The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Am I Nostradamus? Am I Nolstradamus? Over the past couple of weeks, everyone has been focusing

00:00:06.540 on the many evils of the Taliban. The Taliban, you see, are the bad guys. They're our enemies.

00:00:12.900 They're the enemies of our pure and innocent allies, we have been told. And you will recall

00:00:18.480 that I urged caution. I pointed out on this show and in a column, you know, I hate to say,

00:00:23.420 I told you so, that allies, quote unquote, in Afghanistan changed by the day.

00:00:29.420 Actually, there are no allies in Afghanistan. There are only interests. The guys who started

00:00:35.180 the Taliban were our allies in the 1980s. They were the allies of our allies in the 1990s,

00:00:42.300 even though those allies that they were the allies of turned out probably to be our enemies. Now,

00:00:46.140 they were our enemies over the past two decades, but now they're our allies again in the fight

00:00:50.680 against ISIS. One week ago, these were the worst people on earth. Today, Joe Biden's national

00:00:58.020 security advisor is talking about sending them foreign aid. You say we're going to work with

00:01:02.600 the Taliban. Does that include the prospect of giving them aid? Well, first of all, we do believe

00:01:07.540 that there is an important dimension of humanitarian assistance that should go directly to the people

00:01:11.980 of Afghanistan. They need help with respect to health and food aid and other forms of subsistence.

00:01:17.660 And we do intend to continue that. Secondly, when it comes to our economic and development assistance

00:01:23.080 relationship with the Taliban, that will be about the Taliban's actions. It will be about whether

00:01:28.680 they follow through on their commitments, their commitments to safe passage for Americans and

00:01:33.160 Afghan allies, their commitment to not allow Afghanistan to be a base from which terrorists

00:01:39.940 can attack the United States or any other country, their commitments with respect to upholding

00:01:44.560 their international obligations. It's going to be up to them. And we will wait and see,

00:01:49.220 by their actions, how we end up responding in terms of the economic and development assistance.

00:01:54.620 In other words, once you get past all that mealy-mouthed nonsense, yes, we are going to

00:02:00.040 fund the Taliban. We probably are already doing it. And we've certainly already armed the Taliban.

00:02:05.440 And Joe Biden will call that a victory. And the media will cheer him on. And everyone will forget

00:02:10.500 about the stranded Americans. Everyone that is except for the GOP congressman who is currently

00:02:15.140 missing in Afghanistan, according to reports, because he's on a rogue mission to rescue a family

00:02:19.640 of five. But other than that, a few efforts. We'll just move along. Move along. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:25.600 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:00.500 There's a Republican congressman who is reportedly missing in Afghanistan because he's on a

00:05:06.600 action hero-like mission to individually, just personally, rescue a family of four or five.

00:05:15.680 This is a real story. He has attempted to get into Afghanistan two other times,

00:05:20.580 once through Greece and once, I believe, through Tajikistan. And both times he was turned away and

00:05:27.300 he apparently got into a fight with the embassy because they wouldn't let him through. He's just

00:05:30.540 trying to go in with a bunch of cash to get out of Afghanistan. But now the reports are he did make

00:05:36.680 it in. We don't really know how. We don't know if they're true or not. Obviously, there's a lot more

00:05:40.360 questions than answers. But the reports are that he did make it in. We don't know how. He's got a bunch

00:05:45.540 of money and he's just going to buy and shoot his way out of Afghanistan and save this family.

00:05:52.380 This is awesome. This is great. I get why the embassies turned him away and said, no,

00:05:58.540 you can't just go on a one-man rogue mission into Afghanistan. But one, I'm glad that we've got a

00:06:03.760 little do-it-yourselfer here who's actually going to take matters into his own hands. And two,

00:06:08.340 this shows you the incompetence of the bureaucracy, of the blob, the State Department and everyone else

00:06:15.060 over there. Even a U.S. congressman can't get answers. Even when a United States elected

00:06:21.980 congressman calls and says, hey, get this family out, he can't get anywhere. So he's got to take

00:06:26.940 matters into his own hands. It shows you how little faith we have in the deep state, the official

00:06:34.360 Washington, or rather the permanent Washington. The elected people come and go, but the permanent

00:06:40.040 bureaucracy, the permanent government remains. And not even the elected guys can get answers out of

00:06:45.040 them. None of us can get answers. Jen Psaki, giving a press conference, was asked a very simple

00:06:51.720 question. We know that there are Americans who wanted to get out of Afghanistan who are currently

00:06:56.960 trapped in Afghanistan, even though you told us that we would not leave any Americans behind who

00:07:00.720 wanted to get out. Okay, that's where we are right now. We don't know how many are still in

00:07:05.440 Afghanistan. So we just, here's a simple question. Did any of those Americans get out today?

00:07:11.160 On Afghanistan, is there any sense of if and how many Americans might have left today? Is there

00:07:20.260 even a way to track that for the U.S. government at this point?

00:07:22.980 Well, I will say we remain in touch through a range of means of communication, email, text,

00:07:28.680 WhatsApp. That's something that we could certainly do from here, but also having a presence in Doha

00:07:33.880 and diplomats in the region will enable that to happen locally or close by as well. I don't have

00:07:41.520 an update for you on the numbers, but that's something the State Department would have the

00:07:45.780 best assessment of. So no. Do you know of any Americans who got out today? The answer is no,

00:07:50.900 but she didn't want to say no. So she had to give this word salad of, well, you know, we've been

00:07:55.140 texting. Well, good, good. I'm sure that's a great relief to the Americans who are waiting for the

00:08:00.160 Taliban to come and knock and say, no, but I've got a text from Jen Psaki. It's all going to be

00:08:04.000 fine, right? So that has been the White House line and the State Department line and the Pentagon line

00:08:11.620 from the beginning. It's no, we're in touch with them. We're not going to abandon them. Oh, shoot,

00:08:15.720 we abandoned them. Well, we're not. Well, don't worry. It'll be fine. We'll get them out. It's okay.

00:08:20.440 They're not going to be stuck there if they don't want to be. However, you are seeing that line

00:08:25.240 begin to change. The narrative is shifting because the Biden administration did strand

00:08:30.760 certain Americans. So now the line from the Pentagon is not, we won't leave any Americans

00:08:37.280 and it's not even, okay, we did, but we're going to get them out. The line is, don't worry. It's not

00:08:44.280 a big deal. We strand Americans behind enemy lines all the time. So what does that look like? How does

00:08:50.400 diplomacy get those people out of the Taliban controlled Afghanistan? It's not completely

00:08:55.900 unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. I mean, we have Americans that get stranded

00:09:00.140 in countries all the time. All the time. It's just not a big deal. Okay. Come on. Why are you

00:09:04.800 making such a big deal that now you've got a civil war in Afghanistan between the Taliban and ISIS,

00:09:11.360 which is one of those, one of those wars where you're just sort of hoping they both lose,

00:09:16.260 you know, not, neither of these are good winners potentially, but yeah, we've got Americans

00:09:21.960 stranded there, but it's no big deal. It happens all the time. It's just like, you know, when a guy

00:09:25.640 misses his flight out of Germany, it's just like that or out of Italy, you know, it's, it happens

00:09:30.020 all the time. I don't think this happens all the time. I think actually this is kind of a special case.

00:09:37.800 And you've heard this from people who wanted to stay in Afghanistan forever. They said, look,

00:09:41.440 whatever, we've been in Germany for years, right? Germany and Afghanistan are different.

00:09:45.980 And I think we all know that. And we all know that there are different risk profiles and we all

00:09:49.720 know that they are, are just different peoples and different, they have different sort of state

00:09:54.640 craft and Germany is an actual nation and Afghanistan is not and never has been. And it's

00:09:59.920 a much more dangerous situation in Afghanistan. And the way we know that it is a big deal is because

00:10:05.060 you gave us many assurances that this would not happen. And if this were just an ordinary thing

00:10:10.960 that happens all the time, I don't, I don't think you would have made a point to give all those

00:10:14.200 assurances. So Saki blew it. Kirby over at the Pentagon blew it. The state department is blowing

00:10:21.400 it. So Joe Biden came out. He gave another speech to try his hand at this. The speech was supposed

00:10:27.180 to happen. I forget what time yesterday afternoon. It was delayed by a lot, half an hour, 45 minutes,

00:10:32.220 may have been up to an hour delayed. Why? Why? First of all, why is Joe Biden giving important

00:10:38.080 national addresses in the afternoon? In my lifetime, every important national address,

00:10:42.940 certainly to declare the end of a war, oh my gosh, would have been in primetime. It would

00:10:47.440 have been in the evening when more people are home from work, when more people are paying attention.

00:10:51.880 Joe Biden doesn't give evening addresses almost ever. Why is that? Why, why won't he give an address

00:10:57.820 past 6 p.m. or 4 p.m. for that matter? Why was it delayed? What was going on? What could he or could

00:11:06.680 he not do? So Joe Biden, I don't know, I don't know how he got his energy, but he got a little

00:11:13.280 jolt of energy, spent the speech yelling at everyone. And he came out forcefully with the

00:11:18.920 thesis. We didn't know if it was going to be, don't blame me. It's not my fault. I didn't want to do this.

00:11:23.420 We didn't know if this was going to be, this is, this is great, but I don't know. It's not my,

00:11:27.660 it's not my fault. Or we didn't know if this was going to be, this is my decision.

00:11:32.260 This is my decision. I'm owning it. I made the choice. I'm the decider. So at the beginning of

00:11:37.640 the speech, Joe Biden chose the third option. This is my decision. I'm pulling out of Afghanistan and

00:11:44.360 I'm sticking to it. In April, I made a decision to end this war. Okay. In April, I made the decision

00:11:52.560 to end this war. I think politically, this was probably a smart move. He's getting killed for

00:11:59.520 Afghanistan right now. His numbers are tanking in the polls, but sometimes a wrong decision is better

00:12:05.320 than indecision. And I'm not saying the decision to pull out was wrong. I think what Americans want to

00:12:10.360 see from their commander in chief though, no matter how well or how terribly things go is accountability.

00:12:15.680 They want to say the buck stops here. This, this was my decision. I'm sticking to it, which Biden did

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00:13:53.180 end of the war in Afghanistan. And he says, I made the decision to end this war. Now, just as a fact

00:14:01.220 check here, he didn't. He, he is reiterating a decision that was made 18 months ago by Donald

00:14:09.020 Trump. Donald Trump signed the agreement to end the war in Afghanistan. And Joe Biden's very salty

00:14:14.080 about that because he wants credit for ending the war because he knows that it's a popular thing to

00:14:18.240 end the war in Afghanistan. So he says, I made the decision, even though that's not true. But then

00:14:22.000 just five minutes later in the speech, he blames Trump for everything that went wrong.

00:14:26.480 My predecessor, the former president, signed an agreement with the Taliban to remove U.S.

00:14:33.600 troops by May the 1st, just months after I was inaugurated. By the time I came to office,

00:14:41.120 the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half

00:14:49.660 half of the country. The previous administration's agreement said that if we stuck to the May 1st

00:14:57.780 deadline that they had signed on to leave by, the Taliban wouldn't attack any American forces.

00:15:04.000 But if we stayed, all bets were off. So we're left with a simple decision. Either follow through on the

00:15:12.540 commitment made by the last administration and leave Afghanistan or say we weren't leaving and commit

00:15:19.580 another tens of thousands more troops going back to war. So lame. This is so lame, dude.

00:15:28.220 Either take responsibility or don't. I think it's in your political interest to say it's all you and

00:15:33.560 the buck stops here. But pick a lane. Pick a lane. You know what else is lame is calling them the Taliban?

00:15:39.080 Taliban. Taliban. Taliban was funded by Pakistan. You speak English. Taliban. Pakistan.

00:15:46.440 So he says, my predecessor made a deal with the Taliban. Right. He made the deal. He ended the

00:15:51.400 war. So now you don't get credit for ending the war. No, but I made the decision to end the war.

00:15:55.440 Well, you just said that Trump made the decision. No, I made the good parts. I want credit for the

00:16:00.800 good parts, but I want him to get responsibility for the bad parts. So, okay, what is he actually saying

00:16:07.840 Trump did? Trump made a deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. And he said,

00:16:10.840 we'd be out by May. So why weren't you out by May? Wouldn't that, wouldn't that have, if that was the

00:16:15.840 deal, wouldn't that have minimized all of this risk, all of this chaos, all of this rush, all of this

00:16:21.540 question of how much you're overstaying the deadline that you agreed to get out by May. So he couldn't get

00:16:28.020 out by May, bungled that. Then he tries to get out by August and it's a complete catastrophe.

00:16:35.280 Then he's even less coherent. And unfortunately, this is the kind of language we always hear with

00:16:40.620 Afghanistan. What, because it's a divisive issue. Do you, do you want to stay there forever? And

00:16:46.320 we're just going to, yeah, go in there, America, glass the place. We're going to own it. Or do you

00:16:51.260 want to get out? Do you want to say, who cares? I don't care about that backwater, that God-forsaken

00:16:55.520 tribal land. Get out of there, bring our troops home, build, nation build back here in America.

00:16:59.940 What is it? What, even the conservatives are divided on this question. And, and Joe Biden

00:17:04.080 can't pick a side because Joe Biden is not a conviction politician. Joe Biden is an empty

00:17:07.920 suit. He has been his whole career. So he licks his finger. He puts his finger up in the air. He

00:17:11.960 figures out which way the wind is blowing. And then depending on that day or that hour or that

00:17:16.240 minute, that's the position he's going to hold. So, so now he's, he's trying to use the rhetoric of

00:17:21.880 get out of Afghanistan. We've been there too long to make a case for staying in Afghanistan.

00:17:27.160 Struck ISIS-K remotely days after they murdered 13 of our service members and dozens of innocent Afghans.

00:17:36.460 And to ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet. As commander in chief, I firmly believe the best

00:17:48.680 path to guard our safety and our security lies in a tough, unforgiving, targeted, precise strategy

00:17:57.020 that goes after terror where it is today, not where it was two decades ago.

00:18:05.060 That's what's in our national interest.

00:18:07.100 Okay. So he's talking tough. We're not done with you yet. I mean, we are, we're leaving,

00:18:12.400 we're gone, but we're, does anybody believe that? No. Then he says, pay attention to the words here.

00:18:19.740 But ISIS-K, we're going to fight terror where it is today, not where it was two decades ago.

00:18:27.860 What is ISIS-K? ISIS-K is the offshoot of the Islamic State, specifically in Khorasan. What is

00:18:32.660 Khorasan? It's Afghanistan and parts of Iran too. It's Afghanistan. Hey, Afghan terror group,

00:18:42.040 we're not going to fight terror where it was two decades ago, which was in Afghanistan.

00:18:46.020 Afghanistan. We're going to fight terror where it is today in Afghanistan, except we're leaving

00:18:50.440 Afghanistan. Yeah, that'll show him. That'll show him just completely incoherent. This man has soup

00:18:58.120 for brains and it's not because he's senile. He is senile. He's obviously in decline. He obviously

00:19:03.180 can't stay up past six o'clock, which is why he gives the afternoon speeches. And he clearly can't

00:19:07.560 do those very well either because he shows up late to them. They're trying to get his energy up.

00:19:11.380 He can't read the teleprompter. The speech was more slurred than even they usually are,

00:19:16.540 which is a bad thing. It's a bad thing when the leader of your country is like this.

00:19:19.540 Reminds me of Chernenko, one of these premiers at the end of the Soviet Union who lived for about

00:19:24.140 six weeks. You know, he barely, he could barely do anything. It's pathetic. It's pathetic and it's

00:19:29.500 not good for the country. Not good for him, Biden, not good for the country. But when I say he's soup

00:19:34.380 for brains, I'm not saying it's because he's in decline. He's always been soup for brains. He's never

00:19:38.380 been all that smart. He used to lie about his academic record because of this,

00:19:42.920 because he would graduate at the bottom of his classes. He's just a glad hander. He's just a

00:19:47.420 back slapper. He's just a simper smiler, you know, hey, I'll go fix your pothole kind of politician.

00:19:53.960 And he is not up to the challenge that we face right now, which is why our foreign policy is

00:19:58.800 confused, which is why he doesn't know. Was the decision to leave Trump's fault or his fault or

00:20:03.060 Trump's accomplishment or his accomplishment? Is it good or is it bad? Is it a great success or is it a

00:20:07.560 terrible failure? Are we going to leave Afghanistan or are we going to stay there? Are we going to

00:20:10.760 fight terror or are we not going to fight terror? What is it? He doesn't know. He doesn't want to

00:20:13.720 take a position. Now, of course, there's going to be terrorism in Afghanistan. There's going to be

00:20:19.880 terrorism in Pakistan, Pakistan. There's going to be terrorism in Yemen. There's going to be

00:20:23.720 terrorism in Africa. There's going to be terrorism in a lot of different places, okay? And we are going

00:20:27.700 to have to be smart about how you fight it, when you fight it, what you do. There is terror at home,

00:20:32.700 okay? Do you remember last year when BLM and Antifa terrorists burned the country down city to

00:20:42.160 city to city, targeting civilians to achieve political ends, right? The most basic definition

00:20:48.160 of terrorism. Remember when they did that? And they did that with the encouragement and sometimes

00:20:52.780 financial support of elected Democrats, one of whom is now the vice president of the United States.

00:20:58.600 Remember that? So these Antifa guys, these BLM guys, they're not just running in the streets,

00:21:04.620 throwing Molotov cocktails into people's store windows. They're also in the classroom. James

00:21:08.920 O'Keefe over at Project Veritas has an undercover interview with a member of Antifa who is a teacher

00:21:15.280 at a school in Sacramento who doesn't even hide it. It turns out he actually flies an Antifa flag

00:21:21.700 in the classroom.

00:21:22.700 I have 180 days to turn them into revolutionaries. How do you do that? How do you?

00:21:26.980 I'm scared of f***ing out of them. Yeah. Sacramento organization that is under the banner of Antifa

00:21:32.220 is very loosely organized, right? So that, yeah, when there is like right-wing rallies and stuff,

00:21:38.780 then we like, we'll create an opposition to that. Absolutely. Yeah. Beautiful. Where would

00:21:42.720 you go to connect to some of these organizations? I post a calendar every week. And I do it for

00:21:49.520 extra credit. So they get points for doing it. Like, so that encourages them to do it. And I've

00:21:53.880 had like students show up for like protests, community events, you know, tabling, food

00:21:58.540 distribution, all sorts of things. They, when they go, they take pictures, they write up a reflection,

00:22:03.720 that's their extra credit. Like, I have an Antifa flag on my, on my wall. And a student complained

00:22:09.380 about that. And you said it made them feel uncomfortable. Well, this is meant to make fascists feel

00:22:13.900 uncomfortable. So if you feel uncomfortable, I don't really know what to tell you. Like, maybe you

00:22:18.000 shouldn't be aligning with the values that this is antithetical to. Yeah. Maybe, maybe you shouldn't

00:22:23.640 support America, for instance, right? You shouldn't salute the American flag. You shouldn't support the

00:22:27.740 American president when it was Donald Trump. You shouldn't, you shouldn't do that. If you do that,

00:22:33.100 well, I guess you're just not going to align with our class, right? Yesterday, I mentioned the teacher

00:22:38.340 who has her students say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag, the pride progress flag. That's the

00:22:43.180 new one with even more colors. And it's like sex and race and whatever. We'll get to her in a second.

00:22:48.020 There is an update on her. She is like Uncle Sam compared to this guy. She's like George Patton,

00:22:55.580 for goodness sakes, compared to this guy. I said with her that she should be fired, but she shouldn't

00:22:59.960 be thrown in jail. She shouldn't be ostracized. This guy, I don't know. I think we should get a

00:23:04.240 little tougher with this guy. I don't think I, like William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the post-war

00:23:09.140 conservative movement. I don't think this guy has any right to stay out of prison. I don't.

00:23:13.820 Certainly, he should be fired. He should not be teaching. But if you're a member of Antifa,

00:23:18.060 I don't think you really have a right to stay out of prison. I don't think you really have many

00:23:22.080 rights at all. If you're a member of a terrorist organization that openly seeks to overturn our

00:23:28.260 system of government and that has actively engaged in acts of terror and regularly does that,

00:23:34.080 I don't think you have very many rights at all. Today, you do. I mean, today, you're much

00:23:39.140 more protected than the average Trump supporter in the public square, in the sort of activism you

00:23:44.220 can engage in. But I don't think that should be the case. And I think conservatives need to get a

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00:24:02.820 It was me and Drew and Matt and Ben and Jeremy were all just kind of fighting about Afghanistan.

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00:24:15.040 Some people made better arguments than others, I would say, but it was really good. I really enjoyed

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00:24:23.580 Instead of just tuning in from your home, you'll be able to see us live and on stage right at the

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00:25:08.320 sure you don't miss out. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:25:22.200 I mentioned yesterday a teacher who posted a TikTok video and the video was joking about how she does not

00:25:29.280 have an American flag in her classroom. And so her students are supposed to stand up and say the

00:25:34.300 Pledge of Allegiance, but she says, you don't need to stand. You don't need to utter the pledge even

00:25:37.600 if you do stand. And then some of the students said, well, you know, if we want to, we don't have

00:25:41.260 a flag. So what are we pledging allegiance to? And she said, oh, we have a flag. And she pointed to

00:25:46.460 the rainbow, the Pride Progress flag, which isn't even just a gay thing. It's like a gay race. It's

00:25:52.060 just like all of these. It's just a flag for leftism, for a kind of imperial leftism that's beyond

00:25:57.900 national borders that's, that is supposed to replace the American flag. So yesterday on the

00:26:03.740 show, I said that that teacher should be fired. I don't think there's, first of all, I don't think

00:26:08.740 there's any guarantee of academic freedom in the third grade classroom or whatever. I don't, I think

00:26:14.120 our understanding of academic freedom has, has been perverted by the left everywhere. This also

00:26:18.540 speaking of William F. Buckley Jr. was the point of his book, God and Man at Yale, Superstitions of

00:26:22.840 Academic Freedom, that launched the post-war conservative movement. And by the way, just

00:26:28.180 speaking of that book, there is a new edition, the 70th anniversary edition of that book coming out.

00:26:31.840 And I'm very honored to report that I, I got to write the introduction to this new, new edition of

00:26:36.620 the book. It's the book that started it all, the post-war conservative movement. And so I'm pleased to

00:26:41.100 be able to offer an introduction. And unfortunately, we've forgotten a lot of what Buckley said in that

00:26:46.100 book. This teacher does not have any right to do this. Okay. So the good news is she's being

00:26:51.920 investigated. There's an official investigation from the Newport Mesa Unified School District in

00:26:56.980 Orange County. Teacher's name is Kristen Pitson and she might lose her job as she should.

00:27:03.420 She should. I don't, I don't think that this woman should be thrown in prison. I don't think she should

00:27:07.940 be completely ostracized from society. I think she should be allowed to go get another job somewhere

00:27:11.940 else, but just not a teaching job because she's a bad teacher. Her teaching is contrary to the best

00:27:19.080 interests of a student, if the student wants to be educated. And the teaching is distinctly

00:27:23.180 anti-American. And one of the purposes of education, especially public education, is to make

00:27:28.540 citizens. That's what, that's what it's there for, is to make good citizens. And what she is doing is

00:27:34.240 making bad citizens. She's discouraging students from being good citizens. And she's filling their

00:27:38.860 heads with a lot of claptrap that is wrong and bad for them. So she should not ever be permitted to

00:27:44.560 teach a student again. She should be allowed to go get a job in retail. She should be allowed to go

00:27:48.740 get a job at a marketing company. She should be allowed to go get a job wherever she wants, really,

00:27:53.260 but just not as a teacher. She failed at that. And there need to be consequences for that sort of

00:27:58.320 thing. And we, the people have the right to have a say in how the next generation of Americans is

00:28:04.220 educated. Speaking of kooky teachers, the LA Teachers Union has more demands. You know, during COVID,

00:28:11.380 the LA Teacher Union, they misinterpreted the COVID lockdowns as a semi-permanent vacation for

00:28:19.580 teachers who are already overpaid and overprotected in one of the worst school districts in the United

00:28:25.140 States. So the LA Teacher Union is now back. They're not just demanding whatever, changed hours and

00:28:34.180 plexiglass and open windows and certain school sizes and classroom changes. They're not just demanding

00:28:40.080 that. They're demanding a mandatory vaccine for all students. This is not about the students

00:28:48.580 because young people have a very, very, very, very, very, very, very low risk of facing serious

00:28:55.620 complications of the coronavirus. This is about the teachers protecting themselves, even though the

00:29:01.840 teachers face, generally speaking, a very, very, very, very low risk of serious complications from the

00:29:07.920 coronavirus. They are going to force students to take an experimental drug that the students really

00:29:14.840 don't need to protect them, themselves. Seems kind of backwards, doesn't it? Some parents are calling

00:29:24.420 this stuff out. There's a mother. There's a mother who, I don't know what school district this is. I don't

00:29:29.560 know where it is. But this mother shows up in a beautiful dress, beautiful floral dress, very articulate

00:29:34.660 woman. Gives a very good presentation. Very persuasive, I think. She herself is a nurse, an RN.

00:29:41.840 She's got two kids. And she wants the school board to stop being so demonic.

00:29:48.920 My name is Melissa. I have two daughters in the school system. These are demonic entities and we need

00:29:55.500 to stick together. Remember, we have authority in Christ Jesus. These are demonic entities in all the

00:30:02.940 school boards of all the United States of America and all of us Christians will be sticking together

00:30:08.900 to take them all out. All the police officers that kick us out for our First Amendment right will also

00:30:15.940 be going down with them. Do you understand? I'm a nurse, infectious disease, 13 years. Masks don't work.

00:30:24.320 These doctors that sit up here that were sneering at us and looking at us like we're scumbags,

00:30:29.100 they need to go back to medical school. Ma'am, you're out of order. Please. This is your last

00:30:35.160 warning.

00:30:37.660 Turn my mic off. Communications.

00:30:43.440 They need to remember, natural immunity is best. You are all demonic entities. You are going to be

00:30:51.560 taken down. Be still my beating heart. The producers are telling me this is at Lee County,

00:30:58.220 Lee County, Florida school board. And this woman, oh, Michael, she's crazy. She's talking crazy. She's

00:31:05.320 sure. I know it like it sounds kind of crazy and everything, but show me the lie. Show me the lie.

00:31:14.260 She says that natural immunity is a good thing and the scientific establishment is completely ignoring

00:31:19.440 it. That's obviously true. She's pointing out that the kids don't need to take these insane

00:31:24.480 precautions because the kids aren't particularly at risk, right? That's obviously true. And her most

00:31:28.980 outlandish claim is that demons exist and exert an influence on the world, which is just obviously

00:31:35.600 true. Okay. I don't, I'm not saying that these particular school board members are possessed or

00:31:40.880 obsessed by demons, but like, I don't know, man, maybe. If that's the most outlandish religious

00:31:47.200 claim that this woman is making, then it seems way less outlandish than the religious claims

00:31:52.940 that the left is making. Here are some out, religious claims that the left makes regularly.

00:31:59.020 Boys can become girls. Your body has nothing to do with who you really are. And therefore we should

00:32:03.360 mutilate the genitals of little children to better record with their fantasies. Babies are not babies.

00:32:10.760 Babies are, are just clumps of cells and we should kill them. That's it. Sounds kind of demonic,

00:32:15.460 actually. All those things sound pretty, pretty, like those things are like in the Bible actually.

00:32:19.820 So that's not, okay. All right. What, what are some other religious claims? If you wear a piece

00:32:25.800 of filthy cloth, you'll be very well protected against a virus. Don't, don't totally buy that.

00:32:33.720 What are, what are some other religious claims? That we need to fear a point, what, point zero,

00:32:39.660 zero, three percent chance of dying or somewhere thereabouts for young people from the coronavirus.

00:32:46.100 We have to have a neurotic fear of death everywhere in society for a virus that doesn't pose in the

00:32:50.620 grand scheme of things a particularly grave risk to our lives. These are all, these are all religious

00:32:55.080 claims, okay. But because this woman gets up there and says, I'm a Christian and you people seem to have

00:33:00.840 demonic influence on you. She's, she's the crazy one, right? I'm not sure she is the crazy one.

00:33:05.760 But something, I actually kind of think that the crazier people are the ones who are in power,

00:33:13.180 are the Fauci's and the alleged experts and the high priests of progressivism who are abusing

00:33:22.100 children, destroying our society, upending everybody's lives without very good reason.

00:33:29.160 When you look, because I know this woman's going to be presented as a kook, pay attention. Yeah,

00:33:35.000 she's using colorful language. Yeah, she's using, you know, sort of vulgar terms. What is she actually

00:33:39.940 saying though? Is what she's saying so much crazier than what the left is saying? Is it crazier at all?

00:33:45.340 I don't think so. Don't, I don't think so. You know, you know what's crazier? The judge who just

00:33:54.440 stripped a mother of her parental rights because she refused to get the experimental drug to protect

00:34:00.340 against the cough that doesn't pose much of a threat to her kid. You got, you got two people,

00:34:06.300 the mother who's saying, stop screwing with our kids' lives to the school board, you demons. And

00:34:11.700 the judge who just took a child, an 11 year old child away from his mother because she wouldn't get

00:34:18.620 the jab. That happened. Rebecca Furla just appeared in court on Zoom. She's the mother.

00:34:26.360 It was a child support hearing with her ex-husband. They've got an 11 year old son.

00:34:30.920 And Cook County judge James Shapiro suddenly asked during the hearing, out of the blue,

00:34:36.520 this had not, the hearing had nothing to do with COVID. He said, have you gotten the experimental drug?

00:34:41.600 And the mother said, no, because she had had bad reactions to other vaccines. So she had a pretty

00:34:47.940 good reason. And we know that there have been deaths from this vaccine. Women have died from

00:34:55.480 blood clots because of this vaccine, one of the COVID vaccines. And we know that other people have

00:34:59.740 suffered myocarditis, periocarditis, nerve damage. And then the judge stripped this woman of her

00:35:07.000 parenting time until she gets the experimental drug. Two weeks, this kid was prevented from seeing

00:35:14.140 his mother. This 11 year old son prevented from his mother for two weeks. Finally, because there was

00:35:20.960 a public outcry, this degenerate idiot judge reversed his decision only because of media backlash.

00:35:29.260 What do you think's worse for the kid? To be exposed to germs that really don't pose much of a threat to

00:35:36.480 him. I actually forget that for a second. People who are vaccinated are spreading the virus.

00:35:43.440 So I don't even know that it would reduce the amount of germs that he would be exposed to.

00:35:48.380 So what's better for the kid? Have the mother do the special religious ritual where you get the jab,

00:35:53.660 even though it's not going to do very much for her son, if anything at all.

00:35:56.000 Or take the kid away from the mother. What do you think? Or rather, I'm sorry, let the kid be with

00:36:06.760 his mother. What do you think? Take the kid away from his mother until she gets the jab or let the

00:36:11.080 kid stay with his mother where he really doesn't face any increased risk from the virus that doesn't

00:36:14.980 pose much of a threat to him at all. Lunacy. I'm glad this judge reversed his decision, but this guy

00:36:21.480 should be run out of town on the rail. No question about it. I'm going to talk to Ben. Maybe it's Ben's

00:36:26.480 cousin. I said, Ben, what's going on with this Judge Shapiro? Get him out of there. Insane.

00:36:32.560 The people who are pushing this hysteria, this neurosis, don't believe it. They don't believe it.

00:36:39.980 They don't think you need to wear a mask. They don't think you need to social distance. They don't

00:36:44.580 think you need to stay home. They're lying to you. And if you, and I know neurotic people,

00:36:50.340 I have a lot of neurotic people in my friend group and in my family who have bought into this

00:36:54.400 madness. I know why it's attractive. I know why if the whole culture is telling you to do something,

00:37:01.020 you feel impelled to do it. But I'm just telling you, these people don't believe it.

00:37:04.820 Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha, just showed up to a wedding in New Mexico. The wedding was for the

00:37:13.980 Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, and her boyfriend, Skip Sayre. They just got married.

00:37:19.820 Okay. Very nice. Good. Congratulations. Good for them. They show up to this wedding and very few

00:37:25.080 people are wearing masks. Elizabeth Warren, not wearing a mask, dancing with people, having a

00:37:29.780 nice time. New Mexico has a mask mandate. New Mexico has a Democrat governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham.

00:37:38.200 She has a mask mandate. And Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senator, violated that mask mandate because

00:37:43.980 none of these people think it matters. None of these people actually think the masks are important at

00:37:47.700 all. Elizabeth Warren probably agrees with me on masks. In fact, I know she does because of the way

00:37:53.420 she behaves. Regardless of what she says, she agrees with me that the masks just don't really

00:37:57.300 matter at all. But she's going to convince you that they really do matter. And neurotic people and

00:38:05.240 power-hungry psychopaths are going to act on that. And judges are going to take kids away from their

00:38:10.820 mothers. And teachers are going to keep kids out of school. And we're the crazy ones. And that nurse

00:38:19.140 who says this is crazy, she's the crazy one, right? I don't think so.

00:38:23.760 The rot that we are seeing here in our government is coming not just from the vaccine, not just from

00:38:36.980 Afghanistan, not just from pick whatever problem is going on in the country. It's coming from the

00:38:43.780 belief of our ruling class that they don't owe you anything. They don't owe you answers. They don't owe

00:38:50.280 you good government. They don't owe you the fulfillment of their promises. You're nothing

00:38:56.460 but a nuisance to them. They have the right to rule. You can't say boo about it. And they're not

00:39:03.620 even going to dignify your befuddlement at this with a response. This is clearest among Joe Biden,

00:39:11.460 who talks about Afghanistan. And then the minute anyone asks a question, he just turns around and

00:39:15.020 walks away. And occasionally he'll say, look, I'll answer a question about the hurricane.

00:39:19.040 And the reporter says, what about the Americans you're straining in Afghanistan? He says, I'm not

00:39:22.900 talking about Afghanistan. See ya. Bye. Sorry. Ha ha. What are you going to do about it? So this is

00:39:27.960 not just Joe Biden spreading out throughout the administration. Antony Blinken, complete incompetent

00:39:33.480 secretary of state. Antony Blinken gives an update yesterday about why everything's gone to absolute

00:39:39.980 pot in Afghanistan. And then he gets to the end of his speech. People have a lot of questions,

00:39:44.140 obviously, for him. There are events happening in real time that we need answers to.

00:39:47.880 He just turns his back and walks on out. We'll honor all those brave men and women from the United

00:39:53.620 States and many other countries who risked or sacrificed their lives as part of this long

00:39:59.220 mission right up to today. Thanks for listening.

00:40:02.960 Thanks for listening. That's the most interesting thing he said in his entire, I'm not even going to

00:40:14.520 play most of his update and his address. It's one, doesn't tell you very much. And two, it's meaningless

00:40:20.760 because these people have either lied or just through their own incompetence gotten things wrong.

00:40:27.480 So there's no value in listening to what they have to say because we can't rely on it. We can't trust

00:40:32.140 it. But the most interesting thing he said there is thanks for listening. And he turns on his heels

00:40:36.860 and walks out. Not thank you for coming. Not I'm glad you're here. Let's take some questions.

00:40:43.420 Thanks for listening. Thanks for, I said what I have to say. Now see you later. Bye-bye.

00:40:49.860 Okay. And he's not taking questions because he doesn't have to. They don't need to answer you.

00:40:55.740 They're going to paper over everything. Exhibit A, my friends, from the Washington Post,

00:41:01.160 a column by Jennifer Rubin. Until very recently, Jennifer Rubin is a liberal columnist and she

00:41:06.020 appears on liberal networks and she writes for a liberal paper and she has liberal opinions.

00:41:09.400 But until very recently, she pretended to be a conservative columnist. I'm not joking. She had

00:41:13.500 it in her Twitter bio. She was introduced as conservative columnist, Jennifer Rubin. Conservative

00:41:18.800 commentator, Jennifer Rubin. But she's not conservative at all and she almost exclusively

00:41:23.440 supports Democrats and she never has anything nice to say about conservatives or Republicans

00:41:28.740 and all of her views are liberal views. But the blob, at least until very recently,

00:41:34.900 would pretend that she was a conservative. They do this a lot. They have what I call court

00:41:39.460 jester conservatives. You might call them controlled opposition. They're just jokes, court eunuchs,

00:41:45.360 the sort of people who their whole job is to pretend to represent an alternative viewpoint,

00:41:51.080 but actually really all they do is prop up the liberal establishment. And so Jennifer Rubin was

00:41:55.400 that until it just became so ridiculous that they had to acknowledge she's no longer conservative.

00:41:59.800 So headline here, the State Department deserves more credit for its effort to evacuate Americans

00:42:06.580 from Afghanistan. Deserves more credit. And the State Department was tweeting this out. The

00:42:12.520 administration was tweeting this out. State had to imagine a universe of as many as 15,000 Americans

00:42:19.500 that were, you know, stuck in Afghanistan. The State Department's been criticized for not

00:42:24.140 beginning mass evacuations of Afghans months ago, as far back as April. It began sending one notice

00:42:30.320 after another. They were doing, oh, they were so good, you know, texting and yeah, you know,

00:42:34.800 sure, it looks bad on TV, but actually they're doing, they're doing a great job and they deserve

00:42:38.460 more credit. Everyone's, everyone's tweeting this out. This is going to be the official story. It's

00:42:45.940 already happening. What a success this was. Any problems with it were Trump's fault, but what a

00:42:50.220 success this was. And you're going to be told not to believe your lying eyes. You're going to be told

00:42:56.680 it's great. It's all going well. And you're going to be told the only downside is we didn't take more

00:43:02.640 Afghans. We should have taken more. We should have opened our doors and our borders more.

00:43:07.320 But even that has been run perfectly. Sure, we, on the last planes out of Afghanistan, we didn't get

00:43:11.680 a single American on there. And sure, we just packed full of Afghans. But listen, they were totally

00:43:15.640 vetted, except for the ones that weren't vetted. Here's a story. Convicted rapist, refugee from

00:43:22.120 Afghanistan, was just caught over here. So Americans were having trouble getting flights

00:43:28.040 out of, out of Kabul. So Gadar Heydari made it onto an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight for evacuees.

00:43:35.140 This guy's 47 years old. He made it to Washington, DC. Finally, at Washington Dulles Airport,

00:43:41.500 they found out that this refugee had already been in America. He was moved to America in the 20th

00:43:47.960 century. He was granted a green card in the year 2000. And he apparently pleaded guilty to rape

00:43:54.640 in 2010 in Idaho. And he was deported. He's a rapist, convicted rapist. And he was deported to

00:44:00.740 Afghanistan and he made it back into America. But don't worry, we're vetting everyone. It's so

00:44:04.240 important to get all these Afghans out. Forget the Americans were there. We have to get all these

00:44:07.620 Afghans out, including the rapists. Glad they caught him. How many did they not catch?

00:44:12.580 How many made it through in the tens of thousands, upwards of 100,000 Afghans that got out?

00:44:18.600 This is not just happening at one guy in Washington. Seven Afghan refugees, quote unquote,

00:44:23.540 were just detained in Germany. You know, I guess they are refugees. It just turns out they're also

00:44:27.160 criminals and they shouldn't be allowed into these countries. They were detained in Germany.

00:44:32.060 One of them is in custody right now. Two are still with the police at the airport. Three had forged

00:44:38.400 documents. Four had already been deported from Germany to Afghanistan as criminals. And according

00:44:42.440 to reports, these were serious crimes. Serious crimes. We got to take all of them in.

00:44:50.560 How many are not being caught? How many are slipping through? A lot of these people don't

00:44:53.440 have any documents whatsoever. Great job. They're not getting enough. The State Department,

00:44:59.400 which handles this stuff, not getting enough credit. They're not getting enough credit.

00:45:04.160 And it'll just move right along. And we'll raise a little bit of a fuss about it here. You'll hear

00:45:09.140 about it on maybe a few conservative channels. Although, frankly, most of the conservative

00:45:13.220 outlets, their only problem is that we didn't take more Afghans. Their only problem is we didn't

00:45:17.980 stay longer in Afghanistan, right? But you'll hear about it here. You'll hear about what happened.

00:45:23.680 And then they'll just move on. And then we'll start funding the Taliban. We're going to be allies of

00:45:28.000 the Taliban. We're probably going to conduct joint missions against ISIS. We'll probably be back in

00:45:31.440 Afghanistan pretty soon. Because the blob don't care what you want to do. That's government of

00:45:36.740 we the people is transformed. It's transformed. And you don't get to ask any questions about it.

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00:46:37.360 Kristi Noem wrote an op-ed explaining what she thinks conservatism means, and I'll explain why

00:46:41.680 her ideas are completely wrong. Also, leftists are quite upset that the Texas abortion bill,

00:46:46.060 effectively banning most abortions in the state, went into effect this morning. Plus,

00:46:49.380 Joe Biden gives another address to the nation to defend his catastrophic failures in Afghanistan.

00:46:53.780 And finally, the LA Unified School District sent out its COVID guidelines for the school year,

00:46:58.480 and they're as deranged as you might expect. We'll talk about that and so much more today

00:47:01.920 on The Matt Walsh Show.

Ep. 834 - America's Honor Is Missing In Action

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