The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 768 - Living In Reality

00:00:00.000 Democrats want to create a 9-11 style commission to investigate the Capitol riot on January 6th.

00:00:08.760 They do not want to create a commission to investigate the very well-funded BLM organization

00:00:15.460 that burned the country down for six months. They don't want to investigate Antifa, 0.90

00:00:20.320 which has been committing street violence, very serious street violence for years at this point

00:00:25.300 at a huge scale. They want to investigate the horn guy and the guy who took the podium on January 6th.

00:00:32.440 Not excusing those guys, just saying, don't really seem comparable. This is obviously

00:00:36.500 completely unnecessary. This is a partisan trick from the Dems. And so the Republicans,

00:00:43.020 very rightly, are saying, no, we're not going to go along with that. This is completely

00:00:46.940 ridiculous. The Democrats hate that. They are losing their minds over that. Tim Ryan, 1.00

00:00:53.020 who you might recall briefly ran for president. He's a Democrat in the House. He took to the

00:01:00.540 floor of the House to yell and scream and wave his arms and say that Republicans are not living in

00:01:08.180 reality. I want to thank the gentleman from New York and the other Republicans who are supporting

00:01:13.260 this and thank them for their bipartisanship to the other 90 percent of our friends on the other side

00:01:17.960 of the aisle. Holy cow. Incoherence. No idea what you're talking about. Benghazi, you guys chased the 0.97

00:01:26.480 former Secretary of State all over the country, spent millions of dollars. We have people scaling the

00:01:33.100 Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship.

00:01:39.160 What else has to happen in this country? Cops. This is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop

00:01:47.320 in the United States. If we're going to take on China, if we're going to rebuild the country, 0.96

00:01:52.420 if we're going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both

00:01:57.940 living in reality, and you ain't one of them. Yes. Nothing says we're living in reality like

00:02:03.900 yelling and screaming and pushing ridiculous canards that the right-wingers are responsible 0.98

00:02:09.580 for killing cops and things like that. It completely debunked. Even the New York Times 0.93

00:02:13.760 and Washington Post admit it. Who's really living in reality here? The problem goes way,

00:02:19.240 way deeper than January 6th. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:22.760 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Rebel Patriot, who says,

00:02:34.380 it's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument 1.00

00:02:39.080 with a stupid person. Bill Murray. This is absolutely true. This actually gets into something 1.00

00:02:43.400 we were talking about yesterday, which is, I love engaging in political discussion. I love taking my

00:02:50.520 opponents' arguments seriously. That's what I've done, actually, as the basis of my upcoming book,

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00:03:03.560 take seriously the left's arguments and say, okay, this is where it's wrong, but this is where we can

00:03:06.960 learn something. But you'll notice that a lot of people, they don't want to do that. It's just like

00:03:11.040 they plug their ears in and they say, la, la, la, and they call you a racist, sexist, whatever kind of 1.00

00:03:14.960 stupidity, they'll say. You have no responsibility to engage in a debate with them. A debate is not 1.00

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00:04:37.620 ring.com slash Knowles. January 6th, the greatest threat to our nation, worse than Pearl Harbor,

00:04:46.200 worse than 9-11. Our democracy was at stake because the horn guy stole a podium or something. I don't

00:04:53.280 know. I wasn't, I don't mean to minimize what happened on January. I just can't, it's impossible

00:04:59.800 not to minimize it when you talk about what happened compared to what the left is saying happened.

00:05:06.480 And by the way, I know that we're not allowed to compare this to the BLM riots that burned down

00:05:11.920 the country and killed a lot of people, but you have to, I know they say that's whataboutism.

00:05:16.620 You know what? Whataboutism is whataboutism. What about it? Let's compare what happened.

00:05:22.540 It's so, it's so rich because the arguments that Democrats are making now about the,

00:05:27.060 the January 6th skerfuffle at the Capitol are directly contradicting the arguments that they

00:05:33.520 were making for months and months and months. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat politician, 1.00

00:05:38.920 tweets out a picture of her office and it's got a smashed window in it. Okay. There's smashed. I'm

00:05:43.920 not saying these guys were totally peaceful. Okay. They, yes, they smashed the window. People are

00:05:49.360 saying that they killed cops. That's just a lie. That's a complete lie. We know that isn't true,

00:05:53.540 but yeah, they smashed windows. Yep. And she tweets out, don't believe the gas lighting.

00:05:58.620 This is what the so-called tourist visit did to my office. Okay. You're right. She's saying it's

00:06:04.640 not a tourist visit. What happened on January 6th? This was violence. Except, except, uh, this is

00:06:10.140 awkward. We were told for months and months and months that when whole buildings and cities were on

00:06:18.200 fire behind reporters on left-wing cable networks, that, that, that amounted to fiery, but mostly

00:06:25.360 peaceful protests. But you can burn a city down, that's mostly peaceful, but you smash a window,

00:06:31.300 that's the greatest act of violence ever perpetrated in the United States. Moreover, we were told by one

00:06:38.360 of the leading quasi-pseudo-intellectuals of the left, Nicole Hannah-Jones, the head of the 1619

00:06:44.900 Project, that property damage is not violence. Yes, it is disturbing to see property being destroyed.

00:06:56.140 It is disturbing to see, uh, people taking property from stores, but these are things. And violence is

00:07:03.940 when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.

00:07:10.120 Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. And to put those things, uh, to use the

00:07:17.940 exact same language to describe those two things, I think really, um, it's not, it's not moral to do

00:07:26.320 that. So yes, I think any reasonable, excuse me, any reasonable person would say we shouldn't be

00:07:32.400 destroying other people's property, but these are not reasonable times. But these are not reasonable

00:07:37.020 times. So what she's saying is, look, yeah, I don't want to destroy people's property, but the times

00:07:41.220 that we're living in call for that. And it's not violent. Tammy, it's not violence. Destroying

00:07:46.800 property which can be replaced. And by the way, we're not talking about some guy's whole small

00:07:50.880 business. We're not talking about someone's cherished family possessions that BLM burned down

00:07:54.820 when they burned down different buildings. We're just talking about your window. You know, come on,

00:07:59.380 property which can be replaced is not violence. Tammy. Now, of course I don't believe any of that,

00:08:06.080 but according to their own logic, they must look, this was a, this was a mostly peaceful tourist visit.

00:08:14.080 Wasn't it? No, no, of course not. There's just one set of standards for the very deadly, very

00:08:20.960 destructive months long coast to coast insurrection of BLM. And then there's another set of standards

00:08:28.600 for the riot and the guy who took the podium and the horn guy who danced around the Capitol

00:08:32.760 and smashed some windows. And bizarrely enough, they're all being much harsher on the horn guy

00:08:41.040 than they are on the domestic terrorists who targeted civilians to achieve their political ends

00:08:47.260 in BLM and Antifa. Thankfully, Cocaine Mitch not having any of this nonsense. Cocaine,

00:08:55.100 Mr. Cocaine himself takes to the floor of the Senate and says in as energetic a tone as we ever get

00:09:01.340 from Mitch McConnell. So, you know, not very, but still forcefully enough, he says he opposes

00:09:07.120 the January 6th commission. After careful consideration, I've made the decision to oppose

00:09:13.980 the house Democrats slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January

00:09:20.680 January the 6th. There is, has been, and there will continue to be no shortage, no shortage of robust

00:09:30.920 investigations by two separate branches of the federal government.

00:09:38.360 So, Mr. President, it's not at all clear what new facts or additional investigation yet another commission

00:09:44.040 could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and Congress. What is clear

00:09:51.560 is that House Democrats have handled this proposal in partisan bad faith going right back to the

00:09:59.340 beginning. So, Senator Scarface here really hits on the point of this commission. These incidents are

00:10:05.520 already being investigated and people are being held to extremely serious consequences if they participated

00:10:12.800 in the Capitol riot. They're not really being held to consequences if they burned down the country with

00:10:16.960 BLM. So, the double standard still exists. But regardless, the people who rioted on January 6th are

00:10:22.860 already facing very serious consequences for it. So, what's the point of this Senate investigation?

00:10:30.520 The point of it, or the House investigation, the point of it is to give Democrats a lot of power

00:10:37.960 to go after any of their enemies. Andrew Cuomo used this sort of investigative power to great effect

00:10:44.920 in New York. If you, if you have a broad scope to investigate your political opponents, you can use

00:10:52.120 that for anything. Oh, yeah. So, I think he spoke favorably. I think he tweeted favorably about the

00:11:00.360 January 6th thing. Let's go. Let's look into his taxes. Let's look into his personal life. Let's rate his

00:11:04.600 computer. Let's do this. Let's do that. It's just, just a partisan tool. McConnell, absolutely right.

00:11:10.560 Politically, so savvy to oppose this sort of thing. But Tim Ryan makes a point too. Never thought I would

00:11:16.880 say that. But Tim Ryan, that screechy, crazy, loony Democrat at the top of the show, he does make a 0.96

00:11:22.480 good point. He says, if, if two political parties are not living in reality, then you can't have a 0.90

00:11:28.300 country. Now, he's wrong when he says it's the Republicans not living in reality. Because

00:11:33.840 we get it. We get the January 6th thing. We get the Democrats are going to use that to great effect.

00:11:40.620 We also get that that's absurd and hypocritical given BL, given the Democrats overt endorsement of 0.80

00:11:48.220 and support for the BLM riots in 2020. The sitting vice president bailed the rioters out of, out of jail,

00:11:53.400 right? So obviously they don't have a lot of credibility on this point. But we must agree on

00:12:00.580 reality if we are to have a country together. And we don't agree on that reality. Forget the riot

00:12:07.180 thing or the mostly peaceful riots or forget that for a second. Forget the election. What happened in

00:12:13.880 2020? How dare you question why the Pennsylvania election officials betrayed their own constitution?

00:12:20.120 Why? How you can't, that's our democracy or whatever. Okay. Get rid of all that for a second.

00:12:25.580 What's a man? What's a woman? What's a human being? What are we here for? What are our pronouns?

00:12:35.200 What's a baby? What is America? What is a nation? These are really, really basic questions.

00:12:44.180 And we don't agree on the answers. And it's not because we just sort of have different perspectives,

00:12:49.640 man, you know, and we're a pluralistic country. No, it's that broadly speaking,

00:12:54.020 conservatives are in touch with reality on those fundamental questions. And increasingly,

00:13:00.700 the Democrats are off in outer space. And this is clear enough from the voice of her generation,

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00:14:26.400 I say this a lot whenever some pop culture figure comes up. I don't really know who she is or what

00:14:30.280 she does. I take it. She's an actress or a singer or something. Demi Lovato, she just kind of has that

00:14:34.640 look to her. I'm sorry. Has that look to them because Demi Lovato is now identifying as

00:14:41.880 she previously identified as pansexual. She's now changing that to identify as non-binary.

00:14:50.360 I don't know exactly what the difference is between those things, but I know that the effect

00:14:54.840 of this latter one is that she now identifies as multiple people. She wants her preferred

00:14:59.520 pronouns to be they and them. And she announced this in a pretty trippy video.

00:15:06.880 Living in the fourth dimension means existing consciously in both time and space.

00:15:11.480 Hold on. Pause it right there. Already, you see, we have a little problem about the

00:15:15.880 agreement and disagreement on reality. She says living in the fourth dimension

00:15:19.720 means living consciously in time and space. That's called living in the third dimension,

00:15:27.020 right? I don't, I'm not a physicist, but I'm living in the, in 3D right now. I can,

00:15:32.400 I see, I've got space. I see, understand volume and things like that. And I'm, I'm living in time.

00:15:38.880 I don't, I know sometimes people call time the fourth dimension. I don't know. It seems a little

00:15:43.080 hippy dippy to me. So already, I think the interdimensional aspect of this video has me

00:15:50.960 primed and ready to assume she's not going to be totally coherent. She goes on.

00:15:55.900 But for me, it means having conversations that transcend the typical discourse.

00:16:01.160 I want to take this moment to share something very personal with you. Over the past year and a

00:16:05.560 half, I've been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work,

00:16:09.380 I've had the revelation that I identify as non-binary. With that said, I'll officially

00:16:14.500 be changing my pronouns to they, them. Pause. Pause again. You can't do that. You can't. But it's

00:16:22.480 my personal choice. I've had this revelation. Where did you get this revelation from?

00:16:26.840 Who gave you this revelation that you are multiple people? The only book where I have seen a sort of

00:16:33.700 revelation that an individual person is multiple people is this very old book, sometimes called

00:16:38.160 The Good Book, in which one person shrieks out, we are legion. We are, you know, and it's, but it's,

00:16:46.280 that would be demons. Demons would be doing it because you, a one person can't be multiple people.

00:16:51.280 And the smiling, and I've done some healing work and some self-reflection. You hear this a lot from

00:16:57.800 the, they're always healing because of some trauma that has been done to them. And I actually, I don't

00:17:02.240 even mean to discount this. Yeah, people go through traumas. That is life. That is part of life. But

00:17:07.400 it's always, we're healing. And because I'm healing, you can't question me. Because I'm trying to recover

00:17:11.740 from this trauma, you can't ever question my delusions. So I am multiple people. What does that mean?

00:17:18.960 What does it mean to be they and them? I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel

00:17:23.740 in my gender expression and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am

00:17:29.140 and still am discovering. In this first episode, I'm excited to share with you what this means to me

00:17:35.160 and what it may look like for other people. I want to make it clear that I'm still learning and coming

00:17:39.600 into myself. And I don't claim to be an expert or a spokesperson. I know this might be a new

00:17:45.140 conversation for many. So I'm inviting my friend, Alok, someone I trust to spend time on this

00:17:50.380 platform. Alok is an author, performer, and an important voice within the non-binary community

00:17:55.340 and beyond. Their work to create visibility, equality, and understanding has inspired me on

00:18:01.000 my healing journey. We'll discuss identity at large, but also take the time to personally reflect

00:18:05.820 on how I came into my truth so that we, like many others, are able to live our lives authentically.

00:18:11.100 In just a minute, I'm going to share space with Alok and dive deeper into this conversation.

00:18:16.860 If you told me, Michael, $100,000 on the line, you get one guess, what is the name of this

00:18:25.780 lady's friend? I would probably guess Alok. I wouldn't have guessed John or Bert. I think

00:18:32.840 Alok sounds about right. This video matters, not because of anything involving Demi Lovato. I mean,

00:18:40.060 the headline here is, entertainer begs for attention. Wow. Not exactly a man bites dog

00:18:47.360 story, is it? So of course, you know, entertainers do this all the time and they just try to get more

00:18:52.080 attention, particularly as their careers are sort of on the, on the way back down. So not,

00:18:56.960 not surprised here. But the way that Demi Lovato is doing this is by just parodying. It's like a parody 0.99

00:19:04.360 of leftist jargon. She's just fitting all the leftist slogans, my truth and self-discovery and

00:19:10.120 healing and this journey into all into one sentence. And it's, you know, it's not going to

00:19:15.480 be coherent really from the beginning of it with the fourth dimension stuff. But even in this little

00:19:20.260 bit, she says, we're going to talk about the person that I know I am and I'm still becoming.

00:19:26.900 If you're still becoming that, then you don't know that you are that person. You can't, you can't both

00:19:34.520 be this firm set person and this other thing that you don't know what it is that you're headed to.

00:19:40.080 That, that just that alone is not possible, but it's actually multiple people, right? It's they

00:19:44.140 and it's them. And that sort of thing does not jibe with any semblance of society. It's this,

00:19:55.080 the radical subjectivism of the phrase, my truth is enough. Just that alone is enough to destroy

00:20:01.360 society. I'm not being hyperbolic here, folks. I don't mean to say that the bizarre musings of

00:20:09.660 some entertainer are threatening to destabilize society. She is representing a very popular ideology 0.99

00:20:16.260 right now. And if we cannot agree that there is truth in Tim Ryan's words, if we can't agree on

00:20:21.460 reality, then we can't get along in society. And what she's saying is not even, I disagree with

00:20:26.360 conservatives on reality. She's saying, I don't believe there is reality. I'm saying it's my truth

00:20:30.440 and I'm becoming this radically subjective thing. And I know, look, I know I look like a woman and

00:20:35.320 everything. And I talk like a woman and I obviously am a woman, but I've had a revelation that I know

00:20:40.880 that my true self who I am not even that person yet, but I know that I am that person is multiple

00:20:46.800 people. Well, there goes society. It's over. It's not just Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato is joined in her

00:20:56.080 plea for attention by Anna Paquin, who is, I guess, another actress whom I've never heard of. And she

00:21:02.880 is married to a male TV star and she's now defending her bisexuality. She posts on Instagram, quote,

00:21:10.660 I'm a hashtag proud bisexual who's married to a wonderful human who happens to be a man.

00:21:15.920 If he doesn't have a problem with it, why should anyone else? And then one commenter on this post

00:21:20.960 on Insta says, I am getting tired of seeing bi celebrities constantly advocate for it only to 0.99

00:21:27.220 end up conventionally married to men with multiple children, living out the so-called white picket fence 0.94

00:21:31.040 life. And then Paquin responds, she's very angry. She goes, oh yes, the you aren't queer enough BS.

00:21:36.480 And then she's defending herself. She's saying, I am queer, even though I'm living a perfectly

00:21:39.560 conventional lifestyle with this rich, handsome guy. And we're just living a normal life. I am

00:21:44.720 special. Darn it. I am. I'm not like some of those other gals who are married to guys and have a family 1.00

00:21:51.320 and stable life. I'm bisexual. I mean, I'm not, I like whatever. I guess I like kissed a girl once

00:21:58.540 in college, but I'm, but that makes me special. Demi Lovato. I'm not, I'm not just some lady entertainer.

00:22:04.660 No, I'm actually a pansexual. No, scratch that. I'm a non-binary. No, scratch that.

00:22:09.560 I'm whatever can get me more attention today. I am so special. And I, and I am so interesting

00:22:18.200 is what they're saying too. I know how it looks from the outside, but actually I'm much more

00:22:24.000 interesting on the inside. This comes back to the classic problem. I'm not the first one to observe it.

00:22:32.860 that when a civilization divorces itself from, I am that I am. This is the name that God gives

00:22:43.000 himself when he's talking to Moses. Moses says, who should I tell them that you are? And God says,

00:22:46.820 I am who I am. I am, I am that I am. I am essence itself. So, okay. When you divorce yourself from,

00:22:54.820 I am, you are left with a very pathetic and pitiful question, which is who am I? And there's 0.95

00:23:00.780 no end to that. Demi Lovato is going to be something else in like three weeks. I'd put money

00:23:05.080 on it. How long has it been since she said she was pansexual? Now she's non-binary. I assume she's

00:23:12.400 demisexual too. With a name like that, you know, that's a groaner. That's a groaner. Sorry. 1.00

00:23:17.260 Nevermind. She'll be something else. I'm sure Anna Paquin will too. Well, actually I'm a non,

00:23:22.180 I'm a bisexual trans this or that. I know it, I know I look totally normal, but I'm actually super

00:23:30.080 duper special. If we want to have a society, you can't tolerate that stuff. I know that there's a

00:23:37.360 huge, the left is obviously all in on it. And there's a big segment on the right,

00:23:40.580 more libertarian segment that says, Hey, whatever you want, man. I'm not a, I'm not a regular

00:23:44.980 conservative. I'm a cool conservative. You know, I'm not a regular mom. I'm a cool mom. And yeah,

00:23:48.920 you could be a demi, bi, non, trans, whatever. You can, your name can be Alok or whatever. Yeah.

00:23:53.820 No, sorry. If you want to follow the Tim Ryan doctrine of living in reality, and I think we have

00:24:01.120 to, I totally think we have to, to live in society. Then you can't do that. You can't change the

00:24:05.660 pronouns. They're not yours to change. Frankly, I don't think we should really be changing our names

00:24:10.320 such that people named Bruce can go by Caitlin. Caitlin's a girl's name. Sorry, buddy. If you're a guy,

00:24:14.220 you can't be Caitlin, but it's, but my freedom, it's not freedom. That's

00:24:18.680 insanity and delusion. And it leads society into licentiousness and lunacy. And so, no,

00:24:26.600 we need boundaries. If we want a flourishing and free society, the poem needs parameters.

00:24:35.180 The sonnet needs constrictions. If you want to have the flourishing and the freedom and the beauty

00:24:41.460 that comes from that sort of thing. You know, Ben is going to be talking today about how the Democrats

00:24:47.020 love January 6th. They love it. They need it. They need, when January 6th didn't turn out exactly

00:24:53.780 how they wanted, they actually just made up new aspects of it. I'll be talking about that on the

00:24:57.480 show. Me, I'm not going to say much more about January 6th. That, that whole discussion has left

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00:25:53.900 understand the PC police better than they understand themselves. We'll be right back.

00:26:07.380 So often on this show and in the broader culture, we focus in on how these crazy woke ideologies

00:26:16.920 spread throughout social media and you've got the Demi Lovato of it all and the Anna Paquin and the

00:26:23.360 a lot of kooky people who are not celebrities. But don't forget, social media, they're just media,

00:26:29.500 right? It's just a medium. And you can transmit insanity on there or you can transmit serious ideas.

00:26:34.840 So you got the Demi Lovato hyper subjectivism, the hyper subjectivism of intersectionality and the

00:26:43.280 woke people and the 1619 Project or whatever, which say that whatever I say will constitute

00:26:50.760 reality because everything is socially constructed. Sex is socially constructed. History is socially

00:26:54.620 constructed. So it's all just whatever we say it is. It's a kind of premise of political correctness

00:26:59.040 is that you change the words, you change the culture. But then there was a great video. I saw this

00:27:03.480 one girl, super smart, posts a TikTok where instead of just focusing on her, you know,

00:27:11.360 super high after seven bong hits kind of weird subjectivist pseudo philosophy, she uses facts and 1.00

00:27:20.000 logic to explain how there is a reality to the universe. And by the way, the substratum of that

00:27:25.700 reality, the essence that keeps the being, that keeps the whole thing going, that undergirds all of it

00:27:31.740 is God who exists. Have y'all ever heard of the theory of general relativity? It's what Einstein

00:27:37.200 is famous for. In his calculations, he started to realize that the universe was not eternal.

00:27:42.440 It had a beginning. Now this leads us to the law of causality. Everything that came to be

00:27:47.520 needs a cause. So Einstein clearly knew that if the universe had a beginning, it needed a cause.

00:27:53.780 Let's go to the Big Bang Theory. There was no space, no time, and no matter before the Big Bang.

00:27:59.740 The universe emerged out of nothingness. What does that mean? Since it's impossible for the

00:28:04.380 universe to be able to create itself because it didn't exist in order to be able to create itself,

00:28:10.580 nature and the universe itself was just a big effect that was caused by, what are we left with?

00:28:16.780 An extremely powerful, extremely intelligent, precise, given the precision that our universe was created

00:28:23.120 with personal entity that is capable of existing outside of time, space, and matter. That can't be

00:28:30.860 nothing but God. Do I need to sign up for TikTok now? I didn't. I thought TikTok was just a bunch of

00:28:37.800 crazy people spouting off and then a bunch of other people jiggling around. And I figured this is not,

00:28:43.240 and also Xi Jinping stealing all of our information. So I assume there's no reason for me to be on TikTok.

00:28:48.120 But if I can go on TikTok and just hear popular apologetics and very strong and common sense

00:28:55.600 arguments for the existence of God, maybe I got to sign up and get an account. Do you see the

00:29:00.120 difference between what this gal is saying on TikTok and say what Demi Lovato is saying in her 0.94

00:29:06.120 social media post? They're both giving their visions of the universe, right? They're both describing,

00:29:13.360 I guess, even their identity or where they find themselves in the universe. But with Demi Lovato's,

00:29:19.140 you can't make an argument for or against it because she's just saying it's all just about my

00:29:23.420 personal feeling, my personal private revelation that I had of who I am, but I don't even know who

00:29:28.480 I am yet, even though I know who I am, but I don't know who I'm going to be, but I am who I'm going to

00:29:32.260 be. And therefore you just have to believe me. And if you don't, you know, you're kind of a meanie

00:29:37.420 and you'll hear more from my friend Alok or whatever. This gal is coming out and saying, 0.99

00:29:44.260 hey, you have faculties of reason. There is an observable reality that we can perceive.

00:29:51.320 And then we can use our reason to work that out, have conceptions, right? And follow arguments to

00:29:57.900 their logical conclusion. And because this world is, is caused because we're all sort of caused beings

00:30:05.600 and contingent beings even, then you've got to trace that all the way back to God, to an unmoved

00:30:14.100 mover, to an uncaused cause. That's not just a, hey man, wouldn't it be weird if it were like this?

00:30:20.220 That's a, that's a logical argument. If we are going to have a society that is living in reality,

00:30:27.440 we got to base it on that. You can't, it's not possible to be living in reality. If you base it

00:30:35.040 on the Demi Lovato thing, because Demi, it's not even just that she's wrong. It's that she doesn't

00:30:39.260 accept reality, that reality exists at all. But unfortunately, the Demi Lovato theory of the

00:30:46.380 world is, is much more fashionable at the moment than that girl's theory of the world. Also,

00:30:50.920 also Thomas Aquinas's theory of the world that she's, she's reciting. The trans ideology is more

00:30:55.700 popular at the moment. You always hear this from, from the left. They say, well, look, Sarah Silverman

00:31:00.660 made this point the other day. She said, there's never been a case of a man competing in girls

00:31:05.340 sports and then beating the girls at the sports and taking their prizes and stuff. And that's just

00:31:10.760 not true. There's a famous case right now working its way up the courts of a dude who just keeps

00:31:15.840 beating girls at high school track. But we got another story this weekend. Just tuck this one

00:31:20.120 away in your, your quiver so that you got another little detail when people bring up that bogus

00:31:25.140 argument. Haley Davidson, who's a dude, competed and won a professional title in women's golf last

00:31:31.340 week. He, you know, he identifies as a woman, but he's a dude. He also previously competed in men's

00:31:38.720 college golf athletics, and he's now hoping to be eligible for the ladies PGA, the professional

00:31:44.520 golf association. So this is bad. There's just evidence that when the libs tell you that there's no,

00:31:51.200 not a single case of men competing in women's sports and beating them at it. There are men 1.00

00:31:57.280 basically always do that when they compete openly. And they usually do it when they compete

00:32:02.720 surreptitiously as well and pretend to be women. But the issue is much deeper than sports.

00:32:08.380 Also going back to Sarah Silverman, when Sarah Silverman pointed out that

00:32:11.140 the opponents of the transgender ideology don't really care about women's sports, they're right. 1.00

00:32:15.420 I don't, I don't care. I'm not going to watch these golf matches or whatever. What do you call it?

00:32:19.680 Golf. I don't even know about you. Golf bouts. These golf rounds or something. I'm not going to

00:32:24.380 watch it. I don't really care. I care about the reality. It's me and Tim Ryan against the world.

00:32:29.540 The issue is much deeper than sports. Usually I only read letters that I get on mailbag day.

00:32:34.940 This one I'm going to read to you. This really moved me. I got this letter yesterday from a

00:32:39.780 listener in Italy. It was written in English. It's a little bit choppy English, but basically well

00:32:43.820 written. And so the, the, regardless though, even if it weren't well written, the content is

00:32:49.140 really what we're talking about here. Subject. I was a sad trans and then I detransitioned and now

00:32:57.280 I'm happy. Message. Hello, Michael. I'm writing to you from Italy. I'm a 30 years old woman.

00:33:02.880 When I was 18, I was involved with the trans movement because my family abused me and I was

00:33:07.700 confused and had the bad luck to meet trans people who convinced me that I was a boy.

00:33:11.500 They were trans people from the Italian trans rights associations. I always had been very

00:33:17.860 feminine, but they somehow convinced me taking advantage of my suffering to go on testosterone 0.80

00:33:22.800 and to mutilate my chest. After some years, I understood that I fell in their trap because

00:33:28.640 trans people are narcissistic and abusive too, like my family, like everybody, right? To some degree, 1.00

00:33:33.800 that people are all kind of broken people. Now I am a 30 year old woman and I am happy and living

00:33:40.520 the joy of being a woman. I am still facing the irreversible damage done to my body, but I can

00:33:46.680 still be a mother and take care of my future kids. And it makes me happy not having fully,

00:33:51.400 fully believe their lies. P.S. When I told them that I was detransitioning, I lost all their

00:33:56.440 friendship. They bullied me, told me to commit suicide, et cetera. And no one of them wanted to

00:34:03.360 be my friend anymore. Thank you for bringing light on this topic. Yours, a happy woman from Italy.

00:34:10.520 There are many stories of people detransitioning. You're going to get more and more of those stories

00:34:15.640 because this has been a social contagion, this insane ideology. And there have been parents and

00:34:21.460 schools and the whole culture is encouraging little kids to mutilate their bodies. And

00:34:26.700 the vast majority are going to come to regret that. This point too, it occurs to me where you say,

00:34:33.140 the trans movement is manipulative. Of course it is. Its very essence is manipulation because the idea 1.00

00:34:41.600 here is that you have the right to and you ought to totally transform reality using your own hands,

00:34:52.300 using the surgery or using the hormones or using whatever to better record with your view of the

00:34:57.280 world. And that you can do that. But you can't. You can't. If we're going to live in Tim Ryan's

00:35:05.140 reality, you can't do that. There's a limit to your ability to manipulate. It's a very Western idea.

00:35:14.120 It goes back really into the heart of our tradition that we can transform the world through our art,

00:35:20.780 through our craft, through our skill. And we can, and we've done this to great effect.

00:35:24.960 But there's a difference between taking the reality that we live in and from that creating

00:35:32.320 the beautiful art of a cathedral or some beautiful painting or some beautiful sculpture and abusing

00:35:39.800 that and ignoring reality and creating something hideous or that is contrary to what it truly is or

00:35:46.400 ought to be. There's a big difference here. We can, you know, we have our freedom. We can use our

00:35:52.680 freedom in accordance with reality and with the natural order and the moral order or we can abuse

00:35:58.960 that freedom and use it to licentiousness and use that freedom to pervert and destroy and mutilate

00:36:04.420 the world. And it's not, they're not the same thing. And there are real consequences here. Very

00:36:09.920 happy to this person who wrote in that she is doing better now and has gotten out of this craziness.

00:36:16.220 And anyone who's considering getting into it, I would maybe send them that letter, send them that

00:36:22.360 little clip and just let them know there's a, there's a dark side here too. I've interviewed

00:36:25.840 people who've detransitioned years past who, who talk about how, what a horrible thing it did to

00:36:31.760 their lives because you can't, you can't go back. You can try to fix certain things. Thankfully,

00:36:36.140 this woman hadn't gone so far that it was completely irreversible, but some things were irreversible. 1.00

00:36:40.980 She says she mutilated her body. She was very pretty and she mutilated her body. And you can't

00:36:44.660 totally go back from that either. Better to cut it off while you still can before,

00:36:49.680 before really it's too late. This is all part of an anti-human ideology. And this anti-human

00:36:55.740 ideology expresses itself in various ways. It's not just the gender thing. It's not even just the

00:37:02.620 abortion thing that we, it's not just the overpopulation thing. It's not just the idea

00:37:06.660 that we need fewer humans and the humans who are here need to be different than they are.

00:37:10.560 This gets down to this weird impulse I've noticed on the left to remove human beings from their

00:37:19.560 special place in the order of creation. The conservatives believe, Christians believe 0.99

00:37:25.160 that human beings are made in the image of God. We have dominion over the land and the sea.

00:37:30.100 We need to be good stewards of this creation. We need to use our freedom in accordance with God's will.

00:37:36.620 We have a special place. There is a difference between me and a crab and a little crab on the

00:37:43.240 beach. But what the left is saying increasingly is there's not much of a, there's a little difference

00:37:48.100 of degree, but come on, it's actually, it's just the way evolution worked. And you can't,

00:37:52.740 you can't say that a human being is greater or more developed, more advanced, more sophisticated

00:37:59.300 than a little crab. There was a video that just went viral over the past few days of a crab

00:38:03.460 digging in the sand. And you see the crab, he's on the beach and he's digging in the sand and he's

00:38:08.980 pulling the sand up from the little hole. So, okay, there's the crab and he's dig, dig, dig.

00:38:17.480 And it's going up and up and up around him. The person who posted this, by the way, is I think an

00:38:21.780 assistant professor and wrote in that kind of goofy script, you know, capital, lowercase, capital,

00:38:26.460 lowercase, but humans are the most advanced species. The implication that humans are not the most

00:38:31.680 advanced species. Cause there's a little crab and he digs up the sand and he covers himself up in

00:38:34.960 this little hole. When I watched this video and I thought, so your, your best argument against

00:38:43.400 human beings having a special place in the order of creation is that crabs can dig a hole. It takes

00:38:49.700 them a long time, but they can dig a hole. And I thought, you know, I can dig a hole. Can this

00:38:57.000 assistant professor not dig a hole in the sand? Cause maybe, then maybe she's got a problem in 1.00

00:39:01.920 the order of creation, but she continues. She goes, quote, we are not the most advanced species.

00:39:07.720 No species is more advanced than any other. Each species is uniquely adapted to its environment.

00:39:13.380 This crab could judge any other species for their inability to build sand houses, et cetera,

00:39:18.540 as being less advanced. It's all a matter of perspective. Did you catch the problem with her

00:39:25.820 statement? It's not about the sand houses. I mean, yes, we can build better sand houses than the crab

00:39:30.580 can, but no, it's not about the sand houses. It's not about what the, it's the word judge.

00:39:35.680 She says this crab could judge any other species, but the crab can't judge any other species because

00:39:43.680 judgment requires a rational will and an intellect. And the crab doesn't have either.

00:39:49.680 This is not my own understanding of the world. I don't, don't think that I came up with this

00:39:56.240 brilliant idea on my own. We've known this since at least Aristotle and probably we knew it before

00:40:01.340 Aristotle. The fact that I have an intellect that I can perceive and conceive things in a way that is

00:40:09.980 far more sophisticated, not just a little different in degree, but different in kind from how the crab

00:40:15.360 can perceive things is something that separates us. And also the rational will. All beings have a

00:40:23.280 sort of very basic will in the sense that the, the crab needs nutrition. So it eats things. So the,

00:40:29.940 the, the tree needs nutrition, drinks up water, but it's not conscious of that. It's not freely

00:40:37.740 choosing these things. These are just instinct. The rational, this is why when a gorilla kills

00:40:45.380 somebody, you don't put the gorilla on trial. It would be very crazy to put the gorilla on trial.

00:40:50.160 The gorilla does not have a free rational will. The gorilla can't make moral choices. It's why you

00:40:55.940 don't throw lions in jail for killing. The lion is just doing what it, what it must do according to

00:41:02.580 its nature. But we don't need to do that. We actually can make moral choices because we have

00:41:07.860 a rational will, all of which is denied by the, this anti-human left, which wants to pretend that

00:41:13.100 we're all just kind of the same thing, man. And ever, and all the things that we think separate us

00:41:17.900 from the bugs and the crabs, they're just delusions we tell ourselves, but you're nothing. You're no

00:41:22.180 better than the bugs. If that's science, if the people who say that there's no difference between

00:41:31.780 humans and crabs and the people who say that babies aren't really babies and the people who say

00:41:36.340 that little girls should mutilate their bodies to look more like boys because they're going through 0.99

00:41:40.900 a phase or something, if that is science, then I'm out. And I think there's no wonder that the

00:41:50.700 public health authorities have no credibility because not only have they gotten all of that wrong,

00:41:56.420 all these basic aspects of our life that we know are just BS. The idea that you can change your

00:42:01.220 sex or whatever, that babies aren't babies, but they've also gotten their very specific job

00:42:05.440 wrong. The very specific job to protect us during an epidemic. They've gotten it wrong every single

00:42:11.100 step of the way. The former surgeon general, Jerome Adams, who famously tweeted out, stop buying masks,

00:42:15.540 people, after Fauci lied to everybody and said that masks don't work. And then later on he said,

00:42:19.740 masks do work. And then it's sort of unclear even what kind of masks you're, what are you talking

00:42:24.640 about? But he said, I mean, he made a political decision just to save the masks for his,

00:42:28.280 his own nurses. Jerome Adams goes on TV and he says, the CDC and other public health authorities,

00:42:36.540 they kind of botched the rollback of the lockdown. This new CDC guidance is telling us that these

00:42:42.640 vaccinations are so incredibly effective that if you're fully vaccinated, if you're fully vaccinated,

00:42:48.600 meaning two weeks out from your last dose, that the benefit of additional masking and social

00:42:54.040 distancing is minimal. I think this was an appropriate call based on the science. The science

00:42:59.900 is sound. I think that the play call was right, but they fumbled the ball at the one yard line in terms

00:43:05.080 of communicating this to the public in terms of engagement. Lots of my public health officials

00:43:10.160 have told me they are upset. They were blindsided by this new information. I think you missed the

00:43:15.980 nuance about protecting yourself versus protecting an organization. And I think that, again, it was a little

00:43:23.000 bit of whiplash for the American public in terms of them saying just a week before, keep your mask

00:43:28.020 on. And then all of a sudden they're saying, now you can take them off. There was, there was a little

00:43:33.020 bit of whiplash and you're saying, well, it's not the science that was wrong. It's the messaging and

00:43:36.620 the communication. Well, you know, don't forget public health officials, they're half scientists,

00:43:40.560 but half politician. The job is really to be political and to communicate with people and to guide

00:43:44.680 policy. And so if they blow that, they, they really blow the key aspect of the job. But also if they lie,

00:43:53.000 right now, you know, my, my views on masks, we'll just leave it at that. I know that, I know that

00:43:57.620 YouTube is very, very tricky about how you, how honest one can be about one's views. But I think,

00:44:03.680 I think we all, we all know what I'm saying here. In Fauci's view though, the masks are really super

00:44:09.480 duper important and they really work, right? That's what he says he believes. But he told people they

00:44:14.440 weren't because he felt he wanted to communicate something with them. And then later he, Fauci has just

00:44:20.200 told us, he doesn't think that once you're vaccinated, you need a mask, but he told people

00:44:23.640 they do need a mask. And then later he told them they don't need a mask. And he admitted, he said,

00:44:26.960 well, you know, look, yeah, I just thought we had to be, you know, communicating this sort of thing

00:44:31.640 because I wanted people to continue to wear it until more people get vaccinated. But of course it's the

00:44:35.040 case that if you're vaccinated, you don't really need the mask. If you lie to people about, just even

00:44:42.500 about your views, forget about lying about the truth or falsehood, but just about even your own

00:44:47.020 views, you're being dishonest in that way. And then you tell them your true views and then you

00:44:52.380 tell them that they lied, you lied to them. And then you tell them that it's good that you lied to

00:44:57.140 them. They're going to stop believing you because we prefer to live in reality with Tim Ryan. I don't

00:45:04.460 think Tim Ryan lives in reality, but he says he does. And if you're going to disregard that reality,

00:45:10.000 we have no reason to go along with you. We have to take matters into our own hands because we're a free

00:45:14.660 people and we have self-government, at least in theory. This is what we should have done from

00:45:20.300 the beginning. I'm very pleased to see that Utah is banning public schools and universities from

00:45:25.740 issuing mask mandates. Not just saying, hey, schools and universities do whatever you want.

00:45:31.080 No, Utah is issuing a big government regulation, an awesome, terrific, very conservative, big government

00:45:39.140 regulation on the more local areas, the schools and the universities saying, no, you cannot have

00:45:44.640 a mask mandate. They're allowing counties still to do this. So there is still localism here. It is

00:45:50.200 still a little nuanced, but perfectly fine, I suppose. But they are saying, no, you can't do it

00:45:58.380 in order to protect people's freedom, but also people's American way of life and also people's

00:46:03.000 human dignity that we shouldn't just put filthy cloths over our face and muzzle ourselves, take away

00:46:07.300 our distinctive human trait that we can speak that makes us the political animal. We're not going to let

00:46:13.600 you take that away from people. Limiting the willfulness of the universities and the schools

00:46:20.600 to protect the freedom of the people who go there. I love that. I hope that more places do that,

00:46:26.860 more states. A lot of politicians that were trying to undermine their democratic accountability,

00:46:33.040 right? They're trying to minimize self-government, send everything off to the experts.

00:46:37.280 And even when they're going to be asked tough questions, to not, not even permit reporters to

00:46:44.460 do that. Remember, democracy dies in darkness. Trump, the most transparent pro, pro-press president

00:46:50.200 in history, probably. He would talk at length for hours to reporters. He'd make fun of them,

00:46:55.160 but he would talk, he was open to them. Joe Biden doesn't do that sort of thing. And Lori Lightfoot now

00:47:00.180 in Chicago, mayor of Chicago is saying she's only going to grant one-on-one interviews

00:47:05.520 to black and brown journalists. She is. This is according to a spokesman who says that now she's

00:47:13.200 in her two-year midway point as mayor, and she's only going to give one-on-one interviews to black 0.92

00:47:18.120 or brown journalists. It is tired and cliche and pointless to, to observe that if the situation were 0.61

00:47:24.240 reversed, of course, this would be an international incident and there would be a huge outcry. But I,

00:47:28.480 I don't even want to focus on that point because it just doesn't matter.

00:47:32.880 There's just different sets of standards, right? There's one set of standards for the Black Lives 0.96

00:47:36.460 Matter terrorists who burn the country to the ground. And there's one set of standards for 0.99

00:47:40.320 the horn guy and the guy who took Pelosi's podium. And the standards for the horn guy are much,

00:47:45.080 much harsher than for the BLM terrorists. And that's just the way it is. And so Lori Lightfoot,

00:47:49.560 a black mayor can come out and say, I'm only going to give interviews to black and brown journalists.

00:47:53.260 And the reason here, of course, is statistically, she's looking and saying, 0.54

00:47:57.960 black people vote Democrat much more so than white people do. So that's going to give me a 0.98

00:48:03.840 political advantage. But also if you're already saying, I'm going to discriminate on the journalists

00:48:07.120 I talk to, then they can get much more specific, far beyond just the skin color. They can say,

00:48:11.360 okay, there's a leftist journalist. There's another leftist. There are plenty of black people

00:48:15.320 who are conservative. I don't think she'd give an interview to Candace Owens, for instance,

00:48:18.360 or Larry Elder or somebody, but she, this is just an excuse to discriminate. And she's going to get

00:48:24.840 away with that because the sense of reality that we have is contrary to reality itself.

00:48:32.560 The ideology being pushed on us is that this country is in a white supremacist, patriarchal,

00:48:39.860 Christian theocracy. And of course, it's totally the opposite of that. 0.99

00:48:44.660 Totally. The only racial discrimination, the only racism that's permitted and actually promoted by

00:48:49.920 society is against white people and to a lesser degree against Asian people, but also against Asian

00:48:53.980 people, especially in university admissions and things like that. The only religion that it's 0.99

00:48:59.280 perfectly fine to castigate and mock is Christianity. That our perception of things is very different 0.95

00:49:06.300 from reality. And if we, Tim Ryan is very barely, but makes a good point. If we are going to have a

00:49:13.440 country, we need to be living in reality. And that means conservatives need to get a little bit

00:49:16.860 tougher about articulating and enforcing that reality. A point I make at great length in my

00:49:20.060 upcoming book is Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.

00:49:22.480 I'm Michael Knowles. I'll see you tomorrow.

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00:50:18.020 PBS teams up with the New York City Department of Education to bring drag queens and children

00:50:22.980 together. A Democrat congressman screams at Republicans for not living in reality. Joe

00:50:28.320 Rogan gets in trouble for daring to suggest that there might be some anti-white sentiment

00:50:32.200 out there. And finally, a popular YouTuber tries and fails to demolish me for my views on

00:50:38.020 masking. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - May 20, 2021

Ep. 768 - Living In Reality

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