The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 739 - A History of Violence

00:00:00.000 The cops are white supremacists hell-bent on slaughtering innocent black people. 1.00

00:00:05.400 That is why only the cops should have guns. 1.00

00:00:09.440 That is the argument that we are being told right now from the left,

00:00:13.540 and the narratives on systemic racism and on gun violence are collapsing

00:00:17.700 as BLM and Joe Biden are doubling down on both.

00:00:20.880 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back. My favorite comment yesterday from Jessica Lindstrom,

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00:00:37.960 I find it ironic as well that the second time was after Michael mentioned it.

00:00:42.080 Maybe it wasn't ironic. Maybe it was coincidental.

00:00:44.740 Maybe it was intentional.

00:00:46.320 Maybe Harry's is upset that they're suffering right now

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00:02:43.940 Joe Biden is taking serious action on guns.

00:02:51.360 Does that mean he's going to work through the legislature to pass gun control laws?

00:02:55.000 No.

00:02:55.420 Does that mean he's going to get a constitutional amendment passed to nullify the Second Amendment?

00:03:00.880 No.

00:03:01.520 Does that mean he's going to go after the guns that are involved in most of the gun deaths in the country?

00:03:05.500 No.

00:03:05.780 But he is really upset about the neck brace on AR pistols.

00:03:12.080 We want to treat pistols modified with stabilizing braces with the seriousness they deserve.

00:03:19.920 A stabilizing brace hook and a pencil essentially makes that pistol a hell of a lot more accurate

00:03:25.040 and a mini rifle.

00:03:26.820 As a result, it's more lethal, effectively turning it into a short-barreled rifle.

00:03:33.360 That's what the alleged shooter in Boulder appears to have done.

00:03:36.940 It does not make the gun more lethal.

00:03:39.340 This is just pure ignorance here.

00:03:40.980 The brace does not alter the rate of fire of the pistol.

00:03:44.520 It does not change the velocity of the bullet that is fired from the pistol.

00:03:49.840 It, I suppose, can help you to aim perhaps a little bit better.

00:03:53.500 But really, it's just going to be your...

00:03:55.660 It can maybe steady the gun a little bit, but it's really going to be your aim.

00:03:58.900 It's going to be your facility with shooting that's going to determine how accurate you are.

00:04:03.200 There's an irony here, which is that one of the reasons that pistol braces came to be in the first place

00:04:08.560 is to allow people with disabilities to shoot and hold a rifle with one hand. 0.83

00:04:13.820 So really, all Joe Biden is accomplishing here is promoting ableism among a basic constitutional right,

00:04:22.480 the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

00:04:25.200 This is obviously a half-hearted effort.

00:04:29.360 It's irritating people on the left.

00:04:31.140 It's irritating people on the right.

00:04:32.180 It doesn't seem to be making people happy.

00:04:34.060 It's like he's going through the motions.

00:04:36.060 We need to be tough on guns.

00:04:37.300 Why?

00:04:37.620 I couldn't tell you.

00:04:38.320 What's this going to accomplish?

00:04:39.620 Absolutely nothing.

00:04:40.740 Joe Biden doesn't even know the name of the agency that regulates firearms.

00:04:46.240 What's the name of the agency?

00:04:47.220 You all know.

00:04:48.320 Three of my favorite things.

00:04:49.740 Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.

00:04:51.960 ATF.

00:04:53.240 Joe Biden, he, like a lot of things in his head, he got that one a little bit jumbled.

00:04:59.000 Today, I'm proud to nominate David Chipman to serve as the director of the AFT.

00:05:06.480 David knows AFT well.

00:05:09.160 Congratulations, David.

00:05:10.240 I'm glad that you will be running the AFT.

00:05:12.500 That's great.

00:05:13.820 But who's running the ATF?

00:05:15.060 I don't know.

00:05:15.500 Joe Biden doesn't know either, and it just doesn't really matter.

00:05:19.080 This is part of Joe Biden's endemic dishonesty. 0.96

00:05:24.860 Joe Biden, because he's just an empty suit who wakes up in the morning and licks his finger

00:05:30.700 and tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing, he says at one point, I support

00:05:36.200 the Second Amendment.

00:05:36.880 Come on, man.

00:05:37.960 Come on, me and my dad.

00:05:38.940 I support the Second Amendment, man.

00:05:40.300 Me and Corn Pop do.

00:05:41.100 But we need common sense, gun control, the pistol grip or whatever, the neck brace, just

00:05:47.960 kind of random cosmetic changes.

00:05:52.440 Really what the left is saying here, a coherent left-wing argument is that the Second Amendment

00:05:57.040 is wrong.

00:05:59.280 It's bad.

00:06:00.080 It's bad for society.

00:06:01.000 It was a mistake.

00:06:02.000 We should get rid of it.

00:06:03.240 People shouldn't have guns.

00:06:04.220 It's insane that we Americans have guns.

00:06:06.020 We're going to get rid of them.

00:06:06.660 I don't agree with that argument, but at least there is a certain coherence to it.

00:06:12.860 But Biden doesn't want to make that argument because he knows that people like their guns.

00:06:16.900 And so he's going to make this squishy half of one argument, half of the other.

00:06:20.240 And it also doesn't jive with the argument we're being told by BLM and by the left broadly, 0.95

00:06:24.660 which supports BLM, namely that cops are vicious monsters, that they're racists and skinheads 1.00

00:06:29.880 and neo-Nazis and they hate black people. 1.00

00:06:32.240 So then why on earth should civilians not be able to protect themselves? 0.98

00:06:35.620 This is what we're hearing in the George Floyd case, the trial of Derek Chauvin.

00:06:39.940 But the George Floyd case is really not going particularly well for the prosecution.

00:06:45.540 The way you can tell, it's in the language.

00:06:47.360 It's always in the language that you see these subtle shifts.

00:06:50.340 What have we been told?

00:06:51.480 Why is Derek Chauvin going to go to jail?

00:06:53.980 Why does the prosecution believe that this guy should be convicted of murder?

00:06:58.240 Because he put his knee on George Floyd's neck until George Floyd couldn't breathe anymore

00:07:03.980 and then he died.

00:07:04.800 That's the whole argument.

00:07:06.860 And they're saying, forget about the high doses of fentanyl in his body.

00:07:10.640 Forget about Floyd resisting arrest.

00:07:12.520 Forget about his priors.

00:07:13.480 Forget about all this.

00:07:14.280 This was police brutality because Chauvin obstructed his airway and he had the knee on the neck for

00:07:19.160 nine minutes.

00:07:21.180 Except that now the prosecution is changing its language.

00:07:24.760 They're no longer talking about George Floyd's neck.

00:07:28.020 They're talking about his, quote, neck area.

00:07:32.500 What's a neck area? 0.84

00:07:34.360 It's my neck and it's my shoulders and it's my back.

00:07:37.700 Well, that's different.

00:07:38.380 If you had the knee on the back, that's very different than having a knee on a neck so you

00:07:42.540 can't breathe at all.

00:07:43.440 You're totally cutting off your windpipe.

00:07:46.620 Well, the whole argument, of course, is that Derek Chauvin shouldn't have had the knee on

00:07:49.580 the neck.

00:07:49.820 But then they ran into another problem here, which is a use of force officer who was testifying

00:07:56.080 admitted that Chauvin's procedure, the use of body weight and pressure, was a lesser use

00:08:02.580 of force than would have been adopted in the past or that Chauvin could have used himself.

00:08:07.960 So it wasn't the most extreme, beyond extreme, beyond the pale.

00:08:11.520 It was actually a lesser use of force.

00:08:13.820 Now, did he apply it properly?

00:08:15.100 I don't know.

00:08:15.220 That's what they're trying to figure out now.

00:08:16.460 But in terms of the knee on the neck area technique, what we're hearing, even this is

00:08:23.880 coming out of the prosecution asking these questions, is that this was relatively lesser

00:08:29.560 force.

00:08:30.700 But that's not what this trial is going to hinge on.

00:08:33.680 Everyone in America, everyone in the whole wide world had heard of the details of this

00:08:37.520 case.

00:08:38.440 And right now, this trial is being conducted under the threat of terrorism.

00:08:42.500 We're being told by members of BLM that if Chauvin is not convicted, specifically of murder,

00:08:49.140 then BLM is going to burn the city down again. 0.89

00:08:51.120 They're going to burn a lot of the country down again, just like they did for months and

00:08:54.480 months and months with absolutely no repercussions in 2020.

00:08:59.480 So how is justice ever going to carry the day if in this trial, you've got the explicit

00:09:05.680 threat of terrorism?

00:09:06.560 Isn't that a little weird?

00:09:10.120 If this were the trial of, I don't know, trial of Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, it's the impeachment

00:09:18.220 trial of Bill Clinton for perjury.

00:09:21.740 And the Republicans say, okay, we're going to watch over this trial and we want you to

00:09:28.040 pursue justice and follow the facts.

00:09:29.660 But if you do not remove Clinton from office, we're going to burn the whole country down again.

00:09:33.780 And what if the Republicans had the credibility to say that because they had just spent the

00:09:38.500 past eight months burning the country down previously for the same thing?

00:09:43.320 Do you think if the tables were turned here that anyone would think that that could possibly

00:09:47.960 be a fair trial, a fair carriage of justice?

00:09:50.520 I don't think so.

00:09:52.640 But this racial demagoguery does not have very much logic to it.

00:09:57.800 Just the way it is.

00:09:58.700 I mean, I'm almost sick of saying if the roles were reversed, well, you know, if it were,

00:10:02.680 I mean, I mentioned it briefly just to show the craziness of it.

00:10:06.480 But I don't think that that is a winning argument.

00:10:08.680 I don't think they care.

00:10:09.560 I don't think there's any logic to it.

00:10:11.340 And I think conservatives should stop pretending that it does.

00:10:13.800 Eric Bolling, the commentator and host, he had a great response on this.

00:10:21.260 Eric Bolling was being subjected to preposterous, illogical racial demagoguery on the BBC.

00:10:29.120 So he walked off, walked off the set.

00:10:31.540 I think it's really rich for any Republican, especially a white man, to run around and

00:10:36.060 claim that they care about the economic condition of black communities and black businesses when 0.96

00:10:40.820 that's all a lie.

00:10:41.760 Okay?

00:10:42.000 There's nothing in their policies.

00:10:43.200 That's not fair.

00:10:43.540 Just please let him finish that they've done.

00:10:45.280 The other thing is, is that I don't work for the Biden administration.

00:10:48.060 Eric, I'm so sorry.

00:10:48.820 We can't hear you.

00:10:49.420 I'm going to let Aisha finish.

00:10:50.340 I don't work for the Biden administration, never have.

00:10:53.080 But what I am is a black person in America.

00:10:55.840 And everything that these voting laws stand for and what they look like are reminiscent

00:11:01.640 to the Jim Crow policies that my family's lived under.

00:11:05.220 This, every single thing about it.

00:11:06.940 So this is all about racial discrimination.

00:11:09.240 And how dare you try to act like you are somehow a proponent of black people in businesses 0.92

00:11:14.460 just to make a point and to try to create a wedge? 1.00

00:11:18.120 It's ignorant and it's just disrespectful. 1.00

00:11:19.800 That's disgusting. 1.00

00:11:20.840 I'm done.

00:11:21.420 Put me off.

00:11:22.100 That's disgusting.

00:11:22.940 I am nowhere, anything you're painting me to be.

00:11:26.800 And the problem with American politics is exactly that.

00:11:29.420 Because I'm white, you think I'm racist.

00:11:31.380 That's BS.

00:11:32.440 I'm done.

00:11:33.200 Will you just stay?

00:11:34.460 Eric, will you just stay for this question?

00:11:37.020 I like that he walked off the set.

00:11:38.440 I'm glad that he walked off the set.

00:11:39.940 There is a certain strain on the right that says, well, no, you should never walk off.

00:11:44.400 You should always engage in debate.

00:11:45.860 Oh, the free marketplace of ideas is always going to be totally fair.

00:11:48.820 And the good ideas will always defeat the bad ideas.

00:11:51.720 Not this idea.

00:11:53.300 I broadly speaking agree with it.

00:11:55.140 I'd like to take on bad ideas head on and I like to debate these things.

00:11:59.020 But they have to be in good faith.

00:12:01.720 This woman is not acting in good faith. 0.92

00:12:03.640 This is why, by the way, when we're talking about things like critical race theory, we

00:12:07.600 need to go further than don't mandate it.

00:12:10.340 Don't require it.

00:12:11.360 We'll get multiple points of view.

00:12:12.840 No.

00:12:13.820 You need to ban that stuff. 0.58

00:12:14.980 You need to ban critical race theory because it undermines education.

00:12:19.400 What this woman is saying is, how dare you? 1.00

00:12:22.040 You're not allowed to have an opinion on this.

00:12:23.460 Why?

00:12:23.700 Because of your race.

00:12:25.580 That is not a good, you can't have a good faith debate in that way because it's pure demagoguery.

00:12:32.400 You are undermining the premise of the debate.

00:12:35.680 You're undermining people's faith in objective truth and in reason.

00:12:38.920 That's what critical race theory does. 0.92

00:12:41.720 It undermines people's faith in reason and objective truth.

00:12:45.240 It denies those things.

00:12:46.420 And so we need to kick them out of the classroom. 0.99

00:12:48.660 Because that would be an idea that would undermine all of the other ideas.

00:12:52.500 Sometimes you've got to shut bad things down.

00:12:56.680 And you are under no obligation.

00:12:58.600 And you should not actually engage in bad faith debate.

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00:14:21.800 So, this is a record month, record month, record week, record year, I guess, but not

00:14:32.400 the good kind of record.

00:14:34.280 U.S. Customs and Border Protection are reporting a record number of illegal immigrants taken

00:14:41.600 into custody at the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:14:44.700 Wow, isn't that great?

00:14:45.840 Compassion, humanity, not like that mean old Trump.

00:14:49.180 No, we got records, records of illegal alien children pouring across the border.

00:14:56.780 The situation has gotten so bad that even Lindsey Graham, who has traditionally been pretty

00:15:03.240 squishy on the immigration question, they call him Lindsey Gramnesty, Lindsey Gramnesty

00:15:08.300 has become Lindsey Grambo again.

00:15:11.840 Grambo, baby, getting tough, getting real hardcore.

00:15:14.460 Lindsey Gramnesty is calling for a total shutdown of the immigration system until, to paraphrase

00:15:21.320 former President Trump, we figure out what the hell is going on.

00:15:25.240 There was a time that we basically shut down travel into the United States from China and

00:15:30.760 other places.

00:15:32.340 I think it's now to shut down the immigration system and have a timeout.

00:15:35.760 What they've done by abolishing the remaining Mexico policy, where you no longer have to

00:15:42.720 wait in Mexico to get an asylum court date, people released into the interior of the United

00:15:47.660 States, there'll be two million people hit our border by the end of the year at this rate.

00:15:52.500 Unaccompanied minors are not repatriated back to their home country.

00:15:56.060 You no longer have to apply for asylum in your home country.

00:15:58.700 You no longer have to wait in Mexico.

00:16:00.120 We don't deport people anymore.

00:16:03.040 We've had a moratorium on deportations.

00:16:05.500 The bottom line is we've sent every signal to Central America and the rest of the world 0.83

00:16:09.200 come here.

00:16:10.320 Terrorists are coming across the, suspected terrorists are coming across the border.

00:16:14.440 The bottom line is it is a completely out of control situation.

00:16:18.220 We need to shut down the immigration system and have a timeout. 0.98

00:16:22.440 Got to shut down this kind of travel.

00:16:25.600 We've got to figure out what is going on.

00:16:29.000 And I, I really liked that Lindsey Graham is saying this right now because a complete

00:16:34.580 and total shutdown of the immigration system to me seems draconian in the ordinary proceeding

00:16:40.580 of things.

00:16:41.340 I would drastically reduce, well, one, I would stop illegal immigration and then I would 1.00

00:16:45.920 dramatically reduce illegal immigration as well.

00:16:48.840 But I, I, to me it just seems too radical to say we're going to completely shut it down

00:16:53.140 unless the, the effective policy is completely radical in the other direction.

00:17:00.760 Right now we effectively do not have national borders in this country.

00:17:04.000 We've barely had national borders for a long time and even that is collapsing.

00:17:08.500 So in that world, I'm much more comfortable advocating for a total temporary shutdown of our

00:17:14.500 immigration system.

00:17:15.360 Is this a change of heart?

00:17:18.840 Is this a change in principle for Lindsey Graham or anyone else who agrees with him?

00:17:22.220 No, because politics is not just abstract principles floating around in outer space where you hold

00:17:29.280 one opinion and it's totally abstracted and you hold that for your entire life.

00:17:34.260 Politics involves taking print, broad principles, taking a deep understanding of the world and

00:17:39.660 applying it to specific circumstances.

00:17:41.520 So if you had asked this question, actually even, I don't know, five, 10 years ago, said,

00:17:46.160 should we have a total shutdown of our immigration system?

00:17:48.820 I'd say, no, that's very, very radical.

00:17:51.200 But now today, when you have the president of the United States flouting the law, when you've

00:17:56.040 got the, a major party in the United States calling for practically open borders, when you

00:18:01.240 have floods and floods and floods of foreign nationals pouring over, kids getting literally 0.99

00:18:04.960 flung over the border and the president saying, surge, come.

00:18:10.000 Then yes, then you need to start talking about more radical solutions.

00:18:15.500 And so I'm glad to see this from Lindsey Graham.

00:18:17.760 I hope this spreads throughout the party.

00:18:20.600 You're seeing a huge polarization here.

00:18:23.000 Even the traditionally more squishy Republicans like Graham moving more to the right, New York

00:18:29.240 City, New York State moving more to the left.

00:18:33.400 New York is not proposing a shutdown of the immigration system.

00:18:36.800 On the contrary, New York is planning on giving illegal aliens, foreign nationals living in 0.88

00:18:43.600 our country in contravention of the law, a grant of $15,600.

00:18:50.800 I'm not joking.

00:18:52.880 It sounds like a Babylon Bee headline, but it's not.

00:18:56.320 New York will offer, quote, one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who

00:19:04.000 lost work during the pandemic, according to reports.

00:19:06.880 That total fund is going to come in at $2.1 billion.

00:19:11.860 This, as Americans are losing their businesses, losing their life savings, losing their livelihoods,

00:19:17.760 depression, suicidality up through the roof among Americans, we're going to give away five 0.57

00:19:22.540 figures to foreign nationals flouting our laws.

00:19:25.860 You can't make it up.

00:19:26.620 By the way, this term, it's being reported as undocumented immigrants.

00:19:30.040 I was watching punitively conservative cable news today, and they were using the word undocumented

00:19:37.380 immigrants.

00:19:37.900 Are conservatives using this term now?

00:19:40.420 An undocumented immigrant?

00:19:42.660 I was undocumented when I had a job when I was a teenager because I was working off the books.

00:19:47.300 That's not what we're talking about.

00:19:51.260 We're talking about foreign nationals who are citizens of another country, living in our 1.00

00:19:57.180 country and accessing our services illegally.

00:20:00.800 That is not just being undocumented.

00:20:03.980 It pains me to see conservatives adopting this kind of language.

00:20:10.220 It's not even so much about the money.

00:20:11.960 It's the normalization of this thing.

00:20:13.680 This is national suicide.

00:20:15.540 We're going to reward people who break our laws.

00:20:19.440 We're going to go real nice and easy on BLM and give them whatever they want.

00:20:22.600 We're going to pay five figures to illegal aliens for breaking our laws. 0.99

00:20:26.820 And then we're going to imprison regular Americans in their own homes. 0.99

00:20:30.840 We're not going to let them go out to work or to see people or go to church.

00:20:34.200 We're going to punish Americans who defend the American way of life. 0.99

00:20:38.080 And we're going to reward people who try to undermine the American way of life.

00:20:41.340 Because there is a major political movement in this country that has a purely negative purpose

00:20:47.320 to destroy our traditional standards and our traditional way of life, which happens to be

00:20:51.540 the subject of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which you

00:20:54.940 can pre-order right now.

00:20:55.940 You know, turning back away from these ridiculous policies in New York to economic policies that

00:21:03.480 are good and work, here's a story that I promise you, you did not see in any mainstream outlet.

00:21:10.780 But it turns out that Joe Biden's Commerce Secretary thinks that Donald Trump's economic policies

00:21:20.060 were pretty good.

00:21:21.820 So this was a little, just a little bit with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during an interview

00:21:28.660 on MSNBC.

00:21:29.540 And it's really not getting a lot of play in the mainstream media.

00:21:32.580 Raimondo says, the data show that those tariffs have been effective.

00:21:37.380 What President Biden has said is there will be a whole of government review of all these

00:21:41.160 policies and decide what it makes sense to maintain.

00:21:42.980 This is going to, this story, this is why no one's covering it.

00:21:45.720 The story is going to irritate the leftists because they don't want to hear that Trump's

00:21:50.640 economic policies were good.

00:21:52.260 But it's also going to irritate the libertarian types on the conservative side because they

00:21:57.020 hate tariffs.

00:21:57.680 That was one of their least favorite things about Trump is that Donald Trump endorsed the

00:22:01.740 use of tariffs.

00:22:02.660 Now, never mind, of course, that tariffs have a longstanding role in the Republican Party.

00:22:06.760 The Republican Party in many ways was founded on tariffs.

00:22:09.280 Abraham Lincoln said, give me a tariff.

00:22:11.060 I'll give you the greatest nation on earth.

00:22:13.100 And there was plenty of protectionist economic policy throughout most of our history until

00:22:17.260 really the late 20th century.

00:22:19.720 But the conservative movement and certainly the Republican Party for at least, you know,

00:22:24.780 three or four decades at the end of the 20th century embraced this total free market

00:22:29.980 neoliberal economics.

00:22:31.940 And, uh, but so Donald Trump questioned some of that, went back to an older way of conservative

00:22:36.400 thinking.

00:22:36.900 And now even, even Joe Biden's commerce secretary has to admit that it worked.

00:22:41.080 This is, oh man, is that going to infuriate people?

00:22:43.320 But the Biden administration, I'm sure she's going to get a chewing out for this because 1.00

00:22:47.380 they're, they're trying, even when the Trump policies are so good that they can't resist

00:22:52.440 implementing them, they are trying to pretend like they're not following through on these

00:23:00.340 policies.

00:23:00.720 So a great example, Trump wanted to build the wall.

00:23:03.080 He didn't really succeed at building the whole wall, but he built some of the wall and there

00:23:06.280 was money allocated to build the wall.

00:23:08.100 Joe Biden said, we're going to stop building the wall, but now it looks like actually they

00:23:11.240 might use some of that money to keep building the wall in certain places because they have

00:23:14.220 this historic surge and crisis at the border.

00:23:17.620 And Jen Psaki doesn't want to admit it.

00:23:18.960 She dances around the question of walls in, in a, an acrobatic way. 0.80

00:23:24.980 Well, um, wall construction remains paused.

00:23:28.820 Um, there is a review, uh, in underway, um, taking a look at, um, the, um, funds that had

00:23:35.880 been allocated, um, when the administration took office as, as you know, but funds had

00:23:41.580 been diverted from military construction projects and other purposes toward building the wall.

00:23:45.700 Uh, that was not something we of course, uh, supported.

00:23:48.880 There are some components of the wall that had already been allocated the funding, uh,

00:23:53.320 to continue building by Congress.

00:23:55.160 So we're working, uh, within what is allowable, uh, but our focus is not, we don't believe

00:24:00.300 the wall is an answer.

00:24:01.660 We have never believed the wall is an answer to addressing the challenges, immigration 1.00

00:24:06.180 challenges, uh, at the border.

00:24:08.080 That's why we're proposing an investment in smart investments in smart security at the border.

00:24:13.560 Why we're driving 20, what we see as 21st century solutions for border management and

00:24:18.740 why we believe we should build a functioning immigration system.

00:24:21.500 There's a review underway of kind of where this funding had been allocated and not, but

00:24:25.940 it's currently paused and for the most part.

00:24:29.180 Uh, what, what was that?

00:24:31.380 Did anyone, here's what, here's what I got out of that.

00:24:34.960 Walls are bad. 0.62

00:24:35.900 Trump bad.

00:24:36.600 Hate Trump's wall.

00:24:37.580 Yeah, we're spending some money on building the wall.

00:24:39.580 I mean, yeah, we're doing it right now, but we, but it's bad and we hate it and we're

00:24:43.420 going to build a system that, that is functioning.

00:24:45.640 Okay, so you're admitting that you're tacitly admitting that Trump's program is working, but

00:24:52.720 you say, no, we, we want a system that is functioning.

00:24:57.020 I talked about this last night.

00:24:58.420 I had my first campus lecture back again since COVID lockdowns shut down 20 schools, which

00:25:04.060 is for something to function, you need to know what it's for, right?

00:25:11.000 You know, this is drives me the craziest when you have people like Dr. Fauci say, look, I

00:25:15.440 don't, I, I'm not dictating people's politics.

00:25:18.500 I just dictate policy according to what works.

00:25:22.840 I'm, look, I'm not an ideologue.

00:25:25.200 I just am talking about what works.

00:25:28.880 Well, what are you trying to achieve?

00:25:31.280 You can't know what works unless you know what you are working toward.

00:25:34.740 But because the Democrats have outsourced their political debate away from the people

00:25:40.720 toward the experts, namely themselves, they say, yeah, it's going to be functioning.

00:25:44.320 Well, what is functioning to them?

00:25:45.220 To me, a functioning immigration system is an immigration system that keeps foreigners 1.00

00:25:49.080 out, keeps people who shouldn't be in out.

00:25:52.280 But to them, a functioning immigration system is when there's no wall.

00:25:54.860 It's open borders and they get a bunch of new prospective voters.

00:25:58.920 That doesn't really function to me.

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00:27:28.100 Joe Biden is tacitly admitting that Donald Trump got a lot of things right, but just

00:27:32.520 so that people don't accuse me of being a hack, just so people don't accuse me of carrying

00:27:36.520 water for the former president, there is one issue, and I've been totally consistent

00:27:41.820 on this from the beginning, that I feel President Trump got wrong, and I think the Republican

00:27:45.840 Party is starting to correct course on that, and that was with his obsession with freeing

00:27:51.140 criminals from prison.

00:27:52.200 I just, I always felt this was the wrong idea, felt it was the wrong messaging, it was based

00:27:55.920 on a lot of phony narratives about, you know, poor innocent people who got pinched on carrying

00:28:01.220 a dime bag of pot or something and spent their life in prison, and that just really isn't

00:28:05.560 happening right now.

00:28:06.940 So the line you hear a lot, even from some conservatives, especially the more squishy

00:28:13.280 ones on the right, they'll say, we have an over-incarceration problem in America, and

00:28:18.760 Senator Tom Cotton made a great point the other day, he was asked about this issue of

00:28:25.240 the prison population, and he said, actually, we have a massive under-incarceration problem

00:28:32.280 in America, and he's right.

00:28:34.920 What do I mean by that?

00:28:35.640 Just last year, homicides rose 33% in major cities.

00:28:45.300 Clearly, we are not throwing enough people in prison, at least in prison.

00:28:50.440 Last year, an organized violent leftist terror organization called BLM, in partnership with

00:28:59.300 another leftist terror organization called Antifa, burned down the country.

00:29:03.980 How many of those people went to prison?

00:29:06.760 How many of those organizations were busted up by the feds?

00:29:10.600 None.

00:29:11.160 The organizations are fine.

00:29:12.120 I guess some people got in trouble, but clearly not enough.

00:29:15.100 They feel emboldened to commit more crimes.

00:29:17.720 That's because we have an under-incarceration problem.

00:29:20.960 And I know, I get it.

00:29:22.740 The political argument for the jailbreak bill was, well, you know, we're going to appeal

00:29:27.260 to black voters this way.

00:29:28.320 That was the explicit appeal that people were making. 0.97

00:29:30.460 If we spring criminals from the can, that'll get black voters to like us. 1.00

00:29:35.040 And I felt, I actually felt it was a sort of offensive argument to be making from the

00:29:38.280 beginning, and I felt it wasn't worth it, and I didn't think it was going to work.

00:29:42.820 Then there was the moral argument people were making.

00:29:45.380 Oh, it's wrong that people go to prison for carrying a dime bag of pot.

00:29:48.980 First of all, that doesn't happen.

00:29:50.760 A lot of these guys have a ton of priors, or they're dealing drugs.

00:29:53.920 They're pushing poison to kids.

00:29:55.860 They're involved in lots of other crimes.

00:29:57.520 They plead these things down.

00:30:01.360 Why can't, I get that conservatives want to seem like cool guys.

00:30:05.380 You know, we want to just seem really cool.

00:30:07.140 There was that strain for a while, especially of the, you do you.

00:30:10.200 Hey, whatever you want, man.

00:30:11.180 Just don't make me pay a conservatism, which like they wanted to be.

00:30:15.960 I was like Steve Buscemi with the skateboard.

00:30:17.800 How do you do, fellow cool guys?

00:30:19.320 But that, that I thought was always kind of weak.

00:30:21.620 And I think the moral arguments that people are making are just kind of based on faulty,

00:30:26.460 faulty premises.

00:30:27.980 It is not compassionate to the victims of crimes to let these guys go scot-free.

00:30:35.760 It is not compassionate to people who live in bad neighborhoods to let criminals run those

00:30:40.300 neighborhoods.

00:30:40.900 It's not just, it's not right.

00:30:42.640 It doesn't advance racial justice.

00:30:44.380 It doesn't advance any other kind of justice.

00:30:46.480 Put the criminals in prison.

00:30:48.900 And hopefully you can reform them, by the way.

00:30:50.300 I also think that we don't do a good enough job bringing people back into society.

00:30:55.240 So that's something to work on too.

00:30:56.940 But you got to punish people for their crimes.

00:31:01.420 Especially, at the very least, when they're repeat, repeat, repeat offenders.

00:31:05.660 That is a major under, under incarceration problem.

00:31:10.140 One thing conservatives are starting to get it right though.

00:31:13.280 And I hope that maybe the show has played some role in it.

00:31:16.520 Maybe some, some writing that we've been doing has played some role in it.

00:31:20.800 The GOP governors are getting a little bit tougher on the vaccine passport.

00:31:24.940 I've said on this show, this needs to be a line in the sand.

00:31:27.240 There are 27 Republican governors in this country.

00:31:29.960 And so far, yet by, as of yesterday, as of two days ago, three of them had come out against

00:31:35.640 vaccine passports.

00:31:36.620 And we've been hammering and hammering and hammering.

00:31:38.480 And a lot of other conservatives joined the chorus.

00:31:40.740 Then we got another Republican governor.

00:31:43.920 Now we've got GOP governor, Brad Little, in Idaho, who is coming out to prohibit the so-called

00:31:50.920 vaccine passports.

00:31:52.840 This will bring him to join Florida, Texas, and Utah.

00:31:57.620 Little's order comes after New York has started pushing in the other direction and they want

00:32:01.780 to start seeing these vaccine passports.

00:32:04.060 He says, quote, Idahoans should be given the choice to receive the vaccine.

00:32:07.980 We should not violate Idahoans' personal freedoms by requiring them to receive it.

00:32:12.260 Vaccine passports create different classes of citizens.

00:32:15.200 Vaccine passports restrict the free flow of commerce during a time when life and the economy 1.00

00:32:19.580 are returning to normal.

00:32:21.620 Vaccine passports threaten individual freedom and patient privacy. 0.99

00:32:25.340 I really like this.

00:32:26.980 You know, Terrence Williams, their comedian, a friend of mine, Terrence tweeted the other

00:32:31.100 day.

00:32:31.320 He said, you know, look, I'm not going to get the vaccine, but it's not because of politics.

00:32:35.260 I just don't want to grow a tail and a third eye.

00:32:38.720 He's basically saying, I'm a little skeptical of this vaccine.

00:32:41.560 Look, the vaccine seems to be working out just fine.

00:32:43.280 But hey, for me, I'd rather not get it.

00:32:45.400 It seems like it came out very quickly and I'm young, I'm healthy.

00:32:48.720 I don't really want to get it.

00:32:49.940 And according to the Democrat governors, Terrence is basically a mass murderer for saying that.

00:32:54.980 And he'll probably be kicked off social media because you're not allowed to make any jokes

00:32:57.960 about the vaccine.

00:32:59.160 If I talk about how, you know, all my friends who got the vaccine are now my personal Wi-Fi

00:33:03.100 hotspots, they're 5G flowing all through their bodies.

00:33:05.460 If I make that joke, I can be kicked off of social media.

00:33:08.920 And what the governors now are saying is, no, that's a bridge too far.

00:33:13.920 Giving not just the government, but big tech and allegedly private businesses the right

00:33:18.900 to force you to inject yourself with a very new vaccine and then give them the right

00:33:23.320 to force you to show them your medical history and give that medical history to big tech

00:33:27.200 companies, it's a step too far.

00:33:30.020 So here again, I mean, this looks pretty good in Idaho, but we've got to keep the feet to

00:33:34.020 the fire here.

00:33:34.540 This cannot just be about the government coming out and saying, we're not going to mandate

00:33:39.720 it.

00:33:40.060 It's actually got to go further.

00:33:42.140 It's got to say the companies can't mandate it either.

00:33:45.000 We're going to interfere in the allegedly free market of the allegedly private businesses

00:33:48.520 to protect the constitutional rights and the liberty and the political traditions of Americans.

00:33:56.500 That's what they have to do.

00:33:57.440 Things are moving in the right direction and that's really great stuff.

00:34:01.200 Speaking of political dissidence and imprisonment, this is an international story that's also

00:34:07.420 not getting a ton of news in the West.

00:34:10.140 Alexei Navalny is the major dissident, the sort of opposition leader in Russia to Putin's regime.

00:34:15.900 And it would appear that the Kremlin is killing him right now.

00:34:20.160 So the Kremlin tried to poison him once and they failed and he caught it in time and was

00:34:25.360 taken to a facility in Germany.

00:34:26.700 He was in a coma, but he recovered.

00:34:28.420 And Putin said, if you come back to Russia, I'm going to imprison you.

00:34:32.260 And Navalny said, well, I'm going to do it anyway.

00:34:35.120 And he flew back there and what did they do?

00:34:36.960 Putin imprisoned him.

00:34:37.740 And now it looks like his health is failing quickly.

00:34:40.540 The guards in the prison are reportedly depriving him of sleep.

00:34:44.280 The facility is apparently quite unsanitary.

00:34:46.660 There's a tuberculosis outbreak here.

00:34:48.560 He's apparently losing quite a bit of his health.

00:34:52.000 And I guess you would call this a slow motion assassination, right? 0.84

00:34:55.640 They're just going to let him, let this guy die in prison.

00:34:59.580 I mention this as Vladimir Putin effectively names himself president for life.

00:35:04.980 He now, according to a new law he signed, could be in power until 2036.

00:35:11.020 That would make him 93 years old at that point.

00:35:12.860 The reason I mention this is not even to talk about the internal politics of Russia,

00:35:17.340 about which I know very little, and frankly, about which I don't care all that much.

00:35:20.780 I do this to show political courage.

00:35:23.380 Alexei Navalny went back to Russia knowing he would die,

00:35:28.280 knowing that he would die for his political cause, 0.52

00:35:31.000 that Putin would kill him, eventually he'd be successful, and that would be it. 0.84

00:35:34.500 And we here in the United States are neurotic over the sniffles. 0.93

00:35:41.060 And we're not willing to risk really much of anything.

00:35:43.540 We're not even really willing to talk up at work about our defense of basic American values

00:35:48.100 and waving the American flag.

00:35:50.620 And I think it's very hard for us to understand.

00:35:52.220 Alexei, why would you do it?

00:35:53.180 Why would you go back to Russia? 0.52

00:35:54.320 Why would you leave Germany and go back to a place where you know this guy's going to kill you?

00:35:57.600 Because there were things that matter more than just breathing for a few more years.

00:36:03.300 We used to know that in America.

00:36:05.380 And now the godless Ruskis are the ones that have to tell this to us. 1.00

00:36:09.120 I don't know if they're godless over there.

00:36:10.520 Actually, right now, there's a flourishing of religion in Russia after communism.

00:36:17.420 That's a lesson we could learn from that.

00:36:18.740 That is a lesson, regardless of the actual political views of Putin and Navalny,

00:36:24.000 that's a lesson we can learn.

00:36:26.600 Turns out there are things in life worth dying for.

00:36:31.600 All right, we've got to get to the mailbag.

00:36:33.420 First, though, you know, there's going to be a great episode out of Candace today.

00:36:37.180 I don't know what she's talking about, you know, or who the other guests are,

00:36:39.440 but I'll tell you, there's one guest on that show.

00:36:41.260 Oh, gosh, you were going to want to see him.

00:36:43.000 Handsome, articulate, ooh, a mellifluous voice.

00:36:47.140 So definitely go and check out Candace. 1.00

00:36:50.500 A absolutely great show.

00:36:51.980 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central at dailywire.com.

00:36:55.480 You can also check out the podcast audio version of that, which is under Candace.

00:36:59.560 Be sure to leave a five-star review.

00:37:01.640 We will be right back with the mailbag.

00:37:16.060 Welcome back to the mailbag, my favorite time of the week.

00:37:19.260 First question from Dennis.

00:37:20.560 Dennis says, so I was watching the Bible on Easter.

00:37:24.440 You're going to wait for it to jump up and down?

00:37:25.820 How are you watching the Bible?

00:37:26.540 You mean you're reading the Bible?

00:37:27.680 I don't know.

00:37:28.400 When Jesus was on the cross and speaking to God,

00:37:31.460 the Roman soldiers seemed to almost look like they felt bad for what they did.

00:37:35.740 Do you think the Roman soldiers thought they had messed up for doing what they did?

00:37:39.240 Or do you think they still wrote him off as a heretic like the Jewish high priest did, like Caiaphas did?

00:37:43.440 No, I don't think they had any particular interest in these religious views.

00:37:49.580 I do know that Pontius Pilate was very disconcerted by Jesus, 0.75

00:37:52.600 and Pontius Pilate's wife suffered nightmares because of Jesus.

00:37:56.540 And Pilate has this very famous moment where he's talking.

00:38:02.740 He's saying, what are you doing?

00:38:03.380 Why aren't you standing up for yourself?

00:38:04.860 And Jesus just says that he is the truth.

00:38:11.020 And Pilate, this cynic, says, what is the truth?

00:38:14.360 What is truth?

00:38:15.900 And washes his hands of the matter.

00:38:18.580 But Pilate was troubled.

00:38:20.000 He was a fairly sophisticated guy, and he was troubled by Christ.

00:38:22.760 And the Romans did take pity on him.

00:38:25.240 They offered him effectively a gall, but what was effectively a sort of drug that would numb the pain a little bit.

00:38:32.180 And he turns it away at the beginning of the crucifixion.

00:38:35.180 And then after it is accomplished, he takes it, but doesn't have very much of it.

00:38:42.100 So did they feel bad?

00:38:44.240 Well, what were they?

00:38:44.860 I mean, their job is to execute criminals.

00:38:47.360 Their job is to follow the law.

00:38:48.960 And Christ was condemned through this legal process.

00:38:53.420 And even, you know, Caiaphas and the high priests, part of their enmity against Christ was their envy of him.

00:39:01.800 He threatened their power, just as people awaiting the Jewish Messiah felt that that Messiah would threaten Roman power and political stability. 0.58

00:39:12.420 But ultimately, these are all people.

00:39:15.600 When we have the passion narrative, when we are going through the passion of Christ,

00:39:20.500 when members of the congregation participate in that, we are the ones who yell, crucify him, crucify him.

00:39:28.140 That is our role in this, because we are the cause of this.

00:39:32.920 And really, it's not just about Pilate.

00:39:34.800 It's not just about Judas, and it's not just about Caiaphas, and it's not just about the Roman soldiers, and it's not.

00:39:42.180 It's about sin.

00:39:44.220 It's about the consequence of sin that will either lead to the death and enslavement of mankind,

00:39:51.460 or will lead to this redemption.

00:39:54.840 Which is why, on Easter, Christians sing, 0.94

00:39:59.440 Oh, happy fault, the fall of Adam in the garden.

00:40:03.000 Oh, happy fault, that one for us so great, so glorious, a redeemer.

00:40:06.640 From Matthew.

00:40:08.300 Hey, Michael, how quickly will the audiobook for Speechless be made available?

00:40:11.600 Your audiobook version of Reasons to Vote for Democrats was fantastic.

00:40:15.340 By the way, Speechless comes out on my wife's birthday, and I need a gift.

00:40:18.200 Hmm.

00:40:18.720 I think it makes a great gift.

00:40:19.800 Thank you.

00:40:20.160 I'm glad you listened to the audiobook of Reasons to Vote for Democrats.

00:40:23.940 The John Cage estate was a little upset with me, but I think it's a good one.

00:40:27.440 We will be recording the audiobook for Speechless.

00:40:29.440 That's going to be coming up.

00:40:30.320 I think I'm going to be recording that within a few weeks.

00:40:32.860 The book itself goes to the printer on, I think, April 15th or something like that.

00:40:38.460 I mean, that's going to be going out within days.

00:40:40.580 And then it's done, and I don't need to make any more edits,

00:40:42.700 and I will then read it for the audiobook, and then that will go up.

00:40:45.220 I appreciate people pre-ordering it.

00:40:46.920 It's done quite well on the pre-order charts,

00:40:51.040 so we'll see how long it is able to remain on Amazon.

00:40:53.840 You can also get an autographed first edition over at Premier Collectibles.

00:40:57.680 So if you're interested in that sort of thing, head on over.

00:41:00.300 And thank you for doing that.

00:41:02.660 Next up from Nick.

00:41:06.000 Hi, Michael.

00:41:06.520 Huge fan of the show.

00:41:07.820 I watched your guest appearance on C-SPAN today,

00:41:10.060 and I wanted to ask a question regarding the role of religion in our government.

00:41:13.040 The Declaration of Independence explicitly mentions three unalienable rights,

00:41:17.120 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:41:19.740 How did the Founding Fathers arrive at these specific rights,

00:41:22.340 and why are they the most important from a Christian perspective?

00:41:24.520 Thank you so much.

00:41:25.920 Well, there are some great parallels here between the Declaration of Independence and John Locke,

00:41:30.760 who describes the rights to life, liberty, and property.

00:41:35.240 And so where does John Locke get it from?

00:41:37.000 Well, Locke, like liberal thinkers, Enlightenment thinkers,

00:41:41.800 gets this from the Western tradition,

00:41:43.460 and where that comes from ultimately really is the Catholic Church.

00:41:47.040 And in particular, the way that the Catholic Church synthesizes this revelation of Christ

00:41:52.100 and the Old Testament,

00:41:56.560 and the pre-Christian Greeks, the pagan philosophers.

00:42:00.860 And so, you know, it's all ultimately coming from there.

00:42:03.880 Now, why these three rights?

00:42:07.360 Well, it makes a lot of sense.

00:42:09.000 Our pursuit of happiness is how we would describe, you know,

00:42:14.740 the sort of end of our civil society, right?

00:42:19.740 I mean, justice is the end of civil society, as Madison says,

00:42:22.760 and we are pursuing flourishing happiness in society.

00:42:27.100 You can't do that without liberty, and you can't have liberty without life.

00:42:30.400 This is why, very important to remember, life is not just one issue among many.

00:42:36.440 Now, like, well, you know, we can talk about life, or we can talk about drug policy,

00:42:41.080 or we can talk about taxes, or we can talk...

00:42:42.740 And it's not just one among...

00:42:43.840 Or immigration.

00:42:45.540 Life is the prerequisite for all of these other rights.

00:42:50.200 That is a Catholic point of view,

00:42:52.440 and it's one that our present Catholic president is disregarding.

00:42:56.660 But we know this just naturally.

00:42:59.600 We know that life is the prerequisite for all of these.

00:43:02.340 So you ought to focus on those three, and you've got to focus on them in that order.

00:43:06.540 From Theodore.

00:43:07.640 Dear Michael, according to Dan Bongino,

00:43:10.280 he said most Republicans are really Democrats,

00:43:13.060 but no Democrats are really Republicans.

00:43:15.920 That's a great point.

00:43:16.900 Dan always has these really good, pithy points.

00:43:20.320 What he's saying...

00:43:21.060 I mean, look at Asa Hutchinson.

00:43:22.140 He's a great example.

00:43:23.080 Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas,

00:43:24.860 who I thought he was sort of conservative.

00:43:27.060 I guess not.

00:43:28.620 He vetoes a bill that says that

00:43:31.620 perverts are not allowed to pump little kids full of hormones 1.00

00:43:36.120 to make Johnny look like Jane. 0.61

00:43:38.360 So he vetoes that bill.

00:43:39.940 And when asked why, he says,

00:43:41.180 well, you know, that's just part of the culture wars,

00:43:44.100 and we need to focus on things that really matter,

00:43:46.020 you know, like whatever, corporate tax policy or something.

00:43:48.860 And you think, oh,

00:43:50.860 so what you're really saying is,

00:43:52.820 that's part of the culture war.

00:43:53.940 You totally concede the culture war to the left.

00:43:56.600 You are perfectly happy living in the left's world

00:43:59.200 as long as you can make a little bit more money

00:44:01.280 or something like that.

00:44:02.460 Well, that means you're really a Democrat. 0.96

00:44:04.000 It just means you're a greedy Democrat.

00:44:05.940 You know, there's sometimes...

00:44:08.140 And look, I've done this myself, okay?

00:44:09.760 Back in my wayward youth,

00:44:11.180 I would have called myself a fiscal conservative social liberal.

00:44:14.060 And what I really would have meant by that

00:44:15.200 is I'm a fiscal libertarian

00:44:16.940 and a social degenerate, I don't know, derelict.

00:44:23.000 What that means, though, when you say that is 0.96

00:44:24.940 that you are a greedy Democrat, right?

00:44:28.140 You support the Democrats' policies,

00:44:30.300 but you want to keep more of your own money.

00:44:33.400 Okay, you know, that's a good step on the road

00:44:35.520 to becoming a conservative,

00:44:36.940 but that's not a sustainable argument.

00:44:39.160 So I think that's what Dan is really getting at.

00:44:40.820 And you don't really see that on the Democrats' side.

00:44:42.700 A little bit here and there.

00:44:44.880 They're kind of Clinton types,

00:44:46.320 but really they tend to be true believers.

00:44:48.800 Maybe you get a mansion or something like that,

00:44:50.500 but really they tend to be on the left.

00:44:53.920 Next question from Michael.

00:44:55.960 Hi, Michael.

00:44:56.660 I wanted your opinion

00:44:57.480 on the Catholic Church's China virus stance.

00:44:59.740 My local diocese was saying

00:45:01.600 that they do not condone testing vaccines

00:45:03.380 on cells of aborted babies,

00:45:05.040 but as an act of charity

00:45:06.220 and to prevent more suffering,

00:45:07.500 we can get the vaccine.

00:45:08.900 To me, this seems like a slippery slope.

00:45:10.600 Cancer causes suffering,

00:45:11.720 but does that mean we should condone euthanasia?

00:45:13.800 Love the show.

00:45:14.340 Thank you very much.

00:45:15.180 Well, I guess the argument

00:45:16.340 that the bishops are making

00:45:17.700 in allowing people

00:45:20.640 or saying it's permissible

00:45:22.120 to use a vaccine

00:45:25.060 that was made,

00:45:27.240 developed through certain cells

00:45:30.100 from certain lines

00:45:31.240 derived from aborted babies decades ago

00:45:33.460 is that this is a relatively remote cooperation with evil

00:45:38.020 and we engage in similarly remote cooperations

00:45:41.820 with evil every day.

00:45:42.560 When I go to Starbucks and I buy a coffee,

00:45:45.480 Starbucks matches employee donations to charities.

00:45:48.740 One charity that employees can choose

00:45:50.800 to have money donated to

00:45:52.260 is Planned Parenthood.

00:45:54.040 So when I buy Starbucks,

00:45:55.260 am I giving money to Planned Parenthood

00:45:56.620 in a remote way?

00:45:57.520 I suppose I am.

00:45:59.140 But at a certain point,

00:46:00.540 we wouldn't be able to interact at all in society

00:46:02.400 if we had such a wide threshold

00:46:05.360 for that sort of thing.

00:46:06.100 Now, I think the vaccines are a little different.

00:46:08.700 I mean, you're using dead babies

00:46:11.620 to make your inoculation against the Wu flu.

00:46:15.500 I don't know that that seems to me graver.

00:46:18.420 But the bishops have given their guidance on this

00:46:21.860 and I suppose that's above my pay grade.

00:46:24.500 But I do think there is a little bit of a fear

00:46:26.420 of a slippery slope argument here.

00:46:27.720 I don't think it's quite like the same as saying

00:46:29.180 we're going to start committing euthanasia. 0.52

00:46:31.340 You know, we're going to start killing people 0.99

00:46:32.820 if they don't feel good one day. 0.92

00:46:34.960 But it's, yeah, I don't think it's the sort of thing

00:46:38.760 that ought to be encouraged.

00:46:40.520 Katie writes, hey, Michael,

00:46:42.080 I really appreciate what you've been saying lately

00:46:44.060 about denying money and business to corporations

00:46:46.180 that vocally disdain conservatives

00:46:47.780 and choose to go woke.

00:46:48.840 I wish I could do this

00:46:49.760 when it comes to seemingly monopolized airlines.

00:46:51.860 I travel regularly and have been loyal

00:46:53.200 to particular airlines for their quality and prices.

00:46:55.820 You can just say it's Delta.

00:46:57.260 But you're talking about Delta

00:46:58.080 because they have high quality.

00:46:59.200 The prices aren't that great, but they're okay.

00:47:00.580 But with everything from aggressive mask rules

00:47:03.040 in early 2020 to their recent political behavior

00:47:05.080 regarding voting regulations,

00:47:06.400 I'm loathe to keep giving them my business.

00:47:08.840 Do you foresee any alternatives

00:47:09.860 for air travel in the future?

00:47:11.100 Where can I sign up for air daily wire

00:47:12.780 frequent flyer program?

00:47:14.000 Oh, man, if only.

00:47:14.880 How great would that be?

00:47:16.780 And, you know, if Ben were flying,

00:47:18.120 you'd just get there so much faster

00:47:19.460 and that somehow the announcements would be even,

00:47:21.680 you know, normally the airline announcements are,

00:47:23.380 oh, well, so we're about to touch down.

00:47:28.820 But if it were Ben, I'd just be like,

00:47:29.960 oh, guys, the idea that we're going to get here 0.91

00:47:31.800 in six hours is patently ridiculous.

00:47:33.440 We're going to get there in four hours. 0.87

00:47:35.160 So that would be great.

00:47:37.080 But the short answer to your question is

00:47:38.960 the airlines are a little bit of a racket.

00:47:42.780 They are highly regulated.

00:47:44.980 It's hard for new players to break into the market.

00:47:47.120 And therefore, withholding our money

00:47:51.300 is not probably going to be enough.

00:47:54.520 What you're going to need to do

00:47:55.920 is not just exercise that kind of personal cultural power.

00:47:59.520 You also need to exercise political power.

00:48:02.420 When you get into positions of political authority,

00:48:05.020 you need to make it really hard for these airlines to operate

00:48:07.700 when they try to undermine your republic.

00:48:11.360 Now, Georgia is doing this to some effect.

00:48:13.440 They're denying Delta some of their tax credits.

00:48:18.340 Okay, great.

00:48:18.980 They've done that before.

00:48:19.840 It hasn't bankrupted Delta.

00:48:21.220 But if you had broader political action on this front,

00:48:24.060 then maybe you could get these woe companies

00:48:25.660 to stop attacking your way of life.

00:48:30.080 Because it's not just the fringe,

00:48:33.420 cultural, super-duper conservatives

00:48:35.980 who are saying this sort of thing.

00:48:37.540 It's Mitch McConnell.

00:48:38.300 Mitch McConnell is as establishment as it gets.

00:48:40.000 But he's saying you can't just give these guys a blank check

00:48:42.800 and allow corporations to set up a parallel government.

00:48:45.840 That's no good.

00:48:46.320 That's like the worst possible situation.

00:48:48.420 So that's what I would do.

00:48:49.280 I would flex political power if we can ever get it again.

00:48:52.260 And if we don't get voter integrity back under control,

00:48:55.100 then who knows if we will.

00:48:56.300 Next question from Michael.

00:48:57.700 Dear Michael, I have noticed that MSNBC, CNN, PBS,

00:49:00.340 and other loud champions of wokeness

00:49:02.120 have many articles calling the new virus variants

00:49:04.920 after the places where they arose.

00:49:06.560 Like the Brazilian variant, the UK variant,

00:49:09.360 the South African variant.

00:49:10.380 Weren't we told that it was a sure sign of racism

00:49:13.100 and white supremacy to call SARS COVID-2 the Wuhan virus?

00:49:18.700 Did the Ministry of Truth change the rules?

00:49:20.940 And I missed it.

00:49:21.400 No, here's the rule.

00:49:22.240 If the virus comes from a white-ish place,

00:49:27.240 white or white-ish place,

00:49:29.100 then you can call it by its name.

00:49:31.020 And if it comes from an Asian place,

00:49:34.060 then you can't.

00:49:35.760 All right, that's basically it.

00:49:37.740 The UK, white. 0.91

00:49:38.760 South Africa, largely white.

00:49:40.500 Obviously, it's a complex racial situation there,

00:49:42.620 but it was run by whites for a very long time.

00:49:44.740 And Brazil, I don't know, they're like sort of white, right? 0.99

00:49:46.640 Is that, I don't know, they're white Hispanics.

00:49:48.500 I don't know what the new term is.

00:49:49.520 I don't keep up on all the racial lingo.

00:49:51.400 But that's the new rule.

00:49:52.400 It's just different rules for different races

00:49:53.820 because the left is instituting a new racial caste system.

00:49:57.240 That's the way it goes.

00:49:59.100 It's not necessarily hypocrisy.

00:50:01.140 It's just a new hierarchy.

00:50:04.180 I think conservatives would prefer

00:50:05.460 if we just didn't focus on race

00:50:07.160 and we didn't think that's the most important thing about people,

00:50:09.280 but the left really wants to.

00:50:10.660 So they're going to set up a caste system. 0.99

00:50:13.040 From unknown.

00:50:14.540 This is unknown.

00:50:15.600 Who is unknown?

00:50:16.280 How mysterious.

00:50:17.660 Michael Knowles, I've heard you and Ben Shapiro

00:50:19.260 talking about the COVID vaccine passports a bit.

00:50:22.400 I was wanting to know if you see them

00:50:24.060 as being potential HIPAA violations.

00:50:27.240 Medical privacy, that's a good point.

00:50:28.900 And also I want to thank you

00:50:30.500 for referring to Dr. Rachel Levine

00:50:32.280 or whatever he calls himself as he.

00:50:33.680 It irritates me when even people from our side

00:50:35.260 let people like him live in his fantasy

00:50:36.920 of being a girl

00:50:38.060 when he quite obviously isn't.

00:50:39.180 Please keep it up.

00:50:39.680 I appreciate that.

00:50:40.280 Thank you.

00:50:40.780 Yeah, I think this is an important point

00:50:42.220 because there's increasingly a fissure on the right

00:50:46.500 between the people who are standing up for objective truth

00:50:49.360 and are willing to assert objective truth

00:50:53.880 in the public sphere

00:50:54.620 and the people who might stand up for objective truth

00:50:57.680 in their personal life,

00:50:58.480 but they don't really want to make anyone else do that

00:51:00.280 and they don't want to assert that in the public sphere

00:51:01.820 and they think we can all just kind of do our own thing

00:51:04.040 and we won't bother anybody.

00:51:06.500 And I think increasingly the latter vision is untenable

00:51:09.680 and I think we need to stand up for the truth now

00:51:12.240 or we're not going to have an opportunity to.

00:51:13.740 As for the HIPAA violations

00:51:14.860 and the medical questions of the vaccine passports,

00:51:18.000 yeah, I mean that is pretty,

00:51:21.960 it's a good line of argument.

00:51:23.240 I'd be happy to make it.

00:51:24.240 I think there are even broader concerns here.

00:51:27.600 Namely, it's an upending of our way of life.

00:51:29.460 It's an upending of our political order.

00:51:30.740 It empowers a whole lot of people

00:51:31.840 who shouldn't have a lot of power

00:51:32.940 and we should simply not stand for that sort of thing.

00:51:36.220 Whatever the argument is.

00:51:37.360 It's kind of like with big tech.

00:51:38.440 Do you go after big tech on fraud or Section 230

00:51:40.720 or on some other matter?

00:51:43.280 I don't know, just go after them.

00:51:44.240 Just go after them and break it up

00:51:45.400 because we cannot support that anymore.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 09, 2021

Ep. 739 - A History of Violence

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