The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Last week on this show, I mentioned in passing something that I called the Michael Knowles

00:00:05.680 Public Health Protection Pledge. What I said was, I would not vote for any candidate for

00:00:12.380 federal office in 2022 who did not sign a pledge agreeing to two things. One,

00:00:17.580 subpoena and investigate Anthony Fauci for his incompetence and deception and potential

00:00:22.700 corruption on COVID. And two, zero out his salary. You can't fire him exactly if you're

00:00:28.960 in Congress, but you can have the power of the purse and zero out that salary. So those two

00:00:33.560 promises had to be met in order to get my vote. And I said, you shouldn't vote for people who

00:00:39.300 refuse to sign on to that either. So then a congressional candidate, Bo Hines, came out

00:00:43.480 and he said, hey, Michael, I love the pledge. I had my staff write it up and I signed on to it.

00:00:47.720 I said, well, Bo, that's awesome, man. So I posted it. A bunch of dozens of other congressional

00:00:52.780 candidates signed on as well. But there weren't incumbents. Where were the sitting members of

00:00:59.320 Congress? Very often incumbent politicians don't want to sign on to pledges because they don't want

00:01:03.780 to have to be held accountable. So I said, okay, well, we'll see. Just, you know, look, this is the

00:01:07.400 bare minimum, I think, for any Republican running for federal office. If you don't realize what a

00:01:12.920 danger Dr. Fauci is and everything Dr. Fauci represents and the power he wields, if you don't

00:01:19.020 recognize what a threat that is to self-government, then you're useless. I'm not going to vote for you.

00:01:23.000 You don't deserve our vote. I get a message yesterday, two days ago from Congressman Paul

00:01:29.500 Gosar, very strong, conservative, rock-ribbed kind of Republican, willing to stand up. He says,

00:01:37.160 Michael, I've just introduced the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge into Congress as an

00:01:44.120 official House resolution. Here we have House concurrent resolution 71 expressing the sense of

00:01:53.080 Congress that Congress should issue a subpoena to Dr. Anthony Fauci and reduce the salary of the

00:01:58.020 director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to

00:02:02.680 the president resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring. It is the sense of Congress

00:02:07.640 that one, Congress should issue a subpoena to Dr. Fauci with the intent of investigating A, the extent of

00:02:13.140 any corrupt activities to which he may be party with respect to COVID-19, and B, the deception,

00:02:17.980 misinformation, and numerous lies reported to Congress and the American people throughout the

00:02:22.320 COVID pandemic. And two, the Speaker of the House of Representatives should reinstate the Holman rule.

00:02:27.860 The Holman rule is the rule that allows Congress to go in and zero out salaries of particular

00:02:33.220 bureaucrats. Reinstate the Holman rule and provide expeditious consideration of legislation that reduces

00:02:38.400 the salary of aforementioned Dr. Fauci to zero dollars and zero cents. Here it is, baby,

00:02:44.240 made it all the way to Congress. This is the federal public health protection pledge. It is there.

00:02:49.960 Your congressman can co-sponsor this right now. I want you to go, whatever platform you're listening on,

00:02:56.080 whatever platform you're watching on, go out, tag your member of Congress, email your member of Congress,

00:03:03.160 tell him to sign on as a co-sponsor, and together we can rid ourselves of that power-mad, dishonest,

00:03:11.140 incompetent technocrat tyrant, Anthony Fauci. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:15.720 The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:45.720 Not just whatever was in that closet, but lots of other things to protect, especially your family,

00:03:50.440 which is why you got to go check out Ring. You all know about the Ring video doorbell. You know

00:03:54.660 because I've told you about it for many years. That's that amazing doorbell where you can see

00:03:58.620 and speak to whoever is at your doorstep, whether you're in the house, whether you're at the office,

00:04:03.460 whether you're on a beach on the other side of the world. Did you know that Ring also makes an

00:04:07.500 alarm? Ring Alarm is an award-winning home security kit with available professional monitoring.

00:04:11.980 Best of all, you can easily install it yourself. I find it so simple that even I can do it,

00:04:19.900 which is really, really amazing. You get notified right on your phone whenever anything is detected.

00:04:25.400 I really, really, really like Ring. It not only makes me feel safe when I'm away and sweet little

00:04:31.240 Lisa and the baby are home, but even when we're all away. And you're not just protecting your home

00:04:35.340 against the bad guys. You're protecting your home against flood, freeze, and fire too. Head on over

00:04:41.980 get Ring's award-winning professional monitoring. Go to ring.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. That is

00:04:49.660 ring.com slash Knowles to get a great deal on a Ring Alarm Home Security Kit today. Ring.com slash Knowles.

00:04:56.000 The crack pipe story is the single funniest political story I have seen in years. The fact

00:05:04.460 that the government is promising to advance racial equity by giving out crack pipes is just so freaking

00:05:17.340 funny, I can't handle it. It has become a major political firestorm for the Biden White House.

00:05:24.760 A lot of Biden officials now have had to come out, issue clarifications, have emergency press conferences.

00:05:29.420 Let's check in right now with the director of the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:05:35.220 You and them magic markers, what you think this is, some kind of cram? No, take that cap off and

00:05:40.120 sniff it and you'll be high. These little ones are 10 and 11 years old. You, you know what dog food

00:05:49.980 tastes like, do you? It tastes just like it smells. Delicious. There he is, the Secretary of Health and

00:05:58.860 Human Services, Tyrone Biggins. It would make sense now. The policy now makes sense. I, who,

00:06:05.040 we could never have guessed that the Secretary would be a crackhead himself. The other Biden

00:06:09.820 officials, Secretary Xavier Becerra, other science advisors at the White House, they've come out

00:06:15.340 and they've said, no, this, no, no crack pipes. But the wording is so careful here. The White House

00:06:23.180 denied that there was ever a policy to give out crack pipes. The Secretary of Health and Human

00:06:30.020 Services was a little more careful because the fact is there was a policy to give out crack pipes,

00:06:35.460 but now they obviously don't want that policy. So he said, quote, no federal funding will be used

00:06:41.960 directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits. So he's

00:06:49.020 not denying that there was going to be federal funding for the crack pipes. He's just saying,

00:06:53.820 look, now we are not going to have, there will not be crack pipes in the crack smoking kits,

00:07:00.220 which raises a question. How does the government expect the crackheads to smoke the crack

00:07:08.800 without the crack pipes? If the, if the point of the policy is to give out safe smoking kits,

00:07:14.700 how are you going to smoke if you don't have the single most important instrument for smoking?

00:07:21.740 I mean that sincerely. What it shows you is that they're just scrambling right now. They don't

00:07:26.680 have an explanation. The other ways they could, I guess they could include rolling papers. I don't

00:07:32.280 think you smoke crack with, I don't know, I don't have experience with this, but even if it were

00:07:36.240 rolling papers, you, you don't need rolling papers as a matter of public health, right? It's not as

00:07:42.300 though people are going around sharing rolling papers. Once you use the rolling papers, they're

00:07:47.160 gone, they're burnt up. So it's, you wouldn't, wouldn't be that. They could be giving tobacco

00:07:51.940 leaves to roll big fat blunts, I guess. I don't, again, I don't know. This is not my area of expertise,

00:07:57.540 but again, that would burn up. They could give out bongs. I don't know. Do you smoke crack in a

00:08:03.320 bomb? Well, that would be a pipe too. And they're saying there are no pipes in the safe smoke.

00:08:07.280 How can you call it a smoking kit, safe or otherwise, if it doesn't include the thing

00:08:15.640 that you need to smoke? This, this smoking kits include all sorts of other things as well,

00:08:21.420 but, but those other things all kind of relate back to the pipe. So they're very confused over

00:08:28.760 there at the White House. The most incredible thing about this whole crackhead episode is how

00:08:34.680 desperately all of the different facets of the political establishment, by which I'm including

00:08:41.100 the media, I'm including big tech here, obviously the government, how they're all working together

00:08:45.500 to try to tamp down this story because it's generating tons of bad press, tons of bad press

00:08:52.680 from us, from the conservatives over this, tons of bad, tons of jokes from ordinary people about this.

00:08:58.080 My wife right now, my wife is, is traveling and seeing her family. She's at a hotel right now.

00:09:03.220 She said this morning, she walks outside and she hears one hotel worker say to another hotel

00:09:09.420 worker, Hey man, you hear we're all about to get some free crack pipes in the mail? And they're all,

00:09:14.360 all laughing about this. So Biden and his entire administration is a laughingstock.

00:09:20.440 The establishment is going into overdrive to, to try to tamp this down. Notably the fact

00:09:27.360 checking website, Snopes. Fact checking is, it's not actually fact checking. It's just a way that

00:09:35.220 the left rebranded leftist opinion columns, maybe 10 or 11 years ago to try to make them

00:09:42.120 absolutely incontrovertible. So it would have, it would just be regular left wing opinion columns,

00:09:47.080 but they'd say, this is a fact check, fact check. Republicans are wrong about everything.

00:09:50.780 10 Pinocchios facts, right? So Snopes adjudicates the claim. The claim is in early 2022,

00:09:59.700 the Biden administration endeavored to advance racial equity by distributing crack pipes to users.

00:10:06.340 Mostly false, Snopes says. Okay, well, what's true? What's false? Snopes says, what's true?

00:10:11.640 In 2022, a U S department of health and human services, substance abuse harm reduction grant

00:10:16.240 did require participants to provide safer smoking kits to existing drug users.

00:10:22.600 Huh? Okay. So it sounds, it sounds like the crack pipe thing is true, but okay. It goes on and says,

00:10:28.460 in distributing the grants, priority would be given to applicants serving historically underserved

00:10:32.000 communities. Okay. So it's however, okay. What's false? What's false is this was just one of around

00:10:39.180 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the

00:10:45.120 primary focus of outrage news reports. Hold on. So you're telling me it's true. It's true that Biden

00:10:50.600 was sending crack pipes to people, but, but Biden was also doing other things. So therefore it's not

00:10:57.940 true that, but you just said it's true that he did that. We're not saying he didn't ever do any other

00:11:02.460 things. I'm sure he had breakfast too. We're not, but he did this, right? Okay. What about the racial

00:11:07.320 equity part? Well, Snopes says, what's false? The purpose of the program was to reduce harm

00:11:12.740 and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity. Although that was a

00:11:19.080 secondary consideration. So you're saying that was a purpose of it. The two claims here were

00:11:25.200 Biden sending out crack pipes and he's doing it to advance racial equity. And you're saying what's

00:11:30.700 true? All of that. What's false? None of that. It's all just completely true. Therefore we conclude

00:11:36.500 mostly false 75 Pinocchios, please Republicans stop making fun of us. They just,

00:11:42.360 the establishment needs some relief. And when you need relief, I would strongly recommend you check

00:11:47.200 out Relief Band. Did you know that one out of three Americans regularly suffer from nausea?

00:11:53.520 We have all experienced that horrible feeling, whether it's in the backseat of a car, staring at

00:11:57.600 your phone after one too many Coca-Colas on a night out with friends, or even just the anxiety of a

00:12:03.800 workday. You've got to check out Relief Band. It's the number one FDA cleared anti-nausea wristband

00:12:08.720 that has been clinically proven to quickly relieve and effectively prevent nausea and vomiting

00:12:13.360 associated with motion sickness, anxiety, migraines, hangovers, morning sickness, chemotherapy,

00:12:19.260 and a lot more. The technology was originally developed over 20 years ago in hospitals to

00:12:24.560 relieve nausea from patients. Now through Relief Band, it's available to everyone. The product is

00:12:30.260 100% drug-free, non-drowsy. It provides all natural, long-lasting relief with zero side effects

00:12:36.140 for as long as needed. They just released their newest model, Relief Band Sport. The

00:12:41.400 Sport is waterproof, has an extended battery life, can even attach to your Apple or Android

00:12:45.540 watch. Go get it right now. They make a great gift any time of year. You're getting an exclusive

00:12:50.340 offer just for our listeners. If you go to reliefband.com, use promo code Knowles, get 20%

00:12:55.820 off plus free shipping, and a no-questions-ask 30-day money-back guarantee. Best offer you'll find for

00:13:00.380 Relief Band anywhere. Got to use my code, R-E-L-I-E-F-B-A-N-D.com. Promo code Knowles for

00:13:05.660 20% off plus free shipping. It's unbelievable to look at the, I hope people take a screenshot

00:13:12.340 of this page on Snopes. They'll need to because they've already changed it. It was, not only were

00:13:18.780 we in a position where the Biden policy was the mockery of the entire country, but then the

00:13:24.620 desperate attempts by the establishment to alternately deny and defend the policy, right?

00:13:30.860 On the one hand, they say this isn't happening. It's not true. But on the other hand, yes, it's also,

00:13:33.920 it's great. It's good. It's very important to, to do that. Uh, that, that became the mockery too.

00:13:41.160 And so Snopes had to just completely, completely change course. And they did. They now say it's

00:13:47.860 outdated. This is the new Snopes conclusion here. Outdated context after a wave of grossly misleading

00:13:58.200 news coverage in February, 2022, the U S health and department of health and human services stipulated

00:14:03.520 that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits as part of substance abuse

00:14:08.740 harm reduction program. This newly stipulated detail was not originally available. Yeah. Cause it wasn't

00:14:14.860 true. Then they changed their mind and backtracked because it was a laughingstock, meaning the assertions

00:14:20.020 made in a first wave of coverage had become outdated. They're not outdated. They're not,

00:14:24.500 they're not. The claim is in early 2022, the Biden administration tried to advance racial equity by

00:14:31.580 sending out crack pipes. That remains true. Even though Biden ditched the ridiculous laughingstock

00:14:38.320 policy, that still happened. You can't deny that that happened Snopes. Well, they're trying to deny

00:14:43.760 that it happened, but it did. It's so funny. If you read the original Snopes report, after they say this

00:14:49.180 wasn't really true, they, they then go to defend the policy. They say it's perfectly logical as a

00:14:55.220 matter of harm reduction to send crack pipes to drug addicts. I don't know what definition of logical

00:15:02.580 they're working. It doesn't seem logical to me to send crack heads, crack pipes, but they say, no,

00:15:07.280 it's great. It's, it's not, it's both not happening and it's awesome that it's happening. And now they say

00:15:12.060 it never happened at all. Forget about it. Why are they doing this? A lot of people are scratching their

00:15:16.940 heads. Why, why walk into this? Why is Snopes tying itself into these, these illogical pretzels

00:15:23.500 to try to defend and deny this Biden policy? There's a real purpose. It's not just because

00:15:29.260 they really liked Joe Biden. It's not just because there are leftists at Snopes. The reason they're

00:15:35.440 doing this is to censor conservatives who are making fun of the policy because Snopes and other leftist

00:15:43.060 fact-checking websites are used by social media directly through the algorithms of these social

00:15:50.280 media companies to suppress what they call misinformation, which in this case is just called

00:15:56.400 information, just truthful information about the policy. So what happens is if you post on Instagram

00:16:04.380 or Facebook or Twitter or Google or whatever, if you post about this policy and Snopes has come in

00:16:10.520 there and said, this is a false claim. Yeah, we acknowledge it's all true, but we rate it mostly

00:16:15.940 false. Then social media companies will suppress what you're writing. If a website, if a news website

00:16:22.120 like the Daily Wire publishes articles about this policy, this very real policy and Snopes comes in and

00:16:31.940 says, no, even though everything they say is true, we write it mostly false. The website's going to get

00:16:36.020 dinged. The website's going to show up less on search engines. The website's going to get much

00:16:40.180 less play on social media. The website's traffic is going to collapse. The website's money is going

00:16:44.700 to collapse. It's just a way to censor and suppress conservatives. And so we can laugh at them.

00:16:50.600 We can say, oh, Snopes, you look like a bunch of idiots just carrying water saying things that are

00:16:54.040 obviously untrue. But who's getting the last laugh on this? It's actually the left. It's actually the

00:16:59.680 Democrats are getting the last laugh because they are pretty effectively suppressing conservatives on the

00:17:05.320 internet. Speaking of censorship on the internet, Donald Trump, very sadly, was kicked off of social

00:17:12.660 media while he was still the duly elected sitting president of the United States. These big tech

00:17:18.160 oligarchs censored him, just booted him from the public square. And so we don't get all of his

00:17:22.200 charming and wonderful tweets all the time. What he is doing now is releasing press releases that then

00:17:28.580 all the rest of us tweet around and the press releases read like tweets. So Trump has weighed in on

00:17:33.400 this issue, which is obviously close to his heart, social media censorship. He's weighed in on the

00:17:37.840 censorship of Joe Rogan. He says, quote, Joe Rogan is an interesting and popular guy, but he's got to

00:17:45.280 stop apologizing to the fake news and radical left maniacs and lunatics. How many ways can you say you're

00:17:52.020 sorry? Joe, just go about what you do so well and don't let them make you look weak and frightened.

00:17:56.640 That's not you and it never will be. I have said for a long time, Donald Trump is a poet. I don't,

00:18:04.840 I don't even mean that as a joke or hyperbole. He has a very good sense of language. He does.

00:18:13.660 When he said he's got the best words, folks, he was sort of right. He's a branding genius. The phrase

00:18:21.440 make America great again, which he borrowed from Reagan, but people had forgotten the phrase,

00:18:24.820 is a very effective slogan. Make America great again. This is generally strong Saxon words. Make

00:18:33.900 America, you know, his name, the country great again. It's just, it gives you an image. And here,

00:18:40.080 when he says the radical left maniacs and lunatics, it just paints a picture for you. When Donald Trump

00:18:46.120 would, would talk about low energy Jeb, little Marco, all these would paint a picture for you.

00:18:51.900 And so that's what he's doing here. He's saying, Joe, don't give in. These people are nuts.

00:18:55.980 They're insane. They're fringy. Don't give it. Don't be frightened. Don't be weak. That's not you.

00:19:01.420 Don't do it. Unfortunately though, Joe Rogan does not appear to want to become the new

00:19:10.160 conservative standard bearer. Okay. He doesn't need to be the guy. He's never styled himself a

00:19:15.900 conservative. He's a comic who is on the left. He was a Bernie Sanders supporter. So, okay,

00:19:23.120 that's fine. You don't want to be the conservative standard bearer. I get it. I get it. I sort of

00:19:27.900 thought there was a chance he, he might be if for no other reason than because he saw how corrupt the

00:19:34.920 liberal establishment is. He saw when they just, when CNN lied about him and said that he was eating

00:19:40.140 horse dewormer. And he said, I'm obviously not doing that. What are you, how are you telling

00:19:43.760 these egregious lies about me without any shame whatsoever? So I was kind of hoping, but it's

00:19:48.900 probably not going to happen. Rogan had been offered a $100 million contract by Rumble, a

00:19:58.300 conservative outlet to leave Spotify. This was the letter from the CEO of Rumble said, look,

00:20:04.980 I get it. One of the reasons Rogan's trying to save the Spotify deal is because Spotify's paying

00:20:09.340 him a hundred million dollars. That's a lot of money. So, you know, easy for you and I to say

00:20:13.260 that maybe we would leave, but you know, what about Rogan? He's got to feed his family. He could

00:20:17.760 feed a small army with a hundred million dollars. So Rumble comes in, they say, we're going to match

00:20:23.600 it. Dollar for dollar, we're going to match it. A hundred million bucks over four years. This is a

00:20:27.300 totally legit deal if you want it or not. I thought it was the perfect offer. It would have

00:20:32.920 allowed Rogan to be, be the best version of the Joe Rogan show, which is uncensored, just conversations

00:20:42.280 with everybody, really engaging content. But he said, look, Spotify stuck by me sort of. And so I'm

00:20:50.420 not, I'm not going to do that. And moreover, if he'd gone to Rumble, it would have, it would have put

00:20:55.460 him much more in a clearly defined right wing space. He doesn't want to do that apparently. Too bad.

00:21:02.920 Would have been great. They're going to continue to censor him. They're already censoring what

00:21:06.820 over a hundred of Joe's episodes. They're already putting disclaimers and warnings on his episodes

00:21:12.600 with conservatives, not on the ones with liberals, just on the ones with conservatives. So that's too

00:21:16.320 bad. I wish him well. I hope that he can survive this. I hope he can maintain the freedom of his show.

00:21:22.420 But I'm, I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. If, if the libs can rewrite the crackhead policy,

00:21:28.480 if the libs can censor Donald Trump, the duly elected sitting president,

00:21:34.120 they've got a lot of power. Okay. And it would be, it would be a shame for the Joe Rogan show,

00:21:39.420 this kind of unique, hugely successful show to just become another, another podcast that falls in line

00:21:48.540 with, with what the establishmentarians tell us to do. It would be, it would be sad if it were to get

00:21:53.700 censored. Now, some things should be censored. And one of those things that should be censored

00:22:00.480 is an Adidas ad that came out yesterday, took over the internet, got everyone talking about it,

00:22:06.540 which I guess was the point I'm talking about it. We're all talking about it. It was an ad that just

00:22:11.220 showed lots and lots of boobs. So I saw this, saw this going around. They said, oh, Adidas is just

00:22:20.040 showing a lot of breasts, dozens of breasts in their ad. And I, I did not search for it. I did

00:22:27.020 not look at the ad because I thought, look, if I look at this, this could be an occasion of sin,

00:22:32.080 right? If I'm going to look at this ad that I'm being told is just a bunch of boobs, then that might

00:22:38.780 arouse impure thoughts in my mind that I might willfully be, I don't want to do that. Okay. That

00:22:45.480 would be, I don't want an occasion of sin because I looked at this Adidas ad, but then look, I had to

00:22:51.060 cover it. Everyone was talking about it. So I said, okay, I'll look at it very quickly. I am happy.

00:22:57.960 Maybe, I'm maybe happy to report the ad is not an occasion of sin because the, the picture,

00:23:06.000 the pictures don't look great. Okay. I don't, I don't want to be offensive to the models and it's

00:23:10.100 not, they didn't, the, the, the modeling community is not sending their best. The Adidas ad

00:23:16.800 was physically about as unattractive as an ad could be. They, they, I think they need to hire a

00:23:26.980 new advertising team over there. When you want to hire new employees, I would recommend you go check

00:23:31.900 out Zip Recruiter. According to the latest research, 90% of employers plan to make enhancing

00:23:36.900 the employee experience a top priority in 2022. A happy workplace is key to attracting and keeping

00:23:43.120 great employees. We're talking about focusing on company culture. We're talking about allowing

00:23:48.220 more flexibility in work schedules. In my own case, Ben has promised that he will send me a paycheck now,

00:23:53.720 which is great. That would be a great change of, of course. If you need to add more employees to

00:23:58.880 your team, there is Zip Recruiter. Their matching technology helps you find the right people for your

00:24:03.080 roles fast. Right now, you can try Zip Recruiter for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash Knowles,

00:24:08.960 K-N-W-L-E-S. Zip Recruiter uses powerful matching technology to find those candidates for your job.

00:24:15.580 Then it proactively presents the candidates to you. We're not just talking about throwing spaghetti at

00:24:20.420 the wall here. We're talking about going out and getting you the best candidates. Right now,

00:24:24.920 you can find the right employees for your workplace with Zip Recruiter. Try it for free

00:24:29.080 at this exclusive web address, ZipRecruiter.com slash Knowles. That is ZipRecruiter.com

00:24:34.060 slash K-N-W-L-E-S. Zip Recruiter, the smartest way to hire. You know, tonight is a huge night for

00:24:42.040 The Daily Wire. Why? Not only is it the world premiere of our first original film, Shut In,

00:24:48.000 but we will also be releasing two new teaser trailers for new movies that we've got coming

00:24:53.540 out this year. It's not just, we did our first movie, Run, Hide, Fight. We've now got this movie,

00:24:57.920 Shut In. We got a lot more movies coming, okay? We could not be more excited to be making good on

00:25:03.060 our promise of bringing you real entertainment. We really hope you tune in. Check out the trailer

00:25:06.560 for Shut In.

00:25:07.560 Shut In.

00:25:08.560 Lainey, where have you been? Jessica. I can smell the weakness from you.

00:25:16.460 You had your way. No, stop. Let me out, please. Now you must pay. Don't you touch my kids.

00:25:30.880 Your daughter. She's very pretty.

00:25:37.840 I'm scared.

00:25:41.200 The movie premieres tonight, February 10th at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central over at the Daily Wire

00:25:45.740 YouTube channel after this month's episode of Backstage, which starts at 7.30 Eastern,

00:25:50.220 6.30 Central. Make sure to click the link in the description and turn on the notification bell

00:25:54.320 so you do not miss it. We will be right back with a lot more.

00:26:09.680 Adidas, the sneaker company, and I guess they, I assume they make bras or sports bras or otherwise

00:26:15.420 this ad would make no sense. They are now advertising their product by, by publishing

00:26:21.120 intentionally ugly looking boobs. Uncensored, you know, free the nipple, just totally out there.

00:26:32.220 On the one hand, what's good is that it's not, I don't think it's going to arouse lustful thoughts

00:26:37.320 in anybody. I don't think so. I would bet, I would bet a lot of money on that. But on the downside,

00:26:45.320 it is participating in something that I'm noticing pretty much every company participating in now,

00:26:52.160 which is a fascination with ugly things. I'm not even, I'm not saying these women are ugly even,

00:27:02.360 but the photos are intentionally trying to make them look as ugly as they can. They're not, in,

00:27:09.320 in the old days, back when I was a young whippersnapper growing up, models were really,

00:27:15.620 really hot. You look, look around at billboards and it was the hottest women you could possibly see

00:27:20.180 in magazines, in all advertisements. In fact, editors would go in and take already extremely

00:27:27.480 beautiful women and then try to touch them up and airbrush and do this and that to make them look

00:27:33.400 even more beautiful. Companies sold their products by associating the products with beauty.

00:27:40.740 Now, it's almost always the opposite. They're always trying to associate their products with

00:27:45.980 ugliness, with deformities, with grotesque images, with obscenity. It's a, it's a cult of ugliness.

00:27:54.760 It's, I guess a, uh, uh, an analogy here would be how in, in the olden days when we studied

00:28:03.280 history, we would try to, or, or literature for that matter, so much of education would be focused

00:28:09.460 on beautiful things, right? You would focus on good things, not to the entire exclusion of bad

00:28:17.420 things and ugly things, but you would, you would focus on good things and on beauty. Now it's always

00:28:22.120 the opposite. All you ever focus on in history are the sins and the imperfections and the failures.

00:28:27.340 All you ever focus on in literature is ugliness and fallenness and antiheroes. That's all you're

00:28:32.060 getting in the culture. There's no, it's all just, it's all just yuck. That's all we're getting.

00:28:40.620 This is a big problem in our, you know, it was one of the best things Donald Trump did in his

00:28:45.600 presidency, though it probably won't have much of an effect. He signed an executive order

00:28:50.060 saying that we need to make federal buildings beautiful again. The federal buildings in

00:28:55.820 Washington DC for much of our nation's history were really beautiful and they were built in a

00:28:59.820 beautiful style of architecture and they were big and grand and awe inspiring. And now they're ugly.

00:29:04.680 They're just gross. They're brutalist and they're intentionally incongruous and they're just ugly

00:29:09.420 and they make you feel small. In New York, in the old Penn station, you would walk in,

00:29:14.240 you'd feel like a king. It was huge. It was beautiful. It was in these beautiful,

00:29:18.100 beautiful Beaux-Arts style. Then they knocked it down and built up Madison Square Garden and the new

00:29:25.720 Penn station makes you feel like a little rat. It makes you feel small and you don't, it's not good.

00:29:30.280 It's not good when you have a society living in ugliness all the time. But we've lost a sense

00:29:36.040 of what's beautiful. Great example of this, a Russian security guard just got in trouble

00:29:41.620 for allegedly destroying a million dollar painting. It was a million dollar painting of,

00:29:49.980 of these blank faces, like an ugly drawing that a three, a third grader could do.

00:29:58.540 And there were blank faces and the board security guard took his pen and he put little eyes on the,

00:30:02.340 on the blank faces, but it destroyed the value of the painting was worth a million dollars.

00:30:06.620 And now the painting is worth nothing. The security guard did not destroy the painting

00:30:13.000 because the painting was already ugly. It was already modern art. You can, you can tell me that,

00:30:20.880 you know, a urinal in the middle of a museum is really beautiful art. You can tell me that it's

00:30:26.840 really, really valuable, but it's not beautiful. It's hard even to call it art. It's not, it's ugly.

00:30:32.180 It's stupid. It's pointless. And so much of our art now is not beautiful. In the security guard's

00:30:39.720 defense, how was he supposed to know that this, this drawing that an eight year old could do

00:30:44.640 was worth a million dollars because people in that marketplace have lost their minds?

00:30:49.860 How was he supposed to, you couldn't tell the difference between an elementary school art project

00:30:54.220 and this million dollar painting. I promise you that this security guard, if he were guarding

00:31:00.540 the Sistine Chapel would not have been confused. This security guard, I don't think that if he were

00:31:07.300 guarding the Mona Lisa, he would have gone in and drawn a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

00:31:12.180 He would have recognized, I suspect, that these are beautiful things. These are great works of art.

00:31:17.060 But the stupid million dollar doodle in the Russian museum, I don't know, I'm not saying that

00:31:21.740 if you're a security guard, you should probably not be drawing on the walls to begin with.

00:31:25.100 But there is a real difference between beauty and ugliness. And we used to have a standard that

00:31:32.140 would recognize beauty and we would pursue it and we would encourage it in our public spaces and in

00:31:36.320 our private spaces. And now we don't, now we do completely the opposite. And it is, it actually does

00:31:42.840 have something to do with the degradation of society. When you don't, when you don't have a society

00:31:47.040 looking up, being filled with awe, imbued with beauty, then you're going to have an ugly society.

00:31:52.180 I was, I was walking around France some time ago. I was in a little towns in France and you go in,

00:31:58.740 I got so sad because you're, you're in the countryside of France and you go into these churches

00:32:03.360 and they're, they're not cathedrals. They're not even basilicas. They're just churches, but they're

00:32:08.180 big and they're beautiful and they're huge and they're awe-inspiring and they're, and they make sense.

00:32:13.140 And, and you think, why don't we have those? Why do we only build ugly things? Why did we give up on

00:32:21.720 that? Really, really sad. Speaking of standards, some good news coming out of Congress for the first

00:32:28.480 time in a while. Republicans are dropping their support of the Fairness for All Act. This is one

00:32:34.680 of these ridiculously named bills. What, what the Fairness for All Act would effectively do is

00:32:40.300 completely redefine sex and obliterate the distinction between men and women. And it was

00:32:45.920 not the Democrats supporting this bill. It was the Republicans. You see, the Democrats are supporting

00:32:51.520 something called the Equality Act. And what the Equality Act says is we're going to redefine sex

00:32:55.600 for purposes of civil rights, for purposes of federal law. We're going to say that sex is,

00:33:01.320 we're going to protect sexual orientation and gender identity. So if you in any way suggest that a man is

00:33:08.780 not really a woman, you're violating federal law. And, and, and what do the Republicans do? What's

00:33:13.740 their bold, strong, brash answer to this insane radicalism? They say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:33:21.480 We'll go along with all of that. Just give us a few exceptions. And that's what the Fairness for

00:33:25.920 All Act was. The Fairness for All Act did exactly the same thing that the Equality Act did. The Fairness

00:33:30.380 for All Act, supported by Republicans, said, we're going to obliterate the distinction between men and

00:33:36.880 women. And if you say that men are not women and women are not men, then if you act on that,

00:33:43.260 then you're violating federal law. Except certain religious organizations can get a pass.

00:33:48.600 Not good enough, guys. Not good enough. With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?

00:33:53.300 So the good news is Elise Stefanik, who replaced Liz Cheney as the GOP caucus chairman,

00:33:59.520 she's just pulled her support for the bill. Every other Republican co-sponsor should as well.

00:34:05.620 This thing should be deader than disco. It is totally unacceptable. If any Republican is still

00:34:12.560 supporting this monstrosity of a law, that Republican should be booted out of office,

00:34:17.980 period. Punto e basta. It's just completely, completely unacceptable. Some Republicans have

00:34:25.140 not been confused on this. Some Republicans have been right on this issue from the beginning. I'm

00:34:30.160 looking down at my man, Ron DeSantis down in Florida, who, as far as the governors are concerned,

00:34:36.820 is really leading on these issues. Ron DeSantis is now backing a bill in Florida that will prevent

00:34:43.100 teachers from indoctrinating little kids into crazy, radical sexual ideologies. And the left is furious

00:34:52.840 about this. The left is calling it the don't say gay bill, and they are turning all of their fire up

00:34:59.520 to and including the White House on this law. This is not the only bill or the only effort we're

00:35:05.060 seeing across the country to, to really regulate what students can or cannot read, what they can or

00:35:12.980 cannot learn, and most troubling who they can or cannot be. As I think you saw in the president's

00:35:18.560 tweet, it's cruel, it's harmful. And it is certainly something that is not helping young people who

00:35:28.560 are members of the LGBTQI plus community who are already vulnerable, already being bullied. I think

00:35:33.520 the president felt it was important to speak out. But in terms of specific actions, we're going to

00:35:38.900 continue to voice our strong views on this. It's significant the president did that. And if there's

00:35:43.640 any additional steps, I'll let you know. So what does the bill actually do? Not what Jen Psaki says

00:35:49.920 it does. What does it actually do? It orders that schools, quote, may not encourage classroom discussion

00:35:54.920 about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary schools or in a manner that is not age

00:36:01.640 appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students. We are talking not about whether 18 year

00:36:09.520 olds are allowed to say the word gay. The word gay obviously does not appear in the bill. So the bill

00:36:13.740 does not say gay. We're talking about elementary school students. Specifically, we're talking about

00:36:19.520 kindergarten to third grade. Do you think that teachers should be allowed to tell your five-year-old

00:36:28.820 son, Johnny, that he's really Jane? Do you think that teachers should be allowed, without your consent,

00:36:36.200 completely absent, completely absent your input, to tell your five-year-old son that he's really your

00:36:41.100 daughter or not? The key here to her attack on this bill is she said it's an attack on allowing these

00:36:52.520 kids to be who they are. LGBTQ, LMNOP youth. But we're talking about five-year-olds to eight-year-olds.

00:37:01.740 Allow the five-year-old to be a pansexual, transsexual, lesbian, demis. What sick nonsense

00:37:14.560 are you talking, what are you, I know what you're smoking. You must be smoking crack because that's

00:37:18.820 the policy from the White House now. And you would have to be smoking crack to believe this stuff.

00:37:23.080 It's actually an important question. It says, you're telling me, you're telling me Floridians,

00:37:32.680 you're telling me Ron DeSantis, that five-year-olds should not be allowed to be the transsexuals that

00:37:40.380 they are? No. What is at issue, Jen, is what people are. That's what it comes down to. When I say all

00:37:48.660 politics ultimately is religious, this is what I'm talking about. When we're talking about politics,

00:37:54.460 ultimately we're going to get down to what is a human person, what is our relationship to each

00:37:58.660 other, what is our relationship to our country, and what is our relationship to our maker?

00:38:03.840 And the question is that what are we? In my view, we are body and soul inextricably linked

00:38:11.540 while we're here on earth. And our souls and our bodies both matter and they've got something to

00:38:17.540 do with one another. This, by the way, is not some crazy fringe radical view. This is what every

00:38:23.280 single person on earth in our civilization thought for pretty much the whole history of our civilization

00:38:28.440 until five minutes ago. The view that Jen Psaki is espousing and just assuming to be true is that

00:38:35.040 our bodies have nothing to do with who we are. Who we really are has absolutely nothing to do with

00:38:39.940 our physical selves. That is a false view. It's an insane view, and it's an extremely novel radical

00:38:47.260 view. But she's just assuming that. And what Ron DeSantis is doing, he's not even defining who we are

00:38:54.820 in this law. He's just saying, look, we're not going to introduce these crazy radical new insane

00:39:00.620 ideologies to five-year-olds. We're going to wait until they turn nine, okay? We're going to wait until

00:39:05.580 they turn 10, and then they can hear all this lunatic stuff and, I guess, come to their own

00:39:10.340 conclusions. Frankly, I wish the bill went further. I wish the bill outlawed the teaching of

00:39:16.080 transgenderism, period, because transgenderism is a delusion. It's fake. It's a false anthropology.

00:39:23.040 It's a false account of what a human being is. And we shouldn't educate people in that because we'll

00:39:27.460 be educating them in falsehood. And that's no education at all. That's not going to liberate you

00:39:32.540 as education is supposed to do. It's going to enslave you to fantasy. So what DeSantis is doing,

00:39:39.440 I applaud it. It's a good first step. We've got to go further, folks. Look how far the left is gone.

00:39:44.160 They're whining and crying and complaining that we're not allowed to, we're not allowing them to

00:39:48.940 trans the five-year-olds, the five-year-olds. That's, that's the degree of radicalism here.

00:39:54.980 I think maybe we've got to turn up our confidence a little bit, too. I think maybe we've got to turn up

00:39:59.260 our moral clarity a little bit, too, because schools are shaping kids' views, not just of history

00:40:05.000 and reading, writing, and arithmetic, but of themselves and of sex. New report out,

00:40:09.520 40% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ.

00:40:12.960 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported? That's why I

00:40:20.600 buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead. Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised,

00:40:26.120 and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms. Plus, there's no antibiotics ever,

00:40:31.380 no added hormones, and no seed oils. Just one simple ingredient. That's meat. Best of all,

00:40:36.740 Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience. So lock in a secure supply of

00:40:40.920 American meat today. Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code

00:40:46.380 DAILYWIRE. That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE. Good Ranchers, American meat

00:40:51.820 delivered. There's a study just came out of Barna. Barna, I guess it came out a little while ago,

00:40:58.760 but it's making the rounds again because of these new laws. 30% of millennials identify as LGBTQ,

00:41:05.860 whatever the rest of the letters are. 40% of Zoomers, the younger generation,

00:41:10.960 identify as LGBTQ, whatever the rest of the letters are. When you just look at the general

00:41:16.360 population, identification with LGBTQ LMNOP is 6%. So how did we go, and it's much lower among

00:41:26.320 certain age groups. So how did we go from 6% to 40%? What the left used to tell you is, look,

00:41:36.800 you're just born this way. You're born this way. You can never change your sexual desires or

00:41:40.560 orientation or then later gender. You can't change it. Now it's a little different because they're

00:41:47.120 saying not only can you change your sexual desires, you can change your whole sex. If you're a man,

00:41:51.240 you can become a woman. So it's a little bit confused. But the one thing we were told

00:41:56.840 is that none of this has anything to do with culture. None of this has anything to do with

00:42:02.420 nurture. None of this has anything to do with education. Can't change who we are. It's just

00:42:07.320 who we are is just deep, deep, deep down. So my question then is, how did we go from 6% to 40%?

00:42:14.440 Either Alex Jones is right, and there's just something in the water, and they're not only

00:42:22.440 turning the frickin' frogs gay, but they're turning everyone else gay too. It's either that,

00:42:27.780 and actually he was right about the frogs, so I don't know. All right, I'll withhold judgment.

00:42:32.540 Or what I think is probably more likely, culture obviously matters. And culture shapes the way,

00:42:39.640 and education, most importantly, shapes the way we view the world, shapes the way we view

00:42:44.300 ourselves. It even helps to shape our desires, right? Little kids desire to just eat cookies all

00:42:50.460 the time and have no self-control. And then through education, as they grow and mature,

00:42:55.900 their tastes change, their desires change, and their discipline changes as well. Or at least it

00:43:01.460 used to. Now we put education completely in the opposite direction, not to cultivate the higher

00:43:07.980 things and the rational will, but to cultivate all sorts of crazy, beyond sex, just to cultivate

00:43:11.640 all sorts of crazy, crazy sorts of desires. If that is the case, that the culture and the education

00:43:18.640 shapes it, then obviously we've got to have a say in education. Then obviously, if education

00:43:27.420 could convince a whole, half a generation of Americans that they're not the sex that they say

00:43:35.400 that they are, they're not the sex that they actually are, and they're a completely different

00:43:40.180 sex, where their sexual desires are all kind of kooky. If it can do that, then it can go in the

00:43:44.840 other direction too, can't it? I'm actually not even all that surprised by these very high numbers,

00:43:52.440 30, 40%. What this tells me is that young people are right now, as they always are,

00:43:58.400 searching for meaning. They're searching for truth. They're very confused. They don't have all the

00:44:04.380 answers and they're just trying to grab onto the things that are deeper, not merely the physical

00:44:08.580 things of this world, but what's it all about? What are we here for? What am I? All the questions

00:44:13.100 the young people ask. They used to have those questions answered by true religion and by true

00:44:21.640 philosophy and by sophisticated, serious thinking. Now they're having those questions answered by radical

00:44:29.200 leftist ideologues who are extremely shallow in their thought and who are leading them down a very

00:44:34.760 bad path and telling them actually all you, all you are is your appetites. All you are is either your

00:44:45.220 flesh or not your flesh. All you, they're, they're not getting very good answers there and we, and

00:44:50.700 young people have a right to the truth and we ought to present it to them in schools.

00:44:54.660 It's very hard. Not only is it hard because the teacher unions keep true things out of the

00:45:00.920 classroom, but it's, it's hard to teach people when everyone is muzzled up and the, the masking in

00:45:07.460 schools shows no signs of going away. The head of the teacher union, the national teacher union,

00:45:12.440 Randy Weingarten just went on MSNBC. She was asked, Hey, hold on. When, when are you going to let the

00:45:17.980 kids stop muzzling themselves? We all saw that picture of Stacey Abrams the other day where just Stacey

00:45:22.480 Abrams shows up, she's smiling, grinning ear to ear, but she forces all the kids to be masked around

00:45:27.180 her, which has always been the case. The Democrats don't follow their own mask rules, but they force

00:45:32.060 everyone else to, and they whine and complain and punish you if you violate them. One set of rules

00:45:36.960 for me, another one for thee. And so in the wake of this, Weingarten is asked, when are the kids going

00:45:42.260 to be able to take the masks off? She says in very clever political speak, she basically says no time

00:45:49.300 soon. What Dr. McBride just told us about masks, not particularly being effective for children.

00:45:55.000 What's the argument against taking off masks in schools? Well, the argument is that you have,

00:46:00.660 well, let me just say this. I am in favor of an off ramp on masks, right? The real issue becomes,

00:46:07.500 are, is the, is, is the spread low enough so that there's no dissemination or transmission in schools?

00:46:16.960 And it's not the teachers transmitting to kids. Um, it's more kids and kids, particularly in

00:46:26.700 elementary schools right now. And so the question really becomes, do we have, that's why I like what

00:46:33.200 Massachusetts has done, because what they've said is that on a school by school basis, they said,

00:46:39.160 if there's 80% vaccination rates, then those schools can lift the mandates.

00:46:44.720 Okay. So by the end, she gives you a little hope. She says, well, look, here's something that a school

00:46:49.800 said, and I think it's kind of nice. You know, once we have 80% vaccination, then likely we'll be able

00:46:56.320 to lift the mandates, but that's not the criterion that she insists on, right? It's, she's using the 80%

00:47:03.000 as an example. But what she actually says is, well, we're, we're going to take the masks away when

00:47:08.200 there's no transmission. And then she sort of insinuates that, well, if we get 80% vaccination,

00:47:13.520 then, then probably we'll have no transmission. Except, except we won't, except we know from Dr.

00:47:20.660 Fauci and Rochelle Walensky and Joe Biden now, and all of the, all of the medical experts and

00:47:27.140 politicians who had previously told us that the COVID vaccines would stop transmission of the virus.

00:47:32.640 We now know it doesn't stop transmission. So you can get the 80% vaccination. It's still going to

00:47:39.000 be transmitted. COVID's just here. It's like saying, well, we're going to, we're going to go

00:47:43.200 back to school. We're going to take the masks off when there's zero flu. What do you mean zero?

00:47:47.340 There's never going to be zero flu. And so according to Weingarten's own logic, the kids are never taking

00:47:55.480 the masks off until we force the issue, until we go in and we wield political power and we say, no,

00:48:01.260 I don't care what you say, Weingarten. I don't care what you say, teachers. I don't care what you say,

00:48:05.240 administrators. We're going to do this. We are going to have a say in our kids' education first

00:48:10.840 and in our local communities and in our national government. I remind you before we go, get your

00:48:16.940 congressman to co-sponsor the Michael Knowles Federal Health Protection Pledge, House Concurrent

00:48:23.580 Resolution 71. Co-sponsor it right now. We'll see you tomorrow.

00:48:27.900 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies. Executive

00:48:57.760 producer Jeremy Boring. Our technical director is Austin Stevens. Supervising producer Mathis

00:49:03.280 Glover. Production manager Pavel Vidovsky. Editor and associate producer Danny D'Amico.

00:49:09.020 Associate producer Justine Turley. Audio mixer Mike Coromina. And hair and makeup by Cherokee

00:49:14.840 Heart. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2022.

00:49:27.760 Jessica Milligan's

00:49:55.380 Heartbreaking, Jessica.

00:49:59.380 I can smell the weakness from here.

00:50:03.380 Lady!

00:50:11.380 Rob!

00:50:13.380 Rob owes me money.

00:50:18.380 Let me out, please!

00:50:26.380 What good is this to me now?

00:50:36.380 I'm scared.

00:50:44.380 Your daughter, she's very pretty.

00:50:55.380 Those sweltering summer nights that leave you tossing and turning, desperately kicking off the covers, don't have to ruin your sleep.

00:51:05.380 Crafted from the finest 100% organic cotton, Bowling Branch's premium sheets feature a soft, breathable weave that's built to last.

00:51:11.380 Get the best savings of the season during Bowling Branch's annual summer event.

00:51:15.380 Get 20% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at bowlandbranch.com slash dailywire.

00:51:20.380 That's bowlandbranch, B-O-L-L-A-N-D, branch.com slash dailywire to save 20% off and unlock free shipping.

00:51:27.380 Limited time only, exclusions do apply.

00:51:29.380 Limited time only, exclusions do apply.

Ep. 941 - The Fire Fauci Pledge Breaks Into Congress

Summary

Transcript