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00:00:00.000 The prosecutor in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has failed at every stage to make the case that

00:00:06.200 Rittenhouse is guilty of murder. Often his witnesses have made the defendant's argument

00:00:11.860 for him. So now the prosecutor is complaining that he's at a disadvantage because the video

00:00:19.220 evidence is undercutting his case. Your videos that you have captured of these incidents that

00:00:27.460 you call riots, they're very slanted against the people who are rioting. You characterize them as

00:00:36.680 Antifa, Black Lives Matter, rioters, correct? Because they are rioting in the footage. Yes,

00:00:41.540 absolutely. The videos of the events that you call riots are really slanted against the people

00:00:49.380 who are rioting. Yeah, video tends to be slanted against people who are rioting. If the video

00:00:54.600 of what happened is biased against the prosecution's case, that's because reality is biased against the

00:01:01.540 prosecution's case, which never should have been brought to trial in the first place.

00:01:06.120 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:15.460 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sharon

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00:01:25.300 any, how come a convicted felon had a pistol? Yeah, that's to me the more important question.

00:01:30.660 The people who should be on trial, well, I guess two of the people who were attacking Kyle

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00:02:47.500 The videos are not looking good for the left. Your Honor, I'd like, I object. I object to playing

00:02:55.320 that video of what happened. That's really not good for my case. I know, that's true. Maybe if,

00:02:59.880 maybe if those videos had gotten out in the first place, you wouldn't have brought that case and you

00:03:03.900 wouldn't be humiliating yourself now. There are other videos though, beyond the Rittenhouse trial

00:03:08.120 that don't look good for the left. One that went viral yesterday, a video of Joe Biden calling

00:03:14.920 someone a Negro. You know, I've adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time,

00:03:23.360 pitcher in the Negro leagues went on to become a great pitcher in the pros into the Major League

00:03:31.380 Baseball after Jackie Robinson. His name was Satchel Paige. There was a fact check. I think it was from

00:03:37.720 Mediaite. They said, did Joe Biden call a guy a Negro? And they said, no, no, not really. I mean,

00:03:42.580 yeah, he did, but he didn't mean to. And that's what fact checks are like for Democrats now. But I

00:03:48.020 have a different take on this than most people on the right. Oh, people on the right yesterday,

00:03:52.260 they loved this clip. They were posting it all over. Joe Biden, that racist, he called someone a

00:03:59.260 Negro. Oh, look at him. Could you imagine if Trump, oh, could you imagine if the shoe were on the other

00:04:05.120 foot? Does anyone actually care that Joe Biden used the word Negro? Does anyone, I'm not saying

00:04:13.560 should they care? Is there a double standard? What if Trump, forget that for a second. Does anyone

00:04:19.500 actually care? No, no one does. No black person is offended. No Republican who is pretending to make a

00:04:30.540 big deal out of this or who is making a big deal and pretending it is a big deal actually cares. And

00:04:35.680 no Democrat cares either about what he said or about the double standard. This is a completely

00:04:40.460 impotent political attack. The only way this would be a good political attack against Joe Biden

00:04:48.540 is if Democrats cared about their hypocrisy and double standards, but they don't. So it just doesn't

00:04:54.880 matter. By the way, the word Negro is not offensive in and of itself. There are other words that begin

00:05:01.680 with N that can be offensive, but Negro was just the common, ordinary word for a black person

00:05:08.420 used by black people, used by white people, used on government forms. And then it became colored

00:05:15.020 person. And then it became black person. And then it became African-American. Now it's back to colored

00:05:19.740 person, except we have to call it person of color. Who knows? A Negro might come back into fashion at

00:05:23.980 some point. They just keep changing the word. It's not like the N word. They're, they're actually

00:05:29.000 different, different words. The, to, to me, this kind of politics is such a waste of time. It's such

00:05:35.220 a distraction. It's so lazy. It's not going to help conservatives to make a big deal out of this

00:05:40.280 attack. It's not going to embarrass Democrats. The only thing in this video that does look, looks really

00:05:46.080 bad for Joe Biden is that he seems senile. He seems senile. He's using the word that was popular

00:05:52.560 60 years ago when last time he remembers anything. And he is kind of doddering and he's, oh, there's a

00:06:00.340 guy, good Negro. No, ah, no, I mean the Negro league. He was a player and there was a guy, you know,

00:06:06.020 he just played baseball and he, that's bad. That I think is an attack that might work on moderates that

00:06:13.260 might rile up Republicans that might win over independence. But playing this gotcha thing with a,

00:06:20.020 I agree. It's a double standard. I agree. It's hypocrisy, but just no one actually cares.

00:06:25.180 There's a worse video for Joe Biden. Actually, another one came out yesterday where Joe Biden's

00:06:30.980 giving a speech about the inflation crisis, the transportation crisis, the fact that gas is going

00:06:36.780 through the roof and Joe Biden, as if he were not the president of the United States, as if he were

00:06:41.340 just some passive observer says, good golly folks, you ever think you'd be paying this much for gas?

00:06:46.460 So we got nearly a 20 percent more goods coming into the country than we did before the pandemic

00:06:51.420 struck. In 19 days, excuse me, COVID-19 has changed the way we spend our time and our money.

00:06:58.460 More products are being delivered than ever before. That's because people have a little more breathing

00:07:03.560 room than they did last year. And that's a good thing. But it also means we got higher demand for

00:07:09.820 goods at the same time we're facing disruptions in the supplies that make those goods. There's a rest,

00:07:15.820 this is a recipe for delays and for higher prices. And people are feeling it. They're

00:07:20.700 feeling it. Do you ever think you'd be paying this much for a gallon of gas? In some parts

00:07:25.660 of California, they're paying $4.50 a gallon. That's why it's so important that we do everything

00:07:31.360 on our power to stabilize the supply chain. Okay. First of all, just to tell you how out

00:07:35.800 of touch he is, gas is way higher in California. In some parts of California, it's pushing up towards

00:07:40.640 seven bucks. $4.50 a gallon is just the normal price in California. $4.50 a gallon in California,

00:07:48.480 in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, you don't even bat your eyelash. Okay. But second of all,

00:07:54.200 while he's trying to push responsibility off everywhere else, it was like the supply chain

00:07:59.700 and it's China and it's this and it's that. And it has nothing to do with me. It has nothing to do

00:08:03.920 with my energy policies. And it has nothing to do with my lockdown policies. And it has nothing to do

00:08:07.860 with me, you know, the guy, the buck stops here. No, I have nothing to do with it. He's presenting

00:08:13.140 himself as a passive observer in politics. And this is bad for him. He thinks this is good for him

00:08:20.600 because he thinks he can shirk responsibility. I actually think this is a bad bet because the,

00:08:26.160 the big knock on, on Joe Biden right now is that he seems really weak. He doesn't seem up to the job.

00:08:34.660 Now, the whole reason, if people voted for him, the whole reason that people voted for them,

00:08:41.780 for him is because he was supposed to be a return to normal. He's the adult in charge.

00:08:48.680 Things are going to get back to, he's in command, he's in control, but he's, he's not in control.

00:08:54.820 It's like he's, it's like he's the old guy Muppet puppet, you know, it was just like,

00:08:58.800 wow, all right. He's up in the balcony, just commenting on the show.

00:09:01.280 But we don't need a president who's just commenting on the show. We need a guy

00:09:05.860 to take charge and fix problems. And Joe Biden is manifestly incapable of doing that.

00:09:13.080 Speaking of cars, there's a new story that is getting a little attention as a kind of meme.

00:09:19.360 It's just a little weird headline. People don't see the import of it though. Elon Musk,

00:09:24.600 Elon Musk just sold a ton of his Tesla stock. Now, the way that he did it was he tweeted out,

00:09:32.520 he said, much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance. So I propose

00:09:37.500 selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this? 10%? Elon Musk is the Tesla guy. He says,

00:09:44.020 I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes. Note, I do not take a cash salary or

00:09:49.620 bonus from anywhere. I only have stock. Thus, the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell

00:09:54.620 stock, right? He does. It's not as though he's a billionaire, but it's not as though he just keeps

00:09:59.140 money in a bank account. The money is in Tesla stock. So you can't pay taxes on it unless you

00:10:04.060 sell that stock, which is going to have huge effects on the, on the price of Tesla. So Elon sells

00:10:10.860 $20 billion worth of Tesla stock, 10% of his holdings. And this is ostensibly because of a

00:10:18.560 Twitter poll. More people voted for him to sell it than voted against him to sell it. Now, I again

00:10:24.080 have a slightly different take on this than most other, forget just conservatives, most other people

00:10:28.440 here. I think that Elon is in many ways just trying to cash out or cash out in part from his

00:10:36.320 overvalued company. I think Tesla is very overvalued. It's a cool company. It's very

00:10:40.800 impressive. Elon Musk is a very impressive guy, but I just think if you, I mean, what is Tesla

00:10:45.600 valued at right now? Like a trillion dollars or something, you know, I just, I think it's,

00:10:49.140 I think it's too high. And so, and I don't think it's worth, you know, all of these various car

00:10:55.040 companies put together. And so in a way, I think he's, he's able to cash out of it while making it seem

00:10:59.720 like a joke, while making it seem like he's not losing faith in the valuation of the company. But,

00:11:04.320 but beyond that, he's, he's making a real political point as well, which is if the Biden

00:11:10.640 policy of taxing unrealized gains goes into effect, it's going to completely screw up the stock market

00:11:18.600 and people's investments because you can't pay cash on unrealized investment. You're gonna have

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00:12:37.040 Knowles. Speaking of African-Americans, just talking about Elon Musk, now turning to another prominent

00:12:43.980 African-American. The head of Black Lives Matter in New York City is threatening riots

00:12:50.620 and bloodshed if the mayor doesn't give him what he wants. So speaking of the mayor, this head of

00:12:59.040 BLM New York says, if he thinks that they're going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are

00:13:04.140 going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire, and there will be

00:13:07.580 bloodshed because we believe in defending our people. This he says to the New York Daily News.

00:13:12.800 He should be arrested and thrown in prison just for making that statement.

00:13:16.860 Isn't that a threat to free speech? No, not really. It's very much in keeping with the American

00:13:22.900 tradition of free speech. There was something, I guess there still is in this country, called the

00:13:27.020 Smith Act. The Smith Act was the law that was used in the 40s and 50s to arrest and prosecute

00:13:33.560 communists and fascists and anarchists. What the Smith Act did was said that it is not legal

00:13:40.940 to advocate for the overthrow of the government of the United States. And they prosecuted a lot

00:13:47.040 of people. Then there was a kind of pullback, you know, there was a weakening of that law. And they

00:13:53.560 said, no, it's not enough to just advocate the overthrow. You've got to actually have an imminent

00:13:57.560 way to do that. But the laws are still on the books, even though it doesn't really get brought

00:14:02.500 into effect right now. And it wouldn't apply here because the BLM guy is threatening to overthrow the

00:14:08.040 government of New York City. He's not threatening to overthrow the federal government. So you would

00:14:11.500 need a more local Smith Act. But it would be absolutely just and right and proper to put that

00:14:20.140 into place. In the narrow sense, it seems like you would be curtailing free speech. But in the deeper

00:14:27.000 sense, you would be protecting free speech. I don't think our free speech is really protected here.

00:14:31.980 If the head of Black Lives Matter gets to threaten to set things on fire and cause riots and have

00:14:39.020 bloodshed, right? He's threatening to attack and very likely kill people. To me, I don't feel like I

00:14:45.700 have a great amount of free speech if I'm going to criticize Black Lives Matter, if I'm going to

00:14:49.380 advocate for more serious policing in the city. Now I'm being threatened possibly with death.

00:14:56.320 He is abusing his right to free speech to take away my right to free speech, my right to have a nice

00:15:03.000 city, my right to live in peace and order. So he should go to prison and there should be a law for

00:15:08.600 that and conservatives should defend that sort of thing. And we're going to have to change the kind

00:15:14.880 of shallow slogany way we've been talking about free speech and even policing. Now we're somehow the

00:15:19.700 Republicans are on the side of letting the criminals out of prison and the First Step Act and prison

00:15:23.960 prison reform. No, we have an under incarceration problem. One of the problems is that the head of

00:15:28.440 New York Black Lives Matter is not in prison for saying this kind of stuff and threatening people

00:15:32.600 and you just got to put a stop to it. This is the kind of thing that Giuliani did in the nineties back

00:15:37.540 when last time New York was as bad as it is right now. Giuliani came in and he said, we're just going

00:15:43.180 to arrest the criminals. Okay. They're going to try this radical, crazy strategy. We're going to arrest

00:15:48.400 the criminals and not let them burn down the city and kill people and rob people. And guess what

00:15:53.360 happened? New York got a lot better and it persisted for about 20 years, persisted, I guess 15 years.

00:15:59.460 No, no, about 20 years, I guess. Persisted through Giuliani, persisted through Mike Bloomberg kind of

00:16:03.560 preserved it. And then it went to hell in a handbasket. Speaking of people who should be in

00:16:07.980 prison, there is a creepy, creepy dude who is in a viral TikTok video who is begging to speak to your

00:16:16.640 children. I want to talk to the kids. Parents watch the video and then hand the phone over to

00:16:22.380 the young kids. Hi there. I get asked a lot, are you a boy or a girl? And I love that question.

00:16:30.200 And so I wanted to just tell you, sometimes human beings are more than boy or girl.

00:16:37.680 Sometimes we're something else. Sometimes we're both. Sometimes we kind of float in between and

00:16:44.900 sometimes we're a boy, sometimes we're a girl. Because human beings are creatures and we're wild and

00:16:51.820 exciting. We are wild, aren't we? And sometimes we're a little more wild than at other times.

00:16:58.100 And we talked about this yesterday. There was a guy who, there was a headline in the New York Post.

00:17:03.860 My husband is gay and we have two kids and we have a wonderful, intimate life together. And

00:17:09.000 everyone's making fun of this article. And I pointed out what's wrong with it.

00:17:12.800 Why is every sexual choice and sexual identity and sexual desire choice valid except for that guy?

00:17:20.500 That guy is saying, look, I'm a gay guy. I have this natural sexual inclination,

00:17:23.660 but I want to have a family. I want to practice my religion. I want to be a part of my culture and

00:17:28.600 my tradition. And so I'm just going to repress that part of me. And I'm going to cultivate these

00:17:33.600 other parts of me. And I'm not going to be deceitful about it. I'm just going to do that.

00:17:38.080 It seems like he has a great life and they have a nice time together. And

00:17:40.700 the woman acknowledges, she says, physical attraction is not, obviously it's not the

00:17:44.340 bedrock of our relationship, but there is something actually deeper than that. And I'm

00:17:48.340 kind of okay with that. I actually like that physical attraction is not the basis of our

00:17:52.660 relationship because looks are going to fade, but there's something deeper there.

00:17:57.020 When I watch that creepy guy on the TikTok video, trying to talk to your kids about how sex isn't real

00:18:02.080 and, you know, boys should wear lipstick and be fluid and whatever. It reminds me repression is a

00:18:08.880 good thing. Repression is a really good thing. It gets a real bad rap these days, but repression is

00:18:14.380 good. We all have inclinations and things that are a little weird about us that we ought to repress.

00:18:19.840 Every single one of us does. And some of us, I guess a little more than others, if you're a guy who

00:18:24.600 thinks that he's a woman and wants to dress up in all that glitter paint and talk to a bunch of kids,

00:18:29.460 then you've got a lot of things that you ought to repress, but you should repress them.

00:18:32.740 The reason that it gets a bad rap is because we're still in the thrall of Sigmund Freud.

00:18:37.620 We're still in the thrall of the era of psychology that thought the human brain resembled

00:18:43.860 a steam engine, that thought that the way our desires and our mind works is that we have these

00:18:49.140 natural desires. There's no way to change them ever. And so if we don't let them out, if we don't

00:18:53.060 blow off a little steam, we're going to go crazy and explode. But that's not actually how the mind

00:18:58.840 and desire work. Okay. Different eras, it's interesting. Different eras seem to map their vision

00:19:07.080 of what, how the mind works on the prevailing technology at the time. So these days we're

00:19:11.880 beginning to think of the mind as a computer because what's the big technology of our time

00:19:15.140 is the computer. Before that it was the steam engine. Before that it was the printing press,

00:19:19.320 this idea of making impressions, imprinting on your mind. But actually the real way the mind and desire

00:19:26.160 work are sort of the opposite of the steam engine Freud view. The real way it works is

00:19:30.740 that virtue and vice are habits. So you'll know, you'll know this if you've ever dealt with an

00:19:36.420 addiction. The more you give into your addiction, the less control you have over it. If you're a

00:19:43.340 drinker, the more you drink, the harder it is not to take that drink. It's true of sex. It's true of

00:19:49.460 gluttony. It's true of all of these things. And the more you repress those things, if you're a

00:19:55.420 recovering alcoholic, the further away you get from those first hundred days, 200 days, two years,

00:20:01.640 five years, the easier it becomes because virtue and vice are habits. So I'm not saying that that

00:20:07.240 guy is obviously a very confused guy and he's got a lot of problems if he wants to be talking to kids

00:20:11.320 about how he's really a girl. But, but it does actually get a little bit easier. It's, it's not

00:20:19.440 good for him to be indulging this craziness. It's not good for him. It's not good for society. It's not

00:20:23.380 good for the kids he's trying to talk to. It's not good for anybody. It's not good for our society's

00:20:27.600 grasp on reality. And so if we encourage that behavior, we're going to get more of it. It's

00:20:34.380 going to be harder not to do that. If we discourage that and we encourage that, that naughty little

00:20:39.340 word, the R word, repression, actually, I think we'll all probably get along a little better. I know

00:20:44.200 it's a very unpopular view these days, but it is obviously correct. You know, I hate to say I told you

00:20:49.620 so, but I told you so. And, uh, Jordan Peterson, the great Jordan Peterson to speaking of psychology,

00:20:57.720 right? This is one of the most prominent psychologists in the world. He just exploded

00:21:01.320 with our other buddy, Dave Rubin, because the, the corporate just got pulled out from under him.

00:21:07.060 He was told get the Fauci ouchie and life is going to go back to normal. And it turns out that's not

00:21:13.160 what happened. Canadians who aren't vaccinated now cannot leave the country. Like what the hell?

00:21:18.540 Why, why is that? And I'm look, I got vaccinated and people took me to task for that. And I thought,

00:21:25.120 all right, I'll get the damn vaccine. Here's the deal, guys. I'll get the vaccine. You leave me alone.

00:21:32.860 And did that work? No. So stupid me, you know, that's how I feel about it. It's like, well,

00:21:40.660 now I have to get tested for COVID. When I come back into Canada, I have to get tested before I

00:21:44.800 leave Canada. Now, you know, that might be the latter issue. That's an issue with the Americans.

00:21:50.720 And, and so that's outside of the Canadian purview, but the restrictions to get back into

00:21:55.380 Canada are even more stringent. It's like, well, why'd I get the vaccine then? If you're not going

00:21:58.800 to leave me alone. No more, Mr. Nice Canadian. There's something, there's something really funny

00:22:04.760 about hearing this urbane, very serious, very well-respected public intellectual Canadian guy,

00:22:12.180 just because Canadians are so nice, right? Just using expletives and what happened? I thought I

00:22:17.180 was able to, no, they were never, they were never going to do it. They were never going to

00:22:21.900 let up on these restrictions. Jordan Peterson, very intelligent guy. And sometimes, you know,

00:22:28.500 especially professors, they're so intelligent. They're so in the abstract there, they miss these

00:22:33.660 very practical things. The left promised you, wear the mask, take the jab, lock down for 15 days,

00:22:39.860 and then here's that little carrot right at the end of the stick and we'll let you get back to normal.

00:22:43.700 It wasn't going to help you get back to normal. It was going to make it less and less likely. The

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00:24:33.400 you, right? There are new ways of interconnection. What Jordan Peterson was upset about is he did the

00:24:43.280 rules. They made a deal, right? They made a deal with him. They said, you get the shot and then you

00:24:47.300 can go back to normal. And then they yanked the, you can go back to normal thing. And he says,

00:24:51.660 leave me alone. And I think a lot of people feel that way. That resonates with a lot of people.

00:24:56.740 Leave me alone, right? That's kind of the libertarian mantra. Just leave me alone.

00:25:02.060 You do you, you do whatever you want and just leave me alone. And the problem is

00:25:05.580 you can't be left alone. You can't be left alone in modern society, in society before modern society,

00:25:13.860 at all times. The leave me alone, you do you thing has never worked. I think we have this

00:25:19.480 revisionist idea that America was all about purely rugged individualism and people getting to do

00:25:24.720 whatever they want. That is just not true, okay? Even when we had a very weak federal government,

00:25:30.760 so, you know, the states could do what they want or the communities could do what they want.

00:25:33.960 All of those places were pretty robustly policed. This nation was founded when a bunch of religious

00:25:40.760 zealots came over on the Mayflower because they didn't feel at home in England where they weren't

00:25:45.320 allowed to practice. They're extremely authoritarian religion. They're extremely illiberal, authoritarian,

00:25:52.800 rigid community. And then some people would leave that community. And very often when they would leave

00:25:59.900 the community, whether it was at Plymouth or the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they would leave to go

00:26:04.740 found other equally rigid authoritarian communities, okay? There are blue laws on the books,

00:26:11.280 laws against sexual behavior, tons of laws against sexual behavior, some of which were punishable

00:26:16.740 by death, laws against drinking, laws against dancing, laws against all sorts of things, okay?

00:26:23.900 And you might say, well, why does anyone care about what my personal behavior is? Because that's how

00:26:29.000 society works, right? Politics is just what we all do together. And maybe the different local

00:26:33.860 communities have relative autonomy compared to the other ones. But the idea that the individual just

00:26:37.880 gets to choose to do whatever he wants is a very, very modern idea. It's come up in the last

00:26:42.380 50 years or so. And even then, the people who were pushing it on the left didn't let that last for

00:26:47.660 long. Now they are imposing rules that are just as authoritarian, just as rigid, just as illiberal

00:26:52.340 as the ones before them. They just happen to be along different standards, along different sort of lines.

00:26:59.240 And you're seeing that now in a very silly way on Peloton. Peloton, you know, is the electric bike

00:27:04.360 company. It got kind of popular during, during COVID, but it, I'd always heard it had these

00:27:09.560 left-wing leanings. So I thought, this is why I didn't get a Peloton. I was thinking about getting

00:27:13.940 a Peloton. I thought, I don't know, I hear it's fine or whatever. But I said, I heard it's kind of

00:27:17.820 lib. I heard it's kind of like a woke company. You know, I hate to say, I told you so, I was right.

00:27:23.200 I was right. So my producer, the great Ben Davies, texts me the other day. He says,

00:27:29.340 Michael, I was, I was using this exercise bike, this Peloton. And I typed in the hashtag,

00:27:36.040 let's go Brandon. So all the people who were on the hashtag, let's go Brandon could work out

00:27:39.420 together. It was kind of funny. We're having a good time. The next day I tried to do it. It was

00:27:42.600 gone. You couldn't, you couldn't log into it. Peloton banned the hashtag, let's go Brandon. So I

00:27:50.620 thought maybe it's just your bike ban. I don't know. Then we start hearing it from other people.

00:27:54.020 Then people start sending the tip into the daily wire. You can't do it. And it seems like such a

00:27:59.660 minor thing, but this is how the left wins. All these little minor things. You suppress the let's

00:28:06.780 go Brandon hashtag on the exercise bike. Which is why, by the way, that's why I would recommend

00:28:12.000 checking out the Echelon exercise bike rather than the Peloton. Echelon, a little more open. Okay.

00:28:16.820 A little less rigid and ideological. So I would, you know, just, these are just my preferences. Okay.

00:28:23.180 But the Peloton, they say, okay, let's go Brandon. That's not going to work. Or Facebook says, no,

00:28:28.980 you can't post the Hunter Biden laptop story. Or Twitter says, no, you can't post this thing

00:28:33.800 that's critical of say Dr. Fauci or the CDC. And oh, it's just, and you can't say this thing in

00:28:38.040 the classroom. And oh, this and this, and it's death by a thousand cuts. To say nothing of the

00:28:42.920 huge laws and the huge enforcement mechanisms of the federal government, even just at the cultural

00:28:47.080 level, all these little tiny things, they all come in together to shape what we're allowed

00:28:53.060 to say, the things we're allowed to advocate. The BLM guy, you know, BLM, the terror wing of the

00:28:59.940 Democrat party. BLM comes out and says, if you push against the stuff that we want, we're going to kill

00:29:06.080 you. That's what he's saying. We're going to kill, we're going to burn your place down and we're going

00:29:08.620 to kill you. All these little things that shape behavior, stop you, stop you from saying and doing

00:29:16.240 what you want, living in the kind of society you want. Now, what is that going to mean into the future?

00:29:22.060 Something tells me Joe Biden is not long for this political world, at least. He's just,

00:29:26.560 he's very senile. He's obviously not up to the job. His approval rating is in the gutter. It's about

00:29:31.280 38%. But the problem is Kamala's approval rating is extremely low as well. Kamala's approval rating

00:29:36.920 is actually lower. It's plunged, according to USA Today and Suffolk University, to 28%. This is the

00:29:43.300 lowest rating I think ever recorded for a vice president. Dick Cheney was close. He was at 30%,

00:29:49.800 but that was at the very end of the Bush administration. That was in, that was in 2007

00:29:53.460 after he shot a guy in the face and everyone blamed him for everything, the Iraq war and all

00:29:57.940 that stuff. Kamala's already significantly lower, significantly lower than Joe Biden and even lower

00:30:03.640 than Dick Cheney. So that's really bad news for Democrats in 2024. What's going to happen to them?

00:30:09.260 They're below water on every single poll. And why is it? Why is Kamala's approval rating so low?

00:30:13.380 There was a clip yesterday that I think just perfectly encapsulated why people find Kamala

00:30:18.280 Harris so insufferable, where she is at some event explaining the scientific method to scientists.

00:30:25.000 One of the things I think people in politics and government should really take from the approach

00:30:33.320 of scientists, scientists operate with a hypothesis. I love that. A hypothesis. It's well thought out.

00:30:42.720 It's well planned. They start out with a hypothesis and then they test it out.

00:30:48.260 Knowing invariably you're trying something for the first time, there will be glitches,

00:30:52.960 there will be mistakes. Then everyone gets together. No one gets beat up about it.

00:30:57.880 You analyze it. What went wrong? Re-evaluate, update the hypothesis and start again.

00:31:03.440 This woman raises vacuity to a high art form. I did not know it was possible for something to be so

00:31:12.560 empty of substance. Speaking of science, this must have been, Kamala Harris must have been developed

00:31:18.480 at CERN, in the CERN laboratory. I mean, this is, we talk about like black holes as sort of just the

00:31:23.220 absence of everything that's pulling all of this matter in. Has Kamala Harris ever had one

00:31:28.140 substantive thought? Scientists have hypotheses. I love that. It's so disingenuous. It's so empty.

00:31:34.000 Ain't nobody going to vote for that. Okay. No, that's why she was the first person out in the

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00:33:26.980 back with The Mailbag. Welcome back to my favorite time of the week, The Mailbag. First question from

00:33:43.420 Ethan. Dear Michael, thought experiment for you. Would it be right to make everyone take the vaccine

00:33:49.440 if it meant overturning Roe v. Wade? The left claims bodily autonomy to cover abortions and some

00:33:55.640 on the right claim bodily autonomy in resistance to the vaccine mandate. Leftists then say that their

00:34:00.700 bodily autonomy is inconsequential because the disease poses an imminent threat to the lives of

00:34:04.920 others. By their own logic, abortion always poses an imminent threat to the life of another.

00:34:08.260 So what if we offered them a deal? Overturn Roe and every pro-lifer who hasn't taken the vaccine

00:34:13.220 will get fully vaxxed. Would you accept this deal? Of course. Of course I would. I wouldn't hesitate

00:34:20.160 one nanosecond to take that deal. But it's because conservatives are falling into a little bit of a trap

00:34:26.660 here. We're saying to the left now in the vaccine, my body, my choice, Libs. Whatever happened to my body,

00:34:33.020 my choice? But don't forget, we don't actually believe my body, my choice. Yes,

00:34:37.040 we're using that stupid line against the left to prove their hypocrisy. But we don't actually believe

00:34:41.480 that. We don't, but for obviously not on abortion where it's another body, right? So you're not even

00:34:46.600 just focusing on your own body. You're focusing on the body of the baby. But even beyond that,

00:34:50.360 we don't believe that we have the right to do whatever we want at any time to our bodies.

00:34:53.840 That's why we have laws against drugs. That's why we have laws against suicide. That's why we have

00:34:58.080 laws against all sorts of things and all sorts of abuses that we can make to our bodies.

00:35:02.020 You don't actually have the right to that. A lot of conservatives these days, I've noticed,

00:35:05.540 have this line. They'll say, look, I'm pro-vaccine, but anti-mandate. And I'm sort of

00:35:11.480 the opposite. I'm kind of anti-vaccine and pro-mandate. We have a legal basis for vaccine

00:35:18.220 mandates in this country. It goes back to the case in 1905. A lot of it, a lot of hay has been

00:35:23.880 made over it during this debate, which establishes the precedent that the government in some cases does

00:35:29.560 have the right during an epidemic to mandate a vaccine. And if you don't get the vaccine,

00:35:34.300 they at least have the right to fine you for doing that. We established that over a hundred

00:35:38.680 years ago. We talk about George Washington requiring inoculations against smallpox for

00:35:44.500 the Continental Army in 1777. That was before the constitution, fair enough, but still that we

00:35:49.940 have a lot of precedent for this in the country. And my issue isn't with vaccines generally. My issue

00:35:55.300 is with this vaccine for this virus. If there were a really super duper dangerous virus that had an

00:36:04.960 infection fatality rate above 0.5% or something, which in this case, it's not just as at 0.5% for

00:36:12.560 the coronavirus, but for the vast majority of people, it's like 0.003% or 0.005% or depending on

00:36:21.100 your age group. For some people, it's 0.001%. So I just think if we had a 30% fatality rate from

00:36:29.580 this virus, yeah, I'd be fine with vaccine mandates. Of course. If this were a really

00:36:35.180 super duper dangerous virus for whole swaths of people, yeah, sure. I think we would all agree

00:36:39.600 with that. Take it to its extreme. Let's say there were a virus going around that killed 90% of people

00:36:45.160 that got it. Would you support a vaccine mandate? Of course you would. Especially if the vaccine

00:36:50.700 had some precedent, were not a new vaccine technology, had some long-term data even.

00:36:56.780 Yeah, of course you would. But that's just not the case here. And so now if you're asking me,

00:37:02.240 okay, Mike, I actually don't think the vaccine poses a huge threat to people, but there are risks

00:37:07.520 and it has killed people and there have been side effects and even the CDC and the FDA acknowledge

00:37:11.000 that. And for most people, the virus poses such a low risk to them that I just don't see the reason

00:37:15.600 for a lot of people to get the vaccine. But if you told me, Michael, if we're going to make all the

00:37:20.580 pro-lifers take the Fauci-Auchi and then we get rid of abortion in America, cool, sign me up. I can't

00:37:24.680 give me, give me five jabs. I don't care. If you're going to end abortion, great. Love it.

00:37:28.220 From Glenn, dear austere religious podcaster, I've been listening to all of the shows for several

00:37:33.340 years now. I recently joined to help support the legal battle against the Biden vaccine mandate.

00:37:37.760 Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Now I can finally get the

00:37:40.980 answer to this question that has been on my mind since I started listening.

00:37:45.460 Why does everyone at the Daily Wire pretend to hate you? Is it a Harvard-Yale rivalry between you

00:37:51.080 and Ben? Is Ben jealous that your book without words was wildly successful? Or is it the go-to

00:37:55.940 excuse of our day and age that everyone is racist against your Italian heritage? To quote Silvio Dante

00:38:01.320 from The Sopranos, this is anti-Italian discrimination is what it is. It also goes back to, yes, it does have

00:38:10.680 something. I don't think it has to do with Yale or Harvard. I think it does go back to the blank

00:38:14.140 book because Ben was upset that I sold more blank books than he had sold books with words. Ben had

00:38:20.880 spent a long time writing all these books with words and there were very, you know, lots of different

00:38:24.200 books and he works very, very hard. And then I just had this blank book and it sold about a gazillion

00:38:28.340 copies. So it went back to that. It also went back, we had an election bet and, you know, back when

00:38:33.800 everyone, all the odds were giving Hillary Clinton 99% chance that she was going to win the race.

00:38:39.900 Ben and I engaged in an election bet and it was a hundred dollar bet on Trump. And Ben was so

00:38:45.400 confident. He said, I'll give you odds. I'll give you a four to one odds. It's a four to one odds.

00:38:49.880 All right. I'll risk a hundred bucks for four to one odds. And then the magic happened. And then

00:38:54.940 contrary to all of the polls, Donald Trump won. So I think it goes back to that. But, but at the most

00:39:00.980 basic level, yeah, it's anti-Italian discrimination from Shelby. Hi, Michael. I have a dilemma. My aunt

00:39:06.500 was recently diagnosed with cancer. I'm sorry to hear that. I will have to undergo chemotherapy

00:39:10.880 soon. Sadly, it's not curable and we likely don't have much time left with her. I'm considering the

00:39:16.460 vaccine just so that I may see her and spend some final time with her as we've been very close my

00:39:21.340 entire life. I'm a young, healthy woman at 25 and wouldn't take the vaccine. Otherwise, if you had a

00:39:26.580 loved one in this scenario, would you take the vaccine? Any other advice? Thanks. I'm a huge fan of the

00:39:30.860 show. Well, I just don't, I'm very sorry to hear about your situation. I don't see why you need to

00:39:35.900 take the vaccine. I mean, you're not to be too morbid about it, but you're telling me your, your

00:39:42.280 aunt is on the brink of death. So I don't think you really need to worry about killing her, right?

00:39:46.780 You're saying she's already about to die. Even if you have the vaccine, let's not forget that

00:39:51.960 the vaccine does not totally prevent the contracting or transmitting the coronavirus. The CDC admitted

00:39:59.140 that at the end of July. So I don't, I just don't see why maybe some of your family members want you

00:40:05.840 to, but who cares what they think? I mean, it's really more, you're talking about the concern for

00:40:09.000 your aunt. I guess if, if it's the issue that you can't get into the hospital or you can't get into

00:40:15.120 the hospice without, without proof of vaccination, that I would be surprised if that were the case.

00:40:22.860 But if that is the case and you're saying, Michael, should I take the vaccine to see my loved one?

00:40:28.600 Or even you're asking me, would I do that? Would I, would I take the vaccine to go see my dying loved

00:40:33.040 one? Yeah. A hundred percent, a hundred percent. It would be a prudential. I, I don't, I don't like

00:40:38.900 the vaccine. I don't think it's particularly necessary. I don't like the vaccine being pushed

00:40:44.900 to everybody. I, I do think that for some people, you know, that they can make a good prudential

00:40:49.320 choice to do it. If you're very old, if you're very unhealthy, but yeah, I don't, I don't like

00:40:53.280 that idea. I don't think the risk of coronavirus is particularly high. Uh, but still it's my loved

00:40:59.000 one. Okay. I also don't think the risk of dying from the vaccine is all particularly high either.

00:41:03.340 So I just, I would make a prudential judgment in that way. And I think, you know, I don't think

00:41:06.980 there would be anything unprincipled or hypocritical about you doing that, but I also don't see why

00:41:12.280 necessarily you would need to do that to see your, your aunt. But, uh, you know, we can, uh, we can pray for

00:41:18.040 you. Very sorry to hear about your situation, uh, from Nick. Oh no. Hi Michael. Me again. This is

00:41:24.940 Nick. This is the famous Nick. In the past few months, I've noticed a large uptick in my DMs

00:41:29.800 from women, both looking to take their title shot at the champ and others who want me to join some

00:41:35.780 kind of pyramid scheme. Yeah. You do. I guess you do get a lot of those on Instagram from going through

00:41:39.820 the comments after you shows. I believe this is because I've become quite popular with some of

00:41:43.720 your groupies. Yeah, I bet that's true. However, I'm afraid of getting Portnoy.

00:41:48.040 If one of these babes makes good on her promises and then regrets it when I inevitably don't agree

00:41:54.280 to meet her parents for Thanksgiving, as long as they are over 18 on Insta, am I good? Or since now

00:42:01.480 I'm the most famous person on your show, uh, do I need to carry this power more responsibly?

00:42:07.140 Sincerely with great power comes great responsibility and also options.

00:42:10.180 Well, Nick, as is often the case, you've hit on a good point, which is, um, if I guess you,

00:42:19.380 you know, you probably are the most famous person on this show at this point. Um, if you're,

00:42:24.040 if you, like Dave Portnoy, are, have a lot of attention and people have found you and they're

00:42:28.700 messaging you and it's these young impressionable girls. I also don't know how old you are, Nick.

00:42:32.600 I'm going to hope that you're just like in your twenties or something and you're not in your forties

00:42:36.220 or older, uh, which would make it the situation even worse. Uh, should you just, should you use

00:42:41.620 these girls for sex? Is what you're saying? Should I use these girls for sex? Even if it's consensual,

00:42:47.340 even if they are literally asking for it? No, no, Nick, get it through your head. It's not just you.

00:42:55.680 I actually, I'm glad the question came up because this is a common issue in our culture today.

00:43:01.300 We are made to believe today that, that consent is everything. As long as two people consent to

00:43:07.200 something, it's totally fine. There was some case in Germany a while ago where someone posted on

00:43:11.400 Craigslist and asked for someone to kill and eat him. It was like his fetish or something. He wanted

00:43:17.260 to, and it was consensual, wasn't it? But it's still wrong. It's still, that's a great extreme of this.

00:43:22.420 It's still wrong to abuse your power. It's still wrong to use women just for sex.

00:43:30.660 It's still, it's still wrong to do those things. It, there is no, and I, you know,

00:43:36.080 the Portnoy situation really brings this up. Everyone knows who Dave Portnoy is. No one is

00:43:40.260 going in with any illusions. In one of the cases with Portnoy, a girl literally asked for him to

00:43:44.640 simulate a rape. And then she, she regretted it afterward. And she said, oh my gosh, it was so

00:43:48.420 bad. I felt like I was being raped. That's, it's literally what you asked for. And you got

00:43:52.380 what you asked for and you realized that your desires were disordered and that's wrong. And

00:43:55.920 it's bad for the person who's abusing the power. And it's obviously wrong for the person who is

00:43:59.380 being used here. This is a point I wanted to make yesterday. When we talk about virtue and vice,

00:44:06.380 when we talk about doing the right thing or, you know, doing the wrong thing, we, we think of it

00:44:10.740 as a way of just resisting temptation. We have our, these desires and we just have to resist the

00:44:14.160 temptation or, you know, we need to turn our eyes up and do the good thing. Yes, you do have to do

00:44:20.240 that. You have to turn your intellect toward what is good, toward God, right? You need to turn your

00:44:25.580 conscious will toward God, but you also want to order your desires toward God. You can actually

00:44:33.440 change your desires. To use that case of the, of the alcoholic, when the alcoholic puts his head on

00:44:42.300 his pillow, well, he probably won't think about very much if he's super drunk, but if he, let's say

00:44:46.220 he's jonesing for a whiskey, his mind will just only be thinking about whiskey. The addict is only

00:44:53.180 thinking about the thing that he is addicted to. Over time, the more you break away from that,

00:44:59.800 you discipline your will, you discipline, you discipline your, your ability to resist these

00:45:04.000 things, but you also reorder your desires so that when you put your head on your pillow at night,

00:45:09.020 you're thinking about something else. You're thinking about, maybe you're thinking about your

00:45:11.060 family. Maybe you're thinking about your soul. Maybe you're thinking about God. Maybe you're

00:45:15.760 thinking about a nice beach that you visited when you were a kid. Maybe, whatever you're thinking of,

00:45:19.380 your desires will actually be turned in a different way as well. And so this is why it's

00:45:23.000 very bad for the person abusing the power and also for the, for the girl who's being abused.

00:45:27.900 Don't do it, Nick. Settle down. Didn't I tell you two months ago or something to go just get

00:45:32.140 married? Get married. The girl who DMs you just DM her right back and say, do you want to get

00:45:36.740 married? And then get married and be done with it. From John, I've been following the

00:45:40.520 Rittenhouse case. And what is most interesting to me is the potential lawsuits if Kyle is found

00:45:45.600 innocent. I've seen dozens of news outlets and even campaign videos calling Kyle everything from

00:45:50.300 a murderer to a white supremacist. Do you think Kyle will be the next Nick Sandman if he is acquitted?

00:45:55.960 Thanks. He has got to get acquitted first. And yes, if you've been watching the trial,

00:46:00.560 everyone can see this was obviously self-defense. The kid didn't take a bad shot. But this is very

00:46:06.640 politicized. We live in an age where not everything, I mean, all ages are such that not

00:46:11.500 everything is fair. And in this age, the whole deck is stacked against this kid. So he's got to

00:46:16.120 get acquitted first. If he gets acquitted, yeah, I think he should go the Nick Sandman route. And I

00:46:19.760 hope he becomes a trillionaire. Next question from Quaid. Mr. Knowles, how do you respond to the idea

00:46:23.660 that Christians should not fight progressive culture because of God's sovereignty? God's plan will

00:46:27.760 be enacted ultimately. But does that not mean that we should fight for a moral society? Well, yes,

00:46:32.260 God is sovereign. God is the maker of heaven and earth and is deeply involved in every aspect of

00:46:38.600 the creation constantly. And he sustains us. We have free will. And we have the ability to cooperate

00:46:44.380 with God's grace or to turn away from God. And we are incarnate beings. And we are called to

00:46:51.620 politics because we're called to live together because we're not just isolated atoms floating free

00:46:56.620 in the world. Okay. We are living together. The authority is legitimate, right? God grants that

00:47:05.540 there will be political authority. The authority doesn't carry the sword in vain, as St. Paul writes

00:47:09.640 in the letter to the Romans. And so we do have a political responsibility here. And we have a

00:47:13.840 responsibility to use our free will in cooperation with God's grace. We don't have the right to abuse

00:47:19.060 our free will, to turn away from God. People do that, but that's wrong. And it violates, in some

00:47:23.940 cases, the civil law. And it certainly violates the moral law. We have an obligation and a duty

00:47:28.340 to cooperate with God's grace. Last question from Tom. Michael, I was catching up on the Daily Wire

00:47:32.660 shows. You had an interesting observation that the American conservative movement continues and has

00:47:36.780 long been led by Catholics, Buckley, Russell Kirk, Phyllis Schlafly, Brent Bozell. To continue with this

00:47:41.780 thought, today we've got Robbie George, Ryan Anderson, Saurab Amari, Rinesh Panuru, Sheriff Gurgis,

00:47:47.760 to name a few. Do you think today's conservative movement is essentially a vehicle to bring everyone

00:47:51.420 home to the Catholic Church? Well, you might be getting it in the opposite direction. It'd be great.

00:47:56.480 You know, I'm Catholic. I'd like for everyone to be Catholic. But I think the reason that Catholics

00:48:01.400 historically just always play an outsized role in conservative movements is because the Catholic

00:48:06.920 Church is the conservative institution. It's the only institution in the West that made it from

00:48:12.080 antiquity to modernity. All of the other institutions, even some of the ones that we like,

00:48:16.620 are products in many ways of modernity. And so ultimately they can't be conservative. And that's

00:48:22.120 just a fact. And maybe it tells you something about the religion. Maybe it tells you something

00:48:25.900 about politics. I don't know. That's for you to decide. But we can all pray. We can pray for one

00:48:34.280 another. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you on Monday.

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