The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 678 - Expel Kamala

00:00:00.000 House Democrats are promising to impeach President Trump, even though he has about,

00:00:05.280 I don't know, 15 seconds left in office. They want to impeach the guy. House Republican leader,

00:00:11.680 Kevin McCarthy, is pushing back against this, suggesting maybe they censure President Trump.

00:00:16.440 Instead, I have a different idea altogether. I think that the Republican-controlled Senate

00:00:20.880 should censure or better yet expel Kamala Harris. We will make the case. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:00:27.380 is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from OldSchooled, who says,

00:00:40.560 you can't censor a dictator. The ones doing the censoring are the dictators. Thank you. That is

00:00:46.840 a very good point. Everyone is calling Trump a fascist dictator. Not everyone, everyone on CNN, 0.81

00:00:52.580 not everyone generally, but the left is calling Trump a dictator. He's an authoritarian.

00:00:58.520 A dictator, right? Related to the word dictionary, right? These sort of things that you can say and

00:01:07.380 you can govern through your speech. Trump can't even send a tweet right now, much less is he a

00:01:13.380 dictator. And who is controlling the words of the duly elected sitting president of the United States?

00:01:20.200 Hipster Rasputin over in Silicon Valley? Jack Dorsey? Mark Zuckerberg? Who else? Who else is

00:01:29.840 controlling it? Doesn't sound like a dictator to me. It's these guys who control the internet and

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00:02:58.960 I'll get to the Kamala of it all in a second because this is both, I think, something worthwhile

00:03:06.080 for Senate Republicans, but I think it's also an attitude shift that Republicans generally

00:03:10.980 need to understand. But first, I actually want to take seriously the Democrats' contention that

00:03:17.400 Donald Trump should be impeached in his last 10 days or so in office. President Trump, they want to

00:03:24.240 impeach because he led an insurrection on the government at Capitol Hill and he urged his mob

00:03:30.980 to go become violent and invade the Capitol and scare off all the legislators. And this is

00:03:36.640 unacceptable. It's a threat to the Republic and therefore we've got to impeach him. That's the

00:03:40.980 charge. Now, what are the facts? President Trump called his supporters to DC for a big rally.

00:03:46.500 He went out and addressed that rally. He told people to be strong and he even told them,

00:03:51.880 or I guess described how they were inevitably going to march to Capitol Hill. And therefore,

00:03:59.900 it's an open and shut case, right? Well, let's, let's listen to what President Trump actually said.

00:04:04.240 We're going to walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down

00:04:09.340 to the Capitol.

00:04:13.640 And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably

00:04:21.240 not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with

00:04:29.980 weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

00:04:35.500 We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been

00:04:43.180 lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the

00:04:51.020 Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today we will see whether

00:04:59.040 Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong

00:05:06.580 for our country. Okay. Now you've probably heard the first part of that clip before. You might not have

00:05:12.920 heard the second part where President Trump explicitly says, you're going to go there and

00:05:17.580 peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. So doesn't sound to me like he's inciting

00:05:25.660 an insurrection. It sounds like quite the opposite, right? He is explicitly saying, do not be violent,

00:05:31.380 be peaceful. Now you might say, look, he sent a mob of extremely angry people over to the Capitol

00:05:37.100 and said, be tough. You're, you gotta be tough. You can't be weak. So therefore, I don't know,

00:05:42.560 we got to censure the president. I actually, I understand the argument of house Republicans who

00:05:47.320 want to censure the president. Probably wouldn't vote for it, but I, I at least understand that

00:05:51.880 argument. I don't see the argument for impeachment. He didn't do the thing that they are saying that he

00:05:57.440 did. And you can play the tape and listen to it. Not that evidence is going to matter all that much

00:06:02.300 in an impeachment trial, which certainly an impeachment trial of a president who is days away

00:06:06.660 from leaving office is purely political. There's no legal basis for it at all. So this is basically

00:06:13.240 where Republicans and conservatives are fighting the issue right now. Should we impeach Trump?

00:06:18.680 Should we censure Trump? Should we do nothing at all? What are they going to do to us? Right? It's all

00:06:24.440 very defensive. I'd like to propose an alternative. I think that the, the democratic controlled house is

00:06:32.040 going to try to impeach Trump. I think that the Republican controlled Senate should censure or

00:06:36.800 better yet expel Kamala Harris. Last I checked, Kamala Harris is still a Senator, right? And will 1.00

00:06:43.020 remain so until she becomes vice president. So, and I guess even if she weren't, the Senate could still 0.94

00:06:49.140 pass a resolution to censure her. So why won't they do that? Kamala Harris did, did not merely

00:06:58.180 encourage the peaceful protesters at the Black Lives Matter riots all over the summer. Kamala Harris

00:07:05.300 posted a fundraising link for the rioters in Minnesota who were arrested to bail them out of

00:07:12.600 jail. That's not saying go over there and peacefully protest. That's saying we are going to subsidize

00:07:18.780 your violent actions. We played a little bit of this briefly yesterday on the show. Kamala Harris went

00:07:24.060 on the Colbert show and said, these rioters, they ain't going to give it up. I know that there are

00:07:29.120 protests still happening in major cities across the United States. I just not seeing the reporting on

00:07:33.400 it that I, that I had for the fierce few weeks. That's right. But they're not going to stop.

00:07:37.840 They're not going to stop. And that's, they're not, this is a movement. I'm telling you,

00:07:41.860 they're not going to stop and, and everyone beware because they're not going to stop. It is going to,

00:07:47.600 they're not going to stop before election day in November and they're not going to stop after election

00:07:51.640 day. And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't,

00:07:56.820 they're not going to let up and they should not. And we should not. They're not going to let up and

00:08:01.680 they should not. And we should not. Now you might say, Michael, Kamala is not talking about the

00:08:05.820 rioters. Kamala is talking about the mostly peaceful protesters. I'm not so sure of that because

00:08:11.140 there was a lot more violence, a lot more widespread violence during the BLM riots than anything that

00:08:17.160 happened at the Capitol, bad as it was. But, but moreover, if you're going to say that about

00:08:23.960 Kamala Harris, certainly you have to say that about Trump. If you're going to say BLM was mostly

00:08:26.980 peaceful, surely you have to say that the Capitol Hill was mostly peaceful. Donald Trump went out

00:08:33.960 there and said, you have to do this peacefully. Kamala Harris didn't say anything like that.

00:08:38.620 Not in that clip and certainly not in the fundraising link. The fundraising link subsidizes the violence.

00:08:44.080 Anything they're going to accuse Trump of, anything they're going to bring up in this

00:08:47.980 impeachment trial, Kamala Harris is far more guilty of. The house control or the Democrats

00:08:54.380 control the house rather. Republicans control the Senate. How come it's only ever house Democrats who

00:09:00.120 are aggressing? How come it's only ever the left who are doing anything? Why is the right always on

00:09:05.060 defense? Why won't Mitch McConnell go out there and at the very least censure Kamala Harris 1.00

00:09:10.180 and better yet expel her. If they're going to try to impeach Trump, expel Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:09:17.140 I don't think that what, what Trump did giving a rally, say, say, go be peaceful. I don't think

00:09:22.520 that's an impeachable offense. A little questionable to send a mob down to Capitol Hill, but certain

00:09:27.440 nothing, nothing that he did is impeachable. So, so if you're going to impeach the guy for that,

00:09:33.640 surely, surely we have to apply even something close to the same standard to the Democrats who

00:09:39.880 did far worse, but that's not going to happen. Mitch McConnell's almost certainly not going to

00:09:44.520 do it. I mean, call your congressman, call, call your Senator rather, try to make it happen, but,

00:09:49.420 but it, it almost certainly will not because of this systemic problem on the right, which is that

00:09:56.340 we play defense and we roll over and the left aggresses and aggresses and aggresses.

00:10:04.780 The, the, all we're talking about here is following legal procedures.

00:10:10.340 Even that the right is not willing to do. Kamala Harris says, yeah, it's not going to stop. It won't

00:10:15.420 stop. Bail out the criminals. We're gonna have a great time. No consequences whatsoever. Might not

00:10:22.260 even need to wait, by the way, for these impeachment proceedings. If any of you were checking the State

00:10:26.800 Department website yesterday, I know that's not, not exactly my homepage. I don't go there all the

00:10:31.800 time, but if you did check the State Department website yesterday, if you checked under President

00:10:35.360 Trump's heading, you would have read Donald J. Trump's term ended on January 11th, 2021 at 7 49 PM.

00:10:46.540 I assume Eastern time. Now this went up before 7 49 Eastern time. The vice president's biography was

00:10:55.960 edited to say Michael R. Pence. His term ended on January 11th, 2021 at 7 44 Eastern time. The timestamp

00:11:05.420 on the president's page changed multiple times and it was removed in the late afternoon and replaced with

00:11:11.900 a 404 reading that said, sorry, this site is currently experiencing technical difficulties. When a lot of us

00:11:18.600 saw that, given all the shenanigans that have gone on in this entire presidency, we thought, gosh, does the

00:11:24.620 State Department know something we don't know? Is there, is this impeachment thing really happening or worse? I

00:11:30.560 mean, what, what is going on here? Then it was floated. It was being reported, I guess, baselessly that this was a

00:11:37.440 hack. Now the story that we're being told by the State Department is it was not a hack. It was a

00:11:42.560 disgruntled employee. There's no way to hack into the, the very highly secure State Department

00:11:48.000 website. Then it later came out that the infrastructure for the State Department website

00:11:53.460 is a WordPress is, you know, the, like the blogging platform that a lot of, a lot of websites use it.

00:12:00.040 It's very, very good software. But, uh, you think, I figured the State Department would have

00:12:04.120 something super duper advanced, not like the blog that I had when I was 15. I bring this up. One,

00:12:12.520 it was a very strange thing. They're saying it's a disgruntled employee. There are plenty of leftists

00:12:16.140 at the State Department, so I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I bring it up actually for a sort of

00:12:21.220 tangential point, which is we're, we're all very taken with these kinds of conspiracy ideas these

00:12:27.380 days. The left ran with it for four years on Russia and whatever, Ukraine, all this nonsense.

00:12:32.360 But the right enjoys conspiracies too. We all want to be part of the secret knowledge.

00:12:38.040 The State Department website runs on a very basic popular web service.

00:12:45.440 To me, that dispels a lot of conspiracies because we think that it's all these super geniuses that

00:12:51.660 are working in all these, you know, agencies of the government. It's mostly incompetent bureaucrats.

00:12:57.980 There are bad dudes too, who do lots of bad things and abuse their power. I'm thinking of guys like

00:13:01.820 Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok. There is a lot of bad stuff. I'm not, I'm not downplaying that at all.

00:13:06.520 But I guess it's a sort of consolation how incompetent much of this bureaucracy is. It does

00:13:12.520 quash a lot of these, a lot of these theories. A lot of these, a lot of these guys can't,

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00:14:45.640 Very incompetent people in the government. One of the great ways to dispel these conspiracy theories.

00:14:55.520 Do you think there could be some super arch conspiracy in the state of New York? I don't

00:15:01.240 think so. Do you know why? Not because they wouldn't want to. They're very, very corrupt people,

00:15:05.760 generally speaking, especially in the Democratic Party up in, up in Albany and New York.

00:15:10.280 I just don't think they're competent enough. Andrew Cuomo gave his state of the state

00:15:16.500 yesterday. Some people have called him Andrew Quovid. It's very mean, but pretty, pretty true.

00:15:24.820 With Andrew Cuomo, he has now handled the virus worse than any governor in the country. He has kept

00:15:32.320 the state closed. He sent six people into nursing homes. He's wasted the vaccine. He didn't prepare

00:15:38.200 correctly. He called in resources they didn't need. Cuomo is now saying, after being closed up,

00:15:44.620 closed up, closed up, all to no avail, leads the country almost, is it in the top three for death

00:15:50.320 and death rate on coronavirus? Cuomo now says, fellas, we can't stay closed.

00:15:57.360 We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have

00:16:06.700 nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.

00:16:14.980 Did President Trump write Cuomo's speech there? Did a Daily Wire writer write Cuomo's state of the

00:16:22.380 state? What have we been saying now for months and months and months? We've said, you have to reopen.

00:16:26.960 If you don't reopen, soon there's not going to be anything to reopen. Many, and it kills me,

00:16:31.760 I'm a New Yorker myself, born and raised. Many of the great establishments of New York are not going

00:16:37.120 to reopen. I think it's expected that the majority of restaurants in New York are not going to reopen.

00:16:43.880 Very sad what he's done to a, generally speaking, beautiful and vibrant city.

00:16:50.120 And now Cuomo says, now we got to reopen. Yeah, because your policy didn't work,

00:16:54.540 because your lockdown policy didn't work, because your vaccine rollout certainly didn't work. It was a

00:16:58.960 complete disaster. Andrew Cuomo, because of his stupid policies, not only got grandma killed, 1.00

00:17:06.800 you know, not only got, thankfully not my grandmothers, but lots of people's grandmothers 1.00

00:17:10.900 killed in New York. But Andrew Cuomo is now wasting the vaccine because he put policies into effect

00:17:17.500 that said that if healthcare workers did not follow his guidelines for exactly who to give the vaccine

00:17:23.300 to, they could be fined. They could face very steep punishments. So do you know what was happening?

00:17:27.380 Healthcare workers were throwing out the vaccine because they didn't want to face the state

00:17:32.160 government penalties. Finally, now Cuomo is lifting that extremely idiotic regulation too. 0.99

00:17:39.640 But, but while everyone's focusing on that part of the state of the state, I actually want to focus in 0.92

00:17:43.340 on another statement, which I think did not get the kind of coverage it should,

00:17:48.040 but it tells you exactly what the left is after with these onerous and draconian lockdown policies.

00:17:52.580 Today, I'm speaking in person with a small group, but broadcasting, zooming and streaming. And in

00:18:00.780 this new and different world, the audience is actually larger, not smaller. Technology and

00:18:07.560 technology-based relationships, work from home, these are new realities that will have dramatic

00:18:14.800 consequences. This next year, we will see economies realign and reset around the world.

00:18:21.760 We see the risk and the peril, but we also see the promise and the potential.

00:18:27.660 The question to be answered is what will we make of this moment? Is it positive or is it negative?

00:18:34.820 Do we move forward or do we move backward? Is America, is New York stronger or weaker in the

00:18:42.940 post-COVID world? Those, my friends, are the questions that we alone will answer in 2021 because the future

00:18:51.560 is in our hands. America and New York will be stronger in the post-COVID world if we run these

00:18:59.720 lunatic sociopath politicians out on a railway line and they will be weaker in the post-COVID world if 0.62

00:19:07.720 we follow what these people want to do. The left does not want to go back to normal. The left wants 0.55

00:19:15.220 this to be the new normal. Andrew Cuomo just stated it explicitly. He said, look, usually we have an

00:19:23.880 audience. Usually I'm accountable to people in the audience. Usually I have to answer questions from

00:19:27.780 people who are live, but now they're all on Zoom. Isn't that so much better? I'm reaching more people.

00:19:33.400 First of all, I don't really see how that's the case. You could easily have a Zoom camera going

00:19:38.100 while having people in the room. You're just giving people more opportunities and not everybody uses

00:19:42.540 Zoom. I assure you my grandmother does not get on Zoom every single day, does not know what Zoom is.

00:19:48.580 My grandmother in New York doesn't, doesn't use a computer. And I think that's true for a lot of 0.97

00:19:52.340 people. So no, I don't think it's, it's the way forward is to limit spaces that people get to interact

00:20:01.680 with their politicians. No. What about working from home? He says, this is the new reality. You're all

00:20:06.400 going to start working from home. Say business is a lot of money on office space. You just work,

00:20:10.880 work, work. It worked very well. I read one study that said that people are working more actually.

00:20:16.260 You think that when people work from home, they would work less. Actually productivity has increased

00:20:20.140 in many places. That's the new reality, is it? You know, there's a theory going, or speaking of all

00:20:27.820 these sort of Gnostic theories going around the internet. They say that COVID is the great reset.

00:20:32.700 And this is supposed to be some grand conspiracy theory. It's not a grand conspiracy theory. The guy's

00:20:36.340 talking about it right there. He says, we're going to reset. This is going to be a re, the economies

00:20:40.780 are going to realign. They're going to reset based on what happened with COVID. We're going to have

00:20:44.140 new norms for society and that's it. We're not going to gather as often as we want to. We're going to be

00:20:49.260 on Zoom. We're going to be wearing masks. Certainly when we travel, we're going to be wearing masks a

00:20:54.220 whole lot more. We're not going to see people's smiling faces. We're going to muzzle ourselves out in

00:20:58.400 public. We're going to work from home much more. Not going to go in and see people at the office.

00:21:04.980 Not going to go have human interaction. Just lock ourselves away in our rooms and Zoom all day long.

00:21:09.860 Does that sound like a fulfilling life? Does that sound like the kind of society you want to live in?

00:21:14.600 Not me, not me. This actually relates to another kind of on one hand, silly story that's going around,

00:21:21.700 but people are missing the real meat of the story. Kamala Harris is on the cover of Vogue. Kamala

00:21:27.720 Harris, not even yet the vice president. She's the vice president elect. She's on the cover and it's

00:21:33.580 not a flattering picture. And apparently the left is very upset about this because she's wearing some 0.99

00:21:38.620 kind of rumpled pantsuit and Converse sneakers. And it's just, it isn't framed very well. I

00:21:44.340 understand why the Kamala Harris team would be upset about this. The conservatives should be upset

00:21:49.020 about this because we have an actual international model for a first lady and she's never been on the 1.00

00:21:54.880 cover of any of these magazines. And we've got extraordinarily impressive women that have 1.00

00:21:59.020 appeared throughout the Trump administration. Our current press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany would

00:22:03.840 be the second choice. You know, if, if Melania Trump, who is just very, very beautiful and an actual 1.00

00:22:12.020 model, if she can't be on the cover, I don't know. How about like Kayleigh? How about Kellyanne? How

00:22:16.800 about, how about all these very impressive women who have been in the Trump administration? 1.00

00:22:21.000 No, they're not, they're not going to be on. You're only going to put Democrats on. Okay,

00:22:25.740 that's fine. But then you look at what it says on the cover. The cover, it says Madam Vice President

00:22:33.040 Kamala Harris, and then in small print at the bottom, and the new America. I don't really care

00:22:40.340 about the picture of Kamala Harris. I care about those words, those four words, and the new America.

00:22:45.560 America. What if you like the old America? What, what is the new America? Can you describe to me

00:22:53.460 what that is? It's different, right? This is something that we've seen from the left now for

00:22:59.140 years and years. When Barack Obama said that he's going to fundamentally transform the country.

00:23:04.920 Well, if you're going to fundamentally transform it, that means it's going to be

00:23:08.300 completely different than it was before, right? It's going to be different, not just in degree,

00:23:16.480 it's going to be different in kind. You are going to fund, essentially change the country.

00:23:22.940 What, why? Because you don't like the country. If you like the country, you don't want to

00:23:27.240 fundamentally transform it. If you love your wife, you don't want to fundamentally transform your wife.

00:23:31.960 So what is this new America that we're talking about? We saw a little bit of it yesterday.

00:23:36.700 I remember Joe Biden came out and he said, we're going to build back businesses. We're going to

00:23:40.980 build back businesses by prioritizing black, Latino, and women businesses.

00:23:48.380 What does that mean? It means white guys, they're not going to get any help. They're going to be at a 0.69

00:23:53.640 legal disadvantage. We're going to, we're going to build back better by instituting a racial caste 1.00

00:23:59.900 system in America. Equality. And, and Biden says it's in the name of equality. That's the new America.

00:24:08.440 The, the president elect is saying it. The vice president elect has that moniker on the cover of

00:24:14.820 magazines. Expect a lot more of this. Expect to be gaslit. There was a headline in the Washington Post

00:24:23.980 that I, is very embarrassing for the Washington Post. And it, it should worry everybody in this

00:24:32.760 country because it, not even because of the political issue it's talking about, but because

00:24:36.200 of the way that language is being manipulated. You make these subtle changes in language,

00:24:41.280 then you change thought, and then you change culture fundamentally. Which is why here at Daily

00:24:49.340 Wire, we're trying to make culture. We're trying to push back against that. You know,

00:24:52.860 we've got a backstage coming up Thursday, 7 p.m. Eastern. Even before that, the actions of big

00:24:59.820 tech last week, make it abundantly clear that they will do everything they can to silence opposing

00:25:05.820 voices. They are completely out of control. Many of you have reached out to us to ask what you can do

00:25:12.080 to help. We've told you about our ambitious plans this year with investigative news, entertainment

00:25:17.540 content. We're going to get some of that entertainment content very soon. But with the actions of big

00:25:21.960 tech last week, we, we cannot just stop there. We have to take action to build or buy technology to

00:25:29.960 protect ourselves from the attack that is coming so that we can continue to deliver new content to you

00:25:35.380 and fight back. It is coming. We, we are seeing it coming down the pike. It's already happened to 0.97

00:25:40.180 other guys in the space. We're exploring all of the possibilities, new data centers, payment gateways,

00:25:44.800 a lot more. Our team has been working very hard on this. We can't do all of that with our current

00:25:49.960 budget. Simple as that. We need more of your support. Uh, we are very grateful to everyone

00:25:55.460 who's become a member already. Uh, this is going to ramp up. This kind of censorship is going to ramp

00:26:00.940 up very, very quickly. Biden is not even in office yet and it's already happening. Uh, so we, we really

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00:26:09.640 Joe Biden has ambitious plans or at least the people around him have ambitious plans. Joe Biden

00:26:29.980 probably doesn't know what day it is or, or what he had for breakfast. Uh, but the people around him,

00:26:35.980 his administration has ambitious plans. This according to the Washington post, which had a

00:26:40.460 headline. So it was so offensive. Uh, but it's, we're going to get so much more of this. It says

00:26:48.740 quote, Biden's ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be nation's most pro equality president in history.

00:26:58.940 You know, if I had to think who are the nation's most pro equality presidents, I think, I mean,

00:27:07.800 Joe Biden, he's going to like make some bakers, bake cakes for gay weddings or something, right?

00:27:12.580 He's going to, he's going to make, uh, some baker. They always keep targeting these bakers,

00:27:17.640 uh, Jack Phillips in the, in, I think he's in Colorado. There are other bakers though, that have

00:27:23.700 been targeted by activist groups. In the case of Jack Phillips, there are actually plenty of

00:27:28.600 bakers, bakeries all around, but these, these left-wing activists go specifically to his cause

00:27:34.640 they knew he's Christian and say, you've got to make a cake. They wanted him to make one cake once

00:27:38.400 that had all this kind of, uh, heretical and blasphemous symbolism on it. It was involved gender 0.99

00:27:44.460 ideology and all this kind of stuff. Uh, but sure. Okay. Joe Biden, he's gonna, he's gonna make

00:27:48.520 those guys bake the cakes. Fine. Does that make him more pro equality than say, uh, Abraham Lincoln?

00:27:55.860 Joe Biden makes some bakers bake cakes for religious ceremonies that violate their religious views.

00:28:04.420 Okay. That's one type of equality. Another type is freeing the slaves. Who do you, who do you think

00:28:13.640 is the most pro equality president in history? It is amazing how they did it. It was, uh, one very

00:28:21.200 left-wing LGBT group called the human rights campaign that appropriated for the gay rights

00:28:27.060 movement, the equality symbol. So now when we talk about equality, I thought we'd talk about racial

00:28:32.380 equality. You can talk about equality of the sexes, you know, men and women. You can talk about

00:28:37.080 equality, spiritual equality before God. No. Now the word equality itself is beholden to this very niche

00:28:47.520 uh, interest group that is focusing on this very niche sort of question of sexual desire and sexual

00:28:56.680 ideology. That's where equality is now. Now, of course it won't remain there for long because the

00:29:03.500 minute that the left believes they can advance their agenda by, through racial grievance rather than

00:29:10.020 sexual grievance, you know, they're going to ditch the LGBT group. Then they're going to move on to the 0.57

00:29:14.700 racial question or they're going to move on to some other question, but it's just so offensive.

00:29:18.780 The Washington post, I think used to be sort of a real newspaper. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe not.

00:29:25.500 Maybe, maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was always just this rag, but what a ridiculous headline. Biden's 0.99

00:29:30.140 ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be the nation's most pro equality president in history. By the way,

00:29:36.360 I mean, equality word aside, the argument here, I think the premise is that, that Donald Trump was

00:29:43.260 anti-LGBT. Donald Trump appointed the first openly gay acting cabinet member in American history,

00:29:50.940 right? Rick Rennell. Donald Trump waved a gay pride flag. So even if, even if you're going to make the

00:29:56.160 argument that, you know, conservatives are really anti-LGBT and Biden's really, uh, Donald Trump sure

00:30:03.640 isn't, right? Donald Trump, but they're going to erase that. I mean, you, you saw headlines after Biden

00:30:09.720 said he would appoint Pete Buttigieg to run the trains or whatever. He said, historic Pete Buttigieg,

00:30:16.020 first openly gay cabinet member as, as if Rick Rennell didn't even exist. This is a total perversion 1.00

00:30:24.120 of language. It's a total perversion of the way that we communicate and it results in censorship.

00:30:31.540 So this is, this is what political correctness or whatever kind of, you know, whatever word you want

00:30:36.100 to use, whatever term you want to use for these speech codes. They try to force you to say certain

00:30:41.780 things, use certain words, don't use other words. Then when you don't go along with it, they censor

00:30:46.480 you. They've been censoring a ton of conservatives. They've been, this is through big technology,

00:30:51.560 of course, up to and including the president of the United States. And now they're, when they say,

00:30:58.120 go build your own Twitter, then Dan Bongino goes and builds his own Twitter and they kill that

00:31:02.780 Twitter. They kill it from the Google play story. They kill it, kill it from the Apple app store.

00:31:07.140 Then when you can only look at it on a browser, they kill it from the web services, Amazon web

00:31:11.680 services. Devin Nunes goes on television and he says, Republicans are being cut off from their ways

00:31:17.960 to communicate. A, what was likely parlor is likely a billion dollar company. Poof, it's gone, but it's more

00:31:24.440 than just the financial aspect of that. Republicans have no way to communicate. Republicans have no way to

00:31:32.380 communicate. That was Devin Nunes's claim and the left made fun of him. They were laughing. They said,

00:31:37.380 oh my, uh, Devin, you have no way to communicate. You're on Fox news right now. You're talking to

00:31:42.320 millions of people, you liar, you idiot. You're communicating. I don't think that's exactly what 1.00

00:31:48.840 he meant. I don't want to speak for Devin Nunes, but it seems to me what he's saying is obviously we

00:31:53.960 can communicate. They haven't put tape over all of our mouths, right? We can still pick up the

00:31:57.180 telephone and call people. We can still write letters to one another. We can still write emails for now.

00:32:03.320 We can even still go on Fox news. How many people is he going to talk to on Fox news?

00:32:07.380 The biggest audience Fox news has is what? 4 million between three and 4 million. It's a

00:32:12.440 country of 320 some odd million. Fox is a giant network. It's not that big. It's not as big as

00:32:22.540 NBC plus ABC plus CBS plus the New York times plus the Washington post plus CNN plus MSNBC plus NPR

00:32:33.960 plus PBS plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus. Not nearly as big as that. And moreover to, to Nunes's point,

00:32:43.940 while conservatives are permitted, I'm still on Twitter. I've seen tens of thousands of my

00:32:52.060 followers removed and we'll get into why that is because I was speculating on this yesterday

00:32:56.820 in contra, in contradiction of what Twitter was saying. And it would appear that my speculation

00:33:02.380 was closer to the truth, but we'll get to that in a second. Sure. I'm still on Twitter. Some of the

00:33:08.300 other tech platforms haven't been too tough on us. Been very tough on Trump, but not too tough on us.

00:33:14.640 So we can still communicate to a degree, but we can only communicate with the permission of the

00:33:21.240 leftist censors. In medieval Europe, if you wanted to publish something, you needed to receive the

00:33:30.460 imprimatur of the Catholic church. There were censors, right? As, as I've been pointing out on this

00:33:35.920 show, I think conservatives are a little misguided to always just be talking about how censorship's

00:33:39.440 always bad and free speech is good, as though that's a real dichotomy. When in fact, all free

00:33:43.620 speech regimes involve some degree of censorship because we have standards. And this has always

00:33:48.480 been true, even in the United States, even in the most hardcore defenders of free speech have

00:33:53.720 insisted on some boundaries. But in, in medieval Europe, Renaissance Europe, there was, you needed to

00:34:00.500 receive the imprimatur of the Catholic church. Today, you need to receive the imprimatur of hipster

00:34:05.880 Rasputin and his buddies in Silicon Valley. You need to receive the imprimatur of a very small and

00:34:12.120 powerful liberal, I wouldn't even say radical ruling elite. If you want to reach a large audience

00:34:20.360 and there, sure, there are some groups. I mean, this guy, the Tommy Vitor, who is, he's like the

00:34:26.280 Ringo of the liberal pod bros. He's on that show, uh, pod save America. Tommy Vitor said, quote,

00:34:32.840 don't miss my comments on how conservative voices are being silenced on Fox News, Newsmax, OAN,

00:34:38.460 Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, Fox Business, Sinclair,

00:34:42.120 the Daily Caller, Red State, the Daily Wire, National Review, the American Spectator,

00:34:45.840 Town Hall, ha ha, get it? Because conservatives have, have all of these outlets. 0.92

00:34:53.900 Billionaire radicals censored the duly elected sitting president of the United States.

00:34:59.160 Tommy Vitor and these other liberal people can giggle all they want and say, no, look,

00:35:08.940 the Daily Wire is still permitted to exist for now. Well, come on, what are you complaining about

00:35:14.380 censorship? Yeah, you've given us some crumbs in the ability to communicate, but then whenever

00:35:21.600 there's any sort of threat to your power, anything that just irritates you a little bit in the liberal

00:35:27.820 regime, you nuke it. You're going to kick a ton of people, including the president, off of Parler

00:35:33.880 for various reasons, perhaps, reasons we'll get into, or off of Twitter, rather, reasons we'll get

00:35:39.900 into in a second. Okay, they're going to go over to Parler. No, they're not, because you're not going

00:35:45.700 to let them. The president of the United States, all of these are such bad faith arguments from guys

00:35:53.340 like the pod, but I only, I expect that from the pod bros, those guys, it's hard for them to string

00:35:57.400 a coherent sentence together, much, much less make a persuasive and serious argument. But I don't want

00:36:05.660 to hear about National Review and the Federalist and Fox Business. If, if these oligarchs can censor the

00:36:15.800 president, then there, there is really no limit to the censorship regime. And the rest of us are just

00:36:23.640 around because they haven't gotten around to us yet. Or maybe, maybe they don't feel they, they quite

00:36:27.700 need to in a way that they do need to go out and take out the president because he's a real threat

00:36:31.420 to them. I was, I was pleased to see, I'm never pleased to see anything out of Germany. You know, 1.00

00:36:38.360 as Norm MacDonald famously said, I don't know if you guys are history buffs, but that country Germany

00:36:43.020 really scares me. They've, they've done some things in history. I'm, I'm rarely, I mean, I,

00:36:48.620 Germany has contributed in other ways to the world, but Angela Merkel really has not their leader. And

00:36:53.040 she always, she hates Trump and she's not a great leader, but even she came out and admitted that this

00:37:01.380 Twitter ban on the president of the United States is quote, problematic. Obviously the spokespeople

00:37:08.960 choosing, choosing their words carefully, but said that the permanent ban is really a big deal. And it,

00:37:16.180 it potentially undermines the quote, fundamental right to freedom of speech. Alexei Navalny. Alexei

00:37:23.460 Navalny is the opposition leader in Russia. He is the, the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin and has

00:37:30.640 been for a very long time now, at least a decade. And I, I don't think he's any great fan of Donald Trump,

00:37:37.600 but Alexei Navalny came out. He said, quote, I think that the ban on Donald Trump of Donald Trump

00:37:43.740 on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship. The election is a straightforward and competitive

00:37:49.620 process. You can participate in it. You can appeal the results. They're being monitored by millions of

00:37:56.180 people. The ban on Twitter is a decision of people. We don't know in accordance with a procedure. We don't

00:38:02.900 know. It's a great argument, much more precise than, and thorough than Angela Merkel saying it's

00:38:10.660 problematic. So both of them are, are on the right side of this question. Navalny is going out there and

00:38:19.380 defending the American election. He's then defending Donald Trump's right to appeal the results of that

00:38:25.360 election in court, which obviously the Trump campaign did. Then he's saying, you know, maybe

00:38:32.880 it's an imperfect process, whatever, but you know, it's, it is being looked at by lots and lots of

00:38:36.660 people. And so whatever you think about the elections, there's something there you can kind

00:38:42.200 of rely on compared to Twitter's decision, which was made by a handful of people.

00:38:49.280 We don't know anything about their decision. They don't need to tell us the truth.

00:38:55.160 We don't have any oversight, no democratic accountability whatsoever. That is very worrisome.

00:39:02.200 And Alexei Navalny came out and said that the idea that Trump violated the terms of service of Twitter

00:39:07.020 sounds like BS. And it does. There's a good article on the Daily Wire right now about how that,

00:39:12.900 that excuse doesn't seem to, to hold up in light of the evidence. Now there's a separate issue.

00:39:19.280 Which is conservatives have been seeing their followers drop a lot. I think I've lost over

00:39:24.640 30,000 followers at this point. Some people have lost more. Ben's lost like a hundred thousand or

00:39:29.460 more, but it's all conservatives. If you, if you look at the preliminary analyses of this,

00:39:34.780 the conservatives are the ones who are losing and prominent liberal accounts are the ones who are

00:39:38.140 gaining followers. So Twitter yesterday, they came out and they said, the reason you're losing

00:39:44.360 followers, this is just routine maintenance. Go in. We want to make sure it's not bots. We want to go in

00:39:48.720 and make sure it's real people who are actively using these accounts. So no big deal. I pointed

00:39:52.980 out that this seemed to strain credulity because if, if Twitter, if Twitter's excuse were correct,

00:40:00.120 then it would seem they would go in and take out all of the accounts, right? I don't, again,

00:40:03.780 as Alexei Navalny says, we don't know the exact details of this process, but if they're saying

00:40:08.100 there are a lot of accounts, it's routine and we just take them out of the follower accounts

00:40:11.500 until they confirm it, then the way that the numbers would have to move is all the accounts that

00:40:16.920 they removed from the follower accounts would disappear all at once, right? As, as Twitter

00:40:21.120 did it. And then as people, presumably some people are going to confirm their accounts,

00:40:26.420 then the numbers would increase. But actually the way it worked was they were all decreasing.

00:40:30.880 Twitter today seemed to change the story. Then they came out and they said, the reason

00:40:35.560 conservatives are losing tens of thousands of followers is that they've removed 70,000 accounts

00:40:40.440 that had promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory in recent days. And they're, they're cracking down

00:40:48.900 on this kind of content. And because of QAnon, which is this conspiracy theory, they were going

00:40:54.520 to take away all of those accounts. So that's, that's a little different than this is routine

00:40:58.020 maintenance. You know, this happens all the time. We just want to make sure people are using these

00:41:02.180 accounts. Now they're coming out and saying, no, it's, we're targeting this one specific thing

00:41:06.740 that's called QAnon. Again, just buttressing Navalny's point that these decisions are being

00:41:11.920 made behind closed doors. We can't really check on any of it. And these are the people

00:41:15.720 who now have the ability to censor the sitting president of the United States.

00:41:24.000 So QAnon is being kicked off of Twitter. 70,000 accounts gone. Quote, these accounts were engaged in

00:41:32.660 sharing harmful QAnon associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation

00:41:38.280 of this conspiracy theory across the service. What is QAnon? QAnon, I don't really know much

00:41:45.140 about it. I haven't looked really too far into it, but as far as I can tell the edges of it are

00:41:49.460 that there is a global pedophile ring of elite people that involve, you know, royalty and heads of

00:41:57.780 state and billionaires and business leaders. And they're, they're involved in sex trafficking and

00:42:02.660 we got to stop them, you know? And, uh, when people, uh, and I, I don't really know any of the

00:42:08.960 other details, but that's at least the kind of description I've read. When people ask, how could

00:42:12.500 anyone fall for that crazy theory? You, you do have to remind them that Jeffrey Epstein happened,

00:42:18.860 you know, and, uh, or photos of him with like Prince Andrew and multiple U S presidents and Bill

00:42:24.720 Clinton flew on his plane a lot of times. And so I'm, I'm mostly blaming liberal elites for the

00:42:31.400 spread of these kinds of theories. And, uh, now I don't, I don't know exactly how the QAnon thing

00:42:37.900 relates to the Jeffrey Epstein thing. I assume they're related, right? It seems like too much

00:42:41.140 of a coincidence for it not to be, but in any case, fine. It's Twitter's prerogative. They want

00:42:45.140 to get rid of people who are spreading this theory about the Q person. Fine, fine. How about BLM? 0.85

00:42:51.060 How about BLM? Because the Twitter's argument seems to me goes like this. QAnon is a dangerous 1.00

00:42:58.360 conspiracy theory. And in part, it helped motivate people who went to Capitol Hill and rioted.

00:43:05.040 And therefore it's our right and responsibility to take it off of our platform. Okay.

00:43:12.860 What about the BLM conspiracy theory? What about the conspiracy theory being spread by very prominent

00:43:18.060 people? LeBron James famously said, black men can't walk out of, out, out of their doors in 0.81

00:43:22.840 this country without being hunted down. Many, many prominent Democrats, elected Democrats have said 0.66

00:43:29.460 that there is an epidemic in this country of racist cops hunting down and slaughtering innocent black 0.96

00:43:36.580 men for no reason. And that is not true. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. We've gone through 0.97

00:43:42.920 on this show ad nauseum, the actual numbers on officer-involved killings, black men with,

00:43:50.520 with regard to many of the data points here. Location, race of the cops, relation to other

00:43:57.860 officer-involved incidents, just the total number, right? It, it doesn't, it doesn't hold true.

00:44:05.220 But that's the, that's the premise of BLM. And BLM did inspire a lot of people to go not just on one

00:44:12.440 day to a government building, but on many days for weeks and months to many government buildings

00:44:18.400 and torch courthouses and torch police stations and torch businesses and loot and kill people, 0.87

00:44:26.020 dozens of people, dozens of people with the encouragement to go out there and protest and

00:44:32.180 don't stop and we won't stop of elected people, including Kamala Harris. And don't, don't you tell

00:44:38.440 me that she was only encouraging the peaceful people because Kamala Harris raised money to bail them out

00:44:44.600 of jail. The people who were arrested. Now, now what their premise, what they're going to say is,

00:44:51.020 well, no, but they were arrested unjustly because, because BLM good and whatever right-wing thing

00:44:58.560 there is bad. Did Twitter kick off BLM? No, they didn't. It's obviously they didn't kick off Kamala

00:45:05.220 Harris and they didn't kick off the BLM account. And you know what Twitter did? They changed their bio.

00:45:10.740 The actual bio on Twitter said, hashtag black lives matter. They associated themselves with the movement.

00:45:17.880 Those are just the standards that we're living under now. And we can complain about it. We can

00:45:26.160 point out the hypocrisy. They don't care about the hypocrisy to them. They'll read about the QAnon 0.84

00:45:33.540 thing and they'll say, this is completely crazy. Fair enough. I'm, I'm sure it is really kooky. I just

00:45:38.940 haven't, haven't gone too far into it, but they won't even acknowledge the Jeffrey Epstein thing was

00:45:44.020 kind of weird. Wasn't it? Did he really, he just happened to be permitted to kill himself in prison

00:45:48.880 and all this got off the hook. And then Alex Acosta, the U S attorney said he belonged to

00:45:53.140 intelligence and his associate has, her family's got connections to international intelligence. 0.99

00:45:57.940 It's just a little weird, isn't it? No, can't acknowledge that. However, we will believe a far

00:46:03.980 more ridiculous conspiracy theory than anything about Jeffrey Epstein or, uh, his private Island or 0.58

00:46:11.580 whatever. They'll believe that there's an epidemic in this country of, uh, racist cops slaughtering 0.98

00:46:17.360 innocent black men with, they don't need to present evidence for that. That will be not only tolerated, 0.87

00:46:21.920 but promoted by the censors and anything else from the kookiest conspiracy theories all the way to just

00:46:28.540 like pointing out something about Jeffrey Epstein that will come under suspicion. Bernie Sanders is now

00:46:36.860 following the logic of the censorship. He says, quote, let's be clear. If Trump is too dangerous

00:46:43.560 to send out a tweet or a Facebook post, he's too dangerous to be commander in chief. Donald Trump

00:46:49.040 must be removed from office immediately and held accountable for his horrific acts of sedition,

00:46:55.220 violence, and chaos. He has not committed an act of sedition. He has not committed an act of violence.

00:47:00.880 I suppose he has committed acts of chaos. That's kind of why he was elected was to mix up the system,

00:47:05.040 but the system doesn't like getting mixed up. Listen to the logic though.

00:47:12.380 Billionaire oligarch radicals censor the duly elected sitting president.

00:47:20.260 Millionaire radical leftist in the Senate takes this action as evidence that Trump is,

00:47:27.620 if he's too dangerous to be on Twitter, is therefore too dangerous to be president.

00:47:32.520 He must be removed from office immediately. So if you follow that trail of logic, the reason he must

00:47:39.040 be removed from office immediately is because the billionaire radicals say so. Do you see how

00:47:45.900 quickly this moves? We got to censor him. We got to kick him off social media, says the oligarch.

00:47:53.580 Well, if he can't be on social media, he can't be president, says the senator.

00:47:56.720 Now they try to remove him. We're going to impeach the president, says the speaker of the house.

00:48:03.280 And Republicans, I hope they don't roll over on impeachment, but they'll probably roll over on

00:48:07.720 something like censure or something like that. This is the way the regime works, the liberal regime.

00:48:13.720 It all works in accord. The media and technology and the bureaucracy and the elected people.

00:48:20.340 It all, and higher education, it all works together. When are we going to push back through

00:48:28.700 all legal channels, grow a spine, and go up against the system? I'm Michael Knowles. This

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 12, 2021

Ep. 678 - Expel Kamala

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