The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 889 - The Knockdown Blow To Biden's Vax Mandate

00:00:00.000 All anyone wants to talk about is the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the lynch mob forming

00:00:05.580 around the Rittenhouse trial and the fate of Kenosha, Wisconsin when the verdict finally

00:00:10.660 comes down. And we will get to all of that because there are lots of new developments

00:00:15.900 that make an already inept and corrupt prosecution look even worse. But before we do,

00:00:22.620 we've got to take a break to toast some rare good news. OSHA, the government agency that Joe

00:00:31.220 Biden is wielding to make everyone take the Fauci ouchie, OSHA has just announced that it will stop

00:00:37.880 enforcing Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate as a result of lawsuits. Most notably, the lawsuit

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00:00:52.220 of you, of every single one of you who have come out and helped us and signed the petition

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00:01:03.560 Joe Biden issued the mandate. Then we sued him. Then a federal court told the government to stop

00:01:10.280 enforcing the mandate. Then Joe Biden told the government to ignore the court. Then, this is

00:01:16.480 the crucial part. We kept suing them. And then the government agency folded like a cheap suit,

00:01:23.440 at least for now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:34.800 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Old Schooled, who said,

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00:03:32.760 now holding off on the Fauci-ouchie. You do not take the Fauci-ouchie. If you don't want to,

00:03:38.400 do not feel pressured to take the Fauci-ouchie until this litigation is resolved. Even the

00:03:44.020 government agency backed down. You've got to push back on these people, folks, because we have a

00:03:49.700 corrupt government. And you're seeing that play out very clearly in Kenosha. So, if you've been

00:03:57.560 following the trial, and I know you have because we have been covering it pretty closely on this show,

00:04:02.980 you'll know that the prosecution has flopped every single step of the way. Everything that we were

00:04:08.160 told by the media about Kyle Rittenhouse, about Kenosha, about the shooting, basically everything

00:04:14.000 we were told was BS. All of the arguments that the prosecution made fell flat. All of the evidence was

00:04:19.740 on Kyle Rittenhouse's side and the side of his self-defense claims. And none of the evidence was

00:04:25.200 on the prosecution's side. A lot of it came down to footage from the night. There were a lot of cameras

00:04:31.160 out there. And apparently, law enforcement had a drone going over and was able to view what was going on

00:04:37.400 and who shot when and who turned when and who turned where. So, take a look at the footage that

00:04:47.960 the defense had, the Kyle Rittenhouse team had, compared to the footage that the prosecution had.

00:04:56.360 You can, if you're just listening right now, I will describe to you the difference. It's pretty clear.

00:05:01.500 However, the defense had very, very blurry, grainy footage. It looks like it was taken on a flip phone

00:05:08.300 from, I don't know, 2002. The prosecution had crystal clear, high definition, incredible footage

00:05:18.780 where you could make out every little detail. It's not even close. And you can just look at the size of

00:05:25.600 the files. The defense had video that was 3.6 megabytes. The prosecution had video that was 11.2

00:05:35.100 megabytes. So, you're talking about three times the quality for the prosecution as for the defense.

00:05:45.760 So, what happened? Well, when this was brought up, the prosecution made this argument and said,

00:05:54.220 no, look, all we did, we just copied the file. We gave, look, we gave the defense the same file. And

00:05:58.780 look, if there was a problem with the quality of the footage, you know, the crucial evidence in this

00:06:03.640 case, it's just because the defense teams, you know, their cell phones were wrong or their,

00:06:08.980 or their computers were messed up. But it's not because we didn't do anything. We're not hiding

00:06:13.240 evidence. It's something on your end. You had the exact same file. Now, here's how the defense

00:06:19.000 proved that was complete BS. Every other piece of evidence from the state crime lab in this

00:06:24.960 situation has been provided to us via Dropbox. Dropbox provides an exact forensic copy of what

00:06:32.160 they have. The file title name in this situation should have been exactly the same as the one provided

00:06:40.660 to the state if it was the exact same copy. The file name was nowhere near similar. There's no way

00:06:47.420 that what ADA Krauss is saying is true because the file name would not have changed if my computer

00:06:54.400 was compressing anything. It was a different file that we were provided from what was provided to

00:06:59.700 the state. She's got these guys dead to rights. I never want to attribute to malice that which is

00:07:06.020 equally explained by stupidity. And the prosecution has demonstrated a lot of stupidity in this case.

00:07:11.880 The arguments they're making where they say that if you, if you arm yourself, you lose the right to

00:07:16.240 self-defense. Of course, that's preposterous. If arming yourself would lose you your right to

00:07:22.960 self-defense, then there simply is no right to self-defense. The prosecution lifting up an AR-15

00:07:28.420 in a courtroom, swinging it around the courtroom, finger on the trigger. I mean, just pure stupidity.

00:07:33.300 So I'm not, I'm not denying that they could have been stupid enough not to realize what they did.

00:07:38.720 But this required an intentional action. You would have had to go in there,

00:07:46.560 you would have had to reduce the quality of the video, and you would have had to change the file

00:07:51.700 name. So this can't be just a problem of copy paste, whoops, it, it, it read differently on a

00:07:58.960 different computer. The prosecution provided the defense with a different file, a file that was much

00:08:06.520 lower quality, a file to put them at a much, at a real disadvantage for the crucial evidence in

00:08:15.480 the case. And these guys are corrupt, okay? It's as simple as that. They are corrupt. They might also

00:08:22.420 be stupid. They might also be ignorant. They might also be incompetent. But I'm seeing malice. I am

00:08:30.220 seeing corruption here, and I think we all are. Well, why did they do it? Why did they do it? Whatever

00:08:36.120 happened, and now this is what's delaying the verdict, is now you're going to hear testimony

00:08:40.040 about the file. However this happened, why would the prosecution have done it? Because all of their

00:08:46.200 arguments were weak. We didn't get to this clip the other day. I want to play it just to remind you of

00:08:51.760 the, the weakness of the prosecution's argument. One of their closing arguments was that Kyle

00:08:58.380 Rittenhouse had no right to shoot back at the people who were trying to kill him, some of whom had

00:09:02.600 guns. Because everybody takes a beating sometimes. These minor injuries we've heard the defendant

00:09:10.060 have, again, Mr. Richards misstated the standard. It is not, could have caused great bodily harm or death.

00:09:20.880 It is not likely to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is imminent threat of death or great bodily

00:09:29.220 harm. Where is that when you get a couple scrapes?

00:09:37.040 Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right? Sometimes you get in a scuffle and maybe you do

00:09:42.680 get hurt a little bit. That doesn't mean you get to start plugging people with your full metal jacket

00:09:48.720 AR-15 rounds, and no bullets are not bullets. And no bullets are not bullets. I think he's trying

00:09:54.240 to make an argument that the AR-15 is a more powerful weapon than the handgun that the people

00:09:59.440 trying to kill Kyle Rittenhouse had. But first of all, I don't think that's a great defense either.

00:10:04.800 If someone's coming at you with a gun, threatening to kill you, telling you explicitly they're going

00:10:09.700 to kill you, you can only shoot back with a gun of equal or lesser lethality. I don't remember that

00:10:17.920 provision of the law. I don't remember the everybody takes a beating sometimes provision

00:10:23.380 of the law. Do you? Did you see that anywhere in the Second Amendment? The right of the people to

00:10:30.360 keep and bear arms shall not be infringed so long as they take a beating sometimes. But after one or

00:10:38.200 two beatings, then you're allowed to fight back. But only with a nine mil. You're not allowed to fight 0.82

00:10:42.560 back with 223. That would be, I don't think so. I think that's pretty weak. Yes, it's true. People

00:10:51.360 take a beating every now and again. You know, if you went to public school, presumably at some point

00:10:56.720 someone punched you, right? At some point you got into a fight. That's true. It is not incumbent upon

00:11:04.020 you if you are in a riot situation with people explicitly threatening to kill you, who are walking

00:11:09.420 up to you with skateboards and with guns. It is not your responsibility to take the beating.

00:11:18.100 What? Kyle Rittenhouse only got a couple scrapes on him. He wasn't at imminent risk of grave bodily

00:11:23.220 injury or death. No, he was. He only got a couple scrapes on him because he defended himself successfully.

00:11:30.360 You don't, you don't need to wait until they break your arm to, or shoot you in the head to shoot

00:11:35.420 back. You have the right to defend yourself. And I suspect even this incompetent prosecution,

00:11:42.420 I suspect they know that. And I suspect they know that their case was nothing and that this never

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00:13:21.020 shenanigans. Because of the dirty tricks that the prosecution played, where they gave the defense

00:13:26.500 lower quality evidence than they had. The defense has filed a motion for a mistrial.

00:13:32.960 A mistrial with prejudice. What is a mistrial with prejudice? Does not mean that the mistrial is a

00:13:39.300 white supremacist. Does not mean that. What it means is the case is dismissed and the state can't bring it

00:13:47.760 again. So if this were granted, Kyle gets off the hook and he can't be brought up again. We're not

00:13:55.300 going to have another Rittenhouse trial next year. Unless there's rioting and unless Kyle goes and

00:13:59.780 tries to protect his community and property and then, you know, unless someone tries to kill him

00:14:04.160 again and then he shoots them back, then I guess we'll be stuck in that cycle and we'll go right back.

00:14:08.540 But as of right now, the defense is trying to get this mistrial with prejudice. Quote,

00:14:14.960 the video footage has been at the center of this case, says the defense. The failure to provide

00:14:20.060 the same quality footage in this particular case is intentional and clearly prejudices the defendant.

00:14:23.960 So I agree with that. I think that's probably true. But my first reaction when I heard that they

00:14:28.060 were going for a mistrial was, why? All of the evidence is on your side. None of the evidence is

00:14:33.980 on the state side. It's clear as day. People have been following this case from the beginning.

00:14:38.980 The prosecution's got nothing. Why would you go for a mistrial when you can win outright?

00:14:43.320 If I were on this jury and I've been paying pretty close attention to this trial, it wouldn't,

00:14:49.200 it's not even close. So why not try to win outright? Well, the answer is that there are

00:14:55.800 other factors at play here beyond the evidence. The jury is afraid for their lives as they rightly

00:15:02.280 should be. So they're getting a ton of political pressure, including from the president of the

00:15:05.080 United States, Joe Biden, doing the, doing the same thing that Biden did in other trials,

00:15:12.620 George Floyd, for instance. But beyond that, if you're a juror on this, if you're a juror in this

00:15:21.360 trial, you know that if you don't throw this kid to the wolves and lock him up and throw away the key,

00:15:27.240 then you are going to be harassed. You're going to be doxxed. There are going to be riots.

00:15:32.020 They're going to burn your community down. The left has already said they're doing that.

00:15:37.240 They're marching outside the courthouse right now saying, shut it down. If Kenosha don't get it,

00:15:44.920 shut it down. What does shut it down mean? It means do the same thing that they did the last

00:15:48.840 time that caused the trial in the first place, namely burn down the city, attack people, steal

00:15:53.900 things. And you can get any information you want these days. So you really think the identity of

00:16:00.440 these jurors is going to be protected? No way. And you really think the violent leftist mob,

00:16:06.200 the lynch mob that's outside going for Kyle Rittenhouse, you think they're not going to attack 0.82

00:16:10.340 these jurors? No, they will. And so I get it. The right thing to do in this case would be to

00:16:14.980 acquit Kyle of all the charges. But I like to think if I were on the jury that I would do that.

00:16:21.900 But what if you were on the jury? What if you have young kids? You have a wife that you love.

00:16:26.440 What if you've got a nice house? Do you really want to ruin your life? Do you really want to put

00:16:32.680 all of that at risk? Because our systems right now are not sturdy? Because the left is undermining our

00:16:41.660 entire system of justice? No. I think the defense believes that although all the evidence is on

00:16:48.040 their side, if everything were functioning as it should, Kyle would be acquitted. But I think they're

00:16:52.640 afraid the jury's going to go wobbly because of the threats. And so they're going to try to go for

00:16:56.980 a mistrial. Fair enough. Speaking of threats, Nancy Pelosi just censured a Republican representative, 1.00

00:17:05.140 Paul Gosar. So it's party line vote and they're censuring Paul Gosar because he sent out some spicy

00:17:11.040 tweets or something. You know, he did the sort of thing that Dems do all the time, but he did it and

00:17:16.300 he's a Republican. So they're going to censure him. Lauren Boebert, another firebrand conservative 1.00

00:17:21.460 member of Congress, came out in defense of Congressman Gosar. Democrat policies are so pathetic

00:17:28.900 and have done so poorly that the left has nothing else to do but troll the Internet, looking for ways

00:17:33.720 to get offended and then try to target members and strip them of their committees. This is a dumb waste

00:17:40.160 of the House's time. But since the speaker has designated the floor to discuss members' inappropriate

00:17:47.520 actions, shall we? The Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband and not her

00:17:54.960 brother-husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds. This member is allowed

00:18:01.080 on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists. A Democrat chairwoman incited further

00:18:10.180 violence in the streets outside of a courthouse. And then the cherry on top. My colleague and three-month

00:18:17.140 presidential candidate from California who is on the Intelligence Committee slept with Feng Feng, 1.00

00:18:24.820 a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was

00:18:32.400 sleeping with the enemy. This is unacceptable. I love it. I love it. Jihad Squad member Ilhan Omar was

00:18:42.120 illegally or certainly crookedly paying off her husband, not her brother-husband, by the way,

00:18:47.140 the other husband. Oh my gosh. Stop it. Stop it. They're already dead. Stop it. Don't keep kicking

00:18:53.060 them while they're down. Eric Swalwell was sleeping with Feng Feng, a Chinese spy. She's never denied. 0.67

00:19:01.460 Oh gosh. I love it. There are going to be very sophisticated Republicans who are at very

00:19:08.820 prestigious think tanks and stodgy, dusty institutions. They're going to say, this is not right.

00:19:14.740 This is not. No. Don't do this. We're better than that. Don't. No. Don't make all these jokes about

00:19:20.440 all these degenerate Democrat members of Congress. It's so, no, I think it's, it's, it's funny. It's

00:19:25.880 funny. It's just, it's jokes. And the jokes have a basis in reality because Ilhan Omar really does have

00:19:31.780 a kind of strange personal history. And she actually has praised terrorists and laughed and said 9-11 is

00:19:36.640 some people did something. Ha ha ha. And she says, Al Qaeda. And she kind of giggles and laughs on

00:19:42.120 camera. We have all of this. It's Eric Swalwell really did sleep with a Chinese spy. That actually

00:19:45.800 did happen. So the basis in reality, it's funny. The attacks on Republican members of Congress like

00:19:53.300 Paul Gosar are completely disingenuous. It's a complete double standard and we should mock them

00:19:58.200 relentlessly. I just, there's a little rhetorical lesson in this that Lauren Boebert is teaching us.

00:20:04.020 If she had been timid and said, you know, Ilhan Omar, I'm not sure she's very loyal to this

00:20:10.080 country. I'm not, I just think she, the way she's talked about some foreign terror groups, it's not,

00:20:15.680 if, if you, if you went into that kind of an attack with that timidity of a kind of old dusty

00:20:22.560 Republican, you would get an avalanche of accusations of racism and xenophobia and Islamophobia and phobia

00:20:30.220 and you would be, and then you'd be buried in that. But if you come out and say, yeah,

00:20:35.520 she's a member of the jihad squad and she loves Al Qaeda. There's nothing, you can't,

00:20:41.140 there's nothing to come back at that with. You're so confident. You're so, it's, it's like when you're

00:20:47.260 trying to talk to a girl, when you're a teenager, you're trying to pick up a girl in high school or

00:20:50.800 something. You can, if you go really timid and she'd be like, Hey, um, hi there, Shelly. Um,

00:20:54.900 would you like to maybe go to the prom with me sometime? I kind of like you very much. Then

00:20:57.860 you're going to seem weak and you're going to get pulled over. But if you go and you say, Hey,

00:21:02.300 cutie, you're, you're great. I really like you a lot. Let's go. You and me, let's go to the prom

00:21:06.140 together. You're just going to seem more confident. And the lesson that's true of your interpersonal

00:21:10.820 life, your lesson that's true of just personal social relations, that's also true in politics.

00:21:17.120 And the other lesson from this is we've got to do to the Democrats what they are doing to us.

00:21:22.320 Nothing. I'm not saying we do something that is immoral or unjust, but as a matter of procedural

00:21:28.020 politics, let's do the same thing. Nancy Pelosi is going to use a party line vote to strip 1.00

00:21:32.880 Republicans of their committees. Okay. Well, let's just do that to them. Next time, the minute that

00:21:37.260 Republicans have the house, which could be sooner than the Democrats expect, let's strip Ilhan Omar of

00:21:42.940 her committees. Let's strip Rashida Tlaib and AOC and all the rest of these radical, let's strip Eric 1.00

00:21:50.280 Swalwell for sure of his committees. Let's do it. Why not? They're doing it to us. And the left

00:21:57.260 responds to force. They respond to confidence. They respond to strength. Okay. And so let's use our

00:22:07.300 political force. Let's strip them of their committees. Let's mock them on the floor of the 1.00

00:22:13.680 house. Well done, Lauren Boebert. There are a lot of problems going on caused by bad politicians in 0.99

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00:24:08.880 right back with a lot more. We've got some great news from the cancel culture. Usually cancel culture

00:24:26.700 only brings us bad news where people who contradict leftist orthodoxy have their lives ruined because of

00:24:33.900 10 years ago or some email they sent 15 years ago. But here today, we've got some good news from

00:24:40.040 the cancel culture. That pedophile defending professor that we played on the show a couple

00:24:46.340 of days ago, Alan Walker is a professor at Old Dominion University. He was the one who's trying

00:24:52.060 to de-stigmatize pedophilia, change the term pedophile to minor attracted persons, and normalize

00:24:59.320 sexual attraction to kids. He has been placed on leave. So he has written about this in a book.

00:25:07.840 He's given presentations about why we basically need to be nicer to pedophiles and de-stigmatize

00:25:13.160 them. And he has been placed on leave. Now, I know some right-wingers, some conservatives say

00:25:18.900 the cancel culture is always bad and we don't want to cancel and the left cancels and we don't cancel.

00:25:23.380 That is not my position. I wrote an entire book about how that's not my position. My position is the

00:25:27.380 cancel culture can be a very good thing. It's not about do you cancel or do you not cancel? It's

00:25:32.580 about what do you cancel? All cultures are going to cancel some things. Pedophiles, for instance.

00:25:37.820 I think it's good to cancel pedophiles. I think it's bad to cancel Christians. Okay. I think those 0.99

00:25:43.660 are different things. And so it's not just the form that matters. It's the substance. What are you

00:25:47.860 actually advocating? Why are you being canceled? And so I am thrilled that this guy is getting

00:25:53.800 canceled. Now, here's his defense, which was sent out in a statement from the university.

00:25:58.800 Quote, I want to be clear. Child sexual abuse is morally wrong and an inexcusable crime.

00:26:05.520 As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent

00:26:09.820 crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims.

00:26:15.260 I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that previously had not

00:26:19.200 been studied in order to identify ways to protect children. So first of all, pedophiles have been

00:26:22.640 studied before. You're not quite so groundbreaking as you think you are, Mr. Walker. But also,

00:26:29.080 you didn't embark on the research just to gain understanding to, say, punish these people more.

00:26:33.460 You said you wanted to de-stigmatize pedophiles. That's why you wanted to change the term from

00:26:38.520 pedophile, which has a bad connotation. It's a neutral term in and of itself. It just refers to

00:26:43.180 having a liking for, an attraction for two children. But it's got a stigma because the thing itself is

00:26:49.480 evil. And so, you know, obviously the word gains this, the ugliness of the reality of it. And you

00:26:55.980 said you want to take that away and call the minor attracted persons and maps. And that would be wrong.

00:27:01.460 So this guy, Walker, is obviously very confused. I think he calls himself non-binary. So he doesn't

00:27:09.480 know his own sex. And he's a very confused person, obviously. But his argument is, I'm not

00:27:14.920 advocating that we abuse children. I'm saying that we de-stigmatize the idea of having a sexual desire

00:27:22.420 for children. But that's wrong too. Okay? And it's important to recognize, yes, obviously it's wrong

00:27:29.520 to abuse the children. It is also wrong to have sexual desire for children. The desire itself

00:27:36.800 is also wrong. And it's very difficult for people in our modern hippie-dippie society to understand that.

00:27:44.620 Because what we are told today is that desire is never wrong. It's just your actions that are wrong.

00:27:49.140 So if you're a pedophile, a minor attracted person, to use this guy's crazy language,

00:27:55.000 then it's wrong if you abuse kids. But it's not wrong if you think about

00:27:58.040 sleeping with a child. Because that's just your desire. It's just in your head.

00:28:02.580 And you have total autonomy over your mind and your body. And you can do whatever you want,

00:28:08.160 as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. And you have self-ownership. And no desires can be wrong.

00:28:14.680 Right? Especially if you're born this way. Right? If the pedophile is born,

00:28:19.140 let's say that that's the case. Let's just go with that premise. Then certainly the desire can't be

00:28:24.620 wrong. That's a very liberal idea. And some people on the right believe that kind of thing too.

00:28:31.200 The kind of pro-drug, pro-sleep around, pro-do-whatever-you-want right. They believe that

00:28:37.140 too. As long as it's consensual, it's totally fine. The problem with pedophilia is it's not consensual.

00:28:42.940 The desire is also wrong too. The conservative view of this is that the desire is wrong as well.

00:28:50.720 And it must be stigmatized. It is rightly stigmatized. And moreover, that we can shape

00:28:58.220 our desires. All right? This is a real sticking point for some people. But you actually can shape

00:29:05.540 your desires. I'm not saying you have total control over your desires. But you can shape them. Addicts know

00:29:11.320 this. When an addict starts out, he doesn't have a penchant for heroin. Right? He doesn't. But he

00:29:18.940 takes the first drug or whatever. He's probably at some kind of gateway drug. And then he gets into

00:29:22.440 the heroin. And then all of a sudden, his desires turn toward the heroin. And at a certain point,

00:29:29.760 depending on how bad the addiction gets, especially with a hard drug like heroin,

00:29:32.960 all of his desires are oriented toward the heroin. Then if he goes through a process of

00:29:39.520 rehabilitation and recovery, what is that doing? What that does is turns your desire away from the

00:29:46.760 heroin. A lot of rock stars will say this. They'll say, you know, back in the 80s, I was totally

00:29:51.920 addicted to heroin. Now I'm totally addicted to working out or something. Right? Now I'm addicted

00:29:55.640 to exercise. You kind of turn that. And ultimately, the place you want to turn your desires is toward God.

00:30:01.800 Not just your actions, not just your behaviors, but even your very desire. What is it that you're

00:30:07.700 thinking about when you put your head on your pillow at night? All right. And that, it's not a

00:30:12.460 very liberal idea. It's not, it doesn't mean you have total emancipation and total liberation,

00:30:16.800 total control over your body and whatever you want to do is okay. It's saying, no, it's not.

00:30:20.960 Even that desire that you can't totally control, that is wrong. So not only can you not act on it,

00:30:26.340 but you've got to work to try to transform that desire in any way you can. And you're going to,

00:30:32.300 you're probably going to fail a lot. And, you know, maybe you're never going to totally do that,

00:30:35.780 but you, you've got to work on that as well. Speaking of morality, Nancy Pelosi has moral 0.91

00:30:43.380 lessons for all of us. Isn't that rich? Nancy Pelosi is insisting that if we don't back her 1.00

00:30:48.580 global warming agenda, that we are violating the moral imperative to take care of the earth.

00:30:55.660 Over about half a trillion dollars in this legislation to protect the planet. It's a health

00:31:04.180 issue, clean air, clean water for our children. It's a jobs issue, making America preeminent and

00:31:10.100 good paying green jobs. You know, all of the challenge of natural disasters springing from

00:31:15.280 the climate crisis. And it is a moral issue. If you believe, as I do, that this is God's creation

00:31:20.580 and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards. But even if you don't share that view

00:31:25.860 religiously, we all share it morally, that we have a responsibility to future generations.

00:31:33.380 Nancy Pelosi is a little confused. She says, even if you don't believe it religiously,

00:31:36.760 we all believe it morally. But of course, our moral views are synonymous with our religious views.

00:31:41.320 So she's making a distinction that doesn't really exist. And she says, look, we've got an obligation,

00:31:45.680 moral, religious, profound obligation to be stewards of God's creation. I agree with that.

00:31:54.340 People are maybe disagreeing with Nancy Pelosi or I'm not disagreeing with her in principle.

00:31:59.280 I totally agree with that. She's absolutely right. The problem is that Nancy Pelosi does not agree with

00:32:05.940 that. She doesn't really believe that. If she really believed that, she would oppose abortion. 0.98

00:32:13.620 We are stewards of God's creation. Yeah, we are. And we need to be very nice to the rabbits and the

00:32:22.440 sheep and even the trees and the fish and the polar bears. And we need to be good. And just the clouds

00:32:32.860 and the ozone. And we've got to be good stewards of what we've got to care and not harm any of these

00:32:38.960 things. But we can vacuum up a human baby and that's a wonderful thing. That's something to

00:32:43.920 celebrate. We can't disturb the patterns of the clouds and the way that the gentle, fragile ecosystem

00:32:52.520 and the delta smelt. We can't touch the delta smelt. But we can chop up a little baby to the tune of a

00:32:59.580 million of them a year. Is that really? Is that true? Is that how that works? I don't think that's true.

00:33:04.580 Because there is an order to creation. And some things are higher in creation than others.

00:33:12.420 And Nancy Pelosi is admitting that herself. If it's true that we have a special responsibility

00:33:17.580 to be stewards of creation, it's because we have dominion over the whole rest of the creation,

00:33:22.620 over the earth and the birds of the trees and the fowl and the fish of the sea. Because we are

00:33:28.220 higher than them. And so it is very disordered to say we need to take care of the delta smelt.

00:33:32.480 But we have the right to chop up little innocent human babies. That doesn't make 0.85

00:33:38.100 any sense at all. Some conservatives go way too far in their reaction against this kind of thing.

00:33:46.460 And I understand it's because it's so disingenuous. But they'll say we have no

00:33:49.440 obligations to take care of the environment. We have no. Let's just knock it all down and put up a

00:33:53.520 bunch of factories and make a bunch of widgets. No, I don't think that's true either. We do have an

00:33:57.600 obligation to do that. But Nancy Pelosi's understanding of that moral obligation is

00:34:04.080 completely flipped on its head. The delta smelt are everything and human babies, according to her, 0.99

00:34:10.100 are nothing. Really for them, for the left, climate change, global warming, global cooling,

00:34:17.220 whatever, is just an excuse to take more political power. Chuck Schumer admitted this

00:34:23.060 just a couple of days ago. Last year with COVID was awful. But in a few years, because of climate

00:34:29.680 change, each year will be worse than COVID. And each year will be worse than the next if we don't

00:34:34.620 do anything about it. Well, this year it's been tough, you know. And but just you thought you were

00:34:41.380 coming out of that now. You thought that we were finally going to restore normal order to society.

00:34:45.160 No, no, it's only going to get worse. And it's not going to get worse because of some virus that we

00:34:50.520 can kind of measure. It's going to be because of the sun monster. And it's not going to be anything

00:34:54.220 that's happening right now, but it's because of things that could happen in 10 years, unless you

00:34:57.720 do exactly what we say and give us all your money and give us all your rights and just let us upend

00:35:03.600 the political order. He he's sort of right. He's sort of right. If his argument is you thought COVID

00:35:11.980 was bad, just wait until global warming. He's sort of right, though, not in the way that he thinks he

00:35:16.240 is, is the biggest issue with COVID was not the virus. It was the lockdown.

00:35:24.060 Right. Viruses exist. Disease, germs exist. There's nothing really new about that. And if

00:35:30.580 COVID was a little more virulent than some other viruses and diseases, though a lot less virulent

00:35:35.360 than many others as well, then, OK, that's a natural fact of life. What was different about COVID

00:35:41.400 is that we shut down all of society over it and lost all of our political rights and power and

00:35:47.040 closed churches and allowed these psychos in Washington to to become much more powerful than

00:35:53.860 they already were and disrupt the supply chains and kick people out of work. And we're still giving

00:35:59.480 them a lot of power. That's what our lawsuit against the Biden administration right now is really

00:36:03.240 fighting against. It was it was the lockdowns. And so what the left is trying to do now is go from

00:36:09.940 the COVID justification to the global warming justification and keep the same kind of lockdown

00:36:17.460 policies. They're they're totally changing the rationale for their political power grab,

00:36:23.980 but they're trying to keep the exact same power grab. Maybe maybe we ought to have learned a lesson

00:36:32.200 from COVID, not the lesson Chuck Schumer thinks we learned. He thinks the lesson we learned is we

00:36:36.500 better we better give them all the power. We better not mess around with them. We better give

00:36:41.220 them whatever they want. I think the lesson is, no, don't give them an inch. Don't give them

00:36:44.460 an inch because there are much bigger public health threats than the Wuhan virus. There are much bigger

00:36:52.320 public health threats than the sun monster. Here's one. For the first time ever last year,

00:36:59.940 the Associated Press is reporting from public health officials in the U.S. that 100,000 Americans

00:37:06.680 died of drug overdoses in one year. Just one year. The number jumped 30 percent in one year. Why is that?

00:37:17.740 What changed? Was it just because was it the weather that changed? Was it just random? Or was it maybe

00:37:25.720 because we threw a lot of people out of work? We kicked people out of their churches. We wouldn't

00:37:31.480 let people see their friends and family members. We locked them all up with nothing to do. Idle hands

00:37:36.800 are the devil's playground. We have given these pharmaceutical companies and drug cartels on the

00:37:43.400 southern border carte blanche to do whatever they want. And now a lot of people died.

00:37:48.480 Maybe it has something to do with that. Maybe, you know, we talk about how some of the COVID numbers

00:37:55.940 are inflated because for parts of the lockdowns, if you got shot in the head, but you tested positive

00:38:00.320 for COVID, that was a COVID death. So the official statistics are difficult to believe. A lot of us

00:38:06.840 think the official, the real number is significantly lower, but then maybe we need to add 100,000 here or

00:38:11.560 or at least some portion of that here, because those deaths seems to me would be exacerbated,

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00:39:07.500 This was the big problem with allowing Dr. Fauci and Dr. Scarf to run all those White House press

00:39:14.640 conferences. You remember in the early days of COVID, back in those halcyon Trump years,

00:39:19.380 Trump would hold the press conferences and he would be flanked by all the public health officials

00:39:23.360 and they would, you know, Fauci would get up and he'd say, you see, go, don't wear the mask. Oh,

00:39:28.720 actually do wear the mask. Oh, whatever I say is gospel truth. And he'd go up and then Dr. Scarf would

00:39:33.720 say whatever she was going to say. And then that jerk surgeon general would get up and say what he 0.99

00:39:37.080 was going to say. And it was all the public health people. And the mistake there was not even

00:39:41.660 necessarily that he held the press conferences, not even necessarily that those knuckleheads 1.00

00:39:45.940 talked. It was that they were the only people speaking.

00:39:48.700 But the country is not just run by egghead epidemiologists and it should not be at least.

00:39:56.760 Trump also probably should have had an economist get up there and speak. Trump also probably should

00:40:00.700 have had a national security figure get up there and speak. Trump also should have probably had a

00:40:05.040 constitutional expert get up there and speak. Trump also could have had an historian get up there and

00:40:09.720 speak to talk about the norms in this country. Any other number of people because

00:40:14.120 politics is an art of balancing competing interests. And yes, it's true that if Dr. Fauci were given

00:40:25.660 all of the political power in the country, I guess he sort of has been, then he would view every

00:40:31.500 public matter through the lens of epidemiology. Even to the destruction of businesses, to the destruction

00:40:40.120 of civil liberties, to the destruction of churches, to the destruction of interpersonal relationships

00:40:46.140 and traditions, and ironically, even the public health. Because if you're only focused on eradicating

00:40:52.660 one virus, maybe you're ignoring the deaths of despair that are going on, suicides and drug overdoses

00:40:57.040 too. You need to balance these things. You can't just give some egghead expert specialist

00:41:04.080 control over your whole country. Speaking of following the science, Jedediah Bila,

00:41:09.420 from Fox News, was just brought onto The View. So she was from a sort of center-right news outlet,

00:41:16.440 was brought onto this left-wing news outlet, and she was just there to plug her book. But she was

00:41:21.760 asked about COVID. They wouldn't let her go into the studio because she refused to take the Fauci

00:41:25.860 ouchie. They made a big deal about this. And then they railroaded her because she was stating 1.00

00:41:30.560 perfectly true things about the virus. Let's address the elephant in the room because you were

00:41:36.780 supposed to join us in the studios weeks ago. But you couldn't because ABC has a very strict policy.

00:41:44.660 You can't get into this building unless you're fully vaccinated. Everybody in this room knows

00:41:48.540 that and is vaccinated. But you made a conscious decision not to get the vaccine.

00:41:53.720 I have a medical exemption to the vaccine that's been written by my infectious disease

00:41:57.360 vaccinated specialist in New York City that's been co-signed by three other doctors. I'm not

00:42:02.440 a candidate for this vaccine. I also have sky-high, multi-tiered, multifaceted, natural immunity,

00:42:09.700 very, very high. That has also been proven. It has been shown and it is substantiated by letters

00:42:15.420 from these doctors. So for me personally, this vaccine poses a greater risk than a benefit. But the

00:42:20.740 vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID and does not prevent you from transmitting COVID.

00:42:26.000 Oh my goodness.

00:42:27.120 No, that's not so. Come on.

00:42:29.600 You've been at Fox TV too long.

00:42:31.960 I just don't understand why you would choose to prioritize your personal freedom over health

00:42:36.220 and safety of others. And I just really don't think that we should allow this kind of misinformation

00:42:41.040 on our website.

00:42:43.180 So Jedediah is obviously right. And the cackling hens over the viewer are not just rude and not just

00:42:50.440 unprofessional. I suppose their professional job actually is to shut up conservatives. So there

00:42:55.380 you go. I guess they're being very professional, but, but they're also wrong here. They're also just,

00:42:59.820 what Jedediah said is absolutely true. The CDC admits that about transmission of the virus and

00:43:05.260 contracting the virus even after the vaccine. The CDC admits that. So what, what they're saying,

00:43:11.020 what she's saying is absolutely right. Then what cackling hen number two, I don't know her name 0.98

00:43:15.880 on the view set over there is, I don't know why you're, why you're prioritizing your personal

00:43:20.700 freedom over my safety. Jedediah is not. What she said was she's prioritizing her safety over perhaps

00:43:26.380 your safety. Although the point she's making also is that the vaccinated people can still transmit 0.73

00:43:31.580 the virus as the CDC acknowledged at the end of July, which was their argument for why vaccinated

00:43:37.700 people still need to wear the masks and socially distance and all that other nonsense.

00:43:42.280 So it's not, it's not even a battle between my freedom and our safety. It's, it's a contest between

00:43:49.220 my safety and, oh, and that's it. And no one else's safety because the, the threat to other people's

00:43:56.200 safety is not really going to change. And if the vaccine is so effective at preventing you,

00:44:01.260 the recipient from, from hospitalization and death, then you don't need to worry about what

00:44:05.780 someone else is doing necessarily. But then they cut off her mic. They cut off her mic. They say,

00:44:11.860 you've been at Fox news too long, or you've been, you're too conservative or something.

00:44:17.520 The woman is reciting lines from the CDC, from the scientists, from the public health experts,

00:44:23.860 but they contradict the left's political narrative. And so they're going to cut it off. And I think the

00:44:29.600 crucial thing about this clip is when they cut her mic off, when she brings those facts,

00:44:36.020 when she brings that science, they cut it off and they can cut it off. And yes, you know,

00:44:41.300 you talk about Fox news, it's kind of a center, right news outlet. There are some conservative

00:44:45.240 outlets out there on alternative media. Obviously we're a very large platform here at the daily wire,

00:44:49.520 but for the left, it's not just a handful like we have on the right. It's ABC, NBC, CBS, New York

00:44:57.360 Times, this, that, the other thing. It's the whole, it goes, it's the whole blob. And so they can cut

00:45:03.840 you off. And for most people, you're just going to hear the cackling hens and you're not going to hear

00:45:07.300 the science. This is why, really getting back to the Rittenhouse case, this is why the central

00:45:12.420 question that's affecting the verdict, it's affecting all of, all of this trial is not so much the

00:45:17.640 evidence, but the media as the judge lambasted the media for just two days ago. Some of the things

00:45:25.780 that have been said to, I guess I'll comment on that too. These are five very reputable, competent

00:45:31.520 attorneys that I've practiced with for years. And I think it's shameful. Some of the things that are

00:45:39.100 being done to these people. And I, when I talked about problems with the media, when this trial

00:45:48.380 started, that's, they're there in part, not fully, but in part, because of grossly irresponsible handling

00:45:56.680 of what comes out of this trial. I will tell you this, I'm going to think long and hard about

00:46:03.380 a live television trial again, next time. I don't know. I, I, I've always been a firm believer in it

00:46:09.320 because I think the people should be able to see what's going on. But what I see, what's being done

00:46:13.140 is really quite frightening. Frightening, that's the right word for it. That is the right word. And so

00:46:17.320 this verdict is not just about what Kyle Rittenhouse did. This verdict is not just about our right to

00:46:21.120 self-defense. This verdict will also express how much control the media have over shaping our entire

00:46:29.600 society. Are we going to be run by a court of law or the court of public opinion shaped by the

00:46:36.540 dishonest media? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 18, 2021

Ep. 889 - The Knockdown Blow To Biden's Vax Mandate

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