The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 660 - Our Alien Overlords

00:00:00.000 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?

00:00:05.240 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.

00:00:08.900 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.

00:00:14.600 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.

00:00:18.820 Just one simple ingredient. That's meat.

00:00:21.280 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.

00:00:24.760 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.

00:00:26.980 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:32.400 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:35.700 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.

00:00:37.720 A former Israeli space chief has broken the news that extraterrestrials exist,

00:00:44.160 our world leaders have been in contact with them,

00:00:47.320 and the aliens are part of a galactic federation,

00:00:50.920 which I did not believe until I saw leaked video from one of their meetings.

00:00:56.980 Looks nicer than any sort of meeting at the UN or the European Union.

00:01:14.720 There is an alien federation, and they are exerting a lot of influence over us,

00:01:18.360 but that wretched hive of scum and villainy is a lot closer than Mars or Pluto.

00:01:23.400 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:26.980 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:34.900 My favorite comment from yesterday from Sharon Bizriguez,

00:01:39.040 who coincidentally just subscribed to the channel yesterday, right before the show.

00:01:43.820 So welcome to the channel, Sharon.

00:01:45.260 Sharon said,

00:01:46.140 Santa Claus was a poll worker until they caught him checking his list twice.

00:01:50.100 This is true.

00:01:51.080 This is true then.

00:01:52.080 Absolutely not.

00:01:54.240 And unfortunately, Santa Claus could have brought us a lot of votes in Greenland,

00:01:57.880 but unfortunately he checked his list twice,

00:02:00.240 and that was not good for the fraud that was taking place.

00:02:04.160 I don't know if it took place in the North Pole.

00:02:05.680 Certainly, we have evidence of irregularities all throughout Georgia, Pennsylvania.

00:02:12.140 Michigan had some shenanigans, very likely Wisconsin, and yet, and yet.

00:02:20.640 How do I put this?

00:02:22.640 It ain't over until the fat lady sings, and the fat lady is not singing yet, but she is warming up.

00:02:31.420 You don't hear her singing, but you do hear her warming up.

00:02:34.060 And we have said from the very beginning, when all those kind of squishy conservatives wanted us to concede the election very early,

00:02:41.560 and a lot of other people said, absolutely not.

00:02:44.860 This is Trump definitely 100%.

00:02:46.420 We've said, there's obviously evidence of fraud,

00:02:49.960 and we're not going to concede this election until the electors vote, until the legal process plays out.

00:02:54.760 The legal process dealt the Trump campaign a very unfortunate blow yesterday.

00:03:01.520 The probably strongest case at the Supreme Court, or that could have gone to the Supreme Court,

00:03:07.840 was from Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania obviously violated their state constitution

00:03:13.200 by permitting widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots.

00:03:16.980 Justice Alito decided to move up the day that they could potentially hear this case

00:03:21.580 to before the safe harbor deadline, before Pennsylvania would, at that point,

00:03:27.500 decide where their electors were going.

00:03:28.840 And they did move that up.

00:03:32.060 And then in one sentence, the Supreme Court shot down the Trump campaign's efforts.

00:03:36.260 They wrote,

00:03:37.340 The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito,

00:03:41.060 and by him referred to the court, is denied.

00:03:45.760 There were no dissents recorded.

00:03:47.860 Doesn't mean there weren't dissents in the room,

00:03:49.460 but it means that there were no dissents recorded here.

00:03:51.420 So the court is speaking with one voice,

00:03:53.480 because regardless of the judicial aspects of this question,

00:03:58.480 there's the political aspect,

00:03:59.800 which is the court does not want to be seen as interfering in the election,

00:04:02.820 even when it would be appropriate for them to do so.

00:04:05.020 Ted Cruz, the very fine senator and very fine podcast co-host, a verdict,

00:04:11.300 came out swinging.

00:04:12.580 Senator Cruz was supposed to give the oral arguments

00:04:15.740 when this case was heard at the Supreme Court.

00:04:18.200 Then the court shot it down.

00:04:20.820 So Cruz came out and said he's disappointed in the court,

00:04:23.380 said that the legal challenge raised serious and pressing issues about election integrity.

00:04:27.560 He's absolutely right.

00:04:28.740 I'm disappointed in the court as well.

00:04:31.400 The Supreme Court, particularly under John Roberts,

00:04:35.740 has wanted to be seen as not interfering in politics.

00:04:39.240 And as a result, ironically,

00:04:41.220 the court often seems very, very political,

00:04:44.960 because they seem like they're basing their decisions to hear cases or not hear cases of their rulings

00:04:49.360 based not on the legal facts, but on the political ramifications.

00:04:54.020 I probably would have bet you this from the beginning.

00:04:57.220 I mean, I could have told you this early on,

00:04:58.620 that the court was not going to want to interfere

00:05:01.340 because they don't want to be blamed one way or the other.

00:05:04.160 There's no good political outcome for them,

00:05:05.960 even if as a judicial matter,

00:05:08.200 it seems very clear that the election officials in Pennsylvania

00:05:11.540 broke the constitutional rules there.

00:05:13.920 There is one last court case that could give President Trump a sliver of hope.

00:05:21.180 There was Jonathan Turley, the law professor, came out and he said,

00:05:25.200 the landing space for this Trump campaign aircraft is running out.

00:05:31.280 And now Turley says you'd have to land a jumbo jet on a postage stamp.

00:05:36.060 There does remain that sliver of hope.

00:05:37.860 That sliver of hope is from Texas, which gives all of us hope very often.

00:05:41.640 Texas is now suing other states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan

00:05:48.060 over their election irregularities.

00:05:50.860 Because what they're saying is basically by these states

00:05:53.460 screwing up their elections and possibly rigging the election in certain places

00:05:58.660 by violating the law, that disenfranchises Texas, right?

00:06:02.480 Because you're now swinging the whole election.

00:06:04.540 The states don't have any right to do that.

00:06:06.080 The Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction here

00:06:08.020 because it's a state suing other states.

00:06:10.520 But looking at the way that the Supreme Court ruled on the Pennsylvania case,

00:06:14.780 which was extraordinarily strong for Trump,

00:06:18.340 very difficult to believe that those judges are going to grow spines in the meantime.

00:06:23.760 So it's not looking good.

00:06:24.780 I think we should remain hopeful.

00:06:26.580 I often use this line, which I borrowed from a great priest friend of mine,

00:06:31.360 which is that there are the difference between a Scottish optimist and a Scottish pessimist

00:06:35.700 is the Scottish pessimist says things can't get any worse.

00:06:38.920 The Scottish optimist says, oh, yes, they can.

00:06:41.660 And optimism and pessimism are kind of two sides of the same coin.

00:06:44.220 They're just these feelings that you feel all the time.

00:06:46.260 And we don't have that.

00:06:47.240 We have hope.

00:06:47.960 But it plays into a little bit of this idea of the optimism and pessimism in that we have hope.

00:06:55.120 Hope is a fact, right?

00:06:56.260 We have hope in our salvation one day.

00:06:58.180 But we know things are going to get a lot worse in the meantime.

00:07:00.120 If Biden does become president, which now appears likely,

00:07:04.740 then we are in for it, folks.

00:07:07.620 Not because of the galactic federation from Pluto that the former Israeli space chief is talking about,

00:07:13.600 but because of foreign powers right here on Earth,

00:07:17.820 China is going to exert an incredible amount of influence.

00:07:21.320 They already are.

00:07:22.140 They're actually already bragging about it.

00:07:24.080 If it turns out this way, if the Trump legal team is not able to overcome

00:07:28.760 all of the nefarious powers allayed against them.

00:07:32.600 Look, a lot will have been accomplished within four years.

00:07:35.500 I hope more can be accomplished in the future.

00:07:38.320 We will have to be grateful for the memories.

00:07:40.380 And when you want to preserve your memories, you got to check out Legacy Box.

00:07:43.240 Legacy Box is a safe and affordable way to digitally preserve all your home movies and photos

00:07:48.060 that are currently trapped on dated formats like VHS or film.

00:07:51.940 With everything going on here is a great way to ensure that the focus remains on your family

00:07:58.120 this holiday season.

00:07:59.520 I'll tell you, the thing about Legacy Box, it's so easy.

00:08:02.060 You get all your old stuff, the tapes and the pictures and all that,

00:08:05.980 and you just put them into little envelopes.

00:08:07.800 You put the stickers on that they tell you to put on.

00:08:09.240 You send it into them.

00:08:10.100 That's it.

00:08:10.440 You don't need to think about it again.

00:08:11.660 They digitize it for you.

00:08:12.660 They return your physical material and the digital stuff.

00:08:17.060 A beloved family member of mine died.

00:08:19.680 I lost all the photos.

00:08:21.560 Fortunately, I found some more photos from another relative.

00:08:24.780 We got them digitized with Legacy Box.

00:08:26.540 They're great.

00:08:26.920 You get it on the cloud, on a thumb drive, on a DVD,

00:08:29.220 all sent along a wonderful way to restore and protect your most cherished family memories.

00:08:33.700 This is the best deal of the year.

00:08:35.300 Go to LegacyBox.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, 0.93

00:08:37.900 to take advantage of this limited time offer.

00:08:39.740 Get 60% off.

00:08:41.020 That offer will not last long, so order the kit now.

00:08:43.720 Perfect, perfect Christmas gift.

00:08:45.580 Send it out whenever you're ready.

00:08:47.020 It's a sale to remember.

00:08:48.080 Go to LegacyBox.com slash Knowles and save 60% while supplies last.

00:08:52.700 This is something that should have us all holding out hope until the very, very last minute

00:09:00.460 that President Trump can somehow eke out an election victory here.

00:09:04.280 I still don't think there's any reason to concede before the electors vote.

00:09:07.640 We should all be holding out hope because it's not just Joe Biden, though.

00:09:12.020 He's probably the greatest example of this.

00:09:13.720 For decades, elite politicians in this country have sold us out to China.

00:09:19.360 They've done it because they have a stupid political ideology that tells them that rising

00:09:24.340 China is good for the world.

00:09:25.580 That's why they let China into the World Trade Organization 20 years ago.

00:09:29.420 It's why they've allowed China to steal our intellectual property. 0.99

00:09:31.860 It's why they've allowed China to violate World Trade Organization treaties.

00:09:35.200 It's why they've allowed China to illegally subsidize their steel and aluminum and manipulate 0.95

00:09:38.580 their currency.

00:09:38.980 The list goes on and on and on and on.

00:09:42.080 Most importantly, they've allowed China to steal our jobs. 1.00

00:09:45.520 And the argument for it is, oh, it's good for the world.

00:09:48.000 If China gets more economic power, they'll liberalize their country.

00:09:52.360 They'll become more democratic.

00:09:53.760 They'll become more like America, and that'll be good for everybody. 0.96

00:09:56.120 Obviously, that hasn't happened.

00:09:57.660 The other reason is that China is just buying direct influence.

00:10:01.000 You saw this with the Hunter Biden scandal.

00:10:03.780 You've seen this with other American politicians.

00:10:05.900 We now have experts on communist China admitting this kind of influence.

00:10:12.340 There was a recently recorded lecture showing a Chinese Communist Party expert explaining how

00:10:18.920 China has, quote, people at the top of America's core inner circle.

00:10:24.040 This video has been leaked, made its way onto the internet and into the United States after

00:10:29.180 it was censored in China.

00:10:31.020 The person giving this lecture is Di Dongsheng.

00:10:34.340 He's vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University.

00:10:40.080 My Chinese is not great, but my ability to read subtitles is.

00:10:43.640 Take a listen to this.

00:10:44.520 We know that the Trump administration is in a trade world with us.

00:10:50.000 So why can't we fix the Trump administration?

00:10:54.380 Why, between 1992 and 2016, did China and the U.S. used to be able to settle all kinds

00:11:01.440 of issues?

00:11:02.120 No matter what sort of crises happened, bombing of the embassy, crashing of the plane, things

00:11:07.080 were resolved in no time, like a couple do with their quarrels.

00:11:09.720 We fixed everything in two months.

00:11:11.360 What's the reason?

00:11:11.940 I'm going to throw out something a little explosive here.

00:11:15.160 It's just because we have people at the top.

00:11:18.220 At the top of America's core inner circle of power and influence, we have our old friends.

00:11:25.380 For the past 30 years, 40 years, we've been utilizing the core power of the United States.

00:11:32.800 Now, we know which people he's talking about here.

00:11:35.660 Notably, he's talking about Biden, who's given speeches about this.

00:11:38.540 He's given speeches about how great it is to empower China.

00:11:40.980 He's gone on the record.

00:11:42.320 But you've heard all the other kind of liberal establishment people talking about this as

00:11:45.740 well.

00:11:46.240 This sort of admission is so explosive that I didn't believe it, actually.

00:11:51.360 This video was going all around the internet yesterday.

00:11:52.880 I didn't believe it.

00:11:54.620 But mainstream news outlets, not many of them, but some of them, are reporting on this because

00:12:00.100 they have to.

00:12:01.520 Because this is real.

00:12:02.780 This is a real guy.

00:12:04.020 He really is the vice dean of this IR school.

00:12:06.700 And he's really talking about influence, Chinese influence in the United States.

00:12:11.620 Hostile powers have often exerted influence in the United States.

00:12:15.240 Right now, I'm reading Witness by Whitaker Chambers.

00:12:17.880 It's one of the books that turned Reagan from a liberal into a conservative.

00:12:21.200 It's from an ex-communist who details in painstaking detail all of the Soviet influence in the United

00:12:27.480 States during the 30s, even a little before that and during the 40s.

00:12:32.560 Guys who were at the very tippy top, guys who were helping to establish the United Nations,

00:12:36.760 guys who were in the State Department, guys who were in the Justice Department, who were

00:12:40.000 communist spies.

00:12:42.680 And they had that.

00:12:43.960 Soviet Union had that for a long time.

00:12:45.300 When people make fun of McCarthyism or they make fun of the House Un-American Activities

00:12:50.140 Committee, that's like the punchline now for a lot of people.

00:12:53.500 What that fails to acknowledge is these guys were right.

00:12:57.160 I mean, Joe McCarthy was a little bit of a flawed individual in the way that he carried

00:13:00.340 these things out.

00:13:01.060 No question about it.

00:13:02.140 William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review, wrote one of his first books defending

00:13:05.720 Joe McCarthy because the central thesis here that the Soviet Union had communist spies at

00:13:11.560 high levels of the government was obviously true.

00:13:13.860 We know this.

00:13:14.400 We know their names.

00:13:15.140 We know the name Alger Hiss.

00:13:17.100 We know people who were, Whitaker Chambers called this out.

00:13:21.660 McCarthy, I suppose, called this out.

00:13:23.160 Nixon called this out.

00:13:24.360 All made fun of, all mocked, all have been sort of written out of the history of that

00:13:28.660 era.

00:13:28.940 But it happened.

00:13:29.640 And it's happening now with China.

00:13:32.440 He goes on.

00:13:35.260 Now that we're seeing Biden was elected, the traditional elite, the political elite

00:13:40.540 establishment, they're very close to Wall Street.

00:13:45.560 So you see that, right?

00:13:46.260 Trump has been saying that Biden's son has some sort of global foundation.

00:13:51.620 Do you notice that?

00:13:52.900 Who helped him build the foundation?

00:13:55.220 Biden's son.

00:13:56.100 Got it?

00:13:57.480 There are a lot of deals in all these.

00:13:58.960 Who helped Hunter Biden build the foundation?

00:14:01.120 Who do you think?

00:14:02.120 Who do you think?

00:14:04.080 China.

00:14:05.720 This guy points out very astutely that Wall Street used to exert a lot of influence in

00:14:11.600 the United States.

00:14:12.440 And then after the financial crisis, 2007, 2008, Wall Street lost a fair bit of their

00:14:17.720 influence.

00:14:18.300 And they were sort of the bad guys because they plunged us all into this global recession.

00:14:22.820 Still, the establishment was playing along.

00:14:25.180 And then you had Trump.

00:14:27.360 And Trump comes in and he offered a radically different policy at the domestic level, but

00:14:33.500 also at the international level.

00:14:35.500 Don't forget from Bush one, maybe even further back than Bush one, but certainly from Bush

00:14:42.100 one, Clinton, Bush two, Obama, the president's changed, the party's changed, but the foreign

00:14:48.500 policy more or less stayed the same.

00:14:51.480 Didn't change all that much.

00:14:53.440 Our attitude toward China didn't change at all, really.

00:14:56.620 It kept getting nicer and nicer and softer and softer.

00:15:00.020 Then Trump comes in and he says, no, what are you guys doing?

00:15:03.320 People make this mistake.

00:15:04.360 They think Trump was elected because of his personality, because he said some mean things

00:15:08.400 and made fun of Mika Brzezinski's face.

00:15:10.520 Not so.

00:15:12.080 Donald Trump offered a different policy agenda than did the other Republicans in the primary

00:15:18.460 and then did Hillary Clinton and I suppose Joe Biden too.

00:15:24.180 It was a different agenda, specifically with regard to our greatest geopolitical foe.

00:15:29.500 Now, this will be coming back if Joe Biden becomes the president, okay?

00:15:36.140 This is going to raise a lot of security issues.

00:15:38.620 When we think about national security, we're always talking about the Middle East or, you 0.98

00:15:41.560 know, terrorists coming over here.

00:15:43.560 A far greater security issue will come from China. 0.78

00:15:47.740 There is no reason to play nicely with China. 1.00

00:15:52.320 China views us as an enemy and an adversary and there is a political elite in the United

00:15:57.160 States now led by Joe Biden that wants to deny that adversarial relationship.

00:16:03.440 Got to keep security on our mind.

00:16:05.520 And you know, when you have personal security on your mind, Ring has everything you need

00:16:08.560 to keep an eye on your home this holiday season.

00:16:11.000 See and speak to whoever is at your door from anywhere with video doorbells.

00:16:14.280 Keep an eye on every corner of your house with easy to install indoor and outdoor cameras.

00:16:18.860 Help protect your whole home with Ring Alarm, a powerful, affordable, whole home security

00:16:23.860 system you can easily install yourself.

00:16:27.220 I travel a bit, you know, I'm happy that sweet little Lisa knows her way around a firearm, 1.00

00:16:32.980 but I don't want to rely on that.

00:16:34.620 It's very nice, especially now that I have a nice house, you know, in the sweet era of freedom

00:16:39.700 in Tennessee.

00:16:40.220 I'm no longer in my little shoebox in LA.

00:16:41.880 Anyway, it's nice that sweet little Lisa will be able to see who is at the door before 0.99

00:16:46.900 she opens that door. 0.93

00:16:48.340 It's nice for me too, not only because of the robbers or the burglars or also because

00:16:52.860 sometimes you have unwanted family members come visit you, your mother-in-law, I don't

00:16:55.580 know.

00:16:56.060 For a limited time, go to ring.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S.

00:17:00.300 You will get lots of special holiday offers.

00:17:02.480 This also makes a great gift.

00:17:04.380 One of the reasons it makes a great gift is because it's not very expensive.

00:17:07.040 So I've given this gift out as friends of mine as housewarming presents.

00:17:10.060 Great Christmas gift as well.

00:17:11.540 Go to ring.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. 0.99

00:17:16.500 You don't need to just take this lecturer's word for it.

00:17:19.100 We now know about a Chinese spy program that was going on in the United States that infiltrated

00:17:24.400 very high levels of government and that specifically infiltrated the Democratic Party.

00:17:29.900 And infiltrated, actually this was a bigger risk because one of the people that this Chinese 1.00

00:17:35.740 spy, Christine Fang, targeted and infiltrated was Eric Swalwell.

00:17:41.920 And apparently this woman is accused not just of raising lots of money for these people,

00:17:46.440 getting in their circles.

00:17:47.220 She even slept with some of these elected politicians. 1.00

00:17:49.800 Now, we're not sure if she slept with Swalwell, but you'll remember during Eric Swalwell's brief

00:17:54.360 presidential campaign, he said that he is us.

00:17:58.640 I am you.

00:17:59.340 That was one of his slogans, which means that I may have slept with a Chinese spy, which 0.78

00:18:05.660 means I'm going to have a lot of answering to do to sweet little Elisa, except that it

00:18:09.940 means sweet little Elisa will also have slept with the Chinese spy. 1.00

00:18:13.020 So frankly, I don't, this is raising a lot of questions and a lot of feelings and emotions

00:18:17.280 that I don't want to get into.

00:18:18.200 This is a family program, but in any case, that is the allegation here.

00:18:22.900 Christine Fang targeted up and coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the

00:18:28.120 country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.

00:18:31.420 So, you know, we can make fun of Eric Swalwell all we want, and I think it's a fun thing to

00:18:34.920 do.

00:18:35.180 But the guy did make it to Congress, which is kind of low level for the federal government,

00:18:40.480 but still made it to Congress.

00:18:42.140 It's a national position.

00:18:43.260 And he was a briefly, at least, a presidential candidate.

00:18:45.960 So, hey, that's something.

00:18:47.020 He's a young guy.

00:18:47.600 He's kind of a joke and a goofball, but hey, anyway, he made it pretty far.

00:18:52.320 And this woman targeted him when he was very, very local.

00:18:56.340 She just saw that there was some promise here.

00:18:58.680 She did this to other politicians, but first of all, well, she raised money.

00:19:02.680 There was networking and there is an open question as to whether or not there was a more intimate

00:19:08.880 relationship.

00:19:10.860 For her sake, I have to hope she didn't, didn't have to talk about making a sacrifice for your

00:19:15.440 country.

00:19:16.340 Talk about taking a difficult job if your job requires you to jump in the sheets with Eric

00:19:21.080 Swalwell.

00:19:23.020 But this sort of stuff happens.

00:19:24.520 When it became clear that she was exerting some influence, the intelligence agencies in

00:19:29.480 the United States approached Swalwell and said, hey, listen, this lady looks like she's a spy. 1.00

00:19:34.660 He did cut out, cut off relationships with her.

00:19:37.580 Other politicians appear to as well.

00:19:39.400 When she realized she was being surveilled by the United States, she hightailed it back

00:19:42.700 to China.

00:19:43.120 So it's pretty clear that she was a spy.

00:19:45.460 There are other Chinese spies in the United States.

00:19:47.960 That's, we all spy on each other.

00:19:49.560 All, all the governments of the world spy on one another.

00:19:52.760 The question is, how successful are they?

00:19:54.880 And beyond espionage, what kind of influence are they exerting?

00:19:59.560 I'm sure the United States has spies all over the world.

00:20:02.540 What kind of influence do they have behind the scenes?

00:20:05.600 Certainly some, we know China's exerting a lot of influence as well.

00:20:09.460 One place they exert a lot of influence is US universities.

00:20:12.400 China has made a concerted effort to influence American universities.

00:20:16.500 They've used different kinds of programs, the Confucius program, other, other different

00:20:19.460 programs as well.

00:20:21.680 The thing about the universities though, is that foreign communists don't, don't need 0.95

00:20:26.360 to do very much to transform them because domestic communists have done that perfectly well 0.98

00:20:31.960 themselves.

00:20:32.420 Something very troubling and offensive has come out of the University of Maryland School

00:20:37.420 of Public Policy.

00:20:39.120 And the thing that's troubling and offensive there is that they're instructing their instructors

00:20:42.640 that there should be no troubling or offensive content in the classroom.

00:20:45.420 This from a letter that was sent out to faculty members at the UMD School of Public Policy told

00:20:54.600 them to add a statement to their syllabus promising to commit to diversity while avoiding anything

00:21:02.480 that is, quote, troubling or causes offense to students.

00:21:05.700 What happens if that letter is troubling and causes offense to me as a conservative, as someone

00:21:13.760 who defends liberal education, as somebody who defends reading the great books, which are

00:21:17.800 troubling and cause offense very often.

00:21:20.160 That's how they educate you.

00:21:23.380 What happens then?

00:21:24.180 Something tells me the School of Public Policy won't care because they don't care if they

00:21:27.160 offend or trouble conservative students.

00:21:28.840 This is only in one direction and it's in the direction of political correctness, which

00:21:34.760 is the orthodoxy and the standard of leftism or wokeism or use whatever words you like.

00:21:41.620 But it's been creeping for decades and decades through a concerted campaign in the United States

00:21:45.860 and it is winning, especially in the educational institutions.

00:21:51.960 How do we respond to this sort of thing?

00:21:54.060 I think the old conservative model, the model that prevailed for, I don't know, the 1990s

00:22:00.440 and 2000s or early 20-teens was, well, what can we do?

00:22:05.040 We have to throw up our hands.

00:22:06.320 We couldn't possibly use politics to fix this problem because politics, that's just the government

00:22:12.720 and we would never want to use the government or actually exert the political power that

00:22:15.860 people give us.

00:22:17.100 So, well, it's too bad, but we'll just have to fight them and start our own state universities.

00:22:23.680 You know, if we just start our own massive state university, then we can influence the

00:22:29.140 culture.

00:22:29.800 And I think that's kind of weak sauce, guys.

00:22:32.460 I think the way we fix this is that when we have the levers of political power, we defund

00:22:37.920 the University of Maryland unless they cut out the nonsense.

00:22:42.720 Unless they change their educational standards, which are currently bad, to be good educational

00:22:49.980 standards.

00:22:51.220 Now, you can't defund those.

00:22:52.900 The school is obviously funded by Maryland.

00:22:54.880 If I were governor of Maryland, I would defund the school.

00:22:58.140 The school also gets federal funding.

00:23:00.220 If I were president of the United States, I would defund the school until they brought

00:23:04.840 their syllabus in line with proper education.

00:23:08.140 And away from politically correct, liberal leftist education.

00:23:13.700 We talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:23:15.400 All education is coercive.

00:23:16.780 All education indoctrinates, right?

00:23:19.680 They're essentially the same word.

00:23:21.840 So the question is, what are you indoctrinating them, to use the bad word, or what are you educating

00:23:26.560 them in?

00:23:27.440 You can't teach someone how to think without teaching them what to think.

00:23:30.840 And this sort of thing is absolute poison to liberal education.

00:23:36.660 And this sort of thing is absolute poison to a free citizenry.

00:23:40.400 We cannot permit universities to teach this.

00:23:43.780 And the way to stop that is not just by writing op-eds.

00:23:47.680 The way to stop that is not just by starting your own university.

00:23:50.340 It's by defunding and exerting political pressure on these universities.

00:23:54.120 And believe it or not, UMD is not even the craziest university around today.

00:24:00.680 For that, you can't look to the state universities.

00:24:03.440 You have to look to the wonderful, lofty Ivy League, where the craziness has somehow surpassed

00:24:11.480 just about every other university in the country.

00:24:14.200 We will turn to Cornell in a second.

00:24:16.280 But first, you know what time it is.

00:24:17.260 It's time to talk about Movement Watches.

00:24:19.560 I love Movement Watches.

00:24:21.240 They've been with this show since the very beginning.

00:24:23.680 2020 is not played out by the usual rules.

00:24:26.920 Obviously, that's going for Christmas shopping as well.

00:24:29.860 A lot of shipping delays.

00:24:31.380 A lot of people are not shopping in stores right now.

00:24:33.880 A lot of stores are actually not allowing in-person shopping.

00:24:36.900 Not a lot of great options.

00:24:37.880 But our friends over at Movement Watches have made gift-giving easy.

00:24:41.340 Movement makes clean modern watches, eyewear, and blue-like glasses, which I would highly

00:24:45.180 recommend.

00:24:46.040 Jewelry as well.

00:24:46.900 They look really, really nice, and they don't break the bank.

00:24:49.680 Their watches feel like a $400 or $500 watch.

00:24:52.640 That's what you'd pay in a department store.

00:24:54.180 But you pay a fraction of the price for Movement.

00:24:56.340 They're durable.

00:24:57.040 They're high quality.

00:24:58.500 I've never had to replace the battery in my Movement Watches.

00:25:00.760 I mean, I've had them now for quite a long time.

00:25:02.460 I've never had scratches or dings on them.

00:25:04.500 They just, they look really nice.

00:25:05.820 They function very well.

00:25:06.960 Movement has this super sleek matte black packaging.

00:25:10.360 It just looks really cool.

00:25:11.440 I gave my father and my stepmother a Movement Watch last year, and they loved them.

00:25:18.300 This was the biggest hit of the holiday season.

00:25:20.580 I paid more for other presents, but they didn't care about those presents.

00:25:23.140 They just liked the Movement Watch.

00:25:24.360 Get 15% off today with fast, free shipping and free returns by going to mvmt.com slash

00:25:31.580 Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, mvmt.com slash Knowles.

00:25:35.880 You and your friends and relatives will thank me.

00:25:40.100 Cornell University has gone even woker than the trigger warnings and taking offensive books

00:25:47.520 off the syllabus.

00:25:49.260 Cornell University wants its students to get a flu vaccination.

00:25:54.200 Not the Wu flu, but the regular flu.

00:25:57.160 And everyone's so crazy about public health these days that they want all their students

00:26:02.620 to get a flu shot.

00:26:05.100 However, they are going to exempt certain students from the flu vaccination if those

00:26:12.460 students are black.

00:26:13.220 I'm not making this up.

00:26:17.420 If you're a white student at Cornell and you're on campus and you're residing there, you need 1.00

00:26:24.460 to get the flu vaccine.

00:26:26.340 If you are a black student, you don't need to get the flu vaccine.

00:26:29.860 And so this raises some problems.

00:26:32.360 Because I don't get the flu shot, and I don't know that I've ever gotten a flu shot, and I

00:26:35.800 don't intend to this year either.

00:26:36.880 But because I'm a young, healthy person, and so my risk is low, I guess there is a risk.

00:26:42.000 You know, there is a risk to it, but I'm willing to take that risk.

00:26:47.220 There are two, there's a contradiction here, right?

00:26:49.840 If you believe that the vaccines are really, really, really, really good for you, and the

00:26:54.840 flu shot is really, really, really good for you, and you say only the white people need 0.98

00:27:00.400 to get it, and who cares if the black people get it? 0.99

00:27:02.020 You sound kind of racist, right?

00:27:06.700 Right?

00:27:07.060 But now, but then if you're saying that white people have to get the vaccine, and black people

00:27:12.800 don't have to get the vaccine, because the, because these sorts of vaccines and public

00:27:17.680 health measures have been really horrible and terrible to black people over the years,

00:27:22.180 then you're saying that the vaccines maybe aren't so great.

00:27:25.540 You're undercutting your argument on the vaccine, either you have to undercut your argument on

00:27:29.660 race, or you have to undercut your argument on the vaccines.

00:27:33.060 Cornell, though, in the lofty Ivy League, they, they don't understand that very simple issue.

00:27:42.340 Historical injustices and current events will allow black students to avoid getting the flu 0.62

00:27:49.560 shot, and, and they're, they're referring not just, by the way, to, you know, scientific

00:27:55.140 experiments that were undertaken on black people in various places in the past.

00:27:59.360 They're referring to the BLM argument.

00:28:02.520 They're referring to police brutality, you know, or the killing of whoever's, you know,

00:28:08.440 the, the, the idea that there's a scourge and an epidemic of racist cops killing innocent

00:28:14.520 black men all around the country, which obviously is not happening, but they're, they're referring

00:28:18.700 to that.

00:28:19.020 What does that have to do with the flu shot?

00:28:20.340 It shows you that the just trust the science people don't understand anything about politics.

00:28:27.820 The word science, when it is invoked in a political context, does not refer to the scientific method

00:28:34.940 of material inquiry or science in its broader sense of knowledge.

00:28:38.340 It's referring specifically to political knowledge, political agendas.

00:28:42.580 And I know that there are some conservatives, I'm not, I'm not even talking about the leftists

00:28:48.700 here who are totally bought into the scientific agenda and have been for 150 years because

00:28:53.680 they view their political agenda as science itself.

00:28:57.100 So it's illegitimate to dispute it or to push against it, right?

00:29:00.580 The science of politics, the science of history.

00:29:02.500 So I'm just talking to the conservatives.

00:29:04.000 There are some conservatives who say, look, I don't want these political battles over the

00:29:07.640 masks or vaccines or whatever.

00:29:09.420 You know, they, they, they're a little more open to the masks or these kinds of public

00:29:12.980 health measures.

00:29:13.480 They're more willing to listen to Fauci and say, look, I just, I just want to follow the

00:29:16.800 science.

00:29:17.380 I don't want the science to be clouded by politics.

00:29:21.900 That is not possible.

00:29:25.320 It's not possible.

00:29:27.100 Public health refers to science in part, and it refers to politics.

00:29:32.320 The word public is synonymous with political.

00:29:36.080 People, they refer to the exact same thing.

00:29:40.140 When we're talking about public health, we're talking about politics.

00:29:43.300 And all of science, the most hard-nosed scientist who says, I just follow the empirical facts

00:29:50.720 on the ground, even he will be forced to acquiesce to politically correct standards.

00:29:57.880 You can't escape.

00:29:58.860 No society and no segment of society can escape that society's standards.

00:30:03.000 And I don't care how materialist and scientific you want to pretend that you are.

00:30:08.120 They won't escape it either.

00:30:09.720 Just look at abortion. 0.99

00:30:11.640 It's very clear that unborn babies are babies.

00:30:13.720 It's, they're obviously human.

00:30:15.560 They're obviously alive.

00:30:16.940 They're obviously babies.

00:30:19.260 But it's not politically correct to say that.

00:30:21.380 And so scientists concoct all sorts of ways to deny that they're babies.

00:30:26.320 Because they have to, because the standards make them.

00:30:28.340 Consider gender theory.

00:30:29.940 It's very clear that men are men and women are women.

00:30:32.320 And men cannot become women. 0.96

00:30:33.460 And women cannot become men. 0.99

00:30:35.100 And men who put on dresses and lipstick are not magically all of a sudden women.

00:30:39.320 That's very clear.

00:30:41.840 As a scientific matter, it's obviously clear.

00:30:44.800 And yet there are many scientists who refuse to say this.

00:30:47.940 Not just quack scientists.

00:30:49.440 There are plenty of those.

00:30:50.700 But broadly speaking, it is politically incorrect.

00:30:52.940 And so they won't do it.

00:30:53.740 When scientists, or remember Larry Summers got fired as the president of Harvard, because

00:31:00.620 he suggested that the reason that, that women do not excel at the very, very highest levels 0.97

00:31:06.500 of math is because of just a little investigation he'd done to suggest that the bar curve for,

00:31:12.940 for men in terms of aptitude is broader than women.

00:31:17.660 Meaning that the dumbest people on earth and the smartest people, we're talking very small

00:31:21.340 numbers of people, would be more likely to be men rather than women.

00:31:25.040 And he's just presented this as one explanation of this fact that in the hard sciences and in

00:31:31.360 mathematics, there are more men who focus on it than women.

00:31:34.440 He lost his job for that.

00:31:36.620 The science, any kind of social science, hard science, physical science, it will acquiesce

00:31:41.460 eventually to the politically correct standard.

00:31:43.780 And that's what's happening with the flu shot at Cornell.

00:31:47.160 And that's what's going to happen with the public debate over the vaccine rollout.

00:31:51.440 It's what's going to happen.

00:31:52.420 It's what's already been happening, obviously, with the masks.

00:31:55.100 And I think that we need to, very often conservatives want to say, hey, I'm a, I follow the real

00:32:00.560 science.

00:32:01.820 I'm not like a leftist who follows the fake science on gender and stuff.

00:32:04.780 I follow the real science.

00:32:06.240 Don't, don't even do that.

00:32:09.440 Stop using the word science in that way.

00:32:11.040 Science refers to knowledge and it's very important that we educate ourselves and pursue inquiry

00:32:15.800 in the material realm, in the metaphysical realm, in, in all of these sorts of things.

00:32:19.780 I, I love that.

00:32:20.680 I love education.

00:32:22.120 I love reading.

00:32:23.320 I love scientific investigation.

00:32:26.720 But, but the way that term is used is politicized and we should not follow scientists.

00:32:31.300 We should not be ruled by scientists.

00:32:32.860 We should not pretend that science is outside of the political realm when we talk about it

00:32:36.520 publicly.

00:32:37.780 We need political solutions to these things.

00:32:39.760 If, if you're in politics, you need political solutions and, and you can't put your head

00:32:44.740 in the sand and pretend that certain aspects of politics are not political.

00:32:50.060 And by the way, the way you can exert influence over places like Cornell is defund the school.

00:32:55.180 This, listen to this statement.

00:32:56.520 Due to longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country, individuals from

00:33:00.540 some marginalized communities may have concerns about needing to agree to the flu shot.

00:33:04.340 Historically, the bodies of black, indigenous, and other people of color have been mistreated.

00:33:10.080 The bodies, not their souls.

00:33:11.380 The souls have been treated fine, but the bodies haven't.

00:33:13.500 And used by people in power for profit or gain.

00:33:16.040 What insanity this is.

00:33:18.640 Defund Cornell.

00:33:19.860 Defund it.

00:33:21.100 Stop giving them federal money.

00:33:22.760 Well, now it's going to be difficult if Joe Biden becomes the president, which it increasingly

00:33:26.240 would appear that he will.

00:33:27.360 But when we do have the levers of power, use them, use them, defund this craziness.

00:33:35.440 There's no neutral playing ground here, folks.

00:33:38.360 And the left understands that and smart conservatives understand that as well.

00:33:43.860 And by the way, smart Democrats don't even believe the nonsense they're spouting.

00:33:46.820 We caught some more left-wing politicians violating their own orders, which does fill

00:33:51.400 my cup with leftist tears as a slight consolation to the madness around us.

00:33:54.460 Speaking of the leftist tears, have you noticed this is a new leftist tears tumbler?

00:33:58.060 It's new and improved.

00:33:58.960 It is dishwasher safe.

00:34:00.240 Looks very cool.

00:34:01.120 Just in time to enjoy the salty tears while watching all of our new content.

00:34:05.120 The PragerU Library coming here, including my show at PragerU, the book club, Candace Owens

00:34:09.320 coming to the Daily Wire, getting her own show next year.

00:34:11.240 A lot of great stuff.

00:34:12.060 The Daily Wire Christmas ornament, which you can get right now.

00:34:14.840 You can get all the Daily Wire hosts.

00:34:16.360 Plus, Jeremy Boring is Santa's adorable elves made of painted metal.

00:34:21.260 Today is the last day to get it.

00:34:22.500 Text CHRISTMAS to 83400.

00:34:25.100 Text CHRISTMAS to 83400 to get yours.

00:34:28.220 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:34:41.740 A Chicago alderman, a city council member in Chicago, very crooked left-wing Democratic

00:34:48.360 city, he's in trouble because he violated his own lockdown orders.

00:34:54.320 You see Chicago, Illinois under certain lockdown restrictions.

00:34:57.920 But alderman Tom Tunney from the 44th Ward of Chicago, a Democrat, of course, has been opening

00:35:06.600 a restaurant that he owns.

00:35:08.200 The Ann Sather restaurant, a breakfast restaurant in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.

00:35:12.700 He's been opening his restaurant on the sly to try to keep the restaurant open.

00:35:17.380 I actually have great, great sympathy for Tunney.

00:35:21.200 I know friends of mine who have restaurants and who have bars who are opening them secretly.

00:35:27.540 They're actual speakeasies.

00:35:29.020 For the past 10 years or so, there's been this trend in bars to have fake speakeasies.

00:35:33.920 So there's some kind of kitschy way to walk in and use no password, but they're all legal.

00:35:37.700 Well, now we have real speakeasies and I've gone to several of them and it's been very

00:35:40.860 enjoyable.

00:35:42.260 I know a number of police officers actually who've gone to many of them because the police

00:35:45.360 officers think that the politicians who make these stupid rules are out of their minds.

00:35:49.280 I don't blame the cops for going into those places.

00:35:51.760 I don't blame the patrons for going into those places.

00:35:53.480 I don't blame the business owners for keeping those places open.

00:35:58.080 Unless those business owners are the politicians pushing the rules.

00:36:01.720 I do blame those guys.

00:36:04.080 And maybe Tom Tunney believes that these rules are bogus.

00:36:07.700 If he believes that and he doesn't want to enforce them at his own place of business,

00:36:11.580 he should resign from the board of aldermen.

00:36:14.820 But something tells me he's not going to do that.

00:36:17.100 None of these politicians, none of the prominent politicians pushing the mask orders or the lockdowns

00:36:23.640 or the closures, none of them believe this stuff.

00:36:26.360 They don't fear the virus.

00:36:27.980 They don't think they're going to die from coronavirus.

00:36:30.620 And they don't think that there's any risk in going and eating out.

00:36:34.240 A lot of them go and do that anyway.

00:36:35.820 Anyway, California, my former state, California assembly members are violating their own social

00:36:42.880 distancing rules.

00:36:43.660 So on November 25th, California issued new guidelines about the virus, said,

00:36:49.020 don't plan celebrations with multiple households.

00:36:51.280 It is safest to celebrate the holidays with people who already live with you.

00:36:54.620 But if you invite others, only invite a maximum of two other households to your gathering.

00:36:58.460 Then, on Monday, California state assembly members switched the location of their swearing in

00:37:05.860 session from the state capitol to the Golden One Center because they were so afraid of social

00:37:11.720 distancing.

00:37:12.240 This has not changed since November 25th.

00:37:14.100 Even on Monday, they were so afraid they'd go to this big arena because the capitol wasn't big

00:37:18.320 enough to swear in the new members.

00:37:20.440 And then right after that swearing in ceremony, five members of the California assembly met up

00:37:26.840 and went to grab a bite to eat at a restaurant.

00:37:30.220 And they were not so spread out as they were in the arena.

00:37:35.480 They were not so spread out as they would have been in the state capitol.

00:37:38.500 They were sitting at a table together.

00:37:40.720 And I bet you, bottom dollar, they weren't wearing masks.

00:37:45.980 Because they don't believe it.

00:37:47.380 Because I don't believe it either.

00:37:48.780 I don't believe it either.

00:37:50.300 I don't think that it is essential to the public health that we shut down all the restaurants.

00:37:56.920 I don't think it is essential to the public health that we cancel Thanksgiving or Christmas.

00:38:01.920 I think it's completely bogus, those orders.

00:38:05.100 I don't think it's essential to the public health that we wear a mask all the time everywhere.

00:38:09.640 You know that filthy cloth mask that very few people wash or wear properly,

00:38:13.480 and they're always touching their face when they put it on?

00:38:14.940 I don't think that's going to save the country.

00:38:17.400 Don't think it is very important at all.

00:38:20.760 By the way, there was one independent in that group of assemblymen, four Democrats.

00:38:26.440 No surprise whatsoever.

00:38:28.360 And yet, the insanity continues.

00:38:30.880 Because USA Today has an op-ed that I thought was satirical.

00:38:36.780 COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event, and all of us into potential serial killers.

00:38:43.960 That has to be satirical, right?

00:38:45.720 It's not.

00:38:46.780 If I hold my breath when I hug my parents, will that spare me the Greek tragedy of killing them? 0.51

00:38:51.520 This mental toll will last long after the threat fades.

00:38:54.480 There is a mental toll here.

00:38:55.620 And there is a true epidemic that is psychological.

00:39:01.180 It's hysterics like this man, Michael Stern.

00:39:04.900 Absolute hysterics.

00:39:06.880 Afraid of the flu.

00:39:08.040 A very strong flu.

00:39:09.260 A coronavirus, I guess, to be specific.

00:39:11.800 A very strong one.

00:39:13.360 I'm not downplaying that it's strong and that especially people in certain groups are at risk for it.

00:39:20.120 It's got a far greater than 99% survival rate.

00:39:23.340 But people are referring to it as a plague.

00:39:26.120 He refers to it as a plague.

00:39:27.680 It ain't the plague.

00:39:29.400 It's a virulent virus that has been with us now for a long time, and it's going to be with us for a very long time.

00:39:36.180 And we were told millions and millions of people were going to die from it.

00:39:38.560 And thankfully, that turned out not to be true.

00:39:41.740 This guy really believes that we're all serial killers.

00:39:43.960 This is the political problem, by the way, which is that we are social creatures.

00:39:47.620 We live in a body politic.

00:39:48.880 We need to interact with one another.

00:39:50.900 We are not meant to be alone.

00:39:51.960 There are a lot of people who are dying right now, alone in nursing homes, dying of loneliness, dying because they've lost the will to live,

00:39:59.740 because these psycho-politicians and hysterical opinion columnists have made it such that we no longer view our loved ones and our fellow citizens as friends and loved ones.

00:40:10.560 We view them as bags of germs who are out to kill us, and we're out to kill them.

00:40:13.900 That is a far greater threat to the public health and to society than any virus could be, and certainly than this virus.

00:40:23.560 Under a potential Joe Biden administration, public health is going to be used to justify all sorts of madness.

00:40:31.720 Biden ran as a kind of moderate, you remember.

00:40:34.000 That's out.

00:40:37.360 You can just see from the people he's already naming to his presumptive cabinet.

00:40:41.660 He's naming radical people, and he's empowering radical voices.

00:40:45.640 Here's one voice.

00:40:46.620 Elise Hoag, who's the president of NARAL, the main abortion group.

00:40:51.440 She says that the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding from going to abortion,

00:40:55.160 is a discriminatory policy passed specifically to limit the freedom of low-income women and women of color.

00:41:00.800 It must go.

00:41:02.200 Hashtag be bold and Hyde.

00:41:03.700 Joe Biden supported the Hyde Amendment and prohibiting taxpayer funding for abortion for his whole career,

00:41:07.840 but then he licked his index finger, put it up, saw the winds changed.

00:41:11.300 Now he supports taxpayer-funded abortion.

00:41:14.020 And by the way, it was always a little bit of a farce because money's fungible.

00:41:17.520 So, you know, you give your tax money to the government.

00:41:20.040 You can't say this dollar goes here and this dollar goes there.

00:41:22.320 But still, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

00:41:24.540 At the very least, we had this principle in the country that taxpayers should not be forced

00:41:28.440 to fund the wholesale slaughter of infants.

00:41:30.840 Now that's gone.

00:41:32.580 And there is an irony, too, to this woman, Elise Hoag, because listen to what she said.

00:41:37.460 She says the Hyde Amendment's discriminatory.

00:41:39.260 It's to limit the freedom of low-income women and women of color. 1.00

00:41:42.680 It must go.

00:41:44.320 What that means is that Elise Hoag thinks that there are too many poor black women having babies. 1.00

00:41:51.140 And we now need every taxpayer in the United States to pay to kill those babies of poor black women 1.00

00:42:00.980 so that there aren't too many of them.

00:42:03.960 That is her explicit argument.

00:42:07.400 I'm not twisting her words.

00:42:09.640 I'm not unfairly adding in something that she's not saying.

00:42:12.640 She's saying, not enough poor black women are getting abortions. 1.00

00:42:18.800 Too many poor black women are having babies. 1.00

00:42:21.380 And we need to make sure that we can kill more of those babies. 0.97

00:42:26.680 It would be discriminatory.

00:42:28.820 It is discriminatory.

00:42:30.540 There's no, ain't no question about that.

00:42:34.640 Even the journalists are getting in on this science racket.

00:42:37.760 Got to reform journalism, too.

00:42:39.020 We should use our political discourse to reform journalism.

00:42:42.540 Steve Cole of The New Yorker was, was, specifically he was discussing Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

00:42:47.280 and how Facebook is permitting conservatives to speak sometimes.

00:42:51.060 So that, you know, that's really bad.

00:42:52.640 And, and so he's defending free speech.

00:42:54.600 And he's saying free speech is being used now, ironically, against journalism.

00:42:58.200 And he's talking about how journalists are the defenders of free speech.

00:43:00.740 But he gets a phrase in there that is very unsettling.

00:43:05.820 And it gives you a glimpse of what our future politics is going to look like.

00:43:09.520 Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech,

00:43:14.140 a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.

00:43:19.580 And what do we do about that?

00:43:21.600 I just say, you know, as, as reporters, we kind of march into this war with our facts,

00:43:27.060 nobly shouldered as if they were going to win the day.

00:43:31.020 And what we're seeing is that because of the scale of this alternate reality that you've

00:43:36.640 been talking about, our facts, our principles, our scientific method, it isn't enough.

00:43:42.300 So what do we do?

00:43:44.520 Our scientific method?

00:43:47.160 Hold on.

00:43:47.660 You're telling me hack journalists follow a scientific method?

00:43:52.360 The New Yorker and MSNBC are now scientists?

00:43:55.900 No, they're not.

00:44:00.040 But it shows you that the word science, when invoked in politics, is a deceptive slogan

00:44:06.720 and euphemism.

00:44:07.600 And you should, the minute someone brings up science in politics, you should immediately

00:44:11.160 just turn your ears off.

00:44:13.480 Or at least know, maybe you listen to them, but you at least know that they are attempting

00:44:17.600 to deceive you.

00:44:18.300 Or maybe they've been deceived themselves.

00:44:20.460 I'm not even going to get into the idea that MSNBC and the New Yorker are the great defenders

00:44:27.300 of free speech.

00:44:28.080 And the mainstream journalists are our wonderful defenders.

00:44:30.580 I'm not even going to touch that.

00:44:32.560 I just want to point out how preposterous the scientific argument is here.

00:44:37.620 Because there is something politically we should do about this.

00:44:40.280 You know, there was another good article I read in the New York Times.

00:44:42.700 I can't believe I'm saying this.

00:44:44.660 This is a week to be surprised, folks.

00:44:46.780 We've discovered that we have aliens running the galaxy and have a federation.

00:44:51.220 And we also discover that the New York Times occasionally publishes something worthwhile.

00:44:55.740 New York Times, Joe from Scranton didn't win back the working class.

00:45:01.680 Now, I'll leave aside for a moment the question of whether or not Joe Biden really got all those

00:45:08.180 votes that people say that he got.

00:45:09.660 Whether or not he really got all those votes they say he got in Philadelphia and Atlanta

00:45:13.520 and Detroit.

00:45:14.780 I'm a little skeptical that he really won all those votes.

00:45:19.520 However, if the electors give the election to Joe Biden, which the Supreme Court seems

00:45:23.900 to have given them the free way to do, he will be the president.

00:45:28.460 Just by definition, he'll be the president.

00:45:30.620 And he will not have been elected.

00:45:33.920 Even if you do take all the counts at face value, he will not have been elected by the

00:45:37.660 working class.

00:45:38.160 The New York Times in their analysis shows, for years, Democrats have preached the gospel

00:45:44.660 of changing demographics.

00:45:46.160 As the country grew more diverse, they argue the electorate would inevitably tilt in their

00:45:49.820 favor and give their party an unbeatable edge.

00:45:52.500 While the country is more racially diverse than ever before, but exit polls suggest that

00:45:56.020 Joe Biden lost ground among Latino, Black, and Asian American voters in 2020 compared with

00:46:01.400 Hillary Clinton's performance in 2016.

00:46:04.160 Demographics, it turns out, are not political destiny, but diplomas just might be.

00:46:09.560 The clearest way to understand the results of the 2020 election and perhaps the shifting

00:46:12.620 state of our politics is through the education voting gap.

00:46:15.400 Voters with college degrees flock to Mr. Biden emerging as the crucial voting bloc in the

00:46:19.320 suburbs.

00:46:20.000 Those without them continued their flight from the Democratic Party.

00:46:23.680 So we've heard about this for a while.

00:46:25.480 Now, the point that the New York Times wants to make is that the people with these college

00:46:28.980 degrees are much more educated than all those people without the college degrees. 0.79

00:46:32.240 And that's just preposterous.

00:46:34.400 It's preposterous because the college degrees don't reflect what they once did.

00:46:39.880 The college degrees used to be a credential.

00:46:42.820 And so, or I'm sorry, the college degrees now are a credential.

00:46:47.900 They used to signify that you had an education.

00:46:51.400 In the past, I don't know, say 20 years, including while I was in school, while people in my

00:46:55.680 generation were in school, especially for really top schools, it became much harder

00:47:00.000 to get into the school than it was to graduate from the school.

00:47:04.980 Why?

00:47:05.720 Because the education itself wasn't all that rigorous, but it still had the cachet of if

00:47:12.980 you go to this special school, then you'll have this on your resume and you'll get a good

00:47:15.820 job and make a lot of money.

00:47:16.660 And so it became much harder to get in than it was to get out, to graduate.

00:47:22.680 This is true in all of the fields, but, you know, I'm a defender of the liberal arts and

00:47:27.060 liberal education.

00:47:29.160 It, even that you're not getting the classical education, the great books learning, the way

00:47:35.660 to make sense of your freedom that you once were.

00:47:38.440 And so even on that front, I don't think education should be primarily geared toward getting a

00:47:42.400 job or making a lot of money or something.

00:47:43.820 I think it should be toward making sense of your culture, knowing your culture, cultivating

00:47:48.040 your own self as a free person.

00:47:50.660 Even on that front, the colleges are failing.

00:47:53.480 What they are doing is churning out leftists because they are just working in a very shallow

00:47:58.520 ideological way and they're replacing great books and great disciplines with ideological,

00:48:05.880 shallow political programming.

00:48:07.840 What's the answer to that?

00:48:09.280 Defund it.

00:48:10.440 Defund it.

00:48:10.940 This, this edifice, this galactic federation, this galactic federation that I'm worried about

00:48:17.060 is the establishment that goes from Beijing all the way to the Biden household that includes

00:48:22.700 the mainstream media, that includes higher education, that includes lower education very

00:48:26.880 often, that includes corporate America.

00:48:29.360 They've all bought into that establishment.

00:48:31.300 You can hear the CCP experts joking about it.

00:48:34.940 They say, yeah, Trump was not the establishment, but don't worry, the establishment's coming back.

00:48:38.500 We must exercise as much as we can political power to defund that.

00:48:45.100 If the, if the New York Times is right, the demographics may not be destiny in the sense

00:48:48.380 that immigration may not be the single issue.

00:48:51.280 It's a very important issue still, but higher education could be a major, major issue.

00:48:56.300 If we throw up our hands, if we refuse to have the confidence and courage to exhibit the strength

00:49:03.180 to stop that, we have no one to blame for our losses in the future, but ourselves.

00:49:08.240 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:08.900 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:49:09.680 If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe.

00:49:19.040 And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review and tell your friends

00:49:23.340 to subscribe.

00:49:24.440 We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts.

00:49:29.200 Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including The Ben Shapiro Show,

00:49:33.680 The Andrew Klavan Show, and The Matt Walsh Show.

00:49:35.760 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies, executive producer, Jeremy Boring.

00:49:40.600 Our technical director is Austin Stevens, supervising producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling,

00:49:46.600 production manager, Pavel Vidovsky, editor and associate producer, Danny D'Amico, audio

00:49:51.960 mixer, Mike Coromino, hair and makeup by Nika Geneva, and production assistant, McKenna Waters.

00:49:58.280 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2020.

00:50:02.520 If you prefer facts over feelings, aren't offended by the brutal truth, and you can still laugh

00:50:07.560 at the insanity filling our national news cycle, well, tune in to The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:50:11.600 We'll get a whole lot of that and much more.

00:50:13.540 See you there.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 09, 2020

Ep. 660 - Our Alien Overlords

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript