The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 One of the most prominent peddlers of critical race theory in the country, Ibram Kendi,

00:00:05.340 hoisted himself on his own petard over the weekend when he accidentally tweeted a statistic

00:00:10.460 that undermined his entire claim of systemic racism. The lack of racism has gotten so bad

00:00:17.760 in Virginia that supporters of Democrat Terry McAuliffe had to send a handful of fake white

00:00:23.100 supremacists to a campaign stop for Republican Glenn Youngkin as Election Day approaches.

00:00:28.040 And the corporate media have declared that Let's Go Brandon is now officially a Nazi chant.

00:00:35.680 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:50.060 Ibram Kendi. Oh, I love it. I love it. When you are debating a leftist, sometimes the best thing you

00:02:58.680 can do is just let him talk. This was Donald Trump's big problem in that debate with Joe Biden

00:03:05.540 is Biden was destroying himself. He was undermining all of his own points, but President Trump,

00:03:11.140 I guess, had been coached to interrupt a lot and try to off-foot Biden, and it didn't work. If you

00:03:15.060 just let Biden talk, Biden would have beat himself in the debate. He would have caused himself to

00:03:19.460 lose. That's what Kendi did. Kendi tweeted out, this race-hustling con artist, Ibram Kendi,

00:03:25.940 tweeted out, quote, more than a third of white students lied about their race on college

00:03:30.780 applications, and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American. More than three

00:03:36.460 fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Go on. What,

00:03:46.320 now what does this mean for your claim that white people have all of this privilege in the country

00:03:52.220 and that there is discrimination in favor of white people? What does that mean? You're so

00:03:57.080 close to getting it, Ibram Kendi. But then he realized, he realized, he realized what this means

00:04:03.540 is that there is no such thing as white privilege in this country. Actually, there's discrimination

00:04:07.600 against white people and Asian people as well, but notably white people. And for some reason,

00:04:12.980 the Asians get lumped in with the whites. And so if you apply to college and you say,

00:04:16.140 I'm a white person, you are going to be discriminated against. And if you apply to college and you say,

00:04:20.380 I'm a black person or I'm a Native American person or whatever, you are going to be discriminated in

00:04:25.040 favor of your application. You're going to receive bonus points. You're going to jump ahead of a white

00:04:31.760 student or an Asian student who have the same scores and an otherwise similar resume. So Ibram Kendi

00:04:37.320 realized that. He realized that his whole claim for his entire grifting career is bogus. And so he

00:04:45.120 deleted the tweet. Then he followed up because there was a lot of conservatives jumped on him.

00:04:50.460 Notably, Jack Posobiec was really just brutal to Ibram Kendi. So Kendi follows up. He says,

00:04:57.120 they lie about what I said to defend the lying of white college applicants. No, they're not lying.

00:05:03.180 We were just quoting you. We were just posting your screenshot. That's not lying. That's exposing

00:05:07.900 exactly what you said verbatim. He said, here is their tortured line of thinking. When white applicants

00:05:12.820 think they have an advantage by lying about being a person of color, then that means they do have an

00:05:17.020 advantage, which then means that structural racism doesn't exist. No, buddy, you're saying they have

00:05:21.260 the advantage. You said it. You said that when the whites applied and lied about their race and said

00:05:26.900 they were black and Native American, they did better than whites who just apply and say that they're

00:05:31.800 white. You said that, which means you proved that the so-called structural racism doesn't exist.

00:05:39.600 And actually it does exist, but it discriminates against whites and against Asians. You proved

00:05:45.240 that. Jack Posobiec, who is one of the people most prominently taunting Ibram Kendi on this point,

00:05:53.100 he tweeted out, he said, guys, I broke Kendi. I broke him. The guy was pushing his stupid

00:05:58.160 racial theories. He's the most prominent peddler of critical race theory in the country.

00:06:03.080 And then he hoisted himself on his own petard. And then I mocked him a little and I broke him.

00:06:07.260 So then Kendi responds. He says, a white man. It just goes back to this. How dare you? How dare

00:06:14.040 you evil white man criticize me? A con artist who happens to be black. A white man is attacking a

00:06:20.120 black person with lies, which are violent. The black person resists. The white man keeps attacking

00:06:26.940 until he declares he broke the black person. That's the contest. Seek a book about slavery.

00:06:32.400 In other words, if you make fun of me, a grifting con artist, race hustler on Twitter,

00:06:40.680 you are, you are no different than an enslaver in the antebellum South. And I'm a slave. I,

00:06:47.080 one of the most lauded, fetid, wealthy, famous hucksters in the country. I am no different than a

00:06:56.080 slave. They imagine white people are disadvantaged. Well, white people are on the higher end of nearly

00:07:02.180 every racial disparity. They imagine black and native people have racial advantages at the same

00:07:06.940 time. Black and native people are on the lowest end of nearly every racial disparity. Shaking my

00:07:11.160 head. Okay. So obviously Ibram Kendi, despite his protestations to the contrary, he knows that his

00:07:18.400 first tweet undermined his entire thesis. He knows that. If he didn't know that, if, if that first tweet

00:07:25.960 did not undermine his hustle, why did he delete it? If it was totally fine and it's, oh, it's, my words

00:07:33.620 are being twisted. People are lying. Well, then why'd you delete the tweet? Because you know that it

00:07:36.740 undermined your thesis. But there is something to this last point. This last point is what allows him

00:07:43.360 to continue to push this nonsense and make a gazillion dollars on his books and his lectures and

00:07:48.320 shaking down corporate America and winning all sorts of liberal prizes. The hustle is permitted to

00:07:54.400 continue because there are disparities between racial groups in the country. And white people

00:07:59.980 generally do very well. Asians often do a little bit better. Asians became white somehow. I don't know

00:08:05.660 how they became white, but they became white. They have white privilege. It doesn't look like they do,

00:08:09.480 but they do. And black people don't do as well. And native Americans really don't do as well.

00:08:14.960 Okay. So what is that? What, what Kendi is saying is there are racial disparities in income,

00:08:22.260 in education, in all sorts of things. So how do you explain it? If it's not because the evil white

00:08:30.760 man is keeping everybody down and he's an oppressive malignant force in society, then how do you explain

00:08:36.020 it? And there are, there are different explanations for this. The libertarians say it's all about choice.

00:08:41.280 The libertarians say that different racial groups on, by and large, make different choices when it

00:08:47.900 comes to different things, different aspects of society. And this will lead to different social

00:08:51.660 outcomes. The traditionalists say that tradition matters, that culture matters, that there are these

00:08:58.360 holdovers from different cultures. Obviously there are a whole lot of different cultures in America

00:09:01.480 and some of them are more conducive to flourishing in this country and others are not.

00:09:05.240 The racial essentialists say that people are just, you know, entirely different and it's all

00:09:10.960 biological and it's all in your DNA. So, and, and what Ibram Kendi is trying to do is suggest that if

00:09:16.400 you in any way deny white privilege or, you know, critical race theory or any of that, then you're just

00:09:21.280 like a evil, vicious, racist, bigoted sort of person. But you're coming, you're coming at the

00:09:29.040 question from the wrong perspective then. Why, why do racial groups do, do differently in the country?

00:09:34.800 I don't know. It's complicated, right? Because it's complicated. I don't know, because different

00:09:38.760 groups have different practices. They have different traditions. They, they come from

00:09:42.220 different places. They, there are different historical circumstances. I'm willing to grant

00:09:45.320 all of that. Okay. But the fact remains that when the white kids lied about their race and pretended

00:09:52.300 to be from the other allegedly disadvantaged races, they got an advantage, which means that the

00:09:58.160 structural legal racism that you're talking about does not exist as you say it does.

00:10:04.440 And actually it exists in the other direction. And so if Ibram Kendi really wants to figure out why

00:10:10.100 there are social problems in the country, you need to look somewhere else. Look to fatherlessness,

00:10:15.840 look to certain social pathologies, look to these issues if you actually want to solve that problem.

00:10:22.460 But Ibram Kendi doesn't want to solve that problem. Ibram Kendi wants to keep making a couple bucks,

00:10:26.560 couple bucks, more than a couple bucks really, by shaking down guilty white liberals and,

00:10:31.700 and hustling them at their corporations and their schools and their local governments.

00:10:34.920 And he's making a lot of money doing it. He's making a big name for himself,

00:10:37.400 but he's not, he's obviously not solving any problems. Okay. They've got to invent the white,

00:10:44.600 the white racists, the whites, the evil white supremacists who allegedly run this country.

00:10:50.360 They have to invent them. They don't exist. How many of them are there? Like, like three?

00:10:55.160 They don't, they don't exist. And so right now there's a tight race in Virginia. We're going to

00:11:01.040 know the results of that. We're going to have the election tomorrow. I don't know when we're

00:11:04.860 going to know the results. These days, sometimes it takes weeks to know the results of an election

00:11:08.100 because we're descending into a third world tin pot dictatorship. But the election is going to

00:11:14.160 happen tomorrow. And you've got the Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, who's a crooked Clinton corrupt guy.

00:11:20.520 And then you've got the Republican Glenn Youngkin. So Glenn Youngkin, he's a moderate Republican.

00:11:25.960 He's running a relatively moderate race, but he's doing well. He's doing well on this issue of schools.

00:11:32.200 And it's hard to paint him as a white supremacist and a Nazi and a Trumpy and a this and a that.

00:11:37.900 So the Democrats sent fake white supremacists to his campaign rally, dressed up. They dressed him up

00:11:46.880 like the guys from Charlottesville with the tiki torches and the white shirts and the khakis.

00:11:53.540 And, you know, if it had been, if this were a hundred years ago, they would have sent him

00:11:57.400 wearing Klan robes. But now they're sending him dressed up like the Charlottesville people. And it

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00:13:39.860 to 818181. At the Glenn Youngkin rally, we're in the final stretch. Now it's, we're just one day

00:13:46.580 before the election. A group of people show up to the Glenn Youngkin event dressed up like the

00:13:53.160 Tiki Torch people from Charlottesville. The left-wing media ran with this and they said,

00:13:58.280 look at the kind of people that Glenn Youngkin is attracting. He's a Nazi. He's a white supremacist.

00:14:03.980 You know, the same thing that they say about literally any Republican who gets close to

00:14:08.280 winning. Any Republican could be, oh, it's just Trump. Oh no, it's just Glenn Youngkin. Oh,

00:14:14.600 it's just Mitt Romney. Oh, it's just John McCain. Whoever it is, they've been doing it. They did it

00:14:20.140 to Reagan. They did it to Buckley. They've been doing it forever. Any Republican who gets close to

00:14:24.420 winning, they call a Nazi and a racist and a supremacist and whatever. So they do,

00:14:28.280 this, the left-wing outlets run, run with this. But conservatives just knew it was bogus.

00:14:33.220 Because we just, we, while some libs, there are some, I think, malevolent libs who are intending

00:14:41.320 to deceive people on this. But I think a lot of libs just don't know. They believe what they hear

00:14:45.940 on CNN and MSNBC. They really believe that Republicans are members of the Klan. And so when

00:14:51.380 they see a bunch of white supremacists show up to a Republican rally, they just say, of course,

00:14:55.980 that's what happens. And it's, it's almost always a hoax, if not every single time a hoax.

00:15:01.960 But because the libs live in that bubble, they just assume it's true. And so the Republicans

00:15:07.200 and the conservatives, we knew the minute we saw this, we said, well, this is fake. It's just not,

00:15:10.620 this just isn't real. They were sent by the Democrats. And so it took about five minutes

00:15:15.240 and everyone starts Googling and we find out, oh yeah, yeah, they're just Democrat operatives.

00:15:19.500 And so some people identified actually the specific people in the group of five or six

00:15:26.140 people who showed up to the Yunkin rally. They said, oh yeah, so-and-so is the treasurer

00:15:30.160 of the local Democrat party and so-and-so works for this Democrat operative and so-and-so.

00:15:34.120 And all of a sudden, all these people locked their Twitter accounts and they went on lockdown.

00:15:39.240 So shortly after that, the Lincoln Project took responsibility. The Lincoln Project is a bunch

00:15:43.400 of ex-Republicans. They're ex-Republican operatives. So they were kind of paid guns and they couldn't

00:15:48.680 get hired anymore by Republicans. So then they became Democrat operatives. And this is guys like

00:15:53.460 Stewart, what's his name? Stewart Stevens, is that it? Yeah. This is guys like Rick Wilson.

00:16:01.480 This is guys like George Conway. This is guys like John Weaver, who turned out to be a pederast

00:16:06.000 and got the Lincoln Project in a whole lot of trouble because he was using his political position

00:16:11.540 to try to groom young boys for sex. So the Lincoln Project, not the most reputable group on the left,

00:16:18.680 they took responsibility for this. I will say one area I think conservatives went a little wrong

00:16:26.100 in their reaction is the conservatives believed that the Lincoln Project intended to deceive people

00:16:32.960 and make out that these were actually white supremacists. I don't think that's what happened.

00:16:37.500 I don't think that's what happened at all. I mean, first of all, one of the people they sent was a

00:16:41.020 woman dressed up like a man and, you know, it was like a little blonde girl. And another person they

00:16:44.980 sent was a black guy dressed up like a white supremacist. So I don't, look, I guess it's

00:16:49.780 possible that the Lincoln Project operatives are the stupidest people on the face of the earth.

00:16:55.200 It is possible. But I think what they were doing is they were sending them there as a protest

00:16:58.600 to make a point. And then the liberal media, very gullible and stupid, misinterpreted that and ran

00:17:04.500 with it and said they were actually white supremacists. Regardless, whatever, the Lincoln Project

00:17:08.700 took credit. They said, uh, the Lincoln Project has run advertisements highlighting the hate

00:17:16.720 unleashed in Charlottesville, as well as Glenn Youngkin's continued failure to denounce Donald

00:17:22.560 Trump's very fine people on both sides. We will continue to draw this contrast in broadcast videos

00:17:28.560 on our social media platforms and at Youngkin rallies. So today's demonstration was our way of

00:17:32.900 reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago. The Republican

00:17:36.280 Party's embrace of those values and Glenn Youngkin's failure to condemn it. So if he will denounce

00:17:41.680 Trump's assertion that the Charlottesville riders possessed very fine qualities, he will withdraw the

00:17:46.000 tiki torches until then we'll be back. So Lincoln Project gets called out, the whole stunt backfires.

00:17:50.700 And so they say, well, this is all because Donald Trump called Nazis and white supremacists very fine

00:17:55.540 people at Charlottesville. This is the same canard with which Donald, or with which Joe Biden rather

00:18:02.020 began his 2020 presidential campaign. Don, it was the very first thing in his very

00:18:06.140 first campaign address. Donald Trump called Nazis and white supremacists very fine people at

00:18:12.260 Charlottesville. The problem with that assertion and that justification for this stunt is it,

00:18:18.560 it never happened. It is tuck that away with the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy. It is completely

00:18:25.240 imaginary. It is such a joke. It is such a hoax that even Jake Tapper, whom I don't really like,

00:18:32.420 and I think he's a big lib and not very honest a lot of the time and very favorable to Dems and not

00:18:38.580 almost ever favorable to Republicans. He on CNN, even he on CNN admitted that it was a bunch of

00:18:47.160 baloney. Let's play some of the sound of President Trump back in 2017 saying he had said today that he

00:18:54.380 answered the question perfectly. Let's take a listen.

00:18:58.760 They showed up in Charlottesville to protest. And you had some very bad people in that group,

00:19:08.120 but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

00:19:14.640 Now elsewhere in those remarks, the president did condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists. So he's

00:19:19.600 not saying that the neo-Nazis and white supremacists are very fine people. So he's not saying that the

00:19:24.980 neo-Nazis and the white supremacists are very fine people. Trump said, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis

00:19:29.200 and white supremacists. They should be condemned totally. You've heard it only really from conservative

00:19:34.660 media. And occasionally someone like Jake Tapper gets a pang of conscience and says, look, guys, come on.

00:19:40.140 Come on. You can't push this lie. But that's the lie. And that will be used to justify all of these

00:19:44.820 other deceptions to send fake racists into places because the real alleged white racists, they just

00:19:50.220 don't really exist. Okay. And the alleged structural racism in favor of white people, it just doesn't

00:19:56.800 exist. It's just, it's fake. And Jake Tapper will admit it. And Ibram Kendi will accidentally admit it

00:20:03.760 sometimes, but he'll delete it when he does. What the Lincoln Project stunt says to me, what it proves

00:20:10.060 to me beyond the racial stuff or the Yunkin campaign is it reminds me that the left can't

00:20:16.100 meme. They can't meme. They don't know how to meme. When I say meme, I'm referring to the kind of

00:20:23.700 organic, funny, effective, substantive jokes, criticisms, political stunts that proliferate

00:20:37.040 mostly around the internet, but sometimes in real life too. The left can't do that.

00:20:41.720 I'll give you a great example of one of these. A Southwest Airlines pilot was just, just touched

00:20:46.620 down, you know, came over the loudspeaker. Hey there. Welcome everybody. We've gotten to our

00:20:50.020 donation, destination rather. And he finished his announcement with those three beautiful words

00:20:56.960 that have gone viral in this country. Let's go, Brandon.

00:21:01.000 About seven or eight miles an hour. Your visibility, mostly clear sky, 77 degrees.

00:21:07.040 Thanks for coming out flying with Southwest Airlines. Welcome aboard.

00:21:10.780 And remember, let's go, Brandon.

00:21:12.720 And remember, let's go, Brandon. So this is, this is the welcome over. This is the announcement at

00:21:18.240 the beginning of the flight. Hey, let's go, Brandon. What does let's go, Brandon mean? Let's go,

00:21:22.840 Brandon is a meme that stands in for F Joe Biden because crowds at stadiums all around the country

00:21:31.360 have been chanting F Joe Biden, F Joe Biden. And one time some sports reporter was talking to a

00:21:36.940 guy named Brandon on a racetrack and she didn't want to acknowledge that they were all chanting

00:21:41.380 F Joe Biden. So she said, Oh, you can hear them, Brandon. They're saying, let's go, Brandon. So now

00:21:45.440 the right has adopted this phrase, let's go, Brandon. And it's gone viral again. And the left is so,

00:21:51.720 so angry about this meme. Tristan Snell, who is an MSNBC and CNN commentator tweeted out, quote,

00:22:01.220 let's go, Brandon has become the MAGA version of Zig Heil. If you say, let's go, Brandon, you're a Nazi.

00:22:08.960 Wow. Wow. That's what an original thought. That's really what a, what a powerful and profound statement,

00:22:15.220 Tristan Snell. That really makes me think about this issue in a new and interesting way. Doesn't it?

00:22:18.440 You're calling your opponents Nazis. Wow. I've never, it's never occurred to me to do that. Wow.

00:22:23.900 Oh my goodness. The left can't meme. What's funny too, they're saying that let's go, Brandon is

00:22:30.500 vulgar. It's not, it's, it's the opposite of vulgar. F Joe Biden is vulgar. Let's go, Brandon is not. It's,

00:22:36.520 it's devulgarizing the statement that a lot of people are feeling. It's clever. It's funny.

00:22:43.700 It's really funny. And the fact that you get so angry about it makes it funnier. And you're going

00:22:50.040 to get more of it because you guys get so upset. This is the same group that shrieked profanities

00:22:54.840 for four years straight over, over Donald Trump and called him all the nastiest, filthiest names in

00:23:00.940 the book. But the minute we make a little clever Joe, let's go, Brandon, they say, this is, it's your

00:23:06.160 Nazis. It's like Zig Heil. Why can't the left mean? There is a simple answer to this. I'm not just sort of

00:23:12.100 spiking the football and saying, ha ha, we're funny and they're not funny. And there's a, a real

00:23:16.640 political reason why the left can't meme. The left can't meme because they are the ruling class,

00:23:21.280 right? They control everything. They control the government and the media and the schools and the

00:23:27.140 tech platforms and the money and wall street and everything. And they control all of it. And so they

00:23:33.180 can't meme because a meme is in practice, a subversive, funny way to criticize and undermine the

00:23:41.460 ruling class. And they're not going to do that to themselves. They already control everything. And

00:23:44.820 that is why just at a practical level, as long as the Democrats continue to rule in this country,

00:23:51.440 the memes, the memes of production are going to be owned by the conservatives. Now, the Democrat rule

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00:25:16.860 President Trump just showed up to the World Series. And one of the memes that's going around

00:25:35.560 the World Series, one of the memes that goes around the Braves is the chop, you know, sort of

00:25:41.220 Indian chop. So the Braves fans were doing this and President Trump joined in on the fun.

00:25:46.860 I love they're all doing it. And there's Trump there right in his box doing the show. You can

00:25:55.360 hear people down below. Is that Mark Meadows yet? You can hear people down below. He's doing it too.

00:26:00.220 Look, he's doing it too. So the left can't do this. They're not allowed to do this.

00:26:07.360 Okay. And we can, why isn't the left alleged, because they would be told this is racist.

00:26:13.740 This is racist to do a thing that is associated with Indian culture. You can't do that. It's the

00:26:20.160 Braves and you're not, you can't. Trump is not from Georgia. I don't think Trump even likes Georgia

00:26:26.460 that much because he thinks that Georgia was rigged and took the election away from him.

00:26:30.800 Trump's a New Yorker. So why is he there rooting for the Braves? Because the Braves

00:26:34.580 are, they're the politically incorrect team right now. They've got the politically incorrect name.

00:26:41.100 They're in Georgia, which, which has those politically incorrect laws, pro-life laws,

00:26:47.280 all sorts of laws. And that's why MLB took the all-star game out of Georgia, but now they got to go

00:26:50.980 back for the World Series. That's hilarious. And so we get to smile and laugh and have fun and do the,

00:26:57.460 the Indian shop. Why? Because we're not the ones taking away people's baseball and teams and culture

00:27:05.560 and fun. We're not the ones doing that. We conservatives are saying, no, you should have

00:27:10.540 your baseball teams and the names and you should have your fun and you should have your culture

00:27:14.400 and you can wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo and you should be able to wave the American flag and you

00:27:19.360 should be able to have your families and you should be able to make jokes and you should be able to

00:27:24.100 have your country. And the left is saying, no, your country is evil. It's awful. Especially if

00:27:30.940 you're a white or a man or straight, you're really bad. And so they're, they're this party of scolds

00:27:38.080 and the right is having fun. Now it's, it's unfortunate in a way because the reason we're

00:27:42.860 having fun is because we're not ruling. We're not in power right now. But that does, that,

00:27:47.740 that is a kind of power in and of itself, the power to weaken the regime, to criticize it,

00:27:51.740 to get a lot of other people around to criticize it. That is helpful. It's, it's almost undeniable

00:27:57.940 at this point that the left is the ruling power in this country. Even left-wing outlets are,

00:28:05.920 are recognizing this. There, there was a headline in The Nation. The Nation is a pretty, pretty far

00:28:12.840 left magazine. As far as mainstream magazines go, The Nation is about as far left as it gets.

00:28:17.480 And the headline is from David Bromwich. Is this David Bromwich, the professor? This might be.

00:28:24.000 I don't know. I can't see. I don't, it doesn't have his bio at the end.

00:28:27.660 Yes, he is. It's David Bromwich. He's a professor of mine actually in college. That's kind of funny.

00:28:30.680 He's a bit, he's a liberal guy. And the headline is, have Democrats become the party of the rich?

00:28:37.360 If you're waiting for Democrats to talk as frankly about wealth as they do about race,

00:28:43.080 don't hold your breath. Have they become the party of the rich? Duh. Duh, of course they have. And,

00:28:49.000 and here's a, here's a line. Quote, some recent US figures on the distribution of income by party,

00:28:54.940 65% of taxpayer households that earn more than half a million dollars per year are now in Democrat

00:28:59.940 districts, 65% of them. 74% of the households in Republican districts earn less than $100,000 per

00:29:08.300 year. Right. And yet when I was growing up, there was this idea that Republicans were the party of

00:29:15.260 the rich, Democrats were the party of the poor and the working class. The reality is not, that is not

00:29:22.520 the case. But conservatives did make a big mistake. Conservatives have spent much of my lifetime

00:29:29.700 shilling for mega corporations who hate our way of life, who have nothing but contempt for the

00:29:35.560 American people and who have no loyalty to our country and will sell out our country and undermine

00:29:41.440 the first chance that they get. Conservatives' obsession with economics has made us politically impotent.

00:29:52.520 The fact that we constantly have to campaign. I mean, we don't really do it anymore, but we used to

00:29:58.340 just campaign all the time on tax cuts for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. We, it is so important to the

00:30:04.580 American system that super woke Democrats need to pay even less in taxes. We need to make sure

00:30:14.240 that Nike pays less in taxes. Why? We need to, they defend Facebook, they defend Twitter, they defend

00:30:22.560 Google. Free enterprise demands that we let Google, a radical left corporation, control all of our

00:30:29.920 speech and censor the duly elected sitting president of the United States when he's a Republican and all

00:30:36.300 the rest of it. I don't think that's true. I was in a debate recently on TV on Fox LA with a Democrat guy

00:30:43.480 and he said, he was going on and on about the push to raise taxes. I said, good, raise taxes. I don't

00:30:50.540 care. Raise taxes on the rich. It's fine by me. Probably won't do that great for the economy, but

00:30:54.280 whatever. If you're going to make rich Democrats pay more money, fine. Let them, let them. Eat the rich

00:31:00.800 for all I care. Because the rich are disproportionately Democrats. And he was

00:31:05.660 kind of flummoxed by that. What we need to recognize is that our battle here is cultural,

00:31:11.300 not just economic. You know, I'm going to the National Conservatism Conference. I was supposed

00:31:15.020 to be there today, but I couldn't, couldn't get away from the studio in time. So I'm going to go

00:31:18.760 tomorrow. A really great event. If you're in Orlando, come check it out. Yoram Hazoni is putting

00:31:24.020 it on a really, really sharp philosopher today. So we're all trying to work out what does it mean?

00:31:31.280 What does national conservatism mean? What is, what is the winning conservative message moving

00:31:35.220 forward? Marco Rubio is one of the people who is kind of working on this and he's trying to buck

00:31:40.260 older talking points, but sometimes he stumbles. And I feel he stumbled in recent days. Rubio came out

00:31:47.040 against the Biden budget, this multi-trillion dollar awful budget. And, and he said, the problem with

00:31:53.320 this budget is that it's not going to build us back better. It's going to build us back

00:31:58.340 socialist. So we've all been following the Democrats' inter-party drama over Biden's

00:32:04.600 spending plan for America. But in the end, you know, we're going to hear today that they've got

00:32:08.660 some kind of a deal. Look, unfortunately the media, the way they're going to report it is not the,

00:32:13.800 what it is. The whole focus is going to be on the fake top line number, right? The squad wanted

00:32:19.620 $7 trillion. The democratic budget said $3.5 trillion. But today the deal, whether it's 1.5

00:32:26.040 or 1.75 or $2 trillion, it doesn't matter. It's still socialism. It's still build back socialism.

00:32:32.980 The media and the pundits are going to claim that this proves that Biden is this great deal maker,

00:32:37.300 bridging the divide between the big government socialists and the huge government socialists.

00:32:42.920 So it's going to fall on those of us who know the truth and see this plan for what it is to inform

00:32:47.640 you, the American people. This plan is not build back better. As I said, this plan is to build back

00:32:54.060 socialists. Oh man, I, you know, I like Rubio and I like, I like that he's trying to mix it up a

00:33:02.760 little bit in conservatism. I like that he's opposing this budget. I hate this budget, but

00:33:06.080 this is, as the kids say, cringe. Socialism, it's socialism. It's so everything I don't like

00:33:15.000 because socialism, I don't, look, the Democrats have embraced socialism and socialism is evil.

00:33:20.500 Yeah, it is. It is evil. The great fight of our age is not between socialism and capitalism.

00:33:30.020 Capitalism, a word that was popularized by Karl Marx, by the way, people forget that.

00:33:34.040 It's not. It's not between socialism and capitalism. It is between barbarism and civilization.

00:33:40.980 That's the fight. It's not about economics. Get this through your heads, people. It is not about

00:33:49.960 economics. It is not about tax rates. It's not even primarily about the national debt or government

00:33:55.800 spending. It's, it is about those things downstream. Those, those things are symptoms of a bigger problem,

00:34:02.860 but the problem does not stem from bean counting on a spreadsheet. The problem stems from cultural

00:34:12.120 issues. Okay. We have right now a racial caste system being implemented in this country where

00:34:23.740 prominent figures in this country are claiming that white people are evil and need to be abolished and

00:34:28.760 need to be punished along with Asians for whatever reason in university admissions and in jobs and

00:34:34.080 elsewhere. Okay. We are living in a country right now where little boys, little children are being

00:34:40.220 taught that boys can be girls and girls can be boys and they should mutilate their genitals when they're

00:34:44.660 little kids so that they can pretend to be the other sex. And you're talking to me about higher tax

00:34:51.260 rates or more government spending. That's not the problem. Okay. And this came up during the tea party.

00:34:59.480 I remember I was in those fights. I was working campaigns during those fights and everyone thought if we

00:35:04.080 just get the debt in order, if we just get taxes in order, we're taxed enough already. You remember that T,

00:35:10.520 T-E-A, taxed enough already. If we just get this economics focused message and don't really care about any

00:35:16.180 of the social or cultural issues, it'll all be totally fine. And then we'll get the country back on track.

00:35:21.220 We won't deal, we'll have a cultural truce. We'll deal with the numbers and then we'll fix the culture.

00:35:26.760 And it didn't work. It failed. It totally failed. Valiant effort. I see why people thought it might

00:35:32.180 work. It didn't. The deeper issues, open borders, immigration, assimilation, what America even stands

00:35:42.040 for, protests of the American flag, racial divisions, which deepened and deepened and deepened

00:35:47.320 in recent years, sexual confusion, which has only gotten worse. That has, has left us so confused

00:35:55.440 as to who we are as a country. We don't even know what end is up. And you're not going to fix the,

00:36:01.160 fix the economic stuff until you fix the cultural stuff. It's not, it's really, it's a real boomer

00:36:07.960 energy to pretend that this is 1978 and we're just in the cold war. Okay. And it's all just about

00:36:16.980 socialism versus capitalism. It's not. Back in those days, we had far greater national unity. We,

00:36:23.180 we agreed on way more stuff. Now we don't agree on what a man is or what a woman is. Okay. And so

00:36:28.100 you got to fix that stuff first. Listen to your voters, people. Listen to the only, you want to

00:36:34.300 talk about the Tea Party. Listen to the only grassroots movement that is helping conservatives

00:36:39.140 and Republicans right now. And that may throw a Republican, the governorship in Virginia.

00:36:44.000 It's this issue of the schools and specifically it's critical race theory and the transgender stuff.

00:36:50.780 There was a woman who showed up in Loudoun County where a lot of this is being focused,

00:36:56.060 showed up to her school board and mentioned that her daughter asked, there's a white woman,

00:37:01.060 but the daughter, white girl asked her mother if she was born evil because of the color of her skin.

00:37:07.160 My children are now in private school and are thriving. We had specifically moved into,

00:37:11.480 faced out of LCPS due to the swift and uncompromising political agenda of superintendents

00:37:16.240 Williams, Ziegler, and the school board that have forced upon us. First, it was in early spring of

00:37:22.300 2020 when my six-year-old somberly came to me and asked me if she was born evil because she was a

00:37:27.200 white person, something she learned in a history lesson at school. Then you kept the schools closed

00:37:31.820 for a year and a half despite the science indicating that it was safe for kids to return. And now you've

00:37:36.260 covered up a rape, then arrested, humiliated, and falsely accused her parents of being domestic

00:37:40.480 terrorists. I wish I could return my kids to LCPS. Private school is expensive and I want my kids

00:37:45.580 to be able to walk home from school with their friends in their own community. I refuse to allow

00:37:50.020 you to destroy our schools. They are not your schools. They are our schools. You all should be ashamed

00:37:56.160 and you should have the moral courage to admit you are wrong and step down. Preach, sister. Absolutely

00:38:02.220 right. Such moral clarity and she's very articulate as well. This matters much more to Americans than tax

00:38:10.400 cuts do. I like tax cuts. I don't like paying a lot of taxes. I want to pay the lowest amount of

00:38:16.900 taxes that I am legally obligated to pay. Okay. But if my taxes go up a little bit, I'm like probably

00:38:23.840 not even going to notice. Right. Or I'll notice a little bit and it's too bad and we won't go out

00:38:29.600 to dinner a few times that year and, but it'll be fine. You know what I really care about? My kids

00:38:35.000 being taught that they're born evil because of the color of their skin. You know what I really care

00:38:39.140 about? My kid being pumped full of insane sexual confusion that could ruin his life. That bothers

00:38:44.580 me. I can't send my kids to public school. That bothers me. I wish I could send my kids to public

00:38:50.340 school, but I can't. I went to public school. My wife went to public school. We met in public school.

00:38:55.260 I have no problem with that. I really like public schools or I liked them. And even then our schools

00:39:02.200 were very, very liberal, but they weren't mutilating kids' genitals. All right. They

00:39:07.500 weren't pumping their heads full of this racial nonsense that says you're evil if you're a white

00:39:13.920 person. That's a big problem. That's a big problem for people. I like to think hopefully, look, hopefully

00:39:20.120 I sell some more blank books. I can afford to send my kid to private school. Even though, by the way,

00:39:23.680 a lot of the private schools are pretty bad too. Or maybe we can homeschool. I hope we have the

00:39:29.820 resources to do that when the time comes. I don't know. What I do know is that for most Americans,

00:39:34.440 they don't really have the resources to do that or it's very, very difficult for them to.

00:39:39.320 Focus on that. Let's focus a little bit more on that. I know it's a little politically edgier and

00:39:45.300 riskier to talk about things like race and sex than it is to talk about tax cuts and socialism and

00:39:52.260 government spending. But those are the issues that matter to people. Those are the issues where the

00:39:56.800 left has gained a huge advantage and it's deeply unjust and it's wrong for everybody and you should

00:40:01.380 fight back. Especially when the people who are peddling this have nothing but contempt for their

00:40:07.400 constituents. There was a school board, a woman, just another woman, all women of all shapes and

00:40:13.080 colors and sizes and demographics showing up to these school boards to say, don't teach my kids this

00:40:17.260 crap. One of the school board presidents actually, she used a phrase similar to let's go Brandon,

00:40:25.640 but the right, we use the kind of nice devulgarized version. This woman just used the insults and the

00:40:33.180 swear words themselves. A California school board president was listening to this woman opposing the

00:40:40.220 vaccine mandates for the little kids who are at very, very low risk of coronavirus, who really

00:40:48.720 should, I think the parents should be allowed to make these medical decisions for themselves.

00:40:54.000 And the school board president heard her out, then cut her off the earliest chance she got,

00:40:58.220 and then said, F you lady. My name's Lauren Rapoli and I am here as a concerned parent to urge you to

00:41:05.040 be the first school to say no mandates for our children. Let our children, leave our children alone.

00:41:10.220 Let them be kids and enjoy one another. Let them breathe again and smile again.

00:41:14.560 Emailing and calling, like you say, isn't going to help. Choose your own path, Scott. Choose your own

00:41:19.960 path. That was very rude of you to say. Thank you. Parents are selfish. You say it.

00:41:25.180 Margaret's next. Thank you. Your time's up.

00:41:27.980 You can hear it. We bleeped it out, obviously. But you can hear it pretty, pretty clearly because

00:41:41.640 we're a family show. You see the school board members, when they're talking about little kids

00:41:46.860 education, they can use whatever nasty language they want. But we here on this show, we try to

00:41:50.800 keep it a little more wholesome. These people hold you in contempt. They hate you. They think that

00:41:58.360 you're a racist, a phobe, a hateful, bigoted person. They think you're born evil, whether you're

00:42:07.620 white or whether you're not white, but you agree with conservatives. Then you just sort of become

00:42:11.760 white, you know, then you're, I don't know. You're like that guy that the Lincoln Project sent

00:42:16.380 to, to the Terry, to the Glenn Youngkin event, rather. Maybe you look black or like a, some

00:42:23.400 other minority, but you're a white supremacist. If you support these conservatives or you show up to

00:42:27.460 these school boards or you say, don't, don't tell little Johnny that he's a really little Jane.

00:42:31.240 You're an evil or don't judge people on the color of their skin. You're an evil, deplorable,

00:42:37.320 bitter clinging, Bible thumping, idiot Rube who just needs to die off and make room for the good,

00:42:44.720 better Americans. Okay. This is a big problem for Terry McAuliffe, who's the former governor of

00:42:51.480 Virginia who wants to be the governor again. The Democrat there whose, whose campaign is tanking

00:42:56.760 because of the issue of, of education. He came out and said that parents should not have a right

00:43:01.660 to say anything about their kids' education, that the education should be run by the teachers

00:43:07.020 and the administrators and the politicians. And that this is true from preschool up until you

00:43:12.580 graduate. So we're talking about what a dozen years, more than a dozen years. And this is

00:43:17.660 really hurting his numbers. So, so he goes on MSNBC and he says, it isn't true. I'm being taken

00:43:22.460 out of context. And by the way, you're all worried about critical race theory. Critical race theory is

00:43:26.440 not even being taught in Virginia schools. What's Glenn Youngkin's education plan? He wants to ban

00:43:33.240 critical race theory. Well, let me explain to you. It's never been taught in Virginia.

00:43:36.740 Okay. So now, now Terry McAuliffe is going back to this thing. It's not being taught.

00:43:41.840 Critical race theory, it's just something at Harvard Law School. It's not being taught in our

00:43:44.620 schools. Now that's not true. Uh, there were a number of documents on the Virginia Department

00:43:49.920 of Education website, referencing critical race theory explicitly. And, uh, beyond that, we just

00:43:56.780 know that this is being taught in the schools. I mean, we've, we've seen, we've seen lesson

00:44:01.080 plans from all over the country and we've seen the Democrats waffle on their arguments here.

00:44:05.900 First, they said, well, first they were pushing critical race theory. Then Christopher Ruffo led

00:44:10.060 the charge and then all the conservatives called it out. Then the Democrats said critical race theory

00:44:14.420 is not being taught in schools. And now, then after that, you saw when we can prove that it's being

00:44:21.400 taught in schools and you can just go to the Virginia Department of Education website. Then you saw

00:44:24.660 the Democrats go back and say, actually, critical race theory is really, really good. And it should be

00:44:28.280 taught and critical race theory is great. And huge education lobbies and national organizations are

00:44:33.700 saying, you know, it's good and we're going to keep teaching it. But now that's hurting their

00:44:36.620 numbers still. So now Terry McAuliffe is going back to the other strategy and saying, no, critical race

00:44:41.420 theory is not being taught in the schools. It's, it's like Dr. Fauci's, do you remember Dr. Fauci's

00:44:47.600 denial when he perjured himself to Rand Paul? Rand Paul said, you're doing gain of function research.

00:44:52.700 And, and Dr. Fauci said, we have never done any gain of function research and it was totally fine when

00:45:01.820 we did it. Um, those two, uh, those contradict one another. Well, it's the same thing here. Critical

00:45:11.580 race theory is not being taught in schools and it's wonderful and students should continue to learn it.

00:45:17.440 Well, you got to pick one. This is the nearest thing to another tea party I have seen since 2010 or

00:45:25.800 2011. I was speaking with Kara McKinney on OAN and she, she called it out explicitly. So this is kind

00:45:34.900 of the new tea party. I've been calling it the CR tea party. It's the CR, this is what, what made the

00:45:42.240 tea party different than a lot of political operations is that it really was largely grassroots.

00:45:48.800 There really were people who just ordinary people who showed up and they had 20 bucks to donate and

00:45:53.620 they had their Gadsden flag and they, they were defending their view of American constitutionalism

00:45:59.200 and specifically this economic focus, get rid of the debt, you know, stop all this crazy spending,

00:46:05.200 cut taxes, that sort of thing. This is the nearest I've seen to them. Uniting people all around the

00:46:10.600 country, around a real issue that, that Republicans have not paid a lot of attention to, forcing the

00:46:16.020 Republican party to start paying attention to it. And it's all coming to a head in Virginia and we'll

00:46:21.640 find out what happens. We won't know by tomorrow's show. We'll know by Wednesday's show, but we'll see

00:46:27.400 what happens. Virginia is very blue Commonwealth. And so Terry McAuliffe should walk away with this race,

00:46:33.160 but Glenn Youngkin is putting up a real fight. And now in some of the polls, Glenn Youngkin is up,

00:46:38.040 actually the Republican is up. I think it's very important that Glenn Youngkin win this race.

00:46:44.280 Not because then the Republicans can do X, Y, or Z. Glenn Youngkin's kind of moderate.

00:46:48.400 I think it's very important that Glenn Youngkin win this race because all the indicators showed

00:46:52.600 that he really could win this race. And if he wins this race, it will defend the legitimacy of

00:46:58.720 the American system. Right now, a lot of Republicans are doubtful that the American system is legit.

00:47:06.020 Okay. Democrats changed all the election rules during COVID. They put them all to their advantage.

00:47:11.140 We can't count our ballots on election night anymore. For some reason, it's taking weeks and

00:47:14.160 weeks and weeks until Democrats find more votes. And then they can say, okay, we won. And the left

00:47:19.900 in this country hasn't trusted elections in 20 years, right? Terry McAuliffe still denies the results

00:47:24.480 of the 2000 presidential election, still denies the results of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election

00:47:28.800 on the campaign trail this year in the year of our Lord 2021. And Republicans have a far greater

00:47:34.180 reason to doubt the credibility of the 2020 election because they changed all the rules right

00:47:37.680 before it to their own advantage, to the Democrats' advantage. I think it's very important. And I think

00:47:42.940 if Glenn Youngkin, I think if Terry McAuliffe comes out ahead in the Virginia election, I think it's going

00:47:50.200 to continue the United States down this path of not trusting our system, this path toward tinpot

00:47:56.160 dictatorship. If Terry, Irif Glenn Youngkin rather, can pull it out and is named the governor after

00:48:02.180 this, I think it would bring the temperature down a whole lot and give everybody a fighting chance

00:48:07.180 to preserve this system. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:48:11.180 Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:49:04.440 Race Hustlers Colin Kaepernick and Ibron X. Kendi both thoroughly embarrassed themselves over the

00:49:08.520 weekend exposing the emptiness and absurdity of their worldviews. We'll talk about that. Also,

00:49:12.420 Democrats of Virginia have all of the momentum going against them heading into the election on

00:49:16.220 Tuesday. So they decided to resort to some good old fashioned fraud. And a Southwest Airlines pilot

00:49:20.820 allegedly says, let's go Brandon over the intercom on the plane. And this is apparently a nationwide

00:49:24.840 crisis. Plus, rumors are swirling about Joe Biden's meeting with the Pope. I feel duty bound to discuss

00:49:29.840 those rumors today. And I will. All of that and so much more in the Matt Walsh Show.

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