The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 577 - Everybody’s Been Woked

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is not a well man. It's not exactly breaking news. Okay. Not exactly a man bites

00:00:06.300 dog story. We know that, but the trouble is that Joe Biden's unwellness, his obvious decline

00:00:14.460 tells us something about the broader democratic party and the broader left. This was

00:00:19.760 Joe Biden's rousing campaign speech. I mean, this will go down in the annals

00:00:24.200 of states, statesman-like rhetoric with Winston Churchill's fight on the beaches with Ronald

00:00:30.620 Reagan's time for choosing and with Joe Biden's muttering incoherently.

00:00:35.140 Lonnie knows I believe this every fiber might be. We're posed. What I proposed is it can be done.

00:00:44.480 I think we're in a position to really make it happen. And my team and your team are already

00:00:50.520 working closely together to light up the path forward here. Critical laws like the Pro Act

00:00:56.480 to strengthen collective bargaining on politics like prevailing and look, I guess I'm getting,

00:01:03.480 I'm taking too much time. If you pretend it's slam poetry, it's actually much less sad. If you

00:01:09.700 pretend it's slam poetry, it's actually got a kind of vibe to it. You know, we're posed and the pro

00:01:14.500 and the, and the, anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself, but it's, we can all laugh. And in some

00:01:20.920 cases we're not laughing. We're saying, this is really sad. No one should let this guy run.

00:01:25.000 His decline, his selection, the things he's saying, the very fact that he doesn't know the

00:01:30.300 lingo we're all talking about shows you completely how out of touch the democratic party is with the

00:01:37.180 United States, with the American people and why they're just not going to fix it. We'll get into

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00:03:11.880 Ring.com slash Knowles. So you, Biden mutters incoherently and that's not surprising at all.

00:03:20.500 But he, he also mutters incoherently on public policy itself. So he mutters incoherently on the

00:03:27.500 culture itself and he's not exactly alone in this. What, what Joe Biden is showing us is it's not

00:03:34.460 merely a process of mental decline, you would say. It's a process of political decline for the left

00:03:40.640 and for the Democratic Party. Joe Biden wants you all to know, not only is he posed, but everybody

00:03:46.160 is woked. All the talk the last 20 years about driving down the rationale for unions,

00:03:53.400 all of a sudden this face, this phrase, everybody's been woked. Well, guess what? The rest of the

00:04:01.140 working class people in America have been awakened and realized, whoa, why? Because I work at a fast

00:04:07.300 food restaurant that I have to sign an agreement that I will not compete, a non-compete agreement

00:04:14.060 that I will not go across town to another fast food restaurant and try to get a raise.

00:04:18.300 What in the hell was that about? You know that phrase, everybody's been woked. People are

00:04:23.980 attributing this to his mental decline, but it's not that exactly. Joe Biden is not the first

00:04:28.460 Democratic candidate in recent years to not understand the popular culture, to not be able

00:04:33.980 to meme as we, as we describe about the left. Hillary Clinton, you remember in, in 2016, she had one of

00:04:40.100 the most cringe inducing political lines I've ever heard. This was when that app Pokemon Go was very

00:04:46.440 briefly popular and you'd walk around with your phone and collect Pokemon. Anyway, she was trying

00:04:52.160 to make this cultural reference and she had this line. She, she told you that you had to, to take

00:04:58.640 your love of Pokemon and bring it in to the election booth. Cause we're going to have a lot of jobs, jobs

00:05:06.680 from building infrastructure to coding, creating new apps. I don't know who created Pokemon Go,

00:05:20.200 but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokemon go to the polls.

00:05:25.400 Oh boy. Oh boy. Try, try the veal folks. Tip your waitress. You get it? Pokemon go to the polls. Take 0.96

00:05:37.000 my wife, please. Oh man. That is, that would be too lame for like a 40s Borscht belt comic. 0.97

00:05:45.720 But why, why does the left do this? It doesn't make a lot of sense because the left is the hip,

00:05:50.600 hip, young, woke, cool, right? So how come the left can't meme? And that, this is an eternal

00:05:59.280 question. It's at least a question that we've been asking ourselves for the last four years.

00:06:02.480 The left always says they're the cool, hip future political movement. And yet they can't meme. They

00:06:08.200 can't tell jokes. They can't make people laugh with spontaneous humor on the internet. They have to go

00:06:14.300 through these contrived institutions. The reason for this is because the left controls the entire

00:06:19.200 establishment. They run, they run everything. We've made this point on this show before they

00:06:24.180 control the mainstream media, Hollywood, big tech, higher education, lower education, administrative

00:06:28.480 government. They've got everything. Okay. The newspapers write everything and Hillary Clinton 0.97

00:06:34.140 and Joe Biden are, are pretty good examples of this. So they can't meme because to meme is to

00:06:40.380 subvert the establishment. To meme is to point out an absurdity of the establishment. I mean, this is in

00:06:46.740 part, you could broaden this out, not just from internet memes or these little one-off jokes,

00:06:51.880 but humor more generally. Humor thrives on incongruity and absurdity and recognizing a certain

00:06:58.880 truth that is not being talked about and pointing out that truth to highlight then how ridiculous the, 0.53

00:07:06.860 the mainstream established order is. But the left is the mainstream established order. They are the,

00:07:12.600 not only creators of the established order, they're the enforcers of the established order.

00:07:16.700 And so they can't be funny. It's why you, you think of, of political correctness, right? People

00:07:21.240 scolding you for telling jokes, for saying words, canceling Kevin Hart because he made a joke 10 years

00:07:26.280 ago. The left has this problem and they're trying to work it out now. And Joe Biden is just an,

00:07:32.460 an egregious example of, of the failure of trying to work this out. You cannot simultaneously be

00:07:39.220 the establishment and subvert the establishment, at least not in any serious way. You can, you can

00:07:48.480 have the kind of typical liberalism of the rhetoric of liberation, but in terms of the actual, actual

00:07:55.200 institutions, you can't be the establishment and subvert yourself. A good example beyond politics of

00:08:03.880 why this doesn't work, why the left can't meme, why they can't speak to us directly, why there seems to

00:08:08.920 be a disconnect between the mainstream media and the American people or Joe Biden and the American

00:08:13.740 people. The reason for this is they don't know what we believe. They have no idea, even the most basic

00:08:20.040 elements of what we believe. They are caught in a fantasy world. The left is living in a fantasy world

00:08:26.820 that's easy to live in because it is based on their ideology. The thing about ideology is ideology is

00:08:33.160 always wrong. There's reality. And then there is ideology, which tries to formalize reality into a

00:08:38.920 five bullet point manifesto, but that just doesn't work. So they've got this ideology and because they

00:08:43.920 have the protection of all of the institutions, they very rarely have to come up to face with

00:08:48.100 reality. When they do, it's at moments where they let reality have a word in like the 2016 election

00:08:53.480 or the Brexit vote or a few other of these moments in recent years. And they're shocked. They can't

00:08:58.840 believe it because they've felt so comfortable in their reality, in, in their, in their fantasy,

00:09:02.780 rather. Don Lemon on CNN goes on CNN with his friend, Chris Cuomo. And they're talking about

00:09:10.280 how much they don't like the founding fathers. And we've got to pull the founding fathers off of

00:09:13.780 pedestals. And the example that Don Lemon gives as to why this is the case is that not even Jesus

00:09:22.600 was perfect when he was walking on this earth. Take a listen. Here's the thing. Jesus Christ,

00:09:30.540 if you believe in, if you, if that's who you believe in Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect

00:09:36.220 when he was here on this earth. So why are we deifying the founders of this country?

00:09:42.460 Admittedly, who's admitting that? Uh, that guy, Don Lemon is saying that he's declaring that,

00:09:49.780 but Jesus, just a little history, theology lesson for you all. Jesus is perfect and was perfect

00:09:57.980 when he walked on this earth. And he necessarily must be. That is perhaps the most basic aspect

00:10:06.160 of the incarnation. He is God. He has to be perfect. Don Lemon, he seems honest when he seems like he

00:10:15.340 honestly is ignorant. He honestly doesn't know what he's saying, but consider that. I like to 0.93

00:10:22.180 think, I don't think we're flattering ourselves that on the right conservatives, even more moderate

00:10:27.020 people, we understand the left. We, we understand the left, not even through any great achievement of

00:10:32.920 our own, just because we live in a leftist culture. So we're confronted with what the left

00:10:36.100 believes all the time. The left does not believe the right. And to take this matter into religious

00:10:42.340 circumstances, atheists don't understand Christianity. Very rarely has an atheist understood

00:10:50.480 Christianity and rejected it outright. I think what is most evident here is that biblical literacy, 0.64

00:10:59.340 the foundation of our, of our education does not exist on the left. They just don't, they just don't

00:11:04.820 know the most basic aspects. And so how could they comment on it? How could they subvert something?

00:11:09.160 How could they get a funny jibe in or a meme? They don't know even most fundamentally what they

00:11:18.140 are talking about. Was this always the case? Was it always the case that the left just didn't get it

00:11:24.320 or has the problem gotten worse? The left always lived in an ideological fantasy world, but the

00:11:31.700 problem has gotten much, much worse. And actually Don Lemon proves it to us. We'll get to that in one

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00:12:47.640 more time doing what you love. The problem has gotten worse. The left has gotten more disconnected

00:12:53.820 from reality. You have to look no further for proof of this than Don Lemon himself, who just

00:13:00.900 seven years ago, this was in 2013, I believe, Don Lemon was on CNN. He was talking about some of the

00:13:09.340 racial tensions that were cropping up back then. And he, he actually deferred to Bill O'Reilly. He

00:13:16.780 deferred to conservatives. He deferred to people who were pointing out that most of the social

00:13:21.640 problems among black Americans don't come from the cops. The vast, vast majority don't come from

00:13:27.880 the cops. They come from social dysfunction that has arisen for a variety of reasons, but which can

00:13:33.680 only be fixed within the black community. It's time now for some tough love on the subject. 1.00

00:13:40.640 The reason there is so much violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration 0.99

00:13:47.560 of the African-American family. He's got a point. In fact, he's got more than a point. Bill?

00:13:59.060 Raised without much structure, young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street 1.00

00:14:06.620 culture, drugs, hustling, gangs. Nobody forces them to do that. Again, it is a personal decision.

00:14:15.380 He is right about that too. But in my estimation, he doesn't go far enough because black people, 1.00

00:14:23.660 if you really want to fix the problem, here's just five things that you should think about doing. 0.97

00:14:30.040 Here's number five, pull up your pants. Number four now is the N word. Now, number three, 1.00

00:14:36.260 respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I've lived in

00:14:43.100 several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life. I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering.

00:14:49.200 All right, slow down there, David Duke. Come on, Richard Spencer, cool it with the racism.

00:14:55.620 Of course, nothing he said is bigoted or racist or anything like that. But today,

00:15:00.700 could you imagine if he said that today? We had to play a slightly condensed cut of that,

00:15:05.620 but I forget who posted it. Someone posted it to Twitter. You can see the entire link. He goes on

00:15:12.460 and on. We actually had to truncate it a little bit. If Don Lemon were to say that today on CNN,

00:15:17.600 well, he couldn't say it on CNN. But even if you said it on a conservative cable news channel,

00:15:21.820 I'm not sure you could get away with it. Frankly, I think you might get canceled for it. You might be

00:15:26.700 told. That's racially inflammatory. That's offensive. That's politically incorrect.

00:15:33.820 Even CNN's own hosts were talking about this seven years ago. The problem has accelerated.

00:15:41.780 And as it accelerates, it's going to create more problems. The Democrats would have a better chance

00:15:46.260 of winning elections. The left would have a better chance of winning hearts and minds if they were a

00:15:50.920 little bit more connected to reality. This is the great conservative consolation, by the way,

00:15:56.040 because the left always takes the culture because they promise you free stuff. They don't only promise

00:16:00.680 you free money, though they promise you that as well, but they promise you free sex. They promise

00:16:05.220 you free leisure. They promise you free indulgence of your appetites. They promise you fundamentally

00:16:11.720 that things don't have costs. You can do whatever you want sexually and not face any consequences.

00:16:17.020 You can eat as much as you want, not face any consequences. You can laze around as much as you want

00:16:21.200 and not face any consequences. And the conservatives have to come in with this unpopular message

00:16:25.980 which is, no, everything in life has a consequence. You can't free yourself and liberate yourself from

00:16:30.800 every single thing in the world. And even if you did, it would make you miserable.

00:16:35.120 So we're at a disadvantage when it comes to that kind of messaging because the left gets to come in

00:16:40.600 and give you free stuff. But reality reasserts itself in the end. That's the great conservative

00:16:46.580 consolation. Because when the left gets so completely disconnected from reality, people know that.

00:16:52.680 And we joke about that and we laugh about that and we send memes around about that. So no matter what

00:16:58.180 they're telling you in the mainstream media, and I think there are things that the Trump campaign can

00:17:01.640 fix, and I think they got to reopen the country ASAP where the left is going to have a real

00:17:04.920 advantage. Actually, that's another great example. There's now no scientific reason whatsoever for

00:17:09.400 the lockdown. The lockdown was meant to flatten the curve so that we could spread out the cases,

00:17:13.540 not overwhelm the health care system. We're nowhere close to overwhelming the health care system.

00:17:17.400 We never got close. We never even got close in New York. We had empty hospitals in New York

00:17:21.900 and an empty hospital ship in New York. There is not one argument for a renewed lockdown

00:17:27.920 scientifically, but there's a major political argument for the lockdown, which is that it

00:17:31.900 helps Biden because it lets him stay in his basement where he doesn't have to talk too much

00:17:34.840 and it shuts down Trump from campaigning. And it puts us on the road to having national

00:17:39.660 widespread mail-in ballots, which are rife with fraud. And we've pointed out cases of that fraud

00:17:44.340 over just the past few weeks on this very show. Okay. That's a, this is a great example actually

00:17:49.680 of the disconnect between the scientific reality and the political ideology here. And there are a

00:17:55.640 lot of people looking around and saying, wait a second, you told us not to wear masks a few months

00:17:59.600 ago. We see on the CDC website that masks don't do very much at all. Your own arguments are

00:18:04.020 contradictory. You told us that a zillion people are going to die. That hasn't happened. You told us

00:18:08.020 the point of the lockdown wasn't even to save people's lives, just to spread out the deaths.

00:18:12.260 What are we doing? That moves in our favor. So the left, if the right can wake up to it and finally

00:18:21.240 actually advocate for our own positions, the left is not in a good place. And we know this because

00:18:26.580 as I predicted just a few days ago, they are already calling for Joe Biden to skip out on the

00:18:31.740 debates. Tom Friedman, the great, the inimitable Tom Friedman writing in the New York Times says,

00:18:38.160 Biden should not debate Trump unless I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump. He should only do

00:18:43.680 it under two conditions. Otherwise he's giving Trump unfair advantages. First, Biden should

00:18:48.180 declare that he will take part in debate only if Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through

00:18:53.860 2018. Biden has already done so. They're on his website. Don't, okay. What, what does that,

00:19:00.340 what do tax returns have to do with coronavirus and the arguments against the debates? Nothing.

00:19:04.280 They just know that it's going to put Trump in a very difficult position because Joe Biden has been

00:19:08.520 on the government dole his entire adult life. And Donald Trump has, is a businessman. So he's

00:19:12.820 obviously got complex finances and they just want to open up some new attacks. Second, Biden should

00:19:18.460 insist that a real time fact checking team approved by both candidates, but hired by the nonpartisan

00:19:24.580 commission on presidential debates and the 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate,

00:19:28.140 this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies that either candidate has

00:19:33.080 uttered. There is a fact checking team at all presidential debates. It's called the candidates.

00:19:37.240 That's what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to say, no, that, that isn't true.

00:19:41.420 You just lied about that. That number is not right. Now what the left does is they cheat.

00:19:45.020 They put in their own moderators and their own fact checkers like Candy Crowley, who did this in 2012

00:19:48.760 when Barack Obama was debating Mitt Romney and it became a two-on-one debate, both of the Democrats

00:19:53.580 against Mitt Romney. And she lied through her teeth by the way, and only apologized after the debate when no

00:19:59.360 one was watching anymore. They know though, Tom Friedman knows, New York times knows that Joe

00:20:03.460 Biden can't do that. He's not up for it. He can barely pronounce his own name. And so they're trying

00:20:07.980 to set the stage to get Biden not to debate as they should because Joe Biden is now personally a

00:20:15.900 little bit divorced from reality, but more broadly his party and his political worldview is very divorced

00:20:23.060 from reality. Now, ironically at this time of presidential candidates being separated from reality,

00:20:28.220 we've got a new entrance into the race. Kanye West is running for president. I got to tell you,

00:20:33.160 I read through his very long interview that he just gave to Forbes. I kind of like candidate Kanye.

00:20:39.320 I, I know it sounds, I unironically am pretty pro Kanye. I'm going to vote for Trump. I'm not going

00:20:47.700 to vote for Kanye in 2020, but I got to tell you, Kanye has a lot of good things to say politically.

00:20:52.920 Here's just the, uh, the top line from the interview. He says he's running for president

00:20:57.740 in 2020 under a new banner, the birthday party. That's the name of his political party, the birthday

00:21:02.360 party with guidance from Elon Musk and an obscure vice presidential candidate. He's already chosen.

00:21:07.620 The vice presidential candidate is just a preacher. I think from the Midwest love that. Oh yeah. Are you

00:21:15.700 telling me you could pick either like some random congressman, some, some empty suit sociopath,

00:21:22.480 like most people choose for running mates or political appointments, or just a good old preacher

00:21:27.840 from the heartland of America. Sign me up, man. I I'm, I'm with Kanye. Uh, he says that he's okay

00:21:33.720 with siphoning off black votes from the democratic nominee, thus helping Trump. He says, I'm not denying 0.73

00:21:38.060 it. I just told you to say that the black vote is democratic as a form of racism and white supremacy. 0.99

00:21:42.540 Damn right. It is absolutely the way that they're taught. You, you see this constantly people 0.99

00:21:47.840 attacking Kanye because he's stealing votes. He's stealing black votes from Joe Biden,

00:21:54.640 meaning Joe Biden owns those black voters. Debra Messing, the actress said this just the other day. 0.69

00:22:00.900 So that's absolutely disgusting. She said, quote, he's playing Jill Stein. He's trying to take young

00:22:07.580 black voters from Biden. It's disgusting. Biden doesn't own those voters. Sorry, lady. And Kanye West 1.00

00:22:12.300 points that out. Love that. Uh, he says that he believes quote, planned parenthoods have been

00:22:16.680 placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the devil's work. Yup. Preach man. Absolutely.

00:22:23.980 That's the most concise description of planned parenthood that I have heard. And their, their

00:22:28.560 political strategy of expansion into cities that I have ever heard from any American politician.

00:22:32.840 Now he's wrong on China. He kind of likes China. So that's bad. And he wants to spring people from 1.00

00:22:38.040 prison. That's not good. We don't, we don't like that very much. Uh, but you know, he's right on

00:22:42.860 the Democrats. He says, it's a line of his too. Let's see if, uh, the appointing is at 2020 or it's

00:22:49.500 at 2024, but God appoints the president. If I win in 2020, then it was God's appointment. If I win in

00:22:56.000 2024, then that was God's appointment. What Kanye West is giving here. I know people think that sounds

00:23:01.200 kooky and crazy. This is just a description of what St. Paul tells us in the scriptures. And it's a

00:23:05.920 description of what Edmund Burke describes about providence, that there is a, an overarching

00:23:10.300 providence to the world. Uh, great stuff. I dig that. I like, he was, he says that we need to

00:23:15.420 pray. We need to pray for freedom. It's all about God. And we need to stop doing things that make God

00:23:20.100 mad. Yeah, man. That's like my political philosophy. Let's stop doing things that make God mad and pray

00:23:25.920 and pray for your freedom. Bingo, buddy, man, this guy's great. I can't wait for this guy to run for

00:23:31.340 president. Maybe like 2024. I don't necessarily want him to take over. Uh, oh, on abortion. I'm

00:23:36.700 pro-life because I'm following the word of the Bible. Oh, good stuff. This is great. On being a

00:23:43.660 political novice. He says, I have to say with all humility that as a man, I don't have all, all of

00:23:48.280 the pieces in the puzzle. He is humble. It's one of these things they say this with Trump too. They

00:23:52.960 say he's a narcissist. He's an egotist. They say this about Kanye, but when you get past the jokes, 0.93

00:23:57.720 there is a certain humility here that is necessary, especially if you convert or revert

00:24:02.440 to Christianity. I mean, he goes on. There's so many issues in this whole, I strongly encourage you 0.74

00:24:10.780 to read this piece. There's one bit too I want to hit on. Just one last bit at the end. He was asked

00:24:15.920 about his policies and he says, I don't know if I would use the word policy for the way I approach

00:24:20.040 things. I don't have a policy when I went to Nike and designed Yeezy and went to Louis and designed

00:24:25.280 a Louis Vuitton at the same time. It wasn't a policy. It was a design. We need to innovate

00:24:29.920 the design to be able to free the mind at the same time. Yes, that's right. That's my

00:24:35.960 view of, I know that's my view of politics though. We have been caught in this technocratic

00:24:41.340 egghead politics of just managing spreadsheets. What Edmund Burke might've called the sophisters,

00:24:50.460 economists and calculators who he derided. And so Kanye comes in, he goes, yeah, I don't want all

00:24:56.340 those stupid egghead things. I've got a vision. We got to pray for our freedom. Got to do the 1.00

00:25:01.160 right thing. Got to stop killing babies. I think it's great. It's terrific. I look forward to the

00:25:07.200 future Kanye run. He even said in there, he goes, I'm not sure. I don't have total clarity if it's

00:25:10.560 2020 or 2024. I, if he runs in 2020, that's fine. I don't, I think he's probably gonna miss the

00:25:15.580 filing deadline. And, uh, you know, I, I like Trump, so I, that wouldn't be, but whatever.

00:25:21.100 I don't care if he, even if he runs, that's fine by me. All the libs think he's going to steal votes

00:25:24.720 from Biden anyway. So whatever. That's what we'll let them get very upset about that for a few

00:25:29.180 months. But regardless of whether or not Kanye becomes president, I'm not, I'm not willing to

00:25:33.620 give my endorsement, uh, for president Kanye yet, but regardless of whether or not he does what he

00:25:39.100 says about politics there has more sophistication and political wisdom than a hundred percent of

00:25:46.740 Democrats in terms of actually like a virtuous politics and really more than probably 70% of

00:25:53.600 Republicans. So I, I congratulate Kanye. I think that's good. Also on some good news for our politics,

00:25:58.500 uh, the little sisters of the poor have just beaten Barack Obama. It's amazing that Barack Obama 0.98

00:26:05.160 would pick a fight with a group of nuns called the little sisters of the poor, but he did.

00:26:11.420 He pushed for his Obamacare law to force the little sisters of the poor and other religious groups to

00:26:18.340 pay for abortion inducing drugs and birth control in obvious violation of their conscience. This was

00:26:24.540 litigated and went all the way up to the Supreme court. It's been going on for years and we got a

00:26:28.420 decision and luckily actually it wasn't even a five, four decision. It was a seven, two decision.

00:26:36.820 So you had the, you had, I believe it was Sotomayor and RBG sided against the little sisters of the

00:26:44.040 poor because one of those is the least impressive member of the court and the other one is the most

00:26:50.380 partisan member of the court. And you had Kagan and everyone else, but Kagan, probably the most

00:26:57.640 notable liberal go over and side with the little sisters of the poor. There, there's just no

00:27:01.680 argument here. I mean, it's not even close. Obviously the federal government should not force

00:27:06.140 nuns to pay for abortion inducing drugs. The fact that this is even a religious question though

00:27:12.060 should worry us. The fact that the state religion of liberalism, of doing what you want, of if it feels

00:27:19.400 good, do it has this much sway over our religion, traditional religion. If you're a Christian,

00:27:27.640 if this would affect you, this could affect you if you're Jewish or Muslim, the fact that they have

00:27:32.920 this much sway over it is troublesome because it means this isn't over. What the, what the left

00:27:37.600 understands that the right doesn't is that court decisions are not final. They will keep relitigating

00:27:42.360 them until they get the decision that they want. A nice win for the short term, but we're going to

00:27:48.660 have to rethink our conservative legal movement in the longterm, I think. But for today, let's be happy

00:27:54.060 with the little sisters of the poor and with Kanye, let's pray for freedom because the state religion

00:28:02.220 is pretty broad. You know, there was a, there was this, this story that came up out of Canada.

00:28:10.800 So it's America's hat. It's not in America, but it's similar ethos. And I, I wouldn't at all be

00:28:17.460 surprised if we saw the same story in America. They, in Canada, they painted a crosswalk in rainbow

00:28:24.020 colors, not to remind man that God will never again destroy the earth in a flood, but to, to

00:28:29.640 support sexual liberation and gay rights. But now it's so much, so much more than just homosexuality.

00:28:36.580 They're very upset up in Canada. The cops are investigating a major serious crime

00:28:41.580 because they found tire marks in the crosswalk. Pride crosswalk defaced outside West Vancouver

00:28:50.520 police station. They're looking for a black Ford Mustang with red racing stripes along the top

00:28:55.400 and sides because there were tire marks in a crosswalk. Have you ever seen tire marks in a

00:29:01.720 crosswalk? Probably you have because you know what drives over crosswalks? Cars. You know what cars

00:29:06.800 have? Tires. You know what happens when you hit the brakes? You get tire marks.

00:29:11.580 But this is, any offense to part of the state religion, which is the rainbow, not the old

00:29:17.800 rainbow, the new rainbow, is considered a hate crime. The, the worst possible thing imaginable.

00:29:23.420 We saw yesterday, two people are being charged in America with civil rights violations with

00:29:28.060 hate crimes for painting over a, a black lives matter, Marxist slogan in the streets of a city.

00:29:37.940 That sort of thing, that's not going to have to go up to the Supreme court. These people are going to

00:29:41.160 get the hammer laid down on them, whether it's in America or in Canada. And the little sisters of

00:29:45.920 the poor are going to have to wait and wait and fight and fight for years and years in court.

00:29:51.280 That is the religion of liberalism. Even, even this is one story. I mentioned it a little bit

00:29:57.840 yesterday on Ben's radio show, but I have to get to it before we get to the mailbag.

00:30:01.640 Single people right now, single people are having kids with strangers as part of a trend called 0.88

00:30:08.280 co-parenting. Now you would think co-parenting is a man and a woman love each other very much.

00:30:12.720 They get married. They call the stork hotline. The stork brings them a baby. They raise the baby

00:30:16.640 together out of their love for each other. But liberalism, as it always does, has inverted

00:30:21.140 things. So now, instead of bringing your love for another person into it manifestly, a love that is a

00:30:28.220 person. And then, and then you give your love to that little baby. Now we only love ourselves.

00:30:32.320 We are only out for ourselves and everything is about giving us pleasure and giving us what we

00:30:37.600 want. So the, the story goes, they're skipping love and marriage. They're going straight to the

00:30:42.980 part about a baby in a carriage. Yelena Pranoza, 41 year old accountant living in Staten Island has

00:30:47.420 an 18 year old daughter, but that hasn't stopped her from yearning for a brother or sister for my

00:30:51.260 daughter. After her hubby of eight years made it clear he doesn't want any more kids. She split from 0.97

00:30:55.700 him four years ago and turned to the internet for answers. There is much that is wrong here,

00:31:01.900 but basically what's come up is that people go on the internet and they say, they swipe. It's like

00:31:05.740 swiping right or left, but not for a romantic relationship, just to have a kid. Much wrong

00:31:13.100 with it. Much is backwards. First of all, you want a child to grow up in a stable, loving home, not with

00:31:17.820 two random people who met one time and live in different places and maybe sort of know each other,

00:31:21.720 but they're gonna have a kid together. You don't want to intentionally deprive a child of one of its

00:31:26.780 natural, natural parents, which is happening more and more these days. You don't want to make the kid

00:31:32.860 all about you. That's the worst kind of parenting. And if you, if you begin parenting that way, it's going

00:31:39.220 to have miserable results. That's what our culture has done. We've made it all about us. We've made it all

00:31:43.560 about our own fantasies. And you know what? It's not, it's made us all miserable. You can, you can see it

00:31:48.160 in public opinion polls. We're more anxious, we're more stressed, we're more suicidal than just about

00:31:52.920 ever. This is true across age groups. It's truer of women than it is of men even. Men are committing 0.91

00:31:59.820 suicide at higher rates as they always do, but women's happiness as, as measured by various polls 0.99

00:32:04.240 has declined both in relative terms to men and in absolute terms over the past five decades.

00:32:08.880 Selfishness has made us miserable. That living in a fantasy world has made us miserable. And I think

00:32:15.980 we might be at a breaking point. I think we might be at one of these points that happens every so often,

00:32:20.640 every, every few decades, maybe only every few centuries where reality begins to reassert itself

00:32:26.540 and people are waking up to that. And that's an ugly thing. When you, when you wake up from a dream,

00:32:31.900 when you wake up sleepwalking, things can go wrong. It can be very jarring. It can be very scary.

00:32:37.100 That may be the moment that we're in this election that we're talking about, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

00:32:41.660 That is, that is one symbol. It's a clear symbol of it too. Which way are we going to go? How are we

00:32:46.800 going to, how are we going to wake up from this? Is it good? Is it going to be nightmarish or are we

00:32:52.100 going to be happy to welcome ourselves finally back into reality? That remains to be seen. We

00:32:58.300 will get to the mailbag in just one second. First though, I have got to thank all of you for heading

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00:33:23.800 Mark McCloskey. He's the guy in St. Louis with the gun outside his house in the pink polo shirt

00:33:29.460 and the white chinos. He's a hero. He clears up a lot of misinformation that people are spreading

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00:33:52.780 This is a terrific book. It's how to destroy America in three easy steps. He seems to have

00:33:58.900 pre, pre-visaged what, what is going on right now in this country. People tearing things down. He talks

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00:34:10.940 copy at dailywire.com slash Ben. Get that today. Head on over to dailywire.com. We'll be right back

00:34:15.320 with the mailbag. First question from Josh, Mr. Knowles. Why does the left seem to only discuss

00:34:32.580 right wing straw man arguments when discussing conservative positions? Do they honestly not

00:34:37.500 know conservative positions or is it part of a strategy to discredit those more serious positions?

00:34:42.760 Thanks. It's funny you should ask that. I actually did not realize that that was going to be the

00:34:47.880 first question in here and it ties in exactly to our theme of the show and it ties in exactly to Don

00:34:52.680 Lemon. I think it's two parts. One, they genuinely don't know. They actually don't know. And two,

00:34:59.260 they don't care. If you live in the liberal worldview, in a liberal culture, with a liberal government,

00:35:06.560 you are generally not very interested in leaving that ideological bubble. Even if the ideology

00:35:14.700 doesn't totally correspond to reality, you would be more interested in forcing that fantasy on the

00:35:19.940 world and making it into a reality, which is a premise of liberalism. We can do whatever we want

00:35:24.840 to do. We can liberate ourselves completely. We can liberate ourselves from the confines of reality

00:35:28.780 than you are in understanding the other point of view.

00:35:32.200 But they don't know what we think. A great example happened this week. Ayn Rand was trending because

00:35:39.300 Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. She was this kind of anarcho-capitalist

00:35:46.680 type figure. She wants very, very small government. She just wants to build things. She loved

00:35:51.140 industrialism. She was an atheist. She was a rationalist. And she was famously written out of 0.93

00:35:57.880 the conservative movement. When she came on the scene, some conservatives liked that she wanted to at

00:36:01.760 least make a little money and save a little money. But Whitaker Chambers, William F. Buckley Jr., a lot

00:36:07.260 of people said her vision of the world just has very little to do with the transcendent moral

00:36:11.700 universe that conservatives believe in. And so that's not really what conservatism is. But the

00:36:16.780 left was dunking on the Ayn Rand Institute this week because they took government money. And they

00:36:21.200 really thought that Ayn Rand was the representative of the conservative worldview when really that isn't

00:36:26.860 true. If it ever was true, that's decades in the past now. And really, I don't think it was true

00:36:31.420 ever. They're tilting at windmills. They're fighting against straw men. And it's why, by the way,

00:36:39.920 they are always welcoming of squishy conservatives. They invite squishy conservatives on their news

00:36:45.540 channels. The system actually needs the squishy conservatives to give legitimacy to the larger

00:36:53.100 liberal project. But you know who they don't like? Conservatives who tell it like it is.

00:36:58.540 Conservatives who are a little too real. Conservatives who speak their mind and puncture

00:37:03.200 their ideology, who don't accept their premises. They don't let those guys on their news channels

00:37:08.660 because those guys, rather than being a support for the system, are actually a major threat to the

00:37:15.480 system. And they don't want to hear it. Maybe they don't know about it, but they sure don't want to

00:37:19.260 hear it. From Pasquale. What a great name, Pasquale. Dear Swarthi, Mr. Knowles, I'm a big

00:37:23.900 fan. Also a registered nurse. Now, I don't have as much medical or scientific knowledge or experience

00:37:30.420 as our elected career politicians. So I was just wondering how wearing a surgical mask

00:37:34.480 or face covering protects others, but not the person wearing one. Many mask wearers aggressively

00:37:41.140 attack people who don't wear one. But if spit droplets are not able to go out, wouldn't that also

00:37:45.300 mean they can't go in either? Or is that $1 bandana made of some magical one-way material?

00:37:50.880 P.S. I'm also an Italian American and I'm extremely offended by your use of the word Swarthi,

00:37:54.460 which I'd never heard before. I'm going to raise money to build a Michael Knowles statue,

00:37:57.600 then knock it over because I'm bored and have nothing else to do. Fair enough. Totally understand.

00:38:02.140 That's the age we're living in. You got to build up statues just to knock them down.

00:38:05.100 On the point about the masks, of course, you're right. Initially, people wear masks to protect

00:38:09.800 themselves, generally speaking. And that was one of the ideas early on in this coronavirus thing.

00:38:16.760 But they realized that if you're just wearing a mask to protect yourself, then that gives you the

00:38:20.800 right to decide whether or not to wear the mask. Because in this country, we still believe,

00:38:26.160 at least to a large degree, that you have the right to take some risks yourself.

00:38:32.180 So they couldn't have that narrative continue because then no one would wear the masks and no one

00:38:36.860 would be as freaked out about the lockdown. And they couldn't push nationwide mail-in ballots and

00:38:42.380 they couldn't lock Joe Biden in a basement and not have him make mistakes. So there are many,

00:38:46.000 many implications to these policies. So what they had to do was say, it's actually not about you.

00:38:50.980 You have to wear the mask because if you don't wear the mask, you're killing grandma. You're killing 0.80

00:38:54.740 someone else. It creates, it's much more effective at whipping up hysteria and it's much more effective

00:38:59.960 at getting people to fall in line. But it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense when reality

00:39:06.040 reasserts itself as it does for some people in the end. From Aaron. Hi, Michael. Do you think

00:39:11.700 religiosity will decline in America? What do you think it would take for atheism to decline? Thanks.

00:39:15.700 No, I don't think religiosity ever really declines, not in the long run. I think religiosity just gets

00:39:21.760 replaced by another religion. So everybody's got to serve somebody. That is a fact of life. Man is 0.91

00:39:29.280 fundamentally a religious being. Our longings are not primarily just of the appetite. Like,

00:39:34.900 I need coffee. I want this food. I want this drug. I want this sex. We have those longings too,

00:39:39.320 but we have deeper longings, more sustained longings, a longing that cannot be satisfied except

00:39:48.040 with religion, except by God, what you would call the God-shaped hole in man's heart. That is the most

00:39:54.820 enduring, eternal, deepest longing. And so when you, that has fulfilled, been fulfilled traditionally

00:40:01.560 everywhere by religion. But in this enlightened liberal age, as people have seen it fashionable

00:40:08.140 to become atheists, they just replace it with something else. So they replace it primarily with

00:40:12.180 political ideology, the ideology of liberalism or communism or fascism, or they replace it with

00:40:18.980 some kind of modern spins on those ideologies like environmentalism, which has all of the hallmarks

00:40:24.220 of religion, right? It's got sin in pollution, redemption in recycling, the sale of indulgences

00:40:29.740 and carbon tax credits. It's got an entire order, a moral order that happens to have to do with the

00:40:37.420 earth rather than the metaphysical world. But you have to replace it with something. And so

00:40:42.460 I think there are a lot of squishy conservatives, the conservative liberals, you know, the classical

00:40:49.160 liberals even say, who believe that really what we need to do is create this separate space for me to

00:40:55.660 practice my religion. But you're free, not to practice any religion at all. And just to every,

00:41:00.620 we're all good. Nobody has anything to do with each other. And we'll be fine. Leave me alone.

00:41:05.140 That's not how society has ever worked. That's not how politics has ever worked. Politics comes from

00:41:11.600 the Greek polis, the city states where people live together. That's what it's about. How do we all live

00:41:17.820 together? And so it does have an effect. We got to get this kind of ideological, libertarian notion

00:41:24.480 out of our minds that we have no effect on other people and other people have no effect on us. We

00:41:28.160 live in society. We are social creatures. That's how Aristotle defines man. And when you're living in

00:41:34.940 a culture that is avowedly atheist or liberal or environmentalist or whatever, that is going to

00:41:39.600 have an effect on your religion. They are going to come knocking on your door. Ask the little sisters 1.00

00:41:43.500 of the poor about that. They've been fighting this for years and they got a little mild wind,

00:41:48.360 but they're going to be fighting it for years more. I promise you. So the key, it is not merely

00:41:53.380 enough to leave everybody alone. What we have to do if you're Christian is to follow the commission 1.00

00:41:59.480 that you were given, which is to evangelize. We need to persuade people of our ideas. If we don't do

00:42:07.280 that, if we're not winning, we're losing. From Katie. Hey, Michael, I'm dating a liberal.

00:42:11.780 Here's your first problem. Things started off fine, but more and more he's trying to empower me by

00:42:16.980 insisting that I pick up the check at restaurants and open doors for him. I don't think it'll work

00:42:21.920 out, but I'm also confused about how to break up with him since he already encourages me to see

00:42:26.020 other men in our relationship. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. I can't tell you if that

00:42:35.700 letter is a joke or is serious. That's how crazy our culture has gotten. That I could see that being

00:42:44.280 a joke. You know, some conservatives wrote that in as a joke. I could also see that being an article

00:42:49.780 on Slate. And I've read articles like that on Slate. And I've heard experiences like that from my

00:42:55.900 female friends who have dated liberals. That's a very bad situation. I guess, though, we're all

00:43:04.420 focusing on the guy. This liberal guy who has these crazy ideas of, you know, you should sleep with other

00:43:09.740 men and you should, you should pick up the tab. But really, maybe you're the one who's got a, who's got

00:43:16.860 the craziness here. Maybe you're the one who's got the, the mental problems. You're the one dating the 1.00

00:43:22.360 guy. I think that's a lesson there for all of us. We conservatives. We're the ones going along with

00:43:26.180 all this craziness. We're the ones not fighting back. All right. One more question from Chris.

00:43:33.440 Hello, Michael. I keep reading on places like Forbes and NPR that the recent spikes in coronavirus

00:43:37.880 cases are not due to the recent protests. Of course. However, I just find that difficult to

00:43:43.760 believe. Are they just lying, omitting relevant information or what? What is the cause of this

00:43:48.560 recent spike? Thanks. Keep up the great work. It would seem to me that if there is a spike in cases,

00:43:56.500 it might have something to do with the hundreds of thousands of people around the country who were

00:44:01.420 rioting for the past several weeks. The fact that public health officials, quote unquote, want to tell

00:44:08.180 you with a straight face that the virus can discriminate between political worldviews and it knows that

00:44:16.720 it's going to attack and spread among the conservatives, but not among the leftists. 0.99

00:44:20.840 That is ridiculous. And the people who say that have no credibility. And the scientific establishment 0.84

00:44:26.100 that's been wrong at every turn about this virus has no credibility. I think the virus is in many

00:44:33.700 ways, it only occurred to me actually doing the show today. The virus is in many ways, one of these

00:44:38.240 incidents that is hastening the final confrontation of at least this era between illusion, delusion,

00:44:47.400 and reality. Because we're looking around and we're saying, you told us 2 million people, 2 million

00:44:52.200 Americans were going to die of this thing within weeks. That didn't happen. You told us flattening the

00:44:57.280 curve was about spreading out the infections. Now you're changing that and saying it's about saving

00:45:02.760 lives, which is not possible. You told us the hospitals would be overwhelmed. That never happened. You told us

00:45:08.880 that it was bad to protest the lockdowns, but then you told us it was good to loot and riot for a Marxist

00:45:14.840 organization. You can't believe that stuff. And I think the most enduring legacy of the Trump era will be cracking

00:45:21.680 finally that patina of credibility that the mainstream media and the political establishment had. They're not

00:45:29.120 credible. They don't deserve our, our credence. They are, they are no better at running this country

00:45:36.180 than anybody else, including Kanye West. And frankly, people like Kanye West seem to have much

00:45:42.160 more promise than that desiccated liberal establishment of both parties. That's how you get

00:45:47.940 Donald Trump. And I hope that's how you get another four years of Donald Trump. All right, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 09, 2020

Ep. 577 - Everybody’s Been Woked

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