The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 719 - 115 (More) Days To Slow The Spread

00:00:00.000 After a full year since we were told 15 days to slow the spread,

00:00:04.480 in his address last night to the nation, President Joe Biden finally gave us a timetable

00:00:09.260 on when we can reopen the country. If we do all this, if we do our part,

00:00:16.060 if we do this together, by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends,

00:00:22.920 will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a

00:00:27.460 barbecue and celebrate Independence Day. That doesn't mean large events with lots of people

00:00:33.360 together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together after this long, hard year

00:00:40.000 that will make this Independence Day something truly special.

00:00:46.260 Where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence

00:00:51.920 from this virus. I think I'm going to mark my independence from you and all the

00:00:57.380 other sociopath politicians who have the gall to stand there. I did the calculation from last 0.83

00:01:03.480 night until July 4th. They're saying that they want another 115 days to slow the spread. One year

00:01:12.140 after 15 days to slow the spread, they want another 115 days to slow the spread. How about we all just

00:01:17.120 keep living our lives like some of us have been doing for a very long time now? How about we ignore

00:01:21.940 all these absurd mandates from these outrageous politicians? How about we declare independence

00:01:28.040 right now? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:38.640 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from Irving, who says,

00:01:43.100 no one, absolutely no one, Michael. You know, this reminds me of my book. That's true. It does.

00:01:49.140 It reminds me of my book. I think this is providential. It's the sort of silver lining in

00:01:54.760 this storm cloud of our politics right now because, coincidentally, the book that I've been writing

00:01:59.100 for a year and a half now, which is coming out in June, is exactly about everything we're seeing

00:02:04.860 right now, particularly with the curtailment of our speech and the banning of books and the utter

00:02:11.820 upending of our culture and our norms. So you can get that book, Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:02:15.260 Controlling Minds. You can pre-order that right now, but as we will see a little bit later,

00:02:19.480 you may not be able to order it for very long because the largest bookseller in the world is

00:02:25.660 coming out and saying that politically incorrect books, in many cases, are not going to be allowed.

00:02:32.880 You know, all these challenges notwithstanding, I still keep a lot of hope. I think that the future

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00:04:21.440 pathetic. If anybody is still taking these people seriously, if anybody is still heeding their 0.99

00:04:30.800 guidelines, which are actually mandates, then that person is a dope. And most of us, I think,

00:04:37.760 figured this out quite a while ago. Once that two weeks became three weeks, four weeks, two months,

00:04:43.080 six months, eight months. I think a lot of us realized, oh, this is not exactly what we were

00:04:50.460 told this is. Oh, okay. We're going to stop paying attention to these guys. When all the guidance kept

00:04:55.140 changing day by day by day. I think a lot of us said, I think I'm going to ignore this now.

00:04:58.720 Joe Biden is carrying this on, it would seem to me, because he needs to burnish his legacy.

00:05:07.440 President Trump did everything that one can do as pertains to the virus before he left office.

00:05:15.240 Right? Slowing the spread. That worked. They slowed the spread. Preventing the two million deaths

00:05:20.560 within a year that we were told could happen. Yeah, prevented that. Obviously, the number was much

00:05:24.960 lower than that. Developed a vaccine. We were told by people such as Joe Biden that there was no way

00:05:31.000 that Trump could direct a vaccine initiative in the small window of time that he said he would.

00:05:36.680 We did get the vaccine in that window of time. So he did everything. Now Joe Biden says, gosh,

00:05:42.080 what's there for me to do? I need, I need to seem like Trump screwed up coronavirus and I succeeded on

00:05:46.520 coronavirus. So he's offering us something really, really big, really important. If you're driving,

00:05:52.100 I would stop. If you're standing, I would sit down right now. Here's big Joe Biden's big innovation

00:05:56.380 to help us all survive coronavirus. At the time when every adult is eligible in May,

00:06:02.360 we will launch with our partners new tools to make it easier for you to find the vaccine and where to

00:06:10.280 get the shot, including a new website that will help you first find the place to get vaccinated and

00:06:16.840 the one nearest you. Stop the presses. Ooh, we gotta, I need to stop my show right now. I need

00:06:24.640 to process this huge news that Joe Biden's going to make a webpage. Joe Biden, the president of the

00:06:31.380 United States has more resources at his fingertips than anybody in the world. He is going to make a

00:06:38.200 webpage. And with, on top of that, you're going to get a webpage from the same people who brought you

00:06:44.280 the Obamacare webpage. So I don't, hire me to make the webpage and I will go to WordPress and I will

00:06:49.960 make a more successful webpage than probably the federal government will. Uh, not so much. Isn't

00:06:54.780 that, that's, that's not so much of a big advance on the fight against coronavirus. Then what's next?

00:07:02.480 We, we're going to get a webpage because we all need to get the vaccine. It was very

00:07:05.660 interesting how much of a focus Biden put on you have to get the vaccine. You need to get all your

00:07:10.640 friends to get the vaccine. Everyone needs to get the vaccine. But also of course, you need to keep

00:07:14.600 wearing masks. That's just the science. Too often we've turned against one another. A mask, the easiest

00:07:23.220 thing to do to save lives. Sometimes it divides us. So my message to you is this, listen to Dr. Fauci,

00:07:32.020 one most distinguished and trusted voices in the world. Can you believe that masks, it's so easy,

00:07:38.000 it's so obvious, saves lives. So you should just instantly, this is the first thing you should

00:07:43.920 be doing. That divides us. That's become a divisive question because people don't listen

00:07:49.400 to Dr. Fauci, the guy who told us not to wear masks. Now in the United States, people should

00:07:55.700 not be walking around with masks. You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to

00:08:01.260 this. Right now, people should not be walking. There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.

00:08:05.060 When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better

00:08:12.480 and it might even block a droplet. But it's not providing the perfect protection that people

00:08:19.160 think that it is. And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask

00:08:25.960 and they keep touching their face. Can you believe people are so divided and they won't do the obvious,

00:08:32.880 sensible thing and wear the mask? The people who are listening to Dr. Fauci who told them not to.

00:08:37.860 Now, Dr. Fauci of course changed his mind on this. Later he said, no, you really, you should wear the

00:08:42.260 mask. Definitely wear the mask. And his reasoning for his, his past advice was that he wanted to keep

00:08:50.000 enough masks for the healthcare workers. So he said, yeah, we didn't want you peasants to take up all 1.00

00:08:54.340 the good masks. We wanted those to be for the people in public health. So, but now we have enough

00:08:59.700 masks. So now, yeah, actually you totally should wear masks. Everything I said before just wasn't

00:09:05.220 true. So don't, don't believe that. Okay. Regardless of, uh, your stance on the masks,

00:09:11.480 if you're still wearing this filthy cloth over your face in public, like a sheep, uh, you know, 0.78

00:09:15.340 my views of it. Uh, but regardless, let's say you wear it. You want to do it. You want to do what

00:09:19.480 Joe Biden says. Do you, does Joe Biden not understand why people might be a little skeptical

00:09:24.780 because the single expert that he is holding up as the credible man here for the credible common

00:09:33.040 sense advice. He's the one who not only first told us not to wear them, but then admitted that he

00:09:38.520 mess misled us. He admitted that he was acting in a way that was political and actually obscuring

00:09:46.180 the scientific reality. Now, beyond the masks, beyond the website, Joe Biden knows we're going

00:09:55.540 to get through these dark, dark times in our country by washing our hands. We're seizing this

00:10:01.760 moment in history. I believe we'll record. We faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods

00:10:09.160 in this nation's history. Darkest we've ever known. We need everyone to get vaccinated. We need

00:10:16.500 everyone to keep washing their hands, stay socially distanced and keep wearing the mask as recommended

00:10:25.100 by the CDC. Statesmanship in 19, 1940s, Winston Churchill. We shall go on. We should fight on the

00:10:35.920 beaches and in the streets. We shall never surrender. Statesmanship in 2021. Wear the mask.

00:10:45.560 Wear the mask. Wash your hands. You got to wash your hands. Use soap and water, warm water, not cold

00:10:54.240 water. Cold water is not going to kill all the germs. Got to wear the mask. Got to wash your hands.

00:10:59.980 The notion that this is the darkest time in American history, forgive me if I think it's a little

00:11:08.960 hyperbolic. Is it not a little hyperbolic? The Civil War, it was pretty dark, wasn't it? World War

00:11:15.480 to both of the World Wars, pretty dark time in our history. The, I'm not, I don't mean to downplay the

00:11:22.240 China cough. It's bad. It is bad. It really is bad. Worse than that, worse than the Civil War. I don't, 1.00

00:11:28.500 I don't think so. I don't think he's convincing anybody. Meanwhile, you've got these social

00:11:34.420 repercussions like the schools, right? The schools are still shut down. Kids, rates of anxiety,

00:11:39.780 depression, even suicide are spiking in a lot of places because they can't see their friends.

00:11:43.460 They can't leave their home. They're stuck in their little pods. Joe Biden, he, he's going to

00:11:47.480 figure a way out of this. Watching a generation of children who may be set back up to a year or more

00:11:53.600 because they've not been in school because of their loss of learning. It's the details of life

00:12:00.440 that matter the most. And we miss those details. The big details on the small moments, weddings,

00:12:09.800 birthdays, graduations, all the things that needed to happen, but didn't.

00:12:15.760 Yeah. We're missing those because of you and your political cronies. 1.00

00:12:22.300 We should have reopened schools months ago. Even the public health experts said we should reopen

00:12:26.620 schools months ago. You won't let us because you're in the pocket of the teacher unions because

00:12:31.680 of your purely political calculations, because you and all the other sociopath politicians have

00:12:36.920 exploited the flu or, uh, you know, the, the virus to seize an unprecedented amount of power in this

00:12:43.900 country. You, you're the problem. You know, there was a little remarked upon aspect of this

00:12:51.400 speech last night that it seemed like one of those Joe Freudian slips. Joe was talking about the death

00:12:58.460 and destruction of it. And he referred to the virus and to natural causes.

00:13:02.740 Leave behind loved ones unable to truly grieve or to heal, even to have a funeral.

00:13:08.000 But I'm also thinking about everyone else who lost this past year to natural causes by cruel fate

00:13:17.020 of accident or other disease. They too died alone. You catch that? Wasn't that a little weird?

00:13:24.000 All the whole time we've been told this is a naturally occurring virus. It has nothing to do

00:13:27.380 with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It has nothing to do with any sort of, uh, scientific,

00:13:32.140 uh, formulation or anything. But then he says, there are so many people who, who died of the virus.

00:13:38.540 So many people who died. And there are a lot of other people who died from natural causes.

00:13:42.760 WHO, by the way, says we're not going to know the full story on the virus for years. I'm not,

00:13:48.180 look, maybe Joe misread the teleprompter. I don't know. It seems like a little bit of a strange slip

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00:15:20.360 and let me know how you like the smokes. Joe Biden made it about 20 minutes in this address to the

00:15:25.800 nation, which is longer than I think a lot of people thought it would be. This is the one advantage

00:15:30.040 over of, of, of a president Biden over say a president Trump is when I would watch and have

00:15:36.580 to cover these sorts of speeches with president Trump. They could be three hours long. They were

00:15:40.400 very entertaining. So I enjoyed watching them, but I thought, Oh gosh, am I going to have a three

00:15:43.940 hour Joe Biden speech? I can't. Oh, wait a second. It's Joe Biden. This thing's not going to go

00:15:47.700 more than 20 minutes. Joe Biden's got to get to bed. This is way past his bedtime. President Trump

00:15:52.680 though, actually offered a very pithy statement on the vaccine. He, he sent this out just a couple

00:15:58.540 of days ago. And I think it bears repeating on air since he's now been deep platform from social

00:16:03.580 media. We should get this statement as wide as possible. He writes quote, I hope everyone remembers

00:16:08.320 when they're getting the COVID-19 often referred to as the China virus vaccine, that if I wasn't

00:16:13.200 president, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful shot for five years at best. And

00:16:17.560 probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers.

00:16:25.080 He's probably right. You know, and the way, the way that I, I'm, I think he probably is right is

00:16:32.420 that all the experts were saying, you're not going to get this vaccine. It's going to knock

00:16:36.520 six months. Are you crazy? It's going to take years. It's going to go on for years and years. 0.90

00:16:39.900 And then it happened and it was guided by political process that this guy was running. So

00:16:44.320 I love that. I hope everyone remembers because there's going to be a lot of people trying to

00:16:48.060 rewrite history. I miss that guy. Speaking of missing men, speaking from men missing from our

00:16:56.900 culture, I saw a letter written into Slate that really caught my attention. One, because this poor

00:17:03.640 schlub is showing that he is engaging in sort of bad thoughts and bad behaviors, but also he's

00:17:10.160 exemplifying, I think a lot about our culture. Headline, I don't want my wife to become a 1.00

00:17:14.840 stay at home mom. Before the baby, she was ambitious. What happened? Dear care and feeding. 1.00

00:17:21.040 I'm a new father of a beautiful 10 month old girl. My wife's company has a generous maternity 0.97

00:17:25.500 leave policy and she has been at home with our daughter since the birth and is scheduled to

00:17:30.600 go back to work just after her first birthday in January. But she recently told me she doesn't

00:17:35.880 want to go back to her job. She would like to be a stay at home parent instead. Then he goes on

00:17:41.120 about, I was trying to convince her not to do that. He says, one of the things that I was most

00:17:48.400 attracted to was her ambition and tenacity. It's really surprising to hear that her career isn't

00:17:53.760 that important to her anymore. Honestly, I don't want her to quit her job. She earns about the same as

00:17:57.920 I do. And while we could make ends meet on any, on my income alone, it would impact our ability to

00:18:02.900 save. And we'd need to give up one of our cars and cut back on extras that make life more enjoyable.

00:18:08.880 I also just don't want to stay at home wife. I really admired her work ethic and I want her to 1.00

00:18:14.280 set a good example for our daughter too. Seeing her give up like this is, give up like this

00:18:20.260 is really disappointing. What should I do? Signed, suddenly the breadwinner. What should I do? What

00:18:27.840 should I do? To quote the Godfather when he is asked that very question by Johnny Fontaine,

00:18:34.440 you can act like a man. What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? What man are you?

00:18:42.660 This is the husband who wrote this letter. This is putatively the husband who wrote this letter.

00:18:48.740 So many things wrong with him. His wife has this daughter and she has the audacity to want to raise 1.00

00:18:56.640 her own daughter. And you see, this is not ambitious. If the wife goes to the widget factory 0.99

00:19:01.880 and types all day on her keyboard and just does spreadsheets, you know, and makes widgets and, 0.58

00:19:06.720 well, she doesn't make the widgets, but you know, she's sort of supervising the, the, the people who

00:19:10.780 have outsourced the widget making to the, and she, so she's doing that. That's really ambitious.

00:19:16.740 But raising a human being, it's like, whatever, whatever. We can, you can just hire someone to do that.

00:19:24.380 You see what this guy wants to do. He wants to send his wife to work for another man

00:19:31.400 so that she can make money so that he can pay another woman to raise his child. 1.00

00:19:38.940 Cause that's, that's the way it's supposed to work. That's ambitious. Otherwise, you know,

00:19:44.380 if the mother doesn't want to do this, she's just, she's giving up and keep like this guy. I mean, 0.97

00:19:49.760 I get it. I, I share his outrage. He's suddenly the breadwinner. I mean, he makes plenty of money,

00:19:57.140 but he might not be able to buy a new car next year. Suddenly the breadwinner. It's like this,

00:20:02.080 this selfish woman expects her husband to provide for his family. Can you imagine that? 1.00

00:20:09.700 While she raises his child. Gosh, what a, what a selfish woman. What a lazy, selfish woman 1.00

00:20:20.640 to, to want to raise her family and to want her husband to work and support the family. 1.00

00:20:28.940 This dude is everything wrong with our culture and even the perception of it. I mean, maybe he comes

00:20:35.740 by the perception, honestly, that raising a family is somehow giving up or it's lazy or it's not

00:20:40.800 ambitious. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. We used to know that.

00:20:47.980 We used to know that a, a mother with her child is the center of the world of this world that we're

00:20:57.200 all living in is the absolute center. Everything else that we do in this material world, in our economic

00:21:03.800 life, all of it exists to serve that. Not everybody gets to have children. It's actually hard for a lot

00:21:09.800 of people to have children. For some people, they don't get that option, but we can cast,

00:21:17.540 oh, it's nothing. Let's just, let's pay somebody else to raise our kid. That's the economic model 0.97

00:21:23.120 that I don't mean just to beat up on this guy. I mean, this guy is truly a schmuck. He is a, 1.00

00:21:29.020 a girly man, as we say. You know, it reminds me of the distinction between womanly and womanish.

00:21:35.020 Womanly is a woman acting in a way that is proper for a woman to act, right? It's not an insult. 0.97

00:21:42.400 It's a compliment. Oh, she's so womanly. Oh my gosh. When a man acts in a way that it is proper

00:21:47.600 for a woman to act, it is, there's nothing admirable about that because those qualities are 1.00

00:21:52.740 corrupted. They're perverse. They're wrong. It is womanish. So when you call someone a girly man, 1.00

00:21:58.420 it's not an insult against girls. It's an insult against that guy because he's acting in a way

00:22:03.600 that is so perverse. But, but he's, he's doing something that our whole culture is doing. And

00:22:07.660 it's not just the left. It's not just the left, though they sort of instigated it in, especially

00:22:12.220 in the 1970s, saying that the only values that matter are manly values and women need to be forced

00:22:16.760 to go out and work. Simone de Beauvoir, who was one of the most famous feminists ever, I guess, 1.00

00:22:23.920 and was also ironically the jilted common law wife of a notorious philanderer, the philosopher 0.70

00:22:30.100 Jean Paul Sartre. One time Simone de Beauvoir was having a debate with Betty Friedan over feminism.

00:22:36.360 There's two prominent feminists. And Friedan said, yeah, if women want to work good, if women want to 1.00

00:22:39.980 stay home good. And Beauvoir said, no, we can't give them that choice. We have to force women to work 1.00

00:22:45.380 because if we give them the option to stay at home, they'll take that option. And that is not

00:22:50.880 conducive to liberation. The left believes that, and the right believes that. The right, you know,

00:22:56.700 there are some proposals now to incentivize having families because we have a dying population and a

00:23:01.120 birth rate below replacement. And so some people, I think, I think Rubio is the one who did this, said,

00:23:06.680 we're going to incentivize work. Romney's plan of direct payments to families who have kids,

00:23:12.140 that's, that's wrong. We need to incentivize work. We're the party of work.

00:23:15.940 No. I think that if a woman wants to raise her family, that's a really good, wonderful thing.

00:23:26.340 That should be incentivized by society. We should not force her to go out and work in the widget 1.00

00:23:31.900 factory. There's nothing conservative about forcing women out of their homes to pay some other woman to 1.00

00:23:40.200 raise their kids so that they can go work at the widget factory and get a paycheck. That is a totally

00:23:45.440 perverse, ultimately liberal left-wing view of mankind. Viewing mankind as primarily an economic

00:23:53.560 actor rather than what we really are, which is complex people with complex relationships born into

00:23:59.340 families, born into communities who appreciate beauty, who serve God, who have more going on for

00:24:05.680 them than their paychecks. My, my only advice I guess would be to this woman, which is, are you sure 0.92

00:24:10.840 you're, you sure you've made the best choices? I'm not saying leave your husband, but, you know,

00:24:15.820 maybe smack him around a little bit, get him to, get him to shape up. Speaking of womanish men, 0.53

00:24:22.320 this transgender issue is really popping up. More and more, the left fighting back against the right, 0.98

00:24:30.480 fighting back against the left's idea that men need to become women. You know, my friend Ryan Anderson

00:24:34.760 has this hilariously titled book, When Harry Became Sally, responding to the transgender moment. 0.73

00:24:39.560 This scholarly book was kicked out of Amazon, but Amazon wouldn't give a statement. They now are

00:24:44.060 giving a statement. The statement is that we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ plus

00:24:50.960 identity as a mental illness. So, right, they're lumping in all of these various sexual identities.

00:24:56.920 So they're not going to sell those books. But the, the DSM, the central text of psychology,

00:25:04.560 declared these sorts of identities, a mental illness, until very recently. So presumably,

00:25:12.480 Amazon is not going to sell those scientific texts anymore. And presumably, any conservative book,

00:25:17.960 any conservative book that questions the transgender idea is liable to be canceled by Amazon.

00:25:24.640 You know, one does not feel very safe these days in a culture that is so upended. But I always feel

00:25:34.280 safe, thanks to Ring. So much is going on at our front doors these days. That's one thing that has

00:25:38.700 certainly not changed for me, actually, with my cute little baby, June, little junior over there.

00:25:43.900 So it's happening a lot more. I'm getting food delivery because no one wants to cook with the

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00:26:41.000 Knowles, ring.com slash Knowles. Amazon's decision to ban books that frame, quote,

00:26:49.840 frame LGBTQ plus identity as a mental illness is, is to affect it. I'm not saying they're going to ban

00:26:58.280 every conservative book. I think that would be too dramatic in practice, but it is to reserve the

00:27:04.760 right to ban any conservative book that they want because any conservative book that touches on

00:27:13.980 human nature, even social questions, political questions, it doesn't even have to be specifically

00:27:20.640 on the transgender bathrooms or girl sports or whatever, but that touch in any way on human nature

00:27:25.960 is liable to violate this policy. If, for instance, I'm writing a book of, you know, it's not, not really

00:27:34.840 newsy at all. It's not one of these books dealing with issues of the moment. Let's say it's the most

00:27:39.440 scholarly philosophical text out there that says that mankind is a union of body and soul.

00:27:49.220 And so, you know, if you're a man, you're a man, you can't become a woman. That could be banned. 0.99

00:27:55.480 What about religious texts? I suppose religious texts do not present certain sexual identity as

00:28:04.820 a mental illness. They present sexual behavior that derive from those. Now we call it identity, 0.59

00:28:10.860 but they're, they're the Bible and the Quran would talk about behavior. They cast them as sin.

00:28:16.460 The Quran says that homosexuals, men who practice homosexual acts should be punished. 0.54

00:28:25.760 So is, is Amazon going to continue to sell the Quran? Presumably they will because it would be very 1.00

00:28:31.120 politically incorrect to ban the Quran. What about the Bible? What about the Bible that

00:28:35.540 prohibits, cast, castigates, cross-dressing many sexual acts? What about that? Is the Bible

00:28:46.220 going to be banned from Amazon? No, I don't think they're going to do that. Probably they wouldn't

00:28:52.000 mind doing that, but it's this slow, gradual process, setting the precedent, establishing the

00:28:58.620 premise, and then slowly, slowly enforcing it. I bet there are going to be a lot of conservatives who

00:29:03.940 say, okay, well, look, either Amazon's a private company, they can do what they want. That's what our

00:29:08.880 founders wanted. Or they'd say, well, you know, look, that's rude. We shouldn't be rude to people

00:29:15.620 and say that transgenderism is a mental illness. So, you know, we're just not good. Okay, that's 0.99

00:29:19.420 fine. And then slowly, slowly, gradually, and then more quickly, the left is going to gain ground.

00:29:26.320 On the topic of weird sex stuff, the latest sexual allegation against New York Democrat

00:29:31.500 Governor Andrew Cuomo is, we covered it a little bit yesterday, that Andrew Cuomo groped some woman.

00:29:37.280 It's a vague complaint, not sure that it's true. It's now been referred to the Albany Police Department.

00:29:42.920 So this incident may have risen to the level of a crime. Now, there's no evidence that the

00:29:50.100 governor is being investigated by the police, but the way that this is all playing out,

00:29:54.920 to me, makes these accusations on sex less credible. And it makes it clearer and clearer by the day

00:30:01.860 that this is all just about getting rid of Cuomo because of his nursing home scandal.

00:30:08.340 His Democrats are implicated in that scandal, whereas they're not implicated in him handing a

00:30:12.800 hot dog sandwich. Hot dog is a sandwich, by the way. Handing a hot dog or sausage and pepper sandwich

00:30:17.540 to a reporter and saying, you know, yeah, eat the hot dog. You know, it's not about that. And the

00:30:23.020 Democrats are not implicated in that. So if they can kill him for that reason, they'll do it. 0.99

00:30:27.160 When the real scandal here, of course, is on COVID. Have you followed the timetable here? 0.72

00:30:32.400 First timetable, Cuomo made people feel uncomfortable. Okay, that's not doing very much.

00:30:38.660 He kissed a staffer once. Okay, that's not, that's not really doing very much.

00:30:45.960 He, he gave a hot dog to a reporter. Okay, that's not, that's not really doing very much.

00:30:53.020 He, he touched someone inappropriately. Okay, that's not doing much. He groped a woman. Okay,

00:31:00.240 let's see. This is going to the police. Okay, let's see. It's so gradual and the condemnations

00:31:05.700 are so gradual. Okay, now we're going to have AOC condemn him. Now we're going to have Nancy

00:31:10.760 Pelosi question him. Now we're going to have some of the state Democrats start to come out against him.

00:31:15.620 Now we're going to have the majority leader in this, and, and of the New York state assembly and

00:31:22.420 the Senate start to come out against him. Now we're going to, and it's just so obviously calculated.

00:31:29.860 So it's weird. I'm in a way I'm kind of defending Cuomo on these very vague personal allegations

00:31:36.640 because that's not good enough for me. Look, I don't think Cuomo should be the governor. I want to

00:31:39.760 get rid of him, but I don't want that guy to go down alone. This is not, not a single, single person

00:31:45.860 scandal. This is a much broader scandal. And I want a whole lot of New York state Democrats to go down

00:31:50.940 for this. I want to take all the focus off these stupid sexual allegations. I want it all to be on 1.00

00:31:57.200 the nursing homes. New York politics, you'll notice is relatively controlled. It's a machine state.

00:32:07.860 There's a reason that the Cuomo name has been around for a long time in New York. The reason

00:32:11.500 his dad was a long time governor too. It's a state that is, it keeps a lot of tight control in the

00:32:16.680 Democratic party. In other parts of our country, politics is becoming less and less controlled.

00:32:21.640 In Minnesota, a, there is a new autonomous zone around an area that is now dedicated to George

00:32:31.900 Floyd, George Floyd Square. There is a militant style group that's taken over a blocks long George

00:32:40.720 Floyd site. That's created a hostile situation. This is according to News Nation. People that want to go

00:32:48.540 and support the George Floyd Memorial don't feel a sense of inclusion. There is more of a military

00:32:55.420 type atmosphere over there and a sense of fear, according to one Minneapolis resident.

00:33:01.020 So they're, they're losing control. And this is what the left does. The left uses these sort of

00:33:05.020 paramilitary groups, Antifa, BLM, whoever's here at the George Floyd area, to upset the system,

00:33:11.820 create a sense of urgency and then come in and take more power and also leverage this kind of

00:33:19.460 violence against Republicans. You saw this from the sitting vice president, Kamala Harris,

00:33:23.900 who when, when BLM and her, her fellow travelers and Antifa and other radical groups were burning

00:33:29.640 down the country, she said, this can't stop. This won't stop. This won't keep up the pressure on

00:33:34.720 Republicans. Now, as the trial about George Floyd's death gets underway, as more evidence comes to

00:33:42.220 light, as, as the facts about George Floyd's life and behavior, even on that day that the media

00:33:48.200 suppressed are coming to light, maybe the cop who was involved will not be prosecuted or rather will

00:33:55.080 not be convicted. If that is the case, you can expect a whole lot more autonomous zones and a lot

00:33:59.200 more violence. Before we go, I do have to mention, speaking of race hustling, you remember a while ago, 0.81

00:34:03.980 we talked about that gal, Amanda Gorman, who did the slam poem at the inauguration. She did one at 0.61

00:34:09.840 the Super Bowl too. And we went through the poem for a little bit and I pointed out that it's a very

00:34:13.900 bad poem. And as Harold Bloom, the literary critic said, slam poetry is the death of art. And that this

00:34:20.140 is, it shows how, how much our culture is decayed because this is simply about the appearance of

00:34:26.180 poetry, right? You know, she's a young black woman and it's, she's performing this poem in a way,

00:34:32.220 the poem itself isn't any good, but it's the, the optics are so good and we're so shallow as a

00:34:37.100 culture. Now that's all we care about. Well, I, you know, I hate to say, I told you so on the show,

00:34:40.940 I was proven right. Uh, this poem is now being translated into, uh, uh, Spanish. And there was

00:34:47.700 a translator, Victor Obiols, who was hired to do this, but the editor of the Barcelona publisher

00:34:53.120 told, uh, a news agency on Wednesday that once the translation was complete, the company received a

00:34:59.460 request from the U.S. publisher, Viking Books, that they had to ditch that translation. The

00:35:03.760 translation had to be done by a female activist with African-American origins, if possible. 0.96

00:35:10.260 What does the color of the, or the sex of the translator have to do with the art,

00:35:14.340 with the translation of the poetry, the actual work of art? Nothing, of course. And it is, you know,

00:35:20.760 talent falls on, on anybody. It falls on people in unexpected ways. But this isn't,

00:35:25.520 they know the poem's no good. It's not, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how the

00:35:29.460 translation is. It doesn't matter how the original poem is. They know the poem's no good. It's so not

00:35:32.980 about that. It's about the appearance. It's a very shallow aspect for our culture, which is now being

00:35:39.580 run by very shallow people who are telling us just 115 more days to slow the spread. I don't believe

00:35:44.900 them. I'm not going to listen to them. And I would encourage you to ignore the guidelines,

00:35:49.360 which are actually just mandates. Joe Biden coming out saying, you can do this. You can't do that.

00:35:53.440 I would choose you to, I would encourage you to, uh, to ignore them because I think

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00:38:33.960 the mailbag. First question in the mailbag from Veronica. Hey, Michael, love your show. Thank

00:38:51.380 you for all that you do. I'm curious as to what your thoughts are about the deportation of former

00:38:55.680 Nazi concentration camp guard Friedrich Karl Bürger. Do you think that his deportation was the right thing

00:39:02.020 to do? Particularly thinking about him being a 19 year old at the time who was likely brainwashed by

00:39:07.880 Nazi propaganda throughout a good portion of his childhood. Could this situation in a way be

00:39:12.420 compared to former US presidents and military leaders who are being canceled for owning slaves?

00:39:17.160 Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. No, I don't think it's comparable. I don't think that

00:39:21.380 this former Nazi is comparable in any way to George Washington. However, it is a complex issue.

00:39:28.720 When you're 92 years old, what responsibility do you have for the things that you did when you were

00:39:35.020 19? I think what this comes to is going to be a question of justice. Mercy, sure, and justice.

00:39:45.020 So a lot of Nazis fled and they escaped justice. And perhaps they led good lives. Perhaps they tried to

00:39:52.680 make amends. But this gets to a point that Roger Scruton made. The late, great Roger Scruton,

00:39:59.900 a conservative philosopher who actually, I hosted an event at the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation

00:40:05.380 yesterday with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons and Robbie George at Princeton,

00:40:11.640 which I think you can check out soon. I think it's going to go online. But anyway, Scruton made this

00:40:15.020 point. He said that civilization depends on confession and forgiveness. Our ability to

00:40:22.800 confess our sins, to say, you know, I did this and I have the sense of sin and I recognize it was

00:40:27.540 wrong. And when you do that, you sacrifice your pride, which is one of the reasons that the sacrament

00:40:32.480 of confession is so important. It is an action by which you must sacrifice your pride and acknowledge

00:40:39.440 your sins. And then forgiveness is when you say, okay, I forgive you and you sacrifice your

00:40:46.060 resentment, which we all cherish as well. We cherish our many resentments. So you both sacrifice

00:40:50.560 something and you move on together as a people. You do have to confess, you know, you have to confess

00:40:58.280 your sins. You have to in some way seek justice, which I don't know if this guy did. It seems like

00:41:04.140 this guy didn't do it. It seems like he was just kind of living on the lam for 70 years and then

00:41:07.380 the past comes back and your past sins come back to visit you again. The way that this does tie into

00:41:13.940 cancel culture, though, is that cancel culture has totally removed the ability for confession and

00:41:22.460 forgiveness. In the past, if you made a mistake, you'd apologize. You'd say, okay, I shouldn't have

00:41:27.220 done that. I'm sorry. And then we'd say, okay, that's fine. We accept your apology and that's why

00:41:31.840 America is the country of second chances, or it was. But now you know you can't do that. If you're,

00:41:37.020 if you're in politics and you apologize in any way, you will be destroyed. If you're in public

00:41:42.720 life and you apologize in any way, you will be destroyed. That's something that actually has

00:41:45.840 changed in recent years because we are no longer willing to forgive as a people. We're no real,

00:41:51.920 no longer willing to sacrifice our resentment. Actually, our school curricula are being reformulated

00:41:57.080 to stoke resentment. The grievance studies programs that have cropped up at universities and now are

00:42:04.640 even infecting high schools and middle schools and elementary schools. That was what Harold Bloom,

00:42:10.340 who was a liberal literary critic, he called it the school of resentment. The purpose of it is to stoke

00:42:15.240 resentment. Meanwhile, on the other side of that, the confessional side, we now have transformed our

00:42:22.900 culture from one in which we understood that pride is the queen of all vices, right? It's the

00:42:26.960 deadliest of the seven deadly sins. Now we believe that pride is a virtue. Pride is now celebrated in

00:42:33.520 parades, right? It used to be the case that pride was a stand-in for sort of gay parades. But now it's

00:42:40.900 really surpassed even that narrow sexual question. Now it's just all sorts of pride, right? Fat pride,

00:42:45.260 skinny pride. Pride is considered to be a good thing, but pride is not. Pride is what caused the fall

00:42:49.540 of mankind. So in that sort of a culture, then yes, I suppose there is a sort of, there is a tie-in to

00:42:57.160 cancel culture here. But really, I think the question ultimately is one of justice and mercy,

00:43:01.980 will and grace. In a right society, what you would be able to do is confess your sins,

00:43:08.440 take your punishment, and move on. And we would all move on together. But if you refuse to confess

00:43:13.420 your sins, if you refuse to take your punishment, if you refuse to do your penance, and if we, on the

00:43:19.020 other hand, refuse to forgive, then you can't have that in society. From Jacob,

00:43:23.100 Ciao, Signore e Noles. I was watching a video of Casey Cole, a Franciscan, explaining that the only

00:43:28.520 way of salvation is to help the poor. He was explaining that Christ also asked if people fed

00:43:33.160 him and clothed him and so on. He said it is not enough just by practicing the sacraments and

00:43:37.440 practicing and preaching the gospel. Would you agree that helping the poor is important to attain

00:43:44.180 salvation? Well, we are saved by the grace of God, right? And then responding to God's grace

00:43:53.320 in an act of faith. So that's how we do it. And so this is not simply done as an act of the intellect,

00:44:01.320 right? There is an action of the intellect here. But faith also looks like something. Christ says,

00:44:05.620 there are many people who will call me Lord, Lord, who I do not know, you know, who will not be saved.

00:44:11.240 So it's not merely an act of speech in the intellect. It actually has to be embodied.

00:44:16.220 Ours is an incarnational faith. So I haven't listened to what this Franciscan has said, but

00:44:20.700 in as much as he's saying that the theological virtue of charity looks like something and our

00:44:29.480 faith looks like something and it impels us to give alms and sure, okay, that makes sense.

00:44:34.900 But if he's saying, and I suspect he's not, if he's implying though, that somehow you are saved

00:44:40.320 by the act of giving money to the homeless guy, that would be the heresy of Pelagius. That would

00:44:46.420 be salvation through works, which is not true. I suspect that this Franciscan would be formed well

00:44:55.760 enough not to be saying that, but I can understand how that could be misinterpreted. So yeah, that would

00:44:59.900 not be the case. From Kelly. Hey, Michael. First of all, congrats on your baby boy. Thank you.

00:45:04.360 So I'm wondering, it was, it was Dr. Seuss, then a few Looney Tunes characters. What pop culture books,

00:45:10.180 characters, et cetera, do you think will be canceled next? Thank you. Huh? I, well, I, I mean, this is a

00:45:19.100 little bit of a cop out, but I think more Dr. Seuss will be canceled and I think more Looney Tunes will

00:45:23.280 be canceled. And I think that more Disney will be canceled too. You're already seeing some attacks

00:45:29.860 on Disney. There was a headline the other day that Disney is a park of privilege and it's,

00:45:34.760 there's not equity there. So you're going to see some of that crop up as well.

00:45:38.700 The reason that those guys are going to be canceled is one, because some of the cultural

00:45:43.580 observations that they make, or even the, just some of the jokes that they make contravene and

00:45:48.160 contradict the, the politically correct orthodoxy of the day. And the left can't tolerate that,

00:45:52.860 not for any principle, just because it's a challenge to their, to their power. But also I was just

00:45:57.800 re-watching Fantasia. I was re-watching some of the old Looney Tunes cartoons that were put to

00:46:05.320 classical music and they're really brilliant. They're really, really brilliant because they,

00:46:09.440 they are educating people. They are entertaining and educating toward people's higher faculties,

00:46:15.940 right? It's not just a bunch of cheap jokes and, you know, constant feeding of our lower appetites.

00:46:23.400 They're much higher. When you watch Fantasia, it's really an art, truly an artistic experience.

00:46:28.140 And the same is true of those old Looney Tunes cartoons. And that's something that the left,

00:46:32.100 I think, really does not want to have happen. This is why the left is always pushing toward

00:46:36.980 our baser desires, trying to remove, most notably, prohibitions on obscenity. Because when you can

00:46:42.380 arouse people's prurient interest, when you can arouse people's kind of baser desires,

00:46:48.940 then they're not going to be thinking with their higher, higher reason. And they're going to be

00:46:54.220 easier to control. So I could see that happening. And it's, they'll come up with some excuse about,

00:46:58.160 you know, race or sex or something, but that's going to be the real reason they're doing it.

00:47:02.000 From Matt, Michael, in the past, you've said the only good argument against the existence of God

00:47:06.140 is the problem of evil. And I think this is a good point. I'll put a pause right there. I think it's

00:47:10.600 the best argument against the existence of God, but actually I think it's, I think theodicy, the

00:47:14.780 problem of suffering and evil is an argument for God. I think it's a much better argument for God than

00:47:20.140 against God. But anyway, see your point. However, I'm curious, what do you think is the best argument

00:47:25.260 against Christianity? And why do you think that argument falls short? Love the show, keep up the 0.97

00:47:29.060 good work. Well, the best argument against Christianity is that Christ is not who he says he 0.62

00:47:35.100 is, right? And C.S. Lewis answered this with the three L's. He says, Christ can either be a lunatic,

00:47:42.420 a liar, or the Lord. So either he's just a complete nut and the things he's saying are not true, 0.99

00:47:49.760 but he really believes them. Or he knows that what he's saying is not true, but he's deceiving 0.88

00:47:56.460 people anyway. To what end? I don't, you know, to the point of the cross, okay. Or he really is the

00:48:01.600 Lord. I think these fall apart because one, when you encounter Christ in the gospels, he doesn't

00:48:05.700 seem like a lunatic and the people around him don't behave as though he's a lunatic. As to the liar

00:48:12.580 point, it's hard to see what he would gain from his behavior. He knows that he is there to die, 0.97

00:48:18.420 to go to the cross. So if he's just a con man, he's really not behaving like a con man.

00:48:23.320 And then the only other option is that he's the Lord. Now there's this fourth option, which is

00:48:29.480 that it's legend. I've had some Jewish friends of mine say this. Well, no, Michael, it's just a

00:48:33.540 legend. We can't, you know, we can't rely on the gospels. They were written so much later.

00:48:37.120 And, you know, it's just, there's no evidence that this stuff really happened.

00:48:40.680 I think that falls flat. I think that's a little bit, bit of a cope, you know, for, for people who are,

00:48:46.800 who don't want to engage in the first three arguments as well, because one, we have so many

00:48:53.840 eyewitnesses to it. So you've got the gospel accounts, which are, which were written not

00:48:58.340 particularly long after Christ's death. They were all written actually rather soon after Christ's

00:49:02.620 death and resurrection. But you have hundreds and hundreds of eyewitnesses to the resurrection

00:49:09.120 itself. You have a non-biblical accounts of Christ and early Christianity. You have the lives of the

00:49:16.400 apostles, which don't make any sense if it's a legend, why these, why these people would go to

00:49:21.760 travel to the ends of the earth, going to their deaths in, in most cases, because of a legend,

00:49:29.980 because of a joke, because, because either they were all fooled. Wow. That's amazing that they were

00:49:34.960 all fooled at once or that, I guess the legend argument requires that they were fooling everybody

00:49:38.980 else. But again, to, to what end? So that St. Thomas could die in India so that Peter could be 0.78

00:49:43.500 crucified upside down so that Paul could have his head cut off. That doesn't make a lot of sense to 0.93

00:49:47.740 me. So I, you know, I, that all the challenges to, to Christianity would be challenges on, on the fact

00:49:54.660 of Christ, um, and his, and his life and the miracles. And, um, but I, I just don't think they

00:50:00.520 really hold up to scrutiny. One way to think of it is that, uh, another good argument, I think Tim

00:50:06.220 Keller made this, the Protestant pastor. He, he said that if this were just a legend, then the

00:50:14.140 gospels would have been written differently. But they're, they're not, when you, when you read great

00:50:18.300 myths and great legends, they read differently than the gospels do. The gospels read much more like

00:50:23.580 journalism, right? The gospels are not really so much an act of poetry or philosophy as they are an

00:50:27.860 act of journalism. And it's why in some details there seem to be some discrepancies between the,

00:50:32.540 because their accounts, it'd be like reading the Washington post and the New York times. Well,

00:50:37.000 it's quite the opposite of that actually, because the gospels are true and the Washington post and

00:50:40.820 the New York times, you know, are, are not, but it's why they're the different gospels actually

00:50:45.680 are focusing on different aspects. They're seeing things from a different vantage. To me, these are

00:50:49.580 all pretty good arguments that, uh, it's true from Paul. Dear Michael, dear, my question for you

00:50:55.020 involves a burden I've been carrying since the summer of 2019, a burden which has grown heavier with each

00:50:59.380 new daily wire membership tier that I've joined in the summer of 2019. I fell in love with a girl

00:51:03.300 in a Bernie Sanders t-shirt. It happens to the best of us. I will spare you the details, but nothing

00:51:08.500 long-term ultimately transpired for reasons having nothing to do with politics. The weight of knowing

00:51:12.780 I looked the other way on the Bernie Sanders t-shirt. However, as well as the fear that I might

00:51:16.920 do it again, remain with me to this day. I'm overcome with guilt and shame. Is my great sin

00:51:21.280 forgivable? How can I live with myself? How can I prevent this from ever happening again to myself,

00:51:26.460 my family, and my friends? I'll be forever indebted to you for any wisdom you can provide.

00:51:30.180 I beg you, please not mention this as Matt, to Matt, as my actions would surely banish me forever

00:51:34.340 from his channel. I come to you as I know you are a man of grace. Yours truly. We've all done it.

00:51:42.700 I remember, uh, William F. Buckley Jr., great conservative, was on Woody Allen's show one time,

00:51:47.480 and he was asked by a young girl, he said, what, uh, do you approve of mini skirts? And his answer was,

00:51:52.900 on you I do. Uh, I think that, uh, on good legs are always in good taste. So, uh, you know, these 0.51

00:52:00.760 things happen. I actually think that this is an opportunity for you not to be like this poor schlub 0.86

00:52:05.020 from Slate Magazine complaining about how his wife isn't making enough money for him. I would, this,

00:52:10.540 this is an opportunity for you. If you see a cute gal wearing that Bernie shirt, you spy her and her 1.00

00:52:15.840 cute little blue hair across the room with her ridiculous hipster glasses on, you know, and her, 1.00

00:52:22.740 her, uh, air of sort of feisty resentment at the world to look at her and say, you know, listen, 0.87

00:52:28.760 you're a cutie. I know you've got a heart of gold deep down there somewhere. And I, in my leadership

00:52:33.860 capacity, I'm going to guide you toward truth. I'm going to guide you away from your, your

00:52:40.500 misconceptions. That seems to me a wonderful challenge. Uh, but make sure you can do that.

00:52:46.180 You know, otherwise you're really setting yourself up for trouble. Do not wind up like

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 12, 2021

Ep. 719 - 115 (More) Days To Slow The Spread

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