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00:00:00.000 President Biden wants to take your guns and his reasoning is pretty simple.

00:00:05.780 President Biden is arguing that the Second Amendment is outdated because if he really

00:00:11.220 wanted to take you out, he could just nuke you. The Second Amendment from the day it was passed

00:00:16.800 limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.

00:00:21.920 You couldn't buy a cannon. Those who say the blood of the, the blood of patriots, you know,

00:00:27.060 and all the stuff about how we're going to have to move against the government.

00:00:31.860 Well, the tree of liberty is not water in the blood of patriots. What's happened is

00:00:35.860 that there never been, if you wanted to think you need to have weapons to take on the government,

00:00:41.880 you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons. The point is that there's always been the ability

00:00:48.220 to limit, rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it.

00:00:52.880 And you think of the problem and the blood and the, you think that then the, and the Jefferson

00:00:57.860 and who, huh? Huh? What were we talking about? His, his argument runs into a problem, of course,

00:01:04.480 because on the one hand, he's telling you that your AR-15 is completely powerless. And so there's

00:01:10.720 no reason for you to have it. But he's, he's saying that within the context of telling you how

00:01:16.260 your AR-15 is much too powerful and that's why he's got to take it away from you. But the government

00:01:22.140 is using much subtler weapons against all of us. It is turning the IRS against Christians.

00:01:29.580 It is turning radical ideologies against our kids. And it is ignoring the development of

00:01:35.180 bioweapons in Wuhan, China under the State Department of Hillary Clinton, new leaked email

00:01:43.000 show. You know what I have to say? Hands up, don't nuke. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:01:47.520 Knowles Show.

00:01:52.140 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from King Loser, who says,

00:02:00.520 it's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it is impossible to win an argument with a

00:02:06.540 stupid person. This is very, very true. I have noticed this. You want some consistency from your

00:02:12.840 people, at least, you know, broadly speaking. But when someone changes his mind, that's actually a sign

00:02:19.160 of intelligence. If he had the wrong opinion, it's good that he has the right opinion. You can never

00:02:24.140 do that with a stupid person. This is good advice to go along with what we said yesterday. Do not

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00:03:52.000 drives me nuts. This totally self-contradictory argument that the guns that we have are now way,

00:04:00.880 way too powerful and we've got to take those guns away from the people. The founding fathers could

00:04:04.660 have never envisioned people having guns this powerful and also they're completely powerless

00:04:08.480 and they would do nothing against the government so don't worry about it. The point of the Second

00:04:12.760 Amendment, of course, is to protect yourself, not just against burglars, not just against wild

00:04:18.760 animals, but against people who want to do you harm, destroy your way of life, take away your liberties

00:04:23.920 and harm you and your family. Whether that person is a foreign invader or whether that person

00:04:28.980 is a tyrannical government. That is the reason that the framers put the Second Amendment in our

00:04:35.500 Bill of Rights. The AR-15 is a common weapon. It's the most popular weapon in America and it is

00:04:42.920 a good weapon. It's an accurate weapon. When Biden says, if you want to go against the government,

00:04:49.160 you've got to have an F-15 or a nuclear weapon. What are you talking about? Afghanistan,

00:04:55.980 I think it's the size of Texas, right? It's not bigger than that. And our government has struggled

00:05:01.800 to occupy Afghanistan in a serious way for 20 years now. And we're basically going to give up

00:05:07.400 and the Taliban is going to go back in. We have a very large country. We have a very serious

00:05:13.760 citizenry. We have lots of people who want to defend our way of life. You can't have it both ways,

00:05:18.880 Mr. Biden. Speaking of violence, a much bigger story that was trending all day yesterday

00:05:26.240 is, of course, the death of John McAfee. John McAfee, the colorful software pioneer,

00:05:33.720 the guy who had the antivirus software that we all had in the 1990s and 2000s.

00:05:38.940 John McAfee shows up dead in a Spanish prison. Raises a lot of questions.

00:05:43.540 What was John McAfee doing in a Spanish prison? Why would he kill himself? And actually,

00:05:49.440 did he kill himself? John McAfee was found to have committed suicide as he was waiting

00:05:56.460 extradition to the United States, ostensibly for tax fraud. This is a little confusing because

00:06:04.100 John McAfee tweeted about seven or eight months ago, quote, I am content in here. I have friends.

00:06:09.980 The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.

00:06:18.620 John McAfee talked about collecting files on very powerful people and on corrupt governments,

00:06:23.360 notably our own government. He talked about having a kill switch. He got a tattoo that said whacked.

00:06:29.220 He got a tattoo on his arm that said, it implied the government is trying to kill me.

00:06:35.340 McAfee said this explicitly on multiple occasions. And he said, if I get killed,

00:06:40.620 just look at the tattoo. It says that I got whacked. Then, minutes after he was discovered

00:06:46.360 to have allegedly killed himself, his last post on social media, presumably uploaded by a family

00:06:53.260 member, was the letter Q. Q. Now, you remember Q was very important to the QAnon theory that the left

00:07:01.940 talked about incessantly. For those unfamiliar, the Daily Mail says, quote, the QAnon conspiracy

00:07:08.120 theory, which came about during the presidency of Donald Trump, holds a wide range of odd beliefs,

00:07:13.860 including that Trump was secretly battling cannibalistic pedophiles who worship Satan.

00:07:20.220 So I'm trying to find the conspiracy part of that. Is there any, is that it? That's all. It seems to me

00:07:25.620 like a conspiracy theorem that seems to be just, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Please don't take

00:07:30.640 me off YouTube for suggesting that the, I mean, you know, Risa Aslan, the guy at CNN, that guy was

00:07:37.840 a cannibal. And, you know, you've got like Jeffrey Epstein and some pedophiles and the Satan worship.

00:07:43.480 I mean, that's just before our, but no. Okay. So anyway, that conspiracy theory, you know,

00:07:48.200 a little bit kooky. So the last thing this guy posts is the Q. On the one hand, he lived a colorful

00:07:54.840 life. He was a bit of a troll during his life. Maybe this was just one final performance that

00:08:00.840 he was setting up everybody to say, if I kill myself, it'll be a, it'll be the government and

00:08:06.220 it'll be a conspiracy. And then he actually does kill himself and it leaves everyone wondering.

00:08:09.800 I guess that's one possibility. Or it's possible that he really meant it when he said that they're

00:08:15.860 trying to kill me. They're, I've, I've lived under very strange circumstances for many, many years at

00:08:21.040 this point. And they, then they did kill him. And he said, if I kill myself, you know, it's not,

00:08:26.260 it's not real. Some, somebody offed me. A lot of people are saying right now that the conspiracy

00:08:31.740 theory is that the man committed suicide, that so much evidence is on the side of someone offing him

00:08:39.540 that, that the craziest conclusion you could reach is that he killed himself.

00:08:43.940 I, I have one big question about the Epstein death. And first of all, the fact that we refer

00:08:51.400 to him getting Epstein, right? The fact that he referred to himself getting Epstein is evidence,

00:08:56.140 I think, that something is seriously wrong in our institutions, that we all just know that it,

00:09:01.600 that Epstein didn't kill himself. We all just know it. Or if he did kill himself, it was under very,

00:09:06.000 very strange circumstances where all the cameras just went out and oh yeah, the guards just fell

00:09:10.460 asleep. And oh yeah, the guards falsified records and yeah, oops. And, and we're all just cool with

00:09:15.580 that. We all just shrug and we say, ah, Epstein didn't kill himself. Well, the implication there,

00:09:21.460 of course, is that someone killed him. Someone went into a prison and murdered him. And we're all just

00:09:28.500 like, well, ha, ha, ha, you know, that's, that's the way the world works. That implies, oh yes, the,

00:09:34.740 the possibly billionaire pedophile ring Caribbean Island owner who was hanging out with the most

00:09:43.940 powerful people on earth who had a U a former U S president, Bill Clinton flying around on his

00:09:49.020 plane dozens of times and who was close friends with Bill Gates and close friends with the British

00:09:54.760 Royal family with Prince Andrew and close friends with lots of other super powerful people and seems

00:09:59.780 to have had connections to foreign governments. Ha ha. He just got whatever moving on. That was a fun

00:10:05.260 meme. Okay. Moving on. So the, the troubling thing for me here is beyond the death of Jeffrey Epstein and

00:10:12.600 beyond the death of John McAfee, the fact that we all just accept this sort of corruption from our

00:10:20.920 government or other governments, even, even if the guys actually killed themselves, the fact that we

00:10:28.240 just expect this kind of corruption from our governments and shrug it off, that is a troubling

00:10:34.540 thing. But there are many reasons to expect that level of corruption well beyond these two eccentric

00:10:40.780 rich guys. Speaking of dubious suicides, Hillary Clinton is back in the news. I'm not, I'm not saying,

00:10:51.060 I'm just saying check for fingerprints, notably fingerprints, like little tiny fingerprints,

00:10:58.040 maybe that look like a lady who was the first lady of Arkansas and then later the United States.

00:11:03.600 In 2009, according to leaked documents right now, Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state,

00:11:11.680 warned in a state department cable obtained by WikiLeaks that the work being done at the Wuhan

00:11:18.100 Institute of Virology could lead to quote, biological weapons proliferation concern. This is according

00:11:25.800 to reporting from our pal Jack Posobiec over at human events. Now we were told by Hillary Clinton and by

00:11:35.300 so many other members of the liberal establishment that any suggestion that the virus was not naturally

00:11:42.360 occurring, any suggestion that it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, any institute that it came

00:11:47.820 from China period was racist and awful and bigoted. We now have evidence that Hillary Clinton knew that

00:11:53.960 this sort of thing was going on. It was sort of thing was being intentionally developed at the Wuhan Institute

00:12:00.660 all the way back in 2009. Sounds like Clinton might not have been so honest with us. You know, we want

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00:13:36.560 Hillary Clinton tweets out last year, quote, the president is turning to racist rhetoric to

00:13:44.140 distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available,

00:13:49.680 and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis. Don't fall for it. Don't let your friends

00:13:54.560 and family fall for it. This is because Trump was accurately and precisely referring to the China

00:14:00.220 virus, the virus that came from China. You know, like the Spanish flu or Ebola or West Nile. So he

00:14:07.040 was referring to the China virus. But whenever Trump identified the geographic location that the virus

00:14:12.780 would come from, that was considered racist and terrible. Hillary Clinton, years and years ago,

00:14:20.400 10 years prior or more, recognized that there were some troubling things going on at the Wuhan

00:14:26.360 Institute of Virology where they were studying and beefing up coronaviruses specifically for

00:14:33.220 bioweapons. And she warned about this and then nothing happened. So if Hillary Clinton is going

00:14:39.380 to knock anybody for not taking this seriously, it probably should be Hillary Clinton herself or

00:14:43.740 Barack Obama because nothing was really done. And the US federal government continued to fund and

00:14:48.680 continue to work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology up until this virus leaks. And then they cover up

00:14:54.920 for them. They help the Chinese government obscure the origins of the virus. And they continue to do

00:15:01.280 that today, even as evidence after evidence after evidence mounts that this came from the lab and

00:15:07.740 that this was engineered by human beings. Our good old friend, Dr. Fauci continues to try to obscure

00:15:13.500 the truth here. Speaking of the coronavirus though, I've got some bad news for you. Well, I've got some bad

00:15:21.940 news, but it's also news that just doesn't matter at all. Joe Biden set a July 4th date for hitting his

00:15:29.640 targets on COVID and finally putting the virus behind us. And unfortunately, according to Jeffrey Zainz, the

00:15:37.040 head of the White House coronavirus response team, because of those damn youths, because of young Americans

00:15:43.520 refusing to take the jab that they don't need to get because obviously they don't stand really any statistical

00:15:50.180 risk of coronavirus. Because of that, we are not going to meet that July 4th deadline for Americans 30

00:15:56.020 and older. We have met the president's goal of at least one shot. That's right. We have met the

00:16:01.820 president's 70 percent goal for all U.S. adults 30 and over where the country has more work to do

00:16:08.800 is particularly with 18 to 26 year olds. The reality is many younger Americans have felt like COVID-19 is

00:16:17.760 not something that impacts them and they've been less eager to get the shot. However, with the Delta

00:16:24.420 variant now spreading across the country and infecting younger people worldwide, it's more important than

00:16:31.200 ever that they get vaccinated. Can you believe those, you know, those young people who have

00:16:38.860 statistically zero risk from this virus? Can you believe that those young people don't want to get

00:16:46.320 an experimental drug that you're not ever allowed to question, even as cases and cases mount of adverse

00:16:53.580 reactions to the vaccine? Isn't that so, isn't that so strange that young people who just,

00:16:58.740 it's a matter of prudence, don't need this thing, don't want to get it? It's, it's awful. It's

00:17:04.540 terrible because of the Delta variant. That's the Indian variant, but we're not allowed to call it the

00:17:08.860 Indian variant anymore. The World Health Organization said that to simplify things, we're no longer going

00:17:13.560 to call the virus and the variants by the places that they come from. We're going to simplify it by,

00:17:18.700 by using Greek letters. You know, those Greek letters that everyone is so familiar with. So this is

00:17:23.740 really some terrible news coming out of the White House. We're not going to reach the July 4th

00:17:27.540 deadline. And my, my big sophisticated take on this is, okay, whatever. Who cares? I, I certainly

00:17:35.340 don't care. No one cares even. I never cared. I was never paying attention to these stupid rules

00:17:41.960 any more than I had to, any more than the society forced me to pay attention to these dumb rules from

00:17:49.200 people like Fauci and the liberal establishment that were changing their minds and changing their

00:17:53.520 guidance every single day, often contradicting themselves. Other than when the society absolutely

00:17:58.680 forced me to, I just ignored it. I was basically French kissing people on the street as a way to

00:18:02.600 say hello. I was basically licking doorknobs from the beginning of this epidemic. Feel great. Never

00:18:08.240 felt better. Knock on wood. You know, of course people, people can get sick, but I'm, I'm willing to

00:18:13.960 take the risk. I'm willing to make a prudential judgment to go about and live my life. I assume a lot of

00:18:18.300 people are doing that too. It's going to be very difficult right now for the Biden administration

00:18:22.060 to say, do not go out, do not celebrate the 4th of July after just, after encouraging people to go,

00:18:30.300 you know, celebrate pride month to, to finally, you know, go out. You don't need to wear the mask

00:18:34.800 all the time. Now, after saying that things are getting better, after saying that the vaccine is so

00:18:39.260 effective for people who've already gotten it after inventing a new holiday, they just invented a new

00:18:44.460 holiday last week that people were supposed to go celebrate, but now they're going to try to tell

00:18:48.540 us, but you can't, you can't go out on the 4th of July. Uh, okay. I'm not terribly concerned about

00:18:53.760 that. I intend to eat hot dogs and drink beer, look at fireworks if there are any, and go ahead and live

00:18:58.860 my life. And I would encourage you to do that as well. Now the kids are not all right, not because

00:19:06.100 they don't want to get this experimental drug that doesn't stand to improve their health really in any

00:19:10.560 way. The kids are not all right because they just don't want to celebrate the 4th of July.

00:19:17.480 This, according to at least one survey, a new survey out of North Dakota State University discovered

00:19:23.020 that the majority of liberal minded college students are not proud to be an American,

00:19:29.620 where at least they know they're free. The survey was released by NDSU's Challey Institute for Global

00:19:36.060 Innovation and Growth, focused on the role that colleges are playing in promoting free speech.

00:19:40.560 And tolerance of diverse views. 57% of liberal students said that they are not proud to be

00:19:47.720 Americans, while 73% of conservative students said that they are. The majority of quote, independent

00:19:54.640 and apolitical students, 59%, said that they are also proud to be Americans. This is a noteworthy

00:20:02.620 survey. In a way, it doesn't tell us anything we don't know. We know that the left does not

00:20:08.400 particularly care for this country. Why do we know that? Because they don't stand for the Star

00:20:14.160 Spangled Banner, because they don't speak particularly highly of this country. They do promote

00:20:20.180 ahistorical, anti-factual nonsense like the 1619 Project, for instance. They're tearing down statues

00:20:26.740 of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, and they're putting up new flags and new

00:20:33.100 statues in their place. So yes, this is not surprising at all. Not surprising that conservatives

00:20:38.900 do like their country. If they didn't like their country and they didn't want to conserve something,

00:20:42.420 they probably wouldn't be conservatives. But the key here, I think, are the independent and the

00:20:47.000 apolitical students. A clear majority of them are proud to be Americans. This is something I get to

00:20:54.680 in my new book, which is available as of the past couple of days to order, Speechless Controlling

00:20:59.360 Words, Controlling Minds. Radicals can only force a revolution if they have some hold on the common

00:21:08.100 sense. Otherwise, they're just kooks and the rest of us are going to laugh at them. The common sense

00:21:15.100 tells people that they still basically like their country. It's very strange because the left controls

00:21:21.680 all the levers of power. They have all of the institutions now. They have the elected government,

00:21:27.460 and they have it entirely, right? They have the House of Representatives. They have the Senate.

00:21:32.720 They have the presidency. The Supreme Court is allegedly conservative, but it doesn't really

00:21:38.000 operate that way. They have the bureaucracy. Obviously, they have the media and the universities,

00:21:43.760 and now they even have the military. We'll get to that in just a second. So they control everything

00:21:49.400 as a matter of the levers of power. And yet, they can't get the people to go along with their really

00:21:56.900 radical ideas. They can't get the people to give up their guns no matter how hard Biden tries.

00:22:01.140 They can't get people to trans the kids no matter how hard they try. They can't get people to go

00:22:07.160 along with critical race theory, for instance. You've got parents showing up to school board meetings.

00:22:12.080 It's some of the greatest hope right now in the country is ordinary parents are showing up to

00:22:15.940 meetings saying, hey, whatever this nonsense is you're teaching my kids, cut it out. And then

00:22:20.240 the elites are actually sneering at them. They're saying, well, you don't even know what critical

00:22:23.060 race theory is. Ha ha, you stupid, irredeemable, deplorable rube. And that's further alienating the

00:22:28.520 common people from the desiccated mediocrities that claim to be the ruling class. So that is very,

00:22:36.400 very good news. That alienation, I think, is going to increase. And I think people are going to dig

00:22:43.080 their heels in on defending their way of life. It's not just about the conservatives versus the

00:22:46.940 lives, but it's crucially about those independents and those moderates. You know, obviously right now,

00:22:53.520 I am not in my studio, for those of you who are watching. I am on the road. I was hanging out with

00:22:58.940 my friend Tim Poole last night and the rest of the gang over there, Lydia and Ian. You can check

00:23:03.580 out that episode we were talking about, among other things, my book, Speechless. Thank you to everyone

00:23:07.860 who has ordered that book already. You know, there it is. There's that bell. I was wondering

00:23:12.220 if we had one in this hotel room. You can get Speechless right now. It's really jumped up the

00:23:17.060 charts. It has cracked the top 100 on all of Amazon. It has cracked the top 50 on all of Amazon.

00:23:23.500 And most of the top books are actually cookbooks and children's books. So in terms of real books,

00:23:27.100 I think it's pretty high up there. Thank you to everyone who has ordered it. You can, I believe,

00:23:31.720 still get a signed first edition. I'm actually not sure. Those are at Premier Collectibles. If not,

00:23:35.580 you can get the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever books are sold. I really want to jab

00:23:40.320 it in the eye of the libs who put together the bestseller list. So thank you for helping me.

00:23:45.980 Thank you for indulging me on that. We're going to be talking about censorship tonight. We're going

00:23:50.080 to be talking about what the left is censoring, notably in things in the news like the lab leak

00:23:55.700 hypothesis. We're going to be talking about the way that our words have been totally transformed

00:23:59.920 through things like the woke army ads. We're going to be talking about everything on backstage.

00:24:05.200 So head on over. You get me, Ben, Drew, Matt, Jeremy, the God King Boring, everybody over on

00:24:11.060 backstage. Streams at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central at dailywire.com and on our YouTube channel.

00:24:15.980 Do not miss it. We'll be right back.

00:24:17.740 AOC has something nice to say about white men and Republicans. Those are two groups that she

00:24:38.760 conflates. She thinks they're identical, but it's very rare that AOC would have anything nice to say

00:24:42.740 about either of those groups. And it's a little bit of a backhanded compliment, but it's all because

00:24:48.880 Republicans caved on our most sacred national feast day. The high point of the liturgical year,

00:24:58.320 that wonderful holiday that's totally a real thing and not just completely made up by the libs,

00:25:03.260 June 10th.

00:25:05.560 This is pretty consistent with, I think, the Republican base. And it's whether it's trying

00:25:11.620 to fight against teaching basic history around racism and the role of racism in U.S. history to,

00:25:20.560 you know, there's a direct through line from that to denying Juneteenth, the day that is widely

00:25:27.200 recognized and celebrated as the symbolic kind of day to represent the end of slavery in the United

00:25:33.340 States. You know, there's a direct through line between that denial of our history and wanting to

00:25:38.820 understand the full scope of our history and celebrating the end, a major end of injustice

00:25:44.680 in the United States. And I think it's a shame, but there's also plenty of wonderful allies that

00:25:52.680 helped us pass this vote today despite that. And so I'm very thankful to all of our colleagues,

00:25:59.640 including the white men in the Republican caucus that said, OK, fine, we'll vote for this

00:26:04.620 on this one, too. But I think it just goes to show the importance of teaching our history,

00:26:10.500 warts and all, because it helps us appreciate the justice and freedoms that we have today.

00:26:16.360 Isn't it so great that now finally we're starting to learn about slavery?

00:26:20.860 Wait, I had never heard about. Did you know? Apparently in the United States for some period

00:26:25.340 of time, actually a relatively short period of time compared to the rest of the world,

00:26:29.060 including the many places today outside the West that still have slavery.

00:26:32.800 Did you know we had slavery in America? You probably didn't know that until Juneteenth,

00:26:38.660 until we finally stopped denying Juneteenth. You know that thing that I can guarantee you AOC

00:26:46.520 had never heard of until like four years ago. But now we can't deny. We kept denying it for so long,

00:26:55.420 but now we know about Juneteenth. What they are doing is, as I predicted, making Juneteenth into the

00:27:05.180 critical race theory holiday. They're making Juneteenth into the radical progressive holiday.

00:27:09.940 They're saying that if you celebrate Juneteenth, you then must, it is a logical necessity,

00:27:17.840 accept insane ideologies like critical race theory into the schools. You must accept the

00:27:22.480 reframing of American history by the 1619 Project that puts slavery at the heart of the American

00:27:27.680 narrative. You must accept these things. And by the way, critical race theory, according to these

00:27:32.760 guys, is no more than teaching about some of the warts in American history, the warts and all.

00:27:40.260 The problem with critical race theory is not that it exposes America's true history warts and all.

00:27:45.860 It's that it perverts and lies about American history to only present the warts. Critical race theory

00:27:52.240 says, it posits, that America is intrinsically evil, that everything about America is evil. If you want

00:28:00.560 to read up on this, you can either read, there's a seminal text, I think it's just called critical

00:28:06.600 race theory. It's a collection of essays by people like Kimberly Crenshaw and other pseudo-intellectuals

00:28:11.660 who put this idea together. It's a derivation, obviously, of broader intellectual movements,

00:28:16.100 such as critical theory. But if you want to understand it, you know, and just get the highlights,

00:28:21.340 you can read my current book, book that is now out, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:28:25.700 But this theory posits, there's one seminal essay, the name of the author now escapes me,

00:28:31.800 but you can read it in that collection of essays, that says that forget about just the races and

00:28:36.480 forget about, you know, white supremacy for a second and just focus on the economics.

00:28:42.000 Private property itself in the American tradition is intrinsically white supremacist, bigoted, evil,

00:28:49.040 terrible, terrible, must be done away with. This is a movement by avowed Marxists, usually,

00:28:56.500 to upend the entire American system, the entire Western system, the entire system of private

00:29:02.180 property. And that is what she is getting at there. And she says, well, thank you. Thank you to those

00:29:08.200 white men in the Republican Party who are finally doing that. I do wish that those white men in the

00:29:15.820 Republican Party who went along with this thing had paid attention to the white men and black men and

00:29:21.840 women and Asians and Hispanics and smart people of all stripes who are conservative, who recognize the

00:29:29.200 danger of this sort of thing. Speaking of Republicans, the IRS, you'll be shocked to hear, is targeting

00:29:37.320 conservatives. I know they've been doing this more and more since Barack Obama weaponized his IRS to go

00:29:45.680 after the Tea Party specifically, to go after his political opponents. And actually, under Obama,

00:29:51.020 the IRS went after an organization that I was a member of called the Friends of Abe. This was a group

00:29:55.260 of Hollywood conservatives. The Obama IRS kept trying to get the book of membership. It was a

00:30:02.020 tightly held secret because people would be blacklisted very often. They just wouldn't work

00:30:06.400 in show business if it came out that one was a Republican. And fortunately, we never gave the book

00:30:13.620 on over to the IRS. Well, the IRS now is going after a Christian group because the IRS is holding that the

00:30:22.720 Christian group is promoting the Bible and the Bible is a Republican Party document. I'm not joking. I'm not

00:30:31.660 joking. On May 18th, the exempt organizations director over at the IRS, Stephen Martin, denied the

00:30:39.620 application for tax exemption by a group called Christians Engaged because, Martin said, Christians

00:30:48.700 engaged in prohibited political campaign intervention and operated for a substantial non-exempt private

00:30:56.180 purpose and for the private interests of the Republican Party. Okay, well, how is that? Well, because

00:31:01.900 Christians Engaged said that they're going to promote biblical teaching and they're going to do that

00:31:06.740 in the public square and, quote, Bible teachings, he lowercased Bible, by the way, he said, Bible

00:31:14.460 teachings are affiliated with the Republican Party and candidates. This disqualifies Christians

00:31:20.940 engaged from exemption under IRC section 501c3. Now, I'm going to go back to what the Daily Mail said

00:31:28.380 earlier. We'll get back to John McAfee posting the letter Q. QAnon conspiracy theory is this idea that

00:31:33.440 that Trump was fighting against Satanists? Well, it would appear that the IRS under the Biden

00:31:40.520 administration is admitting that. They're saying that if you support biblical teaching, if you support

00:31:46.020 Christianity, then you are identifying yourself as a Republican. Now, maybe to be fair to the IRS,

00:31:56.600 maybe they're saying, look, if you promote overt Satan worship, that also would not get you a tax

00:32:02.040 exemption because that would be a Democratic Party activity. We're not going to allow either of those

00:32:06.440 things, Bible teaching or Satan worship to receive a tax exemption, but probably not, actually. Probably

00:32:12.200 that's not what they would say. It's an amazing, I won't even say it's a tacit acknowledgement

00:32:16.440 that Christianity has a political dimension that these days involves opposing the radical left and

00:32:24.160 its avatar, the Democratic Party. It's not tacit. It's explicit now. Read it up on the IRS's website.

00:32:30.580 They're not just going after Protestants, by the way. The federal government, the elected officials

00:32:34.780 are saying that if the Catholic Church withholds the Eucharist from Joe Biden,

00:32:42.180 because Joe Biden is in a state of unrepentant grave mortal sin, and he's also committing the

00:32:46.860 sin of scandal as the second nominally Catholic president who is now coming out and saying that

00:32:53.540 he will continue to affirm the constitutional fictional right to abortion. He'll continue

00:33:00.480 to flout church teaching on a very important issue. If the church protects the Eucharist against

00:33:05.880 Joe Biden and his scandal, they could lose their tax exemption. Representative Jared Huffman says,

00:33:12.240 if they're going to politically weaponize religion by rebuking Democrats who support women's reproductive

00:33:17.420 choice, then a rebuke of their tax-exempt status may be in order. I'm glad that Huffman came out and

00:33:23.220 said this. The threat against the Catholic Church is disgusting. The threat against Christians,

00:33:30.120 broadly speaking, is absolutely disgusting. But it's been going on for a long time and I'm glad

00:33:34.540 they're finally admitting it. We do not have freedom of religion in this country. We are losing our

00:33:40.840 freedom to practice religion every single day. We're losing it even in the language that we use.

00:33:45.820 Barack Obama did this very adeptly. He changed the popular phrase from freedom of religion

00:33:52.640 to freedom to worship. And it sounds like it's a subtle shift. I guess it is subtle, but it's

00:33:58.900 significant. Religion is something that affects your whole life. You do religion. Religion is not a

00:34:06.440 private affair. Religion is something you do in public with people, not just at church on Sundays,

00:34:12.840 but every single day of the week. You have a private spiritual life when you say your prayers

00:34:18.500 at night or you go into your inner closet to pray, but you also live your faith publicly.

00:34:25.880 And what the left says is, no, you have the freedom maybe to go to church on Sunday, maybe,

00:34:32.680 but actually during the epidemic, we're going to shut those down. But look, you still have the

00:34:35.680 freedom to close your eyes and pray quietly in your own head as long as it doesn't affect anybody.

00:34:39.200 And you're not allowed to continue to practice your faith when you, for instance, run your cake

00:34:45.020 shop. You're not allowed to continue to practice your faith when you go to your place of employment

00:34:49.600 or when you take up a role in the government. But now that Joe Biden is, because he's so clearly

00:35:00.780 violating his own faith, the bishops have to decide, are we going to permit Joe Biden to

00:35:09.640 scandalously flout the faith here and eat what we hold to be the literal body of our Lord while he

00:35:18.000 is in a state of unworthiness and unrepentant mortal sin? Or are we going to stand up and defend it?

00:35:24.060 Well, if you defend it, folks, we're coming after you because we have a state-established church in

00:35:28.120 this country. It is the state-established church of secular progressivism. It has its own liturgical

00:35:34.140 calendar. It's got its own secular saints. It's got its own feast days. There's a new feast day

00:35:37.880 called Juneteenth. There's a liturgical month. It's called Pride Month. We're celebrating it right now.

00:35:42.520 And by the way, this will have public demands. This will have an actual caste system, which we're

00:35:49.560 seeing increasingly with the development of critical race theory, with the castigation of white

00:35:54.560 men as the bane of all evil on earth. You know, AOC so magnanimously is willing to acknowledge,

00:36:02.300 okay, maybe white men occasionally do something that's okay, but really, I mean, we should expect

00:36:07.820 pure evil from them. Well, at a Seattle LGBT Pride Month called Taking Black Pride, Taking B,

00:36:16.400 in parentheses L, A-C-K, Pride. If you're white, you have to pay more money. They're charging

00:36:24.380 a reparations fee, they say $10 to $50, to keep the event free of cost for black and brown trans and

00:36:34.740 queer people. That's pretty narrow. How many black and brown trans and queer people are there?

00:36:41.660 Two Capitol Hill Pride organizers complained, and the Seattle Human Rights Commission blasted,

00:36:47.460 what, the Human Rights Commission? What is that? Blasted them on social media for complaining about

00:36:52.760 charging white people more money than black people and included their unredacted phone number and

00:36:57.520 came out. The Human Rights Commission decided to dox people and put them in harm's way.

00:37:04.560 They got knocked for doing this now. You're going to see this more and more. You are openly seeing

00:37:08.600 the talk of, quote unquote, reparations, which is not, it's not really reparations. First of all,

00:37:13.320 we've already had reparations in this country for a very long time. That was the entire purpose

00:37:17.060 of the Great Society and the welfare programs was to make reparation for slavery a century prior.

00:37:24.800 But it's not really reparations, and this wouldn't be reparations either, because that wouldn't be the

00:37:28.980 end. You're telling me that, okay, we're going to have a big reparations fund, and we're going to give

00:37:33.680 all the black people some money, and we're probably going to give other races some money. Why? I don't

00:37:38.200 know, but that's being talked about. And we're going to give recent Nigerian immigrants some money

00:37:42.040 from who? From just white people? How are you going to do that in the tax code? I'm not sure.

00:37:45.500 And okay, let's say you do it, and then we're all good, right? Then it's totally fine.

00:37:50.160 Something tells me that's not what's going to happen.

00:37:51.900 This is not just being enforced. This racial caste system, this highly racial ideology is not just

00:38:00.520 being enforced at the local level of some kooky pride parades or something. This is being enforced

00:38:09.280 by the government. That's what affirmative action is. It disadvantages whites and Asians,

00:38:12.540 and it gives advantage to blacks and Hispanics in college admissions and elsewhere. It's also at

00:38:18.060 the cultural level. There's a new movie coming out. It looks really bad. I don't want to judge a movie

00:38:22.780 by its trailer, because I haven't obviously seen the movie yet. And the movie, well, take a listen.

00:38:29.760 I'll take a, I don't want to color your view. Take, is that a politically incorrect term? Am I allowed

00:38:34.480 to use that word anymore? Take a listen to the movie, Karen. Tell me about your new neighbors.

00:38:41.700 They're black. Do you mind keeping it down? If you don't comply, I'll tell the manager.

00:38:48.060 Somebody's taking home security serious. Hi, I am Karen Drexler. I'm your neighbor.

00:38:54.960 You need to be taking your trash cans off the curb right when the trash is picked up.

00:38:59.680 Is she nice? Yeah, she's nice. Wait a minute. We have a white,

00:39:04.280 entitled neighbor named Karen. Karen. Okay, enjoy yourself. There she is slaving away in the kitchen.

00:39:11.720 I've come across some very suspecting teenagers. Suspecting? Can you please hurry up? Please,

00:39:20.840 they're very aggressive. Yep. I left my wallet with my ID at home. Leave us alone. We didn't do

00:39:26.540 anything. How the heck did you end up moving to this neighborhood? Next thing you know,

00:39:31.620 we have criminals. You take care of him, and I will take care of her. Would you mind stepping out

00:39:36.940 of the car? My office has uncovered some disturbing information on her and her brother.

00:39:44.360 She doesn't like black people. We have a search warrant. Well, I'm black. I know. She doesn't like you

00:39:52.760 either. Karen. This doesn't look great. People are comparing this movie to Get Out. The difference,

00:40:05.540 of course, is Get Out is a good movie, and this movie does not look very good. Get Out is actually

00:40:11.860 about this issue of assimilation and this fear that when you assimilate into a culture, you lose your

00:40:16.140 soul, which is an interesting concept, and I thought it was a clever movie. This doesn't look like that.

00:40:21.000 This movie uses a racial slur, which is Karen. Some people are laughing at the idea that Karen is a

00:40:27.220 racial slur. It's explicitly just a derogatory term for white women. I've used some slurs just the

00:40:39.240 other day. Actually, in my book, I use a slur for Italian-Americans, not because I'm yelling it,

00:40:45.600 but just in the context of describing it. I use one for the Irish. I use one for Asians. I use a few.

00:40:51.320 I use them to point out what these slurs are. Karen is a racial slur. There's no getting around

00:40:57.380 it. It's a mainstream one. It's one that we're all—you're not really allowed to say the other

00:41:01.560 slurs, and there's one slur, obviously, you can never say. They would never make a movie with that

00:41:05.580 name, but the argument here is just preposterous. I think the reason that Get Out rang true to people

00:41:14.800 is because it's a legitimate fear. It is not just black people into a broader white culture,

00:41:21.660 but any group of people into any broader culture, there is a legitimate fear of assimilation.

00:41:28.820 Here, the claim being made is that white women are committing racist hate crimes against black

00:41:37.040 people, that that's the defining epidemic of our country, and it's just not true. It just isn't

00:41:43.340 happening. We talked about this a few weeks ago on the show. When you look at the federal government's

00:41:47.900 hate crime statistics, you can look at the racial breakdown of the offenders and of the general

00:41:54.680 population. 52.5% of hate crime perpetrators are white, and that includes Hispanics because Hispanics

00:42:06.160 have now been defined as white. So just very slightly over half of the offenders in hate crimes are

00:42:12.880 white. 73% of Americans broadly, including Hispanics who are now defined as white, are white. So

00:42:21.160 relative to their percentage of the population, whites and Hispanics are very, very unlikely,

00:42:28.380 significantly less likely to be committing these hate crimes. If you look at the percentage of hate

00:42:33.880 crimes committed by black people, that percentage is 23.9%. If you look at the percentage of the

00:42:40.100 population total that is black, it's 13.4%. So I'm not making any claim that it's because of an intrinsic

00:42:47.860 biological reason or something that whites and Hispanics are relatively less likely to commit hate

00:42:52.880 crimes and black people are relatively more likely to commit hate crimes. I'm just telling you what the

00:42:56.580 federal statistics are. I'm not saying we should make a movie with some black racial slur about the way that

00:43:03.740 hate crimes are really perpetrated in this country. I'm not even saying the term hate crime, it should

00:43:09.340 be a common term. I think it's a ridiculous term because I don't think there are very many love

00:43:14.580 crimes. I guess that would be the opposite of a hate crime. I'm just pointing out the reason that

00:43:21.240 the trailer for Karen is risible, the reason that we're all making fun of it, is because while the

00:43:27.760 ruling elites and the liberal establishment tell us that the great problem is white supremacy,

00:43:32.240 or LeBron James is telling us black men can't leave their homes without being hunted down by racist

00:43:38.280 whites, we just all know it's not true. It's the furthest thing from the truth. When Merrick Garland,

00:43:44.400 the attorney general, comes out and says, the greatest threat to us in America, the terroristic threat is

00:43:50.220 white supremacy, we just know that's ridiculous. It's just absolutely, absolutely preposterous. It is not

00:43:58.000 true. And if you want to solve problems of racial division, if you want to solve problems of crime,

00:44:03.500 which is spiking in cities around the country, you need to be able to diagnose what is really going

00:44:09.440 on, right? The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have a problem. And our culture

00:44:14.420 will not do that. I think this is actually part and parcel of this broader alienation of common sense

00:44:21.840 Americans of all races, of all stripes, of all appearances, from the group of silly mediocrities

00:44:30.500 that are pretending to be the ruling class. And I suppose they really are the ruling class in this

00:44:35.160 country. They just have no right to be. And believe it or not, the Karen trailer is not the sickest

00:44:41.400 racialized video going around the internet. A white lib mother took to TikTok to explain why she won't

00:44:49.340 comfort her little baby girl when she cries because we should not play into, quote, white woman tears,

00:44:56.920 even those of a baby. We'll have to get to that tomorrow because we're out of time. How's that

00:45:01.200 for a cliffhanger? Stay safe out there. Don't get nuked by Joe Biden. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm

00:45:05.780 Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:45:58.420 production, copyright Daily Wire 2021. Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Joe Biden threatens to

00:46:04.460 nuke gun-owning Americans. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, defends teaching

00:46:08.320 critical race theory in the military. And Democrats reap the whirlwind as crime skyrockets. That's

00:46:13.320 today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

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