The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 852 - Skirt Grabbing & Vaxx Mandates Don't Make You God

00:00:00.000 If the separation of church and state ever existed in the state of New York,

00:00:04.320 that distinction has been obliterated by the Empire State's new governor, Kathy Hochul,

00:00:09.920 who demands that her constituents take the coronavirus vaccine 1.00

00:00:13.820 and justifies her demand as an edict from God himself.

00:00:19.320 We are not through this pandemic. I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time.

00:00:25.400 And you know what? God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women,

00:00:31.700 the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine.

00:00:36.540 That is from God to us. And we must say, thank you, God. Thank you.

00:00:42.560 And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to say, I'm vaccinated. All of you.

00:00:48.360 Yes, I know you're vaccinated. You're the smart ones. But you know, there's people out there

00:00:52.140 who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know this. You know who they are. I need you

00:00:57.880 to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other. We

00:01:04.120 love each other. Which God are we talking about here? Because I went to church on Sunday. I tried

00:01:11.500 to take my faith Christianity seriously. And I've never read anything about the Fauci-ouchie as a 0.53

00:01:18.080 requirement of the faith. She says she wears her vaccination status on a little necklace. You

00:01:23.840 know, Christians sometimes wear a crucifix or a scapular, but she wears her vaccination status.

00:01:29.980 Christians try to be disciples of Christ, follow in the line of the apostles who are apostles to Jesus. 0.94

00:01:35.780 She says, be apostles to me. Well, this Fauci-ouchie, this is a sacrament,

00:01:41.960 not to Christians or Jews or Muslims, but to modern disciples of the cult of public health,

00:01:49.880 of progressivism, of politics. According to these leftists, there is no God but science and

00:01:56.720 Fauci is his prophet, the science of history, the science of politics. She can make these edicts 0.96

00:02:03.080 from on high and people must follow them. Now, of course, these very same people reject science

00:02:08.700 the moment it involves biological sex or pre-born babies. Governor Hochul is very possibly the most

00:02:15.860 pro-abortion governor in the entire country. No, no, the kooky religious talk we're hearing from 0.98

00:02:21.060 people like Hochul is less the doctrine of some new religion of science than it is the familiar

00:02:26.960 superstitions of paganism, replete with the same old sword of shamans and even the child sacrifice.

00:02:33.220 But be not deceived. God is not mocked. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:46.940 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Old Schooled. Man, that guy has

00:02:51.060 gotten a lot of top comments on this show. He says, if the left actually cared about offering

00:02:56.080 immigrants asylum due to horrible living conditions, they would be bringing Australians here by the 1.00

00:03:01.500 Plainful. That's true. But you can never help the West, even when the West is in the Southeast. 0.82

00:03:07.860 You can never help Western civilization. It's all about bringing other people into our civilization 1.00

00:03:13.740 because our civilization is so rotten and we've wronged everybody and we're the cause of all the

00:03:18.400 problems on Earth. That's what's going on. But I agree. Those poor Australians need some asylum. 1.00

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00:04:31.140 slash Knowles. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. Governor Hochul in New York, really creepy

00:04:37.320 stuff from her. I have long said, quoting Cardinal Manning, that all politics, all human conflict

00:04:44.840 ultimately is theological. All politics boils down ultimately to religion because we're talking

00:04:50.920 about morality. We're talking about ethics. We're talking about the relationship of man to his

00:04:57.000 community and to his state and to his God, his place in the universe. So obviously, it's going

00:05:01.740 to eventually come down to religion. But this lady's taking it to a really crazy extreme, wearing 1.00

00:05:08.120 her vaccination status like some kind of religious totem. Meanwhile, she's firing hospital staff. 1.00

00:05:16.740 We're told that we need the hospital staff. We're told that these are the most wonderful people in

00:05:22.060 New York. These are the heroes, more heroic than the firemen on 9-11, the nurses and doctors who,

00:05:29.300 you know, treated people with the Wuhan cough. But now, after hearing that for 18 months,

00:05:36.020 we are being told that the hospital workers are going to be fired because some of them don't want

00:05:39.740 to take the Fauci ouchie. We'll be nation leading with our mandate, which strikes at midnight tonight

00:05:46.360 when everyone is expected in a hospital in the state of New York or a health care facility to

00:05:50.960 have been vaccinated. I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to

00:05:57.300 address the shortages where they occur. That's going to allow me to deploy the National Guard who are

00:06:03.160 medically trained, deploy people who've been retired, who may have had a licensed lapse, bring in people

00:06:09.660 from elsewhere. That is not my first position, though, my friends. My desire is to have the people

00:06:15.780 who've been out there continue to work in their jobs, work in them safely. And to all the other

00:06:20.880 health care workers who are vaccinated, they also deserve to know that the people they're working with

00:06:26.120 will not get them sick. So we're told that the hospitals are overflowing. We need all hands on

00:06:33.620 deck. And we're also told that if you don't get the shot, then we're going to fire you. Why do you

00:06:40.080 need to get the shot? Because people need to come in and get their booster shots. Why do they need to

00:06:45.280 get their booster shots? Because the vaccine apparently wasn't as effective as we were told that it was in

00:06:49.440 the first place. So then why do you need to get the vaccine, hospital workers? Well, because it's so

00:06:54.220 extremely effective. Huh? What? Are you sure about that? Well, don't worry. There's no reason to

00:07:03.680 hesitate to get the vaccine because the vaccine is extremely safe. Okay. Well, what's the evidence

00:07:09.680 that the vaccine is safe? Well, the vaccine is so safe that the FDA won't approve the booster shots

00:07:14.280 that we all said that we need because the vaccine isn't as effective as we told you it was in the first

00:07:17.620 place. Huh? What? It's not making a whole lot of sense to me. It's not making a lot of sense to me.

00:07:24.220 either. This is an exercise as it's been from the beginning, but it's getting clearer by the day.

00:07:31.460 This is an exercise in political power. There's not a lot of reason to it. People from the beginning

00:07:38.020 have been comparing the coronavirus, the COVID, the public health dictatorship to a sort of religious

00:07:46.340 apparatus. I've made this comparison before, but the difference here is that true religion 0.97

00:07:52.020 is reasonable. These people are not reasonable. They're changing their story every single day

00:07:58.200 and they are capriciously wielding power. Now, this is sick stuff. Obviously, it shows you how

00:08:05.680 disingenuous the left was when they were extolling the virtues of the healthcare workers and said,

00:08:10.840 they don't care about the healthcare workers. They care that people do what they tell them to do.

00:08:13.980 And the minute the healthcare workers don't do what they tell them to do, they fire them.

00:08:17.020 They put them out of a job. The greatest heroes in the world for 18 months. Sorry, you're on your rear

00:08:22.040 end in the middle of the street. Now, why are people going into the hospitals? It's not because

00:08:28.680 they have COVID necessarily. A lot of people are coming down with COVID symptoms and they think

00:08:34.260 they have COVID, but they're testing negative for COVID. This was a headline just came out from the

00:08:40.240 Daily Mail. So the headline is, why are so many suffering dreadful COVID symptoms,

00:08:46.360 but still testing negative? Sarah Vine was convinced she had it, but countless tests said

00:08:51.860 otherwise and she's far from alone. What is going on? Let's use, is it some grand conspiracy

00:08:57.520 and is it, there's the conspiracy regarding the tests or is it, is it because COVID for the vast

00:09:03.780 majority of people is just a cough and a headache. And COVID is not the only disease that will give

00:09:10.000 you a cough and a headache. It's, we used to call that a cold or the flu or any other number of

00:09:15.780 ailments. And people get sick, by the way, people can get, I know this is shocking. People can get sick

00:09:21.480 and have it not be the coronavirus. There are, it's weird because the flu basically disappeared last

00:09:28.720 year. Everyone had the coronavirus, but nobody had the flu. It's pretty strange, but people can get sick.

00:09:33.200 And you know what? It's okay to get mildly sick. It's okay. It's a normal thing. It's not going to

00:09:40.060 end the world. If you come down with the sniffles, you'll be fine. We have immune systems. I know that

00:09:47.000 we pretend that we don't anymore. We have natural immunity to certain things that we have experienced

00:09:51.360 before. I know that we pretend that that's not true anymore, but it's okay. This virus has turned

00:09:57.260 the society so much more neurotic than it already was. And it already was pretty bad.

00:10:04.180 They just don't understand it. How could people be coming down with the sniffles,

00:10:08.120 but they don't have COVID? Because there are other viruses. And maybe if you're confusing your

00:10:13.840 common cold with COVID, maybe COVID wasn't as bad as everyone was pretending it was for the vast

00:10:20.160 majority of people. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. But the COVID dictatorship marches on and on and

00:10:25.980 in Canada right now, the cops are stopping random people on the street. Well, actually,

00:10:31.200 I should not say that. It's not random people. They're stopping a specific type of people. And

00:10:36.040 it's not based on sex. And it's not based on race. And it's based much more on class.

00:10:42.500 You've hit a criminal profile today. Yeah, no, normally people look down the nose at you a

00:10:46.860 little bit when you wear high views. But no, not like this, mate. It's pretty odd.

00:10:52.440 So they're stopping anyone that obviously looks like a construction worker.

00:10:58.100 I find myself going for a walk. Trying to get back to work.

00:11:01.620 So you're here for a lawful reason? Lawful reasons always.

00:11:05.800 The cops with the guns, just one of them looks at me, just sprints across the road,

00:11:09.080 and they just drop me. Or like five on top of me, just smashing me. For no reason.

00:11:12.560 So why'd they pull you up? Oh, just for being here, basically. Yeah.

00:11:17.280 Are you within your 10Ks? Yeah, I live in South Melbourne. I just walked here.

00:11:20.580 My watch is still going. 4.2Ks.

00:11:25.800 They cuffed me. And then five of them held onto me for no reason. And I just said,

00:11:30.180 let me go. I'm doing nothing wrong. And they cut it off.

00:11:33.620 Being profiled because I'm wearing my tradie outfit. Yeah.

00:11:36.260 So this is what's happening. And it's happening throughout the West.

00:11:39.260 The people who are being targeted here, it's not on their race or on their sex. It's on their class.

00:11:45.580 COVID has opened up or really highlighted a serious class battle between the ruling class

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00:13:10.060 We are told right now that the primary divisions

00:13:14.360 in our country are

00:13:16.900 partisan. They're sexual.

00:13:20.340 We're especially told that they're racial, but that's not true. You saw that clip. I think I misspoke.

00:13:24.040 I think I said it was from Canada. It was from Rebel News, but it was a clip from Australia.

00:13:27.680 You'd probably hear that in the accents. Australia is the clearest

00:13:31.300 example of where the COVID lockdown dictatorship is going crazy, but it's true broadly throughout

00:13:38.340 the West, and it's not breaking down on the sexual or the racial or the partisan lines.

00:13:44.400 But that is what we are all told to focus on. I'll give you, there was another big racial incident.

00:13:51.080 Okay. This time it was in Atlanta. Someone painted several racist and defensive slurs on a building at

00:13:58.260 Emory University in Atlanta. I've spoken at Emory before. It's a pretty left-wing place.

00:14:04.020 And at the time, the local news outlet,

00:14:05.520 WSB-TV,

00:14:08.020 reported that the Emory Autism Center has become the target of several crimes,

00:14:11.760 including burglary and vandalism, including graffiti of racial slurs and swastikas.

00:14:16.880 A police report of the incident showed that vending machines had been vandalized, glass had been shattered.

00:14:22.820 Quote, the area where racial slurs were reportedly written along the walls are near the workspace

00:14:27.300 occupied by two African-American women. A swastika was found in a hallway near a Jewish man's office.

00:14:34.180 At the time, the school says, the acts of racism and anti-Semitism are painful for all of us

00:14:38.900 at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated, and every effort will be made to

00:14:43.880 bring the perpetrators to justice. When I saw this story, without knowing anything else,

00:14:50.400 I hadn't seen the picture of the guy who perpetrated it. I looked at that. I said,

00:14:56.220 that's a hoax. That's a hoax. That's not a white supremacist. It's not a neo-Nazi.

00:15:01.720 It's a race hoax being perpetrated by big libs, by left-wingers, very likely by a black guy. 0.97

00:15:11.140 You know, I hate to say I told you so, but I was right. It turns out the perpetrator

00:15:14.540 is black. He's a black guy. I detail a lot of these incidents in my book, Speechless. 1.00

00:15:21.680 So many of the high, the majority of the highest profile racial incidents in recent decades turned

00:15:30.420 out to be hoaxes. The allegedly oppressed people were the ones who set the whole thing up in the

00:15:38.020 first place. Why is that? Well, you can see it in the statement given by this, by the school.

00:15:48.240 The acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us. Stop it right there. No, they're not.

00:15:54.100 They're pleasurable. These are pleasurable incidents for people who can claim victimhood and therefore

00:16:01.140 social currency, and for the ruling class that seeks to divide us. These racial incidents,

00:16:05.780 these hoaxes, are extremely pleasurable because it advances their political goals.

00:16:12.320 They're painful for the people who are accused of bigotry and racism and whose rights and way of

00:16:18.080 life are being taken away as a result of that, but it's pleasurable for the people who benefit from it.

00:16:26.040 This is why they so often turn out to be hoaxes, because there is a real advantage to being able

00:16:33.800 to claim victimhood. The culture has gone absolutely crazy on race. It has also gone

00:16:40.620 crazy on sex. There is a fairly well-respected scientific journal, The Lancet. I quote The Lancet

00:16:47.340 and research from The Lancet often on this show. The Lancet just came out with its new cover for its

00:16:54.080 latest issue. The cover says, quote, historically, it's just a white background and then you got the

00:17:01.280 quote on the cover. Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been 1.00

00:17:06.960 neglected. What? The conservatives here are outraged because The Lancet embraces transgenderism, 0.99

00:17:18.700 right? They're saying, well, it's not just women who possess that body part, but it's everybody. 1.00

00:17:24.880 Men, people who identify as men or non-gendered or this or that or any of the 57 genders. So

00:17:30.520 conservatives are outraged that the scientific journal embraces this unscientific concept of

00:17:34.660 transgenderism. Feminists are outraged that this journal seems to erase women, right? It's no,

00:17:42.920 forget about women, it's bodies with this particular anatomical feature. And furthermore, that it defines 1.00

00:17:49.680 women by their anatomy. And how dare you? Eyes up here, buddy. I'm more than just my body parts, 0.99

00:17:55.400 right? The most shocking part though, is that this journal is defining all of us as bodies. This is

00:18:04.600 weird. I am not just a body. I can't believe, this is really basic stuff that our culture has gotten so

00:18:10.340 stupid on that we don't recognize this anymore. We are more than just our bodies. We are soul and

00:18:17.620 spirit too. We're not just meat puppets. We're not just flesh. We have minds, okay? You've got the

00:18:24.660 materialist heresy on one hand, which is the idea that we're just meat puppets. Then you've got the

00:18:29.640 transgender Gnostic heresy on the other, the idea that our bodies have nothing to do with who we are.

00:18:33.820 And then you've got the normal, obvious, common sense, true understanding of human nature, which is

00:18:39.620 that we are both. You know, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is an extremely overrated race hustling author.

00:18:46.440 He loves to use this phrase of black bodies. He says the black body is very oppressed as if black 0.99

00:18:53.040 people don't have souls. No, it's more than that, buddy. We are a human person, but because we are

00:19:01.640 so insanely focused on this stuff, on the physical, we lose sight of that. This is actually, it ties in

00:19:08.900 with the racial thing. We're so focused on the physical that we think that racism is the only

00:19:14.460 evil in the world because our understanding of sin and grace and morality only goes skin deep.

00:19:20.540 So the editor-in-chief of The Lancet came out, he sort of apologized, but then he defended it because

00:19:26.820 he said trans people face stigma. Transgender health is very important. And of course, he doesn't mean

00:19:31.820 fixing the problem or even acknowledging it when a man thinks he's a woman or vice versa. He means

00:19:36.820 affirming people in their delusions. This is the state of modern medical science, the religion 0.93

00:19:41.200 that so many leftists ascribe to, the official religion of the state of New York now, where we

00:19:46.380 need apostles of their religion. We need people to wear the religious totems of that religion.

00:19:52.720 Speaking of sex, there's a sex story that came out a few days ago that I didn't get to, but I do,

00:19:56.800 I don't want to miss it. I do want to get to it because it's a weird one. Chris Cuomo has been

00:20:02.540 accused of sexual harassment and he's been accused of this in the New York Times. And I can't believe

00:20:08.920 that I, ah, this is really strange. I have to sort of defend Chris Cuomo here. Okay. So this woman, 0.95

00:20:18.380 Shelly Ross, who is a TV journalist and executive producer at ABC and CBS, she is accusing Chris Cuomo

00:20:25.180 of greeting her at a party by grabbing her derriere, ah, in, in 2005. So this is 16 years

00:20:35.460 ago. This woman had been Chris Cuomo's boss. She'd been the EP on the show, ah, but then she left. So

00:20:42.220 she was no longer his boss and he shows up to this party. One imagines people are throwing back a few

00:20:47.620 cocktails here and he grabs her in this kind of grotesque way. He goes up, he greets her, he grabs

00:20:54.020 her on the derriere and he says, now, now I can do this. Ha ha ha. And she says, no, you can't.

00:20:57.840 Her husband was there. And, uh, uh, so after this party, he apologizes. He sends her an email. It

00:21:03.880 says, this is from the article. She's acknowledging this. Now that I think of it, I'm ashamed. I

00:21:08.440 shouldn't have even put you in such a position. Uh, please apologize to your very good and noble

00:21:13.400 husband. Um, please pass along my apology. I apologize to you as well for putting you in this

00:21:18.580 position. Next time I'll remember the lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you. My hearty greeting

00:21:22.380 was a function of being glad to see you, but you know, I'm ashamed. Mea culpa. Okay. And she 0.81

00:21:27.260 obviously accepted his apology, but now 16 years later, she's turning it on him again. This is

00:21:32.860 very cynical. It's very cynical. Obviously Chris Cuomo should not have done it. It's a boorish,

00:21:40.080 barbaric thing to do. You should not greet women this way, especially not when they are married, 1.00

00:21:43.960 especially not when you are married. Okay. Nobody says that what he did was right or that what he did

00:21:50.340 wasn't wrong. Least of all, Chris Cuomo who apologized for it. And she apparently accepted

00:21:56.740 his apology at the time. But now 16 years later, she doesn't like something that he has said or done.

00:22:02.500 And so she comes out and says, he sexually assaulted me. That's not about justice. That's

00:22:08.340 not about protecting the world from a predator. That's not about showing him the error of his ways

00:22:14.400 even because he apologized already. You accepted his apology. It's just about political opportunism.

00:22:22.380 It's just about finding someone's sin that he's already apologized for and holding it over him

00:22:29.380 to make him do whatever you want for the rest of your life and his life. That's not right. What a

00:22:36.120 graceless society we live in, if that's the norm. Really bad for society. If every wrong that you

00:22:44.300 have ever committed, and I'm certain that you like me have committed many wrongs, many sins in your

00:22:48.800 past. If any of them, even the ones that have been forgiven, can then just be used to attack you,

00:22:57.280 to destroy your career, to even get you thrown in prison or something, to get you really accused of a

00:23:01.900 serious crime. What kind of society are we living in? It's so cheap. The woman essentially admits in 1.00

00:23:10.420 this article, yeah, it's not really about justice or my feeling of victimhood. This is just about

00:23:17.660 getting Chris Cuomo because he's doing things that I don't like. That's ugly stuff. And we got to call

00:23:21.820 it out even when it's, even if it's Fredo Cuomo, even if it's someone that we generally don't like

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00:25:36.920 our immigrant communities. This important legislation removes the word alien, which is not

00:25:42.380 only an offensive term for a human being, but for far too long has fueled a divisive and hurtful

00:25:48.560 narrative. By changing this term, we are ensuring California's laws reflect our state's values.

00:25:55.440 Only that last part is true. That last part where they say, by changing the term, we now make sure that

00:26:02.060 the state code reflects our values. The value is we don't have a border and we're going to flood the

00:26:05.580 country with foreigners, flood the state with foreigners. But nothing else here is true. 1.00

00:26:13.260 As our nation's most diverse state, we're stronger and more vibrant because of our immigrant

00:26:17.120 communities. So when they say diversity, what they mean is, in this case, broadly non-American and

00:26:23.740 specifically non-white. That is the way the term is used on the left and broadly in the culture.

00:26:28.840 And that's a really ugly thing to say, to say that non-white people are much stronger than white 1.00

00:26:36.260 people. When there are places with white people, that's bad. And when there are places with non-white 1.00

00:26:41.140 people, that's good. That's an ugly thing to say. You might call that racist. That's an ugly thing to

00:26:45.280 say. Next, he says, this important legislation removes the word alien, which is an offensive term for

00:26:51.940 a human being. It's not an offensive term for a human being. It's a very simple clinical term that

00:26:56.020 means foreign, a foreigner. You're an alien. And it's fueled divisive and hurtful narratives.

00:27:05.120 It's racist. No, it's not. It's clear language for a foreigner. But now when those terms are taken

00:27:12.480 away, they'll be replaced by terms like migrant. Well, this is far less clear language because there

00:27:17.540 are legal migrants and illegal migrants. That distinction is being obliterated in the California

00:27:24.560 state code. This is what my book is about. This is what my book Speechless is about. That the left

00:27:32.280 believes that by redefining the words, you can redefine reality itself. And as a practical

00:27:38.040 political matter, often that can be very effective. Whoever controls the words controls the debate.

00:27:46.080 And so now we're not going to debate the propriety of having a bunch of illegal aliens in the state. 0.94

00:27:51.080 They're not illegal anymore. They're not aliens at the very least. They're Californians. They're

00:27:56.740 future Americans. They're just, maybe they're undocumented, but that's all. We'll get them 1.00

00:28:00.460 documents. They're already doing it. Very effective strategy. And it's not even the most cynical thing

00:28:07.340 the guy's doing in the state right now. Gavin Newsom has also just signed legislation making

00:28:13.600 vote by mail a permanent feature of California elections. He signed Assembly Bill 37, which

00:28:21.940 requires a mail-in ballot to be mailed to every registered voter in the state. This makes the

00:28:26.340 golden state the eighth state in the country to implement this sort of law. So there it is. It's

00:28:32.540 going to be very, very difficult with one of the most corrupt, rife for fraud election practices now

00:28:40.180 as a matter of law in California. It's going to be very, very difficult for Republicans to win

00:28:44.540 elections. No less a leftist than Barack Obama, just in recent years, pointed out that widespread

00:28:52.520 mail-in voting leads to abuse. It can lead to cheating. But the Democrats run the entire state.

00:29:00.920 They've got a perfect lock on the state. And so they institute widespread mail-in votes,

00:29:05.820 automatic mail-in votes. Very hard to see how the Republicans take power back.

00:29:10.180 That's why a lot of people want to stay and fight. But you've also got to know when to have

00:29:16.360 a tactical retreat, okay? And this is why a lot of people are fleeing California for conservative

00:29:20.960 states. Because we need to concentrate our forces where we can win victories if we want to try to

00:29:26.260 win broader national victories in the future. This sort of thing should not be permitted. Widespread

00:29:32.040 mail-in voting. It is just as corrupt as the old political machines of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed.

00:29:37.200 But that is the law now in California because elections have consequences. We've got to prevent

00:29:44.980 this in places that we currently have some control over. Speaking of election fraud, here's a story

00:29:49.760 that we're not supposed to talk about, but whatever. Let's talk about it. Let's see. Your move,

00:29:54.340 social media platform, so you can kick me off if you want, but I'm just going to read the news here.

00:29:57.540 There was a recount. There was an audit of the recount in Arizona, okay? And the audit established

00:30:07.380 that there were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots and the official

00:30:13.860 canvas results for the county in the 2020 election. That's the headline that you are going to see in

00:30:19.440 the news. The audit found that there were no substantial differences between the hand count of

00:30:24.540 ballots and the official count for the county that resulted in the 2020 election. Okay.

00:30:33.020 Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes. Okay.

00:30:44.480 What happens beyond the headline? The audit established, the hand recount, what happens beyond the headline?

00:30:50.180 There were numerous findings of problems with the election and evidence indicating that tens of

00:30:56.120 thousands of ballots were illegally cast or counted. So some of those ballots should not have been cast

00:31:02.760 in the first place. And some of the ballots, even if they were cast by real people who were eligible

00:31:06.900 voters, should not have been counted because they did not follow the rules for casting the ballots.

00:31:13.460 The review revealed that more than 17,000 return envelopes were duplicates. Maricopa County recorded more than

00:31:22.840 6,545 early voting return envelopes than this reviewing organization determined existed. And 15,035 mail-in votes

00:31:34.340 in Maricopa County were from voters who had moved prior to the registration deadline. Another 6,591 mail-in ballots

00:31:42.300 came from voters who had moved out of Arizona prior to the registration deadline. And 1,718 mail-in votes

00:31:49.020 came from voters who moved within Arizona, but out of Maricopa County prior to the registration deadline.

00:31:56.020 A good reporting on this is in the Federalist right now. So what does this mean? Which headline is to be

00:32:01.660 believed? Did Biden win Arizona or did Biden maybe not win Arizona? Well, yes, it is true that the audit

00:32:08.460 found that there was no substantial difference between the hand count of the ballots and the

00:32:14.840 numbers we were told shortly after the election. But that's not really the question. The question is

00:32:20.120 how many of those ballots were eligible to be cast or counted in the first place? There, just this

00:32:26.480 number, 17,000 duplicate images. Biden didn't even win the state by 11,000 votes. That seems pretty

00:32:33.240 suspect to me. All those other numbers as well. The media are only, the establishment media are only

00:32:40.140 going to give you that statement. The hand recount and the official numbers after the election were

00:32:46.440 basically the same. Okay, but that's not the point. The point is how many of those ballots should have

00:32:51.460 been counted in the first place. And these reviews suggest to me that the answer is far from clear.

00:32:58.680 And if it is clear, it's maybe clear in a different direction. I think that this recount is a vindication

00:33:07.020 of the people who say that there was a lot of corruption. And there are other numbers too. I'm

00:33:10.700 just giving you the top line views. But there's a lot of other shady stuff that was discovered

00:33:14.540 in this audit, in this review. I think the people who demanded the audit and the review were obviously

00:33:21.880 justified in doing so. But one of the problems with these mail-in ballots is that there's very

00:33:29.240 little you can do. It's very difficult to trace these things, to compare these things. It's hard

00:33:34.220 to count them in the first place. That's why we've been so reticent as a country to use them. But now

00:33:38.680 that Democrats think that they can really count on that advantage, they're pushing them very, very

00:33:42.700 hard. So what can we do right now? Probably nothing about the 2020 election. Nothing really is the

00:33:50.200 answer. What can we do right now moving forward? Well, we can, in the states where we have power,

00:33:56.620 we can prevent this kind of stuff from going on. This is something Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida.

00:34:02.340 DeSantis just directed the Secretary of State, Laurel M. Lee, to investigate Facebook for election

00:34:08.500 interference. Governor DeSantis says that recent reports showing that Facebook is impacting the

00:34:16.760 results of state and local elections are, quote, an affront to the basic principles of our republic.

00:34:22.040 So he signs this order. He says, I hereby direct that your office immediately investigate this

00:34:26.180 alleged election interference caused by Facebook through its white listing program and any other

00:34:31.480 previously undisclosed program within Facebook in order to determine whether any violations of

00:34:37.000 Florida's election laws took place. The report that came out showed that Facebook officially

00:34:43.240 does not enforce some of its rules on some of its people. Some elite people get to violate

00:34:50.500 Facebook's community standards and rules, and some people don't. And as we saw during the 2020

00:34:56.360 election, Democrats get favorable treatment. That's just the way it goes. And when there are

00:34:59.660 damaging stories about the Biden family, published, for instance, by the New York Post,

00:35:03.440 those just don't spread on Facebook. You don't get to post them. You don't get to privately message them.

00:35:07.120 And that constitutes election interference. Facebook and especially Google and to a lesser

00:35:12.380 degree Twitter control the public square. What they are doing is by definition a political act,

00:35:18.140 which means in a country that is self-governing, they control the entire political order. And we

00:35:22.880 cannot permit that. And we need to use state power. We need to use the government to stop that.

00:35:29.100 I know this is going to be shocking to people who over the past 20 years have been told that the

00:35:33.560 government is the only threat to our liberty. And we've got to stop big government. We've got to

00:35:38.340 shill for corporations that hate our guts. But that is the wrong idea. If my rights and my way of

00:35:43.380 life are being taken away by some weirdos in Silicon Valley, that does not make me feel any better

00:35:49.580 than if they were being taken away by the government. And the reason we have a political system is so that

00:35:55.220 we can use the government for just ends. Like, for instance, preventing weirdos in Silicon Valley

00:36:02.300 from controlling our politics. Speaking of Florida, speaking of justice, there's a sheriff in Florida

00:36:08.000 right now who seems to understand justice pretty clearly. There is a man who is accused of attempting

00:36:16.600 to kill a cop and critically wounding him and he might not survive. He's not expected to survive.

00:36:21.200 And now he's on the loose. And the sheriff in this town, he said, if this cop killer tries to break in

00:36:31.280 to your home and to your office, you should do everything you can to deescalate the situation

00:36:40.320 and you should take him peacefully into custody. And you should, no, he didn't say that. He said

00:36:43.500 you should blow him away like a rabid animal. And that's true. That's what should happen.

00:36:47.020 Quote, blow him out the door because he is like a rabid animal. The sheriff is Bill Leeper. He was

00:36:54.040 referring to this man, Patrick Rene McDowell, who according to the Northeast Florida Fusion Center,

00:36:58.340 which is part of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agencies. He has military training.

00:37:04.800 He was in the Marine Corps and he shot Deputy Josh Moyers, 29 years old, in the face last Friday.

00:37:10.460 Blow him away. We are told that in order to have criminal justice reform in this country,

00:37:15.700 which is so sorely needed, we need to go easier on criminals and we need to let criminals out of

00:37:20.920 prison and we need to not put them in prison in the first place. And especially if they're black, 1.00

00:37:24.020 we need to not arrest them because of historical blah, blah, blah, whatever. And it's really

00:37:28.600 compassionate to let these killers and thugs and criminals just go on the loose. That is not

00:37:34.320 compassionate. That's very cruel. That's cruel to all of the innocent people that these criminals

00:37:38.340 are going to attack. The compassionate thing here is to enact justice. Okay. It's much more

00:37:46.920 compassionate to his potential victims and it's more compassionate to him. This man is not thriving

00:37:51.400 by killing cops. That's not good for him. It's not good for his soul. That's not good for him

00:37:56.280 as a member of society. It is good to bring him into line with justice. We do need criminal justice

00:38:04.060 reform in this country. It's not that we have an over-incarceration problem. We have a significant

00:38:08.860 under-incarceration problem in this country. We need to bring criminals into line. Speaking of which,

00:38:16.800 speaking of our total confusion on this, on the left and on the right, don't forget it was Donald

00:38:22.800 Trump who signed the jailbreak bill. Okay. It was one of the worst things he did in his

00:38:25.620 administration. Overall, I thought he was a terrific president, but that was one of the worst

00:38:29.260 things that he did. And it shows you how deep the rot goes. And even the right believes that we need to

00:38:33.580 let criminals out of prison. That our problem in this country is we're too tough on crime.

00:38:37.500 There is a man named John Hinckley. John Hinckley tried to murder President Reagan in the 1980s.

00:38:47.180 John Hinckley did wound multiple people who were protecting Lincoln, and he permanently paralyzed

00:38:52.940 and shortened the life of Ronald Reagan's press secretary. John Hinckley has just been given

00:39:00.540 unconditional release. Tries to kill the president of the United States.

00:39:08.460 Seriously, grievously arms lots of other people. Now that guy gets to go free.

00:39:14.880 John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill Reagan, won the unconditional release from his

00:39:19.320 state-mandated supervision on Monday. The DOJ agreed to a deal with Hinckley's attorney. Federal

00:39:24.780 judge accepted it. He will live his life without court-ordered restrictions and mandated supervision

00:39:30.080 of his doctors. Hinckley's attorney says there is no evidence of danger whatsoever. It's a momentous

00:39:35.760 event. This is compassionate, isn't it? I don't know that it's compassionate. So first of all,

00:39:43.100 the only reason this could happen is because Hinckley was found criminally insane. So he was,

00:39:48.920 it's not that he was just a criminal. He was also insane. And so he didn't go to a normal jail. He was

00:39:53.060 committed to an insane asylum. Okay, then he's got to stay there. He's lucky. He got to avoid jail time.

00:40:00.360 But then he's got to stay in the insane asylum. He's crazy enough to try to kill the president.

00:40:04.220 And he tried to kill the president because he was in love with Jodie Foster, which adds to the

00:40:08.860 kookiness. Now we're told it's really compassionate to let him out. It's not compassionate to let him 0.97

00:40:14.440 out. He's a nut. By his own admission or his lawyer's own admission, he's a nut. So the reason

00:40:21.000 we have insane asylums in the first place, or at least we used to, is because it's not compassionate

00:40:25.740 to let crazy people live in squalor on their own. It's not compassionate. We should do this now on

00:40:32.900 the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco and New York. We let crazy people live in filth on the

00:40:36.740 streets and in danger on the streets. That's not compassionate. That's cruel. And it's based on

00:40:42.540 the false understanding of liberty on the left, which says that liberty is just doing whatever

00:40:46.580 you want. But also on the right, this idea of leave me alone. You do you. Who cares? It's not my

00:40:53.300 problem. If crazy people are going to live on the street, they're a danger to themselves and to others

00:40:57.100 and they're going to live in filth. That's not my problem. It is your problem. You live in society.

00:41:01.000 This is your country. What kind of country do you want to live in? Is this, is this compassionate to

00:41:06.380 the family of Ronald Reagan? Is this compassionate to the family of the people this guy did kill over

00:41:12.840 the long term, like Brady, the press secretary, or to the people that he grievously injured? I don't

00:41:17.640 think so. Incoherent stuff. Now, speaking of old politicians, there is a politician who has been in the

00:41:27.040 United States Senate since before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for the first time. That man's name is

00:41:33.860 Chuck Grassley, senator from Iowa, oldest Republican in the Senate, 88 years young. He's served for seven terms

00:41:41.940 already. And he just announced that he's running for reelection. Hey there, I'm running for reelection.

00:41:48.800 It's the right thing to do for Iowa. I have an unpopular opinion because everyone's saying,

00:41:54.500 oh, he's too old. We need term limits. We need to stop these old people from running for office. 1.00

00:42:00.860 I have an unpopular opinion, but here it is. I love that he's running for reelection. I think that's

00:42:06.140 great. Good for him. He's relatively, relative compared to other senators, he's relatively quite

00:42:12.960 a stalwart conservative on pretty important political issues. He has stood up at crucial

00:42:19.100 moments, not at every moment, but at crucial moments he's stood up. He's obviously still

00:42:23.160 pretty fit. He's far more coherent than Joe Biden, even though he's got 10 years on Joe Biden.

00:42:27.440 Good for him. I'm glad he's doing it. And if he does step down at some point,

00:42:32.420 they'll just appoint another Republican to take his place. It won't be any sort

00:42:36.120 of bruising election there. And if he gets to be 94 and he runs for election again,

00:42:44.520 or I guess he'd be what, 95? I don't know. He'd be up there. Then good for him. By the end of his

00:42:51.140 next term, he'll be a hundred something years old. Good for him. I think it's fine. I'm pretty

00:42:55.960 against term limits. The reason I'm against term limits is because term limits do not empower the

00:43:01.920 people. They empower the staff members and the lobbyists and the bureaucrats.

00:43:06.120 Okay. The senators are supposed to be elected by the states. Then the 17th amendment changed that

00:43:10.780 they're elected directly by the people, which did change for the worse our system of government or

00:43:16.720 checks and balances. But then the people elect the senators. Nobody elects the bureaucrats. Nobody

00:43:21.140 elects the permanent staff of the committees. Nobody elects the lobbyists. And those are the people who

00:43:25.980 are going to have more power, the less power that the senators have. So I think fine. Chuck Rassley is

00:43:31.360 basically a good Republican senator. Good for him. We're not supposed to like him in no small part

00:43:37.820 because he's an old white man and old white men are the worst people on earth, according to our 0.98

00:43:41.620 modern culture. Well, speaking of famous old white guys, the new group of white men who are being 0.86

00:43:49.340 canceled are, it's not the Republican senators. It's not the conservative celebrities. It is the,

00:43:57.580 the Jedi from Star Wars. It's like Luke Skywalker. They're the ones who are being canceled.

00:44:05.820 There's a piece out called why the term Jedi is problematic for describing programs that promote

00:44:11.960 justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. So the social justice warriors have been referring to

00:44:17.400 themselves as Jedis, you know, comparing themselves to the Star Wars heroes because of justice, equity,

00:44:23.900 diversity, and inclusion. But this article says, no, they're not because the Jedi, they're,

00:44:28.900 they're straight white men and they're actually defending the patriarchy and whatever. I mean,

00:44:34.100 this is a largely, it's Star Wars has a problematic cultural legacy that has been critiqued for

00:44:40.360 trafficking and sexism, racism, and ableism. And, you know, Princess Leia in that bikini was too sexy. 1.00

00:44:47.080 So that's bad. And it's got, there's an Orientalist subplot and it's, oh my gosh. Do you know where

00:44:53.120 this article was written? You would expect it to be written in the most radical left journal, right?

00:45:00.240 Mother Jones, Salon.com, I don't know. This article comes from Scientific American.

00:45:07.960 Scientific American. It brings us right back to the top of the show. The way that science

00:45:13.440 has been twisted in our culture is to be a religion. But some religion is true. The difference here is

00:45:25.540 that science is being used to promote a false religion, this false, weird, creepy, kooky shamanism

00:45:30.500 where we all have to be disciples and apostles of Dr. Fauci and the mayor of, the governor of New York

00:45:36.920 and the libs. And the doctrines of science are not permanent fixed laws. They're just

00:45:43.360 capricious whims of the various shamans of this religion. And they change day by day by day. This

00:45:50.880 is what science means. And I know a lot of right wingers say, well, look, I defend science, but I

00:45:54.800 don't support scientism or I support science. I want to follow the science. It's, science doesn't mean

00:46:00.360 that anymore. Okay. The left is redefining that word too, to try to redefine reality. This is a

00:46:06.100 strange, creepy cult on the left. And we are not going to win by playing along with their premises.

00:46:13.320 We are going to have to talk about more basic things in our politics. Justice, true liberty,

00:46:22.260 tradition, the way of life, what it is that we want to preserve. Okay. That is what we need to offer.

00:46:29.100 The left has a very aggressive religious view and it sweeps up a lot of people. What vision 0.70

00:46:37.220 are we offering? If the only vision we can offer is, hey, leave me alone. Hey, you do you. Let's,

00:46:44.500 let's all just do whatever we want to do. If that's, if that's the vision we're offering,

00:46:48.020 we're going to continue to lose. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Michael Knowles. We'll see you tomorrow.

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00:47:40.400 Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2021. The governor of New York is set to fire hundreds

00:47:45.340 of healthcare workers for not getting vaccinated, artificially creating a healthcare worker shortage.

00:47:49.860 Also, Joe Biden gets his third COVID shot while announcing that things won't get back to normal

00:47:53.880 until 98% of all people have the jab. Plus, a medical journal refers to women as bodies with 0.97

00:47:59.080 vaginas. And more information has come out about the guy who whipped up a social media mob against 1.00

00:48:03.440 a woman who allegedly said something mean about him in a dog park. Finally, the local media here in my

00:48:08.080 new home of Virginia are not happy that I've come to speak at the Loudoun County School Board.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 28, 2021

Ep. 852 - Skirt Grabbing & Vaxx Mandates Don't Make You God

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