The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 It has now been just about three weeks since the news media began breathlessly fear-mongering

00:00:05.320 about the new Omicron variant. It was spreading like wildfire, we were told.

00:00:12.400 We needed to mask up again, we were told. We might need to lock down. So now the data are in.

00:00:18.840 So far, according to the CDC, there have been 43 cases of Omicron detected in the United States.

00:00:28.120 Not 43,000, not 4,300, not 430, 43. Of those 43 people who came down with the Cron,

00:00:39.620 34 of them, almost 80%, had taken the full regimen of Fauci ouchies. They were fully vaccinated and

00:00:49.680 they got it anyway. Of those 34, 14 of them, 41%, had received a booster shot.

00:00:57.180 They were more than fully vaccinated. They had taken extra Fauci ouchies of the whole crew.

00:01:04.720 Just one person was hospitalized and that was for a very short period of time.

00:01:10.480 Not a single person has died. This is wonderful news to everyone except for the sociopaths who

00:01:20.840 want to keep us all locked down. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:34.300 The Omicron is not apparently as scary as we were told that it's going to be. Isn't that good?

00:03:41.560 In a normal country, in normal times, that would be considered a good thing. Oh, it's more mild.

00:03:48.160 Oh, it's not killing or hospitalizing or, oh, that many people. That's great. Wonderful. No,

00:03:55.600 not wonderful, according to the public health officials and the fear mongers, because

00:04:00.780 the real threat posed by Omicron for them is that they won't be able to hold onto their power. So

00:04:06.780 they're gripping on as tightly as they possibly can. Right now in Portland, Oregon, children are

00:04:12.720 being forced to eat lunch outside. I don't know if you're very familiar with Portland, Oregon,

00:04:17.520 but it's a little chilly there. Some day it can get a little cold.

00:04:23.060 Kindergarteners, this story came out last week. Kindergarteners are forced to eat lunch outside,

00:04:27.600 separated on these little buckets so that they can social distance in 40 degree weather,

00:04:33.360 maybe a little bit colder at the Capitol Hill elementary school there. And that way they won't

00:04:38.920 be near their friends. They can't huddle for warmth and they're going to sit outside. So they're not

00:04:42.820 going to catch the woo flu. They might catch pneumonia, which is going to be a lot more dangerous

00:04:47.000 for the kids, but at least they'll be able to avoid the Omicron, which has not seriously affected

00:04:54.240 anybody in the United States. Does that make sense to you? No, it doesn't make much sense to me either.

00:05:00.420 Seems ignorant, seems like child abuse, but it seems like it's not letting up anytime soon.

00:05:08.680 Dr. Fauci, the most powerful politician in the country, was just asked on ABC News

00:05:14.340 when he thought the two weeks to slow the spread were going to come to an end, when he thought,

00:05:20.520 okay, people are fully vaccinated. When can we go back to normal? And he said, well, not everyone

00:05:27.180 has had their booster shot yet. I think if you look at the data, the more and more it becomes clear

00:05:32.580 that if you want to be optimally protected, you really should get a booster. And I think we'll

00:05:37.100 be continuing to evaluate what the official designation is. But for now, if you want to be

00:05:42.620 optimally protected, absolutely get a booster if you've already had your primary vaccination.

00:05:47.580 And projecting forward, should we be expecting yearly boosters?

00:05:51.400 If it becomes necessary to get yet another boost, then we'll just have to deal with it

00:05:56.940 when that occurs. But I'm hoping from an immunological standpoint that that third shot

00:06:02.420 of an mRNA and the second shot of a J&J will give a much greater durability of protection

00:06:08.100 than just the six months or so that we're seeing right now.

00:06:11.580 Well, we're just going to have to wait and see, George. I guess you're going to have to

00:06:16.720 have me back on your television program next year and ask me for permission to go back to

00:06:23.720 your life or ask me if you need another shot in the arm and then I'll decide then. Because

00:06:29.800 I am the great and exalted Dr. Fauci. All will bow down before me, George. Thank you. Back

00:06:37.740 to you, George. We're already on the fourth shot. Now, we're not on the fourth shot right

00:06:43.640 now, but there are countries around the world that are. Israel is openly contemplating among

00:06:48.640 the Israeli health agencies requiring a fourth shot of the mRNA to be considered fully vaccinated.

00:06:55.960 That's already happening. And this guy's playing dumb. He's playing dumb and he's playing coy. He's

00:07:03.020 saying, I don't know. We'll see. Just the most important thing is to ask me and then I'll give

00:07:08.500 you permission or I won't. Or I won't. Obviously, the man has no credibility. The public health

00:07:17.180 apparatus has no credibility anymore because they have not only gotten things wrong, but they've

00:07:22.160 also lied to us. And that guy's lied to us and he's lied to us from the very beginning. He lied to us

00:07:27.620 on the masks and he admitted that he lied to us on the masks. He misrepresented not only the science

00:07:33.600 or something. He misrepresented his own views about the science. And he said he told people not to wear

00:07:38.100 the masks because he wanted to save them for his friends in public health. So no credibility

00:07:43.620 whatsoever. And he doesn't even need the credibility because he's not giving us a timetable. It used to be,

00:07:52.180 no, two more weeks, no, one more month, no, three more months, no, just this shot. And then you're,

00:07:55.680 but now he's saying, I don't know. I hope, yeah, I hope the extra shot is enough, but you know,

00:08:00.340 we'll see. Ask me then. They keep changing all the rules. That is a feature, not a bug of the COVID

00:08:08.640 regime, of the public health dictatorship that we're now living under. Because if there were clear rules

00:08:15.760 that were set, then they wouldn't have the power that they do. But if the rules are contingent upon

00:08:22.520 their own whims and caprices, then they do have all of the power. Elizabeth Warren seems to be

00:08:29.120 projecting a little bit when she's looking at this asymmetry of power between the left and the right.

00:08:34.480 Elizabeth Warren just went on Don Lemon's show. He's still on CNN for now. He hasn't been booted yet

00:08:40.960 like his buddy Fredo. So Elizabeth Warren was discussing a federal election takeover that the

00:08:49.260 Democrats are trying to push. And she said that the left has to do this because right now,

00:08:54.640 a small group of extremists are attempting to change the laws to hold onto their minority power.

00:09:02.120 I would have gotten rid of the filibuster overall years ago. But right now it's what's holding us up

00:09:08.760 on the voting rights bill. And we've got almost everybody on board to be able to either change

00:09:16.920 the filibuster overall or create an exception. But look, this is the most important thing we've

00:09:23.460 got to do. We have got to get voting rights passed through. We are now dealing with a major political

00:09:31.200 party that has decided that the only way they can win is by changing the laws to keep an extremist

00:09:38.360 minority in power regardless of what voters want. And so we've just got to pass this voting rights

00:09:47.420 bill. And we're all working on it. That was Senator Pott, ladies and gentlemen. That was Senator Pott

00:09:53.600 calling the kettle black. Senator, I'm sorry, calling the kettle a person of color. I'm sorry,

00:10:01.680 I don't want to be offensive. Elizabeth Warren saying that we need to change the laws to stop

00:10:11.460 a group of politicians from changing the laws to protect their power. And the reason that we got

00:10:18.320 to change the laws and the procedures in the Senate is to pass a federal election takeover that will

00:10:24.840 fundamentally change our constitutional order and give Democrats a permanent electoral advantage. And we

00:10:29.880 have to do that so that the Republicans don't do that or something. Seems like projection to me,

00:10:39.000 especially when you consider Elizabeth Warren's approval rating. Elizabeth Warren's approval rating

00:10:44.300 in the doldrums, as is Pete Buttigieg's, as is Kamala Harris's, as is the approval rating of the

00:10:52.760 congressional Democrats and the Senate Democrats and the president of the United States, Joe Biden.

00:10:57.180 They have very little support right now for a number of reasons. They're failing on every

00:11:03.720 single issue. I'm saying they're obviously literally, they're failing in terms of doing

00:11:08.460 their job, but the American people view them as failing as well, including on COVID. That was the

00:11:12.060 one issue that Biden was still above water on, at least for some period of time. He no longer is.

00:11:18.220 Obviously on the economy, he's completely in the doldrums. And so you've got a group of people

00:11:23.760 with minority support, a very small amount of public support, trying to change the rules and

00:11:30.300 hold onto their power and make that power permanent. But not only do the Democrats not

00:11:35.420 have majority support among the American people, according to public opinion polls, they don't even

00:11:39.840 have majority support among Democrats. There's a new poll out looking at 2024 that shows that only

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00:13:21.880 over one-third of, just a little over one-third of Democrats want Biden as the candidate on the 2024

00:13:27.500 presidential ticket. Another 16% of Democrats chose Kamala Harris. 16%, not great.

00:13:35.160 And 13% remain overall unsure. This is really, really rough for them. It would be one thing

00:13:44.920 if 37% of Democrats wanted Joe Biden and 45% of Democrats wanted Kamala Harris or 50%,

00:13:54.220 obviously 50% or greater wanted Kamala Harris. That would be much easier. Joe Biden could retire,

00:13:58.620 go quietly off into the sunset. He probably wouldn't even know that it was happening.

00:14:01.440 And then Kamala Harris could take over. She would appear to be the heir apparent.

00:14:06.140 But the problem for the heir apparent is that she's significantly less popular than Joe Biden.

00:14:11.840 Joe Biden's approval rating is somewhere around 38%. Kamala Harris's is somewhere around 27,

00:14:16.580 28%. So it's much, much worse. So they don't have it. So what are they going to have to do?

00:14:23.800 They're going to have to maintain a sense of crisis and emergency, both to scare people into not changing

00:14:35.820 horses in the middle of our great fight against COVID and Omicron. Goodness gracious, a 44th person

00:14:41.620 might come down with Omicron if we don't keep Joe Biden in power. But they'll also need to do that in

00:14:47.300 order to justify their cheating in all of the elections. This is not a conspiracy theory. You heard

00:14:51.660 Elizabeth Warren talking about it. She wants to pass federal legislation to give Congress and the

00:14:58.400 federal government now run by Democrats, the opportunity to control all of these local elections.

00:15:03.720 This would be a reordering of our constitutional system. They want to do that to make permanent

00:15:08.720 all of the shenanigans that you saw in 2020, where they reordered how the elections took place,

00:15:13.800 where they got rid of election day and turned it into election month, where they,

00:15:17.000 they just openly ignored prohibitions state by state against widespread mail-in ballots. That's

00:15:23.700 what you saw in Pennsylvania. They just ignored it. They just broke the law where they did not count

00:15:28.080 the ballots on election night, but it went on for days and days and weeks until finally the numbers

00:15:33.120 seemed to work for them. They want to make these kinds of things permanent. It's the only way they're

00:15:37.900 getting reelected. It's virtually impossible to come back from numbers like this. And what are you

00:15:46.920 going to do about it? What are you going to do? Well, one hopes that 2022 is a good year for Republicans

00:15:51.980 and we can gain a little political power and we won't be squishes. And they'll, they'll actually have

00:15:55.960 the courage to wield that political power looking into 2024. But as of now, the public health bureaucracy,

00:16:01.820 which is the necessary tool to maintain this sense of crisis and emergency and change all the election

00:16:08.280 rules, they are going full steam ahead. And you might need your shot and you might need your other

00:16:12.400 shot and you might need 50 more shots before 2024. Speaking of changing all the rules in a way that is

00:16:18.760 absurd and obviously unjust, this dude who's swimming on the UPenn women's swimming team continues to smash

00:16:29.040 all of the records and brag about it as well. This would be Will Thomas. He now goes by the name

00:16:36.720 Leah and he's just a hulking dude who keeps smashing women's records and all the girls on the team have

00:16:43.800 to pretend to be happy about it, even though a lot of them are now speaking with media outlets saying

00:16:48.100 this is clearly unfair and he's taking all of our trophies and he's taking all of our accolades and

00:16:53.840 scholarships and, and all the rest of it. So one teammate told Outkick that this fella, Will Thomas,

00:17:01.380 bragged after winning the 200 freestyle at the Akron Zippy Invitational. He said, quote,

00:17:07.720 that was so easy I was cruising. And after winning the 300 freestyle, he was, he was happy that he won,

00:17:14.820 but he was disappointed with his time. And he said, at least I'm still number one in the country

00:17:18.720 in front of his teammates. Ah, darn, I beat all of you girls, obviously, because I'm a dude, but

00:17:26.600 ah, gosh, I should have done a little better. Oh, well, at least I'm number one. Yeah, you're

00:17:31.880 number one in a category that you don't belong to. So how do we fix this?

00:17:38.760 Conservatives feel, and even some moderate liberals feel perfectly comfortable saying that this is wrong.

00:17:44.820 This is why so much of the cultural battle over weird sex issues is focused on women's sports right

00:17:51.160 now. Women's sports, something about which virtually no one actually cares, but we all have to pretend

00:17:56.040 that we, the most important justice issue in America is the UPenn women's swimming team. But it's

00:18:02.860 not, that's a symbol of a much deeper issue. And we're not going to fix this issue unless we fix

00:18:08.760 fundamental issues. And a lot of people are not going to want to do that. A lot of moderate liberals are

00:18:14.560 not going to want to do that, certainly. And even a lot of conservatives are not going to want to do

00:18:18.040 that. Because the fundamental issue is that men are not women, as we've said before, right? That's

00:18:24.820 fundamentally what's wrong. It's not just that men have more bone density and they've got bigger

00:18:29.900 muscles and so they can swim faster. No, the fundamental issue is that they're different.

00:18:35.700 But if men and women are different, then the transgender bathrooms 100% have to go because men

00:18:41.160 shouldn't go into the women's bathroom. And if men and women really are different,

00:18:45.460 and for instance, doctors take an oath to do no harm and to help care for the health of patients,

00:18:52.980 then the transgender surgery, it's got to go. Not just for kids, we all agree on that,

00:18:57.260 but for adults too. It's not helping them. They're not really women. That's not medical care. That's

00:19:02.720 harming them. That's mutilating them. That's indulging a lie and a fantasy. So that surgery,

00:19:08.420 it's got to go. It's got to be banned. You got to, you actually, you have to get rid of it.

00:19:13.640 Let's go a little further than that. The Bostock decision, that was a Supreme Court decision that

00:19:18.580 Neil Gorsuch squished on. He said that there is a constitutional civil rights law protection

00:19:23.020 for, for sexual identity, even if your sexual identity is different than your actual sex.

00:19:31.000 That's got to go. Let's go further than that. Obergefell, the decision that invented this new

00:19:36.500 definition of marriage. If men and women really are different, then the right that you have to get

00:19:44.160 married does not imply a right for two men or two women to have a union that they call marriage

00:19:50.720 because men and women are different. Now, are you comfortable with that? Maybe you're not.

00:19:55.040 I think I might be starting to lose some people now. I'm just telling you what we've got to do

00:19:59.380 to get rid of this insane UPenn dude swimming on the women's team. I'm just talking about the

00:20:04.260 fundamental issues, but maybe we start to feel a little uncomfortable. You have to overturn

00:20:10.100 gay marriage? Yeah, of course you do. If men and women really are different, then of course you do

00:20:13.860 because then there's the right for marriage, the right for a man and woman to get married

00:20:19.280 does not extend to men, to two men and to two women. Let's go even further than that.

00:20:26.080 Lawrence v. Texas. This was a law, this was a ruling rather, that found sodomy laws to be

00:20:32.400 unconstitutional. There were a lot of laws on the books that said that you can't have gay sexual

00:20:37.160 behavior. It's not about your identity or your desires, but it's about your behavior.

00:20:42.220 And conservatives, in that case, dissented. They said there's no right to this kind of sexual

00:20:48.360 behavior. The laws are basically never enforced and certainly haven't been enforced for a very,

00:20:54.740 very long time at all. And the laws might be stupid. They might be, in Scalia's words,

00:21:00.240 stupid but constitutional. But the point is there is no constitutional right to that kind of behavior

00:21:07.520 based on equal protection or any other reason because men and women are different. Are you

00:21:13.340 willing to overrule that decision? Now we've lost a lot of people. Now let's go back to the sexual

00:21:21.580 revolution in the 1960s. And we're not just talking about the transgender people and we're not just

00:21:27.840 talking about the homosexuals. We're talking about boys and girls just generally. Are you willing to

00:21:37.400 undo the sexual revolution that says that men and women react to sex in exactly the same way?

00:21:42.260 That men and women have the same desires for sex? That men and women face the same consequences for sex?

00:21:49.740 This is where the pro-abortion movement came from. It's because men and women are different. And so

00:21:53.960 they've got different consequences from sex. And so in order to pretend that men and women are exactly

00:21:57.820 the same, women have to be able to kill their kids. We've got to overrule Roe. I think a lot of us could

00:22:02.740 get on board with that. But we've also got to stop the fiction that men and women are exactly the same

00:22:08.080 in every way and there's nothing different about them. Are you willing to go that far? I don't know.

00:22:13.020 So the reason I take you on this little trip down memory lane and this little trip down

00:22:16.840 some legal thinking and philosophical thinking and anthropological thinking is because it's not so

00:22:24.920 easy to kick the dude off the women's swim team. The errors that have led to the point where a hulking

00:22:33.540 dude beats all the women in the swimming races and we're all supposed to applaud it. Those errors built

00:22:42.080 up over many, many decades. And they did so subtly and they did so probably with the best of intentions

00:22:49.300 and everyone just trying to be nice and trying to say, no, well, maybe let's just pretend this thing

00:22:54.320 about women or this thing about sex or this thing about desire. And then the conclusion of that doesn't

00:22:58.860 seem very compassionate at all. Certainly not to the women on the team. And it doesn't seem

00:23:04.600 real. It doesn't seem true. But does anyone including conservatives have the guts to actually

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00:25:51.680 Speaking of men winning awards, Time Magazine has just named the man of the year. I think now we're

00:26:03.380 supposed to call it person of the year because we're supposed to believe that men and women are

00:26:05.960 exactly the same. And so Time has named the person of the year for 2021. And that person

00:26:12.900 is Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, the richest person in the world, at least depending

00:26:21.920 on the day, you know, these things fluctuate a little bit, but he has been the richest person

00:26:26.260 in the world. Here is the editor of Time explaining their choice.

00:26:28.960 The person of the year is Elon Musk. He is reshaping life on earth and possibly life off

00:26:37.900 earth as well. And this is someone also who, in becoming the richest person in the history

00:26:43.820 of the world this year, really speaks to the moment we're in, to this very complex moment in

00:26:49.080 the world. Some people may look at Elon Musk and he's got foes too. I mean, he's a rich guy who's done

00:26:53.660 a lot, but there are a lot of detractors. Fans and foes, legions of them. He's, you look at Tesla

00:26:59.560 this year, his electric car company became the biggest car company in the world by far. Electric

00:27:05.460 vehicles now really in the mainstream, and that's his doing. SpaceX, his space company, is the global

00:27:10.980 commercial leader in space. NASA chose it to get astronauts back on the moon for the first time in

00:27:15.780 50 years. And as I said, we are in this kind of new gilded age where, like it or not, so much of our

00:27:22.320 lives, even in this moment of incredible inequality, are being shaped by these very wealthy tech leaders.

00:27:29.900 I'm always in the business of attacking Time Magazine and similar legacy institutions in the

00:27:36.540 media that are usually just completely full of it and have a terrible left-wing slant.

00:27:41.080 I think this was a good choice. I think this was a great choice. He is sort of the man of the year.

00:27:45.520 He has a great claim to it, Elon Musk. He is a singular individual. And the thing I like most

00:27:56.040 about him is that he doesn't get mired in nonsense. We are constantly mired in nonsense. If you want to

00:28:03.240 be involved in politics at all, and especially today, you've got to be mired in just a little

00:28:09.480 bit of nonsense and all the issues. Some of the issues matter a great deal, but some are just kind

00:28:13.640 of distractions. And Elon doesn't really seem to do that. Elon just does what he's going to do.

00:28:20.680 He's going to reinvent the electric car. Okay. And that's fine. And it doesn't matter if a

00:28:24.980 Republican's president or a Democrat, he's just going to do it. And then they're going to try to

00:28:28.980 tax him a lot and put a lot of burdens on him. Okay. He's just going to leave. He's going to go

00:28:33.120 to another state, but he's going to keep making his electric car. And he, you know, he wants to go

00:28:36.740 into outer space. He's going to do that too. And he's just going to do it. And we can all chit chat about

00:28:41.060 whatever nonsense, but he's just going to go ahead and do what he wants to do.

00:28:47.180 He's got his sights set a little bit further. And this is an important thing to keep in mind.

00:28:52.260 You know, ultimately we need to keep our sights set further than the physical world. We've got to

00:28:57.260 keep our sights set on things that are eternal. At least Elon Musk though is keeping his sights set

00:29:02.640 on things beyond the borders of the United States, beyond the atmosphere. He's keeping his sights set a

00:29:07.960 little bit further. Good lesson for all of us. I have nothing negative to say about this.

00:29:12.920 Just the first, it's the first news story in a very long time. I've had nothing negative to say.

00:29:17.280 So to balance that out, to balance out the man of the year, I've got to mention whatever,

00:29:22.980 whatever the opposite of that is, whatever the, the degendered person of the year, the

00:29:31.500 gelded person of the year. I'm talking about Prince Harry. Poor Prince Harry. This is a headline just

00:29:41.220 came out about Prince Harry. Prince Harry says quitting can be good for your mental health.

00:29:48.780 Prince Harry was addressing Fast Company. He had a Q&A with the magazine Fast Company. He's talking

00:29:56.580 about his, his work as the chief impact officer of the mental health company, Better Up. None of this,

00:30:05.920 none of this sounds real. None of this sounds like it actually does anything or a chief impact officer

00:30:10.220 of this, of a, what is a mental health company? Better Up. And Prince Harry decided that it is

00:30:19.860 sometimes really good for your mental health to quit. Why is this on Harry's mind? Because he quit.

00:30:26.320 His family. He decided to stop being a duke and a prince so that he could become some fake

00:30:34.400 millennial position at some dubious sounding startup. Prince Harry is the voice of our generation.

00:30:44.920 I'm sorry to say. He left something with honor and nobility, real nobility, royalty,

00:30:52.220 a job that was about duty and not about the self. He left all of that behind to chase celebrity

00:31:04.320 and fleeting kind of fashionableness and the applause of millennials and to focus entirely on himself.

00:31:20.720 The argument that the only somewhat plausible argument he gave for why he had to leave the

00:31:27.160 royal family is that he was getting too much attention and too much publicity and that was

00:31:31.200 harming his family. And what has he done? Since he left the royal family, he has sought out attention

00:31:35.520 and publicity as much as he possibly can, but not in the dignified way that the royals have to deal with

00:31:41.480 publicity. Even all the tabloids, their job is to remain dignified amid all of the tabloid

00:31:48.840 gossiping. And sometimes they're more successful at that than others. But Harry is now, he says,

00:31:54.900 I need my privacy. And he goes on every podcast in America. And then he goes and talks to every

00:31:58.200 magazine in America. And he focuses on his mental health and he focuses on how important it is to

00:32:03.000 quit. It's not, it's, you know, what's better than quitting? Not quitting, buddy. You know,

00:32:07.740 what's better than just focusing on yourself all the time? Focusing on other people. A man

00:32:13.240 wrapped up in himself makes a small package indeed.

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00:32:45.260 dailywire to ensure your title is still in your name. And it's, it's ironic. He might be sincere

00:32:51.020 about this. He might be sincerely wrong, but what Prince Harry seems to believe is that the more you

00:32:59.020 focus on yourself, the happier you'll be. And anyone who has ever pursued that path knows the

00:33:05.320 opposite is true. The more you focus on yourself, the crazier you get, the less happy you are.

00:33:09.880 The more you focus on others and duty and honor and virtues, the happier actually you will be.

00:33:17.660 And you do this not by shirking responsibility and only indulging your own desires and whims and

00:33:25.360 pleasures. It's the opposite. You do it by not quitting, by working, by working, not just for yourself,

00:33:31.140 but for others. Speaking of bad family decisions, Jussie Smollett has, the PR machine behind Jussie

00:33:41.660 Smollett has tried to defend their man in any way that they can. Jussie made the hoax claim,

00:33:50.220 the hate crime claim. Everyone jumped his defense. The whole thing completely fell apart. Now he's been

00:33:54.860 found guilty on five counts. He may see jail time. And so the PR machine is still working overdrive.

00:34:02.440 They're saying it's his family. Well, he grew up in this family environment. And you know what,

00:34:07.080 frankly, his family may have had a great deal of influence on how Jussie got to the point that he is

00:34:13.960 today. This was a New York Times article from about five years ago. So this was before the fake

00:34:18.440 attack, the Smollett family business, acting and activism. Here's what Jussie said.

00:34:25.960 My mom was in the movement. He's referring to the Black Panther movement, this radical

00:34:31.680 black nationalist militant movement. My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

00:34:38.180 And one of her first mentors was Julian Bond, Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the

00:34:43.640 civil rights leader. To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We've spent mother

00:34:48.420 with Angela. Angela Davis is a communist terrorist. So I do feel a little bad for Jussie because when

00:34:56.300 he was a kid, his mother had him hanging around with terrorists and communists and black nationalists,

00:35:04.940 crucially, whose views of the world were very different from reality. His parents filled his

00:35:14.060 head with the lies of commies and terrorists. I don't, and I'm not saying commies in the glib way

00:35:18.960 that we conservatives sometimes do where anyone to the left of us, we call it, I mean, actual communists

00:35:23.660 like Angela Davis. And growing up steeped in those lies, Jussie probably believed them.

00:35:31.200 And he probably believed that every time black men walked out onto the street, they were being hunted

00:35:35.840 down and chased. And he probably believed that he could never achieve anything because he was a black

00:35:40.500 man in America and perfectly oppressed by the white, evil white man. And he probably believed,

00:35:45.840 he probably believed that the South side of Chicago was MAGA country where white men in MAGA hats very

00:35:52.180 likely could walk up to him with a noose and try to attack him. So if he were going to perpetrate a

00:35:58.440 hoax to get attention, actually it wouldn't be so divorced from reality. Actually, it might be in

00:36:04.480 furtherance of the truth because while that specific instance was a lie, it gets to a greater

00:36:10.060 truth as we are always told by these liars and deceivers. I, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

00:36:17.580 The Marxists have this idea of the false consciousness. And this idea of the false

00:36:23.680 consciousness was developed not just by the early cultural Marxists about whom I write in my book,

00:36:28.160 Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available for Christmas, makes a fabulous present,

00:36:31.720 but also really developed by the second wave feminists who would have what I called wine and

00:36:38.000 cheese soirees, W-H-I-N-E. And they would invite these happy housewives to come over to their wine

00:36:43.960 and cheese parties at the New York radical women's groups and convince them that they were all terribly

00:36:48.940 oppressed and they were all really unhappy. So the women would go in happy and they'd walk out

00:36:53.020 miserable and they'd say, oh my gosh, I had no idea I was so oppressed, but now these lunatic feminists

00:36:59.120 have convinced me that I am. So I'm going to burn my bras and stop doing the dishes and divorce my

00:37:03.480 husband. And so I'm not really exaggerating. These things happened. Ironically, the people

00:37:12.200 laboring under a false consciousness who are not aware of their own mistakes and aware of their own

00:37:19.300 deceit and aware of the discrepancy between their views and reality, the people who are actually

00:37:25.220 laboring under a false consciousness are people like Jussie Smollett. And crucially, the people

00:37:32.540 who believed Jussie Smollett, they're the ones under a false consciousness. If you think that white

00:37:37.720 supremacists wearing MAGA hats, carrying nooses, who recognize some minor actor from some TV show that

00:37:45.220 I've never seen are going to yell out and try to lynch him in the middle of the night, you are divorced

00:37:52.220 divorced from reality. You are laboring under a false consciousness. You need to have your

00:37:57.700 consciousness raised by the conservatives to remind you a little bit of what reality is like.

00:38:06.840 The most ridiculous reaction from the Jussie Smollett incident came from the actress Ellen Page.

00:38:13.600 Now she's pretending to be a boy named Elliot Page. But back during the time of the Jussie Smollett thing,

00:38:18.640 she acknowledged that she's a woman named Ellen Page. And she went on Stephen Colbert's late night

00:38:23.400 show. And she blamed, I'm not joking, she blamed the Jussie Smollett attack, which is which was

00:38:30.580 totally real on Vice President Mike Pence. Sorry, I'm like, I'm like really fired up tonight.

00:38:39.460 This is how you have to be fired up. It feels impossible to not feel this way right now with

00:38:44.040 the president and the vice president, Mike Pence, who like wishes I couldn't be married. Let's just be

00:38:48.820 clear. The vice president of America wishes I didn't have the love with my wife. He wanted to

00:38:56.120 ban that in Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy. He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the

00:39:07.020 government of Indiana. And I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show Gaycation did this

00:39:11.400 in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie. I don't know him

00:39:15.700 personally. I sent all of my love. Connect the dots. This is what happens. If you are in a position of

00:39:26.320 power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble. You

00:39:33.460 spend your career trying to cause suffering. What do you think is going to happen? What do you think

00:39:39.300 is what I think happened is that white supremacists on the South side of Chicago tried to lynch Jussie

00:39:46.020 Smollett? I connected the dots, except from dot to dot to dot to dot. In Ellen Page's mind,

00:39:54.600 the dots were based on lies. That's the problem. She did connect the dots. She connected the dots

00:40:03.240 of her false premises, starting with the idea that America's this angry, evil, terrible place where

00:40:12.340 straight white men are just trying to kill everybody, and going all the way back to the

00:40:17.400 dot that men and women are exactly the same. She connected all of those dots, and she ended up at

00:40:22.900 the place where Jussie Smollett got attacked by white supremacists in Chicago. If you start wrong,

00:40:28.300 you're going to end up in a very, very, very wrong place. Connect the dots. I think we need to connect

00:40:36.120 the dots. Nothing that Ellen Page said is true about Mike Pence or about Jussie Smollett or about

00:40:42.860 anyone else. I don't want to speak for Mike Pence. I don't know Mike Pence. I'm not his spokesman,

00:40:48.920 but I suspect what Mike Pence would say about the accusation that he doesn't want her to get

00:40:55.160 married to her lady or whatever is that he has no opinion about her getting married to her lady

00:41:03.920 other than it is not possible for her to get married to her lady. No matter what the Supreme

00:41:09.600 Court said, no matter what Anthony Kennedy said, it's not possible because marriage involves sexual

00:41:15.800 difference. It does, and it's not like you hate gay guys or women. It's just because, it's just what

00:41:22.460 we were talking about earlier. Because men and women are different, it's not possible. And I'm

00:41:26.940 sorry, Ellen Page, that I can't change reality for you to make that possible. And I'm sorry that not

00:41:33.240 even Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court can change reality to make that possible for you.

00:41:38.240 And no one's saying that you can't have affection for this lady or vice versa. And no one's even

00:41:43.420 saying that you can't do whatever you, I don't know whatever you guys do, but you know,

00:41:45.820 no one is even saying that. We're just saying that the reality of marriage, and marriage is,

00:41:53.300 again, just, we're just talking about one institution, one natural institution, but there

00:41:57.180 are many others. The reality of these things cannot be made to bend to your misunderstanding

00:42:05.100 understanding, and your will, and your desires. It just can't happen. Okay? And so if, if you went

00:42:16.600 all the way back and you said, you know, actually, men and women actually are different. And Mike Pence

00:42:23.100 doesn't, it's not, he hates me. And it's not that this is an evil, tyrannical place, because the people

00:42:28.580 who want to acknowledge reality are, you know, they just, they're filled with bile and malevolence.

00:42:33.960 It's just that, you know, there is this thing as reality, and it's a fallen, broken world,

00:42:37.120 and we have all got to deal with that. If you connected all those dots, then you would look

00:42:41.600 at the incident that happened with Jussie Smollett, his fake attack, and you would just laugh about it,

00:42:46.660 like Dave Chappelle did. Like, remember, Dave Chappelle called it at the time. He was like,

00:42:50.840 this isn't real. This is not, uh, I don't think so. So do you remember, okay. Do you, you remember

00:42:58.040 that Dave Chappelle had this special come out around the time, and he referred to this French actor,

00:43:03.960 Jussie Smollett. Take a listen. Don't ever forget what happened to that French actor.

00:43:10.940 You know what I'm talking about? Juicy Smollett. He's a very French, very famous French actor.

00:43:16.940 Okay, so I have an unpopular admission to make, which is I never got why this line is all that

00:43:34.180 funny. I thought the bit was funny. I thought that Dave Chappelle talking about how Jussie,

00:43:40.320 obviously, that this wasn't real in Chicago, you know, come on, it's Chicago, guys, give me a break.

00:43:44.240 Like, I thought that whole thing was funny. But pronouncing his name in a French accent,

00:43:50.500 I've never understood why that is funny. I know that's an unpopular take. Everyone gets a big

00:43:53.880 kick out of it. At first, I thought the reason he was doing it was to distance himself from Jussie

00:43:58.500 Smollett in that, like, I, Dave Chappelle, I'm a black man, and Jussie Smollett is a black man,

00:44:03.940 but I'm embarrassed by what this black man has done. So I want to separate us as much as possible,

00:44:08.080 so I'm going to call him a French man. But then he refers to him as a black guy. So anyway,

00:44:11.140 that bit is just a little bit of a digression here. But the point that Dave made was absolutely

00:44:17.740 right. Because Dave Chappelle, more than many people in our culture, has at least some grasp

00:44:25.000 on reality. And so he knew, I don't think so. I don't think that that's really going to happen.

00:44:32.700 It's not hateful. It's not mean. It's not cruel. It's not Mike Pence walking around with electrodes

00:44:39.060 trying to just zap anybody that he doesn't like. It's not cruel to say, look, there are realities

00:44:44.420 here. And we just have to deal with that. And in a broken world, that's going to be difficult for us

00:44:49.500 sometimes. And there's going to be suffering. And that's just the way the world works, is that

00:44:53.020 there's suffering. And we need to take that suffering and have it be sanctifying and edifying

00:44:56.880 for us. Or we can have some dude beat all the chicks at the women's swim meets.

00:45:01.500 And much, much worse than that. Or we can have some dude walk into a women's bathroom in Loudoun

00:45:07.700 County and brutalize some girl. Or it can get worse and worse and worse and worse.

00:45:15.720 All in the name of a misguided compassion and a misunderstanding of the world.

00:45:19.620 Speaking of famous women, Kim Kardashian might be a lawyer. Kim Kardashian might become a lawyer.

00:45:27.340 Sort of a minor story, but I did want to touch on it. Kim Kardashian tweeted out,

00:45:34.000 O-M-F-G-G-G-G-G. I passed the baby bar exam. Looking in the mirror, I'm really proud of the

00:45:39.040 woman looking back today in the reflection. For anyone who doesn't know my law school journey,

00:45:42.460 this wasn't easy or handed to me. So the baby bar is for non-traditional students. It's a first

00:45:46.780 year law exam. She's failed it a bunch of times. So it does raise this question of who's going to

00:45:52.120 hire this woman as a lawyer? I don't know. Who would hire Kim Kardashian as a lawyer anyway? I'm not

00:45:55.340 quite sure, but good on her. Congratulations. That's great. She passed the bar. Good stuff.

00:46:00.520 The thing about this story though, that she should be careful of and we should all be careful of is

00:46:05.420 this whole, I looked in the mirror and I love that person I see. I love looking in the mirror. Oh yeah,

00:46:10.820 I love you, baby. I love you, me. I love me. I'm proud. I'm great. I'm awesome. And I've seen other

00:46:17.140 people, even non-famous people, posting this sort of stuff on the internet. It's not,

00:46:22.780 it's the Prince Harry problem. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. Indeed,

00:46:31.460 before we go big news out of UC Berkeley, the diversity, equity, and inclusion cult has changed

00:46:39.980 its initialism. You know, the libs love initialisms and acronyms rather. And so they always add the

00:46:50.760 LGB goes to LGBT, then LGBTQ, then LGBTQ, L-M-N-O-P, whatever. And so DEI is now D-E-I-B-J.

00:47:00.880 It's diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. Justice.

00:47:11.580 Justice is good. I like justice. It's one of the cardinal virtues. It's a moral quality or habit

00:47:18.060 which reflects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. In layman's

00:47:21.720 terms, it means just giving to people what they deserve. If you're going to have D-E-I-B-J, we need

00:47:26.960 a theory of justice. We need to be able to talk about what justice is, not just about what we want,

00:47:30.880 not just about what is socially constructed, but actual justice. What is it that people deserve?

00:47:35.780 What is this connection to reality? I love that they added that, Jay. I can't wait to talk about

00:47:40.260 justice because the libs version of justice right now seems to be the opposite of justice. So let's talk

00:47:44.980 about it. What is it? Is justice letting the dude beat all the chicks on the swim team? Is justice

00:47:50.000 upending our political order because of a virus that's infected 43 people so far in the last few

00:47:56.600 weeks? Is justice giving... What is... Tell me, baby. Let's talk about justice. We'll talk about it

00:48:01.380 tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you then.

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