The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 862 - No Safe Spaces When Democrats Are In Charge

00:00:00.000 People who question the results of our presidential elections are insurrectionist

00:00:05.580 terrorists and they pose an existential threat to our democracy. They need to be censored,

00:00:12.800 ostracized, and possibly, well, actually probably thrown in prison. Unless, and this is a very

00:00:19.680 important exception here, unless they are Democrats who have been denying and questioning

00:00:26.100 the results of our elections for decades, and they continue to do so. And even today,

00:00:31.840 some very prominent Democrats can't admit that they lost the presidential election in 2000.

00:00:38.260 Going back to 2000, do you think Republicans stole that election?

00:00:42.960 In 2000? I wish the United States Supreme Court had let them finish counting the votes.

00:00:48.660 Someone arrest that man. So that former governor of Virginia and current candidate for governor

00:00:54.140 of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, he is threatening our democracy. And he is not the only one.

00:01:00.880 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:51.220 off. The people who in any way raise any doubts about the integrity of our elections,

00:02:57.860 even when the Democrats get rid of all the election integrity measures, the people who do that

00:03:02.640 are insurrectionists. You got to remember that because that's the line that the media and the

00:03:09.600 ruling class is going to drill into your heads through big tech, through the media, through the

00:03:14.600 politicians. They're insurrectionists. They're no different than Al Qaeda. They just happen to be

00:03:19.480 wearing suits, according to Adam Schiff. In the days after when the trauma for a lot of us became

00:03:25.960 even greater, I was most angry at these insurrectionists in suits and ties. These

00:03:31.100 colleagues of mine who knew it was a lie because a lot of the people attacking that Capitol believed the

00:03:36.960 lie. But the people I work with, George, and I get asked about this all the time,

00:03:41.120 do the Republican members really believe what they're saying? They know it's a lie. They know

00:03:46.940 the election wasn't rigged. It wasn't stolen. But they just don't have the guts to speak the truth.

00:03:51.820 And to me, that's unforgivable. They know it's a lie. They know. Adam Schiff, very reasonable Adam

00:03:56.980 Schiff, one of the leading voices on the, well, on the impeachment against Donald Trump, but also on the

00:04:03.820 real insurrection because he was a conduit for the deep state that was trying to subvert Trump the

00:04:07.580 entire time. The real insurrectionists are a little hard to identify, aren't they? It seems like there's

00:04:14.500 a little projection going on. But this is a, he makes a specific claim here that I want to address

00:04:18.760 because it's extremely annoying to me, which is that, look, all the Republicans know this election

00:04:24.500 was absolutely above board. It was totally the most obviously clear, defendable presidential election

00:04:32.500 in history. Uh, the, the result was never more obvious. And if you question that you're, you're

00:04:37.140 just a liar. You're dishonest. You're deceiving people. There's no evidence whatsoever that the 1.00

00:04:44.140 Democrats rigged the election. There is no question that the Democrats rigged the election. Okay. I'll get

00:04:49.640 to whether or not they stole the election in a, in a minute, but it is absolutely incontrovertible

00:04:56.360 that the Democrats rigged the election because they changed all the rules right before the election.

00:05:01.780 And in some cases, the way they changed the rules to give themselves an advantage was not only

00:05:06.620 illegal, but unconstitutional. Notably the way that the election was conducted in Pennsylvania

00:05:11.620 with the use of widespread mail-in ballots, which violates the state's constitution. But a lot of

00:05:15.640 other election integrity measures that went by the wayside show very clearly that the election was

00:05:21.740 rigged. It was now being conducted in such a way with far more days to vote with the use of

00:05:28.140 widespread mail-in ballots when Democrats are far better at voter harvesting than Republicans

00:05:32.700 are. It was so clear that it was rigged. Now, did that steal the election? I mean, this is

00:05:38.360 impossible to prove because you can't go back in time, but had the election been conducted

00:05:44.980 in the normal way, would Trump have won? I, I don't know. I don't, nobody knows that. So I guess you

00:05:52.300 can't say one way or the other that it was stolen, but it absolutely was rigged. And to point that out

00:05:59.160 does not make you a terrorist or anything like that. It makes you a reasonable person. And by the

00:06:03.620 way, Democrats still haven't conceded the 2016 election. And by the way, as Terry McAuliffe shows,

00:06:08.940 they still haven't conceded the 2000 election. So spare me the pearl clutching and the crocodile

00:06:15.040 tears about our democracy. Give me a break. Hillary Clinton, the last democratic presidential 0.89

00:06:22.140 candidate to lose, or at least not, not, not to make it to the white house. She won't admit that

00:06:27.580 she lost. She will, will continue to go on morning shows and say that though it was the Russians,

00:06:33.420 it was the Macedonians, it was this, it was that. Anyway, to avoid admitting that she lost the

00:06:39.560 election fair and square. And she says, by the way, she's not going to stay out of politics because,

00:06:44.180 of course, our democracy is at stake. Any interest at all in getting back

00:06:48.960 into the game of politics? I will never be out of the game of politics. I'm not going to be running

00:06:53.720 for anything, but I really feel, Amy, and I know George was interviewing Adam Schiff before. I really

00:07:01.220 feel like our democracy is at stake. And there's many reasons for that. Some of them we saw on the

00:07:08.300 screen with the insurrection, some of them because of the revelations about Facebook that creates a world

00:07:13.380 of disinformation instead of, you know, one that we can agree on what the facts are. I really am

00:07:19.820 worried about what's happening at home and around the world. So I'm never going to get out of, you

00:07:25.320 know, being involved, worried, and hopefully trying to help in some way. The thing to remember when

00:07:31.460 the left refers to democracy, they are always talking about liberalism and those are related

00:07:37.880 concepts, but they're different. Democracy is just when the people rule. Liberalism is the specific

00:07:44.460 ideology that comes out of the Enlightenment and has taken a particular course over the centuries.

00:07:50.300 Sometimes the people can vote against liberalism. And when that happened, like notably when they

00:07:54.660 voted for Donald Trump, when that happens, then the left calls that a threat to our democracy. But

00:08:00.940 it's not, it's manifestly not a threat to our democracy. It is, however, a threat to liberalism.

00:08:04.440 And even more specifically, it's a threat to their oligarchy. The liberal ruling class is

00:08:11.020 increasingly ruling as an oligarchy. And so you'll notice when Hillary Clinton says Facebook is a

00:08:16.620 threat to our democracy, she's not saying it's a threat to our democracy because a handful of people

00:08:21.120 control the flow of speech around a republic. That's the actual threat. She says it's a threat to our

00:08:25.520 democracy because they allow conservatives to spread their own views, which she calls disinformation.

00:08:31.020 So she says the threat to our democracy is the fact that more people get to speak.

00:08:35.660 What she would prefer is for the oligarchy to clamp down even more. It's a threat to our democracy when 1.00

00:08:41.820 Trump questions the election. It's a defense of our democracy when she questions the election. 1.00

00:08:47.200 That's what's going on here. And the GOP needs to stop playing into it. I don't want to hear another

00:08:53.720 peep about January 6th. The worst coup d'art democracy. So there have been many attacks on

00:09:03.720 the Capitol in our nation's history. Bombs have gone off in not even that many decades ago. There

00:09:08.920 have been attacks on lawmakers. Not only was the January 6th, whatever it was, not the greatest attack

00:09:19.320 on our nation's capital since 1812. It wasn't even the greatest attack on our democracy of that year. 0.88

00:09:28.420 The BLM riots were a far greater, deadlier, more dangerous attack on our democracy. They attacked 1.00

00:09:35.900 a federal courthouse. They attacked police stations. They killed dozens of people. They attacked private

00:09:40.980 businesses. They attacked private residences. That was a far greater attack on our democracy. And

00:09:47.000 the squishes play along. So Trump just sent out a very important message a couple of days ago 0.93

00:09:52.360 to the family of Ashley Babbitt. Don't forget, the only person who was killed in the political

00:09:56.140 violence of January 6th was a Trump supporter. Initially, we were told by the lying media that a

00:10:03.420 cop was killed by an insurrectionist with a fire extinguisher. It was a complete lie, completely made up.

00:10:08.700 The only person who was killed in the political violence was Ashley Babbitt, one of the Trump

00:10:12.720 supporters unarmed, who was shot, presumably by a Capitol police officer. She was an Air Force

00:10:18.480 veteran. She served her country. Did she really pose this grave threat to anyone in that building 0.98

00:10:24.540 or to our democracy? It seems a little dubious. There aren't really any investigations, no serious

00:10:29.620 public investigations that have gone into it. And Trump sent a message to her family on Ashley

00:10:34.120 Babbitt's birthday. Today would have been her birthday. Happy birthday, Ashley. Happy birthday.

00:10:39.960 We're looking at you and you're looking down on your family and on us. My heart and the hearts of

00:10:46.400 millions of Americans across the country are with everyone, everyone who knew and loved her.

00:10:53.880 I especially want to express my great sympathy to Ashley's loving husband, Aaron, and her wonderful

00:11:01.240 mother, Mickey. I spoke to both of them. These are great people. Together we grieve her terrible loss,

00:11:09.820 there was no reason Ashley should have lost her life that day. We must all demand justice for Ashley

00:11:17.680 and her family. So on this solemn occasion, as we celebrate her life, we renew our call for a fair

00:11:26.340 and nonpartisan investigation into the death of Ashley Babbitt. Just asking for an investigation,

00:11:35.880 George Floyd, a career criminal who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint who was killed resisting

00:11:40.900 arrest over a long period of time while being arrested, committing a crime. He is killed

00:11:47.000 months and months long investigations, nationwide, worldwide riots, and the cop who did it goes to

00:11:53.440 prison, convicted of murder. Ashley Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who lived a good upstanding life,

00:11:59.560 is killed, potentially committing a crime, potentially not committing a crime in this, this riot at the

00:12:06.600 Capitol. But was she armed? Was she actually posing a threat? She gets killed by a cop and everyone 1.00

00:12:11.020 celebrates. Does that seem fair? Does that seem right to you? That seems a little disordered, not so much as one

00:12:17.400 major investigation. And what Trump is calling for is, hey, let's, let's put the focus on here. Let's see what's

00:12:22.660 going on here instead of always being on the defensive and always buying into the left-wing

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00:13:43.480 That's code Knolls. The squishes are in many ways worse than the libs. You know, the squishy

00:13:51.640 conservatives who always run away from the conservative arguments and they like to suck 0.83

00:13:57.840 up to the left-wing establishment and they say, I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind of

00:14:00.740 conservative. No, I'm not like Trump. I'm not like Sarah Palin. I'm not like Ted Cruz. I'm not like

00:14:04.200 this. I'm not like that. They are, we're a little harsh on them on this show, but I think

00:14:09.040 justly so. They are often worse than the libs. Okay. I'll give you an example. New York Times.

00:14:17.700 Here we go. Guest essay from Miles Taylor. He was that, uh, he was a whistleblower in the Trump

00:14:25.040 White House. He was some underling in the Trump White House who, who spent all of his time trying

00:14:29.420 to undermine the duly elected president because this jerk felt that he was much more important 0.99

00:14:35.320 and had much more authority than the man who was elected by the American people. Miles Taylor 0.99

00:14:40.220 and Christine Todd Whitman, who is a very, very liberal, uh, Republican governor of New Jersey

00:14:46.140 in the nineties. It was a very long time ago and she hasn't really mattered very much since.

00:14:50.380 Headline. We are Republicans. There's only one way to save our party from the pro-Trump

00:14:55.960 extremists. The way this was, was headlined on the, on the internet was we are Republicans

00:15:02.880 and we're Republicans for electing Democrats in 2022. We've, this is very important. We've

00:15:08.880 got to do it. The only way to save the party is to elect Democrats. Okay. How many times are

00:15:16.440 they going to run this column? They run this column every election cycle and they find a couple

00:15:21.340 of squishes and they say, look, we're Republicans. Okay. But Whoa, what's happened with Trump is

00:15:27.720 unacceptable. And before that, what's happened with the tea party is unacceptable. And before

00:15:33.380 that what's happened with the Gingrich revolution, it's unacceptable. And before that what's happened,

00:15:37.980 we're Republicans, but this Ronald Reagan character is, is unacceptable. And before that

00:15:42.100 we're Republicans, but this Barry Goldwater, it's the same freaking story. Every cycle and gullible 0.97

00:15:49.500 fools believe it. They buy into it. They say, Oh gosh, you're right. This, this is really scary. 1.00

00:15:57.020 Those tea party people want to cut taxes and spending. That's a threat to our democracy. No, 0.99

00:16:01.560 we, this, uh, this Ronald Reagan guy, he wants to win the cold war. Oh no, that's a threat. We can't,

00:16:08.200 we can't. Oh no. And they, every time they call all these people Nazis, they did it to Goldwater.

00:16:12.480 They did it to Reagan. They did it to Buckley. They did it to everyone as part of that, uh,

00:16:17.360 conservative movement. They did it to Trump. They're going to, they're going to do it to the

00:16:21.260 next guy too. They're doing it to DeSantis right now. So they keep saying, you know,

00:16:26.800 this, this one is a bit too far. It's really frustrating because the role of these people

00:16:34.440 is to prop up the dominant liberal establishment. Okay. This is why I say the squishes are worse than 0.95

00:16:40.320 the libs. When I look at a lib, I know what I'm dealing with. The lib can be honest. The lib could come

00:16:44.980 to his opinions, honestly, and might have a vision for the country that is not my vision for the

00:16:50.060 country and I want to stop it. But at least we know what we're talking about. With the squishes, 1.00

00:16:55.040 there's such duplicity. There is such dishonesty. And when they're not dishonest and duplicitous,

00:17:00.240 they're, they're just cowardly. They just don't, they don't either, they genuinely believe that the 0.90

00:17:07.940 only thing that matters is cutting taxes a little bit, which means they're just greedy Democrats,

00:17:11.500 Democrats, or they just don't have the courage. They don't have the spinal fortitude or maybe some

00:17:19.120 other anatomical fortitude to stand up to the dominant liberal regime. All they want are plaudits

00:17:24.220 from their opponents. And it's so pathetic and it's so counterproductive. And I just wish that they 0.99

00:17:30.960 would become Democrats. I mean, they are Democrats. They're effectively Democrats, but,

00:17:36.020 but they're not even honest about it. I mean, there are people, the never Trump movement

00:17:40.400 still exists and they're still, they're campaigning right now to elect Democrats in

00:17:44.780 the midterms. Trump's not on the ballot. Trump is no longer the president, but they still, they say,

00:17:50.300 oh, but the Trump, it was so bad. We need to keep electing Democrats. Trump's going to be dead 50

00:17:54.360 years. They're going to say, we got to keep just to make sure that there's no more Trump. We got to

00:17:58.000 keep electing Democrats. We're Republicans for Democrats, whatever that means. You've got to stand up.

00:18:02.640 One guy who's not a squish. There are a handful of guys in this party who are not squishes, 1.00

00:18:07.360 but one guy who's definitely not a squish, Ron DeSantis. You remember Ron DeSantis voted to ban 1.00

00:18:13.840 mask mandates at the school level in Florida. And I thought this was great. And the squishes 0.99

00:18:19.900 wailed and screamed. And they said, this is a violation of liberty that, that now mean old Ron

00:18:25.300 DeSantis is using his political power to stop school boards from using their political power

00:18:29.600 to muzzle up students. And so that's a liberty. True, true liberty suggests that we need to just

00:18:36.100 muzzle ourselves forever. And you think, okay, something's going wrong with your definition of

00:18:39.720 liberty folks. But DeSantis is going further. He's not just issuing this rule that the schools can't

00:18:45.580 mandate the masks. He's taking action because some schools are violating his order. We talked about

00:18:52.740 this yesterday with the Texas pro-life law. It's not enough just to pass a law and say, okay,

00:18:57.720 we're good. We got the laws on the books. Now we're good. Because what the libs are going to try 1.00

00:19:00.960 to do is not enforce the law. They're going to try to undermine it at the executive level or at the

00:19:05.920 judicial level, where they're going to try to come in and use a judge to upend it, or they just won't

00:19:11.900 enforce it in the first place. So Ron DeSantis is now defunding school districts that are violating

00:19:17.720 his mask mandate ban. The Florida Board of Education has voted to sanction eight school districts.

00:19:25.160 The penalty here will be defunding these schools in an amount equal to one twelfth of all school

00:19:32.560 board members' salaries, in addition to withholding any equal amount to federal grant funds awarded to

00:19:37.960 those districts by the Biden administration. Good stuff. Enforce it. Give it teeth. I'm sick and tired.

00:19:44.600 Pointless hearings and pointless speeches and pointless orders and pointless laws that don't

00:19:49.700 actually have teeth. Enforce it. Defund these people. Wield your political power. Make sure it

00:19:56.000 sticks. It's the only thing that will matter in politics. If you issue a bunch of orders or make

00:20:03.700 a bunch of laws, but you don't enforce them, then you're just a think tank. And at least a think tank

00:20:10.460 exists to do that. And then they hand over their ideas to politicians and the politicians are supposed

00:20:16.180 to enforce it. If the politicians are not enforcing it, then they are completely abandoning their

00:20:22.980 duty. Okay. Ron DeSantis obviously wants to be president. He's campaigning. He's setting the stage

00:20:29.640 to campaign for president and he's doing a very good job of it. Speaking of people who want to be

00:20:33.340 president though, we should turn to the other party, to Kamala Harris, who just put out one of the 0.96

00:20:40.520 most cringe inducing videos I have ever seen. I'll set the stage for you. It's Kamala Harris speaking

00:20:49.660 to students about science. And the purpose of this is to show how caring she is and broad minded and

00:20:58.400 inspirational she is. And I'll tell you, I did not know that this degree of vapidity could exist,

00:21:07.240 but here we are. I just love the idea of exploring the unknown. And then there's other things that

00:21:14.460 we just haven't figured out or discovered yet. To think about so much that's out there that we still

00:21:20.620 have to learn. Like, I love that. I love that. And so I'm very excited about the Space Council. We're

00:21:26.180 going to learn so much as we increasingly, I think, are curious and interested in the potential for

00:21:34.080 the discoveries and the work we can do in space. So that's one of the things I'm most excited about.

00:21:40.720 But the other, you guys are going to see, you're going to literally see the craters on the moon with

00:21:47.580 your own eyes. With your own eyes. I'm telling you, it is going to be unbelievable.

00:21:54.380 Has there ever been a faker person in politics, America, the human race? Has there ever been someone

00:22:08.080 who seems less genuine and authentic than Kamala Harris? Well, it gets even better because I'm looking

00:22:14.720 at this scene and they're on this porch and they're all sitting and Kamala Harris is pretending to be

00:22:20.300 inspiring and she's just spouting out gibberish. And the world is big and wow. But then I find out

00:22:28.820 these aren't even really just students. It's not like she's visiting some school or something.

00:22:33.240 They're actors. They're child actors. There was a casting call. They had to audition to be in this

00:22:38.360 video. So everything about this is fake and inauthentic. The reason I even bring it up is because

00:22:46.240 Joe Biden's not looking so healthy, not looking like he's got a ton of energy. There's a good

00:22:50.840 chance that Kamala Harris is the nominee in 2024. And there's a good chance that she becomes president.

00:23:00.140 Even Joe Biden has said as much. And Kamala Harris is an old style of politician. Politicians used to do 1.00

00:23:08.060 similar things to this. They would, even Reagan to some degree, they would speak in a way that seemed

00:23:13.720 unscripted. They would, they would speak in a way that was just very bland and, and very

00:23:21.900 uncontroversial. You know, Trump completely upended that, but, but this is the old style of politician.

00:23:29.160 And I just wonder in a post-Trump world, if that's, if that's sustainable, you know, it just seems like

00:23:35.360 Kamala Harris is a, is a woman out of time. She doesn't, she doesn't seem to know what time it is. 0.99

00:23:41.300 Even sleepy Joe Biden gets fired up and yells at Trump and calls him a racist. And he's kind of

00:23:46.300 weird at least. But Kamala Harris is just so stiff and scripted and fake. I don't know that that 0.83

00:23:54.180 translates into the post-Trump era, internet era, new media kind of politics that we live in. Now,

00:24:00.540 speaking of big shows tonight, we've got a really big, a really big show to quote Ed Sullivan,

00:24:07.540 a really big backstage show. Instead of the usual Daily Wire studio, we're going to be live streaming

00:24:12.040 our conversation on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium right here in Nashville. This is going

00:24:17.240 to be an event and a live stream unlike any other that we've ever done. And we're thrilled to be able

00:24:21.520 to share it with you. We're going to be making some extremely exciting announcements, which you're not

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00:24:55.300 We've got an update from the cancel culture. This one I did not see coming. Sir Lawrence Olivier,

00:25:02.180 one of the most celebrated actors from the 20th century, died many decades ago. Sir Lawrence Olivier

00:25:12.780 has been canceled. And actually, not only has he been canceled, but a professor who played his

00:25:20.180 performance of Othello, a wonderful movie, in his class has also been canceled. Bright Sheng,

00:25:27.460 who's the Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of

00:25:31.820 Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, played the 1965 movie Othello featuring the great

00:25:38.820 Lawrence Olivier. But if you know anything about Othello, you'll know that Lawrence Olivier has

00:25:43.340 darkened his skin. He's wearing blackface in the movie. He's not doing blackface like he's 0.99

00:25:47.520 performing on a minstrel show. He's performing Othello, for goodness sakes. And this, this really,

00:25:53.460 really bothered some freshman chick. So you have Lawrence Olivier, one of the greatest actors of all time.

00:25:59.520 You have Othello, one of the greatest plays of all time. And you have this professor,

00:26:03.240 Bright Sheng, who's apparently a very, very distinguished professor at this prestigious

00:26:08.240 school of music. Then you have this know-nothing freshman girl. And this know-nothing freshman 0.53

00:26:15.260 girl named Olivia Cooke says, quote, I was stunned. In such a school that preaches diversity and making

00:26:20.280 sure that they understand the history of POC, that's people of color. In America, I was shocked that

00:26:25.540 the professor would show something like this in something that's supposed to be a safe space.

00:26:30.260 So this girl, who knows nothing, this is a very uneducated and apparently very unintelligent person, 0.99

00:26:38.060 is horrified to watch a very good movie with a very good actor written by probably the greatest

00:26:44.400 playwright in the English language. She hates the fact that she might have to learn something

00:26:48.660 and expand her mind and become educated. So she complains about this and she says,

00:26:55.640 Shakespeare's racist. Olivier's racist, everybody. If you're racist, everything's racist and racism is 0.93

00:27:03.360 the worst thing in the world. So you got to cancel it. So you would hope that at a serious educational

00:27:09.960 institution, the administrators would say, hey, lady, shut up and sit in class and learn. That's what 0.99

00:27:16.040 you're here for. Learn. But we don't have serious educational institutions anymore. So the dean of

00:27:21.720 the school sends out an email, not defending Shakespeare, not defending Lawrence Olivier,

00:27:29.640 not defending the professor as he should, but saying, quote, Professor Sheng's actions do not align with

00:27:35.620 our school's commitment to anti-racist action, diversity, equity, and inclusion. All hail diversity,

00:27:44.180 inclusion, and equity. The die ideology. All hail it. He didn't say that. I added that. I was inferring

00:27:50.040 that. I was reading between the lines. He says that Sheng has been reported to the Office of Equity,

00:27:57.240 Civil Rights, and Title IX over the incident. How dare he expose the students to Shakespeare?

00:28:05.560 These people are barbarians. They're barbarians. The dean of this school is a barbarian. He's a deeply 0.99

00:28:12.320 uncultured, uneducated person. This girl, this freshman girl is obviously a barbarian. She is 1.00

00:28:20.260 uneducated. She is uncultured. But, you know, she gets a little more leeway. The reason she's 1.00

00:28:26.000 at school right now is ostensibly to stop being a barbarian. Kids are barbarians, okay? Kids are 0.96

00:28:35.000 uncultured. Kids are uneducated by definition. That's why we educate them, to bring them into culture and 0.64

00:28:41.100 civilization. That's what she's there for. And so I don't even really blame her. She doesn't know

00:28:45.480 anything. Her professors, I guess this professor was trying to educate her and give her exposure to 0.93

00:28:51.540 some culture. But she's being failed by the deans and the administrators and the universities who 1.00

00:28:59.320 double down on her ignorance and who punish people who attempt to educate her. This is what is 1.00

00:29:07.660 happening. This is what my friend Spencer Clavin has an excellent podcast. It's called Young

00:29:12.040 Heretics, where he just goes, he's an Oxford classicist and he goes over the great works in

00:29:17.060 history. And it's not particularly political. He just says, here's the liberal education that you

00:29:21.220 were denied, okay? And that increasingly is happening. Even at top schools, people are not

00:29:26.040 being given a proper education. And as that happens, our society is going to get coarser and dumber and 0.98

00:29:31.660 less cultured and more barbaric. And we're all going to be screaming and grunting and clubbing each other 0.99

00:29:35.820 over the head. That is the normal state of savage societies. It's not the state of civilization,

00:29:42.920 but increasingly we're seeing civilization crumble around us. And very often they use race as the

00:29:49.300 cudgel here, because race has always been a bit of a fault line in American history. But they would 0.77

00:29:54.780 use whatever they can. They'd use sex if they can. They would use class if they can. They would use 0.99

00:29:59.460 socioeconomic status. They would use whatever they can, because the goal here is not to affect some

00:30:05.780 great sexual end or racial end or whatever. It's really just to destroy the civilization. 0.80

00:30:14.160 Speaking of racial politics, here's breaking news. This is headline news. Federal prosecutors

00:30:20.880 announced they will not file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in

00:30:25.440 Wisconsin in 2020. You'll remember Jacob Blake, who is a black guy. It's very important, apparently,

00:30:30.980 that he's a black guy. He was shot because he had the cops called on him. He was apparently 0.78

00:30:35.120 allegedly sexually assaulting this woman and then going out and taking her kid and driving the kid

00:30:41.460 away in a car. And he also had a weapon in his car. And so the cops, after doing everything they could

00:30:46.440 to stop this guy, peaceably, they finally shot him. And the shocking headline that surprised everybody

00:30:54.360 is that they're not going to punish the cop. Why is this news? Why is this should be obvious? This is

00:31:05.060 not a man bites dog story. The only troubling news is that this is news. The only troubling news is that

00:31:10.240 people expected that the cop would be charged. Jacob Blake survived the shooting. I think he's

00:31:14.920 paralyzed or something. Jacob Blake got off easy. Jacob Blake did not deserve to walk out of that

00:31:20.860 situation alive. Resisting arrest, allegedly assaulting a woman, getting into a car with

00:31:25.960 weapons, with a child in there that he's going to drive away. That guy got off real lucky, okay?

00:31:33.300 And this cop who shot him should be given an award. This cop should be honored. He should have a ticker

00:31:38.200 tape parade. But because our culture is so stupid and upside down at this point, he is suspected of 1.00

00:31:47.660 and being accused of committing murder. And the fact that he wasn't charged is what's so shocking. 1.00

00:31:53.520 It goes without saying, I almost don't want to say it, that if the racial roles were reversed,

00:31:58.440 this wouldn't even be a news story. But because we now live in this culture that is obsessed

00:32:03.920 with race and this idea that white people bad and black people good, and all black people are good, 0.98

00:32:08.800 and all white people are bad, and whiteness is the cause of all evil in the world, and that's why we 0.99

00:32:12.680 have to abolish it. And this is actually being taught in schools and in boardrooms and in the 1.00

00:32:16.840 government. We are now shocked that this violent criminal, after being shot by a cop after resisting

00:32:25.840 arrest, is not going to see his cop charged with murder. Speaking of identity politics, big, big

00:32:32.560 identity politics story. This is a story that the Daily Wire broke. I think we were the first ones to

00:32:37.840 this story. Just came out last night, and it's going to be completely suppressed by the media. It's already

00:32:41.880 being suppressed by the media, so pay attention. Loudoun County, which has had a lot of problems

00:32:48.080 in its schools, a lot of people protesting in Loudoun County because the schools are covering up

00:32:53.800 the radical racial politics that are being taught, the radical gender sexual politics that are being

00:33:00.060 taught. Well, it goes further than just the curriculum. On June 22nd, Scott Smith was arrested at

00:33:07.620 Loudoun County at a school board meeting, and the meeting was ultimately deemed an unlawful assembly

00:33:13.220 because Scott Smith, who was a father in the district, was speaking out against a policy that

00:33:20.160 lets boys go into the women's bathroom. And he said, that's all you saw. That's all people saw of 0.86

00:33:25.260 the stories. This guy, this crazy right-wing dad gets arrested at the school board meeting because he 0.85

00:33:30.820 is anti-trans. He's a transphobe, and this is mean and awful and bigoted. Well, what's the story? 1.00

00:33:39.040 The father was the father of this young girl, this 15-year-old girl who was raped in a bathroom

00:33:47.200 at the school by a boy, a boy who considers himself gender fluid, who sometimes wears a dress, 0.89

00:33:55.880 who went into the school and allegedly raped the girl. There is a lot of evidence for this. The 0.87

00:34:02.760 Daily Wire investigative team did a very good job parsing out this story. According to the father,

00:34:09.340 on May 28th, a boy wearing a skirt entered the girl's bathroom at Stonebridge High School and

00:34:14.300 sexually assaulted Smith's ninth-grade daughter. And I don't want to go into the details too much on this

00:34:20.320 show, but I know that the term sexual assault is very broad these days. Some people say sexual assault

00:34:24.440 even refers to if you just kiss somebody or something like that. What this boy, who sometimes

00:34:32.640 pretends to be a girl, is accused of doing to this ninth-grade girl is as bad as it gets, as vile, 0.94

00:34:40.960 as perverted, as sick, as violent as it gets, okay? And it's being covered up. And the school has denied 0.93

00:34:49.800 it, and then the evidence came out that it actually happened, and they're still trying to deny it,

00:34:54.260 and they're trying to portray the father as the bad guy here. Why? Because they can't admit that

00:34:59.520 their policy is wrong, evil, false, and puts the students in danger. And why? Because the experts

00:35:07.300 have told us that this can't happen. If you let boys and grown men, I guess even, go into the

00:35:11.920 girl's bathroom, nothing bad will happen. Look, these boys, they're just, they actually, they're

00:35:17.020 girls secretly sometimes. They're not even girls all the time. They're just, if they're fluid,

00:35:20.900 they're just girls sometimes when they feel like it. And it's very wrong and closed-minded of you

00:35:25.340 to keep boys out of the girl's room. Why? Of course the girl's room is for boys. That's why 1.00

00:35:29.680 it's called the girl's room if the girls, if the boys say that they're girls, right? That's what the

00:35:33.200 experts say. They say this can't happen. The experts, furthermore, say that this dad is a

00:35:38.680 domestic terrorist. If you go in to a school board and you question the racial and gender radicalism

00:35:44.940 going on at the school boards, well, according to our attorney general, that makes you a domestic 0.63

00:35:48.800 terrorist. And yet, what does the investigation show? This dad is the most sane person in the

00:35:57.120 room. You are the most sane person in the room. Assuming that you, listening to this story right

00:36:03.220 now, are the sort of person who thinks that actually boys should not go into the girl's bathroom,

00:36:07.780 that actually boys cannot just become girls, and there's something a little wrong about that.

00:36:12.000 You are far from a domestic terrorist. You are the last sane person, one of the last sane people in

00:36:19.660 this culture. And the experts are wrong. And the prevailing ideology is wrong. And common sense

00:36:27.180 and prudence are right. And the ruling class wants to shut that up and censor that and deny that 1.00

00:36:33.160 and punish people who think that as best they can. The greatest image, to my mind, of the corruption

00:36:40.420 of our regime and our understanding of standards today comes from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes

00:36:47.760 is the movie review website. So Rotten Tomatoes posted this movie that's about Dr. Fauci.

00:36:55.780 It's a hagiography of Dr. Fauci. It talks about how wonderful he is. It's on, I think,

00:37:00.420 what, National Geographic. So the movie comes out, and for a long time, you can only see the reviewers,

00:37:05.620 the professional critics' reviews. There's one score for the professional critics and then one

00:37:11.360 score from the audience. But the audience score was grayed out. You couldn't see any of those.

00:37:15.460 And the critics gave it a 91%. So just finally yesterday, after a lot of pushback, Rotten Tomatoes

00:37:21.480 puts up the audience score. Do you know what the audience score was? 4%. 91% say the professional

00:37:29.240 critics, the real elite, smart, genius, expert critics. 4% says the audience. That's the regime.

00:37:37.040 That is the regime. The Dr. Fauci hagiography, our new ruler, the most exalted, highest paid

00:37:43.180 politician in the country. The experts say he's the greatest and the hagiography of him is wonderful,

00:37:49.220 91%. But the people disagree. That's, that's the, you know that sometimes you'll see a photo,

00:37:56.400 World War II, 1940, colorized, you know, that 1865, colorized, Civil War photo. This is the

00:38:03.480 picture of the American regime, 2021, colorized. I've got some good news from our most exalted

00:38:12.820 politician, the esteemed Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him. You remember Dr. Fauci canceled Christmas.

00:38:20.900 He, he was asked, well, he canceled Christmas last year. Then he was asked if he was going to cancel

00:38:25.040 Christmas this year. And this was just a week or two ago. And Fauci said, well, it's too soon to tell.

00:38:30.620 And then people pushed back against him. And he said, oh, look, I never said you couldn't have

00:38:34.720 Christmas. I mean, you did. You said it was too soon to tell. So you said there was a good chance

00:38:38.920 that we might not have Christmas. Then he said, no, maybe you, I'll have Christmas. It's fine.

00:38:42.600 So there, there is one holiday that Fauci likes. He says, you know, putting Christmas and Thanksgiving

00:38:48.220 aside for now, at the very least you can celebrate Halloween. I think that particularly if you're

00:38:54.520 vaccinated, but you can get out there, you're outdoors for the most part, at least when my

00:39:00.540 children were out there doing trick or treating, um, and enjoy it. I mean, this is a time that

00:39:05.640 children love. It's, it's a very important part of the year for children. I know my children enjoyed

00:39:09.960 it. So, I mean, again, particularly if you're vaccinated, if you're not vaccinated, again, think

00:39:15.040 about it, that you'll add an extra degree of protection to yourself and your children and

00:39:19.660 your family and your community. So it's a good time to reflect on why it's important to get

00:39:24.580 vaccinated, but go out there and enjoy Halloween as well as the other holidays that will be coming up.

00:39:31.000 So on the one hand, I'm glad that Fauci is letting people have Halloween. That's nice. And especially

00:39:36.160 little kids, little kids love Halloween so much, but there is something funny to me that over the past

00:39:41.340 more, more than a year now, and even in recent weeks, Dr. Fauci has said, well, maybe you can't

00:39:47.340 have Christmas. You know, the celebration of the nativity of our Lord and Savior Christmas. Yeah,

00:39:53.560 maybe, maybe not. Yeah. And Thanksgiving, I don't know about Thanksgiving. You know, when we give thanks

00:39:59.280 also to the Lord, our God for giving us this beautiful country of ours. Yeah, maybe not. I don't know.

00:40:05.920 Maybe yes, maybe no. Oh, but the one where you all dress up like demons and go and play tricks on

00:40:11.640 people. Yeah, do that one. That one's good. We love that. Okay. The nativity of our Lord. No.

00:40:17.720 Thanksgiving. No, I don't think so. But the one where we talk about like devils and witches and

00:40:22.680 like throw eggs at each other. That one's totally fine. That doesn't spread coronavirus, but

00:40:28.020 Thanksgiving and midnight mass, that does, that does spread coronavirus, right? I'm being slightly

00:40:35.920 unfair to Dr. Fauci here, but not very unfair. I think I'm, I actually, generally speaking, I think

00:40:40.900 I'm being pretty, pretty fair, though. I actually, I don't want to be misunderstood. I, I do like

00:40:44.760 Halloween. There's something very traditional and cool and medieval about going out and playing

00:40:49.820 tricks on each other and going door to door, asking for sweets and stuff and dressing up. So I think

00:40:54.080 it's, it's great. I'm glad I just, I'll take the win. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Fauci.

00:40:58.860 Your, your eminence, your beneficence. Thank you so much for allowing us to have our holiday. Well,

00:41:05.200 at least one of our holidays, but don't get too excited because Fauci says that, yeah, maybe you

00:41:09.680 can go get some candy on Halloween, but you might not be able to get on an airplane pretty soon.

00:41:13.400 If you don't take the Fauci ouchie, if you don't take the experimental drug to protect against the

00:41:17.760 virus that poses a very, very low risk of hospitalization or death for the vast majority of

00:41:22.180 people. Uh, because while we might not have an, uh, vaccine mandate on the planes immediately,

00:41:28.040 it, it might happen. Would you like a vaccine mandate for air travel and effect for the holidays?

00:41:35.280 Well, it depends on what you mean. If you're talking, you know, we, we do now have a situation,

00:41:41.640 uh, when people coming in from outside of the country who are not United States citizens,

00:41:46.720 they really must require that they get vaccinated as well as getting tested before what the president

00:41:53.100 has done regarding masks. I think it's important, namely doubling the fine on people who refuse

00:41:57.820 to wear masks on, on, on airplanes. On the table is the issue of mandates for vaccine. It's always

00:42:04.920 discussable. We always wind up discussing it. Do you support it? But right now I don't see that

00:42:09.120 immediately. You know, Dan, I don't want to say support or not. I think it's a decision that's made

00:42:14.920 by input from a number of parts of the government, including public health. I mean, obviously from a

00:42:19.880 public health standpoint, the more protection you get, the better it is, but I don't want to be

00:42:24.840 weighing in because we wind up then having people taking things out of context. We have everything

00:42:29.940 on the table and it will be discussed by the medical group. Uh, so you support it is what you're

00:42:36.240 saying. Cause what does he mean? He goes, I don't want to give you an answer to your direct question

00:42:40.740 because then people might take it out of context. Well, then give me the context. What do you mean

00:42:45.460 take it out of context? Do you support a vaccine mandate on an airplane? Well, if I say yes, then

00:42:50.880 people won't like me as much. Yeah. Oh, that's the context. Okay. The context is that you don't

00:42:56.560 want to state your honest opinion because you know that you don't have the political capital to enforce

00:43:00.840 it yet, but you might in the future. That's what this is really about, right? Fauci has done this

00:43:05.720 many, many times. He obviously supports it and he admits, he goes, from a public health standpoint,

00:43:12.440 and I want to muzzle up all you filthy animals, right? But I don't think, I'm not going to say it

00:43:16.940 yet, but soon enough, we're going to do it. That's what's going on here. And it's just an important

00:43:22.240 reminder that, well, the libs prattle on about the science and the squishes think that the science

00:43:28.700 matters. So they try to defend their views and oppose the left's views with the science. Actually,

00:43:33.520 it's not about the science at all. It's about politics and it's about political power. And right now,

00:43:37.740 at least, Fauci thinks he doesn't have the political power to do this, but he very well might in the

00:43:46.060 future, especially if we keep giving in, which is why it's important to resist these things. And you

00:43:49.860 are seeing some good news. Speaking of airlines, you're seeing this happen on Southwest Airlines

00:43:53.460 right now. Southwest Airlines is mandating vaccines for its staff. Southwest Airlines is canceling lots and

00:44:03.060 lots of its flights. It canceled a thousand flights on Sunday. It canceled hundreds and hundreds, if not

00:44:07.600 a thousand or more flights yesterday. I didn't get the final number. It's canceling. Why is that?

00:44:12.520 Well, they were blaming it on weather. It was a pretty sunshiny day on Sunday. Yesterday was pretty

00:44:16.460 nice too. It wasn't because of the weather. What's really going on here is that the employees at

00:44:23.080 Southwest are having a sick out. They're not showing up for work because they're not going to comply.

00:44:26.740 By the way, this mandate is not even from the government. OSHA, the agency that Biden tasked

00:44:33.640 with enforcing the mandate, hasn't even put out its rules really yet. What this did was the

00:44:39.720 announcement from Biden gave cover to big corporations to mandate the vaccine for the

00:44:45.080 employees, but it's not actually coming straight from the government. It's just now a policy from the

00:44:50.220 airlines and they can pretend that it was the government who made them do it.

00:44:52.460 So what the pilots and the staff members are saying is, okay, you want to make me do it? Fine.

00:44:57.440 Go get another pilot. Go get another staff member. Go get another stewardess. Go get another check-in

00:45:01.900 person. And I love it. And by the way, I've got to take a lot of flights in the next few days and I

00:45:06.400 might have to miss some of my flights and I hope I don't have to miss some of the speaking events that

00:45:09.460 I'm going to, but I love standing up because what Fauci knows, what Fauci knows, what the liberal

00:45:14.500 ruling class knows is this is a brute force battle of political wills. I mean, all the way down to

00:45:21.600 when you question an election, it's evil and a threat to our democracy. But when we question an

00:45:25.440 election as we have for 20 years, it's totally great and fine and actually a defense of our

00:45:28.640 democracy, right? They just, they know that it's about wielding power here. And so they're going

00:45:33.520 to, they're going to creep up and creep up gradually to wield power until they get more and more and more

00:45:38.480 of it. And what the Southwest employees are saying is, no, we're not going to do that. Totally stand

00:45:42.700 with them. This is a really, really great move. If you don't stand up now, when are you going to do it?

00:45:49.480 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I will see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 12, 2021

Ep. 862 - No Safe Spaces When Democrats Are In Charge

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