The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 734 - Si, Se Pwodway

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00:00:37.760 The British CEO of a Fortune 100 company is very upset that the voters of Georgia,

00:00:44.820 through their elected representatives, are trying to protect their elections.

00:00:48.660 He's really upset about this, and he's going to do everything he can to stop it.

00:00:52.620 Let me be crystal clear and unequivocal.

00:00:55.360 This legislation is unacceptable.

00:00:58.660 It is a step backwards, and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting,

00:01:07.460 around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity.

00:01:12.160 And this is frankly just a step backwards.

00:01:14.800 We've spent many decades promoting within Georgia a better society and a better environment for prisoners,

00:01:21.420 and this is a step backwards, and we're very clear on that, and our position remains the same.

00:01:26.320 This legislation is wrong and needs to be remedied, and we will continue to advocate for it, both in private and now even more clearly in public.

00:01:36.240 That's what we will do, fellow Americans.

00:01:39.060 Yes, we will, because we're all Americans here.

00:01:41.840 We're all residents of Atlanta and Georgia, and that's what it turns out that he's Michael Caine is the closest that he's got.

00:01:48.960 Really not helping his case, and really not a compelling argument when multinational corporations are coming in.

00:01:57.420 And I'm not even just talking about Coca-Cola.

00:01:59.820 There are a bunch of these corporations going in and saying that the voters of Georgia have no right to protect their elections.

00:02:05.840 This guy's got every right, I suppose, to lobby in the public, certainly, maybe in private, too.

00:02:11.040 And the Georgia representatives have every right to punish Coca-Cola for trying to undermine their government, for undermining their politics.

00:02:20.300 It is long past time that Republicans stopped harping on abstract economic theories and started talking about old-time politics,

00:02:32.120 particularly when it comes to the corporations that hate us.

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00:04:21.920 Not just Coca-Cola that is trying to undermine election integrity in the United States.

00:04:27.600 American Airlines, which is based in Fort Worth.

00:04:30.740 American Airlines has come out against voting legislation that was passed by the Texas Senate to protect the integrity of those elections.

00:04:41.180 American Airlines says to make American stance clear.

00:04:45.120 The answer to a question nobody asked.

00:04:47.220 We are strongly opposed to this bill and others like it.

00:04:51.140 What's going on here?

00:04:53.180 What's going on in Texas?

00:04:54.620 What's going on in Georgia?

00:04:55.820 What's going on in other places?

00:04:56.820 Is that all around this country, leftist activists overturned election integrity measures in 2020.

00:05:06.080 And they used the virus as the excuse to do it.

00:05:08.620 In many cases, they violated the law.

00:05:10.740 In some cases, they violated the state constitution to do it.

00:05:13.800 And so now, after the unbelievable nonsense that went on during those elections, the outrageous power grabs, the collapse of voter integrity measures,

00:05:27.420 people are going in and saying, no, we got to make sure that you don't try to steal elections.

00:05:32.460 Because political parties, and notably the Democrats, have stolen elections by stuffing ballot boxes for a long time.

00:05:39.280 This was outlined in excruciating detail by Robert Caro in his description of the 1948 Senate election in Texas involving Lyndon Johnson,

00:05:48.540 gave us President Johnson eventually.

00:05:51.160 They do this a lot, and so we need to protect the ballot.

00:05:54.620 Because, you know, when someone is not permitted to vote, if that person is eligible to vote, that's a big problem.

00:06:03.160 But when an ineligible voter votes, in both of those cases, a vote from a legitimate voter is taken away.

00:06:12.980 It's not the only way to take away a vote from a legitimate voter if you prevent him from voting.

00:06:17.040 You can also just enfranchise an ineligible voter.

00:06:19.880 That accomplishes the same end.

00:06:22.260 So what is the Texas legislature going to do here?

00:06:25.640 What I think they should do is punish American Airlines.

00:06:30.480 The, well, I think the old school Republican view of this would be, yes, punish companies that are trying to subvert your republic. 1.00

00:06:39.960 But then over the last 20 years, the Republican Party has gone stupid. 0.99

00:06:44.800 And the conservative movement even has really atrophied. 1.00

00:06:47.620 And the conservative movement has become little more than shills for giant corporations that hate us.

00:06:54.000 And it's because of some misbegotten principle that conservatives are never supposed to use political power and we're supposed to let corporations run our country.

00:07:04.100 It's because, I don't know, because too many conservative movement leaders read Ayn Rand or something and forgot that there is actually a political tradition here.

00:07:13.080 And if, if the wokeism and the upending of our culture is being pushed by corporations, that's really no better in the end than if it's being pushed by big government or something else like that.

00:07:23.820 So I think the Texas legislature, I don't know what kind of tax breaks American Airlines gets.

00:07:27.860 I bet they get some pretty significant ones.

00:07:29.800 The Texas legislature should go in and strip them of those tax breaks. 0.99

00:07:32.520 They should go in with the punitive purpose of preventing a very powerful company like American Airlines from subverting the electoral process.

00:07:42.960 Same thing going on back in Georgia with, with Delta.

00:07:46.440 Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, one of the woker of the airline CEOs.

00:07:53.640 He said that the new election law in Georgia, quote, does not match Delta's values.

00:07:58.260 So Delta does not value protecting the ballot box in Georgia.

00:08:05.260 That's okay.

00:08:05.640 It doesn't, the, the protection of American elections does not match Delta's values.

00:08:09.900 Delta has very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

00:08:12.620 Delta in 2015 bought a three and a half percent stake, a little bit more than that actually,

00:08:18.080 in China Eastern Airlines, which is a state airline.

00:08:22.200 Purchased that for almost half a billion dollars.

00:08:24.700 So the Chinese Communist Party and the policies associated with it, for instance, the genocide of the Uyghur minority,

00:08:35.280 the longstanding, though fortunately now seems to have gone by the wayside policy of one child, on and on and on.

00:08:42.880 That, very much in line with Delta's values.

00:08:45.800 China, our number one geopolitical adversary, so supporting our, our number one enemy, 0.99

00:08:50.260 that goes along with Delta's values, but protecting the ballot box in Georgia does not.

00:08:55.320 Georgia should strip Delta of its tax breaks. 0.90

00:08:59.540 And they're, they're moving to do that right now.

00:09:01.840 So the Georgia State House passed an amendment that would strip Delta of a multimillion dollar tax break.

00:09:08.460 They've done this before.

00:09:09.920 Delta has weathered it.

00:09:11.400 I don't know how well they could weather these sorts of things right now because the airlines are hemorrhaging cash.

00:09:16.280 But it, it, even this sort of thing, this punishment of not, of losing your tax break has not worked very well in the past.

00:09:23.260 This is not a mere political disagreement.

00:09:26.820 Meaning, this is, this is not an ordinary disagreement over, well, you want more immigrants, I want fewer immigrants. 1.00

00:09:31.900 You want higher taxes, I want lower taxes.

00:09:34.080 You support this kind of funding for this project, I support this thing.

00:09:38.740 Even you support this view of marriage, I support this view of marriage.

00:09:41.180 This goes deeper.

00:09:43.260 This is, the people of Georgia are saying, we support our right to vote and secure elections.

00:09:50.380 And Delta's saying, nah, we don't, we don't support your right to vote.

00:09:54.220 We support whatever outcome we want and we're going to undermine the integrity of elections to do it.

00:10:02.340 The Georgia State House should consider getting even tougher than they already doing, than they already are doing.

00:10:08.060 Can, can we do that?

00:10:08.960 Is it possible?

00:10:10.900 For an answer to that question, we turn to Dr. Jill Biden. 0.86

00:10:15.920 So say it with me.

00:10:17.660 Si se puede. The future is ours. Thank you. Yes, we can do it. Si se puede.

00:10:29.020 No, no se puede. If we're talking about Jill Biden, Jill Biden was not able to do it.

00:10:35.340 The Democrats have always been good at pandering, particularly on racial issues.

00:10:40.280 This is why they try to sprinkle their conversation with Spanish. Usually it doesn't go very well.

00:10:46.200 If you watched the first couple of presidential primary debates during 2020 on the Democrat side,

00:10:51.660 it would have been like you were in a sixth grade Spanish classroom with Cory Booker trying to babble

00:10:58.660 out some broken Spanish, Beto O'Rourke. That was unfortunate. And isn't he Spanish? He's Hispanic. 1.00

00:11:03.880 He should be able to do it. And now Jill Biden butchering that language. However, it's funny.

00:11:10.160 I mentioned the Jill Biden thing in part because we, for the past four years, had a first lady who 0.98

00:11:16.760 spoke something like five languages, maybe more, very elegant, very urbane. And the entire left just

00:11:23.200 tried to make her out to be some kind of evil bimbo. But Jill Biden, who I'm not going to attack 1.00

00:11:29.200 Jill Biden. She might be a nice lady. I don't know. But they try to make her out to be like a Rhodes 1.00

00:11:34.040 scholar, you know. And for a while, Whoopi Goldberg on The View was campaigning for her to be the

00:11:39.240 surgeon general because she didn't know what kind of degree Jill Biden had. And so anyway, just to 0.99

00:11:46.440 note the double standard. To the question, though, that Jill Biden, I guess, is trying to allude to,

00:11:52.080 can we do it? I want to apply that question here in the question of the woke companies. Can we,

00:12:00.480 as conservatives, say no to the companies? Can we say, hey, you've gone too far. You're trying to

00:12:09.160 undermine our system. And we're not going to let you do that. And we are going to wield the power

00:12:13.940 of the state when the people have given it to us against the allegedly free market. I think that

00:12:21.040 phrase has been stretched beyond all meaning recently. But can we wield the power of the

00:12:27.020 state as conservatives to undermine the working of the free market when those actors in the free

00:12:31.900 market are trying to subvert our republic? My answer, si, se puede. Se puede mucho, mucho,

00:12:38.460 muy, muy. I don't know. I don't speak Spanish any better than, than Jill Biden does. Of course we can.

00:12:44.500 Conservatives, by writing a blank check to the corporations, we have given away the game.

00:12:49.320 Because have you noticed that the big corporations around the country are pretty into woke politics?

00:12:54.600 Have you noticed that there are some of the leaders in terms of pushing wokeism around our

00:12:59.860 country? Why would we let them get away with that? Because we've made some idol out of

00:13:04.860 a misbegotten conception of free markets. I love free markets. In their proper place toward the actual

00:13:11.960 end of politics, the free markets are not the end of my politics. They're an instrument toward a good

00:13:17.820 polity, toward a flourishing regime, toward justice, which James Madison says in The Federalist is the end

00:13:24.600 of government. Si, se puede. Si puede muy, muy. Mucho, mucho.

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00:13:59.660 to ensure your title is still in your name. Speaking of childish Spanish, Jen Psaki was just 1.00

00:14:06.760 asked a very difficult question and she didn't have a very good answer. What's going on at the

00:14:10.560 southern border right now is that coyotes are hurling Hispanic children over the border.

00:14:18.960 Peter Doocy brings this question up to Jen Psaki, says, hey, you know, your border policies don't seem 0.53

00:14:24.740 to be working that well if it's incentivizing criminal cartels to just hurl children across

00:14:30.760 the border. What are you guys doing about that? On immigration, has the White House considered

00:14:35.260 beefing up border security now that there is video of a three-year-old and a five-year-old being

00:14:40.700 thrown over the wall in New Mexico? Beefing up border security? Well, there's video now of a

00:14:48.500 three-year-old and a five-year-old. I've seen the video and I think any of us who saw the video

00:14:52.580 were incredibly alarmed by the steps of smugglers, ones that we have been quite familiar with,

00:14:59.380 that we've spoken out about, our concerns about. As Secretary Mayorkas said, the inhumane way smugglers

00:15:05.360 abuse children while profiting off parents' desperation is criminal and morally reprehensible.

00:15:10.180 The president certainly agrees with that. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that the president agrees with

00:15:15.420 that, but why is he still pursuing policies that encourage the behavior? If you've got

00:15:22.320 effectively an open border, if you're pursuing catch and release, if you're saying the kids get

00:15:27.020 to stay, then what do you think is going to happen? The coyotes are going to start throwing the kids 0.90

00:15:33.140 over the border. They're making a lot of money doing this. There was a coyote just the other day

00:15:36.240 told Univision business is booming. The president of Mexico blamed Joe Biden for what's going on.

00:15:41.240 Everyone in the country is blaming Joe Biden for this, but Biden doesn't want to take

00:15:44.360 responsibility. It's quite clear. While the border has always been an issue, things have gotten much,

00:15:49.900 much worse under Biden because Biden said, come here, come surge, get over here. So Jen, you know, 1.00

00:15:56.680 he might have the best of intentions, but look at what's going on. Look at what his policies are

00:16:01.360 actually resulting in. What's your answer to it, Jen? These kids, I believe were rescued from, by,

00:16:08.380 by individuals who are working at the border. Yes, but they still got close enough,

00:16:14.360 as you guys are talking about addressing root causes in the region for a smuggler to throw them

00:16:18.940 over a wall into the desert. And I'm just curious what the White House is doing to stop that from

00:16:25.320 happening. And are you concerned more about the kids' safety or are you concerned about kids getting

00:16:29.800 in? Or tell me more about your concern here. Kids' safety is, as you just mentioned, the main concern.

00:16:35.820 Well, of course it is, which is why I'm often surprised by some of the line of questioning here. But

00:16:40.480 I will say that our concern and our focus is on sending a clear message to smuggler, to the region

00:16:48.300 that this is not the time to come. Not the time to come. Not the time to come. We want to send a

00:16:55.060 very clear message about this issue of violating our laws. And we want to send a very clear message.

00:17:00.640 Wait until next week. Come on. Come on, man. This is a very clear message. We are not going to

00:17:07.680 tolerate this sort of thing until at least 2 p.m. today. So just don't, you know, hey, come on.

00:17:15.500 We're being serious. Come on, man. That's not even the most egregious part of that exchange.

00:17:22.740 Peter Doocy asks the very serious question. Why are we allowing these criminals to get close enough

00:17:27.020 to hurl three-year-olds over the wall? And Jen Psaki, she says, well, hold on, Peter. Is your concern

00:17:33.060 concern the law or is your concern the safety of the children? I want to know about your concern.

00:17:38.640 I don't care about Peter Doocy's concern. Why should anybody care about Peter Doocy's innermost

00:17:46.280 concerns and motivations? I care about the question he's asking, which is the actual policy.

00:17:52.260 Well, yeah, but what are your intentions? What are your feelings, Peter? First of all, by the way,

00:17:58.320 you can both be concerned about the safety of the children and the safety of the American people

00:18:03.600 and the enforcement of our laws that were passed through the democratic process here in the country

00:18:08.920 that at one time was governed underneath, under a constitution. You can be concerned about all,

00:18:15.200 I'm concerned about the whole thing, Jen. Why is it that it's only permissible to be concerned about

00:18:20.400 the little children, but it's not permissible to be concerned about the enforcement of the law?

00:18:27.000 Well, conservatives sometimes fall into making these arguments too, which is if you're talking

00:18:33.020 about, say, the injustice of affirmative action policies that, you know, disadvantage white and

00:18:38.520 Asian students in college and job applications and give an unfair advantage to black and Hispanic 0.97

00:18:43.500 students. Sometimes you will hear people say, look, it's actually, it's really, it's unfair to the

00:18:49.780 students who get the advantage because then they'll be, it'll be, they'll be looked at as though they

00:18:54.100 didn't deserve to get in, that will follow them, their career. It's, it's the soft bigotry of low

00:18:59.660 expectations. It's really unfair to them. Sure. Okay. It's all, it is also unfair to the people.

00:19:06.400 It's disadvantaging. Yes, it's true that what's going on at the border is unfair to these children.

00:19:12.280 It's creating awful incentives and it's bad to put kids in cages. Yeah, that's true. That is bad.

00:19:17.220 And it's also unfair to the American people. And it's not, it's not illegitimate to mention the 0.59

00:19:23.660 concerns of the American people and the enforcement of our laws. The only interest Jen Psaki has, 1.00

00:19:30.580 the only pseudo argument she can make is about motivations and intentions and psychobabble.

00:19:37.240 Speaking of dubious motivations on another major issue of public safety and public health,

00:19:46.440 the vaccines. Chris Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo on CNN had Liana Nguyen on. Dr. Liana Nguyen was the former

00:19:54.860 president of Planned Parenthood and she was booted out, I believe for not being radical enough on 1.00

00:19:59.560 abortion. She was, she was radical enough to become the president of Planned Parenthood, but, 0.91

00:20:03.780 but not so radical, uh, that they, that she would go as far as the organization wanted to go,

00:20:09.460 which really tells you some spooky stuff about that organization. Liana Nguyen, hate to have to

00:20:15.400 say something sort of nice about her. She was fairly honest on television. She said the quiet part

00:20:21.100 out loud about the left's maniacal push, un, unconstitutional push to get everyone at all

00:20:29.540 times immediately to get the vaccine and to prove to everybody that they got the vaccine.

00:20:34.340 She said that time is running out to, to force everyone to do this because ultimately they're

00:20:39.820 probably not going to need to. We need to make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back

00:20:44.620 to pre pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing. I mean, you were mentioning Chris

00:20:49.240 about how all these States are reopening. They're reopening at a hundred percent. And we have a very

00:20:54.800 narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status because otherwise if everything is reopened,

00:21:01.120 then what's the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the

00:21:05.400 vaccine? So that's why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder

00:21:10.200 and say, if you're vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have

00:21:15.720 because otherwise people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway.

00:21:21.200 Heaven forfend. We enjoy our freedoms anyway, without her permission. Really, I don't mean to

00:21:28.000 beat up on her too much here. She's at least blowing the whistle on what the public health apparatus 1.00

00:21:32.560 believes and what the left believes. What's the stick going to be? What's the carrot going to be?

00:21:37.960 What's the carrot going to be? She's saying that the States are going to reopen to a hundred percent.

00:21:43.680 That just is happening. And the left is pretending that the States reopening to a hundred percent

00:21:51.680 is contingent upon a hundred percent of people getting the vaccine. But Liana Wynn admits that's

00:21:58.120 not really true. That's just a lie, a noble lie that the public health left is telling people right now

00:22:05.860 in this narrow window before the States reopened to a hundred percent.

00:22:11.800 I don't have any interest in getting the vaccine. Not because I'm afraid that the vaccine is going

00:22:18.360 to kill me. Not because I'm afraid that the vaccine is going to inject me in 5G or something going

00:22:23.340 around. Frankly, I could use the extra cell service, right? So I'm not, I'm not totally concerned about

00:22:27.080 that. It's because I'm making a prudential calculation of risk, which is that I'm young. I think I'm

00:22:34.560 unhealthy. I'm not saying I'm invincible. There's a chance that I could very, very small chance,

00:22:39.500 but there is a chance I could suffer some real awful complication from COVID and I'm going to

00:22:44.140 roll the dice. Okay. If I were 85, maybe I would think differently. And Liana Wynn and the public

00:22:51.880 health apparatus are saying, you need, you must get the vaccine. We're going to force you to get the

00:22:56.100 vaccine. If you don't get the vaccine, you're not going to be allowed to engage in commerce,

00:22:58.960 which by the way is convincing me more and more that I I'm not interested in getting the vaccine.

00:23:04.600 If, if I'm going to be told that I'm going to be ostracized from society,

00:23:07.720 not because of any medical necessity, but because of the political desires of these people. When you

00:23:15.460 talk about sticks and carrots, when you're talking about public, the public side of public health,

00:23:19.340 you're talking about politics. And I think these, these people's politics just totally whack.

00:23:26.180 And I'm not, not interested in indulging that at all. I do appreciate it when our political

00:23:32.220 opponents tell us what they want, tell us what they think. When your opponents tell you what

00:23:37.500 they're after, you should believe them. Even if it is someone like the former director of Planned

00:23:42.480 Parenthood, even if it's someone like Dr. Fauci, who has admitted that he was not exactly truthful

00:23:49.220 on the masks. Can I say, can I just say he lied when he came out initially and said, the masks don't

00:23:54.500 do anything. Don't wear the masks. And then later on said, you need to wear the masks. They do a lot.

00:23:59.100 And then he was asked why he flipped. And he said, well, you know, part of it is the science change,

00:24:03.420 but really the reason I flipped is I wanted to save the masks for the nurses. And so I,

00:24:07.860 if I told people that the masks worked, then they would all go out and buy them and we wouldn't be

00:24:13.120 able to save them for the people I wanted to have them. That's all politics. I, I, I don't agree

00:24:20.800 with most of what these people are saying, but when they tell you what they believe, believe them.

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00:24:55.160 do apply. Speaking of medications, the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer involved in the death

00:25:02.900 of George Floyd is going on right now. Now I'm using my words carefully. I'm not saying the officer

00:25:08.160 who killed George Floyd or the officer involved involved in the killing of George Floyd. I'm saying

00:25:12.340 he was there at the death. And the question is, did this police officer murder George Floyd? Did he

00:25:20.660 accidentally kill George Floyd or did George Floyd suffer a drug overdose? Did he resist arrest?

00:25:28.280 Well, we know he resisted arrest. We know he was on drugs. We know that he asked to be taken out of

00:25:32.500 the car. We know all of those things just from video. So what was the cause of death?

00:25:37.040 Already the left thinks that this cop is going to get off. If there's justice, the left seems to

00:25:48.220 think that the cop will get off because they're preemptively saying there shouldn't even be a

00:25:52.660 trial. We should just pay money to the family of George Floyd and the other race hustlers who are 1.00

00:25:57.920 trying to exploit this situation. We're bracing for riots. We're bracing for... Why? Because you think

00:26:03.500 he's going to get off. Why do you think he's going to get off? Well, for instance, because George

00:26:06.640 Floyd's girlfriend admitted on the stand yesterday that George Floyd had a very, very bad drug habit

00:26:14.820 and a drug habit that was so bad that he did overdose within two months of his death, which

00:26:22.220 may or may not have been caused by an overdose. We went to the hospital a couple of times in March.

00:26:26.680 Okay. He was hospitalized for a more extended period of time in March, right?

00:26:32.240 Yes. That's the incident I'm talking about. Okay. I went to go pick Floyd up from his house

00:26:38.640 that night. I thought I was taking him to work. He wasn't feeling good. His stomach really hurt. He

00:26:48.000 was doubled over in pain. Just wasn't feeling well. And he said he had to go to the hospital. So

00:26:55.120 I took him straight to the hospital. We went to the ER and they were checking him out in the ER. And

00:27:08.560 it was getting late and I had to get home to my son. So I left that Friday night.

00:27:15.080 So it goes on. More and more evidence that George Floyd died of a drug overdose. I mean,

00:27:29.440 even just the report of the toxicity in his blood, he had very, very toxic levels of drugs in his blood.

00:27:36.580 This is, I'd like to stake out a third position here between George Floyd is the worst person in

00:27:42.300 the world and he got what he deserved. And this cop killed George Floyd and, you know,

00:27:47.640 he needs to go to jail forever or something like that. What if it's the case that George Floyd

00:27:53.880 resisted arrest, took a bunch of drugs, overdosed, that this cop has been wrongly maligned,

00:28:02.900 whatever happened in the moment that he's, what people are accusing him of doing, he didn't do.

00:28:07.040 And what if one can sort of feel bad for George Floyd? But George Floyd robbed a pregnant woman

00:28:13.940 at gunpoint. Yeah, he doesn't sound like a good guy. He does not sound like a good guy at all.

00:28:17.640 But what if one can feel sort of bad for George Floyd in that the, the drug addiction that he

00:28:24.740 obviously had is just the clearest representation of vice and sin and broken human nature. This guy

00:28:36.100 was obviously not totally in control of what he did. He's an addict. I know that in the modern 1.00

00:28:41.560 liberal view, being able to pursue your base desires is considered the definition of freedom,

00:28:46.620 but it's not. It's the opposite of freedom. It's licentiousness and it compromises your free will

00:28:50.560 and it, it compromises your ability to control yourself and your desires and it compromises your

00:28:56.520 rational faculties. And that's a very sad thing. It's why we shouldn't let druggies completely off the

00:29:02.960 hook and say, well, it's not your fault. No, it kind of is your fault. Maybe, maybe it's a vicious

00:29:08.480 cycle. Maybe you had bad circumstances and then you turned to drugs and then you further impaired

00:29:12.440 your will and then you couldn't get out of it. Maybe it's a bad cycle and you're somewhat responsible,

00:29:16.340 but you've also compromised your free will during that. What if that's the case? I'm thinking of this,

00:29:22.280 this Matt Gaetz thing here. And Matt Gaetz, speaking of potential crimes, is being accused of all sorts of

00:29:29.720 things. But right now, the latest that's come out is that he allegedly paid hookers using electronic

00:29:35.760 apps and, and he, I'm not even saying he did this a long time ago. He did apparently, according to the

00:29:42.020 allegations, he did this like two or three years ago. I don't know if it's true or not. I don't, I

00:29:45.740 generally don't believe things in the New York Times, but we certainly have seen this kind of

00:29:49.780 behavior with other politicians. Elliot Spitzer, paying hookers while, while in office, while I think

00:29:55.820 he was prosecuting people for prostitution. Katie Hill, all sorts of weird sex crimes while she was 0.96

00:30:03.220 running for office and in office. Bob Menendez, all sorts of weird sex allegations and, and I think

00:30:09.580 underage prostitutes in the case of, of him and his allegations while he was a sitting senator.

00:30:16.720 I mention all of this, especially today on Good Friday, because the thing that strikes us about all

00:30:23.640 these, I'm not even just singling out Matt Gaetz. I don't know if those are true or not, but, but all

00:30:26.600 these allegations and sometimes proven crimes of politicians, you look at them and you, you're not

00:30:32.220 really astounded that they would give into sins of the flesh. That's, that's actually not what

00:30:37.100 surprises me. Didn't surprise me about Katie Hill. Doesn't surprise me about any of these guys.

00:30:40.700 We're kind of fleshy beings and we have these desires. I'm not, I'm no more surprised at that than I

00:30:45.280 would be surprised that a fat guy gives into eating a cupcake. But what surprises you is that someone with

00:30:51.080 this kind of power, Bob Kraft, you know, super rich sports team owner goes to a massage parlor in

00:30:57.600 Jupiter. Why, why would you, why are you doing it? You have everything and yet you give into this really

00:31:02.400 basic base desire. Genesis chapter four, verse seven, sin is crouching at your door and it desires you.

00:31:15.040 It's there. It's, it's there. It's always there waiting to devour you. And it doesn't matter how

00:31:22.500 big and powerful and rich and famous you get. In some ways you're more susceptible to it then.

00:31:29.600 And it doesn't matter how old, it's not like, you know, when you're a kid, you make all these

00:31:32.400 mistakes, but then you become an adult and you don't have to worry about this anymore. You do.

00:31:36.940 You of course do. The, the thing that's interesting to me about the Matt Gaetz allegations or really

00:31:42.820 any of the other, you know, proven crimes we've seen from politicians is how stupid it seems 0.97

00:31:50.100 from the outside perspective, but how persuasive it must have been for these people in this moment. 0.99

00:31:58.860 The hubris it has to involve, the lust that it has to involve, the lack of self-control that it has to

00:32:05.900 involve. Like an addiction, you know, we are reminded that the man who sins is a slave to sin.

00:32:14.060 Any coherent understanding of liberty in the American context or in any context has to start

00:32:21.820 from there, has to start from this distinction between licentiousness and liberty. Because if we

00:32:28.380 can continue to conflate the two, we're going to lose our liberty more and more and more and more.

00:32:34.720 And we're not going to need some woke corporation to undermine our political liberty. We will have

00:32:40.240 done it ourselves. We're not going to need to, to, to focus only on Delta or Coca-Cola or some crazy

00:32:48.960 blue hairs or anything like that. We, even as conservatives, even as Republicans, will,

00:32:55.160 will have done it ourselves. Are we going to continue to have intellect and will as conservatives?

00:33:00.700 Are we going to try to, to pull that back from the bizarre, silly, shallow philosophy we've embraced 0.85

00:33:06.580 over the last 20 or so years? My answer is C.C. Poadwe. C.C. Poadwe. Muy, muy, mucho, mucho.

00:33:14.140 Ben is going to be talking about this on his show, the Woka Cola nonsense, and also AOC's plan to spend 0.98

00:33:20.360 $10 trillion. Also, you got to check out Candace's show. The Candace show is coming up. The show is

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00:33:37.300 can tune in Friday night for a closer look. We will be right back with the mailbag.

00:33:54.800 Welcome back. My absolute favorite time of the week, beginning with Nicholas. Dear Michael,

00:34:00.880 you talk a lot about Gnostic dualism and how it relates to transgenderism. Could you give an

00:34:07.220 explanation in detail of what exactly the heresy is and why it is such, but without the parallels to

00:34:14.740 the transgender movement? Thanks. Love the show. Can't wait for the new book. Oh, thank you very

00:34:17.660 much. Yes, gladly. Wow. Oh my gosh. You've just reminded me. This must be the longest I've gone

00:34:21.380 without plugging my new book in, in weeks. The new book, by the way, titled Speechless, Controlling

00:34:26.300 Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order and you can also pre-order an autographed copy

00:34:29.700 at Premier Collectibles. Great question on Gnostic dualism. So Gnostic dualism has taken many forms

00:34:38.760 over the millennia. One of the clearest versions of this would be Manichaeism, this battle between

00:34:45.760 good and evil and the evil of this world and the good of the eternal realm. You see a kind of softer

00:34:51.420 version of this in a revival of Manichaeism, which occurred a little over a millennium later in the rise

00:34:57.620 of Albigensianism, also known as Catharism. What all of these versions have in common is that the

00:35:05.960 physical world is evil and the metaphysical world is good. And so we need to oppose the physical world.

00:35:14.180 It lends itself to a sort of asceticism and we need to only embrace the truth of the metaphysical

00:35:19.260 world. This is why we use this term Gnosticism is because what you see, what we all sense this

00:35:27.760 world and perceive this world to be is not true according to this philosophy. That actually there's

00:35:32.720 a secret knowledge. That's where the word Gnostic means, right? Secret knowledge that really tells you

00:35:39.780 the truth. So I look like a boy. The parallel to transgenderism then is I look like a boy, but

00:35:46.000 secretly I know that I'm a girl. So, so therefore it's not just an open question. Am I a boy as I

00:35:54.020 appear or am I a girl as I secretly know deep down somewhere? What Gnostic dualism would posit is

00:35:59.540 physical world, always bad, metaphysical world, purely good. But the reality of the situation is that

00:36:05.200 God who exists outside of time and space creates this whole physical world that we have around us

00:36:12.600 through this, this loving act of speech and the, the words that God, with which God speaks the

00:36:20.260 universe into creation is God. The word is God, the divine logic of the universe, the logos is God.

00:36:25.540 And then the bond of unity between the father and the son is so substantial that he is a third person,

00:36:31.480 which makes up the Trinity. The physical world is created good, but goes bad through the fall of man,

00:36:41.240 through the disobedience of Adam in the garden to turn away from God and to disobey. And then man is

00:36:49.220 kicked out and sin and death pervade the world. However, that's not the end of the story. The

00:36:55.620 line that we celebrate on Easter is the, the felix culpa, oh happy fault that won for us so great,

00:37:05.120 so glorious. So glorious a redeemer that God in his providence, even though the world goes so, so bad

00:37:11.140 becomes incarnate, sends his only begotten son. And so the second person of the, of the Trinity

00:37:17.980 becomes a man, fully human, fully divine and dies on the cross today on Good Friday and really dies.

00:37:28.260 And on the cross in his death repays this, this debt, this infinite debt, repays it and redeems

00:37:38.200 mankind and descends into hell, harrows hell, rises again from the dead, ascends up into heaven to see

00:37:45.540 that the God, the right hand of God, the father almighty, he shall come again to judge living in

00:37:48.700 the dead and his kingdom will have no end. That's the, it's a great question for Good Friday from

00:37:53.300 Justine. Hey Michael, do you think men of Italian descent make for a better mate? If so, what 0.99

00:37:59.540 qualities make them better? I'm a little bit biased in this question, but I'm going to try to give you

00:38:04.880 as objective an answer as I can. Yes, absolutely. 100%. There's no question about it. Why?

00:38:12.800 I will acknowledge there are some downsides to Italian men. We are, well, I think this is an upside, 1.00

00:38:20.760 but today it would be considered a downside. We tend to be a little more old school, okay? Of all

00:38:25.500 the immigrant groups that ever came to America, basically the only one that ever turned out

00:38:28.980 conservative were the Italians. Cubans too, though that's weakening over time. The Italians, by and

00:38:36.260 large, a pretty conservative group that came over here, a little more old school. We're probably not

00:38:41.240 going to be, you know, Mr. Mom, okay? We're probably not going to get up and do the dishes all the

00:38:47.420 time, clean up the house. We're, okay, that, and that is, you know, that's unfortunate sometimes.

00:38:52.240 However, Italian men, beyond our immense charm and physical attractiveness and things like that, 1.00

00:38:59.600 good cooks. So we actually, you know, do cook a little bit at a time. Very passionate. Make of that

00:39:07.160 what you will. Very, very sentimental Italian men. You know, we put on a good stern exterior. Very,

00:39:13.540 very loving people. Think of the greatest love poetry ever written. Think of Dante. Think of

00:39:19.560 Petrarch. Oh, my gosh. We are, we are just so in love. We are so, you know, we, we, I'm speechless.

00:39:28.680 I'm left speechless by that. So yes, I think Italian men do make a good mate. I will say, just, I know

00:39:35.400 my wife listens to this show. I don't want her to get the wrong idea. I am taken, but there are lots

00:39:38.920 of Italian men out there. And so I wish that you will find your, your perfect match. From Joshua,

00:39:44.120 dear Michael Knowles, I understand that you do not enjoy marijuana yourself. It's never been your

00:39:49.920 personal thing. I do know you drink and use tobacco. So do I, but I'm wondering how you can morally

00:39:55.300 advocate for the legalization of alcohol and tobacco when they have similar, if not more harmful

00:40:01.060 effects than marijuana. This is probably the only area I disagree with you on. Love the show. We'll

00:40:06.060 continue watching regardless of the answer. Well, I'm not advocating for the legalization

00:40:09.680 of alcohol and tobacco. Those two things are legal. And marijuana is now increasingly legal,

00:40:19.000 but it's still broadly illegal. So we're not starting, we're not beginning from the same place.

00:40:24.860 One mistake that liberals make, and when I say liberals, I mean liberal Republicans and liberal

00:40:31.620 Democrats is they think that everything is abstract. They're, they're only looking at the alcohol or the

00:40:39.360 tobacco or the marijuana, but I'm actually looking at them in reality, in the practical tradition that

00:40:44.340 we have. Alcohol and tobacco are already legal. I don't see any reason to make them illegal. They

00:40:49.540 are heavily regulated. I'm not totally against that. I do wish I could still smoke my cigar in bars

00:40:55.240 somewhere, but you know, unfortunately Mike Bloomberg ruined that, but okay, that's fine. I'm talking

00:40:59.980 about the real practical tradition. Whereas marijuana is different. It's a bad thing. I don't think it

00:41:06.840 does anything good for the culture. Now you might say, Michael, that's not a perfectly abstract

00:41:11.720 rationalist argument. Right. I don't think we should be making abstract rationalist arguments

00:41:16.460 primarily in politics. I think we should be making prudential, practical arguments in politics.

00:41:22.120 There is another cultural aspect here, which is that tobacco has been a part of our culture for a

00:41:26.500 very long time, 500 years or so. It's been a part of American culture, you know, before Columbus

00:41:32.680 discovered America, it's been a part of American culture for a very, very long time. Now we live

00:41:37.000 in America. There's a little blending of culture there and alcohol has always been part of our

00:41:41.720 culture. Christ's first miracle is turning water into wine. I just don't think, speaking of rationalist

00:41:50.140 abstraction, I don't think it's a good idea to try to uproot these very important things from our

00:41:55.840 culture. And I don't know that we could do it even if we tried. I think that's part of why prohibition

00:42:01.400 failed. But I don't think that marijuana prohibition necessarily would fail. We kept marijuana illegal

00:42:07.620 for a really long time and I think that's perfectly fine. Or we can slowly start to regulate it. Okay.

00:42:13.920 I mean, I'm not going to, not going to flee the country because of that, but I just don't think

00:42:18.180 it's good. And I think that we are absolutely entitled in our Republic to have a vision of the

00:42:26.700 good and a vision of the true and a vision of the beautiful and a vision of what's right.

00:42:30.460 And to express that vision through our elected representatives in laws. And I don't think there's

00:42:34.280 anything wrong with that, particularly when that, those sorts of expressions and those regulations

00:42:38.380 are at the more local level. From Nick, Michael, I've been struggling with my faith for a number of

00:42:42.880 years now. I was brought up as a Christian, but have had a lot of exposure to a lot of

00:42:47.280 different religions during my formative years. This caused me to have many unanswered questions

00:42:52.140 regarding what I should and shouldn't believe. Being raised in the church, I want to believe in

00:42:57.000 God, but I just can't seem to fully commit. Could you please give me some insight as to what I should

00:43:01.020 do? Sure. I can recommend a bunch of books to read. I was an atheist for about 10 years. I was

00:43:05.900 brought back through certain arguments for the existence of God. The modal ontological argument got me

00:43:11.640 as formulated by Alvin Plantinga. The Thomistic arguments are very persuasive from St. Thomas

00:43:16.900 Aquinas. The book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis did a lot for me. But it depends what aspect you're

00:43:23.320 going after. You know, for me, the hang-up was intellectual pride. And so the way back in was

00:43:28.560 an intellectual way back in. If the hang-up for you is more, I don't know, emotional or something like

00:43:36.040 that, then you'll have a different way in. If it's more liturgical, you'll have a different way in.

00:43:39.460 You should know that God exists. The existence of God is knowable by the light of reason from

00:43:45.560 the natural world. So there are a lot of good arguments for God, and there are no good arguments

00:43:51.100 against God. But that might not bring you all the way. You might not say, well, okay, I acknowledge

00:43:55.140 God exists, but, you know, does that mean Christianity is true? Well, what are the arguments 0.99

00:43:59.640 for Christianity? They're really historical arguments, Christological considerations here,

00:44:05.900 right? You know, the nature of Christ himself, what Christ means. But Drew Clavin has a great

00:44:13.040 answer on this, which is that if you can't bring yourself to believe in God, just behave as though

00:44:18.900 you do for 60 days. Pray, behave in your personal life, and that will start to happen. Access to the

00:44:24.340 sacraments is very important here. And I think it's important not to fall into either of two

00:44:32.240 heresies. I don't think you should fall into the heresy of skepticism, that we just can't know

00:44:38.260 about these things for certain, which is a very popular heresy right now. But I also don't think

00:44:43.120 you should fall into the heresy of fideism, that reason is totally useless, and we just got to 0.97

00:44:48.260 believe our Bible, darn it, even if it contradicts reason. The Bible does not contradict reason, 0.95

00:44:52.720 by the way. The truth of the matter is that we can know these things through reason,

00:44:57.700 and also revelation tells us quite a lot. But the faith is reasonable, and you should know that.

00:45:05.880 If you have any more specifics on this, I'd be happy to answer a further question.

00:45:09.780 From Yarb, dear Michael, have you gotten more into guns and shooting since leaving California?

00:45:14.080 No, actually, I haven't. Unexpectedly. I got into guns and shooting in California.

00:45:21.480 I bought my first gun because the government told me I couldn't. So then I bought the gun,

00:45:27.200 and they told me I couldn't buy. I was much more into it there. Here, I'm kind of more laid back.

00:45:32.320 I'm more relaxed. I also have less time because I've got my sweet little screaming bundle of joy

00:45:35.720 24-7. So one does not have as much time to head on over to the range. But I'm interested. I want to

00:45:42.440 get more into it here. But I do think this is true more broadly in politics. I think much more

00:45:50.920 about very particular political questions when I'm surrounded by my opponents. Because I have to,

00:45:58.360 because the bullets are flying all the time. And so I've got to really consider down to the

00:46:01.340 nitty gritty. I think the same is true with all manner of behavior. You think much more about your

00:46:05.880 Second Amendment rights when you're in a place that, you know, there's no right, real right for

00:46:11.260 you to have it, or the right is really threatened. It's much, you're much more conscious of it when

00:46:17.100 you're in a place where you're under fire. From Spencer, dear Michael, first, I wanted to say

00:46:21.360 congratulations for becoming a father. Thank you very much. My question is this. Do you think the

00:46:25.780 public school system will pull back with their woke agenda anytime in the near future, at least

00:46:30.920 enough for very conservative parents like my wife and I to be comfortable and confident our daughter

00:46:35.680 won't be subjected to all the critical race theory and gender ideology nonsense? We are middle class.

00:46:40.160 We don't know if we'll be able to afford private school when our daughter is starting school.

00:46:43.860 We'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, this is a big issue. I'm, I'm,

00:46:47.100 grappling with this too. No, I don't think the public school system is going to get any better

00:46:50.740 anytime soon. The problems of the public school system have been built in from the beginning.

00:46:56.740 It goes way, way back many decades ago to John Dewey. It goes back well over a century and a half ago

00:47:01.420 or more to Horace Mann. There, there was always this progressive character to it. Your best hope,

00:47:08.100 I would suspect, is to move somewhere. Sorry to say this. I know that's not cheap either,

00:47:12.840 but your best hope is probably to move somewhere, uh, where the public schools are just less decayed

00:47:19.520 at this point. But it's very tricky. This is how they get you because the public schools are free.

00:47:23.400 The private schools are extremely expensive and homeschooling is expensive too because it's

00:47:26.560 expensive with your time. Last question from Mike. Hey, Michael, do you think that Sleepy Joe is so

00:47:31.420 sleepy because he can't sleep at night knowing that Corn Pop is still out there? Well, Mike,

00:47:35.280 great question. Corn Pop is a very bad dude. So that would not surprise me at all. Great question

00:47:40.660 to end on. Hope you all have a blessed and holy good Friday and holy Saturday and happy Easter.

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