The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 We need to stop referring to what has happened over the past year and a half as COVID. I've been

00:00:06.260 guilty of it too, but we need to stop it. You know, when people say, oh, we had all of these

00:00:10.600 plans for last year, but then COVID happened, or, oh, yes, that was going all well and good,

00:00:16.840 but then COVID, and so, you know, we couldn't live our lives anymore. What happened last year

00:00:23.640 is not because of COVID, that huge political and social revolution. It is because of the

00:00:31.900 lockdowns and the other measures that cynical and opportunistic politicians implemented using

00:00:38.240 COVID as an excuse, and that's not some wild, crazy conspiracy theory. That is a strategy that

00:00:45.480 we all knew the left was using, even at the time, and that right now, even the White House is admitting.

00:00:50.900 The president wants to make fundamental change in our economy, and he feels coming out of the

00:00:56.460 pandemic is exactly the time to do that. And if we don't do it now, if we don't address

00:01:01.940 the cost of childcare, to go back to Josh's question earlier, if we don't address the climate

00:01:08.060 crisis, if we don't ensure that universal pre-K is a reality now, we're not going to have the same

00:01:15.400 opportunity to do it for some time. We're not going to have the opportunity, and that's what

00:01:20.440 COVID is for the left. It's an opportunity. Sometimes people have called it a great reset.

00:01:26.140 They've called it this major revolution. But it's not the wacky conspiracy theorists. It's the left

00:01:31.680 who is admitting that that's what they're doing. The left never lets a crisis go to waste. Perhaps

00:01:37.260 we ought to learn that lesson. Perhaps we ought to use crises to our political advantage as well.

00:01:42.360 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:51.240 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from,

00:01:54.260 it ain't like that, bro. We was just texting. That's the name. I like that comment too. But

00:01:59.660 the comment is, quote, the funniest thing is when liberals label you a, quote, conspiracy theorist

00:02:07.220 for calling their plan an agenda right. When you say, hey, look, the libs said they were going to do

00:02:16.140 this thing, and then they are doing this thing, and this is where that thing is going, they call you

00:02:21.880 a conspiracy theorist, even if you're playing their own words against them. That you cannot do. If you

00:02:27.920 ever call out the reality of what they are doing, they will label you as delusional and try to get

00:02:34.160 people to ignore what you're saying. But I think it's time we start paying attention, because the

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00:04:06.340 supporting the show. What more evidence do we need? You have the White House coming out. And this,

00:04:13.220 by the way, poor Jen Psaki was getting in this exchange with a reporter. She's got a lot to

00:04:20.200 defend right now. And a lot of what she has to defend is indefensible. The border collapsing,

00:04:24.900 turmoil, let's go Brandon chants happening all over the country, nay, all over the world,

00:04:30.780 and the economy falling apart. And she says, look, look, we're trying to completely upend the economy.

00:04:36.040 We're trying to reorder society. All right. We've got to do it now. This is a once in a lifetime

00:04:40.740 opportunity. So cut us a little bit of slack. Oopsie daisy. Was I supposed to say that? Whoopsie.

00:04:45.900 Did I say the quiet part out loud? Because what has COVID represented? Yes, it has represented

00:04:53.060 this mass hysteria over all segments of society for a virus that has a very, very low infection

00:05:01.020 mortality rate, or infection fatality rate, rather. Yes, it represents a reordering of political rights.

00:05:08.900 Yes, it's a massive power grab from the bureaucracy taking away lots of liberties that we once had.

00:05:14.820 But let's not forget the economic aspect. This COVID lockdown phenomenon has been the largest

00:05:23.620 transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to a select few very wealthy, powerful people

00:05:31.380 in our nation's history. Maybe well beyond our nation's history. Just consider Amazon. Just consider

00:05:40.620 your own behavior with Amazon. We now, and for the past year and a half, have accelerated the trend

00:05:47.580 of ordering every freaking thing in the world from Amazon. So much so that there's a book paper shortage

00:05:54.700 going on right now because people are using so much more cardboard. Because now instead of going down

00:06:00.280 the street to the store to order, I don't know, to go buy a box of Q-tips or something, even that you're

00:06:04.300 going to order from Amazon. Right? A major transfer of wealth from small businesses to these much larger

00:06:11.200 conglomerates that can deal with the world being shut down for a year and a half. And those corporations

00:06:17.460 have a radical social agenda. I just saw this the other day. Just came to my attention on Amazon. Do you

00:06:25.100 know that on Amazon you can shop by the identity, the political identities of the business owners?

00:06:35.660 What I mean by that is if you go on Amazon right now, you can type in black owned business. Just

00:06:41.260 type it right into the search bar and a big banner will come up and it will say shop at businesses owned

00:06:45.940 by black people. Now, what does this mean? I don't know. Does this mean that black people need to own a

00:06:50.440 50%, 51% maybe, or 50% plus one vote stake in the business? What about, what if it's 49% owned by

00:06:58.540 white people, but 51% owned by black people? Is it still a black owned business? I don't know. Maybe

00:07:03.280 you can go to the Amazon shop by category page and see they've got links for black owned businesses.

00:07:10.260 They've got links for women owned businesses. So I was looking through, I said, okay, this is very,

00:07:15.380 very woke. Uh, what happens if I want to shop at a straight white guy owned businesses? I don't,

00:07:20.980 look, I don't have any particular impulse to shop at straight white guy owned businesses,

00:07:25.360 but what if I did? This is the new rule. You're allowed to, to pick where you're going to shop

00:07:30.020 based on the identity of the owner. Okay. Do, do, do. So I type it in and you'll be shocked to find out

00:07:34.820 it doesn't come up. And then you look on the page, the shop by category page. It's nowhere to be found

00:07:40.620 because that would be racist. If you go to a white owned business page, that's racist. If you go to

00:07:47.460 a black owned business page, very not racist, anti-racist actually. If you go to a man owned

00:07:54.080 business page, sexist woman owned business page, not sexist. Of course that is incoherent. Either

00:08:03.380 they both are racist or neither is racist. Either they both are sexist or neither is sexist. And what

00:08:08.240 it leads to is something that we've seen increasingly, which is an official policy of

00:08:14.080 that much maligned straight white guy as the worst type of person who has ever existed of,

00:08:20.200 of white people in particular, but with some other groups as well, officially as second class citizens

00:08:25.500 and with men officially as second class citizens. The clearest place of course, to see this is at

00:08:31.040 university admissions, which is that if you are a white guy or an Asian guy, for some reason,

00:08:37.380 you will be disadvantaged. You will be put in a lower category if you're applying to university

00:08:43.960 than if you're a black person or an Hispanic person. If you're a man, you will be put in a

00:08:49.520 lower, especially if you're a straight guy, you'll be put in a lower category. You will be disadvantaged

00:08:54.400 than if you are a woman or you can claim some other kind of victim status. But that is a social

00:09:00.740 hierarchy. There you are saying certain people are going to get certain things. And this process,

00:09:06.900 that we are in right now, this radical social transformation is accelerating that. We're all

00:09:12.080 guilty of it. But when you shop at places like Amazon, you are accelerating that trend. Now,

00:09:17.800 what is the answer? Is the answer just never to shop at Amazon? I don't even think that's really

00:09:21.860 feasible. Amazon just has too much power. So I don't think we need to say, let's go knock down Amazon

00:09:27.080 or never shop there again. But what we need to do is wield political power to stop this stuff.

00:09:31.580 Because I don't want to live in a world where we are defined by these radical social sexual and

00:09:38.000 racial hierarchies. And we are in. I mean, the one thing Jen Psaki is getting right here is this is a

00:09:45.000 once in a lifetime opportunity. The economy is being reordered. Just in August, we have got from CNBC

00:09:53.040 a report of a record 4.3 million workers quitting their jobs. And what we are told, by the way,

00:10:01.860 is that when 4.3 million workers quit their jobs, even with a labor shortage, right? There's an 11

00:10:08.540 million person labor shortage going on right now. When all these workers quit their jobs,

00:10:12.820 it's a sign of economic strength. That's actually how the left is trying to spin this. Because they say,

00:10:18.820 look, people are quitting their jobs because they're not worried about getting another job. Well,

00:10:23.140 sure, we're in a labor shortage right now. But why are they really quitting their jobs? Might it have

00:10:27.240 anything to do with the powers that be, the ruling class, telling people not to work and then telling

00:10:34.780 people that if they don't get an experimental drug for a virus that for most people doesn't pose a grave

00:10:39.420 threat to them, they're going to be fine. They're going to lose their jobs. And then telling employers

00:10:44.100 to fine, that they're going to have to pay fines if the workers don't comply. And then also the

00:10:49.460 government paying people not to work for months and months, well over a year now on end. Might it

00:10:55.720 have anything to do with that? And why is the government doing that? Is it sheer incompetence?

00:11:00.860 I don't think so. Is it out of the goodness of their heart? I don't think so. Do you remember a few

00:11:04.640 years ago when Marco Rubio glitched out during that debate and he said, we must dispel with this

00:11:09.640 fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing? He knows exactly what he's doing. And Chris

00:11:12.480 Christie called him out. And it was kind of the end of Marco's presidential campaign. Well, he was

00:11:17.680 right. He had a point. We need to dispel with the fiction that the left is incompetent, that poor

00:11:21.960 Biden is just incompetent. He doesn't know what he's doing. These people know exactly what they're

00:11:25.680 doing. They're using a crisis to their advantage. And we on the right are letting them do it.

00:11:33.640 Southwest Airlines has been at the epicenter of this economic turmoil over the past few days. And it's

00:11:41.860 because on Sunday, we covered it on Monday, on Sunday, a thousand flights get canceled for Southwest.

00:11:49.480 And the day before that, it was a whole lot of flights were canceled. And the day after that, a whole lot of

00:11:53.740 flights were canceled. And Southwest Airlines officially said it was because of weather. But I don't know

00:11:59.000 about you. Sunday was perfectly beautiful where I was. I don't think there were any major storm systems that

00:12:04.100 moved in. Some other airlines didn't have a problem. And over the ensuing days, what came out was that

00:12:11.680 there was a sick in, that there were pilots and notably air traffic controllers in places that were

00:12:19.500 in particular affecting Southwest that called in sick because they didn't want to comply with the

00:12:25.780 vaccine mandate. And so what are you going to do? You've got a vaccine mandate at the level of the

00:12:31.820 federal government, right? So that could affect the air traffic controllers. That's a direct mandate

00:12:36.480 saying, get the vaccine or lose your job. But then you've got the cowardly, Byzantine, complicated

00:12:44.000 vaccine mandate that Barack Obama, that Joe Biden instituted on the employees of companies with more

00:12:52.180 than 100 employees. And that was by ordering the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order

00:12:57.580 the companies with these, this number of employees to order the employees to take the vaccine or the

00:13:03.620 companies would have to pay $14,000 fines. Now the fine has actually been increased a whole lot more.

00:13:08.180 And so over the ensuing days, Southwest sort of came clean and the CEO went on TV and said, look,

00:13:13.860 I hate the mandate. The only reason I'm pushing the mandate on my employees is because Joe Biden is

00:13:18.580 making me and we can't afford to pay these gazillion dollar fines every single time we are caught

00:13:23.580 violating the mandates. And that's half true. Okay. But it's not totally true. It's yes, Joe Biden

00:13:32.140 started this. He instituted this, or he, he made this ridiculous proclamation that all of these

00:13:37.860 companies are going to have to go along with the vaccine mandate, but they're not actually enforcing

00:13:42.960 that right now. OSHA, that agency that was tasked with doing it, hasn't even really issued the formal

00:13:47.860 rules. Basically it was just a big press event. It's like a big press release. And I think what it

00:13:56.040 did in effect was give woke CEOs some cover to demand that their employees take the vaccine while

00:14:03.940 being able to blame it on Joe Biden. Now, I don't think that the CEO of Southwest is necessarily a

00:14:08.900 big woke guy. They've actually done some pretty conservative things in the past. So I'm not, not

00:14:13.060 really accusing him of that, but I think it is a wake up call for, for other companies here.

00:14:19.240 You don't need to go along with this. Look at us. Okay. I don't want to toot our own horn here at

00:14:23.620 the daily wire, but when that, when that, uh, mandate came out, what did, what did the daily wire say?

00:14:31.840 Jeremy Boring, the God King here at the daily wire went on the air and he had three words for Joe

00:14:37.200 Biden. And those words were not let's go Brandon. Actually those words were let's go Brandon. They were the

00:14:41.780 true meaning of let's go Brandon. We said, no, thank you, buddy. We're not going to comply with

00:14:46.280 this. Sue us, take us to court. We hired a bunch of lawyers and look, if we were a, we're the fastest

00:14:51.700 growing conservative media company in the country, but we have relatively limited resources compared

00:14:57.220 with an entity like Southwest airlines or any of these other large entities. So if we can lawyer up

00:15:02.520 and we can stand firm, why can't you? I actually think that these other companies can, and I don't

00:15:07.840 want them just passing the buck onto Joe Biden. The CEOs need to stand up. If you're not going to do

00:15:13.360 it now, when are you going to do it? This is a generational opportunity that, that the left

00:15:18.020 sees and they're going to try to take full advantage of it. And they're even bragging about it now from

00:15:21.540 the white house. And so they've got to stand up and they've got to, they've got to have the courage

00:15:27.220 to defend the rights of their employees. And don't blame Joe Biden if you're not going to do it.

00:15:32.900 Yeah. Joe Biden is a, not a great guy and he's doing a lot of terrible things, but what are you

00:15:38.620 doing? Business owners? What are you doing? CEOs? It was, it was encouraging to see the Southwest CEO

00:15:45.860 go on TV and say, it's all Biden's fault in a certain sense, because it shows that even in our

00:15:50.460 corrupt culture, these powerful people can still turn on Joe Biden because they're feeling the heat

00:15:58.120 from their own guys, but we need to see a lot more of that. Otherwise the left is going to succeed

00:16:04.480 at radically changing our world as a result of COVID. CNN right now is, is referring to the time before

00:16:12.920 the COVID lockdowns as I kid you not, the before times, capital B, capital T. I don't know how many

00:16:22.640 of you are history buffs, but in our civilization, traditionally the way that we refer to the

00:16:28.720 dating, you know, to, to the years in our calendar is with a BC referring to the time before Christ

00:16:37.140 and AD, the anno domini, the year, the year of our Lord, right? That's the traditional way. And then

00:16:44.660 the libs came in and the atheists, and they said, no, how dare you? We can't refer to Christ, this,

00:16:52.080 the central figure in our civilization and in the entire cosmos. We can't refer, that would be very

00:16:58.900 wrong. So we're going to refer to the common era. So then they, then they thought this was very clever

00:17:03.280 because they could change BC to BCE. This is before the common era and then after the common era, but

00:17:09.360 no, we've gotten even crazier than that stupid dating. We're now into the B, B-T and A-T, I don't

00:17:16.740 know, the before times and the after times. What CNN tweeted was, quote, if you hoped grocery stores

00:17:22.260 this fall and winter would look like they did in the before times with limitless options stretching

00:17:27.060 out before you in the snack, drink, candy, and frozen foods aisles, get ready for some disappointing

00:17:33.040 news. It's not going to happen. And it's, they're blaming it on supply chain and it's, and it's all

00:17:37.780 because of, because of COVID. It's not because of COVID. The, the time before the lockdowns does

00:17:43.640 not need to be the absolutely unrelatable before times. And the time we're living in now doesn't

00:17:49.020 need to be radically different because of COVID. COVID relative to other scourges that humanity has

00:17:55.380 faced is just not that big, a freaking deal. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm not saying it

00:18:01.940 doesn't pose a threat, especially to some people, but relative to other problems that our world has

00:18:06.660 faced, I don't know, bubonic plague, or I don't know, smallpox even, or I don't, wars. It's just

00:18:14.080 not that big, a freaking deal relative to those other issues. Certainly not so much so that we need

00:18:21.800 to say that this is the defining event in our civilization's history, but it can be that big

00:18:30.380 a deal. It can be that big a deal if we allow it to. I think that if the left has its druthers,

00:18:37.780 then 2019 and all the years before that will just seem so different. Oh my gosh, back in those days,

00:18:44.660 we used to drive a lot of places. We used to go into work. We used to see each other. Can you imagine

00:18:49.400 going and seeing each other's faces and smiling, breathing the same filthy air that the peasants

00:18:55.120 would breathe? Oh, those were crazy before times when you would see people and not just have everyone

00:18:59.500 walk around muzzled all the time. When you would go into an office building, go into a school building,

00:19:04.260 and actually interact with one. Oh, crazy before times. Thankfully now, though, we all live in our

00:19:08.220 pods and eat the bugs and just give all of our money to a handful of oligarchs who control speech,

00:19:14.060 who control our elections, who control, oh, that's so much better. Do you know we used to go vote on

00:19:19.840 election day in our republic? Oh my goodness, in the crazy before times. Now we just fill in, mail in votes

00:19:25.740 with no verification and we trust the ruling class to conduct fair elections. When even Barack Obama

00:19:31.060 admitted to us a few years before we went into the post before times that that would pose a great

00:19:37.160 threat to election integrity. Oh yes, but we live in a much better time right now. We're seeing this

00:19:43.340 happen all around us. It is this grab of power. These people using this moment as an opportunity

00:19:53.600 to reorder society. There's a story. I'm going to get to it a little bit more tomorrow. We don't have

00:19:58.260 a ton of time to get into it today, but Stephen Crowder just texted me, so I feel that I ought to

00:20:03.240 mention it. They're censoring Crowder again. And they always censor Crowder. And you might say,

00:20:08.100 well, it's because Crowder, you know, look, he's an edgy comedian. And he'll, yeah, he's a comedian.

00:20:12.800 That's the definition of a comedian. They push boundaries. They get a little subversive

00:20:16.600 sometimes. But the reason they went after Crowder this time is because he was pushing a hateful,

00:20:23.320 violent idea. Do you know what the idea was? The idea was that transgender bathroom policies might

00:20:30.260 not be all that great for some people. And do you know why he pushed that idea? Because of a story

00:20:36.640 that the Daily Wire broke. Because we said a year ago that we were going to hire investigative

00:20:42.080 journalists, we were not just going to reinterpret stories from the left-wing investigative outlets

00:20:46.720 and take away the bias and actually present the facts. But we were going to go investigate our own

00:20:51.220 stories and cover stories that the left doesn't even want to publish. And we just broke a story

00:20:56.480 that a girl, a teenage girl, was allegedly very, very viciously and violently raped in a bathroom by a

00:21:05.660 man who would occasionally wear a skirt in a place where now boys are allowed to go in the girls' room

00:21:11.280 because of the so-called compassionate transgender policies. And this was considered violent. Not

00:21:16.060 because of the violent act that happened to this teenage girl. Violent because we suggested that

00:21:19.980 maybe boys shouldn't, or that Crowder suggested rather, maybe boys shouldn't go into the girls' room.

00:21:23.860 You're not going to see a lot from Crowder in the coming week because of that. These are the people

00:21:28.980 who are controlling our society. We're going to have to talk to Crowder this week, next week. I mean,

00:21:34.460 he's going to be off for a little while. We'll cover it a little bit more tomorrow. But in the

00:21:39.820 meantime, we've got to take a very quick break. You know, we had a great time the other night at the

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00:25:21.440 A school in England has banned the terms good and bad.

00:25:40.920 This sounds like an Onion headline or a Babylon Bee headline. It's not.

00:25:45.520 They have banned the terms good and bad to describe student behavior because the headmaster wants to remove, quote,

00:25:53.780 emotional words from classroom management. This is at Lowborough Amherst School.

00:26:00.160 They are now told to describe student behavior, which is either good or bad, as skillful or unskillful.

00:26:07.440 The headmaster, Dr. Julian Murphy, says the policy, which he took, I'm not joking, he took the policy from Buddhism,

00:26:15.620 was, quote, designed to take the emotional heat out of our language.

00:26:20.340 Dr. Murphy said he did not want teachers to go soft, but he doesn't want them to be shouty either.

00:26:26.260 And he especially doesn't want pupils to feel guilty.

00:26:31.000 Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

00:26:32.600 We have a lot of this in our country, too.

00:26:35.580 So, don't be so judgy.

00:26:38.840 You know, come on, you can't say that something's good.

00:26:41.460 What if what you think is good actually someone else thinks is bad?

00:26:44.940 Don't you impose your values on me, man.

00:26:47.440 We need to use these less emotional terms, skillful or unskillful.

00:26:51.520 Now, there's one big problem with this, which is namely that bad students can be very skillful at being bad.

00:26:59.300 You know, dirty, rotten students can be really skillful at being rotten.

00:27:04.060 Right? You remember this.

00:27:06.520 The kid who was a jerk in class, who was always telling jokes, he was very skillful at telling jokes and distracting the class.

00:27:13.360 Kids who, I don't know, they commit crimes, they steal things, they pick fights, they perform violent acts in school bathrooms,

00:27:22.060 as we just saw in Loudoun County, the story that we just broke.

00:27:25.760 They can be very skillful at that.

00:27:27.260 It actually does require skill to steal and to commit acts of violence and to do all sorts of bad things.

00:27:33.660 But it's still bad. It's still rotten.

00:27:35.200 What the left is trying to do here, what the school is trying to do here in England is they're trying to apply scientific materialism.

00:27:45.580 They're trying to apply the modern notions of utilitarianism, of efficiency, really of science, to moral questions.

00:27:58.920 Okay, so skillful or unskillful.

00:28:03.880 Because we don't want people to sound, to feel guilty.

00:28:08.380 This is what the headmaster says.

00:28:10.300 I think it's human psychology, even when you're an adult.

00:28:12.680 If you make people feel guilty, then you get angry.

00:28:14.880 And then actually, that's when you're likely to play the blame game and not to work that well.

00:28:19.420 That's when things get into a bit of a vicious circle.

00:28:22.220 So the reason that we have problems and the reason that people do bad things, according to this headmaster, is because people feel guilty.

00:28:30.060 That's one view of it.

00:28:31.460 That's not my view of it, though.

00:28:32.600 I think the reason that people do bad things is, one, because they don't feel guilty.

00:28:38.160 They don't have the sense of sin.

00:28:40.320 Or, two, because they are not made to be held to account for their feelings of guilt and shame.

00:28:46.700 It is very important to have a sense of shame and guilt and sin.

00:28:51.740 In our culture, we're told, don't shame.

00:28:54.840 Don't slut shame.

00:28:56.880 Don't body shame.

00:28:58.440 Don't shame shame.

00:28:59.860 Don't ever have shame.

00:29:00.960 Only have pride.

00:29:01.660 Don't ever have shame.

00:29:02.700 Shame is a good thing.

00:29:04.360 Shame is a very helpful tool.

00:29:06.520 It lets you know when you're going down the wrong path.

00:29:09.600 Okay?

00:29:10.160 We need a lot more of it.

00:29:11.820 We live in a shameless society.

00:29:14.380 We ought to have a society where people feel a greater sense of shame.

00:29:17.960 The whole point of education is to teach people not to follow their basest appetites and passions and do whatever they want.

00:29:25.360 It's actually, the whole point of education is to help cultivate a sense of shame in people.

00:29:31.580 Because education is not just learning a few facts from a history book.

00:29:35.060 Education is about the whole person.

00:29:36.420 It's bringing up the whole person and making them capable of their freedom.

00:29:40.440 This is why we refer to the liberal arts.

00:29:42.720 And a whole lot of that is cultivating a sense of shame and saying, don't do that.

00:29:46.560 Bad boy, Johnny.

00:29:47.680 No, no.

00:29:48.360 No more of that.

00:29:49.620 Be a good little boy.

00:29:51.120 And learn to govern yourself.

00:29:52.680 And then you can be a free person.

00:29:54.560 But the left, broadly, does not want to cultivate free citizens.

00:29:58.480 Because free citizens are really hard to control.

00:30:01.120 They want to encourage you to run away with your sexual appetites or your, whatever, your food appetites, your drink appetites, your entertainment appetites.

00:30:10.960 They want these things to run away and master you so that they, who are pulling a lot of these levers, will find it easier to control you and to control the political order.

00:30:20.660 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:30:23.480 Getting back to the comment at the top of the show.

00:30:26.680 They've been telling us this since the 1960s.

00:30:29.120 I write about this in my book, Speechless.

00:30:30.540 The radical theorists on the left who developed our current political orthodoxies, they write about this a lot.

00:30:38.400 It's the way they've attained cultural hegemony.

00:30:40.520 And we ought to take it back.

00:30:44.460 We've gotten so stupid, speaking of education.

00:30:47.640 The San Antonio Spurs coach, Greg Popovich, he just said one of the dumbest things I think that I've ever heard.

00:30:55.300 I can't believe how much sports I have to watch these days.

00:30:58.080 I'm not the biggest sports guy.

00:31:00.320 I don't think I'm shocking anybody when I say that.

00:31:03.040 The only sport I like is baseball.

00:31:04.800 And when they went woke last year, I canceled my subscription.

00:31:06.880 But now I've got to watch football because of Gruden.

00:31:11.640 I've got to watch basketball because of this guy Popovich.

00:31:15.520 Greg Popovich seems to believe that if you honor Christopher Columbus, who some of us honored this week,

00:31:23.240 that's no different than a German celebrating Hitler.

00:31:26.020 Indigenous Peoples Day slash Columbus Day, Columbus, I mean, he initiated a New World Genocide.

00:31:38.560 That's what he did.

00:31:39.880 He took slaves.

00:31:42.100 He mutilated.

00:31:43.640 He murdered.

00:31:44.180 And we're going to say slash and honor him.

00:31:51.260 It's Columbus Day.

00:31:52.700 That's why they're off on Monday.

00:31:56.720 You know, maybe there's something I'm missing and I'm ignorant.

00:31:59.360 But it makes me feel like they're living in a phone booth.

00:32:02.020 And they're educating our kids.

00:32:04.720 Columbus Day.

00:32:06.520 And we're going to honor that.

00:32:08.800 And it's no knock on Italian-Americans.

00:32:11.580 That's a silly argument.

00:32:13.360 You know, it's like saying we should be proud of Hitler because we're German.

00:32:17.640 I mean, it makes no sense.

00:32:19.120 It's about Columbus.

00:32:20.300 It's not about Italian-Americans.

00:32:22.820 So there's one thing that this guy said that was true, which is maybe I'm ignorant and maybe I don't know anything.

00:32:29.480 Yeah, I don't.

00:32:30.140 I think he is probably ignorant.

00:32:31.540 And I think he probably spent most of his school years dribbling.

00:32:33.860 And that's perfectly fine.

00:32:35.140 That's his job and his career.

00:32:36.720 But he clearly didn't pay a lot of attention in history class.

00:32:39.700 I'm not going to rehash the arguments over Columbus.

00:32:41.680 Columbus was a great guy who did a lot of great things, notably bringing Christianity to the Western Hemisphere.

00:32:46.760 He's accused of doing a lot of things that he never did.

00:32:49.280 And by the way, for a lot of the indigenous peoples that were here, their culture wasn't all that great to begin with, notably the cannibalism and the human sacrifice.

00:32:56.720 Some people were good people to invoke the former president.

00:33:00.920 Some, I suppose, were good people.

00:33:02.340 But Columbus was far less bad and far more good than people give him credit for.

00:33:09.560 And the indigenous peoples had some pretty horrifying demonic practices that Columbus and the Spaniards who came after him put an end to, rightly so.

00:33:18.540 But notice the angle here.

00:33:22.620 The angle is this celebrating Columbus, if you're an Italian, is like a German celebrating Hitler, which means that Columbus and Hitler are the same person.

00:33:31.400 They're comparable.

00:33:31.840 Because you've got the Italian people, you've got the German people, and they're both admiring these guys, and so these guys are comparable, right?

00:33:39.080 That's the argument.

00:33:40.120 But it's not true.

00:33:41.480 It's ridiculous.

00:33:42.180 It's this new angle to say that the person, Christopher Columbus, who is responsible for bringing our civilization to the new world, is evil.

00:33:51.440 The embodiment, in many ways, of Western civilization is evil, meaning the civilization itself is evil.

00:34:00.180 And when we talk about all these radical theorists who developed this stuff, I know sometimes people are skeptical.

00:34:07.560 And they say, Michael, how on earth does some radical Marxist in his ivory tower at Harvard University, you're telling me that that guy, because he wrote some ridiculous book that no one has ever really read, that is affecting our whole culture?

00:34:21.700 Yes, it does have downstream effects in our culture, even to the point that this ignorant basketball coach is spouting the lies being pushed by radical academics and polemicists, including, in this case, someone like Howard Zinn, who is a revisionist historian.

00:34:39.760 He's not even really an historian.

00:34:40.860 He's a political activist.

00:34:42.060 It does have effects all the way down the line.

00:34:45.160 The left has taken its once-in-a-generation opportunities every time they pop up over every single generation, and they've used it to great political effect, and we have not, and that's to our disadvantage.

00:34:58.360 Columbus is like Hitler.

00:34:59.800 Give me a break.

00:35:00.720 Now, speaking of famous painters, how's that for a segue?

00:35:04.740 Hunter Biden is selling his artwork.

00:35:07.660 Hunter Biden.

00:35:08.380 You know this.

00:35:09.580 Hunter Biden has given up his life of crime, apparently, and drugs and hookers and selling his father's influence and selling out the United States.

00:35:21.020 Now he's making his money in an honest way by selling his scribbles for half a million dollars.

00:35:26.240 It would seem that some of the art collectors are not so interested in the doodles of this degenerate Hunter Biden, but they perhaps are trying to buy some influence with the president of the United States.

00:35:35.180 So Joe Biden was just asked about this by a reporter, and he brushes it off.

00:35:39.000 He laughs as he's walking by.

00:35:40.120 He says, you've got to be kidding me.

00:35:41.900 President Biden, are you concerned about potential corruption with your son's arms?

00:35:46.760 Are you concerned about potential corruption?

00:35:48.800 How's your allergies, Mr. President?

00:35:53.180 Are you concerned?

00:35:54.180 It's a little bit hard to hear in this clip because Biden basically doesn't break his stride.

00:35:57.480 He says, you've got to be kidding me.

00:35:59.120 You've got to be kidding me.

00:35:59.960 And this is almost more offensive than Hunter Biden actually peddling the influence, as he did not just now, but for many, many years.

00:36:09.180 It's how casual the corruption is.

00:36:12.000 You've got to be kidding me.

00:36:12.920 Come on.

00:36:13.280 The big guy's going to take a little cut off the top?

00:36:15.000 Come on.

00:36:15.300 What do you expect?

00:36:16.420 Of course, of course my son's going to sell my name and sell out the country for half a million dollars per scribble.

00:36:22.140 Come on.

00:36:22.600 And you're going to ask me about it?

00:36:23.480 I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.

00:36:25.140 And the corporate media won't dignify that with a response.

00:36:27.820 And no one's held to account for it.

00:36:29.340 It's so brazen.

00:36:30.860 It's so casual.

00:36:33.360 It represents how dispirited we are in the ordinary American people who feel discouraged and dispirited like we can't even speak out against this kind of thing.

00:36:45.700 Just detouring back to Columbus for a quick second.

00:36:48.380 Elizabeth Warren, on Monday, Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha herself, had the gall to wish people a happy Indigenous Peoples Day, as if she had not built her career lying about being a Native American.

00:37:05.380 She goes, quote, I'm glad to stand with tribal nations and Native communities as we celebrate their remarkable contributions, cultures, and resilience on Indigenous Peoples Day.

00:37:13.400 It's time the federal government also honors its promises to Native peoples.

00:37:16.360 So, first of all, there's a tacit acknowledgement in the first sentence that she is not Native American, as she claimed for decades.

00:37:23.020 Right?

00:37:23.140 She says, I'm glad to stand with tribal nations and Native communities.

00:37:27.460 Well, who are you?

00:37:27.980 I thought you were one of them.

00:37:29.220 I thought you were the person to be stood with.

00:37:31.940 I didn't know that you were the person doing the stand.

00:37:33.940 So, she tacitly admits that.

00:37:35.280 But it's so casual.

00:37:37.440 She says it as if she had not gotten her whole career pretending to be a Native American, very possibly taking jobs from actual Native American people who are given preferential treatment in our hiring process and in our school admission process because there is an officially, legally imposed racial hierarchy that says that some people are good, notably black people and to some degree Hispanic people and Native American people, and some people are bad, white people and Asian people.

00:38:04.900 What the Asians did, I don't know.

00:38:06.140 Because the Asians are white supremacists.

00:38:09.120 Because the Asians have white privilege or something like that.

00:38:11.720 And it's just so casual.

00:38:13.120 No shame from Elizabeth Warren.

00:38:14.820 No apology whatsoever.

00:38:17.840 She just keeps on keeping on.

00:38:19.960 And we are not really allowed to say boo about it.

00:38:25.180 You know, I saw this firsthand last night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:38:32.780 So, if you're watching this show right now, instead of just listening to it, you'll notice that I'm not in my usual studio.

00:38:40.520 The reason for this is I'm on the road with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:38:43.320 We're here taking our verdict show live on the road.

00:38:46.800 We were scheduled to go to University of Wisconsin-Madison last night.

00:38:50.440 Then we're going to Texas A&M tonight.

00:38:52.880 You can still get your tickets, by the way.

00:38:54.280 Head on over to yaf.org.

00:38:56.520 You can still reserve tickets.

00:38:58.460 Get all the information you want there.

00:39:00.220 And then we're going to go to Catholic University in D.C. next week.

00:39:04.020 So, the tour began with this really big hiccup.

00:39:07.880 Namely, the University of Wisconsin-Madison didn't want us to come.

00:39:13.200 And so, in the past, when the lib schools have wanted to kick out conservatives, they have made up bogus reasons, security reasons.

00:39:21.140 They would kind of go in and stop the students from reserving lecture halls.

00:39:25.280 And they'd be at least a little bit subtle about it.

00:39:27.740 Now, they just literally want to muzzle us.

00:39:30.760 So, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the administrators of that school, the provost of that school, came out and they said,

00:39:37.540 not only do all the students need to be masked in the audience, which is ridiculous, and we were pushing back on that to begin with.

00:39:44.360 They said, actually, you, Michael, and you, Ted Cruz, need to be masked while you're speaking.

00:39:50.960 You need to muzzle yourselves during the event while you're on stage.

00:39:53.760 So, they would have said, you know,

00:39:54.580 And no one would have understood a word of it.

00:40:03.040 They wouldn't relent.

00:40:04.140 There's an exemption to the policy.

00:40:05.760 If you're putting on an education-related arts performance, that was one exemption in particular.

00:40:10.080 They've given this exemption to liberals who have come to the campus in recent weeks and months.

00:40:15.500 But they won't give the exemption to me or to Ted Cruz.

00:40:19.260 Shows you where power really lies in this country.

00:40:22.100 Because I'm not saying that I'm, I am necessarily the most powerful politician in this country, right?

00:40:28.000 Who am I?

00:40:28.380 I'm just a guy with a show.

00:40:30.720 Ted Cruz is a United States senator.

00:40:32.560 Going to give an educational lecture with an educational organization at a publicly funded, taxpayer funded university in Wisconsin.

00:40:44.480 And some punk administrator says, no.

00:40:49.360 Ted Cruz, as mainstream a guy as you can possibly get, was very nearly the Republican nominee for president in 2016.

00:40:55.920 No, no, he's radical.

00:40:59.720 We don't like him.

00:41:00.640 No, sorry.

00:41:02.000 Sorry, guys.

00:41:02.780 You don't get to speak here.

00:41:04.300 So, we threw some really great stuff that YAF and our team over at Verdict and Senator Cruz's team were able to pull off.

00:41:11.320 We did get an alternative venue.

00:41:13.160 The school still didn't want to release the guest list to us.

00:41:15.220 They didn't want us even to be able to be in contact with the people who were going to go.

00:41:18.160 Proves to you it had nothing to do with campus health.

00:41:20.700 It had everything to do with shutting us up.

00:41:22.180 But we were able still to bring hundreds and hundreds of people to our event last night.

00:41:26.260 We had a good time.

00:41:27.960 But it shows you how dispiriting these things can be because the left has the power and they're not afraid of anyone.

00:41:37.380 This punk provost is not even afraid of a sitting United States senator willing to try to shut them up as well.

00:41:44.160 Even on the left, obviously we notice that this happens when the left tries to shut us up on the right and YouTube is doing it right now to Stephen Crowder and to a lesser degree to me.

00:41:54.720 You know, and the universities are doing it to conservatives.

00:41:57.620 But the left does it to other leftists when the left wing people contradict the narrative.

00:42:03.180 Katie Couric just got caught for this.

00:42:04.440 Katie Couric, the very left wing former anchor of the Today Show, has just revealed reportedly in her memoir Going There that she edited out a comment that Ruth Bader Ginsburg made.

00:42:19.180 The notorious RBG had made regarding the athlete kneeling protests.

00:42:25.960 So when this all started with Colin Kaepernick and disrespecting the American flag and not standing for the star-spangled banner,

00:42:34.080 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late left wing justice, was asked by Katie Couric what she thought about it.

00:42:39.680 And she said the people who kneel for the anthem are showing, quote,

00:42:42.940 contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.

00:42:48.900 And Katie Couric edited out those comments.

00:42:50.840 This is not the first time that Katie Couric has edited out comments that were inconvenient to her leftist narrative.

00:42:56.420 She did this in a documentary that she made about guns.

00:42:59.500 She deceptively edited it to make it seem as though she was asking a question and had stumped the pro-gun people.

00:43:06.600 She had, like, just took totally different clips, completely out of context, and spliced them up so it looked like she had asked the person a simple question about guns and gun rights.

00:43:15.160 And then the gun person said, you know, duh, I don't know, and was, like, scratching their head.

00:43:18.880 But it was just completely separate footage.

00:43:21.280 So she's not above doing this sort of thing.

00:43:23.300 But she took it out.

00:43:24.060 And why did Katie Couric take out Ruth Ginsburg's obviously correct answer about the national anthem?

00:43:30.000 Well, Katie Couric says it's because the justice was elderly, quote, unquote, and probably didn't fully understand the question.

00:43:40.620 So Katie Couric, just to be kind to RBG, took that out.

00:43:43.960 No, I think Ruth Ginsburg actually did understand the question.

00:43:46.820 So Ruth Ginsburg is, on the one hand, the most brilliant, wonderful, serious, tough, jurist, single-handedly saving the republic, so strong.

00:43:56.440 Do you remember they made that ridiculous, several ridiculous documentaries about her, showing her doing push-ups, you know, and they would have some really fit physical trainer.

00:44:05.960 And he would say, oh, wow, I can barely keep up with her.

00:44:08.560 Oh, she's so fit and nimble and she's so smart.

00:44:11.060 But then the minute she goes off the reservation, oh, no, she's frail.

00:44:14.980 No, she's elderly.

00:44:16.180 It would be elder abuse, basically, to put her clear and articulate and correct answer in this.

00:44:24.520 So we're going to get rid of it.

00:44:25.120 She probably just didn't get it, right?

00:44:27.620 So it just shows you that not even the left's icons have the power to contradict the ruling class.

00:44:34.800 All that crap about the notorious RBG and, oh, yeah, you go, girl, and, wow, yes, slay queen.

00:44:41.460 It's all fake.

00:44:42.820 They use her.

00:44:43.960 They use her as a pawn.

00:44:46.480 They don't use her anymore.

00:44:47.460 She's no, I mean, I guess now they'll use her memory.

00:44:49.720 But they just, all of these people, whether they're celebrities, they're in sports, they're in Hollywood, they're in the government,

00:44:55.620 they use them to advance their agenda.

00:45:00.120 But the agenda is a generational one.

00:45:04.480 And so, yes, they'll exploit people and they'll exploit events and they'll exploit the coronavirus to totally remake society.

00:45:11.280 But they've got that clear goal in mind and they are not going to change course just because one of their own says so

00:45:19.240 or just because the economy goes in a certain direction or just because the Constitution says so.

00:45:23.820 The only way they're going to change course is if we win political power and we stop them.

00:45:28.740 I'm Michael Knowles.

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Ep. 864 - Shopping By Race Is Racist

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