The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 347 - For The Left, Life Is An STD

00:00:00.000 Alyssa Milano calls on all abortion-supporting women to go on a sex strike, thereby reducing 0.81

00:00:07.340 the number of women who will get abortions in order to own the pro-lifers or something

00:00:13.900 like that.

00:00:14.360 Seems pretty good.

00:00:15.120 Meanwhile, pro-lifers hold a powerful 1,000-person rally in Philly.

00:00:19.800 I went to it as child-stalking Pennsylvania state rep Brian Sims hides in his apartment

00:00:25.940 because for the right, life is a precious gift.

00:00:29.460 Whereas for the left, life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease from which no one has

00:00:35.180 ever recovered. 0.99

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00:00:48.380 We're three days into the sex strike now.

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00:00:55.360 All of the whiny, liberal, feminist men who are dating feminist women who are going on 0.99

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00:02:51.880 So, Alyssa Milano is going on a sex strike. 1.00

00:02:56.740 Why is she going on a sex strike? 1.00

00:02:58.540 Because of anti-abortion laws, specifically the one passed in Georgia, which says that

00:03:03.700 if a baby has a beating heart, you're not allowed to kill it.

00:03:07.940 The left, being led by Hollywood, Alyssa Milano, political activists are so upset that now in

00:03:13.800 Georgia, you're not allowed to kill babies with beating hearts that they want to go on 0.98

00:03:18.120 a sex strike. However, like most things that Hollywood celebrities and leftist activists 0.95

00:03:23.880 say, they didn't think this one through. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Alyssa Milano

00:03:29.560 wrote, quote, our reproductive rights are being erased until women have legal control over our 1.00

00:03:35.960 own bodies. We just cannot risk pregnancy. Join me by not having sex until we get bodily 0.95

00:03:41.980 autonomy back. I'm calling for a sex strike. Pass it on. 0.99

00:03:47.440 There are no original ideas on earth. This is not original at all. This is the premise

00:03:52.860 of an ancient Greek play called Lysistrata by Aristophanes. So now some people who are reading

00:04:00.900 about the Alyssa Milano thing are calling it a Lysistrata. So the premise of that play is that all

00:04:06.580 the men were fighting in ancient Greece and the women wanted them to stop going to war. So they all cut 0.97

00:04:11.420 them off from sex until the men would stop going to war. This is a very ancient idea. This is actually

00:04:17.880 a very conservative idea that the way that women can affect change in the world is by withholding 1.00

00:04:23.260 sex from men. Alyssa Milano cited how this has been used in, in throughout the ages, either

00:04:29.140 apocryphally, either just as a matter of telling stories or in actual history. She said that the

00:04:34.860 Iroquois women refused to have sex in the 17th century as a way to stop unregulated warfare. 1.00

00:04:40.560 So just the same as the ancient Greek version. And she said very recently, Liberian women used 1.00

00:04:46.460 a sex strike in 2003 to demand an end to a long running civil war. I'm not sure I was not in 0.89

00:04:52.700 Liberia in 2003, so I cannot verify that. However, I now may have to have surgery to remove my mind's

00:05:03.160 eye because Bette Midler is joining in on the sex strike. So now that image is in my head and I'm

00:05:10.460 very sorry that image is in your head as well. She tweeted out and said, I hope the women of Georgia

00:05:15.160 stop having sex with men until these indignities are overturned. So if you were hoping to sleep 0.98

00:05:20.740 with Bette Midler, you're out of luck, pal. Sorry to tell you that. So the thing I would like to point

00:05:27.380 out about this sex strike, there's so many jokes to be made about it. The thing I would like to point

00:05:32.360 out is that it doesn't make any sense. And it's not just that it doesn't make any sense in one way

00:05:38.540 or in two ways. There are actually, as far as I can tell, seven ways in which the sex strike from 0.89

00:05:46.860 Alyssa Milano does not make any sense. The first one is abortion supporting women are now practicing 0.93

00:05:53.920 chastity, thereby reducing the number of overall abortions in order to stick it to the pro-lifers. 0.97

00:06:03.200 Hold on a second there. So the social conservatives who have been saying for years that women should

00:06:08.220 be chased and not be sleeping around with every guy they see. Now the pro-abortion women are practicing 1.00

00:06:16.960 chastity. They're not going to have sex and therefore they're not going to have unwanted pregnancies 0.99

00:06:22.020 and therefore they're going to end abortion. Cool. All right. That's fine. If we knew we could

00:06:26.740 do it that easily, we would have not been campaigning in Georgia and around the country. 0.86

00:06:30.740 We would have just called up Alyssa Milano and tricked her into doing this sex strike. 1.00

00:06:34.440 The second way in which it doesn't make any sense is even let's say that these pro-abortion women 1.00

00:06:40.960 were going to have sex and then get pregnant and then not have abortions, even if they don't have the 0.99

00:06:46.760 abortion. Now the women who support abortion are going to stop having sex and therefore stop having

00:06:54.440 children that they can teach to support abortion. A lot of people inherit their political views from

00:07:00.840 their parents. We like to think that we're all totally free thinkers. We all completely come to

00:07:05.100 our own political ideas on our own. In some cases that's certainly true, but for some people they just kind

00:07:09.940 of go along with the political biases of their parents. In this case, the women are not going to, 1.00

00:07:16.520 they're not going to have sex. They're not going to have children. They're not going to teach them 0.99

00:07:21.040 to support abortion. So over time, abortion activism will die out. Okay. That works for me. Again, if we,

00:07:26.580 we don't need the Georgia law. If we can end abortion another way, happy to do it. The next way in which 0.97

00:07:32.620 this doesn't make any sense, and this is my favorite way, is just ask yourself if you're Alyssa Milano or

00:07:37.900 somebody else. Who does this hurt? Not to tell any tales at a school. I don't want to be, you know,

00:07:46.480 giving away rumors from the old purple mattress. This does not hurt me. This does not hurt conservative

00:07:53.160 men who ostensibly are married to or dating or engaged or whatever to women who are not crazy

00:08:00.820 followers of Alyssa Milano. So, so the conservative men still get to have all the sex they want. 0.97

00:08:07.760 The men who are supporting this bill in, in Georgia and other heartbeat bills throughout the country, 0.99

00:08:13.800 they're still having all the sex that they want. In this case, it's just leftist women depriving their 1.00

00:08:21.580 leftist boyfriends of sex in order to stick it to the conservatives. Great, great man. This, you know, 0.71

00:08:31.960 I, I often point out that feminist men are the creepiest people that have ever walked the face 1.00

00:08:37.580 of the earth. They're all just walking Beto O'Rourke's and they're, you, you would never let your, 0.95

00:08:43.100 your daughter go near a feminist man. Feminist men are the kind of guys who, when you go out of town,

00:08:49.240 they're there to comfort your girlfriend, you know, that's kind of feminist men. 1.00

00:08:53.240 So these guys who have, they've basically made a deal with the devil. They've said,

00:08:59.320 we're going to surrender our manliness. We're going to surrender our masculinity. We're going to,

00:09:04.720 we're going to not be, not be toxic. We're going to be totally feminist men in order to

00:09:11.080 ingratiate themselves to women. They're going to be like really sensitive, you know, and like,

00:09:15.180 so those guys have, have made that deal because they think it's going to help them sleep with a

00:09:20.240 lot more women. And now those are the only guys who are not having sex because of this stupid ban. 1.00

00:09:25.860 Okay. Works for me. Another way in which this doesn't make sense. Number four, women. So the 1.00

00:09:32.400 idea is the only way that women can change this abortion law in Georgia, the only way they can 1.00

00:09:37.700 affect political change is by not having sex with men and therefore compelling men to change the law

00:09:44.560 because only men can change the law, except that women make up the majority of the country.

00:09:51.520 And women have a major voting advantage over men. Women vote over men with a 15 point margin. 0.98

00:10:00.960 So not only the majority of the country, the majority of the electorate,

00:10:04.480 if women want to affect political change, they can. Now the premise here of course is ridiculous. 0.97

00:10:10.260 Alyssa Milano's premise is that all women want to have abortion on demand all the time. 1.00

00:10:15.640 That isn't true. Half of women support pro-life. Half of women oppose abortion.

00:10:23.200 But if women did all support abortion, you would have, you could change any abortion law in the 0.96

00:10:28.040 country. It isn't, it's so, it's so ridiculous to say that women are totally subservient in our 1.00

00:10:35.420 body politic. Women have the vote. Women have had the vote for a hundred years. 1.00

00:10:40.600 They don't need to rely on men. They don't need to compel men. They don't need to trick men into 0.83

00:10:44.200 giving them what they want to have. Now the fifth way in which this doesn't make any sense is in order

00:10:53.240 to stop men from controlling women's bodies, Alyssa Milano is going to control women's bodies. 1.00

00:11:00.760 So in order to, the whole premise here is that women don't have any autonomy over their bodies. 1.00

00:11:06.180 Therefore, you can't have sex women. And this actually, this leads to my favorite irony of the 1.00

00:11:13.720 whole thing, which is that sexually liberated women are now admitting that men like sex more than women.

00:11:23.440 The Alyssa Milano's of the world, the people who support the sexual revolution, abortion, all those 0.91

00:11:28.080 sorts of things. They are now admitting that really men prefer sex. And women, maybe they like sex, but 0.52

00:11:36.240 they don't like it as much as men. Sex, they say, is primarily about men's pleasure. That's the thesis 0.93

00:11:44.920 of the sexual revolution types. They don't, they wouldn't admit that in those words because traditionally 0.98

00:11:52.500 sex is primarily about making babies. I mean, a euphemism for sex is, hey, you two going to go

00:11:58.260 over there and make some babies? That's traditionally. But now what, what the abortion 1.00

00:12:03.360 activists are saying is, no, no, no, sex is not primarily about making babies. We can totally stop

00:12:08.360 making babies. And if you accidentally do make a baby, we'll kill the baby. But if it's not primarily 1.00

00:12:12.900 about making babies, then what is it? Is it primarily about women's pleasure? No. If sex were primarily 0.92

00:12:19.800 about women's pleasure, then Alyssa Milano wouldn't propose a sex strike to compel men to change the 1.00

00:12:26.960 law. The only reason the sex strike should work is because men really, really like sex and women 0.99

00:12:31.800 don't like sex that much. So now you've got the left, the sexual revolution types admitting that sex 0.91

00:12:39.420 is primarily about men's pleasure. Which by the way, in this day and age is obviously the case. And if you 0.52

00:12:48.520 talk to any guy after he's had a couple drinks, no matter if he's a liberal guy, a so-called feminist 0.99

00:12:53.040 guy or a regular normal guy, they will all point this out. This is the greatest trick that feminism 1.00

00:12:59.660 has ever played on women is convincing women to give men limitless sexual gratification with absolutely 0.75

00:13:07.800 no accountability, no responsibility whatsoever, and then convincing themselves that they're the ones

00:13:13.820 benefiting. So women go, they'll say, okay, I'm going to, I've actually heard this before. So I'm

00:13:20.300 going to go out and I'm going to pick up a guy tonight and we're just going to have casual sex 0.97

00:13:23.320 and it's not going to mean anything. You see every guy in the country just, oh my gosh, no. Am I dreaming? 0.94

00:13:29.000 Wake up. I'm pinching myself. I can't. But the women have convinced themselves of this because 1.00

00:13:33.560 feminists want to convince women that women react to sex in exactly the same way men do. 1.00

00:13:39.700 And I think a lot of the reason why some left-wing women are upset with Alyssa Milano right now is 1.00

00:13:45.260 she's giving away the game. She's admitting, no, men want sex more than women do. Men like sex 0.95

00:13:51.520 physically more than women do. That's why this idea of a sex strike has existed since the earliest days 1.00

00:13:59.740 of our history. It's why the classic example of this is a play from ancient Greece and it has persisted

00:14:06.200 over time. Now, what we're seeing on the left is a neo-puritanism.

00:14:14.120 It's just a bunch of rules. It's like a new Victorian era. The left told us that we had to

00:14:19.860 get rid of all our old rules concerning sex, right? They said, no, you can have sex before you're 0.51

00:14:25.700 married. You can have sex outside of marriage. You can have sex with men, women, animals. I don't, 0.57

00:14:31.080 I don't know what they're saying now. You can have threesomes and foursomes and polyamory and gender 1.00

00:14:35.900 non-binary and 56 genders and no rules concerning sex. That was the pitch in the 1960s and 70s.

00:14:43.560 That was the pitch until very recently. But now, once they've ripped out all the old rules,

00:14:50.540 they're the ones making up a bunch of new rules. They're the ones who on college campuses around

00:14:57.100 the country are talking about a sexual assault epidemic. Title IX on campus, they're calling for

00:15:04.540 consent forms to have sex, consent apps to have sex, redefining the term sexual assault,

00:15:12.540 redefining all these various forms of sexual assault, saying you can only do this and this,

00:15:17.920 and you can only do this at this time. And now Alyssa Milano saying women shouldn't have sex at all 0.89

00:15:22.360 until a certain law is repealed. How did this happen? How did it go from the conservatives making

00:15:27.280 all the rules about sex and enforcing them to the left enforcing all the rules about sex?

00:15:33.400 It's because nature abhors a vacuum. So I guess the idea for the 1960s radicals was when you get rid of

00:15:41.380 traditional sexual mores, then that's it. You'll be fine. You just get rid of them and then we're 0.92

00:15:47.660 going to have an age of Aquarius and we're all going to have a bunch of hippy dippy sex and it's 0.99

00:15:50.980 going to be a lot of fun, right? That was the idea of 1968 and 1969. But inevitably, after that sunny,

00:15:57.480 sexy time in the 1960s, you get the 1970s. You get the consequences of that. You get the decay and

00:16:05.020 the degradation and you go from the high of the drugs in the 60s to the hangover and the addiction

00:16:10.940 of the 1970s. When you get rid of traditional sexual mores, inevitably you have to invent new

00:16:19.700 ones. Why? Why do we need the rules? Because the traditional rules arose for a reason. Did you

00:16:28.880 just think, I mean, I guess the left thought this. Did you think that for thousands of years of human

00:16:34.760 history, we've had fairly similar rules governing sex? I mean, some changes over time. We've always had

00:16:41.760 a lot of rules concerning sex. Did you think that we had all of those rules just because? Just by

00:16:49.220 accident? Because a bunch of old people weren't as enlightened as you and now you're so enlightened 1.00

00:16:56.380 so you realize we don't need any rules about sex? It was just an accident thousands of years of human

00:17:01.760 history? No. The rules arose because you need rules about sex because sex poses serious questions.

00:17:11.060 And sex poses serious problems that you have to seriously confront. So fine, in the 1960s, 0.95

00:17:19.840 you want to get rid of all the old rules concerning sex. Sex before marriage, prophylactics, 0.59

00:17:25.800 condoms, the pill, things like that. Abortion. You have the major abortion debates in the 60s,

00:17:31.660 ultimately leading to Roe v. Wade in the 70s. You totally changed the rules, even down to that

00:17:37.760 essential rule that you shouldn't kill a baby. Abortion was such a shame, such a disgrace as 1.00

00:17:46.540 late as the 1950s, 60s, 70s. Now all of a sudden you have shout your abortion. You have people proud 0.98

00:17:53.660 of their abortions. They're not really proud, but they're pretending to be proud of their abortions.

00:17:57.760 You totally changed the rules. Okay. There's no more rules, no bars. Everything's okay. Nothing is

00:18:06.000 wrong. If it feels good, do it. And then what happens if someone gets sexually assaulted?

00:18:12.780 Oh, hey, we're just having fun. There's no more rules. If there's no rules, can you force someone

00:18:18.960 to have sex against her will? No, obviously. Okay. So you need a rule there. Well, how do you know that

00:18:23.760 she's consenting? What if she's had a few drinks? You're the one encouraging everyone to go out and

00:18:27.860 get blackout drunk and go to bars and parties all the time. So what if she does that? What if she's

00:18:33.480 not blackout drunk, but she just has casual sex and she regrets it the next day because the guy just

00:18:38.320 walks out and leaves her? Is that, there's no rules. There's no accountability. There's no

00:18:43.960 traditional sexual more. Is that okay? No, that's kind of wrong too, isn't it? What if now you go out,

00:18:50.040 you have sex, you produce a baby and the baby's growing and you want to kill it? 1.00

00:18:59.340 Are you allowed to kill that baby? That seems a bridge too far. What is that? That is what we're 1.00

00:19:04.300 litigating right now. The rules will reinstate themselves. Nature abhors a vacuum. The big

00:19:10.440 difference here is the worldview. For the left, life is a sexually transmitted disease. It is fatal 0.99

00:19:18.620 and no one has ever survived it. This is why they call abortion reproductive health. They use this 0.57

00:19:26.100 euphemism, reproductive health, and it's ironic because abortion is not about reproduction. It's

00:19:31.580 about the opposite of reproduction. It's about stopping reproduction. But they call it reproductive

00:19:37.920 health because for the left, to ban abortion is the same thing as banning a treatment for chlamydia.

00:19:45.500 To ban abortion is the same thing as banning a treatment for gonorrhea or herpes. It's a sexually

00:19:52.260 transmitted disease. It's a bad consequence of sex is pregnancy, according to the left. 0.85

00:20:00.700 It's an STD to treat rather than have the right views it, which is that it's a sexually generated

00:20:08.000 gift. And what this argument comes down to is what is life? Not this stupid argument that some

00:20:15.640 people have in abortion debates where they say, well, when does life begin? How can you prove that 1.00

00:20:22.240 life begins at conception? The word conception, that's how I can prove it. Life begins at conception

00:20:29.140 by definition. In conception, you have a sperm cell, has 23 chromosomes. It's a sperm cell. It'll just, 0.90

00:20:36.560 if you leave it be, it'll just be a sperm cell and eventually it'll die. Then you have an egg also

00:20:40.940 has 23 chromosomes. And if you leave it be, it'll just be an egg and then it'll die. And then when

00:20:46.120 you combine them, when the sperm fertilizes the egg at the moment of conception, it becomes a human

00:20:53.140 being with 46 chromosomes. Usually, sometimes the little differences, but 46 chromosomes, a new

00:21:00.700 individual human being with individual human DNA that is developing in a perfectly continuous path

00:21:08.920 into a little tiny baby and then a bigger baby and then a toddler and then a child and then a preteen

00:21:17.980 and then a teenager, then an adult, then a senior citizen, and then they die. It's the spoiler of

00:21:26.020 that story. But that is a total path of life, undisturbed, continuous from the very beginning.

00:21:35.840 We're not asking the question, when does life begin? That's obvious. At the moment of conception,

00:21:40.120 you've got something that is living. It meets all of the scientific characteristics of life.

00:21:45.080 Scientists have described the characteristics of life over the years. The unborn baby meets all of those.

00:21:50.200 It's obviously human. It's not a giraffe. It's not a zebra. It's not a little dog. It's a human

00:21:56.180 being. It's genetically human. It is human. It is essentially human. It's independent. It's not part

00:22:03.120 of the mother. It is distinct from the mother. We're not arguing about when that life begins. We're 0.96

00:22:09.240 arguing about what life is, how life should be treated. Is life a burden? Is life awful? Is life

00:22:15.220 terrible? Sometimes today you hear environmentalists say, we can't bring more

00:22:20.040 children into the world. It's bad for the earth. If you bring in more children, it will, it will 0.98

00:22:26.560 increase the effects of global warming. Sometimes you hear people make the same argument for the

00:22:34.180 opposite reason. They say, we can't bring more children into the world because the world is so bad

00:22:39.660 and it's too bad for children. Hold on. I thought the children were too bad for the world. No,

00:22:44.820 the world is too bad for children. According to some people, there's so much crime. There's so

00:22:48.960 much suffering. Life essentially is evil. According to these people, life is a bad thing and it's got to

00:22:57.320 be cured. And the cure that they've come up with on the pro-abortion left, the Alyssa Milano left,

00:23:04.780 the Democratic Party left, is to kill it in the womb. Very different from what we saw in Philadelphia.

00:23:11.780 I was in Philly last Friday over with my pal, Matt Walsh, because Matt decided to throw a pro-life

00:23:20.160 demonstration outside of that Planned Parenthood where Brian Sims, that state representative,

00:23:26.200 was bullying elderly women, bullying underage girls, trying to dox them. Matt said on a Tuesday,

00:23:32.200 said, we should have a rally here. Then Lila Rose, live action came out. They said, we're going to get a

00:23:37.040 permit. We're going to do the rally. Three days later, there's a major rally in Philly, over a

00:23:41.440 thousand people, according to CBS News. That's according to a left-wing news source. They're

00:23:46.340 saying it was over a thousand people. I couldn't tell how many people there were because there were

00:23:50.320 just so many as far as the eye could see. We got some video. We talked to some people on the street.

00:23:54.640 There were a handful of pro-abortion demonstrators. We talked to them. We talked to a lot of the pro-life

00:23:59.300 people. We will discuss this major difference in worldview. And then we'll talk about AOC because

00:24:06.880 AOC just admitted that one of her major arguments for the Green New Deal is a total joke. Then if we 0.99

00:24:14.020 have time, we'll talk about our latest presidential candidate nickname, Alfred E. Newman, for Mr. Pete

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00:25:02.960 right back. This pro-life demonstration in Philly outside of that Planned Parenthood is one of the

00:25:18.080 most powerful events I've ever attended. I had never been to a major pro-life rally like this. I'd never

00:25:25.700 been to a Planned Parenthood. I'm sure I've walked by them. I've just haven't noticed it.

00:25:31.480 Planned Parenthood is ghoulish, man. It is a chilling place to walk by. It is chilling to the

00:25:37.980 bone. It is chilling to look at those activists. It's chilling to look at the building and to know

00:25:43.360 what happens in there. Before this rally even started, I got there an hour early and I was

00:25:49.500 hanging around with Matt and Lila and some of the other people who were putting the event

00:25:53.420 together. Before it started, there were hundreds of people there. Some of them were political

00:25:58.940 activists. Some of them were politicians. Some of them were just there praying. This is what really

00:26:06.480 struck me. As you look at sort of concentric circles from the main event stage and you see

00:26:11.640 people giving impassioned speeches about the science of it. I talked to a biology teacher there

00:26:15.660 who was there just talking about the biology of abortion. And you see some politicians, political

00:26:20.960 activists, political candidates. Then you see just religious people, priests, nuns, just quietly

00:26:28.480 saying the rosary to themselves. I could have cried. I really almost cried on the spot because you realize

00:26:36.140 it's all real. Sometimes when you talk about these political issues, things that become hotly debated in

00:26:45.320 politics, they become abstract to you. Abortion rights, 36 weeks, 26 weeks, six weeks, heartbeat bill.

00:26:56.140 They become abstractions. And then you look in that building and you know that there are real people

00:27:02.880 in there killing real babies. And then you look at the faces of people who are just praying quietly

00:27:09.260 and you realize they're really praying for real babies and real mothers. Planned Parenthood has

00:27:17.900 staffers and they have volunteers who are called patient escorts. And the theory here, the line that

00:27:24.560 they want you to believe is they have patient escorts because of those awful and intimidating pro-life

00:27:30.360 activists yelling awful things at the women. Does not happen. Does not happen at all. I was there,

00:27:38.260 there were a thousand pro-life advocates there. There was a sign that said, pray for Brian Sims.

00:27:43.260 There were people quietly praying. There were signs that said, have courage, mom. Nobody yelling,

00:27:50.720 no hatred, no none of that. That's a total lie from Planned Parenthood. The reason that Planned

00:28:00.200 Parenthood has patient escorts out there is not to protect women who are going to have a

00:28:08.180 abortions from the awful evil slurs of pro-lifers. It's to protect women from their own conscience. 0.99

00:28:15.180 It's to protect women from getting information about adoption. How in the United States there are

00:28:18.960 36 couples waiting to adopt every one baby that is born and put up for adoption. It's Planned 1.00

00:28:25.400 Parenthood trying to protect their customer base because they know that if women are allowed to have 0.98

00:28:29.500 this information, if women are allowed to see the earnest faces of people praying, they're never going to 0.92

00:28:34.840 go into that awful place and let those awful people kill her child. So they have to protect their

00:28:41.200 customer base or their money is going to run out. Their customers are going to run, their industry is

00:28:45.780 going to run out. They're not going to be able to sell the dismembered babies for a profit, which we

00:28:53.280 know that they do. We caught them on video joking about it, laughing about it. Total exposure was a total

00:29:00.760 exposure here. The way you can look at it. There was a woman who walked into Planned Parenthood

00:29:06.280 just before our rally started. And the look on her face was, she was distraught.

00:29:16.580 So I don't think she was going in to get a breast exam. I don't think she was going in to get a pack 0.91

00:29:23.240 of condoms. She looked distraught. Nobody from the pro-life rally was yelling at her. Nobody was saying

00:29:29.740 anything to her. They were praying for her. They weren't. And you had that, you had that awful

00:29:36.820 Planned Parenthood patient escort pushing her in. Come on, lady, get in there, get in there and make 1.00

00:29:41.940 sure we kill that baby. And you had this woman looking distraught. Nobody ever looks happy going 1.00

00:29:46.760 into a Planned Parenthood. Nobody's ever skipping along joyfully as they walk into a Planned Parenthood.

00:29:53.520 God tells you everything. The left is so insistent. Go do it. This is hard, but go do it. You have to

00:30:01.720 do it. You don't have to do it. There is no reason to get an abortion, to kill your child. 0.87

00:30:09.680 Nobody looks happy walking in there. The Planned Parenthood staffers and volunteers don't look happy.

00:30:14.760 You know who looked happy and joyful? The pro-lifers praying and demonstrating in front of it,

00:30:20.440 singing songs, singing God bless America, giving speeches about basic science, praying.

00:30:28.680 There was one couple I talked to out there. There were only maybe half a dozen pro-abortion

00:30:33.480 protesters. Virtually none of them would talk to me. One couple did. They had a sign that said,

00:30:38.900 I voted for Brian Sims. And so I asked the guy, I said, you have a sign that says, I vote for Brian Sims.

00:30:45.520 What's that about? Do you regret that? Here's what he said.

00:30:48.180 So I see your sign says, I vote for Brian Sims. Yeah, I live in his district and we've voted for

00:30:52.600 him for years. Did you see that? The Trump people have been taking away our liberties for two years

00:30:57.840 now. We're trying to get them back. And unfortunately, we've gotten into this very,

00:31:02.100 very dark time where we believe that women's rights outweigh the right of the body growing 1.00

00:31:07.840 inside of them. We need more rights, not less. We need freedom. We need health care.

00:31:12.720 We don't need our health care taken away. And part of that is abortion rights. 0.98

00:31:17.500 You would agree abortion's not health care for the baby who's killed.

00:31:21.140 The baby is not a baby. What is it?

00:31:25.360 What do you call it? I don't know. What is it?

00:31:27.820 A baby. If it's not a baby, then what is it?

00:31:30.860 He wants a biology lesson.

00:31:33.400 I don't need a biology lesson. I don't think I'm the one who needs a biology lesson. Even the language

00:31:40.020 he uses gives away the whole story. He says, the baby is not a baby.

00:31:47.280 Well, then why'd you call it a baby? A thing can't be, can't not be the thing that it is.

00:31:53.340 If it's not a baby, what is it? He can't answer. Of course he can't answer. There's no argument.

00:32:02.180 It's that. So they have no argument. They have a lot of emotion. They have a lot of slogans. And

00:32:07.940 then you ask them the subtlest, any question about their slogans, they collapse. It is that simple.

00:32:15.380 Matt, who organized this whole thing, he put it beautifully. Here's just a little clip

00:32:20.800 of his speech. I'm sure he'll talk about it more on his show today. But here's just a great little

00:32:24.820 clip from his major speech at the rally. Now, there are two fundamental messages that we want

00:32:30.520 to get across today, I think. Secondarily, we are sending a message to bullies like Brian Sims.

00:32:36.760 And that message is very simple, that we will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced.

00:32:43.820 So Brian, maybe now you understand something, but if you try to shut us up, we're only going to get

00:32:49.140 louder. And if you, if you try to shame us, we're only going to stand taller. And if you try to scare

00:32:58.920 us, we're only going to get bolder. That's the way this works. And I'll tell you the reason for that

00:33:03.960 is because we know that our cause is just. We know that we are right. We are firm in that truth.

00:33:10.940 We have truth on our side and we will wield it like a sword to defend the unborn.

00:33:15.560 Now, Brian, I know why you use scare tactics. I know why you bully, why you try to intimidate,

00:33:22.980 because that's all you have. You have no arguments to present. You have no case to make. You have only

00:33:28.280 chest thumping and schoolyard taunts. Well, they're not going to work. It's not good enough.

00:33:33.440 That's it. That's exactly it. They have no argument. I went there. I flew from Missouri

00:33:41.220 up to Philly because Brian Sims said he wanted to talk to pro-lifers. He was going out on the street

00:33:46.920 harassing little girls and elderly women. And I thought, okay, Brian Sims can pick on somebody

00:33:51.060 his own size if he wants to talk to pro-life advocates. Guess where he was? Hiding.

00:33:56.700 There's no way he was showing up. We were right there in his neighborhood, right on his block.

00:34:01.060 He wouldn't come out. Now he's blocked his Twitter page. He's locked his Twitter account so that I can't

00:34:07.020 see it. Other people can't see his page. That's it. And it's a great message for pro-lifers,

00:34:12.500 great message for conservatives generally. It seems sometimes like challenges are insurmountable.

00:34:21.540 When I was a kid, if you told me that we would be on the verge of limiting abortion,

00:34:27.580 pushing abortion all the way back to the fringes, if not overturning Roe v. Wade entirely,

00:34:32.100 I would have laughed at you. I said, what are you talking about?

00:34:34.780 The Supreme Court ruled on it twice, more than that. A whole culture is for abortion. There's 0.67

00:34:41.720 no way that could possibly happen. And now look where we are. The left does this. The left always

00:34:49.480 inflates their numbers. They do it because they have the mainstream media. They do it because they

00:34:54.160 have the universities and they do it because they censor anybody who has an alternative point of view.

00:34:58.720 But once you get past that facade, once you get past that smoke and mirrors, you realize they're

00:35:05.100 nothing. It's like the Wizard of Oz. You see the big scary guy on the screen and you see it's a little

00:35:09.420 guy standing behind the curtain. When you, when you confront them, when you show up to that Planned

00:35:15.300 Parenthood, when you show up to Brian Sims' neighborhood, they all disappear. Those Planned 1.00

00:35:19.940 Parenthood activists are not allowed to speak to pro-lifers, lest they hear some truth, lest they

00:35:29.660 dialogue with people who do have an argument. You, you, when you finally confront these bullies,

00:35:35.040 when you finally confront these people, you find out they're nothing. They fold like a house of cards.

00:35:39.560 Speaking of having no argument, before we go, we got to turn our attention to Washington DC

00:35:44.140 because one of the major arguments that the left has used to dominate our discourse over the last

00:35:50.440 two months, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about the Green New Deal. She said that the world was

00:35:57.320 going to end in 12 years because of global warming. She just came out and said it was just a joke.

00:36:04.220 She came out, she, remember this is her big argument. The world's over in 10 years. Some

00:36:07.960 presidential candidates, Beto O'Rourke said it's going to end in 10 years.

00:36:10.700 They're trying to out left-wing one another. Now she came out and said, oh, ha ha ha, I was only

00:36:15.460 kidding. She tweeted out, quote, this is a technique of the GOP to take dry humor and sarcasm literally

00:36:21.180 and fact check it. Like the world ending in 12 years thing. You'd have to have the social

00:36:26.820 intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from the office,

00:36:31.960 so who knows? Ha ha ha. First of all, if AOC is really going to bring up fact-checking,

00:36:39.420 obvious humor as an example of some stupidity, let's not forget that Snopes fact-check, all these 0.94

00:36:46.220 things are constantly fact-checking the Babylon Bee. They're fact-checking obvious satirical websites 0.98

00:36:53.320 as though they were true. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, but let's take AOC at her word. 0.99

00:36:59.540 AOC is saying, guys, guys, I was totally just kidding about the Green New Deal and about the world

00:37:06.180 ending in 12 years from global warming. Why on earth could you possibly take me seriously?

00:37:11.520 Well, here's how she said it. Let me know if you think this is a joke.

00:37:15.240 I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people and, you know,

00:37:22.620 Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like, the world is going to

00:37:29.280 end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest issue is, your biggest issue is

00:37:38.620 how are we going to pay for it? And like, this is the war, this is our World War II.

00:37:44.620 Does it look like she's joking there to you? She's at an event called MLK Now, and she's talking to

00:37:53.140 Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the most self-serious left-wing writers. And she says, the world is

00:38:00.820 going to end in 12 years if we don't stop global warming. And then that whole audience there,

00:38:05.880 you'll notice they didn't laugh, right? What did they do? They applauded and cheered,

00:38:09.480 but they didn't laugh because it wasn't a joke. She didn't laugh as she was saying it. You cut,

00:38:14.780 you see the image of Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's not laughing. Sure doesn't sound like a joke,

00:38:19.540 but maybe it, I don't know, maybe it is. Here's another video. This one's a little more casual

00:38:23.740 of AOC talking about the world ending imminently. 0.97

00:38:27.460 We're screwed. I'm climate. Like, I'm sorry to break it to you. If we do nothing, 0.98

00:38:34.680 there is no hope. Period. When it comes to climate in particular, we're actually screwed.

00:38:44.740 There is a global threat to the planet. A global threat. And at this point, we don't even have to

00:38:54.720 prove it. Just walk outside in winter in a lot of places, and it's either way worse than you're used

00:39:00.780 to or way warmer than you're used to. Hurricanes, storms, wildfires. We are dying now. There's

00:39:08.820 scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead,

00:39:15.320 I think, young people to have a legitimate question. You know, should, is it okay to still

00:39:23.200 have children?

00:39:23.840 There it is. There is that thing that we talked about at the top of the show.

00:39:31.280 AOC was the first one to call for a sex strike, I guess. There's that thing that the left does. 0.82

00:39:36.320 They say, don't have children because it's bad for the environment. Or don't have children because

00:39:40.020 the environment's bad for the children. Or don't have children because children are bad in and of

00:39:43.700 themselves. They just don't want you to have children. So she calls for that. She says, 0.51

00:39:48.260 maybe we shouldn't have any more kids. Then, look, if the only evidence of her talking about how the

00:39:56.220 world is about to end because of global warming were this video, I would say maybe she was kidding

00:40:00.040 because it's actually a hilarious video. But I think it's unintentionally hilarious. I don't think

00:40:06.100 she's trying to be funny. I think she just kind of is funny. We're laughing at her, not laughing with

00:40:10.620 her. She says that this is a global threat to the planet. Not just a regular threat, but a global

00:40:16.300 threat to the planet. Which we might want to point out to her, most threats to the planet

00:40:22.340 are global. There are very few threats to the planet that are not global because the planet

00:40:29.600 is a globe. But she says, we can see it happening now. We don't even need to show evidence. You just

00:40:36.280 see. If it's hot outside, that's evidence of global warming. And by the way, if it's cold outside,

00:40:41.400 that is also evidence of global warming. See, there's evidence everywhere. Anything that happens

00:40:45.680 is evidence to prove my theory. And this one does seem ridiculous. But if you think that 0.76

00:40:52.900 she's joking because of how ridiculous she looks, just watch what she goes on to say. Just listen to 0.97

00:40:59.360 this. How many years until the world ends again? We have 12 years left to cut emissions by at least

00:41:08.160 50%, if not more. And for everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids

00:41:19.540 will not. So she, I think she, she kind of forgets. She actually says later in the video,

00:41:26.140 she says, the internet is forever and history is going to judge you. Yeah, right. AOC, the internet

00:41:31.880 is forever. So now that you're saying that the 12 years line was a joke, we can go back to, I don't

00:41:38.360 know, a month or two ago when you said that if anybody says the 12 years line is a joke, they're

00:41:43.860 awful people and their grandchildren are going to judge them and hate them for it. She explicitly said,

00:41:49.740 not two months ago, that if you question the world ending in 12 years because of global warming

00:41:56.300 and you call it a joke, you're a terrible person. And then what did she do today? She said that the

00:42:03.460 12 years line, that the world is going to end in 12 years because of global warming is a joke.

00:42:09.340 There is a joke in all of this. There is a joke. The joke has about three letters in her name, 0.95

00:42:16.800 three letters in her initial, probably like a million letters in her name, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:42:21.220 That is the joke. Speaking of politician jokes, I can't leave without addressing one of the funniest

00:42:27.500 lines of the presidential race so far. President Trump was asked about the candidacy of South Bend,

00:42:36.400 Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. And his response was, quote, Alfred E. Newman cannot be the president

00:42:45.480 of the United States. And when I read that, I burst out laughing because the reference is to Alfred

00:42:53.860 E. Newman, who is the goofy face on the cover of Mad Magazine. And I love Mad Magazine. I read it a ton

00:43:00.140 when I was a kid. I subscribed for years. So I thought it was hilarious. However, Pete Buttigieg

00:43:06.100 had a really good response to this that I think he responded in about the best way he could have.

00:43:12.640 Donald Trump today in an interview compared you to the Mad Magazine mascot, said Alfred E. Newman

00:43:17.900 can never be president. What's your response to it? So I'll be honest, I had to Google that. I guess

00:43:21.740 it's a generational thing. I didn't get the reference. It's kind of funny, I guess. But he's also the

00:43:27.400 president of the United States. And I'm surprised he's not spending more time trying to salvage this

00:43:32.000 China deal. A very strong response from Buttigieg because he's right. It is a dated reference. I

00:43:38.700 know that Mad Magazine is still in print. I really like Mad Magazine. It is a dated reference. I bet if

00:43:43.740 you asked most millennials who Alfred E. Newman is, they probably wouldn't know. And so what Buttigieg

00:43:51.380 does is he says, ha ha, see Trump is old and I'm young and he's the past and I'm the future. So you

00:43:57.460 should vote for me. Okay, fair enough. Trump is a pop culture guy. So if he's only making dated

00:44:03.780 references, that's probably not too great, right? Except that Trump is the president of the United

00:44:09.740 States. Anything he says automatically becomes basically the biggest news story in the world.

00:44:16.240 We're talking about it. Everybody's talking about it. This dominated the news cycles on the left and

00:44:20.500 the right for a few days after he said it, which means that now everybody gets the reference.

00:44:27.500 So you've got, okay, you've got a dated reference that is hilarious because Pete Buttigieg does look

00:44:33.240 like Alfred E. Newman. Maybe some people didn't get it before, but now that Trump said it, everybody

00:44:38.540 gets it, which is why it's a good attack, which is why I think it's going to stick because it's also

00:44:44.800 so specific. So comedy really thrives in specificity. Vague things aren't that funny, but when you

00:44:52.380 really, really drill down to, to hardcore specifics, if Trump had said, yeah, Pete Buttigieg isn't going

00:44:58.820 to win because he looks like a cartoon character. That's kind of a lame joke. That's not that funny.

00:45:04.220 Yeah, Pete Buttigieg isn't going to win because he looks kind of goofy. That's not a great joke. He says,

00:45:10.540 yeah, Buttigieg can't win because Alfred E. Newman will never be the president of the United

00:45:14.460 States. That is a funny line because it's very specific. It recalls a highly visual image and a

00:45:21.460 longstanding image. And it's true. That's the other thing about comedy is it has to be true.

00:45:26.920 So he, he nailed it. He made the comparison. I hadn't seen anybody make it before. Although

00:45:32.040 Seb Gorka pointed out to me that he had actually made this comparison a few weeks ago. So it clearly

00:45:36.940 Seb has excellent insight here, but I think it sticks. I think it's a good line. And, uh, the way that

00:45:43.360 Trump will try to spin Buttigieg's response is that he's this arrogant kid who doesn't know much about 0.99

00:45:48.960 history. And, and I think the way he'll try to spin it is the way Reagan spun attacks on his age in the 0.93

00:45:56.060 1984 campaign. There was that famous clip where his opponent brought up, uh, where Mondale brought up

00:46:03.400 that Reagan was so old and this should cause us to question his ability to be president. And Reagan

00:46:10.940 famously said, I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I will not exploit for political

00:46:17.480 purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. And it was a fabulous response. And Mondale said that

00:46:24.500 was the moment when he knew that Reagan had won the election. And so I think Trump will probably spin

00:46:28.760 it that way. I think in terms of the hits on the age, it's probably going to be a draw. And now as always

00:46:33.980 happens with the King of Marketing, you've got this brutal image. When you think Buttigieg, you now think

00:46:40.640 the goofy guy from the cover of Mad Magazine. You Google Buttigieg, Alfred E. Newman comes up. You Google

00:46:45.760 Alfred E. Newman, Buttigieg comes up. I think in the end, Trump landed the punch and it's going to hurt him.

00:46:51.240 Not that Buttigieg is, I think, a really serious presidential candidate, but he might be a serious VP

00:46:56.320 candidate. And Trump landed the blow. All right. We'll talk more tomorrow about the guy that

00:47:01.780 Buttigieg is totally replacing, Beto O'Rourke. Remember him? I don't, I don't really remember

00:47:05.940 him either. We'll get to that tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

00:47:09.440 Knowles Show. I'll see you then. The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by

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00:47:41.360 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, feminists have apparently discovered the value of abstinence. 1.00

00:47:47.060 You never thought it would happen, but it did. They're going on a sex strike to protest

00:47:51.100 some of the pro-life laws that have been passed across the country. Personally,

00:47:55.760 I think it's a great idea. I support it 100% and I'll talk about why. Also, a Democratic congresswoman

00:48:02.180 has landed in some hot water because she yet again said something horrific and totally bizarre. But yet

00:48:09.820 again, she is of course the victim because people are quoting her verbatim. That's the pattern here.

00:48:15.060 And finally, someone emailed me with an interesting question. They want to know,

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 13, 2019

Ep. 347 - For The Left, Life Is An STD

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