The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 978 - Trans Radicals Make War In Kids’ Minds & Supply The Bullets

00:00:00.000 The national debate over transgenderism, and specifically transgenderism in elementary and

00:00:05.840 middle schools, has focused on three things. Biology, psychology, and theology. Three questions.

00:00:14.540 What is a woman? What is gender? And who are we? But there's a fourth aspect that's gotten very

00:00:22.140 little attention and maybe playing a larger role in this transgender phenomenon than most people

00:00:28.320 seem to know. Money. Who's paying? When the White House promoted puberty blockers for little kids

00:00:36.360 last week, transgender transitioning for little kids, the study that the White House cited as the

00:00:43.080 scientific basis for this program came from a group called the Trevor Project. The Trevor Project

00:00:49.840 is an LGBT nonprofit organization funded by the donations of individuals and corporations. Now,

00:00:58.320 according to a new report from Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon, turns out two of the

00:01:03.980 corporations that fund the Trevor Project are Abvi and Allergan, pharmaceutical companies that make

00:01:12.100 the drugs and medical products that are used in the transgender transitioning process. Both companies

00:01:19.580 gave at least $50,000 to the Trevor Project. But the Trevor Project never disclosed the donations.

00:01:28.280 They never disclosed the obvious conflict of interest. The government's argument for transitioning kids 0.60

00:01:35.420 rests on a study funded by the companies that most stand to benefit from the government promoting the

00:01:42.480 transitioning of kids. And they all justify the medical experimentation on little kids on the grounds 1.00

00:01:49.300 that the interventions will reduce the kids' risk of suicide when they get older. But it turns out that

00:01:56.140 science is totally bunk too. Just a few years ago, a group of scientists, including a physician who

00:02:03.000 participated in clinical research for Abvi, wrote in a letter for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology

00:02:10.360 that the transgender drugs for kids could cause sterility, sexual dysfunction, and heart disease 1.00

00:02:18.840 without any proof of long-term success in suicide prevention. In other words, the White House is

00:02:26.180 peddling child abuse based on bunk science commissioned by a left-wing non-profit funded by the companies

00:02:33.560 selling the child abuse. We are living in a time of unprecedented upheaval, economic, social,

00:02:41.280 and political. People don't even know what a woman is anymore. And even still, at least one political 1.00

00:02:48.160 rule endures. He who pays the piper calls the tune. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:54.720 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Angela Osmus-Gill, who says,

00:03:08.920 a fetus is an item just like a black person used to be considered property. Wow. Yes, this is in 0.94

00:03:16.740 reference to this horrible story out of D.C. where five babies, just obviously, undeniably, full-term

00:03:24.380 babies were aborted, meaning they were killed. It was just outright infanticide. There were photos of

00:03:30.040 this, and the authorities are not doing anything to the people who killed the babies, and they're

00:03:35.380 actually prosecuting the people who blew the whistle on it. And the contradiction here is that

00:03:41.880 they were referring to the babies as items that were taken out of the home, but they're prosecuting

00:03:49.000 the pro-lifer because of the way that she was treating dead bodies. So the babies are bodies for 0.98

00:03:56.000 the purpose of prosecuting the pro-lifers, but the babies are items for the purpose of letting the

00:04:02.520 killers off the hook. It's an obvious contradiction. You say it's similar to treating black people like 0.74

00:04:07.540 people for the purposes in the Old South of, say, representation in the government, right, the three-fifths

00:04:12.960 compromise, but treating them like property for the purposes of their actual rights. Yes, that's true,

00:04:18.920 and it's why I got in trouble a little while ago for making this point. It's why abortion is not only

00:04:23.980 similar to slavery, it's much worse. If you have a problem with slavery, I think we all do, if you

00:04:30.220 have a problem with slavery, then the issues of abortion are much, much worse. Because while slavery

00:04:35.020 deprives someone of his liberty, abortion deprives someone of his life on the same kind of sick 0.87

00:04:41.180 arguments. It's sick, and we've got to articulate these things. We've got to do them ourselves.

00:04:45.900 We've got to make this argumentation and this persuasion ourselves. Now, when we want to do

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00:04:55.980 rockauto.com and write Knowles in their How Did You Hear About Us box. Prices are going through the roof.

00:05:04.740 This is because of rampant inflation, among other things. Every time you go to fill up the gasoline in

00:05:11.040 your car, we're probably paying double what you were paying a year ago in some places. The car has

00:05:17.620 been very expensive for me. So what are you going to do? I'm going to give you two scenarios. You can

00:05:21.380 either go to the brick and mortar auto parts store, and you can drive over there. That's what, 15 minutes

00:05:26.100 of your time. Then you've got to stand and wait in line. Then you've got to get peppered with questions

00:05:29.420 by the guy behind the counter. Then he goes behind the counter. He doesn't have the part that you want.

00:05:32.540 He comes back out. He orders it online. You've got to drive them. You've got to drive back in about a week,

00:05:35.800 and you've got to pay twice as much. That's one thing you can do if you're a dummy, 0.98

00:05:39.100 or you can go to rockauto.com, a family company that has served auto parts customers online for

00:05:44.700 20 years. Same prices for pros and do-it-yourselfers. No gimmicks. No wake up at 3 a.m. to save 15%. No.

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00:05:56.380 See all the parts available for your car or truck, and then write Knowles in there,

00:05:59.360 how did you hear about us box, so they know that we sent you. You want to talk about medical

00:06:04.120 corruption. Gosh, we've had medical corruption up to our eyeballs for the past couple of years.

00:06:10.560 Now we're seeing it with this transgender issue for kids. Obvious conflicts of interest. A lot of 0.68

00:06:15.620 people making money on outright child abuse. But what about the last two years of medical

00:06:20.540 corruption, where the so-called medical authorities have lied to us, have misled us every single turn,

00:06:25.900 shut down our lives, closed our businesses, kept us out of church, had our loved ones dying alone,

00:06:30.720 all because the exalted Dr. Fauci would wake up every morning and, based on his whims, would decree

00:06:36.740 how we're all going to live. Wear the masks. Don't wear the masks. Keep locking down. Lockdowns

00:06:41.940 are bad. Actually, they're good again. On and on and on and on. And everyone believes. Everyone,

00:06:47.080 you sweet summer children, you really believe. Maybe not you. If you're listening to this show,

00:06:52.680 you're probably a little more with it than most. Most people believe that COVID's over

00:06:57.480 because they sent Fauci into witness protection because they've moved on. Now Biden is talking

00:07:04.120 about Ukraine or Biden is talking about some other issue. The COVID mess was hurting Democrats in the

00:07:12.540 polls. It's an election year. So they're not talking about it anymore. And I told you, you know,

00:07:16.500 I hate to say I told you so. You know, I hate to put on my old Stradamus hat, but I told you it's not

00:07:21.800 going away. They're going to bring COVID back. The moment that it's politically convenient,

00:07:25.240 they're going to do it. Biden never got rid of the national emergency authorization. They still

00:07:29.500 haven't gotten rid of masks on airplanes. They're still holding out the masking for kids under five

00:07:35.560 in New York City. They're still asking you and sometimes telling you outright to get the 57th

00:07:41.140 booster shot. It's not over. They've kept the power that they've been taking for the past two years.

00:07:46.160 And now from the New York Times. The New York Times says COVID-19 is coming back again.

00:07:53.440 And here's how to prepare. This is your checklist from the New York Times for how to prepare

00:07:57.800 for the new wave of COVID-19. One, pay attention to COVID indicators in your community. Two,

00:08:04.660 have high quality masks on hand. Three, order home COVID tests sooner rather than later. You need to

00:08:11.920 know if you have a mild cough. Get a booster when you're eligible. I think we're up to what number are

00:08:16.560 we up to now? 93 or 104? Well, whatever it is, get your booster because of how effective the

00:08:21.640 vaccines are. That's why you need to keep getting your boosters. Get a pulse oximeter. That's a new

00:08:26.520 one. I didn't know I had to get one of those. Make a plan for antiviral drug treatment, but not

00:08:31.000 ivermectin and not hydroxychloroquine and not anything that any conservative has done. Just get

00:08:36.840 whatever drug Fauci is selling. Have backup plans for social events and travel. This is what you need

00:08:41.860 to do to prepare. And let me just very quickly. No, no, no, definitely. No, don't know what that

00:08:49.940 is, but no, no. And no, I think I'm going to keep my plans. I'm not going to do any of this

00:08:55.400 like Nancy Pelosi at the State of the Union, not making any plans. COVID is over in the Knowles

00:09:02.180 household. Really? It never began. We had COVID, but we got COVID now twice. It's fine. Glad to say

00:09:09.800 it's fine. We're here. We're living. It's cool. The COVID lockdown measures never existed in the

00:09:17.480 Knowles household. We mocked it from day one. We're going to continue to mock it. Just tell them no.

00:09:23.700 This obviously has nothing to do with science. This has everything to do with politics. This

00:09:28.080 especially has to do with the midterm elections that the libs are going to try to gin up COVID again

00:09:33.700 and push the widespread mail in ballots and give themselves quite an advantage at the ballot box.

00:09:39.000 So no, the new wave of COVID may be coming at the New York Times headquarters, not going to be

00:09:44.840 coming here. Fauci isn't giving up though, even though the powers that be are trying to put him

00:09:50.240 into witness protection because he's damaging their poll numbers. He's coming out. He's even

00:09:54.520 suggesting the prospect of another lockdown. It depends on utilizing a lockdown in a positive way,

00:10:03.760 as opposed to just thinking you're going to hide from the virus forever.

00:10:07.880 We need to utilize it in a positive way. Well, how the hell have you been utilizing it for the last

00:10:12.660 two years? I wish you thought about utilizing them in a positive way two years ago. People sometimes ask

00:10:19.160 me how Fauci gets away with it. How has Fauci stuck in power for 40 years? If you want to find out

00:10:25.340 the full answer to this, we've got a three-part docu-series on Daily Wire. It's one of the most

00:10:30.440 popular products we've ever put out for the Daily Wire audience. It might be number one.

00:10:34.780 It's Fauci Unmasked. You can get that today at dailywire.com. It's the whole story, what you've

00:10:40.060 never heard before, what you've never seen before. And it's important because they're going to bring

00:10:42.900 this little jerk back. One of the ways that Dr. Fauci has maintained power is that Dr. Fauci is 0.98

00:10:48.320 never wrong. He's never wrong because he's always said the right thing in addition to the wrong thing

00:10:54.480 because Dr. Fauci holds both sides of every single issue that's ever been put before him.

00:10:59.760 The clearest example is the masks. Don't wear the masks, wear the masks. Sometimes wear the masks,

00:11:05.420 always wear the masks. But it's true of lockdowns too. Dr. Fauci had said lockdowns don't work.

00:11:09.180 And Dr. Fauci also says lockdowns do work. He's been doing this since the 1980s. He's been doing

00:11:13.540 this for his entire career. So now we're going to have to maybe utilize lockdowns in a positive way.

00:11:18.700 We're probably going to have to utilize those lockdowns in a really positive way for Democrats 0.98

00:11:22.640 right before the midterm elections. So no one can go out there and vote in person. So we're all

00:11:26.860 going to send in mail-ins and then magically all the Democrats are going to win. Or at least they're

00:11:30.760 going to stop the tidal wave that the polls show for Republicans right now. Fauci, and this ties back

00:11:36.320 into the point that we were talking about at the top. Fauci has been the most aggressive, the most

00:11:41.820 belligerent on fighting the virus, right? We have to, we cannot take into consideration economic

00:11:48.960 thoughts, national security, our civil rights. No, we have to do everything we can. Keep your foot on

00:11:54.980 the pedal to keep fighting the virus. But we're not allowed to talk about where the virus came from.

00:12:00.360 We can't talk about China. We spoke to one of the WHO investigators who've been to Wuhan to

00:12:07.220 investigate how the virus started. And they were prevented from seeing key details and from speaking

00:12:12.700 to key people. Why do you think the Chinese government did that? You know, I don't want to

00:12:18.580 create any or mention any disparaging remarks about that. But the Chinese are very closed 0.91

00:12:26.420 in a way of being very reluctant, particularly when you have a disease that evolves in their country,

00:12:33.680 they become extremely secretive, even though there's no reason to be secretive. I think they were

00:12:39.360 very concerned and maybe embarrassed that the virus evolved from their country, but there's nothing

00:12:45.000 wrong with that. So when they see something evolving in their own country, they tend to have

00:12:50.760 a natural reflex of not necessarily covering things up, but not being very open and transparent.

00:12:59.000 I don't listen. I'm not going to criticize China. And actually, what he's going to do is cover up for

00:13:03.440 China like he's been doing from the very beginning. That's when he wasn't funding the Wuhan

00:13:07.120 laboratory, which he also lied about. Why though? Why is the American ruling class all of them

00:13:12.020 everywhere in the media, in entertainment, in the government? And why are they carrying water for

00:13:16.320 China? Because China is buying up all the resources in our country. China owns our debt. China has given

00:13:21.920 crooked deals to Joe Biden, for goodness sakes. The Bidens have made millions of dollars because of

00:13:26.180 China. China has been buying up Hollywood, buying up entertainment, and he who pays the piper calls the 0.89

00:13:33.100 tune. Poor Joe Biden. I never thought Joe Biden was particularly in control of this government.

00:13:42.000 Biden is an empty suit. Biden is merely an avatar for the political establishment, the deep state,

00:13:47.880 the administrative state, call it whatever you want. He's always been that way for his entire career,

00:13:52.340 and especially now that his braid is made of pudding and he doesn't know which end is up.

00:13:55.500 But nowhere was this clearer than just, just yesterday. Barack Obama came back to the White

00:14:03.400 House. Everyone was very excited to hear Obama speak. And at the reception, no one wanted to talk

00:14:10.220 to Joe. There he is. Joe's looking around. He's trying to wave and says hello to someone, tries to get

00:14:20.360 their eye on it. And then he turns around. He says, everyone's talking to Obama. Here's Joe. Who's

00:14:25.100 going to talk to me, the president of the United States? Each and every one of us at some point in

00:14:30.540 our lives has been this guy at a party. But we don't really know anyone there. And we're sort of,

00:14:36.940 who am I supposed to talk to? Should I go join that conversation? And no, maybe I'll just kind of

00:14:42.280 walk around. And should I go? Maybe it's getting kind of late. Maybe I'll get out of here. Now,

00:14:46.200 the difference, of course, is that Joe Biden does know everyone in that room because he's at the

00:14:51.880 White House. And the other difference is none of us has ever been the president of the United States.

00:14:56.980 When you're the president of the United States, people generally want to talk to you. You're a

00:15:03.020 pretty influential and important person. You're never left wandering alone at the party. What this

00:15:09.960 reveals is not merely this awkward, sad, excruciating moment for Joe Biden. It reveals that he's not

00:15:17.200 really where the power is. Everyone wants to talk to Obama. Obama's still wielding a lot of power.

00:15:24.120 But in the White House, does anyone really believe that Joe Biden is the one calling the shots?

00:15:28.820 No. You know how we know that? Because Joe Biden will go out and give speeches notably on Ukraine.

00:15:33.680 And then five seconds later, the White House will contradict him. And then he will contradict

00:15:38.760 what he had previously said and go along with whatever the White House says. Isn't Joe Biden

00:15:43.320 supposed to be the White House? When we talk about the White House, we're using an object to refer to

00:15:48.740 the president, usually. But now we're not. We're using the object to refer to the broad, faceless,

00:15:55.600 nameless power structure that doesn't seem to give a damn about what Joe Biden thinks or really to even

00:16:00.520 say hello to him. Democracy, our democracy that we hear so much about from the libs doesn't seem to be

00:16:08.500 all that democratic. It seems like there is more of a permanent kind of bureaucratic apparatus that's

00:16:15.520 actually running the show. And when even when Joe Biden claims to have gotten 87 gazillion votes,

00:16:21.540 the most votes ever, he's the most popular guy in the world. No one really cares. No one really

00:16:26.460 cares what he has to say. Speaking of our democracy, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I,

00:16:31.840 your humble host, am a grave threat to democracy. This according to the Yale Daily News. I will be

00:16:39.540 going to Yale next week with Senator Cruz. He and I are going to be doing an episode of our verdict

00:16:45.480 podcast there live. And the Yale Daily News is encouraging people not to attend. According to

00:16:52.420 this opinion column from a freshman at Yale, Cruz and Knowles are speaking. Do not go.

00:16:58.700 The argument for why I am. He talks about how Senator Cruz is a threat to democracy because he

00:17:04.800 supported Trump and that's terrible. But I'm a threat to democracy apparently because on the

00:17:09.060 anniversary of January 6th, I implored people to remember, quote, the wise men who traveled a great

00:17:15.980 distance for their leader, the true leader of us all in defiance of an unjust government.

00:17:20.200 I am not saddened that someone is attacking me in the Yale Daily News, frankly, that brings me back

00:17:28.400 to my youth. It's been a solid decade since that's happened and it brings back happy memories.

00:17:32.880 I am upset, however, that these supposedly educated Yalies don't get my excellent feast of the epiphany 1.00

00:17:39.420 joke that I told on January 6th about the wise men following their true leader. Okay, that's fine.

00:17:44.260 So the student goes on. Let's be clear. Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles are guilty of chipping away

00:17:50.220 at democracy. This is a terrible thing. We should care about democracy. Quote,

00:17:56.060 holding fast to democracy starts at the local level by refusing Cruz and Knowles an audience.

00:18:01.760 You have a method of intervention. Buy tickets, but don't attend.

00:18:06.000 That's a genius move. Pay us not to do anything. You're showing us, hey, by the way,

00:18:12.060 if you send me just Venmo payments right now to Michael Knowles, that'll really show me,

00:18:17.020 that'll teach me a lesson. And the more money you send, the more of a lesson I'm going to learn,

00:18:22.360 libs. Checks are fine, too. You can make them out to cash. That'll, ouch, that'll hurt. That'll sting.

00:18:28.660 Refuse to legitimize the event, he writes. You signal to other Yale students and to the organization

00:18:33.260 that invited them that democracy is non-negotiable and that you refuse to normalize the normal,

00:18:37.920 the abnormal, rather. This is what good civic action looks like. There are many ways to do this.

00:18:41.340 I'm only suggesting one. Yale is an influential cultural, political, and economic institution.

00:18:46.800 Yale's, this is my favorite line of the whole piece. Yale students flush with that great power

00:18:54.080 hold the great responsibility to fight for a more just and healthy democracy.

00:19:00.880 Democracy is non-negotiable. Don't go see Cruz and Knowles. Okay. The reason I bring this up is not

00:19:07.440 merely to make fun of the truly grandiose notions that 18-year-olds at Yale have about their place

00:19:16.820 in society and their role in America. It is our, we must defend. We 18-year-old Yale students are the

00:19:23.880 great bulwark against tyranny. We must wield our great power of picking a few classes and going to

00:19:31.200 parties on the weekends. We must wield that power to save democracy. But it's because of this word

00:19:36.740 democracy. Because they keep using that word democracy. And democracy does not mean, I think,

00:19:42.580 what they think it means. Ted Cruz, whether you like him or not, is a United States senator. He was

00:19:50.040 elected by the people of Texas. He is a, as representative of American democracy as it gets.

00:20:00.960 I do not hold elected office. I have a podcast. I have a few podcasts. They're pretty popular podcasts.

00:20:08.740 They get lots and lots, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views, sometimes over a million views.

00:20:13.220 I'm not saying that means that I am a representative of American democracy, but it does mean that there is

00:20:19.020 an audience for this. That's at least some of the American people want to hear what I have to say

00:20:24.220 and want to engage with the kind of reporting that we're bringing here and the kind of stories

00:20:28.860 that we're, that we're discussing. That would be, to a smaller degree, representative of American

00:20:35.340 democracy. And I would suspect that Senator Cruz and I are a little more representative of American

00:20:42.440 democracy than an 18-year-old at Yale. So why does the 18-year-old at Yale think that he

00:20:48.100 is the great defender of democracy? Because he's not really talking about democracy. When the libs use

00:20:54.260 the word democracy, what they really mean is liberalism or progressivism or leftism or whatever

00:21:01.020 word you want to use. But this explains how a United States senator speaking is anti-democratic,

00:21:08.780 but some extraordinarily unrepresentative, elite, far left people are speakers for democracy. This

00:21:19.700 explains how in 2016, when the people vote for Donald Trump, that's an assault on democracy.

00:21:25.100 This explains how in Hungary, when the people vote for Viktor Orban, who is a conservative leader there,

00:21:29.820 that's reported everywhere in the West as an assault on democracy. Because it has nothing to do with

00:21:35.000 democracy and it has everything to do with liberalism. And I think it has everything to do

00:21:39.220 with the liberal and ultimately then progressive view of the world, which is that

00:21:44.080 there is a clear ending point for history. There is a clear political end that we are going to.

00:21:54.060 The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. And by justice, the libs mean their political

00:21:58.340 program. And this is good for everybody and we should all know it. And so anytime that an election

00:22:04.620 doesn't go the way that liberals want it to, by definition, that election was illegitimate.

00:22:09.500 This is why the libs don't respect the results of the 2016 election. This kid at Yale has a problem

00:22:14.680 with Senator Cruz raising questions about the 2020 election, which was by far the most corrupt election

00:22:19.800 in the last hundred years at the presidential level. This is an election where they changed all the rules

00:22:24.680 right beforehand and where in some states they held the election in violation of the state

00:22:28.600 constitution, like in Pennsylvania. This is an election where there are lots and lots of questions.

00:22:34.620 And yet if you raise questions about that election, you're a threat to democracy. If you raise questions

00:22:38.840 about the 2016 election, which was a perfectly ordinary election, which was not conducted during

00:22:43.020 a global pandemic with widespread mail-in ballots, where the worst thing they could claim occurred in

00:22:46.980 2016 is that the Russians spent a hundred grand on Facebook ads. The Daily Wire spends that on Facebook

00:22:52.120 ads in what, like two hours? It's nothing compared to what you would see in terms of an actual

00:22:57.860 interfering campaign in an election. And yet they say that's illegitimate. It's only

00:23:03.680 illegitimate because the conservative won. And I can't wait. I, look, the event, this advice isn't

00:23:10.300 really all that wise in the Yale Daily News because the event that I've got with Senator Cruz sold out

00:23:14.780 within about two seconds. So it's already sold out. But I would encourage people to stand in the waiting

00:23:20.300 line. We're going to get out there. We're going to spread some conservative views to a campus that has

00:23:25.720 gone extremely left. And it's going to be a great deal of fun. This is, this is where the fight is at.

00:23:31.860 This is why what you're seeing in Virginia, in Florida, even in South Dakota now, the political

00:23:37.260 fight to stop the radical left is focusing on the schools. That's where it should be. The schools,

00:23:43.980 the classrooms are a crystal ball to show you what your country is going to look like in 20 years.

00:23:48.760 You know, Drew Clavin just released a new book. It's called The Truth and Beauty. I cannot recommend

00:23:54.500 it enough. After years of studying the Gospels, trying to find the true meaning of Jesus's words,

00:23:59.920 Drew is ready to share his thoughts on this. And Drew has come to Christianity in a kind of unusual 0.61

00:24:06.760 way. He was a liberal, intellectual, literary figure for most of his life. And then he was

00:24:12.320 baptized, I think, at age 50. He figured out, he figured his way out of the secular leftist

00:24:20.060 materialism that has wrought so much damage on the world. The book is terrific. It's part memoir.

00:24:25.520 It's part gospel meditation. It's part musing on the romantic poets, these English poets from

00:24:32.540 centuries ago. It's a really terrific book. Head on over to Amazon or wherever you buy your books.

00:24:37.740 Order your copy of The Truth and Beauty today. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:24:41.540 Christy Noem, governor of South Dakota, has just banned critical race theory, not only in K through

00:25:01.720 12 schools, but at the college level as well. I brought two bills this legislative session

00:25:07.880 that banned critical race theory from being taught in our classrooms in our K-12 schools

00:25:13.680 and another one that banned it in our universities. The legislature supported and passed, and I

00:25:19.780 signed into law the university one. So now in South Dakota going forward, critical race theory

00:25:25.700 cannot be taught in our universities. They killed the K-12 one. So tomorrow I will be signing an

00:25:33.400 executive order to make sure that critical race theory is not taught to our kids in our public

00:25:38.720 school systems too. You go, girl. I like it. It's great. I'm not sure if this has any teeth. As she

00:25:46.700 says, I brought these bills before the legislature and they got shot down. So I'm signing an executive

00:25:51.640 order. Executive orders can be pretty weak. So the devil's in the details. I hope it works.

00:25:56.600 But the very fact that Kristi Noem is doing this shows you where the energy is on the right.

00:26:04.940 The squishes are going to tell you that Americans don't want to hear about the cultural issues. 0.99

00:26:09.660 Stay away from race. Stay away from sex. Just focus on deregulation and free trade and cutting 0.65

00:26:16.120 taxes. That was the common sense view on the right. And it's not true. It's not true. We know it's not

00:26:24.120 true because Glenn Youngkin tried to run that campaign and he was losing. And then he turned

00:26:28.540 his campaign on to transgenderism and critical race theory and he won. We know it's not true 0.83

00:26:32.780 because the most popular governor in America right now is Ron DeSantis, who's not running on the,

00:26:37.580 oh, let's all kumbaya and get along and forget about the cultural issues type of sloganeering in

00:26:42.960 Florida. He's running on kicking crazy gender theories out of schools, kicking crazy racial theories

00:26:48.220 out of schools. And he's extremely popular because of it, both in Florida and nationally. And Kristi Noem

00:26:53.180 is a weather vane. I'm not saying this to insult Kristi Noem. Good honor. I'm glad that she's,

00:26:59.340 she's fighting for these policies. But Kristi Noem infamously refused to protect women's sports 1.00

00:27:08.720 in college. She, she had a bill come before her where she, where the bill was going to ban men 1.00

00:27:15.480 from competing in women's sports and she shot it down. She later reversed herself on that,

00:27:20.800 but she shot it down because who knows, because maybe she didn't want to lose some sports 0.99

00:27:26.000 competitions in South Dakota, because I don't know. Again, I'm just speculating. Maybe she got

00:27:30.420 some calls from corporate sponsors of hers who didn't like that she was going up against

00:27:35.800 transgenderism. I don't know. But for whatever reason, she shot it down. This should have been 1.00

00:27:39.840 a slam dunk clear case issue. And she shot it down. Then she got a ton of political blowback

00:27:44.380 and her political career, at least at the national level was almost over. And so she reversed herself.

00:27:49.000 You saw this with Asa Hutchinson, governor, Republican governor in Arkansas.

00:27:53.600 Asa Hutchinson had a bill about banning the transgenderism for kids come before him.

00:27:58.820 And he said, no, I'm not going to do that. If a kid is being transgendered right now, 1.00

00:28:02.620 I don't want to stop that process. Why? Maybe it's just because he's an idiot. Maybe it's because he's,

00:28:07.420 I'm not even saying he has a low IQ. I'm saying maybe it's because he's a moral idiot who has no sense 1.00

00:28:12.560 of right and wrong and good and bad and is willing to, to stand by child abuse and actually 1.00

00:28:17.080 encourage it and applaud it. Maybe that's why, or maybe there's a more cynical answer.

00:28:21.400 Maybe it's because there are some big corporate donors in Arkansas and maybe he got a phone call

00:28:26.260 and they said, hey, Governor Hutchinson, back off the transgender stuff. And he caved. I don't know. 0.80

00:28:30.880 It's happened to a lot of politicians before him. Wouldn't be surprised if that were the case

00:28:35.340 for Hutchinson as well. Very often, always really, it's the case that he who pays the piper

00:28:41.880 calls the tune. And so you've got all of the entrenched business interests, all of the media

00:28:46.840 interests, all of the tech technology interests, everything is pushing these radical theories. 0.99

00:28:55.640 However, there is one little glimmer of hope, which is that the people hate this crap. They 0.99

00:29:01.500 especially hate the transgender stuff and they especially hate critical race theory. And they 1.00

00:29:06.160 hate it because it's no longer even just affecting them in the boardrooms. It's affecting their little

00:29:09.860 kids in elementary schools. And that's just a bridge too far. And so when we say he who pays the

00:29:15.720 piper calls the tune, the corporations who are throwing billions and billions of dollars around,

00:29:21.500 that's a big deal. That's going to influence things. The voters still have some say in America. 0.95

00:29:28.340 And as long as the voters still have some say, the politicians are maybe going to be a little

00:29:31.900 bit responsive. I don't want to have too negative a view here or too cynical a view of what

00:29:36.060 Kristi Noem is doing. Whatever her motivations, I'm glad she's doing it. It's a good sign coming up

00:29:40.980 for the midterms. Now, the liberals are claiming that this is not an issue. Frankly, critical race

00:29:47.400 theory is not even being taught in schools. You're seeing this not just from the honest and overt

00:29:52.120 liberals on MSNBC and CNN. You're seeing it even from the fake Republicans that they bring on.

00:29:57.040 Someone like Anna Navarro. Anna Navarro bills herself as a Republican strategist. I'm not sure

00:30:03.440 when she's ever won a political campaign in her life or even when she's really worked on a campaign.

00:30:08.160 But Republican strategist, just like Democrat strategist, when you see that on TV, usually that

00:30:12.520 means unemployed person giving an opinion. So they don't know what to say. So they say,

00:30:17.180 you're a strategist. Okay. All right. And that happens to a lot of people. But she's not an actual

00:30:22.280 Republican strategist. She's just a fake Republican who goes on TV to put the Republicans in their 1.00

00:30:27.960 place. She goes on TV to say the liberals are right about everything. And so Anna Navarro just

00:30:32.560 tweeted out repeatedly, repeatedly, five, six times, CRT is not being taught to children. CRT is not being

00:30:39.300 taught to children. CRT is not being taught to children. My answer to her is, oh, great. So then

00:30:45.540 the bills banning CRT in kids' classrooms, they're not a big deal. Great. It's not? Okay, fine. Anna,

00:30:54.240 I take you at your word. Maybe. Let's just go with the hypothetical. CRT is not being taught to kids.

00:31:02.040 So then you should have no problem with the bills that are banning it. I made this point to Ethan

00:31:06.800 Bearman, who's a liberal friend of mine, goes on TV a lot. Ethan, I had him on this show to talk about

00:31:14.480 the Florida parental rights and education bill. I said, Ethan, you're a sensible guy. Why on earth

00:31:18.680 would you oppose this bill? And he said, Michael, it's a non-issue. Sexual ideology of any sort is

00:31:27.540 not being taught to kids in elementary schools, in preschool through third grade. And I said, okay,

00:31:33.220 great. Well, then what's the big deal about banning it? If it's not happening, then it's a

00:31:36.500 non-issue. And he said, well, he realized the contradiction. He realized how he had just undermined

00:31:41.480 his own argument. He said, well, but now maybe it will be taught. He said, well, no, I actually

00:31:45.420 think it won't be taught now because there's a bill outlawing it. And that was the stumbling

00:31:48.440 block for him. So on the one hand, the libs are saying critical race theory is not being taught

00:31:52.520 to kids. And then out of the other side of their mouth, they're saying, and it's a good thing that

00:31:56.100 it is. And it's a big issue because you've now got little kids being told that they are evil

00:32:02.740 because of their skin color. Because they're white, they're evil. And they're going through 1.00

00:32:07.960 exercises in elementary schools where they have to line up on a measure of privilege. The whitest 1.00

00:32:14.680 kids are the most privileged and therefore the most evil. And the blackest kids are the least 1.00

00:32:18.660 privileged and therefore the most virtuous. You've got exercises in elementary schools where kids have 0.55

00:32:24.520 to apologize because they're white. And this stuff is so distasteful and preposterous, even for adults. 1.00

00:32:31.940 I don't know if it's because of my Sicilian heritage, because I've got a little touch of

00:32:36.160 swarthiness to me. I am completely immune to white guilt. I just don't feel it. I know that

00:32:40.940 white liberals feel it. I know that some white squish conservatives feel it. I don't feel it at 0.97

00:32:45.640 all. I don't think that people ought to apologize for their skin color. I just, it doesn't, doesn't

00:32:50.880 do anything for me. But I know that a lot of, a lot of conservatives, they'll just tolerate it when

00:32:57.540 they inevitably get the critical race theory trainings in the corporate sphere or even in their

00:33:03.980 universities. They'll just tolerate it. We're not going to tolerate it in elementary schools. This

00:33:08.380 is a uniting issue. It unites Republicans with a lot of Democrats. It unites white people with

00:33:14.300 black people who don't want this kind of racial ideology with Hispanic people with, with everyone

00:33:19.660 else too. It's a big winner. And it was one of the real knocks on Ketanji Jackson, who's the judge 0.58

00:33:25.200 who's going to be the next justice on the Supreme Court. The Republicans are almost certainly not going

00:33:29.240 to be able to stop her. Her, her nomination has now left the Judiciary Committee. It's going before 0.86

00:33:34.380 the entire Senate. But, but Ketanji Jackson is the most radical judge that we'll ever have had in the

00:33:40.460 history of the Supreme Court. She has praised the founder of critical race theory, one of the

00:33:44.600 founders, Derrick Bell. She's praised the 1619 Project, which pushes the ridiculous lie that the

00:33:49.500 American Revolution was fought to defend slavery. Even the New York Times doesn't defend that thesis

00:33:54.140 anymore. And she's got a weird record on pedos where she let pedos and child rapists off the 1.00

00:33:59.700 hook. And she gave them much lower sentences. So she's, she's got a really, really bad record. 1.00

00:34:05.240 And Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, just basically apologized to her

00:34:11.340 for the horrible GOP attacks, the vi, the utterly vile things that Republicans have said about her during

00:34:18.260 this process. On the whole, my Republican colleagues, starting with my ranking member,

00:34:23.520 Senator Grassley, treated the nominee with dignity and respect. They promised not to turn this

00:34:29.520 confirmation process into a, quote, circus, and most kept that promise. Some, however, did not.

00:34:36.560 Instead, they repeatedly interrupt and badgered Judd Jackson and accused her of vile things in front

00:34:41.920 of her parents, her husband, and her children. There was table pounding, some literal, from a few

00:34:48.160 of my colleagues. They repeated discredited claims about Judge Jackson's record. They impugned her

00:34:53.900 motives and questioned her candor. One all but called her a liar. They even suggested that Judge 0.82

00:34:59.640 Jackson, a mother to two wonderful daughters, quote, endangers children. Judge Jackson is a better

00:35:06.820 person than me. She stayed calm and collected. She showed dignity, grace, and poise. It is

00:35:13.100 unfortunate that some moments in our hearing came to that. But if there is one positive to take away from

00:35:18.740 these attacks on her, it is that the nation saw the temperament of a good, strong person ready to serve

00:35:25.780 on the highest court of the land. Can you imagine politicians smearing a Supreme Court nominee

00:35:33.580 before that nominee's children and spouse and parents? Can you imagine? I can't fathom. Oh,

00:35:40.120 wait a second. Wasn't so long ago that Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for the court. And by the way,

00:35:46.940 the treatment of Kavanaugh and the treatment of Jackson are 100% completely different, utterly

00:35:53.920 incomparable, different in kind. The vile things that Democrats said about Brett Kavanaugh

00:35:59.720 were completely without evidence. They were based on things that he allegedly did 20, 30,

00:36:09.400 40 years prior at high school parties. Again, have to emphasize this with no evidence at all

00:36:16.960 brought by completely uncredible, lunatic women. Like what's her, what was the, Julie Swetnick, 1.00

00:36:25.980 who never met Kavanaugh, who was being represented by some pimp lawyer, who's now a felon, who's going

00:36:31.260 behind bars, Michael Avenatti. He was the man that the Democrats briefly wanted to nominate for

00:36:35.620 president, but then now he's behind bars. And it's, it's, it's not impossible to run for president

00:36:39.840 from behind bars. Eugene Debs did it, but it's, it's not easy. Or Christine Blasey Ford,

00:36:44.880 who changed her story a hundred times. And again, there's no evidence that she ever even met Brett

00:36:49.720 Kavanaugh. Those, they, they called Kavanaugh a gang rapist based on nothing. With Ketanji Jackson, 0.72

00:36:55.700 what were the attacks on her? The senators just read her own court opinions. They just read her own 0.99

00:37:02.260 record. And they deduced from that, that she's a threat to children. She is a threat to children. 1.00

00:37:07.820 She let pedos off the hook. She is a threat to children. She let not even just people consuming 1.00

00:37:12.360 child porn off the hook. That's bad enough. She let actual child rapists off the hook. And we covered 0.99

00:37:16.720 this on the show yesterday. And then one of them goes out and tries to rape another woman. Well, 0.99

00:37:20.620 he should have been in prison, but he wasn't in prison because Ketanji Jackson let him off the

00:37:23.900 hook. And, and by the way, these, the attacks on Ketanji Jackson were not, were not irrelevant to

00:37:29.920 her work as a judge. Forget about reading her actual record. Obviously that's fair game. But when 0.96

00:37:34.380 Marsha Blackburn asks Ketanji Jackson, Hey, what's a woman? That is very relevant to her work as a judge.

00:37:40.760 One, if she doesn't know the answer, then she's so stupid that she must've gone to Harvard two times. 0.98

00:37:44.520 But two, she's going to have to adjudicate cases that are, that, that rest on women's rights. 1.00

00:37:51.900 Things like Title IX. If you don't know what a woman is, you can't adjudicate that sort of thing. 1.00

00:37:56.320 When, when you ask Judge Jackson, her view on natural rights, she said she didn't have a view

00:38:00.040 of natural rights. That's going to affect her jurisprudence. The treatment of Judge Jackson

00:38:04.240 was completely fair, completely incomparable to what happened to Brett Kavanaugh. And she is going

00:38:09.500 to be the furthest left member of the court we've ever had. To quote a great man, sad.

00:38:14.520 Speaking of vile things, not the vile, the vile things said about Ketanji Jackson, but genuinely

00:38:22.020 vile things. This might be, this is one of my least favorite told you so's that I've, I've ever had

00:38:30.720 the displeasure of, of doing. The conservatives are always accused of slippery slope arguments.

00:38:37.580 Oh, you, you don't want to go along with some radical change in society because you think that

00:38:45.000 some crazy, absurd thing is going to happen as a consequence of it down the line. That's a slippery

00:38:49.700 slope fallacy, conservatives. And every time, every time that we predict some other degrading

00:38:58.100 development will occur in our society as a result of some decision occurring right now,

00:39:02.580 every time we predict the slippery slope, it comes true. We predicted that if you change the

00:39:10.040 definition of marriage, soon enough, you're going to change the definition of sex and the human person

00:39:15.600 and obviously the whole definition of the family and you're going to get transgenderism. Obviously 1.00

00:39:19.440 that happened. We predict that if you legalize abortion to any degree, you're going to go from not

00:39:26.460 merely a tepid defense of legal abortion, but a full-throated endorsement. You're going to go from safe,

00:39:31.960 legal, and rare abortion to abortion on demand without apology. Shout it from the rooftops. That 0.58

00:39:36.380 happened. One thing we predicted was that if you lift the traditional social and political

00:39:43.280 restrictions on sexual activity and you redefine marriage and you redefine the whole family and you

00:39:49.720 say that now sexual morality just amounts to if it feels good, do it, you're going to have people not

00:39:55.280 just having sex with each other, whichever consenting adult you want, not even just having sex with 0.77

00:40:02.300 kids, which the grooming thing is on the rise and no one can deny it, you're going to have people 0.99

00:40:08.580 having sex with animals. That's what we said. And everyone laughed at us and they said, oh, you're 0.96

00:40:12.700 a tinfoil hat wearing kooky crazy Alex Jones person. Daily Mail headline today, bestiality brothels are 1.00

00:40:21.480 spreading through Germany, Warren's campaigner as abusers turn to sex with animals as a lifestyle

00:40:27.940 choice. Bestiality brothels are spreading through Germany faster than ever thanks to a law that makes

00:40:35.460 animal porn illegal, but sex with animals legal, a livestock officer has warned. Madeline Martin told the

00:40:44.740 Frankfurter Rundsch show that current laws for protecting animals from predatory zoophiles, that

00:40:51.900 means people who stup animals, are not working because these people are increasingly defending it

00:40:59.140 as a lifestyle choice. Even people listening to this story right now, they might say, oh, that's crazy,

00:41:06.040 that's tabloid madness. No, there's no way that you could, you can't possibly defend having sex with 0.97

00:41:12.360 animals as a lifestyle choice. There's no way to possibly normalize that. These are the people who

00:41:16.900 all said no one would ever normalize pedophilia, which is occurring right now. They're even trying

00:41:20.620 to change the word for pedophile to minor attracted person. They're trying to reduce the penalties for

00:41:25.300 pedophiles. Actually, our next Supreme Court justice did just that when she was planning policy and when 1.00

00:41:30.860 she was sitting on the bench. They say there's no way you could ever do it with animals. Why? Why? Well,

00:41:39.300 the argument is because animals can't consent. Sure, kids can't consent. And we're now, not only are

00:41:45.320 people reducing the stigma for having sex with children or consuming child abuse images, now we're 0.99

00:41:51.380 saying that children should be allowed to lop off their genitals. If a 16 or 17-year-old can't consent 0.94

00:41:57.860 to having sex with a 20 or 21-year-old, and that's what the law says, I think in most places that's what

00:42:04.140 the law says, why on earth could a six-year-old consent to making not just a temporary sexual

00:42:09.780 choice, but a permanent sexual choice to fundamentally destroy his body chemistry and sterilize himself?

00:42:15.300 Why could that happen? I don't know, but the libs are pushing that. The White House is pushing that. 1.00

00:42:20.280 But furthermore, why does consent matter in our dealings with animals? We eat them.

00:42:28.260 I don't think the animal consents to be eaten, does it? We skin them and wear their skin as our

00:42:36.220 clothing. Everything we do with animals is non-consensual. Even when you're just ordinarily

00:42:42.260 sort of shepherding the animals, growing wool on the sheep and doing all sorts of things,

00:42:47.900 that's not consensual. You're not getting a contract from the sheep. You're not getting a contract from

00:42:52.240 the cow. We send them to slaughterhouses. So if we can kill the animals, if we can put them in

00:42:57.460 terrible conditions, if we can wear their skin as our clothing, why can't German perverts stup the 1.00

00:43:04.120 animals? That seems less, if we're saying that rape is one of the most grievous crimes, but less 0.98

00:43:11.680 grievous perhaps than murder, then why are we allowed to cut up the animals and chop them up and eat them 0.98

00:43:16.400 and have them on our dinner plate, but German perverts aren't allowed to stup them? You can't do it. 1.00

00:43:22.600 You can't, there is no argument from just consent that is going to get you there, okay? And this,

00:43:30.120 unfortunately on the left, absolutely, but even on the right, you've seen people distill all morality

00:43:36.020 about all things, not just sex, but everything down to consent. Well, if adults, consenting adults

00:43:42.820 want to do it, that's fine. And it's not the government's role to stop them from doing it.

00:43:46.000 This is why you're seeing people try to legal, liberalize drug laws. This is why you're

00:43:49.760 seeing people liberalize laws against mutilations, against suicide for goodness sakes. Well, if people

00:43:55.100 consent, it's all fine. It's not, it's not. Consent is an important moral consideration, but there are

00:44:00.180 other moral considerations too. What we're seeing in Germany now, do not be surprised when Nostradamus

00:44:06.620 predicted that this sort of thing was coming to America. Speaking of the sexual revolution,

00:44:13.240 we have a very important update from the sexual revolution. The other day, Blake Masters tweeted

00:44:20.140 out in response to some leftist provocation. He said, not everything has to be gay. And he's wrong

00:44:26.760 about that. Everything has to be gay. Everything is going gay. You know this? It has, it has to be 1.00

00:44:32.180 because the sexual revolution has to be complete. It has to, this is why Disney's going gay and not even 1.00

00:44:40.040 just gay. It's going trans. Everything has to partake of this, including Harry's razors. That's 1.00

00:44:47.720 why we started a razor company, Jeremy's razors, including Gillette razors, actually, for that

00:44:52.380 matter, including every company. We're starting Pride Month a little early this year. Pride Month is

00:44:56.420 in June and October. Now we're starting it in April. Every company is going to start changing their

00:45:00.780 colors to the rainbows. And this includes cookies. Not only, not only are they turning, the frickin'

00:45:08.560 frogs gay. They are turning the frickin' Oreo cookies gay. 0.99

00:45:18.240 We're all one family. I know you come from halfway around the world, so we can have a better life. 0.97

00:45:28.240 But I am, here we go, he's going to, what is he going to say? I am. I think you're ready.

00:45:39.040 Gay. He wants, but. Now the mother says, I think you're ready. 1.00

00:45:46.780 Who's that at the door? I don't know, because the whole family's there. A little girl eats an Oreo

00:45:50.260 cookie. That's the product placement of the movie. Are you ready? Are you ready? So the dad's there.

00:45:54.500 It's not like he's got to tell the dad. The mom's there. It's not like he's got to tell the mom.

00:45:58.320 The sister was there. She just ate the cookie. 0.99

00:46:02.840 And then, I guess some other

00:46:04.180 extended family's coming in.

00:46:08.220 Oh, and there's grandma.

00:46:11.380 I guess

00:46:12.020 grandma doesn't know that this

00:46:14.380 young man is gay. 0.99

00:46:17.240 You get the point. 0.99

00:46:18.100 We can wrap it there. 0.95

00:46:18.700 The radicalism of the, is not just the gay cookies. It's going to give Daily Wire a new 0.98

00:46:25.980 opportunity. Oreos has gone gay. That's why we're so pleased to, we're so excited to unveil 0.99

00:46:30.300 Shaporios, the new product of Daily Wire confections. Do you want cookies without any

00:46:35.340 sexual indoctrination? Well, sign up and get Shaporios today. That's, I want, Ben, if you're

00:46:40.920 listening, Jeremy, I want some royalties for Shaporios. We're going to sell a lot of them.

00:46:45.420 I don't just bring it up to plug whatever new product

00:46:49.420 we're going to have.

00:46:51.060 It's the

00:46:52.280 perpetual revolution.

00:46:56.240 It's the fact that

00:46:57.180 even coming out once is not enough.

00:46:59.540 You've got to come out of the closet again

00:47:01.360 and again and again. Just

00:47:03.240 getting this one law changed, it's not enough.

00:47:05.160 You've got to do it again and again.

00:47:06.700 Just winning on this one issue, pushing this issue,

00:47:09.320 no, it's the perpetual revolution.

00:47:11.140 There is no end to how far

00:47:13.520 the left wants to take this country.

00:47:15.860 It's not just transing the 20-year-olds, it's transing the 10-year-olds, it's transing the 0.91

00:47:18.800 five-year-olds.

00:47:19.540 There's no, it's not just abortion in the first trimester, it's abortion up until the 0.99

00:47:23.720 moment of birth. There's no end unless we conservatives learn that very important

00:47:27.600 word, no.

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Ep. 978 - Trans Radicals Make War In Kids’ Minds & Supply The Bullets

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