The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 922 - The Daily Wire DESTROYS Biden's Mandate

00:00:00.880 How am I doing? Well, within the last roughly 24 hours, Joe Biden's approval rating dropped

00:00:09.020 to 33%. Kamala Harris is refusing to say if she and Joe will even run for re-election.

00:00:16.440 Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin killed Chuck Schumer's crusade to abolish the filibuster,

00:00:21.260 meaning that the federal election takeover and the Build Back Broke budget are deader than disco,

00:00:26.720 to say nothing of the even more radical policy proposals, such as, I don't know, court packing.

00:00:32.660 And speaking of the court, the United States Supreme Court just handed us, the American people,

00:00:38.580 and specifically the Daily Wire, an historic and somewhat unexpected judicial victory

00:00:44.900 by smacking down Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate and allowing Americans to decide for

00:00:50.860 themselves whether or not they want to inject themselves with Fauci juice.

00:00:54.980 So I'd say I'm feeling pretty, pretty good. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.560 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Leonard Tomasius, who says,

00:01:15.340 listening to what the Dems want to do with voting reminds me of that scene from the five gangs of

00:01:20.140 New York, where they ask a guy how many times he voted, three times, and then they tell him to

00:01:25.340 shave and vote again. Yes, it would remind you of that because that was also the Democrats back then.

00:01:32.380 And they've been doing this for the entire history of their uncommonly corrupt party.

00:01:38.820 Political parties, political operations involve some degree of corruption that has always been the case

00:01:44.240 in Democratic politics, lowercase d. But the Democrat Party, capital D, has been particularly corrupt on

00:01:50.920 this front. They did it way back in Tammany Hall and Gangs of New York. They did it in Chicago in the

00:01:55.400 mid-20th century. They're doing it now. But unfortunately, their efforts to seize all that

00:01:59.980 power and upend more of our election system, their efforts are deader than disco because Joe Biden is

00:02:06.020 having the worst week possibly of his political career. You know, it just, it makes you think

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00:03:44.940 kit now. Go check out birch gold today. All right, Madam Vice President, everything's falling

00:03:53.140 apart. The president's approval rating is terrible. Yours is somehow even worse. All of your legislative

00:03:59.580 priorities dead. Your administrative priorities dead because of the Supreme Court. The American

00:04:06.980 people rejecting what you want across the entire board. How are you going to change course?

00:04:14.620 At what point does the administration say, you know what, this strategy isn't working. We're

00:04:19.780 going to change strategies. Six former administration officials last week wrote that open letter urging

00:04:25.540 the administration to change course, to change strategy. Is it time? It is time for us to

00:04:32.900 do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that

00:04:41.920 there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.

00:04:48.780 Franklin Roosevelt famously said, we have nothing to fear, but fear itself.

00:04:55.160 Ronald Reagan famously said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And Kamala Harris famously said,

00:05:08.440 it's the time now to do what we've been doing every day and the time and the time to agree that we are

00:05:17.380 doing, that we've got things to do together and the time. Powerful. It's really powerful. It sends a

00:05:28.040 shiver up your spine, a shiver up your spine to think that this woman could become the vice president 1.00

00:05:32.380 of the United States. She is obviously a good politician. She is by definition. She's a good 1.00

00:05:38.000 politician. She's the vice president. I called this, by the way, you know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:05:43.360 I called this during the 2020 Democrat primaries. I said, watch Kamala Harris. People laughed at me.

00:05:49.300 They said, ha ha, Kamala Harris. She's terrible. I said, watch Kamala Harris. Then she's one of the 1.00

00:05:53.480 first people out. They laugh at me. They say, ha ha, Michael, you idiot. Kamala Harris isn't going

00:05:57.180 anywhere. Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from the presidency and the current president doesn't have 0.98

00:06:02.040 a very strong heart. So she's clearly a good politician. She's worked her way up. She's not 0.84

00:06:06.700 particularly academically distinguished. She's not particularly professionally distinguished,

00:06:11.420 but she worked her way up in politics through various mechanisms that we don't need to get into 1.00

00:06:17.780 here. She became a United States Senator and she became the vice president at a relatively young

00:06:22.640 age. That's impressive, but she's a terrible communicator. She is, she is less coherent than 1.00

00:06:28.940 Joe Biden and Joe Biden has problems in between his ears right now. Okay. And somehow she's worse.

00:06:36.840 This is the only thing politically Joe Biden has going for him is that his vice president is somehow

00:06:42.800 less popular than he is, even though he's extremely unpopular. His vice president is somehow less

00:06:48.260 coherent than he is, even though he's obviously in the throes of senility. That is something because

00:06:54.580 potentially I could stave off an impeachment if Joe Biden even lasts, if he even makes it that far.

00:07:00.200 Really bad news for the Democratic ticket in 2024. So bad that Kamala Harris refuses to say that,

00:07:09.400 that she and Joe will even be running during the next presidential cycle.

00:07:14.340 Are we going to, uh, to see the same Democratic ticket in 2024?

00:07:20.420 I'm sorry. We are thinking about today. I mean, honestly, that I, I know why you're asking the

00:07:26.480 question because this is the part of the punditry and the, the gossip around places like Washington,

00:07:32.000 DC. Let me just tell you something. We're focused on the things in front of us.

00:07:36.500 Uh, uh, we're just, uh, lady, this is not a hard question. This is not an unexpected question.

00:07:43.780 How do you not have an answer for this question? This is basic stuff for a vice president,

00:07:49.640 especially in a troubled administration. We're, we're, we're just thinking about today. No,

00:07:55.060 we're obviously not just thinking about today. That's why the interviewer asked the question,

00:07:58.360 are you going to be on the ticket? But she can't say that she or, or Biden are going to be on the

00:08:04.520 ticket. Why? Because the administration is underwater and because they haven't accomplished

00:08:12.040 anything. I mean, this is the best news for conservatives is they really have not accomplished

00:08:18.660 much of anything. Their entire legislative agenda has been destroyed.

00:08:25.840 They can't even pass a budget. They can't even pass a budget. Their, the build back better program

00:08:30.640 is dead and it was killed. Obviously the, the Republicans were opposed to it, but then it was

00:08:35.120 killed decisively by a couple of Democrats. The filibuster killed by Republicans and a couple of

00:08:42.280 Democrats, the filibuster abolition plan, the court packing, the federal election takeover,

00:08:49.900 the whole thing. So they were not able, even though Joe Biden had served in the Senate for,

00:08:54.720 I think, 350 years, he wasn't able to use those relationships to bring his legislative agenda over

00:09:01.140 on Capitol Hill. So then he tried to figure out a workaround. His workaround was going to be to use

00:09:04.440 the administrative state, the agencies to force through his vaccine mandate. That didn't work either

00:09:10.160 because the court shot it down. So why would Biden and Harris run again? What have they done? What

00:09:19.440 could they run on? What accomplishment, what promise of an accomplishment could they run on?

00:09:23.960 They've got nothing. They've got nothing. And we have got the Republicans to thank sure, but, but

00:09:30.980 Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have just come out. There was some debate. Will they, won't they?

00:09:36.840 Manchin kind of killed the budget. But then what about the filibuster? Kyrsten Sinema comes out and

00:09:42.020 says, no, the filibuster, it's got to stay. I share the concerns of civil right advocates and others

00:09:49.580 I've heard from in recent months about these state laws. I strongly support those efforts to contest

00:09:56.700 these laws in court and to invest significant resources into these states to better organize

00:10:02.480 and stop efforts to restrict access at the ballot box. And I strongly support and will continue to

00:10:09.220 vote for legislative responses to address these state laws, including the Freedom to Vote Act and

00:10:15.460 the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that the Senate is currently considering. And while I

00:10:20.840 continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying

00:10:27.240 disease of division infecting our country. The debate over the Senate 60 vote threshold shines a light

00:10:35.280 on our broader challenges. There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60 vote

00:10:42.480 threshold to pass legislation. And there's no need for me to restate its role protecting our country

00:10:48.620 from wild reversals in federal policy. This is a really coherent, honest answer from a politician,

00:10:58.400 about as honest and coherent as it gets from a politician. She's not saying that she doesn't

00:11:03.080 support the power grab. She's not saying she doesn't support a federal takeover of elections.

00:11:09.140 She's not saying she doesn't support the Democrats' legislative priorities.

00:11:12.900 She's saying she doesn't think that the power grab is worth it. So she's taking away some of the

00:11:21.300 disingenuous, emotionally manipulative talking points language of, we need this or the poor

00:11:28.260 oppressed people will lose their sacred right to vote. She's not doing that. She's saying,

00:11:33.900 yeah, I support this bill, but the filibuster is more important because the filibuster is a great

00:11:39.680 defense of our constitutional system. Because though we are in power right now, not for very

00:11:47.200 long, probably, by the way, though we are in power right now and we hate the filibuster because it's

00:11:52.680 slowing down our agenda, when we are out of power, if we are ever out of power again, we're going to

00:11:58.620 really want the filibuster. That's why Chuck Schumer gave such an impassioned defense of the filibuster

00:12:03.560 in 2005, which Tom Cotton read on the floor of the Senate just a couple of days ago, using Chuck

00:12:08.560 Schumer's words against him. That's why Joe Biden in 2005 gave an impassioned defense of how the

00:12:13.120 filibuster is a great bulwark against threats to our democracy. But that was then when he was out

00:12:18.620 of power. Now he's in power and he wants to get rid of it. And it's short-sighted is what Kyrsten

00:12:22.680 Sinema is saying. She's saying, guys, don't be stupid. We're going to want this thing in about

00:12:28.820 one year when we're out of power and we're going to need it to stop the Republicans or in three years,

00:12:37.400 potentially, when we're going to have a Republican president. So let's keep it. Let's cool it. We are

00:12:44.420 not a mere radical mob rule type of democracy. We're a constitutional republic. Let's be responsible.

00:12:51.640 And in so doing, let's kill Joe Biden's 2021 and 2022 agenda. So Biden makes a last ditch effort

00:13:01.900 to save any sort of agenda he's got. He can't pass anything through Capitol Hill. So he uses the

00:13:09.140 administrative agencies and the Supreme Court says, no, thanks. And this case is a very personal

00:13:20.200 case for us because we were helping to lead it. We at the Daily Wire sued the Biden administration

00:13:24.980 administration over their vaccine mandate through the Occupational Safety and Health

00:13:30.880 Administration. So we got an early win in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fifth Circuit

00:13:38.520 Court of Appeals said, okay, we're going to stop the mandate from going into effect until the legal

00:13:42.700 process plays out, until we determine whether or not on the merits this rule is legal or not.

00:13:48.460 Then all of those lawsuits, ours and others, were compiled into the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:13:54.220 The Sixth Circuit reversed the Fifth Circuit and said, no, the vaccine mandate is going to go into

00:13:58.920 effect. Sorry, tough luck. The legal process is going to play out. You might be proven right in

00:14:03.640 the end, but until then, everyone's got to take the jab, which is BS because if we are proven right

00:14:08.780 in the end, but we've already forced everyone to get the jab, then it's a pyrrhic victory. It doesn't

00:14:12.360 mean anything. Not even just a pyrrhic victory. It's an utterly meaningless victory.

00:14:19.700 So the Supreme Court decides they're going to take it up. They do the oral arguments.

00:14:22.840 And a lot of us thought it wasn't going to work. And then it did. The majority opinion,

00:14:29.200 Sixth Circuit, says that the vaccine mandate should not go into effect until the legal process plays

00:14:37.540 out. But it actually goes further than that. It says that the legal process is very, very likely

00:14:45.000 to favor the people who oppose the vaccine mandate. So it doesn't just say we're going to pause it until

00:14:52.320 the judges make their decision. It puts its thumb on the scale and it says the right decision is to

00:14:57.840 get rid of this rule. This rule is illegal. This rule is unconstitutional. So because of the way our

00:15:02.840 legal system is set up, we're going to let this thing play out. But I dare you to say that this rule

00:15:08.820 is constitutional. It's not. It's BS. That was the majority opinion. That was the order of the court.

00:15:14.660 Then there was a concurring opinion by the conservatives on the court. And the opinion

00:15:21.260 by the conservatives and the dissent from the court's liberals actually begin in the same way.

00:15:29.040 They both begin and they say, the question here is not about COVID or how deadly COVID is. The

00:15:35.480 question here is not really about the vaccines or the vaccine effectiveness. The question is

00:15:40.260 who decides? Who decides? It reminds one of Antonin Scalia's great dissent in the Obergefell case,

00:15:48.080 the case that redefined marriage, where he said, as a political matter, I don't really care that much

00:15:53.940 about the definition of marriage. When I'm sitting here in the Supreme Court in my robe,

00:15:59.800 what marriage means is not the primary question. The primary question is who rules me? Who governs?

00:16:07.580 Who decides? And according to the majority on the court, the people should decide. So it shouldn't

00:16:17.500 just be some random administrative agency that was apparently just a legal workaround because Joe

00:16:23.620 Biden knew he couldn't get his mandate passed through the legislature. It should be the people

00:16:28.100 through their elected representatives because of court precedent. There's something called the

00:16:32.520 major questions doctrine, which is on major questions, sweeping issues of public policy.

00:16:39.560 You want to make sure that Congress is speaking with a clear voice and actually giving to these 0.84

00:16:44.960 agencies the powers that they are presuming to have. Does anyone really think that OSHA,

00:16:49.240 OSHA, the agency that tells you to wear a hard hat on a construction site,

00:16:54.000 is now the agency in charge of the most significant public health questions in the United States?

00:17:00.760 No, nobody really thinks that. And furthermore, even if Congress had delegated that power to this

00:17:07.760 administrative agency, let's say they delegated that power because they don't want to be accountable

00:17:11.160 to the voters. Congress says, yikes, I don't, any way I vote on this, it's going to be really bad.

00:17:16.780 I might not get reelected. So, okay, I'm going to give all this power to make all public health

00:17:20.840 decisions in America to this administrative agency. Then I don't have to deal with it at

00:17:24.580 the town halls. The conservatives point out there's another doctrine at play, the non-delegation

00:17:31.300 doctrine, that there are some responsibilities that Congress cannot delegate away to the agencies,

00:17:37.300 even if it wants to. Even if they try and they put it clearly in law, sometimes that is

00:17:45.160 unconstitutional. And that's what the conservatives on the court are saying. Now, the liberals on the

00:17:49.740 court came at this question of who decides from a different vantage. They came at it and they said,

00:17:55.080 okay, who's going to decide these public health questions? The expert geniuses who are public

00:18:02.880 health gurus who have been given some modicum of authority from Congress or the Supreme Court? Us,

00:18:11.900 a bunch of robed lawyers who have no expertise on this. Who do you want making healthcare decisions for

00:18:17.260 you? The physicians who have been appointed to bureaucratic roles in the government or us

00:18:23.460 lawyers? Are those the only two options? I thought there were more options. What about, oh, I don't know,

00:18:33.700 the people's representatives? Shouldn't they have some say in this? Well, that was the argument of

00:18:38.640 the conservatives. And by the way, they observed that when the Congress has weighed in on Joe Biden's

00:18:44.180 mandate, it weighed in to voice its disapproval. The Senate passed a resolution that said it

00:18:50.600 disapproves of the OSHA mandate. So as much as we can tell what the voice of the people is on this

00:18:58.160 in our constitutional system, where the people speak through their elected representatives,

00:19:01.820 the people oppose this. And the elected legislators oppose this. But for the libs, they don't care.

00:19:11.380 They don't really care what the people think. They're extremely distrustful of American democracy.

00:19:16.040 They want decisions to either be made by a handful of unaccountable people in the government

00:19:20.700 bureaucracy or a handful of unaccountable people on the Supreme Court. And what the conservatives said

00:19:25.220 is, no, there's actually more to our government, darlings. Maybe you've been reading a little too

00:19:28.780 much Woodrow Wilson. You've been reading a little too much Franklin Roosevelt and progressive

00:19:32.420 literature. Actually, the people still have a say. Actually, local communities, state governments,

00:19:38.260 local governments, the family for that matter, has a say. What I loved so much about the conservative

00:19:45.060 opinion is that it wasn't some radical libertarian opinion. It didn't say, my body, my choice. It

00:19:51.980 didn't say the government has no right to force you to take some kind of inoculation because that

00:19:57.640 wouldn't be true. There is longstanding precedent in the United States that in certain public health

00:20:02.920 emergencies, certain governmental authorities can order you to take a vaccine. Actually, going back

00:20:10.200 to even before the Constitution, going back to George Washington and the Continental Army, he forced

00:20:14.640 his soldiers to take a smallpox inoculation, a very dangerous one that killed a lot of them.

00:20:20.120 So there is longstanding precedent legally in American culture going all the way back to the

00:20:24.600 American Revolution. I know it's fashionable now for many conservatives. This is probably the

00:20:30.380 consensus view to say, look, I'm pro-vaccine, but anti-mandate. I'm kind of the opposite.

00:20:38.240 I think in this case, where you have a virus that is not particularly dangerous to the vast,

00:20:43.500 vast, vast majority of people, and you can deal separately with the people who are at risk,

00:20:48.100 but for the vast, vast, vast majority of people, it's just not that dangerous.

00:20:51.400 And you've got a vaccine that is experimental, that is quite new. It's a new vaccine technology,

00:20:56.860 and it has failed to do some of the things that Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky promised

00:21:03.480 us it would do. So the predictions of how the vaccine were going to work did not really come to

00:21:09.640 fruition. In that case, I don't think that young, healthy people have any reason to go get it.

00:21:16.260 However, I do think that at least the local government has the right to mandate it,

00:21:20.500 because we do have political rights as a community. And obviously, during times of epidemic,

00:21:26.680 the state has certain emergency and police powers.

00:21:31.080 So the conservatives on the court understood this. They say, look, we're not saying that

00:21:36.020 state and local governments don't have the right to mandate these sorts of things. They do.

00:21:40.420 But the federal government has less power to mandate these things.

00:21:44.400 And some random workplace health agency has way less power to mandate these things.

00:21:52.140 And frankly, the way they've issued this rule is insincere and preposterous.

00:21:59.480 Because yes, they're tasked with passing workplace safety regulations. But just because people might

00:22:06.660 have COVID if they go to work, doesn't mean that now the workplace safety agency can force you to

00:22:13.500 take a shot. That's a huge overstep of their authority. Furthermore, the liberals kept focusing

00:22:21.280 in their dissent on how dangerous COVID was to American workers. But is that really the case?

00:22:28.000 What's the median age of a COVID death? North of 80. So the median age of a COVID death

00:22:35.700 is well after the age of retirement, people who are not really working anymore.

00:22:43.500 Moreover, the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID skews heavily toward the side of the

00:22:49.740 age spectrum after retirement age. So what percentage of American workers, people of working age,

00:22:57.460 are actually at grave risk of hospitalization or death from COVID? I suspect the number for all

00:23:05.220 Americans generally is extremely small. But I suspect the number of workers is much, much,

00:23:09.780 much, much smaller. So the liberals case, I think it fails on the argument they were trying to make

00:23:17.380 from COVID and from the vaccine specifically. They barely even made a legal case. And the conservatives

00:23:23.300 argument was about as strong as it could be. It wasn't a total win because the Supreme Court forced

00:23:31.260 healthcare workers, for instance, to get the vaccines, which I think everyone expected to happen.

00:23:36.860 But we do need to take the wins where we can get them, when we can get them.

00:23:40.820 This is the case that at least we here in this building have been fighting. This is the case that

00:23:45.800 you have been fighting by subscribing, by signing up, by signing our petition, the do not comply petition.

00:23:51.980 This is the case where we focused all of our energy and we won. And we won. And it's a good day

00:23:58.440 for American rights and freedom and our way of life. A very bad day for Joe Biden.

00:24:03.760 So now that Biden's got all this terrible news, Joe Biden is making a special appeal

00:24:12.020 to the establishment media, to the big tech companies that run the social media. He's saying,

00:24:20.620 look, I'm losing on Capitol Hill. I'm losing in the agencies. Please, please shut down dissent.

00:24:30.440 Unfortunately, while our military is stepping up, as they always do,

00:24:36.140 there are others sitting on the sidelines and we're standing in the way.

00:24:40.700 If you haven't gotten vaccinated, do it. Personal choice impacts us all, our hospitals, our countries.

00:24:50.080 I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets. Please deal with

00:24:55.180 the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows. It has to stop. COVID-19 is one of the

00:25:03.220 most formidable enemies America has ever faced. We've got to work together, not against each other.

00:25:09.440 Ann Coulter pointed out yesterday, she said, what is it called when the government controls all of the

00:25:16.220 corporations and uses the ostensibly private corporations to carry out the will of the state?

00:25:21.640 Is that, what's that, something about a bundle of sticks. Is that, starts with an F, ends with an

00:25:27.640 Ashism. I forget. What do they call that? I forget. This is proof positive of two contentions that I've

00:25:35.980 made on this show for a long time that a lot of conservatives have gotten aware of in recent years.

00:25:41.700 One is that liberals are the ruling class. They are the established power. They present themselves

00:25:47.960 as the opposition. We're going to speak truth to power. We're going to fight the patriarchy. We're

00:25:52.940 going to fight the white supremacy. We're going to fight the conservative establishment. But the

00:25:57.560 conservatives don't have any institution in the country. We don't control a single one.

00:26:02.720 Talk radio is about as close as it gets. And, and even that is regulated by the administrative

00:26:07.880 agencies, which we don't have. The liberals are the establishment. Liberals run the government.

00:26:13.720 Liberals run the bureaucracy. Liberals run the corporations. Liberals run the universities.

00:26:18.540 Liberals run the media. Liberals run big tech. Liberals run everything. The second contention that

00:26:25.220 Joe Biden just proved is that the journalists, by and large, are fake news. Because the journalists,

00:26:35.560 Joe Biden is speaking to these journalists like good friends. It's different than when Trump says,

00:26:40.440 you're fake news. I hate you. You're scum. He would go to his rallies. He'd say, look at those

00:26:44.440 people back there. Look at those press. They're the scum of the earth. They're slime. They're fake

00:26:48.100 news. That was a very adversarial relationship. And the media started it. What Joe Biden's doing here

00:26:55.440 is he's talking like a friend. He's saying, hey guys, come on. Hey, big tech CEOs. Hey, heads of the

00:27:02.020 corporate press. You got to cool it, letting these conservatives on. It's too much. These

00:27:06.620 conservatives are really, they're really a thorn in my side. So come on guys. Cool it with that. I know,

00:27:13.220 I know that you're already extremely unfair to conservatives on Facebook and YouTube and Twitter.

00:27:19.280 I know that you're extremely unfair to conservatives in the corporate press. You got to be even more

00:27:23.160 unfair. It's just because they're still getting their message out and their message is still

00:27:27.240 resonating with the American people. And it's really hurting my approval ratings. So you got to

00:27:30.980 stop it. You got to stop it. And even still, even with the entire power structure in this country

00:27:38.820 against us, even then we sometimes get victories. Increasingly so. I don't want to toot our own

00:27:48.480 horn here at the Daily Wire. We've had a lot of victories recently. Okay. Many people thought that

00:27:55.900 the Daily Wire played a role in the Virginia governor's race going against the Democrat,

00:28:00.000 going for Terry McAuliffe because of some investigative journalism we did. Not because

00:28:03.820 of some political operation, but because we went in, we found a story that the corrupt corporate press

00:28:09.720 was suppressing. Namely, that in Loudoun County, a gender confused boy raped a girl in the girl's

00:28:17.160 bathroom and the school covered it up. And the school transferred him, the rapist, to another school.

00:28:22.480 And you know what happened? Take a guess. He did it again. And they covered it up and they smeared

00:28:27.420 the parents of the victim. They smeared the dad in particular. And the DOJ and the established

00:28:35.760 powers in Washington, DC, they called these parents terrorists. And we dug into that story, pulled on

00:28:41.640 that needle a little bit, pulled on that thread rather. And it turned out that there was rank hideous

00:28:47.500 corruption. Well, that rapist has now been sentenced and put on the sex offender registry

00:28:52.340 for life. 14 years old, by the way. 14-year-old boy raped a ninth grader.

00:28:58.960 What put it in his mind to do that? Maybe he was already a little messed up.

00:29:05.080 But what happened? Was he looking at the increasingly violent pornography that pervades the culture?

00:29:11.200 Was he, I don't know. One should look into these questions. But he committed his crime

00:29:16.440 while he was wearing a skirt, while he was allowed to go into the girls' bathroom. 0.96

00:29:21.900 Because to be politically correct now, all of the liberal schools are letting boys into the girls' 0.99

00:29:26.780 room. And conservatives said, this is a risk. This is a threat. Girls should not have to deal with this. 1.00

00:29:31.600 And the liberals said that we were intolerant, bigoted, transphobes, that women face no threats

00:29:37.280 from this. And then what happens? A boy rapes a girl in the girls' bathroom.

00:29:39.820 The judge, reading out the sentence, said that, I think it was a she. I don't remember if it was a 1.00

00:29:50.620 he or she. I guess that's the question these days we all ask ourselves. But the judge had not forced

00:29:55.880 kids to be put on the sex offender registry for life. But this judge was so shocked at the details

00:30:01.740 of this kid's crimes. Says, over the years, this court has read many psychosexual reports.

00:30:08.300 And when I read yours, frankly, it scared me. It scared me for you. It scared me for society.

00:30:14.740 All of this, all of this to defend transgender bathrooms. All of this. A superintendent covering 0.71

00:30:26.080 up a rape, transferring a kid, imperiling other girls, stonewalling the parents, going after the 0.65

00:30:33.300 parents, stonewalling the press. All of this to defend insane policies that are intended to indulge

00:30:40.760 delusion. It's all about transgenderism. Well, if a few girls get raped in their bathroom, 1.00

00:30:47.560 that's just the price we have to pay for progress. Can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs,

00:30:53.260 a few 14-year-old girl eggs. That's what they're saying. The important progressive social crusade

00:31:03.140 to let boys pretend to be girls is worth a few girls getting raped. Evil stuff worth pushing back 0.96

00:31:12.520 on. And that's the sort of thing that we did. That's the sort of thing that we, speaking of

00:31:18.880 punishment, before we get into the mailbag, Iran is threatening to assassinate Donald Trump and Mike 0.52

00:31:24.860 Pompeo. Take a look at this video. Take a listen.

00:31:27.860 So this is being released by the supreme leader of Iran, showing this military operation,

00:31:40.780 very high tech, all these Iranian operatives working on their computers. They've got drones,

00:31:46.320 they've got little machines outside of Mar-a-Lago. Trump and Pompeo are playing golf there,

00:31:53.160 going all around. They're going to target them. They put the light, they put the focus on Trump

00:32:00.680 and Pompeo. Eventually what happens, you get the point. Eventually what happens is they assassinate

00:32:05.660 them. This video that Iran released shows two things. Shows one, that they probably can't 1.00

00:32:13.340 assassinate Trump and they're not going to do it. Because if they were going to assassinate Trump,

00:32:16.920 they'd just assassinate him. But they can't do that, so they're going to try to release some

00:32:21.240 B-level Hollywood video showing their fantasy about killing Trump. Two, it shows that they

00:32:27.200 consider Trump the enemy and Biden the friend. Biden ostensibly is the president of the United

00:32:30.820 States. Shouldn't they be going after him if they're going to retaliate for an action of the

00:32:33.900 United States? No, they're going after Trump because they consider Trump the enemy and Biden

00:32:38.420 the friend. Because Trump treated Iran like a rogue state and Biden is trying to suck up to Iran and

00:32:43.980 Biden is trying to reinstate the Iran deal. Shows you the way that our American politics is looking

00:32:52.640 right now. Shows you the way that our foreign policy is looking. And it shows you something else.

00:32:57.160 Iran is impotent at the moment to kill Donald Trump. Iran is impotent to fulfill its agenda. 0.92

00:33:04.000 Joe Biden is impotent on that front too. Big win for us. We're so thrilled. Thank you to everyone

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00:33:20.900 everybody. That's today only. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:33:23.240 Welcome back to the show. My favorite, my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in

00:33:39.840 the mailbag. First one up from Eric. Hi, Michael. Last year, I asked you a relationship question

00:33:44.960 regarding an issue with my girlfriend and you encouraged me to marry her in order to solve

00:33:49.660 a lot of the issues we had. Well, I brought her to the spot where we had our first kiss,

00:33:53.820 got down on one knee, and now we're engaged. Hey, that's great. We're so happy and thank you

00:33:58.500 for encouraging me to man up and settle down with this incredible woman. My question is,

00:34:02.780 since you answer so many dating questions, when will the Daily Wire release a 10-part series

00:34:07.540 about how to date like a conservative hosted by you, the Daily Wire love guru, Michael Knowles?

00:34:14.080 P.S. We live in Canada and when I first met my fiance, she was a giant Trudeau fan and I converted

00:34:19.140 her to become a freedom-loving conservative. This is all. Every part of that is really,

00:34:25.640 really great news. My friend, congratulations. And in answer to your question, when will the Daily

00:34:31.000 Wire make a 10-part series on how to date with the love guru, Michael Knowles? Not soon enough.

00:34:37.500 That's when. I assume Jeremy listens to every episode of my show. Jeremy, let's go. Come on,

00:34:42.700 man. We must give the people what they want from William. Michael, you take a simplistic view of

00:34:48.980 the phrase, you can't legislate morality. Yes, you can make laws that require people to adhere to

00:34:54.620 what you consider a moral lifestyle, but that does not mean they will be moral in their hearts.

00:35:00.320 You can pass a law that everyone must pray on their knees in the town square three times a day

00:35:04.660 when the bell in the church tower rings. If they fail, they will be bull whipped. With a law like

00:35:09.200 that, everyone will show up and get on their knees and recite the requisite prayer, but that does not

00:35:14.180 mean they'll be thinking of God instead of the candy bar they'd rather be eating or the tax forms they

00:35:17.800 should be filling out or the chicken they have to buy for dinner. You will not have made a more moral

00:35:21.880 religious society, just one that fears the whip. My friend, you are taking a simplistic view of

00:35:28.480 ritual and the incarnate nature of ourselves, of our God, and of our society. What you are saying,

00:35:37.980 it would seem to me, is that it doesn't matter if people do good things if they are not feeling

00:35:45.420 good emotions if their heart is not in the right place, if they're not feeling the spirit,

00:35:51.600 however you want to put it. What you are taking is a very modern emotivist view of things, and that is

00:35:59.400 not only out of keeping with our political tradition, it's actually out of keeping with

00:36:05.900 the Christian tradition. It's a very modern idea that what you do physically doesn't matter. All that

00:36:12.120 matters is what you're feeling at any given time. So it doesn't matter if you get down on your knees

00:36:17.120 to pray. You can just pray, I don't know, while you're brushing your teeth, but all that matters

00:36:23.180 is that you really, really feel it. You don't need to receive the sacraments, the sacraments which

00:36:29.900 defined the Christian faith for at least, what, 16 centuries or so. What you just need to do is just

00:36:37.040 really feel things intensely. But that's very personal, it's very emotivist, it's very modern.

00:36:45.620 And it ignores the fact that we have bodies, and our bodies matter, and it actually does matter

00:36:51.340 what we do. This is why a lot of people who are drawn to the emotivist style of religion and politics,

00:36:58.180 they want to ignore parts of the Bible that talk about how faith without works is dead.

00:37:02.400 They want to talk about, they want to ignore aspects of the Bible such as the particular judgment.

00:37:08.040 They want to ignore the fact that we will be judged in some degree on how we behave.

00:37:14.460 We will be judged, and Christ talks about this, that you won't get out until you pay the very last

00:37:20.060 farthing, which there are extraordinarily fruitful theological discussions that can come out of just

00:37:26.480 that passage, but we don't have time for that right now. Hopefully we'll get to it in the future

00:37:29.480 sometime. It has to do a little bit with purgatory, it has to do a little bit with penance, but anyway,

00:37:34.240 we'll get to that at some later time. What you do with your body really does matter.

00:37:40.040 Why do we have laws against murder? We have laws against murder to stop people from murdering. 0.80

00:37:44.900 But Michael, just because we have laws, maybe the people won't murder, but they'll still be

00:37:49.240 murderers in their heart. Okay, but it would be good if they're not murderers with their axes and

00:37:53.220 their guns and their knives. And furthermore, though we deny this today, the law is an instructor.

00:38:01.800 As St. Paul writes, the civil authority is there for you as a gift of God for your own good.

00:38:08.680 The law can help to shape us. Why do parents have rules for their kids? Don't eat the cookies after 1.00

00:38:15.900 eight o'clock at night. Don't go reach into that cookie jar. Well, okay, but there's still a cookie

00:38:21.080 eater in their heart. There's still gluttons in their heart. No, actually the rules over time will

00:38:25.340 help to shape and educate and bring up the kids. That's why you hear this expression sometimes with

00:38:31.320 people who have really bad habits that say, you weren't raised right. You didn't have the right

00:38:35.360 rules. The rules weren't enforced correctly. You weren't raised right. But the law raises a society

00:38:41.500 as well. And political thinkers, the statesmen who built our country, understood that.

00:38:47.200 That yes, you can say politics is downstream of culture. I almost don't even want to use that

00:38:52.820 phrase anymore because it's been so horribly abused by people who don't want to actually do

00:38:56.960 their job in politics and govern. But it could be equally true to say that culture is downstream of

00:39:04.120 politics. Right now in Germany, East Germany is 10% religious, 90% atheist. West Germany is more than 0.55

00:39:12.280 50% religious. Why is that? Is it because of cultural variations in bratwurst? I don't think

00:39:19.820 so. I think it's because one country was dominated by a generally religious or religious friendly

00:39:26.220 polity. And the East part was dominated by an officially atheist government. And there are cultural

00:39:34.200 effects, personal effects of that policy as well. Do not be an emotivist. Life is about more than

00:39:42.220 your feelings from John. Hey, Michael. I've noticed that a lot of our most common political discussion,

00:39:48.120 especially in my personal life with lots of people who don't read much, the things we argue are based

00:39:53.480 off of false premises. Climate change is really bad. Therefore, we should do this. The war on drugs

00:39:58.500 didn't work. Therefore, we should not do this. George Floyd was murdered by a racist cop. Therefore,

00:40:03.900 we should do this. Is there any way to really get these false premises overturned? Or are we too late?

00:40:09.120 And how do we stop new false premises from being so widely accepted so we can have a more intelligent

00:40:14.360 and useful political debate? Sincerely, came for Ben, stayed for, and subscribed for, and upgraded

00:40:18.480 for, Michael. Oh, that's so great. Thank you for doing that. Yes. Well, the simplest way is to ignore

00:40:23.240 them in our real lives. Don't call men who think that they're women she. Don't indulge the George 0.81

00:40:30.180 Floyd liturgies where we treat him as though he were some sort of saint. Don't indulge in the global

00:40:38.960 warming liturgies where we treat the earth as though she is a goddess and she's about to die.

00:40:45.820 Just don't do it. You can laugh at that. You can joke about that. And always go back to the premises

00:40:50.360 when you're having a sort of debate. But then furthermore, this shows the need to exercise

00:40:54.180 political power. You need to exercise political power, especially in education. Because if kids

00:40:59.980 are indoctrinated into these false premises, then they're going to come to logical conclusions

00:41:03.920 on BLM, on global warming, on the war on drugs or whatever, from their faulty premises. And they're

00:41:09.940 going to be really deeply ingrained when our brains are really mushy when we're kids. So you've got to go

00:41:13.340 in there. You've got to wield government power and political power to shape curricula. And you've got to

00:41:19.640 do that down the line as well. Right now, if I oppose transgenderism, for instance, let's look at

00:41:28.460 Canada because Canada is further down the line already. In Canada, if I call a man who thinks

00:41:33.360 he's a woman, he, I may be in violation of the law. In parts of Europe, I may be in violation of 0.93

00:41:40.360 some sort of hate crime. That's really bad. So the law is already putting its finger on the scales of

00:41:45.300 delusion and false premises. We need to wield the law on the side of truth and what's good and what's

00:41:50.220 right and what's beautiful. From Alex. Michael, my question for you is, I want to be eligible to join

00:41:56.400 the State Troopers Academy in a couple of years. It's always been my dream to be a state trooper, but

00:42:00.420 growing up in a Christian conservative home, my family and friends have mixed feelings about it as

00:42:04.140 some of them highly encourage me and others say they don't believe Christians belong in the police

00:42:08.300 force. Your thoughts on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, love the show. Yeah, reread St.

00:42:13.720 Paul, who says, as I just quoted, that the civil authority is there for your own good instituted by

00:42:18.300 God and that the civil authority does not wield the sword in vain. There's nothing unchristian about

00:42:25.140 good government and good laws and ensuring justice. Justice is pretty good. Justice is a virtue, my friend.

00:42:33.680 So I think your family is a little confused on that. If the issue is that your family thinks that

00:42:39.080 Christians should never engage in violence, then I would have them, well, I would have them read lots

00:42:43.080 of literature. But something really easy to read would be, would be C.S. Lewis's essay on why he's

00:42:48.900 not a pacifist. That's where I'd begin. And if you want to join the troopers, good job. Please don't pull

00:42:52.920 me over if you see me speeding. But great stuff. It's a good career. From Victor. Dear Michael,

00:42:58.220 a teacher asked for my preferred pronouns in a questionnaire. Should I just leave it blank? No,

00:43:02.420 you should find a new teacher. I mean it. I mean it. Because your teacher asking for preferred

00:43:08.740 pronouns means your teacher is one of three things. An idiot who doesn't know what sex is. 0.96

00:43:16.120 A radical ideologue who is taken with delusional theories. Or a coward. Maybe a normal person who's

00:43:24.400 just going along to get along because the politically correct administrators are forcing them to.

00:43:28.240 Either way. Or any of those three ways. Or any combination thereof. Probably not going to be a

00:43:35.020 great teacher. From Maya. I was disappointed with you today regarding your opinion of Maya Angelou's

00:43:40.900 poetry. You're entitled to your opinion, but I would encourage you to actually read her body of work.

00:43:46.200 I have read Maya Angelou's poetry. Her poetry was written by a wise woman whose life experiences can

00:43:51.560 be a blessing to people no matter their color. Do not dwell on the fact that she was a woman or a woman

00:43:55.540 of color. Read the words. Well, hold on. I don't dislike Maya Angelou's work because she's a woman 1.00

00:44:01.040 or because she's black. I dislike her work because it's bad poetry. And I oppose her being put on a 1.00

00:44:07.340 coin on the new quarter because she's a bad poet and I don't think a particularly accomplished person. 1.00

00:44:14.720 But also because she is being promoted as a token explicitly by the people who are promoting her.

00:44:20.080 They're saying this is so great because she's black or this is so great because she's a woman. 1.00

00:44:22.720 And I think it's wrong to engage in that kind of tokenism. I think it's very disrespectful

00:44:26.720 to our country, to everybody, to people of all races, and to people of all sexes or both sexes,

00:44:32.600 I guess I should say. But her poetry is not great. There are female writers that I like very much.

00:44:38.740 There are black writers that I like very much. Woman writers I think are very talented. Black writers

00:44:43.120 I think are very talented. Maya Angelou is not one of them. I'm sorry. She's not a good poet.

00:44:48.400 But there's no disputing taste. Some people say de gustibus nones disputandum. But in this case,

00:44:55.140 I think there is disputandum. And I just don't think she's very, very good. And I would encourage

00:45:00.500 you, I say this with great charity and great love for you. I think there are better poets you should

00:45:07.080 read. Maybe you like Maya. I don't begrudge you your Maya Angelou. But I think there are better poets

00:45:11.840 that you could read as well. Of all races, of all sexes, and so on. From Patrick. Hey, Michael,

00:45:17.440 I've heard you reference ancient heresies frequently. I'm just wondering if you think

00:45:21.080 Pope Francis's comments that getting vaccinated is a moral obligation are heretical or merely idiotic.

00:45:26.540 If they are heretical, have we seen this heresy before? P.S. 53 pages of footnotes and 0.80

00:45:32.340 speechless. Impressive. P.P.S. I'm sorry, I'm not named Nick. Oh, that's very kind. Thanks for reading

00:45:36.380 speechless. Got to be very particular here about what Pope Francis said. Pope Francis is a Jesuit.

00:45:45.240 Jesuits can be Jesuitical sometimes. They can use very sly reasoning and argumentation to make it seem 0.99

00:45:51.820 like they're saying one thing, but actually they're saying another thing. And sometimes Pope Francis

00:45:55.900 is misquoted. I do not believe Pope Francis said that getting vaccinated is a moral obligation.

00:46:00.880 He said that getting vaccinated is a health care and health care is a moral obligation.

00:46:09.040 So sure, vaccinations are a type of health care, but not all health care interventions are morally

00:46:15.860 obligated. And so it's a clever kind of turn of phrase, but it's the way that he can avoid saying

00:46:21.960 that receiving this vaccine is morally obligatory because it's not. Not only is it not morally

00:46:26.840 obligatory, it might not be morally permissible. The bishops have come out and said,

00:46:30.300 you can get these vaccines. They're giving you a special permission. But the reason they even have

00:46:36.480 to give you a permission is because the vaccines were all developed and in some cases produced

00:46:40.340 with stem cells from aborted babies. So it involves the remote cooperation with evil.

00:46:44.960 And the bishops are saying, in this case, we are giving you the permission to do that,

00:46:49.440 but no one can require you, can say it's obligatory to cooperate with evil. This is

00:46:57.080 one of the many issues with Francis's papacy, which has been somewhat confusing. There have

00:47:02.260 been questions raised, questions about potential heresy that he has spouted. They're called dubia,

00:47:07.800 doubts. He hasn't really answered those. So I hope he answers those and clears up the issue.

00:47:13.560 Last question from Matthew. Dear Mr. Knowles, my question does not relate to the normal subjects

00:47:17.620 of the mailbag, namely relationships and religion. It relates to an interview you had with Michael

00:47:21.920 Anton a few days ago. I agree with Anton that while we have many parallels with Rome,

00:47:26.160 particularly late Republican Rome, there are many that are unprecedented trends in our current

00:47:30.540 situation. However, let's say we're on the Rome timeline. In this case, do you see an Augustus,

00:47:35.560 Caesar Augustus figure rising to power in the future? Additionally, what should be our verdict

00:47:39.940 on Augustus's regime? Was he a visionary leader who assured Rome's place in history or a tyrant who

00:47:44.800 betrayed Rome's core Republican values? Thanks, love the show. Caesar Augustus came to power,

00:47:49.140 not by, or Julius Caesar for that matter, did not come to power because they took this wonderful

00:47:56.100 idyllic Republican Rome and then took it over like tyrants. Republican Rome was decadent and 0.57

00:48:00.920 debauched, late Republican Rome was decadent and debauched and messed up and screwy. And they took power 0.63

00:48:06.880 because the regime was changing and the regime had decayed. This is what we call anticyclosis,

00:48:11.660 the cycle of regimes. There are good forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, monarchy.

00:48:16.520 There are bad forms of that same government, mob rule, oligarchy, and tyranny. And the regimes decay

00:48:22.680 and they change and they move around. So what do I think of Caesar Augustus? I think he was one of

00:48:27.240 the greatest leaders in the history of the world, called the Prince of Peace, who reigned actually

00:48:31.160 well. The Prince of Peace was, right? Caesar Augustus led to the Roman peace, the Pax Romana.

00:48:39.160 Christ, the actual Prince of Peace, was born in that sort of, he lived in that sort of Rome,

00:48:45.040 that era of Rome. Caesar Augustus was called the son of the divine and Christ is the son of God.

00:48:52.380 There are interesting historical parallels that are going on here. Who, what will happen here in

00:48:57.040 America? Our regime will decay at some point. That's just what happens. Who will be our Caesar?

00:49:02.020 That remains to be seen. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you on Monday.

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Ep. 922 - The Daily Wire DESTROYS Biden's Mandate

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