The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 937 - ＂Racism＂ Is The Left's Weapon Of War

00:00:00.000 The big day is finally here. After a full 18 months of waiting, a new definition of racism

00:00:06.200 just dropped. You see, for a long time, the Anti-Defamation League defined racism as,

00:00:12.440 quote, the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another,

00:00:17.160 that a person's social or moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological

00:00:20.940 characteristics. Then, about 18 months ago, during the BLM riots, the ADL redefined racism

00:00:28.320 as exclusively a white thing. Quote, the marginalization and or oppression of people

00:00:35.020 of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

00:00:40.760 And that definition had been going great for the left. It's very simple. White people, 0.98

00:00:45.440 bad. Black people, good. No complications here. But then, then, Whoopi Goldberg had to go and screw 1.00

00:00:54.400 it all up when she claimed that the Holocaust was not about racism. Now, everyone with two 0.96

00:01:02.060 brain cells to rub together who knew anything about the Nazis mocked Whoopi Goldberg's claim.

00:01:07.400 The problem was that according to the new leftist definition of racism, she was 100% correct. If

00:01:15.780 racism is only something that white people can inflict on people of color, then the Holocaust 0.92

00:01:22.380 could not have been racist. There were no people of color involved in that, in that entire event.

00:01:30.180 So they've changed the definition again. Now, in this post-Whoopi world, the ADL defines racism as

00:01:37.700 occurring, quote, when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an

00:01:44.700 individual or group based on race or ethnicity. But do not get to attach to this definition.

00:01:49.600 The ADL has made clear this is an interim, quote, unquote, definition. And a new definition is sure

00:01:55.680 to drop just as soon as it's politically convenient. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:07.760 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Frank S., who says,

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00:04:07.840 to get your free info kit now. It's very complicated to keep up with the definition of racism. It is very,

00:04:14.840 very funny that Whoopi Goldberg's ignorant comment was correct, according to the ADL, actually, which is 0.90

00:04:23.440 a Jewish anti-defamation organization. They realized, oh, yikes, this is, we're talking about an explicitly 0.83

00:04:29.300 Jewish issue. This is an explicitly Jewish organization. But really, the ADL doesn't speak

00:04:34.900 for Jews. It speaks for radical leftists, and I guess radical leftist Jews in particular. And so they 0.54

00:04:40.760 said, oh, yikes, okay, we got to change this. And they changed the definition, but they're going to

00:04:44.380 change it again. It's interim. It's always words, words, words, just changing our reality

00:04:52.100 as the left sees fit. Speaking of race, racial politics are actually helping conservatives out

00:04:59.460 right now in New York. Four black New Yorkers are suing New York City over an illegal voting law,

00:05:07.280 a law that they believe violates the law. What's the law? Well, Democrats on the 51-member New York

00:05:14.080 City Council last month approved a provision that will allow more than 800,000 foreign nationals

00:05:22.280 to vote in citywide elections. Illegal aliens, people here on green cards, visas, work permits,

00:05:30.860 not U.S. citizens will be able to vote in elections in New York as long as they've resided in the city

00:05:36.880 for 30 days. You just have to be there for one month consecutively, and you can vote in citywide

00:05:43.220 elections. This seems awful. This seems un-American. But now the issue has become about race.

00:05:52.600 Four black New York City residents, Phyllis Coachman, DeRoy Murdoch, Catherine James, and

00:05:59.140 Anthony Gillies have filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit makes this claim. The New York City Council was

00:06:06.200 aware of the discriminatory impact that the foreign citizen voting bill would have on the voting

00:06:11.060 strength of black voters. These concerns were raised by council members. Despite the discriminatory

00:06:16.720 impact and the knowledge that the New York City Council was without legal authority to grant foreign

00:06:20.860 citizens the right to vote, the council moved forward and passed the bill. This is a really clever

00:06:26.340 way to go after this law. It's a clever way because race is not the point. The fact that black people 0.99

00:06:35.660 are upset that now overwhelmingly Hispanic people are going to get, non-American Hispanic people are

00:06:40.900 going to get an outsized share of the vote, that's their issue with the voting law. But the problem with

00:06:46.680 the voting law is that we shouldn't have foreign nationals influencing our government in America. 0.99

00:06:51.360 We shouldn't have foreigners influencing our elections or participating in our elections, 1.00

00:06:55.780 for goodness sakes. That's the issue. But we're not allowed to talk about that anymore. In our

00:07:00.660 current culture, we're not allowed to say that the nation is a good thing. We're not allowed to say

00:07:04.980 that America is a good thing. We're not allowed to say the borders are real. We're not allowed to say

00:07:08.660 that non-Americans are different than Americans. We're not allowed to say any of that. We're not allowed

00:07:13.200 to say that the American people have a right to stop the advance of global liberalism.

00:07:19.520 We're not allowed to say any of that. The one thing we're still allowed to talk about is racism

00:07:23.660 because that has been the instrument that the left has used to transform our culture.

00:07:29.960 And so now you've got some conservatives using the racism argument, playing the race card

00:07:34.440 against the left. And they're saying, hold on, hold on, hold on. What are elections?

00:07:38.280 Elections aren't just the people of a given place showing up and voting and exercising

00:07:45.780 control over their government. Elections are different voting groups wielding their

00:07:52.920 proportionate influence. And specifically, because we now all say race is the most important thing in

00:07:58.000 the whole wide world, it's different racial groups. And when you flood the country with a 1.00

00:08:03.340 bunch of Guatemalans and Hondurans and Nicaraguans, a bunch of Hispanics, that's the new racial group 0.99

00:08:08.900 that has only really existed for the past half century. That was another creation of the left,

00:08:13.800 this idea that all people who speak Spanish all around the world, they're all the same thing

00:08:17.700 somehow. Well, when you get more Hispanics voting, that means you're decreasing the black share of 0.86

00:08:24.460 the vote. And that is very, very racist. The argument is a little bit silly. It's not that 0.68

00:08:31.980 it's silly. I mean, these sorts of arguments influence our politics. I guess I would say

00:08:36.380 the argument is beside the point. That's not really the issue with this law. But nevertheless,

00:08:42.560 I say, it's very clever. I like it. Whatever works. We got to stop these laws. We don't want

00:08:47.640 foreigners voting in our elections. If this is the argument that is going to persuade the liberals in

00:08:52.640 New York and the liberal judges in New York to get rid of this ridiculous law, fine by me.

00:08:58.280 Let's do it. I cheer them on. Good job, Phyllis, DeRoy, Catherine, and Anthony. Keep it up. Very clever. 0.53

00:09:04.200 You got to be wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove. I absolutely love it. Speaking of the law,

00:09:09.500 though, increasingly, we're just throwing the law out the window in this country. The rule of

00:09:13.580 law is falling apart. You heard yesterday Joe Biden say that he's going to pick a nominee who

00:09:17.840 understands that the Constitution is always evolving. And the words don't really mean what

00:09:21.340 they say they mean. They just keep changing, man. You know, doesn't it? You know, what if this word

00:09:26.520 now means the opposite of that word? And we've heard these kinds of arguments from the left for a long

00:09:30.840 time. Now you have leftists cheering on the squishy Republicans who are doing their bidding by throwing

00:09:39.100 the law out the window. Nicole Wallace on MSNBC just gave a huge round of applause to Liz Cheney 0.96

00:09:45.320 precisely for how lawless she and the other squishes are behaving. 1.00

00:09:50.800 He's now conditioned his base to not believe in elections. Elections now do not matter. And that's

00:09:57.500 where Liz Cheney seems to be drawing a line and bringing out an equally large arsenal by being 1.00

00:10:03.080 by being the first person to say he's going to get away with nothing, not potential violations of

00:10:07.900 the Presidential Records Act, not potential witness tampering, not potential efforts to overthrow an

00:10:13.380 election. She's going for the whole package of sins, which no one's ever done. People have said, 0.93

00:10:18.160 oh, well, he obstructed justice. But, you know, we got this law on the books at DOJ that says we can't

00:10:22.400 die. Liz Cheney is saying F the laws. We're going to hold this buffoon, this dangerous buffoon

00:10:27.680 accountable once and for all. Can she succeed? I hope she can succeed. I love that Liz Cheney is 1.00

00:10:34.820 completely disregarding the law, throwing it out the window, saying F the law. I hate Trump and I'm

00:10:40.780 going to get him. I actually give Nicole Wallace a lot of credit here for admitting that this is what

00:10:45.960 Liz Cheney is doing. I never again want to hear from the squish conservatives or from the left 1.00

00:10:52.380 for that matter, that Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and all of the other clown conservatives, 0.95

00:11:00.920 fake conservatives who only exist to do the bidding of the left, they're the respectable ones. 0.81

00:11:06.720 They have respect for the rule of law. Bill Kristol calls his never-Trumper group the rule of law 0.88

00:11:12.060 Republicans. Republicans for the rule of law. No, Nicole Wallace is admitting it's actually the 0.99

00:11:17.160 opposite. All these squishes don't care at all about the rule of law. They're ignoring the law. 0.98

00:11:22.000 They're saying F the law. I hate Trump. And so I'm just going to get him. And why? Because they say 0.69

00:11:28.480 Trump is not accepting the results of the election. Oh yeah. Where do you think he learned that guys?

00:11:36.880 Where do you, where do you think that Trump learned that you don't need to accept the results of an

00:11:41.420 election? You think it might have anything to do with, oh, I don't know the, the woman that he beat

00:11:46.700 who still doesn't accept the results of the 2016 election. You think that might have anything to do

00:11:51.400 with, I don't know, Al Gore and, and all of the other Democrats, including Terry McAuliffe just ran

00:11:57.300 for governor of Virginia who still won't accept the results of the 2000 election. Those elections,

00:12:01.380 by the way, conducted in an almost perfectly ordinary way. Unlike 2020, where all the rules

00:12:06.220 were changed in some cases, obviously illegally and contrary to state constitutions. Well, no,

00:12:12.360 that's different, Michael, because Trump's bad. It's fine to throw out the law. If, if it means

00:12:16.980 that we can get rid of the orange man, that's what the left is saying. That that's fine. You're making 0.99

00:12:22.100 a naked political argument. This is bare knuckle interest politics. Fine. But don't you ever tell

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00:13:48.040 slash Knowles. Speaking of not trusting the government, I just saw the most pathetic, magnificent, 0.98

00:13:59.300 absurd, transparent display of incompetent, almost certainly corrupt government. Maybe I've ever 0.98

00:14:10.800 seen. This came yesterday, not from some foreign government. They came from our government,

00:14:17.760 came from the State Department. It turns out there's at least one actual journalist,

00:14:23.060 one actual reporter left in Washington. The State Department is trying to ratchet up tensions with

00:14:30.080 Russia over this issue of Ukraine. And they've been trying a number of different strategies to do

00:14:35.980 this. And yesterday, the State Department and State Department spokesman, what's his name, Ned Price,

00:14:41.980 made this claim that Russia is going to launch a false flag attack that will then give them a

00:14:50.320 pretext to invade Ukraine. And the reporter in the room had a very simple question.

00:14:56.180 Only one reporter. He said, what is your evidence? And the State Department couldn't answer.

00:15:02.640 What we know, Matt, is what we, what I have just said, that they have engaged in this activity,

00:15:08.020 in this planning activity. But let me, let me, because, because obviously this is not,

00:15:13.080 this is not the first time we've made these reports public. You'll remember that just a few weeks ago.

00:15:19.600 I'm sorry, made what report public?

00:15:22.340 MR PRICE- If you'll let me finish, I will tell you what report we made public.

00:15:25.500 Okay.

00:15:25.960 MR PRICE- We told you a few weeks ago that we have information indicating Russia also has already

00:15:31.400 prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine. So that,

00:15:36.640 Matt, to your question, is an action that Russia has already taken.

00:15:39.840 It's an action that you say that they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to,

00:15:44.960 to, to, to confirm that. And I'm going to get to the next question here, which is,

00:15:49.660 what is the evidence that they, I mean, this is like crisis actors, really? This is like Alex

00:15:54.660 Jones territory you're getting into now. Um, what evidence do you have to support the idea that

00:16:00.920 there is some propaganda film in the, in, in the making?

00:16:03.920 MR PRICE- Hold on. I've got to pause it there. It only gets better. The state department only

00:16:08.580 be clowns itself further. The reason I have to pause it though, is the reporter did make

00:16:12.240 a mistake. He said that the state department is getting into Alex Jones territory. That is not true.

00:16:18.520 Alex Jones is much more trustworthy than the state department.

00:16:22.740 Alex Jones has a much better record of predictions than the state department, 0.97

00:16:28.120 including the gay frogs. He was right about the gay frogs. Okay. And it's not, 1.00

00:16:31.820 I am, I am damning with faint praise a little bit here because the state department

00:16:35.160 and our federal bureaucracy and the liberal establishment has such a terrible record that

00:16:41.140 the reporter is saying, you're asking me to just take this on faith that you're telling me the truth, 1.00

00:16:45.820 but you guys are incompetent and liars. So why am I supposed to believe you? 0.99

00:16:51.220 Matt, this is derived from information known to the U S government intelligence information that we

00:16:56.540 have declassified. I think you know. Okay. Well, where, where is it? Where, where is this information?

00:17:01.080 It is intelligence information that we have declassified. Well, where is it? Where's the

00:17:05.060 declassified information? I just delivered it. No, you made a series of allegations and statements.

00:17:11.840 Would you, would you like us to print it out the topper? Because you will see a transcript of this

00:17:15.120 briefing that you can print out for yourself. That's not evidence, Ned. That's you saying it.

00:17:19.020 That's not evidence. I'm sorry. What would you like, Matt? I would like to see some proof.

00:17:26.220 What would you, I'd like some proof. No, well, I'm giving it to you. Okay. Let's try this again,

00:17:32.960 Mr. State department spokesman. What is the evidence that, that Russia is going to launch

00:17:38.540 a false flag and that's why we need to go send a zillion troops to Ukraine and start a war with

00:17:43.320 Russia? What is the evidence that that's going to happen? Well, I just gave it to you. No,

00:17:49.540 you made an allegation. Yeah, that's right. That's the evidence. I said, so take my word for it.

00:17:54.580 Take my word for it. Take my word for it. The people who have lied about and or screwed up

00:18:03.620 every major foreign policy issue almost for my entire lifetime, the fall of the Berlin wall was

00:18:12.120 the last thing that they, and actually they didn't get that right either. Reagan was right about the

00:18:15.340 fall of the Berlin wall and the state department and those people all tried to screw it up. So

00:18:18.940 actually, nevermind, forget that. They've, these people have screwed up every major foreign policy

00:18:25.520 issue almost without exception for as far back as I can even remember with historical memory.

00:18:32.640 The people who told us that Saddam Hussein was making nukes, the people who told us that Kabul 1.00

00:18:38.360 was not going to forget about, we have to go back to ancient history with Saddam and the nukes. 0.95

00:18:41.840 What about Kabul? What about the Afghanistan debacle from a year ago? We were told,

00:18:47.300 less than a year ago, we were told that Kabul was not going to fall. It was strong. The Afghan

00:18:54.020 national government was great. It fell within weeks, with days. But trust us, we're right.

00:19:02.200 Believe us. Give me a break, bro. Sorry. I'm not even denying that Vladimir Putin would stage a false

00:19:09.320 flag. The guy's capable of doing just about anything. He's a former KGB agent who runs Russia 0.74

00:19:16.120 and wants to greatly expand Russia's territory and has already invaded Russia's neighbors. So I'm not

00:19:20.440 saying he wouldn't do it. Sure. Of course he could do it. But, but I ain't just taking the state

00:19:26.340 department's word for it or the, the rest of the federal blob. I just, they've squandered their

00:19:33.220 credibility. They don't have credibility anymore. And that's not my fault. It's not,

00:19:37.660 it's not unpatriotic. It's not conspiratorial. It's not irrational not to believe these people

00:19:46.080 after they've gotten everything wrong and lied to us for decades. You want, you want us to go

00:19:50.900 invade Ukraine, Ned Price? You want us to go start a war with Russia? Okay, fine. Show me the proof of

00:19:56.040 these things though. Don't just tell me to take your word for it because your word and a buck 50 used to

00:20:02.800 get you a cup of coffee. Now you need three 50 to get a cup of coffee because of Joe Biden's

00:20:06.920 inflation. Speaking of a lack of credibility from this administration, Joe Biden failed on the economy,

00:20:17.420 failed on foreign policy, as we have seen, failed on the border, failed on COVID. Remember I'm going

00:20:24.540 to shut down COVID and then now there's no federal solution to COVID. Failed on issue, issue after issue,

00:20:30.220 after issue, after issue. He is now underwater on every single issue. He's considered one of the

00:20:35.220 worst presidents in American history. So now as the Democrats are poised to head into disaster

00:20:42.320 in the midterm elections, Joe Biden has thrown a Hail Mary. He says that he is going to cure cancer.

00:20:50.900 Our message today is this, we can do this. I promise you, we can do this. For all those we lost,

00:20:59.480 for all those we miss, we can end cancer as we know it. I committed to this fight when I was vice

00:21:08.780 president. It's one of the reasons why, quite frankly, I ran for president. Let there be no doubt,

00:21:16.880 now that I am president, this is a presidential White House priority.

00:21:21.500 Okay. Joe Biden is going to, he's going to cure cancer. He's launching this initiative. He's going

00:21:30.080 to take a moonshot, except they already launched this initiative. They launched this initiative

00:21:33.820 when Barack Obama was president. He put Joe Biden in charge of it, which is probably why nothing

00:21:39.040 happened. He launched it now six years ago. And the, what they said at the time was they were going

00:21:46.460 to launch this moonshot to cure cancer, quote, to make a decade's worth of advances in cancer

00:21:51.260 prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in five years. That was six years ago. It didn't happen.

00:21:57.360 The whole idea of the president announcing that he's going to cure cancer was taken out of a West

00:22:01.960 Wing episode. This is the problem with a bunch of brain dead millennials running your White House 1.00

00:22:07.260 is that the only thing that they really know about statecraft is what they watched on a sitcom, 0.99

00:22:12.380 right? I suppose a network drama when they were children written by Aaron Sorkin. And they think

00:22:18.440 that's real life and they think that's politics. And so, so this is the best they've got. Joe Biden

00:22:23.520 could not cure a mild cough. Joe Biden said, I'm going to shut down the virus. I'm going to shut

00:22:28.580 down COVID. And then he just admitted, what, less than a month ago, sorry, there's no federal solution.

00:22:34.920 You're on your own. It's going to be solved at the States. We can't do it. You can't cure the cough.

00:22:40.800 You are not going to cure cancer. He doesn't think he's going to cure cancer. None of these people,

00:22:45.860 even the Aaron Sorkin fans who are writing all of Joe Biden's speeches, don't think he's going to

00:22:50.180 cure cancer. This is a distraction. This is a Hail Mary. This is just a way of saying, hey,

00:22:55.840 don't look at the economy. Don't look at foreign policy. Don't look at COVID, actually, the other

00:23:01.480 medical issue we're trying to solve. Don't look at this. Don't look at that. Hey, we're going to,

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00:23:15.000 to be big rock candy mountain with the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees. No, it's not,

00:23:19.460 it's not going to happen. None of that is going to happen. What you are watching is a flailing

00:23:25.520 presidency. The best shot they have right now to, to stop the bleeding in the midterms is ram their

00:23:33.020 Supreme court justice through. That seems like they actually will get that and then make a bunch

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00:24:24.680 One of the new flailing initiatives from Joe Biden is more gun control. And, and even this,

00:24:33.240 he's screwing up. This is usually a reliable base Democrat issue. Doesn't appeal to the majority of

00:24:40.220 Americans, but it does appeal to the Democrat base. And they're just trying to keep them happy enough.

00:24:45.660 But, but even that Biden screwed up. Biden made the claim during a press conference on guns

00:24:51.660 that a Glock is a weapon of war. You know, uh, the future is cut short by a man with a stolen Glock

00:25:01.580 with 40 rounds, a magazine with 40 rounds. Uh, and, uh, it's really a weapon of war.

00:25:11.160 It's really a weapon of war. Now, to be fair to Joe Biden, he's not just saying that the Glock itself,

00:25:18.000 one of the most common handguns in, if not the most common handgun in America, he's not just

00:25:22.640 saying that's a weapon of war. If a Glock is a weapon of war, then every gun is a weapon of war.

00:25:28.800 He's saying that the Glock with the magazine that holds a lot of rounds, that's what makes it a

00:25:33.400 weapon of war. But, but then that just means that every gun is a weapon of war because every gun

00:25:39.920 potentially, almost every gun potentially could have a big magazine in it, right? You just,

00:25:45.880 just swap out the magazine. So, so what Biden is claiming is that weapons of war are bad.

00:25:53.760 We need to ban weapons of war and every single gun can be a weapon of war.

00:26:00.380 Does not take Socrates to put that together and say, oh, he wants to ban all of the guns.

00:26:09.180 I don't think that's going to play very well either. I do think that gun control can work 1.00

00:26:13.420 for Democrats sometimes, but not, not, not this way. This is, but again, it's just appealing to

00:26:18.120 the base because he's already lost the middle. He's already lost the relative centrists.

00:26:25.160 So now he's, he's, he is losing his base right now. He's just, he's got to try to get the base

00:26:29.740 back first. Then he can try to rebuild the coalition. He just doesn't seem to have enough

00:26:34.060 time. So now he's saying, oh yeah, we're going to ban all the guns. He's basically become Beto.

00:26:37.520 Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We're going to ban your clocks. Hey, come on, man. Speaking of redefining

00:26:44.860 words, David Crosby. You, you, you remember David Crosby? Possibly. David Crosby was part of

00:26:52.080 Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. He's an old hippie singer. I actually like Neil Young, like Joni

00:26:58.540 Mitchell. I like their music. I like some of their music, not all of it, but I like the handful of

00:27:04.080 songs that people know, you know, our house. It's sentimental, but it's okay. Teach your children.

00:27:09.520 That's fine. Four and 20. There's some good songs. David Crosby is, is now calling on Spotify to remove

00:27:15.480 his music as well. Not just Neil Young, but Crosby, Stills, and Nash as well. He wants to do it

00:27:21.820 because he wants to censor Joe Rogan, but he doesn't want to admit that he wants to censor Joe Rogan.

00:27:27.860 Here's what David Crosby said yesterday. He was responding to someone who said some

00:27:33.960 good advice. Actually listen to Joe Rogan's show before you demand his cancellation. And David

00:27:38.140 responded and said, I have not and will not demand anything from Spotify or Joe Rogan.

00:27:44.200 I just don't want my music on there if he's on there. So I'm taking mine off. That is not censorship.

00:27:52.380 No, it's not censorship because it's not working, but it's obviously an attempt at censorship.

00:27:57.020 Come on, David, David. You know, I think David used to follow me on Twitter for a while. So I always

00:28:02.240 wondered if his politics were really very far left or maybe if it were a little more complicated than

00:28:06.820 that. I don't think he follows me anymore. But I wondered, I said, maybe he's a little more moderate

00:28:11.120 or maybe he just doesn't think about politics all that much because he's a musician and he's focused

00:28:14.460 on other things. Regardless, I'm going to assume the best motives here. David is not being honest

00:28:21.360 with himself about this issue. A lot of people are not being honest with themselves about the

00:28:26.220 censorship issue. What he is saying is, my music has value and so I'm going to take it off of Spotify.

00:28:35.240 Unless David Crosby really believes his music has absolutely no value and his music, whether it's on

00:28:40.040 or off Spotify, will not affect people's behavior whatsoever. But I don't think anyone really believes

00:28:44.840 that. He's saying my music has value and so here's an ultimatum. It's Rogan or me. Cancel Rogan

00:28:52.220 and you get to keep, censor Rogan and you get to keep me or don't censor Rogan and I'm going to

00:28:58.020 take my ball and go home and I'm going to add more pressure to you to censor Rogan. You're trying,

00:29:02.780 of course you're trying to censor Rogan. And by the way, I don't think censorship is bad in and of

00:29:08.800 itself. I know that on the right now, it's become fashionable in the last five or 10 years to take the

00:29:14.860 position that censorship is always bad. That's not a conservative position. That's not an American

00:29:18.960 position. That's not a coherent position. We censor all sorts of things, very rightly so.

00:29:24.040 We censor snuff films. We should censor, we censor child pornography. That's a good thing.

00:29:28.600 We censor obscenity more broadly. We censor certain words. You're not allowed to say

00:29:32.380 certain ugly, profane words in polite company. We always do that. We censor it in schools,

00:29:37.180 in homes, in businesses, in the public square. We always censor stuff. Every society censors stuff.

00:29:42.300 It was the libs in the 1960s who pretended that censorship is bad in and of itself. And it was

00:29:48.720 the conservatives who said, what the hell are you talking about? Every society in history

00:29:51.560 censors certain things. You don't want to censor everything. You don't want to have

00:29:54.820 an overbearing authoritarian kind of censorship regime. But yeah, we're going to have standards.

00:29:59.740 We're going to have taboos. And they said, no, you got to get rid of all that. So then we got rid

00:30:02.440 of all that. And then what happens? Two seconds later, the minute they destroy our standards,

00:30:06.100 they erect their own standards and start censoring us. They never meant it. It was always just a,

00:30:12.060 it was always just an operation. It was always just a tool for them to come in and reshape the

00:30:17.480 culture. David, you want to censor Joe Rogan, who I'm sure you've never listened to. Fine. Fine. Okay.

00:30:23.860 You know, you think Joe Rogan violates the standards of the society you want to live in? Okay. I mean,

00:30:28.080 that's insane, but sure. Well, fine. But don't, please do not relieve yourself on my leg and tell me

00:30:34.680 that it's raining. If you want censorship, as everyone does to some degree, then own it,

00:30:39.020 admit it, and tell us what you want to censor. Speaking of limits and education, Glenn Youngkin,

00:30:46.960 absolutely crushing it. The new governor of Virginia, killing it along with the attorney

00:30:51.480 general who's doing a great job and the superintendent of public instruction also doing a great job.

00:30:56.380 They have now asked a court to let them become plaintiffs along with parents who are suing Loudoun

00:31:07.060 County public schools. So now the governor, the attorney general, and the head of education are all

00:31:12.520 going to sue the Loudoun County public schools along with the parents. They're going to join the parents

00:31:18.500 to sue the schools to get the schools to stop forcing the kids to wear those stupid masks. 1.00

00:31:24.040 Youngkin issued an executive order saying that parents had the right to choose whether their 1.00

00:31:30.160 children must wear masks at school or not. The liberal schools have refused to follow it.

00:31:36.080 They claim that they don't need to follow executive orders. Now Glenn Youngkin is wielding the power of

00:31:40.880 the state to remove the free choice of the school districts. And I think that's awesome. Some squishes

00:31:46.740 are going to say, no, this is bad. We need to let the schools do whatever the schools want. It's not,

00:31:51.640 this is an overreach on the part of the state. I disagree. We are living in a time now where the

00:31:56.720 left is wielding a ton of political power and the right, because of silly notions of, of government 0.69

00:32:03.440 and very silly ideologies have completely surrendered political power. That's bad. We need to follow 0.75

00:32:09.080 the Conan the Barbarian strategy here when we're talking about politics. Conan, what is best in political

00:32:15.820 life? Wrong! Conan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you,

00:32:25.300 and to hear a lamentation of the women. That is good. That is good. Here, here. I wish I could vote

00:32:31.620 for that guy for governor. Not Schwarzenegger, but Conan the Barbarian. The, what, I, I want to have a

00:32:36.820 caveat here. The, really the best thing that we want is a civilized, orderly, reasonable government

00:32:43.160 that is conducive toward the good. It shuts out, it suppresses the bad, and it leads to human

00:32:48.560 flourishing. That's what we want. We want to be very, very reasonable. That doesn't mean that there

00:32:53.220 are no limits here whatsoever. And when your political opponents are being completely unreasonable and

00:32:57.320 wielding power unreasonably, you need to wield power too. Justly, morally, absolutely, but you gotta

00:33:03.440 wield it. And you want to hear the lamentations of your political opponents. You know, next Thursday,

00:33:08.900 February 10th, will be the world premiere of Shut In, Daily Wire's first original film. It's at 9 p.m.

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00:33:43.500 Two, three, four, three, four, three, four.

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00:34:20.680 I can smell the weakness from here

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00:34:47.680 What good is this to me now?

00:34:50.680 You had your way

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00:34:59.680 Now you must pay

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00:36:02.760 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:36:15.920 Welcome back to my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:36:20.620 First question up from Elijah.

00:36:22.940 Elijah, esteemed puzzle master, I need some comment on the tragic news this week that the New York Times has acquired Wordle.

00:36:31.020 I fear our days of posting our gray, yellow, and green squares on social media are numbered.

00:36:37.200 Sincerely, a fellow Wordle addict.

00:36:40.580 Here is my thought, Elijah.

00:36:44.180 Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.

00:36:48.440 Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour.

00:36:51.480 Then leaf subsides to leaf.

00:36:54.160 So Eden sank to grief.

00:36:56.820 So dawn goes down to day.

00:37:00.120 Nothing gold can stay.

00:37:02.600 Next question from Landry.

00:37:06.340 Hey, Michael.

00:37:07.200 I wanted to know your take on this.

00:37:09.860 Is there anything worse than death?

00:37:11.780 On one hand, I think yes.

00:37:13.880 You can have torture, which can physically hurt more than death.

00:37:17.280 But should we only take the physical part into account?

00:37:19.480 Sincerely, just a guy who wants to see peace between Knowles and Shapiro.

00:37:21.960 Yeah, there are things worse than death.

00:37:25.780 Death is very bad.

00:37:26.820 I don't want to say that death is not bad.

00:37:29.220 It's a punishment for original sin.

00:37:32.340 It's the consequence of original sin.

00:37:35.100 In a way, you might say it's sort of a blessing in a world that's fallen.

00:37:41.540 But everyone's going to die.

00:37:44.800 There are things that are worse than death.

00:37:47.420 You say that torture seems like it would be worse than death because it has more physical pain.

00:37:52.960 But I don't think that physical pain is the worst thing in the world.

00:37:55.940 I don't think that physical pain is worse than death.

00:37:58.020 I think the thing that is worse than death is eternal damnation.

00:38:02.440 I think, I know this is a sort of a crazy, obscure point of view these days in our modern,

00:38:09.240 secular, materialist world.

00:38:11.180 But I think that human beings have souls.

00:38:13.560 And I think that we are part physical, but also part spiritual.

00:38:18.900 And I think that our spirit has an eternal destination.

00:38:23.980 And furthermore, I believe in the resurrection.

00:38:26.300 I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come.

00:38:29.980 And I think that there is justice in the world.

00:38:31.880 And I think that there is a moral order.

00:38:34.240 And we will be held to account for the things that we have done.

00:38:37.560 For what we've done in our thoughts and in our words.

00:38:39.860 And what we've done and what we've failed to do through our most grievous fault.

00:38:44.180 And I think that there is an off-ramp.

00:38:46.980 I think there's an off-ramp to salvation offered by Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

00:38:51.220 And I'm laughing about it because this is so basic.

00:38:55.400 And this is the sort of thing that created Western civilization.

00:38:58.980 And now if you say it to people, they look at you like you've got three heads. 0.97

00:39:02.420 They look at you like you're completely crazy.

00:39:03.960 If you look at people today and you say, hey, all of our hopes and joys and dreams and our intuitions of the moral world and the idea that there is justice and our natural human longing for and knowledge of God who can be known with certainty by the light of reason from the natural world.

00:39:25.960 And I don't think that's just an illusion.

00:39:29.240 I don't think it's all just fake because some synapses are firing off in our brain.

00:39:34.260 I don't think that we're really just worm food.

00:39:36.560 I don't think that petting a little puppy on a nice summer day is the same thing as killing a bunch of babies.

00:39:43.820 I don't think it's all just like stuff and flesh.

00:39:46.460 Here's a good example.

00:39:47.360 I don't think that consensual sex between a married couple and rape is the same thing.

00:39:55.740 Physically, it looks basically like the same thing.

00:39:59.300 The physical action is the same, but I don't think they're the same thing because I think there is a spiritual world because I think there's more.

00:40:04.160 There's more to life that matters than just matter.

00:40:07.300 So, yes, there are things that are worse than death, though you will die.

00:40:10.760 So get ready for it. 0.56

00:40:12.160 Make sure you're ready to die.

00:40:13.840 Life is a preparation for death in many ways.

00:40:17.000 On that note, no, I'm kidding.

00:40:18.320 There's more.

00:40:18.780 From Jessica.

00:40:19.340 Hey, Michael, I recently have reentered the dating world.

00:40:22.360 I will pause for the flood of comments in the subscriber section to settle down as they all want a chance with me.

00:40:27.880 Fair enough.

00:40:29.060 Anyway, I was wondering what your thoughts are on dating multiple people at once.

00:40:33.540 When you first start going on dates and start to like someone, should you force yourself to date other people simultaneously, even if you like one person?

00:40:41.760 I hear advice about dating multiple people at once to not only keep your options open, but to make sure you don't seem desperate or needy.

00:40:47.580 Should I force myself to keep finding and talking to other guys when dating and until it's exclusive?

00:40:53.560 Sincerely, do I need a deep bench?

00:40:54.840 This is a really good question because the short answer is no, but the longer answer is maybe, by which I mean, no, you don't need to go and spend all your time flirting with all these other guys that you're not really interested in just because of this terrible fear that the guy that you are interested in might not like you quite as much.

00:41:17.720 And so you might be left alone for a couple of weeks and that's unacceptable, so you've got to be playing the field and whether that means going out to dinner or whether that means something a little more invasive, you know, that would, no, I don't think you need to do that.

00:41:31.560 However, your point here about not seeming too needy or wanting the guy maybe to know that you're dating other people so that he likes you more or feels greater urgency to seal the deal.

00:41:45.960 That's a very legitimate intuition.

00:41:50.280 The way that desire works, I mentioned this name on the show months ago, Rene Girard, he was this sociologist who has this idea of desire as being mimetic, meaning we imitate others' desires.

00:42:02.340 The reason that you want the Leftist Tears Tumblr is not merely because it is a beautiful vessel filled to the brim with delicious, salty Leftist Tears.

00:42:11.860 At a deeper level, the reason you want the Leftist Tears Tumblr is because other people want the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:42:19.240 You see that other people want it and you imitate that desire.

00:42:23.140 We don't just imitate people in terms of their behavior, which we all do.

00:42:28.580 Human beings are imitative creatures, right? 0.99

00:42:32.220 I see Dr. Fauci and I see him give some stupid speech and then I imitate him. 1.00

00:42:37.400 I say, well, now listen here, you dirty peasant. 1.00

00:42:39.540 We're doing that because human beings naturally imitate one another. 0.97

00:42:42.240 And how do we learn how to behave?

00:42:43.980 Well, we imitate our parents.

00:42:45.380 We imitate our teachers.

00:42:46.900 We imitate our friends.

00:42:48.020 This is why people say you are known by the friends you keep because the people you spend the most time with, you're just naturally going to imitate them because that's how human beings are.

00:42:56.000 Well, the same is true not just for our behavior but for our desires.

00:42:58.880 You actually desire the things that the people that you admire and the people you spend time with desire.

00:43:06.240 They shape not only the way you act but your desires as well.

00:43:11.160 And so you see this in love affairs because, and I promise you every guy, at least every guy and probably every woman out there, I actually think this is true regardless of sex.

00:43:23.840 If you're interested in someone, you think, okay, I like, that girl's pretty cute and I like that girl.

00:43:29.380 She's kind of cute too and whatever. 0.98

00:43:30.660 Maybe I'll, you know, maybe I'll try it out and date a few people.

00:43:32.920 And then you notice that a bunch of other guys are trying to date that, that first girl.

00:43:36.940 You are going to desire that first girl even more.

00:43:41.240 Same thing with the guys.

00:43:42.480 You'll notice this.

00:43:43.460 I noticed this in my single life.

00:43:44.840 There were times, if I was, you know, lucky with the ladies, if I was a period of time where lots of gals were interested in me, more and more gals would be interested in me. 1.00

00:43:57.340 But if it was a period of time where I was not dating people, then many fewer people were interested in me.

00:44:02.880 And this is true for, I'm sure you have experienced this in your own life.

00:44:06.680 You know, this is kind of what happens in the petri dish of colleges or in, you know, cities.

00:44:12.180 Why is that?

00:44:13.280 Why do these things come in waves?

00:44:14.380 Because we imitate one another's desires.

00:44:17.060 So as a tactical matter, this is why women send flowers to themselves, right? 1.00

00:44:23.060 To make, to trick other guys and make them think that others are interested in them.

00:44:26.860 So, you know, as a tactical matter, maybe.

00:44:29.320 But, you know, preserve your modesty, darling.

00:44:31.280 Don't preserve your virtue.

00:44:32.760 From Nicole.

00:44:33.700 Dear Mr. Knowles, I am a big fan of your podcast and your book, Speech.

00:44:36.680 Thank you.

00:44:37.400 However, something you said on All Access Live really startled me.

00:44:40.900 You said that women can reform men. 0.99

00:44:43.120 Am I to believe that you think a woman can or should date a man with the intention of changing him? 1.00

00:44:49.720 This is something I don't think is possible or healthy.

00:44:52.160 Sincerely, I came for Ben.

00:44:53.300 Stayed for Knowles.

00:44:54.260 Subscribe for Klavan.

00:44:55.260 Fair enough.

00:44:56.020 Fair enough.

00:44:58.020 I don't just think it can happen.

00:45:00.400 I think it inevitably happens.

00:45:02.560 And actually, I guess my previous answer is,

00:45:04.860 this was a great transition into this answer.

00:45:07.660 We naturally shape the people that we are with.

00:45:12.020 That's just how human nature works. 0.95

00:45:14.520 So, I'm not saying, you know, if you're going to get married to some degenerate, abusive guy, 0.83

00:45:20.580 I'm not saying I can change him and you'll totally reform him. 0.89

00:45:24.040 But he will change.

00:45:26.240 People grow together or they grow apart.

00:45:28.000 They do shape one another.

00:45:30.120 And so, yeah, that will happen.

00:45:32.900 When men are bachelors, they live like bachelors, almost without exception.

00:45:36.780 They don't do their laundry as much as they should.

00:45:38.720 They don't cook as much as they should.

00:45:40.120 They don't clean as much as they should.

00:45:41.680 They don't sleep as well as they should.

00:45:43.360 They go out too much.

00:45:44.520 That's just what they do.

00:45:45.820 Maybe they play too many video games.

00:45:47.560 And then you get married and you stop that stuff or you greatly reduce it or you change the way you behave.

00:45:52.400 That's inevitable.

00:45:54.140 And that's one of the reasons that people get married is to move on with their lives and to grow and to develop.

00:45:59.160 From Maddie.

00:46:00.160 Hey, Michael.

00:46:01.320 Recently, someone told me that they think romance novels, movies, etc. are as bad to women as porn is to men.

00:46:07.260 While these two are not on the same level for obvious reasons,

00:46:09.660 it did make me think about the TikTok trend talking about the appeal of men written by women.

00:46:15.780 Do you think growing up watching movies like Pride and Prejudice and the Titanic gives women unrealistic hopes?

00:46:21.940 That is, do I need to leave the romance to fiction and just settle down with someone practical?

00:46:27.920 No, I don't think so.

00:46:29.940 I think we live in a culture right now where men have been particularly degraded by the educational system,

00:46:37.620 by the culture, by the licentiousness throughout the society that's now tolerated by the government,

00:46:42.800 and by women who are willing to give them the milk for free. 0.99

00:46:48.280 And so they have no particular incentive, at least at the material level, to go buy the cow.

00:46:55.740 So I don't think it's wrong for women to aim for something higher than just some loaf, couch, potato, 1.00

00:47:02.980 idiot man who has no ambition and just eats potato chips all day. 1.00

00:47:06.420 I think you can aim higher. 1.00

00:47:08.440 But the one thing I would recommend is maybe you want your Mr. Darcy, to use your Pride and Prejudice reference.

00:47:15.880 You want a man like Mr. Darcy.

00:47:18.060 But don't make an idol out of Mr. Darcy.

00:47:21.040 I'm actually going to take it out of the realm of romance for a second and put it into the realm of your career.

00:47:25.920 This might be a little easier to understand.

00:47:27.520 And people have heroes.

00:47:31.680 People, when they think about their life and their career, they say, I want to be like Ronald Reagan.

00:47:37.700 I want to be like, I don't know, Elon Musk.

00:47:40.940 I want to be like Donald Trump.

00:47:42.640 I want to be.

00:47:43.740 And that's good.

00:47:44.640 It's good to have those goals in mind and to say, okay, he did this.

00:47:47.740 So maybe I should do something like this or this, that, or the other thing.

00:47:50.560 But you can't just replicate someone else's career.

00:47:53.420 You're not just going to be Ronald Reagan and do all the things Ronald Reagan did.

00:47:56.800 Or you're not just going to do all the things Elon Musk did.

00:48:01.080 You're not just going to, you're not going to get exactly Mr. Darcy.

00:48:05.220 Okay.

00:48:06.060 It's good to have the, these virtues in mind and these good habits in mind and these good attributes in mind.

00:48:13.440 But when you make an idol out of them, then you really are living in a fantasy and then you really will be disappointed.

00:48:19.520 From Ava.

00:48:20.280 Michael, I'm 14 years old.

00:48:21.820 No, wow.

00:48:22.620 This is, I love that we are just completely corrupting the youth away from the extremely corrupt modern culture and toward something a little more conservative.

00:48:33.800 That's great.

00:48:34.260 Thank you, Ava.

00:48:35.620 14 years old.

00:48:36.460 No friends.

00:48:37.040 Sorry to hear that.

00:48:37.860 Homeschooled for two years now.

00:48:39.300 No reliable means of travel.

00:48:40.560 Very untrusting parents.

00:48:42.500 I converted to Catholicism after hearing you talk more and more about it.

00:48:45.540 And because of you, I was turned to God and I am now a better educated and pretty established Catholic.

00:48:50.800 Wow.

00:48:51.060 Great news.

00:48:51.520 That's so wonderful to hear.

00:48:52.440 That's terrific.

00:48:53.620 My issue is that my family does not approve.

00:48:55.900 My mom has made fun of the faith, bribed me to leave the Catholic faith behind, and has not taken me to another church since she mocked my first mass.

00:49:03.740 That's unfortunate.

00:49:05.100 It's made me very nervous about my standing with God, knowing that I have no way to go to confession or even do an RCIA program so I can get baptized.

00:49:12.900 The only way I'm able to practice at the moment is my rosary, which I was able to buy online.

00:49:18.140 I have since never wanted to say a word about my religion to my family because they reject it.

00:49:22.540 It makes it hard for me worrying about the states of their souls as well.

00:49:26.220 What should I do?

00:49:27.360 Keep pushing to go to a church, preferably a Latin mass, or just wait until I turn 16 and can drive myself.

00:49:32.060 Please help.

00:49:32.620 Long question, but yeah, a really tough predicament that you are in.

00:49:35.680 The one thing I would say if you're really worried about the state of your soul is to remember that you have limitations put on you right now, and that's just the way of the world.

00:49:45.720 I'll give you an example of a little-known fella, goes by the name of St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:49:51.160 Maybe you heard of him.

00:49:52.760 Thomas Aquinas wanted to join the Dominican order.

00:49:57.420 I think his parents wanted him to join the Abbasi, but he wanted to become a Dominican.

00:50:01.440 Parents were really upset about this.

00:50:02.600 They kidnapped him, they locked him in a tower, they sent loose women to try to, at least according to legend, to try to loosen him up, you know, and they tried to persuade him not to join the Abbasi, not to become a Dominican. 0.90

00:50:16.780 He held firm when he was finally able to break out.

00:50:19.200 He did that.

00:50:19.920 There is also, you haven't been baptized, you say, there is such a thing, according to St. Thomas Aquinas and the tradition of Holy Mother Church, of baptism of desire.

00:50:28.680 However, this is not to say that you shouldn't get baptized the first chance you can, to have a real baptism in real life with your real physical body, but there is such a thing as baptism of desire.

00:50:39.200 This was true for the catechumens, people who wanted to get into the church but had not yet been baptized.

00:50:43.400 If they were martyred, for instance, the tradition of the church says, yes, absolutely, there is such a baptism that takes place even before the physical, actual sacramental baptism.

00:50:56.100 So, I think you're okay in that regard.

00:50:59.160 I would, you know, right now, pray the rosary.

00:51:02.940 You can stream masses, if you like.

00:51:05.820 It's not ideal, but you can do it.

00:51:07.540 You can read a lot, watch videos, grow in your faith, pray, pray for your family, try to work this thing out.

00:51:14.220 Sometimes they get a little shocked when people convert.

00:51:17.400 And then look forward with hope, which is a theological virtue, toward the future.

00:51:21.240 We can do that, certainly, in our spiritual life, and I think everyone can do that in our political life as well.

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Ep. 937 - ＂Racism＂ Is The Left's Weapon Of War

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