The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 915 - Dangerous To The Right People

00:00:00.000 The state of New York is exaggerating COVID hospitalizations by as much as 50%. Now,

00:00:06.360 before you censor me, I know you in big tech are itching to censor me for saying that.

00:00:11.620 I promise you, this is not merely my opinion, okay? Not just little old me. This is the opinion

00:00:18.340 of the liberal Democrat governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, who on Monday admitted that she

00:00:24.860 has seen firsthand how the numbers are being significantly overcounted. Here's what she

00:00:30.480 said. Someone's in a car accident. They go to the emergency room. They test positive for COVID

00:00:35.220 while they're there. They're not there being treated for COVID. Now, someone's condition can

00:00:40.720 worsen while they're in the hospital. I'm not saying that won't happen, but I've just been

00:00:45.800 doing a random call around to some of the hospital leaders that I touch base with, and I'm seeing

00:00:50.460 numbers from 20% to sometimes 50%. That's the governor of New York talking to a New York

00:00:56.800 news outlet. So the Democrat governor of New York is saying the sort of thing that we have been saying

00:01:02.220 for two years now. The only difference is that when we said it, we were called conspiracy theorists

00:01:07.520 and threats to the public health and murderers. When she says it, it's treated as scientific gospel

00:01:13.220 truth. So instead of playing catch up like conservatives always do, the logical question to ask right now

00:01:19.520 is this, what are they lying to us about today? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:01:32.440 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the frog prince 89 who says,

00:01:36.520 we need to start using the term fake science like Trump used fake news whenever the left changes the

00:01:43.760 science like this year's fashion trend. That's a great point. Sometimes we conservatives,

00:01:50.980 we overthink things. We think, oh, what's going to be the most clever, subtle? No, just use fake news.

00:01:58.800 First of all, fake news is a term that the left used to criticize conservative outlets,

00:02:04.780 including and especially the Daily Wire. And then Trump appropriated the term and used it and said,

00:02:09.540 what are you talking about? The Daily Wire and the conservative outlets, they're not fake news.

00:02:13.400 CNN is fake news. MSNBC is fake news. So why don't we just use that? That's a great point. It's so

00:02:19.120 blunt. It's so simple. Everyone knows what we're talking about. Dr. Fauci, Joe Biden, the liberal

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00:03:37.680 NMLSConsumerAccess.org. We talked on this show yesterday about how the determining factor for

00:03:45.780 censorship is not what is said, but who says it. So when I say something about how hospitalizations

00:03:54.260 are being exaggerated, that's fake news. That's misinformation. That's dangerous. It's a threat to

00:03:59.640 the public health. We got to censor the guy. But then when the Democrat governor of New York says

00:04:03.620 exactly the same thing, that's good. That's fine because she, she's a Democrat. She's a prominent 0.99

00:04:10.200 Democrat and she's not a mean old conservative podcaster. There's a complicating factor here.

00:04:15.960 And this complicating factor is exemplified by Dr. Robert Malone. Dr. Robert Malone is one of the

00:04:22.960 people who invented mRNA vaccine technology. He was an early pioneer on that technology.

00:04:28.520 And even people who disagree with him give him a lot of credit for developing the technology that

00:04:33.220 is now powering most of the vaccines we see around us for the coronavirus. So Robert Malone has gone

00:04:39.800 out and criticized a lot of the public health response to COVID. Notably, he's criticized Dr.

00:04:48.400 Fauci, whom he says has no integrity and lies all the time. Are cotton and surgical masks effective

00:04:54.760 at preventing the spread of Omicron? Yeah. When the CDC says they are effective, in fact, they are.

00:05:04.620 Dr. Malone, that's a lie. Is that not true? Yes, it's a, I mean, it's Tony. What can I say?

00:05:13.340 Tony has no integrity. He lies all the time. And I've, me and my peers have, have been watching

00:05:19.460 this for decades. We just shrug our shoulders and shake our heads and say it's Fauci.

00:05:24.540 This is not just some disgruntled scientist or public health official complaining about Dr. Fauci.

00:05:32.600 This has been said widely for decades, since the AIDS epidemic, that Dr. Fauci is a bureaucrat. He's

00:05:37.920 not a great scientist. He's a bureaucrat. The good scientists stay in the lab. The bureaucrats push

00:05:42.580 paper like Dr. Fauci, that all he really cares about is being on TV, that he jumps the gun,

00:05:47.240 that he is incompetent, that he mishandles things. I mean, this has gone back decades and decades.

00:05:52.960 Dr. Malone has been censored. He's been kicked off of Twitter. An episode that he did with Joe

00:05:58.940 Rogan is being suppressed by big tech. So what this shows you is it's not, it's not just about

00:06:04.880 what is said because the liberal establishments totally changed their tune on COVID, on the efficacy

00:06:11.020 of vaccines, on the efficacy of masks. It's not just about what is said. And it's not even just about

00:06:16.640 who is saying it in the sense that it's not just about the credentials. Often what I would hear when I

00:06:24.040 would push back against big tech censorship in the last couple of years is I would hear,

00:06:29.600 well, Michael, you're making a point that might turn out to be true, but you're not

00:06:33.260 a credentialed scientist. You don't have a degree from some medical school or some epidemiology

00:06:40.140 program. You don't work at the NIH. So even if you're saying the same thing as, as someone else,

00:06:46.100 you don't have the right to say because you don't have the credential, but there's nobody more

00:06:49.580 credentialed than Dr. Robert Malone. The guy's got very impressive scientific degrees. He was a

00:06:56.280 fellow at Harvard. He helped to develop the vaccine technology that is at issue right now.

00:07:02.680 But what's the problem? The problem is he's on the wrong side. So it's not just what he's saying.

00:07:09.480 It's not just who he is and his credentials. It's a much more basic political question.

00:07:15.140 Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? Who are his allies? What side is he on?

00:07:21.240 He's, he is right now not on the side of Biden, Fauci, the NIH, the woke corporations,

00:07:28.680 the liberal establishment. He's not on their side. So they're going to shut him up and it doesn't

00:07:32.700 matter how many degrees he's got. Doesn't matter how central his role was to the development of these

00:07:37.780 vaccines. He's out. He's out. So how do we fight back against this?

00:07:44.720 One GOP representative is, is showing us how to do it. Representative Troy Neils

00:07:49.960 has just submitted a Joe Rogan episode with Dr. Robert Malone into the congressional record.

00:07:57.140 So this episode, you know, these Rogan shows go on forever and, and this episode is being

00:08:02.900 suppressed on big tech. So this congressman comes out and he says, okay, I'm going to read it verbatim

00:08:08.080 into the congressional record. Can't censor that Dorsey or whoever the new guy is. Agrawal can't

00:08:14.140 censor that Mark Zuckerberg. He says, quote, today I submitted the transcript from the Joe

00:08:20.020 Rogan experience podcast episode one, seven, five, seven to Dr. with Dr. Robert Malone into

00:08:24.940 the congressional record. Big tech wants to restrict your access to this information,

00:08:27.820 but they cannot censor the congressional record for now, for now. But what we're seeing here

00:08:34.260 is really great. It's a reassertion of political rights. And it's kind of weird for the, for the

00:08:39.900 conservatives and for the right in America, because for decades we were told by the right

00:08:44.620 and by conservatives, government bad, everything government does is bad. Corporations good.

00:08:49.220 Everything corporations do is good. But now we're in a situation where we need to turn to the

00:08:53.980 government to protect us against corporations because the corporations specifically big tech

00:08:58.200 are controlling all the speech in our government, in our, in our society and in self-government speech

00:09:04.900 is politics and politics is speech. So if they control the speech, they control the whole damn 0.98

00:09:08.820 political system. So now we're in this strange position where we're saying, no, help us big 0.98

00:09:14.640 government. Hey, big government, help us against big tech and big corporations. 0.98

00:09:21.620 Republicans are partially responsible for giving corporations all this power. We are, we are.

00:09:26.160 And I'm not saying you and me specifically where, you know, I'm a little, a little young. I wasn't,

00:09:31.260 I wasn't around during a lot of the battles of the eighties and the nineties. Okay. I was,

00:09:34.260 but a glint in my father's eye. Still Republicans had this idea that as long as you

00:09:38.560 deregulated everything and gave all this power to corporations, you'd be in a better position.

00:09:42.020 And that's not always true. Circumstances and threats change in politics. Sometimes the threat

00:09:51.360 is from big government. Sometimes the threat is from big media. Sometimes the threat is from big

00:09:56.760 bureaucracy. Sometimes the threat is from big corporation. Sometimes the, the threats change.

00:10:02.140 Okay. And a conservative movement that does nothing but repeat brainlessly the same platitudes from

00:10:08.600 1982 is not going to be very effective. You need to respond to the threats we've got now. And right

00:10:13.940 now, what that means is growing our political power, asserting our political power, using the state,

00:10:20.540 not to put too fine a point on it, to rein in corporations that are selling our country and our

00:10:27.480 rights and our way of life down the river. Speaking of the U S Congress and what people are allowed to

00:10:33.520 say, I just read the most disgusting article I think I have ever read in the associated press.

00:10:43.120 This is really, really gross. AP news headline, Ashley Babbitt, a martyr, her past tells a more complex

00:10:52.940 story. Ashley Babbitt is the military veteran who was shot at the Capitol, the January 6th

00:11:02.600 insurrection, the worst attack ever, worse than Pearl Harbor. You know, you remember that

00:11:09.440 where conservatives were killing cops. None of that happened. The only person who got killed that day

00:11:15.860 in political violence was this lady, Ashley Babbitt, because of some trigger happy cop at the Capitol. 1.00

00:11:22.940 And the AP comes out and says, yeah, yeah. You think she shouldn't have been shot? I don't know.

00:11:29.440 She wasn't a great lady. And what's the, the, the evidence? Oh, the evidence was she got in a fight

00:11:35.060 with her husband's ex-wife. Seriously, that's the, they say, you know, Ashley Babbitt, she's seeing you,

00:11:42.500 everyone's saying she's like a good U S military veteran, but actually she got into a big fight with

00:11:49.760 her boy or with her husband's ex-wife. So they dig up all this dirt about her personal life and her

00:11:56.160 romantic life. And they say, yeah, because of that, she's bad. She deserved to be shot by a cop. 1.00

00:12:01.840 That's the insinuation. They don't say it explicitly, but that is the insinuation. 1.00

00:12:06.440 Of course, the left would never do what they are doing to Ashley Babbitt to someone like

00:12:14.980 George Floyd, George Floyd, complete degenerate career criminal, regardless of what you think

00:12:22.100 about how he was killed, if it was justified, if it was murder as the jury found, but I don't think

00:12:29.380 it's very convincing. Regardless of what you think about this, this guy was a thug career criminal who

00:12:35.880 never reformed his life, who was committing a crime as he was killed, who was resisting arrest,

00:12:41.000 who was, had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. He was putting himself in a position where

00:12:50.780 things were probably not going to turn out very well for him. If not that day, then into the future.

00:12:57.380 And if you said that, if you mentioned that he, he robbed a woman at gunpoint, a woman who may

00:13:02.320 have been pregnant, there was some questions to whether or not she was pregnant, but very well may

00:13:05.800 have been. If you bring that up, you're a racist, you're terrible, you're victim blaming, you're 0.99

00:13:09.980 doing all sorts of awful things. Michael Brown, Michael, remember Michael Brown? He was the young 0.97

00:13:14.940 man in Ferguson, Missouri. He robbed a store and then attacked a cop and grabbed the cop's gun and

00:13:21.500 the gun discharged. And then Michael Brown was killed in the altercation. You remember that?

00:13:25.140 If you mention any of that, if you mention the fact that Michael Brown started it and was grabbing

00:13:28.980 the cop's gun, you were racist, terrible, victim blaming. Dante Wright, Dante Wright. This is,

00:13:34.580 this one's slightly more controversial. Dante Wright, young man, career criminal, rap sheet a mile long,

00:13:40.600 gets pulled over in a traffic stop. The, the cop who has been found guilty of manslaughter is going to

00:13:46.660 jail. She meant to tase him. She actually shot him with a gun, with a real gun, with bullets. And

00:13:53.440 if you mention, well, Dante Wright, you know, he was resisting arrest. Well, he did have a rap

00:13:59.260 sheet a mile long. Well, if he had just kind of gone, gone quietly, if he had just done what he was

00:14:05.580 supposed to do, he, he wouldn't be dead. If you say that you're a vicious, evil, terrible monster, 0.99

00:14:10.500 racist, whatever. But of course, when it's conservatives, yes, she deserved, she deserved 0.99

00:14:15.680 the bullet because she got in a fight with her husband's ex-wife. She deserved it. Of course, 0.99

00:14:20.360 why are they doing this now? Why is the Associated Press going after Ashley Babbitt almost exactly a

00:14:28.660 year after she was killed? Oh, right. That's why. Right. Because tomorrow, January 6th is the most

00:14:38.540 important feast day in the liberal calendar. This is a sacred, sacred day. It actually is a sacred day

00:14:47.040 tomorrow, by the way, because tomorrow, January 6th for Christians is the feast of the epiphany.

00:14:52.340 This is the feast of, of Christ, uh, presented to specifically to the three Magi. And this has

00:14:58.780 been celebrated for a very long time. So one way to really get the libs upset is if you say, oh, 1.00

00:15:03.960 God, I love January 6th. I can't wait to celebrate January 6th. January 6th is such a great day.

00:15:09.420 Oh yes, I'm planning my festivities. I love it. I think it's so wonderful. And then you explain to

00:15:13.220 them that it's the epiphany. Maybe you're celebrating other things. I don't know. But

00:15:16.320 certainly you could be celebrating the epiphany. The left has a feast day tomorrow too, and they

00:15:22.580 need to rewrite the story before the feast day. Their story of what happened on January 6th was fake.

00:15:30.020 It was made up. The officer, Brian Sicknick was attacked with a, with a fire hydrant and he was

00:15:38.460 killed. Nope. Didn't happen. It was an insurrect, an armed insurrection. Nope. It wasn't. None of the

00:15:42.900 people are being charged with insurrection. None of them were armed. It was, they almost took over

00:15:47.060 the country. Nope. They almost raped AOC. AOC wasn't even in the building. They, they nearly, 1.00

00:15:53.240 nope, they didn't. They, you know what they did? They danced around the Capitol with a horn hat on

00:15:57.880 and they took Nancy Pelosi's lectern. Not defending it. You shouldn't take people's lecterns.

00:16:02.440 Wasn't the worst insurrection ever. Wasn't the worst insurrection of that year,

00:16:05.880 actually not even close to BLM. So they need to rewrite the history and they're going to go into

00:16:10.540 overdrive to do it. And the reason they're doing that is they recognize that sometimes you hear

00:16:17.740 this phrase, politics is downstream of culture. Okay. Whatever that phrase is worth, culture is

00:16:21.460 downstream of religion. All human conflict is theological. All of politics ultimately comes

00:16:27.460 down to religion, whether you want to admit it or not. All of our political debates raise moral

00:16:32.360 questions. Those moral questions have a religious foundation. Our understanding of who we are as

00:16:37.540 individuals, as a community, as a nation comes down to religious questions. What does it mean to be a

00:16:42.720 man? What are our obligations to our neighbors and ultimately to our God? And the left knows this.

00:16:47.180 And so the left is crafting the religion, the feast days, the liturgical calendar, the secular saints.

00:16:53.400 St. George Floyd is one of the most important saints in the American secular religion.

00:16:58.620 I don't think he's worthy of admiration. Normal people don't think he's worthy of admiration.

00:17:05.960 But that is what the left requires because it serves their political agenda. And so they're going

00:17:12.940 to go into overdrive on January 6th. And there's probably very little that you can do about it.

00:17:20.100 Other than, the only way we're going to fight this is not just by saying this is false, this is fake,

00:17:23.920 this is not true. The only way we're going to fight this overwhelming force of religion 0.99

00:17:27.120 is by having our own religion. And this is why I jokingly sort of bring up the fact that there is

00:17:34.320 an actual feast tomorrow called the Feast of the Epiphany. You should celebrate it. You should have

00:17:37.900 your own religion. You should have, you should, if you want to fight back against the religion of 0.99

00:17:42.740 leftism, it's not going to be enough to just poke holes in it. You're going to need your own form of

00:17:47.840 worship. I would recommend the religion that formed our country and our civilization and the whole

00:17:53.060 world, if you ask me, Christianity. But I would recommend that because nature abhors a vacuum. 1.00

00:17:59.240 And in the vacuum of belief that exists in America, kooky ideas are going to fill it. What's the old

00:18:04.400 line? When you don't believe in anything, I think it was from Chesterton. When you don't believe in

00:18:10.020 anything, you believe in everything. Because you just become extremely superstitious and gullible.

00:18:16.740 Speaking of crime, there's a new program in New York. New public health program in New York.

00:18:23.060 You know, there's a big drug problem. Leading killer of young Americans had over, what, 100,000

00:18:30.620 Americans die of drug overdoses, I think, last year. Well, this pilot program is going to install

00:18:36.860 vending machines to give druggies needles and other drugs that will make it easier for them to do drugs

00:18:47.420 without killing themselves by overdosing. They're calling these public health vending machines.

00:18:53.900 I don't think giving syringes to heroin addicts necessarily promotes the public health. It's sort

00:19:03.300 of the opposite of health, you would think. This is being pushed by the Fund for Public Health in New

00:19:08.140 York. They opened a request for these stalls in December, and they're going to offer the overdose

00:19:17.200 drugs and the syringes and, quote, other harm reduction and wellness supplies.

00:19:25.380 Do you think this is compassionate? I don't think this is compassionate.

00:19:30.960 I don't think it's compassionate to create incentives for druggies to do more drugs.

00:19:38.500 Now, their argument is, well, at least they're not using dirty syringes.

00:19:41.960 Yeah, but they're still shooting up a bunch of heroin and other drugs. They're making the problem

00:19:47.400 worse. Yes, well, but it's, look, if they're going to do it, and look, they have the right.

00:19:52.180 They have the right to do what they want with their bodies. And so that's what, I think that's what a lot

00:19:55.820 of these people believe. A lot of them are on the legalization train. They think, oh, well, just

00:20:01.100 legalize it, regulate it. People have a right to do drugs. You don't have any right to tell them they

00:20:05.540 can't do drugs. And so we'll just make it a little bit safer. It's a safety issue. The war on drugs

00:20:11.260 failed, they say. You ever hear that? I hear this all the time. The war on drugs was a failure.

00:20:16.520 Michael, are you, you're defending the war on drugs? Yes. Yeah, I'm definitely defending the war on

00:20:24.000 drugs. The war on drugs totally worked, okay? From the 1970s to the 1990s, during the height of

00:20:30.880 the war on drugs, use of illegal drugs in the United States dropped precipitously. And then we

00:20:36.320 stopped really enforcing the war on drugs. And guess what happened? The use of illegal drugs

00:20:41.280 skyrocketed, and now we're in the worst opioid crisis ever. And we're in, more broadly, one of

00:20:47.420 the worst drug crises ever. And we've now got 100,000 Americans a year killing themselves on this

00:20:52.880 stuff. So yeah, the war on drugs did work. The pro-drug conservatives are shockingly gullible.

00:21:02.040 They know that the liberal media lie to them about basically everything. They know that the

00:21:09.380 activists and the bureaucrats and the politicians lie to them about almost everything. And yet they

00:21:17.440 think they're telling the truth about the war on drugs. The war on drugs was great. It was awesome.

00:21:22.300 The reason that people oppose it has very little to do with the science, because according to the

00:21:27.400 science, the war on drugs worked. It has to do with this ideology, this obsession with individualism

00:21:33.580 and autonomy. This obsession, this idea, it's not a scientific idea. This is a philosophical idea

00:21:39.760 that you have the right to shoot yourself up with poison. And you don't. You don't.

00:21:44.900 And this crazy philosophical idea that it makes you more free to be able to shoot up yourself with 0.60

00:21:51.700 poison. It doesn't make you free. It makes you a slave. Drug addicts are not free. They're the

00:21:56.420 least free people in the world. They are slaves to their most base passions and desires. And if you

00:22:02.100 could talk to any of them when they're in their right mind, 100 out of 100 of them will tell you

00:22:06.900 they don't want to do drugs because it makes them miserable. Pretty dubious science there in New

00:22:13.900 York. Speaking of New York and dubious science, there's a great piece in the New York Times.

00:22:20.480 I know, I know. Never say I'm not fair. I know, I know. A chilly day in hell to say there's a great

00:22:28.040 piece in the New York Times. It's a piece about genetic testing for pregnant women. You know,

00:22:35.920 if you've ever had a kid, if you've ever gone through any kind of fertility programs or if you

00:22:41.520 just had a kid yourself or if you just read about it, you know that when women are pregnant, 0.79

00:22:45.740 there are these genetic tests. And you get them early on and they tell you, oh yes, your kid

00:22:50.640 is very likely to have Down syndrome or your kid is very likely to have this disease or this disorder

00:22:55.000 or this thing. They'll give you a whole litany. And the purpose of these tests

00:22:58.900 maybes to help you prepare for life with a child who has these challenges, but really what the

00:23:08.000 tests are for is to impel you to abort your baby. That's what it's really about. And the doctors

00:23:14.780 will tell you this. You say, I asked a doctor once, I said, hold on, why do you want to do all

00:23:18.000 these tests? They say, well, just to figure out how to proceed. What do you mean how to proceed?

00:23:23.100 The baby's going to grow a little bit more and then he's going to pop out of my wife. What do you 1.00

00:23:26.000 mean? That's how you proceed with a pregnancy? Well, no, but you're going to, yeah, we'll just 0.68

00:23:28.960 figure out just sort of, and then we'll just come to a decision. And no, there ain't no decision,

00:23:33.040 lady. You're not killing my kid. There is a shocking new report about the efficacy of these

00:23:37.860 tests in the New York Times. Now, as you likely have already heard this Friday, the Supreme Court

00:23:43.800 will convene to hear arguments on the legality and constitutionality of the Biden administration's

00:23:50.260 vaccine mandate. That means this week is going to be huge for the lawsuit that we filed against

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00:24:13.720 to help us put a stop to this disgusting federal overreach. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:24:25.940 Shocking new report out of the New York Times. New York Times still does good reporting. Their

00:24:37.560 editorial is awful. The way they frame the stories is terrible. The way they select the stories is

00:24:43.320 terrible. And a lot of the articles themselves, even in the news reporting, is really bad.

00:24:47.480 But the reporting itself is often fairly high quality. Headline, when they warn of rare disorders,

00:24:57.020 these prenatal tests are usually wrong. There are a number of tests that doctors will give to

00:25:05.140 pregnant women to determine if their children are perfect or if they're defective. And if they're 1.00

00:25:09.560 defective, they suggest that you abort the baby. How often do you think they're wrong?

00:25:16.060 So this shocked even me. You'd say, okay, they do these tests all the time. Gosh, could you imagine

00:25:24.300 if 5% of the time they're wrong? 5% of the time where a mother is told, oh, your baby is going to

00:25:31.100 have all these terrible problems. You should just abort the baby. And then the mother aborts the baby. 0.97

00:25:34.740 And then it actually, it turns out the baby was just fine. And so even by the mother's own

00:25:39.420 priorities of wanting to have a perfect baby, not a defective baby, even then she would have kept the

00:25:45.380 baby. The baby was killed when she wouldn't have done that. Oh my gosh, could you imagine 5% of the

00:25:50.600 time? What if it were 10% of the time that the tests were wrong? What if it were 15, 20, 25, 30,

00:26:00.100 35, 40, 45, 50, 85% of the time? Not 85% of the time they're right. 85% of the time they're wrong.

00:26:15.440 They're only right 15% of the time. Five syndromes here. DeGeorge syndrome, 1P36 deletion,

00:26:25.320 Cree-Duchat syndrome, Cree-Duchat syndrome, Wolf-Hirschborn syndrome, Prader-Willi and

00:26:32.700 Angleman syndromes. That first one, the chance that the positive test results are wrong and that 0.98

00:26:40.840 the results say the baby has this syndrome, but actually the baby doesn't. Chances that it's wrong,

00:26:45.400 81%. 1P36 deletion, 84%. Wrong. False positives. Cree-Duchat syndrome, 80% wrong. Wolf-Hirschborn,

00:26:58.160 86% wrong. Prader-Willi and Angleman syndromes, that can cause seizures and the inability to control

00:27:03.840 food consumption. You know, really you should probably abort your baby, right? Hey, listen,

00:27:07.840 ma'am, this is going to be really bad quality of life for you, especially, but also the baby's

00:27:13.100 going to be too. You should probably abort the baby. How often is that one wrong? 93% of the time.

00:27:24.060 It is always wrong to kill your baby because you consider your baby defective. Okay, that is always 0.93

00:27:31.800 wrong. You shouldn't do that. We all have imperfections. You do too. You do, even you,

00:27:37.700 you whom everyone loves so. Everyone has imperfections. So it's always wrong to kill your

00:27:42.560 baby, even if your baby has imperfections. But these parents who are, who are having abortions 0.83

00:27:48.800 on this information, usually, usually the vast majority of time are not even killing a baby

00:27:56.280 that they would consider to be defective. The lesson here, one is don't trust the science. These

00:28:04.060 people are idiots and they're wrong most of the time and they're extremely dishonest. 1.00

00:28:08.960 So that's the first part. Okay. But the second part is justice is a better guide to action than 1.00

00:28:17.880 statistics is. I have long said on this show that I think statistics is mostly bunk and you shouldn't

00:28:24.400 trust it, including maybe these statistics. I don't, everyone has their own statistics. There

00:28:29.580 are lies, damned lies and statistics. Sometimes conservatives push back at me. But one of the 1.00

00:28:34.600 reasons for this is statistics do not a moral argument make. The question is, should I kill 0.78

00:28:41.400 my kid or not? Should I kill my kid or not? And so right now, if we're going to argue it from 1.00

00:28:48.200 statistics, you say, well, actually, I don't know, the, the, the kid has a 67% chance of having this

00:28:54.880 problem and to this. And so, and he'll have a 72% chance of this problem. And so I think his life is

00:29:00.620 only worth a 41% chance of this. And so when you do the calculation and you pull out your calculator

00:29:05.440 and you say, actually his life isn't worth saving, kill him, beep, right? That would be the statistics 0.99

00:29:10.500 argument. That would be the egghead argument. How about the justice argument? Regardless of what

00:29:16.960 diseases the baby might have or that might get later on in life, maybe the baby, oh God, God forbid,

00:29:21.660 could you imagine the baby gets childhood leukemia? That's not going to come up on a test in the womb,

00:29:25.800 but it might happen. And that would be, that would be tragic. That would be so horrible.

00:29:30.360 Or imagine the, I don't know, the kid, he turns out he grows up, he's 25 years old and he gets some

00:29:34.480 other disease or he grows 60 years old and he gets some other disease, gets cancer. Yeah, that would be

00:29:39.480 sad too. Right. That would be, that would be very sad. Should you kill your kid because of

00:29:49.680 a probability that he'll suffer? Uh-uh. Just don't, just don't kill innocent people. That's a much 1.00

00:29:57.480 better rule. Because, because as the New York Times is showing us, even when you think you're

00:30:02.860 making these really sophisticated calculations, well, 93% chance he's got this horrible, often

00:30:09.100 they're just totally wrong. Just as wrong as all the eggheads have been. If you haven't learned

00:30:18.180 that the eggheads, the scientists can be wrong over the past two years, you haven't learned

00:30:24.240 anything. Speaking of health, not public health, but private health, Lizzo. Lizzo is a performer.

00:30:33.680 She's a singer and a dancer who makes being morbidly obese a big part of her act. And so it's not just 0.97

00:30:40.580 that she's a larger lady and, you know, deals with that and that's just part of her life. She makes it

00:30:46.820 sort of the point of her act. And she encourages it among other people and they call it body 0.84

00:30:52.720 positivity. And she says, oh yes, you know, you should get really, really fat. That's really good.

00:30:56.720 That'll be really good for you. So Lizzo just posted a new video to Instagram dancing around in a bathing 0.75

00:31:04.360 suit. And, uh, you don't need to watch this if you don't, if you don't want to, you can close your eyes.

00:31:10.820 It's not, uh, yeah, not exactly Mozart, you know, not, uh, not the highest sort of, but okay, it's her sort of

00:31:23.180 jiggling around. And she says, I gained weight. I look T F good. G O O D T. I had to look that up.

00:31:32.400 Good is a way of emphasizing the word good because it's got this emphatic point at the end. Good.

00:31:40.980 There's no question about how good I am. Good. And then T F refers to the F. I look at the F good.

00:31:50.780 But, uh, I'm not going to be rude or say anything about how Lizzo looks or, but, but the, the

00:32:03.500 philosophical point she's making is just not true. Okay. We, we are told in our skeptical society that,

00:32:12.060 that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There, you don't, what is beautiful, what you consider

00:32:17.780 beautiful maybe isn't beautiful according to someone else. It's all just taste and there's

00:32:23.300 no accounting for taste. Beauty. It's just like preferences. This is how we ended up with all

00:32:28.900 this hideous modern architecture and all this ridiculous modern art and just this ugly, very 0.99

00:32:33.860 ugly society all around us. This is why now, when you look at billboards, when you're going through 0.97

00:32:38.980 Times Square or anywhere else, the billboards no longer have hot models on it. Usually often the

00:32:44.120 billboards will have officiously ugly models on it to make a point. They're making a political point, 0.96

00:32:48.440 which is that what you, this is the new beauty. Ugliness is the new beauty. Just like when that

00:32:54.940 comedy, quote unquote comedy special Nanette came out with Hannah Gadsby and it was just really sad

00:33:01.180 and it was, she wasn't telling jokes. She was just saying sad things. And she said, this is the new

00:33:05.860 comedy. The, the, the new comedy is not comedy. It's, it's tragedy, but that's comedy now.

00:33:11.440 And ugliness is beauty and up is down and right is left and everything. And it's all opposite day.

00:33:17.720 And that, that is certainly what you see in political correctness, right? Men are now women, 0.98

00:33:22.160 women are now men. And it's all just words, words, words, and we can define things however we want, 0.97

00:33:27.360 because there are no objective standards. That's what the left is saying. And the right has kind of

00:33:30.880 bought into it too. The right has a very skeptical approach to politics now too. And they say, well,

00:33:36.140 look, who am I to tell you how to live your life? Who am I to legislate morality? We shouldn't teach

00:33:44.640 students what to think, only how to think, you know, that all that kind of babble is very skeptical

00:33:49.780 and buys into the same idea, but actually there is beauty. Go to the Sistine Chapel

00:33:55.740 and then go to that modern art piece of a urinal on the floor of a museum.

00:34:05.000 Tell me, please, try to convince me that one of those things is not more beautiful than the other

00:34:10.000 thing. Try to convince me. You can. This is also why the live and let live stuff, you do you,

00:34:16.300 don't yuck my yum, just do whatever you want, just as long as it doesn't affect me. That was never

00:34:20.820 going to work. It was never going to work because we are not just individuals. None of us is just an

00:34:26.420 individual. We are in community. Human beings by their very nature are in community. Jordan Peterson

00:34:32.720 had a great quote the other day. It was going around the internet. I loved this quote. I'm going

00:34:37.460 to be paraphrasing it, but he said, rationality is a community endeavor. Meaning you don't just

00:34:46.100 form yourself or your thoughts or even your own reason on your own. You do it in conversation with

00:34:53.800 other people. And you know this from your own experience. When you're alone for a little too

00:34:57.840 long and you don't talk to people and you don't interact with anyone, you go a little crazy. We

00:35:02.440 all do. We all do. This is why Aristotle says man is the social animal. Man is the political animal.

00:35:08.600 What's politics mean? It means the stuff we all do together.

00:35:11.240 And there are going to be standards. And the standard is either going to be

00:35:17.540 beauty or it's going to be not beauty. And we are going to force those standards on people

00:35:24.580 or we're going to have standards forced on us. What is it going to be? Is it going to be the real

00:35:27.720 goodness, truth, and beauty? Or is it going to be some insane leftist redefinition toward

00:35:32.860 ugliness and falsehood? And what do you want? What society do you want to live in? Speaking of

00:35:36.520 standards, CNN does this thing every year where now on New Year's Eve, their hosts get hammered on

00:35:43.100 air. And I think it's real. I think they actually are drinking. It could just be a fake sort of

00:35:47.720 performance, but I think they actually are. And then they babble and they get all goofy and they're

00:35:51.700 drunk on screen. And this is supposed to be really funny and festive. So Anderson Cooper leads this show

00:35:57.660 and Andy Cohen, who is a radio host, Andy Cohen comes on and he went into an admittedly satisfying

00:36:05.120 drunken rant about what a terrible mayor, New York mayor, Bill de Blasio was.

00:36:08.820 Let me tell you something. Oh, please. Tell us something, Andy. Watching Mayor de Blasio

00:36:16.140 do his victory lap dance after four years of the crappiest term as the mayor of New York.

00:36:29.080 The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor has been.

00:36:38.340 Wow. So sayonara, sucka. Wow. 0.98

00:36:43.240 2022. It's a new year because guess what? I have a feeling I'm going to be standing right here next

00:36:51.920 year. And you know who I'm not going to be looking at? Dancing as the city comes apart.

00:37:01.600 Totally right. So he's completely right about Bill de Blasio. He's been a complete disaster.

00:37:06.720 All the Democrats I know in New York, almost every single one, which is most of my friends in New York,

00:37:13.520 despise the guy. I think Andy Cohen at least may have actually been drunk there because Anderson

00:37:20.080 Cooper keeps trying to reel him in. Andy Cohen just says, no, I'm not going to do that. And he

00:37:23.660 goes on this drunken rant, which was, which was enjoyable. But generally, I think the CNN drunk

00:37:30.020 thing is just so stupid. This has become a meme in our culture that now, if you want to, if you want 1.00

00:37:36.860 to make something really fun, you know, if you want to make a form of entertainment really fun,

00:37:41.840 just get the performers drunk and that's going to make it better, right? There's drunk history.

00:37:46.600 Oh yes. Instead of just talking about history, but they're going to get drunk and talk about history

00:37:51.320 or the drunk Shakespeare. Yeah. Instead of watching good actors perform great plays, well,

00:37:57.280 they're going to just get drunk and do it. Isn't that going to be, they're going to impair their

00:38:02.180 skills and abilities and that'll be better somehow. Yes. And you know what we're going to do? We're

00:38:07.240 going to have these people go on CNN, watching CNN, always an unpleasant experience, but they're going

00:38:13.400 to get drunk and that'll be better. It's just so lazy and unattractive. It just, it reminds me that 0.92

00:38:21.940 we're not a serious society in any way. I'm no, I am no teetotaler, far from it. Let me tell you

00:38:28.360 folks. All right. I love a good drink. Okay. Good cigar with a good drink. I love it. All right. I've

00:38:36.340 loved it for a very long time, but I don't like being drunk. This is, this is where we've lost

00:38:43.420 all sense of proportion and we've lost the idea of the virtue of moderation. Drinking is fine.

00:38:51.640 Christ's first miracle was turning water into wine for people who had been partying for quite a few

00:38:56.300 days, but you need to hold your liquor people. You need to, that is a good thing. You think you ever

00:39:03.180 read how much Winston Churchill would drink in a single day? He'd wake up, he'd start his day with

00:39:08.620 scotch and soda. He'd move on. He'd have champagne, he'd have brandy, he'd have this, he'd be drinking

00:39:13.880 all day. Winston Churchill was almost never seen in public drunk, if ever. I'm not sure that he ever

00:39:20.120 was. That's what we've lost. It reminds me of that Chesterton line. A lot of Chesterton in today's show

00:39:25.720 where Chesterton said that the modern world is not so awful because it's so bad. It's in many ways

00:39:32.580 so awful because it's so good. We've got a lot of virtues, but they're totally out of whack and we

00:39:37.280 don't have a sense of moderation anymore. We don't have a sense of balance anymore. We don't, we can't,

00:39:43.000 and when you, when you get these things out of whack, when you don't have a balanced society,

00:39:46.760 things start to break down. Speaking of standards, did you know that babies are transphobic?

00:39:56.240 I actually did know that babies are transphobic, but I have had this point reinforced by 0.92

00:40:01.600 libs of TikTok, my favorite Twitter account, one of my favorite Twitter accounts,

00:40:06.300 and a viral video that's going around TikTok right now.

00:40:10.020 I've talked about the transphobic baby at work before. I went in a room with him today and I

00:40:15.860 had my wig on, which I took off now because it's like nine o'clock at night. He didn't cry and he was

00:40:22.880 like babbling at me. And I had to look at him and like, do you like me now because we've had a

00:40:33.620 moment or do you like me now because I have long hair and look more feminine because then you're

00:40:38.700 more transphobic? And then he started to cry. So that was my answer. 0.76

00:40:44.020 I truly do not know if this is satire or not. I don't know. I could see it be a hundred percent

00:40:53.080 being a joke and I could 100% see this being real. And I don't know because our society is

00:41:01.080 completely through the looking glass now. And when you can be kicked out of polite society for saying

00:41:06.940 that dudes are not chicks and chicks are not dudes, then you really don't know. Then your ability to

00:41:11.300 discern between satire and reality is gone. But let's just take it seriously. This idea that babies

00:41:19.460 are transphobic. I know a lot of conservatives have pushed back. They've said, you're calling

00:41:23.900 babies transphobic? How crazy is that? That's insane. You should, that's not, that's not right.

00:41:30.240 You're saying that babies are afraid of, yeah, of course they are because they haven't had their

00:41:35.720 brains poisoned by leftism yet. So of course they, they're not, it's not irrational, but yeah,

00:41:41.660 babies are afraid of a lot of things. My baby's afraid when I sneeze. Okay. Babies get scared of

00:41:47.780 lots of things and it's because they're extremely vulnerable. And so when dudes dress up like chicks 0.98

00:41:55.920 in big, crazy costumes and babies look at it and they say, something's not right there. Something's

00:42:00.320 a little bit off. Stranger danger, get me out of here. That is perfectly reasonable and makes sense.

00:42:06.260 And maybe, you know, the left used to always say, we need to learn from the children, learn from the

00:42:10.100 babies. Maybe we can learn from them a little bit and say, huh, maybe the baby's right. Maybe this

00:42:13.600 isn't quite right. Maybe something is a little off here. Maybe we need to fix things. I am not of the

00:42:21.920 opinion that, you know, when we're young, we know everything and then we just get corrupted

00:42:26.980 by society. I don't, I don't think that's true. I think that very often young people have, you know,

00:42:33.380 all of their untutored desires and appetites and emotions. And that's the whole point of education

00:42:37.920 is to kind of tamp that down and, and give yourself some command over your own liberty.

00:42:43.440 But sometimes babies are more correct than us. Okay. And when, when our minds become so poisoned by

00:42:50.740 ideology that they divorce themselves from reality, maybe we need to look to the

00:42:56.860 wisdom of the babes. Speaking of threats to our life and to our liberty, I, just in case you didn't

00:43:06.560 have enough things to be afraid of and to freak out about and to go into panic mode over, the liberal

00:43:12.340 establishment has given us a new one. This, this sounds like a cheap B movie. The new thing to be

00:43:19.740 afraid of is flu-rona. Flu-rona. It's, oh, you, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the

00:43:31.780 restaurant. Oh no. You can, so what is flu-rona? Israel records its first case of, of a patient with

00:43:39.160 COVID and the flu at the same time. And, uh, you know, they're fine. The person's fine. But, uh,

00:43:46.280 yeah, you got the flu and coronavirus. And it's kind of hard to tell the difference because it's

00:43:52.300 all the same symptoms. Really it's all the same symptoms as the common cold. Before you freak out

00:43:59.720 over this, before you run for the hills, lockdown, put on 15 masks, take like 27 more jabs, before you

00:44:06.880 do that. Recognize perhaps that if you can't tell the difference between the deadly novel pandemic

00:44:16.320 that's going to wipe out humanity and the common flu or the common cold, you're probably fine.

00:44:25.420 You're, you're probably going to be okay. You're, I think you're going to make it. That's,

00:44:29.980 I hope, I hope we don't get flu-rona. I just, you know, I just got the rona. It's not pleasant.

00:44:34.500 You know, I was, I was down for the count for a couple of days, kind of tired,

00:44:38.340 but, uh, you know, I think you're going to make it. Speaking of death,

00:44:42.200 uh, really shocking, breaking news story that I have to get to. I'm glad we had time to get to it

00:44:47.240 today. According to the New York Post, here's the New York Post headline,

00:44:53.040 Betty White's cause of death revealed. Betty White, beloved screen icon, died at the age of 99

00:45:01.160 around Christmas and new year. And so now the investigative reporters at the New York Post

00:45:07.120 have uncovered Betty White's cause of death. Before I read the article, I, I admittedly am no

00:45:16.060 pathologist. I'm not an expert. I did not go to medical school, but I am going to wager a guess

00:45:22.160 that Betty White's cause of death has something to do with being extremely old.

00:45:32.420 Yep. That's what it looks like. That's, it looks like what it was. There was some question as to

00:45:35.860 whether or not Betty White had just gotten a booster shot for COVID. And so that, that was

00:45:40.180 kind of going around the internet and I don't know, maybe she did, maybe she didn't. But

00:45:42.840 regardless when a, when a 99 year old dies, I don't, you know, she probably didn't flip her Corvette 1.00

00:45:52.780 on the PCH. It, I don't, it probably wasn't that she did too many lines of Coke off of the amplifier 1.00

00:46:00.500 at the rock concert. You know, people die. I had one friend die of COVID, a teacher of mine. He died

00:46:07.160 of COVID. Wynn Hanman, wonderful, wonderful teacher. He was 97. He was going to turn 98 in

00:46:12.660 I think two weeks after he died. Very sad. It's always sad. Death is a sad thing, but it, it's okay.

00:46:22.100 It's okay. People are going to die. I suspect that a lot of the reason that people freaked out during

00:46:29.760 COVID and allowed bad political actors to take so many of our rights and freedoms and way of life 0.94

00:46:35.060 is because we're uncomfortable with death. We're unfamiliar with death. We don't know how to think

00:46:40.840 about it. We don't, we just put it out of our minds. And then when it creeps back into our minds,

00:46:44.160 we take drugs to try to numb that feeling and, and ignore the fact that we are going to meet our

00:46:49.060 maker someday. And maybe that means we need to think about how we're living our lives and how we're

00:46:54.100 going to prepare for that. And what we think the relationship of our soul to our body is in our body

00:46:57.780 and our time in this earth to maybe a life after this earth. And maybe we got to think about these

00:47:03.980 ultimate questions, or we can just stay panicked and nervous and doing a bunch of drugs and keeping

00:47:09.760 our heads in the sand. That's where our political rulers want us to keep them anyway. I'm Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 05, 2022

Ep. 915 - Dangerous To The Right People

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