The Michael Knowles Show - July 20, 2021


Ep. 809 - The Bill Comes Due


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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. And recovery is when Joe Biden LOSES his job because inflation is through the roof. Today's episode is all about inflation and why you should be worried about it.

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00:00:37.660 A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
00:00:41.360 A depression is when you lose your job.
00:00:44.820 And recovery is when Joe Biden loses his job.
00:00:48.620 Because every minute that this administration goes on, you are getting poorer.
00:00:54.400 Inflation is through the roof.
00:00:56.380 Wages are stagnating, which may explain why rural Democrats are running away from their party affiliation
00:01:04.160 and why the establishment media are furious at the DAILYWIRE for telling you the truth.
00:01:10.460 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:11.180 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:12.040 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:20.740 My favorite comment yesterday from Lawnmower Man, who says,
00:01:24.020 It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they've been fooled.
00:01:28.820 A quote attributed to Mark Twain.
00:01:31.220 This is true because to convince someone that they've been fooled, you have to weaken their pride.
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00:01:43.380 You can actually appeal to their pride, which is why so many people get duped.
00:01:46.840 But you can't dupe all the people all the time, as we're learning right now.
00:01:50.700 And the most tangible way to see this is with the inflation.
00:01:57.620 Joe Biden says, Oh, things are getting better.
00:02:00.040 We're recovering.
00:02:00.940 America's opening up again.
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00:03:15.780 Joe Biden's inflation.
00:03:17.600 We call it Bidenflation. 0.87
00:03:18.940 This is from a Washington Post reporter, Heather Long,
00:03:22.160 just pointing out yesterday,
00:03:23.780 here is a year-over-year change in prices.
00:03:27.280 For car rentals, 87.7% up.
00:03:32.180 Used cars, 45.2% up.
00:03:34.880 Laundry machines, almost 30% up.
00:03:36.620 Airfare, about 25% up,
00:03:39.960 which I've noticed having been on the road for the past few days.
00:03:44.140 Those things are way up.
00:03:45.940 Moving expenses, it's like when you need to flee.
00:03:48.500 New Salinas, California is over 17% up.
00:03:50.860 Hotels, about 17% up.
00:03:52.420 Furniture, 8.6% up.
00:03:54.080 I've noticed that too.
00:03:55.080 Bacon, even just bacon,
00:03:56.720 one of the great constellations of life, 8.4% up.
00:04:00.400 TVs, 7.6%.
00:04:01.960 Fruit, a little over 7%.
00:04:03.360 Shoes, 6.5%.
00:04:04.460 Fresh fish, very difficult for us Catholics.
00:04:07.660 On Fridays, 6.4% up.
00:04:09.560 New cars, over 5% up.
00:04:10.920 Milk, 5.6% up.
00:04:12.640 Rent, 2.3% up.
00:04:14.040 And gas.
00:04:15.060 Here is the killer.
00:04:16.960 With Bidenflation in full swing,
00:04:18.800 gas is up 45.1%.
00:04:21.900 Now, the inflation wouldn't matter if wages were rising as well.
00:04:29.520 Are your wages up 45%?
00:04:31.440 No.
00:04:31.840 Are your wages up 5%?
00:04:33.400 No.
00:04:33.740 Are your wages up 2.5%?
00:04:35.380 No, they're not.
00:04:36.300 Wages have not gained since Biden became president.
00:04:39.560 During the Trump administration,
00:04:40.680 you had the first real wage gains in a very, very long time.
00:04:46.080 And under Biden, that has completely stalled out.
00:04:48.420 So, obviously, the Biden administration trying to downplay all of this.
00:04:52.580 They told us, do you remember on the 4th of July,
00:04:55.340 they said, you better thank Joe Biden this year.
00:04:58.080 Oh, yeah.
00:04:58.700 Things are so much better under Joe Biden.
00:05:01.580 The cost of a 4th of July barbecue is down.
00:05:05.920 It's down 16%.
00:05:07.880 So, when you're buying your hot dogs and your hamburgers and your beer
00:05:11.520 and your fireworks and your iced tea and your lawn chairs,
00:05:14.920 don't worry.
00:05:16.140 Actually, celebrate.
00:05:16.840 You've saved 16%.
00:05:18.400 And then you got in your car and spent 45% more on gasoline.
00:05:22.740 Or not 16%.
00:05:23.520 You saved 16 cents and then you spent 45% more on gasoline.
00:05:28.620 That's not great.
00:05:30.040 Obviously, the conservative policies are working way, way better here.
00:05:34.020 The proof of the pudding is in the tasting because from the liberal establishment,
00:05:38.900 you are not going to hear that things are worse under Joe Biden.
00:05:45.720 Occasionally, a reporter will go out there and that's not great.
00:05:48.480 That will not be echoed throughout the press.
00:05:50.160 But look at what the businesses are doing.
00:05:53.080 Disney is as woke a corporation as they get.
00:05:55.700 However, Disney is also moving 2,000 jobs from California to Florida.
00:06:00.880 Why?
00:06:01.760 Because Florida has a climate that's conducive to business.
00:06:04.680 Florida has a climate that's conducive to our constitutional rights.
00:06:07.400 Florida lets people out in the open to walk around and go to church and go to their jobs
00:06:12.140 and go to school and just live.
00:06:14.560 And California does not.
00:06:15.720 California is actually locking down again.
00:06:17.720 Even if you're vaccinated, you've still got to wear the masks now.
00:06:20.920 So, Disney might talk a good game on wokeness.
00:06:23.520 But when it comes down to brass tacks, they're going to move their jobs to Florida.
00:06:28.000 Wall Street executives are moving their jobs from New York to Florida.
00:06:31.920 Goldman Sachs, among other firms, are now looking at moving offices to the Sunshine State.
00:06:39.480 You notice this with DeSantis, too.
00:06:41.740 Everyone will say, DeSantis is doing a bad job.
00:06:44.440 He's awful.
00:06:45.140 We can't trust the numbers.
00:06:46.500 He's terrible.
00:06:47.500 Cuomo's so much better.
00:06:48.300 But the behavior shows what they really think.
00:06:53.000 This is why the establishment media are so furious at us.
00:06:58.420 This is my favorite article.
00:07:00.080 This is truly my favorite article that I have seen in months.
00:07:03.520 It's from NPR.
00:07:05.560 Headline.
00:07:07.320 Outrage as a business model. 0.56
00:07:09.680 How Ben Shapiro is using Facebook to build an empire.
00:07:14.040 I'll read you just the first paragraph or so here.
00:07:16.540 In 2021, Ben Shapiro rules Facebook.
00:07:21.080 The conservative podcast host and author's personal Facebook page has more followers than
00:07:24.820 the Washington Post.
00:07:26.300 And he drives an engagement machine unparalleled by anything else on the world's biggest social
00:07:30.400 networking site.
00:07:31.140 An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published
00:07:35.200 by the site Shapiro found at the Daily Wire received more likes, shares, and comments
00:07:40.420 on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.
00:07:45.760 Even legacy news organizations that have broken major stories or produced groundbreaking
00:07:50.480 investigative work don't come anywhere close.
00:07:56.420 I'd like to translate this article for you if you want.
00:07:59.400 If you want to know the subtext of this article, it's this.
00:08:04.320 Headline.
00:08:05.880 Wah! 0.94
00:08:07.780 First paragraph.
00:08:10.100 Wah! 0.94
00:08:11.160 Wah! 0.94
00:08:11.640 No!
00:08:12.660 The Daily Wire is good at what they do.
00:08:14.980 Wah! 0.94
00:08:15.400 People want to read it.
00:08:16.580 Oh! 0.60
00:08:17.060 They don't trust us anymore, but they do trust Shapiro and Knowles and Klayman and Boring
00:08:22.000 and Walsh.
00:08:22.980 Wah! 0.94
00:08:25.180 I love it.
00:08:27.040 So, first of all, they're ceding to us that we are way better at talking to people than
00:08:33.600 they are.
00:08:34.360 And they grant to us that people are more inclined to believe what we have to say than
00:08:38.840 what they have to say and to engage in what we're talking about than what they're talking
00:08:42.400 about.
00:08:42.780 But here's what they say.
00:08:43.820 It's outrage.
00:08:44.960 And they go on and they cite a bunch of lib professors and things like that.
00:08:48.140 And they say they're monetizing outrage and hate and anger.
00:08:52.180 So, first of all, we don't.
00:08:53.500 I actually think this is a rather reasonable, balanced program.
00:08:57.360 You know, we make fun of them, obviously, but we tell you exactly what point of view
00:09:00.220 we're coming from.
00:09:01.000 I like to think that we also present the best arguments from the other side and then explain
00:09:04.580 why they're stupid arguments.
00:09:06.240 But compared to CNN, compared to MSNBC, compared to the New York Times, I think we do way more
00:09:11.460 of that.
00:09:11.720 I think we are way more fair than any of those guys are.
00:09:14.560 And by the way, they, generally speaking, won't even come out with their biases.
00:09:19.080 CNN says, facts first.
00:09:21.060 Facts, we're a banana.
00:09:22.120 We're an apple banana.
00:09:23.580 The New York Times, all the news that's fit to print.
00:09:25.800 It's really all the news that fits the narrative.
00:09:28.140 They say, oh, I'm so depressed by this.
00:09:30.040 It's terrible.
00:09:30.960 Wah, wah, wah.
00:09:32.960 Are you telling me that CNN doesn't focus on outrage?
00:09:37.200 CNN, for the Trump presidency, had a COVID death count that was constantly going.
00:09:42.740 You don't really see that quite so much under the Biden administration.
00:09:45.700 CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post would just make up stories.
00:09:50.200 They would just make them up about Donald Trump colluding with the Ruskies. 0.87
00:09:54.080 Remember that?
00:09:55.280 They would sensationalize stories about Donald Trump with prostitutes in Moscow based on
00:10:00.120 nothing, completely made up to gin up outrage.
00:10:03.240 Daily Wire has never done anything like that.
00:10:05.960 The Daily Wire does not monetize outrage anywhere in the same stratosphere as the New York Times
00:10:12.840 and CNN and the Washington Post and NPR, apparently.
00:10:17.820 And by the way, when we do focus on outrages, they are legitimate outrages, not totally cooked
00:10:24.860 up, contrived nonsense.
00:10:26.880 But NPR, very upset.
00:10:28.660 Why is the Daily Wire successful?
00:10:30.520 Is it because we're so handsome and so wonderful and so great?
00:10:33.140 I like to think so.
00:10:34.120 But you know what I actually think it is?
00:10:35.880 And I say this with no false modesty, I think the reason that the Daily Wire is doing better
00:10:41.180 in terms of engagement with real people is because the establishment media blew their
00:10:46.600 credibility and they lied to the people and they lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, and eventually
00:10:50.640 the people stopped paying attention.
00:10:52.900 And then the Daily Wire has done our best to get it right.
00:10:56.920 And you know, sometimes we get it wrong, like everyone sometimes gets it wrong.
00:10:59.740 But we haven't just lied and pushed a liberal establishment propaganda, Pravda message down
00:11:06.720 your throats constantly.
00:11:08.220 And so people respond well to that, certainly on the right, but also in the middle and even
00:11:12.120 some people who are on the left.
00:11:14.860 That's what I think they're really, they're not upset at Ben Shapiro and they're not upset
00:11:17.860 at the rest of us at the Daily Wire.
00:11:20.040 If they are, it's misplaced.
00:11:21.480 They should be upset with themselves for tarnishing their own credibility.
00:11:25.220 The proof of this thesis, the proof that I'm right about this, is that outside of the media
00:11:31.000 in elected politics, Democrats in rural areas are not even acknowledging that they're Democrats
00:11:36.540 anymore.
00:11:38.400 Which would make sense to me, you know, that the old days where the Democratic Party was
00:11:43.680 more moderate and patriotic are gone.
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00:13:11.800 The Democratic Party knows that as a matter of popularity, right now, it is losing.
00:13:18.200 Okay?
00:13:18.660 I don't think there's any two ways around that.
00:13:21.040 They might still win elections and they might still dominate the media because they have,
00:13:25.540 they got rid of a lot of election integrity measures and they dominate the institutions that exist.
00:13:30.860 But as a matter of popularity, I think they know they're losing.
00:13:33.440 The proof of this is Democrats in rural areas are running away from the Democratic Party.
00:13:40.160 There was, there are a number of candidates in Ohio and elsewhere who in one minute, two minute,
00:13:48.320 even three minute campaign ads will never mention that they are Democrats.
00:13:52.260 This according to a report from Axios.
00:13:55.660 This is because Democrats in the House right now have a very, very thin majority.
00:14:00.180 And the polling looks absolutely devastating for them in 2022.
00:14:05.880 So people ask me, I was actually just speaking to a congresswoman friend of mine here at TPUSA.
00:14:12.600 I said, how are you guys feeling about 2022?
00:14:14.780 She said, everyone in Congress, everyone in politics thinks that the Republicans are going to crush it in 2022.
00:14:21.160 Now, my only caveat to this is, if we don't resolve the election issues, the use of widespread mail-ins,
00:14:28.880 the failure to clean up the voter rolls and purge people who are not eligible to vote,
00:14:32.980 the motor voter laws and the ballot harvesting, and the list goes on and on and on,
00:14:38.040 then I'm not so sure that Republicans are going to do great in 2022.
00:14:42.100 I think in order to do really well in 2022, we need to be able to rely on the integrity of our elections.
00:14:47.260 And increasingly, we can't do that because last cycle, the Democrats got rid of some of the most important election integrity measures.
00:14:54.660 And then this cycle, Republicans are trying to put them back in place.
00:14:57.680 The measures that we had in most places, even three years ago, and Democrats rather, are saying, this is a return to Jim Crow.
00:15:04.140 This is awful.
00:15:04.880 They're trying to federalize the elections to make permanent the radical changes they made with COVID as the excuse.
00:15:11.360 So that kind of makes me worry.
00:15:13.040 However, it just shows you something we've been talking about for a long time, which is the disparity between ordinary Americans, the people, and the ruling class.
00:15:22.780 This is a frequent rhetorical tool that is used by both parties, you know, where they talk about the elites and the regular people.
00:15:31.460 But I want to be clear here.
00:15:33.900 I'm not just using some cheap rhetorical trick.
00:15:36.160 On issues that are very, very important, the vast majority of Americans are on one side of the issue and the ruling class is on the other.
00:15:42.040 I look at immigration.
00:15:44.360 The vast majority of Americans wants to reduce immigration.
00:15:47.860 The majority of Americans wants to reduce even legal immigration.
00:15:50.520 But certainly when you get to illegal immigration, it isn't even close.
00:15:53.980 And yet the ruling class, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans as well, the Chamber of Commerce type of Republicans, they don't want to do anything about it.
00:16:03.240 On the issue of voter ID, the vast majority of Americans support voter ID.
00:16:06.700 The ruling class does not support voter ID.
00:16:09.380 There are a number of other issues like this.
00:16:10.660 This is radical gender theory. 1.00
00:16:12.100 The vast majority of Americans don't want to cram radical gender theory down everybody's throats. 0.99
00:16:15.860 The ruling class does. 0.61
00:16:17.480 On the critical race theory stuff, the vast majority of Americans don't want this in their schools.
00:16:21.900 The ruling class clearly does. 0.62
00:16:23.080 So there's a huge disparity here between the people and the elites who control the institutions.
00:16:28.580 And so I think they know that they're losing as a matter of popularity.
00:16:31.220 The only question is, have they wrested enough power from the American people that that will not matter? 0.59
00:16:36.160 Speaking of regimes that have taken too much power from the people, Cuba continues to find itself in turmoil because the people are protesting the communist regime that has existed there for 60 years.
00:16:47.760 And AOC refuses to go hard against the regime.
00:16:53.640 And actually, another Washington Post reporter, again, every so often you'll get one or two from WAPO or New York Times or somewhere else who report the news as they see it.
00:17:02.440 This is not now the position of the editorial boards of those papers.
00:17:06.520 It's not the opinion.
00:17:08.080 This is not the strategy that is generally pursued by the papers anymore.
00:17:11.000 But still, every once in a while, you get a good reporter.
00:17:12.680 So a reporter from The Washington Post said the quiet part out loud.
00:17:16.340 He said that AOC will not attack the communist regime because, broadly, she agrees with it.
00:17:21.400 We're just talking about how progressives are really happy about all of the things in the infrastructure bill.
00:17:26.660 They are really being led in many ways by the progressive wing of their party.
00:17:30.840 And the progressive wing of the Democratic Party does not want to go hard against Cuba, against some of the things that the Castro regime may have been a part of,
00:17:40.820 in part because there are some Democrats, there are some progressives who agree with some of those things.
00:17:45.140 They agree with universal health care.
00:17:47.000 They agree with some of the programs that were in place in a more socialist kind of society.
00:17:52.640 This is obviously true.
00:17:54.300 AOC, in particular, identifies as a socialist.
00:17:57.920 She identifies with the ideology of, or the very near ideology, of the dominant regime in Cuba.
00:18:04.880 This is true of a number of other Democrat members of Congress.
00:18:07.780 And the American left, broadly, has never apologized for its support of communism, its overt support of communism in the papers and in the government and on the campaign trail, which went on for about 100 years.
00:18:22.080 The American left has never apologized for supporting the Soviet Union, for instance.
00:18:26.680 Actually, what they did is, last election cycle, as we saw, they just accused the Republicans of colluding with Russia.
00:18:33.900 The Democrats colluded with Russia for 100 years, but then they started accusing the Republicans of colluding with Russia.
00:18:40.060 Colluding with Russia were a problem. 0.56
00:18:42.020 Most prominent Democrats from the 20th century would be in prison.
00:18:46.120 Now, AOC won't totally admit this.
00:18:49.300 The American left won't totally admit it.
00:18:51.180 They'll just remain silent.
00:18:52.300 We played those clips from Bernie Sanders yesterday.
00:18:54.220 Bernie Sanders has been a huge supporter of the Castro regime in Cuba and of communists elsewhere.
00:18:59.000 Bernie did his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, and he's just remained basically silent on the Cuba issue because he knows that the reality of the situation is contradicting his crazy theories.
00:19:12.700 Even beyond this very abstract idea of communism and free markets and things like that, look at what's going on on the ground.
00:19:21.180 Right now, around our country, crime is going through the roof.
00:19:27.420 Not just shootings, not just murders, which are way, way up in places like Chicago, but look over in D.C.
00:19:32.540 Just carjackings are up, and they're not up a little bit.
00:19:36.820 You see those inflation numbers, and you say, wow, 87.7% up on car rentals, 45% up on gas.
00:19:43.180 That's not just a little bit.
00:19:44.560 Well, carjackings are up in D.C., not 5%, not 10%.
00:19:47.520 They're up 74% year over year.
00:19:52.140 There are people now who are calling for bait cars to be placed to finally lure some of these criminals in.
00:19:59.120 They just had a press conference with the police in D.C. to figure out how to in any way impede this huge spike in crime.
00:20:07.580 Chief, I want to ask you real quick about the recent carjackings.
00:20:11.680 Why are you not using bait cars to catch carjackers?
00:20:15.440 We used one a couple years ago, and with your officer's help, actually caught two suspects and prosecuted.
00:20:20.660 Yeah, I'm glad you brought that point up.
00:20:22.640 Over the last couple of hours, over the last couple of hours, the last 12 hours, we had a significant spree of robberies that have occurred across our city.
00:20:34.000 I'm happy to report, within the last hour, we've located the vehicle.
00:20:39.120 We didn't need a bait car to necessarily do that.
00:20:41.600 We do deploy bait cars at times.
00:20:43.780 Most recently, in the 2nd District, they use it.
00:20:46.620 But we want to make sure that the tactic certainly works for the specific crime that we happen to be targeting at that particular time.
00:20:53.480 Well, now, we didn't have to use a bait car because the guy stole someone's car.
00:20:58.560 So we didn't have to do that.
00:21:00.000 We want to make sure the tactics are calibrated to the communities.
00:21:03.260 And I have great sympathy for this guy because the reason you've got 74% increase in carjackings,
00:21:10.120 the reason you've got 50% increase in shootings and murders in Chicago, it's not complicated.
00:21:14.240 It's not because of just natural fluxes organically.
00:21:19.460 It's because the Democrats spent well over a year saying we need to abolish the police.
00:21:24.600 And we need to defund the police.
00:21:25.900 And then they actually did defund the police in a lot of places.
00:21:28.420 And then they threw a bunch of police officers in prison for just doing their jobs.
00:21:31.700 And now cops are walking off the job.
00:21:33.620 And cops are more timid.
00:21:34.800 And the departments are underfunded.
00:21:36.200 That's why.
00:21:36.740 That's why.
00:21:37.180 It's not complicated, folks.
00:21:39.360 The genius egghead analysts at the New York Times and the Washington Post,
00:21:43.520 they're going to blame all sorts.
00:21:44.900 They're going to blame white supremacy.
00:21:46.160 They're going to blame the patriarchy. 1.00
00:21:47.560 They're going to probably blame Trump.
00:21:49.100 They're going to blame the abstract fluxes of history.
00:21:52.800 But they're not going to blame what every ordinary American knows.
00:21:56.820 Namely, if you incentivize crime and you punish law enforcement,
00:22:03.880 you're going to get more crime and you're going to get less law enforcement.
00:22:07.480 They're learning.
00:22:08.780 And I suppose the American people always sort of knew this.
00:22:11.940 But what the liberal establishment, I guess, is seeing right now with the inflation,
00:22:17.160 with the crime, with the pushback against their policies is that eventually the bill comes due.
00:22:22.940 There is no such thing as a free lunch.
00:22:25.880 Eventually, you've got to pay.
00:22:28.400 So you print money and you print money and you print money and you give people a bunch of money
00:22:32.200 for free and you tell them to stay in their homes and not to do anything.
00:22:35.160 You know what happens?
00:22:36.360 You get inflation.
00:22:37.900 That's what happens.
00:22:38.600 You get criminals burning down the country for a year and you punish the people who are
00:22:45.160 trying to stop them from doing that and you let the ones who do that off the hook.
00:22:49.000 You know what you're going to get?
00:22:49.700 You're going to get more crime.
00:22:50.720 You're going to get more people burning stuff down.
00:22:52.260 You're getting actually in America's hat right now in Canada.
00:22:55.040 You're getting more and more churches being burned to the ground and there's no enforcement.
00:22:58.920 So you know what you're going to get?
00:22:59.540 You're going to get more of that.
00:23:00.420 I do not support a view of politics that is primarily economic.
00:23:06.640 I'm with Edmund Burke.
00:23:08.360 The age of chivalry is gone.
00:23:09.580 That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded it and the glory of Europe is
00:23:12.940 extinguished forever.
00:23:13.980 I don't want egghead politics.
00:23:15.440 But there are some basic economic lessons here.
00:23:17.860 It's really just basic lessons of human nature.
00:23:21.080 If you want more of something, incentivize it.
00:23:23.040 If you want less of something, punish it.
00:23:26.120 Car jacking is way up.
00:23:27.980 How about COVID?
00:23:28.600 You notice places where COVID is spiking tend to have a lot of one group of people, one
00:23:38.740 group of people that are not supposed to be in this country, one group of people who 0.98
00:23:41.560 by definition are breaking the laws.
00:23:44.780 The illegal immigration problem, the illegal immigration problem shows you what a farce 1.00
00:23:51.180 the COVID lockdowns have been.
00:23:52.920 Because we are told that if we leave our homes without 20 masks and 15 jabs of an experience
00:23:58.600 environmental drug, then we're killing everybody.
00:24:01.300 And yet, we have already let 1 million foreign nationals, very few of whom have been tested
00:24:09.200 for COVID, into our country this year.
00:24:12.260 So you can't go to school, but you can come from Guatemala and just go anywhere and we have
00:24:16.980 no idea where you are.
00:24:18.400 That is not serious.
00:24:20.700 That is going to tarnish your credibility.
00:24:22.560 People are not going to believe you anymore.
00:24:24.820 And that ain't Ben Shapiro's fault and that ain't the Daily Wire's fault.
00:24:27.540 That is the fault of the liberal establishment.
00:24:31.260 You know, Senator Cruz is really, really good on this issue.
00:24:35.580 And I have to wonder if it's because of his very impressive beard.
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00:24:47.560 happen.
00:24:48.080 Okay?
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00:25:40.960 Now, we've got a lot of news for you.
00:25:44.740 The irony, I think, maybe not the irony, I guess it's just the coincidence, it's probably
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00:27:15.920 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:27:16.980 You will hear from the establishment media that there's a spike in coronavirus cases in
00:27:34.360 Texas.
00:27:34.700 Now, remember, by the way, when Texas ended its mask mandate many months ago, we were told
00:27:40.520 there's going to be a huge spike in cases, in deaths.
00:27:43.640 Beto O'Rourke said this will be a death sentence for Texans.
00:27:48.060 And then that didn't happen.
00:27:49.360 Texas was actually doing better than anybody.
00:27:51.800 So in the period of time where you would have expected COVID to spike, it didn't happen.
00:27:55.800 But now COVID apparently is spiking in Texas.
00:27:59.680 Senator Cruz, the senator from Texas, has a crazy, wild conspiracy theory on what that might
00:28:07.420 be that the establishment media doesn't want to tell you.
00:28:09.760 You're packing children into cages with a lot of them having COVID and more of them
00:28:14.620 getting COVID.
00:28:15.700 And the Biden administration is ignoring the law and releasing into our communities people 0.56
00:28:20.780 that have COVID, most of whom are coming across this border who are not vaccinated.
00:28:25.740 And right now, Biden is talking about ending Title 42, which is the health protection that
00:28:31.280 says we're not going to release people carrying potentially communicable diseases.
00:28:35.700 So yes, you better believe the rising COVID rates are due in significant part to illegal
00:28:42.580 aliens that the Biden administration is releasing in Texas that have COVID rates seven times higher
00:28:49.540 than the US population.
00:28:50.800 And we need to stop being boneheaded and ignoring the science, which is what the Biden administration
00:28:57.600 is doing.
00:28:58.180 Well, of course that's true.
00:29:00.120 I mean, if you've got COVID cases spiking a few weeks after you had 188,000 illegal aliens
00:29:10.160 pour across the border, these are insane record numbers.
00:29:14.200 We're halfway through the year and you've had a million illegal aliens come in already, but
00:29:18.740 you had a huge, huge spike in June.
00:29:20.440 And then a few weeks later, you get a spike in COVID cases.
00:29:22.820 No surprise.
00:29:23.580 This shows you, though, that the COVID madness and the vaccine madness and the lockdowns and
00:29:28.260 the Delta and the Lambda and the Phi Beta Kappa and the mask mandates are less about the virus,
00:29:36.340 less about the public health, and much more about the imposition of the rules.
00:29:42.600 This was an observation that Angelo Cotevilla made about political correctness.
00:29:47.420 Angelo from the Claremont Institute.
00:29:49.660 He said that political correctness is less about the words that you need to use.
00:29:53.020 And more about the imposition of the words and who gets to impose those words.
00:29:57.740 The same thing is true of COVID.
00:29:59.500 If COVID were really the greatest threat in the entire world that everyone tells us it is,
00:30:03.860 the liberal establishment that's pushing that narrative would shut down the border. 0.70
00:30:08.040 But they're not shutting down the border.
00:30:09.280 They're actually encouraging people to come.
00:30:11.480 Because COVID is not nearly as great a risk as they pretend that it is.
00:30:15.880 The only really grave risk it poses at the national level is to our traditional political order.
00:30:23.020 But Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, is, you know, it's so funny.
00:30:27.400 I have to take a pause here.
00:30:28.860 I was at TPUSA yesterday.
00:30:30.560 Charlie Kirk really knows how to put on a great show because this was thousands and thousands of
00:30:34.760 young conservatives packed into the room.
00:30:37.080 You walk out, it's pyrotechnics, and it's really an impressive show.
00:30:41.740 And so I give my speech.
00:30:43.060 You can catch that speech online.
00:30:45.020 And then we're taking questions from the audience.
00:30:46.680 And one of the questions was, Michael, can you do a Dr. Fauci impression?
00:30:50.320 So I rattled off a bit of a Fauci impression, got a standing ovation.
00:30:53.400 And I thought, this is the only time ever that conservatives are going to give a standing
00:30:58.080 ovation to Dr. Fauci because they're not applauding Dr. Fauci.
00:31:01.480 They're applauding us making fun of Dr. Fauci.
00:31:03.980 Because the man has just made himself into a joke, into a punchline, into a farce.
00:31:08.780 The way that he changes his directives by the hour, not because the science has changed,
00:31:15.280 but because the politics has changed.
00:31:16.820 The way that he is so sanctimonious.
00:31:19.040 The way that he is so fear-mongering.
00:31:20.680 The way that he has been caught in open lies to us.
00:31:26.080 Well, now Dr. Fauci is going out there, and he is assenting to the idea that if Fox News,
00:31:33.420 that's the stand-in for conservative media.
00:31:35.860 If Fox News existed many, many moons ago, why, we never would have eradicated smallpox.
00:31:42.820 Do you think we could have eradicated polio or defeated the measles if you had Fox News
00:31:49.360 night after night warning people about these vaccine issues that are just, you know, bunk?
00:31:57.460 Well, that is a very good point, Jim.
00:31:59.440 If you look at the extraordinary historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio
00:32:07.600 from most of the world, and we're on the brink of eradicating polio, if we had had the pushback
00:32:14.340 for vaccines the way we're seeing on certain media, I don't think it would have been possible
00:32:21.280 at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox, and we probably would
00:32:27.740 still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now.
00:32:34.820 If we had that back decades ago, I would be certain that we'd still have polio in this country.
00:32:40.580 The most prominent spreader of false information in the United States right now is Dr. Fauci.
00:32:47.380 Don't wear the mask. Wear the mask. We won't get a vaccine. We got a vaccine. It won't be that
00:32:53.080 effective. It's very effective. It's up and down and left and right and wear the mask, sheep. 0.75
00:32:59.000 Wear the mask. What Dr. Fauci says, and he wants to keep sort of more neutral tones,
00:33:04.580 so he lets Acosta do this dirty work for him, right? You get the liberal news anchor who says,
00:33:10.580 if we had Fox News, do you think that would have permitted us to eradicate bad diseases?
00:33:17.240 Well, no, I don't. And actually, even worse diseases we'd probably still have.
00:33:23.620 So Fauci won't name Fox News. Fauci talks about misinformation, which he's using as a synonym
00:33:28.220 for Fox News, which he's using as a symbol of all of the conservative media. But you know what?
00:33:34.380 People believe the conservative media. Most notably of all, they believe the Daily Wire,
00:33:40.040 and they engage with the Daily Wire, not because we're such special guys. I like to think we're
00:33:45.460 very special guys. But because the other outlets have beclowned themselves and have lied. And so
00:33:53.200 now they're looking to us. And Fauci is very upset about that. Well, Fauci, if you wanted people to
00:33:57.520 listen to you, you know what you could have done? Not lied to them for a year. 15 days to slow the
00:34:03.360 spread. Oh, those stupid idiots. Those people wearing the masks. They think 15 days. And then
00:34:12.040 what's he do? 15 months later, he's just 15 more days. Believe old Dr. Fauci. Why won't they believe
00:34:17.640 me anymore? Because you lie to them. That's why. That's why they don't believe you. The liberal
00:34:22.260 establishment does not have a ton of credibility on biology at the moment, actually. The International
00:34:30.060 Olympic Committee has just made a final decision on whether or not giant hulking dudes should be
00:34:38.060 permitted to compete against women at tests of brute strength. In an earlier time, this would 0.99
00:34:46.840 not have been a difficult question. But now it is a difficult question. So there is a New Zealand
00:34:51.060 weightlifter, a fellow by the name of Laurel Hubbard. I don't know his real name, but he now goes by
00:34:57.060 Laurel. And he was a male weightlifter who competed against other men, and he didn't do very well there.
00:35:04.400 And then he transitioned to make himself look more like a woman. Now he competes against women, 0.90
00:35:08.860 and he beats them all the time. So the question was, is this fella permitted to compete against
00:35:13.580 women? The IOC says, absolutely. He became the first transgender woman, also known as a man,
00:35:22.580 to qualify for the Olympics. At 43 years old, he qualified in the 87-kilogram category. I don't
00:35:30.020 know how much that is because I'm an American and I use real measurements, but everything's trans now. 0.92
00:35:35.220 You know, the genders, the weight measurements. He already received support about competing as a woman
00:35:41.580 in the competitions, but the president of the IOC reiterated this, gave a final decision on Saturday.
00:35:48.900 So what that means is, the women's weightlifting competition doesn't mean anything anymore. Because if a 0.99
00:35:56.200 woman's weightlifting competition is going to mean anything, it has to be for women. So if men can 0.99
00:36:02.700 compete in that, it's no longer the women's weightlifting competition. And the egghead geniuses, 1.00
00:36:09.120 all our benevolent bettors, they all are applauding this. There's about seven of those people in the
00:36:15.280 country. No, it's more than that, but there aren't very many of them. Whereas the majority of, not
00:36:20.100 just the American people, but the majority of the people in New Zealand, the majority of people around
00:36:23.520 the world are looking at this, not just with their eyebrows cocked, but looking at this like the
00:36:29.240 president of the IOC and every other liberal egghead who's pro-transgenderism has lost their minds.
00:36:35.740 Because they obviously have lost their minds. No one believes this stuff. And yet, because the
00:36:43.520 elites, just by definition, I guess, have this sort of power, because the radicals have attained
00:36:48.380 positions of power, they can push it through, even over the objections of the majority of people.
00:36:54.160 And this logic of transgenderism is leading to something that is really, to my mind, absolutely 0.98
00:36:59.420 disgusting. This is leading to calls among prominent Senate Democrats to force women to 1.00
00:37:07.600 register for the draft. This story is not getting a lot of coverage. Politico did just report on it,
00:37:15.460 though. Senate Democrats are proposing a sweeping rewrite of the military draft laws to require
00:37:20.560 women to register for the selective service system, according to a draft, a draft of the report, 0.93
00:37:25.720 authored by Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, which was obtained by Politico.
00:37:31.640 This would be attached to the National Defense Authorization Act, a defense policy bill that is
00:37:36.100 one of the few pieces that is considered a must-pass by Congress. So they're going to try to ram it in
00:37:40.640 to some legislation that Congress is just going to have to pass so that they can get this through.
00:37:48.540 I do not want to live in a country that requires women to fight our wars for us. 1.00
00:37:54.960 I do not want to live in that country. It is just wrong. Now, I see how we got to this point.
00:38:01.320 A lot of people are going to say, well, this is just too far, or this is crazy, or this is, but
00:38:05.800 no. This is the logic of the last 50 years. The logic of second wave feminism, or I am sorry,
00:38:12.840 the premise of second wave feminism, is that women and men are basically the same. Sure, 0.98
00:38:16.940 they look a little different, but hey, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,
00:38:20.520 as Gloria Steinem said. The differences between men and women are purely superficial.
00:38:25.920 Women can do anything men can do, and how dare you say otherwise? Well, okay, if that's true, 0.98
00:38:30.780 if men and women are basically exactly the same, then surely the homosexual rights movement, 0.85
00:38:38.540 as it was once called, is going to go through. No, well, of course, because men and women are
00:38:43.200 exactly the same. Surely the redefinition of marriage, which was the apotheosis of that 0.70
00:38:48.460 movement, has to go through, because men and women are exactly the same. So if men and women are the 0.51
00:38:52.880 same, then your argument that marriage is the union between one man and one woman falls apart.
00:38:59.420 Because men and women are the same. So then I guess it could be the union of one man and one man,
00:39:02.560 or one woman and one woman. And if that's true, then the logic of transgenderism has to hold. 0.85
00:39:07.380 Because if men and women are basically the same, then Bruce Jenner certainly can become Caitlyn,
00:39:10.900 because those differences are just superficial. Get a little nip tuck here, throw on some stilettos
00:39:15.560 and a little bit of lipstick, and there you have it. Bruce is Caitlyn. And frankly, he didn't even
00:39:21.340 need to do that. He could have just said he's a woman, as many people do now, and that would have 0.85
00:39:25.900 been perfectly fine. And if men and women are exactly the same, then of course women need to 1.00
00:39:32.260 register for the draft. It would be unfair, it would be unjust if only men registered for selective 0.61
00:39:39.600 service. And the problem with all of that is, it's all false. It's based on a false premise.
00:39:46.380 Men and women are different. This is the fundamental distinction in human nature. 0.78
00:39:51.180 Men and women are not identical. They are complementary. They go together.
00:39:57.020 Like love and marriage, like horse and carriage. You can't have one without the other in society.
00:40:02.560 Right. So, you're going to hear two arguments on this from the right. You're going to hear,
00:40:11.280 and I'm just talking about people who oppose women registering for the draft. You're going to hear
00:40:16.720 two kinds of arguments. One is the egghead arguments. They're going to tell you, well, actually, you know,
00:40:22.980 if you look at certain statistics, and if you look at the levels of testosterone, and the way that,
00:40:28.060 and the bones, and this, and the development, then actually women are not quite suited for the 1.00
00:40:33.200 draft, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fine. You know, I'm willing to take any argument that
00:40:38.200 persuades anybody, but that to me is not the real argument. I don't even care if some other egghead
00:40:45.260 on the other side could prove that women actually do have the same bone density and the same kind of 1.00
00:40:49.700 muscle mass. And actually, they're just as competent in the field in that. I don't care.
00:40:54.260 Right. I don't want to live in that country. Going back to the Edmund Burke quote,
00:40:59.320 when he lamented during the French Revolution that the age of chivalry is gone, and that of
00:41:04.940 sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe has extinguished
00:41:08.820 forever. I don't want to live in the world of sophisters, economists, and calculators. I don't
00:41:13.160 care if you can prove to me that by measuring testosterone and bone density, or any other physical
00:41:17.420 feature, that men and women are very, very similar. Men and women are different. And a country
00:41:22.800 that sends its women to fight its wars is an ugly, unchivalrous, uncivilized country. 1.00
00:41:29.280 I want to live in a country where men go fight the wars to protect the women, where we have 0.98
00:41:34.780 a real complementarity of the sexes, where we actually work together and care for one another,
00:41:40.700 and we don't just all pretend that we're all exactly the same.
00:41:44.320 Speaking of castration, just talking about men pretending to be women, now we can talk about 0.99
00:41:53.980 men who have been emasculated in more subtle ways. Prince Harry. Prince Harry is now set to write
00:42:02.940 a memoir about his decision to be led around on a leash by his wife. Very sad for poor Harry.
00:42:09.800 He will release a, quote, wholly truthful memoir about his life in the royal family and his
00:42:17.400 Mexit escape to the United States with Meghan Markle. This, according to the New York Post's
00:42:23.380 page six, which says that Prince Harry's autobiography, first draft of which is nearly
00:42:27.380 complete, is expected to be explosive. And that he will be retelling his life story, quote,
00:42:35.060 not as the prince I was born, but as the man I have become. So pathetic. So pathetic. So
00:42:42.900 womanish. Not womanly. When a woman behaves like a woman, that's womanly. When a man behaves like a 0.98
00:42:49.020 woman, that's womanish. Is nothing sacred anymore? Why is he doing this? He said that he was leaving
00:42:58.160 the royal family to live a private life. And we all knew that was ridiculous. We all knew that
00:43:04.380 Meghan Markle, who has begged for attention her entire life, and who was an actress, and who
00:43:10.340 sought after and married a prince, and then she didn't like having to actually do things and
00:43:15.860 fulfill duties and obligations. So then she made a bigger spectacle of herself by pulling the prince 0.90
00:43:21.060 away from his family. And now she still takes every opportunity to go on Oprah and to make a big deal 0.97
00:43:25.600 about herself. Obviously, they don't want to live a private life. They want to live a very public life 0.88
00:43:30.720 without any duty and without any obligation, without any loyalty to their country, to their
00:43:37.120 family, to the British people. And so now he's writing a tell-all to drag the attention party on
00:43:44.540 a little bit longer and to trash his family. This is really ugly stuff. Really, really ugly stuff.
00:43:50.960 But it's a symbol of broader political decay. The reason that the revolutionaries in our culture,
00:43:58.220 the radicals, always want to go after the families because the family is the fundamental
00:44:02.700 political institution. If you can upend that, you can upend everything. That has successfully
00:44:09.420 happened in the United Kingdom. Hope it doesn't happen here. But speaking of men being led astray
00:44:15.100 by women, and speaking of the International Olympic Committee, they are actually doing one thing that 1.00
00:44:20.000 is pretty conservative. One thing that is pretty virtuous. The Olympic Committee has decided
00:44:25.580 that the Olympians are not going to get regular beds when they go to Olympic Village. They are going
00:44:32.500 to sleep on beds made of cardboard. Why would they be doing this? They're doing this because
00:44:38.140 every year the Olympians have a ton of sex with each other. And they have, there's always a story about
00:44:48.100 how they've run out of condoms within a few days. There's always a story about how venereal disease is
00:44:52.600 running rampant. And I get why. You've got a bunch of young people who are extremely hot and extremely
00:45:00.560 athletic being brought together from all over the world in this weird sort of summer camp.
00:45:05.480 And that sort of thing is just going to happen, especially in a culture that has pretty loose
00:45:10.020 rules about this stuff. So the Olympic Committee doesn't want this to happen, especially with COVID-19.
00:45:16.380 Forget about syphilis. Forget about chlamydia. They're worried about COVID-19.
00:45:20.020 So they're putting them on cardboard beds, which are, quote, allegedly designed to collapse
00:45:25.800 under the weight of fornicators to discourage sex among, amid COVID-19. They've got 18,000 of
00:45:33.980 these cardboard beds. You know, this is actually something that we could learn from. We all,
00:45:38.300 very often we spend our time trashing the international organizations on this show that
00:45:44.000 enforce the dominant liberal regime. But this is something actually we might be able to learn from.
00:45:48.060 Maybe they should put these in college dorms. You know, nice cardboard beds that the minute you
00:45:52.260 get two people on them, they collapse under the weight of that. That might be one good way to
00:45:56.700 encourage better behavior than people engage in there. Speaking of fornication, too, I have to get
00:46:02.260 to this story. There is evidence from that Peter Schweitzer, who's a very good conservative
00:46:08.840 investigative journalist, that he has discovered, going back to an older New York Post story
00:46:14.220 regarding Hunter Biden's laptop, that Hunter Biden was getting all these sweetheart deals and committing
00:46:18.220 all sorts of crimes. There was the allegation, based on Hunter Biden's messages, that Joe Biden
00:46:23.820 benefited directly from that. Now Peter Schweitzer says he has nailed down evidence that shows
00:46:29.620 Joe Biden directly benefited from Hunter Biden's corruption overseas.
00:46:34.920 If you remember, the Bidens from the beginning have lied and shifted the goalposts. At first,
00:46:41.240 remember, they said, no, there are no foreign deals with the Chinese. That's all fake news.
00:46:46.180 But then when it turned out that, of course, those deals were real, we showed that they were real.
00:46:50.880 They said, well, you know, Joe Biden had no knowledge of those deals. When we showed that
00:46:55.320 Joe Biden had knowledge of those deals, it shifted to, well, he never discussed it with his son.
00:46:59.620 Then when we showed that he discussed it with his son, they shifted to, well, he never directly
00:47:04.820 benefited. What we see from the Hunter Biden laptop, and we do have a copy, by the way, here at GAI
00:47:11.880 of the laptop and all the files. It confirms that Joe Biden was a direct beneficiary. We're in the
00:47:18.780 middle of the investigation now, but by the end of the year, it will be completed and it will take on
00:47:26.460 a far more sinister tone than it has even now in terms of what it says about the Biden family and the
00:47:34.320 vulnerabilities of the Biden family. It's that bad.
00:47:38.080 So this is pretty explosive stuff. If it were just about any other journalist on the right who does
00:47:44.600 these sorts of things, I would say, eh, I don't know. I'm going to hold off. I'm not totally, totally bought
00:47:49.180 into that yet. But Schweitzer is pretty good. And so if he says he's got the goods, then we will await that.
00:47:54.620 I'm not surprised at all. The Biden family has been a machine family now for a long time. I mean, this guy's
00:48:01.420 been an institution in the Democratic Party for 50 years. There's been a lot of evidence of shady deals.
00:48:06.920 He survived in Washington a very long time. So not surprised to see that sort of thing. Speaking of foreign 1.00
00:48:12.460 policy, we don't have time to get to it today. But I have to mention, at least, that General Petraeus
00:48:18.480 is now criticizing the, quote unquote, hasty decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. We've been
00:48:25.340 in Afghanistan now for 20 years, but this is considered hasty. This is a war that the American 0.80
00:48:30.840 people do not want to be fighting anymore. We don't know what the purpose of this war is.
00:48:34.720 We've been told lots of different things about the purpose of this war, and it's just not. It's just not
00:48:39.020 working out, is it? Just more evidence that on this front, on the inflation front, on the media
00:48:47.820 front, on all of this, eventually the bill is going to come due, okay? And if you mislead the people,
00:48:54.420 and if you stonewall the people, and if you gaslight the people for long enough, they're going to stop
00:48:58.780 believing you. They're going to turn to other people. That's not the fault of those other people,
00:49:02.540 like those of us here at Daily Wire. That's not the fault of the people themselves. That's your fault
00:49:07.880 for lying, and now you've got to pay the price. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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