The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 925 - Smoking Weed And Criminalizing Truth

00:00:00.000 You may have seen headlines over the past few days, particularly in conservative outlets,

00:00:05.060 claiming that Canada has just banned conversion therapy, which is a political slogan that refers

00:00:11.000 to counseling that focuses on changing a person's sexual desires. But the headlines aren't true.

00:00:17.380 Canada has not banned all conversion therapy. It is still perfectly legal in Canada to try to 1.00

00:00:25.140 change a person's sexual orientation so long as you are trying to make that person homosexual. 0.52

00:00:32.440 That's very legal. It is legal to try to change a person's gender identity so long as you are 1.00

00:00:39.900 trying to make that person transgender. There are going to be a lot of quotes today, a lot of air

00:00:44.560 quotes. It is perfectly legal in Canada to, this is a real quote from the law, repress or reduce

00:00:52.760 a person's heterosexual attraction or behavior, as well as to repress or reduce a person's

00:01:00.860 cisgender gender identity. All of those conversion therapies are still legal in Canada. What is 0.94

00:01:08.920 illegal is to try to change or repress anyone's sexual desires or identities in the other direction.

00:01:16.160 In other words, if you try to convince your son that he's really a little girl, that is protected 1.00

00:01:22.760 by the law. But if you tell your little son that he is not a little girl, you could be sent to prison.

00:01:31.400 You could be imprisoned for five years. Many religious liberty advocates point out that this legislation

00:01:37.540 effectively outlaws Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Canada, which is true. But the issue runs far 0.90

00:01:45.620 deeper than mere religious liberty. The legislation outlaws the truth. And it's not just our eccentric

00:01:53.160 neighbors to the north up in America's hat who have to worry about that sort of madness.

00:01:57.740 Because a similar law has already been passed here, right in the U.S. of A. I'm Michael Knowles,

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00:04:28.800 check out allform.com slash Knowles. We already have a similar law in America. This law was passed

00:04:37.240 in Canada. Not in Canada, in California. Sorry, I get confused. Canada is the avant-garde. California

00:04:43.800 is not so far behind. The law in California stated that healthcare workers who refer to men who think

00:04:52.500 that they are women as men and who do that willfully can be prosecuted. That that's a crime 0.96

00:05:02.200 in California. That law was passed about five years ago. Thankfully, it was challenged in the courts,

00:05:07.820 so it's not on the books anymore. But this is what the left wants, not just in other countries,

00:05:12.220 but right here in our own country. They want, they don't want to ban all forms of sexual social

00:05:19.340 engineering. They only want to ban the forms of sexual social engineering that go in the 1.00

00:05:24.080 traditional direction. They want to ban the forms of social engineering, sexual social engineering

00:05:29.720 that tells confused boys that they're not actually girls. But they will encourage all the other forms

00:05:35.440 of social sexual, they'll encourage all the other forms of conversion therapy as long as it goes

00:05:40.220 in the direction of radicalism and very often fantasy. The law in Canada, just like the law in

00:05:49.640 California when it was passed, it's not a valid law. It's not. I know it's on the books. I know it's

00:05:56.080 going to be enforced. I know that the political system in Canada is going to do everything it can

00:06:00.800 to make this the law of land, but it's not a valid law. The reason for that is that human law is only

00:06:08.000 law by virtue of its accordance with right reason. It is manifest that it flows from the eternal law

00:06:16.420 insofar as it deviates from right reason. It is called an unjust law. And in such a case,

00:06:20.880 it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence. That's the description by St. Thomas Aquinas,

00:06:27.600 one of the most intelligent people ever to live. And it has been repeated by people throughout the

00:06:32.660 ages. Martin Luther King actually said similar things. It was Martin Luther King Day just a couple of

00:06:36.040 days ago. Unjust law is no law at all because human law is only law in its accordance with right

00:06:44.520 reason. And so when you have an unjust law that is not a law that is a species of violence, what

00:06:49.420 they're doing in Canada is committing violence on parents, on kids especially. And it must not be

00:06:56.520 followed. Evil, evil stuff. We got into this problem not just because the left led us there,

00:07:03.880 but because the right led us there as well. This is being talked about as a religious liberty issue.

00:07:09.100 It is a religious liberty issue, but that's not the primary problem. It's a truth issue.

00:07:15.540 It's a truth issue. We got into this problem because we deny the truth. The left obviously denies

00:07:20.740 the truth. They say that falsehood is truth and truth is falsehood, but the conservatives do it as well,

00:07:24.900 or at least the libertarians do in the conservative movement. Because very often you will hear people

00:07:30.200 on the right say, well, how do we know? How do we know? How do we legislate morality? Who's to say?

00:07:36.080 Who decides? Maybe the thing you think is good, I think is bad. Shouldn't we all be allowed to just

00:07:41.580 make up our own understanding of what's good and bad, man? You know, hold on. Let me just,

00:07:44.900 yeah, you know, man. And it's like, what if the color you see as green, I see as blue? And it's

00:07:52.480 this radical skepticism that sounds no different than what Anthony Kennedy wrote in the Supreme

00:07:59.360 Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where he found somewhere in the constitution,

00:08:04.200 I guess in invisible ink, a right to define your own concept of existence.

00:08:09.240 Those are the ramblings of some aged hippie, but they're often repeated by right-wingers.

00:08:16.840 And so when we deny the truth, when we deny that we can know the truth with some reasonable degree

00:08:22.020 of certainty, then we open ourselves up to this kind of madness. The problem here is not just that

00:08:30.280 the left has completely lost its mind and is peddling insanity and child abuse. The other problem is that 0.97

00:08:36.180 the right is not willing to stand up for the truth and doesn't have the confidence to articulate the

00:08:39.900 truth. If you oppose transing all the kids like they're trying to do in Canada, you will today be 0.88

00:08:47.600 called a far-right extremist. Everyone to the right of Hillary Clinton today is a far-right extremist.

00:08:57.700 Even some people who are to the left of Hillary Clinton, but oppose the dominant ruling class,

00:09:04.220 the liberal establishment. They will also be called far-right extremists. A great example of this

00:09:09.300 is Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald has been, for most of his career, a left-wing activist and

00:09:17.360 journalist. Glenn Greenwald has had contact with WikiLeaks, with Edward Snowden. I think he's a gay guy, 1.00

00:09:25.460 I'm not sure. He worked in some weird sexual industry type jobs earlier in his career, according

00:09:33.760 to reports. He's not what you would call a traditional rock-ribbed conservative. I suspect

00:09:40.740 most of his views are not particularly conservative. But Glenn Greenwald opposes the liberal establishment.

00:09:50.360 Glenn Greenwald is willing to do the job of a journalist, at least some of the time.

00:09:56.440 And so, as a result, the ruling class has labeled him a far-right extremist. Right-wing no longer

00:10:01.640 means what it used to mean. These phrases, these terms change over time. The left and the right,

00:10:07.940 the very words left and right in our political discourse come from the French Revolution,

00:10:12.200 when the right-wingers supported the monarchy and the left-wingers wanted to plunge the country into

00:10:17.480 madness. And the left-wingers obviously won. But today, we don't necessarily think of right-wingers

00:10:21.900 as monarchists. So the words change quite a lot over time. And now, far-right means you oppose

00:10:27.600 the ruling class. So we're all far-right now, guys. Okay? We're all... It just means bad.

00:10:35.060 It's just... It's what the liberals did to the word racist. Racist no longer means that you have

00:10:39.780 animosity for people on the basis of their race. Racist just means bad. So if you're a bad person,

00:10:45.180 if I don't like you... If you're someone that the dominant power structure doesn't like, you're a

00:10:49.920 racist. Or you're far-right. Or you're a white nationalist or whatever. This is the politics

00:10:59.200 of politics. This is the Overton window, is sometimes what it's called. The left, by manipulating all the

00:11:05.680 terms, which I write about in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by changing the

00:11:09.920 limits of acceptable discourse, every society is going to have some discourse that's off-limits,

00:11:13.900 doesn't matter how much you love your First Amendment, certain things you're just not allowed

00:11:17.320 to say in every society. If they can shift that all the way over to the left, then even leftists

00:11:22.200 are going to appear to be far-right wing. There's another part of the politics of politics, though.

00:11:26.680 Beyond the issues, beyond immigration and pro-life and the economy, there's the politics about how we

00:11:32.780 do politics. And you see some of that in the discourse, and you see some of that in how the

00:11:37.660 elections are run. And we got some really good news on this out of Wisconsin.

00:11:43.900 out of Waukesha, Wisconsin. A judge in Waukesha just came out and said that election drop boxes

00:11:54.560 are not permissible. So election drop boxes are one of the tools that the left used in 2020 to

00:12:02.460 change all the election rules, to push their guy, Joe Biden, through. Joe Biden, the most popular

00:12:06.640 president ever, even though his approval ratings are in the 30s. He got more votes than anybody.

00:12:12.000 How dare you? If you question that, you're an insurrectionist, far-right terrorist. 0.98

00:12:15.620 They changed all the rules. One of them was you have these very insecure ballot drop boxes. The

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00:13:49.280 make sure that the elections are fair. A lot of Republicans don't think the 2020 election

00:13:55.220 was fair. An even higher percentage of Democrats don't think the 2016 election was fair.

00:14:02.420 Now, their claims are not equal because in 2016, the election was run like it always is. And the

00:14:08.480 reason Democrats don't think it was fair is because our intelligence agencies made up a bunch of crap 0.95

00:14:13.260 about Trump colluding with the Russians, which wasn't true. The reason that people don't think the

00:14:17.460 2020 election was fair was because Democrats changed all the rules and in some cases violated state

00:14:21.620 constitutions when they cheated to get their guy across the finish line. So they're not, I'm not

00:14:27.060 saying it's all, all equal here. However, it is a political problem that both sides don't think that

00:14:32.280 the elections are fair. So what are we going to do? We need to make sure that the elections are fair,

00:14:37.460 are just, are equitable, and are not being stolen by the Democrats or are advantageous to Republicans

00:14:44.780 and to the rule of law and to justice. Because right now they're skewed so much in the direction

00:14:50.880 of the Democrats. We've got to do that. I don't care how popular your view on immigration is. I don't

00:14:57.140 care how well you're doing in the polls and how terribly your opponent is doing in the polls. If,

00:15:01.700 if you don't have some semblance of a fair election, then that and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee.

00:15:08.080 You've got to make sure. So the first battle for Republicans is make sure that the drop boxes, the no ID 0.85

00:15:14.900 voting, the election month, election season, all of these ridiculous cheats that the Democrats have

00:15:22.080 instituted, that you got to make sure that those go away. Then you've got to work on the cultural front

00:15:28.220 on moving the Overton window, which political actors can play a large role in. Then you work on the

00:15:34.160 policies, but you're not going to get to that third part unless you take care of the first part.

00:15:37.040 Speaking of confusing the left and the right, the left is still pushing the Russia hoax. The Russia

00:15:45.700 hoax has been so completely discredited. We know that it was based on an unverified false dossier

00:15:55.500 that was paid for by Hillary Clinton that was used as an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign and then 0.99

00:16:02.800 later to undermine the Trump presidency with the overt collusion of not just our intelligence agencies, but

00:16:08.440 international intelligence as well. It was based on nothing. The best they could find was that Russia 0.91

00:16:12.880 spent a hundred grand on Facebook ads in, in the 2016 campaign. That was pretty much the best evidence

00:16:19.160 available to them. Okay. And they're still pushing it. They're still saying that Republicans

00:16:24.460 are shilling for Russia. Take a listen to MSNBC.

00:16:29.120 So they're asking, uh, Joe Biden to unilaterally disarm. I'm going to, I'm going to defend the rhetoric

00:16:35.220 that, uh, the language that the president used in Georgia, uh, with you, Chuck. I think that right now

00:16:40.880 our democracy is in peril. John Tester, who is not somebody who's given to hyperbole, a moderate to

00:16:46.660 Montana said, this is the most important thing that he's going to face while he's in that Senate. So I think

00:16:51.880 that, uh, both Banjan and Sinema need to recognize that telling Democrats right now to disarm is like

00:16:57.140 telling Ukrainians to disarm with Putin at the border. If Mitch McConnell were, had the 50, 50

00:17:02.880 Senate right now, the ability to break a tie, he would have thought of the filibuster a long time

00:17:06.780 ago. Here we go. So you're, you still hear this Russia analogy, this guy, the head of the center for

00:17:13.540 American progress, he's not saying Trump colluded with Russia. He's not saying that the Republicans are,

00:17:21.300 are selling out America to Russia, but he is making a comparison. And in the comparison,

00:17:25.940 the Republicans are the Russians, which is a little awkward right now, because right now the 0.96

00:17:30.920 Biden administration is helping to facilitate the Russian takeover of Ukraine. It's actually

00:17:37.080 the Republicans who are opposing it. Very few people know this because no one really cares that

00:17:42.340 much about foreign policy, but that's what's going on right now. Democrats are supporting Putin in his

00:17:47.260 ambitions, specifically because Vladimir Putin is, is trying to complete an oil pipeline that will

00:17:54.080 allow them to cut out Ukraine. It's called Nord Stream 2. Once the Putin competes, completes that 0.89

00:18:00.160 pipeline, which Ted Cruz and the Republicans are opposing and which the Democrats and Biden and the

00:18:05.040 State Department are supporting, then Putin has no reason not to go in and expand his influence

00:18:10.300 into Ukraine. So the comparison here is pretty, pretty weak, but it's even more complicated.

00:18:17.440 It's even more complicated than all of that. Because when you think of Republicans colluding with the

00:18:22.100 Russians and that's bad, Putin bad and Republicans bad, and they're taking over a sovereign nation, 1.00

00:18:30.440 Ukraine, it gets even weirder because Ukraine has been an independent nation for a very short period of 0.85

00:18:38.580 time in world history. Ukraine has been conquered by basically everybody. It was conquered by the 0.98

00:18:45.440 Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. It was conquered by Tsarist Russia,

00:18:51.620 the Russian Empire. It was conquered by the Soviet Empire. It was conquered by Poland. Poland is one of the 0.99

00:18:56.740 most conquered countries in the history of the world. And, and Ukraine managed to get conquered by Poland.

00:19:02.700 Ukraine almost certainly derives from the Slavic word for borderland. It means borderland. It's always 0.97

00:19:08.240 going to be this area of conflict. The Russians are looking at, at it as a border to protect them

00:19:15.720 against NATO in the West. The West is looking at Ukraine as a border for Europe against Russia's

00:19:21.720 ambitions. And so they're going to fight over it. That's what's going on. And, and we still have to

00:19:27.360 believe that Putin is the greatest enemy of America and, and that it's still 1986. Putin wants to expand

00:19:33.560 his influence. Of course he does. There's no question about it. But is Vladimir Putin really

00:19:37.440 our, our greatest threat? I don't think so. I think we face a far greater threat from China 0.54

00:19:42.080 right now. China, which has a lot more money, a lot more people, owns a lot more of America, 0.83

00:19:47.640 owns our debt, owns a lot of resources here. So, okay, you've, you've, you've got an enemy in Putin.

00:19:53.500 You've got an enemy in China. Don't you think it might make a little bit of sense and hear me out on 1.00

00:19:58.820 this to try to collude with the Russians? I don't, I, when, when Democrats accuse Republicans

00:20:04.920 of colluding with the Russians, I get, I get very sad because I think, no, I think we should collude 1.00

00:20:09.540 with the Russians, but we're actually not colluding with the Russians right now. Because

00:20:12.640 I think it would be very wise as we're trying to stave off a rising China to maybe do what we did in 0.98

00:20:17.520 the Cold War in reverse. During the Cold War, we were trying to stop the Soviet Union. So what did we do? 0.87

00:20:22.060 We warmed up relations with China. We got a little cozier with them and we tried to play the 1.00

00:20:28.000 Chinese off the Russians. Well, why don't we do the same thing here now that Russia's not the 1.00

00:20:31.140 threat and China's a much bigger threat? Why don't we cozy up to the Russians and play the 0.99

00:20:34.260 Russians off with the Chinese? What the liberal establishment has done is, is alienate both of

00:20:39.460 those guys and push Russia and China closer together than ever. Both the Russians and the 0.92

00:20:43.640 Chinese are saying their relationship is extremely, extremely tight right now, tighter than it's ever

00:20:47.900 been before. There, there are still wedges. There are wedges on trade. There are wedges on

00:20:52.400 resources. You actually could play them off one another, but not if we keep using this dumb 0.99

00:20:57.280 rhetoric that the establishment in our country has been using for decade upon decade and decade, 0.91

00:21:02.860 far after its usefulness. Furthermore, furthermore, when we're talking about expanding American influence,

00:21:08.740 what are we even talking about? If expanding American influence throughout the world,

00:21:13.380 throughout Ukraine and even encroaching on other people's territories,

00:21:16.900 if that means spreading truth, justice in the American way, the traditional American way of life,

00:21:20.900 well, that's one thing. But if expanding American influence means raising pride flags in Kandahar

00:21:26.380 and transing the kids, frankly, I don't want to spread that influence. I think it would be bad 1.00

00:21:30.300 to spread that kind of influence around the world. And I don't blame other nations for wanting to

00:21:35.620 resist that influence. So what is it? What is it? What is it that we're actually spreading?

00:21:41.960 Because right now, what Russia is doubling down on is national cohesion, nationalism. It's doubling down

00:21:50.380 on Christianity. Vladimir Putin is funding beautiful, a beautiful cathedral, the military cathedral that

00:21:56.460 is one of the most gorgeous buildings built in the last century. He might not believe a single word of

00:22:02.380 Christianity, but as a political matter, that's what the country is focusing on. Russia, which is a very 0.94

00:22:09.160 expansive, multi-ethnic country, is focusing on that. And it seems to be working pretty well.

00:22:14.100 Russia, which is facing a problem of the country literally dying, just like America,

00:22:18.800 the birth rates are below replacement. Well, Russia actually implemented some policies to turn

00:22:23.100 that around. Only two countries in the West have done that, Russia and Hungary. I'm not saying we

00:22:27.460 copy what they're doing necessarily, but maybe we could learn some lessons from that. And maybe as we're

00:22:33.240 looking at the threats to American influence abroad, maybe we get a little bit smarter about it and

00:22:39.100 recognize where the threats really lie, which is not in that frozen country up in Eurasia that we beat in

00:22:46.960 the Cold War, but a little further south in China. The only thing more complicated than foreign policy and

00:22:55.760 trying to make sense of what we are usually presented with as these extremely oversimplified

00:23:00.760 caricatures of foreign policy issues. The only thing more complicated is trying to make sense of the New York

00:23:08.280 Times. There was a New York Times article, just came out, about the crime surge that we're dealing with right now

00:23:14.000 all throughout American cities. Crime is going through the roof. And they just can't understand

00:23:19.280 why. It doesn't make, you know, they, the left last year defunded the police, tried to abolish the

00:23:24.380 police in some cases, let criminals off the hook for their crimes, let a lot of criminals out of jail

00:23:28.700 and said that they wouldn't enforce the law. And now crime is going up. It's a real head scratcher.

00:23:34.000 I can't, hmm, what, what, maybe it's something about the virus. I don't know. Maybe it's,

00:23:39.320 maybe that's a symptom of COVID is people get more violent. So the New York Times can't make sense of this.

00:23:44.000 The closest they get is they say, quote, the fallout from the 2020 racial justice protests

00:23:51.780 and riots could have contributed to the murder spike. Police officers, scared of being caught in

00:23:58.640 the next viral video, may have pulled back on proactive anti-violence practices.

00:24:06.560 Is anyone out there, maybe if you're writing in the comments, could, could anyone translate that

00:24:14.020 into English for me? They, the police may have pulled back on proactive anti-violence policies.

00:24:26.980 Is, I guess every word there is English, but when you put it all together, that,

00:24:31.980 that doesn't seem to make a coherent sentence. It's just a bunch of pretentious jargon

00:24:36.760 and mealy-mouthed language trying to avoid something. I guess, oh, they're trying to avoid

00:24:43.760 the obvious, which is if you want crime to go down, I'll simplify this as best I can.

00:24:49.440 Want crime down? Arrest criminals. Crime go down, criminals go prison. Is that, is that simple

00:24:58.640 enough for the New York Times? I don't know if they can get it through their heads. Ben today is

00:25:03.780 going to be talking about how just one year in with the crime, with the terrible economy, with the

00:25:11.860 lockdowns, with the threats to our rights, just one year in, Joe Biden is already the worst president

00:25:17.300 ever. He's going to be talking about that on the show today. Don't miss it. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:25:20.660 We will be right back. The New York Times can't figure out why crime is going up after we defunded

00:25:38.020 the police and let all the criminals off the hook. So they've got, they're, they're onto something

00:25:41.580 though. They've got a lead. Here's their lead. They say, these three factors could have played

00:25:46.540 into each other. The pandemic might have driven more people to violence. You know, the pandemic,

00:25:53.400 you know, that virus when someone says, Oh, my body's aching. I got this cough. I really want to

00:26:01.100 just rob a Nike store. Oh yeah. I just, Oh gosh. With all these aches and pains and I lost my sense of

00:26:09.500 smell and taste. Let me go stick up a family on the street. Yeah. That I just, I don't know. I'm

00:26:16.500 just, I feel impelled to do that. So they say it's the pandemic could have done it. The police

00:26:20.980 might have been able to prevent at least some of the violence if they had remained proactive

00:26:25.580 or had worked better with the public. So if the police had just done their jobs,

00:26:30.640 like we wouldn't let them do, then we probably wouldn't be in this mess right now.

00:26:36.440 Well, you're, you got, you're the ones, New York Times and liberals, you're the ones who said the

00:26:41.020 police shouldn't do their jobs, but now you're blaming them for not doing their jobs. You wouldn't let

00:26:44.720 them do their jobs. Well, they have an answer. You see that that's in the last part of the sentence

00:26:48.380 they say, or if they'd worked better with the public. So if the police hadn't forced us to

00:26:55.040 force them to stop doing their jobs, then they could have done their jobs. It'd all be better.

00:26:58.460 It's their fault. Police. If you just hadn't made me so angry, if you hadn't made me so angry,

00:27:04.160 then we wouldn't be in this position. Uh-huh. It seems a little, little unfair. Seems,

00:27:09.600 I don't think that reason and argument quite works. And then finally they say without so many

00:27:15.080 guns, what violence did occur could have ended up less deadly. That's the gun's fault.

00:27:20.260 It's the guns. It's the virus's fault. It's the cop's fault. It's the inanimate object's fault.

00:27:28.940 What's the only group that the New York Times is not blaming for the surge in crime?

00:27:32.820 It's, um, hold on. Oh, the criminals. It's the criminal. It's not, the criminals bear no

00:27:40.840 responsibility. And the leftist politicians who let all the criminals off the hook and out of jail,

00:27:45.080 they bear no responsibility. It's the cops and the inanimate objects and a coronavirus from China. 0.95

00:27:56.260 I don't know. Listen, I'm not, I'm not one of these geniuses who works at the very fancy New

00:28:02.700 York Times. I do not have advanced degrees in criminology or anything like that, but it seems

00:28:10.280 simple enough to me. The New York Times actually has gotten into this trouble before. I think it was

00:28:14.360 Fox Butterfield, their reporter who would have headlines decades ago. He'd have headlines in the

00:28:18.840 New York Times that would say things like, the crime rate, uh, the crime rate continues to fall

00:28:27.000 despite prisons filling, despite as though, as though this would be unexpected that when you

00:28:34.320 throw criminals in jail, the crime rate goes down as though maybe there's no way that these things

00:28:39.680 could have anything to do with one another. Speaking of crime, there is a Democrat candidate

00:28:43.240 running for Senate right now who is smoking a fat blunt in his campaign ad and running on the

00:28:51.840 platform of letting other people puff on the devil's lettuce. Every 37 seconds, someone is arrested for

00:29:00.400 possession of marijuana. Since 2010, state and local police have arrested an estimated 7.3 million

00:29:06.880 Americans for violating marijuana laws. Over half of all drug arrests. Black people are four 1.00

00:29:13.100 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana laws than white people. States waste $3.7 billion 0.98

00:29:19.480 enforcing marijuana laws every year. Most of the people police are arresting aren't dealers,

00:29:25.360 but rather people with small amounts of pot, just like me. I'm Gary Chambers and I'm running for the

00:29:30.880 U.S. Senate and I approve this message. I so hope that that guy got arrested. I assume he didn't,

00:29:40.600 but I just, I have this dream that that guy is sitting there spreading complete lies about drugs

00:29:48.200 and the criminal justice system. Just complete made up nonsense. He's sitting there smoking his 0.62

00:29:53.740 blunt and he's filming and he's saying, yeah, you got to vote for me because the most important issue

00:29:58.280 in America, the reason I'm running for Senate is so that people can just smoke up that Peruvian 1.00

00:30:04.120 parsley every day. That'll make America great. And then they finish, they say, cut. Okay, we're good.

00:30:09.780 We're good. Senate candidate guy. And then you just hear like, woo, woo. And then the guy goes into

00:30:13.840 the clink. This guy is not telling the truth about drug laws in America. We are told by the pothead

00:30:23.120 contingent. Now it's not even just the pothead contingent that I have any problems with. And it's

00:30:28.320 not even marijuana that I specifically have a problem with. It's the people who insist on the

00:30:37.900 legalization of marijuana as a cure, as something that'll make America so great and it'll improve

00:30:43.560 society. It's those people, the obsessive pro-legalization people. They are the reason

00:30:48.820 that I want to ban every joint from America because they are so annoying and dumb and wrong. 1.00

00:30:58.320 That I don't want to hear them anymore. And that's one of the reasons I want to do it. 0.99

00:31:02.460 What this man is saying is not true. We're told that the prisons are just full of poor men,

00:31:08.400 usually black men, by the way, who were arrested for simple possession. They had a joint. They were

00:31:14.280 just smoking a little bit. Now they're going to jail for years. They're being at probably 90% of the

00:31:19.900 population. It's just these poor men who were just trying to puff on a little sin spinach and they got

00:31:27.420 arrested. That's not true. According to the Hudson Institute, which did a great review of this,

00:31:33.480 just 3.6% of state prison inmates are in jail for possession offenses of any kind.

00:31:42.600 We're not talking about marijuana here. We're talking about heroin. We're talking about fentanyl.

00:31:46.580 We're talking about really bad stuff that kills a lot of people. For possession of any kind,

00:31:52.380 it's just 3.6%. When you, when you go up to the federal prisons, the number is even lower. It's

00:31:58.200 0.9%. So why this confusion? Well, it's actually not even just the 3.6 and the 0.9%. The numbers are

00:32:10.200 actually even lower because drug traffickers usually plea down their, their cases. So someone who's in

00:32:18.320 prison for possession very often is in prison for drug trafficking and they just plead it down.

00:32:23.940 And so then you, you see them there for simple possession. In 2014, which is the most recent year

00:32:29.260 for which the Hudson Institute has compiled its data, the number of inmates sentenced to federal prison

00:32:34.640 for marijuana possession. Take a guess. If that pothead Senate candidate is to be believed, you'd think

00:32:42.380 what? 50,000 people, 10,000 people. It certainly, at least you'd say seven or 8,000 people, right?

00:32:50.940 Because the prisons are just filled with this. Probably you'd think even, even more. No, the

00:32:54.280 number was 75 people, not 75,000, not 7,500, 75 people in 2014 were sentenced to federal prison

00:33:03.600 for marijuana possession. 97% of federal inmates who are in for drugs are in for drug trafficking.

00:33:09.880 Add to that, that last year, 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, leading cause of death for

00:33:18.460 young Americans. That was up 30% over the previous year. And these idiots think that the, the way to

00:33:26.080 deal with that, our fellow Americans poisoning themselves to death, the way to deal with that 1.00

00:33:31.580 historic surge in drug overdoses is to legalize drugs because of a problem that doesn't exist.

00:33:38.460 Namely, the problem of mass incarceration for simple possession, which is just a fantasy.

00:33:43.400 Lock that away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny. I don't know, I don't know how that

00:33:48.440 Senate candidate could have come up with such stupid, fantastical ideas that are so divorced 1.00

00:33:54.560 from reality. Oh yeah, I know, because he's super high. That's probably, that's probably why he came up 1.00

00:33:58.960 with it. Good grief. If the, if the smoke clouds would clear away, not, not from the air in front of him,

00:34:06.260 but from his brain, he could look at the real numbers and realize that, that what he's selling

00:34:10.640 is a really bad idea. And it's unfortunate because so many conservatives who are in, under the sway of

00:34:15.580 the libertines on the right, the, you know, the, maybe the libertarians even who say, well, it's not

00:34:20.480 the government's right to stop you from doing drugs. They think this is fine too. If you believe

00:34:26.320 that giving that dude his way, that pothead Senate candidate who thinks that puffing a drug is the

00:34:33.680 most important issue in, in American politics, if you think that doing what he wants is going to make

00:34:39.160 America better, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Speaking of our justice system, all the way up

00:34:46.840 to the Supreme Court, some of the justices are not happy with one another. One in particular,

00:34:50.880 Sonia Sotomayor, who refuses to appear in the chambers with the other judges in person

00:34:59.780 because justice Neil Gorsuch refuses to wear a mask. We are now in the, um, second year. No,

00:35:08.820 I'm sorry. We're now entering into the third year of the two weeks to slow the spread for a virus that

00:35:14.040 doesn't pose a great threat to most people. Uh, we're now in the surge of Omicron, which is equivalent

00:35:20.080 in its symptoms, usually to a cold. I just had it. I just recovered from it. Wasn't nice, but it's

00:35:26.420 fine. And Sonia Sotomayor says, no, she is not going to appear if Justice Gorsuch won't wear a mask.

00:35:35.360 Now, some people are saying this is a problem. Seems to me this is a solution to the problem.

00:35:39.920 If, if I can get rid of all of the Sonia Sotomayors simply by breathing and not putting a

00:35:47.720 secular keffia over my face, I think we're good. I think we figured it out. Good stuff. Great job.

00:35:54.440 Thanks for sticking firm on this issue, Neil Gorsuch. The question that it raises is, should

00:35:59.520 Gorsuch wear masks to be nice to Sonia Sotomayor? Should all of us, should we wear masks indefinitely

00:36:07.000 to be nice to the people who are neurotic about the virus? No, that's, that's not nice. Generally

00:36:17.320 speaking, there might be some exception. If your aged grandma is really insistent that you wear a

00:36:22.400 mask around her, then at a filial piety, maybe you do it. But generally speaking, no, we should not

00:36:29.300 indulge this stuff. It is, it is not merely because the virus is not as dangerous as the experts told us

00:36:35.380 it was. It is not merely because we're two years into two weeks to slow the spread. It's because it

00:36:41.200 is bad for society, for us all to mask ourselves up. It's bad for human development. It's bad, bad for

00:36:48.060 kids. It's bad for babies. It's bad for all of us though. We, we should be able to see one another

00:36:51.960 smile. We should be able to breathe the fresh air. We should be able to read the emotions on other

00:36:57.840 people's faces. We should not be living in terror of a little tiny virus and cowering in our homes,

00:37:06.120 looking on our fellow man whom we should love as our brothers, as walking bags of disease who are out

00:37:12.880 to kill us. It is disordered for a society to mask itself up. And it's bad for these individuals like 0.88

00:37:20.820 Sonia Sotomayor and others who are allowing neurosis to cripple them. We should not encourage that.

00:37:27.940 That's very wrong. Rachel Maddow, my doppelganger over on MSNBC has a different take. She wants to

00:37:33.780 know how Neil Gorsuch can live with himself. She writes, quote, it's folly to try to get inside

00:37:39.460 anyone else's head. I know, but I just can't shake this. Does Justice Gorsuch revel in everyone now

00:37:45.940 knowing that he's keeping her, Sonia Sotomayor, from being able to come to work? Or is he embarrassed?

00:37:52.140 I mean, how do you live with yourself? I will tell you, doppelganger, I will tell you, Ms. Maddow,

00:37:59.340 because I do this too. I refuse in any circumstance that I possibly can, I guess with the exception of

00:38:05.200 going on airplanes, I don't wear the mask and haven't for the entirety of the lockdowns.

00:38:10.520 But the way that we live with ourselves is like normal people. We just live normally and not

00:38:17.780 abnormally. And we live like people who are in command of their reason and not like people who

00:38:23.740 are under a mass delusion and psychosis. That's how we live. How do you, how can you walk out the door

00:38:30.080 without covering your, your face in a cloth mask that now even the public health experts tell us

00:38:35.300 don't work? How do you, how can you do, uh, well, we did it for, um, all of human history until two

00:38:43.380 years ago. And so that's how we do that. But you might get someone sick. How do you walk around in a

00:38:49.840 world teeming with germs and not have that cripple you into staying in your closet for two years? Uh,

00:38:56.700 well, because that's how human society has always existed. And we, that's how we have to live because

00:39:03.180 there are germs in the world and you're not going to get rid of the germs and you, you might, you

00:39:08.000 might get COVID and you, you might get the flu and you might catch a cold and you, you might get,

00:39:15.220 you might get mono. Hey, if you're in school, I don't know, sharing a Coca-Cola with a friend,

00:39:19.860 you might get mono. You might get, you might get all sorts of things and you'll almost certainly be

00:39:25.700 fine. But you know what? You might get really sick. You could go get a really bad flu and you could die.

00:39:32.400 You might die from the germs that you're encountering in the world.

00:39:38.440 That's life. That's the cost of living that if you don't, if you don't want to do that, then

00:39:45.600 you're not going to get along very well. And how do you live, Rachel? How do you live? How do you

00:39:50.400 live with yourself? I hope that you're not trapping yourself in a closet, cowering in fear of the little

00:39:54.740 virus. The question for all of us is how do we want to live? What we have done is outsource that

00:40:01.140 question for two years to some egghead twerp named Dr. Fauci, who is going to tell us exactly how we

00:40:07.720 should live. Based on absolutely no expertise, he's not particularly philosophically or theologically

00:40:13.960 sophisticated. He is not supposed to be holding a position of making these kind of broad sweeping

00:40:21.240 policies. He's supposed to be an infectious disease expert, but we've given him the authority to make

00:40:26.960 all of these decisions that he's not qualified to make and really has no right to make. How do we

00:40:31.800 want to live? I want to live in a world where we don't dress up like mummies all the time and live 1.00

00:40:37.120 in fear of one another. How do you want to live? A great example of this question for society that

00:40:45.460 we have to ask ourselves. How do we want to live? Not just how do I want to live? Do I want to chop my

00:40:51.860 body up so I look like a different sex and smoke pot all the time and dress up? Not just how I want 0.99

00:40:56.220 to live, but how do we want to live in a society? Because no man is an individual atom floating in

00:41:01.120 free space. A great example of this just happened on American Airlines. Olivia Culpo, who was Miss 0.98

00:41:08.780 Universe. She is one of the most beautiful women on planet Earth. Olivia Culpo showed up to a flight 1.00

00:41:16.020 to Cabo San Lucas wearing a very skimpy outfit. She was wearing a little, looked like just a bra and

00:41:23.820 some extremely tight kind of leggings. And I think she had a sweater, but it was open. And she shows up

00:41:30.020 and she looked hotter than a $2 pistol. There's no question about it. And the stewardess on the flight 1.00

00:41:35.760 said, you got to cover up, lady. You got to put a shirt on or we're not going to allow you on the 1.00

00:41:39.640 flight. And she threw a big hissy fit or her sister or someone in her family threw a big hissy fit about 1.00

00:41:43.400 it. I can't believe, I can't believe I'm saying this. 12-year-old Michael would be very upset with

00:41:49.580 31-year-old Michael for saying this. American Airlines was right. Olivia Culpo should, should

00:41:57.720 cover up. People have the right not to be constantly titillated. Every man listening to this show,

00:42:06.780 almost every man listening to this show, has a part of them that would really like to see

00:42:12.900 Olivia Culpo wear extremely tight, scandalous clothing to the airport on their flight. 1.00

00:42:18.700 There's a part of man that wants to see that. But at least the men who are not just complete

00:42:25.540 degenerates have another part to them that don't want to see that. Because we want to read our book 0.98

00:42:33.620 or we want to do our work or we want to have a conversation. And we don't want to be completely

00:42:37.800 distracted by this bombshell who's sitting next to us on an airplane wearing her underwear. 0.86

00:42:43.260 Because you want to do other things in your life. But we have forgotten that. Because we now live in

00:42:49.680 a culture where women actually just wear leggings as though they're pants and wear bras as though 0.98

00:42:54.080 they're shirts. And so we're constantly titillated all the time. And it is not conducive to a flourishing

00:43:00.800 society. I remember thinking this when I would take exams sometimes. And girls would show up wearing 0.99

00:43:05.960 this kind of clothing. And I think this is unfair because I'm going to do worse on the exam now

00:43:11.380 because I'm distracted by this hot girl wearing very little clothing. And she's never going to be

00:43:15.200 distracted by me. It's not as though I could walk into an exam wearing my birthday suit and all the

00:43:21.060 girls would say, oh my gosh, wow, I can't. They'd probably just ignore it. This is not conducive to a

00:43:26.960 good society. This is why we have laws against indecent exposure. This is why I'm actually not allowed to

00:43:32.400 walk around in my birthday suit and people are generally happy about that. I don't know. Maybe

00:43:36.340 some people, maybe it titillates them too. But we live in a society. And so the individual right

00:43:43.140 to wear your underwear in public, it must be suppressed for the broader collective right,

00:43:51.600 the community right, the political right to not constantly be titillated. This is something that

00:44:01.660 the libertarian version of the right wing in America doesn't really get or doesn't really go

00:44:08.300 along with. But the conservative version of the conservative movement in America obviously gets.

00:44:13.960 If a woman dressed like this in the days of our founding fathers, she would probably be run out of 1.00

00:44:20.480 town on the rail. She would probably be called a witch. She'd be run away. They wouldn't, what I'm 0.73

00:44:26.020 saying, I'm not saying Olivia Culpo is a witch. She seems like a lovely lady. But this would not be

00:44:30.860 tolerated. Even those great defenders of freedom, the founding fathers, the great men who built our

00:44:35.320 country, that's not what freedom is. Freedom to be distracted all the time is no freedom at all.

00:44:43.940 The reason this stuff should be encouraged is not because men don't like them, but because men do like

00:44:47.820 them and we live in a society and we like them a little too much and we can't have that.

00:44:53.160 Speaking of younger people, Belgium. Belgium is committing a grave act of COVID misinformation.

00:45:01.260 They are because Belgium and the health ministry in Belgium is no longer recommending that young

00:45:05.380 people take the Moderna vaccine. People under the age of 31, so we're not even just talking about

00:45:10.200 12 year olds, we're talking about under the age of 31, Belgium says no. Don't take the Moderna vaccine 0.87

00:45:15.600 because there is a risk of heart inflammation, myocarditis. This was announced by the Belgian

00:45:23.700 Vaccination Task Force. This is very confusing because we were told that there were no safety

00:45:31.480 concerns with the vaccines. And actually, we, communicators, broadcasters, were told that if we

00:45:38.080 ever say that there are any safety concerns with these vaccines, we are liable to be banned from

00:45:43.680 YouTube or Twitter or Facebook, receive a strike, be shut down. My show has been censored many times

00:45:49.200 for saying very basic things like what the Belgian health ministry is saying now. According to the

00:45:55.100 Brussels Times, Danish studies indicate, quote, that vaccination with Moderna resulted in an increased

00:45:59.340 risk of heart inflammation in young men following the first or second dose in comparison with the

00:46:05.060 Pfizer. So first we were told there were no, there are no safety concerns by all the experts. It's completely

00:46:13.160 safe. Then we were told there are safety concerns, but you should get it anyway because the, the risk from

00:46:20.260 the vaccines is less than the risk of having heart inflammation, say, from COVID. Now we're being told by the

00:46:25.060 public health officials, no, actually just don't get this vaccine. This is bad. It would be better for you not to

00:46:29.780 get this vaccine. Do the public health officials realize why we don't believe them? They have told

00:46:38.520 us things that are not true and they've said they're a hundred percent certain about them. In some cases

00:46:44.420 they've told us things that they know are not true by their own admission, like Dr. Fauci on the masks or

00:46:49.640 the public health officials on the lab leak theory from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They'll tell us

00:46:56.560 things that they, that they themselves don't believe are true, but they think that we should know them. And now

00:47:00.320 they, now they tell us things with a hundred percent certainty and they say, believe us now. It would be

00:47:04.600 madness. It would be absolute madness to believe them now. Very short story before we go. There's a headline

00:47:12.980 from the AP that Kamala Harris is struggling to, to define herself. That they're based on this reporting that

00:47:20.360 they've found talking to people around Kamala Harris. She's very frustrated because she's tried to reset her 0.99

00:47:25.460 public image multiple times now and it hasn't worked. She, she can't define herself. The reason 1.00

00:47:30.840 she can't define herself is because she doesn't stand for anything. My advice to Kamala Harris is

00:47:35.540 that she should believe in something. Ideally the truth, but anything at all would be a good start.

00:47:40.920 She's tough on crime. She's weak on crime. She's a far leftist. She's a moderate. She's a racial 1.00

00:47:46.120 grievance person. She's a come together kumbaya person. She's just, she just licks her finger, puts it in 0.71

00:47:51.060 the air, tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Don't be a Kamala politician. It's

00:47:55.280 pointless. She will be completely forgotten at this rate. No, no one generally remembers vice

00:48:00.400 presidents in American history and she is one of the worst ones ever. So I guess she could be 1.00

00:48:04.680 remembered in that sort of infamy. She will have accomplished nothing. She's never accomplished

00:48:08.460 anything in her political career other than winning elections or more usually, I guess, being,

00:48:13.920 being selected and appointed. Don't be a Kamala politician. It's weak. There's,

00:48:19.220 you don't gain anything from it. Stand for something. Ideally the truth, which is now illegal

00:48:25.000 in the Western world. Up to our neighbors to the North and increasingly in America as well.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 19, 2022

Ep. 925 - Smoking Weed And Criminalizing Truth

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