The Michael Knowles Show - December 17, 2023


LOL： Michael REACTS to Triggered Christmas Haters


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116

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Libs want to replace Christmas with a socialist festival to protest the fact that Christmas is a social construct, not a celebration of the birth of our Lord. But wait, isn t that what Christmas is about anyway? A social construct? And isn t St. Nicholas the King of Kings?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, fellow soldiers. It's Michael Knowles here, a general in the war on Christmas.
00:00:04.760 We are all part of Santa's army.
00:00:07.040 I mean, you know, actually, Santa does have a religious connection to the holiday,
00:00:12.020 which is about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:00:14.340 and the connection being that Santa's based on St. Nicholas.
00:00:17.180 Anyway, there's very many interesting things to say about Christmas.
00:00:20.160 And then there are a lot of uninteresting, stupid things to say about Christmas,
00:00:23.080 which is what the libs who are waging the war on Christmas say all the time.
00:00:25.800 So here is our annual edition of the Liberals' latest talking points in the war on Christmas.
00:00:33.300 Take it away.
00:00:45.720 Breonna Taylor.
00:00:47.460 This one isn't even original.
00:00:49.500 What is this?
00:00:50.520 Because I guess it's supposed to be subversive in that they took a Christmas tree
00:00:57.780 and they turned it into a BLM thing.
00:00:59.740 But that's just a Kwanzaa decoration.
00:01:02.500 I mean, all Kwanzaa is is a black identitarian, a black liberation movement guy
00:01:08.540 who was a socialist creating a socialist festival to try to replace Christmas.
00:01:13.460 I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up.
00:01:15.440 The guy gave himself the name Milana Karenga, but his real name is Ron Everett.
00:01:19.700 And he was a Cal State Long Beach professor who was later arrested for torturing women
00:01:23.400 and imprisoning them and doing all sorts of sick, crazy things to them.
00:01:27.540 Dang.
00:01:28.140 And he was a nut and the holiday is ridiculous and no one really celebrates it at all.
00:01:32.260 And BLM is just the latest version of that.
00:01:34.280 I mean, they didn't even change the initialism from the black liberation movement, BLM,
00:01:39.120 to Black Lives Matter, BLM.
00:01:41.100 Angela Davis said it's the same thing.
00:01:42.580 The people who are the inspiration of and the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement
00:01:47.260 all say this is the exact same thing as we saw in the 60s
00:01:50.900 when some other wackos tried to replace Christmas with a socialist festival
00:01:55.320 to whine about how black people are oppressed, 0.87
00:01:58.580 which isn't even embraced by the majority of black people, nowhere near it.
00:02:02.340 So zing, you got us, guys.
00:02:04.020 It's the celebration of a birth.
00:02:18.500 That's why you don't like it.
00:02:20.040 It's true, you probably don't like Christianity or God or the moral order
00:02:23.940 because you are persisting in something that we all know, including you, is obviously wrong.
00:02:28.620 It's terrible to kill a baby.
00:02:29.700 It's time to stop!
00:02:32.500 But probably the reason that this fanatical pro-abortion person really hates Christmas
00:02:36.800 is that it's the Feast of the Nativity.
00:02:38.560 It's about the birth of our Lord.
00:02:42.520 Probably she would do a little bit better with really any other Christian feast.
00:02:46.240 Michaelmas or, you know, Easter or something.
00:02:48.440 But Feast of the Nativity is much harder.
00:02:52.060 Christmas is a social construct upheld by the bourgeoisie
00:02:55.640 in which they exploit the labor of proletarian workers
00:02:58.760 and cut down trees to sell to society in a socially acceptable way
00:03:03.300 to make room for industry.
00:03:06.180 This is all very silly, you know, freshman year Marxism.
00:03:10.060 Like, certainly this person, whoever wrote this,
00:03:12.160 has never actually read Karl Marx,
00:03:14.160 but has read maybe part of the Wikipedia page
00:03:17.460 about Karl Marx or Capital or something.
00:03:20.300 This is good because I can barely read, so...
00:03:22.120 The last part here is the silliest one.
00:03:23.560 She says, it's so that society can cut down trees to make way for industry.
00:03:28.180 They don't just cut down trees in the wilderness.
00:03:30.720 Huh?
00:03:31.080 You get your Christmas trees from tree farms.
00:03:33.480 And when they cut them down, they don't pave it for a parking lot.
00:03:36.440 They grow more trees.
00:03:38.020 More! 0.72
00:03:40.360 More! 0.72
00:03:41.040 In fact, the Christmas tree industry is responsible
00:03:44.220 for there being many more trees in the world
00:03:46.340 because they're growing them
00:03:47.320 because it's a sustainable, renewable resource
00:03:49.360 because there's a customer out there to buy it.
00:03:51.100 So that part's very, very silly.
00:03:52.720 A social construct.
00:03:54.460 I mean, it's a social construct in that
00:03:56.940 we live in a society,
00:03:59.620 and 2,000 years ago,
00:04:01.020 a child was born in Bethlehem to a virgin
00:04:03.500 heralded by a star,
00:04:06.040 and wise men came to worship him
00:04:08.920 and pay him homage.
00:04:10.200 And then that child,
00:04:12.860 30 years after the fact,
00:04:14.740 had a ministry,
00:04:15.480 and then three years after that,
00:04:16.700 fell into his passion,
00:04:17.960 was crucified, died, and was buried.
00:04:19.500 And he redeemed mankind on the cross
00:04:21.640 and rose again on the third day
00:04:22.700 in accordance with the scriptures,
00:04:23.840 and his kingdom had no end.
00:04:26.840 And people recognize that immediately
00:04:30.220 and continue to recognize that today
00:04:31.680 and hail him as the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
00:04:34.120 Yeah, that's true.
00:04:34.680 So that's social,
00:04:35.720 and that, you know,
00:04:36.220 it's like people were part of that.
00:04:38.740 And our Lord became a person
00:04:39.860 and entered into society,
00:04:41.500 dwelt among us.
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00:05:50.300 Just a quick Christmas reminder
00:05:51.900 that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
00:05:53.160 is not a heartwarming movie.
00:05:55.080 It's a tale of how
00:05:55.880 the ruling class
00:05:56.580 only celebrates difference
00:05:57.600 once they figure out
00:05:58.360 how they can exploit it
00:05:59.180 for personal gain.
00:06:00.740 Side note,
00:06:01.180 did you ever notice
00:06:01.900 how literally every company
00:06:03.200 changes their social media
00:06:04.360 bio photo
00:06:05.040 the day after Pride Month ends?
00:06:07.040 So weird.
00:06:08.020 Yeah.
00:06:08.240 The Pride stuff is terrible
00:06:09.920 and companies exploit it
00:06:12.680 because they think
00:06:13.120 they can make money
00:06:13.900 from a degenerate
00:06:14.960 and decadent society.
00:06:16.000 But they know
00:06:18.880 that most people
00:06:19.420 don't like that
00:06:20.080 for most of the rest
00:06:20.860 of the years
00:06:21.220 that they get rid of it.
00:06:22.160 The point on Rudolph
00:06:24.220 is a slightly better point
00:06:25.720 for this guy
00:06:26.240 which is
00:06:27.160 he's saying that
00:06:28.340 people
00:06:29.060 when they don't adhere
00:06:30.220 to the norms of society
00:06:31.620 are sometimes ostracized
00:06:33.280 or pushed to the fringes.
00:06:34.360 But then the happy ending here
00:06:35.680 is that the dentist elf
00:06:36.780 and Rudolph
00:06:37.420 get brought back
00:06:38.200 into the fold
00:06:38.600 and everyone's really happy.
00:06:39.880 But he sees this
00:06:40.640 as a really bad ending
00:06:41.640 because he's viewing it
00:06:42.880 through a Marxist lens
00:06:43.700 which is just
00:06:44.300 the factory workers
00:06:46.480 have figured out
00:06:47.340 how to exploit
00:06:48.260 the labor
00:06:49.220 of the elf dentist
00:06:50.820 and of Rudolph.
00:06:52.680 But where he sees
00:06:53.980 something very evil
00:06:54.720 I see something
00:06:55.280 really beautiful.
00:06:55.920 Where he sees
00:06:56.240 something economic
00:06:56.800 I see something
00:06:57.280 more fully human.
00:06:58.760 I'm so very, very sad.
00:07:00.240 Which is that
00:07:00.780 we are not
00:07:01.960 merely individuals.
00:07:03.000 This guy is coming
00:07:04.100 from the position
00:07:04.640 of a radical individualism
00:07:06.020 that says he doesn't
00:07:06.960 have any responsibility
00:07:07.740 to his community
00:07:08.580 to community standards
00:07:09.520 to the moral order
00:07:10.560 to God
00:07:11.020 to any kind of behavior
00:07:11.820 just I'm going to do
00:07:12.540 whatever I want
00:07:13.160 and that's that
00:07:13.680 and you better celebrate it
00:07:15.060 by the way.
00:07:15.480 I have no responsibility
00:07:16.160 to you
00:07:16.600 but you have responsibilities
00:07:17.540 to me.
00:07:18.760 And what I see here though
00:07:20.280 is the fact that man
00:07:21.100 is actually a political animal
00:07:22.120 and a social creature
00:07:22.960 and we are made for society.
00:07:25.540 Men are not made
00:07:26.280 to go off
00:07:27.020 and live alone
00:07:27.600 as atomized individuals.
00:07:29.820 And so the happy ending here
00:07:31.000 is that yes
00:07:32.300 the elf dentist
00:07:33.860 and Rudolph
00:07:35.080 they are a little bit different
00:07:36.660 and that's okay
00:07:37.360 to be a little bit different.
00:07:39.160 But you have to figure out
00:07:40.460 how you fit in
00:07:41.580 even with your differences
00:07:42.740 to society
00:07:44.140 or else you'll be cut off
00:07:46.080 from what is required
00:07:49.340 for your flourishing
00:07:50.240 which is society.
00:07:51.740 So it's a good thing
00:07:52.300 they found their way
00:07:53.140 to fit back in.
00:07:55.180 So this is Bethlehem.
00:07:58.340 Who's in the Christmas spirit?
00:08:01.720 Seems to me
00:08:02.380 since this is what Christmas
00:08:03.640 is going to look like
00:08:04.380 in Palestine this year
00:08:05.600 and since we were going
00:08:06.660 to boycott capitalism anyway
00:08:08.000 and we were going to boycott
00:08:09.260 all the companies
00:08:09.980 on the BDS list
00:08:10.860 seems to me
00:08:11.360 the perfect opportunity
00:08:12.240 to celebrate the birthday
00:08:13.300 of the most famous
00:08:14.040 Palestinian who ever lived 0.97
00:08:15.340 from this little town
00:08:16.640 of Bethlehem
00:08:17.420 to make a big,
00:08:18.920 big, big noise
00:08:19.960 internationally for Palestine.
00:08:21.480 I don't know about you
00:08:22.200 but I'm a little cheesed off
00:08:23.440 that Palestine Day 0.98
00:08:24.320 just came and went
00:08:25.220 and we didn't hear
00:08:26.220 about that like
00:08:27.000 weeks in advance.
00:08:28.380 If the UN made
00:08:29.080 a single announcement
00:08:30.060 about it
00:08:30.580 any time during
00:08:31.560 the ongoing genocide
00:08:33.020 we would have been
00:08:34.100 in every major city
00:08:35.260 across America
00:08:36.100 and across the world
00:08:36.960 protesting.
00:08:37.700 It seems to me
00:08:38.240 that this time
00:08:38.800 we got a whole month
00:08:39.620 to plan.
00:08:46.720 Excuse.
00:08:47.640 I don't know about you
00:08:48.260 but all I want for Christmas
00:08:49.240 is a free Palestine.
00:08:50.600 Uh, no.
00:08:51.560 I'd like some hot cocoa,
00:08:53.980 spend some time
00:08:54.620 with my family,
00:08:55.600 maybe go to Midnight Mass,
00:08:56.640 that'd be nice.
00:08:57.280 The talking point
00:08:58.300 that keeps recurring here
00:08:59.700 is that Jesus was
00:09:01.600 a Palestinian.
00:09:02.680 First of all,
00:09:03.120 any time you say
00:09:03.620 Jesus was,
00:09:04.580 you're probably
00:09:05.200 missing the mark
00:09:06.360 because the big takeaway
00:09:08.380 from the story
00:09:09.040 is that he is.
00:09:10.240 He's alive!
00:09:12.240 Oh, he's alive
00:09:13.740 and I'm forgiven!
00:09:15.080 But they're not familiar
00:09:16.680 with the Gospels
00:09:17.800 and the way I know that
00:09:18.880 is that the Synoptic Gospels
00:09:20.680 begin with a genealogy
00:09:22.620 genealogy of our Lord
00:09:24.180 that shows quite clearly
00:09:25.880 he is ethnically,
00:09:27.900 tribally,
00:09:28.760 a Jew
00:09:29.200 in the line of King David
00:09:30.740 actually of all people
00:09:32.280 and he does not descend
00:09:34.580 from the Philistines.
00:09:36.980 That's not the lineage.
00:09:38.540 You can have all sorts of views
00:09:39.500 on the Israel-Palestine conflict
00:09:40.640 but to say,
00:09:42.340 yeah,
00:09:43.180 Jesus is a cause 1.00
00:09:44.560 for Palestinian,
00:09:47.060 Muslim,
00:09:47.600 political liberation,
00:09:48.680 what on earth
00:09:49.220 are you talking about?
00:09:49.900 You don't just get to
00:09:50.700 rewrite Christianity for that. 0.98
00:09:52.680 And you don't get to let
00:09:53.380 Hamas totally off the hook. 0.54
00:09:54.520 Good grief,
00:09:54.980 these people.
00:09:55.540 Dumb people are always
00:09:56.800 blissfully unaware
00:09:58.020 of how dumb they really are.
00:10:00.180 I guess one silver lining
00:10:01.560 of the Libs
00:10:02.140 just being completely
00:10:03.020 distracted this year
00:10:04.000 is their usual attacks
00:10:06.100 on Christmas
00:10:06.680 as, you know,
00:10:07.860 a pagan holiday
00:10:08.740 or whatever.
00:10:09.800 They've ignored those
00:10:10.760 to make some other
00:10:11.340 stupid point about
00:10:12.340 Middle Eastern
00:10:13.320 national politics.
00:10:14.500 Okay.
00:10:15.240 Fa-la-la-la-la-la. 1.00
00:10:16.380 La-la-la-la.
00:10:17.000 Deck the hearts
00:10:18.500 with boughs of
00:10:19.880 hurry.
00:10:20.900 Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra. 0.99