The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 771 - Mutilating America

00:00:00.000 Okay, so the public health establishment denied the links between the coronavirus and the Wuhan

00:00:06.460 Institute of Virology for a year. Okay, fine. And yes, the media and big tech totally covered up

00:00:13.100 for them and castigated anyone who ever suggested a link as a dangerous conspiracy theorist. And

00:00:18.800 sure, fine, leaked documents out of China do now show that the Wuhan lab very likely

00:00:25.400 had a lot to do with the virus. But the intrepid journalists at CNN and the New York Times,

00:00:32.500 they have found the culprit. Can you guess who the culprit is? I'll give you one, two. It's Trump.

00:00:38.940 It's obviously the culprit is Trump. A lot of the discussion about the lab leak, I think,

00:00:43.400 was clouded early on because there was the suggestion by some that it was somehow a Chinese

00:00:49.240 weapon that caused this. That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about a lab

00:00:54.740 accident. But we've come a long way from people dismissing this as a conspiracy theory to a lot

00:01:00.140 of people taking this seriously, Maggie. We have, John. And look, I do think it's important to

00:01:03.900 remember that part of the issue when this was first being reported on and discussed

00:01:08.140 back a few months after the pandemic had begun was that then-President Trump and Mike Pompeo,

00:01:13.800 the Secretary of State, both suggested they had seen evidence that this was formed in a lab. And

00:01:19.080 they also suggested it was not released on purpose. But they refused to release the evidence showing

00:01:23.600 what it was. And so because of that, that made this instantly political. I think that it was,

00:01:29.320 you know, example 1000 when the Trump administration learned that when you have burned your own

00:01:33.640 credibility over and over again, people are not immediately going to believe you, especially in

00:01:37.820 an election year. It's like that meme of that guy shooting the other guy. And he says,

00:01:42.760 he says, why did you do this? Why did you, why did you do this, Trump? These radicals have

00:01:47.880 mutilated our government. They're mutilating our young women, an increasing number of whom are coming 1.00

00:01:52.000 to regret transgender therapy. We'll get into that. They're mutilating our educational institutions 1.00

00:01:56.660 through critical race theory and mandatory porn workshops. We will try to detransition America. 0.80

00:02:02.460 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:04.360 My favorite comment yesterday from Deborah Gessner, who observes that Fauci says,

00:02:19.080 we have never funded gain of function research. And Fauci also says, and this is why we had to do it.

00:02:27.020 He does. He does that. A little tricky. Talks out of both sides of his mouth that Fauci,

00:02:31.260 and he's really getting caught up in a major, major lie. How can you spot lies? Well,

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00:03:41.060 quarterly plan. That is thegreatcoursesplus.com slash Knowles. The argument here is that Donald Trump

00:03:47.780 has squandered his credibility. And therefore, when he suggested, and when Mike Pompeo, the Secretary

00:03:54.880 of State, suggested that there might be some link between the virus and the viral institute that was

00:04:01.040 400 yards away from where it was allegedly discovered, that's why nobody believed them in

00:04:06.040 the mainstream media. A lot of us believed him, and we talked about it for a long time, even beginning

00:04:10.700 last year. But the mainstream media, because Trump just lied about so many things, 10 zillion lies that

00:04:16.520 the New York Times covered, that Trump, he's such a liar. Where did he squander his credibility? 0.97

00:04:24.200 Where is it? What's the lie? I guess the big lie they point to is that he said that his crowd sizes

00:04:30.860 were like a thousand or so, a few thousand people larger than they were or something. Is that?

00:04:36.520 Because by my count, Donald Trump, when he had a disagreement with the media,

00:04:41.460 was right about virtually everything. And the media and the left, but I repeat myself,

00:04:48.260 were wrong about virtually everything. He was right about the virus. He called, remember early

00:04:55.660 on, he said, this virus is probably a little bit worse than an ordinary flu, so we're going to shut

00:05:00.120 down travel from China. The media said, this is, actually Joe Biden himself said, this is hysterical

00:05:04.880 xenophobia. And then turned out Trump was right about that. But then Trump also said, it's not as bad as

00:05:09.360 now they are making it out to be. He was right about that too. He was right about the vaccine.

00:05:13.620 Do you remember when Donald Trump was arguing with Chris Wallace and Joe Biden at that two-on-one

00:05:18.220 presidential debate? When Trump said, yeah, we're going to get a vaccine within a month or two. We're

00:05:22.920 going to get the vaccine very quickly. It's going to be ready to go by the end of the year. We're

00:05:25.720 going to have people vaccinated by April. And they said, that's crazy, Donald. You've never,

00:05:30.160 all of the experts and your own experts say that it won't happen. And he said, I don't know what

00:05:34.140 they're telling you, but yeah, that's what's going to happen. He was right.

00:05:36.700 The trade deals. Do you remember the trade deals? He's going to destroy the global economy. What

00:05:41.100 happened? The economy went up, up, up, up, up. Peace in Israel. Do you remember that? Trump can't

00:05:46.240 just deal with the Arab states. That's, oh, what an idiot. He's putting Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz 1.00

00:05:51.360 in charge of Middle East peace. And what happens? Doubles the number of nations that recognize Israel,

00:05:56.120 gives us relative peace in the Middle East. NATO. Oh no, he's going to abandon our NATO allies. Nope.

00:06:01.540 They're just going to start paying more money like he said they would. Lots and lots of other things.

00:06:05.040 I mean, and that barely scratches the surface, but I just, if you look at the facts, every big issue

00:06:11.000 where Trump disagreed with the liberal establishment, just about every single one,

00:06:16.180 he was right and they were wrong. He's got way, way more credibility than the libs do. And it's on,

00:06:22.040 on this Wuhan virology Institute point as well. He said, yeah, I think it probably has something to do

00:06:28.380 with the lab. The media say, absolutely. No, it doesn't. Now they got to fall in line. We're seeing

00:06:32.480 this more and more each day. Scott Gottlieb, who was the former FDA commissioner under Trump

00:06:37.000 has now come out. He said, there is growing circumstantial evidence that the lab had something

00:06:42.780 to do with the virus. And he said this, not on Newsmax, not on OAN, not on the right wing media.

00:06:48.460 He pointed it out on CNBC.

00:06:50.980 Now we know that three of the people who were, who were sick based on this latest report were

00:06:54.820 actually hospitalized. And the timing of that would put it, you know, sufficiently early that it could

00:07:00.760 have triggered this epidemic. There's now more and more reporting and more and more analysis that

00:07:04.520 probably the first cases occurred at some point in the sort of October, November timeframe. And so

00:07:09.680 the timing of these infections would put it within, within that realm. I think the challenge right now

00:07:14.740 is that the, uh, the side of the ledger that supports the thesis that this came from a zoonotic

00:07:19.320 source from an animal source hasn't budged. And the side of the ledger that suggested this could

00:07:23.940 have come out of a lab has been continuing to grow.

00:07:26.100 So, so you got this evidence and, and Scott Gottlieb is trying to be very diplomatic here.

00:07:31.860 And he's like, look, you know, there was evidence that it was from a, an animal source,

00:07:36.020 just a totally natural source without any connection with the Wuhan Institute. But now the evidence that

00:07:41.620 it's from the lab is beginning to grow. I think he's being a little too diplomatic here. Anybody with

00:07:46.240 two brain cells to rub together could have deduced a year ago when the bat coronavirus escaped

00:07:54.620 right next to the bat coronavirus lab that, huh, maybe the bat coronavirus lab has something to 0.96

00:07:59.860 do with it. That's, it doesn't take a rocket science. It doesn't take an epidemiologist.

00:08:04.400 Doesn't take a Dr. Fauci to come to that conclusion, but there was a lot of political pressure

00:08:08.800 not to come to that conclusion. And by the way, they had a lot of intel even last year as

00:08:13.980 Maggie Haberman was admitting on, on the news show that there was a lot of intel that Trump and

00:08:21.860 Pompeo alluded to last year that the mainstream media simply chose to ignore. And Mike Pompeo,

00:08:28.220 former secretary of state is now discussing this very intel on television. And he is pointing out

00:08:33.380 a lot of other people in the public health sector had this intel as well.

00:08:38.980 We spent a lot of time working on this problem set in January. We were able to declassify a whole

00:08:44.080 lot of material that I knew about much earlier. I've made remarks over a year ago now in early May of

00:08:49.440 2020 talking about this risk. And it was outrageous. It was outrageous to see scientists,

00:08:55.160 even government, U.S. government scientists who were denying this when they surely must have seen

00:09:00.160 the same information that I had seen. That includes certainly Dr. Fauci as well. We need to know what

00:09:05.700 happened here. The Chinese Communist Party knows what happened here. They know who Patient Zero was.

00:09:10.360 They know precisely where this began. These three individuals who became sick, the symptoms were

00:09:14.880 consistent with what someone would get that would be symptomatic of if they had COVID-19, the Wuhan

00:09:19.760 virus. We need to get to the bottom of this because this could happen again. They're still

00:09:23.540 conducting research in these same laboratories today. It's being done in ways that were similar

00:09:28.120 to what happened back over a year ago. This is dangerous. We could end up with something much

00:09:32.720 like this, again, being foisted upon the world. The United States has a responsibility to demand that

00:09:38.020 the Chinese Communist Party give us the things that they simply know, Dana and Bill. They know the answer to

00:09:43.440 these things and they refuse to hand over this information. Well, who had the information and

00:09:48.380 when? That's, you know, Mike Pompeo, also a bit diplomatic. He was the nation's top diplomat.

00:09:53.560 He's sandwiching that in here. And he's discussing the virus and the connections. He's discussing the

00:09:58.560 virus and the connections at the end. And in the middle, he says, Dr. Fauci had the same intel that

00:10:01.960 I did. These public health geniuses had the same intel that I did, and they chose not to talk about it.

00:10:07.540 I do not have a top secret security clearance, okay? I am not privy to this secret

00:10:12.920 intel that all these guys were getting. And yet, I knew that there was a great likelihood that that

00:10:20.640 Wuhan Institute had something to do with it. You're telling me that Dr. Fauci did not. Plus,

00:10:24.280 Dr. Fauci had intelligence that we all are not privy to. And you're telling me that he did not.

00:10:29.820 This guy who has lied to us, outright lied to us about pretty important things during this pandemic

00:10:37.640 from the very beginning. He lied to us about his true views on the efficacy of masks.

00:10:42.820 What else are they lying to you about? This, this is the thing that I think really

00:10:49.100 separates the, the right, the true right-wingers. You know, not, I'm not talking about the squishy

00:10:54.220 people who basically just exist to prop up the liberal establishment. I'm not talking about the,

00:10:59.040 the ones who write op-eds in the Washington Post about how terrible Republicans are and that sort of

00:11:03.760 thing. You know which ones I'm alluding to. The ones who think that drag queen story hour is a blessing 1.00

00:11:07.240 of liberty. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the actual conservatives, the actual right

00:11:12.280 wingers. The, the big thing that separates us from the libs, I think, is perspective, sure, ideology,

00:11:21.840 whatever, sure. It's that the conservative has seen the dishonesty. The conservative, it's,

00:11:30.140 it's that example. Drew uses this a lot. You're reading the newspaper and you say, okay, here's an

00:11:35.260 article about Iran. I guess they're right. Okay. Here's an article about the economy. I guess they're

00:11:39.380 right. Here's an article about the Yankees. Wait a second. I know something about the Yankees and this

00:11:43.500 article's wrong. This isn't the truth. Oh, well, here's an article about foreign trade. I guess they're

00:11:49.020 right. You think the one thing I know about, I can tell they're being dishonest here, but I guess I'm

00:11:54.480 going to continue to believe them on other things. When the liberal establishment is this corrupt,

00:11:59.300 they have such a losing track record. They keep getting things wrong and wrong and wrong,

00:12:04.220 whether through incompetence or through dishonesty, intentional lies.

00:12:10.480 If you recognize that, then you're just not going to fall for it. And you think,

00:12:13.780 what else are they lying to me about? Maybe, sure, they're lying about some of the virus stuff. Yeah,

00:12:20.960 they're lying about this, that, and the other thing. But there are even big lies. If I can borrow a

00:12:26.040 phrase that's very popular right now, a big one, probably the biggest ideological delusion that's

00:12:32.420 being foisted on us right now is transgenderism. And it's having really negative effects for a lot 1.00

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00:13:52.460 The big delusional ideology that is being pushed right now by the liberal establishment, it's not

00:13:58.420 just by the blue haired radicals on the crazy college campus in the middle of nowhere. This is

00:14:03.660 an ideology being pushed by the biggest corporations, the biggest tech platforms and, and the government

00:14:09.120 itself. Transgenderism. It's not, don't forget, you've got major companies all waving the transgender

00:14:19.300 flag. Did you know there's a transgender flag? Apparently there is. And this is everyone celebrating 1.00

00:14:24.300 this sort of thing. The actress Ellen Page, who is now calling herself Elliot. But you know,

00:14:28.460 I think I'm going to stop doing this. I think I'm going to stop indulging in the name changes

00:14:32.300 because we, for a long time have set up, we're not going to indulge in the pronouns because I'm

00:14:39.700 not going to call her him. You can't force me to lie. Some people are doing that though. Some people

00:14:44.860 are going along with it or they're, they're just choosing not to use the pronouns or they're going

00:14:48.060 to use the, the singular they as though, you know, we've got lots of demons inside of us and we are

00:14:53.280 Legion or something. But we've said, okay, you know, we on the conservative side, we said, we're not

00:14:57.700 going to go with the pronouns, but we will call them whatever name they want. If they, you know,

00:15:01.580 anyone can change their name. That's perfectly fine. No, I don't think so.

00:15:07.880 Caitlin is a girl's name. Caitlin's not a boy's name. So if I refer to Caitlin Jenner as him,

00:15:13.060 but I continue to refer to him as Caitlin, I'm still kind of confusing the issue, aren't I?

00:15:18.880 I don't know that you can just go along and change your name willy nilly like that.

00:15:23.360 It's a little confusing because you've got George Eliot, one of the greatest female novelists of all 0.99

00:15:27.340 time. And you've got Evelyn Waugh. It's not a lady, not Evelyn, you know, it's not a,

00:15:31.580 not a gal. He's a guy. So I know, look, there's a little ambiguity with the names,

00:15:36.260 a little more so than with the pronouns, but I think I'm going to have to go with Ellen Page.

00:15:40.140 So Ellen Page posts this photo of herself topless. This photo would not be permitted 1.00

00:15:45.220 for if any other woman did it, but because Ellen Page is pretending to be a man, 0.96

00:15:50.420 she gets to post this picture and she looks much more like a boy. She's had breast mutilation.

00:15:56.300 She's got some abs now. I don't know if that was surgical or if that's, you know, from lifting 0.93

00:16:01.960 weights or something like that, from doing crunches. You can tell I don't really know exactly

00:16:05.180 how these muscle groups are developed. Man, it's not my thing. Wearing men's swim trunks and saying,

00:16:10.860 you know, look, I'm, I'm a boy now. Look, look how happy I am. Big smile on her face.

00:16:14.520 A lot of women and girls and a lot of boys and men for that matter are now seeing this and saying

00:16:23.160 how wonderful it is. I can choose to look like the other sex. I can really become the other sex 0.94

00:16:29.700 if I suffer either from a psychological delusion that I am or from this impulse that I very much

00:16:35.280 want to be this, or if it's just, I'm taken up in the social contagion that boys are girls and girls

00:16:39.860 are boys. And I think that's cool. So, you know, if a girl goes through a tomboy phase when she's 12,

00:16:44.540 all of a sudden she's going to mutilate her body in some ways that are irreversible. 0.99

00:16:49.180 There is another side here, as you can probably tell from the way that I'm discussing this issue.

00:16:53.400 There is another side here. There's a lot of regret going on and CBS News got to give them,

00:16:58.260 got to give them credit where credit's due. 60 Minutes ran a special about transgender regret and 0.59

00:17:05.180 the girls who regret looking like boys and the boys who regret looking like girls. In her early 20s,

00:17:11.220 Grace Ladinsky-Smith was seriously depressed and developed gender dysphoria. She began searching

00:17:17.940 for answers in transgender communities on the internet. And when I saw them being so happy and

00:17:23.740 excited about doing this wonderful transformative process to really like become their true selves,

00:17:29.880 it was like, have I considered that this could be my situation too? Grace says she found a gender

00:17:36.260 therapist on the internet and told her, I'm thinking of transitioning. Because she was over 18 and didn't 0.97

00:17:43.820 need parental consent, she says she merely signed an informed consent form at a clinic and got hormone

00:17:50.440 shots. Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy, 1.00

00:17:57.140 what's called top surgery, that she told us was traumatic. I started to have a really disturbing

00:18:03.480 sense that like a part of my body was missing, almost a ghost limb feeling about being like,

00:18:10.140 there's something that should be there. And the feeling really surprised me, but it was really hard

00:18:14.560 to deny. And so she detransitioned by going off testosterone. You get the idea. This goes on and on.

00:18:22.880 And I recommend you watch the whole thing. Very pretty girl going through a bad period where she 1.00

00:18:29.580 was depressed. And then some perverts and, and psychos and, and idiots. I mean, to be, to be fair 1.00

00:18:36.520 to them, some of these people might just be stupid, but I think a lot of them are just perverts and 1.00

00:18:40.600 they're, they're preying on people's confusion. But some of them might just be totally ignorant 1.00

00:18:45.700 and stupid. They take advantage of this. And they say, oh yeah, you want to mutilate yourself? 1.00

00:18:50.840 You want to lop off perfectly healthy organs? Fine by me. Here you go. 0.97

00:18:55.340 And by the way, it's not just children. You'll hear the, a lot of conservatives say, well, you know,

00:19:00.380 look, whatever adults want to do, that's fine, but just don't do it to the kids. Well, she was an

00:19:04.540 adult, right? So this, this woman was 18 years old. Do you think it's right that some pervert doctor 1.00

00:19:10.460 was, was able to facilitate this depressed, troubled woman's decision to mutilate her own body,

00:19:17.620 which she almost instantly came to regret and has now gone back a little bit,

00:19:22.180 but has suffered irreversible damage. Do you think that's good? I don't.

00:19:28.180 I think there are, you know, as there often are, I think there are probably three positions on this

00:19:32.900 issue. The left's position is trans everybody, including and especially the kids, right? Drag 1.00

00:19:39.560 queen story hour into schools. Let's confuse kids on their sex. Let's teach kids in preschool as 1.00

00:19:44.060 they're doing in Brooklyn. That little boys can be little girls and let's get everybody on

00:19:47.560 transgender ideology. Then there's the middle squish position, which a lot of self-styled

00:19:52.160 conservatives hold, which is bad for kids. But if adults want to mutilate their bodies, totally fine.

00:19:57.020 And then there's the actual conservative position, which is, I don't care if you're 18. I don't care

00:20:00.540 if you're 80. You should not be able to do this. Doctors should not be mutilating perfectly healthy

00:20:05.980 body parts. And people who are troubled and want to do this or believe that they have to do this to

00:20:12.060 be their true selves are disturbed people and they need psychological help, but they don't need

00:20:16.440 their bodies mutilated to make their problems worse. That's, those are the, those are the three

00:20:20.220 positions. Pick, pick your choice. There, you know, the, the, the left authoritarian position

00:20:26.900 and then the nice, wonderful, liberal, open-minded position like women such as this who are 18 years 0.83

00:20:33.180 old should be able to mutilate themselves even if they're going to regret it terribly. And then there's

00:20:36.700 the right wing authoritarian, they're going to call it authoritarian position that you shouldn't be

00:20:41.160 able to mutilate perfectly healthy body parts and take advantage of disturbed people.

00:20:46.120 Where do you fall in that issue? I think you can tell which side I fall on. It's horrible what

00:20:51.440 we've done to these girls. And it's, it's obviously this is a, the topic of Abigail Schreier's book,

00:20:56.360 Irreversible Damage, which I, I think I blurbed that book. I loved it so much in, in the advanced copy

00:21:02.560 and then it became a big, a big seller. So I recommend you go out and read that one. This is not just one

00:21:07.280 isolated case that CBS News is covering. This is happening a lot and it's happening increasingly.

00:21:12.400 And for parents who don't know what to do, I, I understand how confused one would be,

00:21:17.660 especially if your kid's going to public school where this insanity is being foisted on them

00:21:22.200 constantly. And you've got a kid who is very confused about this. I understand it's a hard

00:21:25.940 decision to, what do I do? What do I, you've got a family member who's going through this,

00:21:29.360 but there's a dark side to this story that only very rarely comes out into public light. So

00:21:34.780 well done to CBS for, for covering it at all. These are transparent lies to tell that pretty

00:21:41.540 girl, that pretty 18 year old girl, you're actually a boy and you need to mutilate yourself. That is a, 0.98

00:21:46.420 such a transparent, she's not a boy and she's, she wasn't a boy when she underwent the surgery and

00:21:51.920 she's still not a boy now that she recognizes that she's a woman. Probably has some resentment, 0.95

00:21:57.220 maybe not hopefully, you know, but I probably would have some resentment at a culture and at 0.99

00:22:01.320 these sicko doctors who would take advantage of me. The lies are so transparent. Obviously this one, 0.76

00:22:08.900 that a boy is a girl, the lies are even more transparent though. Jen Psaki is trying to convince 0.66

00:22:12.860 us of something even more preposterous. Jen Psaki is trying to convince us that Joe Biden is energetic.

00:22:20.460 What more can you tell us about the president's health regime? We hear he's lifting weights.

00:22:25.960 What sort of weights is he lifting? Does he have a personal trainer? And what happened to his

00:22:30.040 Peloton bike? Did he bring it to the, to the white house? I didn't know where this was going. Um,

00:22:35.120 but I'm intrigued by it. Um, I, I will say I have nothing to read out on the president's,

00:22:40.280 uh, private exercise regime. Uh, but I can tell you having traveled with him a fair amount,

00:22:46.380 um, sometimes he's hard to keep up with. Sometimes he's hard to keep, like when he goes wandering

00:22:50.760 off in the middle of the night and doesn't know where he is, I suppose that would be hard to keep up.

00:22:53.820 But I don't think that during the usual course of the day, he's particularly hard

00:22:57.620 to keep up with. Joe, do you remember during the campaign, Joe Biden would be, he'd be walking out

00:23:05.220 of an office. There's a video of this. He's walking out of an office and you've got one of his staffers

00:23:09.340 holding him by the arm, like you would hold an elderly relative and say, okay, over here. And the

00:23:13.320 reporters are saying, Hey, Mr. Biden, Mr. Biden. I said, no questions, no questions, please. I guess

00:23:18.560 Joe wasn't having a good day. They'll call a lid on campaign events at what? Like one 30 in the

00:23:23.480 afternoon. No, he's not. Give me a break. I get it. I know that press secretaries have to spin,

00:23:31.200 but you cannot, you can convince me of a lot of things that you cannot convince me

00:23:35.880 that Joe Biden is energetic. If they're lying to you about that, what else are they lying to you about?

00:23:41.960 If they're lying to you about the origins of the virus, what else are they lying to you about?

00:23:46.120 If they're lying to you about when the vaccine's going to come up, what else are they lying to you

00:23:49.800 about? If they're lying to you about boys being girls and girls being boys, what else are they

00:23:53.120 lying to you about? If you want to break through the lies, I think you should check out my friend

00:23:57.240 Liz Wheeler's new show. You know, Liz Wheeler, Liz Wheeler had a popular TV show. Then she went away. 0.71

00:24:04.160 She disappeared. Where'd she go? I knew where she went, but I'm not sure everyone else did. She had a

00:24:08.040 baby and took care of that baby and then had the baby come in. Somehow she's like in fighting 0.99

00:24:12.660 form all the way again. And Liz Wheeler is launching the Liz Wheeler show. Episode one drops today. You

00:24:19.060 can get it all over the podcast apps and you can get it on her YouTube channel. So go check that out.

00:24:23.300 Also, I sat down with Liz. We talked about a whole wide range of things from Dr. Fauci and the masks

00:24:30.080 all the way to space aliens. And you can check that out on my YouTube channel this Saturday. You're not

00:24:34.020 going to want to miss Liz either on my channel or on her show. America may currently be in the middle 1.00

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00:25:38.220 Jen Psaki says that Joe Biden is sometimes he's tough to keep up with. Oh man, he's so energetic.

00:25:45.960 Judge for yourself. Coincidentally, Joe Biden just gave a commencement speech,

00:25:54.180 the first commencement speech of his presidency at the Coast Guard Academy. So he was talking to these

00:25:59.000 young cadets and coincidentally, Ronald Reagan also gave a speech to the Coast Guard Academy.

00:26:05.740 Ronald Reagan, the oldest president in American history up until that point, then beat out by

00:26:12.700 Trump and then beat out by Joe Biden. Listen to the two speeches. Tell me which one seems more

00:26:19.100 energetic. My Coast Guard aides have been excellent. One of them taught me that, and I quote,

00:26:25.620 the Coast Guard is that hard nucleus about which the Navy forms in time of war.

00:26:34.740 I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about how the Coast Guard is, quote,

00:26:42.440 the hard nucleus around the Navy forms in times of war. You are quite, you're a really dull class. 0.92

00:26:50.900 Oh, no. Look, Ronald Reagan is one of the great orators in American history, and Joe Biden cannot

00:27:00.500 string a sentence together. But Joe Biden used to be able to string a sentence together. This is not

00:27:04.940 just making fun of old Joe. He's just not talented at this. Joe Biden has a lot of deficiencies. He's

00:27:11.300 dishonest and he's not particularly intelligent, but he was always a good talker. The guy always had the

00:27:15.140 gift of gab. He was a smiling, simpering, back-slapping politician. That's, that's all he

00:27:20.440 did. And if you look at clips of him from five, 10 years ago, he was speaking just fine. But he's

00:27:25.340 slowed down. He's obviously losing something. Probably not too difficult to keep up. The only

00:27:30.780 way he's difficult to keep up with is people have no idea what he's saying. He's a U and the marmy and 0.99

00:27:35.120 the small nucleus and corn, corn. What does that mean? You're a dull class. I will say one nice

00:27:45.520 thing about Joe Biden. Joe Biden, I have to, I want to be fair. I want to be a real journalist,

00:27:50.400 unlike the ones on cable news, CNN and all those places. Joe Biden is reportedly dropping student loan

00:27:57.180 forgiveness, which is, this is a promise he made during the campaign. He said that he was going to

00:28:02.040 forgive certain student loans. Well, the budget is here and four months into his term, people still

00:28:08.440 want Biden to forgive $10,000 in federal student loans for every borrower. And according to Yahoo

00:28:14.240 Finance, probably not going to happen. So that's good. This is going to be used as evidence among

00:28:19.480 squishes that Joe Biden is not as radical as he said he would be. This is a very small, minor win

00:28:25.900 for conservatives in an overall radical agenda, the most radical agenda ever. So yes, that's good. I'm

00:28:31.940 glad that Joe Biden won't be forgiving 10 G's of student loan debt. This would have been very hard

00:28:36.000 for him to do because even though the left wants it, especially the more affluent, radical, whiter

00:28:43.340 Democrat base really was into this. But the fact is a relatively small number of people graduate from

00:28:51.680 college and have these sorts of student loans. So you would, you would have a situation where you'd have

00:28:57.700 people who don't go to college subsidizing these relatively affluent people who do go to college. 0.66

00:29:02.960 It's just a political loser for Biden. So he's going to drop that, but he's going to be pushing

00:29:06.360 through lots of radical agenda items. We've already seen that. We've seen a hint at even crazier things

00:29:11.480 like court packing, adding new states, totally upending, federalizing elections. So minor win

00:29:16.860 overall, but, but as a rule, the, the administration is the most radical one we've ever seen. How do we

00:29:22.960 fight back against this? Well, governor Ron DeSantis is showing us one way to do it. Ron DeSantis

00:29:28.920 just signed an anti big tech bill. I love this. The anti big tech bill does three things in particular.

00:29:39.060 Says that all Floridians who are treated unfairly by big tech companies will have the right to sue

00:29:43.780 the companies that violate the law and win monetary damages. So it safeguards certain rights of Floridians

00:29:51.680 by requiring social media companies to be transparent about how they're moderating content. Right now it's

00:29:56.640 very opaque. They do not publish the rules and very often they violate their own rules to give users

00:30:01.460 proper notice if they're going to change the rules and it's going to protect, prevent big tech

00:30:05.420 bureaucrats from moving the goalposts to silence viewpoints that they don't like, which really means

00:30:09.700 conservatives. Okay. That's good. I like that. Number two, the attorney general of Florida can bring

00:30:14.420 action against big tech companies that violate the law. That's good. They'll be using Florida's unfair and

00:30:20.180 deceptive trade practices act. That's really good. If they're found to have violated antitrust law,

00:30:24.460 they'll be restricted from contracting with any public entities. So they're going to break up a

00:30:28.160 little bit the relationship between big tech and the government. And big tech is prohibited from

00:30:32.800 deplatforming Floridian political candidates. So now you see politicians definitely going to start

00:30:37.640 protecting themselves. The Florida election commission will impose fines of a quarter million dollars

00:30:42.520 per day on any social media company that deplatforms any candidate for statewide office

00:30:48.360 offices and 25 grand per day for deplatforming candidates for non-statewide offices.

00:30:54.120 So obviously, look, any social media user can just block candidates or not follow candidates that

00:30:59.520 they don't want to see. But that is a right in DeSantis' view that belongs to the citizens.

00:31:05.180 I like this. I'm glad that they're doing this. There are going to be, as usual, three positions on

00:31:11.520 this. The left is going to hate it because the left uses the big tech companies to enforce their 0.96

00:31:16.860 political agenda without democratic accountability. Right? The left can rely on these private 0.55

00:31:21.540 companies and can rely on the rights, you know, decades long shilling for private companies

00:31:27.340 to enforce their political agenda without having to go through usual political democratic means.

00:31:32.800 Okay. That's the left's view. Then there's the squish moderate view, which is the, well,

00:31:36.520 build your own Twitter, build your own Facebook. This is wrong. We need to, there's nothing more

00:31:42.180 conservative than letting hipster Rasputin in Silicon Valley silence half of the country.

00:31:48.080 That's just democracy. Oh no. James Madison would be furious that we're not letting Mark Zuckerberg

00:31:53.840 control our politics or something, right? That's, you can tell my view of, of that particular opinion.

00:32:00.060 Then there's the conservative view, which is use the state to put pressure on these private companies

00:32:06.680 to stop them from controlling and dominating our politics. I know some conservatives are going to be

00:32:11.360 uncomfortable with that because they've imbibed this pseudo squishy libertarian bumper sticker

00:32:17.840 Bush era slogan airing, but there's nothing conservative about letting hipster Rasputin run

00:32:23.020 our public discourse. Okay. Nothing conservative about that at all. It is good. It is positively good

00:32:29.240 and conservative to use the enforcement arm of the state wisely. We're not anarchists. I know that if

00:32:36.660 you listen to some of the ridiculous propaganda from the squish wing of the GOP over the last 20 0.98

00:32:41.260 years, you would think that, that Republicans are anarchists, that we don't think it's ever

00:32:45.260 legitimate for the government to do anything because we want small government. According to

00:32:49.480 that, we don't want small government. We want limited government. We want government to stay

00:32:52.560 within its limits. We want, but we want government to do the things it's supposed to do. And one of

00:32:56.780 those things is to prevent zillionaire oligarchs in the most radical parts of the country from

00:33:01.680 controlling our entire political system. So good on DeSantis. Glad that he's signing this bill.

00:33:06.080 He's not stopping there though, baby. No way. Ron has his eyes, I think, on a big political prize.

00:33:11.560 So he's doing a lot as governor. I'm glad to see that. Incentives are obviously aligned.

00:33:15.720 Ron DeSantis is going after critical race theory. He's trying to boot it out of Florida classrooms.

00:33:21.260 You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. And, uh, you know, you can rename. So what we're 1.00

00:33:27.980 doing, the department of the Florida board of education is meeting, um, and they are addressing this.

00:33:34.140 It's offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory, that they

00:33:40.140 would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other. It's also based on

00:33:47.540 false history. When they try to look back and, and, and denigrate the founding fathers, denigrate

00:33:54.320 the American revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say

00:34:00.720 is not supported by the facts. And so I think what we need is we need the constitution back in

00:34:07.100 classrooms. We need to make sure civics is a priority, but it needs to be taught accurately.

00:34:12.500 It needs to be taught in a fact-based way, not an ideological base way. And we are, if we have to

00:34:19.420 play whack-a-mole all over the state, stopping this critical race theory, we will do it. We'll be

00:34:25.420 taking action. Don't you worry. All right. Love it. I, this is a very conservative perspective.

00:34:30.340 What are the three views on this? The liberal view, the left-wing view rather, is the one that

00:34:34.560 we need to indoctrinate kids to hate their country. Basically, or they say the country's evil. We've got

00:34:38.780 to teach them that the country's evil. We've got to teach them that whiteness is evil and needs to 1.00

00:34:42.320 be abolished. And this, we got to put this stuff in the classrooms. It's got to be mandatory. 0.98

00:34:45.800 The squish view, well, maybe we should just have different perspectives. And so in one class,

00:34:50.160 they teach you to hate your country. And then in the other class, they teach you,

00:34:52.860 maybe you don't hate your country so much. And that'd be cool. And then there's the conservative

00:34:56.000 view, which is this stuff is poison. This stuff undermines education. There is no real such thing

00:35:02.580 as academic freedom. It's never existed in practice. In the words of Bill Buckley, launching

00:35:07.040 the conservative movement after World War II, he said it was a hoax and a superstition. Don't fall for

00:35:11.820 it. There's a thought that undermines thought. And that's the only thought that ought to be stopped

00:35:15.540 to borrow an idea from Chesterton. So you got to kick it out. You can't just expand the curriculum

00:35:21.720 forever. There's only so many weeks in the semester. There's only so, only so many books

00:35:25.620 you can read. If you're reading Ibram Kendi, you're not reading a good book. If you're reading

00:35:29.660 Robin DiAngelo, you are missing out on reading a worthwhile book that will teach you something.

00:35:33.920 So boot it out, ban them, censor them, cancel them, get them out of there. That is the conservative

00:35:38.440 point of view, which I expound upon in my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:35:42.120 Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order. Critical race theory is not the only crazy thing

00:35:47.260 that's being taught in schools. There's critical race theory, don't forget. It's just one derivation

00:35:52.140 of critical theory, which is actually just one major, but only one component of the politically

00:35:57.620 correct project. But there are a lot of other crazy things being taught in schools. Right now,

00:36:02.860 students attending the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhattan, this is a very

00:36:07.320 expensive school. I think it costs just shy of 50 G's a year to attend. They are being forced

00:36:15.340 to take an explicit class on porn without parental consent. Would be bad enough to force them to take

00:36:24.320 the class on porn. They're not even telling the parents, echoing sorts of things we've heard a lot

00:36:28.980 this year, where radical educators will say, hey, be careful. The problem with Zoom class is the parents

00:36:36.060 will know what's being taught. You got to be very careful. Don't you think the parents maybe should

00:36:40.480 know what's being taught? No, it's very bad, very bad for their education. So at this school,

00:36:44.820 they were teaching a very explicit porn class. And I'm not just saying like the birds and the bees

00:36:48.820 and look at this and look at this flesh mashing up against this flesh. I'm talking about like very,

00:36:53.320 I'm not going to say it on the show. This is a family program, but like really graphic, gross

00:36:59.140 stuff. The class involved a slideshow and a lecture by an instructor, which included lots of raunchy

00:37:04.860 images, lots of presentations on the most lurid porn genres and only fans, which is the democratization

00:37:10.540 of porn. And if you oppose this sort of thing, you will be called closed minded. Oh, come on.

00:37:16.100 You're just a prude. You're just, you're a prude. Come on. That's fine. What could go wrong with porn? 0.99

00:37:21.720 Well, we're hearing what goes wrong with porn. How many people write into this show? I've read

00:37:25.780 them in the mailbag. People write in all the time and say, we got to do something about porn. This is

00:37:30.060 really bad stuff. Do you know who's writing? It's not the old fuddy duddies writing in. It's not the

00:37:34.560 boomers. The boomers seem to be the ones who are most fine with porn. They say, oh, it's not a big deal. 0.99

00:37:39.300 They tend to fall a little more in that squish libertarian camp. Oh, come on. It's not, come 0.74

00:37:44.720 on. Looking at porn, that's as American as apple pie. It's protected by the first amendment. It's 0.87

00:37:48.980 not a big deal. But the people who write into me and say, this is a big deal are the young men who

00:37:53.560 get hooked on this stuff. I think the median age is something like 11, according to surveys. So they

00:37:59.860 get hooked on this stuff before they can know anything about it. It ruins their lives. It messes up

00:38:04.260 their relationships. It hurts women. Obviously the industry hurts women, but just even the kind 1.00

00:38:09.220 of vision of sex that it presents is very degrading toward women, messes up people's relationships,

00:38:14.640 messes, there's a epidemic of young men who, who have ED because they're hooked on porn.

00:38:22.240 They're, and it's not, you're used to just read about these stories in Japan. Apparently this has

00:38:25.880 come to the West as well. It's really, really bad stuff. Why would that be taught in schools? Oh,

00:38:31.700 come on, keep an open mind. Obviously we used to know this in this country, but now we've forgotten

00:38:39.160 it. Liberty and licentiousness are not the same thing. They're opposite things. If you arouse

00:38:43.320 people's vices and base passions, you're going to undermine their true liberty. Kick it out. Fire

00:38:48.640 teachers who push this. Not, don't just vote with your dollars. Vote with your politics. Use your

00:38:54.760 government. Get this stuff. Take a lesson from DeSantis. DeSantis knows what's up. Pay attention to this

00:39:00.320 stuff and kick it out. Porn has become, in a certain sense, it's become part of the liturgy of,

00:39:06.460 of liberalism. But there's, and I won't get into too graphic detail of what these liturgical practices

00:39:12.560 look like, but it really has sort of become part of it. It is something that one enacts. It is

00:39:17.860 considered good. Do you remember at the start of COVID when people were told they couldn't see one

00:39:22.240 another? The New York City Health Department encouraged people to, how do I put this, to use Woody

00:39:28.740 Allen's term, to have sex with someone you love, you know, alone in a room. And this was being

00:39:34.480 encouraged. This is a good thing. It's good for your health. Blow off a little steam. I've heard

00:39:39.100 this described that in, in historically speaking, our views of the mind tend to map onto our views of

00:39:47.800 technology. So when the printing press was big, we had this view that what was being imprinted on your

00:39:53.960 mind, that's, that's going to form your mind. To some degree, that's true. When the steam engine was

00:39:58.600 the big technology, we were told, you had Freud, right? You had this idea that you have to, you

00:40:02.280 have to stop repressing things. You need to let off a little bit of steam, right? And to a lesser

00:40:07.040 degree, that's not quite true. Now today, our view of the mind is that the mind is like a computer

00:40:11.540 because the computer is the main technology. So you should be able to upload things and download

00:40:14.840 things and also upgrade your, your mind or something like that. Okay. I, I understand all these

00:40:22.240 various theories of the mind. When you blow off a little steam with something like porn, you know,

00:40:27.500 if you get, when you forget even just porn for a second with any kind of vice, if you think that

00:40:31.480 if you commit a vice, that's going to blow off a little steam, that's not really how it works.

00:40:36.460 The more vice you commit, the more you're going to commit, the more virtue you practice,

00:40:39.620 the more you're going to practice. That's the way it works. We've known this since good old

00:40:42.080 uncle Aristotle, but we seem to have forgotten it. The purpose of education, liberal education is to

00:40:46.500 train yourself in that liberty. So do it. Any education that undermines that is the sort of thing you got

00:40:51.600 a boot out of the classroom. Speaking of leftist liturgical practices, Mayor Bill de Blasio,

00:40:58.860 it says he's going to kneel during an event in Harlem to mark the one year anniversary of George

00:41:04.420 Floyd's death. He's going to kneel for nine minutes and 29 seconds, which is the amount of time that the

00:41:10.500 police officer, Derek Chauvin was kneeling on George Floyd's neck and back. And he's going to kneel

00:41:15.660 and that's, he's going to do it at the event hosted by race hustling extortionist Al Sharpton

00:41:20.480 and his national action shakedown network. And, and this is going to call for the passage of some

00:41:26.480 new George Floyd bill. First of all, it seems pretty bizarre to honor George Floyd by reenacting

00:41:36.180 what his ostensible murderer did to kill him. Isn't that weird? Like he would never, if you were to,

00:41:43.280 the guy were, were murdered by in a shooting, would you honor him by going to the shooting range and

00:41:50.160 just pew, pew, pew, or, or acting that out with your hand, pew, pew, pew. And now I'm honoring him.

00:41:53.780 No, that's very strange. Uh, but moreover, it's also just absolutely disgusting that this absolutely

00:42:00.560 sensationalized event where that involved the death of a career criminal, uh, who was actively resisting

00:42:07.180 arrest and committing crimes as he was arrested. Not to say that maybe the cop was using excess force,

00:42:12.160 but I think we heard during that trial that it didn't seem like he was necessarily using excessive

00:42:16.440 force. He was following certain protocols, but maybe not others. And anyway, it was complicated

00:42:19.840 and the jury seems to have been compromised as well. And you had political leaders on the left

00:42:24.580 putting a lot of pressure on the, on the jury to convict him of murder, which the, even the judge

00:42:29.260 himself said is probably going to help you on appeal all to say it's a complicated story. It's disgusting 0.78

00:42:33.900 that we have got political leaders honoring this kind of person. We went through yesterday on the show

00:42:41.180 how we're, we're told that there's a, uh, an epidemic of anti-black white supremacist hate

00:42:48.340 crime in this country. And it's just not true. You look at the statistics, black people are much 1.00

00:42:52.360 more likely to commit hate crimes than white people are much more likely as a, as a percentage of the, 0.96

00:42:58.480 as a, you know, relative to their proportion in the population. But you just don't hear about those

00:43:03.240 stories. I had a liberal, liberal friend asked me, well, why, Michael, why do we always see these

00:43:06.760 police shootings? Because the media want to sensationalize them to create a, a racially

00:43:11.160 divisive narrative. That's, that's obviously why. And that's what's going on right now. It's

00:43:14.680 disgusting stuff. But even beyond that, just look at the action. De Blasio is going to kneel down for

00:43:20.080 the nine minutes. This is a perfectly natural human longing. This is a religious ritual. I go kneel down

00:43:26.860 on Sundays when I'm at mass and I kneel down to, in, in the memorial sacrifice of, of a death,

00:43:35.220 of a redemptive death, the redemptive death of redeemed mankind of Christ on the cross. That's a,

00:43:39.920 that's a liturgy, that's a religious ritual that I'm doing. And all people have religious rituals.

00:43:44.740 Moreover, they must have religious rituals because man is a fundamentally religious being.

00:43:50.240 And when you recognize that you're engaging in religious liturgy,

00:43:55.060 you can think about it a little more clearly. You can apply more rigor and logic to,

00:43:59.740 and systematic thought. When you're completely unaware of it, as the left is, as, as Bill de

00:44:04.440 Blasio is, you get into some really kooky stuff, some really superstitious stuff. Speaking of leftist

00:44:10.740 rituals, AOC, AOC, another, another one of the goddesses in the pantheon of modern leftism,

00:44:18.360 another icon and quasi-religious figure, depending on who you're talking to. She is opening up about

00:44:26.380 how ever since the January 6th insurrection, she has been going through therapy. She's had a very

00:44:34.040 difficult time. She still has not recovered from that trauma. After the 6th, I took some time and

00:44:42.500 it was really Ayanna Pressley when I explained to her what had happened to me, like the day of,

00:44:48.060 because I ran to her office and she was like, you need to recognize trauma and that this is something

00:44:54.680 that you went through, but we're all going through. And, and it's really important to pause after that

00:45:02.280 because that's how you process it. And I feel like I learned this the hard way after my father had

00:45:10.020 passed away when I was a teenager. So that happened to me at a young age and I socked it away and I,

00:45:16.220 I had to live with that for years. So you're doing therapy? Yeah. Oh yeah. I, I'm doing therapy,

00:45:24.020 but also I've just slowed down. I think the Trump administration had a lot of us, especially Latino

00:45:31.380 communities in a very reactive mode. I have no doubt that AOC, uh, endured suffering as a child,

00:45:40.900 as a teenager when her father died. Coincidentally, it is very strange parallels between my life and

00:45:45.960 hers because we grew up in the towns right next to each other at, at exactly the same time. And I,

00:45:50.460 I also lost a parent when I was a teenager and it's a very difficult thing. I, I do not in any way

00:45:55.460 minimize the trauma and suffering of that. You like to think that over time heals all wounds and

00:46:00.280 over time you can get over that and go on, move on and live your life. I hope, so I hope she can do

00:46:05.460 that. I've no doubt that's a real trauma. I don't think that January 6th was a real trauma for her

00:46:10.800 because she lied about it. She, or I'm sorry, let me be more specific. She exaggerated it. 0.87

00:46:16.060 She, you can't say she lied because all she ever talked about was her feelings. She said,

00:46:19.100 I felt as though I was about to be killed. I felt as though my life was at risk. So sure,

00:46:24.240 I guess that's your feelings. I can't, I can't, I can't disagree with what you felt subjectively,

00:46:29.200 but she never was at risk of dying. She wasn't even in the Capitol that day. She was across the

00:46:32.980 street or rather down the street. It was a bit of a walk away. She was in her office building and

00:46:37.440 no one busted in there. It was actually a cop who came in to protect her and she's milked this for

00:46:41.780 all it's worth. And she says, I'm, I'm just in the trauma. I'm so broken. I've had to slow down.

00:46:45.620 I'm in the therapy for this. I can't, it's hard to process and I can't, it's really traumatic.

00:46:49.480 Like we are exalting weakness and, and brokenness in this leftist culture. We are exalting these

00:46:59.480 things. We are actually trying to find ways to claim that we are broken, hurt, aggrieved,

00:47:06.020 disordered, unstable. It's, it's got cachet. It's got social currency. If you are really that messed

00:47:13.860 up, if you're really that shaken up and you can't handle it, you should not be in government. You

00:47:18.360 should not be in political leadership. You can't, you got to be tough. It's hard, but you got to be

00:47:23.220 tough. You got to move on. You got to take chin up, stiff upper lip and move on. No matter what,

00:47:29.540 look, everybody goes through traumas. Everybody goes through suffering. Sometimes it's real like

00:47:34.860 AOC had when she was a teenager. Sometimes it's contrived, like she exaggerated in her office

00:47:39.740 building on January 6th. But whatever it is, maybe she felt, maybe she felt terrible on January. I don't

00:47:44.660 know, got chin up. You got to cut this out. We've got to stop mutilating ourselves ideologically,

00:47:53.000 philosophically, physically. We've got to stop mutilating ourselves and taking things that are

00:47:59.000 relatively healthy and making them weaker and, and having social currency for grievance and all

00:48:03.180 trying to grab grievance and weakness. We've got to get strong. If you're not going to be strong,

00:48:07.940 you're not going to have a flourishing country. You're going to be mutilating America. I'm Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 25, 2021

Ep. 771 - Mutilating America

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