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00:00:48.240 that all whites are racist, blacks can't leave their homes without being hunted down on account

00:00:53.220 of their race and that race is the single most important aspect of a person's identity. Given 1.00

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00:01:04.980 an all-time low. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:15.760 Welcome back to my glass half full take. My favorite comment yesterday is from Zoop DeFloop,

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00:03:08.900 Race relations are at an all-time low. Now, what the libs will tell you, the libs who have 0.97

00:03:13.700 dominated every institution for decades now, what they will tell you is the reason race relations 0.63

00:03:18.400 are at an all-time low is because we're not talking about race enough. We're not having enough 0.99

00:03:22.940 conversations about race. We're not focused on race enough. Now, of course, the strategy for the

00:03:29.540 past 20 years has been to focus more and more and more on race and to push anti-racism and the

00:03:36.620 consequences of critical race theory and various other leftist programs. So, the proof of the

00:03:43.320 pudding tends to be in the tasting. The consequence of all of these racially conscious new ideas seems

00:03:51.020 to be a decline in race relations and yet what the libs are going to tell us is that this is just

00:03:57.440 evidence that we need even more of their racial theories. That's sort of like how the Ibram Kendi 0.64

00:04:03.840 types, the anti-racist types, beg the question, sort of how they say, well, look, if you deny that

00:04:10.940 you are a racist, that is only evidence that you are a racist. And obviously, if you admit that you're

00:04:15.400 a racist, that's evidence that you're a racist. So, either way, you need to buy my book. Pretty

00:04:19.320 brilliant marketing campaign. My point, though, on why we don't need to talk about race all the time,

00:04:26.720 why it's detrimental to do that, is because there are other bad things. There are other bad things in

00:04:33.740 the world than racism. For instance, so Pit Viper, which it makes the sunglasses from the 90s, you

00:04:40.540 remember those, the colorful sunglasses? They are in a bind. They've been receiving a lot of pressure

00:04:46.440 from leftist groups because apparently some evil, terrible, no good racists have worn Pit Vipers. So,

00:04:55.440 they just, they wore the sunglasses. And so, Pit Vipers needs to make a statement. They made a

00:05:00.680 statement specifically against the guy, Nick Fuentes. We've mentioned him on the show a few

00:05:05.620 times, who has said plenty of unsavory things and has been entirely unpersoned because of it.

00:05:11.940 You know, there are a lot of people who say unsavory things in this country who don't end up

00:05:15.480 on the no-fly list and kicked off of all major social media and not permitted to use financial

00:05:20.480 institutions. But because of his unsavory things, he has been unpersoned. So, Pit Vipers sent out a

00:05:28.080 tweet. They said, new policy money received from confirmed racists will be donated in their name.

00:05:34.700 Thanks for working against your cause, Nick Fuentes. And they donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:05:38.720 which is a vicious, vile hate group, if you ask me, one of the worst organizations in the country.

00:05:45.060 Okay. So, the money that comes from the racists, that's going to, that's unacceptable. We won't

00:05:50.880 keep that money. We're going to donate it to other groups. Are there other bad, bad groups of people

00:05:58.680 in the country? So, okay, the racists, they're bad. Okay, fine. Got it. Racists, they're bad. What 0.99

00:06:03.360 about the communists? What if you get money, Pit Vipers, what if you get money from confirmed 0.74

00:06:10.580 communists? Are you going to keep that money? Communism killed, what, 100 million people in

00:06:16.440 the 20th century? Vicious anti-human ideology. You're going to, I guess you'll keep that kind

00:06:22.080 of money. What about money from guys who cheat on their wives? Because that's bad. It's bad to cheat

00:06:27.640 on your wife. Are you, you're going to take money from guys who, who cheat on their wives? What about 0.99

00:06:32.540 pedophile, confirmed pedophiles? I bet that some confirmed pedophiles have worn sunglasses at some

00:06:40.040 point in their lives. Are you going to take money from them? What about abortionists? Oh my God,

00:06:45.280 you're going to take money for, hold on. I get it. You don't want to take money from racists,

00:06:48.900 but you're going to take money from people whose job it is to murder babies? A lot of bad people out 0.90

00:06:54.640 there. A lot of bad things out there. But the only way that we can talk about evil and sin in this

00:07:02.480 country anymore is by talking about racism. It's considered the only bad thing. Just like how among

00:07:09.580 political movements, fascism is the only bad thing. This is why sometimes people will refer to Antifa

00:07:15.740 as fascists or they'll refer to Democrats as fascists. They're not fascists. Antifa is made

00:07:21.300 up of communists and anarchists and those are very bad people, but they're actually not fascists.

00:07:26.580 And by, by pretending that the political movement that is only ever associated with the right wing,

00:07:32.480 that that's the only bad thing in the world that plays to the leftist's hand. Speaking of communists,

00:07:42.160 by the way, Governor Ron DeSantis, he's not a communist, but Governor Ron DeSantis now is clearly

00:07:46.920 making a play for the 2024 presidential nomination. He's looking down what's going on 90 miles off the

00:07:53.360 coast of Florida. And he is saying the United States ought to free Cuba. From day one, the people 1.00

00:08:00.100 of Cuba have been protesting and demonstrating against the communist dictatorship in Havana.

00:08:05.440 It's not because of vaccines. It's not because of these side issues. They want a new government.

00:08:10.160 They want to free Cuba. And it's, I think, incumbent upon us in the United States to be supportive of

00:08:16.040 those efforts. I've called on Joe Biden. The communist regime has shut down internet. Let's work to beam 0.89

00:08:21.620 internet onto the island of Cuba. So these folks have a fighting chance to converse with one another,

00:08:26.360 to send what's going on to the outside world. Let's build an international coalition so that the

00:08:31.280 regime knows the free world stands with the people of Cuba. I think you're seeing people take to the

00:08:36.020 streets here because we understand after 62 years, something is different on that island right now.

00:08:42.320 We have an opportunity to really take a new chapter in history. And I think you point out in your monologue,

00:08:47.240 Cuba would be a phenomenal ally of our country. If it was free, they would boom like probably few

00:08:53.200 countries in the Caribbean. It would be a boon for the people of Cuba. And it would also be great

00:08:59.560 for relations with the United States. So this will play very well for Ron DeSantis in Florida. Don't

00:09:05.400 forget, he's got to win a gubernatorial election before he can, he's got to win reelection there before

00:09:09.620 he can run for president. So this will play very well. Obviously, lots of Cubans in Miami, a lot of people

00:09:14.140 very supportive to the people of Cuba against the communist regime. I'm not so sure that this kind

00:09:21.460 of thing plays nationally though. This would have played nationally five to 15 years ago, really,

00:09:27.980 actually five years ago to, I don't know, 50 years ago, back when anti-communism was the rallying cry of

00:09:33.720 the conservative movement. And especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when regime change was

00:09:39.180 sort of the name of the game on the Republican side. But I'm not convinced that the American people

00:09:45.340 want to form any international coalitions to push for any sort of regime change anywhere in the world.

00:09:51.340 Not because it's intrinsically wrong to do that in any way, but because the American people are kind

00:09:56.360 of tired of those regime change wars of empire. I think they're tired. I mean, the Republican

00:10:02.080 candidate ran against the war in Iraq, ran against remaining in Afghanistan in 2016 and 2020, I guess,

00:10:10.020 for that matter. We're just pulling out of Afghanistan now. This is the first thing, I mean, 0.99

00:10:14.580 look, I'm with DeSantis on standing against the communist dictatorship, but the overt calls for an

00:10:20.840 international movement to go in and to institute regime change. I'm not sure that that is the political

00:10:26.920 moment we're in because there are so many problems here in the United States that are not even just

00:10:31.640 economic problems or not even looming problems of debt, say, or unfunded entitlements, but real

00:10:36.480 problems of crime in the streets spiking. As we said, race relations, lowest in 20 years. We've got 1.00

00:10:43.560 people burning down buildings. We've got people who don't trust our electoral systems. You know,

00:10:49.280 a lot of problems here in the United States. And I strongly suspect that the candidate in 2024,

00:10:55.920 the Republican nominee in 2024, is going to have a pretty strong domestic focus. Obviously,

00:11:00.700 circumstances can change in the world. So who knows, some unforeseen event involving China or

00:11:05.540 other geopolitical actor, maybe that could change things. But as of right now, I think the focus is

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00:12:34.960 Ron DeSantis, more than any governor in the country, generally speaking, has his finger on the pulse

00:12:41.220 of where the Republican Party is right now. He's seen things a little bit ahead. Obviously,

00:12:46.020 he's making this play right now for a Cuban vote in Florida, and he's standing against the

00:12:50.020 communists, which is a little maybe out of step with where the Republican Party is because of

00:12:56.440 this domestic focus, I think, that Republicans have right now. But generally speaking, he's ahead

00:13:00.200 on these things. And I think you might start to see a shift in the way that the COVID vaccine is

00:13:07.420 talked about. Ron DeSantis has led the COVID fight better than any other governor in the country.

00:13:14.880 DeSantis now is actively encouraging people to go get the COVID vaccines.

00:13:20.620 If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID

00:13:27.900 is effectively zero. If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals,

00:13:33.340 over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. And so

00:13:40.420 these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality. Mortality in nursing homes, since we

00:13:48.080 rolled out the vaccines in December, is down over 95 percent due to COVID. Mortality for elderly people,

00:13:55.620 since we rolled out the vaccines, is down nearly 90 percent. And so we're proud in Florida that we put

00:14:01.700 seniors first on that because they were the most vulnerable. We have 85 percent of our seniors that

00:14:07.300 are vaccinated and about 75 percent of folks over the age of 50. We have no mandate. We've provided

00:14:14.120 information to people and we've been very honest about any data that comes out. So fair enough. That's

00:14:23.080 fine. The only problem I have with this statement and this new pivot among Republicans to start really

00:14:29.640 pushing the vaccine, not with mandates. He's done a good job of saying, no, we're not going to have a

00:14:33.720 mandate, but still really encouraging people to go get it, is it hides the ball on the question of

00:14:41.960 prudence. It hides the ball on the question of which demographics are most at risk here. Because

00:14:49.180 you're going to hear this statistic, 99.9999 percent of people who go to the hospital for COVID

00:14:56.180 are unvaccinated now. And so you all need to get the vaccine, get the vaccine, sheep. 0.92

00:15:02.260 But then notice what Governor DeSantis says. He says, the nursing home mortality from COVID,

00:15:08.180 he has to say from COVID because nursing home mortality is 100 percent. Mortality for everyone

00:15:12.420 is 100 percent in the long run. He says, nursing home fatality, mortality from COVID has dropped 95 percent

00:15:19.260 since among people who got the vaccine. Yeah, of course, that makes sense. Mortality among the

00:15:26.080 elderly from COVID has dropped 95 percent for those who got the vaccine. Yeah, that makes sense.

00:15:32.080 Does that mean that an 18-year-old needs to go get the vaccine or should get the vaccine? No,

00:15:38.040 that doesn't follow logically at all. From the very beginning, there have been people who have said,

00:15:43.960 everyone needs to go get the vaccine immediately. There have been people who have said, no one should

00:15:46.720 ever touch that vaccine because they're going to get 5G in their bodies and then their cell phones are

00:15:49.840 going to work too well. That's not my position. My position is use prudence. This is an experimental

00:15:56.680 drug. It received an emergency use authorization. There are side effects that we were initially not

00:16:03.560 told about that then presented themselves that then the CDC and the FDA had to acknowledge,

00:16:08.480 namely blood clots from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in women, mostly women, and myocarditis and

00:16:14.780 periocarditis in young people who are otherwise healthy from some of the mRNA vaccines, plus a rare

00:16:22.140 nervous system disorder that came from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine that's also been present from

00:16:26.960 other vaccines. Slowly, they had to acknowledge those risks. If you are in a nursing home,

00:16:34.500 probably the risk from COVID is greater than the risk from the vaccine, especially if we're talking

00:16:40.200 about potential long-term side effects. Because if you're in a nursing home, the long-term is not

00:16:45.300 your concern. To quote the great, actually not so great economist John Maynard Keynes, in the long

00:16:50.260 run, we're all dead. If you are 15 years old, why would you get this vaccine? Here's the real answer.

00:17:00.400 You might get this vaccine because your school makes you and then you've got to make a choice. Are you

00:17:03.260 going to remain in the school or not? You're going to have to make a political decision there.

00:17:05.840 But from a medical perspective, why on earth would you get the vaccine? There was that story of a 13

00:17:11.920 year old who died just days after receiving the vaccine from inflammation of the heart. Not saying

00:17:16.440 that correlation is causation, but seems kind of coincidental, doesn't it? And so that is the issue

00:17:22.520 here because the people who are going into hospitals, the huge numbers of people that we're told are going

00:17:29.260 into hospitals with coronavirus. It's actually not a very large number of people relative to the people

00:17:33.440 who've been infected by it, but it's not generally speaking 15 and 18 and 25 year olds. It's much

00:17:39.680 older, more, much older people rather. And so when you're making that decision, I think prudence is

00:17:46.540 the answer. And so you're going to start seeing even Republican politicians start pushing this

00:17:52.380 vaccine. I think we've still got to focus on prudence. That's going to be the answer. That is the

00:17:58.320 conservative virtue. Now, Jen Psaki at the White House is attacking Ron DeSantis, not over his new 0.97

00:18:05.580 measures to push the vaccine more and more, but because the man is not doing enough because he

00:18:09.900 won't institute a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate. Florida Governor DeSantis was talking about mask

00:18:16.320 mandates for kids earlier this morning. And he said, we're not doing that in Florida. We need our kids

00:18:21.580 to breathe. We need our kids to be able to be kids. He said it's terribly uncomfortable for them to do it.

00:18:27.500 That obviously goes against the CDC guidance for kids under 12 who aren't vaccinated. And what

00:18:31.660 the president said last night, is that putting kids in Florida at risk?

00:18:37.180 Well, as a parent myself, and I know you are one, if I were a parent in Florida, that would be

00:18:41.200 greatly concerning to me because kids under the age of 12 are not vaccinated. They're not eligible yet.

00:18:47.920 As the president said last night, obviously it's going to be led by the FDA, but certainly we hope that

00:18:52.220 will be soon. But that puts kids at risk. It's not aligned with public health guidelines.

00:18:56.820 We know masks are not the most comfortable thing. I will say my kids are quite adjusted to them,

00:19:02.840 as I know many kids are. So certainly we would have concern about any step that doesn't abide

00:19:08.700 by public health guidelines. And we think it puts people at greater risk.

00:19:12.040 So you've got to put your seven-year-old in a mask or else you're harming the public health

00:19:18.360 because you understand the vaccine is extremely effective. So it's so effective that if your six-year-old

00:19:24.160 doesn't wear a mask, all the vaccinated people are going to die from the virus that doesn't pose

00:19:28.740 a particularly large risk to most people. Jen Psaki is, I think, being pretty disingenuous here.

00:19:38.320 I don't think that the public health geniuses and the politicians who are pushing the mask mandates

00:19:45.100 and the vaccine mandates in some cases, and the strong push for the vaccines and the lockdowns and

00:19:50.640 all the like, I don't think they're all that concerned about coronavirus. I don't think they

00:19:54.520 think that coronavirus is nearly as big a deal as they have let on. Here's my evidence of that.

00:20:00.840 The Texas Democrats who fled the state because they didn't want to do their job and have to

00:20:08.180 recognize that the people of Texas want voter integrity laws, they fled the state on an airplane

00:20:13.260 without wearing any masks because they're not afraid of coronavirus because no one's really afraid

00:20:19.340 of coronavirus because except for a few demographics of people, most people don't face a great risk from

00:20:24.160 coronavirus. They then got a lot of coronavirus. They go to DC, they mill about with members of

00:20:30.040 Pelosi's staff, with legislators on Capitol Hill, with members of the White House, and now some of those

00:20:35.600 people in the White House have come down with coronavirus. If this were the greatest public health

00:20:42.540 threat we've ever faced, we would need those numbers. Certainly Jen Psaki would be telling us

00:20:46.460 those numbers. But because it's not, she won't. It's been a couple of days since we talked about

00:20:51.740 the breakthrough case on the campus here and that you acknowledge there were additional

00:20:55.880 breakthrough cases. Can you give us now the number of breakthrough cases that have occurred

00:21:00.760 during the Biden presidency? Well, I would say first that our medical experts, our health experts,

00:21:06.720 have been conveying from the beginning, as have we, that there would be cases of individuals who are

00:21:11.260 vaccinated who tested positive for COVID. There are 2,000 people who work on the campus. And of

00:21:18.860 course, that means that just statistically speaking, there will be people who are vaccinated individuals

00:21:24.460 who get COVID on the campus. What I announced yesterday or conveyed yesterday was what our policy

00:21:31.260 would be moving forward. But no, I don't think you can expect that we're going to be providing

00:21:35.760 numbers of breakthrough cases. No. On the one hand, this is hypocritical because whenever any

00:21:41.820 conservative gets COVID, the left makes a big deal about this. Whenever anyone in a conservative state

00:21:46.200 gets COVID, the left makes a big deal about this. So yes, it's hypocritical. On the other hand, 0.96

00:21:51.900 yeah, of course they don't need to give us the numbers. It's not that big a deal. People are fine.

00:21:55.960 They're fine. Okay. I know. Are you allowed to say that? I don't know, but I'm going to say that.

00:21:59.980 Unless you're in a particularly at-risk group from coronavirus,

00:22:02.720 it's fine. We don't need to report on how many people are getting it. We don't even need to

00:22:07.640 report on how many people are going to the doctor from this because overwhelmingly they're recovering

00:22:11.940 just fine. You saw the numbers yesterday in Australia, 188,000 tests for coronavirus.

00:22:19.020 And then what was it? 800 some odd people who have got coronavirus and then one person died from

00:22:25.440 coronavirus. So we're going to lock down the country. That doesn't make any sense. That's madness.

00:22:29.140 Absolute madness. And it's not even the craziest thing Jen Psaki has been talking about.

00:22:36.780 Actually, I think this is one of the more reasonable takes that Jen Psaki and the White 1.00

00:22:40.080 House has had. No, we're not going to tell you how many people have coronavirus because it just

00:22:43.180 doesn't matter. It's fine. It's a cough for most people. Okay. And they're already vaccinated. And so

00:22:48.920 that kind of contradicts the narrative that the vaccine is extremely effective and it's going to

00:22:53.580 prevent you from getting coronavirus anyway. What the White House is much more concerned about than

00:22:59.860 controlling the spread of coronavirus is controlling the narrative so that even when the guidance changes

00:23:04.300 from all the genius experts, even when the new rules and the mandates and the restrictions change,

00:23:10.160 they are going to be able to control the flow of information. And the White House is making an even

00:23:16.360 larger play than they have been in recent weeks. In recent weeks, they've been pressuring social media

00:23:20.920 to take a greater hand of censorship of conservatives. They've been pressuring social

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00:24:04.940 Jen Psaki asked this question about whether or not the White House is pushing this kind of stuff.

00:24:12.040 If the White House is going to continue to wield its political power to censor people on social media,

00:24:20.100 she says you're damn right.

00:24:21.420 A couple of the steps that we have, you know, that could be constructive for the public health

00:24:27.800 of the country are providing for Facebook or other platforms to measure and publicly share

00:24:35.080 the impact of misinformation on their platform and the audience it's reaching.

00:24:39.860 Also with the public, with all of you, to create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their

00:24:45.940 properties and provide transparency about rules.

00:24:48.140 You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there,

00:24:55.860 taking faster action against harmful posts.

00:24:58.560 Remember, Donald Trump's lawsuit against big tech is they violated his First Amendment rights.

00:25:02.740 The only way that this lawsuit works is if they can prove that the government is pressuring

00:25:07.100 social media to act as a proxy for the government to censor people, and Jen Psaki is doing that. 1.00

00:25:12.200 Consider how crazy this is.

00:25:13.640 She's saying that if you are ostracized, if you violate the rule on one social media platform,

00:25:18.260 you need to be completely kicked out of the public square.

00:25:20.780 You need to be completely ostracized.

00:25:22.500 Like this is ancient imperial Athenian democracy, okay?

00:25:26.820 You need to be completely kicked out.

00:25:28.720 And that is what is happening increasingly.

00:25:30.680 And the people who wield the power are going to decide, usually in a somewhat arbitrary

00:25:35.660 or capricious way, who gets booted from the public square. 0.95

00:25:38.440 Speaking of un-personing people, Nancy Pelosi has a novel religious idea.

00:25:43.880 She has a novel religious idea that one can be a devout Catholic and support abortion.

00:25:49.040 It's an issue of health of many women in America, especially those in lower income situations 0.88

00:25:56.160 and in different states, and it is something that has been a priority for many of us a long time.

00:26:03.720 As a devout Catholic and mother of five and six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me

00:26:12.200 with our beautiful family, five children, six years almost to the day.

00:26:16.340 But that may not be what we should, it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do.

00:26:24.860 And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country. 0.54

00:26:33.520 So, one, it is up to you.

00:26:35.940 You're a legislator.

00:26:36.760 You're the Speaker of the House.

00:26:37.720 It's up to you to make the laws.

00:26:38.700 Two, you're saying, pretty ghastly thing, that you, a nice rich lady, should be able to have a lot of kids. 0.98

00:26:44.120 But for poor people, they need to kill their kids so that they can go work in the widget factory or whatever. 1.00

00:26:48.600 But then to the religious claim. 1.00

00:26:50.360 She says, I'm a devout Catholic, but I support abortion.

00:26:52.820 And the thing is, and this is not just my opinion, this is the opinion of the Catholic Church,

00:26:58.120 which we can know, which is made public.

00:27:01.460 You cannot be an abortion supporter and a devout Catholic at the same time. 0.57

00:27:07.540 Do you remember in 7th or 8th grade, you learned about rules of logic?

00:27:11.940 Do you remember you learned the contrapositive?

00:27:14.140 This is one of those things people learn when they're a kid and they forget.

00:27:17.180 The contrapositive is this.

00:27:18.460 If you have if P, then Q, right? 0.78

00:27:23.980 Then if not Q, then not P.

00:27:27.940 Your teacher wrote this on the board when you were in middle school.

00:27:31.440 So, to give you a lesson on the contrapositive, on contraposition.

00:27:35.100 If you are a devout Catholic, then you do not support abortion.

00:27:44.020 If you support abortion, then you are not a devout Catholic.

00:27:50.660 QED.

00:27:51.740 There you are.

00:27:52.280 Thank you for attending my lecture on contraposition.

00:27:55.180 So now some people have said, Michael, how dare you?

00:27:56.940 You can't judge people.

00:27:58.540 I'm not judging her.

00:27:59.560 I'm not damning her or sending her up to heaven.

00:28:03.220 I don't have the power to do that, but I can judge the teaching of the church because

00:28:07.420 the church's teaching is public.

00:28:08.960 And what Nancy Pelosi is doing right here is committing a public sin. 1.00

00:28:11.780 It's the sin of scandal.

00:28:13.180 She's also lying.

00:28:15.640 A private sin would be, say, if Nancy Pelosi goes home at night and drinks three bottles 1.00

00:28:19.520 of wine.

00:28:20.940 And then I gossip around and I could start spreading these rumors or something.

00:28:25.360 Or a private sin is she goes and cheats on her husband or whatever. 0.78

00:28:28.520 You see, what she's committing is a public sin and she's making a claim that is demonstrably 0.87

00:28:33.340 false.

00:28:34.960 It is not possible to be a devout Catholic if you support abortion.

00:28:40.640 Now, thankfully, the House GOP is defunding or is now trying to defund universities that

00:28:47.220 provide chemical abortions. 0.85

00:28:48.660 This is very good stuff being pushed by representatives Mary Miller, Chip Roy, and Steve Daines.

00:28:53.900 That Steve Daines, obviously, in the United States Senate, co-sponsoring legislation in

00:29:00.420 response to this 2019 California bill that would provide chemical abortion pills to students

00:29:04.760 at the beginning of 2023.

00:29:06.540 What the Congress is saying now is they're going to defund them if they do this.

00:29:10.560 That's very, very good use of the law.

00:29:12.260 There's also really good news here on the pro-life front.

00:29:15.400 Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is now asking the Supreme Court of the United States

00:29:20.640 to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which was the affirmation of Roe

00:29:26.580 v. Wade.

00:29:27.320 These were two of the most unprincipled, preposterous, unconstitutional decisions in the history of

00:29:33.300 the United States.

00:29:34.680 Very probably the two worst decisions ever made in the history of the court.

00:29:40.240 And there's a case right now working its way up the courts.

00:29:43.840 It will be heard by the Supreme Court.

00:29:45.420 It's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

00:29:50.420 This is the first major abortion case to be heard by the current court.

00:29:53.780 It's going to be ruled on in the spring of 2022.

00:29:58.600 And at issue is going to be a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks.

00:30:03.100 At 15 weeks, a baby in the womb can suck its own thumb, okay? 0.84

00:30:06.320 So the blob of cells argument is not really going to work very well here.

00:30:10.620 Very, very important stuff, okay?

00:30:12.560 Now, speaking of little boys and little girls, before we go, I do want to mention, and we'll

00:30:17.260 get into this a little bit later on, that the Girl Scouts right now, the Girl Scouts

00:30:21.140 of America are pushing an anti-racism guide.

00:30:24.720 They're pushing a guide that is being formed by critical race theory and these kind of insane

00:30:29.580 leftist racial views.

00:30:32.000 A Missouri school district right now is paying $15,000 to a critical race theory professor

00:30:37.800 for an audit of the curriculum.

00:30:39.460 Don't let them tell you that critical race theory is not being taught in elementary schools

00:30:44.320 and middle schools, okay?

00:30:45.220 That is the focus.

00:30:46.640 But there are a lot of other problems in this country. 1.00

00:30:49.940 You know, killing babies that can suck their own thumb, that seems like a big problem. 0.90

00:30:53.640 You know, of forcing people to take experimental drugs if they're not at great risk of a virus, 0.99

00:30:58.880 shutting down the whole country, shutting down our churches, taking away people's constitutional 0.91

00:31:02.300 rights.

00:31:03.860 That's a big problem.

00:31:05.120 Those are big problems, too.

00:31:06.080 There are more problems, I think, than just race.

00:31:07.940 And if we're only going to focus on race, then I know it seems paradoxical to people

00:31:13.300 on the left, but actually racial relations are going to hit decades-long lows.

00:31:20.600 Not very good stuff.

00:31:21.960 Maybe we should focus on some of the other problems, too.

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00:32:41.140 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:32:42.140 First question up from JD who says, Dear Connecticut Casanova, thank you for recognizing one of

00:33:00.340 my real titles.

00:33:01.920 I dated a girl for a little over five years starting in college and going into my first

00:33:05.440 few years of working life.

00:33:06.940 She broke up with me a while ago, but we continued a sexual relationship for about one year after

00:33:11.480 that.

00:33:12.000 During this time, I was blocked on her social media.

00:33:14.400 Oh man, good grief.

00:33:15.900 And I was therefore unaware that she had a serious boyfriend throughout the time we were

00:33:19.520 together.

00:33:20.500 She sounds like a pip.

00:33:22.940 When I became aware, I severed all ties.

00:33:25.700 Recently, she texted me out of the blue and confessed that she wants me back and still loves

00:33:30.300 me.

00:33:31.380 This love apparently caused her to leave that guy to be with me or to be alone. 0.62

00:33:35.460 Maybe, I guess.

00:33:36.360 Are you still blocked on social media?

00:33:37.900 She might have another few guys in the corner. 1.00

00:33:39.320 I have a girlfriend that is a red-blooded conservative that I'm incredibly happy with.

00:33:44.720 The question is not who to pick.

00:33:45.820 I know my ex-girlfriend was bad for me, but my question is, how do I get rid of this feeling

00:33:49.240 that she is right for me and that I should be with her?

00:33:51.620 It's not fair to myself or my girlfriend to be hung up on a past lover.

00:33:54.840 Sincerely, yours, way too nerdy to be this wanted.

00:33:59.140 This problem afflicts a great many.

00:34:01.400 This might afflict every single guy.

00:34:04.000 It's the problem of what if.

00:34:05.800 It's the problem of the one that got away.

00:34:07.740 It's the problem of, should I really lock myself down?

00:34:10.760 I could do this.

00:34:11.440 I could do that.

00:34:12.260 It's the problem of infatuation, which is different than love.

00:34:16.040 Infatuation is when you are obsessed with an idea and it can feel a lot like love.

00:34:20.900 I mean, it can, you know, writers going back to ancient days have written about this feeling

00:34:25.700 of love sickness.

00:34:26.680 Your heart feels like it really hurts.

00:34:29.080 But you know that this is not ordered properly.

00:34:31.620 You know this is not the right thing.

00:34:32.740 Obviously, in the case of the strumpet that you were dating before, who's cheating on

00:34:36.680 her boyfriend with you and who knows how many other guys.

00:34:39.380 Yes, you're right.

00:34:40.240 Obviously, you should stay with your girlfriend.

00:34:43.120 You just got to deal with it, buddy.

00:34:44.680 Get over your feels.

00:34:45.720 Get over all the feels, man.

00:34:47.020 One thing that might cure it is getting married.

00:34:50.340 One thing that might cure it, I don't know if you're ready to get married yet or anything

00:34:52.960 like that.

00:34:53.340 But if you just make a decision and say, okay, this is my choice.

00:34:59.720 I'm making this choice.

00:35:00.540 This is a public choice.

00:35:01.980 This chickie is over and I might still have feelings and I might still, oh, I still, but 1.00

00:35:07.800 what if?

00:35:08.360 And I might, you might, I don't even mean to make fun of you too much, but you might, you

00:35:11.700 might still dream about this girl.

00:35:13.500 You might still think about her.

00:35:15.040 You might still say, what if, what if?

00:35:17.320 Okay, that's life, buddy.

00:35:18.740 Get over it.

00:35:19.280 Make a decision.

00:35:19.860 Sometimes a wrong decision even is better than indecision, though in this case, it sounds

00:35:23.940 like sticking with your good conservative girlfriend is a way better idea than this

00:35:29.600 harlot that you had previously been dating.

00:35:32.480 But what can I do, Michael?

00:35:33.860 What can I do?

00:35:34.760 I still have feelings.

00:35:36.280 You can act like a man.

00:35:38.380 What's the matter with you?

00:35:41.080 Best of luck.

00:35:41.980 From John.

00:35:42.620 Dear Michael, the Olympics are about to kick into full gear.

00:35:45.500 My question is, will you be watching the games? 0.95

00:35:47.900 And what competition do you think is the best and which is the most ridiculous, pointless 0.96

00:35:51.380 besides women's soccer? 0.98

00:35:52.600 No, I won't be watching the games, not even because of all the un-American people who are 1.00

00:35:58.640 supposed to be representing our country, like the hammer throwing girl or whatever, the 1.00

00:36:02.280 women's soccer team or, you know. 0.97

00:36:03.800 I also just don't like the Olympics.

00:36:05.620 I don't care about the Olympics at all.

00:36:07.100 I'm not interested in it.

00:36:08.560 I guess I hope we win except for the women's soccer, except for the people who hate our country

00:36:12.800 who are on our team.

00:36:13.740 I hope they lose.

00:36:14.500 But I hope that the people who like our country win, I guess, but I just don't care.

00:36:19.000 I don't care.

00:36:19.320 I've never seen a soccer game in my life, whether it's women or men, and I just don't, I don't

00:36:23.420 care.

00:36:23.620 The one sport I like in the Olympics, as always, there's an exception, there's a caveat.

00:36:29.120 The one sport I like is curling.

00:36:32.240 I do, I really like it.

00:36:33.320 I get a kick out of it.

00:36:34.420 I think it's a whimsical, funny sport to watch.

00:36:36.720 So I might turn that on.

00:36:38.240 But otherwise, no, I probably will not be watching.

00:36:40.420 From Liam, dear connoisseur of Covfefe, you have spoken at length of how the political

00:36:46.440 left has made a religion of science.

00:36:48.400 Has the political right made a religion of America's founding?

00:36:51.860 I ask because one will often hear members of the political right say, John Adams says

00:36:56.320 such and such, and the Constitution says this and that, in the same way that Christians 0.81

00:37:00.360 argue, St. Paul says such and such, and the Gospels say this and that.

00:37:03.420 Also, you often quote Cardinal Manning, saying that all human conflict is ultimately theological.

00:37:07.400 Do you, as a practicing Catholic, have political disagreements with the Protestant founding

00:37:11.160 fathers, respectfully, as somewhat practicing Catholic?

00:37:13.740 Yes, very astute observation.

00:37:16.320 We do have a civic religion.

00:37:19.420 This is not an accident.

00:37:21.120 This is not even insidious, necessarily.

00:37:23.560 Abraham Lincoln called for the development of a civic religion, and I think all states,

00:37:27.660 to some degree, have a civic religion.

00:37:29.940 So in our country, the president is the pope, and the senators are the cardinals, and the

00:37:35.960 founding fathers are the church fathers, and there are other doctors of the church, of

00:37:41.000 the civic religion, and of course that's true, because politics ultimately is theological.

00:37:45.200 So of course, there are going to be parallels here.

00:37:48.200 Do I have disagreements with the founding fathers?

00:37:49.880 Yeah, I have some disagreements.

00:37:50.900 I mean, by the way, the founding fathers are not a monolith.

00:37:54.180 So in some cases, I agree with Hamilton more than I would agree with Adams.

00:37:57.640 In some cases, vice versa.

00:37:59.360 I generally would agree with Adams and Hamilton and Washington more than I would with Jefferson,

00:38:03.380 but Jefferson made some good points, too.

00:38:04.840 So yes, these people are not a monolith.

00:38:07.800 One can have some disagreements with them.

00:38:09.860 In some cases, I have strong disagreements with James Madison.

00:38:12.800 In other cases, Madison, you know, made very good points.

00:38:16.820 It is important, I think, to have respect for your founding fathers, and to have respect

00:38:24.520 for the great statesmen of your history, and to have respect for your tradition, and

00:38:27.420 to have love for your country.

00:38:28.500 I don't think that's evil, or unjust, or idolatrous, or anything like that.

00:38:32.920 Love of country is an extension of filial piety, of the love of your own family.

00:38:38.240 And if we don't love the men who gave us our country, then we don't love our country, right?

00:38:45.080 Then we don't love our history.

00:38:46.140 Then we don't love ourselves, and we need to have a healthy love of our country if we want

00:38:50.300 to survive.

00:38:51.640 That said, I think you're absolutely right.

00:38:54.460 We must have true religion as well.

00:38:57.120 Otherwise, people will make an idol and a religion out of politics, and that's bad whether it

00:39:03.820 happens on the left and on the right.

00:39:05.300 So, if you have a healthy love of country, and you care about things that John Adams said,

00:39:08.700 and you care about things that the Constitution said, and you have that in its proper place,

00:39:15.720 beneath, say, love of God and respect for the eternal moral order, then that's a very

00:39:22.060 good thing.

00:39:22.540 But it reminds me of Chesterton's point that heresy usually is not the promotion of vice

00:39:27.380 instead of virtue, but it's the promotion of one virtue to the exclusion of all of the

00:39:32.260 other virtues.

00:39:33.060 You don't, you don't, that is what idolatry is, right?

00:39:35.080 You don't want to make an idol out of those things.

00:39:37.160 Very perceptive question.

00:39:38.640 From Nick.

00:39:39.420 Hey, Michael.

00:39:40.020 Me again.

00:39:40.640 Oh, Nick.

00:39:41.200 Oh, gosh.

00:39:41.600 I'm having trouble in my place of work.

00:39:44.640 As a practicing basic dude, my goals have always been to date women slightly above my 0.97

00:39:49.180 appearance level, fair enough, and have guys invite me to BYOB parties on Saturdays.

00:39:54.260 Yeah, it's fun to hang with the boys.

00:39:55.600 The problem is, now that I've started dating someone who I believe is at least a seven,

00:40:00.700 I have not been invited out with the boys in some time.

00:40:04.280 My question is, does this always happen when a lion is tamed by a slightly above average

00:40:09.820 lioness, or can you also maintain relationships and time with the boys?

00:40:15.000 Thanks.

00:40:15.940 Sincerely, these send-offs are getting tricky, so I'd just like to say Monica Lewinsky, you

00:40:19.400 know, I'm not going to finish reading that.

00:40:20.800 I'm not going to read lewd comments about Monica Lewinsky on this show. 1.00

00:40:26.760 You know, Nick, you've had colorful questions in the past, and this is no different, but it

00:40:31.420 makes a good point.

00:40:31.940 And sometimes men, they're cool guys, and they'll hang out with the dudes, and then they

00:40:37.640 start dating a girl, and things change.

00:40:40.160 And maybe it's that you guys don't like the girl, or maybe it's that you are changing with 0.97

00:40:44.480 the girl, and you're becoming like a wuss. 1.00

00:40:48.340 This happens sometimes to guys, or you're allowing yourself to be led along by her, and you're 0.94

00:40:55.000 not assuming a role of leadership in the relationship.

00:40:58.500 That can happen, and you're going to have to look at yourself in the mirror and make sure

00:41:01.900 that you keep some balance.

00:41:03.020 Because, well, obviously, it's very important to develop a good and healthy relationship

00:41:06.680 and settle down, Nick.

00:41:09.560 If I can bring together some of your other mailbag questions, that seems to be a problem

00:41:14.540 for you, Nick.

00:41:16.900 So you're going to want to do that, but you're also going to want to have balance in your life,

00:41:20.220 and you've got to make some time for the boys.

00:41:22.760 You absolutely have to do that.

00:41:24.120 And if you give yourself wholly just to this lioness, who is a seven, as you say, or you

00:41:30.540 ignore the women, and you just hang with the boys like a derelict all the time, neither 0.97

00:41:35.500 of those are going to be conducive to human flourishing.

00:41:38.340 You want some balance.

00:41:39.640 Moderation is a virtue.

00:41:41.580 From Jen.

00:41:42.160 Hi, Michael.

00:41:42.840 I was hearing you saying that you didn't want to live in a world where women were sent to 1.00

00:41:45.960 fight our wars in yesterday's show.

00:41:47.560 Yep.

00:41:48.160 I'm a young woman in her 30s with a learning disability.

00:41:50.880 I could never fight.

00:41:51.820 I'm too sensitive, and I agree with you that men and women are different. 0.97

00:41:54.420 Do you believe that women should not fight in the army and whatnot?

00:41:57.600 I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

00:41:58.980 I think there can be a role for women in the armed forces, and there always has been to 1.00

00:42:04.960 some degree.

00:42:05.860 You know, there have been women who have provided support to the soldiers and played plenty of

00:42:11.120 roles in the military, but I do not support a political regime that sends women into combat. 1.00

00:42:17.500 Not even because women can't do it. 1.00

00:42:19.100 In some cases, women can do it, though obviously women are less physically strong than men.

00:42:23.360 That's just a fact of nature.

00:42:25.960 My issue is one from nature and one from politics.

00:42:30.660 I don't want to live in a world in which we are sending our women to go be shot and maimed

00:42:36.000 and die to protect us men.

00:42:37.880 I just think it's wrong.

00:42:39.200 It's ugly.

00:42:40.860 That's a disordered country, and we need to stop doing it. 0.98

00:42:43.940 And the sickos who are suggesting that women need to register for the draft need to be chased 0.99

00:42:50.380 out of public life. 0.88

00:42:51.740 From Andrew.

00:42:52.920 Hey, Michael.

00:42:53.680 I'm hearing Republicans for a long time now say how the internet and social media is the

00:42:57.500 new public square and should be a place for freedom of speech.

00:43:00.080 If you draw that to its logical conclusion, public square is a place that you can speak

00:43:03.800 on for free.

00:43:04.580 We all have the internet, but the internet is not free.

00:43:08.420 If the Republicans are arguing that the internet is a place for freedom of speech, doesn't

00:43:13.100 that conclude that the internet as a public square should be free or taxpayer funded at

00:43:18.080 the least as the streets are?

00:43:19.520 Thanks.

00:43:19.980 Love your show and all that you do.

00:43:21.760 No, I don't think so.

00:43:22.920 I don't think that the internet should be funded by taxpayers.

00:43:26.420 I mean, the internet was developed, by the way, with a lot of money from taxpayers.

00:43:29.820 But let's just use the example of the physical public square.

00:43:36.540 Traditionally, people live a while away from the public square.

00:43:40.060 If you live in the country, then you would have to get a horse.

00:43:44.720 You'd have to get a wagon.

00:43:45.860 You'd have to get some way of driving to the public square.

00:43:48.540 So that cost would be on you.

00:43:49.980 That's not your wagon and horse are not funded by the taxpayers.

00:43:52.960 If you want to spread your message in the public square, you'd have to print flyers or

00:43:56.540 pamphlets.

00:43:57.080 That's not funded by taxpayers.

00:43:58.380 If you wanted to really engage in that way, there is some cost to you and there is some

00:44:04.260 cost to the public.

00:44:05.560 Right now, it's very easy to get on the internet.

00:44:07.380 There are plenty of public resources to do that, including the public library.

00:44:10.300 So it's an interesting question, but I don't think that in any way the implication is that

00:44:16.260 the internet should be totally funded by the taxpayers.

00:44:19.800 I don't see how that argument works.

00:44:22.820 From Camille.

00:44:23.380 Hey, Michael.

00:44:23.740 Well, I watched a Jordan Peterson interview where he explains that intelligent women tend 0.99

00:44:27.440 to have a harder time finding a man.

00:44:29.520 I think this goes along with the do men value humor in a woman question from last week.

00:44:33.440 That was a good question.

00:44:34.180 And whether men find significant value in these qualities.

00:44:36.780 This seems unfair, but alas, life is not fair.

00:44:38.820 I know men and women are different, but what are your thoughts on this sentiment?

00:44:41.320 I think sometimes women can be too picky and place too much value on menial qualities. 1.00

00:44:46.240 But for us level-headed women, what is your advice? 0.85

00:44:49.240 Side note, not saying I'm the smartest woman out there, but clearly as an avid listener of

00:44:52.260 your show, my intelligence is quite admirable.

00:44:54.280 I would have to agree.

00:44:55.320 Sincerely, please don't tell me smart means settle.

00:44:58.180 Well, I really like smart women. 1.00

00:45:01.180 You know, sometimes, how do I put this delicately?

00:45:05.220 There are women who make an idol out of their intelligence, or they think that their only 1.00

00:45:12.260 quality, their most important quality is their intelligence.

00:45:15.740 And so, you know, if they have bad luck with guys, they'll say, you just can't handle a

00:45:19.900 smart woman.

00:45:20.460 You can't handle an ambitious woman. 1.00

00:45:21.920 You can't, something like that, right?

00:45:23.200 No, I love smart women. 1.00

00:45:25.900 I have, I think exclusively, not exclusively, I've almost exclusively dated smart women. 0.80

00:45:31.100 I married a very intelligent woman.

00:45:32.540 Um, and so I, I really like that, but there are other qualities.

00:45:36.380 Actually, getting back to the top of our show, we say, racism's bad.

00:45:38.800 Okay, yeah, sure.

00:45:39.400 But there are other bad things too, right?

00:45:41.080 It's not the only bad thing.

00:45:42.800 And so, intelligence is a good quality.

00:45:44.740 Yes, but there are other qualities too.

00:45:46.640 Your grace, your kindness, how nurturing you are, how, what a sort of sense of humor you

00:45:51.900 have, your physical looks too.

00:45:53.980 I mean, that's not, that's not irrelevant.

00:45:56.120 Your, uh, dignity, your, uh, cultivation.

00:46:01.680 I mean, all of these things matter.

00:46:03.360 So no, I, I think intelligent women are fabulous. 1.00

00:46:05.840 I love them.

00:46:07.020 Um, but there are other things in the world too.

00:46:10.060 And I think you need to, one needs to be a balanced person, cultivate all of these things.

00:46:13.580 Similar to the answer to Nick.

00:46:14.760 Although you, Camille, I think are probably a far more upstanding individual than Nick.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 23, 2021

Ep. 812 - Helter-Skelter Here Again

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