The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 835 - This Is What Demons Sound Like

00:00:00.000 They say that no news is good news, and that is certainly true today. The Supreme Court was asked

00:00:06.180 by abortion supporters to block a Texas pro-life law, and the court did nothing, which is the best 0.55

00:00:13.500 thing it could have done, because that means that today, for the first time since 1973,

00:00:19.140 there is a state in this country in which abortion is effectively illegal. This is wonderful, 1.00

00:00:25.120 wonderful news. It could potentially, though don't get your hopes up, but it could potentially

00:00:29.820 lead to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, in large part because of the clever way the law was written.

00:00:36.280 Now, the libs are losing it. They're crying. They're screaming. They're fear-mongering. They're

00:00:39.920 making really, really dumb arguments in favor of killing babies in the womb. Meanwhile, on the 1.00

00:00:45.120 topic of dehumanization, prominent libs want to keep the unvaccinated out of hospitals. The American

00:00:52.740 people, though, I think have had enough. If one poll is to be believed right now, most Americans

00:00:57.740 even think Joe Biden should resign. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.480 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Jacqueline Twerd, who said,

00:01:11.160 Classrooms shouldn't be like a teacher's home where they can hang whatever ridiculous 0.89

00:01:15.040 stuff. I'll clean it up. Whatever ridiculous stuff they feel like. Whatever happened to the 0.86

00:01:20.880 times tables in the alphabet? Thank you. Yes, these teachers who are hanging the pride progress flag 0.56

00:01:26.340 or the Antifa flag even, they seem to think that the classroom is just their fiefdom in which they

00:01:33.000 can do whatever they want. In part, this is because of a misguided understanding of what is called

00:01:39.520 academic freedom that now even the right defends. The left kind of pushed it, but even the right

00:01:45.140 defends it. It's just completely preposterous. The third grade classroom is not a free marketplace of

00:01:49.780 ideas and it never has been and it should not be and it never will be. It's a place to teach kids

00:01:55.760 basics. So I absolutely agree with your point. I wish not only the left, but conservatives would wake

00:02:00.600 up. I wish they could hear the truth. And if you want to hear the truth, if you want to hear just good

00:02:06.840 music, I'd recommend checking out your Raycons. I love Raycons. They are a better product than some of

00:02:14.360 the other brands on the market. All right. I'm going to try to be nice about it, but you know,

00:02:17.840 look, Raycons, they don't have the little stems sticking out so you don't look like a bug. 0.99

00:02:21.320 They don't only come in one color. They come in a lot of cool, stylish colors, great fit of their

00:02:27.080 gel tips for your comfort. They sound better. They work better. They've got a 32-hour battery life.

00:02:31.640 I love my Raycons, okay? And especially when my sweet little baby starts crying, you know,

00:02:38.380 whether I'm in the house, maybe we're on a plane or in the car, it's nice to know that I can just pop

00:02:43.420 in my Raycons and have a nice little bit of peace and quiet. They're really great. They start at half the price

00:02:47.380 of other premium audio brands, but they sound just as good. They actually sound better if you ask me.

00:02:53.560 Raycons comes with a 45-day happiness guarantee, so you really can't lose. Give them a try. You

00:02:57.640 will see what I mean. Great way to listen to really good audio books like Speechless.

00:03:02.300 Create your own soundtrack with Raycon. Right now, my listeners can get 15% off their Raycon order at

00:03:06.600 buyraycon.com slash Knowles. That's buyraycon.com slash Knowles. Save 15% on Raycons. You're going to

00:03:11.460 love them. Tell me how much you love them. Buyraycon.com slash Knowles.

00:03:14.700 This Texas law is magnificent. So the court decision was 5-4 because, of course, Chief

00:03:20.520 Justice John Roberts sided with the libs. And the decision was not over the constitutionality

00:03:25.500 of the law. The decision was whether or not to grant abortionists in Texas a special emergency

00:03:32.220 halting of the new pro-life law. So thankfully, the five at least sort of conservative justices,

00:03:40.320 Thomas. Thomas, certainly conservative. Alito, certainly conservative. Gorsuch, a little squishier.

00:03:46.840 Kavanaugh, a lot squishier. And Amy Barrett, a lot squishier. But all five of them, to their great

00:03:53.160 credit, voted in favor of allowing the Texas law to go into effect. This is a very, very important

00:03:58.980 decision. And then you had the three libs, really the four libs, because Chief Justice John Roberts

00:04:03.200 was there. And he voted to stop the law. One small point on John Roberts before we get into what this

00:04:09.700 law actually does. John Roberts' whole purpose, I believe, is that he wants to maintain the

00:04:17.640 institutional credibility of the court. Because he's the chief justice. So he has a responsibility

00:04:22.340 not just to the decisions, but also to the institution itself. And so I think what John

00:04:28.520 Roberts is trying to do here is seem that he's above politics, because he will often vote with

00:04:34.580 the liberals. Ironically, though, what the effect of his machinations had been is to make the court seem

00:04:42.700 much, much more party political, to make the court seem much less principled. He has ironically

00:04:50.140 destroyed the institutional credibility of the court, because he's very clearly just picking his side

00:04:54.800 based on the poll numbers, based on the politics, based on what he thinks will be able to placate

00:05:00.780 the people, rather than upholding some kind of constitutional principle. But the principle

00:05:05.200 upheld, at least in this decision, the Texas law, which was passed in May, bans all abortions in the

00:05:11.640 state after around six weeks of pregnancy. The law is not based on some arbitrary timetable, you know,

00:05:18.320 six weeks in one day, and it's a human being, but six weeks minus one day, you know, five weeks in

00:05:24.080 six days, and it's actually not a human being. The law is based on when you can detect a heartbeat,

00:05:30.720 and you can detect a heartbeat very early, because these are human beings. So because a lot of women 1.00

00:05:36.240 don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks, the law effectively makes abortion illegal. 1.00

00:05:41.200 Now, how does this law operate? There have been plenty of heartbeat bills, and they've been struck

00:05:46.100 down by various courts. So what makes this law a little different? The law allows private citizens

00:05:53.740 to sue abortionists and anyone else who helps a woman to obtain an abortion, including some sicko 0.92

00:06:01.940 dude who gives the woman a ride to the clinic, or provides financial assistance for the abortion.

00:06:07.580 The citizens can bring these suits, even if they don't have any connection to the people that they

00:06:12.180 are suing beyond their relationship as citizens. If they win in the lawsuits, the law entitles them

00:06:17.860 to a minimum of $10,000 in damages, plus attorney's fees. So this is really providing an incentive or a

00:06:25.720 disincentive for the abortionists and for the various ghouls who help out in this process. We haven't seen

00:06:31.420 laws like this before, and it makes it a little bit harder for the courts to strike it down. It's a

00:06:35.940 brilliant, brilliant law, and I'm very glad that it's in effect. The White House is furious. They're

00:06:40.380 really, really upset that babies will live. There will be babies today who are not murdered in the

00:06:47.520 state of Texas. There will be babies today who will go on and have a long life, and in 10 and 20 years,

00:06:52.580 you'll be able to talk to these babies who are alive because this law is in effect. And the White 0.98

00:06:58.100 House is furious about it. They consider it an extreme threat.

00:07:01.380 The Press on abortion. We've seen in a number of states, Republican-led states, an effort on voting

00:07:08.920 rights, for instance, to pass similar legislation throughout the country on voting rights. What's

00:07:14.000 the level of concern at the White House that the decision on Texas specifically will lead to a

00:07:18.460 similar raft of laws across the country? And what is the recourse for the White House at a federal

00:07:23.440 level to help prevent this?

00:07:24.540 Ms. Well, the step that can be taken is the codification of Roe, something the

00:07:28.820 president and the vice president have called for and would require Congress to act on.

00:07:33.380 I will note that certainly we've seen, this is not the first threat to Roe we've seen in a state

00:07:37.720 across the country. It's an extreme threat. And again, I would just note, this is offering up to

00:07:42.520 $10,000 to individuals who report someone who is going to get an abortion. I mean, that is what

00:07:48.420 we're talking about here. So, and beyond that, as I've already outlined.

00:07:52.820 Based. To use the lingo of the kids, based. Awesome. Great. Love it.

00:07:58.440 This is a great, great way. By the way, you're going to hear that this law is punishing women. 1.00

00:08:04.660 It's going to throw women in jail. It's not. It's not. You're not, you don't get to sue the women. 1.00

00:08:09.720 You sue the abortionists and you sue the little minions of the abortionist and you sue all the

00:08:14.760 people and the CADs and the degenerate men paying for the abortions. You get to sue all of them.

00:08:21.300 Those are the people who are targeted here. And it is an extreme threat to Roe versus Wade.

00:08:25.820 What Jen Psaki is admitting here, by the way, is that Roe versus Wade is a ridiculous decision.

00:08:31.360 That's her admission. When she is asked by this leftist activist reporter, he's like,

00:08:36.380 how do we stop it? How do we stop it? He's like, she says, well, what we have to do is codify Roe

00:08:41.840 versus Wade into law. Why do we have to codify Roe versus Wade into law? Because it's a weak decision.

00:08:47.480 There is no constitutional right to an abortion. Even if you're the strongest abortion supporter in the

00:08:52.160 world, it just isn't there. It just doesn't exist. And, and even the intellectual and the

00:08:59.660 intellectually honest leftists who support abortion and look at Roe versus Wade, they will tell you the

00:09:06.900 case does not have very much constitutional merit. And so now they're saying we need to codify it into

00:09:10.580 law. You have to codify it into law because it's a ridiculous decision. And if there is justice, 0.95

00:09:15.380 even a little bit of justice in this world, it ought to be overturned. CNN freaking out about this.

00:09:20.680 They've brought on their chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey Toobin has a lot of

00:09:27.220 personal expertise on creepy sex questions. As you will recall, he lost one of his jobs some months

00:09:34.100 ago because he was caught having sex with someone he loves on camera on a zoom meeting with his

00:09:40.840 colleagues. So Jeffrey Toobin, but, and that, that event involved one person other than the spectators.

00:09:49.300 So Jeffrey Toobin is back on CNN and Jeffrey Toobin, often like I do on this show, we don't do that.

00:09:55.940 We don't have that in common. But one thing we do have in common is that occasionally on air,

00:10:00.840 we will say, I told you so. And Jeffrey Toobin did tell you so when it came to Roe versus Wade.

00:10:05.260 Donald Trump ran for president saying, I will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will

00:10:10.340 vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has three appointees on the court. There are three other appointees on the

00:10:16.200 court, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts, who have spoken out against Roe v. Wade

00:10:25.540 before, although Roberts has later said he supports the precedent. But there are five justices, it

00:10:31.360 appears, the three Trump appointees, plus, there they are on the screen, plus Thomas and Alito,

00:10:38.440 who seem like solid votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. You know, we've been accused, those of us who have

00:10:45.700 been saying that Roe is about to be overturned as being chicken little, the sky is falling, the sky is

00:10:50.580 falling. We'll see, because it certainly looks like the sky is falling now. The sky is falling

00:10:55.920 because fewer babies will be killed in Texas. Don't forget, you're going to be told that women have a 1.00

00:11:03.740 right. They have a sacred constitutional natural right to kill their children. They don't. They 0.99

00:11:10.220 don't. They don't have that right. But you're going to be told, only focus on this. Only focus on the

00:11:14.780 poor abortionist who's just trying to scrape by and feed his family by committing infanticide at

00:11:20.560 Planned Parenthood. Just think about him. Don't forget, this involves a baby. And that's not just an

00:11:28.460 abstract. It's not just a hypothetical. There will be babies who are permitted to live because of this

00:11:35.500 law. And you will have to look them in the eye, at least on camera. They'll look at you and you'll

00:11:42.140 see them. And you will have to explain, at least to yourself, why you think that it would be better

00:11:47.880 if they were killed. Why you think that it's wrong that they were permitted to live. Jeffrey Toobin's

00:11:53.240 going to have to do that. But Jeffrey Toobin is an abortion supporter, not just in theory. He tried

00:11:58.060 to pay off his mistress to kill his child and his mistress wouldn't do it. Now he's got the child 0.98

00:12:02.880 and he's going to have to look that kid in the eye someday if he has a relationship with that kid

00:12:06.640 and explain why he tried to kill that baby and why he still supports the right, quote unquote, 0.98

00:12:13.520 of people to kill babies just like him all over the country. Now, if you want to get a real accounting

00:12:19.340 of what's going on, okay, not just in politics, but in your finances, you're going to want to check out

00:12:23.820 Truebill. If you're anything like me, you've started a bunch of free trials that you forgot

00:12:29.540 to cancel. Now, sometimes a free trial is great and you stick with the service and that's cool.

00:12:33.480 A lot of times it's just a scam and you do the free trial and then you never cancel it. And then

00:12:37.580 you end up paying a ton of money needlessly. Do not let greedy corporations take money that you

00:12:43.100 don't need to spend. Truebill will let you take control of your subscriptions. Truebill is the new app

00:12:48.160 that helps you identify and stop paying for subscriptions that you don't need,

00:12:51.500 that you don't want or that you just forgot about. On average, people have saved up to $720

00:12:56.320 a year with Truebill. That's a lot of money. Because companies make subscriptions hard to cancel,

00:13:03.000 Truebill makes it incredibly simple. Just link your accounts and Truebill will cancel your unwanted

00:13:07.860 subscriptions in one tap. And your Truebill concierge is there when you need them to cancel

00:13:12.660 unwanted subscriptions so you don't have to do it. They've got 2 million users. They've helped people

00:13:16.160 save over $100 million. Do it right now. Don't fall for subscription scams. Start canceling today

00:13:21.220 at Truebill.com slash Knowles. That's Truebill.com slash Knowles. It'll save you potentially a

00:13:26.000 thousand dollars, more than a thousand dollars a year. Truebill.com slash Knowles. CNN's legal

00:13:32.280 analyst Jeffrey Toobin is really upset about the new Texas pro-life law because he supports the

00:13:41.280 abstract right to abortion and also because he has tried to pay to procure abortions himself.

00:13:46.000 According to this law, if he did what he has done in Texas, he could be sued for at least $10,000

00:13:51.340 plus attorney fees. So he's got a real personal interest here in making sure that these babies

00:13:57.180 don't get to live. And now he's going after the court. He's trying to dissuade the court. And so he

00:14:01.540 goes on television and he says, look, the institutional reputation of the court is at stake here.

00:14:06.300 Here we are on September 1st, the first day since 1973, when a state has been able to ban abortion.

00:14:16.120 1973 is the year of Roe v. Wade. And the Supreme Court has said nothing. They have allowed the second 0.96

00:14:23.740 most famous opinion of the last hundred years after Brown v. Board of Education to essentially be

00:14:29.580 violated, be overrun, but they haven't even said a word about it, which strikes me as a real blow

00:14:37.840 against the Supreme Court's institutional reputation, aside from the issue of whether

00:14:42.480 this law is right or wrong. A real blow against the Supreme Court's reputation, regardless of whether

00:14:49.500 the law is right or wrong. I don't think that's true. You know what I think was a blow against the

00:14:54.540 Supreme Court's reputation? Roe v. Wade. I think Roe v. Wade was a huge blow against the court's

00:14:59.220 reputation because it showed that the court was nothing more than a partisan political lawmaking

00:15:04.220 body rather than a judiciary. I think that aside from the issue of whether you think abortion is

00:15:10.300 right or wrong, I think we all should be able to admit Roe v. Wade was the attack on the court's

00:15:15.660 reputation. And they can either make that right now or they can persist in error and humiliation

00:15:21.420 and degradation of the court. There's a woman, some Brooklyn chick, who's apparently a medical 0.99

00:15:27.500 doctor. Her name is Dara Cass. And she, I think she shows you some of the hysteria you're going to

00:15:32.420 see from the left media on this issue. She tweeted out, get on birth control now. Any form that is 0.99

00:15:40.740 reliable, oral contraceptives, NuvaRing, Norplant, IUD, something now, now, hurry.

00:15:46.440 Okay. So what she's admitting here is that the left uses abortion as birth control, as contraception, 1.00

00:15:55.800 but it's obviously not contraception because the baby is conceived and then they just kill it.

00:15:59.060 What she's admitting is there are a lot of leftists who are so cavalier about abortion,

00:16:04.480 about killing babies, that they don't even, they won't even put on a condom.

00:16:08.700 They won't even, they won't, that's all right, we'll just deal with it later with abortion. 0.87

00:16:11.580 And the left tells us they don't do that, but then she's just admitted they do.

00:16:16.240 Beyond that point, beyond that point. Get on birth control now. Anything, oral cut,

00:16:21.980 NuvaRing, IUD, do something. I've got, I've got another idea. How about you just have babies 0.88

00:16:26.680 like they do in normal civilizations that are not dying? How about you just do that? I know this

00:16:32.500 is a crazy radical idea. How about you just like be open to life and have babies and actually fully

00:16:40.040 give of your love to another person and then make your life better by having a baby. A lot of people

00:16:45.120 can't have babies. It's a hard, there are a lot of people who struggle with infertility, okay?

00:16:49.760 Who would, who would give their limbs, who would cut off an arm at least to have a baby. And this

00:16:56.260 cavalier woman, you know, we are a dying civilization. I mean that in a very technical way. We, we are not

00:17:02.720 having enough children to continue as a civilization. And this has been true for decades now,

00:17:09.020 and it seems to be getting worse and worse each year. And other civilizations are having babies

00:17:14.400 because they're lively and we're dying and we're decayed. And something's gone really rotten within

00:17:18.920 us, which is how you get creepy statements like this. This woman goes on. She goes, if you find out

00:17:25.100 you're pregnant and do not want to be, you have very little time to do it. Do not shut down. This will

00:17:29.640 be hard, but you can't delay. Call me. We will figure this out together. What a psycho. This woman is 1.00

00:17:35.620 saying, call me and I will kill your child. This is what demons sound like. Okay. This is, 1.00

00:17:41.880 if you want to know, you read the Bible or you, you read accounts of demons throughout history and

00:17:48.140 in stories and myths and in history and real stories. So what does a demon sound like? A demon

00:17:54.180 sounds like that lady. Call me, call me now. Don't let it, don't let them stop you from killing. 1.00

00:17:59.980 I'll help you. I'll kill your baby. Give me your baby. Ah, good grief lady. What? This is scary 1.00

00:18:06.660 stuff. And I mentioned it. I mean, it's so obvious with her, but you're going to hear this kind of

00:18:12.180 stuff from a lot of people. And I don't forget who the prince of this world is. Okay. Don't forget.

00:18:17.840 This is a fallen world. There's a lot of bad stuff here, but you're going to hear these same kinds of

00:18:21.440 things from people in the media, from politicians, maybe from people, you know, when you hear it,

00:18:25.980 one, don't be seduced to maybe try to change their mind. Three, flee from that. That is,

00:18:32.940 you were playing with some bad juju, my friends. Now, before we move on from the topic of abortion

00:18:37.560 and get to much more serious topics, like the woo flu, I, I do need to address something because

00:18:44.400 I've, I've seen it a lot in the popular discourse and you're going to hear it a lot more in the coming

00:18:48.440 days as this law is debated. You're going to hear really dumb abortion arguments. Okay. You're 0.99

00:18:53.120 going to hear really dumb pro-choice arguments. Here's one of them. Here's one you're going to 0.99

00:18:57.840 hear. Hey, pro-lifer, you don't want to kill babies in the womb, right? So I guess you're

00:19:05.440 probably against the death penalty then, right? You have to be. No, no, you don't because those are,

00:19:12.960 those are different issues that involve different moral questions. You, yet you can oppose killing

00:19:21.280 innocent little babies in the womb and still have a more nuanced or complex or opposite view of what

00:19:26.920 ought to be done for convicted criminals. They're different questions. Oh yeah. Huh? Yeah. They're

00:19:33.460 different questions. Huh? Mr. Pro-lifer. Well, so if you're pro-life, uh, you probably support COVID

00:19:39.180 vaccine mandates, don't you? If you're, if you're going to be consistent, if you're going to be, uh,

00:19:43.140 no, again, I think I, I thought I just made this clear. Those are different issues involving

00:19:49.860 different moral questions. So one can oppose the killing of innocent little babies in the womb

00:19:55.340 and still have some questions and some resistance to taking an experimental drug for a cough that for

00:20:01.860 most people is not that bad. You, you actually can, I know it's hard to think. I was once,

00:20:08.000 I was on a panel at Politicon and some lib guy, he made these arguments. He was, and I couldn't hear

00:20:13.380 him that well. I were in, it was a very, uh, echoey gigantic space. So I couldn't hear all he was

00:20:18.080 saying, but you could hear it later on the microphone. And he made these arguments. He

00:20:20.780 was saying, uh, you know, well, if you, then you have to oppose the death penalty. No, you don't

00:20:24.880 buddy. Well, but if you're pro-life, if you're pro-life, then you have to support all of these

00:20:33.260 other unassociated issues. You don't, you don't. Pro-life is a slogan. And like all political slogans,

00:20:40.860 it represents an idea, but it cannot convey the fullness of that idea. Just like you might say

00:20:47.440 you're pro-choice, but you do not support the choice of Texans to pass this law to ban abortion

00:20:51.600 because the phrase pro-choice is just, is referring to your support for a specific issue, namely

00:20:56.480 killing babies in the womb through abortion. There are many other stupid arguments that you're 1.00

00:21:00.460 going to hear with abortion, but don't, one, don't get suckered into them because they're almost not 0.99

00:21:05.020 worth your time refuting, but they are easily refuted because we're talking about a specific issue.

00:21:09.900 Don't let them distract you because I think if you talk about that issue in particular,

00:21:13.240 if you focus on what is actually at stake, they don't, they don't have a leg to stand on.

00:21:19.960 Now, speaking of this dehumanizing talk, it's really deep. The way that the libs talk about

00:21:25.960 abortion is really, it's literally dehumanizing. They're taking a human and pretending he's not a

00:21:30.540 human, but the libs do this generally. Don Lemon just did this on CNN. He said that if you are skeptical

00:21:38.500 of the vaccine, you don't want to get the new experimental drug for the Wu flu, you should

00:21:43.240 not go to the hospital when you get sick. If you're not going to get vaccinated, you don't

00:21:48.300 want to social distance, you don't want to wear a mask, then maybe you don't want to go to the

00:21:51.920 hospital when you get sick. I know that sounds harsh, but you're taking up the space for people

00:21:58.480 who are doing things the right way. If you're not going to lose a few pounds, chubby, then maybe you

00:22:03.520 don't want to go to the hospital when you get a heart attack. Okay. All right. Look, I know that sounds

00:22:07.880 harsh. I know that, Hey, look, if you're not going to stop having homosexual sex, then maybe you're 1.00

00:22:13.940 not going to want to go to the hospital when you get AIDS. Okay. I know that sounds harsh, but I, 1.00

00:22:19.480 Hey, I know that, but look, but, but, but that's what he's saying. That's the argument he's making.

00:22:24.840 And it's dehumanizing. And so we can point that out, but I think once you get it, you get it. Okay.

00:22:31.160 Once you get it, you get it. And you realize this whole thing is dehumanizing. The whole leftist idea

00:22:37.200 is dehumanizing. It tells you to varying degrees that you don't have any particular dignity. You

00:22:44.200 don't, you're not entitled to any particular choice. You do not have really any rights whatsoever

00:22:50.900 that we don't give you, that we, the ruling elite, don't provide you. That is, that is a very

00:22:58.800 dehumanizing idea. You, you hear it from, from various sections of the left in different ways.

00:23:07.580 Sometimes it's materialist. Sometimes it's Gnostic. Sometimes it's liberal. Sometimes it's

00:23:12.700 socialist. Sometimes it's this, but it's always, it's always dehumanizing. Okay. And on the,

00:23:18.800 on the substantive point, by the way, they're also wrong. It's not even just that they're wrong in

00:23:24.060 principle, like on this COVID thing. They're also wrong on the substantive point. They've been wrong

00:23:28.140 about this virus from the beginning. If you want to hear right opinions, I got a surprise for you.

00:23:36.180 It's not, I guess it's no longer a surprise. In October, our backstage episode is going to be a

00:23:40.560 little bit different. Instead of just tuning in from your home, you'll be able to see us live in

00:23:45.120 person on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium, one of the most famous venues in the country,

00:23:50.440 right here in Nashville, doing what we do best, owning the libs, making sense, making, making sense

00:23:58.640 of this crazy world. Join me, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Jeremy Boring, Matt Walsh, and Andrew

00:24:03.180 Klavan. We're backstage like never before. We have a very special offer for our members starting at 11

00:24:08.500 a.m. Eastern today. Daily Wire members will get dibs to buy your tickets ahead of general admission.

00:24:15.020 So check your email for an exclusive code you can use to pre-order your tickets. Once you have your

00:24:19.500 code, pre-purchase your tickets ahead of everyone else at dailywire.com slash Ryman, R-Y-M-A-N.

00:24:24.880 If you're not a member, then you can join today at dailywire.com slash subscribe to get your choice

00:24:29.720 of seats or wait until tickets go on sale everywhere tomorrow, Friday, September 3rd. Check your email.

00:24:35.080 Make sure you don't miss out. I very much look forward to seeing you all there. We'll be right

00:24:38.280 back with a lot more.

00:24:49.500 Joe Rogan got COVID. Joe Rogan, that anti-vax, misinformer, idiot stooge Rogan. Serves him right. 1.00

00:25:07.120 He got COVID. When are we going to his funeral? Oh, he's fine. He's completely fine. Here he is.

00:25:11.720 I got up in the morning, got tested and turns out I got COVID. So we immediately threw the

00:25:17.600 kitchen sink at all kinds of meds, monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone,

00:25:27.920 everything. And I also got an NAD drip and a vitamin drip. And I did that three days in a row.

00:25:35.400 And so here we are on Wednesday and I feel great. I really only had one bad day. Sunday sucked,

00:25:43.840 but Monday was better. Tuesday felt better than Monday. And today I feel good. I actually feel 0.93

00:25:49.580 pretty good. Uh, that's the good news. The bad news is we have to move Friday, the Friday show in

00:25:58.360 Nashville. That's too bad. That's, I actually didn't realize he was in Nashville. Otherwise I might've

00:26:03.360 tried to go see him, but so that's too bad. He can't, he can't play in Nashville, but, uh, he's,

00:26:07.380 he's fine. And I, I saw people tweeting about this yesterday and they said, Joe Rogan, yeah,

00:26:14.300 serves him right. The, that anti-vax, yeah, that'll show you, Joe, that'll teach you. What'll it teach

00:26:20.100 you? I, Joe, it, I, all it taught me was that Joe was right. Joe Rogan came, by the way, he's not any

00:26:25.640 of those things people called him. He came out and he said, look, I'm not anti-vax, but if you're a

00:26:30.700 young, healthy person, I just, as a prudential matter, I don't see why you should go get this

00:26:34.100 vaccine. I just think, you know, it's an experimental drug for a thing that doesn't pose a great threat.

00:26:38.780 So you do in a cost benefit. I don't think it's a, it's a huge deal. And then he, so he, that's how

00:26:45.220 he lived. Then he got the virus and then he took ordinary medicine. And he, he had said a lot,

00:26:52.320 for a lot of the time that it's kind of like a mild cold. It's not a big deal. They, everyone said it

00:26:55.800 was awful misinformation. Then he gets it, he takes some medicine. It feels like a mild cold and then

00:26:59.380 he's fine. A couple of days later, it seems like Joe was right. Seems like Joe. And did you hear

00:27:05.800 what, what he took? Oh, that idiot, that Rube, he took. Can you believe he took? Oh, I can't even 1.00

00:27:13.760 say it. Ivermectin. Why that's, that's a horse dewormer. Don't you know? This is another meme going

00:27:22.280 around the libs right now. They're saying Ivermectin, you'd have to be an idiot to take Ivermectin. 1.00

00:27:27.640 And Ivermectin is not for humans. It's for horses. That idiot. He took an, he took a horse 0.99

00:27:32.840 dewormer. Ivermectin is, is not for horses. Horses can take it just like horses can take

00:27:42.940 aspirin, but you wouldn't say aspirin is for horses. There's horse aspirin. Okay. So I guess

00:27:47.680 you would don't want to take horse aspirin and there's horse Ivermectin, but Ivermectin is an FDA

00:27:53.540 approved antiviral that has been prescribed to humans for many, many years. The person who

00:27:59.460 discovered Ivermectin won a Nobel prize. Okay. This is a, this is a real thing. Not only that,

00:28:05.860 I've got, let's see how long before we get taken off the internet for this one. Ivermectin

00:28:10.200 has been shown in at least some studies to have an effect in suppressing coronavirus.

00:28:17.360 I'm not saying that it's the best way to treat your coronavirus. There are also studies that are a

00:28:21.700 little confused on this that say, well, maybe it actually won't in the levels that you can take

00:28:25.800 it, but here we go. Mayo Clinic, Ivermectin. This is how humans should take it. Here's the

00:28:31.060 proper use. It doesn't say proper use, put it in your horses. It says proper use, take it a single

00:28:35.440 dose with a full glass of water, right? It's obviously used by humans for, for a number of

00:28:39.320 conditions. And then here we have from the NIH, that, that vaunted institution, the National Institutes

00:28:44.980 of Health, Ivermectin, an award-winning drug with expected antiviral activity against COVID-19.

00:28:49.560 And this was published October 7th, 2020. Not, not all that long ago. Now, sure, perhaps some data

00:28:55.440 say, well, actually, sure, it can be effective in theory, but in the doses that you'd have to take

00:29:00.020 it, it may be, it won't be. So I'm not sure it's the best thing to do, but don't, don't call Joe

00:29:05.760 Rogan an idiot because he's taking a drug that has been very effective at fighting off things in humans.

00:29:12.260 And that has been shown at least in some experiments to have antiviral properties specifically 1.00

00:29:17.240 against this COVID-19. It's just, you are, as you try to, I'm speaking to you libs,

00:29:25.140 you hypothetical lib out there, as you try to preen and, and prattle and, and seem so much smarter than 0.99

00:29:33.840 everybody else, you are revealing your own ignorance. The same thing on these, these abortion 0.98

00:29:40.120 arguments. When someone comes up and says, well, you're pro-life, you probably, you probably oppose the

00:29:46.420 death penalty then, right? You know, what, what they are revealing is that they haven't given two

00:29:51.040 seconds thought to this issue. They are, what, what they're revealing with those glib sorts of

00:29:56.500 statements is how shallow their thinking is. And the same thing is, you're taking ivermectin. What

00:30:01.220 are you, a horse? Oh, you, you haven't even Googled this drug. Okay. You haven't even given this,

00:30:06.540 you're just repeating some clip of John Oliver or something that you've seen. These people are not to

00:30:14.020 be taken seriously. Speaking of taking care of animals though, how's this for a segue? Speaking

00:30:19.640 of taking care of animals, the Taliban are apparently taking care of those dogs that were left

00:30:26.200 by the United States upon the evacuation from Afghanistan. So you remember this is, the United

00:30:30.840 States left well over a hundred Americans, probably many more than that. The United States left Afghan 0.94

00:30:36.620 allies. I've actually spoken to friends of mine who are either in the armed forces or have been in the

00:30:43.380 armed forces who have, have been getting calls from Americans who are stuck or from friends of

00:30:50.540 Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan. So this is a real problem of Christians who are stuck,

00:30:56.780 chaplains and priests of lots of people who are there. So this is a real problem. But then what

00:31:02.560 everyone freaked out about was that they left the dogs. The service, the poor dogs are in Afghanistan.

00:31:06.840 So okay, it's not a good look. The Taliban though, these PR geniuses, they are, they're PR geniuses. 0.74

00:31:13.520 Are taking to the Western press to let you know, don't worry, we're taking care of your dogs.

00:31:18.500 The Americans left the dogs to get out from their specific places, but our teams and our

00:31:24.140 officials called, they're in charge of those dogs. And today they came to port and they are trying to

00:31:30.980 collect the dogs and they are trying to facilitate for them and what they need to give them.

00:31:36.800 Is there, is they alive and home in your home?

00:31:39.240 Um, particularly, I cannot give you a specific number, but they are alive. And, uh, from the

00:31:45.520 beginning, when we come to the front line, the front door of airport, we were in, we were in touch

00:31:52.280 with the, uh, in charge of the dog and they are working and they are, uh, feeding the dogs. And I

00:31:58.220 think there's no problem.

00:31:59.100 And there's no problem. This is good news, right? This is, I, I hate that I have, the, the, the Taliban

00:32:05.220 have been very good about this from the beginning. They've been very good at their propaganda

00:32:11.300 and the West has not been. So they held that press conference when they took over the presidential

00:32:17.580 palace in Kabul. Joe Biden wouldn't hold a press conference. So you're seeing here, you're saying,

00:32:24.200 oh my gosh, the Taliban is giving greater transparency to the press and the people than

00:32:27.360 the White House is. Then the Taliban is asked about freedom of speech. They say, you know, 0.70

00:32:32.440 you in the West like to talk about freedom of speech. What about Facebook? Facebook censoring

00:32:36.000 lots and lots of your people, including the duly elected president, for goodness sakes,

00:32:39.820 on January 7th. Ooh, yeah, you can't really talk about that. And now the West, we can't even take

00:32:44.820 care of our own service dogs. Don't worry, the Taliban's taking care of it. So if you point this 0.87

00:32:51.200 out, if you point out any criticisms of the West, any of the Western occupation of Afghanistan,

00:32:58.100 of the Afghan national army, quote unquote, that did not last as an army for very long, that had a lot

00:33:03.200 of problems of its own, including widespread sexual abuse, including ghost troops, ghost soldiers who

00:33:08.420 didn't even exist at all. They were just, it was just a scam to be paid by the West and pass it out 0.92

00:33:13.560 to various tribal leaders and warlords and corrupt officials. If you point out any of this, the theft,

00:33:20.560 the fragging, all of that, now apparently you're a white supremacist. According to CNN, according to CNN, 0.51

00:33:31.200 quote, white supremacist praise of the Taliban takeover concerns U.S. officials. Okay. Now,

00:33:39.320 there's the absurdity on its face that white supremacists are exactly the cheerleaders of the 0.97

00:33:47.040 Taliban, right? I don't know many white supremacists who are supportive of Middle Eastern,

00:33:55.860 non-white caliphates. Okay. So I think probably the issue is a little more complicated than that.

00:34:01.800 But even, let's just take it right at face value. What they're saying is that white supremacists are

00:34:07.600 totally a real thing. It's totally a real big problem in America, the white supremacy. Okay. 0.99

00:34:13.040 And the white supremacists are cheering on the Taliban who took over Afghanistan. And that's

00:34:19.820 concerning U.S. officials who gave the country to the Taliban. So the White House officials,

00:34:30.280 not just to this administration, but the previous one as well, they come to terms with the Taliban and

00:34:38.020 say, okay, you're going to run Afghanistan from now on. The Taliban is now our ally. Don't forget 0.98

00:34:41.920 that we're fighting with the Taliban against ISIS. And the White House officials are now very concerned

00:34:49.440 that the white supremacists are supportive of the White House's policy. Does that make the White

00:34:55.780 House white supremacists? Does that make the white supremacists White House supremacists? What is it? 0.92

00:35:00.140 Who is it? Who started the Taliban? We did. We did. We funded the people who created the Taliban. I'm not

00:35:06.060 saying that that was a horrible decision. I'm not saying that foreign policy doesn't change. I'm not

00:35:10.600 saying it wasn't justified in the eighties against the Soviet Union, but we funded the people who

00:35:15.240 started the Taliban through the Afghan Mujahideen freedom fighters. We did it through Pakistan's 1.00

00:35:19.500 inter-services intelligence agency. Also one of our great allies, which created the Taliban, 1.00

00:35:27.280 which Harvard, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, another kind of sort of loose ally in the

00:35:34.460 fight against the Soviet Union. And then the ISI, our great allies were harboring bin Laden for years, 0.61

00:35:39.640 but then they also kind of gave it up. So please, please spare me. I mentioned this earlier

00:35:43.720 on the show a few days ago. Spare me the sanctimony over the allies and the enemies. And

00:35:50.660 this is, if you're, if you support the Taliban, you're a white supremacist. Joe Biden supports the 0.82

00:35:56.320 Taliban. So is he a white supremacist? No, this is just a way of coming after anybody that in any way

00:36:06.300 creates a problem for the increasingly incoherent narrative of the ruling class. It also is being

00:36:13.820 used to make a political enemy and dissident out of anyone who supports the end of the Afghan war.

00:36:20.440 You're not allowed to do that. The media do not want you to do that. Meanwhile, we still have these

00:36:27.460 people that were supposed to get out of Afghanistan, right? We've already gotten a lot of Afghans out, 1.00

00:36:31.860 but we still have some Americans and some special Afghan allies who, who make a good case for why we

00:36:37.340 should get them out, including an interpreter. So there was an interpreter who actually rescued

00:36:41.020 Joe Biden and John Kerry and Chuck Hagel some years ago. Their helicopter went down and then this guy

00:36:47.880 helped get them out. And now he's been left behind. And he said, please save me. I'm going to be killed.

00:36:53.200 I'm in hiding with my family. Joe Biden, please get me out of the country. The U.S. still hasn't done

00:36:57.920 it. Jen Psaki comes out and says, don't worry, we will not leave you behind.

00:37:01.640 An interpreter who helped rescue then Senator Joe Biden when he was stranded 13 years ago in

00:37:06.800 Afghanistan is now in hiding. He told the Wall Street Journal, hello, Mr. President, save me and my

00:37:12.680 family. Don't forget me. What's your response to him? And why is he and other Afghan allies like him

00:37:18.860 still in the country if the president believes, as he said today, that the mission was an extraordinary

00:37:23.740 success? Well, I would say first, our message to him is thank you for fighting by our side for the

00:37:29.800 last 20 years. Thank you for the role you played in helping a number of my favorite people out of a

00:37:36.100 snowstorm and for all of the work you did. And our commitment is enduring, not just to American

00:37:41.760 citizens, but to our Afghan partners who have fought by our side. And our efforts and our focus

00:37:47.220 right now is, as you heard General McKenzie say and others say over the last 24 hours, is to the

00:37:52.800 diplomatic phase. We will get you out. We will honor your service. And we're committed to doing exactly

00:37:58.680 that. I'm sure this is a great comfort to this guy who's stuck in Afghanistan, right? This is a great

00:38:05.140 comfort because Jen Psaki, because the White House is saying they will get you out. Just like they said

00:38:12.700 they would not leave any Americans in Afghanistan before the final withdrawal, except they actually 0.97

00:38:17.060 did that. Just like they said Afghanistan would not fall to the Taliban anytime soon, even though it 0.95

00:38:22.840 did within a matter of days. Just like they said, just like they said, just like they said,

00:38:26.980 a promise from Joe Biden's White House and a buck 50 would get you a cup of coffee if Joe Biden's

00:38:37.320 inflation did not raise the price of a cup of coffee. Now it's going to be his word plus probably

00:38:42.160 three or four dollars to get you a cup of coffee. It's worth nothing. There is a consequence to

00:38:48.020 incompetence. There is a consequence to not fulfilling your promises. And the consequence is that if I were

00:38:52.500 that guy in Afghanistan, I'd stay in hiding. I'd figure out a plan B because I wouldn't rely on the 1.00

00:38:59.060 Biden administration. Most Americans believe Joe Biden should resign. That is a shocking,

00:39:09.380 that is a shocking number. It comes from Rasmussen, which is a right-leaning poll firm, but they've got

00:39:13.540 pretty good numbers. They've got a pretty good record. Rasmussen is saying 52% of Americans want Joe Biden to

00:39:21.380 resign. Only 39% are opposed to him resigning. A full 60% want him impeached. 37% do not want him impeached.

00:39:32.100 Furthermore, so that's really bad in and of itself, but then it gets even worse. A full 58% do not believe

00:39:40.660 that Kamala Harris is qualified to be president. And 47% of Americans haven't been paying attention.

00:39:47.180 Now 40%, oh no, it's, it's even crazier. 47% believe that she's not at all qualified to be 0.87

00:39:55.040 president. So I'm sorry, I've got to correct myself. Only 38% have not been paying attention.

00:40:00.100 They think she is qualified. And now this is the best news for Joe Biden because the majority of

00:40:07.800 Americans want him gone and an even greater majority of Americans want him impeached.

00:40:11.940 But Americans are so terrified of Kamala Harris that it probably wouldn't happen. 0.96

00:40:19.160 That's really big. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think Joe Biden should be impeached. I don't think

00:40:23.240 he's committed an impeachable offense. I know that these days you can be impeached for, you know,

00:40:28.520 how you take your coffee in the morning. I know that these days the constitutional legal requirements

00:40:32.520 for impeachment have been thrown by the wayside in favor of political considerations. But I'm still

00:40:37.260 standing by the constitution and I still think that there is a legal aspect to impeachment. And so I

00:40:42.920 don't think he's committed a crime as far as I can tell. The one crime he might be committing now

00:40:47.560 is coming out of the incoherence of American foreign policy because we helped to start a terrorist group

00:40:56.840 called the Haqqani Network. It was one of the largest recipients of, of CIA funding during our fight

00:41:02.960 in Afghanistan against the Soviets. The Haqqani Network is a terrorist organization and the United

00:41:08.280 States considers it officially a terrorist organization. And the Haqqani Network, the US

00:41:14.060 official headline is that the Haqqani Network and the Taliban are different. But in reality,

00:41:18.100 they're not. The Haqqani Network has been folded into the Taliban. They're the same thing now. 0.79

00:41:22.360 So the United States is allies with the Taliban, but we still consider the Haqqani Network a terrorist

00:41:27.220 organization. And we were just hearing yesterday from the White House and the State Department

00:41:31.680 that they very likely will fund the Taliban. They will send foreign aid to the Taliban,

00:41:37.080 which means they'll be funding a terrorist organization, which is a crime. So I get in

00:41:40.980 that way, he may have committed a crime, but otherwise it's just, it's just incompetence.

00:41:44.920 It's just maladministration, which is very bad, but I don't think it's impeachable.

00:41:49.080 And should he resign? I don't, I don't know. I don't want him to. I'm with the people who fear

00:41:55.920 Harris more than Biden. Biden seems to me mostly incompetent. And so when he's handling a withdrawal 0.95

00:42:03.960 from Afghanistan, which in principle, I think still many, most Americans support, even if he

00:42:09.440 bungles it tremendously, I just, I mean, that's, that's really awful. But I'm, I'm not convinced

00:42:15.380 we'd be in a better spot with Kamala Harris. This is really, really bad news for the White House.

00:42:19.620 When you're best shot at holding onto political power is that people hate your deputy even more,

00:42:26.120 you're not, you're not in a, in a terrific position. Meanwhile, the left's PR,

00:42:32.060 generally speaking, is not that great. The Taliban's got great PR. The Democratic Party 0.94

00:42:36.840 has pretty bad PR. And actually getting back to our first topic today, pro-life and pro-abortion,

00:42:42.560 a guest on MSNBC who was on Al Sharpton's show thought that it would be clever to compare

00:42:49.600 American pro-lifers to suicide bombers. This is a matter of civil rights. Having the right to an

00:42:57.380 abortion is a constitutional right. It's grounded in the rights of privacy that is within the

00:43:02.080 constitution. And I find it really interesting that part of this argument is an argument about,

00:43:08.780 you know, the rights and abortion is not explicitly listed in the constitution, but you know what,

00:43:13.360 neither is the right to bear arms. That the way that we interpret that law is the interpretation

00:43:18.940 of a constitutional provision, the second amendment. In this, we are interpreting another, we're

00:43:24.660 interpreting another constitutional provision, yet that's, we're not applying that same logic to

00:43:30.380 this situation. I'm not sure where this lady went to law school, but I think she might be 1.00

00:43:35.320 misinterpreting the constitution here because she's saying, yes, no, I mean, maybe the right to an

00:43:40.460 abortion. Yeah, sure. You can't find it in the constitution, but you can't find the right to bear,

00:43:43.760 keep and bear arms either. Except you can, it's in the second amendment and it's spelled out in

00:43:51.320 exactly those words. She, I don't even know what she's trying to say, but the constitution is quite

00:43:58.840 clear that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Meanwhile, as she

00:44:06.240 acknowledges, there is no right to an abortion. She's saying that the right to an abortion is implied

00:44:11.580 by the general right to privacy that also doesn't exist in the constitution. Show me the general

00:44:17.160 right to privacy. Where's that? Where's that? Good luck interpreting that in the, interpreting

00:44:22.380 that in the constitution. You're not going to find it. Then she goes on to make her final point.

00:44:28.200 We're all like suicide bombers. What it reminds me of quite honestly is a suicide bomber. Someone who

00:44:35.960 feels like they have the right and the moral duty to mess up somebody else's life for the greater good.

00:44:42.320 So the pro-lifers were like suicide bombers because you know what a suicide bomber does?

00:44:47.760 He has a suicide bomber believes that he has the right and the duty to mess up someone else's life

00:44:55.660 for what they perceive to be the greater good. Like an abortionist? Like you're saying to be like a

00:45:05.880 suicide bomber, you have to think that you have the right to mess up someone's life. So what is

00:45:09.440 messing up someone's life? Is messing up someone's life, I guess, preventing someone from killing

00:45:13.860 someone else if that person wants to kill someone else? I guess, you know, in a way you could call

00:45:19.100 that messing up someone's life, but I'm going to give you two scenarios. One is you prevent someone

00:45:23.820 from killing another person and that is inconvenient for that other person. So what is a greater example

00:45:30.900 of messing up someone's life? That or killing someone, which, which messes up someone's life

00:45:38.000 more? I think the latter probably does. So this woman, not the brightest bulb in the pack 1.00

00:45:46.580 on MSNBC with Al Sharpton, also not the sharpest tool in the shed.

00:45:52.360 He doesn't get any respect. No R-E-S-P-I-C-T, Al Sharpton.

00:45:58.860 Show some R-E-S-P-I-C-T. 1.00

00:46:02.240 Nor should this woman, because the argument she is making 1.00

00:46:04.920 is actually undercutting the point that she, she is trying and failing to make. 0.71

00:46:13.740 We've got so much more to get to, but we've got to pause it there. We're going to pause it there

00:46:19.500 on this good news that today, for the first time in a very long time,

00:46:27.040 the law got a little bit more just and babies are going to be able to live and they're going 0.93

00:46:32.340 to have a life. And this is good stuff. Enjoy the victories while we get them. They are few

00:46:36.240 and far between. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

00:46:38.800 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies. Executive

00:47:08.660 producer Jeremy Boren. Our technical director is Austin Stevens. Supervising producer Mathis

00:47:14.200 Glover. Production manager Pavel Vidovsky. Editor and associate producer Danny D'Amico.

00:47:20.240 Associate producer Justine Turley. Audio mixer Mike Coromina. And hair and makeup by Nika Geneva.

00:47:26.740 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:47:31.200 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, a holy war breaks out after Texas bans abortion after detection of

00:47:36.460 fetal heartbeat. The Biden administration continues to declare its own heroism while telling Americans

00:47:40.960 that the Taliban might be our friends now. And Don Lemon says if you're unvaccinated, 0.91

00:47:44.760 don't go to the hospital if you get sick. That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

The Michael Knowles Show - September 02, 2021

Ep. 835 - This Is What Demons Sound Like

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript