Ep. 978 -  Trans Radicals Make War In Kids’ Minds & Supply The Bullets
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Summary
Transgenderism in elementary and middle schools has been a hot-button issue for years, but little has been known about the money behind it. A new report from Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon reveals a conflict of interest between the Trevor Project and the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs and products used in the transgender transitioning process.
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The national debate over transgenderism, and specifically transgenderism in elementary and
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middle schools, has focused on three things. Biology, psychology, and theology. Three questions.
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What is a woman? What is gender? And who are we? But there's a fourth aspect that's gotten very
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little attention and maybe playing a larger role in this transgender phenomenon than most people
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seem to know. Money. Who's paying? When the White House promoted puberty blockers for little kids
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last week, transgender transitioning for little kids, the study that the White House cited as the
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scientific basis for this program came from a group called the Trevor Project. The Trevor Project
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is an LGBT nonprofit organization funded by the donations of individuals and corporations. Now,
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according to a new report from Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon, turns out two of the
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corporations that fund the Trevor Project are Abvi and Allergan, pharmaceutical companies that make
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the drugs and medical products that are used in the transgender transitioning process. Both companies
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gave at least $50,000 to the Trevor Project. But the Trevor Project never disclosed the donations.
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They never disclosed the obvious conflict of interest. The government's argument for transitioning kids
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rests on a study funded by the companies that most stand to benefit from the government promoting the
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transitioning of kids. And they all justify the medical experimentation on little kids on the grounds
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that the interventions will reduce the kids' risk of suicide when they get older. But it turns out that
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science is totally bunk too. Just a few years ago, a group of scientists, including a physician who
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participated in clinical research for Abvi, wrote in a letter for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
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that the transgender drugs for kids could cause sterility, sexual dysfunction, and heart disease
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without any proof of long-term success in suicide prevention. In other words, the White House is
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peddling child abuse based on bunk science commissioned by a left-wing non-profit funded by the companies
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selling the child abuse. We are living in a time of unprecedented upheaval, economic, social,
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and political. People don't even know what a woman is anymore. And even still, at least one political
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rule endures. He who pays the piper calls the tune. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Angela Osmus-Gill, who says,
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a fetus is an item just like a black person used to be considered property. Wow. Yes, this is in
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reference to this horrible story out of D.C. where five babies, just obviously, undeniably, full-term
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babies were aborted, meaning they were killed. It was just outright infanticide. There were photos of
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this, and the authorities are not doing anything to the people who killed the babies, and they're
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actually prosecuting the people who blew the whistle on it. And the contradiction here is that
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they were referring to the babies as items that were taken out of the home, but they're prosecuting
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the pro-lifer because of the way that she was treating dead bodies. So the babies are bodies for
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the purpose of prosecuting the pro-lifers, but the babies are items for the purpose of letting the
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killers off the hook. It's an obvious contradiction. You say it's similar to treating black people like
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people for the purposes in the Old South of, say, representation in the government, right, the three-fifths
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compromise, but treating them like property for the purposes of their actual rights. Yes, that's true,
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and it's why I got in trouble a little while ago for making this point. It's why abortion is not only
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similar to slavery, it's much worse. If you have a problem with slavery, I think we all do, if you
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have a problem with slavery, then the issues of abortion are much, much worse. Because while slavery
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deprives someone of his liberty, abortion deprives someone of his life on the same kind of sick
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arguments. It's sick, and we've got to articulate these things. We've got to do them ourselves.
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We've got to make this argumentation and this persuasion ourselves. Now, when we want to do
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other things ourselves, like fix up our car, you've got to check out rockauto.com. Right now, go to
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rockauto.com and write Knowles in their How Did You Hear About Us box. Prices are going through the roof.
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This is because of rampant inflation, among other things. Every time you go to fill up the gasoline in
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your car, we're probably paying double what you were paying a year ago in some places. The car has
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been very expensive for me. So what are you going to do? I'm going to give you two scenarios. You can
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either go to the brick and mortar auto parts store, and you can drive over there. That's what, 15 minutes
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of your time. Then you've got to stand and wait in line. Then you've got to get peppered with questions
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by the guy behind the counter. Then he goes behind the counter. He doesn't have the part that you want.
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He comes back out. He orders it online. You've got to drive them. You've got to drive back in about a week,
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and you've got to pay twice as much. That's one thing you can do if you're a dummy,
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or you can go to rockauto.com, a family company that has served auto parts customers online for
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Reliably low prices. Super easy to navigate catalog. Even I can navigate it. Go to rockauto.com.
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See all the parts available for your car or truck, and then write Knowles in there,
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how did you hear about us box, so they know that we sent you. You want to talk about medical
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corruption. Gosh, we've had medical corruption up to our eyeballs for the past couple of years.
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Now we're seeing it with this transgender issue for kids. Obvious conflicts of interest. A lot of
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people making money on outright child abuse. But what about the last two years of medical
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corruption, where the so-called medical authorities have lied to us, have misled us every single turn,
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shut down our lives, closed our businesses, kept us out of church, had our loved ones dying alone,
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all because the exalted Dr. Fauci would wake up every morning and, based on his whims, would decree
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how we're all going to live. Wear the masks. Don't wear the masks. Keep locking down. Lockdowns
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are bad. Actually, they're good again. On and on and on and on. And everyone believes. Everyone,
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you sweet summer children, you really believe. Maybe not you. If you're listening to this show,
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you're probably a little more with it than most. Most people believe that COVID's over
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because they sent Fauci into witness protection because they've moved on. Now Biden is talking
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about Ukraine or Biden is talking about some other issue. The COVID mess was hurting Democrats in the
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polls. It's an election year. So they're not talking about it anymore. And I told you, you know,
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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
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going away. They're going to bring COVID back. The moment that it's politically convenient,
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they're going to do it. Biden never got rid of the national emergency authorization. They still
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haven't gotten rid of masks on airplanes. They're still holding out the masking for kids under five
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in New York City. They're still asking you and sometimes telling you outright to get the 57th
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booster shot. It's not over. They've kept the power that they've been taking for the past two years.
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And now from the New York Times. The New York Times says COVID-19 is coming back again.
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And here's how to prepare. This is your checklist from the New York Times for how to prepare
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for the new wave of COVID-19. One, pay attention to COVID indicators in your community. Two,
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have high quality masks on hand. Three, order home COVID tests sooner rather than later. You need to
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know if you have a mild cough. Get a booster when you're eligible. I think we're up to what number are
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we up to now? 93 or 104? Well, whatever it is, get your booster because of how effective the
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vaccines are. That's why you need to keep getting your boosters. Get a pulse oximeter. That's a new
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one. I didn't know I had to get one of those. Make a plan for antiviral drug treatment, but not
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ivermectin and not hydroxychloroquine and not anything that any conservative has done. Just get
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whatever drug Fauci is selling. Have backup plans for social events and travel. This is what you need
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to do to prepare. And let me just very quickly. No, no, no, definitely. No, don't know what that
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is, but no, no. And no, I think I'm going to keep my plans. I'm not going to do any of this
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like Nancy Pelosi at the State of the Union, not making any plans. COVID is over in the Knowles
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household. Really? It never began. We had COVID, but we got COVID now twice. It's fine. Glad to say
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it's fine. We're here. We're living. It's cool. The COVID lockdown measures never existed in the
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Knowles household. We mocked it from day one. We're going to continue to mock it. Just tell them no.
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This obviously has nothing to do with science. This has everything to do with politics. This
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especially has to do with the midterm elections that the libs are going to try to gin up COVID again
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and push the widespread mail in ballots and give themselves quite an advantage at the ballot box.
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So no, the new wave of COVID may be coming at the New York Times headquarters, not going to be
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coming here. Fauci isn't giving up though, even though the powers that be are trying to put him
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into witness protection because he's damaging their poll numbers. He's coming out. He's even
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suggesting the prospect of another lockdown. It depends on utilizing a lockdown in a positive way,
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as opposed to just thinking you're going to hide from the virus forever.
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We need to utilize it in a positive way. Well, how the hell have you been utilizing it for the last
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two years? I wish you thought about utilizing them in a positive way two years ago. People sometimes ask
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me how Fauci gets away with it. How has Fauci stuck in power for 40 years? If you want to find out
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the full answer to this, we've got a three-part docu-series on Daily Wire. It's one of the most
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popular products we've ever put out for the Daily Wire audience. It might be number one.
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It's Fauci Unmasked. You can get that today at dailywire.com. It's the whole story, what you've
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never heard before, what you've never seen before. And it's important because they're going to bring
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this little jerk back. One of the ways that Dr. Fauci has maintained power is that Dr. Fauci is
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never wrong. He's never wrong because he's always said the right thing in addition to the wrong thing
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because Dr. Fauci holds both sides of every single issue that's ever been put before him.
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The clearest example is the masks. Don't wear the masks, wear the masks. Sometimes wear the masks,
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always wear the masks. But it's true of lockdowns too. Dr. Fauci had said lockdowns don't work.
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And Dr. Fauci also says lockdowns do work. He's been doing this since the 1980s. He's been doing
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this for his entire career. So now we're going to have to maybe utilize lockdowns in a positive way.
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We're probably going to have to utilize those lockdowns in a really positive way for Democrats
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right before the midterm elections. So no one can go out there and vote in person. So we're all
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going to send in mail-ins and then magically all the Democrats are going to win. Or at least they're
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going to stop the tidal wave that the polls show for Republicans right now. Fauci, and this ties back
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into the point that we were talking about at the top. Fauci has been the most aggressive, the most
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belligerent on fighting the virus, right? We have to, we cannot take into consideration economic
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thoughts, national security, our civil rights. No, we have to do everything we can. Keep your foot on
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the pedal to keep fighting the virus. But we're not allowed to talk about where the virus came from.
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We can't talk about China. We spoke to one of the WHO investigators who've been to Wuhan to
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investigate how the virus started. And they were prevented from seeing key details and from speaking
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to key people. Why do you think the Chinese government did that? You know, I don't want to
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create any or mention any disparaging remarks about that. But the Chinese are very closed
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in a way of being very reluctant, particularly when you have a disease that evolves in their country,
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they become extremely secretive, even though there's no reason to be secretive. I think they were
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very concerned and maybe embarrassed that the virus evolved from their country, but there's nothing
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wrong with that. So when they see something evolving in their own country, they tend to have
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a natural reflex of not necessarily covering things up, but not being very open and transparent.
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I don't listen. I'm not going to criticize China. And actually, what he's going to do is cover up for
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China like he's been doing from the very beginning. That's when he wasn't funding the Wuhan
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laboratory, which he also lied about. Why though? Why is the American ruling class all of them
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everywhere in the media, in entertainment, in the government? And why are they carrying water for
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China? Because China is buying up all the resources in our country. China owns our debt. China has given
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crooked deals to Joe Biden, for goodness sakes. The Bidens have made millions of dollars because of
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China. China has been buying up Hollywood, buying up entertainment, and he who pays the piper calls the
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tune. Poor Joe Biden. I never thought Joe Biden was particularly in control of this government.
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Biden is an empty suit. Biden is merely an avatar for the political establishment, the deep state,
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the administrative state, call it whatever you want. He's always been that way for his entire career,
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and especially now that his braid is made of pudding and he doesn't know which end is up.
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But nowhere was this clearer than just, just yesterday. Barack Obama came back to the White
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House. Everyone was very excited to hear Obama speak. And at the reception, no one wanted to talk
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to Joe. There he is. Joe's looking around. He's trying to wave and says hello to someone, tries to get
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their eye on it. And then he turns around. He says, everyone's talking to Obama. Here's Joe. Who's
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going to talk to me, the president of the United States? Each and every one of us at some point in
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our lives has been this guy at a party. But we don't really know anyone there. And we're sort of,
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who am I supposed to talk to? Should I go join that conversation? And no, maybe I'll just kind of
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walk around. And should I go? Maybe it's getting kind of late. Maybe I'll get out of here. Now,
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the difference, of course, is that Joe Biden does know everyone in that room because he's at the
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White House. And the other difference is none of us has ever been the president of the United States.
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When you're the president of the United States, people generally want to talk to you. You're a
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pretty influential and important person. You're never left wandering alone at the party. What this
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reveals is not merely this awkward, sad, excruciating moment for Joe Biden. It reveals that he's not
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really where the power is. Everyone wants to talk to Obama. Obama's still wielding a lot of power.
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But in the White House, does anyone really believe that Joe Biden is the one calling the shots?
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No. You know how we know that? Because Joe Biden will go out and give speeches notably on Ukraine.
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And then five seconds later, the White House will contradict him. And then he will contradict
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what he had previously said and go along with whatever the White House says. Isn't Joe Biden
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supposed to be the White House? When we talk about the White House, we're using an object to refer to
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the president, usually. But now we're not. We're using the object to refer to the broad, faceless,
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nameless power structure that doesn't seem to give a damn about what Joe Biden thinks or really to even
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say hello to him. Democracy, our democracy that we hear so much about from the libs doesn't seem to be
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all that democratic. It seems like there is more of a permanent kind of bureaucratic apparatus that's
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actually running the show. And when even when Joe Biden claims to have gotten 87 gazillion votes,
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the most votes ever, he's the most popular guy in the world. No one really cares. No one really
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cares what he has to say. Speaking of our democracy, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I,
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your humble host, am a grave threat to democracy. This according to the Yale Daily News. I will be
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going to Yale next week with Senator Cruz. He and I are going to be doing an episode of our verdict
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podcast there live. And the Yale Daily News is encouraging people not to attend. According to
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this opinion column from a freshman at Yale, Cruz and Knowles are speaking. Do not go.
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The argument for why I am. He talks about how Senator Cruz is a threat to democracy because he
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supported Trump and that's terrible. But I'm a threat to democracy apparently because on the
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anniversary of January 6th, I implored people to remember, quote, the wise men who traveled a great
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distance for their leader, the true leader of us all in defiance of an unjust government.
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I am not saddened that someone is attacking me in the Yale Daily News, frankly, that brings me back
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to my youth. It's been a solid decade since that's happened and it brings back happy memories.
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I am upset, however, that these supposedly educated Yalies don't get my excellent feast of the epiphany
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joke that I told on January 6th about the wise men following their true leader. Okay, that's fine.
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So the student goes on. Let's be clear. Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles are guilty of chipping away
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at democracy. This is a terrible thing. We should care about democracy. Quote,
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holding fast to democracy starts at the local level by refusing Cruz and Knowles an audience.
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You have a method of intervention. Buy tickets, but don't attend.
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That's a genius move. Pay us not to do anything. You're showing us, hey, by the way,
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if you send me just Venmo payments right now to Michael Knowles, that'll really show me,
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that'll teach me a lesson. And the more money you send, the more of a lesson I'm going to learn,
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libs. Checks are fine, too. You can make them out to cash. That'll, ouch, that'll hurt. That'll sting.
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Refuse to legitimize the event, he writes. You signal to other Yale students and to the organization
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that invited them that democracy is non-negotiable and that you refuse to normalize the normal,
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the abnormal, rather. This is what good civic action looks like. There are many ways to do this.
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I'm only suggesting one. Yale is an influential cultural, political, and economic institution.
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Yale's, this is my favorite line of the whole piece. Yale students flush with that great power
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hold the great responsibility to fight for a more just and healthy democracy.
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Democracy is non-negotiable. Don't go see Cruz and Knowles. Okay. The reason I bring this up is not
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merely to make fun of the truly grandiose notions that 18-year-olds at Yale have about their place
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in society and their role in America. It is our, we must defend. We 18-year-old Yale students are the
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great bulwark against tyranny. We must wield our great power of picking a few classes and going to
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parties on the weekends. We must wield that power to save democracy. But it's because of this word
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democracy. Because they keep using that word democracy. And democracy does not mean, I think,
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what they think it means. Ted Cruz, whether you like him or not, is a United States senator. He was
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elected by the people of Texas. He is a, as representative of American democracy as it gets.
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I do not hold elected office. I have a podcast. I have a few podcasts. They're pretty popular podcasts.
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They get lots and lots, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views, sometimes over a million views.
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I'm not saying that means that I am a representative of American democracy, but it does mean that there is
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an audience for this. That's at least some of the American people want to hear what I have to say
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and want to engage with the kind of reporting that we're bringing here and the kind of stories
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that we're, that we're discussing. That would be, to a smaller degree, representative of American
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democracy. And I would suspect that Senator Cruz and I are a little more representative of American
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democracy than an 18-year-old at Yale. So why does the 18-year-old at Yale think that he
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is the great defender of democracy? Because he's not really talking about democracy. When the libs use
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the word democracy, what they really mean is liberalism or progressivism or leftism or whatever
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word you want to use. But this explains how a United States senator speaking is anti-democratic,
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but some extraordinarily unrepresentative, elite, far left people are speakers for democracy. This
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explains how in 2016, when the people vote for Donald Trump, that's an assault on democracy.
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This explains how in Hungary, when the people vote for Viktor Orban, who is a conservative leader there,
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that's reported everywhere in the West as an assault on democracy. Because it has nothing to do with
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democracy and it has everything to do with liberalism. And I think it has everything to do
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with the liberal and ultimately then progressive view of the world, which is that
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there is a clear ending point for history. There is a clear political end that we are going to.
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The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. And by justice, the libs mean their political
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program. And this is good for everybody and we should all know it. And so anytime that an election
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doesn't go the way that liberals want it to, by definition, that election was illegitimate.
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This is why the libs don't respect the results of the 2016 election. This kid at Yale has a problem
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with Senator Cruz raising questions about the 2020 election, which was by far the most corrupt election
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in the last hundred years at the presidential level. This is an election where they changed all the rules
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right beforehand and where in some states they held the election in violation of the state
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constitution, like in Pennsylvania. This is an election where there are lots and lots of questions.
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And yet if you raise questions about that election, you're a threat to democracy. If you raise questions
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about the 2016 election, which was a perfectly ordinary election, which was not conducted during
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a global pandemic with widespread mail-in ballots, where the worst thing they could claim occurred in
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2016 is that the Russians spent a hundred grand on Facebook ads. The Daily Wire spends that on Facebook
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ads in what, like two hours? It's nothing compared to what you would see in terms of an actual
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interfering campaign in an election. And yet they say that's illegitimate. It's only
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illegitimate because the conservative won. And I can't wait. I, look, the event, this advice isn't
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really all that wise in the Yale Daily News because the event that I've got with Senator Cruz sold out
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within about two seconds. So it's already sold out. But I would encourage people to stand in the waiting
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line. We're going to get out there. We're going to spread some conservative views to a campus that has
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gone extremely left. And it's going to be a great deal of fun. This is, this is where the fight is at.
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This is why what you're seeing in Virginia, in Florida, even in South Dakota now, the political
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fight to stop the radical left is focusing on the schools. That's where it should be. The schools,
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the classrooms are a crystal ball to show you what your country is going to look like in 20 years.
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You know, Drew Clavin just released a new book. It's called The Truth and Beauty. I cannot recommend
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it enough. After years of studying the Gospels, trying to find the true meaning of Jesus's words,
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Drew is ready to share his thoughts on this. And Drew has come to Christianity in a kind of unusual
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way. He was a liberal, intellectual, literary figure for most of his life. And then he was
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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.
00:26:09.660
Stay away from race. Stay away from sex. Just focus on deregulation and free trade and cutting
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
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
00:27:08.720
in college. She, she had a bill come before her where she, where the bill was going to ban men
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
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
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,
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
00:28:12.560
of right and wrong and good and bad and is willing to, to stand by child abuse and actually
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.
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.
00:28:55.640
However, there is one little glimmer of hope, which is that the people hate this crap. They
00:29:01.500
especially hate the transgender stuff and they especially hate critical race theory. And they
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.
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
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
00:32:07.960
exercises in elementary schools where they have to line up on a measure of privilege. The whitest
00:32:14.680
kids are the most privileged and therefore the most evil. And the blackest kids are the least
00:32:18.660
privileged and therefore the most virtuous. You've got exercises in elementary schools where kids have
00:32:24.520
to apologize because they're white. And this stuff is so distasteful and preposterous, even for adults.
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
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
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
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
00:33:59.700
hook. And she gave them much lower sentences. So she's, she's got a really, really bad record.
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
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,
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,
00:36:55.700
what were the attacks on her? The senators just read her own court opinions. They just read her own
00:37:02.260
record. And they deduced from that, that she's a threat to children. She is a threat to children.
00:37:07.820
She let pedos off the hook. She is a threat to children. She let not even just people consuming
00:37:12.360
child porn off the hook. That's bad enough. She let actual child rapists off the hook. And we covered
00:37:16.720
this on the show yesterday. And then one of them goes out and tries to rape another woman. Well,
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
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.
00:37:44.520
But two, she's going to have to adjudicate cases that are, that, that rest on women's rights.
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.
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
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
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
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
00:40:08.580
having sex with animals. That's what we said. And everyone laughed at us and they said, oh, you're
00:40:12.700
a tinfoil hat wearing kooky crazy Alex Jones person. Daily Mail headline today, bestiality brothels are
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
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
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
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
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.
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
00:43:04.120
animals? That seems less, if we're saying that rape is one of the most grievous crimes, but less
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
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.
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
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
00:44:40.040
just gay. It's going trans. Everything has to partake of this, including Harry's razors. That's
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.
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.
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.
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.
00:46:18.700
The radicalism of the, is not just the gay cookies. It's going to give Daily Wire a new
00:46:25.980
opportunity. Oreos has gone gay. That's why we're so pleased to, we're so excited to unveil
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
00:47:06.700
Just winning on this one issue, pushing this issue,
00:47:15.860
It's not just transing the 20-year-olds, it's transing the 10-year-olds, it's transing the
00:47:19.540
There's no, it's not just abortion in the first trimester, it's abortion up until the
00:47:23.720
moment of birth. There's no end unless we conservatives learn that very important
00:47:29.260
I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:47:50.960
Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire
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The Matt Walsh Show. The Michael Knowles Show is
00:48:24.960
drool all over themselves. And meanwhile, Joe Biden is
00:48:28.900
no one wants to talk to him. That's today on The Ben