The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 786 - The Sacred Feast of “Juneteenth”

00:00:00.000 The U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to make Juneteenth a holiday that until a few years ago,

00:00:07.460 very few people had ever heard of, into a national holiday. And when the Senate votes

00:00:13.900 unanimously for something, you can be almost certain that it is a bad idea. The Juneteenth

00:00:19.580 holiday may not put an end to racism, but it sure will get you accused of racism if you don't

00:00:25.180 celebrate this recently popularized feast. But I don't really care what the libs call me,

00:00:31.260 so we will get into it. Then Chuck Schumer calls kids retarded, Joe Biden calls moms birthing people, 0.97

00:00:37.520 and even firebrand congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for something that she said. 0.85

00:00:43.160 Get in control of the new language before it leaves you. Speechless. I'm Michael Noles. This is The

00:00:49.520 Michael Noles Show.

00:00:55.180 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Auto Pump Prod, okay, who writes,

00:01:03.880 quote, if slavery was America's original sin and we abolished slavery more than 150 years ago,

00:01:10.880 I guess that means our nation is now sinless and is such perfect. What does the left have to complain

00:01:15.460 about? You know, this is an interesting point because it shows the problem of the slavery is

00:01:20.760 original sin issue, which is in real original sin. We were talking about the sin of Adam that

00:01:26.340 causes sin and death to pervade the world. Mankind has fallen, we're imperfect, and we're up the creek

00:01:34.080 without a paddle. Then at the incarnation and the crucifixion and then the resurrection, Christ defeats

00:01:41.180 death on the cross and redeems mankind. However, the temporal effects of sin are still in the world.

00:01:48.420 So Christ has this perfect sacrifice of himself on the cross, redeems mankind, opens up eternal life

00:01:55.860 to us, but we're still in a fallen world because the temporal effects of sin remain. So the issue with

00:02:00.880 the slavery is America's original sin issue here is one, it's just not true because original sin is

00:02:06.280 America's original sin. But also, you've got the original sin, then you've got this sort of salvation

00:02:12.780 by works idea that, you know, there's the civil war that was going to free the slaves and then

00:02:18.600 we're going to save ourselves. But we obviously don't because what the left would argue is the

00:02:22.900 temporal effects of that sin through racism still exist. And the problem for that ideology is there

00:02:28.660 ain't no redeemer. So we're always cut in that mire of sin. What a heavy way to start today. You know,

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00:03:53.960 festival to the secular liturgical calendar. Juneteenth, a national holiday.

00:04:03.840 You know, I asked this question. I knew what it would elicit, but I asked the question on Twitter.

00:04:09.420 I said, what was accomplished by making Juneteenth a national holiday? And all these blue check libs 1.00

00:04:16.180 who are journalists or politicians or whoever write into me. They say, you're a racist. How dare you ask 0.94

00:04:23.100 that question? Your clan hood is showing. How dare you suggest that Juneteenth, the most holy day of

00:04:32.780 the year, should not be a national holiday? And I looked at just one of these guys. I just picked

00:04:38.040 one of them at random. And I said, you know, I bet that this person never had anything to say about

00:04:45.400 Juneteenth until at the very most a few years ago. So I took his, I don't even remember his name,

00:04:50.760 but I took his name. It was some journo blue check, typed it into Google, typed in the word

00:04:55.260 Juneteenth. And I set the custom search range from 1970 until 2018. Do you know how many results came

00:05:02.180 up? Zero. Nobody knew about this thing outside a few people in the regional areas where Juneteenth was

00:05:08.340 even recognized. Nobody had heard about this thing until a few years ago. Now we are all supposed to

00:05:14.580 pretend that we've all known about it forever, especially the libs pretend that they've known about

00:05:18.080 this for years and years, and that this is a very important holy day in America. I think it was a bad

00:05:24.300 idea to make Juneteenth a national holiday. I know this is an unpopular opinion and more people are

00:05:29.320 going to call me a terrible racist bigot, whatever person. I don't think the point was to have everybody

00:05:38.840 celebrate the wonders of Abraham Lincoln and the union troops and America and the promise of this

00:05:46.040 wonderful country. And I don't think the point was to express gratitude for our country or to celebrate

00:05:50.540 much of anything. I think the point was to just pick a scab more and more and more to say that

00:05:58.140 America is essentially a racist, awful place. When I asked what is accomplished by the Juneteenth

00:06:03.380 holiday, a lot of people ask, well, Michael, what's accomplished by any holiday? What was accomplished by

00:06:08.220 the creation of Columbus Day? And there's a very specific answer.

00:06:11.120 One, the broad answer is Columbus Day was in part designed to recognize one of history's greatest

00:06:18.020 men, Christopher Columbus, who discovered the new world. But the very specific political reason why

00:06:23.320 Columbus Day was created is to make Italian Americans feel more welcome in this country

00:06:27.520 one year after they were the victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. There was a mass

00:06:32.480 lynching, the largest one ever in 1891 in Louisiana. It was 11 Italian guys. History doesn't teach this 0.56

00:06:42.500 very much, but it's true. 1892, on the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, you get the first

00:06:49.000 Columbus Day at a national level. This was a one-time holiday, comes back a little later on.

00:06:55.580 Okay, fair enough. What is accomplished by Juneteenth? Well, what they're going to tell you is it's to

00:06:59.540 celebrate the end of slavery. What, you racist? You don't want to celebrate the end of slavery? 0.51

00:07:04.140 Juneteenth does not mark the end of slavery. It doesn't. There are a few dates that you could

00:07:09.880 say mark the end of slavery. You could say, how about the Emancipation Proclamation? Why don't we 0.82

00:07:14.080 have Emancipation Proclamation Day? Why don't we have 13th Amendment Day? That actually ended slavery. 1.00

00:07:21.780 Why Juneteenth, the day that word came from certain troops to Texas that slavery was going to be abolished?

00:07:29.540 I think there's a specific answer. If it's Emancipation Proclamation Day, then you got to

00:07:34.540 give credit to Abraham Lincoln. But that is very contrary to the new leftist ideology, which says

00:07:39.740 that we should not give white men any credit for doing anything right. Actually, there was just an

00:07:45.860 article the other day by a cultural critic against Tom Hanks. We read it on this show where he said,

00:07:50.260 the problem with Tom Hanks is he's played in his historical movies, white men who do the right 0.94

00:07:55.800 thing. And we shouldn't acknowledge that. When the Lincoln movie with Daniel Day-Lewis came out,

00:07:59.540 some years ago, one of the big criticisms from the left is that it gave too much credit to Lincoln

00:08:04.220 for freeing the slaves. The slaves freed themselves, darn it. I mean, that isn't true. 0.99

00:08:08.640 Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. But you're not allowed to give credit to the white savior who did

00:08:13.620 this. You're not allowed to give credit to the overwhelmingly white Union soldiers in the Civil War.

00:08:19.420 Not allowed to give credit to the white legislators who ratified the 13th Amendment.

00:08:25.560 So I think that is part of the reason. We'd have to have something nice to say

00:08:29.100 about some of the statesmen in our country.

00:08:33.460 Who cares? The left always says, oh, who cares? Come on, come on. What? You're going to complain

00:08:38.880 about a holiday? I had one of these other blue checks yell this at me. What? You're going to 1.00

00:08:42.740 complain? Oh, gosh. Okay. Yeah, that's a winning strategy. You're going to complain about a holiday

00:08:46.920 that recognizes slaves. Who cares, man? The left cares. Have you ever noticed that whenever

00:08:56.600 conservatives call out the libs on their cultural ploys, the libs always say, oh, who cares? It's 0.95

00:09:05.460 not a big deal. Come on. Who cares if we let Husky Hank go into the women's bathroom because he's got a 1.00

00:09:11.600 wig on? Oh, it's not a big deal. Who cares if little girls have to change in front of boys at the 0.98

00:09:15.840 public swimming pool? It's just not a big deal. Oh, who cares that we're killing a million babies 0.99

00:09:21.320 a year through abortion? Do you really think it's really this is the hill to die on, really?

00:09:24.980 Who cares about critical race theory? You're going to get all wound up about some educational

00:09:30.340 theory in schools? Come on. Who cares about a new holiday? Who cares about Pride Month? Who cares

00:09:34.980 about this? Who cares about that? The left cares that they are the aggressors in the culture war by 0.98

00:09:41.520 definition. You've got the culture. And then when radical changes are made to the culture, it ain't

00:09:46.840 being made by conservatives. It's being made by the radicals. Why do they care so much? Why do they

00:09:51.480 invest so much time and money in the pronouns and the holidays and the educational theories? And why do

00:09:58.640 they invest all their resources in it? Because they know that the cultural issues matter tremendously,

00:10:03.540 far more than any stupid tax cut that Republicans seem solely capable of focusing on at any given time. 0.97

00:10:13.700 The point of the Juneteenth holiday, I suspect, is to cast more light, they will say, on America's 0.99

00:10:23.980 awful, terrible, racist past to emphasize to an absurd degree the existence of slavery in America,

00:10:30.920 something not unique to America, not even particularly egregious relative to other nations,

00:10:38.260 even in the Americas in America. Right? Think about the number of African slaves imported to places

00:10:43.320 like Brazil. Totally dwarfs the number of African slaves in America. Think about the period of time

00:10:48.200 in which the United States and the West more broadly tolerated slavery. Very small period of time

00:10:54.980 relative to the history of slavery in other places like Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa,

00:10:59.340 and the Far East, where it still exists today. But no, this is America's sin. We're going to have,

00:11:04.180 I'm shocked we don't have five more holidays pointing out the awful original sin of slavery,

00:11:09.460 from which there is no redemption. And Republicans go along with it. Republicans go along with it to

00:11:15.580 prove that we're not racist to people who don't care that you're not racist, to prove that actually,

00:11:21.680 yes, it is America's original sin. You hear, you hear Republicans say this.

00:11:25.280 So it's a losing, losing strategy, folks. You're not going to beat the left at their own

00:11:31.000 game. Now, some, some politicians are pushing back on this, this kind of crazy narrative. You're

00:11:36.340 seeing it at the state level right now, which is where they have a lot more freedom to do it.

00:11:41.080 You're seeing it in various states that are banning critical race theory, most notably in Florida

00:11:46.760 with Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis is a booting critical race theory from the classroom. His

00:11:54.220 opponent, the agricultural commissioner, the Democrat Nikki Freed, who's running against him

00:11:58.400 for governor, has come out and said that this governor is trying to create not just another

00:12:02.940 culture war, but another race war. This is another opportunity for the governor to create a race war

00:12:09.440 and a cultural war inside of our state. I want everybody to rest assured, first of all,

00:12:15.240 critical race theory isn't the new boogeyman of the Republican party. It's not something that's

00:12:20.980 taught in the state of Florida, but we need to let our teachers do their jobs and that's teach. And

00:12:27.420 this is again, this governor and this board of education who again is appointed solely by Republican

00:12:32.860 governors, so it's by Ron DeSantis and the previous governor as well. And it is not their job to tell

00:12:38.280 our teachers, you know, how to, you know, sure there's parameters of aware policies, but this is

00:12:44.900 a time when they have overstepped once again, government and stepping in the job of educating

00:12:50.980 and not the teachers. Excuse me, government is stepping into the job. They're overstepping

00:12:57.180 by having something to say over the government schools. Are you, what are you talking about?

00:13:01.640 You have schools run by and funded by the government, but you're saying the government doesn't

00:13:07.460 have any right to make the curricula. By definition, the government has to make the curricula and

00:13:12.200 hopefully the parents and hopefully the local governments, the boards of education.

00:13:17.540 But what are we saying? Now the teachers have the right to teach anything they want. You don't

00:13:20.240 believe that. If a teacher went in there and taught that Donald Trump's the greatest president

00:13:22.980 in US history, you'd be calling for that person's head on a pike. Critical race theory is not being

00:13:28.440 taught in Florida. Yes, it is. It's not, they're calling it a boogeyman. Here you go. You can read all

00:13:31.920 about critical race theory. It's a now probably a 25 or 30 year old academic movement. It's,

00:13:36.800 it's derived from critical theory, which is a broader academic movement, which you can read

00:13:40.820 more about actually coincident, coincidental or providential timing in my upcoming book,

00:13:45.380 Speechless. Controlling words, controlling minds. I couldn't leave the bell. My guys have been a

00:13:50.080 little slow on the bell. I had, I had to get my own bell just in case. Go get the book. This is such

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00:15:14.820 to Ron DeSantis for governor in, in 2022, this woman, Nikki Freed has been making demonstrably

00:15:23.060 false claims, but it's going to show you the strategy of the left on specifically this issue

00:15:29.840 of critical race theory. Critical race theory is, is a fairly well-defined academic movement. You got

00:15:35.920 big people who have contributed to it. Kimberly Crenshaw is the most, most famous one. Uh, but,

00:15:41.280 uh, plenty of pseudo academics here. There's a forward by Cornell West, who is a well-known

00:15:45.920 academic huckster in the, in the academy. Uh, sometimes he says interesting things, but a lot

00:15:52.180 of what he says is, is pretty kooky. This exists. It does not only exist in as much as you go into

00:15:59.820 your classroom and the teacher says, okay, students put away your math textbooks today. We're going to

00:16:05.280 study critical race theory. Critical race theory, like all of these critical analyses are academic

00:16:11.620 lenses that pervade all sorts of different departments, right? We've seen some examples of

00:16:19.000 what is taught by critical race theory. The idea that white people are all racist. The idea that

00:16:25.180 objective truth does, does not really exist. The idea that your faculties of reason are unreliable.

00:16:29.800 The idea that many things that come out of the crazy academic movements of the 20th century.

00:16:35.320 The idea that, uh, we, we are subconsciously so vicious and racist that, that the whole country

00:16:43.260 is, is defined by systems of oppression that work in an intersectional way. A friend of mine the other

00:16:50.640 night asked, Michael, what is intersectionality? And it's a lot of people, that's one of these stupid 1.00

00:16:54.400 terms that basically means, hmm, here's an example. I'll, I'll describe it by way of example. 0.98

00:16:59.960 If you're a black guy, you're oppressed. If you're a woman, you're oppressed. But if you're a black 0.84

00:17:07.160 woman, oh, you're super duper oppressed more so than those other two categories. But if you're a 0.95

00:17:14.000 black woman who is a lesbian, you are going to be more oppressed than either the black woman or the 1.00

00:17:21.860 lesbian. So now you've got another layer down. But if you are a black woman who is a lesbian, 1.00

00:17:27.680 who is disabled, who is missing an arm or something, you are going to be more oppressed 0.98

00:17:32.580 than just the black woman or the disabled person. And do you see the problem here with this hierarchy

00:17:39.460 of victimhood and grievance? There's no end to it. Even if you can reach some kind of physical end,

00:17:48.740 do you know what's going to happen? They're just going to invent new categories of victimhood. This is

00:17:54.920 a lot of what you're seeing going on with the, with the gender craziness. Every three days, 1.00

00:17:58.820 they seem to invent a new gender. So we went from two genders to three genders to five genders to 0.97

00:18:02.760 56 genders to now it's something like 70 genders. Why? Because they're always, there's a, an incentive 1.00

00:18:09.080 for greater grievance. There is a social currency to victimhood and there is no end to the depths that

00:18:17.100 one can plumb when they're looking only at themselves. And the, and truly the depths, you know,

00:18:22.440 the depths down and down and darker and darker. And so you, you end up with this crazy, crazy system

00:18:30.740 that, that has no end to it. That is being taught, not just in schools. It's being taught in corporate

00:18:34.720 boardrooms. It's being taught in our institutions. It's being taught in the military for goodness

00:18:37.980 sakes. It is right to boot that from the schools. And I hope DeSantis stands strong, even as people,

00:18:45.240 look, if you criticize this stuff at all, the whole reason they focus on these racial issues,

00:18:49.500 the dividing line in America. And they're focusing on it from CRT to Juneteenth is because they know

00:18:53.800 that if you ever speak out against them in any way, they're, they can smear you as a racist and

00:18:58.020 it doesn't matter if it's not true. They're just going to do it. And hopefully DeSantis can stand up

00:19:02.900 to that sort of thing. Usually Democrats are very good at controlling the language, controlling

00:19:09.020 words and controlling minds. Something you can read about in my up and going speechless.

00:19:13.940 Oh man, this is good. By the end of the week, it's just, I'm gonna have a gong,

00:19:18.300 I think by the end of the week, because there's only, there's only what, five days left to pre-order

00:19:21.600 the book. You can get a signed first edition copy of Premier Collectibles. Sometimes Democrats

00:19:25.920 make the mistake of not keeping up with the new jargon. Chuck Schumer, you know, he's not,

00:19:33.280 not a spring chicken exactly. He's been around a long time. Chuck Schumer was recently giving an

00:19:37.300 interview. He made a terrible mistake of using language that was perfectly acceptable not that long

00:19:43.700 ago, but currently is totally unacceptable. This initiative actually will house the homeless

00:19:50.100 population that is actually living on our streets. We see them every day. Yes. We're about to house

00:19:55.740 them and they're against it. It's, it's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, it's, I, I, I have found that my

00:20:01.480 whole career. They wanted to build, uh, in when I first was assemblyman, they wanted to build a

00:20:07.820 congregate living place for retarded children. The whole neighborhood was against it. These are 1.00

00:20:12.940 harmless kids. They just needed some help. We got it done. Chuck Schumer had the audacity to call

00:20:19.440 retarded children, retarded children. You can't, you're not allowed to say that. What are you 1.00

00:20:23.760 supposed to say now? I don't know. I don't know because it's a, it's a euphemism, right? There are

00:20:29.540 all, all sorts of euphemisms. The word retarded is itself a euphemism. It just means slow. There's 0.99

00:20:34.640 nothing intrinsically offensive about that other than it's, it's describing a handicap.

00:20:42.460 And so because it is undesirable to have a handicap, the, the euphemism sounds undesirable.

00:20:47.820 And so people take offense at that. But what is he supposed to call it? I mean, the, the word

00:20:53.780 retarded itself was a replacement for older words that were then considered more offensive. Now,

00:20:59.180 what are we supposed to say? Mentally challenged, mentally handicapped. One of the new euphemisms 1.00

00:21:03.340 is handy capable. Worth pointing out because there, there are two different kinds of euphemism.

00:21:07.940 All of us use euphemisms to soften harsh language. So we refer to a woman of a certain age instead of

00:21:13.680 an old hag. You know, the, the old hag is a woman of a certain age. We say of a certain age because 1.00

00:21:19.100 it's a little softer, but it doesn't negate the reality we're describing. Retarded or mentally 1.00

00:21:25.460 challenged or simple or whatever doesn't negate the reality that we're describing. But the politically

00:21:31.700 correct style euphemisms, where you go from handicapped to handy capable, as though you have

00:21:38.400 sort of extra powers, that does negate the reality that you're describing. That, that is so often what

00:21:44.480 happens with the way that PC works. But there are more euphemisms. Chuck Schumer fell afoul of the,

00:21:51.220 of the current popular one. But let's move over to the, the people who give birth to all sorts of

00:22:01.380 children. We used to call them mothers, used to call them moms. Now, not so much in the, in the

00:22:08.700 Biden budget. Mothers have been replaced by the term birthing people. Senator Lankford recently asked

00:22:17.580 Xavier Becerra, the head of HHS, uh, to help him out, to figure out that the definition of this strange

00:22:24.920 new term. I also noticed you changed a term in your budget work. Uh, you shifted from in places from

00:22:32.440 using the term mother to birthing people rather than mother. Can you help me get a good definition

00:22:38.420 of birthing people? Well, I'll, I'll, I'll check on the language there, but I think if we're talking

00:22:44.060 about those who give birth, I think we're talking about, uh, I, I don't know how else to explain it

00:22:49.620 to other than it. I was a little taken back when I just read it and saw it that it's that the term

00:22:55.380 mother was gone in spots and it was replaced with birthing people. Would you at least admit calling a 1.00

00:23:01.280 mom, a birthing person could be offensive to some moms, uh, that they don't want to get like a happy 1.00

00:23:07.500 birthing person card in may, or I mean, can you at least admit that that term itself could be offensive

00:23:13.780 to some moms? Senator, I'll, I'll go back and take a look at the, the, the terminology that was

00:23:19.460 used and I can get back to you. But again, if we're trying to be precise in the language that's

00:23:23.820 used. Mom's a pretty good word. That's, that's worked for a while. And I think that's pretty precise.

00:23:30.340 We're trying to be precise in the language that's used. You're trying to be precise.

00:23:34.100 Well, if you want to be precise, you, you would say mother, but that's the most precise. It's the most

00:23:40.260 concise way to describe it, but we can't. And we are told that now the simplest, the simplest way to

00:23:48.720 understand mothers is as birthing people. We are told that this is a more neutral way, a less

00:23:54.080 offensive way to say, because the theory is that some men can give birth because the theory is that

00:23:59.320 some women can magically become men by wishing it so because the theory is that our human person has

00:24:04.440 nothing to do with our bodies because the theory is the now popular adoption of the radical 0.92

00:24:09.260 transgender theory, which is a ridiculous ancient heresy. That is not a neutral playing ground. 1.00

00:24:16.820 That really matters. The semantic shift from mother to birthing person carries with it whole 0.93

00:24:23.780 premises. It carries with it a whole culture. And what Xavier Becerra is trying to say here is,

00:24:28.720 you know, Senator, I don't, I don't know. I mean, I'll go back to the language. I just think,

00:24:32.020 come on, it's not a, it's not a big deal. Come on, it's not a big deal. Just,

00:24:35.700 we're being precise. Okay, just come on. And did you hear, he hesitated. He said,

00:24:42.080 look, I think when we're referring, excuse me, Mr. Becerra, are you referring to mothers here?

00:24:46.720 Well, look, I think it's pretty obvious when we're referring to birthing people,

00:24:49.360 people who give birth, we're referring to, and then he stops himself because he can't say mother

00:24:54.940 because if he says mother, he's admitting that of course that is the more precise and concise and

00:24:59.720 direct way to say it, but he can't grant that because he is beholden to the radical view that

00:25:06.020 men can give birth. That's what, oh, come on, who cares? Who cares? You care, buddy. You're doing a 0.63

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00:28:01.120 The Secretary of Health and Human Services refuses to call mothers mothers. He only calls

00:28:07.240 them birthing people. And speaking of this, I have to address an issue that came up. I've gotten a lot

00:28:12.440 of notes about this on YouTube and Twitter and all sorts of places. The rapper Tom McDonald put out

00:28:18.980 a hit song. I mean, this thing is number one on the charts. It's getting zillions of views on YouTube.

00:28:23.840 It's called Snowflakes. And, you know, I'm not the most hip-hoppy guy in the whole wide world,

00:28:28.440 but it's an ironic sort of song because it's in this generally leftist medium of hip-hop, but it's

00:28:35.280 very right-wing in many of its talking points. Talking about snowflakes, you know, like the precious

00:28:40.180 little snowflakes on campuses. And I had a reaction to it. We posted it on YouTube. You can go check it

00:28:45.880 out. But I raised a question, which was the role of the woman. You know, these music videos tend to 1.00

00:28:52.560 have a woman or other women sort of dancing around as the sex appeal. The woman in this video is played 1.00

00:28:59.260 by a man, Blair White, who I like. Blair White has been on this show. He's a guy who identifies as a

00:29:05.000 woman, and he's relatively right-wing about it, if such a thing can be true. He doesn't say that

00:29:10.720 he's a woman. He knows that he's always going to be a man, but he just says it makes him feel better

00:29:14.240 to have these cosmetic surgeries and to present himself as a woman in the world. And I said, you

00:29:20.400 know, I'm glad that Tom's music video is one of the biggest songs on the planet right now. I'd rather

00:29:27.420 people be listening to this more right-wing rap than to most left-wing rap, WAP or something like

00:29:36.240 that by Cardi B. I'm glad that if people are going to watch a transvestite, they're watching Blair 1.00

00:29:41.540 White, who has generally more right-wing things to say than, who knows, the drag queens will go on 1.00

00:29:46.100 Nickelodeon. I'm glad about that. But, but, isn't there a risk here? Isn't there a risk that in our

00:29:54.460 zeal to own the libs, we are actually adopting their premises? This was always the fear of the

00:29:59.140 Caitlyn Jenner candidacy. Yeah, maybe Caitlyn, Bruce Jenner would be a better governor than Gavin

00:30:05.840 Newsom. Maybe, maybe he would, maybe he would have better policies, sort of. But the cost of that

00:30:12.620 would be the embrace of the radical gender ideology. Is it, and, and what I've been told by people who

00:30:18.880 defend Blair's appearance in this music video or who defend the Caitlyn Jenner candidacy is,

00:30:23.820 Michael, you don't get it. It totally owns the libs because the libs, you see, they think that 0.56

00:30:28.880 they've got a lock on all the transgender people, but actually some of them are conservative. And so,

00:30:35.500 yeah, it's going to totally own the libs to, to what? To embrace their radical vision and rewriting

00:30:45.740 of, of human nature itself. That's going to own the, I think that's owning ourselves.

00:30:49.580 I think that's a price that's, if we keep owning the libs like that, there aren't going to be any 1.00

00:30:53.760 conservatives left. Well, no, Michael, you can be transgender and conservative.

00:31:00.960 Not really. You can have this issue of gender dysphoria and be conservative. You can struggle

00:31:06.640 with this issue where you're a man, but you either very much desire to be a woman or you think that

00:31:10.440 you're a woman or whatever. People have a lot of quirks, right? You can, but if you are 1.00

00:31:15.720 totally embracing this, I'm not quite sure you can be very conservative. And it's a threat to

00:31:21.800 the broader conservative vision. There have been people, there was a woman who wrote into me

00:31:25.560 and a woman of a certain age who says she was a 62 year old mother who said, Michael, this is

00:31:32.020 outrageous. I like you. We don't agree on everything, but your video about Blair White was

00:31:36.080 so childish. The whole point was that a beautiful trans woman does not agree with snowflakes and their 1.00

00:31:41.160 pronoun crap, but, but she does. She goes by she and you're, you're calling her a woman. 1.00

00:31:46.700 So not only is, is Blair going along with it to some degree, but even worse, the viewers are going

00:31:52.620 along with it. Blair White is not trying to take the place of a woman. She's just trying to live 1.00

00:31:57.420 her best life. Okay. Well, even, you know, Blair is relatively quite grounded on these issues,

00:32:01.780 but you're referring to her, but he is not a she. The fear is, forget even Blair or Bruce

00:32:10.100 Jenner for a second. It's everybody else. I know perfectly conservative people who refer to

00:32:16.060 Caitlyn Jenner as she, or as Caitlyn, even I'm, you know, even I'm doing it because it's very

00:32:20.400 confusing. That's the fear. That's the problem. I know that we all want to say yes, yes, yes.

00:32:26.600 Yes, yes, yes, yes. No, we're the party of yes to everything. We're the biggest tent in the world.

00:32:30.520 Well, you know, if the tent doesn't have any tent poles anywhere, if there are no limits,

00:32:35.700 no demarcations, then there is no such thing as a conservative movement. Just like if a nation

00:32:39.660 doesn't have borders, it's not a nation, a political movement that has no boundaries whatsoever

00:32:43.760 is not a political movement, or it's a completely impotent one like the conservatives have been for

00:32:48.800 decades at this point. If we cannot at least put that tent pole down and say, human nature is

00:32:57.400 human nature, that we can't totally remake human nature. If we can't even say that, we can't say

00:33:04.840 anything at all. There's a lot of pressure to give in on the racial questions, on the sexual

00:33:10.600 questions, on the anti-American rights, all the radical critical race theory. There's so much

00:33:16.900 pressure to give in and say, you know what? White people are evil. America is a white supremacist 1.00

00:33:21.340 country. It's hopelessly bigoted. On the sexual issues, yes, the patriarchy, it's really evil. 1.00

00:33:26.400 Heterosis normative, it's really evil. On the anti-American, yes, the founding fathers were the worst 0.95

00:33:31.900 people. Tear down the statues. There's so much pressure. You shouldn't give in. People are giving

00:33:38.180 in though. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's a little kooky, I think we can all admit. I don't

00:33:44.140 think there's anything wrong about saying that. She has said some things that are a little out there,

00:33:47.520 okay, but she's also generally stood up to the left in a way that is not true of many other members

00:33:57.120 of Congress. Marjorie Taylor Greene got in hot water because she compared the current public health 1.00

00:34:02.180 bureaucracy and the draconian public health rules to the Holocaust, to Jews in Nazi Germany. If you

00:34:10.460 have to show a vaccine card, it's similar to wearing an armband, right? Yellow star on your arm.

00:34:17.240 Now, I don't really like Holocaust comparisons. I just think that they're clumsy. I think people make

00:34:21.660 them generally because they don't have other historical perspective. And so I just think they're

00:34:26.120 very tired and I don't really make them myself. However, the left just spent, not just four years,

00:34:34.660 the left has spent 40 years comparing any Republican that in any way threatens them to Hitler,

00:34:41.720 calling them all Nazis. They did it, they obviously did it to Trump. They literally Hitler. They did it

00:34:46.520 to George W. Bush, little Hitler mustaches all the time. They did it to Ronald Reagan. They've done it 0.95

00:34:53.240 to every Republican. And yet only Marjorie Taylor Greene is held accountable. They forced her to go 0.75

00:34:58.440 to the Holocaust Museum and then to give a little speech about all the things she learned.

00:35:02.540 One of the best lessons that my father always taught me was when you make a mistake, you should own it.

00:35:10.340 And I have made a mistake and it's really bothered me for a couple of weeks now. And so I definitely

00:35:16.840 want to own it. This afternoon, I visited the Holocaust Museum. The horrors of the Holocaust are 0.64

00:35:23.400 something that some people don't even believe happened. Some people deny, but there is no comparison

00:35:29.420 to the Holocaust. And there are words that I have said, remarks that I've made that I know 0.89

00:35:35.900 are offensive. And for that, I want to apologize. She should not have given the speech. She should 0.89

00:35:42.240 not have apologized for this. Not because I think you should make Holocaust comparisons. I actually

00:35:47.100 think people should refrain from making Holocaust comparisons. They're just, it's not, not good

00:35:51.920 rhetoric. I don't think it's particularly persuasive or, or pertinent, but because it's a, it's a

00:35:59.960 ridiculous double standard. Nobody's actually offended that Marjorie Taylor Greene made this 0.99

00:36:05.020 Holocaust comparison. If they were, then any of the leftists who do this routinely, who are still

00:36:11.080 doing this today at every single level of the highest levels of the Democratic Party down to the

00:36:16.420 lowest activists on the street, they all do it in the media. They all do it. None of them ever has to

00:36:21.340 go visit the museum and give an apology. But Marjorie Greene does. Big mistake. Big mistake.

00:36:28.040 You've got to recognize that in political battles, your opponents get a say. And if you play by a

00:36:33.580 completely different set of rules, a set of rules that puts you at a distinct disadvantage all the

00:36:39.220 time, if you have to apologize for things that your opponents do not have to apologize for, you are

00:36:43.440 not in a good spot. Now, Marjorie Greene also, at the same time, introduced the Fire Fauci Act, 0.98

00:36:51.340 in the House of Representatives. One imagines that perhaps she had to go make this apology in order

00:36:57.480 to get the limelight for the Fire Fauci Act. So this sort of the way to redeem oneself.

00:37:03.440 Marjorie Greene doesn't just want the president to fire Fauci. She wants to make this an act of 1.00

00:37:08.680 Congress. Thank you for coming, everyone. This is an important issue that we need to talk.

00:37:14.140 The American people have endured terrible things over the past year due to the shutdowns from

00:37:21.060 COVID-19. And I'm very proud to sponsor the Fire Fauci Act. And I'm grateful to my colleagues here

00:37:28.540 for co-sponsoring this bill because the American people deserve answers. The Fire Fauci Act will bring

00:37:36.000 Dr. Fauci's salary down to zero and also will require the Senate to confirm someone to fill his

00:37:43.620 position. Love it. That's good stuff. But Michael, Marjorie Greene says kooky things sometimes. Yep,

00:37:51.140 sure. Yep. So does AOC. So does Ilhan Omar. So does Rashida Tlaib. So does Ayanna Pressley. So does

00:37:59.900 Nancy Pelosi. So does Maxine Waters. So does, oh gosh, the list. If you're talking about Democrats

00:38:06.620 in Congress, the list goes on and on and on and on. Are all of those Democratic members supposed to

00:38:13.600 resign or be booted out of the House? No. You'll notice that all of those women have said things that 1.00

00:38:18.720 are much, much worse and politically relevant than whatever musings Marjorie Greene has had.

00:38:24.880 And the Democrats always defend them. Always. And they use those politicians when they can be useful.

00:38:33.160 So I think something like the Fire Fauci Act, love it. Let's do it. Let's get behind that. Great,

00:38:37.740 great use of the legislative powers. Probably not going to get through, but it would be a great,

00:38:42.220 great use of it. But you know, it's not Dr. Fauci's fault. Nothing, nothing is ever Dr. Fauci's fault.

00:38:48.720 You don't need to take my word for it. Andy Slavitt, who is Joe Biden's former COVID czar,

00:38:54.920 says that the failures and the difficulties of the lockdowns, it's not because of Fauci. It's not

00:39:02.000 because of the public health bureaucracy. It's not because of any of the politicians.

00:39:05.180 It's just because you, you deplorable, irredeemable, Bible-thumping, bitter-clinging 1.00

00:39:13.440 American, just couldn't sacrifice a little bit more. Of course, we would have had a pandemic here 0.99

00:39:19.640 in the U.S. no matter what. But look, we can count the mistakes, and I think it's important that we do

00:39:26.400 for nothing else that we don't repeat them. We obviously had a set of technical mistakes

00:39:30.560 mistakes with the testing and the PPE that we know about. But if we're honest, we also had two

00:39:36.340 other types of mistakes that caused a lot of loss of life. One were just plainly political leadership

00:39:41.200 mistakes. There was a lot, we denied the virus for too long out of the Trump White House.

00:39:46.420 There was too much squashing of dissent and playing on divisions. But I'd also think we all need to look

00:39:50.840 at one another and ask ourselves, what do we need to do better next time? And in many respects,

00:39:55.620 being able to sacrifice a little bit for one another to get through this and to save more

00:40:00.880 lives is going to be essential. And that's something that I think we could all have done

00:40:04.780 a little bit better on. Yeah, we all could have done a little bit. You know, you just,

00:40:09.320 yeah, I know that we told you you'd shut down for 15 days and slow the spread. And I know we all told

00:40:14.420 you not to wear the masks. And I know that we then extended the 15 days to over 15 months. And I know

00:40:21.180 that we shuttered many, many of your businesses and we closed your churches and you didn't see

00:40:25.760 your loved ones. And many of your loved ones died alone for no reason at all, for just complete BS

00:40:31.040 bunk junk science. And I know that we didn't let your kids go to school for a year. And I know that

00:40:36.860 you didn't get to have your weddings. And I know that you didn't get your cancer treatment because

00:40:40.780 that was shut down for the far more urgent cough. But you just should have sacrificed a little

00:40:46.120 more. Couldn't you have sacrificed a little more? That's the problem. You know, we in the public

00:40:52.520 health bureaucracy, we knew what to do. We had the right idea. But you selfish slobs, you just 1.00

00:40:58.420 sacrifice a little bit more. Just a little bit more, he says. Okay. Okay. It's your fault. It's 0.98

00:41:05.700 not their fault. It's your fault. Particularly, when we say it's your fault, what is this? It gets back

00:41:12.000 to the question at the top of the show, the nature of sin in the current American understanding.

00:41:17.780 Everything, I don't think that Slavitt is referring to the liberal people. It's the liberal people.

00:41:22.360 They, by definition, did what the scientists say because the scientists are the liberal people. So

00:41:25.560 they, that, they're good. But who needed to sacrifice more? It's really conservatives.

00:41:29.900 If they were to choose a demographic that is the source of all evil, it's obviously straight white men. 0.99

00:41:34.400 We've heard over the past week or two, the most clear examples of this, that psychiatrist at Yale 1.00

00:41:40.560 who said she has fantasies of killing white men. The, the medical article published in a, 0.87

00:41:45.060 in a peer reviewed prominent medical journal, psychiatric journal, saying that whiteness is a

00:41:50.080 terrible disease that needs a permanent cure. You might say a final solution, not to make any

00:41:55.680 comparisons from what the words literally mean. So that's the specifically the cause of all the

00:42:01.680 evils. But broadly speaking, they don't even just mean straight white men. They mean any conservative 0.73

00:42:07.080 who, they mean Tim Scott. They mean, certainly Marjorie Greene. They mean any, Candace Owens,

00:42:14.440 for sure, who espouses a conservative point of view because in their idea, gets right back to

00:42:21.520 critical race theory. Anyone who defends any sort of conservative point of view is propping up

00:42:26.080 white supremacy, is propping up the patriarchy, is laboring under a false consciousness that is doing

00:42:32.560 harm and injury to other people. Just they're injuring people. If only they had sacrificed more. 0.93

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00:43:16.520 delivered. Never the fault of anybody else. Why do we have, forget the pandemic for a second,

00:43:25.580 why do we have crime? We have crime because of the white supremacist patriarchy, which is why 1.00

00:43:34.000 video just went viral. There's a spate of shoplifting going on in San Francisco. There's a video of a

00:43:41.940 security guard watching a guy, not a straight white male, definitely a black guy, just with a giant bag 0.56

00:43:49.460 filling up the bag with stolen goods, hopping on a bicycle. Security guard is just filming him,

00:43:55.020 tries to get the bag, but the guy just goes away and just rides right out of the store.

00:43:59.080 There's not going to be any consequences. See ya. See ya. Bye-bye.

00:44:06.460 17 Walgreens stores have had to close. This is according to the New York Times,

00:44:12.480 because the scale of theft is so insane right now, because there are no consequences. And you know,

00:44:19.920 in that guy's defense, the shoplifter's defense, he has been told by the entire

00:44:25.840 establishment that it is his right to shoplift. Look, it's wrong. It's objectively wrong. It's a sin

00:44:33.360 to steal. You're imperiling your soul if you steal. But he's not told that. According to our new religion

00:44:41.940 with its new liturgical calendar of Pride Month and Juneteenth, according to our new understanding of

00:44:48.060 sin, which derives from racism instead of sin itself, it's not this guy's fault. He's the victim.

00:44:57.260 Society owes him whatever goods. I don't think he was stealing them for personal use, by the way. He

00:45:02.360 was just shoveling them into a bag because he's going to go sell them. So this is not a starving

00:45:07.580 man stealing a loaf of bread. This guy certainly does not need to steal, but he's choosing to do it.

00:45:14.460 And it's not entirely his fault. I mean, he needs to take responsibility, but it's not entirely his

00:45:18.980 fault because the whole society is telling. He has every right to. As the powers break down,

00:45:24.180 as society breaks down, people need to take responsibility for themselves. I'm very pleased

00:45:28.820 to see Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, doing this. Greg Abbott is pointing out the federal

00:45:33.140 government is not going to build a border wall. They've stopped building the border wall. They're

00:45:36.180 intentionally doing nothing on the border. Joe Biden, when he ran for president, he said,

00:45:40.100 surge, surge to the border, the complete opposite of the Trump policy. They're doing

00:45:44.320 this, of course, because it gives Democrats an electoral advantage. So they want to flood the

00:45:48.440 country with people who are more likely to vote for Democrats, either after an amnesty or down the

00:45:54.460 line because of the modern notion of birthright citizenship. Greg Abbott says, you're not going

00:45:58.880 to build the wall. We're going to build it ourselves. By the way, I want to tell you something

00:46:03.740 for you to keep in mind later on this week, because when I do make the announcement later on this week,

00:46:08.580 I will also be providing a link that you can click on and go to for everybody in the United States or

00:46:17.140 in really everybody in the entire world who wants to help Texas build a border wall. There will be a place

00:46:22.560 on there where they can contribute to Texas building the border wall.

00:46:26.840 Oh, that's great. And all proceeds go directly to building that wall, I assume.

00:46:31.180 Yeah. So they go to a fund in the state of Texas, not a private entity, not an individual,

00:46:35.700 but they will be overseen by the state of Texas in the governor's office. Great transparency.

00:46:42.260 Everyone will know every penny in, every penny out. But the sole purpose for those funds will be

00:46:47.340 going to build the border wall. I love it. I love it because there's nothing the federal

00:46:51.540 government can do here. When there have been private efforts to build the border wall, they've

00:46:54.880 ended up in accusations of fraud because it's very, very difficult to manage these sorts of things.

00:46:59.780 But this is in the state of Texas. The federal government's going to probably come in and tell them

00:47:03.300 they can't do this. It's not that the federal government through incompetence can't seal the

00:47:07.580 border. It's through an intentional effort. They don't want the border sealed. They want the country

00:47:11.940 flooded with foreign nationals. Love this from Greg Abbott. Great, great stuff. President Trump 0.58

00:47:16.920 heading down to the border. Kamala won't go. Biden won't go. Biden probably can't even leave the

00:47:22.500 house at this point. He would miss Matlock during the middle of the day. So Donald Trump is going to

00:47:27.120 go. He's going down at the invitation of Governor Abbott. This is a winning issue for Republicans.

00:47:32.400 The squishes always, always jump off on this. They always think that it's a terrible idea. It's

00:47:38.820 going to lose us voters. It won't. It's a very popular idea. It's very popular to seal up our

00:47:43.360 border and restrict immigration on the right. It's even popular in parts of the Democratic Party.

00:47:48.240 Federal government can't be bothered to do that because they're too busy trying to suppress

00:47:51.740 election audits. We'll get into this a little bit later, later on in the week or next week.

00:47:56.220 But there is this audit going on in Arizona right now to oversee the 2020 election,

00:48:01.180 to look at some of the irregularities, let's say. And now all of a sudden Merrick Garland and the DOJ

00:48:06.860 are really concerned about this. They say that they're going to be overseeing the audit. They're

00:48:12.040 going to say that they're already complaining that some of the audit is utilizing abnormal

00:48:17.280 post-election methodologies. They weren't concerned about the abnormal, in some cases,

00:48:21.820 unconstitutional methodologies in states during the 2020 election. But now they're really concerned

00:48:26.280 about the audit. I've never thought that the audit would result in very much as a political matter.

00:48:30.960 I do think that there was obviously some fraud and shenanigans in this election. There's fraud in

00:48:36.660 every single election. It seems like in this one that they took away in the months preceding

00:48:40.760 basically all of the election integrity measures. And the excuse was COVID, but I suspect there was

00:48:47.200 probably more fraud than usual in the election. I don't think the audit's going to get very much.

00:48:51.560 The fact that Garland is so concerned about it is the first thing that tells me,

00:48:55.320 huh, that's a little weird. Now I really want to pay attention in a way that I had not been paying

00:49:00.560 all that much attention before. They're signaling a concern at the federal level here. Speaking of that

00:49:07.580 election and federal accountability, Ashley Babbitt. Ashley Babbitt was the one person killed in the

00:49:14.360 violence of the Capitol riot in January. She was killed. She was a Trump supporter. She was killed in

00:49:21.300 the Capitol by a ostensibly Capitol police officer. Ashley Babbitt's husband is calling for the name

00:49:29.600 of that cop. Mr. Roberts, let me ask you. There have been reports online that seem credible. I don't

00:49:34.960 know if they're true, that the Capitol Hill police officer who shot Ashley Babbitt, I'm not going to

00:49:39.600 mention the name, was the same officer who left his loaded handgun in a public men's room on the

00:49:46.040 Capitol. Do you believe that is the same officer who seems like a very reckless person who shot and

00:49:51.020 killed Ashley Babbitt on January 6th? That's, that's my belief. That's my belief.

00:49:57.740 So if it turns out that she was shot for reasons, again, they still haven't explained to us by a

00:50:03.780 Capitol Hill police officer who left a loaded handgun in a public men's room and kept his job

00:50:08.240 somehow. Do you think maybe that's why they're hiding his identity? I don't know, but I think

00:50:14.740 one of the reasons why they're hiding his identity is they don't have a good explanation for this

00:50:18.860 shooting. Now that the Congress is voting to give medals to the Capitol police who, who kept down

00:50:25.400 the riot that day, we all know, and they're trying to shame Republicans who don't do it. We all know

00:50:30.000 that if Ashley Babbitt had been a BLM rioter, the sorts of rioters who burned down government and

00:50:34.480 private buildings for six months in 2020, if Ashley Babbitt had been killed as a BLM rioter, there would 0.97

00:50:39.960 be a federal investigation into this. That cop's life would be absolutely, we would not know the name,

00:50:44.580 that cop's life would be destroyed. The Capitol police would not be getting medals. They would

00:50:48.180 all be round up and shipped to Guantanamo Bay if many Democrats had their way. But, but that's not

00:50:54.640 what happened because Ashley Babbitt was a conservative. They're now asking for no information

00:50:59.040 to be given out here and for everybody to go about their merry way. And they want Republicans to go along

00:51:04.780 with this. It's a ridiculous double standard. It is not what it seems to be about, namely honoring our 0.97

00:51:09.860 police officers. It's about pushing a radical narrative. Do not fall for it. I'm Michael Knowles.

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Ep. 786 - The Sacred Feast of “Juneteenth”

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