The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 410 - Democrats’ Climate Catastrophe

00:00:00.000 Last night, the remaining Democratic candidates for president faced off to debate climate change

00:00:05.400 in a seven hour long town hall that released so much hot air into the atmosphere that climate

00:00:12.500 change is now real and we're all going to die from it. We will examine the winners, the losers,

00:00:18.780 and the most disturbing answers of the night. Then speaking of climate change, it must be a

00:00:23.780 chilly day in hell because the White House has received good news from the New York Times.

00:00:28.340 Walmart bans guns from its stores and finally the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the

00:00:33.560 Michael Knowles Show. Seven hours of climate change. Seven hours of listening to Democratic candidates

00:00:50.040 talk about climate change is much worse than any possible effect of climate change, including

00:00:57.540 the end of the world. Mass starvation, mass environmental, it doesn't hold a candle to

00:01:04.880 watching CNN and the Democrats for seven hours. This was a very, very bad night for the Democratic

00:01:11.020 Party. So let's jump right in because we have a lot of ground to cover. Let's start with the most

00:01:16.100 radical answer of the night when Bernie Sanders, the oldest candidate, I think in the history of

00:01:22.960 politics, Bernie Sanders endorsed eugenics to combat climate change. Human population growth has more

00:01:32.020 than doubled in the past 50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous

00:01:38.820 topic for politicians, but it's crucial to face. Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb 1.00

00:01:46.300 population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this

00:01:52.740 issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe? Well, the answer is yes.

00:01:59.080 So he gives the answer yes right away. Craziest question of the night, of course. And also this brings up a

00:02:04.680 question for law enforcement. Who let this member of the Manson family run away from prison and ask a question

00:02:10.520 at a CNN town hall. I mean, the voice, the look, the topic that she's bringing up is sociopathic. It is

00:02:18.360 something out of the nightmare of the late 60s and early 70s. It is like helter skelter on CNN. So,

00:02:25.720 so creepy. She's saying there are too many people. There's a problem. Too many people overpopulation

00:02:32.220 with the climate. It's harming mother earth. So we got to kill all the people, don't we? Now you notice

00:02:39.160 what's so interesting about this. If she really thinks there are too many people on earth,

00:02:44.440 why doesn't she do something about it? You know, it's all, they always suggest we kill babies or we 1.00

00:02:50.340 kill the elderly or we kill the sick. The people who say we have overpopulation never look at 0.96

00:02:56.580 themselves as the cause of the overpopulation. I think GK Chesterton mentioned this. It's never like

00:03:02.520 me. I could, no, no. It's just those vulnerable people, the little babies and the sick and the elderly.

00:03:07.040 Those are the ones we have to kill off, but not me. I'm not causing the overpopulation. 0.54

00:03:11.680 First, even before you get to Bernie's real answer, look at how the terminology has evolved. We talk a

00:03:18.060 lot about political correctness, how if you control the words, you control the culture because you,

00:03:22.280 you basically smuggle in whole premises with the language that you use. So we went from in the 1970s,

00:03:29.320 the environmental problem was global cooling. That was the term they used. Then in the 80s and 90s,

00:03:35.040 it became global warming. Then in the early 2000s, it became climate change. Then just a couple years

00:03:43.100 ago, it became the climate crisis. It's really speeding up. Now, tonight, as this woman is 0.99

00:03:49.080 talking, it becomes the climate catastrophe. What is the catastrophe? There are weather events. I mean,

00:03:57.100 weather events, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, but that's happened forever for all of human history.

00:04:02.340 What about right now is catastrophic? Nothing's happening. It's all fine, right? It's not,

00:04:10.400 it's not a catastrophe. It's not a crisis. I guess you could say the climate's changing because the

00:04:14.880 climate always changes. It's not really getting warmer. It depends on what time periods you're

00:04:18.800 looking at and what measures you're looking at. It's not really getting cooler. Again,

00:04:22.480 depends on what, what time periods and measurements you're looking at, but it becomes catastrophe.

00:04:27.520 And we're also supposed to buy that premise. Then she gets to the question itself, which is,

00:04:34.460 are you willing to sacrifice children to appease the weather gods? That's the question, right? The

00:04:42.480 question she's asking that she is implying is, should we control the population? That's the euphemism. 0.98

00:04:48.880 Should we encourage abortion? Should we encourage killing babies to stop bad weather events from 0.99

00:04:56.740 happening? This is exactly the same as in any pagan religion. When you sacrifice babies to the weather 0.99

00:05:03.540 gods, there is no difference whatsoever, except the scale here in this case is a little bit larger.

00:05:08.760 What is Bernie's answer? He immediately comes out. He says, yes, here's the rest of it.

00:05:13.240 Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to

00:05:18.420 address climate catastrophe? Well, Martha, the answer is yes. And the answer has everything to

00:05:26.000 do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their 1.00

00:05:31.420 own bodies and make reproductive decisions. And the Mexico City Agreement, which denies American aid to

00:05:41.400 those organizations around the world that are, uh, that allow women to have abortions or even get 0.96

00:05:47.820 involved, uh, in birth control to me is totally absurd. So what's so amazing about this answer from

00:05:54.380 Bernie Sanders is how he goes right for it. He just goes right for the abortion question. A sensible

00:06:00.760 politician, a more rational or moderate politician would have deftly, one hopes, evaded this insane

00:06:08.420 lady's bonkers question by pretending that she's talking about contraception or birth control rather 1.00

00:06:14.620 than about abortion itself. Right? So he could have said, yes, well, we need sex education in schools. 0.98

00:06:19.680 We need to make sure that people aren't having children that they can't take care of or something, 0.76

00:06:23.880 right? That, that could have been the direction that he went in, but he doesn't. He just goes straight

00:06:27.760 for abortion on its own terms. And he doesn't even just stop at abortion in the United States.

00:06:33.380 He says that we need to export abortion, promote abortion, pay for abortions all over the world.

00:06:38.980 So we're not even content to kill a million of our own babies a year. We got to go out and pay to

00:06:43.280 kill the babies of people all around the world to appease the climate gods so that we have a good 1.00

00:06:48.540 harvest or something. When conservatives point out that the democratic party has embraced eugenics, 0.99

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00:07:01.700 performance of the night was not even Joe Biden or was not even Bernie Sanders rather. It was Joe

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00:08:49.720 Now back to the horrific solutions to imaginary problems at the Democratic climate change town

00:08:57.140 hall. When conservatives point out that the Democratic Party has embraced eugenics,

00:09:02.400 this is the moment that you need to remember. Bernie Sanders is not just some random person

00:09:07.380 on Twitter. Bernie Sanders is not just some fringe guy. Bernie Sanders is the number two

00:09:12.120 leading Democratic candidate for president. And by the way, he was the number two Democratic

00:09:17.180 candidate for president last time around too. This is a major political figure. This is a major

00:09:22.640 leader in the Democratic Party. And he's saying that we need to sacrifice our children to appease

00:09:30.120 the weather gods. Well, not our children, specifically your children. He's not going to do it to his own

00:09:36.940 children, but he wants to do it to your children or disproportionately black children. 0.97

00:09:40.940 Because black women have much, much higher rates of abortion in the United States. And this is 0.94

00:09:45.500 encouraged by abortion hustlers like Planned Parenthood. And as you can see by the Democratic

00:09:50.820 Party. This is, I cannot stress it enough, no different from what the Aztecs did. When the 0.97

00:09:59.020 Aztecs would slaughter scores of people, you know, in 1487, five years before Columbus sailed across the 1.00

00:10:04.700 ocean. The Aztecs slaughtered an estimated 80,000 people, men, women, and children at the consecration

00:10:12.460 of the Temple of Tenochtitlan. And actually, you know, there is a little bit of a difference between

00:10:17.420 what we do and what the Aztecs do. The Aztecs sacrificed all those people to appease their gods, 0.52

00:10:23.440 their pagan gods. We're sacrificing way, way, way more, way, way more innocent people every single 0.99

00:10:30.360 year. We're sacrificing a million babies a year in this country, killing them to appease a number 0.96

00:10:36.180 of false gods. Credentialism. You're in college and you don't want to have a kid, but you're 1.00

00:10:41.540 pregnant, so you kill it. Your career. You're not ready to have a kid right now. Your personal 1.00

00:10:46.160 freedom. You want to go out and go, be able to go to the bar more often, not be responsible to a kid.

00:10:50.080 We sacrifice our children to plenty of false gods. And in this case, we are being encouraged by

00:10:54.580 leading Democratic presidential candidates to sacrifice our own babies in this country and

00:11:00.560 abroad to the weather gods so that, I don't know, the rains will come and we can yield a good harvest

00:11:07.700 this year. That's the kind of stuff that we are seeing here. And even with that absolute lunacy,

00:11:16.480 Bernie did not have the worst night. Joe Biden did. Joe Biden was the biggest loser of the night at

00:11:23.460 this town hall. Why? A couple of reasons. To begin, you can't ignore it. He did say crazy things. Not, 0.99

00:11:30.300 maybe not quite as crazy as Bernie though. I mean, they weren't, they weren't as evil as Bernie.

00:11:34.520 They weren't as evil as sacrificing your children to the weather gods, but they were as crazy. Joe 0.99

00:11:39.220 Biden at one point in the, in the town hall blamed cancer and the Darfur genocide on climate change.

00:11:45.840 And so where are we? Look what happened in Darfur. What's Darfur all about? Darfur is all about the fact 0.99

00:11:52.300 that the sub-Saharan desert because of the change in climate, no longer had enough arable land. Look

00:11:58.360 what's happening in Indonesia. They're talking about moving their capital because it's going to sink.

00:12:02.440 What happens if you get 10, 12, 13, 15, a hundred million people on the move? It causes wars. And so

00:12:10.060 it's well beyond whether or not it affects me personally, which it does. And it did my family and still

00:12:16.800 does just like your families. This is personal. It's personal. Every one of you probably have a

00:12:23.080 story that can talk about what's happened to something you care greatly about, whether it's

00:12:29.840 a species or it's your son or daughter coming down with cancer because of it. Coming down with cancer

00:12:36.940 because of climate change, because of what, what are you talking about? I mean, that has nothing to do

00:12:43.840 with anything. And then genocide is because of climate change. Amazing how he ignores the political.

00:12:50.880 He ignores the cultural. He ignores all of human agency, all of the choices that people make when

00:12:55.180 they kill one another. And he blames it on the sky gods, on the weather gods. I mean, this, this theme

00:13:01.900 that we see recurring is not just coincidental. It's not just accidental. It is a sort of fatalism

00:13:09.020 that denies human agency, which means it denies human freedom. And this is a through line from the

00:13:14.420 left. This is a through line from the democratic party. It's not even just on this one particular

00:13:19.800 issue. You see it cropping up all over the place. The left increasingly denies our humanity, our human

00:13:26.500 dignity, denies our, you know, human dignity, obviously by slaughtering all of these people.

00:13:31.780 It denies our freedom. It denies our free will. It says we're just matter. We're just stuff. We're all

00:13:36.420 just clumps of cells and we are moved along by impersonal forces outside of ourselves. It's a

00:13:42.020 real sort of fatalism. Genocides, including the genocide in Darfur, are caused by people 1.00

00:13:49.260 choosing to commit genocides, by governments choosing to do that. You know, this language,

00:13:55.040 this, this religious kind of language is exactly what we were talking about yesterday. Climate change

00:14:00.880 is not about science. It's about religion. And it is specifically about a false religion. It 0.96

00:14:06.960 actually shows us this, this issue of climate change. We think of this as a very modern issue

00:14:11.540 brought about by science. Actually, this is the oldest, most primitive issue in the world in all

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00:16:17.540 off and free shipping. This climate change issue, the way that they're talking about it, sacrificing

00:16:24.880 their children, that climate change is causing genocides, that climate change is causing cancer,

00:16:30.000 that the way they're talking about it is not modern and it's not scientific. This is ancient. This is

00:16:37.020 primitive. This goes back to our most pagan roots. And it tries to explain religious questions without

00:16:43.220 true religion. What Joe Biden is doing is he's using climate change to try to answer the eternal

00:16:48.920 question that has bothered mankind as long as we've been conscious, which is why is there suffering in

00:16:54.880 the world? Why is there pain? Why do bad things happen to good people? And the traditional answer,

00:17:00.420 well, I say traditional, let me be more specific. The Christian answer, the Jewish answer, 0.95

00:17:05.340 the Muslim answer, is that man disobeyed God and so sin entered the world and so with sin, 0.90

00:17:13.580 death pervaded the world. There is a fall of man. We were kicked out of paradise and that fall of man

00:17:19.640 pervades the whole world. Now, the secular left, which doesn't believe in true religion,

00:17:25.880 has updated this view for a world without God. So sin and death enter the world, not because

00:17:31.960 we disobeyed God, but because we disobeyed mother earth, because we disobeyed Gaia, which is a term for

00:17:39.240 nature, by polluting. Not that we disobeyed and we ate the apple from the tree. I guess it might be

00:17:45.680 because of our interactions with trees, but it's because we polluted. So in the religious view, in the

00:17:52.140 view of true religion, we cannot save ourselves. We cannot reconcile ourselves to God. Instead, we need a

00:18:00.700 savior. In the modern secular view, we can save ourselves. We can do it. And the way we do it

00:18:08.180 is not even by moral improvement or by living out the virtues. It's by recycling. It's by not fracking.

00:18:16.700 It's by killing our babies. In many ways, it's the opposite of the virtues. And here we see how this 0.55

00:18:22.860 view, this new religious view, what the left would call its kind of new metaphysical view, its new way to

00:18:29.000 answer this eternal religious question, is not modern after all. It's not new. It's just the

00:18:33.720 pagan view. We sacrifice people, you know? I mean, it's like actually the pagan view. We sacrifice

00:18:40.200 people, even blood sacrifices, even sacrifices of our children to appease the gods and save ourselves.

00:18:46.580 Even beyond Joe Biden, listen to the way that Julian Castro, who, by the way, he's still in the race.

00:18:51.360 I don't know if you knew that. I don't know if you ever knew that he was in the race, but he was the

00:18:54.540 former HUD secretary. And for some reason, he's still in the race for president. Here is Julian

00:18:59.620 Castro talking about how we need to get climate change ideology into schools really, really young.

00:19:05.420 We have to teach kids. He's not speaking in academic or scientific terms. He's speaking in

00:19:10.340 religious terms, and he's speaking with greater zeal than any advocate of teaching the Bible in

00:19:16.200 school that I've ever heard. Give a listen.

00:19:18.240 Our beliefs and habits start at an early age. Should climate change be taught in schools? And

00:19:24.780 if so, how should climate education be implemented in the school curriculum?

00:19:30.540 Yes, I believe that it should. In fact, I believe that it's essential if we want to raise a generation

00:19:37.520 of Americans that will do right by our planet, make the little decisions in life that are going to help

00:19:45.840 ensure that we can get where we need to get to net zero. Listen to those phrases, do right by our

00:19:51.500 planet, get where we need to get, make the right decisions in life. How do you do right by the

00:19:57.380 planet? The planet's a rock. The planet is a rock that has some animals and trees on it. You mean do

00:20:03.060 right by the planet. We are moral creatures, human beings. We have the capacity to reason. That's what

00:20:09.680 separates us from the brutes and from the animals and the rocks. What does it mean to do right?

00:20:15.840 By the planet. He's speaking in religious terms. And Biden is buying into this too,

00:20:20.680 because he knows the only way that he's going to get through this primary is by running to the left.

00:20:24.240 So now he runs so far to the left. He is asked about the green new deal, $93 trillion, a ridiculous 0.63

00:20:31.520 pie in the sky plan that would be horrific if it were enacted. And that doesn't even really address

00:20:36.480 the climate or the environment in any way. He is now saying the green new deal doesn't go too far.

00:20:42.240 In your plan, you say that the green new deal is, quote, a crucial framework for meeting the climate

00:20:47.440 challenges we face. You say it has two basic truths that we need to combat the climate crisis with

00:20:52.440 what you say is ambition on an epic scale and that the environment and economy are, in your words,

00:20:56.440 completely and totally connected. You're not saying that you support everything in the original

00:21:03.120 green new deal. Do you think it goes too far? Is it unrealistic, promising too much?

00:21:07.720 No, it's not. But here's what it is. It doesn't have a lot of specifics.

00:21:12.480 It doesn't have a lot of specifics about exactly what we'll do with regard to greenhouse gases.

00:21:18.400 Okay, fair enough. It doesn't have a lot of specifics, but he says it doesn't go too far. I mean,

00:21:23.380 these are pretty wacky answers. And Biden had the worst night, not just because of what he said,

00:21:29.200 not just because of these wacky answers, but more importantly, because of how he said it. He just

00:21:34.020 seems too old. Here's just one little quick example of Joe Biden stammering incoherently for

00:21:40.400 10 or 15 seconds. Look what's happened in the Midwest. We have a number of significant

00:21:47.280 bases that relate, military bases that relate to our national security, that in fact, were rendered

00:21:54.460 almost useless, including, I can't go into the great detail to say it, but my point is it significantly

00:22:04.840 reduced our national security. I want to bring up an example, but I can't, I'm not going to bring it

00:22:10.800 up, but I, and what was the question again? Could you get to the question? And then things really went

00:22:15.600 downhill from there when Joe Biden's eyeball appeared to explode. We'll get to that in just

00:22:21.260 one second. I don't mean to laugh at it. He's, he's fine. He seems to be doing okay, but it is

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00:23:53.260 the wacky answers, but when his eyeball appeared to explode. So here's a question from a kid who

00:23:58.040 says he's an ex-Republican. Now he's asking him a question about climate change and Joe Biden's

00:24:03.120 eyeball just starts to fill with blood. China is currently the largest emitter of CO2.

00:24:08.660 How, if at all, would you try to get China to lower its emissions as president?

00:24:13.160 I would make it real clear. That's why we have to bring around the rest of the world. We have to

00:24:17.260 reconfigure. Okay. He goes on. If you haven't seen the clip or you can't see it, go check it out

00:24:22.820 online. Actually, it's a pretty good question. You know, leave it to the ex-Republican to ask the one

00:24:27.120 normal question of the entire night. But the question didn't matter because no one listened to the

00:24:31.320 answer because everyone was looking at the blood pooling in Joe Biden's eye. He had something called a

00:24:36.340 sub-conjunctival hemorrhage. That's when the blood vessels explode in your eyeball and it fills

00:24:44.700 with blood. The man is simply too old. He's too old to be president. He's not, look, we've, Reagan was a

00:24:53.120 fairly elderly president by presidential standards. Trump, not exactly a spring chicken. Those guys

00:24:59.520 looked young. They acted young. They had a lot of energy. Biden has had health problems for years. In the

00:25:04.660 80s, Biden had two brain aneurysms that he suffered. They didn't pop, fortunately. If you've

00:25:10.420 ever experienced brain aneurysm in a family type way, I have up close. I mean, that is a serious,

00:25:17.080 serious problem. Usually it leads to death. If it is caught before it bursts, you know, one,

00:25:23.460 it can still burst and leave you dead or it can leave you mentally impaired. Luckily, Biden survived

00:25:28.020 that in the 80s. But he's had major health scares like this since the 80s. And it kind of reminds me of

00:25:33.440 Dick Cheney. You know, Dick Cheney had his first heart attack in like 1978 or something.

00:25:38.660 Does anybody believe that Dick Cheney is up for being president of the United States?

00:25:43.740 No, nobody did. What Cheney could do is be the vice president to a younger president. So he kind of

00:25:51.040 has the elderly statesman role, the elder statesman role and also a bit elderly. Joe Biden more or less

00:25:59.960 filled that role for Barack Obama, the younger president. But no one really believes that this

00:26:04.420 guy is fit enough to be president. And then Biden, not just Biden, but other candidates too,

00:26:10.200 demonstrated my favorite aspect of it, of the whole debate, which is the rank hypocrisy of the

00:26:14.940 whole thing. You know, Biden by Anderson Cooper gets called out for preaching climate change on,

00:26:19.800 on one, one night, you know, how urgent it is, how we need to stop it. And then attending a fossil

00:26:24.980 fuel fundraiser the next night. There is a fundraiser tomorrow night. It's given by a guy

00:26:29.600 named Andrew Goldman. He's a, he does hedge funds and stuff, but he also has a company called Western

00:26:34.420 LNG and their biggest project, which I think was announced in like 2018 is a floating liquefied

00:26:40.200 facility for natural gas. It's off the coast of British Columbia, and it's going to provide

00:26:44.360 Canadian gas to parts of Northern Asia. So what Andrew is saying is if you're going to a fundraiser

00:26:50.580 that's given in part by this guy who has a company that is pulling up natural gas,

00:26:56.140 are you the right guy to go after these? Well, I didn't realize he does that.

00:27:00.260 Classic Biden answer. I mean, I assume Biden doesn't really care getting money from the fossil

00:27:05.040 fuel industry, but in his defense, he is losing his marbles and he may well have not realized that

00:27:10.320 the guy does that. Another area you see this hypocrisy last night, it's not just the kind of

00:27:17.040 would-be moderate Joe. It's even in one of the most openly radical candidates, Julian Castro.

00:27:21.680 He gets called out for completely changing his mind on climate change when it suits him.

00:27:27.260 Reports warn that we only have 11 years to get off fossil fuels to have a safe,

00:27:32.200 livable future. But as mayor of San Antonio, you welcome the fracking boom.

00:27:38.060 Why should we trust you as president to transition our economy to renewables,

00:27:42.520 given your past middle ground approach? I appreciate the question from Scylla. And,

00:27:49.200 you know, I want to commend the Sunrise Movement. As you know, they've been pushing for

00:27:52.700 a democratic climate debate, which I hope happens. I'm glad that we're having this.

00:28:00.280 I'm glad that we're having this conversation today. So, first of all, she's right. When I was mayor of

00:28:07.680 San Antonio, I did believe that there were opportunities to be had in fracking that was

00:28:13.500 going on in South Texas. The thing is that back then, which was, you know, almost a decade ago,

00:28:21.280 we had been saying that natural gas was a bridge fuel, right? We're coming to the end of the bridge.

00:28:27.260 Yeah. Okay, buddy. You said it because it was convenient, because you wanted the jobs and you

00:28:31.180 wanted the money because it was helpful to you then. And now it's not helpful to you. So you're

00:28:34.520 trying to come up with a bogus answer. When candidates thank someone for a question and

00:28:38.920 then spend like 20 seconds talking about how important it is to have that question in this

00:28:43.280 conversation, you know that they got nothing. They ran out. So, uh, total hypocrisy. That's fine.

00:28:48.340 We, I mean, it's like Prince Harry, you know, Prince Harry's on one day, he says, climate change is the

00:28:52.420 most important issue in the world. No one can go on vacation anymore. And then you look and he flies

00:28:56.600 on a private jet four times in 11 days. It's just bogus. People don't believe it, but they're

00:29:00.540 hypocritically paying lip service to their false religion. The funniest moment of the night came 0.97

00:29:05.840 from Cory Booker. You forgot he was in the debate. Me too. You forgot that he's running for president.

00:29:09.740 Me too. But here is the single funniest moment of the night when Cory Booker said that he will be

00:29:14.940 president. So my plan says that we need to be at a zero carbon electricity by 2030. That's, that's 10

00:29:25.760 years from the time that I will win the presidency of the United States of America. Oh, it's 10 years

00:29:31.080 from February 31st, 20 never. Okay. Well then I'm not too worried about those 10 years. Uh, there was

00:29:36.480 another hilarious moment of the night when it came to plastic straws. We'll get to the big winner of

00:29:42.400 the night, not just the big loser, which was, uh, Joe Biden, but the big winner. Then we'll get to

00:29:46.700 quickly the New York times and Walmart and the mailbag. But first I got to say goodbye to Facebook and

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00:30:08.560 We'll be right back. Second funniest moment of the entire debate. I have to just get to Kamala

00:30:24.580 Harris because Kamala Harris said she finally addressed the central climate issue. Forget

00:30:30.380 fossil fuels, forget sacrificing our babies to the weather gods. The central issue, the plastic straws. 0.79

00:30:36.820 She said, we need to ban the plastic straws. She then admitted the paper straws are terrible.

00:30:41.020 She then laughed nervously, which is her tell when you can tell she doesn't want to answer a question.

00:30:45.720 Do you ban plastic straws? I think we should. Yes. I mean, look, I'm going to be honest. It's

00:30:51.220 really difficult to drink out of a paper straw when you had, if you're just like, if you don't gulp it

00:30:55.620 down immediately, it starts to bend and then, you know, the little thing catches it. And then,

00:31:00.620 you know, but so we got to kind of perfect that one a little bit.

00:31:06.760 Don't make me please. I don't know what I'm supposed to think really bad. She's such a bad

00:31:12.300 candidate. She could have been so good, but she's just really bad on stage. So funny though. Would 0.99

00:31:16.960 you ban plastic straws? Yeah, sure. Doesn't explain why, by the way, people don't know this. The whole

00:31:22.680 plastic straw thing was started by a nine-year-old boy named Milo Kress in 2011, who came up with a

00:31:28.560 completely baseless, evidenceless, bogus number that the U.S. uses 500 million plastic straws a day.

00:31:34.780 And then the way he found that number was he just called a few companies and tried to put a number

00:31:40.040 together, like for a fourth grade report. And then he put this out there and now leading democratic

00:31:45.740 candidates for president are touting it. And we're now not allowed to use our plastic straws. We now

00:31:50.580 need to use those sippy cups, which use more plastic, which is almost certainly just as bad,

00:31:54.880 if not worse for the environment. Neither here nor there. Big winner of the night, Liz Warren.

00:31:58.380 I didn't show any clips from her. Why? Because she played it safe. This is a big loser issue for

00:32:02.780 the Democratic Party. The Democrats should not have agreed to this town hall. Climate change is a bad

00:32:07.840 issue for them nationwide. It's good with their most fervent supporters. It makes them look like

00:32:12.500 absolute lunatics to the rest of the country, to the soft left, the center, and obviously to the right. 0.96

00:32:19.380 Liz Warren knew that going in. She's a really clever candidate. She played it really safe so she 1.00

00:32:23.920 doesn't get any of these pull out stupid moments. Even more bad news for Democrats, 1.00

00:32:28.520 who were, I guess, overall the Democratic Party is probably the big loser and Joe Biden as the face 0.93

00:32:33.320 of it. More bad news for Democrats were not heading for a recession, according to an economist in the

00:32:38.740 New York Times. It's very quickly, I guess it's a chilly day in hell on that climate change headline,

00:32:43.920 a recession is not inevitable, the case for economic optimism.

00:32:47.260 They show in the New York Times the worrisome leading indicators on the economy are real,

00:32:53.180 but so are the sources of resilience that could keep the expansion going. And the guy concludes,

00:32:57.480 there are a lot of risks out there and it makes sense for CEOs and ordinary consumers to be wary

00:33:01.420 of what the future could hold. But for now, a gloomy economic future remains a far from certain

00:33:06.780 possibility. Very important news for Trump. He just, in the last few days, getting funding for the

00:33:12.800 border wall, has just shored up a major vulnerability. The other major vulnerability is the economy. If

00:33:18.320 even the New York Times is admitting that we're not necessarily heading for a recession, they're

00:33:21.920 trying to tamp down expectations for a recession, great news for the White House. Other crazy news,

00:33:27.820 we just have to get to it quickly. Walmart is now banning guns, banning the sale of guns,

00:33:33.200 the sale of ammo, and they're discouraging customers from bringing guns into their own stores to protect

00:33:38.100 themselves. Walmart is a massive, massive corporation, such an American company. Sam Walton

00:33:45.900 creates Walmart. Good old American. Dies in 1992, I believe. The reason I bring up this story is not to

00:33:52.380 show anything about Walmart. I don't care about Walmart. It's to show that in just a generation

00:33:58.500 after the death of the founder, Walmart has so dramatically changed that it is unrecognizable.

00:34:05.320 Sam Walton is probably turning over in his grave. The Second Amendment is the Second Amendment. You

00:34:10.380 know, it's pretty important. It's right there in the Constitution. And even Walmart, that most American

00:34:15.820 of stores, is now ditching it because of public pressure from the left. It just shows you how fragile

00:34:21.540 institutions can be, how good the left is at going in and hollowing out institutions, how little

00:34:26.280 protection there is for them. We need to be careful of that. And when we look, as we've been looking at

00:34:31.940 the 2020 presidential election, we need to be very protective of those institutions of our government,

00:34:37.120 which can change on a dime and increasingly can change radically. Let's get to the mailbag. Very

00:34:43.080 quickly, we're going to fly through them. First question from Richard. Michael, President Trump was

00:34:47.320 elected to expose the media bias. He was also elected to expose the squishy Republicans. Who do you think

00:34:53.520 would be the best Republican candidate to maintain that level of confidence in 2024? Look, Trump was

00:35:00.020 elected for a lot of reasons, two of which are, as you say, it's simply too early to predict who the

00:35:06.880 candidate will be in 2024. If you had asked five years out in 2016, you know, in 2011, who the

00:35:13.720 candidate would be, no one would have said Trump. Even the hardcore conservatives were pretty skeptical

00:35:17.840 of Trump because he'd donated to Democrats and espoused Democratic views, left-wing views for a lot of his

00:35:23.520 life. So just to use a recent example that was floated in the media, it was floated across a few

00:35:31.400 articles that Tucker Carlson could run for president. I'm not saying that's a good idea. I'm not saying

00:35:37.780 it's a bad idea. I'm saying that would be the sort of candidacy that you would expect in a post-Trump

00:35:45.120 world where you no longer need to have held political office for your whole life, where you can be a

00:35:49.600 little more hardcore, where you don't need to be conciliatory and go to all the fancy lunches and

00:35:55.620 be friends with Democrats all of the time. You could see something like that happening. You could see

00:36:00.440 Kanye West running for president. I'm not saying that's a, definitely not saying that's a great

00:36:04.740 idea, but you could see that sort of thing happening. And I think what is important, whoever the candidate

00:36:10.540 is, is that we not buy the lie of the left wing and the squishes that the candidate needs to have gone

00:36:19.400 to exactly the right schools, gone to the right law school, then worked on the Hill or something,

00:36:25.980 then been a fellow at a think tank, and then, you know, speak really nicely about everybody and be

00:36:31.520 really moderate and conciliatory. I use the example of Marco Rubio. All the smart class, whether it was

00:36:37.260 cable news or a kind of coastal media types who are conservatives, thought that Marco Rubio was the

00:36:43.620 great candidate in 2016. When you looked at election analysis, the only people who liked Marco Rubio for

00:36:49.840 president were conservatives and Republicans who live in left wing places. But that's a losing

00:36:55.580 strategy. Doesn't matter what those guys vote for, because their votes are going to go through the

00:37:01.560 electoral college to the Democrat. We need to stop falling into that trap. And I suspect that in the

00:37:08.400 post-Trump future, whoever the candidate is, I don't, I don't think we have any idea what that name is

00:37:13.080 going to be yet. It's going to have to be a candidate that bucks that party establishment, that bucks all 0.98

00:37:20.300 of the false niceness and false politeness in the way that in, in recent memory, only two candidates

00:37:27.880 have done, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. From Brian, Michael, I'm 32 with a seven-year-old daughter.

00:37:34.600 I was not raised with any religion, but over the years, I've begun to understand the importance of

00:37:39.760 religion and community. We want to begin to practice religion, but where do we start? Feels

00:37:44.860 strange to just Google a religion or drop in on a local church and say, we chose this one. Do you have

00:37:50.840 any advice? Yeah, you know where I ended up. I mean, I was an atheist for about 10 years, and then I was

00:37:57.400 convinced of the existence of God in part because of a Calvinist philosopher named Alvin Plantinga. I was

00:38:03.340 friends with many, many Orthodox Jews and would go to a lot of Shabbat dinners. I read the Quran, I think

00:38:10.540 at age 14, mostly because I suspected it was being misrepresented in the mainstream media, and then I

00:38:16.920 ended up now as a Catholic. I returned to the Catholic Church at 23, 24, and I, you know, now attend the

00:38:26.120 Latin Mass and pretty into it, pretty into practicing Catholicism. So I've run the gamut, and you know

00:38:33.120 where I landed. I landed on the Catholic Church, so I, of course, I would suggest that. You might begin

00:38:38.320 by reading C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. This is a really good introductory apologetics book.

00:38:45.580 I would recommend if you are going to try out different churches or try on different aspects

00:38:52.280 of religion, go figure out the differences. You know, if you conclude that God exists, which

00:38:58.480 is the correct conclusion, then you have to grapple with the person of Christ. Is Christ who he says he

00:39:07.280 is? If he is, then you get to the next question. What is the nature of his church? This is a question

00:39:16.040 that was uniform for the first at least thousand years of Christianity. There were different heresies

00:39:21.520 that would pop up, the Aryan heresy, the Marcian heresy, various aspects, which were rejected by the

00:39:26.720 church. Figure out why the church rejected those heresies. Then you get to the question of the great

00:39:32.560 schism between the East and the West, which wasn't really theological, so you don't need to grapple

00:39:36.740 with that as much. Then 500 years later, you get to the Protestant Revolution, and so you can examine

00:39:43.460 those arguments, and then you can examine the arguments against those arguments. I've gone through

00:39:48.300 all of that, and again, you know how I landed, but I think that's the order that you've got to progress

00:39:52.940 in. In the meantime, as you're grappling with that, those intellectual questions and those questions of

00:40:00.700 the constitution of the church, you need to pray, you need to behave as though God exists, and you

00:40:08.420 should find a church. And if your views change, then I guess you can change your church. But the most

00:40:13.060 important thing is don't just keep it in your head. Don't just stew on it in the abstract. You got to

00:40:18.100 do it. From Mitchell, Michael, I teach in a public middle school, and there is a poster in our teacher's

00:40:24.100 lounge that explains how gender and biological sex are completely distinct from each other and are not

00:40:30.000 connected in any way. I've also been told that I need to call one of my students by male pronouns when

00:40:34.660 she is a girl, and I disagree with this message. How do I address this in a public work setting? What are 0.99

00:40:39.460 some tips for supporting my argument? Thanks. Love the show. Well, I'm curious to see what that poster

00:40:43.500 would say about how sex and gender are completely different and not connected at all. I suspect it 0.99

00:40:48.960 just asserts that without actually giving any argument for it, because there is no argument for

00:40:55.040 it. It's merely an assertion. The whole concept of gender as being applied to human beings is a very

00:41:01.220 new concept, and it was really only popularized during the rise of postmodernism. Gender is a grammatical

00:41:08.140 concept. It refers to the nature of words, so they're masculine words and feminine words. You know,

00:41:15.800 in Italian, a good rule is a word that ends in A is feminine, like pizza, la pizza, and a word that ends 0.59

00:41:22.960 in O is masculine. So like cannolo, like cannoli, that's masculine. That doesn't refer to people.

00:41:33.520 Now, gender was applied to refer to people as separate from sex, specifically because of an

00:41:39.460 ideological agenda to separate sex from gender, but that is simply an assertion. That is an

00:41:45.060 assertion of the will. That is not a reasonable argument. Now, if you're being told to refer to up

00:41:51.160 as down or black as white or a woman as a man or a man as a woman, I couldn't do that. I would not do 1.00

00:41:56.940 that. If you don't do that, you might lose your job. That's how far we are into this coercive

00:42:01.880 gender ideology. That's a decision for you to make. You know what I would do, but I'm in a

00:42:07.580 different line of work, and I'm in part in a different line of work because I refuse to make

00:42:11.800 those decisions. I would always ask questions if you really want to change minds. So I'd say,

00:42:18.980 ask somebody, hey, how is it that gender and sex are different? Say, well, because gender refers to

00:42:26.600 your identity and sex refers to your biology. Say, oh, okay. All right. So if gender is just kind 0.73

00:42:33.080 of your identity, then it's just like how you feel, right? I'll say, no. I actually had this

00:42:38.680 debate with someone at an event in Michigan. Say, no, no, it's not just how you feel. It's how you

00:42:43.360 identify. You know, some people are women born in men's bodies. Say, okay, well, if they're born that 0.55

00:42:49.700 way, then it's biological too, right? Then gender is biological. They'll say, no, no, no. Gender is how you 0.99

00:42:55.980 identify. Sex is your biology. Say, okay, well, then where is this identity? Where is the,

00:43:02.820 if, if really, how can you prove to me that you're a woman in a man's body? And one of the arguments

00:43:07.500 they bring up, which is not scientific, but it's become a sort of pop science term is, or pop, pop

00:43:13.200 science notion is that really, if you examine the brains of men and women and transgender men and

00:43:19.180 women, they're very different. And the brains of men who identify as women are closer to women. 0.98

00:43:23.100 And the brains of women who identify as men are closer to men. Again, so much of this is, 0.92

00:43:28.380 is a mealy mouth language because the, the brains of men and women just aren't that different to 0.94

00:43:33.300 begin with. And this is based on very small sample sizes to even suggest this. And even if it were,

00:43:38.940 what would that mean? Am I simply my brain or am I more of my body? What is my identity? But even just

00:43:43.960 take them on the premises. Say, okay, so their brains are, are women's brains, but their bodies are 1.00

00:43:51.860 men's bodies. So then you are saying gender is biological, not merely emotional or, or psychological.

00:44:02.980 Then you were saying that that distinction you made between sex and gender doesn't really exist.

00:44:08.800 The hard distinction between how you identify and your biology. And they're going to get confused by

00:44:13.640 this. And then they might realize that the whole separation of sex and gender is a distinction

00:44:18.540 without a difference. Try to get to one more from Leanne. Dear Michael, podcaster, giant,

00:44:26.180 and philosopher. Wow. What a title. Thank you. Growing up in my time, there were women who stayed

00:44:31.500 home with their kids full time. And today the children are all in daycare because more women 1.00

00:44:35.220 are working. I've been told if I'm a stay at home housewife or a stay at home mom, that I'm not

00:44:41.400 fulfilling my potential. How did this change and why? Well, this changed in part because of World War II

00:44:48.000 when women started to enter the workforce. This changed in part because of the women's lib movement, 0.93

00:44:52.620 which then became known as second wave feminism. This, this changed in part because the more honest 1.00

00:44:59.960 feminists over the past 50 years have said not merely that women should have the choice to work 0.99

00:45:07.820 or to stay at home. The more honest feminists have said women can, I think it was Gloria Steinem, 1.00

00:45:14.040 but I could be getting that wrong. It was one of the very prominent feminists of the last 50 years. 1.00

00:45:18.000 It said, if women have the choice to stay at home, then too many of them will. And this will 1.00

00:45:24.780 compromise other women's ability to go into the workforce. So you, you actually have to discourage 1.00

00:45:30.280 the choice to stay at home. I mean, what is your potential? Depends. Some women thrive in 1.00

00:45:34.760 professional environments and some women thrive at home. Some women sort of can do both. You can't 1.00

00:45:40.380 have it all, but you can do two things at once. So what is your potential? I mean, if,

00:45:45.140 if the potential is you can be a loving housewife and have a beautiful family and have,

00:45:51.100 take care of your husband and be involved in your community and be involved in your church and all

00:45:55.780 those things, that seems like rather fulfilled potential. And if the alternative is that you're

00:46:00.420 a middle manager at the widget factory and you make a lot of widgets and then you die

00:46:03.680 and your husband is on his own. And if you have kids, you know, the kids don't get taken care of

00:46:09.680 or they go to some daycare. I don't, that doesn't seem like fulfilled potential.

00:46:13.860 It changed because of coercion and it changed because of the lies of feminism, which said that 1.00

00:46:21.540 men and women are exactly the same, but also men and women are completely different.

00:46:25.700 And, but also that now, now that we're back at the gender ideology, that men and women are exactly

00:46:31.620 the same again. I mean, it's a, it's an incoherent ideology based merely on the will.

00:46:35.360 Part of that will was coercing women into not being able to stay at home anymore and having 0.98

00:46:39.340 to go to the widget factory. But if you don't want to go to the widget factory and you stay home,

00:46:43.640 you'll be a housewife. You'll have a great life. Worked, worked very well for a long time for a lot

00:46:48.260 of women. That's our show. Come back on Monday. We'll have a whole lot more. In the meantime, 0.99

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 05, 2019

Ep. 410 - Democrats’ Climate Catastrophe

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