The Michael Knowles Show


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


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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00:22:13.120 they can't start
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00:22:27.580 this isn't the first time
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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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