The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 914 - Follow The Communists

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00:00:18.100 coronavirus outbreak colluding with Chinese communists on gain-of-function research to 0.98

00:00:23.980 make naturally occurring viruses more dangerous. Now, before you censor me, there's been a lot of

00:00:29.420 censorship. Even in yesterday's show, there was a little bit of censorship from some big tech

00:00:33.480 people. I just want you to know I am not merely stating my own hypothesis or opinion. Actually,

00:00:41.760 I'm just quoting Dr. Fauci, who made a Freudian slip and admitted to conspiring with the commies.

00:00:50.420 SARS-CoV-1 clearly originated in China, and we were fortunate to escape a major pandemic. So we

00:00:59.400 really had to learn a lot more about the viruses that were there, about whether or not people were

00:01:04.460 getting infected with bad viruses. So in a very minor collaboration as part of a subcontract of a

00:01:10.980 grant, we had a collaboration with some Chinese scientists. And what he conflated that is that

00:01:19.360 therefore we were involved in creating the virus, which is the most ridiculous, majestic leap I've 0.74

00:01:25.660 ever heard of. The workers of the world must unite and throw off our bonds of oppression and seize the

00:01:33.500 means of production because we're all communi- I mean scientists. Yeah, that's the ticket.

00:01:42.360 That is a Freudian slip. That is when you say one thing, but you mean your mother. And Dr. Fauci's slip

00:01:48.260 is perfectly natural. This is the point that we've been making for years and that Dr. Fauci has been

00:01:54.720 denying for years. In China, the scientists are communists because the public health officials

00:02:03.240 work for the communist party. Public health, public health is by definition always political.

00:02:12.420 Incredibly, it seems the only difference between the Chinese eggheads and our own, their public health 0.98

00:02:17.660 officials and ours, is that the Chinese communists are more honest about it. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:02:22.880 and this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from

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00:04:20.260 Michael. This is not the bombshell that Dr. Fauci would seem to be dropping here. The fact that in

00:04:30.100 China, the public health officials are communists. They are. And he's trying to then obscure that fact.

00:04:34.400 And he says, no, I'm just talking about the scientists. No, but of course they are. If you're

00:04:38.460 working for the government, if you are, for instance, like Dr. Fauci, taking a paycheck from

00:04:42.780 the government for decade upon decade throughout seven presidential administrations, if you're the

00:04:46.500 highest paid official in the federal government, you are by definition a politician. So when Dr.

00:04:53.800 Fauci says, I don't do politics. I've never had any political role. I'm just a scientist. That's bogus.

00:05:00.640 It's in the very nature of the job. That's not possible. And so at least, at least the Chai 0.93

00:05:07.940 comms say what you will about the Chai comms, but at least they're kind of honest about it.

00:05:12.020 They say, yes, you, you work for us. You are answerable to us, the premier, the dictator,

00:05:17.660 the Chinese communist party. Whereas here our public health officials pretend that they're

00:05:22.000 merely following the science when of course they are advancing a political agenda. Speaking

00:05:27.800 about differences between totalitarian countries and our wonderful democracy where everything is

00:05:34.520 free and open and transparent, a sitting member of Congress has just been deplatformed, kicked out of

00:05:40.160 the public square by a couple of billionaire big tech oligarchs because they don't like what she has to 0.95

00:05:46.260 say. That would be Marjorie Taylor Greene. Marjorie Taylor Greene first had her Twitter account

00:05:53.880 suspended permanently and then had her Facebook account taken away for, quote, repeated violations

00:06:01.440 of the COVID-19 misinformation policy. Now, if spreading misinformation about COVID-19 is the sort

00:06:08.980 of offense that gets you kicked out of the public square, then Dr. Fauci should be banished, not just

00:06:13.760 to a far-flung island in the middle of the Pacific, he should be banished to Mars. He is the biggest

00:06:20.960 super spreader of misinformation about coronavirus that there is. But it's not just him. It's CNN and

00:06:27.120 MSNBC. It's the director of the CDC. It's the head of the World Health Organization. It's Joe Biden.

00:06:32.160 It's all these other people who told us things about the virus and the vaccines and the masks

00:06:37.280 that they themselves admitted later on were not true. And we went through all of those yesterday and

00:06:43.600 then apparently on a couple of the big tech platforms, we were censored, which is very unfortunate.

00:06:49.920 We'll get to more on censorship in a little bit. But if there were an objective standard,

00:06:57.800 then Marjorie Taylor Greene should not be the one being kicked off. It should be Fauci and Don Lemon

00:07:03.880 and Kamala Harris and all the rest of the liberal establishmentarians. 0.99

00:07:10.620 Now, some conservatives are not defending Marjorie Taylor Greene. And this really bothers me.

00:07:15.300 This really, really bugs me. Because what these conservatives are doing is they're saying

00:07:19.840 that, look, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's pretty kooky. She's pretty out there. She's said things

00:07:26.600 on social media that I don't agree with and that are really outlandish and about space lasers. And I

00:07:33.720 don't let me in with her. No, let's throw her over the side of the boat. And let's just come on. I don't

00:07:40.320 want to be lumped in with her. Let's grant all it. Let's say that she's said the craziest,

00:07:45.360 kookiest things in the world on social media. She is still much more trustworthy than the people who

00:07:53.340 run Twitter and Facebook. And on things that actually matter, I'm not talking about space

00:07:57.920 lasers. I'm talking about how our political system works. On things that actually matter,

00:08:02.200 she is infinitely more trustworthy than the people who run Twitter and Facebook. The very people who are

00:08:06.920 subverting our self-government and who are cutting off the people's duly elected representatives from

00:08:13.280 having speech, which is the way we govern ourselves in a republic. Okay, don't, goodness gracious,

00:08:19.840 don't go squishy here, folks. Do not allow your desire to seem above it all, to seem very erudite,

00:08:28.580 to seem like a conservative, but not one of those conservatives. I'm a really reasonable one.

00:08:31.880 Do not let your desire to be invited to fancy cocktail parties and not to be looked on as a

00:08:39.580 kook at some fancy institutions, do not let that lead you to a place where you're choosing the side

00:08:46.620 of the oligarch billionaire, actual conspiracy theorist, to spread lies and conspiracy theories

00:08:51.720 about COVID specifically, to take their side over the side of someone who is largely on your own side.

00:08:57.860 In the Republican Party, in the conservative movement, whose heart is generally in the right place,

00:09:01.680 who is generally fighting for the right sort of things, don't pick the side of the evil, rotten,

00:09:07.140 terrible, leftist, revolutionary people who want to silence you and destroy your way of life.

00:09:13.200 Don't pick their side over Marjorie Greene just because she said some eccentric things before.

00:09:19.640 Okay, this is a real choice. What kind of conservative do you want to be? Assuming you're a conservative,

00:09:27.620 I know that there are a number of liberals and even leftists who listen to this show,

00:09:31.040 and we love you. We appreciate you tuning in. Hopefully, we'll pull you over to our side.

00:09:35.960 But if you are a conservative, what kind do you want to be?

00:09:41.360 Do you want to be the kind who boldly stands for what you stand for? Or do you want to be the kind

00:09:47.260 that sucks up to the liberal establishment and tries to get an MSNBC gig? Because then that's fine, 0.97

00:09:51.760 but then you got to follow Liz Cheney. Then you got to follow Adam Kinzinger. Liz Cheney just came 0.98

00:09:56.940 out. She hadn't been on TV in a while. She needed a little more attention. So Liz Cheney came out. 0.99

00:10:03.340 She said the GOP needs to choose between the Constitution and Donald Trump.

00:10:10.980 I think that the American people, again, and particularly the Republican Party,

00:10:15.980 we as Republicans have a choice to make. I am a conservative Republican. I believe strongly in

00:10:22.220 the policies of low taxes and limited government and a strong national defense. I think the country

00:10:28.800 needs a strong Republican Party going forward, but our party has to choose. We can either be loyal to

00:10:34.660 Donald Trump or we can be loyal to the Constitution, but we cannot be both. And right now, there are far

00:10:41.220 too many Republicans who are trying to enable the former president, embrace the former president,

00:10:47.440 look the other way, and hope that the former president goes away, trying to obstruct the

00:10:51.580 activities of this committee. But we won't be deterred. Donald Trump is going to have been dead for 30

00:10:57.020 years. And this frivolous woman is still going to be talking about how Donald Trump is the grave. 1.00

00:11:01.520 He's going to come back from the grave. He's going to dig himself up and he's going to storm the Capitol.

00:11:06.460 And he's a threat to the Constitution. We need to vote for Joe Biden, the man who's pushing

00:11:12.980 unconstitutional nationwide vaccine mandates through OSHA. We need to vote for Joe Biden,

00:11:19.740 the man pushing abortion on demand without apology, slaughtering a million babies a year.

00:11:24.820 We need to vote for Joe Biden, the man who's flagrantly disrespecting our national borders and

00:11:29.860 flooding the country with foreign nationals. We need to vote for Joe Biden in order to stand with

00:11:34.600 the Constitution. Not that mean old Donald Trump who, what did he do? What did he do that was so

00:11:41.200 bad? What? He sent some tweets and he, some people went to the Capitol and he told them to go home and

00:11:46.480 what was that? What is saddest about Liz Cheney is not just the inanity, although the babble that she

00:11:55.540 regularly spouts is very inane. It's how one note it is. It's so monotone. Lady, 0.94

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00:13:50.180 flavorful year yet. Speaking of tired material and stabbing friends in the back, Patton Oswalt

00:13:58.020 decided to spend his new year and the following days stabbing his friend of many decades, Dave Chappelle,

00:14:08.960 in the back because Dave Chappelle did him a favor. And then Patton Oswalt got pushback from the liberal

00:14:17.560 mob. And so Patton Oswalt decided to try to throw his friend, his much more talented and famous friend

00:14:23.420 over the side of the boat. This was what started it all off was one Instagram post from Patton Oswalt.

00:14:31.840 This was a new year's day, I think, or I think it was new year's day. It was finished my set at

00:14:38.960 Mac Cahall and got a text from Dave Chappelle. Come over to the arena. He's performing in next door

00:14:45.220 and do a guest set. Why not? I waved goodbye to this hell year with a genius I started comedy with

00:14:49.300 34 years ago. He works in arena like he's talking to one person and charming their skin off. Anyway,

00:14:53.900 I ended the year with a real friend and a deep laugh. Can't ask for much more. And there's that picture

00:14:57.600 of Dave Chappelle and Patton Oswalt. That's really nice. That's really nice. You know,

00:15:01.720 a nice grateful post from Patton Oswalt and Dave Chappelle did his friend a favor. And that's a

00:15:06.600 lovely way to spend the new year. Except here's the problem. Dave Chappelle sort of, kind of like

00:15:17.400 once or twice contradicted the leftist orthodoxy. And Patton Oswalt is a leftist coward. 0.99

00:15:23.980 Two issues here. He's a leftist. He does push left wing ideas and he's a coward before the mob. 1.00

00:15:32.880 And so right away he publishes this essay on Instagram of him really thoughtfully sitting

00:15:39.680 at a pen and paper writing his public apology to the mob. It says, I saw a friend I hadn't seen in

00:15:45.900 a long time this New Year's Eve. We've known each other since we're teens. He's a fellow comedian,

00:15:49.040 the funniest I've ever met. I wanted to post a pic and an Instagram story about it. So I did.

00:15:53.220 That friend is Dave Chappelle. 34 years we've been friends. He's refocused and refined ideas. A lot

00:15:58.620 of us took is settled about his race and history and life on planet earth and spun them around with

00:16:03.480 a Fraser punchline. We've done bad and good gigs, open mics and TV tapings, but we also 100% disagree

00:16:09.780 about transgender rights and representation. So there it is. There it is, right? He's justifying 0.64

00:16:15.200 seeing a friend of 34 years. He's saying, look, if we'd only been friends for 10 years, maybe I

00:16:20.840 wouldn't have settled it, but come on, it's 34 years. I had to, I had to go over. I don't even,

00:16:25.740 I don't even really like the guy. He's a good comedian, right? He's funny. And, oh, but I had

00:16:30.380 to. And, and, but I'm sorry, but we disagree and he's a bigot and he's a trans phobe and he's a bad 0.98

00:16:37.020 person. I'm a good person. We 100% disagree about transgender rights and representation. I support trans 0.92

00:16:43.560 people's rights, anyone's rights to live safely in the world as their fullest selves. For all the things

00:16:47.880 he's helped me evolve on, I'll always disagree with where he stands now on transgender issues.

00:16:54.140 But I also don't believe a seeker like him has done evolving, learning. So it's, hey, look, my 1.00

00:16:58.800 friend Dave, who I have to be nice to, because we've been friends for 34 years, he's evil. He's

00:17:03.260 evil. He's totally evil. I'm a good person. But look, he's not a hundred percent evil. He's still got 1.00

00:17:10.160 a little glimmer of potential goodness in him. So I'm like, I basically, I'm just trying to help him

00:17:16.360 be a good person. And you should really, you should be grateful to me because I'm trying to

00:17:21.560 help this evil man reform. Blah, blah, blah. He goes on. He just goes on and babbles a little bit

00:17:29.140 more. This is really pathetic and, and, and mean and cruel and rude and all these awful things to do 1.00

00:17:39.600 to your, and disloyal and all these, a really terrible way to treat your friend. It's also dishonest 0.99

00:17:44.260 because Patton Oswalt has for a long time made jokes about transvestitism and sexually

00:17:50.260 confused people. For instance, you said this is for like families and kids because this sounds

00:17:56.100 really grim and creepy. Well, you didn't let me finish because we're also going to have men

00:18:02.240 in bright clothing and makeup. Oh, time out. You mean like, like transvestites, right? 1.00

00:18:08.100 Well, technically, yes, but they're going to keep going so that they're clowns. 0.99

00:18:15.060 You realize a clown is just a transvestite that doesn't stop. 1.00

00:18:21.100 Like if you, like if you, if you saw a guy in lipstick and eye shadow, you'd be like, 0.98

00:18:25.440 Timmy, leave him alone. That's his own thing. The guy's like, oh no, hang on.

00:18:28.800 Like, oh, Timmy, get it. He's a wonderful clown. Get over there. I didn't know you'd use a whole 0.99

00:18:36.600 tube of lipstick on one cheek. Please entertain my child. Run at him out of the darkness. He'll love

00:18:43.780 it. So the premise of the joke, it's funny enough joke. The premise of the joke is that

00:18:51.340 transgender people are really just confused. And the thing that makes them transgender is that they 0.99

00:18:59.080 put on a lot of makeup. So if they put on a lot of makeup, but stop at a certain point,

00:19:04.460 then they're called transvestites or transgender. But if they keep going, the logical conclusion of 1.00

00:19:09.100 that will be that they're a clown. Furthermore, the other premise of this joke is that if you see 0.93

00:19:13.180 a transvestite, it would be natural to try to keep your kid away from that transvestite because the 1.00

00:19:17.800 transvestite is obviously a little bit confused on some pretty important matters. And so you just 0.99

00:19:22.280 say, hey, Johnny, don't, maybe don't go over there. Leave that person alone. Don't talk to that

00:19:26.020 person. All right. But Dave Chappelle's a terrible person because he said that men are not women.

00:19:34.600 This is, this is something about these people, the Patton Oswalt's of the world, the Liz Cheney's of

00:19:43.040 the world and the people who take their side. That is, it's the insult to the injury. The disloyalty

00:19:50.060 would be bad enough. The cowardice would be bad enough. The ignorance and naivete that if you just

00:19:56.760 grovel to the mob, they won't attack you anymore, which just never actually happens. If you just

00:20:01.780 apologize for something that you haven't done wrong, then maybe the mob will move on. But it's

00:20:07.700 also the dishonesty. They don't believe this stuff. Patton Oswalt and Dave Chappelle, I seriously doubt

00:20:14.100 disagree on the transgender stuff. What, what Patton Oswalt just said about transgenderism is way more

00:20:18.900 offensive than anything Dave Chappelle has said. It's just, it's just the cowardice. It's just the 0.94

00:20:25.500 going along to get along. It's just, Liz Cheney is not a Republican. I know that she's got an R next to 1.00

00:20:34.560 her name still sort of, I guess, although her own state Republican party voted her out. They said,

00:20:39.080 you're no longer in the party. Get out. Sayonara, lady. And what does she say? She says, look, I'm a, 0.95

00:20:45.740 I'm a Republican. I'm a, I'm a lifelong conservative Republican. I support, okay, what makes you a

00:20:51.280 conservative, Liz Cheney? She lists it out. She says, I support low taxes, limited government,

00:20:59.120 and a strong national defense. Those are euphemisms. Certainly the latter two are euphemisms for

00:21:06.960 letting corporations, generally speaking, woke corporations do whatever they want on the one

00:21:15.100 hand. That's the low taxes and the, and the limited government, the deregulation. Let woke

00:21:20.240 oligarchs do whatever they want and bomb the Middle East. So, you know, I'm a good, I'm a conservative 1.00

00:21:26.160 Republican. I'm, I am doing what the liberal establishment wants. That's why I'm a conservative

00:21:31.600 Republican. That does not a conservative make, darling. On every crucial issue, whenever it really

00:21:41.160 counts, whenever it's difficult on a tough vote, Liz Cheney sides with the Democrats. You saw this on 0.98

00:21:49.960 the preposterous impeachment of Donald Trump, impeachments of Donald Trump. You see this on

00:21:55.840 the preposterous January 6th committee, January 6th. Not only was it not the worst insurrection

00:22:01.140 in American history, not only has no one involved been charged with insurrection, it wasn't even the

00:22:06.760 worst insurrection of, of that year. The BLM insurrection was way worse, attacked way more

00:22:13.440 federal buildings, killed infinitely more people because the, the Capitol riot didn't, didn't end up

00:22:18.800 killing anyone. It was just the cops who killed one of the Capitol demonstrators. Way more arson,

00:22:25.840 vandalism, theft, robbery. But on those crucial votes, Liz Cheney sides with the Dems. 0.99

00:22:35.380 Don't do that. Don't, don't do this with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Don't, I know you might object to a

00:22:39.420 lot of things that Marjorie Taylor Greene says. I'm sure you do. Who, but whose side are you on? You

00:22:43.980 on Liz Cheney's side? Are you on Patton Oswalt's side? I don't think so, folks. Politics is

00:22:48.760 about alliances and, and teams. And I know we're, we're not supposed to acknowledge that. And we're

00:22:54.160 all supposed to just pretend that we're all atoms floating in the ether. But that's not how politics

00:23:00.340 actually works. You do have to come together, usually with people you disagree with on, on some

00:23:04.620 issues to, to actually accomplish something. Speaking of misinformation, Rachel Maddow,

00:23:12.140 my doppelganger, I try not to go after her too much. Uh, you know, I feel a certain kinship

00:23:18.440 to her might be an actual kinship. I don't know. We've never taken a DNA test. Rachel Maddow

00:23:23.460 has spread misinformation about the coronavirus.

00:23:31.540 It means that instead of the vaccine being able, excuse me, it means for instead of the virus being

00:23:37.280 able to hop from person to person, to person, to person spreading and spreading, sickening some of

00:23:42.020 them, but not all of them. And the ones that it doesn't sicken don't know they have it. And then

00:23:44.980 they give it to even more people because they didn't recognize they were right instead of the

00:23:49.420 virus being able to hop from person to person, to person, potentially mutating and becoming more

00:23:55.220 virulent and drug resistant along the way. Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the

00:24:00.560 virus stops with every vaccinated person, a vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus.

00:24:08.940 The virus does not infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else.

00:24:16.020 It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. That means the vaccines will get us 0.81

00:24:24.360 to the end of this. If we just go fast enough to get the whole population vaccinated.

00:24:32.420 So what she said is not true and it's now been contradicted by the public health authorities.

00:24:36.160 This is a great example because Ms. Maddow and I might bear some passing similarity,

00:24:42.800 okay, some passing resemblance. And yet she says false things and doesn't get censored. I say true 0.71

00:24:48.160 things that now even the public health officials admit are true. And I do get censored. Why is that?

00:24:54.520 What's going on here? Why has that been the case for the whole of the lockdown and the pandemic and

00:25:00.960 whatever? And why does that continue to be the case? We'll get to that. First though, the Daily Wire

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00:25:13.620 way up to the Supreme Court. This Friday, the Supreme Court will convene to hear arguments on

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00:25:49.720 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:26:03.000 So Rachel Maddow has gone on air and said that the vaccines 100% prevent people from contracting

00:26:09.500 the virus, one, and transmitting the virus, two. 100% the virus just stops at that person. And that's

00:26:16.300 why if enough people get the vaccine, then the virus will just completely stop. Now I know that

00:26:21.040 apparently I can be censored and have been censored on YouTube for pointing out that this is not true,

00:26:27.800 which is why I would recommend you go to the audio podcast, the Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher,

00:26:32.060 Google Play, wherever you get your audio podcasts, subscribe to the Michael Knowles show there,

00:26:36.420 and you will get the completely uncensored. You won't have to deal with YouTube or any of the

00:26:41.700 other big tech censors there, but you don't need to just take my word for it. All of the major public

00:26:49.780 health officials have directly contradicted what Rachel Maddow said. What they can't do anymore

00:26:55.980 is prevent transmission. You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines

00:27:01.740 that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmissions. We need a new

00:27:06.100 new way of doing the vaccine. The level of virus in the nasopharynx of a person who's vaccinated and

00:27:13.820 infected is the same level as the level of virus in the nasopharynx of an unvaccinated person.

00:27:21.460 Reports from our international colleagues, including Israel, suggest increased risk of severe disease

00:27:27.760 amongst those vaccinated early. And if you look at Israel, which has always been a month to a month 0.56

00:27:35.740 and a half ahead of us, they are seeing a waning of immunity, not only against infection,

00:27:43.460 but against hospitalizations and to some extent death. The booster might actually be an essential

00:27:50.480 part of the primary regimen that people should have. So there you have it. Rachel Maddow says one thing,

00:27:58.300 the public health officials directly contradict what she said. In this case, only much later,

00:28:05.300 only long after the fact, but it does happen to be the case that what the public health officials have

00:28:09.720 said in this specific case is true. What Rachel Maddow said was completely wrong. So my question,

00:28:16.300 the Babylon Bee asked this question yesterday, why is she not being kicked off of Twitter for

00:28:21.980 misinformation? She has spread much more misinformation about COVID than Marjorie Taylor

00:28:28.460 Green has. Why does Marjorie Taylor Green get kicked off of social media, but Rachel Maddow does not? 1.00

00:28:35.360 Why does this show, which has an extraordinarily good record in terms of calling the shots on this virus,

00:28:44.540 why does this show more, I hate, you know, I hate to say I told you so, you know, I hate to toot my own

00:28:50.560 horn, probably more accurate than almost any other show, if not every single other show on, on the

00:28:59.500 coronavirus from day one. How come we get censored, but Rachel Maddow, who's been dead wrong for most of 0.96

00:29:05.560 it, she doesn't get censored because I have actually had the answer to that. It is not about what you say.

00:29:14.540 It is about who is saying it. It is, it actually, it is not now, nor has it ever been about what is

00:29:25.120 said about the virus. It is about who does the saying it. This is the issue I've run into with

00:29:34.680 some of the big tech platforms. When new information comes out about the virus, information that some of

00:29:42.100 us intuited early on, but let's say finally the CDC or the FDA or WHO admits it, I'm allowed to play a

00:29:51.080 clip of Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, or Dr. Fauci, or any of them saying something.

00:29:57.660 If I then repeat verbatim what they said, I can have my show taken down.

00:30:07.340 Because if what, if what they said and I said contradicts the rules against misinformation,

00:30:13.400 if I, I can play the clip of Dr. Fauci saying something, I can then say word for word what he

00:30:19.400 said in the Dr. Fauci voice, by the way, which is fairly close to how he actually sounds.

00:30:23.560 But if I say it, the show can be taken down because it's not about what is said. It's about

00:30:29.520 who says it. I talked to my friend, Mike Anton, about this over Christmas. You know, we, we put

00:30:34.920 some interviews out on the channels over Christmas, one of which was with my friend, Mike Anton.

00:30:40.220 He's at the Claremont Institute. He, he wrote the famous Flight 93 essay in the 2016 election.

00:30:46.640 And, uh, we were talking about this strange phenomenon of the, the legitimacy of, of what

00:30:56.220 you're allowed to say differing based on who says it. And the example he brought up was the great

00:31:02.380 replacement theory. You might've heard about this. This is the, the left has, is fear-mongering now

00:31:08.180 and scare-mongering about the great replacement theory. And they say, you're not allowed to talk

00:31:12.820 about the great replacement theory. Only white supremacist, racist, Nazi people talk about the 0.94

00:31:18.680 great replacement theory. And they accused Tucker of doing this and a lot of conservative media 0.93

00:31:24.120 personalities and politicians. What is the great replacement theory? The great replacement theory

00:31:28.760 is that the left wants to change the demographics of America to give them an electoral advantage.

00:31:34.600 And they'll do this through mass migration and, and things like that. Here's a quote from

00:31:39.480 Anderson Cooper. Quote, the idea that, you know, whites will not be the majority. I mean, that's, 0.79

00:31:45.600 it's an exciting transformation of the country. It's an exciting evolution and, you know, progress of

00:31:50.620 our country in many different ways. That's Anderson Cooper, CNN. Uh, Jorge Ramos on Univision says,

00:31:57.920 quote, there's nothing really they can do against this incredible demographic revolution. He's talking

00:32:03.120 about conservatives saying that conservatives rely on white people to win elections. And so there's

00:32:08.600 nothing they can do. This is, they're going to be replaced and then they'll win. Michelle Goldberg

00:32:13.660 writing in the New York times had a headline, quote, we can replace them, right? That was the headline.

00:32:20.860 And so I was talking to Mr. Anton about this and I said, I don't, they're, they're telling us that

00:32:31.560 they support this thing of the replacement. It's sometimes in those exact words. And then

00:32:36.860 if we say what they said, then we're not allowed to say that. Is that, and he said, yes, that's the,

00:32:45.200 the defining feature here. They can say things. You can't say those same things.

00:32:54.920 And you can't even say that they said those things. This is what we're seeing with coronavirus. How crazy

00:33:02.900 is this? What world are we living in? Dr. Fauci can say something. I'm not allowed to say that same

00:33:10.280 thing. I'm not even allowed to say that Dr. Fauci said that thing. And it makes perfect sense because

00:33:17.460 the way that the left is looking at politics is not as the right often looks at politics,

00:33:23.420 which is about the free marketplace of ideas and the way to debate these things. And,

00:33:26.900 and right has might and, and the truth will win out in the end. And we just need to,

00:33:31.560 you know, have respect the views of, of other people and, and the best ideas are going to win

00:33:35.960 out. No, that's not how they're viewing it. They are viewing politics as they support their friends

00:33:42.340 and they hate their enemies. That's it. And when their friends do something, they're going to support

00:33:48.980 that. And when we, their enemies do, even if we do, if we say the same thing or do the same thing,

00:33:54.820 they're going to oppose that. And that's that. Okay. And those are two fundamentally different ways

00:33:59.920 of looking at politics, but complaining about it, isn't going to do anything. I'm never going to

00:34:05.880 stop the rain by complaining and neither are you. We, I think we just probably need to change our

00:34:11.280 strategy a little bit and recognize that the way our political system actually works is different

00:34:16.500 than what many of us have been duped into believing or duped ourselves into believing. Now, speaking of

00:34:23.200 replacing people, here's an essay from Pink News. I'm sure that's your homepage. I'm sure you all,

00:34:30.600 you check, you wake up in the morning, dailywire.com, Pink News. And okay, here's the,

00:34:36.400 here's the headline. Protesting trans athletes is not about fairness or safety. It's about transphobia.

00:34:44.420 Yeah. So I keep an open mind. Read, read this article. And I think they actually make a really

00:34:53.480 good point. I think they make a really good point. The, the right has made a crusade about women's

00:35:01.000 sports and how unfair it is that men are now competing in women's sports and they're winning 0.97

00:35:05.640 the women's sports because men are physically stronger than women. And what Pink News and the 1.00

00:35:12.540 transgenderists and the liberals are saying is you don't really care about women's sports. 0.97

00:35:16.100 You just oppose transgenderism. And the thing is, they're right. They're right. I don't care about 1.00

00:35:21.160 women's sports. I care in as much as it is unjust that the girls have to compete against, have to like 1.00

00:35:28.700 go race against people who are, who are men and therefore much faster than they are or have to,

00:35:34.300 especially, oh my goodness, in some kind of combat sport or wrestling or something. Could you even

00:35:37.720 imagine? Yeah. I, I don't like the injustice of that, but I don't care. Very few people watch the

00:35:44.220 WNBA. So I, I just couldn't possibly care less if some man tries out for the WNBA and wants to be on 1.00

00:35:53.440 one of the teams and I don't care. I'm not going to watch it anyway. And no, no one really cares.

00:36:00.060 You're right. It's not, the issue of transgenderism is not primarily about fairness or safety.

00:36:05.660 The headline's right. It's about reality. Okay. It's the real issue of transgenderism is not that

00:36:13.020 if we make all the bathrooms unisex that, you know, rape is going to sky, there will be an 1.00

00:36:18.180 increase in rape, but it's not going to skyrocket. I don't think it's going to become an epidemic.

00:36:22.720 It's, it's the, the issue of transgenderism is not that, you know, women will now lose their natural

00:36:28.120 or human right to win soccer games. I mean, yeah, they won't win the games anymore, but it's not the

00:36:32.880 biggest issue in society. The issue, the issue is that men aren't women. And it's just, the issue is

00:36:39.360 that transgenderism is erroneous. It's just, it's false. And so we don't support false things. But

00:36:45.820 the reason that conservatives keep trying to frame this as an issue of fairness or safety is because

00:36:52.220 a lot of conservatives, I think, share the same basic worldview as the liberals do. Namely, it's,

00:36:59.540 it's a extremely skeptical worldview that says we can never really know anything about truth or

00:37:04.620 goodness or justice or beauty. And you do you and I'll do me. And one man's terrorist is another

00:37:09.280 man's freedom fighter. And it's just extremely skeptical. Well, we can't impose our morality

00:37:14.280 on others. Well, we need to teach students how to think, not what to think. All those kinds of

00:37:18.100 platitudes that are ultimately just expressing a radical skepticism that we can never really know

00:37:23.080 anything at all. That the people who say that if we ban drag queen story hour from the library,

00:37:27.740 why the libs might ban us from going to church. Yeah, that's a, as if you can't tell the difference

00:37:32.700 between a pervert twerking for a toddler and going to church on Sunday, right? But that is the kind of

00:37:37.260 radical skepticism that some people on the right share and an extreme individualism. This radical idea

00:37:47.060 of, of rights that this conception of rights that's always expanding, that we have the right to do drugs.

00:37:54.160 We have the right to dress up however we want. We have the right to redefine reality that, that

00:37:58.100 basically a lot of conservatives share that, I think, with the libs. And so we'll say, well, it's,

00:38:05.540 you see, the, the right of the man to dress up like a woman is infringing now on the right of the girl

00:38:11.840 to win the soccer game. And that, well, I don't think that's going to be really persuasive.

00:38:16.140 I don't. I think the only way that conservatives are really going to push back on the transgenderism 0.99

00:38:21.800 issue is if we grow a spine. While we're, while we're talking about manipulating our anatomies,

00:38:28.240 we should grow a spine and we should say things that are true and have the confidence of our

00:38:33.840 convictions, which conservatives used to have until recent decades and say, no, men, men simply aren't

00:38:40.380 women. The premise of transgenderism is erroneous. Error has no rights. There is no right for a man 1.00

00:38:46.900 to pretend to be a woman. There is no way to neatly parse out private life from public life so that you 1.00

00:38:52.540 say that the man has the right to pretend to be a woman in his home, but not in public. That's never

00:38:57.480 going to work. That has never worked in any society. We're not just atoms floating in the ether, but we

00:39:02.600 do live together in a, in a society. And so the way that we view ourselves and our relationship to our

00:39:08.620 bodies and the relationship to society in our homes is going to affect the way that we do that in public

00:39:12.140 too. And sorry, buster, if you're confused and you think that you're a woman, you should get help for 0.85

00:39:17.800 that. We should, you know, try to give you the resources to work through these difficulties that

00:39:23.080 you've got, but we're not going to indulge that delusion because it's not because of safety or even

00:39:28.280 fairness because it's wrong. And we know it's wrong and we know that some things are right and some

00:39:33.420 things are wrong and that's that. Do, do conservatives have the chutzpah to say that? If we do, then I

00:39:43.000 think there's a chance, then I, then I think we, we could win on this issue. Then I think we could

00:39:49.660 reclaim some of our culture. If we don't, if we're going to keep just making these disingenuous

00:39:54.840 arguments about how much we care about women's soccer when we don't really, uh, then I don't think

00:39:59.060 we're going to persuade anybody. This is, this is what the school fight is all about. There was a

00:40:04.440 video, just went viral on TikTok of a preschool, a preschool teacher talking about how she is

00:40:10.220 indoctrinating her kids in transgender ideology. There it says to the parents who refuse to educate 0.97

00:40:17.340 their kids on queerness. I'm an openly non-binary trans preschool teacher. I talked to my students

00:40:23.700 about pronouns, transness, gender expression, and sexuality. Ha ha ha, right? You, you parents

00:40:30.280 think you're going to keep this away from your kids? Well, no, because I'm going to teach them about

00:40:34.300 it. Now I, I give the woman or man or non-binary or I don't know, I'm not going to venture a guess

00:40:45.600 here. I give this individual some credit, at least for the courage of his or her convictions.

00:40:54.640 A lot of conservatives won't, won't say what they need to say, which is we need to ban these ideas

00:41:00.320 from the classroom, right? That's what the parents in Loudoun County and elsewhere are saying. They're

00:41:03.860 saying we don't, we don't want, you can't, shouldn't teach our kids a bunch of false nonsense about

00:41:07.380 their sex or their race or whatever. And a lot of the conservative elites will say, well, no, we don't,

00:41:12.980 we don't support banning any ideas from the classroom. Why not? If you don't support banning ideas

00:41:16.460 from the classroom, then how do you stop that? How do you stop this lunatic pervert individual 0.94

00:41:21.900 from indoctrinating your three-year-old into believing that little Johnny is little Jane? 0.98

00:41:27.680 How do you do it? If you're not willing to stand by the courage of your convictions, how do you stop

00:41:32.420 it? Speaking of TikTok lunatics, there's another, I go through these TikTok videos, not only because

00:41:41.100 they're amusing, they are amusing often, but because they're extremely educational and extremely

00:41:47.060 insightful. Like this guy who is dressed up like a woman who says you might oppose transgenderism, 1.00

00:41:55.320 but you will respect transgenderism. Let me tell you something about LGBTQ, right? It's about

00:42:02.060 trans rights. This is only going in one direction. You will respect us.

00:42:08.960 You can be upset. You can be angry. You can think it's unfair. You can feel like we're stealing

00:42:17.140 something from you, but it's still only going in one direction. You will respect us.

00:42:25.600 He's right. He's right. You will, you will respect transgenderism. You will, because if you don't,

00:42:32.820 you'll be punished. So you, and you might not believe it in your heart of hearts and you might still

00:42:37.400 think it's crazy, but you will show public respect for it because the boot of the establishment will

00:42:43.520 come down on your neck if you don't. He's absolutely right. The, the lie, the delusion was that these

00:42:52.620 radical ideologies merely seek acceptance. Just be tolerant. Just be inclusive. Just be accepting.

00:43:00.640 No, it was never about that. They seek affirmation. They demand affirmation. They have to. Why? Because

00:43:12.820 we live in a society, because we're not just atoms floating in the ether. And so you cannot have a

00:43:19.000 society in which the country is split, radically split on the question of what is human nature.

00:43:27.620 We have to agree on some things if we're going to have a society. And at the very least,

00:43:33.260 you need to agree on what a human being is. And if half the country, I don't think it's quite this

00:43:39.440 much, but let's, let's say it's the left believes one thing. The right believes the other. Half the

00:43:43.060 country believes that human nature has nothing to do with your body. And the other half believes that

00:43:50.640 it does. And, you know, one half believes that men can become women and do. And the other half believes

00:43:56.940 that they can't, you're not going to be able to function. You're not going to be able to speak

00:43:59.800 to one another. You're not going to know what pronouns to use. We currently don't know what

00:44:02.860 pronouns to use. And so you're going to have to resolve that question at the public level.

00:44:08.280 So what's it going to be? And what the liberals will tell you is, look, you might have your

00:44:12.740 personal reservations about transgenderism, but we all need to agree on accepting it at the political

00:44:17.240 level. You might have your personal reservations about abortion, but we all need to agree that we

00:44:21.560 should kill 60 million babies since Roe versus Wade. And it's just a, it's just a trick. It's 0.87

00:44:27.220 just a little political slate of hand that has given them the entire culture. The live and let live

00:44:32.680 language of the left was never real. It was never serious. It was always an instrument toward achieving

00:44:40.280 their ends. Academic freedom, the free marketplace of ideas, live and let live. It was always a lie.

00:44:47.240 Okay. And now the right is befuddled and they'll say, what happened to the tolerant? So much for

00:44:52.120 the tolerant left, what happened to live and let live? What happened to, they never meant it. That's

00:44:56.160 what happened. It was always a lie to trick you into giving up your culture and your standards.

00:45:00.440 And now they've got the upper hand and they are doing what they naturally would do, which is enforce

00:45:05.300 their own standards, like all societies. So what's, what's the alternative? The New York Times tells us

00:45:12.140 what the alternative is. The New York Times, New York Times, it's just like these wackos on TikTok. 1.00

00:45:16.620 Sometimes the New York Times will unwittingly give you the right answer to political problems.

00:45:21.480 Guest essay headline is, what happened to Poland? Warsaw. Not long ago, Poland was seen as the most

00:45:29.340 successful example of democratic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, a leader in European

00:45:34.140 integration. It was enjoying, as the longtime European commissioner Gunther Verhuggen wrote,

00:45:39.260 a new golden age. Today, the country is again ahead of others. Only this time,

00:45:43.860 it's in the vanguard of European disintegration and democratic dismantling. Poland possesses a

00:45:52.080 traumatic, nervous sense of itself. The current government has tried to channel that anxiety,

00:45:56.580 invading against migrants, Brussels, and liberals to create a fortress mentality. Despite occasional

00:46:02.400 setbacks, such as the president's decision to veto a controversial media bill, it has succeeded.

00:46:06.860 So what are they actually, they're saying that Poland was really democratic when it was doing

00:46:14.760 exactly what the people in Brussels, the leaders of the European Union, the people who were not

00:46:19.420 accountable to the citizens of Poland, wanted them to do. So when Poland was suppressing the will of

00:46:27.760 its own people and just going along with what a distant tyrant told them to do, that was democratic.

00:46:33.740 But now that Poland is doing what its own people want them to do and doing what its own people 0.98

00:46:39.860 elected them to do, now it's anti-democratic. Do you see the problem there? Do you see?

00:46:46.680 As I have said for quite a while, I actually wrote a book on this topic called Speechless,

00:46:49.860 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. The left has just redefined democracy to mean not democracy.

00:46:56.000 They've completely switched the meaning of democracy. How does this make any sense? How do they get

00:47:01.240 away with it? Adrian Vermeule, the Harvard Law professor, one of the greatest Twitter accounts,

00:47:06.540 has a great sub-stack also with some other good thinkers called the post-liberal order.

00:47:11.140 Adrian Vermeule points out that if you just switch out the words democracy and liberalism,

00:47:17.980 things start to make sense. What the left considers democracy is not when you follow the will of the

00:47:25.780 people, but when you just go along with some elite liberal idea. This is why when the people elect

00:47:30.880 Donald Trump, that's a threat to democracy. And it's why when the people's will is thwarted,

00:47:37.060 that is a vindication of democracy if it goes in the left-wing direction.

00:47:42.260 So what are we going to have? Which way are we going to? What Poland has done is become much more 0.99

00:47:46.700 conservative and said no to the distant liberal elites in Brussels and has said yes to its own culture and

00:47:53.900 its own history and its own religion. It's become significantly more Christian. Don't forget,

00:47:59.340 Poland played a big role in the fall of the Soviet empire. Poland, when the Poles came out,

00:48:05.080 when St. John Paul II walked up and they chanted, we want God, we want God.

00:48:10.140 They, which way are we going to go? Are we going to go in the direction of elite liberal rule or are we

00:48:17.460 going to channel the legitimate frustrations of the people who no longer have confidence in their own

00:48:23.500 ruling class, which seems increasingly to despise them and consider them deplorable and irredeemable?

00:48:28.660 Which side are we going to take? Liz Cheney's right that we need to make a choice. She's wrong about

00:48:32.800 what that choice is and she's on the wrong side of it, but we will need to make that choice.

00:48:36.580 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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Ep. 914 - Follow The Communists

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