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April 6, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 736 - The Mark Of The Fleeced

Fauci predicts no federal vaccine mandate, BLM threatens to burn down more stuff, and the confused Assistant Secretary of Health endorses pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We have some good news from Dr.
Fauci.
I never thought I would say that, but Dr.
Fauci just appeared on my pal Alex Michelson's show, and Fauci said that he does not predict that there will be a vaccine mandate.
Take a listen.
The fact is, from the standpoint of practicality, there is merit to that.
There are a lot of concerns and objections about discrimination for people who don't, or Big Brother looking over you and giving you the right or not to enter into a theater or into a restaurant.
It's a very controversial issue right now.
But you can understand that there may be individual, independent entities, not at the level of the federal government, but there may be some school districts that would say, unless you're vaccinated, you can't get in.
Or some places of employment that say, unless you're vaccinated, you can't come in.
That's apart from a broad umbrella concern or control by the federal government.
I don't think you're going to see a federal government mandate about that.
Now that is at least something of a good prediction.
The problem for anyone familiar with Dr.
Fauci's predictions is they've all turned out to be wrong, so that's not great.
But even taking the answer for what it is, what that means is that now this issue of vaccine passports is up to the governors.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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The issue of the vaccine passports is up to the governor's.
The good news on this is more and more Republican governors seem poised to come out strongly against the vaccine passports.
Governor Tate Reeves in Mississippi is now joining Ron DeSantis in saying, no, we oppose these COVID passports.
Do you think private businesses should be banned from requiring vaccine passports?
What's your take on this?
Well, I don't support vaccine passports.
I don't think it's necessary, and I don't think it's a good thing to do in America.
Great answer, and Tate Reeves has been really good on this issue.
He's a good governor generally, but he's been really good on this issue in particular.
But we're going to have to get more specific here, because Jake Tapper's question was very specific.
He said, do you support the right of businesses, of private organizations to require these vaccine passports?
And Governor Reeves gives this broader answer.
He says, I do not support vaccine passports.
So certainly that would seem to imply that he doesn't support them at the state level.
You know, the state mandating that to access certain government services, you need to show a vaccine passport.
And it would, I think he is saying that he does not support private businesses doing that either, but it is a slightly different question.
And I think that we're going to need to get real, real specific on this because I could see all the Republicans being against the state mandate, but I could see some squishes going in for allowing private businesses to require it.
But we cannot permit that folks.
If it is the government telling me that I've got to show my medical history and get injected with this thing in order to participate in civil life, or it's a private business doing that, I don't really care.
I just don't want to do it.
I will not support any Republican in the 2024 presidential primary who does not vigorously oppose the vaccine passports.
I think this is a good rule.
The good news for people in the Senate and people in Congress is it seems to be a non-issue for them.
If Fauci is right, then this is not going to be a federal matter.
But this is going to affect governors, because governors are going to have a whole lot of say over whether or not they are going, and people in state houses and state senators and that sort of thing.
Presumably state senators and state assemblymen are not going to be running for president, but the governors really might.
This is a total line in the sand issue.
There are many reasons why we should all oppose these vaccine passports.
And some parts of the right are going to gravitate toward certain reasons.
Some parts of the right are going to gravitate toward others.
So you can imagine the real, you know, get off my law and libertarian right.
They're going to oppose these vaccine passports as a matter of liberties.
You don't get to do this, folks.
You don't get to demand not only that I get injected with the shot, but that I prove that to you everywhere I go just to go buy a cup of coffee.
For the maybe less libertarian, more traditional conservatives on the right, this is a complete upending of our political order.
This is an upending of our political institutions, our traditions, our American way of life.
For the religious right, there are ethical questions about these vaccines.
Which vaccines were developed using old stem cell lines from aborted babies?
Lots of bioethical questions here.
I don't care which argument you gravitate toward.
This is the issue.
Ron DeSantis down in Florida has been, I think, the leader as far as governors go on this issue.
And it's why the left is going after him.
Did you see this yesterday?
I hope you saw this.
I know that very few people who listen to this show watch 60 Minutes because very few people generally watch 60 Minutes anymore.
And hopefully it'll be fewer and fewer moving into the future.
60 Minutes, Total Network News hit piece on Ron DeSantis.
60 Minutes played an exchange between one of their reporters and Ron DeSantis on an issue, not really, only tangentially related to the vaccines.
It's about an allegation of corruption and whether a supermarket chain donated some money to Ron DeSantis in Florida, and so DeSantis gave them a special contract on the vaccine.
It's total BS. It's completely bogus, which we'll get to in a minute.
But just listen to the exchange as 60 Minutes presents it.
We wanted to ask Governor DeSantis about the deal, but he declined our request for an interview.
We caught up with him south of Orlando.
Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach.
So first of all, what you're saying is wrong.
How is that not pay to play?
That's a fake narrative.
I met with the county mayor, I met with the administrator, I met with all the folks at Palm Beach County, and I said, here's some of the options.
We can do more drive-through sites, we can give more to hospitals, we can do the Publix.
And they said, we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents.
But Melissa McKinlay, the county commissioner in the Glades, told us the governor never met with her about the Publix deal.
The criticism is that it's pay to play, Governor.
It's wrong.
It's wrong.
It's a fake narrative.
I just disabused you of the narrative.
And you don't care about the facts because obviously I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable.
And so it's clearly not.
Isn't there the nearest Publix of the Glades is 30 miles away?
No, no, no.
You're wrong.
Yes, sir.
That's actually a fact.
Okay, wow.
If you were to listen to that exchange, I think you would say, God, maybe there is some corruption here, because he didn't lay it out in a way that's irrefutable.
He didn't take her through anything.
He just made this claim that he met with some mayors and county people, and then some other county person said they didn't, and there were some really good shots of the reporter smirking at DeSantis and saying, this is corruption.
Okay, right.
That's interesting.
Thankfully, we have the full footage of that exchange, which went nothing like what that clip would suggest.
I'm not even going to play the whole exchange.
Just take a listen to the first part of the exchange and compare it to what 60 minutes aired.
So first of all, what you're saying is wrong.
That's a fake narrative.
First of all, when we did the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens, and they had a long-term care mission.
So they were going to the long-term care facilities.
They got vaccine in the middle of December.
They started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs.
So that was their mission.
That was very important, and we trusted them to do that.
As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points.
So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more.
So we reached out to other retail pharmacies, Publix, Walmart.
Obviously, CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission.
And we said, we're going to use you as soon as you're done with that.
For the publics, they were the first one to raise their hand and say they were ready to go.
And you know what?
We did it on a trial basis.
I had three counties.
I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different publics.
This goes on for like a minute and a half, in addition to what we've already heard, where he's laying out step-by-step exactly the plan, saying, no, we didn't give this exclusive contract to Publix.
We started at CVS. We then went to Walgreens.
Then we opened it up.
Publix was the first one that could do it.
We did polls of the senior citizens.
We found out most senior citizens live within a mile of Publix.
It's proven very popular.
It's why we're leading the country.
in these, it goes on and on and on and on.
The reporter has nothing.
And then she keeps coming back and saying, well, but this is bad.
And he says, okay, well, I've disabused you of this narrative.
I guess you're not paying attention, but I've just laid it out for you.
Absolutely.
People should lose their jobs over what just happened in 60 minutes.
Whatever producer or reporter quote unquote, put that thing together should be fired and should never work in reporting If they want to become leftist commentators on MSNBC, that would be more honest, more understandable.
But what they just did on 60 Minutes is lie.
They committed fraud on 60 Minutes.
Why are they doing this to DeSantis?
They're doing it to him because they're afraid of him.
Because they think that he would be a formidable presidential candidate in 2024.
It's the same reason they're going after Cruz for Cancun.
The whole time, maybe I mentioned this at the time when the Cruz and Cancun story was the biggest story in the world.
Why?
Why was everybody going after Cruz all the time?
Because the left felt that he would be a formidable candidate in 2024.
They're doing it to DeSantis because he also would be a formidable candidate in 2024.
They only go after people that they're afraid of.
You're not going to see 60-minute hit pieces on John Kasich.
Frankly, if the left is not going after a Republican politician, I am skeptical of that politician.
I'm probably not going to support that politician.
I don't anticipate that there's going to be some big expose on Mitt Romney.
Let's put it that way.
Okay?
DeSantis right now is one of the big targets.
There are two or three big targets on the right.
He's one of them.
And he's stating with clarity this is not just about government mandates on the vaccine.
This extends to private businesses as well.
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Text MICHAEL. I want to be crystal clear on this vaccine issue because I think that the vaccine passports, it's an actual line in the sand issue.
I think that Republicans who do not oppose this vigorously should not be taken seriously for 2024.
This is going to come down to the state houses, so I'm really talking about the governors here.
First of all, at the bare minimum, these guys need to come out against state-mandated vaccine passports.
But they need to go further than that, actually.
They need to ban businesses from demanding vaccine passports.
But Michael, that's an incursion into the free market.
Not really.
It's just a basic defense of justice and our constitutional order and our rights.
DeSantis has been good on this.
He stated with some clarity that he would not tolerate companies requiring these vaccine passports.
He says that would seem to extend beyond a private issue.
And of course, this is the case.
Of course, this is the case.
You know, at least for the past 20 years or so, Republicans and conservatives have deluded ourselves and pretended that there's this perfectly neat distinction between the public sphere and the private sector and the politics and the culture, that there's this perfectly neat separation, but there isn't, obviously.
Politics, in its most basic sense, old Uncle Aristotle taught us this, is how we all get along together.
It's what we all do together.
And in our political tradition, we carve out broad spaces where the government is not, or at least the federal government, is not really expected to intrude, even though from the very beginning of our country, local government has had a huge say about supposedly private matters.
But someone wrote in to me, and I thought it was a good question.
I said, Michael, how can conservatives support legislation that would prevent businesses from demanding the vaccine passport?
But also defend the baker in Colorado who doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
I don't even know what terms we're supposed to use anymore.
There is not a contradiction here.
The reason that there is not a contradiction, because on the surface it seems like there's a contradiction.
We're saying in the one case in Colorado that businesses should be able to do whatever they want, but we're saying in the case of vaccine passports, businesses should not be able to do whatever they want.
Well, how is this not a contradiction?
Because politics has both form and substance.
So there is the question, the really abstract question, should businesses be able to do whatever they want?
And then there's the substantive question.
What are the businesses doing?
In the case of the baker in Colorado, You have an artist, a cake artist, a man who is using his craft and his skill, and the question is, can you or should you compel him to do something that violates his conscience and specifically that violates the traditional views of Christianity?
And I think the answer to that really specific question is, no, you shouldn't.
You shouldn't force a Christian baker to adopt the religion of wokeism.
Not just because of the abstract principle, but also because Christianity is better than wokeism.
And it's more in keeping with our actual political traditions in this country.
With regard to the vaccine passports in private businesses, the question is, should businesses be permitted to demand your medical history, therefore to demand that you show your medical history to big tech companies who are developing these vaccine passports?
Should the businesses be able to require you to get this very hastily developed vaccine that was developed within the last year?
You know, a vaccine that has not, by its very definition, has not been tested for long-term consequences.
Should, on that particular substantive question, should the businesses be able to do that?
And I think no.
But Michael, if you start talking about the substance, if you start talking about the actual practical issues at play, why then you're no better than the left?
No, I don't think so.
I think conservatives are really good at defending very abstract principles that Over the last 20 years.
Sometimes they're defending principles they shouldn't even defend, by the way.
But they've gotten really bad at defending anything practical, anything prudent, anything, oh, I don't know, conservative.
They're not really good at that.
DeSantis has this right.
A lot of other people have this wrong.
Where are the other governors on this?
By my last count, there are 27 Republican governors right now.
So far I've seen DeSantis and Tate Reeves come out pretty strongly against this stuff.
Where are the other ones?
I want to hear from all the other Republican governors.
I just saw the governor of Arkansas.
This guy, Asa Hutchinson, he just vetoed a transgender bill.
There was a bill that was passed through the Arkansas Statehouse that said that little children should not be pumped full of cross-sex hormones.
And Asa Hutchinson, the Republican, apparently Republican governor of Arkansas, vetoed the bill.
This guy, Asa Hutchinson, thinks that little kids should be pumped full of cross-sex hormones.
Something tells me Governor Hutchinson could benefit from the attachment of a few biological structures that he apparently lacks.
But while we're waiting for that medical procedure to take place, he should be removed from office.
He has no judgment.
The reason that issue in particular matters is because if you do not, it ties in with the question of substance, actual moral arguments that we're talking about.
If you do not possess the judgment to know that you shouldn't pump little boys full of cross-sex hormones to make them look a little bit more like little girls before they go through puberty, if you don't have that judgment, you should not hold any public office.
You should not be elected dog catcher.
And I think that Republicans should move as swiftly as they possibly can to remove Asa Hutchinson from office in Arkansas.
Absolutely ridiculous stuff.
Because they're all living in fear.
They're living in fear of being called a bigot or a this-ist or a that-ist.
What Hutchinson said was, he said, this transgender bill, this is just a product of the culture war.
So what?
So you're going to concede the culture war?
Cool.
Thanks, buddy.
Good grief.
You know, I hope that President Trump lives a long life, very long life.
And then I hope when he goes to his eternal reward, I hope that he donates his body to science and his spine to Republicans because it's pathetic what some of them are doing.
Speaking of instilling fear...
Black Lives Matter is threatening to burn down the country again if they don't get the outcome they want in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop who was involved in the death of George Floyd.
There is a woman, I've never heard of her, but apparently she's popular on social media, Maya Eccles.
She's a model and a Black Lives Matter activist.
And she just took to TikTok and threatened to burn some stuff down if they don't get the outcome they want in the trial.
- If George Floyd's murderer is not sentenced, just know that all hell is gonna break loose.
Don't be surprised when buildings are on fire. - That woman is a terrorist.
I'm not using hyperbolic language here.
Terrorism is the targeting of civilians to achieve political purposes.
So I guess she didn't specify which buildings would be on fire.
But if you can infer from the way that BLM torched the country last summer, if you can infer from that and deduce that there would be private buildings, private businesses on fire as well as government buildings, then what she is doing is making a criminal threat to burn places down then what she is doing is making a criminal threat if we do not subvert our justice system to give her what she wants.
Why are we tolerating what is the most basic definition of terrorism?
Thank you.
Why?
Why are people going along with this?
Why is Mitt Romney marching with BLM terrorists?
Why is he doing that?
I never want to hear another word about the Capitol Hill riot, so long as people like this lady can get away with making criminal threats, and in the case of BLM and Antifa, actually carrying out the threats, as they did for six months in the United States.
I don't want to hear a peep about it, about the Trumpist insurrectionists.
I just...
I just don't want to hear it because it's so disingenuous.
It is in such bad faith.
And it's not just some lady mouthing off on TikTok.
I mean, she identifies herself with the organization, right?
She identifies herself with the BLM movement.
But it's not just her.
It's not just some mouthy millennial making idle threats.
This sort of thing is supported by the most powerful people in the Democrat liberal establishment.
How many Democrat politicians voiced their support for BLM last summer as they burned down the country?
Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president, raised money to bail these people out of jail.
She wasn't bailing the peaceful protesters out of jail.
The peaceful protesters weren't in jail.
The arsonists and the criminals were in jail.
And she raised money to bail them out.
And then she went on national television and said, this shouldn't stop.
This should keep going.
Joe Biden's staff members raised money for these criminals.
And yet we are supposed to clutch our pearls over Donald Trump's tweets or something.
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The mainstream left.
He defends, embraces, sometimes directly joins the fringes of the far left.
And then they run away from responsibility when they get called out for it.
So Jen Psaki just had to do some damage control for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden came out and he effectively called for a boycott of Georgia for the Major League Baseball for the All-Star game.
Now the All-Star Game is leaving Georgia, and they're taking away lots and lots of money and economic opportunity, and now people are very upset about this, including Democrat politicians in Georgia.
So Jen Psaki was asked about this, says, gosh, you know, does Joe Biden regret what he did?
And she just denied his statement outright.
So he was not dictating what Major League Baseball should do, dictating they should move the All-Star game.
That was their decision.
They made that decision.
And as he stated earlier, he certainly supports that.
We've not asked corporations to take specific actions.
That's not our focus here.
Our focus is on And continuing to convey that it's important that voting is easier, not harder.
That when there are laws in place that make it harder, we certainly express an opposition to those laws.
And we all believe private sector entities are going to make decisions.
And that's their role to do so.
What I'm conveying, what I can speak to is what our focus is on and what our role is here from the White House and what his energies will be directed toward.
So Joe Biden never said that MLB should pull the All-Star Game.
He never said it, okay?
That's a conspiracy theory that he would have said that.
Stop it.
Stop accusing him of saying things he didn't say.
Joe, what say you?
So, Mr.
President, what do you think about the possibility that baseball decides to move their All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of this political issue?
I think today's professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly.
I would strongly support them doing that.
People look to them.
They're leaders.
Look at what's happened with the NBA as well.
Look at what's happened across the board.
The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports.
And it's just not right.
This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia.
Mr.
President, would you support the MLB pulling their all-star game out of Georgia?
I would strongly support them doing that.
I would strongly support them doing that.
He never said that.
No, according to Jen Psaki, Joe Biden never said what we just heard him say.
And why would he support them doing that?
Because he says that the new Georgia law...
Is Jim Crow on steroids?
Now, there's an irony here because one of the places that MLB could move the All-Star game would be New York, except there's a little snag here.
New York has more restrictive voter laws than Georgia, even after the Georgia awful Jim Crow law.
So if Georgia is Jim Crow, what does that make New York?
If Republican Georgia is Jim Crow on steroids, then New York must be the antebellum South.
But it's run by Democrats.
How weird is that?
I guess like the antebellum South was run by Democrats.
Isn't Georgia now sort of run, right?
There's a Republican governor, but there's two Democratic senators.
Not the first time that a Biden has tried to avoid responsibility for his mistakes.
There's an even clearer example than old Joe.
That would be Hunter.
Hunter Biden, who everyone's talking about his sex scandals right now because he's got lots and lots of sex scandals and they're gross and some of them are probably criminal and lots of them are just immoral and creepy and weird.
But he's got lots of criminal issues too, the drugs and the possible materials on his laptop and Anyway, the real scandal is that Joe Biden's son, Hunter, leveraged his father's name to get oodles and oodles of money out of foreign governments that Joe Biden was making policy on at the time.
Ukraine, China, he was leveraging that name to get very lucrative deals, and in some cases he succeeded.
So, because Joe Biden's son is in legal trouble, He's being asked, is he going to cop a plea deal?
Is he going to try to get out of this federal investigation that he's under?
And Hunter Biden says, absolutely not.
He's not going to cop a plea deal.
He's going to maintain his innocence because he is 100% certain that the DOJ will clear him.
There's a current Department of Justice investigation into your finances.
What is it about?
Can you say anything more?
I can't, but I can say this.
I'm cooperating completely.
And I am absolutely certain, 100% certain, that at the end of the investigation that I will be cleared of any wrongdoing.
You're 100% certain you'll be cleared?
I'm 100% certain of it.
And all I can do is cooperate and trust in the process.
Of course, he's 100% certain.
I'm just about 100% certain, too, that he'll be cleared.
Not because I don't think that he committed crimes.
I think it is pretty clear that Hunter Biden committed crimes.
But he's a Biden.
He's been getting away with this for years.
There have been reports that other peaks into his private life and his finances and possible crimes by federal agencies have been covered up over the years.
He's been getting away with this for so long.
Why would that change now?
Why would that change now that his father is president?
I just don't buy it.
The federal agencies have been covering up for the Democratic establishment for a long time because in many ways they're captured by the Democratic establishment.
Watching that interview of Hunter Biden, it also reminds me Don't do drugs.
I know it seems like a simple thing to say.
You know, it's like I'm an instructor in DARE. Don't do drugs, kids.
Not even once.
This is your brain on drugs.
That interview reminded me of the Charlie Sheen interviews from 10 years ago.
Remember when Charlie Sheen came out and he was talking about how he's got tiger blood and he was all crazy and he looked like he was all coked out all the time?
That kind of jittery, awkward...
It's not the way you want to be.
It reminds me that vice warps you.
Not just the drugs, but all sorts of vice warps you.
Hunter Biden is a handsome guy who was born with virtually some sadness in his life, obviously, but basically every privilege that a guy could have.
And he turned out rotten.
He turned out just about as rotten as it gets because of vice.
And now he doesn't look good either.
He looks...
Ugly.
He has been contorted and corrupted by vice and sin.
These are real things, and these are real things that we think about during Holy Week and during Easter.
Don't do it.
Do not end up like Hunter, even though he's probably going to get away with his crimes as a matter of the law, as a matter of law enforcement.
But you can see them on his face.
He doesn't look good.
He has not aged very well.
Why is he going to get away?
Why is Hunter going to get away with this stuff?
Because there's two sets of rules in this country.
There's one set of rules for the in-crowd.
Call them the elites.
Call them the establishment.
Call them whatever you want.
And there's another set of rules for everyday Americans.
And that's just that.
There's one set of rules for illegal aliens who are being used by the Democrat establishment to gain political power.
And there's another set of rules for Americans.
So Americans for a year have been told, can't leave your house, can't have Christmas, can't have Thanksgiving, don't see your family, can't have a funeral for your dead loved ones.
Now, if you do leave your house, you need to test negative for COVID. You have to show a passport to prove you've gotten the vaccine and the variants and the whatever.
But if those same people They left their house and they immediately went to Mexico and then they ran across the border illegally, they'd be fine.
There's an estimated 10% of illegal aliens entering our country right now having COVID. 10%, 1 in 10 of the record number of foreign nationals flooding into our country, and even when they do get caught, very often they're released, have COVID. Many of them are released without even being tested, as the DHS secretary admitted a couple weeks ago.
That's fine.
That's okay.
We don't need to worry about COVID when it's involving people who might give Democrats more political power.
We just need to worry about COVID when it's people who might challenge that Democrat hegemony.
Two sets of rules.
Speaking of dubious public health policies, Rachel Levine, Mr.
Dr.
Rachel Levine is the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Rachel Levine is a man who pretends to be a woman, and we are all impelled or compelled to pretend that he is a woman as well.
There was a question raised by Rand Paul when Rachel Levine was up for his position that was whether or not Rachel Levine would have any sort of objectivity on the question of Giving little boys cross-sex hormones to make them look a little bit more like little girls and fundamentally damage their biology, their biochemistry, because Rachel Levine has this psychological disorder whereby he thinks that he's a woman, or he very much wants to be a woman and he pretends to be one.
And Rachel Levine said, no, absolutely, I can be totally objective, it's totally fine.
Well now, Rachel Levine, who will speak on these matters because he's the Assistant Secretary of Health, is coming out and supporting, I guess, not really all that different from the Republican governor of Arkansas, whatever he's worth.
Rachel Levine is now supporting giving the little kids the cross-sex hormones.
Here he is describing the reasoning.
Many states across the country are considering and passing bills that would outlaw puberty blockers and hormone treatment for transgender youth.
You worked in Pennsylvania as a pediatrician.
You understand adolescent medicine well.
How do you view these bills?
Well, I think that they're very challenging.
I think it's really challenging to see state legislators and certain governors targeting LGBTQ people, particularly vulnerable transgender youth.
And so I will do everything I can to advocate for transgender and LGBTQ youth, to educate people and states about LGBTQ and specifically transgender issues, and work towards fairness and equality.
Well, see, I don't think that this is a political issue at all.
This is about fairness and equality, and about specifically health equity, which is part of my portfolio.
This is not a political issue at all.
Wow, how brazen that is.
Whether or not we should have laws that allow perverts to pump little kids full of cross-sex hormones, that's not a political issue.
Because it's so obvious that we should.
That's what he is implying here.
He's saying it's so obvious that we should pump these little kids full of the wrong hormones and delay or prevent their puberty and mutilate their bodies.
It's so obvious that it shouldn't even be a topic of legitimate political debate.
We should just go right ahead and do it.
This is the progressive view of politics, which is that everything is political except for politics.
Your sneakers are political, your tacos are political, your baseball is political, but politics is not.
That's going to be decided by experts, specifically scientists, specifically in public health.
You know, experts who are clearly, have a lot of expertise and are so wise, like this man, Rachel Levine, who calls himself a woman.
That we need to basically outsource all of our politics to them, and then we don't need these crazy debates anymore.
It's just a matter of equity.
It should go without saying that in no healthy country would Rachel Levine be the Assistant Secretary of Health.
It is obvious.
It should go without saying.
Now, I think it must go without saying.
I'm not sure that I'm allowed to say that.
Am I allowed to say that it is objectively disordered that this guy is the Assistant Secretary of Health?
Not just because of what he says on this one issue, but more broadly?
I don't know that I'm allowed to say that anymore.
Because social media companies have gone full in on this.
Everyone seems to be going in.
I mean, not the majority.
I think the majority of the American people don't think you should pump little Johnny full of hormones to make him look like little Jane.
So then how is this being advanced, even by some squish Republican governors like the guy in Arkansas?
Because, as I describe in my book Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, the left has engaged in a century-long war of position whereby they don't need to make the arguments individually.
It's not like a war of maneuver where they just lob their argument and then they're refuted and you go back and forth.
They've engaged in a war of position where they attain positions of influence throughout the society, not just in government but in universities notably, big corporate America, big tech, elsewhere.
And then gradually then suddenly they exercise that power and the people are overwhelmed.
The common sense is overwhelmed.
The radicals who developed this kind of, call it wokeism or political correctness or whatever it is that prevents me from saying that it's weird that Rachel Levine is the assistant health secretary.
The people who developed this described what is going on right now in great detail.
They predicted it and they called for it.
This is what I outline in my book and Republicans and conservatives have been utterly feckless at stopping it.
Because they've fallen for the trap that these very, very clever political thinkers on the left laid out.
I do think there is a way out of this, but I suppose you'll have to read my book to figure out what that trick is because it's a little bit of a lengthy argument.
We'll talk about it more on this show, but I do lay it out there.
There is some good news, though, on this big tech censorship front, which is that One of the last great Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas, has given conservatives at least cause to hope that we might be able to win.
Clarence Thomas was just...
The court, broadly, was just presented with some cases regarding big tech.
They did not make any big decisions.
It's not like there was some big landmark case that just came out on big tech.
Actually, the court decided not to hear a couple of cases.
But in making those decisions, Clarence Thomas fired a shot across the bow and he endorsed a pretty strong conservative argument to stop these big tech companies from controlling our speech and censoring everybody.
Thomas compared big tech giants, not to little private companies, and you should build your own Twitter if you don't like it.
He compared them to common carriers and public accommodations.
It's a good argument because they control the flow of speech in our public square and in a republic, speech is politics and politics is speech.
He wrote, quote, even if digital platforms are not close enough to common carriers, legislatures might still be able to treat digital platforms like places of public accommodation.
Although definitions between jurisdictions vary, a company ordinarily is a place of public accommodation if it provides lodging, food, entertainment, or other services to the public in general.
He added that Twitter and other digital platforms bear resemblance to that definition.
Now, some conservatives are going to recoil at this argument, because Thomas is basically saying, look...
If places of public accommodation, stores, hotels, these sorts of things, if they are not permitted to discriminate, then Twitter shouldn't be able to either.
Some conservatives are going to say, no, I don't like that argument.
Because actually, you know, in my really abstract view of things and in my ideal world, the places of public accommodation, they would be able to have freedom of association too.
And this is not a conservative argument.
That's why we need to lose with dignity.
What Thomas is doing is bringing us back to reality.
Not the way that our government should work in the wonderful, perfect, abstracted minds of some very esoteric thinkers.
Some very ethereal thinkers, a better way to put it.
But how the government actually works.
How the society actually works.
And he's saying, look, the left is maybe distorting or perverting our law.
They've been doing it for a long time and they've been using it to their advantage.
We need to use the law as it currently works.
The political regime as it currently exists to our advantage too.
We shouldn't just cede the ground to the left.
I think he makes a great point.
I don't think Republicans should shill for big corporations as a matter of religious principle anymore.
Okay.
We should reward good corporations with our business and we should treat corporations fairly.
We shouldn't just wield the power of the state arbitrarily, but we should wield political power when it is just.
I'll give you an example of an out-of-control corporation.
Spirit Airlines.
It just punished some travelers, a young family.
Now, some people say that traveling on Spirit Airlines is punishment enough.
It is in itself punishment.
I've traveled on that airline quite a bit because it's pretty cheap.
There was a family, young woman, seven months pregnant, got young kids, special needs kid.
They're all wearing their masks.
The little kid was not wearing a mask.
And some crazy stewardess at Spirit Airlines demanded that they leave the plane.
Take a listen.
What do we do?
I'm sorry.
Okay, no problem.
Just tell me what we did.
Not compliant with the mask.
We're wearing a mask.
We're wearing a mask.
We're not wearing a mask.
We keep cutting it off.
We're wearing a mask.
Who's been sitting next to me?
Was I wearing a mask all the time?
It was wearing it the whole time.
Guys, was I wearing a mask all the time, everybody?
I'll make sure he wears it.
Everything's going to be fine.
I'll make sure that they're wearing it, okay?
That's only a two-year-old.
I'm not going to leave until I understand what I'm doing.
If you want to call your manager, you can call your manager.
Noncompliance.
Beep boop.
Make the baby and the special needs kid wear the mask.
Beep boop.
Beep boop.
Noncompliance.
Get off now.
No, I don't think so.
I don't think corporations should be allowed to do that.
I don't think that Spirit Airlines is a private company in this very abstract way that we like to think of this firm distinction between public and private.
I think there is a lot of government regulation of these airlines, and the governments are bringing up the mask mandates, but in some cases the corporations are pushing it more than the government, and I just don't care.
I care about the practical effect of this.
What happened on that airline is unjust, should not be permitted to happen in a just society.
Speaking of just societies, last time I flew on Spirit, thankfully it was some years ago now, was when I first visited LA.
Right now LA is calling for homeless shelters, effectively kind of mental asylums because so many of the people on the street are just complete lunatics, drug addicts and people who have, who have psychological disorders that prohibit them really from living a normal life, especially if they're not taking who have psychological disorders that prohibit them really from living a normal So LA city council member, Mike Bonin has proposed sheltering the city's homeless population at local beaches on the Pacific ocean.
Wow.
Wow!
Oceanfront property for free?
Sounds great.
Sign me up.
How do I do that?
Obviously, the L.A. resident's very upset about this.
As a very recent L.A. resident, I was there.
You pay a lot of money to live in L.A., and most people don't get to live anywhere near the beach.
If you're lucky, I lived maybe, I don't know, five miles from the beach.
That was cool, but I certainly wasn't touching oceanfront property.
Now, I guess I just need to become a heroin addict and live on the street, and then I get oceanfront property.
No, this is a very bad idea.
But I'm not opposed to the idea of building homeless shelters or really more specifically mental asylums.
This shows us a lot of what we've been talking about, the limits of liberty.
We closed down the insane asylums about 50 to 70 years ago in the United States out of a misguided understanding of compassion and liberty.
We said it was wrong for these people to be locked up in these places and we need to let them go free.
And, you know, we've got some medications so they can take that and then they'll go free.
But they wouldn't take the medication and letting them go free basically led them to living in squalor on the beach.
We have mental asylums in the country.
It's just under overpasses.
It's just unregulated.
It's just in parks and on sidewalks.
We still have them.
They're just unsafe and ugly.
And we get to delude ourselves and pretend that we're so compassionate letting these people be free.
No, we're committing a grave injustice.
We need to have a much more serious understanding of our liberty.
Not these bumper sticker slogans that the left is pushing but which the right has indulged as well.
We need to get a little more down to earth, a little bit more practical.
Stop allowing ourselves to be pushed around.
Stop giving more and more power to an increasingly bizarre liberal elite because they're attaining more and more power each day.
They're not giving any of it up.
And the more we let this go on, the longer we let this go on, the less likely we will be at stopping it.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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