The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 744 - The Euphemism Treadmill

00:00:00.000 Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court. Packing the court is when you increase the number of judges

00:00:04.660 on the court. And to justify their calls to pack the Supreme Court, often explicit calls to pack

00:00:10.500 the Supreme Court, they accused Republicans of packing the Supreme Court. And they did this by

00:00:15.320 redefining the term packing the court to mean just replacing the judges when vacancies come up on the

00:00:22.340 court instead of adding to the number of judges on the court. So that was the old strategy. Now,

00:00:27.020 though, they've gone even further. While they are trying to pack the court, they are now saying that

00:00:31.600 they are not only not packing the court, but they are in fact unpacking the court. Some people will

00:00:37.680 say we're packing the court. We're not packing it. We're unpacking it. We're unpacking it, says Jerry

00:00:41.820 Nadler. Yeah, come on. Up is down. Come on. True as false. Left is right. East is west. Come on.

00:00:48.180 Democrats yet again attempting to redefine reality by redefining all the words. I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:02:52.300 most consistent strategy, which is to redefine reality or attempt to redefine reality by redefining

00:03:00.500 all the words. That's basically the definition of political correctness. And they're doing that here

00:03:05.080 with court packing. However, there is a little glimmer of hope for those of us who want to keep

00:03:09.360 some semblance of our constitutional Republic. Namely, Nancy Pelosi is not gung-ho about bringing 0.95

00:03:16.600 this court packing bill to the floor. I support the president's commission to study such a proposal,

00:03:24.060 but frankly, I'm not. Right now, we're back. Our members, our committees are working. We're

00:03:33.780 building the infrastructure, putting together the infrastructure bill and the rest. I don't know

00:03:38.040 if that's a good idea or a bad idea. I think it's an idea that should be considered. And I think

00:03:43.880 the president's taking the right approach to have a commission to study such a thing. It's a big step.

00:03:51.580 It's not out of the question. It has been done before in the history of our country a long time ago.

00:03:57.500 And the growth of our country, the size of our country, the growth of our challenges in terms of

00:04:04.300 the economy, et cetera, might necessitate such a thing. But in answer to your question,

00:04:11.580 I have no plans to bring it to the floor. No plans to bring it to the floor. This is a little

00:04:15.180 bit of a side note. I don't like watching people talk when they've got a mask on. It makes them look

00:04:20.100 like cartoon villains. It makes them look like banditos. It's weird. It's creepy. I don't like it. 0.71

00:04:24.960 And she shouldn't be doing that. However, all of that said, I am pleased to see that Nancy Pelosi

00:04:30.240 is now really only trying to use court packing as a bargaining chip. But she is suggesting,

00:04:35.760 she is implying here that she does not actually want to pack the Supreme Court.

00:04:39.920 The fact that this is so popular on the left, though, and among Democrats is just exhibit

00:04:44.260 Z. I don't know. Exhibit Z times 50 of the disingenuousness that you hear from Democrats when

00:04:52.800 they accuse Trump of upending constitutional norms and threatening our democracy because he

00:04:58.940 sent a tweet or something or whatever, said something that he didn't even say that the

00:05:02.640 Democrats pretended he said. The Democratic Party is trying to force in new states to give them a

00:05:09.580 permanent majority. The Democrats are trying to turn the District of Columbia, the federal district

00:05:14.540 that is never supposed to be a state, by definition, it is not supposed to be a state, trying to turn it

00:05:19.060 into a state and they're trying to pack the Supreme Court. So I just don't want to hear it. I never want

00:05:22.420 to hear another word about Donald Trump and the constitutional norms. The left doesn't actually

00:05:27.460 care about constitutional norms because the left hates the Constitution. And so they're trying to

00:05:31.820 upend all of society and not just our foundational legal document, the Constitution, but all of it,

00:05:37.880 all the institutions, all the traditions. That is the plan of the cultural radicals.

00:05:41.920 And conservatives are playing a fool's game when they try to win the debate by showing 0.95

00:05:47.680 the illogic of the left's plans. There is no logic here. If Jerry Nadler can walk on TV and say, 0.98

00:05:53.100 we're not going to pack the court, we're going to unpack the court. Anyway, yeah, we're going to do

00:05:56.740 what we want. We're going to grab power and we're going to grab money. And that's just the way it is.

00:06:01.200 This is not just happening at the level of elected office. This is happening throughout the culture.

00:06:06.420 The Associated Press, which has long, not only given in to political correctness and woke language,

00:06:13.380 but has in some ways led the charge in the past. They are now banning the people who follow the AP

00:06:20.340 guidelines from using the term mistress. What's a mistress? A mistress is a lady who's sleeping with 1.00

00:06:25.920 a married man, right? No, no longer. The AP style book says, quote, don't use the term mistress for

00:06:33.660 a woman who's in a long-term sexual relationship with and is financially supported by a man who is

00:06:39.040 married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend, or lover on first reference

00:06:46.120 and provide additional details later. Now you see the problem with friend, say. I am friends with

00:06:53.660 Andrew Klavan and Andrew Klavan is a married man. I do not want there to be any confusion about the

00:07:00.340 nature of our relationship. So you've got these very vague words, friend, companion. They're really,

00:07:06.720 they don't tell you anything. Then you've got a more specific word, lover, but there are all sorts

00:07:11.240 of lovers. People can have lovers in a perfectly above board way, or at least relatively above board

00:07:18.640 way. But when you're sleeping with a married man, that's not above board. That's wrong. That's sinful.

00:07:24.260 You shouldn't be doing that sort of thing. But we're not allowed to use the term mistress.

00:07:27.920 Whatever term you end up using is going to acquire negative connotations. This is called the euphemism

00:07:37.720 treadmill. Steven Pinker, who is no conservative, but he's a Harvard professor. He pointed this out

00:07:42.860 a number of years ago now. The idea of the euphemism treadmill is that radicals want to deny harsh

00:07:51.760 realities. So they sugarcoat them with euphemisms. However, over time, the realities remain. And so the

00:07:59.760 realities, because they continue to assert themselves, will recolor the euphemism that people

00:08:05.340 add to it. So whatever word you're going to make up for mistress, it's going to take on a negative

00:08:08.880 connotation. This is true for people who have mental deficiencies. Initially, terms like simpleton or 0.98

00:08:17.360 idiot or moron were, or retard for that matter, were, you might say euphemistic. They were terms 1.00

00:08:24.600 that were trying to describe in a way that was relatively polite and inoffensive, this deficiency.

00:08:30.760 But because the deficiency is not particularly desirable, you know, it's a, it's a, by definition,

00:08:37.380 it's a deficiency. Over time, it takes on a negative connotation. And so rather than just trying to

00:08:43.160 be compassionate to people who have not just mental deficiencies, but all sorts of deficiencies,

00:08:47.560 and we've all got something. Instead, what these linguistic verbal hygienists want to do,

00:08:54.120 these cultural radicals want to do, is just come up with a new term. And they think that's going to

00:08:58.380 change the underlying reality. It doesn't really happen. And I don't want to just straw man the AP's

00:09:03.640 argument here. The AP goes a little bit further. They say, quote, we added this guidance last year.

00:09:09.340 It's not new. We understand it's problematic that the alternative terms fall short, like suggesting

00:09:14.380 that if I am friends with Andrew Klavan, that implies something that nobody wants to think

00:09:18.420 about. But, they write, we felt that was better than having one word for a woman and none for the

00:09:24.880 man, and implying that the woman was solely responsible for the affair. Well, it doesn't imply

00:09:30.840 that the woman is solely responsible for the affair. There are all sorts of terms for a man

00:09:34.960 who cheats on his wife with some woman. You call him a cad, you can call him an adulterer,

00:09:39.520 you can call him a womanizer. There's plenty of terms for that. But you're right, it's not the 1.00

00:09:43.560 same term. It's different. You wouldn't call a man who's in a similar kind of relationship

00:09:47.960 a mistress. But the words are different, not because of the unfairness of our language and

00:09:56.480 the patriarchy. The words are different because the sexes are different. And the sexes are very 0.95

00:10:02.440 different in this regard. Very rarely are you going to find a young man who is a kept man 0.76

00:10:11.240 from an older woman. You know, he's pursuing this older woman who's got a family, but she's 0.76

00:10:16.380 cheating on her husband with this younger man. And it's an illicit relationship, but you know,

00:10:21.380 she keeps him up in a nice apartment or something like that. That's just not how it works. Men and women 0.99

00:10:27.060 have different relationships to sex. Their sexual desires are of a different character.

00:10:34.040 The significance of sex to them is of a different nature. The things that men would do if they were

00:10:42.720 not hemmed in by the moral order and our marital vows sexually are different than the behaviors that

00:10:48.220 women would engage in. Feminism seeks to deny this. Leftism broadly seeks to deny this because they 0.94

00:10:54.840 cannot stand the difference between men and women. It's why they're so obsessed now with 1.00

00:10:58.740 redefining men to become women and women to become men and, and defining sex as a social construct.

00:11:05.140 But there actually is a difference. And that's why there are different words. And you can try to

00:11:09.400 change the words, but it's just not going to change that reality. I'll give you an example of

00:11:13.560 trying to sugarcoat evil with sweet and soft words. NPR is just reporting this right now.

00:11:19.340 For the first time, US and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human,

00:11:25.420 part monkey in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants. But some ethicists

00:11:31.940 worry about how such research could go wrong. Gee, you don't say. Some, some ethicists are worried.

00:11:39.360 Even here, what is this? Scientists have created, so it's the scientists have created it, right? Even

00:11:44.300 though it's, one imagines these scientists are backed by not just national political cooperation,

00:11:50.040 but international political cooperation. They've created embryos. What's an embryo? An embryo is a

00:11:54.120 human. It's a person. They're part human, but part monkey. And they're just doing it to try to find

00:11:59.240 new ways to produce organs for transplants. In plain English, what that says is that these Chinese and US

00:12:07.400 scientists, obviously with political support, are creating human hybrids, breeding them, 0.87

00:12:13.040 so that they can kill them and harvest them for organs, so that those of us who are currently

00:12:18.320 older, who have survived birth, can live maybe a little bit longer. Scientists are now trying to

00:12:28.040 create a human hybrid, specifically for the purpose of sacrificing that creature, so that we can eke out 1.00

00:12:36.780 a little bit longer in this life. So we can steal their organs and put them in our own bodies 0.83

00:12:42.380 and live a little bit longer. The ethical concerns, I don't think, are that the research will go wrong.

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00:14:04.760 K-N-W-L-E-S, ring.com slash Knowles. These scientists in the US and China, this is being

00:14:11.280 reported by NPR. It's not like it's some fringe website that pushes conspiracy theories on the

00:14:17.040 internet. Actually, I guess it's NPR, so it is a sort of fringe website that pushes conspiracy

00:14:20.220 theories. But they consider themselves mainstream. They're backed up by taxpayer dollars and the

00:14:26.300 liberal establishment. And they're trying to present this idea that we're going to breed

00:14:32.140 sort of semi-humans and harvest their organs for ourselves. They're trying to say this is a good 0.82

00:14:38.240 thing. It's a good, it's a wonderful thing. You know, a bioethicist at Case Western Reserve

00:14:44.420 University at Harvard. In Soo Hyun says, quote, I don't see this type of research being ethically

00:14:50.880 problematic. It's aimed at lofty humanitarian goals. Well, there it is, breeding a race of 1.00

00:14:59.300 semi-people to kill them and take their organs. That's, but it's for the purpose of helping 1.00

00:15:07.200 old rich people today live a little longer. Isn't that, come on, that's great. It's a,

00:15:13.040 that's a lofty humanitarian goal. Reminds us that the religion of humanitarianism is a very

00:15:19.720 wicked religion indeed, because what it tries to do is divorce. It tries to keep some of 1.00

00:15:25.160 Christianity, but without Christianity. And it ultimately turns our attention away from God 0.77

00:15:29.860 toward just ourselves. And it leads to a radical sort of selfishness in the guise of this really

00:15:35.980 moral, compassionate language, like you see here. There is nothing, I cannot imagine a single

00:15:40.920 more selfish thing than breeding people to steal their organs or breeding half people or creating 1.00

00:15:51.740 a new race that is somewhat human just for yourself. We used to recognize in this culture

00:15:59.840 that death comes for us all and that there are some things that are worse than death. I've talked

00:16:06.860 now for over a year about the neurotic hysteria that people have descended into during COVID

00:16:13.880 because it seems they're just waking up to the fact that they could die. And by the way, the COVID

00:16:19.720 death rate is pretty low. But even that is freaking people out and causing us to upend our society

00:16:27.440 because people don't want to confront the fact of death. They want to push it to the side.

00:16:31.940 They want to deny it. They want to avert it altogether if they can, which is a fool's errand. 0.98

00:16:38.200 They don't believe in eternal things. They don't believe that there can be a life after death. They

00:16:42.260 think, gosh, you know, all those stories about Christianity, those are fairy tales. How could

00:16:47.640 anyone with two brain cells to rub together believe in that? You know, all those idiots like, 1.00

00:16:52.620 I don't know, Thomas Aquinas or all those really dum-dums like Pope Benedict XVI or, you know, 1.00

00:17:01.300 Isaac Newton or, I don't know, all the smartest people ever who have ever lived. You know, those

00:17:06.480 guys, they believe in crazy, ridiculous stuff. And so we, because we're rational, because we're 0.98

00:17:11.320 scientific, because we understand what's right, we are going to create monkey-human hybrids to steal all 1.00

00:17:18.400 their organs and put them in our own bodies to live a little bit longer. Ah, something went wrong

00:17:23.140 there. We need to turn not to these experts who are obviously ethically idiotic. Is that, is that 1.00

00:17:30.480 the politically correct term? What term am I supposed to? They're simpletons. They're morons. I don't know

00:17:33.840 what term I'm supposed to use. We should turn to people in the culture like this UFC fighter whom I

00:17:38.820 had never heard of before because I don't really follow the sport, but she is great and she's much

00:17:43.620 smarter than any of these, of these experts around us. Rose Namahunas. Is that a Namajunas, Namahunas?

00:17:51.600 I don't know. She made this point in an interview that for her, she would rather be dead than red.

00:17:59.120 I have, I have a lot to fight for in this fight and what she represents. And, um, you know, uh, I was

00:18:09.540 just, I was just kind of reminding myself of, you know, all the, my background and everywhere that I

00:18:16.140 come from and my family and everything like that. And we watched, um, and I kind of wanted to educate

00:18:20.360 my training partner, Chico Caymus on, uh, the Lithuanian struggle and like just the history

00:18:26.960 of it all. And, um, so we watched the other dream team just to kind of get like a overall sentiment of

00:18:33.200 what we fight for. And, um, so just the, after watching that, it was just a huge reminder of like,

00:18:41.100 yeah, it's better, better dead than red, you know? And I think, um, I don't think it's any coincidence

00:18:47.240 that Whaley is red, you know, she's, uh, that's what she represents. It's nothing personal against

00:18:53.280 her, but, um, that's a huge motivating factor of why I fight and I fight for freedom.

00:18:59.420 So this fighter, she goes on, it's very eloquent. She, I guess this other fighter that she's referring

00:19:04.220 to as some sort of pinko. And she says, look, we have, we actually have different values here.

00:19:08.720 I would rather be dead than red. Yes. That that's not just jingoist slogans that Americans used to

00:19:15.880 recite during the cold war. That is a moral truth. I would rather be dead than red. 1.00

00:19:22.280 This goes right back to the Bible. When Christ says, do not fear those who can destroy your body,

00:19:27.480 but destroy, but, but fear him who can destroy your body and your soul in hell. 0.88

00:19:34.580 You, you should, you should not only be worried about your physical safety all the time. That will,

00:19:39.400 that will deprive you of your dignity and you're going to end up, well, I guess we're,

00:19:43.540 we're living in a moment when people are denying human dignity more broadly by creating little

00:19:48.820 hybrids in, in laboratories and by trying to compost humans as we were discussing yesterday

00:19:55.200 on the show. But I still believe that humans have dignity. I still think we have a rational

00:20:01.640 soul. We have an intellect and a will and that we should, we're made in the image of God. I believe

00:20:07.940 all of that. And so if I were forced into a political system that demanded, they told me,

00:20:13.500 you need to embrace a radical atheist materialist system called communism, or we're going to kill 0.99

00:20:22.760 you. It wouldn't take me two seconds. Say, oh, kill me. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of death. I don't 0.99

00:20:28.700 want to suffer. I don't, I'm not exactly happy about pain. I don't want to endure that, but death

00:20:33.940 itself. No, I'd like to extend my life reasonably, but you know, I'd like to like to live a good life

00:20:40.540 in accordance with providence, but I know ultimately I'm going to die. And so I don't fear that. I want

00:20:45.120 to just make sure that I'm in a, I'm in a good position when I die. I don't, I don't think it's

00:20:50.140 necessarily wrong for researchers to be trying to figure out ways to improve human health,

00:20:54.400 but there is a big difference between researching ways to improve human health

00:20:58.320 and creating and destroying human-like creatures, you know, semi-human creatures 0.58

00:21:06.340 for the purpose of living by their death. That is an inversion of, well, it's an inversion of

00:21:16.260 Christianity. It's an inversion of, of the religion that has traditionally built our civilization. 1.00

00:21:22.460 And it's an inversion of all the lines that we talk about, about how we need to be progressive

00:21:26.140 and selfless and open. And yeah, it's all bunk. It's all total bunk. Speaking of reds, by the way, 1.00

00:21:32.500 CNN, this poor schlub, this, this technical director from CNN who got caught on James O'Keefe's

00:21:37.940 sting operation. O'Keefe has released a new video in which the CNN technical director explains that CNN

00:21:46.140 wants to help BLM.

00:21:48.000 I was trying to do some Lisa, trying to like the Asian hate, like the, you know, the people are 1.00

00:21:53.840 getting attacked over there. A bunch of people that have been attacking Asians. Um, so I'm like,

00:22:02.480 what are you doing? Like, we're trying to like help like the BLM and like, you're gonna, like,

00:22:07.880 I mean, it's individuals. It's not a people, you know, um, that's not good. The optics of that are

00:22:15.480 not good. These little things like that are enough to set back movements, you know, because the,

00:22:21.780 the, the, uh, the far left will start to latch on and create a story of like, um, criminalizing

00:22:29.580 an entire game, you know, just easy, easier headlines. I guess it's easier. It's easier

00:22:36.020 headline. They just want to help BLM. That's all they're trying to do. But sometimes the reality

00:22:40.740 is contradicting the BLM narrative. And it's just really frustrating if you're a reporter at CNN,

00:22:45.600 because then, you know, there is a lot of pressure for you to report the news, but you're not there to

00:22:49.900 report the news. You're there to push a narrative that is not in accordance with reality. And gosh,

00:22:54.720 that's really frustrating. I kind of feel bad for this guy because I think he thought he was just

00:22:58.200 impressing some chick on a date and instead he's just spilling secrets that are now, well, they are,

00:23:05.500 they are depicting, I think the reality. Speaking of BLM too, I have to get back to this story that

00:23:10.140 we've talked about the last couple of days. There's, there's more development on it. You know,

00:23:14.300 that the BLM founder Patrice colors has been buying up lots of super fancy houses. They've renamed BLM

00:23:20.820 by large mansions. So she came out, she denied it. She said, I'm not taking money unfairly out of BLM.

00:23:26.340 And then the New York city BLM chapter said, wait, well, hold on. What are you guys doing?

00:23:30.120 At least give us a cut. That's I think the implication, but Hey, I, this seems like it's

00:23:34.660 not totally above board. Well, now we figured out how she got her money. According to the daily caller, 0.91

00:23:39.640 a Los Angeles jail reform organization paid Janaya and Patrice consulting. I guess this is a firm that

00:23:47.340 Patrice colors owns, uh, paid her $20,000 a month while she served as the chairwoman 0.58

00:23:53.460 of the, it's a ridiculous term in itself. Well, she served as the chairman of the jail reform group. 0.90

00:23:59.240 This consulting firm received a total of $191,000 over the course of 2019 via payments from reform LA

00:24:06.160 jails. That's just one organization paying them huge amounts of money. How many other organizations

00:24:13.140 was Patrice colors on the take from in extortion efforts? So she can't say, no, I wasn't taking

00:24:18.660 the money from the BLM organization. I don't take a penny from them. I just shake down all the companies

00:24:22.640 on my own through my consulting firm. So I don't even need to go through BLM man. Oh man. Is that woman 1.00

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00:25:39.080 xjernoles.com. So BLM, we're now beginning to find out how these radicals are making their

00:25:47.600 money. The way they're doing it is they fundraise for the organization, which is just the militant

00:25:53.500 wing of the Democrat Party. But then these founders of BLM, like Patrice Cullors, are buying

00:25:57.800 up all these zillion dollar homes, it seems, because they're shaking down all the other

00:26:01.580 shell organizations on their own through their own political consulting firm. What consulting

00:26:06.340 is this woman giving? It's just an extortion front, which a lot of race hustlers have done 1.00

00:26:11.060 over the years. This is nothing new. Al Sharpton used to do the same thing. This woman just 1.00

00:26:14.620 seems to have gotten more efficient about it. And I can't blame her. I blame her because

00:26:22.020 her goals are evil and bad, and because she's contributing to the destruction of the country 1.00

00:26:28.280 that I love. So I blame her for that. But just from a pure political operations standpoint,

00:26:33.800 I give her a lot of credit. I wish conservatives knew how to do this sort of thing. I wish

00:26:39.240 Republicans knew how to behave in this sort of way. What she is doing, what she has recognized,

00:26:44.620 first of all, is that big politics attracts big money. And both of those sorts of things

00:26:49.620 will give you a lot of influence. And she's just practicing that. And she is amassing for 1.00

00:26:54.560 herself a lot of money and a lot of political influence. And then she is exercising that influence, 1.00

00:27:00.120 not just to buy herself nice swimming pools or whatever, because she's doing that too,

00:27:04.400 but to advance her political agenda. If only conservatives could do that. You know, I'm not

00:27:10.760 saying conservatives should be immoral in any way or that we should violate any of the moral order.

00:27:16.900 But I wish that we understood what political power is and how to exercise it. Because the left is

00:27:24.220 much, much better at it. And they're very, very effective. Speaking of political campaigns,

00:27:31.260 hitting a little bit of a snafu, the confidence in the coronavirus vaccine is plummeting right now.

00:27:38.520 This, according to an economist, YouGov poll. So you know that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine went

00:27:44.180 on pause because there was apparently a blood clotting issue in certain rare cases. There was

00:27:48.680 killing people. So among those surveyed before the announcement of the Johnson and Johnson pause,

00:27:55.880 52% of respondents said that the vaccine was very safe or somewhat safe. Twice the number of people

00:28:03.500 who believed it was very unsafe or somewhat unsafe. After the announcement about Johnson and Johnson

00:28:07.900 came out, those figures seemed to change quite a bit. Only 37% of the respondents felt the vaccine

00:28:15.420 was safe. And 39% felt that the vaccine was unsafe. And it's not just the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

00:28:22.120 Blood clot deaths related to the vaccine have apparently been reported in Italy and Denmark

00:28:27.200 from AstraZeneca. And Denmark has now removed the AstraZeneca vaccine. I mentioned this a little bit

00:28:33.860 on the show yesterday. I think it bears reiterating. I'm not saying that the vaccine is totally unsafe.

00:28:39.500 I'm not saying that you are likely to get a blood clot if you take the vaccine. I'm not saying that

00:28:43.780 under no circumstance would I take the vaccine. What I am saying is there is a prudential risk

00:28:51.920 calculation whenever you're getting any sort of medical procedure. And the public health eggheads,

00:28:58.380 the liars in lab coats, such as Dr. Fauci, but all the other people that Dr. Fauci represents, 0.56

00:29:05.020 he's just the high pontiff in the, in the church of secular progressivism. When they told us,

00:29:09.560 no risk whatsoever, everyone's got to get the vaccine. Don't, don't calculate your actual risk

00:29:14.860 from the virus. Just go get it, get it, get it. You have to get it. You have to get it. There's

00:29:17.440 no risk whatsoever. They were obviously lying to you because there is always a risk. Might be a small

00:29:22.180 risk, but there are risks. And by the way, I think the reaction to it, the pause on the vaccines,

00:29:28.000 I think we can blame the same public health eggheads who have been misleading us. And in some cases,

00:29:34.700 is lying to us over the past year because their credibility is completely shot. So when people,

00:29:41.900 when whatever it is, 39% of people say they think the vaccines are unsafe, I can't blame them.

00:29:46.780 But Michael, only seven people got the blood clot issue out of a 7 million vaccinated. Okay, fine.

00:29:52.480 I just wish that the public health experts had been more forthright from the beginning,

00:29:56.840 because then we wouldn't have this problem of credibility, would we? Then people could exercise

00:30:01.400 prudence, which is a virtue you're not allowed to talk about anymore, but it is a core conservative

00:30:06.380 virtue. The radicals seem to be running the show. It's not just these radicals running through the

00:30:12.260 streets, burning down the cities, them too, but they seem to be in positions of serious power in

00:30:17.280 the Biden administration. Kristen Clark, who we sounded the alarm on months ago when her name was

00:30:22.200 floated for the Biden administration, she is up for the US Department of Justice Civil Rights

00:30:26.800 Division. She's supposed to lead that division. It's a very powerful division. I talk about her

00:30:30.940 actually at great length in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,

00:30:33.980 available now for pre-order, by the way. This woman is a radical's radical. She published an

00:30:39.780 article at Harvard in the Harvard Crimson about how black people are superior to white people because

00:30:44.040 of the melanin in their skin. The same kooky theories that Nick Cannon, the actor, was spouting off on

00:30:49.440 some months ago. The same kooky theories that Professor Jeffries, famously this crazy professor in New

00:30:55.840 York, was spouting off on years and years ago. This woman was pushing the same stuff, and she's up for a 0.99

00:31:00.920 leadership role in the DOJ civil rights division. Senator Cruz absolutely wrecking this woman during 1.00

00:31:08.520 her testimony. Your advocacy and frankly extreme position on defunding the police

00:31:16.380 is paired with a history of not only excusing, but celebrating murderers who have murdered police

00:31:26.200 officers. It's been reported that during law school, you helped organize a conference with

00:31:31.180 speakers who referred to convicted cop killers as political prisoners. Did you organize the

00:31:38.300 conference, and do you support celebrating those who murder police officers as heroes and political

00:31:47.500 prisoners? I was a student providing logistical support to a notable historian who was the one who

00:31:55.420 organized that conference. So if there's a police officer in Philadelphia or New Jersey today

00:31:59.720 watching this hearing, how are they supposed to react to your nomination to one of the senior

00:32:05.520 positions of the Department of Justice, knowing that as a student, you participated in a conference

00:32:12.340 celebrating and lionizing cop killers? No, well, it goes on. You should take a listen to the whole

00:32:20.300 exchange. This woman basically denying that she said what she said. This woman said, no, no, forget the 1.00

00:32:27.640 headlines that have been written on my articles. Forget what I've written in articles. No, no, I

00:32:31.800 don't believe that. No, no. Like Jerry Nadler says, we're not trying to pack the court. We're going to

00:32:36.300 unpack the court. What? What are you talking? You can't just, you can't just use your words to

00:32:42.180 contradict reality, perfectly contradict reality, and then hope that on the strength of your

00:32:46.860 redefinition and your euphemisms, you will actually create the word anew. I don't care how narcissistic,

00:32:52.480 how prideful you are. You ain't going to succeed at that. The left keeps doing it. Cenk Uygur, big 0.61

00:32:56.980 left winger, he tweeted out the other day, now people are saying they won't travel to red states

00:33:02.700 because it's a danger to be around conservatives. Nearly half of Republicans say they won't take the

00:33:06.760 vaccine. It's literally hazardous to your health to be around this death cult. Their ignorance has

00:33:12.300 reached a clinical level. I think he's suggesting here that because conservatives, just by being who 0.94

00:33:16.720 they are, are a health threat that that would justify a public health response. What does that

00:33:22.000 mean? Can get pretty dark there. I love too that people who have been living in the neurotic fear

00:33:27.060 of death, like inside their own homes, afraid of the Wu flu for a year, call the rest of us a death

00:33:33.020 cult. But he's also just wrong on the numbers. By raw count, six out of the top 10 states right now

00:33:38.160 for COVID cases are Democrat run states. They're not Republican run states, 60%. And then if you look at

00:33:43.920 the seven day case rate per 100,000 people in the population, the top 10 states are all run by

00:33:49.640 Democrats, every single one. So even just on the pure facts, the data, the science, what's going on

00:33:56.220 in reality, Democrats' case does not, it completely falls apart. But the left, like Cenk, like this

00:34:04.080 woman, Kristen Clark, like Jerry Nadler, they believe that they can change the reality with their

00:34:08.740 very words. Don't let them do that. You got to listen to the best words, folks. If you want some

00:34:12.900 great words, check out Candace's show tonight. Streams at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central at 0.90

00:34:19.000 dailywire.com. But you can get the audio podcast, Candace, at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen

00:34:25.120 to your podcasts. Obviously, Candace Owens, great friend of mine, a really terrific voice in the

00:34:30.580 conservative movement. We really need you to go over there, subscribe, leave a five-star review

00:34:35.460 for Candace, the podcast. Not because she needs the listens or anything like that. Obviously,

00:34:40.180 the show's doing great. But mostly because if it does really well in the ratings and everything,

00:34:44.740 then I think we get to all rename our shows so I can just be Michael. I've always more or less

00:34:49.740 wanted to be Cher. So, you know, if I just get that one name, that would really be great. Go check

00:34:53.440 it out. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:35:05.460 Welcome back to the mailbag. First question from William, who writes,

00:35:11.680 Hey, Michael, you denounced the idea of composting your remains as a debasing or savaging the decorum

00:35:18.220 of the station we as God's chosen creation hold. I understand the point you were making,

00:35:23.100 but I disagree. When I saw the possibility of being composted in the future, I immediately told

00:35:28.340 my wife that is what I wanted if it was available. Those close enough to me to be concerned with my 0.96

00:35:34.240 physical remains have a saving relationship with their creator, and I can think of no greater use

00:35:38.100 or service for my physical remains than to feed my children's tomato plants and my creator's world.

00:35:44.600 Did you have a deeper theological objection to this practice, or was it simply that you

00:35:48.480 personally think it debases God's creation? Well, my personal opinion is based on my theological

00:35:53.240 views, but there's a more practical consideration. Namely, your kids don't want to eat you in a

00:35:58.540 tomato, my friend. I see the impulse of what you're saying. Well, we'll all be part of

00:36:03.880 creation, but I fear that that has more to do with the modernist pseudo-religion of environmentalism,

00:36:11.200 or Gaia, the idea that we're all just going to be part of the world, man. You are more than worm 0.99

00:36:15.500 food, my friend. You are more than a tomato. You have a special place in creation. You are made in

00:36:21.320 the image of God. You have base appetites. You have aspects of you that are kind of animalistic,

00:36:27.000 that make you in some ways like the human monkey hybrid that the psychopaths in lab coats are 0.94

00:36:33.960 currently creating. But you also have a higher rational will and intellect, which mediates

00:36:40.000 between your base animal nature and the divine will. And hopefully, as you practice the virtues

00:36:46.200 and grow in sanctity and holiness, you can focus more on that one and less on the bottom one. But you

00:36:50.780 are not a tomato and you should not be a tomato. And we all have a natural repugnance, I think,

00:36:57.920 at this. When you think about the reality of it, you might have a sort of rationalist, ethereal,

00:37:02.120 out in the pie in the sky idea of what that would be like and why it's so nice. But if someone served

00:37:06.320 you your daddy in a tomato, something tells me you would not want to eat it. And there is a great

00:37:11.340 wisdom in that repugnance. Not the least of which, because if you're Christian, the traditional 1.00

00:37:17.680 Christian expectation is that we look forward to the resurrection of the body in the life of the

00:37:22.700 world to come. Does this mean that your body needs to remain perfectly incorrupt for all of history?

00:37:28.360 And if it starts to decay in any way that you're totally up the river? No, I don't think that's

00:37:34.720 what we're saying here. But what it's saying is that the body has some significance to you.

00:37:40.020 You are not truly a soul that happens to be kind of briefly attached to the body, but the body doesn't

00:37:44.720 really matter. That is the argument of the transgenderists. That's the argument of the

00:37:49.280 Gnostics or the Albigensians or all sorts of other kooky sects that have cropped up in history. But the 1.00

00:37:54.120 body actually has something to do with who you are. And in the resurrection, after Christ comes again

00:37:59.580 and the resurrection of the body, the body will have something to do with you then too. And I think

00:38:03.120 that is why we need to treat the body with some respect, both now and after we turn to what many

00:38:10.100 people would consider to be worm food. From Sophia, hey Michael, I live in Israel, where our government

00:38:15.320 has instituted the green passport for people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Those who

00:38:20.080 choose not to be vaccinated, like me, are treated as second-class citizens and are barred from certain

00:38:24.380 events, hotels, etc. The Israeli version of the green passport has become the model for the UK and

00:38:29.500 other countries in Europe. This is a massive infringement of our human rights, privacy, assembly, etc.,

00:38:33.840 and has made our lives increasingly more difficult. My question is, if America does not go along

00:38:39.260 with the green passport, do you think this global initiative is dead in the water? As a global

00:38:44.100 initiative, I think it is, because the United States, whether we want to admit it or not,

00:38:47.380 is the global hegemon. China now is an emerging superpower, but the US still dominates and we

00:38:53.100 like to pretend that we're just our own country and other countries are other countries, but we run

00:38:58.900 the world. That's just the way it goes. And so if we disallowed these sorts of things, if we prohibited

00:39:07.080 green passports in the United States, like Ron DeSantis is doing, like Tate Reeves is doing in

00:39:12.600 Mississippi, like other governors are taking the lead on here, then I think it would have a lot

00:39:18.080 greater trouble being instituted around the world, especially for tourism, you know, when people rely

00:39:22.580 on American tourist dollars. So this is a fight I think we absolutely should fight, not even because

00:39:28.260 I'm totally against vaccines or something like that, but something really seems to have cracked here

00:39:32.680 in the country. We are, we are freaking out over this virus in a way that we haven't freaked out

00:39:39.740 over other deadlier viruses. And it's not because the science has changed. It's because the philosophy

00:39:45.460 and the religion have changed. And that's really bad for the culture. That's much more dangerous to 0.93

00:39:50.140 the body politic than the virus is to the body. From Cameron, dear Michael, I'm a 20 year old female

00:39:55.500 conservative at a very liberal university. Because of this, it's challenging to get career slash future

00:40:00.760 advice from someone who shares my values. I plan to attend law school and become a lawyer because

00:40:04.520 I'm passionate about fighting injustices like human trafficking. However, I also hold deep family

00:40:09.320 values and am worried a career will get in the way of my being a mother. Everyone I talk to thinks my

00:40:15.340 career is much more valuable because of the whole women empowerment thing. I agree, but raising a family 1.00

00:40:20.840 is much more empowering to me. How do I know I'm making the right decisions amidst all the liberal

00:40:26.180 nonsense? Thank you for all you do. Raise a family. Get married and raise a family. That is what you

00:40:32.980 should do. That is much more important than you going to law school and doing whatever else you

00:40:36.920 want to do. You can be involved in the causes you want to be involved in. You should ignore all of the

00:40:42.020 lib dummies who are telling you to ruin your life and you should instead get married and raise a family. 0.94

00:40:49.160 Would I give this advice to every single woman? No, I was actually talking to a friend of mine 0.98

00:40:53.260 last night who is having a little bit of a crisis in this regard as well, or at least having questions

00:40:58.460 about it. I do not deny that there is some very small number of women who truly have a total aversion 0.89

00:41:06.660 to raising a family and who really just need to be working in some career and they're really,

00:41:13.600 really drawn to that. I'm not denying that that is true. But the fact that in your question,

00:41:18.360 you are questioning that, right? The entire culture is telling you, you've got to put off

00:41:23.520 having kids, put off getting married, work at the widget shop, become a middle manager,

00:41:27.520 work on spreadsheets. That's the most important thing in life is spreadsheets and making widgets

00:41:31.120 and stuff. The fact that even amid all that ridiculous noise, you still say, God, I kind of,

00:41:37.140 I kind of want to raise a family. That's what you should do. That is 100% what you should do. 0.79

00:41:43.000 And if the whole culture is telling you that you're wrong, you should be much more confident that

00:41:47.260 you're right because the culture has gone completely crazy. Best of luck in all of your

00:41:52.000 endeavors. I hope you have a very, very good and fulfilling life, even if all the lunatics are

00:41:57.740 screaming at you. From Matt, Mr. Knowles, resident papist and Lord of Covfefe, my question relates to

00:42:04.640 the bedrock of Christianity, namely the resurrection. Disregarding the highly debated shroud of Turin,

00:42:11.280 is it reasonable to believe that the story of the resurrection, in the story of the resurrection,

00:42:15.240 without any physical evidence? If so, does that mean Christians believe a man rose from the dead

00:42:18.860 solely based on testimony? Your thoughts would be much appreciated and I'd be grateful to hear

00:42:23.200 any reading recommendations you have on the subject. Love the show and keep up the great work.

00:42:28.140 Well, I wouldn't dismiss the shroud of Turin, first of all. I mean, this is a little bit of a side note,

00:42:32.120 but the shroud of Turin is, I believe, worthy of belief. It is, for those of you who don't know what

00:42:38.700 the shroud of Turin is, it is this object that is a death shroud that has the image. It's like a three,

00:42:45.400 or rather, it's like an x-ray image of a dead man on it that looks a lot like what you would

00:42:51.860 imagine Jesus to look like. And there have been attempts to say that the dating doesn't work to

00:42:56.060 the right place, but those have been debunked. And no one has any idea really what this could be.

00:43:00.760 It seems that the image has been emitted through some burst of light, like an x-ray.

00:43:07.760 It's not paint. There's nothing like that. So anyway, I just think the shroud of Turin is quite

00:43:13.180 good evidence. But yes, my belief in the resurrection does not hinge on the shroud of Turin.

00:43:18.220 There are 500 eyewitnesses to the resurrection. They're written about in accounts that were compiled

00:43:24.600 within just decades of the crucifixion and the resurrection. If this was just completely bogus,

00:43:32.440 first of all, I don't think the accounts would match up quite in the same way that they do.

00:43:35.900 But also, you would have other accounts of people saying, this is completely bogus. You would have

00:43:39.740 people disproving it. But a lot of people attested to the resurrection. Then you have the lives of the

00:43:44.940 apostles, all of whom, I guess they could all be just totally nuts, but they don't seem like they're 0.97

00:43:50.680 totally nuts. And it seems weird to me that all of them would seem so totally nuts. And it seems weird 0.99

00:43:53.880 that they would seem so persuasive and logical to all the people at the ends of the earth that

00:43:57.460 they traveled to, to spread this message of the resurrection, the good news. It seems strange to

00:44:03.460 me if they, so if we say they weren't lunatics, if they were just liars and deceivers, I don't really 0.96

00:44:07.840 know what they would get out of it. Most of them, almost all of them died because they were preaching 0.95

00:44:13.680 that message at various places on earth. Thomas dies in India. Paul and Peter are killed in Rome.

00:44:19.460 So that, that's a little strange to me. And moreover, if you're saying, if you're saying that it's a

00:44:26.920 little strange to believe in this event, the central event in the history of the world, because we're just

00:44:34.560 doing it based on testimony, how do you believe in anything? Other than things that you can see with your

00:44:41.540 own eyes, how do you believe in anything? And by the way, even something you see with your own eyes

00:44:48.040 can deceive you later on because memories are somewhat fickle. So how do you believe in anything?

00:44:55.120 Why it's by applying your faculties of reason to perception and to testimonies that you have heard.

00:45:03.720 How do we know that Aristotle lived? How do we know that Napoleon lived for that matter?

00:45:09.240 How do we know that we went to the moon? How do we know that the sun is going to rise tomorrow? How do

00:45:14.680 we know that George Washington really lived and fought a revolution? How do we know any of this

00:45:22.600 stuff? It's based on testimonies and some are more credible than others. And it seems to me that the

00:45:27.400 testimony of the resurrection is far from being unbelievable or incredible or something.

00:45:35.400 You know, it's incredible in the sense that it inspires awe, but it seems to me that some of

00:45:40.300 the most credible testimony in the history of the world look at how people believed and how many

00:45:45.440 people believed at it, what that impelled them to do and what that has brought forth as a matter of

00:45:49.760 our civilization. From Justin. Hey, Michael. I look forward to your show every morning while

00:45:54.400 working from home. Thank you. That's very nice. I recently pre-ordered your book. Do I get a ding for

00:45:59.160 that? Is that a plug technically if I'm reading his letter? Okay. The judges have ruled. No ding.

00:46:04.260 Oh no. Okay. We got it. Okay. We got a ding. We got a ding. That's fine.

00:46:08.640 Anyway, he goes up. I ran into a little conundrum. I was hoping you could help with.

00:46:12.220 Is it better to order your book through Amazon to boost the Amazon numbers of conservative literature

00:46:17.240 or is it better to order through your publisher to avoid giving money to Amazon while also getting

00:46:22.080 a signed copy? I'm hoping you could advise since I have not been able to sleep at night because of

00:46:26.800 this. Thank you. Very kind of you to worry about this. Well, you can get an autographed first edition

00:46:30.900 and a little bit more money. It's not much more money. I think it's like the book lists,

00:46:34.240 it's for about 29 bucks. It's discounted on some of the websites to like 22, 23 bucks and you can

00:46:39.040 get a signed first edition for 30 bucks. So you can do that if you're interested. To your broader

00:46:44.640 question, I'll actually broaden this out even beyond my own book, though I do love to plug it,

00:46:49.220 which is should conservatives be patronizing these companies that hate us? In some cases,

00:46:57.000 no, where it's easy enough to switch. Probably not. But in a case like Amazon, where Amazon just is

00:47:02.320 the store, right? And they just dominate the marketplace and they especially dominate the 0.67

00:47:05.260 marketplace for books. Then I don't think that we need to hold ourselves to the standard where we

00:47:11.580 never use those companies and we're going to be so ideologically pure. I would go further than that

00:47:16.680 and say, no, we should use the companies when we have to use the companies or when they dominate

00:47:19.900 the marketplace. And then we should use politics to punish those companies and drag those companies 0.99

00:47:25.160 back in line into not undermining our constitutional republic. This is what the left would do and they

00:47:33.160 would do it to immoral ends, but they would recognize political reality and use it to their

00:47:37.060 advantage. And I think the right should do that as well. Coincidentally, this is alluded to in that

00:47:42.260 book that you are very kindly ordering. From Matt, dear Michael, my father is convinced that Lincoln was

00:47:48.100 a bad president because he used slavery as an excuse to greatly increase the power of the federal

00:47:51.940 government over the state governments. My dad says that this paved the way for the huge governmental

00:47:56.920 overreach we are seeing today. I tend to disagree. I think governmental overreach largely began with

00:48:01.640 Wilson and the administrative state and that Lincoln keeping the union together was a good thing. 0.92

00:48:05.440 What do you think of Lincoln? And do you have any book recommendations that are fair to both sides

00:48:09.180 of this argument over Lincoln? Came for Knowles, stayed for Knowles. Thank you very much.

00:48:12.460 I'm pro-Lincoln. I like Lincoln. I'm not saying that there are no questions that you can make

00:48:18.000 about his political career. I'm not even saying that the radical question of whether or not

00:48:21.880 you had to fight this bloody, bloody civil war and rip the country apart over the issue of slavery

00:48:26.720 in order to get rid of slavery. I'm not even saying that that's out of the question. A lot

00:48:31.320 of other countries got rid of slavery around the same time we did, and they did it without a bloody

00:48:35.000 civil war. So would it have been possible? Maybe, though I sort of doubt it. But this gets to the

00:48:41.220 heart of a question that I think conservatives are debating right now, which is states' rights,

00:48:47.460 very important. Federalism, very important. Local power, very important. But rights in the abstract

00:48:54.480 take an object. The right to do what? States' rights to do what? And Lincoln had a much clearer

00:49:04.840 moral vision here. He said, yeah, we like states' rights, but not states' rights to just do profoundly

00:49:10.820 evil things. Apply this to abortion. Do the states have a right to get an abortion, you know, to have 0.96

00:49:17.380 abortion? There are two schools of thought on this. The really mainstream one on the right is that,

00:49:22.200 yes, you know, if we got rid of Roe v. Wade, it would go back to the states, and some states could

00:49:26.720 have it, and some states couldn't. The stronger argument, though, actually, which is gaining ground

00:49:30.500 on the right, and is pretty persuasive even to me, who used to think of the other argument, is,

00:49:35.840 no, the 14th Amendment, you can't do it. You can't kill people like that. No, not even if the

00:49:39.820 states want to. The states' rights to do what? When we think about our freedom of speech, free speech

00:49:45.480 to say what? Freedom of belief, freedom of religion, freedom to believe what? What are we

00:49:51.420 actually talking about? We got to get a lot more concrete, because politics has not only form,

00:49:56.520 but substance, too. And that is really what's going to separate the good guys from the bad guys in the

00:50:01.440 country that we want to be from the country that we don't want to be. And we need to get much more

00:50:05.680 serious about figuring out what that substance is. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 16, 2021

Ep. 744 - The Euphemism Treadmill

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