The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 767 - Bad-Faith Baby Butchers

00:00:00.000 A major abortion case is headed up to the Supreme Court. And you know what that means?

00:00:04.880 That means that we are about to get months and months of the most vicious and dishonest

00:00:11.260 arguments that the left can possibly muster. First up, former U.S. Senator and current

00:00:17.660 hysterical crone, Claire McCaskill. This may end up being the situation that is often described

00:00:24.140 as the dog catching the bus and what happens in America in terms of the political climate

00:00:31.400 if, in fact, this court overturns decades of precedent and fails to protect women's reproductive

00:00:39.400 freedoms via this Mississippi case. And, you know, I got to tell you, Nicole, I don't think younger

00:00:45.680 voters remember what it was like before Roe v. Wade. I don't think they realize that these folks

00:00:51.980 are not going to be happy until a rape victim is put in prison for taking the morning after pill.

00:00:59.980 That's the road they're going down. That's the road they've been trying to go down for a long time,

00:01:04.900 even though they are really pushing provisions that are widely rejected by the vast majority of

00:01:13.820 Americans. That's the road. That's the road we're going down, right? The jigs up, guys. All you pro 0.99

00:01:20.700 lifers out there, for decades, I felt we made a fairly persuasive argument that we wanted to

00:01:25.920 prevent babies from being butchered in the womb. But I think we need to just be honest here. This

00:01:31.440 is really just about throwing rape victims in jail for taking the morning after. Isn't that what that's

00:01:38.320 not what we want? Are you sure? That's just a very, very dishonest and ridiculous way to put it.

00:01:44.520 Got it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97

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00:03:35.360 that good. Go to mypillow.com right now, or you can call 800-951-7163. I love Claire McCaskill's just

00:03:42.440 open lines. She goes, ha, you know, I don't think young voters remember what it was like before Roe v.

00:03:48.100 Wade. What was it like? You mean how babies in most states, at least babies were not allowed to be just

00:03:56.500 butchered whenever, because that seems perfectly fine. That seems better than the situation we have

00:04:01.640 now. Well, no, what she's implying, she won't use the number, but what she's implying is that thousands

00:04:06.560 of women were killed in back alley abortions. This was a canard pushed by the abortion industry. And it's

00:04:13.620 just completely ridiculous. You can look at the Bureau of Justice Statistics. You can, you can look at the 0.92

00:04:19.340 federal government, uh, the number of women who were killed in illegal abortions the year before

00:04:26.880 Roe v. Wade, fewer than 40. And by the way, there were, there were a similar number of women killed 1.00

00:04:32.080 from legal abortions. And actually, when you look at the number of states in which abortion was legal

00:04:37.060 and illegal, the rate of mortality from those abortions was basically the same from legal and

00:04:43.520 illegal abortions. It was very, very few women. So that line goes out the window. Well, this is about

00:04:48.940 punishing rape victims. I don't see any laws suggesting we should punish rape victims.

00:04:53.420 I see laws saying we should outlaw abortion and that there should be punishments for abortionists 0.71

00:04:59.420 as there obviously should be. Why is this coming up now? Because there is a Mississippi law that would

00:05:06.200 ban abortions after, what is it, 15 weeks? So that's not even that crazy. I mean, that's,

00:05:12.280 it's still a lot of time, but now it's winding its way up to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court,

00:05:17.340 by the way, which is almost certain to disappoint. Supreme Court had the chance to undo Roe v. Wade

00:05:22.340 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which is a case I talk about at some length in my upcoming book,

00:05:26.280 Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order. And they didn't do

00:05:29.620 it. And then we keep adding judges. We keep, oh, now we've got a 6-3 conservative court. Is it

00:05:34.780 going to matter? I doubt it. I doubt it. I don't think they're going to do anything about it.

00:05:38.780 But that doesn't matter. Obviously, the abortion issue itself, we could spend a very long time

00:05:44.160 talking about it. And perhaps we will as, as this court case gets closer. But what I want to focus

00:05:48.100 in on here are just the ridiculous arguments. Because I like to think that I'm, I'm fair. I

00:05:53.660 like to think that pro-lifers generally are fair to the pro-abortion argument. I think the pro-abortion 0.84

00:05:58.200 argument is that men and women are different and women can get pregnant and men can't get pregnant.

00:06:02.800 Although actually, you're not allowed to say that anymore. And a Spanish politician got in trouble

00:06:07.220 for saying that. We'll get, we'll get into that in just a moment. But the argument is men can't get

00:06:12.340 pregnant. Women can. If you want to have actual equality between the sexes, then you need to give 1.00

00:06:17.420 women the legal right to no longer be pregnant, to terminate a pregnancy. And terminating a pregnancy 0.98

00:06:25.320 means killing a little baby. And that's pretty ghastly. But the pro-abortion people will say it 0.99

00:06:30.860 is better for women to have that autonomy and that individual liberty, it's really licensed, but they 1.00

00:06:36.740 call it liberty, than it is to protect the babies. I think that's the argument. And Naomi Wolf,

00:06:41.620 at the time she was a leftist feminist. Now, I guess she's kind of moving a little bit more 0.86

00:06:46.960 conservative, but for a very long time, she was a prominent leftist feminist. Naomi Wolf said,

00:06:52.440 yes, that's the argument. We need to recognize that the fetus is human and in all of its humanity,

00:06:58.300 we have to kill it. If we want to have sex equality. Okay. Yeah, I get it. I get that. It's 0.99

00:07:04.840 a ghastly argument. I don't think it's persuasive. And I think it's why the left won't ever make that

00:07:09.240 argument outright. They have to use phrases like reproductive rights. No one's attacking 0.95

00:07:13.920 women's reproductive rights. We're attacking their, their anti-reproductive rights. We're 1.00

00:07:17.960 attacking their, their rights to stop the process of reproduction, namely to kill the baby. That's, 0.99

00:07:26.460 that's the right word. Because we recognize that the baby's right to life supersedes the woman's right 1.00

00:07:33.060 to kill the baby or the abortionist's right to kill the baby or the abortion industry's right to

00:07:38.360 kill the baby. That's the issue here. But because the left can't make that argument. And if, if you 0.99

00:07:43.320 think there's a fairer argument for abortion, please bring it to me, send it in. I'd be happy

00:07:48.420 to take it up on this show. But because there isn't one, the left just has to make these

00:07:53.340 disingenuous arguments. So Claire McCaskill says, you know, all these women were killed before Roe

00:07:57.440 be wage is complete lie. And that, you know, we want to punish rape victims or something to

00:08:03.460 obviously complete lie. Chris Cuomo takes it from the rape angle onto the race angle. He says that

00:08:09.240 pro-lifers somehow are motivated by racism. You would think we would have impaneled experts

00:08:15.580 on a special commission by now to see what the science says. Right. But we don't seem to have the

00:08:19.880 intellectual curiosity about this issue because it's not really about science. It has become a culture

00:08:26.160 war. It's a political lever to use as a distraction from policy and solving problems

00:08:31.880 to allow people to get up in their religion and their righteousness over any sense of what science

00:08:38.160 suggests. But again, it's not about science or consensus. It's about dividing lines, legislating

00:08:43.280 to the far right, white fright vote, flooding the zone with 536 bills that abridge a woman's 1.00

00:08:51.900 right to control her own body in 46 states. It's just like voting rights in one way. 1.00

00:08:59.820 Why are all leftists slam poets? Why do they, the far right, white fright vote?

00:09:12.300 Wow. That was great, Chris. Or, or Anthony Kennedy and in actually on the same issue in Planned Parenthood

00:09:17.220 V. Casey, people have the right to define their own conception of existence, the sweet mystery of

00:09:23.960 life. And then actually the same justice Kennedy in the Obergefell decision, we have a right to intimacy.

00:09:30.700 What are you talking about, dude? So what Chris Cuomo says here is he says, get your religion out of 0.66

00:09:36.360 this. We need to find out what science says. All hail the great God's science. This issue isn't being

00:09:44.760 discussed in a scientific way with the experts. You're right. Because your stupid religion isn't

00:09:50.220 going to decide this for us either. And your experts, your high priests of scientism don't 1.00

00:09:55.700 have any right to, to do that. We, we of course should not impanel experts to decide a fundamental

00:10:02.300 question of our politics. We have, we have self-government, at least we have the, the appearance

00:10:07.380 of self-government, the facade of self-government. We actually have technocratic secular progressivism,

00:10:11.960 but according to the constitution, we're supposed to have self-government. And in self-government,

00:10:16.540 you don't just impanel experts to go to the Oracle of science at Delphi and have them tell you what,

00:10:22.720 what you're supposed to do on the question of life. It isn't a scientific question. We know the

00:10:27.260 science. We know that a baby's a baby, dum-dum. You know, I don't, I don't know how else to put it.

00:10:31.080 I'm sorry to be insulting, but it's not a complicated scientific question. But having settled the

00:10:37.100 science, I'm willing to go even further left, maybe than Chris Cuomo will admit. We know the

00:10:42.180 science is the baby's a baby, but there is a political question. Should you be able to kill 0.97

00:10:47.940 the baby for some conception of sex equality? Should, as Naomi Wolf says, should you be able 0.99

00:10:56.220 to kill the baby in all his humanity to make women appear to be more like men? Because women can get 1.00

00:11:04.460 pregnant and men can't. I don't think you should. But even if Chris Cuomo does think that you should, 1.00

00:11:10.980 that's not a, that's not a scientific question in, in this very narrow sense of science as a,

00:11:16.520 as the method of material inquiry. That's a political and philosophical and ethical. And yes,

00:11:22.600 Chris, religious question, because it gets down to the question of what are we? What is a human being?

00:11:28.540 Do we have any kind of dignity? Are we made in the image of God? If so, then that implies certain

00:11:33.880 things. That's why we don't, that's why we have laws against murder. That's why we have due process.

00:11:38.920 That's why we have civilization. That's why we treat one another with respect. If we're not,

00:11:43.280 if we're just bags of flesh, and really there's no difference between me and my microphone right now, 0.99

00:11:48.460 we're all just stuff, then yeah, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to kill a baby, 0.98

00:11:52.120 but there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to kill anyone else on the street either. 0.85

00:11:54.740 So yes, there are, there absolutely is a religious aspect to this question, but these people

00:12:01.540 just can't get it. And actually the reason he brings in race here, I know it seems like a 0.99

00:12:07.100 non sequitur when he says it's the white fright, light bite, sibbidi boop bop bite. The reason he

00:12:13.140 brings up race in this question has nothing to do with race. Actually, the only way that it has to do

00:12:16.740 with race is that many more black babies are killed through abortion. So the pro-lifers, if anything, 0.95

00:12:21.620 or fighting for racial justice, but I'm sure that point is lost on him. The reason he brings up race

00:12:26.520 is because in the left's very shallow understanding of ethics and morality, race is, racism is the

00:12:34.880 only bad thing. And the physical is the only, only thing that they can quite grasp. So we have to take

00:12:42.880 sin, fallenness, or broken human nature, and just reduce it to, okay, skin color, white supremacy, 0.54

00:12:50.080 racism bad. So any, any bad thing has to be racist. Doesn't make a lot of sense. It's not,

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00:14:05.220 You have Chris Cuomo pushing racial beat poetry on CNN, and then you've got Tweedledum over there,

00:14:14.580 the other side of the coin on CNN, also pushing these racial issues. But he wants to counteract

00:14:21.960 a Republican talking point, a conservative right-wing boogeyman. You've heard about it. You've heard

00:14:29.560 about it on this show. Critical race theory. And Don Lemon, he's going to debunk critical race theory

00:14:37.560 with facts and logic. Okay, that's the plan. Take it away, Don. You've probably heard the attacks on

00:14:43.740 critical race theory, but what exactly is it and why are some people so opposed to it? Here's CNN's

00:14:50.540 Jason Carroll. Critical race theory is a Marxist doctrine that rejects the vision of Martin Luther

00:14:56.380 King Jr. Absolutely false. It's basically teaching kids to hate our country and to hate each other

00:15:04.120 based on race. False and slanderous. Meet professor and scholar Kimberly Crenshaw. Crenshaw is one of the

00:15:11.640 founders of critical race theory. To be clear, critical race theory does not say someone is racist

00:15:17.080 because of the color of their skin. And it does not say anyone should be ashamed of themselves because

00:15:22.680 of the color of their skin. It is, quote, rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism.

00:15:29.340 Rooted in Marxism. Why is this so triggering for them? Why is this so triggering? Why? Come on. Why,

00:15:34.840 why, why? It is very difficult to succinctly go through every single false statement they made there

00:15:43.560 because it's basically the totality of the segment. So let's just begin where we left off. Don Lemon

00:15:51.820 laughing at this idea that critical race theory is rooted in Marxism. Critical race theory derives

00:15:57.700 from critical theory. Critical theory is a much broader pseudo academic discipline. It was developed

00:16:03.640 in the 1930s. Critical race theory is one of the derivations of that, pushed largely by Kimberly

00:16:09.160 Crenshaw as being extraordinarily dishonest in that clip. You'll notice she says it's false. What Trump said

00:16:14.280 is false. What DeSantis said is false, but she doesn't quite explain how it's false. Even as she goes on,

00:16:21.000 she never addresses quite how it's false. Critical race theory comes from critical theory. Critical

00:16:25.840 theory was developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s. The Frankfurt School was a group

00:16:30.120 of Marxist intellectuals, and you don't need to take my word for it. You can read it in their

00:16:34.140 writings, but you don't even need to read it in their writings because the Frankfurt School was

00:16:37.440 initially called the Institute for Marxism. And then they left Germany. They come to the United States.

00:16:42.880 They push this, this discipline. The discipline is predicated on a line from Marx, a line that Marx

00:16:49.920 wrote to Ruger, which is that he called for the ruthless criticism of all that exists. And the

00:16:55.080 critical theorists came out and said, okay, we're going to apply this critical lens to all of society.

00:17:00.220 And the purpose for this was to attain what another neo-Marxist scholar, Antonio Gramsci, called

00:17:07.900 cultural hegemony, to crack the common sense. Because the ordinary people, you know, the proletariat,

00:17:15.560 the workers of the world that were supposed to unite in the Marxian revolution did not unite because

00:17:19.680 they didn't care very much for leftist theories because they liked their traditions and their way

00:17:22.840 of life. And the critical theorists said, okay, well, if, if we want to be able to crack all of

00:17:28.740 that, we need to apply a ruthlessly critical lens to that ordinary way of life. So obviously it is

00:17:34.040 Marxist. I don't know. Don Lemon probably doesn't know that, but if he does know that, then he's being

00:17:37.900 extraordinarily dishonest. To give Kim Crenshaw credit here, what she said was,

00:17:42.500 no, critical race theory doesn't say that you're racist because of the color of your skin.

00:17:48.300 And it, it does, it does say that, but I guess the way she can get away with what she said is

00:17:54.020 critical race theory just says that everything is racist, everything. And she later even sort of

00:17:59.880 admits this. She says, you know, the systems are racist. The institutions are racist. Okay. Well,

00:18:04.420 if everything's racist and we are all steeped in this racism and the racism is white supremacy,

00:18:10.360 then yes, certainly one is racist by virtue of the color of one's skin or rather just by existing. 0.81

00:18:16.540 It's not even just that white people are racist. It's that everybody in some ways pushes anti-black

00:18:22.800 racism, which she believes is the foundation of the country. And so if the, if the heart of the

00:18:29.580 country, if the beating heart of the United States and the civilization is evil and wicked, what does that

00:18:34.780 imply? It doesn't take a genius to say, you've got to rip it down and you've got to start over and

00:18:39.000 you've got to burn it to the ground like BLM did for six months last year. I don't understand how,

00:18:45.700 this wasn't a refutation of critical race theory in any way. Don Lemon just had people standing very

00:18:51.960 seriously and said, this critical race theory isn't bad, but I can't tell, what is it? Is,

00:18:56.160 is the argument that critical race theory is not being taught in schools or is the argument that

00:18:59.560 critical race theory is not a Marxist radical ideology seeking to upend the country?

00:19:05.680 Or are you, are you granting that second part, but you're saying that's actually a good thing?

00:19:12.680 I think it's the latter. I think it's the third version of that, which is, yeah, critical race 1.00

00:19:16.360 theory is exactly what Republicans are saying that it is, but that's good, right? Because they're the

00:19:21.260 ones saying, yeah, we should pull down statues of not just Robert E. Lee, but Thomas Jefferson.

00:19:25.340 Yeah, we should get rid of our traditions in this country. Yeah, the history of the country is

00:19:31.240 horrible. We need, we need a revolution. We need, in the words of Barack Obama, we need to fundamentally

00:19:36.340 transform America. Michael, did you bring up Barack Obama? You can't, that's racist to criticize

00:19:46.220 Barack Obama. That's a real, that's a real point that the left makes. They say that it is racist

00:19:52.880 to oppose Barack Obama. And they didn't just say that during the heat of the 2008 campaign.

00:19:59.600 Another knucklehead on CNN, Fareed Zakaria, came out just yesterday and said that GOP opposition to

00:20:08.620 Barack Obama, the conservative opposition to the most leftist president from at least Wilson up until

00:20:15.800 his time and probably including Wilson was solely based on racism. It was of course, race, the issue

00:20:24.740 that Republicans had happily exploited that would finally push the party to the edge. A black president 1.00

00:20:33.180 in the White House triggered a dramatic response. Afro-Leninism coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein 0.94

00:20:45.720 Obama. The rise of the Tea Party movement was supposed to be a response to Obamacare. But in reality,

00:20:54.800 it was mostly a response to Obama's race. Obama's election was a trigger. This president, I think,

00:21:02.140 has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again, who has a deep seated hatred for white 0.99

00:21:09.360 people. The base began not only to hate Obama. What is wrong with this president? But to despise GOP 0.92

00:21:21.320 leaders for being unable to stop him. Yeah, yeah, I that that's it, right? It's not it had nothing to do

00:21:30.240 with Barack Obama saying that he wanted to fundamentally transform the country, which is

00:21:36.260 an admission that he hates the country. You don't fundamentally transform things that you love. When

00:21:41.300 you're lying next to your sweetie at night, you don't say, honey, hey, sweetheart, I can't wait to

00:21:46.540 fundamentally transform you. You don't do that. You you want to keep things that you love basically as

00:21:53.780 they are, maybe improve them here or there. But, you know, you love them. If you want to fundamentally

00:21:57.660 change it, you don't love it. When Michelle Obama comes out and says the first time she was ever

00:22:00.980 proud of her country as an adult was when it elected her husband, that reveals an antipathy

00:22:04.920 for the country. When Barack Obama comes in and says, we're going to transform education,

00:22:09.380 we're going to transform energy, we're going to we're going to save the planet. My election is

00:22:13.780 going to save the planet. That's how transformative it's going to be. That put a lot of people on edge.

00:22:19.940 I mean, the Tea Party, for goodness sakes, it's funny in that that first clip there,

00:22:22.860 they said, it's about white men. And if you look there, I don't know, there were about five or six

00:22:26.760 people in the, in the frame, but one of them is obviously not a white guy. And so I don't know,

00:22:30.680 they got off that frame really quickly. I guess they couldn't find a totally white one. And then

00:22:33.680 they go on and they show, you know, some, somebody, I guess, making some comment about Afro,

00:22:38.860 something or other. And so they're saying it's all about race. I was at a ton of Tea Party rallies in

00:22:43.340 2010, 2009, that, that era. My complaint about the Tea Party is that it was so focused

00:22:51.580 on economic issues. I actually wish it were based more on cultural issues,

00:22:56.660 issues like immigration, issues like even pro-life, issues like the defense of marriage.

00:23:02.840 But it wasn't, it was a very, very narrowly economic movement. It was against Obamacare.

00:23:09.320 And then it, it was also, it also posed the deficit spending, which is important. Obviously you got to

00:23:14.740 focus on that a little bit too, focused on jobs. It just, it's an alternate reality that CNN is

00:23:21.180 presenting here. And the reason they're doing it is they have no arguments against the conservatives

00:23:27.100 other than to malign us as, you know, vicious misogynists, racists, or whatever.

00:23:32.920 And I'm not even saying that you can't, if you're going to make the accusation,

00:23:36.220 you should at least defend it. But if you've got a real problem with what the GOP is doing,

00:23:42.320 I think it would behoove you to make, to, to attack the strongest argument that the GOP is making.

00:23:49.400 That's what, that is what I try to do on this show. Maybe I don't always succeed, but I do think

00:23:53.540 that I am attacking the best arguments that the left is making or the honest arguments that the

00:23:58.740 left doesn't want to make. But they don't do that for us because I guess they just don't have an answer

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00:25:44.820 Joe Rogan. He's getting into dangerous territory. Joe Rogan, who was a Bernie bro, right? He's not

00:25:50.300 exactly a rock ribbed conservative, but he's seeing what we're all seeing. He's seeing that

00:25:55.940 in the world of critical race theory and intersectionality and woke politics and a

00:26:01.300 racial caste system being foisted by the left, we are increasingly living in a world in which 0.91

00:26:06.920 straight white dudes are not allowed to talk. Joe, I think you made the point beautifully. 0.98

00:26:13.880 You can never be woke enough. That's the problem. It keeps going. It keeps going further and further

00:26:18.520 down the line. And if you get to the point where you capitulate, where you agree to all

00:26:24.900 these demands, it will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk.

00:26:29.580 Right. Because it's your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have been 0.99

00:26:33.640 silenced throughout history. It will be, you're not allowed to go outside because so many people

00:26:39.220 were imprisoned for so many years. I mean, I'm not joking. No, I know. I know. It really

00:26:42.960 will get there. It's that crazy. Yeah. We just got to be nice to each other, man. And there's

00:26:48.180 a lot of people that are taking advantage of this weirdness in our culture. And then that becomes

00:26:55.000 their thing. Their thing is calling people out for their privilege, calling people out for their

00:27:00.000 position. He's obviously right. I mean, we're already told this. We are already told that certain

00:27:06.420 people are not allowed, that it's not just certain people, straight white men are not allowed to voice

00:27:11.340 their opinion on certain issues. And it goes back further, even than the woke BLM craziness goes back 0.75

00:27:18.160 on the issue of abortion. We're told men are not allowed to have an opinion on abortion.

00:27:22.440 I'm pretty sure they are. First of all, very often it's men who state that opinion. There's a lot,

00:27:27.760 you know, I'm a liberal man and I think that men should just be quiet about abortion. Like, okay, 0.66

00:27:31.720 buddy, take your own advice and shut up then. Because I do have it. Here's my, here's my crazy, 0.99

00:27:37.200 outrageous, patriarchal opinion. Killing babies is bad. It's bad. It's always bad and you shouldn't do 1.00

00:27:44.840 it ever. Even if it's like a crying baby, even, even if that baby, you know, is kind of sometimes,

00:27:51.860 you know, it's four in the morning, you hear that baby crying. Well, even then,

00:27:55.920 that's my opinion. I am a human being. I have faculties of reason. I am a citizen of this

00:28:03.800 country. I participate in the body politic. And so, yeah, I'm allowed to have that opinion.

00:28:08.940 I'm allowed to voice it. And frankly, that opinion should carry the day and everybody else

00:28:13.760 should listen to that opinion and recognize that that is the correct opinion. Okay. But we're told,

00:28:18.620 no, you're not allowed to have that opinion. We're increasingly told that a white people,

00:28:22.800 specifically white men are not allowed to voice an opinion on BLM or police brutality or whatever,

00:28:28.380 because we have not had the lived experience of whatever, you know, people who, who have

00:28:34.080 experienced the cops pulling them over. By the way, I've been pulled over by cops plenty of times

00:28:37.420 because I have a little bit of a lead foot, but no, it doesn't matter. Well, my skin is kind of

00:28:42.040 swarthy. It doesn't matter. Not swarthy enough. You don't have the lived experience. And of course,

00:28:45.520 at the heart of this is a radical subjectivism, which says you don't have faculties of reason.

00:28:49.820 Actually, critical race theory says this. You don't have faculties of reason. You can't rely

00:28:53.220 on them. You can't know anything about the objective world. All you can know is the reality

00:28:57.700 of your own subjective suffering. And by the way, you white guys have never suffered.

00:29:03.840 Well, how do you know about the reality of my subjective suffering? If you're telling me you 0.87

00:29:07.540 can't, okay, you can know, but I can't know. Okay. Understood. We are already being told this sort of

00:29:13.160 thing. And there's another irony here. We're told that white supremacy pervades the whole

00:29:18.240 country and where it's based on white supremacy. Pew Research did a survey a couple of years back

00:29:23.240 of racial consciousness. Asked people, how, how important is your race to your identity?

00:29:31.880 For every racial group other than white people, most respondents said that race is either

00:29:39.280 very or extremely important to their sense of identity. For white people, the number was 15%.

00:29:46.240 15%. So you've got, you've got at least somewhat important, you know, you've got some level of

00:29:54.880 importance, 50% of every other racial group, except for white. White people have the lowest racial 0.73

00:29:59.380 identity by far of anybody in the country, which is why we're so shocked. And that's why we get 0.98

00:30:05.080 offended when they call us racist. But it's, as Joe Rogan is saying here, it's just an exploitation.

00:30:11.500 It's an emotional sort of exploitation. We're talking a lot about immunity and inoculations

00:30:16.760 and things these days. I am pleased to report that I am completely immune to white guilt. I just don't

00:30:22.660 feel it. That's not, I, I'm immune to male guilt. I'm pretty soon we're going to have straight guilt.

00:30:27.320 I'm immune to that too. I just don't feel it. If you do feel that in any way, it is because you are

00:30:34.660 buying into the leftist vision of the world, which is perverse and anti-historical and wicked

00:30:41.060 and wrong. And you just got to get shut of it, lose it, throw it out the window and things will

00:30:46.260 make a bit more sense. Twitter proved Joe Rogan right this week when Twitter suspended a Spanish 1.00

00:30:53.600 politician for pointing out that men cannot get pregnant. We were talking about this earlier because

00:30:59.700 the, because the, the actual strong are strong. I put in quotes, the strong argument for abortion

00:31:05.280 is that men and women are different because, because only women can get pregnant. They should 0.96

00:31:10.560 be able to kill their kids. That's, that's it. That's what it comes down to. Right. And, uh, 1.00

00:31:14.800 but that argument requires the acknowledgement that men can't get pregnant, but then the transgender 1.00

00:31:18.680 ideology demands that we pretend that men can get pregnant. So anyway, this Spanish politician,

00:31:26.100 his name is Francisco Jose Contrera. He's the deputy leader of Vox, which is a right-wing party in the

00:31:32.220 country. Uh, he said that a man cannot get pregnant. A man has no uterus or eggs and Twitter suspended him

00:31:38.200 for 12 hours because of hateful conduct. He's a white man. He was not, you know, a little swarthy 0.99

00:31:46.820 like me, but not allowed to make just a perfectly obvious statement of fact. Because when that reality

00:31:54.420 contradicts the delusions of the leftist worldview, the leftist worldview will win out. Why? Because

00:32:02.780 the left has engaged through the machinations of the Western Marxists, the intellectuals who led to

00:32:09.200 political correctness and wokeness and cancel culture and the war of position that the brilliant

00:32:14.240 communist theorist Antonio Gramsci called 400 years ago, because that has worked, it's worked very

00:32:19.620 well, and they've attained positions of influence. Uh, they're able to exercise that, those levers of

00:32:25.380 power. There's a flip side to this though. We're told that if you do not tell a little girl that she's

00:32:31.700 a little boy, that you're hateful, you're bigoted, you're awful, you're terrible, you're harming her, 1.00

00:32:36.960 you're probably going to kill her. She's probably going to commit suicide. You awful bigot. You know, 1.00

00:32:41.280 there's a flip side to this story though. As these perverts in the mainstream media and in

00:32:47.280 politics and in education are convincing little kids to castrate themselves and to pump themselves 0.96

00:32:52.780 full of cross-sex hormones, and people are transitioning through this social contagion, 0.96

00:32:57.900 there's an increasing number of people who are detransitioning because they realize that these 0.91

00:33:03.300 sickos, these psychos have gotten them to mutilate their bodies against their own best interests. 0.76

00:33:11.620 There was a TikTok going around. So much of the trans ideology gets spread on TikTok. It's really 1.00

00:33:18.720 short, quippy videos that, that, uh, very often leftist teenagers and young adults will just spout

00:33:26.720 nonsense on. Well, this was the best TikTok I ever saw. It looks like a young man is in the frame.

00:33:34.380 You know, you're kind of like a scrawny young man, but still a young man. And, uh, he says,

00:33:39.120 hi, I've gone by the name Matthew Matt for the past three years. He's shaving in the window,

00:33:43.380 right? But a few weeks ago I found God again. Okay. He hit me out of left field and completely

00:33:51.380 rocked my world. Peep the cool hair my BFF did for me. It's like a cross on the back. God reminded

00:33:56.680 me of his love for me, the love I had lost sight of through the years. Now he's putting makeup on.

00:34:02.320 I started to see things in a new light, things I hadn't thought about. Now you realize, wait a second,

00:34:07.080 he might not be a he. A little makeup on the eyes. And then he knit me together in my mother's womb 0.98

00:34:13.860 exactly the way he wanted me to be, referring to God. And because of this realization, I'm

00:34:18.920 detransitioning and retransitioning into the woman that God intended for me to be. It feels weird.

00:34:24.240 I'm excited for this new journey, a little anxious too. But through my anxiety, I know I have God by my

00:34:30.080 side. And then you see, it's a girl. It's a girl sitting there. Pretty girl. That's a great feeling.

00:34:38.720 Wow. Isn't that great? This is a feel good video. This is, you actually get a little choked up about

00:34:46.400 it because you see this person who looks somewhat androgynous in the beginning of the video,

00:34:53.480 very shortly cropped hair, you know, men's clothing, no makeup, and not really smiling,

00:35:01.880 sort of shaving, even though there's no hair to shave. And then by the end you see, oh, someone

00:35:07.920 with makeup looks more like a girl. So it's, it is a, it's a gender transition, just like the left 0.93

00:35:13.540 tells us we should be able to do. And yet the left will not applaud that video. We are told that you

00:35:18.320 should be able to change your sex however, however you please. But something tells me 0.94

00:35:24.300 they're not going to applaud that idea. That a girl who believed for some period that she was

00:35:30.440 like a boy, you know, a tomboy or something, or a little, a little more masculine, that that girl

00:35:34.680 would then recognize that, wait a second, God did make me how, how he wanted to make me.

00:35:42.540 But actually I am who, who I am. I am a girl. I am, even though maybe I, this is a fallen world,

00:35:47.640 so I felt a little weird, but I, I am actually a girl. This, this argument you sometimes hear,

00:35:53.180 God doesn't make mistakes. This was an argument in the gay rights movement decades ago, and now

00:35:58.000 it's an argument in the transgender movement, but it doesn't quite work as well in the transgender

00:36:03.120 movement, right? Because if you say, okay, God doesn't make mistakes, right? You're a girl.

00:36:08.180 Well, no, but I think I'm a boy, right? But God doesn't make mistakes.

00:36:10.640 Now, I, I don't think that the God doesn't make mistakes is natural, exactly the best argument in

00:36:18.220 a fallen world, because the fact is that sin and death pervade the world because of original sin.

00:36:22.560 But if you're going to use that argument, it, it surely does not work on this transgender issue.

00:36:29.680 I suspect you're going to see more of this, and I suspect for any parents out there who are,

00:36:34.500 or teachers out there who are supporting this vicious, evil ideology of transgenderism, 0.99

00:36:41.220 which is just a rehashing of the same old Gnostic heresies that you saw in Manichaeism,

00:36:49.020 that you saw in Albigensianism, that you saw in Marcionism. There are a lot, a lot of isms here,

00:36:53.380 folks, going back thousands of years. It's not as the, I know that we like to think in this modern

00:36:57.500 world that we're the first people to ever think of anything, but we're not. These smarter people

00:37:03.900 than you and I have hashed out these ideas before. But because our education is so degraded now,

00:37:10.200 we, we do not really have the access to, to these thoughts before we make big mistakes.

00:37:15.420 I think you're going to see a lot of this, and I think you're going to see a lot of resentment 0.99

00:37:18.100 from people who were pushed by perverts and idiots into mutilating and destroying their bodies at a 1.00

00:37:25.140 very young age, below the age of consent, before they had developed their faculties of reason. 1.00

00:37:30.000 And woe to the parents and the educators who indulge this kind of insanity. Young girls fall 0.97

00:37:38.720 for this nonsense because the media push radical propaganda, among other things, the educators as

00:37:47.100 well, the politics as well. There's been a lot of talk over the past few days over Israel's decision

00:37:54.180 to blow up that Associated Press building in the Gaza Strip. Now, I've told you, I'm going to refrain

00:38:00.840 from making jokes about a government blowing up a press building because, you know, look, we support

00:38:05.400 freedom of the press and journalism and the great heroes. Okay. Okay, sure. I'm not even being

00:38:11.080 particularly facetious. But this does raise a question. If the Associated Press is just a

00:38:20.460 journalistic outlet and they're the defenders of the free government and the free world and

00:38:24.860 democracy dies in darkness, why were they sharing a building with Hamas? Why were they sharing a 0.81

00:38:30.500 building with a terrorist organization? Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton, asked that very question just

00:38:35.280 yesterday. I must observe, why is the Associated Press sharing a building with Hamas? Surely these 0.99

00:38:43.260 intrepid reporters knew who their neighbors were. Did they knowingly allow themselves to be used as

00:38:51.540 human shields by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization? Did the AP pull its punches and

00:38:58.780 decline to report for years on Hamas's misdeeds? I submit that the AP has some uncomfortable questions

00:39:08.820 to answer. Yet the AP and its fellow journalists are in high dudgeon about Israel's wholly appropriate

00:39:16.760 airstrike. Leave it to whiny reporters to make themselves the story and the victim when terrorists

00:39:29.800 are shooting missiles at innocent civilians. Such a great point because what you see Senator Cotton

00:39:36.600 does here is he undercuts the AP's only defense. The only defense the AP can make here is, oh, we

00:39:42.060 didn't know. They could just play dumb, right? They said, what are you talking? I had no idea that Hamas 0.99

00:39:46.160 was running a major operation out of our building. Now, for other organizations, playing dumb in this 0.98

00:39:54.400 regard might work. If, if Israel blew up the ice cream shop building, they could say, we didn't know 0.98

00:39:59.200 Hamas was in here. If they, if they blew up, I don't know, the, the book publishers, or if they blew up

00:40:05.620 the tire store. Oh, we didn't know. Come on. But if you blow up the reporters, if you blow up the

00:40:14.200 journalists, if you blow up the people who say that they're the greatest investigators sniffing out truth

00:40:18.100 and their greatest defenses, yeah, we had no idea terrorists were two floors down. Well, then you say,

00:40:22.660 you don't sound like particularly good journalists, do you? But obviously the AP knew. There is no

00:40:28.620 question in my mind. I don't have the, I don't have the evidence, but I got a lot of circumstantial

00:40:32.480 evidence. Of course the AP knew, but they were cozying up. Of course they knew. Hamas, they were 0.78

00:40:38.680 the sources for goodness sakes. There's a bigger question. Why did the AP even have an office in Gaza?

00:40:44.940 Because our intrepid journalists, the fourth estate, the objective reporters are pushing

00:40:55.100 propaganda. It's not just the Associated Press that's pushing propaganda from enemies of our

00:41:03.620 allies and of our country. Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, the former future president. Remember Mike Bloomberg,

00:41:12.520 mayor of New York, zillionaire, financial media mogul, and media mogul more broadly.

00:41:21.420 It is now being reported by Breitbart, Alex Marlowe Breitbart has just written a book about this.

00:41:27.120 Bloomberg and his top associates at his news conglomerate, Bloomberg LP, have regularly met

00:41:35.020 in recent years in Beijing with top Chinese Communist Party officials.

00:41:40.400 Now this is according to the Chinese government. Just a little bit to give you a sense of the

00:41:45.300 timeline. August 19th, 2015, Bloomberg, Mike himself, the man, meets with Zhang Zhangguo,

00:41:51.800 who's the director of the State Council Information Office and deputy director of the publicity department

00:41:57.480 of the Communist Party of China. So we're talking about the actual propaganda leaders in the country.

00:42:03.500 He meets with them to discuss, quote, international exchange and cooperation in the field of media.

00:42:09.500 Later on, a few months later, Bloomberg LP global exec, VP Kevin Shiki meets with Zhang as well as Zhang

00:42:16.920 Fuhai and Zhang Hongbin, who are the director general and deputy director general of the SCIO

00:42:23.980 Internet Affairs Bureau. So the propaganda arm here specifically on the internet. Shiki then became

00:42:29.180 Mike Bloomberg's campaign manager for that ill-fated 2020 presidential run. Many, many,

00:42:33.540 many meetings over the years. This is not low-level staffers. This is not just meeting with

00:42:38.400 apparatchiks from the Chinese government to facilitate certain corporate access or business deals.

00:42:44.680 This is the heads of the media group meeting with the heads of China's propaganda industry.

00:42:52.220 That is the kind of intrepid, wonderful, objective, hard-hitting, speak-truth-to-power reporting

00:43:00.880 that we're getting from one of the largest media organizations in the world, from Bloomberg.

00:43:05.940 Why do we believe this stuff? Why do we take this seriously? There are alternative media.

00:43:14.260 If you're listening to this program, obviously you're tuning into some alternative media.

00:43:18.000 And the alternative media do fairly well. You know, every, every, every news cycle or so,

00:43:23.480 you'll find that, uh, right-wing media, Daily Wire or Dan Bongino or a few other people,

00:43:30.000 they do well on Facebook according to certain metrics. According to other metrics, not really,

00:43:33.880 but according to some, you know, we'll get stories that get shared or something. So you say,

00:43:36.580 okay, there's no big deal. The left, they've got their media and they meet with the Chinese

00:43:40.840 Communist Party and the right, we've got our media and we post some stories to Facebook. So come on,

00:43:45.000 it's the same thing. Even if, even if the Daily Wire is the top performer ever of all time on

00:43:53.100 Facebook, which it's not, but we still do very well on Facebook. That's one outlet. Dan Bongino,

00:44:00.520 okay, that's two outlets, two relatively small outlets compared to NBC, ABC, CBS, the Washington

00:44:10.280 Post, the Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the LA Times, the on and on and on,

00:44:20.660 NPR, PBS, on and on and on. There's no comparison. We, we think we're doing great over here. We love,

00:44:29.880 we got all our great listeners. We got all our great readers. Yeah, we're doing great in conservative

00:44:34.020 media, but the left controls the media and they're pushing a lot of very harmful propaganda.

00:44:42.260 Speaking of propaganda, I think while the media establishment are doing a good job for the Dems,

00:44:48.340 Biden himself not doing a great job. Biden has a message now, okay? It's a message about how to

00:44:54.480 break out of the lockdowns and the message is simple, vax or mask. It's vaxed or masked.

00:45:01.600 That's it. That's the whole video. Vaxxed or masked. Is that, does that rhyme? No, no. It's,

00:45:10.020 it's actually, it's like a, almost a near rhyme. So it's even kind of weirder and more annoying.

00:45:14.480 What does that mean? Vaxxed or masked? I'm neither right now and I feel great and I've been neither for

00:45:18.500 the whole time and I, I feel awesome. This reminds me of when Puff Daddy did that stupid vote or die 1.00

00:45:24.680 thing. It's like vote or die. You got vote or die. I'm pretty sure there's a third option unless 1.00

00:45:33.420 you're, unless this is a criminal threat. I, what if I just do neither? What if I just hang out? Is

00:45:39.380 that cool? Vaxxed or mask or die or vote? No, not, not very persuasive, not persuading a whole lot of 1.00

00:45:48.700 Americans. By the way, by the way, it's this, our other propaganda minister here in the United

00:45:53.640 States, Dr. Fauci has come out and admitted once again that he lied, admitted once again that he

00:45:59.980 misled the American people. Remember we were told you by Dr. Fauci, you have to wear the masks. Even

00:46:06.500 after you're vaccinated, you have to do it. And you say, well, what's the point of getting the vaccine

00:46:10.520 if I have to wear the masks? No, you have to. And then they realized no one was going to get the

00:46:16.520 vaccine because if your life's not going to change, why would I shoot myself full of this

00:46:19.880 hastily developed inoculation if I don't even get any, if I don't get any political benefit for it?

00:46:26.200 And he says, okay, actually you can take the mask off. He was just asked, well, what happened here?

00:46:30.080 He said, well, it was basically political theater. I'm obviously careful because I mean, I'm a physician

00:46:35.860 and a healthcare provider. I am now much more comfortable in, in people seeing me indoors without a

00:46:43.340 mask. I mean, before the CDC made the recommendation change, I didn't want to look like I was giving mixed 1.00

00:46:50.080 signals, but being a fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor setting

00:46:57.400 is extremely low. And that's the reason why in indoor settings now, I feel comfortable about not

00:47:04.020 wearing the mask because I'm fully manned. I'm fully vaccinated. Yes. I wore the mask and also told all

00:47:10.860 you stupid sheep to wear the mask, even though I knew you didn't have to, and it was total nonsense 1.00

00:47:15.760 because I wanted to shill for the CDC because I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor. When was the last time Dr. 1.00

00:47:22.760 Fauci saw a patient? How many patients does this guy see a week? He's not a doctor. He's a politician

00:47:27.660 who has medical expertise, but he's a politician. Political theater. So if he's thrown away his

00:47:35.380 credibility, why should we believe him? Why should we follow these guys? The Associated Press palling

00:47:42.500 around with terrorists, why should we listen to them? The leftists on CNN arguing against positions

00:47:53.180 that we do not hold in very often just spreading outright lies like Don Lemon did on critical race

00:48:00.280 theory. Why should we listen to them? Why do they have any authority? Leftist politicians, Claire

00:48:04.880 McCaskill saying that we just want to punish rape victims or something. Why did we listen to this?

00:48:09.260 Why? We have no obligation to engage in a bad faith debate. We have no obligation to pay any heed to

00:48:16.880 people who have acknowledged their own bad faith and squandered their credibility like the Fauci's of

00:48:22.120 the world and the other technocrats. None. I know there's something about the conservative

00:48:27.240 movement, quote unquote, of the last 20 years where we think, no, we just, we've got the free

00:48:30.600 marketplace of ideas and we've got to engage in the ideas. We'll always win. No, we have no,

00:48:35.220 there's no reason whatsoever to deal on the level with people who are acting in bad faith, not a chance.

00:48:42.900 Show me the good faith argument, please show me one. And I'd love to engage with it. But other than

00:48:47.600 that, assuming you can't, we need to exercise our political power. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:48:52.760 Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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Ep. 767 - Bad-Faith Baby Butchers

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