The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Every time I fly into Kansas City to give a speech, there's a problem. A few years ago,

00:00:06.460 I flew in to speak at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, to give a speech titled Men Are Not

00:00:12.280 Women. And some wacko in the audience attacked me. And the following day, the chancellor of

00:00:18.200 the university sent out an email to the entire school apologizing, not to me for being attacked,

00:00:25.240 but to everyone else for the fact that I had been invited in the first place.

00:00:30.480 Well, it's deja vu all over again. This Thursday, I am scheduled to fly into Kansas City to give

00:00:38.160 another speech, this time at Washburn University in Topeka. The student group that invited me

00:00:44.360 wants me to speak on the very same topic. This confusion between men and women and what the

00:00:50.620 difference is, it seems to have only gotten worse in recent years. As Judge Ketanji Jackson proved last

00:00:56.860 week during her Supreme Court nomination, or her confirmation hearings rather, when she could not

00:01:01.520 define the word woman. Yet again, the university leadership has sent out an email condemning me

00:01:10.320 for a speech I have not yet given for making the bold and controversial claim that boys and girls

00:01:18.820 are different. I received an anonymous tip last night that has since been confirmed,

00:01:23.520 that the president of the university, Jerry Farley, sent out a campus-wide email preemptively

00:01:31.520 condemning me for the speech that I have yet to give. This president, Jerry Farley, I've just

00:01:37.060 confirmed with Young America's Foundation, personally signed the contract inviting me to speak.

00:01:43.580 He personally signed a physical contract on March 8th saying, Michael, please come visit

00:01:49.660 Washburn University and give your talk. And now, before I even give the speech, this man is condemning

00:01:56.120 me as the worst person in the world. Here's what he had to say to the Washburn University community.

00:02:02.920 A Washburn student organization has invited a speaker to campus who has a history of inciting fear and

00:02:10.200 distrust. While I am strongly in support of First Amendment rights, I am disappointed when those

00:02:16.300 rights are used to make others feel unwelcome and even unsafe in our community. While we support the

00:02:23.200 right to speak freely, Washburn University does not condone the hate and misinformation spread by the

00:02:30.700 speaker and his supporters. I'm going to pause right there. Those are some pretty bold claims that this

00:02:37.920 man is making about me. Inciting fear and distrust, making others feel unsafe, spreading hate and

00:02:48.080 misinformation. What evidence does he cite for these defamatory claims? Nothing, of course. No evidence exists.

00:02:57.060 It's just not true. I haven't done any of those things. He is libeling and defaming me. A speaker who he

00:03:04.240 personally invited to his campus, when he signed that contract, that is a personal invitation.

00:03:09.080 He is endorsing the student group's invitation. He is defaming me in the most vicious language he can

00:03:14.520 based on absolutely nothing. He goes on. Thursday also happens to be International Trans Visibility Day.

00:03:25.220 Washburn University supports the trans community and students who identify as LGBTQ+.

00:03:32.440 Side note, apparently now we're capitalizing the T in trans. I don't know when that happened.

00:03:37.760 That's the new thing. So just to let you know where the rules are. Trans Visibility Day, by some happy

00:03:42.980 coincidence or providence perhaps. He goes on. We support and stand in solidarity with trans people

00:03:49.100 around the world and encourage you to learn more about the issues affecting students, faculty, and staff

00:03:54.840 who identify as LGBTQ+. We will continue to engage our resources to influence the campus community

00:04:01.780 to be an inclusive place where all feel they are protected, affirmed, and valued.

00:04:09.240 An inclusive place where everyone is affirmed and valued, except for that hate-mongering monster,

00:04:17.460 Michael Knowles, that devil himself who has the gall to say that boys aren't girls at a university.

00:04:24.300 Except for the students who invited that horrible monster, and the faculty, and every sensible person

00:04:31.820 in the history of the world, all of whom know that men and women are different, all of whom said so

00:04:38.940 until five minutes ago when our leaders decided we were not allowed to state basic truths anymore.

00:04:45.300 He concludes,

00:04:46.760 I encourage you to celebrate the day with messages of compassion and support. With your help, this

00:04:52.580 university can be a shining light and example to the greater community. We will learn together

00:04:58.160 and from each other, and we will be better people for the effort. Jerry Farley, President.

00:05:05.200 I hope we will learn together. I hope the excitable leftists at Washburn University, President Farley

00:05:15.180 foremost among them, will be able to learn from my speech on Thursday about how boys and girls are

00:05:21.660 different. Probably should have learned that a little bit earlier than college. Probably should

00:05:25.540 have learned that a little bit earlier than becoming the president of a college. But I hope they learn

00:05:30.480 basic truths about human nature. And if that's too much for them, I hope at the very least,

00:05:35.520 they learn that conservatives are not going to be bullied and silenced and forced to kowtow to their

00:05:40.400 ridiculous ideological fantasies. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:08:00.200 The transgenderism issue is such a big national debate, not because the majority of people are

00:08:08.500 confused about the difference between men and women. They're not. The vast majority of people

00:08:14.080 are extremely clear on the difference between boys and girls. It reminds me of that meme,

00:08:21.880 the IQ bell curve meme, where you've got the really dumb person all the way at the bottom of

00:08:26.640 the bell curve, and he says, you know, men and women are different. And then you go all the way

00:08:31.740 to the top of that bell curve at the IQ, I don't know, about 110 IQ, 120 IQ. So you've got some genius

00:08:37.900 guy says, actually, men and women are exactly the same. And actually, men can become women. And actually,

00:08:41.180 it has nothing, and I can't define what a woman is. I'm not a biologist. And all these kind of,

00:08:46.180 and then you get all the way to the top of the IQ bell curve, and you get the super duper genius

00:08:51.600 Jedi. And he says, actually, men and women are different. Roger Scruton, the late conservative

00:08:56.420 philosopher, he said, the job of the conservative intellectual is to articulate the things that

00:09:02.980 the common people know to be true intuitively. That's the job. And it's only those people in the

00:09:11.160 about this sort of thing. The vast majority of people know that this ideology that is now

00:09:18.740 pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones, that is mutilating people's perfectly healthy

00:09:23.380 organs, they know that the ideology is wrong. It's based on fantasy, and it's extremely destructive.

00:09:29.860 So then why are we still talking about it? Why does this ideology keep getting pushed?

00:09:34.460 Because it is an elite issue. The elites in government, in academia, in corporate America,

00:09:43.580 the elites are disproportionately pushing this issue. I'm not sure that there's any study on this,

00:09:51.160 so I'm not studying statistics. I'm just speaking anecdotally. In my experience, the people who

00:09:57.840 identify as transgender disproportionately come from the elite classes, come from very wealthy people

00:10:05.080 with fathers and mothers, usually, who are working at very elite jobs. That tends to be where this kind

00:10:11.500 of sexual confusion lies, in my experience. And this was just bolstered. This thesis was just bolstered by

00:10:18.860 a CEO, or the corporate president, rather, at Disney. Christopher Ruffa, who's done a great job

00:10:25.960 exposing critical race theory in schools, is over at the Manhattan Institute. Chris Ruffa has just come

00:10:33.920 upon some private footage of an all-hands call at Disney, a video call, where the Disney corporate

00:10:40.140 president described her multiple trans and pansexual children and called for more LGBTQ leads in Disney

00:10:49.620 movies. I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually. One transgender child and one pansexual

00:11:01.040 child, and also as a leader. And that was the thing that really got me because I have heard so much

00:11:09.140 from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple weeks in open forums and through emails

00:11:15.800 and phone conversations. And I feel a responsibility to speak, not just for myself, but for them,

00:11:25.340 to all of us. We had an open forum last week at 20th, where, again, the home of really incredible,

00:11:33.520 groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years, where one of our execs stood up and said, you know,

00:11:40.820 we only have a handful of queer leads in our content. And I went, what? That can't be true.

00:11:48.560 And I realized, oh, it actually is true. We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters

00:11:55.720 in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads.

00:12:03.140 An issue, a sexual and ideological issue that affects an extraordinarily small percentage of the

00:12:09.740 population that is represented in an extraordinary large proportion of the media and in the classrooms

00:12:16.240 and in the corporate boardrooms. The problem, we are told, is that it's not represented enough.

00:12:22.680 Trans Visibility Day, we need Trans Visibility Day. The issue is visible, folks. The issue is visible.

00:12:29.560 The elites in every sphere of our society are pushing it. They're shouting it from the rooftops.

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00:13:43.300 App Store. The corporate president of Disney says that it's very important that we have not just more

00:13:49.800 LGBT LMNOP characters in our movies. There are already a lot, but we need more LGBT LMNOP leads.

00:13:57.580 There are actually already a lot, but we need more. And she says this because she's the parent,

00:14:03.420 she's the mother of a transsexual child and a pansexual child. Now, she's not. She's not the

00:14:13.760 mother of a transsexual and a pansexual. She, I'm sure, is the mother of these two children.

00:14:21.200 And I have no doubt that these children are confused. I don't doubt her that they have

00:14:27.960 sexual confusion. But she is not the mother of a transsexual and a pansexual because those are not

00:14:34.220 real categories of being. I'm not denying anybody's existence. I'm not saying that anyone is invisible

00:14:41.200 to use the language that is so popular these days on the left. But the people that we're talking about

00:14:47.160 here are not transsexual or pansexual is the newest. I don't know what, I think pansexual is just a high

00:14:53.800 class version of bisexual. I don't exactly know what even the meaning, the purported meaning of

00:14:58.740 pansexual is. But whatever it is, these people are not that because it's not a real category of being

00:15:04.760 because a man cannot secretly be a woman. It's just not possible. Lump that one away with Bigfoot

00:15:10.840 and the boogeyman. It's not real. The confusion that these people have may be real. A psychological

00:15:18.440 problem that they have might be real or a social problem, which seems to be the case as these minor,

00:15:24.560 minor, relatively small issues in terms of the population have now exploded to a huge proportion

00:15:31.360 of Gen Z in particular. So it might be the social problem might be real. The confusion might be real.

00:15:36.120 But the actual condition is not because it is not possible. I repeat it because we seem to be so

00:15:45.640 confused. It is not possible for a man to secretly be a woman or for a man to become a woman or for a

00:15:54.500 man to change. Sometimes the left will tell you, well, Michael, sex and gender are different. Sex is

00:16:01.740 not gender. And they say that, and they have a lot of confidence when they say that. But it doesn't

00:16:06.160 mean anything. It's not true. They simply declare it, but they don't provide any evidence for that.

00:16:10.260 What they seem to be insinuating is that sex is physical and gender is metaphysical. But then you

00:16:16.240 have to probe that question further. You say, okay, well, where is gender? Gender is not in the brain.

00:16:20.780 It's not in the body. It's not in the genitals. It's not in the chromosomes. So what is gender?

00:16:24.840 It's non-physical. Okay, it would seem that you're talking about the soul, right? You're talking about the

00:16:28.080 human soul. And very often at that point, they'll say, no, absolutely not. The soul is not real.

00:16:33.340 We're just talking, I'm talking about the brain. Okay, well, if you're talking about the brain,

00:16:36.300 then you're saying it's physical. So now you're saying that sex and gender are physical. And yet

00:16:41.480 your physicality can be both male, entirely male and entirely female. That's not possible. That

00:16:47.820 violates the law of non-contradiction. We've known that since old uncle Aristotle. Well, even if they go

00:16:53.000 and say, okay, gender is non-physical, let's say they'll say that gender is socially constructed.

00:16:59.120 Okay, if it's socially constructed, then reconstruct it. If it's causing you this great

00:17:02.940 deal of suffering, and one of them is immutable, your body, your physique, and then the other one

00:17:07.740 is changeable, your socially constructed gender identity, then just reconstruct it. That's pretty

00:17:13.480 easy. Problem solved. Why would you undergo painful, destructive surgeries and hormone therapies

00:17:20.620 when you could just change the social construction? Well, no, because it's back in the body. Okay,

00:17:25.660 then we're back to square one. It's an incoherent ideology that benefits absolutely no one and is

00:17:31.280 driving society crazy because a bunch of elites can't work through their own personal problems.

00:17:36.100 And because a bunch of elites are enthralled to an extraordinarily stupid and destructive ideology.

00:17:43.360 It's not just this woman. It's not just this lady who's, what are the odds? Has two

00:17:49.700 trans and pansexual children. The odds of having one, even according to the most generous statistics,

00:17:56.520 are infinitesimally small. The odds of having two, maybe there's something more going on here. Either

00:18:02.800 there is something in the water, and Alex Jones is right, or maybe there's something more going on

00:18:07.740 socially. Maybe there's something more going on within the family. Maybe there's something going on

00:18:12.180 ideologically. A Disney production manager was also caught on this open call.

00:18:17.400 claiming that we need more LGBT, LMNOP representation all over the place in Disney.

00:18:27.960 I've had the privilege of working with the Moon Girl team for the last two years,

00:18:32.000 and they've been really open to exploring queer stories. And part of, I'm on the production side,

00:18:37.200 part of the work that I feel like I can put in is making sure that we take place in modern day New

00:18:44.900 York. So making sure that that's like an accurate reflection of New York. So I put together like a

00:18:49.160 tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have like the full breadth of expression.

00:18:55.140 And we got into a very similar conversation, Carrie, of like, oh, all of our like gender nonconforming

00:19:02.980 characters are in the background. And so it's not just a numbers game of how many LGBTQ plus characters

00:19:10.440 you have. We got the further, the more centered a story is on a character, the more nuanced you get

00:19:20.480 to get into their story. And especially with like trans characters, you can't see if someone is trans.

00:19:27.360 There's not one way to look trans. And so kind of the only way to have these like canonical trans

00:19:33.920 characters, canonical asexual characters, canonical bisexual characters is to give them stories where

00:19:40.040 they can like be their whole selves.

00:19:43.460 Canonical transsexual, not, we don't just need the characters. I mean, canonical transsexual and

00:19:50.240 canonical asexual characters where they can be themselves. That's the funniest part of all. That's the

00:19:58.060 funniest part of all because the transgender ideology explicitly says, as that commenter made clear at

00:20:02.380 the top, it explicitly says, don't be yourself. Be an imaginary version of yourself. Be a fantasy. Be the way

00:20:11.760 that you would prefer that you're yourself to be rather than the way that you are in reality. It's the opposite

00:20:17.500 of living authentically. It's the opposite of living your true life. Even asexuality, man is a sexual

00:20:23.160 being. Sex is very important to human nature. As we all know, that's why we're debating sex so much

00:20:29.000 in our politics. We need more of these characters. It made me think Disney is just over. Disney is just

00:20:37.440 completely over. I like Disney. I was never a crazy Disney kid. I never, I didn't watch the Disney

00:20:42.020 channel. I wasn't Gaga over the movies, but I liked them. In particular, I liked Pinocchio. I

00:20:47.440 liked The Lion King. I liked the movies. I watched them as a kid. I liked the older ones, Snow White.

00:20:54.800 And those movies really were great. And I don't just want to sound like an old fuddy-duddy man

00:20:59.520 saying everything's worse these days, but it is worse. If you're now taking really important aspects

00:21:04.940 of human nature, the love between a man and a woman at the center of the sort of, of the human world,

00:21:11.000 at the center of society, if you take that away, if you, if you deny sex and sexual reality,

00:21:16.840 if you deny the things that motivate people and instead you superimpose political correctness on

00:21:22.700 top of it, which is a denial of reality, ultimately it's a denial of reality, well then the movies are

00:21:28.000 not going to be as good. And we know that the movies aren't as good. I'm not saying Disney only makes

00:21:32.060 total crap these days, but the movies that Disney is making today are worse than the movies that

00:21:38.100 Disney made 30 years ago. And they're worse than the movies that Disney made 60 and 70 years ago.

00:21:43.200 So we've still got the old movies. If you have them on DVD or something, good for you. Download

00:21:48.240 them now, save them. Because Disney is over. You can't, you can't in good conscience expose your kids

00:21:55.880 to this crap. Not even because it's going to completely ruin their lives, although if they're

00:22:00.180 peddling transgenderism, it, it won't help. But just because they're, they're just not good movies,

00:22:04.920 they're not going to be edifying if the stories they're telling are contrary to human nature and

00:22:09.920 contrary to reality. And these are the lunatics who are running Disney now. These people who think

00:22:15.380 that the most important thing to do in children's programming is peddle far left sexual ideologies.

00:22:21.560 Before we close out Disney, we've got the executive producer, Latoya Raveneau, talking about how it's

00:22:27.220 so important in Disney. One thing that she has really taken up is queering, queering, that's a

00:22:32.160 verb, I guess, everything. Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like my like not at all

00:22:40.420 secret gay agenda. And so like, I feel like I felt like it was, I mean, like maybe it was that way in

00:22:47.520 the past, but I guess like something must have happened in the last, like, like they were turning

00:22:52.080 it around. They're going hard. And then all that like momentum that I felt like that sense of,

00:22:59.060 I don't have to be afraid to like, let's have these two characters kiss. Let's in the background,

00:23:04.040 like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like, if you see anything

00:23:10.200 queer in the show, I'm proud of them. But like, I just was like, no one would stop me and no one was

00:23:15.200 trying to stop. Everywhere. It's everywhere. The, the Senate candidate, Republican Senate

00:23:21.680 candidate, Blake Masters, he tweeted out the other day in response to one of these crazy issues. He

00:23:25.100 said, not everything has to be gay. We're not saying, we're not saying nothing, but not, not

00:23:32.480 everything, not every single thing. Why is this even coming up? Because Florida passed a law saying

00:23:41.120 that kindergarten teachers, kindergarten through third grade teachers can't preach

00:23:45.840 transgenderism and sex in the classroom. This should have been common sense. You shouldn't

00:23:53.640 need a law for that. That should be so obvious. And in response, Disney, a children's entertainment

00:23:59.100 company said, no, that's too far. If we can't teach transgenderism to kids, if we can't queer

00:24:04.660 everything, if we can't groom little kids, let's call it what it is, then we're going to fight back.

00:24:09.620 We're going to fight back in Florida around the country. It is unconscionable to give your money

00:24:14.620 to Disney. At this point, we need to figure out an alternative. Kind of like sports. Sports used to

00:24:22.040 be fun. They used to be an escape from the stress of everyday life. Now they're a stage for virtue

00:24:26.480 signaling and political actors. Well, NBA star Jonathan Isaac is not having any of it. He faced heavy

00:24:31.780 criticism because he's a normal, intelligent guy who had problems with some of the crazy vaccine push

00:24:39.180 and disrespecting the American flag. And he's just a normal patriot, which is why I'm very excited to

00:24:45.020 announce he's writing a book with us called Why I Stand. The book will be about the rise of his

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00:25:43.600 Sex is not being discussed in kindergartens and it's a good thing that it is. That's the line from

00:25:48.780 the left. That's the line from the left in response to the parental rights and education bill

00:25:52.220 in Florida and similar legislation that's being proposed elsewhere in the country.

00:25:57.400 The same thing that they said about critical race theory. It's not happening. It's not being taught

00:26:01.500 and it's very important and good that it's being taught. So they're speaking out of both sides of

00:26:04.780 their mouth. A kindergarten teacher, a male kindergarten teacher just went on MSNBC to lament the fact that he

00:26:14.300 is no longer able to discuss his love life with his five-year-old students.

00:26:19.040 It really hits hard in my heart professionally and personally both. Professionally, it truly makes

00:26:28.100 me feel like I am not trusted as a professional. I know my kindergarten standards through and through

00:26:36.120 and nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about teaching sexual orientation or sexual

00:26:43.600 identity. So for them to say that that's happening, you know, it's kind of crazy. But we should be able

00:26:52.660 to have discussions and that's what we're encouraged to do in kindergarten. And then personally, because

00:26:56.640 you know, my kids do have questions. They want to know who my partner is in pictures outside of my

00:27:02.280 classroom and I should be able to speak to that. That's what we do as educators. We build relationships

00:27:06.660 with our kids. And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life. You talk about what

00:27:11.200 you do on the weekends. That's building community. I, it scares me to death that I am not going to be

00:27:17.920 able to have these conversations with my children because they're going to ask me what I did on the

00:27:22.080 weekend. I don't want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddle boarding this weekend.

00:27:25.700 I don't know about you. I do not want this creep to have a relationship with his children, which are

00:27:34.860 really my children, which is really our children with his children. He says, look, he follows the

00:27:40.620 exact liberal script. He says, this isn't happening. We are not teaching anything about sexuality in the

00:27:46.360 classroom. And also it's terrible because I have to be able to teach sexuality in the classroom.

00:27:51.040 We're not teaching it. It's not in the curriculum, but we are discussing it.

00:27:55.300 The hell do you think teaching is? Teaching is when a teacher discusses something with students.

00:27:59.740 That's what, that's teaching. And it's very important that when my students ask me about my

00:28:06.280 partner in the photos outside of my classroom, why are there photos of your boyfriend outside of the

00:28:11.760 classroom? Why? That should not be happening. Well, they're, they're asking questions, right? You're,

00:28:18.020 you're luring them to ask those questions when you post photos of your love life in the kindergarten

00:28:23.560 classroom. And now, now I won't even be able to talk about going paddle boarding with my boyfriend

00:28:29.360 this weekend. Yeah, you're damn right. You're not able to talk about that. What the hell is wrong with

00:28:33.500 you? I usually don't get that hot under the collar. I'm a pretty chill guy. This is the creepiest thing

00:28:39.080 I've heard in months. A kindergarten teacher begging, pleading on national television,

00:28:45.960 even MSNBC, which nobody watches, but still national television, technically, pleading to be able to talk

00:28:51.940 about his date nights with his boyfriends to five-year-olds whom he refers to as his children.

00:28:58.920 If this man is this confused about the appropriate role and behavior of a kindergarten teacher,

00:29:06.040 if this man is so unwilling to follow the law with regard to education in Florida,

00:29:12.540 the man should be barred from the classroom, period. I'm glad he goes on TV. I'm glad that he is exposing

00:29:20.760 the kind of creepy radicalism that we are seeing in the classroom. This is happening all over the place.

00:29:30.300 It's not. I think we can now officially throw out the first line, the first part of the story

00:29:38.320 that we hear from the left. It's not happening. Critical race theory, it's not being taught.

00:29:44.120 It's not being taught. It's only being taught in a few classrooms at Harvard Law School.

00:29:47.680 And also, it's really important that we teach it in kindergarten. We can throw out that first part now.

00:29:52.680 So it's not just going on in Florida. Yesterday, I talked about the Austin Independent School District

00:29:58.120 in which a teacher was complaining because the gay pride parade for the fourth grade students

00:30:05.340 was not loud enough. It was not explicit enough. Well, we've got some video. Thanks again to,

00:30:13.980 I believe it was our friends at Libs at TikTok. It might have been Ian Miles Chong. I'm not sure.

00:30:18.460 I want to give appropriate credit. The pride parade that was going on at this Austin school

00:30:25.240 was, it was more than just waving some rainbow flags. You've got the flags. You've got this one

00:30:34.720 woman, I think it's a woman, wearing a very, very short miniskirt. Actually, it's, no, it's less than a

00:30:41.580 miniskirt. Multiple women wearing less than a miniskirt, lots of leather, dancing around

00:30:48.360 with little kids. With, what are they, eight or nine years old? Some look even younger than that.

00:30:56.640 With these people, like leather daddies, dressed up in skimpy little thongs with miniskirts covering

00:31:03.360 it. Stiletto heels. These people, this is, if you, if you played this clip, if you're not watching

00:31:12.740 this, if you're listening to this right now, I encourage you to go back later on once you,

00:31:16.260 once you pull over, once you get back tonight. I encourage you to, to look at this clip, to actually

00:31:21.480 watch what's going on because my description actually is not doing justice to how radical

00:31:27.360 and creepy this is. And obviously the flags, the, the trans, there's a trans flag now that's pink and

00:31:33.780 blue. And then there's a pride progress flag. It's like the gay flag, but with a bunch of

00:31:39.440 racial stuff in it as well. These people not only should not be in an elementary school,

00:31:47.860 these people should be in a prison. You should not be able to put on obscene,

00:31:53.140 sexually explicit dances for and with nine-year-olds without any consequences.

00:32:00.240 By the way, all of this used to be illegal all over the country. Actually, one of the

00:32:06.200 toughest cities for transgenderism, cross-dressing, that sort of thing was, forget about the kids for

00:32:13.200 a second, was actually San Francisco, which is now sort of the epicenter of this sexual radicalism.

00:32:18.920 Does anybody believe, does anybody believe that this is normal or acceptable?

00:32:25.220 Anyone who is not a complete radical leftist, I don't care if you're straight, I don't care if

00:32:29.380 you're gay, I don't care even if you're confused about which sex you are. If you are in any way,

00:32:34.760 if you have any tether to reality, you cannot watch that video. You cannot listen to these radicals and

00:32:41.240 say that's normal. No, of course not. This is why the vast majority of Americans support the Florida

00:32:45.740 bill. This is why over 60% of Americans support the Florida bill, despite all of the absolute

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00:33:26.960 Ron Perlman is the actor who played Hellboy and has been in some other things. Ron Perlman has been

00:33:32.720 going on some unhinged Twitter rants in recent days. Ron Perlman just gave a rant toward Florida

00:33:42.060 Governor Ron DeSantis reacting to the don't say gay bill.

00:33:48.020 Good morning, Governor DeSantis. Ron here. Don't say gay. Don't say, as the first two words

00:34:03.180 in a sentence spoken by a political leader of a state in the United States of America, don't say.

00:34:11.540 don't say you Nazi pig. Say. First Amendment. Read about it. Then run for office. You piece of

00:34:28.180 shit. Yeah, read about it. Read about it. You got to read. You're not doing your reading. That's why

00:34:35.020 you passed a bill that I was told by the media is called the don't say gay bill.

00:34:41.540 Even though I didn't read it, and I don't realize it doesn't say don't say anything at all.

00:34:48.180 He is, this guy, no one has ever accused Ron Perlman of being the brightest bald in the pack.

00:34:52.800 But this guy is yelling at Ron DeSantis for something that he's never said. He's yelling about

00:35:02.420 a bill because of something the bill does not say. Then he gets really hot under the collar about it.

00:35:09.220 But I don't think that Ron Perlman is an outlier. Yes, he's a Hollywood guy. Yes, he's a little

00:35:18.480 eccentric. I think that's what most liberals who oppose the don't say gay bill, I think that's what

00:35:26.400 they're reacting about. I think they're reacting in basically exactly the same way as Ron Perlman.

00:35:31.340 They are tilting at windmills. They're fighting against something. They're knocking down straw men.

00:35:36.320 They're fighting against something that is not real. Perlman just came out. He sent out another

00:35:41.900 angry Twitter video at Senator Tom Cotton for his questioning of the Supreme Court judge,

00:35:50.140 the nominee, Ketanji Jackson.

00:35:53.120 Tom Cotton. That can't really be your name, can it? What is that? Product your unpaid employees

00:36:03.360 pick for you? For profit? You f***ing white slaver. Piece of s***. That line of questioning you pulled

00:36:12.820 on that incredibly beautiful woman yesterday. Your staff is probably cowering as you read those

00:36:21.460 statistics that they under duress put together for you, unless they're a bunch of white f***ing

00:36:28.000 slavers too, which is probably the case. Who else would work for you, you piece of s***?

00:36:33.780 F***. Play back your line of questioning and tell me that wasn't the most racist thing I've seen

00:36:40.800 since Jefferson f***ed Davis. F*** you. Someone clearly received his Biden crack pipe delivery before

00:36:50.860 the rest of us did. I keep waiting. I keep checking my mailbox. Where is my Biden crack pipe?

00:36:55.260 And there, Ron Perlman got his and probably a few other people's before. That's the only way that

00:37:00.920 I can explain this, except for this. What's his argument? His argument here is Republicans

00:37:05.740 who criticize Ketanji Jackson, the most radical Supreme Court nominee ever in the history of the

00:37:11.040 country, they are racist. That's all he's saying. And he's got colorful language and he's saying it in

00:37:17.220 kind of a stupid way. But that's the point. That's the thesis. Republicans, if they oppose this nominee,

00:37:22.720 are racist. That's what every liberal believes, pretty much. Maybe that's a little unfair.

00:37:28.080 That's what every prominent liberal says. That's what the leading Democrats say. That's what the

00:37:35.760 leading television commentators say. That's what the leading blue checkmark liberals are saying.

00:37:39.580 That's what they're almost all saying. Republicans are opposing this woman because she's black,

00:37:44.380 because they're racist, even beyond this woman. Republicans are racist. That's why they do what

00:37:48.880 they do is because they hate black people. That Republicans who support the Florida education

00:37:56.660 bill, they hate free speech. They're opposing the first. He sounds like a dummy because we can hear

00:38:02.880 him and we can see him. But he's not saying anything different than any of the prominent liberals on

00:38:08.960 either of those issues. How terrifying is that? We're living in a nation half full of Ron Perlman's.

00:38:14.620 These are the main Democrat arguments and they're BS. They're BS. I mean, this is the sort of thing

00:38:21.480 that you're hearing, not just from kooks on Twitter. You're hearing it from the president

00:38:25.640 of the United States on a totally separate issue, but with the same degree of dishonesty.

00:38:29.740 Joe Biden is now shifting his attention away from COVID. That's a loser for him. Away from

00:38:34.960 foreign policy. That's a loser for him. Now he's finally got to address the economy.

00:38:39.040 And he's making an argument that has been debunked time and time again, namely that billionaires are

00:38:46.400 paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. Under my plan, as I said, no one making less than

00:38:51.440 $400,000 a year will pay additional single penny in taxes. No one. If you don't make 400 grand,

00:38:59.300 you're not going to pay a single penny in additional federal taxes. And the wealthy incorporation will

00:39:04.500 finally begin to pay their fair share. For most Americans, the last few years were very hard,

00:39:11.360 stretching them to the breaking point. But billionaires and large corporations got richer

00:39:16.200 than ever. Right now, billionaires pay an average rate of 8% on their total income. 8%. That's the

00:39:23.140 average they pay. Now, I'm a capitalist, but just, if you make a billion bucks, great. Just pay your fair

00:39:31.620 share. Pay a little bit. A firefighter and a teacher pay more than double, double the tax rate

00:39:39.200 that a billionaire pays. That's not right. That's not fair. I love the whisper thing. I love when you

00:39:48.420 get the full gamut of Biden's emotions that he doesn't seem able to control. So you get the

00:39:52.220 shouty Joe Biden. Come on, come on. You get, you get, you get the secret vaguely sexual whispering

00:40:00.200 Joe Biden. It's not fair. It's not fair, he says, that billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than

00:40:05.440 teachers and firefighters and then their secretaries. Except it's just not true. It's not true. Even

00:40:09.240 PolitiFact, which is a left-wing fact-checking outlet, they refuse to give a formal declaration,

00:40:14.840 true or false on this, because that would disadvantage Democrats in the algorithm on which news stories are

00:40:19.880 allowed to pop up on social media. But they, they said on this claim that, that billionaires pay a

00:40:25.740 lower tax rate than their secretaries. They said, is it true generally? No. Generally speaking, it's

00:40:31.780 not true. Of course not. Yes, the billionaires are paying the, the capital gains tax rate for a lot of

00:40:38.520 the money that they're getting. But first of all, that money has already been taxed at the corporate

00:40:41.900 level. So let's not forget about that. And second of all, it's just not, when you look at the actual

00:40:47.520 numbers, you break it down. In principle, it's not true. And then in practice, it's not true either.

00:40:54.880 Joe Biden failing on the economy, failing on foreign policy, failing on crime, failing on

00:41:01.600 immigration, failing on public health, failing on civil liberties, failing on, he's below, I'm speaking

00:41:07.640 in objective terms. He's doing the wrong thing on all of those issues, but also in subjective terms,

00:41:13.580 the voters don't like what he's doing. He's below in the polls on all of those issues.

00:41:16.980 So what does he do now? Well, he just signed into law a bill that will finally outlaw lynching,

00:41:24.100 which doesn't happen. It doesn't occur ever and is already illegal. It's already very,

00:41:31.300 very illegal, but he's going to make it double on illegal. It's going to be double, triple illegal.

00:41:36.420 Biden just signed the Emmett Till anti-lynching law. The last lynching in America took place

00:41:43.160 40 years ago, but that was sort of a one-off. The last spate of lynchings hasn't really happened for,

00:41:52.800 what, 70 years now? There's something, you know, lynching was a problem from the late 19th century

00:42:00.920 century up until the early to mid 20th century. Even then, though, it's not like we're talking

00:42:05.700 about tens of thousands of people being killed. I mean, it was still thousands of people, but

00:42:09.580 it was a much smaller problem than, I think the left would have you believe that this was hundreds

00:42:15.680 of thousands of people were being killed. And it's not true. It was a problem. It was a big issue.

00:42:20.620 Extrajudicial killings are always a problem, but it was dealt with. It was dealt with 70 years ago,

00:42:24.660 and it's already against the law. By definition, it's against the law. It's extrajudicial.

00:42:28.800 And then they beefed up legal protections, and then it went away. And now Joe Biden is trying to

00:42:32.660 solve a problem that was solved 70 years ago because he can't solve any of the problems that

00:42:36.000 are going on today. And I say this as an Italian-American. You know, the Italian-Americans

00:42:41.580 were the victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. All right, so I said, this is a,

00:42:48.040 I'm speaking with all of the credibility and authority and ethos of identity politics that the left

00:42:54.260 forces on us. I'm telling you, as a, as a son of Rome, it's not a problem. It's not a problem.

00:43:00.900 And Joe Biden's only signing this thing so that he can get a victory for a problem that doesn't exist

00:43:07.260 because there are a lot of problems that do exist and he's making all of those worse.

00:43:12.420 How did this guy become president? How? We're told he got the most votes ever for anyone ever in the

00:43:20.940 history of voting. He's so, he's the most popular president ever, and yet he's below water on every

00:43:27.000 issue. His approval rating's in the tank. The only thing he's got going for him is that while his

00:43:31.560 approval rating's in the 30s, his administration is somehow even less popular. His vice president is

00:43:36.480 much less popular, Kamala Harris. So how did it happen? Some people suggest there were shenanigans

00:43:43.240 in the 2020 election. I've suggested that. In fact, we know that that's true. We know that in

00:43:50.180 the 2020 election, there was outright illegality. We know that the way the election was conducted in

00:43:56.980 Pennsylvania was not constitutional according to the state constitution. State constitution

00:44:01.260 expressly prohibits widespread mail-in ballots. The state pushed it anyway. And so that, that's just

00:44:07.660 one example. We know that there were irregularities, let's call them, in a lot of states. Well, now,

00:44:13.400 right here on RealClearPolitics, there's new peer-reviewed research that finds evidence of

00:44:18.760 2020 voter fraud. The claim that's generally, there are three claims. One is no, no shenanigans at all.

00:44:25.080 Yes, Democrats changed all the election rules in the weeks and months before the election.

00:44:28.520 Yes, it took a long time to count the ballots. Yes, there were some anomalies, but no, it's the totally

00:44:32.600 safest, best election ever. No one has any doubts about it. If you, if you doubt the results,

00:44:37.540 then you're a crazy, kooky conspiracy theorist. Then there's the second group, which says,

00:44:42.040 yes, obviously the election was rigged. They changed the rules. There were a lot of problems,

00:44:46.960 but it wasn't enough to change the results of the election. So Biden would have still won,

00:44:51.220 but yeah, there were some shenanigans. Then there's the third group, which says,

00:44:54.760 we're not so sure if Biden actually got the most votes in the right places to become president.

00:44:59.920 He is the president now. He's been sworn in. He is effectively the president, but

00:45:03.640 maybe that election wasn't totally kosher. Well, this, this new peer reviewed research from John

00:45:09.820 R. Lott, who is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. And until January of

00:45:14.800 2021 was the senior advisor for research and statistics at the department of justice's office

00:45:20.580 of legal policy, where he dealt specifically with issues of voter fraud. He seems to think

00:45:25.940 the election was a lot more rife with abuse than people are letting on. He points out by a margin

00:45:33.720 of 52 to 40% voters believe that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 election. Not just that there

00:45:40.920 was cheating, but that it affected the outcome. That's according to Rasmussen reports. Even 34% of

00:45:48.100 Democrats believe cheating occurred. 38% of people who, quote, somewhat support Joe Biden believe

00:45:54.140 cheating occurred. Men, women, all age groups, whites, those who are neither white nor black,

00:45:59.280 Republicans, those who are neither Republicans nor Democrats, all job categories, all income groups,

00:46:03.760 except people making over 200 grand per year. And all education groups, except for those who attended

00:46:08.920 grad school, believe the same thing. Well, there's now this, this peer reviewed research. It's coming

00:46:15.920 out in the economics journal, public choice, which finds around 255,000 excess votes, possibly as many as

00:46:22.360 368,000 excess votes for Joe Biden in six swing states where Trump made allegations of fraud.

00:46:32.100 Biden only carried those states by 313,253 votes. So anywhere from 255,000 excess votes, okay,

00:46:41.360 Biden still wins, up to potentially 368,000 excess votes. Well, maybe Biden doesn't win in that case.

00:46:47.760 And that excludes Michigan where the, where the gap was 159,065 votes. As Mr. Lott points out,

00:46:55.640 the point of this is not to contest the 2020 election. I think it's probably silly to contest

00:47:00.160 the 2020 election. It's, it's over. Joe Biden is the president. Maybe he won fair and square. Maybe he

00:47:05.980 totally cheated. Maybe it was a stolen election. He is the president though. There's no, there have been

00:47:10.020 stolen elections in American history. That's how, that's how Lyndon Johnson became a senator and then

00:47:14.640 became the president through a stolen election. So that happened. But the reason that it's important,

00:47:19.240 I know a lot of Republicans just want to move on this. They don't raise any questions about the

00:47:22.120 irregularities in 2020. Don't even raise the prospect of cheating. Well, it's very important,

00:47:26.980 not because of 2020, that's over. We're in it. We're in it. We're under the Biden administration.

00:47:31.680 It's because of 2024. It's because if we do not have confidence in our elections,

00:47:37.220 then the Republic's going to crumble. Democrats don't have confidence in it.

00:47:40.320 Republicans don't have confidence in it. There's evidence of a lot of rigging

00:47:43.280 going on. And so we have to keep talking about that because of this basic political issue.

00:47:48.820 It's why we keep talking about transgenderism actually in a certain way. Because if we can't

00:47:54.520 agree on the definition of man and woman, it doesn't matter what our tax debates are going to

00:47:59.420 be. It doesn't matter even what our debates over crime or immigration are going to be.

00:48:03.200 We can't speak to each other. If we can't speak to each other, we can't have self-government.

00:48:06.280 If we don't have faith in our most basic systems of politics and government, then all those second

00:48:13.680 order political debates are not going to matter. The country is in a very tough spot. We need to

00:48:19.940 get back to basics. Can we trust our votes? Can we trust our system of election? And perhaps more

00:48:26.600 importantly than anything, do we even know what a man and a woman is anymore? I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:31.460 This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:49:22.860 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Disney executives are now openly admitting to their gay agenda,

00:49:26.960 their words, not mine. Another executive in a recent staff meeting bragged about her pansexual

00:49:31.620 child. We'll talk about Disney's freefall plummet into far-left wokeism. Also, a kindergarten teacher

00:49:36.980 worries that the Florida bill just signed into law will prevent him from talking to his students

00:49:41.080 about his love life. But why does he need to talk to them about that? That's the question. And Biden

00:49:45.620 signs the Anti-Lynching Act, thanks to Republicans who provided him this opportunity to virtue signal.

00:49:51.060 Jim Carrey is speaking out against Will Smith's violent outburst at the Oscars. Why is he almost the only guy

00:49:55.560 in Hollywood saying anything about it? Plus, a Republican congressman claims that he's been

00:49:58.960 invited to drug-fueled orgies by other members of Congress. And our Daily Cancellation, Jon Stewart

00:50:04.080 has white guilt and he wants to tell us all about it. We'll listen and then cancel him. All of that

00:50:09.520 and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

Ep. 973 - University President Condemns My ＂Hate＂ Speech Before I've Spoken

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