The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 820 - Leftists Terminate Your Freedom

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00:00:37.660 As the Delta Sigma Phi Beta Kappa variant of the Wu flu reportedly rages around the country,

00:00:43.160 Democrat states and counties are turning the tyranny up to 11.

00:00:47.720 Even some prominent Republicans are joining the calls to get you masked, vaxxed, and locked back in your home,

00:00:55.240 including the governor, who does not think very highly of your freedom.

00:01:00.980 There is a virus here.

00:01:02.820 It kills people.

00:01:04.260 And the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing,

00:01:10.860 washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about,

00:01:14.800 well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.

00:01:17.940 No, screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities.

00:01:25.740 We cannot just say, I have the right to do X, Y, and Z, when you affect other people.

00:01:31.500 Quite an about face.

00:01:33.060 We've gone from, don't be a girly man, to wear your mask and hide in your home.

00:01:38.460 My Schwarzenegger's not that good.

00:01:39.460 Believe it or not, Schwarzenegger is actually moderate in his views compared to the rest of the world,

00:01:43.940 where some different countries' health officers are calling for an end to conversation in the name of saving lives.

00:01:51.860 Meanwhile, a federal judge tries to lock up Capitol rioters and throw away the key,

00:01:55.760 even as Minnesota Democrats celebrate the George Floyd arsonists.

00:02:00.800 Lots of people are going along with these new rules in the hopes of getting back to normal.

00:02:05.060 How long before they all realize this is the new normal?

00:02:08.420 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:09.140 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:09.940 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:17.720 My favorite comment yesterday is from Debra Gessner, who says, 1.00

00:02:21.360 We have now reached herd stupidity. 0.99

00:02:23.740 I'm glad that that has spread throughout. 1.00

00:02:25.880 Though, frankly, I actually don't think that the stupidity and the inanity and the neurotic aspect of this whole virus 0.99

00:02:34.960 is among the people so much as it is among the ruling class. 1.00

00:02:40.080 The ruling class are the ones pushing this. 0.57

00:02:41.520 I think people are pushing back against it, which is why you're seeing members of the ruling class come out and say,

00:02:45.840 Screw your freedom or don't have conversations with your neighbors.

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00:04:04.400 Arnold Schwarzenegger sort of has a point.

00:04:08.740 He sort of could have a point.

00:04:10.020 Let's put it that way.

00:04:10.840 When he says that with freedom comes responsibility.

00:04:13.800 Of course, nobody denies that.

00:04:15.380 With rights come duties and obligations.

00:04:17.260 Yeah, of course.

00:04:17.940 Does that mean that because there is a cough that's been going around the world, we need to lock people in their homes, out of their businesses, out of their churches, take away their civil liberties, and shut down travel, shut down Christmas, shut down Thanksgiving, shut down conversation among your neighbors.

00:04:37.100 I don't think so.

00:04:38.040 That seems to be a step too far.

00:04:40.000 But that is the line.

00:04:41.320 He is articulating.

00:04:42.300 And don't forget, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a moderate Republican.

00:04:44.440 He's not even a far leftist.

00:04:46.180 And Arnold Schwarzenegger is articulating the excuse that the ruling class has relied on since the beginning of this lockdown.

00:04:53.260 Namely, in the name of public health, we can do whatever we want.

00:04:58.360 And this is being taken to an even crazier extreme, not among the Austrians like Schwarzenegger, but among the Australians. 0.99

00:05:03.960 Australia's chief health officer, Dr. Carrie Chant, has a message for anyone who has the audacity to leave their homes to, I don't know, go grocery shopping or something like that. 0.86

00:05:17.700 Namely, keep your mouth shut.

00:05:19.440 We all need to work together.

00:05:23.180 We need to limit our movements.

00:05:27.260 We need to consider, whenever we leave our house, that anyone with us, anyone we come into contact with, could convey the virus.

00:05:38.340 So, whilst it is a human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately, this is not the time to do that.

00:05:50.860 So, even if you run into your next door neighbour, in the shopping centre, in the Coles, whilst you're at Coles Awards, or Aldi, or any other grocery shop, don't start up a conversation.

00:06:03.680 Now is the time for minimising your interactions with others.

00:06:07.980 Even if you've got a mask, do not think that affords total protection.

00:06:12.740 We want to be absolutely sure that as we go about our daily lives, we do not come into contact with anyone else that would pose a risk.

00:06:21.160 Do you get it yet?

00:06:22.640 Do you get what this is really about?

00:06:24.340 I suspect you do get what this is really about.

00:06:26.540 I suspect if you're listening to this program, you've known what this is about since the beginning.

00:06:30.360 But I think a lot of people have not.

00:06:32.240 From the beginning, many of us said, this is not about a virus.

00:06:36.720 This is not about the unique, once-in-a-millennium global health threat.

00:06:41.200 This is a political power grab to shut people up, isolate people, and to take away their way of life and their rights.

00:06:48.800 It's literally, the symbol of the pandemic is a muzzle that you put over your mouth.

00:06:54.420 And if you in any way contradict the liberal establishment narrative, you'll be ostracized.

00:06:58.980 You'll be kicked out of the public square.

00:07:00.520 You will be deplatformed.

00:07:01.580 You'll be suspended from social media accounts.

00:07:03.540 You will not be permitted to espouse these sorts of views in public.

00:07:08.260 Now, what this woman is saying in Australia is, yes, yes, the muzzle is not just about keeping the variants and the virus.

00:07:17.700 It's actually about shutting you up, about keeping you quiet.

00:07:20.880 But from the beginning of the lockdown, I think there were well-intentioned and naive people who believed that if we just, if we just go along with it, if we just compromise a little bit on our rights and our way of life and going to church and having our businesses, if we just give them, okay, we'll just wear the masks.

00:07:38.380 Okay, well, maybe we'll just get the shot.

00:07:41.080 Okay, maybe we'll just do this.

00:07:42.300 We'll do that.

00:07:42.940 That that would be a way to go back to normal.

00:07:45.980 And what I said from the very beginning and what a lot of us said from the very beginning is, no, it's actually the opposite.

00:07:53.840 Wearing the masks in public is not going to convince people to go back to normal.

00:07:58.160 It's going to do the opposite.

00:07:59.220 It's going to convince people that this is a once in a millennium, insane, terrifying, most dangerous event you've ever seen.

00:08:06.560 And so we can't go back to normal.

00:08:08.460 When you see your neighbors running around like banditos, that does not tell you things are normal.

00:08:13.460 That tells you that things are quite extraordinary and we've got to suspend our normal way of life.

00:08:18.900 Every inch that we the people have given to the ruling technocratic elite from the beginning of this has only further harmed our situation, has only taken away more and more of our rights, has only taken away more and more of our way of life, has only encouraged them.

00:08:35.400 The 15 days to slow the spread that we granted very quickly turned into, well, just maybe a couple more months to slow the spread.

00:08:41.960 Well, maybe just another year to slow the spread.

00:08:44.540 Well, maybe now we need to find a cure.

00:08:46.480 Well, now maybe actually we need to stop the surge.

00:08:48.880 Well, now we need to, let me check my notes, abolish conversation.

00:08:53.140 15 days to abolish conversation, but then we'll go back to normal, right?

00:08:57.260 I don't think so.

00:08:58.480 And this is coming to the United States, by the way.

00:09:00.220 This isn't just staying down under in Australia and it's not just some questionable Austrian immigrants who once were the governor of California.

00:09:07.960 This is coming to the United States. 0.93

00:09:10.180 The LA City Council just voted 13 to 0.

00:09:14.980 This was an absolute unanimous vote for vaccine mandates at restaurants, movie theaters, and concert venues.

00:09:24.100 They just did this in France.

00:09:26.600 And very thankfully, by a stroke of providence, I left France before the vaccine mandate went into effect.

00:09:33.960 So I was just in France last week.

00:09:35.220 I was there for my buddy's wedding.

00:09:36.740 Fortunately, the country was not totally locked down yet.

00:09:39.720 You can still come in from the United States without a ton of regulations.

00:09:42.900 But the day I flew out, you had to start showing a proof of vaccination to get in anywhere.

00:09:48.020 I wanted to get a cup of coffee at the airport.

00:09:50.100 They demanded proof of vaccination to get into the little cafe at the airport.

00:09:54.480 I said, all right, get the coffee on the airplane or something.

00:09:56.360 That's fine by me.

00:09:57.000 That could never happen here, right?

00:09:59.960 It already is.

00:10:01.320 It already is happening here.

00:10:03.360 And it's going to happen in New York.

00:10:04.680 I mean, LA right now is passing measures that are more draconian even than what's going on in New York.

00:10:08.540 But it's going to happen in Washington, D.C.

00:10:10.140 It's going to happen in Chicago.

00:10:11.200 Unless we push back against that sort of thing.

00:10:15.340 And there's not going to be a compromise.

00:10:17.820 It's not going to be, well, let's wear our masks.

00:10:19.560 Is that going to?

00:10:19.960 No, no.

00:10:21.140 Either you say no or you go along with it.

00:10:25.020 The councilman at the LA City Council, Paul Koretz, said, quote,

00:10:29.520 Frankly, I'm tired of our politicization of science and public health.

00:10:35.100 While people outside this building are protesting that this is a violation of their civil liberties,

00:10:39.360 Angelenos are dying unnecessarily. 0.99

00:10:43.880 People die.

00:10:44.960 A lot of people die every day. 0.99

00:10:46.280 You and I are going to die.

00:10:47.700 I can tell you with 100% certainty we are going to die. 0.74

00:10:51.000 No one here gets that alive, okay?

00:10:53.580 Everyone in history has died.

00:10:58.080 You might have life everlasting.

00:10:59.980 You might have, that's a whole other aspect.

00:11:01.760 We'll get to that too.

00:11:02.360 But you are not going to get off this rock alive, okay?

00:11:05.000 And what the left has done so spectacularly is they have taken this one virus that has caused deaths.

00:11:12.320 I'm not saying that the virus hasn't caused deaths.

00:11:14.100 But they have made it seem as though that is the only cause of death.

00:11:19.300 And of course, the lockdowns have led to other deaths as well.

00:11:21.840 Deaths of despair, deaths of drug overdose, deaths of not getting your treatment for various diseases,

00:11:27.240 cancer treatments, for instance, suicides.

00:11:29.600 But none of that counts.

00:11:31.340 None of that, all that matters is if you die from this one particular virus.

00:11:35.260 And as a result, you've got to take away people's civil liberties.

00:11:38.760 Listen to how incoherent this statement is.

00:11:40.320 I'm tired of our politicization of science and public health, says the politician.

00:11:49.260 Public health is, by definition, political.

00:11:53.420 The word political and the word public are synonyms.

00:11:56.620 They mean the same thing.

00:11:58.040 Politics is how we all get along together.

00:12:00.040 It's what we all do together.

00:12:01.320 That's why some politicians use scientific data to manipulate our politics. 0.99

00:12:07.300 And he says, stop politicizing. 0.92

00:12:08.420 What he's saying is shut up. 0.83

00:12:09.500 That's what, that's all that means. 0.94

00:12:11.260 Whenever they say, don't make this political. 0.98

00:12:12.780 All that means is shut up.

00:12:14.680 Let me affect my political agenda. 0.98

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00:13:30.440 There is a fight going on right now between the people who want vax mandates at the restaurants

00:13:37.180 and the movie theaters and in the schools and the mask mandates everywhere and the people

00:13:40.900 overseas who want to abolish conversation and the handful of conservative politicians

00:13:47.000 with a spine.

00:13:48.060 One of those conservative politicians that seems to have a spine, Ron DeSantis.

00:13:53.120 Ron DeSantis is standing up.

00:13:55.260 He is threatening to withhold pay from Broward County school administrators who are violating

00:14:02.800 the state anti-mask mandate rule by instituting a mask mandate.

00:14:08.820 And what does that mean?

00:14:09.240 This is kind of complicated and there's so many layers to this.

00:14:12.260 Some schools in liberal places want to force kids to wear masks.

00:14:17.640 That's wrong. 1.00

00:14:18.860 That's stupid. 1.00

00:14:19.920 They shouldn't do that. 1.00

00:14:21.040 That's wrong for many, many reasons.

00:14:22.960 So some misguided conservatives have said, well, it's not government's place to tell people

00:14:28.160 that they can or cannot have mask mandates, right?

00:14:30.020 You know, in this, the usual way that we've talked about policy for the last 10 or 15 years

00:14:34.880 is between big government and free choice, right?

00:14:37.680 But, but it's a little more complicated here because sure, the big government of the school

00:14:42.700 board wants to take away the free choice to wear a mask or not.

00:14:45.460 But then you've got the big government of the state coming in and taking away the free

00:14:48.900 choice of the school district.

00:14:50.460 And then you've got the big government.

00:14:51.520 So I don't think it's so simple as big government versus small government.

00:14:55.220 I don't think it's so simple as tyranny versus slavery.

00:14:57.380 I think it's actually a question of prudence.

00:15:01.080 I think it's actually a question of the substance of it.

00:15:02.980 Should these kids be forced to wear the masks?

00:15:05.300 And so DeSantis goes in and he says, absolutely not. 1.00

00:15:08.800 We will not permit school districts to force kids to wear these stupid masks. 0.99

00:15:14.320 So now the school boards are fighting back against DeSantis, especially in Broward County, 1.00

00:15:18.840 very corrupt school district.

00:15:20.320 And they're saying, no, we're going to, we're going to do it anyway.

00:15:22.740 So DeSantis is going in through the Florida Department of Education and is saying that

00:15:26.400 if the school districts force the kids to wear the masks, he's going to take away their pay.

00:15:30.760 This is frankly Reagan-esque.

00:15:33.560 People have been making a comparison between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump recently because

00:15:38.480 he's doing all the hand gestures, you know, and his skin seems to be getting slightly more 0.97

00:15:42.540 orange.

00:15:43.100 He's, he's probably got a can of, you know, yellow hairspray in the corner.

00:15:46.980 He's clearly running in the Trump lane.

00:15:50.900 But my pal Andrew Klavan pointed out, it's, it's less Trump that, that DeSantis is going

00:15:57.300 for and a little more Ronald Reagan.

00:15:58.940 And this line to the school administrators, it, it reminds you of, of Ronald Reagan when

00:16:04.820 the air traffic controllers illegally went on strike.

00:16:07.620 I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of

00:16:13.340 the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their

00:16:19.260 jobs and will be terminated.

00:16:21.380 Why are you taking such strong action as your first action?

00:16:24.860 Why not some lesser action at this point?

00:16:30.340 What lesser action can there be?

00:16:33.020 The law is very explicit.

00:16:35.440 They are violating the law.

00:16:38.420 And as I say, we call this to the attention of their leadership, whether this was conveyed

00:16:43.420 to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know.

00:16:46.120 But, uh, this is one of the reasons why there could be no further negotiation while this

00:16:51.400 situation, uh, continues.

00:16:54.180 You can't sit and negotiate, uh, with a union that's in violation of the law.

00:16:59.080 And their oath.

00:17:00.180 And their oath.

00:17:01.680 Classic Reagan.

00:17:03.200 What lesser action can there be?

00:17:06.160 They're in violation of the law.

00:17:07.860 And this ought to be our attitude too.

00:17:10.040 There is no reconciliation.

00:17:11.840 There is no negotiation here.

00:17:13.380 The negotiation has failed.

00:17:14.360 The negotiation has lost us everything because we thought that we could negotiate in good

00:17:18.660 faith here on how to return to our normal way of life.

00:17:20.780 And we can't.

00:17:21.260 They just lied to us.

00:17:21.980 They lied to us about everything.

00:17:23.140 They lied to us about the masks.

00:17:24.440 They lied to us about the 15 days.

00:17:26.040 They lied to us about the vax mandates.

00:17:27.640 They just lied to us about everything.

00:17:29.040 They're not playing in good faith. 1.00

00:17:30.900 They're idiots, frankly. 1.00

00:17:32.660 They're, they're incompetent at best and they're liars and deceivers at worst and more likely. 1.00

00:17:39.280 So I just don't think we should play that game. 0.92

00:17:40.960 And it's also not going to be a battle between individual autonomy and strong government.

00:17:46.260 The real battle is going to be between their strong government and our strong government.

00:17:49.700 And one of the worst mistakes that the right has made in recent years is that we have given

00:17:54.120 up political power.

00:17:56.080 What we have done, we've taken Andrew Breitbart's basically true statement that politics is downstream

00:18:00.940 of culture and we have allowed Republican politicians to use that as an excuse not to do their job.

00:18:07.420 Politics is downstream of culture does not mean that you completely give up the government

00:18:10.960 and the political sphere because it's somehow unjust ever to rule.

00:18:15.020 It means you use the government, you use political power on the happy occasions that

00:18:18.660 the people give it to you for just purposes.

00:18:20.700 That's what Ron DeSantis is doing here.

00:18:22.700 He's saying, oh, you're going to use your government power in Broward County to try to force 0.97

00:18:26.300 this ridiculous thing on children.

00:18:28.060 Okay, I'm going to use my government power here in Tallahassee to stop you from doing that. 0.91

00:18:32.200 That's a good thing. 0.78

00:18:33.020 We need to encourage the largely cowardly Republican politicians to do just that.

00:18:39.480 The left is not very happy that people are pushing back against forcing the kids to wear

00:18:44.140 the masks.

00:18:45.320 There is a liberal professor.

00:18:47.700 You know, I've got to give thanks to one of my favorite Twitter accounts.

00:18:50.480 It's called Libs of TikTok. 0.59

00:18:52.780 I do not participate in TikTok.

00:18:55.600 I feel that Xi Jinping has enough of my data already, so I don't need to give him any more

00:19:00.120 of it.

00:19:00.700 Also, as far as I can tell, TikTok is just like 16-year-olds jiggling around, and I don't

00:19:06.040 want to unwittingly commit a felony.

00:19:08.580 So I don't look at that app.

00:19:10.900 But there are great clips that go on TikTok, and so I'll see them on Twitter from Libs of

00:19:15.640 TikTok.

00:19:16.200 So there's this gal, Rachel Kessler.

00:19:19.560 Rachel Kessler is a liberal professor at Kenyon College.

00:19:23.320 She also styles herself a priestess of some sort, some sort of kooky cult or something.

00:19:30.140 So she calls herself a reverend. 0.91

00:19:31.720 The reverend professor, Rachel Kessler, has come out now screaming, crying, wailing, rending

00:19:40.280 her garments and gnashing her teeth because at her children's school district, they're 1.00

00:19:44.760 not going to force all the little kids to muzzle themselves.

00:19:47.200 I need to go home.

00:19:48.880 Instead, I'm sitting at my desk crying because we just got word from our superintendent that

00:19:53.260 masks will not be required in our school district this year because the school has to respect

00:19:57.880 the choice of parents that don't want to have their kids in a mask. 0.99

00:20:02.000 And that's just the most bullshit reasoning. 0.98

00:20:05.060 And I'm so over it because there is no such thing as a personal choice in a pandemic because 0.99

00:20:09.680 I have no choice now to send my child to school in a way that will be safe for them.

00:20:16.380 Because my child's mask will do a great job of protecting the other kids around her.

00:20:22.160 But I have no choice not to have my kid coughed on by her classmates.

00:20:28.300 I am so tired of this.

00:20:30.440 I'll do what works for me.

00:20:31.680 You do what works for you.

00:20:33.180 Take on a public health crisis.

00:20:35.220 And we are never going to get out of this if we cannot start collectively thinking about

00:20:40.500 how our actions impact the people around us.

00:20:43.680 She said one thing there that's probably true. 0.99

00:20:46.040 Did you catch what it was?

00:20:47.820 We are never going to get out of this.

00:20:49.580 That was the only thing she said that might very well be true.

00:20:53.440 Now, her argument is we're never going to get out of this if we don't give in to all

00:20:56.940 the new measures and give up all of our rights and upend the standards of society.

00:21:00.400 Of course, the opposite is true.

00:21:01.760 We're never going to get out of this if we do constantly wear the mask and allow them

00:21:07.900 to jab us with whatever they want and give up all of our rights and give up our churches

00:21:11.640 and give up our business.

00:21:12.620 That's the way we're never going to get out of it.

00:21:14.060 Because when people take power, they usually don't want to give it back.

00:21:17.800 They don't give it back very easily.

00:21:19.800 And she has another interesting line there.

00:21:22.240 She says, there is no such thing as individual choice during a pandemic.

00:21:28.480 Right, right.

00:21:31.800 That's the premise.

00:21:33.560 That's the whole premise.

00:21:35.520 And so the pandemic can never end.

00:21:38.440 And so when the pandemic is ending, you've got to change the rules, which they have done

00:21:43.440 now like five times.

00:21:46.140 You've got to change.

00:21:46.940 So the goal has to go from flatten the curve to slow the spread to find a cure to spread

00:21:54.640 the cure to everybody to stop the surge.

00:21:56.500 They're already talking about the, what, the Lambda variant, the Sigma variant, the, there's

00:22:01.020 going to be a million more variants and it will never end because they don't want you

00:22:05.860 to have individual choice because they basically agree with Arnold.

00:22:08.980 Screw your freedom.

00:22:10.640 I got, I really have to work on my Schwartz.

00:22:12.100 Everyone has a good Schwarzenegger but me.

00:22:14.480 That's what they really believe is what Dr. Fauci said yesterday when he was salivating.

00:22:20.080 Oh, Fauci was so happy.

00:22:21.360 He said, I know all you people.

00:22:23.220 You want your individual liberty, but we cannot have that now.

00:22:29.060 And he just, you could, he was so thrilled that he could take more power from you for

00:22:34.680 himself.

00:22:35.180 Dr. Fauci has never appeared on a ballot anywhere.

00:22:37.780 No one has ever cast a vote for Dr. Fauci.

00:22:39.900 He has been in his position of power for, I think, what, five presidential administrations

00:22:46.120 now?

00:22:46.400 Let's see, it was Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, seven presidential

00:22:53.860 administrations.

00:22:54.640 This guy has been in political power.

00:22:57.040 So no, they don't want, they don't want you to have any of that.

00:23:01.000 What is the, what is the pandemic?

00:23:03.020 What is the pandemic?

00:23:04.840 From the very beginning, the death rate was much, much lower than people warned us that

00:23:08.660 it was going to be.

00:23:09.460 Among children, which is what we were talking about right here, way, way, way, way, way lower.

00:23:14.060 Beyond that, we know that the media and the scientific establishment and the politicians

00:23:17.600 have been lying to us from the beginning.

00:23:19.500 And when you compare it to other, not just other pandemics, but even just public health

00:23:24.040 problems, you can see in its context, not quite as big a risk as people have made it

00:23:29.640 out to be.

00:23:30.140 But as long as it remains the pandemic, then your individual freedom, your way of life,

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00:26:16.100 The schools are the epicenter of the fight right now because the schools are the intersection

00:26:23.940 of the family.

00:26:25.540 They're the intersection of the culture.

00:26:28.960 They're usually run by the government.

00:26:32.200 They are a way to shape the next generation.

00:26:34.560 If you want to look at what your country is going to look like in 20 years, look at a classroom.

00:26:38.540 A classroom is a crystal ball.

00:26:40.720 And so now there are battles going on, not just over whether the kids have to muzzle themselves

00:26:44.720 in class, but what the kids are going to be taught.

00:26:47.860 But you've seen these battles on critical race theory, people showing up to their school boards

00:26:53.700 to get the crazy gender theory and the crazy race theory out of the classrooms. 1.00

00:26:58.140 You've seen teachers during remote learning say, hey, make sure that the parents aren't

00:27:02.440 paying attention to what their kids are learning on the computers.

00:27:04.900 Make sure.

00:27:05.460 You got to be very careful because if the parents knew what their kids were learning,

00:27:08.680 they'd get the teachers fired as well they should.

00:27:11.000 So there was a lesson plan that just popped up from Virginia.

00:27:14.060 This is a third grade lesson plan from the Virginia State Education website, which glorifies

00:27:23.240 communism. 0.96

00:27:24.460 Virginia Department of Education has third graders learning that police hate black men. 0.79

00:27:30.240 They have them watch a video that seems to glorify communism.

00:27:33.960 The lesson, first of all, the lesson plan is just written with typos, which at the most

00:27:38.040 basic level shows you the state of American education.

00:27:41.140 But it's provided for use by any teacher in the state.

00:27:43.700 The lesson plan, which is very radical on gender theory, very radical on racial theory

00:27:49.680 and explicitly Marxist and anti-American.

00:27:54.080 The lesson plan was developed by Chesapeake public school teachers.

00:27:59.120 Their names are Candace Anthony Kazanov, Jamie Marquitz.

00:28:05.960 They have children especially focusing on this book.

00:28:09.520 A is for activist, a radical leftist book, has no place in the classroom.

00:28:14.200 So what should happen here?

00:28:16.320 What should happen?

00:28:17.760 I think there are three schools of thought.

00:28:19.780 There's the leftist school of thought, which is yes, that's right.

00:28:22.200 That's what education is about.

00:28:24.120 It's not about teaching kids facts.

00:28:26.820 It's not about teaching them how to think in a critical way that's reasoned and based on logic.

00:28:32.100 No, it's about turning them into activists to fight the system, even though we're the system, by the way.

00:28:37.780 It's about turning them into radicals who are going to end oppression.

00:28:41.020 So that's the leftist view, right?

00:28:42.200 This is all great.

00:28:43.120 This is basically all that they should be learning in schools.

00:28:46.160 Then there is the kind of squish view. 0.73

00:28:48.540 This is the view of the conservatives for the past 10, 15 years, which is, well, you know, this isn't, that's not good.

00:28:54.220 That's been so okay.

00:28:55.420 They can read their radical gender racial theory in the classroom.

00:28:58.100 I don't want it.

00:28:58.800 Academic freedom.

00:28:59.560 I don't want to tell them they can't.

00:29:00.580 But maybe could they also possibly read a history book or something?

00:29:04.100 Maybe, please.

00:29:04.640 Right.

00:29:04.840 So that's the squish academic freedom view.

00:29:08.100 Then there is the conservative view. 0.99

00:29:10.760 This is trash. 0.99

00:29:12.060 This is harming children's education. 1.00

00:29:14.540 This is harming the children's understanding of the world.

00:29:19.580 It should be banned from the classroom and the teachers behind it should be fired.

00:29:25.540 Simple enough.

00:29:26.600 A teacher doesn't have a right to go teach Nazism in the classroom.

00:29:30.560 A teacher shouldn't have the right to teach communism in the classroom.

00:29:34.300 Simple enough.

00:29:34.920 I'm not saying teach about Nazism or communism.

00:29:37.980 That's why, of course, they should teach about these things.

00:29:41.060 But they shouldn't be able to teach through this lens of ideology.

00:29:45.600 They shouldn't be able to teach you, yes, Nazism is good. 1.00

00:29:48.380 Hitler's awesome. 0.99

00:29:49.540 You should all goose march and Zieg Heil.

00:29:52.960 Likewise, they should not teach you communism is good.

00:29:57.540 The tenets of communism are wonderful and you should all become communist activists.

00:30:02.080 Fire them. 0.94

00:30:03.840 Academic freedom, to quote William F. Buckley Jr., as mainstream a conservative as ever there was,

00:30:09.240 founded the post-war conservative movement.

00:30:11.780 He said academic freedom is a hoax.

00:30:14.200 It's a farce.

00:30:15.020 It's never used to justify teaching things that are more conservative or right-wing.

00:30:21.180 It's only ever used as an excuse to teach your little boy that he's a little girl or 0.97

00:30:26.620 to teach white kids that they're evil or to teach every child that America's a rotten, 0.97

00:30:31.080 terrible place and to teach them all that communism's terrific. 1.00

00:30:35.660 Fire them. 1.00

00:30:36.720 Fire them. 0.99

00:30:37.260 Ban it from the classroom.

00:30:38.240 Some people get it.

00:30:39.000 Again, in Florida, they're actually doing a pretty good job at this.

00:30:41.260 Because other Republican politicians need to follow suit.

00:30:44.220 Speaking of child abuse, you know, just a light topic for your morning.

00:30:48.920 Speaking of child abuse, there was an image, an award-winning image that was going around

00:30:54.500 the internet yesterday.

00:30:56.120 That award-winning image was from the Netherlands.

00:30:59.860 It's of a little kid, I guess a little girl, I can't tell.

00:31:05.860 Sort of everyone's gender bending these days, so who knows.

00:31:08.400 But, you know, a little child at a swing set with a bunch of creepy men wearing leather

00:31:16.740 sort of straps and little leather booty shorts behind them, obviously preparing for some sort 0.89

00:31:21.800 of perverted sexual thing. 0.86

00:31:23.900 And they're all, you know, some of them, they're not really engaging in any overtly sexual act,

00:31:28.280 but they're all sort of hanging around constantly.

00:31:30.540 Preparing to go on some sort of perverted adventure.

00:31:34.660 This just won a prize.

00:31:36.680 The photo competition was put out by Pride.

00:31:39.980 This is one of, you know, one of the Pride organizations in the Netherlands.

00:31:43.840 It was won by Jan van Breda.

00:31:46.700 13,000 photos were submitted.

00:31:50.420 Three of them won.

00:31:52.760 This is the description.

00:31:53.800 This photo in its composition, Child in the Foreground, Men Preparing for Canal Pride in

00:31:58.500 the Background, Everyone Busy with Their Own Activities and Fascinations, sublimely depicts

00:32:04.660 what will hopefully remain self-evident, that we, unhampered by prejudices and almost unsuspectingly,

00:32:12.340 all may and can exist side by side.

00:32:15.180 That's what the jury said about this photo.

00:32:17.060 You know, if the consequence of getting rid of prejudices is having kids play around among

00:32:26.880 a bunch of sick leather daddies at a parade, maybe we could use a little more prejudice. 0.99

00:32:33.320 Maybe people haven't stood up enough for prejudice. 0.97

00:32:36.780 Actually, do you know who did stand up for prejudice is Edmund Burke.

00:32:39.540 Not prejudice in the sense of, you know, I'm going to hate you because of your skin color. 0.99

00:32:43.580 I'm going to, prejudice in the sense of pre-judgment.

00:32:47.260 Prejudice in the sense of, we actually can know things.

00:32:51.560 We actually know, when we have a natural visceral reaction to seeing a bunch of these sickos,

00:32:57.480 like oiling each other up around a little kid, that visceral reaction, though it may not be

00:33:03.460 totally conscious and we might not have like a 10-paragraph reasoned argument as to why

00:33:08.520 this situation is bad, that reaction is right.

00:33:13.040 That actually is bad.

00:33:14.940 We shouldn't permit that.

00:33:16.440 These things should not exist side by side.

00:33:19.740 The BDSM people like whipping each other should not exist side by side with the little children. 1.00

00:33:27.900 But it raises a question also about the limits of autonomy, which is kind of what we're all

00:33:33.720 talking about today.

00:33:34.320 What are the limits of freedom and autonomy?

00:33:37.340 We all know, you look at that picture, if you're listening right now, you can Google the

00:33:41.120 picture later, or maybe you shouldn't because it's just gross.

00:33:44.320 But when you look at that picture, we all know that there's something wrong with that.

00:33:48.920 But what's wrong with that?

00:33:51.080 What's the problem?

00:33:51.640 Is it just that there's a kid there?

00:33:54.560 Why is it wrong that there's a kid there?

00:33:56.760 If there's nothing wrong with what the guys are doing in their kind of like leather daddy 0.92

00:34:00.220 costumes, if there's nothing wrong with that intrinsically, then why is it wrong that there's

00:34:04.020 a kid there?

00:34:06.060 Why should kids be protected from that?

00:34:07.880 If there is something wrong with what the guys are doing, with the kind of leather stuff in

00:34:12.500 public and, you know, getting a little in your face, then why are we encouraging it?

00:34:18.340 Why?

00:34:18.960 If there's something like so disordered about this that we should, that we should protect

00:34:23.600 children from it, then why are we encouraging it for everyone else?

00:34:28.680 And why are we pretending, by the way, that you can encourage all these sorts of things everywhere,

00:34:34.660 ubiquitous, in the middle of Main Street for adults, but yet somehow protect kids from it?

00:34:39.120 Obviously, you cannot.

00:34:39.960 We are not totally isolated beings.

00:34:44.060 We do live in a society.

00:34:45.440 We do have neighbors.

00:34:46.420 We do want to talk to people when we go outside, even though the Australian health minister doesn't

00:34:50.320 want us to.

00:34:50.780 Why are we encouraging the liberty to do things that we all agree are very bad?

00:35:00.480 That, I think, that's actually a problem for the right to figure out.

00:35:02.660 We're trying to work on that right now.

00:35:03.920 There's a big debate on the right over that, and I think the kind of desiccated libertinism

00:35:08.140 of the last 10 or 15 years, it's just complete, it's deader than disco, man.

00:35:11.900 Put that away with your bell bottoms.

00:35:14.000 It is over.

00:35:15.220 Now, there is some good news, by the way, coming from the Departments of Health on this

00:35:19.580 issue of radical gender theory and child sex abuse.

00:35:23.520 The Texas Department of Health was just asked by Governor Greg Abbott a simple question.

00:35:29.540 Abbott, deferring to the agency, said, is pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones 0.95

00:35:34.740 and mutilating their bodies because their psycho mothers think that the little boys are 0.99

00:35:38.340 little girls?

00:35:38.760 I think Governor Abbott used more clinical language than I did, but that's obviously the

00:35:43.120 situation that we're talking about.

00:35:44.360 Is performing gender surgery on kids proper medical treatment, or is it child abuse?

00:35:52.440 This is a difficult question, apparently, for some Republicans.

00:35:55.700 Asa Hutchinson, the allegedly Republican governor of Arkansas, says that it's a wonderful medical

00:36:00.960 treatment.

00:36:01.340 He refused to sign a bill banning genital mutilation gender surgery on little kids.

00:36:07.880 Remember, he said, no, this is important medical treatment.

00:36:09.740 So the Texas Department of Health came out and said, yes, it is child abuse.

00:36:12.620 Quote, genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse, subject

00:36:17.960 to all rules and procedures pertaining to child abuse.

00:36:20.320 Such mutilation may cause, quote, a genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury

00:36:25.540 to the child.

00:36:27.460 Good stuff.

00:36:28.720 Good stuff.

00:36:30.380 Now, this raises another tricky question.

00:36:31.800 I'm glad we should take this win.

00:36:33.100 I mean, we should pursue this state by state by state to ban the genital gender reassignment 1.00

00:36:38.260 mutilation surgery for children, obviously, but there is an even further question here,

00:36:44.400 which is, if this is not medical treatment, if this really is mutilation when you do it

00:36:51.300 on children, then why are we doing it on adults?

00:36:56.020 It's not as though reality is one way if you're under 18 and then reality is completely different 0.65

00:37:03.740 if you're over 18.

00:37:05.780 It's not as though a surgery is completely different for people who are 17 and a half,

00:37:12.520 but not for 18 and a half.

00:37:16.080 But we don't want to come to that term in part because we so value individual autonomy.

00:37:21.260 And we say, well, if you're a man and you want to be a woman, then you should, you should,

00:37:24.100 you have the right to do that.

00:37:25.720 You have, you totally have, if you, if you're a man and you want to mutilate your body to look

00:37:29.680 more like a woman and harm yourself in that way, you totally have the right to do that. 1.00

00:37:35.040 But you don't, you don't.

00:37:37.440 Why do you have the right to do that?

00:37:39.480 Why is it cruelty and abuse when you do it on a child, but not when you do it on an adult?

00:37:46.120 Because, just because of the issue of making a decision?

00:37:49.540 No, there's more, I think there's more to good and bad and right and wrong than just who makes

00:37:54.700 the decision.

00:37:55.340 Making it, consent is very important.

00:37:56.960 Don't get me wrong.

00:37:57.580 But I think there's more to it.

00:37:59.180 I think the substance is there as well.

00:38:02.240 Speaking of transitions, I can't miss this today.

00:38:05.580 Valparaiso U University has changed its mascot from crusaders to beacons.

00:38:11.640 They used to be the crusaders, now they're the beacons.

00:38:13.680 Why?

00:38:14.980 Because the crusaders are very bad, right?

00:38:18.040 The crusaders, Christian soldiers who protected Christians in the Holy Land from Muslim invaders.

00:38:23.820 The crusaders, the crusaders are bad because the crusaders represent Western civilization and so 1.00

00:38:28.120 you've got to get rid of them.

00:38:31.520 They've changed it to beacon because they say that their students should be a beacon of hope.

00:38:35.620 A beacon of hope, okay.

00:38:38.520 Crusaders were a beacon of hope in the late 11th century to the Christians who were being 0.97

00:38:44.380 persecuted by Muslims in the Holy Land.

00:38:46.060 But we now take this as just common sense.

00:38:49.900 We take this for granted that anything that the West ever did is bad and anything that other 0.98

00:38:56.300 civilizations ever did is good.

00:38:58.880 We now take it for granted that Muslims should control the Holy Land. 1.00

00:39:02.960 Why?

00:39:04.400 Christians and Jews were in the Holy Land a lot longer, way before the Muslims.

00:39:08.280 Why do the Muslims? 1.00

00:39:09.140 Because the West is bad and everyone else is good.

00:39:11.680 That is the sometimes not so tacit premise that our education begins with.

00:39:18.200 And if you raise generation upon generation to hate its own civilization, you're not going

00:39:23.160 to keep that civilization and you're not going to keep those rights.

00:39:25.380 You're not going to keep that way of life for very long, which we're seeing happen to

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00:39:59.740 Speaking of political violence, an Obama-appointed federal judge has just come out against the

00:40:09.700 Biden DOJ, specifically with regard to the January 6th political insurrection coup d'etat,

00:40:17.360 the worst event in American history.

00:40:19.080 You know that thing.

00:40:20.160 Worse than Pearl Harbor.

00:40:22.300 Worse than 1812. 0.95

00:40:23.360 So, this is good news, right?

00:40:26.780 An Obama-era judge is now coming out against the Biden DOJ.

00:40:31.040 The problem is, this judge, she's coming out against the DOJ because she thinks the DOJ 1.00

00:40:37.140 is going too light on the Capitol rioter people.

00:40:41.280 She thinks that they need harsher punishments. 1.00

00:40:44.320 Already, you see these guys whose worst crime is dancing around the Capitol in a horn helmet,

00:40:49.440 who, you know, come in and maybe they broke a window, maybe not.

00:40:52.880 They, the one smiley guy took Nancy Pelosi's lector and you remember that.

00:40:56.880 Not defending it, just saying there are worse crimes in the world.

00:41:00.580 And these guys are getting the book thrown at them already.

00:41:03.180 And she is saying that they, they need even harsher punishments for terrorizing members

00:41:08.340 of Congress.

00:41:10.060 Meanwhile, as we've reported on this show, actual terrorists, BLM leftist terrorists, 0.64

00:41:18.500 who burned down private businesses.

00:41:21.320 They actually went after civilians.

00:41:22.520 They killed people.

00:41:24.080 They killed infinitely more people than the Capitol Sixth rioters did because the Capitol

00:41:27.820 January Sixth rioters didn't, didn't kill anyone.

00:41:30.400 And the BLM people killed a lot of people. 0.99

00:41:33.700 The, the BLM people who also went after federal courthouses, burned down federal courthouses,

00:41:38.920 burned down police stations, they're basically getting off the hook.

00:41:42.300 In Manhattan and in the Bronx, they're being released without any charges in many cases.

00:41:49.760 And when they are being charged, they're, they're being charged with much less serious

00:41:53.660 offenses.

00:41:54.040 This is the new normal.

00:42:00.920 This is the new regime.

00:42:03.580 I think a lot of conservatives believed that if we went really, really hard after January

00:42:08.860 6th, if we kind of bought into the leftist line that January 6th was the worst event in

00:42:13.000 the history of the world, why then maybe they'll recognize that BLM was bad too.

00:42:18.540 And they'll, and we'll all get, and we'll reconcile and, and it just didn't happen.

00:42:22.560 It didn't happen.

00:42:24.040 During the BLM riots, you had members of elected Democrats in Congress calling for more violence.

00:42:30.240 Actually, even before that, you had that sort of thing.

00:42:32.040 You had the, the now vice president of the United States bailing out the rioters from jail.

00:42:37.040 You had staff members for now the president of the United States bailing the rioters out from

00:42:41.440 jail.

00:42:42.560 And, and they basically want the Capitol conservative people to go to Gitmo.

00:42:47.180 Okay.

00:42:48.680 There's, and, and it's not even close.

00:42:50.320 What happened at the Capitol on January 6th is not even in the same galaxy as what happened

00:42:55.920 during the BLM riots, city after city, after city for six to eight months.

00:42:59.820 It's not even close.

00:43:01.000 It's nothing compared to what BLM did and BLM mostly gets off the hook.

00:43:06.620 That's the real political situation.

00:43:09.180 There's not going to be a negotiation.

00:43:11.080 There's not going to be a come together and you give a little and I give a little.

00:43:14.300 This is a bare knuckle political fight over who can wield political power more effectively.

00:43:20.060 That doesn't mean that it's absent logic and justice.

00:43:22.540 Obviously we want to wield political power with justice, with logic, but you've got to

00:43:27.820 wield that power.

00:43:29.360 Devin Hogan, chairman of the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor Party, which is an affiliate of

00:43:33.680 the Democratic Party in Minnesota, has just said, quote, like it or not, setting the third

00:43:38.340 precinct on fire was a genuine revolutionary moment, an act of pure righteousness to open

00:43:43.460 new worlds of understanding.

00:43:45.440 The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.

00:43:49.220 The largest international human rights movement in modern history had begun.

00:43:52.380 The youth of Minneapolis carried all of this.

00:43:53.960 The cops started it.

00:43:55.780 Doesn't get clearer than that, does it?

00:43:57.380 The Democrat activist, a Democrat official, it's a part of an affiliate, but a Democrat

00:44:06.240 nonetheless in Minnesota, defending the burning down of police stations and saying, yeah, the

00:44:11.380 cops started it. 0.74

00:44:12.320 I think they call that victim blaming.

00:44:15.840 That's what we're talking about.

00:44:17.320 And there's something we can learn from him when he says the people declared themselves

00:44:19.820 ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.

00:44:22.240 The way the left did that, the substance of what they were doing, was wrong.

00:44:27.620 It was unjust.

00:44:29.200 It was very bad.

00:44:31.220 But we can do that too, in a just way.

00:44:34.980 We can declare ourselves ungovernable under these unjust laws.

00:44:41.260 We can, using logic and persuasion and not being terrorists like the left was, but we can

00:44:47.280 assert our political right.

00:44:49.400 You're seeing some people do it, right?

00:44:51.240 You're seeing DeSantis do it in Florida.

00:44:52.640 You're seeing some of the governors do it.

00:44:55.000 We can do that, but it does require some courage.

00:44:58.980 It does, and that unfortunately is in short supply in a lot of places.

00:45:02.840 But speaking of terrorists, I can't leave today.

00:45:06.520 Before I note some actual important news that's being swept under the rug, we just lost the

00:45:12.420 war in Afghanistan.

00:45:14.060 We've been fighting this war in Afghanistan for 20 years now, and we just lost.

00:45:18.720 We've basically officially lost the war.

00:45:21.240 Now, the soldiers didn't lose the war.

00:45:24.280 Soldiers did a great job.

00:45:25.640 The soldiers achieved all of their military objectives.

00:45:29.380 But the political leadership did lose that war.

00:45:31.760 They chose to lose that war.

00:45:33.520 And they chose to lose that war because they didn't even know what they wanted to win.

00:45:39.780 What was winning?

00:45:40.940 What is winning the war in Afghanistan?

00:45:42.520 I couldn't even tell you.

00:45:47.640 I couldn't even tell you.

00:45:48.500 But here's what I do know.

00:45:49.880 George W. Bush came out after 9-11, and he said, those who are harboring terrorists will

00:45:58.340 be treated as the terrorists themselves.

00:46:00.340 We will make no distinction.

00:46:01.360 And what he was talking about was the Taliban harboring al-Qaeda terrorists, and we're going

00:46:05.520 to go in, and we're going to make no distinction, and you're not going to have a moment's peace 1.00

00:46:08.880 until we kill all of you. 1.00

00:46:11.680 And now the Taliban is coming back. 1.00

00:46:14.140 So they won, and we lost.

00:46:16.040 And what does Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, have to say about this?

00:46:20.040 Well, you know, they've just got to figure out what they want to do in the international

00:46:22.940 community.

00:46:23.860 The Taliban is clearly on the march. 0.63

00:46:26.540 Your objective is to have a negotiated political settlement.

00:46:29.120 What gives you confidence that the Taliban is interested in that?

00:46:32.380 Well, the Taliban has to make an assessment.

00:46:34.360 One, we have also said that there's no question that the Afghan National Defense Security Forces

00:46:38.800 would be strengthened, as would the Afghan political leadership, if they were to have

00:46:43.640 more success in fighting back.

00:46:45.060 There's no question about that.

00:46:46.620 We're not hiding from that in any way, shape, or form.

00:46:49.180 The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the

00:46:53.180 international community.

00:46:54.500 And I know that Ambassador Khalilzad made comments when he was at the political negotiations

00:46:59.000 yesterday, making clear that the international community is going to watch closely how the

00:47:03.260 Taliban behaves. 0.61

00:47:04.420 They have a range of tools in their arsenal as well to take steps should they choose.

00:47:08.340 Well, the Taliban just has to figure out what it wants its role to be in the international

00:47:11.840 community.

00:47:12.500 These are the people that are governing us.

00:47:15.060 Spoiler alert, the Taliban doesn't want a role in the international community.

00:47:19.540 Okay, it took 20 years for these ruling elites to figure that out.

00:47:23.640 Sometimes some better, sometimes some worse.

00:47:26.080 These are the people governing us.

00:47:27.380 I don't think they have any credibility.

00:47:28.860 I don't think we should follow their orders.

00:47:32.160 I think we should, using every just and right and legitimate political tool at our disposal,

00:47:37.780 fight back against them tooth and nail before they terminate our way of life.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 12, 2021

Ep. 820 - Leftists Terminate Your Freedom

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