The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 687 - The 1619 Project President

00:00:00.000 At the end of President Trump's first term, he says hopefully, at the end of that term,

00:00:05.940 President Trump established something called the 1776 Commission. The 1776 Commission

00:00:12.120 sought to overturn the historical revision that attempts to reframe our country's history

00:00:20.240 and attack the very foundations of our country. So the 1776 Commission seeks to undermine the 1619

00:00:26.260 project, which attempts to cast our country in a very negative light. And Joe Biden,

00:00:31.620 now that he is president, has decided in the spirit of unity and healing and moving our country

00:00:37.380 forward, he's gonna completely scrap the 1776 Commission. Look, in the weeks ahead, I'll be

00:00:44.760 reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility,

00:00:50.040 building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration. That's why I'm rescinding the

00:00:57.260 previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolish the offensive

00:01:03.160 counterfactual 1776 Commission. Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not

00:01:13.000 ignorance and lies. He's going to get rid of the offensive 1776 Commission. He is going to permit 0.87

00:01:21.940 sensitivity training, also known as re-education, all in the spirit of unity and healing. Well, if the

00:01:29.980 1776 Commission, which sees our country as good, is offensive and untrue, then I guess our president

00:01:35.680 thinks that our country is wicked to the core. He is not the 1776 president. He's the 1619 Project

00:01:42.060 president. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:43.080 Joe Biden. There's no other way to put it. He is the 1619 Project president. Broadly speaking,

00:03:52.300 without getting too into the weeds on the New York Times 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission,

00:03:57.420 the 1776 Commission says that America broadly is good. That is the framing of American history that

00:04:04.860 it begins with. The 1619 Project explicitly, it says it right on the first page, seeks to reframe

00:04:11.020 American history to cast it in the negative light. So according to the 1619 Project, America is

00:04:17.060 essentially rotten, evil, corrupt to the core. Joe Biden has picked a side. In his first days in 0.98

00:04:27.040 office, the guy has been in office now for like seven days. I guess today it is coming up on a week

00:04:34.760 that Joe Biden has been in office. And he's already, he's not just pushing these kind of smaller,

00:04:40.440 less ambitious policies. He is instituting sensitivity training, which is a politically

00:04:46.840 correct euphemism for politically correct brainwashing, right? For re-education classes.

00:04:55.120 And part and parcel of that is he's going to revise American history. And this ties in with an issue

00:05:02.900 that we were talking about yesterday. I have to revisit it because I got in so much trouble

00:05:07.600 for my views. And I didn't even get in trouble with the left. I got in trouble really with conservatives

00:05:12.660 who are, who think that I'm too conservative or something. This issue of, of kicking out

00:05:18.600 Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and putting Harriet Tubman on there. I saw a lot of conservatives

00:05:25.760 yesterday who were tweeting out as if to win the applause of the left. And they were saying,

00:05:32.340 listen, leftists, I haven't seen a single conservative who isn't totally on board with

00:05:38.380 kicking out Andrew Jackson and putting Harriet Tubman on the $20. Please show me the one conservative. 0.75

00:05:43.820 Okay, here it is. I'm, I'm the one conservative. You found me. I guess you guys weren't, weren't

00:05:47.780 looking too hard because here I am. And I don't think it's just me, by the way. I think a lot

00:05:52.600 of Americans don't want to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill. They don't want to castigate

00:05:59.120 Jackson and say he was an awful, rotten, terrible person. And Jackson really is just, he's just an 0.97

00:06:05.300 easy target. But this, this campaign, which comes from the 1776 project and affiliated groups

00:06:11.860 seeks to overturn all of our venerated forebears. It's not just going to stop at Jackson. It's going

00:06:18.980 to go to Jefferson and Washington and Lincoln. It already is. They're already toppling statues

00:06:23.000 of those guys. I think there are a lot of Americans who feel that way. And I, I understand

00:06:28.080 that there are, are many conservatives who really want to prove to the left that they're not racist.

00:06:34.980 But I, I have to promise you that the left already thinks you're a racist and they also don't care

00:06:42.860 whether or not you are a racist. If you are, what, what is racism? Racism is the unjust

00:06:49.200 discrimination against people and antagonism of people on the basis of their race. It is wrong

00:06:54.620 because it is an offense against human dignity. That's it. If you're not that, then don't worry

00:06:59.600 about it. You don't need to prove anything to the left. You won't be able to prove anything to

00:07:02.560 the left. It's very pitiful to try to prove these things to the left. They are not going to start

00:07:08.220 liking you because you're saying mean things about Andrew Jackson. They don't like you. Okay. Sorry.

00:07:15.480 Pretending to love the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is not going to save you from the gulags,

00:07:20.900 be they digital or otherwise. It's just so lame. This is why we lose every cultural issue.

00:07:28.360 This is it guys. I, you know, when we look back on all the crazy politically correct cultural changes

00:07:34.960 that have happened, we say, why didn't conservatives stand up? I mean, let's use the gendered bathrooms 1.00

00:07:40.760 for a second. The, you know, boys can use the girls' room or whatever. We said, why, how on earth do we

00:07:46.040 get to this place? Why didn't we stand up? Well, the reason that we got to this place is because

00:07:51.020 every time the issue was actually hot, actually, every time it was actually happening, conservatives

00:07:57.200 who wanted to go along to get along said, oh, who cares? It's not a big deal. They did. They did it

00:08:02.100 even with the bathrooms. There are many conservatives who said, oh, it doesn't, who cares?

00:08:05.360 It affects very few people. Let's, it's fine. If some, if some boys are confused and think they're

00:08:10.100 girls, let's just, it's fine. Let's not, I don't want people to think I'm a bigot or this phobe or

00:08:13.920 that phobe. So let's, let's just not touch it. We're going to redefine marriage. Well, let's, 0.59

00:08:19.120 I don't want people to think I'm a bigot of some, let's just, let's not touch it. We're going to

00:08:23.780 redefine whole norms in society. Let's not touch it. We're going to institute new legal racial 0.99

00:08:31.120 discrimination in the form of affirmative action. Well, let's, I don't want to, who cares? It's not 0.86

00:08:36.020 a big deal. It only affects a few slots at a university. It only affects a few jobs. Please

00:08:40.160 let's, let's go along to get along. This is the same thing, guys. Do not, do not tell me who cares.

00:08:49.400 When we say that these cultural issues don't matter, like the Harriet Tubman $20 bill doesn't matter. 0.99

00:08:55.920 We give away the whole game. When we say, oh, forget about that. Let's just talk about the

00:09:00.940 economy. The cultural issues, not only do they not, not matter. The cultural issues pretty much

00:09:09.360 are the only thing that matters. What profiteth a nation to have GDP through the roof, but to lose

00:09:19.560 its whole culture? That's not, that's not what matters. And conservatives need to shake themselves

00:09:25.220 out of this very silly idea that all that matters is tax cuts and bumping up GDP a little bit so that

00:09:31.920 Jeff Bezos can buy a new yacht. That's not what matters. You know what matters? Preserving our

00:09:36.420 traditions, preserving our love of country, preserving our local communities, preserving our venerated

00:09:43.100 figures and forebears and rituals. That's what matters. And it'd be nice to get low taxes too,

00:09:50.120 but that is going to come downstream. Okay. The, the economic policy is going to come downstream

00:09:55.020 of that cultural policy. When you say it doesn't matter, okay, it's a $20 bill. It doesn't matter.

00:10:02.040 Well, you know, it, it matters to me. It matters, I think, to a great number of conservatives. So good.

00:10:07.240 If it doesn't matter, then let it go. Right. If it doesn't really matter, then fine. Then we won't

00:10:13.440 change it because you're, you're the one who wants to change it leftist. And I'm the one who doesn't

00:10:18.740 want to change it. And you say, it doesn't matter. No one cares. And I say, I care. So good. Let it

00:10:22.880 go. Oh, they're not going to let it go though. Cause they do care. And they care for a reason

00:10:27.260 because they know that the framing of our nation in the minds of its citizens is the whole game.

00:10:35.320 It will utterly transform the politics. That's why Joe Biden is so eager to cancel the 1776 commission

00:10:42.320 and to castigate it as offensive, offensive to, to, to love your country.

00:10:49.400 That will not get us unity, but the left of course does not want unity. The left does not want unity

00:10:58.880 at all. They want more and more division. We talked about this a little bit yesterday after Chris Cuomo

00:11:04.760 was, uh, like a, like some sort of demon, you know, uh, loving it while this child was talking

00:11:12.140 about how he turned his dad into the FBI after his dad went to the steel, stop the steel rally in DC.

00:11:19.440 And Chris Cuomo said, yeah, go on. Tell me more about this. What society, what, what the left does

00:11:24.140 is it wants to break down every single traditional institution. So it goes after the church. It goes

00:11:31.340 after voluntary associations. It goes after specifically the family because for the left,

00:11:36.120 the essential unit of society is the individual. And some libertarians buy into this stuff too,

00:11:41.820 but it's just silly and wrong and contrary to human nature. In fact, as conservatives understand,

00:11:48.980 the fundamental social institution is the family. That's the unit. We're not born free floating atoms.

00:11:55.560 We're born with, from a mother and a father who loved each other. We're born out of that love.

00:11:59.400 Ultimately we're born out of the love that our creator has for us. And we have loyalty to them

00:12:04.320 and we have duty to them and we have obligation to them. And the left has to break all of that up.

00:12:10.360 So unity isn't going to work. They, what they have to do is they have to break down the country,

00:12:14.440 all the institutions, all the churches, all of the families that has been at the heart of

00:12:21.040 revolutionary movements from the beginning. And then they bind us all back together as we're all

00:12:25.180 individuals. And then our best relationship we have is with the state. Barack Obama ran on this.

00:12:30.700 He called it the life of Julia in 2020. They scrubbed it from the internet because it was so

00:12:33.960 creepy. But that is the kind of unity that they're talking about. We have to be strong. One great way

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00:14:02.080 strong, get your Beachbody. One way that some misguided senators are trying to give us unity 1.00

00:14:11.200 is by impeaching the president. So Mitt Romney, who I've been uncharacteristically nice to recently

00:14:17.320 because he's been saying some halfway decent things now that he's in the Senate minority and

00:14:21.800 it doesn't matter and he can sort of mouth off and pretend to be conservative. However,

00:14:26.180 Mitt Romney is reverting back to his old ways. He was just on Chris Wallace's Sunday show and he says,

00:14:31.980 very, very important for the purpose of unity to impeach the ex-president.

00:14:37.500 We're certainly going to have a trial. I wish that weren't necessary, but the president's conduct

00:14:43.420 with regards to the call, the Secretary of State Raffensperger in Georgia, as well as the incitation

00:14:48.880 towards the insurrection that led to the attack on the Capitol, calls for a trial. And, you know,

00:14:55.500 if we're going to have unity in our country, I think it's important to recognize the need for

00:14:59.540 accountability, for truth and justice. So I think there will be a trial and I hope it goes as

00:15:05.380 quickly as possible, but that's up to the council on both sides.

00:15:09.440 For, for unity, we're going to have to impeach the ex-president, something we've never done in

00:15:15.320 this country, something that would be so unprecedented after a bitterly contested presidential election

00:15:20.040 where many of the rules of the election and the safeguards for election integrity were just

00:15:25.240 completely thrown out in the weeks and months before the election. Places like Pennsylvania,

00:15:30.640 notably, where they violated the state constitution to take away those safeguards by instituting

00:15:35.680 widespread unsolicited mail-in votes. That, that sort of, so you're telling me after all of that,

00:15:40.240 the way you're going to have unity is by taking an unprecedented action and impeaching an ex-president?

00:15:46.820 Of course not. Listen to the language. So vague, truth and justice. Now I totally support truth and

00:15:53.880 justice, but notice how vague he's being about it. He's not making those connections. It's all

00:15:58.960 abstractions. It's all out there. Romney is not the only person calling for this. There are other

00:16:04.300 Republicans, prominent Republicans who are calling for this. Now, one of the most prominent Republicans

00:16:11.460 doing this is Meghan McCain on The View. And I'm, I'm not going to beat up on Meghan McCain for calling

00:16:18.080 for the impeachment, mainly because Donald Trump was very mean to her dad. And so I get it. You know,

00:16:24.720 I sort of understand why she might not like the guy, but listen, listen to Meghan's argument as

00:16:29.940 to why we need to impeach the, the former president, Donald Trump. I'm a lifelong conservative,

00:16:34.860 unlike a lot of these heretics. I mean, I was born into this, raised into it. It's my whole entire life

00:16:40.760 and in all ways. And I truly at the bottom of my soul, I think, as all of you know, I,

00:16:45.400 I believe in the principles I was raised on. It is very difficult for me to come on this show right

00:16:50.440 now, because I've always prided myself on having my finger on the tenor of what's going on in

00:16:55.640 conservative circles. Even when I didn't agree with Trump, I, I, you know, I'm not a squish. I'm 0.88

00:16:59.920 not someone who went full brainwashed Lincoln project that everything that's conservative is a

00:17:04.400 bastion of evil and I must reject it and atone myself. I'm not that kind of Republican or conservative,

00:17:10.100 but right now I cannot defend this. I believe president Trump should be impeached. I believe we

00:17:14.700 have to take a stand and have a fine line about what is acceptable for a president to do or not.

00:17:19.640 He incited a riot. People got violent. People died. Full stop. Okay. So as I said, I'm not,

00:17:26.540 I'm not going to go after really the, the substance here because, uh, you know, if Trump were,

00:17:31.220 were as tough on my father as he was on Megan's father, uh, maybe I'd feel differently about the

00:17:35.940 man. Uh, obviously Megan McCain and I disagree on, on impeachment and, uh, and I suppose on Trump more

00:17:42.260 broadly, but I want to focus in on, on one word. She said, president, president,

00:17:48.980 she said, it's very important to impeach president Trump. There is no president Trump.

00:17:56.440 President Trump is gone. There is former president Trump. And sometimes in this country,

00:18:02.520 we refer to former presidents as president, but we're actually not supposed to as a matter of

00:18:07.260 etiquette. You really shouldn't refer to former presidents as Mr. President or President Bush or

00:18:12.700 President Clinton, because there's only one president. There's only, and it's, it actually

00:18:17.180 does get to, we, we do it to be polite. I've, I've done it myself, but as a matter of Republican

00:18:24.400 virtue, lowercase r, there's only one president at one time. There's only one governor at one time.

00:18:30.700 You really shouldn't. We, to be polite, we sometimes say, you know, governor Huntsman or governor

00:18:36.200 Pataki or, but really you shouldn't. There's only one. And the constitution does not establish a 0.86

00:18:44.540 process to impeach X presidents, just to impeach the president. That is why, by the way, at this

00:18:53.320 alleged impeachment trial, the chief justice is not going to preside. The chief justice only presides,

00:18:59.880 according to the constitution, at, at an impeachment trial, when you impeach the president. But we're

00:19:06.600 not, unless, unless it's a bait and switch and this whole thing is just cocaine Mitch's big ruse

00:19:10.860 to convince Democrats that they're impeaching Trump, but then accidentally they end up impeaching

00:19:15.320 Biden. That would be hilarious. And I wouldn't put him past Mr. Cocaine. He is a slippery one.

00:19:20.260 But unless that happens, chief justice can't be there. Now you might say, well, Michael, we've,

00:19:26.320 we've impeached X judges before, which is true there. We, we talked about this a little bit on,

00:19:31.460 on the verdicts podcast with Senator Cruz. There have been times that, that, that X officials have

00:19:36.360 been impeached according to various laws. But the president is no ordinary official. An impeachment

00:19:42.420 trial in the Senate is no ordinary impeachment. It is laid out, the process is laid out explicitly

00:19:48.680 in the U.S. constitution. And the constitution provides no route to impeach a former president.

00:19:56.320 Rand Paul, who has been extraordinarily impressive recently, just came out and gave a fiery speech

00:20:02.800 about the farce that that whole process has become. The constitution says the president,

00:20:09.500 vice president, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on

00:20:14.240 impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:20:20.180 Article one, section three, clause six states, when the president of the United States is tried,

00:20:25.700 the chief justice shall preside. As of noon last Wednesday, Donald Trump holds none of the

00:20:31.160 positions listed in the constitution. He is a private citizen. The presiding officer is not the

00:20:36.820 chief justice, nor does he claim to be. His presence in the chief justice absence, chief justice's absence,

00:20:44.140 demonstrate that this is not a trial of the president, but of a private citizen. Therefore,

00:20:48.500 I make a point of order that this proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president,

00:20:54.880 a vice president, or civil officer violates the constitution and is not in order.

00:21:00.500 You tell him, Rand, absolutely true. And his speech was not technically persuasive in that they,

00:21:10.780 they took a vote yesterday in the Senate to either throw out the impeachment trial completely or to go

00:21:18.260 on with the impeachment trial. And unfortunately it was determined after that vote that they would go

00:21:23.380 on with the impeachment trial. So in that sense, Rand Paul's speech was not persuasive, but in the most

00:21:28.020 important sense, it was persuasive because the vote was 45 senators voting against continuing this

00:21:38.140 impeachment trial. If you have 45 senators, do you get these 45 Republicans to vote against the

00:21:45.700 impeachment trial? Then what you are showing broadly is that the Democrats don't have the

00:21:51.600 votes for impeachment. It's not just a simple majority to convict the president. He's already

00:21:57.180 been impeached in the house. It's not just to convict the ex president. I'm sorry. He's already been

00:22:01.540 impeached in the house. You need what? Two thirds to convict in the Senate. They don't have that.

00:22:06.860 So it's dead on arrival. And Mitch McConnell made that point himself.

00:22:16.380 If the trial is not going to result in a conviction, then it's a complete waste of the

00:22:24.200 Senate's time. And frankly, for that, for that matter, I'm all for it. I want to waste the Senate's

00:22:29.540 time under the Biden administration when, when the Democrats have unified government. I want evidence

00:22:35.400 to be presented from the Trump side. I want, I want president Trump. It's going to be a little

00:22:41.520 tricky because you've got to massage some of the squishy Republicans. I want the Trump team at this 1.00

00:22:45.420 impeachment trial to go out and present all of the evidence of voting irregularities, of changing

00:22:55.860 election laws right before the election to benefit Democrats, of violating state constitutions. It might

00:23:01.700 only be tangential to the case, but I totally want that. And I, and I want people for at least

00:23:07.400 some time to refer to president Trump, right? If they're impeaching him, I guess he's the real

00:23:11.480 president. I guess he's the legitimate president, right? I think we could have a lot of fun with that

00:23:16.200 now that it's pretty clear Democrats are not going to convict. And, and by the way, if you are in a

00:23:22.780 position where you're the only president who's ever been impeached twice and they never convict you,

00:23:29.360 and they've been trying to undermine you since you first ran for office and the incumbent

00:23:33.540 spied on your campaign to try to prevent you from ascending to the office in the first place,

00:23:38.500 that is not a mark of shame. The left wants to pretend that double impeachment is a mark of shame.

00:23:44.740 When the, the powers that are impeaching you are so corrupt, it's a badge of honor. President Trump

00:23:50.720 should be very, very happy about that. And it shows you, by the way, these, these conservatives,

00:23:55.820 these Republicans who are coming out now against impeachment, maybe they're doing it because it's

00:24:00.640 their judgment and that's the best lights they can follow. But I think they also see that the

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00:26:27.220 There's some more good news coming out of the continued persecution of Donald Trump. They try

00:26:34.940 and they try and they try. We now know that the Senate almost certainly will not convict him.

00:26:39.200 They just don't have the votes. Now the Supreme Court threw two lawsuits out, which accused Donald

00:26:44.400 Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the constitution, which now ends a four year legal

00:26:50.160 battle over the former president's businesses. So the, the accusation here is that Donald Trump

00:26:56.700 was enriching himself in office. Now, of course he wasn't. He lost a lot of money. He didn't accept

00:27:01.560 a salary to be president and his businesses lost a lot of money because leftists attacked the people

00:27:06.940 that were doing business with him and they used legal mechanisms as well to try to take away his

00:27:14.100 ability to make money and his family's ability to make money. Okay. Well, the Watchdog Group Citizens

00:27:18.440 for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington or CREW decided to file one of these emoluments lawsuits

00:27:24.100 the day after Trump was inaugurated back in 2017. Attorneys General of DC and Maryland brought similar

00:27:31.380 lawsuit in June of that same year and now it's over. So that, that attempt to persecute the president

00:27:37.440 also out. And then even better beyond all the Trump stuff, there's even better news coming out

00:27:44.360 of the Senate. Mitch McConnell has now come out and announced that one of the greatest fears

00:27:51.540 that we all had if Democrats got unified government is not going to come true. One of the,

00:27:57.860 maybe the single biggest fear was that Democrats would kill the filibuster and they had promised

00:28:06.040 that they were going to kill the filibuster. So we had to take them seriously when they were saying

00:28:10.080 they would do this. Why did it matter if they killed the filibuster? We've filibuster is not in 0.65

00:28:14.300 the constitution. It hasn't existed for the entire history of the U S Senate because what the filibuster

00:28:18.720 does is it slows down legislation and it requires a longer deliberation and it permits senators to hold up

00:28:26.120 radical legislation. So if you have the filibuster, you can prevent the most radical policies.

00:28:33.360 If you kill the filibuster, then all of a sudden Democrats can add DC and Puerto Rico estates.

00:28:37.580 They can pack the Supreme court. They can do all the scary things they wanted to do.

00:28:41.180 Mitch McConnell announces quote today, two democratic senators publicly confirmed they will not vote

00:28:45.640 to end the legislative filibuster. They agree with president Biden's in my view that no Senate

00:28:50.500 majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation. 0.66

00:28:54.740 The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate's last

00:28:58.760 50, 50 power sharing agreement in 2001. With the, with these assurances, I look forward to moving

00:29:05.540 ahead with a power sharing agreement modeled on that precedent. So part of the reason that McConnell was

00:29:10.860 able to work this out and prevent killing the filibuster is because the Democrats don't have an

00:29:17.980 outright majority in the Senate, right? It's 50, 50 right now in the U S Senate, but Kamala Harris vice 0.99

00:29:25.100 president can serve as that tie breaking vote in the Senate under the constitution. So they've got this

00:29:31.140 kind of bare sort of majority, but it's a little tricky and it really matters when you figure out

00:29:35.960 who's going to make committee appointments, who's going, who's going to run the Senate because the, 0.68

00:29:41.260 the majority leader has so many additional privileges. So McConnell comes out and he says,

00:29:46.220 okay, we'll do a power sharing agreement. It'll be, that's all fine, but you've got to agree not to

00:29:50.440 kill the filibuster. Biden signals he's willing to do that because Biden right now is governing

00:29:54.800 through executive order anyway, and he's governing through the bureaucratic state. And this, this is

00:29:59.340 why we shouldn't celebrate too much that we've preserved the Senate and the legislature. I mean,

00:30:03.260 that's going to prevent a lot of radicalism, but don't forget in this country, we are not governed

00:30:08.620 by the system that the constitution establishes, at least not directly and not in any really

00:30:15.320 recognizable way. The, the body that really governs us, that really writes most of the laws that

00:30:21.300 affect our lives. It's not the house. It's not the Senate. It's the administrative state.

00:30:28.840 It's the bureaucracy. You call it the deep state. You call it the executive agencies,

00:30:32.420 whatever you want to call it. And they are still working unperturbed. These are the egghead

00:30:39.960 technocrats who come out and then one day they say, okay, you've, you've all got to wear masks.

00:30:44.980 And then they say, you shouldn't wear masks. And then they say, you got to wear two masks.

00:30:47.860 And then they say, you got to jump up and down on a pogo stick and put a donut on your head.

00:30:51.380 And we just go along with it. And they write all those little regulations and they really do have

00:30:55.360 teeth, a lot of those regulations. And the courts defer to the agencies to interpret their own

00:30:59.140 statutes. So while the bureaucracy is still running roughshod over our constitutional order,

00:31:06.800 the media are backing them up. I actually have to say, you know how much I hate to say,

00:31:11.640 I told you so. We covered for many, many months, we've covered the masks, which I've said from the

00:31:17.620 beginning are extremely stupid. And some people disagreed with me at the beginning. Now I think 0.99

00:31:21.680 everybody agrees with me. Then, then just the other day, they said that there's, there's a new rule.

00:31:27.200 Well, everyone's got to start wearing two masks. And I thought about this for a second. I said,

00:31:32.640 wait, first of all, you told us all not to wear masks. Then you told us we had to wear masks.

00:31:37.360 Then you, now you're telling us to wear two masks. I'm no scientist. I'm no expert, but I think pretty

00:31:42.540 soon they're going to be telling us to wear three masks, right? I believe I said this on the show

00:31:47.100 yesterday or the day before. Well, tuning into CNBC, you can see former Fox News anchor,

00:31:55.260 Shepard Smith comes out, gives a great big old report on the efficacy, the genius of wearing

00:32:02.020 three masks. Since the start of the pandemic, experts have urged us to do three things. Wash

00:32:08.460 our hands, maintain social distance and wear a mask all the time. Not when you feel like it all the time

00:32:14.280 when you're not eating and drinking. But now the experts say with these variants, it's time to double

00:32:19.440 up and wear two. This morning, Dr. Fauci endorsed the, endorsed the idea on the today show.

00:32:24.920 Okay, fine. So Fauci comes out and supports the double masks. I do want to correct Shepard Smith

00:32:32.240 here. He said that the experts told us to wear masks from the beginning. They didn't tell us to

00:32:36.540 wear masks from the beginning. They actually explicitly told us not to wear masks from the

00:32:40.100 beginning. Fauci said it was stupid to wear masks and wouldn't do anything. And the surgeon general of 0.98

00:32:44.860 the United States said in all caps, multiple exclamation points, stop buying masks, people.

00:32:49.880 So Shep got that completely wrong, but fine. Afterward, then they said, we all have to start

00:32:54.340 wearing masks. Then they continue with their brilliant report. Experts say you can double up

00:33:00.600 with a tight weave fabric mask for added protection. Now, Virginia Tech researchers found that doubling up

00:33:08.060 these cloth masks increases the efficacy from 50 to 75%. A three-layer mask could block up to 90% of the

00:33:16.880 particles. And if you're layering your mask, the disposable surgical mask goes on first, and then the

00:33:23.640 tight-fitting fabric mask goes right over the top. And then you can put the burka over your head, 0.99

00:33:30.540 and then you won't have any particle come at you at all, and you'll be wearing a burlap sack.

00:33:35.440 And then, then we'll finally be safe. Then we can get back to normal when we're all covered,

00:33:42.200 not just in full niqab, but full burka. Then we're all back to normal here in America. 0.95

00:33:47.400 Follow the science. Now, you know, I'm, I'm not a, obviously I'm not a scientist. In a certain sense,

00:33:53.860 I guess I'm an expert scientist, but I, you know, I don't have a fancy white lab coat. I don't have

00:33:58.340 some sinecure at some administrative agency, but, and just hear me out. If the, the one,

00:34:05.660 and then the two, and then you do the three, what should, should we just, should, should we

00:34:13.280 quadruple mask? Is that because, because that lady on Shepard Smith's show says that two masks

00:34:21.480 is 75% effective. Now, what does that mean? Effective? I don't know. It's just a number,

00:34:27.980 you know, from some of the geniuses with their spreadsheets. And then three masks is 90% effective.

00:34:33.280 So by, by my, that's a 15% increase. So by my calculation, four masks would be 105% effective.

00:34:44.200 And I don't want to be too ambitious here. Five masks, right? Follow me. That would be 120%

00:34:51.780 effective. Can you imagine how much healthier you would be? You'd be 20% healthier than you are right

00:34:56.740 now. Man, you, I don't know. You could live to be 110 at that point. So I don't know. I'm going to

00:35:02.480 keep trying to work out my theory of masks. It seems that the, the Fauci scientific technocratic

00:35:09.120 theory of masks keeps changing day by day, but I'm going to keep working out mine too. I'm going

00:35:12.800 to come in here tomorrow. I'm going to have 20 masks on my face. I'm going to be the healthiest

00:35:16.080 man in America. The, the other reason I wanted to mention this little segment from Shep Smith's new

00:35:21.920 show at CNBC is I, I was reminded watching this, just what losers conservatives are, just what, 1.00

00:35:31.160 what losers we are, how stupid we are. Shepard Smith was the main daytime anchor at the putatively 1.00

00:35:42.300 conservative cable news channel, the cable news channel for years. And he's a huge lib and he was

00:35:51.660 always a huge lib. CNN does not do that. CNN does not make, first of all, they don't hire any

00:36:00.900 conservative, not one, not one single conservative does CNN have on staff. Certainly they don't make

00:36:08.960 the conservative, the anchor of their daytime news programming. MSNBC does not have one single

00:36:17.200 conservative, not one on staff. Those, those cable networks have some kind of like squishy people

00:36:22.120 that they're like kind of like Joe Scarborough, right? Who's a liberal, but he pretends to be a

00:36:27.340 conservative. Or you think of an Anna Navarro who is a liberal. Everything she does advances the liberal

00:36:32.980 cause, but she kind of, but she goes on and her chyron says she's a conservative, right? So

00:36:37.900 they have those people who pretend, but they're not actually the thing.

00:36:41.520 And Shepard Smith actually is a huge lib and we conservatives, we say, oh no, look, we have to,

00:36:48.540 we got to put the liberals on all the time. The real liberals. Why, why do we have to do that?

00:36:53.540 Why, why are we playing by a completely different set of rules that is not particularly moral,

00:37:00.300 not particularly ethical. It's not as though we can appeal to some higher moral principle here as

00:37:04.860 to why we do this, as to why we promote a bunch of insane progressivism on our platforms,

00:37:10.800 but we do. We do. So lame. It, it gets back to the story. I keep coming back to the story

00:37:17.640 of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill kicking out Andrew Jackson because it, because it relates to this

00:37:23.800 primary left-wing campaign of trying to reframe American history. And we just go along with it.

00:37:29.980 We just say, oh yeah, totally. No, yeah. Andrew Jackson, he's bad. And Jefferson, he's bad too.

00:37:34.360 You know, in Washington, he wasn't so great. He owned slaves. And yeah, no, American history is,

00:37:37.880 it's bad. But, but it's not the worst thing in the world. I don't, we just keep, we keep negotiating

00:37:43.640 against ourselves and we keep gobbling up liberal premises. It's just so lame. Meanwhile, meanwhile,

00:37:52.380 we're up against the entire liberal establishment, the entire edifice that involves the bureaucracy,

00:37:59.800 as we've noted, and the now elected government and the media, certainly, and Hollywood and tech

00:38:07.340 and education. I was watching a little clip, certainly not the whole show, but I was watching

00:38:14.660 George Stephanopoulos, you know, the ex-Clinton communications director, White House communications

00:38:20.040 director, Clinton's hatchet man, who then becomes the totally objective, serious news anchor at a

00:38:26.800 mainstream network, television network, not just a cable network, but an actual network network,

00:38:34.120 George Stephanopoulos. So he's previewing his show on ABC and they're playing clips. And one of the

00:38:40.220 clips they want to get to is Chuck Schumer's speech about the insurrection. Take a look, take a listen

00:38:44.180 to their, their version of Chuck Schumer's speech. America's 46th president confronts multiple crises

00:38:50.740 as the Senate prepares to try a former president for the first time. Senators will have to decide

00:38:56.940 if they believe Donald John Trump incited the insurrection. Is that what he said? Hold on. I,

00:39:05.500 I know we played that clip yesterday on the show. Did he say senators will have to decide if Donald

00:39:11.140 John Trump incited the insurrection? Is that what, let's just go, I think we still have it in the queue

00:39:16.400 from, from yesterday. What did Chuck Schumer actually say? Senators will have to decide if they

00:39:22.840 believe Donald John, Donald John Trump incited the erection, insurrection against the United States.

00:39:32.300 Oh, right. That's what he said. Oh, that's a little different, isn't it? Stephanopoulos,

00:39:39.120 he didn't, he didn't play that clip. He had his editors go in and manipulate the video.

00:39:48.120 Not, not it would seem just for clarity because the word erection took what, one second,

00:39:53.880 two seconds. It didn't, it's not like, it's not as though they needed to cut it down for timing.

00:39:58.660 He cut it down to make Chuck Schumer look better because our state run TV for the liberal dominant

00:40:05.940 regime in the United States would make Kim Jong-un blush. It would make Xi Jinping blush. It's,

00:40:13.180 he'd be embarrassed. He'd say, gosh, guys, we're being a little transparent, being a little on the

00:40:16.460 nose here. That's what we have in the United States. That is the regime we're up against.

00:40:21.580 And we conservatives, we just go along with it as though this is some kind of fair game. As though,

00:40:27.480 oh yes, no, you get rid of American history. That's fine. Oh yeah, all our revered forebears,

00:40:31.740 they're bad. Yeah. They're, they're awful. Oh yes. No, we need to have a bunch of liberals on 0.68

00:40:36.180 our conservative TV network. That's the only way it's fair. Uh-uh, buddy. The left controls

00:40:42.580 everything. Well, why on earth are you giving them even one inch, even one iota? Well, because

00:40:47.860 they want unity. Yeah, they want unity, do they? Is that right? Joe Biden wants unity, huh? That's why

00:40:53.160 on day one in office, he eliminates the legal recognition of sexual difference, difference between

00:40:59.940 men and women, obliterates girls' bathrooms, at least by executive order, practically probably 0.97

00:41:04.480 won't be able to be put into effect, much to his chagrin. Eliminates girls' sports, eliminates

00:41:10.360 a government commission seeking to cast our history in less than a terrible, awful light.

00:41:20.380 Well, it's unity, right? Uh, I don't think so.

00:41:23.620 There is some hope in our politics and actually it's not, it's not just purely partisan. It's not

00:41:33.060 just purely Republicans, good Democrats, bad Democrats, almost always bad in our public life,

00:41:41.680 but Republicans, not so great either. A lot of the time. However, there, there is an exception here to

00:41:46.740 this dichotomy. Tulsi Gabbard. You know, the conservatives for a long time now have said very

00:41:55.900 nice things about Tulsi Gabbard. They've sort of fallen in love with her. I think in part,

00:41:59.420 as you can see from the online commentary, it's because she's very good looking, very beautiful

00:42:03.740 woman. And so some of that affects, but, but a lot of the reason conservatives have liked her 1.00

00:42:08.360 is because she's broken with her party on certain issues. And I have been a little reticent. I've been

00:42:16.300 a little reluctant to totally get on board the Tulsi train. I've liked a lot of things she said,

00:42:21.980 but I've been fooled once. I've been fooled twice. I have had my heart broken by democratic

00:42:27.300 politicians who I thought were trying to change things a little bit. So I've held out, but I have

00:42:32.340 to tell you, Tulsi Gabbard is coming out and showing that she has, if not perfect moral clarity,

00:42:38.880 at least extraordinary political clarity.

00:42:41.640 The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th to try to stop Congress from carrying out its

00:42:47.920 constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let's be

00:42:54.260 clear. The John Brennans, Adam Schiff's, and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine

00:43:00.220 our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style

00:43:06.320 surveillance are also domestic enemies and much more powerful and therefore dangerous than the

00:43:13.320 mob that stormed the Capitol. Be still my beating heart. Oh my gosh. Cause she, she begins this clip

00:43:19.460 in a way that you think, okay, here we go. Here's another one. Yeah. The Capitol thing. It was the worst

00:43:23.920 thing that's ever happened. It's worse than Pearl Harbor, right? So that's how she begins it.

00:43:27.160 But no, she says, yeah, the Capitol thing was very bad. I think we agree with that.

00:43:32.100 Right? I think we all basically agree. But what the liberal dominant regime, what this blob,

00:43:42.080 what this wicked, corrupt, rotten establishment is doing is not only just as bad, but because they're 0.88

00:43:50.920 so much more powerful, because it's so much more vast and it penetrates so much deeper into society, 0.92

00:43:58.280 it's much, much more dangerous than what we saw at the Capitol. Absolutely 100% correct.

00:44:08.340 She is seeing something that I would say probably most elected Republicans aren't seeing.

00:44:15.500 And then Tulsi gives her evidence.

00:44:17.760 John Brennan said.

00:44:19.100 So I know looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have

00:44:25.280 been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what

00:44:31.840 looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different

00:44:37.720 parts of the country and they gain strength. And it brings together an unholy alliance frequently

00:44:42.900 of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.

00:44:51.540 Now, President Biden, I call upon you and all members of Congress from both parties to denounce

00:44:59.280 these efforts by the likes of Brennan and others to take away our civil liberties that are endowed to

00:45:04.640 us by our creator and guaranteed in our constitution. If you don't stand up to these people now,

00:45:12.060 then our country will be in great peril.

00:45:16.620 That speech, that clarity that Tulsi Gabbard is exhibiting has knocked away my reticence,

00:45:25.640 my reluctance. She's still not a perfect politician, but goodness gracious, does she see something?

00:45:32.800 Goodness gracious, that's leadership. And it's not even just this kind of cheap thing where,

00:45:37.640 you know, a Democrat becomes a Republican and we all point to her and say, oh, she's my favorite

00:45:42.260 Democrat or something. Because she's not really becoming a Republican. It's something a little

00:45:46.480 bit different than that. She's pointing out the blob. She's pointing out that corrupt establishment. 1.00

00:45:51.900 I love, actually, in that clip she plays from John Brennan, the talk about the swampiest of the swamp

00:45:57.940 creatures, deep stadiest of the deep state creatures. John, I believe he also voted for a communist for

00:46:02.860 president once. Seriously. And again, actual communist candidate for president. John Brennan

00:46:07.200 comes out and he says, look, we're seeing in the United States a kind of dissident movement that we've

00:46:16.000 seen in the dissident movements in other countries that try to destabilize the regime. Now, pause for a

00:46:22.760 second. When John Brennan and his fellow travelers see dissident movements in other places, they usually

00:46:30.800 say they're really great. Usually they love them. They kind of encourage these dissident movements,

00:46:34.680 but they certainly don't encourage dissident movements in the United States. And did you hear

00:46:40.000 what he refers to as the dissident movement? So the classic, he castigates Americans as racists and

00:46:45.480 bigots and the nativist. Well, hold on. That's a little different. Nativist really there. You're just 0.82

00:46:51.600 saying maybe we should reduce immigration. Now we let like 2 million people in a year. We have the most 1.00

00:46:57.560 broad open borders immigration regime in the history of the world. Maybe we should bring that 0.98

00:47:02.380 down. 60% of Americans, according to at least one Harvard Harris poll, think that we should do that.

00:47:07.460 That we should, the majority of Americans believe we should, we should bring immigration, including

00:47:11.940 legal immigration down substantially. So hold on. Nativist? Well, what? So you just don't want open 1.00

00:47:15.500 borders? And then libertarians? Libertarians now? Look, I mean, I'm happy to knock the libertarians

00:47:23.160 just as much as anybody, but that is your example of a hateful, awful, terrible group. Libertarians? 1.00

00:47:30.100 By the way, this just underscores my point that I often make to libertarians, which is you're never

00:47:34.000 going to get the left to like you. They hate you and they think you're a neo-Nazi. So stop trying to 0.61

00:47:37.520 suck up to the left. But that's what they mean. These guys who sort of run the blob, they're figures in 0.99

00:47:45.240 the dominant liberal regime. They might love dissident movements abroad. They don't like the dissident

00:47:51.540 movements here at home. Anything that challenges their established power, which is why they are

00:47:58.800 undertaking this radical program with Joe Biden as their vessel, good old moderate Scranton Joe

00:48:03.420 as the vessel of this extraordinarily radical program to undermine the very foundations of the country,

00:48:11.640 undermine our framing of American history, how we understand ourselves. And it's no coincidence that

00:48:16.780 Biden is undertaking this radical sexual policy in his first days in office, all the transgender bills 1.00

00:48:22.140 to undermine even human nature itself, to push forward this progressive agenda that seeks to

00:48:30.320 revolutionize not just our country, but human nature itself. That is a very scary project. We should

00:48:38.060 welcome any support we can from any corners we can, even Tulsi Gabbard, even a Democrat,

00:48:43.160 to undermine that effort, to stand athwart that history, that historicism, that theory of progress,

00:48:51.260 and yell, stop. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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