The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 695 - Mass Delusion

00:00:00.000 In an unprecedented power grab, the Democrat-run House of Representatives has voted to strip a

00:00:06.680 Republican congressman of her committee seats. They did this ostensibly because the Republican

00:00:13.620 congressman has said kooky things on social media in the past. In reality, this is just a power grab.

00:00:20.480 You want to talk about upsetting historical and political norms. This is something we really

00:00:25.360 haven't seen before. And of course, if the reasoning is legitimate, if delusion is disqualifying for

00:00:32.860 serving in Congress, then we're not just going to have to remove one person from committees. We're

00:00:37.140 going to have to abolish all the committees. We're probably going to have to abolish the entire House 1.00

00:00:40.860 of Representatives. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show.

00:00:52.840 My favorite comment from Friday is from Julio Rosa, who says,

00:00:56.860 AOC is the kind of girl that wears red to a stranger's funeral and cries louder than the 1.00

00:01:01.760 actual family of the deceased. This is true. She also might stage some photo ops there. She

00:01:06.980 might not actually be at the funeral, but just sort of just out outside of the frame and she'd

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00:02:41.620 check out MVMT. I do not go for conspiracy theories, generally speaking. Now, what makes

00:02:50.560 a conspiracy theory? I guess we could debate that all day long, but I'm, I'm not tempted to believe

00:02:55.080 in conspiracy theories. I usually try to go for the simplest answer to things. I, I believe that so

00:03:00.600 many people would need to be involved and on the know and know how to keep a secret for, for some of

00:03:05.840 these theories to be true that I just don't buy it. However, I always enjoy reading conspiracy

00:03:10.920 theories. I really like it. I will go down internet rabbit holes on all the craziest sort of conspiracy

00:03:16.240 theories, not because I think they're plausible, but because I, I enjoy seeing the thinking that goes

00:03:23.480 into them. I have always gone sort of light on friends of mine who come to me with kind of crazy

00:03:28.480 conspiracy theories. I don't harangue them. I don't scream at them. I don't castigate them because I find

00:03:33.600 them in a way sometimes delightful, uh, conspiracies and conspiracy theories can be the sign of an

00:03:40.480 active mind, might be the sign of a deranged mind, but at least active, at least people are thinking

00:03:45.320 about these things. The other, the other reason that I don't harangue and go after people who push

00:03:51.220 these conspiracy theories is every once in a while, maybe not one out of 10 times, maybe not one out of

00:03:57.520 a hundred, maybe it's one in a million, but every once in a while they turn out to be true. We've 0.81

00:04:04.120 talked a lot about conspiracy theories with regard to the 2020 election. And if you, if you even suggest

00:04:10.600 that anything was awry, anything was irregular about the election, you could be deplatformed,

00:04:15.780 you could be kicked off of the internet, you could be kicked off of your servers, you could be kicked

00:04:20.600 off of all these sorts of things. But sometimes turns out that they're true. For instance,

00:04:26.560 Time Magazine publishes the secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. This

00:04:34.660 is a very, very long article. I killed many trees printing out this article. Obviously I'm not going to

00:04:41.440 read anywhere near the whole thing, but just, just a few, a few important paragraphs, I think here.

00:04:46.680 So the article opens up talking about how Trump had all these theories that the election was going

00:04:52.380 to be rigged. And then, and then she writes, in a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy

00:04:59.900 unfolding behind the scenes. One that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from

00:05:05.340 CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business

00:05:12.000 titans. The pact was formalized in a terse little notice joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of

00:05:16.380 Commerce and the AFL-CIO published on election day. This was an agreement that they basically were not

00:05:22.300 going to pursue claims of voter fraud. Skip a bit. Their work, this, this informal alliance,

00:05:30.340 their work touched every aspect of the election. So, so this is not just after election day, but even

00:05:37.920 before the election, you had this, this alliance of all these, these various groups. Time Magazine,

00:05:42.940 right? I'm not reading some crazy message board on the internet. Their work touched every aspect of

00:05:48.300 the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of

00:05:54.060 millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter suppression lawsuits, also known as voter

00:05:59.660 integrity lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers, and got millions of people to vote by mail for the

00:06:05.700 first time. Some of them, I think, voted for the first time because they died in 1892.

00:06:09.280 They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation.

00:06:16.080 That, that is code word for it. They pressured big tech oligarchs to censor conservatives and used 1.00

00:06:22.180 data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. Like for instance, when the New York Post got the story on

00:06:28.260 Hunter Biden's corruption in Ukraine and China, and they published it and it taught, they tied it possibly,

00:06:33.740 potentially, potentially, to Joe Biden. And then big tech suppressed the article. You couldn't even private

00:06:39.760 message it to somebody on Twitter. You know, those data-driven strategies. They executed national public

00:06:45.680 awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks,

00:06:51.500 preventing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting traction. That's code word for,

00:06:56.380 they primed everybody for, to, to always doubt any Republican win because they said that if a Republican

00:07:02.660 won on election day, sure, that might happen, but it would be a red mirage. And don't worry, because once

00:07:07.680 they finished counting the votes three weeks later in Philly, don't worry, it's going to be fine. The

00:07:12.580 Democrats are going to turn out to win. So they already prepped, using big tech, they already prepped

00:07:17.240 everybody not to trust any Republican victory. After election day, they monitored every pressure point

00:07:23.100 to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. Every pressure point, what's that? That's the

00:07:27.580 courts, that's the election officials, that's public opinion. The untold story of the election is the

00:07:32.320 thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very

00:07:38.420 foundation, says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama official who recruited Republicans and

00:07:45.140 Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program. This, this is the key here to me. I mean, we could go on,

00:07:52.260 there are many more thousands of words in this article. Everything that has been described thus

00:07:58.720 far is a way to subvert American democracy. They're going to upend all the voter laws. They're going to

00:08:04.980 get big tech oligarchs to clamp down on free speech. They're going to suppress stories that are damaging

00:08:11.420 to Democrats. They're going to stop election lawsuits after the fact. They're going to take away other

00:08:17.720 ballot integrity measures. And this is the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.

00:08:24.180 The way that a Democrat, an Obama official can say this with a straight face is because of something

00:08:30.700 that we've talked about a lot on this show. For Democrats, according to Democrats,

00:08:39.180 democracy is what happens when they win elections. Because of progress, because we know where we're

00:08:45.560 headed, we know the arc of history, we know the science of politics, because we know what's in

00:08:50.380 everybody's interest. If they only throw off their shackles, because we know that Democrats are always

00:08:55.900 supposed to win and Republicans cannot win. It is illegitimate for them to win. They're all Nazis, 0.56

00:09:01.320 75 million Nazis running around the country. Because of that, anytime a Republican does win, 0.93

00:09:07.300 it has to be illegitimate. It has to be through fraud. It has to be because of Russia 1.00

00:09:12.460 or the Macedonian click farms or Ukraine or whatever, right? It can't be legit.

00:09:20.320 So if you undermine all of the democratic principles of our country, if you, if you undermine

00:09:28.100 the institutions and the policies that are in place to protect the vote, but you do it in order

00:09:33.580 to defeat a Republican and help elect a Democrat, that is seriously in their mind, the triumph of

00:09:40.060 democracy. Absolutely, absolutely outrageous stuff. There are two Republican responses to this sort of

00:09:49.040 thing. You can either be really upset or you can be really happy. And there are some Republicans who

00:09:54.040 are really happy. Namely, Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney. Liz Cheney

00:10:00.760 hated Trump, has always hated Trump, voted to impeach Trump the second time over nothing. It's a

00:10:06.940 completely farcical vote. Now Liz Cheney, who has just managed to hold on to her minor leadership 1.00

00:10:14.420 position in the House GOP caucus through a secret ballot. She wouldn't have kept it otherwise.

00:10:19.260 Liz Cheney is, is going on the offensive against Trump. She's saying that Trump has no role in the

00:10:25.020 future of the Republican party. Chris, we're the party of Abraham Lincoln. We're the party of Ronald

00:10:29.620 Reagan. We have to really take a hard look at who we are and what we stand for, what we believe in.

00:10:35.120 I think when you look at both his actions leading up to what happened on January 6th,

00:10:40.720 the fact that he was impeached in a bipartisan fashion, the fact that he lost the presidency,

00:10:47.960 the fact that we lost the Senate, we have to be in a position where we can say we stand for

00:10:52.560 principles, we stand for ideals. Somebody who has provoked an attack on the United States Capitol

00:10:59.120 to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in five people dying who refused to stand

00:11:05.440 up immediately when he was asked and stop the violence, that is a person who does not have a

00:11:11.000 role as a leader of our party going forward. We have to make sure that we are able to convey to

00:11:16.240 the American voters, we are the party of responsibility, we are the party of truth,

00:11:20.320 that we actually can be trusted to handle the challenges this nation faces like COVID.

00:11:25.900 And that's going to require us to focus on substance and policy and issues going forward,

00:11:30.300 but we should not be embracing the former president.

00:11:33.340 It's difficult for me to take Liz Cheney seriously when she says we should be the party of truth,

00:11:38.720 as she is saying so many things that are untrue. She's saying that President Trump provoked an attack

00:11:43.180 on the Capitol. Now, he clearly said, be peaceful, don't be violent, be peaceful. Before the attack,

00:11:50.080 the whole time, you might say, well, because he was questioning the election, because he had these

00:11:54.780 lawsuits, because he was saying all these things, that in itself provoked the attack. Okay, but then

00:11:58.620 she says he refused to condemn the violence. He condemned the violence before, during, and after

00:12:04.380 the riot at the Capitol. So that's just not true. She says we need to have these clear ideals and

00:12:10.060 principles. I got to tell you something. I've lived through, you know, a few Republican administrations

00:12:15.280 now. The only Republican administration that I heard anything resembling clear principles from

00:12:20.880 was Trump. I got a lot of mixed stuff from the Bush-Cheney administration, a lot of going back

00:12:26.600 on certain campaign promises. We're not going to nation build. We're going to do this. We're going

00:12:29.800 to do that. Passing massive, massive entitlement programs after they said they'd governed as

00:12:34.180 conservatives. Even going back to Bush's father, read my lips, no new taxes. How did that turn out?

00:12:39.000 Major promise, completely broken. So I just don't want to hear the sanctimony anymore.

00:12:43.140 But, but some Republicans believe the first thing we have to do, priority number one,

00:12:47.420 attack Republicans, and in particular attack, the most recent Republican president.

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00:14:39.260 democratic attacks and exaggerations and lies. One is you can buy into all of them. You can encourage

00:14:47.300 them even. You can attack Republicans first. You can attack your own guys first. That's 0.87

00:14:51.820 a typical response. Then there's another response, which is realize that it's a completely bad faith

00:15:00.360 debate. Realize that the Democrats are being disingenuous in their attacks. Realize that

00:15:05.740 everything they accuse us of doing, they've done 10 times over and actually fight back against our

00:15:12.320 real political opponents, the Democrats, and not just encourage infighting among, amongst ourselves.

00:15:17.460 Rand Paul gets this. Rand Paul was asked about all of these sorts of

00:15:21.060 attacks on Republicans. And he decided to go on the offensive.

00:15:25.800 You know, I opposed the notion of, which I think was a misguided notion of voting to overturn the

00:15:31.200 election, either with Congress or with the vice president. But I think if we're going to criminalize

00:15:35.740 speech and somehow impeach everybody who says, oh, go fight to hear your voices heard. I mean,

00:15:42.180 really, we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then. He went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the

00:15:46.500 Supreme Court and said specifically, hey, Gorsuch, hey, Kavanaugh, you've unleashed a whirlwind

00:15:51.660 and you're going to pay the price. You won't know what hits you if you continue with these awful

00:15:57.860 decisions. This inflammatory wording, this violent rhetoric of Chuck Schumer was so bad that the chief

00:16:03.940 justice, who rarely says anything publicly, immediately said this kind of language is

00:16:08.720 dangerous as a mob tried to invade the Supreme Court. So if people want to hold President Trump

00:16:14.500 accountable for language, there has to be a consistent standard. And to my mind, it's a

00:16:19.400 partisan farce because they're not doing anything to Chuck Schumer, not doing anything to Representative

00:16:23.700 Omar, not doing anything to Maxine Waters. It's just not fair. It's just partisan politics under a

00:16:29.260 different name. Thank you. Thank you, Rand. Rand Paul has really been impressing me of late.

00:16:35.480 He's here speaking specifically about the impeachment. This could be said, though, of many other

00:16:41.060 political matters today. The question of kicking people off of committees or banishing Trump, you

00:16:47.560 know, from the Republican Party. It's a partisan farce what they're saying. Anything you accuse Trump

00:16:54.600 of, anything. He incited violence. What happened for the past eight months? Trump incited violence. He

00:17:03.260 said, be peaceful before, during, and after the riots. Meanwhile, you have Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton,

00:17:08.420 Kamala Harris bailing out the rioters, for goodness sakes. All of them encouraging violence on their 0.63

00:17:13.020 own side. You don't see them getting censured. You don't see them being removed or impeached.

00:17:17.920 It's a farce. And it's backed up by squishy Republicans, by court jester conservatives like

00:17:23.600 Liz Cheney, who spends much of her time, more of her time, most of her time, perhaps, as far as I can

00:17:31.240 tell, attacking Republicans rather than going after the Democrats. Rand Paul gets that. I mean,

00:17:39.620 that's a guy, I don't agree with Rand Paul on everything. Just as Rand Paul, he says, I don't

00:17:43.400 agree with Trump on everything. And yet, I think we should all be able to recognize, you can say

00:17:50.560 those, you can say that. Look, I disagreed in many ways with how Trump handled, not just the past two

00:17:54.920 months, but actually the way he handled the past year. I think he mishandled coronavirus. It was not

00:18:00.320 entirely his fault. He was faced with an unbelievable amount of pressure, but I wish he

00:18:05.800 had cut it out sooner and turned on Fauci sooner. You know, okay, sure, I got these problems with him.

00:18:10.520 Doesn't mean I think we should banish Donald Trump. I think we got to defend our guy. I think the real

00:18:14.340 threat is coming at us from the left. Rand Paul understands that sort of thing. Some other Republicans,

00:18:20.080 they seem not to understand that one little bit. If you think, I'll go back to that Republican

00:18:26.700 Congressman for a second. If you think that this woman is kooky and delusional and unfit for office, 1.00

00:18:31.540 take a listen to some of the Democrats. Rashida Tlaib, a member of the squad, took to the house 0.53

00:18:37.560 floor the other day to discuss the riot at the Capitol that she was not present for and basically

00:18:46.300 turned it into a struggle session of the New York radical women's group, like something out of the

00:18:50.780 1970s. She just stood up there and cried because of how scared she imagined she could be.

00:18:57.620 On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat. It was a serious one. They took

00:19:05.700 me aside. The FBI had to go to the gentleman's home. I didn't even get sworn in yet when someone

00:19:12.780 wanted to be dead for just existing. More came later, uglier, more violent. One celebrating and

00:19:22.500 writing the New Zealand massacre and hoping that more would come. Another mentioning my dear son,

00:19:29.740 Adam. Mentioning him by name. Each one paralyzed me each time.

00:19:39.940 So what happened on January 6th, all I could do is thank Allah that I wasn't here. I felt

00:19:48.080 overwhelming relief and I feel bad for Alexandria. So many of my colleagues that were here. But as I

00:19:54.960 saw it, I thought to myself, thank God I am not there. I saw the images that they didn't get to see

00:20:02.040 until later. Yeah, they didn't get to see it until later because they weren't there either. AOC walks up

00:20:07.380 and just puts her hand on her back while this lunatic woman is crying. What is she crying over? 1.00

00:20:13.400 What is this woman who is supposed to be a national leader, a statesman, someone with 0.97

00:20:18.900 composure, reason, sort of elevated or at least normal comportment? What is she crying over?

00:20:28.520 She wasn't there. AOC wasn't there either, by the way, as we've discussed over the past

00:20:33.940 weeks. She was not in the Capitol. She was in a building down the street. The building was

00:20:37.960 evacuated, sure, but the riders were not there. Rashida Tlaib is, is hysterically crying at the

00:20:45.040 House floor because she has received death threats. Every single person in public life,

00:20:54.380 especially politics, has received death threats. Everyone. She says she received death threats

00:21:01.320 because she was existing. No, she is receiving death threats because she's in politics and it's 1.00

00:21:05.520 an ugly fact of politics, but every single person who is in politics gets death threats.

00:21:11.660 But she got death threats against her family. Every single person who is in any way,

00:21:18.340 even slightly prominent in politics, gets death threats. That is part of the job. It's a sad part.

00:21:25.780 It's an unfortunate part. If you're not prepared for that, if that, if that aspect of the job,

00:21:29.660 if that danger and that unpleasant interaction is going to reduce you to a, an hysterical crying

00:21:37.040 lunatic, then you should get out of the job. You're not fit for it. Compare her because I think 1.00

00:21:43.060 this actually was genuine. I think this woman genuinely is unhinged compared to somebody like 0.98

00:21:47.520 AOC, who I think is basically as cold as they come. I think she's got ice water running through her 1.00

00:21:52.380 veins. Compare her to AOC who then walks up. So this woman blubbering in this very dishonorable 1.00

00:21:58.340 display. Then AOC sees an opportunity and she just walks up cool as a cucumber, puts her hand on her 1.00

00:22:04.500 back, poses for the camera. I mean, this woman, man, she is, she is spooky, that AOC. But I, they're

00:22:12.440 not, they're not the same. She, she recognized an opportunity here to get herself on camera and AOC 0.50

00:22:18.320 never misses that at all. They used to say that the most dangerous place in man, in, in Washington rather

00:22:24.420 was between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. I think AOC has taken that honor. But this is,

00:22:30.580 this is pathetic. Whatever kooks there are in the Republican party, ain't none of them as kooky as 1.00

00:22:35.820 Rashida Tlaib and AOC. If, if this is how people respond to, to routine adversity in politics, they,

00:22:44.440 they have no place in Congress. The, the reason I, I bring any of this up and the reason I'm even

00:22:51.080 referring over the shoulder to this Republican Congressman that they took off the committees is.

00:22:57.200 Everyone seems to think this is about this woman. Her name is Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:23:02.820 Everyone thinks they're just after her. And then once they get her, it'll be all over. It's not,

00:23:06.460 they're not after her. She is a particularly kooky and eccentric person. So they're going after her 0.90

00:23:11.720 because she's easy to attack. They're after all of us. Okay. Marjorie Taylor Greene is just now an easy

00:23:18.600 target. Virtually no one would have ever heard her name if CNN and the Democrats did not make her

00:23:24.720 a big deal because they, they want to make Republicans either defend her or attack her. 1.00

00:23:31.240 Either way they win. Really, I think the only way that Republicans can respond in a, in a prudent way

00:23:37.040 to this sort of thing is to do what the Democrats would do in the same situation. Namely, completely

00:23:41.040 ignore the attacks and just move on. This woman is not particularly consequential. She's a member of 0.99

00:23:46.120 Congress. How many names of, of members of Congress can you rattle off? Like 10, hundreds of members.

00:23:53.720 How many could you actually name? Sort of inconsequential, but it's not just about her.

00:23:59.160 It's, it's not even just about Trump. It's about all of us. And actually Bill Maher, who is,

00:24:04.300 who is wrong about so many things, so powerfully wrong. Bill Maher is, is every so often honest

00:24:10.320 about the left's actual aims and Bill Maher more or less admitted this on his show. This is not just

00:24:15.980 about one or two eccentric people spouting off crazy theories. This is about delegitimizing half

00:24:23.020 of the country. The triumph of democracy, as Time Magazine puts it, is when half the country

00:24:28.940 is suppressed, ostracized, no longer has a voice. You know, Ben is going to be talking about the Time

00:24:34.840 Magazine article, talking about how all the elites manipulated the 2020 election. He's also going to be

00:24:40.640 talking about the Biden administration, continuing to tamp down school reopening. So go check that out

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00:26:09.580 Democrats want us to believe that they're just after that Congress lady or they're just after

00:26:29.840 Trump or they're just after, I don't know, there's always someone they seem to be just after, just

00:26:34.280 one more person and then they'll respect us. Then they'll like us, right? Bill Maher, who is

00:26:40.800 occasionally honest, often wrong, but occasionally honest, has admitted this isn't about Trump or

00:26:48.860 Marjorie Greene or QAnon or conspiracy theories. It's about all of us. It's about conservatives.

00:26:55.720 It's about Christians. It's about people who hold traditional beliefs in this country.

00:27:04.100 The left thinks we're all the same. The left thinks there's no difference. I've mentioned this

00:27:09.740 on the show. You notice how they don't say alt-right anymore. The alt-right, whatever that, at one point,

00:27:15.280 I think it did have a real meaning, but now it doesn't really have any meaning at all.

00:27:18.880 They don't care about the alt-right or the this right or the conservatives or they just think we're

00:27:23.080 all the same. Bill Maher, they just think we're all the same and they think we're all completely

00:27:27.120 lunatics, right? Completely insane. And they want us ostracized from society. 1.00

00:27:34.180 As long as we're going to go to the trouble of another impeachment trial, we might as well be

00:27:39.100 honest about what it's really about. The events of January 6th were a faith-based initiative.

00:27:45.440 And Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement that believes Trump was literally sent from heaven to

00:27:51.720 save them. It's right there in Senator Tommy Tuberville's campaign ad.

00:27:56.760 God sent us Donald Trump because God knew we were in trouble.

00:28:01.960 There's a lot of talk now in liberal quarters about how Republicans should tell their base,

00:28:06.820 who still believe the election was rigged, that they need to grow up and move on and stop asking

00:28:12.000 the rest of us to respect their mass delusion. And of course, it is a mass delusion.

00:28:16.760 But the inconvenient truth here is that if you accord religious faith, the kind of exalted respect

00:28:23.200 we do here in America, you've already lost the argument that mass delusion is bad. It's fun to

00:28:30.420 laugh at QAnon with the baby eating lizard people and the pedophile pizza parlors. But have you ever

00:28:35.920 read the book of Revelations? Because Bill Maher probably hasn't read the book of Revelations because

00:28:41.460 the book of Revelation is not called the book of Revelations. The dude couldn't even get the name

00:28:46.320 of the book right as he's making fun of it, which is true of so many of these sophomoric atheist types.

00:28:52.540 I mean, I think, I think the days of the Bill Maher style atheism are over. There was this kind of

00:28:57.800 publishing fad in the mid 2000s. They called him the new atheists. It was like Christopher Hitchens,

00:29:02.620 Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and their books, I read some of their books,

00:29:07.240 were very weak. They didn't even make the arguments they were purporting to make. But, you know, it was

00:29:13.300 popular among like 14-year-old boys in urban areas or something. And it wasn't to be really taken

00:29:21.180 seriously. And Bill Maher is not to be taken seriously, right? He doesn't, he exposes the

00:29:25.860 biblical literacy and theological insight of most of these people. He doesn't even know the name of the

00:29:30.580 book. But he is espousing the view, I think, of many leftists. Namely, if you believe that there's

00:29:40.700 something more to this world than just physical matter, that, you know, beyond the tumbler and the

00:29:47.260 desk and the microphone and my body, if you believe that in our bodies, we're not just meat puppets,

00:29:53.460 but we actually have souls, or we have mind, we have loves, dreams, there are ideas, there's

00:30:00.760 mathematics, right? Things that are metaphysical. They're not just physical. That you're kind of

00:30:04.680 kooky. Now, of course, if you put it in those terms to them, they would say, no, I don't deny math.

00:30:08.560 I don't deny dreams. I don't deny ideas. But they, they do. They just aren't philosophically

00:30:13.580 sophisticated enough to talk about it. You know, you sort of, you can imagine Thomas Aquinas looking down

00:30:18.680 from heaven now saying, oh, darn, I got owned by Bill Maher. I never, I never realized that it's 0.94

00:30:24.540 foolish to believe in the book of revelations. Darn, totally owned by that hack comedian. I, 1.00

00:30:32.540 Thomas Aquinas, one of the most brilliant people to ever walk the earth. This is what they believe.

00:30:37.520 Now, you heard that phrase in there that Bill Maher mentioned, Christian nationalism.

00:30:42.600 What is Christian nationalism? What does that mean? It's a phrase that's become popular.

00:30:46.420 There are, these, these slogans spread like memes and the left has been pushing this one recently.

00:30:52.080 I guess Christian nationalism means the belief that we are a nation and a Christian nation at that,

00:30:59.380 which is obviously true, right? The United States is a Christian nation.

00:31:05.900 There is some complexity to that because it's a Christian nation that has broad toleration among

00:31:10.460 the Protestant denominations and even had toleration for Catholics. And even from the founding era,

00:31:14.940 I had toleration for Jews and didn't totally love Muslims because obviously the early Americans were 1.00

00:31:22.460 being kidnapped and killed by Barbary pirates. That was our first war after we had gained independence.

00:31:27.940 So that complicated things. But, you know, generally then we kind of expanded tolerance

00:31:31.600 to some Muslims too. And okay, so it's, it's all of that is complex. History is much more complex than

00:31:37.900 slogans. But while all of that is true, it is also the case that we are a Christian nation.

00:31:43.940 We were founded by Christian zealots who, who took a ship over here from England called the Mayflower

00:31:49.760 and founded a puritanical colony. Later Puritans who arrived referred to this as a shining city upon

00:31:57.020 a hill. We had established churches in this country well past the founding era. Our, our document,

00:32:04.160 our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, refers to the philosophical basis of this country

00:32:09.980 as the natural rights that, that we are endowed with by our creator. What was their vision of a

00:32:15.000 creator? We'll go back and read their writings. Their vision of a creator was at least broadly speaking,

00:32:20.300 a Christian God. Well, of course they were steeped in the Christian culture. It's not, it's not a Hindu 1.00

00:32:27.780 country. It's not a Muslim country. It wasn't a Jewish country and it wasn't a, a pagan country, 0.91

00:32:35.560 right? It wasn't a, a secular atheist country, which I guess you'd say now the dominant religion

00:32:41.680 in the country is secular liberalism or sec, you know, sort of atheism, I guess, or some kind of

00:32:47.680 weird paganism with all the crystals and the horoscopes and all the wacky stuff that liberals

00:32:50.920 believe now. But certainly Thomas, even Thomas Jefferson was pretty radical, didn't believe that.

00:32:57.300 John Adams didn't believe that. George Washington didn't believe that.

00:33:01.140 So what, what Bill Maher is saying is these awful, terrible people, they believe in the vision of

00:33:08.340 America as it existed from 1620 until like five minutes ago. But that's bad. That's evil. That's

00:33:14.120 wicked. That needs to be ostracized because we on the left want to upend society. We want to overturn

00:33:19.100 that tradition and implement our radical designs. At least he's honest. At least he's honest. I think

00:33:28.440 that's true of most, most left-wingers believe that sort of thing, but they aren't willing to admit

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00:34:11.760 The reality of what the left believes about us is pretty spooky. There was a doctor who just got in

00:34:18.240 some trouble because he had some pretty negative things to say about his country and about his country.

00:34:24.840 Dr. Cleveland Gilman had a video going around regarding people in Florida not wearing masks. 0.98

00:34:33.160 He said, Naples, Florida, let them die. I'm so tired of these people. No vaccine for y'all. 0.98

00:34:40.640 Okay, now you might say this doctor, he was just kidding. He was letting off steam. He was being

00:34:44.720 intentionally provocative. He didn't really mean that. Well, he got a lot of blowback.

00:34:47.880 And so he apologized, sort of. He said, Republicans trying to take my words out of context as if I

00:34:55.340 deny medical care to people that don't wear masks and let them die. Okay, well, good. Yeah, 0.91

00:35:00.440 I guess we did think that because that's what you said you were going to do. So I'm glad you're

00:35:03.880 saying I'm not really going to do that. Then he goes on. He says, my point is that we can't waste

00:35:08.800 our energy on these COVID deniers. They are not going to protect themselves. So let them die.

00:35:12.920 They'll find out the hard way. Wait, what? Hold on. You just said you didn't. So you said that's 1.00

00:35:19.040 what you believe. And then you said that was taken out of context and you don't believe that. And then

00:35:22.460 one sentence later you said, but that actually is what I believe. And this guy, he's not just some

00:35:26.520 random doctor mouthing off. I mean, first of all, you'd expect more from any doctor. These are

00:35:31.180 supposed to be elevated people who've gone to a lot of schooling, who have a bedside manner, who are

00:35:35.040 sacrificing themselves. This guy is prominent enough that Joe Biden gave him a call on the campaign

00:35:41.740 trail and they filmed an ad together. Hello. Hey, Dr. Gilman, this is Joe Biden. I just called

00:35:49.700 a thank you for your service. You're an Iraqi war veteran. You know, I understand that you're

00:35:53.820 going to do whatever it takes to get this pandemic under control. And I just want you to know how

00:35:57.820 much I appreciate what you and so many others like you are doing, risking your rear ends and going out

00:36:03.060 of your way to help other people. Thanks a lot, sir. You know what? I grew up with a speech

00:36:07.400 impediment and I did not really have a whole lot of opportunities until I joined the military.

00:36:12.360 I've been very fortunate to have come home unscathed. I was in New York on the front lines

00:36:17.140 where I lost three of my colleagues out there. I lost my 27-year-old cousin who was really healthy,

00:36:25.360 who was trying out for the NFL. I'm really looking forward to you becoming president, sir.

00:36:32.420 I'm going to do everything in my power. And I promise you, doc, you're going to have a full

00:36:36.220 blown partner. You have my word as a Biden. All right, sir. You have a great day.

00:36:41.640 Now, in Joe's defense, my word as a Biden and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee. So,

00:36:48.000 so that, that at least is a little bit of comfort. But I don't like the idea that Gilman's going to

00:36:53.860 have a full, full partner in Joe Biden is Gilman is saying that he wants conservatives to die.

00:37:02.380 He doesn't just want them to lose elections, want us to lose elections. He doesn't just want us to

00:37:08.000 shut up or something. He wants us to die. He said that. Then he said he didn't say that, 0.99

00:37:14.600 but then he said it again in the very next sentence.

00:37:17.640 The left is not going to turn on this guy. The left is not going to turn on it. Just like they

00:37:24.480 didn't turn on Maxine Waters or Hillary Clinton or Eric Holder or Cory Booker or Kamala Harris or any

00:37:33.900 of these people who have, who have actively encouraged violence against conservatives.

00:37:39.180 I'm beginning to get the impression that they don't like us and any political strategy. Look,

00:37:45.180 politics changes by circumstance. There are eternal principles, but we apply those principles

00:37:49.740 through the light of received opinion and tradition to changing circumstances. And where once it may

00:37:57.480 have been a prudent strategy to try to make nice and be conciliatory with Democrats and come together

00:38:02.800 and kumbaya, your, your opponents get a say in politics, just like your enemies get a say in war.

00:38:08.820 And if, if they don't like us, if they don't want to work with us at all, then we, we can't force it.

00:38:14.740 We're only going to hurt ourselves if we force it. Two different strategies. You know, Liz Cheney

00:38:20.780 saying that, uh, Trump has no role in the future of the Republican party. Who do you think better

00:38:25.440 represents the Republican party right now? Donald Trump and people of like mind or Liz Cheney

00:38:33.920 and people of, of her like mind? Which one do you think? Trump or Cheney? Who would you,

00:38:41.640 if election were held today, who would you vote for? I, I don't think it would be close.

00:38:47.680 The, the hypocrisy is the double standard rather is I think what's showing this to people. You get

00:38:53.900 this doctor, you get all this kind of violent rhetoric, you get Antifa marching through the

00:38:58.020 streets of DC just the other day with Black Lives Matter chanting that they wanted to burn it down.

00:39:04.340 Take a listen. A little hard to hear it. And we had to bleep out every other word. And that's the

00:39:24.800 most peaceful video I could find. A lot of the other videos are involving real clashes between

00:39:29.220 police. Uh, Antifa protesters, uh, threatened to burn down Washington DC during the quote,

00:39:37.860 DC queer and trans black history month, March and rally. Pause for a second. Obviously I don't keep 1.00

00:39:45.300 up with the, uh, liturgical calendar of liberalism too much. I'm, I'm still looking at the sort of

00:39:51.200 old Catholic liturgical calendar, you know? Uh, but so I, I knew though that February was black 0.99

00:39:56.800 history month. Turns out it's no longer just black history month. It's a queer and trans black 0.98

00:40:01.860 history month. So I don't know when sort of ordinary black people get their own history month,

00:40:06.540 but this has gotten very, very specific. The direct quote from the Antifa people was if we don't get

00:40:14.100 it, burn it down. So this is a violent insurrection in Washington DC, much more violent than what happened

00:40:22.560 at the Capitol. Just as the BLM riots over the summer in DC were much more violent than anything

00:40:29.420 that happened at the Capitol. And everyone condemns the Capitol. Fair enough. That makes perfect sense

00:40:35.860 to me. I think riots are very bad. Nobody, nobody, except for some Republicans, some conservatives

00:40:41.800 condemn this kind of stuff in DC. The, the tough Republicans condemn this stuff in DC.

00:40:48.420 The squishy Republicans, not so much. Complete double standard here. Complete double standard.

00:40:57.560 And it, it does come out of a sort of new caste system, a racial and sexual caste system that the

00:41:06.580 left is trying to push. I mean, you know, you, you see it even in the way they named the months,

00:41:09.920 right? It goes from black history month to queer and trans black history month. They're just getting 0.61

00:41:14.160 more and more narrow on more and more victim groups. And the idea of course, is that your,

00:41:18.920 your value comes from the amount of grievance and suffering that you can claim. And that value

00:41:24.660 translates to certain privileges. If certain protected groups, be they sexual, racial, or political,

00:41:34.160 get, you know, commit certain acts, commit violence in the streets, they will not be punished in the

00:41:39.420 same way that disfavored groups on sexual, racial, and political lines do. You could say it's hypocrisy 0.79

00:41:47.360 or it's a double standard. Sure. It's really just a, a hierarchy. As I think Adrian Vermeule,

00:41:52.640 the law professor, this makes this distinction, hierarchy versus hypocrisy. The, the liberal regime

00:41:59.800 just has a new hierarchy and, and the left is explicitly trying to push this. You may remember

00:42:05.420 some months ago, Nick Cannon got canceled. He got semi canceled because he made comments about

00:42:13.220 white people broadly and Jews specifically. And they were pretty, pretty vicious comments.

00:42:20.200 So he'd lost some of his contracts. He got in a little bit of trouble. According to the Hollywood

00:42:24.720 reporter, Viacom CBS has resumed its professional relationship with Nick Cannon. We'll allow Nick Cannon

00:42:32.080 to get his job back and resume production on his very same VH1 series, Wild and Out.

00:42:38.920 Viacom says, quote, Nick has not only apologized and taken responsibility for his comments, but he

00:42:44.040 has also worked to educate himself and others through engagement with Jewish leaders and on his

00:42:49.000 platforms. Those efforts are of the most, utmost importance. And that's why we have invited him to

00:42:54.300 rejoin our team. On a separate note, we just learned that he tested positive for COVID and we wish

00:43:00.120 him a speedy recovery. Okay. What does the COVID thing have to do with anything? So a few levels to

00:43:05.760 this here. First of all, if this were reversed and if the people that Nick Cannon attacked had made any

00:43:15.300 kind of racial comments in the other direction, they would not be given a second chance. They would

00:43:20.560 not be given probably any work in the future, much less their job back. It just wouldn't happen.

00:43:27.120 That is a special privilege that Nick Cannon has received that disfavored groups would not receive.

00:43:35.660 But there's another level here. So I'm, I'm glad to see that Nick Cannon has apologized for his

00:43:39.900 comments about Jews and he went to the Holocaust Memorial and he's sort of did a few performative

00:43:44.900 acts to say he, he regrets his comments about Jews. That's good. But he's, he's never apologized for 0.88

00:43:52.460 his vicious comments against white people. Generally, in case you had forgotten, take a listen.

00:43:58.840 Melanin comes with compassion. Melanin comes with soul that we call it. We call it soul. We soul

00:44:03.980 brothers and sisters. That's the melanin that connects. So the people that don't have it have

00:44:08.600 are, are a lit. And I'm going to say this carefully are a little less. And, and, and where the term

00:44:18.160 actually comes from, cause I'm bringing it all the way back around to minister Farrakhan. The only

00:44:22.440 way that they can act is evil. The only way they can, they, they have to rob, steal, rape, kill, 1.00

00:44:27.680 and fight or flight in order to survive. Exactly. So then these people who didn't have what we had. 0.99

00:44:34.760 And when I say we, I speak of the melanated people, right? They had to be savages. They had 1.00

00:44:41.280 to be barbaric. They had, because they're in these Nordic mountains. They're in these rough, 0.83

00:44:46.560 uh, torrential environments. So they, they're acting as animals. So they're the ones that are

00:44:53.180 actually closer to animals. White people, you see actually closer to animals. They're less than 1.00

00:44:59.960 they're, they're savages because they don't have souls. It's become sort of trite even to, to do this 0.98

00:45:07.560 whole thing of, well, if the roles were reversed, could you imagine? Just imagine though for a

00:45:11.780 second, Ryan Seacrest, you know, is doing his podcast and he's got some guests on and he says,

00:45:16.700 you see, the thing about melanated peoples is they're animals and savages and they don't have 1.00

00:45:20.820 souls. I'm talking about black people, you see. Yes, no, you understand. And then have the person 0.99

00:45:26.220 there, he says, yes, no, I, I totally agree. And then Ryan Seacrest goes on. He says, yeah, you know,

00:45:30.560 they're less than, and that's why they behave like animals. Of course, you know, this sort of thing

00:45:36.880 would, would never happen. If it did, I think Ryan Seacrest would be sent to Guantanamo Bay for

00:45:41.960 saying something like this, right? But Nick Cannon gets away with this, never apologizes for it,

00:45:48.900 right? He apologizes for very specific comments, but doesn't apologize for these broader comments

00:45:53.200 and he gets his job back. Do you think that's a fair system? Do you think that's a system for

00:45:59.180 racial equity, tolerance, unity, and healing? No, absolutely not. It's a vicious, 1.00

00:46:05.780 vile caste system that deplores some people on the basis of race and sex, by the way, and

00:46:12.540 religion, as Bill Maher showed, and all these sorts of things, and gives other people special

00:46:18.400 privileges. Do we want to live under that system? Does anybody want to live under that system? I

00:46:23.280 don't think so. Mass delusion, my friends. There was a monument that just went up at the Lincoln

00:46:33.720 Memorial. So there's obviously the Lincoln Memorial's monument. There's another monument

00:46:36.900 that just went up to Vice President Kamala Harris. What has Kamala Harris done? Nothing.

00:46:43.580 Why did they put it up? Well, because she's the first woman of color elected to the nation's 0.97

00:46:50.080 second highest office. And so it's a memorial, not a memorial, she's still alive. It's a monument

00:46:54.940 that's, that's got some shattered glass on it. You get it? So subtle, shattered the glass ceiling.

00:47:00.480 Now, she's not the first person of color to serve as vice president. That was actually Herbert Hoover's 0.96

00:47:05.220 vice president almost a hundred years ago. But this portrait is up there. Now it shows that the

00:47:10.440 left does not view Kamala Harris as a person. They view her as a type, just like they view all people

00:47:14.820 as types. You're your race, or you're your sex, or you're whatever, but you're not an individual.

00:47:20.980 And speaking of bad art, I can't, the only thing I want to say about the Super Bowl,

00:47:24.940 other than Tom Brady, very impressive, great stuff. The only thing I want to say is,

00:47:28.820 Amanda Gorman. Amanda Gorman is that slam poet, slam poetess that spoke at the inauguration that 0.99

00:47:35.160 we went over on this show. This is the first Super Bowl. Thankfully, I didn't watch it, but it's

00:47:41.480 the first Super Bowl I've ever heard of that had a slam poetry section to it. And they chose for the

00:47:46.520 slam poem, the now famous inaugural poetess, Amanda Gorman. Take a listen.

00:47:53.260 Today, we honor our three captains for their actions and impact in a time of uncertainty and

00:48:03.420 need. They've taken the lead, exceeding all expectations and limitations, uplifting their

00:48:09.860 communities and neighbors as leaders, healers, and educators. James has felt the wounds of warfare,

00:48:17.760 but this warrior still shares his home with at-risk kids. During COVID, he's even lent a hand,

00:48:25.920 live streaming football for family and fans. Tremaine is an educator who works nonstop,

00:48:32.840 providing his community with hotspots, laptops, and tech workshops, so his students have all the

00:48:39.100 tools they need to succeed in life and in school. Susie is the ICU nurse manager at a Tampa hospital.

00:48:48.120 Her chronicles prove that even in tragedy, hope is possible she lost her grandmothers to the pandemic

00:48:54.900 and fights to save other lives in the ICU battle zone, defining the frontline heroes, risking their lives

00:49:02.180 for our own. I can't, I can't take any more. Harold Bloom called slam poetry the death of art.

00:49:08.360 Absolutely, that is true. We have mass delusion all around this country right now. If anyone believes

00:49:16.640 that the audience of the Super Bowl wants to listen to some politically correct woke slam poem,

00:49:22.180 goodness gracious, we are, our problems of delusion, they go a lot deeper than some random congressman.

00:49:26.920 When, oh when, will we get our senses back? If we keep listening to that sort of stuff,

00:49:32.360 not anytime soon. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 08, 2021

Ep. 695 - Mass Delusion

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