The Michael Knowles Show - September 14, 2021


Ep. 842 - Wealthy, Spoiled, Socialist Flaunts Hypocrisy At Gala


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

179.56851

Word Count

8,623

Sentence Count

651

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

After years of conservatives organizing, overcoming incredible odds, even fielding a serious candidate with name recognition, Larry Elder, today is the day that Californians unhappy with Gavin Newsom can go vote him out of office. Unless they discover, as many Californians have over the past few days, that they already apparently voted.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today is recall day in California. After years of conservatives organizing, overcoming incredible
00:00:06.780 odds, even fielding a serious candidate with name recognition, with fundraising ability,
00:00:12.260 Larry Elder, today is the day that Californians unhappy with Gavin Newsom can go vote him out of
00:00:18.860 office. Unless they discover, as many Californians have over the past few days, that they already
00:00:25.880 apparently voted. It's quite a story. Good question. What is going on? We spoke with several concerned
00:00:33.680 voters here in the West San Fernando Valley who believe something wonky had been going on at
00:00:39.360 places like El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills. I went to El Camino High School
00:00:46.480 to vote, got there at 1030, gave her this and she scanned it and said, you voted. And I said, no,
00:00:53.940 I haven't. And she said, this has been happening all morning. The man next to me was arguing the
00:01:00.540 same thing. So as I left, I did the provisional ballot and I'm just really angry and I saw two
00:01:08.080 women walking toward me as I left and I said, don't be surprised if they tell you you've already
00:01:12.880 voted. And she said, they've already done that. If I voted, how did I vote? And who did you vote for?
00:01:19.580 Well, I asked the couple, the young women that I talked to and I said, are you by any chance
00:01:26.340 Republicans? She said, yes. And I said, well, so am I. And so are the two friends that had the problem
00:01:33.320 at VFW. What a coincidence. Already major publications are calling the race a lock for
00:01:40.260 Gavin Newsom. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Either way, no one is going to have any trust in the
00:01:47.120 results. No Republicans certainly, nor should they. If the past few years of American politics
00:01:52.540 have given us anything, it's a peek behind the curtains to see just how removed the way that
00:01:58.940 we're told our politics works is from the way that our politics actually works. Then AOC wears a tax,
00:02:05.440 the rich dress to a party with all of her rich friends. The FEC defends big tech's right to
00:02:10.400 throw elections. And Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci wants to keep you off of airplanes unless you take his shot.
00:02:17.020 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:25.900 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from CoolPapaJMagic who says,
00:02:29.880 the funniest part of all this is that nobody is listening to Biden. His dictates have no bearing
00:02:36.180 on the way we live. It's like he's only talking to the blue states at this point. It is exactly like
00:02:42.360 that. Frankly, I'm not sure he's even talking to the blue states. I'm not sure that Joe Biden is all
00:02:47.480 that relevant to the way our government actually works. He's incompetent. He messes things up,
00:02:53.300 to paraphrase Barack Obama, but I'm not sure that he's the one actually running the show. When there's
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00:04:09.860 slash Knowles. Thank you, Acre Gold, for supporting the show. They've been doing this in California for
00:04:15.440 years. About five years ago, back before I fled California, I went to vote in the 2016 election.
00:04:22.080 I show up to vote in my precinct in the primary. And in the primary, you show up at the Democrat
00:04:28.060 and Republican primaries around the same day. And you tell them your voter affiliation and they
00:04:31.860 hand you the correct ballot. So I walk up there. It's just sort of automatically she reaches for
00:04:36.180 the Democrat ballot. But she asked, she goes, Democrat or Republican? I said, I'm a Republican.
00:04:41.140 She stopped. She looked up at me like I had three heads, like I was crazy. Then she hands me my ballot
00:04:45.960 and you get a little ticket to show that you voted. The ticket has a number on it. Shows you
00:04:51.260 what number you were in terms of the members of your party in the precinct. Mine was, I cannot forget
00:04:57.220 this, 000003. Friend of mine was 000005. There was another one. I forget where he was. So two Republican
00:05:07.760 friends of mine and I, all in different precincts. We go, we vote. It's all good. General election shows up.
00:05:12.640 We come to the polling places. I say, hi, I'm Michael Knowles. I'm here to vote.
00:05:18.380 They say, I'm sorry, Mr. Knowles, you're not on the voter rolls. I said, okay, well, maybe that's
00:05:22.580 just a mistake. I asked another Republican friend, I said, hey, did you have any problems voting? He
00:05:28.340 said, you know, I did actually. I wasn't on the voter rolls, even though I voted in the primary.
00:05:32.100 I asked a third Republican friend in LA. I said, hey, did you have problems voting? He says, yes,
00:05:36.660 I did. I wasn't on the voter rolls, even though I voted in the primary. So my third friend is a
00:05:41.300 lawyer. He pursues this to no end. Four months later, he finally gets an answer, I think from
00:05:45.840 the county clerk, something like that. And the answer is, oh, whoopsie daisy, clerical error.
00:05:50.540 Whoops. So we voted provisionally. Did our votes count? Probably not. Provisional ballots are only
00:05:57.420 counted much later. So no, this has been going on for a long time. We called it from the very
00:06:02.580 beginning of this race. We said, you know, there's a strange coincidence. There's a hole punched out in
00:06:06.060 the envelope for the ballot and the hole lines up exactly over where you would answer whether or
00:06:12.100 not you want to recall Gavin Newsom. So you can tell from the outside of the envelope if you're
00:06:16.520 going to recall Newsom. And what do the election officials in California say? Oh, whoops. Oh,
00:06:22.580 it's just a coincidence. No, it's just an important thing to process the ballot so you can sign. It's not,
00:06:30.200 has nothing to do with where that most important question is. Now we're hearing people voting twice.
00:06:36.980 Friends of mine who moved out of California are receiving ballots still, and they're hearing,
00:06:41.980 even if they requested not to receive a ballot, I'm hearing stories of people who are receiving
00:06:46.940 multiple ballots under their new name, under their maiden name. It's just so obviously crooked.
00:06:54.360 And now we're already being told, there are already preemptive articles from the left saying
00:06:57.100 that the Trump GOP election lies are coming from, for Newsom. No, it's a bunch of crooks in,
00:07:04.380 in California who are obviously trying to rig this thing. I'm not, by the way, I'm not even saying the
00:07:10.840 election is being stolen at the very moment. I just, you just don't know. Sure doesn't look good,
00:07:17.700 but the result of this is going to be that Republicans are going to have no faith in that
00:07:21.800 election, nor should they, nor should they. There have been too many shenanigans before our very eyes.
00:07:26.200 The news story that I just played, that's not from the arch right-wing conspiracy network,
00:07:32.300 that's from local news in California that's run almost entirely by Dems. And even they are saying,
00:07:37.200 wait a second, what's going on? We've been hearing this all morning. Brings me to the top story from
00:07:42.000 last night, which is going to seem like it's not connected, but it actually is connected.
00:07:46.220 This is representative AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who showed up to the Met Gala,
00:07:52.520 one of the most preposterous, frilly, silly events of the year, where people wear lots of silly sorts
00:07:58.160 of outfits and they pay upwards of $30,000 a ticket and they go hobnob with very rich people.
00:08:04.320 So AOC shows up and she gets the attention she craves and she wears a dress that says on the back
00:08:09.540 of it, tax the rich, right over her derriere. You see, it's not on the front, it's on the back,
00:08:16.000 tax the rich. And she coquettishly looks over her shoulder. Ah, yes, that'll show the man.
00:08:22.120 She shows up to this very fancy event and says, tax the rich, right? So everyone's focusing on
00:08:26.700 the hypocrisy. This is a wealthy woman who's showing up to a lavish party with all of her
00:08:31.740 extraordinarily wealthy friends. And she says, tax the rich, right? And this is hypocritical,
00:08:37.680 sure. But more offensive to me than the hypocrisy is the frivolity of it all.
00:08:42.600 We are supposed to believe that this clown show, this bread and circuses actually defines our
00:08:52.940 politics. Oh, AOC, that'll, she'll show them. It's AOC versus the Republicans. Oh, who's going
00:08:59.700 to win? Oh, oh, did you see what AOC tweeted? Oh, did you see what so-and-so tweeted today?
00:09:04.440 Right? In fact, it's, it's just a performance. Whatever this woman does, some other silly woman
00:09:13.240 showed up and said, equal rights for women, you know, at this, at the most establishment of the
00:09:17.700 establishmentitarian, establishmentitarian events of the year. This has very little to do with the
00:09:23.480 way we're actually governed. This is a sideshow. This is a circus to keep us all entertained.
00:09:28.780 So we root for AOC or we root against AOC and we all jibber jabber about the dresses.
00:09:35.460 The, the way our government is actually run is that some bureaucrat that you've never heard of
00:09:39.680 at like OSHA or at one of the alphabet agencies in Washington DC, just write some regulation that
00:09:46.820 you're almost certainly never going to hear about. And then that's going to have effects down the line
00:09:50.420 on some business. And it's going to change the way that you interact with society. It's going to
00:09:55.280 change the way the economy is run. And, and it, you're not even going to notice it because you're
00:09:59.100 going to be focused on AOC's stupid dress. To me, that's what's so frustrating. It's so
00:10:02.780 disrespectful, not that AOC, I mean, it's disrespectful that AOC is pretending to be this
00:10:08.040 people's champion when she is the darling of the establishment at the Met Gala, $30,000 a ticket.
00:10:12.980 But it's, it's more offensive that the lack of respect that these people in general have for
00:10:18.400 the voters, for the American people who are being denied our political rights, who are being
00:10:25.540 deprived of our way of life, who can't even have faith in the integrity of our elections.
00:10:30.180 But boy, do we have a good sideshow. The other strange thing, not strange if you've been paying
00:10:35.880 attention about the Met Gala is that none of the people were wearing masks. AOC wasn't wearing a mask.
00:10:42.760 Some other lady, I don't know. I don't know a lot of these rich, fancy New York society types,
00:10:48.540 a lot of famous politicians and actors and actresses there. None of them were wearing masks.
00:10:52.960 Actually, the only people who were wearing masks were the help. It was the staff, all the staff that
00:11:00.200 were waiting on the celebrities hand and foot. They had to wear masks to keep their filth away from
00:11:05.480 the good, clean, beautiful, famous people, the ruling class. They don't want to get those nasty,
00:11:10.800 icky germs from the yucky help. So the help wears the masks. The anointed ones don't have to wear the
00:11:19.740 masks, even though we're living. Is it still the Delta that's surging allegedly, or is it the Lambda
00:11:24.800 now, or is it the Sigma? What is it? Is it, it's, it's the 15th day to slow the spread or it's the
00:11:30.400 570th day to, I don't, I don't quite remember. All I know is you filthy pigs need to keep your masks on
00:11:36.460 to keep your yucky breath and germs away from us, beautiful, anointed people. Tax the rich,
00:11:42.100 tax the, we're going to show them power to the people. What a joke. What a joke. What a bunch
00:11:48.600 of clowns. I mean, they, they actually dressed up like clowns and then they put on a big circus and,
00:11:55.640 and by the way, we fell for it. We're all talking about it. We sort of have to talk about it, but if,
00:11:59.820 if I must talk about it, I, I do not want to talk about it from the shallow perspective
00:12:05.320 that the ruling class wants us to. I at least want to lift back that curtain. I think so much
00:12:11.740 of the past four or five years has been about pulling back that curtain. Now we're seeing,
00:12:19.460 if you, if you tune into it, if you search really, really hard, you'll find out the way that we're
00:12:23.780 actually governed. New rules coming out from the FEC, new rules coming out from the IRS that are
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00:14:01.820 has just finally ruled or rather refused to rule on a claim that came out from Republicans many,
00:14:10.900 many months ago. You'll remember, let me take you back to the way long ago days of the 2020
00:14:16.020 presidential election. The most secure presidential election in American history where there's no
00:14:21.340 questions whatsoever. And if you dare to question it, why, you're an insurrectionist. Probably just
00:14:27.360 like the people in California were daring to question what's going on in that recall election.
00:14:32.960 Anywho, the way that you know that the election, regardless of what happened in the voter machines or
00:14:38.300 wherever else, the way you know that election was at least in part rigged, is that big tech,
00:14:43.900 the people who control the flow of information around the internet, shut down a negative news
00:14:50.020 story about the Biden family right before the election. You don't need to talk about any other
00:14:56.920 aspect to know that that election was in part rigged by the people who control our speech, which is by
00:15:03.740 definition of political act. You'll remember there was a New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop
00:15:08.840 and Hunter Biden had a lot of incriminating stuff on his laptop and it showed a lot of sexual and
00:15:15.020 chemical indiscretions, but it also showed evidence of corruption. It also showed, it implied evidence
00:15:24.740 of corruption on the part of Joe Biden, taking money from bad actors, selling government influence,
00:15:29.680 really nasty stuff. The, the, the kind of corruption that actually compromises a political order.
00:15:37.200 But maybe you didn't hear about that story because if you, if you or a friend of yours tried to post it
00:15:42.680 on Twitter first and later Facebook and anywhere on Google, YouTube, that would be taken down.
00:15:49.280 You just couldn't do it. It was called disinformation. No, this is unverified Russian,
00:15:55.540 probably disinformation. If you tried to privately message that, that story, you will not be allowed
00:16:02.560 to do that. Now it later turned out the story was 100% completely correct. Oops. And they,
00:16:09.160 they kind of admitted that later. They said, whoopsie daisy. Yeah, I guess we shouldn't have
00:16:12.640 done that. Well, the election's over. Ha ha. Too bad. By the way, next time we're going to do the
00:16:18.180 exact same thing. So Republicans bring this to the federal election commission. They say,
00:16:22.920 Twitter can't do this. Twitter threw the freaking election in many ways. And what does the FEC says?
00:16:28.600 Nope, nevermind. No big deal. Twitter did nothing wrong. How about the IRS? Very few people are
00:16:34.580 talking about this as well. In the three and a half trillion dollar budget reconciliation monstrosity
00:16:39.520 that the libs and the squishes are pushing through the Congress right now, there is a little discussed
00:16:45.360 provision by which the IRS will be able to force banks and financial institutions to send them
00:16:55.400 more or less all of your financial information. Not just, hey, here's my income from the year. Here's,
00:17:02.140 here's how much I'm going to pay in taxes. We're talking about transactions. We're talking about
00:17:07.940 deposits. We're talking about withdrawals. We're talking about your entire financial life. And by the
00:17:11.740 way, we don't use cash anymore. We, everything is electronic. So they're going to see all the
00:17:15.700 products you make or all the products you purchase, all the products that you sell, who you're selling
00:17:20.300 to, who you're buying from. They're going to be able to get more and more and more data. Now the,
00:17:24.600 the squishy, shallow Republican talking point of this from the last couple of decades is just going to
00:17:30.580 be about how big government wants to take more of your money, more of your tax dollars. But it's,
00:17:35.040 I don't actually think it's about money. So, I mean, yes, the government wants to take more of your
00:17:39.080 money. Yes, they want to control your financial life to control your broader political life.
00:17:42.900 But I think what this is really about, more precious than money, is data. It's about data.
00:17:48.460 We are living right now through a major information revolution. You had the industrial revolution
00:17:53.800 in the 19th century. You had the managerial revolution in the 20th century. You're now seeing
00:17:59.240 the information, the surveillance revolution in the 21st century. These, these gigantic entities
00:18:06.240 in the government and outside the government and kind of working with the government like Google,
00:18:11.780 they know everything about you. They know more about you than you know about yourself.
00:18:16.520 Not only do they use that to predict what you're going to do, but they use that to modify your
00:18:21.620 behavior as well. And the government, the federal government directly is trying to get in more and
00:18:26.740 more on that action. And power to the people warrior tax the rich AOC isn't going to say boo about it
00:18:33.380 because these tools, these hacks of the establishment exist for little other reason than to distract you
00:18:40.960 and to put on a good show while the IRS and other, other agencies in poorly, fluorescently lit,
00:18:50.380 hideous, brutalist buildings in DC go about the ugly work of actual government.
00:18:56.100 We talk a lot about how in China, they have a social credit system. We have a social credit
00:19:03.560 system. We do. We have a social credit system that is so perverse that even the duly elected
00:19:10.780 sitting president is sometimes not allowed to speak. On January 7th, regardless of what you think
00:19:17.200 happened in the 2020 election, Donald Trump was the duly elected sitting president of the United States
00:19:21.460 and a handful of oligarchs took him out of the public conversation, just took him out completely.
00:19:28.400 That if the social credit system can silence the duly elected sitting president, they can do it to
00:19:34.860 any of us and they have done it to a lot of us. And it's not just about the memes that you get to post
00:19:40.120 on Twitter. It's not even just about the news stories you get to share. It's about your financial
00:19:44.120 information. It's about your geographic information. Google Maps, which was developed in part with,
00:19:51.460 funding from the federal government and with Google, which is sort of a private company,
00:19:54.860 but sort of not. Doesn't, doesn't sound all that different from China, does it? And we do have a
00:20:01.200 social credit system and the libs are cheering it on. Jimmy Kimmel the other day, allegedly a comedian.
00:20:07.320 Is he a comedian? I don't know. He used to be sort of a comedian. Jimmy Kimmel now, who's hosting
00:20:11.020 one of the lower rated late night talk shows, came out and he said that the people who refuse to get
00:20:18.980 the Fauci ouchie, the people who refuse to get this hastily developed drug against the Wuhan cough,
00:20:24.660 they do not deserve to be treated at hospitals. Dr. Fauci said that if hospitals get any more
00:20:30.060 overcrowded, they're going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU. But
00:20:34.380 that choice doesn't seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes,
00:20:38.780 come right on in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace,
00:20:44.200 Weezy. You're, we've still got a lot of pan dimwits out there. People are still taking this
00:20:51.260 ivermectin. This poison, you know, the poison control centers have seen as this spike in calls
00:20:56.540 from people taking this livestock medicine to fight the coronavirus, but they won't take the
00:21:02.120 vaccine, which is crazy. It's like if you're a vegan and you're just like, no, I don't want a
00:21:05.800 hamburger. Give me that can of Alpo instead. So first of all, as, as we covered on the show last
00:21:12.000 week, ivermectin is not a horse drug any more than aspirin is a horse drug. Ivermectin is a drug
00:21:17.640 approved by the FDA for use in humans called a wonder drug by many, many people. You can find a
00:21:22.400 lot of studies about it from the National Institutes of Health. You can hear wonderful
00:21:25.880 things said about it everywhere from the CDC to WebMD. It was only because some conservatives
00:21:31.220 pointed out, huh, maybe we should start focusing on therapeutics to treat this virus rather than
00:21:36.360 focusing on a vaccine that appears to be less effective than you all promised us it would be.
00:21:40.000 Only then did they say it's a, it's horse goo. Ha ha, you dummies take the vaccine, which is
00:21:46.840 totally a hundred percent safe, except the teenage boys are 6.1 times as likely to suffer heart
00:21:51.820 problems from the vaccine as they are to face hospitalization from the virus. That was another
00:21:56.700 study from the science that came out just a couple of days ago, but ha ha ha, you, you unvaxxed
00:22:02.140 people don't deserve a hospital bed. Hey, gay guy, you don't deserve a hospital bed. If you get AIDS,
00:22:08.240 hey, fat guy, you don't deserve a hospital bed. If you come down with a heart condition
00:22:12.320 or diabetes, hey, smoker, you don't deserve a hospital bed. If you get cancer, hey,
00:22:18.260 including pot smokers, by the way, I know now it's easy to ostracize tobacco smokers because
00:22:21.860 that's politically incorrect. What about the pot smokers? Hey, you can't, no, sorry. You can't.
00:22:25.640 Is that how we're going to conduct medicine? Because in that case, no one's going to get treated for
00:22:30.080 anything because people generally speaking, suffer from medical conditions because of their lifestyle,
00:22:38.940 because of their environments that they find themselves in. They, some of it is just born out
00:22:44.020 of nature, but a lot of it comes from the way that we live our lives. But no, everyone else who makes
00:22:50.080 choices gets to be treated, just not conservatives because we don't score high enough on the social
00:22:55.540 credit score. And now you're hearing this echoed at the heights of the federal government, the most
00:23:00.840 powerful people in the government. I'm not talking about Joe Biden. I wonder if Joe Biden even knows
00:23:04.620 that he's in the government. I'm talking about the actual top politician in this country, Dr. Fauci.
00:23:10.000 Dr. Fauci, who had told, do you remember? I'm going to take you back. I know I'm taking you on a real
00:23:15.460 memory whirlwind today. Some months ago, Dr. Fauci comes out and he says, no vaccine mandates,
00:23:23.400 vaccine mandate would encroach on people's liberty. We can't have that. And then just like every other
00:23:29.860 point he made in this pandemic, don't wear masks, do wear masks. You're not going to get a vaccine.
00:23:35.780 There is a vaccine. You're not going to have this in time. We're going to reopen in 15 days. No,
00:23:40.700 actually it's going to take 15 months. Actually, it's going to take more than 15 months.
00:23:43.600 Just like on all of that, Dr. Fauci has now flipped his position on the mandates and he's now saying you
00:23:48.960 ought not really to be able even to get on an airplane unless you take his shot.
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00:25:35.080 Hey, Dr. Fauci. After all this time, now I guess we're going to be closing in on two years before
00:25:55.720 you know it. Can we finally get back to normal yet? Can we finally return to our lives? Or
00:26:01.160 are we going to have to, are we going to have mandates and lockdowns? And what do you think
00:26:06.040 about air travel? Do you, do you think you need to mandate the vaccine for air travel?
00:26:10.080 I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be
00:26:14.680 vaccinated. I would support that. Okay. Fauci, when he was, when he was just heating up that pot of
00:26:21.480 water that all of us little frogs were in last year, remember we were all in it and we said,
00:26:25.920 oh God, I hope you guys don't cook us. And I said, no, no, no, we're never going to have a vaccine
00:26:30.160 mandate. No, a vaccine mandate would be absolutely in it. Well, maybe just some vaccine mandates.
00:26:37.360 No, but you still have your human right to travel. There's no way. Well, actually, maybe you need to
00:26:43.760 get your vaccine to travel. What, what is next? You're going to, in order to breathe, in order to
00:26:49.520 breathe the air in this once free country, you're going to need your shot pretty soon. Fauci goes on,
00:26:55.200 by the way, he's talking about vaccine mandates. He goes on to talk about vaccine mandates for children.
00:26:58.840 When you hear us say, should you mandate vaccination for children to be able to attend school? Some
00:27:07.640 people say, oh my goodness, that would be terrible to do that. But we already do that and have been
00:27:14.400 doing that for decades and decades. I don't know what school you went to, but the school that I went
00:27:21.220 to, you had to be vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, or otherwise you couldn't go to
00:27:28.000 school. So it is not something new to mandate vaccines for school children. The solution that
00:27:35.220 we have at our hands is vaccines. So what Dr. Fauci has just said here is not false. It actually shows
00:27:43.760 you the cleverness and the political ability that he has. He's saying, look, when I was in school,
00:27:51.060 we had to get vaccines. That's true. Me too. You too, I'm sure. I'm sure, I'm sure for most people
00:27:55.800 out there, you had to get vaccines too. You know, look for polio, for rubella. He didn't say smallpox,
00:28:03.420 but I'm sure he would have said smallpox. Dr. Fauci, do you really believe that coronavirus
00:28:13.940 and polio are the same thing? Are they in any way comparable? Polio, you potentially can never
00:28:20.860 walk again. Polio turns you into FDR. The Wuhan virus, especially if you get it as a kid,
00:28:28.600 statistically, nothing's going to happen. You're going to be, statistically speaking,
00:28:32.280 you're going to be fine. Yes, we mandate certain vaccines. Do we mandate the flu shot? No, we don't.
00:28:38.980 Why? Because the flu is the flu. We don't. So what he's trying to do here, and by the way,
00:28:44.280 the flu is a lot harsher on children, statistically, than the coronaviruses. So what he's trying to do is
00:28:50.500 conflate these things that are totally incomparable. But all you really have to do is just rewind.
00:28:56.480 Listen to all the times that Democrats spoke out, lying to your face, opposing the vaccine mandates
00:29:01.880 that they are now all championing. I'd be pretty surprised if you mandated it for any element of
00:29:07.820 the general public. No, I don't think it should be mandatory. I wouldn't demand it to be mandatory.
00:29:12.240 And no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.
00:29:16.760 We're not counting on vaccine mandates at all. Those are decisions the federal government is not
00:29:20.620 going to make. You're not going to see a central mandate coming from the federal government.
00:29:25.080 That's not the role of the federal government. You know, at the federal level,
00:29:28.080 I don't have the authority to either mask mandate or vaccine mandate. That's not what we do at the
00:29:34.660 federal level. Definitely not. You don't want to mandate and try and force anyone to take the
00:29:39.640 vaccine. We've never done that. There will be no federal mandate. This is a decision that historically
00:29:44.900 has not come from the federal government around vaccine mandates. That has not happened ever,
00:29:50.400 to my knowledge, at a national level. It's a no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain
00:29:56.080 a single vaccination credential. These are the people that tell you that you can't question your
00:30:02.700 election system. These are the people that tell you you can't question anything about your government.
00:30:08.020 These are the people that tell you you can't question anything about what Dr. Fauci says.
00:30:11.660 Because Dr. Fauci is the science. He actually said that at one point. He said,
00:30:14.900 when I am talking, I am describing the science. Fauci and the science are synonymous, right?
00:30:22.340 And boy, that science sure can't make up its mind, can it? That science seems to change with the
00:30:28.080 gusts of wind. These people who lied to your face and now continue to gaslight you about very important
00:30:37.920 stuff. But this unprecedented federal vaccine mandate. Now they're looking at you and saying,
00:30:45.220 no, what do you mean unprecedented? We've had, we always had this. Eurasia was, Oceania was always at war
00:30:51.940 with Eurasia. Oceania was always at war with East Asia. This is, the word Orwellian is overused, but it's
00:30:58.660 overused because people are seeing, seeing it happening all around us. Now, in fairness, I don't want to be
00:31:05.440 too harsh on the ruling class right now, because while they are pushing a vaccine mandate for just
00:31:12.800 about everybody, everybody who's not yet vaccinated, companies with more than a hundred people,
00:31:20.440 employees, and schools, and sporting events, and anyone who wants to go to a restaurant or a bar,
00:31:26.040 or get on an airplane, or, you know, anybody, anybody. Jen Psaki wants to point out there's one big
00:31:31.580 exception here. The illegal aliens who are flooding into our country, they don't, they don't need the
00:31:36.320 vaccine. Why is it that you're trying to require anybody with a job or anybody who goes to school
00:31:42.000 to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but you are not requiring that of migrants that continue walking
00:31:47.660 across the Southern border into the country? Well, look, our objective is to get as many people
00:31:53.560 vaccinated across the country as humanly possible. And so the president's announcement yesterday
00:31:58.160 was an effort to empower businesses, to give businesses the tools to protect their workforces.
00:32:04.960 That's exactly what we did. But certainly we want everybody to get vaccinated, and more people
00:32:09.700 are vaccinated, whether they are migrants or whether they are workers, protects more people in the United
00:32:14.380 States. But it's a requirement for people at a business with more than a hundred people. It is not
00:32:19.800 a requirement for migrants at the Southern border. Why? That's correct. Go ahead.
00:32:24.840 Yeah, that's correct. So she dances around Peter Doocy's question. She refuses to answer the
00:32:29.380 question, but she, she kind of puts on a show. She does a little soft shoe to, to pretend like
00:32:33.700 she's answering the question. And then Doocy hits it again. He says, no, I'm just asking about the
00:32:37.600 very simple requirements. You are requiring American workers to get the vaccine, but even, even the
00:32:45.020 illegal aliens that you're processing, you are not requiring them to get the vaccine. And she looks at
00:32:50.400 him. Cold, dead eyes. She goes, yes, that's correct. Next question. What are you going to do
00:32:58.720 about it, Peter Doocy? What are you going to do about it? Deplorable, irredeemable, Bible-thumping
00:33:03.120 Americans. Nothing. That's what. Because, because it's, it's not up to you. It's frankly not even up to
00:33:09.940 us, is what she's implying. These issues are polling terribly for Democrats. This is a political
00:33:18.700 huge loser for Democrats, but the Democrats don't seem to care. Frankly, everything they're doing
00:33:25.540 right now is a huge loser. Their immigration policies, their COVID policies, their economic
00:33:32.080 policies, they're all huge. Obviously Afghanistan, that seems like a million years ago, doesn't it?
00:33:36.000 All huge losers for Democrats. And yet they don't care. They don't change course. Why is that?
00:33:42.720 One, maybe they're not so worried about losing elections. Maybe they feel that the election
00:33:46.480 system is going to protect them just fine. Two, maybe it's not even really them who are making
00:33:52.580 these decisions. Do you, do you think Joe Biden is the one calling these shots? Do you think Joe
00:33:57.840 Biden knows even which end is up? I don't. And my evidence of this, by the way, is that one,
00:34:04.660 when Joe Biden is answering questions from the press, he'll say, no, they told me to call on.
00:34:08.520 I can only call on. Or he'll, when he's answering a question, he says, well, they said I'm not allowed
00:34:13.180 to say. Who's they? Who's they, buddy? But then second of all, when he does ask a question, when he
00:34:17.760 does answer a question, often the White House, whoever's running things over the White House,
00:34:23.080 will just cut his microphone feed. They did it again yesterday.
00:34:25.460 Can I ask you a question? Of course. One of the things that I've been working on with some others
00:34:34.900 is...
00:34:39.460 Thank you for joining is what the screen says. Joe Biden was in Boise talking about wildfires.
00:34:46.140 He was talking with some leaders around there. He was asking George Geisler of the National
00:34:50.680 Association of State Foresters, a question that obviously has quite a lot to do with public policy.
00:34:58.040 But the White House thought, no, we don't, okay, we don't want this out there. We're just going to
00:35:01.580 cut his microphone. Just like big tech is going to cut the microphone of Donald Trump in a less
00:35:06.900 offensive, in a less adversarial, but still pretty shocking way, the blob that's running the show is
00:35:15.720 going to cut the microphone of the duly elected, well, of the sitting president of the United States.
00:35:22.040 What am I allowed to say? What am I allowed to say over here? I don't know.
00:35:25.980 Speaking of people who are pushing back against the blob that's running our country,
00:35:31.300 you got to give some credit to Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis, who is, you know, obviously setting
00:35:38.660 himself up to run for president in 2024 as a Republican. Ron DeSantis just won a major battle
00:35:44.520 in the courts. First District Court of Appeals just granted the state of Florida's request to
00:35:49.500 reinstate the stay. That would mean now that the rule requiring all Florida school districts to
00:35:56.860 protect parents' rights to make choices about masking kids is back. Okay, so what has Ron DeSantis done?
00:36:04.320 I think there are three options here. Frankly, I wish he went further.
00:36:06.420 Sure. The one option is force all the kids to wear the masks. The second option is
00:36:12.280 do not force the kids to wear the masks. If some kids want to wear it, it's fine,
00:36:17.600 but the schools can't mandate it and parents can get out of it. Okay. The third option is ban the masks.
00:36:23.560 I would prefer the third option. I don't think you should be permitted to cover yourself up like
00:36:29.560 you're wearing a burka in Afghanistan or like you're a bandito from the old West. Okay.
00:36:33.720 Okay. It's, it's inhuman. It's disordered. And I, I just don't like it. I don't think we ought to
00:36:43.000 run our lives that way. I don't think that we should muzzle one another. I don't think that we
00:36:46.420 should stop one another from seeing our, each other's smiles and each other's faces. It's wrong.
00:36:51.400 It's, it's disgusting. Those masks are gross and it's wrong. And if it, by the way, if the masks
00:36:58.360 really worked, if they really slowed the spread to the degree that we were promised that they would
00:37:04.720 after Dr. Fauci told us they don't work, then he told us they do work and they're really, really
00:37:08.160 important. Would we still be in this perpetual lockdown well over 500 days later? I don't think
00:37:16.720 so. I'm not, let me, I'll take the Fauci line on this. I'm not saying the masks don't work to stop
00:37:22.380 a droplet or two. I'm not saying that. But as Dr. Fauci also told us, people are fiddling with
00:37:27.860 their faces. Maybe they're not using the masks correctly. And even, I'd like to go even further
00:37:32.660 than that. Let's say that whatever the media tell us, the science says, let's say it's a hundred
00:37:37.420 percent true. Okay. Let's say the, the masks really do stop the spread of the virus to some degree.
00:37:43.020 I'm not even going to argue with that. I still don't like it. I still think that we, the people,
00:37:48.720 have the right to govern ourselves. And I still think that we, the people, if we don't want everyone
00:37:53.000 to be wearing a secular hijab or a secular burqa, really more, more like it. I think we have the
00:37:59.580 right to do that. I think we have that political right, but we, or we should have that political
00:38:02.900 right. But, but that has been outsourced to technocrats and bureaucrats who are utterly
00:38:07.520 unaccountable to the people, which this is why I'm, I'm so frustrated in talking about AOC's dress.
00:38:13.820 I think this is such a sideshow. This has so little to do with the way we're actually governed.
00:38:21.680 It, it, it almost makes you want to turn to drugs, doesn't it? Well, if you live in the state of
00:38:26.220 Washington, you can turn to drugs and it's almost impossible to get arrested. As of this year,
00:38:31.220 it is almost impossible to get arrested by a cop for doing drugs. Cops can no longer arrest someone
00:38:38.560 for possession of drugs until the third time they catch them. This started in February when the
00:38:43.680 Washington Supreme Court decided that the state law against drug possession as a felony is
00:38:50.700 unconstitutional. So this decriminalized drugs. Then in May, the state replaced the law with a new law
00:38:56.300 saying it's a misdemeanor, but still the cops can't arrest you until the third occasion that
00:39:03.200 you are caught. First time you get a warning. The second time you're given information for a rehab
00:39:08.380 center. The third time you can be arrested and charged, but still the governing authorities would
00:39:15.860 prefer that you do not charge this. That's the preferred outcome in Washington state.
00:39:20.780 And we are told this is a great victory for freedom. What freedom? The people of Washington
00:39:28.340 are not allowed to pass their own drug laws. Yeah, it's true. You get the freedom, quote unquote,
00:39:33.120 of the heroin addict who gets to shoot up unimpeded. But the, first of all, I don't think that's freedom.
00:39:38.380 I think that's slavery. I don't think the addict would call that freedom either. The higher exalted
00:39:44.180 political freedom of the people of Washington to pass laws against this kind of degeneracy in their
00:39:48.440 state, that's gone. That's been taken away from them outside of an ordinary constitutional system,
00:39:54.920 certainly outside of democracy. Sometimes we're a little tough on the libertarians on this show.
00:40:02.460 I don't know if you've noticed that, but I want to be, I really want to be clear about my language
00:40:07.500 here because all these words, the libertarian and the populism and the Trumpism and the neoconservative
00:40:13.500 and all these words become a little murky, a little confusing. When people hear the term
00:40:21.480 libertarian, it evokes two completely separate images. Sometimes you'll hear a libertarian as a,
00:40:27.380 as a kind of person who doesn't want to go bomb the Middle East. You know, a libertarian as opposed
00:40:30.820 to a neocon. And what they mean is the libertarian wants to stay home, focus on, on the American
00:40:36.380 homeland, not go pursue adventurism overseas. And the neocons, they want to go pursue adventurism
00:40:41.520 overseas. But there's also libertarianism as applied to the domestic front and the libertarian,
00:40:49.100 like on, on a question like drugs, the libertarian would say, legalize all the drugs.
00:40:53.220 The government has no right to stop you from using drugs, meaning we, the people have no right to pass
00:40:57.460 drug laws. Let the guys shoot up. That's the height of freedom. That's the kind of libertarianism that
00:41:04.000 I'm attacking. Because I think it's crazy. I think it's based on a false understanding of human
00:41:08.800 nature. It's based on this idea that we are free floating atoms, that we are born primarily with
00:41:14.560 the rights and entitlement rather than obligations and duty and responsibility. It's based on an idea
00:41:18.980 that there's no transcendent moral order. And it's based on the idea that true liberty is pursuing
00:41:22.860 whatever disordered appetites you have, rather than, as the founding fathers understood, the right to
00:41:27.620 pursue virtue, the right to do what you ought to do, to have a flourishing place, to not mistake
00:41:31.760 liberty for licentiousness. Nowhere did we see this confusion more clearly than at the MTV Video Music
00:41:37.380 Awards the other night. With one of the saddest displays that we've seen in a long time, Madonna
00:41:43.940 shows up in a sort of leather, skimpy outfit. She's like a dominatrix, you know, 50 shades of gray kind
00:41:51.600 of thing. And she is standing there, I guess, as a sex symbol. She used to be a sex symbol. This woman
00:41:58.960 is 63 years old. I don't mean to be insulting. She looks pretty good for 63, I guess. But she's 63.
00:42:05.540 She shouldn't be wearing this. It's gross. Don't do it. And this is what our society is now exalting
00:42:13.240 as the height of freedom. The freedom of a 63-year-old woman to dress up like a woman of ill repute,
00:42:23.260 alone, on stage, putatively for the sexual gratification of the audience. But I don't think
00:42:30.820 that was actually the effect. That's the height of freedom, right? No, I don't think so. This is,
00:42:35.980 I mentioned George Orwell earlier, this is really Aldous Huxley. This is really Brave New World.
00:42:39.980 This is the state coming in and undermining people's freedom by appealing to their most
00:42:46.080 base desires, which unfortunately is a product not just of the radical left, but also of the
00:42:52.380 libertarians who mistake pursuing your appetites and your whatever disorder desires you have for
00:42:59.560 true freedom. And the result of that is that people now become enslaved to their sexual desires.
00:43:05.060 People become enslaved to their drug desires. People become enslaved to all manner of selfishness
00:43:10.520 and they lose the ability to govern themselves. And this is exploited by bad men who want to rule
00:43:17.780 over you regardless of your constitutional order, okay? Really bad stuff. And it's no coincidence
00:43:25.240 that this has happened with the decline of religion. John Adams said the constitution is built for a
00:43:29.720 moral and religious people. It is not fit to govern anyone else. That wasn't just a talking point.
00:43:36.300 What he was observing is that if you do not have religion and morality to rein in your basest
00:43:41.800 appetites, which are licentious, they're not true liberty, then you're not going to be able to
00:43:48.020 attain liberty. You're not going to be able to govern yourself. So it's no coincidence that we have lost
00:43:52.620 our political rights as religion has declined. There was a study that just came out. Yeah, I guess
00:43:57.500 you'd call it a study. It seems like a kind of suspect study. It's from the Christian Post. It's
00:44:02.820 reporting on it. The study was published by the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian
00:44:07.020 University. It says that most adult US Christians don't believe the Holy Spirit is real.
00:44:13.940 Now, look, I'm no statistician. I'm no social scientist. But I'm pretty sure 100% of US
00:44:24.420 Christians believe the Holy Spirit is real. And the reason is, if you don't believe the Holy Spirit
00:44:29.900 is real, you're not a Christian. Study says Christians don't believe in the Holy Spirit.
00:44:38.540 But ontology and the definition of words says they do. Because they do. Because you just can't
00:44:44.840 be a Christian if you don't believe that. But this is part of the same problem that you see in
00:44:50.720 transgenderism, that you see in all the kooky, radical racial ideologies that you see in the
00:44:56.200 Depression Olympics. It's the idea that you actually see it in Planned Parenthood v. Casey
00:45:00.700 when Anthony Kennedy came out and said that everyone has the right to define his own concept
00:45:04.580 of existence. You don't. You don't have the right to just define what a Christian is outside of
00:45:08.940 Christianity. You don't have a right to identify as a Christian if you're not a Christian. You don't
00:45:15.180 have a right to do all of these kooky things. But this identity politics, this ever less and less
00:45:25.920 coherent identity politics, is ripping the country apart. You're seeing it on the football field
00:45:29.840 right now. The NFL has decided this season to debut the Black National Anthem at games.
00:45:38.000 There's something called the Black National Anthem. And I guess it's the song Lift Every Voice and Sing.
00:45:43.600 And they're going to play it before each game as part of a quarter billion dollar investment
00:45:47.420 towards social justice, whatever that is. So this is the Black National Anthem.
00:45:51.320 Now, whatever this song is, it's not a national anthem because there's no nation of the blacks.
00:46:02.420 And the nation that we're living in right now is America. So if this is a national anthem,
00:46:09.140 then I guess the Star Spangled Banner is no longer the national anthem. If both of them are the national
00:46:12.940 anthem, then we don't have a national anthem. Actually, we don't have a nation.
00:46:16.700 If a distinct minority has its own national anthem, then it is not part of the broader nation.
00:46:25.700 This was my issue with Juneteenth. It was called the Juneteenth National Independence Day. That's
00:46:30.700 what it's called in the law, which means that it supplants the old National Independence Day,
00:46:36.620 the 4th of July. You can't have two National Independence Days. You get one. You get one. You get
00:46:43.480 one nation. But it doesn't seem that we have a nation anymore. We certainly don't have a nation
00:46:47.240 that in any way resembles the nation that we had not so long ago. A revolution has taken place and a
00:46:54.320 lot of people haven't even noticed. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you
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