The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 575 - Grifter Nation

00:00:00.000 In some amazing news for the cause of social justice, the famously oppressed millionaire football player Colin Kaepernick has inked another movie deal.

00:00:11.660 Colin Kaepernick has just received a film deal with Disney and ESPN.

00:00:16.680 This will include an inability to get a first look on movies and TV shows about anything, scripted, unscripted, including a documentary about his life.

00:00:25.780 That's on top of the Netflix movie deal that he already has.

00:00:30.560 And, of course, those two things are on top of the multimillion-dollar, reportedly, endorsement deal that Colin Kaepernick has with Nike.

00:00:39.300 All of this after the millions that he'd already made by 2016.

00:00:44.040 A huge win. No one would have expected this on account of, of course, how oppressed Colin Kaepernick is.

00:00:51.520 Colin Kaepernick, the greatest con man of his generation.

00:00:57.520 But there are a lot of con men these days.

00:00:59.420 We're in a whole nation of con men these days, and things are not what they seem.

00:01:03.940 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:05.620 Things are not what they seem.

00:01:17.100 Kayleigh McEnany pointed this out during a press briefing, because over the weekend, at least half a dozen children were killed by violence on the streets of the United States.

00:01:27.500 They weren't killed by cops. They were killed because of the squalid conditions that they're living in and because of the violence that is being permitted to go on all over the streets.

00:01:37.540 And the mainstream media are not talking about it.

00:01:39.300 You couldn't say their names.

00:01:41.200 There are many famous career criminals whose names you could say because of allegations of injustice against them.

00:01:48.480 Some legitimate allegations, some illegitimate allegations.

00:01:51.480 But you couldn't say the names of any of those children, I would bet you.

00:01:55.340 And the reason for that is because of the grift here.

00:01:58.640 There is no word that is more abused in today's day and age than grifter.

00:02:04.580 Maybe science is another word that's abused almost as much.

00:02:07.500 But grifter is this word.

00:02:08.820 It's come into popularity over the past few months, and people use it to impugn the motives of their political adversaries.

00:02:15.320 Very often, the people who are calling other people grifters are the grifteriest people themselves.

00:02:20.220 However, there is a specific use of the term grifter.

00:02:24.100 Grifter means con man.

00:02:25.720 It means a fraud.

00:02:27.060 It means a swindler.

00:02:28.360 And there are frauds.

00:02:29.660 And there are swindlers.

00:02:31.240 And Colin Kaepernick is one example.

00:02:33.080 But the whole mainstream media political establishment apparatus is another one.

00:02:37.660 They're the reason that you don't know these kids' names.

00:02:40.160 Kayleigh McEnany called them out for it.

00:02:42.400 Finally, I'd end with this.

00:02:43.700 You know, I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag.

00:02:47.520 This president is focused on action.

00:02:49.920 And I'm a little dismayed that I didn't receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend.

00:02:55.980 I didn't receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week.

00:03:00.540 And over the last seven days, shootings skyrocket by 142 percent.

00:03:04.880 Not one question.

00:03:06.120 I didn't receive one question about five children who were killed.

00:03:10.240 And I'll leave you with this remark by a dad.

00:03:12.200 It broke my heart.

00:03:13.380 A dad of an eight-year-old lost in Atlanta this weekend.

00:03:15.580 They say black lives matters. 0.99

00:03:17.580 You killed a child.

00:03:18.960 She didn't do nothing to nobody, was his quote.

00:03:21.220 We need to be focused on securing our streets, making sure no lives are lost, because all black lives matter.

00:03:27.700 That of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old girl.

00:03:30.460 Thank you.

00:03:31.540 Thank you.

00:03:34.420 Mic drop walks off the set.

00:03:36.220 This is what makes Kayleigh McEnany so good at her job. 0.67

00:03:39.040 Obviously, she's articulate.

00:03:40.720 Obviously, she makes our hearts go pitter-patter. 0.97

00:03:43.320 Obviously, she's very clever. 0.99

00:03:45.540 But the key here is she sees through the lies.

00:03:49.660 She sees through the whole story, the whole con, the whole fraud.

00:03:53.280 She sees right through it, cuts to the heart of it.

00:03:55.720 And she waits, too.

00:03:56.520 She knows how to play a little stagecraft. 1.00

00:03:58.580 So she gets to the end of this long press briefing.

00:04:01.080 She says, okay, you've all asked me a lot of questions about confederate flags.

00:04:05.320 You've asked me questions about the symbol of a country that hasn't existed in 150 years

00:04:10.040 that no one really cares about.

00:04:13.680 And not one of you asked me about the outrageous violence, the shameful violence on our streets

00:04:21.380 all weekend.

00:04:23.420 You should be ashamed of yourselves.

00:04:25.040 Goodbye.

00:04:25.700 I'll see you later.

00:04:26.780 Kayleigh McEnany isn't the only person realizing this.

00:04:29.000 She might be one of the few people within the political system that is acknowledging this.

00:04:34.780 But people on the streets get it.

00:04:36.400 You know, there was a guy who was in Atlanta.

00:04:39.720 Atlanta was the hub of some of the worst violence over the weekend.

00:04:43.400 And a bunch of Black Lives Matter supporters were holding hands and performing their political

00:04:50.040 rituals about the importance of Black Lives Matter and the radical social movement and

00:04:54.900 how we've got to overthrow the system and blah, blah, blah.

00:04:59.020 And this guy was off to the side.

00:05:00.860 The cameras were not on him.

00:05:02.180 And he said, hey, wait a second.

00:05:03.540 You people are all frauds.

00:05:04.860 Take a listen.

00:05:06.120 I don't know who committed this crime.

00:05:08.560 But believe me, once we find out, this person will be brought to justice.

00:05:11.580 Are you getting a sense of authority to this?

00:05:13.140 This was a white police officer gunning down three Blacks and injuring four.

00:05:18.780 Wilson High School will be set on fire.

00:05:21.340 And every Black leader, every community leader will be up here.

00:05:25.520 Black Lives Matter, hands up.

00:05:27.720 Blacks are murdering Blacks every 32 hours since June.

00:05:31.280 I've been in this town all my life.

00:05:33.260 I'm 56 years old.

00:05:34.500 I am afraid of being shot and gunned down by a Black. 1.00

00:05:39.160 Again, if this was a white police officer.

00:05:41.980 Shooting and killing three Blacks.

00:05:43.980 People will be out here.

00:05:45.400 The school will be on fire.

00:05:47.040 People will be coming forward and saying, I saw this white police officer.

00:05:51.300 But because it's Black-on-Black crime, it is socially acceptable for Blacks not to talk to the police. 1.00

00:05:57.260 It is appalling.

00:05:58.360 And every 32 hours since June, Blacks have been murdering Blacks. 0.99

00:06:02.300 And y'all guys got to do a better job.

00:06:05.200 Simple question.

00:06:06.620 Why is it that the mainstream media establishment is worried about, and not just worried, I mean spending all of their airtime focusing on the nine unarmed Black men who were killed by police officers last year?

00:06:20.340 By the way, some cases completely defensively, because unarmed doesn't mean not dangerous.

00:06:25.180 But why, even say the number were six or nine, go all the way for all the nine who were unarmed.

00:06:31.160 Why are you focusing on that and you're privileging those lives and you're saying that matters, but you're not privileging the many, many, many, many, many, many more people who are killed in other instances of crime?

00:06:42.740 Well, it's because one fits the narrative and one does not fit the narrative.

00:06:47.840 It wasn't just happening in Rochester and Atlanta and all over the place.

00:06:53.740 It was happening in Washington, D.C.

00:06:56.360 There was an 11-year-old kid, 11-year-old kid killed in Washington, D.C.

00:07:01.500 because, very likely, of gang violence.

00:07:04.240 So, this kid was, they were at some kind of event, and the kid went in to get his earbuds and a stray bullet from gang violence outside kills him.

00:07:14.280 His grandfather says this, on the demonstrations against racism and police brutality and the killing of George Floyd,

00:07:23.440 he says he agrees with some of the protesters that the cities should use social workers and other civilians for some of the social services.

00:07:30.900 But, we need more police to put a dent in this crime.

00:07:36.500 We need more police.

00:07:37.400 Not abolish the police, not defund the police.

00:07:39.740 We need more police.

00:07:40.880 People who are living in crime-ridden places know that.

00:07:43.500 Of course they do.

00:07:44.740 You'd have to be so disconnected.

00:07:46.520 You'd have to be a liar and a fraud and a con man to actually try to convince people that the solution to terrible crime in their neighborhoods is getting rid of the police.

00:07:56.600 We'll get to more frauds in one second because it's not even just on the BLM world, it's in the virus world, it's in the scientific world, it's in the academy.

00:08:05.040 It's all the way up at Harvard.

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00:09:14.840 I think the best example that I've seen of this discrepancy between the reality and the narrative between the real people telling you what they see and the fraudsters, the swindlers on the street was the CNN clip.

00:09:31.700 CNN shows up, they're in California, CNN, the, the, the news anchor or the reporter has the big mask on, even on camera, right?

00:09:43.020 Because they, they used to not wear the mask on camera because it's preposterous and there's no reason to do it and you can't, can barely hear anything.

00:09:49.100 But then one day, one of the reporters on MSNBC got called out for this because she was shaming other people for not wearing masks.

00:09:54.680 And the guy that she was shaming pointed out that none of her crew was really wearing masks.

00:09:59.420 So now they're wearing the masks on camera and they're talking about how the virus is going to kill everybody.

00:10:04.740 And even though all their predictions were wrong, this time they're going to be right.

00:10:07.500 And while they talk about this imaginary thing, that's going to kill us all, this imaginary social phenomenon that's destroying all of our lives, a man walks up behind her and pulls down his pants and relieves himself.

00:10:26.220 The warning is that by the end of July, they could have completely filled ICU beds.

00:10:33.240 Puts his garbage bags down.

00:10:35.400 Pulls down his pants.

00:10:37.500 If the rate keeps continuing like this.

00:10:40.020 And so here in California, you can.

00:10:41.600 Answers the call of nature.

00:10:42.620 There may be some new rules that are put in place.

00:10:46.560 You can see very subtly the cameraman tries to change the angle to block this guy out.

00:10:52.980 There are many actual social problems in the United States.

00:10:55.920 My evidence of this, of course, is not even just that people are dying in bad cities run by Democrats, coincidentally.

00:11:03.280 Not even that people are doing filthy things on the street.

00:11:07.500 But that all of us, even the normal people, are agitating for the pulling down of monuments, for the burning of cities.

00:11:15.640 Obviously, there are real social problems here.

00:11:17.560 But the social problems are not the ones that the mainstream media are telling us about.

00:11:21.960 The chief problem, the chief threat to our prosperity in this country right now is not this virus from China. 1.00

00:11:30.620 I suppose that's a threat.

00:11:33.140 But far more a threat than that is the fact that we're lighting our whole country on fire and killing lots of people and egging it all on.

00:11:41.480 Very different things.

00:11:44.720 The celebrities.

00:11:46.380 Matthew McConaughey, who I actually generally like, but he's wrong about this too.

00:11:50.640 He doesn't want us to talk about the killings in Chicago or Atlanta or New York.

00:11:54.660 Crime rates spiking going through the roof.

00:11:56.740 40 million people being thrown out of jobs.

00:11:59.420 Tearing down our history.

00:12:00.460 Tearing down our monuments.

00:12:01.340 Hating our own country.

00:12:02.560 Becoming the laughingstock of the world.

00:12:04.240 He don't want to talk about any of that.

00:12:05.300 He just wants you to wear your damn mask.

00:12:09.940 Happy 244th birthday, America.

00:12:12.660 Hoo-wee. 0.58

00:12:13.500 We is going through some growing pains in this one, aren't we?

00:12:16.100 Yes, sir.

00:12:16.780 Yes, ma'am.

00:12:17.300 It is hotter in more ways than one.

00:12:19.540 But growing pains are a good thing because how the hell else are we going to grow up?

00:12:24.700 I think we've got to look each other in the eye.

00:12:27.620 I think we've got to look ourselves in the eye.

00:12:29.660 We've got to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, how can I be better?

00:12:32.460 How can I expect more of myself and others?

00:12:34.240 How can I be more responsible?

00:12:36.060 How can I have more compassion?

00:12:37.860 How can I have more courage?

00:12:39.680 How can I be more fair?

00:12:40.980 How do I make sure I wear the damn mask?

00:12:44.540 We individually make these changes.

00:12:46.200 That's how we make a collective change.

00:12:49.140 I love Matthew McConaughey because he's a weird guy.

00:12:52.540 He comes off kind of weird and usually as though he's just had a couple puffs on that old Peruvian parsley every so often.

00:12:58.880 But that line that drives me crazy is, wear the damn mask.

00:13:04.840 Right?

00:13:05.120 Because wear the damn mask is not saying, I need to change something about myself.

00:13:09.700 Maybe he's trying to phrase the sentence that way.

00:13:12.120 But the sentiment of wear the damn mask is to you.

00:13:16.620 It's to shame everybody else for not wearing the mask.

00:13:19.760 The mask, which by the way, we were all told for weeks, don't wear.

00:13:24.000 It's not effective.

00:13:25.300 It's not good to wear a mask.

00:13:27.480 You can then look at some of the science that the CDC has posted, some of the papers.

00:13:32.860 There is very little evidence that the cloth masks do anything, much less your bandana that you think is going to save you from the virus.

00:13:40.240 Very little scientific evidence that this mitigates the virus at all.

00:13:46.500 In fact, I would, I would bet if you're one of the people who thinks that the mask is the most important thing we can do to fix our country right now,

00:13:53.000 you are basing that not on some scientific study, not even on historical experience and common sense.

00:13:58.960 You're basing it on some like stupid meme that you saw on Twitter that shows, or some meme that you saw on CNN that shows that, you know, air doesn't go through masks.

00:14:08.540 Air goes through cloth.

00:14:09.960 I assure you.

00:14:10.880 I promise you it does that.

00:14:11.840 That is not the biggest issue.

00:14:15.200 Wear the mask.

00:14:15.940 Don't wear the mask.

00:14:16.760 You know, it doesn't really bother me what you do either way.

00:14:20.800 But this idea that, that the mask is the most important thing is an attempt to distract you from a swindle that is going on.

00:14:33.260 They have shut down our country.

00:14:35.040 They've shut down much of our political process.

00:14:37.460 We are in a presidential election year.

00:14:39.360 We're not allowed to have a campaign.

00:14:40.600 Joe Biden has told us he's not going to campaign.

00:14:42.860 He's going to use that to try to get out of the debates.

00:14:44.720 They're trying to shut down Trump rallies.

00:14:46.320 They're trying to shut down your ability to vote.

00:14:48.520 Anyone notice that?

00:14:49.460 They're trying to pass this, this massive mail-in ballot legislation throughout many states, meaning that everybody goes and gets a ballot.

00:14:58.960 Even if you do show up to the polling station, there will still be all of these mail-in ballots out there, which can be harvested in some states legally.

00:15:05.840 In California now, it says what party you're in on the outside of the envelope.

00:15:08.820 Wonder what's going to happen to the Republican envelopes to say nothing of the killing and the mayhem going on all around the country.

00:15:16.060 And, and they have actually managed to convince you, these con artists, these frauds have convinced you that the most important thing is to get some suburban housewife to put a bandana around her face.

00:15:28.500 Are you kidding me?

00:15:30.700 And we're falling for it.

00:15:32.560 We're all falling for it.

00:15:34.740 And then the best one, this was my favorite one all day.

00:15:39.100 Harvard University has become a correspondence college.

00:15:43.600 The kids are not going to go to school.

00:15:44.840 They're going to stay home and log onto their computer.

00:15:46.720 But they're not going to lower the tuition.

00:15:49.760 Not one penny.

00:15:50.440 It's still going to cost you 50 grand a year.

00:15:52.140 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:17:05.560 that we sent you, Harvard.

00:17:11.460 Harvard is now a correspondence college.

00:17:16.180 It's an online school.

00:17:17.540 It's the University of Phoenix, except it costs five or six times as much.

00:17:21.660 The thing about McConaughey and wear the mask, one reason that it works is that you feel like

00:17:30.900 you've got to be in the club.

00:17:32.040 You feel the social pressure to be part of the same club that everybody's in, and so you

00:17:37.080 put the mask on, even if you don't think it's very effective.

00:17:39.900 That's the same thing with Harvard.

00:17:41.420 That's the same thing with the elite universities.

00:17:44.780 What they're selling you is not primarily an education.

00:17:48.940 What they are selling you primarily is a credential into the elite, a very particular liberal elite,

00:17:55.800 but still an elite that will increase your chances of getting a lucrative job in finance

00:18:00.760 or consulting and having a basically lucrative career and moving yourself up maybe into the

00:18:06.800 middle class or the upper middle class or even higher.

00:18:10.120 That is the value proposition of Harvard, and so it is no surprise that when Harvard decides

00:18:16.480 to go online and you don't get to go to Harvard Yard and you don't get to be around the beautiful

00:18:20.560 campus, somewhat beautiful campus, and you don't get to network with people, you just go

00:18:24.720 and be online, you'll still pay almost 50 grand a year.

00:18:29.320 I think the annual tuition is $49,653.

00:18:34.380 Some people think that this is a ripoff.

00:18:37.720 Some people don't quite understand how this elite university system works, and they think

00:18:44.320 that the thing that makes it so bad is that it's expensive and it's a ripoff and you go

00:18:47.520 into debt.

00:18:48.100 It's actually worse than that because the way that this works is not that it's a ripoff to

00:18:54.200 go to one of these schools if it's a very elite brand name college and then you leave

00:18:59.020 with a lot of debt.

00:18:59.840 You actually don't leave with debt.

00:19:00.860 The thing about these schools is their endowments are so large that if you can't afford to go

00:19:06.800 there, you just go for free or you go for very, very cheap.

00:19:09.980 That's not the issue.

00:19:11.520 Harvard makes its money from alumni.

00:19:13.000 It doesn't make its money mostly from students.

00:19:16.280 About half the students pay to go there and about half are on significant financial aid.

00:19:21.080 The thing that's so shocking about Harvard is not that the $49,000, $50,000 tuition is not

00:19:30.980 worth it.

00:19:31.600 It's that it is worth it.

00:19:33.160 It's worth it for the networking.

00:19:36.740 It's worth it for the credential.

00:19:39.040 It's worth it if you want to go into a handful of fields that are being pushed by the system,

00:19:45.220 consulting, finance, that sort of thing.

00:19:48.180 The only way it's not worth it is if you want to get an education.

00:19:53.260 That's the crazy part is it's a university, but they're not primarily giving you an education.

00:19:58.700 Of course, the evidence of this, that if you radically change the educational experience,

00:20:05.840 but you don't reduce the price, then the thing that you're pricing out is not the education.

00:20:11.820 It's this elite, this system that is propagating itself that pretends to be a university, but

00:20:19.480 that won't teach you a very, very many things.

00:20:22.860 I mean, the great example just a few years ago, Yale decided to take the Shakespeare requirement

00:20:28.120 out of its English major.

00:20:29.700 You can graduate with a degree summa cum laude, top honors in English from Yale, and not read

00:20:35.400 Shakespeare or Chaucer.

00:20:37.660 Well, what's the value of that education?

00:20:40.320 The degree is worth a lot because it buys your way into the system, but the education, not

00:20:45.420 quite as much.

00:20:47.480 What it means about Harvard is the diploma is just as valuable as a letter of admission,

00:20:54.800 that actually the experience of being there doesn't matter as much at all.

00:20:59.380 And that is a sort of swindle.

00:21:00.780 That is a sort of con.

00:21:03.020 But what are we focusing on?

00:21:05.900 What we're focusing on are not actual structural issues in the country.

00:21:09.440 What we're focusing on is the same ginned up, contrived racial division that we see.

00:21:16.220 Sometimes it's sexual division, sometimes it's racial division, but it's always the same 0.65

00:21:20.200 kind of predictable political paths.

00:21:22.460 Kayleigh McEnany, be still our beating hearts.

00:21:26.100 Kayleigh McEnany, again, at a press briefing, this was now two or three days ago.

00:21:30.660 She was asked about the, the comment that President Trump made about Black Lives Matter

00:21:38.520 organization being a sort of hateful symbol.

00:21:42.320 The thing that struck me about this is the thing about systems, Harvard, right, all of

00:21:49.880 these credentialing systems.

00:21:50.920 The thing about systems is that they're systematized.

00:21:54.440 They're organized.

00:21:56.840 And Black Lives Matter plays its role too.

00:21:59.500 Black Lives Matter is not about Black Lives Matter, obviously.

00:22:02.460 It's, it's a, it's an organization with leadership that describes itself as trained Marxists that

00:22:08.040 sets up these contrived protests, protests, quote unquote, city by city.

00:22:13.160 It's a show.

00:22:14.420 It's a shell game.

00:22:15.960 Here is Kayleigh's answer.

00:22:18.400 Why is the president calling Black Lives Matter a symbol of hate?

00:22:22.380 Well, what the president was noting is that, that symbol, when you look at some of the things

00:22:28.260 that have been chanted by Black Lives Matter, like pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon, 0.50

00:22:33.140 that's not an acceptable phrase to paint on our streets.

00:22:36.200 Look, he agrees that all Black Lives Matter, including that of Officer David Dorn, Patrick

00:22:42.440 Underwood, two officers whose lives were tragically taken amid these riots.

00:22:46.480 All Black Lives do matter.

00:22:48.260 He agrees with that sentiment.

00:22:49.620 But what he doesn't agree with is an organization that chants pigs in a blanket, fry them like

00:22:54.180 bacon about our police officers, our valiant heroes who are out on the street protecting

00:22:58.040 us each and every day.

00:22:59.340 Yeah, I think this is a pretty good answer.

00:23:01.140 I do wish that we didn't even have to do this thing of saying, yes, of course, we agree

00:23:07.540 Black Lives Matter because, yeah, listen, John Carl, I don't owe you an explanation of thinking

00:23:13.380 that human beings ought to be able to live, innocent human beings.

00:23:18.040 I don't owe you that premise.

00:23:19.660 I don't, you know, I wish we didn't even have to take the bait of, hey, do you still beat

00:23:23.480 your wife?

00:23:23.960 Of course the president doesn't still beat his wife. 0.99

00:23:25.900 But the issue, you know, I wish we didn't even have to do that.

00:23:28.780 Maybe, though, in our mainstream system, if you're talking to these reporters, maybe you

00:23:32.820 have to.

00:23:33.180 I'd prefer if we didn't have to.

00:23:34.380 But then John Carl pushes it and Kaylee lays the smack down. 1.00

00:23:38.700 Americans of all races have protested in all 50 states around that phrase, Black Lives Matter.

00:23:45.740 And the president is here calling it a symbol of hate.

00:23:48.740 He's talking about the organization.

00:23:50.220 I would note to you that the greater New York BLM president has said, if this country

00:23:56.480 doesn't give us what we want, that we will burn down the system.

00:23:59.820 And I could be speaking literally.

00:24:01.140 I'd call that a pretty hateful statement.

00:24:03.080 Yes, Ben.

00:24:03.460 You're talking about the organization in his tweet.

00:24:05.260 He says the words.

00:24:06.060 He says the words.

00:24:06.940 Black Lives Matter.

00:24:07.540 What's the name of the organization again?

00:24:08.980 Black Lives Matter.

00:24:09.720 There you go.

00:24:10.080 You just answered my question.

00:24:11.700 Go ahead, Ben.

00:24:12.800 No, it's just the words.

00:24:14.160 Come on.

00:24:14.740 And right.

00:24:15.180 What is the name of the organization?

00:24:16.560 It's the words that you're talking about.

00:24:18.060 It's so transparent what this guy is doing.

00:24:20.520 It's so transparent what the rest of them are doing.

00:24:24.500 This is the thing that bugs me.

00:24:26.200 I mean, there are a lot of things that bug me about, about this whole fraud that we're

00:24:29.620 being exposed to right now.

00:24:31.380 But, but among them is how predictable it all is.

00:24:36.340 It's just so contrived.

00:24:37.740 I mean, even the Black Lives Matter.

00:24:41.100 You've got an organization that seeks to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family, 0.96

00:24:44.600 quote unquote.

00:24:45.040 An organization that seeks to abolish the police, tear down our entire history, radically transform

00:24:49.540 the country, refers to each other as comrades, and admits that they're trained Marxists.

00:24:54.400 But if you don't go along with that radical, insane organization, then that means you hate

00:25:00.380 black people.

00:25:01.560 It's just so lame.

00:25:03.040 It's so contrived.

00:25:04.600 I don't want to give it a moment's notice.

00:25:06.400 But this is what happens.

00:25:07.660 You've got these organizations.

00:25:09.180 They know what they're doing.

00:25:10.740 They've, they've been here before.

00:25:12.120 They've played this game before and then what they will do is every so often when things

00:25:17.200 start to die down, they'll pick some random incident that is completely without any context

00:25:22.020 and they'll use that as an example of some broad trend of hatred and bigotry and start

00:25:26.480 the whole game over again.

00:25:27.360 We saw that just yesterday at the sandwich shop at Jimmy John's, which we'll get to in

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00:27:02.780 So predictable.

00:27:04.300 So predictable, these incidents.

00:27:06.360 I think at this point, the power structures that be could just pick one up out of nowhere,

00:27:12.940 completely contrive it out of nothing, and whip America up into a national frenzy.

00:27:17.840 That's more or less what they did at Jimmy John's.

00:27:20.380 Jimmy John's is a chain sandwich shop.

00:27:23.740 It's a very good sandwich shop.

00:27:25.000 I like Jimmy John's a lot.

00:27:26.800 There was a video.

00:27:27.760 It went viral of some bored Jimmy John's employees playing with the dough for the bread.

00:27:34.660 My first job was as a Subway sandwich artist.

00:27:37.400 So I have played with this kind of dough for the bread before.

00:27:40.400 And what they did is they wrapped the dough around the rest of the dough, and they made

00:27:44.320 a noose for it.

00:27:45.260 These are all white employees, by the way.

00:27:46.640 And then one of the employees puts the dough noose on his neck, and he's like, you know,

00:27:52.300 kind of pretending to have his tongue hanging out, and they take a picture of it, and that's

00:27:56.800 it.

00:27:57.920 Might make you worry about the cleanliness of this particular Jimmy John's establishment,

00:28:01.980 but whatever.

00:28:02.760 It's just a funny little joke, right?

00:28:05.680 Wrong.

00:28:06.840 Oh, this got Jimmy John's to trend on Twitter.

00:28:10.140 These guys' lives are probably going to be destroyed.

00:28:12.540 Because don't you know that nooses are a universally racist symbol against black people?

00:28:20.500 Now, that's not true, of course, but that is the narrative that the left is telling you.

00:28:25.540 Of course, that's not true.

00:28:26.720 Nooses have been used throughout all of human history.

00:28:30.020 Nooses go back to Homer, to the Bible, to it.

00:28:34.120 Like, as long as we have a history of humanity, there have been nooses.

00:28:38.600 But even in more recent times, when you think of the noose in America, do you immediately

00:28:43.660 exclusively go to anti-black lynching?

00:28:47.480 No, I think the most common use of a noose in America is suicide.

00:28:51.540 We have a suicide epidemic in this country.

00:28:53.400 That's a real problem.

00:28:55.200 In this country, black people do not get lynched.

00:28:59.460 It doesn't happen.

00:29:01.420 If you went back the last 30 years, maybe you would find one example of that in the whole

00:29:05.860 country.

00:29:06.240 One or two.

00:29:07.300 Probably just one, though.

00:29:08.300 If you went back 150 years, you'd probably find some examples.

00:29:14.260 Or I guess, I suppose, about 130 years or that.

00:29:17.660 Then you could definitely find examples.

00:29:19.560 But today, in this country, right now, could you?

00:29:21.500 No.

00:29:22.560 You'd find a lot of examples, though, of people killing themselves because of social and political

00:29:27.480 and economic conditions.

00:29:29.880 Psychological conditions.

00:29:31.740 National madness.

00:29:32.800 But that's a real problem.

00:29:33.720 So you have to be distracted away from that by frauds and put onto this imagined problem

00:29:39.060 right now in this country.

00:29:41.620 If you were to think of the noose in the broader context of American history, would you necessarily

00:29:46.460 think of anti-black lynchings, which did occur?

00:29:48.800 Or would you think of regular old criminal justice, like real criminal justice in, for instance,

00:29:55.980 the Wild West?

00:29:56.620 Every Western ever, practically, has had nooses in them.

00:29:59.620 The hangman's noose.

00:30:01.940 When our republic was founded, the punishment for a felony was hanging everywhere.

00:30:10.080 That was used much more frequently there.

00:30:12.840 Even on the specific topic of lynching, lynching was not exclusively anti-black.

00:30:20.160 The largest mass lynching in American history was perpetrated against Italian people.

00:30:26.300 I know this a little bit because I happened to be of Italian extraction.

00:30:31.060 And actually, it was that large lynching of 11 people at one time, some of whom were killed

00:30:35.400 by hanging, that prompted the following year the formation of Columbus Day, 400 years after

00:30:42.920 the admiral of the ocean sailed the ocean blue.

00:30:47.320 And that day, obviously, now is trying to be overturned by the radicals.

00:30:51.460 There is no way to look at this Jimmy John's video and say, this is a clear example of anti-black

00:30:57.580 racism and bigotry.

00:30:58.860 It was an anti-black joke.

00:31:01.740 Maybe, but probably not.

00:31:03.260 I bet it wasn't.

00:31:04.940 But that's the imaginary focus over the real problems in the country.

00:31:10.820 It goes all the way down to other universities.

00:31:12.960 It even affects the conservative side of the political aisle, I'm sorry to say, which we'll

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00:32:51.260 The distractions will go on and on until we stop them.

00:32:56.220 And it's very hard to slow this stuff down, okay?

00:32:59.060 It has a momentum of its own.

00:33:00.720 This thing about the system, Harvard and the press and Hollywood and, right, we've touched

00:33:08.060 on all those guys already.

00:33:10.000 Hollywood gives Colin Kaepernick the movie deal and the press pushes all the questions

00:33:14.920 that the movie deal is premised on.

00:33:17.460 And Harvard maintains its credentialing system to keep people in and out of the elite.

00:33:22.960 And this goes through all of the institutions of our country such that it's very hard to

00:33:28.560 crack, even down at the University of Memphis, University of Memphis football team has just

00:33:34.900 announced, its coach has just announced, Ryan Silverfield, that the team will wear Black

00:33:39.080 Lives Matter stickers on their helmets this season.

00:33:42.280 This will be the first D1 football team to do that.

00:33:44.900 And the stickers will read, in part, hashtag, all in against racial injustice.

00:33:54.760 Raise your hand.

00:33:55.720 I know you're in the privacy of your own cars or your own homes right now.

00:33:59.200 Maybe you're walking down the street, so this will look a little weird.

00:34:01.420 But I want you to raise your hand if you are for racial injustice.

00:34:08.480 Raise your hand.

00:34:09.180 Any hand, I'm going to close my eyes, I'm going to imagine the whole audience, I would

00:34:12.960 bet nobody raised their hand.

00:34:15.740 Not one person.

00:34:16.920 Not one single person.

00:34:18.680 I bet if you polled the whole country, 330 million people, maybe you'd get like two or

00:34:23.280 three crazy people who raised their hand.

00:34:25.020 But I think that's about it.

00:34:26.760 I don't think anybody is for racial injustice.

00:34:31.320 But you got to pretend.

00:34:33.340 You got to pretend that's part of the system.

00:34:34.960 Maybe these student-athletes could talk about how they're being treated.

00:34:38.840 How they're being treated like workers, but they're not being given the protections of

00:34:42.200 workers.

00:34:42.840 No, no, no.

00:34:43.220 That's a real problem.

00:34:44.640 That's an actual issue.

00:34:45.980 So you got to distract from that.

00:34:47.960 Maybe these student-athletes could talk about how they're not receiving an actual education

00:34:52.060 and they're just being used as pawns to make money for a university and more largely

00:34:56.660 for a system.

00:34:58.020 No, no.

00:34:58.560 That's a real problem.

00:34:59.260 We got to distract from that.

00:35:01.120 Pay no attention to that.

00:35:03.340 Follow the card.

00:35:04.200 Follow the shell game.

00:35:05.180 Look over here.

00:35:05.840 Look at the sparkly object.

00:35:07.940 Are you for racial injustice?

00:35:11.140 No, but now I'm so worried I got to put the sticker on my helmet.

00:35:16.320 A big gap here between the reality and the illusion.

00:35:21.380 This even affects the right, by the way.

00:35:23.340 Mostly affects the left, but it affects the right too.

00:35:26.740 So the way these intersected yesterday, this was another trend on social media.

00:35:31.120 Ayn Rand.

00:35:34.280 You know Ayn Rand.

00:35:35.100 She was this novelist in the 20th century.

00:35:38.360 She created the philosophy or ideology called objectivism. 0.81

00:35:42.540 And the whole thing is sort of greed is good.

00:35:44.880 Selfishness is good.

00:35:46.660 She wrote a famous essay called The Virtue of Selfishness, which is what it sounds like.

00:35:51.480 Some conservatives kind of like her.

00:35:53.060 Mostly libertarians kind of liked her a little bit.

00:35:55.080 But so Ayn Rand, she wrote Atlas Shrugged.

00:35:58.220 She wrote The Fountainhead, these books that are about 7,000 pages too long.

00:36:03.060 I'm not a huge fan of Ayn Rand.

00:36:04.800 I was when I was 17, just like all 17-year-olds are. 0.77

00:36:07.940 But then I'm no longer a huge fan of hers.

00:36:10.720 Anyway, she was trending yesterday because the Ayn Rand Institute, which is all premised on selfishness

00:36:14.940 and not relying on anybody and make your own money, support yourself, it turns out they took a loan from the federal government,

00:36:24.260 from the Small Business Association to keep their workers employed during the coronavirus lockdown.

00:36:28.460 I think that's perfectly defensible.

00:36:29.980 I don't think it's terribly hypocritical.

00:36:31.900 But this was trending.

00:36:32.840 It's a big dunk on conservatives.

00:36:35.260 Ha ha, those conservatives, their philosophy doesn't make any sense because look at what hypocrites they are.

00:36:39.920 They took money from the government even though they hate money from the government.

00:36:42.920 And what occurred to me when I saw Ayn Rand trending as the representative of the conservative movement, such as it is,

00:36:49.660 is even our political opposition is contrived along the left's lines.

00:36:56.820 The left is even defining what it means to oppose the left.

00:37:01.340 Because I think if you polled 100 conservatives and you said, is Ayn Rand your greatest hero?

00:37:07.760 I think most of them would say, Ayn who?

00:37:09.920 What's an Ayn Rand?

00:37:10.700 And I think for the people who did know, 98 or 99 out of 100 wouldn't care that much for her.

00:37:18.060 Ayn Rand was written out of the conservative movement 60 years ago.

00:37:21.800 In 1957, Whitaker Chambers, who's the great anti-communist author of Witness, he wrote a scathing review of her book in National Review.

00:37:30.680 Bill Buckley, who in many ways led the conservative movement, led to Reaganism, he followed that up in National Review.

00:37:36.540 He said,

00:37:36.800 Ayn Rand's exclusion from the conservative community was, I am sure, in part the result of her desiccated philosophies, conclusive incompatibility with the conservative's emphasis on transcendence, intellectual and moral.

00:37:48.220 But also there is the incongruity of tone, that hard, schematic, implacable, unyielding dogmatism that is in itself intrinsically objectionable, whether it comes from the mouth of Ehrenberg or Savonarola or Ayn Rand.

00:38:01.540 This idea that Ayn Rand, she had no moral compass, she was fanatically atheist, she couldn't understand how any smart person could believe in God, her moral order didn't make any sense, it was all about greed is good, it was all about progress, right?

00:38:15.600 It was all about ugly aesthetics, it was just, it's just not conservative.

00:38:19.620 Whatever you think of it, it wasn't conservative.

00:38:21.780 But the left has defined Ayn Rand as kind of the great example of what a conservative is, because they can't deal with the reality of what a conservative is.

00:38:30.680 What the left permits, what the system permits, is for there to be, I call them court jester conservatives.

00:38:38.020 They're a little foil in the court of liberalism that offers some sort of slightly different point of view, usually doesn't disagree too much with the premises of the left, and then loses gracefully.

00:38:47.740 And then when they lose gracefully, it legitimizes the whole liberal system.

00:38:52.660 Even much of our political opposition is a fraud.

00:38:57.280 Nowhere do you see this more clearly than the two remaining never-Trumpers.

00:39:01.960 You know, I'm talking about the guys over at the Lincoln Project.

00:39:05.180 The Lincoln Project, which in itself is a huge grift.

00:39:09.300 It's a huge lie.

00:39:10.300 The Lincoln Project is an anti-Trump group of Republicans, the former Republicans.

00:39:18.640 But what's notable about them is they're not ex-politicians or office holders or great thinkers, mostly.

00:39:26.420 It's just political consultants, old campaign flacks who had sinecures, who had very lucrative careers that Trump destroyed because he didn't hire any of them.

00:39:37.920 And when he didn't hire any of them, they got extremely frustrated that they lost their gigs.

00:39:42.040 And so they, without any principles whatsoever, decided to oppose him.

00:39:48.400 Maybe there are one or two people that have any principles in that whole group, but I doubt it.

00:39:51.740 I think I'm being overly generous.

00:39:53.680 I think they're cynical.

00:39:55.160 I think they're con men.

00:39:56.500 And here's how I know they're con men.

00:39:57.640 They lie.

00:39:58.120 So they posted this clip of Donald Trump talking about a military conflict.

00:40:05.900 And this went viral because it sounded as though the president thought that Operation Desert Storm, which occurred in Iraq, actually occurred in Vietnam.

00:40:14.080 They carried American warriors into the dense fields and jungles of Vietnam.

00:40:19.120 They delivered a swift and swip in, you know, that's sweeping.

00:40:24.420 It was swift and it was sweeping like nobody's ever seen anything happen.

00:40:31.100 A victory in Operation Desert Storm.

00:40:35.080 Okay.

00:40:35.680 So he stumbled on the teleprompter.

00:40:37.580 He meant to say swift and sweeping, but he got caught up in that.

00:40:40.560 So that sounds a little weird.

00:40:41.680 It happens to everybody who uses teleprompters.

00:40:44.000 At some point or another, you will get caught up on a word.

00:40:46.320 I say, I admit, this is just my secret with you.

00:40:50.520 It's even happened to me once or twice.

00:40:52.080 So it happened to Trump.

00:40:53.580 But did Trump really think that Operation Desert Storm occurred in the jungles of Vietnam?

00:40:58.780 No.

00:40:59.640 Groups like the Lincoln Project edited the video, edited out the relevant context just 15, 20 seconds before, where he says he's not just talking about Vietnam.

00:41:09.980 He's talking about major American conflicts.

00:41:13.820 This is about 20 seconds before.

00:41:16.320 In a few moments, we will bear witness to awesome aircraft representing every major military conflict over the last 75 years.

00:41:28.040 Okay.

00:41:28.680 Every major military conflict over the past 75 years.

00:41:31.460 It's very obvious what he's saying.

00:41:32.880 But because they can't get him on the facts, they've got to edit it.

00:41:38.140 They've got, and this is what happens.

00:41:39.520 I mean, I think the, the selectively edited phenomenon is funny because the left always refers to our perfectly legitimate videos as selectively edited.

00:41:48.640 We, you could get a Planned Parenthood official on camera saying, I am haggling with you for baby parts. 0.99

00:41:54.220 I want to buy a Lamborghini, which we actually have.

00:41:56.600 And they'll say that was selectively edited.

00:41:58.300 You say, how, how could you selectively edit that?

00:42:00.940 It's nothing's that, the issue isn't the edit.

00:42:03.300 The issue are the words that you're saying.

00:42:05.380 They'll, they'll say that's selectively edited.

00:42:07.100 And then they will actually selectively edit out relevant context from our videos and they'll forget about it.

00:42:11.960 That is, they'll, they'll try to get you to forget about it.

00:42:15.040 That is the way this system works.

00:42:17.980 Top political issue of the day.

00:42:20.960 So important.

00:42:22.020 I heard, I found this out from Jezebel.

00:42:23.800 And then this too was going all around the internet.

00:42:27.880 Halle Berry, a very talented actress might play a trans man.

00:42:35.760 What is a trans man?

00:42:36.780 A trans man is a woman who thinks that she's a man.

00:42:38.760 So Halle Berry, an actress might pretend to be somebody who she is not, which is, I believe last time I checked,

00:42:47.560 that's what actors do and actresses. 1.00

00:42:50.040 Moreover, Halle Berry, an actress will pretend to be another woman pretending to be a man.

00:42:56.660 But when a woman pretends to be a man in reality, that is sacred. 1.00

00:43:00.740 That is wonderful.

00:43:01.460 And if you question that, you're a bigot.

00:43:02.700 But when an actress pretends to be another woman on the stage, which is her job, that is evil and terrible and wrong. 0.85

00:43:10.700 That is our upside down culture that we're in.

00:43:13.660 I mean, they go on, they say Halle Berry is either ignoring or has not gotten the message

00:43:17.140 that trans characters should be played by trans actors.

00:43:20.700 But she is quite effusive about her wish to play a trans man in an upcoming project.

00:43:25.580 So trans characters should be played by people who want to pretend to be other things, 1.00

00:43:30.820 not by actresses who by definition pretend to be other things.

00:43:34.620 I see Scarlett Johansson's experience has taught her nothing.

00:43:38.620 And that was two years ago.

00:43:39.340 Scarlett Johansson got caught in some trouble with this because a few years ago,

00:43:44.520 she also wanted to play a part of someone who is confused about his or her gender.

00:43:49.860 But listen to the threat there.

00:43:52.180 Scarlett Johansson's experience has taught her nothing.

00:43:57.040 It's this pressure.

00:43:58.640 Look what we did to Scarlett Johansson.

00:43:59.960 We'll do it to you.

00:44:00.660 You got to stop it.

00:44:01.560 You got to go along with the system, whatever it says.

00:44:03.900 You even saw this, I think most notably, though this is a far less sexy kind of story

00:44:09.620 highlighting this, but I think it's probably actually the most important one from the Supreme

00:44:14.140 Court.

00:44:15.400 Supreme Court yesterday, there was a case that came out, Chiafalo versus Washington.

00:44:19.480 This was a case about whether or not states can punish electors who do not vote for the

00:44:27.380 presidential candidates that they say they're going to vote for.

00:44:29.240 You know in our system, we don't have a popular election.

00:44:31.420 We don't, we don't just all the people go out and vote and then whoever has the most

00:44:35.060 votes wins.

00:44:36.060 Thankfully, we don't have that.

00:44:38.000 2016 and 2000.

00:44:39.300 It's a good, good thing we don't have that.

00:44:40.660 What we have is a system that our boundary set up called the Electoral College.

00:44:44.360 And so what happens is you go out in your state and you vote and then you vote for electors

00:44:48.760 and then the electors come up.

00:44:50.100 I mean, you pull the, the ballot for whomever, Trump or Clinton, you know, Trump or Biden.

00:44:56.900 But then really what you're electing are electors who have pledged to vote for those people.

00:45:02.140 But the founders crucially set up a system whereby the electors can then go to cast their

00:45:08.120 votes and vote for whomever they would like.

00:45:11.060 Because we have independent electors.

00:45:13.160 This was one of the compromises to, to deal with this problem of mob rule.

00:45:18.100 What if there's a really, really bad man or woman, Hillary Clinton, who is up for the 0.99

00:45:23.200 job and the electors want to override the will of the mob?

00:45:28.060 You know, there's good democracy and there's, and then there's mob rule.

00:45:30.920 We don't, we want the good stuff.

00:45:32.040 We don't want the bad stuff.

00:45:33.540 Clearly that was the point of this provision in the constitution.

00:45:37.140 The point was that the electors should be independent.

00:45:39.640 And yet in a unanimous decision yesterday, the Supreme Court judges voted to allow states

00:45:47.740 to punish the electors.

00:45:48.980 They're called faithless electors, electors who don't vote for the people they say they're

00:45:52.040 going to vote for.

00:45:54.280 Even the originalists went along with this, albeit for different reasons than the liberals

00:45:58.300 did.

00:45:59.800 Why?

00:46:00.340 Why was it unanimous?

00:46:01.280 Well, I think it's a perfectly, perfectly fine thing to do to make the electors vote for

00:46:04.960 the people they say they're going to vote for.

00:46:06.180 However, it's been happening in this country since almost the very beginning.

00:46:10.520 And that's what they cite.

00:46:11.420 They say it's longstanding practice that they are expected to do this kind of thing.

00:46:16.920 But it's not in, in the constitution.

00:46:19.280 We know that's not the point of the constitution and the point of this provision.

00:46:24.440 Even the originalists admit it's not really about, it's not really about that.

00:46:29.980 What this shows us is that there is a written constitution and then there is the actual

00:46:34.740 constitution that we live under, the constitution of experience and tradition and practice.

00:46:41.180 That can be a good thing.

00:46:42.340 That can be a bad thing.

00:46:43.940 Doesn't, that's the reality.

00:46:45.740 That's the reality of how countries are governed.

00:46:47.620 Countries are actually not governed by sheets of paper that were written hundreds of years

00:46:51.580 ago.

00:46:52.700 They're really governed by this sort of practice.

00:46:54.660 We might wish that we were governed by the sheet of paper.

00:46:56.780 In many ways, I wish we were, but we're not.

00:46:58.840 The sooner we shake ourselves out of that delusion, the sooner we will be able to fight

00:47:05.560 back and actually get some cultural, political, economic wins, okay?

00:47:11.920 The sooner we realize the con that is being perpetrated, whether it's at this very lofty,

00:47:19.240 esoteric sort of level of, of the constitutional interpretation, or whether it's the actual product

00:47:24.940 being peddled by Harvard, or whether it's Colin freaking Kaepernick, who still with a straight

00:47:31.040 face pretends to be an oppressed, aggrieved victim as he cashes in millions and millions

00:47:37.640 and millions all the way to the bank, way more than he would have made in football.

00:47:41.620 The sooner we wake up to that, the con that's being perpetrated on us, the sooner that we

00:47:47.680 will be able to exercise a little bit of power ourselves.

00:47:50.400 That's our show.

00:47:51.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 07, 2020

Ep. 575 - Grifter Nation

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