The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 735 - The Fear Of Death Cult

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00:01:21.660 Intimidating people in a church during the Passover. 1.00

00:01:25.740 I love him. I want to make him an honorary American. What has gone wrong in our country

00:01:32.160 that Americans need to take lessons on freedom and religion from Canadians? I'm Michael Knowles. 0.94

00:01:38.900 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:40.360 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday, Olivia V, who says,

00:01:52.720 kids being thrown over a wall and no calls for Joe Biden's impeachment. Wow. That D next to a

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00:02:02.660 actions. It's exactly like a force field. It's a force field in the sense that when a politician on

00:02:08.540 the left does something that would have gotten a politician on the right in trouble, the force

00:02:12.680 field of not just the media, but big technology and corporate America and the activist foundations

00:02:19.880 and the universities and everything. And the whole edifice of establishment liberalism

00:02:27.060 rushes to the left winger's defense. Whereas on the right, that entire edifice

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00:04:18.620 Happy Easter, everybody. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal. Christ has burst the gates of hell.

00:04:28.320 Death in vain forbids his rise. Christ hath opened paradise. This was, I think that's a,

00:04:36.220 isn't that a Presbyterian line? I don't know. I heard this verse during an excellent Catholic homily

00:04:42.740 on Easter Sunday. And I won't say which church this was at or who the priest was because I don't,

00:04:50.180 I don't want him to be sent into the gulags or something for, for, for making a conservative

00:04:56.540 statement. But it was a really important homily because the priest pointed out that on Easter Sunday,

00:05:03.640 throughout our entire civilization, we once understood that death has been robbed of its

00:05:11.320 threats, of its power. Christ conquers death. And so we don't live our lives like little

00:05:18.620 wimps fearing death all the time. But now, because we are living in a culture where Christianity is 0.99

00:05:26.760 rapidly declining in public, we are all terrified. We have a neurotic, paranoid fear of death. We are

00:05:34.420 now living in a fear of death cult. We are every little thing. The last year and a half has shown

00:05:41.740 this most clearly. There were warning signs before that. We don't have Thanksgiving anymore. Public

00:05:48.360 health officials tell us not to have Thanksgiving. We don't see our family. We don't see our friends.

00:05:52.600 I'm not talking about you and me. I suspect if you're listening to this show right now,

00:05:56.140 you've probably been ignoring the exalted Dr. Fauci for approximately, oh, the entire time.

00:06:02.460 But for a bunch of other people in this country, they have followed these rules. They don't see

00:06:07.100 people. They don't live their lives. They won't go to work. They wear the stupid mask on their face.

00:06:11.880 They muzzle themselves up like good, good little boys and girls, like good little sheep. And they, 1.00

00:06:17.860 they tremble at the very thought that they might die. There are two things to know here. One is

00:06:23.840 the statistical, statistical likelihood that you will die, that you will suffer a physical death

00:06:29.320 is just about a hundred. Very, very unlikely. You're a, unless, I guess, unless we live through

00:06:37.600 the second coming of Christ, which entirely possible, but that'll be, that'll present its own 0.88

00:06:42.360 set of challenges. I think for a lot of people, otherwise you're going to die. Okay. And the

00:06:47.880 message of Easter is there's a way out. There's a, there's a way after the physical death, there is

00:06:53.300 a way to have eternal life. So you don't need to worry about it. You don't need to live in fear of

00:06:57.200 the tyrant. This is why Christianity is considered the greatest political revolution in the world is 0.92

00:07:02.400 that tyrannical rulers, the only thing they have on you is the fear that they can instill in you that 0.77

00:07:08.500 they'll, they'll kill you. And Christianity says, all right, whatever, do whatever you want. Feed me 0.85

00:07:12.720 to a lion. I don't really care. But now we're, we're living in this neurotic fear and it's making

00:07:18.320 us all nuts and it's, and it's ruining the life that we have. Do not fall into that, guys. I'm not

00:07:26.120 saying, I don't, I'm not praying that we hasten my death or anything like that. I'm not, I'm not

00:07:30.640 saying that I'm necessarily, you know, driving Corvettes, you know, really quickly on the side of

00:07:37.000 mountains. I can take a prudential care of my life, but I'm not that afraid of death. I'm afraid

00:07:42.140 of suffering. I would be kind of sad. I, you know, I wouldn't want to leave my family in a bad spot,

00:07:45.720 but we don't need to live in this crazy fear of death. And until we acknowledge that the Fauci's 1.00

00:07:56.000 of the world are going to continue to, to guide us around, like we're a bunch of terrified little

00:08:01.500 sheep, because we're not living in a Christian polity really anymore. There's still a lot of 0.99

00:08:08.760 Christians here. And, but I think for the first time ever, church attendance is less than 50% in the

00:08:13.720 United States. We talked about that, that public opinion survey last week. So this thing is, is

00:08:18.880 declining pretty rapidly. And in its place, it makes the matters even worse. You have some people

00:08:24.300 who call themselves Christian who manifestly are not. One person is Raphael Warnock. He's the,

00:08:29.580 the Senator from Georgia. Now I will, we'll, we'll get into Georgia voting laws more this week,

00:08:36.440 but he, he won because, you know, because Georgia voting is so evil and terrible.

00:08:42.120 Joe Biden was said to have won the state of Georgia and Raphael Warnock got it and John Ossoff got it.

00:08:47.300 And they're saying, you know, it seems a little strange guys. I don't know all this widespread mail

00:08:52.600 in voting and all the election integrity measures were taken away. We'll get into that controversy in a

00:08:57.780 bit. I want to focus on Warnock himself. He refers to himself as Reverend Raphael Warnock.

00:09:02.220 He says that he is a Christian, but he is not a Christian. And I'm not saying this like he's a 0.82

00:09:06.420 sinner. He's a bad guy. I'm not wagging my finger at him. I'm just staying as a very basic matter of 0.95

00:09:12.220 what he believes. He is not a Christian. He tweeted out on Easter, quote, the meaning of Easter is more

00:09:17.200 transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not through a 0.98

00:09:21.880 commitment to helping others, we are able to save ourselves. The meaning of Easter is not more

00:09:28.780 transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I don't think there is anything more

00:09:32.880 transcendent than that, but certainly that is what Easter is about. And if you are Christian

00:09:39.420 or whether, or, or if you're not Christian, a commitment to helping others will not let you

00:09:44.880 save yourself. This is called the heresy of Pelagius. This is an ancient heresy that the church got rid of

00:09:50.540 many moons ago, but progressive politicians have tried to bring back. You cannot reasonably call

00:09:56.660 yourself a Christian if you believe that you can save yourself absent the crucifixion and resurrection 0.99

00:10:01.980 of Jesus Christ. A lot of libs are trying to blur the lines on this and it gets to a political

00:10:07.740 strategy that they employ. But look, what Raphael Warnock is doing has a long history in progressive

00:10:15.320 politics, but it's not Christianity. But a lot of people have done this before. Okay. Martin

00:10:20.360 Luther King, people probably like Martin Luther King a lot more than they like Raphael Warnock.

00:10:25.160 Martin Luther King also denied the essentials of Christianity. He also denied the virgin birth.

00:10:29.760 He denied the divinity of Christ and he denied the resurrection. I'm not saying that you can't do

00:10:35.300 some good things if you, if you are not a Christian or if you deny Christianity, I'm not saying you can't be

00:10:41.960 an influential person. You just can't be a Christian if you deny those things. What Whitaker Chambers called

00:10:49.900 the great alternative faith of mankind, that was communism. Whitaker Chambers was an ex-communist.

00:10:57.840 His book Witness helped make Ronald Reagan into a conservative. I've actually seen Reagan's copy

00:11:02.860 of Witness at the Reagan ranch still on his bookshelf. But he referred to communism as the

00:11:09.000 alternative faith. It goes back to the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve, ye shall be his

00:11:12.620 gods. I don't know that Raphael Warnock is a communist rather. He sort of intimates that he

00:11:19.440 might be. He was very excited and exuberant to welcome Fidel Castro to his church years ago. He has

00:11:27.300 said things that would tend to paint him as a pinko. But whether he thinks he's a communist or not,

00:11:34.680 whether we want to apply this term to progressivism more broadly, this is an alternative faith. And

00:11:40.360 it's a faith that's winning over a lot of squishies in Christianity and in the country, 1.00

00:11:48.900 in our politics more broadly. The left is much subtler than the right. They do this very well.

00:11:53.880 They infiltrate and they invert. You might've seen a group called Catholics for Choice, 0.69

00:11:58.200 which is being led by a man who thinks that he's a woman. This is not possible. This is a

00:12:04.440 contradiction in terms. There are many, many problems with this group, but not the least of

00:12:09.680 which is it is simply not possible to be a Catholic who supports legal abortion. You can't,

00:12:15.220 I suppose you can be a baptized Catholic, but you cannot be in a state of grace. You cannot receive 1.00

00:12:21.540 the sacraments if you were doing this sort of thing. You were in a state of grave mortal sin.

00:12:24.500 You are contradicting the faith on very grave matters. And you can't call yourself really

00:12:31.260 a Catholic if you do that. We need to start using this strategy in a moral way on the right.

00:12:41.140 We're not very subtle on the right. Maybe, I don't know, maybe we're sort of some of the

00:12:47.080 great offenders of this, those of us in the media, where we just bluntly, we say, look,

00:12:50.720 this is what we think, this is what we're doing, this is what's wrong. And I think we need that.

00:12:54.260 I think we need to maintain clarity as well, but there is also a role for institutional cleverness.

00:12:59.800 You know, we need to be innocent as doves and wise as serpents. We need to infiltrate established

00:13:05.420 institutions just like the radicals did. And we need to use that to attain cultural hegemony,

00:13:10.680 to use Antonio Gramsci's phrase. I describe a lot of this in my upcoming book, Speechless,

00:13:14.220 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, just like the radicals did. We need to insist on teaching

00:13:19.360 the Bible in schools and say it's part of multiculturalism, say it's part of social

00:13:25.540 justice. There's a longstanding Catholic social justice tradition. We need to make curriculum

00:13:29.340 more Eurocentric again. We need to start teaching our own history again. And we can justify it in the 0.99

00:13:35.460 name of avoiding cultural appropriation. I don't know. We can use the left's established institutions

00:13:43.220 and we can use the left's lexicon in a subtle way. I'm not saying we evade what we believe. I'm not

00:13:48.380 saying that we play it down or anything like that. I don't think we should lie. Certainly not. But we

00:13:54.680 can be clever. We can do both of these things just like the left does because the left plays to win

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00:15:09.540 we sent you. Of course, if conservatives mimic the tactics of the left and do so in a moral way,

00:15:18.980 but still use the same kinds of techniques, the left will wail and gnash their teeth. I'll give you

00:15:24.300 a great example of this. There was a Washington Post article. Inside a stealth persuasion machine

00:15:33.080 promising Republican victories in 2022. Describes all these awful persuasion techniques, persuasion

00:15:42.420 machine, getting engagement, all this sort of stuff. This was tweeted out by some blue check

00:15:47.740 clip named Justin Hendricks says, in Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia, a shady

00:15:53.840 nonprofit backed by Republicans is behind a stealth effort to build Facebook pages to reach millions

00:16:03.060 of voters. It plans to expand to A-Z-I-A-M-N-P-A-T-X and W-I. All those states reports Isaac Stanbecker,

00:16:14.460 who wrote this piece in the Washington Post. So just to get this straight, and I'm not going to

00:16:21.520 go too much into the Georgia issue here. We'll, we'll get to that later on in the week.

00:16:26.880 When Republicans try to tighten up election integrity, the left wails and says, this is voter

00:16:35.640 suppression. When Republicans try to expand the number of people who vote, the left wails and

00:16:44.320 gnashes its teeth and says, this is shady. This is a machine. This is, I don't know. They, they,

00:16:53.360 they've got to work on their language here. When we try to reduce the number of voters to only the

00:16:59.460 eligible ones, bad. When we try to expand the number of voters among the eligible ones, bad.

00:17:05.480 Do you get it yet? Do you understand what's going on? Anything Republicans do to try to,

00:17:10.060 to win an election is going to be called illegitimate and awful. I mean, what's going on

00:17:15.460 in Georgia is so crazy. They're, they're trying to say, as always the left does, they're trying to

00:17:20.600 say this is racist, white supremacist, race, race, race has absolutely nothing to do with race.

00:17:26.540 It's, it's the most basic common sensical aspect of our Republic that if our, because our Republic

00:17:35.300 is based on the consent of the governed and constitutionalism, if we can't have trust in

00:17:44.200 our elections, if we can't have faith that only the people who are supposed to vote are voting,

00:17:49.000 that the result we're seeing at the ballot box is legit. If we can't have faith in that,

00:17:52.380 we can't have faith in any other part of our government. The left is saying this is terrible

00:17:58.040 and racist and we can't have it. So who cares what they say? Just do it. Just do it. Just go in

00:18:04.820 and wield some political power. Great example of this, Senator Cruz and Senator Lee down involving

00:18:14.380 Georgia. So major league baseball, the only sport I've ever liked is alienating me as a fan

00:18:23.940 because major league baseball is canceling the all-star game in, in Georgia. They're going to

00:18:30.760 move that all-star star game somewhere else. Why? Because of Georgia's awful, terrible Jim Crow racist 0.98

00:18:37.740 voter law that is still more lenient than most, at least many states in the country, including

00:18:47.280 very left-wing states like New York. New York has significantly more restrictive voter laws

00:18:55.540 than Georgia does now under the Republican bill. So is MLB, are they going to move the game to,

00:19:02.580 to New York? Well, that would be weird, wouldn't it? That'd be awkward. They wouldn't even have to

00:19:08.320 justify it. They wouldn't, they would just do it, right? Because Georgia currently has a Republican

00:19:13.740 governor. New York has a Democrat governor. Democrats, according to the, their own logic,

00:19:20.560 the, the Democrat state is worse, but it just doesn't matter. I mean, don't forget they, they hailed

00:19:26.060 Andrew Cuomo as the great COVID savior. He was the great hero of coronavirus. He was the worst

00:19:32.520 governor in the country by a long shot on coronavirus. Committed crimes in his handling

00:19:40.080 of coronavirus. Doesn't matter. They won't answer for that. When they try to hold him accountable

00:19:46.820 because he's not looking good on TV, they'll just get him on some other thing. They'll say he winked

00:19:50.320 at his secretary. So probably it's not going to be a big deal, which is why Republicans need to

00:19:56.200 exercise political power here. Cruz and Lee are calling on the federal government. Jeff Duncan too,

00:20:03.840 who's a representative in, you know, he's a Republican in the house of representatives.

00:20:07.520 They want to strip the MLB of antitrust exemptions that grant them immunity from federal anti-monopoly

00:20:13.520 laws. Mike Lee pointed out that MLB has legal protections that other sports leagues like the NFL

00:20:20.920 and the NBA don't have. So they should lose those. Well, but Michael, that's, you're only doing this

00:20:29.660 because the MLB went woke. Yup. That's true. You, you got it. Well, but Michael, that the left wields

00:20:38.660 government power and we don't want to be like the left. Uh, don't, we don't want to win. We don't want

00:20:46.260 to be successful. We don't want to have a sophisticated understanding of politics. I don't

00:20:50.420 want to wield government power in the same way that the left is doing it because I think the stuff

00:20:55.080 that the left is doing is bad. The stuff that government, that the left is wielding government

00:21:01.460 power for is bad. But, so I don't want to do that. I want to wield government power for good stuff.

00:21:07.220 Like all politics comes down to, like Republicans have done until very, very recently.

00:21:13.880 Like we all understood is the end of government. Like the people gave us power to do.

00:21:20.960 Goodness gracious. I am so glad, this is sort of tangential to the point on

00:21:26.460 the MLB antitrust protections. I am so glad that I canceled my MLB TV membership.

00:21:34.260 It actually hurt me because it's the only sport I like. So I'd watch the Yankees and I canceled it

00:21:39.060 last year when MLB said they were going to reverse the letters and put BLM on the pitcher's map.

00:21:43.880 I said, I'm out. I'm done. I don't care. I paid for the year, I think, or, but there were some

00:21:48.680 issues with it. And I think I was able to save some, I just, I don't even care if I pay already

00:21:52.880 paid for it. And I was going to, I just wrote to them. I said, cancel my membership. They canceled

00:21:56.500 it. I really wanted to start it up again this year, but they keep up the nonsense. They don't

00:22:00.480 get my money. And that's that. They don't want my money. They don't need my money or they,

00:22:05.160 they don't want a relationship with conservatives. That's fine. They don't, there are limits here,

00:22:11.720 folks. I'm all for a very broad realm where private companies can do what they want and

00:22:16.580 pursue their interest. I think that's great. And I like free markets and all that stuff.

00:22:21.360 When a woke corporation like the MLB tries to undermine election integrity in my republic,

00:22:29.020 that's too far. Then I've got to start exercising my political power. And if you are still laboring

00:22:35.020 under this ridiculous, shallow, pseudo libertarian notion that cropped up over the last 10 years, 0.58

00:22:42.200 that private companies should be able to do absolutely whatever they want, including 0.69

00:22:45.740 betraying and undermining our polity, I can't help you. Okay. If you still believe,

00:22:50.600 I'll build your own Twitter, build your own YouTube. Oh yeah. MLB wants to undermine our

00:22:55.040 election system. That's fine. It's a private company. No, sorry, buddy. That ain't conservative.

00:23:00.260 That ain't conserving nothing. Rand Paul also called out the MLB because he, he gets this,

00:23:09.300 you know, there, there's two sides here. We always hear, well, we conservatives need to act

00:23:13.240 in the culture and we focus too much on politics. We need to work in the culture. Actually, we don't

00:23:17.840 focus on either and we need to focus on both. We need, yes, we need to take personal actions here,

00:23:23.260 cancel your MLB membership. Don't go to the stupid Hollywood movie you don't want to support. 1.00

00:23:26.780 We also need to take political actions. You need to do both at the same time. And Rand Paul 1.00

00:23:31.200 tweeted out, quote, your sports league might be a little too woke if it will freely do business

00:23:38.060 with communists in China and Cuba, but boycotts a US state that wants people to show an ID to vote.

00:23:44.020 Hashtag MLB all-star game. Hashtag MLB. Of course, of course this is true. I mean, you need to show an ID

00:23:50.620 to buy a beer at Yankee Stadium. I know this because I was turned away many times when I was 18, 19,

00:23:55.840 20 years old, but you're not supposed to show an ID to vote. I, I am beginning to think that this is

00:24:04.000 less about left versus right and more about, I don't know, call it nationalism versus globalism.

00:24:12.700 It's less about Republicans versus Democrats and more about America versus the liberal global regime.

00:24:20.340 Because yeah, they're not going to call out China. Joe Biden's not going to do anything here. Joe Biden

00:24:25.820 pressured the MLB to leave Georgia, but he is not going to pressure any company not to support the

00:24:31.640 Olympics. This, this Chinese showcase, Joe Biden isn't, is barely going to say a harsh word about

00:24:38.400 China because China is part of this international regime whereby we, well, they buy a lot of our debt.

00:24:47.040 We got to, we got to buy their products. They, they invest a lot and look, it's, it's fine. It's

00:24:51.440 cool. We don't want to, we can, we can afford to lose those troglodyte conservatives, but we can't

00:24:58.660 afford to lose China. So the NBA is not going to say anything about China. It's very big there.

00:25:02.820 We're just not going to upset anything just as long as we have global trade. That's all fine.

00:25:07.860 And we're all, it's all good. And we support the UN and the WHO and the IMF and WTO. That's

00:25:14.300 really the political battle here between competing political institutions and competing political

00:25:22.380 loyalties. You will hear much more about this on Ben's show today. Ben is back. You know,

00:25:28.700 I was filling in on his radio show last week. He's going to be back today. But Ben, Ben is a huge

00:25:34.480 baseball fan. So he's going to be talking a lot about what's going on there. Also, as we return

00:25:38.300 from Easter and Passover, it's very important to reflect on what these holidays mean for us and for

00:25:44.580 our culture. More and more, the left wants to erase the values and replace them with their own

00:25:50.800 religion. I mean, this is what we're talking about today, the religion of progressivism. And this is

00:25:55.580 something that is going to be a big focus of Candace Owens on her new show. The show streams on Fridays 0.94

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00:26:31.180 Joe Biden does not support the MLB playing a baseball game in Georgia because of Georgia's

00:26:39.900 awful, terrible, vile decision to protect the ballot box. Meanwhile, Joe Biden does support

00:26:47.500 the Olympics and China. China, which is committing a genocide against its population. It's been committing 0.94

00:26:55.820 genocides against this population for thousands and thousands of years now. But they've taken on a

00:27:04.100 new challenge in killing the Uyghur population. They finally let up a little bit on the one-child 1.00

00:27:10.940 policy, but they committed a horrific genocide there as well in recent decades, spurred in no

00:27:15.700 small part, by the way, by the environmentalist movement. I talk about that in my book, Speechless

00:27:18.780 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. You know, it's a vile, vile regime that does all sorts of awful

00:27:24.600 things. Joe Biden doesn't have a terrible thing to say about them. So Philip Wegman, who is a young

00:27:30.940 reporter, he's been on this show, actually in the early days of the show, he was on this show.

00:27:34.580 He asked a totally fair question to Jen Psaki. She really, really did not like that question.

00:27:40.200 The president had voiced his support for MLB making a decision about the all-star game in Georgia.

00:27:48.000 I'm wondering when can we expect a final determination from the president about the United States

00:27:53.740 participating in the Beijing Olympics, given that he said the Chinese president doesn't have a

00:27:58.840 democratic bone in his body? Well, I think the U.S. Olympic Committee would play a big role in

00:28:05.080 major league baseball here in the United States. He actually didn't. I think, I don't know if you

00:28:10.160 heard the answer, the question, the answer that happened a few minutes ago where we addressed this

00:28:14.600 and I answered the question. So, and I give a little more context, but maybe you weren't paying

00:28:19.680 attention to that part. Yeah. Spoiler alert. She did not answer the question, but of course she

00:28:24.040 didn't, because if she had answered the question, she would repeat her answer right here. It's a very

00:28:27.840 simple question. Why is Biden being tougher on Americans wanting to protect their election in

00:28:32.980 Georgia than he is on the Chinese communists who are committing genocides? She says, well, well, 0.57

00:28:38.780 you know, the Olympic Committee will, they'll deal with that. And yeah. Oh gosh, that one doesn't.

00:28:45.300 Jen, Jen, that wasn't a good one. You know, that's not a good answer. Oh, I know what I'll do. I'll

00:28:50.660 just be really smug and condescending. Maybe you didn't hear my other answer. Maybe you weren't

00:28:55.220 paying attention. The smug thing does not work, by the way. This is what she leans on and it doesn't 1.00

00:29:01.400 work. There are different tacks that a press secretary could take here, different tacks that 0.99

00:29:05.560 politicians generally could take with the media. You can either be extremely prepared and measured

00:29:12.500 like Kayleigh McEnany, right? She would just kill you with a smile. She was just, man, she was good. 0.95

00:29:18.340 But she wasn't, it wasn't condescending in any way. You can be a total just bulldog like Sarah 0.95

00:29:23.600 Sanders. She would just pump, she would just viciously beat the media just every day. She'd go 1.00

00:29:28.880 into that press room. Trump obviously takes, takes in that strategy as well. Or you can do this

00:29:35.640 condescending thing that I really don't think that plays well for anybody. And she's not going to

00:29:41.940 answer the question and no one really expects that she would. Fortunately, there are still a

00:29:47.500 handful of voices in sports that have not completely lost it, that actually see what's going on here and

00:29:53.880 see it better than a lot of conservatives in politics. Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley was on

00:30:00.460 CBS talking about sports. I don't really remember exactly what he was talking about. And because now

00:30:05.940 when all of our sports conversations somehow come back to politics, Charles Barkley said, you know,

00:30:10.200 this is a, this is a game. This is a political tactic to divide Americans.

00:30:15.940 Man, I think most white people and black people are great people. I really believe that in my heart,

00:30:21.760 but I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they're Republicans or Democrats,

00:30:27.980 are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power.

00:30:34.500 They divide and conquer. I truly believe in my heart, most white people and black people are

00:30:39.980 awesome people. But we're so stupid following our politicians, whether they are Republicans or 1.00

00:30:45.600 Democrats. And their only job is, hey, let's make these people not like each other. We don't live in 1.00

00:30:52.420 their neighborhoods. We're all got money. Let's make the whites and blacks not like each other. 1.00

00:30:58.340 Let's make rich people and poor people not like each other. Uh, let's, let's scramble the middle 1.00

00:31:04.380 class. I truly believe that in my heart. This is obviously true. This is a classic tactic, by the

00:31:10.440 way, of, uh, corporations against unions. I think there were some leaked memos from Amazon about this,

00:31:16.400 how the, the trick to preventing unionization is to get all the workers to hate each other. Cause if

00:31:22.340 the workers have solidarity, they'll unionize and then you'll have to negotiate with them. So

00:31:26.120 corporations have been employing this for a long time and continue to employ this today.

00:31:30.140 Marx tried to do this on the basis of class. He believed that when the workers of the world united

00:31:35.680 and got together, there would be a workers revolution and it would overthrow this sort of

00:31:40.300 bourgeois capitalist, uh, industrial system that didn't happen. And, uh, so Marx in that way died a

00:31:49.300 failure, but, but his ideological heirs, the Western Marxists, cultural Marxists, neo-Marxists,

00:31:54.440 whatever term you want to use, uh, they, they recognized the, the problem that, that, uh,

00:32:00.940 Marx had. I talk about this at great length, by the way, in my book, Speechless Controlling Words,

00:32:04.940 Controlling Minds, because it ties directly into political correctness, wokeism, cancel culture,

00:32:09.080 again, whatever term you want to use. Uh, what guys like Antonio Gramsci realized,

00:32:14.640 this communist Italian politician and, and Marxist theorist was that the conservatives had a

00:32:20.480 cultural hegemony. So the workers just didn't, they just didn't feel that oppressed, right? They

00:32:24.400 didn't, they didn't know that they were oppressed. They were laboring under what he would call a false

00:32:28.440 consciousness. So what you had to do was indoctrinate them, obviously take over the cultural

00:32:34.140 institutions, but also, uh, you know, gin up certain other antagonisms. This was later brought to

00:32:42.480 fruition under the Frankfurt School, the creation of critical theory. We now see a derivation of that

00:32:46.420 critical race theory, taking over classrooms and corporate America. Uh, we, we saw in the 1960s

00:32:51.760 and seventies, a lot of left-wing foundations recognizing that if you could gin up racial

00:32:57.860 identity, create whole new identity groups, Hispanics, for instance, said a relatively recent

00:33:03.800 identity group until very recently, you had people from central and South America. They would say,

00:33:09.240 I'm Mexican, I'm whatever, I'm Guatemalan, I'm Brazilian. Now there's this idea that you're,

00:33:13.160 you're Hispanic or Asian. That's a new identity group. They're trying to create a new one in the

00:33:17.900 Middle East called MENA, Middle East, North Africa. That one hasn't really caught on yet. It's like

00:33:23.360 fetch and mean girls. You know, the people, people just haven't made that one happen, but there were,

00:33:27.820 was an explicit plan to divide Americans on the basis of race because there isn't really a class

00:33:34.920 system in America. So race is the, is the fault line. And if you can do that, then the people who are

00:33:40.220 attaining power can really manipulate people and really maintain a hold on their power.

00:33:44.900 That's what Charles Barkley is seeing. He's absolutely right. And you're seeing this by

00:33:48.940 the way, ties in with what we were talking about earlier in the show about the fear of death cult.

00:33:54.380 The left has taken this to its perfect conclusion in the coronavirus revolution of the last year and a

00:34:02.760 half, whereby we're not even just divided on race or sex or class or anything like that.

00:34:09.100 We are now perfectly divided from everybody. We now, it's not just that white people view black

00:34:14.880 people as a threat to them or black people view white people as a threat to them. We now have been 0.71

00:34:20.200 instructed to view every single person that we come into contact with, not as a dignified human being

00:34:26.960 possessing an immortal soul whom we should love as we love ourselves, but as bags of germs that are out 0.57

00:34:36.780 there waiting to kill us. And if they so much as breathe from behind that filthy cloth covering that 0.57

00:34:43.900 a bunch of sheep have been persuaded to wear by Dr. Fauci, if they so much as breathe, that is as though 0.55

00:34:50.160 they were taking out a gun and shooting us. That's how dangerous they are because of coronavirus. It is

00:34:55.840 a perfectly divisive strategy. And some people still go along with it. Very bad idea.

00:35:04.240 We need to encourage, you know, the thing I always liked about sports is that people seem kind of

00:35:09.060 grounded. They seem kind of normal. It wasn't highly ideological. We need to encourage the remaining

00:35:14.920 common sense voices there to speak up. Draymond Green is a basketball player apparently. I don't know who he

00:35:22.980 is. I don't watch basketball, but Draymond Green made this great point the other day. He was talking

00:35:27.860 about Megan Rapinoe, that crazy haired lady from the soccer team who always whines that she doesn't

00:35:33.700 make enough money. She's a millionaire. She's rich. She's famous, but she, no, wow, wow. I don't make 0.98

00:35:38.160 enough money for playing a sport that not a lot of people watch. And Draymond Green said, you know,

00:35:43.020 lady, you got to quit your whining. It's very, it's very unbecoming.

00:35:46.420 I'm really tired of seeing them complain about the lack of pay because, because they're doing

00:35:55.900 themselves a disservice by just complaining, you know, and they're not just complaining.

00:36:03.620 Huh? They're not just complaining.

00:36:06.500 But they are because they're not laying out steps that they can take to change that. And so it's

00:36:13.700 coming off as a complaint because the people that can change it, they're just going to continue to

00:36:19.040 say, well, the revenue isn't there. The revenue isn't there. So if you don't bring in the revenue,

00:36:25.020 we can't up your pay. They're going to keep using that. But the reality is as true as that is,

00:36:30.420 it's an excuse because everyone says we support women. We support women empowerment. We support

00:36:37.120 women in the workplace. We do this for women. We do X for women, blah, blah, blah. And everyone 0.55

00:36:42.980 uses it to their advantage. Yet these women are not using these people that are saying those very 1.00

00:36:50.240 things to their advantage. So then it just becomes a complaint that falls on deaf ears.

00:36:56.420 Of course, of course, this is absolutely right. Because everyone is going to point out,

00:37:01.720 it's just obvious that women's sports don't bring in the revenue that men's sports bring in. 1.00

00:37:06.520 Because men and women are different and men are just not as physically strong and fast

00:37:13.780 and buff as dudes. And that's just a fact of life. So when you want to watch people

00:37:18.040 racing, for instance, you want to watch the fastest people racing. Well, that's men.

00:37:21.540 When you want to watch people fighting, you want to watch the strongest people fighting. That's

00:37:26.820 men. When you want to watch people playing team sports, it goes on and on.

00:37:31.260 So just quit whining, lady. It's very unbecoming. Broadly speaking, 1.00

00:37:38.420 pride is ugly. Vanity is ugly. Humility is beautiful. We once knew this, but we don't know

00:37:45.000 this now. Now we've convinced ourselves as a culture that pursuing our own will

00:37:51.240 outside and in contravention of the moral order is good somehow. Because we're breaking the oppression

00:37:57.920 of the moral, basically we're breaking the oppression of the moral order and liberating ourselves

00:38:01.540 from reality. Liberating yourself, not just from the bond, the unjust bonds that have been put on

00:38:10.940 you, but, but even from reality itself. You see the, the total expression of this in transgenderism, 0.98

00:38:15.460 which is I will liberate myself from nature entirely, from my own most basic nature.

00:38:22.380 Uh, not a recipe for success. You know, Charles Barkley though, he, he makes this point. I mean,

00:38:29.500 we're all seeing this, that this is a big business. This is big business here. The grievance industry,

00:38:37.000 as, uh, Draymond Green might call it, is, is big business. There's a report out from the College

00:38:42.500 Fix. Do you know how much money each year University of California, Berkeley spends

00:38:47.820 on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. You know, the deans of diversity, equity, inclusion,

00:38:55.560 the assistant deans of diversity, equity, inclusion, the assistant deputy, deputy assistant,

00:38:59.640 deputy deans of diversity, equity, and inclusion. $25 million, $25 would be too much money to spend

00:39:10.000 on these ridiculous, radical, subversive programs. $25 million. 11% of that comes from philanthropy and 0.84

00:39:18.980 private grants. Okay. If they want to spend their money on stupid nonsense, whatever. It doesn't

00:39:25.100 really bug me that much. 31% comes from federal and state public service grants. Don't love that.

00:39:31.300 Don't love that my tax dollars are going to that. Oh, and then 58% comes from taxpayers and tuition.

00:39:43.360 And tuition is not very great at those schools, especially for in-state students. She got a lot

00:39:49.500 coming from that. Man, I'm so glad I left California. $25 million. That's a racket. Sure. It's a way to

00:39:57.260 protect people's sinecures. It's a way to amass political power. Where there's big money, there's

00:40:02.780 going to be big influence. That's just the way it goes. That's why they secure a lot of money for

00:40:06.980 these sorts of programs. It is a way to transform the culture. And to push a false narrative, by the

00:40:14.880 way, false narrative on race. You can see that narrative in action. Did you hear? Well, I guess we

00:40:19.320 were off the air right, right around when this happened. A young man rammed his car into two US

00:40:29.060 Capitol police officers before getting out of his vehicle with a knife. Police shot and killed this

00:40:35.580 man. Immediately, the usual suspects on the left were saying, this is another insurrection.

00:40:41.040 This is right-wing terrorism. This is the Trump issue. We've got to have a national conversation.

00:40:45.600 And then it turned out he is a young black guy who's a follower of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of 0.86

00:40:51.020 Islam. And then the story went away. That was it. Story just went away. 0.80

00:40:59.420 Actually, all Ilhan Omar could say was that this killing would have been worse if he had an AR-15.

00:41:06.260 We actually have some evidence that the AR-15 wouldn't have, as a national issue, wouldn't have

00:41:11.220 been a big deal. We'll get into that in just a second. This narrative, it goes, it's not even

00:41:18.580 just in what people say and what people are taught. It's in the stories that are chosen to be

00:41:23.340 emphasized. It's the conversation that goes on. It's the $25 million department at just one school

00:41:29.060 of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's this institutional power. It gets back to that comment,

00:41:35.400 my favorite comment from last week that was brought up at the top of the show. It seems like a force

00:41:39.880 field around Democrats. It is. It is. It's a very well-funded, very effective force field.

00:41:45.800 And we are all the marks, okay? We are all the people who are being influenced by it,

00:41:51.000 socially engineered by it. Speaking of murderers beyond what went on at the Capitol with that

00:41:57.920 Nation of Islam follower, you remember those two girls who killed Mohammed Anwar,

00:42:05.760 the Pakistani Uber Eats driver. They jacked his car. They brought a taser gun. He wouldn't just

00:42:13.500 give the car to them, so they drove away with him, still clinging to it. They killed him.

00:42:17.620 They then walked away. They got out of the car that they flipped, but then they walked right past

00:42:21.040 his dead body because one of the girls forgot her cell phone in the car. No care whatsoever.

00:42:25.900 So at the very least, these girls should be put away for life. At the very, very least. 0.97

00:42:30.460 Under DC law, they might just basically get away with it. So under DC law, the 13-year-old girl cannot

00:42:38.520 be prosecuted as an adult. Okay, I sort of understand that, I guess. However, it is possible

00:42:47.080 for the 15-year-old girl to be transferred to an adult court. However, very likely won't happen. 0.80

00:42:53.820 According to a news report, after the trial, if youths are found responsible, meaning guilty,

00:43:00.240 they can be held in juvenile detention only until age 21, even if they commit a murder.

00:43:06.540 And if they are deemed rehabilitated, they can be freed much sooner than that. Because while the

00:43:11.680 adult penal system at least pretends to have something to do with retribution, have something

00:43:17.440 to do with punishment, the juvenile detention system is 100% about rehabilitation.

00:43:25.760 So a criminal defense attorney, Nikki Lotzi, just said that they could get a plea agreement

00:43:29.780 whereby they accept responsibility and then get home detention or probation.

00:43:37.720 Does that seem just to you? Does that seem like, oh, that's good? Because what we're told,

00:43:43.780 and you increasingly see this in the academic literature around juvenile justice, is that

00:43:49.420 basically only a barbarian would ever want to punish anybody. First of all, that juvenile is a

00:43:57.500 term that needs to be redefined because people's brains don't stop maturing until they're 25. So we

00:44:02.060 shouldn't, if a 23-year-old murders a bunch of people, we shouldn't necessarily try them as an

00:44:08.060 adult. They might not have known what they were doing. They're not in possession of their will.

00:44:10.800 How are they supposed to stop it? This full emphasis on rehabilitation as compassionate and

00:44:17.200 good and on the actual purpose of justice, right, punishment as barbaric or backward or something

00:44:23.260 like that. If these two girls get off basically scot-free, do you think that's just? Do you think,

00:44:29.480 do you feel like justice will have been done? No, of course not. Justice won't have been done,

00:44:35.160 certainly not to the family of the victim, but justice won't have been done to them either.

00:44:39.220 They won't have been rehabilitated. There's a chance if the 13-year-old girl is just kept in

00:44:46.800 jail for life and if the older girl is tried as an adult and either kept in jail for life or executed

00:44:53.380 with capital punishment, there is a chance they might be rehabilitated. Hanging concentrates the

00:44:59.940 mind. Severe punishment concentrates the mind. It's an act of mercy. It's an act of compassion.

00:45:06.160 But if they just get off scot-free, no justice will have been done anywhere for anybody.

00:45:15.240 And I would bet a good chunk of change that these girls will commit awful crimes again. 1.00

00:45:23.460 Speaking of crime and punishment, the FBI, while they're letting murderers off the hook,

00:45:28.160 so long as it, you know, goes along with their broader narrative, they might be coming after you.

00:45:35.980 So there's this issue of vaccine passports that the left has been pushing.

00:45:40.680 Vaccine passports are the idea that maybe it's the state that imposes it, but maybe it's private

00:45:45.060 businesses, but you won't be able to do anything. You won't be able to engage in commerce unless you

00:45:49.840 get the jab of this vaccine that was produced very rapidly. And then you'll, by the way, it'll have

00:45:56.240 your medical history on there. So you'll, maybe if there are variants, you're going to need to get

00:45:59.220 more jabs or you're going to need to get boosters. And that's how you're going to prove that you can

00:46:03.020 engage in society. So a lot of people are thinking, nah, I don't think I'm going to do that. I have no

00:46:06.840 intention of getting this vaccine. Maybe I will at some point, but I have no intention of doing it.

00:46:12.180 And I have even less of an intention of using a vaccine passport. So it raises a moral question.

00:46:17.960 If they require these things and you feel that it's unjust to require them, would you forge the

00:46:25.200 passport? It won't be that hard to forge, I don't think. Well, the FBI is saying now,

00:46:30.980 the FBI in Minnesota tweeted out, we've all seen friends posting their COVID-19 vaccination cards

00:46:34.520 on social media. If you make or buy a fake one to misrepresent your vaccination status,

00:46:38.620 you endanger other people and may also be breaking the law. There's the threat. We're going to throw you

00:46:43.480 in jail. If you murder someone, that's fine. As long as it goes along with our narrative. But if you 0.99

00:46:50.960 have the woo flu or don't have the woo flu, but you don't get the jab, then we're going to throw you

00:46:57.700 in prison if you, if you forge it. That is part of the fear of death cult. The idea that we cannot

00:47:07.380 engage in any sort of association with anybody who doesn't, who in any way questions the public

00:47:15.860 health exalted priests of the religion of progressivism. That is the fear of death cult.

00:47:21.760 I do want to get back to Ilhan Omar's point really quick before we go. Ilhan Omar says,

00:47:27.700 the best she could muster on that, on the killing by the Louis Farrakhan follower of the Capitol

00:47:33.820 police, she said, well, you know, it would have been worse if, if he had an AR-15. Of course, don't

00:47:41.480 forget at the Capitol where there's no evidence that police officers died as a direct result of the,

00:47:47.400 the Trump rioters, where the only person, the only people who died as a result, direct result that we

00:47:52.980 know of the, of the riot were Trump supporters, most notably Ashley Boppett, who was killed by Capitol

00:47:58.560 police. And you remember Ilhan Omar and all the rest saying this was the worst, basically the most

00:48:05.060 awful thing that's ever happened in American history. Well, the best she could say about this

00:48:08.420 is, well, you know, it would have been worse with an AR-15. Well, the federal government has data that

00:48:13.080 show that just isn't the case. According to 2018 data provided by the CDC, National Vital Statistics,

00:48:21.280 uh, falling down killed 126 times as many people as rifles of any kind, including the dread assault

00:48:33.360 weapons, the dread AR-15. You, you won't hear that in, in falling legislation and I don't know,

00:48:41.240 knee, knee control or something, stair control. No, you won't hear that. You will hear a lot about

00:48:45.280 gun control in the coming days and weeks and years from the left. It doesn't really matter the, the

00:48:53.200 facts of this, the reality of this, the ultimate reality of, of death, which we all should have been

00:49:00.720 paying attention to on Easter Sunday. That won't really matter because what the left is after is

00:49:05.460 ginning up fear. And by ginning up your fear and dividing you and dividing you and dividing you

00:49:11.660 in a cult of the fear of death, the ultimate fear, they will be able to control you. You're

00:49:18.160 going to let them do it. I hope not. Hope we're all like that Canadian pastor. I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 05, 2021

Ep. 735 - The Fear Of Death Cult

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