Ep. 1554 - A Phone App Convinced Him To Be Transgender

Michael Knowles
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You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white.

Tim Walz
Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me. Am I racist?

Michael Knowles
I would really appreciate it if you learned.

Tim Walz
I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. I'm gonna sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

Michael Knowles
They gonna say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified Dei expert.

Tim Walz
Here's my certification. What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. Listen more for you, in this view, is America inherently racist?

Michael Knowles
The word inherent is challenging that.

Tim Walz
I'm gonna rename the George Washington monument to the George Floyd monument.

Michael Knowles
America is racist to its bones.

Tim Walz
So inherently, yeah.

Michael Knowles
This country is a piece of white folks trash. White supremacy, white woman, white boy. Is there a black person around here? What?

Tim Walz
Black person? Right here. Does he not exist?

Michael Knowles
Say I'm racist.

Tim Walz
Hi, Robin.

Robin
Hi, what's your name?

Michael Knowles
I'm Matt.

Robin
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

Tim Walz
Never be too careful.

Michael Knowles
They go say, you race. Buy your tickets now in theater September 13, rated PG 13. It's been 26 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democrat nominee for president. And she still has not given an on camera interview with even a liberal journalist. But she did recently film a conversation with her running mate, Tim Walz. And they tackled the big issues, like whether or not Tim Walz seasons his food.

Tim Walz
Like, I have white guy tacos and what is that?

Michael Knowles
Like, mayonnaise and tuna. What are you doing?

Tim Walz
Pretty much ground beef and cheese.

Michael Knowles
That's okay. Do you put any flavor in it?

Tim Walz
No.

Here's the deal.

No, they said to be careful and let her know this, that black pepper is the top of the spice level. Minnesota.

Michael Knowles
You know, I'm the first vice president, I believe, who has ever grown chili peppers.

Tim Walz
I'm trying to expand my food knowledge.

Michael Knowles
You know, we've got some cantaloupes. You'll be fine. Yeah, Tim, you bland honky. You probably eat a tub of mayo for every meal.

That's right. Kabbalah. For special occasions, I spread it on a piece of melba toast. This would be the equivalent of Biden filming a bit in 2020, asking Kamala how often she scarfed down watermelon and fried chicken. Or really, if we were to be precise, in Kamala's case, it would be chutney and conch fritters or something like that, if we really wanted to make the race routine as accurate as possible. In any case, the whole thing, this whole conversation is obviously contrived and ridiculous.

But that became especially clearer after Internet sleuths dug up an actual Tim walls taco recipe just a couple years ago.

The fact that this exists, that they do this bit, and there really should be no way to fact check how Tim Walz makes his tacos. But we can, because two years ago, he posted his personal taco recipe. I guess it won some award in a newspaper. And this is what he wrote. He said, I don't know, people. I make a pretty mean, hot dish. Check out my award winning recipe for turkey taco tot. Hot dish here. And then you click on the link and you discover that Tim Walz's taco dish includes paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, and chili powder.

That is four separate spices.

Now, this is all extremely stupid, but it is significant.

Not only is Kamala lying about her entire political career and walls, lying about his military service, these people are so reflexively dishonest, they even need to lie about how they cook their tacos. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. A man has transd himself because he was bored and tried a face swap app. So we will get to that important news story in a moment. First, though, summer is a beautiful thing and it doesn't last forever. You know what else doesn't last forever? My seasonal candle.

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What else did Kamala Harris and Tim walls talk about during their extremely serious and urgent conversation?

I called you.

Tim Walz
I was hoping maybe we wouldn't have to.

Michael Knowles
I called you, Tim. Yes. You didn't answer, Tim.

Tim Walz
I know. I know what happened. The most important call of my life, it popped up and we didn't recognize the caller id, and it went to voicemail.

Michael Knowles
Hi, this is Tim.

Donald Trump
I'm not able to answer.

Thank you.

Michael Knowles
Hey, Tim, it's Kamala. I really want to talk to you.

Tim Walz
It is an amazing privilege. I'm excited. I just want to be part of the excitement that you're generating.

Michael Knowles
Well, we're doing it together, buddy. We're doing it together.

Okay. So my takeaway now from the first time we've heard even more than a few words from Kamala on camera since she got the presumptive nomination is how Tim Walz likes his tacos. She disapproves of the apparent lack of spice. And she called him and he didn't pick up. Ha ha ha.

That's it. It doesn't get any deeper than that.

So people are pulling their hair out on the right. They're saying, why is this all we're getting? Why won't she talk to the media? Why won't she do a serious interview? Why won't she hold a press conference?

Why would she? That's the question. I'm not offended at all because apparently the strategy is working, or at least it's not hurting her.

This is the same reason that Joe Biden didn't want to do a debate and then eventually he did.

He didnt want to do a debate when it looked like he could win the race without doing a debate.

Then his numbers kept getting worse. So he said he would debate Donald Trump and that ended up booting him out of the race, but he had to do it because he was losing.

Why did President Trump not debate in the republican primary? Because he didnt need to debate. He said, look, if I start losing, I guess ill debate, but right now, why would I take the risk?

Same thing for Kamala.

Kamala's numbers are moving in the right direction for her, wrong direction for the country, right direction for her. So why risk it? If she were a Republican, she would have to because the media would be pounding her. But here the media are totally propping her up. She can flip the bird to the media and Time magazine is still going to give her a glowing cover. This is her moment, reintroducing Kamala eyes toward the future.

So of course, she's not going to do it until she has to do it because her numbers go down or because the media start really hitting her. And the latter is certainly not going to happen. And we'll see if the former happens, too. The only way that her numbers are going to start going down is if the Trump campaign really starts pounding Kamala Harris. And you're starting to see that President Trump, laser focused on Kamala's awful record, landed, I think, a pretty solid blow yesterday.

Donald Trump
She co sponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government run healthcare systems with rationing and deadly wait times while massively raising your taxes. She wants to take away your private health care. There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private health care. It's the best health care in the world, by the way. But they want to do it. They worked hard to make money and they want to do it under her. You're not going to have private health care plans anymore.

And you can be a wealthy person or a middle income person, and you want to spend on a really good plan. Better than a government plan could be, far better.

And you're not going to be allowed. You're all going to be thrown into a communist system. It's a communist system. You're going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.

You wait for your doctor, like ten months, twelve months, eleven months. You got to see some of these plans, how they work in other countries. It's disgraceful.

Michael Knowles
Okay, so he's using some provocative language. You know, this is a communist type plan. Now worth pointing out. Kamala was raised in a communist household. Her father was a marxist economist. Kamala's plans, such as they are, are the most left wing plans we've seen at the national level in our lifetimes. As senator, she was to the left of Bernie Sanders. Bernie is an avowed socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union. So a lot of times, you know, anytime any Democrat talks about even slightly raising taxes, reflexively, the Republicans say, that person's a communist. In the case of Kamala Harris, it's actually a fairly justified assumption, given her background and given her her entire political record. And he's hammering her on her record on issues that matter. Abolishing private health care, that's pretty radical.

That's the kind of thing that could really turn off, especially senior citizens, especially the middle class, really. I mean, that's what we're focusing on here. President Trump is trying to win back the middle class. He's talking about inflation, he's talking about her terrible record.

But specifically, as it pertains to upsetting that middle class of Americans, I think this could work.

I think that the attacks, it's funny to point out that Kamala seems to lie about her race, or not exactly lie about her race, but just cynically choose racial identities based on whichever election she's trying to win. And it's, I think, illustrative to point out that Tim Walz lied about his military service because it shows that he's just so dishonest.

Really going to push people over are, hey, she's going to try to take away your health insurance, hey, she's going to give a mass amnesty that's going to fundamentally change your political order. Hey, these people, if we try to in any way build up a border wall, they're going to build a ladder factory. If the wall's 20ft high, they're going to get ladders that are 30ft high. That's Tim walls words. Those are issues that people are going to care about. And Trump is beginning to really focus in on that. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to supremecoo.com. knowles. When President Biden dropped his bid for reelection, he told us that one of his top priorities during his last few months in office would be to reform the Supreme Court. Now he's introduced us to his grand plan, a plan that will end life tenure for justices and impose a binding code of ethics on the Supreme Court. President Biden's court reform scheme is nothing more than a desperate attack to end the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. That is why first liberty, America's leading constitutional experts in protecting religious liberty, is asking you to join them and over 500,000 like minded patriots in the fight against this brazen power grab. Join us in the fight to save the Supreme Court by adding your name in support of the statement of judicial independence, saying no to the Biden plan, no to court reform, and no to the Supreme Court coup. Go to supremecoo.com, c o U P Knowles to add your name and join the coalition to reject the Supreme Court coup.

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knowles now, speaking of President Trump, I have, I shouldn't laugh because this is so scary and sad for America, but it's a pretty funny headline. Secret Service investigating report that an agent left her post at a Trump rally to breastfeed the Secret Service is from Newsweek. The Secret Service is investigating a report that says an agent left her post at a Trump event to breastfeed.

In a statement shared with Newsweek on Thursday, Secret Service's chief of communications Anthony Guillelme said all employees of the US Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we're not in a position to comment further. They're all held to the highest standards. Okay.

The way you know what a standard is, is by knowing what a thing is for. The standards for a swimmer are different from the standards for a baseball player because the swimmer has to move his arms and legs in a certain way to get from one end to the pool to the other fastest. And a baseball player needs to move his arms in a way to hit the baseball a really long way, out of the reach of the fielders, maybe even out of the ballpark, and has to run. There are different skills involved. So what are the highest standards for a secret Service agent protecting a former president and current presidential candidate who was nearly assassinated a few weeks ago? I think one of those standards is not having to breastfeed.

Has this country lost its mind?

But you can't say that. You're really not supposed to say that.

Why is this tolerated? Why are we all laughing? But the Secret Service is keeping a straight face because we know that people who breastfeed should not be the brawn in charge of protecting the president.

And why is that? Because women are not physically as strong as men.

Women are physically not as good at combat as men. Physically. Women can't even, they couldn't even get up to Trump's shoulders half the time.

Because women are the gentler sex, they're more nurturing, and sometimes they have to breastfeed their children. I think breastfeeding your child is great. It's not something I'm ever going to do, not something I could do even if I wanted to, and I don't want to.

But it's something that women are inclined to do and they can do because of the fact of their biology and their nature, and that's a really good thing. But you're not supposed to be breastfeeding a baby when bullets could be flying around at a Trump rally.

This is one of the arguments against women in combat, is not just the physical differences between men and women, but that it's just not appropriate. It's not good generally, because, God forbid, if daddy dies in combat, it's a horrible thing for a family. Really horrible.

However, daddy is not the one providing that immediate nurturing care to little helpless babies. It's tragic, it's awful. It sticks with you your whole life.

The family moves on.

In the case of, God forbid, this woman who's breastfeeding her kid, God forbid, something happened to her, the baby doesn't eat, they'll figure something out. You get formula or something, but it's just different. And men and women have different roles. So to my question, why is this tolerated? Why is it tolerated for a secret Service agent to go breastfeeding while she's supposed to be working, leave her post at a Trump rally? It's tolerated because we've said that women can do everything that men can do and men can do everything that women can do. And we have to pretend, not just as a matter of changing crazy social norms, but also as a matter of law, we have to pretend that men and women are exactly the same. So if a man can be a Secret Service agent, then a woman has to be able to do exactly the same thing. In this, I'm not even saying a woman can't work for the Secret Service, but to suggest that a woman would have the same position in the Secret Service as a man, completely insane. But this gets back to the point I was talking about a couple weeks ago with the women boxers.

Right now, even the right, even the conservatives, are saying, well, look, we need to make sure that these men don't have an unfair advantage over women. That's why we got to make sure that only women are punching each other in the face and cracking each other's skulls in the ring. No? Well, how about we take it a little further and say men and women have different roles, and some roles are really not suitable for men, like breastfeeding, for instance. And some roles are really not suitable for women, like taking a bullet for the president.

Maybe men and women really are different. Maybe not only our culture has to reflect that, but maybe our law ought to reflect that, too.

Very difficult, though, because to do that, you would have to unwind the extremely radically liberal premise that is now part of our law, part of our civil rights law, which says that men and women are, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same. You'd have to get rid of that premise.

And I think the left obviously doesn't want to.

And I think there are many people on the right who don't want to either.

So. Okay, but I'm just warning you, you're going to get more secret service agents leaving their posts to go breastfeed, and you're going to know that that's weird and wrong and that everything's wrong about that. That's not where breastfeeding is supposed to take place, and that's not where people who breastfeed are supposed to be and what they're supposed to be doing. But youre not going to have the political right or the philosophical basis to explain why that is the case. Now, speaking of women in unusual roles, theres a gal, Ive refrained from talking about this phenomenon on the show out of politeness and standards and propriety, but theres this gal who went famous for making a bawdy joke in downtown Nashville on Canberra that went viral. And the phrase she used was hawk to it. Dont look it up. We dont really need to talk about that. I mention it is because this gal is everywhere. Now. I actually ran into her at a karate combat fight. I was just walking through this fight when I was the corner man for smiling Sam Alvey. And one of the first people I see, I said, oh, I think that's the girl from that video.

And I talked to her. I did. I saw her right there very briefly. But I did meet her. And then I've seen her on all these podcasts. She's going everywhere. She's getting millions of followers on the Internet. And then the other day, I look and she throws out the first pitch at the Mets game.

Donald Trump
You were a bitch.

Michael Knowles
And there are a lot of people who are, they're saying, why is this girl famous? Why has she got, now, it's an indisputable fact. She has gotten very famous.

But they're saying, why is she famous? Why are we talking about her? Why? Why stop talking about this girl? I think, look, the fact that she's gotten so famous means she's at least notable. It's worth considering. How is it that in this culture, she got so famous? And I actually think it reflects somewhat well on the culture that she got super famous, and this is why she got super famous.

It doesn't reflect well on the culture why she got famous, but it reflects pretty well on the culture how she has been able to maintain this 15 minutes of fame.

She got super famous for telling a bawdy joke downtown late at night on video.

But every subsequent appearance she's made on every little podcast at the Mets opening pitch and everything actually seems to suggest that she's relatively wholesome compared to what you would have expected, given that video. And that even got me thinking about the video that went viral. I think the reason the video went viral is because of the incongruity in the video. The joke she told is obscene and raunchy and bawdy and all the rest, but her demeanor is not.

I was trying to think if this girl were really prurient and seductive, and if she had an OnlyFans account or something, or if she were a porn star, would the video have gone viral? No, it wouldn't have.

There is no shortage of people selling pornography on the Internet, and the vast majority of them do not go viral. Statistically, all of them, right. Isn't the median income on OnlyFans is like $100 a month or something? So I don't think that's why. I think she went viral, because she doesn't come off as seductive or appealing to a prurian interest. She comes off as telling a dirty joke, but in basically just a goofy way.

And then afterward, all these people are trying to demand that she do porn or something. And she said, no, I'm not doing any of that. And she's basically covered up. She's not wearing sultry clothing or anything, and she's just telling goofy jokes on podcasts and throwing out the ball at the Mets game and doing a goofy little chest bump with her friend who played catch her. And I actually think that's why it's the incongruity of it. We're so desensitized to porn and obscenity in our culture that you see the video, which has a joke that is in itself obscene, but then all of the context surrounding it is not. And so the thing that makes it interesting is not the obscenity. It's everything else. It's the fact that it's all kind of goofy, and it's bizarre. It is so bizarre that this gal who just told a dirty joke late at night on some man on the street video is now throwing out the first pitch at a major league baseball game.

That's kind of funny, and it can be somewhat delightful only because she isn't selling sex the one thing that you would expect her to do. She subverts that expectation and really doesn't touch it at all. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to preborn.com knowles. When a woman experiences an unplanned pregnancy, she often feels alone and afraid. Too often, her first response is to seek out an abortion, because thats what left leaning institutions have conditioned her to do. But because of the generosity of listeners like you, that search may lead her to a Preborn network clinic where she will choose life. Preborn offers gods love and compassion to hurting women and provides a free ultrasound to introduce them to the life growing inside them. This is how Preborn saves 200,000 babies every single day. Thanks to the Dailywires partnership with Preborn, we are able to make our powerful documentary, choosing life, available to all on Dailywire. Plus, this film serves as a crucial counterpoint to the left's narrative on abortion and is available to you now free of charge@dailywire.com. dot join me in thanking Preborn for bringing this important work out from behind our paywall and consider making a donation today to support their life saving work. You can sponsor one ultrasound for just $28. If you have the means, you can sponsor Preborn's whole network for a day. For 5000, go to preborn.com knowles to donate today. That's preborn.com knowles or dowpound. 250. Say the keyword baby.

That is pound. 250. Keyword baby. My favorite comment yesterday is from Emily Mountain, 5442, who says, soon all we'll get is the intro of Michael dancing on a table and the rest will be censored. Yeah, I know. I understand. My YouTube episodes have been heavily redacted and all the best content is being mercilessly ripped out of the show, which troubles me greatly. However, the reason for this is that big tech is clamping down, especially in the run up to the election. So if you want the full show, you got to watch it on X. That'll go up there on the Michael Knoll show account. You can watch it, obviously, on Dailywire, plus you can watch it on Spotify. But for now, the show on the biggest video platform in the world is going to be heavily redacted. All my really saucy stuff is probably going to be taken out.

Speaking of segments that are almost certainly going to be cut out of the YouTube show. A man has transd himself because he got bored and tried a face swap app. This thanks to our friend over at libs of TikTok.

Robin
Hi, everyone. Good evening. It's your girl, Xena.

So I wanted to do a video about my transition.

It started back in October 2021, where I downloaded an app for fun. It's called Faceapp.

And I did a gender swap.

And all I did was change two settings, which was change gender and add makeup.

And the results were absolutely amazing. And I didn't think much of it.

I sent it to a few friends and they said to me, oh, my God, you should try it. You should transition. You should do it. And I went, oh, yeah, okay, go away.

And I just brushed it off.

Fast forwarding a few months.

I got bored on that Christmas break. So it was December 2021.

And I thought, you know what? I'll give it a go.

Michael Knowles
There's another headline.

This is a new study that came out. Shows lacking purpose in life could signal cognitive decline.

And I'm no scientist, but something tells me that these two stories might be related.

Something. I don't know. Yeah, I got a little bit bored.

Crikey. That's not a knife. This is a knife. I can't really do a good australian. Yeah, I got bored and then I. So I downloaded this app and it said, look, turn yourself into a chick. So I clicked it and it looked kind of funny. So anyway, now I'm transitioning, possibly going to inject myself with all sorts of hormones and chop my body up.

Lacking purpose could signal cognitive decline. Yeah. Huh. Interesting. Because by definition, if you are a man and you think you're a woman or you want to make yourself into a woman or something, that is proof positive of some kind of cognitive decline or some kind of cognitive problem because you're misperceiving reality.

I think the precise scientific term is you've completely lost your marbles.

And this guy is saying where that came from was that he was just bored.

And boredom is something we really have to guard against.

Now, people can't sit still for 2 seconds. The minute you're waiting for someone at a restaurant, you're waiting for the bus or something. The minute you have any, I do it too. You have 2 seconds free. You're just down there on your phone, you're just refreshing Twitter or Instagram or you're getting the news or you're doing whatever. Have to be stimulated all the time. And when people don't have stimulation, they get kind of bored. And in this case, one suspects that these people are also looking at a lot of other things on the Internet beyond Twitter.

You get really bored. And then what?

And the way to avoid the pitfalls of boredom is to have a purpose, to recognize that you have a purpose, whether you like it or not. There are things that you have to do fill your time, though, and you have to find ways to be motivated. And ultimately, the only way to do that is to have some sense of your nature, what you are for. And really what that means is believing in God.

And so a secular society, an atheistic society, is just going to do a lot of this stuff.

And a society that believes in the true God is nothing. And it's no coincidence that as our society becomes more secular, you're getting a lot more of this weirdness. And a lot of that weirdness comes from rudderlessness. It comes from lacking a sense of purpose. A lot of it, I suspect, comes from boredom, because idle hands are the devil's playground. Now, speaking of transitions, how's that for a transition? President Trump is bringing back his once fired campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, for some sort of role on the campaign. Politico is reporting.

As we head into the homestretch of this election, we're continuing to add to our impressive campaign team, Trump co campaign managers Susie Wallace and Chris Lacivita said in a comment.

Corey Lewandowski, Taylor Butowicz, Alex Pfeiffer, Alex Brusowitz and Tim Murtaugh are all veterans of prior Trump campaigns. And their unmatched experience will help President Trump prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and Tim Wolves, the most radical ticket in american history.

I think this is great. I think this is a really good move. I don't know Corey Lewandowski.

I don't know. Actually, I don't know most of the people on this list, at least, I don't know them very well.

And you could say, well, Lewandowski got fired the first time. Why would you bring him back? Well, look, Trump, especially when his campaigns were really cooking, he would churn through personnel and then sometimes he'd bring them back. He's fired Steve Bannon. He's brought Steve Bannon back. He's fired Roger Stone. He's brought Roger Stone back. Trump, he says, you fired. That's his catchphrase. And so he's bringing Lewandowski back now. And I think it's a good thing because having worked on a number of campaigns, especially in my youth, in my political experience, the original winning team possesses an expertise that people who come around later don't have.

This is what happens, especially if you look at cheaper campaigns. I'm not talking about presidential campaigns, but congressional campaigns, maybe even Senate campaigns, state Senate, that sort of thing. You run with a team, you win, then you say, okay, now I'm the real deal. Now the donations are really starting to pour in. Okay, now I gotta upgrade my team. Now I'm gonna get the fancy Washington people, and the fancy Washington people totally ruin it. They totally kill it.

And I suspect the same thing happens even at the presidential level.

The original team has its finger on the pulse of the base. They've just seen how to build a potent organization based on all those little building blocks. This constituency and this moment and this and this and this, that. The fancy consultants who fly in on their private jets afterwards, they don't possess that expertise.

So if a campaign is ever in trouble, and I suspect the Trump campaign feels that it is a little bit in trouble, with the shakeup from Biden to Kamala, I think the first thing you got to do is go back to those original guys who have their finger on the pulse of the base. And so whether you like Corey Lewandowski, whether you hate Corey Lewandowski, whether you don't know anything about him at all, I just think his role in the Trump universe is the sort of thing that probably could be helpful right now.

Now, speaking of big changes, there's a 61 year old Englishman who is being jailed for asking one question. And that question is, who the f is a la.

This 61 year old englishman is being jailed for a year and a half because he was at an anti migration protest. And, you know, there's mass migration in London. London, you know, you feel like you're on the streets of Karachi half the time. Okay, no offense to our friends from Karachi, but, you know, this. This is not your grandfather's London London town. And this has created a number of social problems in the UK. And so there was a protest that says, hey, let's cut it out with the mass migration. In fact, one of the big drivers of Brexit was that they wanted to stop mass migration. Mass migration got worse after Brexit. So there's a protest, a totally justified protest from the perspective of the broad political issue. And this guy asked a question. He was filmed chatting, who the f is Allah?

And he was not accused of engaging in any violent action, anything like that.

He's going to go to jail for a year and a half. Now, first of all, that question, albeit said in a little bit of a saucy way is a fair question if you're an englishman, because islam historically is a rather foreign religious concept.

So I think it's a fair question. But no, you're not allowed to ask that. If you had said, what the f is Christianity? If you'd mocked the saints, if you'd mocked our Lord, even, well, if you'd mocked our Lord, you'd probably be asked to be the art director of the Olympics.

But you don't mock Allah. You don't mock Islam. How did they get away with this in the UK? The UK does not have a first amendment.

We have a first amendment. It gives us pretty serious free speech rights.

They do have a limited free expression right under the 1998 Human Rights act.

But the UK enforces more speech standards and okay, that's their culture. They could do that. That's fine. In fact, I think there's something to recommend that the question is not why doesn't the UK have free speech, which is how this is going to be framed? The question is, why can't you ask, what is Allah? What is Islam?

Why can't you ask that?

Why is Islam especially protected and Christianity has pretty much no protections?

And especially why is that the case in the civilization formerly known as Christendom?

That's the real question.

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Listener
Michael, my favorite italian catholic man in all of America.

I hope that you're doing well this Friday.

I have a question for you on the recent VP announcement of Tim Walls for the Harris walls ticket.

Obviously there was some expectation that Shapiro would be the selection. He's from a swing state. That's a must win state.

And then, you know, it was announced that walls would be the pick. He's obviously appeals to the more base wing of the Democrat party.

I think that there is an angle here that's not being talked about, that I'm curious of what your opinion is.

Do you think that there is a chance that the Dems presume Pennsylvania will be won by the same means it was won in 2020, namely ballot initiatives, however else you would fill in the blank.

Michael Knowles
Thanks.

Cheating. You can say cheating. It's okay.

I know we're all afraid of YouTube again. Are we allowed to say that? But no. Yeah, of course they cheated. They violated the state constitution in 2020 to rig the election by the widespread mail ins. And this is a really good point. It hadn't occurred to me in precisely those terms. That's a really incisive point.

I already reported on the show and it's getting absolutely no play. It's being completely ignored by people who should be paying attention to it and it's being suppressed by the establishment media that Pennsylvania, we now know, is rigging the election because a couple listeners to this show wrote in because they received a mail in ballot application with most of their information already filled out.

So you get the application. That alone advantages the Democrats. But then if your information, things like your address is filled out, then someone who wants to request a mail in ballot who maybe isn't that person, doesn't even need to do the guesswork. Forget about, he doesn't need to prove he is who he says he is. He doesn't even need to figure out all the personal information. It's already there. So that's just one little piece of evidence. But it's a piece of evidence that, yes, the Democrats are confident that they'll be able to rig the rules such that Pennsylvania won't really be in play. Plus, there's the Philadelphia Democrat machine, which is pretty good at churning votes.

So that's a good point.

Also, they couldn't pick Shapiro because the dem base hates the Jews right now.

But yeah, maybe, maybe Kamala thought, forget about it. Shapiro doesn't add that much because we're going to figure out how to get Pennsylvania one way or the other. Let's focus in on other parts of the coalition that we need to shore up. Next question.

Listener
Hey, Michael, my question is about raising your kids to be Christian the other six days of the week. I grew up a Sunday Christian, I lived a very sinful adolescent life.

But as a father of two children, I want to bring the teachings of Jesus home the other six days of the week. So what advice tips do you have to offer? What do you plan on doing with your children? What are you doing now? I have a three and two year old, so any advice is welcome. Thank you so much.

Michael Knowles
Love what you do. Thank you. Great question.

And you're so right. You got to do it pretty regularly, basically all the time. You should be kind of praying all the time, actually, in one way or the other.

And because we're incarnate creatures in time and space, you got to do it. You got to do it with your body, and you got to involve your whole family. So how do you do it? Well, one thing I would recommend is it's very simple. Grace before meals. That's really easy. You can do that. And there now you got your kids praying three times a day. And maybe you got them praying before snack, too. So that's okay. Four or five times a day. Very simple. Then you might add some icons to your home, some religious imagery, some statues, some. Maybe I just got a little holy water font that I just put up on my wall. Just a nice little one. Bless yourself with a little holy water. That's nice. Little sacramentals are good. The rosary.

Depending on how old your kids are, maybe you do a family rosary. That's great.

The home is supposed to be a domestic church.

That's one way of understanding what the home is.

You already recognize that you've got to spread the religion out through time. It's not just a thing you do on Sunday. Forget about the rest of the week. Do it again next Sunday. You have to spread it out through time. Well, one way to help you do that is to spread it out through space. If your home is full of religious imagery, crucifixes, icons, icons of different moments from the gospel, statues of saints, maybe our lady, maybe our Lord.

All of a sudden, wow, you're kind of just moving in the faith all the time. Next question.

EJ Col
Hey, Michael, it's EJ Col. Recently, you said that the law was a teacher and that a majority of people are inclined to follow the law. Now, perhaps I misunderstand what you were trying to say, but it sounds as if you're saying that a change in the law leads to Orlando precedes a change in the culture. I disagree. When looking through history, I failed to find a single incident where a change in the law preceded a change in the culture. The legal change always followed a cultural movement that was started years before on the ground level. For example, the counterculture movement that led to serious legal changes in the sixties and seventies started shortly after World War Two ended in the forties and fifties. Moreover, the cultural view of marriage changed long before marriage laws were changed and far before gay marriage was mandated by the Supreme Court. If the law were truly a teacher or had the power to change the culture independently, however, then I don't see how it would be possible to have changes to the law, cultural movements that cut against the law, or even the age old practice of civil disobedience. Thanks.

Michael Knowles
Okay, good. Good topics to bring up.

Your chief objection is, and I think the strongest argument you're making is, Michael, if the politics, if the law precedes changes in culture, then how could the law ever change? But you could make the same objection in the other direction. You'd say, hold on. If the culture precedes changes in the political order, then how does the culture ever change?

And the real answer, which I think you're getting at, or at least you're half getting at, is, and that's the point that I made on my show, is that the two are not so neatly separated. So you say there's no instance of a cultural change following a legal change, but that's not true. The example I used on the show last week is the destruction of the black family after the Great Society, which happens to be a point that conservatives have been prattling on about for decades.

Lyndon Johnson institutes the great Society, the black family collapses. Because, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and so many other politicians and cultural observers have pointed out, the law created all sorts of incentives for the black family to split up and all sorts of disincentives to get married in the first place. So that would be one example of culture following a legal change. But there are many, many others.

The number of babies aborted in America per year exploded after Roe v. Wade. After Roe v. Wade changed the law and said that abortion was to be permitted, we got many, many more abortions. Now, the point that you're making that is right, is that there was a movement before Roe v. Wade to make abortion easier. That's true. Now, that was a movement of a relatively small number of extremely dedicated left wing activists, but that after they succeeded at changing the law, that's when you saw the big cultural shift. You even mention marriage.

Now, first of all, gay marriage or whatever, has been much more normalized and become much more prevalent after the Supreme Court changed the law. It was scarcely legally recognized before that. And when it came up for ballot initiatives, even in liberal California, it failed like prop eight. So the law changed people's perspectives on marriage. But even inasmuch as there was a movement before Obergefell changed the definition of marriage for gay marriage, so called, dont forget, that wasnt the first big change to marriage.

You might say that the mainstreaming of no fault divorce would be the first major step in radically changing the definition of marriage, because marriage had been understood to be a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of generating and educating children and for the mutual support of the spouses, a union that was indissoluble for most of history.

And then the liberalized divorce laws cut at the heart of that.

And so then, all of a sudden, if we could really radically redefine marriage, if marriage wasn't based on some objective moral standard, wasn't a far leap to change its meaning, to say that sexual difference doesn't even matter, theres obviously an interplay between culture and politics, which is not neatly separated. But there are many, many instances in history in which the law has shaped the culture by creating incentives and disincentives. In fact, I think that aspect of culture making is far more pronounced than the libertarian, more politically demure version of saying that you cant legislate morality or something like that. Next question.

Listener
Hi, Michael. I'm coming to you after listening to President Trump's remarks with the press at Mar a Lago on Thursday afternoon. And I've noticed in the weeks that have passed, Trump has given press conferences, and in both of them, the one with the black journalists and this one, he mentioned that in comparison to the riots, the BLM riots and the Hamas riotous in front of Union Station, nobody died on January 6. And I know it's a minor point, but Ashley Babbitt died on January 6. And I'm wondering, why is he stepping away entirely from that, where the truth is even worse, that not only did those police officers not die on that day, but the only person that died that day was a pro Trump protester.

Thank you.

Michael Knowles
Really good point. And I think you're totally right. And I don't think it's merely tangential to the story that Ashley Babbitt died. I don't think it's a minor point. I think it's a significant point. However, I suspect the reason why President Trump is portraying it in this way is because it's simpler to understand.

Because if President Trump said, look, during the BLM riots, all these people died. And during the January 6 riotous, only one person died. And she was actually on our side, and she was actually killed by a trigger happy cop. I agree. It makes the narrative around January 6, the Democrats false narrative seem even more outrageous. However, it's a subtler point.

You have to say.

Then the left could say, yeah, there was political violence in both cases, but we really don't like the January 6 one because it was an attack on our sacred temple of democracy. And then you would say, no, but it was actually one of our guys who was.

And it was actually this woman. She was killed by a cop. And why was she killed by a cop? Because she went into this area she wasn't supposed to be, but they really shouldn't have shot her there because there wasn't really much of a threat. And you have to explain yourself so much that, as Ronald Reagan said, when you're explaining, you're losing in a political campaign. And so I suspect Trump just thinks it's simpler to say BLM. A lot of people died of January 6. Nobody died, which is true. And nobody died on the other side, meaning that the pro Trump people didn't kill anybody. But you're right, it's not technically true because one of the pro Trump people died. The real story is even worse. But if it can't be communicated easily politically, it's probably not worth it. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code knowlesknowles at checkout for two months. Free on all annual plans.

Republicans are nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.

Tim Walz
Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me. Am I racist?

Michael Knowles
I would really appreciate it if you learned.

Tim Walz
I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. I'm gonna sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

Michael Knowles
They gonna say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified Dei expert.

Tim Walz
Here's my certifications. What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you. In this view, is America inherently racist?

Michael Knowles
The word inherent is challenging.

Tim Walz
That you wanna rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd monument.

Michael Knowles
America is racist to its bones.

Tim Walz
So inherently, yes.

Michael Knowles
This country is a piece of white folks trash. White supremacy, white woman, white boy. Is there a black person around here?

Tim Walz
Black person right here. Does he not exist?

Michael Knowles
Say I'm racist.

Tim Walz
Hi, Robin.

Michael Knowles
Hi.

Robin
What's your name?

Michael Knowles
I'm Matt.

Robin
Just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

Tim Walz
Never be too careful.

Michael Knowles
They gonna say, you racist. Buy your tickets now. In theaters September 13. Rated PG 13.

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