The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 720 - Social Justice Warriors at the Pentagon

00:00:00.000 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?

00:00:05.240 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.

00:00:08.900 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.

00:00:14.600 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.

00:00:18.820 Just one simple ingredient. That's meat.

00:00:21.280 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.

00:00:24.760 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.

00:00:26.980 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:32.420 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:35.720 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.

00:00:37.740 Top military leaders are attacking a conservative journalist for suggesting that pregnant women maybe don't make the best soldiers.

00:00:47.240 Very, very modest sort of claim here. 0.99

00:00:50.220 Listening to PC diatribes from the Pentagon is pathetic. It is dispiriting. 0.99

00:00:55.400 But it is teaching right-wingers an important lesson.

00:00:58.120 When even the military goes woke, conservatives have no institutional power left.

00:01:04.460 Military was sort of the last one where we thought, oh, that's kind of a conservative institution.

00:01:08.960 Well, so much for that.

00:01:10.660 Maybe it's time to start winning and wielding actual political power.

00:01:15.740 Just an idea.

00:01:16.880 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:18.600 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:27.320 My favorite comment from Friday is from Michael McKay, who says, 115 days to slow the spread,

00:01:32.660 and then maybe Joe Biden will give a press conference.

00:01:35.700 Maybe, or then maybe it'll just get extended a little while longer.

00:01:38.780 It's pretty clear that at least one of the motivations for continuing to drag this out two weeks, two months,

00:01:46.420 now some people saying two years, is because these eggheads and these politicians want to keep their power,

00:01:53.320 and they don't want any accountability.

00:01:54.820 A lot of these emergency powers are saying, look, in the ordinary operation of government,

00:01:58.340 we wouldn't be able to do this, tell you to do this, but we have certain police powers because of a pandemic.

00:02:02.780 And that is now being dragged out indefinitely.

00:02:06.280 Not so great.

00:02:08.300 You're going to want to protect yourself from having people take away your rights.

00:02:12.180 You're going to want to protect yourself from having people take away your data,

00:02:15.220 which is why you've got to turn to ExpressVPN.

00:02:18.020 I love ExpressVPN.

00:02:19.280 I was using it just last night.

00:02:22.220 Big tech companies have a ton of power in our country,

00:02:25.260 and as private entities, they can operate pretty much as they choose.

00:02:28.480 Protect your personal data from big tech with a VPN that I trust for my online protection, ExpressVPN.

00:02:35.000 When I use ExpressVPN, my connection gets rerouted through their secure encrypted servers

00:02:39.720 so that these companies cannot see my IP address at all.

00:02:43.100 My internet activity becomes anonymized.

00:02:45.160 My network data is encrypted.

00:02:47.160 I recommend ExpressVPN to anyone who uses the internet, which is, I think, statistically, everyone.

00:02:52.820 The best part is you don't need to be tech savvy at all to use ExpressVPN.

00:02:56.780 I certainly am not.

00:02:57.660 Just download the app on your phone or your computer, tap one button, you're protected.

00:03:02.020 Protect your internet activity with the VPN that I use every single day.

00:03:05.700 I used to think, who cares, no one's after my data.

00:03:08.280 I think that the last couple of years should have shown us that that is simply not the case.

00:03:13.240 Visit ExpressVPN.com slash Michael to get three extra months free on a one-year package.

00:03:17.900 That is E-X-P-R-E-S-S-V-P-N.com slash Michael to get three extra months for free.

00:03:23.040 That is ExpressVPN.com slash Michael.

00:03:25.960 I never go online now without ExpressVPN.

00:03:29.760 And I strongly encourage you to go check out ExpressVPN as well.

00:03:34.120 The command senior enlisted leader of the U.S. Space Command.

00:03:40.500 So this is obviously the new branch of the military was announced under President Trump.

00:03:44.500 But this guy's a 28-year military veteran.

00:03:46.980 Scott Stalker, he got very upset because Tucker Carlson said that pregnant women are not the most lethal people on the planet.

00:03:58.960 I understand some comments were made yesterday and I watched the clip that Mr. Carlson produced as he referred to pregnant women in the military.

00:04:07.000 I'll remind everyone that his opinion, which he has a right to, is based off of actually zero days of service in the armed forces.

00:04:15.420 Let me offer you my opinion.

00:04:16.720 My opinion is based off of 28 years of actual service in the military, 28 years in the Marine Corps, in combat operations out at sea and in garrison.

00:04:25.400 And so he was talking specifically about pregnant women in the armed forces today and how it makes us less lethal and less fit and less ready. 0.71

00:04:32.720 Let me tell you where he's wrong.

00:04:33.780 Those decisions were made by medical professionals, by commanders and our civilian leadership that allows for women to have more time with their children, to recuperate, to get fit and ready, to take that time that's necessary that our medical professionals know is needed, which actually makes us a more lethal and ready and fit force.

00:04:54.360 Let's remember that those opinions were made by an individual who has never served a day in his life.

00:04:59.920 28 years experience this guy has.

00:05:02.740 He's got an impressive credential.

00:05:04.900 He's got this blue check mark on Twitter, which is reflective of his position as a senior enlisted leader.

00:05:10.160 And not one iota of common sense, not one little bit.

00:05:16.220 The decision to have women in the military, the decision, more recent decision of women in combat roles.

00:05:23.520 That was a political decision.

00:05:25.420 That was not a tactical decision.

00:05:27.320 I understand the political arguments for it.

00:05:29.300 Political arguments were that if we're going to have true equality for women, if we're not going to have women underneath the patriarchy, then they need to be able to do all the wonderful privileges and get all the wonderful privileges that men have, including fighting in war and dodging bullets and all that sort of thing. 0.98

00:05:46.240 This is considered some privilege.

00:05:48.220 And so, therefore, because of that, as a political matter, we need to let women fight. 1.00

00:05:54.000 And now this is being taken even to the craziest extreme, which is we need to let pregnant women fight or something. 0.99

00:05:59.480 We need to pretend that pregnant women are just as fit and lethal as men are. 1.00

00:06:06.760 They do, I've learned, have a very lethal and acerbic tongue and wit sometimes.

00:06:12.420 I've learned this through my own experience with pregnant women.

00:06:14.960 But in terms of physicality, it's just not the case.

00:06:18.540 As a tactical matter, men are bigger, faster, and physically stronger than women and certainly than pregnant women.

00:06:27.480 There's no question about that.

00:06:28.580 The whole reason that we're even debating the trans women, right, the men playing in women's sports issue is because men beat women in women's sports. 0.88

00:06:39.940 Because men and women are different and men are physically stronger than women. 0.99

00:06:44.760 Now, you'll notice here this guy, Stalker, he's coming there.

00:06:48.760 He's in his uniform.

00:06:49.600 He says, look, Tucker Carlson, that guy never served a day in his life, not like me.

00:06:53.180 So that journalist, he has no right.

00:06:55.320 You know, sure, he can have his opinion, but he's wrong.

00:06:58.440 He's never served ever in his life.

00:07:01.220 And I'm going to debunk his arguments.

00:07:03.120 And then what does he do?

00:07:04.500 He never addresses his argument.

00:07:06.760 He just says, women are in the military. 1.00

00:07:08.900 And that's good.

00:07:10.280 You're like, okay, well, yes, they are in the military.

00:07:12.540 That's objectively true.

00:07:13.820 You think it's good that pregnant women are fighting. 1.00

00:07:17.420 I don't think that's good.

00:07:18.400 I think that's bad.

00:07:19.080 And then he sort of says, he's like, and they need to rest up so they can be physically fit again.

00:07:24.340 You say, well, that's not what anybody's even talking about, Mr. Stalker.

00:07:29.180 So then there was a little bit of a backlash.

00:07:32.060 Stalker decides he's going to issue a non-apology apology.

00:07:35.180 Wow.

00:07:38.260 Last 24 hours have been pretty intense for me, ladies and gentlemen.

00:07:41.420 And I just wanted to briefly say thank you to everyone that wrote me, that everyone that called,

00:07:46.220 texted, sent me a message on Twitter or Facebook.

00:07:48.480 I appreciate it.

00:07:49.660 And I even appreciate the fact that those of you had different opinions posted those as well.

00:07:53.660 What I won't do is engage in a personal attack with Mr. Carlson or anybody.

00:07:58.060 I don't believe in doing that.

00:07:59.160 I think that my comments stand on themselves.

00:08:01.760 I was making a non-political statement about my service members and teammates in the United

00:08:07.140 States Armed Forces.

00:08:08.540 I don't make political comments and I certainly don't attack our media.

00:08:11.800 I think they have a right and it's a necessity of this nation to have a fair and free press.

00:08:15.980 And so Mr. Carlson and everyone that's reporting stories, please continue to do so.

00:08:19.860 I think it's important that I just make a comment that I say my comments were based on 28 years

00:08:24.980 of service.

00:08:25.920 He doesn't have any service.

00:08:27.100 That does not mean his points aren't valid.

00:08:30.220 And so I think everyone has a right to their opinion.

00:08:32.320 Does not mean his points aren't valid.

00:08:33.920 I mean, my whole video was about how his points aren't valid.

00:08:38.180 And look, I'm saying it's not a personal attack.

00:08:41.000 I mean, my whole video was personally attacking Tucker Carlson.

00:08:44.300 But look, it wasn't political, OK, even though my entire video was making political points.

00:08:49.940 Notice how quick that guy took his uniform off.

00:08:53.100 You know, that first one, he's got the uniform on.

00:08:55.440 He's using it to make his entire point is basically that Tucker Carlson is wrong and we

00:09:00.700 shouldn't take him seriously anyway because he's never served in the military.

00:09:03.480 Not like me.

00:09:04.280 Not like me, Mr. Stalker.

00:09:06.060 Now, all that goes away because of the backlash.

00:09:10.860 The whole video was claiming that Tucker's points aren't valid.

00:09:13.540 The military would seem to disagree, though.

00:09:15.200 There's a new report out.

00:09:16.080 Research showed that the Army Combat Fitness Test, it's the same one for male and female

00:09:21.640 soldiers, was leading to lower results for women. 1.00

00:09:26.720 An early Pentagon study, this is according to the Telegraph, said that women were failing 1.00

00:09:31.640 the ACFT at a rate of 65 percent, while 90 percent of men were passing the ACFT.

00:09:40.800 I'm not saying this to denigrate women.

00:09:44.060 I'm sure these women are extremely strong, but men and women are different and men are

00:09:48.560 physically stronger than women. 0.97

00:09:50.280 That is why, historically speaking, warriors have been men.

00:09:56.540 This is outrageous.

00:09:58.840 I mean, this guy should obviously lose his leadership position.

00:10:00.960 There is no question about that.

00:10:02.660 He should have his Twitter account taken away from him by his bosses in the military, right?

00:10:07.880 By the top brass.

00:10:09.660 But also, he should lose his leadership position.

00:10:11.860 This is an incredible abuse of power. 1.00

00:10:13.560 And it's also just profoundly stupid. 1.00

00:10:16.400 What he's saying doesn't make any sense. 1.00

00:10:19.000 And it is so dispiriting for supporters of the military to listen to this woke nonsense

00:10:26.580 out of someone who's in a leadership position.

00:10:30.140 It would be good if this guy could apologize, but he can't apologize because our culture has

00:10:34.580 made that almost impossible.

00:10:35.980 There's a story I haven't really covered that much because I personally don't care about it.

00:10:40.920 But at this point, it is now actually telling us something about the culture.

00:10:45.240 The Bachelor.

00:10:46.140 You know The Bachelor.

00:10:47.000 Apparently, there's a host of The Bachelor named Chris Harrison.

00:10:50.380 Hadn't heard of him until about a week or two ago.

00:10:52.720 He's not going to be returning to the show.

00:10:55.800 He's been hosting this thing forever, apparently.

00:10:57.940 And there's a controversy because Chris Harrison made comments defending a Bachelor contestant

00:11:07.580 who, or Bachelorette or something, I don't know, who had attended an antebellum South party

00:11:13.480 years prior when she was in college.

00:11:16.300 Here was his commentary on it.

00:11:18.920 What are your thoughts about Rachel Kirkennell and the allegations attached to her?

00:11:26.380 A couple of things.

00:11:27.440 First and foremost, I don't know.

00:11:29.180 I haven't talked to Rachel about it.

00:11:31.060 And this is, again, where we all need to have a little grace, a little understanding, a little

00:11:35.360 compassion, because I've seen some stuff online.

00:11:37.980 Again, this judge, jury, executioner thing where people are just tearing this girl's life apart

00:11:44.060 and diving into her parents and her parents' voting record.

00:11:47.940 It's unbelievably alarming to watch this.

00:11:52.480 I haven't heard Rachel speak on this yet.

00:11:55.100 And until I actually hear this woman have a chance to speak, who am I to say any of this? 0.91

00:12:02.140 You know, I saw a picture of her at a sorority party five years ago. 0.95

00:12:06.980 And that's it.

00:12:08.100 Like, boom.

00:12:08.660 Like, OK, well, this this girl is in this book now and she's now in this group.

00:12:12.660 And I'm like, really?

00:12:14.640 Oh, Chris.

00:12:16.100 Oh, poor, sweet Chris.

00:12:19.500 You you do not know what kind of a situation you are in politically right now.

00:12:23.660 And unfortunately, he made in not only did he make the wrong choice there if he wanted

00:12:30.600 to keep this mainstream gig to contradict the PC police, but he has subsequently made every

00:12:36.960 other wrong decision.

00:12:38.620 Very important to note what he actually did, because people are saying it was he made a

00:12:42.960 racial comment and this and that.

00:12:45.740 A girl who was on the show attended a party in college that was about the South, the antebellum

00:12:53.760 South.

00:12:54.400 And so they dressed up like the antebellum South.

00:12:58.120 So you have to believe that that was vicious and vile and racist.

00:13:01.640 OK, people are debating that.

00:13:03.420 You have to believe then that it matters that she went to this party years ago.

00:13:07.060 And you have to believe that it is it is a political crime for this guy to defend this

00:13:14.040 girl from having her life destroyed for something she did years ago by just showing up to a party.

00:13:21.480 But Chris didn't realize that.

00:13:23.580 And Chris fell into a huge PC trap, which we'll get to in just one second.

00:13:27.620 But first, if you don't want to fall into any traps with all the craziness going on right

00:13:31.160 now, might be worth considering investing in precious metals.

00:13:33.940 The price of gold has been skyrocketing lately.

00:13:36.520 Now there is a new way to buy gold for a company called Acre.

00:13:39.760 Acre lets you subscribe to gold bars for as little as $30 a month.

00:13:43.840 How is that possible, Michael?

00:13:45.400 Gold costs more than $30.

00:13:47.080 Well, it does.

00:13:47.560 It's an ingenious way to do it.

00:13:49.280 You pay each month.

00:13:50.540 Once your gold stash reaches the price of their gold bars, they discreetly ship Acre gold to

00:13:55.080 your house.

00:13:55.920 Just recently, Acre has introduced a new $100 a month subscription to a five gram gold bar.

00:14:01.400 Acre lets you invest in physical gold without coming out of pocket all at once.

00:14:04.960 And it keeps you updated on your gold stash every month and ships once you reach the price

00:14:09.900 threshold.

00:14:10.820 With Acre, taking physical delivery of your gold means it's safe and sound and in your

00:14:15.200 hands.

00:14:16.120 I have really enjoyed investing in precious metals before in my life.

00:14:21.120 And I think, especially with all the craziness that we're all seeing, it's not a terrible

00:14:25.660 idea to do so.

00:14:26.640 Also, they have this great new product.

00:14:28.120 It's a 24 karat gold, nine millimeter bullet.

00:14:31.720 Obviously, don't shoot it unless you're aiming at a werewolf, but really, really cool product.

00:14:35.220 Visit getacregold.com slash Michael and start investing in physical gold today.

00:14:39.620 Make sure you go to this URL because Acre is giving away a gold bar.

00:14:42.520 To qualify for the giveaway, tweet or post why you should be the recipient at get underscore

00:14:46.900 Acre, that is getacregold.com slash Michael.

00:14:49.800 And thank you, Get Acre Gold, for supporting the show.

00:14:52.160 Acre Gold has a great new way to invest in physical gold.

00:14:55.780 Go check out Acre Gold today.

00:14:59.160 Chris Harrison of Bachelor fame defends the contestant for attending a party that was

00:15:06.500 politically incorrect years prior.

00:15:09.860 Fine.

00:15:10.460 I actually sort of give him credit for saying we need a culture of grace.

00:15:13.280 So we don't we shouldn't just be jumping on top of one another and trying to destroy each

00:15:17.040 other's livelihoods all the time in bad faith.

00:15:19.980 But then he made a fatal error, and I don't think anybody's going to be defending him anymore.

00:15:25.440 He apologized for encouraging grace and for defending the girl.

00:15:33.380 Why would you defend Rachel Kirkenau?

00:15:35.380 I am an imperfect man.

00:15:37.000 I made a mistake, and I own that.

00:15:40.760 I believe that mistake doesn't reflect who I am or what I stand for.

00:15:49.160 I am committed to the progress, not just for myself, also for the franchise.

00:15:56.520 So this is pitiful to watch a grown man do this.

00:16:00.280 But it's also despicable because he was making a principled stand to say, no, I'm going to

00:16:05.940 defend this girl who was a contestant against the mob for doing something that should not

00:16:10.280 cause her to have her life ruined. 0.78

00:16:12.080 That was a principled stand.

00:16:13.280 Now she's just and now he's throwing that all under the bus, right?

00:16:16.100 He's throwing the girl under the bus, and he's also saying, I'm throwing my past self

00:16:19.480 under the bus for even considering defending her.

00:16:21.660 He's totally undermining the principle.

00:16:23.560 To me, I see no reason to defend this guy anymore.

00:16:26.160 I'm sure the reason he did it is because he's weak, and that's very sad, but what can you

00:16:31.480 do?

00:16:31.800 I was debating this issue with Megyn Kelly last week.

00:16:34.260 I was on Megyn Kelly's podcast, which you can download.

00:16:36.560 It's out now.

00:16:37.320 And we were debating this apology.

00:16:39.720 She was the one who called this guy to my attention because I never, I couldn't have

00:16:43.300 picked him out of a lineup.

00:16:44.280 I hadn't, you know, you'd be shocked to hear I don't, I don't watch The Bachelor all the

00:16:47.560 time.

00:16:48.340 And Megyn said, look, I get it.

00:16:50.180 He's got a good gig.

00:16:51.020 All these guys, we were talking about the Mumford & Sons musician, now his name escapes

00:16:56.940 me too.

00:16:58.600 All these people who were constantly being canceled, and then they caved to the woke mob.

00:17:02.600 And Megyn said, look, it's a good gig.

00:17:04.940 And so I get it.

00:17:06.540 This is what, traditionally, this is what people do.

00:17:08.440 And I pointed out to her, I said, yes, in the past, even if you think it's kind of silly,

00:17:13.900 you contravene whatever the fashionable political ideas are of the day.

00:17:17.420 You apologize, especially if you do something actually wrong, you apologize, and then people

00:17:22.360 forgive you, and that's that.

00:17:23.760 But that's not what's happening right now.

00:17:26.060 The choice is not between speak out against the mob, stand up for grace, stand up for the

00:17:31.800 girl, and lose your job, and don't.

00:17:37.700 Cave to the mob, but keep your job.

00:17:39.860 That's not the choice.

00:17:41.560 You've already lost your job.

00:17:43.100 The only question is, are you going to degrade yourself further?

00:17:45.640 It reminds me of one of the last scenes of Breaking Bad, way toward the end of the series.

00:17:50.520 Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it, but it was on, what, like 10 years ago?

00:17:53.320 So, you know, you missed your window for spoilers.

00:17:57.540 The brother-in-law, the cop brother-in-law, Hank, is lying there on the ground.

00:18:02.420 Walter, the drug runner, is there, and he's pleading with Hank.

00:18:07.200 He says, Hank, please, just tell this cartel kingpin type guy, just tell him you'll protect

00:18:14.100 him, you won't turn him in, you won't go after him.

00:18:16.800 Just, please, just beg for your life, and then he'll let you live.

00:18:20.780 And the cop, Hank, has one of the most memorable lines in TV.

00:18:27.520 Hank, listen to me.

00:18:31.660 You gotta tell him.

00:18:32.980 You gotta tell him now that we can work this out.

00:18:35.320 Please.

00:18:36.240 Please.

00:18:36.600 What?

00:18:39.840 You want me to beg?

00:18:44.480 You're the smartest guy I ever met. 1.00

00:18:47.820 And you're too stupid to see. 1.00

00:18:52.720 You made up his mind 10 minutes ago. 1.00

00:18:54.660 Do what you're gonna do. 1.00

00:19:09.200 You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see. 1.00

00:19:12.000 He made up his mind 10 minutes ago. 1.00

00:19:13.940 Do what you're gonna do.

00:19:15.760 The mob made up their mind.

00:19:18.380 For all these people, like Chris Harrison, the Mumford & Sons musician.

00:19:22.020 The mob already made up its mind.

00:19:25.760 And more to it, the people who have crafted political correctness already made up their mind.

00:19:31.660 The only question is, are you going to degrade yourself?

00:19:36.780 Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher, had this great point.

00:19:40.120 I just hosted an event also last week for the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation.

00:19:45.180 It's between Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, and Robbie George, professor at Princeton.

00:19:50.200 I think you can find it on YouTube.

00:19:52.260 Scruton made this point.

00:19:53.120 We discussed it during the event.

00:19:55.260 Society is based on confession and forgiveness.

00:19:59.580 The ability for me to say, hey, I did something wrong.

00:20:02.480 I'm sorry.

00:20:03.320 I sacrifice my pride by confessing that.

00:20:06.240 And then for everybody else, for them to be able to say, okay, I forgive you.

00:20:10.880 And they sacrifice their resentment.

00:20:12.420 And both people are giving up something that they cherish, our pride and our resentments.

00:20:17.760 But we trust one another.

00:20:19.120 We move on because we're interested in moving forward as a people.

00:20:22.280 And this is all conditioned by and impelled by grace, by this Christian religion that undergirds our whole civilization. 1.00

00:20:31.320 When you lose that, you lose that ability for confession and forgiveness.

00:20:39.820 That's where we are now.

00:20:42.680 Never, never, never give in.

00:20:44.740 I wish we could live in a society where we could, we don't want to apologize for things we're not sorry for,

00:20:48.880 but where we could all say, ah, yeah, I said that a little wrong.

00:20:51.060 I did that a little wrong.

00:20:51.840 I'm sorry.

00:20:52.380 Please forgive me.

00:20:52.940 Okay, we forgive you.

00:20:54.120 America's the land of second chances.

00:20:55.500 Great.

00:20:55.920 But we ain't there anymore.

00:20:57.820 That's over.

00:20:58.600 However, the only question is, are you going to humiliate yourself before the mob, before they, before they destroy your livelihood?

00:21:06.120 Speaking of racial bias, actual racial bias, not, not this kind of Chris Harrison stuff.

00:21:12.220 Tom Cotton just absolutely wrecked one of Joe Biden's nominees, nominee for Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta.

00:21:19.880 Vanita Gupta believes in something called implicit racial bias, that we all have implicit racial biases.

00:21:25.180 She's spoken about this at length publicly.

00:21:27.600 So Tom Cotton had a simple question for her.

00:21:30.320 He asked her, if everyone's got these racial biases, what are yours?

00:21:36.820 Last summer, nine months ago, you were in front of this committee and Senator Corden said,

00:21:40.900 do you believe that all Americans are racist?

00:21:44.160 You, you replied, yes.

00:21:46.480 I think that we all have implicit biases and racial biases.

00:21:50.260 Yes, I do.

00:21:51.120 So Ms. Gupta, I ask you, against which races do you harbor racial bias?

00:21:55.480 Senator Cotton, I do not.

00:21:58.740 The yes was to say that all of us have implicit bias.

00:22:03.820 This was an exchange also that Judge Garland had with Senator Kennedy during his hearing.

00:22:08.200 I believe that we all have implicit bias.

00:22:10.920 It doesn't mean that we are harboring any racism at all.

00:22:14.060 These are unconscious assumptions and stereotypes that can get made.

00:22:17.660 And I remember that summer in the exchange with Senator Cornyn that we were discussing systemic

00:22:23.000 racism and implicit bias.

00:22:24.760 And my response was to say that all of us have implicit bias.

00:22:28.740 Yeah.

00:22:29.220 Yes.

00:22:29.500 I know that you said all of us have implicit bias.

00:22:31.480 Did you?

00:22:31.720 It was just that word salad meant absolutely nothing.

00:22:34.500 She said, yes, we all have implicit racial biases, but it doesn't doesn't mean we're racist

00:22:38.180 because they're they're implicit and we all have them.

00:22:40.280 Yeah.

00:22:40.460 Yeah.

00:22:40.580 I know we all have them.

00:22:42.580 I don't agree with that, by the way.

00:22:44.340 I don't think that I have them.

00:22:45.800 But you're saying everybody, including you, has the biases.

00:22:49.800 So the question is, what are your biases?

00:22:54.860 Well, to be precise, you said we all have implicit biases and racial biases.

00:23:00.100 That's all.

00:23:01.080 Every single American, you're accused of implicit bias and racial bias.

00:23:04.680 So I'm asking you again, against which races do you harbor racial bias?

00:23:09.080 I am quite aware that I know that I hold stereotypes that I have to manage.

00:23:14.100 I'm a product of my culture.

00:23:15.600 I'm a product.

00:23:16.340 It's part of the human condition.

00:23:18.660 And I believe that, you know, one of the reasons I believe that all of us are able to

00:23:24.340 manage implicit bias, but only if we can acknowledge our own.

00:23:27.140 And I am not above anyone else in that matter.

00:23:30.420 I think implicit bias is something that is part of the shared human condition.

00:23:34.480 Yeah.

00:23:34.900 Yeah.

00:23:35.220 OK.

00:23:35.660 So you believe you're not above anyone.

00:23:37.480 You have them.

00:23:38.080 Right.

00:23:38.240 That's not what we're asking.

00:23:39.580 We're not asking, do you have them?

00:23:40.780 You've already stated that we're asking which ones get specific.

00:23:44.360 What do you think about black people?

00:23:46.560 Well, it's implicit.

00:23:47.360 OK, so what are because you acknowledge them?

00:23:50.480 They can't be totally implicit, right?

00:23:52.240 They've got to be somewhat explicit.

00:23:53.500 That's the only way you could be conscious enough of them to acknowledge that you have

00:23:56.720 them.

00:23:57.200 So what are they?

00:23:57.800 What do you think about Mexicans?

00:23:59.520 What do you think about Asians?

00:24:01.860 What do you come on?

00:24:02.740 Let's get specific.

00:24:03.840 No, I don't think I'm better than.

00:24:05.160 OK, good.

00:24:06.520 I acknowledge them.

00:24:07.520 OK, acknowledge them right now then.

00:24:09.340 Go on the record.

00:24:10.400 Then Cotton ends it.

00:24:12.260 So in the Trump administration, you strongly oppose the nominations to the federal courts

00:24:19.300 of the following persons, Patrick Boumette, Michael Park, and Ada Brown, a Filipino-American,

00:24:27.420 a Korean-American, and an African-American.

00:24:29.940 Should members of those communities be worried that you harbor racial bias against them since

00:24:33.580 you oppose those judges' nominations?

00:24:35.040 I'm not sure I see how that connection is being made, Senator.

00:24:40.720 The leadership conference for decades has reviewed the civil rights records of individual judicial

00:24:46.920 nominees in Democratic and Republican administrations.

00:24:51.980 And there were judges that we opposed based on their civil rights record.

00:24:57.020 No, Senator.

00:24:58.140 I opposed those racial minorities because of their record. 1.00

00:25:00.640 It wasn't because of their race.

00:25:02.980 Well, how can you know that for sure when you've just said that everyone has implicit

00:25:09.620 racial biases?

00:25:12.240 You, you're, what you're saying is, because when, when, when Vanita Gupta says all of us,

00:25:16.720 she really just means all you people, not me.

00:25:18.560 So she says, look, you all think that you're acting in good faith and you think you have all

00:25:22.240 this, this good decision-making apparatus and this fact that it's a reason.

00:25:25.140 But no, it's all your implicit racism that you're not even aware of.

00:25:29.840 Well, okay.

00:25:30.560 What if I apply that logic to you?

00:25:32.860 When you voted against those racial minorities, isn't that evident, according to your own theory,

00:25:38.980 isn't that evidence that you, you were racially discriminatory?

00:25:42.840 Well, no, no, because I, I, I'm aware of, of my implicit biases.

00:25:47.380 Okay.

00:25:47.660 So then the implicit biases don't exist for you.

00:25:51.000 No, everybody has the implicit biases.

00:25:53.240 I think we ought to be able to conclude from Vanita Gupta's meandering testimony that this,

00:26:02.220 this ideology, the implicit bias, the stuff that's affecting boardrooms, universities,

00:26:06.320 all of it is not a coherent theory of human nature, of politics, of race.

00:26:13.680 It is a weapon to be wielded against one's political opponents.

00:26:17.920 And the left is shocked that someone like Tom Cotton would have finally had the idea,

00:26:23.660 and you believe it took us all this long, would have had the idea to use that same weapon

00:26:27.980 against the people who invented it.

00:26:31.340 Absolutely wonderful thing to listen to.

00:26:32.820 When I want to listen to great stuff, I love checking out Raycon.

00:26:36.820 Whether you're catching up on your favorite podcast, ahem, ahem, binging an audio book,

00:26:42.760 or powering through your workout with a pumped up playlist, a pair of Raycons in your ears can make

00:26:47.420 all the difference.

00:26:48.660 No dangling wires or stems to get in your way there.

00:26:52.500 Raycons come in a range of stylish colorways, always with a comfortable in-ear fit for a more

00:26:57.600 discreet look.

00:26:58.760 Raycons are built to perform anywhere and anytime with water and sweat-resistant construction

00:27:03.180 and Bluetooth that pairs quickly and seamlessly.

00:27:05.900 Also, got enough battery life for six hours of playtime.

00:27:10.160 That means you can unplug for quite a while.

00:27:12.600 The best part of this, Raycon makes great sound available to everyone with wireless earbuds

00:27:18.160 starting at half the price of other premium audio brands.

00:27:21.080 I'm just going to put this very bluntly.

00:27:23.440 Raycon's superior to the competition.

00:27:26.400 It's a superior product, okay, and you'll save a lot of money.

00:27:28.740 Raycon's offering 15% off all their products for my listeners, and here's what you've got to do

00:27:33.260 to get it.

00:27:33.880 Go to buyraycon.com slash Knowles, and that's it.

00:27:36.900 You'll get 15% off your entire Raycon order, so feel free to grab a pair and a spare.

00:27:40.940 That's 15% off at buyraycon.com slash Knowles.

00:27:44.460 Raycon earbuds.

00:27:45.460 Oh man, are they great.

00:27:46.960 Head on over, go check out Raycon.

00:27:50.240 So speaking of, before we get to Dr. Fauci, I do want to get to Dr. Fauci, but before we

00:27:55.260 get to him, we've been talking about this for a week now.

00:27:58.680 This is where it gets really exciting because this Friday, March 19th, is the premiere of

00:28:02.820 Candace, Daily Wire's new talk show hosted by conservative lightning rod, Candace Owens. 0.95

00:28:07.660 In her new show, Candace shows her personal side to her guests and her live audience while

00:28:12.200 she tackles the big political and cultural topics of the week with her signature blend

00:28:16.400 of humor and insight.

00:28:17.800 Don't forget, Candace starts this Friday, March 19th.

00:28:20.520 It will be exclusive to the Daily Wire, meaning the actual members.

00:28:26.100 Now, we love all of you who listen out there in Radio Land, and we love people who are watching

00:28:31.100 on YouTube, but this is for Daily Wire members.

00:28:33.000 If you're not a member yet, go to dailywire.com slash subscribe.

00:28:36.080 Use code Candace for 25% off.

00:28:37.900 That's dailywire.com slash subscribe.

00:28:40.360 Use code Candace for 25% off.

00:28:42.360 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:28:43.600 This idea of implicit racial bias and all the kind of race hustling nonsense that we're hearing

00:29:03.580 from Biden appointees and the left more broadly, it is a myth.

00:29:10.160 It's the sort of myth that people begin their politics with.

00:29:16.740 You know, we're going to just agree on these kind of stories that we're going to tell ourselves,

00:29:20.520 and that is going to lead us to making further political decisions.

00:29:25.440 So because we all have implicit racial biases, what's the evidence of that?

00:29:29.420 We don't have any.

00:29:30.280 What is the meaning of that?

00:29:32.680 We can't find any.

00:29:34.240 How does it even make sense if we're consciously talking about something that is by definition

00:29:37.960 implicit?

00:29:38.380 It doesn't make any sense.

00:29:39.000 We're just going to start there, and then the policy is going to flow from it, right?

00:29:45.280 And the policy all favors this kind of crazy left-wing view.

00:29:49.240 Rand Paul is calling this tactic out, and not in the race arena, but in the public health

00:29:54.820 arena.

00:29:56.060 Rand Paul is pointing out that Dr. Fauci is not presenting the science so much as he's presenting

00:30:02.920 noble lies.

00:30:04.160 A noble lie is a concept that has been a part of our politics for a long time.

00:30:10.280 It goes back to ancient Greece.

00:30:11.940 Fauci is making himself a sort of philosopher king, imposing noble lies on us for our own

00:30:16.920 good.

00:30:19.500 People are afraid of, you know, scientists, and he's put on a pedestal.

00:30:23.940 But you have to remember that his lies are noble lies, Laura. 0.54

00:30:27.540 He's not telling you this because he's a mean man.

00:30:30.020 He's telling you lies because he feels sorry for you because you don't understand, and Americans 0.94

00:30:35.460 aren't smart enough to make informed decisions.

00:30:37.800 So he fashions himself some sort of Greek philosopher.

00:30:41.080 He tells you these noble lies.

00:30:42.820 So at first he told you that all the masks don't work, but he told you that because he

00:30:48.020 wanted to protect the N95 masks, which actually in a health setting do work.

00:30:52.460 But then later on he said all masks do work, but that's also a lie also because really only

00:30:57.720 the N95 masks work.

00:30:59.600 But it's a compilation of lies, but they're all done to protect you because he doesn't

00:31:04.360 think you're smart enough to make any of these decisions on your own.

00:31:08.360 Absolutely right.

00:31:09.300 Dr. Fauci admitted this himself when he had to answer for his early admonition, telling

00:31:15.420 everybody that we should not wear masks, it's crazy to wear masks, don't wear masks.

00:31:19.020 When he had to answer for that after he changed his mind, he said, well, the fear at that time

00:31:23.280 was that we weren't going to have enough masks for the health care workers, and I felt it was

00:31:27.620 more important to save them for the health care workers, so I told everybody else not to

00:31:31.340 wear masks and that they shouldn't wear masks and it wouldn't help them.

00:31:33.800 But I don't really believe that.

00:31:35.300 I believe it will help them.

00:31:36.560 So now you should disregard what I previously said and believe my new guidance, which contradicts

00:31:42.440 what I had previously said.

00:31:44.420 He was making a political statement there, right?

00:31:46.580 He was saying this group of people should get the masks, but not this group of people.

00:31:51.060 This is, the way that he convinced people to do this is through this sort of a noble lie,

00:31:56.520 which goes back to Plato's Republic.

00:31:58.600 The idea that there are some lies that you tell the people that are actually salutary.

00:32:02.960 They're actually for their benefit, and this concept has been debated for a long time.

00:32:07.660 Well, here's the modern incarnation.

00:32:09.060 The modern incarnation is Dr. Fauci, and the media are promoting these noble lies.

00:32:15.340 Fauci was just doing an interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, and Chuck Todd asked what

00:32:22.680 we would do in the next pandemic, which he further asserted would be caused by climate change.

00:32:29.020 You know, when you think about, sadly, having to prepare for this again, right?

00:32:34.680 And I know there's a lot of folks who think that, you know, due to climate change and due

00:32:39.540 to the globalization in general, it's inevitable we're going to deal with more and more viruses

00:32:45.680 like this.

00:32:47.620 The biggest lesson you're going to take away to prepare for the next one.

00:32:51.040 Climate change is going to give us more viruses, not the bat market in Wuhan, not the Wuhan Institute 1.00

00:33:03.020 of Virology, that those sorts of things, but there's no chance that anything like that is

00:33:08.860 responsible for the virus.

00:33:09.880 It's because of climate change, which could either be global cooling, which we were warned

00:33:16.860 about by the experts in the 70s, or it could be global warming, or once the warming kind

00:33:22.060 of stopped for a while, it could be just the climate change.

00:33:25.740 That's what causes it.

00:33:27.360 Climate change, like this public health tyranny that we're living under now, is this kind of

00:33:33.760 a catch-all.

00:33:36.960 Regardless of the scientific reasoning, the scientific reasoning always seems to change, but the effect

00:33:43.820 of it is always the same.

00:33:45.860 With global cooling, they said, the earth is going to head into a new ice age, and therefore

00:33:51.440 we need to stop having as many babies, use contraception, expand abortion, give the government much 0.98

00:33:59.580 more control over our lives, cede political rights, not just to our national governments,

00:34:03.380 but to international governments as well.

00:34:05.160 Then the scientific argument completely reversed itself within the following two decades, and what

00:34:12.100 happened? The political consequences, exactly the same. Then when the warming kind of stopped

00:34:16.720 for a little bit, what happened? The scientific reasoning changed, but the political consequences

00:34:21.580 exactly the same. I've often referred to the lockdowns over COVID-19 as the Green New Deal

00:34:28.080 through the back door, because it gave the technocratic left everything they wanted, all the

00:34:34.240 kind of stuff that they wanted in their environmental proposals, policies reminiscent of those called

00:34:40.400 for the Green New Deal, massive redistribution of wealth, a massive surrendering of constitutional

00:34:45.380 rights, an expansion of international government. It just got that through the back door, right?

00:34:53.020 It was a different, okay, it's, yeah, forget it, it's global warming, or it's the Wuhan virus,

00:34:57.160 or yeah, whatever, just do what we say that you should do. The problem here is, if you have

00:35:05.400 a public health apparatus, a political apparatus more broadly, that is operating on these sorts of

00:35:12.180 noble lies, that believes that it can, with impunity, lie to you, tell you things that it

00:35:17.860 knows are not true, because it feels that it's in your best interest, then, one, we've totally

00:35:24.460 undermined constitutional government, but two, we have no more basis for our trust in these institutions,

00:35:33.700 because they've already told us that they're misleading us, so we can't, even if we wanted

00:35:37.220 to believe them, we can't really do that anymore. Speaking of which, by the way, Dr. Fauci,

00:35:41.860 Christmas came early, he's giving us a little present, we can now reduce social distancing from

00:35:46.480 six feet to three feet, because of, you know, the science or whatever. In terms of CDC guidance,

00:35:54.160 as you know, the guidance for social distancing, for how far people should be, is a, there's a

00:36:00.240 discrepancy, some places, some health organizations say three feet, or a meter, is enough, but here in

00:36:06.400 the United States, we say six feet. There's this new study from researchers in Massachusetts,

00:36:10.640 just out this week, it found no significant difference in coronavirus spreading in schools,

00:36:16.560 where there was six feet of distancing, versus three feet of distancing, but that six-foot requirement,

00:36:22.340 that's one of the main hurdles to reopening schools. Right. Does this study suggest to you that

00:36:28.140 three feet is good enough? It does indeed, and that's exactly the point I'm making, Chuck. What

00:36:35.640 the CDC wants to do is they want to accumulate data, and when the data shows that there is an ability

00:36:42.880 to be three feet, they will act accordingly. Absolutely, Dr. Jake. That is a very profound

00:36:50.120 scientific observation. Now you only require three feet to slow the spread, until next week when I just

00:37:01.400 pick another number out of a hat, and I talk about all the data that show that. How does anybody fall

00:37:08.100 for this? You get these two politicians, Jake Tapper, who's a politician working in journalism,

00:37:15.140 but he's, you know, he's been a political animal his whole life, he's worked for politicians,

00:37:18.300 and you get Dr. Fauci, who just is a politician, right? He's, he's, his check is signed by the

00:37:23.760 government. He's served under multiple presidents. He's got longer political staying power than just

00:37:28.320 about anybody in public life, and these two guys are espousing their political points of view and

00:37:33.760 grabbing a lot of political power, but because they put glasses on and they try to sound like they're

00:37:38.900 nerds or something, now we're supposed to pretend this is not political at all. This is all just the

00:37:43.720 science. What was the argument for the social distancing, an Orwellian term that I never use

00:37:48.100 earnestly? The argument for the social distancing, this, this contradiction in terms, is that you

00:37:55.860 might have a droplet that leaves your mouth and, you know, it lands on somebody, and he's got the

00:37:59.740 mask, so hopefully that'll protect it, but still, you know, it could land on him, and so therefore we

00:38:04.560 need to stand a little further apart. Now you can stand a little closer. Are people spitting less

00:38:13.120 forcefully now? Is that the idea that our plosive sort of sounds that we make out of our mouth are

00:38:18.460 a little less plosive or something? What on earth could the argument be that now into this, a year

00:38:26.820 into the pandemic, once people in most demographic groups are not really getting that sick from it,

00:38:34.260 and once people are now getting the vaccine, now it's three feet for, for what? There's no,

00:38:40.020 this is obviously partaking of the same political strategy that Fauci has been employing since the

00:38:45.420 very beginning, in which he's even admitted. People beginning, I think, to wake up a little

00:38:51.760 bit to this. Obviously, some people on the right have been woke to this from the top, but even some

00:38:55.440 people on the left are waking up to the oligarchic tendencies, technocratic oligarchic tendencies,

00:39:04.380 this tendency to take power for a handful of elites on the left. Sarah Silverman, a left-wing 1.00

00:39:11.140 comedian, certainly not a conservative, this lady. She was just complaining about the Democratic Party 1.00

00:39:18.740 and how elitist it's all become. It's the absolutist-ness of the party I am in that is such

00:39:30.800 a turnoff to me. It's so f***ing elitist. For something called progressive, it allows for zero 0.98

00:39:41.060 progress. It's all or nothing. No steps toward all or f***ing nothing.

00:39:49.220 So I sympathize with her, her exasperation. I guess I empathize with it too, but I don't think

00:39:56.760 she's right. I don't think what she's saying is exactly, I don't think it's all or nothing. I

00:40:00.640 think the way the left has won in this country on, at least on the cultural matters, is through

00:40:05.940 incremental change. This is actually the topic of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:40:10.360 Controlling Minds, which you can pre-order now until it's canceled and then you can't pre-order it,

00:40:14.080 which is that for at least 60, 80 years, the left was gaining ground, engaging in what a brilliant

00:40:23.200 leftist theorist called a war of position, where you infiltrate the institutions, you gain power,

00:40:30.140 and then slowly, slowly, gradually, gradually, you begin to exercise that power. And then when you've

00:40:36.200 got enough leverage, you can suddenly spring a lot of social changes on people.

00:40:40.880 This to attain what he called the cultural hegemony, which was the big impediment to leftist

00:40:46.600 radicals upending society. I want to focus though on this elitism thing because creating a new elitism 1.00

00:40:55.400 is the point of progressivism. She's saying it like it's a contradiction. It's so weird. We're

00:40:59.000 supposed to be progressives, but we're elitist. The whole point of progressivism, you can read this

00:41:02.560 in Woodrow Wilson's essay, What is Progress? He was our first left-wing progressive president.

00:41:07.820 He said, the constitutional order was under the laws of Isaac Newton, fixed laws, permanent laws

00:41:14.160 to the universe, permanent human nature. But now we're living under the world of Darwin,

00:41:18.640 where everything is mutable and changeable and evolving. And in that world, the constitution

00:41:22.800 is outdated. So what we need to do is instead of being governed by the people, according to the

00:41:27.240 constitution, we need a group of intellectual progressive elites to make all of our decisions

00:41:32.440 for us. And we're going to outsource this to something called the administrative state. 0.78

00:41:35.780 And then we're going to, you know, still have politics, kind of, we're going to debate

00:41:39.000 pointless stuff, but really the decisions are going to be made by experts such as Dr. Fauci.

00:41:44.860 Sarah Silverman goes on.

00:41:47.180 Again, righteousness porn. And I've been thinking about this a lot, just in general.

00:41:53.700 I just, I don't know that I want to be associated with any party. I really, I think I don't want

00:42:05.000 to be associated with any party anymore. It just, it comes with too much baggage.

00:42:12.320 Every party, it comes with so much baggage that no ideas can be taken at face value. And without

00:42:26.100 ideas, what are we? Without a common truth, how can we talk about it?

00:42:32.840 You know, Dante actually makes this point in the Divine Comedy when he's talking to his ancestor,

00:42:37.100 Caccia Guida, talks about becoming a party of one because the parties are always going to

00:42:41.700 disappoint you because they're these institutions. So there's something profound in what she's saying,

00:42:45.480 and I'm glad she wants to break away from her own party. But the thing is,

00:42:49.300 she's accusing progressives of falling into this trap of dithering because everything's got to be

00:42:54.780 perfect and it's all or nothing. And so they don't get anything done. She's falling into the same

00:42:58.440 dithering trap because in politics, if you want to do anything, you need to operate in tandem with

00:43:04.900 other people. And the way that we do that is we form associations that we call political parties.

00:43:09.360 And that's how you build a consensus and get things accomplished. You need political parties to do

00:43:15.560 stuff in governments such as ours. Even further though, even further, this whole, both parties are

00:43:22.020 terrible thing. I'm so, I'm too good for all these parties. To me, this whole shtick is so arrogant and

00:43:28.320 presumptuous. Statistically, 100% of voters fall into one of the two major political parties.

00:43:35.020 You're talking now about 150 million people in this last election, depending on the numbers

00:43:40.720 you're looking at, it could be 160 million people fall into these two parties. Those are just the

00:43:44.000 voters. Even more than that, identify with the parties. If all those people are in one of the

00:43:49.920 two parties and you're not, is it possible that you're the one with the problem? It can't possibly

00:43:56.400 be you, right? It's got to be 150 million people totally wrong, me totally right. Generally speaking,

00:44:01.520 the reason people fall into these parties, the reason the parties form is because there's some

00:44:04.920 coherence to the ideas. The idea that I would protect life and protect my property, the idea

00:44:11.040 that I would, you know, protect life through social policy and protect my property through economic

00:44:14.380 policy, those things go together. They come from a coherent base that forms a political vision that

00:44:21.880 then expresses itself in various policies. Same thing on the left. The idea that you would upend

00:44:27.160 various social policies and upend the economic institutions of government and upend our foreign

00:44:31.660 policy. Sure. It comes from the same broad political vision and maybe you have a problem

00:44:37.660 with that, but I think it's so arrogant to say, and now whatever heterodox views I hold, that's my

00:44:42.600 real opinion. No, maybe you're just beginning to question your old political vision, but you haven't

00:44:47.300 taken the time and the effort to follow your new curiosities to their logical conclusion, which might not

00:44:55.260 leave you alone outside of the political system. It just might flip you over to the other side.

00:45:03.260 Some guys are able to evade political categorization. Guys like Bill Maher. Now, Bill Maher, he's a left

00:45:10.880 winger. He's a Democrat, but more than most left wingers and Democrats, he sort of contradicts his own

00:45:18.000 group every now and again. And it's won some respect from right wingers. Usually I disagree with Bill

00:45:24.060 Omar, but occasionally I agree with him. And he's made this point getting back all the way to what

00:45:28.700 we were talking about at the top with that military guy prattling on about how women are, pregnant women 0.94

00:45:35.600 are just as lethal as men. He says Americans are becoming a silly people. And finally, new rule. 1.00

00:45:44.580 You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century. If you are a silly people and Americans are a 0.99

00:45:50.600 silly people. That's the classic phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as 1.00

00:45:56.240 long as they stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, they will remain a silly people. Well, we're the silly people 0.99

00:46:02.820 now. Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4 0.96

00:46:11.540 billion of them could give a crouching tiger flying f***. Because they're not a silly people. If 1.00

00:46:25.480 anything, they are as serious as a prison fight. Look, we all know China does bad stuff. They break

00:46:31.180 promises about Hong Kong autonomy. They put Uyghurs in camps and punish dissent. And we don't want to be 1.00

00:46:36.180 that. But it's got to be something between authoritarian government that tells everyone

00:46:40.820 what to do and a representative government that can't do anything at all. Thank you, Bill. He's

00:46:47.600 90% right here. 10% is confused, but 90% right. Thank you. First of all, this dichotomy he's making

00:46:56.360 between authoritarian government and free representative government, I think it's kind of a

00:47:01.400 false dichotomy. Because America has always been a representative government. I think we're less

00:47:05.900 representative now than we used to be during the founding era. Now we have government largely by

00:47:11.640 administrative fiat, not by the will of the people as we, as we vote. But do you think that America

00:47:19.280 in 2021 is more or less authoritarian than we were in 1790? I think a lot of people would say

00:47:30.080 that we are less authoritarian, right? We can say more things. We have less strict social mores.

00:47:40.140 Just, just on the example of free speech, we can now burn the American flag while downloading high

00:47:50.880 speed porn, probably in public in some places while smoking a fat blunt and nobody will say boo about it.

00:47:59.460 All of those various activities are in, in various ways protected by the law.

00:48:06.300 You couldn't have done that in 1790. So then you'd say, okay, well that's, it was more authoritarian

00:48:10.600 way back then. But in some ways it's much more authoritarian now because we can vote and we can

00:48:15.940 vote and we can vote. And if our votes, if our expressed will, either that of the people or of our

00:48:22.520 representatives contradicts the politically correct, bureaucratically entrenched orthodoxy,

00:48:27.860 it's not going to go anywhere. That's why these things often die in the courts. That's why,

00:48:33.260 that's why President Trump, you elect President Trump, but he can't even control the executive

00:48:37.300 branch in many ways because the bureaucracy functions on its own, according to progressivism,

00:48:42.080 as it was established a hundred years ago. That is some useless, I think, sort of a dichotomy.

00:48:51.520 Question is, do we have purpose? Do we not have purpose? In the 1790s, I think we had purpose as a

00:48:56.440 country. I think we had a shared sense of national identity and I think we understood

00:49:01.880 our purpose as a country, our ideals, how we were going to put them into practice.

00:49:06.320 Now I don't think we do. This is a sign of decadent cultures. And we, I think, have certainly

00:49:12.060 fallen into decadence. Decadent and decay describe the same sort of things. So what we do is we turn

00:49:19.100 inward. This is expressed in declining birth rates. We're not really as focused on the next generation.

00:49:24.380 This is expressed in exploding debt. We're not focused on the next generation, right? We're

00:49:28.840 just focused on spending, spending, spending, and ourselves having a luxurious sort of lifestyle.

00:49:34.440 We're focused on our own appetites. So much of our national debate revolves around which of our

00:49:40.360 sexual desires we're allowed to pursue today and, and which new desires we'll be able to pursue

00:49:46.340 tomorrow. We're not talking about broader things. We're not talking about virtue all that much.

00:49:50.820 We're not talking about our international, our geopolitical ends. Uh, we're not talking about

00:49:56.580 higher ideals. Silly, silly stuff. Coca-Cola just announced, great example of this in corporate 0.99

00:50:02.360 America. They announced they're only going to hire law firms with a, uh, a certain quota of black

00:50:08.400 lawyers. They want only law firms that, that commit to providing 15% of billed time from black 0.98

00:50:15.020 attorneys. This is, this is a higher percentage than the percentage of black people in America.

00:50:20.120 Talk about institutional racism. Uh, they're, they're saying we need a higher percentage of

00:50:26.140 black lawyers, black lawyers time than we have black people in America. A serious corporation 1.00

00:50:32.860 in a serious country would say that our criteria for our, our law firms involve having the best

00:50:43.020 lawyers. That's the only criterion that matters. We want the absolute best lawyers to get us the best

00:50:48.320 deals and to get us the best cases made in courts. And so that's what we're going to do.

00:50:55.120 But now that's not what it's about for the military in a serious country. The only criterion is

00:51:00.080 lethality force. The per, what is the purpose of the military? If you had asked people 10 years ago,

00:51:07.820 they would have said the purpose of the military is to kill our enemies.

00:51:10.820 That's it to kill our enemies and thereby to make a credible show of force. That means that hopefully

00:51:18.400 the military won't need to be used all that much. But now the purpose of the military is to

00:51:24.840 what? To make certain people feel good about themselves. If we're really at this point where it is

00:51:31.840 a political crime, where we'll be attacked actually in public by the military. If we say that,

00:51:36.980 maybe pregnant women shouldn't be shooting, you know, AR-15s down the range. Maybe that's like 1.00

00:51:42.260 not the smartest thing to do. Maybe that doesn't help military preparedness or the women. 1.00

00:51:47.800 If we're now at that point, then we've had some mission drift somewhere, haven't we?

00:51:52.960 Now the purpose of the military is to make everyone feel really good about themselves based on their

00:51:57.120 sexual impulses, their desires, their identity, their sex itself, natural sex. The purpose of the,

00:52:04.880 of the law firm is to make people feel like feel good about themselves or some sort of social

00:52:09.500 experiment. That is unserious stuff. And a brief study of history shows that decadent cultures

00:52:18.480 don't get to last that long in their present form because decadent cultures are not strong.

00:52:27.320 I don't think this is a problem that pervades all the people, all the enlisted guys, all the

00:52:32.160 officers in the military. I don't think that the corruption at the FBI pervades, involves all of

00:52:37.140 the officers or the corruption. But there are people in power who have attained power in all

00:52:43.320 of these institutions, including the military, who are utterly subverting the purpose and mission,

00:52:50.040 not only of those institutions, but then collectively of society. Might be time for us to

00:52:55.480 finally win and wield some political power. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:52:59.240 See you tomorrow.

00:53:29.240 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:53:54.200 The United States military will now condemn and try to intimidate journalists who criticize its

00:53:59.100 policies. The outrage mob is offended by a joke about feminists that was told at the Grammys. 0.74

00:54:03.140 The Vatican makes headlines by affirming church teaching that's been in place for 2,000 years.

00:54:07.420 And a woke school in New York has now banned the words mom and dad on grounds that they aren't

00:54:11.300 inclusive enough. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:14.180 The Matt Walsh Show is a Way process by Geeky지는 News.

00:54:19.600 The Matt Walsh Show is a way of inspiring Southampton.

00:54:21.660 The Matt Walsh Show is an Wake Hawk.

00:54:23.960 The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:25.500 The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:29.440 The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:31.100 Yes, sir.

00:54:31.900 Mike Herfield, Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:32.540 My goal is to be a technologist andinse Ellen Watson.

00:54:34.660 The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:36.560 The Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:37.440 Amy Herfield, Matt Walsh Show.

00:54:38.880 Hughes is a Learning so that he serves unspeakable to theBSD bestimmt safe.

00:54:40.780 The Matt Walsh Show is a great hobbies Oscar.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 15, 2021

Ep. 720 - Social Justice Warriors at the Pentagon

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript