The Michael Knowles Show - January 17, 2022


Ep. 923 - An Inconvenient Muslim Terror Attack


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

178.5181

Word Count

9,165

Sentence Count

701

Misogynist Sentences

24

Hate Speech Sentences

42


Summary

On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the recent shooting at a Jewish synagogue in Texas, and why we should all be worried about the rise in Islamophobia in the wake of the attack.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A Muslim man claiming to have a bomb took a rabbi and three other Jews hostage on Saturday at a
00:00:06.680 synagogue in Texas. Fortunately, the standoff ended with all of the hostages safe, and only
00:00:12.920 the attacker, dead after law enforcement, stormed the building. There are many lessons to learn
00:00:17.980 from this incident, but the liberal establishment wants us to learn one lesson above all others.
00:00:24.340 That is the urgent need to fight Islamophobia. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:38.020 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show. I'm Michael Knowles. My favorite comment from Friday
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00:02:55.480 how much I hate to be right in my guesses and predictions and suspicions? But I knew when I saw
00:03:02.080 this story trend and it said hostages taken at a synagogue in Texas, I knew that the guy taking the
00:03:11.660 hostages was not a white guy. I knew it. I knew it. I knew he wasn't a Christian nationalist or a
00:03:20.760 white supremacist. I knew it. I knew he wasn't a white guy at all. I knew he wasn't a Christian at all.
00:03:25.460 Do you know how I knew? Because they didn't specify in the headlines. This is known as Coulter's
00:03:32.300 Law, named after Ann Coulter. Ann Coulter's Law is that the longer it takes the news media to identify
00:03:38.720 a mass shooter in the United States, you can broaden that out to attacker, terrorist, or whatever you
00:03:44.080 like, the less likely it is to be a white male. And that was the case here. I was looking at all of
00:03:52.520 the headlines. It said, attacker comes. Okay, attacker. What kind? Okay. If it had been a white
00:03:59.160 guy or a Christian or a Trump supporter or any politically incorrect category, you would have
00:04:06.660 seen that right there in the headlines. So I'm looking and I can't find any details about this
00:04:11.340 guy. Finally, I see British national takes hostages. I said a British national, huh?
00:04:20.260 Something tells me this isn't Lord Engelberberry or something. Something tells me, because they're
00:04:27.560 doing whatever they can to hide the politically incorrect fact that this was a Muslim guy.
00:04:31.920 And so I look and what's the name? Malik Faisal Akram. Okay. Malik Faisal Akram doesn't sound like
00:04:38.920 a Methodist, doesn't sound like a Presbyterian, but they won't because of the threat of Islamophobia,
00:04:44.600 which we'll get to in a second. The FBI then is interviewed after this attack. Fortunately,
00:04:48.480 it has a happy ending. The hostages are released. No one's hurt other than the guy who was committing
00:04:53.380 the attack. The FBI is asked, okay, what motivated this attack? They shrug their shoulders. They say,
00:04:59.440 we have no idea what could have motivated this attack on the synagogue. We do believe from our
00:05:06.840 engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue and it was not specifically
00:05:12.040 related to the Jewish community, but we'll continue into work to find motive and we will continue on
00:05:18.120 that path. In terms of the resolution of the incident, the hostage taker is deceased. Okay.
00:05:24.580 Okay. Singularly focused on one issue, but we're not going to tell you what that issue is. And don't
00:05:30.040 worry, it's not related to the Jews. And anyway, let's just move on. Well, hold on. You know what
00:05:34.080 the issue is. You're saying this attacker was singular. He had this one single focus, but take
00:05:39.580 our word for it. We, the FBI, we would never mislead you. We, the FBI don't want it. So let's just do a
00:05:46.780 little Google search. What, what is the issue? Okay. The issue is that, that this attacker wanted to
00:05:53.900 free Aifiyah Siddiqui, who is currently serving an 86 year sentence for attempting to kill U.S. troops
00:06:03.320 and FBI officers. Siddiqui is an Al-Qaeda terrorist. Not only a terrorist, but specifically associated with
00:06:15.160 Al-Qaeda. But this is not related to the Jews, right? You can take our, except, hold on,
00:06:21.540 Siddiqui during her trial for the terrorism, she dismissed her legal defense team because she said
00:06:28.100 that the lawyers were Jews. And she demanded that, she demanded, I kid you not, that the jurors in the
00:06:33.600 trial take DNA tests to prove that they were not themselves Jews, because that would be unfair
00:06:40.360 if they were to judge her. She said, quote, it is this cruel, ungrateful backstabbing of the Jews
00:06:48.220 that has caused them to be mercilessly expelled from wherever they gain strength. This is why
00:06:52.720 holocausts, in quote, keep happening to them repeatedly if they would only learn to be grateful
00:06:57.020 and change their behavior. And then after her conviction for the terrorism, she said, this is a
00:07:02.640 verdict coming from Israel and not America. That's where the anger belongs. So I'm no forensic
00:07:10.640 investigator. Okay. I'm no, I'm not an FBI officer. I think this might have something to do with the
00:07:17.500 Jews. It might specifically, but we just don't know. How can we know? There just aren't enough,
00:07:24.680 Joe Biden said this. Joe Biden was asked about the attack. He said, we just don't have enough facts.
00:07:29.760 Do you know why he targeted that specific synagogue? Well, no, I don't. We don't have,
00:07:36.200 I don't think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue,
00:07:45.200 why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged,
00:07:51.640 why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments. We just don't have enough facts.
00:07:58.800 We just don't know. I mean, he told us his reasoning and the terrorist that he was trying
00:08:06.000 to free told us her reasoning and it was pretty clear, but we just got to wait a little longer
00:08:12.220 just to get all the facts. This is Joe Biden, who you will recall accused Kyle Rittenhouse of being a
00:08:20.900 white supremacist in a campaign ad. Kyle Rittenhouse, just based on a little video of him
00:08:26.020 shooting what we now know to be his attackers, his white attackers, by the way, in Kenosha,
00:08:33.480 Wisconsin, Joe Biden says he's a white supremacist. He says, this is an example of white supremacy.
00:08:37.580 Didn't wait for the facts to come out in that case. Kyle Rittenhouse, a white guy, a white kid,
00:08:44.100 actually. But in this case, well, we just don't know. The Muslim terrorist said he didn't like the
00:08:50.360 Jews and the Muslim terrorist who's trying to free said she didn't like the Jews. And then they took
00:08:54.320 a bunch of Jews out, but we don't. If only we had more information. When facts go along with the
00:09:02.520 liberal narrative, they are promoted. When facts can plausibly be contorted and exaggerated and changed
00:09:12.960 outright even to go along with the liberal narrative, they are promoted. Such as Kyle
00:09:20.300 Rittenhouse was present at a BLM rally, riot, I suppose, and was chased away by people and then
00:09:28.840 he fired back in self-defense. Okay, maybe we can get away with calling him a racist. That's how that
00:09:35.640 works. When facts contradict the liberal narrative, even when they are demonstrable facts, you got it in
00:09:41.480 writing, you got him dead to rights. It's much more frequent that that happens. Those facts are
00:09:46.480 suppressed. That's how it works. Any even hint of a fact or the semblance of a fact that can justify
00:09:57.940 the liberal narrative, you're going to see it on CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, it's going to
00:10:01.300 be everywhere. The president of the United States is going to be promoting it. If a terror attack occurs
00:10:07.860 that contradicts the liberal narrative, it's just going to nothing to see here. Move along,
00:10:11.300 move along, move along. And here's the argument, by the way. The argument is, yes, there are a lot
00:10:19.400 of Muslim terror attacks. Yes, this is a big problem in America and on American interests abroad.
00:10:26.740 But, but, if we admit that, and it's, it's, I'm, in this case, we're talking about Muslim terror
00:10:33.300 attacks, but this is true of other issues as well in society, having nothing to do with Muslims or
00:10:37.740 terrorism. The argument is, if we accept and admit certain facts, then Americans will turn into a
00:10:45.840 savage band of animals, murderous animals, into lynch mobs that will just go around and kill
00:10:52.100 innocent people who happen to have the same race or religion or geography or what have you.
00:10:58.680 So we have to suppress the facts so that those animal Americans don't turn into a roving band of
00:11:05.680 lynch mobs. Here is what Wajahat Ali, who is a liberal journalist from the Daily Beast,
00:11:12.080 he tweeted out right away, right after the event. I actually think the terror attack may have still
00:11:16.500 been going on. He tweeted out the important lesson. He said, you're about to hear some ugly
00:11:21.540 and vicious Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry this weekend from elected officials, commentators,
00:11:26.620 and even mainstream media. Hope I'm wrong. People will use it to divide Jewish and Muslim
00:11:30.300 communities for the political agenda. Don't fall for it. This is a man who, if you just search on
00:11:35.560 Twitter, Wajahat Ali Christian, you will see rank, disgusting anti-Christian bigotry. Christianity,
00:11:42.500 the most persecuted religion in the world, but per a study from Pew Research Center and per Common Sense
00:11:49.040 and per historical understanding of the last 2,000 years. You will see hideous bigotry against white
00:11:57.880 guys. You'll hear white Christian nationalism, white Christian supremacy. He says, we've got to
00:12:02.460 get rid of it from, we've got to completely blot it out from the country. These white Christians,
00:12:06.800 they're such a big problem. Because if we don't, you're going to see the Islamophobia. You're going
00:12:12.320 to see all the terrible oppression of this one group, the only group that it is legal to discriminate
00:12:17.600 against and that it is socially encouraged to discriminate against. It's the opposite of what
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00:14:12.880 We'll move on to the political significance of this beyond just the attack on the synagogue in
00:14:20.320 Texas. But what it shows you, what the reaction of the media show you is that their narrative is
00:14:26.620 the opposite of true. Their narrative is that Muslims are being attacked all over the country.
00:14:34.020 Muslims can't go, black people are being attacked all over the country. LeBron James said a black man
00:14:38.740 can't walk outside his door without being hunted down by a racist cop. The argument is that women
00:14:43.580 and people of aberrant sexual desires and also all these sorts of victim groups, they are really
00:14:50.540 under attack in America. They're so put upon, they're so persecuted. But what the reaction tells
00:14:56.160 you is it's just the opposite. It's just the opposite. There's only one race that it is legal to
00:15:03.440 discriminate against. Sort of with a slight exception because the Asians also get it too
00:15:07.560 in affirmative action in college admissions. But otherwise, it's white people. You're told that if
00:15:13.940 you're white, you get a privilege, but actually you're at a disadvantage when you're applying to
00:15:17.000 jobs and when you're applying to college. There's only one religion that it is socially acceptable
00:15:21.980 and politically and legally even practicable to discriminate against. What's that?
00:15:27.340 Christianity. It's the only one that it's socially acceptable. There are attacks on the Jews.
00:15:33.180 There are attacks on Muslims. But those are always roundly condemned by all of our political leaders,
00:15:38.600 by every branch of society. The only group that it is socially acceptable and often encouraged to mock,
00:15:45.100 to insult, and to persecute Christians. It's the only one in the West. The only sex that you're
00:15:52.640 allowed to criticize and attack and insult socially. What is it? It's men who allegedly have all the
00:15:58.480 privilege. The reality is the opposite of what we're being told. Now, speaking of the Jews,
00:16:03.120 there is a gubernatorial candidate in Florida named Nikki Freed. She's the Democrat who's going
00:16:07.920 up against Ron DeSantis for governor. Nikki Freed has an interesting theory that pertains to the Jews
00:16:14.620 and political persecution. And her theory is that Ron DeSantis is a lot like Hitler.
00:16:22.220 He is doing everything possible to take away power from local governments, taking away people's
00:16:27.000 abilities to protest, making it harder to vote, talking about, you know, banning books. That's what
00:16:34.060 dictators do. Instead of listening and trying to govern with the people, he's trying to govern over the
00:16:39.680 people. And, you know, that I'm sorry. You know, I am a student of history too. I saw the rise of
00:16:45.060 Hitler. I learned of those stories. Are you comparing DeSantis to Hitler? In a lot of ways,
00:16:49.800 yes. I have studied Hitler and how he got to power, you know, wanting his own militia and having his own
00:16:56.460 There are other states that have one. Absolutely. But the reason why this governor wants it is
00:17:00.660 different than the other states that have been utilizing it for emergency purposes. This governor is
00:17:05.000 doing it for the sole purposes of power and in doing so to make fear and to instill that,
00:17:10.940 to blame people for what is happening in their lives, blaming certain parts of our society and
00:17:15.720 our culture. And that's exactly what Hitler did to the Jews back, you know, during World War II.
00:17:22.360 I'm no PhD in history. Okay. I'm not an academic historian, but I don't think that's exactly what
00:17:30.900 Hitler did to the Jews back during World War II. Correct me if I'm wrong if you're out there and
00:17:35.780 you have more expertise on this. I don't think that the DeSantis policies in Florida, you know,
00:17:43.280 change the curricula a little bit, reform the curricula, keep some businesses open, maybe don't
00:17:48.380 allow the mask mandates. I don't think that's exactly the same thing as what Hitler did to the
00:17:54.940 Jews in World War II. I don't know. I just think there might be some differences, I guess, is what
00:18:01.260 I'm saying. Obviously, this woman is not very intelligent, Nikki Fried, and is not particularly
00:18:09.320 educated. And she is doing what the entire left and many people on the right do, which is compare
00:18:16.340 everyone they don't like to Hitler. Because Hitler is the only historical figure that they even think
00:18:23.080 they know anything about. And they probably don't even know very much about World War II or the 20th
00:18:28.160 century or dictatorship in the past century. But it's the one that they think they know something
00:18:32.840 about. Hitler, and occasionally they'll reference the fall of Rome. There are more historical events.
00:18:41.180 Most people are not like Hitler. Usually, Hitler comparisons are not particularly illuminating. And it
00:18:47.240 shows something else as well, which is that no one ever says, this candidate is so bad, he's just like
00:18:57.500 Stalin. This candidate is so bad, he's just like Mao. This candidate, this politician is so bad, he's a lot
00:19:04.860 like Che Guevara. He's a lot like Fidel Castro. Very rarely do you hear those comparisons. You only hear
00:19:12.000 people disparagingly compared to bad political figures who can plausibly be lumped onto the right.
00:19:22.000 Even though, obviously, it's more complicated with the Nazi party because it has elements of
00:19:26.180 the right, but it's also got elements of leftism and it's very modern. And anyway, you could go on for
00:19:30.080 hours about that. But you never hear the comparisons made disparagingly to politicians and dictators and
00:19:38.200 tyrants who are firmly on the left. Because the liberals won. They won. They've won our politics.
00:19:46.040 They rule the country. The conservatives have some modicum of dissent and some slight ability to push
00:19:53.600 back a little bit. But we are clearly the junior partner in the way that this country is ruled. And so
00:19:59.360 all bad things have to be on the right. And no really, really bad things are ever on the left.
00:20:06.580 That's the way that that works. Now, there is some hope here. There is some hope coming back,
00:20:16.560 which is that we are winning some elections and Republicans are finally gaining a spine
00:20:21.200 and courage. And they're pushing back on the liberal policies. Namely, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.
00:20:29.100 Glenn Youngkin, first day in office. He was just sworn in. First day in office. Bans critical race
00:20:33.400 theory in schools. Bans mask mandates in schools. And his attorney general fired, I think, 30 some
00:20:40.000 odd officials in that office. And is now very liberal officials who weren't prosecuting crime.
00:20:46.920 And he is now promising to prosecute the criminals who the local George Soros funded DAs are going to
00:20:52.420 let off the hook. This is good. This is really good news from Glenn Youngkin. This is the future of the
00:20:57.320 conservative movement and the Republican Party. It is good in and of itself that Youngkin is doing
00:21:02.960 these things. But it's also a sign of what people want. It's also a sign of where the political winds
00:21:11.420 are shifting. Do not forget, Glenn Youngkin first ran for governor as a standard issue, run-of-the-mill
00:21:18.660 business Republican who promised to cut your taxes and leave you alone. That was the early pitch for his
00:21:24.420 campaign. His campaign only shifted in the final weeks to a culture warrior campaign that focused
00:21:31.520 on critical race theory and transgenderism in schools and the gender-neutral bathrooms. It
00:21:36.480 became this very intense cultural conservative campaign only in the final weeks. And that's what
00:21:41.580 pushed him over the finish line. What got him over the finish line was not a surge in Republican voter
00:21:46.660 registration in Virginia, which is overwhelmingly Democrat. What pushed him over the finish line
00:21:51.280 is parents. Not parents who were concerned about their taxes primarily. Parents who didn't want
00:21:55.820 their kids to be raped in the school bathroom and didn't want their kids to be told that white people
00:22:00.020 are evil because of the way they're born. And kids to be told that little Johnny can become little Jill
00:22:04.380 if he wants to and should be able to mutilate his bodies and pretend to be the other sex.
00:22:09.500 That's what did it. Culture. And Youngkin realized that. He switched his campaign and he won.
00:22:14.700 He won as a culture warrior. Now he is signaling that he's going to govern like Ron DeSantis.
00:22:19.880 I wonder why. Maybe because Ron DeSantis is the most popular Republican governor in the country
00:22:24.320 and is considered one of the leading presidential contenders in 2024. You think that might have
00:22:28.600 something to do with it? I suspect it will. This actually, this is really good news for the
00:22:33.400 conservative movement and really good news for the Republican party, but it creates a problem
00:22:37.000 for Ron DeSantis, which is right now when you just look at the governors, Ron DeSantis is the only
00:22:42.940 Ron DeSantis. He's the only Republican governor who is really out there in every single national
00:22:49.680 news story, getting his name in it on the right side of the issue, pushing back, leading the charge.
00:22:56.480 As we get closer to 2024, I think you're going to see a lot of Ron DeSantis copycats.
00:23:02.100 And Ron DeSantis deserves credit for being the first guy there.
00:23:06.880 But when you're looking at 2024, what happens if you've got a field where all the governors are Ron
00:23:13.160 DeSantis? The governors and the senators and the congressmen, other people are going to run too,
00:23:16.260 but they're, it's kind of comparing apples and oranges because they just do different things
00:23:20.920 in government. But if you've got a field where all the governors are Ron DeSantis,
00:23:24.180 that's a little tough then to distinguish yourself other than saying I was first.
00:23:28.000 So they're going to have to all keep it up. They're going to have to go further. They're going to have
00:23:30.980 to keep fighting. And this is, though I'm sorry for Governor DeSantis that it might make his campaign a
00:23:36.120 little tougher. This is really great news for the conservative movement in the Republican Party
00:23:39.960 because now all of the political pressure is pushing these governors toward courage, toward the
00:23:47.800 right, toward standing up for true substantive things and not just the same dumb Republican
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00:24:29.880 Joel Cohen, one of the greatest living directors. Denzel Washington, one of the greatest living
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00:24:47.260 when I was watching this movie about an extremely corrupt political order that is based on treachery,
00:24:54.500 sometimes outright murder that rips the polity asunder and leads to horrible problems for the
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00:26:18.600 OSHA vaccine mandate. Our case made it to the Supreme Court, and we won. Tune in tomorrow night
00:26:24.460 to catch an all-new episode of Backstage where we discuss the outcome of that Supreme Court ruling.
00:26:28.300 It's going to be wonderful. We're going to drink a lot of leftist tears. It's going to be me, Ben,
00:26:32.360 Jeremy, Matt, and Drew, 7 p.m., 6 p.m. central, dailywire.com, or you can stream it on our YouTube
00:26:39.300 channel, Daily Wire. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:26:44.860 Welcome back to the show.
00:26:58.300 I really loved this movie, The Tragedy of Macbeth. It's kind of an artsy film. It's black and white.
00:27:05.040 It's an ambitious adaptation. It's minimalist in its set design, but it's artsy. So if you don't
00:27:12.880 like artsy movies, this is not going to be the movie for you, but it is one of the greatest plays
00:27:16.580 ever written by the greatest English playwright with some of the greatest living actors and actresses
00:27:21.720 and the greatest director. So it's really wonderful. The one controversy of it was that Denzel Washington
00:27:26.540 obviously is not Scottish. He's a black guy. So should a black guy be allowed to play a white part?
00:27:33.160 And is this woke? And is this politically correct? The debate over colorblind casting is an extremely
00:27:40.480 complicated one. It's not a simple answer one way or the other, folks. This has been a debate that's
00:27:46.120 gone on for decades. One of the great proponents of colorblind casting was a guy named Bob, is a guy
00:27:51.540 named Bob Brustein, who was the founder of the El Repertory Theater and is a sort of legend in the
00:27:58.460 theater world. He's a white guy. He's a big proponent of colorblind casting, having black people play white
00:28:03.140 parts and not taking into account of an actor's ethnicity. August Wilson, who's probably the most
00:28:09.240 famous black playwright of the last hundred years, maybe the most famous black playwright in American
00:28:13.460 history, he hated colorblind casting. He said black people should not play white parts. White people
00:28:18.040 should not play black parts. This is insane. Race involves lots of cultural aspects and it's, you can't
00:28:26.000 suspend disbelief and you shouldn't do it. There's also this double standard now, which is that white
00:28:31.300 actors are not allowed to play any non-white parts. And if they are, there's a big uproar and the woke
00:28:37.140 people scream about it. White actors are not even allowed to voice non-white parts. The white actor
00:28:43.600 who voiced Apu on The Simpsons got canceled from the part because you're not allowed to do that anymore.
00:28:48.840 So yes, there's a double standard. It's preposterous. It's silly. However, if you can get past all of the
00:28:55.700 stupid woke stuff and just recognize that Denzel Washington is one of the greatest living actors and his
00:29:00.400 performance in this movie is just incredible, then I think you can tune out all of the noise.
00:29:06.560 Furthermore, you can say that Shakespeare is writing about not specific issues only related to Scotland,
00:29:13.200 but he's writing about the human condition and therefore it makes a lot more sense for a black guy to play
00:29:19.060 that role. Even though it's a Scottish role, really the play is about the human condition. Whereas if you had
00:29:25.240 Denzel Washington starring in the remake of The Sopranos, that probably wouldn't make a lot of sense.
00:29:31.300 The Sopranos is very specifically about an Italian-American family, so it wouldn't make sense to have a non-Italian
00:29:37.260 actor play that part. Okay, that's a little bit of the controversy around it. The reason I even bring up the movie
00:29:41.740 is because the play is about fate versus free will. And the movie, Joel Cohen really brings this out.
00:29:55.060 Macbeth opens up the play, one of the very first scenes of the play, he's walking up and he sees a
00:29:59.840 bunch of witches and the witches tell him his future and they say, you're going to become king,
00:30:04.120 but you're not going to have a line of kings. And tells his partner Banquo, you're not going to be
00:30:10.320 king, but your kids are going to become king. And this is going to happen and this is going to
00:30:14.680 happen. And Macbeth is struck with this and he says, well, hold on. First of all, do I believe
00:30:19.900 these witches that that's really going to happen? And then he sees some proof that some of their
00:30:22.800 predictions came true. And he says, well, okay, if it's going to happen, then I guess I don't need
00:30:26.020 to do anything. He says, if chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my star? I'm not
00:30:31.320 going to do anything about it. But then he does do something about it. He says, and mostly because his wife,
00:30:35.880 Lady Macbeth, is just an early version of Hillary Clinton and she's this sort of wicked
00:30:39.740 political character who just impels him and convinces him to kill the king and become king
00:30:45.340 himself. And so he does participate in it, but was that always fated or did he really have free
00:30:50.560 choice? And by the end, he and his Hillary Clinton wife go completely insane. And he's, he's, she
00:30:56.600 becomes extremely depressed. He becomes very depressed. He can't sleep anymore because he killed
00:31:01.340 the king in his sleep. He says, he says, sleep no more. Macbeth does murder sleep. I'll never sleep
00:31:08.060 again because one, he saw the king die in his sleep. And two, because he's, he's wracked by the
00:31:12.080 moral reality of what he's done. He's one of the most famous lines of the entire place is tomorrow
00:31:19.360 and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded
00:31:23.720 time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out brief candle, life's but
00:31:28.680 a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
00:31:33.020 It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. That's what a lot of
00:31:39.980 people think life is today. That's what they think that it's all just kind of a joke. It's all just
00:31:46.560 kind of a farce, a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing. Our hopes, our dreams, our loves, our joys.
00:31:52.580 It's all just an illusion, man. You know, it's just chemicals firing off in our brain. And it's just,
00:31:58.040 and by the way, if you, if you don't like how you're feeling, just take a pill and then you'll feel
00:32:01.380 better. Or just do, do some other drugs. Or just go have sex with somebody. Or go, some, you know,
00:32:08.560 sort of casual sex. Or just go have a drink. Or just go play video games. Or just plug into the
00:32:13.000 metaverse. Or just, just give yourself pleasure. Because that's all it is. It doesn't mean anything.
00:32:18.240 But what Macbeth and his wife realize after they've committed this horrible sin
00:32:21.640 is that the sin really does mean something. Another one of the most famous lines is you've got Hillary
00:32:26.440 Clinton there, Lady Macbeth. And she's saying, out, damned spot. Out. She's trying to rub out the
00:32:31.220 blood. Rub out what she's done. But she can't. She can't forget it. Macbeth can't sleep because he
00:32:37.400 can't forget what he actually did. Because it does signify something. It does. Life actually does
00:32:42.340 matter. The things we do. There is a moral universe. And we're living in an age where we try to blot all
00:32:47.140 that out. And we say that everything is just about power. The left says that politics is just
00:32:53.160 different interest groups. And usually they push interest groups on racial or sexual lines.
00:32:58.760 It's just them vying for power. And there's no sense. And there's no order. And there's no truth.
00:33:02.080 And there's no justice. And there's no goodness. It's just interest and power. And frankly,
00:33:05.600 you have people on the right saying almost the same thing. It's amazing that it's the conservatives
00:33:09.260 who for the past 30 years have said all life is about is money. And just boosting GDP and cutting
00:33:13.840 taxes. And you do you. And we're not going to legislate morality. And don't yuck my yum.
00:33:20.320 And who's to say what's good? I mean, they sound just like the liberals. And they all sound like
00:33:24.780 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. And that's why we live in a crappy country right now.
00:33:28.960 Because we need to recognize that life actually does signify something. That's how we will have
00:33:33.840 better sleep. That is how we will have a better country. That is how we will rub out that damn spot
00:33:38.580 is by recognizing that there's a moral order. There is sin. There is grace. There is truth.
00:33:43.100 There is falsehood. There is goodness. There is evil. And there is redemption if only we seek it.
00:33:49.100 Speaking of madness. Speaking of madness. There's a viral video going around of a gal who
00:33:56.520 is going to transition. She's going to have the gender surgery. She's a woman now, but she's going
00:34:02.940 to make herself look more like a man. Because she says that the men who are living in her brain
00:34:07.320 want that. So she doesn't want that. She, the woman, but the men living in her brain
00:34:12.000 do want her to do that. And so that's what they are going to do.
00:34:16.000 So I'm a member of a DID system. And for me right now, that means that in the coming months,
00:34:20.500 I am going to be able to watch some of my best friends and some of my closest companions get
00:34:24.200 the body of their dreams that matches their gender, that makes them feel happy. And in exchange,
00:34:29.000 I'm going to have to give up my own. I'm cisgender. The majority of my headmates aren't.
00:34:33.280 And we've decided to transition. Which means that as happy as I am for the men in my system,
00:34:37.900 I am about to have to watch myself go through the wrong puberty. And it's going to be permanent.
00:34:45.260 I don't think we talk enough about how DID gets rid of a person's bodily autonomy.
00:34:49.100 You know, I hear people say all the time, the one thing you have control over is your own
00:34:51.880 body and your own reactions. And I don't have that. This isn't my body. These aren't my reactions
00:34:57.200 or my memories. I have like 30 people living in my brain and everything I do belongs to us
00:35:01.900 as a group. That's what's so hellish about this disorder. My parents f***ing up. And now I will
00:35:06.900 never have full bodily autonomy. Anyways, everybody say congratulations to the men in my system because
00:35:12.800 they get to transition and we're happy for them. So this woman, and I say this with as much
00:35:19.920 sympathy as there is in the world, is completely insane. And she is acknowledging that. She's saying,
00:35:25.200 I have this mental condition called DID. I googled DID. DID is a dissociative identity disorder.
00:35:34.680 So multiple personalities all floating around in her imagination. And she says that a lot of them
00:35:41.220 are men and the men want her to mutilate her body. In the olden days, this was attributed to more
00:35:49.440 spiritual causes. You might recall reading in the Bible when you go up to someone and they start
00:35:54.500 speaking with multiple personalities and they say, we are legion and this was considered not a very good
00:35:59.000 thing and something to be fixed rather than indulge. Today, we indulge it. And so this woman says,
00:36:06.740 I've got 10 different men living in my brain and therefore I'm transgender and we're going to change
00:36:14.660 my body. When she goes to the doctor and says, I've got 10 men living in my brain. The doctor says,
00:36:20.380 okay, well, you've got this disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and we're going to treat that
00:36:25.080 disorder. She says, okay, and I'm transgender. I'm really a man. And the doctor says, oh, well,
00:36:30.400 okay, let's chop you up then. Why? Why are we acknowledging that one of these mental illnesses
00:36:36.660 is a mental illness and why are we pretending that the other one is perfectly normal and just an
00:36:42.860 ordinary aspect of one's identity? If a single person walks up and says, I'm actually 10 people,
00:36:52.000 we acknowledge, for now at least, we acknowledge that that's not true and crazy and you should
00:36:57.060 treat that. But if a woman walks up and says, I'm actually a man, we, until three or four years ago,
00:37:05.340 we would say, no, that's not true. That's crazy. And we would try to treat that. Now we just say,
00:37:09.180 okay, buddy, let's go hunting. Let's go, let's, let's do it, pal. You want to go play a round of
00:37:15.720 golf? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. Why is one of these crazy and the other one
00:37:21.280 legitimate? They were both in the DSM. They were both in the, in the catalog of mental illnesses until
00:37:27.840 very recently. How come one of them got taken out? Because transgenderism is ideologically and
00:37:34.920 politically convenient for the left in this country. And so we're turning something that is
00:37:39.520 manifestly a disorder into a political tool. Fairly disturbing. Speaking of disturbing
00:37:46.360 videos going around to the internet, there's an even more disturbing one, if you can believe it,
00:37:52.820 than, than the woman with multiple demonic figures in her head. That would be a kid who was on TikTok
00:37:59.580 with his mother and said that his mother is going to make him join the LGBTQ community.
00:38:06.900 Does your mom say you have to be LGBT? No. No, I can, she's what I want to be, but some, but.
00:38:14.260 Hold on. Go ahead, Lex, go ahead. Keep talking. Say what you're saying.
00:38:17.880 My mom doesn't matter if I'm a, if I am gay or lesbian or any of that, she doesn't care. All she cares
00:38:26.220 about is that I'm a part of it. And if I'm not a part of it, she'll try to convince me to join it
00:38:33.180 because I. What? Are you sorry right now? Facts. That I would convince you to join what? The LGBTQIA+.
00:38:40.820 This is bad. Obviously we're blurring the kids' faces, unlike this abusive mother who's putting
00:38:47.500 her kids on the internet for her own edification and pleasure and gain. But you, you can see when
00:38:55.200 the kid starts to answer this question, the other kid looks at the mother and says, ooh, and the other
00:39:00.080 kid, he puts his hand, he says, don't, maybe don't answer that. And the kid says, no, it's okay. It's
00:39:04.280 just my mom, she doesn't care if I'm a lesbian or gay or transgender or whatever. She just wants me to
00:39:08.720 be one of them. I've just got to be part of it. I've just got to be in some way part of the LGBT
00:39:13.260 community. And then the mother says, huh, wait, hold on. She realizes this answer is not going the
00:39:17.660 way she wanted it to when she put her kids on screen. And she says, what are you talking about?
00:39:23.520 What are you saying? He says, facts. Obviously you want me to do that. And so this was put out by
00:39:28.820 Libs of TikTok, which is now reporting that the mother is apparently quite involved in the LGBTQ
00:39:33.860 community and has some kind of romantic relationship with some kind of transgender type.
00:39:38.260 So she's obviously promoting this sort of stuff. People are shocked that the kid would say this.
00:39:45.060 People are shocked that a mother would do it. I'm not shocked at all. Being in the LGBT LMNOP
00:39:52.540 community carries social currency. I know that the liberal establishment pretends that to be in the
00:40:00.520 LGBT LMNOP comes with lots of sacrifice and terrible burdens and that you're actually a persecuted
00:40:07.640 minority. But that's not the case. Every power center in this country promotes LGBTQ. If you
00:40:17.260 disparage LGBTQ, even the T, which is the craziest part of all, if you disparage that, you will be
00:40:28.880 censored often. You will be deplatformed often. You could face professional repercussions. You could
00:40:34.620 be fired. You could be kicked out of school. Depending on exactly how you do it, you might
00:40:39.700 face some criminal penalties. You can't do that. You're not allowed. It's one of the most protected
00:40:45.740 groups in the country. Actually, the only group that you are allowed to discriminate against legally,
00:40:53.460 the only group, sexual group that you're allowed to and encouraged to publicly insult and attack is
00:41:00.440 what? It's straight people. That's it. It's the opposite of what the libs are telling us. On race,
00:41:07.920 on sex, on religion, on the entire political order, all of the powerful institutions are telling you,
00:41:15.380 this group is really persecuted and this group is doing the persecuting. And so, well, what's the
00:41:23.640 effect of that? The effect of that is when all of the power centers are smearing one group and are
00:41:28.780 lauding another group and protecting another group and giving advantage to another group, then the
00:41:36.680 groups are actually flipped. Then the one that we're told is persecuted is not. It's powerful. And the one
00:41:41.940 that we're told is powerful is actually persecuted. That's the way these things work. Speaking of bad
00:41:50.820 moms, the New York Times has another distressing story. This also, this really also kind of comes
00:41:59.800 back to Macbeth, to our Macbeth culture, to Lady Macbeth in particular. The New York Times is defending
00:42:07.220 moms abandoning their kids. This is from the culture section. So they're talking about all these new
00:42:14.940 movies where moms are just leaving their kids and all these new stories and books where moms abandon
00:42:20.220 their kids. They write, the mother who abandons her children haunts our family narratives. She's
00:42:24.580 made into a lurid tabloid figure, an exotic exception to the common deadbeat father. Or she
00:42:30.940 is sketched into the background of a plot, her absence lending a protagonist, a propulsive origin
00:42:35.980 story. This figure arouses our ridicule. Ridicule, consider Meryl Streep's daffy American president
00:42:41.160 in Don't Look Up, who forgets to save her son as she flees the apocalypse. Or our pity, see
00:42:46.680 parallel mothers where an actress has ditched her daughter for lousy television parts.
00:42:50.220 But lately, the vanishing mother has provoked a fresh response. Respect. Because they say the
00:42:56.440 one thing a mother cannot do in our culture, the one thing she cannot do, the thing that is so taboo
00:43:01.180 it rivals actually murdering her offspring, is leave. Now the argument doesn't seem to make a lot of
00:43:07.960 sense because they're referencing movies that still look on the mother abandoning her children
00:43:12.520 with scorn and pity, like Meryl Streep's movie where she abandons her son. Meryl Streep is not exactly
00:43:18.000 a sympathetic figure in Don't Look Up, which I did a review of, by the way, that you can catch on
00:43:21.680 YouTube. But why is this? Why is it that mothers abandoning their children arouses our scorn and our
00:43:30.220 pity and our heartbreak? Is it just our prejudice? Is it just our sexism? Or is it that mothers
00:43:39.140 abandoning their children horrifies us because it is horrifying? Is it different when a mother
00:43:47.600 abandons her kid than when you have a deadbeat dad? Deadbeat dads are also looked on with scorn
00:43:52.100 and disdain and pity. But it's different. I grant you it's different. Is it that mothers who abandon
00:43:58.840 their kids are looked on as different than dads who abandon their kids because moms and dads are
00:44:02.940 different? Yeah, that's how human beings have understood moms and dads for all of recorded
00:44:08.400 history everywhere in the world until five minutes ago because now we have to pretend that moms and
00:44:13.680 dads are exactly the same. We're doing my show from home right now because global warming reared its
00:44:20.180 ugly head in Nashville and so the whole city is covered in ice. And because Nashville is not
00:44:24.780 accustomed to snow and doesn't know how to deal with it, a little bit of ice means we do our shows
00:44:28.720 from home. Okay, so I've got my wife and my child outside of my office here. I play around with my
00:44:36.120 kid. I go see the kid during the day. You know, I want to Gucci-go him and he likes it. It's full play
00:44:40.160 for a little bit. But you know what he likes more than hanging out with dad? He likes hanging out with
00:44:45.080 mommy. And when he's just sort of sitting, playing, having fun, then he'll play with dad. But when he
00:44:50.780 really wants something, when he's in distress, when he's hungry, when he's tired, when he just wants
00:44:55.380 comfort, do you know where he turns? He doesn't turn to daddy. He turns to mommy because mommy and
00:44:59.360 daddy are different. We're physically different. We're different in our relation to the baby.
00:45:03.740 We're different spiritually, metaphysically, emotionally. We're just different, okay? But
00:45:08.740 since the sexual revolution, we've had to pretend that men and women are exactly the same.
00:45:13.060 You saw this first with the second wave feminists who said a woman needs a man like a fish needs a
00:45:17.500 bicycle, said all of the virtues now are masculine virtues. All of the feminine virtues are trash,
00:45:22.700 so women have to go work in the widget factory just like men. And any woman who wants to stay
00:45:27.120 home should not be allowed to do it. That's what Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most prominent
00:45:30.400 feminists of that era, said. She said women can't even be given that choice because too often they'll
00:45:34.800 take it and then they won't be liberated. So it starts with the second wave feminists. It moves on to the
00:45:39.220 gay rights movement, which says that men and women are exactly the same. And once we accepted that
00:45:43.820 premise, then almost inevitably you were going to redefine marriage because if men and women are exactly the
00:45:48.680 same, then the union of one man and one woman is exactly the same as the union of one man and one
00:45:52.620 man. It's exactly the same as the union between one woman and one woman. But once you accept that,
00:45:57.620 then you've got to accept transgenderism because if men and women are exactly the same, then there's
00:46:01.420 no reason that a man can't become a woman and a woman can't become a man. Women tried to transform
00:46:06.540 themselves into men in the 1970s. They did it without the surgeries usually, but they certainly did it
00:46:12.880 socially. They certainly did it emotionally. They tried at least. And so when you've got the technology
00:46:19.200 to chop people up and make them look a little bit more like the other sex, why would you not do that
00:46:23.320 too? And now you've got the culture lauding mothers who abandon their kids. Because why? Because men and
00:46:32.540 women are exactly the same. I don't think they would laud fathers who abandon their kids, by the way,
00:46:36.280 but they would laud mothers for doing that. Also because the power and the privilege are not exactly
00:46:41.360 what the liberal establishment tells us. But this is evidence that something has gone horrifically wrong
00:46:46.840 in society. And it's a consequence of sexual confusion. And it's a consequence, by the way,
00:46:51.880 of an obsession with individualism that does not merely exist on the left. It exists on the right
00:46:56.820 as well. You see it on the left where they say that anyone's individual appetites, especially sexual
00:47:02.880 appetites, but others as well for drugs and food and all sorts of things, should be indulged and none of
00:47:08.920 them are wrong. This is why you see the movement for fat positivity and sex positivity and all the rest of
00:47:14.000 it. Drug legalization. And you see it on the right as well. You see it on the right with money. You
00:47:22.600 see it on the right even with certain kinds of behavior. You leave me alone. You do you. If it
00:47:27.880 doesn't affect me, if it doesn't scare the horses in the street, then you can do whatever you want.
00:47:31.920 That's not my business. Just cut taxes and do whatever you want behind closed doors. None of that
00:47:37.280 is conservative. None of that is conducive to a good polity. It's just not going to work. Now, speaking of
00:47:43.260 scientific reality, I've got to get to one story because I think it's so important that we all
00:47:48.180 rally the troops here. Joe Rogan is under fire. The libs are trying to cancel Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan
00:47:56.560 is under fire because he is giving a platform to scientists who dissent from the liberal establishment.
00:48:05.460 People like Robert Malone, Dr. Robert Malone, who helped to develop mRNA technology, who's now
00:48:09.540 skeptical of the vaccines. So anyway, there is now a petition, an open letter from 300 scientists
00:48:15.740 telling Spotify to get rid of Joe Rogan. So we took a little look into these 300 scientists.
00:48:21.460 It's a great Luke Rudkowski posted some of them. Let's see. We've got the director of research at
00:48:27.520 Grasshopper Farms, Cole Creighton. We've got Colleen Tricartan-Frost. She's a dentist. We've got
00:48:32.140 Courtney Kennedy, a physician's assistant. We've got Crystal Pawula, a nurse practitioner. We've got
00:48:38.180 Daniel Jones, a consultant. We've got Daniel Levitt, a postdoc. So these aren't exactly
00:48:48.100 specialists. They're not exactly the top scientists in their field. Some of them are dentists.
00:48:52.360 They'll say, Joe Rogan's not a scientist. Sure. But the scientists that he interviews are.
00:48:56.960 The problem is, because they dissent from the liberal establishment, they're unpersoned.
00:49:02.600 They're no longer scientists. Joe Rogan is far right now. Joe Rogan is on the left. But Joe Rogan
00:49:09.540 is far right now. People like Glenn Greenwald, far right now. Far right doesn't mean you're on
00:49:15.760 the right wing. It doesn't mean you're conservative. It just means you dissent
00:49:19.980 from the established liberal orthodoxy, which is presenting to you a reality that is completely
00:49:28.200 different from the way things actually are. And people, they see it when the FBI comes out and
00:49:34.460 says the Muslim terror is screaming about Jews. We don't know his motive. You can see it when Dr.
00:49:39.180 Fauci admits that he was lying about some aspect of COVID or the whole public health establishment
00:49:45.280 changes. You can see it, but then we keep going on. We just keep going on. And I think people are
00:49:49.200 waking up a little bit to that delusion. But there is no way that we are going to have a good society,
00:49:55.860 that we're going to have a flourishing, a free, an equitable, a just society if we continue to
00:49:59.540 indulge delusions, whether they're at the national level or whether they're at the personal level of
00:50:03.420 pretending that men are women. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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