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President Trump tells the New York Times that the Civil Rights act violated white people's rights. The former president of Ireland argues that baptism violates babies rights. And speaking of debates over rights, new video emerges out of Minneapolis of Renee Good's lesbian partner screaming her shock and surprise that ice officers guns shoot bullets. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Leftists in Minneapolis are now doing pagan rituals outside of Renee Goode's memorial. I guess there's a makeshift memorial where the ice officer shot her after she hit him with her car after. And the libs are dressing up in all sorts of weird pagan outfits and doing incense rituals. And leftists will do literally anything to avoid worshiping the one true God. Now, speaking of the one true God, by the way, I just realized I forgot to light my Christmas candle. This is the Michael Knowles wassail candle. 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Referred to the Civil Rights act and there have actually been many civil rights acts in the course of history. He was referring specifically to the Civil Rights act of 1964. What does he say about it? Speaking to the New York Times on Wednesday, Mr. Trump echoed grievances amplified by Vice President J.D. vance. Already right there, you can see the libs have started to make this move. Previously, Trump was singularly evil. He was Hitler. He was a distinct evil unlike any other. You might not like all the Republicans, but Trump is specifically evil. That's why we all need to unite to stop. And that's what we've heard for 10 years and we've already started to get the shift. Actually, Vance is worse. That's how you know that Vance is a good candidate. That's how you know that Vance is kind of your guy is that the libs already view him as the threat. So they're already beginning to shift it. When I was a kid, George Bush was Hitler. He was singularly evil, unlike all the other Republicans. Reagan, he was great. I have a strange new respect for Reagan. Then it became George Bush was Hitler. And now they all like George Bush because Trump is Hitler. And now, finally you're beginning to see, well, actually, Trump, he wasn't quite as bad as everyone said. Vance is the real threat. So already this is being framed as President Trump is echoing J.D. vance. J.D. vance is the real evil pulling the strings. That's nobody believes any part of the, you know, Vance is Hitler and Trump is being led around. No, says echoed by J.D. vance and other top officials who in recent weeks have argued white men have urged white men to file federal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the eeoc, which is a product of the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the subsequent complex cultural upheaval in the 1960s to present these guys. So they're urging white men who have been discriminated against on the basis of race to file a Civil Rights act complaint. And this is shocking to the New York Times. This is newsworthy to the New York. Why is this newsworthy? The whole point of the Civil Rights act is we're gonna stop racial discrimination. So if people are being discriminated against cuz they're black, they can file a complaint, or if they're cuz they're Mexican or Asian or I don't know. Or if they're white. Right. Why is this so shocking? Well, now, they quote Trump, white people were very badly treated where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university or college, he said, an apparent reference to affirmative action in college admissions. So I would say in that way, I think it was unfair in certain cases. He added, I think it was also, at that time, it accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people. People that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job. So it was, it was a reverse discrimination. Could anyone disagree with that? What exactly does the New York Times disagree with here? What exactly do the libs who, who are sharing this shocking statement from Trump disagree with? Do they disagree that white people have been discriminated against as a matter of affirmative action? Do they disagree? Affirmative action, which actually predates the Civil Rights act of 1964, but it's kind of part and parcel of it. They really disagree that the point of affirmative action is to give preference to non white people. That's the definition of affirmative action. They all celebrate that. They say, isn't this so wonderful? There's more diversity. There are fewer white people in these positions. There are fewer white people in these schools. I guess one way to put it is they celebrate it when they say there are more non white people in these schools, but the logical necessity of there being more non white people is there being fewer white people. And this isn't just a matter of meritocracy or something, or taking an unjust impediment away from the non white people. This is an active. It's an affirmative action. That's like why it's called that, to bring in more non white people. So that is necessarily discrimination against white people. Does anyone disagree with that? No. He says, look, at the same time, the Civil Rights act of 1964 accomplished some very wonderful things. So he's saying, yeah, it did some good things, it addressed some real problems, but it also hurt a lot of people. And so what is the New York Times really upset about? The New York Times is upset that the Trump administration is encouraging people to rectify some of the wrongs that came about as a result of the Civil Rights act of 1964 through the act itself, by filing complaints with the various civil rights offices. So it's not saying we need to repeal the Civil Rights Act. It's not saying we need to abolish all of these offices. It's Trump is saying the most modest, moderate thing you could possibly say. He's saying we need to resolve some of the problems that have come about through the Civil Rights Act. And even that is too far. Why? Because the libs want to discriminate against white people. That's what they want. And so what's so brilliant about this framing here is the libs either have to admit that whites are right to file Civil Rights act complaints, EEOC complaints when they're discriminated against, or they have to admit that the purpose of the Civil Rights act was, as Trump says, reverse discrimination. Which is it? You have to pick one. Either the Civil Rights act wasn't really about civil rights. It wasn't really about ending racial discrimination. It wasn't really about equality for all. What it was really about was discriminating against whites, in which case we should get rid of it, or the Civil Rights act really was about ending racial injustices. It really was about equality for all. It really was about stopping discrimination, in which case the whites who have been actively discriminated against absolutely should file complaints through the eeoc, and the people who have discriminated against the white people should be punished for it, which is it. Really brilliant way to frame it. There are some people who are more flamboyantly dissident. You know, there are some people who are more, you know, over the top in their performative right wingedness who will Say, well, you know, really the problem is we need to get rid of the whole Civil Rights Act. That's not real politics. The Civil Rights act is pretty settled. And most people, most reasonable people would admit that it came about for an historical reason and to address real injustices. So if you want to stop the present injustices, you have to deal with political reality and force the libs to come to a conclusion here. Force the New York Times to show its cards. Is the Civil Rights act just about discriminating against white people? Okay, well, then it's not about civil rights. Then it's not right at all. Then it's wrong. Then it's a civil wrongs act, if you ask me, and we need to get rid of it. Or if it is, stop discriminating against white people. You have to stop. Five, 10 years ago, you would not have heard this kind of language from any mainstream politician. You would not have heard racial white grievance politics. And there are some squishes today who say, and we still shouldn't talk about this. You know, it's just, it's not, it's not right or what. But the reason you're getting more racial, white grievance politics today is one, because there are more grievances against white people, more overt, explicit grievances against white people, and two, because every other racial group has an extremely high racial identity. I frequently cite the study by Pew Research that shows that every other racial group has very, very high racial identity. White people have basically nothing. And that's not sustainable. That's totally unstable. The way Trump is trying to resolve this, I think, is very moderate, very, very much within a mainstream American tradition. How the libs react to that is up to them. So you've got violations of the rights of white people, and then if we turn over to our friends in Ireland, you have a violation of the rights of babies, but it's not the one you think you'd say, yeah, there is a major violation of the civil, human, natural rights of babies, namely, they're killed through abortion throughout the west, throughout the world. That's not the issue, though. The former president of Ireland is claiming that the real denial of babies human rights is baptism. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Policygenius. Go to policygenius.com knowles I love my family. I think you probably love your family, too. Well, if that's true, then do the responsible thing. Do the thing that's going to get a weight off your mind. You know, anybody with a family you want to make sure your family is taken care of, that everything is in place if something happens. Life insurance. It can feel overwhelming to even know where to start. 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Mary McAleese. Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland. She has just come out. This is an article in the Irish Times. Headline, baptism denies babies their human rights. This woman is nominally Catholic, obviously not. Doesn't seem to agree with the teaching or practice of the Catholic Church. But she's. I think this woman is a canon lawyer, by the way. But I don't know, you know, she was radicalized somehow. And she says this is the real important issue that we need to focus on. This is the great injustice in our world today. She's a politician. This is not a prelate, it's not a theologian. She's a politician. She says the real injustice, the real violation of human rights in our world is not with regard to immigration or foreign policy or the economy, how we treat the poor. It's not even abortion, the wholesale slaughter of little babies. It's baptism. It is difficult to see how one can arrive at that conclusion and obsession without demonic influence. I'm not someone who says there's a demon under every rock. You know, look, we live in a world where the material and the immaterial are not totally separable, but nevertheless, I'm not demon hunting all the time. It's very difficult to understand how the former president of Ireland says, you know, the issue that we really need to focus on here, the great human rights violation in our time is baptizing babies because it's bad because it's bad. You could say it's a human rights violation maybe to suppress baptism of babies. I was trying to think, I was like, what's the best way to give this woman the benefit of the doubt? And you would say, okay, technically infant baptism is a violation of human rights because humans by all rights after the fall deserve death. Because after the fall, sin and death pervade the world. And so in our fallen human nature, we, what we deserve, what we get is death. And baptism saves us from death. I know there are many people who are gonna be listening now who have all sorts of different views of baptism. I'm quoting here, St. Peter from First Peter who says baptism now saves you. All sorts of interesting theological discussions about exactly what that means, but that baptism is what demarcates us as Christians. There are going to be plenty of people who disagree with infant baptism. Again, this is the traditional practice of the Catholic Church. You see it in scripture. Our Lord says, let the little children come to me. You see baptisms of children in acts multiple times. But again, nevertheless, put all those theological discussions aside for a second. The closest I can get here is that baptism denies babies their human rights inasmuch as it saves them from the consequences of the fall of man. That's a good thing, isn't it? Isn't that a good thing? Last point. This woman who says that baptism violates babies human rights, supports abortion. She supports legally murdering babies in the womb, but not baptizing them. The only way to reach that conclusion is either to have followed the perversity of liberalism to its conclusion or the influence of a demon. I'm sorry, I don't see any other. Really makes you raise your eyes to raise your eyebrow to other left wing politicians. Now, speaking of perversions, speaking of total divorce from reality, we turn back to Minneapolis. It was that shooting. The ICE officer shot this left wing activist who drove her SUV into him the other day. And the left thinks this is a great injustice. There is an injustice here. This agitator should not have driven her car into an ICE officer, but they think it was unjust for the officer to shoot this woman. Some new videos come out which gives away the whole game on how we got here. This is the lesbian partner reportedly of the woman who was killed yelling immediately after the shooting. Why don't you have Leo Collins? It's astounding video. Her first scream, after, after she yells, drive, baby, drive, drive. Into the ICE agent. And then the ICE agent defending himself shoots that woman in the face as he was absolutely Right to do. And then the woman dies and her car crashes and she screams, why did you have real bullets? You actually feel sorry for this woman? Well, you feel sorry for the woman who's dead. You feel sorry for the lesbian partner because she was shocked. She was shocked that the cop's gun had had real bullets in it. She really didn't know. She really didn't know that the law enforcement officer's gun had bullets. How divorced do you have to be from reality not to know that the cop's gun has bullets in it? That's how divorced she was. And you see it throughout, not just this one particular woman who's shrieking these things, but all these people out there in the streets. The woman out there shrieking these things thinks that foreign criminals are law abiding American citizens. That's one level of confusion. She thinks that foreign criminals, those are the people who are being apprehended by ice, are Americans. That they have a right to be here and that they shouldn't be arrested. They're law abiding. That's crazy. That's the opposite of what they are. This woman, it goes without saying, has a great deal of sexual confusion. She doesn't really know the difference between men and women. She thinks that men and women are practically the same. This woman doesn't seem to understand the basics of human biology, human nature. She doesn't understand how societies get along. She doesn't realize that, that you're not allowed to just park your car in the middle of the street in order to obstruct law enforcement, law enforcement, whom she believes you are allowed to drive your car into. And if they shoot back, they'll shoot what? Marbles and gumdrops. She doesn't know that the guns have bullets. This is why some of us observed, including the Vice President, you feel pity for these people because they have been so brainwashed by the left online, in their communities, by the politicians. They have been brainwashed and scandalized by the politicians who have accustomed them to not seeing the law enforced, who have accustomed them, habituated them to seeing foreign criminals just do whatever they want in the middle of their streets, brag about how they're not here legally, brag about their crimes and not be arrested. And the culmination of that, the consequence of that, of living in this virtual world where there never seem to be consequences to anything. A world that's kind of like a video game where if you die, you just press restart and you get to start it up again. The consequences of living in that Virtual world is that when you see your lesbian partner get shot in the face. Cause she ran over a cop or tried to run over a cop, ended up hitting him, you first scream, why did you have real bullets? And then the part that's really heartbreaking for this woman, the lesbian partner, is that second thing she says. She goes, it's my fault. I told her to come down here. A recognition that, in a way, I think I'm probably softer on this woman than she is on herself. Because she realizes, oh, my goodness. And she doesn't even admit it here. But the true immediate cause of this woman driving her car into the cop which led her to be shot, was that the lesbian partner says, drive, baby, drive, drive. She literally gives the order that gets her killed. But even earlier than that, I guess it was this woman who said, you go down there. Yeah, you go down there, you park your car, you obstruct law enforcement. That's what you should do. Which gets her killed. She says, oh, my goodness, it's my fault. 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Beyond the lady who was killed and her lesbian partner, we'll get to the people doing pagan rituals at the makeshift memorial for this woman. You have the more violent, virulent leftists screaming direct threats in the street. Murderers. You shot a woman in a wheelchair. We need to come back with weapons. Go to the gun store, get a gun, learn how to use it, and face you guys man to man. Okay, so this guy, obviously a little heated, a little out of control of his passions. He gets up and makes as direct a threat on law enforcement as you could imagine. He gets up, he says, we need to go to the gun store, we need to get weapons, we need to come back here and face you man to man. That is a direct threat. I hope that guy was arrested. I don't know for certain that he was. My advice to the administration, which they don't need because I think they get this, but I just maybe want to focus it a little bit here is if I were running the administration right now, I would arrest all of these people to the best of my ability. But it can be done. You know how I know it can be done? Because of the January 6ers. There were Midwestern grannies who took selfies in the Capitol on January 6th. They were tracked down by the US Marshals weeks and months later, like every single one of them. And they were thrown in the can for months and years for much lesser crimes than what you're seeing these people in Minneapolis do. The federal government, I'm sure they already wanna do this. The Trump administration is in very good hands when it comes to ICE and DHS and law enforcement and all the way up to the top. However, it's important to arrest all of these people because the law is a teacher. And the brutal crackdown by the left on legitimate right wing dissent did have a chilling effect. It worked. I said this after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I said the worst part about assassinations, which no one wants to admit now, is that they work. That's why people do Them. The reason people do assassinations is because they work. And there's this cope that we all have. When one of our friends or one of our heroes is assassinated, we say, well, this is just gonna make us stronger than ever. But usually it doesn't because actually assassinations work. That's why people do them. Well, the same principle holds with just use of state power, which is when you arrest criminals, you get less crime. And when you let criminals run free, you get more crime. And when you let criminals flaunt their crime on television, you get even more crime than that. So when you have these people coming out there making these kinds of direct threats, I'm not saying they have to be violent. No, I'm going much further than that. When they just make these verbal threats, which are crimes, they need to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We need to send a message that this will not be tolerated. Not only will that help to quell the legitimate left wing terrorism that even the Atlantic is admitting exists, but it will also be a political electoral winner because most people don't identify with that. Most people don't want these violent lunatics in the streets. To show you how mainstream this used to be, I gotta give a hat tip to Mays here. Mays finds some great old video and audio. Here is how Bill Clinton spoke about illegal immigration and deportations in 1995.