The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 832 -  Biden Has No Time For Dead Soldiers


Summary

13 U.S. servicemen were killed in a deadly terror attack by a new offshoot of ISIS. And, according to reports, the Biden administration willingly handed Kabul to the Taliban before we got our troops out, despite offers from our old allies, turned enemies, turned allies again, the Taliban.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is done talking about Afghanistan. The country that we spent 20 years building
00:00:05.420 collapsed within hours. 13 U.S. servicemen were just killed in a deadly terror attack by a new
00:00:11.300 offshoot of ISIS. And according to reports, the Biden administration willingly handed over Kabul
00:00:17.480 to the Taliban before we got our troops out, despite offers from our old allies,
00:00:23.280 turned enemies, turned allies again, the Taliban, to let us run the capital city through the end
00:00:27.880 of the month. People have a lot of questions, but we aren't getting any answers because Joe Biden
00:00:33.200 doesn't want to talk about it. So thank you very much. And thank you,
00:00:37.580 commissioner. I really think it all works. I'm not, I'm not supposed to take any questions,
00:00:42.660 but go ahead. Mr. President, on Afghanistan. I'm not going to answer Afghanistan. Can you say
00:00:47.480 if there's still an acute risk? He's not going to answer it. He's not going to answer it. So
00:00:52.420 disrespectful. And if you think that was disrespectful, just wait until you see what
00:00:55.520 he did at the dignified transfer of our fallen troops. Just wait until you see what his
00:01:00.700 administration did before the fall of Kabul. Our troops can't count on their military leaders.
00:01:06.120 Our military can't count on its political leaders. Day by day, it's getting harder to tell our allies
00:01:11.080 from our enemies. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:13.600 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday from Cynthia, who says what president ever
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00:01:39.420 about Donald Trump as a kind of meta president, you know, or a meta politician in that he makes
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00:01:53.980 them. He's very famously said this. He goes, look, they want me to sound presidential. Okay. How's
00:01:58.620 this? Am I, do I sound presidential now? Right. And it's, it's almost like he's doing a standup comedy
00:02:03.320 routine about being president. That's all true. I totally buy it. Joe Biden's doing the same thing.
00:02:10.280 He's just doing it in, in a, in a Joe Biden kind of way, but it's the same exact thing where he says,
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00:03:52.740 The flagrant disrespect from Joe Biden throughout this entire ordeal is, it's getting worse by the
00:04:00.960 day. I thought that his cavalier attitude with regard to Afghanistan, with regard to the terror
00:04:07.880 attack, with regard to the fallen troops, certainly with regard to talking to the press, I thought that
00:04:11.560 was bad. Then they're at the dignified transfer. These are the, the servicemen who were killed in
00:04:18.380 Kabul. They are brought back in coffins, flags draped over their coffins. And you've got the
00:04:24.320 president and other members of the staff and lots and lots of family members with their hand over their
00:04:28.980 heart. And Joe Biden checks his watch. So you've got, you know, he's standing there next to his wife,
00:04:35.300 Dr. Jill, after Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, you got to use his phrase, his, his proper title and
00:04:44.520 Dr. Jill and then other members of the staff. And there is Joe with, with members of the family
00:04:50.400 watching. He checks his watch and you can tell that he wasn't doing anything else because he does
00:04:56.420 it in a way that's really obvious, but he thinks he's being surreptitious in a way that people who are
00:05:00.800 a little bit older often do that. What's he got? Does he have a tea time? Is he late for lunch?
00:05:05.740 He's got his eyes closed during much of this. Something tells me it's not because he's praying.
00:05:09.380 I, I strongly think it's because just as he does during press conferences, just as he does during
00:05:14.420 meetings with foreign officials, he falls asleep. He just, he just fell asleep during the meeting with,
00:05:20.860 with the new Israeli prime minister, literally in the oval office. He just, he started, his eyes start
00:05:24.900 to shut and the Israeli prime minister is going on and on about the great relationship with,
00:05:28.960 with Israel. And there is Joe Biden literally asleep in the chair.
00:05:36.300 Hours before that terror attack on last week on Kabul, the army's top sergeant major sent out
00:05:45.400 an important tweet, an important message for the military's priorities. This is sergeant major of
00:05:51.980 the army, Michael Grinston, who wrote quote, it's a photo of lots of like women and, but some are black
00:05:59.640 and some are Hispanic and some are white. And he says, diversity is a number. Do you have people
00:06:05.300 that don't look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people.
00:06:11.260 Hashtag women's equality day reminds us we're smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive,
00:06:16.800 cohesive team. Our values demand it.
00:06:24.060 Our servicemen deserve better leaders than these clowns. Our citizens, our civilians deserve better
00:06:30.860 than these clowns. All of these people should be fired and probably banished to St. Helena.
00:06:35.560 This is what our military is focused on. One, getting more women into the military,
00:06:42.020 more women into combat. Yeah. It's, it's inclusive and more equitable when we send our women to be
00:06:47.140 killed and blown up in the Middle East. That, that makes us a better country, doesn't it?
00:06:51.920 Doesn't it? I don't think so. I think it makes us a worse country. I think it makes us a much worse
00:06:57.340 country. I think it makes us a sick country that we think it is not only tolerable, but good to send
00:07:04.220 our women to be maimed and killed overseas by terrorists and to fight our wars for us. I think
00:07:10.420 that makes us sick in the head and sick in the soul. Moreover, moreover, he's saying diversity. It
00:07:15.900 doesn't just refer to sex. Obviously it refers to race when people talk about diversity. What he's
00:07:19.720 saying is diversity. When you have people who don't look like you and the only way diversity is ever
00:07:26.220 mentioned is when we're talking about having more black people or more Hispanic people or occasionally
00:07:31.300 more Asian people in some group. It could, if you have an entirely white team, that's not diverse.
00:07:38.680 If you have an entirely black team, it's very diverse. Now, obviously neither of those are
00:07:42.420 diverse in any serious meaning of the word, but diversity just means more black and Hispanic people.
00:07:49.160 Listen to what he's saying. He goes, when we're diverse, we're more lethal. What he's saying is
00:07:56.060 that black people are more lethal than white people. If you, if you follow what he's saying
00:07:59.560 to its logical conclusion, he said, if you've got a team of all white people, that's, that's not
00:08:04.100 sufficiently lethal. But when you add black people to it, then it's more lethal. Therefore, the only
00:08:10.020 conclusion could be that, that black people are more violent than white people. Black people are
00:08:14.340 deadlier than white people. But if you said that, if you came out and you said, yeah, blacks are much
00:08:19.360 more violent than whites, aren't they? That would be, that would be racist, wouldn't it? I think that would be
00:08:24.940 racist. But then he says it, but he's saying it like it, like it's good. And he uses the words
00:08:29.760 inclusion and diversity. And so it's, that's anti-racist or something. Then beyond race,
00:08:36.160 you've got this idea. He said, you know, when you've got a team of just men, that's not lethal
00:08:40.340 enough. But when you add women, then it's more lethal because, because the only conclusion could
00:08:44.100 be women are more violent and lethal and deadly than men, which is preposterous. It's just not true
00:08:49.420 because women are not as strong as men physically. They're just not. They're just not.
00:08:56.700 But we, we have to live in this pretend world. So when our operations collapse because of political
00:09:03.200 idiocy, we're just scratching our heads. Gosh, I wonder why. Maybe it's because of people like this,
00:09:09.240 this Sergeant Major and General Milley and all of the other soon to be pink haired top brass at the
00:09:15.480 Pentagon and our political leadership, most of all, because we are viewing the world through a lens
00:09:22.280 of unreality, surreality, fiction and delusion. Is it any wonder when in the real world, our plans
00:09:31.480 fall apart? You know, who's deadlier right now than, you know, lesbian women, trans, what, I don't
00:09:40.580 know, whatever the victim groups are. Do you know who's deadlier? The Taliban, the Taliban. They're
00:09:44.200 deadlier than even the Taliban were two weeks ago. Here's why. We, we talked about early estimates
00:09:49.300 from the sort of equipment or of the sort of equipment that the Taliban stole. Government
00:09:54.740 doesn't want to release these numbers, but some watchdogs have been. Here's what we got. 22,174
00:10:01.980 Humvees. We've got 155 MXX Pro mindproof vehicles, 169 armored personal carriers. That's pretty spooky.
00:10:12.360 42,000 trucks and SUVs, 64,363 machine guns. Just machine guns, just full, like, pull the trailer,
00:10:19.660 just rips. Over 64,000 of those, 8,000 trucks, 162,000 radios, 16,000 night vision devices. That's
00:10:26.400 very scary. 358,530 assault rifles. So you're going to ban, quote unquote, assault weapons that aren't even
00:10:34.560 really assault weapons from American citizens. And then you're going to give hundreds of thousands
00:10:37.820 of them to the Taliban. 126,000 pistols, 176 artillery pieces. Then you've got 33 Blackhawks,
00:10:45.560 33 MI-17 choppers, 43 other helicopters. Oh, four C-130 transports. Just gigantic,
00:10:53.420 massive transport planes. Bunch of other planes too. That's who's deadlier right now.
00:11:00.180 Meanwhile, there's a report out now, according to the Washington Post, there's a left-wing outlet
00:11:06.020 talking about the left-wing administration. None of this had to happen because apparently
00:11:12.760 the Taliban met with top US military officials in Doha, presumably political officials too,
00:11:19.700 in Doha and Qatar, and offered to let the United States hold Kabul until the evacuation was complete.
00:11:27.600 So the Taliban said, look, we're going to take over the whole country, but you can hold Kabul if you
00:11:32.700 want until you leave. And then there's not going to be any big worry. And the American military said,
00:11:38.440 no. The leaders, not the soldiers, obviously. This was a meeting with the head of the Taliban.
00:11:47.220 So the United States didn't want to have responsibility for securing Kabul. So then
00:11:52.440 the Taliban gave security for Kabul to the Haqqani Network. The Haqqani Network, very deadly,
00:11:59.580 dangerous terrorist organization that actually the United States used to fund through the CIA.
00:12:04.600 Get to that in just a second. Absolute madness. So now the United States doesn't run Kabul. Kabul
00:12:10.820 gets attacked. The United States soldiers get attacked and other servicemen. And in response,
00:12:18.280 according to a report from CNN now, Biden is just flying planes and planes of Afghans over to the United
00:12:24.200 States, many of whom don't have any documentation whatsoever. We don't know who they are. We don't know
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00:14:01.100 Joe Biden, this is according to CNN, by the way. You know, the reason that I keep quoting these
00:14:05.540 left-wing outlets here is because when a left-wing outlet is going after a left-wing politician or
00:14:10.720 policy, it carries more weight than when a left-wing outlet is going against a right-winger.
00:14:15.020 Or when a right-winger is going after a left-winger, for that matter. Quote, this is CNN,
00:14:20.280 arriving Afghans without paperwork prompt delays and security challenges. Some Afghans
00:14:26.180 fling their home country have arrived in the United States without paperwork amid the rapid
00:14:30.460 pace of evacuations, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The approach from
00:14:35.140 the administration has been, quote, get as many people on the plane as you can and we'll sort out
00:14:39.680 the immigration visa stuff later. Some people have landed with no documents whatsoever, creating a
00:14:45.100 very challenging work environment for the officers. Cool. What could go wrong, right? What could possibly
00:14:50.740 go wrong? Brings me to an important point on our Afghan allies. What a lot of the talk that you're
00:14:57.600 hearing from left-wingers and neoliberals and the kind of squish conservative types, they call them
00:15:05.360 neocons or the imperialist types, the ones who wanted to stay in the Middle East forever and continue to
00:15:10.740 bomb various Muslim countries and spread liberal democracy all over the world. You're hearing a lot of
00:15:15.440 talk about our Afghan allies. I'm going to take you on a little trip down memory lane about our Afghan
00:15:24.220 allies, okay? Because I don't know that we can really know who our Afghan allies are, okay? I appreciate
00:15:29.280 people who have helped the United States out over the years there. In 1983, Ronald Reagan welcomed a
00:15:35.100 group of Mujahideen Afghan freedom fighters to the Oval Office. He pointed out that these freedom
00:15:40.920 fighters were fighting the Soviet Union and so the United States was going to support them.
00:15:45.380 The United States funneled a lot of money to these Mujahideen freedom fighters over the years,
00:15:49.600 in no small part through the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, which is a sort of state
00:15:55.140 within a state in Pakistan. So through the ISI and also in other ways, we start funding the Mujahideen
00:16:02.620 freedom fighters. The Mujahideen freedom fighters defeat the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union leaves and
00:16:06.820 the Soviet Union collapses shortly thereafter. At that point, believe it or not, all these various
00:16:12.660 Mujahideen groups, all of these various Islamist groups that fought the Soviets, the godless atheist
00:16:17.460 Soviets, turns out they weren't so great at forming a government together. So that plunges Afghanistan
00:16:22.460 into four more years of civil war. During that civil war, there were various groups. And even though
00:16:28.820 there were three, four, then five groups, it turned out that some of the people fighting didn't think
00:16:33.540 that was enough militants in the conflict. So they formed another group. That other group is called
00:16:37.960 the Taliban. They did that with the funding of the ISI and with the encouragement of Pakistan's ISI.
00:16:44.940 Okay. The Taliban quickly, all of the, not all, but virtually all of the Taliban's original
00:16:50.980 leadership, by the way, were people that the United States had funded in the original fight
00:16:54.260 against the Soviets. Okay. Taliban takes over Afghanistan, starts to rise during the early
00:17:00.040 1990s, and then 1996 declares the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Okay. They rule for about five years.
00:17:07.600 They, with the support of our allies in the ISI, harbor Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden
00:17:15.440 and al-Qaeda attack the United States on September 11th. The United States goes in and deposes the
00:17:20.600 Taliban. The Taliban then goes out and retreats. Obviously, we stay there for about 20 years.
00:17:25.280 Now, the Taliban is coming back into control. So they were our allies, then our enemy. They were
00:17:31.180 sort of our allies, then our enemy, then our allies again. Now, we get attacked by ISIS. ISIS is a
00:17:36.040 rival Islamic terror group. They just attacked us in Kabul. They're fighting against the Taliban.
00:17:41.820 Now, they attacked us because the security in Kabul wasn't good enough. The security in Kabul had been
00:17:47.700 given to the Haqqani Network, as I just mentioned. The Haqqani Network was one of the largest recipients
00:17:52.860 of CIA funding during the Cold War. So then the Haqqani Network turned against us. The ISI and the CIA
00:17:59.180 were funding the Haqqani Network until the ISI started paying the Haqqani Network to attack the CIA.
00:18:03.400 Are you still following me? Because I'm not. I can't follow me anymore because it's so
00:18:06.900 damn confusing. You've got the Afghan National Army, which the United States had been funding
00:18:11.020 for 20 years. That's the one that just collapsed when the Taliban walked in. But even the Afghan
00:18:14.640 National Army, first of all, was largely comprised or it largely comprised fake soldiers, ghost soldiers
00:18:20.400 who just existed on paper so that people could get paid, but they weren't real people in real life.
00:18:24.600 There was a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
00:18:29.160 It showed that 50 to 75 percent of Afghan National Army soldiers were high on drugs a lot of the
00:18:34.680 time. When they weren't high on drugs, they were often stealing things. And in some cases,
00:18:38.820 especially in 2012, they were killing our own soldiers and their fellow Afghan National
00:18:42.820 Army soldiers. There was also, we talk about how awful it is that there are new sexual crimes
00:18:47.300 being perpetrated by the Taliban as they take over Kabul. Well, it turns out the Afghan National
00:18:51.480 Army, the good guys, our allies, were perpetrating huge amounts of sexual violence through a
00:18:55.720 practice called baka bazi. This was ritual called boy play. It was ritual pederastic abuse of young
00:19:02.540 boys. There were well over 5,000 reported incidents of this just to the oversight authorities. And
00:19:09.000 almost certainly the problem was much more widespread than that. So please, please, when you're telling me
00:19:13.880 about what we should do in Afghanistan, please spare me the sanctimony over our allies, because we have
00:19:18.800 no idea who our allies are, because there are no allies in Afghanistan, which is not a country.
00:19:22.280 It's not a nation. And our allies change by the day, sometimes by the hour. So yes, we all want to
00:19:30.440 evacuate people who are good guys, who are on our side, who help us out, and who want a vision of the
00:19:34.380 world that we do. But that's changed a lot over the years, okay? And I think this is what people's
00:19:40.900 exasperation with our foreign policy in Afghanistan, is that we have no idea what we want. Because it
00:19:46.460 became, one, initially it was this attack to go kill the terrorists who took down the towers.
00:19:51.940 Then it became this, this crusade for nation building and spreading liberal democracy and abolishing
00:19:56.980 tyranny from the world. Those are George W. Bush's words. And then it became what? About sending girls
00:20:01.960 to school or something? And that's why we're going to keep our guys in harm's way? What is it? What is it?
00:20:07.580 A sensible foreign policy asks basic questions. What do we want to have happened there now?
00:20:15.500 What do we stand to gain from it? How much are we willing to lose? That's what we have to ask. And
00:20:23.080 all of this claptrap about our allies, the wonderful, amazing, no, look, there are no allies. There are
00:20:30.100 interests in Afghanistan, okay? And the longer it takes us to learn that lesson, the worse off we're
00:20:36.300 going to be. Speaking of allies that we can't rely on, Mitt Romney goes on CNN, naturally. He's talking to
00:20:43.400 Jake Tapper. And he says, you know, this is not really just Biden's fault. It's Trump's fault too.
00:20:49.380 Leaving Americans behind and leaving our Afghan friends behind who've worked with us
00:20:54.900 would put upon us and will put upon us a moral stain. And this is the result of very ineffective
00:21:02.780 decisions, terrible decisions made by the prior administration and by the current administration.
00:21:06.880 This did not have to happen. It was preventable. And let me note, that's very different than the
00:21:12.840 military. Our military came in at the very last moment and has performed admirably, as far as I
00:21:18.080 can tell, to move people out as quickly as possible. But we didn't have to be in this rush, rush
00:21:22.640 circumstance with terrorists breathing down our neck. But it's really the responsibility of the prior
00:21:27.960 administration and this administration that has caused this crisis to be upon us and has led to what
00:21:33.840 is without question a humanitarian and foreign policy tragedy. Notice what's missing from Mitt Romney's
00:21:39.980 attack on Donald Trump here. Any specific allegation, any evidence. So he says, look, we didn't need to be
00:21:49.620 in this situation where the terrorists are breathing down our neck. Yeah, that's true. That's, um, that's
00:21:55.840 Trump's fault. Trump's been out of office for eight months. Trump said we'd get out by May.
00:22:01.340 This administration bungled that and didn't get out until late August. So now we have the
00:22:07.160 terrorists breathing down our neck. How's that Trump's fault? Well, we didn't need to be in a
00:22:11.300 rush. 20 years is a rush. That's a rush to you, Mitt Romney. But what, what Romney has to do is say,
00:22:19.420 no, it look, it's all, everyone's to blame. It's no one's fault in particular. And when people say no
00:22:25.640 one is to blame, nothing is to blame, it's everybody, it's all everybody together. What he's
00:22:31.460 trying to do is not change anything. What he's trying to say is, look, no, it's a, it's everybody's
00:22:37.100 fault. Don't hold anyone accountable. Don't come to any conclusions. We really, we just should have
00:22:41.300 stayed. We just should have stayed another 20 years or another 60 years or another 80 years because
00:22:46.100 Mitt Romney, a court jester conservative, a clown whose entire job is to legitimize the liberal
00:22:53.640 regime. He is there to just try to keep this whole thing going. But I think getting back to that
00:22:59.640 comment at the top of the show, the, the liberal establishment is, is cracking under the weight of
00:23:05.560 its own incoherence and illogic. We're seeing it happen. We're seeing this sort of fake
00:23:10.380 performative meta presidency in, in Joe Biden, the presidency that always talks about the presidency.
00:23:17.060 Okay. It reveals all the secrets of the presidency. I'm going to call on the people. They told me I
00:23:21.640 had to call on the people. I'm the president or Donald Trump. Oh yeah. I got to sound really
00:23:25.980 presidential. Don't I? We're, we're seeing it collapse. We're seeing the incoherence of our
00:23:31.440 Afghanistan policy in particular collapse in real time. And speaking of dishonest politicians
00:23:36.700 on CNN specifically, Dr. Fauci goes on CNN on the same show. He goes on Jake Tapper's show
00:23:43.820 and he complains about people attacking him. This guy talk about dragging out political operations.
00:23:54.820 We've dragged out Afghanistan for 20 years. We've dragged out the 15 days to slow the spread for
00:23:58.920 well over a year and a half now. And Dr. Fauci says, please, please stop attacking me right now.
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00:24:34.400 Dr. Fauci can dish it, but he can't take it. Dr. Fauci can lock down our whole country for a year
00:24:50.880 and a half. He can lie to the American people. He can mislead people on the efficacy of various
00:24:55.320 measures. He can change his mind day by day, sometimes hour by hour. But the minute you
00:24:59.980 criticize him, all of a sudden, he wilts. He says, I'm not a politician. I'm a scientist. Why are you
00:25:05.360 attacking me?
00:25:06.720 Whoever is attacking me and attacking me, just a reflection of the politicization
00:25:11.180 of what should be a purely public health issue. And it's really unfortunate. You know,
00:25:16.800 they're attacking personally me because I'm a visible person. But I'm merely articulating
00:25:22.560 the proper public health practices that are recommended strongly by an organization. And
00:25:29.380 that organization is the CDC. So they like to pick out a certain person because they could
00:25:34.860 make that person, you know, the personification of political divides, which is so unfortunate,
00:25:40.500 Jake. We should put all of that aside. We have an extraordinary problem that's killing
00:25:46.080 people in the United States, killing us, putting us in the hospital. So that kind of
00:25:51.240 politicization that you just mentioned, there's no place for that when you're dealing with a public
00:25:56.400 health crisis. There is no place for politicization. He doesn't pronounce it correctly, but that's fine.
00:26:03.600 That just shows you how little he understands about politics and its relation to public policy.
00:26:09.200 He says, there's no place for politicization in public health.
00:26:16.020 Political means public. Public means political. Public health, public health policy is by definition
00:26:27.820 political. Dr. Fauci, a public health expert, policymaker, is by definition a politician.
00:26:38.520 He gets his paycheck from the government. He does things that pertain to the public with the support of the
00:26:46.360 government. And he's outlasted six presidents. He's on his sixth president right now. But he doesn't, he doesn't
00:26:53.500 even, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't want to ascribe to malice that which is explained by
00:26:57.420 ignorance and stupidity. Fauci doesn't even understand what public health is. We have a problem, Jake. We have a
00:27:07.280 problem of people dying here because of things that are happening in the public. Right. People are dying
00:27:13.280 because of the lockdowns. People are dying because of deaths of despair. People are dying because they
00:27:17.600 can't get their urgent medical treatment that is not related to COVID. They certainly were at the
00:27:21.960 beginning of the lockdowns. And that's on you, Fauci. And that's on you. I am merely a voice for the
00:27:28.160 proper public health measures. According to whom? Because according to me, look, I'm a citizen of the
00:27:34.540 United States. I'm a member of we, the people who are supposedly able to govern ourselves. And I don't
00:27:40.340 think that your measures are the proper public health measures. I think they're very improper.
00:27:44.980 And according to the constitution, I'm supposed to have some say in that. And actually, according to
00:27:48.660 the constitution, you're nowhere to be found other than as a private citizen who can vote. I don't see
00:27:52.980 the CDC in the constitution. I don't see the exalted Dr. Fauci in the constitution. There are entities
00:28:00.080 that have been created and brought into the government through the lawmaking bodies,
00:28:05.760 the lawmaking bodies that were established in the constitution over time. And they've been given
00:28:09.420 extraordinarily, extraordinary powers that have undermined the constitutional order. There's
00:28:14.040 no question about that. But as far as I can tell, we still have the opportunity to decide how we want
00:28:21.120 to live in our view. But in Fauci's view, you don't. You don't. You just need to go along.
00:28:26.820 People, why are they attacking me? Because you've usurped our power, our legitimate power
00:28:35.560 as a free people. That's why. And he doesn't even get it. It's such, it's a joke to him.
00:28:40.640 He doesn't even understand what he's done, which might be why we don't trust him to understand much
00:28:46.420 of anything else. Speaking of the politics of the coronavirus, you know, I hate to say I told you so.
00:28:54.680 You know, it pains me. I hate it. It's hard, but I, I told you so. Howard Dean, former presidential
00:29:02.080 candidate before he yee-hawed himself back out of the 2004 presidential race. Howard Dean,
00:29:10.140 former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont,
00:29:15.620 now just some guy who talks on MSNBC. Howard Dean busted out a line that I, I told you months and
00:29:23.100 months ago they were going to do. He busted it out a little earlier than I expected.
00:29:28.060 He says, you know, that Donald Trump, he was bad, but he was nowhere as bad as Ron DeSantis.
00:29:35.760 Well, I'm actually just shocked by DeSantis. I never thought I'd say this, but I think he may be
00:29:41.120 more of a lunatic than Trump ever was. I mean, Trump has finally come around to understanding that
00:29:45.980 the best thing he can do for his own supporters is get them to be vaccinated. DeSantis is just completely
00:29:51.540 out of touch with reality. Oh, DeSantis. Oh, he's much, he's like super mega duper Trump. He's,
00:29:57.960 oh yeah. Remember how, do you remember how for the past five years or probably six years now,
00:30:06.500 we've told you that Donald Trump is the singular threat. He is Hitler. He's unlike any other
00:30:11.100 Republican ever. How George Bush, who we used to tell you was Hitler, he, he, George Bush is great
00:30:16.800 now and he's good and he's a reasonable Republican and I've got a strange new respect for him and all
00:30:21.540 the other Republicans. Well, sure. I disagree with them, but they're fine. But Donald Trump,
00:30:25.720 he's the worst. He's a unique threat. He's Hitler. You can't vote for him. So they, they told you that
00:30:33.580 for five years. And, and at the time I said, you know, they don't mean this. Trump's fine. He's
00:30:40.080 governing just like a, like a normal Republican in many ways, actually. He's sort of returning to a more
00:30:44.460 normal Republican vibe, like pre Bush era, but they're just going to do it to the next guy.
00:30:52.220 And the Democrats assured me, they said, no, we won't Michael. I told this to my Democrat friends
00:30:57.120 and relatives. I said, you're just going to do it to the next guy. You're going to say the next guy's
00:31:00.000 worse than Trump. No, we, Trump is unique. He's the worst ever. I said, no, you're not. You're
00:31:04.400 going to find whoever it is. Maybe that person is going to be, I don't know, Josh Hawley. Maybe,
00:31:10.640 I don't know, it could be Nikki Haley. It could be, it is a various times in
00:31:14.360 the administration, different characters were popping up a little better than others. It could
00:31:17.260 be Ted Cruz. It could be Ron DeSantis. Now it, whoever it's going to be, you're going to tell
00:31:24.320 me that he is worse than Trump or she is worse than Trump. And I was told, no, Michael, Trump's
00:31:30.180 unique. I think the left really believed it. They really believed the lines that they were
00:31:35.440 spewing that Trump is this unique threat. But now ahead of schedule, now we're not, this is 2021
00:31:41.740 still. We are already being told Ron DeSantis is much worse than Donald Trump. He makes Trump
00:31:47.340 look sane. And you know what's going to happen? Let's say, let's say the Democrats are obviously
00:31:52.680 afraid of DeSantis right now. Let's say DeSantis becomes the nominee. It's still very early to
00:31:56.740 call that, but let's say he becomes a nominee. Let's say he becomes president and then they're
00:32:00.020 going to, this is what's going to happen. They're going to call him Hitler for four years
00:32:04.740 or at least as long and it may perhaps they impeach him and remove him from office. Maybe he wins a
00:32:10.600 second term. Maybe it's eight years. They're going to call him Hitler every day for eight years. And
00:32:15.380 they're going to say he's the unique threat and all I miss the good old days of Donald Trump and all
00:32:19.260 the good old days of George Bush and all the good old days of Ronald Reagan, all of whom we called
00:32:24.220 Nazis at the time. And then if DeSantis leaves office and some other guy come, they're going to say
00:32:29.900 DeSantis was the good guy and the new guy's Hitler. That's the way it works.
00:32:36.240 Do you get it yet? Do you see it? I mean, this was, this was my big problem with never Trump
00:32:40.240 or then what became in 2020, in the 2020 election, the re-election, they became Republicans for Biden,
00:32:48.100 Republicans for principles, defending democracy and principles and the evangelicals for Biden,
00:32:55.140 evangelicals for a million abortions a year, evangelicals for a debacle in Afghanistan.
00:32:59.900 The dignified adults. At the time I said, I don't know what your principles are. You don't
00:33:07.840 seem to have very much dignity and you don't realize it's just an op. This is just propaganda.
00:33:13.180 It's just BS. Trump actually is a very good president, but even if he weren't,
00:33:18.800 he certainly is not the unique threat of Hitler. And they didn't get it. Do you get it? Do you get it
00:33:24.040 now? I think you probably do. Some people are holding strong. Some people who are more independent
00:33:29.420 minded who are on the left or on the right. I'm thinking of Joe Rogan, who at times he seems like
00:33:34.280 a left winger. At times he seems like a right winger. He was a Bernie guy, but then he was a
00:33:37.940 Trump guy. He's not a Biden guy. He's not an establishment guy. Joe Rogan's still holding
00:33:43.060 pretty strong. We're now being told by the Fauci's of the world and all of them that if you in any way
00:33:48.880 resist efforts to mandate the masks and mandate the vaccine, you're a murderer, you're a threat
00:33:56.560 to public health, you're politicizing everything. But Rogan's not hearing it. Rogan is holding a show
00:34:03.720 at Madison Square Garden. He's sold a zillion tickets already. And now in New York, they're
00:34:08.220 mandating the vaccine just like they are in parts of Europe. And so Rogan faces this problem. Is he going
00:34:14.400 to force his fans, many of whom have bought tickets already, to get the vaccine? Or is he
00:34:21.260 going to fight back? Here's Rogan's take. If someone has, you know, an ideological or a
00:34:30.580 physiological reason for not getting vaccinated, I don't want to force them to get vaccinated to see
00:34:35.680 a stupid comedy show. And I've already sold 13,000 tickets. And now they say that everybody has to be
00:34:41.580 vaccinated. And, you know, I want everybody to know that, you know, you can get your money back.
00:34:47.300 I'm not, I'm not an anti-vax person. Right. In fact, I said, I believe they're safe. And I encourage
00:34:53.600 many people to take them. My parents were vaccinated. I just said, I don't think that if you're a young,
00:34:59.260 healthy person that you need it. Their argument was, you need it for other people. So you don't
00:35:04.940 transmit the virus. That makes more sense. So I'm a young, that's a different argument.
00:35:08.320 Yeah. And, and by the way, what Joe is leaving unsaid here, at least in this little clip
00:35:13.220 is, okay, so now their argument is you don't need it for yourself. Cause if you're vaccinated,
00:35:17.700 you're totally fine. And you know, you're, you're not going to face serious consequences of the virus.
00:35:21.700 And if you're unvaccinated, you're taking that risk. But if you're unvaccinated, you're risking
00:35:25.800 infecting others, except that we are now told by the studies, by the science that the vaccinated and
00:35:33.280 the unvaccinated are carrying similar viral loads that they might not be as likely to face
00:35:37.900 hospitalization or death, but they are as likely to carry and transmit the virus.
00:35:42.380 So then do you see the problem here for the people saying you need to get vaxxed for others?
00:35:47.420 Whether you're vaxxed or unvaxxed, you may very well carry the virus and transmit it to others.
00:35:52.240 The thing that's going to determine whether you go to the hot, whether anyone goes to the hospital or
00:35:55.700 dies, according to the science, according to the experts, according to the politicians,
00:35:59.620 is whether or not you have the vaccine. So it falls right back to this question of personal choice,
00:36:07.500 personal prudential judgment. What risk am I going to take? As Joe Rogan correctly says,
00:36:14.220 if you are a young person, you are at a very, very low risk of facing serious complications of the
00:36:22.260 virus. If you're a morbidly obese 85 year old, maybe you're at a higher risk. Okay. Maybe you're going
00:36:28.880 to have a different calculation. But if you're a young person, the arguments that the people who
00:36:35.220 are mandating vaccines are making don't make any sense. They don't make any sense at all. And so
00:36:40.140 Rogan hats off to him. He's saying, you know, if I don't, I don't feel comfortable mandating that my
00:36:48.140 audience gets the vaccine. So you can have your money back. Now, Eric Clapton is going even further
00:36:54.060 than that. Clapton's saying he will not play at venues because Eric Clapton had the vaccine. So
00:36:59.060 he was open to it. It's not like he's totally anti-vax. He was open to it. He had a very negative
00:37:02.640 reaction. We know the CDC and the FDA have told us that you can have negative reactions to this
00:37:06.480 vaccine. There have been to these vaccines. There have been multiple reported incidents of them.
00:37:11.460 And Clapton said, yeah, really paralyzed my hands. I couldn't play for a while. So I'm not playing
00:37:15.080 to houses that are mandating the vax. Rogan is taking a sort of middle ground here and he's saying,
00:37:21.400 look, I'll play, I guess, especially since we booked the show before the city mandated this.
00:37:27.540 But there is no way I'm forcing my guys to get this vaccine. Absolutely right.
00:37:32.500 We are living in a world right now where you can't trust the president of the United States.
00:37:36.580 You can't trust the military leadership. They've all lost their freaking minds.
00:37:39.780 You can't trust the public health experts because they've been wrong about a lot of stuff. And in some
00:37:43.400 cases have lied to you. You're living in a world where Joe Rogan is a much more credible person
00:37:47.840 than most of our elected and appointed leaders. Speaking of performances, Olivia Rodrigo. Olivia
00:37:57.480 Rodrigo is apparently a popular musician. I had never heard of her until a month or two ago when
00:38:02.740 there was some story about something she had done. And I don't even remember what she had done.
00:38:07.760 Apparently she's a very popular musician, has had a bunch of number one songs. And yet I don't,
00:38:13.000 what do I know? I'm not, this is not the sort of person that I pay attention to. But I've now heard
00:38:18.040 of her for the second time. And this is not because of any music she's made. It's because
00:38:21.220 of something she said. She said in a magazine interview, quote, I sometimes get DMs from little
00:38:27.780 girls being like, I've never seen someone who looked like me in your position. And I'm literally
00:38:33.780 going to cry, like just thinking about it. Rodrigo, 18, said in the V magazine feature,
00:38:38.880 I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like pop star. That's a white girl.
00:38:45.000 So first of all, this girl looks pretty white. I don't, you know, I guess she's Hispanic with a
00:38:49.380 name like Rodrigo, but she looks pretty white to begin with. And she's, she's using this line that
00:38:54.300 you, you constantly hear from the race hustlers and, and the victim people. And it says that I,
00:39:00.400 you know, growing up, I never saw, oh, she's Filipino. Apparently the producers tell me she's
00:39:03.720 Filipino. Okay, whatever. She just, she looks, oh, I wouldn't know. She's ethnically
00:39:08.340 ambiguous. Let's put it that way. But apparently this is the defining feature of her personality,
00:39:13.160 of who she is. And she comes out and says, you know, it's, I never saw people who looked like me
00:39:22.160 and the little girls today never see anyone who looked like them. Now, some people are responding
00:39:28.040 and saying, hold on lady, um, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, uh, hold on. I pretty sure we've seen
00:39:35.480 some black popular musicians or Hispanic popular musicians before. And, or at least in, I guess,
00:39:42.920 to go to her example, non-white popular musicians. But I want to be really fair. Okay. Cause she said
00:39:48.600 pop star. She said pop stars were always white. So yeah, sure. Maybe soul singers, R and B, hip hop,
00:39:54.660 jazz, maybe they're black, but we've never seen non-white girl pop stars, right?
00:40:01.400 So I took a little, I just took a little trip down Google, looked up, uh, this girl, Olivia Rodrigo was
00:40:08.780 born in 2003, apparently. 2003, Grammy for pop vocalist winner, Nora Jones, Indian woman. Grammy for
00:40:17.660 pop album goes to Norman Brown, the black guy. Grammy for pop vocal collaboration, Santana, Hispanic,
00:40:25.500 and Michelle Branch, Indo. 2004, this is the next, she's one year old now. Pop vocalist,
00:40:32.200 Christina Aguilera, Hispanic. Pop collaboration, Mary J. Blige. 2005, Nora Jones wins a bunch again,
00:40:39.700 Indian woman, including one with Ray Charles, who's a black guy. 2006, this is all in the pop category.
00:40:45.640 Stevie Wonder is a winner. De La Soul is a winner. Black guys. 2007, Christina Aguilera is a winner.
00:40:52.460 Black Eyed Peas winner. Stevie Wonder. Al Jarreau.
00:40:58.520 For this girl's entire life, it has seemed, if you're just looking at the billboard charts and
00:41:04.120 you're just looking at the Grammys, there is no reason for any non-white girl to think it is
00:41:11.000 impossible to become a big pop star if you're non-white. Frankly, you would be more likely to
00:41:18.120 think that if you were a white girl during this era, you might, if you were a white girl during
00:41:24.080 this era, you might look at the pop charts and think, man, a white girl just can't make it in
00:41:27.060 this world. This is not the industry for white girls looking at, but, but because we are living
00:41:34.280 in surreality, we're living in unreality, we're living in a delusion right now.
00:41:39.860 Many people believe this. We are living in a delusion. The White House is living in a delusion.
00:41:48.020 The top military brass is living in a delusion. All of us here in the culture are living in a
00:41:52.740 delusion and delusions have consequences because delusions run up against reality sometimes in Kabul
00:42:01.500 in the United States. And when delusions run up against reality, reality wins.
00:42:08.640 And it's not, it's funny. I mean, we can make fun of Rodrigo or who, we can make fun of Mark Milley,
00:42:13.620 you know, the pink haired woke chairman of the Joint Chiefs. We can make fun of that sergeant,
00:42:18.960 that sergeant major. We can make fun of Biden. But there are real world consequences here.
00:42:23.200 There's a Virginia school district right now. We're getting ready for the 20th anniversary of the
00:42:28.620 September 11th terror attacks. A Virginia school district is telling a teacher,
00:42:34.000 telling not just one teacher, but all of their teachers, to avoid talking about Muslim terror.
00:42:38.780 Virginia's Department of Education, the whole statewide Department of Education,
00:42:43.220 hosted a speaker who instructed teachers to exclude the role that Muslim extremism played in 9-11.
00:42:48.600 This woman, Amara Dequeer, who did a PowerPoint called Education Leadership. Oh, I'm sorry. This woman
00:42:56.840 is an education leadership scholar. She offered a PowerPoint to these teachers. She said that
00:43:01.960 teachers should avoid using language that could pin those events on Muslim extremists. Quote,
00:43:06.780 school and classroom 9-11 commemorations are sites for increased anti-Muslim racism.
00:43:15.620 Do you see the problem even with just that statement? Muslim is not a race. Islam is not a race. It's a
00:43:25.040 religion. And it is the religion in whose name the terrorists took down the Twin Towers. And it
00:43:32.500 wasn't senseless violence. And it wasn't racist. We now say all bad things are racist. It wasn't any of
00:43:36.860 that. It was religious. They had ideas. And they followed those ideas to their logical conclusion.
00:43:43.560 They had erroneous ideas. They had delusions. And they follow those delusions into reality. And it had
00:43:50.280 really negative consequences. Before we go, speaking of crazy teachers, I can't go a full
00:43:56.420 day without a Libs of TikTok video featuring a teacher who just came out as non-binary.
00:44:02.600 I'm about to come out to all my students.
00:44:07.500 So I have a quick announcement for everybody. Can everybody look up from their phones? My class
00:44:12.080 is important, please. Hello. I'm waiting. You guys look at me. So I usually go by Mr. Johnson,
00:44:20.640 but I would like to be called Zoa now. My name is Zoa, and I'm non-binary. So you can call me Mr. Zoa.
00:44:28.260 You can call me Miss Zoa. You can call me Mix Zoa. That's M-X period. And I go by all pronouns.
00:44:35.900 That's it. Thank you.
00:44:42.080 Thanks, guys. That's it.
00:44:44.740 I'm proud of you.
00:44:45.440 Oh, thank you.
00:44:47.480 The thing is, though, he's not non-binary. He's a man. He's a crazy man who should not be teaching
00:44:52.200 children. He's living in a delusion. He's encouraging a whole generation of kids to live
00:44:56.000 in a delusion. His own classroom, but this is happening at the national level, too. And that
00:45:01.040 delusion, we all cheer it on now. Wow, I'm so proud of you. You're exploring your fantasies,
00:45:06.020 your delusions. Those delusions are going to have consequences, and they ain't going to be good.
00:45:10.540 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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00:46:04.120 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a prominent psychologist suggests that white people should
00:46:08.660 kill themselves, while another worries that white people are haunted by the ghosts of whiteness,
00:46:12.800 whatever that means. It's just more radical leftism for mental health professionals. The
00:46:15.680 entire industry is rife with it. We'll talk about the consequences of that fact today. Also,
00:46:19.220 Dr. Fauci endorses vaccine mandates for children and makes a predictably misleading argument in favor
00:46:24.640 of them. We'll talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:46:27.400 We'll talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.