The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 855 - Facts Are Against Their Community Guidelines

00:00:00.000 According to the CDC, as of last Thursday, 182.5 million Americans, 55% of the country,

00:00:09.120 have been fully vaccinated against the Wu flu. But according to Dr. Fauci, only 2.8 million

00:00:16.280 Americans, 0.85% of the country, have been fully vaccinated against the Wu flu. Because according

00:00:24.680 to Dr. Fauci, as he recently told the Atlantic Magazine, it is likely for a real complete

00:00:31.080 regimen that you would need at least a third dose, end quote. At least. Do you see how this ends?

00:00:40.900 It doesn't. It just goes on and on and on. And all the while, big tech will censor more and more

00:00:49.220 of what we would say about the virus and the vaccines and the lockdowns, even when we are

00:00:55.900 directly quoting the public health authorities. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.960 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Intergalactic Transmitter,

00:01:11.940 who says facts are in violation of YouTube's policy. That's true. That's not even hyperbole

00:01:19.140 or a conservative talking point. YouTube is now censoring facts. YouTube is now censoring me

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00:02:37.260 Head on over to LifeLock.com slash Knowles. I joked yesterday on the show that I might not be allowed

00:02:44.560 to quote the director of the CDC because quoting the director of the CDC, what she had to say about

00:02:52.140 the virus and the vaccines was actually in violation of YouTube's new policy against

00:02:58.260 medical misinformation. So I was sort of half joking about this, but deep down I thought,

00:03:04.720 no, I think I'm allowed to quote the director of the CDC, right? There's no way that Facebook

00:03:08.180 could censor, or YouTube rather, and Facebook could censor me for that. And then I was told,

00:03:13.540 this is not a joke, I was told after my show by my social media team here that I actually,

00:03:20.280 I actually was not allowed to quote the director of the CDC that would be in direct violation of

00:03:26.480 the YouTube policy and it could, it could get this channel taken down for at least a week,

00:03:30.960 if not longer. So I thought, well, that's, that's really something else. That's really a strange

00:03:37.080 state of things. So I, I insisted if, if we are going to be censored by YouTube, I want to make

00:03:42.000 it clear. I want to tell you what is going on because YouTube is not the only place that you

00:03:47.080 can get this show. I know a lot of people watch it on YouTube. A lot of people watch it on Facebook.

00:03:51.000 If you go to the Michael Knowles show podcast, you can subscribe for free at Apple podcasts,

00:03:55.760 Spotify, Stitcher, Google play. You can get the full uncensored version of the show. Uh, we're,

00:04:01.400 we're going to make clear when we, when we are not allowed to say things like quoting the director of

00:04:05.180 the CDC, uh, on all of the platforms. But if you want the full thing, you can, you can go get the

00:04:10.140 free version, Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, all that. And you can go subscribe to the daily

00:04:15.020 wire where you get the full video version, uh, for free uncensored uncut. Are you going to get,

00:04:21.320 you're going to get the real deal, all that really raunchy stuff. Like when we quote Dr. Rochelle

00:04:25.680 Walensky, the director of CDC, you know what we're hearing now is that, well, what we're hearing from

00:04:34.200 the scientists is different than what we're hearing from YouTube. But what we're hearing

00:04:36.760 from YouTube is the vaccine is totally a hundred percent effective at stopping. It's a,

00:04:43.320 it prevents the spread of COVID-19, right? But we're also not allowed to say that anything

00:04:47.760 totally prevents COVID-19. So we're really between a rock and a hard place here.

00:04:52.720 What we are told though, because obviously we all know people who have been vaccinated and gotten

00:04:56.480 COVID-19. We see it on the news. We see it from the, from the public health experts. And what they say

00:05:01.360 is, well, that's just a breakthrough case. Yeah. You don't say that by definition,

00:05:07.680 it's a breakthrough case. If you're telling us that, that it, you can't get COVID-19 if you have

00:05:13.380 the vaccine and then someone does get COVID-19, they'll say, well, it's a breakthrough. Yeah.

00:05:16.400 Right. By definition. But there seem to be a lot of breakthrough cases, don't there?

00:05:21.060 And by the way, a lot of these breakthrough cases are not, are not really being reported.

00:05:24.540 A friend of mine, a colleague of mine, his wife was, had, had one of these breakthrough cases.

00:05:31.320 She came down with COVID-19. She was ill from it. She then had longer term effects. Even after she

00:05:36.360 was vaccinated, she went to the hospital. They've diagnosed her with some problems associated with

00:05:41.500 COVID-19. And my friend asked the doctor, will this be classified as a breakthrough case for COVID-19?

00:05:47.980 And the doctor said, probably not. Because by the time you took her to the hospital with these

00:05:52.520 later on developed symptoms, she was testing negative. So that probably won't be. So the

00:05:57.040 question is one, how many people are breakthrough cases that are not being counted? And two,

00:06:01.980 how many breakthrough cases do there need to be before we start to question, before we're even

00:06:06.000 allowed to question the efficacy of the barrier through which the cases are breaking?

00:06:11.060 If you ask the scientists, they're, they're going to be a little more honest about this, I think,

00:06:16.920 than big tech, which is not permitting you to question that sort of thing. The propaganda has

00:06:22.060 gotten really, really crazy. Here's a story that I think really sums it up. Story just came out

00:06:29.360 yesterday, I think, right? Yeah. From the Associated Press. Woman who survived Spanish flu

00:06:36.620 and world war dies at 105 after contracting COVID-19. Darn you, COVID. Ah, COVID. I can't,

00:06:46.200 this, this woman survived so much. She survived a, an epidemic that occurred, uh, more than a century

00:06:53.500 ago. She survived a world war, but she couldn't survive COVID-19. Gosh, she might've lived to 106.

00:07:02.560 Or, uh, how old is she going to live? I don't know. What was the, the oldest person ever reportedly

00:07:07.100 lived to what, like 119 or so? She still had a lot of good years left in her. I don't mean to make

00:07:12.360 light of this woman's death. She lived a good long life. Okay. Very few of us are going to make

00:07:18.800 it to 105. All right. But it's COVID-19. Let's not forget that the average age of a COVID death

00:07:25.060 is higher in the United States for a lot of the pandemic than the, the life expectancy in the

00:07:31.720 United States. So I'm, by the way, that doesn't mean that, okay, if you live longer than the life

00:07:36.460 expectancy, see, your life doesn't matter, but it is a little bit different than other epidemics.

00:07:42.380 Where the average age of someone who's dying from them is significantly lower. Okay. It just,

00:07:46.740 it does put these things into perspective. I had one friend who died of, of COVID-19.

00:07:52.360 He was a former teacher of mine. He was 97 years old, about to, he was weeks away from turning 98.

00:07:58.720 Did he die from COVID-19? Like maybe, sort of, I guess technically maybe he did,

00:08:04.240 or did he die because he was almost 98 years old? It's a little bit different. It's a little bit

00:08:09.540 different. Okay. But we're not allowed to say that because the people who are demagoguing this

00:08:15.860 want to pretend on the one hand that every single death that has in any way, any sort of connection

00:08:23.240 to COVID-19 is a COVID death, right? You contract COVID-19, you get shot in the head in the streets

00:08:29.300 of Chicago. That is a COVID death, right? That you, and you actually did see examples of this,

00:08:33.200 especially last year. So they want to pretend that on the one hand, they also want to pretend

00:08:37.120 that any infection is tantamount to death. The infection, the infection rates are rising in

00:08:44.100 Florida. So what, who cares? What are the hospitalization rates? What are the death

00:08:47.520 rates? How do they compare to the hospitalization death rates throughout the epidemic in California

00:08:53.660 or in New York? What's the survival rate of the coronavirus for the vast, vast, vast, vast,

00:08:58.860 vast majority of people, they face an infinitesimally small risk of death from COVID? You see this play

00:09:08.580 out in other areas. Okay. I'm not even, COVID in and of itself is a frustrating political issue,

00:09:15.740 the way it's being exploited. But the reason I even mention it is, is to show that these issues

00:09:23.620 are not so much about the facts as they are about the framing. Okay. It's a, it's the framing is the

00:09:32.260 real issue here. And you see, you see it, forget about COVID for a second. You see it with guns,

00:09:36.640 right? Guns. It's one of these issues that the left has demagogued forever. And now they're saying,

00:09:42.180 you know, there's an increase in violence. We need to stop guns. Guns are the problem. We,

00:09:46.100 especially assault weapons. It's the assault weapons. If we just ban those, come on,

00:09:51.520 it's common sense. We've got to ban the assault weapons. Then we won't have

00:09:54.720 issues with violence in America anymore. So the FBI, the uniform crime report from the FBI

00:10:00.340 just came out on Monday. It shows you how many people were killed in 2020 with these various

00:10:06.200 sorts of weapons. How many people were killed? Twice as many people in 2020 in the United States

00:10:12.660 were killed with knives, then were killed with shotguns and rifles, including the dread assault

00:10:21.360 weapons, the AR-15s and all the other kinds of rifles combined. All the people killed with

00:10:27.520 shotguns, all the people killed with hunting rifles, all the people killed with AR-15s,

00:10:31.680 all the people killed with all the other kinds of rifles. Half, half the number as the number of

00:10:37.920 people killed by knives. The FBI report shows, so by the way, the numbers are important here.

00:10:43.680 203 people were killed with shotguns in 2021. 454 were killed with any kind of rifle. It's a total of

00:10:50.420 657 deaths. 1,732 people were killed with knives or cutting instruments. There are also many more

00:10:58.740 people being killed by hands and feet and clubs and hammers and all sorts of things, but we're not

00:11:03.320 talking about banning those sorts of weapons. The reason that you're not hearing about knives or

00:11:09.900 banning these, you know, these, these lethal weapons, these two fists I had to register with

00:11:14.100 the government. The reason that we're not talking about that is it, it doesn't frame the issue quite

00:11:19.540 so well. It's not that the left is after reducing violence. The left is after taking away your guns

00:11:24.940 because that's a civil right. It's not that the left is after preventing you ever from getting germs

00:11:28.920 or getting sick again. It's that the left is after taking your power, taking away your rights,

00:11:33.420 your right to go to church, your right to work, your right to have election integrity measures in

00:11:37.740 place. The left is after that and they are willing to use whatever they can find to justify that,

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00:12:35.440 Speaking of absurd framing, a woman testified yesterday over on Capitol Hill about abortion

00:12:43.860 in the United States and the way abortion used to be framed in the way old days of, I don't know,

00:12:50.320 60, 70 years ago is that it's an evil, evil act that no one would even speak about, right? That it's,

00:12:56.140 it's killing a baby. It's obviously a very evil act. Then starting about, I don't know, 50 years ago

00:13:02.620 or so, abortion began to be spoken of as some kind of right, but a tragic right. You know, a right that

00:13:08.940 people don't ever want to use, but we have, but women need to have that right. This was largely

00:13:14.060 because of second wave feminism, which said that women need a man like a fish need a bicycle

00:13:17.220 and that women and men are exactly the same. But, you know, they have this big difference,

00:13:21.860 which is women conceive and carry and give birth to children. And so this is a real impediment

00:13:28.760 if women and men want to have the exact same relationship to sex and want to be able to

00:13:33.020 walk away from casual sex. So therefore women need to have the right to kill their babies. That was,

00:13:36.920 that was the argument of the second wave feminists. But, but even as recently as 2008, even a little

00:13:42.020 bit later, you had presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton saying that abortion should be safe and

00:13:47.180 legal, but it should be rare because it's bad. It's a really bad thing and it's tragic. And so

00:13:51.900 it should be safe and legal and rare. Now that framing has gone too. Now abortion is being called

00:13:56.940 an act of love.

00:13:59.720 SB8 has not only caused a near total abortion ban in Texas, it has made it extremely dangerous to be

00:14:06.240 pregnant in Texas where our maternal morbidity and mortality rate is already unconscionably high,

00:14:13.640 especially for black women and pregnant people of color. Texas deserves better. I know firsthand

00:14:21.900 that abortion saves lives for the thousands of people I've cared for. Abortion is a blessing.

00:14:28.200 Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is freedom. We need federal protection. Now we need laws that

00:14:34.340 elevate science and evidence and recognize the dignity and autonomy of people accessing care.

00:14:39.200 Abortion is love. Abortion is blessing. Abortion is freedom. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance

00:14:47.580 is strength. Abortion is a sin and it's a very grave sin. It's not an unforgivable sin, but it is a grave

00:14:58.440 sin. And if you repent of it, then you're getting on the right track. What this woman is doing is worse

00:15:07.420 because she's not only defending abortion, she is blaspheming. She is committing a real sacrilege,

00:15:16.760 a real heresy here. She is inverting the moral order, calling it a great blessing, an act of love, a godly,

00:15:25.720 I mean, that's what she's saying. It's a godly act, right? It's a blessing. Where do blessings come from?

00:15:29.040 They come from God. Abortion is love. Well, God is love, right? We hear this in the scripture.

00:15:33.960 She's equating abortion with godliness, with God himself. That is some really sick stuff, okay?

00:15:43.020 It is probably the inevitable consequence of a political regime that tolerates abortion

00:15:49.000 because there's just this cognitive dissonance, right? The safe, legal, and rare thing,

00:15:53.560 you just can't hold it forever. If it's murder, it shouldn't be legal. If it's not murder,

00:15:57.960 if it's just getting your appendix taken out, then it shouldn't be rare. And so eventually that

00:16:02.000 tension is going to have to resolve itself one way or the other. And the way the left has resolved it

00:16:05.520 is that it's a wonderful, good thing. And this comes from, the right actually has some responsibility

00:16:11.760 in this because the right has adopted a lot of the liberal language of maximizing individual

00:16:15.940 autonomy and about choice and you do you and I'll do me and I would never impose my views on you and

00:16:20.420 you don't impose your views on me, which is preposterous. That's never existed. That is not possible

00:16:25.060 in a self-government. The whole point of self-government is we persuade one another of

00:16:29.220 the way we view the world and then we create laws in accordance with that. So that was never going

00:16:34.220 to work. The right largely ceded the battlefield. The left took over and now they call abortion a

00:16:40.620 blessing. Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. But that is the framing that we're living

00:16:46.920 under. She even snuck transgenderism in there. She said that she's referring to women and pregnant

00:16:54.500 people of color. That's even, you know, even that ability to claim victim was very, very important

00:16:59.240 here. Abortion saves lives. The one thing, first of all, no woman has any medical condition that is

00:17:10.580 cured by abortion. Okay. It's not that the, there can, there are, there's really just one medical

00:17:18.180 condition, an ectopic pregnancy where the treatment of that condition will result in the death of,

00:17:23.040 of the unborn baby. And even that is really the sort of double effect. It's not as though a doctor

00:17:28.640 will prescribe abortion and then that, that's the, that is the cure. It could be a double effect

00:17:32.780 though. For the rest, when you hear about the risk to the health of the life of the mother or

00:17:37.280 whatever, it's just completely made up. It's just, that does not exist. Okay. So that part is very

00:17:42.920 silly. But then of course, even, even if there were something to that, abortion does not save lives.

00:17:47.980 Every single abortion kills somebody. Every single abortion results in death. But that's the upside

00:17:53.000 down world we're living in. And because the left controls the means of communication, that's mostly

00:17:58.100 what people hear. Not because they control big tech, because they control the media, because they

00:18:03.340 control the institutions, the universities. That is largely what people hear. And it's how they can be

00:18:08.580 confused of that. You want to, you want to talk about ridiculous framing? Terry McAuliffe is this

00:18:12.960 derelict governor in Virginia, real crooked guy, really, really crooked. And he's facing a

00:18:18.640 Republican challenge from Glenn Youngkin there in Virginia. So they, they just had a, they've been

00:18:24.220 debating, you know, they're, they're heading into the election. And Terry McAuliffe says that, look,

00:18:29.600 he's moderate. He's not moderate at all, but he says he's moderate. He's got Republican support.

00:18:33.780 He's got the support of the leading conservative in America. Guess who it is?

00:18:38.820 I inherited an economy from a Republican governor that had a gigantic deficit. And I left a huge

00:18:44.880 surplus when I left office. And that's the reason why so many Republicans have endorsed me.

00:18:50.020 Over two dozen prominent Republicans. Tonight, I have the leading conservative in America here,

00:18:55.360 Bill Kristol, who has endorsed my campaign for governor. The leading conservative in America,

00:19:01.820 Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol is a Democrat. He is a registered Democrat, I believe. Now he was a

00:19:10.740 Republican for a long time and he worked in the kind of, mostly in the Bush world. He was involved

00:19:15.420 in that. I actually have kind of an affection for Bill Kristol. He was a teacher of mine at a summer

00:19:19.800 fellowship I did once. Sort of nice guy, but he's, he's, it's very difficult to call him a conservative

00:19:26.940 now. He's spent the last several years campaigning for Democrats, promoting rather left-wing policies

00:19:33.040 and attacking conservatives and Republicans and trying to impede them from winning elections and

00:19:37.820 getting anything done. So he's just not, people can change their political views. All right. I don't

00:19:41.820 be, I don't, I'm not saying Bill Kristol is just the most evil man walking the earth, right? But he's

00:19:47.480 not a conservative. He's not a Republican. He's a, he is now a liberal Democrat. In the end of his

00:19:53.560 career, he's become a liberal Democrat and he spends his time working on liberal democratic

00:19:56.940 causes. And okay, people change their minds. Doesn't usually go in that direction, but that's

00:20:01.280 the way it went. That's not the part that bothers me so much as, as Terry McAuliffe saying he's the

00:20:09.820 leading conservative in America. This, this is what a class of Republicans exists to do. There is a class

00:20:16.700 of Republicans who are the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism. And what they do is they,

00:20:21.840 they put up a show, a charade of opposition. So it seems like we have a really tough political

00:20:27.480 system where the two sides are fighting it out, but we don't really, we actually have a dominant

00:20:31.120 ruling democratic party. And then we have some of their junior partners, the, the court jesters

00:20:35.640 Republicans who go in and they pretend to fight back, but they ultimately kind of have the same

00:20:39.360 aims, which is why when someone like Donald Trump comes along, who is offering not just a

00:20:43.400 different kind of personality, but actually a different set of policies, actually a different

00:20:47.020 political vision, getting tough on trade with our, you know, not just having free trade with

00:20:51.680 everybody, getting tough on immigration, not just having open borders, right? When Donald Trump comes

00:20:56.240 along with a historically much more conservative, much more Republican in the old sense of the word

00:21:02.180 type of platform, then all the court jesters go running. And then they say, no, this is terrible.

00:21:07.460 This is awful. We've got to save our Republic, our democracy. And they, they go and support

00:21:11.260 the Democrats. We need real conservatives. There's a, there's a great attack ad right now

00:21:15.680 on one of the real conservatives out there, Ron DeSantis. Take a listen to this attack ad. Tell me

00:21:19.980 if it, if it makes you more or less likely to vote for Ron DeSantis.

00:21:28.160 Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of your cabin crew, we'd like to inform you that we have officially

00:21:33.720 entered Florida airspace. Now that we're making our final descent, please watch this short message

00:21:41.000 from Governor Ron DeSantis on COVID-19. Thereafter, everyone on board will be required to comply with

00:21:48.100 the state's forever purge. We are not doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida.

00:21:56.300 We trust people to make their own decisions in this state. We are not going to be bludgeoning people

00:22:02.300 with restrictions and mandates and lockdowns or any of that stuff.

00:22:08.880 As Governor DeSantis stated, while you're within state lines, you do not have to wear a mask.

00:22:15.280 You do not have to get a vaccine. It is against the law for private businesses or schools to mandate

00:22:21.880 masks or vaccines. And you have the absolute right to infect whoever you want, whenever and wherever

00:22:30.780 with COVID-19. No, Ron DeSantis said that he trusts people to make their own decisions.

00:22:38.780 No, no, people can't. The fact that someone would push this out there as an attack ad,

00:22:45.220 I wouldn't be surprised if Ron DeSantis secretly funded this to make him look cooler.

00:22:49.300 Okay, the fact that a group put this out there and thinks that this is an attack ad, that Ron DeSantis

00:22:53.440 is going to let people make their own decisions and not have everyone muzzle themselves and live in fear,

00:22:57.280 shows you just how radically differently the two sides see the world in this country.

00:23:07.280 Speaking of good, solid conservatives, Senator Josh Hawley just came out with a bill to regulate big

00:23:16.940 tech. I really like this bill. This is a good bill, especially the last few days where big tech

00:23:24.160 companies, notably YouTube, are censoring me from stating plain facts about the coronavirus and the

00:23:30.660 vaccines. Facts that are acknowledged by the director of the CDC. I'm not allowed to do that

00:23:36.320 because of big tech. That is how out of control they've gotten. And in a republic, as I note in

00:23:42.020 my book, Speechless, in a republic, if you control speech, you control the entire political order.

00:23:48.160 And Google does that right now. Google and YouTube, which is the same company.

00:23:50.940 They do that right now, as does Facebook, to a lesser degree, as does Twitter. And that is

00:23:56.720 unacceptable. And I don't care if they pretend to be private companies. Google, by the way,

00:23:59.960 is not a private company. Google is practically an arm of the government. Facebook also has

00:24:04.280 relationships with the government. But regardless, regardless, anybody, even if they were private

00:24:12.960 companies, anyone who controls speech in a republic, that's a problem. Okay, that's a big problem.

00:24:18.660 So Josh Hawley has this bill. It would remove Section 230 protections from these big tech

00:24:25.220 companies. Section 230, it's a section of the Communications Decency Act, which is a law passed

00:24:31.360 in the 1990s, had Republican support, had Democrat support. Interestingly, people forget this now,

00:24:37.460 the Communications Decency Act aimed at regulating porn on the internet. It was one of the, as the internet

00:24:43.380 was developing. There was broad bipartisan consensus that you could regulate or limit or even ban

00:24:49.940 porn outright on the internet, and that wouldn't constitute a First Amendment violation. And then

00:24:54.280 some idiot judges decided that there's nothing more American than looking at like three goats

00:24:58.240 and a lady on some creepy website, that therefore we couldn't have any regulation of porn. There was

00:25:03.600 another law that Republicans and Democrats tried to put out also in the 1990s called the Child

00:25:09.040 Online Protection Act. Same thing, had broad bipartisan support and some idiot judges shot it down.

00:25:13.740 But the part of the CDA that people are focusing on right now is Section 230, which gives, you know,

00:25:22.000 it was just developed at a time when the internet was very different than it is today. But the effect

00:25:26.020 of it today is that it gives these big platforms protection from prosecution, if, and civil liability,

00:25:35.280 if there is some kind of, you know, copyrighted material or obscene material or things like that,

00:25:41.860 because they say, well, you can't really control what's on your platform. And so we're going to

00:25:45.500 give you some protections here. You're different than a newspaper, for instance, which is making

00:25:49.500 editorial decisions. But these big tech companies are acting like newspapers in that they're curating

00:25:54.500 information, limiting who gets to see what, censoring people from stating plain facts on the platform.

00:25:58.840 So it's time for them to lose those protections. What Hawley's bill would do is allow parents to sue

00:26:07.560 social media companies for, quote, bodily injury or harm to mental health of their children that in

00:26:14.800 whole or in part that is attributable to the individual's use of a covered interactive computer

00:26:20.040 service provided by the social media company. So part of this comes out because there was a report

00:26:25.120 that Facebook knew that Instagram is damaging to young people's psychological health. And we all know

00:26:31.140 that. We all know that social media is in many ways damaging to our health, psychologically,

00:26:37.780 spiritually, what have you. And so what this would do is, and Facebook kind of covered it up and didn't

00:26:44.420 care and kept addicting kids to this stuff. Regardless of the reasoning, you can give whatever

00:26:50.120 scientific reasoning you want. I just want, I will support basically any bill that reigns in the

00:26:55.600 power of big tech. Okay. If you had a bill tomorrow called the Cato bill, called the big tech

00:27:02.480 Delenda Est bill that said that, you know, it is now an act of Congress that big tech's buildings are

00:27:09.520 going to be seized, knocked to the ground. The earth will be salted where their servers once stood

00:27:14.960 and we will hear the lamentations and wailing of their IT department. I would vote for that bill.

00:27:20.500 Okay. Because it is, and by the way, I work as, as many of us do these days, virtually all of us to

00:27:25.700 some degree works in relation to these social media companies. But I recognize that this is an actual

00:27:33.360 threat to the Republic, to our democracy. You always hear so much about our democracy. These guys,

00:27:38.260 these three losers in Silicon Valley led by hipster Rasputin, Jack Dorsey, but the others as well,

00:27:46.180 these, these creeps are out there limiting what we can say, basic statements. The, the fact that the

00:27:53.120 CDC director says certain things about vaccines that we're not allowed to repeat, that is unacceptable

00:27:57.840 and they need to be punished for that. And they need to have their power taken away from them and

00:28:02.180 whatever. I don't, I don't want to hear any, but my liberty, but my this, but the unintended,

00:28:06.480 I don't want to hear it. The, the, the, I don't want to hear about your hypothetical worries about

00:28:10.820 something that might happen in the future when it is already happening right now. Okay. I just don't

00:28:16.800 want to hear about it. I want you to fix the problem now and, and grow a spine and then we can

00:28:21.920 deal with the other problems that come up later. Cancel big tech, cancel their power. At least that's

00:28:26.960 what we're talking about. Speaking of canceling things, this, this relates to the breakthrough case,

00:28:33.200 the breakthrough cases that keep on breaking through and they're breaking through everywhere,

00:28:36.380 but they're just breakthrough cases. They're not evidence of a systemic problem. According to

00:28:41.000 YouTube, Aladdin is back on Broadway. Aladdin is a, you know, based on the Disney movie. Aladdin is a

00:28:47.300 Broadway musical. It's been closed for 18 months. It just reopened. And after one night of being

00:28:53.320 reopened, it's been canceled again because of breakthrough cases, breakthroughs, breakthrough cases.

00:29:01.700 You know, if it, if the cases keep on breaking through, maybe we should stop calling them

00:29:08.240 breakthrough cases. Maybe we should stop having such hysterical fears of this. Maybe people who

00:29:12.540 are gravely at risk ought to take precautions. Maybe people who are not really all that at risk

00:29:18.500 should go on and live their lives. And maybe you ought to all stop living in fear. Speaking of these

00:29:23.240 sort of hysterical fears, I've got to cover this. You may have heard last week, there was a racist

00:29:29.540 incident, an allegedly racist incident at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri.

00:29:35.120 I don't want you to confuse this. There was another allegedly racist incident at some other

00:29:39.380 institution. This is a different one, but you, maybe you read about it somewhere. Racism, there,

00:29:43.440 there was racist graffiti found in multiple bathrooms in the high school and students took

00:29:49.480 the opportunity to skip class. They staged a walkout. They cursed at the school administrators.

00:29:54.960 People were crying, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The superintendent wrote, he said,

00:30:01.800 students and staff are hurt, angry, feeling outnumbered by those who seem willing to stand

00:30:05.780 by and watch without taking action to stop it. Those evil white supremacist kids, not, they were

00:30:10.560 attacking the black oppressed students. Guess who spray painted the graffiti or wrote the graffiti? Guess

00:30:20.260 who did it? Guess who wrote the racist messages? Do you think he had blonde hair and blue eyes? You

00:30:25.820 would be wrong. It was a black student. It was a hoax as it seems almost always to be. Almost, I, I

00:30:35.040 outline this in my book, Speechless. I go through incident after incident after incident of these race

00:30:40.280 hoaxes. And then what does one student say? What student says, who participated in the walkout against

00:30:45.680 the racism that didn't exist. Yes, it was embarrassing to find out the perpetrator was black, but

00:30:49.740 this didn't change the message of the protesters. And they hope that school administrators put in

00:30:53.500 place a policy to keep these statements from being made. You hear this all the time. Well, yes,

00:30:58.120 the incident that we're using to justify these things, it was a hoax, but it gets to a greater

00:31:02.620 truth. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. There's just no white supremacy, racism, all this

00:31:09.840 stuff that we're told is an epidemic in America. It barely exists if it exists at all. What does exist

00:31:16.680 is an epidemic of delusion, fantasy, hysteria, and a true desire to be able to claim oppression

00:31:27.460 and victimhood? That's the real virus. And we've got a lot more than, a lot more than breakthrough

00:31:32.740 cases, okay? It's a widespread pandemic. You know, today you can listen to what happened to Freedom

00:31:41.240 Land, how it became fantasy land when the elites live in their imaginations. You can listen to that

00:31:46.480 on Drew's show, on the Andrew Klavan show. So make sure you go check that out. And then we will be

00:31:50.940 right back with The Mailbag. Welcome back to the show. My favorite time of the week, The Mailbag.

00:32:08.580 First question up from Arun, who says, Dear Dr. Kofefe, in the Hindu religion, we believe animals

00:32:15.240 have souls. Your fellow Catholic, Seamus of Freedom Tunes fame, recently commented that Catholics

00:32:20.560 believe that animals possess souls, though of a different variety than humans. Could you elaborate

00:32:25.820 on this? Yes, it's kind of a common misconception. The Catholic view and the broadly Christian view,

00:32:32.660 though I think some Protestant denominations might disagree with this, is that animals do have souls.

00:32:39.120 It's not that they don't have souls. They do have souls because the souls are the principle of life,

00:32:43.640 right? They are the principle of life, but not all souls are created equal. So while animals possess

00:32:50.200 souls, they do not possess rational souls, right? And this is why when your dog urinates on the rug,

00:32:59.000 you might smack him with a newspaper and try to get him not to do that in the future,

00:33:02.420 but you don't sob to him and try to convince him of the error of his ways and explain to him the

00:33:07.360 injustice of urinating on the carpet because the dog doesn't have any conception of justice.

00:33:12.400 The dog doesn't have any conception at all. They're not capable of conceptual thought.

00:33:17.420 This is why if your dog bites the little kid in the neighborhood, you don't put him on trial

00:33:22.100 because the dog can't sin. The dog has a soul, has the principle of life in him, but does not have

00:33:29.080 a rational soul. And that soul is not spiritual. The soul is material. So the dog, I'm sorry to tell you,

00:33:38.480 will not go to heaven. When the dog dies, the dog's soul dies as well. Human beings are different.

00:33:44.760 We have a rational soul that is spiritual and spiritual things, you know, go where the spirits

00:33:49.960 are. Hope that clears it up from James. Michael, I'm getting married to a wonderful woman in a

00:33:56.780 couple of months. She's kind, intelligent, knows me better than I know myself. Is she Google? Is she

00:34:01.240 Facebook? No, because she's kind and intelligent. She's relatively conservative and we agree on 70 or 80%

00:34:07.020 of issues, including general morals and religion. However, we recently had a small fight regarding

00:34:11.180 homosexuals and drag queens. I recently found out she will have a drag queen at her bachelorette party

00:34:15.640 and even worse, does not think it's an issue to tell our children gay marriage is equal to normal

00:34:19.960 marriage. This is insane and could lead to confusion in our future children. How do I effectively

00:34:25.400 communicate the reasons why this is the case? Constructively and convincingly, James, future

00:34:29.440 Virginian. Yeah, look, I mean, your wife sounds great, or your fiance sounds great, but she's,

00:34:33.580 while she's rejected quite a lot of the dominant culture, she seems to have still been brought

00:34:38.600 along by some trappings of the dominant culture. Forget a second, the homosexuals and the drag

00:34:43.340 queens. Even the idea of a bachelorette party is just, I know this is going to be an unpopular

00:34:48.700 opinion. It's feminist nonsense. It's just complete claptrap. The whole point of a bachelor party

00:34:53.980 is that men have to kind of be dragged into getting married because men, you know, kind of enjoy being

00:35:00.380 single. They put off getting married very often, and so it's the last hurrah, and then the men are

00:35:05.180 going to get married and hopefully reform and shape up, and the women are going to civilize them,

00:35:08.760 and they're going to have a good family life for the rest of their lives. Men do not dream about

00:35:14.900 their wedding day from the time that they're little boys, okay? They don't start writing, you know,

00:35:19.160 I'll be Mr. Michael Knowles, right, because we don't change our name. But we're not, oh, yes,

00:35:23.480 and I'm, you know, drawing little pictures of yourself at your wedding day. No, we don't do that. It's just

00:35:27.140 because men and women are different. Women do that. Women do fantasize about their wedding day

00:35:31.960 from a very young age. Women do want to get married in a way that's different than men.

00:35:36.580 They generally don't need to be dragged kicking and screaming into it. And so the idea that women

00:35:40.480 need that one last hurrah, they need to go out and look at a bunch of, I don't know, male strippers or

00:35:45.120 something and go get hammered at the bar. It just, I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but women

00:35:50.160 generally don't relate to sex and alcohol quite in that way, and they certainly don't relate to those

00:35:54.760 things in the same way that men do, because they're different. I know this is shocking.

00:36:00.280 So it just seems to me that your wife's fallen into this trap of, yes, every woman needs a

00:36:04.440 bachelorette party because men and women are the same. And yeah, we need to do fun stuff. So we're

00:36:08.180 not going to go to a strip club because we don't actually like that, but we're going to have a drag

00:36:10.600 queen. Isn't that going to be wild and transgressive and crazy and weird? Okay, we're going to do that.

00:36:14.680 And, you know, even on the point of redefining marriage, I mean, I think you can just explain to her

00:36:18.920 that we value homosexuals and think they all have equal dignity before God and, you know,

00:36:24.680 are children of God, but marriage has a meaning and it doesn't, marriage has something to do with

00:36:28.880 sexual difference. And your wife just seems to, probably through no fault of her own, have imbibed

00:36:35.020 a lot of the modern culture's nonsense that men and women are the same. And they're not the same.

00:36:40.920 And so, you know, I would just clear that up, but I don't think you need to call off your wedding.

00:36:44.600 It sounds like you guys are basically on the same page and, you know, lead your family. You'll be the head

00:36:47.960 of your household and I think it'll be all right. From Tony, dear Mr. Knowles, I'm currently an

00:36:53.100 employee at a federal contractor and with the Supreme dictator Biden's vaccine mandate, the

00:36:58.380 company is forcing me to get vaxxed barring a religious exemption or disability exemption.

00:37:01.940 I don't have a disability and with Pope Francis's stance and the bishop's stance on morality of the

00:37:06.520 vaccines, I'm not likely to get a religious exemption either. I don't want to lose my job, especially

00:37:11.320 since I don't have any good leads for an alternative career path, but I have serious questions about the

00:37:15.640 experimental drug. Adding to the complexity of the situation is the fact that my last living

00:37:19.040 grandparent won't see me. I won't let me see her again unless I get the jab. I feel trapped between

00:37:23.980 a rock and a hard place. What should I do? Sincerely, a fellow Sicilian trad Catholic, P.S.,

00:37:27.660 thank you for your work. It always leaves me speechless. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.

00:37:30.820 So let's put aside for a second what your job is telling you to do.

00:37:34.120 So to me, and let's also remember, I'm not of the opinion that getting the shot or not getting

00:37:42.860 the shot is the make or break issue for your political identity or something. I don't see

00:37:47.780 the reason that a great majority of people even should get the shot. I don't see why young and

00:37:53.660 healthy people should get the shot. I just don't agree with the arguments that people make for that.

00:37:58.020 And I don't agree with the protestations that there are no questions whatsoever about the vaccine.

00:38:05.080 And I mean, the CDC and the FDA have admitted that there are certain side effects. They had

00:38:07.580 to pause one of the vaccines because of that. So I think that this is a prudential matter, okay?

00:38:16.560 And I think you ought to, if you don't want to get it and you don't think that you're greatly at

00:38:19.760 risk, you ought to resist it as best you can. And I know that none of us want to be bullied into

00:38:24.560 this, especially by, you know, old pudding head there in the White House. But the second reason

00:38:30.580 you gave to me is the better one. Your last living grandparent doesn't want to see you unless you get

00:38:35.580 the shot. And you can explain until you're blue in the face that you're getting vaccinated or not

00:38:40.420 really doesn't have anything to do with your last living grandparent because you're presumably,

00:38:45.200 at least what we're told by the public health authorities is that your vaccine, the individual's

00:38:49.480 vaccine will protect the individual from getting hospitalization or risk of dying. So whether or

00:38:56.460 not you're vaccinated is kind of beside the point, but that doesn't matter. The fact is you want to

00:39:00.780 see your last living grandparent before that last living grandparent dies. And so would you take a

00:39:06.360 risk to be able to see your grandparent as an act of love and filial piety? I mean, I would strongly

00:39:11.260 consider that much more than I would the Biden mandate. You know, the Biden mandate, if anything,

00:39:18.160 I think would make everybody say, nope, ain't doing this, sorry. And so I know that's not a

00:39:23.800 satisfying ideological answer, but do you want to see your grandparent or not? I don't know.

00:39:29.160 You know, to me, of all the arguments I've heard for why people should get the shot, I think most of

00:39:33.680 them are kind of bogus and I think you should just resist them. But that one is maybe the most

00:39:39.240 compelling one I've heard. So, you know, it's too bad. It's unfortunate. Doesn't mean that you have to

00:39:43.740 now assent to say that the shot is great or that everyone should get it or the mandates are good or

00:39:47.000 anything like that. But I understand the personal aspect here. You want to see your grandparent?

00:39:52.000 Okay. That would weigh heavily in my prudential thinking, at least, if I were in your position.

00:39:57.440 From Marisa. Hey, Michael. Hate to be a broken record, but I'm struggling with manifesting. Oh,

00:40:01.700 my goodness. Manifest. We brought this up on the show. Well, we didn't bring it up. Someone brought

00:40:04.740 it up in the mailbag. This is this new age religion that if you just think positive thoughts and think of

00:40:11.060 things that you want to have that you can force God to give them to you, basically. That's kind

00:40:17.360 of the idea. So Marisa goes on. I have friends who keep encouraging me to do it again and they claim

00:40:24.440 they're happier, less anxious, and have had great things come into their lives by focusing on certain

00:40:27.960 things and doing affirmations daily. Honestly, I was less stressed and had good things happen while I

00:40:32.520 was visualizing and focused on what I wanted. How can I feel that same way and have good things happen

00:40:36.820 without acting as a God who thinks they can manipulate the world around me? It's so tempting

00:40:40.580 to feel more at ease and have that consistent inner peace. I'm talking more about feeling content

00:40:45.420 and focusing on the things I want from my life rather than giving into base desires and pleasure.

00:40:50.800 Maybe doing affirmations and focusing and visualizing isn't actually the new age religion

00:40:54.100 of manifesting. If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad, right? I don't know. There are plenty

00:40:58.400 of things I did in college that made me happy for a time that I don't think very highly of and that I

00:41:02.620 regret and I think they probably were that bad. So I think that's true for probably most of us out

00:41:08.320 there. So no, manifesting is very bad. Don't do it. It is a kooky new age religion. It is heretical.

00:41:16.100 It's sacrilegious. It's making demands of God, which is something we're told not to do. And it can

00:41:21.520 open yourself up in the spiritual level to really bad stuff. It also will leave you psychologically

00:41:26.220 distraught because the premise here is that as long as you think positively enough, as long as

00:41:33.440 you do enough, all good things will happen to you and bad things won't happen to you. And one of the

00:41:39.340 real problems with this is that when bad things do inevitably happen to you, then it's your fault.

00:41:45.460 Then you have no one to blame but yourself. A lot of the prosperity gospel type people who are another

00:41:51.200 version of heretics. They can be nice people and they can smile a lot and make you feel good about

00:41:56.280 yourself for a time. This is the problem with them because the rain falls on the just and the unjust

00:42:02.840 alike. This is what the book of Job is about, right? This is God saying that it's not just that good

00:42:10.060 people get good things and bad people get bad things in this world. That actually very, very good

00:42:14.940 people can have very, very bad things happen to them and often do. And in the history of the world,

00:42:20.240 by the way, the very best people have had the very worst things happen to them, right? The saints,

00:42:24.900 Christ himself, I mean, the greatest example, the passion and the crucifixion. The very best person

00:42:30.900 who has ever walked the earth had the very worst thing happen to him. So you're trying to find some

00:42:37.780 peace and you're trying to find peace in the optimism that good things will happen to you if you do

00:42:42.920 certain things. I think you might find peace in the optimism that very bad things will happen.

00:42:47.380 They will happen inevitably. And it doesn't say anything about your virtue necessarily. It

00:42:52.320 doesn't say anything about your piety necessarily. It doesn't say anything about your salvation

00:42:55.900 necessarily. I think there is far greater peace and far greater truth in the fact that the rain will

00:43:01.900 fall on the just and the unjust alike than in whatever kooky claptrap some new age witches are

00:43:06.780 trying to sell you. From Andrew, hey, Michael, I do not pretend to be a knower of all things. However,

00:43:12.140 since I have a curious mind, I'd like to know your opinion on the following. According to Google,

00:43:15.200 the average person expels 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per day. On average, one cigarette contains

00:43:20.640 1.22 grams of carbon dioxide. Converted to pounds, that would be 0.00268964. Dividing

00:43:29.780 respectively, that would mean you would need to smoke 855.15 cigarettes or about 45 packs per day to

00:43:35.960 achieve the same CO2 level. If smoking is bad, so is prolonged mask wearing. Hashtag trust the science.

00:43:42.300 You know, you may have taken some liberties there in that scientific analysis,

00:43:47.460 but certainly no more than Dr. Fauci has. You know, I would say I trust you on science

00:43:52.080 at least as much as I trust Dr. Fauci. From Camille. Thank you. Camille, you've written in before.

00:43:57.440 Thank you for taking on the role of my dating coach. Yep, that's the same Camille.

00:44:00.620 I got another one for you. I was watching TikTok recently. Yes, I know. I too hate myself.

00:44:04.820 Perhaps that's why I'm still single. Anyway, I saw a video of a woman that said,

00:44:09.240 it doesn't matter what guy you meet. It's all about whether or not he's ready for a relationship.

00:44:12.520 Is that true? Is it really only about timing? That's not a very romantic way to view life,

00:44:16.080 so hopefully it's not the case. As always, would love to know your opinion. Sincerely,

00:44:19.900 TikTok on the clock. No, some men are better men than others and are better formed and better

00:44:24.080 educated and have better intentions and fewer vices and a better sense of the world than others.

00:44:29.940 And they, at a great many times, would be good to meet. And some of the men that you may have

00:44:36.820 met, Camille, would be bad to meet at any time as well. Now, many people, many of the good guys that

00:44:44.640 you meet, you know, people you'd say are good guys, have been bad guys in the past. I would say most of

00:44:49.620 them, if not all of them. And they've repented and they've kind of reformed and changed their lives

00:44:54.700 and gotten a better handling on things. So in that case, timing really does matter. In the case of

00:45:00.300 age, timing really does matter. So I do think it's both of these things, but I'm going to modify some

00:45:05.740 of my advice I gave to another frequent writer into the show, Nick, who says that, you know,

00:45:10.700 I told Nick to go out, throw a stick and marry the first person he finds because he's getting too

00:45:13.920 trapped into dating life. Well, for you, I would temper some of that advice and say, it's not just about

00:45:18.920 any guy you find, as long as the timing is right. The guy actually does matter. And I think you can,

00:45:26.120 it might be hard, but you can probably still find a good guy out there. I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 01, 2021

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