The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 989 - The Clock Strikes Midnight At Disney

00:00:00.000 We are officially living in the upside down world. When I was a kid, the Republicans were

00:00:05.920 the party of small government and big corporations. The party that took the side of rich uncle penny

00:00:12.680 bags against the little guy, the party of deregulation, the party, most of all, of tax

00:00:19.100 cuts. The Democrats, on the other hand, were the party of big government, the party of soaking the

00:00:25.860 rich, the party that assailed big corporations. And yet today, that script has totally flipped.

00:00:35.020 Just yesterday in Florida, Republicans passed a bill, which will be signed into law today or

00:00:39.840 tomorrow, that takes power away from Disney, probably the most powerful corporation in the

00:00:46.380 entire state of Florida. A bill that will raise taxes on that corporation and re-regulate, not

00:00:53.400 deregulate, re-regulate its relationship with the state of Florida, all because Disney opposes a law

00:01:00.140 that Republicans passed that prohibits teachers from preaching transgenderism in kindergarten

00:01:05.580 classrooms. That's another big change. When I was a kid, Democrats were the party that fought the big

00:01:12.400 cultural battles and won them. Republicans were the losers who rolled over. Today, it's the Republicans 0.98

00:01:20.120 going on the offensive, waging a battle to retake cultural ground, getting punched by Disney, and

00:01:26.400 then punching back twice as hard. And today, it's not only the Democrats, but even the operatives for

00:01:33.840 open socialists who are taking the side of the big corporations. Even Bernie Sanders' former press

00:01:41.560 secretary is shilling for a $200 billion corporation.

00:01:47.840 I know fashion corporations is popular left and right these days. I'd be careful going on.

00:01:52.600 Oh, my money is on the Disney lobbyists, honey.

00:01:54.540 Would you bet against Disney?

00:01:55.580 My money is on the Disney lobbyists. Do you think those state legislatures down in Florida are

00:02:00.040 going to binge to the will of the governor?

00:02:01.440 Did you see what Jared Polis said? He'd love a Rocky Mountain Disney.

00:02:03.720 Yeah.

00:02:05.100 But by the way, the Florida legislature, the state Senate just passed this bill to strip

00:02:09.140 Disney of its special accent. I'm betting on the big corporations, honey. So much for socialism.

00:02:15.660 So much for the little guy. The left is putting their money on big business against the self-rule

00:02:22.520 of the American people. It's a cynical bet. It's an immoral bet. And best of all,

00:02:29.020 and we're seeing this more and more each day, it's looking like a losing bet for Democrats.

00:02:34.420 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:39.140 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Trash Discourse, who says,

00:02:48.500 if they make a gay fight club, they will automatically break the first rule of fight 1.00

00:02:53.960 club. Otherwise, Florida wins. So true. So true. It's going to be very difficult to do that sort of

00:03:01.220 reboot. I don't want to just get too lost in my own head here. I don't want to get too far down this

00:03:08.280 rabbit hole of the realignment that we've heard so much about in recent years that the Republicans

00:03:13.780 are the party of the people now, and Democrats have become the party of the rich. I don't want

00:03:17.860 to just be in my own echo chamber, which so often we are. So I have brought on one of the most

00:03:24.900 aggressive, one of the most progressive people that I know. Coincidentally, the host of the

00:03:29.580 aggressive progressive podcast. You've seen him on lots of television stations, Fox News in

00:03:33.640 particular, and all sorts of places. Chris Hahn. Chris, first, thank you for coming on the show.

00:03:40.020 Hey, how you been, man? You're looking thin.

00:03:42.360 Well, thank you very much. I've really tried to style myself a, what's the word? Skinny. I don't

00:03:49.180 know. I've tried to style myself as sort of skinny.

00:03:51.620 That's just me being jealous, man. That's just me being jealous, man. I wish I had your hair. I wish

00:03:56.340 I was as thin as you.

00:03:57.460 Stop it. You're gonna make me blush. I need a reality check, or maybe not. Maybe you agree

00:04:03.300 with my take on this. Are the party, you know, we hear so much in the 1960s that the party has

00:04:09.980 switched, and Republicans usually argue against this. Are the parties switching now? Are the

00:04:14.240 Republicans speaking more toward regular, ordinary, mainstream, blue-collar issues? And are

00:04:20.540 the Democrats shilling for the corporations? No. I think, you know, even if you look at this bill

00:04:26.180 that they just passed in Florida, it gives them a year to kind of work out the details. And I have

00:04:30.860 a feeling in that year, Ron DeSantis will be off in Iowa running for governor, and the people in

00:04:36.480 Florida are going to say, yeah, no, we don't want to piss off the biggest employer in the state of

00:04:39.600 Florida. How can we work this out? They also don't want to take on Disney's debt, which they would

00:04:44.500 have to do if they reintegrate Disney into that surrounding area. There's some other bonding issues.

00:04:50.200 It's not just the, you know, zoning and other things they talk about in this bill. There's some

00:04:54.280 bonding issues that, assumingly, the people of the state of Florida would have to take on if this

00:05:00.040 bill actually goes into effect, which will be a year from now based on what's actually in the

00:05:05.120 legislation. So, yeah, no, I don't think that that will actually happen. And when I hear people like

00:05:10.800 Simone Sanders talking about, you know, betting on the corporation, she's right, because they're going

00:05:17.460 to get their way here, as they almost always do, especially in that state with that particular

00:05:22.020 corporation. And quite frankly, I don't want anything to threaten my ability to enjoy the

00:05:27.500 Ben Kenobi series that will be coming out very shortly on Disney+. I'm really looking forward

00:05:32.340 to that. So, you know, let's hope I don't have to pay an extra dollar a month for that because of

00:05:37.500 Ron DeSantis' attacks on Disney. So, you know, I think ultimately that will happen. As for the

00:05:43.860 don't say gay bill, as an aggressive progressive, I am happy to see that Democrats have adopted a tactic 0.97

00:05:50.240 that Republicans have long used. Take an early draft of the law and then paint the entire law

00:05:54.980 and everybody who supports it as that. For example, the Green New Deal. You know, the Republicans

00:06:00.680 found, got a hold of a brainstorming memo from some staffers about maybe banning me. And that was

00:06:07.140 what the Green, I think you and I were debating it at one point. That was what the Green New Deal

00:06:11.400 became in the eyes of most Americans. But Chris, you've got to at least grant, you've got to at least

00:06:16.900 grant. Republicans went after the Green New Deal. Maybe they went after an early draft. Maybe they've

00:06:21.720 changed their mind. The Democrats have changed their mind about some parts of it. But it was

00:06:24.720 always called the Green New Deal. It was to bring back this idea of FDR's major overhaul of the

00:06:29.760 economy. Whereas in Florida, whatever you think of the parental rights and education bill,

00:06:35.040 it doesn't ban the use of the word gay. It's great that the Democrats have adopted this tactic 0.98

00:06:40.460 and branded the bill, don't say gay. You're saying it's politically great. Hold on,

00:06:43.820 hold on, acknowledge the skill there. It hasn't been, the Democrats, it's not been their strong

00:06:50.580 point, or at least people other than me. It has not been the strong point of the National Party

00:06:55.080 to take something and say, remember when they said that you weren't even going to let them say this

00:06:59.340 in class? And they branded the bill that, and now they painted it with a brush. It's going to be very

00:07:04.260 hard. You know, not this year. Look, this is a good year for Republicans. If this was two years from

00:07:10.520 now, I don't know that Ron DeSantis would be tacking this hard white. He only won by half a 0.99

00:07:15.840 percentage point four years ago. But it's a great year to be a Republican. He's got $100 million in

00:07:21.800 the bank. The Democrats have a messy primary going on down there. Probably going to have Charlie

00:07:27.100 Christ as their nominee. And I don't know where that goes. But given the environment, he's using it

00:07:35.260 to his advantage. So you're saying that, this is an interesting point that I actually haven't heard

00:07:39.120 a lot of people say. You're saying that on the first bill that we're talking about, that Disney

00:07:44.320 take away their self-governance bill that's going to raise their taxes. You're saying it's actually

00:07:49.400 kind of cynical. I don't think it's really going to go into effect. It's just a way to get a lot of

00:07:53.960 headlines. But ultimately, Disney's going to win. Okay, so- You never could go wrong by calling a

00:07:59.100 political attack cynical. It's completely cynical. And that's why it's not taking effect tomorrow.

00:08:04.860 But then, okay. So let's say I even grant you the premise. Then on the point of the don't say

00:08:11.180 gay bill, let's say I even grant your premise that, okay, it's not a totally honest slogan to

00:08:15.360 use for the bill, but it's a good tactic and it's going to be effective. But then what do you make of

00:08:19.020 this, Chris? 60% of Americans broadly support the parental rights and education bill. The majority,

00:08:25.980 not only of Florida Republicans, but of Florida Democrats support the parental rights and education

00:08:31.140 bill. So don't you have to say- But 70% of Americans oppose the don't say gay bill. Remember

00:08:37.020 Frank Luntz? I mean, this is the kind of thing that people, yeah, you call it the parental rights

00:08:42.700 and education bill. People are going to support it. You call it the don't say gay bill. Politically,

00:08:47.940 it's toxic. But I guess you're, so I grant you that point on the names, but when there have been

00:08:52.700 polls, actually, we conducted one of the polls, that when you take away all the names, you don't

00:08:56.620 even name the bill. You just focus on the text of the bill. People support the provisions.

00:09:01.720 Absolutely. Just like the Affordable Care Act, when you call it, people support almost everything in

00:09:06.720 it, unless you call it Obamacare. And then they don't. But the Affordable Care Act won. Ultimately,

00:09:11.860 it did win. So I guess what I'm just asking is, isn't this, isn't opposition to this bill,

00:09:16.280 even if the Democrats have been smart about the sloganeering or whatever,

00:09:19.560 isn't it ultimately a loser for Democrats to be on the side of teaching transgenderism in the 0.99

00:09:25.640 classroom and on the side of a big corporation? That is not what's happening here. What's 0.81

00:09:30.060 happening in this bill, even now, even in the bill that passed, it makes it illegal for a kid to talk

00:09:37.280 about their weekend with their two parents that might be of the same gender. Well, it only prohibits

00:09:41.900 teachers from saying things. Well, how would the teacher then react when one of the kids in the

00:09:46.260 class say, what does it mean that he has two mommies? I mean, it's like, go ask your parents.

00:09:50.640 Well, Mike, let's be clear. The arc, this is, you're not going to win the argument long term,

00:09:59.840 attacking same sex couples, attacking homosexuals. It's not going to happen. 0.98

00:10:05.200 But do you think you're going to win the arc?

00:10:06.420 Over in America. This battle has been won. And while there might be a moment right now based

00:10:11.980 on the political environment for him to attack further the right, to bolster his base so that

00:10:16.500 he might do well in Iowa. I mean, it's so cynical. It's so bad. He's attacking people who he shouldn't

00:10:23.580 be attacking.

00:10:23.860 Let me put the question another way. You've advised Democrat candidates. You're obvious,

00:10:27.840 your head is in this all the time. So you're sitting there with Democrat presidential candidates.

00:10:31.780 That's this issue is going to come up. The issue of Disney pushing woke sexual ideologies and

00:10:38.960 specifically the issue of teachers in kindergarten through third grade class.

00:10:42.300 This is the thing we keep, he keeps going at, he's calling it woke ideology.

00:10:45.720 Disney supported their gay employees. And there are many of them who were offended by this bill.

00:10:50.340 And as a result, as a result, Ron DeSantis is attacking Disney, but will ultimately cost the

00:10:57.360 people of Florida money because now they're going to have to police Disney. They're going to have to

00:11:01.160 assume their bond debt. I'll go, I'll go with all of that. I'll go with all sorts of a parade of

00:11:05.540 horribles. But I've only, by the way, I'm telling you right now, I'll put money on this,

00:11:09.840 invite me back this time next year. This bill will never go into it. Well, okay. Listen,

00:11:15.020 the way they're intended. You might be, you might be right before I let you go. We're over as usual,

00:11:19.260 but it's, but I need to, I need to ask. Last time I saw you, I was in Tennessee. I was getting

00:11:23.980 hot chicken. We were debating with a national legend. I know we, somehow we ended up in a three

00:11:29.940 person debate. You were quoting articles that came out before your mother was born.

00:11:34.540 When I was at Clinton, my father's eye. But I have to, I have to ask you this question. So let's

00:11:38.840 say I grant everything you're saying about the bill. It's not going to go into effect. It's this,

00:11:42.120 that, and the other thing. If you're advising a Democrat candidate today, do you tell them?

00:11:48.320 Democratic candidate. You went to Yale. Use proper English.

00:11:50.520 If you are advising one of those crazy left maniac candidates.

00:11:55.060 And why you didn't use the yes and method to kind of rebut that question. But maybe we'll do that

00:11:59.860 another time. Do, if you're advising one of these candidates, do you tell them lean into the Florida

00:12:05.740 education bill, defend kindergarten teachers talking about this stuff? Or do you tell them

00:12:10.840 this, this is this year, the year of our Lord, 2022. Do you tell them lay off the bill? It's a

00:12:14.740 political. I say, call it the don't say gay bill and lean into it. That scores well and lean into it. 0.97

00:12:20.660 Don't let them call it the parental rights and education act or whatever, you know, like,

00:12:24.560 cause that is a different look again, language matters. Frank Luntz is a genius. He's an evil

00:12:29.340 genius, but he's a genius in the way he, you know, the death tax. Oh my God, the death tax, 0.99

00:12:35.240 they're going to tax me. I made a hundred thousand dollars in my lifetime and they're going to take it

00:12:38.760 away from my kids. No, it was about people making over $10 million a year, getting a gradual

00:12:43.640 increase. And he called it the death tax.

00:12:45.380 With the Biden inflation, pretty soon your a hundred grand is going to be on paper, $10 million. So we'll

00:12:50.280 have to deal with that. All right, I got to let you go.

00:12:52.580 It's like, it's language matter. Don't say gay as a winner for them.

00:12:57.160 So we, you've made several predictions here. I, we are going to have you back many times. We're

00:13:01.240 going to figure out, look, you might be right. I don't know. We're keeping an open mind. Chris,

00:13:04.820 where can people find you?

00:13:06.340 At Christopher Hahn on Twitter, Christopher Hahn NY on Instagram, although nobody cares about me on

00:13:10.900 Instagram. I'm another old white guy.

00:13:12.160 I follow all that. I'm always looking for your story updates.

00:13:14.960 I have, I have lots of pictures of my dogs on Instagram and ChristopherHahn.com.

00:13:19.080 All right, go find, Chris, thank you so much for coming on.

00:13:21.520 Anytime, Mike. Thanks for having me.

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00:14:46.000 and health questions. So I have to say I disagree with Chris's strategy here. I think we basically

00:14:54.580 agree on the substance of the bill, right? Chris is admitting to me that, yeah, okay, the bill doesn't

00:15:01.360 really do all these terrible things Democrats are saying. It doesn't really ban the use of the word

00:15:04.700 gay, but this is a good political strategy, so Democrats should follow it. I don't think the 1.00

00:15:09.940 numbers back that up. I don't think the poll numbers back that up. That's not what I'm seeing

00:15:15.000 here, and we'll get an answer in the 2022 midterms. The one thing I'm sure of, though,

00:15:19.920 I think Chris underscores this point, is that Democrats consider this issue of talking about

00:15:26.640 sexual issues and specifically talking about sexual issues with little kids,

00:15:32.440 the Democrats consider that sacred. Jen Psaki, just the other day, was literally crying over 0.99

00:15:42.680 the prospect of not transing the kids. The political games and harsh and cruel

00:15:50.260 attempts at laws or laws that we're seeing in some states like Florida, that is not a reflection of

00:15:56.020 the country moving to oppose LGBTQ plus communities. That is not what we see in data, that is not

00:16:03.640 factual, and that is not where things stand. This is a political wedge issue and an attempt to win

00:16:10.080 a culture war, and they're doing that in a way that is harsh and cruel to a community of kids,

00:16:17.520 especially. I'm going to get emotional about this issue because it's horrible, but it's like kids

00:16:26.640 who are bullied, and all these leaders are taking steps to hurt them and hurt their lives and hurt

00:16:34.660 their families, and you look at some of these laws in these states, and it is going after parents who

00:16:39.700 are in loving relationships who have kids. It's completely outrageous, but it is a wedge issue.

00:16:45.980 Sorry, this is an issue that makes me completely crazy, but it is an issue that is a political

00:16:53.140 wedge issue. It is not a reflection of where the country is. This is an issue that makes me

00:16:58.420 completely crazy, is the truest statement that Jen Psaki has ever said. Obviously, she's crazy. The woman 1.00

00:17:04.360 is crying over the prospect of not transgendering little kids.

00:17:12.780 This is a sacred issue to the libs. Sometimes when we talk about this, the libs will accuse us of

00:17:22.800 wearing tinfoil hats and being conspiracy theorists, but it's not the case. The libs have been weirdly

00:17:27.380 obsessed with sexualizing kids for at least 100 years now, going back to Wilhelm Reich, going back to 0.62

00:17:34.540 leftist intellectuals and theorists who have suggested that we need to acculturate kids in

00:17:42.500 into sexuality in a different way. At an earlier stage, Bernie Sanders, who was almost the Democrat

00:17:48.420 nominee twice, Bernie Sanders wrote weird essays in the 1960s about how we need to sexualize kids and

00:17:54.220 allow kids to explore their sexuality. Now you've got Democrats waging a national fight over the so-called 0.80

00:18:00.940 sacred right of a five-year-old to be indoctrinated into weird, creepy sex stuff. This is why we call them

00:18:06.500 groomers because they are obsessed with this issue. It's the most important one to them.

00:18:14.100 They care about race. They care about class, or at least they used to. I actually don't think they

00:18:17.840 care about it as much anymore. But sex is the issue. There was an article in the San Francisco

00:18:24.360 Standard. San Francisco Standard is writing about a tent city of homeless people outside of the civic

00:18:32.920 center in San Francisco. But they're removing the tent city. The liberal officials in San Francisco

00:18:39.220 are removing the tent city. Why is that? Well, they're doing it. I'll just read from the article.

00:18:44.660 City officials are demobilizing a city-sanctioned tent village at Civic Center in preparation for the

00:18:50.840 comeback of pride festivities in June. So the reason they have the tent city in the first place 1.00

00:18:57.800 is because, they say, these poor people, these poor people who are in such terrible circumstances,

00:19:04.160 we need to do everything we can to help them. Give them public land. Give them public resources.

00:19:10.560 Don't we let them do drugs. Let them do whatever they want. They can do drugs here. We'll give them 1.00

00:19:15.380 needles. We'll do whatever they want. Unless a bunch of gay guys want to dance around the street. And 1.00

00:19:20.420 then, sorry, see you guys. Sayonara. We're going to take away your tents. We're going to take away

00:19:24.180 your needles. And we're going to tell you to scram. When those two sacred issues for the left come

00:19:31.220 into conflict, the poor people, the drug addicts on one hand, and then the sexual people on the 0.93

00:19:40.780 other, the sexual revolutionaries, the sexual revolutionaries are going to win. And it's a

00:19:45.060 smart bet for the libs. It's a smart bet because sexuality, I've said it a thousand times on this show, 0.87

00:19:50.320 sexuality is so important to human nature. But if you can get a handle on that, if you can redefine

00:19:57.300 sexuality, if you can shape sexuality, which the libs have a point here, does begin from a young

00:20:03.300 age. So if you can start to shape that and mold that, you have a much better chance of creating

00:20:08.400 young revolutionaries. This is why the libs are so upset about the bill in Florida. This is why the

00:20:13.880 libs are taking the side of a $200 billion corporation called Disney right now. This is why the libs are doxing

00:20:18.600 a private citizen who runs an anonymous Twitter account called libs of TikTok. Previously anonymous,

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00:21:41.660 Just like Beyonce. K-N-O-W-L-E-S. They're still going after libs of TikTok. Libs of TikTok,

00:21:47.620 a very simple account. All the account does is goes onto TikTok, finds public videos of the libs

00:21:53.040 saying and doing weird stuff, and then reposts it to Twitter. The reason they do this is because

00:21:57.620 young people are on TikTok. Older people are on Twitter. Kids are on TikTok. Parents are on Twitter.

00:22:04.520 And so parents have no idea what their kids are seeing all the time. TikTok is a much more

00:22:09.860 addictive social media platform than Twitter is, for instance. The average use time of Twitter per

00:22:15.240 day is between three and six minutes. It might even be lower than that. The average user time spent on

00:22:20.960 TikTok per day is 52 minutes. So it's not even close. And libs of TikTok provides this simple

00:22:26.220 service and says, here's the kind of stuff that you are seeing. And they've expanded a little bit too.

00:22:32.020 So libs of TikTok would go in and find videos from other fora, from lessons, from the classroom,

00:22:39.000 to show you what kids are actually being taught in these schools. To just give you a little taste of

00:22:44.060 the kind of work lives TikTok is doing. You saw it on the show probably a year ago. They went out,

00:22:49.000 and this woman went out, and found a professor at Old Dominion University who was normalizing 1.00

00:22:54.280 pedophilia. I use the term minor attracted person or map in the title and throughout the book for

00:23:00.060 multiple reasons. First of all, because I think it's important to use terminology for groups that

00:23:05.700 members of that group want others to use for them. And map advocacy groups like Before You Act

00:23:11.340 have advocated for use of the term map. They've advocated for it primarily because it's less

00:23:18.500 stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile. A lot of people, when they hear the term pedophile,

00:23:24.380 they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn't true. And it leads to a

00:23:29.460 lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors. I've definitely heard the idea that you

00:23:35.240 brought up, though, that the use of the term minor attracted person suggests that it's okay to be

00:23:39.800 attracted to children. But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to doesn't

00:23:45.800 indicate anything about the morality of that attraction. This is the kind of stuff that the

00:23:50.500 Washington Post doesn't want you to see. This is why the libs are trying to shut up libs of TikTok, 1.00

00:23:55.500 this Twitter account, because they know that this stuff is not going to play in Peoria.

00:24:02.480 This is why the libs are very upset about the bill in Florida, is because generally speaking,

00:24:08.000 parents have no idea what's being taught in the classroom. It's happening behind their backs. And

00:24:11.600 they want this to occur for their agenda, but they don't want people to see anything about it.

00:24:15.760 It is very telling that when the left attacks the right, the left tries to censor us and tries to

00:24:23.180 intimidate us and puts words in our mouth that we never said. And when the right attacks the left,

00:24:26.760 we just play their own words verbatim. That tells you a whole lot about the political battle in the

00:24:32.380 country. Now, the political operative working for the Washington Post, who doxed libs of TikTok,

00:24:38.120 this gal, Taylor Lorenz, she is trying to make herself into the victim here. She goes out, 1.00

00:24:45.180 she reveals this anonymous woman's name, occupation, religion, for some reason,

00:24:51.560 hyperlinks to her physical address. Then the Washington Post deleted that secretly and didn't

00:24:57.460 issue a correction. So they just tried to sweep it under the rug. Then when they were called out on it,

00:25:03.580 they just defended it. This woman now is playing the victim. This woman says, quote,

00:25:08.180 the amount of insane stuff that's happened over the past 24 hours has been unbelievable.

00:25:11.880 It's eye-opening to see how sophisticated and vicious these coordinated attacks have become.

00:25:16.600 I'm grateful to work at a company that takes these issues seriously and is supportive. I'm doing great.

00:25:21.560 Of course she's doing great. She's an extraordinarily protected member of one of the most elite

00:25:26.940 institutions in the country. She's talking about sophisticated and vicious and coordinated attacks

00:25:31.580 because people on Twitter are criticizing her. Meanwhile, she has been working with the second

00:25:36.640 richest man in the world at one of the oldest platforms in America to target a private citizen

00:25:41.620 for no journalistic reason other than to shut this woman up, to intimidate her, to tell people,

00:25:47.280 hey, here's her physical address. Sure would be a shame if something happened to her because she's 1.00

00:25:51.980 exposing what the libs actually believe. And amid all of this, the smart Democrat political consultants

00:26:00.360 are trying to flip the narrative. James Carville, he's the guy who talks like a cartoon character

00:26:06.280 from New Orleans. James Carville comes out on television, on MSNBC, and tries to make the argument

00:26:12.920 that the GOP is just weird.

00:26:16.680 Do you think McConnell is right about the risk and how should Democrats approach it, James?

00:26:21.040 Well, old Moscow Mitch is up to his usual tricks. You know, he had quite a few dealings with the

00:26:26.100 Russians. And of course, his party, about a third of them, are pulling for Russia.

00:26:29.480 Yes, he wants people that will be compliant to his worldview, which is tax cuts for the richest

00:26:38.780 people in the world and tax poor people, which I don't think is a very smart idea. But the problem

00:26:45.200 is they are a weird political party. They need to be branded as such. These 26 QAnon people, 1.00

00:26:52.940 all right, that's not necessarily the extreme. I mean, these are people that talk about testicle 0.99

00:26:57.880 tanning. These are people that, like, go to Hungary for conferences. These are not normal. 0.98

00:27:04.060 By and large, a large part of the Republican Party is just out and out weird.

00:27:09.900 James Carville made three claims here, and they're all false. They're all lies. The first one is that

00:27:18.620 the Republicans are colluding with the Russians, right? That's what Moscow Mitch is about. And that's

00:27:23.620 not true. One, the liberals in this country colluded with the Russians for most of the 20th 0.88

00:27:27.860 century with the Soviet Union and chilled for the Soviet Union and never apologized for it even 0.95

00:27:32.600 once. But even beyond that, Joe Biden took the sanctions off of Russia, gave Russia its pipeline,

00:27:40.700 the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was the invitation to go invade Ukraine. Joe Biden literally invited

00:27:45.500 Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. He said if it's just a minor incursion that Biden wouldn't do

00:27:49.420 anything about it. Vladimir Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, is actually saying that the reason that

00:27:55.740 Russia invaded Ukraine is because of the lifting of those sanctions. So that part is insane. That part

00:28:01.540 is the opposite of what is true. Then James Carville says, the Republicans, they're shilling for the

00:28:08.780 big corporation, give a tax cut to the big corporations. That's not true. The Florida

00:28:12.080 Republicans just voted to raise taxes on the biggest corporation in their state, one of the biggest,

00:28:16.620 most powerful corporations there, the Disney company. And the libs are really furious about that.

00:28:21.740 Simone Sanders is whining and crying and saying, no, no, please. My money is on the big corporations.

00:28:28.580 So that second part is not true either. And then the third part, the GOP is just plain weird.

00:28:33.920 The Democrats are launching a national campaign to trans little kids, to pump little kids full of 1.00

00:28:39.680 puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and chop off their genitals. This is a national issue now, 0.99

00:28:44.680 that not just some of the fringe lunatic Democrats are talking about, but that all of the Democrats are

00:28:49.720 talking about, the most mainstream Democrats are talking about it. The Democrats are up in arms at

00:28:54.320 a national level because the voters in Florida, the majority of Republicans and the majority of

00:28:59.000 Democrats voted to stop kindergarten teachers from preaching transgenderism to five-year-olds.

00:29:05.120 And you're going to call the Republicans weird? Have you lost your minds? Have you lost your mind?

00:29:10.500 So what Carville's trying to do, Carville's just a hack. He's a very sophisticated hack and a very

00:29:15.280 successful hack, but he's no political philosopher. This guy is a down and dirty bare knuckle political

00:29:20.840 consultant. And he's trying to get a hold of the narrative for his party because his party,

00:29:27.040 especially looking into 2022, has completely lost the thread. And they are headed, if the polls are to

00:29:32.400 be believed, for electoral disaster. And they can't win for losing. Even on the issues that are kind of

00:29:39.560 gimmies, they keep losing. One of them would be this issue of the masking. I'm taking a flight today.

00:29:45.100 This is going to be my, I'm going up to BU. I'm going to be speaking at Boston University tonight.

00:29:49.280 The topic of my speech is teach the ABCs, not the LGBTs. It should be fine. I think it's sold out, 1.00

00:29:55.420 but there's going to be a standby line. So show up there if the libs pull their usual shenanigans 1.00

00:29:59.420 and stage a walkout or something. There might be some empty seats. So you can go check that out this

00:30:04.940 evening. I'm very excited because I'm not going to need to wear a mask on the plane.

00:30:08.160 And every time the stewardess turns away, I usually take my mask down. But now I won't

00:30:12.900 even have to pretend. I can throw that silly, filthy cloth in the trash and not have to think 0.99

00:30:17.160 about it anymore. And yet the Democrats are fighting to bring the masks back. Joe Biden 1.00

00:30:22.540 is appealing the court decision. They got rid of the CDC mask mandate. And now you've got a doctor

00:30:28.320 on MSNBC going even further. She's saying, not only should you wear a mask on the airplanes,

00:30:33.560 but you should bring extra masks and nag everyone around you to put one on too. 0.95

00:30:38.160 If people want to stay safe, the best thing they can do, high quality mask and that when

00:30:43.600 possible, carry some extra masks. I know this sounds crazy, but if you tell someone next to

00:30:48.480 you on a plane, pay a 95 and just say, or surgical mask and just say, I've got an elderly mother 1.00

00:30:53.540 at home. I've got a child with cancer at home. Will you please do me a favor? Having the people

00:30:58.020 at least closest to you in that row, protecting yourself and them can be the best safety. So carry

00:31:04.120 some extra masks with you, carry some rapid tests with you if you're traveling.

00:31:08.860 Please, please, someone in my row, please nag me to put a mask on. Go ahead and make my day. And you

00:31:17.960 hear this doctor is trying to really pull on the heartstrings. She's encouraging people to,

00:31:24.140 whether it's true or not, say that you've got a sick kid or a sick mother to just try to emotionally

00:31:29.860 manipulate people into wearing the mask. But if someone did that to me, I would say, no,

00:31:34.220 I would not do it because my wearing a filthy piece of cloth on an airplane is in no way going

00:31:40.780 to have any effect whatsoever on this woman's sick kid or sick parent or sick puppy or whatever other

00:31:47.920 heart-wrenching excuse she concocks out of thin air. It won't do anything. If someone said that to

00:31:54.900 you, you could say, you know, I'm so sorry that you're, you've got this sorrow in your life. I'm

00:31:58.880 so sorry that you're going through these difficult things. My putting filthy cloth on my face on this

00:32:04.280 tin can flying through the sky is not going to change anything about your circumstances. I can

00:32:10.600 pray for you. That will be much more effective than wearing this stupid piece of cloth, but I'm not 1.00

00:32:15.480 going to indulge your fact-free neurosis one second longer. You see a lot of polls going around now. 1.00

00:32:24.300 The Associated Press put out a poll yesterday. They said, the majority of Americans actually

00:32:29.600 support the mask mandate on the public transportation. Oh yes, 52 or 53% support it and

00:32:37.040 127% of statistics are totally fake. And, you know, I just don't believe it.

00:32:43.000 I guess that's what it comes down to. I just don't believe that the majority of Americans,

00:32:47.860 certainly not the majority of people who regularly take airplanes and travel,

00:32:51.820 support the mask mandate. You know why? Because I've seen lots of videos when the announcement

00:32:57.300 came out of people in the air and the captain, the pilot says, you can take your masks off.

00:33:03.960 And I don't hear boos and I don't hear cries. I hear the whole plane cheering.

00:33:10.220 And so you, I know that the ruling class, their, their entire argument these days is don't believe

00:33:17.300 your lying eyes, but I'm sorry. I still do. I still trust my gut a lot more than cooked up

00:33:23.160 statistics and the propaganda being pushed out by the corporate establishment press. I just don't

00:33:28.460 buy it. Can't wait to breathe that sweet air of freedom later. This is not, not a winner for

00:33:33.780 Democrats. You know how I know this? Because one of the candidates for governor of Florida, Nikki

00:33:38.780 Freed, who is so low in the polls, it's almost a joke. Ron DeSantis is running away with the Florida

00:33:47.360 gubernatorial race. But Nikki Freed is, is trying to do anything she can to appeal to Florida voters. 1.00

00:33:53.420 And she just, just posted on the internet about how happy she is that she no longer needs to wear

00:33:59.580 the mask. Nikki Freed tweeted out, quote, peace out to the TSA mask mandate, but also peace and

00:34:05.280 respect to others, whether wearing a mask or not. She's sitting there on an airplane without a mask

00:34:09.620 on her face. So she's trying to appeal to, to the common sense. Whatever the AP says, whatever the

00:34:16.580 libs are telling you about their polling, the Democrats in practice don't really believe that

00:34:20.500 people like the mask mandate. That is why they're publicizing how they're not wearing the masks and

00:34:24.760 they respect everybody, but they're really happy that the mandate is gone. It shows you that there's

00:34:29.520 a big gap between reality and the propaganda being pushed out by the Washington Post and, and

00:34:35.060 others. That's, that's all the Democrats have got. The Democrats can try, if they, if they want to

00:34:41.680 win, they can try to be the Republican light. They can try to adopt some of the Republican positions,

00:34:46.000 but that's not really going to work because the Republicans are going to be much better Republicans

00:34:49.320 than the Democrats are going to be. And then they can pull some stunts and try to appeal to the,

00:34:54.060 the absolute lowest passions and desires of the people. This is why the same candidate, Nikki Freed,

00:34:59.380 tweeted out yesterday on 420, the national, national Haitian oregano holiday. She tweeted out

00:35:04.500 a picture of her standing with a bunch of cannabis, holding, holding a leaf in her hand.

00:35:08.780 And she says, as governor, I'll legalize weed. Yeah, I'm not a, I'm not a regular politician.

00:35:16.500 I'm a cool politician. I'm a cool mom. I'll legalize weed. Okay. Well, let's see. Ron DeSantis

00:35:22.920 in Florida gave us a good economy and political rights and they stopped the perverts from transing 1.00

00:35:27.220 the kids. And, and he's just, he's done all these great things and he's brought business there and he's,

00:35:31.520 he's kept civil liberties and the traditional way of life. And you are offering me a blunt.

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00:37:57.700 more. Joe Biden is underwater. Florida Democrats are way underwater. Democrats around the country are

00:38:17.080 looking ahead to an absolute Republican title wave in 2022 and potentially in 2024, in large part because

00:38:24.920 of this realignment, in large part because nice middle of the road parents who used to vote for

00:38:30.260 Dems are now siding with Republicans. The working class, which used to side with Dems, is increasingly

00:38:35.920 siding with Republicans. You're seeing a shift. You're seeing a realignment, call it whatever you will.

00:38:42.120 And because the Democrat politicians are just not popular. Joe Biden, not making a strong case for

00:38:48.860 himself. Pete Buttigieg, not making a strong case for himself. Nikki Freed in Florida, not making a

00:38:52.400 strong case. And then we've got my favorite, my absolute favorite, Kamala Harris, who just showed up 0.67

00:38:59.060 to give a speech to the Space Force. Kamala Harris has very high-level speechwriters at her disposal. 0.98

00:39:07.300 Kamala Harris could make the play right now. Joe Biden is old. It's hard to imagine he's going to

00:39:13.520 run for president again. This is her chance to shine. Kamala, what's the best that you've got

00:39:18.000 to inspire Americans to elect you in 2024 or 2028? Space is exciting. It spurs our imaginations.

00:39:28.320 And it forces us to ask big questions. Space, it affects us all. And it connects us all.

00:39:41.540 I think Kamala Harris has been hanging out with Nikki Freed in that greenhouse with all that Peruvian 1.00

00:39:48.720 parsley. She does this all the time. I actually have a Kamala Harris bong that I guess is not,

00:39:53.400 unfortunately, it's not at my desk right now. But I'll have to spark it up in order to even have a

00:39:57.740 shot at understanding what she's saying. But from what I can gather, what Kamala Harris is saying is

00:40:02.520 space, man, you know, like you ever think about it, man, like us, but space, you know, man,

00:40:12.860 that's the substance of her speech. And there's actually a serious point to this.

00:40:20.860 The Democrats are talking in platitudes right now and cheap slogans right now because if they

00:40:30.100 actually discuss the substantive political agenda that they've got, they're going to look like creeps

00:40:36.660 and they're going to lose the elections. That's the problem for Democrats. That's why the Democrats

00:40:42.300 are trying to shut up libs of TikTok. If the Democrats and the libs were confident in their message,

00:40:46.960 if they thought that their message was going to win over a majority of the American people,

00:40:50.200 they would love libs of TikTok. I love Media Matters. I love when Media Matters or Right

00:40:55.660 Wing Watch or any of the liberal operative groups clip out parts of my show because then those clips

00:41:00.400 go viral. And I think, man, those are great clips. Man, I was totally right there. Boy,

00:41:04.580 I put that pretty well. I think that's going to resonate. Very often when these left wing operative

00:41:08.860 groups cut out clips of my show to try to get me fired, I retweet them because I think that's

00:41:13.100 good stuff, man. Thanks a lot, publicists. The libs don't do that. The libs try to shut down 1.00

00:41:20.240 conservatives who expose what they believe. And so in Kamala Harris's defense, what's she going to 0.99

00:41:25.200 say? What's she going to say? She's going to go give a political speech and say, we absolutely must 0.90

00:41:29.300 trans the kids. We absolutely need to pump five-year-olds full of cross-sex hormones and 1.00

00:41:33.520 puberty blockers. That's our substantive agenda for America. We need to give Vladimir Putin a pipeline so he 0.86

00:41:39.160 can invade Ukraine. We need to give a nuclear bomb to Iran. We need to flood the country with 1.00

00:41:44.880 millions of illegal aliens. We need to keep your economy shut down. We need to keep you from going 1.00

00:41:51.500 to church. We need to, we need to, we need to. Everything that they want to do is unpopular.

00:41:56.040 So truly the best they can muster is, yo, man, you ever think about space? If I'm your governor,

00:42:03.800 I'll legalize weed, kids, hang loose, cowabunga. That's all they've got. And it's pathetic. And I 1.00

00:42:09.680 don't think it's working because the American people are a lot smarter than that. If we can see

00:42:14.940 it, if we can see it, people who are listening to this show right now probably pay pretty close

00:42:20.860 attention to politics. You're probably, I'm not just flattering you. You're probably a little bit

00:42:25.260 more on the informed voter side of things. You're probably a little more civically minded,

00:42:30.600 but a lot of people just go about their lives and they don't really have time to pay attention

00:42:33.880 to politics. They don't have a particular interest. And so they believe what they are

00:42:37.780 inundated with from Hollywood and from the corporate establishment news media and what

00:42:44.420 they see on social media, which is now an enforcement wing of the liberal establishment.

00:42:50.580 Google, Facebook, and Twitter control 90% of the flow of information around the internet.

00:42:55.220 So if you're just a casual internet user, what you are seeing is coming through the lens

00:43:01.620 of the left, which is why it's so important that we crack up the left's monopoly on big tech.

00:43:09.340 And that is very possibly going to happen. The update on Twitter, the Musk update for today,

00:43:15.740 because you remember Elon Musk bought a big chunk of Twitter. Then he was offered a board seat,

00:43:20.240 but he turned it down because it would have limited his power. Then he tried to buy Twitter.

00:43:23.180 The corporate board issued a poison pill to try to stop Musk from buying Twitter. So it seemed like

00:43:27.840 it was over then. But now Elon Musk has a backup plan, just like he promised us he did. Elon Musk,

00:43:34.600 a few days ago, tweeted out, love me tender. Love me tender, name of a great Elvis song.

00:43:41.740 A lot of people didn't know what that meant. But I suspected what that meant was that Elon was going

00:43:47.560 to make a tender offer, which is when you go around the board of directors and you go right

00:43:52.640 to the shareholders in Twitter and you say to anyone, it could be to an institutional investor,

00:43:57.520 it could be a retail investor like you or me, goes in and says, hey, I'm willing to offer you 54 bucks

00:44:01.860 and 20 cents per share. You want to sell it to me? And so he doesn't have to deal with the board.

00:44:05.720 Then just yesterday, Elon Musk tweets out, blank is the night.

00:44:09.360 It's referring to tender is the night, a very famous novel and a line from a poem by John Keats.

00:44:17.300 A poem, oddly enough, coincidentally, providentially, intentionally that uses the word Musk in it.

00:44:23.200 So I think it's clear Elon is now going to try to make a tender offer. And it's important,

00:44:30.200 not just because a tender offer would be a way to get around the board and get around the censorship

00:44:35.040 and actually restore some semblance of fairness and freedom to Twitter. But it's important because

00:44:40.780 it shows you the whole political strategy right now. The libs are focusing on a corrupt,

00:44:49.480 small elite to maintain their power and silence the people. And the conservatives are relying on

00:44:55.400 a billionaire to go directly to the people, to go directly to the shareholders, to try to bring back

00:45:00.200 some semblance of democratic politics. You're seeing it in high finance, you're seeing it in technology,

00:45:05.040 you're seeing it around the country. The realignment is real, folks. I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:46:01.220 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, the left rushes to Disney's defense. As Florida targets the

00:46:06.280 massive corporation's tax breaks, the CDC seeks to reinstate federal travel mask mandates with a

00:46:10.980 legal appeal, and the Biden administration tries to split the baby on drilling. That's today on

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 21, 2022

Ep. 989 - The Clock Strikes Midnight At Disney

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