The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 786 - The Sacred Feast of “Juneteenth”


Summary

Senators have voted unanimously to make Juneteenth a national holiday. What does the left have to complain about? Well, they argue that slavery was America's original sin, and since we abolished slavery more than 150 years ago, that means we are now sinless and perfect.


Transcript

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,
00:00:37.520 and even firebrand congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for something that she said.
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
00:04:16.180 who are journalists or politicians or whoever write into me. They say, you're a racist. How dare you ask
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
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?
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
00:07:14.080 have Emancipation Proclamation Day? Why don't we have 13th Amendment Day? That actually ended slavery.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
00:09:15.840 public swimming pool? It's just not a big deal. Oh, who cares that we're killing a million babies
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
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.
00:10:13.700 The point of the Juneteenth holiday, I suspect, is to cast more light, they will say, on America's
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,
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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
00:16:54.400 terms that basically means, hmm, here's an example. I'll, I'll describe it by way of example.
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
00:17:07.160 woman, oh, you're super duper oppressed more so than those other two categories. But if you're a
00:17:14.000 black woman who is a lesbian, you are going to be more oppressed than either the black woman or the
00:17:21.860 lesbian. So now you've got another layer down. But if you are a black woman who is a lesbian,
00:17:27.680 who is disabled, who is missing an arm or something, you are going to be more oppressed
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,
00:17:58.820 they seem to invent a new gender. So we went from two genders to three genders to five genders to
00:18:02.760 56 genders to now it's something like 70 genders. Why? Because they're always, there's a, an incentive
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
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
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
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
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
00:21:19.100 it's a little softer, but it doesn't negate the reality we're describing. Retarded or mentally
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
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
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
00:24:09.260 transgender theory, which is a ridiculous ancient heresy. That is not a neutral playing ground.
00:24:16.820 That really matters. The semantic shift from mother to birthing person carries with it whole
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
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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
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
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
00:29:41.540 White, who has generally more right-wing things to say than, who knows, the drag queens will go on
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
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
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
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
00:31:41.160 pronoun crap, but, but she does. She goes by she and you're, you're calling her a woman.
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
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
00:33:21.340 country. It's hopelessly bigoted. On the sexual issues, yes, the patriarchy, it's really evil.
00:33:26.400 Heterosis normative, it's really evil. On the anti-American, yes, the founding fathers were the worst
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
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
00:34:53.240 to every Republican. And yet only Marjorie Taylor Greene is held accountable. They forced her to go
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
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
00:35:35.900 are offensive. And for that, I want to apologize. She should not have given the speech. She should
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
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,
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
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
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
00:39:13.440 American, just couldn't sacrifice a little bit more. Of course, we would have had a pandemic here
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
00:40:58.420 sacrifice a little bit more. Just a little bit more, he says. Okay. Okay. It's your fault. It's
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.
00:41:34.400 We've heard over the past week or two, the most clear examples of this, that psychiatrist at Yale
00:41:40.560 who said she has fantasies of killing white men. The, the medical article published in a,
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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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