The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Thanksgiving is upon us, which means that it's time for normal people to give thanks to God

00:00:05.760 for the blessings in their life. And it's time for leftists to whine about how much they hate

00:00:11.680 America. The real story of Thanksgiving and some history you probably never read in your school

00:00:17.500 books. The mythology of Thanksgiving closely mirrors the mythology of America. That mythology

00:00:23.500 is the image that white Americans love to see of themselves. White settlers come to a strange land

00:00:29.220 in good faith, bringing something of great value that enriches the people who are already here.

00:00:35.260 The natives also bring something of immense value, equal exchange. That closely mimics the mythology

00:00:41.260 of white America. It is how America wants to see itself. The truth, of course, of Thanksgiving is

00:00:47.920 much different. The truth is pilgrims did not bring turkey, sweet potato pie, or cranberries to

00:00:54.140 Thanksgiving. They could not. They were broke. They were broken. Their hands were out. They were

00:01:00.500 begging. They brought nothing of value. But they got fed. They got schooled. Thanksgiving. It makes

00:01:08.800 sense. There is much for white Americans to be thankful for. But I'm still trying to figure out

00:01:14.040 what indigenous people received of value. So that history is completely wrong. The whole thing is

00:01:19.980 completely wrong all the way down to the turkeys, which the pilgrims almost certainly did bring

00:01:24.080 to Thanksgiving. But this guy's premise is wrong, too. Actually, the MSNBC host's premise is wrong,

00:01:31.740 too. If you're under the age of 40, you almost certainly were taught that anti-American,

00:01:38.200 anti-historical nonsense in schools. In fact, that was probably the only story about Thanksgiving

00:01:43.600 you were taught. And it also happens to be total bunk. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:49.980 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Alex Shinprod, who says,

00:02:01.840 those poor individuals in the street that looted the Louis Vuitton store were just trying to put

00:02:06.180 caviar, creme brulee, and herb-encrusted filet mignon on their table to feed their families. That's so

00:02:11.320 true. They are poor put-upon people who are stealing Prada handbags and Louis Vuitton and jewelry. They're

00:02:18.760 very, they're oppressed and they really, they deserve the foie gras that they are, that are,

00:02:24.060 they are simply coveting to feed their families. You know, when you want really nice goods to make

00:02:29.080 your family happy, I would strongly recommend you check out Movement. The Christmas shopping season

00:02:34.040 is upon us and Movement, the original watch brand to break all the rules, has you covered. They are

00:02:40.480 bringing you the sleekest, highest quality gifts of the season with hundreds of watches, blue light

00:02:44.820 glasses, and fine jewelry styles to choose from. Movement is making it easy. They've got beautiful

00:02:50.180 curated gift boxes. They have a his and hers gift guide. They've got free and quick shipping right

00:02:55.680 to your door just in time for Christmas. I've had a number of Movement watches over the years and I

00:03:01.000 love them all. My favorite one I've got to say is the Revolver watch. I love it. It's cool. Black face,

00:03:06.540 black dial, dark brown strap. It's rose, rose gold case. I don't know how to describe it. It's just

00:03:14.260 super duper cool. They have automatic watches, which I love too. They've got, I gave one to my

00:03:19.900 father for Christmas. He loves it. He, it was a total smash hit. They're just great. And because

00:03:26.000 they're not particularly expensive, they're, you know, a great deal, you can buy multiple and wear

00:03:30.880 them on different days. Be the big winner this holiday season with a gift from Movement,

00:03:34.020 mvmt.com slash Knowles. That's mvmt.com slash Knowles. Join the Movement. That history is just

00:03:39.960 BS. So what the guy in the Coogee sweater says is that the story we're told is that the Native

00:03:47.920 Americans and the Englishmen brought something to the table at the first Thanksgiving and it more

00:03:53.040 broadly in their, in their cohabitation and they both benefited from it. And that's totally untrue.

00:03:59.860 The Englishmen brought nothing. They didn't even bring turkeys. So yes, they did. You can read

00:04:03.720 in Governor Bradford's on Plymouth Plantation. You can read that even specifically on the turkey

00:04:08.600 point, he sent his men a fowlin. They went out, they got some birds, they brought some stuff.

00:04:13.740 They all came together and they ate a meal together. And that meal was representative

00:04:18.140 of a peace and, and an alliance that they formed, the Englishmen and the Native Americans,

00:04:24.540 specifically one Native American, Massasoit. The guy says that the Indians did not benefit at all.

00:04:29.980 They didn't get anything from the Englishmen. That's not true. Massasoit, who is an Indian

00:04:34.960 chieftain, was able to use the Englishmen to greatly expand his power in New England and really

00:04:42.140 helped to create and certainly to expand the Wampanoag nation. He could not have done that

00:04:46.900 without the Englishmen. In 1623, Massasoit, the leader of the Indian there, the Indian tribe there,

00:04:52.780 was on his deathbed. He was dying. The Englishman, Edward Winslow, out of friendship,

00:04:57.100 went to go visit Massasoit. Massasoit said, this is all well recorded. Massasoit said,

00:05:01.960 Edward Winslow, I'll never see your face again. Edward Winslow made him some broth and gave him

00:05:06.660 some rudimentary medicine and sat up with him and took care of Massasoit and Massasoit recovered.

00:05:12.540 And then Massasoit told the Edward Winslow and the Englishmen about a plot from the other

00:05:17.660 Massachusetts Indians that were going to, Massachusetts or the Narragansett, I forget,

00:05:21.760 who were, who were making an attempt, I think it was the Massachusetts, who were making an attempt

00:05:25.460 on the Englishmen's lives. And they formed various alliances and they lived together

00:05:29.680 in peace for a long time. Actually, the only reason that the peace broke down

00:05:33.820 was because Massasoit's son, King Philip, who took an English name, who took a Christian name,

00:05:38.420 King Philip misinterpreted the death of his brother and thought the Englishman killed his brother,

00:05:42.100 even though they didn't. And so he declared war on them. And some Indians sided with the Englishman

00:05:47.300 and some Indians sided with King Philip. And the peace between the natives and the Englishman

00:05:51.920 was irrevocably destroyed. That's the real history. The Coogee sweater guy and the airheaded MSNBC lady

00:05:59.820 don't know anything about that because they don't know much about anything at all. Certainly not

00:06:04.020 about history. All they know about is their ideology, which tells them that the Indians got nothing of

00:06:09.020 value. What else did they get of value? Christianity. That would be one thing that they got of value.

00:06:13.320 I assume that the MSNBC lady and the Coogee sweater guy don't have a great deal of respect for

00:06:18.860 Christianity, but they should because the religion that the natives were practicing was a false religion

00:06:24.320 and it led to some very kooky practices. As we have noted on this show before, cannibalism was

00:06:30.700 fairly widespread among certain Indian tribes, including around the northeast of what is now

00:06:36.320 the United States. There were lots of terrible religious practices. There was enslavement,

00:06:41.000 all sorts of bad things. And when the Englishman came and brought Christianity to the Native Americans,

00:06:46.100 they brought true religion. They brought some enlightenment to them and they worked. I'm not

00:06:52.000 saying the Indians didn't give the Englishman something of value as well. The Englishman would

00:06:56.000 have starved without the Indians. In fact, one of the first acts that the Englishman committed when

00:07:00.420 they got to the new world was to find a bunch of corn that the Indians had stored and they took some of

00:07:05.260 the corn and they wanted to pay it back later, but they were starving and they took some. So it just seems

00:07:10.100 to me that the true history is much more interesting than the nonsense ideology that you are in fact

00:07:16.940 taught in schools. It's now become a canard. It's a myth to say, here's the real dirty history of

00:07:23.300 America that you weren't taught. No, that's all you're taught now. Even when I was in school, which

00:07:27.140 was now what? I started school in 1995 and graduated high school in 2008. And still, even all the way back

00:07:35.800 then, we were taught almost exclusively, certainly by high school, a negative history of the settlers

00:07:44.580 in America. And we were taught history from the perspective of leftist polemicists who think that

00:07:51.620 colonization and settling America was a very terrible thing. Really, the history that you are not taught

00:07:57.100 is the history that I just told you. I just gave you a little tiny touch of it. And what, I'm not even

00:08:00.560 an academic historian. I just happened to have read a handful of books on this. And so I know

00:08:04.580 significantly more than any of these ideological lunatics on cable news or the fellow wearing the

00:08:11.200 Coogee sweater. The real history is always much more interesting than the fables that the ideologues

00:08:17.780 are trying to tell you. Speaking of not being taught things in school, the energy secretary for Joe Biden

00:08:23.640 was just giving a press conference because gas prices are through the roof. It's seven bucks a gallon

00:08:28.900 in California. And she was asked a very simple question, might be the most elementary question

00:08:35.100 pertaining to her job. She was asked, how many barrels of oil a day does the United States consume?

00:08:41.920 She didn't know the answer.

00:08:43.600 There are various figures about this. I'm curious if you know, how many barrels of oil does the U.S.

00:08:48.580 consume per day?

00:08:49.980 I don't have that number in front of me.

00:08:51.440 So some suggest it's about 18 million, which would suggest you're releasing less than three days worth

00:08:56.780 of supply from the Petroleum Reserve.

00:08:59.160 Some have said it's about 18 million. It's actually probably higher than that. It's probably

00:09:02.280 a little over 20 million, 20.5 million barrels of oil per day. But whether it's 18, whether it's 20,

00:09:10.120 don't you think that is a number that the energy secretary should know? I'm not saying that the

00:09:16.340 energy secretary needs to have every statistic off the top of her head. But that one's pretty basic.

00:09:22.180 When you're applying for the job of energy secretary, that should probably be the number

00:09:27.060 one question on the quiz, right? How much oil does the United States consume? And she didn't know.

00:09:36.400 Yes, ideology plays a role in bad administrations. Yes, partisan alliances play a role.

00:09:44.320 There's also just a level of basic competence that is necessary to have a good administration.

00:09:50.040 And this administration doesn't have that. And frankly, I think it starts in school for these

00:09:56.460 people. I think that this energy secretary and this weak administration is the logical result

00:10:04.520 of decades of poor education, of, as they say, teaching students how to think, not what to think.

00:10:14.200 I know a lot of conservatives recite this very stupid slogan as well, but we shouldn't. We should

00:10:18.660 throw that slogan out. The idea is that we don't need to teach students facts. We don't need to

00:10:26.360 teach them dates and facts and battles and what actually happened. We just need to teach them

00:10:30.640 broad themes. We just need to teach them how to think so they can form their own conclusions.

00:10:36.420 And sure, some people might say the Mayflower landed in 1620, but if I say it landed in 1854,

00:10:42.440 well, that's just my truth. I just learned how to think. No, no, that's not how education works.

00:10:48.660 We can't teach someone how to think without also teaching them what to think. Yes, we want to

00:10:53.960 develop our higher thinking skills, but you need to know some basic facts, bro. You need to know

00:10:58.720 that two plus two equals four if you're going to think about higher mathematics. And if you're going

00:11:02.520 to be the energy secretary of the United States, you need to know how many barrels of oil the United

00:11:07.280 States consumes per day. And if you want to think about American history and you want to even craft an

00:11:12.240 American government, you need to know basic facts about America, like what happened when the

00:11:16.360 pilgrims got here and what the early relationship between the pilgrims and the Indians was and how

00:11:20.960 the United States was set. You need to know these basic things. And unfortunately, what we have done

00:11:26.440 because of airheaded ideologues like the people on MSNBC and the Gucci sweater guy, and even now our

00:11:31.720 cabinet secretaries, what we have done is replaced hard facts and true education with airy, wishy-washy,

00:11:40.500 socially constructed, always fluid ideology. Now, when you want to support America, I would

00:11:46.000 strongly recommend you support American ranchers, which is why you got to check out Good Ranchers.

00:11:50.580 Did you know that the product of USA tag has been stolen by foreign countries? A lot of times,

00:11:56.240 maybe most of the time, when you go to the supermarket and you buy your meat and you think

00:12:00.280 you're buying American meat, you're not actually buying American meat. So why not just go to the best

00:12:05.960 source out there? The Good Ranchers. Good Ranchers have gone around to great American ranches, found

00:12:11.420 top quality meats. They have got my favorite, which are the burgers. The burgers are really good, but

00:12:16.960 they've got fillets. They've got all sorts of different cuts of beef. They've got better than

00:12:21.460 organic chicken. Head on over right now to the Good Ranchers. Do not allow labeling laws that favor

00:12:29.240 foreign countries, deprive American ranchers of your business, and deprive you of good American

00:12:36.240 meat. Go to goodranchers.com slash Knowles right now. Get 10 free bistro fillets. In addition, you will,

00:12:42.240 if you subscribe, save $25 off of each subscription box of mouthwatering American meats for life.

00:12:48.440 The boxes will show up right on schedule to your door. That is 10 free bistro fillets. That's a $119

00:12:54.020 value. Free express shipping and $25 off your monthly subscription for life at goodranchers.com

00:13:00.540 slash Knowles. That is goodranchers.com slash Knowles. Use code Knowles at checkout. 10 free

00:13:05.120 bistro fillets. Free express shipping, $25 off your monthly subscription for life at goodranchers.com

00:13:10.160 slash Knowles. Speaking of not knowing what or how to think, the rot of the Biden administration

00:13:19.620 competency goes all the way to the top. Joe Biden was making some remarks just yesterday, and he was

00:13:26.620 reading from a teleprompter, as he always does. A lot of presidents do. And he couldn't even

00:13:32.480 differentiate between the words on the prompter that he was supposed to say and the words he was not

00:13:37.400 supposed to say. There's a lot of innovation because of the actions we've taken. Things have begun

00:13:42.960 to change. End of quote. In the past three weeks. End of quote. End of quote. He read, end of quote.

00:13:51.620 Because of what we've done, things have begun to change. I'm Ron Burgundy. This is the Ron Burgundy

00:13:58.200 presidency. This is a man who not only cannot speak extemporaneously because he doesn't know what's

00:14:04.000 going on and he's obviously in decline. This is a man who can't even read the teleprompter. And it's

00:14:09.700 not just flubbing over one word or two words. This is a man who doesn't even know how teleprompters

00:14:14.240 work. Who doesn't even know how speeches work. End of quote. I know it seems like a minor flub,

00:14:18.420 but it's not. It's part of a much larger pattern. And we've all seen it. And I think even Joe Biden's

00:14:26.080 partisans can't really deny it. Even Joe Biden's physician can't deny it. You know, the president

00:14:31.280 just had a physical the other day. And very often when presidents have physicals, what happens is the

00:14:38.820 doctor afterwards says, you know, everything's great. Everything's totally fine. He's doing great.

00:14:42.980 Don't worry. No problems here. Joe Biden's physician couldn't do that. Couldn't do it in good conscience.

00:14:48.720 Couldn't do it with a straight face because we all see the problems. So Joe Biden's physician concluded,

00:14:53.620 you know, there are some physical issues. He's clearing his throat a lot. That might be

00:14:57.660 evidence of some other health issues. You know, just the fact that he can't seem to get through

00:15:02.080 a sentence without clearing his throat. The president's ambulatory gait, the way he walks,

00:15:07.580 is perceptively stiffer and less fluid than it was a year or so ago. So the guy is having trouble

00:15:13.520 walking. It's not good. This is in the president's official physical. He has, the president has several

00:15:19.400 reasonable explanations for his difficulty walking in his orthopedic history. But again, a detailed

00:15:25.560 investigation was appropriate. And then here's the crucial part. There was no mental test,

00:15:31.440 no test of mental acuity that was, that was administered to the president. You'll remember

00:15:37.300 when Trump was president, people made fun of him because he took a mental test. His people were

00:15:43.040 saying that he was crazy and senile. And he obviously wasn't. I mean, no matter what you think

00:15:48.200 of Trump, you might hate the guy. You might think he's evil. You might think he's a huckster,

00:15:51.180 whatever. But you've got to admit he's sharp, right? The, the evidence that Trump is sharp is

00:15:57.340 his sense of humor, right? The, the fact that he could be asked by Megyn Kelly in a debate

00:16:02.580 about how he called women fat, slobs, ugly animals, pigs, and he doesn't miss a beat. And he says,

00:16:08.520 no, only Rosie O'Donnell. That's a, that's a very funny line. Okay. That, that would take a

00:16:15.260 professional showman, a professional comedian like Trump is to be able to do that. You got to be quick

00:16:21.060 to tell a joke like that. Okay. And Trump obviously was quick. He might hate his guts,

00:16:25.300 but still he was quick. And so, and, and he even made a joke about the mental test and talked about

00:16:29.160 how he was a genius and, and the like. Joe Biden couldn't take the test. He didn't take the test

00:16:35.860 because he couldn't take the test, which means my biggest takeaway from all of that is not that

00:16:42.020 Biden's going to collapse tomorrow. My biggest takeaway from all of that is that the Democrats

00:16:45.880 don't have a 2024 plan. They don't. Is this guy really going to run again? Maybe,

00:16:51.360 maybe they're going to try to drag him over the finish line, but they're going to have to make

00:16:54.800 up another pandemic because if this guy hits the campaign trail, it's going to be very bad. So

00:16:59.680 they're going to have to find some excuse to lock him in his room or he steps down. And then what?

00:17:06.860 And then what? Number two is even less popular than he is. Biden's approval rating is 38.

00:17:11.840 Kamala's is 28, 27 or 28, lower than Dick Cheney when he shot the guy in the face.

00:17:18.080 What, what makes you think that putting Kamala Harris on the trail is going to be any better?

00:17:22.060 Kamala Harris was asked while she was giving remarks to explain why the prices are going up. She said,

00:17:26.740 what, they said, what's your answer for the rampant inflation? Here's her searching for an answer.

00:17:32.620 Prices have gone up and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of, of the bread

00:17:47.200 costs more, the gas costs more. Wow. Thank you, Professor Harris. That's really astounding stuff.

00:17:52.480 I hold on. Can I take notes? Can you go back to the, uh, uh, uh, price has gone up? Uh-huh. Yeah,

00:17:56.940 we know that. That's the premise of the question. So why? What's happening? What are you going to do

00:18:01.020 about that? Um, uh, people, they pay more. Uh-huh. Yep. I know that's what inflation is. So what are

00:18:07.300 you going to do about it? Um, gas is bread is high. Yep. That's right. The Democrats are not sending

00:18:13.120 their best. This is the problem with selecting a vice president purely on the basis of her genitals

00:18:20.440 and race, which is the only reason this woman was selected. Joe Biden admitted that long before he ever

00:18:27.000 picked Kamala Harris, he said, I'm going to pick a black woman. And then he backed himself into a

00:18:31.720 corner because in terms of the black women who are prominent enough in public life to be the vice

00:18:36.140 president, there, there weren't many options. You had Karen Bass, who is an actual Democrat or an

00:18:42.200 actual, she's an actual Democrat and an actual communist. Like she has been a member of communist

00:18:46.140 organizations. You had Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi. You, I guess you had Stacey

00:18:50.740 Abrams, who's the, the fake governor of Georgia. She's the pretender governor of Georgia.

00:18:54.760 And you had Kamala Harris, who was the first person out of the Democrat race because no one

00:18:58.740 likes her because she's really not that good. She's, she's good at backroom politics. I'll just

00:19:03.160 leave it at that. But she's not good at front facing politics. People don't like her. It's why her

00:19:07.960 approval rating is in the doldrums. And now the Democrats are paying for that. They are now paying

00:19:12.880 for this identity politics vice presidency. And the White House knows it. Jen Psaki, who increasingly has

00:19:22.480 the most difficult job in the world, Jen Psaki was asked about Kamala Harris's low approval ratings.

00:19:28.500 And rather than deny it, rather than play it down, she actually laughed about it.

00:19:33.820 But her approval ratings are low. I mean, is that, do you think that's spreading to the American people

00:19:37.960 when they, when they answer some of these polls and have an opinion about her?

00:19:42.680 Look, I think we've seen, it's not a secret, Anita. We've seen some drop in approval ratings,

00:19:48.360 you know, across the board. I will say that we also have to be, and we are very sober about the

00:19:54.800 fact that there are some challenges, real challenges people are going through in this country.

00:20:00.980 Madam Press Secretary, the vice president's approval ratings are below dirt. They are

00:20:06.240 underground at this point. What do you say about that? Yeah, they're pretty low, huh?

00:20:11.080 Oh, so two takeaways here. One takeaway is that there's no way to defend this. There's really no

00:20:22.720 way to spin 27% approval rating, okay, for your vice president who's doing nothing. The vice president

00:20:29.720 should have a higher approval rating than Joe Biden, who is taking all of the flack, and yet hers is

00:20:34.840 still significantly lower. So there's no, there's no really good explanation for that. But the other

00:20:40.220 thing that I think you should take away here is Biden and Harris clearly despise one another,

00:20:47.880 right? There is no Joe Kamala team here. They hate one another. Kamala Harris launched her

00:20:54.220 presidential bid calling Joe Biden a racist. Joe Biden didn't like that very much, and he chased

00:21:00.640 her out of the race, and Kamala Harris was the first person out. And then because he backed himself

00:21:05.240 into a corner, he had to pick her. But they don't like each other. The White House is not going to

00:21:09.400 save Kamala Harris. They're not going to boost her. They keep giving her the worst jobs, right? They

00:21:13.960 say, oh, Kamala, you're going to be in charge of fixing immigration. Good luck. Enjoy El Paso.

00:21:20.620 Go have a good time. Send us some tamales. And so they give her an impossible job. She takes a ton of

00:21:27.440 flack, which means that the Democrats do not have any particularly viable plan in 2024. Joe Biden can

00:21:35.880 barely walk, much less run for president. Kamala Harris is deeply, deeply unlikable, and they're going

00:21:44.060 to keep sniping at each other. And Kamala is going to keep calling Joe a racist, and Joe is going to

00:21:48.400 keep laughing at Kamala's bad approval ratings. That's good news for us. The only good news for Biden is

00:21:54.940 Kamala Harris is his insurance policy. You don't like me? Well, look who's coming after me. This is actually

00:22:01.260 something Trump did with Pence, because as much as libs pretended that Donald Trump is the second

00:22:06.060 coming of, you know, Francisco Franco or something, or Mussolini, he wasn't. He's actually kind of a

00:22:12.340 moderate guy on a lot of policies. And Mike Pence was a little more of the kind of religious right

00:22:18.600 type of conservative. And so the insurance policy was, all right, you get rid of Trump, you're going

00:22:22.080 to have to deal with Mike Pence. Much more of a religious right type figure than Donald Trump ever was.

00:22:26.640 So they know that. And they also know that a lot of their plans at the White House are falling apart,

00:22:34.080 most notably the vaccine mandate, which is why we're seeing the White House getting increasingly

00:22:39.640 desperate and increasingly lawless. You know, the Biden administration pushes its employer vaccine

00:22:48.400 mandate through OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This is almost certainly

00:22:54.440 unconstitutional. Daily Wire is leading the fight to sue the Biden administration. The case goes to

00:23:00.440 the Court of Appeals. The court issues a stay, says don't enforce the mandate. The Biden administration

00:23:05.860 says enforce the mandate anyway. Then OSHA, the administration itself, the agency says we are

00:23:12.640 going to suspend our mandate. Biden doesn't care. You know, if you want to talk about your health,

00:23:19.400 if you want to feel better, I would strongly recommend you check out Echelon.

00:23:23.200 I want to stay fit. I want to stay felt. And I don't have any time because I'm in this studio

00:23:28.360 25 hours a day. How do I do it? The answer is simple. I'm not driving to a gym. That is simply

00:23:33.500 not going to happen. I'm not going to go join the football team. That's not going to happen.

00:23:38.320 Echelon has made it possible. Echelon is the affordable way to get the workout equipment,

00:23:42.920 the workout community, and an instructor's motivation right in the comfort of your own

00:23:47.080 home. Echelon's fitness app provides you with thousands of live and on-demand classes with

00:23:53.600 great music. With Echelon, you can work out anytime, day or night, and crush your fitness

00:23:59.120 goals wherever you are. Echelon's full range of affordable workout equipment, including stationary

00:24:03.760 bikes, smart rowers, sleek fitness screens, and the auto-folding treadmill are all connected

00:24:09.760 to provide the Echelon experience. I love it. I absolutely love my Echelon. It's super. It's the

00:24:15.840 only thing that's going to get me to work out. One membership covers a family of five. For right

00:24:19.820 now, podcast listeners, our listeners, will get up to $800 off MSRP. To get this exclusive podcast

00:24:27.960 discount, text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 818181. Text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 818181 to get up to

00:24:36.860 $800 off MSRP. Text Knowles to 818181. Also, the Daily Wire shop is live and ready for all your

00:24:45.620 extremely important Christmas needs. I know that you're very much looking to buy this Black Friday

00:24:52.880 and Cyber Monday. You want to buy Reasons to Vote for Democrats, A Comprehensive Guide, my number one

00:24:57.020 best-selling blank book. You're thinking, maybe I'll buy that on Amazon. Maybe I'll buy it at Barnes

00:25:00.820 and Noble. You definitely want to buy Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, my number one

00:25:04.460 national best-selling book with words that came out this year. You're thinking, maybe I'll go to Amazon.

00:25:09.440 Maybe I'll go to Barnes and Noble. Well, you can go to any of those places, but where I would recommend

00:25:13.200 you go is the Daily Wire merch shop. That's right, dailywire.com slash shop. Check out all the

00:25:18.740 brilliant collections like the Do Not Comply tees and the Let's Go Brandon Tailgate gear and a ton

00:25:22.840 of my stuff. We've got great cigar label t-shirts with my mug on it and my cigar motto, which is the

00:25:31.540 body is a temple and the temple needs incense. We've got Smokey Mike and the God King merch, really top

00:25:37.200 of the line kind of stuff. We've got the Fauci t-shirt. It's a shake of Arbo with Fauci's face on it.

00:25:42.400 Anyone can shop at the Daily Wire store, but only DW members will get special discounts up to 20%

00:25:47.320 off. Members also receive access to shop exclusive items like signed copies of Candace Owens' book,

00:25:53.080 Blackout, or Speechless or Reasons to Vote for Democrats. You can also get the iconic Leftist

00:25:58.440 Tears Tumblr. They are selling fast. Go to dailywire.com slash shop. If you're not a member yet, sign up,

00:26:04.060 dailywire.com slash subscribe. Enter code DW35. You'll get 35% off your membership. All the perks you

00:26:09.580 wouldn't get otherwise. The deal ends tomorrow on membership. So make sure you grab that discount

00:26:14.420 while you can. We'll be right back with a lot more. Biden tells OSHA to tell employers with a hundred or

00:26:33.020 more employees to take the Fauci ouchy. Some of those companies, notably the Daily Wire,

00:26:39.680 sue Joe Biden over this. The court tells Biden to stop telling OSHA to stop telling the employers with

00:26:49.340 a hundred or more employees to take the Fauci ouchy. Biden tells the court to go pound sand and Biden

00:26:56.040 tells OSHA to keep making the employers, make the employees to take the Fauci ouchy. Now, OSHA

00:27:02.760 is telling the employers who were telling the employees to get the Fauci ouchy that they are

00:27:08.420 going to suspend their mandate until the issue is resolved in court. Are you confused enough yet?

00:27:13.500 I certainly am. The reporters asked Jen Psaki about this yesterday. Here's what the White House has to

00:27:19.500 say. OSHA suspended its vaccine implementation and enforcement because of a court order. Given this

00:27:26.700 update, is the administration still urging businesses to move forward with the President's vaccine and

00:27:33.380 weekly testing rule? And are you still working off of that January 4th compliance deadline?

00:27:40.280 We are. Let me be very clear. Our message to businesses right now is to move forward with

00:27:44.620 measures that will make their workplaces safer and protect them, their workforces from COVID-19.

00:27:51.460 That was our message after the first day issued by the Fifth Circuit. That remains our message and

00:27:56.180 nothing has changed. I would note that recent polling, I think that just came out yesterday,

00:27:59.900 showed that 60 percent of businesses are moving forward with measures that keep their workplaces

00:28:04.040 safe. They're essentially implementing components or versions of these vaccine requirements because

00:28:09.260 they know it's in the interests of their workforces to protect their workforces, to make sure they

00:28:14.480 can bring more people back to the workforce. And we certainly see that as a positive sign.

00:28:19.540 So we have been looking at this as a battle between the executive branch and the judicial branch,

00:28:26.100 right? The executive branch says, take the Fauci-Auchi. The judicial branch says, hold up.

00:28:30.960 But there's another player here in the government as well. That's the administrative state,

00:28:35.320 the deep state, the executive agencies, OSHA itself. And so now you've got the judiciary saying,

00:28:42.560 hold up. You've got OSHA saying, hold up. And you've got Joe Biden saying, ignore both of those,

00:28:47.120 take the Fauci-Auchi anyway. What this proves, and you know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:28:52.620 What this proves is that we were right. We were right when we said this is unconstitutional. This

00:28:57.620 is BS. Biden knows it's unconstitutional. It's almost certainly going to be struck down by the

00:29:02.060 courts. And Biden knows that and doesn't care. What he is hoping is that enough employers force enough

00:29:09.000 employees to take the Fauci-Auchi before the court strikes it down, that it's a moot point.

00:29:15.400 The court strikes down the Biden order. Okay. Whoopsie-daisy. Anyway, 99% of the country's

00:29:20.160 vaxed now. Too bad. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Even OSHA, because OSHA fears the court and the people running

00:29:29.380 OSHA fear the court. They say, okay, hold on. We're going to hold this up. Biden says, yeah,

00:29:34.260 nevermind. Yeah, whatever. Okay. Whatever OSHA says, whatever the court says, whatever. Just,

00:29:38.160 just do it. By whatever means you need to, force your guys to take the Fauci-Auchi. This is lawless.

00:29:45.440 And I never want to hear from the libs again that we're undermining democracy and the rule of law

00:29:52.560 and all our principles because of Trump and the insurrection. No, you are the ones who are now

00:29:59.080 openly advocating, flouting the rule of law, flouting the courts, flouting even the administrative

00:30:05.320 agency, and just bullying Americans, millions and millions of Americans to take this experimental

00:30:12.980 drug to sort of fight off a virus that for the vast majority of people does not pose a particularly

00:30:18.760 grave threat. Speaking of lawlessness, Waukesha, Wisconsin, you know, there was the attack. Oh,

00:30:26.720 we're not allowed to call it an attack. There was the incident at the Christmas parade where a BLM

00:30:33.160 supporter drove his SUV down and killed five people and injured many, many more people. Well,

00:30:39.380 now that number has been updated. It wasn't just five people, it's six people. A sixth person,

00:30:43.660 a child, an eight-year-old child has died from the car attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

00:30:50.680 Now the number of people injured, it's no longer just 20 people or 40 people. It's now up to 61

00:30:55.180 people injured. CBS 8 is reporting that the eight-year-old boy died and his 12-year-old brother

00:31:01.780 was also hit during the massacre. You're not going to hear a lot of this from the establishment

00:31:09.280 media, but the guy who drove the car was, according to his social media, reportedly a BLM supporter,

00:31:14.760 a big critic of Trump and the Republicans and conservatives. He espoused black nationalist

00:31:20.700 rhetoric. This came right after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, which was exploited by the media and tried

00:31:25.180 turned into a BLM cause celeb. And he was also this driver of the car out on bail. He had actually

00:31:35.040 just been leaving another domestic incident, but he had been arrested for domestic abuse. He hit a

00:31:40.500 woman, the mother of his children. He hit her with a car, same car he used to kill all these other

00:31:44.080 people. And he was released on bail. And the bail was a thousand bucks. And before that, just last year,

00:31:48.980 he was arrested again for all these problems. He was released on $500 bail. This guy is a degenerate,

00:31:56.100 dirty, rotten criminal who should have been locked up at least, at least locked up for a very long

00:32:02.400 time, if not the rest of his life. And because of the compassionate liberals and criminal justice

00:32:08.220 reform, which these days, even many Republicans are embracing, because of that, 61 people were injured

00:32:14.660 and six people were killed, including an eight-year-old boy. And who knows, more people

00:32:17.580 might die. There's still people in critical condition because of that compassion. And now

00:32:22.860 you want to hear the cherry on top of the sundae? He's got the opportunity for bail again.

00:32:30.480 Now the bail is very high this time. They've set the bail at $5 million. Why are they giving him that

00:32:37.240 opportunity at all? He is a repeat, violent, career criminal who has injured many, many people and

00:32:46.460 killed multiple people. Why does he have the opportunity for bail? I agree he should have a

00:32:53.000 trial, though in a simple, efficient, just world that isn't fallen, this would be over already.

00:33:01.640 But yes, of course he's entitled to a trial, but he's not entitled to go out.

00:33:06.680 If the guy goes, he's already skipped his bail before. He's already committed crimes while out

00:33:13.120 on bail. So just, you can't give him that opportunity again. And in our crazy, compassionate

00:33:20.040 world, he is being given that opportunity. There was also a media narrative. There's so many lies in

00:33:25.440 the media around this attack. One of them was that the reason he drove his SUV into the crowd,

00:33:31.240 into the Christmas parade, and killed a bunch of grannies, the dancing grannies was the names of one

00:33:34.960 of the groups, and killed children, is because he was being chased by the police. That was the

00:33:40.040 narrative that was starting to form. And of course it is, because nothing can be this criminal's fault.

00:33:47.100 Everything has to be the fault of the police. Why did you commit the crime? The police made me do it.

00:33:51.400 The law made me do it. The society made me do it. It can never be the fault of the criminal.

00:33:56.420 And especially when you add the racial dimension here that the left pushes, the white guy has to always

00:34:01.140 be at fault, even if the cop is black. Actually, as is the case in this part of Wisconsin, it's still,

00:34:07.260 it's the white guy and the poor black guy is always the victim. And you see it in the narrative

00:34:12.220 around Thanksgiving. The settlers, the pilgrims, they're always the bad guy. The Indians are always

00:34:16.500 the victim. There's no ambiguity here. It always breaks down. And even if the reality doesn't match

00:34:22.080 that narrative, the reality must be made to conform with that narrative. So the cop here

00:34:28.300 in Waukesha came out, Milwaukee police came out and said that that media narrative just

00:34:34.680 is not true. We have information that the suspect prior to the incident was involved in domestic

00:34:39.440 disturbance, which is just news prior. And the suspect left that scene just prior to our arrival

00:34:47.080 to that domestic disturbance. When the suspect was driving through into the crowd, one officer did

00:35:00.040 discharge his firearm and fire shots at the suspect to stop the threat. But due to the amount of people

00:35:07.520 had to stop and stop and fire no, did not fire any other additional shots. There's no evidence that

00:35:16.320 this is a terrorist incident. Okay. Now this last part is a little questionable to me, but to the first

00:35:23.880 part, he's saying the, the guy was involved in a domestic disturbance. He was beating his baby mama

00:35:31.560 as he frequently did. And so the cops went to that scene, but he had already left that scene. So it's not

00:35:37.220 like he was there and the cops got there and then he fled and ran away and then the cops just chased him.

00:35:41.600 He had already left by the time the cops got there. He was already driving his car into the people

00:35:50.140 by the time the cops shot at him to stop him from doing that. And then the cops had to stop shooting

00:35:55.220 because there were so many people around because it was a Christmas parade. And yet the cop says this

00:36:02.140 is not a terrorist incident. Well, what does that mean? Does it mean this, this is not Al-Qaeda? Yeah,

00:36:07.540 I don't think it's Al-Qaeda. Does this mean this was not ISIS? Yeah, I don't think it was ISIS.

00:36:15.600 But are we certain that this guy did not have any political motive? What is, what is terrorism?

00:36:21.920 Terrorism. Terrorism in its most simple form is the targeting of civilians to achieve a political end.

00:36:31.840 The people here were killed were civilians. The guy who drove the car had clearly or reportedly

00:36:41.380 clearly articulated political views about BLM, about black nationalism, about Trump and conservatives

00:36:48.560 and Rittenhouse and all these people. The Rittenhouse verdict came out just days before this

00:36:58.020 incident. I'm not saying that we know for certain that it was politically motivated. It might have

00:37:04.460 just been the guy's a nut and he's a violent criminal and he's a dirty, rotten degenerate and

00:37:08.980 he beats his baby mom and runs her over with a car and he just felt like killing some people that

00:37:12.540 night. It might have been that. But are we, we're certain this had no political motive? I don't

00:37:18.300 think so. And compare it, of course, compare it, of course, to Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle Rittenhouse

00:37:26.220 goes out, defends a town that he works in where his part of his family lives and he is instantly

00:37:34.240 smeared white supremacist. This is terrorism. We know his motives without any evidence whatsoever.

00:37:39.060 Now, we actually do have evidence of a political motive here. There is no claim possible that

00:37:46.960 this guy was acting in self-defense like Kyle Rittenhouse, who was just proven to have acted

00:37:50.760 in self-defense. And yet we're told no political motive whatsoever. I don't buy that. Meanwhile,

00:37:56.300 meanwhile, you remember Charlottesville? You remember the Unite the Right rally some years ago?

00:38:02.060 Plaintiffs in that rally were just awarded $25 million. $25 million in damages over the

00:38:08.980 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The way that they were, and they were awarded this

00:38:13.360 from people like Richard Spencer and other white identitarians. The lawyers for the plaintiffs used

00:38:20.680 150-year-old law that was passed after the Civil War that's known as the Ku Klux Klan Act that

00:38:26.560 contains this provision that's very rarely used that allows private citizens to sue other citizens for

00:38:32.700 civil rights violations. The left is very happy about this, which is funny because the left is

00:38:38.520 very upset about the abortion law in Texas that allows private citizens to sue other private citizens

00:38:45.180 for civil rights violations. That's the mechanism that the pro-life law in Texas works by. And the

00:38:50.460 left is furious about that and says it's unconstitutional, evil, and terrible. But they're

00:38:53.840 using a similar law here to sue white identitarian people because of physical or emotional harm,

00:39:00.620 not caused by these people, but caused by people who were leading the march at which there was

00:39:05.820 violence. James Fields is the guy who drove his car into a crowd and killed Heather Heyer at the Unite

00:39:16.220 the Right rally. James Fields is serving life in prison. That guy's not getting out of prison. So he's

00:39:24.540 already faced his punishment or is facing his punishment. Three other Unite the Right protesters

00:39:30.560 were accused, and more than protesters here, they were accused of surrounding and beating

00:39:36.200 a black counter-protester, DeAndre Harris, in a video that went viral. Now, Harris himself was the

00:39:44.580 guy who was the victim in the beating, was also charged with unlawful wounding following an assault on

00:39:50.320 an alleged white identitarian during that protest. Corey Long, who was one of the counter-protesters,

00:39:59.040 was shown wielding an improvised flamethrower against a white identitarian at the protest. He was also

00:40:03.920 arrested. Okay, it's very, very complicated, but now they've $25 million in damages from the white

00:40:11.360 identitarians. What happened in Waukesha was by every single measure much, much worse

00:40:20.100 than what happened in Charlottesville. But Waukesha will be shrugged off. The political

00:40:26.180 dimensions, if there is one, will be completely denied and downplayed. The deaths will be downplayed.

00:40:34.040 It will just be another sad thing, never mind moving on. Charlottesville will be held up as the

00:40:39.180 worst attack ever in American history. Even though the guy who committed the crime that day is serving

00:40:44.300 life in prison, he completely got his just desserts. But that will be held up constantly. His justice was not

00:40:49.280 done. This is the worst thing that's ever happened. But if you just look at the death count, if you look

00:40:54.060 at the mayhem, if you look, it's not even comparable. But this is because in the United States,

00:41:01.640 the left gets away with violence. And the right, when it commits violence, obviously doesn't get away

00:41:07.540 with it. And when the right even doesn't commit violence or acts in self-defense or just sort of

00:41:11.400 speaks, they are held to a completely different standard.

00:41:17.340 Kyle Rittenhouse just came out. He did an interview with Tucker. And Kyle Rittenhouse was asked about his

00:41:24.660 political views. And he shocked a lot of people and a lot of his supporters when he said that he supports

00:41:30.340 Black Lives Matter.

00:41:31.820 This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the

00:41:38.200 right to self-defense.

00:41:39.920 Right.

00:41:41.000 I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating.

00:41:46.920 And I believe there needs to be change. I believe there's a lot of prosecutorial misconduct,

00:41:52.360 not just in my case, but in other cases. And it's just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take

00:42:00.700 advantage of somebody.

00:42:02.140 It's never like that. I love BLM. I'm a great guy. So BLM responded and they don't,

00:42:10.380 apparently they're not very welcoming of Kyle Rittenhouse. They say, Alexa, play I don't F with

00:42:14.880 you. And then they had a bunch of tweets about how terrible the Rittenhouse verdict was and how

00:42:18.600 it's emblematic of white supremacy. Well, the right here is giving Rittenhouse a lot of advice and a lot

00:42:25.600 of conservatives are saying, Kyle, you're so mistaken and naive. They're not going to accept you at BLM.

00:42:30.160 And BLM is a radical Marxist organization. And you shouldn't allow yourself with BLM.

00:42:34.760 I don't really believe that. I don't think that, I believe those criticisms, but I don't believe

00:42:40.840 that Kyle Rittenhouse actually supports BLM. He obviously does not. I think Kyle Rittenhouse is

00:42:45.500 saying this because he's about to sue a bunch of media organizations for defamation. And I think

00:42:50.900 this helps his case. And because the media organizations acted so recklessly and irresponsibly,

00:42:55.740 he's trying to make this point very clear, but he's probably just doing it for the libel suits

00:43:02.520 here. I can't imagine that a kid with this kind of, this articulate who's just been through all of

00:43:08.200 this could say in seriousness, in sincerity, that he supports BLM. In 2021, I just don't buy it. After

00:43:16.500 BLM torched the country for six months, I don't think so. Speaking of criminals, the Colorado Sex Offender

00:43:24.420 Management Board just voted last Friday to get rid of the term sex offender, meaning presumably that

00:43:35.460 the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board will now just be called the Colorado Management Board.

00:43:40.100 You know, it sounds much more boring. If it's just the management board, you know, it's just

00:43:45.280 upper management. They voted to change the term to, quote, adults who commit sexual offenses

00:43:51.780 in its standards, guidelines for assessment, evaluation, treatment, and behavioral monitoring

00:43:56.880 of adult sex offenders, which I guess now has to be adults who commit sexual offenses.

00:44:02.140 Here's their explanation. The board writes, quote, the language change applies only to SOMB standards.

00:44:08.620 The term sex offender will continue to be used in Colorado statute and the criminal justice system,

00:44:12.420 including courts, law enforcement, and the Colorado Sex Offender Registry. The name SOMB itself

00:44:18.120 will also remain unchanged. Okay, so they're still going to call it the Sex Offender Management Board,

00:44:21.820 but they're not going to use that term anymore other than in the law and in the name of their

00:44:26.640 organization. Why are they doing it? Well, Kimberly Klein, a licensed counselor and the chairman of the

00:44:31.820 board, says, quote, I think the biggest thing is research really shows us that assigning a label

00:44:38.440 has the potential for negative effects in rehabilitation. I think that's probably true to some degree.

00:44:46.300 I think it's probably true. If you think of yourself, if you ground your identity in being

00:44:51.020 a sex offender, then it's probably going to be harder to overcome that identity.

00:44:56.000 Just like if you ground your identity in being a drug addict, it's going to be harder to overcome

00:45:00.920 that identity. Just like if you ground your identity in being a transgender, cis, whatever,

00:45:07.740 you know, I don't know, all of these various sexual things, then it's hard for you to think

00:45:11.520 outside of that box. You put yourself in a box and you can't get outside of it, which is why

00:45:16.620 nations that are Christian, nations that find their identity in God who is transcendent being

00:45:25.720 himself, right? When Moses asks God, who shall I tell them you are? God says, I am that I am. I am

00:45:31.720 being. If you find your identity in the I am, then that's going to open up a lot of opportunity to

00:45:37.700 you and free you. And if you don't do that, if you turn away from God, you're going to be left

00:45:42.580 with this pitiful question, who am I? This is why teenagers in particular try on all sorts of silly

00:45:47.440 identities. And then they get locked in those identities for a while and then they're ultimately

00:45:50.840 unsatisfying, so they discard them. So I actually grant the point that the sex offender board is

00:45:56.360 making. And it comes, it actually, we were talking about this yesterday, it actually comes from a

00:46:03.520 place of sort of Christian charity, right? It comes from this concern for all sorts of victims,

00:46:10.900 even people who are victims of vice and sin, who are committing crimes themselves, even they are sort

00:46:15.080 of victims of this. But it does so to the point of absurdity, right? It tries to out-Christian the

00:46:22.280 Christians. It tries to turn everyone into a victim and the perpetrators are the greatest victims of

00:46:27.820 all, according to this ideology. It tries to help people by denying reality. But denying reality does

00:46:38.280 not help anybody. It doesn't. You need to grapple with the fact that if you're a sex offender, you have

00:46:46.680 committed sexual offenses. You've got to grapple with that. You need a sense of sin. You can only

00:46:52.040 get back into communion with God after you've gone through confession, after you've dealt with that

00:46:56.760 sin and that crime yourself. You can only come back having paid your debt to society after you

00:47:03.340 pay that debt, after you go through the criminal justice system. And if we try to skip that part,

00:47:09.560 if we just let violent criminals off the hook and they pay a $500 bail and they're out,

00:47:15.260 you're not going to have that flourishing, wonderful, safe society. You're going to get more mayhem and more

00:47:20.160 death and destruction and more crime. Speaking of sex offenders, I've got to cover this story. This

00:47:28.260 is very, very important. The New York Times has a new report out on how Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein,

00:47:34.960 spent his final days in prison. So this is after a long time. The New York Times has new documents

00:47:41.720 from the FBI. FBI often will leak to the New York Times. And here it's unclear if the documents were

00:47:48.080 already available, but the New York Times is reporting on them. So how did Jeffrey Epstein

00:47:52.260 end his final days in prison? I assume, and I didn't really need a New York Times report for

00:47:56.340 this, that it was pleading with Hillary Clinton for his life. It was, please, Hillary, please don't do

00:48:01.840 it. Put it down. Please, Hillary, put the noose and the gun down, please. But no, no, it turned out

00:48:08.760 that he was saying he had no plans of suicide and he was living a wonderful life. And who knows,

00:48:11.840 he's a pathological liar and a narcissist. But very few people believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed

00:48:18.000 himself. Very few people have faith in our institutions anymore as they crumble. We can't

00:48:22.660 even agree on basic aspects of American history and American public life, even to like our own

00:48:27.180 country. We're going to have to deal with that problem before we deal with the political issues

00:48:33.920 that come downstream of that. And one way to start dealing with that problem is to have a good

00:48:37.400 Thanksgiving. Give thanks to God for the blessings. Love your country. Maybe pour one out for the

00:48:42.960 pilgrims, you know, the guys who gave you this country. And enjoy your families. I'm Michael

00:48:46.740 Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I will see you tomorrow.

00:48:55.180 If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the

00:48:59.740 word, please give us a five-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple

00:49:05.240 Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Also, be sure to check out the other

00:49:10.800 Daily Wire podcasts, including The Ben Shapiro Show, The Andrew Klavan Show, and The Matt Walsh

00:49:15.700 Show. The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies, executive producer Jeremy Boring. Our

00:49:20.940 technical director is Austin Stevens, supervising producer Mathis Glover, production manager Pavel

00:49:26.660 Vidovsky, editor and associate producer Danny D'Amico, associate producer Justine Turley, audio mixer

00:49:33.320 Mike Coromina, and hair and makeup by Cherokee Heart. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire

00:49:38.320 production, copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:49:41.620 John Bickley here, Daily Wire editor-in-chief. Wake up every morning with our new show, Morning

00:49:47.080 Wire. On today's episode, the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is set to begin, the U.S. suffers a record

00:49:53.160 number of overdose deaths, and protests break out in Europe over COVID restrictions. Join us and get

00:49:59.160 the facts first on the news you need to know with our show, Morning Wire.

Ep. 893 - Joe Biden's Tofu Thanksgiving

Summary

Transcript