The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 711 - Tiger King Country

00:00:00.000 Three perverts have become the first throuple of men all to be listed on a baby's birth

00:00:06.540 certificate. How? Which one of them went through labor? Which one pushed? It's a little complicated.

00:00:12.740 Buckle up for the most disturbing story that you have heard since Tiger King.

00:00:16.560 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:18.020 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from OldSchooled,

00:00:31.300 who points out that the left says, Mother Earth gives us life. And the left also says,

00:00:37.540 not all people who give birth are women. That's true. You currently have a very famous Catholic 0.99

00:00:42.880 priest misgendering God himself. So surely we can misgender Mother Earth. Maybe it's Daddy Earth.

00:00:49.780 Maybe, maybe Earth is not just a single mother or daddy, but a throuple. Maybe we're the child of

00:00:55.140 this inanimate earthly, I don't know. It's very, very complicated childbirth these days and being

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00:02:10.500 K-N-O-W-L-E-S, to save 25% off. I did not believe this headline when I first saw it. I assumed that this

00:02:18.680 was a sensationalist headline and that the story would actually be a little more anodyne than the

00:02:24.460 headline would make it out to be, but actually it's the opposite. The story just gets worse and worse

00:02:29.500 worse than more you read it. Headline in the New York Post, rather. Gay polythruple makes history 1.00

00:02:37.240 lists three dads on the birth certificate. A gay polyamorous California thruple, I'd have to say, 0.99

00:02:44.500 the only part of this story that I don't hate is the word thruple because it's kind of funny.

00:02:48.380 The reality, not so funny, but the word, it's funny to say, thruple. A gay polyamorous California 0.97

00:02:53.460 thruple made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three parents

00:03:00.220 on a birth certificate. Their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper,

00:03:05.960 now three, is detailed in Three Dads and a Baby, out March 9th, written by one of her dads,

00:03:11.540 Dr. Ian Jenkins. These three perverts' names are Ian Jenkins, Jeremy Hodges, and Dr. Alan Mayfield.

00:03:18.140 Doctors. So they're all, look, they're very elite people. They're, they're experts. They're,

00:03:22.560 there's no reason to question their degenerate behavior. They don't see their family, which now

00:03:28.020 also includes their son Parker, as unusual. Look, it's not a big deal, okay? And then they go on and

00:03:34.060 explain why this kind of child abuse is not a big deal. Love is love, right? Love is love.

00:03:42.200 Love is love. By the logic of love is love, this makes some sense. I said this at the time when

00:03:52.180 people were talking about redefining marriage and they were trying to turn it from a basic question

00:03:57.440 about the nature of marriage to a question about civil rights and what you hate gay people and what 0.97

00:04:03.340 you're a mean old guy or something. I, I said by the logic that is being pushed here, there is no 0.71

00:04:11.200 limiting principle. Scalia made this point too. I mean, the conservatives at the, the actual

00:04:15.760 conservatives at the time of the Obergefell decision made this point. They say this has

00:04:19.400 nothing to do with animus for anybody because of sexual desires or anything like that. We're simply

00:04:25.280 asking what is marriage? If marriage has gone from being a natural union of husbands and wives for the,

00:04:33.380 for the sort of telos of family creation, procreation, uh, the basic political institution, if it,

00:04:40.000 if it goes from that and then you take away the entire telos, the entire purpose of that, the,

00:04:47.420 the entire, uh, historical understanding of marriage and the natural purpose of it,

00:04:52.220 and it just means love is love, then there's no reason that it should only include two people.

00:04:56.640 Forget the, even the question of men or women, it, there's no limiting principle. You could have

00:05:02.340 10 people in a marriage if it's all, if it's all just about love is love and look, they

00:05:05.160 love having a baby. So what are you going to limit that? What are you selfish? This also

00:05:12.060 shows the question to be a complete, completely ridiculous argument when sometimes you'll hear

00:05:18.140 mostly libertarians, but sometimes conservatives will say this. They'll say, look, I don't want

00:05:21.560 the government involved in marriage anyway. The government is involved in marriage in part,

00:05:26.160 not least of all to prevent this kind of child abuse, but the government failed to prevent that

00:05:31.580 kind of child abuse. Sure. Because conservatives and libertarians basically pulled away from the

00:05:36.280 entire debate and said, we don't want to use the government. We don't want to use our political

00:05:39.420 power. We don't think that we should stop the left from running roughshod over our culture anyway.

00:05:43.760 So we've just handed the reins of power over to the left. We shouldn't be surprised when they abuse

00:05:47.840 that power, but the state obviously has a role in this. If the family is the basic political

00:05:52.800 institution, then obviously any political organization from the local to the national level is going to have

00:05:58.900 some interest in that institution. This is the most selfish thing I have seen maybe ever,

00:06:11.180 certainly the most selfish big news story I've seen ever. Some people are saying, Michael, you don't

00:06:16.920 know if the child's going to be abused. You don't, and I'm not saying that the, the guys are all like

00:06:21.500 the Marquis de Sade and they're all going to start doing all sorts of heinous things to the baby.

00:06:25.380 I'm saying this is the abuse. This, the whole thing is the abuse.

00:06:32.640 Initially, what, what it seemed like these three people were going to do, these three men,

00:06:37.880 was that they were going to adopt a fertilized embryo. So a little, little miniature baby that

00:06:45.860 are, that was frozen through various other bioethically, not totally sound reproductive

00:06:51.540 practices. And so they were going to adopt it, implant it into a surrogate, rent some woman's 0.86

00:06:56.460 womb, have the baby grow. And then, uh, that would be the baby. And that would, that would be bad

00:07:02.040 enough, but it actually is a bioethically different question because the embryo already existed. The baby

00:07:07.000 was already created and then thrown in a freezer, like happens all too often today. But then that

00:07:12.680 didn't work. According to this story, the, they tried that a few times and the babies died,

00:07:19.540 basically the little tiny embryos died. And so what they did was their quote, a friend named Megan

00:07:26.160 came to the rescue and donated her eggs to the trio. So what these guys did was they went out

00:07:32.700 and they created a baby for the express purpose of denying that child the ability to know her mother 0.99

00:07:43.900 ever, and then to be raised in a perpetual orgy. That's what they, love is love, right? 0.89

00:07:55.140 This is the real tiger. I don't mention it only because I think this should be illegal and these

00:08:00.200 men should be in prison in a just society, obviously not in our society, but in a just society,

00:08:04.380 that would be the case. But that's not the only reason I mentioned it. The reason I mentioned it

00:08:08.460 has a broader cultural and political point. This is Tiger King. What the dominant liberal elite wants

00:08:15.780 us to believe is that Tiger King, you know, the, the kind of the, the kind of crazy behavior and the

00:08:23.540 sexual bizarre arrangements and all this kind of selfishness that that happens on a, on a tiger

00:08:31.540 farm in Florida, you know, it's Florida man. It's the guy, Joe exotic with the mullet and he talks funny

00:08:37.020 and he smokes a lot of meth or whatever. And he's in a, he's in this exact relationship. He's in this

00:08:42.200 sort of gay throuple. Uh, no, the real Tiger King culture happens with our elites. These guys are, 0.98

00:08:51.080 these are medical doctors, right? I think so. Maybe they're just using the term doctor a little

00:08:55.380 more broadly than that, but you've got two doctors. These guys have advanced education.

00:09:00.520 They seem to be fairly well off because these processes are pretty expensive.

00:09:04.720 They are engaging in, in far more egregious behavior than any Florida man like Joe exotic ever did.

00:09:11.840 The depravity of our culture does not come from the deplorable, irredeemable, bitter clinging people 0.99

00:09:17.860 in the middle of the country who voted for that fascist Trump. The depravity, far greater depravity 0.96

00:09:22.560 comes from the liberal elite that pretends to be so much better than us that tells us how to live

00:09:27.360 our lives. Think of the children is an overused line and it is often exploited by demagogues.

00:09:33.800 So I try to avoid the line. You know, I don't want to sound like the lady in the Simpsons.

00:09:37.100 Well, somebody please think of the children. However, there are some circumstances

00:09:42.280 where you actually need to think of the children. Think of what a selfish monster you have to be 0.98

00:09:49.740 to do this to a baby. I mean, I'm saying, I'm now seeing a baby like quite a lot and the baby's 0.91

00:09:55.540 keeping me up quite a lot. A baby has an, a right to his parents. Sometimes, you know, obviously kids

00:10:04.400 are in bad circumstances and kids can be adopted in certain ways. Let's not forget, of course, that

00:10:08.500 there are something like 32 couples trying to adopt for every baby up for adoption in the United

00:10:13.300 States. But this is a totally different, to create a baby, to deny the baby his mother, to put them,

00:10:23.480 to put these babies into this bizarre, selfish sexual situation. Absolutely outrageous. Tommy 0.90

00:10:29.860 Tuberville, new Republican Senator, made this point on the Senate floor. He said, you know, there,

00:10:37.560 there are times in this country, even if the line is overused, when you do have to think of the

00:10:43.140 children. We've got to start teaching our young people moral values again. That starts with putting

00:10:49.280 God in prayer back in our schools. Our kids need structure and they need to learn right from wrong.

00:10:56.040 I've watched everything that has happened in education over the past few decades. From a front row seat

00:11:01.800 on my sideline as a coach, it's embarrassing. As a person who chooses to spend their career in

00:11:09.320 education, I now have the opportunity to say something as a United States Senator. Our young

00:11:15.480 people are our number one hope for this country's future. If we don't recognize that, we're going to

00:11:22.980 lose our country as we know it. So what Tommy Tuberville is saying here, it's not some emotionally

00:11:29.980 manipulative play. He's just, he's stating a truism, right? The children, the children are the future

00:11:34.820 in as much as we're born, we grow, we die. And then the next generation rinses and repeats, right?

00:11:43.320 So when you look, I've been saying this for years, when you look at a university campus, it's not like

00:11:48.840 that's some little zoo and then the kids are going to get fixed when they get into the real world.

00:11:52.280 You're looking at the future. You're looking at a crystal ball for your country.

00:11:55.460 So if children are educated to exercise their moral conscience, practice the virtues, learn their

00:12:03.400 nation's history, love their country, and develop their faculties of higher learning, their higher

00:12:09.260 reason, that is going to lead to one kind of a country, a good country. If, on the other hand, kids are

00:12:16.320 not taught even sort of the rudimentary things that will help develop their faculties of reason,

00:12:22.960 and they're also taught a bunch of cockamamie left-wing theories about how terrible their

00:12:27.540 country is and about how awful conservatives are or something and how awful the founding fathers are,

00:12:32.620 if they're taught that they can't even discern right and wrong, that you can't trust your moral

00:12:36.620 conscience, if you're taught that you can't make judgments from the natural world, you can't make

00:12:45.200 ethical judgments, then you're going to have a different kind of country. You're going to have

00:12:47.920 Tiger King country, which these three perverts are showing us pretty clearly. If you want to listen,

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00:14:16.080 If children are the future, unfortunately, we're getting some bad news from the schools because the

00:14:21.360 schools are going in the other direction. They are totally failing students. That is nothing new,

00:14:27.400 but they're actually accelerating the, their efforts to fail students and therefore fail our nation's

00:14:34.600 future. This from Boston public schools, canceling advanced classes because why? Because of COVID? No,

00:14:44.280 it's actually not because of COVID. Because of some issue with the curriculum? No, it's not the curriculum.

00:14:50.280 Boston public schools are canceling the advanced classes because the students who make it into those

00:14:56.040 classes are considered too white and too Asian. Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will not be accepted

00:15:05.340 into advanced placement classes in Boston for the next year because most of the students, a majority of

00:15:12.580 the students are white or Asian. This program, it's called the advanced work classes, will suspend

00:15:19.980 enrollment because of, quote, concerns about equity. This is what we have been told. This has become a cliche

00:15:31.280 about the left, that the left wants not to bring up the people who are not doing as well, but they want to bring

00:15:40.340 down the people who are doing well. And in this case, they're doing it through a process of explicit racial

00:15:47.340 discrimination. And they'll, they'll defend it because they have these theories about white supremacy and

00:15:55.640 they tell people that white people are bad and they, they push a sort of national ideology, a governing 0.87

00:16:03.120 ideology of white guilt. But what about the Asians? You know, even if let's just say that the ideology 0.96

00:16:10.640 of white guilt is so ingrained that it's going to be really hard to fight against it and it's evil,

00:16:14.940 but you can understand why this sort of thing is being allowed in schools. What did the Asians ever 1.00

00:16:20.940 do? There's no ideology of Asian supremacy or Asian guilt. Why do these kids not get to go to their

00:16:26.920 advanced classes? Because other students of other races don't do as well on the placement tests.

00:16:32.560 Why are you going to punish the kids? Why are you going to hold them back? That is a national

00:16:38.180 pathology. John Brennan, who didn't, I think he voted for a communist for president once.

00:16:45.700 Seriously, I'll, I'll have to double check that. I always, I always confuse Brennan and Clapper,

00:16:49.920 but this guy really awful, awful sort of Obama era official. Brennan goes on MSNBC and

00:17:00.520 describes the guilt that he feels, the shame that he feels, not for all the terrible things he did and 1.00

00:17:06.760 all the stupid opinions he holds. No, he feels the guilt and shame because of his race and his sex. 1.00

00:17:12.560 Well, I must say to Claire's point, I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days in light

00:17:18.240 of what I see of my other white males saying. Wow. Oh my gosh. So brave. Wow. So brave. And you can see

00:17:24.640 this woman, she's one of the worst on MSNBC. I forget her name. Is it Nicole Wallace? 0.96

00:17:28.880 She's just giggling. Oh yes. That's right. Talk more about those awful white men. Oh, we have to

00:17:37.480 take them and throw, defenestrate them. We need to throw them bodily out of our country 0.97

00:17:42.080 in the name of racial and sexual equality. Pathetic. It's very pathetic. Uh, John Brennan is a, a pathetic 1.00

00:17:51.080 man. Uh, but, uh, it's not just him who holds this view. This has become a part of the national 0.99

00:17:58.100 narrative. The, the, the, this, this idea that, uh, men are bad and white people are bad has really 0.82

00:18:04.700 broken into the mainstream from the fringes of the left. Now it's, it's pretty, pretty mainstream.

00:18:10.460 This narrative has been growing for a while and it's, it's the, it's sort of the lens through which

00:18:15.620 we see a lot of our, our political history. Barack Obama actually worked this kind of racial

00:18:22.280 narrative into his biography from his earliest days. He's now doing this absolutely insufferable

00:18:27.520 podcast with Bruce Springsteen, which is somehow those two guys bad enough in themselves make each

00:18:34.380 other worse. Somehow the, the sum is worse than the individual parts. But Barack Obama was describing

00:18:40.800 at this time that he was in, in school in Hawaii and some kid called him a racial slur and he broke

00:18:49.780 his nose. When I was in school, I had a friend, we played basketball together and one time we got in a

00:18:56.120 fight and he called me a c**. Now, first of all, ain't no c**s in Hawaii, right? So, you know, it's one of those 0.96

00:19:05.080 things where he might not even know what a c**. What he knew was, I can hurt you by saying this. 0.99

00:19:12.760 And I remember I popped him in the face and broke his nose and we were in the locker room.

00:19:18.860 Well done. And suddenly blood's pouring down and it was just reactive. I just, I said, what?

00:19:24.500 And I popped him and he said, why'd you do that? And I explained to him, I said, don't you ever call

00:19:33.520 me something like that? Okay. Uh, Alex, I'll take, uh, things that never happened for 500,

00:19:39.980 please. Uh, I'm not saying nothing like this ever happened, but politicians have a habit of

00:19:46.520 exaggerating stories over time. Uh, Obama in particular, Biden for sure does that.

00:19:53.840 Barack Obama already told a version of this story in his first book, which was actually a pretty good

00:19:58.200 book. Dreams from my father have to hand it to him. I wouldn't, I'm not saying run out to the store

00:20:02.440 and go read it, but it's better than the other stuff he's written and said in his career. And in

00:20:06.360 that version of the story, he just gave the kid a bloody nose. Now you see it's being heightened.

00:20:11.460 He broke his nose. Okay. All right, fine. Maybe, maybe something like this happened.

00:20:17.280 This narrative, because the kid said a racial slur, everyone's reaction to that is, well,

00:20:23.560 that's, that's justified. And I actually sort of think if someone really starts using fighting words,

00:20:28.120 the sort of thing, uh, one, one has their limits on what they're going to take and a culture that

00:20:34.560 understands chivalry and honor once understood that William F. Buckley Jr. is as mainstream a

00:20:39.500 conservative as ever there was, uh, had been called a Nazi by Gore Vidal for the umpteenth time on

00:20:46.700 national television. And he famously said, using a slur, not for black people, but for homosexuals, 0.97

00:20:51.220 he said, uh, listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto Nazi or I'll smash you in your face and 1.00

00:20:56.620 you'll stay plastered too. So, uh, you know, even, even as mainstream a conservative as that would, 0.99

00:21:01.700 would say, yeah, there are limits. Don't, don't use these fighting words. The, the point though,

00:21:06.360 that Obama makes that I think is really important here is the kid didn't call Obama that word 0.99

00:21:12.100 because the kid hates black, hated black people. Right. And Obama's admitting that he, he makes 0.99

00:21:18.240 this point. He says, there ain't no slurs for black people in Hawaii. If you're in Hawaii,

00:21:24.920 you're kind of in a different social milieu. It's just a different context.

00:21:30.000 The kid called Obama that word, whether in Obama's fantasies or whether some event like

00:21:35.380 that happened in real life, because the kid was angry at Obama and he knew that that word would

00:21:41.380 hurt him. I, I have on rare occasion there, you know, Italians don't get called a lot of slurs in

00:21:47.680 America anymore. They used to, they don't really anymore. Uh, unless you're Chris Cuomo and you get

00:21:51.940 called Fredo and you pretend that that's a, an Italian slur. Uh, but there have been a couple

00:21:55.760 of times in my life I've been called an Italian slur. And I don't think it's because the people

00:22:00.280 who called me that hate Italians. I don't think people really harbor deep seated hatred for Italians

00:22:05.400 really anymore. Uh, they called me that cause I did something that they didn't like, or they were

00:22:10.180 just angry at me. And so they said, okay, what can I hit on? I can attack him for being a dude. I can

00:22:14.640 attack him for being Italian. I can attack him for being just so, so handsome. I don't know. I don't know 1.00

00:22:19.860 it was going through their mind. This I think is very important when we talk about racism and this

00:22:27.080 ism and that ism. Not everything is a systemic institutional problem. Sometimes people just

00:22:36.100 don't like you and they're going to try to hurt you and that's wrong, but it doesn't speak to a

00:22:40.960 broader pathology or a broader bigotry in this country. And I think that as masculinity is also now

00:22:48.080 castigated as toxic, people are losing sight of this. Men talk to each other in a rough way and

00:22:56.400 sometimes they're earnestly rough and sometimes they're jokingly rough. I remember one time I was

00:23:01.440 in college and in my suite, you know, all the guys with different rooms kind of connected to a common

00:23:07.020 room. We were all just, we were mean to each other, but we were good, very good friends. We were all

00:23:11.680 saying mean things to each other. One time there was a young lady who was visiting our suite

00:23:15.560 and she heard the way we talked to each other. She said, oh my gosh, do you hate each other?

00:23:21.520 I said, why are we talking about? We're good friends. We're better friends than most people

00:23:24.600 on this campus. That is something I think important to keep in mind because we're about to hear a whole

00:23:31.880 lot about institutional racism and systemic bigotry because the trial of Derek Chauvin,

00:23:39.440 the police officer who was involved in the death of George Floyd, that's about to take place in

00:23:45.200 Minneapolis. And the city of Minneapolis seems to be gearing up for World War III. I mean, you thought

00:23:54.340 that what they did at the Capitol in Washington DC after the January 6th riot was intense. They are

00:24:01.580 locking this place down in Minneapolis as though it is a fortress. Why? Because maybe the facts of the

00:24:09.160 case are going to show that the BLM narrative that justified burning down cities around the country for

00:24:15.600 six or eight months, maybe that narrative wasn't totally true.

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00:25:35.360 The Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis, which will be holding the trial of the officer

00:25:55.080 involved in the death of George Floyd has been quote, ringed with concrete barriers, security fencing

00:26:00.620 and barbed wire. There is increased security in the area, including the Minneapolis police, Hennepin County

00:26:07.580 sheriff's deputies, Minnesota state troopers, and the National Guard. What does this mean? It means they think

00:26:14.080 that the cop is going to get off, right? If the cop is going to have the book thrown at him, they're not going

00:26:19.580 to need all this stuff. Maybe they will. Maybe there will be riots of celebration. But it seems to me all this

00:26:25.280 security measures, all of these measures suggest that the narrative we were told about George, St. George Floyd,

00:26:33.000 who, I think the narrative being pushed by the mainstream media was George Floyd, he wasn't on drugs at the time.

00:26:40.240 George Floyd, he didn't have a dodgy past. George Floyd, he wasn't resisting arrest. The narrative was George Floyd

00:26:48.560 is innocent as the newly driven snow. And this cop basically brutalized him to death without any

00:26:58.700 question. And maybe the cop acted inappropriately. I guess we'll find out in the trial. Maybe all of the

00:27:06.520 things that George Floyd had been doing, including the drugs, most notably, maybe that didn't have any

00:27:11.040 effect on his death. But the evidence we've seen so far from autopsies and other sort of evidence

00:27:16.700 suggests that the story is much more complicated than the narrative would have led on. And maybe

00:27:22.460 this cop is going to get off. Because I think Minnesota thinks that he's going to get off,

00:27:31.100 the city of Minneapolis is hiring black social media influencers to push propaganda about the trial.

00:27:41.020 This story came out just a few days ago. City, city of Minneapolis would hire social media influencers

00:27:49.000 from local minority communities to help facilitate the spread of news and combat misinformation during

00:27:55.780 Derek Chauvin's trial, reportedly in the hopes to head off the unrest. Unrest, one of the most Orwellian

00:28:02.960 words in our language, unrest meaning violence and riots. This is just bribery, right? This is just

00:28:13.280 a sort of self extortion. The city of Minneapolis is extorting itself and giving money to leaders in

00:28:21.720 these communities to try to buy their goodwill and help tell people in these communities not to

00:28:29.640 riot and torch the whole city. Really a pathetic dereliction of leadership from the city of Minneapolis

00:28:37.240 that they basically have to pay a tribute to these local communities not to burn down the whole city.

00:28:44.060 The city of Minneapolis has since announced they're going to drop the plan. Just yesterday they came out,

00:28:48.980 when this came to light, this elicited enough bad looks all around that they decided that they were

00:28:55.220 going to drop it. But it's a bad state in our country where we have such an atrophied understanding

00:29:04.000 of justice that city officials have to bribe local neighborhood leaders not to burn down the city.

00:29:13.280 Ties into our understanding of justice when you've got a throuple that's permitted to create a child for 1.00

00:29:17.740 the explicit purpose of denying that child the access to her mother, designer babies for their own 0.94

00:29:23.860 selfish reasons to be put in a perpetual orgy of these three dudes. Speaking of justice, 1.00

00:29:32.480 Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland looking a little more radical than some of us thought he was.

00:29:37.180 Garland, as you know, was supposed to be the Supreme Court nominee that Obama put up to replace

00:29:42.480 Antonin Scalia and Cocaine Mitch held firm. And that's how we got more conservative judges.

00:29:47.800 Garland then went back to his regular judgeship. Now he's being pushed for the attorney general

00:29:53.660 position in Biden's administration. When he was named, I thought, okay, well, could do a lot worse

00:30:00.040 with these radicals. So Garland, okay, that's fine. His answers though have not impressed people.

00:30:05.380 Ted Cruz, one of the people who was questioning him, says that he's very disappointed in Garland's

00:30:11.820 answers. He has built a reputation for not being overly partisan. And so I was hopeful

00:30:18.240 that when Judge Garland came before this committee, that he would indicate a commitment to the rule

00:30:25.300 of law and a commitment to standing up to the hard politicization and weaponization of the Justice

00:30:33.100 Department that we saw during the eight years of the Obama-Biden administration. I have to say,

00:30:41.920 Judge Garland's testimony before this committee and his subsequent answers to the questions for the

00:30:47.640 record left me deeply, deeply disappointed. On question after question after question,

00:30:55.000 Judge Garland refused to answer virtually anything.

00:31:00.400 This is the key here. He wouldn't answer. So simple questions. He just wouldn't answer. He'd

00:31:06.600 punt. He'd say, we're going to look at it. We've got to review it. This, this is the difference. The,

00:31:11.540 the radical left, the openly radical left, like the AOC types, they just tell you exactly what they

00:31:16.420 think. The moderate left, like the Joe Biden types, they don't tell you what they're going to

00:31:22.660 do, but they're going to do the same thing. They're all going in exactly the same direction. Merrick

00:31:27.560 Garland is probably the most moderate Biden nominee and seems like he's a radical too. Jen Psaki doing

00:31:34.320 the same thing. She was asked a simple question about what's going to happen to 600 to 800,000

00:31:39.460 immigrants. And what's her answer? No answer. One other thing that the president of Mexico is

00:31:46.900 expected to propose is an idea to bring an immigrant labor, labor program to the U S that

00:31:52.640 could bring 600 to 800,000 immigrants a year to work legally in the United States. Uh, is that

00:31:59.960 something president Biden would consider? I I've seen reports of that. I believe that's a step that

00:32:04.260 would require Congress. Um, I'm sure we'll have a readout after, uh, the bilateral meeting this

00:32:09.640 afternoon and they both will be speaking after it as well. Sure. The measure might involve Congress,

00:32:15.460 though, frankly, these days, since so much of the government is just run by the, uh, executive

00:32:19.440 agencies, it probably doesn't need to involve Congress, but just cause it involves Congress

00:32:23.700 doesn't mean that you can't give your opinion on it. If the matter involves Congress, that means

00:32:28.480 that they're going to pass some law about it. And then the law has to be either signed or vetoed by

00:32:32.720 Joe Biden. So Biden absolutely needs to give his opinion on this topic. He's going to have a very

00:32:37.840 important role in it. So what's Biden's opinion about sending 800,000 Mexican immigrants each year

00:32:45.740 to the United States to compete with American citizens for jobs, particularly with lower wage

00:32:51.120 Americans for jobs. No answer, no answer because he knows that his answer, either way he answers is 0.86

00:32:58.540 going to offend either his base or the conservatives, but that he's going to slowly push this policy.

00:33:05.180 Immigration broadly, according to many public opinion surveys, is a winning issue for Republicans.

00:33:11.580 The democratic position on radical open borders immigration is very unpopular when you really

00:33:17.800 drill down into the details. And so the Democrats are going to pursue it anyway because interest groups

00:33:22.960 require them to, and their electoral future is greatly advantaged by that. But they're just not

00:33:27.940 going to tell you about it. They're going to keep their mouths shut. Same thing. Psaki was asked a

00:33:31.580 question on the teacher unions, which for no scientific reasons are keeping the schools closed

00:33:37.180 still. Jen Psaki said, has Biden's, or rather Jen Psaki was asked, has Joe Biden sold out America to

00:33:44.020 these unions? No answer. One more question from a former president Trump over the weekend speaking at

00:33:51.640 CPAC. I heard that. He said, President Joe Biden sold out America's children to the teachers union.

00:34:00.960 How does the white house respond to that? Uh, I think we're going to, uh, uh, spend more of our time

00:34:07.360 focused on communicating about our agenda for the American people than responding to, uh, criticism from,

00:34:13.280 uh, the former president.

00:34:14.880 This is not a terrible answer from Jen Psaki because what you want to do when you're asked

00:34:21.740 a question like that is to control the narrative, right? Michael, do you still beat your wife? You

00:34:26.000 know, you want to, there's no way to answer that directly. That doesn't make you look bad.

00:34:29.840 No, I don't still beat my wife. Uh, or yes, I, well, what, huh? Uh, so you want to control the 0.99

00:34:35.380 narrative. You want to control the wording here. However, normally that strategy does involve

00:34:41.200 smacking down the premise. So if the ideal answer to this question would have been, Hey,

00:34:47.520 what do you say to Trump who says that Biden sold out America to the teacher unions? Uh, listen,

00:34:52.720 we got the biggest, uh, amount of support from grassroots people who oppose the teacher unions.

00:34:59.620 We got a lot of support from charter schools. We got a lot of support from parents associations.

00:35:04.880 So, uh, don't tell me about selling out America. And then maybe you punch back at Trump too. And you

00:35:08.940 say he took money from this group or that group, whatever. They didn't do that because they can,

00:35:14.780 because Joe Biden sold out America to the teacher's unions. So she's, there's really no

00:35:18.640 good answer. And the teacher's unions, they are as dishonest and, uh, disreputable as they possibly

00:35:29.720 could be. They've never had a particularly good reputation, but now they're flaunting their own

00:35:34.940 rules. The Berkeley Federation of Teachers president, Matt Meyer has said that the teachers are not going

00:35:41.420 back until we have the gold standard in Berkeley, California, which means that all educators and

00:35:47.680 staff have to be vaccinated. The schools have to enforce social distancing. They have to enforce

00:35:52.480 mask wearings all the time. And until that basically impossible standard, teachers get paid

00:35:59.560 vacation, right? That's, that is the current line from the head of the Berkeley teacher union.

00:36:07.160 Yet he just got caught on video taking his two-year-old daughter to an in-person preschool

00:36:12.260 because he doesn't want to have to deal with the consequences of his actions. You see,

00:36:18.240 what he wants is the best possible deal for the teacher's union. But he also knows that the

00:36:26.320 arguments the teacher's union are making right now, or the arguments the teacher's union is making is, 0.95

00:36:32.440 they're ridiculous arguments. They're crazy on the, on the virus. And he also knows that he wants to be 0.99

00:36:37.280 able to send his kid to school. First of all, two-year-olds don't go to school. I know that

00:36:40.260 it's very fashionable now among sort of hip yuppies to say that, oh yes, I'm going to send my 18 month

00:36:46.300 old to school. No, you're not. You're sending them to daycare. School doesn't start until you're five

00:36:50.260 and it's fine. You can like, if it makes you feel better to say, oh yes, no, yes. My, my very

00:36:55.940 advanced child is going to, he's taking advanced classes for two-year-olds. Like, okay, fine. But

00:37:02.720 it just, it's daycare just for, for those of us who are interested in the reality of it. But it's

00:37:07.880 obviously hypocritical. It shows that the unions are not actually worried. The unions do not care at

00:37:13.880 all about the science of it all. They, they just want to get money for doing nothing. They're just

00:37:19.480 lazy. This is why good teachers tend to hate the teacher's unions. Meanwhile, turning to higher

00:37:26.520 education, the Harvard Business School Club of New York. So this is sort of alumni and faculty

00:37:33.160 at the Harvard Business School. They have canceled an event that they were going to host. It was going

00:37:39.020 to be an academic lecture and the academic lecture was going to be on the topic of cancel culture.

00:37:44.540 And because apparently the Harvard Business School Club of New York thinks that cancel culture is

00:37:50.620 such a ridiculous topic, they're going to cancel the lecture on cancel culture. Say that three times

00:37:55.360 fast. The speaker was going to be James Lindsay. I think, I haven't, I think I've interviewed James

00:37:59.780 Lindsay. He was one of the people involved in exposing the kind of silliness of grievance studies and

00:38:07.300 he's worked with Peter Boghossian. Now there's a big debate over cancel culture and is this cancel

00:38:13.920 culture and is cancel culture even real? I just don't think, I've said it a couple of times on this

00:38:18.200 show, I don't think cancel culture is a helpful lens through which to view this situation. This is

00:38:25.220 all about standards and power. This is all about having certain standards. Getting back to our story at

00:38:31.040 the top of the show, the throuple. I think the throuple should be canceled. I think that they

00:38:34.820 should not be permitted in polite society. I don't think they should be invited to fancy dinner parties.

00:38:41.300 I think what they're doing is wicked and it's child abuse and it's deeply unjust and they need to get

00:38:49.540 their act together before people accept this kind of insanity as acceptable. Am I therefore a proponent

00:38:59.660 of cancel culture? No. Any sensible person, until about five minutes ago, any sensible person would

00:39:05.780 have said that this is absolutely outrageous, wrong, and should not be tolerated by a just society.

00:39:12.860 But now we've fallen for this trap and it's a trap I've also mentioned. It happens to be the thesis of

00:39:17.100 my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is when the left pushes political

00:39:22.620 correctness, they do it to get rid of the old standards. And the only ways that conservatives ever react is we go

00:39:28.200 along with the new left-wing standards or we abandon standards altogether. And we say, you do you,

00:39:33.060 there should be no limits on what we do or think or say or anything like that. And that just has no basis

00:39:38.720 in American history. Bill Maher is getting a lot of credit right now because he's coming out and

00:39:48.880 defending Gina Carano, my colleague. I never thought that I would have a colleague in political media who

00:39:55.020 was an MMA fighter and a Disney movie star. But hey, you know, this is a pretty weird time that

00:39:59.620 we're living in. And Gina Carano was fired from Disney just for being a conservative, right? And 0.97

00:40:04.520 they, they used as an excuse some social media posts she'd made, but the social media posts were

00:40:09.240 completely innocuous. They were inoffensive. They didn't, they didn't really say anything wrong at

00:40:13.700 all. And so Bill Maher, who is a man of the left is defending her and saying she shouldn't be

00:40:21.560 canceled. And Bill Maher is doing this. This is very much in his wheelhouse because even though

00:40:27.040 he's a left winger, he's always sort of opposed political correctness, or at least he thinks he

00:40:31.840 does. He had, he hosted a show called Politically Incorrect. He's, he's not, not of the hard left,

00:40:39.500 but he's not a conservative either. And he's making an argument that while I appreciate it,

00:40:43.520 and I'm glad he's standing up for a conservative here against the left-wing mob, I don't think the

00:40:48.540 argument is particularly effective. So Bill Maher is defending Gina Carano on the grounds that she

00:40:58.420 did not deserve to be canceled. Take a listen. The Mandalorian's Gina Carano is a person I'd never

00:41:04.720 heard of and resent that I have now. She's some conservative wrestling chick who kicks ass on a 1.00

00:41:12.060 show I wouldn't watch if I was in prison. And she made some Nazi analogy. Who doesn't these days? 0.99

00:41:19.920 You're like the Nazis is the new I don't like you. It's always okay when Trump's the Nazi. 0.96

00:41:25.740 That disqualifies her for marching around planet who gives a shit in a helmet? 1.00

00:41:30.140 What? By the way, you can't work in Hollywood if you don't believe what we believe. Yeah. In the 0.99

00:41:38.580 fifties, that's exactly what the left complained they were being told. So this is a funny bit. I

00:41:44.540 laughed a couple of times while, while watching it the first time. And I'm really, I really do

00:41:49.700 appreciate that Bill would stand up for a conservative who's being canceled by the left-wing mob. But it's

00:41:54.060 that argument there at the end that, that means I can't totally go along with him. He says,

00:41:59.920 you know, in the fifties, this is what leftists complained about. And what he's referring to is

00:42:04.940 anti-communism. And the anti-communism of the 1950s is something that has been totally rewritten by

00:42:12.040 left-wing historians who are still trying to cover up the fact that they were defending the communists

00:42:17.060 in the thirties, forties, and fifties. This is sometimes called McCarthyism. And McCarthyism is

00:42:23.200 sometimes conflated with blacklisting in Hollywood. Senator Joe McCarthy had absolutely nothing to do

00:42:29.480 with Hollywood blacklisting. No person of any political persuasion, whether they love McCarthy

00:42:34.400 or hate McCarthy, who has actually looked at the facts can say McCarthy had something to do with

00:42:38.680 the blacklisting in Hollywood. McCarthy had nothing to do with HUAC, better known, or I suppose it's

00:42:43.840 better known as HUAC now, but it ought to be known as the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

00:42:48.260 What happened in the 1950s, and really more in the thirties and forties, is that the Soviet government,

00:42:56.540 our enemies in the Cold War, had spies placed throughout the federal government, had very high

00:43:05.300 level spies in the federal government. This is not a conspiracy theory. We know this. We ended up rooting

00:43:10.520 out a couple hundred of them, at least. The most notable one is Alger Hiss, who was a high level

00:43:16.620 State Department official. He had been at the DOJ. He helped found the United Nations. He was directly

00:43:21.100 working for the Soviet Union. He was a spy in the United States. If you want to read a good book

00:43:24.940 about it, you can read Witness by Whitaker Chambers. At the time, this was a hotly debated political

00:43:30.360 issue because the Republicans were the ones who were hardcore anti-communists here. And the communist

00:43:37.520 problem festered during democratic administrations. In fact, the reason Dwight Eisenhower got elected

00:43:42.560 was because of the backlash against Democrats going soft on communism. John F. Kennedy defended

00:43:51.520 Joe McCarthy. Bobby Kennedy went to Joe McCarthy's funeral. It was absolutely right and just for the

00:44:00.080 United States to root out communists in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It was a matter of great national

00:44:07.540 importance. Was that cancel culture? Sort of. You know, this is so crazy to me for the conservatives

00:44:13.760 who just sort of maybe reflexively, because they believe whatever they were taught in public school,

00:44:19.240 the ones who decry McCarthyism, who buy the left's line on McCarthyism. Conservatives,

00:44:26.200 out of one side of their mouth, will decry the cultural Marxism of Hollywood and the universities

00:44:31.520 and say that we've got to take back the institutions and we can't let these leftists destroy our culture

00:44:38.700 through Hollywood and through the universities. And then at the same time, they'll decry McCarthyism

00:44:44.980 and cancel culture and say that we can never root out anybody. We just need to debate them in the free

00:44:50.920 marketplace of ideas. When you say that we need to take back the institutions, take back Hollywood,

00:44:56.140 take back the universities, what you are saying is we need to get the leftists out of those places.

00:45:02.700 We need to censor them in a certain sense. We need to kick them out of their positions of influence

00:45:08.800 on the basis of their ideological views. You are defending a sort of McCarthyism.

00:45:15.580 But then on the other hand, you say, but we would never do that sort of thing. The leftists are the

00:45:18.940 new McCarthyists. In reality, what happens is people defend their standards and no society is

00:45:25.620 perfectly open. And nobody believes that if a guy walks up to his water cooler at the office with

00:45:29.600 an armband of the swastikans that screams Zig Heil, that he has any right to keep his job. 0.65

00:45:34.480 And the debate that's really happening right now is over which set of standards are we going to have?

00:45:37.960 The good set of standards that defends America and defends our faith and defends our traditions and

00:45:45.280 our way of life? Or the bad set of standards, which says America's evil and Americans should be divided

00:45:51.400 and hate one another? And degenerate throuples should be able to create designer babies without 1.00

00:45:56.660 any care for the child himself or herself. Which set of standards are you going to defend?

00:46:02.080 Because if we have a good traditional moral version, then you can't have the throuple version.

00:46:08.660 You actually have to exclude that. You have to say no. You have to cancel that. And it would be a very

00:46:13.480 good thing to cancel that. Speaking of a guy who's getting canceled for weird sex stuff,

00:46:16.960 Andrew Cuomo. I have to touch on this story. Andrew Cuomo is in trouble right now because of

00:46:22.380 allegations of sexual harassment. A new video has resurfaced showing that Andrew Cuomo was

00:46:28.920 harassing a reporter and told her to eat a sausage sandwich, a sausage hoagie at a New York political

00:46:33.920 event. Take a listen.

00:46:35.880 Sandwich. Will you eat the whole sandwich? I will eat the whole sandwich. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:46:41.680 Who ate sausage? I can eat the whole sandwich. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

00:46:48.300 Oh, no. Hold on. I want you to see you here. The whole sausage. I don't know if I should eat the whole

00:46:53.460 sausage in front of you, but I'm definitely going to eat it. No excuses. You know where I'm going,

00:47:02.020 do you see another county executive? I do. Nice to see you. Now you're going to know me

00:47:05.840 in a whole front of you. My daughter, Michaela. Hello. Nice to meet you. Can I take a selfie with

00:47:11.560 you while I eat my sandwich? Oh, there you go. I think that's a fair trade. Yeah, there's too

00:47:17.680 much sausage in that person. It's not as easy to eat this in front of all these cameras as you

00:47:21.660 make it to. Well, that's right. That's your thing. Now I know how to do my whole skill. Not only do you have to

00:47:27.820 eat the sausage. That's part of the, the, being the government, right? Well, there is a course

00:47:33.540 where you get elected to office. They have a course called eating on camera. Okay. So this is

00:47:40.280 now being blown up as a horrible sexual harassment. The woman says she didn't feel sexually harassed at

00:47:45.340 all. She enjoyed it. Cuomo bought her a sausage and they made jokes about eating on camera,

00:47:49.080 which is a real joke. If you talk to presidential candidates, they will tell you when you go to the

00:47:52.600 Iowa State Fair, don't eat the corn dog. It just doesn't look good on camera.

00:47:55.740 Yeah. Andrew Cuomo should be canceled because he killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers and then 0.74

00:48:01.820 covered up their deaths when the federal government was started poking into it. That's why he should

00:48:05.800 be canceled. Maybe some of these sexual harassment claims are, are legit. I don't know. They seem kind

00:48:11.500 of politically convenient right now. And this one seems kind of bogus to me. The reporter is perfectly

00:48:17.200 happy. I'm all for getting rid of Andrew Cuomo. I think that's fine. He's a bad governor, but it's a,

00:48:23.140 it says something about our standards now where if you kill thousands of elderly New Yorkers and 0.87

00:48:26.940 cover it up because you know what a scandal it is, you're totally fine. But if you make a joke

00:48:31.120 about a sausage at a political event, that's going to ruin your life. It shows us that something about

00:48:36.220 our standards has gone awry and maybe we're going to have to try to recover that. I'm Michael Knowles.

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