The Michael Knowles Show - January 22, 2018


Ep. 91 - Lying, Shrieking Harpies： Women’s March 2018


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

185.87329

Word Count

7,977

Sentence Count

649

Misogynist Sentences

81

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

While the shrieking harpy harpies yelled about nothing downtown, I learned about how women actually are empowered. Michael Knowles shares his experience in pre-marriage counseling with his fianc Elisa and shares his thoughts on the Women s March.


Transcript

00:00:00.080 Once again this weekend, the women marched.
00:00:03.220 And once again, they had nothing to say.
00:00:05.840 We will dismantle the Women's March point by point.
00:00:08.380 Then, Ali Stuckey and Amber Athey joined the panel of deplorables
00:00:11.680 to discuss feminism, the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,
00:00:16.280 the pointless government shutdown,
00:00:18.080 how technology is leading to unhappiness,
00:00:20.900 and further evidence that Donald Trump is boosting the global economy.
00:00:24.080 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 So, by what I have to assume is divine providence,
00:00:36.900 I spent the Women's March in pre-Cana marriage counseling
00:00:40.360 with my fiancée, sweet little Elisa,
00:00:42.740 actually sitting next to a guy named Jesus.
00:00:45.320 I turned to my right, and there's a guy just named Jesus.
00:00:48.500 He pronounced it differently,
00:00:49.780 but sitting right there in pre-marriage counseling.
00:00:51.820 So, while the shrieking harpies yelled about nothing downtown,
00:00:54.280 I learned about how women actually are empowered,
00:00:57.560 and I just wanted to share a few takeaways,
00:00:58.880 because it was pretty good.
00:01:00.600 So, one, while feminism preaches about the equality of the sexes,
00:01:04.740 women's empowerment,
00:01:06.020 you'll notice it only values masculine traits,
00:01:09.560 you know, assertiveness, aggression, casual sex.
00:01:12.560 It leaves women, generally, unfulfilled and used.
00:01:16.240 So, you see this especially in the hookup culture.
00:01:18.240 So, in the hookup culture,
00:01:19.760 you know, women are encouraged to view sex
00:01:21.800 in exactly the same way that men view sex.
00:01:23.800 So, men, frequently, I don't want to tell any tales out of school,
00:01:28.280 men go out and they try to have sex.
00:01:30.700 And casual sex is much more common for men.
00:01:33.620 So, women are told, you have to do that.
00:01:35.280 You have to value that, too.
00:01:36.720 And if women don't value casual sex,
00:01:39.120 if they don't feel fulfilled from it,
00:01:40.240 they're told that something is wrong with them.
00:01:42.420 This obviously leads to men just doing whatever they please.
00:01:46.800 And it's very nice for men,
00:01:48.280 but it's an ironic effect of feminism.
00:01:51.160 And Christian marriage, on the other hand,
00:01:53.720 sacramental marriage, on the other hand,
00:01:55.760 is predicated on the equality of the sexes,
00:01:58.120 on the equal dignity of the sexes.
00:02:00.120 In the beginning, God created man,
00:02:01.540 both male and female, he created them.
00:02:03.840 Eve comes from Adam's rib.
00:02:05.700 And Adam says, bone of my bone,
00:02:07.580 you are flesh of my flesh.
00:02:09.180 And the rib here is important.
00:02:11.600 Because Eve doesn't come from Adam's skull,
00:02:14.460 from his head.
00:02:15.200 She's not above Adam.
00:02:16.300 She doesn't come from Adam's foot.
00:02:17.780 She isn't from his toe.
00:02:18.800 She's not below him.
00:02:19.920 She's from his rib.
00:02:20.960 She has equal dignity.
00:02:23.020 Men and women have equal dignity
00:02:24.340 from the very beginning.
00:02:26.780 And so, there you have a real equality of the sexes,
00:02:30.180 but a complementary equality.
00:02:32.140 So, in civil marriage,
00:02:33.220 in non-Christian marriage,
00:02:34.240 non-sacramental marriage,
00:02:35.700 civil marriage is a dissoluble contract
00:02:38.060 that either party can break.
00:02:39.640 So, when men get tired,
00:02:40.720 they can move on.
00:02:41.460 They can find a younger wife.
00:02:43.080 And they can leave women
00:02:44.080 who have become less sexually desirable,
00:02:46.440 often less professionally capable,
00:02:48.340 high and dry.
00:02:49.040 Usually leave them in custody of the children
00:02:50.680 that they need to feed.
00:02:52.580 Because sacramental marriage is an oath
00:02:54.660 taken before God that cannot be broken.
00:02:57.360 One phrase that was used is,
00:02:58.820 you shouldn't make a fool of God.
00:03:00.660 And as the spouses grow closer together,
00:03:03.680 they grow closer to God,
00:03:05.120 like an equilateral triangle.
00:03:07.260 So, as they move closer to God,
00:03:08.480 they move closer to one another.
00:03:10.640 At the pre-marriage counseling,
00:03:12.020 they didn't harp too much
00:03:12.900 on natural family planning,
00:03:14.280 commonly referred to as pull and pray,
00:03:15.900 which I sort of expected them to do.
00:03:18.240 I was expecting,
00:03:19.200 they'd say,
00:03:19.700 have kids immediately,
00:03:20.780 you have a gazillion kids right now.
00:03:22.200 But they did point out
00:03:23.320 that marriage,
00:03:24.200 which is from the beginning,
00:03:26.000 closed off to even the possibility
00:03:27.920 of procreation.
00:03:29.340 We don't want to have kids,
00:03:30.380 we just want to have a nice beach house
00:03:31.640 or something.
00:03:32.660 That isn't valid
00:03:33.840 in the eyes of the church.
00:03:35.500 We have to be open to life
00:03:36.960 and to giving life
00:03:37.780 and to giving love.
00:03:38.760 Not everyone's going to have kids,
00:03:40.080 not everyone can have kids,
00:03:41.540 but there's a sense
00:03:43.940 of viewing the marriage,
00:03:45.080 which is that it has to be open to life
00:03:47.300 that I think is widely,
00:03:49.620 throughout the culture,
00:03:50.340 is not the case in the United States,
00:03:52.820 especially after this sexual revolution.
00:03:55.860 But the church still views it that way,
00:03:57.540 and it's very affirming,
00:03:58.600 and it's very life-giving.
00:03:59.460 So as we were learning all of this,
00:04:01.100 sweet little Elisa and I,
00:04:02.400 across town in downtown L.A.,
00:04:04.800 the shrieking harpies were marching
00:04:06.280 to end life through abortion.
00:04:08.000 I guess, I guess.
00:04:09.040 Those were the most coherent signs.
00:04:11.400 Really, I don't think they had any idea
00:04:13.260 what they were protesting.
00:04:14.920 Fleckus Talks, friend of the show,
00:04:16.280 he went out there to check it out.
00:04:17.360 Here's what he saw.
00:04:18.800 Basically everything that he stands on
00:04:20.440 as a platform, to be honest.
00:04:22.600 What about you?
00:04:22.960 What do you disagree with Trump so far?
00:04:24.940 Well, I work for a tribe
00:04:26.140 for a lot of time,
00:04:27.480 so about five years.
00:04:28.660 So a lot of negativity towards the tribes.
00:04:32.320 I'm not down with that.
00:04:34.380 Also, you know, just the bulls**t.
00:04:38.220 What is the number one reason
00:04:39.480 that everyone's here?
00:04:40.380 Who am I here with?
00:04:47.200 Margaret.
00:04:48.180 Nat.
00:04:48.720 What brings you here today?
00:04:52.500 Everything.
00:04:55.100 They had nothing to say.
00:04:56.840 What are you here for?
00:04:58.100 I don't, ooh, I'm not sure.
00:05:00.660 Absolutely nothing to say.
00:05:02.620 The historian David McCulloch observed
00:05:05.080 that to write well is to think clearly,
00:05:07.740 which is why it's so hard.
00:05:09.080 But they can't write well.
00:05:10.220 They can't put a sentence together
00:05:12.300 because they don't know what they're there for.
00:05:14.260 They aren't thinking clearly.
00:05:16.060 They're seeing a lot of people out,
00:05:17.520 and they're marching,
00:05:18.520 and we know that we should be marching.
00:05:20.280 We should feel things.
00:05:21.380 What are you there for?
00:05:22.280 You know, just to empower,
00:05:24.600 and to come out,
00:05:26.060 and I have no idea.
00:05:27.440 It's just foggy, meaningless thinking.
00:05:30.180 This is incredible.
00:05:31.260 The New York Times listed the best quotes
00:05:33.600 from the most articulate women's marchers
00:05:36.340 that it could find.
00:05:37.520 Here is the creme de la creme
00:05:39.000 of the aimless, shrieking harpies.
00:05:40.840 The first quote they use.
00:05:42.460 One thing I hope for women in 2018,
00:05:44.760 I want us to prove that we can.
00:05:47.180 We are here.
00:05:48.600 We know we can do it now.
00:05:51.040 We are here to stay.
00:05:53.660 That was a 36-year-old woman
00:05:55.260 who said that named Lisa Paz.
00:05:56.820 The amazing thing with all of these quotes,
00:05:58.800 you'll see,
00:05:59.160 is you can't tell
00:06:00.680 which of them were said by 6-year-olds
00:06:02.320 and which of them were said by 36-year-olds.
00:06:05.100 But consider every single word
00:06:07.160 that was just said there.
00:06:08.160 We are here.
00:06:09.400 No one ever said you weren't here.
00:06:10.540 No one ever,
00:06:11.200 I promise you,
00:06:12.480 no one ever thought you weren't here.
00:06:14.520 We knew.
00:06:15.060 We know that the women are here.
00:06:16.120 They're more than half of the country.
00:06:17.940 That we can.
00:06:19.000 We know you.
00:06:19.400 You can do a lot of things.
00:06:20.480 No one,
00:06:20.840 they're reacting not only to problems
00:06:24.040 that don't exist,
00:06:25.280 or to quite,
00:06:26.160 no one ever said you're not here
00:06:27.320 or you can't do something or whatever.
00:06:29.600 They're not even making a point.
00:06:32.660 They're just saying words
00:06:34.060 that sound like they mean something.
00:06:36.200 But they don't really mean anything.
00:06:37.820 They're just words.
00:06:39.000 As Hamlet would say,
00:06:40.580 words,
00:06:41.080 words,
00:06:41.480 words,
00:06:41.900 mashed up together
00:06:43.400 that don't have any significance.
00:06:45.200 Another quote,
00:06:45.660 there is power in numbers.
00:06:48.320 We all have different reasons
00:06:49.680 for being here,
00:06:50.620 but we are all here
00:06:51.640 to educate ourselves
00:06:52.900 and empower each other.
00:06:55.100 It is an honor to be here.
00:06:56.800 That was a 19-year-old named Summer.
00:06:58.920 Now,
00:06:59.280 they don't actually have different reasons
00:07:01.340 at all for being here.
00:07:02.440 It's all the same thing,
00:07:03.820 and it's unreason.
00:07:05.000 There is no reason.
00:07:06.660 There are different ones,
00:07:07.640 though.
00:07:07.740 I'm here for this.
00:07:08.380 I'm here for that.
00:07:09.100 It's the same totally vague,
00:07:11.460 platitudinous nothing.
00:07:13.140 And that woman went on.
00:07:14.280 She said,
00:07:14.840 it felt like such an important moment
00:07:16.860 in history.
00:07:17.740 And that's the key here.
00:07:19.000 That's the key to this whole protest,
00:07:20.580 the whole women's march.
00:07:21.720 It isn't about anything.
00:07:23.600 It just seems like something important.
00:07:26.860 It has the look of a real protest movement,
00:07:29.760 like, say,
00:07:30.320 the civil rights movement
00:07:31.320 or John Brown's raids,
00:07:33.500 the abolition movement.
00:07:34.620 It looks like that,
00:07:36.240 but it isn't that.
00:07:37.580 They just want to seem like activists,
00:07:40.300 but they don't want anything
00:07:41.340 because they have everything.
00:07:42.920 Another quote,
00:07:43.480 I hope women keep coming together
00:07:45.540 for positive movements in 2018.
00:07:48.540 That was a 22-year-old
00:07:49.540 named Shamimi Branch.
00:07:51.020 I hope women keep coming together
00:07:52.620 for positive...
00:07:53.140 That doesn't mean anything.
00:07:54.100 Obviously, it doesn't mean anything.
00:07:55.300 But Shamimi, you'll note,
00:07:56.700 isn't even marching
00:07:57.680 for positive movements
00:07:58.820 or whatever that is.
00:08:00.200 She's there to get extra credit
00:08:01.880 for her gender studies class.
00:08:03.700 Her gender studies class
00:08:04.780 offered her credit
00:08:05.440 to go to this thing,
00:08:06.460 and then she's repeated
00:08:08.140 the platitudes she heard.
00:08:09.080 That means that this is being encouraged
00:08:11.460 by the culture,
00:08:12.520 by institutions.
00:08:14.060 This isn't countercultural.
00:08:15.460 It isn't subversive.
00:08:16.320 It's part of the cultural orthodoxy.
00:08:19.780 To oppose the Women's March
00:08:21.660 is to contravene
00:08:23.140 the orthodoxy of political correctness.
00:08:25.140 It could put your career in jeopardy.
00:08:27.060 This is real-life hashtag slacktivism
00:08:29.840 signifying nothing other
00:08:31.400 than one's unperformed virtue.
00:08:32.900 But it's in real life.
00:08:33.760 It's moved off of Twitter
00:08:34.640 into real life,
00:08:35.560 but it's just as empty.
00:08:36.880 It's just as vapid.
00:08:38.160 The next quote.
00:08:39.600 I believe that women are the key
00:08:41.140 to world peace and justice.
00:08:43.460 I'm hoping that all women
00:08:44.640 infuse their organizations
00:08:46.560 with the common good
00:08:48.220 because that's what we need
00:08:49.440 for our country.
00:08:50.420 Philip Blank, 88 years old,
00:08:51.940 have no idea what that means.
00:08:53.000 Next quote.
00:08:53.400 In 2018, we want girls
00:08:55.100 to stay strong
00:08:56.020 and be confident
00:08:57.120 in what they can do.
00:08:58.060 The more we stand together,
00:09:00.420 the more that we can do together.
00:09:02.760 Now, I know that sounds like
00:09:03.860 all of the other quotes
00:09:04.700 you just heard.
00:09:05.280 That was from an 11-year-old girl.
00:09:06.940 And that's fine.
00:09:07.760 If an 11-year-old girl
00:09:08.780 wants to say something
00:09:09.620 that doesn't really mean anything
00:09:11.060 and is just kind of muddy thinking,
00:09:12.920 that's fine.
00:09:13.460 That's what 11-year-olds do.
00:09:14.980 The trouble is
00:09:15.820 the 50-year-olds
00:09:16.920 are saying the same thing.
00:09:18.520 The 11-year-olds
00:09:19.600 are just as articulate
00:09:20.940 as the 50-year-olds.
00:09:22.560 What's the next quote?
00:09:23.800 I hope that women
00:09:25.100 fill up a whole lot of offices.
00:09:26.660 That's what it'll take
00:09:28.080 to turn this around.
00:09:29.220 We need to step up
00:09:30.160 to the plate
00:09:30.840 and do it.
00:09:32.760 That was less articulate
00:09:33.800 than any 11-year-old.
00:09:34.740 The 11-year-old
00:09:35.300 made much more sense.
00:09:36.680 That was Beverly May,
00:09:37.680 59 years old,
00:09:38.680 and she said,
00:09:39.820 it seems like every day
00:09:41.020 is an assault on my soul
00:09:42.540 with what comes out
00:09:43.700 in Washington.
00:09:44.760 The dismantling
00:09:45.840 of our democracy,
00:09:46.820 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:09:48.020 Doesn't she?
00:09:48.460 Can't point to anything
00:09:49.380 in particular, of course.
00:09:50.800 Just the feeling.
00:09:52.580 That's all the feels, man.
00:09:54.440 Next quote.
00:09:54.900 I hope for fair representation
00:09:56.540 and more women in government.
00:09:58.100 I think that's where
00:09:58.680 change will happen.
00:10:00.060 So you hear in all
00:10:00.660 of these quotes,
00:10:01.300 that was a 43-year-old
00:10:02.100 who said that,
00:10:02.940 just as meaningless
00:10:03.660 as the 11-year-old.
00:10:04.940 They're all about change.
00:10:07.320 So they're all saying,
00:10:07.960 we need change.
00:10:08.700 We need to change things.
00:10:09.980 What change?
00:10:11.260 What change do you want?
00:10:12.480 What are you hoping for?
00:10:14.260 There isn't any clear change.
00:10:16.340 We just had eight years
00:10:17.160 of Barack Obama,
00:10:18.260 the most left-wing administration
00:10:19.440 in modern American history.
00:10:21.120 We've elected your candidates
00:10:24.240 for years.
00:10:25.580 What change do you want?
00:10:26.540 Nothing.
00:10:26.880 Just perpetual change.
00:10:28.020 That's what we need.
00:10:28.760 Next quote.
00:10:29.200 I'm participating
00:10:29.880 because education
00:10:30.900 is the only cure for ignorance.
00:10:32.220 I believe women know compassion
00:10:33.440 and kindness and love
00:10:34.360 and empathy more than men.
00:10:36.160 That was a man.
00:10:37.420 That was a 26-year-old man
00:10:38.540 who said that.
00:10:39.400 Unfortunately,
00:10:40.000 these days,
00:10:40.440 education seems to be
00:10:41.400 the cause of ignorance
00:10:42.300 rather than the solution of it.
00:10:44.060 Next quote.
00:10:44.640 I want everyone
00:10:45.580 to become equal.
00:10:46.680 It's like we're living
00:10:47.540 in the 1920s,
00:10:48.760 and it is ridiculous.
00:10:50.660 We need freedom for all.
00:10:52.820 That was a 20-year-old,
00:10:53.740 Rebecca Logan.
00:10:54.340 She's right
00:10:54.860 because the stock market
00:10:56.160 is really high.
00:10:57.060 Our culture is really decadent.
00:10:58.380 That is true.
00:10:58.960 In a way,
00:10:59.440 it is a lot like the 1920s.
00:11:01.700 Unfortunately,
00:11:02.640 people here are not only
00:11:03.620 politically and philosophically ignorant,
00:11:05.500 they're historically ignorant as well.
00:11:07.200 There's this common perception
00:11:08.360 among the lightly educated,
00:11:10.380 the millennials,
00:11:11.380 that the past was uniformly
00:11:12.880 just those bad olden days
00:11:14.620 before the goodness of modernity.
00:11:16.780 And this is the heart
00:11:17.540 of the progressive vision
00:11:18.700 of the world.
00:11:19.380 You hear it throughout.
00:11:20.080 The change.
00:11:20.640 We need the change
00:11:21.360 and the this and the that.
00:11:22.400 The progressive vision
00:11:23.900 of the world
00:11:25.040 is that we're always getting better.
00:11:27.140 We're going toward progress,
00:11:28.360 and sometimes people
00:11:29.600 who are either stupid
00:11:30.680 or evil
00:11:31.960 try to stand in the way of progress.
00:11:33.740 Those people are conservatives.
00:11:35.000 But we know where progress is,
00:11:36.200 and that's why we have to be changing.
00:11:37.600 We can't be happy
00:11:38.420 with what we have.
00:11:39.080 We can't count our blessings
00:11:40.080 because we're not at utopia yet.
00:11:42.540 We're going to go back
00:11:43.240 to the Garden of Eden.
00:11:44.420 Darn it.
00:11:45.140 We have not been kicked out
00:11:46.520 of perfection.
00:11:47.140 Human nature is perfectible,
00:11:48.820 but of course,
00:11:49.960 that isn't true.
00:11:51.000 And they can't,
00:11:52.060 that's all they can say, right?
00:11:53.560 Because they can't articulate
00:11:55.120 quite what they want,
00:11:56.460 quite what is wrong.
00:11:57.300 There's just something.
00:11:58.520 Another woman said,
00:11:59.460 we're three generations,
00:12:00.700 my mother,
00:12:01.180 my daughter,
00:12:01.620 and me.
00:12:02.140 It's incumbent upon us
00:12:03.220 as women
00:12:03.720 to stand up
00:12:04.480 and represent.
00:12:05.500 Things are not going to change
00:12:06.640 if we don't become
00:12:07.300 the instruments of the change.
00:12:08.860 So you hear the change,
00:12:09.880 the change,
00:12:10.060 it's all just about change.
00:12:11.060 I was a 51-year-old
00:12:11.880 who said that.
00:12:12.720 But the standing
00:12:13.520 is important here too.
00:12:15.100 The standing,
00:12:16.040 Michael Oakeshott writes
00:12:17.460 in Rationalism and Politics
00:12:18.740 that the rationalist
00:12:20.080 is always standing.
00:12:21.600 He's just standing.
00:12:22.960 They can't do anything
00:12:24.120 because they're so far
00:12:26.400 in their own abstractions
00:12:27.540 that they don't realize
00:12:28.720 that real life takes place
00:12:30.180 in time and space
00:12:30.980 and with flesh.
00:12:31.740 So they just have to stand.
00:12:33.120 So she's standing for change,
00:12:34.860 whatever that means.
00:12:35.640 Next quote.
00:12:35.980 I'm marching because
00:12:37.000 I want women
00:12:37.700 to continue fighting
00:12:38.720 and for the conversation
00:12:40.140 to be more inclusive
00:12:41.060 of the transgender community.
00:12:43.520 That was Joe Uvales, 28,
00:12:46.300 whose stage name is Beatrix
00:12:47.600 and who is from Brownsville.
00:12:49.000 Joe is a man.
00:12:49.860 This is an irony
00:12:50.560 of the intersectionality stuff
00:12:52.120 is that now men
00:12:53.960 are choosing
00:12:55.280 to just call themselves women
00:12:56.700 and then they get to take over
00:12:57.860 the Women's March
00:12:58.540 and now there's no purpose
00:12:59.860 to the Women's March
00:13:00.520 because it's a man's march.
00:13:01.960 Next quote.
00:13:02.340 We need to stand up
00:13:03.080 not only for our choices
00:13:04.040 but for everyone else's choices.
00:13:05.540 Even if we disagree,
00:13:06.680 we have to accept each other
00:13:07.940 and respect each other
00:13:08.900 and meet in the middle.
00:13:10.240 Okay?
00:13:10.980 Next one said,
00:13:11.760 I chose this sign.
00:13:12.740 This is the last one.
00:13:13.500 I chose this sign
00:13:14.280 because the term
00:13:15.520 angry black woman
00:13:16.760 is so heavily stigmatized
00:13:18.140 and I want black women
00:13:19.440 in 2018 to know
00:13:20.480 they're allowed to feel
00:13:21.960 the widest amount
00:13:23.180 of human emotions
00:13:23.920 and that includes anger
00:13:25.020 because anger inspires
00:13:27.220 impactful change.
00:13:29.900 Anger inspires
00:13:31.180 impactful change.
00:13:33.020 The word impactful,
00:13:36.080 that isn't a real word
00:13:37.260 but people said,
00:13:38.500 this is,
00:13:38.880 it's like the quintessence
00:13:40.560 of meaningless sloganeering.
00:13:43.980 It was a word
00:13:44.460 that was invented
00:13:44.960 in the 1960s.
00:13:46.200 It doesn't mean anything
00:13:47.440 and that quote
00:13:50.340 really sums it all up.
00:13:51.220 It's just about feelings.
00:13:52.220 We need to feel things
00:13:53.400 and then the feeling
00:13:54.580 is going to vaguely
00:13:56.280 do something
00:13:57.280 but not really do anything.
00:13:59.420 It's impactful.
00:14:00.120 Click Hold did a parody
00:14:01.240 of this kind of slacktivism
00:14:02.340 a couple of years ago
00:14:03.240 but now the culture
00:14:04.200 has transcended parody.
00:14:05.720 Here's a clip
00:14:06.340 that could be an advertisement
00:14:07.540 for the Women's March.
00:14:09.540 I've always wanted
00:14:10.780 to be part of something
00:14:11.720 bigger than myself.
00:14:12.860 To make a difference.
00:14:13.940 You go through life
00:14:14.660 and you see all this injustice
00:14:15.940 but you never really
00:14:16.900 do anything about it.
00:14:18.180 You don't know how.
00:14:19.220 I have two little kids
00:14:20.260 so I'm always thinking
00:14:21.420 about their future.
00:14:22.620 Every solution begins
00:14:23.940 with just one person
00:14:25.260 stepping up
00:14:25.900 and taking responsibility.
00:14:27.540 That's why I'm taking
00:14:28.380 the pledge.
00:14:28.980 I'm taking the pledge
00:14:30.180 because I care about
00:14:30.960 my community.
00:14:31.860 For my kids.
00:14:32.760 My grandchildren.
00:14:33.920 For you.
00:14:34.480 For me.
00:14:34.980 For us.
00:14:35.660 For us, for them
00:14:36.800 and for me too.
00:14:38.620 Because I care about
00:14:39.620 the future
00:14:40.100 and not just my future
00:14:41.360 but the future of everyone.
00:14:42.800 Every single person.
00:14:44.060 My baby boys.
00:14:45.360 Taking a pledge
00:14:46.100 is about standing up
00:14:46.940 for what matters
00:14:47.620 and what's right.
00:14:48.460 It doesn't matter
00:14:49.040 if you're black, white,
00:14:50.680 Muslim, Christian, Jewish.
00:14:52.780 Anyone can take the pledge.
00:14:54.160 I got my brother
00:14:54.780 to take the pledge
00:14:55.660 and he got his friend
00:14:56.520 to do it.
00:14:56.960 I got everyone
00:14:58.280 in my school
00:14:59.140 to take the pledge.
00:15:00.220 You get her
00:15:00.720 to take the pledge
00:15:01.500 and she gets someone else
00:15:02.720 who gets someone else
00:15:03.680 and on and on and on.
00:15:05.020 And suddenly
00:15:05.740 we've got something
00:15:06.760 much bigger
00:15:07.420 than any one of us.
00:15:08.780 You take the pledge
00:15:09.800 and you're part
00:15:10.680 of a global movement
00:15:11.760 of people
00:15:12.220 who believe in change.
00:15:13.500 This is big.
00:15:15.060 I can feel it.
00:15:16.200 Can you feel it?
00:15:17.040 You go online
00:15:17.800 and you see
00:15:18.300 these little videos
00:15:19.220 of all around the world
00:15:20.820 people taking the pledge
00:15:22.480 and sharing it
00:15:23.260 with their friends
00:15:23.960 and it's inspiring.
00:15:25.900 My name is Zeewe
00:15:26.660 and I'm taking the pledge.
00:15:28.200 My name is Taku.
00:15:29.760 I promise.
00:15:31.020 I'm taking the pledge.
00:15:34.200 I'm taking the pledge.
00:15:35.300 We're taking the pledge.
00:15:37.160 It's easy to be cynical,
00:15:39.140 but I really do believe
00:15:40.280 it's possible
00:15:41.020 to change the world.
00:15:42.360 Wake up, people.
00:15:43.220 It's 2015.
00:15:44.900 We can freaking do this.
00:15:47.220 That could have been
00:15:48.580 the advertisement
00:15:49.460 for the Women's March.
00:15:50.920 Just meaningless.
00:15:52.180 Just nothing.
00:15:53.300 It doesn't get any better,
00:15:54.540 by the way,
00:15:54.920 on the Women's March website.
00:15:56.460 Here is the mission statement
00:15:57.920 from womensmarch.com.
00:16:00.860 The mission of Women's March
00:16:02.200 is to harness
00:16:02.880 the political power
00:16:03.920 of diverse women
00:16:04.780 in their communities
00:16:05.540 to create transformative
00:16:06.920 social change.
00:16:08.540 Women's March
00:16:09.280 is a women-led movement
00:16:10.520 providing intersectional education
00:16:12.580 on a diverse range of issues
00:16:14.300 and creating entry points
00:16:15.500 for new grassroots activists
00:16:17.420 and organizers
00:16:18.180 to engage
00:16:19.220 in their local communities
00:16:20.520 through trainings,
00:16:21.920 outreach programs,
00:16:22.800 and events.
00:16:23.620 Women's March
00:16:24.400 is committed
00:16:25.120 to dismantling
00:16:26.040 systems of oppression
00:16:27.500 through nonviolent resistance
00:16:29.460 and building
00:16:30.420 inclusive structures
00:16:32.140 guided by self-determination,
00:16:34.560 dignity,
00:16:35.020 and respect.
00:16:36.760 What?
00:16:37.280 What does any of that mean?
00:16:39.400 They get a bit more
00:16:40.180 specific later on,
00:16:41.180 but this just shows you
00:16:42.000 how out of touch they are.
00:16:43.640 The first principle
00:16:44.480 that they list
00:16:45.380 is ending violence.
00:16:46.480 They write,
00:16:47.560 Women deserve
00:16:48.040 to live full and healthy lives
00:16:49.740 free of all forms of violence
00:16:50.900 against our bodies.
00:16:52.320 Just to correct the record here,
00:16:54.300 women live significantly longer
00:16:55.640 than men on average.
00:16:56.860 By the end of the 20th century,
00:16:58.040 the U.S. male life expectancy
00:16:59.200 was 73.4 years
00:17:00.940 compared to 80.1 years
00:17:03.000 for women.
00:17:03.800 Unlike men,
00:17:04.740 when women register to vote,
00:17:06.340 they don't simultaneously
00:17:07.320 have to register
00:17:08.200 for the military draft.
00:17:09.860 Men are far more likely
00:17:10.860 to be the victims
00:17:11.460 of violent crime
00:17:12.280 than women.
00:17:13.280 76.8% of murder victims
00:17:15.380 are male.
00:17:16.280 Boys and men
00:17:16.800 are far more likely
00:17:18.260 than girls and women
00:17:19.120 to be victims of assault
00:17:20.380 and robbery as well.
00:17:22.000 Additionally,
00:17:22.620 according to the Gallup World Poll,
00:17:24.220 women report being happier
00:17:25.840 with their lives
00:17:26.700 than their male counterparts.
00:17:28.220 Womensmarch.com goes on
00:17:29.780 to the euphemistically titled
00:17:31.400 Reproductive Rights.
00:17:34.160 They say,
00:17:34.780 We believe in reproductive freedom.
00:17:37.500 We do not accept
00:17:38.180 any federal, state,
00:17:39.220 or local rollback cuts
00:17:40.480 or restrictions
00:17:41.420 on our ability
00:17:42.360 to access quality
00:17:43.520 reproductive health care services,
00:17:46.380 birth control,
00:17:47.060 HIV, AIDS prevention,
00:17:48.060 or medically accurate
00:17:48.860 sexuality education.
00:17:50.800 This means open access
00:17:52.520 to safe, legal, affordable abortion
00:17:54.080 and birth control
00:17:55.160 for all people.
00:17:55.980 So it's all,
00:17:56.460 it's just about abortion.
00:17:57.360 They put all that other stuff there,
00:17:58.660 but it's really about abortion.
00:17:59.900 And yet,
00:18:00.380 according to a 2016 Marist poll,
00:18:02.020 despite constant Democrat euphemisms
00:18:04.400 renaming abortion
00:18:05.660 as women's issues
00:18:07.020 or reproductive health,
00:18:09.320 nationally,
00:18:10.140 the vast majority of women,
00:18:11.860 77%,
00:18:13.000 support restricting abortion
00:18:14.980 to at most
00:18:15.940 the first trimester.
00:18:17.360 Far fewer,
00:18:18.520 just 71% of men,
00:18:20.160 support restrictions on abortion.
00:18:21.880 The women are clearer.
00:18:22.900 The majority of women,
00:18:23.740 59%,
00:18:24.500 say abortion is morally wrong.
00:18:26.460 52% of women
00:18:27.600 believe that abortion
00:18:28.700 should at most,
00:18:29.720 at most,
00:18:30.800 be permitted
00:18:31.380 in cases of rape,
00:18:32.640 incest,
00:18:33.060 or to save the life
00:18:33.760 of the mother.
00:18:35.400 But nevertheless,
00:18:36.420 according to the Women's March,
00:18:37.480 women want abortion
00:18:38.180 on demand
00:18:38.720 anytime,
00:18:39.360 anyplace.
00:18:39.840 It just isn't backed up
00:18:41.000 by reality.
00:18:42.120 On workers' rights,
00:18:42.960 womensmarch.com declares,
00:18:44.600 we believe in an economy
00:18:45.620 powered by transparency,
00:18:46.880 accountability,
00:18:47.460 security,
00:18:47.900 and equity.
00:18:48.780 All women should be
00:18:49.820 paid equitably.
00:18:51.520 And you hear this constantly,
00:18:53.260 this popular disinformation,
00:18:54.840 that there's a gender pay gap.
00:18:56.000 Women make 77 cents
00:18:58.000 on the dollar.
00:18:58.940 No equal pay
00:18:59.640 for equal work.
00:19:00.860 But that gender pay gap
00:19:02.480 disappears once you control
00:19:04.240 for factors like education,
00:19:06.320 time in the industry,
00:19:07.120 and hours worked.
00:19:08.320 Actually,
00:19:09.580 single,
00:19:10.800 childless women
00:19:11.720 in metropolitan areas,
00:19:13.500 they don't earn less
00:19:14.420 than their male counterparts.
00:19:15.420 They earn more
00:19:16.060 than their male counterparts
00:19:17.060 by 8% on average.
00:19:18.740 Nationally,
00:19:19.320 women also graduate
00:19:20.120 from college
00:19:20.660 at significantly higher rates
00:19:22.080 than men.
00:19:22.840 In 2015,
00:19:23.980 39% of women,
00:19:25.220 25 to 29,
00:19:26.580 had earned a bachelor's degree
00:19:27.680 compared to just
00:19:28.280 32% of men.
00:19:29.980 On Civil Rights,
00:19:30.980 womensmarch.com explains,
00:19:32.800 we believe civil rights
00:19:33.740 are our birthright,
00:19:34.860 including voting rights.
00:19:36.520 This is odd
00:19:37.200 to pick a fight
00:19:37.800 on voting rights
00:19:38.680 as according to
00:19:39.520 the Center for American
00:19:40.780 Women in Politics,
00:19:42.240 since 1980,
00:19:44.160 women have voted
00:19:44.900 at higher rates
00:19:45.900 in every single
00:19:47.220 presidential election
00:19:48.180 than men.
00:19:49.100 So by 2016,
00:19:50.540 that gap widened
00:19:51.480 to 63.3%
00:19:52.980 of women voting
00:19:54.240 compared to just
00:19:55.220 59.3% of men.
00:19:57.140 Additionally,
00:19:57.920 the number of female voters
00:19:59.280 has exceeded
00:20:00.280 the number of male voters
00:20:01.520 in every presidential election
00:20:03.420 since 1964.
00:20:04.940 Despite constituting
00:20:05.980 a majority
00:20:06.500 of the U.S. population,
00:20:08.120 50.8% to 49.2%,
00:20:10.260 women also benefit
00:20:11.520 from affirmative action policies
00:20:13.080 on campus
00:20:13.940 and in the workplace
00:20:14.640 that give them
00:20:15.660 a competitive advantage
00:20:16.620 over men.
00:20:17.560 There's a section
00:20:18.100 on disability rights.
00:20:19.380 womensmarch.com proclaims,
00:20:20.740 we believe that
00:20:21.520 all women's issues
00:20:22.460 are issues faced
00:20:23.720 by women with disabilities
00:20:25.300 and deaf women.
00:20:27.780 I guess that one's right.
00:20:28.820 I guess that's fair.
00:20:30.280 Deaf women are still women.
00:20:31.760 I don't know
00:20:32.260 what the point of that is,
00:20:33.060 but sure,
00:20:33.840 that's the one thing
00:20:34.800 that the Women's March
00:20:35.420 got right.
00:20:36.060 Deaf women are women.
00:20:37.280 On immigrant rights,
00:20:38.060 womensmarch.com insists,
00:20:40.100 rooted in the promise
00:20:41.260 of America's call
00:20:42.180 for huddled masses
00:20:43.080 yearning to breed three,
00:20:44.440 we believe in immigrant
00:20:45.660 and refugee rights
00:20:46.880 regardless of status
00:20:48.340 or country of origin.
00:20:49.180 We believe migration
00:20:50.300 is a human right
00:20:51.260 and that no human being
00:20:52.520 is illegal.
00:20:53.980 So putting aside
00:20:54.700 for a moment
00:20:55.220 the illogic
00:20:56.300 of a national policy
00:20:57.460 to do away
00:20:58.200 with national borders,
00:20:59.700 even on the numbers,
00:21:00.520 the Women's March
00:21:01.140 doesn't seem
00:21:01.800 to represent women.
00:21:03.620 Even among illegal aliens
00:21:05.120 brought to the United States
00:21:06.160 as children and teenagers,
00:21:07.820 even the Dreamers,
00:21:08.740 the most sympathetic
00:21:09.480 and relentlessly demagogued
00:21:11.240 group of illegal aliens,
00:21:12.660 a November survey
00:21:13.660 from Morning Consult
00:21:14.740 and Politico
00:21:15.400 shows that fewer
00:21:16.500 than 30% of Americans
00:21:18.140 support amnesty.
00:21:19.260 Even among Democrats,
00:21:20.760 support for granting amnesty
00:21:22.020 to the most sympathetic
00:21:23.560 group of illegal aliens
00:21:24.740 is just 44%.
00:21:26.260 Finally,
00:21:27.160 last segment
00:21:27.700 on environmental justice,
00:21:29.140 womensmarch.com observes,
00:21:30.560 we believe that every person
00:21:31.720 and every community
00:21:32.520 in our nation
00:21:33.600 has the right
00:21:34.340 to clean water,
00:21:35.140 clean air,
00:21:35.700 and access to
00:21:36.680 and enjoyment
00:21:37.540 of public lands.
00:21:39.000 Lucky for them,
00:21:40.520 federal law
00:21:41.120 has protected
00:21:41.720 all of those things
00:21:42.560 to say nothing
00:21:43.380 of state and local management
00:21:44.480 for at least
00:21:45.500 the past five decades.
00:21:48.220 The Women's March
00:21:48.980 is the most frivolous protest
00:21:51.080 in the history of the world.
00:21:53.000 To discuss,
00:21:53.760 we bring on two women
00:21:54.780 who are not frivolous,
00:21:56.440 Allie Stuckey
00:21:57.120 and Amber Athey.
00:21:58.300 But first,
00:21:58.880 before I can talk
00:21:59.620 to these brilliant
00:22:00.780 and beautiful women,
00:22:02.260 I've got to talk
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00:22:09.880 is complain
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00:22:11.400 they can't make more money,
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00:22:13.120 they can't start
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00:22:27.580 this isn't the first time
00:22:28.240 we've talked about Skillshare,
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00:24:29.280 Ladies,
00:24:30.100 thank you so much
00:24:30.700 for being here.
00:24:32.040 Happy Women's March.
00:24:33.880 Ali,
00:24:34.700 President Trump
00:24:35.780 tweeted on the morning
00:24:36.700 of the Women's March,
00:24:37.740 quote,
00:24:38.800 beautiful weather
00:24:39.520 all over our great country.
00:24:40.720 A perfect day
00:24:41.760 for all women to march.
00:24:43.240 Get out there now
00:24:44.180 to celebrate
00:24:45.000 the historic milestones
00:24:46.260 and unprecedented
00:24:46.920 economic success
00:24:47.920 and wealth creation
00:24:48.680 that has taken place
00:24:49.860 over the last 12 months.
00:24:51.640 Lowest female unemployment
00:24:53.040 in 18 years.
00:24:54.240 Is there anything
00:24:56.440 for women to be upset about
00:24:58.180 in America
00:24:59.060 in 2018?
00:25:00.460 I think that's exactly
00:25:02.180 what they were celebrating.
00:25:03.220 I saw so many clever signs
00:25:04.840 that celebrated
00:25:06.000 the surging economy
00:25:07.620 and the low women's
00:25:09.180 unemployment,
00:25:09.880 didn't you?
00:25:10.680 People were wearing
00:25:11.700 dollar bills,
00:25:12.580 not vagina costumes.
00:25:14.260 I think, obviously,
00:25:15.560 that would have been
00:25:16.240 a lot more apt.
00:25:17.400 Not only do women
00:25:18.440 not have anything
00:25:19.140 to complain about
00:25:19.900 in America in 2018,
00:25:21.220 but we really do have
00:25:22.320 so much to celebrate.
00:25:23.820 I just, I don't buy
00:25:24.780 this whole intersectional farce
00:25:27.340 that we are all split up
00:25:29.080 based on our unique oppression
00:25:31.000 and that we're not united
00:25:32.480 by anything good.
00:25:34.500 And that's why I think
00:25:35.300 feminism is cancer
00:25:36.420 not just to women,
00:25:37.360 but to the country in general.
00:25:38.780 Because women aren't allowed
00:25:40.320 to celebrate the same things
00:25:41.720 that benefit men.
00:25:42.880 We don't see economic success,
00:25:45.160 I guess,
00:25:45.560 as something that is special
00:25:46.620 to women,
00:25:47.080 but we have to break down
00:25:48.080 our oppression
00:25:48.620 to something that's specific
00:25:49.800 to our race,
00:25:51.360 to our gender,
00:25:52.840 to our socioeconomic backgrounds.
00:25:55.380 And what they're refusing
00:25:56.800 to see is the unity
00:25:58.200 that President Trump
00:25:59.040 has actually accomplished
00:26:00.280 through his policies.
00:26:02.500 The interesting thing is,
00:26:04.220 I was on HLN
00:26:05.360 and I was speaking
00:26:06.700 to a co-organizer last week
00:26:09.340 and I asked her,
00:26:10.740 which policies specifically
00:26:12.180 are you protesting?
00:26:13.680 And she said,
00:26:14.920 anti-choice,
00:26:15.920 the gender wage gap,
00:26:17.080 and criminal justice reform.
00:26:18.860 Well, the problem with that
00:26:19.660 is none of those things
00:26:20.460 are policies.
00:26:21.260 They're not policies.
00:26:22.080 I don't even know any policies
00:26:23.360 that President Trump
00:26:24.200 has put forth
00:26:24.920 that has been in opposition
00:26:26.480 to those things.
00:26:27.620 And this was a co-organizer
00:26:29.220 of the Women's March.
00:26:30.820 So they really,
00:26:31.960 they really do not know
00:26:33.540 what they are marching for against,
00:26:35.500 not in a tangible sense.
00:26:36.720 It's like what you said,
00:26:37.760 just completely frivolous
00:26:39.400 and nebulous,
00:26:40.240 this intangible sense
00:26:41.280 that they are dealing
00:26:42.580 with injustice.
00:26:43.520 It's my central theory
00:26:44.640 of the left,
00:26:45.160 which is that they want
00:26:46.140 the appearance of the thing,
00:26:47.420 the form of the thing,
00:26:48.220 but not the essence of it.
00:26:49.600 So they want to look
00:26:51.040 like those really cool marchers
00:26:53.080 back in the 1960s.
00:26:54.680 And didn't they look so cool?
00:26:55.820 So we're going to do that too.
00:26:57.020 What are you marching for?
00:26:57.880 What do we want?
00:26:58.500 I don't know.
00:26:59.180 When do you want it?
00:26:59.900 Whenever.
00:27:00.340 That's basically
00:27:01.040 what it's become.
00:27:02.180 Amber,
00:27:02.500 have we reached peak feminism?
00:27:04.620 Are women realizing
00:27:05.600 that feminism
00:27:06.160 is a pack of lies,
00:27:07.400 as Ali was describing,
00:27:09.160 that will just destroy their lives?
00:27:10.480 Or, sadly,
00:27:12.100 is Lena Dunham
00:27:12.760 the voice of a generation?
00:27:13.760 Well, here's the problem.
00:27:16.520 And I think you touched
00:27:17.220 on this in your opening segment,
00:27:18.520 which is the Women's March
00:27:19.580 does actually have a platform
00:27:21.120 on their website,
00:27:21.760 but the way that they market
00:27:22.980 the march is so reductionist
00:27:26.260 that people don't even realize
00:27:27.660 what they're actually marching for.
00:27:29.060 So there's like these pink hats
00:27:30.720 and there's nice signs
00:27:31.920 about how women are so powerful
00:27:33.340 and, you know, anti-Trump
00:27:35.300 and also, of course,
00:27:36.500 some very vulgar signs,
00:27:37.700 which stood in stark contrast
00:27:38.840 to the March for Life
00:27:39.660 the day prior.
00:27:40.800 But women just go out there
00:27:42.240 because they're told
00:27:42.940 if they don't that they're anti-woman,
00:27:44.560 that they're bad women.
00:27:45.880 And that's why you have men out there
00:27:47.300 who, of course,
00:27:47.880 are trying to support their wives
00:27:49.340 and their girlfriends
00:27:50.120 who have told them
00:27:51.720 that if they don't go
00:27:52.600 that they're complicit
00:27:54.060 with the patriarchy.
00:27:55.520 So it's all boiled down
00:27:56.960 to this pro-women march,
00:28:00.800 but no one can really define
00:28:02.480 what exactly that means.
00:28:04.280 So it's hard for me to say
00:28:05.500 that feminism
00:28:06.020 has reached a breaking point
00:28:07.140 just yet
00:28:07.740 when people don't realize
00:28:08.780 what exactly they're marching for
00:28:10.520 when they go out
00:28:11.180 for an organization like this,
00:28:12.820 which in reality
00:28:13.600 is just hard-left progressive policies.
00:28:16.640 But I will say
00:28:17.620 I was a little bit surprised
00:28:19.980 when L'Oreal had this model come in.
00:28:23.680 She was a hijab model.
00:28:25.100 She was actually modeling
00:28:26.600 for a hair campaign,
00:28:27.640 which is one of the silliest things
00:28:28.880 I ever heard
00:28:29.420 because obviously
00:28:30.480 you can't see her hair.
00:28:32.040 But we uncovered
00:28:33.120 some anti-Israel tweets
00:28:34.720 that she had made back in 2014.
00:28:36.920 I'm shocked.
00:28:37.340 She was pretty quickly removed
00:28:38.820 from being a spokesperson
00:28:41.040 for L'Oreal,
00:28:42.480 which was incredibly surprising to me
00:28:44.360 because you have these leaders
00:28:45.980 of the women's march
00:28:46.900 who are consistently
00:28:48.100 very anti-Israel and pro-Palestine.
00:28:50.560 And something you said in particular,
00:28:53.900 that is surprising.
00:28:54.880 I guess that's a sign of hope.
00:28:56.340 Something that in particular you said
00:28:58.400 that really sticks with me
00:28:59.360 is being complicit in the patriarchy.
00:29:01.380 That is the slogan of our show,
00:29:02.840 the Michael Knoll show,
00:29:03.880 complicit in the patriarchy.
00:29:05.340 So I've got to write that down.
00:29:07.020 That's a nice, good marketing material.
00:29:09.780 Ali, what do you think?
00:29:11.080 You're a Ute.
00:29:12.240 You're a conservative millennial.
00:29:14.160 You are very much involved
00:29:15.980 in the culture.
00:29:17.080 Is the culture turning
00:29:18.720 against feminism?
00:29:20.620 Or is that just wishful thinking?
00:29:22.340 Are we just stuck
00:29:22.960 in our own conservative bubbles?
00:29:25.620 Yeah, I think it's hard to say.
00:29:27.460 I think we're going to see
00:29:28.560 in the polls,
00:29:29.220 which is actually something
00:29:30.280 to their credit
00:29:31.240 that they did emphasize a lot.
00:29:32.720 Now we'll see if their emphasis
00:29:34.060 on actually going out to vote
00:29:35.420 will work during the midterms
00:29:37.260 and of course in 2020.
00:29:38.420 But I think that's where
00:29:39.180 we're going to see our answer to
00:29:40.500 is all of this marching,
00:29:42.060 this celebrity influence,
00:29:43.640 this crazy bias in the media
00:29:45.600 towards the Women's March
00:29:46.740 and towards intersectional feminism
00:29:48.360 and Linda Sarsour
00:29:49.280 and all of this crazy stuff.
00:29:50.820 Is that actually going to translate
00:29:52.560 into votes for the Democratic Party?
00:29:55.220 And I'm just not sure
00:29:56.220 because you read off
00:29:57.300 some of those stats
00:29:58.260 that really the majority
00:29:59.680 of Americans aren't represented
00:30:01.220 by these far left policies
00:30:02.760 that the Women's March
00:30:03.680 is pushing for.
00:30:04.980 So are people actually going
00:30:06.220 to be swayed by the vagina costume?
00:30:08.240 Are people going to be swayed
00:30:09.520 by the crude posters of,
00:30:12.440 well, I won't even go
00:30:13.940 into all of that.
00:30:14.820 I don't know.
00:30:15.660 It'll be interesting to see.
00:30:17.080 On the one hand,
00:30:18.440 on the one hand,
00:30:18.980 I do think that
00:30:19.820 the celebrity influence
00:30:20.900 kind of gives them
00:30:21.740 perhaps an upper hand.
00:30:23.200 On the other hand,
00:30:24.940 on the other hand,
00:30:25.580 I think that millennials
00:30:26.460 are,
00:30:27.300 we're not as impressed
00:30:29.520 with celebrity anymore
00:30:30.600 and we're kind of turned off
00:30:32.040 by it in a way.
00:30:33.360 So I think that actually,
00:30:35.040 that could also do them
00:30:36.560 a disservice.
00:30:38.280 So I know that's not
00:30:39.280 a clear answer.
00:30:40.140 What I think that we're going
00:30:40.980 to see is just how we vote
00:30:42.980 and if we vote
00:30:44.260 in the midterms.
00:30:46.400 It's hard for me to say
00:30:47.900 because, of course,
00:30:48.740 I'm denouncing it
00:30:50.720 and I'm not a feminist
00:30:51.760 and I didn't go march,
00:30:53.120 but that's me.
00:30:54.000 Is that going to be
00:30:54.660 the pitch for your new show
00:30:55.840 on CRTV?
00:30:57.000 Look, I'm not a feminist.
00:30:58.140 I'm a millennial.
00:30:59.020 I'm, is that,
00:30:59.700 how's the show going?
00:31:00.400 I didn't march.
00:31:00.780 The prep, show prep
00:31:01.640 and everything?
00:31:02.340 Tell us a little bit about it
00:31:03.340 before we head over
00:31:04.500 to DailyWater.com.
00:31:05.000 Well, I just came up
00:31:05.480 with my slogan
00:31:06.240 15 seconds ago,
00:31:07.500 so thank you so much.
00:31:08.960 So that part's done.
00:31:10.680 Yes, it will be launching
00:31:12.180 on the 29th,
00:31:13.040 which is next week.
00:31:14.500 I'll be going to DC
00:31:15.920 to meet all of my CRTV peeps
00:31:19.100 on the 30th
00:31:20.360 for the State of the Union.
00:31:21.420 We'll be doing a live show
00:31:22.580 all together on that night,
00:31:24.440 but all of my videos and stuff
00:31:25.920 will come out next week as well.
00:31:27.340 So thanks for asking.
00:31:29.160 Yeah, I look forward to it.
00:31:30.740 I obviously,
00:31:31.720 I had actually deleted CRTV
00:31:33.460 from my browser
00:31:35.020 or my computer
00:31:36.040 wouldn't even go to it
00:31:36.960 when it was just Crowder.
00:31:38.420 And then now that you're there,
00:31:39.840 roaming is going over there,
00:31:40.960 I guess maybe I'll have to consider.
00:31:42.160 It makes it,
00:31:42.660 it makes it worthwhile.
00:31:43.520 I guess, I guess so.
00:31:44.700 So we're going to talk
00:31:45.920 about the March for Life,
00:31:46.960 which is like the opposite
00:31:48.100 of the Women's March.
00:31:49.240 It's just, it has a point.
00:31:50.420 It's very life affirming.
00:31:51.400 It's this wonderful thing.
00:31:52.480 It actually coincides
00:31:54.680 and aligns with the opinions
00:31:56.280 of the vast majority
00:31:57.060 of American women.
00:31:58.060 But if you're just
00:31:59.180 on Facebook and YouTube,
00:32:00.300 I'm sorry, folks,
00:32:01.620 you got to go
00:32:01.960 to DailyWire.com to do it.
00:32:03.460 If you're already a member,
00:32:04.220 thank you.
00:32:04.820 You help keep the lights on.
00:32:06.020 You keep Covfefe in my cup.
00:32:07.580 It's really nice.
00:32:09.020 If you go to DailyWire.com
00:32:10.240 right now,
00:32:10.600 you will get me.
00:32:11.540 You get the Andrew Klavan show.
00:32:12.620 You get the Ben Shapiro show.
00:32:13.780 You'll get the conversation
00:32:14.920 and you can ask questions.
00:32:16.060 I think I'm up next.
00:32:17.200 So you can log in
00:32:18.380 and ask questions
00:32:19.140 in the mailbag
00:32:19.660 and you can ask questions
00:32:20.480 during the conversation.
00:32:21.520 You get no ads
00:32:22.020 on the website.
00:32:22.740 All right, enough of that.
00:32:23.740 Enough of that.
00:32:24.120 What do you really get?
00:32:25.140 You get this.
00:32:26.680 I want like a little pink hat
00:32:28.420 on top of the
00:32:29.060 Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:32:29.900 This is the day
00:32:31.940 to do it, folks.
00:32:33.180 The anniversary of Roe v. Wade
00:32:34.700 and yet the whole country
00:32:35.440 is turning pro-life.
00:32:37.040 We've got the women
00:32:38.000 shrieking.
00:32:39.120 Luckily,
00:32:39.940 I had my official
00:32:41.600 DailyWire earbuds in
00:32:42.880 so they didn't pop
00:32:43.820 my eardrums
00:32:44.880 over the weekend.
00:32:45.780 And I had my
00:32:46.500 Leftist Tears Tumblr
00:32:47.520 to collect all of their
00:32:48.780 salty, salty,
00:32:49.820 delicious,
00:32:50.300 and incoherent tears.
00:32:51.640 So go to
00:32:52.120 DailyWire.com right now.
00:32:53.700 You've got to get it.
00:32:54.360 We'll be right back.
00:32:54.980 The March for Life
00:33:06.200 took place last Friday.
00:33:07.660 Today is the anniversary
00:33:09.000 of Roe v. Wade,
00:33:10.280 which invented
00:33:11.200 some constitutional right
00:33:12.700 to abortion
00:33:13.240 that I don't ever
00:33:14.260 really remember
00:33:14.940 Alexander Hamilton
00:33:16.280 or James Madison
00:33:17.500 writing about,
00:33:18.140 but they found it
00:33:18.660 there somewhere.
00:33:19.560 Ali,
00:33:20.300 will we see an end
00:33:21.340 to legal abortion
00:33:22.200 in our lifetimes?
00:33:24.980 Oh, I don't know.
00:33:26.920 I don't know about that.
00:33:27.780 On the one hand,
00:33:28.700 a bad decision
00:33:29.380 is a bad decision.
00:33:30.420 And I think Roe v. Wade
00:33:31.420 was a horrible decision.
00:33:33.460 And I don't think
00:33:34.380 it was constitutional.
00:33:35.160 Like you said,
00:33:35.900 I think he completely
00:33:37.120 made up an inference
00:33:38.560 from the 14th Amendment
00:33:39.500 that had no founding
00:33:40.900 on what the founders
00:33:41.520 actually meant.
00:33:42.780 And so you kind of hope
00:33:44.460 that we'll go back
00:33:45.200 to our constitutional roots
00:33:46.640 and that a bad decision
00:33:48.580 will one day be reversed.
00:33:49.820 But it seems like
00:33:50.620 we're going away
00:33:51.260 from the Constitution
00:33:52.100 wholesale anyway.
00:33:53.540 So it's hard for me
00:33:54.320 to believe
00:33:54.820 that we will go back
00:33:55.860 on this decision.
00:33:58.720 But of course,
00:33:59.940 I mean,
00:34:00.400 that is my hope.
00:34:01.720 Even if it was just
00:34:03.740 a 20-week ban,
00:34:05.160 even if we just made headway
00:34:06.600 in that direction,
00:34:07.900 I would be happy.
00:34:08.780 And I think that might
00:34:09.540 be possible
00:34:10.120 because I think Trump
00:34:10.940 actually just made
00:34:11.800 some sort of announcement
00:34:13.240 to that end.
00:34:15.200 But I don't have confidence
00:34:18.220 that we will ban abortion
00:34:20.400 altogether in our lifetime.
00:34:21.920 No, sorry.
00:34:22.460 The pro-abortion left,
00:34:23.320 they always talk about
00:34:24.000 rape, incest,
00:34:24.740 life of the mother.
00:34:25.900 All three of those cases
00:34:27.840 of abortion constitute
00:34:29.340 less than 1% of annual abortions.
00:34:31.740 So that's fine.
00:34:32.360 You want an exception for that?
00:34:33.520 I could compromise on that
00:34:34.980 if I could get rid of 99%
00:34:36.320 of abortions tomorrow.
00:34:37.920 And ironically,
00:34:38.800 we were told Donald Trump
00:34:39.840 is this lifelong,
00:34:41.700 politically not quite clear,
00:34:43.940 sort of a Democrat
00:34:44.720 playboy from Queens.
00:34:46.320 He's perhaps the most
00:34:48.360 pro-life president
00:34:49.140 we've ever had.
00:34:50.020 He's the first U.S. president
00:34:51.680 to address the March for Life,
00:34:53.140 which itself is the longest
00:34:54.860 continuous protest
00:34:55.780 in American history.
00:34:56.940 He's been very good
00:34:57.640 on pro-life
00:34:58.220 and we can only hope
00:34:59.500 that he'll push
00:35:00.380 to just etch away
00:35:01.840 at the edges.
00:35:02.620 Maybe we can't overturn
00:35:03.620 Roe v. Wade tomorrow,
00:35:04.780 but we can push those bans
00:35:06.020 a little further back.
00:35:07.220 We can get more originalists
00:35:08.280 on the court
00:35:08.840 and we can work toward that
00:35:10.900 as the March for Life
00:35:11.940 has done for four decades.
00:35:13.780 Amber, compare and contrast
00:35:15.100 the March for Life
00:35:16.440 to the Women's March.
00:35:17.240 The former seemed to me
00:35:18.420 was life-affirming,
00:35:19.360 joyful, triumphant,
00:35:20.320 really nice.
00:35:21.180 The latter was miserable,
00:35:22.480 shrieking,
00:35:22.940 and laced with profanity.
00:35:24.120 As just a matter of marketing,
00:35:26.380 who on earth would want
00:35:27.440 to go to the Women's March?
00:35:28.720 What kind of people
00:35:29.740 is it attracting
00:35:30.700 and turning off?
00:35:33.080 Yeah, well, I mean,
00:35:34.020 you pretty much just summed it up.
00:35:35.460 The March for Life
00:35:36.160 was a really happy.
00:35:36.560 No, was that a loaded question?
00:35:37.620 I don't know about that.
00:35:39.880 It was a really happy,
00:35:41.160 like, fun time.
00:35:42.320 Obviously, people had
00:35:43.040 really nice signs.
00:35:44.020 No one was screaming
00:35:44.700 at each other.
00:35:45.280 And then you go
00:35:46.360 to the Women's March
00:35:47.180 and you have women
00:35:48.140 who simultaneously claim
00:35:49.360 that Trump is debasing
00:35:50.380 the office of the president
00:35:51.500 while holding up signs
00:35:52.700 with curse words
00:35:53.440 and vaginas drawn on them.
00:35:54.940 So it's kind of unreal.
00:35:56.460 And actually,
00:35:57.160 the point was demonstrated
00:35:58.420 pretty clearly to me last year.
00:36:00.200 I went to both last year.
00:36:01.380 I didn't make it this year.
00:36:02.740 But I was riding on the Metro
00:36:04.660 on the way to the Women's March
00:36:06.160 to cover it.
00:36:07.220 I was working at Campus Reform
00:36:08.480 at the time.
00:36:09.460 And I actually ended up
00:36:10.900 getting berated
00:36:11.680 by a random man
00:36:12.860 on the Metro
00:36:13.600 when he found out
00:36:14.740 that I was a conservative
00:36:15.860 pro-life woman.
00:36:17.360 And to the credit
00:36:18.700 of the women around him,
00:36:19.840 they were very shocked
00:36:20.900 at the way that he was,
00:36:22.400 you know,
00:36:23.240 talking to a woman.
00:36:24.380 It was very much
00:36:25.180 what one might call
00:36:26.340 mansplaining.
00:36:27.720 But just,
00:36:28.700 I've never seen
00:36:29.860 something like that
00:36:30.500 at March for Life.
00:36:31.220 I've never seen,
00:36:32.200 you know,
00:36:33.280 pro-life people
00:36:33.920 offer anything
00:36:34.820 but love and acceptance.
00:36:36.440 And, you know,
00:36:37.340 they're never judgmental
00:36:38.480 about women
00:36:38.980 who choose to get abortions.
00:36:40.120 They're always talking
00:36:41.560 about the message of love
00:36:42.760 and how, you know,
00:36:44.100 women are best served
00:36:45.580 by accepting them
00:36:46.840 and loving them
00:36:47.480 despite whatever mistakes
00:36:49.160 that they've made.
00:36:50.620 And the Women's March
00:36:51.360 is just all,
00:36:52.620 it's about, you know,
00:36:53.780 there are certain women
00:36:54.640 that are wrong
00:36:55.360 that have internalized misogyny
00:36:57.080 that need to be reeducated.
00:36:59.160 And you saw this
00:37:00.060 with Cicille Richards
00:37:01.240 calling out specifically
00:37:02.440 white women
00:37:03.220 who are at the march
00:37:04.660 and how they need
00:37:05.740 to do more work
00:37:06.580 before they are truly feminist.
00:37:08.120 And just for the viewers
00:37:09.760 who aren't familiar
00:37:10.760 with Cicille Richards,
00:37:11.980 she is the maniacal ghoul
00:37:14.820 who kills 300,000 babies a year
00:37:16.660 as the head of Planned Parenthood.
00:37:18.060 So if you answer who,
00:37:18.860 that's who's...
00:37:19.260 It makes hundreds
00:37:19.480 of thousands of dollars.
00:37:20.900 Makes hundreds
00:37:21.380 of thousands of dollars.
00:37:22.320 Profits off of the sale
00:37:23.380 of their parts
00:37:24.620 and their organs
00:37:25.360 and their limbs.
00:37:26.200 That woman,
00:37:26.820 that's Cicille Richards.
00:37:28.140 Right.
00:37:28.800 And I think
00:37:29.520 in the Women's March,
00:37:30.600 in their quest
00:37:31.760 for intersectionality,
00:37:33.080 they end up actually
00:37:33.880 becoming much more divisive
00:37:35.240 than they originally intended
00:37:36.380 because someone's plight
00:37:38.040 is always worse
00:37:38.860 than someone else's plight.
00:37:40.140 So, yeah,
00:37:41.180 you're a black woman
00:37:41.960 so you must have it
00:37:42.780 harder than a white woman.
00:37:44.020 But, oh,
00:37:44.540 here's a transgender black woman
00:37:46.000 who's missing her left hand
00:37:47.200 and all of a sudden
00:37:47.900 you've lost the oppression.
00:37:49.040 The snake starts
00:37:49.740 eating its own tail.
00:37:50.880 And this is, too,
00:37:51.740 an aspect...
00:37:52.560 In the March for Life,
00:37:53.420 these people are protesting
00:37:54.500 the slaughter
00:37:55.280 of innocent babies.
00:37:56.800 They have a clear purpose,
00:37:58.120 they have a clear objective
00:37:58.960 and it's pretty serious.
00:38:00.480 But they're joyful about it
00:38:01.880 and it's because
00:38:02.680 they have a seriousness
00:38:03.280 of purpose
00:38:03.840 and they're really
00:38:04.260 doing something.
00:38:04.900 The Women's March
00:38:05.900 are griping about
00:38:06.620 absolutely nothing.
00:38:07.680 They cannot describe
00:38:08.980 what they're protesting
00:38:09.840 but they're shrieking vulgarities
00:38:11.620 because that's the only thing
00:38:12.720 bouncing around
00:38:13.400 their empty heads.
00:38:14.760 And very often
00:38:15.440 we see this
00:38:15.960 in political debate.
00:38:17.280 People who don't know
00:38:18.400 what they're talking about
00:38:19.200 or know what they're doing,
00:38:20.260 they get crazed
00:38:21.280 and hysterical
00:38:22.040 and the people
00:38:22.880 who do have a purpose
00:38:23.860 and a seriousness of purpose
00:38:25.100 are a bit joyful
00:38:26.240 because they're pointed
00:38:28.760 toward the good.
00:38:29.860 They're doing something
00:38:30.760 that has a purpose
00:38:32.200 and they're going
00:38:33.380 to achieve it
00:38:34.160 and not let
00:38:34.800 their own craziness
00:38:35.580 get in the way of that.
00:38:37.020 You know,
00:38:37.300 speaking of
00:38:38.440 totally purposeless things,
00:38:40.800 the government reopened again
00:38:41.960 and no,
00:38:43.320 we didn't give amnesty
00:38:44.140 to the illegal aliens
00:38:45.480 and we didn't give up
00:38:46.340 on the wall,
00:38:46.880 but Democrats
00:38:47.320 shut down the government
00:38:48.200 last week
00:38:48.820 and then they reopened it
00:38:50.080 today without gaining anything.
00:38:51.620 Ali,
00:38:51.840 what was the point
00:38:52.620 of this government shutdown?
00:38:53.600 The point of the government shutdown
00:38:57.300 was for Schumer
00:38:58.880 to flex the muscles
00:39:00.100 and for them to be able
00:39:01.820 to use the rhetoric
00:39:02.660 that Bernie Sanders
00:39:03.380 has already made
00:39:04.020 over the weekend
00:39:04.600 that I knew was going to happen,
00:39:06.760 they're going to continue
00:39:07.620 it through the midterms,
00:39:08.880 is they're going to say,
00:39:10.080 look,
00:39:10.360 the government shut down.
00:39:11.640 I told you that Republicans
00:39:12.840 were completely unable
00:39:14.540 to govern.
00:39:15.420 They haven't been able
00:39:16.280 to govern anything
00:39:17.080 since Trump took office.
00:39:18.840 They made you all these promises.
00:39:20.340 They haven't been able
00:39:20.940 to do it
00:39:21.380 and they shut down
00:39:21.900 the government
00:39:22.320 because they don't care
00:39:23.160 about illegal immigrants,
00:39:24.300 which we know
00:39:25.100 is totally not true at all.
00:39:27.840 Trump can't vote
00:39:28.480 in the Senate.
00:39:29.780 We know that's a lie,
00:39:31.460 but they are going
00:39:32.040 to continue that line
00:39:33.260 of rhetoric
00:39:33.660 until the midterms
00:39:34.560 to say that Republicans
00:39:35.820 cannot govern.
00:39:36.800 I think that was
00:39:37.340 the entire purpose of it.
00:39:38.440 I've always thought
00:39:39.280 that Democrats wanted
00:39:40.460 to shut down the government
00:39:41.580 so they can use
00:39:43.280 that messaging
00:39:43.880 going into the midterms.
00:39:45.100 I think that's what they'll do.
00:39:46.100 Yeah, I think you're right.
00:39:46.900 There's so much more
00:39:47.480 to talk about.
00:39:48.060 There's just one last bit.
00:39:49.640 We're going to have
00:39:49.960 to skip ahead a little
00:39:50.700 because we're running
00:39:51.240 late today.
00:39:52.260 The International Monetary Fund
00:39:53.840 announced today
00:39:55.180 that it expects
00:39:56.460 global economic growth
00:39:57.640 to exceed predictions
00:39:58.900 largely because
00:40:00.520 of Republican tax reform.
00:40:02.640 Amber,
00:40:03.020 the better things
00:40:03.740 seem to be going
00:40:04.480 the more hysterical
00:40:05.900 the left seems to get.
00:40:07.920 Why is that?
00:40:08.860 Why are they reacting
00:40:12.560 in exactly the opposite way
00:40:14.500 that you would suspect?
00:40:17.140 Well, it's really sad.
00:40:18.540 I think just in general,
00:40:19.600 liberals and Democrats
00:40:21.360 to some extent
00:40:22.140 are so anti-Trump
00:40:23.540 that they've put
00:40:24.820 the failure of President Trump
00:40:26.780 over the success
00:40:27.680 of the country.
00:40:28.460 They would rather see
00:40:30.020 President Trump's presidency
00:40:31.660 implode.
00:40:32.340 They'd rather see
00:40:32.920 the government shut down.
00:40:34.380 They'd rather see
00:40:35.300 Robert Mueller's investigation
00:40:37.560 prove Russian collusion
00:40:38.860 and impeach Trump
00:40:39.920 than they would for,
00:40:41.240 you know,
00:40:41.640 everyday Americans
00:40:42.460 to get a thousand dollar tax cut.
00:40:44.640 It's just pathetic.
00:40:45.800 And they've gotten
00:40:46.580 to this hysteria
00:40:47.700 to this point
00:40:48.620 that they're playing
00:40:50.080 such heavy partisan politics
00:40:51.780 that they can't be happy
00:40:53.300 for any successes
00:40:54.280 in this country
00:40:54.940 as long as Trump
00:40:55.900 is at the helm.
00:40:56.340 And even more than that,
00:40:57.620 obviously they're dedicated
00:40:58.580 to their political goals
00:40:59.660 and their agenda,
00:41:00.440 but they're so devoted
00:41:02.020 to their narrative
00:41:02.980 that when reality
00:41:04.460 contradicts their narrative
00:41:05.780 as it has,
00:41:07.100 they deny reality.
00:41:08.540 They deny their lion eyes
00:41:10.120 because the narrative
00:41:11.840 is more important.
00:41:12.580 So they predict
00:41:13.620 that the economy will tank
00:41:14.900 if Donald Trump is elected.
00:41:16.320 They predict
00:41:16.700 he'll become an authoritarian.
00:41:18.320 They predict that this,
00:41:19.600 that, and the other thing.
00:41:20.260 He'll clamp down
00:41:20.860 on rights for everybody.
00:41:21.960 None of that has happened.
00:41:22.760 The opposite has happened.
00:41:24.160 They say he'll be
00:41:25.080 a terribly obscure president.
00:41:27.020 They won't let the press
00:41:27.600 do anything.
00:41:28.180 It's the most transparent
00:41:28.940 administration
00:41:29.940 in modern presidential history.
00:41:32.160 And yet,
00:41:32.960 they have to believe
00:41:34.120 the narrative.
00:41:34.920 You see this on the left,
00:41:36.200 obviously,
00:41:36.700 and even among
00:41:37.540 anti-Trump Republicans.
00:41:39.240 They're so committed
00:41:40.220 to that narrative,
00:41:40.980 but it's very important
00:41:41.960 and the one thing
00:41:42.900 we know about politics
00:41:43.740 is you're never
00:41:44.300 going to get it right.
00:41:45.080 Especially the thing
00:41:45.760 we know about Donald Trump
00:41:46.700 is the guy is a complete
00:41:47.940 wild card.
00:41:49.300 And if you make
00:41:50.100 a prediction about him,
00:41:50.940 you're probably going
00:41:51.620 to be proven wrong.
00:41:52.980 So that,
00:41:53.860 the narrative aspect
00:41:54.920 of all of it,
00:41:55.740 the ideological aspect
00:41:57.020 of all of it
00:41:57.620 is really not helpful
00:41:58.900 to the ideologues.
00:42:00.240 It puts blinders on them
00:42:01.460 and I think they're missing
00:42:02.580 the reality
00:42:03.280 that's right in front of us.
00:42:05.020 But that's why
00:42:05.480 they got to stay tuned
00:42:06.500 and enjoy the covfefe.
00:42:07.740 If you just enjoy
00:42:08.780 the covfefe,
00:42:09.400 you're going to see
00:42:09.980 the world a lot more clearly.
00:42:11.060 Ladies, thank you
00:42:11.920 for being here.
00:42:12.400 That's all the time
00:42:12.900 we have.
00:42:13.600 Thank you.
00:42:14.080 Allie Stuckey,
00:42:14.900 her new show
00:42:15.420 is starting up soon.
00:42:16.680 I'm sure we'll talk
00:42:17.240 to her again
00:42:17.700 before that all starts.
00:42:18.980 And Amber Athey,
00:42:19.960 great to have them both.
00:42:20.940 That's our whole show today.
00:42:21.820 I'm Michael Knowles.
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