The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 920 - Biden Wants To Count Your Votes In 2022

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00:00:37.720 The Democrats are trying to federalize our elections.

00:00:41.000 Right now, the states run the elections per the Constitution.

00:00:45.920 But the problem with that system is that sometimes Republicans win those elections,

00:00:51.000 which the Democrats don't like very much.

00:00:53.060 So they have made it their number one legislative priority to end the filibuster,

00:00:59.780 which will allow them to take over the elections and give themselves a major, if not a permanent, electoral advantage.

00:01:08.480 They don't have many very good arguments as to why we should do this beyond their naked desire for power.

00:01:16.160 So instead of making an argument as to why we need to completely upend our election system,

00:01:20.880 they are resorting to the tried and true tactic of accusing anyone who opposes them of racism.

00:01:29.580 How do you want to be remembered?

00:01:32.580 At consequential moments in history, they present a choice.

00:01:36.580 Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?

00:01:43.080 Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?

00:01:47.980 Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?

00:01:52.640 This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy. 0.83

00:01:58.520 Well, are you some sort of racist?

00:02:01.100 Do you want to be on the side of my good friends Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd, 0.93

00:02:05.620 the exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan? 0.67

00:02:08.540 Ugh.

00:02:09.280 Whoops.

00:02:10.040 I mean, if you don't want to completely upend our election system

00:02:14.460 and give the ruling class in Washington, D.C. 0.59

00:02:17.160 the ability to permanently enthrone itself in power, according to Joe Biden, 0.99

00:02:21.540 then you are a vile racist worthy of ostracism.

00:02:25.740 But unfortunately for Joe Biden, Biden is very old and he's been around for a very long time, 0.99

00:02:32.020 since George Wallace was governor, in fact.

00:02:34.980 And back in the old days, when he was palling around with those actual segregationists and

00:02:39.700 Klansmen, Joe Biden used to make the opposite sort of arguments that he's making now.

00:02:44.940 And unfortunately for Joe Biden, we've got the video.

00:02:48.460 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:55.740 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:58.640 My favorite comment yesterday is from UKish Enzier, who says,

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00:03:09.340 They refuse to actually watch your show.

00:03:11.640 I can see that you're showing more of the experts than what the mainstream media does here

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00:03:16.960 Well, thank you very much.

00:03:17.740 I appreciate that.

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00:03:31.240 If they actually did watch it, I suspect they would watch the show themselves because we

00:03:35.080 spend a lot of our time exposing the lies of the media that they are actually consuming.

00:03:39.720 So you're clearly an intelligent person, curious, think for yourself, seek out the truth.

00:03:45.120 You should always seek out the truth, no matter what the authorities in your life tell you

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00:03:51.320 So how do you reconcile these things?

00:03:53.780 Well, it's very simple.

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00:05:59.940 And the Democrats, this is a two-part process, so I understand why it's a little bit confusing.

00:06:05.620 The Democrats want to take over the elections.

00:06:08.660 They can't take over the elections right now because even though they have a majority in

00:06:14.580 the Senate and in the Congress, they only have a very slim majority.

00:06:17.700 So, in the Senate, because there's something called the filibuster, you need more than just

00:06:23.200 a slim majority.

00:06:24.160 You need 60 votes to be able to actually push these really radical proposals through.

00:06:29.200 So, the Democrats need to end the filibuster.

00:06:32.060 Filibuster, longstanding Senate tradition.

00:06:35.020 But Joe Biden says it doesn't matter.

00:06:37.320 However you got to do it, this is our chance to really grab some power.

00:06:40.480 So, whatever you got to do, you need to end the filibuster.

00:06:45.340 Here's Joe Biden in his own words.

00:06:46.600 We should make no mistake, this nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of

00:06:55.340 power.

00:06:56.520 It is a fundamental power grab by the majority party.

00:07:02.440 Oh, whoopsie daisy, that was 17 years ago.

00:07:04.960 Sorry, that was back when Joe Biden was a senator and was arguing against getting rid of the filibuster

00:07:10.800 because he said it was a naked grab of power.

00:07:13.820 It was a threat to American democracy, would turn us into a banana republic. 0.98

00:07:19.360 But that was then, and this is now, that was when the Republicans were in power and wanted to do it.

00:07:23.900 And now, because the Democrats are in power, it's a completely different story.

00:07:30.520 Today, I'm making it clear, to protect our democracy, I support changing the Senate rules.

00:07:39.120 Whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights.

00:07:47.220 When it comes to protecting majority rule in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate.

00:07:57.960 I make this announcement with careful deliberation, recognizing the fundamental right to vote is a right from which all other rights flow.

00:08:08.820 Biden in 2005, it's very important that we don't have simple majority rule.

00:08:12.340 That's not the way America is governed.

00:08:13.860 This is a bare naked power grab.

00:08:15.220 This is terrible.

00:08:15.920 This is a threat to our democracy.

00:08:17.440 Joe Biden in 2022.

00:08:18.700 We absolutely need bare majority rule in America.

00:08:21.140 If we don't have bare majority rule, as we haven't ever, if we don't change that all right now, then that would be a threat to our democracy.

00:08:27.700 That would be a terrible naked power grab. 0.81

00:08:29.420 And so, okay, right.

00:08:30.420 Joe Biden is not making any good faith arguments here.

00:08:34.540 He is, as he described 17 years ago, just trying to take power.

00:08:38.880 And he's using a lot of mealy-mouthed euphemisms to do it.

00:08:41.960 This is my favorite one that you're hearing right now from Democrats.

00:08:46.280 They say, we need action on voting rights.

00:08:48.620 We need action right now on voting rights.

00:08:54.180 What action do we need?

00:08:55.860 What action do we need?

00:08:58.460 And why do we need that action?

00:09:01.280 What they mean by the action that we need on voting rights is we need to take away voter ID laws.

00:09:06.540 We need to make it easier for illegal aliens, for foreign citizens to vote in our elections.

00:09:10.980 We need to make it easier for Democrat operatives to cheat because they're just going to send out unsolicited mail-in ballots 0.98

00:09:17.280 to everyone who's ever registered anywhere.

00:09:19.760 And you're going to have multiple ballots going to people at different addresses.

00:09:23.780 This is what happened in California just during this recent recall election.

00:09:27.160 People, such as my colleagues here at the Daily Wire, moved out of California.

00:09:31.740 Many of us said, do not send me a ballot.

00:09:33.520 What happens?

00:09:33.920 They send you a ballot anyway.

00:09:35.400 Because widespread mail-ins are totally open to fraud.

00:09:39.080 Even Barack Obama admitted this just a few years ago before the Democrats pivoted on it and tried to do it.

00:09:45.200 So they're pushing for specific actions that will not protect the right to vote, but actually weaken the right to vote and weaken integrity in our system.

00:09:54.980 Don't forget, every time an ineligible voter votes, they're taking away a vote from an eligible voter.

00:09:59.900 So that's the what.

00:10:03.400 And what's crazier than the what is the why.

00:10:07.040 Why do we need action on voting rights?

00:10:10.460 Is there anyone in America right now who is an eligible voter, rather, who can't vote?

00:10:17.740 Who?

00:10:19.020 Show me the person.

00:10:21.340 It has never been easier to vote.

00:10:24.360 Frankly, it's a little too easy to vote.

00:10:26.460 That's really the problem.

00:10:27.780 You don't only need to vote on election day.

00:10:33.140 Virtually everywhere in the country, you can vote on multiple days.

00:10:36.140 You can send in mail-in ballots if you want, if you request a mail-in ballot.

00:10:40.180 These days, you can just get a mail-in ballot without even requesting it.

00:10:44.540 You'll have vote harvesters showing up to your door to take your ballots in many cases, certainly in Democrat precincts.

00:10:51.240 It's never been.

00:10:51.740 Who can't vote?

00:10:53.300 Show me the eligible voter who can't vote.

00:10:56.520 They can't do it. 0.89

00:10:58.340 And so they have to use these ridiculous euphemisms. 0.77

00:11:01.440 We need action. 0.67

00:11:02.760 It's a crisis.

00:11:03.420 What they're suggesting is that the Klan is outside of every polling place intimidating black voters.

00:11:10.380 Doesn't happen.

00:11:11.160 Doesn't happen anywhere in the country.

00:11:13.020 In fact, the only recent evidence of voter intimidation that we've seen was about 10 years ago during the Obama administration when the new Black Panther Party was showing up with guns outside of polling places.

00:11:22.920 So it was voter intimidation from the left.

00:11:25.520 You're not seeing it from far right, fascist, neo, you're not seeing any of it.

00:11:33.740 That just doesn't exist.

00:11:34.560 So it's a completely made up problem.

00:11:36.780 And then Democrats are promote through their propagandists in the media largely are promoting that made up problem so that they can come in with a solution, which is to give themselves a whole lot more power.

00:11:47.640 Now, this reminds me a lot of what they've done with COVID.

00:11:50.960 Namely, they have set up a fantasy that justifies their policies, policies that might actually be justified if the premise were true in the first place.

00:12:04.100 If there were Americans dropping, perfectly healthy, ordinary Americans dropping like flies, it's not just very specific groups of people that we need to protect from the virus that we can protect, but everyone, all young people, healthy people, they were dropping like flies, 800,000, 900,000, a million, 100,000 kids on ventilators like Sonia Sotomayor said.

00:12:23.800 If that were true, that would justify a much more aggressive reaction to COVID.

00:12:29.980 The problem is none of that's true.

00:12:31.500 It's just completely made up.

00:12:32.960 And so their policies are not justified.

00:12:37.860 If millions and millions of eligible voters in America were being unjustly kept away from the polls, then that would justify action on voting rights.

00:12:45.380 But that's not happening.

00:12:46.460 It's just completely made up.

00:12:48.660 And so it doesn't justify that.

00:12:51.460 If we had a system of government in America that was supposed to be simple majority rule, then I guess that would justify protecting majority rule, simple majority rule.

00:13:00.640 But that's not what we have in America.

00:13:01.880 We have an elaborate constitutional system of government that has a separation of powers and has checks and balances and has elements of democracy.

00:13:11.240 It has elements of aristocracy.

00:13:12.600 It has elements of monarchy, for goodness sakes.

00:13:14.180 It has elements that are extremely democratic.

00:13:17.500 It has elements that are much less democratic.

00:13:19.520 It has an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary.

00:13:22.280 It has federal power, state power, which the feds are now trying to completely take away, and power that is reserved by the people.

00:13:28.960 And you've got a ruling class clumped in the feds, in the federal bureaucracy, and in the federal government that's trying to take all the power away from all of the other branches and all of the other power centers in the country.

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00:15:00.480 You want to talk about a Fed power grab, you want to talk about a charade.

00:15:04.900 Let's talk about January 6th.

00:15:07.440 I'm not making any accusations, I'm only, you know, I'm sorry, I didn't say it right.

00:15:12.020 Let's talk about January 6th, the worst insurrection and terror attack in the history of the United States, January 6th.

00:15:21.220 So, what we're told is that these Trump supporters showed up and they killed a bunch of cops and they nearly took down the government.

00:15:30.280 None of that was true.

00:15:31.980 The worst they did was cause some property damage and the horn hat guy danced around the Capitol.

00:15:38.320 But now we're learning the Feds may have had an active role in promoting the riot at the Capitol.

00:15:51.660 Senator Ted Cruz yesterday was grilling the FBI in a Senate hearing and he had a very simple question.

00:15:59.500 This should not be complicated, it should have been a very simple answer.

00:16:01.940 Did any FBI agents or FBI informants commit acts of violence on January 6th?

00:16:11.000 Ms. Sandberg, I want to turn to the FBI.

00:16:15.900 How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of January 6th?

00:16:22.940 Sir, I'm sure you can appreciate that I can't go into the specifics of sources and methods.

00:16:31.700 Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of January 6th?

00:16:38.160 Yes or no?

00:16:39.860 Sir, I can't, I can't answer that.

00:16:41.940 Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on January 6th?

00:16:46.940 I can't answer that, sir.

00:16:50.820 Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on January 6th?

00:17:00.360 Sir, I can't answer that.

00:17:02.100 Sir, I can't answer, sir, I can't answer, sir, I can't answer.

00:17:04.840 But notice the way she didn't answer changed.

00:17:08.160 And this does remind you, I don't say it just because he's a friend of mine and we host a podcast together,

00:17:12.160 does remind you that Cruz is a very good lawyer.

00:17:16.840 Because you would think that the first question he would ask is,

00:17:19.900 did the FBI have any involvement in January 6th?

00:17:23.000 That's the basic question to establish, but he doesn't.

00:17:26.680 The first question he asks is, how many feds were involved?

00:17:31.580 Right, he's sort of talking past the sale here.

00:17:34.300 He's assuming that the feds certainly were involved.

00:17:37.400 And then he's saying, so how many?

00:17:38.280 He says, how many FBI agents or confidential informants were involved in January 6th?

00:17:46.700 And what is her answer?

00:17:47.600 She says, sir, I can't reveal sources or methods.

00:17:53.560 So she's accepting the premise that the feds were involved in January 6th.

00:17:58.860 Because if no feds were involved, if the FBI really did not have its fingerprints on January 6th,

00:18:04.280 then she could have just said, we weren't involved.

00:18:07.340 That's fine.

00:18:07.980 That doesn't compromise any agents in the field.

00:18:09.980 That doesn't compromise any informants.

00:18:12.000 That's a very simple answer.

00:18:13.940 She certainly can give that answer.

00:18:15.760 We were not involved.

00:18:17.220 But she doesn't.

00:18:19.220 Because he assumes that they were.

00:18:22.020 And she allows him to get away with it.

00:18:24.740 She allows him to play that trick.

00:18:26.560 Because he had a good hunch and he was right.

00:18:28.620 So she says, I can't reveal sources or methods.

00:18:30.780 He goes, okay.

00:18:31.680 Then he goes back.

00:18:32.320 He says, were there any involved?

00:18:34.260 Um, hummina, hummina, hummina.

00:18:38.520 I can't answer that.

00:18:40.220 Yeah, you can't answer it because you were involved.

00:18:42.240 That's why.

00:18:43.440 It's a big yes.

00:18:45.120 It's a big fat yes.

00:18:47.340 So the question then becomes, what was the FBI's involvement?

00:18:52.600 Was the FBI's involvement just to gather some information?

00:18:56.260 That's a totally legal law enforcement tactic.

00:18:58.880 Or was the FBI's involvement to incite violence?

00:19:05.080 Was the FBI's involvement not just to gather information about what was already happening,

00:19:09.600 but was the FBI's involvement to actually cause these events to happen in the first place?

00:19:13.940 Because the FBI is not allowed to do that.

00:19:15.560 No law enforcement agency is allowed to do that.

00:19:19.720 Slight parenthetical here.

00:19:20.940 I know Senator Cruz got in a lot of trouble last week because he used a dumb talking point from the Democrats to describe January 6th.

00:19:28.660 And a lot of people wrote into me and they said, Michael, when are you going to toss this guy overboard?

00:19:33.220 When are you going to call out your friend Ted Cruz?

00:19:35.240 When are you going to go after your friend Ted Cruz?

00:19:37.580 And I haven't really, I certainly haven't on the show.

00:19:40.800 I was on C-SPAN over the weekend and I addressed it because I was asked about it on TV.

00:19:44.860 But I'm happy to address it here, which is, I generally don't endeavor to throw my friends under the bus.

00:19:54.200 I don't think anyone should endeavor to throw their friends under the bus.

00:19:57.540 There are some occasions where someone is doing something that is so bad that you've got to call them out for it.

00:20:03.320 Or if they're unrepentant or if they're going down a really bad path.

00:20:09.080 Of course, then you have an obligation to justice to say, hey, this is wrong.

00:20:12.720 And maybe you do it privately at first, but then you can do it publicly afterward.

00:20:16.700 But if someone makes a mistake and then recognizes it was a mistake and the wrong thing to do and then acknowledges that publicly,

00:20:24.000 I don't think that conservatives or anyone else has the obligation or even really should just throw someone under the bus in a graceless way.

00:20:35.740 Because my argument at the time, I thought, look, not just because the guy's a friend of mine,

00:20:38.920 but because as a member of the conservative movement, Ted Cruz has been a good senator.

00:20:47.140 He's been one of the most stalwart, one of the most conservative, one of the most effective senators we've got.

00:20:53.720 So if he says a dumb thing and he acknowledges it and he says, yeah, whoops, I shouldn't have done that. 0.98

00:20:59.260 That was dumb. 0.99

00:21:01.080 We're just going to throw him overboard. 1.00

00:21:03.860 I don't know.

00:21:04.280 That to me doesn't seem like a very effective political strategy.

00:21:08.600 If that's the new standard that anytime any of our fighters out there do anything dumb or bad or make any mistake, 0.87

00:21:15.800 that we're just going to say, OK, you're gone. 0.63

00:21:17.060 Outer darkness, wailing and gnashing feet.

00:21:18.500 See you later.

00:21:18.820 Then conservatives are never going to be able to practically accomplish anything.

00:21:24.060 But I don't know.

00:21:24.800 I thought, OK, am I just am I just being too nice to my friend here?

00:21:28.400 Am I just am I am I showing too much grace here? 0.56

00:21:31.720 Is he does Ted Cruz suddenly become a huge squish and he's just completely useless and he's he's Liz Cheney in a wig or something. 0.67

00:21:38.060 And then just a few days later, we see.

00:21:39.820 No, the guy is still one of the most stalwart right wing effective conservatives in the Senate.

00:21:46.000 And how did he do it?

00:21:47.280 Because he nailed the feds on the January 6th thing, specifically on that issue.

00:21:52.040 And then he brought up a very important name.

00:21:55.160 This is a name maybe you've heard about him on Twitter or on some of the message boards or maybe some conservative news outlet.

00:22:04.140 But it's not a name that's gone mainstream.

00:22:06.340 Ted Cruz asked.

00:22:08.200 Who is Ray Epps?

00:22:10.520 Who is Ray Epps?

00:22:12.000 Epps.

00:22:12.300 I'm aware of the individual, sir.

00:22:18.200 I don't have the specific background to him.

00:22:21.760 Well, there are a lot of people who are understandably very concerned about Mr. Epps.

00:22:25.780 On the night of January 5th, 2021, Epps wandered around the crowd that had gathered.

00:22:32.800 And there's video out there of him chanting, tomorrow, we need to get into the Capitol, into the Capitol.

00:22:39.940 This was strange behavior.

00:22:41.640 So strange that the crowd began chanting, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed.

00:22:48.160 Ms. Sandburn, was Ray Epps a fed?

00:22:49.740 Sir, I cannot answer that question.

00:22:55.160 The next day.

00:22:56.120 The next day.

00:22:57.200 On January 6th, Mr. Epps is seen whispering to a person.

00:23:01.600 And five seconds later, five seconds after he's whispering to a person, that same person begins to forcibly tear down the barricades.

00:23:09.400 So, Ms. FBI lady, is Ray Epps a fed?

00:23:15.140 Sir, I cannot answer that question.

00:23:16.860 Yeah, I bet you can.

00:23:17.700 Well, I bet you can.

00:23:18.720 I think you just don't want to.

00:23:20.380 Cruz goes on.

00:23:22.120 He explains another really strange fact, which is that in the days after January 6th, the FBI puts this guy, Ray Epps, on a most wanted list.

00:23:31.420 His picture there says, if you can find this person, if you can, you know, there were a number of other people on the list as well.

00:23:36.740 If you can find them, any information leading to their arrest, please send it over.

00:23:40.340 And then when they discover one of these people, they slap a big label, arrested, we got him, right?

00:23:46.180 Except for Ray Epps.

00:23:49.280 Ray Epps suddenly disappears from the FBI website.

00:23:53.380 Ray Epps disappears from the FBI website just a day or two after a right-wing media outlet, Revolver News, publishes a report suggesting that Ray Epps is a fed.

00:24:04.320 All of a sudden, Epps is gone.

00:24:05.860 He wasn't arrested.

00:24:07.260 If he had been arrested, there would have been a big sign that said arrested right on him.

00:24:11.100 He just disappears.

00:24:13.200 Suspect.

00:24:13.820 Is Ray Epps a fed?

00:24:14.840 I don't know.

00:24:18.700 Regardless of whether he is or not, the FBI has a lot of explaining to do.

00:24:23.060 They're now in total damage control mode, by the way.

00:24:25.720 The January 6th committee and the two squish fake Republicans, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, are trying desperately in these extremely lawyered, carefully worded, parsing every single syllable statements to insinuate that this guy is not a fed.

00:24:39.940 The testimony does not seem convincing.

00:24:44.320 Representative Thomas Massey pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on the same question.

00:24:48.540 He said, hey, Buster, there's a lot of strange behavior with this Epps guy.

00:24:51.360 What's going on?

00:24:52.700 Is he one of you?

00:24:53.260 As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he'll probably go to jail, he'll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol.

00:25:08.020 And as far as we can find, this individual has not been charged with anything.

00:25:11.980 You said this is one of the most sweeping investigations in the history.

00:25:15.620 Have you seen that video or those frames from that video?

00:25:20.860 So as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on impending investigations and particularly not to comment about particular scenes or particular individuals.

00:25:34.620 Okay, without, I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5th and January 6th.

00:25:48.480 Can you tell us without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6th, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol and if any of them did?

00:26:01.480 You don't need to violate any norms if you weren't involved, Buster.

00:26:09.900 It's very simple.

00:26:10.800 If you guys didn't have your fingers all over it, then you can say we weren't involved.

00:26:14.460 But you did.

00:26:15.440 You obviously did, which is why it would violate your norms and compromise your sources and your agents and your informants for you to get into the details.

00:26:24.000 Because we already have the answer to the basic questions.

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00:27:03.660 Talk about corruption in our federal government.

00:27:05.960 Talk about doing the same thing over and over and over again.

00:27:08.380 Do you know what Ben's show's about today?

00:27:09.660 It's about how Hillary might run for president again. 0.99

00:27:13.940 Can you imagine that?

00:27:15.180 She might run. 0.84

00:27:16.240 I hope she does.

00:27:17.440 I hope she does, just so we get the pleasure of beating her again. 1.00

00:27:21.200 A whole lot more coming up.

00:27:22.140 Don't go anywhere.

00:27:22.660 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:27:23.840 We'll be right back.

00:27:37.380 So Cruz, Representative Thomas Massey, other people have presented a lot of evidence.

00:27:47.240 That the feds were involved in January 6th and the Capitol riot.

00:27:51.340 What does this show us?

00:27:52.920 One, I think it's safe to assume that that is the case.

00:27:55.980 I think the FBI testimony and Attorney General Merrick Garland's testimony basically proved

00:28:01.100 it because if they hadn't been involved, they could have just said so.

00:28:03.780 So it shows you that a whole lot of American politics is a charade.

00:28:10.220 It's political theater.

00:28:11.400 It's political theater.

00:28:12.320 What it shows you is a lot of the political battles that we think define the way our government

00:28:18.380 and society work.

00:28:19.220 They're actually just a distraction.

00:28:21.860 And you can look at the BLM riots or the Capitol riot for that matter.

00:28:29.640 And you think, okay, our big national battle, it's between Antifa on one hand and the Proud

00:28:36.440 Boys or the Oath Keepers, which I think is just a completely made up organization.

00:28:41.360 It's, yeah, it's between them.

00:28:43.320 That's where the real fight's going on.

00:28:44.960 No, I don't think that's quite right because the current occupant of the White House and

00:28:54.260 his vice president were supporting indirectly and directly the Antifa and BLM rioters.

00:29:01.380 Kamala Harris raised money to bail them out of prison, bail them out of jail rather.

00:29:07.740 The federal government seems to have been inciting the right wing rioters at the Capitol.

00:29:13.720 They certainly were involved to some degree, according to all the evidence available to us.

00:29:20.760 So both sides of that alleged battle are really just kind of being orchestrated out of Washington,

00:29:27.780 D.C. by the ruling class.

00:29:29.940 Huh, that's weird.

00:29:31.820 The Republicans versus the Democrats.

00:29:36.900 Very often it seems that no matter who you elect, you get the same bad policy.

00:29:41.900 The same exact sort of bad policy.

00:29:45.760 The country keeps going in the wrong direction no matter who you, that's weird.

00:29:50.060 It's almost as if much of our mainstream political battling is just fake.

00:30:00.000 It's just a show while the actual business of government takes place behind the scenes, usually with all of those alleged belligerents working together.

00:30:11.520 We do not have powerful, organized, institutionalized opposition in this country to the liberal establishment, to the ruling class.

00:30:26.760 You want to see a great example of this?

00:30:28.780 Jake Tapper on CNN just expressed his outrage, his dismay that the CDC seems to have misrepresented data on the coronavirus.

00:30:41.840 The hospitals are still stretched thin because of this.

00:30:45.180 I'm not trying to take away from that.

00:30:46.180 But if 40 percent in some hospitals, 40 percent of the people who have COVID don't necessarily have problematic COVID.

00:30:53.360 They're there because they got in a car accident.

00:30:55.440 They're there because, you know, they bump their head.

00:30:59.940 And they're being included as in the hospital with COVID.

00:31:03.760 That number seems kind of misleading.

00:31:05.800 We're two years into this and we need the clearest picture possible.

00:31:09.300 If somebody is in the hospital with a broken leg and they also have asymptomatic COVID, that should not be counted as hospitalized with COVID, clearly.

00:31:16.180 I can't believe you.

00:31:17.500 How dare you, CDC?

00:31:19.160 How dare you, government officials, just present this data in a misleading way?

00:31:25.360 Where were the journalists?

00:31:27.180 Where were all the journalists to ask you these questions two years ago when we all just believe?

00:31:32.460 Oh, wait, wait.

00:31:33.060 That's right.

00:31:33.400 I'm a journalist.

00:31:34.120 Oops.

00:31:35.040 Right.

00:31:35.320 I was supposed to be the one asking those questions.

00:31:37.340 I'm glad that Jake Tapper is either outraged or pretending to be outraged now because the establishment and the ruling class was lying to us for two years.

00:31:48.000 Some of us, by the way, I hate to say I told you so, some of us were calling this two years ago.

00:31:54.900 But I'm glad Jake Tapper has caught up now.

00:31:57.720 He should have been doing that the whole time.

00:31:59.500 That's what an actual journalist would have done.

00:32:01.420 That's what someone who's really speaking truth to power and asking the hard questions, that's what they would have done.

00:32:09.040 But that's not what happened with our corporate media because our corporate press are not actually investigative reporters and journalists and fighting back against the entrenched power.

00:32:18.600 They're part of the entrenched power.

00:32:20.540 They're the same thing.

00:32:21.580 The progressives in our government, the hardcore progressives are not there fighting against and sticking it to the big corporations.

00:32:32.420 They're working with the big corporations.

00:32:34.660 They're all on the same side.

00:32:37.360 They're not getting asked the questions of the media and they're not having their premises questioned by the intellectuals in the academy,

00:32:46.420 the people who are doing research on their own, the scientists and the other sorts of scholars who are also speaking truth to power.

00:32:54.860 No, they're all just working together.

00:32:57.200 They're all just part of the same thing.

00:32:59.880 And whenever they appear to be in opposition, that's almost always just political theater.

00:33:06.960 The question is now, why is Jake Tapper suddenly changing his tune?

00:33:10.600 Well, it's not just Jake Tapper.

00:33:12.580 It's the whole ruling class.

00:33:17.000 Do you think it's a coincidence that CNN is now taking a more skeptical, more, I don't know, calm, more reasonable approach to COVID

00:33:27.700 at the very same time that Joe Biden is trying to pivot on COVID and Joe Biden is saying, look, there's no federal solution here.

00:33:35.940 Look, we're all just going to have to get back to normal.

00:33:37.560 At the very same time that the Democrat governor of New York is saying, actually, the hospitalization numbers are being exaggerated.

00:33:43.480 At the very same time as the CDC director is saying, actually, the hospitalization numbers, or the death numbers, rather, have been somewhat exaggerated because of the issue of comorbidities.

00:33:52.460 Do you think it's just a coincidence that all of these various facets of society, many of which are supposed to be pitted in opposition to one another,

00:34:00.300 are just all of a sudden changing their tune at the same time because why?

00:34:03.580 Why? Because that is now in the interest of the ruling class, which has many different facets to it.

00:34:11.040 That's why.

00:34:11.840 Because there are diminishing political returns for the lockdowns and forcing everyone to get the constant jabs and harping on COVID forever and ever and ever.

00:34:20.820 However, they've already seized the power that they wanted to seize.

00:34:24.220 They've already upended our society.

00:34:25.880 They've already taken away a lot of our liberties.

00:34:27.820 And so they're all going to pivot and move on to the next thing.

00:34:30.620 And they're going to do it in concert with one another.

00:34:32.520 And the most offensive part of all is they're going to pretend that they're actually fighting one another the whole time.

00:34:38.660 They are going to relieve themselves on your leg and tell you that it is raining.

00:34:44.920 Rarely, very rarely, do you see a politician or a leader in any of those facets of our power structures in America,

00:34:55.160 whether that's the media, whether that's the universities, whether that's the corporations.

00:34:59.300 Rarely do you see a leader buck the trend, buck the party line.

00:35:04.980 And you are seeing that a little bit right now with Ron DeSantis.

00:35:09.920 Ron DeSantis has just come out with a number of proposals for the new legislative session.

00:35:16.720 His proposals include a major clamping down on immigration.

00:35:23.160 Now, Ron DeSantis, as a governor, he's not the president, so he's a governor.

00:35:27.140 He can't do very much about legal immigration.

00:35:29.240 That's going to be said at the national level.

00:35:31.600 But he can do a lot about illegal immigration.

00:35:33.580 And what he's proposing is to ban state and local agencies from doing business with any company or non-governmental organization

00:35:40.460 that helps facilitate illegal immigration across Florida.

00:35:43.740 So he's going to use his power to force the state to pressure companies and NGOs to stop using illegal labor.

00:35:53.860 He is going to require every county in Florida to enter into a contract with ICE,

00:35:59.620 the Immigration Enforcement Agency, as part of a federal program that streamlines getting illegals arrested and deported.

00:36:06.500 He is going to prevent cooperation between ICE agents and law enforcement agencies.

00:36:13.500 He is going to, or rather, he's going to stop people from law enforcement from working with ICE.

00:36:19.320 He is going to implement an emergency order that bans the issuance or renewal of all state licenses

00:36:26.960 to companies or NGOs that provide services to unaccompanied alien children in Florida.

00:36:32.180 So this is really tough stuff on the issue of immigration.

00:36:36.480 And this is going to irritate not just Democrats, but some Republicans as well.

00:36:43.300 I'll give you an example.

00:36:44.020 It would be the Chamber of Commerce.

00:36:45.580 Chamber of Commerce, there are many Republicans who support the Chamber of Commerce,

00:36:50.520 and many Republicans who the Chamber of Commerce supports has just come out and said they want to double

00:36:56.160 legal immigration into the United States.

00:36:59.260 They want to double it.

00:37:00.320 The CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, Suzanne Clark, says that the Chamber's official position

00:37:05.060 is to double illegal immigration from 2 million, or from around 1 to 2 million, what it is now,

00:37:13.520 to 2 to 4 million legal immigrants every single year.

00:37:19.080 That would be bringing in an annual foreign-born population that is six times the size of Boston

00:37:25.820 every single year.

00:37:27.420 Now, there have been surveys on this issue of immigration, and in recent years, the American

00:37:33.540 people have suggested, I'm thinking of one Harvard-Harris poll in particular, that they

00:37:37.220 don't want to increase the level of legal immigration.

00:37:41.420 They actually want to drastically reduce both legal and illegal immigration by 50-60%, because

00:37:47.900 we're just taking in too many people.

00:37:49.680 This is the largest movement of human beings ever in the history of the world, in recorded

00:37:54.160 history.

00:37:56.340 But the Democrats and many Republicans support it.

00:37:58.840 There are many Republicans who say, yeah, illegal immigration, really bad.

00:38:03.060 We've got to secure the border.

00:38:04.340 But we want more legal immigration.

00:38:06.180 Oh, legal immigration's great.

00:38:07.540 We love it.

00:38:07.980 Even Donald Trump, who is the most immigration hawk president we've probably ever had, certainly

00:38:13.120 had in recent decades.

00:38:15.360 He famously said, I want to stop illegal immigration, but I want more legal immigration than ever.

00:38:23.780 Why?

00:38:25.180 Yes, illegal immigration is a particular problem, but immigration generally is the problem right 1.00

00:38:30.960 now.

00:38:31.120 We just have too much of it.

00:38:32.220 It's no knock on the immigrants.

00:38:33.520 We just have way too much.

00:38:34.780 We're not assimilating people.

00:38:35.820 It's keeping wages down for low-skilled or low-income workers, which is, by the way,

00:38:41.280 why the Chamber of Commerce loves it.

00:38:42.880 It's why the woke corporations love it.

00:38:45.500 It's why the semi-right-wing corporations love it. 0.94

00:38:48.540 The whole ruling class is in on this thing. 0.73

00:38:50.580 No matter who you elect, you get more immigration, even though the majority of Americans want dramatically

00:38:54.360 less immigration.

00:38:56.880 Seems like a rigged game.

00:38:58.220 It seems like a big charade.

00:39:00.140 On this issue, DeSantis is totally right.

00:39:02.240 The Chamber of Commerce is totally wrong, and I think the candidates who are going to do

00:39:08.200 really well in 2022 and 2024 are not going to be echoing the left-wing line of more immigration

00:39:14.840 legal and illegal.

00:39:15.940 They're not going to be echoing the Chamber of Commerce line, or even the Trump line for

00:39:20.240 that matter, which is no illegal, but lots of legal, lots more legal.

00:39:23.740 I think that the candidates who really see where the future of the American right and the

00:39:27.940 conservative movement are going will say, we just need less immigration.

00:39:32.240 Period.

00:39:34.980 Because most Americans want it.

00:39:37.480 We've got to defend majority rule in our democracy, according to Joe Biden, because we

00:39:42.320 can't assimilate this many people this quickly, and because a nation that doesn't have borders

00:39:46.560 and doesn't respect the people of its country is no nation at all.

00:39:52.780 Speaking of accompanying children, this is going to be the creepiest segue I've ever done.

00:39:58.620 Please forgive me.

00:39:59.420 The USA Today, USA Today Life in particular, got in a little bit of trouble yesterday because

00:40:07.720 they published an article and a tweet thread that appeared to try to normalize pedophilia.

00:40:14.380 Some of us on the right, you know, hate to say I told you so, have called it for years that

00:40:21.800 the left is inevitably going to try to normalize pedophilia, not just because they are degenerate 1.00

00:40:27.560 perverts. 0.93

00:40:28.160 That's not, that's not why, actually.

00:40:30.540 That's not the only reason why.

00:40:31.620 But because the logic of the left on the sexual revolution requires them to normalize pedophilia.

00:40:36.980 And that's exactly what this USA Today piece did.

00:40:40.540 The article title was, what the public keeps getting wrong about pedophilia.

00:40:46.800 You know that much put upon minority pedophiles, you know them.

00:40:51.120 There was a professor who was just fired for trying to normalize pedophilia, tried to redefine

00:40:55.300 pedophiles as, as maps, minor attracted persons.

00:41:00.420 So here's what USA Today says.

00:41:02.000 What we think we know, we think we know what a pedophile is.

00:41:04.760 There's a lot of misunderstanding.

00:41:06.600 In recent decades, the science on pedophilia has improved.

00:41:09.620 One of the most significant findings is that pedophilia is likely determined in the womb,

00:41:13.720 though environmental factors may influence whether someone acts on an urge to abuse.

00:41:17.640 The evidence suggests it is inborn.

00:41:19.560 It's neurological, said James Cantor, a sex researcher and expert on pedophilia.

00:41:24.500 Could you imagine being an expert on pedophilia?

00:41:26.340 That's, it's not the kind of expertise you want.

00:41:28.540 When most of the public thinks of pedophilia, they assume it's synonymous with child sexual 0.60

00:41:32.640 abuse.

00:41:33.560 A pedophile is an adult who's sexually attracted to children, but not all pedophiles abuse kids. 0.60

00:41:37.560 And some people who sexually abuse kids are not pedophiles.

00:41:41.460 Pedophiles may not have control over the fact that they're attracted to kids, but they are

00:41:45.680 responsible for what they do or don't act on, says Ann Salter, who's another pedophile expert.

00:41:51.840 USA Today deleted this thread.

00:41:53.840 They kept the article up that they retitled it.

00:41:55.500 They got a lot of backlash.

00:41:56.660 And they got a lot of backlash from conservatives.

00:42:00.940 Somewhat justifiably, because they clearly are trying to normalize pedophilia.

00:42:04.740 But I actually think conservatives reacted a little too quickly here.

00:42:09.140 Because I think that the principle that USA Today is describing is actually extremely conservative.

00:42:16.140 And I think the principle that USA Today is describing actually undermines not just the

00:42:21.080 left's argument on extremely creepy sex stuff like pedophilia, but the left's whole argument

00:42:27.220 on the sexual revolution.

00:42:29.580 What USA Today has done in this article, almost certainly unwittingly, is defended sexual repression

00:42:37.820 and conversion therapy.

00:42:43.280 There were two kinds of backlash, I think, to this article.

00:42:46.520 The only one we really saw was the conservative backlash.

00:42:50.380 But think about what USA Today is saying here.

00:42:53.000 They're saying pedophilia is natural.

00:42:55.840 Natural meaning it's with you from the moment you're born.

00:42:58.380 It's not something that's learned necessarily, but something, it's a sexual orientation, right?

00:43:03.100 That's the difference between a sexual desire that maybe you develop over time and a sexual

00:43:07.000 orientation that's with you from the moment of birth and you can't change it.

00:43:10.060 Now, is pedophilia inborn, natural, a sexual orientation?

00:43:14.420 I don't know.

00:43:15.920 Maybe, maybe not.

00:43:17.060 That's kind of secondary to the point.

00:43:18.760 But what USA Today is saying is, even if a sexual desire is inborn, even if you're born

00:43:28.740 this way, which was the left's entire argument on the LGBT movement and ultimately why they

00:43:33.040 redefined marriage, you still should repress some of those desires.

00:43:38.440 But hold on.

00:43:39.160 We were told if you have a sexual desire from birth and you can't change it, it's immutable,

00:43:43.060 then you should not repress it.

00:43:44.420 That it's very harmful and unhealthy to repress that desire.

00:43:46.960 That it's immoral to ask someone to repress that desire because they're born this way.

00:43:51.380 Now, the conservative argument was always, look, people are born with all sorts of desires.

00:43:55.220 It's a fallen world and some of them you got to repress.

00:43:59.620 But the left said, no, that's awful.

00:44:01.340 That's retrograde.

00:44:02.040 That's terrible.

00:44:03.440 Now they seem to be endorsing it.

00:44:04.960 Furthermore, they're saying these pedophiles need to go to therapy to try to mitigate their

00:44:08.340 desires, to try to change their desires.

00:44:12.780 That's just conversion therapy.

00:44:15.120 Conversion therapy isn't a real thing.

00:44:16.740 It's a slogan that the left has put on various psychological and spiritual programs to try to

00:44:24.220 get people who have unwanted sexual desires to be able to repress them somewhat or to mitigate

00:44:28.860 them or to change them. 0.96

00:44:30.380 But they're endorsing that now for the pedos.

00:44:32.520 Well, why? 0.99

00:44:33.380 Well, because pedophilia is especially bad.

00:44:36.000 Okay, sure.

00:44:36.740 But I thought the argument that you were making is that it is immoral and unjust to force someone

00:44:41.880 to repress their urges and to force someone to try to change their urges when you can't

00:44:46.200 change those urges, by golly, because they're immutable and it's a sexual orientation.

00:44:50.540 So you told me it was wrong to do that, but now you're saying it's right to do that in 0.93

00:44:53.320 some cases.

00:44:54.000 Why is it right to do that in some cases?

00:44:55.840 Well, because certain sexual desires are simply wrong, Michael, is what they're saying.

00:45:00.940 So, huh, interesting, because that's not the art.

00:45:05.980 And by the way, I'm not just picking on the homosexuals here or the transgenderists or 0.93

00:45:10.920 whatever. 0.97

00:45:11.240 I'm talking about the whole sexual revolution.

00:45:13.380 We were told we weren't alive.

00:45:15.560 I wasn't alive back then.

00:45:16.600 But you can see it in the literature in the 1960s, 1970s, that all sorts of sexual urges

00:45:24.140 need to be indulged.

00:45:25.040 You're urged to have sex before marriage. 0.99

00:45:27.220 You're urged to have sex with multiple people. 0.94

00:45:28.960 You're urged to, all of these urges, they just, you can't stifle a man.

00:45:32.240 It's free love.

00:45:33.100 Come on, just let it out.

00:45:34.420 Otherwise, you're going to explode.

00:45:36.100 No, no, of course, that was never true.

00:45:39.440 And only because we're taking this issue to the most logical extreme here, do we see

00:45:46.740 why that's not true.

00:45:48.080 I kind of like the article.

00:45:49.120 I know, sorry.

00:45:50.200 I don't think that USA Today meant the article to be liked by conservatives such as us, but

00:45:55.820 I think they make a very conservative point.

00:45:57.680 Speaking of impulses that should be repressed, multiple states now are discriminating against

00:46:04.860 white people in COVID treatment.

00:46:07.080 According to reporting from the Washington Free Beacon in New York, racial minorities

00:46:12.720 are automatically eligible for scarce COVID therapeutics, regardless of their age or underlying

00:46:18.500 conditions.

00:46:19.380 In Utah, a Latinx ethnicity, that's the new word for Mexicans and Guatemalans and those

00:46:24.860 sorts of people, count for more than congestive heart failure in a patient's COVID-19 risk

00:46:31.380 score, state's framework that then allows for treatments.

00:46:34.840 In Minnesota, health officials have devised their own ethical framework that prioritizes

00:46:39.900 black 18-year-olds over white 64-year-olds, even though the white 64-year-olds are at a

00:46:45.500 much higher risk of severe disease.

00:46:47.840 Where does this come from?

00:46:48.940 Not just from the radical left-wing states.

00:46:50.780 It comes from the FDA.

00:46:52.120 The FDA says that there is an emergency use for these treatments for people who are at high

00:46:55.520 risk.

00:46:56.040 And then it goes further and defines minorities as being high risk just by virtue of the color

00:47:02.060 of their skin. 0.83

00:47:02.760 This is another reminder that white supremacy is not only absurd, it's the opposite of reality. 0.99

00:47:13.460 White people are one of the only groups that you can legally discriminate against. 0.99

00:47:18.700 Asians also you can discriminate against in college admissions. 0.80

00:47:21.180 And white people are the only racial group that you can socially condemn and insult and that

00:47:31.100 that is acceptable and it's actually encouraged and it's carried out by many prominent people. 0.96

00:47:37.140 What we are told by the ruling class, namely that this is a white supremacist country and

00:47:42.120 whites have all the privilege, that isn't true. 0.95

00:47:44.820 It's not only silly, but if you just look at our law and the way that our laws are enforced, 0.98

00:47:50.380 the opposite is true.

00:47:53.600 But by design and in practice that's happening right now. 0.86

00:47:58.120 Speaking of racial politics, I have to get to this story because it's so silly.

00:48:03.300 There is a new series called American Women Quarters. 0.56

00:48:07.840 They're going to put women on the back of quarters. 1.00

00:48:09.420 And they've just announced the first American women quarter.

00:48:14.300 And so these, you're going to be able to get these, you're going to go out, there's going

00:48:16.500 to be lots of different women on the back of these quarters. 1.00

00:48:18.280 The problem with the women quarters, of course, is that they're only worth 19 cents, 75 cents 1.00

00:48:22.960 on the dollar.

00:48:23.580 And so if you do the calculations, only about 19 cents is what the quarter's worth.

00:48:27.540 I assume, I don't know.

00:48:28.980 The first quarter that's here is the Maya Angelou quarter.

00:48:33.060 Maya Angelou, who is a terrible poet.

00:48:40.340 She's this poet, you've probably read her in school because a lot of English teachers

00:48:45.220 really like, a lot of left-wing English teachers really like presenting her horrible poetry. 1.00

00:48:50.720 You probably heard this one. 0.97

00:48:52.280 You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies.

00:48:56.120 You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

00:49:00.380 She's not exactly Wordsworth, okay?

00:49:03.580 Not exactly Shakespeare, but this has become very popular.

00:49:09.300 And now she's going to be on the back of quarters. 1.00

00:49:12.320 Really, she's only on the back of quarters because she's a black woman and she had a role 0.92

00:49:17.140 in left-wing politics and styled herself a civil rights leader.

00:49:20.460 And that's not just me saying that.

00:49:21.680 That's what all the people who are promoting this, all the blue checks, all the people in 0.79

00:49:24.260 government are saying.

00:49:24.900 It's so wonderful because she's a black woman.

00:49:26.840 So they're making it all about her identity.

00:49:28.500 This is literal tokenism.

00:49:29.780 They are making her a token, like an actual physical token.

00:49:34.180 And it debases everyone involved.

00:49:36.080 It debases the people who tokenize.

00:49:39.380 It debases the people who are betokened.

00:49:42.480 It debases poetry because this stuff is really bad and a fifth grader could write better poetry.

00:49:47.540 And it debases our country to look at one another this way.

00:49:51.580 It's just flesh and blood and just a color rather than looking a little bit deeper as to

00:49:56.620 what we really are.

00:49:57.320 But it shows you the difference between the propaganda that comes out of our rulers on

00:50:03.380 what this country is and the way things are actually being done right now.

00:50:07.600 And they look like they could be getting a lot worse.

00:50:10.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:51:03.820 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Harris and Biden have gone off to slay the fictional dragon

00:51:08.680 of voter suppression.

00:51:09.700 Meanwhile, as they argue that it's racist to require an ID to vote, more and more Democrat-run

00:51:14.240 cities are requiring IDs to do literally everything else in life.

00:51:17.820 Also, Ted Cruz questions the FBI about its role in the January 6th riots.

00:51:22.160 Their answer, I would argue, confirms our worst suspicions.

00:51:25.900 And Alec Baldwin continues to make himself the victim of the fact that he shot and killed

00:51:29.200 a woman.

00:51:29.960 His case becomes even more outrageous when you compare it to another recent accidental shooting.

00:51:33.560 Plus, USA Today runs a piece arguing that we must de-stigmatize pedophilia.

00:51:39.080 We'll discuss that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 12, 2022

Ep. 920 - Biden Wants To Count Your Votes In 2022

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