The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 727 - Gaslighting The People

00:00:00.000 The crisis on our southern border elicits a lot of reactions, a lot of emotions, frustration,

00:00:07.280 anger, compassion, all sorts of things. Or if you are Kamala Harris, maniacal laughter.

00:00:14.900 Do you plan to visit the border?

00:00:18.420 Not today, but I have before and I'm sure I will again.

00:00:24.220 Yeah, visit the border. Isn't it so funny? Isn't it so hilarious? I don't know. To me,

00:00:33.780 the establishment assault on our liberties, on our way of life, on the American nation itself

00:00:39.640 doesn't seem like a laughing matter. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:43.620 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from A.I. Howard, who says,

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00:02:53.300 and save 40% while supplies last. The cackling is Kamala's tell. She's, she's not a complex politician. 1.00

00:03:01.080 She's a, actually a rather talented politician. She has made it up the food chain, up the political 1.00

00:03:08.800 ladder in ways that some might consider to be a little bit unethical, but she really has done it.

00:03:13.460 She was the first candidate that was booted out in the 2020 Democratic primary, but somehow she 0.96

00:03:18.720 winds up being VP to an elderly, doesn't seem all that well president. As a purely political matter,

00:03:27.120 she's done well for herself. But she shares this, this characteristic, this tick actually with Hillary

00:03:33.640 Clinton, which is that when she gets nervous, she starts to laugh. You remember, you remember Hillary,

00:03:38.720 they said, Hey, Hillary, did you, um, did you wipe your private email server that had all sorts of

00:03:44.380 nefarious stuff on it? She goes, ha ha ha, what wipe? Like with a cloth? And it, it, it isn't

00:03:53.000 particularly attractive when, when people do that sort of thing. When Kamala is laughing in this case, 0.99

00:03:59.920 she is literally laughing at the reporter. She is laughing at the question, but more so she's

00:04:05.340 laughing at us because the reporter asks a very fair question. Hey, the biggest issue by far that,

00:04:11.560 that your administration is facing right now is this crisis that you have caused at the Southern

00:04:17.360 border that even Mexico says you've caused that the illegal aliens themselves have said that you've

00:04:22.320 caused. Are you going to go down and visit and gather some information? You clearly don't have

00:04:26.760 enough information and try to figure out how to deal with it. And she laughs. She laughs because

00:04:32.860 of course, she's not going to do that. Why would she? It's a crisis for the migrants. It's a crisis

00:04:40.440 for the American legal system. It's a crisis for the American people, but for the liberal establishment,

00:04:45.420 this is exactly what they want. They want more and more illegal aliens to come into this country 1.00

00:04:50.200 because they think that it will give them an electoral advantage. And they don't think that

00:04:53.640 the United States ought to have a right to national sovereignty. Jen Psaki was just asked about this,

00:04:58.760 our favorite current press secretary, Jen Psaki, a Peter Doocy, great, great reporter there. 0.55

00:05:05.400 One of the few who's allowed into the briefing room, who's, who's really tough. Jen Psaki was asked

00:05:11.260 if the illegal aliens are being released without the COVID tests or often without a court date,

00:05:17.600 even to reemerge. What are they, are they just being trusted with the honor system of immigration?

00:05:23.440 She has no answer. So now that border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley are letting adult 0.93

00:05:30.340 migrants go without even issuing notices to appear, is the immigration policy just becoming more of 0.99

00:05:39.500 like the honor system? That is an inaccurate depiction of what's happening at the border. So

00:05:46.140 there's no change in policy. The border remains closed. Families and single adults are being expelled 1.00

00:05:51.820 under Title 42 and should not attempt to cross illegally. So if families are going to be,

00:05:57.160 going to be deported and they're awaiting deportation, they don't need a court date

00:06:02.520 and they don't need a notice to appear because it has already been determined that they will be

00:06:06.840 sent back to their home countries. So hold on, hold on. What you're telling me now is that the 0.98

00:06:11.460 Biden administration is being really, really tough on illegal immigration because what we've just been

00:06:16.040 hearing for the past several days is that these illegal aliens are being released into the country

00:06:20.680 without a court date and without any expectation that they're going to show up again and leave the

00:06:25.880 country. We're seeing record numbers of people at the Southern border now, and we're being told even

00:06:30.360 by people on the left that that number is expected to swell even more. So are you, you're telling me

00:06:34.700 just don't believe my lying eyes. Don't believe the reports that we're getting from left-wing outlets,

00:06:42.020 even don't believe the, the statements of Biden administration officials, because actually everything's

00:06:47.360 totally hunky-dory and the illegal aliens are not getting in. Is that, is that right? Peter Ducey

00:06:52.380 presses the question. But if Secretary Mayorkas says the border is secure, the border is closed,

00:06:57.560 how is that the case if these migrants are being processed on this side of the border and then put

00:07:02.860 on a bus to points on unknown on this side of the border? Well, again, there are limited cases

00:07:09.260 where, uh, there are families, uh, because they can't be held in Mexico, uh, who are, uh, who are

00:07:16.200 processed, tested, considered at, at the border. Most of them are sent back to their home countries.

00:07:22.540 Those are very limited cases, and it's certainly not a depiction of the overarching policy.

00:07:26.700 So vague as that answer was, it's, it's also not true. You, you had people like the secretary of

00:07:35.120 the department of Homeland security who refused to say that, that people are being tested for the

00:07:40.140 coronavirus a hundred percent of the time when they come in. So that, that part just isn't true.

00:07:44.720 Now you're saying, well, there are some limited cases where people are being, they make it to this

00:07:50.160 side of the border and they're being, you know, they're being held in some facilities at record

00:07:53.940 numbers, way over capacity and some limited cases where they're being shipped to other parts of the

00:07:58.900 country in record numbers. Well, those limited cases don't seem very limited. I mean, this is

00:08:03.940 as close to an outright lie just about as it gets in politics. Jen Psaki is telling us to, to disbelieve 1.00

00:08:14.380 what we can see with our own two eyes. This is a, a policy of gaslighting. And speaking of gaslighting,

00:08:22.500 there is a terrible event occurred a couple of days ago. We did, we did not get to it on the show

00:08:26.320 yesterday. This was this terrible shooting in Colorado. 10 people were killed in a grocery store

00:08:31.860 in a shooting in Boulder, Colorado, after a man walked in to King super store and opened fire.

00:08:38.240 And before you heard any details about this shooting, you saw prominent left-wingers tweeting,

00:08:46.640 posting, posting, commenting about the perils of white supremacy and how this is just more evidence

00:08:52.600 that evil white Americans need to, I don't know, have their liberties curtailed or need to be dealt

00:09:00.240 with as a public health problem. And then, then it turned out it was not white supremacy. The shooter's

00:09:06.400 name, we have a policy at the Daily Wire where we, we do not say the shooter's name. So I won't say the

00:09:11.280 full name. Uh, the first name's Ahmad. So, you know, use your mind from there. It's not like John Smith.

00:09:19.860 Okay. It's not, it's not a name you would associate with, uh, say white supremacy. Uh, actually this,

00:09:25.920 this guy was a Syrian immigrant. His family came here in 2002. He's not Christian. We, we hear this talk

00:09:32.760 about Christian nationalism. Now this is another silly phrase that's being conflated with white supremacy.

00:09:37.420 Uh, he wasn't Christian. He is Muslim. So now we've gone from blaming the shooter and everything he was

00:09:46.260 going to represent back when the liberals thought that he was a white guy. Now we're talking about

00:09:51.700 the guns and it's so, it's so bigoted. It gets to something we, we talked about it yesterday. We've

00:09:58.940 talked about it several times in the past few weeks. According to the left's racial ideology,

00:10:03.620 only white people are fully people. According to the left's right, actually specifically only white

00:10:09.460 men, only straight white men, only straight white men who know that they're men, that narrow group,

00:10:14.420 those are the only people with agency, with will, and with intellect. Every other group of people

00:10:20.380 is some sort of passive entity that, that is merely a victim of whiteness and white supremacy.

00:10:28.500 So when they thought it was a white guy, oh, well, that's his fault and, and everything that he 0.61

00:10:34.940 represents. When they find out he's not a white guy, oh, well, we got to ban guns. Or some people

00:10:41.540 actually persisted. We, we played a clip yesterday on the show where some millennial gal came out and 0.85

00:10:47.880 said that even if a racial minority perpetrates a crime against another racial minority, that can be

00:10:55.380 part and parcel of white supremacy. How? I don't know. That's the premise that they're,

00:11:01.120 that they're beginning with. Now they're blaming the guns. Identity politics actually does have

00:11:08.600 something to do with this shooting, according to the Denver Post and according to people who

00:11:13.760 apparently knew the guy. Denver Post, very interesting article said that this guy Hernandez,

00:11:19.640 who knew the shooter, said that the shooter apparently appeared to be paranoid about perceived

00:11:25.420 slights against him. And another person who knew the shooter said that he was often concerned about

00:11:31.520 being targeted because of his Muslim faith. So, so one of these guys says he would talk about him

00:11:37.140 being Muslim and how if anybody tried anything, he would file a hate crime and say they were making

00:11:41.120 it up. It was a crazy deal. I just know he was a pretty cool kid until something made him mad. And

00:11:46.720 then whatever made him mad, he went over the edge way too far. So according to people who,

00:11:50.680 who knew the shooter, he, the shooter recognized that grievance was social currency, that the racial

00:11:58.980 and religious identity politics that now pervades our culture could be used as a weapon, could be used

00:12:08.140 as a political tool. And apparently he was rather taken with this kind of grievance politics.

00:12:13.080 The same sort of grievance politics that had people jumping to the conclusion based on nothing other

00:12:19.420 than bigotry, I suppose, or prejudice that the shooter was a white guy. But then the minute he

00:12:25.720 wasn't, nevermind, back to business as usual, back to our regular old identity politics. And we're

00:12:31.580 supposed to pretend that that never happened. I think it is important to learn the motivations of

00:12:39.260 these shootings. Very often they're just completely senseless. They're just some lunatic. Sometimes

00:12:44.000 there is a kind of perverse sense to them. And whenever there is a perverse sense to these shootings

00:12:50.640 that the left thinks it can make, get some sort of advantage out of, say it was white supremacy or

00:12:56.780 something like that, then they will harp on that ad nauseum. And, and it's actually interesting to try to

00:13:03.840 figure it out, to see what role these ideologies play. But the minute, and this is a more frequent

00:13:09.280 occurrence, the minute that the ideological underpinnings and motivations for these crimes

00:13:14.880 in any way touch on what the left is mainstreaming today. Well, then we got to forget about that.

00:13:21.620 Stop it. We're not allowed to talk about it. We have to stay quiet. We got to talk about the guns.

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00:14:40.440 Senator Alex Padilla, who is a Democrat from California,

00:14:45.060 is uttering a typical Democratic Party line. You're going to hear a lot more people parroting

00:14:52.800 it for the next, parroting it. It's a parody of itself, but parroting this line for the next

00:14:57.820 several weeks, which is that in this country, it's easier to get a gun than it is to vote.

00:15:04.400 You know, for most states, the age required to legally purchase a rifle and the age required

00:15:12.200 to cast a ballot are both 18. However, there's some shocking disparities in legal state requirements

00:15:21.700 for obtaining a weapon versus casting a ballot. In 25 states, voters must be registered and have

00:15:31.400 specific forms of ID in order to cast a ballot. But those same states allow people to buy rifles

00:15:38.120 without permits and require no background checks for some sales. Additionally, in a majority of states,

00:15:46.500 new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they're able to cast their first ballot.

00:15:53.580 It seems to me that we have our priorities entirely backwards when it comes

00:16:00.300 to this, when we make it easier to buy a gun than we do to cast a ballot.

00:16:06.760 So the guy's wrong on the particulars, but he's wrong on the philosophy and the constitutionality as

00:16:12.460 well. The right to keep and bear arms, the right to defend yourself is a more fundamental constitutional

00:16:20.100 right than the right to vote. You also have a right to vote. Not everybody, by the way,

00:16:24.980 people under 18, for instance, do not have a right to vote. Thankfully, thank goodness, 1.00

00:16:29.340 though Democrats are trying to change that right now. Some people, depending on your state, felons,

00:16:34.440 for instance, in some places do not have the right to vote. Totally up to the states to do that.

00:16:38.940 Now, the right that is given to you and that is, pardon me, that is enshrined in the Second Amendment,

00:16:48.900 a right that our founding fathers supposed us to have inherited, which is why the language says

00:16:54.500 shall not be infringed. That is a more basic constitutional right. However, the factual claim

00:17:01.560 he's making here that it's easier to get a gun than it is to vote is simply not true. First of all,

00:17:06.500 when he says it's easy, it's quicker to go buy a gun than it is to vote. I suppose that's true in 1.00

00:17:12.320 the sense that there is an election day. So, you know, if you want to go buy a gun on a Tuesday in

00:17:17.340 March, you can go do that unless you're in a place like California, then you have to wait actually

00:17:21.920 quite a while to get that gun. But if you want to go vote on the Tuesday in March, you probably have

00:17:25.720 to wait until November. Okay, fair enough. But that's what we have election days for that sort of

00:17:29.480 thing. And by the way, the Democrats are extending election day into election months. So that seems to be

00:17:34.500 changing too. The reason that the Democrats are pushing this argument, pseudo argument now in

00:17:42.560 particular, is because they're trying to push through the Corrupt Politicians Act. This is the

00:17:47.800 name some Republicans have given to H.R.1, Democrats' top priority to steal power over elections for

00:17:55.880 themselves. Incumbents in Congress trying to steal the right to set all the election rules from the

00:18:04.560 states and give it to themselves. Gee, what could go wrong when the present office holders get to write

00:18:11.000 all the rules for their own elections? And what this would do is prohibit states, prohibit the people

00:18:16.820 from making their own election laws in many cases, prohibit voter ID in elections anywhere. So not even

00:18:25.560 just saying that you don't need a voter ID, but actually saying that in these elections, it is not

00:18:30.660 permissible for states to pass laws requiring voter ID, all based on some demagogic, ridiculous arguments

00:18:39.900 about racism or something. Now, if the Democrats manage to do that, it will be very, very difficult

00:18:46.080 for Republicans to win elections, which is the entire point of it. There will be legal challenges because

00:18:51.080 it would appear to me quite clear that the law is unconstitutional, but it doesn't really matter,

00:18:55.100 I don't think, because ultimately what that law is going to come down to is the raw exercise of

00:18:59.420 political power. And if the Democrats get it through, they're going to be able to exercise

00:19:02.360 that power. And Republicans, frankly, are too cowardly to exercise political power, even when

00:19:07.740 they're given it. But make no mistake, the arguments here for the Corrupt Politicians Act,

00:19:13.360 the arguments about voting rights that people like Padilla are making, completely bogus. Basically,

00:19:18.780 what it boils down to is that if you have any restrictions on voting, if you have any voter

00:19:23.240 integrity measures for that matter, that that is somehow evidence of racism and white supremacy.

00:19:27.700 Well, there's a new poll out. It's out from HEP that shows that a majority of Americans,

00:19:34.600 including a majority of black and Hispanic voters, overwhelmingly support voter ID, which is a

00:19:41.000 central election integrity measure. So 77% of Americans overall support laws that require you to

00:19:50.060 show an ID before you cast a ballot. That's compared to just 15% who oppose the idea. 92% of Republicans

00:19:57.560 support voter ID, 75% of independents support voter ID, 63% of Democrats, according to this survey,

00:20:05.680 support voter ID. But how about black and Hispanic voters? Because we're talking about race, right?

00:20:10.220 Isn't this all about white supremacy? Well, among black voters, 64% support voter ID compared to just

00:20:17.620 22% who do not. And 78% of Hispanic voters support voter ID compared to 16% who do not.

00:20:26.900 If we're actually talking about racial groups defending their rights or how, how they're going

00:20:34.080 to be able to interact in our Republic, voter ID is a totally winning issue. But Democrats don't care

00:20:40.220 what, what those voters think about voter ID because they know that without voter ID, it will be much,

00:20:46.040 much easier for them to steal elections. There are a ton of other measures in the Corrupt Politicians

00:20:51.020 Act that will do this too. Automatic voter registration, which they know 100% guaranteed

00:20:56.920 will result in the registration of millions of illegal, illegal voters. Many, many other measures

00:21:05.100 too. We went into it a little bit when the, when HR one was proposed and it, it's actually quite

00:21:10.480 plausible that it makes it through the Senate because it looks like Joe Manchin is going a little

00:21:14.520 squishy. He would have been the, the semi-moderate Democrat to say no to this. Uh, we'll go more

00:21:19.900 into it in the future, but suffice it to say the arguments they're making on white supremacy,

00:21:26.500 on guns, on voting completely 100% without merit. They're just gaslighting us and they're gaslighting

00:21:35.480 the black and Hispanic voters that they're pretending to speak for. Even our cereal companies are gaslighting

00:21:41.960 us these days. Yes. Our breakfast cereal companies are gaslighting us. If you missed this yesterday,

00:21:48.000 you missed the most enjoyable thing on the entire internet. A guy with a blue check mark named Jensen

00:21:53.720 Karp discovered shrimp tails in his cereal, in his cinnamon toast crunch. And it's gross. And you can

00:22:02.940 see the shrimp tails are covered up, covered up in cinnamon sugar. He tweets out, um, cinnamon toast

00:22:10.060 crunch. He tags them. Why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? This is not a bit. Cinnamon toast

00:22:14.800 crunch responds and says, we're sorry to see what you found. We would like to report this to our,

00:22:19.460 to our quality team and replace the box. Can you please send us a DM to collect more details? Thank

00:22:24.860 you. It wants to replace the box. So, uh, this guy, Jensen Karp responds and says, guys, I'm not sure

00:22:31.240 I'm ready for another box. I don't finding like gross shrimp tails in my cereal. I don't,

00:22:35.980 another box is the last thing I want. Cinnamon toast crunch response says, we understand your

00:22:40.440 concern. We promise you that our team will look into this and get to the bottom of it. But in the

00:22:44.120 meantime, we want to do everything we can to make this right. We need further details. Then they come

00:22:47.960 back and he keeps joking with them. They come back and say, after further examination with our team,

00:22:51.740 that closely examined the image, it appears to be an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that

00:22:56.280 sometimes can occur when ingredients aren't thoroughly blended. We assure you that there is no

00:23:00.740 possibility of cross-contamination with shrimp. So if you look at the picture though, it,

00:23:05.640 they're just obviously shrimp tails. They're, it is not physically possible to make cinnamon sugar

00:23:11.100 look like these shrimp tails. It is, there is no, there is cinnamon sugar on the shrimp tails,

00:23:17.060 but it's just very clearly shrimp tails. So then this, this guy responds and says, okay, uh, well,

00:23:23.500 after further investigation with my eyes, these are cinnamon coated shrimp tails. You weirdos.

00:23:28.380 I wasn't all that mad until you tried to gaslight me. Then the cereal company offered him some coupons

00:23:34.140 for cereal and the saga has, has been on pause there. Uh, this is not to go after cinnamon toast

00:23:41.740 crunch, even for putting shellfish in people's cereal. Uh, that's unfortunate, but one suspects

00:23:46.600 they didn't do that intentionally. Maybe some little rodent dragged them into some cereal vat or

00:23:51.160 something. I don't know. Accidents happen. Uh, it's a pretty gross accident. It's probably going to

00:23:56.140 have me pausing on eating cinnamon toast crunch for some time. It's a good cereal. Uh, but the real

00:24:02.840 issue here is the gaslighting. We've actually been talking about this for several days now. The,

00:24:09.460 the late conservative philosopher, Roger Scruton, he said, civilization requires confession and

00:24:14.980 forgiveness. I need to be able to say when I've done something wrong and you need to be able to

00:24:18.700 forgive me and I need to sacrifice my pride and you need to sacrifice your resentment. And we both

00:24:23.160 sacrifice something that we cherish and then we move on in our present culture. You might call it

00:24:29.840 a cancel culture. You can't ever admit that you're wrong. I actually have some sympathy here for

00:24:35.620 cinnamon toast crunch because there is no forgiveness in our culture anymore. So that the

00:24:41.620 natural inclination here is to say, no, that's not true. It's not whatever you're seeing. It didn't

00:24:45.320 happen. That is a culture of gaslighting where we're not even allowed to acknowledge basic truths.

00:24:53.020 This is true in our politics more broadly. If you say that a man is not a woman to go back to this kind 1.00

00:24:59.500 of most obvious example, that is something that no one is allowed to acknowledge in our culture

00:25:05.000 anymore. We're not allowed to acknowledge basic truths because of, of the implications they might

00:25:10.660 have. We're all so on the defensive. We can't even call the shrimp tails in our cereal like we see

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00:27:37.700 Cinnamon Toast Crunch is gaslighting customers over shrimp tails and their cereal. But Cinnamon Toast

00:27:56.860 Crunch is not the only sugary treat in the news. Krispy Kreme is in the news right now because as part

00:28:04.260 of a broader effort to encourage Americans to get vaccinated, Krispy Kreme has announced that they

00:28:10.060 will be giving out one free glazed donut every single day to anyone who brings in their vaccination

00:28:18.340 card into any store in the United States for the rest of the year. This is the difference between the

00:28:25.140 stick and the carrot, right? This is the difference in incentives through punishment and incentives through

00:28:30.900 reward. The public health apparatus in this country really, really, really wants you to get

00:28:35.980 this vaccination. Not just if you're 85 years old or you're greatly at risk, but even if you're a young,

00:28:42.920 healthy person who really doesn't need it and is not really personally all that much at risk,

00:28:48.560 they really want you to get the vaccination. Now Krispy Kreme is going to be offering people

00:28:52.140 donuts every single day for the whole year if they do this. I mentioned that, you know, getting a vaccine

00:28:58.620 makes sense if you are 85 years old or something like that. It also makes sense if you are extremely

00:29:04.760 overweight because obesity is one of the strongest predictors of vulnerability to coronavirus.

00:29:12.860 What Krispy Kreme is doing here is such a perfect example of what our public health apparatus has done

00:29:22.600 from the very beginning of this virus, which is to constantly undermine its credibility

00:29:27.760 and many, many public health measures. I would understand if like the juice company or the

00:29:37.260 health food company were offering this and say, come on in and, you know, you'll get,

00:29:41.340 you'll get a smoothie or something every day if you have the vaccine. But it would seem counterproductive

00:29:47.660 during a pandemic that disproportionately affects overweight people to give them donuts every single

00:29:54.640 day to try to stop the pandemic. A classic example of, of our benevolent bettors out there, our experts,

00:30:03.800 our geniuses, totally botching the response. Also, I like to think that I'm, I'm a little more expensive

00:30:12.380 than a donut. You know, if you're trying to get me to do something that maybe I'll do, maybe I won't,

00:30:16.840 maybe I'm a little reluctant to do it. I like to think that I can, I have a higher price. I can't be

00:30:22.600 bought off for one glazed donut, no matter how delicious it is. There's that old, old line,

00:30:28.080 old joke about a guy who walks up to a woman and says, hey, I want to, want to pick you up for the

00:30:33.280 night. You know, treats her like she's a prostitute. And I'll give you a hundred dollars if you go back 1.00

00:30:37.660 and sleep with me. She slaps him across the face and says, how dare you? That's outrageous. And he

00:30:43.180 says, okay, how about a million dollars? Then she thinks about it. She says, well, okay,

00:30:49.120 a million dollars. Maybe I'll, I'll, I'll think about that. He goes, okay, how about 200? She

00:30:55.080 slaps him again. How dare you? You said a million dollars. And he says, look, I was just trying to

00:31:00.220 figure out what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price. I, I think that I would like to be

00:31:05.380 bought for a little bit more than a Krispy Kreme donut. And I think that if we're going to have public

00:31:10.740 health measures, they should probably be coherent. They should probably make sense. Speaking of things

00:31:16.420 that people eat when they are very high. Lest I never be accused of giving Joe Biden credit for it,

00:31:23.520 for anything. I have to report on this very underreported story from the New York Times.

00:31:29.420 Joe Biden is firing potheads. He is. Joe Biden is tossing out five people who used marijuana in the

00:31:39.900 past, which will call now into question his new guidelines that say that if you smoke pot,

00:31:45.900 it doesn't really matter. You can work in the white house. I'm not saying this because I have

00:31:49.420 some personal grudge against pot or because I've never, never puffed on the devil's lettuce in my

00:31:53.400 life or anything like that. But I don't think that we should further legalize that sin spinach,

00:31:59.320 you know, that Jamaican oregano. I don't think that it's some matter of profound constitutional,

00:32:06.040 natural rights even that you should be able to, to puff on a blunt or anything like that.

00:32:13.000 It's like, it's not the worst thing in the world, but it isn't good. And, and unlike say alcohol or

00:32:18.140 other intoxicants that are, are much more natural to our culture, much more traditional rather in our

00:32:25.160 culture, a marijuana is relatively new to the culture. And I just don't see any reason to introduce

00:32:30.520 it. Also, I noticed that most of the people clamoring to legalize marijuana, like their life

00:32:35.340 depended on it are big libs. And I just, I don't see any reason to, to suspect that they're right

00:32:41.600 about that. My, my gut just tells me that's wrong. Also, it is still the law, right? I mean,

00:32:48.480 there are now contradictory laws at the local level, the state level and the national level on,

00:32:53.520 on, on the gange, you know? So I think we need to get those laws in order. We need to sort this sort

00:33:00.420 of thing out. And I actually get a real kick that Joe Biden is taking this issue seriously. Don't

00:33:06.080 forget just 20 years ago, you could really not admit that you'd smoked pot. When Bill Clinton

00:33:12.440 in the nineties was, was asked about whether or not he'd smoked pot, he had to come up with this

00:33:17.260 ridiculous, totally Clintonian, obviously dishonest answer. He said, I smoked it, but I did not inhale

00:33:23.480 until I, no, I just kind of mulled it around in my mouth and then I puffed it out like a cigar.

00:33:30.240 Speaking of cigars, well, nevermind. We'll get to that later. And now of course, if you don't smoke

00:33:36.680 pot, you'll be like a square. You probably couldn't be elected if you, if you say that you've never

00:33:41.020 smoked pot. That is a seemingly trivial cultural change, but it shows, it shows the development of

00:33:48.740 what, what you might call the permissive society. This is a phrase used by the historian Paul Johnson

00:33:54.480 among other people. This idea that we should be allowed to do whatever we want, at least as long

00:34:01.820 as it doesn't harm anybody. And for a while it was really just leftists who were pushing this idea.

00:34:07.440 Then for some reason over the past 10, 20 years, conservatives have started to buy into this idea

00:34:11.760 too. But it's ridiculous. It actually gets, gets into the heart of something we're talking about

00:34:16.280 a lot these days, which is political correctness, how it advances. This is the subject of my upcoming

00:34:20.740 book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order until it gets

00:34:25.140 canceled. These debates over, I don't know, drug policy or over speech even, it's not a debate between

00:34:33.760 freedom and censorship, right? All speech regimes, all drug regimes, all, all these sorts of policies

00:34:41.320 are finite things where you can do some things and you can't do others. The question is really

00:34:45.780 over standards. What are we going to support? What are we going to discourage? What are we going

00:34:51.060 to include? What are we going to exclude? And I, I got to tell you, I got to give Biden a little bit

00:34:57.040 of credit. He's, he's drawing kind of a strange line in the sand for someone who's now importing 0.83

00:35:01.380 illegal aliens into the country in record numbers. But nevertheless, he, he is drawing a little bit of

00:35:05.880 a line in the sand and a good on him for it. It gets into this question even of, of say academic

00:35:10.680 freedom. There's, there's an organization right now, the Academic Freedom Alliance, which is supporting

00:35:17.180 some right-wing professors, some, I guess some left-wing scholars are involved in this too.

00:35:22.700 But they've come to the defense of Tom Smith, who is a professor who is now under investigation

00:35:28.560 for a blog post in which he criticized the Chinese government. And a lot of conservatives are upset

00:35:34.220 about this. And even this organization that specifically supports academic freedom is going

00:35:38.780 after it too. Wonderful. We should welcome their support. That's great. So glad that they're

00:35:43.220 supporting professors who criticize China. However, academic freedom is not a conservative

00:35:50.920 virtue. It's not, not a conservative value. Actually, the modern conservative movement founded

00:35:57.980 by Bill Buckley was started with a book called God and Man at Yale. The subtitle of which was

00:36:02.940 The Superstitions of Academic Freedom, a book in which Buckley called academic freedom,

00:36:07.780 a hoax, a hoax because it is a hoax. It's just, it is a dishonest instrument that is used almost

00:36:15.500 exclusively by the left to push their ridiculous and subversive and, and dangerous and, uh, what other

00:36:23.640 words can I use? Destructive ideas into universities. We all know this and conservatives, I don't think

00:36:29.860 we actually support academic freedom. I think we want to kick all the crazy, radical, anti-American

00:36:34.440 professors out of the universities. I think we want to kick them out of Hollywood. I think when we say

00:36:38.200 we need to take back the culture, what we are saying quite obviously is we want to exclude 1.00

00:36:43.540 certain views, certain, certain curricula, but then we feel uncomfortable with that. And so we say,

00:36:48.460 but we support academic freedom. No, you don't be honest with yourself. I don't, I don't support it

00:36:53.300 either. One, because it doesn't ever really exist. Curricula are finite things. The semester is only

00:36:58.280 so long. You're going to teach some things. You're not going to teach other things. You're going to

00:37:01.560 include some books. You're going to exclude other books. So this academic freedom pie in the sky

00:37:07.560 abstract notion doesn't really have much practical effect. What we have to get down to defending as

00:37:15.300 conservatives is not just the abstract procedures of politics, you know, free speech in the abstract,

00:37:22.360 religious liberty in the abstract, academic freedom in the abstract. We have to get down to what

00:37:26.300 we're, we actually want to say, what we actually believe, what we actually think ought to be taught.

00:37:32.340 I don't think any conservative who supports academic freedom thinks that universities should

00:37:36.860 be holding classes promoting the 1619 project, which is based on a lie. I don't know. Nobody would

00:37:43.980 support that. Of course not. We should exclude lies from the university and we should include good,

00:37:50.200 edifying, truthful education. The, the, the issue here with this professor who's under investigation

00:37:57.280 is not that his academic freedom has been compromised. If he had written blog posts talking

00:38:04.620 about how evil the country is and how he wants to overthrow the American way of life, I wouldn't

00:38:09.080 defend him. The issue here is that he's talking about China. He's criticizing China and he's being

00:38:14.140 punished for criticizing China. By the way, if the guy wrote his blog posts criticizing America,

00:38:19.500 he'd probably be promoted. He'd probably be the dean of his department by now. But because he was

00:38:23.460 criticizing China and now he's, he's under fire. That's the problem. The, the, the, I think underlying

00:38:29.700 premise to all these really abstract arguments is that we really can't differentiate between right

00:38:37.100 and wrong, between good and bad, between China and America. We can't, between drag queen story hour 0.55

00:38:42.660 and going to church on Sunday. We just can't differentiate. And so every, we have to support all of these

00:38:47.180 things and we have to have no standards at all. Give me a break. If you can't rely on your moral

00:38:52.080 conscience to make the most basic judgments of reason between good and bad and right and wrong

00:38:58.380 and true and false, then you can't have self-government. The whole premise of self-government

00:39:02.860 is that we consider these ideas. We, we distinguish between good and bad and right and wrong. We make

00:39:08.580 judgments and then we enact those judgments in our politics. That's the point of self-government.

00:39:13.120 If you say that we can't do that anymore for whatever reason, because you have a skeptical

00:39:18.380 view of knowledge or of conscience or whatever, then you can't govern yourselves. And increasingly,

00:39:24.500 it would appear that we're not able to do that. Speaking of self-government and speaking of exclusion,

00:39:31.020 there is a movement underway to make Washington DC, the federal district, to turn it into a state.

00:39:38.980 The left has been pushing this for a while. It's completely incoherent. And now they're going

00:39:44.700 after one expert on this, Zach Smith, who is testifying about some of the reasons against

00:39:51.240 DC statehood. And they're saying he's making ridiculous, frivolous arguments. Take a listen

00:39:56.260 to his argument.

00:39:57.240 Framers also wanted to avoid one state having undue influence over the federal government.

00:40:03.500 There's no question that DC residents already impact the national debate.

00:40:07.880 For the members here today, how many of you saw DC statehood yard signs or bumper stickers

00:40:13.840 or banners on your way to this hearing today? I certainly did. Where else in the nation could

00:40:19.680 some such simple actions reach so many members of Congress?

00:40:24.640 So the left went after this guy, Zach Smith, and said, this is ridiculous. He, he wants to

00:40:30.940 claim that DC has special representation because what lawmakers look at yard signs. Give me a break.

00:40:38.320 Well, that's true. Lawmakers spend a lot of time in Washington DC and the things that happen in

00:40:45.620 Washington DC disproportionately affect the national conversation. That's just obvious. That's just

00:40:51.160 common sense. I was in DC two days ago and this is why we refer to the swamp, right? This is why we

00:40:56.640 refer to the DC bubble is because the people are there living in a particular place and they're having

00:41:00.780 the conversations and debates that will affect our national politics. And the point he made at the very

00:41:05.960 top of that is true too. The founders did not want any particular state to dominate all the other

00:41:12.540 states. That is specifically why they said, no, it's not going to be Maryland that has the nation's

00:41:19.000 capital. It's not going to be Virginia. It's going to be this kind of area that we carve out from these

00:41:24.040 places and it's going to be a federal district. There is no argument, not one single argument for DC

00:41:33.460 statehood other than inclusion. And this is this silly slogan, this bumper sticker that the left is

00:41:42.240 really pushing that unfortunately a lot of people on the right have, have fallen for the trap of,

00:41:47.720 of parroting, right? They'll say, well, come on, let people in DC, they deserve a vote.

00:41:53.840 Well, they vote on certain things, but the federal district is a very special, specific place.

00:41:59.180 If the DC residents want to live in a place that's governed under different rules, then they can move

00:42:06.220 to Maryland or they can move to Virginia. But if you're in DC, you got to play by the rules of DC.

00:42:10.880 DC, we actually need to exclude Washington DC from statehood. If you want to preserve the integrity of

00:42:20.720 statehood. It's a great line from Chesterton. He says, there's a thought that stops thought,

00:42:25.700 and that's the only thought that ought to be stopped. The inclusion of all the states in the

00:42:31.080 federal government, in the United States of America relies to some degree on the exclusion of

00:42:37.080 Washington DC. Because if Washington DC remains a federal district and not a state, then all the

00:42:43.580 other states have equal dominance over the nation's capital. Namely, none of them have any dominance

00:42:50.540 over the nation's capital. If Washington DC becomes a state, now we have truly a hierarchy of states

00:42:57.300 in the matter of lawmaking, in the matter of the federal government. Cannot, cannot do it. But something

00:43:03.920 tells me that the inclusion argument is going to continue to persuade people who are not thinking

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00:43:41.840 do apply. What the left is doing with inclusion is trying to turn this into a race issue. So they're

00:43:48.540 saying, well, you know, a lot of, a lot of black people live in DC. So if you want to exclude it from

00:43:53.020 statehood, it's because you're a white supremacist, you know, and they'll just continue to use this

00:43:56.900 phrase white supremacy as long as it's in any way plausible. I remember this when David Webb,

00:44:02.160 the, uh, the political commentator was interviewing a leftist on the radio and she accused David Webb

00:44:08.600 of, of, uh, only holding his views and having certain, certain benefits because of his white

00:44:13.120 privilege. And David Webb said, ma'am, I think if you knew me better, uh, you would not accuse me of

00:44:18.680 that. She said, no, you do. You've got white privilege. And he said, uh, ma'am, I'm, I'm a black

00:44:23.500 guy. I'm, I'm like, it's not even like that ambiguous. I'm pretty clearly a black guy. And

00:44:29.240 she said, oh yeah, okay. All right. Nevermind. And then she, she moved on, but it's just, it's

00:44:32.120 just the sort of line that you throw at people, uh, without any evidence. You don't need any evidence.

00:44:38.380 Tammy Duckworth Democrat is taking this racial politics even further. She has now said that she 0.95

00:44:46.880 will not vote for any Biden nominee who is a white guy, a straight white guy.

00:44:54.600 Tammy Duckworth says, quote, I am a no vote on the floor on all non-diversity nominees. You know,

00:45:02.000 I will not vote for racial or I rather, I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ,

00:45:09.160 but anybody else I'm not voting for. This of course rank bigotry. It, you know, it's become

00:45:18.620 cliche. I almost don't even want to say it. If the situation were reversed, you know, this person

00:45:22.920 would be cast into outer darkness where there were wailing, where there was wailing and gnashing of

00:45:27.020 teeth. In as much as there is any sort of white identitarian movement cropping up on the fringes

00:45:34.740 of our political discourse. And I suppose there's always something like that on the fringes,

00:45:38.760 but in as much as it's cropping up anymore, it's because of Tammy Duckworth. That's why 0.96

00:45:44.700 Tammy Duckworth and her fellow travelers are the only people to blame for this sort of thing. 0.88

00:45:52.900 Because I think if you polled all the white people in America and you said, hey, do you want to have 0.97

00:45:57.760 a politics based on racial identity primarily? I think overwhelmingly the white people would say,

00:46:03.960 no, no way. But if the left forces a politics of racial identity,

00:46:11.900 then there is no choice, right? This is the problem with war and it's a problem with politics

00:46:17.680 is your opponent, your enemy gets a say. So if Tammy Duckworth is saying, yeah, we're going to have a

00:46:23.940 politics primarily, exclusively perhaps of racial identity, then you're going to create the phantom

00:46:31.240 problem that you're pretending exists right now. The white nationalist, white identitarian,

00:46:37.580 a total contrivance, a total creation of the left. Speaking of racial identity politics, 0.63

00:46:44.960 have to get to this today. The first U.S. city ever has approved slavery reparations to black people.

00:46:55.400 Not the first U.S. city that was ever created, but the first U.S. city to approve

00:46:59.440 reparations for slavery has just voted on. Evanston City Council voted eight to one Monday night

00:47:05.620 to approve the first phase of reparations, allocating $400,000 to be paid out in homeownership

00:47:12.280 and improvement grants up to 25 grand. The housing assistance is the first part of a $10 million

00:47:17.680 plan for reparations to be paid to black people. The black people will have to prove that their 1.00

00:47:22.660 ancestors lived in the city between 1919 and 1969 when discriminatory policies were in effect.

00:47:30.040 Applicants must also be able to trace their lineage back to any of the black racial and ethnic groups of

00:47:34.440 Africa. How are people going to do that? They're going to spit in a swab, you know, they're going to take 1.00

00:47:43.340 one of these DNA tests and prove it. What happens if the documents are not particularly strong? What if

00:47:49.860 they're not reliable? What if they're being forged? What if there's corruption that creeps in? What if the

00:47:54.520 politicians who are just doling out money willy-nilly to people based on how dark their skin is, what if they get

00:48:00.940 a little bit crooked about it? What if this is just the beginning? What if this is the beginning of a

00:48:07.820 politics primarily of racial identity in the modern political era in this country? Certainly would seem 1.00

00:48:15.160 that way. I don't think this is the end. I think other cities are going to vote on this too. And I

00:48:20.000 think that a lot of conservatives, the squishy ones, are going to go along with it and they'll say,

00:48:24.540 well, you know, I just don't want to be called a racist. And hey, and you know what they'll do?

00:48:29.920 The only argument they'll make is maybe we should have reparations for other groups.

00:48:35.000 You know, anyone who's ever suffered any kind of grievance or discrimination, why is this,

00:48:38.660 why is this one grievance? Horrible though it was, why is that the only grievance that anyone is

00:48:45.220 allowed to claim some justice for? Why, why not if you were, if you're a Japanese American and your

00:48:52.600 parents were interned or your grandparents were interned during World War II, are you not entitled to

00:48:58.220 some reparations for that? What if you're an Italian American? You were treated, you were treated in 0.64

00:49:04.360 parts of the South, just like black people were treated. Largest mass lynching in American history

00:49:08.860 was against Italian Americans. Where's my money? Where, give me those reparations. What if you're

00:49:14.420 an Irish American? You had signs on the windows that say Irish need not apply to jobs. Where are your

00:49:19.580 reparations? What I could see, I don't think any Republicans, very, very few prominent Republicans

00:49:24.000 are going to have the spine to say, no, no reparations. You don't get it. I don't,

00:49:28.960 I just don't want to hear about horrible historic grievances. Not because I deny that they existed,

00:49:37.800 but because everyone can claim grievance because this is a fallen world and some people certainly

00:49:43.140 can claim it worse than others. But the way to have a country moving forward is not to go back and

00:49:47.600 relitigate things that happened 200, 300 years ago and to try to extort money out of people through

00:49:53.260 corrupt government programs. The way to move forward as a country is confession and forgiveness,

00:49:57.880 a little bit of grace and love of your country. It's an extension of your family and your community.

00:50:04.180 That's, that's going to be the way forward. Right before we go, I have to mention this article,

00:50:10.120 it's in CNN, speaking of people's physical characteristics, to shave or not to shave,

00:50:15.820 how beards may affect COVID-19 health. The idea that if you have a beard, your mask might not be as

00:50:22.580 effective and therefore you need to shave. All I have to say on this particular story is

00:50:28.980 nice try, Harry's. Nice try. You know, I know you've got a, you're facing a very difficult

00:50:36.160 news cycle right now because you insulted hundreds of millions of conservative Americans and you said

00:50:42.320 that you don't want their business and now they're, they're canceling your product by the thousands

00:50:46.880 because you know, I'm seeing the emails and the tweets. Nice try, Harry's PR team. I'm not buying

00:50:52.740 this COVID-19 stuff. Okay. Sorry. Sorry, pal. I think people can grow beards. Absolutely. If they

00:50:59.360 want to, uh, the, the credibility of not just corporate America, but of a lot of our egghead

00:51:05.020 bureaucrats very much in question right now because they've been gaslighting us more and more each day. 0.99

00:51:10.420 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you tomorrow.

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00:52:06.380 Today on the Matt Walsh show, the media scrambles to change the narrative after the mass killer in

00:52:10.980 Boulder turns out to be an Arab man who killed white people. Also five headlines, including the

00:52:14.800 U.S. Senator who announced her intentions to only vote to confirm nominees of a certain race.

00:52:19.560 And a man finds shrimp tails in his box of cinnamon toast crunch. What's the lesson we can

00:52:23.440 learn from that story? There is a lesson. I'll tell you what it is. Finally, in our daily cancellation,

00:52:27.140 we'll deal with the claim made by a democratic Senator and many others that buying a gun is somehow

00:52:31.820 easier than voting. Is that true at all? Talk about that and much more today on the Matt Walsh show.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 24, 2021

Ep. 727 - Gaslighting The People

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