The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 804 - The Perpetual Revolution

00:00:00.000 Cubans have taken to the streets of Havana to demand an end to the communist tyranny that

00:00:05.500 has ruled the island for 60 years. So it comes as no surprise that our own communist tyranny 0.58

00:00:10.980 here in America is trying to lie about the cause and the nature of those protests. But we will get

00:00:17.540 to the truth. Then a prominent conservative, quote-unquote conservative, decries, quote-unquote,

00:00:24.360 transphobia. Hunter Biden sells his childish doodles for half a million dollars and the public

00:00:32.180 health geniuses promise to make life very hard for the unvaccinated. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the 0.94

00:00:37.880 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Daniel,

00:00:50.900 who says, why don't I see schools also handing out clean needles for safe drug use or breathalyzers for

00:01:00.800 safe driving decisions for underage drinkers? That's a great question, Daniel. I mean, this is

00:01:06.240 the kind of nonsense that we're hearing from the Chicago public school system when they say that 0.52

00:01:11.060 they're going to pass out free condoms to 10-year-olds to discourage unsafe sexual decisions.

00:01:16.540 If you subsidize a certain behavior, in this case, young sex, you are going to get more of that 0.99

00:01:24.140 behavior. I know that this basic common sense is very irritating to leftists and to some libertarians,

00:01:31.820 by the way, but it's just the case. If you subsidize something, you are very likely to get more of it.

00:01:37.480 And we wouldn't do it yet. We wouldn't do it with underage drinking and driving. We wouldn't do it with

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00:03:02.140 Thank me later. The riots, they're not really. I guess you would, we're so used to hearing

00:03:07.220 protests or riots rather be called protests and protests be called riots that it's easy to

00:03:12.420 conflate the two. But what's going on in the streets of Havana right now is really much more

00:03:17.520 of a protest. The Cuban citizens who are standing up against their communist dictatorship are not

00:03:25.000 committing acts of terrorism. They're not burning down private property like we saw in the United

00:03:28.800 States to the applause of the mainstream liberal elite in the United States. What we are seeing is

00:03:35.240 Cuban citizens finally, after 60 years of communist oppression, demanding an end to that tyranny. And

00:03:41.360 what's happening in the United States is that our own ruling elite are covering up for the communist

00:03:46.340 regime. So there was a Twitter trend yesterday about what's going on in Cuba. Here's what the Twitter

00:03:50.460 trend said. Protests take place across Cuba as the country faces shortages of COVID-19 vaccines and basic

00:04:00.420 necessities. So what they're saying is they're redefining the reality of what's going on. And they're saying

00:04:05.900 these protests, they're actually about how they don't have enough vaccines for the Wu flu. That's what, it's not

00:04:12.480 about freedom. It's not about the tyranny that's ruled the island for 60 years. It's not about the fact that the

00:04:18.420 Castro's are finally dead. So maybe there's a chance to reopen the country a little bit. No, no, no.

00:04:23.380 It's about the chop fluey. That's what it's about. It's about the COVID. Right. Here's what they

00:04:30.500 described. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana and in other cities to demand vaccines and

00:04:35.960 food on Sunday as the country faces a period of economic crisis brought on by the global COVID-19

00:04:41.500 pandemic. Not brought on by communism, brought on by the cough that came from China. People criticized

00:04:48.240 President Miguel Diaz-Canel saying, down with the dictatorship, according to the Miami Herald.

00:04:54.280 In a speech addressing the country, Diaz-Canel blamed the United States for the unrest, according

00:04:57.860 to Reuters. This is an amazing fact sandwich. Right. So at the top, you have a lie, which is that

00:05:05.300 the protests are about COVID. Then at the bottom, you have the lie that's being repeated from the

00:05:11.400 current Cuban dictator saying that the United States is responsible for the protest. And then in the,

00:05:16.520 sort of in the middle, you get a little bit almost of a fact, which is people saying, down with the

00:05:21.540 dictatorship. Sandwiched in between these lies. The protests that are going on right now are not

00:05:29.840 about COVID. They are about freedom from communist tyranny. Twitter doesn't want to admit it, but even

00:05:36.740 Jen Psaki over at the White House had to admit this is about freedom.

00:05:41.440 The Press on Cuba, you're talking today about how some of these protests are inspired by people

00:05:46.980 exhausted with the government. Why is it that yesterday the State Department was saying that

00:05:51.720 this was all happening out of concern about rising COVID cases?

00:05:56.620 Well, I would say first that the protests were just happening yesterday. We're still assessing

00:06:01.240 what is motivating and, of course, and driving all of the individuals who came to the streets. But we know

00:06:07.280 that when we say exhaustion, the manner by which the people of Cuba are governed, that can cover a range

00:06:15.840 of issues, whether it's economic suppression, media suppression, lack of access to health and medical

00:06:22.180 supplies, including vaccines. There are a range of reasons and voices we're hearing from people on the

00:06:27.400 ground who are protesting.

00:06:28.280 So when these protesters are yelling freedom and enough, there are people within the administration

00:06:33.040 who think they're saying freedom from rising COVID cases.

00:06:37.440 Again, I would say that when people are out there in the streets protesting and complaining about

00:06:42.620 the lack of access to economic prosperity, to the medical supplies they need, to a life they deserve

00:06:50.980 to live, that can take on a range of meetings.

00:06:54.340 It's the fact sandwich again. She keeps doing this. So she's admitting, she's like, yeah,

00:06:59.980 right now I know they're chanting liberty. And no, it's not.

00:07:04.920 Yeah, it's not. Well, yeah. Okay. It's liberty economically and it's liberty politically. And yeah,

00:07:10.660 and it's liberty from not having vaccines. And it's, no, it's not. It's not. It's not about COVID at

00:07:16.000 all. No one cares about COVID, Jen. It's about communism. Oh my gosh. If there's any complaint about

00:07:23.360 COVID or healthcare or food or anything, it derives from the communist tyranny.

00:07:28.800 She then, she can't call out communism. She can't do it. She has to say that the issue is

00:07:33.800 economic mismanagement.

00:07:36.020 There's every indication that yesterday's protests were spontaneous expressions of people who are

00:07:41.520 exhausted with the Cuban government's economic mismanagement and repression. And those,

00:07:47.200 these are protests inspired by the harsh reality of everyday life.

00:07:50.320 It's not economic. It's economic mismanagement in the sense that tightly managed economies like in

00:07:57.840 communist dictatorships don't work out very well. Yeah, I guess that's economic. But they can't call

00:08:02.500 it out. They can't have black and white. This reminds me of Obama when Obama went down and tried

00:08:07.400 to normalize relations with Cuba without getting any concessions from the Castro regime. He said,

00:08:13.380 look, you know, back in the Cold War, there were a big difference between capitalism and communism.

00:08:18.580 But those, I'm only slightly paraphrasing, by the way, those distinctions don't really mean so much

00:08:23.300 anymore. Okay? Distinction. No, they do. It does, actually. The difference between freedom and communism is

00:08:28.740 still significant. Okay? But because the ruling elite doesn't really think that, because the ruling elite

00:08:36.540 is a little bit pink, they're a little bit red on the inside, they can't call out communism. This is not

00:08:42.140 a new turn of events, by the way. This has always been true, or it's been true for the last 100 or 120

00:08:47.680 years in the United States. The intelligentsia, the ruling elite, have always been much more sympathetic

00:08:55.080 to communism than most of the American people. Take a listen to what's going on in the streets of

00:08:59.740 Havana right now. Let me know if you think this is about COVID or mismanagement.

00:09:06.540 Libertad, libertad, libertad. By the way, so you're hearing libertad, libertad, right, which my Spanish

00:09:19.960 isn't great, but I don't think that's the word for COVID. I don't think that's the word for vaccines. I think

00:09:24.840 it's the word for freedom. And you're also seeing Our Lady. You're seeing statues of the Blessed Virgin.

00:09:32.720 You're seeing religious statues. This is, I think, maybe the clearest example of the protests being an

00:09:40.120 attack on communism. Communism is about economic collectivism and about atheism. Both of those

00:09:45.880 things at once. In the United States now, because secular liberals have redefined so much of our 0.51

00:09:50.400 political discourse, we only ever focus on the economic aspect. But there's a religious aspect to

00:09:55.240 this as well. Bill Buckley talks about this in that terrific book, God and Man at Yale.

00:09:59.060 Well, it's not just about the economics. It's also about the liberty. This is why during the Cold War,

00:10:05.240 the religious right was so opposed to the Soviet Union because it was a ruthless atheist regime. 0.96

00:10:11.340 And obviously the libertarians and the West broadly were opposed to the economic aspects of this. This

00:10:17.300 is about freedom. And by the way, they're waving the American flag there. I traveled to Cuba. I visited

00:10:23.180 Cuba a couple years ago when it was easier to go. And in Cuba, a symbol of protest against the regime

00:10:29.000 is the American flag. They wear it on their jeans. They put American flag stickers on their bicycles.

00:10:34.000 It's the sign of protest. Here now we denigrate and desecrate the American flag. In Cuba, they recognize

00:10:40.900 that it is a symbol of something. Unfortunately, our own ruling elite in the United States don't seem to

00:10:45.080 have as much care for America as the Cuban people do. And of course, of course, if you really want to 1.00

00:10:53.100 know what's causing the protests and you ask the mainstream media, you're going to get a simple

00:10:56.760 answer. Five letters, one syllable. The problem is Trump. CBS News covering the Cuban protests right now

00:11:08.140 makes an argument. I thought it was it was too brazen for them. Donald Trump is no longer the

00:11:13.900 president. He hasn't been president for some time now. And yet everything is still Trump's fault,

00:11:19.140 including apparently the sorry state of the slave island of Cuba. On Cuban television,

00:11:26.680 Diaz-Canel blamed the protest on the U.S. and its trade embargo for a severe impact on Cuba's recent

00:11:33.060 economic downturn. The Trump administration passed many more regulations, many more sanctions against

00:11:40.360 it, which basically has cut off all income coming into Cuba. Portia Siegelbaum is a CBS News producer

00:11:47.560 based in Cuba. I think the Biden administration, he at least said at the beginning he was going to

00:11:53.540 review this policy and make changes, but nothing has happened. The recent policy, they say the Trump

00:12:01.680 administration's new policy to impose sanctions on Cuba. That policy goes back 60 years. It's the

00:12:09.800 Cuban Embargo Act. It has been in place since the Kennedy administration. It is true that Barack Obama

00:12:16.940 loosened up the enforcement of that law, but it remained the law. They never repealed the embargo.

00:12:21.920 Even when they made it a little easier to travel there, you still couldn't buy Cuban goods in the

00:12:26.060 United States, but even when it was a little bit easier, all that was was Barack Obama flouting the rule

00:12:30.940 of law. That's not as though they actually repealed the law. And then Donald Trump came in and enforced

00:12:36.100 the law again, and now Joe Biden maybe is going to stop enforcing quite as much. That's, that's the

00:12:42.440 reason that Cuba is in economic turmoil. People in Cuba make about $25 a month. I think that's the

00:12:48.080 average monthly income, $25 U.S. per month. That's been true for a long time. It was true before 0.69

00:12:55.060 Donald Trump, but they're going to blame Donald Trump for that. This, I only point this out not

00:13:01.220 to show you that the media are liberal or something, but just to show you the huge disconnect between

00:13:05.980 the ordinary people and the ruling elite. Not just in communist countries like Cuba, obviously there,

00:13:12.560 there's a huge disconnect, but even in our own country. Now in Cuba, the dictator, Miguel Diaz-Canel,

00:13:18.620 who took over after Raul Castro stepped down after Fidel Castro died. Although I suppose Fidel

00:13:27.440 Castro had actually given up power to Raul before he died. Miguel Diaz-Canel is calling on the

00:13:32.440 communist regime supporters to, quote, defend the revolution against the pro-democracy protesters.

00:13:38.160 He said the Cuban government is willing to do anything. There are reports coming out right now

00:13:41.360 that the regime is really cracking down, is murdering protesters, is cutting off internet to the

00:13:46.220 island. So it's getting, getting pretty bad down there. We're calling on all revolutionaries in

00:13:51.220 the country, all the communists to hit the streets wherever there is an effort to produce these 0.63

00:13:54.560 provocations. We're not going to hand over the sovereignty or the independence of the people.

00:13:58.540 There are so many revolutionaries in this country who are willing to give our lives or willing to do

00:14:02.480 anything and we will be in the streets fighting. The word revolutionary here is ironic because the

00:14:08.060 people who are in the streets demanding an end to the 60 year tyranny, they are not the

00:14:12.800 revolutionaries, according to the Cuban dictator. According to the dictator, it is the regime that

00:14:18.360 is the revolutionaries. Well, how is that possible? When you go to Cuba, you'll see an expression

00:14:23.500 written on the walls, written by the government on the walls, which is, viva siempre la revolución.

00:14:31.140 Live, always live, long live the revolution. The revolution is a perpetual process. There's no end to it.

00:14:38.520 This is why Fidel Castro, after he had been ensconced in power as dictator for decades and

00:14:43.500 decades and decades, would continue to wear his military fatigues because the revolution is never

00:14:48.860 over because it's one, that's the only way that they can justify the squalor that everyone's living

00:14:54.800 in and the repression of the rights. But, but two, because you can't reach a communist utopia on earth.

00:15:00.820 It's, it's a utopia. It's no place. The Paul Kenger, the political scientist once told me that

00:15:05.900 the way to understand the difference between socialism and communism is that

00:15:09.100 Christians go to heaven and socialists go to communism. You're not, you're not going to get

00:15:13.220 there on earth is the problem. And so the revolution always has to be ongoing. And we're

00:15:17.560 seeing this kind of perpetual revolution here in the United States. I mentioned the story in part

00:15:23.360 because I care about Cuba. I like the Cuban people. They're great. When they come to America, 0.84

00:15:26.920 they have very good priorities, good family values, very conservative sorts of people. And also because I

00:15:32.720 like the cigars and the coffee and I like the Cuban culture, but really the reason I mentioned Cuba

00:15:38.320 is not because of Cuba. It's because of what this means in the United States. We've got a perpetual 0.63

00:15:42.340 revolution going on here as well. You always, you always hear, oh, Michael cut it out with the

00:15:49.600 slippery slope arguments. All the left wants is free sex. All the left wants is a little liberation on 0.98

00:15:56.500 the sexual front. Oh, okay. All the left wants is gay rights. Okay. All the left wants is to 0.97

00:16:00.960 redefine marriage. Wait, what? All the left wants is from to pretend that men can become women. Huh? 0.92

00:16:06.720 All the left wants is to start transing the kids. Wait a second. Come on now. All the left wants is

00:16:11.860 to teach radical transgenderism in schools. Wait, hold on. Wait, I thought we were just talking about 0.79

00:16:16.480 women going to work in the sixties or whatever. I thought we were just talking, hold on. How did we 0.99

00:16:21.580 get all the way over here? Because there's no end to it because the slippery slope is not just some

00:16:25.580 fear-mongering tactic on the right. It's the whole point. The whole point is there's no end.

00:16:29.980 The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. We're on the right side of

00:16:35.340 history. History with the capital H is always marching forward. We're progressing. There's

00:16:39.240 no end. There's no end to it until you reach utopia, which you're never going to do because

00:16:42.980 it's no place. So we're seeing this now on racial issues and especially on sexual issues

00:16:47.820 here in the United States. Consider this. Consider this. Right now, there is a candidate running

00:16:55.300 for governor of California as a Republican who is a man who pretends to be a woman who

00:17:04.100 is contradicting not just political orders and standards or social mores, but nature itself.

00:17:13.020 And there are many prominent Republicans who are defending this sort of thing.

00:17:18.240 At CPAC, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Bruce Jenner showed up because he's

00:17:24.060 running for governor of California and he was heckled. Okay. And I, you know, I don't like this

00:17:29.040 sort of thing. I think it's ugly to just go heckle public figures all the time. This is par for the

00:17:34.840 course for anyone who's in political life. So it just comes with the territory and it's just the way

00:17:38.680 it is. So it's not as though Bruce Jenner is special in this regard, but still it's always ugly

00:17:42.720 when it happens. So he was heckled. He was referred to by his actual sex. He was called a man

00:17:46.800 rather than his imagined sex. And he was asked a completely fair question, which is what he thought

00:17:52.480 about transgenderism being taught in schools. This is a radical, false theory about human nature 1.00

00:17:58.680 that your body has nothing to do with who you are. It is being taught in schools. The guy who's running

00:18:02.700 for governor of California was asked about this. He obviously buys into the idea itself because he's

00:18:08.140 living out that idea. And so I think it's a totally fair question. The heckler was rude as happens to

00:18:14.440 every politician, but the question was totally fair. Tommy Lauren, who is a conservative commentator,

00:18:21.480 I think she's on Fox, Fox News and Fox Nation. Tommy objected to this. Tommy wrote on Twitter,

00:18:27.780 quote, the attacks on Caitlyn Jenner are despicable. I'll go to bat for her every single time. And if

00:18:34.320 you want to take my conservative card for it, take it and shove it. Your mob is no better than the

00:18:39.500 left's. And in fact, it's uglier. Hold on a second. Now look, Tommy Lauren is not particularly 0.98

00:18:43.500 conservative. Tommy Lauren famously not only defended abortion, but accused conservatives,

00:18:48.420 pro-life people who oppose abortion, of being hypocrites because conservatives, you see, support

00:18:55.620 limited government. But they also don't think we should kill a million babies a year. So isn't that 0.96

00:19:00.940 hypocrisy? It's obviously not hypocrisy. Preventing the murder of a million babies a year I think falls

00:19:05.500 within the legitimate limits of government. No matter how limited you want your government to be,

00:19:10.040 I think that's fair. I think that's within the bounds. As is, by the way, in this case,

00:19:15.620 standing by the plain basic fact of reality that men and women are different. Now Tommy Lauren seems

00:19:25.200 to be saying that the observation that men and women are different is beyond the legitimate limits

00:19:30.220 of government. So what are the, are you just an anarchist then? You just, you think the government

00:19:33.880 has no, no legitimate use whatsoever? Tommy goes on. The conservatives, quote unquote, attacking

00:19:41.180 Caitlyn for her personal choices, attacked Trump for his and declared him to be adverse to Christian

00:19:46.820 values. They were the bulk of the never Trump pearl clutching movement that suddenly became real quiet

00:19:51.660 when his policies worked. Save your BS. What? This, that part just doesn't make any sense at all. The

00:19:58.080 people that I, look, I know the plural of anecdote is not data. The people I know who oppose the Caitlyn

00:20:03.760 Jenner candidacy on the grounds that men who are under the false impression that they're women

00:20:09.780 definitely need to figure things out and probably should not be holding public office and probably

00:20:16.660 are not the most conservative candidates to hold public office. The ones I know who hold that view

00:20:22.380 tend to be Trump supporters. The ones that I know who are squishy on the issue of transgenderism,

00:20:29.280 they tend to fall more in the never Trump camp. I'm just speaking anecdotally, but I, I think it's

00:20:37.200 simply a fact that men, men and women are different. And I don't think there's anything bigoted or

00:20:43.640 hypocritical about pointing that out. Also, also Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner distanced himself from

00:20:52.260 Trump. He backed away from, he sort of liked Trump initially, and then he stopped liking Trump.

00:20:55.800 And famously, he said, he doesn't even care about the Republican party. His loyalties do not lie with

00:21:00.340 the Republican party or with Donald Trump. His loyalty and his concern is for the LGBT movement.

00:21:07.080 My loyalties do not lie with Donald Trump. My loyalty do not lie with the Republican party.

00:21:12.540 My loyalties and what I'm fighting for is my community, the LGBT community, and particularly

00:21:17.200 the trans issues that are out there, because there are many of them. And so that's where my fight is.

00:21:23.380 And I thought Trump would be pretty good, but he's kind of disappointed me in the first hundred

00:21:27.840 days. Okay. Well, when he says it, believe him. His, his issue is not conservatism. His issue is not

00:21:35.900 the GOP. His issue is not make America great again. It's LGBT and specifically transgender is pushing 1.00

00:21:40.940 transgenderism. Oh, okay. Not my candidate. Then should not be any of our candidates. I mentioned this 1.00

00:21:46.120 not to pick on Bruce Jenner and not to pick on Tommy Lauren, but just to point out, you've got a very

00:21:52.400 prominent conservative commentator on the prominent conservative cable network pushing this stuff

00:21:58.240 that would have been considered as far left as it possibly gets even five years ago.

00:22:04.460 Viva siempre la revolución, apparently. 0.72

00:22:09.780 You've got a lot of crazy sexual issues going on. Why, why do these political issues seem to revolve 0.98

00:22:17.760 around sex so much? Is it just because people want to get titillated? Is it just because,

00:22:21.560 because sex sells or something? Maybe, maybe. Also because sex is fundamental to our nature. I know a 0.60

00:22:29.260 lot of people are talking about racial politics. Now the left uses race also to divide people. Race is

00:22:34.560 less fundamental to human identity than sex is. I mean, that, that is the fundamental distinction. When you

00:22:40.760 look at the origin stories of how humanity comes about, they usually don't revolve around the racial

00:22:47.700 differences. They usually revolve around sexual differences. Gilgamesh or Genesis, for instance.

00:22:54.980 We'll get into all of that in a second. First, however, I've got to tell you about Candace. Candace's 0.71

00:22:59.380 show coming up tonight, Tuesday, the 13th, 9 p.m. Eastern. Go check it out. The MMA fighter,

00:23:04.660 Benil Dariush, will be on the show. Candace will be talking about what's going on in Cuba, so go check that

00:23:10.340 out. Also, Ben is going to be talking about, everyone's talking about Cuba these days. I'm

00:23:13.620 only talking about Cuba to talk about America, but people are really focusing in on to what is

00:23:17.260 going on there. You could see another revolution going on in Cuba. Go check that out. We'll be right

00:23:22.720 back with a lot more. Gilgamesh begins with sexual difference. Genesis,

00:23:40.340 begins with sexual difference. Sexual difference is the fundamental divide in nature. So if you can 0.55

00:23:47.420 overcome that sort of thing, you can overcome just about anything in politics. And I think this is

00:23:51.240 why the left is focused on it. Since the second wave feminists who denied sexual difference into 1.00

00:23:55.300 the same-sex marriage debate, which denies sexual difference, into the transgender debate, which denies

00:23:59.280 sexual difference. And all of that is, in effect, an attack on the family because the opposite of 0.75

00:24:05.740 communism is not individualism. Sometimes it's posited that way, that if we want to fight

00:24:12.120 collectivism, we need to just support the radical autonomy of the individual. No, they're two sides

00:24:17.120 of the same coin. Every revolution first divides people up as individuals and then bundles them all

00:24:22.700 together. This is true of fascism. It's true of communism. It's true of socialism. It's true of the 0.58

00:24:27.300 people today. The actual opposite of collectivism and radical individualism, which are two sides of

00:24:33.880 the same coin, is the family, is community, is tradition. That's the opposite. You know, we call

00:24:42.460 the left commies all the time, but they behave like radical individualists when it comes to sex, when it 0.81

00:24:47.100 comes to their defense of privacy, when it comes to abortion, when it comes to so many issues.

00:24:54.220 The left behaves like individualists on the social front, and the right behaves like individualists

00:25:00.480 on the economic front, and the country lurches ever further to the left. The country breaks everybody,

00:25:06.920 the revolution breaks everybody down into individuals and bundles them back together.

00:25:10.780 The opposite of that would be the family. You're seeing a very explicit attack on the family right

00:25:15.020 now. The rights of the family to educate their kids, the rights of the family to keep their boys

00:25:21.860 little boys and not trans them. I mean, there are actually now forces at work in our politics 1.00

00:25:28.500 that will try to take your children away from you if you refuse to pretend that your little boy is a

00:25:35.200 little girl. If he says that he's a little girl, you'll get the schools involved, you'll get local

00:25:38.260 authorities involved. This is happening to a greater extent outside of the United States, but you're

00:25:42.740 seeing it begin to happen here as well. Harry and Meghan. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,

00:25:49.000 the voice of a generation, I'm sorry to say, they just won an award. They win lots of silly awards, 0.94

00:25:55.640 but they just won an award from an environmental charity for making the, quote, enlightened decision

00:26:02.640 to limit the number of kids they're having. So they've said they have two kids, and that's it.

00:26:08.800 They're not going to have any more kids. They're not going to be open to life. They're not going to

00:26:11.860 be open to sharing their love with one another that creates a new person. Nope. They're limiting it.

00:26:17.180 Okay. A group called Population Matters is very pleased with this decision. Quote,

00:26:22.600 in choosing and publicly declaring their intention to limit their family to two, the Duke and Duchess

00:26:26.560 of Sussex are helping to ensure a better future for their children and providing a role model for

00:26:30.740 other families. Having smaller families reduces our impact on the earth, provides a better chance 1.00

00:26:35.180 for all our children, their children, and future generations to flourish on a healthy planet.

00:26:38.480 We commend the Duke and Duchess for taking this enlightened decision for affirming that smaller

00:26:41.940 family is also a happy family. Wrong. It's just wrong.

00:26:46.040 So this comes out of this fear of overpopulation. We were told by people like Paul Ehrlich, very

00:26:51.620 prominent scientist, quote, unquote, who remains at Stanford, who still gets lots of plaudits even

00:26:58.240 today. He said in the 70s, overpopulation was going to cause mass famine, mass starvation. There

00:27:03.460 was no way to avoid that. And we had to encourage contraception and abortion. And if people wouldn't 0.90

00:27:09.060 comply with it, then we had to force it upon them. Seriously, this is the kind of crazy stuff he

00:27:12.480 called for. These policies were picked up in India and China, led to hideous abuses of people's

00:27:18.540 rights, led to people being denied food or water or access to sanitation if they continued to have

00:27:23.420 kids, if they wouldn't be sterilized, led to the one child policy, which led to a genocide in China.

00:27:28.120 Hideous, hideous stuff. And it was just BS. Because you know what happened? Since the time that Paul

00:27:33.900 Ehrlich said, that overpopulation was inevitably going to cause mass starvation, between that time

00:27:39.560 and today, the world population has doubled. Malnutrition is at an all-time low. People are

00:27:44.560 fatter than they ever have been in the history of the world. It's just not true. It is part of this

00:27:49.540 creepy anti-family, anti-life movement that tells you not to have kids in the first place, that tells 0.64

00:27:56.440 you to kill your kids when you have them through abortion, that tells you to sterilize your children 1.00

00:28:02.120 through transgenderism, that it's just, it all seems to redound to the same point. Wherever you 1.00

00:28:08.980 see this, this anti-life thing, recognize there is an economic aspect here that people just want to

00:28:14.700 have more money and they don't want to spend it on their kids. There is a political aspect here. It's

00:28:18.560 easier to control people if you break down the family. And there's a spiritual aspect too. There's

00:28:22.300 just simply no denying it. There is an element of the demonic in anything that tells you not to have

00:28:29.060 kids, to kill your kids, to have a small family, to not raise your kids right, to sterilize your 0.93

00:28:33.180 kids. There's something, it's not enough to just talk about the political and the economic. There's 0.99

00:28:37.580 something spiritual there as well. Speaking of celebrity families, by the way, Hunter Biden is

00:28:42.540 back in the news. Not for any of the drug stuff, not for any of the sex stuff, not for any of the

00:28:47.980 corruption, not for any of the selling out the United States to China, not for any of the trading

00:28:52.140 on his family's name quite exactly. The reason that's not in the news is it's not allowed to be

00:28:56.960 in the news. The minute you report on that, that'll be shut down by the ruling regime here in the

00:29:00.980 United States. It's amazing. We talk about how Cuba shuts off the internet for the dissidents.

00:29:07.140 They do it here in the United States. They do it here. When the New York Post uncovers very serious

00:29:12.680 evidence of corruption and crimes from the son of a major presidential candidate, what happened? The

00:29:17.700 regime, the big tech, working on behalf of the ruling elite, shuts it down. So you can't even

00:29:22.920 privately message it to people until after the election. Amazing the similarities of La

00:29:28.760 Revolución here and in Cuba. So Hunter Biden is now an artist. Now I say, as a low-skilled painter

00:29:38.660 myself, I took up painting during COVID and I'm not very good. I'm much better than Hunter Biden,

00:29:42.820 but I'm not very good. I've never been offered half a million dollars for my

00:29:47.560 artwork. Hunter Biden has for his little polka dots that he puts on, on canvas. Do you think

00:29:54.260 he's being offered half a million dollars for his artwork because it's just so good? Because it's,

00:30:00.860 wow, it's just so beautiful? Or do you think it might have something to do with Hunter Biden's

00:30:05.480 entire career, which is selling his father's name to the highest bidder? Jen Psaki at the White House was 1.00

00:30:10.820 asked about this. She insists, no big deal, no big deal, nothing to see here.

00:30:14.940 I have a question on Hunter Biden's artwork. Did the White House play any role in crafting the

00:30:20.540 sales agreement with the New York Gallery to protect the purchaser's or the ultimate purchaser's

00:30:29.120 identity? Well, I can tell you that after careful consideration, a system has been established that

00:30:35.600 allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards. Of course, he has the

00:30:41.440 right to pursue an artistic career, just like any child of a president has the right to pursue

00:30:46.360 a career. But all interactions regarding the selling of art and the setting of prices

00:30:50.880 will be handled by a professional gallerist adhering to the highest industry standards.

00:30:55.560 And any offer out of the normal course would be rejected out of hand. And the gallerist will not

00:30:59.740 share information about buyers or prospective buyers, including their identities with Hunter Biden

00:31:04.480 or the administration, which provides quite a level of protection and transparency.

00:31:10.280 Anything out of the ordinary, anything out of the ordinary would be rejected, of course. And so it's

00:31:17.000 perfectly within ordinary bounds for Hunter Biden, for a dilettante crackhead sex criminal influence 0.98

00:31:24.960 peddler who took up painting five minutes ago to be offered half a million dollars for his scribbles. 0.96

00:31:31.300 That is totally ordinary and normal. And there's nothing to see here. Don't worry. It's being

00:31:37.160 handled by the professionals, right? Right. How, how do they say this with a straight face?

00:31:43.820 Because they don't respect us. They don't respect you. They don't respect me. They are going to

00:31:50.360 relieve themselves on our legs and tell us that it is raining. Nothing to see here. Well, it's the same

00:31:56.720 answer they gave when Hunter Biden was peddling his father's influence to Ukraine. Hunter Biden was

00:32:02.620 being paid, we don't know the exact number, something like $50,000 a month, maybe more, by a

00:32:06.860 Ukrainian energy company. Hunter Biden doesn't know anything about Ukraine. He doesn't know anything

00:32:10.780 about energy. But his father was the point man on Ukraine and his father managed to pull some favors,

00:32:16.880 it would seem, while Hunter Biden was doing that. So Hunter Biden sells his influence to China,

00:32:22.540 tries to put a big deal together from China to get some Chinese financing while Joe Biden is vice

00:32:27.940 president of the United States. And now Hunter Biden is a professional artist, adhering to the

00:32:33.420 highest professional standards and making half a million bucks. And you know what? There's nothing

00:32:37.540 you can do about it. There's nothing you can do about that because you can take to the streets,

00:32:43.400 you can demand liberdade, liberdade against la corruzione. Well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter

00:32:47.980 because the ruling elite will do whatever they need to do to stay in power, including making your

00:32:54.860 life very, very difficult. The former president of Planned Parenthood, so a former top abortionist

00:33:02.140 in the country, her job, her career was spent literally killing babies to the tune of hundreds 0.98

00:33:11.620 of thousands a year just by Planned Parenthood alone. She is now on CNN and she is describing how

00:33:19.660 they are going to get, how the ruling elite is going to get all you deplorable, irredeemable,

00:33:25.820 bitter, clinging, Bible-thumping Americans to take the experimental drug for the virus that is 1.00

00:33:31.960 so dangerous, so terrible that it's got actually a very, very low death rate. And it's so awful and

00:33:39.980 terrible that no one wants to get the vaccine, which is so wonderful and great that they're

00:33:44.000 going to make life very, very hard for you. Now we have this Delta variant that is much more

00:33:49.300 contagious. Because it's more contagious, it's going to be even harder for us to reach herd immunity.

00:33:54.460 We're going to have to vaccinate an even higher proportion of people to get there. What happens

00:33:59.480 then if we end up having another variant developing that's even more contagious, that could cause more

00:34:04.180 disease, that could evade the protection of our immune system? And so how quickly we get this

00:34:08.940 under control and which way we go depends on what we do now when it comes to vaccination,

00:34:14.640 to overcoming disinformation. And what we really need to do at this point is to make vaccination

00:34:19.420 the easy choice. It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated. Right now it's kind of the

00:34:25.220 opposite. It's fine. I mean, it's easy if you're unvaccinated. You can do everything you want to do 0.58

00:34:29.160 anyway. But at some point, these mandates by workplaces, by schools, I think it will be important

00:34:34.420 to say, hey, you can opt out. But if you want to opt out, you have to sign these forms. You have to

00:34:38.840 get twice weekly testing. Basically, we need to make getting vaccinated the easy choice. That is

00:34:43.660 what it's going to take for us to actually end the pandemic. Do you see how she gives away the game

00:34:49.020 here? If the vaccine were so great, well, let's back up. If the virus were really so bad,

00:34:59.980 if it were really so dangerous to so many people, it wouldn't matter how experimental or untested the

00:35:07.100 vaccine were, people would be clamoring to get it. If this were the bubonic plague in medieval Europe,

00:35:11.840 people would be clamoring to get any kind of vaccine they could get. But they're not doing that

00:35:17.000 because they're not at great risk. Then you have to take the question of the vaccine. If the vaccine

00:35:23.040 were so great, if it were so totally 100% safe, one, you wouldn't be hearing reports from the

00:35:29.840 CDC, by the way. I'm not, this is not like from some far off corner of the internet. This is the

00:35:33.680 CDC and the FDA acknowledging that there are reports of myocarditis in young, young people who are not at

00:35:38.980 particularly high statistical risk from COVID. They're having issues of heart inflammation,

00:35:43.620 heart hospitalization, in some cases, death. You wouldn't be hearing reports of the COVID vaccine

00:35:48.220 or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which actually had to be paused because women were getting blood

00:35:52.080 clots and in some cases dying from the vaccine. You wouldn't be hearing reports that just came out

00:35:57.740 yesterday reported in even the New York Times, for goodness sakes, of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine

00:36:02.260 causing a nerve issue. You wouldn't be hearing any of those things, which has actually presented

00:36:10.400 itself in other vaccines, even though no one's allowed to talk about that. You wouldn't be hearing

00:36:17.040 about that sort of thing. And if the vaccine were really so great for the virus that's really so

00:36:21.100 terrible and deadly and scary, you wouldn't need to make life hard for everybody because life would

00:36:26.380 already be hard for people because the vaccine would already be the easy choice. But because

00:36:31.220 none of that is true, they have to contrive it. They have to make pretend. This is something you see

00:36:39.900 in, you see greater authoritarianism. You see greater oppression in regimes that are really unstable. And

00:36:48.020 there is no way, I think right now, to look at the nature of our politics and say that things are

00:36:52.980 stable. Nothing is stable. Nothing is settled. The radicals, the revolutionaries in the middle of

00:36:58.600 the 20th century unsettled everything. We can't even say what the difference is between men and women

00:37:03.940 anymore. Not even the conservatives can say what the difference between men and women is anymore.

00:37:08.440 Forget about the radical left. Even people who are the right-wing people on the right-wing networks,

00:37:12.980 even they are defending this sort of thing. So of course, as things are going to be unsettled,

00:37:18.400 you're going to see greater oppression, greater repression. Are ruling elites intentionally making

00:37:24.780 life hard for people to get them to succumb to their will? That sort of thing is not happening just

00:37:30.340 90 miles off the coast of Florida. That sort of thing is happening right in our own backyard.

00:37:38.360 The liberal ruling elite is coming out and saying they're going to go door to door

00:37:46.740 to try to get you to take the experimental drug for the virus that you're not particularly worried

00:37:52.200 about. Obviously, this is a very strong play by the left. The right is resisting it, except

00:38:00.820 even some people on the right, or nominally on the right, are resisting it. So Asa Hutchinson,

00:38:07.180 who is not the most conservative governor out there, he's a Republican, Republican governor of Arkansas.

00:38:13.580 He made a name for himself because he supports castrating little children if their abusive parents

00:38:21.160 believe that the little boys are little girls. He supports that. He thinks that that should be 0.99

00:38:25.660 able to go through. He opposed a bill that would ban that sort of thing. So already, we don't have

00:38:29.520 very high expectations for Asa Hutchinson. Well, he goes on ABC News, he goes on one of these left-wing

00:38:34.780 news sites, and he says that Biden going door to door with the vaccine, that big threat he's making?

00:38:41.360 Oh, it's not a big deal. Don't worry about it. Whenever we have a low vaccination rate,

00:38:46.260 we want all the help we can in order to accomplish a mutual goal in increasing vaccinations.

00:38:53.260 Long before President Biden said that, we have community organizations that's helping us. We have

00:38:59.880 churches that are going into homes. We have people that go into those that are bedridden so that they

00:39:06.760 can have access to the vaccine. So there's nothing dramatic about what the president said in itself.

00:39:12.740 No one wants an agent knocking on a door, but we do want those that do not have access otherwise to

00:39:20.480 make sure they know about and have the information. Not everybody goes on the internet. Not everybody

00:39:25.700 has that access. And so how do you get information to them? We want to have our churches involved.

00:39:31.880 We want to have our communities, organizations. And if it means going into a community door by door

00:39:39.640 and letting them know of this, then that's okay. Not everybody has access. Not everybody's heard of

00:39:46.360 coronavirus. Is that so, Governor? The thing that locked down the entire world for the last 18 months

00:39:55.360 that has been blasted on every single news channel everywhere, that if you even question the official

00:40:01.780 narrative, you will be deplatformed, kickoff of social media, ostracized from your community,

00:40:07.020 vaccination centers in every grocery store, every pharmacy, every policy. You're telling me

00:40:14.620 that some people, they just don't know. They just haven't heard about it. And that's why, look,

00:40:20.680 we don't want federal agents going door to door. So, but we're going to send some federal agents

00:40:25.120 door to door to get you to take, or to impel you to take an experimental drug. And there's no,

00:40:30.840 it's no big deal. I mentioned this not because I've had terrible, the policy. Obviously we all know

00:40:34.960 the policy is terrible. I mentioned this not even because Joe Biden's so terrible. We all, we all know

00:40:40.020 that. This is the problem. Asa Hutchinson is the problem. There is no opposition.

00:40:51.560 What's the opposition party? Is the GOP the opposition party? Because last I checked,

00:40:56.960 I'm just looking at the headlines today. The alleged opposition party is defending federal

00:41:02.380 thugs going door to door to jab you with an experimental drug. The opposition party is

00:41:06.880 defending the redefinition, not even of marriage. They're already defending the redefinition of

00:41:10.960 marriage. They're defending the redefinition of sex itself. They're defending, transing the kids. 0.96

00:41:16.660 In some cases they're even defending critical race theory and, and other kooky theories in

00:41:21.780 schools. Where's the opposition? They're not. These are the court jester conservatives. These

00:41:26.840 are the people whose job it is to play the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism, to do a little

00:41:31.500 dance, to give the, the illusion that there is opposition in this country, but there isn't really.

00:41:37.320 They exist merely to legitimize the dominant liberal ruling regime, which is constantly downplaying how

00:41:44.540 bad things really are. There was a poll just came out. Poll came out, Harvard Harris poll came out,

00:41:50.320 found out that four out of five Americans underestimate how bad our illegal immigration

00:41:56.820 problem is. So it's a very simple question. How many people do you think, how many foreign 0.99

00:42:01.580 nationals do you think are pouring across our southern border every day? Harvard Harris, which is not a

00:42:07.340 right-wing organization. Harvard University is not known for its right-wing politics. Harris poll,

00:42:12.000 neither. Four out of five Americans think that the problem is not nearly as bad as it is. 21%

00:42:20.520 Americans believe that less than 10,000 illegal immigrants cross into the United States each month.

00:42:25.420 More than half of all Americans believe that the number is lower than 50,000 illegal aliens per month.

00:42:32.220 In reality, even that 50,000 number is less than a third of what's really going on. In reality,

00:42:38.660 nearly one million illegal aliens crossed the U.S. border with Mexico in just the first half of this

00:42:46.040 year. Forget the legal immigrants who come into this country. Our legal immigration system is already 1.00

00:42:52.480 the broadest, most open in the world. And the majority of Americans, also according to a Harvard-Harris

00:42:58.540 survey from some years ago, want to drastically reduce that, including the legal immigrants.

00:43:02.760 But then you've got a million illegal aliens coming in just in the first half of this year.

00:43:09.600 So you're looking at 2 million illegals per year. This is a 20-year high. In May alone,

00:43:16.820 180,000 foreign nationals poured into this country. That is almost as many in the first half of this

00:43:25.000 year as came in during all of 2019. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. You're

00:43:32.300 not even hearing those numbers on most allegedly conservative outlets. Why? Because that's not

00:43:40.560 going to help the ruling elite, which on the left and nominally on the right want illegal immigration

00:43:49.140 to continue. 70% of black voters, according to a poll come out right now, 70% of black voters say

00:43:55.000 that violent crime is a major crisis. But we're told by the ruling elite that, no, that's a white

00:44:00.600 supremacist dog whistle. How dare you? If you ever talk about crime, you're just, you're an evil racist 0.96

00:44:04.680 bigot. Can't talk about it. We'll get into that a little bit more tomorrow. We don't have time right 1.00

00:44:08.160 now. The ruling elite in this country, coming from the White House, does not even want to talk about

00:44:15.040 election integrity. When some Republicans in some states are trying to put in election integrity

00:44:20.280 laws that we've had on the books, actually in most cases for a very long time, we're being told 0.94

00:44:24.340 that's white supremacy, racism, terrible, even though black people support it. We're talking about 1.00

00:44:30.800 what's going on in Cuba, not only because we care about the Cubans, but we care, we care about

00:44:35.920 ourselves and we see what perpetual revolutions look like and we see how bad they can get and we see

00:44:40.380 how bad they can get pretty close to our own borders and we see how bad they're getting even here in

00:44:43.840 the United States. And maybe it's time to push back and fight for that liberdade and look to,

00:44:49.320 look to the real roots here, not just even the economic issues, the religious ones,

00:44:56.020 people holding up religious icons. But what is it that we really believe in? Where can we find our

00:45:01.280 strength? Where can we find our courage? Because there's a lot of corruption and it's not just on

00:45:04.840 that slave island down south. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow. 1.00

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 13, 2021

Ep. 804 - The Perpetual Revolution

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