The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 950 - This Is Biden’s Fault

00:00:00.000 As expected, Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:00:05.860 The invasion extended far beyond the contested breakaway regions in the east of the country,

00:00:12.140 going all the way to the nation's capital of Kiev,

00:00:15.420 where explosions could be heard on television in the middle of the night.

00:00:20.300 Ukrainians who resist.

00:00:22.740 Oh, I tell you what, I just heard a big bang right here behind me.

00:00:27.520 I thought we shouldn't have done a live shot here.

00:00:30.580 There are big explosions taking place in Kiev right now.

00:00:36.500 I can't see where they're taking place from this vantage point here on top of the roof of the hotel in central Kiev.

00:00:43.880 And I can't explain what they are, but I heard four or five explosions a few moments ago.

00:00:50.000 I don't know whether our viewers or whether you in the studio there could hear what I just heard.

00:00:56.020 There is going to be lots of finger pointing over the next few days.

00:01:00.000 There's going to be a lot of damage control from our own country's ruling elite.

00:01:03.920 But you should make no mistake.

00:01:06.380 This is Joe Biden's fault.

00:01:09.840 Everybody knew that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine, along with many other neighboring countries.

00:01:15.920 Putin invaded Georgia under George W. Bush.

00:01:18.520 He invaded Crimea under Obama.

00:01:20.540 He paused the invasions under Donald Trump.

00:01:23.340 Now he has invaded Ukraine under Biden.

00:01:27.580 It is not just Biden's bad luck that Putin chose this moment to invade.

00:01:32.780 He is invading Ukraine right now because Joe Biden made specific decisions that encouraged him to do it.

00:01:40.300 Donald Trump instituted sanctions on Russia.

00:01:44.080 Biden lifted those sanctions.

00:01:46.460 Trump shut down Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would give Russia direct access to the European oil market.

00:01:53.440 Joe Biden gave the green light to the pipeline, removing all the leverage that Ukraine ever had.

00:02:00.020 Trump kept Putin on his toes and in line.

00:02:03.360 Biden literally invited him to invade Ukraine, just so long as the invasion were only a minor incursion.

00:02:12.840 I think what you're going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades. 0.96

00:02:19.780 And it depends on what it does.

00:02:21.280 It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc.

00:02:27.200 Wow, really tough talk.

00:02:29.180 There's the leader of the free world.

00:02:30.460 All right, Mr. Alligator, you can have my pinky, but you'd better not take the whole hand.

00:02:35.460 There it is.

00:02:36.240 Don't, don't, you better, you can have, okay, you can have two fingers, but don't, okay, well, that's American leadership.

00:02:43.620 No wonder we see what's happening now in Ukraine.

00:02:46.160 It is impossible to prove a counterfactual, but it seems safe to say that this would not be happening right now if Donald Trump were still president.

00:02:55.640 But elections, even dubious elections, have consequences.

00:02:59.980 The jello-headed cadaver currently occupying the Oval Office has been in power for just one year. 0.88

00:03:05.740 And already, the post-Cold War world order is crumbling.

00:03:09.840 A high price to pay.

00:03:11.400 But hey, at least no more mean tweets.

00:03:15.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:15.840 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:09.860 Stephen King, the vehemently anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-conservative horror novelist, Stephen King, tweeted out two days ago,

00:05:23.980 Mr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation.

00:05:27.600 He forgot he's no longer dealing with Trump.

00:05:32.940 That tweet didn't even make it 24 hours.

00:05:38.980 One day, let's be generous, that tweet made it one day, and that tweet aged like milk.

00:05:45.900 And we all knew it would.

00:05:47.300 When I read it the first time, I thought, the debate right now is not over whether Putin is going to invade Ukraine or not.

00:05:53.900 That is guaranteed to happen.

00:05:56.400 You would have to be living on another planet or so deeply, profoundly ignorant of world affairs and politics to believe that some sort of invasion is not going to happen now.

00:06:08.980 There was a real debate over, is Putin just going to go in to the eastern part of the country or is he going to go all the way to Kiev and conquer the whole country?

00:06:16.580 But it turns out that a whole lot of ideologues, radical leftists, who are, these are not fringe people.

00:06:25.460 Stephen King is a very prominent figure in America.

00:06:28.440 He's a cultural elite.

00:06:30.220 He's been one for decade upon decade.

00:06:32.240 He really seemed to believe that Vladimir Putin was going to be afraid of Mr. Come On Man.

00:06:37.160 Well, did you hear what Biden did to Corn Pop back at the pool in Delaware?

00:06:41.780 Did you know that thing that also never happened?

00:06:43.940 This guy, Joe Biden, one of the most incompetent politicians we've ever had in our country.

00:06:50.340 He's competent at getting and staying elected.

00:06:52.560 I don't want to take that away from him.

00:06:54.400 He's very good at that.

00:06:55.380 But he hasn't accomplished anything in his whole career, not one single thing.

00:06:59.640 The closest thing to an accomplishment in Joe Biden's career was passing that crime bill in 1994 with the help of a lot of other people.

00:07:06.540 That was the best thing he ever did.

00:07:08.060 And then he ran away from it in the 2020 campaign.

00:07:10.300 So you knew the minute this guy found his way into the Oval Office, you knew things are not going to get better.

00:07:16.620 But you would have to be just mainlining CNN.

00:07:20.200 You would have to be in such an echo chamber of the establishment propaganda to really believe that Putin walked all over Trump and was petrified of Joe Biden.

00:07:30.780 It's insane.

00:07:31.380 It's completely the opposite.

00:07:32.820 The proof of the pudding is in the tasting.

00:07:34.300 Putin didn't aggress under Trump and then Biden's in office for one year and already he's conquering an entire country, upsetting the world order that we have had for over 30 years now.

00:07:49.220 Didn't make it one day.

00:07:51.180 You know, we talk about Russian propaganda.

00:07:54.500 The Russians are known for their propaganda, particularly the Russian communists.

00:07:57.980 And don't forget, Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy and he was a really good KGB spy.

00:08:02.880 He was not good in the moral sense, good in the tactical sense. 0.99

00:08:06.180 This guy is a killer.

00:08:09.400 This guy was a very serious player during the Soviet Union. 1.00

00:08:14.020 And so we focus on how silly the Russian propaganda is.

00:08:16.780 What about our own propaganda? 0.97

00:08:18.240 What about CNN?

00:08:19.720 CNN now is doing some actual reporting for the first time in probably a decade.

00:08:23.380 They've got a reporter on the ground, inspiring to see.

00:08:26.740 I'm glad.

00:08:27.420 I hope CNN does more of that.

00:08:28.560 You know, journalism, reporting.

00:08:30.360 But beyond that one guy, you've got CNN, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times.

00:08:35.660 They're just Pravda.

00:08:37.020 They're just the American regime's equivalent of Russian propaganda.

00:08:42.220 And if you really believed all that stuff, if you weren't tuning into this show, if you weren't reading The Daily Wire, if you weren't talking to other people when you can on social media,

00:08:49.660 you would really believe that there's no way Putin's going to, you would be shocked when you heard those bombs go off in Kiev.

00:08:58.080 And now, maybe the most insulting aspect of this, of this complete botched mayhem that Biden is presiding over,

00:09:09.200 is that the ruling establishment in the United States is now exploiting the war in Ukraine to justify their own failures on every other front.

00:09:17.640 I couldn't believe this one.

00:09:18.960 I should believe it at this point, but I couldn't.

00:09:21.680 This was in one of the news networks, CBS or NBC.

00:09:26.460 Yes, it was CBS News.

00:09:27.800 How the Ukraine crisis is already hitting Americans' wallets.

00:09:32.440 Oh, well, that's where the Ukraine crisis has been going on for 12 hours now.

00:09:35.460 So please tell me, CBS, how is it already hitting our wallets?

00:09:37.940 Well, they tweet, the U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.

00:09:45.600 You know that thing that just happened like five minutes ago?

00:09:49.100 That's the reason for all of the problems that you've been experiencing for months and even years now.

00:09:56.220 Yeah, it's not Biden's fault.

00:09:58.720 It's not Dr. Fauci's fault.

00:10:00.980 It's not the Chinese communists' fault, even.

00:10:04.320 It's not because of the COVID lockdowns that all the Democrats were pushing.

00:10:08.260 It's not because the Democrats are shutting down American energy production and relying more on hostile foreign powers.

00:10:14.300 So now you're going to see your gas prices go up a lot more in the next few weeks.

00:10:17.540 No, no, no.

00:10:18.420 It's not.

00:10:19.000 Yeah, inflation.

00:10:20.000 It's not because we're just printing money willy-nilly and giving it away to everybody and just trying to spend our way out of temporary political crises.

00:10:27.840 No, no, no.

00:10:29.480 It's Putin.

00:10:31.280 Yeah, that's it.

00:10:32.240 That's why.

00:10:32.680 It's not Putin.

00:10:33.340 It's Biden.

00:10:34.220 It's Biden.

00:10:35.640 Frankly, even on the invasion of Ukraine, whose fault is it?

00:10:38.620 At the particular judgment when all of us are standing before our maker, Putin is going to have to answer for his actions, right?

00:10:45.200 He's the one leading this war into Ukraine.

00:10:48.700 But we all knew Putin wanted to do it.

00:10:51.000 Everyone with two brain cells together, to rub together, knew that Putin wanted to do it.

00:10:55.600 Joe Biden let it happen.

00:10:57.060 Joe Biden incentivized it to happen. 1.00

00:10:58.920 Joe Biden made stupid error after stupid error after mind-numbingly, incomprehensibly stupid error. 1.00

00:11:09.380 And Putin took advantage. 1.00

00:11:12.140 Up to and including, well, if it's just a minor incursion.

00:11:16.260 Okay, why don't you roll out the red carpet for him? 0.99

00:11:19.220 What a freaking putz. 0.99

00:11:21.400 I'm sorry. 0.99

00:11:22.500 I don't know.

00:11:22.960 Ah, it's so dishonest, is what really struck me about this article in CBS.

00:11:28.700 It's so dishonest.

00:11:29.680 You'll see this a lot.

00:11:30.580 I'll give you another example of it.

00:11:31.980 They'll say, here is job creation under different presidents.

00:11:35.220 And you'll see, you know, Biden, job creation.

00:11:37.440 He's created a gazillion jobs.

00:11:38.940 Trump, he lost a lot of jobs.

00:11:40.780 He created, like, no jobs.

00:11:42.040 And you think, well, I don't think that's what happened.

00:11:44.080 I remember the Trump administration.

00:11:45.640 And he made a lot of jobs.

00:11:47.280 Well, what happened?

00:11:48.380 Well, it's because when the libs and the statisticians are coming up with these numbers,

00:11:53.940 they count the COVID lockdowns, which was a voluntary giving up of jobs because the government

00:11:58.860 said, you can't go to work.

00:11:59.900 You've all got to lock down.

00:12:01.140 And then when Joe Biden, under Joe Biden, the establishment said, okay, you can go back

00:12:04.400 to work.

00:12:04.820 So then the jobs go back up again.

00:12:06.520 It's so dishonest.

00:12:08.220 It's pure propaganda.

00:12:09.600 Pravda couldn't have done any better.

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00:13:19.540 The dishonesty of our ruling class is enough to make you laugh hysterically or scream or cry.

00:13:29.000 Those are your options.

00:13:31.080 So pick one.

00:13:32.100 I guess I generally choose to laugh at it.

00:13:34.120 But it's getting harder and harder because it's so clear that our rulers hold us in absolute disdain.

00:13:39.800 They have nothing but contempt for us and they mock us constantly.

00:13:43.260 Bill Gates.

00:13:44.500 Bill Gates, who he doesn't hold any position in the government and yet he's everywhere.

00:13:49.680 He's always on TV telling us what vaccines to take.

00:13:52.360 He's always meeting with world leaders, I guess, because he's a very rich guy.

00:13:55.380 He seems to be dictating a whole lot of not just American public policy, but public policy around the world.

00:14:00.720 Then he's in Africa pushing his public policy agenda.

00:14:04.840 He's got a ton of power and he has been rabid about COVID.

00:14:10.820 Not only on getting us all to take the extremely effective, 100% safe and effective vaccines that are totally going to stop transmission and infection.

00:14:19.120 And whoopsie daisy, I guess they're not totally doing that.

00:14:20.880 But anyway, you've got to take the second shot or the third or the fourth, maybe the fifth shot.

00:14:24.840 But those of you who haven't taken the first shot yet, you have to take it because it's so effective.

00:14:28.620 But it's not going to be effective enough to stop you from taking the fifth.

00:14:31.060 OK, Bill Gates has been doing that.

00:14:32.900 Now he's making fun of people who won't wear the mask.

00:14:35.560 So you don't want to wear the mask, he says.

00:14:37.480 Well, well, you might as well take off your pants. 0.67

00:14:40.580 I think there are a lot of people in America who are confused about whether they should be wearing a mask.

00:14:44.560 And in the United Kingdom, for example, they've scrapped that altogether.

00:14:47.600 Well, that's interesting.

00:14:48.440 You know, what is the downside of wearing a mask?

00:14:50.500 I mean, it's got to be tough.

00:14:52.120 You know, you have to wear pants.

00:14:53.400 I mean, this is tough stuff.

00:14:55.580 These societies are so cruel.

00:14:57.840 Why do they make you wear pants?

00:14:59.380 I'm trying to figure it out.

00:15:02.200 We're very glad you have yours on.

00:15:05.360 That will be on the web.

00:15:06.920 That will be on the web.

00:15:09.640 Boy, we got a regular Don Rickles here, don't we?

00:15:12.620 Oh, there's old Rodney Dangerfield.

00:15:14.740 That bill that cut up Bill Gates.

00:15:17.540 Well, I know.

00:15:18.000 I know.

00:15:18.280 So it's so awful.

00:15:19.320 It's so terrible.

00:15:20.180 What a cruel society.

00:15:21.240 Come on, just wear your masks, guys.

00:15:23.800 Says the man, not wearing a mask on a panel with four other people, none of whom are wearing masks.

00:15:32.020 Speaking to an audience, which may or may not be wearing masks, but I highly doubt it.

00:15:37.140 I don't know.

00:15:37.780 Maybe they are.

00:15:38.420 Maybe they're not.

00:15:39.020 But I doubt it.

00:15:39.700 And I doubt that any of those people in that room, including the audience, in their regular personal lives, ever wear the masks.

00:15:46.000 Because it's not for them.

00:15:47.420 Because Bill Gates is clean.

00:15:48.840 He's clean.

00:15:49.680 He's an elite.

00:15:50.640 He can do what he wants. 1.00

00:15:52.780 He's not a filthy, dirty peasant like you are. 1.00

00:15:55.300 You need to wear it to protect him from your filth. 0.99

00:15:58.660 That's why you've got to wear it.

00:16:00.980 Come on.

00:16:01.300 What's the big deal about wearing a mask?

00:16:02.720 I don't know.

00:16:03.040 Why aren't you wearing one then?

00:16:04.680 If it's not a big deal, if it's totally normal, if it's just like putting pants on in the morning, why are you, Bill Gates, wearing pants but not wearing a mask?

00:16:11.680 Because wearing the mask is degrading.

00:16:14.120 It's inhuman.

00:16:15.320 We are social creatures.

00:16:17.080 As Aristotle says, we are the political animal.

00:16:19.460 We like to see one another.

00:16:20.800 We like to speak to one another.

00:16:22.260 That's a distinguishing feature of being a human.

00:16:25.120 We like to see each other's smiles.

00:16:27.320 We like to see each other's faces.

00:16:28.720 It conveys a lot of information, a lot of emotion.

00:16:31.440 It helps us get along together in society.

00:16:34.080 That's, that's, oh, and also, by the way, to quote Leanna Nguyen, the chief medical analyst at CNN, the face masks, the cloth face masks are nothing more than facial decoration.

00:16:46.440 That's the other reason, I guess.

00:16:47.740 So what's the big deal?

00:16:49.200 It's just like wearing pants, guys.

00:16:50.640 Come on.

00:16:51.860 What a terrible society.

00:16:54.420 They're, they're different.

00:16:55.520 Pants and masks are different, Bill Gates.

00:16:56.740 And you know it because you don't wear it.

00:16:57.740 But it doesn't matter because there's one set of rules for him and one set of rules for everybody else.

00:17:02.400 You're seeing this in action in Canada right now.

00:17:07.400 Prime Minister Justin Castro.

00:17:11.100 Justin, Justin Fidel Castro up in Canada.

00:17:15.080 He has now put down the truckers.

00:17:17.680 He had the trucker convoy pushing against his draconian Fauci-ouchie mandate.

00:17:22.020 They held him off for several weeks.

00:17:23.940 They got some concessions, at least out of the local governments.

00:17:26.940 And then Trudeau suspended the rule of law, invoked the Emergencies Act, went after the truckers, beat them up in the streets, arrested them, stole their property.

00:17:35.800 And now, now, Justin Trudeau, that great defender of liberal democracy, he's putting away the Emergencies Act and restoring the rule of law.

00:17:44.720 We were very clear that the use of the Emergencies Act would be limited in time.

00:17:51.960 When we invoked it, it would be in place for up to 30 days.

00:17:56.740 But we said that we would lift it as soon as possible.

00:18:00.340 We've held updates and briefs with ministers and officials every day, often multiple times a day.

00:18:08.140 And today, after careful consideration, we're ready to confirm that the situation is no longer an emergency.

00:18:16.180 Therefore, the federal government will be ending the use of the Emergencies Act.

00:18:22.540 We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are now sufficient to keep people safe.

00:18:32.640 Of course, we'll continue to be there to support provincial and local authorities if and when needed.

00:18:39.480 There he is, Cincinnati's, Justin Trudeau, regular old Washington.

00:18:44.720 Trudeau putting away his emergency powers and restoring the rule of law after he totally won.

00:18:53.240 After he, through sheer brute force and tyranny of will, completely put down the truckers.

00:19:00.860 And then not only did he put down the truckers, but threw in jail, confiscated their property, threatened to kill their dogs.

00:19:09.060 Remember that?

00:19:09.860 They actually, the Ottawa bylaw services, threatened to take and kill the puppies of the trucking protesters.

00:19:19.920 After that, he says, okay, I've completely quashed this uprising here, this popular protest.

00:19:25.680 Now I'm going to restore the rule of law.

00:19:27.760 Very easy for him to do.

00:19:29.320 He won.

00:19:30.740 He won.

00:19:31.300 And had he not won, he'd still have the emergency powers and he'd still be fighting down.

00:19:35.320 There is nothing orderly or principled about what we're seeing in Canada, certainly not what we're seeing in Ukraine. 0.88

00:19:43.840 What we are seeing is sheer tyranny of will, power politics.

00:19:48.780 I'm going to cudgel you over the head. 1.00

00:19:51.280 And the way they do it in Eastern Europe is pretty violent and an actual historic event right now. 0.98

00:19:57.520 And what they're doing in Canada is being done with a smile.

00:20:01.680 But make no mistake, there is no order here.

00:20:04.060 There is not a whole lot of logic here.

00:20:06.320 This is a political reordering of our society.

00:20:10.320 In some cases being done with a grimace, in some cases being done with a smile.

00:20:14.320 The opinion of a great many people, forget Canada for a second, forget America's hat, come back down to America.

00:20:20.040 The opinion of a great many people is that conservative, traditional, Christian, overwhelmingly Americans who don't want their way of life completely upended,

00:20:32.660 who don't want their rights suspended, who don't want their traditional liberties taken away, they can't be reasoned with.

00:20:38.740 We can't be reasoned with.

00:20:40.620 We can't be allowed to express our voice.

00:20:43.120 This is why when we vote and we elect someone like Donald Trump, that's a threat to democracy.

00:20:47.980 How the hell is it a threat to democracy? Just because the people voted for a guy.

00:20:51.920 Well, no, but they didn't vote for the right guy.

00:20:53.580 They really shouldn't have been allowed to vote in the first place.

00:20:55.840 According to one Texas middle school teacher who was just caught on camera, 1.00

00:20:59.680 conservative Christians, they just need to get COVID and die. 1.00

00:21:04.240 That's what's frustrating. 1.00

00:21:05.720 The rest of my life is impacted because of solitudes, because of conservative Christians. 0.96

00:21:12.740 I'm telling you, I'm going to see my boyfriend.

00:21:17.080 A little hard to hear what these cackling hens are saying. 1.00

00:21:21.900 She says, if they had just all given up their rights and all taken the Fauci right away, then it would be over.

00:21:27.840 There would be no COVID, but they haven't done. 0.99

00:21:29.520 They just need to die, these conservative Christians. 0.99

00:21:31.560 So sure, this middle school teacher, I guess she didn't say it in the front of a classroom. 1.00

00:21:35.860 She just said it to other teachers and administrators. 0.56

00:21:39.260 But what do you think she's teaching?

00:21:41.280 What do you think the kids are being taught? 0.97

00:21:43.480 They're being taught that if you dissent from this regime, you deserve death. 0.99

00:21:51.480 You just need to go away. 0.97

00:21:53.340 She's not even saying you need to go to the gulag.

00:21:56.480 Man, Stalin seems like a squish compared to these ladies.

00:22:00.940 These ladies are a lot tougher. 1.00

00:22:02.480 These radicals in middle schools and high schools and colleges, they would make Stalin blush.

00:22:08.960 Not, no, they shouldn't even go to a forced labor camp. 1.00

00:22:12.240 They should just die. 1.00

00:22:13.180 That's what's got to happen. 0.99

00:22:14.880 Speaking of death, there is a fascinating story that has just come out of the world of science

00:22:21.820 that has everybody shocked, wondering, in awe, scratching their head.

00:22:27.600 Everybody except for regular old Christians. 1.00

00:22:31.340 Regular old traditional religious people who have long known what this new scientific discovery,

00:22:40.940 this kind of fluke of a scientific discovery has found.

00:22:44.680 Namely, that when people die, their lives really do flash before their eyes.

00:22:53.020 You hear about it in sort of anecdotes here and there.

00:22:57.400 You hear about it certainly in religion as, you know, you're accountable for your whole life.

00:23:02.320 But now, finally, the scientists have caught up to what ordinary people have known for thousands of years.

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00:27:29.960 A first-of-its-kind study has captured a man's brain activity seconds before and after his death.

00:27:40.720 And what it found is shocking to everyone who doesn't go to church on Sunday, I guess, which these days is probably the great majority of people.

00:27:49.100 So it just so happened that the guy was getting a brain scan, and he died as he was getting his brain scan.

00:27:55.500 So they've got the brain scan data of what's going on in his head as he dies.

00:27:59.460 This has not been done before as far as anyone knows.

00:28:04.440 And the research, which was published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, describes a man who was connected to this brain scan.

00:28:13.800 He suffered a heart attack.

00:28:14.940 He died.

00:28:16.080 And they showed the different types of brain waves that were going through his head before, during, and even 15 seconds after his heart stopped beating.

00:28:23.980 What some of the researchers found is, surprisingly, after the heart starts pumping blood into the brain, these oscillations keep going.

00:28:32.560 So that was extremely surprising for us to see.

00:28:37.220 You get a flash of everything you've ever done.

00:28:43.020 You just get a flash of all of your memories just come flooding back to you in this instant.

00:28:48.680 And the person who called my attention to this news story is my wife.

00:28:52.960 You know, sweet little Elisa, she has got a really good gut on political matters, on cultural matters, and on religious matters, too.

00:29:01.940 She's just got this way of seeing things that cuts through all of the kind of pretentious jargon and all the clinical, newfangled wording.

00:29:12.820 And so she sends me this article, and she said, hey, are they just talking about the particular judgment?

00:29:17.560 I said, oh my gosh, that's, we're all scratching our heads trying to make sense of this scientific discovery of a phenomenon that we'd heard anecdotally for many, many years.

00:29:30.440 Christians have talked about this forever.

00:29:32.460 They say, at the moment of your death, at the exact moment of your death, there is a particular judgment.

00:29:38.280 You're before your maker, right?

00:29:39.660 You know all the imagery.

00:29:40.480 You go up, you're at the gate of St. Peter, you meet your maker, and you're answerable for the things that you've done.

00:29:47.040 Now, Christians believe that Christ's death on the cross, he redeems man from his sins, and you receive that immense grace.

00:29:55.380 And yet still, and you read this throughout the Gospels, you are accountable for the things that you have done in that very instant of death.

00:30:02.920 And what we are seeing here, I don't want to sound too much like a hippy-dippy new age guy, but what we are seeing here is a physical representation of a spiritual truth that people, frankly, not even just Christians, but people of many, even certain pagan religious intuitions, have been aware of for a long time.

00:30:23.340 Though most precisely, it's the Christians who have been aware of this.

00:30:26.360 The longer I live, the more I realize that peasant farmers and shepherds in the Middle East, 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, pretty much figured out everything. 1.00

00:30:42.240 And they figured it out because God told them, and they figured it out in part because they had use of their reason.

00:30:47.260 And the further we get from that ancient world, the more technology we get, the more iPads and iPods and fancy computers and genius scientists in their lab coats with their stethoscopes, the dumber we get because we're rediscovering things that we already knew were true.

00:31:06.880 I actually think a lot of this just comes back to, yeah, we should do good, not do bad.

00:31:12.800 We should follow God, not the devil.

00:31:14.600 There is virtue, there is a moral order.

00:31:18.060 In the Western civilization, we are just starting to come out of, what, 150, 200, maybe even 300 years of fashionable atheism, materialism, all these kooky random theories that tried to get away from the basic truths of religion.

00:31:38.640 And we're realizing that it just doesn't hold up.

00:31:41.920 The idea that there's no such thing as good or bad.

00:31:45.260 There's no moral order.

00:31:46.340 It's just whatever we, well, that, that doesn't seem to be true.

00:31:48.440 No one really, people who try to live their lives this way go crazy.

00:31:52.520 That actually our bodies don't matter at all.

00:31:54.540 We're just spirits.

00:31:55.260 Well, no, I don't think so.

00:31:56.300 You look at a drag queen, you think this is not someone who is totally stable, who totally is the right idea. 0.54

00:32:02.060 People who live their lives like total hedonists, just like meat puppets trying to consume pleasure all the time.

00:32:06.400 Actually, they live bad lives.

00:32:08.380 It just doesn't, it just doesn't work.

00:32:10.520 Just doesn't hold up.

00:32:11.560 People who try to upend natural, the natural longings of man's soul, who try to recreate man.

00:32:17.680 The communist project of the 20th, 19th and 20th centuries.

00:32:21.460 The Nazi project. 0.91

00:32:22.740 The fascist project.

00:32:23.580 The things that try to reorder the soul.

00:32:24.960 Just doesn't work.

00:32:25.880 Just doesn't work.

00:32:26.580 And whether the brain scan is showing this or not, it seems to be pretty clear to me that the basic facts of life are actually pretty simple.

00:32:38.480 They might not be easy.

00:32:39.300 They're not always easy to follow, but they are pretty simple.

00:32:42.820 We need to educate people this way.

00:32:44.240 We've got a whole generation that is so extremely miseducated.

00:32:47.780 They can't tell good from bad, true from false, boys from girls. 0.98

00:32:50.280 They can't tell anything.

00:32:51.400 And this is by design.

00:32:52.480 This is not just because people's IQs are diminishing.

00:32:55.500 They're not diminishing.

00:32:56.920 It's because they're not being taught things in school. 0.68

00:32:59.120 Because they've got kooky teachers who are filling their heads with lies.

00:33:02.180 And this is being encouraged by our political order. 1.00

00:33:04.440 There is, today, the single dumbest article on the internet. 0.98

00:33:10.520 That great distinction goes to Sarah Jones, writing in New York Magazine. 0.99

00:33:17.180 She writes about household tyrants.

00:33:19.980 Household tyrants.

00:33:21.040 And she is referring to parents.

00:33:23.560 Sarah Jones hates the parents movement. 0.97

00:33:28.740 You know, the parents showing up to school boards.

00:33:30.800 Parents, mostly moms, but some dads too, of all races, shapes, sizes, geography, showing 0.76

00:33:36.840 up and saying, hey, stop filling my kids' heads with crazy racial theories, crazy sexual theories. 0.99

00:33:42.740 Stop trying to turn little Johnny into little Jane, you psychos. 0.99

00:33:46.080 Just teach him his reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:33:47.760 Well, this woman, Sarah Jones, she says, this is really bad.

00:33:52.580 This is really bad.

00:33:54.140 She says, parents don't lack rights in the United States.

00:33:57.940 They already enjoy the wide freedom to educate their children as they wish, including at home

00:34:02.420 or in private schools.

00:34:04.860 They can raise their children to be Christians or witches or both. 0.99

00:34:08.160 The state does not interfere.

00:34:10.580 Maybe the state should interfere if you're raising your kid to be a witch, but another battle 0.93

00:34:14.100 for another time.

00:34:15.180 Liberals are generally satisfied with this state of affairs.

00:34:17.460 There's no appetite to prohibit parents from raising their children and even the most hate-filled

00:34:21.920 churches.

00:34:22.600 Oh, there's not, darling?

00:34:23.520 You don't think so?

00:34:24.780 There's no effort underway to diminish school choice by the Democratic Party, fighting tooth

00:34:29.880 and nail to stop school choice, fighting to curb the rights of parents in homeschooling,

00:34:35.040 and then, of course, fighting to control the curricula of the public schools to take away

00:34:40.260 the rights of local community.

00:34:41.220 There's none of that?

00:34:42.120 You sure?

00:34:42.600 That seems a little dishonest to me.

00:34:44.740 Yet, the right behaves as if parental rights were under sustained and serious attack, as

00:34:52.020 if the parent has been dislodged from a high place and, as Texas Governor Greg Abbott said,

00:34:56.500 should be restored.

00:34:57.420 The GOP's position on parental rights is not entirely coherent.

00:35:00.580 Any attempt to ban gender-confirming therapy for transgender children.

00:35:04.840 So hold on.

00:35:05.260 I just want to define that term for a second.

00:35:07.040 Gender-confirming therapy is the opposite of gender-confirming therapy.

00:35:13.280 What the Libs refer to as gender-confirming therapy is when you tell a confused boy that

00:35:17.500 he's a girl, which would be the opposite.

00:35:20.640 That would be gender-confusing therapy. 0.99

00:35:23.320 Which says, any attempt to ban sick perverts from trying to trans your kid theoretically 1.00

00:35:29.320 infringes on the rights of the parent. 0.97

00:35:31.300 But this hasn't dissuaded the party from its attacks on trans rights.

00:35:34.800 In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton had previously issued an opinion defining gender-affirming

00:35:38.840 care as child abuse, which it is.

00:35:40.600 Trans children and their families must now fear the long arm of the state, which will

00:35:44.080 reach into their most private and personal affairs.

00:35:45.560 So I want to be fair to this woman, Sarah Jones.

00:35:47.760 What she's saying is, look, you got all these parents showing up and saying, stop transing 1.00

00:35:51.240 my kids, you perverts. 0.99

00:35:52.260 And, you know, fair enough, that's where most parents are. 0.97

00:35:55.540 But then in response to this, some people, like in Texas, have come in and passed laws

00:36:00.080 saying that transing the kids and chopping up their genitals and mutilating their bodies

00:36:05.520 and trying to pretend that they're a different sex, that that is child abuse, which it obviously 0.99

00:36:09.740 is.

00:36:10.540 And therefore, that infringes on the rights of the handful of confused pervert parents who 0.67

00:36:15.940 are trying to trans their own kids. 0.99

00:36:17.040 So see, you hypocrite Republicans, you're not really standing for parental rights. 0.99

00:36:24.240 Okay, fair enough. 0.99

00:36:26.380 You're right.

00:36:27.440 Republicans right now, in trying to give parents the ability to at least see what's going on

00:36:33.060 in the curricula, curriculum transparency, the right to decide that teachers should not

00:36:39.060 teach kooky sexual theories to first graders, that stands up for the rights of the vast majority

00:36:45.580 of parents who don't want that sort of thing.

00:36:47.580 But yes, it does infringe on the rights of a handful of extremely confused or extremely 0.95

00:36:52.380 ignorant or extremely perverted people who are trying to trans six-year-olds. 0.94

00:36:57.220 That's good. 1.00

00:36:58.380 We like that.

00:36:59.880 We stand up for parental rights as a procedure, generally speaking.

00:37:04.260 But there is more than that.

00:37:05.920 It's more than just the procedure.

00:37:07.440 We stand up for what is right, for what is good, for what is just.

00:37:16.100 No, we should not, we do not defend the rights of parents to do anything.

00:37:22.140 We, for instance, we don't defend the right of parents to abuse their children, whether

00:37:27.260 that means punching them in the face repeatedly, whether that means depriving them of food, or 0.98

00:37:32.380 whether that means cutting off their genitals. 1.00

00:37:33.960 We don't defend that. 0.96

00:37:35.200 But we do defend the rights of parents generally.

00:37:39.100 And in this particular case, by the way, where you've got kooky educational establishment

00:37:44.900 trying to trans your kids and ordinary normal parents saying, don't trans my kids, we are

00:37:49.340 defending the rights of parents there because they're right and the educational ambition

00:37:53.680 is wrong.

00:37:54.300 What Sarah Jones points out, she says the rights of real ambition is not restoration, but expansion.

00:37:59.140 They want to create new rights on top of the privileges parents already enjoy.

00:38:02.880 In the party's view, parental rights both supersede and exist in conflict with the rights of the

00:38:07.980 child.

00:38:08.600 The right insists that what's good for parents is good for kids.

00:38:10.640 This is not necessarily the truth, as any queer person can say in return. 0.96

00:38:14.400 What?

00:38:14.980 The idea that children are already people with thoughts and needs independent of their parents

00:38:18.560 never factors into the party's position at all.

00:38:20.960 The parental rights movement is not new.

00:38:23.080 The concept is associated with some Christian homeschool activists who lobbied for a constitutional

00:38:26.620 amendment that would enshrine the right of a parent to teach their kid at home.

00:38:30.520 The language might sound familiar.

00:38:34.000 The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a

00:38:37.040 fundamental right.

00:38:37.580 Okay.

00:38:37.940 So what they're saying is, look, the kids have rights.

00:38:40.980 This is such a creepy idea to say that the kids have the right to make life-changing,

00:38:48.660 permanent sexual decisions because the necessary logical conclusion of that idea, the inevitable

00:38:59.060 logical conclusion of a five-year-old has the right to mutilate his body or a 10-year-old

00:39:04.120 has the right to take puberty blockers, to try to look more like a girl when he's a boy 0.89

00:39:08.720 or vice versa.

00:39:09.540 The inevitable conclusion is that children can consent to have sex with adults. 0.74

00:39:16.700 That's the inevitable conclusion.

00:39:18.660 It seems far-fetched, does it?

00:39:20.460 I don't think it really does.

00:39:22.460 Surely if a child can make a, if the child has the reason and the judgment and the maturity

00:39:28.240 to make a permanent sexual decision, surely that child can make a temporary sexual decision.

00:39:35.940 Now, I for one, I guess I'm a little old-fashioned.

00:39:38.500 I'm a little old school.

00:39:39.500 I think that little kids do not have the judgment and the reason and the maturity to make these

00:39:45.180 kind of profound, significant decisions.

00:39:48.540 Certainly on sexual matters.

00:39:51.300 The left doesn't believe that.

00:39:52.740 And the left has been pushing this creepy stuff for a hundred years almost.

00:39:56.960 This goes back all the way to the early 20th century, to a creepy writer named Wilhelm

00:40:02.860 Reich, who I write about him in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is

00:40:06.780 the number one bestseller.

00:40:07.520 Thanks to you.

00:40:07.920 Thank you very much for that.

00:40:09.540 Wilhelm Reich was this weirdo who said that the cause of all the problems in the world,

00:40:14.440 war, discord, disease, even cancer, the problem is that people don't have enough orgasms. 0.55

00:40:22.300 Seriously, this is what he believed.

00:40:24.000 He said, therefore, he had a box.

00:40:26.260 He called it the orgone accumulator.

00:40:28.760 He thought there was this sort of life vital force floating in the ether called orgones.

00:40:33.780 You need to get those.

00:40:34.900 And you would go into this box, the orgone accumulator, and I don't know what you did

00:40:38.800 in the box, but that would help you to solve all the problems of the world.

00:40:43.480 Woody Allen made fun of this idea as the orgasmatron.

00:40:48.660 Right?

00:40:49.120 This is the, was it Woody Allen or Mel Brooks?

00:40:51.040 I forget.

00:40:51.320 Easy to confuse the guys.

00:40:53.220 The, the orgasmatron, right?

00:40:54.960 And there were a lot of people who, who bought into this.

00:40:57.400 J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, very serious people.

00:41:00.720 When Bernie Sanders in the 1960s and 70s wrote all these creepy essays in Vermont about how

00:41:05.060 kids should, should be able to molest one another, and that's fine.

00:41:08.700 And, and you can, also you can read them in my book, Speechless, because I quote, quote

00:41:11.760 those essays there.

00:41:13.240 He, he was not unique.

00:41:14.700 He was, he was speaking to a prominent strain on the intellectual left, which was saying

00:41:20.880 that kids ought to have a ton of sexual rights, rights to have sex, rights to change their 0.90

00:41:25.860 sex now, little tiny kids. 0.67

00:41:30.860 And when parents say that's a bad idea, you've got creeps like Sarah Jones in the New York 0.97

00:41:35.220 magazine saying, how dare you? 0.98

00:41:36.880 You're infringing on the right of little kids to do weird sex stuff. 0.97

00:41:40.440 These are the people who are running the most powerful institutions in our country.

00:41:46.240 And there are more people who are running on this, on this platform.

00:41:50.980 You thought he was gone.

00:41:52.560 You thought he had been vanquished.

00:41:54.580 You thought he was just circling around a Whataburger parking lot on his skateboard.

00:42:00.380 He lost his race for Texas Senator to Ted Cruz.

00:42:04.260 He lost his race for president pretty early on, despite a lot of establishment support

00:42:10.700 in 2020.

00:42:12.140 You know who I'm talking about.

00:42:14.360 America's favorite fake Mexican, Beto O'Rourke, who is now running for governor of Texas. 0.78

00:42:19.780 If at first and second, you don't succeed, try and try and try and try and try again.

00:42:24.820 Beto O'Rourke is running for Texas governor on a platform of transing the kids.

00:42:31.520 Beto O'Rourke just released a new ad about how gung-ho he is to finally fulfill the will

00:42:39.980 of Texas voters by transing the kids. 0.61

00:42:44.040 I've been on bio youth in the education system of Texas.

00:42:46.960 I was wondering what you were going to do to protect my rights and my parents' rights

00:42:50.640 to be able to put me on testosterone.

00:42:52.380 The trans suicide rate has been the highest it's ever been in Texas since those bills

00:42:55.420 have been placed.

00:42:56.380 I mean, we're seeing people trying to take their lives right now, and it's a tough thing

00:42:59.880 for us to talk about, but you're right, we should say it out loud.

00:43:02.580 So we speak about everyone in this state with pride.

00:43:05.640 We talk about a Texas that is big enough for all of us.

00:43:08.560 We target no one based on any difference between us, whether it is the color of your skin,

00:43:15.000 your country of national origin, or the fact that you are non-binary.

00:43:19.220 I think you're amazing.

00:43:20.580 I'm proud of you.

00:43:21.480 I want you to do great things in this state, and I'm going to support you in doing that.

00:43:25.760 And I'm going to say that publicly as the governor of this state.

00:43:28.480 That's going to be a big change for Texas.

00:43:30.340 It just feels like he would be defending me and caring about my rights as a trans non-binary

00:43:34.620 person.

00:43:35.340 It feels like he'd care, and he'd actually listen to our voices and our thoughts about

00:43:39.100 everything.

00:43:40.640 Beto O'Rourke ran in 2020 on a platform of, hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15s.

00:43:48.880 And now in 2022, he's running for governor on a platform of, hell yes, we are going to take

00:43:55.980 your gonads.

00:43:57.540 Yes. 1.00

00:43:58.620 Hell yes, we're going to trans your kids. 1.00

00:44:02.800 This is very important.

00:44:04.340 You're amazing.

00:44:05.220 You're amazing.

00:44:05.960 You're amazing.

00:44:06.680 Wait, hold on.

00:44:07.800 Hold on.

00:44:09.080 The confused people that Beto O'Rourke was talking to there, and the radical sexual activists

00:44:14.380 that Beto O'Rourke was talking to there, they might be perfectly nice people.

00:44:19.360 I don't know.

00:44:19.900 I don't know them.

00:44:21.120 They might be productive members of society.

00:44:23.540 If they're showing up to Beto O'Rourke rallies, I highly doubt it.

00:44:26.840 But maybe they are.

00:44:28.700 Maybe they volunteer and do good stuff.

00:44:31.320 Maybe, I don't know, maybe they, you know, helped little old ladies cross the street.

00:44:36.600 Why are they amazing?

00:44:38.700 They're amazing because they don't know what sex they are, or they're pretending to be a 1.00

00:44:44.280 different sex, or they're insisting that we get rid of bathrooms for women, or they're 0.99

00:44:49.220 insisting we get rid of women's, and that's amazing. 1.00

00:44:52.360 Why is that amazing?

00:44:54.580 Am I amazing because I have swarthy skin?

00:44:57.460 Am I amazing because I have, what, two or three inches of hair?

00:45:01.360 We're a little coif.

00:45:02.160 Is that, am I amazing because of some way that I present myself to the world?

00:45:09.320 No, what, it's not, it's not really amazing.

00:45:12.300 Beto O'Rourke is pandering here.

00:45:13.720 I guess the thing that is amazing, really, this goes deeper than anything Beto O'Rourke

00:45:20.480 has ever been able to think in his entire life.

00:45:22.600 But there is something amazing about the transgender issue, which is, one, as a biological matter,

00:45:28.920 this affects very, very few people.

00:45:30.940 I have, I have, listen, I have no doubt this is a fallen world.

00:45:33.520 Some people are born with nine fingers and 11 toes.

00:45:36.540 Some people are born, people are born with all sorts of quirks because we're all, we've

00:45:40.980 all got imperfections.

00:45:42.520 And so, sure, I'm, I'm sure there's some biological basis for all sorts of sexual pathologies and

00:45:47.500 confusions.

00:45:48.620 There's also, obviously, a social aspect here.

00:45:50.700 You look at Gen, Gen Z, the Zoomers, 40% of them, 4-0% of them identify as LGBT. 1.00

00:45:57.500 So either Alex Jones is right and there's something in the water turning all of the freaking frogs 0.99

00:46:01.760 gay. 0.98

00:46:02.060 Or there's a social aspect here that's not really rooted in any kind of born this way

00:46:06.880 or, or natural or even, even, you know, uh, natural environmental factor that's going

00:46:13.020 on.

00:46:14.700 But what's, what's amazing here is that as technology advances, the physical aspects of our lives

00:46:23.200 seem to matter less and less and less.

00:46:25.580 You, you, you hear this from our ruling elites all, all around the world, not just in our

00:46:30.660 country, but all around the world.

00:46:31.940 The World Economic Forum, talking about the Great Reset, right?

00:46:34.480 Where they say, you're going to work from home a lot more.

00:46:37.200 You're not going to go to an office.

00:46:38.160 You're not going to see people too much.

00:46:40.280 You hear it from Facebook where Mark Zuckerberg says, you're not going to go to bars and meetings

00:46:45.080 and birthday parties and weddings.

00:46:46.280 You're just, you're going to sit in your little apartment and you're going to put goggles

00:46:49.820 on and you're going to live in a Candyland world that I made myself.

00:46:53.880 And then you're going to interact with cartoon versions of people.

00:46:56.580 You're going to leave the real world created by God for your flourishing.

00:47:00.340 And you're going to go into a creepy video game invented by a lizard person named Mark Zuckerberg.

00:47:05.240 That's, isn't that a great trade?

00:47:07.260 Why would you want this world with, you know, the over, the brave or hanging firmament, the,

00:47:13.040 the majestical roof fretted with stars, the beautiful wildlife, the flora, the fauna,

00:47:19.280 everything, all of our real loves and hopes and joys.

00:47:23.280 Why would you live in that world given to us by our incomprehensible, all loving creator

00:47:29.740 when you can live in a weird video game made by a human lizard?

00:47:34.280 Wouldn't that be in your little pod that you don't, you're not allowed to leave because,

00:47:37.880 you know, there are germs outside where you just eat the bugs.

00:47:40.840 It's very important.

00:47:41.520 They're a good source of protein. 0.59

00:47:42.520 Make sure you eat the bugs.

00:47:44.440 Our elites tell us, isn't that great?

00:47:46.040 In your physical body, in this hellish dystopia, does not matter as much.

00:47:52.300 And what transgenderism says is your body doesn't matter as much. 0.54

00:47:56.280 Yeah, my body, I look like a man.

00:47:57.760 I talk like a man.

00:47:58.660 I've got this deep, slightly gravelly voice because my allergies are acting up.

00:48:03.040 It's not just one too many cigars.

00:48:04.700 But I've got, you can see, I've got an Adam's apple.

00:48:06.140 I look like a fella.

00:48:07.140 But deep down, I'm really a lady.

00:48:09.820 And that's, that's all there is to it. 0.97

00:48:11.220 A Gnostic heresy, as I said, it all, we get dumber every year. 1.00

00:48:16.920 We get, in our modern world, we've never been so stupid because what we are seeing with 0.99

00:48:21.860 this transgenderism issue is nothing more than the same old Gnostic heresy that's been 1.00

00:48:26.080 going on for thousands of years.

00:48:27.460 And every few hundred years, every 500 years or so, rears its ugly head to try to destroy

00:48:32.760 civilization.

00:48:34.800 Beto O'Rourke made an important point there.

00:48:36.340 He said, Texas is big enough for everybody.

00:48:41.800 Sure.

00:48:42.320 I mean, I, the thing is that there's no such thing as a transgender non-binary person.

00:48:47.380 I'm not saying the people who believe that they are that don't exist, but it's a category

00:48:51.560 error.

00:48:52.040 That category of person doesn't exist.

00:48:54.140 It's a delusion and delusions should not be encouraged.

00:48:57.960 But is it, is it big, is Texas big enough?

00:49:00.360 It's not big enough for all these ideas.

00:49:02.080 Frankly, the country is not big enough for all these people.

00:49:04.120 So we're running out of time, so we'll have to get to this tomorrow.

00:49:07.760 A shocking new number just came out.

00:49:09.920 The number of immigrants in the United States, legal and illegal, has hit a record high, 46.6

00:49:15.560 million in January.

00:49:17.260 It's up 1.6 million just in the last year since Joe Biden was inaugurated.

00:49:22.460 This is part of a bigger problem.

00:49:23.960 I mean, I mean, no disrespect to any immigrants from any country that they come from.

00:49:29.700 That's just too many.

00:49:30.760 That's just too many foreigners in a country to have a country. 1.00

00:49:34.020 A country proceeds by having traditions, by having bonds of friendship and citizenship,

00:49:42.920 common language, a common experience.

00:49:45.100 You can let immigrants in.

00:49:46.240 I'm not saying to shut immigrants out entirely, but you can't just flood the country with an 1.00

00:49:50.500 entirely new people and expect to have the same country.

00:49:53.360 It's not possible.

00:49:54.620 And we are seeing that.

00:49:55.360 We are seeing borders changing, countries changing left and right, whether it's in Eastern

00:49:59.640 Europe or even more distressing, perhaps, right here at home.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 24, 2022

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