The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 842 - Wealthy, Spoiled, Socialist Flaunts Hypocrisy At Gala

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 0.96

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 0.72

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 0.70

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, 0.99

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 0.87

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 0.88

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, 0.95

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 0.91

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. 0.53

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 0.97

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, 0.78

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 1.00

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. 0.93

00:08:42.600 We are supposed to believe that this clown show, this bread and circuses actually defines our 0.91

00:08:52.940 politics. Oh, AOC, that'll, she'll show them. It's AOC versus the Republicans. Oh, who's going 0.91

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 1.00

00:09:13.240 showed up and said, equal rights for women, you know, at this, at the most establishment of the 0.98

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.99

00:11:36.460 to keep your yucky breath and germs away from us, beautiful, anointed people. Tax the rich, 1.00

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, 0.98

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,

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00:12:23.780 actually governed. New rules coming out from the FEC, new rules coming out from the IRS that are

00:12:31.520 going to, one, undermine election integrity even more, but two, they're going to have a far greater

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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? 0.94

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. 0.51

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 0.75

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, 0.99

00:20:38.780 come right on in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, 0.99

00:20:44.200 Weezy. You're, we've still got a lot of pan dimwits out there. People are still taking this 0.97

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, 1.00

00:22:08.240 hey, fat guy, you don't deserve a hospital bed. If you come down with a heart condition 1.00

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 0.53

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 0.95

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.50

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 1.00

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? 0.98

00:33:36.000 All huge losers for Democrats. And yet they don't care. They don't change course. Why is that? 0.86

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. 0.90

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 0.93

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.77

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 0.97

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, 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.80

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 0.87

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. 1.00

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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