The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 841 - Your Life Is Worth The Risk

00:00:00.000 A major new study has shown that teenage boys are six times as likely to suffer from heart

00:00:05.260 problems from the vaccine as they are to face hospitalization from the Wu flu itself.

00:00:10.860 Meanwhile, a recent survey shows that people who haven't gotten the vax

00:00:14.020 already almost certainly will not get it. So the ruling class is trying to force everyone to get

00:00:19.700 the vaccine. Just one year after Dr. Fauci himself admitted that vaccine mandates would

00:00:26.940 constitute an unacceptable encroachment on people's freedom. A lot more to get to on top

00:00:32.920 of that. Audiences cheer as an ex-Special Forces dude beats up a woman. Ron DeSantis swings back

00:00:38.640 at Joe Biden over COVID and former President George W. Bush compares the Capitol Horn guys to Al-Qaeda

00:00:44.140 on the 20th anniversary of 9-11. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:47.500 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday is from Ike Hurd, who quoting Joe Biden

00:00:59.700 says, but our patience is wearing thin. He is literally threatening us now, lol. Now? Now you're

00:01:07.360 just catching on that he's threatening us? Yes, there have been threats the whole time. Implicit

00:01:12.000 threats, slightly less implicit threats, like when the left burned the country down and killed people.

00:01:16.280 And now Joe Biden saying, my patience is wearing thin. I played real nice for some time,

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00:02:35.160 Tryfirstleaf.com slash Knowles. They're probably going to take me off of the internet for reading

00:02:41.560 this report, for reading this new study from the science, but whatever. I'm going to read it

00:02:47.500 anyway. Teenage boys face a greater risk from the vaccine than they do from COVID. This is from the

00:02:53.620 Telegraph. It's a, so it's a British report. It's according to major new research from the United

00:02:59.040 States. Children who, who face the highest risk of a cardiac adverse event are boys age 12 and

00:03:07.040 through 15, uh, following two doses of a vaccine, according to a new, uh, new research from the

00:03:13.660 United States. Uh, the findings come as professor Chris Witte, who is England's chief medical officer

00:03:19.140 prepares to advise the ministers on whether or not there would be a wider benefit to society

00:03:24.160 from vaccinating children. So the joint committee on vaccination and immunization delivered this

00:03:30.160 verdict saying that the margin of benefit of giving 12 to 15 year old boys the shot was quote,

00:03:36.140 considered too small. And they're citing the low risk to children from this virus. So you can look at

00:03:42.640 it, look up the article. If it hasn't been taken down already, look up the study. If that has not been

00:03:47.580 taken down already, this is something that we have suggested for a long time on this show.

00:03:54.780 And a lot of conservatives have pointed this out. They've said for young, healthy people,

00:03:58.100 some young, healthy people face a greater risk of danger from the vaccine than they do from the

00:04:05.520 coronavirus. And many people have been booted off of social media altogether for saying that we've been

00:04:10.640 smeared and it's called, it's called misinformers and lying. We're not following the science. Well,

00:04:14.440 here's the science. Here it is. This is as the science as it gets. And it's showing that for

00:04:21.580 young, healthy people, perhaps doesn't make the most sense to get that shot. We've heard this from

00:04:29.280 these young people themselves. There's a student athlete who took to TikTok. I'm sure this is going

00:04:32.740 to be taken down too. He took to TikTok to say he was a totally healthy student athlete. He was

00:04:37.140 looking forward to his senior year. And then he gets the second shot of the vaccine and he comes down

00:04:41.900 with myocarditis. I am in the hospital right now with heart complications from the COVID-19 vaccine.

00:04:49.720 And I want to inform as many people as I can about the risks from taking the vaccine that I wish someone

00:04:55.360 would have told me. So I am a division one student athlete with no prior health issues. And I got the

00:05:03.300 second COVID shot Tuesday. And within four days, I have been diagnosed with myocarditis and was told that I

00:05:12.420 probably won't be able to play my senior season now. It is a side effect from the COVID vaccine. And it's

00:05:21.120 really not being reported or addressed. And it is a serious issue that we should all be informed about before

00:05:28.400 making this decision. It isn't right for people to be forced to take the vaccine because there are actual

00:05:34.700 side effects like this that could happen to you. And the NCAA should not mandate student athletes to get

00:05:41.200 the vaccine because of what could happen to so many fellow student athletes' health issues, which has

00:05:48.040 happened to me. What you're going to be told is, that's fake news. That's fake. Look, it's probably not

00:05:54.300 real. And okay, even if it is real, even if he really is a student athlete, look, the plural of anecdote is not

00:06:00.040 data. Actually, it is. But look, the science shows the vaccines are safe. And okay, okay. Let's say that the

00:06:11.800 vaccines for the vast majority of people are totally safe, and it's totally fine. And the odds of anyone, including a

00:06:17.900 teenage boy facing these heart problems, is very, very, very low. Okay. What the study is saying is that

00:06:25.440 their risk of facing heart complications here is much, much, much higher than their risk of facing

00:06:32.540 hospitalization from the virus itself. So why would they get the shot? Why would they get this shot?

00:06:38.080 There's really not much argument for it, especially because we're told that the way the vaccine works is

00:06:43.460 it protects you, the person who receives the vaccine, from the worst complications of coronavirus.

00:06:50.520 So you can't even really make the argument that teen boys, otherwise healthy teen boys, need to get it

00:06:54.520 and risk myocarditis to protect old people or fat people or people who are at greater risk, because

00:07:00.240 we're told that the vaccine protects those people. So there's really no argument for it. And this is why

00:07:06.820 I think the United Kingdom right now is reversing their plans for the COVID vax passports. The British 0.98

00:07:12.880 government was pushing to mandate vaccine passports for nightclubs, movie theaters, other large public

00:07:19.080 venues. And the health secretary, Sajid Javid, is now coming out and saying, no, they are going to

00:07:25.960 reverse course on the passports. It is only two days ago that Nadim Zahawi, the vaccine minister,

00:07:34.440 says that he didn't like vaccine passports, but it is the right thing to do. Has it overnight become 0.98

00:07:40.820 the wrong thing to do? There's no overnight about it. First of all, there's a lot of defences,

00:07:46.460 as we've just gone through some of them, that we need to keep in place, because this virus hasn't

00:07:50.700 gone anywhere. There's still a pandemic, so of course we need to remain cautious. But we just

00:07:54.520 shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it or because others are doing it. We should look at every

00:07:58.400 possible intervention properly. So you asked about vaccine passports. So I think it's fair to say,

00:08:03.800 I think most people probably instinctively don't like the idea. I mean, I've never liked the idea of

00:08:08.020 saying to people, you must show your papers or something to do, you know, what is just an

00:08:12.380 everyday activity. But we were right to properly look at it, to look at the evidence. But you're

00:08:17.880 not doing it? Well, what I can say is that we've looked at it properly. And whilst we should keep

00:08:22.060 it in reserve as a potential option, I'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans

00:08:26.920 for vaccine passports. Oh, OK. Look, we were absolutely very, very right to try to force this on the

00:08:33.160 public. But you understand, then they pushed back a little bit. So now we're not going to do that.

00:08:38.420 Yes, yes, yes. Well, well, I don't know what, is this a South African accent or a New Zealand accent?

00:08:42.640 I don't know. It's not great. What can I tell you? That's not, not, I do my Fauci better than my

00:08:46.700 British. The point that he's making here, because at the beginning he says, what? No, it didn't change

00:08:51.380 overnight. OK, it didn't change overnight. Is this being pushed because of the science or because of the

00:08:58.940 politics? And he admits it's the politics. He says, people don't like it. And so we're not going to do

00:09:05.060 it. We're going to keep it in reserve in case we get the chance to do it. But the people are pushing

00:09:09.980 back on us. And so we are not going to do this. Absolutely right. This is because people, especially

00:09:16.920 some conservatives, some factions of the Conservative Party in Britain said, no, thank you. Beyond that,

00:09:24.020 beyond the UK, speaking more broadly, including here in America, the simple fact is people who

00:09:31.120 have not gotten the vaccine already are most likely just not going to get it ever, no matter

00:09:35.700 what you do short of going door to door and sticking them with a needle. There's a survey just

00:09:40.700 came out from CNBC and Change Research just found this past week that the vast majority of unvaccinated

00:09:49.840 Americans, 83 percent, do not plan on ever getting it. This was taken among 1,775 respondents.

00:09:57.560 It found that there's little that can be done to persuade them. The vast majority of the unvaccinated, 1.00

00:10:03.360 84 percent, said they would not get the shot, even if the vaccines had no side effects. 87 percent

00:10:12.820 said employer mandates would not move them to take action either. So they keep changing the way the

00:10:17.960 question is asked. Well, what if we did this? And what if we did that? And what if it were like this?

00:10:21.860 And it's still 83, 84, 87 percent say, no, thanks. We're not going to do it. So the only thing you

00:10:28.620 could do is even beyond a mandate, which still wouldn't convince a lot of people, you'd really

00:10:33.560 have to put teeth on that mandate. And the fact is, even the people now pushing the mandates just a

00:10:39.480 year ago said, absolutely not. That would be an encroachment on liberty. One of the people who made

00:10:44.380 that point, Dr. Fauci himself. You know, I don't think we've ever had a situation where you mandate

00:10:53.060 it for the general population. So let me give you some example of mandating. So I'm a physician. I

00:11:01.540 see patients in my hospital right literally out the window here across the hall at the NIH clinical

00:11:08.960 center. During the flu season, the administration of the hospital mandates that I have to get a flu

00:11:17.540 vaccine. Otherwise, I won't be able to see patients the way I usually do. That has not happened ever to

00:11:25.220 my knowledge at a national level or even at a state level. So I could see the individual institutions

00:11:33.180 mandating a vaccine. I don't see it on a national level merely because of all the situations you have

00:11:40.920 upon encroaching upon persons freedom to make their own choice of their own health.

00:11:48.340 So like all other Fauci predictions, turns out this one was wrong, too, because what happens now

00:11:52.500 we're seeing the vaccine mandates and the whole public health establishment is pushing for them.

00:11:56.800 But the one part that Fauci got right is the American people do not like them and they almost

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00:13:12.600 freedom, right? And we talk a lot on this show about how freedom has been misinterpreted in recent

00:13:19.780 years on the left and on the right. Okay. I think a lot of the problems with why the conservatives have

00:13:25.080 not been all that effective over the past several decades. A lot of the problems we face now in our

00:13:29.360 political discourse are because even we misunderstand what freedom is. Freedom is not the ability to do

00:13:36.380 whatever you want, whenever you want it. That is not what the founding fathers thought freedom was.

00:13:40.840 That is not what classical statesmen thought freedom was. That's not what the Christians thought 0.95

00:13:44.740 freedom was. That's not what the ancient pre-Christian pagans thought freedom was.

00:13:48.580 It's not what conservatives thought freedom was until just a few years ago. Freedom is the right

00:13:56.780 to do what you ought to do. Okay. And I'll, I often give the example of the drug addict. I'll give you

00:14:03.760 another example right now. This comes from Nick's martial arts. There was a big fight the other night

00:14:10.580 in which a giant hulking ex-special forces dude beat a woman, beat her up. A giant hulking dude beat up a 0.64

00:14:22.020 chick. And this was considered a great victory. And people applauded for that. The fella's name is

00:14:27.680 Alana McLaughlin. I don't know what his real name is, but the name he goes by is Alana McLaughlin.

00:14:32.140 He is the second openly transgender woman, a dude to beat up women in the MMA. And he won his debut

00:14:41.740 on Friday night via submission at the combat global preliminary games in Miami. He's 38 years old.

00:14:50.980 He used a rear chokehold against Celine Provost, ended the match three minutes, 32 seconds into the

00:14:56.620 second round. Here's what he said. He goes, I want to pick up the mantle that Fallon put down.

00:15:02.360 Fallon Fox is another dude who went into the ring to beat up women and cracked open a woman's skull.

00:15:07.680 And people applauded for that too. They said, yeah, yeah, buddy, you go, you go crack that woman's 1.00

00:15:12.800 skull. Equality, freedom. He did that. He became the first transgender woman to fight in the MMA in 1.00

00:15:18.840 2012. And then this fella says, right now I'm following in Fallon's footsteps. I'm just another

00:15:23.940 step along the way. And it's my great hope that there are more to follow behind me. Freedom,

00:15:30.560 right? Isn't this freedom? This is, this is freedom according to the modern liberal definition

00:15:35.260 that many people on the right have bought into. Well, it's his, it's his, it's his freedom.

00:15:41.280 If he feels like a woman, then he gets to just pretend to be a woman. He gets, he gets to be 0.87

00:15:45.360 treated as a woman. He gets to dress up like a woman and compete in women's sports. It's his freedom.

00:15:49.780 And by the way, the woman that he beat up, she agreed to do it, right? Let's not,

00:15:54.760 let's not make her into a victim here. I mean, sure. A hulking special forces dude

00:15:58.580 just bruised her up, but she agreed to do it. It was her consent. Just like the woman who had her 0.85

00:16:05.440 skull cracked open by Fallon Fox. She consented to it. So it's her freedom too. And look, we're all

00:16:11.520 consenting to watch this sick, sick match, right? This psychopathy in a ring. And so it's all, 0.95

00:16:20.180 it's all free. It's all good. As long as you agree to it, isn't that great? The heroin addict

00:16:26.120 just decides to shoot up. You, you tyrants better not tell him that he can't shoot up a bunch of dope

00:16:32.940 and kill himself. Why? That's his freedom, right? Right? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. 0.97

00:16:39.580 What we saw happen, I didn't watch it, obviously, but what other people saw happen at the MMA

00:16:46.760 is the refutation of feminism, transgenderism, the whole sexual revolution, and this whole

00:16:55.020 misunderstanding of liberty, okay? Feminism says men and women are exactly the same. 1.00

00:17:00.180 They're identical. There are some superficial differences, but beyond superficial differences,

00:17:04.960 they're identical. And that's just not true. Men and women are different. They're different

00:17:08.920 physically. They're different emotionally. They're different ontologically. They're just

00:17:13.760 different, okay? A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, according to the feminists, 1.00

00:17:18.980 just not true. Men and women both need one another. Transgenderism is the logical consequence 1.00

00:17:24.100 of feminism. If men and women are exactly the same, well, first, first then you're going to have 1.00

00:17:28.940 to redefine marriage because men and women are exactly the same. So the union of two men and the

00:17:32.560 union of two women has to be, just following that logic, it has to be the exact same as the union

00:17:37.780 between a man and a woman. And then following that logic, a man can be a woman and a woman can be a 0.90

00:17:42.540 man because there's actually no difference, right? Except when they get into the ring and the men

00:17:47.640 crack the women's skulls open. And then you realize, oh, wait, there is a difference. 0.88

00:17:51.480 Ah, no, but I'm, but I was told there is no, so I get, I must be imagining this. It must be an

00:17:56.880 illusion. It was just the luck of the draw that Fallon Fox cracked that chick's skull open, right?

00:18:02.220 It was just, it could have gone the other way. The chick could have cracked his skull open, 1.00

00:18:06.100 except they never do because men and women are different. The whole sexual revolution, 0.98

00:18:10.720 do men and women relate to sex in the same way? I don't think so. When a guy, when a single guy

00:18:18.900 goes out with his buddies and they want to get up to no good, they are thinking about sex in a

00:18:22.700 different way than women are. That's just a fact. Leon Cass, the bioethicist, has this idea. 0.99

00:18:30.320 It's called the wisdom of repugnance. He said, there are certain things that just at a gut level,

00:18:36.680 we just, we just find icky, okay? And this is not fully reliable to our understanding of moral

00:18:44.500 problems, but it is somewhat reliable. Think of incest, consensual incest where there is no

00:18:50.500 possibility of producing a child, right? You can't really make a utilitarian argument for why that's

00:18:56.440 a bad thing. There won't be a child. There won't be any externalities. Two people are consenting.

00:19:00.660 They love each other. It's no big deal. And yet we just have this aversion to it. We just think,

00:19:05.820 that's just, there's something wrong about that. There's something wrong about a man cracking a

00:19:11.880 woman's skull open. And if you're bought into the logic of liberalism and progressivism and all these 0.64

00:19:18.920 modern ideologies, you can't really explain, if you're a conservative, you can't explain why it's

00:19:23.280 wrong. But if you're a modern, you can't quite explain why it's wrong. But you know too, you know

00:19:28.220 too, that it is wrong. Speaking of hitting people who are weaker than you, Ron DeSantis is swinging

00:19:35.440 back at Joe Biden. Joe Biden is blaming Ron DeSantis as best he can for the uptick in COVID cases.

00:19:42.720 Notice they don't, they don't really talk about the uptick in deaths quite so much. They don't even

00:19:47.300 talk very much about the uptick in hospitalizations. It's always the cases because the cases don't

00:19:53.620 really matter. The question is death and hospitalization. So the other reason Biden's

00:19:58.940 hitting DeSantis is because he thinks DeSantis has a good chance of being the nominee.

00:20:01.740 So whether Biden's running, whether Kamala's running, he wants to weaken DeSantis. So DeSantis

00:20:06.640 comes back and he takes Joe Biden's logic and he flips it on its head. Here he comes from Washington,

00:20:12.500 D.C., instituting an unprecedented mandate, which even his own people have acknowledged in the past

00:20:19.140 is not constitutional. That's not leadership. And I think the problem I have with Joe Biden more than

00:20:25.460 anything. This guy doesn't take responsibility for anything. He's always trying to blame other

00:20:30.480 people, blame other states. This is a guy that promised when he ran for president that he would

00:20:36.200 shut down the virus. If you look now, there's 300 percent more cases in this country today than a year

00:20:43.500 ago when we had no vaccines at all. So his policies are not working. He's doubling down on things that are

00:20:49.240 going to be very destructive for the livelihoods of many, many Americans and obviously going to be

00:20:54.520 destructive to our constitutional system and the rule of law. And so these are times when you believe

00:21:01.840 in that constitution, you got to stand up. Absolutely right. This is more evidence that

00:21:07.960 Ron DeSantis is a very sophisticated politician because what Joe Biden is doing here is he's pushing

00:21:13.440 the problems down to the states. He's got the whole media to defend him and say, all the problems with

00:21:17.460 COVID are coming from Florida, which is obviously not true, right? During the epidemic, Andrew Cuomo

00:21:24.200 was probably the worst governor in the country on COVID. DeSantis was the best. And yet the media blamed

00:21:28.240 DeSantis and made Cuomo into a deity before he got booted out over that sex scandal. It was really over

00:21:35.160 the COVID scandal. So DeSantis is flipping it. He goes, hey, buddy, you're blaming me because the COVID

00:21:40.200 cases are going up. You're the president. You said that you would reduce COVID cases. What? You're

00:21:44.120 going to let little old Ron DeSantis stop you from doing that? Take some responsibility. This is your

00:21:48.460 fault and you lied. Now there was a woman who, frankly, I know there are a lot of people up for 0.97

00:21:53.880 the Republican nomination for president. This woman, if she wants it, I think she has my endorsement. I 0.98

00:21:59.360 think she has my vote. She put the situation here with Biden and the COVID mandates and his patience

00:22:05.480 wearing thin. She put it better than just about anyone I've heard. Talking about my patience is

00:22:10.700 wearing thin. What the f**k are you talking to? As long as your patience don't get as thin as that 1.00

00:22:16.100 hairline I think will be all right. I am not your child. And I'm sure enough ain't your b**ch. You're 1.00

00:22:22.440 talking about your patience is wearing thin. These people have law. They acting like they, you know

00:22:27.380 what I'm saying? Like they paying your bills and b**ch you down. You got to watch, you b**ch. I saw that 1.00

00:22:34.320 little clip. I said, oh, he's crazy. He really think he, he really think I'm his hole. My patience 0.96

00:22:41.200 is wearing thin. I need you to get out on that boulevard and bring me my money. You ain't my pimp

00:22:46.200 n*****. What the hell is wrong with these people? He really said that s**t out of his mouth. But our 1.00

00:22:52.260 patience is wearing thin. You bald hip. See, see, see, I'm trying. I thank God. See, that's Danny 0.87

00:22:59.100 calling me right now trying to save, trying to save my mouth. I could not have said it better

00:23:04.520 myself. And I think that on a deep level, maybe people will use slightly different words. That's

00:23:09.720 the feeling of a lot of Americans who are not going to pay any attention to that. Where do I vote for

00:23:15.540 that woman? Where do I go? Give me a mail-in ballot so I can vote for that woman for something. 1.00

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00:24:41.160 what you hear. Our president has decided to go this really awful route and mandate vaccines for

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00:24:54.760 I'm not going to use the exact words of that TikTok lady, but that's exactly what we're feeling 0.57

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00:25:32.780 Political alliances are shifting. There's a woman, she was very prominent in the Me Too movement,

00:25:46.980 Rose McGowan. She's a Hollywood actress. She is, I think, traditionally on the left. I think she was

00:25:53.720 pretty firmly on the left, and she saw behind the curtain, okay? She saw what the power structures

00:26:01.260 are really like, certainly within Hollywood and more broadly within the liberal establishment of

00:26:07.040 which Hollywood is a pretty significant part. And so Rose McGowan has been changing her relationship 1.00

00:26:15.360 to politics. So much so, I didn't think I would see this day. She has just come out and in her state

00:26:22.860 of California is endorsing Larry Elder for governor. Do you want a society that has gangrene on its leg

00:26:30.740 but puts on a fancy suit and pretends it's not there while they hobble in pain? Or do you want to

00:26:37.080 just stop, look at reality, take your medicine, clean up the wound, and run? Run free.

00:26:46.620 Why not change? Why not go big? Why not put a stake in the heart of evil? Because that's what this

00:26:53.520 really is. This is good, and this is evil. I know this place has it in it to be better.

00:26:59.860 I know it does. I've met so many good people in this country. Not the elites. Absolutely not.

00:27:07.200 And then we have the Jennifer Siebel Newsoms of the world.

00:27:09.380 Why? Why do you keep choosing that? Why do you keep electing that?

00:27:17.580 Don't listen to their buzzwords. Cult leaders, which is what these people are.

00:27:22.980 I would know. I grew up in one, like I said. They massage your mind. They keep you in fear.

00:27:29.960 They keep you in doubt.

00:27:31.220 Now, notice she mentioned this Newsom woman. She's referring to Gavin Newsom's wife.

00:27:37.120 And the story that came out just came out on Dave Rubin's show. The mainstream media are totally

00:27:40.780 not touching this story. What Rose is alleging, and I have no reason not to believe her, and Dave

00:27:48.540 has seen the emails and he's got the receipts, is that there was a pressure campaign to shut up

00:27:55.140 Rose McGowan six months before the Harvey Weinstein story came out, before the Me Too movement really,

00:28:00.240 really broke. And Gavin Newsom's wife was one of the people, according to Rose, who was pressuring

00:28:09.120 her and said, hey, what do you need? What do you need to go away? How can we make you happy?

00:28:15.700 Now, does that mean we're going to pay you off? Does that mean that we're going to give you some

00:28:18.860 position? Does that mean we're going to put you in a movie? What does that mean? And I have no reason

00:28:26.520 not to believe her in this specific case. And we know that this is a broader problem. We know that

00:28:32.120 the swamp or the blob or the establishment or whatever you want to call it, it looks out for

00:28:38.700 itself. And it's very tied in together. Hollywood with the press, with the Democratic Party, with the

00:28:46.100 entrenched interests. It's all with big tech, with the educational establishment. They're all really

00:28:54.380 tied in and they all really look after each other. And so when there's a real scandal like the Weinstein

00:29:00.660 scandal, people forget it now because Weinstein is a punchline. Harvey Weinstein was probably the

00:29:06.320 most powerful man in Hollywood. They come out and pull out all the stops to try to protect one

00:29:12.700 another. And so what Rose McGowan is seeing is I think what a lot of disaffected Democrats and liberals

00:29:19.000 are seeing, which is they might say, you know, you know, Michael, Michael, I don't agree with you on

00:29:25.040 everything. And our views on the issues might be fairly different if we're talking about, I don't

00:29:31.160 know what marriage or, or immigration or the America's role in the world or what a citizen is,

00:29:37.080 or we actually might have different views on, let's say on every single political issue for that

00:29:41.480 matter. But there are these matters of policy and their matters of issues. And then there are broader

00:29:49.140 matters of the political order, the regime. And what a lot of people are seeing is regardless of

00:29:54.600 what I think on immigration, abortion, even whatever, the ruling class is so sick and so corrupt and so 0.95

00:30:03.040 undeserving of its authority that they're going to vote for somebody else. They're just, just to crack 0.96

00:30:09.920 it up. I think a lot of people voted for Trump for this reason. They said, I don't care what he

00:30:13.880 thinks about war, about immigration, about it. I don't care. He's not one of those people. And

00:30:18.880 because those people are bad, they're really bad. So I'm going to vote for anyone else. That's an 0.51

00:30:24.560 important thing. And so our democracy gave us an attack on that ruling class. Now the ruling class 0.99

00:30:31.960 strikes back, Rob Reiner, good old meathead from, from all in the family, a great character on a

00:30:40.180 great show. Rob Reiner, his father's Carl Reiner, Hollywood legend. Rob is a huge lib. He is about

00:30:47.900 as left-wing as they go. And I'm not going to attack him for his particular political views. I just want

00:30:55.420 to point out the hypocrisy from these people. He says, whether it's vaccines, voting rights, climate 0.80

00:30:59.520 change, or investigating a deadly insurrection, wasn't, oh my God. The only deadly insurrection

00:31:05.600 last year was, was BLM. We're sick and tired of being tyrannized by an ignorant minority. Enough. 1.00

00:31:12.220 Let majority rule. Okay. So the position of Rob Reiner is let majority rule. We're for democracy.

00:31:20.860 I hear this from my liberal friends and relatives. They say, Michael, we're pro-democracy. We're just

00:31:25.380 trying to save our democracy. Okay. What about the democracy in Texas that just voted to outlaw

00:31:30.160 abortion? Well, no, that's different. Well, why is that different? Well, because there's a

00:31:34.540 constitutional right to an abortion. Okay. So you're admitting that we need some limits on the 0.77

00:31:38.880 democracy. Well, no, well, sure. Constitutional limits. Okay. That's, that's, that's first of all.

00:31:43.860 Second of all, show me the right to an abortion in the constitution. You don't see it. It's not really

00:31:47.040 there. They had to invent that, but okay. You've granted now that there are some limits on the,

00:31:51.440 the democracy. Okay, good. So now you defend our, our gun rights, our second amendment rights to keep

00:31:56.340 and bear arms. Well, no, that's different. We need the people to be allowed to vote. Why is that

00:31:59.540 different? Because that's an actual constitutional right. You've just granted that there can be some

00:32:03.840 limits on the democracy and that there have to be. So there you go. There's one that's spelled out.

00:32:07.520 It's not in the invisible ink in the constitution, like abortion is there. It's right there in the bill

00:32:11.340 of rights. Well, no, that's different. We need to be able to vote on this. Okay. What about Trump?

00:32:16.760 All right. Trump in an election that was conducted in a, in a much more fair manner than the 2020

00:32:20.660 election with the widespread mail-ins and the violation of state constitutions

00:32:23.960 and the counting that went on for days and days and weeks and weeks. Donald Trump wins. He wins

00:32:29.080 the election. Isn't that our democracy? No, it's, it can't be. That's when, when the people vote the

00:32:35.760 wrong way, according to the left, that is illegitimate. It's, it's probably caused by Russian 1.00

00:32:42.620 collusion. It needs to be fixed by the courts. But then when the people vote the right way, that's,

00:32:49.860 even if it violates some provision of the constitution, that's democracy and we need

00:32:53.820 more democracy. It's, it's deeply hypocritical. The reality is we live in a constitutional republic. 0.94

00:32:59.840 At least we did. And the way the constitutional republic works is that the people have a say

00:33:05.020 and the states, at least at one time had a say, and the federal government has some power and there

00:33:10.480 are limits imposed by the constitution. And that's a complex system of government. Today,

00:33:14.800 the way our, our government works is very different. I meant to get to this point last

00:33:19.480 week, but I'm glad we have time to get to it now. When Joe Biden came out and gave his vaccine

00:33:25.660 mandate, there were a lot of conservatives who said, that's not how our government works.

00:33:33.180 Right. And I get what they're saying. What they're saying is that's not how our government is supposed

00:33:37.200 to work. That's not, you know, when I watched Schoolhouse Rock and I am a bill up on Capitol Hill,

00:33:43.480 that's, that's the way our government works. The Congress proposes laws and it's, then the Senate

00:33:48.180 votes on them and then it's signed or, or vetoed by the president. And if it's vetoed, it goes back

00:33:53.380 to the house. And if they can muster a veto proof vote, then it goes back and it becomes a law. And

00:33:56.900 then the courts can decide whether or not it's constitutional. If a case is brought up, there

00:34:00.020 you go, that's American democracy. So that's not how it works. That's, I hate to be the one to break

00:34:05.280 this to you, but it turns out our actual system of government, our lowercase C constitution,

00:34:11.200 not the uppercase C like the document, but the actual, the way our government is constituted

00:34:15.720 is very different. The way our government is constituted is that some senile old jerk named 0.99

00:34:21.120 Joe Biden can just give a decree and pass it to an administrative agency, pass it to OSHA, 0.99

00:34:26.440 and then OSHA will just do whatever it wants. And, and if, if you do not comply, it'll bleed you with

00:34:32.160 fines and fees and all sorts of things. That's the way law is actually made. Very few laws are made by

00:34:37.120 the Congress. Most laws are made by these kinds of unaccountable bureaucrats. And that's just the 0.54

00:34:44.200 way it, and we can, we can not like that. You know, we can disapprove of that. But the reason

00:34:50.560 the left is so good at wielding political power is that they are engaging in politics in the way that

00:34:56.360 it actually exists. And conservatives are engaging in politics in the way that Schoolhouse Rock told us

00:35:01.520 that it's supposed to exist. But that's imaginary. That's not, that's not how it actually works.

00:35:07.280 And so we're going to feel really morally pure and we're going to, and we're going to know what,

00:35:12.400 what the, the framers of the constitution debated in the 18th century. And it's not going to result

00:35:18.700 in Jack Diddley because the left is engaging in the real politics.

00:35:23.920 Our democracy, our democracy, our, see, as Rob Reiner said, when peaceful, mostly peaceful

00:35:33.140 conservatives storm into the Capitol and don't kill anybody. And even though the Washington Post

00:35:39.220 and the New York Times reported that they killed a cop, it didn't actually happen, but they go and

00:35:42.640 maybe they break a window and they steal Pelosi's lectern. That's a violent, deadly, dangerous

00:35:46.340 insurrection. When BLM kills dozens of people and burns down courthouses and police buildings and

00:35:51.300 steals a bunch of sneakers and, and steals people's private property, that's a, that's a

00:35:55.840 mostly peaceful protest. Okay. That's our democracy in action. And George W. Bush, the man that

00:36:01.380 Republicans backed for president twice, George W. Bush came out on the 20th anniversary of 9-11

00:36:07.240 and compared, I think, the horn guy from the Capitol to Al Qaeda.

00:36:14.360 The security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort

00:36:19.520 and reminders of our vulnerability. And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our

00:36:28.060 country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.

00:36:33.680 There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home.

00:36:40.580 But in their disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national

00:36:50.580 symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them.

00:36:59.600 This is really weaselly language because Bush won't come out and say what it seems pretty clear that he's

00:37:04.880 saying that he's going after the Capitol riot people. Now, when I first heard this, I said,

00:37:13.260 oh yeah, yeah, you're right. BLM and Antifa and Al Qaeda, maybe they are. It's a little harsh, pal,

00:37:19.060 but sure, maybe they are children of the same foul spirit. They have a disregard for human life.

00:37:25.540 Obviously, BLM's killed a lot of people. But when he said they attack national symbols,

00:37:30.040 it seems to me there that is a pointed reference to the Capitol. Now, you might say BLM burned down

00:37:35.700 police buildings, federal courthouses, but you might call that a national symbol. I suspect he's

00:37:41.240 talking about the act, when you think, what are the national symbols? The Capitol, the White House,

00:37:47.280 maybe the Washington Monument, and these are the real national symbols. I think he's going after them.

00:37:52.460 It doesn't make sense to say that they don't have a regard for human life. They didn't kill anybody.

00:37:57.680 To say that they have a disdain for pluralism, I'm not sure about that. The Trump coalition,

00:38:06.020 whatever you want to say about them, pretty pluralistic. They came from all sorts of backgrounds.

00:38:12.660 This was really tasteless. This was really tasteless. George Bush usually tries to

00:38:16.840 keep it very urbane and, you know, above, he's so above everything, he won't even show up to the

00:38:22.260 Republican convention anymore. But this was really tasteless to use the 20th anniversary of 9-11

00:38:27.760 to attack what I, I don't think I'm being unfair in interpreting that as an attack on his political

00:38:33.260 opponents on the right, who were the very same people who voted for him and who gave him his

00:38:38.480 political career, and who do not deserve to be compared to Al-Qaeda. They don't deserve to be

00:38:43.040 compared to BLM. BLM is much, much worse than they are, and they've done many worse things than

00:38:48.800 anything they've ever done. Bush just sounds like a big lib, which I guess he always kind of was.

00:38:54.020 I mean, the Bush family, I'm not even, I don't mean this as some personal attack on the Bush family.

00:38:58.940 They were always the liberal Republican family. They were the, there were the Reaganites and the

00:39:03.760 Bushies. And that's why in 1980, Reagan picked Bush to be his VP. It's not because they agree,

00:39:08.820 they didn't agree on very much of anything. In fact, Bush coined the phrase voodoo economics to make

00:39:13.380 fun of Ronald Reagan. They ran a bitter primary, but Reagan picked him to unify the party.

00:39:17.340 Reagan almost didn't endorse him in 1988. It's not like there was a particularly close friendship

00:39:24.360 between these two guys, okay? And George W. ran as a more conservative candidate than his father did,

00:39:31.120 but in his actual presidency, he was very progressive. He was a Wilsonian progressive,

00:39:37.540 more Wilsonian probably than Woodrow Wilson. And now we're seeing, once again, he's going back to his

00:39:44.140 roots and siding with the libs over the people who gave him his political career.

00:39:50.040 As a former Democrat congressional candidate, I almost don't want to give her any oxygen.

00:39:57.200 I don't want to give, give this any more air than it's already gotten,

00:40:00.320 but it ties in with the broader narrative here. Pam Keith tweets out, on, on January 6th,

00:40:08.220 January 6th, 2021, September 11th, 2001, ceased being the worst thing that happened to America

00:40:14.100 in my lifetime. It's really weird and painful to process and say that, but it's the truth,

00:40:17.900 and quite frankly, it's not even close. So this is obviously an absurd statement made by a very

00:40:21.160 stupid woman. The only reason I mention it, and she's just doing it to get clicks, I would imagine. 1.00

00:40:25.780 Maybe she really believes it, but then, you know, she's even thicker in between the ears than I

00:40:30.160 expected she was, or thinner. Thinner, I suppose, just the wind blows right through them.

00:40:36.740 The reason I mention this is that what George W. Bush said about right-wingers is not,

00:40:44.500 is not much softer than what she is saying about right-wingers. It's a reminder that sometimes it's

00:40:51.900 called the uniparty or the establishment or the blob or whatever you want to call it,

00:40:55.900 hates you, holds you in contempt, thinks it is so much better than you, and you have no right to

00:41:03.080 have any say in the affairs of your own country, that they are so much better than you, and really,

00:41:08.280 you know, the way the country is supposed to work is it's supposed to be Bushes and Clintons and

00:41:11.560 Bushes and Clintons, and we're just going to be run by these two semi-competing, sort of

00:41:17.020 cooperating, friendly families of the American political dynasty. That's what we're hearing.

00:41:22.620 There was a professor at Syracuse University. She has since deleted these tweets, but the internet

00:41:27.900 is forever. Jen Jackson is an assistant professor at Syracuse in political science, and she was very

00:41:33.880 upset with the way that people are talking about 9-11. So her biography, just to give you a sense of

00:41:37.820 who this woman is, is she's a queer gender flux, androgynous black woman, okay, an abolitionist, 0.99

00:41:46.740 Abelez refers to slavery, which ended 150 years ago. But now you sometimes hear this applied to

00:41:52.660 prisons. So she's, she wants to spring all the criminals from prison, and says, a lover of all

00:41:58.220 black people. The specific omission of white people here suggests that she probably doesn't love white 0.96

00:42:04.400 people very much. She might actually hate white people, but she really loves black people. She goes, 0.95

00:42:08.080 quote, we have to be more honest about what 9-11 was and what it wasn't. It was an attack on the

00:42:14.320 hetero-patriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries

00:42:20.580 into passivity. It was an attack on the systems that many white Americans fight to protect.

00:42:24.780 She's saying that America deserved it, and specifically white Americans deserved it. 0.80

00:42:29.000 And the blame for 9-11 goes to white Americans who invited this because they're not communists and 0.94

00:42:35.280 because they're not black. And that woman is teaching at Syracuse University. You are going to hear 0.92

00:42:43.700 from some squishes, if this story even makes it out, you're going to hear, well, academic freedom,

00:42:49.720 academic freedom means that we can't fire this woman. This woman should be fired and ostracized 1.00

00:42:54.960 from polite society, and frankly banished to St. Helena, okay? She has no right to teach. 0.99

00:43:01.780 She has no right to participate in polite society. We once understood this. I mentioned this book,

00:43:08.200 God and Man at Yale, where I was very honored to write the new introduction to the 70th anniversary

00:43:11.820 edition. This is the book that launched the modern conservative movement. The subtitle is

00:43:16.440 The Superstitions of Academic Freedom. This was the first big conservative book in the modern

00:43:21.180 political era, and it made fun of academic freedom. We also should make fun of that. It's a joke. It's a

00:43:26.680 farce. It's a hoax, to quote Buckley. It is used only to defend libs for upending our standards.

00:43:32.720 It's never used to defend conservatives. The woman should be fired, and she should never be hired again. 1.00

00:43:38.480 And it's just that simple. This even affects the government. In the Maryland Diversity Office,

00:43:45.580 an office that should be abolished, the Maryland Diversity Office planned to commemorate September

00:43:51.600 11th with a play about how we ought to oppose anti-Muslim stereotypes, because that's the lesson

00:43:58.020 of 9-11. That's the lesson. The real hurt from 9-11 is the Muslim stereotypes that came afterward.

00:44:07.400 Not the 3,000 dead Americans, not their families, not the city of New York, not the country as a whole

00:44:13.720 that really still hasn't gotten over 9-11. No, it's the Muslim stereotypes. That's the issue. That's

00:44:21.220 Islamophobia. The play, the diversity office has since canceled it, and Maryland should cancel the

00:44:28.140 diversity office. It said the play explores themes like Islamophobia and exposes the racial and ethnic

00:44:35.460 prejudices against Muslims. As I mentioned, there are not racial prejudices against Muslims, because

00:44:43.100 Islam is not a race. It's a religion. But because now, I mean, this is actually pretty good proof of

00:44:50.100 my argument that racism is now just a synonym for bad. It's because we can't talk about sin or evil

00:44:57.660 or vice. We don't, we lack the moral and ethical language to do that, theological language. So instead,

00:45:04.760 we just, we talk about racism and we call things that have nothing to do with race, racism, like attacks

00:45:10.880 on Islam or criticisms of Islam. It's now racist. Thankfully, they scrapped this play. Speaking of

00:45:18.260 critical race theory, though, which is behind a lot of what you're, you're seeing from these places,

00:45:22.780 Chris Ruffo, you know, Chris Ruffo is the Manhattan Institute scholar who really popularized this campaign

00:45:28.020 against critical race theory. He's responsible for a lot of ordinary Americans going out to the school

00:45:32.760 boards and saying, get this crap out of the classroom. Women like the, my new favorite woman in 1.00

00:45:39.980 America who's, who's says that she's not Joe Biden's hoe and he's not going to send her to the 1.00

00:45:44.960 boulevard. You know, ordinary people who are waking up and saying, I don't like what's going on.

00:45:49.540 Chris Ruffo was just unverified on Twitter. Unverified. He wasn't suspended. He wasn't banned.

00:45:58.340 It's just, he used to have a blue check mark, which means, you know, you're the real Chris Ruffo.

00:46:02.360 You get a blue check mark if there are like fake accounts that come, you know, I've had, I've had one for

00:46:06.160 years. And the way, the reason I got it was I had a little tiny bit of a public profile, but it was

00:46:10.820 because there were fake Knowles accounts. So they said, okay, you put the check and this is how we

00:46:14.300 know you're the real you. It's not, it's not supposed to be at least any symbol of merit or

00:46:19.120 valor or anything like that. It's just to verify who you are. So Chris lost it. And I messaged Chris.

00:46:25.220 I said, oh, Chris, you know, I always suspected you're not really who you are. I always know what did

00:46:29.140 he, did he stop being Chris Ruffo? They did this to this white identitarian some years ago, 0.85

00:46:34.420 Richard Spencer. They didn't kick him off, but they took away his check mark. What did he stop

00:46:38.400 being Richard Spencer? He said, no, this is just a way of saying, we don't like you. We want to

00:46:43.560 suppress your reach. It's the beginning of a social credit system in America. We don't have time to

00:46:48.640 get to it, but a lot more evidence of this social credit system in America. Not so different from

00:46:53.780 what we read about in China. Maybe we'll have time to get to it tomorrow. In the meantime, don't give

00:46:58.060 up. Keep fighting back for right now. It looks like it's working. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:47:01.120 Michael Knowles. You'll see you tomorrow.

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00:47:51.180 production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021. The VMAs were last night. It was vulgar and debauched and

00:47:57.180 also boring and nobody cared about it. I think there's an important lesson in that, which I'll

00:48:00.860 explain today. Also, George Bush gave a speech on 9-11, which has the left celebrating him. White

00:48:05.460 liberals keep calling Larry Elder a white supremacist. A new poll shows that Democrat voters consider Trump

00:48:10.080 supporters to be a bigger threat than the Taliban or China. And finally, many people in the media have

00:48:14.580 been defending the vaccine mandates on the basis that they have the right to be free from COVID. Is that

00:48:19.100 true? Does any such right exist? Talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - September 13, 2021

Ep. 841 - Your Life Is Worth The Risk

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