Ep. 750 - The “Conservative” Case For Caitlyn
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Caitlyn Jenner is running for Governor of California. Is it a good idea? Or is it a bad idea? Michael talks about it. Plus, a new Acre Gold bar giveaway and much more!
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Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor of California.
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Are you with her? Are you with him? Or are you, like Lot, just planning to flee California to
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the hills, lest you be swept away? Buckle up, buckaroos. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The
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Michael Knowles Show. Buckle up, buckaroo. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment
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the show. I'm in, she says. He says. It's very, it's confusing, isn't it? Caitlin says, I'm in.
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California is worth fighting for. Visit caitlinjenner.com to follow or donate today. Hashtag recall Newsome.
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So are we for Caitlin or are we not for Caitlin? This is an open question on the right, right now.
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I don't, I think it's skewing in one direction, but it's not totally clear. There are prominent
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right-wingers in and not, I'm not just talking about squishes. I'm talking about prominent right-wingers
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from the conservative wing of the conservative movement who think the Caitlin candidacy is a
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good idea. And there are many other prominent conservatives who say, I don't think so, buddy.
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This is a bridge too far. I think this is going to be a good litmus test for conservatives.
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Every so often litmus tests pop up. Trump in a way was a litmus test. And I think this is going to be
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another good one. There is a serious argument on both sides. There really is. I don't want to straw
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man. I don't want to dismiss this out of hand, no matter how funny it is. It would be really terrific
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if the first woman governor of California were a man. That would be really, I would love that.
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I think that would give a lot of conservatives who were sick of the identity politics and the
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craziness of the left. I think that would be a terrific thing. However, if you're a man who
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thinks that you're a woman and who presents yourself as a woman, you are a seriously confused
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individual. It might not be a good idea to give you a ton of political power. On the one hand,
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we could own the libs. Oh man, how owned would the libs be if the first transgender governor who
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says that he's a woman, but he's not, if he were a Republican, oh man, the libs would be extremely
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owned. However, we might be owning ourselves by doing that because we would be owning the libs by
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adopting their most radical and cherished premises. So it might be a little bit of a pyrrhic victory.
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Yeah, we get to claim this kind of funny thing for a while in California and Caitlyn Jenner cuts
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taxes and gets tough on crime, but at the cost of what? At the cost of giving up the basic
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distinction in human nature, it doesn't seem like a great idea. And then there's the political
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consideration. There's the Buckley rule. The William F. Buckley Jr. rule for voting was and is,
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you vote for the most right viable candidate. So you vote for the most right wing guy who can win
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an election. And in California, somehow that I guess there's a case to be made that that's Caitlyn
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Jenner. However, the flip side of that is sometimes there's just got to be a line in the sand
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and conservatives. We've moved that line back and back and back and back and back. But
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a former member of the Kardashian family who is now pretending to be a woman who that might just
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be a step too far. Ultimately, I don't want to just sit on the fence here. You know, I was on Tim
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Poole's podcast, which we had such a great time on Friday night. You can go check that out. And Tim's
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critics, they call him, you're a fence sitter. And I think, I don't think that's really fair,
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but I don't want to be a fence sitter here. I think it's too far. I think the Caitlyn thing is
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too far. Okay. I think we have too much to lose here. I don't like Newsom. I would like Newsom to
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lose. I think that Caitlyn Jenner actually probably has fairly conservative views on a, on a fair number
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of issues. Back when he was Bruce, he used to come around to conservative events in Hollywood a fair
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bit. It's just too far. If we win this election with Caitlyn Jenner and put Caitlyn Jenner into office,
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we are exalting, we are adopting as a party, as a conservative movement, transgenderism. We are
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going to descend into some pitiful sort of political rhetoric to say, you know, Democrats are the real
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transphobes. And I don't, I don't think that we should accept the radical transgender ideology.
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It's not true. It's deeply harmful to society. And if we adopt this sort of thing in our candidate
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for governor of one of the largest States in the country, one of the largest economies in the world,
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if you were to break it off separately, that would seem to me to be a big problem, but we don't have
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to do that. This is not a binary choice. I am of the opinion that the vast majority of elections
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are binary choices. You remember in, in 2016, you heard a lot of people, conservatives who hated
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Trump. They would say, actually, it's not a binary choice. We can vote for the egg McMuffin. We can,
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right. And I did not agree with that argument then I thought, no, it's, it's Trump or Hillary make,
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you got to pick. Okay. No one seriously, there's no other candidate, but in a recall election,
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it's not a binary choice. The way a recall election will work in California is there will
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be a ballot measure put up to the voters and they will say, should Newsom be removed?
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Right. They've already got the petitions. They've already been able to get past the threshold so
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that the recall is up for the question. Then you go and you vote and you say, should Newsom be recalled?
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Yes or no. Next question, who should replace him? Because if more voters say he should be recalled,
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then say he shouldn't be recalled, then they'll move to the next one. Who should replace him?
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And that's a pretty wide open field. Caitlyn Jenner is, I guess, the most famous candidate up
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right now, but there is a Kevin Falconer, former mayor of San Diego. There's that guy Cox. He ran for
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something or other. There are other more serious, more mainstream Republicans than Caitlyn Jenner.
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And with all of these candidates who will be on the ballot, very likely the person who would win
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if Newsom does not survive the recall question, will not have 50% of the vote. So who's it going
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to be? I just, I know it's glitzy. It's funny. You want to own the libs. There's something
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fascinating and hilarious about a Caitlyn Jenner candidacy. There are other options,
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Republicans. There are other options. The language shows you the problem because I was,
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I was trying to keep an open mind about this and I thought, okay, what if he's really good on all
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these questions? And sure, he's, he's bad on the transgender question, but he's, he's probably no
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worse on the transgender question than Gavin Newsom is. But in his very candidacy, you have
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the problem of the transgender question because how do we talk about him? I'm not going to call him
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her. I can't do it because he is not a woman. And so I'm not going to pretend that he is. And this
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isn't even a matter of personal politeness. If you're given to that sort of thing where you say,
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well, you know, at a personal dinner party, maybe I'll refer to him as her. But it's beyond that.
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We're talking about a major public question here. And Republicans aren't going to agree. I've spoken
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to many of my Republican friends over the past few days since this news came out. Some will call him
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him. Some will call him her. The left controls society by controlling language. This is the premise
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of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order
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while you can still get it. If we are not united in fighting this very subtle linguistic strategy,
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if we ourselves actually help to advance the confusion, that does not seem to be in our long-term
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interest. Joy Behar, that lady on The View, fell into this problem when, when she was announcing that
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Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor. She referred to him as him.
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Sonny, he's got this guy, Brad Pascal, running his campaign. What do you think about that? I mean,
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that guy was, was accused of using campaign funds to enrich himself. What? That's who's running his
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campaign? Her campaign, rather. I would go along with that. I think that he should, or she rather,
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should take a seat and let somebody with the credentials take over a major state like California.
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Yeah. So I've never said this before, but Joy Behar, I think is a good example of most of America.
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I don't think that Joy Behar did this intentionally. I don't think this was a subtle
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dig. I mean, you know, she kept correcting herself. She said, yeah, and I don't think he should,
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I mean, she, I'm sorry. She, maybe it was a subtle dig at the transgender thing, but I think
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more likely Joy Behar, woman of a certain age, remembers Bruce Jenner. The guy's been famous for a very
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long time and he's the most famous athlete in the world. He's the first woman to win the decathlon,
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right? And we've all known him as he, since he was on the Wheaties box. And over the last few years,
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he's pretending to be she, but for people who remember him, it's, you can't do that.
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It's very difficult to do that. So what does Joy Behar do? She apologizes.
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So first of all, let me apologize for my pronoun mix up. I think I just didn't get enough sleep
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last night. I had no intention of mixing them up, but, and I tried to correct it immediately,
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but whatever, it just came out. So I'm sorry if anybody was upset by that.
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I can't believe, I can believe that she had to apologize. This apology didn't sound particularly
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sincere to me. She's like, I don't know, I mixed it up. Come on, give me a break.
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If you're offended, whatever, I'm sorry. I have heard conservatives, self, I don't question how
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conservative they are, but self-styled conservatives have referred to the misgendering of Caitlyn Jenner.
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Misgendering is a leftist term that, that refers to when you call a man, a man. But if the man thinks
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he's a woman and you call him a man, that's called misgendering. Now, of course, the, the more precise
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term would be gendering. The, the only people misgendering Bruce Jenner are the people who,
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Caitlyn Jenner now, are the ones who were referring to him as her. But even some self-styled right
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wingers are adopting this language. Even some self, self-styled right wingers are saying, no,
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really, come on, to be polite, we should refer to him as her. Quite the opposite, actually. Quite the
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opposite. It's disrespectful to refer to him as her. No, it's not. It's disrespectful to treat him
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like a complete lunatic and indulge his fantasies and say, oh yes, you really are a woman, sir,
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lady, whatever. No, the truth is respectful. It can be harsh sometimes and euphemisms try to
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sugarcoat harsh truths, but the truth is respectful and lies are very disrespectful.
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You don't lie to people that you respect. You certainly don't habitually lie to them as,
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as in the case of referring to Caitlyn Jenner as a, as a woman. This, this idea, very prominent on
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the left now, that, that lies are compassionate and the truth is cruel. That is a wicked, totally
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backwards idea. And if conservatives adopt that, we're lost. We are totally lost. And there, therein
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lies the real poison of the, of the Jenner candidacy. You're already seeing some conservatives
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adopt this language. You got to stop this before it gets too far. Regardless of how the California
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election turns out, Caitlyn Jenner is more the norm in this regime than the average conservative is.
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Yes. Oh, we think Caitlyn Jenner is a sideshow, a reality TV star, a famous athlete going back many
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decades, who's now making even more of a spectacle of himself. He is much more the norm. He is much
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more accepted by the dominant liberal regime than you deplorable people are. You deplorable,
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irredeemable, Bible thumping, bitter clinging middle Americans. You are considered the oddity.
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You are considered the bizarre, you should be part of the circus. Caitlyn Jenner. No, he's just a man
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following his true self because he's trapped inside the wrong body or whatever. This is the dominant
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ideology. It goes by the name LGBTQ right now. Even this, this initialism doesn't make any sense
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because the logic for the L and the G totally undermines the logic for the T. The logic for
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the L and the G is I'm born this way. I have certain sexual desires. You can't change these
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sexual desires. It's, it's very wrong to shame people for their desires. And so come on, you know,
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let the, when boys from a very early age are attracted to other boys, just come on, let them do it.
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Okay. I totally understand that logic. The logic of the T is actually, no, there's no such thing as
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innate sex. Forget innate sexual desire. There's no such thing as innate sex. Sex is totally socially
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constructed. There's really no difference between a man and a woman. And therefore a man can be a
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woman very easily just by saying so. That logic undercuts the other logic. Now there is a little
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the gender ideologues took one of the claims of the, the T took one of the claims of the L and the
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G and brought it to a radical conclusion. And that claim is that for the logic, for instance,
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of gay marriage, the claim here is that man plus man equals man plus woman, right? That's the equal
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sign that these are exactly the same thing. There's no distinction whatsoever. Sexual difference has
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nothing to do with marriage. So if you just do a little basic math here, if M plus
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plus M equals M plus W, then that means, you take out some of the M's here, you're kind of mixed
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around, that M equals W. It means that men and women are indistinguishable by the logic of
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redefining marriage. So then what the transgender ideologues do is they take that and they say,
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okay, well, if men and women are indistinguishable, then Bruce Jenner can become Caitlyn Jenner and he
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can, he can now become she and there's no, no problem here. It's, it's obviously very convoluted.
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It's a little bit complex, but this is the state ideology now. I mean, I mean that actually as a
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matter of state policy, the secretary of state, Anthony Blinken has now given blanket approval
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for U S embassies and consulates around the world to fly the rainbow LGBT pride flag on the same
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poles as the American flag. I have long said that the rainbow flag is a symbol of American imperial
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hegemony. It seems like it's this radical thing. What are you talking about radical? It is a symbol
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of the dominant liberal regime. It is as mainstream as it gets. Think about all the many flags we've had
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in our nation's history. We've got the Gadsden flag. Don't tread on me. Are you going to fly that on
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the same pole as, as the American flag at embassies around the world? No, you, you couldn't do that.
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You'd get in trouble for that. I bet. What about the appeal to heaven flag, the pine tree flag,
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Washington's flag? Would you fly that? No, that'd be, there'd be a big problem because of
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separation of church and state, and you're not allowed to make moral claims on the, on the flag.
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Oh, that'd be, that'd cause such an uproar, wouldn't it? But the LGBT rainbow flag, yes, that one flies,
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which in certain more conservative countries, particularly in the Muslim world,
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is a real finger in the eye. Doesn't matter. This has become a matter of liberal, global, imperial
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policy. So expect the mainstream, regardless of what happens in California, expect the mainstreaming
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of the tea, at least from the regime, at least as long as the radical left wields political power
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because they spent many decades engaging in a war of position that gave them positions of power that
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they could then wield, even though the majority of Americans, I think, doesn't really go in for
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this stuff. I don't think the majority of Americans really believes that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman,
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but the people who are in power are willing to push that ideology and they're doing it very,
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very successfully. Speaking of flags and bad foreign policy, Joe Biden, along with several other world
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leaders, more than several, took part in this global climate conference last week, there was a screenshot
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going around of all these world leaders. You got Putin in the center, you got all these different
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guys from all around the world, and you got Joe Biden off on the side. And Joe Biden is the only one
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in the screenshot wearing a mask. I think it's about 17 world leaders from this conference. They're all
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sitting in their rooms. They're on a zoom call practically. And there is Joe Biden wearing a
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mask. So embarrassing. So he doesn't give COVID to his computer or what the Biden defenders will say
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is, well, so he doesn't give COVID to the staff in the room. Joe Biden has been inoculated. Joe Biden
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has the vaccine. Joe Biden is, is not, everyone can have the vaccine at this point. Certainly all the
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people around Biden. So it's just for sure. It's just a ridiculous, pathetic, weak show, but that's
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not even the worst part of this conference. What, what nobody is really pointing out, very few people
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is not that he's the only leader in the picture wearing the mask. He's the only world leader in
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the picture without his own country's flag behind him. That's the crazy thing. Every other leader has
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their political flag behind them, but not Joe Biden, because we as a country hate ourselves now.
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And we, we protest the flag. It is now mainstream on the left to protest the American flag, whether
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it's on a football field, whether it's elected politicians in solidarity with those radical,
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stupid athletes like Colin Kaepernick. We don't like that. Whether it's on Nike shoes, the Betsy Ross
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flag is not allowed on shoes anymore. The American flag has now become a partisan symbol.
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It used to be that everyone waved the flag. Everyone was, we disagree on where the country's
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going, but we all love the country. That's over. The left doesn't love the country. Barack Obama
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famously said he wants to fundamentally transform it. So he was at least honest about it. And now
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they rarely even wave the flag. What you're really seeing, I think, when you see the American flag and
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the LGBT flag on the same poll is even less a question of sex and more a question of nationhood
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versus universal claims. The American flag is a defense of the nation proper. The LGBT flag is a
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defense of universal, borderless ideology floating in the sky. It's just about who we are as people
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and our desires that can apply to anyone at any time. The American flag is the flag of a nation.
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The LGBT flag is an imperial flag making claims about everyone all over the world.
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That, I think, is the real distinction here. And so Biden didn't have the LGBT flag behind him. That
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would have been even funnier. But also he would not have the American flag behind him either because
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the left in this country is very uncomfortable making any sort of national claims. They want to
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get rid of our borders. They want to get rid of a foreign policy that prioritizes our own citizens'
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interests. They want to administer this liberal imperial world government.
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All of this putatively about climate change. But climate change is, of course, there was global
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cooling, then it was global warming, then there was a pause, and now it's climate change, and that's
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climate crisis. They changed the words, but there's always the same answer, which is give away more and
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more of our political power as we the people, but then give away even our national power to international
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and supranational institutions that are going to govern, not just us, but kind of govern everybody.
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This propaganda is being pushed, not just at the political, geopolitical level. It's being pushed
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on Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon dedicated a show to describing why it's so important to take care of
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the environment because not just of the trees and the birds and the fish, but because of environmental
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Black snow, the thick soot that pollutes Pahokee, Florida. There's Cancer Alley, which is an
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area along the Mississippi River in Louisiana that's lined with oil refineries and air so
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toxic in New York's South Bronx that 20 percent of children have asthma. What do these cities
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have in common? They're all examples of environmental racism, a form of systemic racism where minority
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and low-income communities are surrounded by health hazards because they live near sewage,
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mines, landfills, power stations, major roads. In Philadelphia, it's hazardous waste. In San Carlos,
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Arizona, it's a mining project that would dishonor an Apache sacred site. But it has never been more
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devastating and harmful than in Duplin, North Carolina, where, believe it or not, the number
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My name is Fiana. I grew up in Duplin County, North Carolina.
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Fiana moved away from Duplin County as soon as she could, which is why she's okay opening up about
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Okay, hold on. Did you see the issue, all of their claims they're building up to, which is,
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they're really dubious claims that in poor areas, you're seeing different demographic groups who are
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disproportionately poor. Those areas are not as nice as rich areas. Okay, yep, makes it not exactly
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groundbreaking stuff. And this constitutes environmental racism. I'm not totally buying
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into that. And it's, it's all about race and the races are stuck there. And then the woman says,
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yeah, I moved away as soon as I could. Ah, wait, right. You can just move away. You can just leave.
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You can go somewhere else. I'm not saying it's easy to go somewhere else, but you can.
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Okay, you're not, you're not locked down. You're not chained there.
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The reason they have to talk about environmental racism though, is because we've lost our moral
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discourse. We can't, we can't talk about the objective moral order. We can't really talk
00:24:12.560
about good and evil and right and wrong because the left has undermined belief in those things.
00:24:16.700
So the, the only, the only way we can talk about evil now is by calling it racism. Racism is the
00:24:21.960
ultimate expression of evil. Even when it has nothing to do with race, like you're talking about the
00:24:26.200
environment and areas that have more pollution than other areas, but you have to call it racism
00:24:31.440
in order to, and, and that's also because we've lost our, our ability to have metaphysical
00:24:36.680
discourse. So we've only got to talk about physical things. So the, the evil things have
00:24:40.600
to do with just, they have to only go skin deep. Total nonsense trying to get at a, a bizarre
00:24:48.260
perversion of what all of politics ultimately comes down to, which is, yeah, some things are good.
00:24:53.100
Some things are bad. Some things are right. Some things are wrong, but we're not, we're not
00:24:56.100
allowed to say that anymore because we, we've embraced this radical subjectivism of the left,
00:25:01.820
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00:25:06.100
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with a lot more. The creepy environmental ideology was distressing to watch Joe Biden is the only guy
00:27:14.440
on screen, the only world leader wearing the mask in a room for a Zoom call. That's sad. Everything
00:27:19.500
has to go through the environment. Watching the creepy Nickelodeon cartoons talking about environmental
00:27:23.920
racism. It's this new religion. It's a religion where we worship Mother Earth. And it's a really
00:27:30.220
inverted religion because we're no longer worshiping the creator. We're worshiping the creation.
00:27:35.820
The libs who are pushing this are probably not even totally aware of that, but that is the effect
00:27:39.800
of what they're doing. But somehow it gets worse. Somehow our, our scientistic religion gets even more
00:27:46.660
depressing because this, the religion needs a high priest. Who's the high priest? Dr. Fauci, of course.
00:27:52.820
The New York Times posted a video, fairly highly produced video for the Fauci Awards. They had
00:28:02.100
a presenter, you know, pretty good background. These are awards to public health officials given
00:28:09.040
around the same time as the Oscars, which nobody also watched. From New York, it's the Fauci Awards 2020.
00:28:16.980
Good evening and welcome to the Fauci's. We're following social distance rules, of course. So no
00:28:23.580
audience tonight, but we won't let that stop us from celebrating our extraordinary public health
00:28:28.980
officials. They're the doctors and scientists who keep our water clean, our restaurants safe. They
00:28:34.540
stop outbreaks of disease and even keep mosquitoes from taking over. And in 2020, they're our frontline
00:28:40.400
defense against COVID-19. So what better year than this to celebrate their life-saving public service
00:28:49.680
Okay, this isn't real. There's no glitzy ceremony for any of these people. There never was.
00:29:06.400
We'd better show them some recognition and fast. So you know what? We're gonna do this thing.
00:29:18.320
So I actually will get into one little segment that they go into. But first, I have to point out
00:29:24.800
that I do not know what is more embarrassing. The fact that the libs have now made an actual golden
00:29:30.960
idol of Dr. Fauci, a full-on bottom of Mount Sinai, Bacchanalian, a loss of faith and apostasy to Dr.
00:29:42.320
Fauci, or how few retweets this video got. By the time I found, actually, sweet little Elisa found
00:29:48.800
this video. By the time I looked at it, it had 13 retweets and it had been up for 24 hours. They
00:29:54.960
spent a fair bit of money making that video and then they posted it. And they're so out of touch
00:30:01.680
with the American people that they don't realize how crazy that is. My making fun of that video
00:30:07.520
amassed more retweets within like 20 minutes than their video actually did for the whole past day.
00:30:13.680
But then the New York Times did not just leave it there and make this little snide point of,
00:30:19.440
we don't even recognize our healthcare workers. We spent the past year worshiping at the
00:30:24.720
altar of these eggheads who generally got things wrong and certainly violated our constitutional
00:30:30.560
rights and upended our American way of life. We've been worshiping them nonstop for a year,
00:30:34.240
but we don't give them any credit. Oh, Dr. Fauci, you know, it's so sad. But then they actually
00:30:42.240
give out the awards. Dr. Mark Wallace is everything you want in a public health official. 25 years of
00:30:49.360
experience in Weld County, Colorado, and a great communicator. In April, with cases skyrocketing
00:30:55.920
at a meatpacking plant, he pressured the company to close the factory. All this while facing pressure
00:31:01.600
from politicians to reopen the county. This rural community is lucky to have Dr. Wallace's leadership.
00:31:09.200
This is so creepy. This is the creepiest thing. It goes on for six minutes. But do you hear what the
00:31:15.040
Times is saying? Beneath all this weird, passive aggressive, sort of, they're trying to make a joke
00:31:21.600
stuff. What they're saying is this egghead who had been appointed, but was basically unaccountable to
00:31:31.520
the people. It's not like he's elected. It's not, it's not as though he's part of the ordinary run of
00:31:35.680
constitutional government. He fought valiantly to take away the rights of the people in his county.
00:31:44.320
Even when the people in that county did not want to give it up. Even when the politicians, that is,
00:31:50.000
the elected representatives of the people, wanted him to stop his draconian measures. He valiantly
00:31:56.480
fought on to undermine our American way of life, take away our rights, and lock people in their homes.
00:32:03.840
Wow, how brave. This guy totally deserves an award. That is what they're saying. It's no surprise that
00:32:12.800
the video got very few retweets and very few views. It's because the premise of the video is that the
00:32:19.680
people are bad, except for a handful of special people who are the high priests of secular progressivism,
00:32:26.560
who, because of how evil and stupid the people are, these eggheads need to be protected from
00:32:33.360
democratic accountability, and they need to be allowed to totally undermine our way of life in
00:32:38.000
our government. And the ones who succeeded at doing that deserve special awards. And furthermore,
00:32:45.920
the applause of the people who they are set up explicitly in this video as existing to antagonize.
00:32:53.600
That's, that's what they think. That's what they believe. When you hear about the deplorables
00:32:59.280
and the irredeemables and the bitter clingers, that's what they're saying.
00:33:02.400
People rotten. Therefore, our constitutional government has to be rotten because it derives
00:33:08.560
its power from the people. Therefore, it has to be upended and we need to create a new special secret
00:33:13.680
government. And you can call it the deep state. You can call it the administrative state. You can call it
00:33:18.080
progressive technocracy, whatever, that you need a government of Fauci's to take over for these rube
00:33:25.200
idiot people. Have we exhausted our constitutional system of government? It seems like we've reached a
00:33:34.080
stage of decadence where the people really can't fight back and where the best that the ostensibly
00:33:39.240
conservative party can muster is a man who thinks that he's a woman. Whose, whose greatest claim
00:33:45.640
on being able to govern is that he was on television with the Kardashian family.
00:33:53.000
This is not good. The left plays for keeps. They play to win. They've done a good job amassing power.
00:33:58.680
What do we do? We, we criticize it a little bit. We usually, most of the time, we don't even really
00:34:03.640
know what we're criticizing. And then on the rare occasion we get political power. We, we refuse to
00:34:08.040
wield it. We refuse to exercise it. That is not a serious country. There, there are very few people
00:34:13.480
left in public life who I think represent that old idea of what it means to be an American, what it,
00:34:19.720
forget American, what it means to be a man, what it means to be a person living in civilization
00:34:25.480
with the desires and the attitude that helped us get to where we are right now.
00:34:32.200
Now, one of those guys that one of those guys who gives me hope is Elon Musk, Elon Musk,
00:34:38.200
who wants to build a bunch of crazy cars and wants to send people to Mars and wants to half the time,
00:34:46.500
I don't know if the guy's a monorail salesman, like in the Simpsons, you know, if he's like totally full
00:34:50.120
of it or if he can actually bring the goods. And it's, it actually seems like he delivers a lot of
00:34:54.140
the time. Elon Musk was just asking about this trip to Mars or rather he was asked by an interviewer
00:34:58.680
about this trip to Mars. And it seems like there's some logistical issues right now, right? We can't,
00:35:03.360
I mean, we can't even build a, a, a railway in California anymore. We were going to have a super
00:35:08.340
rail connecting all the parts of California. Now it ends up being this tiny little railway between
00:35:13.200
two towns that nobody even goes to. We can't do it because that's too hard. It costs too much.
00:35:17.540
It's too dangerous. It's too this, it's too that. So Elon is asking, okay, how are you supposed to get
00:35:21.240
to Mars? And he says, oh, well, it's going to be extremely dangerous and unpleasant. And a bunch of
00:35:24.940
people are going to die. Going to Mars reads like that ad book for Shackleton going to the Antarctic.
00:35:30.100
You know, it's, it's dangerous. Uh, it's uncomfortable. Um, it's a long journey. You might
00:35:36.880
not, you know, come back alive. Um, but it's a glorious adventure and, uh, it'll be amazing,
00:35:42.580
an amazing experience. And your name will go in history. Yes. You might die. It's going to be
00:35:46.760
uncomfortable. And then we probably won't have good food and all these things, you know? So if, if,
00:35:51.620
if an arduous and dangerous journey where you may not come back alive, um, but it's a glorious
00:35:59.300
adventure, sounds appealing. Mars is the place. And you still have thousands of volunteers,
00:36:04.820
if not millions of volunteers who would want to go. Yeah. I mean, honestly, a bunch of people
00:36:08.200
probably will die in the beginning. It's, it's tough sledding over there. We're an exploring
00:36:12.420
species. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Not forever. We don't want to make anyone go. So it's volunteers only.
00:36:18.040
He's totally right. He's getting a bunch of negative headlines right now. Elon Musk is laughing
00:36:23.300
about people dying in exploration. A lot of people are going to die when we try to colonize Mars.
00:36:30.540
If, if we ever do that, that's just what happens when the Mayflower landed in New England. And this
00:36:38.520
was well into the age of exploration. It's not as though they were the first guys to check out America
00:36:42.880
when they landed in New England, half of them died within the winter, right? This is what happens when
00:36:49.060
you go to foreign places and you explore. It's arduous, it's tough, and you're going to die.
00:36:53.800
And what Elon is showing us right now is that there is a way of living that is very different than the
00:37:01.040
way that we're living in now. Right now, it seems that most people are living to craft a perfectly
00:37:06.820
pleasant and ultimately meaningless existence. That is what connects all of these various things.
00:37:12.660
The complaints about grievance, the demands for more money from the government, the demands to
00:37:17.520
be coddled by big technology, the, the demands that we pretend that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman
00:37:22.660
and that we indulge everybody in their fantasies. What this is about is saying, look, there's no real
00:37:28.440
meaning in the world. There's no objective truth. There's no, there's no objective anything that we
00:37:32.740
ought to do. We just want to feel good in this very elementary way, in this very childish way. We just
00:37:40.560
want to feel good. And so whatever's going to make us feel good, that's what we should do.
00:37:44.800
Very often, this is described as the moral maxim of our era. If it feels good, do it. And you see
00:37:50.080
it across all sorts of policy. That idea, that decadent and hedonistic idea is not what built the West.
00:37:59.140
It's what is destroying the West, but it's not what built the West. The idea that built the West is that
00:38:03.920
there is objective truth. There is objective reality. There are unexplored lands. We want to
00:38:10.980
know things. In order to know things, you need to acknowledge that there's an objective reality
00:38:14.600
that you can know about and that there is more to life than feeling really pleasant all the time.
00:38:21.160
There is more to life than just extending your life. So much, the whole public discourse of the
00:38:27.520
past year is about how we can avoid getting a cough. It's a, it's about ultimately how we can
00:38:33.860
avoid death. Even if you're very, very old, even if you're very, very sick, how you can avoid,
00:38:39.880
because death is unacceptable, how we can pretend that we're never going to die. We didn't used to
00:38:45.820
live just to avoid death. We used to accept that we're all going to die and we're going to die soon.
00:38:50.840
And I'm not, not saying tomorrow necessarily, though you might, but I don't know. You're going
00:38:56.760
to, let's say you die in 30 years, 40 years. Let's say you die in 70 years. It's not that much time.
00:39:04.540
So if you're, if you're going to live just to not die, you're going to be disappointed. You're
00:39:09.500
going to lose that battle. You're going to have a tragic ending. If you're going to live for something
00:39:13.360
else, if you think that there's more to life than just breathing, then you could have a great
00:39:20.340
glorious adventure, like Elon Musk is saying, or you could deny all of the hard facts about the
00:39:29.340
world. You could deny that you're going to die. You could deny that you're a man because you want
00:39:35.260
to be something else. Do we want to live in reality or do we want to live in delusion? Do we want to do
00:39:42.380
something with this life that we've been given or do we just want to make ourselves feel good every so
00:39:47.020
often? Which by the way, you're not, that doesn't last forever. It's like, it's like doing a drug.
00:39:51.740
You might feel good briefly, but you're going to have a hangover. You're going to have the withdrawal.
00:39:55.660
You're going to have the addiction. What's the line from C.S. Lewis? I mentioned this on Tim
00:40:00.100
Poole's podcast. If you look for truth, you might find comfort in the end. But if you look for comfort,
00:40:05.320
you'll find neither truth nor comfort, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin. And in the end,
00:40:10.560
despair. So don't despair. Look for something else. There is a little bit of pushback on this crazy
00:40:20.520
lockdown regime that we're still seeing all around us. We're now on the 700 millionth day of 15 days
00:40:26.580
to slow the spread, right? And it's supposed to go on longer and longer and longer and longer.
00:40:31.740
We're now being told we need vaccine passports, even if you're young, even if you're healthy.
00:40:35.940
Some people are pushing back, believe it or not, in the United Kingdom.
00:40:41.120
Thousands of protesters Saturday marched through London to express their frustration with the COVID-19
00:40:47.760
restrictions, including the vaccine passports. They gathered for a Unite for Freedom protest
00:40:53.560
centered around demanding a ban on the passports. The Limeys are really showing us up.
00:41:00.600
They are. I thought Americans were supposed to do this sort of thing, but we've lost that.
00:41:04.960
You know, we were talking the past, last week about the Anglo-Saxon political tradition
00:41:10.800
and the people on the left were calling that racist or some, something stupid. And they're
00:41:15.600
saying there is no Anglo-Saxon political tradition. Uh, that, that is the Anglo-Saxon. You watched it in
00:41:20.860
real time on Saturday. The Anglo-Saxon political tradition is not tolerating the sort of outrageous,
00:41:30.400
incomprehensible, incoherent tyranny that you're seeing around the vaccine issue.
00:41:34.960
And the Wu flu. Americans could perhaps learn a thing or two from the motherland on this point.
00:41:40.920
What happened? Are we really going to roll over on this?
00:41:44.340
Are we? We're just going to, the minute they tell you, well, you can't go into this bar
00:41:48.720
unless you have your vaccine passport. I don't know. It's going to be really tricky. I mean,
00:41:54.500
if they tell you that you, if, if they're able to get this through, then they're going to be able
00:41:58.500
to pressure a lot of people to do it. But if we push back really hard right now and say,
00:42:02.360
no, absolutely not. Maybe you have a chance to, to hold up. I mean, we are the global hegemon,
00:42:08.240
right? We are the world power. If Joe Biden came out today and said, Hey, we're not doing vaccine
00:42:14.160
passports. Foreign countries, you want, you want to demand a vaccine passport. You're not going to
00:42:18.260
get American tourists. You're not going to get American business. Hey, stay at the state level.
00:42:24.580
The states say, we're not doing vaccine passports like Ron DeSantis has been doing.
00:42:29.060
You'll see that build. You know, courage is a prerequisite for all of the other virtues
00:42:33.280
and virtue is a habit. Need, need to do that. We need to get, I don't think we should be violent.
00:42:40.780
I don't think we should be, do anything immoral. I'm no Maxine Waters, but I do think we need to
00:42:45.880
speak up. The only time that Americans are allowed to get out in the streets these days,
00:42:49.900
of course, is when a leftist politician incites riots. Then COVID is suspended. It actually helps
00:42:55.120
to stop the spread of COVID. If you get out and you burn down buildings and you steal Nike sneakers,
00:43:00.800
it's not just Maxine Waters calling for this stuff. It's Kamala Harris. It's race baiting,
00:43:05.420
cynical Kamala Harris, who actually what she did is worse than what Maxine Waters did. Maxine Waters
00:43:10.640
does not have a whole lot going on between her ears. Okay. I don't think there's a ton of brain
00:43:15.060
cells rubbing together in that old noggin of hers. So she's very clumsy with the way that she calls for
00:43:19.840
violence. She says, get on them, get in the Republicans' faces, go to their house. Okay.
00:43:25.960
Very clumsy. What Kamala does is sutler, but it's more radical. She bails the rioters out of jail.
00:43:32.460
That's what she did last year in Minnesota. She says, you got to stay in the streets. Always gives
00:43:36.500
herself a little plausible deniability. Now she's keeping it up on the Derek Chauvin trial. They,
00:43:41.580
the jury implausibly sends this man to prison for murder. Seems implausible to me.
00:43:48.600
Does Kamala say, okay, good. We got our revenge. That's good. No, she says not enough.
00:43:54.520
Nine minutes and 29 seconds, right? We all watch that video. Many of us watched it multiple times and
00:44:01.620
people are in pain over what we all saw in that video. And in fact, it was in large part because
00:44:13.540
of that case that together with my then colleagues, Cory Booker in particular, and then on the house
00:44:19.520
side, Karen Bass, that we wrote the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. There is no question that
00:44:25.260
we've got to put an end to these moments where the public questions whether there's going to be
00:44:31.940
accountability, questions whether there's going to be the kind of fairness that, that we should all
00:44:37.740
expect and deserve, um, in all of our lives. And in particular, as it relates to people of color with
00:44:46.060
a particular emphasis on black and brown men in the criminal justice system, as it relates to policing,
00:44:51.180
this verdict is, but a piece of it. And it will not heal the pain that existed for generations that
00:45:00.560
has existed for generations. It will not heal as she goes on and on and on. People should not have
00:45:08.440
to question their faith in the justice system. They're questioning it because dishonest people like
00:45:15.780
you are spreading lies about it. That's why they're questioning it because their leaders in the
00:45:23.200
major political party in the dominant regime are undermining faith in that system so that you can
00:45:29.620
revolutionize that system. That's why they're doing it. And we know it and you know it and you know that
00:45:36.140
we know it, but it doesn't matter because you got the power lady. That's, and that's, that's what
00:45:42.520
really matters. She's got the power and she's willing to exercise it. She is keeping this alive.
00:45:48.920
She's taking what is a total, what she previously or what other politicians of her party previously
00:45:55.100
said was the total victory, the conviction on all counts of Derek Chauvin. This was supposed to be
00:45:59.680
the proof that the justice system does still work. And she says, no, but it doesn't. Still doesn't.
00:46:05.100
Not good enough. Never good enough. Sorry. Got to stay in the streets. Got to keep bailing those
00:46:12.100
rioters out of prison. Got to keep giving us the, the pretext, the crisis, the pretext
00:46:17.060
to upend the whole system. I will have to give credit where credit's due. Tweedledee and Tweedledum
00:46:22.700
over there on CNN, Don Lemon and, and Chris Cuomo came, they came out, they actually defended that cop
00:46:29.940
who, who shot Makia Bryant as she was inches away from stabbing that other girl. And they caught some
00:46:34.980
flack for that. They went back on TV and doubled down. And also what happened with the, the shootings?
00:46:40.660
What's going on with that? That's really important that we discussed. And I think we had a very
00:46:44.340
important, uh, and illuminating conversation last night that the whole country, uh, is having. And
00:46:50.260
I think we should continue to have those conversations because, uh, it is what resonates with the American
00:46:55.320
people and it's what people want to see changed. And they also want to know how, quite frankly,
00:47:02.420
how to feel about it and what, and what can be done about it and what their fellow Americans
00:47:07.740
are saying and thinking about it. And I still stand by that. We cannot treat all police shootings
00:47:13.420
with the, in the same way. They're not, they're not, they're 100% not equal. And the, I, the poor mom
00:47:21.500
that you had on, I feel for her, but not every police shooting is the same. And we have to look at
00:47:26.460
the evidence and what we know. Imagine if the woman in the pink was your loved one and the officer
00:47:33.300
didn't do what he did. You could be mourning the death of that woman, that young lady in the pink.
00:47:40.780
A little bit of honesty. I want to give credit where credit's due. A little bit of honesty,
00:47:44.140
a little glimmer of hope that all is not completely lost in this political system.
00:47:48.220
But I think probably you had better buckle up, buckaroos, because this is going to be a very,
00:47:54.860
very bumpy ride if we're going to try to salvage it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles
00:48:04.900
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