The Michael Knowles Show - September 23, 2021


Ep. 849 - Science Worship Leads To Death


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In the wake of the anti-choice protests in Australia, is it time for some regime change at home? And why is our government on the same side as the public health enforcers in the fight against "pro-choice" protests?

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00:00:00.000 Australians are fighting back against their country's draconian stay-at-home lockdown policies,
00:00:04.880 so the Australian government is fighting back against them, firing rubber bullets into crowds,
00:00:11.180 chasing them back into their homes, and forcing them to obey the public health police.
00:00:16.380 The scenes are startling. If we saw these images in some far-flung third-world country,
00:00:22.500 Afghanistan or Venezuela, the liberal establishment would be calling for regime change.
00:00:27.220 But when it comes to Australia, our regime is on the same side as the public health enforcers.
00:00:32.940 Maybe it's time for some regime change at home. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:44.740 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Gregory Williams, who says
00:00:48.200 52% of Americans are not of the opinion that Joe Biden is not sound enough to be president
00:00:55.460 because they know that Kamala is less competent. That is a very good answer. I asked, I said,
00:01:00.060 how is it that only 48% of Americans think Biden is not fit to be president? Well,
00:01:04.940 because the other 52% are looking at Kamala Harris. You make a very good point. You know, this
00:01:09.040 is the sort of time where we need to protect our way of life. We've got to protect our liberties.
00:01:13.000 We've got to protect the first right of ours, which is the right to life, which is why I would
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00:02:22.800 What's going on in Australia right now is absolutely insane. If you have seen the scenes, I mean,
00:02:29.760 you know, we just play that very tiny little bit of the cops rushing and shooting rubber bullets into
00:02:34.880 the crowd, chasing everyone away. They now have a stay-at-home policy. They're trying to get to COVID
00:02:40.100 zero, which is not possible. COVID zero meaning not a single person even has coronavirus. That's not
00:02:47.120 going to happen, which means that the public health dictatorship is going to continue on ad
00:02:52.320 infinitum. Why is this happening? Some people are saying, well, we're misinterpreting the science or
00:02:59.140 some people are saying, well, it's because the unvaccinated are not cooperating. We could all
00:03:04.380 have our freedoms if we just gave up some of our freedoms. The real reason that this is going on right
00:03:09.900 now is very simple. It has to do with religion. All regimes have something to do with religion.
00:03:19.040 Okay. They have some religious foundation. You look at a place like Afghanistan, the religious 0.83
00:03:23.700 foundation is Islam. Okay. No, no matter what exact government comes and goes, Islam is going to be the
00:03:31.080 basis of it. In the West and in America in particular, that grounding originally was Christianity,
00:03:38.020 right? Now over time in America, the religion became the civic religion of say the founding
00:03:45.260 fathers or of Abraham Lincoln. This is why on our national mall, we have a Greco-Roman temple 0.94
00:03:52.280 with a giant statue of Abraham Lincoln as if he were Zeus. Okay. This is why we have weird obelisks
00:03:59.720 to the deities of our founding fathers like, like George Washington, because it is a civic religion.
00:04:05.040 And we, at least until very recently, worshiped the values that they stood for and worship these
00:04:10.320 men as sort of demigods. Now, now we're tearing down their statues and replacing it with a new
00:04:14.560 religion. Now the new religion is even more secularized than the one that we've been laboring
00:04:19.740 under for a long time. It is the cult of science. There is a band that I had never heard of called the
00:04:24.740 Kaiser Chiefs. This is an English indie rock band. The lead singer is Ricky Wilson. He was just at a
00:04:30.260 concert full of all sorts of people. They've got their hands in the air and he says, that's right.
00:04:35.040 Hands in the air, not hands in the air to feel the music, not hands in the air to feel the spirit,
00:04:39.680 hands in the air to show me how clean you are because you've gotten your vaccine.
00:04:44.600 Let me hear it if you've had the Pfizer vaccine. Let me hear it from Moderna.
00:05:01.000 AstraZeneca.
00:05:05.120 Let's hear it from the anti-vaxxers. 0.88
00:05:06.740 That's right. They're now calling him not the Kaiser Chiefs, but the Pfizer Chiefs.
00:05:25.080 This is really creepy stuff and it doesn't make any sense unless you are familiar with religious 1.00
00:05:32.380 ritual. It's a sort of religious ritual, right? With a great many religious rituals, you undertake
00:05:38.660 a ritual purification. So you know that you're broken, you know that you're fallen, you know
00:05:43.940 that you're impure, but then you go through this ritual purification and then you are pure again,
00:05:48.780 right? And then you go out into the world. And so this has become a literal ritual.
00:05:57.240 You know, it's not just that you're cleansing your soul, though that's part of it with this,
00:06:00.600 but you're cleansing your body because we live in this very secular age. And by cleansing your body,
00:06:06.520 you cleanse your soul. This is why the anti-vaxxers are being booed. This is why they're being jeered.
00:06:12.200 This is why they're called deplorable and awful and murderers, right? That they're guilty of some sort of
00:06:16.360 sin, some metaphysical crime if they do not take the Fauci-ouchie and then they're not clean.
00:06:23.140 Really creepy stuff, but this sort of thing is going to be inevitable. Your society is going to
00:06:30.480 have some religion or another. And if you don't have true, good, normal religion, then you're going
00:06:35.780 to have creepy, weird, modern science religion, but you're going to have some religion. And it's
00:06:40.440 not very scientific in the sense that many of these supposedly scientific health measures
00:06:46.220 we're undertaking are actually killing a lot of people. There's a study out of the UK right now,
00:06:50.460 which is that it's showing that 10,000 unnecessary deaths just from cancer will result from the
00:07:02.620 lockdown. This is because a lack of door-to-door visits, you know, a lack of actual in-person visits,
00:07:11.060 a lot of treatment for, you know, perfectly treatable illnesses is going to result from
00:07:16.780 people locking down everything saying, stay at home. The only issue is this Wu flu. All that
00:07:21.460 matters is the Chinese cough. And if you've got cancer, if you've got other procedures that you've
00:07:26.600 got to undertake, forget about it. It doesn't matter. According to this University College London
00:07:32.620 survey and study, an estimated 40,000 people since March of last year were referred to emergency
00:07:42.280 care for cancer late, which conservatively means 10,000 Britons will die significantly earlier
00:07:49.020 than under normal circumstances. And the possibility of excess deaths could be several times higher in the
00:07:56.180 worst case scenario. But if we save just one life, it will have been worth it. If we save just one life
00:08:03.180 of one person who didn't catch any germs, that will have been worth the 10 to 40,000 excess deaths of people
00:08:11.960 from cancer in Great Britain, right? It doesn't make a lot of sense. But when you think of the world in this
00:08:17.380 very utilitarian kind of way, you end up making these ghastly sort of calculations rather than beginning
00:08:24.740 from principles of justice. How should we live? Is this ordered? Is this virtuous? Is this just
00:08:29.980 to live in abject, servile fear of a little Wuhan cough? To lock down, take people's property, 0.99
00:08:36.620 take people's lives away? No, of course not. Of course that's not just. But when you're making
00:08:42.180 these really clinical, scientistic calculations of, well, if we lock down, we'll save this one life,
00:08:48.180 then you end up in these ghastly sort of calculations, which you're seeing right now, actually,
00:08:53.160 in the pages of the Washington Post. There is a very sad column that just came out from Uma Thurman,
00:08:59.860 terrific actress, Uma Thurman, who is attacking the pro-life law in Texas. And she's saying it's
00:09:06.400 a human rights crisis for American women. And to make her case, she's coming out with news that
00:09:10.680 people did not know before, which is that she had an abortion. She said she started her acting career
00:09:16.620 at 15, and she was accidentally impregnated by a much older man. She doesn't say she was
00:09:22.020 raped exactly. She said accidentally impregnated. And she was living out of a suitcase in Europe,
00:09:29.360 far from her family, about to start a job. She struggled to know what to do. I wanted to keep
00:09:34.480 the baby, but how? So she calls home. There's problems at home. The family decided, quote,
00:09:42.680 I couldn't go through with the pregnancy and agreed that termination was the right choice. 0.99
00:09:48.140 My heart was broken nonetheless. Okay. There's so much pain in this story. She writes,
00:09:54.920 it's been my darkest secret until now. I'm 51 years old. I'm sharing it with you from the home
00:09:58.460 where I've raised my three children who are my pride and joy. The abortion I had as a teenager
00:10:03.080 was the hardest decision in my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even
00:10:07.040 now. But it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I've experienced. Choosing not to
00:10:12.320 keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.
00:10:16.900 So the obvious question that comes from this, why was it so sad? Why does it sadden you even now?
00:10:24.520 Why did it break your heart? Because you killed your child. That's why. And a lot of women do it, 1.00
00:10:31.420 and a lot of women don't know what they're doing at the time. And especially if you're 15 years old, 1.00
00:10:34.300 you might be very confused, especially if your family is telling you to kill this child,
00:10:37.980 especially if the whole culture is telling you to kill this child. But deep down, you know what it
00:10:41.700 is and you know that that gnaws at you and that's deeply saddening. And especially in a world that
00:10:47.560 doesn't recognize the possibility of redemption, this is going to eat away at you forever and ever.
00:10:52.940 Of course, she didn't need to kill a baby. She could have given the baby up for adoption. There are many, 0.65
00:10:56.180 many couples who want to adopt children, many more couples who want to adopt little babies
00:10:59.580 than little babies who are put up for adoption. But then listen to this line. She goes,
00:11:05.040 she says, you know, the life full of joy and love that I've experienced was caused and it was
00:11:11.380 enabled because I had this abortion. You heard this from another actress some years ago. I forget her
00:11:16.260 name. She said, I won this gold statue because I had an abortion. I couldn't have done it if I hadn't
00:11:21.560 had an abortion. Sacrificing your children to gold idols is nothing new. That is actually the 0.89
00:11:29.300 default state of human nature. And Judaism, you know, the ancient Israelites and then 0.67
00:11:34.860 Christianity in its fulfillment come about and say, don't do that. Stop doing that. Okay.
00:11:41.640 We are now reverting to that. Society is going to have some religion or another. Which one do you
00:11:46.480 want to have? Do you want to have the religion that seems a little kooky with the smells and the 1.00
00:11:50.120 bells and the crucifixes and the little liturgies? Or do you want to have the religion that is much
00:11:54.600 kookier where the high priests are people like Dr. Fauci and where the high sacraments
00:11:58.700 are child sacrifice? Which, which you're going to have some religion. Which one do you want to live
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00:13:34.960 Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Remember, the notorious RBG. She was the last hope and then she died and
00:13:43.740 Trump was able to fill her vacancy and this is very sad. She was an icon on the left. People wear
00:13:49.940 t-shirts of her and make movies about her. They pretend that she was the first woman Supreme Court
00:13:54.300 Justice even though she wasn't. It was Sandra Day O'Connor who was appointed by Reagan, but everyone 0.86
00:13:57.600 forgets about that. So in honor of RBG, people are posting a lot of quotes of hers today. But even
00:14:05.240 though RBG only died one year ago, even though she was a leftist icon, she wasn't radical enough. So
00:14:14.100 other leftist groups now are editing her quotes. This is from the ACLU. ACLU posts a tweet says,
00:14:21.020 with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality.
00:14:24.500 And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever.
00:14:29.120 Now here's the quote. The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a, then they insert
00:14:35.340 these brackets, person's life to brackets, their well-being and dignity. When the government controls
00:14:43.060 that decision for brackets, people brackets, they are being treated as less than a fully adult human
00:14:49.800 responsible for brackets, their own choices. Do you see what they did here? It's not, they're not too
00:14:55.760 subtle about it. What RBG originally said was the decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a
00:15:00.900 woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for women, 0.99
00:15:06.280 for women or a woman, this woman is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for 1.00
00:15:12.540 her own choices. Now, of course, the quote is ghastly and hideous and untrue.
00:15:18.300 Killing your own child is not central to your freedom and your life and your dignity if you're
00:15:25.420 a woman. But the left has become so radical that they're not even allowed to acknowledge that abortion
00:15:32.440 is a woman's issue. Now, the aspect of this that I think people are missing here, as we all joke about
00:15:41.660 how even RBG now is a conservative compared to the ACLU and these other leftist groups invoking her,
00:15:46.400 is that the radicalism of the new gender pronouns and the transgender movement
00:15:54.000 was actually being promoted by the feminists like Ruth Ginsburg. When Ruth Ginsburg says a woman needs 1.00
00:16:03.220 to be able to kill her baby to be free, she is setting the stage for transgenderism because what 1.00
00:16:07.340 she's saying is women and men need to be exactly the same. Women and men are not exactly the same
00:16:12.160 because women uniquely can bear children. And because of that, that implies certain responsibilities 1.00
00:16:17.440 and a certain sort of role for them that men don't have. So we need to be able to remove that role,
00:16:24.300 that distinction, even if it means killing your own child. And that way, men and women can be equal.
00:16:28.840 But when men and women can be equal, then there's no such thing as women anymore. We're all just some
00:16:32.400 kind of blob. And so the very words, woman, she, hers are cut out of RBG's quotation. Speaking of
00:16:42.100 disrespecting women, you probably haven't heard this story right now coming out of Wisconsin because 1.00
00:16:48.360 the establishment media don't want to cover it. But you recall in the last few weeks, we lifted a lot
00:16:55.440 of Afghans out of that country as it felt to the Taliban. We left a lot of Americans there,
00:17:00.320 but we took a lot of Afghans out. And these Afghans, these Afghans are more American than 1.00
00:17:06.420 any American. They are as American as apple pie. They were all translators. That country, man, 0.97
00:17:11.120 chock full of translators. And we had, it was our duty to lift them out of the country.
00:17:17.240 Frankly, they're a whole lot more American than the insurrectionists and the, and the MAGA Trump
00:17:23.680 deplorable people. And so they land in Wisconsin and now they're raping children and
00:17:30.240 beating their wives. This from the journal Sentinel, two Afghan refugees charged with
00:17:35.260 child sex and spousal abuse crimes at Fort McCoy. Barula Nori, who's a 20-year-old Afghan evacuee,
00:17:43.620 is being charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that
00:17:48.320 person along with three other counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor according to WQOW. And then
00:17:55.100 32-year-old Mohammed Haroun Imad is being charged with assaulting his wife by choking and suffocating
00:18:01.200 her on September 17th. This is at Fort McCoy. This is at the refugee camp. This is under the watchful
00:18:08.400 gaze of our authorities. The first thing these guys did when they landed in America is rape kids and
00:18:14.500 beat their wives and choke them. Now, I'm not saying that all Afghan refugees do this, but I am saying 1.00
00:18:21.000 maybe we didn't vet these guys so well. Well, we know we didn't vet these guys so well because
00:18:25.880 there's very little vetting going on here in the United States. They were told that all the vetting
00:18:29.740 was done by the State Department before they left, but we know there was no vetting being done before
00:18:33.140 they left either. People were clinging to the wheels of these airplanes. Turns out cultural differences
00:18:39.360 might actually persist. Turns out that different cultures, worshiping different gods, engaging in
00:18:44.660 different rituals and mores might live differently. Contrary to what the liberal globalist establishment
00:18:53.560 has been telling us for a very long time now, you can't just drop any person from anywhere in the
00:18:59.480 world into the United States and have them instantly become an American. When you discourage 0.55
00:19:04.340 assimilation, they may very well never become an American. Likewise, you cannot just drop the American 0.99
00:19:10.100 bill of rights or the constitution or the declaration into some God forsaken backwater and just assume
00:19:18.460 that that's going to transform the country overnight. Contrary to what George Bush told us at the second
00:19:22.920 inaugural, not every person on earth is yearning for 19th century English enlightenment ideals of
00:19:29.800 self-government. It just doesn't, that just isn't true. It doesn't exist. And it raises this other
00:19:37.480 question, by the way, the same left that is insisting that we flood the country with foreign nationals
00:19:44.500 is the left telling us that we are the worst country in the world. Evil, racist, bigoted, violent.
00:19:55.180 In Maxine Waters's words, trying to bring the country back to slavery days as she accused America of 0.99
00:20:01.200 doing when border patrol agents were caught attempting to do their job.
00:20:05.500 We're saying to the president and everybody else, you got to stop this madness. And I want to know in the
00:20:12.780 first place, who's paying these cowboys to do this work? They've got to be gotten rid of. They've gotten to
00:20:19.280 be stopped. It cannot go on. And so I thank all of you for being here today. Write the story. Tell the story
00:20:26.520 about what is going on and let people know that they're trying to take us back to slavery days and
00:20:34.140 worse than that. Here we go. It's another day. It's another Democrat invoking slavery. I mean,
00:20:40.980 I would attack Maxine Waters here. She is a really loathsome member of Congress. I mean, she called for 1.00
00:20:47.540 physical violence against Republicans and has done that repeatedly throughout her career. You get on
00:20:53.000 them. When you see them in public, you get in their face. You push back on them. You say they're not
00:20:56.520 welcome. You remember that whole thing? She's done it for many, many years. But Joe Biden says the same
00:21:01.580 stuff about slavery. He said it about Mitt Romney, who's a big lib. He said, Mitt Romney wants to put
00:21:06.120 y'all back in chains when he was talking to a mostly black audience. So this is what they do. They say, 0.96
00:21:12.020 look, America's defining feature is slavery, even though it existed here for less time than virtually
00:21:16.980 anywhere else on the face of the earth. And in a lower degree, by the way. No, that's America's
00:21:22.740 defining feature. And it's never changed. And we're still living in the slavery days. We're about
00:21:27.280 to go back. It's about to get even worse. So this raises this question. The Gravel Institute, which is
00:21:35.180 named after Senator Mike Gravel. He was a radical left senator, actually kind of got a kick out of him.
00:21:41.020 So some kids in his name founded the Gravel Institute. They wanted it to be a kind of answer to
00:21:46.120 PragerU on the right. And it hasn't really worked out, but they still tweet sometimes.
00:21:50.880 And so they tweeted out, quote, the United States should accept at least 100,000 Afghan refugees.
00:21:58.220 Are you insane? Do you, are you racist? Do you hate Afghans? You're telling me you want to take
00:22:05.620 100,000 poor Afghans who have been through so much already, and then you want to bring them 1.00
00:22:11.520 to this evil, racist, bigoted, unjust hellscape? Oh my gosh, how much punishment do these people need
00:22:19.580 to endure? This awful country? You want to bring them? No way. You know what, Gravel Institute? I
00:22:26.060 can't believe it. I'm going to have to go more left-wing than you are right now. I am calling
00:22:29.680 for a complete moratorium on any refugees from anywhere in the world coming here
00:22:35.420 to this awful, racist, evil country. They have suffered enough, okay? And they do not deserve
00:22:42.420 to be brought to suffer so much more in this evil, rotten, racist place. So I'm, listen,
00:22:51.960 Gravel Institute. Listen, left-wingers calling for more refugees. I, I heard you. I heard you the
00:22:59.480 first time when you said this is a terrible country. So I absolutely, I want, I want to go to the logical
00:23:06.100 conclusion of your arguments and say, no, thank you. No more. Did you, I mean, Maxine Waters said
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00:23:18.320 weren't, and they weren't whipping people and they were just riding horses with reins and they don't
00:23:21.660 know what the reins are, but it looked bad. Look, what just the appearance of it doesn't look good.
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00:25:01.420 are. One of them, he's a Twitter activist named Brooklyn Dad Defiant. He is really harping on this
00:25:09.180 complete canard, this lie that border patrol agents went out like Indiana Jones with whips and just started
00:25:16.680 whipping, you know, Haitian migrants as they were coming across the border. Which, by the way, like, they 0.72
00:25:23.740 didn't do that. But I'm not saying use whips, but I do think you should enforce the law. If people are pouring
00:25:30.560 into your country illegally, you should stop them from doing that. You should enforce the law. But they didn't. 0.99
00:25:37.820 They didn't have whips and they were not doing that. So this Twitter blue check says, quote,
00:25:41.640 slavery must continue to be taught in schools, but especially the parts about how slaves were
00:25:45.780 beaten and whipped to death. So you can see us react strongly to similar scenes. And you can
00:25:51.660 S, you can shut the F up with your, quote, actually those aren't whips, they're reins. 0.70
00:25:59.300 So this guy's acknowledging. He's like, they're not whips. You're right. We lied about that. But don't, 0.93
00:26:03.880 it doesn't matter. That might not be true, but it gets to a greater truth. That's the sort of thing
00:26:08.880 the left always says when they get called out on their lies. They say, well, sure, that thing wasn't
00:26:12.060 true, but it's about a greater truth. What's a great? It's all a bunch of lies. And then you put
00:26:16.240 all your lies together and you get a truth. I don't think, I'm no mathematician, but I don't think
00:26:20.280 that's how arithmetic works. But what's so ironic here is, he's saying, he's suggesting that we're not
00:26:28.200 going to teach slavery in schools anymore. This has been another line of the left. They're saying that
00:26:31.660 critical race theory just means teaching about the history of slavery. It's
00:26:34.860 not even close to that. Critical race theory is a very specific Marxist academic movement that was
00:26:40.320 developed in the late 20th century and has only really started infiltrating colleges in recent
00:26:47.140 decades. The history of slavery has always been taught. But I love that a guy like this who is
00:26:52.980 admitting that his side does not know the difference between a whip and reins for your horses, he's saying
00:26:59.960 we should be in charge of education. We don't know the difference between very basic tools,
00:27:07.140 but we want to run education in America. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. This is actually
00:27:12.220 one of the few silver linings to the storm cloud of the year and a half plus of lockdowns is that
00:27:19.720 kids are pouring out of public schools into charter schools and homeschools. A new report from the
00:27:27.060 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools revealed that charter school enrollment grew
00:27:31.440 7.1% during the 2020 to 2021 school year. That's the largest expansion in half a decade.
00:27:40.400 Nearly a quarter million new students enrolled in innovative student-centered charter schools,
00:27:47.120 despite a sharp increase in, or a sharp decrease in overall public school enrollment during the same
00:27:52.960 period. So the overall public school enrollment goes down, but the charter schools go way up.
00:27:57.460 Of the 42 states evaluated, 39 experienced charter school enrollment increases. Only three states,
00:28:04.180 so modest, decreases. By comparison, direct, you know, sort of public school, district school
00:28:10.500 enrollment during that same period dropped precipitously in every single state. In certain states,
00:28:15.620 Oklahoma and Alabama, charter school enrollment grew 77.7% and 65.1% respectively. Even in lib states
00:28:25.820 like Oregon, enrollment grew over 20%. On top of that, which is great news for the charter schools,
00:28:34.020 on top of that, homeschooling between March 2020 and September 2020, homeschooling grew between 5.4%
00:28:40.780 and 11% and 11% throughout the country. And in some other cases, by the way, we're not even counting
00:28:46.340 here the private schools that parents send their kids to. This is very important. This is very
00:28:52.200 important. It's going to accelerate a trend that you've been seeing for decades now around the country,
00:28:58.980 which is the collapse of a common culture, the common culture of TV. We don't all watch the same TV
00:29:04.840 shows anymore. The common culture of movies. We barely watch the movies anymore. The common culture
00:29:09.060 of schooling. We're not going to have that quite as much anymore. That would be a bad thing if we
00:29:17.080 had a healthy culture. That's a very good thing if we have a very unhealthy culture. If the common
00:29:21.440 culture becomes poisoned and tells us that our country's evil and you're evil, and if you're white,
00:29:28.400 you're irredeemably evil, and the founding fathers are evil. If the common culture that educates and
00:29:36.380 raises us and creates our citizens is poisoning our people, then you got to crack that common 0.90
00:29:43.300 culture. And that is very good news. Speaking of those old days of a common culture, speaking of
00:29:48.420 common TV shows, did you watch The Wonder Years growing up? I did. I watched it in reruns, but I
00:29:54.800 watched it. Great old show about growing up in the 60s and suburbia. Kevin and Winnie, you remember
00:30:02.100 that? So The Wonder Years is getting a reboot. Just like every other show and just like every other
00:30:07.840 movie, they're getting a reboot. And now the family is black. That's the big twist. Not only is it a 0.99
00:30:19.160 reboot, but you see, and the family is black. This is evidence of a dead culture. Not because black 1.00
00:30:26.280 people shouldn't be on TV shows, but because of the reboot of it with the kind of political twist.
00:30:34.280 That's the evidence of the dead culture. The reboot is the main thing, though. There's Ghostbusters.
00:30:39.140 Ghostbusters is a great movie. And there's more Ghostbusters movies, and they're not as good, but
00:30:42.720 they're fine. And then they're going to reboot Ghostbusters. Okay, well, all right. Can't you think of
00:30:47.900 any new ideas? No? Okay, so you're going to reboot it. You're going to just do it again.
00:30:51.620 But this time, it's with women. Oh, okay. Well, that's not. All right. Why? Yeah, it's with, 0.97
00:31:00.700 you're not just going to make a new movie with women. You're going to make, you're going to reboot 0.68
00:31:02.960 Ghostbusters. You're going to redo Ghostbusters with women. Yeah, that's what we're going to do, 1.00
00:31:06.280 because we have no ideas, but we're also really political and really into identity politics. Okay.
00:31:12.360 And so we're going to reboot The Wonder Years, but the family's black. But hold on. I thought you, 0.83
00:31:15.840 I thought the whole point was that the experiences of white people and black people in America are
00:31:20.680 radically different. Isn't that what the left has been telling me for years? And especially,
00:31:24.840 oh my goodness, especially in the 1960s, I thought the experiences were totally different,
00:31:29.040 totally incomparable. Well, okay, maybe what they're going to do here is make the entire experience of
00:31:37.180 the show totally different from what it was for the white people in The Wonder Years. Okay, 0.65
00:31:41.500 well, then why are you calling it The Wonder Years? Then it's not a reboot. Then it's,
00:31:44.200 are we just so out of ideas? Are we so both out of ideas and ginned up on identity politics
00:31:50.960 that this is our culture now? Well, then it's not a culture. It's just digging up the old corpses of
00:31:59.860 the past and trying to reanimate them like zombies. They don't only do this on the left. We do this on
00:32:05.280 the right too. When people constantly just quote Ronald Reagan, that would be an example of this.
00:32:11.700 Ronald Reagan was last president in January of 1989. He's been dead for a good many years now.
00:32:20.000 He's been out of public life since the early 90s. Let him lie. He's a good guy. I have a great
00:32:26.800 admiration for Ronald Reagan. Now we have to do our things. We need to enact our political vision.
00:32:33.140 We need to pass our laws. We need to make our TV shows. We need to make our movies, but we can't.
00:32:37.860 We don't. We seem to just be kind of dead and decadent as a culture. Speaking of things that are
00:32:43.980 dead, I got to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Is he dead? I don't know. Actually, I suppose that's more
00:32:48.920 of an open question. He didn't kill himself. Did he die at all? I don't know. Jeffrey Epstein was
00:32:54.200 friends with very wealthy, very famous, very influential people, one of whom is Bill Gates.
00:32:59.360 And Bill Gates has never really answered for his close association with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:33:06.580 So Bill Gates was on PBS NewsHour. He was asked about Jeffrey Epstein and he got extremely nervous
00:33:13.840 and he sort of started sort of fidgeting and dancing around the question and repeating himself,
00:33:18.560 probably lines that were written up by some crisis communications expert. And then he gave
00:33:23.260 probably the spookiest answer you probably could about his thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein with hindsight.
00:33:29.820 Those meetings were a mistake. They didn't result in what he purported and I cut them off.
00:33:37.980 You know, that goes back a long time ago now. There's, you know, so there's nothing new on that.
00:33:43.920 It was reported that you continue to meet with him over several years.
00:33:47.160 And that, in other words, a number of meetings. What did you do when you found out about his
00:33:55.420 background? Well, you know, I've said I regretted having those dinners and there's nothing,
00:34:04.620 absolutely nothing new on that. Is there a lesson for you, for anyone else looking, looking at this?
00:34:12.040 Well, he's dead. So, you know, in general, you always have to be careful.
00:34:20.000 And, you know, the, you know, I'm, I'm very proud of what we've done in philanthropy,
00:34:25.720 very proud of the work of the foundation. You know, that's, that's what I get up every day and focus on.
00:34:33.440 So I know we've all been joking about how Hillary killed Jeffrey Epstein, but I'm beginning to
00:34:40.880 rethink that. Do you have, excuse me, Mr. Gates, Mr., one of the richest guys in the world and most
00:34:46.580 influential guys for many decades. Do you have any lessons that you have learned or that you think
00:34:51.880 other people should learn from the Jeffrey Epstein experience?
00:34:54.760 Well, uh, he's dead. So, uh, wonder if you got that lesson, everybody, when you implicate old 1.00
00:35:04.160 Billy in a crime, well, things don't turn out very well. Now I'm not, I'm not saying that Bill Gates
00:35:10.800 killed Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not saying it, Bill, I'm not, please, please, man, I got a family,
00:35:14.640 please don't. But that is, that is the level of hubris from our ruling class. I'm, I'm really not
00:35:23.520 saying that Jeffrey, Jeffrey Epstein was murdered viciously by Bill Gates in a prison cell in New
00:35:27.820 York. I'm not saying that. What I am pointing out is Bill Gates did not learn a thing. He's making
00:35:37.320 excuses. He's downplaying the relationship, which was fairly extensive. He's trying to deflect. He's
00:35:43.260 uttering the same old lines that some crisis PR guy told him. And, and then the, the nearest thing he
00:35:50.340 has to a lesson that he's learned is that, well, he's dead. Problem's gone. No, no hugging, no
00:35:56.500 learning. It's like the old Seinfeld maxim. No hugging, no, we didn't learn a thing. I'm going
00:36:00.900 to keep doing whatever I want, not changing my mind, but maybe, maybe the people I associate with
00:36:05.980 aren't so savory. Maybe some of the initiatives I'm involved in are a little creepy. Maybe, maybe I
00:36:12.060 should have some humility and not try to rule the entire world. Bill Gates, this is a man who has
00:36:17.840 dedicated his philanthropic career to making sure there are fewer black people being born in Africa 1.00
00:36:24.940 is to overpopulation and to, uh, uh, I guess becoming the chief medical expert in the world
00:36:32.940 on coronavirus, Bill Gates, who has the exact same epidemiology degree that I do, namely none.
00:36:38.340 Bill Gates, a man of incredible hubris and a really hideous political vision. You really see it
00:36:44.580 with the overpopulation stuff, this idea that there need to be fewer people and especially fewer black
00:36:49.140 people and especially fewer poor black people in Africa. There's just so many of them. They might 1.00
00:36:54.200 breathe too much and, and anger the sun monster. And then he'll send his evil, his, his punishment of
00:36:59.760 global warming upon us. And then we won't be able to have as nice a time on our yacht because it'll be a
00:37:04.380 little too hot on the, on the sun deck. You know, we can't, we can't be having that more abortion for 0.99
00:37:09.760 Africa. He, he doesn't see it that way. He doesn't recognize, I don't think, that all of these ideas,
00:37:18.580 all of these political regimes have a religious foundation. So he doesn't, he doesn't recognize
00:37:23.760 the significance of his obsession, notably with overpopulation. And, and if, if, uh, that statement
00:37:31.240 is to be believed, the only overpopulation he's really focused on is the, uh, overpopulation of
00:37:36.240 Jeffrey Epstein still existing, you know, well, he's dead. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Please.
00:37:41.980 I'm kidding. Speaking of very wealthy people, Hunter Biden is about to become even wealthier
00:37:47.360 than he already is. You know, there was that, that video that he himself recorded that was
00:37:51.420 found on one of the many laptops of his that he let get stolen, uh, where he said that he makes
00:37:57.280 like a gazillion dollars, you know, and he makes all this money by selling his father's influence and
00:38:01.500 selling out the United States to Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. So Hunter Biden
00:38:07.320 is now an artist. He's not a very good artist, but he's an artist. I say this, I'm a, a fairly
00:38:13.580 untalented amateur painter myself. I took it up during COVID and I am freaking Caravaggio compared
00:38:20.000 to Hunter Biden. I'm really not good. You know, I'm just like copying things on YouTube, but I am
00:38:24.740 Titian. I am Michelangelo compared to Joe Biden's derelict son. So Hunter Biden's gallerist,
00:38:31.640 George Berger, uh, he has just said that Hunter's paintings could sell for half a million bucks,
00:38:37.060 which would put Hunter Biden, a person with no artistic training or talent in the very top tier
00:38:42.080 of emerging artists, according to Artnet. The thing that sticks out to me here and what,
00:38:50.780 what relates to the Bill Gates story is not even just the hubris. It's, or it's not, not even just
00:38:57.740 the money. It's, it's, it's this, this idea that they can do whatever they want. Okay. This idea that
00:39:03.500 there is no consequence. Yeah. I'm going to peddle my dad's influence. I'm going to make millions of
00:39:07.060 dollars doing it. Come and get me. Yeah. I'm going to pal around with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm never
00:39:11.580 going to answer for it. Come and get me. No, but what are you going to do to me? Yeah. We can be
00:39:15.920 wrong about everything. What are you going to do? What are you, you're going to do nothing because no matter
00:39:19.580 how transparently corrupt we are, we got the power and you don't. Speaking of the corruption
00:39:27.160 of our governments, you remember, we were told the coronavirus is a hundred percent naturally
00:39:35.580 occurring. It has nothing to do with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is right where it
00:39:39.960 was discovered. And it has nothing to do with gain of function research. And it didn't leak from a lab.
00:39:45.500 And how dare you conspiracy theorists suggest that this isn't perfectly normal and occurring in
00:39:51.620 bats. Then we found out, no, it actually not probably, it probably did escape from that lab
00:39:56.940 in some way. And no, it actually was involved in gain of function research. And actually the United
00:40:00.660 States was involved in gain of function research. And actually everything that Dr. Fauci and all the
00:40:04.180 rest of them told us was a lie. So now we're finding out new bombshell report from the Telegraph.
00:40:09.080 Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including British zoologist Peter Daszak of
00:40:14.900 EcoHealth Alliance, were reportedly planning to release, quote, enhanced airborne coronaviruses
00:40:21.680 into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them in the months before the COVID pandemic.
00:40:29.480 The scientists also sought funding from the United States to create chimeric viruses,
00:40:33.540 which are, quote, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily. These were revealed in leaked
00:40:40.400 grant proposals dating back to 2018, which a former U.S. official has confirmed as being authentic,
00:40:47.200 according to the Telegraph. They did it. They lied about it. They were more involved in it than even
00:40:57.800 many people speculated they were. And now they're not going to face any repercussions whatsoever.
00:41:03.540 When Dr. Fauci was asked about the gain of function research and our involvement with the
00:41:06.840 Wuhan Institute, he perjured himself. Senator Rand Paul is now trying to bring him up to some
00:41:12.860 consequences on that. Won't matter. It will not happen. They have the power and we do not.
00:41:19.840 The Republican governors right now, they want to at least seem like they're doing something on
00:41:24.300 immigration. You know, this historic flood of foreign nationals pouring across our border. So what
00:41:30.020 are they doing? They wrote a strongly worded letter to Joe Biden. I'm not joking. Here we go. All but
00:41:37.360 one GOP governor in the United States signed a joint letter to Joe Biden demanding a crackdown on the
00:41:42.280 flood of illegal immigration coming across the southern border. Great. Great. I'm glad the one 1.00
00:41:51.100 GOP governor is the one in Vermont. He's not, he's obviously not going to sign it. They're,
00:41:54.360 they're big hippies over there. So that's it. The best we've got is dear Joe Biden, please stop
00:42:00.060 uncle, uncle. That's what, that's basically the libs and the, the establishment has our hand twisted
00:42:07.680 up behind our backs. They're pulling it up toward our neck. And the best that we can do to stop them
00:42:12.060 is yell uncle, please stop, please stop. They're not going to stop. They're not going to stop unless
00:42:17.060 we amass political power and then actually wield it, which very few people seem to want to do.
00:42:21.040 Now, on the topic of wielding political power, you may have heard of the story of Gabby
00:42:25.460 Petito, who was a YouTuber and it, she was murdered and it appears that she was murdered by her
00:42:34.540 boyfriend. It's not totally clear, but it kind of seems that way. So this is a, you know, a scintillating
00:42:41.360 story. It's a very sad story and it's got all these elements of kind of true crime and personal
00:42:45.600 interest. But as a political matter, it doesn't, doesn't matter that much for the national political
00:42:50.320 scene. Well, everyone's obsessed with this story. Governor Ron DeSantis has just ordered state
00:42:55.360 agencies to look for this guy, the boyfriend who's on the lam, who definitely looks like he killed his
00:42:59.980 girlfriend. The, the only political aspect of this now is libs politicizing the focus on the story. 0.63
00:43:12.480 So, uh, you've got a Buzzfeed, which is coming out and saying, here is everything we know about
00:43:19.740 Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson, two missing person cases brought to light by the disappearance of
00:43:25.160 Gabby Petito. And, uh, Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson are people of color. And you see what,
00:43:30.800 what the Gabby Petito story tells you is that we don't put enough focus. The media does not focus
00:43:36.520 enough on people of color. They only focus on cute little white girls. They've been, so we don't 1.00
00:43:42.460 know enough about Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson. There are many, many other people obviously who
00:43:46.620 have gone missing. And this is absolutely awful because America is so racist. Why won't the media
00:43:51.860 do this? Joy Reid, who is the sort of left-wing Tucker Carlson, uh, without the charm or intellect 1.00
00:43:58.620 or rigor. Uh, she's on MSNBC or ratings for that matter. Uh, uh, Joy Reid goes on MSNBC and
00:44:05.580 castigates the media for focusing on this white woman who was viciously murdered and not talking
00:44:12.580 about people of color. The way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not
00:44:18.220 the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name,
00:44:23.700 missing white woman syndrome, the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media
00:44:30.920 and public fascination with missing white women like Lacey Peterson or Natalie Holloway while
00:44:37.040 ignoring cases involving missing people of color. Yeah, it's awful that the media, the media are
00:44:43.460 focusing on these white people, you know, and they're not in white women specifically in the 0.98
00:44:46.680 media. I mean, I hate that media, the media there, they're not focusing on black people.
00:44:51.920 I hate that conservative media, that conservative right-wing Trump supporting. Oh, wait a minute.
00:44:56.360 The libs control the whole media. Joy, you're the media. Buzzfeed, you're the media. You're the
00:45:01.380 media. You are the whole media. I know. I have a show. It's very nice. I appreciate the many people
00:45:06.500 who listen to this show. I know Ben and Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson, they, they have shows too. And
00:45:13.880 they reach, you know, especially Tucker. Gosh, Tucker reaches a few million people a night.
00:45:18.160 That's it. The country's 330 million people. The biggest show on the right reaches what? Three,
00:45:26.380 maybe four million people at the, at the height. The libs control the whole thing, the whole media. 1.00
00:45:33.900 Joy Reid could talk about it. She doesn't need to. Joy Reid doesn't need to talk about Gabby Petito, 0.60
00:45:37.500 but she's choosing to. Buzzfeed doesn't need to. Now they complain. And this is what they do.
00:45:43.420 They rule with incompetence, mendacity. They rule in this really vicious way. And then when everything
00:45:54.500 goes wrong, who do they blame? Do they take the blame themselves? No, they blame you.
00:45:58.900 They blame you or they just move on or both. That's what they do. That's our regime. That's the people
00:46:10.880 who are shooting rubber bullets at Australian citizens. That's the people calling you deplorable
00:46:16.100 and irredeemable and Bible thumping, bitter clinging rubes. That's the regime. The cause of, 0.92
00:46:21.860 they create the crisis. They create the problem. They blame you for the problem. Then they grab more
00:46:28.620 power to solve the problem. They don't solve it. They make it worse. Rinse and repeat. I'm Michael
00:46:33.220 Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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