The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 558 - Defund The Rioters

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00:00:40.700 They are trying to defund the police.

00:00:43.620 This is the Democratic response to the riots that are ravaging cities across the country.

00:00:49.180 And they're not just threatening it.

00:00:50.560 It's not just an idle threat.

00:00:51.940 They're actually doing it.

00:00:53.220 The Minneapolis City Council voted overwhelmingly, veto-proof majority, 9 out of 13 members,

00:01:00.240 to defund the police.

00:01:02.020 Because that'll make the situation a lot better, won't it?

00:01:04.660 This is now being threatened not just in Minneapolis, but in cities around the country.

00:01:08.620 We'll get into all of it.

00:01:10.220 Lock your doors.

00:01:11.060 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:11.740 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:12.740 The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:42.720 If I wanted to light my stogie, there are a lot of places that I could do that.

00:01:47.120 But not too many stogies themselves.

00:01:50.900 No places open.

00:01:51.880 When I tried to get to my hotel last night, I was stopped by the National Guard.

00:01:57.360 There was no way for several blocks around my hotel to get there.

00:02:00.640 So then we got out of the car, walked all the way up to the hotel.

00:02:05.220 The country feels like a war zone.

00:02:07.700 Frankly, it's even beyond the country.

00:02:09.560 Obviously, it's in Minneapolis.

00:02:11.200 It's in Los Angeles.

00:02:12.040 It's in Washington.

00:02:13.100 It's in New York.

00:02:13.660 It's all over the place.

00:02:15.540 Rioters, looters, arsonists. 0.77

00:02:17.300 But it's even outside the country.

00:02:18.520 You see images in Brussels.

00:02:20.100 You see images in Paris.

00:02:21.680 It just feels like the whole Western world is on fire.

00:02:24.840 And just when you think, okay, things can't possibly get any worse.

00:02:29.240 That's the pessimistic view.

00:02:31.300 Well, the optimistic view is, yes, they can get worse because the policy that's now being

00:02:35.560 proposed to deal with this is to defund the police departments.

00:02:39.780 This is some radical, radical stuff.

00:02:42.520 Just the latest evidence that no reasonable person can support the BLM movement. 0.61

00:02:48.680 Okay?

00:02:49.400 People think that BLM just means that you think Black Lives Matter.

00:02:52.480 That's not what it means.

00:02:53.920 We'll get into some of the radical aims of BLM.

00:02:56.820 I think people are beginning to wake up to this.

00:02:58.620 Even people on the left.

00:02:59.560 Even people like J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, are waking up to the pernicious

00:03:04.440 effects of radical leftism.

00:03:06.060 We will get into all of that.

00:03:07.880 But first, we've got to start with this cop thing because it's really, really dangerous

00:03:11.780 stuff.

00:03:12.680 And it's being pushed by very high-level politicians.

00:03:16.960 Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative, member of the squad, young socialist in Congress.

00:03:22.720 She is calling explicitly to defund the cops.

00:03:27.000 I will never stop saying, not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need

00:03:33.960 to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.

00:03:36.980 The Minneapolis Police Department is rotten to the root.

00:03:51.040 And so when we dismantle it, we get rid of that cancer and we allow for something beautiful

00:03:58.600 to rise.

00:04:00.060 And that reimagining allows us to figure out what public safety looks like for us.

00:04:06.780 Now, of all the crazy things that she just said, of all the scary things she just said,

00:04:10.900 it's this last one that worries me the most because I think a lot of left-wingers are

00:04:14.580 forgetting that the Committee of Public Safety is the name of the French revolutionary group

00:04:21.560 that chopped everybody's heads off during that war.

00:04:23.800 Maybe they do remember that.

00:04:25.020 Actually, maybe it's not such an accident.

00:04:27.520 This kind of language is not the sort of measured statesman-like language that we're used

00:04:31.960 to hearing, or people saying, well, look, the police have problems maybe, but we need

00:04:35.940 to reform them.

00:04:36.940 No, they're past reform.

00:04:38.620 They want to dismantle the whole thing because they think that they're vicious and vile and

00:04:42.840 they're killers. 0.63

00:04:43.700 They use that word killers, and it's not just, obviously, Ilhan Omar is very far left-wing.

00:04:49.240 She's a huge radical. 0.98

00:04:50.360 But even the ostensibly moderate, measured statesman-like mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti,

00:04:56.840 went out.

00:04:57.220 He gave a public speech at an AME church in Los Angeles, and he explicitly called the cops

00:05:03.560 killers.

00:05:05.140 I got calls from mayors around the country, some of them saying, I'm so excited, and the

00:05:08.380 other ones saying, what the hell did you do?

00:05:10.020 Now, I got to shift money.

00:05:11.880 That's exactly the point.

00:05:13.100 It starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be, or we're going to

00:05:17.800 continue being the killers that we are.

00:05:20.580 Going to continue being the killers that we are.

00:05:22.680 That's disgusting stuff.

00:05:24.020 You ask people to serve to protect your community.

00:05:27.580 That's what the police are.

00:05:29.440 Now, there's a narrative that's developed on the left, all the way up to the highest

00:05:33.260 levels of the left, that the cops are these thug killers who are slaughtering people largely

00:05:38.160 on the basis of their race.

00:05:39.520 We spoke last week at length about that, how that is not true.

00:05:44.380 When you actually look at the number of unarmed black men who were killed by police departments

00:05:50.780 across the United States, the number is vanishingly small.

00:05:53.960 And don't forget, unarmed does not necessarily mean not dangerous.

00:05:58.380 Unarmed does not necessarily mean that a killing would not be justified by law enforcement.

00:06:02.920 But what do we think the number is?

00:06:04.720 The way that they're talking, people think the number is 9,000 unarmed black men killed

00:06:09.460 by cops every year.

00:06:10.240 Well, it's not 9,000.

00:06:11.340 It's not 900.

00:06:12.160 It's not 90.

00:06:13.020 The number is actually nine.

00:06:14.660 And as other commentators have gone through, we've gone through on this show, even among

00:06:19.220 those nine people, the killings in many cases were justified.

00:06:23.180 And the killings are not always white cops killing black suspects.

00:06:26.300 So it's just a completely false narrative that is so disrespectful to people who are actually

00:06:30.840 protecting communities.

00:06:32.080 But these politicians are so craven that they're willing to push that narrative.

00:06:36.260 Now, some politicians don't want to go so far as to say, we need to completely defund

00:06:40.940 the cops, right?

00:06:41.460 Some are still trying to walk that line of aggressing and race hustling and antagonizing

00:06:47.520 people and not going all the way of disrupting and dismantling the police department.

00:06:53.100 That would include Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry.

00:06:57.340 Jacob Fry, who has been ridiculous this whole time, kowtowing this whole time to Black Lives 0.98

00:07:04.480 Matter, the movement, not the statement.

00:07:06.440 He went into a group of these Black Lives Matter protesters and he was asked point blank, will

00:07:14.640 you defund the police?

00:07:15.880 Their reaction, his reaction tells you a whole lot about the situation.

00:07:18.960 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:08:38.640 So Jacob Fry, he wants to walk the line.

00:08:41.920 What Jacob Fry is doing is what I think a lot of moderate Democrats or even some moderate

00:08:48.020 Republicans in this country want to do.

00:08:49.920 He wants to accommodate the radical leftist Black Lives Matter movement.

00:08:55.300 He wants to entertain their wishes.

00:08:58.180 He wants them to like him.

00:08:59.900 He thinks there's some accommodation to be made between the radical leftist Marxist.

00:09:06.240 How many isms can I possibly fit into this radical movement, BLM movement, and normal 0.95

00:09:13.380 policymakers in this country?

00:09:14.600 And he quickly found out that that is not possible.

00:09:16.980 So initially, Fry walks up to them and he tells them how much he supports their movement.

00:09:23.760 We have to take responsibility here.

00:09:27.700 I've been coming to grips with my own brokenness in this situation, my own failures, my own

00:09:34.320 shortcomings, and I know there needs to be deep-seated instructional reform in terms of

00:09:40.760 how the department operates.

00:09:43.800 The systemic, the racist system needs to be revamped.

00:09:47.920 The police union needs to be put in its place.

00:09:53.020 We need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way that the arbitration

00:09:58.680 functions to the way that our officers and the culture and the department behaves.

00:10:04.800 Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.

00:10:08.420 Hey! 0.99

00:10:08.660 Okay, so she, this woman, this activist, takes over at this point.

00:10:13.300 But listen to what Fry does so far.

00:10:15.780 Fry grants all their premises.

00:10:18.280 What are the premises?

00:10:19.240 The cops are systemically racist.

00:10:20.940 The cops hate black people.

00:10:22.400 The cops are unjust.

00:10:23.880 The cops are no good, dirty, rotten, terrible people.

00:10:26.860 And then he says, we need to reform it.

00:10:30.700 You know, if the cops are so rotten as Jacob Fry says that they are, how could you possibly

00:10:35.260 reform it?

00:10:35.860 If they are systemically racist, systemically, not just incidentally, once or twice, every

00:10:41.580 so often, but systemically racist, then how are you supposed to reform that thing?

00:10:47.220 Oh, it's just the police unions.

00:10:48.480 Put them in their place.

00:10:49.640 He's using all this negative language.

00:10:51.580 And this activist woman, very wisely, says, okay, you're going to talk a good game, Jacob

00:10:56.280 Fry.

00:10:56.860 Well, let me ask you a yes or no question.

00:10:59.900 Because things are so bad, will you or will you not disband the police?

00:11:05.980 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, fist up, fist up, y'all, fist up.

00:11:16.840 Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.

00:11:20.480 Yes or no, will you commit to defunding Minneapolis Police Department?

00:11:25.700 Yes or no.

00:11:27.080 What did I say?

00:11:28.320 Yes.

00:11:28.720 We don't want no more police.

00:11:32.140 Is that clear?

00:11:33.480 We don't want people with guns toting around in our community, shooting us down.

00:11:38.380 You have an answer.

00:11:39.840 It is a yes or a no.

00:11:41.620 It is a yes or a no.

00:11:44.260 Will you defund the Minneapolis Police Department?

00:11:47.400 Yes.

00:11:47.800 Yes.

00:11:49.280 All right.

00:11:50.040 Be quiet, y'all.

00:11:50.920 Be quiet.

00:11:51.620 Because it's important that we actually hear this.

00:11:54.840 It's important that we hear this because if y'all don't know, he's up for re-election next year.

00:12:01.480 If y'all don't know, he's up for re-election next year.

00:12:05.580 And if he says no, guess what the f*** we gonna do next year?

00:12:13.000 Now, at this point, at this point, I am just pleased that this woman still has any respect at all for elections. 1.00

00:12:20.400 Because the way that they're speaking is the way that revolutionaries speak.

00:12:24.320 I've been to a lot of radical leftist events.

00:12:26.720 I've covered them.

00:12:28.040 I've antagonized them.

00:12:30.000 Sometimes I've done both, but I've mostly antagonized them.

00:12:32.540 All right.

00:12:32.720 And I've heard the way that they speak.

00:12:34.600 I've been to radical Marxist events.

00:12:37.700 This is how they talk.

00:12:39.340 This is radical Marxism.

00:12:40.920 Okay.

00:12:42.920 Dismantling the police is one of the key features of this.

00:12:46.140 It's because they view the liberal capitalist state as intrinsically oppressive.

00:12:52.280 And it's the cops are the enforcers of that.

00:12:54.640 So the first key to overthrowing the entire government, overthrowing the entire society,

00:12:58.900 is to dismantle the cops.

00:13:01.800 That's what they say that they want to do.

00:13:04.900 And so this woman takes control. 1.00

00:13:06.140 She goes, enough of this mealy-mouthed nonsense. 0.99

00:13:08.500 Are you or are you not gonna do it?

00:13:10.180 Because if you don't, we're gonna vote you out.

00:13:11.800 Thank goodness she still gives some legitimacy to elections. 1.00

00:13:15.860 Although, frankly, I don't know how much longer that's gonna work.

00:13:18.980 So she gives him a simple question.

00:13:21.660 He gives a simple answer.

00:13:22.920 No, he doesn't want to defund the cops.

00:13:25.800 And the crowd loses it.

00:13:27.080 So he's gone.

00:13:53.500 This huge crowd chases him out of there.

00:13:55.960 In some ways, I give him credit because it is pretty scary to go into a crowd like this.

00:14:00.840 But this guy thinks, this guy thinks what so many squishes in both parties think,

00:14:06.500 which is that they think Black Lives Matter is just about Black Lives Matter.

00:14:10.580 That's what they think.

00:14:11.080 It's just, oh, Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:14:12.100 I agree with that.

00:14:12.740 So therefore, I agree with these guys.

00:14:14.300 Doesn't realize how extremely far left they are.

00:14:17.280 And he thinks that an accommodation can be made.

00:14:21.840 Some kind of coming together, kumbaya, we'll meet in the middle, compromise.

00:14:27.840 No, ain't gonna happen.

00:14:29.260 There are three levels of Black Lives Matter demands, okay? 0.62

00:14:35.120 Don't forget, Black Lives Matter is an organization.

00:14:37.240 It has a website.

00:14:38.320 It has a list of demands.

00:14:39.540 It has a who we are page.

00:14:40.880 You can go to blacklivesmatter.com, I think it is.

00:14:43.020 Dot com or dot org.

00:14:43.920 One of the two.

00:14:44.740 You can go to the website.

00:14:46.700 Here's what you expect them to say.

00:14:49.560 They say, okay, they want to expose and prevent police brutality.

00:14:52.200 They want to stop unjust deaths at the hands of vigilantes.

00:14:55.980 They want to stop the general racism that threatens black lives.

00:14:59.860 Okay, right?

00:15:00.340 Yeah, totally.

00:15:00.860 We all get that.

00:15:01.460 We all agree with that.

00:15:02.880 This is a little bit less what you expect, but still within the realm of understanding.

00:15:09.000 They're black identitarians. 0.95

00:15:10.920 In the same way that you have white identitarians, they are black identitarians. 0.53

00:15:14.000 They say, we're unapologetically black, capital B, in our positioning.

00:15:18.480 And the capital B matters here, right?

00:15:19.720 They're not just saying we're one group of Americans.

00:15:22.460 They're saying we're black.

00:15:24.500 This is a separate thing.

00:15:26.140 In affirming that black lives matter, we need not qualify our position to love and desire 1.00

00:15:29.880 freedom and justice for ourselves as a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

00:15:33.580 Here's the money line.

00:15:34.540 We see ourselves as part of the global black community, and we're aware of the different

00:15:38.980 ways we're impacted or privileged as black people who exist in different parts of the world.

00:15:43.040 So already, you hear a little bit of this more Marxist language all around the world,

00:15:48.180 transnational, not focusing on bonds of national loyalty, not saying we're Americans, we love

00:15:54.140 America.

00:15:54.860 No, they're saying we're part of the global black community, black people of the world

00:15:58.200 unite, getting a little bit more of an explicit Marxist message, but still within the realm.

00:16:02.740 Okay, it's called Black Lives Matter.

00:16:03.820 Obviously, it's going to have a little bit of a black identitarian component to it.

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00:18:00.200 So basic stuff.

00:18:01.660 Yeah, we don't like racism.

00:18:04.220 Okay, fine.

00:18:04.940 Second level, we do like racism in the sense that we have more racial solidarity than national

00:18:09.740 solidarity.

00:18:10.660 Okay, still understandable.

00:18:12.120 This is boilerplate left-wing stuff.

00:18:14.320 Then the crazy stuff.

00:18:16.360 This is from the Black Lives Matter website.

00:18:17.920 We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift

00:18:23.940 black trans folk.

00:18:26.660 Huh?

00:18:27.600 What?

00:18:28.460 So, look, don't mistake this.

00:18:31.360 They're not intersectional in the way that leftist politics usually is.

00:18:35.580 Saying like, yeah, you know, the Hispanics have something in common with the Muslims have

00:18:39.240 something in common with the lesbian tap dancers have something in common.

00:18:42.740 All the disparate oppression groups that then can go and attack the oppressor group of straight

00:18:49.760 white men who think that they're men who come from money, who could write on and on and on.

00:18:54.060 That's not what's happening.

00:18:55.300 Every qualification here, trans, women, it's all about being black, which is in a way a 1.00

00:19:01.000 little bit refreshing in leftist politics because it's a little more old school.

00:19:04.660 It's a little more old school Marxism than whatever has been happening for the last few

00:19:09.000 decades.

00:19:09.420 They say, especially, we want to protect black trans women who continue to be disproportionately

00:19:14.260 impacted by trans antagonistic violence.

00:19:16.720 All this language, cisgender privilege, trans folk is the language of radicals. 0.98

00:19:22.220 We build a space that affirms black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments

00:19:27.260 in which men are centered.

00:19:28.680 Okay, getting more into the sexual politics.

00:19:30.960 We practice empathy.

00:19:32.060 We engage comrades, comrades to the intent, with the intent to learn about and connect

00:19:39.340 with their contexts.

00:19:40.480 Comrades, an explicitly communist term.

00:19:43.900 We make our spaces family friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children.

00:19:47.820 We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work double shifts.

00:19:52.960 Okay, so now the patriarchy is involved here.

00:19:55.360 And then this is the money line.

00:19:56.800 We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each 0.95

00:20:05.680 other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially

00:20:10.220 for our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

00:20:14.360 If you support the nuclear family, then you are standing in opposition to Black Lives Matter. 0.85

00:20:23.860 The Western prescribed nuclear family, as they put it.

00:20:28.260 And then we foster a queer affirming network.

00:20:32.080 When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative

00:20:36.000 thinking, or rather the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless she, he, or

00:20:41.560 they disclose otherwise, right?

00:20:43.320 It's the same kind of sexual revolutionary language.

00:20:48.120 It is not possible to be a conservative and to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

00:20:53.280 It is not possible to be a reasonable person and support the Black Lives Matter movement. 0.77

00:20:57.560 A lot of conservatives, even conservatives, a lot of reasonable people think they support

00:21:03.600 the Black Lives Matter movement because they think that Black Lives Matter and they think

00:21:06.540 the Black Lives Matter movement is about how Black lives matter.

00:21:09.380 That's not what it's about, okay?

00:21:10.620 I think the best analogy would be what they do in Congress.

00:21:13.640 You know, I'm looking down the street.

00:21:14.740 I can see the Capitol down the street.

00:21:16.280 This is what they do in Congress.

00:21:18.220 Whenever there's a really bad bill, really ugly, awful legislation that is really harmful

00:21:24.680 to people, they give it a really nice sounding name.

00:21:27.740 So you can almost judge how bad a bill is by how nice the name sounds.

00:21:34.760 They will cram in the worst policies ever and then they'll call the bill the Don't Murder

00:21:40.160 Puppies Act of 2020.

00:21:43.660 And they'll say, okay, Congressman, are you going to vote for the Don't Murder Puppies

00:21:47.040 Act of 2020?

00:21:47.880 And then you're in a bad spot because you say, actually, that bill is really terrible

00:21:51.880 and it includes all this stuff that everyone's going to hate and it's going to destroy all

00:21:54.740 of our lives.

00:21:56.640 But they'll say, but it's called the Don't Murder Puppies Act. 0.95

00:21:58.580 So you got to support it.

00:21:59.380 It's the same thing with Black Lives Matter.

00:22:00.820 They'll say, hold on, you don't support Black Lives Matter?

00:22:02.520 What are you, a racist?

00:22:03.720 What are you, a bigot?

00:22:04.880 What are you, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Klansman, Nazi supremacist?

00:22:11.700 You say, no, I just, you know, I don't think we should destroy the family.

00:22:16.380 So I can't, they tell me that if I support the family, I can't support BLM.

00:22:21.560 And that's true.

00:22:23.040 That's exactly what's going on here.

00:22:25.160 And I get it.

00:22:26.040 There are a lot of people who posted the stupid square on social media because basically everybody

00:22:30.500 pressured them into doing it.

00:22:31.840 And you don't want to lose your job if you didn't do it and you thought it meant that

00:22:34.640 you support Black people.

00:22:35.620 It's not what it means.

00:22:36.560 Do not support Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:22:38.340 No one should support this terrible, terrible, radical, leftist, disastrous, awful, how many

00:22:45.560 more bad adjectives can I use?

00:22:47.620 Organization.

00:22:49.200 It's not possible to support your country, to support your family, to support any sort

00:22:55.060 of reasonable politics and support this radical movement.

00:22:57.300 And they should be shunned from the mainstream of radical politics before they do even more

00:23:01.340 damage.

00:23:01.780 Like, for instance, destroy the cops.

00:23:05.140 We have got to get to more terrible things they're doing because now they're trying to

00:23:08.320 push legal discrimination in corporate America.

00:23:12.540 Now they're trying to get rid of your cop shows on TV.

00:23:16.060 And some people, even the woke left, are beginning to wake up.

00:23:18.640 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:24:37.940 So it's not just about even dismantling the cops, though that's a pretty bad one.

00:24:43.360 There's now, in the name of anti-racism, a lot of racism that's being pushed.

00:24:49.540 Maybe you found this when you were ordering out Uber Eats over the weekend.

00:24:53.280 Uber Eats is now waiving delivery fees for black-owned businesses.

00:24:59.660 What is a black-owned business?

00:25:01.100 I don't know.

00:25:01.500 Something tells me, though, all of a sudden you're going to see a lot of companies start

00:25:04.740 giving out 0.00001% of equity to some black person so they qualify for this so that they 1.00

00:25:10.900 can now get the free delivery on Uber Eats.

00:25:13.520 Here's what the CEO of Uber Eats said.

00:25:15.420 Dara Kozroshah Shahi.

00:25:19.200 As a company, we believe that everyone has the right to move freely no matter where they

00:25:22.820 live or the color of their skin.

00:25:23.920 We're proud of how Uber has helped improve transportation equity over the last decade.

00:25:28.840 Transportation equity.

00:25:30.180 I guess that's a new liberal slogan that we've got to add to the list.

00:25:34.180 Transportation equity.

00:25:35.920 But the reality remains that black Americans often don't feel safe to move freely in many

00:25:39.500 places around the country, and they still face enormous barriers that others do not.

00:25:44.680 So Uber now is focusing on their main business, which is a taxi cab business, basically.

00:25:50.660 And they're saying, look, we care a lot about black people in black communities, and we've

00:25:53.780 helped them to move around freely.

00:25:55.500 I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others

00:26:00.320 weren't so violently cut short.

00:26:02.780 I wish that institutional racism and the police violence it gives rise to didn't cause their

00:26:08.440 deaths.

00:26:09.460 So corporate America buying into the lie that there is a systemic scourge of racist cops

00:26:17.960 slaughtering innocent black people around the country. 0.90

00:26:21.360 Not true.

00:26:22.220 Not backed up by any statistics.

00:26:24.560 Completely imaginary and causing real harm in the real world, but you got corporate America

00:26:28.200 backing it up too.

00:26:29.060 There's this lie that the left believes that corporate America is very, very conservative.

00:26:36.100 Corporate America pushes leftism.

00:26:39.740 Corporate America, at the very least, rolls over for leftism, whether it's based on lies,

00:26:45.480 whether it's based on the lie that men can become women.

00:26:48.120 The minute that that becomes in any way a social movement, corporate America rolls over, gets

00:26:54.040 rid of same-sex bathrooms, forces everybody to go through brainwashing trainings where

00:26:58.640 we all recite endlessly that men really are women or else you'll be written up by HR or

00:27:02.420 something like that.

00:27:03.440 Same thing here.

00:27:04.320 The minute it becomes part of a social movement that cops are racist and terrible and slaughtering

00:27:07.520 people willy-nilly based on their race, then they just start spouting this.

00:27:11.360 And by the way, if you go around the water cooler at your office and you contradict this

00:27:14.720 in any way, you could lose your job.

00:27:16.120 We spoke offline, so you can check it out.

00:27:19.040 It wasn't on the show, but it was on my YouTube channel, on the Michael Knowles Show YouTube

00:27:22.120 channel.

00:27:22.400 We spoke to a friend of mine, Tim Gordon, the author.

00:27:25.400 He was teaching at Catholic high school.

00:27:26.840 He pointed out how radical Black Lives Matter is.

00:27:29.180 He said he didn't support them because, for instance, they want to destroy the family.

00:27:33.660 He was fired for that.

00:27:35.620 The Catholic high school.

00:27:36.540 Which ostensibly believes exactly what he believes, but they don't really.

00:27:41.620 That's corporate America pushes this.

00:27:44.180 It's not just the government.

00:27:45.840 And so now Uber Eats is giving free delivery to Black-owned businesses.

00:27:49.800 This is basic racial discrimination.

00:27:52.560 This is almost certainly against the law.

00:27:55.240 And it's funny because I pointed this out on Twitter.

00:27:57.320 I said, this is obviously against the law for this business to discriminate on the basis

00:28:02.820 of race.

00:28:03.340 And I had lawyers quibbling with me in the comments section.

00:28:07.160 And one lawyer or some liberal lawyer says, this is, that's ridiculous.

00:28:10.540 This is not discriminatory.

00:28:12.120 This is not a violation of the law.

00:28:14.380 And then you had more conservative lawyers saying, you know, yes, it is based on the Civil

00:28:17.280 Rights Act, based on Title VII.

00:28:19.720 My point is actually beyond any of that.

00:28:21.560 Now, the law is how we interpret the law, okay?

00:28:25.540 We know that there have, but we talked about this last week a little bit too.

00:28:28.860 There's the written law, and you can quibble over the written law every single day.

00:28:31.860 Then there's the practical law, the way the law is actually enforced.

00:28:35.560 And the applications of the Civil Rights Act now govern virtually every aspect of our law.

00:28:40.700 So the way that I know that this is illegal or would be illegal on the letter of the law

00:28:46.220 is imagine, imagine if Uber Eats flipped it.

00:28:52.360 Imagine if Uber Eats said, we're going to give free delivery for white-owned businesses, 1.00

00:28:58.460 and we're going to charge delivery fees for black-owned businesses.

00:29:01.660 Can you even imagine the lawsuits?

00:29:04.200 But the minute they announced that, their phones would explode from the lawsuits that

00:29:10.660 would be coming in, from the complaints that are coming in.

00:29:13.460 I guess probably the way the lawsuits would come in is that you get a knock on the door.

00:29:16.080 But it would explode instantly.

00:29:18.680 Now, is it going to explode because it's the other way around?

00:29:21.820 Probably not.

00:29:22.540 I mean, there is an irony to all of this, which is if we're talking about actual legal racism,

00:29:27.880 there's only one policy in the country that permits legal discrimination and actually encourages

00:29:32.520 it, and that's called affirmative action, which is not legal racism in the way that the leftist

00:29:39.300 activists are saying that it is.

00:29:41.200 Actually, it disadvantages the other people who are supposed to be the oppressors.

00:29:44.060 And most of all, it actually disadvantages Asian students, which is why Asian students 1.00

00:29:48.300 sued Harvard University because they said that there were discriminatory admissions practices

00:29:53.020 that disadvantaged Asians on the basis of their race and helped other races on the basis

00:29:57.700 of their race.

00:29:58.220 That is legal racial discrimination, not according to the left-wing narrative.

00:30:04.760 But that's what we're seeing.

00:30:05.680 And that practice is permitted. 0.92

00:30:07.360 Affirmative action has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

00:30:09.600 So very likely, the same thing would happen to something like Uber Eats.

00:30:13.600 Doesn't make it right.

00:30:15.180 Doesn't make it legal according to the letter of the law.

00:30:17.600 But where we are right now is in this radical movement.

00:30:21.620 And I got to tell you, folks, you thought two months ago that things couldn't get crazier in

00:30:25.780 politics, then left-wing activists started torching cities, then Ilhan Omar talks about

00:30:31.960 defunding the police.

00:30:32.840 And it looks like they're actually doing it.

00:30:34.360 Then she talks about the Committee of Public Safety.

00:30:36.500 You know, things happen gradually, then suddenly.

00:30:40.660 And we are moving into some unchartered, radical territory here.

00:30:46.920 We'll see how far it goes.

00:30:48.460 The Washington Post has one solution to the problem.

00:30:50.800 We'll get to that in one second.

00:30:52.360 Cancel police TV shows, which frankly is a step too far.

00:30:56.160 You can get rid of my cops, but you cannot get rid of my law and order.

00:30:59.960 I love law and order.

00:31:00.760 It's the best way to just turn your brain off at the end of the day.

00:31:03.980 We'll get to that.

00:31:05.320 We'll get to some woke leftists waking up.

00:31:07.620 Sean King, believe it or not.

00:31:09.540 Sean King, a very left-wing, pro-BLM activist.

00:31:14.680 Kind of getting a little bit more woke on all of this.

00:31:18.020 J.K. Rowling.

00:31:18.820 We'll get to that in just a bit.

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00:32:41.320 WAPO has the answer.

00:32:43.800 Shut down cop shows now.

00:32:46.340 I kid you not.

00:32:47.360 This is their solution to alleged police brutality.

00:32:50.700 Like many other industries, entertainment companies have issued statements of support

00:32:54.020 for the protests against racism and police brutality now filling America's streets.

00:32:58.220 But there's something Hollywood can do to put its money where its mouth is, immediately

00:33:01.760 halt production of cop shows and movies and rethink the stories it tells about policing

00:33:05.320 in America.

00:33:06.200 The reason I mention this is to just point out the difference between the fantasy of how

00:33:11.900 the world is working and the reality of it.

00:33:13.620 In the fantasy version of the world, cops have a ton of power.

00:33:18.480 Cops are vicious.

00:33:19.980 They're slaughtering people on the basis of their race. 0.66

00:33:22.420 There's no way for us to stop them.

00:33:24.180 So we got to muster all the power of the people and try to crack their oppressive power structure.

00:33:30.020 In reality, the opposite is true.

00:33:31.820 In reality, right now, everybody hates the cops based on nothing, based on a completely

00:33:37.580 fictional narrative, so much so that they're actually trying to write the cops out of popular

00:33:42.500 culture.

00:33:42.900 Even though cops are getting sniped left and right during these riots, cops' lives are

00:33:48.160 not considered to matter at all by the popular culture.

00:33:51.460 Cops go out.

00:33:52.380 They serve.

00:33:53.260 Are there some bad cops every once in a while?

00:33:54.900 Sure.

00:33:55.160 But the vast, vast majority are good people trying to help the country out.

00:33:58.800 They get no respect.

00:34:00.220 They get no support now, even from the popular culture.

00:34:02.940 Some people are waking up to this.

00:34:04.240 Even Sean King, who is one of the BLM leaders, Sean King is pointing out that, hey, wait a

00:34:10.580 second, guys.

00:34:12.560 We are sort of the power structure.

00:34:15.620 Because they all say, you've got to go out and vote.

00:34:17.340 You've got to go out and vote for Democrats.

00:34:18.580 He says, wait a second.

00:34:19.180 Quote, stop generically telling us to vote in response to all of the police brutality

00:34:23.940 we have right now.

00:34:25.360 Yes, we should vote.

00:34:26.320 But we have to be very specific.

00:34:27.980 Democrats from top to bottom are running the cities with the worst police brutality in

00:34:31.760 America right now.

00:34:32.860 We voted for them.

00:34:34.680 Thank you.

00:34:35.900 Thank you, man.

00:34:37.540 Look, I actually wasn't even able to see that tweet initially because Sean King blocked

00:34:41.140 me on Twitter because I'm too mean to him, I think, usually.

00:34:44.420 But I was able to see the tweet on like incognito windows.

00:34:46.960 Somebody sent it to me.

00:34:48.100 And he's right.

00:34:49.180 He's right.

00:34:50.900 But maybe this is baked into the cake.

00:34:52.680 Maybe the reason that the left is causing this destruction, the left is encouraging this

00:34:59.300 mayhem, is to tighten their own power.

00:35:01.240 Because when there's civil disorder, then we turn to the authorities even more and more.

00:35:06.820 I wondered, I mean, this is a little bit too 4D chess, and I don't necessarily give leftists

00:35:11.920 like Keith Ellison credit for 4D chess.

00:35:15.000 But the AG of Minnesota, you remember Keith Ellison, increased the charge against the cop in

00:35:19.160 involved in the killing of George Floyd.

00:35:20.400 He increased it from third degree murder, which would be, I think, pretty easy to prove,

00:35:25.000 to second degree murder, showing, you know, you'd have to show them that the cop really,

00:35:29.880 really wanted to kill George Floyd.

00:35:31.820 I don't think that's easy to prove.

00:35:33.360 I think it'll be harder.

00:35:33.960 I think there's a chance the cop walks.

00:35:35.900 If the cop walks, that would seem to contradict what these guys want to do.

00:35:39.040 But maybe not.

00:35:39.800 Maybe the left wants this cop to walk so that there's even more chaos and mayhem, and they

00:35:44.420 can make an even stronger plea next election cycle.

00:35:47.140 That, I think, is what Sean King is starting to catch on to a little bit.

00:35:50.520 So what is he advocating for?

00:35:52.020 Nothing yet.

00:35:52.620 He's just waking up to a little bit of the grift.

00:35:56.320 Now, this goes all the way up to the top.

00:35:58.880 Attorney General William Barr was asked on CBS News about this charge of systemic racism.

00:36:04.900 And Barr gave what I think is maybe the most reasonable answer on the whole thing.

00:36:08.960 Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement?

00:36:13.780 I think there's racism in the United States still.

00:36:16.180 But I don't think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist.

00:36:21.360 I understand the distrust, however, of the African-American community, given the history

00:36:26.360 in this country.

00:36:27.580 This is a three-part answer.

00:36:29.080 I think it's totally reasonable.

00:36:30.620 And I think conservatives should take this to heart.

00:36:32.520 When we're trying to figure out what to replace this absurd agree with BLM narrative with,

00:36:38.060 I think Barr gives us a good answer, which is one, yeah, I think there's racism in America

00:36:42.200 because the imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.

00:36:46.180 There are always these sort of nefarious things lurking in man's heart.

00:36:50.440 By the way, we're never going to get rid of that.

00:36:51.820 That's not possible.

00:36:52.940 And America is the least racist, whatever the word is said to mean these days, the least

00:36:57.260 racist country that has ever existed in the history of the world.

00:37:00.740 But putting that aside, yes, there will always be some kind of sin crouching in man's heart.

00:37:07.700 And you're not going to get rid of that.

00:37:09.480 But we can try to keep it in check.

00:37:10.860 We can try to practice the virtues and repent of our sin.

00:37:14.260 Are the police systemically racist?

00:37:15.480 No, no evidence for it at all.

00:37:17.680 Put that idea away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.

00:37:20.580 It just ain't true.

00:37:22.120 And then three, do black Americans have a point in being a little skeptical of the cops?

00:37:27.780 Yes, I actually, I think so.

00:37:30.200 Just historically speaking, there have been power imbalances in the country.

00:37:34.640 And so it's, I think, perfectly reasonable to have this feeling of skepticism.

00:37:40.500 However, you've got to counter your feeling of skepticism by looking at the facts.

00:37:45.760 And the facts show there is no systemic racism.

00:37:48.360 So the feeling of unease, sure, understandable.

00:37:51.780 But the reality, simply not the case.

00:37:54.460 And if you need any further evidence that maybe it's not such a good idea to disband the cops,

00:38:01.620 because there's no evidence that we should do that at all, look at the leaders.

00:38:06.140 Occasionally, the leaders break through into the mainstream media.

00:38:08.820 You know, never on the left-wing channels, but at least Fox News, the right-leaning cable news

00:38:14.640 channel, interviewed one of the leaders, one of the peaceful rioters of this movement.

00:38:18.320 And what do you think he was talking about?

00:38:20.620 What do you think he was promoting?

00:38:21.600 Was he promoting this idea that we should all go out and, you know, come together and

00:38:26.220 kumbaya?

00:38:26.800 No, he was threatening to burn down the Diamond District of New York.

00:38:30.640 You know, I'm a leader of this FTP movement.

00:38:32.640 It means a lot of things.

00:38:33.620 It can mean free to people.

00:38:35.060 It can mean for the people.

00:38:35.940 It can also mean fire to property, you know, and that's very possible.

00:38:39.540 Tonight, I'm leading a demonstration from Barclays Center at 6 p.m. to City Hall.

00:38:44.700 And that's the first stop.

00:38:45.680 And we're hoping de Blasio and Cuomo come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction.

00:38:50.200 But if they don't, the next stop is the Diamond District.

00:38:52.960 And gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap.

00:38:55.980 Gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap.

00:38:57.620 There's actually a secondary racial component to this, which is that the Diamond District in

00:39:01.040 New York is run by Jews and among the so-called peaceful black identitarian leaders in New 0.71

00:39:07.980 York, there's been a little bit of hostility historically with the Jews there.

00:39:11.780 You know, I give this guy credit, the FTP movement, which he says is for the people,

00:39:15.480 free the people.

00:39:16.120 What it really means is F the police.

00:39:18.800 I give him credit for using that phrase because FTP is a little more honest about the radical

00:39:24.340 aims and the radical tenor of the movement.

00:39:26.720 It's a lot more honest than BLM, but all in all, basically the same thing.

00:39:31.180 Some people are getting a little bit woke, not even on the issue of cops or BLM, but just

00:39:35.520 on the radicalism of leftist politics.

00:39:38.100 Generally, J.K.

00:39:39.100 Rowling, who is a card-carrying lefty, she's the author of the Harry Potter books, she came 0.99

00:39:45.100 out against the idea that men can be women, right?

00:39:48.460 So one of the more extreme versions of left-wing politics.

00:39:52.220 And she's now incurred the ire of the woke mob.

00:39:55.160 She wrote, the idea that women like me, who've been emphatic, or empathetic rather, to trans

00:40:01.880 people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women,

00:40:05.720 it asked to male violence, hate trans people because they think sex is real and has lived

00:40:10.920 consequences, is a nonsense.

00:40:13.460 I respect every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable

00:40:17.540 to them.

00:40:18.600 I'd walk with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.

00:40:23.460 At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female.

00:40:26.040 I do not believe it's hateful to say so.

00:40:27.740 She's trying to do the same thing that the squishes are trying to do on BLM. 1.00

00:40:31.460 She's trying to come to an accommodation with this insane radical ideology that a man is really

00:40:37.400 a woman.

00:40:38.100 You can't.

00:40:38.680 There's no accommodation with that.

00:40:40.880 There's no like halfway.

00:40:42.360 Men are men and they can't be women. 1.00

00:40:44.180 Or men really are women and sex is not real.

00:40:46.540 There's no middle ground of men are kind of women sometimes or whatever.

00:40:49.640 No, it's not.

00:40:50.440 You got to pick one.

00:40:51.500 It's objective reality.

00:40:52.640 Okay.

00:40:52.820 And the problem is she's trying to say, look, I respect people.

00:40:55.280 She's trying to use all this language.

00:40:56.460 No.

00:40:56.960 I mean, she obviously doesn't respect every trans person's right to live any way that 0.85

00:41:01.860 feels authentic and comfortable.

00:41:03.000 Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable if they're a man who pretends that they're a

00:41:06.840 woman.

00:41:07.260 Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable using the women's room. 0.77

00:41:10.380 But what you're saying is they can't use the women's room.

00:41:13.840 Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable playing in women's sports. 1.00

00:41:16.100 You're saying they can't play in women's sports. 1.00

00:41:19.040 Okay.

00:41:19.820 Maybe they are being discriminated against on the basis of being trans in the sense that

00:41:24.420 you're not allowing them to do the things that they want to do based on a manifestly

00:41:30.120 untrue delusion, namely that the men are women and the women are men.

00:41:33.440 You've got to make a choice and you can't keep trying to be the nice guy.

00:41:38.360 You can't keep trying to buy into the premises that the left is giving you.

00:41:41.400 If you disagree with the craziest, most radical things they're saying, that somehow you're

00:41:48.140 a bad person.

00:41:48.840 That simply isn't true.

00:41:51.040 There's an amazing story out of speaking of the intersectional leftist hierarchy.

00:41:56.060 There's an amazing story that LA Pride, like the used to be gay pride, now I guess just

00:42:00.520 pride generally.

00:42:02.360 LA Pride has been canceled because now we're in LA wrath month.

00:42:07.580 Now pride is gone.

00:42:08.680 Now we're in wrath.

00:42:09.560 They're torching the cities.

00:42:10.380 But the pride parade was canceled because of coronavirus.

00:42:14.320 Remember that?

00:42:14.880 Yeah, me neither.

00:42:16.080 Then pride was reorganized as a black solidarity march.

00:42:19.920 Wait a second.

00:42:20.400 Hold on.

00:42:21.080 The virus is so bad that you can't have the gay pride parade. 0.99

00:42:24.200 But now that it's going to be a black pride parade, you can do it.

00:42:27.720 It's going to march in solid.

00:42:28.700 But actually now it's been canceled again because gay pride has a good relationship with

00:42:33.220 the cops and BLM hates the cops.

00:42:35.500 So now gay pride has to get rid of the cops and now they can't march even though they weren't

00:42:38.960 supposed to march in the first place because of the virus, which by the way is super duper

00:42:42.280 serious and going to kill us all. 0.91

00:42:43.700 That's what the public health experts told us.

00:42:45.500 But they were going to march back when it was going to be a black parade because if you're 0.98

00:42:50.080 marching with the radical black movement, then you're not going to get the virus. 0.61

00:42:54.900 What is this?

00:42:55.460 Very difficult to make any sense of it.

00:42:57.040 The virus part of it is one that's been lost, which is that we were told the virus is going

00:43:03.220 to kill us all. 0.60

00:43:03.920 But then whenever it is convenient for leftist protesters or rioters or arsonists or looters,

00:43:08.500 all of a sudden the virus goes away.

00:43:10.140 Fauci is already setting it up that we've got to worry about the virus again.

00:43:14.860 He said we're now in a perfect setup for further spread of the virus in the sense that creating

00:43:19.820 these blips, which might turn into some surges.

00:43:23.320 So already they tell us the virus is super serious, then leftists go out in the streets

00:43:26.960 it's not serious.

00:43:27.620 Now they're setting us up again.

00:43:28.780 Don't get fooled again.

00:43:30.700 Do not get fooled again.

00:43:33.680 To quote George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.

00:43:36.800 The point is you're not going to fool me again.

00:43:38.920 We'll get to George W. Bush in a second because George W. Bush says he's not going to support

00:43:42.180 Trump and it actually ties in with everything we've been talking about.

00:43:45.340 Right now, if you search on Twitter, if you go to Twitter and you type in racist, it's

00:43:51.020 a people search.

00:43:51.800 So you click on the people tab, type in racist.

00:43:54.720 Do you know the first name to come up?

00:43:57.140 President Trump.

00:43:59.500 Because presumably someone at Twitter is having a little bit of fun.

00:44:04.620 Someone at Twitter presumably is smearing the president as a racist.

00:44:09.960 Private company, Twitter, sort of.

00:44:13.300 They, in part, along with their other big tech oligarchs, control the flow of information

00:44:17.620 around the whole internet.

00:44:20.180 Going after President Trump is a terrible, no good, rotten racist.

00:44:24.060 Corporate America, giving into this nonsense.

00:44:26.720 The media, obviously giving into this nonsense.

00:44:28.660 The bureaucracy, been trying to snipe President Trump for so long.

00:44:31.860 They've been trying to snipe conservatives for so long.

00:44:33.960 The whole edifice turning on anybody who wants to do anything as a conservative.

00:44:40.820 And now you've got three moderate, more liberal Republicans coming out saying they won't support

00:44:48.380 Trump.

00:44:48.720 Colin Powell, that's no surprise.

00:44:50.360 Colin Powell's been half a Democrat for his whole career.

00:44:52.400 President George W. Bush, Trump's Republican predecessor.

00:44:57.580 And Mitt Romney, Trump's Republican presidential nominee.

00:45:00.900 All three saying they will not support Trump for re-election.

00:45:04.180 No surprise because Trump's been really tough on Bush.

00:45:07.140 He's been really tough on President Bush.

00:45:09.380 And he's been tough on Romney.

00:45:13.240 Really deservedly to Romney.

00:45:15.140 But, look, they come from the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

00:45:17.520 And Trump, whatever you think about his ideological vision and his philosophical formation,

00:45:22.880 he certainly is now on the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

00:45:30.340 This is the problem.

00:45:33.260 The problem isn't even that the radicals are going to be radicals,

00:45:36.380 that the radicals are going to try to do things like defund the police and destroy the family

00:45:39.580 and just knock our society down to rubble.

00:45:42.800 And in many cities so far, actually reduce our cities to rubble.

00:45:47.520 The problem is these squishes who go along with it. 0.99

00:45:50.640 Because the argument here, I mean, this is from George W. Bush.

00:45:55.660 George W. Bush published a letter on this,

00:45:57.440 basically suggesting that Trump isn't bringing people together.

00:46:00.720 Colin Powell said, I can't support President Trump or, you know,

00:46:03.960 I can't vote for him this year because the president's drifted from the Constitution.

00:46:07.520 There's too much rancor.

00:46:09.240 There's too much hatred.

00:46:10.440 Well, okay, where's the rancor coming from?

00:46:12.100 It's all being directed at Trump by the bureaucracy, by the media, by the radical activists,

00:46:18.820 by the Marxists, by Hollywood, right?

00:46:21.260 It's all being directed at Trump.

00:46:23.020 And they hate Trump so much because he's actually doing something.

00:46:25.440 He's actually fulfilling some of his promises.

00:46:27.680 He is by far the most conservative president we've had, certainly in my lifetime,

00:46:31.180 probably including Reagan, maybe all the way back to Calvin Coolidge or further back, right?

00:46:35.880 So he's actually doing something.

00:46:37.260 He's not just playing around and he's not just the nice Republican who gives enough resistance

00:46:41.380 to the liberal order to legitimize the order, but not enough to actually irk the left-wingers.

00:46:46.300 He's not doing that.

00:46:47.180 He's actually threatening them.

00:46:48.560 And so they've been trying to undermine him since day one.

00:46:50.440 They've been trying to throw him out of office.

00:46:51.720 They've been trying to impeach him over nothing, multiple, multiple times.

00:46:56.980 And this makes the liberal Republicans uncomfortable.

00:47:00.160 They say, gosh, things have gotten so heated that we can't do this.

00:47:03.700 Joe Biden said this.

00:47:04.360 He said, we can't continue like this for another four years.

00:47:06.940 The implicit threat here is that if you don't elect a Democrat, we're going to burn your

00:47:12.860 city.

00:47:13.120 We're going to keep burning your cities down.

00:47:15.140 And the implicit squishy Republican argument here is, look, the Democrats are burning our

00:47:19.420 cities down.

00:47:19.960 The Democrats really don't like this.

00:47:21.380 In the spirit of unity, let's give in.

00:47:23.160 Let's cave in.

00:47:23.800 Let's give them everything that they want.

00:47:26.860 Chris Cuomo is going on CNN defending domestic terrorism, okay?

00:47:30.520 Defending political violence against civilians.

00:47:32.500 You can't come to an accommodation with that.

00:47:34.700 You can't negotiate with that.

00:47:36.240 You can't reconcile and kumbaya and come to the middle, okay? 0.97

00:47:40.640 You got to win or you got to lose.

00:47:42.420 And there are some people right now who want to lose because they can't stand the heat,

00:47:46.220 literal heat, when the radical leftists are torching buildings in the country.

00:47:50.860 Stand firm, man.

00:47:52.080 This is the fight, okay?

00:47:53.340 We are in the fight right now.

00:47:55.200 And the stakes are very high.

00:47:56.520 The stakes are not just, we're going to raise your taxes a little bit or we're going

00:47:59.120 to lower your taxes a little bit.

00:48:00.640 The stakes are, we're going to defund the police department.

00:48:03.000 We're going to defund law enforcement itself.

00:48:05.280 And the reason we're going to do that is so that we can totally overhaul the legal and

00:48:09.180 political structure of this country.

00:48:10.920 Maybe you didn't ask for this fight, but you are in the fight now and it's only going to

00:48:14.580 get hotter up through November.

00:48:15.920 Got a lot more to get to.

00:48:16.740 We'll have to do it tomorrow.

00:48:17.740 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 08, 2020

Ep. 558 - Defund The Rioters

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