The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 667 - The Real Conspiracy

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00:00:37.660 Twitter is announcing a new policy to censor anyone who publishes conspiracy theories about anything.

00:00:45.400 But specifically, right now, anyone who publishes conspiracy theories about the coronavirus or the coronavirus vaccine.

00:00:53.200 Obviously, of course, this is a wonderful thing.

00:00:55.660 Because there is no reason in the world to be skeptical of the vaccine, which just happened to have been made in record time by lots of experts who squandered all their credibility back in March.

00:01:07.880 There's no reason to be concerned at all.

00:01:11.060 By the way, the vaccine is already being given to health care workers.

00:01:14.300 Like, for instance, this lovely nurse in Tennessee who took the vaccine and then was interviewed on television.

00:01:21.140 Take a listen to why there's nothing to worry about.

00:01:24.480 We are in the covered unit.

00:01:26.360 So therefore, you know, my team will be getting first chances to get the vaccine.

00:01:31.680 And I know that it's really—I'm sorry, I'm feeling really dizzy.

00:01:43.820 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:01:47.440 Uh-oh.

00:01:50.860 That's—no, that's not good.

00:01:53.000 And there she comes.

00:01:57.180 And she is on the ground.

00:02:02.220 Probably just a coincidence.

00:02:04.920 Nothing—nothing that she's completely out cold.

00:02:10.140 Nothing to see here.

00:02:11.580 Obviously, this—how dare you suggest that this has anything to do with the vaccine?

00:02:17.280 Do not post that video on Twitter.

00:02:19.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:20.740 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:21.640 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:29.980 My favorite comment from yesterday is from Cultural Cacastocracy, who says,

00:02:36.500 2020 turned Alex Jones from conspiracy theorist to profit.

00:02:41.580 I had to say, the year has been pretty wild.

00:02:44.900 And one thing, regardless, you know, putting aside other things Alex Jones has said in his life,

00:02:50.180 I always gave him credit because he's right about the frogs. 0.98

00:02:53.880 You know, there was that clip where he said, they're turning the frickin' frogs gay. 0.97

00:02:57.200 And everyone would make fun of him for this. 0.95

00:02:59.100 And it turns out, of all the things Alex Jones ever said, that one might be the most correct.

00:03:03.280 There was a study—it was undertaken by the EPA in Yale, in Connecticut, that these chemicals in the water were actually—

00:03:08.660 they weren't just turning the frogs gay. 0.54

00:03:10.060 They were turning them hermaphroditic. 0.98

00:03:12.840 So they were—they were transing the frogs. 0.99

00:03:15.120 If anything, Alex Jones was too modest in his reporting on what they were doing to the frogs.

00:03:21.840 Some of the other things, I think, a little less credible.

00:03:24.440 But certainly on the frogs, he—he totally got it.

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00:04:54.200 I don't think I'm going to get that vaccine.

00:04:58.480 It's not because I am against vaccines per se.

00:05:01.720 It's not because I think that this vaccine is necessarily bad in and of itself.

00:05:07.620 I'm just taking a little bit of a risk calculation here.

00:05:11.640 I am healthy.

00:05:13.420 I am young.

00:05:15.120 My risk statistically from this virus is extraordinarily low.

00:05:20.060 And so I'm probably not going to take it.

00:05:22.960 I don't have hard evidence other than that poor lady passing out in Tennessee.

00:05:28.000 It turns out she's fine.

00:05:29.140 She's fine now, but she did pass out from it. 0.96

00:05:31.300 I don't have any, you know, particular evidence that the vaccine is evil or it's going to kill

00:05:35.920 me or it's going to have serious side effects.

00:05:37.580 But I don't really see the upside either.

00:05:40.460 And I think a lot of people are going to be making that, that calculation.

00:05:44.640 Prudence.

00:05:45.000 This is a virtue we've been talking about a lot on this show the past week or two.

00:05:50.180 Conservatives, you know, we understand that there's risk in everything in the world and

00:05:52.860 we're going to use our common sense.

00:05:54.500 And common sense is lacking in a lot of rationalist political ideologies, but we should keep exercising

00:05:59.680 him as for that nurse, by the way, after she talk about the worst PR moment ever that you 1.00

00:06:06.420 could have for this vaccine, people are already pretty skeptical of it because the experts got

00:06:10.800 everything wrong this year.

00:06:11.720 And because vaccines take years, if not decades to develop, and we got this vaccine in like

00:06:15.820 six months.

00:06:17.200 So she goes out, she goes, oh yeah, it's great.

00:06:19.460 You know, it's cool.

00:06:20.200 I got this vaccine.

00:06:21.240 My whole team's going to get it.

00:06:22.360 And woo, I'm feeling a little woozy.

00:06:23.700 Her excuse is that she passes out whenever she feels pain.

00:06:29.680 And she says, it's common for me.

00:06:32.040 Now, I don't know that I necessarily believe this.

00:06:35.840 First of all, because it's not like she was getting the vaccine in that moment.

00:06:40.180 It's not like the needle was going into her in that moment.

00:06:41.980 She feels the pain and she passes out.

00:06:43.540 She clearly already had it earlier and then all of a sudden decided to faint or, you know, 0.69

00:06:49.340 was, was overcome by this, this fainting.

00:06:52.160 Also, if, if there's a nurse knew that she had this condition where when she gets a shot, 1.00

00:06:58.600 she faints, why would they pick her to hold the press conference about how great the vaccine

00:07:04.340 is?

00:07:05.860 That seems at least incompetent.

00:07:09.200 And if the healthcare apparatus is that incompetent, I'm a little skeptical of them,

00:07:14.540 which I think, I think a lot of us are.

00:07:16.160 Now, speaking of remaining healthy and skeptical, keeping a healthy skepticism of all of these

00:07:24.700 sorts of expert claims, there's a new study published in the Physics of Fluids Scientific

00:07:29.980 Journal.

00:07:30.580 Man, they have a magazine for everything, don't they?

00:07:32.400 The Physics of Fluids Journal shows that wearing a used mask is potentially riskier than

00:07:39.460 wearing no mask at all.

00:07:41.560 If only, if only a certain scientific expert had mentioned this at the very beginning of

00:07:48.020 this epidemic, as I have done on this show as much as I possibly can.

00:07:53.560 Look, I'm citing this study because this study backs up the point that I'm making.

00:07:58.420 I don't really care about any of the studies because my argument against the masks is not

00:08:02.740 scientific.

00:08:03.920 My argument against the masks is political because the masks are a political symbol.

00:08:07.680 They are not primarily a scientific or medical instrument.

00:08:11.120 At the beginning of the epidemic, Dr. Fauci, who's been in his job for 50 years, said the 0.99

00:08:15.060 masks are stupid during this sort of pandemic. 1.00

00:08:17.360 Don't wear the masks. 1.00

00:08:18.800 He said they'll make people feel a little bit better, but they don't do anything medically.

00:08:22.060 Then he comes out five seconds later.

00:08:23.860 He says, oh yeah, nevermind.

00:08:24.900 Forget about that.

00:08:25.660 Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

00:08:27.120 Yeah, wear the masks.

00:08:28.200 They're really important.

00:08:28.860 You got to wear the masks all the time.

00:08:30.200 And I thought, no, this, this is a highly politicized instrument now.

00:08:34.360 Whatever the medical effect of it, maybe it has some medical effect, maybe it doesn't.

00:08:37.640 Obviously, the change in, in his tune is a political change in tune.

00:08:43.240 But beyond that, that was just assuming you're always wearing a clean mask.

00:08:46.980 And part of Fauci's original point before he contradicted himself was, even when you're

00:08:50.820 putting a clean mask on, you're touching your face, you're near your mouth, you know, it's,

00:08:54.660 you're not wearing it correctly.

00:08:55.880 It gives you a false sense of security.

00:08:57.700 So don't do it.

00:08:58.600 It can actually be harmful.

00:08:59.500 Now, add on top of that, the reality of how people wear these masks, which is they don't

00:09:05.780 wash them every time they wear them.

00:09:07.920 They don't replace them every time they wear them.

00:09:10.420 What do you do?

00:09:11.100 You take, you have the mask and you put it in your pocket and you usually don't wear it.

00:09:15.660 And then you got to go pick up takeout or something.

00:09:17.740 You got to go into the grocery store.

00:09:19.140 And so you put the, take it out of your pocket or your purse or you put it on your face.

00:09:23.040 You probably haven't watched the thing in a week, more than a week, probably.

00:09:25.660 If you're a guy, you probably haven't watched the thing ever since March or so, right?

00:09:31.460 Obviously that mask is going to be carrying more germs than if you were just breathing

00:09:34.820 in the fresh air, like a normal person.

00:09:38.040 This study, if you want to look it up, comes from University of Massachusetts, Lowell and

00:09:42.140 California Baptist University shows that the three layer surgical mask is 65% efficient

00:09:48.220 in filtering particles in the air.

00:09:49.960 However, once it's used, that effectiveness falls to 25% and then once used for a very

00:09:56.420 long time and grows all sorts of bacteria, that is not a very good situation.

00:10:01.680 We still hear many conservatives deferring to this liberal idea that we should follow the

00:10:11.160 science.

00:10:11.660 And follow the science is another slogan that means the same thing as let's put politics

00:10:19.600 aside for a second.

00:10:20.540 You ever hear that?

00:10:21.400 Usually you'll hear the same people who say, follow the science and say, look, this isn't

00:10:24.180 political.

00:10:25.120 Let's put the politics aside.

00:10:27.060 And as my friend Nan Hayworth points out, whenever someone tells you, let's put the politics

00:10:30.880 aside, get ready to have your politics on deck because there is no more political statement

00:10:35.840 in the world than let's put politics aside.

00:10:37.820 Because what, what people are saying, what they mean when they say that is my political

00:10:42.900 opinion is so necessary to society that it should be beyond the realm of debate.

00:10:50.620 What they're really saying is put your politics aside and listen to me.

00:10:53.900 I'm going to define my politics as science.

00:10:56.560 And then because it's science, it's irrefutable.

00:11:00.960 And you have to do exactly what I tell you to do.

00:11:03.780 Science is not an exception to politics in public life.

00:11:12.480 The whole, the whole point of this, that there's some aspect of public life that's totally outside

00:11:16.700 of politics.

00:11:17.460 It's just not true.

00:11:19.580 Even science, even the most hard-nosed scientist will bend the knee to the social and political

00:11:26.620 standards of his time.

00:11:28.420 You see this clearly in the past few days in the New England Journal of Medicine.

00:11:34.220 New England Journal of Medicine just posts this yesterday to the internet.

00:11:39.160 Quote, sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility and they can be harmful

00:11:46.060 for intersex.

00:11:47.760 That's like hermaphrodites, people where their genitals are sort of ambiguous. 0.80

00:11:52.420 And transgender, transgender, you know, is when a man thinks he's a woman or vice versa. 0.95

00:11:56.540 People, moving such designations below the line of demarcation would not compromise the

00:12:01.040 birth certificate's public health function, but could avoid harm.

00:12:03.800 And they posted this, this line from some of the MDs on, on, from the New England Journal

00:12:08.920 of Medicine.

00:12:09.580 We believe that it is now time to update the practice of designating sex on birth certificates.

00:12:13.820 Meaning that a very, very prominent medical scientific journal is throwing biology aside and acquiescing

00:12:25.580 to gender theory.

00:12:27.220 Gender theory, a very, very novel political ideology that has only come into the mainstream really

00:12:35.560 in the last 20 years.

00:12:37.300 If that, it sort of started bubbling up in 60s really, but only in the last 20 years has it

00:12:44.300 entered the mainstream.

00:12:46.300 Science already acquiesces.

00:12:48.840 But it's the science.

00:12:49.960 This is actually why I sort of, I don't usually use the, the typical conservative arguments against

00:12:56.440 transgenderism.

00:12:58.320 The typical conservative arguments is look at the chromosomes.

00:13:00.940 You know, men have a Y chromosome and women have two X chromosomes. 0.98

00:13:04.140 And that's just a scientific fact.

00:13:07.000 I sort of think when we invoke science, you know, as this thing outside of politics, we're

00:13:13.620 actually kind of giving the left an important premise here because the, the left, because

00:13:21.540 the left owns the established institutions, they will use science to pervert itself and to

00:13:29.780 back up their political claims.

00:13:31.220 Science now is totally embracing gender ideology. 0.58

00:13:36.320 Expect more scientific journals to follow.

00:13:39.980 What are, what are our arguments against this?

00:13:42.120 What's the, the strong conservative argument?

00:13:44.120 I mean, you can mention the chromosomes.

00:13:45.360 Sure, that's fine.

00:13:46.000 You can mention genitals. 0.95

00:13:47.420 That's fine.

00:13:47.940 You can mention physical reality.

00:13:49.300 But I think what we need to do is call out the philosophical basis of these things.

00:13:53.960 For instance, the gender ideology rests on an ancient religious heresy. 0.99

00:13:58.360 It's called Gnostic dualism.

00:14:00.620 The idea that your true self has nothing to do with your physical body.

00:14:04.660 This is a heresy from the early, you know, third century, fourth century and fifth century.

00:14:10.020 It really thrived.

00:14:10.880 Then it came back again in the 11th century and sort of the middle ages with the Alpagentian 0.99

00:14:15.520 heresy.

00:14:16.080 Now it's come back again with gender theory.

00:14:17.980 It's hard, you know, there, there, there is a basis on which all of these sorts of things

00:14:25.400 rely.

00:14:27.260 And that either you're going to have the traditional standards or you're going to have the politically

00:14:31.500 correct standards, but you will have standards.

00:14:33.160 And it's not just in science, it's corporate America too.

00:14:35.500 Conservatives have made a big mistake over the past 30 or so years, which is that we've,

00:14:41.380 we've actually shrunk the realm of politics.

00:14:43.700 We've done what the left has suggested we do where everything becomes political except

00:14:47.560 for politics, which gets exported to a group of experts who run our lives for us.

00:14:52.460 And we've said, okay, the government can, the only threat that we ever have is from the

00:14:56.440 government.

00:14:57.100 Corporate American can do whatever they want.

00:14:58.960 The scientific establishment can do whatever they want.

00:15:01.700 Big tech can do whatever they want.

00:15:03.420 And guess what?

00:15:04.880 If my rights are being restricted, if my traditions are being destroyed, if my country is being hollowed

00:15:09.780 out by corporate America or, or big tech or some scientific establishment, I don't feel

00:15:18.340 any better than if it were all being hollowed out by the government.

00:15:21.120 And I think we need to take a broader view of politics here.

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00:15:36.260 with leftist politics, they're going to be destroyed.

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00:17:06.580 BlackRock's chairman, big, big financial firm, Larry Fink, says, quote,

00:17:12.520 In 2020, we identified 244 companies that were making insufficient progress integrating

00:17:20.680 climate risk into their business models or disclosures.

00:17:25.900 Of these companies, we took voting action against 53% or 22%.

00:17:30.420 We've put the remaining 191 companies on watch.

00:17:35.220 Those that do not make significant progress risk voting action against management in 2021.

00:17:42.520 If you don't get on the environmentalist agenda, which from the beginning in the United States

00:17:48.180 was a sort of incoherent scientific patina that was put over goals that the political left has had

00:17:54.160 for a hundred years.

00:17:56.620 If you don't get on board with that, you're going to have your CEO voted out.

00:18:01.300 You're going to have your company hit by extraordinarily influential financial firms.

00:18:05.640 Just a little reminder of the environmentalist movement.

00:18:08.680 And we were told in the late 1960s and early 70s that overpopulation was a serious problem

00:18:14.600 and that there would, it was inevitable that we would have mass starvation, famines, deaths

00:18:20.240 within 10 to 20 years.

00:18:22.500 It was Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford scientist who told us this, a very famous book, The Population

00:18:28.720 Bomb.

00:18:29.220 And so he said, we need a lot of abortion. 1.00

00:18:31.220 We need a lot of contraception.

00:18:32.600 We need to stop having kids.

00:18:34.700 And if people don't do that voluntarily, maybe we're going to need to coerce people to do

00:18:38.060 that.

00:18:38.360 That turned out to be complete bunk.

00:18:40.080 It was a hundred percent false.

00:18:42.000 That guy was, could not have been more wrong, but because he was backing up the left-wing

00:18:47.140 political agenda, he's never faced any consequences.

00:18:49.660 He was able to continue teaching at Stanford.

00:18:52.440 He continued to receive extraordinarily prestigious prizes, even though the central thesis of this

00:18:56.620 dude's whole career, a horrific thesis that caused untold misery.

00:19:00.620 It led to, in many ways, the one child policy in China.

00:19:03.820 It led to sterilization, horrific abuses by the left-wing government in India, abortion,

00:19:11.940 that sort of thing.

00:19:13.220 This guy never faced any consequences because he went with the left-wing agenda.

00:19:16.500 Then in the 1970s, you had global cooling.

00:19:18.260 You had not just newspapers, but significant scientific institutions describing global cooling

00:19:26.600 in the 1970s.

00:19:27.520 So what do we got to do?

00:19:28.460 We need to give the government more power.

00:19:30.440 We need to stop moving.

00:19:31.320 We need to stop reproducing.

00:19:32.300 We need to stop all the things the left wants.

00:19:34.620 Then it turns out global cooling didn't happen.

00:19:36.600 Then we had global warming.

00:19:37.460 Okay, what do we need to do for that?

00:19:38.660 The exact same thing.

00:19:39.940 All the same exact left-wing agenda.

00:19:41.720 That's what we need.

00:19:42.660 Then the warming stopped for, okay, well, now we need, it's climate change.

00:19:46.640 So I don't know, it's, something's going to happen, you know, if the sun's shining one

00:19:50.580 day and it's raining the next, you got to stop having kids and you need to give the

00:19:54.040 government more control over your stuff and you need to pay more taxes and you need to

00:19:58.200 stop living your life.

00:20:00.180 It's always the same agenda.

00:20:03.540 It's not the same reasoning.

00:20:05.100 Often it's opposite reasoning, but it's always the same agenda.

00:20:08.080 And that's what the BlackRock, he's saying, look, we're not saying you got to be political.

00:20:11.420 You just got to get on board with the scientific environmentalism.

00:20:14.880 And if you don't, by the way, and if you don't get on board with that agenda, which happens

00:20:19.340 to coincide exactly with what the left has wanted since the early 20th century, at least,

00:20:23.660 we're going to destroy your company. 0.93

00:20:28.240 A coherent conservative movement needs to stop that.

00:20:33.380 A coherent conservative movement needs to stop giving technocrats and lab coats the authority

00:20:39.560 to run our lives.

00:20:41.340 A coherent conservative movement needs to assert its political freedom.

00:20:50.620 Trump did a good job at exposing this.

00:20:53.680 He continues to do a good job at exposing this.

00:20:56.800 That's why they hate Trump.

00:20:59.360 But they don't just hate Trump.

00:21:01.140 That is the biggest lie of the Trump era.

00:21:04.980 It's a bigger lie than the Russia hoax or the Ukraine hoax or what, any of those things. 0.56

00:21:10.360 The biggest lie of the Trump era is that the left has some special hatred for Donald Trump.

00:21:19.000 They actually kind of like Donald Trump.

00:21:21.180 Remember, Donald Trump was in their clubs and in their parties for decades.

00:21:25.640 He was Hollywood royalty, a top network TV star.

00:21:31.320 Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton came to his wedding.

00:21:34.640 Good friends with Oprah.

00:21:36.120 He was totally in it.

00:21:37.800 He was in rap songs all the time.

00:21:40.380 Then he comes out and he runs as a Republican and they say he's literally Hitler.

00:21:44.460 Because it's not just about him.

00:21:45.900 They hate you.

00:21:47.900 It's you.

00:21:48.920 It's not him.

00:21:49.920 It was the best moment of his 2020 campaign.

00:21:51.940 It was when he tweeted out that picture and he said,

00:21:54.120 they're not coming for me, they're coming for you and I happen to be in the way.

00:21:58.420 It's not, they don't think he's a Nazi. 0.51

00:22:00.100 They think you're a Nazi.

00:22:01.080 They don't think he's a racist. 0.90

00:22:02.360 They think you're a racist.

00:22:04.280 They don't think he's going to destroy the country and he should be in prison.

00:22:07.480 They think you're going to destroy the country and probably you should be in prison too.

00:22:12.360 They have talked, they've talked about these enemy lists.

00:22:14.860 They've talked about the truth and reconciliation commissions, re-education.

00:22:20.260 They call you deplorable.

00:22:21.600 They call you irredeemable. 0.98

00:22:22.640 They call you bitter clingers.

00:22:23.580 That was Obama's term or Obama's concept rather.

00:22:27.700 You had an expert, one of these geniuses on MSNBC comes out and mentioned that the next guy

00:22:34.320 is going to be just as bad as Trump.

00:22:36.040 He might talk a little better.

00:22:37.160 He might sound a little better, but the GOP wants another literally Hitler in 2024.

00:22:42.680 They are not going to be muted. 0.93

00:22:44.380 We're going to hear them loudly express that hypocrisy and act on that hypocrisy going forward 0.87

00:22:50.400 because all they're looking for now is a slightly more civilized Donald Trump.

00:22:54.380 That's why they think things are still going fine for the party because they look at the

00:22:57.480 House results.

00:22:58.020 They look at the Senate results and say, we're doing fine.

00:23:00.420 If we could just get a Donald Trump who's not quite so, not quite such a thug, not quite 0.87

00:23:05.960 so unpalatable to so many people, we can find another white grievance, racist, sexist, all of those things.

00:23:13.840 We find another candidate like that, but one who doesn't have quite the rough edges will be in shape.

00:23:17.980 That's what the Republican Party is heading for and what their goal is as they head towards 2024.

00:23:22.320 That's what they're going for, guaranteed, no question.

00:23:27.400 And you have, this is, I don't even know this guy's name, nor do I particularly care to.

00:23:31.480 He's on MSNBC with the MSNBC host and with Tim Miller, who's an ex-Republican.

00:23:37.280 He was Jeb Bush's spokesman, one of the most vile slanderers in politics, right?

00:23:43.700 I mean, absolutely, you know, everybody who disagrees with him, anybody who disagrees with 0.98

00:23:48.980 the liberal left as a Nazi and a white supremacist. You hear this from ex-Republicans. It's not just 0.92

00:23:54.360 the radical left. It's guys who worked for Jeb Bush, for goodness sakes. This, this sort of thing

00:24:00.880 is going to amp up. And I think we're all going to, we're all going to feel a little, if we don't

00:24:04.880 already feel some sympathy or, or empathy for President Trump, we certainly will in 2024 when

00:24:10.240 we find out this wasn't about him at all. And we need to oppose this. We need to fight back against

00:24:16.140 this, not just in this very narrow way of shrinking parts of the government or lowering taxes or

00:24:22.540 something like that. It's a whole blob. It's a whole sort of conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy

00:24:28.200 in the sense that it's not even really conscious. It's not like three men in a smoke filled room

00:24:32.360 saying, here's how we're going to plot to destroy the deplorable, irredeemable patriotic 0.97

00:24:36.320 Americans. It's just this whole edifice, which comprises the universities, certainly the media,

00:24:43.360 obviously Hollywood, sure. Even the scientific establishment, which is now saying that men can

00:24:48.340 become women based on nothing other than some faddish ideology, that sort of thing. 1.00

00:24:56.900 We have to push back against the whole edifice. And if we don't do that, it's going to gobble us

00:25:03.460 right up. Even there's a Biden's campaign manager, who's probably going to be his deputy chief of

00:25:08.160 staff. Even she, her job is to go out there and sell Joe Biden's fake unity healing message that 0.99

00:25:17.040 he's now pretending to be pushing. Joe Biden, a very divisive figure who said that Mitt Romney wanted

00:25:23.240 to re-enslave black people in America. Joe Biden, who just lies. I mean, it's told really awful lies 0.97

00:25:31.040 in his life. Now he's saying we need unity and healing. And his campaign manager, it's a Jen,

00:25:36.040 Jen O'Malley Dillon says, yeah, I want to work with Republicans. I'm not saying they're not a bunch

00:25:43.240 of effers. You know, Mitch McConnell's terrible. But from start to finish, Biden set out with this 0.93

00:25:50.580 idea that unity was possible, that together we're stronger, that we as a country need healing and

00:25:55.040 our politics needs that too. Yeah, yeah, effers. Yeah, you're going to heal. Oh, we're going to make

00:26:00.380 you heal. You're going to heal whether you like it or not. Not exactly practicing what she preaches.

00:26:06.580 They never do that though. You'd always see this on social media or people get letters about this or

00:26:11.840 even people on TV. They say Trump is literally Hitler. He's a Nazi. He's awful. We need to have

00:26:16.740 70 million Nazis in this country. We need to beat them just like we beat Hitler. Antifa's good. I hope 1.00

00:26:23.080 Antifa punches all these guys in the face because love trumps hate. Huh? Hold on. It's love, yeah, 1.00

00:26:31.600 love trumps hate. And the, in order to, for love to Trump hate, we need to kill all the hateful people. 1.00

00:26:37.860 I think you've got a flaw somewhere in your logic. They're not wishing us well. That's for sure. 1.00

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00:27:55.700 slash Michael. AOC then comes in after, after Joe Biden's campaign manager and likely deputy

00:28:06.560 chief of staff calls Republicans a bunch of effers. AOC comes in to double down on that,

00:28:13.400 but also in classic AOC fashion to make it all about her. So Marco Rubio came out. He said,

00:28:21.460 Biden talks about unity and healing, but you want to know what they really think. Read how the person

00:28:25.300 he wants as the next White House deputy chief of staff called Republicans in Congress, a bunch of 0.58

00:28:29.100 effers. AOC responds, Marco Rubio, you stood by in total silence when your GOP colleague called a

00:28:37.280 congresswoman, an effing B on the Capitol steps in front of press. Apparently some congressman 1.00

00:28:43.660 insulted AOC. He denied it and she's a liar. So I don't believe her. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't, 0.98

00:28:48.680 but I certainly don't take her at a word. You weren't big enough to speak then and you don't

00:28:52.900 get to sob now. By the way, that is the right word for those who fleece and scam working families. 1.00

00:28:57.320 You got to give the gal credit. She makes every single thing about her. Obama was very good at 0.78

00:29:07.200 this. I hope that doesn't mean AOC is going to become president. Obama, he graduates from law

00:29:12.500 school. He's done nothing in his entire life. He's accomplished nothing in the professional world,

00:29:19.020 in the political world. He's just, all he's really done is gone through school and he writes a book

00:29:23.620 about his absolute favorite subject, himself. Then he writes another book. Do you know what

00:29:31.040 that book is about? Give you a hint. It's his favorite subject, himself. Then he's president,

00:29:37.740 you know, he leaves the presidency and he writes, he's now written two books about himself. He then

00:29:42.360 gets a book deal and he writes a 750 page book about, do you know, can you guess, himself.

00:29:51.780 All the things he, all the details he left out of the first 600 pages about himself, he was able to

00:29:58.520 fit in to the next 750 pages. That's what AOC does. AOC, who is really bad for the country.

00:30:06.580 She has a stain on American public life. She has like a, a festering wound on American public life, 0.97

00:30:13.660 ripping up real issues that America's had. Also ripping up completely imaginary issues that America's

00:30:21.520 had. Everything is sort of contemptuous of the country, but she's, she's not the only person 0.51

00:30:27.200 who does this. The reason she does it is because it gives her a lot of attention. And there are some

00:30:32.300 Republicans who've done that too, but you know, narcissism is a occupational hazard of politics.

00:30:39.120 AOC does it in particular. And the way she does it is focus on all these grievances. Everything is 0.82

00:30:43.280 about how she's been wronged. This is a, what, 30 year old bartender with absolutely no qualification

00:30:48.260 to be in Congress other than her age. And she gets this great cushy job and, and a significant

00:30:54.980 amount of influence. And she's still complaining. Imagine that. Imagine still complaining about that. 1.00

00:31:00.400 But it's always about grievance. And so for instance, if, if Biden does become president,

00:31:05.000 uh, he's now going to appoint a Native American cabinet secretary, representative Debbie Holland

00:31:12.540 to lead the department of the interior. Okay. That's fine. I don't know anything about Deb

00:31:17.680 Holland. Maybe she's fine. Probably she's not, if she's going to be a Biden pick, but that's fine.

00:31:23.600 They're not talking about her qualifications to lead this department. They're not talking about

00:31:27.660 her experience to lead this department. They're talking about how she's Native American and how this

00:31:34.240 is historic because, you know, we've never had Native Americans in the government or anything,

00:31:37.920 except that we've actually already had not just a Native American cabinet secretary.

00:31:44.160 We've had a Native American vice president and we had him as vice president 91 years ago.

00:31:52.120 The 31st vice president of the United States, 1929 to 1933. First person of color to use the popular

00:32:00.420 phrase and first Native American to be vice president, Charles Curtis under Herbert Hoover was a Republican.

00:32:04.940 By the way, it's not like he was 132nd Native American or something. The guy had membership

00:32:11.960 in a Native American nation. The guy looked extremely Native American. He did it. If you're 0.99

00:32:17.140 interested in that sort of historic breakthrough, he did it. He was the guy who did it completely

00:32:21.520 written out of history because the left controls the history books. And so you're not going to hear

00:32:27.760 about that guy. Maybe occasionally on some conservative talk show or in a conservative book,

00:32:32.340 you'll hear a mention of it. You won't hear it anywhere else. They did this with Pete Buttigieg.

00:32:36.320 They just did. Pete Buttigieg is going to be the head of the Department of Transportation.

00:32:41.440 Why? I don't, does Pete Buttigieg know anything about transportation? No, probably not.

00:32:45.440 Doesn't matter. It's historic. Pete Buttigieg, according to the media, he's the first

00:32:49.920 openly gay cabinet secretary, except he's not. We just had the first openly gay cabinet secretary.

00:32:55.920 His name was Rick Grinnell under Donald Trump. That happened like five minutes ago. It's been

00:33:01.300 completely written out already. That, that is a conspiracy, not necessarily a conscious one.

00:33:10.040 It's sort of reflexive, I think, for the left. That they have their narrative and they're sticking

00:33:16.380 to it, whether reality backs it up or not. The media certainly aren't going to correct them.

00:33:21.980 You want to see the kind of hard hitting journalism we have? So, you know, the Washington Post has been

00:33:26.460 trying to overthrow the 2016 election since before it occurred. Well, now that they think Biden's got

00:33:32.100 it, certainly he's in, it's done deal. Here's the kind of hard hitting journalism you can expect

00:33:36.320 from the Washington Post. Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic.

00:33:44.660 That's the headline. That's, I'm not, I'm not going to read this article. I see no reason to read

00:33:50.900 this article. It is, I did once get pretty romantic with my TSA agent going up the right

00:33:55.220 leg. I don't, it was, at least I felt it was romantic. I don't know if, if he felt that way

00:33:58.980 as well. Uh, historic, it was an historic, uh, airport security line. Uh, you're not going to get

00:34:06.020 any kind of, uh, serious journalism here. Okay. And you're not going to get it on big tech either.

00:34:13.100 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you know, Kareem, he was the basketball star and then he was an airplane,

00:34:17.720 which is my, that's really where I enjoyed his, his work. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is now saying that

00:34:24.360 big tech should censor conservatives and even people who aren't woke, just kind of run of the

00:34:29.620 mill liberals. He says they need to do it because the conservatives are tweeting irrational and

00:34:36.120 harmful opinions to millions. And what's funny, his reasoning here is many Americans imbue stars with

00:34:41.760 political and social intelligence they just don't have. It doesn't help to be surrounded by

00:34:45.820 fawning people whose job it is to agree with everything you say. And, uh, you know, it's

00:34:49.720 irresponsible and then they've got to be, uh, censored. Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball

00:34:58.580 player, a very famous basketball player and guy who was in some movies. And specifically he was

00:35:04.680 saying that John Voight should be kicked off big tech and, uh, James Woods should as well. Two of the

00:35:09.780 only outspoken conservatives in all of Hollywood. Those guys are going to come after you too. 0.75

00:35:17.720 It is not conspiracy theory thinking to say that we need to be skeptical of these established

00:35:24.180 institutions, the government institutions, and even the institutions outside of the government.

00:35:29.160 It's the only conspiracy theory is that those institutions are not political. That, that isn't

00:35:34.400 truly a crazy conspiracy theory. There is a, I guess you could use the word conspiracy. It's not

00:35:41.540 really a conspiracy. It's just an establishment. It's an established standard across all of these

00:35:48.120 different sectors, all of which are hell bent on shutting up conservatives, making sure we don't

00:35:55.960 have a voice. You're not going to get that unity and healing, assuming Joe Biden gets it January 20th.

00:36:01.200 So you are going to get a vindictive response, revenge. And if conservatives don't prepare for

00:36:07.480 that now, and if we're not prepared to fight on every front of that, not just the governmental front,

00:36:14.060 but also in commercial life, also in educational life, also in technology. If you're not prepared to

00:36:20.920 fight on all those fronts, we don't stand a chance. Speaking of technology and science on Monday,

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00:36:56.520 dailywire.com. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:37:10.600 I'm always running late on the mailbag, but I will fly through this and get to as many questions

00:37:14.780 as I can. From Jenny, I know it's a long shot, but let's pretend that on January 6th, the miracle

00:37:19.540 occurs and President Trump gets four more years. What do you think will be the ramifications of that?

00:37:24.980 I believe President Trump has done great things and deserves four more years, but I fear the

00:37:29.060 violence that will surely come from the left. Do you think, assuming this miraculous intervention

00:37:34.220 takes place, that the country will be better or worse for it? I love all your shows and can't wait

00:37:38.560 to see what the future holds for the dailywire. Take care. Thank you very much. I think it would be

00:37:44.720 great if President Trump got another four years and I think it will be bad if he doesn't.

00:37:49.560 And I understand the argument here. According to some scuttlebutt rumors, gossip columns,

00:37:54.220 this is what the Supreme Court was talking about. They said, there are going to be riots if we give

00:37:58.120 it to Trump. I don't know whether that, I usually don't believe gossip that comes out of the court

00:38:02.320 because it comes from staffers who are, if they're leaking this stuff, by definition,

00:38:07.340 they're kind of unreliable. But I don't buy into this argument that because the left is threatening

00:38:14.140 us with violence, we should give them what they want. That's called appeasement. That's called

00:38:18.020 surrender. That's called cowardice. I'm not giving into that at all. I don't care. I'm not going to

00:38:25.680 let a bunch of bullies destroy my country because I'm afraid of them. No chance. If there were any

00:38:32.000 way that Trump could get four more years legally, he shouldn't do it illegally, but if there were a

00:38:36.500 legal way to do it, I would be all for it. And I don't care what kind of temper tantrum the left 0.99

00:38:40.820 would have. I don't care if they would try to burn down cities. If they tried to commit crimes,

00:38:43.860 we could arrest them and put them in prison. I am not going to have some leftist walk into my

00:38:51.180 business and say, it's a nice pizza shop you got here. Sure would be a shame if something happened

00:38:55.680 to it. No, thank you, sir. Not a chance. From Nicholas, dear austere religious podcaster,

00:39:02.840 Dr. Michael Knowles. Thank you for using my title. I have been watching all the Daily Wire shows for

00:39:08.280 years now. One of the most interesting discussions I've seen is on pornography. I have a couple of

00:39:12.420 questions. One is someone who's struggled with pornography for most of my life. What is the

00:39:15.500 best way to get away from it? It's had a tremendous negative impact on my life and I frankly don't know

00:39:20.160 what to do other than give in. How can we, two, how can we as conservatives best advocate for the

00:39:24.960 removal of porn from mainstream society? Sincerely, asking for a friend. Good way to put it. I think

00:39:30.640 you're asking for a lot of friends. This is true for a huge number. I mean, the vast, vast majority of

00:39:35.860 men in this country have struggled with this. They always say, what they say, what it's 93% have looked at

00:39:41.100 internet porn and 7% are liars, is the line for men. I don't know. Maybe women are more moral than 1.00

00:39:46.260 men, but it's a, it's a scourge obviously. And it's, it's also just categorically different than

00:39:50.800 in the old days when you had to go to some seedy part of town and buy some pictures or a, or a

00:39:54.520 magazine. Now it comes zapped right into your phone from anywhere. It's extraordinarily high speed.

00:40:01.040 You know, there's a zillion different movies and videos, even though Pornhub apparently just kicked

00:40:06.280 off half their videos. So it's, it's a, you know, probably the defining sort of fleshy temptation

00:40:12.300 of the age, but for sure. How can you avoid it? Well, it's, it's, once you're hooked, it's much,

00:40:19.500 like any vice, once you're hooked, it's, it's harder to get out of it. But like drinking, you know,

00:40:22.780 it's easier to control your drinking if you're not already an alcoholic. If you are an alcoholic,

00:40:27.480 it's going to be a little harder, but look, everybody deals with various temptations and

00:40:30.860 addictions and things like that. So one way to do it is there's a Catholic concept. And I think

00:40:36.400 probably other denominations have this concept too, which is the near occasion of sin. The idea

00:40:42.100 that there's sin, you know, you, you're looking at the porn or whatever, you're, I don't know,

00:40:46.300 you're stealing things or you're coveting your neighbor's ox or whatever the sin is. And so that's

00:40:52.480 a sin in and of itself. But if you put yourself in a situation where you are more likely to give into

00:40:59.700 that temptation, then you are culpable for that too. The near, the near occasion of sin is something

00:41:04.920 you need to keep yourself away from. Don't, don't put yourself in a place where you could be tempted.

00:41:09.740 So some ways to do that. I don't know. I mean, there are, I was talking to, I think it was Matt

00:41:12.800 Fradd, the Catholic podcaster has written extensively about this. You can, you know, put different blockers

00:41:20.720 and things on your computer. You can make sure that you're not, you don't find yourself in situations

00:41:24.700 where you're looking at the porn a lot. You should go to confession. You should make sure that

00:41:29.280 you try to practice the other virtues and you should recognize like any, you know, if you were

00:41:32.780 going to AA and talking about alcohol, you would, you would recognize this too, that you're going to

00:41:37.520 stumble. And, you know, if let's say you're looking at porn every day or more than every day, let's,

00:41:42.820 but let's say you're looking at it every day and then you find yourself and you, you were able to

00:41:47.220 look at it, I don't know, a couple of times a week or something. And then you're able to look at it

00:41:50.760 once a week and then you're able to look at it once a month and you're able, that's something. I mean,

00:41:54.520 that's progress. Maybe it'd be better to go cold Turkey, you know, but I think the comparison here 0.90

00:41:59.620 to alcoholism is important. And the recognition that if you stumble, all, all sin and fall short

00:42:04.540 of the glory of God, but you got to keep working at it. You know, sometimes occasionally people will

00:42:09.580 introduce me if I'm speaking at a Catholic event, they'll say, Michael's a devout Catholic. And I

00:42:14.080 always kind of pull away from that, not because I have any doubts about the Catholic faith, but because

00:42:19.080 I prefer the term practicing Catholic because you, the idea of practicing Catholic is you're doing it 0.84

00:42:23.520 and you're going to keep on practicing until you get it right. And this is true outside of

00:42:27.220 even just a strictly religious realm of the virtues. You're going to keep on practicing the

00:42:32.080 virtues, even put porn aside for a second, or I'm sure there are a lot of virtues that we all fall

00:42:36.080 short in. And if you just keep practicing them, you will get better at them. You won't, you won't be

00:42:41.120 perfect because it's a fallen world, but you, you actually will get better at them. You can get better.

00:42:45.900 And so I would just encourage you in that. Encourage means to take heart from the, from core,

00:42:50.780 right? So just take heart, have, have courage when you stumble, get back up and keep trying again.

00:42:57.120 Best of luck. I know a lot of people are struggling with that. So, you know, pray about it too, and just

00:43:01.780 keep, keep, keep the faith and keep working. From Father Greg. Oh, how about that? I'm a Catholic

00:43:08.140 priest writing you from the frozen land to the North known as Canada, which I lovingly call America's

00:43:14.280 hat. Recently, our premier declared that churches are only allowed 30 people regardless of size,

00:43:19.860 while businesses are allowed 50% capacity. Moreover, the restriction on churches is effective

00:43:24.660 immediately. Whereas the restrictions on businesses don't come into effect till December 25th.

00:43:29.620 Here is my question. Is it time we reconsider this whole selling of indulgences thing?

00:43:36.460 Perhaps we gave it up too quickly. Johann Tetzel had some problems with mismanagement,

00:43:41.820 but the underlying business model strikes me as sound. Moreover, I've already spoken to several of my

00:43:46.900 Protestant friends who are warm to the idea if it means they could go to church. Wouldn't that be

00:43:51.920 the perfect ending to 2020? Catholics and Protestants coming together around indulgences. 0.90

00:43:57.220 Let me know what you think in Christ, Father Greg. An excellent point you raise, Father. It had not

00:44:02.580 occurred to me, but it's an excellent point. Frankly, I don't really have much of an issue with the sale of

00:44:07.500 indulgences generally. I think this is, you know, as I suspect you know as well, this is a very

00:44:12.060 misrepresented topic and a very exaggerated topic. And I don't think that, I think indulgences obviously

00:44:19.360 still exist as they should. And I think giving alms is a very good thing. And I think those things go

00:44:25.340 well together. But beyond that, even just from a purely political standpoint, it would be delightful.

00:44:31.800 It would be one of the wonderful, joyous turns of providence if the sale of indulgences could bring

00:44:40.320 the Catholic and Protestants back together. Because in our day and age, the secular religion that we

00:44:49.100 all have, the secular religion of liberalism understands that only commerce is the protected

00:44:56.500 activity. That's the liturgy that we have to protect. All these silly things like going to church,

00:45:01.500 you know, or going to synagogue. That, that's crazy. You don't need to do any of that. You just 0.98

00:45:05.640 got to go buy more stuff. Well, okay. Two can play at that game. Very, very wise idea, Father Greg.

00:45:12.060 From Tyler. I'll do one more. I am a 16-year-old Canadian boy, lots of Canadians today. And I need

00:45:18.180 your advice on a situation that is happening in my life at the moment. At my school, I am openly

00:45:22.400 conservative. I have worn my red Trump hat to school many times. I was notified by the vice

00:45:27.840 principal that my hat offended a student. So our school was not a safe space anymore.

00:45:32.960 Oh my gosh. Man, I'm so glad I'm not a kid. I mean, it would be, it was crazy enough when I was a kid,

00:45:38.620 but now, goodness gracious. Since I was not allowed to wear my red MAGA hat, I went onto Amazon and bought

00:45:45.080 a black MAGA hat because I wanted to continue to express my conservative opinion and have meaningful

00:45:49.920 discussions about politics with my peers. I had my black MAGA hat taken away because it was also

00:45:55.740 offensive. When I retrieved it at the end of the day, I was told that I would be suspended if I wore

00:46:00.920 another Trump hat or anything like that to school again. I asked why my political speech was not

00:46:05.300 allowed, but the gay pride flag was. And she said that I am not a marginalized group. I'm a straight

00:46:09.620 white male. Oh, you're, you're the worst. You're the oppressor. She said that the LGBT groups were not 1.00

00:46:16.240 political. Ah, there it is. But they are only supporting equal rights for marginalized people.

00:46:21.020 I want to continue to be openly conservative, but I do not want to be suspended. What should I do?

00:46:24.340 Well, you're in a tricky spot because your, your school administrator is obviously extremely stupid 1.00

00:46:29.760 and ignorant and, and doesn't even understand the words that are coming out of her mouth. 1.00

00:46:34.560 So when she says this political symbol is not political because it's only about equality and 0.99

00:46:42.740 rights. So one response you could have is I'm pretty sure equality and rights are political

00:46:50.600 subjects. I think this is written about in the Declaration of Independence, for instance,

00:46:56.080 all men are created equal and they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

00:46:59.760 That's obviously a political sort of statement, but, but what it comes from is this,

00:47:04.120 this very narrow understanding of politics, which the left and the right have both acquiesced to both

00:47:10.980 really the right, the left forced it on us and the right acquiesced and agreed to it,

00:47:15.640 which is what politics means most basically is public life, how we all get along together.

00:47:22.440 That's what Aristotle's talking about in Aristotle's politics, you know, wrote a whole book on the

00:47:27.360 subject. And this is how we've understood politics for most of our civilization's history.

00:47:33.020 Then in recent years, and really you see this ramp up during the sixties, the left comes in and says,

00:47:40.040 everything is political now. So it used to be, you know, you had public life and that was all

00:47:45.120 political, but you know, the way that you lived with your family, that was sort of private or the

00:47:52.500 way that you, the Nike shoes, the sneakers that you bought were, those were private choices. That's

00:47:59.060 not a political choice, right? It doesn't really affect anything. The Nike comes in recently and

00:48:03.360 makes it a very political choice, but everything became political. The kind of coffee you drink

00:48:06.820 becomes political. The kind of movies you go see become political. Everything becomes political

00:48:12.740 in the sense of partisan, ideological. Your relationship to your wife becomes very political.

00:48:17.560 I mean, the feminists in the seventies said the personal is the political, but the irony of this

00:48:21.600 was that the political life became depoliticized. All the things that you really should be able to

00:48:28.560 debate, the definition of marriage, the laws that we have surrounding abortion, you know, killing

00:48:34.240 babies, all these sorts of things, the death penalty, they were taken out of politics. So we could no

00:48:42.920 longer debate those things. We just had experts tell us what to do. Whether you're going to wear a

00:48:48.380 mask all the time and cover your face up for over a year in public, that became not, no longer is that

00:48:53.860 a political question. And the right really led by libertarians acquiesced to this. They said, yeah,

00:48:59.500 that's true. We just have to shrink the government, not let the government do anything. And the

00:49:04.800 government now is going to be what we talk about instead of politics more broadly. And that's,

00:49:09.280 that's going to be that. Well, look at the effect of this. I think you need to tell your teacher

00:49:14.400 or administrator or whatever, that politics is much bigger than this, that you are, you are by

00:49:20.920 definition, a marginalized group because you're expressing a political opinion that is quite mainstream,

00:49:26.380 right? So mainstream that the originator of that opinion is the president of the United States,

00:49:31.220 that you're, you're expressing that opinion and you're being threatened with suspension and you're

00:49:34.080 the most marginalized group in the entire school. She'll still probably suspend you because

00:49:39.620 that's the political regime that we're living in now in Canada is to the left of America.

00:49:45.440 You can at least make your case. You might get suspended though. It might force you not to wear the

00:49:50.560 hat. And as long as you're a student, you're, you're going to have to deal with that. I mean,

00:49:56.820 that, that's the sort of prudential and practical reality of it. But I think if in the meantime,

00:50:01.500 you could teach your teacher something, that would be very helpful. You know, we've had a big debate

00:50:06.000 over whether Jill Biden's a doctor or not, because she has this kind of administrative credential

00:50:10.040 from a university that has a building named after her husband. And, you know, is she really a

00:50:16.140 doctor? Well, she's not a PhD and she's not an MD. And she, and I've said, you know, doctors are

00:50:21.020 people who teach people. So you, you can be a doctor. Yeah. My young doctor friend in Canada,

00:50:26.420 please teach your teacher. We'll all have a lot of teaching to do. And unfortunately it sounds like

00:50:30.960 the left does not want to listen, but we can all listen to one another again on Monday. In the

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 18, 2020

Ep. 667 - The Real Conspiracy

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