The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 724 - SlippingĀ Farther Down The Slope


Summary

After a full year of lies, obfuscation, and misdirection, someone has finally taken Dr. Anthony Fauci to task. What study shows significant reinfections, hospitalization, and death after either natural infection or the vaccine? It doesn t exist.


Transcript

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00:00:35.320 someone has finally taken Dr. Fauci to task. Senator Paul, take it away.
00:00:41.460 What study shows significant reinfection, hospitalization and death after either
00:00:46.740 natural infection or the vaccine? It doesn't exist. There is no evidence that there are
00:00:52.560 significant reinfections after vaccine. In fact, I don't think we have a hospitalization in the
00:00:57.440 United States after the two week period after the second vaccination. We don't have a death in the
00:01:02.960 United States. You're not hearing what I'm saying about variants. We're talking about wild type versus
00:01:09.900 variants. And what proof is there that there are significant reinfections with hospitalizations
00:01:16.380 and death from the variants? None in our country. Zero. Well, because we don't have a prevalent of a
00:01:22.780 variant yet. We're having one. Can I finish? We're having 117 that's becoming more dominant policy based on
00:01:30.440 conjecture. There's no evidence that there's any sort of reinfection. I'm talking about the variants.
00:01:37.440 There's no evidence of infection from the variants. Well, yeah, not yet, but maybe. Right. So stay locked
00:01:44.720 down and wear your mask, you sheep. Well, that's not going to work for me, Fauci. It doesn't work
00:01:49.460 for me either. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show.
00:02:00.300 My favorite comment yesterday from Douglas Roach, who says, this is kind of, it seems like a very
00:02:05.700 simple observation, but it's an important one. He says, the left is a never ending slippery slope.
00:02:11.760 Do you remember, I want to say 10, 15 years ago, we heard about the slippery slope from the right.
00:02:17.820 A lot of conservatives said, you know, if you start normalizing certain cultural programs,
00:02:24.200 certain bits of the cultural revolution, pretty soon you're going to end up in a really weird
00:02:29.460 place in our country where you've got like drag queen story hour and we all lock down and we all
00:02:33.800 wear stupid masks all the time and we upend our whole culture. And what did the left say? Oh,
00:02:38.500 stop it. Oh, you're being paranoid. Oh, there's no such thing as a slippery slope. Actually,
00:02:44.240 conservatives have been warning about a slippery slope since the sixties, at least really, even
00:02:48.920 probably earlier than that. The left says, oh no, you're crazy. You're no, what are you talking about?
00:02:55.040 The slippery slope people were right about everything. Every conservative who has ever invoked
00:03:03.340 the slippery slope and been laughed at for it was right. And now we're living in that bottom of that
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00:04:36.400 here. You know, the classic videos, I guess Ben is the typical example of this, but the videos,
00:04:40.620 you know, conservative owns liberal. Rand Paul owned Dr. Fauci. It was a great exchange because
00:04:48.460 Dr. Fauci did what, what leftist experts do, what the technocrats always do, which is say,
00:04:54.640 you're not, you don't understand my brilliant ideas. Because Rand Paul says specifically that
00:05:02.060 we don't see evidence of reinfection from COVID. So once you get vaccinated or once you've already
00:05:06.080 gotten the virus, you can take the stupid mask off. And then Fauci says, no, I'm talking about
00:05:10.400 the new variants of COVID, right? So he's trying to misdirect here. But then Rand Paul says, okay,
00:05:17.260 fine. We're talking about the variants. There's no evidence that if you've gotten COVID or you've
00:05:21.880 been vaccinated against COVID, that you're particularly susceptible to the new variants
00:05:25.860 either. And Fauci says, okay, yeah, you're right. There's not evidence, but there's not a lot of
00:05:30.520 evidence that you're not susceptible, you know? So therefore stay locked down, do whatever I tell
00:05:35.600 you to do. Even if my rules change by the hour, Rand Paul not having it. He says, this is government
00:05:41.960 by conjecture. No, you have the, it isn't based on conjecture. So you some, you want people to wear
00:05:48.720 a mask for another couple of years. No, you've been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks
00:05:53.680 for show. No, you can't get it again. There's almost, there's virtually 0% chance you're going
00:05:59.020 to get it. And yet you're telling people that have had the vaccine who have immunity. You're defying
00:06:03.820 everything we know about immunity by telling people to wear a mask to been vaccinated. Instead,
00:06:07.840 you should be saying there is no science to say we're going to have a problem from the large number
00:06:13.140 of people being vaccinated. You want to get rid of vaccine hesitancy? Tell them they can quit wearing
00:06:16.780 their mask after they get the vaccine. You want people to get the vaccine? Give them a reward
00:06:20.900 instead of telling them that the nanny state's going to be there for three more years and you
00:06:25.000 got to wear a mask forever. People don't want to hear it. There's no science behind it.
00:06:29.320 What a brilliant point here from Rand Paul and Rand Paul has been really great in the Fauci debates
00:06:34.780 because he's kind of the flip side of Dr. Fauci. They are both doctors, right? They're,
00:06:42.160 they're both medical professionals and they're also both politicians. And people only think of
00:06:47.900 Rand Paul as a politician and people only think of Dr. Fauci as a medical professional, but they're
00:06:52.860 actually, each of them are both. They both work for the government. They both get their paycheck from
00:06:58.460 the federal government. They have both worked in medicine before and they're just expressing
00:07:03.500 different political views. Dr. Fauci expressing the left-wing technocrat administrative state view
00:07:09.100 that we need to have government by experts and Rand Paul expressing the conservative and libertarian
00:07:14.780 view that we ought to have constitutional government by the people. And Rand Paul is also making a great
00:07:19.200 point about incentives here. I'm not particularly interested in getting the vaccine, not because I'm
00:07:25.880 totally worried about, you know, Bill Gates injecting me with 5G or whatever. Frankly,
00:07:30.560 my cell service isn't that great. So I could, I could use a little boost anyway, if I became a
00:07:34.700 hotspot, you know, but it's not because of any crazy theories that you see anywhere. It's just
00:07:38.860 because statistically speaking, I don't really need it. I'm young, I'm relatively healthy. I'm not
00:07:44.760 saying I'm totally invincible or impervious to the virus. I'm just saying I make calculated risks every
00:07:50.980 time I walk out the door. And sometimes when I'm in my home too, and this seems like a risk I would
00:07:56.000 be willing to take. If I were 90 years old, maybe I'd have a different idea. If I were extremely
00:08:01.540 overweight, maybe I'd have a different idea. If I stay in Nashville long enough, I will become
00:08:05.140 extremely overweight. And then I would have a different idea perhaps too. But even if I were
00:08:10.080 interested in getting the vaccine, you need to incentivize people, right? I, as a pure personal
00:08:17.920 health matter, there's not a ton of incentive for me to get it. If I'm also being told that I, I won't be
00:08:23.620 able to take the mask off. I won't be able to change the way that I behave once I get the vaccine,
00:08:27.760 then I truly have no incentive. There's just no reason to do it at all. And that's what Fauci is
00:08:31.560 doing. And he is doing it as Rand Paul says for show Rand Paul or Dr. Fauci will put the mask on in
00:08:37.740 the middle of a baseball diamond where he's not close to anybody whatsoever. And then he'll dribble
00:08:42.760 that ball to home plate. And then he'll go sit up in the stands with his friends sitting three inches
00:08:49.000 apart from them and he'll take the mask off. People, people he doesn't live with, but he just
00:08:54.440 thinks the cameras are off of him so he can behave more normally. None of the people who want you to
00:09:00.280 live your life in terror of coronavirus are fearful of coronavirus themselves. John Kerry shows this too.
00:09:08.200 John Kerry just got caught on camera. He was on an airplane. He goes into the first class cabin,
00:09:15.120 sits down, immediately takes his mask off. He's not drinking something. He's not eating something.
00:09:20.700 He just takes his mask off because he realizes that in many social situations, the masks are just for
00:09:28.660 show, right? They're not doing quite as much as some public health experts are telling you they do.
00:09:34.820 That's actually what Dr. Fauci told us at the beginning. They're not doing a ton and there can
00:09:38.800 actually be some negative effects of it if you're touching your face and you're touching your eyes and
00:09:42.620 whatever. You're moving it around all the time. John Kerry gets caught doing this. That'll teach
00:09:47.620 him not to fly private. He's going to, he's going to have to start flying private again. If he does
00:09:51.740 that, this is just an imposition for the little people, but the big people violate it. You remember
00:09:59.160 this at Joe Biden, Joe Biden early, early in office. He signs a rule saying that on federal lands,
00:10:06.140 you've got to wear the mask all the time. What does he do? He goes to the Lincoln Memorial.
00:10:09.640 Well, he's got his family there and people aren't wearing masks because there's one set of rules
00:10:15.100 for the rulers and there's one set of rules for the ruled. Somehow though, I love the Fauci
00:10:22.180 testimony. I hope we play that on repeat. Somehow Fauci's testimony was not the worst testimony over
00:10:27.680 the past few days. The same regime that will not let us out of our homes for fear of the virus and
00:10:34.880 tells us we have to wear 75 masks even after we get vaccinated is now admitting that it lets
00:10:41.760 foreign nationals into this country without checking them for coronavirus. This, uh, rep Andrew
00:10:48.560 Clyde grilling the secretary of the department of Homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas,
00:10:54.720 and he puts them in a corner. Can you assure the American people that no one
00:10:59.300 who has been apprehended, um, is released into our communities with, uh, that still test positive
00:11:07.460 for COVID-19? Um, uh, Congressman, let me be, be, let me be clear. Uh, there were times earlier
00:11:17.000 when individuals, um, were apprehended and we sought to expel them and we were unable to expel
00:11:26.300 them and we were compelled to release them and we did not have the opportunity to test them. We
00:11:31.780 have addressed that situation. So, so right now, as we speak right now, you're telling me that no one
00:11:38.680 is released into our country that is COVID-19 positive. Congressman, uh, allow me to repeat
00:11:46.020 myself if I may. Well, that's just a yes or no question. Just yes or no. No, it's, um, Congressman,
00:11:51.960 if I may, uh, the situation, uh, at the border is complex and the complexity is evidenced by the
00:11:58.120 questions I've been receiving throughout the morning. The situation at the border is complex,
00:12:03.680 but this question is not complex, Mr. Secretary. Have people, foreign nationals, been released into
00:12:11.900 our country without being tested for COVID-19? Well, you know, the nuances and the, it's a yes or
00:12:17.900 no question. I understand that immigration is a complex issue. This is not a complex issue.
00:12:23.300 Has it happened or not? Yeah. Well, we try to enforce the rules. Yeah. Right. I know that you do.
00:12:30.820 Have, have you succeeded in that? He pushes him further. I thought that this was great questioning
00:12:34.640 too by, by representative Andrew Clyde here. Okay. Yeah. It's complex. Take away the complexity for a
00:12:40.060 second. Can you tell me that you have succeeded in enforcing your rules? So please, if I may,
00:12:47.900 it is our policy to test and to quarantine. Okay. But are you executing to that policy? 100%.
00:12:56.340 We are doing the best we can to ensure that the policy is executed 100% of the time that I can say.
00:13:05.200 This is like, you know, if your girlfriend says to you, you know, I love you. And you say, yeah,
00:13:13.280 I love spending time with you. He says, what? No. Do you love me though? Yeah. No, I love
00:13:20.360 so much of what we, no, you're not answering the question. Do you stop these people from coming into
00:13:28.300 the country without being tested for COVID? We, that is our policy. Okay. Are you succeeding at
00:13:34.600 that policy? We are trying our best. Uh-huh. It's just, can you please get, okay. I guess your non-answer
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00:13:50.260 people and having Thanksgiving and having Christmas and going out without the, the secular
00:13:54.240 keffia all over your face is allowing foreign nationals to enter our country without being
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00:15:16.740 Even Democrats are calling out the absolute madness that's going on at the border.
00:15:27.060 Even, because what they're doing here is they're not trying to enforce the law. They are incentivizing
00:15:37.420 law-breaking. This guy, Mayorkas, the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security,
00:15:43.780 is out of one side of his mouth saying, look, we're really trying to enforce the law and we're
00:15:49.060 doing our best and please give us some grace here. But then out of the other side of his mouth, he's
00:15:53.360 saying, also, people should come to the border. Maybe not right now, but they should surge to the
00:15:58.400 border because we're going to let them in and we're going to give them amnesty.
00:16:01.060 If you say to them this morning, do not come, the next question is going to be,
00:16:06.680 how long do I wait and what am I waiting for? Is there going to come a moment where you say,
00:16:12.340 okay, now's the time?
00:16:15.800 In weeks, in several months, we will expand the legal processes that we already have started to
00:16:24.380 rebuild. We already have reinstituted the Central American Minors Program that was built in the
00:16:31.360 Obama-Biden administration and that was torn down by the prior administration. But we well understand
00:16:37.140 that out of desperation, some children might not wait. Some loving parents might send their child
00:16:44.940 to traverse Mexico alone to reach the southern border, our southern border. I hope they don't
00:16:51.580 undertake that perilous journey. But if they do, we will not expel that young child. We will care for
00:16:58.380 that young child and unite that child with a responsible parent. That is who we are as a nation.
00:17:04.800 So do not come now, but come in like 15 minutes. That'll solve our problem, right? It's an incoherent
00:17:14.060 policy. It will increase suffering for everybody. Not only is it unjust in itself because it
00:17:21.200 breaks these laws and these are just laws that a country ought to be able to have its own borders.
00:17:26.600 America has the most open immigration regime in the world and that's still not enough for some of
00:17:31.600 these radicals. But also just in terms of the personal suffering that everyone will undergo,
00:17:37.000 when you incentivize illegal immigration, you empower cartels, you empower coyotes, you empower
00:17:44.040 smugglers. There was a study that came out some years ago from Fusion and Huffington Post. So you're
00:17:49.080 talking about left wing outlets here that said that 60 to 80% of women and girls who cross that
00:17:54.020 border illegally are raped or sexually assaulted on the journey. Even from a purely only focus on
00:18:00.280 the migrants, you know, humanitarian perspective, pretty vicious stuff. But the left is encouraging
00:18:06.580 it because they want a flood of migrants into the country because they know that they are going to
00:18:11.380 overwhelmingly win those votes. Whether or not the, they have a plan for amnesty for the people who
00:18:17.220 are crossing illegally, but even if they don't get it there, they're still overwhelmingly likely to win
00:18:21.980 those votes one and even two generations afterward. And this is because of birthright citizenship.
00:18:29.140 When, when this is too much for democratic representatives in Congress, you know that the
00:18:35.120 left has gone quite far. A representative Raul Ruiz, Democrat from California, says the Biden
00:18:41.940 administration, just not doing enough. When it comes to immigration, President Biden saying very
00:18:47.860 clearly in an interview, don't come here to migrants. Is that enough? You know, no, that's not
00:18:55.600 enough. I mean, one is it's very important that people realize that we're in the middle of a pandemic
00:19:00.240 and that it's not safe for them, especially with the cartels and the coyotes that are taking
00:19:05.380 advantage of them and re-traumatizing them during the journey. So he, it was actually coincidental.
00:19:10.640 I, I didn't remember that he had made that point, but it's the same point that I just made,
00:19:14.060 which is you, you, when you're having, have these lax policies that are supposed to be aiding
00:19:20.220 the migrants, what you are doing inevitably is empowering these vicious gangsters who are brutalizing
00:19:28.020 not only our country, not only Americans, but also the migrants themselves. Vicente Gonzalez,
00:19:33.060 Democratic representative from Texas saying this has gone too far. Democrats need to stop
00:19:38.980 this crazy policy. Coming across the, the, the, the Rio Grande river and being processed and released
00:19:46.960 into our communities, uh, cannot be the norm. Uh, our cities and our counties on the border don't have
00:19:53.720 the resources to deal with this. And, and, uh, it's a federal government's responsibility. It puts
00:19:58.320 a lot of pressure on our local governments and our local communities. And we're in the middle of a
00:20:02.480 pandemic where every one of us has lost somebody who, who we love. And, uh, I've, we've, as I said,
00:20:08.280 I've lost over 3000, uh, constituents in my area. I've lost 11 personal friends and family members.
00:20:15.660 We've been ravaged here in South Texas and, uh, we need an orderly process to assure our safety and our
00:20:21.340 help. Absolutely. Now, why is, are these democratic representatives speaking out here? I think it's
00:20:28.460 pretty clear it's because they're from border States. And so these issues are sort of immaterial
00:20:34.540 to people in New York and Northern California and Chicago. I mean, you see illegal aliens end up there.
00:20:41.340 And so it does create problems, but it's very different up there than for people who are right
00:20:47.700 there on the border, seeing the realities of this every single day and seeing how much worse the
00:20:52.300 problem has gotten because of the policies of president Biden. But is it really president Biden
00:20:58.120 who's pushing these policies? You know, I've said from the very beginning, I don't think Joe Biden is
00:21:02.860 a person. I don't think he's a human being. I think he is a suit. And then there is some sort of
00:21:09.020 matter, I guess, that's, that fills the suit and kind of, you know, it has the form of a human body,
00:21:14.780 but he is just in effect, this empty suit. And when he wakes up in the morning, he licks his index
00:21:21.080 finger. He puts it up in the air. He figures out which way the wind is blowing. Occasionally the,
00:21:25.740 the combination of Joe Biden's vacuity and his incompetence, you know, his, his, uh, tendency
00:21:32.980 to have slips and gaffes combines in a really hilarious way. For instance, when Joe Biden referred
00:21:40.160 yesterday to president Harris must be matched with fairness and equity.
00:21:46.940 Now, when president Harris and I took, uh, a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona,
00:21:52.620 that was nice that president Harris took you on that tour. That was nice that she,
00:21:56.780 she picked you up, you know, allowed you to come out of the, the house for the day,
00:22:02.060 get, get a little fresh air, which is good. And then obviously take you,
00:22:04.680 take you right back to it. A great line. A lot of people have drawn a comparison between Joe Biden
00:22:11.240 and the late Soviet dictators. Reagan used to joke that he wanted to reach out to them,
00:22:18.180 but they kept dying on him. You know, there were just these figureheads. They were very old. They
00:22:23.280 were not particularly effective. Does this mean that Kamala Harris is running the show? Maybe I,
00:22:28.800 it would seem that she's exerting some influence here and Joe Biden refers to her as the president.
00:22:32.700 Even on the campaign trail, he was, he was making references to her as the president.
00:22:36.960 But it's, it's more than that. It's not just this wicked Kamala Harris pulling the strings.
00:22:41.600 It's the whole edifice that the reason that Joe Biden is able to be a completely empty suit
00:22:46.680 is because he is merely an avatar for the liberal establishment. He, he is in many ways a return to,
00:22:53.140 to normal. The normal is not a normal that we like, namely corporations with no loyalty to our
00:22:59.360 country, upending our culture, uh, people pulling away any sort of immigration controls that we have
00:23:07.260 upending law and order. I mean, but unfortunately that was kind of the normal that was being pushed
00:23:11.720 by this establishment. And it would, it would seem that even Joe Biden is, is admitting this.
00:23:16.620 Speaking of mistaken identity to show you where the slippery slope is going, a man in Canada,
00:23:22.540 not in the United States, but our neighbor to the North America's hat, uh, Robert Hoogland from
00:23:27.720 Surrey, British Columbia, uh, is now spending time in jail because he referred to his daughter
00:23:34.160 as she. He called his daughter, 14 year old daughter, she, and now the Supreme Court of British
00:23:44.520 Columbia, having ordered this girl to receive testosterone injections, the court is now, uh,
00:23:51.440 ordering him to go to jail, finding him to be in contempt. 14 year old people, you'll,
00:23:57.720 you'll know are below the age of consent. They can't consent to do very many things. If they
00:24:03.060 want to work, they have to get certain permits. If they want to have sex, they're not allowed to do
00:24:06.480 that. If they want to have certain medical procedures, they need parental consent because
00:24:10.820 they themselves cannot consent. That's the premise of law of, uh, age of consent laws. But if this girl
00:24:17.360 says that she's a boy, not only can she get these hormone treatments, the courts in Canada will insist
00:24:27.600 that she get those hormone treatments, even over the, over the objections of her parents. And if her
00:24:32.700 parents continue to object, the court will throw those parents in prison. This began because the
00:24:38.900 girl's school urged her to see a psychologist who then recommended that the girl take the hormones.
00:24:44.060 This actually began at age 13. And then the doctors at the school, which is run by the government,
00:24:53.020 right? Decided that the girl should receive the testosterone injections. And then the father
00:24:58.960 couldn't say boo about it. This is the slippery slope. This is not some, some foreign, you know,
00:25:07.160 way across the seas dictatorship. That's so unlike ours. This is a government that's very much like ours.
00:25:13.520 And that is just further in the direction of progressivism. And this sort of thing is not so
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00:26:40.080 C-O-A-S-T-A-L.com slash Michael. Some restrictions apply. The problem of the slippery slope is that
00:26:47.140 all societies have standards. We're always going to have some standards. And when you start knocking
00:26:53.060 down our traditional standards, very often there's no limiting principle to that. So you just
00:26:59.340 are in free fall and you have no argument, having destroyed the old standards, you have no argument
00:27:04.580 for stopping the cultural radicalism at any given point. The question is, what standards are we going
00:27:11.140 to have? Wheaton College showing this craziness. Wheaton College, which is a Christian school,
00:27:17.240 is removing the word savage from a plaque that it had up honoring missionaries. The plaque was honoring
00:27:25.620 these Wheaton College missionaries who went in to the savages of the jungle. These tribes that were
00:27:33.760 living in a very brutal and savage way. And these missionaries were killed by the savage tribe. But that's
00:27:41.900 not the end of the story. The end of the story is that the families of these missionaries continued their
00:27:48.960 work and extended Christian love and grace to them. And now they love one another. Many of the tribesmen
00:27:58.640 did convert to Christianity. The story has a happy ending. These people had been harassed by the Shell
00:28:05.780 oil company and had been killing oil company employees, trying to keep those employees from entering into
00:28:12.860 their territory. The Shell oil company had gone to the Ecuadorian government and convinced them that if
00:28:20.520 they wanted the Shell oil company to find oil, that together they had to get rid of this problem.
00:28:26.900 So dad and his friends decided to try to make a contact, a friendly contact, before efforts were made to try to wipe
00:28:34.460 this small tribe of violent people out. In the process, dad and his friends were killed. But that's only the
00:28:45.180 beginning of the story. A USA Today editor, when he was interviewing us, said, you know, I can understand
00:28:51.660 possibly forgiving the man who killed your father. But he said, but loving him, that seems almost morbid.
00:28:58.980 And you know, it would be if it wasn't true. Wow. Oh my goodness. What an incredible story.
00:29:06.240 What a Christian story. This is the story of the spread of Christianity, which Wheaton College ought to
00:29:13.680 defend. But they're very upset about the word savage. The word savage refers to the woods. That's the
00:29:19.760 etymology, people living in the woods. This tribe living in the woods. Wheaton College very upset because
00:29:26.700 it's offensive to the indigenous culture. Those missionaries were offensive to the indigenous
00:29:31.960 culture because they went into the jungles, into the woods and said, hey, you savages should stop
00:29:37.640 living in this way, which is pagan and missing out on the good news of the gospel that we are bringing
00:29:45.180 you. Oh my goodness. Could you imagine if the Wheaton College administrators heard me say that? They
00:29:49.740 would be shocked and horrified. But guess what? Many of these tribesmen, these former savages would agree
00:29:56.400 with everything I just said. That's why they converted to Christianity. What we are saying
00:30:01.480 here, what, what missionaries used to be able to say, what our whole culture used to be able to say
00:30:05.600 is that it is better to be civilized than to live in the woods. Moreover, it is better to believe the
00:30:13.280 good news of the gospel than to believe whatever crazy pagan religions you were believing before
00:30:17.540 because it is more reasonable. It is not merely an act of will. We, the missionaries imposing by force
00:30:26.740 our will on you. That's not what they did at all. They gave their lives trying to spread the gospel.
00:30:31.040 And then the children of these people came up and not only forgave the people who murdered their,
00:30:35.120 their parents, but loved them. And through this kind of love, you see the spread of Christianity.
00:30:41.020 Christianity. That, that's what happened. It wasn't just will. It was reasonable. And some of these
00:30:46.120 people reasoned and made an act of faith to come to Christianity, a wonderful thing. But the college
00:30:52.400 doesn't understand what its purpose is anymore because we are losing our sense that you can rely
00:30:58.120 on reason. You can do, do all sorts of things. Speaking of savages, have to get to this story before
00:31:03.080 we get to mailbag. A Wisconsin Children's Court judge who previously ran an LGBTQ organization that,
00:31:09.620 that fundraised for Drag Queen Story Hour, among other programs, was arrested Tuesday on charges of
00:31:17.000 child pornography. Stop the presses. I am absolutely shocked. I couldn't possibly be more surprised
00:31:25.880 that some degenerate pushing Drag Queen Story Hour, which is transvestites twerking for little toddlers
00:31:33.020 at a public library, that he might have some kind of weird sexual preferences and fascination with
00:31:38.900 children. Shocking, isn't it? No, it's not shocking at all. Brett Blom, according to reports from the
00:31:45.100 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was taken into custody by special agents with the State Division of Criminal
00:31:49.900 Investigation following an investigation into multiple uploads of child pornography through a
00:31:54.100 kick messaging application in October and November. Brett Blom is gay and probably the most disturbing
00:32:01.920 part of this whole thing is that he and his partner have two adopted children, I believe. So really,
00:32:08.680 really worrisome stuff. Can we just agree to get rid of Drag Queen Story Hour? Can we just agree that
00:32:17.600 where there's smoke, often there is fire? Can we just agree that it is not a blessing of liberty
00:32:23.380 to have transvestites twerking for toddlers at the public library? Every conservative and just about
00:32:30.880 every Democrat would have agreed with this 10 years ago, not that long ago. But now, because the
00:32:39.040 slippery slope just has a sliding on down, because of that, even many conservatives now will say,
00:32:46.780 you know, well, if we ban Drag Queen Story Hour, then they might tell us we can't go to church.
00:32:53.100 They're already telling you you can't go to church. They've been telling you that for a year in many
00:32:56.320 places in this country. And, and by the way, if we can't distinguish in this country between
00:33:03.480 twerking for toddlers in drag and going to church, if we, if we think those two things are basically
00:33:11.020 kind of the same, right, we can't make a moral judgment between them, then we can't make any kind
00:33:15.520 of moral judgment. Then we can't have any kind of political vision because self-government relies on the
00:33:19.940 ability of the people to, to make these kinds of judgments for themselves and then implement that
00:33:25.160 through self-government. Another leftist leader of dubious morals, before we get to the mailbag,
00:33:31.240 Sir Major Page, 32 years old, was just invited, indicted rather. He was invited to go to prison
00:33:37.060 by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on three counts of money laundering, one kind of wire fraud,
00:33:42.800 according to the DOJ. Page is the leader of the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta Facebook page.
00:33:50.480 He created a 501c3 nonprofit organization for this group. He raised almost a half million dollars from
00:33:56.620 donors. And do you know how he spent that money that was being given to him, oodles of it being
00:34:00.940 given to him for social justice and racial justice? He spent it on his house, on guns,
00:34:08.220 and on hookers. It was always a grift. It was always a con, the BLM organization. This is why
00:34:16.740 the family of Michael Brown and Ferguson and other community leaders in Ferguson are now demanding
00:34:21.860 tens of millions of dollars from the BLM organization because they want a little cut of
00:34:25.840 the action. They want a piece of this extortion ring that BLM has been running on corporate America
00:34:30.480 and many other people for well over a year now. It was always a naked power grab. Some people gullible
00:34:38.840 gave into it. Others did not. Meanwhile, when they're not blowing money on guns, homes, and hookers,
00:34:45.200 they're spending it to burn the country down through the riots that we saw for six to eight
00:34:51.140 months in this country. Quite a slippery slope. Could you imagine telling someone that this would
00:34:55.760 happen five, 10 years ago? They wouldn't have believed it. The only way we're going to stop these
00:34:59.620 things is if we make substantive moral claims, which is an argument I make in my upcoming book,
00:35:04.440 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available for pre-order until Amazon figures out
00:35:08.220 what it's about, and then they'll take it off. All right. We have got to get to my favorite time of
00:35:12.060 the week, the mailbag. Go check out Ben today, who talks about ways to stop this kind of cancel
00:35:17.760 culture. Says that the cancellations will continue until morale improves. Also, the Michael Knowles Show
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00:36:26.160 First question from Anonymous. General Knowles, I'm in the military and have mandatory CNO-directed
00:36:37.540 extremism training next week. I don't know what will be said or discussed, but I think we can guess
00:36:43.620 given the events of the week. I would like to voice my conservative perspective, but I'm fearful
00:36:48.480 because cancel culture here includes legal action under the UCMJ, that's Uniform Code of Military Justice.
00:36:54.200 Any advice for me of note, Kendi's book, How to Be an Anti-Racist, is on the CNO's professional
00:37:00.080 reading program. That's unbelievable, as well as other extremist books. Thank you. It's very sad to
00:37:07.740 see this. One great benefit of the Trump era, I was actually chatting with a military friend of mine
00:37:13.060 last night. One great benefit of the Trump era is Trump exposed the bureaucratic left
00:37:24.200 of a lot of the officer class. I think there are plenty of good military officers out there.
00:37:30.720 I think maybe it's even most of the military officers. Maybe it's most of the enlisted guys
00:37:35.400 are good, ordinary, patriotic American people who believe perfectly conservative things.
00:37:42.400 But a lot of people who have attained power among officers and even among enlisted guys,
00:37:47.920 like that wacko from Space Force the other day who was yelling at Tucker Carlson,
00:37:51.400 A lot of the guys who have risen and been able to attain positions of power, both the officers and
00:37:56.860 the enlisted men, are left-wingers. And I don't just mean left-wingers in the way that we always
00:38:04.360 have a left and right in the country. I mean radical left-wingers who are seeking to upend our
00:38:08.540 traditional American culture. Guys pushing the racialist theories of Ibram Kendi and all sorts of
00:38:14.200 people like that. That's a big problem. And I think a lot of the conservative impulse to just
00:38:21.220 give as much money as they want to the Pentagon. Oh, Pentagon wants a ton of money. Yeah, no amount
00:38:25.580 of money is too great. I think we've got to check that a little bit and recognize that
00:38:30.620 all bureaucratic institutions have a tilt toward leftism. And because the left has waged,
00:38:40.520 in the words of the communist theorist and leader Antonio Gramsci, a war of position for the last
00:38:47.340 hundred years, a topic I mentioned in my book at length, Speechless. Because of this war of position,
00:38:54.240 they've attained a lot of power in the universities, in Hollywood, in the media,
00:38:58.680 in the administrative state, and even in the military. And so we need to reform that. I'm not
00:39:04.860 the sort of person who says we need to rip everything out, root and branch. I think we need to go in and have
00:39:09.740 the gullones to, it's a little Italian-American for you, cojones, spine at the very least, to be more
00:39:17.700 polite, to exercise political power when we get political power. And it's a very difficult thing
00:39:23.420 to do, particularly with the military, because it's so big, it's so entrenched. In many ways,
00:39:29.700 the traditions of the military have helped it from going completely off the rails, but the radicals
00:39:33.920 are trying to transform it. Very difficult stuff. My friends just don't know, you know, some have walked
00:39:38.480 out of these trainings, but done it in enough of a way that they won't get in trouble for it. But it's a very
00:39:44.780 fraught political problem right now. The only answer is going to be political reform. From Abraham.
00:39:50.420 Hi, Michael. Are you jealous of Matt's obvious beard awesomeness, or can you grow an equally amazing beard
00:39:56.200 and are just hiding the skill? I am man enough to admit that I cannot grow a particularly convincing beard.
00:40:03.240 You know, it's a little sparse. It's even a little bit patchy. I can grow a mustache in about 25 minutes,
00:40:09.760 but that creates a big problem because, you know, I give a lot of talks at schools,
00:40:13.300 and when I grow the mustache, it's a court rule. I'm not allowed within 300 yards of any schools.
00:40:18.700 Kind of like that guy, you know, the guy who was the court judge who ran Drag Queen Story Hour. I start
00:40:24.480 to look like one of those guys, so I can't, I just can't pull it off, okay? If I could pull off a
00:40:29.360 Walshy type beard, or even better, the Spencer Clavin square beard, I would do it. If I could
00:40:33.420 pull off the Tom Selleck mustache, I would do it. Some people are meant for facial hair. Others are
00:40:38.820 not. From Liana. Hey, Michael. What would it take for individuals to pull a Christie gnome joined
00:40:44.380 together and give the stimulus checks back? I have to believe there are enough smart, savvy people out
00:40:49.080 there to know what this money actually will cost and would choose to give that $1,400 back just so
00:40:54.940 their children and grandchildren wouldn't eventually have to. A statement that, that of sorts that
00:41:00.340 clearly showed that some of us can't be bought. I'm not going to give the money back. If I don't
00:41:05.660 know if I'm getting a stimulus check, I think I actually am supposed to, depending on which,
00:41:08.640 what tax year and how it's all these kind of Byzantine rules. If I get a stimulus check,
00:41:12.900 I'm not going to give it back. I appreciate your impulse to do that. If I could create a world in
00:41:19.900 which we took the budget seriously and didn't just enslave our children to endless debt and
00:41:25.120 actually try to pass on an inheritance to our children instead of just destroying the inheritance
00:41:29.000 that we've received, both culturally and financially, I would, I would do that. But
00:41:35.400 unfortunately, this is a strategy that Republicans have pursued for a long time and it hasn't worked.
00:41:40.640 Namely, to play by the set of rules that we want everyone to play by while the other side is
00:41:46.020 going to play by their own set of rules. That doesn't work. That's, that's just unilateral
00:41:50.920 disarmament. And I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to say all the conservatives give up your
00:41:56.260 money, but let the left wingers get their money. No, that's just an even more egregious transfer of
00:42:00.520 wealth to the left. I wouldn't do that at all. How do you transform this sort of thing? I think what
00:42:08.000 we need to do is deal in the real political circumstances that we're in right now. And we need to use
00:42:13.340 every advantage that the left will give us to crack up the left. And that's not, that's not a purely
00:42:20.080 abstract, feel good way to understand our political principles. But our political principles, which
00:42:27.540 exist in the abstract, have to be applied in real life if they are going to have any sort of weight
00:42:33.500 to them, any gravity to them. And that's what we need to do now. I think that was a lot of what the
00:42:37.600 Trump era was about too, is you had a lot of people clutching their pearls when Trump was nominated
00:42:43.520 because they say, no, this isn't the principled way of Mitt Romney and John McCain. It's not the
00:42:49.380 way that we in a principled way lose. Right. It's not. It's not. But it would be better to win in a
00:42:56.520 way that maybe discomforts you, not in a way that's immoral, but in a way that maybe discomforts you a
00:43:00.080 little bit than to lose in a perfectly wonderful way. From Joy, hey, Michael, the mainstream media
00:43:06.040 is shocked, shocked that the Catholic church is in fact Catholic and follows scripture and tradition
00:43:10.480 as they have for the last thousand years. Hypothetically, what could Catholics do if a
00:43:14.660 pope was elected that ignored scripture and tradition in a blatant attempt to be more culturally
00:43:19.560 relevant? Specifically, if a new future pope was chosen that allowed blessings to same-sex unions,
00:43:24.640 hand-waved abortion, and all the other items from the world's wish list, would we see another era of
00:43:29.560 three popes at the same time? Do Catholics have a form of civil disobedience if the papacy went
00:43:33.900 blatantly unbiblical? Well, there are ways to question the pope. There are very prominent
00:43:38.760 cardinals, members of the episcopacy, who have raised dubia doubts that the pope should answer,
00:43:46.060 and Pope Francis has not done that. You can even politely charge people with heresy. The pope has not
00:43:54.140 responded to those things either, and so that's all perfectly acceptable. We've had bad popes before.
00:44:00.020 We've had heretic popes, for goodness sakes, and yet the church has survived that.
00:44:07.480 So, Hilaire Belloc, great Catholic writer, a great conservative writer, highly recommend
00:44:12.200 everyone read Hilaire Belloc. He had a good line on this. He said that,
00:44:16.220 I am required as a matter of my faith to hold the Catholic church divine, divinely instituted,
00:44:22.120 and divinely guided. However, one bit of evidence, for those of you who don't believe that,
00:44:27.600 is that no other institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
00:44:34.640 That the Catholic church is run so poorly by such flawed men, and that has been the case,
00:44:43.040 sometimes worse, sometimes a little better, for 2,000 years, that the real wonder here is that the
00:44:48.640 church has survived, and survived as it has, intact. That, to me, is an evidence of divine guidance.
00:44:57.880 Catholics believe that when Christ says, I will always be with you, I will not leave you,
00:45:04.580 you know, obviously he ascends up to heaven, but that he will always be there, that he will send the
00:45:09.580 Holy Spirit, and that God will always guide the church, that that means that no matter how crazy
00:45:15.200 things get, there will, the bark of Peter will still remain afloat. So I do believe that. There
00:45:22.840 are mechanisms in place to question popes, but, you know, even so much confusion from Pope Francis's
00:45:29.180 pontificate, somehow the church remains afloat, even in these crazy times. From Liam, dear Professor
00:45:35.260 Covfefe, is it too late to hope that conservatives will wield political power when they have it?
00:45:40.300 After the nothing strange happened here results of the last election, with election integrity
00:45:46.980 deforms being pushed through at the federal level, and with fears of ending the filibuster,
00:45:53.680 packing the Supreme Court, and turning Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico into states,
00:45:57.660 is there any hope that conservatives will ever win, let alone wield political power in the future?
00:46:01.760 Yeah, I think there's hope, but the prospects are getting worse, and some conservatives want to
00:46:06.800 remain complacent and say, oh, it's fine, it'll swing back, it'll be okay. No, that's not always the
00:46:14.000 case. Political parties come and go. Sometimes certain political parties have dominance for decade upon
00:46:22.060 decade upon decade. Think of the dominance of progressives and the Democrats in the early 20th
00:46:28.780 century. It's shaped the world that we have today. Think about the way that these parties can change
00:46:36.980 the structure of government such that it's very difficult for us to win again. I don't think that
00:46:41.560 there's a world in which it becomes totally impossible for Republicans or conservatives to win
00:46:47.040 again, because what would have to happen in that case is that the regime would have to become so corrupt
00:46:52.720 that it would have to rule basically just by the imposition of its will. And you're seeing traces of
00:46:59.460 this now. No one's ever allowed to question the election, even though you had prominent Democrats,
00:47:03.880 including Barack Obama, raising worries about election integrity measures not that long ago. Now, you're not
00:47:09.260 allowed to do that, and big tech is going to censor you, and if you question the regime's views on
00:47:13.640 transgenderism, you're going to have your books kicked out of the biggest marketplaces in the world.
00:47:18.220 You know, it's trying to close in and grab on it. I think that's evidence that it's a somewhat weak
00:47:23.720 regime. But yeah, it could persist for a long time. I think it's important that we win in the near
00:47:27.480 future, and that not only that we win, but you actually have to do things. It's great to drag Mark
00:47:32.840 Zuckerberg to a hearing and yell at him, but you know, that and a buck fifty will get you a cup of
00:47:37.280 coffee. You actually have to reform these things, hold their feet to the fire, and if you don't do that,
00:47:41.480 a lot of politicians are bought off by these guys anyway. But if they can't do that, then yeah,
00:47:45.860 probably we have lost for the near future. From Matt, dear Mr. Knowles, I sent you a question
00:47:50.600 last week regarding what you think the best argument against Christianity was. I thought
00:47:54.720 your answer was very thoughtful, and so I have a follow-up question if you're willing to entertain
00:47:57.640 it. Namely, what do you think is the best argument against Catholicism, and why do you think it falls
00:48:03.280 short? Love the show. Keep up the good work. I think the best, or I don't think there is one
00:48:08.220 good argument against Catholicism. I think there are lots of little arguments against Catholicism
00:48:14.540 that brought together, create in people a sort of disposition against Catholicism.
00:48:22.400 It was said, I forget who it was, it's a very famous statement, and I'll just, I'll attribute
00:48:25.800 it to Ronald Knox, but I don't know, it was one of these sort of great Catholic writers.
00:48:30.720 Maybe it was John, gosh, I don't know, I forget, there are so many people, John Henry Newman,
00:48:36.760 who knows, who said that there are not a hundred people in this country who really hate the Catholic
00:48:44.800 Church. There are millions of people who hate what they think to be the Catholic Church, but there
00:48:49.960 aren't that many people who actually hate what the Catholic Church is. So, for instance, the Catholic
00:48:55.280 Church, as Chesterton pointed out, gets attacked for opposite reasons. It's attacked for being too
00:48:59.800 ascetic, you know, you flagellate yourself, you fast, you know, that's too ascetic, but it's also
00:49:05.120 attacked for being too luxurious, the gold of St. Peter's, you know, all the ornate iconography and
00:49:10.640 architecture. So, which is it? It's attacked for opposite reasons. It's attacked for being anti-woman,
00:49:17.500 you know, keeping women pumping out kids and, you know, in the kitchen or something, and it's attacked
00:49:21.840 for being too womanly, for only having women show up to mass and the men don't show up as much.
00:49:27.300 So, which is it? Is it misogynistic or is it feminist or, you know, what is it?
00:49:34.040 There are arguments against the Church because they say Catholics worship Mary. Catholics don't
00:49:37.980 worship Mary. They venerate Mary and we ask Mary to pray for us, but we ask Bob down the street to
00:49:42.540 pray for us too, and so does everybody else. It gets knocked for the saints. I would suppose that
00:49:46.900 would be the same idea. Catholic Church gets knocked for pushing a salvation through works theology,
00:49:54.720 but it doesn't, and actually that heresy, which is called the heresy of Pelagius,
00:49:59.980 was condemned by the Catholic Church many, many moons ago, centuries and centuries ago in the very
00:50:04.440 early part of the Church. It's condemned for being founded by Emperor Constantine, you know,
00:50:09.340 centuries after Christ lived. That just isn't true, and you can read the documents of the early
00:50:15.020 Church Fathers and references to the Catholic Church, and you can see that development. You can trace the
00:50:19.900 papacy all the way back to St. Peter, and then Linus, and then all the guys all the way up to
00:50:24.560 Pope Frankie right now. So I don't mean to be flipping here. I do think there are lots of,
00:50:28.840 it's what Jeremy might call the preponderance of false evidence. There are all these little
00:50:33.720 arguments that people make that very successfully turned them away from the Catholic Church, but I
00:50:38.740 just think if you examine any of the arguments specifically, they don't really hold up. Let's
00:50:42.980 take one more question from Hannah. Hi, Michael. I've been unable to avoid hearing about Sarah Everard
00:50:48.220 murder several times a day. She was killed by a man while walking home at night. It sparked a lot
00:50:52.100 of debate surrounding women's safety, and has even made leftists concede the biological differences
00:50:56.180 between men and women. A baroness in the House of the Lords even proposed a 6 p.m. curfew for men.
00:51:01.000 I don't think women should be scared of all men, but just that we should generally be wary of
00:51:04.340 strangers, especially at night. It's clear to me as a young woman that a concealed carry permit
00:51:07.940 would be useful here. I hate living in a country with no Second Amendment. I was wondering what your
00:51:11.540 thoughts are. Much love from the UK. My thoughts are I totally agree. There will be order. There will be
00:51:16.400 rules imposed. It's a fantasy to think we can just all do whatever we want all the time,
00:51:20.860 and that there will be no consequences to licentiousness. So the order will either be
00:51:24.600 from people who can protect their own liberty and defend that liberty with wonderful blessings that
00:51:29.600 we've been given in our politics, such as the Second Amendment, or it's going to be imposed by a
00:51:34.160 government that might not have your best interests at heart. Great intuition. That's our show.
00:51:38.840 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you next week.
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