The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 775 - Your Kids Are Under Attack

00:00:00.000 We're officially eight hours into Pride Month, and here is what has happened so far.

00:00:05.220 The cartoon Blue's Clues is teaming up with a drag queen to indoctrinate kids into LGBT ideology. 0.98

00:00:11.620 Kellogg's Serial wants kids to choose their own gender pronouns.

00:00:15.180 And a first-grade teacher is instructing six-year-olds to pleasure themselves.

00:00:19.520 Meanwhile, the leading squish Republicans out there are giving speeches about how we have to ignore all of that. 0.88

00:00:25.540 But for them, you see, perverts in virtually every powerful institution in the country preying on your kids,

00:00:32.480 it's just a culture war distraction from the far more forward-looking task of cutting taxes like it's 1986.

00:00:39.320 On the bright side, though, there is some good news out of BLM.

00:00:42.100 There's a major new expose on Dr. Fauci's role in the pandemic, and a lot more.

00:00:47.080 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:55.540 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:56.820 My favorite comment from Friday is from Black Metal Matters, who says,

00:01:02.020 They made conservatives wear masks for a year.

00:01:04.580 Let's make them wear dunce caps for at least that long. 1.00

00:01:07.460 Oh, it's going to be longer, my man.

00:01:08.840 I agree with the sentiment, but it's going to be much longer than that,

00:01:12.600 because the masks are still going on, and the dunce caps are unfortunately harder to find.

00:01:19.160 But I agree.

00:01:19.740 We should be doling them out.

00:01:20.800 Absolutely. 0.92

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00:02:43.220 Hope you all had a terrific long weekend.

00:02:46.600 That's what it was, right?

00:02:47.560 That's according to the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. 0.63

00:02:51.700 It was just a long weekend.

00:02:52.700 She got in a lot of trouble for tweeting this out.

00:02:55.640 She didn't say, grateful to all those who've served.

00:02:58.920 Think about all the wonderful men and women who gave their lives this solemn weekend of memorial.

00:03:03.680 No, she said, enjoy the long weekend and posted a picture of herself.

00:03:07.540 And when she did that, typically, you know, as you might expect, everyone reacted on the right.

00:03:14.540 On the left, they didn't really react.

00:03:15.580 On the right, they did. 0.83

00:03:16.620 And I thought, you know, this is a troll.

00:03:19.900 They know what they're doing.

00:03:21.220 The staffers who run that account know exactly what they're doing.

00:03:24.560 To me, it was the liberal version of the Trump Cinco de Mayo tweet.

00:03:29.640 Do you remember?

00:03:30.080 This is one of my favorite tweets Trump ever sent out.

00:03:32.240 On Cinco de Mayo, it's him eating a taco bowl in his office.

00:03:35.200 And he said, the best taco bowls in the country are at Trump Tower.

00:03:39.100 I love Hispanics.

00:03:40.400 It was a perfect tweet because it totally trolled the multiculturalists and it succeeded at doing that. 1.00

00:03:49.940 The Kamala tweet, I think, was just the liberal version of that.

00:03:53.600 But instead of trolling multiculturalists, because we're not multiculturalists, it was trolling patriots.

00:03:58.660 And so it's terrible.

00:04:00.520 That's awful.

00:04:01.000 It's very distasteful.

00:04:02.000 But I do think they know what they're doing.

00:04:04.140 I don't think that either tweet, Trump's Cinco de Mayo tweet or Kamala's Memorial Day tweet,

00:04:08.800 I don't think either of those cost them one little bit of support.

00:04:12.960 And it did enrage their opponents.

00:04:14.820 That's the way it goes.

00:04:15.920 But there are more serious ways the left is trolling us right now.

00:04:20.280 Even, you know, disrespect to our troops, disrespect to our country, that is par for the course now on the left.

00:04:26.480 But the radicalism is getting even creepier and it's really going after kids.

00:04:31.340 So just a quick roundup now that we're, what, eight and a half hours into Pride Month.

00:04:36.940 And boy, this is one for the, for the record books.

00:04:40.080 Blue's Clues, which is a, Blue's Clues has been on the air forever, hasn't it?

00:04:44.260 I mean, I remember it even when I was a kid.

00:04:45.960 It was on, on the air.

00:04:47.520 Blue's Clues, a Nickelodeon show, is teaming up with a drag queen this Pride Month to indoctrinate your kids. 0.66

00:04:54.080 Hey, Blue, look at all these families.

00:04:59.300 Hi, families.

00:05:00.780 It's time for a Pride Parade.

00:05:03.320 Families marching one by one.

00:05:05.360 Hurrah, hurrah.

00:05:07.220 Families marching one by one.

00:05:09.340 Hurrah, hurrah.

00:05:11.020 This family has two mommies. 0.99

00:05:13.300 They love each other so proudly.

00:05:15.160 And they all go marching in the big parade.

00:05:19.560 Okay, so you, you get the picture here.

00:05:24.420 This is a cartoon drag queen and singing about families. 0.98

00:05:28.300 This is going to be the key, I think, to understanding the radicalism here. 0.98

00:05:31.380 Is it's not, hey, look at these lesbians. 1.00

00:05:34.500 Look at these gay guys. 1.00

00:05:35.520 Look at these transgender people. 1.00

00:05:37.440 Look at these, you know, various eccentric characters in the LGBT LMNOP rainbow.

00:05:42.480 It's look at these families because having succeeded at redefining marriage, now the radical sexual revolutionary left is going to try to redefine the family.

00:05:54.140 They're already doing that.

00:05:55.280 But it doesn't redefine the family.

00:05:58.080 When you, a family has a natural component as well as a social component.

00:06:03.420 The natural part, of course, is men and women are different. 0.99

00:06:05.480 They come together, the birds and the bees, you know.

00:06:07.600 They call up the stork store and they get a little baby out of it.

00:06:10.300 And then this propagates onward and you can extend outward.

00:06:13.960 There are extended families, but it comes back to that mommy and daddy who get together one night and produce cute little baby.

00:06:21.460 When you redefine the family to take away that natural component, you don't, you don't create a new kind of family.

00:06:27.720 You just destroy the family.

00:06:29.380 There are all sorts of social, I have a million social relationships, but they are not the same as the family.

00:06:34.900 Much like when you redefine marriage and you completely take out the sexual difference component, which has been intrinsic to marriage since the dawn of time.

00:06:44.000 You don't, you don't just get new kinds of marriages. 1.00

00:06:46.220 You actually destroy the institution of marriage.

00:06:48.400 They're not just using cartoon drag queens here to push this. 1.00

00:06:52.380 They're actually using little kids themselves to push this ideology.

00:06:55.760 So on Blue's Clothes, on the same show, they get this little girl, I don't know, she can't be more than six or seven years old, to read out an explanation of what this new sexual revolution looks like.

00:07:07.760 It's an email from our friend.

00:07:10.760 Hi, Josh and Blue!

00:07:13.800 Happy Pride Month!

00:07:15.260 Pride Month celebrates that everyone should be equal, no matter who they love.

00:07:19.860 We celebrate Pride Month because people in the LGBTQ plus community who used to be treated unfairly, now they can beat themselves openly and proudly.

00:07:31.140 Look, I made a Pride celebration.

00:07:33.020 These flags represent different parts of the LGBTQ plus community.

00:07:38.560 This rainbow flag is called the Gay Pride Flag.

00:07:41.520 Wow!

00:07:42.100 This flag is called the Non-Binary Pride Flag. 0.96

00:07:46.100 This flag is called the Lesbian Flag. 1.00

00:07:48.940 And this flag is called the Transgender Pride Flag.

00:07:52.460 There's so many more flags.

00:07:55.400 Lots of different communities celebrate Pride Month.

00:07:58.380 Bye, Josh!

00:07:59.040 Bye, Blue!

00:07:59.580 So this is really insidious because it's not just indoctrinating kids in this new idea.

00:08:05.740 And it's not just a new sexual idea.

00:08:08.240 We'll get to this in a second.

00:08:09.340 It's much bigger than that.

00:08:10.800 But it's not even just indoctrinating the kids.

00:08:12.840 It's actually using the kids, exploiting the kids as mouthpieces for this very radical sexual ideology. 0.96

00:08:20.000 Not just Blue's Clues doing it.

00:08:21.280 Kellogg's Cereal.

00:08:22.040 Kellogg's has a new cereal box that is encouraging kids to choose their own pronouns.

00:08:26.480 So you've got it in the mainstream media.

00:08:30.920 You've obviously got it in the corporate America.

00:08:34.500 You know, all the corporations are going to have rainbows for the next month.

00:08:38.000 And then you've got it most especially in the schools.

00:08:40.760 So right now, Dalton School, which is a very posh private school, $55,000 a year to attend.

00:08:46.480 The Dalton School has been caught teaching little kids to pleasure themselves.

00:08:52.740 So it's not even just the broader ideology of LGBT and the sexual revolution.

00:08:58.900 It's actually instructing them that it is good to pleasure themselves.

00:09:03.900 So that the director of health and wellness, Justine Ang Fonte at the Dalton School,

00:09:11.580 is now being reported by the New York Post, instructing six-year-olds during her sex ed class

00:09:18.120 to touch themselves because it feels good.

00:09:22.340 There's a slight viewer discretion pushed here.

00:09:27.060 You know, I would say maybe if you've got kids watching right now,

00:09:30.740 maybe lower the volume for about 60 seconds or, you know, skip one, two on there.

00:09:35.180 Because this is really, really creepy stuff.

00:09:37.540 I almost didn't play it, except I think it's important to hear

00:09:40.080 what is being taught in first-grade classrooms now,

00:09:43.100 all in the name of the sexual revolution. 0.99

00:09:45.440 Hey, how come my penis gets big sometimes and points up in the air? 1.00

00:09:50.980 That's called an erection. 1.00

00:09:52.860 Sometimes I touch my penis because it feels good. 0.99

00:09:56.100 Sometimes when I'm in my bath or when mom puts me to bed, 1.00

00:09:59.680 I like to touch my vulva too. 0.99

00:10:01.560 You have a clitoris there, Kayla, 1.00

00:10:03.340 that probably feels good to touch the same way Keith's penis feels good when he touches it. 1.00

00:10:08.360 But have you ever noticed that older kids and grown-ups 1.00

00:10:11.280 don't touch their private parts in public?

00:10:13.940 Hmm, they don't?

00:10:15.760 That's right, Keith.

00:10:17.040 It's okay to touch yourself and see how different body parts feel,

00:10:20.880 but it's best to only do it in private.

00:10:23.540 Well, if private parts are so special, why do you cover them up? 0.98

00:10:28.160 Because they are private, silly. 0.97

00:10:31.220 That's right, Kayla, because they are private. 0.98

00:10:35.240 This, I think, is the single creepiest thing I've ever seen.

00:10:39.540 I don't think that's an exaggeration. 0.78

00:10:42.120 You've got these little cartoon kiddie voices talking about sex. 0.97

00:10:49.220 And as Woody Allen says, sex with someone you love, right? 1.00

00:10:52.420 Sex in the privacy of your own room. 0.99

00:10:54.120 And then this teacher saying, well, it's good. 0.98

00:10:56.680 It's okay.

00:10:57.460 It's totally fine to do that in private,

00:10:59.040 but you don't always want to do that in public.

00:11:01.280 Now, this is part of the sex ed class at Dalton.

00:11:04.800 The reason I even play it is not just how shocking and creepy it is,

00:11:08.380 but it's to show what this is really about.

00:11:11.260 Because the education that's being conveyed in this video

00:11:13.960 is not just sexual education.

00:11:15.740 There's a little bit of sexual education.

00:11:17.200 Here's this body part.

00:11:18.100 Here's this body part.

00:11:19.080 But it goes much further than that.

00:11:20.880 It's morality education.

00:11:22.780 It's religious education.

00:11:24.560 Because what this woman is saying is,

00:11:27.120 look, given the laws of our society,

00:11:30.140 it's not okay to do these sorts of things in public,

00:11:34.060 but it's perfectly okay to do these sorts of things in private.

00:11:38.740 That's a moral teaching.

00:11:39.980 That's a religious teaching.

00:11:41.700 That's not the Christian understanding of it.

00:11:43.680 The Christian teaching is it's not okay to do that in private.

00:11:45.860 Jewish understanding, as far as I know, I'm no expert,

00:11:48.940 not okay to do.

00:11:49.660 Muslim understanding, it's not okay to do that in private.

00:11:52.440 But the leftist understanding is it is okay.

00:11:55.220 It's actually good.

00:11:56.180 You should be doing it.

00:11:57.440 This goes back way, way far back.

00:11:59.320 This goes back almost 100 years to theorists like Wilhelm Reich,

00:12:03.320 very creepy sexual and political theorist

00:12:06.300 who said that all the problems of the world from war to disease 0.98

00:12:09.180 are caused by a lack of orgasms.

00:12:11.020 Seriously.

00:12:11.980 He had an orgone accumulator is what he called it. 0.75

00:12:15.440 It was like an orgasm box where many very intelligent leftists

00:12:21.100 bought these boxes and sat in them.

00:12:23.060 I don't know what they did.

00:12:23.900 I don't want to know what they did in those boxes.

00:12:26.400 But these theories were very popular.

00:12:29.020 Bernie Sanders adopted them in the 1960s.

00:12:31.000 He wrote creepy essays about it that he published in the Vermont Freeman,

00:12:34.220 I think the name is.

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00:12:41.200 There was a very creepy focus on the need to sexualize kids.

00:12:45.220 And the reason is, if you really believe that sexual repression

00:12:48.580 is the cause of all these problems in the world,

00:12:50.940 then you can't wait until people embrace the oppression.

00:12:53.940 You can't wait until people decide they are going to repress themselves.

00:12:56.780 You've got to get them at their very youngest point.

00:12:59.960 And so you've got to go into the schools

00:13:01.360 and you've got to indoctrinate kids in this radical sexual ideology. 1.00

00:13:05.220 It's creepy. 0.94

00:13:06.100 It's pervy.

00:13:06.860 But for the left, it serves a political purpose.

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00:14:29.920 So you got the left focusing on this really, really creepy sex stuff and to give them their 0.99

00:14:38.700 credit, it's not just because they're perverts. 0.98

00:14:40.920 It does have a political purpose. 0.96

00:14:44.740 Ginning up lust, ginning up licentiousness, lecherousness, all this sort of stuff is designed

00:14:53.680 to control you politically.

00:14:55.320 And I know that sounds kind of conspiratorial, but it's actually a very basic principle.

00:15:01.780 Free people cultivate their higher will and their intellect so they can control all of

00:15:06.520 their base appetites.

00:15:08.960 Unfree people, slavish people just pursue their basest desires, whether that's for drugs, 1.00

00:15:16.360 whether that's for sex, whether that's for any, any sort of base desire.

00:15:19.660 The example I often use is the heroin addict, the heroin addict who just shoots up heroin

00:15:24.180 all the time, according to the modern leftist view, seems very free because he can do whatever

00:15:28.580 he wants and he can go shoot up and that's, nobody's going to stop him.

00:15:31.400 But we all know he's a slave and this is true of all of our passions and our lusts, especially

00:15:36.440 sexual ones, because it's a very big driver of human behavior, especially for dudes.

00:15:42.420 So the left does have a vested interest in breaking down all, all these sorts of moral

00:15:50.160 codes.

00:15:51.100 And the founding fathers wrote about this, right?

00:15:52.740 They said you, you should not abuse your liberty to licentiousness is very, very focused

00:15:58.260 on that sort of thing.

00:15:58.960 And the whole point of pride month, it's not even just a, it's not about gay people really

00:16:02.480 anymore, right?

00:16:03.220 I mean, I guess that's part of it, but it's about all this sort of sexual stuff, which

00:16:07.140 actually tends to have a much broader point now.

00:16:10.740 This is religious education that people are being taught.

00:16:14.080 It's a, it's a part of the liturgical calendar.

00:16:16.280 I mean, you've got the religious, you know, the Christian liturgical calendar, you've got

00:16:20.380 months to the sacred heart of Jesus or the months to the Holy family or whatever.

00:16:25.980 And in the leftist calendar, you've got months to pride.

00:16:30.900 You've got months to women's history. 1.00

00:16:32.740 You've got months to black history, right? 0.98

00:16:33.680 All these sorts of things.

00:16:34.560 We are following these religious pathways.

00:16:39.900 We're following these religious longings because man is fundamentally a religious being and all

00:16:43.420 human conflict is theological.

00:16:45.120 But some Republicans don't get that.

00:16:47.380 And I'm thinking right now of Paul Ryan.

00:16:49.060 Paul Ryan, who was the former speaker of the house, right?

00:16:52.180 He was a leader of the sort of dignified Republican party.

00:16:54.820 I know a lot of people hate, I say dignified in quotes, you know, it's, I'm the Republican

00:16:59.440 with dignity.

00:17:00.200 I'm the sort of, you know, the sophisticated Republican, not that kind of conservative.

00:17:03.880 A lot of people have great antipathy toward Paul Ryan.

00:17:07.740 I don't, you know, I thought he was good on entitlement reform.

00:17:10.700 He's, but he doesn't know what time it is.

00:17:13.220 He's kind of missing the point.

00:17:14.840 He gave a big speech at the Reagan library last week in which he laid out his vision for

00:17:20.320 the Republican party.

00:17:21.740 And I want to like Paul Ryan.

00:17:24.020 I want to support Paul Ryan.

00:17:25.000 He seems like a nice guy, but he just totally missed the point. 0.96

00:17:31.020 You've got kid, you've got kids being steeped in this insane leftist pervy sexual ideology.

00:17:38.980 And all Paul Ryan wants to talk about is going back to the 1980s basically.

00:17:44.000 So he opens up and he says, look, the party that's following Trump, we've got to stop that.

00:17:49.180 If we, if we just have this obsession with this one guy, we're not going to move forward

00:17:52.760 as a party 2020 left Republicans powerless in Washington.

00:17:58.800 Even worse, it was horrifying to see a presidency come to such a dishonorable and disgraceful end.

00:18:06.480 So once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads.

00:18:13.260 And here's the reality that we have to face.

00:18:15.840 If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality or of second rate

00:18:23.100 imitations, then we're not going anywhere.

00:18:27.900 Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence in metal.

00:18:33.180 They will not be impressed by the sight of yes men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago. 0.97

00:18:36.700 Still, we win majorities by directing our loyalty and respect to voters and by staying faithful

00:18:44.580 to the conservative principles that unite us.

00:18:47.760 OK, so no cult of personality.

00:18:50.160 We can't just be focused on one guy or second rate imitators.

00:18:53.700 We've got to talk about something beyond just one guy.

00:18:56.260 So what are we going to talk about, Paul Ryan?

00:18:57.740 Even 40 years after President Reagan's first inauguration, we all remember him with a special

00:19:05.420 respect and affection.

00:19:07.780 He was exactly the man America needed at a crucial moment.

00:19:12.640 We appreciate him only more from a distance of time now.

00:19:16.720 To this day, whenever I'm asked to describe my own political outlook, there's no term that

00:19:22.420 fits more comfortably than Reagan conservative.

00:19:25.860 Just think how different the world would look today without this one man whose arrival in 1.00

00:19:35.220 American politics still seems providential.

00:19:39.500 You know, it's a measure of his impact that there are statutes of this man not just here

00:19:44.620 in Simi Valley, but also in our capital rotunda, in London, in Gdansk, Poland, in Warsaw, in Budapest,

00:19:53.240 in Berlin, near where the wall used to be, and in many other places where Reagan will

00:19:57.980 always be an honored name.

00:20:00.500 We've got to stop being a cult of personality. 1.00

00:20:03.320 You know, we've got all these stupid Trump people. 1.00

00:20:05.400 They just, all they care about is this one man. 1.00

00:20:07.520 We've got to stop that and talk about Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan,

00:20:12.600 Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

00:20:14.060 We've got to stop following the cheap imitators of that one cult of personality, you know?

00:20:19.720 Now, which is why I'm a Reagan conservative.

00:20:21.800 All my views are from Ronald Reagan.

00:20:23.240 We need to go.

00:20:25.040 Do you hear yourself?

00:20:26.380 Do you hear, look, I love Ronald Reagan.

00:20:28.180 I like Donald Trump a lot too.

00:20:29.640 I like these guys.

00:20:31.160 But you can't attack the Trump people for the cult of personality when every other word

00:20:36.740 out of your mouth is Ronald Reagan.

00:20:39.160 Now, eventually, Paul Ryan comes to a point.

00:20:41.120 He comes to the issues that we've got to talk about.

00:20:42.860 What is it?

00:20:43.220 We've got six-year-olds being told to do all sorts of creepy sex stuff to themselves.

00:20:47.400 We've got other six-year-olds on kids' television shows teaming up with drag queens talking about 1.00

00:20:53.600 the transgender flag.

00:20:55.400 So what is it?

00:20:56.860 What's going to be the big focus here, Paul Ryan?

00:21:00.020 Oh, the biggest issue is, let me check my notes, taxes.

00:21:06.280 And then there was the first major revision of the tax code since 1986.

00:21:11.440 The previous code was what people had in mind when they talked about the swamp.

00:21:16.320 It was right there.

00:21:17.500 That is not what people had in mind when they talk about the swamp.

00:21:20.680 When people talk about the swamp, they talk about the gigantic national security state

00:21:24.580 and intelligence gathering state that undermined a duly elected president for four years,

00:21:29.520 at least for four years.

00:21:30.700 That's what we're talking about with the swamp.

00:21:32.600 We're not just talking about freaking taxes.

00:21:35.700 Paul Ryan, he goes through, he says, what did we do when we were, when I was the speaker?

00:21:39.080 And we did this.

00:21:40.440 And he's talking about all these little things.

00:21:41.660 We beefed up the defense budget.

00:21:43.180 We did this, you know, this, that, and the other thing.

00:21:44.700 But the most important thing we did, the greatest, most conservative thing in the whole wide world

00:21:51.300 is cutting taxes a little bit.

00:21:54.320 It was a constant drag on economic productivity and entrepreneurship, driving capital and jobs

00:22:01.660 outside of the United States.

00:22:03.860 It was such a fixture that few people thought it could be reformed, and most had given up trying.

00:22:09.500 We needed to lower the rates, clear away the favors and the clutter, and sharpen America's competitive edge.

00:22:17.120 Tax reform was a big piece of business.

00:22:18.700 I worked at it myself for two decades in Congress, and in 2017, we got it done.

00:22:25.580 This is the main reason why, at the start of 2020, the United States was seeing such powerful and inclusive economic growth.

00:22:33.680 We saw increased revenue from a broader tax base, capital and jobs coming back to America,

00:22:38.980 the best wage growth for low-income earners in more than a decade, and unemployment at a 50-year low for every demographic.

00:22:49.080 These historic reforms were a triumph of practical conservative policy,

00:22:54.060 a model of shared prosperity and upward mobility that we've always talked about.

00:22:58.260 It was the populism of President Trump in action, tethered to conservative principles.

00:23:05.160 And we conservatives have got to be careful not to get caught up in every little cultural battle.

00:23:11.180 Sometimes these skirmishes are just creations of outraged peddlers, detached from reality, and not worth anybody's time.

00:23:16.920 Did he finally stop talking about taxes?

00:23:23.820 I don't know. I sort of lost track there for a moment.

00:23:26.520 We need to stop. Hold on. I think in my dream fugue state, I think I heard that we need to focus on cutting taxes a little bit again.

00:23:34.640 That will save the country.

00:23:35.740 You know, we cut taxes in 86.

00:23:37.760 The only policy we've all agreed on since then is cutting taxes.

00:23:41.580 During that time, the definition of marriage has fallen apart.

00:23:44.760 We've now got transgenderism in the schools.

00:23:47.120 BLM is on the rise, burning down the country. 1.00

00:23:49.280 Antifa is threatening any conservative speaker.

00:23:51.520 You're barely allowed to wave the American flag in your workplace anymore.

00:23:54.560 But hey, at least we cut taxes, the most conservative policy imaginable.

00:23:59.760 And you know, there are, look, there are these cultural distractions, culture war distractions.

00:24:04.520 But we shouldn't focus on that, guys.

00:24:06.780 We got to focus on what really matters, which is saving a little bit more money.

00:24:11.480 Which, by the way, doesn't even end up saving you money.

00:24:15.340 And it doesn't even, look, I love tax cuts as much as the next guy.

00:24:17.840 It doesn't end up saving you money.

00:24:19.220 Because if all you focus on is keeping a little bit more money and you let the entire culture go away,

00:24:23.560 then the culture is going to come back and take your money.

00:24:26.140 Which is what's happening right now.

00:24:28.180 That's what's happening right now.

00:24:29.120 There were no lasting gains.

00:24:31.040 I can't believe this guy gave this speech at this moment.

00:24:34.240 It's like he is living on another planet.

00:24:37.600 He is just, they're following.

00:24:38.820 This happened in 92.

00:24:40.220 There was a big debate in the Republican Party.

00:24:41.840 Do you go the George H.W. Bush route?

00:24:43.740 We've just won the Cold War.

00:24:44.740 Do you only pursue slightly better trade deals or, and end up actually raising taxes if you're George H.W. Bush?

00:24:50.680 Or do you go the Pat Buchanan route and actually focus on the cultural stuff?

00:24:53.740 The GOP chose the Bush route.

00:24:55.340 Look where we are today.

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00:26:37.000 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:26:50.700 Paul Ryan is not the only Republican politician who doesn't know what time it is.

00:26:54.460 There's another guy who is a movie star, but he seems to want to become a politician

00:26:59.320 who also just has no idea what time it is.

00:27:02.000 That would be Matthew McConaughey.

00:27:04.800 All right, all right, all right.

00:27:06.960 Matthew McConaughey appeared on the Carlos Watson show, and his big move to get into Texas

00:27:13.560 Republican politics was to defend the masks.

00:27:17.100 Now, we talked on the show on Friday about a new study that's out that shows that the masks

00:27:22.020 are completely ineffective.

00:27:23.480 The only effect they have is political, no particular medical or scientific benefit.

00:27:27.280 I know that the censors and the fact checkers are going to hate that.

00:27:31.000 Go back and watch the show.

00:27:32.040 I read the study at times verbatim.

00:27:35.100 Matthew McConaughey goes on the show.

00:27:36.800 He goes, I'm not believing.

00:27:39.220 You know, I can't really do a McConaughey.

00:27:40.880 I'm not believing you're really scared of this little cotton thing. 1.00

00:27:44.420 I'm not believing you really feel that takes away your identity and your freedom.

00:27:49.620 This, the mask, is a short-term inconvenience for long-term freedom.

00:27:53.520 Now, there's no data that says it's not a good thing.

00:27:58.280 No data that says it's harmful.

00:27:59.820 So again, that, that isn't true.

00:28:01.220 You can go back and watch the shows.

00:28:03.020 Let's all take one for the team here.

00:28:04.520 McConaughey just like totally, totally wrong.

00:28:07.920 Perfectly wrong here.

00:28:09.880 It's not that I'm scared of the little cotton thing. 1.00

00:28:11.940 I mean, they're filthy. 0.92

00:28:12.700 They're disgusting masks. 0.99

00:28:13.700 So I don't like that. 0.57

00:28:14.540 I find that repulsive, but I'm not, I'm not afraid of the mask.

00:28:17.640 I'm afraid of what it does to our politics.

00:28:20.260 I'm not really believing you think this takes away your identity and your freedom.

00:28:22.980 It certainly takes away my freedom.

00:28:24.760 I'm not allowed, I'm just muzzled myself everywhere now.

00:28:27.700 It takes away many of my political rights, but also it does take away my identity, covers

00:28:32.480 up my face.

00:28:33.500 Aristotle says man is the political animal because we can speak.

00:28:37.440 So when you muzzle yourself up, you are depriving yourself of quite a bit of your freedom and

00:28:41.480 your identity.

00:28:42.740 It's a short-term inconvenience for long-term freedom.

00:28:44.940 It was supposed to be 15 days.

00:28:46.140 You remember that?

00:28:47.600 And from the beginning, there were the pro-mask people, even pro-mask conservatives who said,

00:28:51.060 look, if we just wear the mask for a little, we can get back to normal life.

00:28:54.020 And I said, that's not true.

00:28:55.040 That's BS.

00:28:56.180 They're going to use the masks as a symbol of how we can't get back to normal life because

00:29:00.480 people don't ordinarily wear masks.

00:29:02.580 When you see a mask, it doesn't assuage your anxiety.

00:29:04.820 It actually makes you feel more anxious because you think, oh my gosh, we're really in the

00:29:07.780 heat of something bad here, folks.

00:29:09.040 If we had just taken the masks off from the beginning, well, I guess I did, but a number

00:29:12.740 of people did not.

00:29:13.380 If we as a culture had taken the masks off from the beginning, we would be in a far, far better

00:29:18.340 political situation.

00:29:20.220 So McConaughey is thinking that he might run for governor of Texas or something.

00:29:24.640 He should not.

00:29:25.440 He should not run.

00:29:26.220 He should not be elected.

00:29:27.780 This reminds us that it is good to elect people who know things.

00:29:32.460 I know that politics has always been a sort of popularity contest.

00:29:36.780 Increasingly, it's become a reality TV show.

00:29:39.580 It is good to elect people who know things.

00:29:43.240 You know, Donald Trump is like Edmund Burke compared to Matthew McConaughey.

00:29:46.040 This guy doesn't know anything.

00:29:48.140 If this is the kind of statement he's making, he doesn't know anything about politics.

00:29:53.220 And that's fine.

00:29:53.620 Maybe he can learn.

00:29:54.500 Maybe he can wise up.

00:29:55.420 But in the meantime, it's kind of, kind of gets me on the Caitlyn Jenner point in California.

00:29:59.480 Why would we elect a very liberal person who maybe would cut taxes or something? 0.97

00:30:06.060 If they're going to throw away the whole culture, if they're going to say, yeah, we should all

00:30:08.980 muzzle up ad infinitum or yes, we should embrace radical gender ideology. 1.00

00:30:12.920 Why would we do that to save a little money on taxes?

00:30:16.060 It won't last.

00:30:17.100 Even that won't last.

00:30:17.940 It wouldn't be a good deal even if it did.

00:30:20.200 But if you're going to lose the whole culture, it just ain't worth it, folks.

00:30:22.960 Yes, we'll save 30 pieces of silver on your taxes, but you'll lose the whole thing.

00:30:28.180 Now, some politicians do have their priorities in order.

00:30:30.560 I'm speaking, of course, about my friend Ted Cruz.

00:30:33.820 Ted Cruz, along with Mike Braun and Cynthia Lummis, three Republican senators, just introduced

00:30:42.220 a bill on Friday to ban the federal government from establishing coronavirus passports.

00:30:47.200 I love this.

00:30:48.340 I'm so glad that Senator Cruz is doing this.

00:30:50.980 So much of the COVID fight is at the state level because that's where a lot of the mandates

00:30:55.380 are going to be enforced and where they're really going to affect people.

00:30:58.520 But you can do some stuff at the federal level.

00:31:00.500 And Senator Cruz is leading the way here, which is ban the coronavirus passports.

00:31:06.840 It is insane.

00:31:07.960 It's a huge invasion of privacy.

00:31:10.620 It is a huge handing over of our medical data to people that I don't think deserve it.

00:31:16.360 It's all for a virus that poses relatively little threat to most people, right?

00:31:21.580 To young people have basically zero risk at all.

00:31:24.700 And people who are in at-risk groups, very unhealthy or overweight people or very old people,

00:31:29.440 can take precautions.

00:31:31.380 But there is no reason to require this insane passport to show that you've had the hastily

00:31:38.500 developed vaccine, where we're hearing more and more stories every day about issues with

00:31:42.960 that vaccine or with those vaccines, rather.

00:31:45.800 Cruz, great, doing a great job, as are Senators Braun and Lummis.

00:31:49.860 Also, Dan Crenshaw and Tom Cotton, doing great stuff.

00:31:54.000 It's so rare that anything good happens out of the Capitol that I feel we should highlight

00:31:57.740 it when it does.

00:31:59.200 Dan and Senator Cotton came out, and they're both military veterans, and they are teaming

00:32:04.760 up to create a whistleblower form for military members if they spot woke training efforts.

00:32:09.480 So you remember this.

00:32:10.420 You saw the Army ad that came out last month where, you know, the woman soldier says, you

00:32:16.660 know, the reason that I'm such a great soldier is because I was raised by two lesbians, and

00:32:20.340 I went to a lot of pride parades. 0.99

00:32:21.440 And that's what's going to really help me kill my enemies.

00:32:23.340 And then we compared that to the Russian Army ad, which is a dog of a job, and some 0.96

00:32:29.100 guy with a neck, you know, the size of a school bus who was just like shooting guns at his

00:32:32.320 enemies.

00:32:32.740 And you think, well, one of these is more intimidating than the other one.

00:32:36.140 We were told you can never criticize the sort of woke infiltration of the military.

00:32:40.780 Well, Dan and Senator Cotton are doing that.

00:32:44.260 So great stuff.

00:32:45.340 I'm really glad they're doing it.

00:32:46.480 We do need to push back.

00:32:48.100 There is no definition of freedom or tolerance that should permit us to tolerate this kind

00:32:53.540 of insanity.

00:32:54.280 And you're going to see a lot more of it.

00:32:55.480 This is day one.

00:32:56.380 We're now officially nine hours into day one of pride month.

00:32:59.100 It's going to get crazier.

00:33:01.500 Speaking of our officials overseas, some more great stuff coming out of the house led by the

00:33:07.960 new GOP conference chair, Elise Stefanik, who, you know, I've said I'm a little skeptical

00:33:12.560 of her.

00:33:12.940 She's got a bit of a liberal voting record, but this is great stuff.

00:33:16.460 Got to give her credit.

00:33:17.620 Got to give some encouragement.

00:33:19.100 Elise Stefanik, Nicole Maliotakis.

00:33:22.140 I'm probably going to mispronounce a lot of these names.

00:33:23.620 Ken Buck, Michael Guest, Daryl Issa, Brian Mast, and Pete Sessions.

00:33:27.540 I just introduced the Stars and Stripes Act of 2021.

00:33:30.860 Very simple.

00:33:31.740 After the Secretary of State under Biden said that embassies abroad can fly the BLM flag.

00:33:36.960 Can you imagine that?

00:33:38.280 And embassies abroad are flying other flags, including the gay pride flag.

00:33:41.700 This bill comes out and says that, no, the only flags that you're allowed to fly at these

00:33:48.180 embassies are the US flag, good, the flag of the country where the embassy is located,

00:33:55.860 makes sense, the flag of a state, territory, or possession of the United States, fair enough,

00:34:01.340 a departmental or secretarial flag.

00:34:03.240 So, you know, the State Department flag or whatever, one of these, or the prisoner of war

00:34:08.060 missing an action flag, which, you know, in the past, what, five or six decades has been

00:34:12.500 popularized for our servicemen who were left abroad.

00:34:17.100 Those are the only ones.

00:34:18.200 Those are the five flags that you can fly.

00:34:19.760 I love it.

00:34:20.420 Absolutely right.

00:34:21.440 A BLM flag has no place on an embassy. 0.69

00:34:24.600 The pride flag has no place on an embassy.

00:34:27.280 There is some political significance here in that the BLM flag and the pride flag are sort

00:34:34.080 of symbols of American imperial hegemony, right?

00:34:37.620 They are flags that are associated with the imperial ambitions of America because they're

00:34:42.060 transnational ambitions that seek to gin up tensions and political movements overseas

00:34:48.020 as well because they make universal claims.

00:34:50.180 BLM about the oppression of black people and pride about sexual oppression. 1.00

00:34:54.780 So this goes well beyond national boundaries, but we should not be flying either of those flags.

00:34:59.640 No way about it.

00:35:00.580 Now, speaking of BLM, some, actually some good news coming out of BLM.

00:35:04.740 You ever thought I'd say that?

00:35:06.320 The founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, Minnesota.

00:35:11.140 So this is the Black Lives Matter chapter in a place that is very, very involved in the

00:35:17.940 riots of 2020, right?

00:35:19.260 Twin cities were kind of leading the charge after the death of George Floyd.

00:35:22.060 This guy, Rashard Turner, just posted a video last week in which he said he quit BLM after

00:35:28.500 he learned the ugly truth as an insider of that group.

00:35:32.240 Take a listen.

00:35:33.980 That's why in 2015, I was a founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul.

00:35:39.160 I believe the organization stood for exactly what the name implies.

00:35:43.360 Black lives do matter.

00:35:45.400 However, after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding black

00:35:50.720 families.

00:35:51.240 And they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis.

00:35:57.160 That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teachers' union.

00:36:03.320 I was an insider in Black Lives Matter, and I learned the ugly truth. 0.78

00:36:07.720 The moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family, but it does 1.00

00:36:12.740 create barriers to a better education for black children.

00:36:15.620 I resigned from Black Lives Matter after a year and a half, but I didn't quit working to improve

00:36:21.660 black lives and access to a great education.

00:36:25.160 Today, I serve as the president and executive director of Minnesota Parent Union.

00:36:30.620 We're dedicated to helping parents move their children from failing schools to successful schools.

00:36:36.620 It's hard work, and we're up against forces that don't want us to succeed.

00:36:40.920 But success is possible.

00:36:42.580 Just look at me and the hundreds of children and families we've helped to pursue a great

00:36:48.680 education, break the chains of poverty, and lead a life of success.

00:36:53.620 Great stuff.

00:36:54.640 I'm, you know, glad to see that he's hopped out of BLM and he's doing something productive.

00:36:59.000 This is great stuff.

00:36:59.760 He said here that he was shocked because he thought that BLM was going to be about rebuilding

00:37:05.060 the black family.

00:37:06.900 But then it turns out they actually don't. 0.99

00:37:08.760 They're just kind of in cahoots with these crooked political organizations like the teacher

00:37:11.880 unions who are opposing charter schools, which are one of the few opportunities for poor and

00:37:17.400 disproportionately black people to break out of bad schools and get a good education. 0.86

00:37:22.680 He should have read the BLM website before he joined up because the BLM website was very

00:37:27.520 clear about this.

00:37:28.280 They said they don't want to rebuild the family.

00:37:30.340 They want to disrupt the family.

00:37:31.900 Do you remember?

00:37:32.320 They've since taken the page down, but it was up for years.

00:37:34.600 The page said, and I'm only slightly paraphrasing, Black Lives Matter seeks to disrupt the Western 0.93

00:37:43.640 prescribed nuclear family structure.

00:37:47.220 And that's what this is all about.

00:37:48.640 It goes right back to that drag queen at the top of the show on Blue's Clues.

00:37:52.000 It says, look at all these families.

00:37:53.140 Look at all these families.

00:37:53.940 They're not, they're, they're not recognizing different types of families.

00:37:58.160 They are trying to destroy the family structure itself.

00:38:01.780 The same radicals who are pushing BLM and the radical pride ideology and all of these things

00:38:06.040 see the family as an impediment to liberation.

00:38:09.220 And it actually makes sense.

00:38:10.780 The family is the basic political institution and the progressive project is about destroying

00:38:16.900 all of those intermediating political institutions that prevent them from taking full power.

00:38:21.760 Because you, you are inhibited from total liberation by your family, right?

00:38:27.700 If, if you define liberation as just doing whatever you want at any given time,

00:38:30.740 if you define it as licentiousness, then the family does stop you from doing that.

00:38:34.360 Because daddy will come in and say, nope, don't do that, son.

00:38:36.940 The local, local government does that too.

00:38:39.260 The local institutions, the church does that too.

00:38:42.000 Which is why the left in the name of liberation seeks to destroy all of those institutions,

00:38:47.700 but most especially the family.

00:38:49.180 Because that's the hardest nut to crack.

00:38:51.320 That's the, the natural political institution that they can't quite get over.

00:38:55.160 So they're going to put all their guns behind it.

00:38:57.160 They're going to put all of their resources and efforts behind that sort of thing. 0.64

00:39:01.000 And they'll do it through BLM. 1.00

00:39:02.720 BLM are good, useful idiots for that or, or through the radical pride ideology. 1.00

00:39:07.840 But that is what they are after. 1.00

00:39:11.120 And the, the radicals are not just in BLM, okay?

00:39:14.180 It's not just Rashard Turner's former colleagues.

00:39:17.200 They're all the way up at the top of the federal government.

00:39:19.920 Joe Biden, who's, who's great political utility right now is that he doesn't seem like a radical

00:39:25.280 because he's held relatively conservative positions in the past.

00:39:28.740 And he's an extremely old guy who talks very quietly and mumbles his words.

00:39:33.340 And he just, he doesn't seem totally extreme, but Joe Biden is nothing, right?

00:39:38.240 That, that, the trick of Joe Biden is that he doesn't believe anything.

00:39:40.880 He just wakes up, he licks his index finger, figures out which way the wind is blowing and

00:39:44.160 he goes there.

00:39:44.560 So now old sleepy Joe is, has changed his opinion on a lot of important political issues

00:39:50.060 to follow the radical left because he thought it would help him politically.

00:39:52.820 And one of those issues is the Hyde Amendment.

00:39:56.380 So right now, what is the Hyde Amendment?

00:39:58.000 The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxpayer dollars from going to abortion.

00:40:01.620 And it's kind of fake because we still give taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood.

00:40:06.020 We just say, you can't spend this money on abortion, but money is fungible.

00:40:09.240 It's not like you take a dollar and you say, okay, this dollar is going to go here, but

00:40:12.200 this dollar can't go here.

00:40:13.240 You just throw in a bank account and they spend it however, however they're going to spend

00:40:16.160 it.

00:40:16.740 Still hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

00:40:19.060 We've had this very firm line here for years and years.

00:40:22.100 Joe Biden was a big defender of that line.

00:40:24.320 Well, now he's getting rid of it.

00:40:25.560 In the 2022 budget that he is proposing, that will include taxpayer funding for abortion.

00:40:32.040 And the argument he gives is actually somewhat sound.

00:40:34.640 It's ghastly, it's evil, but it's somewhat sound.

00:40:36.500 Here's what he writes.

00:40:37.160 Quote, I laid out a healthcare plan that's going to provide federally funded healthcare

00:40:40.620 for all women and women who are now denied even Medicare in their home states.

00:40:44.700 It became really clear to me that although the Hyde Amendment was designed to try to split

00:40:48.360 the difference here, you might say split the baby, to make sure women still had access, 1.00

00:40:53.240 you can't have access if everybody's covered by a federal policy.

00:40:57.000 That's why at the same time I announced the policy, I announced that I could no longer

00:41:01.600 continue to abide by the Hyde Amendment.

00:41:03.120 That's the reason.

00:41:04.000 His argument is coherent, which is something that is not often said about Joe Biden.

00:41:09.140 What he's saying is, yeah, look, when we used to have a lot of different choices, when

00:41:12.800 we used to have a lot of different places that were offering health insurance, when we used

00:41:15.660 to have a lot of intermediating institutions, when we used to have all the way down to families

00:41:19.360 taking care of you, but certainly at the local community, the church, your employer health

00:41:22.500 insurance, when we had all that, we could have the Hyde Amendment because you could just

00:41:26.500 go to somewhere else that is offering you abortion access.

00:41:31.660 But now that we've destroyed all those institutions, now that you're forced or strongly incentivized

00:41:39.220 to go to the federal government, we can't.

00:41:41.420 It's a one-size-fits-all policy, so we've got to pay for the abortions. 1.00

00:41:47.540 Now, I think this was the plan all along, but we are seeing this play out in real time

00:41:53.340 right now.

00:41:54.520 And it's not just the drag queens on Blue's Clues that are pushing the radicalism. 0.64

00:41:57.920 It goes all the way up to the top.

00:42:00.280 The drag queens on Blue's Clues are a symptom of the broader establishment problem of how far 0.99

00:42:05.100 left it's going.

00:42:06.240 Speaking of radicals in public office, it's not just Joe Biden.

00:42:10.940 We've got the most radical guy in public office, most powerful politician in the country.

00:42:15.280 You know who that is?

00:42:16.920 Dr. Fauci.

00:42:18.740 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

00:42:25.120 since, I think, the year 1732.

00:42:30.520 Dr. Fauci is in big trouble now.

00:42:32.360 There is a big new report out about his role in the origins of the coronavirus.

00:42:38.260 And I know that that report did not come out of the United States because the mainstream

00:42:43.740 media here are totally in lockstep with the left and with Dr. Fauci.

00:42:47.800 So you have to go all the way to Australia.

00:42:49.460 You get this report in The Australian right now.

00:42:51.440 It's hard to find.

00:42:53.640 Headline, Anthony Fauci backed virus experiments despite pandemic risks.

00:43:00.000 So two big issues here with Fauci.

00:43:01.820 One, Fauci did not warn Trump administration officials when the ban on gain of function

00:43:09.820 research ended in 2017.

00:43:12.520 So there had been a ban up until the very first days of the Trump administration on the

00:43:17.360 kind of research, gain of function, which just beefs up natural diseases and makes them

00:43:21.580 more transmissible, more infectious, the sort of stuff that we're seeing right now with the

00:43:25.700 coronavirus.

00:43:26.040 When that ban ended, the guy who's supposed to serve the president did not tell them that

00:43:32.080 because he thought that it would be a good thing.

00:43:34.840 Fauci had previously argued that there are risks to gain of function research.

00:43:40.480 You could unleash a worldwide pandemic.

00:43:43.680 He acknowledged this.

00:43:45.340 It's all here in this report in The Australian.

00:43:47.400 But he said the benefits outweigh the potential risks.

00:43:51.640 And Dr. Fauci was, you'll be shocked to hear this, wrong.

00:43:55.660 He was dead wrong yet again.

00:43:59.340 Yeah.

00:43:59.500 And it's not even that he lied this time.

00:44:01.140 He has lied in the past, but it's not just that he lied this time.

00:44:03.320 It's just that he was wrong.

00:44:05.880 Okay.

00:44:06.240 Dr. Fauci, wrong again.

00:44:10.460 Trump and all the people who called this stuff a year ago, you know, I hate to say I told

00:44:14.520 you so, we're right again.

00:44:15.960 And the mainstream media are having a really tough time admitting this.

00:44:18.640 So a year ago, going back to this gain of function research, going back to the Wuhan

00:44:23.720 laboratory, a lot of people said that it is not guaranteed, but very plausible that the

00:44:31.340 virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which had been conducting this kind of research. 0.97

00:44:35.600 We were called conspiracy theorists and idiots and rubes and dummies and unscientific. 0.98

00:44:40.200 And it turns out now we were right. 0.99

00:44:42.080 Not that it definitely 100% came from the lab, but that it looks increasingly likely that

00:44:46.860 it did.

00:44:47.540 John Carl on ABC News had to admit that just because Donald Trump says something does not

00:44:54.280 mean that it is necessarily incorrect.

00:44:57.260 And yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face.

00:44:59.680 This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State.

00:45:04.900 Donald Trump.

00:45:06.220 And look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.

00:45:11.460 And there was, because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control and

00:45:16.220 because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about Kung flu and the China

00:45:22.960 virus, his notion that put forward that this may have, or that he said flatly that this came

00:45:29.540 from that lab was widely dismissed.

00:45:31.720 But actually, there's some real reason.

00:45:33.920 We don't know.

00:45:34.500 By the way, we still don't know.

00:45:35.620 We absolutely don't know.

00:45:36.960 But now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.

00:45:40.500 Oh, now the serious people are saying that. 0.97

00:45:45.180 This, you see, unserious people, racist, evil, terrible, racist. 0.80

00:45:49.940 Why is it? 0.98

00:45:50.360 Because, because we said the virus came from China. 0.67

00:45:52.100 That's racist.

00:45:52.640 You're not allowed to say that.

00:45:53.760 You can say the UK variant, but you can't say the China virus.

00:45:56.500 Okay.

00:45:56.900 Okay, John Carl.

00:45:57.540 But he says, look, all these unserious people a year ago were right and all, all the serious

00:46:06.500 people were wrong.

00:46:08.300 But now that the serious people are saying that we were, we were right, now we have to

00:46:13.580 take it seriously.

00:46:15.860 You think maybe John Carl is confusing who the serious people here are?

00:46:19.780 Because I, I'm sort of not convinced that the Dr. Fauci's of the world and the mainstream

00:46:28.600 media of the world and the guys who got every single step of this wrong, I'm not convinced

00:46:32.260 they're the serious ones.

00:46:33.620 I think maybe we're the serious ones.

00:46:35.480 I think maybe it's exactly the opposite of what we have been told.

00:46:42.400 All of this going back to China.

00:46:44.160 By the way, you remember last week, John Cena, the Fast and Furious guy made this groveling

00:46:49.420 apology in Mandarin for saying that Taiwan is a country.

00:46:52.220 He was apologizing to China.

00:46:53.400 Well, didn't get him very far.

00:46:55.120 According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fast and Furious 9 is bombing at the Chinese box

00:46:59.760 office.

00:47:00.980 The, the receipts from it dropped 85% in the second weekend.

00:47:05.600 The lesson here, I think, is just never apologize to the leftist mob.

00:47:10.060 I was talking about this with Megyn Kelly about a month or so ago.

00:47:13.440 We were talking about all these canceled, canceled people who go out and they make groveling

00:47:17.100 apologies and they say, please, I'm sorry.

00:47:18.820 I'm, you know, Chris Harrison on The Bachelor or something like that.

00:47:21.000 I'm so sorry.

00:47:21.920 And it's pathetic because it reminds me of that scene in Breaking Bad where, where the 0.90

00:47:27.720 brother-in-law, the cop brother-in-law is lying there, you know, the Mexican gangster is 1.00

00:47:31.820 about to shoot him.

00:47:32.740 And, and Hank, or rather Walter White says to Hank, his brother-in-law says, just, just 0.52

00:47:38.300 a grovel, please beg, apologize, just do whatever.

00:47:41.200 And, and the brother-in-law and the granny said, oh, you're the smartest guy I know, but 1.00

00:47:44.520 you don't realize this guy made up his mind to kill me 10 minutes ago. 0.99

00:47:47.180 No, the mob is already going to kill you.

00:47:49.900 China made up its mind 10 minutes ago before John Cena made the apology.

00:47:53.540 The question is not, am I going to get to keep my money?

00:47:55.620 Am I going to get to keep my career?

00:47:56.940 The question is, am I going to lose my, lose my dignity while I lose my career?

00:48:01.200 That's the only question.

00:48:01.720 You're going to keep your dignity or are you going to lose your dignity?

00:48:05.280 You know, China is carrying a lot of sway these days.

00:48:09.860 Again, not just on the John Cena's of the world, not just in Hollywood, all the way up to

00:48:13.840 the top.

00:48:14.220 Joe Biden is getting in trouble because he keeps quoting Chairman Mao.

00:48:17.460 Take a listen.

00:48:19.280 There's a saying that we use in a different context, a Chinese saying, it says, women hold

00:48:24.780 up half the world. 0.98

00:48:28.140 It's an absolute stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we 0.99

00:48:35.380 do. 0.99

00:48:36.120 So Biden's been quoting this ad nauseum.

00:48:38.080 It's not just an old Chinese saying, it's a saying from Chairman Mao, the communist revolutionary

00:48:43.040 who killed tens of millions of people in China, maybe the worst mass murderer in world history. 0.62

00:48:48.960 And he's quoting him.

00:48:50.780 Not why?

00:48:51.540 Because, because Joe Biden's a Maoist?

00:48:53.840 No, there are plenty of Maoists on the left, but because Joe Biden goes along to get along

00:48:59.340 and that is where the left is right now.

00:49:02.220 They're quoting Mao.

00:49:02.980 By the way though, speaking of China, China just, they had the one child policy for a very 0.59

00:49:06.740 long time.

00:49:07.220 You couldn't have more, more than one kid.

00:49:09.720 They would force abortions and sterilization on you. 0.99

00:49:11.980 Then it became two children.

00:49:13.120 Now it's three children because they want to avoid a population collapse and they want

00:49:16.820 to rebuild their family.

00:49:18.540 I think they're seeing ahead a little bit more here.

00:49:20.520 Meanwhile, here in the United States, here in the West, we are doing our damnedest to destroy

00:49:25.500 the family through policy, through culture, through radical ideologies that we're going

00:49:31.740 to have to be talking about now for an entire month.

00:49:33.540 We'll have a lot more to talk about.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 01, 2021

Ep. 775 - Your Kids Are Under Attack

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