31.620 46 to 45, Tallarico. Democrat in Texas. Okay. Bad enough. Let's get to Florida. Florida is now,

00:18:44.080 used to be a swing state when I was a kid. Florida is a reliable Republican state now.

00:18:48.620 or it was, it was a reliable Republican state. Here we have the Florida governor polls. This

00:18:57.440 is from 270 to win. The average of three polls here puts a Democrat, David Jolly, 43.3,

00:19:05.420 Byron Donald's at 47. Okay, great. Okay. So Donald's is looking good, right? In the average

00:19:10.840 of the polls, he's up. The problem is some of the polls are looking worse. So there's a change

00:19:17.500 research poll. That's a Democrat poll firm. Change research has jolly up two points.

00:19:24.800 Some of those counties in northwest Florida and the panhandle that Republicans could count on,

00:19:30.840 not looking so hot. Looking like turnout is a little bit more depressed.

00:19:35.140 So, okay, you say Stetson University poll, much bigger swing. Byron's at 51% to 39%. Okay,

00:19:41.360 good. I feel pretty good about that. St. Pete poll, though, it's essentially a tie,

00:19:45.220 43 to 44, Donald's has it by one point. Then some of the polls are older. So in the older polls,

00:19:53.200 Byron's looking really, really good. The polls seem to be tightening up here. I still think

00:19:58.060 Byron pulls it out. I think. Byron's got a very strong war chest. He's got the enthusiastic

00:20:04.460 support of President Trump. There was a little bit of a brutal primary there on the Republican

00:20:09.020 inside, probably still some sore feelings. I'm hoping that Governor DeSantis, how did his name,

00:20:16.820 Governor DeSantis, one of the greatest governors in the country, how did his name escape my memory?

00:20:21.060 Governor DeSantis has come out and endorsed Byron. So I think he pulls it out. I think,

00:20:26.400 I hope. We'll see. Let's go back to Texas for a second because you say, all right,

00:20:30.940 the Texas Senate race, that's been tight last few times. There was a worry that Beto O'Rourke

00:20:35.280 would beat Ted Cruz. That didn't happen. There was a worry that Colin Allred would beat Ted Cruz.

00:20:39.020 than Ted came in at the last minute with this great ad about men and women's sports,

00:20:44.400 totally destroyed Colin Allred. What about the governor's race, though? Senate races are often

00:20:49.180 up for it, but the governor's race, that should be solid, right? Not so much. We got right now,

00:20:55.420 the Democrat, Gina Hinojosa, and I'm probably mispronouncing her name. Right now, Hinojosa

00:21:02.000 is neck and neck with Governor Abbott. And in the latest poll, she's leading him. The Democrat is

00:21:08.800 currently leading the Republican for governor of Texas. So the average of the polls is 48.6

00:21:16.440 Abbott, 47.2 Hinojosa. This Siena College poll, 49 to 46 Democrat. Not a good sign.

00:21:25.140 Not a good sign here. Okay. What about Ohio? I mean, we could go through all of these races.

00:21:29.820 Ohio right now, Ohio, which like Florida was a swing state. Then in recent years,

00:21:34.300 it's become a reliable Republican state. Right now, the Democrat is leading the Republican.

00:21:38.800 in the Senate race and in the governor race.

00:21:41.600 So you're talking about Sherrod Brown versus John Husted in the Senate race.

00:21:45.280 Brown is leading right now.

00:21:46.700 In the governor race, it's Vivek versus Amy Acton.

00:21:50.360 Amy Acton is leading right now.

00:21:51.980 And people want to blame it.

00:21:53.180 They say, well, it's because of this candidate or that candidate.

00:21:55.720 It's because of Vivek is the most prominent Republican candidate running there, obviously.

00:21:59.740 Say, oh, it's Vivek isn't running a good campaign.

00:22:01.660 It's not about Vivek.

00:22:02.960 Sure, yes, every politician has ups and downs and selling points and negatives and whatever.

00:22:08.800 It's both of the races. I'm seeing here a national trend. I hope I'm totally proven wrong,

00:22:16.780 but the numbers are bad and they are getting worse. So what you have to do, this is my message

00:22:22.820 to you, you beautiful Republicans, many people listening right now are Republicans. You need to

00:22:29.100 go vote right now. You need to go vote right now. I don't want to be a doomer. I don't want to be

00:22:33.920 blackpilling you. I don't want to make you despair and say, oh, well, it's all lost. We're going to

00:22:37.240 give up the government to the Dems. I want to show you how close things are going to be even

00:22:41.560 in red states to hopefully encourage you. Okay, you don't like this policy. You don't like that

00:22:47.320 policy. You don't like, there are so many wins that we've gotten. Just not having the Democrats

00:22:54.080 win, just not having Kamala Harris win is itself one of the greatest gifts normal people in America

00:23:01.020 have been given in a very, very long time.

00:23:03.440 It represents a net swing of like 7 million illegal aliens.

00:23:09.080 It represents a stopping of the rampant political persecution

00:23:13.220 of conservatives, of Christians, spying on parishes,

00:23:17.320 imprisoning pro-lifers under Joe Biden.

00:23:20.020 It represents all sorts of stuff.

00:23:23.540 Then on top of that, you have a lot of great stuff

00:23:25.740 that came out of the Trump administration,

00:23:27.140 a lot of good economic stuff.

00:23:28.540 Obviously, the Iran war has complicated that a little bit,

00:23:30.240 a lot of good economic stuff, a lot of deportations, totally closed border,

00:23:35.000 a lot of reinvestment in America, upwards of $20 trillion, nice tax cuts for everybody across

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00:25:52.600 okay so this is the other headline you're seeing this from a lot of people they say okay yeah

00:25:56.960 florida's looking bad ohio's looking bad texas looking really bad yeah okay republicans probably

00:26:02.620 going to get creamed in the midterms but there's this hope at the same time a republican might win

00:26:08.020 governor of california okay what do we have here this is from uh 270 to win right now there is

00:26:17.060 really no evidence that the republicans are going to win in california i don't i don't know you're

00:26:22.520 seeing these headlines everywhere saying the race is tightening. And look, there was this poll from

00:26:26.700 Independent Voter News. It says Becerra's at 48. Hilton is at 38. So that's a 10-point swing.

00:26:33.440 There's another poll coming out. Well, I don't know how reliable the survey is.

00:26:37.240 Shows that it's something like a six-point swing. He's coming. He's closing the gap.

00:26:40.740 And yeah, that's way better than what we were getting earlier in this race. Previously, it was

00:26:44.700 58 to 33 Democrats, 55 to 33 Democrats, 60 to 38 Democrats. Yeah, okay. So maybe they're

00:26:53.000 tightening a little bit. I don't see it. Please, California Republicans, go out there and prove me

00:26:59.200 wrong if your votes will count. I have experienced and other Republican friends have experienced some

00:27:03.660 shenanigans at the polls when I was living in California. But sure, go out there, try to do it.

00:27:07.940 Do not pin your midterm hopes on California, guys. Do not allow the copium to lull you into

00:27:13.920 a sense of complacency. It's a very fine line that Republican organizers have to walk right now,

00:27:19.840 which is you can't totally despair. You can't tell people, look, it's all over. Forget about it. Go

00:27:27.260 hide your money, hide your guns, and just wait out the Democrat wave. You can't do that. I mean,

00:27:32.360 that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But likewise, we cannot cope too much here.

00:27:38.720 Say, no, everything's great, and nobody's upset about anything. And the Democrats' lines about

00:27:43.160 affordability, they're not working. And the Democrats' lines about healthcare, they're not

00:27:46.700 working. And the Democrats' stoking discontentment over the Iran war, that's not working. No, no,

00:27:51.580 it is. It is working. It's playing out in the polls on top of the historic trend, which is

00:27:56.280 that Republicans generally lose in the, well, any party that's in power in the White House

00:28:00.320 generally loses the first midterm. That's just kind of what happens. Get out there and vote right

00:28:06.720 now, do not be, don't be an optimist or a pessimist. This is a spiritual takeaway from

00:28:14.800 these political facts. Optimism and pessimism are two sides of the same coin. They're both

00:28:20.400 feelings that are divorced from reality. I hate it when people say, are you more of an optimist

00:28:25.520 or a pessimist? I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I have hope. Hope is a theological

00:28:31.260 virtue. Hope is something we're commanded to have. Hope is good. It's grounded in some facts.

00:28:37.840 You know, there is this ultimate hope because no matter what happens, we can hope to have eternal

00:28:42.700 life because our God comes and saves the world. So it's really grounded in something real. But

00:28:47.340 hope is not optimism. Hope says, hey, you will have troubles in this world. Hope says the rain

00:28:54.600 falls on the just and the unjust alike. But don't worry, fear not, I have overcome the world.

00:29:00.880 That's hope, okay?

00:29:01.840 Hope is realistic and grounded.

00:29:03.280 And so at the terrestrial level, at the political level,

00:29:05.320 we can have hope.

00:29:06.500 We can stem the tide a little bit.

00:29:08.800 We might be able even to pull a few upset victories here,

00:29:12.080 but you gotta lock in.

00:29:13.260 You cannot be divorced from reality.

00:29:15.240 You can't fall into a political quietism

00:29:16.860 that tells you to stay home.

00:29:17.960 You can't fall into a political cope

00:29:19.760 that says that the Democrats are so crazy

00:29:22.280 that voters will never vote for them.

00:29:23.480 They're voting for them.

00:29:24.860 The voters are expressing a preference

00:29:27.140 to the guy who says he loves trans kids

00:29:30.180 wants to chop off their genitals and says God himself is non-binary in Texas. Do not fool

00:29:37.500 yourself. Okay, so what are these issues? We talked a little bit about the Iran war,

00:29:40.660 a little bit about affordability, whatever. Another big issue in the campaign is the AI

00:29:45.360 data centers. AI generally is a big issue. People are concerned about AI. Speaker of the House,

00:29:51.360 Mike Johnson, a very, very grounded and wise politician. Mike Johnson comes out and he says,

00:29:57.780 you know, a lot of the anti-AI data center stuff that you're seeing online, that you're hearing

00:30:03.160 from the podcasters, for instance, a lot of that is Chinese propaganda. I mean, do you think that

00:30:11.120 this, with regards to China, I mean, I've had several tech executives and lawmakers, to be

00:30:15.760 clear, say that the information against data centers, that pushback against data centers,

00:30:20.220 that is coming from China. Yes. They believe that. The Democrats are seizing on this, though.

00:30:25.920 they're making this, they're messaging. They've been very clear. They're going to take this into

00:30:29.580 the midterms. How do you fight that? This is what Democrats do every election cycle. They find

00:30:33.760 something to, you know, glob onto and say that this is doom and gloom and everyone will die if

00:30:37.880 we don't win. Don't buy it. It is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. It's not a conspiracy

00:30:42.300 theory. I think they're pushing those ideas. It is a Chinese psyop. Mike Johnson is totally

00:30:49.320 right about that. The Chinese are definitely pushing the anti-AI messaging in the United

00:30:54.780 States. And they're doing that because we're in a war with China to see who will develop AI

00:30:59.980 the fastest and in the most effective way. This is a kind of arms race like we had with the Soviet

00:31:05.800 Union in the Cold War. That's all true. We are in another Cold War with China. We've been in that

00:31:09.740 Cold War with China for quite a while now. And it could turn hot. It might be violent like the Cold

00:31:14.720 War with the Soviet Union was. That's all real. But it isn't the whole story. And this is a point

00:31:21.080 that I've made a number of times on the show, and it's a point that pertains to the original

00:31:25.460 Cold War with the Soviet Union, which is that the Soviets were bombarding the US with propaganda

00:31:31.660 for decades. But just because it's propaganda doesn't mean that it doesn't contain a lot of

00:31:39.740 truth. That's the key, actually, to good propaganda. The way that the Soviet Union

00:31:45.400 was able to manipulate the American political system in the Cold War was by identifying real

00:31:52.440 tensions, real anxieties, and then playing them up. They did this probably most famously

00:31:56.540 with the civil rights movement. They went in there and a lot of these civil rights groups

00:32:00.880 were just fronts for communism. But the way that they were able to do that is that there were

00:32:05.320 tensions over race relations. That's what they did. They didn't just make it up.

00:32:11.020 If they had gone in there and just made up some issue to worry Americans, it wouldn't have worked.

00:32:17.680 So that's what China's doing here. So Republicans need to be sensitive to this. Yes, the Chinese are

00:32:22.840 stoking these fears because they want us to stop developing AI because they want to beat us in the

00:32:26.960 Cold War. That's true. But people really are concerned that they're going to lose their jobs.

00:32:33.060 We actually have not seen a lot of job displacement yet from AI, but it could happen.

00:32:39.360 Voters are not stupid.

00:32:41.520 They're not idiots.

00:32:42.620 They're not just ignorant rubes for worrying that AI will take their jobs.

00:32:47.740 That could happen.

00:32:48.660 Even if it hasn't quite happened yet, that could happen.

00:32:51.260 Voters are not just ignorant, stupid rubes for worrying that AI is going to drive up their energy costs.

00:32:57.100 The increase in energy costs from the data centers has been relatively modest thus far.

00:33:01.420 But there are certain markets, depending on their energy and electricity dynamics,

00:33:06.300 there are certain markets that have seen prices go up considerably more.

00:33:10.040 That has already happened, and it is not unreasonable to think that that could happen at a large scale.

00:33:15.940 Voters are not just stupid, ignorant rubes for worrying about a surveillance state.

00:33:21.100 Now, we live in a surveillance state world, and voters are largely responsible for it.

00:33:27.480 Okay, this is the H.L. Mencken theory of democracy, which is democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.

00:33:33.780 but we live in a surveillance state and and the call is coming from inside the house

00:33:38.380 we're the ones who do it if you walk around with a cell phone you are spying on yourself

00:33:42.860 you're allowing people to spy on you it's your phone is always listening to you it's not that

00:33:48.220 hard for foreign governments and for unethical people and hackers and things to get in and get

00:33:54.720 your stuff to get your data they can just buy your data they don't they don't even have to

00:33:58.920 break the law a lot of the time. Okay, so we do that. We live in a world with mass surveillance

00:34:04.260 everywhere. People behave differently than they did 20 years ago because they know that cameras

00:34:08.500 are everywhere and they're being filmed at all times. That's happening. So what is very important,

00:34:15.760 I think, for Republican politicians is we need to tell the truth and get the hard,

00:34:20.920 important truths out there and say, the Democrats are being cynical here and they're being used or

00:34:26.100 maybe allowing themselves to be used by the Chinese Communist Party, and this is bad for

00:34:29.440 America, and this threatens our long-term security and our financial prosperity and this, that, and

00:34:33.140 the other thing. But to quote Bill Clinton, I feel your pain. I understand your concerns,

00:34:40.420 and Republicans need to offer some kinds of guardrails, and Republicans need to offer

00:34:45.340 just some consolation and some evidence that they are taking those concerns seriously and

00:34:53.380 will not just sell out the main street voter to increase GDP a little bit or to increase their

00:34:59.760 own power a little bit. That's what they have to do. There are populist Republican politicians

00:35:06.880 who do this very well. I think J.D. Vance does this very well. I think Trump obviously does

00:35:10.700 this very, very well. A lot of figures within the Trump administration who have led this kind of

00:35:14.720 populist streak in the Republican Party. But even that word is so funny. When the Democrats come out

00:35:19.160 and say, these Republicans are just playing to populism. What does populism mean? What does

00:35:23.860 populism mean? It means you are appealing to the things that most people want. Do you know another

00:35:32.380 name for that? Democracy. This is one of those terms. When the Democrats do it, when the liberals

00:35:41.080 do it, and they appeal to these very popular issues, that's democracy. When Republicans do it,

00:35:47.820 that's populism. The only difference between the two is democracy has a good connotation in our

00:35:51.780 culture and populism has a bad connotation. We have to lean into a little bit of that.

00:35:57.980 In a democracy, you need to work within the political confines of democracy. That is a

00:36:04.620 truism that we have to acknowledge. And we have to treat the voters with respect because their

00:36:09.700 concerns are legitimate. Okay. I think some Republicans get that. I think the Mike Johnson

00:36:17.640 get that. The Donald Trumps get that. The J.D. Vance's, you know, the people in the administration

00:36:21.800 get that. But some of the more elite beltway type of Republicans, they don't totally get that. And

00:36:28.780 if you go out there and you just say, hey, it's all just a bunch of nonsense. Don't worry about

00:36:32.040 it. Stop being a dummy. The AI is going to work out fine. You have nothing to worry about. You're

00:36:36.160 going to be looking at a Democrat Senate, Democrat House, and a lot of Democrat governors.

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00:38:40.540 Okay, my favorite comment yesterday.

00:38:42.660 I did not pick this.

00:38:44.440 This is from the producers.

00:38:45.380 We'll see if they picked the right one.

00:38:47.180 It's from Avrumi.

00:38:48.200 It says, amazing how Krista Pike is no longer eligible for execution,

00:38:52.560 but that this very fact makes her the perfect candidate for MAID.

00:38:58.040 Medical assistance in dying, so true.

00:39:00.100 You know, people were making this macabre joke early on,

00:39:02.240 which is, okay, if the United States can't carry out executions anymore and they keep botching

00:39:07.640 them, whatever, the most efficient, cost-effective way to execute criminals is to send them to Canada

00:39:12.900 for medical care. Don't worry, we're going to send you the best doctors in Canada. And that

00:39:17.920 will lead to their executions much faster than the American justice system. But this point that

00:39:24.280 Avrumi is making, it's not even a joke. There's no joke at all. Krista Pike was being executed.

00:39:30.780 They botched it. Now she reportedly has brain damage. And because she has brain damage,

00:39:36.600 they say we can't execute her. Now, of course, there comes a point in every execution

00:39:41.260 between the judgment and before the death at which the condemned person gets brain damage.

00:39:49.540 In fact, that is an intrinsic part of execution is your brain gets damaged.

00:39:54.000 But because this is a slow motion execution, we somehow say, okay, we've paused it here

00:40:00.360 and now we can't execute you anymore

00:40:02.420 because you have brain damage.

00:40:03.960 But if we sent this person to Canada

00:40:06.780 or, I don't know, Oregon

00:40:08.320 or to any of these liberal states in America,

00:40:11.660 the doctors would very earnestly say,

00:40:14.100 we should kill this person.

00:40:15.460 Because if you have brain damage,

00:40:16.820 you don't have a good quality of life.

00:40:18.420 And if you're suffering in any way,

00:40:19.640 you should be killed by the state.

00:40:22.140 There's no joke.

00:40:22.860 You think it's a joke.

00:40:23.880 It's really not a joke.

00:40:24.840 If you sent Krista Pike

00:40:25.860 to one of these very left-wing states

00:40:28.460 that has assisted suicide

00:40:29.720 and you didn't tell the people who she was or the circumstances of her brain injury,

00:40:33.980 they would kill her faster than you can snap your finger. Okay. Speaking of death,

00:40:38.320 a lot of death today and just, I guess, in the culture. I mentioned this story yesterday,

00:40:44.840 and I have to get to it. A trans-identifying executive at the New York Times was just

00:40:53.040 murdered by her Asian in-laws. Now, it's confusing because if you look at a picture

00:40:58.800 of the person who was murdered, it looks like a he.

00:41:02.240 You can't quite tell the stature or the height,

00:41:04.260 so maybe that would give it away.

00:41:05.280 But apparently, the guy with the beard is actually not a guy.

00:41:08.980 He's a chick.

00:41:10.240 He's a lady, and he was murdered by his in-laws

00:41:13.700 because it's not a he.

00:41:16.280 Her wife, I guess is a lesbian-ish,

00:41:21.920 her wife was being threatened by the person who was murdered.

00:41:28.160 So before the Asian in-laws murdered the trans New York Times executive,

00:41:33.500 the trans New York Times executive threatened to kill her wife and her wife's parents,

00:41:39.900 namely the in-laws who murdered the executive.

00:41:43.360 Which means there is some at least tenuous case to be made

00:41:48.360 that the in-laws were acting not only to protect their daughter,

00:41:51.860 but also acting in self-defense.

00:41:54.400 Now, it's unclear how immediate the threat was. It's pretty spooky. The story coming about out of this trans New York Times executive is pretty disturbing stuff. A bunch of threats to kill the wife, quote unquote, and the family. Apparently, there was a history of abuse before that.

00:42:15.900 You can read about this in the New York Post. The complicated lesbians were reportedly going through some kind of divorce. And then the murdered executive apparently gave the couple's kids a book about a child who has to deal with her mother being killed or dying.

00:42:41.580 so that in itself kind of seems to constitute a threat but then you have another fact of this

00:42:47.440 case that crops up that doesn't make any sense namely that these two ladies have kids oh how'd

00:42:52.620 the two ladies get kids i know that one of the ladies looks kind of like a man but that's not

00:42:56.500 enough to make a kid so the two ladies got kids somehow they either adopted the kids or they

00:43:02.280 purchased the sperm of some man i don't know they went up to cornell or something apparently it's

00:43:08.300 There's a lot to go around up there.

00:43:09.560 Wherever they went, they acquired sperm.

00:43:12.420 They created children with the intent to deprive the kids of their natural father.

00:43:17.580 And then they decided to go through a lesbian divorce because lesbians can't get divorced

00:43:21.960 because they can't get married.

00:43:22.880 But if they could get divorced, because we pretend that they can get married, they do

00:43:25.860 get divorced at the highest rates of any kind of people in any form of marriage.

00:43:30.320 And now the kids are missing their father, who's really one of their mothers who might

00:43:34.040 not even be related to them because we don't know who the father is.

00:43:38.300 So, okay, it's sad for this guy.

00:43:40.460 We should pray for the guy.

00:43:41.300 I guess pray for the whole family.

00:43:42.920 Sorry, not a guy, a girl.

00:43:45.900 My political takeaway here is,

00:43:48.320 how many things had to go wrong to get to that headline?

00:43:54.980 How many bad decisions had to be made to get to that headline?

00:44:02.300 This is a perfect example of,

00:44:05.520 it's in the little things that the rot begins.

00:44:07.660 This is the perfect example of why you just can't sin.

00:44:12.740 And we take sin very lightly.

00:44:14.200 Even Christians take sin very lightly.

00:44:15.800 We say, oh, you know, it's a venial sin.

00:44:17.980 I'll say the naughty word.

00:44:20.340 I'll lose my temper a little bit.

00:44:23.540 I'll look at the naughty pictures.

00:44:25.540 I'll do this.

00:44:26.440 I'll be a little lazy.

00:44:27.800 I'll have the extra piece of pie.

00:44:29.540 Whatever.

00:44:30.120 What they think is a minor sin.

00:44:33.920 But sin gets control of you.

00:44:35.620 And eventually, you're so deep, it feels very, very hard to get out.

00:44:41.520 If the lesbians had not pretended to be married, all of this would be avoided.

00:44:49.520 The pain to the children, the murder, the abuse, all of that would be avoided.

00:44:56.360 If one of the ladies had not decided to stick herself full of a bunch of cross-sex hormones,

00:45:01.740 maybe that lady would not have been so threatening and threatening the children that

00:45:06.780 she was going to kill the other mother or threatening the mother or abusing the mother

00:45:10.840 threatening the parents or if if if if if wouldn't it be nice if we if we took sin a little more

00:45:23.420 seriously with a little more gravity as politically important even because the way if we think about

00:45:29.400 sin at all. We just think of it as a personal level because over the last, not just even 60

00:45:34.320 years, over the last several hundred years of Western history, we have more and more thought

00:45:39.580 of religion as some private thing that has no place in public life or we can't force our religion

00:45:46.900 onto other people or whatever. That really accelerated after the 1960s and 70s, but the

00:45:52.100 seeds of that were there in the Treaty of Westphalia and the Peace of Augsburg and the

00:45:56.700 settlements of the religious wars after the crack up of the political unity of Western

00:46:01.740 Christendom. It was all there. So we think of it as a private thing, but it's not a private thing.

00:46:07.780 The private sins of these people, where you say, look, you think that's a sin, and I don't think

00:46:12.340 that's a sin, and we'll never be able to agree on this. The fact that we don't take religion

00:46:16.300 seriously as an objective field of study, the fact that theology is basically missing in any

00:46:21.200 serious way out of most universities, the fact that the Bible's out of schools.

00:46:24.060 their private sin of these two women is now a very public matter it's hurting a lot of other

00:46:32.100 people it's hurting the in-laws who are now going to go to jail it's hurting the kids who have been

00:46:35.740 deprived of a parent or a pseudo parent it's scandalizing society it's hurt in a sense there's

00:46:42.340 no such thing as a private sin and there's no such thing as an amoral irreligious polity because all

00:46:49.780 polities, all governments have recourse to morality. So the question for us, I mean,

00:46:54.300 it kind of brings us back to the thing we were talking about at the top with the Cornell Seven,

00:46:58.180 which is at a certain point, conversations about legal and illegal have to go a little deeper to

00:47:07.360 conversations about sin and grace, to conversations about vice and virtue. We can't just stay at the

00:47:14.340 level of legal positivism. We can't just stay at the level of, well, if it's legal according to

00:47:22.100 some legislator in some state, then you can't object to it. We can't just stay at the level of

00:47:27.880 sophomore in high school libertarianism who read a Wikipedia page about Ayn Rand and thinks he

00:47:33.420 understands politics. We have to go a little deeper than that. A society does not flourish

00:47:42.500 because of how happy it feels to have the abstract right

00:47:49.460 to commit a lot of license and degeneracy.

00:47:52.960 No society flourishes when they're having ketamine-fueled orgies

00:47:56.720 or when they're chopping off each other's body parts

00:47:58.720 and purchasing children on the open market.

00:48:00.860 Even if it's legal, even if you can make some,

00:48:05.360 in my view, basically idiotic political philosophical argument,

00:48:09.660 ideological argument for it,

00:48:10.740 no society flourishes with those substantive things do we have the guts do we have the

00:48:17.340 cojones do we have the mental faculties and the discipline of will to say no no you know what

00:48:22.580 these things are wrong we know they're wrong and no more of this no more lesbian marriage

00:48:26.200 no more trans stuff no more no more men and women being treated exactly the same at universities

00:48:33.320 because it doesn't work out well no more no more none of that do we have the discipline to do it

00:48:39.880 Judging by the poll numbers in the midterms, no, we don't.

00:48:42.000 But I hope in the long run we do.

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00:48:45.020 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:49:02.020 Every significant movement in history

00:49:03.540 has started with protesting.

00:49:04.680 You're a traitor.

00:49:05.440 Uncle Tom.

00:49:06.200 This is our generation's civil rights.

00:49:07.760 I have no idea what the protest is about.

00:49:09.920 Bingo!

00:49:10.480 Given the current climate,

00:49:11.940 you should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders

00:49:14.580 can even be allowed on Kansas.

00:49:15.880 Can you hear me okay?

00:49:17.140 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.

00:49:19.600 This is a decision I can't offer.

00:49:21.140 Islam will conquer the West.

00:49:24.400 As-salamu alaykum.

00:49:27.400 Are we paying attention?

00:49:29.760 They've taken over the building.

00:49:31.220 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.

00:49:34.120 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.

00:49:38.600 We cannot run and hide.

00:49:40.380 Mohammed is the messenger of God.

00:49:43.800 There is no God but Allah.

00:49:46.680 What do you say?

00:49:48.020 You turn those SOBs into a fine red mist.

00:49:53.020 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go.

00:49:56.240 They call that leap project.

00:49:57.360 Stretch around and listen.

00:50:00.440 You need a course in safe weapons handling.

00:50:07.760 You

The Michael Knowles Show - October 06, 2026

Ep. 2075 - Uno Reverse： Cornell Seven Accuser Gets Accused

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