The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 733 - Know-Nothin’ Country

00:00:00.000 CNN is spatting off on science again, and they seem pretty confused.

00:00:04.740 CNN reporting yesterday that there is no consensus on how to assign sex at birth.

00:00:11.380 They write, quote,

00:00:12.200 Christy Noem's executive orders reference biological sex,

00:00:16.720 a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students' original birth certificates.

00:00:22.980 It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth,

00:00:26.500 and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.

00:00:32.360 Now, listen, I'm no doctor.

00:00:33.900 You know, I didn't go to medical school.

00:00:35.980 I'm no biologist.

00:00:37.480 I think that with 100% certainty,

00:00:41.500 I will always be able to know whether a little boy is a little boy or whether he's a little girl.

00:00:47.900 More broadly, if we cannot know,

00:00:51.320 if we cannot know for sure the difference between little boys and little girls,

00:00:55.860 there is no hope for self-government.

00:00:58.780 Not surprised CNN is confused.

00:01:01.060 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:01.680 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:10.560 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:11.600 My favorite comment yesterday comes from Alex Z,

00:01:14.220 who says,

00:01:15.300 Knowles' transitions of promoting his book are as seamless as the pre-order process for speechless.

00:01:20.700 Controlling words, controlling minds.

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00:01:23.780 That's true.

00:01:24.060 Also, by the way, that was a great thank you so much for that transition, Alex.

00:01:28.520 The, some people have written in and they've,

00:01:31.200 they've wanted to know if they can get an autographed copy.

00:01:33.340 And I don't really know because I'm not particularly involved in the process

00:01:37.680 of putting this out in different stores and all that.

00:01:40.260 But I Googled it yesterday after I got some emails.

00:01:42.440 And it turns out you can pre-order an autographed first edition of the book.

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00:03:07.960 How did you hear about us, Box?

00:03:09.160 So they know we sent you.

00:03:11.340 You need to be able to know things if you are going to govern yourselves.

00:03:17.360 So you need to be able, I'm not saying you need to have 100% perfect,

00:03:23.340 certainty for all times everywhere of the exact nature of justice and the regime of the exact

00:03:30.500 meaning of liberty and equality.

00:03:32.300 But you need to kind of know what these things are.

00:03:34.720 And you need to be part of the broader conversation that we have in our country and in our civilization.

00:03:39.320 You need to be able to use your faculties of reason and your moral conscience to separate good from bad

00:03:44.960 and right from wrong and true from false.

00:03:46.660 And if you can't do that, you can't rule yourself.

00:03:48.680 While CNN is pretending that we can't know whether to put the blue hat or the pink hat on the newborn baby,

00:03:58.040 while the elites are pretending not to know the most obvious things on earth,

00:04:04.080 you'll notice that gender reveal parties are gaining steam.

00:04:09.360 It seems like every week now we're hearing about gender reveal parties.

00:04:12.820 This was not really a thing when I was little.

00:04:16.900 This is clearly becoming more of a cultural norm that I actually was tempted to do it myself

00:04:22.900 for Sweet Little Junior when he was going to come out.

00:04:26.860 Sweet Little Lisa thought that this was just too ridiculous and that as a self-respecting man,

00:04:31.780 I should not be as excited to do this. 0.67

00:04:33.560 But the idea is you go and the doctor figures out the sex of the baby,

00:04:37.580 which they can now do very early on.

00:04:39.260 And then they write it down on a sheet of paper.

00:04:40.700 Or, and then, I don't know, maybe you bring that to a baker and you say, you know,

00:04:43.780 if it's a boy, then make, bake me a cake with blue frosting on the inside.

00:04:48.700 And if it's a girl, bake me a cake with pink frosting on the inside. 0.99

00:04:52.240 And now these rituals have become much more elaborate.

00:04:56.120 There have been stories about people setting off fireworks.

00:04:59.080 There was, and getting harmed in the way, by the way.

00:05:01.480 People have died during these gender reveal parties. 0.96

00:05:03.540 So there was actually a very sad story in Mexico.

00:05:05.080 A couple hired some people to fly a plane with the gender reveal on the back of it. 0.99

00:05:11.460 And then, very tragically, the plane crashed.

00:05:15.260 I think two people died in this incident, which is, you know, awful.

00:05:21.080 I mean, accidents happen.

00:05:22.340 But it is strange that we keep hearing about all of these accidents for gender reveal parties.

00:05:26.900 Does this mean that no one should ever have a gender reveal sort of party ever again?

00:05:31.440 No, I don't, I don't think so.

00:05:34.880 Sad things happen.

00:05:36.360 The plural of anecdote is not data.

00:05:39.100 However, it does speak to a problem that we, we have as a society, which is we're making too big a deal out of ordinary things.

00:05:50.060 You see this most especially with weddings.

00:05:52.660 As the weddings get more and more and more elaborate, it seems like marriage rates are declining and divorce rates are skyrocketing and marriage itself means less of what it once did.

00:06:04.540 As proposals, wedding proposals become more and more and more elaborate, the institution of marriage becomes much more confused.

00:06:12.860 As the gender reveal parties become more and more and more elaborate, our grasp on what sex even is becomes more confused.

00:06:23.660 I think we're over-rationalizing things here.

00:06:27.420 I think everything is such a big deal that we, I know people who won't get married because they don't have $50,000 saved up to have a big, fancy, elaborate wedding.

00:06:39.220 That is a new phenomenon.

00:06:42.160 People used to just get married.

00:06:43.600 Even rich people had smaller affairs than we do now.

00:06:48.040 There, there are people who want to take everything that we used to just do as a matter of course in society and agonize over it and, you know, try to figure out, is little Johnny really little Johnny?

00:07:02.080 Or do I need to watch if he ever reaches for a Barbie?

00:07:04.480 Is he little Jane?

00:07:05.220 I think that this is very likely a, just a consequence of this critical process we've had in society.

00:07:14.740 This is actually something you hear a lot about in the academy.

00:07:16.880 Critical race theory or critical theory more broadly or the ruthless criticism of all that exists, which coincidentally I mention quite a lot and describe in detail in my book, Speechless.

00:07:25.640 This has been an organized effort to analyze and criticize every single aspect of society, to deconstruct it.

00:07:34.440 The end point of that is we can't do anything natural anymore.

00:07:39.360 We can't just go get married.

00:07:41.040 Let's do it.

00:07:41.720 Let's fall in love.

00:07:42.700 Now it's, well, we need to have a relationship and it's got to be very clinical and it's, and maybe we're going to have a new kind of strange relationship and maybe we're going to have a throuple like you see on those weird TV shows.

00:07:54.220 And maybe we're going to, if we get married, it's, we're going to have to delay the wedding by two years of an engagement and then we, you know, it's, we're so clumsy about everything we do in society right now.

00:08:05.960 Why can't we just act normally for lack of a better word?

00:08:12.060 Why is everything so in question?

00:08:15.440 National borders are now in question.

00:08:17.320 Whether or not a country is allowed to have borders, that's now somehow a disputed matter.

00:08:23.880 Whether you salute the American flag and stand for the national anthem, that is now a disputed matter.

00:08:28.960 Whether you should have ballot integrity, that is now a disputed matter.

00:08:32.940 Heavily, we can't do any of the basic things that you need to do to get to the higher questions of society.

00:08:39.080 I'll give you another example of this.

00:08:40.380 Juan Williams on, on Fox News.

00:08:42.180 I actually really like Juan Williams.

00:08:43.480 He's always been very nice to me and I find a lot of his commentary at least thought provoking, but he gave a pretty weak answer the other day.

00:08:50.660 He was, he was asked about that awful carjacking of those two young girls who, there was two young black girls who carjack a Pakistani guy and then kill him.

00:09:00.340 And then callously, they just don't care at all.

00:09:02.560 They walk past, they walk back to the crime scene, past his dead body because one of the girls forgot her cell phone in the car.

00:09:09.220 And this topic was brought up in a discussion and Juan Williams tried to find every elaborate answer except for the obvious one.

00:09:17.080 I think in part, what it is, is you got, it's tragic.

00:09:21.560 I mean, you got these teenage girls.

00:09:23.760 I mean, they're little kids, not, they're not gangsters.

00:09:26.320 They're not hardened criminals.

00:09:27.640 I don't think they intended to kill anybody.

00:09:29.300 They were looking to have a joy ride and it just went way wrong, way out of control and ended up in a gross tragedy.

00:09:36.420 I mean, this is unbelievable.

00:09:37.320 Their lives are ruined.

00:09:38.420 Well, they brought a stun gun.

00:09:39.580 So usually you don't bring a stun gun to a joy ride, but go ahead.

00:09:43.180 No, I just think, correct.

00:09:44.680 I mean, it's like, you know, kids finding guns in their parents' house.

00:09:47.300 I don't know what to say, Jesse.

00:09:48.380 It's awful.

00:09:49.080 It's a terrible situation.

00:09:50.920 So the question is, why would these girls do it? 1.00

00:09:53.900 And Juan's answer is, you know, that maybe, maybe they weren't trying to carjack the guy

00:10:00.060 and maybe they actually weren't just callously disregarding his life.

00:10:05.160 Maybe they wanted to go for a joy ride.

00:10:07.240 And then Jesse Waters says, well, you know, they brought a stun gun with them.

00:10:11.380 Yeah, well, maybe they, yeah.

00:10:13.060 And there, maybe their parents just left that around.

00:10:14.980 And maybe they, maybe it was all a big accident.

00:10:17.640 Maybe it was all a big misunderstanding.

00:10:19.040 Maybe they're really good kids.

00:10:20.060 Maybe the simplest answer is the correct one.

00:10:22.720 Maybe they're just bad kids and we all have fallen, broken nature.

00:10:26.240 And some people turn out worse than others.

00:10:28.400 And maybe they, they're, they just did a very evil thing because they had evil motivations

00:10:33.340 and they don't care about human life.

00:10:34.680 And they at the very least need to be locked up forever.

00:10:37.240 There, there's this concept of Occam's razor, which without being too elaborate about it,

00:10:42.920 is this idea that all things being equal, the, the simplest explanation for a phenomenon

00:10:48.060 should be preferred to unnecessarily complex answers for it.

00:10:53.740 What happened to that in our culture?

00:10:56.680 Why can't we get back to Occam's culture? 0.52

00:10:58.280 Why is it that if I look at a little boy and he looks like a little boy and he, and he, he has all the body parts of a little boy and his DNA is that of a little boy.

00:11:07.600 Why do I have to be confused about that and say, well, we don't know.

00:11:11.140 Why, why can't we just accept what is obviously true before our eyes?

00:11:16.840 If our country that we are now told is the worst country in the world and it's the source of evil in the world and we need to destroy our country and open up the borders and we owe everything to everybody.

00:11:28.460 Why is it that everyone from the rest of the world wants to come here? 0.94

00:11:31.460 Why is it that we, we, why is it that we have to have such a robust security system on our, on our border?

00:11:36.400 Why is it that millions of people come here every single year?

00:11:39.280 Is it possible that the simplest solution is the correct one?

00:11:42.040 Is it possible that we're just a good country and an attractive place to live and, and have your life and raise your family?

00:11:48.700 Is that possible?

00:11:49.700 No. 0.93

00:11:50.780 Somehow we are preferring the, the most ridiculous Rube Goldberg complex answers to the common sense that,

00:12:02.060 and, and the obvious solutions that we can see before our very eyes.

00:12:07.880 Mark Hamill's showing this recently, Luke Skywalker.

00:12:10.900 He's saying that, he's advancing this narrative that America is a terrible country.

00:12:15.720 Tweets out, no more filming in Georgia.

00:12:18.140 No more filming in, in the state of Georgia, not the country of Georgia,

00:12:20.900 because Georgia passed an election integrity law after they upended so many of their election measures in the 2020 election.

00:12:28.860 He says, no more filming, Hollywood boycotting Georgia.

00:12:32.820 Why?

00:12:33.460 Why is Hollywood boycotting Georgia?

00:12:36.340 Well, because they might have some voter ID.

00:12:41.080 Maybe they might make people vote, you know, in person more often than they vote by mail.

00:12:45.580 They might not let you buy votes at the polling place.

00:12:48.780 Mark Hamill filmed the first Star Wars in Tunisia.

00:12:51.840 Okay.

00:12:52.140 Tunisia's got, got some problems.

00:12:54.060 Hollywood films in a lot of places that have a lot of problems,

00:12:57.340 but they never worry about anyone else's problems.

00:13:00.400 They only focus in on the sins and even the, the false sins.

00:13:06.280 They totally contrived, fabricated sins of America.

00:13:11.300 What if instead of, and then they'll say, well, hold on guys.

00:13:14.640 How are you saying America's worse than some of these other places in the world?

00:13:17.680 They'll say, well, because actually, secretly, America in her innermost sin is,

00:13:23.620 and so she looks really good, but she's really evil. 1.00

00:13:26.200 Yeah, we heard this example the other day. 0.82

00:13:28.580 If a racial minority attacks another racial minority, actually secretly, that's white supremacy. 0.54

00:13:32.800 How about you just, how about we just go for the simplest answer?

00:13:36.580 Is that so hard?

00:13:37.460 I hope that's not so hard.

00:13:40.360 Hollywood is not the only group doing this.

00:13:43.660 Delta Airlines, I guess the most woke airline, as far as I can tell.

00:13:48.980 Coca-Cola too, are joining the bandwagon of people criticizing Georgia for trying to protect the election.

00:13:56.200 They are sending out these mass missives saying, you know, yes, this, this is terrible.

00:14:04.360 We oppose this.

00:14:05.340 What do I care what the CEO of Delta thinks?

00:14:07.560 Well, because we have a hub in Delta.

00:14:09.380 Okay, well, I'm, I'm all for free markets, as you know.

00:14:13.500 If you are using your corporate power to undermine the basic protections of our constitutional republic,

00:14:23.440 I'm against you.

00:14:25.300 I don't support that.

00:14:27.500 You shouldn't be allowed to do that.

00:14:29.540 I don't know what political power the Republicans in Georgia have right now over these companies,

00:14:36.220 but they should exercise it.

00:14:38.260 If that's removing certain tax breaks, if that is removing certain privileges that these companies have,

00:14:44.420 they should exercise that.

00:14:46.160 We should not permit corporations to run roughshod over our culture and upend our constitutional norms

00:14:52.900 any more than we would want the government to do that.

00:14:55.520 Very bad stuff.

00:14:58.780 What if instead of the woke Delta Coca-Cola Hollywood explanation of this Georgia law

00:15:07.740 that just brings back some very basic voter integrity measures,

00:15:12.520 what if that's not about white supremacy and racism and suppressing the vote?

00:15:16.880 And what if it's just because people want fair elections?

00:15:21.320 Is that possible?

00:15:23.160 When voter ID is put up to public opinion surveys, everyone wants it.

00:15:29.060 Every demographic group votes for voter ID.

00:15:34.840 It's white supremacy. 0.79

00:15:36.120 Well, black people support voter ID. 0.95

00:15:38.060 Isn't that weird? 0.95

00:15:39.220 It's going to suppress immigrants. 1.00

00:15:41.820 Hispanic people support voter ID.

00:15:43.780 Everyone does because it makes sense.

00:15:44.980 It's so obvious.

00:15:47.520 The people who oppose voter ID are the people who want to steal elections.

00:15:51.960 It's that simple.

00:15:52.840 It's really not complicated.

00:15:56.260 The Washington Post, as left-wing an outlet as the Washington Post,

00:16:01.200 admits that the narrative on the Georgia law,

00:16:04.740 the narrative that Joe Biden is pushing is BS.

00:16:08.980 Joe Biden says that the new law in Georgia is going to shrink the opportunities of people to vote.

00:16:17.620 Here is what the Washington Post fact checker says.

00:16:20.260 On election day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

00:16:24.700 And if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot.

00:16:28.940 Nothing in the new law changes those rules.

00:16:31.160 However, the law did make some changes to early voting.

00:16:35.040 But experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.

00:16:42.220 So even the freaking Washington Post, as left-wing a mainstream outlet as it gets,

00:16:50.340 is admitting that Joe Biden and the Democrats' narrative and Coca-Cola's narrative and Delta's narrative 0.76

00:16:56.180 on the Georgia voting law is not only false, it's perfectly false.

00:17:02.120 It's the opposite.

00:17:03.220 It's the exact opposite of true, of what's really going on.

00:17:07.320 Now, I've got to give credit where credit is due.

00:17:11.720 The Washington Post was being fair there.

00:17:16.320 Doesn't always happen.

00:17:18.140 Sometimes, though, there's, I guess, a little pang of the old institution in these places.

00:17:25.340 And more than that, I think they realize that some of the narratives that the left is pushing

00:17:29.640 are just so beyond the pale that they're not going to be politically very effective.

00:17:34.420 So the Washington Post is being fair.

00:17:37.320 A prominent journalist, however, is in hot water right now for saying that fairness is

00:17:42.960 overrated.

00:17:43.720 Lester Holt of NBC News was winning some award, and he zoomed in to accept the award, and he

00:17:51.300 gave his sort of theory of journalism.

00:17:53.860 And one of the lines that he's really catching a lot of flack for is that fairness is overrated.

00:17:59.320 I think it's become clearer that fairness is overrated.

00:18:03.100 Well, before you run off and tweet that headline, let me explain a bit.

00:18:08.140 The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the

00:18:13.200 world we find ourselves in.

00:18:15.100 That the sun sets in the West is a fact.

00:18:18.380 Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention.

00:18:22.660 I know recent events assure that you won't have to look far to find more current and relevant

00:18:26.860 examples.

00:18:27.380 I think you get my point.

00:18:29.000 Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic

00:18:34.940 responsibility or some kind of agenda.

00:18:37.840 In fact, it's just the opposite.

00:18:39.940 Providing an open platform for misinformation, for anyone to come say whatever they want, especially

00:18:44.780 when issues of public health and safety are at stake, can be quite dangerous.

00:18:49.140 Our duty is to be fair to the truth.

00:18:53.400 Holding those in power accountable is at the core of our function and responsibility.

00:18:59.860 Lester Holt is absolutely right on the point about fairness.

00:19:05.540 What he's implying, I think, and if you listen to the rest of his speech, you'll see he's implying

00:19:10.220 that basically the conservatives are the bad guys and the liberals are the good guys, at

00:19:14.440 least in recent history.

00:19:15.400 So he goes off on Donald Trump and he's saying, yeah, we shouldn't be totally fair by giving

00:19:22.080 Trump supporters or President Trump himself equal airtime or anything like that.

00:19:26.320 So obviously I disagree with that point.

00:19:28.060 But on the procedural point, that fairness is overrated, whatever we even mean by fairness

00:19:33.740 today, that the idea that you should hear both sides of any question equally, Lester Holt

00:19:38.860 is absolutely right.

00:19:40.300 And the left understands this and the right used to understand this and the left tricked

00:19:45.980 the right into not understanding this, which is why we are in our present confusion.

00:19:50.340 This is why, for instance, conservatives now embrace free speech absolutism, whatever that

00:19:56.540 means.

00:19:56.800 Free speech absolutism is very different than the actual American free speech tradition of

00:20:01.180 our founding fathers and all the men who built this country and the men before our founding

00:20:04.460 fathers and the broader, the broader Anglo tradition.

00:20:09.680 Free, free speech has always had some limits on it.

00:20:11.860 We've mentioned it on this show many times.

00:20:14.680 Sedition, threats, fraud, fighting words, obscenity.

00:20:19.240 There, there have always been limits on these things.

00:20:22.800 Free speech absolutism says there can be no limits whatsoever, but that's not practical.

00:20:26.880 It's not possible because we, we need to get along together in society.

00:20:31.440 Words have to mean certain things, right?

00:20:34.220 Words cannot just mean whatever we want them to mean.

00:20:36.240 And if words mean certain things, then words actually can infringe on people's rights.

00:20:40.640 Fraud is a clear example of this.

00:20:42.660 If you use your speech to commit fraud, you are committing a crime.

00:20:45.620 That speech cannot be permitted.

00:20:48.000 If you are using your speech for obscenity, most people, myself included, who have considered

00:20:55.560 this question before, especially on the conservative side, realize that obscenity is not protected

00:21:00.480 speech because it actually undermines speech because it is simply prurient.

00:21:04.880 It tries to arouse base passions.

00:21:06.440 It actually undermines our higher faculties of reason.

00:21:09.100 It undermines our liberty.

00:21:10.080 And so liberty and licentious is not the same thing.

00:21:12.220 We could go on for hours about what the founding fathers had to say about that.

00:21:18.120 The right in America used to acknowledge that there is objective truth and that we can know

00:21:24.600 certain truths. 0.61

00:21:27.160 We, William F. Buckley Jr. put it in this very silly phrase.

00:21:31.460 He said that he was an epistemological optimist.

00:21:34.100 Certain things are settled and we ought to acknowledge them as settled.

00:21:37.920 No one thinks that there should be some kind of constitutional right to scream Zig Heil at the

00:21:44.440 water cooler at the office and have you keep your job.

00:21:47.580 No one really believes that.

00:21:49.220 We, we on the right now adopt the language of believing that because we pretend to be free

00:21:53.060 speech absolutists who believe that everything ought to be in the free marketplace of ideas.

00:21:56.600 But of course, marketplaces have rules that are set by the broader political regime and

00:22:02.120 the broader, broader political tradition.

00:22:05.680 We should not tolerate in the academy, in the classroom, or in many other places in our

00:22:12.420 public sphere, the idea that men are really women and therefore we should pump kids full of 0.99

00:22:18.420 hormones and chop off their appendages. 1.00

00:22:20.100 That is not an idea that we should tolerate.

00:22:23.020 It's just not true.

00:22:24.300 It's patently false.

00:22:25.420 There's no argument for it.

00:22:26.700 The only way you can make an argument for it is by making an argument to undermine reason.

00:22:31.240 In the classroom specifically, we, we have this question of critical race theory.

00:22:36.100 Should this sort of thing be taught in public schools, let's say?

00:22:40.200 No, it should not.

00:22:41.300 Because it's not merely some radical idea that perhaps will broaden our perspective.

00:22:46.840 It is, it is, as Chesterton said, the thought that stops thought.

00:22:50.300 It is an idea that undermines our, under our acknowledgement of reason.

00:22:55.720 It is an idea that undermines the purpose of education.

00:22:59.240 You have to get rid of that.

00:23:01.140 And no notion of fairness should, should impel us to give equal weight to those things.

00:23:07.020 When, when the left speaks, I think very often the right just wants to dismiss it.

00:23:13.360 But I think we should take a lesson from them.

00:23:15.980 This is the thing that I try to do in my book, Speechless, available now for pre-order.

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00:24:17.680 Some unfortunate news for Holy Week.

00:24:21.480 Church membership in the United States is below 50% for the first time ever.

00:24:27.180 This, according to a new Gallup poll, Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to

00:24:34.760 decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend.

00:24:41.720 In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque, down from

00:24:47.920 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.

00:24:52.260 So the way this is being reported is that this is a massive decline in the religiosity of Americans.

00:25:00.900 But I don't think that's true.

00:25:03.040 I think it's just a change in the religiosity of Americans.

00:25:06.800 I think that in 1999, 70% of Americans were Christian and there was a much smaller number

00:25:13.740 were Muslim or Jewish and I think now 47% are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish and 53% are something

00:25:25.960 else because to quote Bob Dylan, everybody's got to serve somebody.

00:25:30.280 Everybody has religious views.

00:25:32.740 Everybody, the most hardened atheist has religious views because man is a religious being because

00:25:39.080 all human conflict at the end of the day is theological and because we have natural religious

00:25:44.860 longings in our core.

00:25:46.560 So some people are Christians.

00:25:49.240 They believe that God sent his only begotten son to die for mankind and redeem us, to die

00:25:57.000 for our sins, to be crucified and buried on Good Friday and to rise again from the dead

00:26:03.580 on Easter Sunday and then to ascend to heaven and sit at the right hand of God, the Father

00:26:09.500 Almighty and that he will one day come again to judge living and the dead.

00:26:12.820 That is a creed for Christians.

00:26:16.960 If you are, let's say you're an atheist right now, but you're a woke atheist, then you believe

00:26:23.260 that little boys can be little girls.

00:26:25.260 That is, that is a religious view.

00:26:27.080 What you are saying is that the soul, we have souls, first of all, that our souls are totally

00:26:32.340 different from our bodies and when there is disagreement between our soul and our body,

00:26:36.740 that the soul wins out, that we are physical, that we are metaphysical beings essentially

00:26:42.340 and that our, the physical world has nothing to do with it and frankly can be evil because

00:26:47.040 it contradicts our metaphysical truth.

00:26:50.260 Okay.

00:26:51.080 If you are, I don't know, one of these people who says I'm spiritual but not religious, you 0.97

00:26:56.560 are religious, you're just narcissistic as well. 0.79

00:26:59.860 I hate to be harsh about it, but I once heard a comedian describe spiritual but not religious 0.68

00:27:05.100 as the same thing as saying, I, I, I don't really care that much about God, but I'm very

00:27:11.200 interested in myself.

00:27:12.820 What does it mean to be spiritual but not religious or to say, you know, I, I'm very interested

00:27:17.340 in the spirituality, but I'm not interested in organized religion.

00:27:20.900 What it means is you have, I'll give a more charitable read of it.

00:27:24.400 It means you have natural religious longings and you acknowledge them and you recognize that

00:27:28.180 obviously there is something beyond this physical world because the world doesn't make any sense

00:27:31.740 if there isn't, but you just don't care to think systematically about it and you don't

00:27:39.160 want the transcendent moral order to make any demands of you and you don't want to have

00:27:44.780 to, to acquiesce to those demands.

00:27:48.180 And I say this as someone who for a period of time might've called himself spiritual but

00:27:52.000 not religious.

00:27:52.420 So I get it, you know, I, I understand why that's compelling and why it's, why it's very

00:27:57.880 fashionable today, but that is a sort of religion, whether, whether one wants to admit it or not.

00:28:03.400 The most hardened materialist, let's say an outright communist in the streets who says,

00:28:09.020 you know, there is no God, religion is the opium of the people and we need to build the progressive

00:28:15.800 society here on earth because of the science of history.

00:28:19.120 I know that the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice and we are going,

00:28:24.200 progress is in the way and you're on the wrong side of history.

00:28:26.300 That is a religious view.

00:28:28.000 That is a sort of eschatological view.

00:28:30.700 It's a view that, that sees the end times, but the, the end time that those sorts of people

00:28:36.040 would see is, is a happy one, right?

00:28:39.760 Well, one where we build this wonderful society and the state falls away and we're all living

00:28:43.060 in this utopia.

00:28:44.500 That is a religious view as well.

00:28:48.020 You can't evade it.

00:28:51.340 And people who convince themselves that they're not religious, I think often fall into these

00:28:56.500 problems.

00:28:57.320 Much better, I think, to acknowledge, yes, you are necessarily going to have religious views

00:29:01.260 because our, our very faculties of reason rest on certain religious foundations.

00:29:06.540 And then you have to start thinking about those views.

00:29:08.620 Well, what does that mean?

00:29:09.780 Does that mean that I acknowledge that God exists?

00:29:11.920 Well, if God exists, what does that mean?

00:29:14.700 Does that mean I have to grapple with the person of Christ?

00:29:17.700 Does that mean, what does that mean for other religions?

00:29:20.340 What does that mean for my behavior today?

00:29:22.160 What does that mean for how I should live my life?

00:29:26.440 I would, I urge the 53% of Americans who are confused on this issue, don't be duped.

00:29:33.940 Don't be distracted.

00:29:34.820 Don't be fooled by people who are, who are trying to take your attention away from serious

00:29:41.760 and eternal things.

00:29:43.260 One sort of joke of this whole survey is, you know, gosh, can you believe that people

00:29:48.900 left church in such high numbers in 2020?

00:29:51.460 Yeah, I can because the powers that be wouldn't let us go to church for a very long period of

00:29:55.960 time.

00:29:56.780 Remember when the public health officials who are actually the priests of our secular

00:30:01.920 religion and who perform the liturgy of liberalism, remember when they said, hey, marijuana shops,

00:30:09.900 those are essential services, but going to church, absolutely not, no way.

00:30:14.180 Yeah, no surprise.

00:30:16.200 And for those who respond to this and say, well, Michael, look, come on, politicians can

00:30:20.660 never change the culture because politics is downstream of culture.

00:30:23.760 Look at East Germany. 0.84

00:30:25.000 East Germany was run by the communists during the Cold War.

00:30:29.080 West Germany was run by the West, right? 0.60

00:30:33.460 In West Germany, you had religion.

00:30:36.120 East Germany, you had state-imposed communism.

00:30:39.060 Now here we are three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:30:43.060 West Germany continues to have a high degree of religious identification, Christian identification.

00:30:48.840 East Germany continues to be an atheist place.

00:30:54.660 The people identify as atheist.

00:30:56.740 There you might say, culture was downstream from politics.

00:31:00.580 Or really, what you're seeing is just that politics and culture are not so easily separated.

00:31:07.820 And there is a political regime in the West broadly, but specifically in this country right

00:31:13.620 now, that is very hostile to religion.

00:31:15.500 There is a president right now who sues nuns because they won't pay for abortion drugs and

00:31:21.640 contraception.

00:31:24.120 And so it's no surprise that that's having an effect.

00:31:26.660 We didn't cover it on this show, but there was this awful suicide bombing outside a cathedral

00:31:32.740 on Palm Sunday in Indonesia.

00:31:34.760 Palm Sunday is the longest liturgy of the year.

00:31:37.240 So you had a lot of people who Hillary Clinton might call Easter worshipers, also known as Christians,

00:31:42.400 who went to this cathedral and there was a suicide bombing.

00:31:45.920 I don't think anyone's claimed responsibility.

00:31:48.220 Muslim militants have committed these sorts of actions before in that part of the world.

00:31:51.480 So it might be, that might be what's going on.

00:31:53.740 Fortunately, I don't think very many people were killed.

00:31:56.700 A lot of people were injured.

00:31:58.400 I mention it because it's a reminder that as we are in Holy Week, as we approach Good Friday

00:32:04.680 tomorrow and Easter Sunday after that, as we think back on our heritage as a Christian nation,

00:32:10.180 no matter what the libs want to tell you, this is a Christian nation.

00:32:14.640 It's a nation that is founded essentially on Christian principles and Christian ideas and

00:32:19.660 even the practice of Christianity in varying ways.

00:32:24.840 Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth.

00:32:29.800 Christians are the most persecuted religious group on earth.

00:32:32.300 There was a survey to this effect that came out from Pew Research a few years ago.

00:32:36.360 This is contradicted by the left-wing narrative where we're told that Christianity is actually,

00:32:42.860 they're the persecutors, those Christians. 1.00

00:32:45.640 And there's such a thing as Christian nationalism that's rising up and we need to tamp it down. 0.94

00:32:50.920 And Christians should not be able to follow their conscience and we should have 1.00

00:32:54.220 the federal government suing nuns and that sort of thing.

00:32:57.120 Christianity is the persecuted religion. 0.98

00:33:03.000 There is no question about that.

00:33:05.180 And you're seeing this more and more clearly as Christianity becomes a minority religion in America.

00:33:11.780 You're going to see these attacks on the church become much clearer.

00:33:14.840 If you think it's bad now with egghead public health officials shutting down churches arbitrarily

00:33:21.120 and with the president of the United States supporting lawsuits against nuns,

00:33:26.860 just wait and see what happens if that number continues to shrink.

00:33:32.100 As sadly, I'm afraid it probably will.

00:33:35.260 There is a new religion of wokeness, of leftism, call it whatever you want.

00:33:39.280 It comes with a rigid racial caste system.

00:33:42.280 You see this in Marin County, California.

00:33:44.400 In Marin County right now, the supervisors there plan to contribute funds to a universal

00:33:50.800 basic income program that will give just a blank check to people to test out and see

00:33:56.880 how UBI works.

00:33:58.640 This was something that was pushed in the Democratic primaries in 2020 by Andrew Yang.

00:34:02.520 However, this UBI system is not going to be you.

00:34:06.620 The universal part of universal basic income is going to be taken out.

00:34:10.200 This program is going to be restricted to people on the basis of race and sex.

00:34:14.480 Only non-white women are eligible. 1.00

00:34:18.260 So tax dollars are going to be put into a fund, and then these supervisors are going 0.95

00:34:22.020 to distribute those tax dollars only to non-white women. 1.00

00:34:26.060 And they're going to call it universal basic income because they think that the only people

00:34:30.720 who are entitled to these sorts of things, universally speaking, are the specific group of women. 1.00

00:34:38.000 They'll spend $3 million to provide $1,000 to 125 low-income women each month, 0.91

00:34:42.840 specifically on the basis of their race.

00:34:45.600 The women must also have a child who's under 18 years old, and now they're getting some 1.00

00:34:49.740 pushback for that, and they say, no, we just want the money to go where it's most needed.

00:34:53.100 And black women statistically are poorer than white women, and so we're going to give it 1.00

00:34:56.500 to the black women. 0.97

00:34:57.120 If, if the point of the plan is to give it the money where it is most needed financially, 0.98

00:35:04.020 why don't you just give it to the poor women? 1.00

00:35:07.880 Well, no, because black women are poorer than white women. 1.00

00:35:10.020 Right, but there are, there are some black women who are, who are wealthier than some 1.00

00:35:13.320 white women. 1.00

00:35:13.760 And so if the whole point is a financial one, then just give it to the white women, but 1.00

00:35:16.900 that's, or just give it to the poor white women, and the poor black women, and the poor 1.00

00:35:21.680 Hispanic women, and whoever else on the basis of finances. 1.00

00:35:24.120 This shows you this conflict that we have right now, which is right now, most racial discrimination

00:35:31.380 is prohibited by law.

00:35:32.480 There is one carve out, which is affirmative action, the idea that black and Hispanic applicants

00:35:38.200 to college and jobs get legal privileges, and that white and Asian applicants to college

00:35:44.840 and jobs have a legally protected disadvantage on the basis of their race.

00:35:49.500 And that's just, just a weird carve out in our law.

00:35:52.180 But generally speaking, we do not permit racial discrimination in our law.

00:35:58.360 Increasingly, leftist politicians want to enact racial discrimination.

00:36:03.340 Against whites and Asians, and for black people and Hispanic people. 0.98

00:36:07.900 And you're seeing most clearly in laws like this, but there, there are other sorts of laws

00:36:13.220 being proposed, but they're not able to do that yet because the law remains what it is.

00:36:17.480 So they're trying to pretend that it, no, it's really about economics.

00:36:19.800 It's really about finances.

00:36:20.760 It's really socio this.

00:36:22.600 No, it's not.

00:36:23.240 They're just trying to impose a racial caste system. 0.99

00:36:26.160 And that is very, very bad.

00:36:27.960 Speaking of race hustling politicians, Kamala Harris is now, 0.88

00:36:32.480 been put in charge of the border crisis.

00:36:34.580 President Joe Biden has said he's putting his vice president in charge of it.

00:36:39.060 And yet Kamala Harris was asked about this.

00:36:41.040 And she said she has no plans to visit the border right now.

00:36:44.840 What's going on?

00:36:47.040 What's going on is a stroke of political brilliance from Joe Biden.

00:36:52.180 It's politically brilliant, but it's often done, which is when a president is faced with a really,

00:36:59.820 really tough issue that has no political upside for them, whatever happens, they give the issue

00:37:07.300 to the vice president.

00:37:08.960 So this is actually, it's not just a party line thing.

00:37:12.220 Donald Trump did this to Mike Pence.

00:37:13.920 When the coronavirus hit and when the public health regime and many Democrats had basically

00:37:20.280 put Donald Trump in this corner, where he, anything he did, it was if he embraced the masks

00:37:26.940 and the lockdowns and, you know, really did a good job and kept those infection and death

00:37:32.940 numbers down, then he would be accused by his own people of upending the constitution and

00:37:37.840 overreacting and falling for the, for the trap.

00:37:39.940 So sort of the criticism that I made at the time, but if he ignored the, the advice of

00:37:45.740 the experts, any death from the virus would be put at his feet.

00:37:50.520 And so he would, he would also have difficulty in reelection.

00:37:53.900 Anything he did was a problem.

00:37:55.360 So what did he do?

00:37:55.900 He said, Mike Pence, you are leading the coronavirus task force.

00:37:58.700 It's the same thing here with, with immigration.

00:38:01.760 Anything Biden does is a loss for him.

00:38:04.300 If he enforces the law and actually ships these foreign nationals back to their countries, 0.99

00:38:10.940 his own base will turn on him.

00:38:14.140 The, the broader public supports enforcing our immigration laws, but the democratic base

00:38:20.500 opposes enforcing our immigration laws.

00:38:22.080 So that looks bad for him.

00:38:23.700 Yet, if Joe Biden says, okay, surge, come to the border, sort of some things he said during

00:38:27.860 the primaries to win over democratic base voters.

00:38:30.580 If he starts saying that borders wide open, come on through, he's going to lose support

00:38:35.300 among the majority of Americans, according to public opinion surveys.

00:38:38.500 So there's just nothing he can do here.

00:38:41.080 So Kamala Harris gets it. 0.95

00:38:42.940 Kamala, you're now in charge of the border.

00:38:44.740 Okay.

00:38:45.880 Kamala Harris is a crafty politician too. 0.99

00:38:48.440 She knows that if she goes to the border and she's identified in photographs and film with

00:38:52.680 this, with this crisis, her political career is going to take a big hit.

00:38:57.040 So she's saying, yes, I'm dealing with it diplomatically.

00:38:59.860 Hopefully hear from the White House and don't worry, I'm in charge, but don't hold me too

00:39:05.820 responsible for it.

00:39:08.380 It's a, a classic political maneuver and they're, they're both playing it pretty well right now,

00:39:14.540 but the crisis is getting worse and worse and worse.

00:39:16.380 To a certain point, you think something's got to give.

00:39:19.860 Speaking of clever politicians, remember Andrew Cuomo?

00:39:24.500 Remember that guy, Andrew Cuomo?

00:39:26.040 No, he was going to be impeached or he was going to resign or he, but I told you weeks

00:39:31.800 and weeks ago, I said, do not count this guy out.

00:39:34.220 This is a clever politician. 0.98

00:39:36.140 He's a bulldog. 0.87

00:39:37.660 He's been in New York state politics since he was in diapers.

00:39:41.120 And this guy is going to hold on until the very end.

00:39:44.640 Everyone said he's done.

00:39:45.760 He'll resign within days.

00:39:46.780 I said, I don't think he's going to resign within days.

00:39:49.000 Hard to see how he holds on.

00:39:50.340 I know it's a really tough scandal, but Cuomo is holding on.

00:39:54.040 And so what he's doing right now is not addressing the contrived sex scandal that he like winked

00:40:01.240 at his secretary or something.

00:40:02.480 He's not addressing the real scandal, which is that he sent sick people to nursing homes,

00:40:06.960 needlessly killing thousands of elderly New Yorkers.

00:40:10.400 Then he knew about that and then he covered it up because he didn't want a federal investigation 0.55

00:40:13.760 into him now that he's, he is talking about marijuana and a bunch of big dopes are falling

00:40:21.800 for it.

00:40:22.920 Uh, Cuomo is legalizing pot in New York, recreational marijuana, uh, for people over the age of 21.

00:40:30.720 He's setting up a licensing process for the delivery of, uh, pot to potheads.

00:40:36.560 And, uh, he's allowing New Yorkers to grow up to three mature and three immature plants for

00:40:43.700 personal use.

00:40:44.560 I think all marijuana plants are immature.

00:40:46.440 If you ask me, hmm, think about that.

00:40:48.600 Uh, the bill was passed by both the, the Democrat led Senate and assembly and, uh, Cuomo's all

00:40:56.040 for it.

00:40:57.160 Cuomo says this is a historic day in New York, one that writes the wrongs of the past by putting

00:41:05.180 an end to harsh prison sentences, embraces an industry that will grow the empire state's

00:41:10.720 economy and prioritizes marginalized communities, prioritizes marginalized communities.

00:41:18.300 So those that have suffered the most will be the first to reap the benefits.

00:41:21.720 Isn't this kind of offensive to say like, listen, legalizing marijuana, legalizing drugs 0.98

00:41:26.780 is, is really helpful to black people because everyone knows black people love drugs. 1.00

00:41:31.460 Black people just naturally, biologically, according to Andrew Cuomo, 0.99

00:41:35.380 have a predilection for doing drugs and just wasting their day puffing on the devil's lettuce. 0.98

00:41:43.380 And so as a matter of racial justice, we need to let people waste their time, 1.00

00:41:48.540 waste their time puffing on that, uh, sin spinach. 0.97

00:41:52.420 Uh, pretty offensive stuff, but what a, what a silly, silly distraction. 0.97

00:41:56.780 First of all, I love the idea that the marijuana industry is somehow they're the good guys. 0.92

00:42:01.420 I just spoke with my friend, Maddie Kearns from National Review about this.

00:42:04.560 She has a great piece, cover story in The Spectator, uh, out right now, which you should,

00:42:09.080 we, you should listen to, or read rather, called Big Dope.

00:42:12.100 You should also listen to the interview where she points out, these are, these are bad guys.

00:42:17.220 These are, you know, if you think big tobacco is bad, big dope is just as bad.

00:42:21.200 It's bad for your health.

00:42:22.980 These guys are trying to downplay the health risks of smoking pot, which has all the same

00:42:27.060 health risks as smoking cigarettes, all the tar, all the fear of diseases.

00:42:31.200 And by the way, some other diseases thrown onto it because it, it's, uh, messes with your head.

00:42:35.880 So why are we rooting for these guys?

00:42:37.460 I mean, I understand there is some argument for decriminalizing marijuana.

00:42:40.520 I'm not convinced by that argument, but I understand there's some argument for it.

00:42:44.340 But the argument is not that this is a matter of right, that everyone needs to be able to

00:42:48.100 smoke pot in the marijuana industry.

00:42:49.600 They're the good guys.

00:42:50.060 Give me a break.

00:42:50.520 He's doing it, of course, to distract from his actual political scandals.

00:42:56.760 Speaking of things that only make sense if you have been puffing on the Jamaican oregano,

00:43:02.660 Demi Lovato, who I don't really know who she is.

00:43:05.440 I think she's a singer or an actress.

00:43:07.580 She went on Joe Rogan's podcast to describe sex and gender.

00:43:13.940 The only thing that, that we're talking about these days, because the left has taken away

00:43:18.620 our higher faculties of reason.

00:43:20.760 We no longer debate important matters or rather eternal matters or rather higher matters.

00:43:26.480 We're just talking about our loins and the, the longings of our loins.

00:43:31.460 So Demi, Demi Lovato says that she's fluid now.

00:43:34.860 She's really fluid.

00:43:35.760 She's no longer congealed.

00:43:38.120 I don't know.

00:43:38.420 She's no longer solid.

00:43:39.380 She's fluid.

00:43:40.220 And so she's actually a pansexual.

00:43:43.760 Take a listen.

00:43:44.180 I'm so fluid now.

00:43:47.960 And a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was like super closeted off.

00:43:56.500 You mean like sexually fluid?

00:43:58.280 Yeah. 0.70

00:43:58.440 Yeah.

00:43:58.580 Sexually fluid.

00:43:59.400 You like girls?

00:43:59.600 You like boys?

00:44:00.520 Yeah.

00:44:00.880 Yeah.

00:44:01.400 Yeah.

00:44:03.420 Anything, really.

00:44:05.080 So I just...

00:44:05.880 What do they call that?

00:44:06.400 Like pansexual or something like that?

00:44:08.140 Yeah.

00:44:08.660 Yeah.

00:44:09.000 Pansexual. 0.72

00:44:09.600 That's hilarious. 0.98

00:44:10.740 Fluid.

00:44:11.360 You're fluid.

00:44:12.320 What do you mean fluid?

00:44:13.260 Well, like you like girls or boys?

00:44:16.720 Oh, I like anything, really.

00:44:18.800 Isn't that so good?

00:44:20.360 She's really open.

00:44:21.460 I don't mean to knock on Demi Lovato.

00:44:23.760 She's representative of a broader culture.

00:44:26.420 It's good to be open.

00:44:28.220 It's bad to be closed.

00:44:30.360 It's good to just have your loins titillated by anything.

00:44:35.460 And it's bad to have preferences.

00:44:38.440 It's bad to say some things are good, some things are bad, some things are right, some

00:44:41.460 things are wrong.

00:44:41.860 So Demi Lovato is sexually attracted to anything.

00:44:45.420 So she's sexually attracted to kids, right? 1.00

00:44:49.580 Because kids are within the subset of anything.

00:44:52.860 So...

00:44:53.280 And she's fluid and she's open.

00:44:54.580 So she probably...

00:44:54.980 And she's attracted to animals, right?

00:44:56.720 Sexually.

00:44:57.780 Because she's attracted to anything. 0.94

00:44:59.180 She's a pansexual.

00:45:00.200 She's attracted to anything.

00:45:01.020 She's attracted to my leftist years tumbler, right?

00:45:04.180 It's in the...

00:45:04.880 No.

00:45:05.080 I guess the leftist years tumbler, much, much less objectionable than the kids or the animals.

00:45:11.380 No.

00:45:12.040 I bet if I asked her this right now, I said, so you're attracted to kids and animals?

00:45:15.420 She'd say, no.

00:45:15.920 Oh my gosh.

00:45:16.560 No.

00:45:16.720 What are you talking... 1.00

00:45:17.260 You sicko. 1.00

00:45:17.840 What are you talking about? 1.00

00:45:18.640 Oh, okay.

00:45:18.960 So then you're not attracted.

00:45:21.120 You're not totally fluid.

00:45:22.320 Some things are solid.

00:45:24.420 There are some guard reels here.

00:45:25.920 You're not totally open.

00:45:26.920 You're somewhat closed-minded, as you should be.

00:45:32.900 It is good to be somewhat closed-minded.

00:45:36.220 Skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction, to quote William F. Buckley Jr.,

00:45:41.460 quoting a prominent liberal in God and Man at Yale.

00:45:44.400 Some people are so open-minded that their brains fall out.

00:45:50.400 Fluid.

00:45:51.280 Open.

00:45:51.720 We can't know anything.

00:45:52.860 We're just...

00:45:53.260 We're everything, man.

00:45:54.120 You know, it's just kind of whatever.

00:45:56.920 Man, I got to get to New York, don't I?

00:45:59.380 No.

00:46:00.220 No, I don't think so.

00:46:02.440 We are in a moment where our culture wants to deny that we can say anything.

00:46:09.360 And the right has fallen for this worse than the left has.

00:46:12.180 At least the left continues to pursue their own political agenda.

00:46:15.160 They at least continue to exert their will, if not their reason.

00:46:18.660 But we on the right, we've fallen for it.

00:46:20.060 We've said, well, we can't...

00:46:21.520 Look, if I say one thing's good, then you might say another thing's good.

00:46:24.560 And that's just values and preferences, man.

00:46:26.160 And we can't know anything for sure.

00:46:27.380 And we can't use our reason.

00:46:28.680 No.

00:46:29.240 Guys, put down the bong.

00:46:33.040 Okay?

00:46:34.420 Recognize that there is such a thing as truth, goodness, justice, beauty.

00:46:39.840 We can kind of know these things.

00:46:41.860 And when we can kind of know these things, we can govern ourselves.

00:46:44.340 We used to know that in America.

00:46:45.820 But I don't know.

00:46:46.420 Maybe we're all suffering a cultural short-term memory loss or something.

00:46:49.100 Maybe we've had a few too many rips.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 01, 2021

Ep. 733 - Know-Nothin’ Country

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