The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 928 - ＂Build Back Better＂ = Train Robberies And Cop Killings

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00:00:37.720 Sometimes people accuse me of not being bipartisan enough on this show.

00:00:42.960 They accuse me of focusing on the good things Republicans do and the bad things Democrats do.

00:00:48.440 So in the spirit of bipartisanship, I want to bring up a terrific bill that a Democrat state representative filed last week in Oklahoma.

00:00:57.740 The legislator's name is Forrest Bennett, and his bill is HB 3129, which, in his words, quote,

00:01:07.460 codifies that a father's financial responsibility to his baby and their mom begins at conception.

00:01:14.740 If Oklahoma is going to restrict a woman's right to choose, we sure better make sure the man involved can't just walk away from his responsibility. 1.00

00:01:25.900 Now, this is a great bill.

00:01:27.820 It protects vulnerable single mothers.

00:01:30.900 It stops deadbeat dads from abandoning their kids.

00:01:34.200 And it acknowledges that life begins at conception.

00:01:36.880 Which, apparently, was just too much for this legislator and his Democrat pals because he just pulled his own bill after finding out that pro-lifers liked it.

00:01:48.680 So much for that.

00:01:50.040 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:51.940 My favorite comment on Friday comes from Anonymous, says,

00:02:03.500 I feel sorry for the lady trying to translate President potted plants babbling into understandable sign language. 1.00

00:02:10.120 I agree with you.

00:02:11.460 I do have a great deal of sympathy for poor Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:02:16.020 She was getting dragged over the weekend for something that she had said.

00:02:20.920 We'll try to get to that if we have time.

00:02:22.620 I do.

00:02:22.900 I feel that's probably the hardest job in the world.

00:02:28.100 This saga of the Oklahoma state representative was so funny.

00:02:35.780 It illustrated not just the Democrats' absolute incoherence on the issue of life and abortion.

00:02:43.300 It also demonstrated that the Democrats have no idea what we believe.

00:02:47.280 This guy tweeted it out.

00:02:49.060 He tweeted out what I just read to you.

00:02:51.280 Here's the bill.

00:02:52.480 It's great.

00:02:53.440 If women aren't going to have the ability to get abortions, then men need to stick around and protect those women. 0.63

00:02:59.440 And all the pro-lifers, it went completely viral.

00:03:01.560 All the pro-lifers said, great, awesome, love it.

00:03:04.060 Let's do it.

00:03:05.320 And then when this Democrat found out the pro-lifers liked it, which he did not expect,

00:03:10.820 then he said, oh, okay, never mind, I'm pulling the bill.

00:03:13.860 Yeah, I was going to try to help abandoned, vulnerable, pregnant, single mothers 1.00

00:03:19.400 when I thought it was going to irritate all the pro-lifers.

00:03:22.400 But now that I know that you like it, yeah, never mind.

00:03:25.460 Screw you, ladies. 1.00

00:03:26.540 Deal with it yourself.

00:03:27.540 You're on your own.

00:03:28.380 Throwing you under the bus just to own the cons.

00:03:31.040 That's what this man is doing.

00:03:36.800 Obviously, conservatives love this bill.

00:03:39.720 The pro-abortion people think that the pro-lifers would hate this bill because the pro-abortion

00:03:47.500 people truly believe that the only reason the pro-lifers are pro-life is because pro-lifers

00:03:52.720 hate women. 0.94

00:03:53.280 Even the half of pro-lifers who are women, or more than half of pro-lifers probably who

00:03:58.860 are women.

00:03:59.660 They hate women too. 1.00

00:04:01.000 And that's the only reason that anyone wants to take away the license to abortion. 1.00

00:04:05.000 And so, this guy is absolutely shocked.

00:04:09.020 The only conservative pushback, I saw it all, and we're talking one or two little posts around

00:04:14.440 the internet, was to say that fathers ought to have even more rights.

00:04:20.700 Not to say the fathers should be able to run away if they impregnate a woman, but to point

00:04:24.620 out that family courts are pretty tough on the fathers very often.

00:04:30.960 That fathers, in cases of divorce, or in cases of a woman getting pregnant and the two not

00:04:35.480 getting married, fathers don't have quite as many rights as the women. 1.00

00:04:39.000 So, the answer to that, of course, is just make divorce more difficult.

00:04:42.240 The conservative answer to that is certainly still not men should abandon women.

00:04:47.680 It's that it should be much more difficult for men to abandon women and women to abandon 0.93

00:04:52.160 men and to break up marriages, which are based on public vows.

00:04:55.480 That's, the real story here, the real story is one of political misunderstanding.

00:05:05.240 I speak with some credibility on this, by the way, too, because I did support abortion.

00:05:10.660 When I was first getting into politics as a teenager, I couldn't understand the pro-life

00:05:15.520 position.

00:05:16.480 I was an atheist.

00:05:17.700 I was from a very liberal place.

00:05:19.420 I don't think I knew a single pro-lifer.

00:05:21.780 I don't think I knew a single one.

00:05:23.280 And so, I just assumed, oh, well, that's it.

00:05:26.940 And I believed everything I heard on CNN, and I believed everything I heard in the mainstream

00:05:30.720 media, and I just thought the pro-lifers hated women. 1.00

00:05:34.940 And then, later on, I looked into it.

00:05:39.160 I did some reading.

00:05:39.880 I spoke to a bioethicist.

00:05:41.660 I was debating it.

00:05:43.000 And when I thought about the issue itself, not just the psychobabble political motivations

00:05:47.560 of my opponents, when I thought about the actual issue of abortion, well, it was so

00:05:52.440 clear.

00:05:53.560 The baby's a baby.

00:05:54.780 The baby's human.

00:05:55.740 The baby's alive, and you shouldn't be able to kill it.

00:05:57.820 Okay, it's so clear.

00:05:59.800 And the pro-lifers were some of the most pro-woman people I've ever met, and obviously, pro-family.

00:06:07.360 The left does not understand what we think.

00:06:12.460 To some degree, there's misunderstanding going in the other direction as well.

00:06:16.380 But I think, generally, the right understands what the left thinks.

00:06:20.000 There was Jonathan Haidt's study that he had done some years ago, social scientist, on how

00:06:26.640 the left understands the right, the right understands the left.

00:06:28.600 He concluded that the right understands the left much better than the left understands

00:06:32.160 the right.

00:06:32.680 I see the argument for abortion. 0.85

00:06:34.680 The argument for abortion is that sometimes people accidentally get pregnant, and this affects

00:06:40.500 women differently than men. 0.98

00:06:41.660 So if women and men are supposed to be exactly the same and completely indiscernible, then

00:06:45.660 women need to be able to kill the baby. 1.00

00:06:48.060 That's the argument.

00:06:49.080 That was the argument in the 60s.

00:06:50.300 It's the argument today.

00:06:52.220 It's just a ghastly argument.

00:06:55.240 But I see the motivations from a misunderstanding of liberty that this comes from.

00:07:00.600 It's not just because the pro-abortion people hate babies or something like that.

00:07:03.960 It's because they have a misunderstanding of human nature and the relationship between liberty

00:07:08.280 and life and all the other sorts of rights and obligations that we have.

00:07:11.780 But I don't think that they understand the pro-life side that well.

00:07:17.040 You can tell.

00:07:17.740 I was just down at the March for Life in D.C.

00:07:20.500 I was speaking at the Students for Life Summit on Saturday.

00:07:25.420 And when you see the two groups there, you see the pro-lifers, nice, normal.

00:07:30.600 They look normal.

00:07:31.440 They sound normal.

00:07:32.180 They're praying.

00:07:32.880 They're happy.

00:07:33.860 They've got nice signs.

00:07:35.180 And then you look at the pro-abortion people, and they're shrieking like harpies and satyrs.

00:07:40.060 And they've got all sorts of crazy presentations about them.

00:07:44.260 And they're screaming profanities.

00:07:46.020 Well, which group do you think understands reality better?

00:07:50.260 And which group seems more grounded?

00:07:52.580 Who do you want to be when you grow up?

00:07:56.640 These words can be very confusing.

00:08:01.160 Pro-life.

00:08:03.140 Okay, it's clear enough.

00:08:03.880 You support the life.

00:08:04.400 Pro-choice.

00:08:05.080 Well, okay, the choice to do what, my friend?

00:08:09.020 Now, speaking of life and death, the CDC, on a completely different topic, the CDC is changing

00:08:14.660 the meaning of fully vaccinated.

00:08:17.980 Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, has come out and said that fully vaccinated is a

00:08:27.080 term that's going to be retired.

00:08:28.800 The new term that we're all going to use is up to date.

00:08:32.380 What we really are working to do is pivot the language to make sure that everybody is as

00:08:37.720 up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines as they personally could be, should be, based

00:08:43.020 on when they got their last vaccine.

00:08:45.200 So importantly, right now, we're pivoting our language.

00:08:47.720 We really want to make sure people are up to date.

00:08:50.000 That means if you recently got your second dose, you're not eligible for a booster, you're up

00:08:54.620 to date.

00:08:55.180 If you are eligible for a booster and you haven't gotten it, you're not up to date and you need

00:08:59.840 to get your booster in order to be up to date.

00:09:02.600 Up to date, up to date, up to date, up to date.

00:09:04.520 She's really drilling this new phrase home.

00:09:07.020 What happened to fully vaccinated?

00:09:10.220 How come we're changing the euphemisms here?

00:09:13.720 You know that the left uses the manipulation of language and euphemisms to control our politics.

00:09:20.560 I wrote a book on the subject.

00:09:22.020 It's called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:09:25.200 Thank you to everyone who has read it already.

00:09:27.780 The left needs to change euphemisms for two reasons.

00:09:30.700 The first one is when the old euphemisms become demonstrably false.

00:09:37.500 Or the second one is when the old euphemisms are no longer working on people.

00:09:43.200 Or very often, it's both.

00:09:45.280 So here you see that the old euphemism, fully vaccinated, is no longer representative of the

00:09:51.540 truth because the first two vaccines are insufficient.

00:09:55.220 And so you need to get a third vaccine.

00:09:56.920 You need to get a booster, sometimes a fourth vaccine.

00:09:59.220 In Israel, they did a study.

00:10:01.000 The fourth vaccine is no longer sufficient against the Omicron variant of COVID.

00:10:06.080 So now they're talking about a fifth vaccine.

00:10:07.800 So manifestly, fully vaccinated is no longer fully vaccinated.

00:10:12.720 But if you keep just moving the goalposts and changing the definition of fully vaccinated,

00:10:16.500 then the word fully doesn't mean anything.

00:10:18.200 So they've got to change it to up to date.

00:10:20.480 Fully vaccinated is a definite period of time.

00:10:23.200 Up to date is a subscription model.

00:10:25.580 Up to date, you can update all the time.

00:10:28.740 You see this with global warming, which began as global cooling.

00:10:34.140 There was global cooling.

00:10:35.620 Then that was demonstrably false, and it didn't work on people.

00:10:40.360 Then you had global warming.

00:10:42.080 And then, particularly during the hiatus, the hiatus and warming, which is still debated among climate scientists, whether it happened, how serious it was.

00:10:51.080 But it is thought that there was a hiatus from 1998 to 2013 in which the world didn't really warm up that much.

00:10:56.800 So global warming became demonstrably false and no longer working on people.

00:11:01.440 So then they changed it to climate change.

00:11:03.820 Climate change never became demonstrably false because it's an unfalsifiable euphemism.

00:11:08.300 But it did stop working on people.

00:11:10.360 So then it changed to climate catastrophe or climate crisis.

00:11:14.200 Sometimes people just refer to it as climate.

00:11:16.260 You're a climate denier, as though I deny the sunshine and the water and the clouds.

00:11:20.540 You're a climate denier.

00:11:21.740 They have to change these euphemisms constantly, and then people catch up, and they'll change them again, and it goes on and on and on and on, and you are never up to date.

00:11:35.140 Speaking of words, the New York City Police Commissioner just spoke over the past few days over a terrible attack on police officers in Harlem.

00:11:48.500 Two officers were shot.

00:11:51.380 One of them was killed while responding to a domestic call up in Harlem, which used to be a terrible neighborhood.

00:11:57.500 Then it got much, much better, much, much safer, and now it's getting terrible again.

00:12:01.840 Here's the police commissioner.

00:12:03.540 Tonight, a 22-year-old son, husband, officer, and friend was killed because he did what we asked him to do.

00:12:17.060 Countless officers line the halls of this hallway after carrying him in and grieve for their brother, while praying with everything they have for the other.

00:12:30.140 I am struggling to find the words to express the tragedy we are enduring.

00:12:38.060 We're mourning, and we're angry.

00:12:41.020 We have four times this month rushed to the scene of NYPD officers shot by violent criminals in possession of deadly, illegal guns.

00:12:50.200 I'll ask Mayor Adams if he wants to say a few words.

00:12:52.360 Let's do this.

00:13:22.360 Those are pretty simple words, but she can't find them.

00:13:28.120 I don't know why.

00:13:28.840 Look, maybe it's because she's serving the mayor of New York, the weak mayor of New York, who refuses to deal with the crime issue. 0.96

00:13:36.880 And so maybe she doesn't feel that she has the political capital to talk about this.

00:13:40.800 But if she's simply struggling to find the words, let me give you the words.

00:13:44.940 Mayor Adams, fire your derelict prosecutors who refuse to do their jobs and put criminals in jail.

00:13:53.460 Very, very simple words.

00:13:56.480 Most offensive about this speech.

00:13:59.520 Did you hear that little bit she gets in there?

00:14:00.980 She says, this happened, she insinuated quite strongly, this happened because of illegal guns.

00:14:09.860 That's what's changed in New York, is that there are guns around.

00:14:14.500 There have been guns around New York for a very long time.

00:14:17.980 Illegal guns, too, for a very long time.

00:14:20.460 Clearly, the gun laws aren't working that well.

00:14:23.700 What has changed in the past few years is not that there are new gun sales in New York, legal or illegal.

00:14:32.440 What has changed is not that there are new guns being manufactured that are dramatically different from the old guns that were being manufactured.

00:14:41.180 What has changed in New York is that prosecutors won't do their job because there is a new leftist idea that the police are bad and criminals are put upon and we need to be tougher on the cops and weaker on the criminals.

00:14:58.560 And when criminals riot and loot and burn down buildings during BLM, especially in New York, we're just going to let them off the hook.

00:15:06.360 We're going to give them much lower charges when we charge them at all.

00:15:10.760 And for the majority of them, the vast majority of them, we're just going to let them off completely.

00:15:16.240 And then you're surprised when crime goes up.

00:15:19.500 When the administration in New York says, the de Blasio administration in particular, the one right before this new mayor, says certain crimes are no longer going to be considered crimes.

00:15:31.100 And then when the prosecutors come in and say, even when you do commit the crimes, we're not going to charge you for them.

00:15:35.420 And then you're shocked when crime goes up.

00:15:38.600 So fine, I'm not saying that this woman has it entirely in her power. 0.99

00:15:44.760 She's the police commissioner.

00:15:47.600 But spare me the sanctimony, spare me the emotion if you're not going to put any substance behind it.

00:15:52.840 You're right there.

00:15:53.440 The mayor's right there in the room.

00:15:55.060 There are the words.

00:15:55.920 Feel free to borrow them from me.

00:15:57.200 I won't be offended at all.

00:15:58.840 Speaking of New York, the governor of New York doesn't seem to be any better than the failed leadership of the city of New York.

00:16:06.760 Governor Kathy Hochul, who took over after Governor Andrew Cuomo was found to be a little too handsy with his staff, which was really just the excuse to kick him out because of his scandals over COVID.

00:16:20.640 When he pretended to be the greatest leader in the country on COVID, it turned out he was hiding numbers, hiding death numbers and sickness numbers.

00:16:28.640 And the thousands of senior citizens who were killed in New York in nursing homes because of his stupid policies, he was hiding them, including from federal investigators.

00:16:36.040 So Democrats decided, okay, we're finally going to kick this guy out and we're going to use the sex scandal to do it.

00:16:41.940 So Kathy Hochul takes over afterwards and Kathy Hochul doubles down on the same stupid policies, not the exact same ones, but the same COVID incompetence that you saw from Andrew Cuomo. 0.69

00:16:54.020 So now two years in, Governor Kathy Hochul is still insisting on all sorts of crazy COVID measures, even for kids in schools, even measures that have been demonstrated to be not particularly effective, even for kids who are not at particularly grave risk from COVID.

00:17:12.740 And you know what her excuse is for this? 0.79

00:17:15.500 Her excuse is kids are resilient.

00:17:19.420 I know people are tired, but I also I'll say one thing about the kids.

00:17:22.280 My daughter had a meltdown over having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. 1.00

00:17:27.780 She got used to wearing sneakers in school.

00:17:29.600 They just they adapt better than adults do.

00:17:33.140 And I'm really proud of the parents who made sure that their kids understood this is for their safety and got it done.

00:17:40.560 But we're looking forward to the day we can lift the school as well as the the business requirements.

00:17:45.540 We truly am.

00:17:46.180 That'll be very fabulous day.

00:17:47.940 Your little children have to cover their faces so they can never see anybody's smiles and they can't really go see their friends and they've got to be completely isolated from their peers.

00:17:58.300 Even when they are in the same building together, they've got to be walled off into pods and their education is going to be severely compromised and their social development is going to be really, really compromised.

00:18:08.880 But hey, Kathy Hochul's kid didn't want to wear sneakers one time.

00:18:12.420 So it's basically the same.

00:18:14.020 Kids are resilient.

00:18:15.640 You know, kids, kids are just resilient.

00:18:18.200 I hate that phrase.

00:18:20.160 That is one of the dumbest phrases in our entire political discourse.

00:18:25.540 Kids are resilient is the shrug of adults harming kids.

00:18:33.500 Kids are resilient.

00:18:34.780 It's fine.

00:18:36.020 Are they?

00:18:36.980 Kids are also easily traumatized.

00:18:39.600 No, they're resilient.

00:18:40.940 Kids also have trouble articulating the suffering that they're enduring because of what you are doing to them because they're kids.

00:18:47.960 So they haven't been educated yet.

00:18:50.040 They don't.

00:18:50.400 Their vocabulary is not as large.

00:18:52.120 Their introspection, their analytical skills are not as great.

00:18:54.400 So they just can't tell you the trauma that you're inflicting on them when you lock them away from society for two years, you psychos.

00:19:01.100 But don't worry.

00:19:01.880 Kids are resilient.

00:19:04.680 Everybody suffers.

00:19:05.500 Everybody suffers in this world.

00:19:07.920 We're not going to abolish suffering.

00:19:09.520 This is a fact of life.

00:19:10.920 Kids suffer too.

00:19:12.300 Sometimes it is inevitable.

00:19:14.520 I'm not saying that every time a child suffers, it's necessarily someone's fault.

00:19:19.480 You can necessarily fix it.

00:19:22.000 You should necessarily feel terrible about it.

00:19:24.440 No, people are going to suffer.

00:19:27.120 It's part of growing up.

00:19:28.140 But do not pretend that the suffering that you inflict, that you, Kathy Hochul, and other people who use this phrase, inflict, is without consequence.

00:19:40.480 That it's just totally fine.

00:19:41.980 You probably hear this phrase most with divorce.

00:19:46.040 Kids are resilient.

00:19:46.900 It's fine.

00:19:47.300 Or if a mother is moving a kid around from place to place and putting him in bad circumstances and all that.

00:19:53.480 Well, don't worry.

00:19:54.020 Kids are resilient.

00:19:55.000 No, you're harming these kids.

00:19:56.620 You are harming them.

00:19:58.080 And I'm not saying that you need to go take a long walk off a short pier because of it.

00:20:03.480 People make mistakes.

00:20:04.380 Bad things happen.

00:20:05.380 But don't excuse it.

00:20:06.720 It's not, fix it.

00:20:09.260 Fix it.

00:20:09.720 And don't just say, well, don't worry.

00:20:10.980 They can bounce back.

00:20:12.120 No, it's, in some ways, kids are more resilient in the sense that they're malleable.

00:20:16.560 But in some ways, they're much less resilient than adults who have had time to mature and have a, have a more balanced view of the world.

00:20:25.820 And have, have developed certain calluses because of suffering they've gone through.

00:20:29.960 Don't worry.

00:20:30.560 It's fine.

00:20:30.960 Hey, my kid couldn't tie her shoes one day. 1.00

00:20:32.520 So, let's lock them up for another three years.

00:20:36.060 What, what a joke.

00:20:37.460 Speaking of how the radicals are messing with our kids in schools, another disturbing story out of an elementary school in Oregon.

00:20:46.080 Oregon.

00:20:47.280 Gosh.

00:20:48.500 That place.

00:20:49.500 A lot of stories coming out of Oregon.

00:20:52.280 Fourth graders at Raleigh Hills Elementary School, located in Beaverton, Oregon,

00:20:59.320 were just presented with a slideshow a couple of weeks ago.

00:21:04.000 Daily Wire just learned this.

00:21:06.280 Unveiling the formation of a QSA club.

00:21:09.820 That's queer, what is it? 1.00

00:21:11.460 Queer Sexuality Alliance or something to that effect.

00:21:15.200 So, there's a, there's an LGBT club for fourth graders in this school.

00:21:21.120 And the LGBT club is recruiting the students and it's being presented to the students.

00:21:28.160 And the parents have no idea.

00:21:29.740 There is no parental consent required.

00:21:31.720 One of the slides from this club, it says, what will we do?

00:21:35.080 We'll have conversations about identity, gender, equal rights, and social issues that are important to you.

00:21:39.020 We'll explore LGBTQ plus history and activism.

00:21:43.820 We will discuss personal struggles.

00:21:46.080 Now we're getting real creepy.

00:21:47.520 We're going to, we're going to, we're going to groom you kids is what it's, is what they're implying.

00:21:51.620 We're going to discuss personal struggles and successes in a supportive space.

00:21:55.860 We're going to advocate for change in our school and community.

00:22:00.040 But we're going to advocate for change.

00:22:02.060 Changing what?

00:22:03.660 We're going to talk about your personal struggles in the sexuality club for nine-year-olds.

00:22:09.020 What personal struggles?

00:22:12.440 If you are having personal struggles in your sexual relationships at nine, you should be recommended to a school counselor.

00:22:22.280 This, this should be discouraged.

00:22:24.040 Nine-year-olds shouldn't be doing that.

00:22:26.000 But instead it's being encouraged and the parents have no right to say anything about it.

00:22:31.180 And frankly, by the logic of our culture right now, really by the logic of all cultures and societies, given the premises we're starting with, there's actually no reason for the parents to be involved.

00:22:47.360 This is something that conservatives don't quite understand about.

00:22:49.720 There's really no reason for the conservatives to be involved if you accept all the radical premises to begin with.

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00:23:34.080 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:23:45.100 So these creepy, pervert, degenerate administrators at an elementary school in Oregon are recruiting their nine-year-old kids to join LGBTQ club and convince little Johnny that he's really little Jane.

00:24:00.180 This is obviously very creepy, very wrong.

00:24:02.980 The people who are pushing this should certainly be fired, if not prosecuted.

00:24:07.340 And the part that everyone's focusing on is that the parents weren't even informed.

00:24:12.640 The parents were, like, that's the worst part of this.

00:24:17.140 I understand why people are focusing on parental consent because not only the left but also the right now believes that consent is the be-all and end-all of politics.

00:24:28.880 And there's nothing deeper that we can talk about.

00:24:31.240 It's all just about procedure.

00:24:34.020 We all just need to consent.

00:24:35.440 And if you want to consent to mutilate your body or do a ton of drugs or whatever, that's totally fine.

00:24:41.380 But you've got to make sure that you get consent.

00:24:44.020 All they care about is procedural norms.

00:24:46.720 You see this even in some pro-life advocacy where they say, look, I'm not telling New Yorkers and Californians that they need to ban abortion.

00:24:53.160 I'm just saying the Supreme Court has no right to do it.

00:24:55.700 So we've got to send it back to the states.

00:24:57.400 And then if the people want to kill a zillion babies a year in Illinois, that's totally fine.

00:25:01.660 But it's not totally fine.

00:25:03.000 The procedure matters.

00:25:04.260 It's true.

00:25:04.780 The court shouldn't take rights away from the states and from the people.

00:25:07.440 But the substance matters, too.

00:25:08.920 We also shouldn't kill babies.

00:25:11.360 Yes, the procedure matters.

00:25:13.300 Parents should have a say over their kids' education, obviously.

00:25:16.440 Parents should have some say in how their kids are raised.

00:25:18.880 But the substance matters, too.

00:25:21.340 Namely, we shouldn't be teaching kids gender theory when they're nine years old, pretending that all sorts of eccentric sexual ideologies are totally fine.

00:25:33.040 Probably the only sexual ideology that you're not allowed to teach in this elementary school is that men are not women, and men should marry women, and they should live in a monogamous household for life and have a family and procreate.

00:25:49.440 I bet you would be taken to court if you taught that in this school, but you can teach everything else.

00:25:55.360 Why?

00:25:55.760 The reason for this, it actually makes perfect sense, is that while we often think that our substantive views are downstream of procedural norms, very often it's the opposite.

00:26:09.740 I'm using sort of technical language here.

00:26:12.740 So what I mean by that is we think that the things we actually believe about what is good and true and beautiful come downstream of how we come to decide them.

00:26:21.580 Is it the court?

00:26:22.400 Is it we the people?

00:26:23.940 Is it the teachers?

00:26:25.180 Is it the PTA?

00:26:25.860 Is it we all come together and we deliberate and then we form our substantive views out of that.

00:26:30.700 But very often it's the opposite.

00:26:33.360 Very often it's the things that we think are good and true and beautiful that decide how we decide other questions.

00:26:41.000 So our culture has decided that LGBTQ plus, there are now 5,000 other letters to it, is good, true, and completely beyond debate.

00:26:58.940 Not even just that, you know, two fellas like each other on a Navy ship out at sea and, you know, that's one thing.

00:27:04.700 No, we're saying that even the T, okay, we're talking about boys can chop up their bodies and pump themselves full of hormones and actually become women.

00:27:16.040 That in our culture is considered unassailable.

00:27:18.820 If you question that in your job, in your school, you can be kicked out.

00:27:23.980 You can be kicked out of both of those places.

00:27:25.680 You can certainly be punished.

00:27:27.680 And depending on how you do it, you might even be charged with a crime.

00:27:31.100 There was a bill in California signed into law in 2017 that said that if healthcare workers misgender, quote unquote, their patients, they could be prosecuted.

00:27:43.380 Misgender meaning properly gender, meaning there's a man who thinks he's a woman and the healthcare worker says, hello, sir. 0.61

00:27:50.040 That healthcare worker could be prosecuted according to the law.

00:27:52.600 Now, it's been extremely controversial since it was passed, but we have decided that that is the case.

00:27:59.060 So, of course, if LGBTQ is totally fine and unassailable and beyond reproach and beyond debate, then why would you need the parent's permission? 0.85

00:28:08.940 Why would you allow some bigoted, hateful, false-minded parent to question something that we as a culture have decided is unquestionable?

00:28:20.600 Well, we've concluded the substantive issue, and so the procedure is going to change.

00:28:26.780 Whereas 10 years ago, you would have needed at least to get a parent's permission slip for a club like this.

00:28:31.980 Probably you wouldn't even have a club like this.

00:28:34.880 Today, that's been decided.

00:28:37.320 We live in a society.

00:28:39.880 The only way to have a society is for certain things to be settled.

00:28:44.920 We need to speak the same language.

00:28:46.420 We need to believe many, if not most, of the same things.

00:28:50.620 We need to have plenty of areas of the public discourse where you just take everything for granted.

00:28:57.000 That's how all societies work.

00:29:00.180 And the left understands this, which is how they've completely transformed what we believe.

00:29:03.800 And the right refuses to understand this, and they bury their head in the sands.

00:29:06.780 And they say, well, I'm not going to force my opinions on you.

00:29:10.780 You do you, and I'll do me, and I just support individual freedom.

00:29:14.760 And it's not really freedom at all.

00:29:16.540 It just gives the left the whole playing ground.

00:29:19.960 Now, there are ways to fight back.

00:29:22.380 There's a great way.

00:29:23.920 I've got to give Chris Ruffo credit because he was one of the pioneers on this.

00:29:27.240 Christopher Ruffo is at the Manhattan Institute.

00:29:30.620 He's the guy who really popularized the crusade against critical race theory.

00:29:34.880 Chris Ruffo had this brilliant idea to make the issue of banning critical race theory not merely one of banning something from the curriculum, though that's what we're about.

00:29:49.580 He wanted to make it about curriculum transparency.

00:29:53.700 Such a brilliant phrase, really a brilliant tactic.

00:29:59.220 Because when you hear from someone that they want to ban something, especially in a classroom, after decades and decades of the false ideology of academic freedom, we just recoil from that.

00:30:11.460 Even many conservatives recoil.

00:30:12.980 They say, I don't want to ban anything.

00:30:14.100 I just don't want my kid to be taught that white people are evil and men are actually women.

00:30:18.560 But I don't want to ban anything.

00:30:20.400 Come on.

00:30:20.720 I'm not one of those censors.

00:30:21.920 I'm not against academic freedom.

00:30:23.780 So what Chris Ruffo suggested was, okay, well, let's make it about curriculum transparency.

00:30:30.080 We all love transparency in our modern, liberal, democratic age.

00:30:33.700 So let's just, hey, teachers, let's just have you post your curricula on the Internet so that the parents can see what happens.

00:30:43.380 And then, and then they'll make up their own minds.

00:30:47.300 And we'll see what happens from there.

00:30:49.100 Because we know that these teachers are teaching false, hideous, dangerous, destructive things in the classroom.

00:30:57.920 And the minute parents see it, they're going to freak out.

00:31:00.020 During COVID, this was one of the few silver linings in the storm cloud of COVID.

00:31:05.180 Parents got to see what their kids are being taught because the classroom came through a laptop into the living room of people's apartments and houses.

00:31:14.800 The parents said, what?

00:31:15.660 And you even had administrators and teachers during the remote teaching of COVID say, hey, make sure that the parents aren't in the room when the kids are being taught this stuff because they're going to lose their minds, as rightly they did.

00:31:27.820 So NBC News now has this piece, anti-critical race theory activists have a new focus, curriculum transparency, and that's really bad.

00:31:40.680 And this is really dangerous because transparency is a liberal value, but it's forcing an ideological shift in the way, that's right, that's exactly what it's doing.

00:31:52.100 But the conservatives here have put liberals on the opposite side of transparency.

00:32:00.060 They're now fighting against transparency.

00:32:04.800 This would be a good example of something that I've suggested for a while now, which is not just that politics is downstream of culture, meaning culture affects politics.

00:32:14.940 The movies, what we listen to, the way we talk, the media, sure, that affects our government, sure.

00:32:22.100 But politics also affects culture.

00:32:26.880 The government also affects the civil society because curriculum transparency is a law.

00:32:36.260 It's a regulation passed by the government, very rarely adopted voluntarily by the school districts.

00:32:44.120 It's something where the school board or the Department of Education or the governor is going to have to come in and say, we need curriculum transparency.

00:32:51.920 And the libs are going to scream and howl about it. 1.00

00:32:54.000 And then the parents are going to see what's in the curricula and they're going to push back against it.

00:33:00.260 Republicans just want a governorship in very liberal Virginia on this issue.

00:33:06.860 Because while there might be ideological rigidity on taxes, entitlements, immigration, foreign policy, whatever, on education, on how kids are being raised,

00:33:24.760 there's much more of an opportunity for conservatives to bring over people who are not traditionally on the right.

00:33:31.300 Really, really smart move.

00:33:34.540 Education requires limits.

00:33:37.300 Free speech.

00:33:37.900 I love free speech.

00:33:39.080 Free speech requires limits.

00:33:40.280 There's no such thing as perfectly absolute free speech.

00:33:43.440 It's not possible.

00:33:44.460 We live in a society.

00:33:45.840 All societies are going to have to speak a common language.

00:33:48.580 They're going to have to have some taboos.

00:33:50.420 They're going to have to have some limits on what you can say, what you can't say.

00:33:54.480 True free speech requires certain limits.

00:33:56.620 Religious freedom, even.

00:34:00.160 Religious freedom.

00:34:01.440 In order to truly have religious freedom, you need limits on what religious freedom is.

00:34:07.980 Great example of it.

00:34:09.660 I was just reading the Radio Kenai news outlet.

00:34:15.020 You know, reading about Kenai, Alaska, as one does.

00:34:17.760 And I noticed that at a government assembly meeting in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly,

00:34:27.280 there was just an invocation given by a Satanist.

00:34:33.180 So each year, this is according to Radio Kenai,

00:34:36.420 a list of residents sign up to give an invocation to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings,

00:34:41.180 a list that already is filled up for this coming calendar year.

00:34:44.140 The policy states that the assembly allows for an invocation,

00:34:47.420 which could include a short prayer or a solemnizing message

00:34:50.020 to be offered at the beginning of the meetings for the benefit of the assembly

00:34:52.880 to accommodate the spiritual needs of public officials.

00:34:56.960 And for the past few years, and just happening again last Tuesday,

00:35:01.460 Satanists are showing up.

00:35:03.240 Iris Fontana signed up to give a satanic temple invocation, 0.78

00:35:07.780 which several members of the community objected to,

00:35:10.160 including an assembly member who called upon residents

00:35:12.200 to silently stand strong in prayer, citing scripture from Matthew 4.10.

00:35:15.920 I'm not going to read the invocation,

00:35:17.780 because I don't think Satanists should be encouraged in our society.

00:35:23.380 But this is what's happening.

00:35:26.740 It's religious freedom, right?

00:35:28.960 Isn't that what religious freedom means?

00:35:30.660 Doesn't religious freedom mean 0.99

00:35:32.220 that the Satanists should be allowed to hail their dark lord

00:35:37.280 and call upon the devil to control this world?

00:35:42.540 Isn't that, if we, listen here, listen here.

00:35:45.840 I might not agree with what you say,

00:35:47.540 but I'll defend to the death of your right to say it.

00:35:49.260 I might not agree with hailing Satan,

00:35:51.420 prince of the underworld, the father of lies,

00:35:54.240 the embodiment of evil,

00:35:56.800 but I will defend to your death that, no, I won't.

00:35:59.840 I won't.

00:36:00.300 I'm not going to defend that right.

00:36:02.000 I don't think you have that right.

00:36:03.200 I don't think the founding fathers understood satanic invocations

00:36:07.940 as being covered by religious liberty.

00:36:11.100 I think that if someone had shown up to the Continental Congress

00:36:15.200 to give a satanic invocation,

00:36:17.920 not only would this not be applauded

00:36:19.840 by those liberal-minded founding fathers,

00:36:22.500 probably they would go out and gather kindling

00:36:25.460 for the stake that they would burn that person at.

00:36:28.140 Certainly in earlier America, they would do that.

00:36:30.420 But we know, I think we all know,

00:36:34.600 that whatever religious liberty means in America,

00:36:38.440 it does not mean Satanists opening up our government meetings.

00:36:42.640 So I think we need to start from that.

00:36:44.100 If we want to get back to any normal understanding

00:36:46.220 of what freedom means in America, let's start from there.

00:36:48.460 We know that Satanists are not what our founding fathers

00:36:53.740 were talking about when they talk about the blessings of liberty

00:36:56.020 and no establishment of religion and the various other religious phrases

00:37:01.340 that are used within our founding documents.

00:37:03.520 Okay, so then what does that mean

00:37:05.260 for what religious freedom actually is?

00:37:11.360 In the United States tradition,

00:37:13.440 in the United States tradition,

00:37:15.500 God is referenced.

00:37:16.820 In our founding document,

00:37:18.080 the Declaration of Independence,

00:37:19.800 the entire country is predicated on the idea

00:37:22.080 that our creator, God,

00:37:24.940 has given us certain unalienable rights,

00:37:28.040 namely the right to life, liberty,

00:37:29.580 and the pursuit of happiness.

00:37:31.360 Not Satan.

00:37:32.680 Satan didn't give us those rights.

00:37:34.740 Satan didn't create us as God.

00:37:37.060 Satan is the enemy of God.

00:37:38.840 He rebelled against God

00:37:39.880 and got shot down to hell

00:37:40.980 and now he's being tormented for eternity.

00:37:46.200 God is mentioned

00:37:47.520 in many official United States documents.

00:37:49.680 God is on our money.

00:37:52.500 On our money, it says,

00:37:53.580 in God we trust.

00:37:55.240 In our national

00:37:56.100 Pledge of Allegiance,

00:37:58.020 we say,

00:37:59.280 one nation under God.

00:38:02.320 Our nation was founded

00:38:03.800 even before the founding

00:38:05.560 of the American Republic.

00:38:07.860 Our whole country,

00:38:08.900 which dates back much further,

00:38:10.460 was founded by extremely zealous Christians.

00:38:13.640 It's a Christian country.

00:38:14.980 That means

00:38:18.880 that if you do not

00:38:21.320 accept certain,

00:38:24.160 at least basic premises

00:38:25.400 of Christianity,

00:38:26.620 if you do not go along

00:38:27.740 with certain basic elements

00:38:29.040 at least,

00:38:29.960 then you don't really

00:38:31.620 have a place here.

00:38:32.940 I'm not saying

00:38:33.540 you gotta be in daily mass

00:38:34.900 and receiving all the sacraments.

00:38:36.240 I'm sure the founding fathers

00:38:37.020 wouldn't have said that either.

00:38:39.360 But if you do not believe,

00:38:40.840 for instance,

00:38:41.280 that the good Lord

00:38:43.780 gives us certain rights,

00:38:45.520 that we have a right to life,

00:38:47.320 that that life is ordered

00:38:48.300 toward pursuing liberty,

00:38:49.700 and that this is conducive

00:38:51.300 toward the pursuit of happiness.

00:38:52.660 If you don't believe that,

00:38:53.920 then America doesn't really

00:38:54.940 make a whole lot of sense

00:38:55.780 for you, does it?

00:38:58.120 You certainly don't have

00:38:59.220 a right to undermine

00:38:59.960 all of those things.

00:39:02.800 Liberty cannot coherently

00:39:04.980 be used to undermine liberty.

00:39:07.540 You don't have

00:39:08.220 a First Amendment right,

00:39:09.220 for instance,

00:39:09.760 to destroy the First Amendment.

00:39:12.280 That doesn't make any sense.

00:39:16.160 For much of U.S. history,

00:39:17.700 we've had blasphemy laws.

00:39:19.860 If you blaspheme against God,

00:39:23.400 the Christian God,

00:39:24.540 you could be prosecuted.

00:39:27.080 Now we think that's

00:39:28.400 unshocking, unbelievable,

00:39:29.780 so un-American.

00:39:30.460 No, it's only been considered

00:39:31.700 un-American for the past

00:39:32.700 50 years or so.

00:39:35.640 Only since cultural revolutionaries

00:39:37.760 had a hostile takeover

00:39:39.480 of our political processes

00:39:40.720 of the government

00:39:41.820 and kicked the Bible 0.62

00:39:43.220 out of schools,

00:39:44.240 kicked prayer out of schools,

00:39:45.340 and kicked Christianity 0.96

00:39:46.880 out of the public square

00:39:47.840 and exalted Satanism.

00:39:50.880 Literally exalted Satanism

00:39:52.340 in multiple places, okay?

00:39:53.480 So, if we want to restore

00:39:56.660 some semblance of American

00:39:58.280 religious liberty,

00:40:00.160 I think we've got to realize

00:40:01.140 that somewhere we went off the track

00:40:02.540 and we need to stop

00:40:04.020 tolerating freaking

00:40:05.680 Baphomet at government assemblies.

00:40:07.900 This is not complicated, folks.

00:40:09.580 Good grief.

00:40:10.100 If you find yourself

00:40:11.380 on the same side

00:40:12.700 as a horned demon,

00:40:14.400 switch sides.

00:40:15.700 Something's gone wrong.

00:40:16.500 It's not going to end

00:40:17.120 well for you.

00:40:18.740 Speaking of Satan,

00:40:20.560 there is a group

00:40:21.440 of abortion activists

00:40:24.520 who are pretending

00:40:25.620 to be Catholic.

00:40:26.780 They call themselves

00:40:27.840 the Catholics for choice.

00:40:29.980 You've got to really put,

00:40:30.960 you've got to put Catholics 1.00

00:40:31.880 in quotes

00:40:32.420 and choice in quotes

00:40:34.020 because what they really mean

00:40:35.140 is leftists for abortion,

00:40:36.800 but they're trying

00:40:37.580 to infiltrate

00:40:38.580 and subvert

00:40:39.120 the Catholic Church

00:40:39.900 because the Catholic Church

00:40:41.580 is the most prominent

00:40:43.520 pro-life institution

00:40:44.760 in the entire world.

00:40:47.420 So over the weekend,

00:40:49.180 this was the March for Life weekend,

00:40:50.900 this group of abortion activists

00:40:53.040 projected images

00:40:54.460 and texts

00:40:55.400 onto a church,

00:40:58.500 the Basilica

00:40:59.100 of the National Shrine

00:41:00.820 of the Immaculate Conception

00:41:01.860 in Washington, D.C.

00:41:04.520 It said,

00:41:05.420 pro-choice Catholics,

00:41:06.680 you're not alone.

00:41:07.480 Lots of different messages

00:41:08.420 supporting abortion.

00:41:10.920 Now the cardinal

00:41:11.960 and the leader of the church

00:41:13.860 in D.C.

00:41:15.400 is a very liberal

00:41:16.620 prelate.

00:41:18.980 This guy,

00:41:19.820 when Donald Trump

00:41:20.680 visited this shrine actually,

00:41:22.760 this cardinal

00:41:23.580 got angry.

00:41:24.460 He actually objected

00:41:25.380 to the President

00:41:25.900 of the United States

00:41:26.520 visiting a Catholic shrine

00:41:27.860 in a very respectful way.

00:41:29.740 I really disagreed

00:41:30.580 with that.

00:41:30.980 I thought he was

00:41:31.760 playing politics.

00:41:32.600 He's obviously

00:41:33.020 a liberal cardinal.

00:41:34.800 But here,

00:41:35.900 here,

00:41:37.220 his response

00:41:38.320 to what these

00:41:38.960 abortion activists did 1.00

00:41:40.000 was indistinguishable

00:41:41.920 from what

00:41:42.900 a very conservative

00:41:44.740 cardinal would have said.

00:41:45.560 He wrote,

00:41:46.800 this is Cardinal

00:41:47.380 Wilton Gregory,

00:41:49.140 he said,

00:41:49.600 those whose antics

00:41:50.420 projected words

00:41:51.440 on the outside

00:41:52.180 of the church building

00:41:53.040 demonstrated by those pranks

00:41:54.500 that they really are

00:41:55.880 external to the church.

00:41:57.560 And they did so at night.

00:41:59.740 John 1330.

00:42:02.860 He just,

00:42:03.320 that's all he said,

00:42:03.900 John 1330.

00:42:05.120 If you go look up

00:42:05.840 in your Bible

00:42:06.560 or your Bible app,

00:42:07.900 what is John 1330?

00:42:09.500 It's the verse

00:42:10.380 in which

00:42:10.880 Christ identifies 0.73

00:42:13.200 Judas Iscariot

00:42:14.400 as his betrayer.

00:42:16.860 He's calling them Judas.

00:42:19.880 This is a really

00:42:21.120 important lesson

00:42:22.240 for modernity,

00:42:23.960 for the whole modern world

00:42:25.320 from the Catholic Church,

00:42:27.000 even from a relatively

00:42:28.280 liberal Catholic bishop.

00:42:31.940 The lesson is this,

00:42:33.880 there are limits

00:42:35.140 to self-definition.

00:42:37.640 There are limits

00:42:38.760 to self-expression.

00:42:41.880 We don't understand

00:42:42.940 that anymore.

00:42:44.140 The left certainly doesn't.

00:42:45.620 They believe that

00:42:46.200 you can identify

00:42:46.940 however you want to identify.

00:42:48.400 But even a lot of conservatives

00:42:49.620 don't understand

00:42:50.480 that anymore.

00:42:51.620 They think that,

00:42:52.380 look,

00:42:52.440 if I want to be something,

00:42:54.160 then I can be that.

00:42:56.660 I'll pull myself up

00:42:57.420 by my bootstraps,

00:42:58.500 by golly,

00:42:59.100 and you're not going

00:42:59.580 to tell me

00:43:00.140 that I can't do that.

00:43:01.400 And it's,

00:43:02.060 it's a conservatism

00:43:04.400 because it's so

00:43:05.000 heavily tinged

00:43:05.600 by libertarianism.

00:43:06.520 It's very skeptical

00:43:07.280 of any authority

00:43:08.100 and it doesn't want

00:43:08.880 to be told

00:43:09.580 what it is.

00:43:10.640 It doesn't want

00:43:11.180 to have these definitions

00:43:12.580 imposed on them.

00:43:14.800 But there are limits

00:43:16.020 to self-definition.

00:43:18.280 What the cardinal

00:43:19.280 is saying here is,

00:43:20.600 you can call yourselves

00:43:21.700 Catholic,

00:43:22.540 but you're not.

00:43:23.520 You're not because

00:43:24.640 you are clearly

00:43:26.460 not in communion

00:43:27.260 with the church

00:43:28.180 and you're not repentant

00:43:30.800 and you're not accessing

00:43:31.660 the sacraments,

00:43:32.360 so you really are

00:43:33.100 external to the church.

00:43:34.720 And when you talk

00:43:35.400 about direct cooperation

00:43:36.480 in an abortion,

00:43:37.340 that incurs

00:43:38.020 excommunication

00:43:38.960 automatically.

00:43:40.920 Excommunication,

00:43:41.420 meaning literally

00:43:41.840 being cut off,

00:43:42.880 it means you can't

00:43:43.600 receive the communion,

00:43:44.280 but it also means

00:43:44.760 you're being cut off

00:43:45.820 from the church.

00:43:46.500 You're out.

00:43:47.380 And it doesn't matter

00:43:48.080 how you self-identify.

00:43:49.500 And you might say,

00:43:50.200 well, in my heart of hearts,

00:43:51.160 I feel as though

00:43:51.760 I'm a Christian.

00:43:52.680 Well, fine.

00:43:53.280 In my heart of hearts,

00:43:53.960 I might feel like

00:43:54.460 I'm a goldfish,

00:43:55.140 but I'm not.

00:43:56.080 It's not up to you

00:43:56.820 to decide that.

00:43:58.500 There actually is authority

00:44:00.400 that imposes definitions.

00:44:02.420 And you can't just

00:44:03.200 totally change the reality

00:44:04.580 by changing all of the words.

00:44:06.940 That's a very important lesson

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00:44:10.780 And it's the only way

00:44:12.840 that conservatives

00:44:13.400 are ever going to be able

00:44:14.320 to regain any kind of ground

00:44:17.000 in this battle.

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00:45:12.140 Today on The Matt Walsh Show,

00:45:13.260 marriage rates in our country

00:45:14.420 are plummeting

00:45:15.120 to historic lows.

00:45:16.100 This is partly due to the fact

00:45:17.080 that the modern dating scene

00:45:18.300 is a miserable,

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00:45:21.040 We'll try to sift through

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00:45:22.240 and figure out

00:45:22.700 what has gone so wrong exactly.

00:45:24.300 Also, protesters across the world

00:45:25.860 marched against vaccine mandates

00:45:27.300 on Sunday,

00:45:28.080 and more people

00:45:29.060 on the center-left

00:45:30.220 are finally coming out

00:45:31.320 against draconian COVID policies

00:45:33.480 two years later.

00:45:35.060 Is it too little too late

00:45:36.140 or should we welcome

00:45:37.000 these converts with open arms?

00:45:38.480 Plus, is war with Russia

00:45:39.680 on the horizon?

00:45:40.580 And our Daily Cancellation,

00:45:41.800 we'll discuss

00:45:42.300 the Democratic lawmaker

00:45:43.360 who tried to dunk

00:45:44.140 on pro-lifers

00:45:44.920 only to have it backfire

00:45:46.060 in hilarious fashion.

00:45:47.600 We'll talk about all that

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2022

Ep. 928 - ＂Build Back Better＂ = Train Robberies And Cop Killings

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