The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 987 - The Mask Regime Has Fallen

00:00:00.000 Finally, 441 days after the CDC implemented a federal mask mandate for public transportation,

00:00:09.480 a federal judge has struck down the stupid rule which was set to expire yesterday before the

00:00:16.360 bureaucrats decided to extend it for another two weeks. Two weeks, where have we heard that one 0.98

00:00:21.300 before? District Court Judge Catherine Kimball Mizell ruled that the extended mandate, quote,

00:00:28.920 exceeded the CDC's statutory authority, improperly invoked the good cause exception to notice and

00:00:35.640 comment rulemaking, and failed to adequately explain its decisions. I actually got a text

00:00:40.880 from a friend of mine when this came out. He was 30,000 feet traveling on a flight, and he said,

00:00:47.840 wow, you're not going to believe it. The captain just came over the loudspeaker and said that the

00:00:52.160 mask rule is no longer in effect, and almost everyone took their masks off. Other people got

00:00:57.500 videos of this happening on flights around the country. Take a listen.

00:01:01.820 The Biden administration announced that the Transportation Security Administration

00:01:05.400 will no longer enforce the federal mandate requiring masks in all U.S. airports and on-board aircraft.

00:01:17.240 Finally!

00:01:18.220 Effective immediately, masks are optional for all airport employees, crew members,

00:01:22.240 customers, and customers inside U.S. airports and on-board aircraft.

00:01:25.720 Effective immediately, and everybody is very, very excited about this because this judge

00:01:31.300 found that the good clause exception did not hold here. The good clause exception is a provision

00:01:37.900 of the Administrative Procedures Act that allows D.C. bureaucrats to break the rules for rulemaking

00:01:44.160 when compliance would be, quote, impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.

00:01:50.320 So if an emergency required an agency to act with haste, it would be permitted to cut corners.

00:01:57.800 But we're more than a year and a half into this nonsense. If there ever was an emergency that permitted

00:02:03.840 this kind of power grab, we are certainly long past it. This is great news. As you can see,

00:02:10.780 the people are so excited there in that video on the flight. I've got a flight on Thursday to Boston.

00:02:16.100 I'm giving a speech at Boston University. I look forward to testing the rule. Perhaps I can become

00:02:20.980 the Rosa Parks of airplane muzzles. But the ruling is bittersweet. If all those people on that airplane 0.99

00:02:28.540 were so happy to take the mask off, as we know that they are, as we know that we all were when we

00:02:34.920 were flying around and taking public transportation, why didn't we just all do it? Why did it take

00:02:40.960 4441 days? This is a bittersweet moment because it shows us just how far our country has fallen.

00:02:48.240 It shows us just how much the ruling class, our crooked ruling class, has taken from us.

00:02:53.720 We are 109 weeks into two weeks to slow the spread. And we're celebrating that our rulers

00:03:00.260 might now finally allow us to breathe again. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:14.460 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Vita Tipple, who says,

00:03:18.860 Michael, I'm getting worried for you. Your show was so hard hitting and so on the money

00:03:24.820 that you're likely to make some very powerful people very cross. I hope you've got a good

00:03:30.680 security team around you. Thank you very much for your concern. We do have good security here

00:03:36.180 at The Daily Wire. And most importantly, I haven't been revealing too much information on the Clintons.

00:03:42.900 So I think my health is secure. I've been going after a lot of the crooks here in our country and in

00:03:50.220 our world, not just Biden, but the corporate leaders, not just the corporate leaders, but

00:03:55.900 the institutional investors. We were going yesterday after BlackRock, after State Street,

00:04:02.420 some of those big investors that are pressuring the regular corporations to become woke corporations

00:04:08.960 with regard to Twitter, with regard to all of these other political issues. But as long as I don't go

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00:05:31.000 20% off through the end of April. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, guys. I'm really excited.

00:05:37.100 I am. I hate those stupid masks. Every time the stewardess walks away on the flight,

00:05:42.400 I take the dumb mask down. I've been cheating at these things from the beginning. I don't wear

00:05:48.180 the masks in the airport, but sometimes they'll get you. They'll say, sir, you will not be allowed

00:05:52.580 to board the flight if you don't put your stupid mask on. And then they've got you. Either you cancel

00:05:57.360 the trip or you put the dumb mask on. And in not all, but in most cases, I felt it's worth doing

00:06:04.720 the trip, speaking at some liberal place, speaking and talking about how dumb the masks are. I felt

00:06:10.360 that was worth the cost. But is this really what we've come to? I would bet 97% of people who take

00:06:19.820 airplanes wanted to lose the dumb masks over a year ago. And we all just kind of went along with it.

00:06:28.500 I would bet you 90% of stewards and stewardesses, except for the insane power trippers who love the 1.00

00:06:35.860 masks, but probably 90% of them hate the dumb masks. There was one stewardess I saw a few months ago who

00:06:42.000 was wearing a mesh face mask. I thought it was great. I bet you 100% of the captains don't want to

00:06:47.640 wear the dumb masks. And they probably don't up in the cockpit. And yet we all just went along with

00:06:53.460 it like little sheep. Even though we knew it was preposterous as a medical matter, we knew it was

00:06:59.260 completely ridiculous almost from the beginning. And as a political matter, it was absurd as well.

00:07:04.840 And yet we went along with it. And now it takes one judge. I love this judge. She's phenomenal. 0.75

00:07:09.440 She's a Trump appointee. She was put on the bench just a couple of years ago. She's 35 years old.

00:07:14.480 So she's got a long career ahead of her, we hope. And so I'm glad. But what? This is what we've come

00:07:20.920 to in America as our basic freedoms, our basic way of life, the ability to breathe freely

00:07:26.860 is now contingent on the whims of a judge. That's not a great situation to be in.

00:07:34.620 It's a good start. I don't want to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. I'll take the win when I can

00:07:38.800 get it. But we have a long way to go. News report out today. Just to show you, this is completely

00:07:48.120 unrelated to the masks, but it shows you the depth and severity of the political problem in the United

00:07:53.640 States. Florida passed this parental rights and education law, which prohibits weird sex education

00:08:01.560 in elementary schools. Florida just in general has gotten a little bit tougher on keeping the radical

00:08:07.700 leftist ideology out of the classroom, getting back to the ABCs, not the LGBs or the CRTs. And so as a

00:08:15.460 result of this, Florida has, here's the NPR headline, Florida has rejected 54 math books from the classroom

00:08:24.900 because they say critical race theory appeared in some of those books. This is 54 math textbooks in K

00:08:34.860 through 12 classrooms. That is a 41%, that's 41% of the 132 books that were submitted for review to the

00:08:45.320 Florida Department of Education. And the Libs are reacting to this. They're saying, this just proves

00:08:51.240 how crazy how crazy the Florida conservatives are. They're banning books. Look at how, what an

00:08:58.360 overreach this is in Florida. That's not my reaction. My reaction to this is, wow, what the hell were they

00:09:07.120 teaching in those classrooms? What were, 54 books, 41% of the books in math class, we're not talking about

00:09:15.840 history or civics or literature. Math, 41% of the books were teaching critical race theory and similar

00:09:24.640 sorts of concepts. I'm not even, I'm not even really surprised when I reflect on it. Yesterday, we read a

00:09:32.540 math assignment from Pennsylvania that was given out in 2017, so five years ago now, in which to get the

00:09:40.600 right answer to the math question, you had to know facts about the radical leftist author Maya Angelou's

00:09:46.640 life. So really, very little surprises me these days. But when I see this, Florida bans 54 math

00:09:53.300 textbooks, you know what that says to me? That says it's a good start. Good start. There's probably a

00:09:58.780 long way to go, though, because I bet there are a lot of books being taught in history, in civics.

00:10:04.460 They probably don't even have civics anymore, in English, in possibly in the hard sciences,

00:10:11.100 that are radical and leftist, and they need to be booted out of the classroom.

00:10:17.260 And there's nothing anti-American about that, or illiberal, or contrary to education, or whatever.

00:10:25.540 A seventh grade classroom is not a thriving free marketplace of ideas where new scientific

00:10:30.720 discoveries are going to be found. There's no broad academic freedom in middle school,

00:10:36.040 or high school, for that matter. Parents have a right, the political community has a right

00:10:41.340 to have a say in what its children are being taught, because the purpose of K-12 education

00:10:47.700 is to form good citizens. The purpose of K-12 education is to educate and give people a good,

00:10:54.740 solid foundation so that they can go and continue their studies and their vocational training and go on

00:11:00.340 and become good, upstanding citizens. And when you teach kids that America is evil and white people 0.72

00:11:06.000 are evil and boys are really girls, when you teach them that, you're harming their education. 0.97

00:11:10.700 There is a long way to go. I strongly suspect there are a whole lot more books we need to ban

00:11:16.000 from the classroom, because those books are not educating students. They are poisoning students'

00:11:22.160 minds and poisoning our country. And if kids want to read them, they can read them on their own time,

00:11:26.160 but they're not going to read them in taxpayer-funded classrooms.

00:11:31.340 The libs always go back to this contradictory argument. They say, these books are not being

00:11:37.140 taught, these ideas are not being taught in K-12, and it's really important that they are.

00:11:42.040 And thank goodness for my favorite Twitter account, libs of TikTok, certainly in my top five favorite

00:11:47.660 Twitter accounts. Thank goodness for them, because libs of TikTok is exposing the corruption

00:11:55.560 that we're seeing in the schools. These kooky school teachers, at the same time that the left-wing

00:12:03.720 politicians are saying, this stuff isn't being taught, you crazy conservatives are tilting at

00:12:08.000 windmills. At the same time that the liberal politicians are making that argument, the kooky

00:12:12.060 teachers are going on to TikTok and saying, yeah, I do want to trans my five-year-olds, but unfortunately,

00:12:16.940 the parents in Florida aren't letting me do it.

00:12:19.020 It's, this is really elemental stuff, okay? Boys are different than girls. Right is different from 0.97

00:12:27.780 wrong. Death is different than life. When we want to inculcate a culture of life, we got to check out

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00:12:39.380 to be a whole lot more in the news, because the Supreme Court might overrule Roe versus Wade. There's a

00:12:44.440 very strong chance that they will. You need to know the arguments, okay? The arguments are all

00:12:51.180 on the pro-life side. The scientific arguments, the ethical arguments. It's funny that the libs,

00:12:56.400 which always say they want to follow the science, do not follow the science on one of the most

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00:13:44.320 wherever you live. Thanks to our friends at Libs of TikTok. We know that a middle school teacher

00:13:50.600 in Florida is very, very furious because in Florida it is increasingly frowned upon to try to trans little

00:14:03.060 kids. My state decided that it was a good idea to ban the use of the word gay in the classroom.

00:14:10.280 Educators can now not, are not allowed to say gay in the classroom anymore. This is a life or death

00:14:16.100 issue. Why do I say that? One of the most important statistics that I use in my curriculum when teaching

00:14:25.000 anti-oppression specifically about LGBTQIA issues is 72%. You decrease the likelihood of a young trans person

00:14:32.980 of wanting to commit suicide if all you do is use the proper pronouns for that person.

00:14:42.280 72%. You can save a life by using one often two-letter word for a person. Misgendering someone

00:14:54.080 can have them go on a spiral where they don't want to live anymore. And now we're not allowed to say

00:15:00.600 gay, even if we are gay, even if we have an openly same-sex relationship, even if we're openly non-binary

00:15:09.900 or trans. As educators, we cannot talk about who we are. We exist. I've got one really important statistic

00:15:18.240 for you to know when you are watching Libs on TikTok. And that statistic is 420%.

00:15:24.600 420%. 420% of the statistics that Libs on TikTok cite are completely made up. 420%.

00:15:34.200 You can reduce your risk of losing IQ points 420% by not watching Libs on TikTok. I obviously don't

00:15:44.060 believe this statistic this woman is citing that 72. If you don't call boys she and girls he, 0.57

00:15:51.900 then you are going to encourage them to commit suicide. And if only you call them by the wrong

00:15:56.380 pronoun, then you'll decrease their suicide, suicidality by 70 plus percent. I just don't

00:16:02.400 believe that. And one of the reasons I don't believe that is because this woman is saying a

00:16:07.160 whole lot of things in this video that I know for a fact are not true. Like you're not allowed to say

00:16:11.760 gay in classrooms in Florida. That's just not true. That just isn't true at all. That's completely 0.99

00:16:16.800 made up. It's nowhere in the Florida education bill. And it's just not the case. The woman is 1.00

00:16:22.660 saying that she is non-binary. Well, that's not true because that's not possible. That's not a real 1.00

00:16:28.200 thing. So she isn't that. So she's wrong. I'm not saying she's a liar, but she's certainly mistaken.

00:16:34.700 She says that she teaches anti-oppression in the classroom. Where does that fit in in the school day

00:16:42.380 schedule? So you have homeroom in the morning. Then you've got social studies maybe. Then math

00:16:49.220 class. Then anti-oppression. And then English language and arts. Is that in literature? Is

00:16:55.520 that what you've got? I don't know. Where is anti-oppression? No, this woman is a radical 1.00

00:16:59.280 political activist who is using taxpayer dollars in Florida. I think that's the state that she's in, 0.63

00:17:05.980 right? Yeah. She's using taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate little kids into her radical, 1.00

00:17:11.240 weird, leftist ideologies. She says, I'm not even allowed to be open about my same-sex

00:17:16.780 relationships in the classroom. You certainly shouldn't be. Yeah, I don't want you teaching

00:17:21.440 that in the classroom. That's weird. Don't talk about your sex life in the classroom. Period.

00:17:26.380 Now, I don't think you should be talking about your sex life in any grade, but certainly not in K

00:17:30.840 through three or pre-K until third grade. Certainly not. If only you use the wrong pronouns,

00:17:40.660 then you will save a life. Even if it were true, I know it's not true, but even if it were true,

00:17:48.260 it would still be wrong. This kind of emotional blackmail is the way to madness because it actually,

00:17:56.820 this is kind of a strange connection and it ties in with another creepy weird sex thing.

00:18:01.880 But when I was at Yale with Senator Cruz last week, we were asked a question by this kid who obviously

00:18:06.760 just wanted to get some headlines and tell a joke. He said, if it would end world hunger,

00:18:10.180 would you perform a certain sex act on another man? And it was funny and people laughed in the room,

00:18:17.080 but it's actually not a complicated question. The answer is no, I wouldn't do that.

00:18:23.500 No, it wouldn't end world hunger. No, calling kids the wrong pronoun isn't going to reduce their

00:18:28.880 suicidality or depression or anxiety. It's probably going to increase it by hardening their gender 0.95

00:18:33.580 dysphoria. But no, I wouldn't do that because that's called consequentialism. That's called the

00:18:42.600 ends justify the means. That is a morally idiotic way of viewing the world. That's called it takes a

00:18:49.000 few broken eggs to make an omelet. That logic that by committing an intrinsically disordered evil action,

00:18:58.020 you might achieve some good end. That has been used to justify the worst crimes in history.

00:19:04.120 And it's morally incoherent and it doesn't lead to good outcomes anyway. This kind of stuff is what's

00:19:11.340 being taught all over the place. And it's not even just in San Francisco or LA or New York. Florida is a

00:19:19.220 pretty red state. And this kind of stuff is being taught in even redder states. I was in Kansas.

00:19:25.460 I was in Kansas to give a talk at Washburn University just a few weeks ago. Last I checked, Kansas is

00:19:31.400 pretty conservative. Not exactly San Francisco or Chicago. And before I gave my talk, the president of

00:19:40.380 that university, Jerry Farley, condemned me. He personally signed the contract inviting me to come

00:19:47.020 speak. I was invited to speak on how boys and girls are different. And then he condemned me and he said my

00:19:52.600 views were terrible. This president of a public university said that the statement that boys and

00:19:57.820 girls are different is terrible, horrible. We think this is awful. I'm sorry the guy's invited.

00:20:03.500 And I didn't back down and I went and I spoke anyway. And it was a totally packed out house.

00:20:09.860 I invited the president of the university, Jerry Farley, to come. He could share the stage with me.

00:20:14.440 He could present his alternative thesis to my very controversial one, the boys and girls are

00:20:19.720 different. We could debate it. We could have a civil and open exchange. I didn't hear back from

00:20:23.960 President Farley. He was much too cowardly to actually stand by his calumny against me and his

00:20:29.760 defamation. And so he just hit up in his ivory tower. And I went there and I gave a speech about

00:20:36.140 what a jerk that guy is and why my views are right. Felt it was respectful, but forceful. And then

00:20:41.100 just saw this news story yesterday. And I'm not, I'm not saying I did this. I'm not totally taking

00:20:49.740 credit for it, but I'm not, I'm not here. Well, here's the headline. Washburn President Jerry Farley

00:20:56.760 to retire. I like that. Washburn University announced Monday afternoon during a news conference

00:21:04.820 that Farley will retire on September 30th of this year. There he is.

00:21:14.280 Is it because probably the worst scandal of Jerry Farley's career occurred just a few weeks ago

00:21:21.040 because of little old me? Is it because Jerry Farley, a man who, who dines on the taxpayer dollar,

00:21:28.160 who runs an educational institution, doesn't know the difference between boys and girls and actually

00:21:33.540 condemns people who says that there are basic distinctions in biology and human nature?

00:21:38.000 Might it have something to do with that? That he would smear, not just me, I'm a big boy with thick

00:21:43.180 skin, but smear half of the, half of the country and a huge portion of students of his university

00:21:50.060 who are conservative as hateful, misinformers, bigots, that sort of thing? Is it because he smeared

00:21:59.260 what I would suspect is the vast majority of parents paying tuition who know that boys and

00:22:04.680 girls are different? That he smeared them as hateful and bigoted and spreading misinformation? 1.00

00:22:08.860 I don't know. But one thing I will tell you is I'm really happy that he is stepping down.

00:22:13.680 He is not fit to be the president of a university. A man who behaves in that way, a man who's that

00:22:20.200 confused sexually, intellectually, morally, whatever. That man has no business running a university.

00:22:29.420 And frankly, it's scandalous that he ran it this long if that's the kind of cowardice

00:22:33.420 and intellectual decay that he is demonstrating. And we need to see a lot more of that.

00:22:38.140 We see that Florida law or the consequence of various Florida laws to say 54 math textbooks

00:22:44.180 have been kicked out of the classroom for being too radical. Yeah, that's a good start.

00:22:47.920 Jerry Farley stepping down. He's not the only one. And he's not even close to the worst of the

00:22:52.100 offenders at these universities. He's being booted out of the school or he's stepping down or however

00:22:57.020 it's happening. I don't really care. I'm just glad it's happening. That's a good start. That's a good

00:23:01.760 start. When I spoke a few years ago at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Actually, it was not far from

00:23:10.560 Washburn University. And the chancellor of that university, Chancellor Agrawal, also,

00:23:17.440 after I was physically attacked there, he came out and he smeared me. And it was the same sort of

00:23:21.760 thing. He said that this is not in accord with our values here. We don't believe that men and

00:23:26.400 women are different. That guy should be gone too. It's a scandal that he still holds that job. 0.97

00:23:32.880 A lot of these guys, we have to get tougher. The modern conservative movement was launched with a book

00:23:39.480 called God and Man at Yale, subtitled The Superstitions of Academic Freedom. And the point of the book was that

00:23:46.160 academic freedom is a total lib psyop. It's not real. It has no, it has, it has meaning in as much as

00:23:54.080 scholars are free to pursue their own interests in their studies. But it doesn't mean that wackos are free 1.00

00:23:59.640 to teach whatever nonsense they want in a classroom. That is never what academic freedom was supposed to

00:24:04.880 mean. And even when it did sort of make sense, you don't have the right to do that. And the point of that book

00:24:11.080 was basically that we need to fire bad teachers. We need to fire radicals. In Buckley's idea,

00:24:16.340 radical atheists and radical socialists in the classroom, in university classrooms, much less

00:24:21.500 K through 12. Got to do that. Folks, there are some true radicals on campus. At the university level,

00:24:31.120 there is a professor at the University of New Hampshire who is coming out and saying that it is

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00:26:42.960 we got a great new short series that we're going to be releasing somewhat regularly. I was out giving

00:26:50.080 a speech at Washburn University. There was a protest organized against me. And so my producer

00:26:54.580 decided to just walk outside with a camera and get some video and see what was going on. And then my

00:26:59.500 producer actually invited the girl who organized the protest against me to come cross her own picket 0.64

00:27:05.720 line, sit down, watch my speech. And then she and I sat and spoke to one another for probably,

00:27:10.240 I don't know, 15 or 20 minutes after the speech. Go check it out. It's on my YouTube channel right

00:27:15.200 now, the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:27:30.620 There's a professor at the University of New Hampshire who is quite insistent that we should

00:27:37.040 not call all adult child sexual relationships predatory. This would be Professor David Finkelhor.

00:27:46.480 He is the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center. He was giving a virtual talk

00:27:52.020 called Sex Crimes Against Juveniles Involving Elements of Voluntary Participation,

00:27:57.920 Implications for Prevention and Response. Without further ado, take it away, Professor Groomer.

00:28:04.540 Also, if young people are initiating sexual activities with adults or enthusiastically involved,

00:28:11.420 we can't be effective in working with them if we assume that all such relationships start

00:28:18.200 with a predatory or criminally inclined adult. As we've seen in the discussion, young people bridle

00:28:25.760 at being forced into this box of being seen as being the victim of a predator. And so there are

00:28:36.680 reasons for learning about what the dynamics are and how to talk about them so that we can

00:28:42.820 better help the young people who are in these situations.

00:28:47.720 Just to clarify here, this professor is not talking about a relationship between, I don't know,

00:28:56.780 a 16-year-old and a 20-year-old. We're not talking about a relationship where

00:29:04.180 maybe or maybe not it violates the law, but maybe you can tell they're sort of within an age range that

00:29:14.240 seems somewhat reasonable. They both could have been in college at the same time. They both could

00:29:17.540 have been in high school at the same time. Sometimes these types of relationships are

00:29:20.960 covered by what's called Romeo and Juliet laws. That's not what this guy's talking about.

00:29:26.080 This guy's talking about relationships between kids, little kids, and old adults.

00:29:33.820 We're not talking about 16 and 19. We're talking about like 12 and 40. We're talking about the whole

00:29:44.040 spectrum here of child or younger than 12 and adult, maybe older than 40, sexual relationships. And his

00:29:53.460 claim is, well, we shouldn't begin with the premise that all of these relationships begin with a predatory

00:30:01.600 adult. No, I think we can. I'm pretty sure we can begin with that assumption. I think

00:30:07.680 that is always the case. I don't think there's any exception to that at all. And I think that this kind

00:30:15.540 of logic is illogic is really creepy and dangerous. But it's, I don't even just mean to beat up on this

00:30:24.960 professor. He's frankly a symptom of a much larger social and philosophical problem. We're all focused

00:30:31.320 on the will, on what the child wants, the child's desire. Traditionally in this country, we have

00:30:40.200 age of consent laws. We have age of consent laws because we believe that kids cannot give mature,

00:30:47.820 informed consent on a whole host of issues. This is why you're not allowed to get a tattoo until you're

00:30:53.260 18. This is why there are limits to sexual activity that you can engage in until you are

00:31:00.300 a certain age. This is why little kids have to do what mommy and daddy tell them to do because they're

00:31:07.940 not old enough to give consent. Now, as conservatives have said for years, you're going to see these laws

00:31:16.040 eroded and you're going to see kids victimized. And it's a slippery slope, but we're slipping right

00:31:20.640 down it. Now, we're being told that five-year-olds not only have perhaps the right to engage in a

00:31:28.340 sexual relationship. They actually have the right to totally change their sexual biochemistry. They

00:31:33.320 have the right to take cross-sex hormones. They have the right to mutilate their bodies and their 1.00

00:31:37.380 genitals. That's what we're being told because, well, they know deep down that they're sexual 0.78

00:31:44.220 creatures and we need to stop them from going through puberty so that their true sexual nature, 0.99

00:31:49.200 which is contrary to their bodies, can come out. And it's just bogus. It's weird. It's creepy.

00:31:55.600 The left has been peddling this stuff for a hundred years. Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders

00:31:59.940 peddled all this kind of weird child sexuality that kids need to explore their sexuality. He

00:32:05.900 peddled this in essays in the Vermont Freeman for years in the 1960s. It's nothing new, but it is

00:32:13.520 wrong. And what a lot of this derives out of is our now social refusal to say that anything is right

00:32:21.220 or anything is wrong intrinsically. So everything has to be about consent. Hey, if two consenting

00:32:27.880 people want to do X, Y, and Z, they're totally free to do that. And I have no right to infringe

00:32:33.580 on that. Who's to say what's good or bad or right or wrong? As long as people consent.

00:32:38.980 But then, so when you apply that to an adult with say transgenderism, if an adult consents to call 0.68

00:32:47.040 himself Sally and put on a dress, that's his right and I have no right to infringe that. Well, then,

00:32:52.460 then you are granting the possibility that the man could in some deep sense become a woman. And if

00:32:57.040 that's the case, then certainly you should start that before puberty. Certainly you should do that

00:33:02.040 before the secondary sex characteristics of a man set in. That'll make it a whole lot worse if those

00:33:06.900 secondary sex characteristics set in, if transgenderism is true. The child is not consenting 1.00

00:33:12.080 to puberty. That's the argument for putting the kids on puberty blockers. And there is some kind

00:33:17.200 of logic to that. If you believe that consent is the be all and end all and exclusive criterion for

00:33:24.900 determining whether an action is good or bad, but it's not. We can know beyond consent, whether,

00:33:31.380 whether this creepy professor says that the child is consenting to a sexual relationship with an adult

00:33:36.420 or not. Maybe the child is, is going up to bars and he's sneaking past the bouncer or she's sneaking

00:33:42.660 past the bouncer and going up to adults and saying, Hey, toots, let's get out of here. Even so the

00:33:47.540 child, whatever you want to call that consent, pre-consent, sort of quasi pseudo consent, it doesn't

00:33:54.900 matter. It's still wrong. It's just intrinsically wrong. And we can say that. Okay. We can have the

00:34:01.760 confidence to say, Nope, that's wrong. And you get punished. And I don't care if you're consenting to it.

00:34:05.400 You don't get to do it. Period. You're seeing this push all throughout the country at Georgetown.

00:34:11.760 There, there is a panel that's taking place this month on abolishing the sex offender registry.

00:34:17.880 There's a panel. It's a Georgetown defenders presents a panel on abolishing the sex offender

00:34:22.880 registry moderated by professor Abby Smith virtual event, April 21st. I guess it's happening in a couple

00:34:30.300 of days. RSVP here. I looked up this professor, Abby Smith. I thought maybe it's going to be a

00:34:36.100 professor who says, no, we should definitely not abolish the sex offender registry. It's really

00:34:40.400 good to know when you've got child molesters in your neighborhood, we need to protect people. No,

00:34:45.460 this is a professor who has serious problems with the sex offender registry, who wants to keep more

00:34:50.480 and more people off of the sex offender registry because it's not fair to them. It's not fair to those

00:34:55.380 poor people. If you are, this is the professor's argument in certain articles that I've read by

00:35:01.420 the professor. If someone finds himself on the sex offender registry, that's going to really,

00:35:07.760 really harm his life. He's going to have a harder time in society. He's going to have a harder time

00:35:13.500 holding a job. He's going to have a harder time fitting into a neighborhood. That's true.

00:35:18.860 That's true. Because he is a rapist or a child molester. That's why. It's not because of the

00:35:27.800 awful society and the unfair stigma around child rapists. It's because he committed that act and

00:35:34.860 the society wants to protect itself from those people. Yes, that individual is stigmatized.

00:35:42.020 Rightly so. By the way, maybe that individual has gone through a lot of therapy, has paid his debt to

00:35:47.340 society, has reformed, has totally turned his life around. Maybe. I wish him the best. I hope he does

00:35:52.680 that. I hope he has repented and goes to heaven someday. But we in society still have the right

00:35:59.500 and the obligation, frankly, to protect ourselves from the real likelihood that that person could

00:36:05.960 re-offend. I have one and a half kids. I got one kid out into the world. I got another kid on the

00:36:13.060 way. I demand to know if there are sexual predators anywhere near my kids. I just demand it. That's my

00:36:23.060 right. It's not even because I hate the individuals who have committed these crimes. I hate them and I

00:36:29.040 want to punt. We just need to protect ourselves, okay? And what the left has done here is has so taken

00:36:36.500 the side of criminals to the total neglect of victims. The left has so bought into the idea of

00:36:44.800 indoctrinating little kids in weird sexual ideologies and normalizing all sorts of sexual

00:36:50.620 disorders and, frankly, cultivating those disorders in children. In grooming the kids, let's call it what

00:36:58.660 it is. That they are neglecting the safety of the kids. That's what they're doing. You see this point

00:37:07.180 on the will, this point on desire, on consent. I know it's a little abstract. I know it's a little

00:37:12.940 pie in the sky. Here's an example that I think can drive it home. And it actually comes from PETA.

00:37:19.380 PETA tweeted out the other day, animals don't want to be eaten. And they did that thing that libs do now, 0.93

00:37:26.460 which is just they repeat the same sentence five or six times. They said, animals don't want to be

00:37:30.280 eaten. Animals don't want to be eaten. Animals don't. And I saw this and I thought, well, animals don't

00:37:35.720 want. They just don't want. They don't have a rational will. So yeah, no, they don't want.

00:37:44.960 And PETA responded to me. PETA said, other animals are thinking, feeling beings who have wants and needs

00:37:53.740 just like you. You should want to be a kind person and make the world a better place.

00:38:00.400 So there are, even from those first two words, they say other animals. Like you're just an animal,

00:38:05.380 Michael. You, human beings, you're just animals, just like the cheetah, just like the insect.

00:38:11.260 You're just, and you all have wants and needs just like each other. And that's not true.

00:38:16.160 And I chalk it up to ignorance from PETA, but it's not true. I chalk it up to the extreme

00:38:22.320 degradation of our understanding of the world today, but it's just not true.

00:38:29.120 The misunderstanding comes from a misunderstanding of the human will. And so a heroin addict wants to

00:38:35.660 shoot up heroin, right? Because it feels good. But a heroin addict also doesn't want to shoot up

00:38:41.100 heroin. At a higher level, the heroin addict wants to quit heroin because the heroin addict,

00:38:46.140 heroin addict knows that heroin is bad for him. When St. Paul says, the things that I want to do,

00:38:51.820 I don't do. And the things that I don't want to do, I do. He's describing the conflict between his

00:38:56.640 two wills. The two wills are the lower will, which we call the appetite, and the higher will,

00:39:03.040 which is the rational will. And traditionally understood, the rational will mediates between

00:39:08.040 the lower will, the appetite, and the divine will. So to bring that back down to earth here,

00:39:15.380 we have a moral conscience. We can know certain things that are good and bad and right and wrong

00:39:19.980 and true and false. And so even when our loins and our stomachs and our lower animalistic desires

00:39:27.180 tell us, go eat the 10th taco, drink the 10th drink, sleep with that woman who isn't your wife, 1.00

00:39:37.420 go do whatever your appetite is telling you to do. Your higher will says, nope, don't do that.

00:39:43.100 That's wrong. You're going to have a stomach ache. You're going to have a headache tomorrow. You're

00:39:47.580 going to be in real big trouble with your wife. Don't do that, even though part of you desires to

00:39:52.260 do that. Animals don't have that higher will. So when animals see the food, they just go and eat it,

00:39:58.080 and they're going to go eat it until they get sick. They're just going to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat.

00:40:02.120 Animals don't go courting. Animals don't have much of a sense of monogamy or fidelity. They

00:40:08.600 generally just stoop whatever's out there. Animals pursue their instincts and their appetites. This is

00:40:15.200 why we don't put animals on trial. If an animal goes and bites a human being, we might kill that

00:40:21.100 animal. We might put that animal down, but we don't put that animal down because of justice or to get

00:40:27.000 revenge. We don't put that animal down because we're even angry with the animal. We put the animal down

00:40:31.980 to protect human beings. What we for sure don't do is charge the animal with a crime and put the

00:40:37.360 animal on trial and have the animal defend itself. We don't accuse the animal of committing an immoral

00:40:42.460 act because the animal doesn't have any moral conscience. That wouldn't make any sense.

00:40:47.260 We are stewards of animals. We want to be good stewards of all of creation, but not because the

00:40:53.900 animals want it, not because the animals will it. We do that because God wills it, and we have a moral

00:40:59.400 conscience so we can understand these really basic things. When it comes to parents, the job of a

00:41:06.820 parent is not to just give in to every little child's disordered desire or will. It's not to

00:41:13.760 say, eat as many cookies as you want. Of course, it's your will. I have no right to infringe upon

00:41:19.040 your ... No, we say no, enough cookies. Get your hand out of the cookie jar, kid. When a little boy says,

00:41:24.360 I think I'm a girl because my pervert teacher in kindergarten told me I am. It's not the job of

00:41:29.360 the parent to say, well, if that's your will, if that's your desire, then I ... No, the parent says,

00:41:35.340 no, you're not. You're not. I'm your parent, and you're in my care, and it is my responsibility

00:41:40.760 to teach you the difference between true and false and right and wrong and good and bad.

00:41:45.300 But these people, because we've lost any ability to make those moral distinctions,

00:41:49.680 and morality in 2022 pretty much is just, if it feels good, do it. It's turned us all into animals.

00:41:56.260 It's turned our civilization into a much more animalistic, bestial society. Because of that,

00:42:02.800 we just boil it down to this incoherent conversation about consent.

00:42:09.060 Speaking of consent, consent is back in the news for a completely different reason,

00:42:12.620 not for the animals, not for the groomers. It's because of Colin Kaepernick.

00:42:17.320 It's because if I ... Every two or three months, this guy is back in the news. If I never heard

00:42:24.540 the name Colin Kaepernick again, it would be too soon. This perfectly mediocre professional

00:42:29.720 quarterback who's made a big spectacle of himself and many, many millions of dollars,

00:42:34.440 he's whining again that he doesn't get to play in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick, six years now,

00:42:42.740 is it? Since he made a big spectacle of himself and said that America's evil and disrespected the flag

00:42:48.120 and was booted from the NFL and then made a lot more money selling hatred of America through

00:42:55.080 sneakers than he ever would have made in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick is back begging, begging to be let

00:43:03.320 back into the NFL. Are you willing to do what Carmelo Anthony did if an opportunity presented

00:43:08.980 itself today and they said, we want to bring you in as the backup? Would you take that?

00:43:13.020 Yeah.

00:43:13.480 You'll take that?

00:43:14.840 I know I have to find my way back in.

00:43:17.400 Okay.

00:43:17.880 So, yeah, if I have to come in as a backup, that's fine. But that's not where I'm staying.

00:43:23.920 And when I prove that I'm a starter, I want to be able to step on the field as such.

00:43:30.060 I just need that opportunity to walk through the door.

00:43:32.900 He just wants that opportunity. And he's willing to even go through some hardship for that. He knows,

00:43:37.820 look, he knows it's really valuable for a person to be able to play in the NFL. And he knows he's

00:43:43.000 been out of it for a little while. And so he's going to, he'll work as, he'll do a little bit of grunt

00:43:46.560 work. He'll be the backup quarterback. And then he's going to work his way up because he needs to

00:43:50.880 get back. He just wants so deeply. His desire, his will is to get back into the NFL. This from Colin

00:43:57.360 Kaepernick, the same man who, what, a year or two ago said that playing for the NFL is like working

00:44:02.880 as a slave on a plantation in the antebellum South. What they don't want you to understand

00:44:08.880 is what's being established is a power dynamic. Before they put you on the field, teams poke,

00:44:17.620 pride, and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance.

00:44:23.600 no boundary respected, no dignity left intact.

00:44:37.960 Come on, boy, hurry up. Look at that shape there. Look at this.

00:44:43.780 Mr. Farmer, I got your bid. 30, James. 30 to you. 100.

00:44:47.800 So, next one coming up, best one we got. 500, 600. Look at this here. Come on, who wants this?

00:45:03.700 700. There we go now. 1,000. 1,000. I'm telling you what I want.

00:45:09.700 Here we go. There are the shackles. Well, Colin, you're free. You're free, Colin. You were previously

00:45:19.840 enslaved by the NFL. You had that awful slavery of being really rich and famous and getting to do

00:45:25.740 the thing that you trained your whole life to do. And now you're free from that. You're free and you

00:45:31.420 get to be a clown. You're free to, you're liberated into clowndom. The guy, he looks like a clown. He talks

00:45:37.440 like a clown. He is a clown. That's what he does now. Please, no, let me go back into slavery. Oh,

00:45:43.200 you don't really think it's slavery. You just, you're very confused. He's a very confused man.

00:45:47.560 And actually, though he is not aware of this, this does speak to our misunderstanding of liberation.

00:45:55.420 The way we understand liberation today is that you don't have any obligations.

00:45:59.840 You are not bound by any limits whatsoever, be they political, cultural, or even natural.

00:46:10.000 So you're not even bound by the limits of your own sex. You get to just do whatever you want,

00:46:14.080 whenever you want to do it. Colin Kaepernick wants to go out there and make a big clown of himself and

00:46:18.540 disrespect America and the flag and the fans. And he wants to, and there's not going to be any

00:46:23.680 consequences for that, right? No. Because by the way, sporting events have always had a connection

00:46:29.420 to patriotism, going back to ancient Greece. So no, now the consequence is he's out.

00:46:36.320 But no, I don't, I don't, please, can I have the slavery again? No, you don't. I'm sorry, Colin.

00:46:41.020 There's actually, you will find far more freedom in limits. The heroin addict breaks all of the chains,

00:46:49.720 breaks all of the limits. He can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it, except he can't.

00:46:53.260 And he's just a slave to sin. Then he's just a slave to vice.

00:47:00.560 Speaking of live performances, speaking of things that some people may or may not find

00:47:06.700 entertaining, such as football. And speaking of airplanes, actually, getting to our first story,

00:47:12.040 there's a video that I have to get to. It's from Easter Sunday on an airplane at 30,000 feet,

00:47:17.180 a group of Christian singers and a guitarist got up in the middle of an airplane and started playing

00:47:26.260 modern worship music.

00:47:28.260 I love the idea of this. I really love this in theory, in practice,

00:47:54.940 not, not the greatest music. It's a little hokey. It's not, not exactly Bach's Mass in B minor,

00:48:03.780 you know, not great. If it were Gregorian chant, we'd be somewhere, but I don't, can't say I love the

00:48:08.420 musical stylings here. And if I were sitting on the airplane, I'd probably say, you know how about

00:48:12.220 just sit down and pray your rosary and don't, we don't need to. But I do like the idea of a public

00:48:17.940 acknowledgement of Easter. And Ilhan Omar was really upset about this. Ilhan Omar tweeted out,

00:48:23.240 she said, I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I'm on a plane.

00:48:28.160 How do you think it will end? Well, Muslims play on airplanes all the time. Probably not in the 1.00

00:48:33.640 middle of the aisle. That would be a little strange, but it would be strange because America 0.63

00:48:37.640 is a Christian country. And so that would be unusual to have Muslim prayers, say during Ramadan

00:48:42.800 on an airplane. Certainly on, I mean, it's Easter, it's Easter Sunday. Just like if I were in a Muslim 0.85

00:48:47.980 country, if I were in Saudi Arabia and I got up and started playing Christian music, that would

00:48:53.160 probably be weird and probably be frowned upon because they're different things. And what the

00:48:58.920 point that the libs are making here is Christianity should have no special place in America. This is a

00:49:05.540 totally secular country. Get there. By the way, they would never make any problem about a Muslim

00:49:11.440 getting up and praying on an airplane. They're only doing it because they don't like Christianity. 0.98

00:49:14.260 Christianity. But that's not really the American tradition. America has viewed itself for the vast

00:49:19.540 majority of its history as a Christian country. They used to light up the big buildings in New 0.99

00:49:23.940 York and Chicago with crosses on Easter Sunday. There used to be religious Christian proclamations

00:49:31.660 from the White House because we're a country with standards, with norms, with a view of itself

00:49:38.180 that's entire understanding of what it even means to be a country, to hold truths, to be self-evident,

00:49:43.200 that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights, comes from Christianity.

00:49:48.860 And we have a right to those standards. And we have a right to those norms. And we have a right

00:49:52.860 to that traditional way of life. And we have a right even to do certain things at 30,000 feet,

00:49:57.400 notably at the very least, to breathe the free air as of yesterday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 19, 2022

Ep. 987 - The Mask Regime Has Fallen

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