The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 714 - The Invisible Coup

00:00:00.000 We averted another right-wing insurrection. Oh, gosh, I'm so relieved. Today, March 5th.

00:00:08.360 Yesterday was March 4th, when I was assured by the mainstream media that right-wing insurrectionists,

00:00:17.120 Trump-supporting insurrectionists were going to launch a coup d'etat. You see, that's the reason

00:00:22.060 that the left and the mainstream media gave for extending the National Guard in D.C.

00:00:27.480 That was the reason they gave for why Washington, D.C. still looks like Baghdad, like some occupied city. 0.71

00:00:35.240 But the coup, it never came. But they still extended the National Guard in D.C.

00:00:43.100 Huh. So glad we haven't had an insurrection. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.480 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from John Doe, who says,

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00:01:13.900 who knows, I don't really trust most studies that come out that are reported in the mainstream media.

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00:01:24.780 from the Near East, from Europe, from Asia, are in part, in very small part, Neanderthal. They found

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00:03:02.200 fabulous business. I've been told that we avoided an insurrection, which is why we have National

00:03:15.260 Guardsmen stationed all around DC and we have barbed wire and giant fences all around our federal

00:03:20.700 buildings because we avoided an insurrection. Now, I'm no expert on coup d'etats, but it would seem to

00:03:29.740 me that the world in which we have troops stationed all around the Capitol and where we have giant

00:03:38.120 buildings and giant gates and lots of barbed wire. To my mind, that more closely resembles a coup d'etat

00:03:46.240 than ordinary functions of government. But this is what we were told. We were told this by the

00:03:50.960 mainstream media. They're going to deny it now. They're going to say, no, we never said anything

00:03:54.040 about March 4th. They did. CNN, this is the date QAnon followers are looking forward to. Forbes,

00:03:59.260 how Donald Trump's DC hotel feeds QAnon's March 4th conspiracy. CNN, these Trump supporters are

00:04:04.780 convinced he'll be president again on March 4th. Washington Post, why March 4th matters to QAnon

00:04:09.420 extremists leading to fears of another attack. ABC, house to wrap early amid threat of violence

00:04:14.980 connected to QAnon about March 4th. USA Today, police bolster security at US Capitol as QAnon claims

00:04:21.440 Trump will become president March 4th. BBC, we're talking now across the pond. Why are QAnon believers 1.00

00:04:27.260 obsessed with March 4th? And then finally, the Washington Post at the Capitol, a March 4th threat by

00:04:32.060 Trump QAnon supporters proves a mirage. I spent a lot of time in the right wing media. I'm sure that

00:04:40.900 many of you do as well. I never heard anything about March 4th. I saw a lot of commentary that

00:04:47.520 was asking why the National Guard is still stationed all around DC, but I didn't see anything about March

00:04:53.300 4th. The only place I saw anything hyping some kind of riot on March 4th was in the mainstream media.

00:04:59.380 Then it didn't happen. And they take the fact that it didn't happen as a good reason why we need to

00:05:05.240 now extend the National Guard in Washington DC. You understand, we were told that we had an

00:05:11.260 insurrection on January 6th because there was not enough security in Washington DC. Now we're being

00:05:18.460 told that we didn't have an insurrection on March 4th because there was too much security in Washington DC.

00:05:28.340 Okay, fair enough. And that's why we need to extend the security in Washington DC. There's no end to

00:05:34.880 this. They're just taking more and more power. They're very good at this. Joe Biden recognizes that

00:05:44.860 Nancy Pelosi is pushing now a, an, a lethal threat to our political order through the House of 1.00

00:05:54.520 Representatives. Joe Biden, while video chatting with Nancy Pelosi, he said, honey, I admire the devil

00:06:02.240 out of you. Nancy, I love you. There's no one I'd rather work with than you. We've been friends a long

00:06:08.000 time and your whole family, your daughters, and it has just been a great relationship. And, uh,

00:06:15.240 you just have a special way about you, Nancy. And you're also, uh, very, very, which is important.

00:06:22.220 You're kind, but you're tough and you know, what's right and you stick by it. And, uh, I admire the

00:06:28.100 devil out of you. Biden's usually not great with his word choice. This one, I think absolutely spot on.

00:06:35.760 I admire the devil out of you, Nancy Pelosi. I don't, I can't say I recognize a ton of divinity

00:06:41.860 in you, but I certainly recognize the devil. And, uh, gosh, Nancy, I admire the devil out of you. I

00:06:48.020 just love practicing our dark arts together and worshiping the Lord of the underworld. Yeah. I just

00:06:53.400 love the devil out of you. Nancy is pushing something called the For the People Act, HR1. 0.68

00:07:00.600 And, uh, Breitbart had a good rundown on this yesterday. This is, I'm not going to say it's

00:07:08.060 the most radical legislation. That probably goes to the Equality Act, which the house just passed as

00:07:12.120 well. This is, is the crookedest legislation I've seen go through the house of representatives ever

00:07:17.560 in my lifetime. HR1 is a, an essential threat to our constitutional order, to our election systems.

00:07:26.200 HR1 gives Congress control over congressional elections. It says that

00:07:30.420 Congress has broad authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of congressional elections.

00:07:35.460 What could go wrong giving congressmen the ability to regulate their own elections? What

00:07:40.980 could possibly go wrong? Not a power grab at all, right? Uh, HR1 effectively outlaws voter ID,

00:07:46.240 the most basic ballot security measure. It effectively outlaws that. It says it's burdensome.

00:07:51.380 It limits legal challenges to its own law. Only DC courts can hear challenges to HR1,

00:07:58.640 which affects our election systems all over the country, according to, to the law. Uh, HR1 mandates

00:08:05.120 automatic and online voter registration. So states no longer have the right to organize their own kind

00:08:14.020 of voter registration plans. People will automatically be registered and then they've got to come off the

00:08:18.740 rolls. However, however, if states try to take ineligible voters off the voter rolls,

00:08:23.800 that will also be much more difficult, if not impossible because of HR1. HR1 protects illegal

00:08:30.160 aliens who have been automatically registered to vote mandates same day voter registration,

00:08:35.720 a mandates voter registration of 16 year olds who are not allowed to vote yet, but they need to be

00:08:40.600 registered to vote. It makes it, I kid you not, a federal crime to spread fake news about the elections.

00:08:47.960 So to give you just an example of this, there's an old joke. You say, Hey, are you a Republican?

00:08:53.780 Make sure you vote on Tuesday. Oh, you're a Democrat. Make sure you vote on Thursday, right?

00:08:57.020 This is an old joke. Both parties have said it for a long time. So in 2016, I posted a meme to this

00:09:02.520 effect, you know, Democrats don't forget to vote tomorrow, but Republicans vote today.

00:09:07.220 I was suspended from Facebook for a day or something like that. Twitter, maybe too. I don't really

00:09:12.800 remember. According to HR1, I could face legal consequences for that. That would become a federal

00:09:20.980 crime. Mandatory early voting. So it destroys the idea of election day, becomes election season,

00:09:26.900 which is obviously much more vulnerable to fraud. Mandates vote by mail without photo ID,

00:09:31.180 which is according to some states unconstitutional. This would make it a requirement. Mandatory legal

00:09:36.520 ballot harvesting so that Democrat operatives can go pick up a bunch of ballots from,

00:09:40.220 from people. Maybe filled out by the voters themselves. Maybe not. Mandatory campus vote

00:09:46.380 coordinators. So it puts a burden on colleges to hire people to harvest votes. Why are they going

00:09:53.160 to harvest the votes? Because the college is overwhelmingly going to vote for Democrats.

00:09:56.660 And it establishes a commission to study making Washington DC a state. Washington DC exists

00:10:03.080 specifically not to be a state. The argument for DC is that no state should control the seat of federal

00:10:09.160 power. That's why they took some of Maryland, some of Virginia, and they make it Washington DC. Now

00:10:13.940 they want to turn this into a state. Why? Gives Democrats much more power. Gives Democrats two 0.99

00:10:17.880 more votes in the Senate. Gives Democrats another congressman. Gives Democrats an advantage in

00:10:22.060 presidential voting. It's not just the government seizing this kind of power. YouTube is of course

00:10:28.760 taking more and more power, not just from those of us who say things that YouTube doesn't like on our

00:10:33.300 channels, not just those of us in the media or who are working in politics, but are not elected.

00:10:41.280 They're now censoring Trump. They obviously censored Trump's YouTube channel. Trump then gave a speech

00:10:46.000 at CPAC over the weekend. YouTube has censored that speech and has suspended the channel that posted

00:10:52.080 that speech. The video was approaching 4 million views. Can't have that. Can't have that because

00:10:57.760 some oligarchs in Silicon Valley are now going to control our political discourse. And even if 0.99

00:11:03.940 someone was a duly elected president, they're not permitted to speak because Google now gets veto

00:11:09.460 power. Beyond that, moving over to eBay, beyond people elected president, now to the most frivolous

00:11:16.640 example, Dr. Seuss is being banned from eBay. We know that Dr. Seuss's publisher is no longer going to

00:11:23.460 publish the racist Dr. Seuss books. Dr. Seuss in part being canceled. So because they're not being

00:11:30.240 published anymore, the only place you're going to be able to get them is on auction sites secondhand.

00:11:34.640 eBay, quote, is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items. According to the Wall Street

00:11:40.560 Journal, an eBay spokesman said that it would take time to review seller listings and monitor newly

00:11:47.360 published listings. Dr. Seuss, too hot to read. This company, eBay, is taking active measures to

00:11:54.700 prohibit kids from ordering. I don't even know the names of the titles. Look what happened on

00:11:59.780 Mulberry Street. Is that one of them? Actively monitoring to prohibit banned cartoon books for

00:12:07.200 children. Mein Kampf, by the way, is still on eBay. Mein Kampf, Hitler's book. You can still buy

00:12:12.320 Mein Kampf. You can sell Mein Kampf. Why is that? Some people are pointing out the hypocrisy. It's not

00:12:16.160 hypocrisy. It's a strategy. Mein Kampf is not a threat to the left. Dr. Seuss is much more of a

00:12:23.820 threat to the left than Mein Kampf because Dr. Seuss does not toe the politically correct line.

00:12:30.080 It shows you that we used to have sort of, we were a little looser about some things. We'd tell

00:12:33.660 jokes about one another. We were, we're not so agitated. We didn't all kowtow to this grievance

00:12:39.420 politics. Mein Kampf actually helps the left because what the left wants to do is say that all of their

00:12:45.780 enemies are Nazis. And in order for that calumny to have any weight, they need to keep Nazis in our 0.65

00:12:53.180 mind all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if the left starts mailing out copies of Mein Kampf to

00:12:56.900 everybody so that they can still have this boogeyman and tell us that half of our countrymen are Nazis.

00:13:03.320 Far more important that they ban Dr. Seuss than they ban Hitler. This seems to me, 0.90

00:13:10.520 in the wake of the mirage coup d'etat yesterday, when the mainstream media told us the right wing

00:13:18.760 is going to have an insurrection, a coup d'etat, it seems to me we're having a bit of a silent

00:13:22.620 insurrection. And we have for months and months and months, and it's not being perpetrated by the

00:13:27.760 right. It's being perpetrated by the left, which is slowly but steadily, gradually upending our entire

00:13:35.220 political order. They've been doing this in a very subtle way for about a hundred years through

00:13:40.200 political correctness, which is coincidentally the subject of my book, which will no doubt be banned

00:13:45.020 by big tech soon enough. The book doesn't come out until June 22nd. You can pre-order now, which

00:13:49.840 might be your best chance to get it. Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. It details

00:13:54.300 step by step how the left has, has advanced this campaign. But it also points out that the campaign

00:14:01.880 is not what we thought it was. The way the right has fought against political correctness

00:14:05.240 is completely failed. We've pretended it's a battle between free speech and censorship. It's not.

00:14:10.360 It's a battle between two competing standards. And our strategies that we've used to fight it are

00:14:15.080 completely wrong. They're actually counterproductive and we need to completely change course.

00:14:19.860 Otherwise, you are going to have this subtle, gradual insurrection, whereby our election rules

00:14:27.000 completely changed, whereby our method of persuading our fellow citizens in our republic,

00:14:34.200 completely compromised. In a republic, our ability to persuade one another, that is politics.

00:14:40.180 If they, in big technology or in the left-wing establishment broadly, if they can curtail that,

00:14:45.880 they utterly control the politics. If they can censor former presidents,

00:14:49.480 they can completely upend our culture. If Dr. Seuss, I mean, we've been making fun of the Dr. Seuss

00:14:56.840 thing for a while. Dr. Seuss is actually crucial to the fight. If they can cancel a beloved children's

00:15:04.780 author, and if they can totally control the way that children's minds are formed, they will control

00:15:11.500 our politics. Meanwhile, the argument for banning Seuss is anti-racism, so-called anti-racism. Anti-racist

00:15:20.900 ideology, quote unquote, is also being used to transform the country at our southern border.

00:15:25.260 Right now, there is a surge at our southern border. The number of young migrants who are being referred

00:15:32.900 to HHS for release into the US has surged 600% since President Trump left office. 600%.

00:15:42.380 A flood of new people entering the country undermines our sovereignty and also gives 1.00

00:15:49.560 Democrats likely voters. I'm just looking at public opinion surveys. In 2020, 30,000 unaccompanied

00:15:56.460 minors arrived at the southern border. Administration officials estimate that this year,

00:16:02.500 they will see 117,000 unaccompanied minors. We know why the left is doing this, why the left is

00:16:11.740 encouraging this, because one, it tugs on the heartstrings. It makes their opponents look awful

00:16:18.280 if we don't want to let in all sorts of unaccompanied minors, who, by the way, are facing horrible 1.00

00:16:24.520 conditions as they come into this country. They're often being brought over through coyotes. There was

00:16:29.920 a statistic that came out years ago from Huffington Post and Fusion, I believe, which said that

00:16:35.040 something like 60% or more of young women and girls who cross the border illegally are raped or

00:16:40.660 sexually assaulted on the journey. It's really a terrible journey for young people. The left is

00:16:45.240 incentivizing that because they think we're not going to find out about that sort of thing and

00:16:48.360 because they know that they're very likely to be able to count on their votes later on.

00:16:51.660 But doesn't this raise a problem? The left is telling us that the fact that in Florida you can

00:17:01.020 go to a restaurant, the fact that in Florida you can leave your home is tantamount to mass murder.

00:17:07.940 It's irresponsible Republicans killing all of us because people can move freely within their own

00:17:11.760 towns. But at the same time, they're telling us that we need to welcome hundreds of thousands of

00:17:17.700 migrants who have not really been screened, who have not, I assume they're not wearing masks,

00:17:23.500 who are pouring across the border. Isn't this a bit of a contradiction? If we're allowed to have

00:17:28.700 hundreds of thousands of people cross into our country illegally from who knows where,

00:17:32.660 shouldn't I be able to go down the street and go to the restaurant? Joy Reid of MSNBC says this

00:17:37.320 question, absolutely wrong, unjust, and racist. After following DeSantis down the COVID denial path and

00:17:46.160 recklessly opening up his state without any restrictions this week, he's deflecting criticism

00:17:50.820 by dishing out anti-immigrant xenophobia. The Biden administration was releasing illegal

00:17:57.680 immigrants into our communities who had COVID. The Biden administration was spreading COVID in

00:18:04.960 South Texas yesterday because of their lack of constraint of testing and quarantining people

00:18:12.460 who'd come across the border illegally. The Biden administration was exposing Texans to COVID.

00:18:18.180 That is Neanderthal type approach to dealing with the COVID situation. So for that absurdly racist claim,

00:18:25.960 Governor Abbott is the absolute worst for the second time this week. That absurdly racist, 0.93

00:18:32.920 totally true claim makes Governor Abbott the worst. Governor Abbott said that COVID is being

00:18:41.260 released into Texas because of the method in which the federal government is taking in

00:18:46.760 immigrants, illegal immigrants. That's obviously true. Joy Reid does not dispute that. It's common sense 1.00

00:18:59.820 and it follows all of the logic of the pandemic. So she's not saying it's not true. She's just saying

00:19:07.500 it's also racist. Can you, this is a subtle shift, but it is an important one. When I think of what is

00:19:16.040 racism, I think racism is unjust. It's wicked, wrong, and therefore it can't be true. It can't be based on

00:19:27.960 true things. If I say something that is true and the truth offends somebody, that's not my problem.

00:19:37.420 That doesn't make me a racist. What Joy Reid is saying is, and there was actually a comedy video

00:19:43.800 years ago that was going around YouTube that said, they said, just because something's true doesn't

00:19:49.360 mean it's not racist. And Joy Reid is now saying that earnestly. She's saying, don't you dare say

00:19:55.960 true things? Because if you do, I'll call you a bigot and we will suppress your speech and we will

00:20:03.420 censor you. That's the message of the broader left-wing establishment. We're seeing this day by

00:20:11.240 day, all of us in our individual lives. Actually, there's a woman who went viral on TikTok yesterday

00:20:15.480 who is claiming that she was fired from her job for doing her job because a woman of a racial minority 0.94

00:20:25.100 was able to claim without any evidence that she was offended, implying the woman did something wrong 0.93

00:20:32.380 and the young woman lost her job.

00:20:34.940 So I normally don't do this on TikTok, but today I am livid. So I want your opinion to see if this

00:20:40.140 kind of thing is justified. So I work at a retail store and I've worked there now for like a year

00:20:44.660 and a half. Well, I'm moving these racks and I didn't want to hit anyone. So I kind of look to each

00:20:49.260 side to see if anyone's on the other side to see if I can move it. Well, I look this way and I end up

00:20:54.280 seeing someone. So I stop and I don't move it. Well, she instantly looks at me and says,

00:20:58.360 can I help you with something? And I'm like, Oh no, I'm sorry. I was just going to move the rack

00:21:03.240 and I want to make sure I didn't hit anyone. Well, then she says, I want to put a corporate

00:21:07.540 complaint against you for racial profiling. Cause apparently I looked at her the wrong way and was 0.68

00:21:12.800 assuming she didn't have money. I would never just assume someone doesn't have money by what they

00:21:18.140 look like. That is stupid. Well, I had to give a whole statement about the thing. And overall, 1.00

00:21:23.300 they called me up today and fired me due to me looking at someone and being racist.

00:21:29.000 So do you think that's justified or do you think that's wrongful termination because I'm pissed?

00:21:34.280 I don't know if this particular story that this woman is telling is true. I have no reason to

00:21:39.080 disbelieve it, but I think we have all seen evidence that these sorts of things happen.

00:21:46.780 Just the woke a cold, a be less white campaign that LinkedIn has now taken off of their platform.

00:21:51.520 Thankfully, just that alone shows you that this sort of thing happens. You can be accused of racism for

00:21:59.220 saying something that's true. You can be accused of racism for looking at someone.

00:22:06.580 I don't necessarily blame the left wingers who are using this political strategy because the left is

00:22:17.600 frequently dishonest. They, they, if they are rejecting a sort of transcendent moral order,

00:22:23.780 then they really have no problem with being dishonest and lying about these things. And it's very effective.

00:22:28.520 It's a grift. It's a total grift. We're, we're seeing actually some fissions among some of the

00:22:36.680 most prominent race hustlers in the country because race hustling is big business. BLM has taken in 0.91

00:22:44.140 lots and lots of donations since the George Floyd killing or the George Floyd death, I guess.

00:22:51.100 We'll find out in the trial whether he died of drugs or health problems or whether he died because he

00:22:55.800 was, he was killed by somebody. But this is big business. I read that there are some numbers.

00:23:02.940 It's hard to get exact, exact numbers here, but I have read that BLM has taken in something like

00:23:08.000 $90 million, might be significantly more than that. And some other race hustlers want in on the action. 1.00

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00:23:45.800 The family of Michael Brown. You remember Michael Brown? Michael Brown was a young man

00:23:52.520 in Ferguson, Missouri who robbed a store, then was walking down the street, and then

00:23:58.560 charged a police officer, grabbed his gun, and sadly was killed in this incident. Officer doesn't

00:24:04.940 appear to have done anything wrong, but it is a sad incident. A guy died. Just generally speaking,

00:24:11.220 that's a sad thing. So the Michael Brown incident helped to start the Black Lives Matter movement

00:24:17.940 because the reality of what happened to Michael Brown was completely rewritten. We were told he

00:24:23.560 was a gentle giant. We were told he had his hands up, and he said, hands up, don't shoot. Didn't

00:24:28.680 happen. It was completely contradicted by the witnesses and the grand jury, but that myth launched

00:24:33.680 BLM. Now BLM's making a lot of money, and now Michael Brown's family and some of the local

00:24:38.780 community organizers, also known as race agitators in Ferguson, are demanding a cut of the action.

00:24:46.440 Mike Brown Sr. and Tony Russell, a local organizer, have demanded that the Black Lives Matter organization

00:24:52.180 provide $20 million to continue their work in Ferguson, Missouri. $20 million to continue the

00:25:01.980 very important work of Michael Brown Sr. and Tony Russell. What work is that? I don't know. Can't quite

00:25:07.480 describe it. But anyway, pay up. There is a certain satisfaction in watching these extortion artists

00:25:14.500 extort one another. These, these shakedown artists try to run the con on one another. And frankly, I

00:25:22.400 don't, I don't blame these guys, Mr. Mr. Brown or Mr. Russell. I don't blame them. BLM organization or

00:25:30.960 grifters just like race hustlers all around the country. So why should, why should one group of them 0.97

00:25:36.680 get all the money? Doesn't make a lot of sense. This system is everywhere. It's in corporate boardrooms

00:25:48.500 as we saw last week. It's in retail shops, certainly would appear to be. It's in universities. It's down

00:25:55.020 in kindergarten education. Kindergarteners are now being taught. Anti-racism, which is just a code word

00:26:00.900 for radical leftist ideology. This is all over our country. Where's the real insurrection? Where's the

00:26:10.340 real coup? Is the insurrection what happened yesterday on March 4th, which proved a mirage?

00:26:16.180 Or is the insurrection the ideological transformation that's going on for decades now, backed up by actual

00:26:22.600 violence in the streets for six to eight months during 2020 when leftist radicals burned down our

00:26:28.840 country? This may be, I'm sorry to say, the new normal. And the new normal, these, these policies,

00:26:36.600 forget racial grievance for a second, even the so-called public health policies that have totally

00:26:40.800 upended our American way of life, that have canceled holidays, that have prevented us from seeing one

00:26:45.460 another, that have taken away so many of our liberties. They might be here to stay. Dr. Paul

00:26:50.200 Ofit, who's the director of the Vaccine Education Center in Philly, he's a member of the FDA's

00:26:54.980 Vaccine Advisory Committee. He was interviewed on CNN and he says, you know, look, once we get COVID

00:27:00.780 under control, someday that'll happen. We should probably just keep wearing the masks anyway.

00:27:06.360 We figure out what flu strains have been circulating in places like Australia or South America, which

00:27:11.500 sort of predicts what, what strains are likely to come into our, our country. There's been so little

00:27:16.480 flu in those two areas. I think it's going to be hard for us to try and figure out what flu strains

00:27:21.080 to pick, but you're right. It's, if we mask and social distance every winter, we will see a

00:27:25.900 dramatic reduction in flu, which usually causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and

00:27:30.280 tens of thousands of deaths. I wonder whether that would be, will be the lesson from this.

00:27:35.240 It's certainly the lesson that you people want to voice on us, but it's not the lesson that I'm

00:27:39.800 going to take. You know, I was, I knew this was going to happen. I was speaking to a generally more

00:27:44.520 conservative public health expert. There aren't too many conservatives in that particular field.

00:27:48.720 It's just a leftist field. It involves a left-wing way of thinking about the world and about politics.

00:27:55.620 But I was talking to a guy who's more center, more right-wing. And he said, you know, Michael,

00:28:00.540 maybe this isn't the worst thing. We were kind of crazy before. You'd go out when you had the

00:28:05.200 sniffles. That's kind of crazy. We shouldn't be doing that, right? I think we should. I think it is

00:28:09.360 disordered to wear masks in public like bacteria ridden banditos. I think that it is inhuman

00:28:17.420 to cover up our mouths, our speech, the essential quality that makes us human and that defines our

00:28:24.980 system of government, at least the one we've had for a couple hundred years now. It's wrong.

00:28:29.640 It's just intrinsically wrong. I would rather see people's smiling faces, hug my relatives and

00:28:34.900 celebrate Christmas than maybe avoid getting the sniffles. I'd never get the flu shot and I don't

00:28:42.080 intend to. I don't intend to get this vaccine either. If I were much, much older, I'd consider

00:28:47.280 getting the flu shot and I'd consider getting the coronavirus shot. But I'm not. I'm not saying I'm

00:28:52.980 invincible. I guess there's a terrible world in which a bad flu takes me, God forbid, or a COVID or

00:28:58.180 something. But I'm willing to take the risk. We all take risks in society. I would rather have a human,

00:29:04.520 well-ordered society where I can see everybody's smiling face than, than not have a light cough.

00:29:12.700 This is the common sense. This is actually the one hope that I think we all have here.

00:29:17.580 The father of what you might call neo-Marxism, cultural Marxism is a term that's used,

00:29:23.580 a very important figure in Western Marxism is Antonio Gramsci. I write about him at great length

00:29:28.840 in my book. Gramsci is the head of the Italian, former head of the Italian Communist Party. He was

00:29:34.120 imprisoned by Mussolini. One of the worst things Mussolini ever did was imprison this guy because

00:29:38.720 it gave him a chance to write. If he was going to imprison him, he should have taken away his pen

00:29:42.620 and paper. He wrote the prison notebooks. He wrote, he wrote about this one issue that Marxists have,

00:29:48.840 which is they don't have a grasp on the common sense. The conservatives have the common sense.

00:29:54.420 They've cultural hegemony and they just, a lot of people, when you hear these cockamamie left-wing

00:30:00.200 theories, you just say, that doesn't sound right to me. This is why the left has to transform our

00:30:04.120 way of thinking, has to get into the schools very early, has to force on us a new normal so that they

00:30:08.860 can transform the common sense and we don't question their crazy ideas. I think conservatives still have

00:30:14.620 the common sense. I think in many ways, this is why Trump and an anti-ideological candidate,

00:30:19.220 a common sense candidate did so well in 2016. There was a woman who summed this up to me.

00:30:23.740 She, she pulled up, she's just gone viral in a video on social media. She pulls up to a fast 0.59

00:30:29.200 food counter. They're going to hand her her food. Some fast food places tell you to wear masks. I 0.81

00:30:34.240 obviously never do that, but I guess sometimes they're sticklers. And the person refuses to hand

00:30:38.920 the woman her food. He'll hand her a mask, but not her food. She's very confused.

00:30:45.500 Hi. You have a mask? No, I don't. I can give you one.

00:30:49.840 You can give me one? I can give you one. I need you to wear a mask.

00:30:53.740 So you can hand me a mask? I can hand you one, yeah.

00:30:56.140 But you can't hand me the drink without a mask?

00:30:59.120 You've got to wear a mask. How does that make any sense?

00:31:03.080 That's what, that's what I, I just need you to wear a mask when you do mine.

00:31:06.980 Well, if you can hand me a mask, why can't you just hand me the drink?

00:31:10.640 I can hand you the mask.

00:31:11.780 Listen, sir, I have two brain cells to rub together and an, uh, even a modicum of independent

00:31:20.740 thought. So I'm just pointing out to you that what you're saying doesn't make any sense.

00:31:25.600 Uh, uh, uh, wear the mask. Beep, boop. Beep, beep, boop. Wear the mask. Bah, wear the mask.

00:31:31.660 Uh, this is the battle right now. When we're talking about the insurrections, the coups.

00:31:38.020 Yeah, there is, there is a cultural coup that's going on in our country right now. And we're trying

00:31:41.120 to stave that off. And the two battle lines are exactly what you've heard there. The

00:31:45.440 people who go along to get along, the fast food guy and the woman who, I don't know her politics, 1.00

00:31:53.440 but I know that she has at least a little bit of common sense left. If we cannot hold the common

00:31:58.880 sense, if we cannot stave off and shatter the new normal, then, uh, that, that will be the final

00:32:05.360 blow. If we can hold on to the common sense, we have a chance. We are going to be hearing about

00:32:13.740 all sorts of, uh, common sense questions from Ben today. Uh, we're also going to be hearing about

00:32:17.880 Neanderthals. We're also going to be hearing about Joe Biden. Head on over, listen to his show.

00:32:21.960 And you know, there's another show you can listen to from Ben that would be debunked.

00:32:25.440 Lots of crazy left-wing ideas that go unchallenged in our society. Well, Ben,

00:32:32.320 with his lightning fast reflexes of facts and logic is going to go in and debunk a bunch of

00:32:37.400 crazy left-wing claims in 15 minutes or less. He's talking about minimum wage on this most recent

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00:32:58.500 break down the unions. Hopefully he'll break the unions as well, but he'll definitely break down

00:33:02.040 the unions. We'll be back with a lot more.

00:33:16.380 It is my favorite time of the week. The mailbag. First question from Michael.

00:33:20.740 Dear Michael, when will you be launching the Daily Wire dating app? I'm sick of the hot singles in

00:33:28.000 my area, not sharing my conservative and traditional values. In all seriousness,

00:33:33.100 was that not serious? That's fair enough. It seems like a serious statement. He goes on. In all

00:33:37.300 seriousness, I live in the most liberal city in Wisconsin and I can't seem to meet any respectable

00:33:41.540 Womixen, it's the new spelling, that shares my values. I have not left because I have a great job and

00:33:47.960 I'm close to home and family. Do you have any advice for seeking out the ladies worth their salt 0.62

00:33:52.020 or some inspiration to up and move to a more conservative state? P.S. Nice name. Thank you,

00:33:57.260 Michael. I reciprocate the compliment. It's tricky for me to give advice here because I met my wife

00:34:06.780 when we were like 10 years old or something. I'm not saying we got married right away, you know,

00:34:11.540 dated other people in the meantime, but I just have a sort of different dating experience than

00:34:17.180 many people do and I was never on the dating apps, for instance. I did not have to date during this

00:34:24.840 particularly crazy political time. So in many ways, I dodged a bullet. Sorry to gloat, but that's the

00:34:29.440 way it goes. I left a liberal state and moved to a conservative state and I did it for professional

00:34:38.160 reasons, first of all, and also personal reasons because it's easier to raise a kid in a more normal

00:34:44.920 conservative state and I love it and I miss some of my friends in California, but basically I wish I

00:34:50.160 had moved here even sooner to Tennessee. I absolutely love it. A lot of people are doing this in the

00:34:56.520 country right now. They are moving to places to follow their philosophical lights because as the

00:35:02.060 country becomes more politically polarized, you're not going to want to live in some crazy place

00:35:05.900 where everyone disagrees with you about everything and just views the world fundamentally differently.

00:35:10.760 I'm not saying we can't have nice conversations with people who are on the left. I'm just saying

00:35:15.360 if we're talking about radically different views of the world, it's going to be harder to get along

00:35:21.280 there. Where to meet a good woman. If you're having trouble on the dating apps, and I know people

00:35:28.860 who've gotten married off the apps, if you're not able to go to bars because of stupid COVID, 0.64

00:35:32.820 I would recommend making friends through other affinity groups. Namely, your church, that would 0.97

00:35:40.480 be the easiest one, but even through more interest-based groups rather than, you know,

00:35:48.600 religion, which is the fundament, more interests. The examples of this are, and it kind of gets to my

00:35:54.600 theory of how the country is changing and transforming and now going back to a different version of what it

00:35:59.420 used to be. Before we had standardization and mass media, sort of before World War II,

00:36:05.080 we had much more local cultures. So Tennessee would be very different from, I don't know,

00:36:13.860 California. Very, very different. Unrecognizable, maybe. Now, though they are still quite different,

00:36:20.600 they're much more similar than they used to be. And if you go to cities and all these different

00:36:24.540 places, the cities are all almost exactly the same. I've traveled all over this country.

00:36:29.160 And it's more similar than it is different. Maybe that will change with polarization again. I'm not

00:36:35.080 quite sure. But the local question kind of went away. Now that the mainstream media and the

00:36:41.220 standardization is breaking, I think we are going away from a common culture again. We're not all

00:36:47.120 watching the same TV shows. We're not all watching the same movies. We're not all watching the same sports.

00:36:50.400 We're not all watching the same newsmen. So that's breaking away. In a way, that's good. It's in a

00:36:54.440 sense kind of a return to localism. But it's not localism rooted in geography. It's rooted in

00:36:58.700 ideological affinity groups in many ways. So it's not that once the mainstream media and the common

00:37:04.400 culture cracks, we're all just going back to our local VFW hall. It's that we're all going online and

00:37:10.740 talking to people who have the same interests that we do on the other side of the country or maybe even

00:37:15.440 on the other side of the world. I'm not willing to speculate now on what that means for our

00:37:21.440 politics. But what it means for you is maybe you'll meet a lovely lady through the Daily Wire

00:37:25.800 audience community. I actually saw on Twitter there was a singles chat going on in the Daily Wire

00:37:30.640 community. I do think that you're going to have to look more specifically into your interest groups,

00:37:38.400 into your affinity groups than just the local bar. I think the new normal in many ways is shutting

00:37:43.880 that down. From Matthew, Michael, I was listening to the Ben Shapiro show and would ask him this,

00:37:48.580 but he doesn't respond to the mailbag. Real nice. I'm number two. I'm your plan B. Really sweet of

00:37:55.480 you. For the conservatives fighting the culture war, what does victory look like? There are some

00:38:00.300 people who want the conservative cultural win to just be a return to the 1950s. There are some people

00:38:06.340 who want a conservative cultural win to be a return to the 1350s, you know, in medieval Europe or

00:38:12.060 something. I'm kind of more in favor of that than of the former. Ultimately what it is, a conservative

00:38:17.520 cultural win is a society ordered toward the good, the true, and the beautiful. So Rob Amari wrote

00:38:25.480 something to this effect a few years ago in First Things. A conservative cultural win is a society

00:38:32.040 that recognizes that there is such a thing as the good and that some things are better than others.

00:38:38.420 The left currently espouses this and the right tries to pretend that we can't. The right has

00:38:44.380 basically embraced a radical skepticism that says, well, I can't tell you that you should do this or

00:38:49.060 you shouldn't do this. You just do whatever you want and I'll do whatever I want and we'll all be

00:38:53.140 totally fine. That doesn't make any sense. All societies have to acknowledge that some things

00:38:58.400 are better than other things. So if we can get past that kind of ridiculous hump, which I try to do in

00:39:02.840 my new book, Speechless, then you have to say, well, what is the good? Through our faculties of

00:39:08.800 reason, we can do that. An example of how far we've fallen, just look at architecture from 100 years

00:39:17.760 ago, well, from 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 150 years ago compared to today. The architecture used to

00:39:26.640 look more beautiful. It was ordered more toward beauty. Then there was a trend in recent years

00:39:34.920 to go away from beauty, to focus on functionality or utility. And then there's been a trend in even

00:39:42.060 more recent years to actively embrace ugly things. That's why we live in an ugly society. Roger Scruton,

00:39:49.640 the recently departed conservative philosopher, said that if you want people to love their country,

00:39:55.520 you need to give them a beautiful country. Something as simple as that, give them a beautiful

00:39:58.640 place to live and they'll like where they live. We need to take seriously those kinds of questions.

00:40:04.440 We need to take moral questions much more seriously. And we need to take factual questions. What is,

00:40:08.860 what is true much more seriously than we do now? Because we don't, maybe we don't want to offend

00:40:14.600 people or we don't want to incur the wrath of the PC mob. We have to hit all three of those things.

00:40:19.480 That's a very different kind of political vision than just cut my taxes and leave me alone,

00:40:24.720 but cut my taxes and leave me alone has not worked out very well for us. It hasn't

00:40:30.800 given us, it hasn't led to permanent tax cuts and it hasn't even left us alone. So it just,

00:40:36.060 it just doesn't work. We need to, we need to dig in much more seriously. From Stephanie,

00:40:40.560 the other day, one of my last remaining lefty friends told me that she wants the lockdowns 0.99

00:40:44.880 and mandatory masking to go on forever. She has a second grader in school with my daughter and says

00:40:49.180 that she is happy not to have gotten so much as a runny nose. Kind of like that doctor on CNN.

00:40:53.960 I was honestly baffled by this particular worldview and new level of cowardice that she'd be willing

00:40:59.900 to give up her life to maybe live longer or live life without any runny noses. Since she and I are

00:41:05.180 both Catholic, I wondered if you might have a theological answer to this that I haven't thought

00:41:08.860 of. When I tried to respond by saying that there is more to life than just surviving, she scoffed at me

00:41:13.120 and said, I don't value my health enough. I really want to continue this friendship, but I thought

00:41:17.520 you might have some answers for me. Thanks. Yes, absolutely. Chesterton famously described

00:41:22.560 heresy, not as the promotion of vice over virtue, but of the promotion of some virtue to the exclusion

00:41:29.060 of all the other virtues. So having your health is a, is a good thing, but it is not the end of life.

00:41:37.600 It is not the purpose of life to maintain our good health all the time. If we think that it is,

00:41:43.400 we are making an idol out of that and we fall into heretical ways of thinking. I'll give you a very

00:41:50.580 specific example with the COVID lockdowns. We are not permitted and for a long period of, of the past

00:41:57.540 year and a half, or I guess we're coming up on the now the one year anniversary, 365 days to slow the

00:42:03.200 spread. For, for the better part of the last year, we have not been permitted to receive the sacraments.

00:42:09.700 We've not been permitted to go to church. And if you're Catholic, you know, we have an incarnational

00:42:13.240 faith. You need to receive the sacraments. It is much more important to receive the sacraments

00:42:19.320 than to avoid the sniffles. It is much more important. We are incarnational beings. We are not

00:42:29.480 just disembodied souls. We are souls with bodies joined together. Hylomorphic beings is the technical 0.78

00:42:35.580 term. And we need to do things. We need to see one another. It is also simply disordered to walk

00:42:43.760 around like banditos all the time and not see your relatives and not hug your loved ones and not go to

00:42:50.380 their funerals and not bring people together for the births of children, for important events,

00:42:55.600 to keep people away from their education. That is disordered to not celebrate Christmas for one.

00:43:01.920 That is disordered. And I suspect your friend is taking a good thing, which is health and making an

00:43:07.960 idol out of it, which is why her view of the world is so screwy. From Brady, hi, Michael. I enjoyed

00:43:13.120 the changing attire discussion that you all had on the Daily Wire backstage last week. We're all talking

00:43:18.060 about whether or not we'd ever changed attire. And I said that I, I actually had changed attire. It's

00:43:22.580 the manliest thing I've ever done. I've only done it like once or twice. But yeah, some of the other

00:43:26.420 guys had not done it. So Brady writes, my wife and mother of my four children can confirm that while

00:43:31.940 we were dating, the night I had to change attire in a full suit after a banquet is still probably

00:43:37.080 the most manly thing I've ever done. What are your thoughts slash plans for your children in looking

00:43:41.760 for a spouse? My wife and I have discussed the idea of courtship, but are unsure of how lenient slash

00:43:47.300 strict to be in our policies. Thanks and keep up the amazing work. This ties in actually with that,

00:43:54.460 that earlier answer we were giving, which is I grew up in a very liberal environment.

00:43:59.440 My mother was fairly conservative. You know, my family was kind of moderately conservative,

00:44:05.060 kind of moderately liberal. They were sort of in the middle, but in a very liberal place,

00:44:09.200 very liberal school, very liberal friends, very liberal everybody. And so we were not encouraged

00:44:13.520 to undergo any kind of new contrived formal courtship. We were encouraged to do the opposite

00:44:22.180 of that. When we were young and irresponsible, we were encouraged to be young and irresponsible.

00:44:28.160 And we made all sorts of mistakes and dated all sorts of people and did all sorts of things we

00:44:31.840 shouldn't have done. And then somehow I ended up married to my high school sweetheart in this

00:44:38.800 very sort of traditional setup with a very traditional view of the world. After 10 years

00:44:44.200 of being an atheist and a brief stint of considering being a lib, I came back and now

00:44:48.480 I'm to the right of Attila the Hunt. Had I been raised in a much more formal kind of

00:44:54.120 conservative setting, I don't know how that would have worked out. I mean, I'm sorry that I lost 10

00:44:58.000 years being an atheist derelict, but I'm all's well that ends well. You know, as St. John Vianney said, 1.00

00:45:03.860 not all the saints started well, but they all ended well. So I, the thing I would tell you,

00:45:07.880 which is, I don't think it's a cop out. I think it's actually conservative insight

00:45:11.120 is you, you, you value all the values and include prudence. Prudence is a virtue and it's a

00:45:19.880 particularly conservative virtue. I think you've got to gear it toward your individual children.

00:45:26.880 If one of your kids just is a wild child, you're going to probably need to put some more constraints

00:45:31.860 on that kid. If one of your kids is basically buttoned up and a good kid,

00:45:35.420 then maybe you loosen up a little bit and you're, it's going to depend on who your kids are attracted

00:45:41.100 to. If they're attracted to, you know, Johnny on the Harley, you know, taking your daughter behind

00:45:48.160 the gym after school or something, then, you know, maybe you're going to have to have a tougher hand

00:45:53.920 in this sort of thing. And if not, then you're going to be able to be a little bit more lenient.

00:45:58.700 But I think we shouldn't just have some ideological 10 bullet point. This is exactly what you should

00:46:04.640 do. You're talking about your family. You're talking about real relationships. You're talking

00:46:09.200 about very particular things. You should, you should follow specificity and prudence.

00:46:14.640 Final question from MP. I'm 25, wrapping up my final semester of graduate school in philosophy at

00:46:20.500 Franciscan University of Steubenville, one of my absolute favorite universities in the country.

00:46:23.800 My plan prior to starting the current semester was to enter the U S Navy and take the legal route

00:46:28.240 after hearing about some of the new policies the Navy's putting in place that are very left wing.

00:46:32.020 I'm not so sure anymore. I want to serve my country and join the military, but I don't want to be

00:46:36.040 dishonorably discharged because I can't go along with their new policies. Do you think a Catholic 1.00

00:46:39.920 can still serve in the military despite these policies? Thanks. Love the show. And all you guys at

00:46:43.620 the daily wire, I do think that a Catholic can still serve in the Navy. I come from a Navy family

00:46:49.100 myself, lots of relatives in the Navy. And so I think they can. It's very frustrating what the Navy

00:46:56.760 and the government bureaucracies in general, the military is not excluded from that, are doing in

00:47:00.760 terms of political correctness. But I don't think you're in a position right now. I don't think the

00:47:05.360 situation's gotten so bad that you would not be able to live your faith and still serve in the Navy.

00:47:12.320 It requires sacrifice. Perhaps one of those sacrifices is putting up with PC policies until we can get

00:47:17.560 someone in there at the political level to reverse them until we can start to undo this silent coup

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 05, 2021

Ep. 714 - The Invisible Coup

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