The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 832 - Biden Has No Time For Dead Soldiers

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 0.60

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.

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00:02:03.320 routine about being president. That's all true. I totally buy it. Joe Biden's doing the same thing.

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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 0.85

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 1.00

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, 0.94

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 0.97

00:06:30.860 than these clowns. All of these people should be fired and probably banished to St. Helena. 1.00

00:06:35.560 This is what our military is focused on. One, getting more women into the military, 1.00

00:06:42.020 more women into combat. Yeah. It's, it's inclusive and more equitable when we send our women to be 1.00

00:06:47.140 killed and blown up in the Middle East. That, that makes us a better country, doesn't it? 1.00

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 0.92

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 0.51

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.85

00:08:04.100 sufficiently lethal. But when you add black people to it, then it's more lethal. Therefore, the only 1.00

00:08:10.020 conclusion could be that, that black people are more violent than white people. Black people are 1.00

00:08:14.340 deadlier than white people. But if you said that, if you came out and you said, yeah, blacks are much 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:08:44.100 be women are more violent and lethal and deadly than men, which is preposterous. It's just not true 0.99

00:08:49.420 because women are not as strong as men physically. They're just not. They're just not. 1.00

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, 0.99

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 1.00

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, 0.90

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 0.71

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

00:12:28.480 if they're from a bad group. We don't know if they want to kill us. Just flying them all over. Complete

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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 0.83

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:16:17.460 Soviets, turns out they weren't so great at forming a government together. So that plunges Afghanistan 0.98

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. 0.64

00:16:44.940 Okay. The Taliban quickly, all of the, not all, but virtually all of the Taliban's original 0.66

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. 0.97

00:17:07.600 They, with the support of our allies in the ISI, harbor Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden 0.55

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 0.97

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. 0.87

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.80

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.97

00:22:53.640 regime. He is there to just try to keep this whole thing going. But I think getting back to that 0.96

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.95

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 0.95

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 1.00

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. 0.98

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 0.62

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 1.00

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 0.82

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 1.00

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 0.99

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. 0.99

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 0.99

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. 0.99

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 0.99

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? 0.96

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 0.65

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. 1.00

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 1.00

00:41:11.000 impossible to become a big pop star if you're non-white. Frankly, you would be more likely to 1.00

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 0.94

00:41:27.060 this world. This is not the industry for white girls looking at, but, but because we are living 0.99

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, 0.91

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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 1.00

00:44:52.200 children. He's living in a delusion. He's encouraging a whole generation of kids to live 1.00

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 0.99

00:46:08.660 kill themselves, while another worries that white people are haunted by the ghosts of whiteness, 1.00

00:46:12.800 whatever that means. It's just more radical leftism for mental health professionals. The 0.99

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.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 30, 2021

Ep. 832 - Biden Has No Time For Dead Soldiers

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