The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 537 - American Psychos

00:00:00.380 California Governor Gavin Newsom is ready to reopen shops and schools, but churches are staying closed for the foreseeable future.

00:00:08.020 The reopened plans tell us a lot about the state of American psycho society.

00:00:12.120 Then, Joe Biden gets a big endorsement from the woman who spent decades smearing all of Bill Clinton's sexual victims.

00:00:17.980 China faces new consequences for inflicting this virus on us. 0.99

00:00:21.240 And a surprise candidate enters the race for president.

00:00:23.780 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 We spoke yesterday about my own governor here in California, Gavin Newsom.

00:00:38.480 Newsom just keeps on with the overreaches.

00:00:43.080 The longer that this lockdown drags on, the more and more the science shows us that it's time to start easing up on the lockdown.

00:00:52.860 The more the governor doubles down.

00:00:55.100 Well, the governor, the governor tripled down, quadrupled down yesterday.

00:00:59.160 And his plan for how to reopen in the weeks and months ahead tells us a lot about our priorities in modern American liberal society.

00:01:10.140 He held a big news conference to discuss his plan.

00:01:13.420 Now we turn to Governor Newsom.

00:01:15.100 In 87, Huey released this, Four, their most accomplished album.

00:01:20.540 I think their undisputed masterpiece is Hip to be Square.

00:01:23.920 A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics.

00:01:27.400 But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of friends.

00:01:32.280 It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

00:01:36.020 Hey, Paul!

00:01:36.700 I'm sorry, I got confused again.

00:01:52.820 That was actually Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.

00:01:55.440 It's sometimes I confuse the two.

00:01:58.200 Try getting a reservation at Dorcia now, Newsom 2024.

00:02:02.640 That's going to be the campaign slogan.

00:02:04.060 Here is the actual clip of Governor Newsom explaining his four-part plan for reopening.

00:02:10.780 We believe we are weeks, not months, away from making meaningful modifications to that indicator and in this space.

00:02:20.940 Weeks, not months.

00:02:22.280 You'll ask me, well, is weeks one week or three weeks?

00:02:25.400 Weeks, not months.

00:02:27.000 Again, based upon the data, based upon the indicators.

00:02:31.460 So, weeks, not months.

00:02:34.360 Well, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

00:02:35.820 Okay, good.

00:02:36.440 Maybe Governor Newsom is listening to reason here.

00:02:39.920 Maybe after this unprecedented draconian shutdown that does not appear to have been backed up by a whole lot of evidence,

00:02:46.740 that does not appear to have accomplished much at all, may have cost more lives than it actually saved,

00:02:51.720 or likely may have cost more lives than it saved.

00:02:53.720 Now, it's going to be weeks, not months, right?

00:02:56.520 Not so fast, because Gavin Newsom is going to reopen the California economy, fifth largest economy in the world, in a series of phases.

00:03:06.860 So, what opens, we're in phase one right now.

00:03:09.540 What opens in phase two?

00:03:11.220 Then what opens in phase three?

00:03:13.280 Then what opens in phase four?

00:03:15.500 It tells you everything you need to know about the governor's priorities.

00:03:18.460 So, that's phase one and phase two.

00:03:23.020 Again, retail, logistics, manufacturing, non-essentials, schools that we begin in the summer and preparation,

00:03:31.260 the early falls, child care facilities and centers with strict physical distancing and environmental considerations at hand,

00:03:39.220 workforce protections, customer and consumer protections.

00:03:42.520 There's a third and fourth phase, just four phases.

00:03:45.580 The third phase is personal care.

00:03:48.540 It's the areas around, you know, well, a lot of discussion around gyms and spas and nail salons and people wanting to get haircuts.

00:03:58.020 All of us.

00:03:59.400 Those would fall into the third phase category.

00:04:03.860 Dr. Angel, again, will lay out some details on that.

00:04:07.580 And then, of course, ultimately the fourth phase, which are these highest risk activities, not the higher risk activities in stage three, the highest risk activities.

00:04:18.280 That's the larger public venues, the conventions, the concerts, the larger entertainment venues with crowds that would be in that category.

00:04:28.260 Notice anything missing there?

00:04:29.400 What about the churches?

00:04:32.860 We've got retail shops and schools and daycare.

00:04:36.720 Okay.

00:04:37.140 And then we've got the hair salons and the nail salons and the gyms. 0.98

00:04:40.760 And then we've got the concerts and the big sporting events.

00:04:44.420 What about the churches?

00:04:45.620 Doesn't even cross his mind, does it?

00:04:48.200 Now, you might think, okay, if they're going to open the schools, probably that's about the time they're going to open the churches, right?

00:04:53.920 Like, you'd be wrong.

00:04:55.340 We will get to where the churches fall in all of this, in the open order and in our social priorities.

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00:06:27.560 So Newsom forgot to mention the churches when he talks about reopening.

00:06:34.540 We're in stage one right now, which is basically just a total shutdown.

00:06:38.940 Stage two opens up schools, childcare facilities, retail businesses for curbside pickup, but still

00:06:45.500 reopens the retail businesses.

00:06:47.380 And offices where you can't work from home.

00:06:51.060 These offices are going to be reopened to have employees there.

00:06:53.700 So that's stage two, the churches don't open until stage three.

00:07:00.680 Stage three includes hair salons, nail salons, gyms, movie theaters, and in-person religious

00:07:08.440 services, churches and weddings.

00:07:13.300 So let me get this straight.

00:07:15.840 We can reopen the schools.

00:07:18.000 We can reopen the daycare centers within weeks.

00:07:20.900 But we can't reopen churches for months.

00:07:26.420 He says the schools will be weeks, not months.

00:07:28.620 He says the churches will be months, not weeks.

00:07:31.880 But the virus is just as virulent at school as at church, just as contagious at school as

00:07:39.560 at church.

00:07:41.740 If Governor Newsom wanted to open up the churches, he easily could do that.

00:07:46.560 But he's not going to be opening up the churches anytime soon because he doesn't want to open

00:07:49.900 up the churches.

00:07:50.840 And I know exactly what he's thinking.

00:07:52.600 I know what every secular modern liberal in America is thinking.

00:07:57.080 They're thinking, oh, we got to open up these schools.

00:07:59.700 We got to open up the schools because right now parents have to look after their kids and

00:08:03.280 they haven't made accommodations to look after their kids.

00:08:05.920 We've got a modern economy where everyone's working all the time so they can't look after

00:08:09.620 their kids.

00:08:09.980 Some people can't even feed their kids or maybe they can feed their kids, but they choose

00:08:13.960 not to feed their kids.

00:08:14.720 They rely on the government to feed their kids.

00:08:16.700 And so it's just such a hassle.

00:08:18.320 We got to find somewhere to put these kids. 0.99

00:08:20.240 So we got to, yeah, we got to put them in school or we got to put them in daycare ASAP.

00:08:23.820 But nobody has to go to church, right? 0.99

00:08:26.720 Nobody, I know some like silly old women who are afraid of the dark. 1.00

00:08:31.440 I know that they like to go to church, but okay, you don't, nobody's got to go to church, 0.98

00:08:35.520 right?

00:08:35.620 What happens at church?

00:08:36.480 Nothing.

00:08:37.100 Bunch of hocus pocus superstition.

00:08:38.980 So we're going to keep that closed as long as we can because, you know, we don't want the

00:08:41.600 virus to spread, but the schools, the schools, we have to open the schools.

00:08:49.720 They think it's not important to go to church.

00:08:51.880 They think nothing really happens.

00:08:53.040 It's just this old silly custom that people have that if the government could shut it all

00:08:58.500 down tomorrow, they would because then they'd have fewer viruses spreading around, but they

00:09:02.400 can't.

00:09:02.800 So anyway, we'll put, we'll just put that off for a few months.

00:09:04.640 Now, someone tweet, when I pointed this out, someone tweeted at me and said, oh my gosh, 0.99

00:09:11.500 Michael, you're so crazy. 0.94

00:09:12.680 You think that going to church is as important as going to school. 0.99

00:09:16.380 And that's not true.

00:09:17.160 That's not what I think.

00:09:18.060 I think that going to church is much, much more important than going to school.

00:09:22.760 Okay.

00:09:23.760 Go to church, get eternal life.

00:09:26.780 Hmm.

00:09:26.980 That's pretty good.

00:09:27.540 That sounds pretty good, right?

00:09:28.620 Go to school, learn about 56 imaginary genders. 1.00

00:09:31.900 Uh, if I've got to make a choice there, I'm probably going with the church, right?

00:09:39.080 Go to church, access the sacraments, worship God, contemplate the most profound mysteries

00:09:44.260 of God and man, the received wisdom of all the ages.

00:09:48.280 Go to school, learn about how George Washington was a racist and like really bad and stuff.

00:09:54.120 Hmm.

00:09:54.980 Okay.

00:09:55.420 I think I'm going to go a little bit more on the church side of things.

00:09:58.880 This is, I don't just mean to make fun of Newsom or kind of modern liberals.

00:10:04.840 It actually tells us something profound about it.

00:10:07.120 This is the priority of a liberal society, of a modern liberal society.

00:10:11.520 It's all just about material stuff.

00:10:13.820 It's all just about very practical utilitarian knowledge.

00:10:19.100 We don't contemplate the eternal questions.

00:10:21.080 We don't view ourselves as eternal creatures.

00:10:23.200 We don't view the deeper spiritual questions that, that mankind has contemplated for all

00:10:28.360 of history.

00:10:29.580 What the hell does this tell us about our society?

00:10:33.580 That we're not in a very serious place.

00:10:36.740 Okay.

00:10:37.840 Christians were not the only targets though, of these power hungry politicians. 0.77

00:10:41.760 Bill de Blasio in New York sends out this tweet, quote,

00:10:44.280 My message to the Jewish community and all communities is this simple.

00:10:49.700 The time for warnings has passed.

00:10:51.600 I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in

00:10:59.780 large groups.

00:11:00.560 This is about stopping this disease and saving lives, period.

00:11:04.440 Now, I assume that tweet was just a translation from the original German that Mayor de Blasio

00:11:09.700 gave that out in.

00:11:11.260 What a terrible look.

00:11:12.720 Now, de Blasio in New York, I guess, has had some trouble shutting down the synagogues 1.00

00:11:16.900 because the Jewish community there realizes that these religious questions and the religious

00:11:23.380 fact of life is much more important than going to retail shops, much more important than being

00:11:28.300 able to give your kids to someone else to watch all day long, right?

00:11:32.360 Liberal society doesn't think that way, but traditional religion does think that way.

00:11:37.920 We think it's much more important to deal with the spiritual reality of man than to deal with

00:11:45.520 these physical needs.

00:11:46.600 But liberal society just says the most important thing to do is to consume.

00:11:51.440 You've got to consume products, all that you've got to be able to go to retail shops.

00:11:55.220 How would we survive if we can't consume products?

00:11:58.700 And you've got to be able to indoctrinate the next generation to perpetuate the system.

00:12:04.280 Those are the two things.

00:12:06.140 You're not, the kids aren't learning.

00:12:07.320 It's not like they're receiving a classical education at school.

00:12:09.300 It's not like they're receiving a proper liberal arts education.

00:12:12.060 They're just learning the faddish ideologies of the regime about climate change, environmentalism,

00:12:17.500 about the gender theory, about all these sort of things that perpetuate liberal modernity.

00:12:23.720 And the eternal questions, not only are they not contemplated, they're not allowed to be

00:12:27.280 contemplated.

00:12:27.880 You're not allowed to even read the Bible in schools, which is the most important book ever

00:12:31.160 written that shaped our entire culture. And de Blasio obviously is playing his part in that as a

00:12:37.300 good modern leftist. Now, at the same time as the mayors and the governors and the kind of liberal

00:12:45.380 elite are doubling down on everything, the New York Times is admitting that actually maybe the

00:12:51.940 lockdowns aren't having that big of a health effect at all. There's this article that comes out

00:12:55.360 from, of all places, the New York Times. New York Times says, life has to go on, how Sweden has faced

00:13:03.520 the virus without a lockdown. You remember, basically every country in the world shut down, total lockdown,

00:13:08.640 crash the global economy, except for Sweden. Those Swedes weren't going to hear it. They basically stayed 1.00

00:13:13.600 open. So the New York Times has to admit now, the country was an outlier in Europe, trusting its people

00:13:21.780 to voluntarily follow its protocols. Many haven't, but it does not seem to have hurt them. Swedes,

00:13:28.440 they said, could be trusted to stay home, follow social distancing protocols and wash their hands

00:13:32.540 to slow the spread of the virus without any mandatory orders. And to a large extent, Sweden does seem to

00:13:40.280 have been as successful in controlling the virus as most other nations. So then what have we been doing

00:13:48.680 for the past five weeks? If the lockdowns have not put us in a much, much better position than no

00:13:56.900 lockdowns at all that we see in Sweden, what's the point of the lockdowns? Because by the way,

00:14:01.040 when the virus comes back again, which it will, especially since we don't have a vaccine in sight,

00:14:06.440 Sweden is going to be in a much better position because they're going to have what is called herd

00:14:11.780 immunity or something close to it by the time it comes back again. That's the whole point of not

00:14:16.300 locking down. Times goes on to admit, while other countries were slamming on the brakes, Sweden

00:14:20.920 kept its borders open. Gatherings of more than 50 people are banned, but that's about it. There are

00:14:27.200 almost no fines and police officers can only ask people to oblige. That's it. And yet Sweden is doing

00:14:34.420 just fine. So while not just the many studies that we've talked about on this show over the past few

00:14:41.700 days and weeks, not just the many models that we've looked at that haven't come true, the doomsday

00:14:46.800 models, 2 million Americans did, 4 million Americans did, doesn't look anything like that. As all of the

00:14:52.760 scientific evidence falls apart for the lockdowns, the liberal elites, the mayors and the governors

00:15:00.820 and the journalists double down. Actually, even at the New York Times, the putatively conservative

00:15:07.820 columnist there, Ross Douthat, tweeted out this hot take on the lockdowns. Quote,

00:15:15.140 the fact that Sweden and parts of the U.S. right have converged on the same let the old die for herd

00:15:20.620 immunity approach to the coronavirus demonstrates that Nordic socialism and American libertarianism

00:15:25.960 are the twin faces of late liberalism, siblings, not enemies. Send tweet. He's got this little kind of

00:15:32.600 joke at the end. Send tweet. Here's the first thought that pops into my mind. Now, the point

00:15:37.720 that Ross Douthat made is almost a good point. It's kind of the point we made yesterday, that there's

00:15:44.440 this similarity between hyper individualistic libertarianism and statist liberalism, that

00:15:50.380 actually they're kind of two sides of the same coin. Sure, I guess that point's right. The trouble is

00:15:55.400 what he's observing about what's happening is wrong. He's saying that Sweden and parts of the U.S.

00:16:01.200 have converged on a let the old die for herd immunity approach. Well, that's not what his

00:16:06.520 own newspaper is saying about what's actually happening. Nobody is suggesting let the old die 0.97

00:16:11.960 for herd immunity. What we're suggesting is there's, there's no alternative to the virus working its way

00:16:17.680 through the society. And there's no advantage to the lockdown because we were told to it. There are

00:16:22.440 two points of a lockdown. Don't overwhelm the healthcare system by enough time to get a vaccine.

00:16:26.880 We now know we're not going to get a vaccine anytime soon. We know that the virus is spreading

00:16:31.600 very, very quickly, much faster than people predicted it would. And we know that we're

00:16:36.240 not overwhelming the hospital system. Saw it even in New York, which was the epicenter in the United

00:16:40.420 States. So the lockdowns aren't accomplishing anything. We know people are dying from the

00:16:44.240 lockdowns. People always die when you crash the economy. So we're just saying the lock, there's no

00:16:51.920 point to the lockdowns. The lockdowns are causing more harm than good. That's not this difficult,

00:16:57.200 you know, let the old die so that young people can make more money. That's just a fiction. 1.00

00:17:01.620 That's a fiction now being promulgated by people who got it wrong in the first place. They got the

00:17:06.080 lockdowns wrong. Even when many of us were saying, Hey, maybe we should slow down. Maybe we shouldn't

00:17:10.560 pump the, pump the, or drive rather the global economy to a crash. Okay. I get it. People don't like

00:17:18.880 to be wrong. They hate it when the evidence disproves what they were saying. People have

00:17:23.660 got to move on though. Okay. You've got to react to the evidence in front of you. You can't become

00:17:29.220 so wrapped up in your own ideology that you're ignoring the evidence all around you. I mean,

00:17:35.200 I think we're seeing a lot of that about our, even just our culture. Forget about coronavirus for a

00:17:41.560 moment. The fact that this country, which was founded on religious liberty, which was founded because

00:17:48.120 pilgrims, religious zealots from England sailed across the ocean so that they could practice their

00:17:54.640 own very peculiar form of Christianity, left everything that was known about civilization and 1.00

00:18:01.300 came to a wilderness in the, in the Northeast, in New England to practice their own very odd form

00:18:07.580 of Christianity. And that many other religious groups have done that. And that our, our first

00:18:11.780 amendment gives us certain religious liberties that the country has this religious ethos. The fact

00:18:17.260 that we now think it's more important to be able to drop your kids off at daycare and go consume

00:18:21.980 products at retail stores than it is to go to church. The fact that now our governors think there's

00:18:27.020 no, it doesn't really matter if you go to church. That tells us that something has broken in our

00:18:32.080 culture. There's actually, there's a film out right now, brand new film. It's just on Amazon Prime.

00:18:37.040 It was supposed to go to South by Southwest. It's about this question. It's about how our culture has

00:18:41.280 changed, how it's being reflected on the internet. That movie is called That Feel When No Girlfriend,

00:18:45.940 TFW, No GF. And it's about kind of this 4chan internet meme, incel is the term the media use

00:18:53.860 world that has been created on the internet because of the alienation and the isolation of

00:18:59.360 modern liberal society. We'll get to that in just a little bit. When your culture does not match your

00:19:05.460 ideology, when the reality does not match what you think about reality, you should change your mind

00:19:10.840 because reality is probably the thing to rely on. Oh my gosh, we're seeing this even in sports. I

00:19:18.920 know that there's not a lot going on in sports right now, but there is a story, a Patriots rookie

00:19:26.120 kicker, this guy, Justin Rohrwasser is now being publicly shamed because he has a tattoo in support of

00:19:38.060 the American Revolution. That's how much our culture has been warped. We'll get to that in a

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00:20:55.400 Knowles. All right. You know that I don't know anything about sports, but I do know something about

00:21:01.520 how the American culture has changed and we're seeing that now in sports. This Patriots rookie

00:21:06.120 kicker, Justin Rohrwasser, he has this tattoo and it has the number three and some stars and stripes on

00:21:12.700 that. And this refers to this idea that only 3% of Americans in the Revolutionary War fought for the

00:21:20.620 Patriot side and the rest were either neutral or they supported the British or they wouldn't actually

00:21:25.800 put their money where their mouth is and stand up against British tyranny. This is an idea that's got

00:21:31.180 longstanding in American history. And then this idea of the 3% came up during the Tea Party movement

00:21:38.240 over the last 10, 12 years or so. So this rookie kicker has got that little tattoo on. And now the

00:21:45.120 American culture is trying to shame him, tell him that that's actually racist and bigoted and evil and

00:21:50.840 terrible and awful if he identifies with the American Revolution. So he was brought on a local 0.80

00:21:57.040 news program and he was basically just bullied into removing the tattoo. Here's Rohrwasser.

00:22:04.820 I went on to Twitter and I, I saw the tweet and I saw that someone had taken a picture of me and

00:22:13.380 put it with, you know, my tattoo and linking me to some horrific events. You know, obviously

00:22:21.320 Charlottesville and these horrible things. Why is this just coming up now? I mean, did this come up

00:22:27.360 at all when you were at Marsha? No, no, never. It was, you know, the first time I found out what it was

00:22:34.200 linked to was on, you know, on Saturday. And that's, that's why it was, you know, so, uh, that's,

00:22:40.660 that's why it was so surprising. When did you get the tattoo, Justin? Uh, when, well, when I was 18,

00:22:47.200 I got it and it was described to me as, you know, the percentage of colonists that rose up against

00:22:54.040 the authority and government of the British. And I was like, wow, that's such a, you know, American

00:22:59.240 sentiment, patriotic sentiment. Um, and coming from a military family, I, uh, I thought that really

00:23:08.120 spoke for me and I, uh, you know, I, I, I always was proud to be an American. I'm very proud.

00:23:15.360 Ah, that's the problem. You're not allowed to have any feeling of loyalty to your country anymore.

00:23:20.620 That's the problem. Listen to the way this is being framed saying, well, did you know that you're

00:23:26.740 actually a racist, neo-Nazi skinhead, alt-right fascist, terrible person when you got that tattoo? 1.00

00:23:33.380 And the guy goes, no, I didn't know that. I thought it was the American revolution and the 0.99

00:23:37.460 3% that fought the British and I love my country and I've got a lot of military members in my country

00:23:41.820 and I'm not a bad guy. Why? I'm not allowed to support the American revolution anymore. And no,

00:23:48.300 you're not. The way they link it, they're talking about, uh, all these awful bigots and people and

00:23:55.420 events. Well, I, I did a little look into the 3% thing. I mean, it's a totally disparate group of

00:24:01.580 people. So it's, you know, people can wear it and not even know that there are any organizations

00:24:05.760 called the 3%. But I said, okay, well, maybe look, maybe the 3% organization is actually a bigoted,

00:24:12.580 terrible hate group. Well, I looked into it and after Charlottesville, you know, after the,

00:24:17.340 the alt-right rally at Charlottesville, uh, there was a, a group of the 3% people, which was the

00:24:24.000 national council. And they said explicitly, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group

00:24:29.800 for the, you know, if one or two people who have the 3% tattoo showed up to this thing,

00:24:35.940 they shouldn't do it. Don't do it. We don't support this. We disavow it.

00:24:39.700 And yet this guy is being shamed for it. That's a strange culture. I mean, that, that wouldn't

00:24:44.480 have happened 50 years ago. If you said 50 years ago, yeah, I really support the American revolution.

00:24:50.620 You would not have been shamed out of football, but now football is an, is an anti-American

00:24:54.860 activity, right? We now have league wide protests of the American flag, not just league wide protests

00:25:02.120 of the cops, not just league wide protests of the military, not just league wide protests of Donald

00:25:07.600 Trump, league wide protests of the American flag, which is the symbol of the country itself. In our

00:25:15.020 sporting events and sports are always patriotic. That is in the nature of games of sports.

00:25:21.540 something has gone terribly wrong here. And it's gone terribly wrong in recent years. Something

00:25:29.520 has gone a little bit psycho in our culture. We will get to that. Speaking of psychos in our culture,

00:25:34.800 Hillary Clinton just endorsed Joe Biden. There's no better way to get yourself out of sexual assault 1.00

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00:27:36.420 right back. Joe Biden is breaking out the big guns. He's breaking out Hillary Clinton, which I guess

00:27:55.960 could literally refer to guns. You know, you don't want to end up on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:28:00.960 Allegedly. Allegedly. Look, I'm not making any claims. Okay. Hillary Clinton is now coming out

00:28:06.100 and supporting Joe Biden. I'll give it to you in her own words. I want to send a message to every

00:28:12.220 survivor of sexual assault. Don't let anyone silence your voice. You have a right to be heard

00:28:19.300 and you have a right to be believed. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's an old clip. That was after Hillary spent

00:28:25.440 decades smearing her husband's sexual victims and before she endorsed an increasingly credibly

00:28:31.400 accused possible sexual assailant. So sorry, that was, I don't know. She's kind of moved on past that

00:28:36.440 now. Now she is endorsing Joe Biden. And why is Hillary endorsing Joe Biden? What's the point of

00:28:42.560 endorsing Joe Biden? She actually says the part that you're not supposed to say out loud. She says,

00:28:48.060 like so many other liberals and leftists say that you should never let a crisis go to waste.

00:28:54.400 This is a high stakes time because of the pandemic, but this is also a really high stakes election and

00:29:02.420 every form of health care should continue to be available, including reproductive health care for

00:29:09.900 every woman in this country. And then it needs to be part of a much larger system that eventually 1.00

00:29:17.200 and quickly, I hope, gets us to universal health care. So I can only say amen to everything you're

00:29:26.420 saying, but also to, again, enlist people that this would be a terrible crisis to waste, as the old 1.00

00:29:32.440 saying goes. We've learned a lot about what our absolute frailties are in our country when it comes

00:29:41.040 to health justice and economic justice. So, you know, let's be resolved that we're going to solve

00:29:46.600 those once you're elected president. There is the logic. The reason to endorse Biden is not because

00:29:51.700 Biden is going to make some great president. Joe Biden looks like he's falling asleep during her

00:29:55.680 endorsement. If you watch the clip, the reason to endorse Biden is because this is a good opportunity

00:30:01.800 for a Democrat to win. The economy has crashed because the government made it crash. And so it's

00:30:06.960 a good chance and Joe's the only chance they've got. So, okay, we're going to go and endorse Joe

00:30:11.620 Biden. Obviously, some people are not thrilled about this endorsement, namely Tara Reid, the woman who

00:30:18.480 is accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault decades ago. Here's what Tara Reid had to say about the

00:30:23.740 endorsement. Quote, I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I voted for her in the primary. I'm a lifelong

00:30:29.580 Democrat. But yet, what I see now is someone enabling a sexual predator. And it was my former 0.99

00:30:36.340 boss, Joe Biden, who raped me. Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their 1.00

00:30:42.200 sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct. We don't need that for this

00:30:47.480 country. We don't need that for our new generation coming up that wants institutional rape culture to 1.00

00:30:52.540 change. She added, I will not be smeared, dismissed or ignored. I stand in truth and I will keep speaking out.

00:30:58.520 Now, look, pretty strong statement. Obviously, much more credible than other accusations we've

00:31:05.380 heard against other politicians. We'll get to the comparison in a moment. But she's making some

00:31:09.740 pretty serious claims. Don't forget, we didn't hear anything about this publicly for decades.

00:31:14.100 Then initially, when she came out about a year ago, she said Joe Biden just sort of made her

00:31:18.320 uncomfortable, that he was inappropriate, was very vague. Then she said that he sexually assaulted her.

00:31:23.400 And now she's saying he raped her. Those are, those are different things, right? I mean, it's, 0.97

00:31:27.720 he, he didn't go all the way in terms of the, the accusation that she's making, or at least has been

00:31:33.080 making over the last month or so. But he did, he did, he did do the thing that, ironically, Democrats

00:31:39.200 were upset that Trump joked about. He grabbed her by the you-know-where. And, you know, the Democrats

00:31:44.980 spent four years complaining that Trump joked about that. Now you've got a guy being accused of

00:31:49.060 actually doing that. Then Tara Reid goes on and says that we have a rape culture. That is a claim 1.00

00:31:54.320 that I don't think very many people would agree with, that there's a rape culture in America, that the

00:31:58.920 campus of Harvard University is actually more dangerous for women than downtown Baghdad or something. 1.00

00:32:03.760 I don't, I don't think people really believe that. So we have to keep perspective. We don't want

00:32:08.960 Republicans to just be like Democrats and use this as pure craven opportunism. However, there is some

00:32:16.600 evidence to back up this woman's claims. First of all, Joe Biden, in trying to answer these charges,

00:32:23.340 defending the Hillary Clinton endorsement, answering the allegations against him, he just as usual keeps

00:32:28.840 putting the foot, his foot in his mouth. Imagine the worst phrasing to use if you're trying to change

00:32:38.600 the subject from the sexual assault allegations against you back to a political issue like the

00:32:43.460 economy. Imagine the worst possible word choice. That's what Biden gives you.

00:32:48.880 I would get much more engaged in the world. We can't step back. If in fact, for example,

00:32:53.620 we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don't solve it other parts of

00:32:57.780 the world, you know what's going to happen. We're going to have, you're going to have travel bans.

00:33:01.320 You're going to not be able to do, have economic intercourse around the world. There's a lot.

00:33:06.200 Look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it's America alone. 0.65

00:33:10.340 Economic intercourse. You are trying to change the subject from the sex stuff about you. 0.57

00:33:17.880 You're trying to turn it back to the economy, which is not particularly sexy. That's probably

00:33:21.760 a good idea. Turn it back to that. And so you use the phrase intercourse.

00:33:26.920 That's not even a phrase people use, but Joe Biden just can't help himself.

00:33:32.480 The only reason that he can get away with it, the reason he's so comfortable getting away with it is he

00:33:36.700 knows that the media won't cover it. How long have these allegations been out now? Weeks, months?

00:33:42.220 And yet the mainstream media will not cover it. Actually, the nearest thing we got to anyone

00:33:46.040 covering it was on Telemundo in Spanish.

00:33:50.120 El apoyo llega en un momento en que Biden, senador por Delaware, enfrenta acusaciones de asalto sexual

00:33:56.880 de parte de una empleada de su oficina cuando él actuaba como senador en la década de los 90.

00:34:03.120 My Spanish is not exactly great, but sounds like they're talking about how a former staffer is

00:34:07.540 accusing him of these sexual allegations. You don't see that on CNN. You don't see that on MSNBC.

00:34:13.640 You don't see that on all the stations that aired weeks and weeks of 24-7 coverage over Christine

00:34:21.720 Blasey Ford and Julie Swetnick and Michael Avenatti, all accusing Justice Brett Kavanaugh. You don't see

00:34:27.760 that at all. University of Delaware is covering this up too. University of Delaware has Joe Biden's

00:34:32.940 papers. So if there are documents pertaining to the firing or the departure of this woman,

00:34:39.020 Tara Reid, from the Biden staff, if there are documents pertaining to any kind of settlement

00:34:42.840 or the allegations themselves, they're probably at the University of Delaware. University of

00:34:47.820 Delaware won't open them up. They say the Senate documents are housed by the University of Delaware

00:34:51.580 library. They cover a wide swath of Biden's political career, but they are being kept secret

00:34:55.880 until he retires from public life. Why is that? Probably because there's something a little dodgy in

00:35:02.460 there, some, some ammo for his political opponents. Now the would-be vice presidential candidate,

00:35:08.000 Stacey Abrams for her part, is defending Joe Biden. Here is our future imaginary vice president,

00:35:16.420 who's the current imaginary governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams.

00:35:20.480 Okay. As someone who wants to be his vice president, I think it's important that you,

00:35:23.480 we speak about something that's in the news now.

00:35:25.660 Okay. Hold on. First, one second. I got to take a break there.

00:35:28.140 She's known as the person who wants to be vice president. She's not known as the governor of

00:35:37.000 Georgia because she's not the governor of Georgia. She's not the state representative in Georgia. 1.00

00:35:42.060 She's the woman who wants to be vice president. I love that that is basically the beginning and

00:35:47.740 the end of her reputation. They go on. As you know, there is a sexual assault allegation against

00:35:53.660 Joe Biden. The accuser, her name is Tara Reid, tells CNN that the alleged incident happened in 1993

00:35:59.420 while she was working as an aide in Biden's Senate office. She is claiming that she was delivering

00:36:04.740 Biden a duffel bag and says that Biden had her up against the wall in a corridor on the hill and

00:36:10.040 violated her with his fingers. Now, CNN has now, has now spoken on the record with her former neighbor

00:36:15.820 who says Reid told her about the allegation within a few years of the alleged incident.

00:36:20.480 Biden's campaign says untrue, never happened. Is this a credible allegation?

00:36:27.740 I believe that women deserve to be heard and I believe that they need to be listened to. 0.54

00:36:32.760 But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources.

00:36:38.160 The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible.

00:36:43.560 I believe Joe Biden.

00:36:44.820 I believe that women need to be believed and heard, but just not women who accuse Democrats

00:36:51.000 because the Democrat Party newspaper said that she's a liar. So she's a liar. 1.00

00:36:57.520 And that's why I support Joe Biden. This woman, the cojones on this woman are astounding. I love her. 1.00

00:37:04.960 I hope she gets the running mate nod. I hope that she's going to be around on the national political

00:37:09.600 scene for months and months. She is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's what Abrams said

00:37:13.180 when Kavanaugh was accused in, in a much less credible way. She says, quote,

00:37:19.840 after the courageous and compelling testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford yesterday,

00:37:26.160 it is shameful that Kavanaugh's nomination is being rushed forward. I believe women and I believe

00:37:32.840 survivors of violence always deserve to be supported and to have their voices heard.

00:37:38.120 Let's just do a little side by side comparison. Christine Blasey Ford had no documented relationship 1.00

00:37:46.580 with Brett Kavanaugh whatsoever. Okay. Nothing linking those two people ever. Couldn't name the

00:37:55.100 location or the date of the alleged incident of the party at which this incident took place.

00:38:01.560 Couldn't say who was at the party. Changed her story multiple times. Finally, when she did name

00:38:09.200 a friend who was at the party, the friend said it didn't happen, but she didn't see it happen.

00:38:12.760 None of them couldn't, couldn't corroborate anything. Didn't have a single person to corroborate

00:38:18.320 any part of the story, which had changed many times over the years. Got caught in multiple

00:38:22.740 lies as well. Some of which had to do with strange details like the architecture of her own house,

00:38:29.260 which she said related to this incident. Nothing about her story held up. And she was by far the

00:38:35.020 most credible accuser against Brett Kavanaugh. Compare that to Tara Reade. We know she had a 1.00

00:38:40.680 relationship to Biden because we know she worked on his staff. Her mother called into the Larry King

00:38:46.380 show the very month that she left the Biden staff and talked about some kind of incident involving a

00:38:52.440 prominent U.S. Senator. Tara Reade has a specific allegation that has not changed all that much.

00:38:59.740 And Tara Reade has corroboration from a friend at the time. We talked about her yesterday. The friend

00:39:06.160 said this did happen. Tara Reade is much, much, much more credible than Christine Blasey Ford. The

00:39:15.440 allegations against Biden are much, much, much more credible than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:39:20.040 It is a scandal of the highest proportions that the mainstream media are trying to bury this story,

00:39:25.080 that the New York Times is calling this woman a liar, that CNN and MSNBC will not run it, and that

00:39:31.120 absolute cynical hacks like Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton and every other member of the 1.00

00:39:37.440 Democratic Party are, are saying that this woman is not telling the truth. Okay. My standard of 0.99

00:39:44.220 justice is not believe all women or believe all men. It's follow the evidence and give the accused

00:39:48.400 due process. That's not the left standard of justice. They pretend to be defenders of women, 1.00

00:39:52.820 and then they throw them under the bus. And we knew this during the Clinton era because Hillary

00:39:56.100 was the one who did it. And then I guess some people forgot it for a few years, but it seems to

00:40:00.780 me we're remembering this again. Buzzfeed right now has a piece out. Uh, they, they got the scoop

00:40:06.460 that the Biden campaign is circulating talking points to tell the surrogates to, to say that this

00:40:12.000 woman should not be believed. Okay. Not a great look for his campaign, but it does expose something 1.00

00:40:18.920 about our, our cynical political culture. Uh, now speaking of our cynical political culture,

00:40:24.720 there's a new candidate who's running for president. That candidate, he's not left wing. He's not right

00:40:30.800 wing. He is the libertarian, Justin Amosh, who is a showboater, who is the only Republican in the House

00:40:37.280 who voted to impeach Trump. He's just a big jerk. I mean, he's just a showboating jerk. 1.00

00:40:43.680 And the sad thing about his campaign is that not even his own supporters support him. So, 1.00

00:40:49.040 you know, the bulwark is the kind of leftist conservative outlet. I know that sounds

00:40:53.120 odd, but it's a, it's a, I guess a fair way to put it as a liberal conservative outlet. They're on the,

00:40:59.120 the liberal wing of the Republican party. Um, they have now put out this piece because a lot of these

00:41:06.760 people at the bulwark would support a candidate like Justin Amosh, but they don't like him

00:41:10.340 because they think he's going to take votes away from Joe Biden and they want Joe Biden to beat

00:41:13.440 Donald Trump. Conservatism. So this is the piece headline. Justin Amosh should not run for president

00:41:19.460 in 2020. Uh, Amosh is great, but a third party run could help reelect Donald Trump.

00:41:26.500 We love Justin Amosh. We're what the kids would call Amosh stans. These are the only two people on 0.91

00:41:33.240 planet earth who are fans of Justin Amosh. I suspect including Justin Amosh. We love him

00:41:37.640 because he's the only member of the freedom caucus who didn't abandon everything he believed

00:41:41.540 to pledge fealty to Trump. Yeah, that's right. He just voted to impeach a fairly conservative,

00:41:46.720 uh, president. One of the most conservative presidents we've ever had in our country's

00:41:50.600 history. To be clear, this isn't an easy call. On the one hand, we want to be for him to have the

00:41:54.020 joint satisfaction of getting behind the constitutional superhero of our dreams. But on the other hand,

00:41:59.000 there is a downside risk to his running and the price of a second Trump term is too great for

00:42:04.600 anyone to be playing dice with him. I'm not going to go too hard at the authors of this piece because

00:42:09.000 I worked with one of them on a campaign one time. So I, my point is not to make fun of them. It's to

00:42:13.320 make fun of Justin Amosh. This is what happens when you let your ideology run away from reality.

00:42:20.000 Donald Trump is the most conservative president we've had in decades and decades. And in, by a certain

00:42:26.420 light, probably the most conservative president we've had since Calvin Coolidge. And yet, because

00:42:31.880 people have gotten so wrapped up in their liberal ideology, even people on the right have gotten

00:42:36.300 wrapped up in a liberal ideology. They've made an idol out of that ideology and they can't see the

00:42:40.540 disconnect of that ideology to the culture. Even as things go off the rails in our society, even as we

00:42:46.380 prioritize retail businesses over going to church, even as we prioritize SJWs and leftism over the 0.79

00:42:53.640 American revolution, even as we prioritize some showboating wacko, Justin Amosh over an actual

00:43:01.580 conservative president. That's a big trouble that's been going on. You know, we had, we had this

00:43:06.500 liberal ideology, I guess you'd call it neoliberal ideology, globalist ideology over the past few

00:43:12.020 decades, which cheered on the rise of China. Now guess what happened? China is infiltrating our media.

00:43:17.180 It bought off all of Hollywood. It's infiltrated our institutions of higher learning, most especially

00:43:21.820 Harvard. And it caused this global pandemic and it caused the pandemic, even ignoring the origins of

00:43:28.660 the virus, which seems to have a link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that government lab,

00:43:33.220 just the coverup alone is what caused the pandemic. And some people are still stuck in their

00:43:38.540 ideology. They say, well, rising, rising tide lifts all ships, even when it comes to geopolitical

00:43:43.400 adversaries like China. Fortunately, some people are pushing back. So right now there's some concrete

00:43:47.300 steps. I spoke to Senator Ted Cruz about this on our show together verdict with Ted Cruz,

00:43:52.060 which will be coming out soon. But he is putting forth specific legislation and regulations that

00:43:58.100 will stop China from broadcasting a TV station into the United States to air their propaganda that 0.71

00:44:03.400 will stop China from infiltrating Hollywood, or at least slow it down a little bit. That's the script 0.97

00:44:07.900 act that will knock a major Chinese spy company. I'm sorry. I mean, a telecommunications company

00:44:14.220 called Huawei out of the West, where it's infiltrating the West a lot and where it will

00:44:19.300 reduce Chinese influence at elite American universities. I recommend you go check out 1.00

00:44:23.800 the verdict podcast. When that comes out, we'll go into more detail there. I think this is going to

00:44:30.780 be the challenge, you know, zooming out a little bit when we're talking about coronavirus, when we're

00:44:35.920 talking about the 2020 election, when we zoom out a little bit more and we just look at our culture

00:44:40.120 right now in the Trump era, the post-Trump era, where we go from here. We have all been enthralled

00:44:47.060 to a sort of particular liberal ideology. Democrats and Republicans in many ways, left and right in

00:44:55.520 many ways, have been pushing into this ideology of globalism, neoliberalism, liberal modernity,

00:45:03.020 use whatever, whatever ism you want to describe it. But it's had some effects that are not so great.

00:45:09.180 It's made us all richer, right? All that trade with China, it has, it has in a way made us richer

00:45:13.960 because we get cheaper consumer goods. All this kind of hyper-individualism has made us richer where

00:45:19.140 we feel sort of unleashed to go pursue our own interests. And yet a lot of other aspects of

00:45:25.200 society have crumbled. American solidarity, feeling of loyalty to your countrymen, feeling of loyalty to

00:45:29.820 the founding of your country, you know, the American revolution. A lot of that has fallen apart.

00:45:34.660 A feeling of solidarity to your church communities, which now are being shut down so that you can just

00:45:39.080 go shop more instead, because that's more important. A grounding of our politics in the

00:45:44.440 eternal questions, which, which many people in liberal modernity don't even think about.

00:45:48.160 There has been a social breakdown and decay. And this brings me to a movie that I would highly

00:45:51.980 recommend. It was supposed to premiere at South by Southwest, but obviously that conference is not

00:45:57.700 happening because China gave us a global pandemic. So instead it's airing on Amazon Prime. You can watch it. 1.00

00:46:02.480 If you have Prime, you can watch it for free. The movie is called TWF No GF, which is internet slang for

00:46:10.000 that feel when no girlfriend. And it refers to a specific internet meme and more broadly meme culture

00:46:15.440 of people who feel isolated and alone and are kind of self-described losers and just live in the bowels of

00:46:24.200 the internet. It's a movie by the filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer. It's a first movie. So it's not,

00:46:29.300 not an A plus in terms of the filmmaking. It is actually very good for a first film. But the

00:46:36.020 subject is so important that I think you should check it out. It's a movie about alienated young

00:46:40.500 men. The, the so-called incels or the losers or the people that the left think are going to be all

00:46:47.240 the future school shooters and the, the racists and the bigots and the terrible people. And the movie 0.97

00:46:52.320 is pretty even handed about them. And it, it really shines a pretty, pretty clear and critical light

00:46:59.100 on these guys, how much these guys are serious, how much they're being ironic, how technology and

00:47:07.060 ideology and liberalism and modern society and individualism and social breakdown has led to

00:47:13.680 this phenomenon and what it means for all of us. So obviously the title refers to what you'd say

00:47:20.140 self-described losers, right? This depressive feeling when you don't have a girlfriend and you're,

00:47:24.140 you can't do anything and you're not going anywhere. And it diagnoses all of these ills.

00:47:28.380 It diagnoses broken families, diagnoses the feeling of meaninglessness that a lot of people have in

00:47:33.820 modernity, diagnoses the breakdown of friendship and romantic relationships. So people don't have

00:47:41.380 type real life relationships with people. So they just go online and find communities of people,

00:47:45.980 some of whom are just as isolated and messed up as they are. But it's, it's that virtual

00:47:51.620 relationship, which is not really the same. It can, it can be nice. I have virtual relationships

00:47:55.880 with people, but having a, a, an in-person, physical, tangible, real life relationship with

00:48:01.380 somebody is a different thing. And it, it means something different. A breakdown of social cohesion

00:48:07.060 as a whole, the hypocrisy and an absurdity of political correctness. You know, one thing that a lot

00:48:11.820 of the figures in this movie talk about is they're like, they say that we're, you know, bigots and 0.88

00:48:16.240 racists and sexists. We're just joking. It's just a joke. It's, we're just being ironic here because 0.81

00:48:22.720 our politically correct culture is so intense now that people need an outlet to, to transgress taboos.

00:48:30.120 Young people always want to transgress taboos. You know, if this were, I don't know, 10, 20 years ago, 1.00

00:48:36.240 these would be the emo kids. If this were 30 years ago, these would be the punk kids.

00:48:40.300 People who feel like they don't quite fit into society and increase, the trouble with modern

00:48:44.580 societies, increasingly more and more people feel like they don't fit in because that social

00:48:50.620 cohesion has objectively and steadily and aggressively broken down. Part of it is the

00:48:57.420 irony. You know, we live in a society that's very ironic. That's very cynical. Everything is ironic

00:49:02.500 and cynical, right? Every, everything is sort of sarcastic. If you look at old forms of entertainment,

00:49:07.200 it's very earnest. It's very up and peppy and happy. And, you know, think of like Ricky Ricardo. I

00:49:11.560 remember when I was in Cuba, I saw a performance there and it, I was struck by how earnest it was.

00:49:17.000 People were very enthusiastic because our pop culture in America today is very ironic and

00:49:21.260 lethargic and everything's too cool for school and everyone's kind of, kind of popularly depressed.

00:49:27.780 That tells us something about the culture. And then the ugliness of it. That's the other thing

00:49:31.580 that you just look at certain towns, you look at certain media, you look at, look all around us and

00:49:38.640 our modern culture is ugly. The architecture is ugly. The paintings are ugly. The music is ugly.

00:49:45.540 The fashion is ugly. It's just ugly. We don't have a sense of beauty or order anymore. And 0.97

00:49:51.140 that, that aesthetic reality, what we can see with our own eyes has a relationship to our ideology,

00:49:57.000 has a relationship to what we believe to be true about the eternal questions. When a society just

00:50:03.400 worships sex for sex own sake, then it's, it's not going to be sensuous and, and alluring and

00:50:09.820 beautiful. It's going to be pornographic. When a society just values things to be consumed as 0.97

00:50:16.780 commodities, then we're going to open retail shops before we open churches, right? It's an ugly thing.

00:50:22.040 It's really worth taking a look at this movie. I think it will open your eyes, not even just to this

00:50:27.300 one segment of the internet, this one segment of disaffected young men. It will open your eyes to

00:50:33.220 some of the problems in our American psycho society as a whole. That's our show. I'm Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 29, 2020

Ep. 537 - American Psychos

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