The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 663 - Doctor？ I Hardly Know ‘Er!

00:00:00.000 The coronavirus vaccine is here, absolutely historic. The FDA passed an emergency approval

00:00:07.240 of this. Now the first shipment has left a Michigan plant in the middle of the night.

00:00:12.480 Just like you can picture boxes of ballots leaving Michigan in the middle of the night,

00:00:16.680 you can picture boxes of this vaccine heading out. 18,275 vials of the vaccine departed the

00:00:24.060 plant. They're headed to all 50 states, and President Trump very rightly is bragging about

00:00:29.420 the accomplishment. I have really good news. Today, our nation has achieved a medical miracle.

00:00:36.700 We have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just nine months. This is one of the greatest

00:00:42.160 scientific accomplishments in history. It will save millions of lives and soon end the pandemic

00:00:48.440 once and for all. I am thrilled to report that the FDA has authorized the Pfizer vaccine.

00:00:54.500 We have given Pfizer and other companies a great deal of money, hoping this would be

00:00:59.940 the outcome. And it was. On behalf of the American people, I'd like to thank all of the brilliant

00:01:05.960 scientists, technicians, doctors, and workers who made this all possible. Pfizer and Moderna

00:01:12.880 have announced their vaccine is approximately 95 percent effective, far exceeding expectations.

00:01:20.000 Totally exceeding expectations. It seems that a cure for our medical problems is here, even though the

00:01:27.500 media and the left told us it couldn't happen. The cure for our political problems will be much,

00:01:33.060 much harder to find. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:35.580 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday from misanthropic perspective says,

00:01:49.560 oh man, I don't think Kanye is going to win this. I don't know. Let's hold out hope. I'm not totally

00:01:55.360 sure that Kanye is all out of it, but it does appear that our best wishes for the presidential

00:02:00.620 election are slowly seeming less and less possible. President Trump got us this vaccine. This is good

00:02:08.720 news. How many people are going to take the vaccine? I don't know, but I know some people

00:02:12.140 really do want to take it. Some people are a little leery. Fair enough. Regardless, quite an

00:02:17.520 accomplishment. And it's one that the left and the media told us could not happen. In fact, when

00:02:22.500 President Trump would say that there was going to be a vaccine in the fall, the media said that's

00:02:30.240 false. They would fact check him. NBC News on May 15th, Trump said, we're going to get a vaccine by

00:02:35.920 the end of the year. They said, fact check coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts

00:02:41.920 say he needs a miracle to be right. You see, Trump, the idiot, he said we'd get a vaccine by the end of 1.00

00:02:48.880 the year. All the smart experts said that wasn't going to happen. And the media, listening to the 1.00

00:02:54.080 experts like we're all supposed to, they said it wasn't going to happen. And then it did. Trump, that

00:03:00.420 uneducated person was right. All the experts in the media, wrong. September 16th, NPR points out

00:03:07.360 that President Trump was contradicting the CDC when he said you could get a vaccine by the end of 2020.

00:03:14.720 So Trump, that nincompoop, he probably doesn't even have a PhD. He was right. All those egghead

00:03:22.420 idiots at the CDC, wrong. CNBC on October 22nd, this is quite recent now, posted an article with 1.00

00:03:30.420 the headline, President Trump says COVID-19 vaccine will be coming by the end of the year,

00:03:34.700 despite contrary evidence. Well, now I've got contrary evidence to their contrary evidence

00:03:39.020 because we did get the vaccine. Just one more data point, which we've seen so many of these all

00:03:48.280 year, that the experts have no idea what they're talking about. And people with just one little

00:03:54.940 modicum of common sense usually know a whole lot more than those experts, despite all of their

00:04:00.400 many, many degrees and who has a doctorate and who has a PhD and who I think we're all, you know,

00:04:06.200 the word doctor means teacher. It comes from the Latin word for doctor and it comes from the Latin

00:04:11.220 verb docere. So we're all, we're all sort of doctors if we're teaching you things that are true,

00:04:15.580 much more so than say Dr. Fauci or, or all of these other experts. Now, President Trump is

00:04:23.700 contradicting the media and the establishment again, not just on the likelihood of a vaccine,

00:04:28.260 but on the likelihood of, of Joe Biden becoming president. We discussed on Friday,

00:04:33.460 a Supreme court decision shooting down the Texas case. So Texas was going to sue Georgia,

00:04:39.680 Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania over election irregularities. Supreme court refused even to

00:04:44.040 grant standing, refused even to hear the case, which is too bad. They previously had refused to

00:04:49.080 hear out the Pennsylvania case where the Pennsylvania election officials very clearly

00:04:53.600 violated the state constitution by permitting widespread mail-in votes. So just the, the window of

00:04:59.740 opportunity for president Trump to challenge Biden's certification as president elect really,

00:05:05.620 really narrowing, but Trump refuses to give up hope. Is it over? No, it's not over. We keep going

00:05:12.780 and we're going to continue to go forward. We have numerous local cases where, you know, in some of the

00:05:17.620 states that got rigged and robbed from, from us, we won every one of them. We won Pennsylvania. We won

00:05:23.740 Michigan. Uh, we won Georgia by a lot. We have a governor, a Republican governor that's worse than a

00:05:28.960 Democrat. He's terrible. And he's hurting Kelly and David very badly. The son, the senators that are 0.99

00:05:33.960 terrific people. Uh, but, uh, and Wisconsin, as you know, we have a case going on as we speak.

00:05:39.320 I mean, it's actually going on right now. So you have individual states. Oh yeah,

00:05:42.380 we're doing individual states 14th. They're going to certify six. They transmit. What does that do

00:05:47.580 for you? I don't know. We're going to speed it up as much as we can, but you can only go so fast.

00:05:51.340 They give us very little time, but we caught them as you know, it's fraudulent, uh, dropping ballots,

00:05:56.540 doing so many things. Nobody can even believe it. So there's a little bit of a parallel narrative

00:06:02.380 going on here. And, and I, I think the Trump team is aware of this, which is the Trump team was told

00:06:08.820 there's not enough time to get a vaccine out. There's not enough time. There's not enough time.

00:06:12.040 And they said, we're going to do this in record time and stop telling me we can't do it. We're

00:06:15.720 going to do it. And they did it on the vaccine. And you hear the same criticisms of the election

00:06:20.660 lawsuits. There's no more time. There's no more time. I mean, truly we're down to three days or

00:06:23.840 something like that. Even, even less. Uh, Trump still keeping up this argument. Now it does not

00:06:30.620 seem likely that after the court refuses to hear out the Pennsylvania case, which was a very good

00:06:36.320 case, court refuses to hear out the Texas case, court refuses in any way to become involved in

00:06:41.880 this election. It, it does seem unlikely regardless of what happened in the voting centers of Atlanta

00:06:48.800 or the voting centers in Detroit or the voting centers in Philadelphia. We, we have seen evidence

00:06:53.820 of lots of irregularities. Regardless, it seems very unlikely that the electors are going to go

00:06:59.160 and give it to Trump. Hope they do. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. The left wingers

00:07:03.780 who, who are telling you that Trump is upsetting democratic norms are being completely cynical and

00:07:09.080 disingenuous here. The way I will put it is what I've been saying now for weeks. It ain't over

00:07:15.460 until the fat lady sings. Maybe a week ago, you started to hear that fat lady start to clear her 0.98

00:07:20.080 throat. Then you started to hear the fat lady start doing scales to start practicing. The fat lady 1.00

00:07:25.320 hasn't sung yet. And I'm, I'm unwilling to concede this election until the electors do vote. You just

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00:09:06.960 norms. Trump is not conceding the election before he has to. Gosh, we've never seen this before.

00:09:13.800 We turn now for comment to Governor Stacey Abrams, the woman who lost the Georgia Senate race a couple

00:09:19.780 years ago, lost it to Brian Kemp, and yet has more or less continued to insist that she's the duly

00:09:26.500 elected governor of Georgia. Stacey says absolutely no parallel between what she and Democrats did in

00:09:32.960 Georgia and what Trump and the Republicans are doing with the presidency. First and foremost,

00:09:38.040 he has never listened to what I said. I said that the election was stolen from Georgia voters because

00:09:43.060 under the previous Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, millions of voters were, 1.4 million voters were

00:09:49.420 purged from the rolls. Thousands of voters were denied the right to vote because of exact match.

00:09:53.820 There were thousands of voters that were rejected through an absentee ballot and a provisional

00:09:57.820 ballot process that was not equal. And what he is complaining about are the lawsuits that we filed

00:10:03.240 that successfully fixed those challenges. There is absolutely nothing commensurate between what I

00:10:08.540 have done and what Donald Trump is trying to do. Listen carefully to what she says, because Stacey

00:10:14.180 Abrams is fluent in political correctness. That is, I think, her first language. I think that's her

00:10:20.240 native language. It's political correctness. So she's using these terms. She says they purged the

00:10:25.600 voter rolls because of exact match. What is exact match? Oh, you mean the voter has to match the

00:10:32.680 voter record? You know, it's got to be the legitimate voter. The voter has to be eligible to vote. What

00:10:37.540 she's really saying is that Republicans and Democrats have different methods of stealing elections.

00:10:44.200 The way that Democrats steal elections is they allow people who are ineligible to vote to vote.

00:10:51.440 The classic example being dead people voting or people who didn't show up to vote. All of a sudden,

00:10:57.340 their votes are counted. You saw this in LBJ's 1948 Senate race in Texas, which actually ended up going

00:11:02.380 to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court ultimately chose not to hear the case. This happened in 1960

00:11:09.120 in Illinois when the Daily Machine helped steal that election for JFK against Richard Nixon.

00:11:15.080 And you're seeing that in certain places here where people who perhaps ought not to have voted

00:11:22.000 may have voted. You've seen this for several years. So what Stacey Abrams says is, look,

00:11:28.500 Democrats want more and more and more people to vote, maybe even if they're not totally eligible to vote.

00:11:32.780 And then the awful Republican strategy to steal elections is to kick those people off the rolls, 0.55

00:11:38.000 all the dead people off the rolls, all the people who lost their right to vote, all the people

00:11:41.760 who can't prove that they are the person that they say they are and therefore not eligible to vote.

00:11:47.300 Those aren't both stealing elections. One is protecting the integrity of the elections

00:11:51.000 by making sure that only eligible people can vote. And the other one is packing the ballot box,

00:11:57.380 stuffing the ballot box. When someone who is not eligible to vote votes, that takes away a vote

00:12:02.620 from someone who is eligible to vote. That disenfranchises people. But Stacey Abrams is so good at

00:12:07.800 political correctness. She goes, yeah, it wasn't equal. It wasn't equal. What does that mean?

00:12:12.680 It wasn't equal. Get a little specific here, darling. Well, it wasn't equal in that dead people

00:12:19.000 didn't have the equal right to vote as eligible voters. Obviously, President Trump should keep up

00:12:25.960 this fight until it can anymore, until the electors actually certify a winner. And then hopefully,

00:12:31.920 you know, it's him, but very likely it won't be. And as President Trump said at that White House

00:12:37.220 Christmas party, then I'll see in four years. That'll make the media's heads explode. Speaking

00:12:42.740 of media lies and speaking of Georgia, the media are lying right now about this Georgia Senate race.

00:12:51.840 There are two senators up in Georgia, both Republicans, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

00:12:56.420 Now, Kelly Loeffler is the one I want to focus on in particular, because I saw a tweet yesterday

00:13:01.900 that went up and it was from The Hill. The tweet said, Loeffler's campaign defends photo with white

00:13:09.860 supremacist and reported former KKK leader, Chester Doles. I looked at that tweet and I said, nope,

00:13:18.560 that didn't happen. That just obviously didn't happen. I would bet a lot of money that didn't

00:13:24.300 happen. So I click the link. Pulls up this article, headline. You can't make this up.

00:13:32.060 Loeffler's campaign condemns white supremacists who appeared in photo.

00:13:37.300 Tweet, Loeffler's campaign defends. Actual article, Loeffler's campaign condemns. The exact

00:13:43.760 opposite. The Loeffler campaign never defended the photograph with the alleged white supremacist

00:13:50.600 KKK person. This is what they do. This is what the media do. This is why you can't believe them.

00:13:58.340 I know that young conservatives understand this, that you can't believe a word the media say.

00:14:03.360 But sometimes we need to be reminded of this, that it's not just that good faith reporters

00:14:07.460 sometimes get things a little wrong because some of their biases may be getting. No,

00:14:11.240 they're just lying. It's, it's brazen. It's very often intentional. And one thing I've noticed with

00:14:17.740 older conservatives, boomer and older conservatives is because for most of their lives, the media were

00:14:26.240 so subtle about their biases, they, they don't believe it. So they'll say, yeah, the Democrats are

00:14:32.180 terrible. Yeah, we got to vote for the Republicans. Oh gosh, Democrats are taking our country to hell in a

00:14:36.700 handbasket, but they'll still, they've got this residual belief in the media. They've got this

00:14:43.400 residual idea that the, the media wouldn't just brazenly lie to you. They would, they would, and

00:14:51.160 they do all of the time. And you can't trust them. You need to go to alternative sources. And for people

00:14:57.540 who, you know, maybe they're 85 years old, they're not the most computer savvy. They don't know where to

00:15:03.240 find other kinds of outlets. Then they'll watch the six o'clock news and the six o'clock news is going

00:15:08.160 to lie to them. Now this, over time, it would appear that that, that lock is, is shrinking.

00:15:13.240 But in the meantime, they could put through some pretty radical people. Right now, the, the guy

00:15:17.040 running against Kelly Loeffler is maybe the most radical political candidate that we have seen in

00:15:23.940 recent American history. I'm including AOC in that. I'm including Ilhan Omar in that. I'm including

00:15:28.600 the whole squad. This guy is extraordinarily radical. Okay. And, uh, it's being totally

00:15:37.120 covered up by the media. You know, uh, Kelly Loeffler is a, this seat could determine the 1.00

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00:17:39.980 against Loeffler. Take a listen to some of his ideas for the country. I love this Pope. He said,

00:17:46.880 well, I'm not a Marxist, but I know a few Marxists and they're pretty good people.

00:17:52.320 So hard to discover and to hear an authentic vision and voice of authentic spirituality that

00:17:59.740 gives voice to the least of these, that when it shows up, people describe it as some strange

00:18:05.560 ideology rather than the vision of that poor Palestinian prophet who said that the spirit

00:18:11.440 of the Lord is upon me because God has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.

00:18:17.400 There's a lot to take issue with here. He opens up by extolling the virtues of Marxism.

00:18:24.020 So I really like this Pope because this Pope says that there are some great Marxists out there.

00:18:28.040 Marxism, it's not some weird, foreign, terrible ideology. It's great. Marxism is basically what Jesus

00:18:33.880 is talking about, whom he refers to as a poor Palestinian prophet. I've read many books about

00:18:41.360 Jesus, never seen any evidence that he was a Palestinian. Jesus, of course, is a Jew. 0.90

00:18:50.360 People will take issue with these bizarre religious rantings, but what he appears to have a religious

00:18:55.680 seal for is Marxism openly. Could you imagine this in this country, even 10 years ago, an open

00:19:01.540 supporter of Marxism possibly entering the United States Senate? It's unthinkable, but we've opened 0.71

00:19:11.420 up a can of worms here. I mean, even AOC doesn't openly espouse Marxism. She'll allude to it. She'll

00:19:18.980 say I'm a socialist. She'll talk about the Green New Deal, which essentially is Marxism. But to say,

00:19:25.020 oh, Marxism, I love it when people say nice things about Marxism. Marxism is so great. That's pretty

00:19:30.000 radical stuff. The reason to vote in Georgia, President Trump is encouraging people to vote

00:19:36.080 in Georgia, even though he's upset with the governor, Brian Kemp. The reason to vote in Georgia is not

00:19:40.100 necessarily because Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are the greatest, most wonderful Republicans there

00:19:43.860 ever were. They're fine. They're doing a good job. The reason to vote in Georgia is that's the

00:19:50.440 alternative. And what's so scary right now with the left is that this guy, Raphael Warnock, is

00:19:58.140 extraordinarily radical in his leftism. But even the left-wing establishment, even the people who

00:20:05.460 would be considered in the center, in the mainstream of the liberal establishment, are pushing unthinkably

00:20:12.960 radical ideas. I think of somebody like Bill Gates. Does it get more establishment than Bill Gates?

00:20:19.100 He is a typical left-wing, billionaire, liberal guy who's always trying to involve himself in public

00:20:30.060 policy. Bill Gates was just on Jake Tapper's show on CNN. Why? I couldn't possibly tell you.

00:20:37.460 He was asked about the lockdown. What should happen? Remember, we had 15 days to slow the spread

00:20:42.160 back in March. Now we're nine or 10 months later. For some reason, this is still going on.

00:20:48.020 And Bill Gates brought on, says, well, what are we going to do? Unfortunately,

00:20:54.520 probably another four to six months at least of shutting everything down.

00:20:58.960 Well, certainly mask wearing has essentially no downside. They're not expensive. Bars and restaurants

00:21:07.100 in most of the country will be closed as we go into this wave. And I think,

00:21:11.600 sadly, that's appropriate. Depending on how severe it is, the decision about schools is much more

00:21:17.220 complicated. As a general rule, whenever Bill Gates has an opinion about politics, you can assume

00:21:26.720 that the opposite is the thing we ought to do. Bill Gates is notoriously, infamously

00:21:34.240 ignorant of political prudence. And the ideas that he does have about politics are really 0.94

00:21:43.900 terrible. I mean, wicked, bad ideas. Now here, he just says, okay, we need to shut down businesses

00:21:50.640 for another four to six months because we haven't put every, every small business out in this country.

00:21:55.840 And so we got another four to six months. That'll really do the trick. So it's too bad. But look,

00:22:00.440 that's just what we have to do. There's no downside to wearing masks.

00:22:02.800 There's no, I could name a lot of downsides. One, we're social animals. We're supposed to see one

00:22:08.360 another. It's nice to see a smile. We are supposed to breathe the fresh air. You can't do that with a

00:22:14.800 mask. We're supposed to speak. One of the defining features of humanity is that we have speech.

00:22:20.800 When you put that mask over you, you are, you are literally putting a muzzle on yourself.

00:22:24.640 Now, but B, because Bill Gates is a technocratic liberal, he's not taking political or ethical or

00:22:32.380 philosophical considerations into his thought here because he's, he just accepts all of the

00:22:39.420 liberal premises about the world, some of which are contradictory. So he just, he just wants to

00:22:43.400 talk about what works. There's no downside. I think there are a lot of downsides to the masks.

00:22:47.160 He's even admitting by saying that, right, maybe there's not a lot of upside. That's the implication.

00:22:51.200 But look, there's no downside. Of course, there's a lot of downside. One of the other

00:22:54.880 downsides, of course, is that we're told if people wear the masks, we can all return to normal. And I

00:22:59.400 said from the very beginning, that's complete BS. The masks are not going to calm people down. They're

00:23:03.660 going to whip people up into a frenzy because the masks are a symbol that we're in the midst of this

00:23:07.780 terrible, unprecedented pandemic. We've never had masking such as this before, certainly not in our

00:23:13.020 lifetimes and really not ever at this scale. So just to see the mask is not to say, okay,

00:23:19.340 we can return to normal. It's to say, we're not even close to normal and we're not going to be

00:23:22.920 back to normal until we take the mask off, which I think is a large part of the political symbolism

00:23:29.280 of the masks. But then he goes a little further. It's not just four to six months. And you'll notice

00:23:36.160 a lot of big business guys are all for the lockdowns because the lockdowns have caused an

00:23:41.400 historic amount of money to be shifted from small businesses to large businesses like Amazon,

00:23:46.960 Apple, all these sorts of online, Google, right? All these sorts of online companies.

00:23:54.340 But it's more than four to six months. It might be over a year.

00:23:58.060 Certainly by the summer, we'll be way closer to normal than we are now. But even through early 2022,

00:24:07.840 unless we help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccination rates in our

00:24:14.280 country, the risk of reintroduction will be there. And of course, the global economy will be

00:24:20.960 slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way. So we'll have starting in the

00:24:28.800 summer about nine months where a few things like big public gatherings will still be restricted. But

00:24:35.740 you know, we can see now that somewhere between 12 to 18 months and we have a chance if we manage it

00:24:42.900 well to get back to normal. Just a quick question. I guess I'm a little confused here. Who appointed

00:24:49.360 Bill Gates to run all of our public policy for us? Why is Bill Gates is not saying we should do this.

00:24:55.760 We ought to do this. Hey, I'd like to persuade my fellow citizens to do this. He's saying this is what

00:24:59.820 we will do. This is what we are going to do. Because Bill Gates is one of these masters of

00:25:04.700 the universe who influences public policy in enormous ways. And he's saying this is what's

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00:26:46.940 Bill Gates is a great avatar of the kind of liberal establishment, the liberal, political,

00:26:57.920 bureaucratic, technical, obviously technological, entertainment, media establishment, the blob,

00:27:05.440 as we refer to it. And Bill Gates is a key figure in that. He holds all the politically correct views

00:27:10.600 and they're, they're pretty radical. You know, he's a dorky guy who wears a sweater, so he doesn't seem

00:27:16.200 that radical. But in many ways, his views are more radical than, than even someone like Raphael

00:27:21.140 Warnock. In many ways, the liberal establishment's views are more radical than the woke radicals.

00:27:26.680 There are a lot of crazy conspiracy theories going around the internet about Bill Gates.

00:27:31.960 This is according to the media. Crazy, wild conspiracy theories that Bill Gates is interested,

00:27:36.880 for instance, in population control. That he, he doesn't want, uh, P, especially in the third world, 1.00

00:27:44.860 uh, people to have babies. And so he's going, he's very involved in ways to limit the growth of the

00:27:49.940 population. And I think these, these conspiracy theories are so crazy. In order to believe these

00:27:54.280 kooky, crazy conspiracy theories, you would have to listen to Bill Gates himself.

00:27:58.500 Well, the population growth issue at the global level is not that daunting. That is,

00:28:04.460 the population percentage-wise is growing slower today than in the past. And so it will actually

00:28:12.760 peak out. The problem is that the population is growing the fastest where people are less able

00:28:21.660 to deal with it. So it's in the very poorest places that you're going to have a tripling in population

00:28:28.300 by 2050. And so their ability to feed, educate, provide jobs, stability, protect the environment

00:28:36.360 in those locations mean, uh, you know, they're faced with an almost impossible problem. Northern Nigeria,

00:28:43.240 Yemen, Chad. Uh, and so what we need to do is take this aid generosity and this innovation and go into

00:28:51.860 those places, uh, offer the women better tools where they want to space birthing or, or have a smaller 1.00

00:28:59.160 family size and improve health. Because it's amazingly as, as children survive, parents feel like

00:29:07.320 they'll have enough, uh, kids to support them in their old age. And so they choose to have less

00:29:13.180 children.

00:29:13.600 This point of view that Bill Gates is pushing is morally abhorrent. It is evil. It is wicked.

00:29:21.920 And he's been pushing it fanatically for decades. He's trying to make sure that there are fewer

00:29:27.640 babies born, specifically fewer little black babies in Africa and fewer little brown babies in the third 0.97

00:29:35.200 world. That's not an exaggeration. He has been foisting abortion on countries that are traditionally 0.58

00:29:40.860 opposed to abortion, foisting contraception on countries that are traditionally opposed to

00:29:45.500 contraception. These ideas of a sort of sterilized society for a very long time. In 2009, this sounds

00:29:51.620 like something out of a science fiction movie. There was a secret meeting held between Bill Gates,

00:29:57.780 George Soros. I know we're not allowed to say his name, but George Soros, uh, Oprah Winfrey,

00:30:03.460 a number of other left-wing establishment billionaires. Warren Buffett was there. You can Google it. I mean,

00:30:09.220 it was a secret meeting, except it did leak to the press and it garnered substantial press

00:30:13.800 attention at that time. All of it was designed around this issue of overpopulation. So we were

00:30:21.960 told overpopulation is a terrible problem. This is all based on the crackpot theories of a scientist,

00:30:28.320 a Stanford scientist named Paul Ehrlich from the 1970s. Ehrlich published a book first in 1968,

00:30:33.840 and then it was republished later on called the population bomb. It said, absolutely. The world

00:30:38.640 population now is, it was at that time it was around 3.5 billion and we're going to have mass

00:30:43.500 starvation, mass death in the 1970s and 1980s. It's guaranteed to happen. The only question now is,

00:30:50.380 can we sterilize people and coerce abortions enough to, to limit some of that misery and actually

00:30:56.420 advocated, not just getting people voluntarily to do this sort of thing, but advocated governments

00:31:01.980 coercing that. As a result of these crackpot theories, you had Indira Gandhi in the prime 0.98

00:31:07.860 minister of India, start tying water and access to electricity and access to medical care and,

00:31:13.300 and ration cards to sterilization. So sterilized population, you had China adopt the one child 0.99

00:31:20.300 policy, which caused upwards of a hundred million babies to be killed through abortion. Absolutely

00:31:25.860 wicked. Some of the worst atrocities committed in human history because of these crackpot,

00:31:30.420 stupid theories, which were not true. The scientific expert, Paul Ehrlich, who was a sort of Neo 0.99

00:31:35.540 Malthusian to use the technical term referring to a scientist from centuries ago named Malthus who had

00:31:41.900 the same overpopulation fascination. It just wasn't true. Since the 19, late 1960s, the world population

00:31:49.880 has doubled. You go from about three and a half billion to 7 billion or 8 billion or an obviously

00:31:54.760 growing still. And world hunger is at an all time low. It just didn't happen. And these,

00:32:02.300 these moral perverts like, like Bill Gates and other people pushing this politically correct 0.68

00:32:08.100 moral standard, which is utterly opposed to human life, which says that to use, uh, Paul Ehrlich's term 0.96

00:32:14.380 that the births of all these babies is a cancer that needs to be cut out. These guys are pushing this

00:32:20.980 view despite evidence to the contrary, these brilliant experts, these eggheads, these people

00:32:25.900 who are focused on data and science and the liberal standard. You know, I don't know. I mean, I'm sure

00:32:31.300 there are some kind of actual crackpot theories about Bill Gates, but you've just heard it in his

00:32:35.120 own words when he's just, I can't imagine anything worse than that. That is what the scientific

00:32:41.580 establishment is telling you. And it's because they, maybe they know something or a thing or two about

00:32:46.600 science. Probably they don't. Guys like Paul Ehrlich maintained their professorship at Stanford,

00:32:50.520 continued to win lots of prestigious awards, even though his central thesis was wrong and led to

00:32:54.740 untold human misery. And they certainly know nothing about morality or even a political prudence.

00:33:03.040 And the left is pushing this from the establishment. Those are the doctors.

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00:34:25.600 The left, not just the crazy fringe radicals, but the establishment left is in the name of science

00:34:33.360 and expertise and data pushing a moral and religious and political vision that is completely

00:34:40.600 abhorrent, that should be completely rejected. This is why I often say we need to strike the

00:34:45.380 word science out of our public political discourse because it is used as a euphemism, as a way to sneak

00:34:53.500 in all sorts of religious and moral and political ideas that are really wicked, evil stuff. Very often,

00:34:59.620 the left, which is obsessed with this idea of shrinking the population, being opposed to human

00:35:04.080 life. You, you know, you need to have to have a very contraceptive society or a sterile society or an 0.95

00:35:09.980 abortive society or whatever, any way to shrink the number of people who are being, because of global

00:35:15.520 warming, we need to stop having babies or because of global cooling, we need to stop having babies or

00:35:20.780 because of overpopulation, we need to stop having babies. It's so weird that the political outcome of it is

00:35:25.020 always the same, even though the scientific reasoning changes. You had AOC pushing the Green

00:35:30.880 New Deal, radical redistributive policies, a suspension of the use of a lot of energy in the

00:35:37.340 United States, a lot of government control, particularly over healthcare. The reasoning for

00:35:42.580 the Green New Deal was initially global warming. Now it seems that the left is, is achieving a lot of

00:35:48.800 the political goals of the Green New Deal, but the defense for it is the COVID lockdowns.

00:35:54.800 But they're saying, well, because of coronavirus, we need to massively redistribute wealth.

00:35:58.240 We need a major government takeover of the healthcare industry. We need to suppress the way

00:36:03.140 that people conduct commerce and the way they, they transport themselves. We need to control

00:36:09.460 people's lives in a way that the justification changes, but the outcome is often the same.

00:36:14.000 So there was recently an abortion executive in America, the marketing director at the Clinics

00:36:19.400 for Abortion and Reproductive Excellence, or CARE. This guy's name is Michael Saines.

00:36:26.040 And he shared a photo of the office Christmas tree being topped with a pair of sofa clamps.

00:36:32.700 These are the clamps that are used to dismember babies during abortion. And he tweeted out, quote,

00:36:37.980 it is literally impossible to top our topper. This is considered science. This is considered

00:36:46.880 not, not just beyond the realm of moral discourse, which sometimes you hear people say, say, look,

00:36:53.260 this is not a religious or political question. This is just science. It's just the facts. And so you

00:36:58.140 can't, you can't have ethical concerns about science because it's just, it's science. That's just what it

00:37:02.640 is. Stop it with all of your normative thinking. But actually they, the left goes a little further.

00:37:07.700 They say science is good, right? Abortion is good because it's, it's reproductive health care. 0.99

00:37:14.340 We don't need to talk about the ethics of killing babies for our own convenience. We're just going

00:37:18.940 to talk about the science of it all. And that's what they're saying. This is, this is a good thing.

00:37:22.260 Well, it's ghastly. Obviously anybody who would look at that would say, gosh, this, this isn't just

00:37:28.500 a matter of science. That's a little baby who goes in those forceps. That's not just a clump of cells 0.95

00:37:33.840 that that's built for. The, the same issue goes here when the left says, nobody's pro-abortion.

00:37:40.920 We're just pro-choice. Now this guy, this sicko, Michael Saines is pro-abortion, is celebrating. 0.76

00:37:49.680 And this whole, this whole clinics for abortion and reproductive excellence organization is 0.94

00:37:55.020 celebrating it on their Christmas tree. In a just society, that organization would be shut down and

00:38:00.560 the people who work for it would be arrested and prosecuted in a just society. And I think we need

00:38:07.160 to become much more comfortable having those sorts of conversations. Something has gone seriously

00:38:12.900 wrong. Something has been seriously perverted in our politics. If we believe that that is morally

00:38:19.940 acceptable or scientific, because it ain't. Now, speaking of doctors, I have to get to the most

00:38:26.380 pressing issue of the day. This was, went viral over the weekend. And you know, since I fancy myself

00:38:32.020 a doctor for everybody, I need to take it up. There was a very delightful and funny article in

00:38:38.960 the Wall Street Journal by this guy, Joseph Epstein, no relation to Jeffrey, as far as I can tell,

00:38:44.380 called, Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if you need an MD. And the article says that Jill

00:38:53.240 Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic. Begins,

00:38:58.440 Madam, First Lady, Mrs. Biden, Jill, kiddo. A bit of advice on what may seem like a small,

00:39:03.920 but I think is not an unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the doctor before your name.

00:39:10.320 Dr. Jill Biden sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe,

00:39:15.480 an Ed. D. Doctor of Education earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the

00:39:20.380 unpromising title, student retention at the community college level, meeting students' needs.

00:39:24.940 Wise man once said that no one should call himself doctor unless he has delivered a child.

00:39:30.300 Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith, drop the doc. There is some confusion here. A lot of people,

00:39:35.900 especially in the left, think that Jill Biden is a medical doctor. Whoopi Goldberg famously,

00:39:41.220 infamously humiliated herself on The View, pushing the idea that Jill Biden should be the 1.00

00:39:46.800 Surgeon General of the United States. I'm hoping Dr. Jill becomes a Surgeon General. 0.93

00:39:53.180 His wife. Yeah, Joe Biden. Joe Biden's wife, because she's, you know, he would never do it,

00:39:57.920 but she, yeah, she's a hell of a doctor. She's an amazing doctor. Because she has a doctor in- 0.92

00:40:02.360 Ph.D. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I could be wrong. Yeah, I think she's a teacher, but,

00:40:07.660 you know, might be good for Betsy DeVos' post. 1.00

00:40:11.240 Oh, that's so embarrassing. That's because in Whoopi's defense, Whoopi says it. She should be

00:40:17.540 the Surgeon General. And all of those flapping seals in the audience say, yeah, yes, yes, give us

00:40:22.460 more, give us more of this sort of nonsense. Not, not one of those people in the audience who was

00:40:28.900 clapping and cheering for that, nor did Whoopi Goldberg for that matter, know what Dr. Jill

00:40:34.980 Biden had expertise in. And it's not even their fault. We live in a culture that worships at the

00:40:41.080 altar of scientific expertise, even when that scientific expertise is rather silly or seems 0.85

00:40:47.960 a little pretentious. Now, I actually disagree with the thesis in this article from the journal,

00:40:53.280 even though it's extremely funny. So I still recommend you read the article. The word doctor

00:40:57.060 does literally mean teacher. So I actually, I'm sort of, I've had this debate with Ben for many years,

00:41:02.220 which is that I think physicians should not use the term doctor because they're not doctors.

00:41:06.640 They're not teachers. Usually they're, they're professionals practicing this, this craft. I sort

00:41:11.300 of think that only like that preschool teachers have more of a right to use the term doctor than

00:41:15.240 physicians do. Neither here nor there. It's a little bit of a pedantic point. I certainly

00:41:20.080 would, would agree that it is silly and pretentious to add this title doctor if you are Jill Biden.

00:41:27.880 Because you heard in that clip, I think it was Behar says, well, no, I'm pretty sure she has

00:41:32.160 a PhD. Jill Biden doesn't have a PhD either. PhD is a, a research focused degree, usually for

00:41:38.520 university professors who are pursuing research in their field. She has what's called an EDD.

00:41:44.840 This is a professional degree, usually for like high school and middle school administrators. And it,

00:41:49.620 it just, you know, gives you, gives you a little bit of a pay bump and then you can style yourself

00:41:54.200 doctor. I am not making fun of people who pursue these degrees. It's a more advanced degree than I

00:41:59.440 have. I being a bachelor, perhaps I should style myself bachelor Michael Knowles. Sweet little

00:42:04.380 Elise would very, be very upset with that. I'm making the point that to style yourself in this

00:42:12.140 way with a degree that would maybe appear to present you with a more rigorous education than perhaps you 0.98

00:42:21.300 have is really silly. During my entire time in college, I had exactly one professor who referred

00:42:29.020 to himself as doctor. He was by far the least impressive academic I studied with in college.

00:42:36.200 He was by far the most insecure and he didn't last very long at the university. All the other teachers

00:42:42.260 went by professor or they went by their first name. Some, many of them went by their first name.

00:42:49.320 So if you got it, if you really got it, if you're really confident, if you're really shooting on

00:42:54.540 all cylinders, you don't need to flatter yourself with these sorts of titles. I can't tell you how

00:42:59.140 many sort of mediocrities I know have been posting all over the internet saying, darn it, 0.95

00:43:03.840 I earned my degree. I deserve it. I studied gender studies or sociology or whatever for 12 years and I 0.96

00:43:11.020 deserve to be called this. It's so pathetic. A little humility goes a long way, folks. Even if you 0.99

00:43:17.980 really did, look, I'm a strong defender of the humanities. Frankly, I don't really care that

00:43:23.780 much about the hard sciences. I think conservatives have fetishized the hard sciences and we shouldn't

00:43:28.580 because I think a lot of these eggheads don't know anything and they, as we were discussing earlier,

00:43:35.520 force on us. They slip in all sorts of religious and philosophical and political stupid premises 1.00

00:43:41.780 underneath the guise of scientific expertise. And I think that our idolization of the hard sciences 0.98

00:43:50.060 and all these sorts of things has actually led us to become politically much less sophisticated.

00:43:53.760 So I forget that. I actually, I want to talk to the person with the sociology degree, but just don't

00:43:58.820 be so pompous about it. Don't be so prideful about it. Just if you really got it, let your work speak

00:44:05.420 for itself. I'm not really beating up on Jill Biden here, even though I think it is silly that

00:44:11.300 she styles herself that way because it leads to confusion and embarrassing moments for people like

00:44:15.200 Whoopi Goldberg who are trying to defend her. But just in general, the society has become so

00:44:21.820 incredibly impressed with itself, is so insistent on all sorts of honors that people look ridiculous. 0.97

00:44:28.020 They make themselves look absolutely preposterous. This fetishization of expertise is really

00:44:34.800 exposing a lot of fools. People like Bill Gates, people like all of those scientific experts 0.99

00:44:42.340 who told that idiot knuckle dragger Trump that we could never get a vaccine within 2020. 0.99

00:44:50.440 Guess what we did? All these people really are proving themselves wrong. I think if you, 1.00

00:44:54.940 if you really want to be a doctor or a scientist, an expert, have a little dose of humility. That's

00:44:59.740 the beginning of wisdom. And then maybe you could start to turn the culture a little more

00:45:04.060 toward wisdom. I don't know that that's going to happen. All those things seem to be in short

00:45:08.280 supply. And so we're going to have to wait. Won't make too many predictions about what happens.

00:45:13.160 But we're going to have to wait as we see these results of the election. We'll see the electors

00:45:19.240 going to vote in a matter of days. And we'll see if our problem gets maybe a little bit better or more

00:45:24.020 likely much, much worse. Gear yourself up for a lot of humility. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

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Ep. 663 - Doctor？ I Hardly Know ‘Er!

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