The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 851 - Tell Democrats Child Sacrifice Is Still Evil

00:00:00.000 In just the past week, House Democrats have voted to legalize abortion up until a point of birth,

00:00:06.340 spend three and a half trillion dollars that we don't have to entrench their own power,

00:00:10.980 and make women sign up for the draft. In fairness to Democrats, on this last point,

00:00:15.940 135 House Republicans joined the Democrats in preparing America's daughters to strap on combat

00:00:22.100 boots. The Biden administration has admitted to releasing at least 10,000 illegal aliens into the

00:00:28.700 country in just the past week, and that's the number they're admitting. So the real number is

00:00:33.000 almost certainly higher. And even the liberal media are admitting that the Capitol riot, supposedly

00:00:38.820 the gravest insurrection in U.S. history, was orchestrated, at least in part, by the feds.

00:00:46.880 I never believed the lying leftists or the naive squishes who insisted that the Biden administration

00:00:53.240 would govern in a moderate way, that it would represent some kind of return to normalcy.

00:00:58.700 But this degree of radicalism is shocking to even the most hard-nosed conservatives. And the

00:01:04.880 biggest gut punch of all is how many self-styled conservatives are helping to push the agenda

00:01:10.460 along. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:20.000 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Friday is from Jeff the Hokie, who says,

00:01:25.000 the border patrol needs to say, these aren't horses. They identify as cows. Wow. What a genius

00:01:33.200 strategy. Because the Biden administration is now saying that the border patrol can't,

00:01:39.060 can't use horses, even in the areas where the cars can't get to, they can't use horses because they

00:01:43.560 don't want them to actually arrest the illegal aliens coming over. So that's fine. They're not using horses.

00:01:48.560 They're using cows. They're using, they're using equine beings that identify as Volvos. Great idea. 1.00

00:01:57.760 Really good idea. You know, when you want to protect the most basic rights that we've got,

00:02:04.520 when you want to protect the most basic right to life, I would strongly recommend you check out

00:02:08.780 40 Days for Life. When the topic of abortion comes up, the left has a lot of talking points.

00:02:14.020 Some of them are morally confused. Some of them are factually confused. They're just simply not

00:02:18.960 true. If you are struggling on what to say or how to say it when abortion is the topic of the

00:02:23.500 conversation, you need to check out a recent book. It's called What to Say When, The Complete New

00:02:29.160 Guide to Discussing Abortion. Since its release, it has already been a number one Amazon new release

00:02:34.120 and a number two Amazon bestseller. It's already on its second printing. It's an easy book to use,

00:02:38.640 tells you what to say, what not to say, and its proven arguments have worked with just about

00:02:44.520 everybody, people on the fence, abortion supporters. These arguments have even worked

00:02:48.780 on Planned Parenthood workers. Go check it out today, What to Say When, The Complete New Guide

00:02:55.000 to Discussing Abortion, How to Change Minds and Convert Hearts in a Brave New World. You can go to Amazon

00:03:00.340 or you can get it directly from 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. With Republicans like the

00:03:08.960 ones we've got, who needs Democrats? Who needs Democrats when you've got Republicans who are

00:03:15.700 much more radically left-wing or much more inclined to go along with radically left-wing ideas

00:03:22.020 than even the Democrats were five or 10 years ago? Key example here, the House of Representatives

00:03:29.740 just passed a $768 billion defense bill. This comes up all the time. It's the NDAA, the National

00:03:37.300 Defense Authorization Act. And it's always somewhat controversial because it's very expensive and

00:03:41.720 some of the money is going to some wars that we're in or some aspect of the military that the

00:03:46.060 liberals don't like or that the conservatives don't like. Okay, that's fine. And then they always

00:03:50.940 argue about it and then they end up passing the NDAA every single time. This year was a little bit

00:03:56.500 different because this year the NDAA included a requirement for women to register for the military

00:04:04.000 draft. 181 Democrats voted for this bill. Okay, I'm not surprised about that. The logic of the

00:04:13.940 Democrats is such that they are going to make women, the daughters of the United States, sign up for the 0.51

00:04:19.980 military draft, be drafted into war to go die to protect the men or something. I don't know. I don't know

00:04:25.620 what they're thinking. But the most scandalous and dispiriting part of it is that 135 Republicans

00:04:32.560 voted for this as well. This is absolutely unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. I understand.

00:04:40.280 I have some sympathy for the Republicans who thought this is a tough vote in my district.

00:04:44.720 They're going to run ads saying I don't support the military. Oh, who cares? It's not a big deal.

00:04:49.120 Oh, women are going to have to sign up for the draft, but they probably won't be drafted. 1.00

00:04:52.460 Hey, actually, it's equality. Men and women are exactly the same. It's no big deal. Don't. It's

00:04:57.280 a huge deal. It's a huge deal. This is absolutely unacceptable. This is evidence of very, very poor

00:05:03.440 judgment on the part of these Republicans. Thankfully, there were some Republicans who

00:05:08.820 recognized this, notably Chip Roy, who tends to be correct on a whole lot of things. Chip Roy

00:05:13.820 explained why, despite the many attractive features of voting for this bill, he just couldn't do it.

00:05:22.700 I thank the gentleman for Louisiana. I thank the chairman. I thank my colleagues for joining us

00:05:26.740 here today. You're going to hear a lot over the next coming days from our Republican colleagues about

00:05:31.200 why we should all be in lockstep in supporting the NDAA. Now, everybody here on this stage, certainly

00:05:36.340 speaking for myself, we support our men and women in uniform. I represent Port Sand Houston. I

00:05:40.700 represent the Army Futures Command. I represent about 80,000 veterans. I stand alongside our men

00:05:45.220 and women in uniform, whatever the pay raises and whatever material supplies that they need in order 1.00

00:05:51.140 to carry out their job. But what I do not support is blindly supporting legislation that is critically

00:05:57.380 flawed at its core because of, oh, we're in the minority. Look, right now today, if you vote for the

00:06:04.140 NDAA, you are voting to draft our daughters. There is no other position you can take. The current law

00:06:11.980 of the land does not have a requirement that our daughters be drafted. Okay. If this NDAA is passed

00:06:20.500 and signed into law, then our daughters will be required to sign up in selective service and make 1.00

00:06:27.320 themselves available for the draft. That's it. That's it. And so to me, this is a line in the sand and

00:06:33.660 there are a lot of Freedom Caucus members there with him. You'll notice Marjorie Taylor Greene is

00:06:37.500 standing to his right. And I know people say, well, Marjorie Greene, she's said kooky things.

00:06:42.620 She acts in sometimes an eccentric way. Yeah, that's sure. That's totally true. I agree with

00:06:48.360 that. She has said kooky things. At least Marjorie Taylor Greene recognizes that it's unacceptable to

00:06:53.540 draft your daughters. Okay. And a lot of fancy Republicans who went to really fancy schools and they're 0.67

00:06:59.080 very urbane and they're very witty. A lot of them think it's perfectly fine to draft your daughters.

00:07:03.920 So if you're asking me, who's the real kook here, I'm going to have to go with the people who think 1.00

00:07:08.940 it's a good idea to make your, the daughters of America strap on combat boots. And actually I think

00:07:13.160 Marjorie Greene is the reasonable one here. Absolutely. This, if you don't stand up for this

00:07:18.960 as a conservative, I don't know what you stand up for. I don't know what you represent. I don't know

00:07:24.140 what your values are. Insane. And by the way, I've heard a line of argument on this, where they'll

00:07:30.300 say, sometimes you'll hear this from kind of cheeky conservatives. They'll say, look,

00:07:34.020 the feminists want equality. Well, that's equality. Okay. Hey, what we're going to totally look, 0.99

00:07:39.340 this is going to totally own the libs because what's going to happen is they said they wanted

00:07:43.360 equality when it comes to pay and when it comes to certain political rights and when it comes to

00:07:47.160 professional life. But now they need equality when they need to go get shot at overseas. That'll show

00:07:52.140 them. I don't want to show them. What? Come on. But that's what they wanted. I don't care what

00:07:56.800 they wanted. Since when do I care what feminists want? Since when do I care what radical leftists 1.00

00:08:00.740 want? I don't. I care about what's right and wrong in our public policy. And this is wrong.

00:08:06.020 And I don't think it's a wise idea to give in to the libs on the thing that they're clamoring for

00:08:10.480 just to show them down the line when our daughters are being strafed by jihadis, that it's actually bad.

00:08:16.880 Let's just stop it right now. Let's just have some spinal fortitude here and maybe some other

00:08:23.600 anatomical type of fortitude here to say no. Contrary to popular propaganda, men and women

00:08:30.600 actually are different. And a nation that sends its women to war to fight and die for the men 1.00

00:08:35.740 is a sick nation. That's not just, that's not right at all. Speaking of women's issues, 1.00

00:08:41.740 the House on Friday passed legislation that would make abortion a national right. Now I know that

00:08:49.580 abortion is already legal at the national level, but that's only because the Supreme Court invented

00:08:54.460 a pretend imaginary constitutional right to abortion in Roe versus Wade. It was affirmed in Planned

00:08:59.460 Parenthood v. Casey, but it's not actually a law. So because now there are these wonderful work

00:09:04.600 around pro-life laws in Texas, there's one coming up in Florida. There are going to be others,

00:09:08.700 I hope. The House Democrats passed a law saying that, and look, this law is so preposterous. I

00:09:17.160 don't see any way in which it's upheld. Unless of course the libs just really clamp down on their 1.00

00:09:24.100 power. They throw logic out the window, which they had been known to do before. But what they're

00:09:28.880 saying is that now there's a national right to an abortion up until the moment of birth everywhere in

00:09:34.920 the country. Okay. This is called the Women's Health Protection Act. Doesn't protect the health 1.00

00:09:41.200 of the female babies who are being slaughtered, roughly half of the babies, but it's the Women's 1.00

00:09:47.140 Health Protection Act. It was approved by the House 218 to 211. So this at least was more of a party line

00:09:53.460 vote. Faces tough odds in the Senate. I don't think it's going to go anywhere in the Senate, but who

00:09:57.820 knows? It's up in the air. The way that they're thinking about this law is more interesting than the

00:10:04.020 law itself. Because the measure states that healthcare providers have a statutory right to

00:10:09.560 provide and patients a right to receive abortion services without these limitations. Okay. So this

00:10:15.180 is from the bill. Since 1973, the Supreme Court repeatedly has recognized the constitutional right

00:10:20.880 to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability and to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability

00:10:24.920 where it is necessary, where it's necessary, in the good faith medical judgment of, in the good faith 0.99

00:10:30.320 judgment of someone whose job it is to kill babies. Okay. Of the treating healthcare professional 0.99

00:10:34.860 for the preservation of the life or health of the person who is pregnant. Not of the woman, 1.00

00:10:38.760 because it's not women anymore. It's the person who is pregnant. The good faith medical judgment of 0.96

00:10:42.720 someone whose job it is to kill babies. I don't think they have a lot of good faith.

00:10:46.600 What this does in practice, even though it says there might be some limits on that, in practice,

00:10:50.720 it says there is no limit. Because if the mother says, you know, I might get a little depressed if I

00:10:53.980 have to have this baby, then you can kill the baby up till the moment of birth. Second part, 0.99

00:10:57.220 many abortion specific restrictions do not confer any health or safety benefits on the patient.

00:11:01.560 Well, it confers some benefits on one of the patients, namely the baby who's being killed.

00:11:05.940 And third, this is the craziest part. I know that's saying quite a lot given how crazy the

00:11:12.840 rest of the bill is. It says, Congress has the authority to enact this act to protect abortion

00:11:17.240 services pursuant to A, its powers under the Commerce Clause of Section 8 of Article 1,

00:11:22.220 and its powers under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment. Okay. So the reason this is so crazy is,

00:11:27.220 Congress should have no right to do this. This is not an interstate matter. This should be a matter

00:11:31.640 for the states, right? At least according to the Commerce Clause. But they're saying, well,

00:11:35.480 because abortion exists in multiple states, it's interstate commerce, so we can regulate it.

00:11:39.860 But then the craziest part is they cite the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the law.

00:11:43.700 What about the equal protection of the babies? Actually, the 14th Amendment makes a strong 0.82

00:11:47.560 argument for banning abortion nationwide, but they don't care. This is the radicalism that we are

00:11:53.040 talking about. This would have been unthinkable in the Democratic Party, even, I don't know,

00:11:57.560 four or five years ago, it would have been unthinkable. But that's how far the country's

00:12:00.920 moved to the left. And they've done it with some mild opposition from Republicans, but largely they've

00:12:06.280 done it with the tepid support of the so-called conservatives and Republicans. You know, when you

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00:13:26.560 for 25% off. There's a really touching story that's come out of New York, and it's a really touching

00:13:33.080 story that I think shows us a new angle on one of our biggest national problems. Here's the story.

00:13:40.620 Two newborn twins were abandoned in an alleyway, wrapped in brown paper bags,

00:13:45.280 and killed in a rat-infested alleyway in the Bronx. Really, really sad story. Cops found

00:13:52.340 the babies. They were newborn. They just came out, just newborn babies, abandoned in an alleyway. This

00:13:58.720 does happen more often than people would recognize. And so what the cops decide to do, around 20 cops in

00:14:05.420 New York, they held a funeral for the babies. They did this at eternity funeral service in the

00:14:11.460 Williams Bridge section of the Bronx. They named the babies Zeke and Zane. Zeke, short for Ezekiel,

00:14:17.520 means God's strength. Zane means God's gift. And it was a really beautiful ceremony, okay, where these

00:14:24.360 two babies had a funeral. Not by the parents, obviously, who were degenerates and killers, 0.95

00:14:30.020 but by these cops. You know, we're told the cops are very evil, you know, and they're racist and 0.99

00:14:35.760 well, this is a beautiful, beautiful scene. And one of the lieutenants says, I've never seen a case

00:14:40.880 like this. These were two newborn babies who were full term and then put in garbage bags and thrown

00:14:44.180 in a rat-infested backyard. Their little bodies had fractures. This has weighed heavy on every

00:14:48.240 detective that has worked on the case. Wow. Yeah, it's a horrific case. Horrific case. But it's not

00:14:55.020 particularly horrific. The reason it's not particularly horrific is that this happens

00:15:00.680 every single day in this country. And it doesn't just happen once a day in this country. It happens

00:15:07.220 on average 2,362 times each day. The little newborn baby abandoned in the alleyway and killed.

00:15:19.140 What do we say? One day after birth, maybe on the day of his birth. If that baby

00:15:24.140 had been killed a few hours earlier, that would have been not just tolerated, that would have been

00:15:32.400 not just protected by law, that would have not just, not just been conducted in a medical facility

00:15:37.400 with some guy who has an MD doing the butchery. It would have been lauded and celebrated as a woman's 1.00

00:15:44.480 right, as reproductive health, as a beautiful, wonderful expression of liberty and freedom and

00:15:50.920 emancipation and gender equality. If you want to think about the abortion issue, because I know 0.96

00:15:58.740 that there are apparently a lot more squishes in the Republican Party, and they're a lot squishier

00:16:03.360 even than I thought that they were. Just recognize that abortion is this. Abortion is, it's not,

00:16:11.180 it's not even throwing your kid into an alleyway in the Bronx. It's worse than that. At least those

00:16:16.380 kids got to breathe the air and live a little life for, I don't know, an hour or so. With abortion,

00:16:23.420 it's, you don't even get that. You get, with the true, to use a popular phrase, banality of evil,

00:16:32.100 you get a medical doctor in a fluorescent lit room performing the butchery to the adulation and

00:16:38.640 applause of the population. Really puts that in perspective. 2,362 times per day. And the cops,

00:16:48.500 the cops can't get over this. These are, you know, this is their job is to see awful, terrible things,

00:16:53.520 the underbelly of society. And they see this crime in particular, and they say, oh my God,

00:16:57.800 this is so heinous that we're going to, we're going to throw a funeral for, we're going to actually

00:17:02.580 take our time and our money and go out and recognize that we need some ritual mourning for

00:17:08.900 this. That's how bad this crime is. Happens almost 2,400 times a day. Speaking of kids,

00:17:15.900 the New York Times. Oh, the New York Times. The New York Times has a kids section. This is news to me.

00:17:21.500 I do not read the New York Times. I don't make a habit of that. Fewer and fewer people read the New

00:17:25.880 York Times each day. So they have a kids section and it's got a little cartoon of a kid on there.

00:17:29.560 And it says, and by the way, it's not a kids section, like it's for adults to read about kids.

00:17:35.800 It's the New York Times for kids. You know, adults don't read this section. It says what

00:17:41.040 school is actually like this year, according to 29 kids who they interviewed. And on the cover,

00:17:47.060 it's got this kid, his name is Arnov, alleged, it's a cartoon. His name is Arnov. He's 13. He's in

00:17:51.800 Pennsylvania. And the quote coming out of his mouth says, I think the COVID-19 regulation should be

00:17:57.940 stricter. Cases are already rising. Do you think that this is what the students of America are

00:18:05.540 saying? Do you think? No, this is such pathetic propaganda. Pravda in the Soviet Union could not

00:18:13.900 have done better, could not have done a more ridiculous job of propaganda. It's like the New 0.86

00:18:19.580 York Times reports from our nation's classrooms, kids want more homework. Oh yes, no, we've been

00:18:25.560 talking to all of the kids and they want more homework and they want, they don't want dessert

00:18:29.420 or recess anymore. Yes, yes, that's what our, no, I don't think so. I think the kids hate the stupid

00:18:34.360 masks. I think they hate the vax mandates. And I think that they have in many ways, a justified resent 1.00

00:18:39.720 of their teachers and administrators and even parents who are going along with this stuff. Okay.

00:18:46.180 But the New York Times, just, just showing the left wing impulse to exploit children for their own

00:18:55.360 political gain and how heinous that is. I've called that out for a long time. Called it out on television

00:19:01.560 one time too. And the left doesn't like it when you call them out on that sort of thing.

00:19:06.620 Now, speaking of the New York Times, the New York Times has a little piece out here that is probably

00:19:14.200 not going to be noticed by a lot of people, but it should be noticed because it gives away the whole

00:19:17.820 game. It's a piece acknowledging that on January 6th, January 6th, the worst, the worst insurrection

00:19:28.860 in American history, that, that event was coordinated at least in part by the feds. Do you remember there

00:19:37.140 was the justice for January 6th rally that happened a week or two ago? And the only people who showed up

00:19:42.680 were the press and undercover feds, it was really the FBI picnic is what I referred to it as.

00:19:48.780 There were no actual people there, you know? So here's the headline from the Times. Among those

00:19:53.260 who marched into the Capitol on January 6th, an FBI informant, gee, you don't say, you don't say.

00:20:02.360 I mean, we, anyone with two brain cells called this basically from the very beginning. They said,

00:20:08.020 you know, I bet the feds were involved in this. This seems like a total setup. A member of the far

00:20:11.520 right proud boys texted his FBI handler during the assault, but maintained that the group had no plan

00:20:17.480 in advance to enter the Capitol and disrupt the election certification. And you're seeing images

00:20:22.300 come out now, videos of the way that the alleged insurrectionists entered the Capitol. It was

00:20:27.980 actually in many cases, somewhat orderly. In many cases, they were actually let into the Capitol.

00:20:32.060 We know that the, the chief accusation against the Capitol rioters that day was that they killed a cop.

00:20:39.340 It just didn't happen. Even the New York Times later had to admit that that was a lie.

00:20:43.680 So yes, this is what happens. The feds do this sort of thing. And to me, the story here is not that

00:20:49.840 the New York Times is admitting this. It's not that the feds actually were involved in this. I think

00:20:54.740 sensible people already knew that. To me, the real story is what are they not telling us?

00:21:01.180 If they're going to acknowledge this degree of fed coordination, what are they not acknowledging?

00:21:07.260 What's the next shoe to drop? What's out there? It seems to me that almost every, not everything,

00:21:13.280 but almost everything we were told about January 6th was a lie, was a lie and just was not true.

00:21:20.520 And speaking of that day, I've got to get to my absolute, would I say my favorite or my least

00:21:28.300 favorite of the squishy Republicans? The squishy Republican court jester, conservative par excellence,

00:21:34.800 response, Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney just did an interview on 60 Minutes. Now I will sum up

00:21:42.320 most of the interview. This is because it was a long interview. It touched on a broad array of topics,

00:21:49.180 touched on, oh my gosh, touched on gay marriage. It touched on transgenderism. It touched on all these

00:21:54.840 various issues. The main thrust of the interview was this. The Capitol, January 6th. Right? So that

00:22:05.800 was basically that I just saved you a long time of watching that interview. But just to show you

00:22:11.580 how much further it goes than that. They then get to the question of marriage. Now Liz Cheney very

00:22:17.380 famously supports the traditional definition of marriage. The definition of marriage that has existed

00:22:22.580 everywhere at all times, everywhere on earth, throughout all of human history until about

00:22:29.460 five minutes ago here in the West. Now Liz Cheney says, absolutely not. She was wrong.

00:22:37.440 Your sister's gay. She's married. She has children. And in 2013, you came out against same-sex marriage 0.99

00:22:45.440 while your father went the other way. And it was looked upon as courageous when he did that.

00:22:53.020 How do you defend what you did? I was wrong. I was wrong. I love my sister very much. I love her

00:23:04.720 family very much. And I was wrong. It's a very personal issue and very personal for my family.

00:23:14.760 I believe that my dad was right. And my sister and I have had that conversation.

00:23:21.700 Wow. I was not expecting that.

00:23:24.760 You weren't expecting that? I'm waiting for her to adopt every other lib position too. What Liz Cheney 1.00

00:23:29.840 did just here is so much worse than just changing her position on this issue because she is implicitly,

00:23:39.100 not so implicitly, condemning Republicans for holding the normal view on this issue that everyone's

00:23:44.480 held everywhere else. It's just one more bit of evidence that the Republican Party is rotten to

00:23:53.020 the core, which we'll get to in one second. First though, you got to check out Ben's show today.

00:23:56.520 Ben's going to be talking about how Biden's got all these awful budgetary issues and his awful

00:24:01.860 slander against the border patrol. Also, you got to subscribe and start listening to Morning Wire on

00:24:05.900 Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Leave a five-star review. If you like

00:24:10.220 what you hear, we'll be right back with a lot more. Liz Cheney just came out on 60 Minutes to say

00:24:26.500 she was wrong about redefining marriage. She opposed redefining marriage to include same-sex

00:24:33.600 monogamous unions. Her father even supported redefining marriage. It was a contentious issue

00:24:41.480 in the Republican Party. Her sister is a lesbian. That complicates things. She just said, 0.97

00:24:48.160 I was wrong. I was wrong. I love my sister. This is personal. I was so wrong. Mea culpa,

00:24:52.780 mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. This is so much worse than just advocating for defining marriage because

00:24:59.360 what Liz Cheney is doing here is buying into the lie that people who believe that sexual 1.00

00:25:05.320 difference has something to do with marriage, maybe a lot to do with marriage, are somehow

00:25:09.920 irrational or bigoted. This is so much worse than saying, look, we have a difference of opinion on

00:25:16.120 this. I think even though marriage has always meant one thing, I think we should radically redefine

00:25:20.700 marriage and here are my reasons why. And I understand that you have your reasons why,

00:25:24.300 but here's why I think I'm right. What she's saying is, no, I was wrong. Oh, I was so wrong.

00:25:28.640 My dad was right. I love my sister. And what I did was, implicitly she's saying, what I did was

00:25:34.340 hateful toward my sister. It was cruel to my sister. It's not. It's not. Opposition to gay marriage or,

00:25:42.180 you know, same-sex marriage or redefining marriage is not grounded in people hating gay people

00:25:48.540 or an irrational animus as some judges have said. It's based on a simple conviction held by all

00:25:56.060 people everywhere that marriage as an institution, whatever it's going to mean in whatever social

00:26:01.260 context, with polygamy even in some cultures or without polygamy or with the toleration of divorce

00:26:07.440 or without the toleration of divorce, whatever variation on it you're going to say, that sexual

00:26:12.440 difference, the difference between men and women has something to do with that, okay? That's not

00:26:17.360 irrational. That's not bigoted. That's not hateful. That is quite simple and quite obvious, if you ask

00:26:23.820 me. Now there's this new idea that has arisen in the last 40, 50 years, very slowly, that men and

00:26:30.580 women are not different, that men and women are, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same.

00:26:35.100 And so as a result of that logic, you get movements like second wave feminism, you get 0.98

00:26:39.300 movements like the gay marriage movement, and you get movements like transgenderism.

00:26:43.000 And I see how those movements arise out of the claim that men and women are exactly the

00:26:48.620 same. But we disagree with that claim, and it's not hateful, and it's not bigoted, and

00:26:53.500 it's certainly not irrational to pretend that men and women, or to acknowledge that men and

00:26:58.080 women are not the same. Frankly, I think it's irrational to suggest that they are the same, 1.00

00:27:03.100 okay? So Liz Cheney has not just changed her opinion on a political issue. She has gutted the 1.00

00:27:11.200 central core of, in any way, a reasonably conservative view of the world. And she is

00:27:21.020 smearing her fellow Republicans, as she has wanted to do. But she goes even further, by the way.

00:27:25.520 At least she has the integrity to go further. She follows this radical idea to its radical conclusion,

00:27:31.060 which is, she seems to be upset that Republicans are not embracing radical transgender ideology,

00:27:37.300 too.

00:27:38.080 This is an issue that we have to recognize, you know, as human beings, that we need to work

00:27:47.720 against discrimination of all kinds in our country, in our state. We were at an event a few nights ago,

00:27:55.860 and there was a young woman who said she doesn't feel safe sometimes because she's transgender,

00:28:03.800 and nobody should feel unsafe. Freedom means freedom for everybody.

00:28:08.640 What? Does anybody understand what that word salad means? She goes, we need to fight all forms of 1.00

00:28:13.420 discrimination, including transgender discrimination, because some people feel unsafe,

00:28:20.140 whatever that, I have no idea what that means. They feel unsafe, and that's why we need to abolish the

00:28:25.040 legal distinction between men and women, and let men go into the women's bathroom. What about the 0.80

00:28:28.880 women who feel unsafe when men go into their bathroom? What about the little girls who are 1.00

00:28:32.180 at the changing room at the public pool who feel unsafe when grown men walk in there? Well, but the

00:28:36.540 grown men feel like women, and they are women. And we need to, freedom means freedom forever.

00:28:43.320 What about the freedom of the little girl to not change in front of a grown dude? What about that

00:28:46.400 freedom? Is that a freedom? No, it's only freedom in the liberal, leftist direction.

00:28:53.040 This is, this, behold your principled Republicans. This is what we're told, that the Liz Cheney's of

00:29:01.380 the world and the squishes, the squish caucus, they are the principled, dignified Republicans

00:29:08.180 in the traditional Republican, not this crazy, irrational Trump kind of Republican way.

00:29:15.720 They're the rational ones who think that men and women are exactly the same.

00:29:18.960 They're the rational ones who spend all of their time attacking fellow Republicans. And they're

00:29:23.160 the rational ones who are stumping for Joe freaking Biden, the most radical presidential

00:29:27.300 administration we've ever had in our country's history, because they're so dignified and rational.

00:29:31.560 They're the true conservatives. With Republicans like this woman and the people who support her,

00:29:38.940 we don't need Democrats. We don't need them. There's no difference. It's like men and women are the

00:29:43.360 same. Republicans and Democrats are the same when you look at people like this woman. 0.85

00:29:46.720 Pathetic. And you'll always hear that it's, it's the Marjorie Greens of the world who are the kooks. 1.00

00:29:53.800 They're the threat to the Republic. I, I don't know. At least, at least Marjorie Green recognizes

00:29:58.160 we shouldn't draft women, right? Liz Cheney, by the way, voted for that, voted to draft women. 1.00

00:30:03.020 Of course she did. Of course she did. She just admitted there's no difference between men and women 0.79

00:30:05.900 in her view, her mistaken view. Pathetic stuff. Pathetic stuff. This is a, to use a phrase from 1.00

00:30:15.060 Ronald Reagan. And this is a time for choosing folks. Which way Western man, which way American?

00:30:20.480 Are we going to go the Liz Cheney route or are we going to preserve any semblance of political

00:30:26.900 opposition to radical liberal agendas? Jen Psaki, speaking of feckless Republicans, Jen Psaki is 1.00

00:30:34.220 accusing Republicans of not offering any solutions to the immigration crisis. Yeah, they're really good 0.79

00:30:40.260 at criticizing Joe Biden over the border, but what are their solutions?

00:30:44.080 There are a lot of Republicans out there giving speeches about how outraged they are about the

00:30:48.160 situation at the border. Not many who are putting forward solutions or steps that we could take. So

00:30:54.040 we're a little tired of the speeches. We'd like to partner on solutions and working together to

00:30:58.800 address this problem that has not been partisan in the past. Where are your solutions, Republicans?

00:31:04.260 Come on, give me one. Name me one. Okay, build the wall. Okay, well give me two. All right,

00:31:11.460 deport the illegal aliens. Okay, Republicans, well give me three. Stop giving them government IDs. 0.99

00:31:21.140 Stop giving them government benefits. Tax their remittances. Maybe even revoke birthright

00:31:25.940 citizenship. Maybe defund sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Maybe require refugees to apply 1.00

00:31:31.940 for asylum in the first safe country that they enter rather than just going through those countries

00:31:35.900 to the United States. I don't know. How many more? What is that? That's like seven, eight

00:31:38.980 concrete policy ideas. How many more do you want? Well, what? You just don't. Give me a real one

00:31:46.180 though, guys. Come on, give me. I think we're the only people who are proposing any solution to the

00:31:50.320 border. And I think the people who are not proposing solutions are the Democrats. And they're doing so

00:31:55.360 not merely because they're incompetent, but because they don't want to solve the problem at the border.

00:32:01.940 Actually, the open border is their solution. It's a solution to a political problem that Americans

00:32:07.660 don't want these foreign nationals flooding over here, among other aspects of their radical agenda. 1.00

00:32:12.720 So the solution is flood the country with people who are much more likely to vote for us.

00:32:18.340 Total projection. As is often the case, the left will accuse the right of the things that the left is

00:32:23.940 doing. The most transparent example of this is colluding with the Russians, right? The left has spent 0.77

00:32:30.980 100 years in this country, just about, colluding with the Russians. Let's be fair. Let's call it, 0.92

00:32:36.340 I don't know, 70, 80 years, taking the side of the communists in Russia. And then 2016 rolls around.

00:32:44.820 They say, the Republicans are colluding with the Russians. You're the ones. You're the people.

00:32:49.260 And actually, really, it does go up to 100 years. Do you remember the Russian reset from Hillary

00:32:52.420 Clinton? Do you remember Barack Obama making a shady deal that was caught on a hot mic saying,

00:32:56.960 don't worry, I'm going to go soft on Russia. I just got to get through my election. I got to lie 0.97

00:33:00.260 to the American people. So it is, it does go almost exactly 100 years. But you Republicans

00:33:05.900 are colluding. They do this all the time. And they're doing it here. You have no solutions

00:33:10.560 on immigration. We're the only people with solutions. I just rattled off, just here very

00:33:15.840 quickly in the show, seven, eight solutions. If you gave me 10 more minutes, I could probably give

00:33:21.780 another half dozen solutions, but they don't want any of them. And, and they're deflecting not just

00:33:29.120 on what are our solutions. They're deflecting even on Joe Biden, acknowledging the problem.

00:33:33.080 Peter Doocy, or one of the, one of the few journalists remaining in America asks Jen Psaki,

00:33:37.940 Hey, is the president, you know, at the midst of this intense border crisis, is he considered like

00:33:43.540 going down there and looking at it? Why hasn't president Biden ever visited the Southern border?

00:33:48.960 What would you like him to do at the Southern border? And what impact do you think that would

00:33:53.140 have on the policies? Why doesn't he want to go? I don't think it's an issue of wanting to go. I

00:33:57.760 think it's an issue of what's most constructive to address what we see as a challenging situation

00:34:02.940 at the border in a broken immigration system. And his view is the most constructive role we can play

00:34:08.520 is by helping to push immigration reform forward, helping reform the broken policies of the last

00:34:14.220 several years and listening to his team of advisors who have been to the border multiple times about

00:34:20.500 what the path forward should look like. Why is this the one crisis then that he thinks he can

00:34:24.700 manage better from here without having seen it than going to the Southern border? I can assure you the

00:34:30.040 president is well aware of what the challenges are in our broken immigration system, something he

00:34:34.180 watched closely over the last four years. So he's watched this problem closely for the past four

00:34:40.280 years. That's not quite true. It's partially true. He's actually watched this problem closely for

00:34:46.620 the last 50 years. Joe Biden has been in the government at the national level now for almost

00:34:54.720 exactly 50 years. And the problem has gotten worse and worse and worse and worse as have most problems

00:35:04.180 since Joe Biden has been in office in the Senate than the vice president. Now, apparently the

00:35:10.900 president, we don't see him very much. So he's not going to go down there. He knows, he knows what we

00:35:17.000 need to do. Okay. What is it? You just said you don't have any answers. And then you tried to deflect

00:35:23.220 and said the Republicans don't have any answers. He's not going down there because he's trapped between

00:35:27.220 Iraq and a hard place. The radical left-wing base, the arch progressives want to keep the border open

00:35:35.540 because they hate America and they don't think America deserves to be a nation. The democratic

00:35:39.680 operatives want to keep the border open because they think they're flooding the country with their 0.79

00:35:42.980 future voters. And very likely they're right, depending on which country we're talking about.

00:35:47.440 And then you've got the more moderate types who broke for Biden in some places. They want to seal

00:35:54.920 up the border, but he can't appease both of those groups. So he's going to, or all three of those

00:36:00.600 groups. So he's going to back away. This is why he gave Kamala Harris control over the border. Do

00:36:06.080 you remember? It was one of the most vicious things I've ever seen a president do to a vice president.

00:36:10.500 So you're in charge of this now. He's setting her up completely for failure because obviously those

00:36:14.040 two do not like each other very much. She opened her presidential campaign by accusing Joe Biden of

00:36:18.600 being a racist. Okay. I don't think there's any love lost between those two. And what has Joe,

00:36:22.460 what has Kamala Harris done? She hasn't gone down there either. Because the Democrats are 0.98

00:36:27.520 intrinsically incapable of solving the problem at the border because the incentives are too screwed up.

00:36:34.160 They can't, they can't possibly do it. Most, all of the incentives are aligned for them to do nothing.

00:36:39.840 And, and in as much as there is an incentive to do one thing or the other, it's to keep the border

00:36:44.700 even more wide open. So there's, there is nothing that a Democrat can do on this particular

00:36:52.080 issue. Meanwhile, you know, things are bad because the administration is admitting

00:36:57.380 that they're releasing at least 10,000 illegal aliens just last week into the interior of the

00:37:04.620 country. Of the 17,400 that weren't deported back or didn't return on their own to Mexico,

00:37:11.460 how many of them either, well, first, how many have been released into the U S? Uh,

00:37:16.500 they're released on conditions and approximately, I think it's about 10,000 or so, 12,000 have been

00:37:23.220 released. Yes. And of the 5,000 that are still in process, we will make determinations whether they

00:37:29.720 will be, uh, returned, uh, to, uh, Haiti, uh, based on our public health and public interest

00:37:37.580 authorities. So are we talking about a total of 12,000 or could it be even higher?

00:37:43.580 It could, it could be even higher. The number that are returned could be even higher. What we

00:37:49.200 do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it. So that's the most egregious lie we've heard

00:37:56.240 all show. What we do is follow the, no, if you followed the law, you'd deport all of these people,

00:38:00.220 but you're not, you're not following the law at all. You would enforce the law. You wouldn't

00:38:03.160 punish your border patrol for enforcing the law. I love, I actually love this question from Chris

00:38:08.240 Wallace. He says, how many people? Mayorkas, the head of Homeland Security says 10 to 12,000.

00:38:14.440 Chris Wallace says, that's the total 10 to 12,000 or could it be a little higher? Well,

00:38:18.320 yeah, it could be a little higher. It's just like the New York times saying, yeah,

00:38:21.060 there were some feds involved in January 6th. If, if the head of Biden's DHS is telling us

00:38:27.720 that he released 10 to 12,000 into the interior of the country, you know that the real number is much,

00:38:33.720 much higher than that. Probably multiples higher than that.

00:38:37.320 Speaking of numbers, the Democrats, in addition to drafting women into the military with the help 0.96

00:38:46.440 of Republicans, and in addition to legalizing or attempting to legalize abortion up until the

00:38:51.040 moment of birth nationwide, they're also about to spend three and a half trillion dollars on some

00:38:55.840 budget madness. This is an unpopular type of bill, but it's so, it's so complicated that people

00:39:04.580 probably are not going to be paying a ton of close attention to it. It used to be that when Congress

00:39:09.240 would pass bills, they were relatively narrow bills and they would pass a lot of them.

00:39:12.520 But now, because Congress doesn't really govern in a particularly direct way, they,

00:39:17.960 they just give a lot of money to the executive agencies and then the agencies create all the

00:39:22.380 rules that govern us. You know, all the alphabet agencies and all those, the FDA and OSHA and all

00:39:28.880 of these various regulatory groups. So what, what they do is they just pass one big bill. So this is

00:39:35.460 one of these gigantic omnibus bills. It's a $3.5 trillion budget bill. Pelosi asked about this on

00:39:42.300 ABC and she gave an answer that is shocking to many, but I actually think it was brilliant. She

00:39:47.680 said, don't worry about the numbers, worry about the values. This will be paid for. So when some say,

00:39:56.540 oh, well, what about inflation? It will be paid for. And that's the beauty of it by having those in our

00:40:03.100 economy and society who have not paid their fair share, paying their fair share. So again,

00:40:08.900 the Senate and the house, those who are not in full agreement with the president's right,

00:40:14.480 let's see what our value, let's not talk about numbers and dollars. Let's talk about values.

00:40:21.700 So when she says that the bill's paid for, that's just a lie. I mean, that's, that's preposterous,

00:40:26.200 not, not even the rosiest sort of optimism on, on the way these numbers are going to shake out.

00:40:31.280 We'll, we'll suggest that it's, it's paid for, but put that aside for a second. That's just typical

00:40:35.360 left-wing lying about budget bills. What she says here, 0.99

00:40:40.820 let's see what our values, let's not talk about numbers and dollars. Let's talk about values.

00:40:46.800 That is brilliant. And that is right. And Republicans should take notes. Republicans,

00:40:51.460 lawmakers, especially the confused ones that just voted to draft women, take out your pen, 0.69

00:40:56.960 watch Nancy Pelosi, take some notes. You should not be talking about numbers and dollars and cents.

00:41:03.560 You should be talking about values. The, the Republicans who went along with that

00:41:10.800 defense authorization act, I know what they were thinking. They were thinking, well,

00:41:16.480 look general overall, 99% of this defense bill is fine. And you know, the numbers shake out pretty

00:41:23.300 well and we got to pay our troops and we don't want to be accused of not giving a raise to our

00:41:26.660 troops and that won't look good. And then I might dip in the polls for a little bit and that might not

00:41:31.080 be nice. And there'll be a campaign. And you're thinking in dollars and cents, folks, think in

00:41:35.080 values, think in values. If the situation had been reversed, right? I know this is a silly hypothetical

00:41:42.420 and it's an overused one, but I actually think it's kind of illuminating here. If the situation

00:41:48.060 had been reversed, I think what the Democrats would have done is they would have renamed this

00:41:51.540 national defense authorization act. They would have renamed it the draft women, make women die in 1.00

00:41:56.500 combat act. And they would go on TV and they would, and they would have the protection of the

00:42:00.360 mainstream media. And they would say, yeah, Republicans are trying to make us vote for the

00:42:03.820 make women die in combat act. And we think that's a bad idea. So we're going to oppose it. And they 1.00

00:42:08.720 would have made the battle about values, about right and wrong, about justice. They wouldn't have made it

00:42:13.160 about the little itty bitty details of the defense authorization bill and raising the money here and

00:42:18.520 this and that. They would have made it about values and they would have won. But we don't win because

00:42:22.100 we don't understand that because you've got the left, which is offering an actual moral,

00:42:27.240 it's an immoral vision for the country, but it involves moral arguments. And then you've got

00:42:31.760 some right wingers, we try to do it on this show, who try to put politics in those terms as well.

00:42:38.240 And then you've got, I would say probably the majority of elected Republicans, not the majority

00:42:42.680 of Republican voters, but the majority of elected Republicans who just think in these utilitarian terms,

00:42:48.200 like eggheads with a spreadsheet who say, well, actually, you know, but if we cut that

00:42:52.080 taxes, that it'll increase receipts to the federal government, but actually, who cares? Who

00:42:56.760 cares? I don't care about that. I don't care about that when the actual business of the government

00:43:02.540 right now is sending women into freaking combat, you idiots. You myopic, narrow-minded, materialist, 1.00

00:43:15.340 craven idiots. I can't, Democrats would not have made this mistake. Is it a mistake? I don't even know 1.00

00:43:21.480 if it's a mistake. You want to talk about values? Before we go, I have to get to this.

00:43:25.960 PETA, PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an ironically named group because they

00:43:32.860 actually kill a lot of animals. They are involved in the killing of animals, but that's neither here

00:43:37.660 nor there because there aren't enough people to take care of them. Anyway, neither here nor there,

00:43:41.140 at least for this ad. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are, I just put out a video.

00:43:45.360 The video was trying to persuade people that if you go vegan, you'll have a better sex life. It's

00:43:51.200 better for your, you know, blood flow or whatever. And so the video involved, I mean, if you're, you

00:43:56.640 know, we've only got about a minute and a half left here. So if you've got, if you've got young

00:44:00.600 children watching, listening is fine, but watching, maybe close their eyes for a second.

00:44:04.800 It's a video of people molesting fruit. Take a listen. It says, want to spice things up in the

00:44:13.580 bedroom? It's people would like a kiwi and a pepper. Chili peppers will have you hot and heavy

00:44:17.780 in no time. A squirt of OJ can increase blood flow to important organs. I'm going to look away

00:44:24.500 from this. Get a load of the zinc to increase your libido. Avocados, well, this is disgusting.

00:44:30.400 We'll give you the stamina to keep going. Go vegan. Your partner will thank you.

00:44:34.800 Sounds like molesting a cantaloupe. And now someone lay this. Just stop it. Stop it. Stop

00:44:39.360 it. Turn it off. This, uh, this is the values that we're looking at now. First of all, it's

00:44:46.200 not very persuasive to me when we're told to adopt the, you know, adopt our ethical system.

00:44:53.540 And we're being told that by people who are molesting fruit. I don't, that doesn't seem

00:44:57.340 like I want to adopt their ethical system, but this is a lot. This actually has to do with

00:45:01.580 the political strategy of the left. What the left is doing, they always make these

00:45:04.780 jokes like, well, if you oppose our reviews, you probably don't have enough sex. You're 0.99

00:45:08.840 an incel or you have small genitalia or you don't get, you pick up enough chicks or you 1.00

00:45:14.040 don't, or you're not, I don't know, whatever. It's all like, it always comes down to sex. 0.99

00:45:17.520 And the reason they do this is because their view of liberty is one of, of licentiousness

00:45:23.020 and it just comes down to lust and, you know, whoever you can sleep with and just doing a

00:45:27.780 bunch of weird sex stuff to appease your own appetites. That's their view. I mean,

00:45:30.740 that's what they do. They enslave people by, by enslaving them to their own lusts and getting 0.94

00:45:37.400 them out of their rational mind so that they can think that a video of someone molesting

00:45:42.080 fruit is somehow persuasive. What we're looking for is a higher form of liberty. Okay. And

00:45:46.420 that's a lot different that you're not going to get to that exalted spirit of freedom that

00:45:50.160 Edmund Burke talked about. If you are merely some egghead idiot looking at a spreadsheet and 1.00

00:45:55.240 making some Craven calculations, listen to Nancy Pelosi. Please take notes. You've got to talk 1.00

00:46:01.780 about values. You've got to talk about justice. You've got to talk about true and false and right

00:46:05.980 and wrong. Otherwise we're all going to end up like Liz Cheney. I'm Michael Knowles. This

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Ep. 851 - Tell Democrats Child Sacrifice Is Still Evil

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