The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 863 - Superman Is Now Super Gay

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00:00:37.680 DC Comics has confirmed that Superman is officially a little light in the loafers.

00:00:44.000 I, myself, had always had my suspicions.

00:00:47.180 The tights, the chiseled body, the lack, if we're honest, of any real sexual tension with Lois Lane.

00:00:53.440 But the creatives have now dispelled any doubts.

00:00:57.580 The new Superman, much like our entire culture, is super duper gay. 1.00

00:01:03.760 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:04.660 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:02.500 Superman is pretty and witty.

00:03:06.380 And now he is gay. 0.98

00:03:08.800 I do not follow the superhero stuff all that closely.

00:03:13.660 I never really read comic books as a kid.

00:03:16.540 And I certainly don't read them now.

00:03:18.160 But according to DC Comics, John Kent, who is the new Superman.

00:03:25.040 He's the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, the original Superman and his beard.

00:03:31.620 John Kent is apparently bisexual.

00:03:35.040 This is a very important plot point, of course, for the Man of Steel.

00:03:41.100 He also, in this new comic, will have a love scene with a dude.

00:03:46.760 And the dude has pinkish purple hair and looks a bit on the young side.

00:03:52.800 And they have a gay kiss. 0.71

00:03:54.920 But he's not totally gay.

00:03:56.940 He's just like a little bit gay. 0.99

00:03:59.300 And it just seems to me, well, I had the same reaction that Blake Masters did.

00:04:04.180 Blake Masters is a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona.

00:04:07.520 And he saw the news.

00:04:08.420 And I don't know if he's a comic book fan or anything.

00:04:10.780 But he retweeted it and he said,

00:04:13.160 Not everything has to be gay.

00:04:16.860 And this is no offense to people with unusual sexual desires or behaviors or anything like that.

00:04:23.500 But why does everything, why is everything gay? 1.00

00:04:28.500 You know, especially when June rolls around.

00:04:31.860 June, in our liberal liturgical calendar, is Pride Month.

00:04:36.380 And for the month of June, at least in the West, you'll notice not in the Middle East or some other places.

00:04:41.600 But in the West, every corporation, every institution, every nonprofit, every person becomes gay for exactly 30 days. 0.95

00:04:51.220 And then it stops.

00:04:52.320 And you just think, well, why?

00:04:54.760 Why is that?

00:04:56.560 So Blake Masters says, not everything needs to be gay.

00:04:59.420 But in a way, everything sort of does need to be gay. 0.90

00:05:02.520 Because if you're going to insist upon this new moral standard, it's not going to stop at do whatever.

00:05:13.240 You do you.

00:05:14.240 You do you.

00:05:15.040 I'll do me.

00:05:16.560 Follow your lights.

00:05:17.700 But don't impose your views on anyone.

00:05:19.140 And that's kind of the libertarian-ish approach.

00:05:22.820 Someone said libertine approach to moral philosophy.

00:05:26.480 But it doesn't really stop there.

00:05:28.540 Because every single society has to have some vision of what it considers to be the good.

00:05:34.840 It's got to have some standard.

00:05:36.040 This is the thesis of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:05:39.420 And so as standards start to change, they're going to change for all of society.

00:05:42.980 And I don't mean to call out just the LGBT issue here.

00:05:46.580 But this is true of any sort of standard.

00:05:48.920 It is going to pervade the society.

00:05:50.800 And if you think that you can just compartmentalize it and put it in one corner of society, you can.

00:05:55.320 You're trying for something that never has been and never will be.

00:05:59.080 And you see this shifting, very often opportunistic sort of standard beyond the realm of comic book sexual politics and into the realm of sports.

00:06:13.120 John Gruden, who I'm reliably informed as the head coach or was the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

00:06:18.720 I'm about as much of a Raiders fan as I am a fan of the Superman comic books.

00:06:25.620 But John Gruden was the head coach and he just resigned.

00:06:29.300 He resigned under pressure.

00:06:31.160 He had to resign because decade old or even more than a decade old emails, personal emails were leaked.

00:06:38.840 And in those emails, he sometimes said politically incorrect things, notably calling the commissioner of the NFL.

00:06:48.720 A, I'll clean up the language a little bit, a wuss, a clueless wuss, which every single person knows that he is.

00:06:55.320 Even I know that.

00:06:56.180 I don't follow football at all.

00:06:57.380 And even I know that Roger Goodell is a clueless wuss, okay?

00:07:01.320 And so this football coach puts that in his emails, private emails.

00:07:05.980 They are leaked a decade or more later.

00:07:09.360 Now he has to resign.

00:07:10.960 And he said other things and he made insensitive comments and now he's got to, got to resign.

00:07:18.720 What this is, I think, is bigger than just cancel culture or saying that people should have their private emails protected.

00:07:28.740 You know, I think the angle that most conservatives are focusing on with the John Gruden story is that liberal democracy requires there to be a distinction between the public and the private sphere.

00:07:38.760 And then in the 1970s, the second wave feminists came in and said the personal is political and all your private stuff is actually public now and we're going to scrutinize all of it and we're going to hold you to account for things you say at home or who does the dishes or what have you. 1.00

00:07:53.240 There is an aspect of that, sure, but this goes a little bit further.

00:07:58.020 And while people are focusing on this comment in one of the emails where he commented on a black player's large lips and they're saying that he's basically, you know, David Duke because he made some racially insensitive comment.

00:08:11.020 I think the more telling comments are about sexuality and masculinity where he calls Goodell a big wuss.

00:08:19.180 What we're seeing here is a cultural revolution, one that is aimed specifically at anti-masculinity.

00:08:28.140 And we're seeing this paired up with a technological revolution, which is namely the surveillance revolution.

00:08:35.520 So to bring that back down to earth, what we're seeing is standards changing completely on sexuality.

00:08:42.460 And so beyond, you know, your sexual desires or your sexual partners, it's even it's even down to what a man is or what a woman is.

00:08:51.000 It's even down to this idea now that masculinity is toxic. 0.97

00:08:54.600 In the old standard, masculinity was good. 0.87

00:08:57.220 The word virtue itself is related to the word for man, right?

00:09:01.640 And so there was something good.

00:09:03.000 John Wayne, Gary Cooper.

00:09:04.900 I'm reminded of Tony Soprano, a line that would come.

00:09:07.340 We've been talking about Tony Soprano recently because it was Columbus Day.

00:09:10.780 And one of the lines from that show that keeps coming up is, what have happened to men like Gary Cooper?

00:09:15.980 Well, you know, whatever happened to John Wayne, whatever happened to the father knows best, the strong man.

00:09:20.580 Now, when we look at at male figures in the culture, they're all a bunch of bumbling idiots, right?

00:09:25.920 It's Homer Simpson or Ray Romano.

00:09:28.140 And they can't do anything.

00:09:29.840 And they're just a big joke.

00:09:31.900 And their wife has to do everything and take care of them because these guys can barely put their pants on in the morning. 1.00

00:09:38.720 So there's an attack on masculinity.

00:09:42.180 And a lot of what's in these emails, these John Gruden emails, is locker room talk.

00:09:48.060 I know it's an overused expression these days.

00:09:50.760 And it's an expression that really hit the mainstream when Donald Trump was caught on a secret tape.

00:09:58.220 Also, let's not forget, on a hot mic, on a secret tape that had been held for years and years, saying that when you're a celebrity, women let you do whatever you want.

00:10:05.440 You can grab them by the you know what.

00:10:07.440 You can grab them by the Roger Goodell.

00:10:09.000 Well, and at the time, a bunch of pearl clutchers said, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump is openly advocating for rape.

00:10:18.540 First of all, he's not talking about sexual assault at all.

00:10:20.680 He said they let you do it.

00:10:22.140 So even even within the context of his joke, he wasn't joking about that.

00:10:25.500 But second of all, he wasn't being serious.

00:10:28.380 He was joking around.

00:10:29.880 He was having a little locker room talk, a little rough talk, which is the way that men sometimes speak.

00:10:36.860 And when I say sometimes, I mean all men at some point have talked like this.

00:10:41.280 And it doesn't mean anything.

00:10:43.240 It doesn't mean that you're hateful.

00:10:44.420 It doesn't mean that you're bigoted.

00:10:45.600 It doesn't mean that if John Gruden is calling, what's his name, Roger Goodell a clueless wuss, doesn't mean that he harbors a deep-seated hatred of homosexuals.

00:10:56.900 Or if he makes fun of some guy's lips, it doesn't mean he hates black people.

00:10:59.960 It just means he's talking a little bit rough and a little offensively and a little aggressively, which is something that we used to expect from football players and football coaches.

00:11:10.640 All right.

00:11:10.900 These are people, football players, who get involved in dogfighting rings.

00:11:16.760 Remember that?

00:11:17.340 These are people who get involved in really tough, they're disproportionately likely to commit crimes, get arrested.

00:11:23.820 I mean, there are actually some really bad crimes that football players have committed in recent years.

00:11:28.480 Some of them have beaten their wives and girlfriends.

00:11:30.660 Some of them have committed murder.

00:11:32.160 But the one that we're all supposed to lose our collective sense over is because this guy used some harsh language in emails.

00:11:42.280 Why do we even know about the harsh language?

00:11:43.860 Because of the technological aspect, the surveillance state.

00:11:46.320 Why do we know about Donald Trump's joke to Billy Bush on the Access Hollywood show?

00:11:50.160 Because of the surveillance state, it's become more and more and more so.

00:11:55.120 Anything you've ever said in your email, in your texts, in your private messages, certainly anything you've ever tweeted, anything you've ever searched for.

00:12:05.900 Basically anything you've ever thought, anything you've ever said.

00:12:08.120 You know how you talk and then all of a sudden you're getting ads on your cell phone for things that you were just talking about in a normal conversation to someone in real life.

00:12:15.100 These things are all pairing up and because the people who have control, because the ruling class are the ones pushing for this cultural revolution, the asymmetries of power here are very, very concerning.

00:12:28.000 Because people who dissent from the political orthodoxy of the culture are increasingly going to have their private emails leaked and their private conversations leaked.

00:12:37.100 And the worst things they've ever said and done are going to be broadcast and used to ruin their lives.

00:12:41.100 And then people who go along with the leftist orthodoxy are going to have even the worst crimes that they can commit excused.

00:12:49.100 Speaking of gender roles, new announcement from British Airways.

00:12:54.360 British Airways has informed pilots and the cabin crew that they need to stop the hateful language, the hate speech that passengers so often encounter on their airplanes.

00:13:06.460 Do you know what hate speech I'm talking about?

00:13:09.280 Three words.

00:13:10.840 Ladies and gentlemen.

00:13:13.760 So when you get on a British Airways flight, let's say, I don't know, I keep really blowing my British accents these days, but I don't know.

00:13:20.560 Something to the effect of, well, hello there, governor, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on to the flight.

00:13:25.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:25.860 I don't know.

00:13:26.320 I assume that's, I haven't flown British Airways.

00:13:28.460 But they will, it's very nice, very civilized to say, hello, welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

00:13:32.780 Welcome to your flight.

00:13:34.320 Please buckle your seatbelt.

00:13:35.640 We'll be serving drinks very shortly.

00:13:37.920 Well, you're not allowed to say that anymore.

00:13:39.620 And this is because they want to promote, quote, diversity and inclusion.

00:13:44.800 According to the Telegraph, the announcement came over the past few weeks.

00:13:49.420 And the pilots and the cabin crews were told to use gender neutral language.

00:13:55.280 Now, I don't, what gender neutral language are they going to use?

00:13:58.700 You're not, you're no longer a lady or a gentleman. 0.98

00:14:01.000 Presumably you can't be called a man or a woman.

00:14:03.120 Son, what are you going to be called?

00:14:05.620 Meatbag? 0.92

00:14:06.360 Hey, hey, meatbag.

00:14:09.600 Hey, flesh, flesh sack.

00:14:12.300 Hey, what?

00:14:13.000 I don't know.

00:14:13.380 Because you're, the things that distinguish you, that seem to elevate you above the animals,

00:14:17.800 that you're a lady, that you're a gentleman, at least that you're a man or a woman.

00:14:21.000 Those are no longer acceptable.

00:14:23.760 Hey, person.

00:14:25.680 Well, son, though.

00:14:26.580 Son is sexist.

00:14:27.720 Hey, per, per daughter.

00:14:30.680 Hey, per daughter. 1.00

00:14:32.060 Is that what you're going to be called?

00:14:32.960 I don't think so.

00:14:35.420 In a way, British Airways is right to do this.

00:14:37.720 Because we are no longer a society of ladies and gentlemen.

00:14:42.000 We are increasingly a barbaric society where we, don't forget the word barbarism just comes

00:14:48.440 from this idea of foreigners speaking a language that you don't understand.

00:14:52.440 And they all sound like they're saying bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar.

00:14:55.080 That's actually where the word comes from.

00:14:56.760 And increasingly, that's what our society feels like to us.

00:15:00.960 People are saying things that don't mean anything.

00:15:02.700 We don't speak a common language.

00:15:04.200 We don't view ourselves and the world in the same way.

00:15:07.680 And I'm reminded of Edmund Burke.

00:15:09.640 You know, Edmund Burke has that famous line in the Reflections on the Revolution in France.

00:15:13.000 He says, the age of chivalry is gone.

00:15:14.980 That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded it.

00:15:18.360 And the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

00:15:21.020 And he talks specifically about how no more will we have that duty, that sense of loyalty,

00:15:26.400 that proud submission of rank and sex.

00:15:29.840 You know, this idea that would keep an exalted freedom alive, even in servitude itself.

00:15:37.080 That is gone.

00:15:38.700 That actually is gone.

00:15:40.300 And it's too bad.

00:15:42.120 Last night, we were at the Ryman.

00:15:43.580 We did a backstage live show.

00:15:44.920 It was a ton of fun.

00:15:45.560 Thanks to everyone who came out.

00:15:46.620 We had a really, really great time.

00:15:48.600 And someone asked, what's the surest sign that civilization is on the decline?

00:15:53.360 And the question was not to me.

00:15:55.140 It was to someone else.

00:15:56.600 And we were trying to move quickly through these questions.

00:15:58.680 But it seems to me the answer is when men stop holding the door, whether it's the door

00:16:05.620 to a building or the door to a car, you know, or men stop picking up the tab or when men stop

00:16:12.260 treating women with a special sort of respect and vice versa for that matter.

00:16:16.700 And the reason for this is that these are the ornamentations of life that represent an entire

00:16:25.840 developed, sophisticated, serious social system.

00:16:31.920 Right?

00:16:32.360 And that kind of care is gone.

00:16:33.920 There is something, I didn't even start doing this until at least in my 20s.

00:16:37.480 There's something nice about a man opening up the car door for a woman. 0.98

00:16:42.900 It will delay you.

00:16:44.620 All right?

00:16:44.840 When you got to get out of the house, you got to go somewhere.

00:16:47.280 That's you and your wife or you and your girlfriend or you and whoever, just some chick. 1.00

00:16:50.300 And you're walking.

00:16:51.320 If you just each walk to your own door and just get in quickly and turn the car on, you'll

00:16:54.980 get, you'll leave faster.

00:16:56.980 But there's something less dignified.

00:16:58.820 There's something a little utilitarian, a little, a little savage, if you'll allow me the perhaps

00:17:05.100 hyperbole about that sort of thing.

00:17:07.480 Take the minute, take the time, take the time for these, these little ornamentations that,

00:17:14.040 that make life a little bit more civilized.

00:17:15.880 You know, when we, when we sit down to eat dinner, we can either sit down, put our napkin

00:17:21.480 on our lap, say grace, you know, look, look, greet everybody, pour wine, make sure everyone

00:17:27.200 has their own food, then pick up our knife and fork and start eating our food.

00:17:30.400 Or we can just like shove our faces in our slop buckets and not do any of those things.

00:17:34.940 And I guess it would be faster and more efficient and utilitarian to do it in the latter way,

00:17:39.740 but it would not be civilized.

00:17:41.320 It would not be civil.

00:17:42.000 And that's, that's what, what, it's very sad to see this from British Airways because

00:17:44.860 I think we in America always think of the Brits as being a little more sophisticated

00:17:48.120 than we are, but their priorities are now out of order.

00:17:51.800 And it's not just on the man woman thing on the airplane.

00:17:54.040 They're out of order, even with regard to the species.

00:17:57.200 So the British Medical Journal has come, as a very respected medical journal, they have

00:18:03.360 come out with an editorial suggesting that doctors need to cut treatment.

00:18:09.800 Well, I should say doctors and the public health bureaucrats in, who at least in the United

00:18:14.320 Kingdom are controlling the, the healthcare system. 0.65

00:18:17.660 In America, we still have a little bit more of a free market system, but it's, it's probably

00:18:22.180 heading in the British direction.

00:18:23.480 So they say, we need to cut healthcare to people in order to save the planet.

00:18:30.900 So you've got to stop providing medical care to human beings so that a rock hurtling through

00:18:38.860 space can be happier.

00:18:42.340 I don't know.

00:18:42.640 The rock doesn't have emotions, but somehow out of care for the rock hurtling through space,

00:18:46.640 we need to allow more people to die.

00:18:48.400 Here's from the editorial quote, healthcare contributes four to 5% of global greenhouse

00:18:53.360 gas emissions in the national health service in the UK.

00:18:56.920 62% of these emissions are from its supply chains and 24% from delivery of healthcare.

00:19:03.820 Health professionals can be institutional leaders who drive decarbonization in hospitals

00:19:08.640 through reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in healthcare.

00:19:12.400 Pause for a second.

00:19:13.020 What is, what is overdiagnosis?

00:19:16.160 You know, presumably something is being diagnosed and that's a real healthcare problem.

00:19:19.680 So if it's being overdiagnosed, you're saying that too many people are having their, their

00:19:23.520 health problems properly diagnosed.

00:19:25.880 Anyway, it goes on.

00:19:26.740 Eliminating waste, streamlining services, and better managing suppliers and procurement.

00:19:31.140 All of these efforts will bring us closer to making healthcare more sustainable.

00:19:35.300 Okay, so that, that, that's a little weird to me to see that, that, okay, four to 5% of

00:19:42.460 carbon dioxide coming out is from the healthcare system.

00:19:45.760 So let's, you know, that thing that keeps the people alive and healthy.

00:19:48.580 So let's stop that.

00:19:50.040 Let's, let's stop doing that.

00:19:51.560 And that way there will be a little less carbon dioxide in the air or something.

00:19:55.200 And that, because that somehow that's the sun, that is leading the sun monster to kill

00:19:59.340 us, or I don't know, that's at least what they say.

00:20:01.920 There's a separate piece in the British Medical Journal beyond this broad editorial.

00:20:04.960 This is a separate piece by an author named Ramia Matthew, who goes even further, who

00:20:09.900 says that we, we shouldn't even really diagnose and treat cancer because, you know, we, we

00:20:14.800 do it earlier and earlier.

00:20:16.240 Well, I'll just put it in his own words.

00:20:17.640 He writes, the pressure to diagnose cancers earlier and earlier is another major contributor

00:20:22.060 to modern medicine's carbon footprint.

00:20:24.640 Over successive years, we've been told to continually lower our threshold for suspecting cancer.

00:20:29.520 And we've encouraged, we are encouraged to investigate sooner and more extensively.

00:20:33.620 In primary care, most patients with mildly elevated or even high normal platelet counts

00:20:38.140 now undergo a barrage of investigations in case thrombocytosis is an early indicator of

00:20:44.720 underlying cancer.

00:20:47.060 What does the yield of these tests have to be like to make this an acceptable approach?

00:20:51.640 And shouldn't we be considering the environmental impact of putting so many patients on a conveyor

00:20:54.920 belt of investigations as part of a cost benefit analysis?

00:20:58.400 A cost?

00:20:58.740 What on earth are you talking about, man?

00:21:02.200 Man, this guy has lost the thread.

00:21:04.180 Man, the British Medical Journal has lost the thread.

00:21:06.460 You're saying, how, how much are we willing to offend Mother Gaia?

00:21:13.300 You know, the, the, the earth nature God, this new pagan idea that we live for the benefit

00:21:19.520 of our deity, this rock.

00:21:21.160 How much are we willing to offend the pagan deity of the earth while we diagnose cancer

00:21:28.660 in people?

00:21:29.360 How many, let's flip the question.

00:21:32.060 How many cancer patients should die to appease the nature gods?

00:21:37.360 How many, how many cancer patients is Ramia Matthew and the British Medical Journal willing

00:21:42.660 to sacrifice to the nature gods so that the sun monster doesn't kill us at some point in

00:21:47.260 the future?

00:21:47.660 My answer would be zero.

00:21:50.320 I don't like sacrificing people to the pagan gods.

00:21:53.340 I'm not afraid of the sun monster in particular.

00:21:55.940 And I'm, I'm certainly less concerned about the feelings and health of a rock than I am about

00:22:01.120 human beings because I think human beings have dignity and I think they are elevated above

00:22:05.520 creation, the rest of the creation.

00:22:07.500 And I think that actually America, America, that human beings have dominion over the creation

00:22:12.900 and that we ought to be good stewards of that, but we ought not to sacrifice ourselves for

00:22:19.020 the rocks and the plants and the birds and the fish.

00:22:22.880 That's the, that's the Christian view.

00:22:24.580 That's the view of our civilization until about five minutes ago.

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00:22:34.380 fall apart generally, but as a political force in the West, it has fallen apart.

00:22:37.880 What has happened?

00:22:38.840 The same old crazy, kooky, pagan ideas have crept back in afterward.

00:22:43.660 And you're seeing that even in what used to be a high point of civilization, the United Kingdom.

00:22:51.440 Talk about the tail wagging the dog. 0.99

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00:24:28.280 Welcome back to the show.

00:24:31.600 Last night when we took the stage at the Ryman, there was a chant heard above all of the other

00:24:36.240 chants.

00:24:37.120 Three words, you guessed them, let's go Brandon.

00:24:42.060 Rang out from the moment the curtain opened up on stage.

00:24:47.260 And this is not just happening in Tennessee, and it's not just happening in the United States.

00:24:51.780 It's happening all over the world.

00:24:53.680 The revolt against Joe Biden through the euphemism, the euphemistic, the kind of in-joke chant,

00:25:01.360 let's go Brandon, has now hit the streets of Rome.

00:25:04.740 So I guess the Italians have not gotten the message the way that we do that chant.

00:25:34.620 Here is we say, let's go Brandon, you know, but it's confusing because then you got to

00:25:38.140 translate from English to more English, to Mimi English, to into Italian.

00:25:43.600 It's very, very confusing.

00:25:45.540 Andiamo Brandon, andiamo.

00:25:47.680 It doesn't sound as good in Italian.

00:25:49.380 Why?

00:25:50.020 Why are they doing this in Rome and elsewhere too?

00:25:52.860 I mean, you're seeing similar kind of protests around the world.

00:25:55.120 Why?

00:25:57.380 Joe Biden is ostensibly, at least, the president of the United States.

00:26:01.040 He's not the leader of Italy.

00:26:02.320 He's not the leader of the European Union.

00:26:04.080 He's not the head of the United Nations.

00:26:05.720 So why are you seeing these protests?

00:26:08.300 Well, I think we need to recognize the United States is the leader of the world.

00:26:14.380 At the very least, the leader of the West, and at least until very recently, certainly

00:26:20.700 the leader of the rest of the world.

00:26:22.180 And if you've ever traveled outside of the country, especially if you've ever traveled

00:26:25.600 outside the country during an American election season, you will notice the degree to which

00:26:32.520 the rest of the world looks to the United States for leadership.

00:26:35.920 And they are invested in the outcome of the American election.

00:26:38.880 And America really is sort of an empire, at least with a lot of soft power.

00:26:45.140 And that power is projected everywhere in the world.

00:26:47.420 I remember I was traveling in the Middle East during the 2016, right before the 2016 election

00:26:52.240 really kicked into high gear.

00:26:53.680 It was already really up and going.

00:26:57.060 And I was in Beirut.

00:26:58.420 I was in the United Arab Emirates.

00:27:00.540 I was in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

00:27:02.320 And I was down in Muscat, Oman.

00:27:04.180 I was in India.

00:27:06.040 And anywhere I went, anywhere and everywhere I went, people were talking about the American

00:27:10.840 election.

00:27:11.840 It was, I thought it was so strange.

00:27:13.900 I thought, what do you people care?

00:27:15.040 Oh, right.

00:27:15.500 The United States is the leader of the world.

00:27:17.000 So they are very invested in that.

00:27:18.860 And I think these F Joe Biden chants and let's go Brandon chants happening elsewhere in the

00:27:23.080 world, they represent broadly the power of the people versus the ruling class.

00:27:30.740 And the reason I think this has caught on the F Joe Biden thing and the let's go Brandon

00:27:37.120 thing is because it's a meme.

00:27:39.660 Okay.

00:27:40.300 It expresses a real thing.

00:27:42.020 I really believe that Brandon ought to go, you know, but, but it's also a meme and memes

00:27:50.500 are in themselves a representation of the power of the people.

00:27:55.100 In 2016, sometimes you would see Trump supporters refer to meme magic.

00:28:00.260 This idea that you've got the ruling class here that controls all of the media, that controls

00:28:07.240 all of the big tech platforms, that controls the administrative state, that controls much,

00:28:13.020 if not most of the elected government, that controls the universities and the schools and

00:28:16.920 everything.

00:28:17.680 It just controls everything.

00:28:18.800 And then you've got some memes, you know, and then you've got these people who are just

00:28:24.520 posting little memes on the internet and making fun of the ruling class and getting their message

00:28:29.560 across because the emperor has no clothes.

00:28:31.740 There, there was a meme that came out after the election and it showed, uh, two different

00:28:37.340 groups.

00:28:37.980 It showed one, it was like the New York Times building and it said, uh, the title was, who

00:28:42.440 do you think would win in a fight?

00:28:44.180 And on the New York Times building, it says the entire globalist, neoliberal media, corporate

00:28:50.280 establishment, or, and then it had a picture of Alex Jones, the radio host, or a shirtless

00:28:56.800 vitamin salesman.

00:28:58.340 And, and Jones won because Jones was the Trump supporter.

00:29:02.100 He was being identified there with Trump and obviously the times and all the rest of them

00:29:06.280 were identified with Hillary.

00:29:07.480 So I, I, I think a lot of this has to do with people saying, look, all, all of the official

00:29:12.820 power, almost all of it in the entire world rests with the liberal establishment, but we

00:29:19.300 still have power.

00:29:20.080 And how are we going to express it?

00:29:21.640 We're going to march through even the streets of Rome and chant, let's go Brandon or some

00:29:27.100 variation thereof.

00:29:30.040 Now you are seeing a pushback against this, this ugly rule of, of the oligarchic powers that

00:29:37.320 really expanded during COVID.

00:29:39.400 During COVID was really when the technocrats and the bureaucrats and the oligarchs came up,

00:29:42.660 and said, Hey, we're going to suspend all of your normal life, all of the normal rule

00:29:46.040 of law and force you in your homes, force you out of your job, shut down your church, 0.89

00:29:51.040 force you to muzzle yourself, make you take some experimental drug for a virus that's not

00:29:55.280 particularly dangerous to most people.

00:29:57.060 And they, they just kept changing their, their minds by the day and further and further encroaching

00:30:03.020 on people's freedoms and way of life.

00:30:04.700 So there has been some pushback, but it's been slow.

00:30:11.480 Maybe you get a Republican governor who says, okay, we're going to not require masks.

00:30:16.420 Well, that's good, but other people are requiring masks.

00:30:18.980 Okay.

00:30:19.240 We're going to, the government is prohibited from mandating masks.

00:30:22.920 Okay.

00:30:23.200 Well, what about the private businesses?

00:30:24.720 What about my place of work?

00:30:26.000 Well, I don't know, it's maybe, and so increasing, okay, we're not going to mandate vaccines,

00:30:31.980 but corporations might mandate vaccines, right?

00:30:34.340 And it's been this real battle the whole time.

00:30:36.160 Well, Governor Greg Abbott down in Texas doing a great, great job.

00:30:40.280 And he just had a very important order come out.

00:30:45.600 Governor Greg Abbott is banning any entity in Texas from instituting a vaccine mandate.

00:30:52.480 This is very important.

00:30:53.520 You might remember that a little while ago, Governor Abbott banned the government from

00:30:58.540 instituting them.

00:30:59.240 So the state government could not have a vaccine mandate, but that still left most Texans out

00:31:03.620 in the cold because the most Texans don't work for the state government.

00:31:06.360 So now he is completely banning.

00:31:08.680 Here's the exact wording, quote, no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine

00:31:13.800 by any individual, including an employee or a consumer who objects to such vaccination

00:31:19.280 for any reason of personal conscience based on a religious belief or for medical reasons,

00:31:24.680 including prior recovery from COVID-19.

00:31:26.800 I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition.

00:31:32.940 This is great.

00:31:34.000 I love this.

00:31:34.920 Extremely cool.

00:31:36.120 Very conservative.

00:31:37.940 Right.

00:31:38.780 Just.

00:31:39.360 It also shows us the difference between the libertarian point of view and the conservative

00:31:45.440 point of view.

00:31:47.220 During a lot of the later 20th century, the libertarian and the conservative point of view

00:31:51.280 were identified as being identical.

00:31:53.320 And the libertarian point of view really dominated that.

00:31:56.640 Now I think we're seeing the split a little bit more.

00:31:59.140 And so the libertarian point, and you're seeing a lot of neoconservatives and libertarian types

00:32:05.600 objecting to Governor Abbott's decision here.

00:32:08.660 And they're saying this is an affront to liberty.

00:32:11.680 Well, how is it an affront to liberty to say you're not going to have a vaccine mandate?

00:32:15.420 Well, they argue because the private business should have the right to mandate vaccines.

00:32:23.360 So the government should not infringe on your individual rights, but the private businesses

00:32:27.440 should infringe on your individual rights.

00:32:29.180 And that's the greatest defense of liberty.

00:32:32.100 Now, the libertarian argument here, I think, is just silly.

00:32:38.280 It's like another meme of someone, you know, of that little snake from the Gadsden flag having

00:32:44.180 his head crushed by a big boot.

00:32:45.860 And it's got all the names of corporations on the boot.

00:32:48.120 And the little snake is saying, at least it's not the government.

00:32:51.540 Well, no, if my way of life, if my traditions, if my liberties are being taken away,

00:32:57.440 by some woke corporation, that is no better to me than if the government is taking them

00:33:02.840 away.

00:33:03.060 In many cases, it's worse because I have even less control over the woke corporation than

00:33:07.020 I do over the government.

00:33:09.380 So what Abbott is doing is saying, no, we are not just going to get political power as

00:33:15.280 conservatives and then not use it and let woke corporations do whatever they want. 0.77

00:33:20.080 We as conservatives are going to win political power and then wield the political power to affect

00:33:25.200 our political vision.

00:33:26.360 There was a big debate that came up last night on Backstage, and it was a debate over secession.

00:33:31.420 Should Texas, for instance, leave the United States?

00:33:34.640 Should the right-wing states secede or vice versa?

00:33:37.320 Should the Democrat states secede or should we encourage that or should we permit that?

00:33:41.780 And it was a big divide.

00:33:42.960 Me, it wasn't usual.

00:33:44.640 You know, I agree with Candace Owens on almost everything.

00:33:47.940 And Matt Walsh and I often agree on a lot of things.

00:33:52.460 But on this one, they were both calling for secession.

00:33:55.520 And I was more in line with what Drew, Ben, and Jeremy were saying.

00:34:01.040 Namely, first of all, secession is going to involve a civil war.

00:34:04.000 And I don't think we ought to clamor, at least for, if a war comes, I guess we have to deal

00:34:07.300 with it.

00:34:07.600 But I don't think we should be clamoring for it.

00:34:09.420 But furthermore, it just seems to me that although there are many stalwart, strong, tough

00:34:14.820 conservatives, like my friends who were on stage last night, who are more open to the

00:34:19.240 idea of a Texit or a Cal Exit or a secession, I actually think it's kind of the lib answer

00:34:24.660 here.

00:34:25.920 Meaning, why would I allow half of my country just to go away and become a lib dystopia

00:34:33.160 and kill a zillion babies and, you know, wave the rainbow flag of the liberal empire and 0.59

00:34:40.120 rend my country in two?

00:34:43.340 Why would I do that when the alternative is just winning back political power in my own

00:34:49.800 country and prohibiting the left from pursuing their radical, destructive agenda?

00:34:56.240 Why can't we just stop them?

00:34:59.420 Right?

00:35:00.400 The secession argument seems to me to be a little bit of a you-do-you kind of argument.

00:35:05.060 Well, okay, I have no right to tell people in California that they can't mutilate children's

00:35:10.200 genitals and kill babies and do all sorts of crazy. 1.00

00:35:12.920 Yes, I do.

00:35:13.760 I absolutely do have that right as an American.

00:35:16.680 And I damn well intend to use that right.

00:35:19.060 And I think we all ought to do that.

00:35:20.880 Well, if people want to teach critical race theory in schools in New York, you can have

00:35:27.020 no right to talk about that.

00:35:28.280 If they want to burn the American flag in some godforsaken left-wing state, then that's 0.81

00:35:32.460 their right.

00:35:32.840 I don't think it's their right.

00:35:33.920 I don't think they have the right to do that.

00:35:35.920 And if they do happen to have the right today, I think we ought to take that right away because

00:35:39.740 I don't think that's a good right at all to permit in this country.

00:35:43.260 And I think it'll lead to national destruction.

00:35:44.840 And I don't think great nations continue to grow and flourish by dividing themselves into

00:35:50.800 ever smaller bits.

00:35:53.700 Absolutely not.

00:35:55.540 No way.

00:35:56.400 You know, we're seeing this speech issue happening right now and it relates to COVID.

00:36:01.140 I am flying out moments after I wrapped this show today to Wisconsin with my friend Ted

00:36:06.760 Cruz.

00:36:07.040 And we're going to be doing a verdict live show in conjunction with Young America's Foundation

00:36:12.180 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:36:14.340 This is a very left-wing school.

00:36:15.600 And we had a feeling that there would be some shenanigans.

00:36:19.640 And there are.

00:36:21.220 The school is demanding that we mask for the event.

00:36:24.540 Now, I'm not just saying they're demanding that the audience masks.

00:36:27.140 I hate that to begin with.

00:36:28.540 And I think that people should basically just avoid that stupid mandate altogether.

00:36:33.460 But no, no, no.

00:36:35.380 They wanted me and Cruz to mask on stage during the event.

00:36:42.860 So we're going to be on stage on camera saying, and that's going to be the event.

00:36:51.860 And so in many, in recent years, there have been many attempts to stifle conservative speech

00:36:56.720 on campus.

00:36:57.200 In this case, they'd just be basically taping our mouths shut.

00:36:59.760 So we said, well, hold it.

00:37:00.600 You can't expect the speakers, certainly not the speakers to muzzle themselves.

00:37:04.760 They said, no, that's the rule.

00:37:06.240 And so you look, and there is a rule.

00:37:08.040 Now, there's an exemption for education-related arts performances.

00:37:12.000 It would seem to me that a very popular podcast with a sitting U.S. senator would count as such.

00:37:16.920 But UW-Madison doesn't want to do that because they hate our show and they hate conservatives

00:37:21.800 being able to speak.

00:37:22.900 And so they just want to shut us up.

00:37:24.600 They've given exemptions to liberal speeches, but they don't want to give an exemption to ours.

00:37:28.080 So the libertarian point of view, I think, would be, well, okay, what can we do?

00:37:32.160 It's you, Madison.

00:37:32.880 Let them do whatever they want.

00:37:33.900 My conservative point of view is, uh-uh, no way.

00:37:36.860 We're going to figure out a workaround for this speech today.

00:37:39.640 But in the future, I think what we need to do is go in, take political power back, fire

00:37:45.000 these administrators, change the rules, and transform that culture and transform that institution

00:37:51.980 back towards something resembling a coherent, good American educational institution.

00:38:00.680 More people have died from coronavirus in 2021 than died in 2020.

00:38:06.580 You might see some conservatives mentioning this on Twitter.

00:38:10.620 You're certainly not going to see this from the establishment media.

00:38:13.960 But why does it matter?

00:38:14.940 You know, I've always thought that the death statistics that are, have been seriously manipulated

00:38:22.100 from the very beginning of the epidemic to the point that anyone who died with COVID

00:38:27.000 was counted as dying of COVID.

00:38:29.920 You know, the median and average age of a COVID death in the United States have been north

00:38:34.660 of 80 from the beginning.

00:38:37.100 And they've been higher than the average life expectancy in the United States.

00:38:40.180 But we're never allowed to take that into account or suggest that that might tell us something

00:38:45.580 about the meaning of these numbers.

00:38:48.100 We even saw in some cases people who died in a car wreck.

00:38:51.000 If they died with the coronavirus, it was called a COVID death.

00:38:53.800 If someone could get shot in the head, and then if they died with coronavirus, then they

00:38:59.360 were counted as a COVID death.

00:39:00.620 And you had public health officials telling us that.

00:39:03.220 But because there was a political incentive to inflate these numbers, that's the way the statistics

00:39:09.720 were counted.

00:39:11.040 So I thought, I don't know, why are, why are now we playing this silly statistics game

00:39:15.780 where we're trying to make arguments from really arguments about justice, the justice

00:39:21.160 of forced vaccinations, the justice about the mask mandates, the justice about all of this

00:39:25.500 from just these narrow kind of statistics.

00:39:27.980 Well, there is one reason that these numbers matter.

00:39:31.720 It shows you the double standard and it shows you how from the beginning there was never going

00:39:37.400 to be any way to argue from the science to convince these people to stop their madness.

00:39:45.400 When people were dying under Trump, under the Trump administration, when people were dying

00:39:50.940 of COVID, notably in Democrat states, California did very poorly on the virus and New York did

00:39:57.180 the worst of all on the virus.

00:39:58.820 New Jersey did pretty bad too.

00:40:01.440 That was Trump's fault.

00:40:02.720 When Andy Cuomo was sending sick people into nursing homes and killing elderly New Yorkers

00:40:07.420 needlessly by the thousands, that was Trump's fault.

00:40:10.620 All of the COVID deaths were Trump's fault.

00:40:12.560 But now that people are dying ostensibly of COVID on Joe Biden's watch, whose fault is it?

00:40:20.320 Ron DeSantis, of course.

00:40:22.720 Greg Abbott, of course.

00:40:25.960 It's the Republican governors.

00:40:27.580 How come it wasn't the Democrat governors' fault when they were dying in Democrat states

00:40:33.260 often under Trump?

00:40:35.280 How come that was the president's fault then?

00:40:36.720 But now it's not the president's fault.

00:40:38.040 It's the governor's fault because there is no logic to this because this is not about

00:40:45.220 the science or even about a coherent political philosophy.

00:40:48.200 This is about using and exploiting a virus to attain new political powers and to wield them

00:40:58.140 ruthlessly against the left's opponents.

00:41:00.400 That's what it's about.

00:41:01.540 That's what it's been about from the very beginning.

00:41:05.980 And so I don't want to toot my own horn.

00:41:07.420 You know how much I hate to say I told you so.

00:41:09.300 But from if not day one, at least day two, and really I think from day one of this epidemic,

00:41:15.280 I came out and said, guys, don't give in.

00:41:17.560 Don't give in on this stuff.

00:41:18.600 This isn't, this seems really overblown.

00:41:20.980 This seems opportunistic and cynical.

00:41:23.460 Well, a number of other people, not just the rock-ribbed right-wingers working in politics,

00:41:28.840 but a lot of other people called this out as well, including Eric Clapton.

00:41:34.360 You know, Eric Clapton, one of the great popular musicians of the last 50 years.

00:41:40.100 Eric Clapton is not exactly, I don't know, he's not like a MAGA hat wearing, rock-ribbed

00:41:46.820 conservative.

00:41:47.580 He's expressed some conservative views over the years, but he's also a rock musician.

00:41:51.220 He's expressed some kind of liberal views.

00:41:53.660 So Eric Clapton went out and got the vaccine.

00:41:58.100 He got the COVID vaccine.

00:41:59.260 He was encouraged to do it.

00:42:00.280 I guess he's a little slightly long in the tooth these days.

00:42:03.160 You know, he's not as young as he once was.

00:42:04.400 So he goes, gets the vaccine, and he has an adverse reaction to it, and it causes him

00:42:10.460 some nerve problems.

00:42:11.200 He already had a nerve issue, but it causes him some more nerve problems, and he says,

00:42:14.100 oh my, and he's talking to his doctors, and they said, ah, yeah, well, you know, this

00:42:16.860 does happen sometimes, and he couldn't play guitar for some period of time, several weeks

00:42:21.140 at least, and so now he's really campaigning against vaccine mandates.

00:42:25.600 He's saying he won't play at venues that require the vaccines, and so I think this is

00:42:29.760 really admirable.

00:42:30.360 I tweeted out, and I said, you know, whatever you think of Clapton, the man's got more credibility

00:42:34.040 than Dr. Fauci.

00:42:35.140 So I got a call from Rolling Stone magazine.

00:42:37.560 It just doesn't happen a lot.

00:42:38.900 Usually, of the magazines that call for interviews, Rolling Stone is not one of them, and they're

00:42:43.640 really angry at Clapton.

00:42:44.680 The headline is, Eric Clapton isn't just spouting vaccine nonsense.

00:42:47.740 He's bankrolling it.

00:42:48.800 I do have to thank the author of this piece because he quoted me, I think, pretty faithfully.

00:42:54.500 He actually did express my views on this, but it's amazing that Rolling Stone

00:43:00.340 needed some right winger to tell them this, which is, since when are rock and roll stars

00:43:07.940 supposed to just go along with the establishment party line?

00:43:13.260 When did that happen?

00:43:15.280 Isn't that kind of weird?

00:43:17.460 I'm not even saying I love rock and roll.

00:43:19.580 You know, I don't, I do not think it's the highest form of art, even though I guess I'm

00:43:23.180 technically in a rock band from like, you know, a sort of 1960s rock band, but I don't

00:43:27.200 think it's the highest form of art, okay?

00:43:28.580 But Rolling Stone does, and a lot of people do in our culture.

00:43:32.240 A lot of people love rock and roll, and rock and roll was all about flicking a middle finger

00:43:36.140 to established authority and breaking rules and being subversive, except now you'll notice

00:43:41.260 all of it, just about, goes along with the party line.

00:43:47.300 Now, part of this is because the radicals of the 1960s became the establishment, and they

00:43:52.440 had lots of bad ideas, and they've done a very bad job with society, and that's why you're

00:43:55.740 seeing society crumble all around you.

00:43:57.840 But those rockers are part of that establishment, and very few of them, some exceptions, Eric

00:44:03.740 Clapton, Van Morrison also has been pretty strong against these vaccine mandates.

00:44:07.340 They've come out and said, no, actually, I don't think we should just give all our political

00:44:10.400 rights and freedoms to Dr. Fauci.

00:44:12.300 No, this seems kind of wrong.

00:44:13.920 Actually, no, I'm going to trust my audience to make their own medical decisions, like we

00:44:18.180 used to do in this civilization.

00:44:20.180 No, I'm actually going to, I'm going to trust my own listeners to make some basic decisions

00:44:28.040 about their own lives.

00:44:30.280 That, that is, I think, the greatest evidence of all that our ruling class, our ruling elite,

00:44:39.160 our ruling establishment has, has transformed radically.

00:44:43.180 And so if we are going to undo that, I don't think we need to grow our hair out or get a,

00:44:47.400 you know, get a ton of like rock tattoos or anything like that, shoot, do a bunch of drugs.

00:44:51.180 Probably we shouldn't do any of those things.

00:44:53.400 But what we are going to have to do is question that ruling establishment.

00:44:57.520 We're going to have to subvert it in creative ways, and we're going to have to take a very

00:45:01.240 long path, just like it did for the radicals of the 60s, a years, decades long path to gradually,

00:45:07.880 but steadily attain political power and wield it and have the courage to wield it.

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00:46:11.060 Superman has come out as gay.

00:46:13.020 We're told that this is all about creating gender greater representation for supposedly

00:46:16.980 marginalized groups.

00:46:18.000 But I think there's something else going on, and I'll explain what that is.

00:46:20.580 Also, parents in Loudoun County call for the superintendent to resign after the school

00:46:24.360 district covered up the rape of a girl in the school bathroom.

00:46:27.140 And the Chicago Police Department is having trouble recruiting new cops.

00:46:30.120 I wonder why that is.

00:46:30.900 Plus, Lego commits itself to combating gender stereotypes.

00:46:34.380 All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - October 13, 2021

Ep. 863 - Superman Is Now Super Gay

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