The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 YouTube has announced that it will now censor any videos on its platform that suggest there

00:00:05.980 was anything irregular about the 2020 election. This show is broadcast on YouTube, so I fully

00:00:12.640 intend to abide by YouTube's order, which means, and I just want to let you know this right off

00:00:18.120 the top so we can put it behind us, that I can no longer mention on YouTube that Georgia election

00:00:23.340 officials shut down vote counting at 10.30 p.m. on election night in certain key areas and then

00:00:29.340 sent all the poll watchers home and then illegally continued counting votes almost until one in the

00:00:33.840 morning. I won't be able to say that anymore. It means I can no longer mention that the Pennsylvania

00:00:38.000 election officials violated their state's constitution through the use of widespread mail-in

00:00:43.180 votes, which are explicitly unconstitutional in Pennsylvania. You won't be hearing any more of

00:00:47.260 that, and it means, very, very important, I can no longer mention the 17 states that are joining

00:00:54.860 Texas's lawsuit against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin over those states' election

00:01:02.480 irregularities. So I guess we're just going to have to talk about something else. I'm Michael

00:01:06.320 Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:16.260 Can't talk about it. What am I supposed to do? My favorite comment yesterday from Henry Knox

00:01:20.300 says, Biden on the aliens. I mean, you got the first mainstream Martian American who is articulate

00:01:27.240 and bright and clean and nice looking alien. I mean, that's a storybook, Gray. That is

00:01:33.880 a very incisive comment about Biden. People forget this, that Biden, who's now considered this liberal,

00:01:42.380 wonderful, progressive figure, he actually said that about Obama. He said, you had the first nice

00:01:49.740 looking, clean, articulate African American in Barack Obama, and that's a storybook.

00:01:55.700 But he's their standard bearer now. How woke is Joe Biden? This YouTube order is no joke.

00:02:02.980 We said yesterday that the election lawsuits have not worked out particularly well for President

00:02:08.900 Trump. There is one big one left, though. There is a huge one left, and this has to go to the Supreme

00:02:14.340 Court in the sense that it's a state suing other states. So before there's even the chance that this

00:02:20.240 case could be heard, YouTube is saying, if you question anything about the 2020 presidential

00:02:25.580 election, you'll be kicked off of YouTube. I don't know if this video is going to be on YouTube right

00:02:30.240 now. I'm just reading the news, but the news is contradicting YouTube's preferred political

00:02:35.700 narrative. So I don't know. Maybe they're going to kick me off. Here's the order from YouTube.

00:02:39.640 Quote, yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the United States presidential election,

00:02:44.740 and enough states have certified their election results to determine a president-elect. Given that,

00:02:50.640 we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today or any time afterward that misleads people

00:02:56.340 by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election

00:03:03.080 in line with our approach toward historical U.S. presidential elections.

00:03:10.080 Okay, fair enough. I mean, not really fair enough. It's a stupid rule. But if they really held every

00:03:17.080 political candidate to this standard, at least it would be coherent. Then I was remembering a couple

00:03:26.460 years ago, there was a race in Georgia for governor between Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams. And Stacey

00:03:33.000 Abrams lost that race. And then she and many other people claimed that she had won that race.

00:03:38.180 And they continued to claim that after the election was certified and after Brian Kemp was sworn in.

00:03:44.380 In fact, that election was in 2018. In July of last year, a video was uploaded to YouTube featuring

00:03:51.500 Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks and some other liberal guy describing how Brian Kemp stole that election.

00:04:00.140 So now, you got, unfortunately, a potential new stolen election, and that's Georgia.

00:04:07.780 Georgia, absolutely. So what happened is, in the case of Georgia, Brian Kemp, with the help,

00:04:15.720 by the way, of his buddy Chris Kobach of Kansas, purged over half a million voters.

00:04:21.820 The race was about a one and a half point difference. But it was actually much narrower than that when you

00:04:26.640 looked at what would have required a runoff. Yeah, it was a few thousand votes. Just a few

00:04:30.060 thousand votes. And they would have needed a runoff. Yeah. It was, look, it was a pure steal.

00:04:36.180 It was a pure steal. As of the time of this airing, that video is still on YouTube. There's

00:04:41.600 a chance our video is not on YouTube, but that video is on YouTube. Seems like a double standard.

00:04:46.280 Now, you might say, Michael, you didn't read carefully enough because it says that they're going to

00:04:51.880 take down videos that question the outcome of the presidential election, not the Georgia

00:04:56.260 gubernatorial election. And this is in line with their approach historically toward US presidential

00:05:00.760 elections. Okay. Okay, fine. So you can question the results of other elections, just not the

00:05:05.500 presidential. Except, except they also question the presidential election. I just Googled very quickly

00:05:13.240 for a video that was uploaded fairly recently. Trump stole 2016. Will he steal the 2020 election?

00:05:19.200 This video is up on YouTube today as well. George W. Bush lost the, lost the popular vote

00:05:25.020 by a half million votes. And his brothers and the Supreme Court stole the election for him in Florida.

00:05:30.260 And Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. And, you know, and frankly,

00:05:35.380 I think there was some nefarious stuff going on in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that,

00:05:40.020 that handed the vote to, to Donald Trump. Nefarious stuff going on in Ohio,

00:05:46.900 Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016 that handed the vote to Donald Trump, meaning nefarious, right?

00:05:51.980 It was wicked stuff, criminal sort of stuff, illegitimate vote. So this guy, some liberal

00:05:58.740 guy I haven't heard of is questioning the results of the 2020 election and the 2000 election in the same

00:06:06.100 video, but, but explicitly the 2020 election long after that election was certified. So obviously this

00:06:12.460 YouTube order is complete BS. It's not a real standard. There is no historical U.S. presidential

00:06:19.020 election approach and rule from YouTube. They're just instituting this against conservatives and to

00:06:25.580 defend liberals. So when liberals say that elections were stolen, it's totally fine. And when conservatives

00:06:31.120 raise any questions about ongoing litigation that can and very likely will go to the Supreme Court,

00:06:37.180 it's the only court that could hear the case. You're not allowed to say that. They'll take your

00:06:40.460 video down. We are going to get so, so much more of this if Joe Biden becomes the president.

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00:08:32.300 questions regarding the 2020 election. If this video turns off on YouTube halfway through, I don't

00:08:40.100 know. I guess I couldn't help it, but I have to read the news. This is happening right now. 17 states

00:08:46.440 are joining with Texas to sue Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania over their election

00:08:54.820 irregularities. What states are they? Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana,

00:09:01.300 Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,

00:09:07.660 sweet old Tennessee, my new home state, Utah, and West Virginia. And President Trump, by the way,

00:09:15.020 is signing on here as a candidate who believes his rights were infringed by election irregularities.

00:09:22.040 And we say irregularities, we're talking about a whole wide range of activities, many of which

00:09:28.400 were caught on camera. So the big tech oligarchs can't deny that they have, they can deny that they

00:09:33.400 happened, but it's preposterous. They're asking us to believe them over our own lying eyes. And in the

00:09:38.400 case of Pennsylvania, we're talking about a flagrant violation of the state constitution by permitting

00:09:43.520 the use of widespread mail-in ballots. Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general in Texas, was explaining

00:09:50.880 the premise behind this lawsuit. It's really important to my state that my voters be represented.

00:09:58.020 And if other states don't follow the constitution, and if their state legislature isn't responsible for

00:10:05.160 overseeing their elections, and we have other people who are not under the constitution,

00:10:09.880 under the constitution supposed to be doing this, it affects my state. And so our job is to make sure

00:10:16.760 that the constitutions follow and that every vote counts. And in this case, I'm not sure that every

00:10:22.260 vote was counted, not in the right way. It is the responsibility of state legislatures per the

00:10:26.820 constitution to set the rules for election of electors. And in this case, those were overridden in

00:10:34.180 the four states we're talking about were overridden by other officials, whether they were judges or

00:10:38.680 other governmental officials. And that's not the way our constitution works. And that's the challenge

00:10:44.260 we have in front of the court. Can this be overridden by people who are not responsible under the

00:10:49.360 constitution for doing this? I totally agree with everything that Ken Paxton just said. He's a very

00:10:54.700 strong attorney general, by the way, and presumably has a good political career ahead of him. Totally agree

00:11:00.740 with that. I also agree with a point that was made by Arthur Bloom today. Arthur Bloom is a conservative

00:11:05.740 writer and editor who pointed out that Democrats, you know, even in their name, take ownership of this

00:11:13.400 word democracy. And they say that any attempts to, to change the outcome of the certification is

00:11:19.120 undermining democracy. And if you go to the state legislatures to override the unconstitutional

00:11:25.040 decisions of say judges or of election officials, that that's somehow undermining democracy because

00:11:31.840 democracy is only what Democrats say it is. Give me a break. Give me a break. I'm not saying that this

00:11:39.160 is an ideal way to conduct an election. I'm not saying that this wasn't a complete debacle. I think

00:11:43.560 this election was a debacle because of corrupt election officials and because of misguided state

00:11:49.680 legislatures and because of partisan state Supreme courts. However, going to the state legislatures

00:11:56.440 and allowing constitutional process to play out and having them use their legal authority to

00:12:01.820 process and execute a presidential election is not undemocratic compared to having some electors

00:12:13.140 pass some new, or having some election officials rather, pass some new regulations during a presidential

00:12:18.940 election to change the way that people vote and then having that vote be certified. The word

00:12:22.640 democratic is much broader than, than we're describing here. And frankly, it's, it's even sort

00:12:28.220 of secondary to the question of the legal process established by the constitution. All of that said,

00:12:34.220 I do not want to get people's hopes up here. I said yesterday that the fat lady has not sung yet,

00:12:41.700 but you can hear her warming up. You can hear her in the far distance, clearing her throat,

00:12:47.340 going up and down her scales. This lawsuit from Texas is the last stand.

00:12:56.080 It just is a matter of time. There isn't time left. The electors are going to vote in a matter of days.

00:13:03.180 So this is it. Even if there were some magnificent other lawsuit that were being prepared that had

00:13:11.500 heaping helpings of Kraken in it, there isn't time for it anymore. And nobody's going to care how explosive

00:13:17.600 it is. I keep going back to the example of Lyndon Johnson, who stole a 1948 Senate election. And we know it

00:13:25.880 with certainty as of say 1990. But okay, I guess that's a moral victory for conservatives.

00:13:33.460 Meanwhile, Johnson had already left the Senate, left the vice presidency, left the presidency and

00:13:39.520 died. Okay, we got him. We got him. No, he already had his effect. I don't have any confidence in the

00:13:49.200 Supreme Court that they will rule properly on this case. And I don't have any confidence in the Supreme

00:13:54.620 Court that they'll even take it up. I think the other day when they shot down the Pennsylvania

00:14:01.600 appeal, which Senator Cruz was going to argue before the court, some people are saying, well,

00:14:08.060 they shut that down because it would have been redundant. They were waiting for the Texas lawsuit.

00:14:11.300 I don't think so. I don't think so. I think regardless of what, maybe they hear the case,

00:14:16.380 probably they don't. But even if they do, I just don't think they're going to weigh in on behalf of

00:14:22.700 Trump and on behalf of people who feel that this election was held in an irregular way, which is,

00:14:29.520 which is incontrovertible, no matter what, no matter what YouTube wants to say about it.

00:14:36.140 So this is the stand. I'm really pleased that Texas is doing this. I'm very pleased

00:14:39.560 that my new state of Tennessee is doing this. You know, all my exes live in Texas, which is why I hang

00:14:44.840 my hat in Tennessee. But both states doing great work, as are those other states that are signing on

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00:16:32.260 If the courts do not go the right way, if Joe Biden becomes president, is named president-elect,

00:16:43.260 there is still a lot that we can do in the meantime. You saw a little bit of this happening

00:16:47.080 yesterday. There are things we can do with the DOJ. There are things we can do with the executive

00:16:50.460 agencies. There are things that we can do as a matter of executive orders. So this came out of

00:16:56.240 the U.S. Attorney's Office just yesterday. Federal law enforcement officials are investigating Hunter

00:17:03.580 Biden for all sorts of tax-related matters, shady business deals, that sort of thing. There had been

00:17:11.180 an investigation already into Hunter Biden that was going on because Hunter Biden obviously has been

00:17:17.460 peddling his father's influence for years and years now, enriching himself to the tune of millions

00:17:22.820 and millions of dollars. Joe Biden knew about this. We have the Hunter Biden laptop. Joe Biden

00:17:29.460 was aware of this. Hunter Biden admitted it himself that he talked to his dad about these business

00:17:33.180 deals. And so Joe denies it, but we have his son contradicting him about it. He made a lot of money

00:17:40.240 on this. There was an investigation. There actually was an investigation even before Bill Barr took over

00:17:44.120 at the DOJ. They paused this for the presidential election because they didn't want it to be seen as

00:17:49.480 any sort of impropriety interfering in the election. Now that has picked up again. This is very important.

00:17:56.880 Not because they're going to nab Hunter Biden. I don't think they will. I don't think Joe Biden,

00:18:03.060 if he becomes president, will allow them to nab Hunter Biden, even though it's so, the corruption is so

00:18:08.900 preposterous. Unless Hunter Biden is some expert in Chinese financial affairs and an expert in Ukrainian

00:18:15.660 energy companies, obviously this was pure corruption. You had that, that CCP expert yesterday

00:18:21.800 admitting that they bought off the Biden family in China. However, the reason it's important is because

00:18:27.900 if Joe Biden becomes president, then he's going to have to be the one to shut down this investigation.

00:18:32.200 And that's not going to look great. He's going to have to go in there and expose his own corruption

00:18:39.600 or allow the investigation to proceed, which very likely would implicate him as well. That's one

00:18:46.940 thing we can do. I think we need to keep that up. We need to ramp that up, ramp up as many

00:18:53.160 investigations that are as hard to shut down as possible. Definitely do that. Another thing we need

00:18:57.480 to do, if Joe Biden is going to become president, which he may, the Supreme Court has suggested that

00:19:03.780 he very likely will, get Eric Swalwell kicked off of the House Intelligence Committee and possibly get

00:19:10.540 him kicked out of Congress. We talked yesterday about Swalwell's honey trap, the idea that Swalwell was

00:19:18.220 close with this Chinese spy. She seems to have raised a lot of money for him, may have raised many things

00:19:25.820 while she was in the country. We don't know. Okay. We, we know, it seems as though the FBI believes

00:19:30.980 that this Chinese spy slept with multiple U.S. officials. Was it Eric Swalwell? We don't know.

00:19:38.740 If she did sleep with Eric Swalwell, because Eric Swalwell is us, according to his 2020 presidential

00:19:43.780 campaign, that means that we all slept with Eric Swalwell, which means we all cheated on our wives,

00:19:47.340 except that means our wives slept with her too, which means we're all in the same boat.

00:19:51.080 More details are coming out about this. It's going to be very embarrassing for Mr. Swalwell.

00:19:57.460 It's especially embarrassing because there'd be rank hypocrisy here. During the 2016 campaign and

00:20:03.820 the aftermath of that, Eric Swalwell, in many ways, led the charge, accusing Don Jr. of one time

00:20:12.880 meeting with someone who might have been associated with the Russian government.

00:20:17.340 I think we've all gotten a PhD in Russian studies that none of us signed up for,

00:20:22.620 but stated plainly, the president's son met with a Russian spy. We now have the best evidence

00:20:30.720 of that. In our minority report, the Democrats put out that Ms. Veselnitskaya was going all over

00:20:36.080 the world and bumping into Dana Rohrabacher, which is a sign of a spy, someone who tries to create,

00:20:41.840 you know, a coincidence encounter. And now we know that she was working at the behest

00:20:46.820 of the Russian government. The president's son, Nicole, met with a Russian spy.

00:20:51.200 So the president's son may have met with someone connected to the Russian government.

00:20:56.180 But Eric Swalwell, it would appear, did a whole lot more than bump into Chinese spies. Well,

00:21:02.100 it depends on how we look at that verb. Eric Swalwell appears to have had a much more intimate

00:21:07.340 relationship with a Chinese spy, China, a much more threatening adversary to the United States

00:21:12.760 than Russia. This man cannot be permitted to stay on the House Intel Committee. I don't know,

00:21:20.280 they're not going to get him kicked out of Congress, but it is absolutely insane that this man is

00:21:25.960 allowed to remain on the House Intel Committee. He absolutely has to be stripped of that.

00:21:29.740 Republicans should keep beating that drum. Why? Who cares about Eric Swalwell? Because it's the

00:21:35.280 right thing to do. It exposes the impropriety. This story about the Chinese spy and Eric Swalwell

00:21:41.000 is absolutely going to be covered up by the mainstream media. No one's going to talk about

00:21:44.820 it other than us. We need to turn up as much pressure as we possibly can to get that dude

00:21:49.700 kicked off of the Intel Committee. One, because he's a national security risk and a blackmail risk.

00:21:55.220 But two, because we need to expose the story as a, as a political matter, as well,

00:22:02.340 it's a national security matter. It's also a matter of simple politics. If the media aren't

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00:24:14.320 going to get tough in a physical way. They're, they're threatening Republicans all over. You

00:24:18.900 hear Joe Biden every so often say, we need healing. We need unity. Barack Obama is the first articulate

00:24:24.880 black man in America. He said, he said that he did say that. Don't forget that he said that the woke

00:24:28.940 people are going to try to erase that, but he did. The Democrats are going to be merciless. Well,

00:24:34.700 well, Joe Biden is telling us that we're going to have unity and healing. You have a Michigan state

00:24:40.000 representative, Cynthia Johnson, threatening Trump supporters and telling her constituents to go

00:24:45.200 after them. So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful. Walk lightly. We ain't playing

00:24:57.840 with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And for those of you who are soldiers,

00:25:10.860 you know how to do it. Do it right. Be in order. Make them pay. I love y'all. Bye bye.

00:25:23.120 I don't think she loves us all. I believe most of what she just said. The one thing I don't

00:25:31.760 believe is that she loves us all. I think she wants to kill Trump supporters. She's calling to

00:25:38.680 kill us. She's not saying be mean to them or even Maxine Waters said, you know, find them where they

00:25:45.560 are in public and go to their homes and yell at them and push back on them. This woman is calling

00:25:50.400 on people to murder us. She says, you know, you know, Trumpers, you better watch out. You better

00:25:58.460 watch out. And even then you say, okay, maybe it's just a sort of vague threat. And she goes, those of

00:26:02.980 you who are soldiers, you know what to do. You know how to do it. Well, what do you saw? Oh, soldiers

00:26:08.420 kill people, right? That's what they do. Soldiers kill people. And this elected Democrat wants to kill

00:26:14.700 us. She has been stripped of her committee assignments and may face further disciplinary

00:26:20.680 action, apparently, according to the Michigan House Representative Lee Chatfield. Ain't good

00:26:26.860 enough, buddy. Not even close to good. Obviously, she's stripped of her committee assignments. She

00:26:31.560 certainly should be kicked out of the Michigan State House. I don't know. Maybe she should face

00:26:37.440 some criminal charges. You're, you're not allowed to threaten to kill people. That's a, that's a big

00:26:45.100 deal. And she's threatening to kill all the Trump supporters. And she's inciting soldiers to kill us.

00:26:53.160 She's asking the soldiers to kill us. Ain't good enough. Ain't good enough to strip her of her

00:26:57.920 committee assignments. At the very least, she needs to be kicked out of the, the State House. And

00:27:03.660 probably she should face criminal charges. We're going to get a whole lot more of that. We're not

00:27:08.220 going to be able to speak out against it because big tech has already told us they're not going to

00:27:11.280 let us voice our opinions. They say, if you have any problem with the 2020 election and you got any

00:27:16.080 problem with that, go somewhere else. Build your own YouTube. That's what they say. That's, you'd hear

00:27:21.980 this from the kind of squishy Republicans that say, well, just, we can't, we can't make YouTube do what

00:27:27.200 we want through politics. So we've just built your own YouTube. You can't build your own YouTube.

00:27:30.620 You can't build your own YouTube. They have taken over the market. They have a critical mass.

00:27:36.600 They acquired that critical mass through fraud and through the exploitation of legal liability

00:27:44.220 protections that they do not deserve. And we need to get a little bit tougher than we used to be as

00:27:50.560 Republicans. I don't mean tougher in the way that she says, go kill all the, your political opponents.

00:27:54.280 I mean, get tougher through politics, through the law. And unbelievable, this is, this is the funniest

00:28:01.100 headline I've read probably in weeks. During this whole period, the Washington Post believes that

00:28:08.300 Republicans need to nominate possibly the most liberal member of their party to the 2020 Republican

00:28:15.840 nomination. We'll get into that very, very silly article. You know, there are some bright sides to 2020.

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00:29:37.040 Elected Democrats are threatening to kill us and the largest media companies in the world

00:29:43.780 are threatening to censor us, promising to censor us. You've got a major political realignment going

00:29:50.820 on. Even the New York Times admitted this yesterday. The New York Times said that Joe Biden,

00:29:56.220 Joe from Scranton didn't win the working class, right? They always said Joe was going to win back

00:30:00.520 the working class and he was going to win back, you know, black and Latino voters. And actually what

00:30:06.080 you saw in 2016 and as much as you take the election results at face value is Trump actually

00:30:13.960 made inroads. He made gains among the working class, among black voters, among Hispanic voters,

00:30:21.500 among everybody apparently except for white men. And if you look at education, that was the big

00:30:27.920 difference. The, the people who have more college degrees, which by the way, I will not confuse with

00:30:34.940 actual education, but the people who have more of these educational credentials are more likely to

00:30:40.660 vote for Democrats. The people who have less of those educational credentials, more likely to vote

00:30:44.440 for Republicans, which completely blows up the former democratic idea that Republicans were the

00:30:49.820 class of the rich and the plutocrats and rich uncle penny bags. No, the Republicans are a diverse

00:30:57.620 party, but in as much as the working class has a party, it's the Republican party. And even the New York

00:31:03.260 Times is admitting this now. So while you've got this major political realignment, the swamp blob

00:31:10.220 liberal establishment wants to go back to business as usual, wants to go back to the old way of doing

00:31:16.480 things, wants to go back to nominating squishes for the Republican party who can then lose with

00:31:24.200 dignity, dignity to the democratic candidate. From the Washington Post, the silliest column I've read in

00:31:31.420 quite some time. Or I guess it's not even a column, I guess a news article. I haven't abandoned my

00:31:37.180 principles. Larry Hogan, pondering challenge to Trump, casts himself as a traditional Republican. Now this,

00:31:47.180 this article came out last year. This is being promoted in the past few days, the Larry Hogan

00:31:54.920 presidency, presidential campaign as the future of the Republican party. But this is what they wrote.

00:32:01.400 Maryland Governor Larry Hogan acknowledges that many Republicans nationwide who have heard about

00:32:05.160 his potential presidential ambitions probably view him as a centrist with little hope of finding

00:32:09.380 support in Trump's GOP. But amid growing tensions between Trump and Republican lawmakers over foreign

00:32:14.440 policy and the president's treatment of global alliances, Hogan is signaling that if he decides to wage an

00:32:18.780 insurgent campaign, he would pitch himself as far more in tune with the party's long held values and

00:32:23.500 worldview than Trump. I come from the Ronald Reagan school of politics, Hogan said last week in a

00:32:30.280 wide-ranging interview at the state capitol, shaking his head in disapproval when asked whether he

00:32:35.220 shares Trump's nationalism. Then he talks about how great the old sort of post-war liberal consensus was

00:32:42.360 and talks about how great liberal Republicans are and pretends that he's Ronald Reagan because he's a

00:32:49.040 liberal. When, when Larry Hogan said, the only reason I bring up this older article right now

00:32:52.700 is because Hogan 2024 is now getting a surge on social media from blue checkmark liberals who

00:32:59.580 are completely out of touch with the GOP base. When Larry Hogan says he's never abandoned his

00:33:04.080 principles, I actually take him at face value. He's always been a liberal Republican and he is still a

00:33:09.160 liberal Republican. His values are liberal values. Mitt Romney, I don't think, has abandoned his values.

00:33:15.700 His values were always to be a slick liberal politician who would occasionally lie and pretend to be more

00:33:22.160 conservative than he is when he thought it would benefit his political career. And there are a lot

00:33:26.180 of Republicans like that. When he says, I come from the Ronald Reagan school of politics, you are going

00:33:31.460 to hear this, not, you've been hearing it for years from the Washington Post, you're hearing it today.

00:33:35.940 This canard that back in Reagan's day, you know, Reagan, whom the liberal establishment loved. Oh,

00:33:41.880 they loved him. After he died, they loved him. When he was alive, they hated his guts.

00:33:45.200 He called him a Nazi, called him a KKK. He said all of his supporters were Nazis and white supremacists.

00:33:50.180 Same thing they did to Trump. They said, Ronald Reagan, you know, at least he could get along with

00:33:54.720 Democrats. He would, he and Tip O'Neill, who was the speaker of the house, they would fight all day

00:34:00.920 long. But you know, at six o'clock they'd go over, they'd have drinks together. They were friends.

00:34:07.280 The only problem with that story is that it's completely untrue. Nothing about that is true.

00:34:11.680 They hated one another. They were not friends. They did not work together.

00:34:16.200 I would be surprised if they ever had more than a drink together.

00:34:20.600 Tip O'Neill called Ronald Reagan evil. He said that he had ice water running through his veins.

00:34:27.780 Reagan was a little bit nicer to Tip O'Neill in public than Tip O'Neill was to Ronald Reagan.

00:34:33.360 But in private, these guys absolutely hated one another. They didn't spend time together. They

00:34:38.560 didn't chat and they didn't work on anything together. We have to oppose the liberal left.

00:34:46.740 We don't want to become the liberal left. What the establishment wants us to do is nominate the

00:34:54.300 Mitt Romneys and the John McCain's and the Larry Hogan's and the John Kasich's and all those guys,

00:35:00.840 Jeff Flake, and put them up as pretend opposition. Court jester conservatives who can go up there and

00:35:08.040 if they win, it's not a big deal because they're liberals. And really, they're probably going to

00:35:11.760 lose. And it's good if they lose because they've played their part in this kingdom of liberalism.

00:35:16.860 They want to put up Republicans who agree with the left on basically every cultural matter,

00:35:21.860 but maybe they disagree on tax cuts or something. But actually, here's the secret. Here's the big

00:35:26.560 secret. The liberal establishment doesn't mind tax cuts. Actually, most of the richest people in the

00:35:31.960 country are extremely wealthy and they enjoy tax cuts. And the tax cuts don't threaten their social

00:35:36.160 programs because they just borrow more money from China to fund them. And they're going to cozy up

00:35:40.040 to China if Joe Biden becomes president. Not enough. Those guys, weak sauce. It's preposterous

00:35:46.040 because they would never get through a GOP nomination. Not these days. We need to get cultural.

00:35:51.480 You know, we talked about this issue that keeps coming up, the porn issue, the porn debate. I know

00:35:56.580 some people don't like the porn debate. I think the porn debate is important in itself. It's also

00:36:01.440 important though, even if you don't care about the porn thing, it's important as a symbol of digging in on

00:36:05.840 cultural matters because the culture will affect politics. Politics will affect culture too, but

00:36:11.800 the culture will affect the politics. So there's a big problem with online pornography. Nicholas

00:36:19.100 Kristof, the liberal columnist in the New York Times came out and he said, look, there's child

00:36:22.760 pornography on here or under, at least under, they might not be five years old, but they're at least

00:36:26.980 17 years old, 15 years old, 14 years old. That's obviously illegal. And there's rape victims,

00:36:32.220 trafficking victims. And so you got to get this off here. The only reason this got any play is

00:36:37.320 because you had someone working from within the liberal establishment who called this out. He

00:36:41.220 wasn't calling out the other problems with porn, namely that it gets young boys addicted at a very

00:36:45.460 young age and perverts the entire country and turns us all into just sort of over sensitized,

00:36:52.360 vicious people, licentious people who aren't capable of liberty. That's the more conservative critique of

00:36:58.740 porn. But the liberal critique is, well, consent, you know, and all these sorts of problems. Okay.

00:37:06.420 As a result of that, credit card companies suggested they were going to cut off Pornhub. So

00:37:10.780 MasterCard and Visa came out publicly, said they were reconsidering their relationship with Pornhub

00:37:16.200 after Kristof accused the site of being infested with not just the underage stuff, but racist,

00:37:22.840 violent, misogynistic content. Then the companies came out and said, we're not going to do

00:37:28.720 business with them. That's very good. We can cheer that on. We can cheer that on. As conservatives,

00:37:34.080 we need to take the victories that we can get, even if it is aided by liberals through liberal

00:37:38.460 establishments, even through some arguments that are maybe secondary to the broader argument. You

00:37:43.220 know, the idea that there's racism on Pornhub. I don't even really know what that means to say

00:37:48.220 there's racism on Pornhub. To me, the bigger issue is the fact that we're getting young boys hooked on

00:37:54.540 all this licentious stuff and that there's exploitative content on there, but fine. Okay.

00:37:58.580 It's a, through racism. Okay, fine. Whatever works to weaken that giant company's exploitative

00:38:05.680 hold on the culture, that's great. That's good stuff. You could imagine that some real pure free

00:38:13.020 marketeers would say, this is a distortion of the free market. You should not allow these kind of

00:38:19.400 cultural factors to come into play. You should not allow, certainly you shouldn't allow government to

00:38:24.540 threaten Pornhub's ability to do whatever they want, even though we've had obscenity laws in this

00:38:28.660 country from the very beginning. But even, you know, even the idea that you're not going to allow

00:38:33.380 people to use certain payment processors, I don't know, it's a little dicey. I guess the payment

00:38:37.420 processors are their own companies, but still these are market interferences.

00:38:40.360 Pornhub has no right to exist. It has no right to exist. According to the constitution, there's no

00:38:50.400 right. According to US law, there's no right. Our founding fathers would be rolling over in their

00:38:54.660 graves if they knew that this sort of thing were happening. Now, I'm not saying that means we need

00:38:59.660 to outright ban Pornhub right away because I actually don't think it's possible politically.

00:39:05.740 I don't know that it's prudent. We went through some of the arguments from St. Augustine and St.

00:39:10.200 Thomas Aquinas over why they defended legal prostitution and some space in politics to

00:39:18.260 recognize that these vices won't be totally suppressed, the idea that you're not going to

00:39:21.540 cut out lust from the heart of man eternally. You need to be prudent. You need to be wise as a serpent

00:39:25.540 and innocent as a dove. But let's not just give Pornhub a free pass. Absolutely not. Keep the

00:39:31.160 pressure up. Let's not pretend they have any right to exist. They exist because at the pleasure of the

00:39:38.540 American people, you can interpret pleasure however you like. They have no right to exist though. And

00:39:44.040 by the way, the thing worked to some degree. Pornhub says that now they're only going to

00:39:50.140 have content partners and people within their model program be able to upload content to Pornhub.

00:39:57.780 Meaning that, you know, they're going to have some kind of way of verifying who gets to upload

00:40:01.680 content. They're not going to allow users to download content from Pornhub with the exception

00:40:07.560 of paid downloads from the verified model program. Okay. They've got fingerprinting technology which

00:40:13.820 will mitigate the ability for content that's already been removed to be re-uploaded. That's

00:40:18.600 going to be effective immediately. They're also going to establish a red team to self-audit the

00:40:23.360 platform for potentially illegal materials. That means someone's job is just to sit all day

00:40:27.260 and look at the most heinous kind of pornography, probably illegal pornography, and take it down.

00:40:33.360 Doesn't sound like great work. Sounds like pretty corrupting work. But anyway, they're going to do

00:40:37.200 that. I don't know that we can trust Pornhub to do it. That's a good start. Glad that they're doing

00:40:41.140 that. But it's not enough. My proposal for Pornhub is if you want to use Pornhub, not just upload

00:40:46.760 content, but if you want to use it, if you want to access it, you've got to upload a valid ID.

00:40:52.200 Doesn't matter how old you are. You could be 65 years old. If you want to use Pornhub,

00:40:56.440 if you want to access it and download it, you need to upload an ID. The reason for this is in

00:41:00.660 part age verification and in part shame. It's the same reason that you have to show an ID when you

00:41:05.480 go buy a Playboy, right? It's the same reason the Playboy, when you go buy it at the store, is in a

00:41:09.780 different kind of section of the store, a different kind of envelope or something,

00:41:12.720 because there should be some shame here. We should cultivate that shame. There's nothing wrong with

00:41:16.880 doing that. People ought to feel that shame themselves. And still, a lot of people are going to use it.

00:41:22.760 But something like approximately 100% of men have looked at online pornography at some point.

00:41:27.860 The joke about the survey is that, what was it, 94% of men have looked at naked ladies on the

00:41:32.280 internet and 6% of men are lying. Something to that effect. So it's a good start. And as conservatives,

00:41:38.860 what you want to do is fix the problem in the way that you can. You're not going for a total

00:41:43.440 revolutionary solution right away. You're not going to let the perfect get in the way of the good. But

00:41:47.600 this is a somewhat decent start. We need good standards again. You know, right now we pretend

00:41:52.520 that we don't have standards. We pretend that anything goes because you hear things like,

00:41:57.380 oh, if it feels good, do it. Love is love. If it doesn't hurt anybody, you know, it's your choice,

00:42:01.440 man, whatever. But we do have standards, actually. The standards are political correctness. And the

00:42:07.380 problem is that those standards are dumb and bad. But we have them. We just need good standards is the

00:42:12.780 issue. Kumail Nanjiani, who is apparently an actor. He has a blue checkmark on Twitter, and I'm

00:42:19.480 reliably informed he's an actor. Kumail says, he tweeted this out yesterday, traditional masculinity

00:42:25.740 is a disease. And when I read that, when I saw this ostensible, ostensibly a man tweeting out

00:42:34.540 traditional masculinity is a disease, I just thought, I hope she sees this, bro. Whatever feminist girl

00:42:40.300 you're trying to impress with that tweet, I hope she sees it. I hope it was worth something.

00:42:44.880 This is what they say. When they say on the left that masculinity is toxic or something,

00:42:50.980 they're not referring to a specific kind of toxic masculinity. But they like the good masculinity.

00:42:57.080 They hate the toxic one. I actually think that would be an interesting conversation to have

00:43:00.180 because there are aspects of the heart of man that is not great, you know, and that we should

00:43:06.320 correct through virtue. But that's not what they're saying. What they really believe is that all

00:43:10.960 masculinity, traditional masculinity, is a disease. And the alternative to that, I suspect, is femininity.

00:43:16.940 But that's not true. When a woman acts like a woman, she's womanly, and that's a good thing.

00:43:22.260 When a man acts like a man, he's manly. That's a good thing. When a man acts like a woman, he's not

00:43:27.660 womanly, he's womanish. That's why we have two words for that. Because there's something disordered

00:43:31.700 about that. There's something very wrong about that. It's not that womanliness, there's anything

00:43:37.760 wrong with that. It's not that there's anything wrong with femininity. It's that there's something

00:43:41.000 wrong when men behave in a womanish way and vice versa, because there are standards. There used to

00:43:48.040 be standards. And what political correctness wants to do is invert those standards. So the idea of

00:43:53.680 feminism was to apply traditionally male values and make all women live up to that.

00:43:59.620 Simon de Beauvoir, a very famous feminist, and Jean-Paul Sartre's Trumpet, famously said to Betty

00:44:05.260 Friedan, another very famous feminist, that women cannot be given the choice to stay home and raise

00:44:09.820 kids, because if given that choice, they'll take it. And that's bad. They need to go out and work.

00:44:14.500 They need to adopt male values. So what political correctness does is insist that women become men,

00:44:21.240 and as Kumail Najani says, men need to become women. That's a very bad idea. I think, I know this is a

00:44:29.120 radical proposal. Men should be men and women should be women. But in order to have that standard,

00:44:33.540 which was once considered common sense for, you know, all of human history until five minutes ago,

00:44:38.000 for that standard to come back, we need to articulate it. We can't just throw up our hands

00:44:43.260 and say, you do you, and anybody does anything, and I don't care how you behave, and it doesn't

00:44:46.840 affect me. No. You have to be a little stronger than that. You have to go out and say, men should do

00:44:53.420 this. Men should act with chivalry, which is, by the way, another standard. It's not, the left calls

00:44:59.740 that identity politics. It's not real. Identity politics is a specific thing. It's a left-wing

00:45:04.680 modern invention. Chivalry is a different kind of standard. That's the one we should go for.

00:45:10.460 We need clarity on these things. We need clarity on our friends and our enemies. This is a huge news

00:45:15.300 story. Documents revealed on Wednesday by Canada's rebel news network, Ezra Levon, show that Canada

00:45:26.380 was planning to train Chinese soldiers in cold weather tactics at a military base in Ontario.

00:45:34.620 And they canceled that program reluctantly when the White House found out about it and asked them to

00:45:39.800 cancel it. Canada was going to invite America's number one enemy in the world to our doorstep to train

00:45:48.500 their military. Justin Trudeau, obviously making his father very proud here. You can interpret that

00:45:56.900 statement as you will as well. If you're unfamiliar with this question, feel free to Google Justin

00:46:02.580 Trudeau's father. It's very interesting. Very interesting reading. But I'm sure, I'm sure he's making

00:46:08.140 whatever you discover on that little journey down the internet. Either way, he would be making his

00:46:14.360 very, very proud. This is some radical stuff. And it's happening very quickly.

00:46:22.840 Drew Clavin likes to use this line that he's taking from Ernest Hemingway that then I've stolen from

00:46:28.960 both of those guys, which is, things happen gradually, then suddenly. This election has been

00:46:34.900 happening gradually and gradually and gradually. Now we're approaching the suddenly part. We're days

00:46:40.140 away from the electors voting. The Supreme Court not signaling that they're going to be too helpful

00:46:46.280 to the Trump campaign and the Trump legal effort. So we might be getting into the suddenly part of all

00:46:52.120 of this. And suddenly is going to look really, really bad from big tech, from elected Republicans on

00:46:58.560 domestic policy, from the culture, cultural standpoint, and from the foreign policy standpoint.

00:47:05.440 We need to be extraordinarily vigilant. We need to do everything we possibly can. If this election is

00:47:10.720 not going to go for Trump, we need to do everything we possibly can while we still have the power. I'm

00:47:15.640 Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:48:10.040 Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Clavin, host of The Andrew Clavin Show. Hunter Biden is under

00:48:15.160 investigation for his business dealings in China. We knew that, but a lot of America didn't because

00:48:20.520 big media and big tech buried the story to help get Joe Biden elected. It's one big chain of

00:48:27.280 corruption, and we'll talk about it all on The Andrew Clavin Show.

Ep. 661 - What We Can’t Say

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