The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 A new poll out from Quinnipiac, which tends to skew results strongly in favor of Democrats,

00:00:06.520 shows Joe Biden's approval rating dropping to a new low of 37 percent. Meanwhile, Rasmussen,

00:00:13.780 which leans slightly to the right, has found that 58 percent of voters are either not very

00:00:19.660 or not at all confident that Biden is physically and mentally up to the job of being president.

00:00:25.900 And only 38 percent of voters believe that Joe Biden is actually making decisions in the White House,

00:00:34.580 with a majority of likely voters believing that others are making decisions for him.

00:00:40.280 And while Biden blows it on the economy, on foreign policy, on everything else in between,

00:00:46.180 Republican governors and senators are looking to fill the vacuum and looking to take his job in 2024.

00:00:53.080 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:55.900 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Moose Chuckle,

00:01:05.900 who says, I hope China is as impressed with our choice in military leadership

00:01:10.060 as we are with them flying a missile around the world and us not knowing about it. Yes,

00:01:15.240 I suspect right now you're alluding to Richard Levine, now who goes by Rachel Levine,

00:01:23.080 who is our nation's first female four-star admiral who is not a woman and who has never spent a day of

00:01:30.940 his life in the military. But, you know, it could almost equally apply to our actual commanders in

00:01:37.580 the field. Woke General Milley passing out critical race theory and all the rest. While we are parsing the

00:01:45.700 white supremacist intersectional hegemony, China is sending potential nuclear warheads around the

00:01:53.720 world and through low outer space. Pretty spooky stuff. You know, these bring up matters of life

00:02:01.540 and death, okay? Existential questions, which is why I think it's very important to discuss 40 days for

00:02:07.760 life. You know, a couple of days ago, the CDC made a very accidental admission. They admitted that

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00:02:24.900 the ruling class do not oppose abortion, okay? The pro-abortion movement is alive and well in this

00:02:32.120 country and they're fighting back harder than ever because there's a fair chance right now that the

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00:03:11.940 it directly from 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. Joe Biden is really blowing it. I am not saying

00:03:18.620 this to take a partisan shot or because I want to score one for the Republicans and smack down the

00:03:24.300 Democrats, or at least not just because of that. I'm just pointing out that on every single issue,

00:03:31.980 Joe Biden right now is failing. The only issue that he used to do pretty well on was the coronavirus.

00:03:36.480 That's why, as Afghanistan imploded, as the economy imploded, he kept just trying to bring

00:03:41.820 everyone's attention back to the coronavirus. Even that now is not really looking good for his

00:03:47.320 numbers. And the overall approval rating at 37% is really, really dismal. In the meantime, younger,

00:03:55.420 more vibrant, more conservative people are looking to take his job, and they're looking to fill that

00:04:00.860 gap. Most notably, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is addressing the supply chain crisis. This is one

00:04:08.540 of the most important economic problems that we're facing right now. He is addressing the supply chain

00:04:14.020 crisis by opening up his ports in Florida for the benefit of the entire country.

00:04:20.820 We see more empty shelves than we're used to seeing, and there's shortages of different things.

00:04:26.540 Of course, we're also seeing increased costs in terms of inflation. Year-over-year increase in

00:04:32.440 food prices so far is the highest it's been in 10 years. And of course, many commuters have been

00:04:38.680 suffering under about a 50% increase in gasoline. And so you see a lot of problems. I know they just

00:04:45.880 announced, well, in California, maybe they'll start having the port operate 24-7. Our ports operate 24-7.

00:04:52.500 But I mean, that should be happening anyways. And so we in Florida have the ability to help alleviate

00:05:00.180 these log jams and help to ameliorate the problems with the supply chain. And part of it is because

00:05:06.620 we've long been committed to reliable, modern, and accessible port facilities. Since I became governor

00:05:12.740 in 2019, we've allocated almost a billion dollars to over 70 Florida seaport projects. And these are

00:05:22.440 approaches that have made us really, really strong.

00:05:26.740 It made us really, really strong. It's been really, really good for the country. Now, look,

00:05:31.460 I think this is a good thing in and of itself. I think it shows strong leadership. I'm really glad

00:05:38.540 he's doing it. I think it will benefit Florida a lot, and it very likely will benefit the entire

00:05:43.100 country. All right. I have a great deal of respect for Governor DeSantis. I'm actually going to see

00:05:47.580 Governor DeSantis this coming weekend at the Claremont Institute's annual gala. They're giving

00:05:52.940 him the Statesmanship Award, and I will be emceeing that event. But beyond just what this means for

00:06:00.520 Florida and the country, to me, the most impressive thing here with regard to Ron DeSantis' clear

00:06:08.060 presidential ambitions is not even what he's doing on the ports or what he's doing on the lockdowns or

00:06:13.700 what he's doing on the virus or taxes or whatever. It's his incredible ability to navigate the news

00:06:22.080 cycles. No matter what is going on in the country, no matter what issue Biden is failing on,

00:06:28.440 Ron DeSantis is just right there showing the alternative. This is a very impressive political

00:06:35.480 skill because traditionally it's been considered that governors are in the best position to run

00:06:43.460 for president because they're in an executive role. They can show leadership. They can bring

00:06:47.900 people together. They can show a strong list of real accomplishments, whereas for congressmen or

00:06:53.220 senators or diplomats, it's a little bit harder because you're working more in teams. You're not

00:06:57.040 really an executive in most cases, and you're not really the one who can show tangible results,

00:07:03.080 at least not nearly as much as a governor can. But the problem with the governors is that the issues

00:07:07.580 are local. So yes, you can say, I did a great job for my constituents here, and I focus, I did really

00:07:13.540 well on this Florida issue, but it doesn't always play throughout the rest of the country. And what DeSantis

00:07:17.800 has done, I think uniquely among the governors, is he's got a good record of accomplishment in Florida,

00:07:24.580 but they always seem to have national implications. He even did it on the border. So forget about

00:07:30.600 coronavirus in the ports for a second. Even on the border, he said, we are going to help secure

00:07:34.880 the border here. We're going to send Floridians to go secure the border. Why? It's not as though

00:07:39.760 Mexicans are flowing into Florida. I mean, I suppose they are after a few stops along the way,

00:07:45.000 but he's doing a really good job of putting himself in the national conversation. And so it's pretty

00:07:51.660 clear that he is hoping to be president. That might be complicated if Donald Trump runs again.

00:07:57.060 In that case, probably DeSantis is the hardest hit because in a way they're kind of running in the

00:08:01.880 same lane. But for right now, it's hard to see how DeSantis could be doing a better job positioning

00:08:07.020 himself for 2024. Now, he's not the only one who wants to run in 2024. It would seem to me, I don't have

00:08:13.720 any insider information here, I'm just observing politics, that Josh Hawley, who is a senator who is

00:08:19.580 also leading the charge, especially with regard to big tech. He is apparently positioning himself in

00:08:27.140 2024 as well. And he just scored a pretty big point too in this particular case on a judicial

00:08:35.060 nominee. So there's a judge, a liberal judge, Holly Thomas, who is now serving in Los Angeles and Biden

00:08:43.240 is nominating her to serve on the court of appeals. Holly Thomas came out and stood by this idea that

00:08:53.220 boys should be allowed into the girls' bathroom and said there's no risk whatsoever and no threat

00:08:58.460 posed to girls by sending boys into the girls' bathroom. Obviously complicated by what just

00:09:03.940 happened in Loudoun County. The story that the Daily Wire broke of a ninth grade girl being raped in a

00:09:08.540 bathroom where boys were allowed to go in by a boy who sometimes wore a dress really doesn't look

00:09:13.580 good. So Josh Hawley grills her on this very topic. Do you judge, still stand by your preposterous

00:09:22.320 claim that there's no danger posed by boys in the girls' room? I have to ask you, in light of what we

00:09:28.980 are seeing in Loudoun County, there are reports about this in other places, but it's particularly troubling

00:09:34.520 in light of the recent events in Loudoun County where a boy in late May was sexually assaulted a ninth

00:09:42.620 grade girl in her school's restroom after identifying as, he identified as being gender fluid. He was

00:09:49.440 transferred to another school where a second assault occurred just earlier this year. Do you stand by

00:09:59.660 your comments in these briefs that there is no evidence of violence or crime in restrooms by allowing

00:10:09.520 biological males to use biological females' restrooms? Thank you for the question, Senator Hawley.

00:10:19.140 As I explained to Senator Grassley, in every case that I had as an advocate,

00:10:26.160 it was my duty to represent the views of my clients. So this answer goes on for several minutes

00:10:35.180 and Hawley keeps trying to get her to answer the question and she continues to stonewall and won't

00:10:40.240 answer it. She sticks to it. Hawley's question is pretty simple. You put your name on this document

00:10:47.180 saying that there's absolutely no threat by sending boys into the girls' room. And he says,

00:10:53.300 do you still stand by that in light of the evidence that that isn't true? And she goes,

00:10:57.820 I have to advocate for my clients. And as a judge, I would not necessarily be advocating. Well, okay,

00:11:04.640 but it's not just that you signed a statement saying I'm advocating for my clients. You signed a

00:11:08.120 statement saying this is true. So do you have no integrity? Are you a liar? Are you stupid? Do you

00:11:12.340 still believe this? What's the answer? And this woman, she's a good politician herself. She just

00:11:17.620 refuses to answer and she keeps talking in this really boring tone. And frankly, she masks the

00:11:25.220 radicalism of her position in this really boring procedural sort of tone. But what she's saying is,

00:11:31.660 one, yes, there's no risk posed to girls by sending men into the girls' room. Two, I don't care even if

00:11:39.280 there is. I am willing to lie strategically to accomplish my political goals. And three, I'm not

00:11:46.120 even going to give you the satisfaction of admitting what I've just implicitly suggested to

00:11:51.780 you. One mistake Hawley makes here, I hate to nitpick, but the mistake Hawley makes is he uses this

00:11:57.660 phrase, biological males. This has become popular among conservatives. They will say, he is a biological

00:12:03.760 male. As though there's some other kind of male. As though you can, he's not a biological male,

00:12:09.720 but he's a spiritual male. He's a psychological male. It's a really bad phrase. I know people say it

00:12:14.540 sometimes they're just not even thinking. People should stop using that phrase. It grants the

00:12:18.600 left's premise that there are different kinds of, I'm a biological male, but I'm a psychological

00:12:23.040 female. No, there's none of that. There's boys and girls, guys. Okay. And when we use this squishy

00:12:27.620 language, we think we're being really clever and we think we're being really scientific. Actually,

00:12:31.600 we're just being squishes and we're giving and conceding this premise that there are different

00:12:38.820 shades of male and female. And really, we're granting the premise that gender is sort of fluid.

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00:13:56.540 off. Speaking of women, a WNBA team has won the championship. What is the WNBA team? I don't

00:14:06.740 really know. There was a championship, apparently. Did you watch it? No, you didn't. Not a single

00:14:11.400 person listening to this show right now watched the WNBA championship or probably even knew that

00:14:16.940 it was going on. I don't think anyone did in the country. Maybe some of the basketball players

00:14:23.000 themselves knew, but I'm not even convinced of that. So one of the teams won because I guess one

00:14:27.400 of the teams has to win and they hold a championship parade in Chicago. The championship parade, I forget

00:14:37.980 if I printed out. No, unfortunately I didn't. There was a headline. It said, Chicago turns out for the

00:14:43.240 WNBA championship parade. And there's big buses here and double deckers and people standing on top

00:14:50.260 waving to the adoring fans, except there was nobody there in the streets to greet them.

00:14:56.340 So you can see there's multiple buses, all stream.

00:15:04.300 You can hear the sirens behind them.

00:15:07.780 And then you just hear it. It's so sad. It's so sad. You hear it. So the streets are empty. I mean,

00:15:16.300 there are a couple of people like bicycling alongside them. There are a bunch of cops

00:15:21.040 trailing them, giving them a bit of a motorcade, but there's almost not a single person out in the

00:15:28.340 street for the parade because no one cares because it's the WNBA and no one even knew it was on.

00:15:34.420 This is sad. This is sadder than not having a parade. Okay. I'm not, I don't begrudge the ladies

00:15:41.060 their victory. I don't, I'm not interested in it. I don't, you know, there are a lot of sports. I

00:15:46.980 don't watch the curling championships. Okay. I don't watch the, you know, international shuffleboard

00:15:53.180 world series or anything. I don't know either. Just, I don't pay attention to a lot of these

00:15:56.840 things and certainly not to the WNBA. But what's so sad here is broader than just the WNBA.

00:16:03.860 Okay. It's the problem with pride culture. It's the problem with the I'm awesome kind of culture.

00:16:11.940 I saw, oh, this was so sad. I saw someone that I went to school with. I was just scrolling through

00:16:17.100 Instagram and I saw she posted this picture and, and underneath she wrote, I'm so proud of this

00:16:24.400 person. I love this person so much. This person's doing such a great job and I'm really proud of her.

00:16:28.660 And it was a photo of herself. It was a photo. And I thought, this is really sad, but it's a common

00:16:38.060 occurrence these days. It's the self-love, self-care kind of culture where you, you basically just

00:16:44.660 worship the self. And the fact is, if you have to say it, you probably don't think it, right? This is,

00:16:52.760 I mean, now we have whole months for pride and for celebrating oneself, but this is quite the

00:17:00.840 opposite of the traditional understanding in our Christian civilization, which is rather than saying,

00:17:05.820 I'm awesome. I'm the best. I'm perfect. Just the way I am. We say, I'm a miserable sinner. Please

00:17:10.480 have mercy on me. I'm broken. I'm, I've failed. I have sinned in my thoughts and in my words and what

00:17:16.820 I have done and what I've failed to do through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous

00:17:21.220 fault. That that's the traditional understanding. And ironically, or perhaps unexpectedly,

00:17:26.400 that view of yourself will make you feel much better about yourself and about the world.

00:17:32.060 One, because it's true. We are all broken. The imagination of man's heart is evil from the

00:17:36.460 beginning. The things we want to do, we don't do. And the things we don't want to do, we do. We are

00:17:40.340 sinful and we are in need of salvation. But two, there is salvation. We actually can find it,

00:17:46.840 but we're not going to find it in ourselves, all right? We're not going to perfect ourselves purely

00:17:52.020 of our own work. It's just not going to happen. The pride culture, I think, ultimately is just

00:17:59.760 masking a deep sorrow and a deep sort of despair. Because if you are going to rely on yourself to

00:18:06.480 perfect your own life or to perfect the world, you are going to be extremely disappointed.

00:18:12.240 Humility would have been much better and much more attractive if these women had said, you know,

00:18:17.860 okay, we played this game, but no one cares. That's fine. But maybe you keep watching. We did

00:18:21.200 it for ourselves. We did it for the excellence of the sport. Humility is much more attractive than

00:18:26.480 pride. This is something we used to know. Now we somehow have forgotten that pride goes before

00:18:31.320 destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Speaking of women in the workplace,

00:18:35.160 Nicole Hannah-Jones was just invited and then disinvited from a school for a speaking event.

00:18:43.360 And I suspect a lot of conservatives are going to get this issue wrong. This issue is almost a setup

00:18:50.300 for conservatives because conservatives in recent years have complained about cancel culture and

00:18:55.560 complained about censorship and specifically complained about this at schools and for lecture

00:19:01.720 opportunities, right? So this story is just going to expose conservatives as hypocrites, right? If we

00:19:09.180 don't think that Nicole Hannah-Jones, who created the fictional 1619 project, who lied about American

00:19:15.420 history, who is really an unfortunate character on the American pseudo-academic scene, if we don't

00:19:25.140 think that she should lecture, well, then we're hypocrites on free speech and cancel culture, aren't we? No,

00:19:30.560 I don't think so. But we do need to correct some of our language. The whole point of my book,

00:19:35.740 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, was to correct the way we're talking about free

00:19:40.640 speech because these issues of wokeism and political correctness, they're not just a battle between free

00:19:45.620 speech and censorship. It's not just the procedural, formal aspect of whether or not someone can speak

00:19:52.920 or not. There's the substantive aspect, which is what are they saying? Okay, first of all,

00:19:58.420 Nicole Hannah-Jones was invited to the Middlesex School in Concord. This is not a college. This is

00:20:05.980 not a graduate program. This is a high school. And there's a big difference between high schools and

00:20:11.320 colleges. Colleges have, to some degree, and universities have, to some degree, the idea of

00:20:18.380 a free marketplace of ideas. The idea that unconventional lectures may be tolerated and may

00:20:24.540 be beneficial. High schools, and certainly middle schools, and certainly elementary schools, are not

00:20:29.620 quite that. The purpose of those places is to give you the basics so that you can begin to think in

00:20:35.440 this higher way. So I think it is certainly appropriate at the high school level to cancel

00:20:40.840 this fabulous from speaking, and very possibly at the college level as well. Okay, there are different

00:20:47.660 types of speakers here and different types of speeches. And we have to also, I think, rethink the

00:20:53.160 purpose of college education, university education. Moving beyond even the high school and Nicole

00:20:57.880 Hannah-Jones thing for a second. Is the purpose of going to a university to just hear a bunch of

00:21:04.240 random different views, and the weirder the view, the better, and the more weird views you hear,

00:21:09.940 the smarter you're going to be? Or is the purpose of a college education to learn correct things,

00:21:16.660 to learn true things, to steep yourself in the good, the true, and the beautiful, to be not merely

00:21:24.580 critical in your thinking, but constructive in your thinking, and actually build up a proper education,

00:21:29.320 and control your base passions, and see the world in a way that is more or less accurate,

00:21:34.340 more accurate than when you went in? I have clearly set up the question in such a way that I'm showing

00:21:39.100 you. I think it's the latter. I don't think that just anybody should be allowed to speak at a

00:21:44.420 university. Nobody does. Do you really, do you really think that some neo-Nazi should be able to

00:21:49.140 speak at a university? Maybe you do. Maybe there are some free speech extremists who say,

00:21:56.480 I absolutely believe that a neo-Nazi should speak at a university. Okay. Do you think that,

00:22:01.680 I don't know, a serial killer? Do you think a deranged, lunatic serial killer should be permitted

00:22:09.460 to speak at a university? No, you don't, right? I don't think that you do. Why? Because you would

00:22:16.300 say that a student would not benefit from hearing the, the, the ravings of some deranged, lunatic,

00:22:21.980 serial killer, right? But, but isn't that cancel culture? Isn't that censorship? Students benefit

00:22:28.140 from hearing all sorts of kooky ideas. No, they benefit from hearing true things. And, and I'm not

00:22:33.280 calling Nicole Hannah-Jones a deranged, lunatic, serial killer. Okay. But I am pointing out that like a

00:22:38.100 deranged, lunatic, serial killer, Nicole Hannah-Jones doesn't really have anything valuable

00:22:42.220 to say because the only thing that Nicole Hannah-Jones is known for is a lie. It's a thesis

00:22:47.480 that the American revolution was fought to preserve slavery. There is no evidence for that. There is a

00:22:53.340 lot of evidence to the contrary. Actual academic historians shot down this thesis, including the

00:22:58.480 academic historians who are on the far left, who actually are great, very sympathetic to Nicole

00:23:02.320 Hannah-Jones. So the only thing that's going to come out of this woman speaking at a university

00:23:07.320 is filling students' heads with lies. And I think we need to regain on the right the spinal fortitude

00:23:15.620 to say, no, we don't think that the purpose of university education is to fill kids' heads with

00:23:21.360 lies, right? They're getting enough of that already on gender theory and these crazy racial theories.

00:23:25.760 Wait until you hear what's going on out of MIT. That's not, that's not the purpose of an education.

00:23:32.760 I think we need to move beyond a fun line, but it's a little bit of a shallow line we've said in

00:23:39.060 certain years, recent years, that we just need more and more speech at universities and no one

00:23:45.440 should ever be canceled and everyone should be permitted to speak. And, oh, Colombia is going

00:23:49.360 to invite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Yeah, great. That's awesome. Terrific. More speech,

00:23:54.340 the better. No. We need to be discerning. We need to recognize we have judgment. We have moral

00:23:58.880 conscience. We have faculties of reason. We can tell the difference between true and false and

00:24:02.280 right and wrong. And we're going to stand by that. We're going to stand on the side of true and good

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00:24:28.880 Speaking of cancel culture, at MIT, a movement is underway to cancel a lecturer.

00:24:48.720 Here's the background. MIT invited a professor to lecture. This professor, his name is Dorian

00:24:57.320 Abbott. He's a scientist. He has criticized affirmative action. I have criticized affirmative

00:25:05.340 action. You have criticized affirmative action. Everybody with two brain cells to rub together

00:25:10.060 has criticized affirmative action, which gives black people and Hispanic people an advantage in

00:25:15.440 university admissions and employment and disadvantages white people and Asian people. So anyone who thinks

00:25:21.860 we ought to treat people fairly regardless of their race would criticize affirmative action

00:25:26.000 as this guy did. And now he's being criticized for it and people are demanding that he no longer

00:25:32.740 lecture. So I'm going to focus in, this is from the New York Times, I'm going to focus in

00:25:36.880 on one professor who is not even at MIT. She's at Williams College. This professor is very upset that

00:25:46.320 Professor Abbott was invited to lecture. Her name is Phoebe A. Cohen. She's a geosciences professor and

00:25:54.640 department chair at Williams. And she doesn't want this guy to lecture at MIT. She doesn't want anyone

00:26:02.100 who's ever criticized affirmative action to be able to speak at a college campus. Now the New York

00:26:08.740 Times, to their credit, when interviewing this, this cancel culture professor said, well, hold on,

00:26:15.480 don't you think that the, the cure for this guy's bad ideas would just be to debate him? You know,

00:26:22.820 come on, Professor Phoebe, why don't you just debate him or, you know, have people present an

00:26:27.460 alternative point of view? And Phoebe Cohen, the Williams professor said, no, she said, quote,

00:26:32.940 this idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in

00:26:40.600 which white men dominated. So this is not the own that she thinks it is, you know, because what she's

00:26:49.520 saying is intellectual debate and rigor unfairly advantage white guys. If you have a system that is based on

00:27:01.440 intellect and debate and logic and rigor, white guys will have an unfair advantage because they are much

00:27:08.760 better at intellectual argumentation and they are more able, better able to deal with rigorous debate than

00:27:17.000 women and black people and Asians, I guess, and Hispanic and just anybody else. Okay, David Duke.

00:27:22.900 All right. Whoa, calm down there, Richard Spencer. This, this lady is just saying that white, white

00:27:29.260 guys are smart and, and competent and logical and all the other people are just big dummies. And so they

00:27:35.000 can't do it. And so because they can't keep up in a debate, we've got to just silence the white guys

00:27:40.200 before they can get their point of view out. Sounds pretty racist to me or sexist or whatever

00:27:46.860 ism-ist word you want to use. But this is, I think, a popular view on, on the left, but it's worth,

00:27:56.300 it's worth taking them at their, at their word that this is really what they believe. Okay. Because

00:28:02.160 we have two, two options here. Choose which way you want to go, Western civilization. You can either

00:28:09.920 go down the road of intellectual debate and rigor and proving that some things are good and true

00:28:17.000 and beautiful and arguing against things that are ugly and false and, and hideous and wrong. Or

00:28:26.520 you can take reason and logic out of our politics and then we become grunting bands of baboons clubbing

00:28:34.700 each other over the head, right? That's it. When Aristotle says man is the political animal, when Aristotle

00:28:39.140 says that the thing that, that distinguishes man from the beasts is that we have speech, right? And

00:28:45.060 we can actually reason with one another and persuade one another. He's distinguishing us from

00:28:48.780 animals in this regard. We will either have civilization and speech and debate and rigor, or we will be

00:28:55.980 animals clubbing each other over the head and whoever has the stronger interest will win. That's really

00:29:02.700 what this has come down to. And it, and it, it does remind us that we do need limits here. Okay. This is why we

00:29:07.720 have a political system. This is why we have limits imposed by our constitution, by our political

00:29:12.280 tradition, because we don't want to live like that. Okay. We do not want to live in the world of Phoebe

00:29:18.600 Cohen. We want to live in a civilized world of intellectual debate and rigor, which I think

00:29:24.600 is not only limited to white guys. I, I bet non, non white guys, non men, non white people, I think

00:29:33.560 actually they can, they can deal with it too. Speaking of the New York times, the New York times, I just want

00:29:40.120 to give you a beautifully clear example of the fake news coming out of the New York times. They have this

00:29:45.660 podcast, the daily. It's hosted by Michael, welcome. And it's the whole, the whole point of the daily is to get a lot

00:29:54.560 of radical leftism into a really soft spoken kind of moderate sounding podcast. Welcome to the New York

00:30:03.480 times, the daily. My name is Michael, ba, ba, ba, ba. And today the Republicans are bad and the Democrats

00:30:09.960 are good and I'm ba, ba, ba, ba, and goodbye. This is, and so here's just a flat out lie that was in the

00:30:17.040 episode title of the New York times, the daily quote, how a single Senator derailed Biden's climate

00:30:24.560 plan. Wow. Oh my goodness. A single Senator did that? Gosh, I didn't even know in the Senate that

00:30:31.740 a single Senator could, I guess the way that a single Senator could have derailed a plan would

00:30:36.620 be through, uh, the filibuster, right? And maybe he just filibustered for so many hours and hours and

00:30:42.040 hours that Biden, did he just give up on it? No, usually the way the filibuster works is the guy

00:30:45.740 who's speaking ad nauseum. Eventually he stops and then they kind of move on. So is that what

00:30:49.760 happened? No. Okay. Let me see what, what exactly happened here? Cause I've, I see a headline in the

00:30:54.400 New York times paper. It says Biden's climate plan stymied by one Senator. So what, hmm,

00:31:00.340 what happened? Oh, Joe Manchin. Okay. Joe Manchin is the Senator and he, he stopped it. How did he stop

00:31:07.580 it though? I, it doesn't even really say, is it, there was only one guy. Oh no, wait, wait a second.

00:31:14.280 It's not, no, it's Joe Manchin and all the Republicans. So it wasn't just one Senator who

00:31:20.880 stymied the plan. It was, um, 51 senators stymied the plan. That's, oh, that's the majority of

00:31:29.180 senators. So let me, I'm just going to rewrite those headlines from, from the New York times and

00:31:34.960 the daily. Um, majority of senators stop Biden's climate plan, but that doesn't sound as good,

00:31:41.440 right? That sounds like government is operating as it should, which is the people go out and they

00:31:46.120 elect their senators. And then depending on the votes that each side has, uh, you either move

00:31:51.800 ahead with legislation or against it. And most senators representing most people here opposed

00:32:00.480 the plan, but the New York times can't tolerate that. So they simply lie. It's an, it's a, it's a,

00:32:08.340 it's a little subtle thing because yes, Manchin is playing a role here. He's a Democrat, but he's

00:32:11.860 a moderate Democrat. He's not a radical left Democrat. So he's, he is playing this decisive

00:32:15.740 role. But the, the way the New York times talks about it, it's as if only Democrats matter in the

00:32:21.440 Senate. It's, it's only Democrats, right? The Republicans, they're, they're not even really

00:32:25.400 legitimate. There are, there are insurrectionists. They're a threat to our democracy. The real,

00:32:29.160 all that really matters is the Democrats. Well, despite the whining of the New York times,

00:32:34.240 uh, Manchin seems to be holding relatively firm beyond the climate plan, uh, which is clear

00:32:40.540 enough, right? Joe Manchin represents a coal state. So if you have a big climate plan, that's

00:32:45.440 going to get rid of coal, Joe Manchin can't possibly vote for that. That would be a betrayal

00:32:48.700 of his constituents. But Joe Biden is broadly going to have to pull back on his spending plan.

00:32:53.940 You, you know, in this three and a half trillion dollar budget, Joe Biden put in a ton of radical

00:32:58.980 stuff. Now it is being reported. He might have to cut back on tuition-free community college,

00:33:05.660 a path to permanent legal status for illegal aliens. Uh, the clean energy plan is part of this.

00:33:15.320 Uh, however, uh, they, they might try to keep in paid family leave, child tax credits, and free,

00:33:22.360 uh, preschool, although they might scale that back as well. So this is, this is overall,

00:33:28.460 a, uh, a win, a relative win. Given that the Democrats have basically unified government right

00:33:34.000 now, they have the house, they have the Senate, and they have the White House. The fact that we

00:33:39.340 can get rid of some of the worst aspects of this budget is a win. And it's important to look at this

00:33:45.520 because it's easy to believe these days that the oligarchy, the ruling class, which increasingly

00:33:52.700 looks not really like our democracy, but looks like their oligarchy, it's not omnipotent. It can't,

00:33:58.460 just do whatever it wants to do. We sometimes think, uh, between the deep state and the Fauci's

00:34:03.840 and the Dems and the Libs, they just do whatever they want. Big tech and the media, they can do

00:34:08.360 whatever they want and we have no say whatsoever. Well, no, we do still have a little bit of a say.

00:34:12.480 Okay. They seem really, really powerful and they make themselves appear more powerful than they are.

00:34:21.620 But, uh, actually we still have a fair bit of power here. And, and if we exercise it,

00:34:25.820 I think we do still have a fighting chance. You're seeing this, especially throughout corporate

00:34:31.360 America. In and out burger, in and out burger from my former state of California is standing up

00:34:41.740 against big government. So the government there is trying to mandate that customers in order to go

00:34:49.240 buy their cheeseburger need to have the Fauci ouchie. And plenty of people don't want the

00:34:54.960 Fauci ouchie and for good reason. They might object to the fact that it's made with, in development and

00:35:01.660 in some cases production with fetal stem cells. They might not like the fact that, uh, people have

00:35:07.000 died from the vaccine, including from blood clots. That's why they paused the Johnson and Johnson

00:35:10.900 vaccine. Uh, that people have contracted nerve damage. That people have, uh, contracted myocarditis

00:35:15.960 and pericarditis. One study out of UC Davis said that young men, certain young men might face greater

00:35:21.920 risk from the, from the vaccine than from the virus itself. There are plenty of reasons not to get the

00:35:26.200 vaccine. And so in and out says we are, this is a great line. We refuse to become the vaccination

00:35:33.340 police for any government. We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private

00:35:39.040 company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business. This is a clear

00:35:43.220 government overreach. They believe it is quote, unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our

00:35:47.820 restaurant associates to segregate customers into those who may be served and those who may not,

00:35:52.940 whether based on the documentation they carry or any other reason. Damn right. Damn right, baby. I love

00:36:00.260 it. This is good stuff. All right. And it's, you're not just seeing it within and out. You're seeing it

00:36:05.240 also, uh, at the, the level of corporations dealing with their employees. So it's not just dealing with

00:36:11.420 customers, but it's dealing with the employees too. Southwest Airlines had major, uh, flight delays.

00:36:17.480 They pretended it was because of the weather, but it was obviously because of an employee walkout

00:36:20.800 or sick out. Well, they're walking back their vaccine mandate as well. Southwest Airlines will

00:36:25.920 not place unvaccinated staff on unpaid leave while they await exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine. So

00:36:32.560 initially Southwest said that if the, the airline employees are not vaccinated by December 8th,

00:36:40.300 they're going to be cut off from their pay. They're going to be placed on unpaid leave.

00:36:44.280 And now what they're saying is quote, this is a change from what was previously communicated.

00:36:48.540 Initially we communicated that these employees would be put on unpaid leave and that is no longer

00:36:52.000 the case. So it's a tail between their legs. They're admitting they're not going to do this anymore.

00:36:56.480 Good stuff. Really good stuff. Why do I like this so much? One of the reasons I like this so much

00:37:02.340 is not because as some libertarians are saying, you know, my body, my choice. I don't,

00:37:06.900 I don't believe my body, my choice. I don't think it's true with abortion. I actually don't even

00:37:10.520 think it's true with vaccinations. Generally, there are mandated vaccines in American history.

00:37:16.240 The Supreme court has upheld the legitimacy of this. George Washington did it to the continental

00:37:19.800 army. And I actually don't think you own your own body. I'm not a libertarian or a libertine. I don't

00:37:25.320 think I chose to come into this world. I hope I don't choose to come out of this world. And I think

00:37:28.780 I have responsibilities and, and duties to my community and to my God. And I can't just do

00:37:34.820 whatever I want with my own body. So I'm not a lib in this regard, but I want to get into the

00:37:39.620 specifics here of this vaccine. The way Joe Biden instituted this vaccine mandate, which he had

00:37:45.240 initially admitted, he didn't really have the authority to do was he went around this roundabout

00:37:50.700 way. And he said, I'm not mandating it exactly, but I am saying that the occupational safety and

00:37:57.080 health administration needs to mandate that certain companies with more than a hundred employees

00:38:01.840 needs to mandate that the businesses enforce the mandate. And if they don't, we're going to try to

00:38:07.760 bankrupt them with fines. I think Joe Biden knows this is almost certainly going to be struck down

00:38:12.840 in court that he doesn't really have the authority to do this. And he's just hoping he can pressure

00:38:16.860 everyone to get the Fauci ouchie before the courts realize that this is not legal. So, okay, what's good

00:38:24.160 for the goose is good for the gander. If Joe Biden is going to play this silly, cynical game,

00:38:29.800 I think the companies should too. And I think the people should, and I think the employees,

00:38:34.240 and I think the customers should pressure the companies who are unfortunately squeezed in the

00:38:38.580 middle here to pressure the government not to do this sort of thing. What is good for the goose

00:38:43.720 is good for the gander. The people and the employees still have a lot of power, especially amid our current

00:38:50.480 contrived labor shortage. The ruling class is not happy that people are pushing back against these

00:38:58.800 mandates. They don't like that. They don't like it when people tell them no. And you're seeing this

00:39:03.900 especially in crooked machine political towns such as Chicago. So Lori Lightfoot, who is as close to a

00:39:12.300 mobster as any mayor currently in office, Lori Lightfoot is mandating that the cops all take the

00:39:21.900 Fauci ouchie in Chicago. Chicago is basically a third world country. The rates of violent crime in

00:39:27.300 Chicago are through the roof. And so Lori Lightfoot is demanding that cops stay on the job, but they've

00:39:36.820 got to take the Fauci ouchie. So some cops are saying, no, you know, I think I'm going to quit.

00:39:39.800 If you're going to make me take the Fauci ouchie, I think I'm just not going to do it. I was just in

00:39:43.560 Chicago. I was briefly at O'Hare airport. I spoke to some cops there and they were saying they're

00:39:47.740 looking at 40 to 50% of cops just quitting or retiring early or just leaving the job because they

00:39:53.540 don't want to deal with this. So what does Lori Lightfoot say? Is this people exercising their

00:39:58.660 freedom of choice? Is this people, you know, just exercising their moral conscience and doing the

00:40:03.060 responsible thing? No. No, she calls it an insurrection. We believe that the FOP leadership

00:40:09.500 is trying to foment an illegal work stop it to strike, pure and simple. We've laid that out in

00:40:14.560 the materials and we're not just, we're not having that. The contract is clear and it's been known for a

00:40:19.720 long time. The police unions are not authorized to strike. It's in their collective bargaining

00:40:24.720 agreement. It's a matter of state law. What we've seen from the fraternal order of police and

00:40:29.880 particularly the leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half-truths and frankly,

00:40:34.160 flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection. And we're not having that.

00:40:39.440 It's an insurrection. Right. Right. I forgot. It's an insurrection. Anything the Democrats don't

00:40:45.020 like is an insurrection. Anything they do like is a wonderful defense of our democracy. So when,

00:40:51.880 for instance, radical leftists at the encouragement of Democrat politicians up to and including Kamala

00:40:58.760 Harris and staffers for Joe Biden, when they, you know, set courthouses on fire and attack police

00:41:06.680 buildings and kill dozens of people and steal a bunch of sneakers during the BLM riots of 2020,

00:41:12.640 that's a defense of our democracy. Kamala Harris will bail them out of jail

00:41:16.860 because of how much they're defending our democracy. But when the horn guy dances in the

00:41:21.680 Capitol, that's an insurrection. When leftists torch Chicago and loot and steal and kill and pillage

00:41:31.500 and burn, that's a defense of our democracy. That's a wonderful thing. When cops don't want to inject

00:41:37.980 themselves with an experimental drug. And so they very peaceably just decide to retire.

00:41:42.640 That's an insurrection. The Democrats are going to do, they already are doing to the word insurrection,

00:41:49.120 what they did to the word racist. The word racist doesn't mean anything anymore. It may once have

00:41:54.440 meant something it no longer does. If I think of the word racist, I, I guess what I think of is that

00:42:02.060 you hate someone on the basis of their race. That's what I would say. It's not, I don't think

00:42:08.880 it's just that you have preconceptions or judgments of people on the basis of race.

00:42:13.880 Everybody does that. Hey, think of an Italian guy. Think of an Italian guy right now. What are you

00:42:18.860 thinking of? You're thinking of a guy with a mustache who says, Hey, it's a me. And you're thinking of

00:42:22.400 pizza and you're thinking of a loud argument with his family at Christmas. And you think, I don't know,

00:42:26.740 you're thinking of, you have certain ideas. Hey, think of an Irishman. You're going to have some

00:42:32.220 preconceptions of what an Irishman is. You're probably picturing a little leprechaun right now

00:42:35.500 with a pint of Guinness or something and saying, Hey, they all be after me looking charms, right?

00:42:39.600 That's, that would be a preconception. But I don't think that's racist. Hey, picture a Chinese guy.

00:42:46.380 What you're going to pick, at least you are picturing what he looks like. Well, is that a pre,

00:42:49.540 is that a prejudgment, a prejudice, a preconception? Well, sure. I don't think it's racist.

00:42:53.720 If you say, I hate black people, I guess that, I guess that would, that would be racist, right? Or I

00:42:58.620 hate the Irish or something like that. I hate white people. That certainly is racist, but the left tells

00:43:03.180 us that's not racist. And now we're told that anytime you say anything positive or negative or neutral

00:43:11.720 about a protected group, you are a racist. And anytime you say anything vicious or hateful about

00:43:21.260 a non-protected group, like white people or Asian people, that's, you're totally, that's totally

00:43:27.340 fine. That's not a big deal. So the word doesn't mean anything. An insurrection right now, I don't

00:43:32.700 think means anything. If BLM defends our democracy and the horn guy is an insurrectionist, then if cops

00:43:40.260 just not taking an experimental drug is an insurrection, then insurrection doesn't mean anything

00:43:45.240 anymore. And it means you really ought to reconsider some of what you thought about. January 6th,

00:43:51.520 January, the worst attack in American history. Wasn't the Senate building like bombed in,

00:44:02.620 within the last five decades? I seem to recall that. I remember reading that there, there have been

00:44:06.700 multiple attacks actually in the last century that led to a lot of destruction on various Senate and

00:44:14.020 house buildings. But January's the horn guy, the podium, they took Pelosi's lectern. Okay,

00:44:22.920 it's not good. It's not good to steal somebody's lectern. It's not good to steal sneakers. It's not

00:44:28.540 good to steal Gucci handbags. It's not good to torch the country coast to coast. So one of them is our

00:44:33.300 democracy though, and it's really good. And the other is an insurrection. I don't think so. I don't

00:44:38.780 think so. Speaking of actual insurrections and coup d'etat, Christopher Steele, you remember him?

00:44:45.340 He was the tool who gave the Democrats an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign by cooking up a

00:44:51.840 completely bogus report about how Donald Trump was urinated on by hookers in Moscow. So Christopher

00:44:59.000 Steele just went on George Stephanopoulos' show on ABC, George Stephanopoulos, a former communications

00:45:03.800 director for Bill Clinton, a Democrat propagandist. And Steele defended his dossier. And Stephanopoulos

00:45:11.620 gave some pushback. He said, no, but come on, some things were false, right? He gave at least

00:45:15.720 the appearance of some pushback. And Steele goes, no, it was credible reporting. We knew some of it

00:45:21.420 was right. We suspected some of it may never be provable, but I've got a great track record. And

00:45:25.460 the idea that I would fabricate this document or information is absolutely anathema. I wouldn't be a

00:45:30.680 successful businessman if that were my practice. And he's hoping that you don't pay attention here

00:45:36.900 because of course he would be. His job was not to provide true information or true opposition

00:45:42.900 research into Donald Trump. His job was to use his credential, he's a lifelong spook, to use his

00:45:48.100 credential to give Democrats a justification to spy on the Trump campaign. And he did his job very,

00:45:53.940 very well. And it was a BS report, but he did it. And the ruling class spied on the Trump campaign.

00:45:59.300 And by some fluke, he actually managed, Trump actually managed to win. But the ruling class

00:46:07.560 remains unrepentant. They do not care. And we've got to stop falling for their traps,

00:46:14.900 whether it's on the January 6th or the isms or the this or the that, or listen to Fauci one more time

00:46:21.460 or we got to just tune that stuff out. Okay. I think we still have the chance to fight back and

00:46:27.220 rebuild our country, but we've got to get serious and start doing it ourselves. We've got to start

00:46:31.500 winning elections and using political power. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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