The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 629 - Big Tech Must Be Destroyed

00:00:00.000 There's a huge scoop yesterday in the New York Post. Leaked emails show that Joe Biden has been

00:00:06.120 lying about Ukraine, he knew about his son's crooked deal, and he probably took a meeting

00:00:10.680 with the oligarchs himself. But that's not the biggest story. The biggest story is that the

00:00:15.840 largest media platforms in the world that control the flow of information around the internet

00:00:19.820 suppressed the story. They blocked major accounts, including the White House press secretary,

00:00:25.960 for sharing. This is unacceptable, this is probably illegal, and this is the end of

00:00:32.020 constitutional government if we don't stop it. There can be no accommodation. Big tech

00:00:37.880 must be destroyed. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:49.480 Welcome back to the show. There is no accommodation here. It's very, very clear. Got to destroy

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00:02:42.620 Very quickly, before we get to the real story, the real story is obviously the suppression of this

00:02:48.000 on social media. I'll just quickly go over this dread, censored, dangerous New York Post

00:02:54.320 breaking news. Headline, Biden's secret emails revealed Ukrainian exec thanked Hunter Biden for

00:03:01.420 the opportunity to meet his VP dad. This Ukrainian exec, this corrupt Ukrainian guy is named Vadim 1.00

00:03:09.680 Pozarski. He allegedly, according to this story, sent Hunter Biden an email on April 17th, 2015,

00:03:19.160 about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board. He was making 50 grand a month. Some reports actually

00:03:25.000 say he was making a little bit more than 50 grand a month. And the whole time, Joe Biden has said that

00:03:32.160 he did not speak to this guy, but we have an email here from Vadim Pozarski. It says,

00:03:36.180 Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and

00:03:41.640 spend some time together. It's realty and honor and pleasure. As we spoke yesterday evening,

00:03:46.920 would be great to meet today for a quick coffee. What do you think? I could come to you office

00:03:51.560 somewhere around noon or so before or on my way to airport best V. That's the email. There's more that

00:03:58.800 was included here. How did they get these emails? Apparently, it was because Hunter Biden's

00:04:04.860 computers were dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware. Biden never picked up the computers,

00:04:10.480 so they became property of the repair shop owner, and then it leaked from there. Who knows? I mean,

00:04:15.360 obviously, this is an October surprise, so we don't know how we got these emails. But the most

00:04:21.000 important thing about the emails is they appear to be legitimate. They appear to be legitimate.

00:04:26.600 First thing is, it proves that Joe Biden lied. Joe Biden said that he never spoke to his son,

00:04:34.440 Hunter Biden, about his business dealings in Ukraine. How many times have you ever spoken

00:04:40.100 to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas

00:04:44.820 business dealings. He's never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings. Well,

00:04:50.140 unfortunately, his derelict son ended up contradicting him on that point. He contradicted him in an interview

00:04:56.740 that he did with New York Magazine, where he described the conversation that he had with his father

00:05:02.380 when he was talking about his overseas business dealings. And then he did a television interview

00:05:07.260 on Nightline, I believe, and he's describing the situation. And he knows the talking point is that

00:05:14.960 he never spoke to his dad, but he accidentally lets it slip anyway.

00:05:18.180 Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?

00:05:22.480 No. As I said, the only time was after a news account, and it wasn't a discussion in any way.

00:05:28.280 There's no but to this. No, we never did.

00:05:30.280 Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:05:31.860 I hope you know what you're doing.

00:05:32.860 I do.

00:05:33.320 And I said, I do. And that was literally the end of our discussion.

00:05:37.160 Well, if that was the end of your discussion, that means that there was a discussion,

00:05:40.740 which you had said there was at first, but then you remembered the campaign told you not to say

00:05:45.200 that. So then you said, no, there was no discussion. There's no but. But there obviously

00:05:48.540 was a discussion because you've talked about it at length and even your interviewer brought it up.

00:05:53.120 What did Joe Biden say? He said, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:05:57.020 Why did he say that? Because what Hunter was doing looked kind of shady because what Hunter was

00:06:02.020 doing was corrupt. So why is Joe Biden lying about not about having this conversation now?

00:06:07.860 Because obviously the whole thing stinks to high heaven. A tough story for the Bidens because it

00:06:16.000 implies that his son engaged in corruption and that Joe himself engaged in very high level corruption

00:06:23.100 as the sitting vice president. So of course, social media had to shut this down.

00:06:29.120 Social media, Facebook first comes out and they say, we are going to limit the reach of this article

00:06:35.800 because it hasn't been fact checked yet. Actually, the spokes spokesman for Facebook that came out and

00:06:41.740 said, we're limiting the reach is a former staffer for the democratic congressional campaign committee

00:06:47.660 for other democratic political action committees for Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most 0.99

00:06:52.800 left-wing people in the U S Senate. He's a Democrat operative using an ostensibly neutral tech platform

00:06:59.100 to censor and suppress damaging information about Democrats three weeks before presidential election.

00:07:05.800 It wasn't just Facebook though. I mean, that would be outrageous enough. It was Twitter.

00:07:10.060 Twitter suspended accounts that were, that were posting this. So the first thing Twitter did was

00:07:15.360 make it such that you couldn't even post the link. You got an error. I tried it myself and said, nope,

00:07:21.360 sorry, you can't send that. Something went wrong. If you pushed a little harder, you saw it. Oh,

00:07:25.300 sorry, this hasn't been fact checked. It could be dangerous. So they wouldn't let you post it.

00:07:29.240 They then suspended James Woods, very giant Twitter account and a famous actor, James O'Keefe,

00:07:35.980 conservative journalist, a daily caller, reporter, Andrew Kerr, others, and the white house press

00:07:41.960 secretary. Twitter would not allow the white house press secretary to post news from a major

00:07:47.560 longstanding news outlet that was damaging to Democrats. First thing to note about this,

00:07:53.360 it's probably illegal for them to do that. Federal law prohibits any corporation from making a

00:08:00.440 contribution to a federal candidate for office. And what is a contribution? A contribution is anything

00:08:05.920 of value. Well, obviously suppressing the most damaging news report about the candidate this cycle,

00:08:12.900 obviously that has value to the candidate and to the campaign. A pretty significant value when you

00:08:18.820 are throttling the flow of this information around the internet. Josh Hawley made this point that it's

00:08:23.960 very likely illegal. I suspect Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are going to be dragged to Capitol

00:08:28.240 Hill to answer questions about this. The way I know that they're going to be dragged to Capitol

00:08:32.140 Hill, as a matter of fact, is that Jack Dorsey himself, the head of Twitter, immediately, well,

00:08:37.360 I'm sorry, I shouldn't say immediately, by the end of the day, so many hours had elapsed in the

00:08:42.480 meantime, but by the end of the day, he came out and said, wait, wait a second here. Sorry,

00:08:46.420 we didn't mean that. Things were not great. Not great. That's his exact way. He goes,

00:08:53.800 our communication around our actions on the New York Post article was not great. Not great.

00:09:00.240 And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we're blocking.

00:09:05.660 Unacceptable. So he's not saying it was unacceptable to do it. He's not saying that suppressing the

00:09:13.080 article was not great. He's saying our communication around. I just didn't explain to you.

00:09:19.200 I did not suitably explain to you why we were interfering in a presidential election in a way

00:09:26.580 that would make the Russians blush and trying to suppress important information by censoring even

00:09:32.620 members of the presidential administration. Twitter safety, safety, oh, chill goes up my spine.

00:09:38.500 Twitter safety tweets out. We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we've taken

00:09:44.420 with respect to two New York Post articles that were first tweeted this morning. The images contained

00:09:49.540 in the articles include personal and private information like email addresses and phone

00:09:53.600 numbers, which violate our rules. Oh, that's it, huh? Because what is, I guess one, maybe one of these

00:09:58.900 emails has some personal information. I'm not even sure that they do. Some, I mean, I guess in some of

00:10:04.900 the images, you can see some personal information. So that's why, that's why they suppressed it, right?

00:10:09.480 Except that's obviously a lie because it contradicts the explanation they gave earlier in the morning

00:10:14.540 when they blocked Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary that Twitter wrote, we have

00:10:19.140 determined that this account violated the Twitter rules specifically for violating our rules against

00:10:23.620 distribution of hacked material. There's no evidence, first of all, that this was hacked material.

00:10:28.500 We were told that this explicitly was not hacked material, but let's say it is.

00:10:34.700 First, you're saying it's because it was hacked. Then you're saying it's because it has personal

00:10:38.120 information. You know what I think? I think that you guys wanted to suppress this information and

00:10:43.880 you're making up the reason ex post facto as you go along. That's what I think. And now I think you

00:10:50.160 hired some great crisis communications company because you realize that what you've done might be highly

00:10:54.780 illegal. And now not even the most libertarian of libertarians is defending you people because you

00:11:00.760 have stolen our politics and our discourse. You have completely taken it over as the public square

00:11:06.800 with critical mass. No one can beat you. And you did that on fraud. You did that by fraudulent means

00:11:12.420 where you suggested, you told people as, as part of the agreement to use your services, that you'll be

00:11:18.620 able to post things. You'll be able to read things. You're a neutral platform exercising your

00:11:24.060 liability protection in section 230 of the communication decency act, which we've talked

00:11:27.840 a lot about on this show and on verdict and on other shows too. You did all of that. And then

00:11:32.120 it was all a fraud because really what you are is political operatives. You are publishers deciding

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00:13:02.500 because it was hacked. Yeah, Twitter, it wasn't hacked. Oh, it's because, yeah, it had private

00:13:08.520 information. Really? Well, why didn't you say that in the first place? Oh, yeah, we didn't

00:13:14.740 communicate well. Not great. Not great. Then Twitter added to their thread about how it was

00:13:21.200 how it was including this private information. They said, and as noted this morning, we also

00:13:26.620 currently view materials included this as violations of our hacked materials policy.

00:13:31.100 Look, obviously this is BS too. How about Melania Trump's telephone conversation that was really

00:13:38.340 perfectly innocuous. She just joked about how everyone was attacking her and how she had to do

00:13:42.720 the Christmas decorations and how people were completely lying about the kids in cages issue.

00:13:48.680 Remember that? That seemed like hacked material. How come Twitter didn't suppress that? The fake

00:13:54.680 steel dossier that was cooked up by the Democrats. Complete lies. Demonstrable lies. How come that

00:14:01.440 wasn't suppressed? That was going all around Twitter. The Access Hollywood tape. You remember that?

00:14:07.100 Where he's, Trump is making jokes with Billy Bush. That was the October surprise in 2016. You remember

00:14:12.360 that? I don't think that was suppressed. That was hacked. That was private. No, it's just obviously BS

00:14:19.000 because Twitter got a lot of flack for not suppressing the president of the United States.

00:14:24.580 And so now they're going to try to throw the presidential election. So big tech must be destroyed.

00:14:30.080 This is very important. Some very ignorant, shallow thinking left-wingers on social media 1.00

00:14:37.920 are accusing conservatives of hypocrisy here because they're saying, oh, now you like regulation. Now 1.00

00:14:44.300 you like big government because you want to shut down big tech. They don't understand the conservative

00:14:51.740 position. Now you like regulation. Now you like the conservatives like just laws and their

00:15:01.480 enforcement. We like that. We've always liked that. We are not anarchists. We're not libertarians.

00:15:09.400 Although frankly, libertarians are getting on board with this too. Why? Because these companies are

00:15:15.020 almost certainly violating the law. And we just went through a couple of laws that they're violating.

00:15:20.100 And as a broader issue, they are undermining self-government through fraud.

00:15:28.320 We have a situation now where a few oligarchs control the flow of information. They are the public square, 0.83

00:15:34.740 which perhaps can work fine if they are a public square. But when they pretend to be a public square

00:15:41.860 and then decide to rip the rug out from under us and now are going to control that public square,

00:15:49.580 we cannot permit that. If we were in the old timey days in the 18th or 19th centuries and some oligarch

00:15:57.440 came in to the actual public square, to the physical public square, and started putting tape on people's

00:16:03.880 mouths and starting deciding who can speak and who can't speak, we would not be able to tolerate that

00:16:08.580 simply as a matter of constitutional government. The same thing is true here. People say, try Parler.

00:16:14.360 I like Parler. I have a Parler account. There's no comparison. Parler will never get the critical

00:16:20.520 mass that Twitter has. It's not Parler's fault. It's just that the only reason Twitter is Twitter

00:16:27.580 is because it got that critical mass and it got that critical mass through a fraud. So Parler is good

00:16:33.780 for what it's good for, but we can't simply throw up our hands and say, well, Twitter is a private company.

00:16:38.580 Okay, well, this is our country. This is our self-government. And if we're going to allow

00:16:45.340 a few highly ideological oligarchs to control our speech, which by the way, in self-government

00:16:51.020 is politics. Speech and persuasion is politics in self-government. If we're going to allow them

00:16:56.220 to censor us, including our duly elected representatives, we are ceding self-government.

00:17:02.360 We are making it even clearer than it already is that we live in an oligarchy.

00:17:07.440 It's also not hypocritical to use Twitter to oppose Twitter. It's not hypocritical to use

00:17:14.280 these platforms to oppose these platforms. They are the, again, I mean, it all comes back

00:17:20.340 to this issue. They are the public square. And the only way that you can advocate changing

00:17:25.480 the public square is to be in the public square. You have to do it. Perfectly legitimate.

00:17:30.660 Even, by the way, even someone with as libertarian an inclination or someone as deeply conservative

00:17:37.880 as Clarence Thomas agrees with us here. Clarence Thomas has now weighed in on the issue of section

00:17:45.060 230 protection with, you know, the publisher platform distinction. Thomas writes, when Congress

00:17:52.260 enacted the statute, most of today's major internet platforms did not exist. And in the 24 years since,

00:17:58.640 we have never interpreted this provision, but many courts have construed the law broadly to confer

00:18:04.380 sweeping immunity on some of the largest companies in the world. But the Supreme Court's never weighed

00:18:10.020 in. And obviously the situation is very different now. One need not feel any hypocrisy, any pangs of

00:18:18.620 worry that we're now empowering the government to do something. I love, this is always the kind of

00:18:24.600 silly, squishy Republican argument. They say, well, we cannot permit the government to enforce the laws 0.96

00:18:30.660 that are already on the books. Because if we do that to stop the left from suppressing our speech,

00:18:36.680 well, then when the left gets into government, they might suppress our speech.

00:18:42.040 Right. They're already doing it. It's happening now. You're afraid that sometime in a hypothetical

00:18:47.420 future, the left might do what they are currently doing now. And for that reason, you don't want us to

00:18:51.980 stop them from doing it now. Doesn't make any sense. Also, there's nothing principled about not

00:18:57.960 enforcing the law. Nothing principled whatsoever. There was more lurid stuff, by the way, in this New

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00:20:35.140 Some creepy sex stuff before we get to the mailbag. As part of this New York Post expose,

00:20:41.400 it seems that there are now photos and videos of Hunter Biden in some compromising positions.

00:20:50.180 Hunter Biden with a crack pipe. Hunter Biden filming sex scenes. Yuck. I mean, the photos look very bad. 0.90

00:20:59.080 I actually think this is a bad route to pursue, though. I think this actually helps Biden,

00:21:03.620 Joe and Hunter, because it's so pathetic. It's so pathetic to see Hunter Biden with a cigarette 0.99

00:21:09.500 hanging out of his teeth with some woman somewhere off screen or him smoking crack or whatever. It's 1.00

00:21:14.940 so, it's really pathetic in that it evokes pathos, right? Many of us know people who have died from 0.96

00:21:21.220 drug overdoses. Probably all of us know people that are addicted to drugs in some way. It's so pathetic

00:21:28.080 that I think it actually evokes some sympathy for him. I think we should avoid that and just stick, 0.99

00:21:33.600 on the creepy corruption, not the creepy sex stuff. But speaking of creepy sex, not involving the

00:21:39.940 Biden family, Katie Hill, who resigned in disgrace from Congress amid a sex scandal. She was having a 0.99

00:21:46.020 thruple with her husband and one of her staffers. There were lurid photos of her posted everywhere.

00:21:52.020 Katie Hill tweeted out about ACB. Prim and proper, beautiful, glorious ACB. Katie Hill writes,

00:21:59.880 I hate to be someone who judges women on their clothes, but I'm sorry, ACB's outfits are all way

00:22:05.960 too hands-madey. Referring to that Margaret Atwood book that she probably hasn't read, but it was made

00:22:12.060 into a TV show, so she should maybe watch that. The Handmaid's Tale. Now, they keep using this word

00:22:19.400 hands-made because the illiterate liberals probably have never read the gospel according to St. Luke,

00:22:26.200 where the word hands-made is uttered by the Virgin Mary, who says, I'm the hands-made of the Lord.

00:22:32.440 Let this be done to me according to his will. And Mary becomes incarnate with the second person of 0.63

00:22:38.600 the Trinity, Christ, and this is a wonderful, wonderful moment. But this is transformed by Margaret

00:22:44.580 Atwood's Psychosexual Trash, this paperback book that became a TV show. And now, hands-made is a bad term.

00:22:52.140 Why is Katie Hill calling her this? Because she wore a red dress. Women are now not allowed to wear 1.00

00:22:58.040 red dresses, apparently. I think if you gave reasonable people the choice between the sexual

00:23:05.640 ethic of Katie Hill and of Amy Coney Barrett, I think they would probably choose the latter.

00:23:11.220 They took their creepy sex, though, during the hearings yesterday to another level

00:23:14.140 when they asked about more and more sexual issues. You see, some of these Democrat men were very worried

00:23:21.860 that ACB was going to cut off the sexual revolution. They began with the issue of IVF, 0.55

00:23:29.800 in vitro fertilization, particularly from Democratic Senator Dick Blumenthal.

00:23:34.760 IVF, treatment, and I'm not going to ask again, just this last time, criminalizing it.

00:23:46.160 Well, would it be constitutional? I think there's a clear answer.

00:23:51.100 But, Senator, I've repeatedly said, as has every other nominee who sat in this seat, that we can't answer

00:23:57.660 questions in the abstract. That would have to be decided in the course of the judicial process.

00:24:02.640 Yes. Some legislature would actually have to do that, and then litigants would have to come to court. 1.00

00:24:09.280 There would have to be briefs and arguments and consultation with colleagues and opinion writing

00:24:13.640 and consideration of precedent. So an off-the-cuff reaction to that would just circumvent the judicial process.

00:24:21.760 Well, again, I'm disappointed. I think Tracy would find that response somewhat chilling

00:24:28.680 because she and thousands, maybe millions, of women, potential parents, 0.84

00:24:37.920 would be horrified to think that IVF treatment could be made criminal.

00:24:44.740 And I understand you're not answering the question.

00:24:48.200 Amy Barrett gave a good judicious answer here.

00:24:50.160 The simpler answer is, of course, you can pass a law to outlaw IVF.

00:24:55.420 Why do I say that? Because there's no protection for IVF,

00:24:59.300 this modern medical technology that has huge bioethical implications,

00:25:04.260 some of which are very grisly.

00:25:06.440 There's no protection of that in the Constitution.

00:25:08.300 Where is the protection for IVF in the Constitution?

00:25:11.160 Show it to me.

00:25:12.060 It's right next to the protection for abortion and right next to the redefinition of marriage.

00:25:16.620 It's just not there.

00:25:17.360 And what our framers decided to do is to protect our right of self-government.

00:25:22.880 They would allow us to pass laws.

00:25:24.480 If you want to have IVF, you can pass a law, you have IVF.

00:25:26.860 If you want to not have IVF, you want to ban it, you pass a law, you can ban it.

00:25:30.460 Let's not forget, by the way, the thing with IVF is, in practice,

00:25:34.500 it's often a pretty grisly process.

00:25:36.640 Sometimes, often, actually, it involves selective abortion

00:25:40.740 because multiple embryos are implanted.

00:25:43.140 And if all of them take, then you might choose to, what is the phrase they use?

00:25:50.120 Reduce them, I think.

00:25:51.440 You have a reduction or something to that effect.

00:25:53.100 But it just means abortion. 0.79

00:25:54.220 You kill the embryo.

00:25:55.520 And in order to do IVF, in virtually all cases,

00:25:59.240 you create a large number of embryos,

00:26:02.820 and then you just use them as you go,

00:26:05.040 and the rest you throw into a freezer.

00:26:06.580 So that's not a good thing either.

00:26:07.940 You don't want to just have a bunch of souls on ice for eternity.

00:26:12.560 Of course, there are bioethical questions.

00:26:15.420 And Dick Blumenthal, shocked.

00:26:17.040 Oh my gosh, are you saying that a free people have the right to debate this issue for themselves?

00:26:22.100 And I can't just impose my radical, creepy sex will on the American people?

00:26:27.720 Yeah, that's what we're saying.

00:26:29.240 Though Amy Barrett, of course, can say,

00:26:31.180 well, it's a hypothetical, I'm not going to answer that.

00:26:32.620 Then he got even creepier, because he said,

00:26:35.320 Judge Barrett, if you, by your standards of,

00:26:39.860 by the way, not even by your moral standards,

00:26:41.500 by your standards of constitutional interpretation,

00:26:43.920 you're saying that there's not a sacred constitutional right to condoms and the pill.

00:26:48.680 But oh my gosh, Judge Barrett,

00:26:51.240 this is horrifying, because it means that now maybe some young women aren't going to pop the pill. 1.00

00:26:57.460 Loving involved interracial marriage,

00:26:59.460 and Griswold involves a ban on contraception,

00:27:06.160 a criminal ban on the use of contraceptives,

00:27:09.140 which in turn also involves Eisenstadt v. Baird.

00:27:15.340 These are fundamental cases.

00:27:18.140 And I'm asking your legal position.

00:27:20.060 I want you to keep in mind how many people are listening and watching

00:27:26.860 because they may take a message from what you say.

00:27:33.260 They may see what you say and be deterred from using contraceptives

00:27:40.320 or may feel the fear that it could be banned.

00:27:42.840 Well, Senator Blumenthal, the position that I've taken is whether a question is easy or hard,

00:27:50.840 that I can't offer an answer to it.

00:27:53.220 And I would be surprised if people were afraid that birth control was about to be criminalized

00:27:58.420 because I said to Senator Coons...

00:28:00.740 You may be surprised, but...

00:28:02.420 You may be surprised, Judge Barrett,

00:28:04.540 but I am very, very nervous that women will stop taking the pill 1.00

00:28:09.460 and then men will have consequences for sex. 1.00

00:28:12.460 I'm very...

00:28:13.140 You better not...

00:28:14.040 Oh, heaven forfend, Judge Barrett.

00:28:17.940 Some woman is convinced not to take birth control 0.93

00:28:20.820 and then men will actually have consequences for sex. 0.83

00:28:23.280 Oh, Judge Barrett.

00:28:24.980 You better not...

00:28:25.920 You better find the constitutional right to birth control pills.

00:28:31.220 Where's that one?

00:28:32.140 Article what?

00:28:32.800 Where?

00:28:34.160 That's right next to the constitutional right to IVF

00:28:36.540 and the constitutional right to abortion, right?

00:28:38.040 And the redefinition of marriage, right?

00:28:39.320 That's all...

00:28:39.800 It's all in the same section that was written in invisible ink, I think, right?

00:28:44.580 It's weird.

00:28:45.420 It's very weird to watch a grown man nervously badgering a woman

00:28:52.660 because he fears on no basis whatsoever

00:28:56.560 that she's going to outlaw birth control pills

00:28:59.940 so that young girls hearing this might not keep popping those pills.

00:29:04.620 Very, very creepy.

00:29:06.040 But Dick Blumenthal is a very creepy guy.

00:29:08.300 To show you how pervasive this kind of thing is...

00:29:12.460 Probably listening to Dick Blumenthal, you think,

00:29:14.180 oh my gosh, how did we get to the point in the country

00:29:16.100 where we just started inventing rights in the Constitution?

00:29:19.580 We all went along with that as though that were the case.

00:29:21.820 How did we get to that point?

00:29:22.920 It's because the liberal establishment controls everything.

00:29:27.760 Everything.

00:29:28.400 The administrative government, big technology, obviously.

00:29:32.460 The mainstream media, Hollywood, education, all levels of education.

00:29:37.220 They control everything.

00:29:38.300 And for decades, they controlled the judiciary.

00:29:40.900 They control it all.

00:29:43.080 And so they force their will on you by redefining reality.

00:29:50.200 I mean, this is what political correctness is, right?

00:29:53.460 They are changing words in an attempt to change the way we perceive reality.

00:29:59.400 This can happen in the blink of an eye.

00:30:02.640 Webster's Dictionary.

00:30:04.280 As a result, we talked about this yesterday.

00:30:07.980 We touched on it at least a little bit.

00:30:10.620 There were some Democratic senators who were furious.

00:30:15.580 Cory Booker and Maisie Hirona specifically.

00:30:17.960 That Amy Barrett used the phrase sexual preference.

00:30:20.060 They said this is very offensive to people who have unusual sexual preferences.

00:30:27.340 They said the proper term is orientation.

00:30:30.500 Now, what is orientation?

00:30:31.560 It's just a kind of way you're fixed, way you're set.

00:30:34.680 But a preference can be the same.

00:30:36.240 A preference can be innate.

00:30:38.540 In fact, I don't know of many preferences that are chosen.

00:30:41.540 A preference is something, I can't reason my way through it.

00:30:46.340 I just happen to prefer, I prefer chocolate ice cream.

00:30:48.920 I don't know why I didn't reason that.

00:30:50.480 I didn't choose that.

00:30:52.440 But yet these Democratic senators are saying the term sexual preference is offensive because

00:30:56.020 it implies that gay people choose to be attracted to the same sex.

00:31:01.000 But it actually, it doesn't do that.

00:31:02.420 I mean, they don't understand the meaning of the word preference.

00:31:05.660 Within 24 hours at most, you had the entire left, which was using the phrase sexual preference

00:31:13.600 within the past few weeks.

00:31:16.480 No big deal.

00:31:17.960 Because the word went out that that's offensive.

00:31:20.040 They all say it's offensive now.

00:31:22.320 The news reports say it's offensive now.

00:31:23.920 They won't use that term.

00:31:24.700 All these different institutions, including the dictionary, Merriam-Webster's dictionary,

00:31:33.620 included a definition of preference as orientation or sexual preference.

00:31:39.820 Synonymous.

00:31:42.040 Yesterday, they changed the definition to include the word offensive.

00:31:48.720 Because now they're listening to the left.

00:31:50.340 The people who put the Webster's dictionary together heard the left come out and say,

00:31:56.100 this is bad, change everything.

00:31:58.540 And they secretly changed the dictionary.

00:32:03.340 That is the world we're living in.

00:32:04.540 We talk about George Orwell a lot.

00:32:05.920 There's a touch of George Orwell 1984.

00:32:07.700 There's almost more a touch of Aldous Huxley, though, Brave New World.

00:32:11.040 This techno-dystopia that we're living in.

00:32:14.420 And you know what we all say?

00:32:15.520 I mean, even I say this sometimes.

00:32:16.780 Wow, I really like my iPhone.

00:32:18.400 Wow, I really like my iPad.

00:32:20.400 Wow, I really like my cheap, cool TV.

00:32:23.900 Aren't things so much better?

00:32:26.960 Our technology is, in a certain sense, getting better.

00:32:29.520 Quicker, more computing power.

00:32:31.100 And our politics is totally collapsing.

00:32:35.220 Our sense of self-government.

00:32:36.680 Our sense of the constitutional order.

00:32:39.460 Totally decaying.

00:32:41.180 And the technology has something to do with that.

00:32:44.960 That is not acceptable.

00:32:46.440 Because what pretty soon we're going to find ourselves in is a situation

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00:32:52.800 And we scroll, scroll, scroll all day drooling out of the side of our mouths.

00:32:56.300 And all of our political liberties, our traditions, our institutions will have been stolen from us

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00:33:23.800 You do not want to be possessed by your possessions.

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00:35:21.720 We'll be right back with the Mailbag.

00:35:35.560 From Travis.

00:35:37.020 Was abortion common in the founding era, and did founders ever comment directly on this

00:35:41.460 issue?

00:35:42.140 I've been unable to find any direct quotes, and the only book on abortion from the era

00:35:46.020 uses the term to represent miscarriages.

00:35:48.300 Many thanks.

00:35:48.840 The thing that's difficult about this question is the term abortion, because when we talk

00:35:57.060 about abortion, we're talking about a modern surgical procedure that did not exist back

00:36:01.140 then.

00:36:01.720 So to even use it as kind of anachronistic.

00:36:05.180 Now, there have, for all of human history, been women who wanted to get rid of their pregnancy 1.00

00:36:11.500 by killing the baby.

00:36:13.060 There have been women who wanted to miscarry, and sometimes they wanted to induce that miscarriage, 1.00

00:36:18.200 and there have been men who have wanted that for women as well.

00:36:20.720 So there have always been kind of folk remedies, different sort of teas you would drink, different

00:36:25.020 sorts of procedures and things, some of which are a little grisly, but some of which are also

00:36:30.320 just kind of silly.

00:36:31.560 You know, now with modern medical technology, we just know those sorts of things couldn't

00:36:35.400 be relied on to work very well.

00:36:38.580 The idea of a modern surgical abortion is anachronistic. 0.97

00:36:43.060 The idea of a legal modern surgical abortion is completely anachronistic and ridiculous. 0.87

00:36:48.140 And most importantly to this issue, the idea of a legal protection for abortion is preposterous.

00:36:54.900 Nobody in the founding era who's writing the Constitution would have believed that the Constitution

00:36:59.780 protects abortion. 0.59

00:37:00.880 Most of them wouldn't have any real sense of what an abortion is.

00:37:05.540 Nobody for the vast majority of our history believed that that right existed.

00:37:10.780 Just because a version of something may have been practiced at a certain time does not mean

00:37:16.860 that there's a constitutional right to it.

00:37:18.220 Actually, I'll give you a great example in one that the Democrats keep bringing up, which

00:37:22.420 is Lawrence v. Texas, which banned sodomy laws, laws that prohibit homosexual actions.

00:37:29.380 Now, these laws were on the books, I guess, as late as 2005.

00:37:34.360 Was anybody prosecuted under sodomy laws?

00:37:36.980 No, not really.

00:37:38.840 I don't think so.

00:37:40.300 Were people prosecuted under sodomy laws to any significant degree, even a century before that?

00:37:46.920 No, not really.

00:37:49.140 The role of sodomy laws, there was actually a feminist, Naomi Wolf, who just wrote a book 1.00

00:37:53.200 about how people were killed under sodomy laws.

00:37:55.240 And it turns out the thesis of her book was just completely wrong.

00:37:57.320 And she got embarrassed in real time on a radio interview talking about it.

00:38:01.160 The purpose of these sodomy laws was to acknowledge a certain understanding of sexual ethics or

00:38:06.720 morality. 0.96

00:38:08.300 The purpose of those laws were not to jail homosexuals or kill homosexuals or anything 0.98

00:38:13.620 like that. 0.61

00:38:14.240 That's really not how they were practiced historically.

00:38:17.160 So, if you say that the Constitution does not protect the right to homosexual activity,

00:38:23.400 which obviously it does not because there were sodomy laws on the books when the Constitution

00:38:27.200 was ratified.

00:38:28.680 If you say that the Constitution does not protect that kind of activity, does that make you a

00:38:34.180 homophobe?

00:38:34.940 Does that make you a bigot? 0.86

00:38:36.000 Does that?

00:38:36.280 No.

00:38:36.700 It means that you have the same view of the government that the Founding Fathers did,

00:38:41.000 namely, that the federal government is limited and bounded.

00:38:44.620 And there can be all sorts of laws at the state level.

00:38:46.480 But by the way, even when you look at those state laws, you have to see how those laws

00:38:49.980 were actually enacted, how they were enforced, what the purpose of them were.

00:38:54.780 Modern ideologues who are trying to radically reshape our country and our politics are counting 0.95

00:39:00.440 on your ignorance. 0.91

00:39:01.600 That's what they're hoping for. 0.99

00:39:02.660 So that they can pretend that, you know, I don't know, all these gay people are being 1.00

00:39:08.100 executed for their sexual behavior. 0.99

00:39:09.740 It just doesn't happen.

00:39:11.660 Didn't happen.

00:39:12.560 As always, the reality of the situation is much more interesting than the shallow ideological

00:39:18.320 lie that people are being told.

00:39:20.180 And the reason they're being told that, by the way, is to transform the politics.

00:39:25.460 If there were really the seeds of this leftist ideology that we now see today, you know,

00:39:31.380 in the words of Pete Buttigieg, the modern judges, they understand the true meaning of

00:39:36.200 the Constitution.

00:39:36.780 If that were so, they wouldn't have to transform it.

00:39:39.280 They wouldn't have to hide the reality of it from you.

00:39:41.540 Good question.

00:39:42.040 From Jeff.

00:39:42.820 Mr. Knowles, I just wanted to let you know you have stepped up your segue game significantly

00:39:47.380 over the past couple of weeks.

00:39:48.900 I think you should require your advertisers to pay more since viewers and listeners are

00:39:52.400 less likely to fast forward through the ads.

00:39:54.800 You know, on that point, I will say, I decided, because I got bored with the way the ads

00:39:59.620 were going, so I decided I was going to challenge myself to see how smooth I could make those

00:40:04.040 segues.

00:40:04.960 And, you know, listen, Jeremy Boring, he does great segues.

00:40:07.560 I really wanted to beat him.

00:40:09.300 So thank you.

00:40:10.240 I'm glad that you appreciate it.

00:40:12.360 He goes on.

00:40:13.080 I do have a quick question as to why you and Mr. Shapiro have completely opposite views

00:40:16.320 on presidential polling.

00:40:18.080 Are you cherry picking which polls you're looking at in order to be so upbeat about President

00:40:21.760 Trump's chances of getting reelected?

00:40:23.200 Well, first of all, I'm not saying I'm upbeat about it.

00:40:25.780 But I think if the election were fair, were held fairly today, I would bet a small amount

00:40:32.800 of money that he would win.

00:40:35.880 But I don't know that it's going to be held fairly.

00:40:38.180 I mean, I suspect it won't be held fairly because of widespread unsolicited mail-in voting,

00:40:42.400 which we've never had in this country before.

00:40:43.860 And we have seen evidence that that could lead to fraud.

00:40:47.520 So I don't know that it's actually going to work out that well.

00:40:50.020 And I'm not, I wouldn't say bet the farm on President Trump winning.

00:40:53.240 But yeah, I do think Ben and I look at this differently, which is Ben trusts data.

00:40:59.140 You know, he actually, when I won an election bet in 2016, he wrote the check that he owed

00:41:04.440 me for the bet.

00:41:05.120 And in the memo line, he said, for ignoring data.

00:41:07.740 But I just, I don't trust this kind of modeling.

00:41:10.840 I think, you know, Ben comes at these things from a little bit more the perspective of,

00:41:14.460 say, political science.

00:41:15.960 He comes at it more from the perspective of the social sciences, which I just don't,

00:41:19.720 I just don't buy that much.

00:41:21.560 I don't really trust the social sciences much at all.

00:41:23.920 I think they're, they're highly politicized.

00:41:26.020 And I think that polls very often are used not as a way to take a measure of what the

00:41:31.620 people are feeling, but as a way to form public opinion itself.

00:41:35.500 Because the social sciences came out of the progressive project in America, I just am a

00:41:39.740 little more skeptical of it.

00:41:41.040 Not to say that they don't have a use.

00:41:42.520 I mean, Ben is right about a lot of things and he's made, made some good predictions.

00:41:46.680 Thankfully, not when we had money on the line, but you know, he's made good predictions.

00:41:49.540 But I just, I come at it from a different angle because I think the social sciences very largely

00:41:54.820 are kind of bogus.

00:41:57.520 From Wolfgang, dear winner of political bets.

00:41:59.920 That's actually very funny that that followed.

00:42:01.940 I am 25 years old.

00:42:03.040 A majority of my friends and colleagues are on the leftist spectrum.

00:42:06.180 I doubt I could convince anyone to vote red, but I could potentially sway a few people to

00:42:11.020 stay home.

00:42:11.440 My question is, given that I've already voted straight Republican donated to the Trump campaign,

00:42:15.880 is it ethical for me to advocate for voting third party or sitting out the election?

00:42:19.280 Thank you.

00:42:19.880 Of course.

00:42:21.340 Of course it is.

00:42:22.020 You can give your opinion.

00:42:23.860 You truly believe, you honestly believe it would be better for the country if your friends

00:42:30.540 did not vote for Joe Biden.

00:42:33.400 You would be, you think it would be better if Trump wins the election.

00:42:37.200 Ways to do that would be to get your friends to vote for, I don't know, some third party person

00:42:41.660 or Kanye or something, or not to vote at all.

00:42:45.260 There's nothing intrinsically good or virtuous about voting. 0.99

00:42:49.940 If you're ignorant and you're voting, that's actually kind of a bad thing, right? 0.98

00:42:54.660 Because you haven't informed yourself on the issues. 0.99

00:42:56.340 So you're just kind of skewing this process of self-government without any reason.

00:43:02.060 If you are voting for a very wicked candidate, there's nothing good about voting.

00:43:06.280 There's nothing virtuous about that.

00:43:07.440 But if I go into the polling place and I see that there's, you know, super Stalin Mao

00:43:14.580 Hitler Mussolini on the ballot, I don't know.

00:43:17.700 I probably shouldn't vote for that guy.

00:43:18.920 If you do vote for that guy, that's a bad thing.

00:43:20.600 It's not good just because you voted.

00:43:23.060 Voting is an instrument toward good government.

00:43:26.940 So I think absolutely you should tell your friends to vote for Kanye.

00:43:29.260 Frankly, I'm tempted to vote for Kanye.

00:43:30.920 If I weren't voting for Trump, I would certainly vote for Kanye.

00:43:32.940 From Dan, hey, Michael, I need your wisdom on how to define my relationship, okay?

00:43:38.980 My girlfriend only sleeps with seven out of every 100 guys she meets. 1.00

00:43:44.200 I guess you could say she's mostly faithful.

00:43:47.940 Is that the proper way to view her commitment in the eyes of liberals?

00:43:51.960 Thanks.

00:43:53.020 Yes, it is.

00:43:54.240 I think actually the most precise way to describe your girlfriend is that she's fiery, 0.99

00:44:00.220 but mostly faithful.

00:44:01.580 She's clearly fiery. 1.00

00:44:02.540 I mean, those, you know, seven out of 100, that's a significant minority of people.

00:44:08.300 I mean, you know, that's a lot of people.

00:44:09.980 It's very fiery, but mostly faithful.

00:44:12.600 From Chris, I noticed some drivel being repeated openly even in a few news articles about the

00:44:17.640 settlers from Europe giving Native Americans disease-infested blankets as an act of genocide.

00:44:22.200 Why are schools teaching this?

00:44:23.600 From what I know of history, the settlers, though much rougher than our civilized society, 1.00

00:44:28.660 didn't harbor a genocidal bent toward the Native Americans.

00:44:31.280 They may have desired to live amongst them.

00:44:33.440 In fact, during this period, I doubt either the Native Americans or the Europeans knew about

00:44:36.820 pathogens beyond the outcomes that happened seemingly sent from God to punish.

00:44:40.500 This lie appears more and more each circle around the sun.

00:44:43.460 It might be nice to hear your thoughts on this.

00:44:45.180 Well, yeah, I'll temper that actually a little bit.

00:44:46.960 During wars between the settlers and the Native Americans, they used all sorts of terrible weapons.

00:44:54.000 It would seem including some bioweapons, some kind of primitive bioweapons.

00:44:58.220 So I'm not discounting that at all.

00:45:00.620 I don't think you need to discount those incidents to defend the settlers and to say that this country

00:45:08.120 isn't just hopelessly rotten to the core.

00:45:09.700 I think it actually diminishes the humanity of the Native Americans when we treat them like they are less than human, right?

00:45:17.980 When we treat them as though they're not dignified men who were engaged in battles over real things.

00:45:24.900 Whenever I hear that we need to give the land back to the Indians, I always say, well, which Indians? 1.00

00:45:29.940 Do we give the land back in the Southwest to the Comanche? 1.00

00:45:35.640 Okay, we can give them back to the Comanche, but the Comanche took it from the Apache. 0.88

00:45:39.480 So do we give it back to the Comanche or to the Apache?

00:45:41.500 Or do we give it back to the people who were in it before?

00:45:43.560 If we were to give land back in Central or South America, would we give it back to the Aztecs?

00:45:47.280 Or would we give it back to the people that the Aztecs conquered?

00:45:49.900 The people whose hearts they ripped out while they were still alive.

00:45:53.040 Are we going to give back the land in New York to the Iroquois? 0.94

00:45:55.740 Are we going to give back the land in New York to the victims of the Iroquois? 1.00

00:46:00.920 Iroquois also practiced ritual cannibalism, by the way.

00:46:03.580 This term, by the way, the term cannibalism, you know, comes from carib.

00:46:07.480 It comes from the New World.

00:46:08.840 It was a word introduced by these explorations in the New World.

00:46:13.740 Who do we give them to?

00:46:15.600 When, you know, we're about to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.

00:46:19.860 When the settlers on the Mayflower, when the Pilgrims landed, they had a difficult relationship with the Indians.

00:46:29.020 They saw a bellicose party of Indians come out. 1.00

00:46:33.100 They raised their guns.

00:46:34.040 They didn't know how this was going to work out.

00:46:36.660 They found some corn that had been stored by the Indians.

00:46:39.820 They took it so that they would not starve.

00:46:41.920 They then made peace with the Indians.

00:46:43.320 They made peace in particular with an Indian chief named Massasoit, or with the people, the Massasoit people.

00:46:53.400 When they formed this alliance, this led to a whole broadening of the Indian nation in the area.

00:47:01.460 There was a good alliance that was made between real men who understood real diplomacy and politics.

00:47:06.800 So, you had the settlers and the Indians getting along fairly well.

00:47:12.760 Though, the Indians actually told the settlers about another group of Indians that were going to attack them.

00:47:17.300 They banded together and then attacked them.

00:47:19.040 Things broke down, in particular because of one Indian who was called King Philip. 0.87

00:47:24.800 He took an English name, King Philip, who misunderstood the way that the settlers were behaving,

00:47:31.660 particularly with regard to his family, and came out and attacked them.

00:47:35.540 And basically led to the breaking down of peace there.

00:47:38.440 As always, I mentioned this earlier, the real history is much more interesting and much fairer to all of the people involved

00:47:45.220 than the ideological shallow version of this.

00:47:48.760 Was there war between the settlers and Indians?

00:47:50.540 Yes.

00:47:51.820 Was it always war?

00:47:52.720 Was it a genocide?

00:47:53.480 No.

00:47:53.740 But there was war that broke out.

00:47:55.300 And the victors of that war went on and formed the rest of the civilization.

00:48:01.340 That's the way the world works.

00:48:02.520 You might not like that that's the way the world works.

00:48:04.420 But that's the way that every single civilization, including the Indian civilizations, have worked since the dawn of time.

00:48:11.800 And I think we ought to at least show the Native Americans enough respect to treat them like men, like everywhere else, the rest of the world over.

00:48:20.220 All right, that's our show.

00:48:20.940 I can't wait, by the way, to do a show on the Mayflower.

00:48:23.400 That is going to be a lot of fun because you've heard a lot about the 1619 Project.

00:48:27.000 We'll have to focus on the 1620 Project. 0.97

00:48:28.900 But not yet.

00:48:30.000 We're going to have to take a break.

00:48:30.800 Have a good weekend.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 15, 2020

Ep. 629 - Big Tech Must Be Destroyed

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