The Michael Knowles Show - August 11, 2021


Ep. 819 - Sleazy Democrat Gave The Kiss of Death


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I m sick of wearing a mask. I m tired of having to wear one. Chet Hanks has a plan to fix that problem. And he s running for president, and he s doing it the right way.

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00:00:00.000 I know it's early. I know that lots can change before 2024, but I think as of right now,
00:00:05.660 I have got a candidate. This man is saying all the right things. He's seeing things clearly,
00:00:11.560 and he is more in touch with the American people than the entire ruling class.
00:00:16.280 And that man's name is Chet Hanks. So I'm just checking in. Look, I've been kind of on the fence
00:00:23.180 about this for a while. That's why I've never spoke on it. But with the amount of people that
00:00:27.000 I know recently that have gotten COVID and with the numbers rising, I think it's important
00:00:31.480 for me to say, I got the vaccine. I think everybody should. I think it's really important
00:00:39.020 that we all do this just as citizens, as Americans. We have to look out for each other and get this
00:00:43.460 under control, guys. So I suggest to all my followers, you guys make, set an appointment
00:00:48.060 and get the vaccine first thing. Psych! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I never had COVID.
00:00:54.800 You ain't sticking me with that mother f***ing needle. It's the mother f***ing flu. Get over 0.95
00:00:59.720 it, okay? If you're sick, stay inside. I'm tired of having, okay? Why are we working around y'all?
00:01:04.880 If y'all, if you're in danger, stay your a** inside. I'm tired of wearing a mother f***ing mask.
00:01:11.060 Brilliant, articulate, so on the money. I love imagining that that man is Tom Hanks' son. He
00:01:18.180 actually is Tom Hanks' son. There's much more to dig into in Chet Hanks' political philosophy.
00:01:22.700 But for those who doubt that Chet could be president, keep in mind that he now has a much,
00:01:27.080 much better chance of becoming president than Andrew Cuomo, who resigned yesterday in disgrace
00:01:31.760 for all of the wrong reasons, but he's still gone. Republicans can chalk it up as a win,
00:01:36.500 but make no mistake, the liberal establishment still has all the power. I'm Michael Knowles. This
00:01:41.000 Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from OSU
00:01:52.120 Formulator, who says, if anyone asks me why I'm not masked up, I'm going to tell them I'm still
00:01:57.300 celebrating Obama's birthday. That's a great, that's a great excuse. It's hard to argue with
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00:03:26.180 there are other things we have to get to, but I can't tell you how much I enjoy not only the fact
00:03:33.060 that he's Tom Hanks' son, but the sorts of things he's saying. So Tom Hanks, very famously, very liberal
00:03:37.340 actor, friends with Obama, very pro-public health bureaucracy, the list goes on and on. And Chet
00:03:46.160 is not. So Chet also, after he posted his rant about COVID, posted another one after he left
00:03:54.100 a Barnes & Noble where they told him to pull up his mask.
00:03:56.980 So sick of this mask, dude. Clipping Barnes & Noble, buying books. Check out. My mask
00:04:03.340 slips like a little millimeter past my nostril. Oh, sir, you gotta have your mask. Oh, yeah,
00:04:06.680 my bad, my bad. Slips down again. Sir, your mask. Oh, okay, my bad. I'm like, I go, I go,
00:04:13.160 you're really on it, huh? He goes, yeah, we are. Okay. He's like, did you get the vaccine?
00:04:18.880 I'm like, yeah, yeah, for sure. I got the vaccine. Psych! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I've never
00:04:24.080 had COVID. So the crazy thing about these Chet Hanks videos is that he has more credibility than
00:04:32.200 Dr. Fauci because Chet Hanks uses some salty language and he speaks in a way that's kind of
00:04:37.260 vulgar, but he hasn't gotten everything wrong about COVID. I'm not making any, listen, YouTube
00:04:45.060 overlords. I'm not making any comment on the vaccines. I'm just saying that what we know from
00:04:49.920 Dr. Fauci is that he has gotten things wrong and wrong and wrong again. What we know from the liberal
00:04:56.780 establishment broadly is not only have they gotten things wrong, but they've actively misled us on
00:05:01.740 multiple occasions. Dr. Fauci admitted this when he told us not to wear the masks and he said we have
00:05:06.460 to wear the mask and he only told us not to wear the masks because he wanted to save the mask for his
00:05:09.620 buddies. So Chet Hanks, I think representing something that we saw come up with Trump,
00:05:15.860 we've seen bubble up a lot of times in American politics, which is that people who don't use the
00:05:22.060 jargon, who don't go along with the narrative, who don't do what all of the elite institutions tell us
00:05:26.960 to do, those people seem to have their finger on the pulse of the people and of reality a lot better.
00:05:33.660 And he may or may not become president, but Andrew Cuomo certainly, certainly is not looking
00:05:38.860 likely to be the next president. LoveGov has resigned. Andrew Cuomo doesn't quite admit that
00:05:46.800 he was wrong, doesn't actually say he was sorry for anything, but does say that he will resign
00:05:50.920 in the next two weeks. Wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be
00:05:59.080 doing. And I cannot be the cause of that. New York tough means New York loving. And I love New York
00:06:11.520 and I love you and everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love.
00:06:20.240 We're going to pause it right there. Just as a general rule in politics, if you are resigning over
00:06:26.680 a sex scandal, you might want to minimize the love talk. The love talk is not serving your cause
00:06:33.560 very well, especially when Andrew Cuomo does it in this very bizarre sort of bulldog-ish Cuomo-esque
00:06:41.800 wave. I love you. I love, I love my love made me love. So Andrew Cuomo goes on and on about the love
00:06:49.660 thing. But then he finally gets to the point. Namely, he's out. And I would never want to be
00:06:54.980 unhelpful in any way. And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now
00:07:03.580 is if I step aside and let government get back to governing. And therefore, that's what I'll do.
00:07:11.460 Because I work for you. And doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. Because as we say,
00:07:23.400 it's not about me. It's about we. It's not about me. It's about we. Okay. I am, I would say 15%
00:07:32.380 surprised that Andrew Cuomo actually stepped down. I said it months and months ago when he was first in
00:07:37.700 trouble for this sex scandal, which was really just an excuse to get him out after he had lost
00:07:41.800 the confidence of Democrats from the COVID scandal, which was just one of the many scandals that has
00:07:46.340 plagued his administration. And the Cuomo family has dominated New York politics now for three,
00:07:50.860 four decades. Andrew Cuomo is one of the toughest politicians out there. This guy has survived much
00:07:58.380 worse than this. And so the reason that he is resigning now is not because he winked at his
00:08:02.840 secretary or any of the other things that he's accused of. The reason he's resigning now is because
00:08:06.800 he has no longer any use to the Democrat establishment. During the lockdowns and the
00:08:12.200 height of 2020, Andrew Cuomo was a good foil for Donald Trump. He was this tough, brash New Yorker,
00:08:19.140 right? He was sort of the anti-Trump. But then, now that Trump is gone, Andrew Cuomo doesn't serve
00:08:24.460 any purpose. He's actually a big liability. Not just because he got a little grab happy with the
00:08:29.500 staffers, but because he killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers and then covered it up from the
00:08:33.840 federal government when there was a DOJ investigation. So Andrew Cuomo is out now.
00:08:39.800 We can chalk it up as a win, but I think that we would be foolish to pretend as though this is a
00:08:45.680 major conservative victory. This is the liberal establishment moving the pieces around on the
00:08:50.360 table as it sees fit. And if Andrew Cuomo were still of any use to them, they would not have done
00:08:55.460 that. By the way, you're not going to hear any sort of apologies from the many, many people who lauded
00:09:03.160 Cuomo and praised him to no end during 2020 and gave him Emmys and gave him their devotion and
00:09:12.420 even described themselves as Cuomosexuals, like people such as Trevor Noah, the host of The Daily
00:09:19.060 Show. The one governor who's crushing it the most right now is Andrew Cuomo. Yes. Thanks to his
00:09:24.800 handling. His approval rating has soared to a seven-year high and he's even becoming something
00:09:33.200 of a crush for many people. Yeah. People online are falling in love with him. I'm not going to lie.
00:09:39.900 Those people include me. My Tinder profile now lists me as a Cuomo sexual. A Cuomo sexual. There are all
00:09:46.680 sorts of social media influencers just writing these, these odes, these, these romantic ballads to
00:09:54.080 Andrew Cuomo. And what was the reality? The reality was he was the, maybe the worst governor in the
00:10:02.340 country in terms of his handling of COVID. He was one of the worst governors in the country in terms of
00:10:08.440 his handling of his staff, notably his female staff. Everything we were told about this guy,
00:10:13.640 like totally competent on COVID, a hero, New York tough. He was a, he's a feminist. He stands up
00:10:20.160 for women. All of it turned out to be a lie. And we were told this by the entertainment establishment,
00:10:26.920 guys like Trevor Noah. We were told this by the news media establishment. For goodness sakes,
00:10:31.400 Cuomo's brother hosted a show on CNN. I was going to say it's a major show on CNN,
00:10:35.160 but no show is a major show on CNN. Still, it was one of their bigger shows. And he was bringing on
00:10:40.940 Andrew Cuomo to, to joke about how, how he didn't call his mother enough. And then they yucked it up
00:10:46.060 a little bit and he, and he went into his earnest voice and Fredo said, Andrew, you're doing a
00:10:50.840 wonderful job, brother. I'm so, and he wasn't none, none of this was true. It was all a lie. And now
00:10:56.040 people wonder why none of us trust the media establishment, the scientific establishment,
00:11:03.240 the political establishment. This sort of thing is not just on the fringes. It's not just people like
00:11:08.720 Trevor Noah. This sort of thing went all the way up to the top. Joe Biden was lauding Andrew Cuomo
00:11:17.320 during the entirety of 2020 while Joe Biden was running for president. And now that Joe Biden
00:11:22.840 is the president, even after this wild scandal, the nursing home and the sex stuff, Joe Biden is still
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00:12:41.760 for 20% off plus free shipping. Even after the announcement of the resignation, even after the
00:12:49.680 attorney general report showing that Andrew Cuomo got very grab happy, even after the DOJ investigation
00:12:55.760 of Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden says, as governor, Cuomo did a hell of a job.
00:13:01.860 One of the Democrats through the years that you spoke with about infrastructure the most
00:13:07.240 was Andrew Cuomo, who is resigning when Nancy's resigning today. You had traveled New York with
00:13:12.200 him when you were vice president to the launch of the reconstruction of LaGuardia. He was someone
00:13:17.380 who supported your campaign early on. Know you calling him to resign. Know you condemned the
00:13:22.820 alleged behavior. But you're someone who spends a lot of time with mayors and governors. How would
00:13:27.640 you assess his 10 and a half years as governor of the state? In terms of his personal behavior or
00:13:34.140 what he's done as a governor? What he's done as a governor. I thought he's done a hell of a job.
00:13:38.960 I thought he's done a hell of a job. And I mean, both on everything from access to voting,
00:13:46.160 to infrastructure, to a whole range of things. That's why it's so sad.
00:13:50.980 I have to say that on one point, I do agree with Joe Biden here. Andrew Cuomo did a hell of a job as
00:13:58.300 governor. Emphasis here, of course, is on the word hell. I was a constituent of Andrew Cuomo's.
00:14:04.980 I have met Andrew Cuomo on multiple occasions. I'm a native New Yorker. I was Andrew Cuomo's waiter once
00:14:12.380 at a restaurant when I was working at a restaurant in high school. I ran into Andrew Cuomo during
00:14:16.820 Hurricane Sandy, actually, because my pals and I walked out with cigars during the hurricane,
00:14:21.020 literally bumped into Governor Cuomo then. He wasn't the worst governor in the history of New
00:14:26.600 York, but he was pretty bad. He pushed for an abortion law that would legalize abortion up until
00:14:33.820 the moment of birth. A huge liberalization of abortion laws. And it wasn't enough just that he did
00:14:41.400 that. He then celebrated that by lighting up the Freedom Tower in pink to celebrate this wonderful
00:14:48.300 thing that he was going to kill a lot more little baby girls. Isn't that wonderful? Isn't that a win 1.00
00:14:51.500 for women? This guy, an absolute knuckle dragging, moral idiot, scandal ridden, corrupt, did a hell of
00:15:00.300 a job. And still, the liberal establishment, even as they show him the curtains, even as they say,
00:15:06.760 buddy, time to get off the stage. Even still, they defend him. They are going softer right now on
00:15:12.860 Andrew Cuomo, one of the worst, if not the worst governor in the country than they are on Ron DeSantis,
00:15:19.900 the best governor in the country. Not just because he never winked at his secretary, not just because
00:15:24.620 he never got grab happy with the staff, but because he did better on coronavirus than any other
00:15:30.140 governor in the country. And he pursued the opposite policies than we saw from, certainly
00:15:36.180 from Andrew Cuomo or from Gavin Newsom or anyone else. And yet still, Cuomo gets the pat on the head
00:15:43.460 and DeSantis does not. Actually, the federal government appears to be actively lying about
00:15:47.740 Governor DeSantis' record. The CDC is reporting, you know the CDC, that agency with so much credibility
00:15:54.920 after the last 18 months. The CDC is reporting that there were 28,317 new cases of the coronavirus
00:16:02.640 in Florida on Sunday. This would mark the most confirmed infections in one day in the state
00:16:09.720 since the beginning of the 15 days to slow the spread, 15 days that has turned into a year and a
00:16:15.700 half. Now, notice here that the number is on new cases. The reason that it's on new cases rather than
00:16:22.980 new hospitalizations or new deaths from coronavirus is because those numbers, the numbers that actually
00:16:28.040 matter, have plummeted basically to nothing. Whereas new cases, what does that matter?
00:16:34.520 Especially when so many people are vaccinated and allegedly the vaccine causes, you know,
00:16:39.340 one to be protected from the severest symptoms. When the death rate is very, very low, they have to
00:16:44.680 move on to keep everybody in fear, to keep everybody continuing to comply with their draconian measures.
00:16:49.700 But even that turns out to be a lie because the Florida Department of Health just came out
00:16:55.480 and says that actually there were only 15,319 cases on Sunday and that the three-day average is
00:17:04.020 18,795. That's 10,000 cases fewer than, in the case of Sunday, more than 10,000 cases fewer
00:17:12.600 than the CDC is noting. Do you think, is this just an error, whoopsie-daisy, another clerical error?
00:17:20.000 Or is this part of a broader pattern of lies and obfuscation and deception and misleading to keep us
00:17:28.560 all locked up forever? So it was the 15 days to, first of all, it was to flatten the curve.
00:17:33.220 Then it was 15 days to slow the spread. Then it was to find a cure. Then it was to get everybody
00:17:39.320 vaccinated. Now it is to stop the delta. Then it's going to be to stop the lambda. They're already
00:17:45.860 talking about the lambda and the sigma and the phi beta kappa and the SIGAP and the delta kappa
00:17:52.160 epsilon. It's going to go on forever and ever and ever unless we stop it. Unless, now some people
00:17:59.020 are standing up to stop it. There is actually some good news in politics. You know, there's so rarely
00:18:04.600 good news these days for conservatives, but there is some potential good news. Namely,
00:18:10.500 Gavin Newsom may end up being recalled. Gavin Newsom, Governor Bateman, new Salini over there
00:18:16.160 in my former state of California, is facing the election of his life. This was even as of a couple
00:18:23.320 of weeks ago, the voters were basically evenly split on the recall effort. Don't forget, first,
00:18:29.720 there's going to be a vote of whether or not to recall Gavin Newsom or not. That's just a yes or no
00:18:34.060 vote. And then if he is recalled, the candidate with the most votes will be the next governor
00:18:40.400 of California. So you'll remember a couple of weeks ago, there was a poll out. It said it was
00:18:45.440 about evenly split. You haven't heard very many poll numbers since then. One wonders if that is
00:18:51.000 in part because the numbers are getting even worse for Gavin Newsom. And you know, the Democrats are
00:18:54.480 going to try to pull a lot of shenanigans in terms of voter fraud. California is one of the worst 0.63
00:18:58.680 states because they have so few election integrity measures. They have motor voter laws. So you just get
00:19:03.480 signed up to vote when you're at the DMV. This opens the door to lots of illegal aliens, 0.99
00:19:08.740 for instance, being registered to vote. And obviously, California is a huge problem with
00:19:12.240 illegal aliens. It's not a problem for the Democrats. It's actually part of the strategy.
00:19:16.900 California's got a big problem with ballot harvesting. And now California has this problem
00:19:20.960 with widespread mail-in ballots. So it's not even enough just to register to vote in another state.
00:19:25.820 It may even be the case in California. And I've heard this from multiple of my coworkers even,
00:19:31.160 that they will still have ballots mailed to their homes even after they've moved out of California.
00:19:37.980 So what's going to happen to those ballots? Are they secure? No, obviously not. And their ballot
00:19:41.620 drop-off, so you don't even need to prove who you are. So the Democrats, I think, are counting on all
00:19:45.980 of these shenanigans to still maintain control of the state. But if they can't do it, if Gavin
00:19:51.880 Newsom does get recalled, Larry Elder may end up being the governor of California. Larry Elder,
00:19:58.580 many of you know, a very well-known conservative radio host. He's been on lots of TV shows.
00:20:04.640 He's been on my show. I've been on his show. He's pretty conservative. He's a little bit libertarian.
00:20:11.440 He's a little more libertarian, certainly, than I am. I think probably Attila the Hun is more
00:20:16.480 libertarian than I am. But Larry Elder is a very strong candidate, and he would be a huge,
00:20:22.780 huge improvement over Gavin Newsom. And right now, he is way out-raising. He is way out-polling the
00:20:29.560 other GOP candidates. So the other candidates, as you'll recall, are Kevin Faulconer, who is down in
00:20:35.020 San Diego, John Cox, who lost pretty badly to Gavin Newsom last time, and Caitlyn Jenner. Bruce
00:20:41.900 Jenner is running. He says that he has no loyalty to Trump or to the Republican Party,
00:20:46.420 and his real loyalty is only to LGBT, with an emphasis on the T. So not the greatest Republican
00:20:52.960 candidate probably ever. But it doesn't really matter, because no matter how the votes would
00:20:58.180 be divvied up, the top guy is going to become the governor. This is why, I think, the California GOP
00:21:04.400 is choosing not to endorse in this race. It's probably not the worst thing in the world. So
00:21:09.740 of the candidates here, you've got Larry Elder, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, and then
00:21:14.140 Kevin Faulconer, a few other people. This is a big help to Kevin Faulconer, for instance,
00:21:19.640 who is not polling very well. He's not raising a lot of money. But I do think it was the right
00:21:25.380 decision for the California GOP not to endorse a candidate here. Because the argument from the
00:21:29.800 California GOP is, if they endorse a candidate, then it's going to turn off the voters who otherwise
00:21:34.280 would show up to endorse or to vote against Gavin Newsom. So it really doesn't matter. It's not as
00:21:40.780 though the recall candidate has to get more than 50 percent of the vote. They just need to be the
00:21:44.880 top person. So if I were Gavin Newsom, I would be very, very nervous right now. And you can see it.
00:21:52.600 There are actually some clips of him going around. We'll get them on the show in the next few days
00:21:56.640 of him talking to reporters where he's just losing it. He's really totally falling into his sort of
00:22:02.560 American psycho, you know, slicked back hair. You're starting to see a crack to this otherwise
00:22:07.100 very well put together facade. And there's other good news, by the way, for 2022 and 2024.
00:22:12.380 There are some Republican candidates out there who are, they're ditching the old stale slogans of the
00:22:19.920 last 15, 20 years of Republican politics, which have just represented loss after loss after loss.
00:22:25.740 You saw this begin to happen with Donald Trump. Then you see this with some other candidates.
00:22:31.000 You've got J.D. Vance, who is the author of Hillbilly Elegy. He's running in Ohio. He's
00:22:35.480 really contradicting the GOP's agenda on, for instance, shilling for big corporations that hate
00:22:40.280 our guts. Now you've got a candidate, Blake Masters in Arizona running for Senate, who's
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00:24:51.420 We'll be right back with a lot more. You've heard a lot about critical race theory over the past few
00:25:08.000 weeks and critical race theory is this ridiculous academic movement that derives from the school of
00:25:14.640 Western Marxists and critical theory. And it questions not just the idea that we all ought to
00:25:20.340 be treated fairly and equally, but it questions whether or not there is even objective reality
00:25:26.240 itself, objective truth itself, or if it's all a social construction of the white supremacist,
00:25:31.720 patriarchal, this, that, and the other thing. A lot of what it comes down to though is simpler than that.
00:25:38.160 It's kind of why I opened the show with Chet Hanks because Chet Hanks might talk a little bit rough,
00:25:43.580 but he's saying, I think, what a lot of people feel. When we talk about critical race theory,
00:25:49.760 very often what we're just talking about is people being made to feel bad for being white,
00:25:55.120 people being made to feel bad for the color of their skin, being told that if you have this color
00:25:58.700 skin, you're good. And if you have this color skin, you're bad and you can never fix it. And it's, 1.00
00:26:03.200 you're irredeemable and deplorable and all the other words that we've heard conservatives referred
00:26:06.620 to over the years. And by the way, even if you're black, but you support conservatives,
00:26:10.820 you are laboring under a false consciousness. You're a mental slave. You are,
00:26:15.740 you are upholding the white supremacy and the patriarchy. There's one candidate in Arizona
00:26:21.740 who's calling it out. He's saying, you know, this is anti-white racism. It's no better than
00:26:25.680 any other kind of racism. And we've got to get rid of it. That man's name,
00:26:29.180 Blake Masters in Arizona.
00:26:30.980 Where do these crazy ideas come from? How could you possibly believe this stuff?
00:26:35.380 Well, unfortunately it all goes back to the schools. Too much of schooling in America
00:26:41.120 has become a machine to uproot common sense and to replace it with something much more sinister.
00:26:48.500 You've heard of critical race theory, I assume at this point, right? Conservatives are up in arms
00:26:52.680 about it. And rightfully so. It sounds academic. It sounds fancy. It's not. All it does is teach kids
00:27:02.200 to identify in racial terms, right? You are good or bad depending on what you look like.
00:27:09.280 At this point, it is straight up anti-white racism. I don't think we're allowed to say that,
00:27:14.960 but let's call it what it is. It is toxic and it does not belong in our schools.
00:27:19.120 I love it. I like how plainly he's speaking. People are going to call him and J.D. Vance and
00:27:24.880 other people anti-intellectual. They're rubes. They're idiots. They're uneducated. First of all,
00:27:31.020 these are extremely intelligent, well-educated people who've had very successful careers who have,
00:27:35.540 but what they're doing that is unforgivable is they are contradicting the dominant narrative.
00:27:41.680 So if you say that a man can be a woman and a baby's not a baby, you're a genius, you're educated,
00:27:45.940 you're smart, you use all this smart jargon. If you say that it's wrong to make people feel bad
00:27:50.900 for being white or any other race, then you're an idiot and you're dumb. And I think the candidates
00:27:56.120 who are going to be most exciting, the candidates who are going to be most successful
00:27:59.200 in the future are going to be the ones who eschew this sort of silly jargon and all the platitudes
00:28:05.800 that are typical of the last couple of decades of politics. And they just get right to the heart
00:28:11.580 of the issue. What he said there is very telling. He said, I'm not sure if we're allowed to say that.
00:28:17.200 And that's going to be a big issue too, because who determines what we are allowed to say and what
00:28:23.340 we are not allowed to say is not just we the people. It's not just the standards that we have
00:28:29.420 in our society. It's not just the taboos that we choose to live under. It's a handful of billionaire
00:28:34.200 oligarchs in Silicon Valley led by hipster Rasputin Jack Dorsey, who, you know, he's got the smallest 0.96
00:28:41.020 platform, but it's got a lot of influence because of all of the journalists that are on it.
00:28:45.080 And it's Mark Zuckerberg and it's Sundar Pichai at Google. And they are pushing this stuff.
00:28:50.760 They are actively promoting this and they are actively suppressing
00:28:54.280 other voices like Rand Paul. Before we get to Rand Paul, I just want to point out
00:29:00.840 how radical this CRT stuff really is. There's a Princeton course right now. It just went to
00:29:07.960 Princeton University, one of the most elite, prestigious universities in the country.
00:29:13.040 They're featuring a course on Black Lives Matter. Now, the seminar will trace the historical roots of
00:29:20.480 the Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States and comparative global contexts.
00:29:25.120 Okay. Now, right there, if that's all the course did, I wouldn't have that much of a problem with it.
00:29:30.740 BLM is an important movement. It has an interesting intellectual history. I actually talk about it at
00:29:36.300 some length in my recent book, Speechless. So sure, let's explore. I'm all about exploring all of
00:29:42.100 these things and learning about what they mean, but that's not what the course is doing.
00:29:44.600 The course is pushing the BLM agenda. The movement and the course are committed to 0.89
00:29:50.560 resisting, unveiling, and undoing histories of state-sanctioned violence against black and brown
00:29:56.860 bodies. I guess it's not violence against their souls. It's just their bodies. That's the leftist
00:30:01.920 jargon. The course seeks to document the forms of dispossession that black Americans face and offers
00:30:06.220 a critical examination of the prison industrial complex, police brutality, urban poverty, and white
00:30:10.600 supremacy in the United States. So the course is taking the position of Black Lives Matter and then 0.98
00:30:14.960 indoctrinating students into its outrageous anti-American Marxist incorrect views. The course will
00:30:21.200 feature writings from Angela Davis. Angela Davis is a communist terrorist who's associated with the
00:30:26.800 kidnapping of a federal judge. The issue is not with the reading. The issue is not with the books or the
00:30:33.880 subject matter. It's with the perspective. Okay. And I think this shows the weakness of what has
00:30:40.000 become a kind of, quote unquote, conservative position over the last decade, which is, we'll
00:30:45.160 often say, you know, that we're defenders of academic freedom, meaning you can teach whatever
00:30:49.400 you want in the classroom, even though really that only ever seems to redound to the benefit of the
00:30:53.980 left. Or the idea that we don't want to indoctrinate students. We want to educate students and that the
00:30:58.280 teachers need to be totally neutral. Education cannot be totally neutral. You need to teach, in order to
00:31:04.060 teach anything, you need to teach that some things are true and other things are false. Some things are good
00:31:07.920 and other things are bad and some things are right and other things are wrong. So you actually do need
00:31:11.360 to take a stand. William F. Buckley Jr. launched the conservative, the modern conservative movement
00:31:15.860 with a book called God and Man at Yale that made fun of this ridiculous idea of neutrality that
00:31:20.460 actually said we need to take a stand on some of these issues. If we're going to teach a course on BLM,
00:31:26.640 we are going to have to have some perspective on it. Either that it's a terrible, no good, rotten
00:31:31.000 organization, or that it's not so great, but it comes here are the reasons that it's developed,
00:31:36.080 or that it's a good organization and it's really great and it's all of its claims are true. But you
00:31:40.040 are going to have to take some perspective on it. And I think the reason conservatives lose is because
00:31:44.120 we don't recognize that and the left recognizes it pretty well. But it is having effects. When things
00:31:49.960 are echoing around the halls of Princeton or Harvard or Yale or Hollywood Studios or the halls of
00:31:57.700 government or any of these elite institutions, they reverberate out into the broader world. So
00:32:03.520 recently you've just seen Simone Biles, who is not particularly educated, though she is 0.85
00:32:08.880 apparently a very accomplished athlete. I've never watched her. I didn't know who she was until two
00:32:13.860 weeks ago. I don't really watch the Olympics, not my cup of tea, but I've been told she's a good
00:32:17.900 athlete. And I really don't have any opinion about her athletics. I have an opinion about how she 0.59
00:32:23.760 doesn't care enough about her country to recognize that appearing at the Olympics is not just about 0.97
00:32:28.640 her. It's about representing America and who has to recognize that she is there not just for herself,
00:32:37.300 but for the broader community. Well, Simone Biles proved me right because she just came out as very
00:32:43.500 pro-abortion. Simone Biles just wrote, quote, I already know that this is going to start the biggest
00:32:48.980 argument and may even lose followers, but I'm very much pro-choice. Your body, your choice. Also for
00:32:55.340 everyone going to say, put it up for adoption. It's not that easy. And coming from someone who
00:32:59.040 is in the foster care system, trust me, the foster care system is broken and it's tough,
00:33:03.160 especially on the kids and young adults who age out. And adoption is expensive, I'm just saying.
00:33:08.000 So I want to be as charitable to Simone Biles as I can. My impulse is to not be charitable to Simone
00:33:15.200 Biles, but I actually do want to be charitable to her here. She has heard all of this stuff
00:33:19.800 from every elite institution in the country for her entire life. Okay. And she did come from tough
00:33:24.920 circumstances. Her parents were apparently not particularly supportive. She was in the foster
00:33:30.320 care system, though she actually did get out of the foster care system pretty quickly. She was there
00:33:34.380 until about the age of three. And then her grandfather found out about this and started to
00:33:39.100 take care of her a little bit. And he officially adopted her at the age of six. And then obviously,
00:33:43.000 you know, she's had this great, great athletic career. So one of the problems with her argument
00:33:47.760 is she's saying, yeah, look, I overcame this thing, but other people shouldn't have that
00:33:52.860 opportunity. Yeah, I, you know, I underwent some amount of suffering and that's fine by me. And
00:33:58.660 obviously I'm one of the most celebrated athletes in the world now, but other people, it's going to
00:34:02.260 be too tough for them. So just kill them, just kill them in the womb. Well, yeah, I guess you could, 1.00
00:34:06.940 you could just put the baby up for adoption, but you know, adoption is expensive. First of all,
00:34:10.540 I don't even know what that means. There were 32 couples for every baby that is, 32 couples who want to
00:34:17.380 adopt for every one baby who has put up for adoption in the United States. So I guess it's
00:34:21.500 expensive in the sense that you've got to continue to, you know, make sure you go to doctors and eat
00:34:25.860 right while you're pregnant. But that's not, not a huge expense. It's an inconvenience, but the
00:34:31.120 alternative is killing the baby. What this woman's opinions are derived from a broader culture. I don't 1.00
00:34:40.820 think it derives from a deep study of abortion. I don't think it derives from a deep study of how,
00:34:46.880 of gestation and how babies are made or biology or philosophy or theology. It derives from the
00:34:51.700 culture. And so I think a lot of people are going to have that opinion. You, you hear this a lot
00:34:54.860 actually. Oh, you know, foster care system is bad. Oh, there's so many kids who are unwanted. Oh,
00:34:58.580 there was an argument made in Freakonomics that actually, you know, these kids, because they're in
00:35:01.940 bad circumstances, they'll go on and commit crime. And so, you know, you don't want to have crime. So
00:35:05.560 let's just kill them in the womb. These are hideous, vile, ugly arguments,
00:35:09.340 but because they're protected by the culture, they go on and on and on. And so it's incumbent
00:35:14.760 upon us to be able to get into those institutions, wield that political power, and then, and then
00:35:20.860 reshape them. Now, speaking of dubious medical advice, here's where we get to who really controls
00:35:26.020 the speech. Dr. Fauci comes out, the esteemed Dr. Fauci, high pontiff of progressivism, peace be upon
00:35:32.720 him. Dr. Fauci comes out and says, even after we've heard that there won't be vaccine mandates and we
00:35:39.020 shouldn't have vaccine mandates, he now thinks that vaccine mandates are good at least for teachers.
00:35:45.860 Dr. Fauci, do you agree with Randy Weingarten, the head of the largest teachers union in the
00:35:50.720 country who came out yesterday and said, yes, teachers should be vaccinated inside schools.
00:35:56.020 Do you think they should be mandated to be vaccinated?
00:35:58.360 Yeah, I'm going to upset some people on this, but I think we should. I mean, we are in a critical
00:36:04.800 situation now. We've had 615,000 plus deaths and we are in a major surge now as we're going into the
00:36:14.320 fall, into the school season. This is very serious business. You would wish that people would see why
00:36:21.700 it's so important to get vaccinated. But you're not going to get mandates centrally from the federal
00:36:28.020 government. But when you're talking about local mandates, mandates for schools, for teachers,
00:36:33.940 for universities, for colleges, I'm sorry. I mean, I know people must like to have their individual
00:36:40.100 freedom and not be told to do something. But I think we're in such a serious situation now
00:36:45.940 that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done. You can hear the contempt and the disdain
00:36:54.120 just dribbling out of his mouth. Look, I understand that all you filthy, disgusting pros like your
00:37:01.220 freedom and your liberty. But that's all well and good unless you contradict good old Dr. Fauci.
00:37:09.960 Then you're going to get in line. Now, what he's doing here, I think, is a little bit of a
00:37:14.100 misdirection, by the way. It's a little bit of a straw man. Yes, we would like our liberty,
00:37:19.620 not just in the sort of narrow sense of individual liberty, not to have a mask or
00:37:23.140 shoot up something into our arm that we don't want, but the political liberty to make those
00:37:28.200 decisions. Why is this unelected bureaucrat who's been serving for what, like five presidents at this
00:37:33.540 point, presidents come and go, Fauci remains. Why is this guy making all these decisions? Why don't
00:37:39.620 we have a say in this self-government? And even beyond that, even beyond the question of
00:37:44.380 the political liberty, is the question of prudence and credibility. Why can we not say,
00:37:50.580 hey, look, actually for huge numbers of people, the virus is not particularly lethal. For some
00:37:56.000 people, perhaps it is, but for others, it's not. And this drug has not been approved by the FDA.
00:38:00.780 It's got an emergency use authorization, but it doesn't have a full approval. And so using our
00:38:04.340 faculties of judgment, we just don't think that a mandate, why are you not allowed to say that?
00:38:07.740 Because it contradicts the whims of Dr. Fauci and that guy has got all the power.
00:38:14.300 But you can't question Dr. Fauci. You cannot question Dr. Fauci or the liberal establishment
00:38:21.320 or any of these other elite institutions. Even if you are a medical doctor, even if you are a medical
00:38:28.820 doctor who is a United States Senator, Dr. Rand Paul, Dr. Senator Rand Paul posted a video
00:38:37.680 in which he questioned the efficacy and the safety of masks. As some people have,
00:38:45.960 no, I would never do that. Do you hear that, YouTube? I would never do that. But some people
00:38:50.680 have done that over the past year and a half, including Dr. Senator Rand Paul.
00:38:53.840 And some punk at YouTube who's never appeared on a ballot decided to delete the video from the big
00:39:03.080 tech platforms, which is the public square. These big tech guys even admit that it's the public square
00:39:08.640 now. So they delete the Rand Paul video. So then Rand Paul puts up a video about how his video about the
00:39:14.300 masks was deleted. And they deleted that video too. We managed to get a clip of it. Here he is.
00:39:19.360 Censorship by YouTube is very dangerous as it stifles debate and promotes groupthink where the truth
00:39:26.720 is defined by people with a political agenda. YouTube said the video violated their policy
00:39:32.380 because of my comments on masks and that they don't allow videos that contradict government's
00:39:37.780 guidance on COVID. YouTube may be a private entity, but they're acting like an arm of the government,
00:39:43.660 censoring those who present an alternative view to the science deniers in Washington.
00:39:48.080 People like Dr. Fauci who have lied to the American people time and time again about masks.
00:39:53.740 So YouTube says that the reason they took down, to see if you can figure out the flaw in YouTube's
00:39:58.940 reasoning. YouTube says that the reason they took down Senator Rand Paul's video about the masks
00:40:06.660 is because it contradicted the official narrative of the government on masks. Did you catch the little
00:40:15.720 fly? And they'll go further. They'll say the government's line on masks derives from the
00:40:22.160 scientists. So that's why they had to take down Dr. Senator Rand Paul. What YouTube is acknowledging
00:40:31.100 is something that is becoming clearer and clearer every day, which is that the government is not the
00:40:37.380 US Senate. The government is not the US House of Representatives. The government is not even the
00:40:42.200 president of the United States. The government is the blob. The government is the liberal establishment,
00:40:50.500 the sort of permanent state, the bureaucracy, the administrative agencies, the Fauci's in concert with
00:40:57.660 the big tech platforms and in concert with the media and in concert with the educational institutions.
00:41:04.540 That's why Donald Trump would be kicked off of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and every other
00:41:11.360 big social media platform. That's why these handful of oligarchs are able to censor the duly elected 1.00
00:41:16.820 sitting president of the United States. Boot him out of the public square because the president is not
00:41:23.020 the government and nor are the senators. You cannot question that sort of thing.
00:41:29.480 Don't forget, I actually had forgotten this until just last night.
00:41:36.740 Rand Paul is not the only person who's questioned the efficacy and the safety of the vaccines or the
00:41:40.660 efficacy and the safety or of the masks, rather, I suppose, in this case.
00:41:46.340 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both questioned the efficacy and the safety of the vaccines. They were
00:41:51.480 asked last year, will you get the vaccine? And they said, well, I'm not so sure. And Trumpy,
00:41:57.460 I don't know. I'm a little skeptical of Trump here. And I don't know if I would be willing to
00:42:01.320 take a Trump. They did it. They did the same thing that the conservatives are now being de-platformed
00:42:06.380 and ostracized for and cast into outer darkness. But when they do it, it doesn't matter. And when you
00:42:11.800 do it, it does matter. Because this is not about a principle and it's not about a rule. It's not about
00:42:16.980 the rule of law in our constitutional republic. It's about the whims and the caprices of the power-mad
00:42:23.140 bureaucrats and establishmentarians who have all of the power. Barack Obama's birthday party.
00:42:30.860 That's how we opened up the show with that comment. We say, you know, my opinion on masks is that I'm
00:42:35.440 still celebrating Barack Obama's birthday party. The people who flew to Barack Obama's birthday party,
00:42:41.260 I think, to a man, are deeply concerned about climate change. Climate change is the greatest
00:42:48.180 threat. The sun monster is going to kill us all. We just had, there was the code red from the United
00:42:51.980 Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just a few days ago. And yet, so many of them flew
00:42:57.840 private jets to the party. According to the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, traffic was very increased due to
00:43:04.300 the party, airport manager Jeffrey Freeman says. It very nearly put us beyond our capacity both for
00:43:12.940 fuel and for parking spacing. So if a Republican flies a private jet, that's a big problem. If a Democrat
00:43:17.620 flies a private jet, not a problem at all. If a Republican questions the masks, it's a
00:43:21.940 very big problem. You've got to be ostracized. If a Democrat questions the masks, that's speaking
00:43:25.760 truth to power. That's wonderful. Same thing goes for the vaccines. Republican questions that he's a
00:43:30.180 kook, threat to public health murderer. If a Democrat questions the vaccines, he's going to get elected 0.92
00:43:34.360 president and or elected vice president or both. This is the lack of credibility. You want to talk
00:43:40.980 talk about disbelief? You may have seen this story. Well, you probably didn't see this story because
00:43:46.960 you're an intelligent person who doesn't watch CNN all the time. But CNN viewers may have heard this
00:43:52.780 story. A single mother of three faced eviction unless the eviction moratorium could have gone back 0.62
00:44:02.880 into effect and been extended. And her name was Dasha Kelly. And CNN sent a reporter, Nick Watt,
00:44:08.740 to Kelly's home. They did a tour. They promoted Kelly's GoFundMe page, the single mother of three.
00:44:15.760 Representative Cori Bush pushed this story from CNN, a single mother of three, unless the Democrat 0.98
00:44:21.600 policy is extended. It was just all a lie. The woman is not a single mother of three. 0.97
00:44:29.820 She's not single. She's not a mother of anybody. It turns out she's dating a guy who has three kids
00:44:39.780 with another woman. She doesn't even live with the guy. And I guess she knows the kids, but the kids
00:44:45.200 don't live with her. It was all completely made up. It was a fiction to push a narrative. And CNN will
00:44:52.860 not face any consequences from this. And probably this woman won't face any. She'll probably just walk 1.00
00:44:58.420 away with the money. And nobody will. And it won't matter. And we can expose the lies and they'll still
00:45:04.320 have the power. And they'll still have the power. People are getting sick of it, I think. People want
00:45:10.260 to push back against that. People don't like it. But when will we be able to grab the power? When will
00:45:15.520 we be able to wield that power? Because right now, a handful of people are exercising all of that here
00:45:21.020 in the United States. And they're trying to make it harder and harder to oust them from office time 0.98
00:45:26.360 may be running out to do so. It's time for the Chet Hanks of the world to continue to speak up. It's
00:45:33.020 time to speak in plain language about the rank corruption all around us. I'm Michael Knowles.
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