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shinobicyrus · 1 year

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Welp CPAC was a fucking nightmare this year

Eradicated. They’re just using words like eradicated now. With whooping fucking applause.

#*deepest sigh*#CPAC #Transphobia #Michael Knowles #a man I didn't know existed and now wish I didn't #he wasn't the only one of course #you had #Marjorie Taylor Greene #advocating a nationwide bill to ban trans healthcare #you had Tom Fitton #calling trans kids #''a demonic assault on the innocence of our children''#this trans panic shit is now a major item on the national Republican platform #Trans Panic #Fascism #Christofascism #Republicans

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#us politics #gop #conservatives #Republicans #ben shapiro #steven crowder #michael knowles #the daily wire #louder with crowder #prageru #prager u #2021 #4chan #greentext #alt right

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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 7 months

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“If freedom were merely choice, then God would not be free, because God cannot choose to sin, because God’s very being precludes evil.

God, obviously being free, is free because He wills perfectly and understands perfectly. We will be free only inasmuch as we align our wills and our intellects with God.

Intellectual darkness, lies pervading society, compromise all of our liberty, because they stop us from willing good and true things. And the society crumbles.”

- Michael Knowles, The Michael Knowles Show Ep. 1339

#- HK #Christianity #Michael Knowles #respublica #mobile #x #i am not recommending Mr. Knowles as a theological authority. he’s Catholic I’m a Presbyterian we got disagreemence #but he slayed today

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bricks4-sale · 1 year

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Thank you biff_hartwell for helping galvanize our movement!🥰

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samijami · 11 months

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Every time this is reblogged. Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles lose a finger (so they can't tweet anymore)

And everytime this is liked, they regain a finger they've lost

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blackmensuited · 29 days

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#michael knowles #hat #tie #suspenders #men's style #handsome #style #sexy #sharp #suave #men's fashion #phyne #attractive #fine #dapper

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Following the Supreme Court’s elimination of the federal right to abortion in June, conservatives have taken aim at other fundamental protections, such as same-sex marriage and access to contraception. But some on the right are resurfacing a different, long-simmering project: stigmatizing divorce, including, in some instances, attacking no-fault divorce laws.

No-fault divorce in the U.S. was first adopted in California in 1969, and New York was the last state in the country to pass a no-fault divorce law, which it did in 2010. Although state laws differ, in general no-fault divorce means that one party can successfully dissolve a marriage without needing to first prove wrongdoing by the other partner – including adultery, abuse, or desertion.

Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance praised the idea of staying in violent marriages in remarks to high school students in southern California last September. Vance argued “all of us should be honest” about how “making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear” by leaving marriages that were “maybe even violent” had negative effects on the children, according to Vice, which first reported the comments.

Although Vance’s comments were made before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they’ve taken on a new salience amid a conservative movement that sees formerly out-of-reach goals as newly attainable. And Vance has lots of company in right-wing media.

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Reactionary YouTuber Tim Pool recently discussed no-fault divorce laws on his show, titling the clipped segment: “No-Fault Divorce Has DESTROYED Men's Confidence In Marriage, Men Don't Want To Get Married Anymore.” The discussion focused on how no-fault divorce laws were to blame for what the panel perceived to be a rise in prenuptial agreements, which segued into a meandering discussion lamenting divorce in general.

“The courts are heavily biased in favor of women to an insane degree, especially with children,” Pool said, parroting a cliche often espoused by so-called men’s rights activists, an anti-feminist movement that claims men are structurally disadvantaged in divorce proceedings and family court. (Although it is true that women are generally granted sole custody more frequently than men, the reasons for that are complicated and have to do with men historically having higher incomes and sexist ideas about mothers being natural caregivers.)

Fellow conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder has also argued that no-fault divorce laws are disincentivizing young men to get married. In an unfocused June 24 rant calling for the Supreme Court to now overturn marriage equality rights conferred in Obergefell v. Hodges, Crowder said no-fault divorce laws are “a raw deal for a lot” of men.

“Oh, it’s no-fault divorce, which, by the way, means that in many of these states if a woman cheats on you, she leaves, she takes half,” Crowder said. “So it’s not no-fault, it’s the fault of the man.”

“There need to be changes to marital laws, and I’m not even talking about same-sex marriage,” he added. “Talking about divorce laws, talking about alimony laws, talking about child support laws.”

That wasn’t the first time Crowder has made the argument. After referring to “no-fault divorce states” using air quotes in an April 22 segment, he said, “It’s the only contract that I know of where one side is financially incentivized to break it.”

“If you’re a woman that comes from meager means, and you want to get wealthy – you’ve never worked, you didn’t get a degree, you have no skill set, but you’re good-looking – your best path to victory is simply to marry a man, leave him, and take half,” Crowder added. He later reiterated that “we need to reform divorce laws in this country.”

Some of the loudest anti-LGBTQ conservative voices are also the biggest critics of no-fault divorce, in both cases making an appeal to tradition and what they see as a God-given natural order while defending nakedly patriarchal power relations. Patriarchy depends on a rigid gender binary, with clearly defined roles and expectations; conservatives believe LGBTQ identities subvert this dynamic. Similarly, no-fault divorce laws upended patriarchal power, freeing women from de facto second-class status and dependence on men.

No one encapsulates this tendency more than the virulently anti-trans conservative pundit Matt Walsh. In defending Kanye West’s harassment and threatening behavior in March toward his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, who had recently filed for divorce, Walsh also argued that it should be more arduous to dissolve marriages.

Walsh has made versions of this argument dating back to at least 2015, explicitly in the context of the supposed threat that same-sex marriage posed to heterosexual couples.

Walsh’s Daily Wire colleague Michael Knowles made the same point last year.

“We see the weakening of marriage through no-fault divorce," Knowles said. “This is a very bad turn of events.”

“Do you think society has gotten much better since the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s? Or has it gotten a little bit worse?” Knowles asked. “Are we in a period of ascendancy or a period of decline?”

Knowles’ line is increasingly common on the right. Senior writer at National Review Online Dan McLaughlin also sees the liberation movements of the second half of the 20th century as a locus of social disintegration, recently linking gay marriage rights and no-fault divorce as twin aspects of a singular problem.

Some conservatives are even more overt in their playbook. The right’s successful campaign to overturn Roe should serve as a “path by which campaigns for social change must be patterned,” Katy Faust and Stacy Manning write at The Federalist. “That’s especially true for those still willing to fight the battle for marriage.”

Faust and Manning run Them Before Us, which describes itself as “a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father.”

In their piece, they present a hypothetical back-and-forth that activists can use to field questions, such as:

“If you really think family is so important then you must be against divorce.”

• Correct, no-fault divorce is the original re-definition of marriage and it has devastated the American family.

(The two also oppose same-sex marriage on the grounds that “children of gay couples lose maternal or paternal love and half their heritage.”)

Others on the right downplay this trend.

“As for no-fault divorce, it’s not entirely clear that the policy — while a tragic mistake, from the social-conservative perspective—actually features prominently in the mainstream Right’s priorities. (Which Republican is campaigning on repealing no-fault divorce?)” writes Nate Hochman at National Review. To answer the rhetorical question: the Texas Republican Party, for one, which includes in its 2022 platform a proposal “to rescind unilateral no-fault divorce laws and support covenant marriage and to pass legislation extending the period of time in which a divorce may occur to six months after the date of filing for divorce.”

Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe, made it clear that aspects of the right are interested in rolling back marriage equality and contraception rights. “We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents," Thomas wrote. It’s not difficult to imagine a movement built on patriarchy targeting divorce laws next.

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renee-writer · 7 months

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What It's Like on the Ground in Israel | With Nicole Zedeck

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#youtube #michael knowles #prayers for israel

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debunkingtherightwing · 9 days

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The dumbest possible take on Donald Trumps hush-money trial

Naturally, Michael Knowles is going to talk all about how making hush-money payments to a porn star flies in the face of all of his supposed values.....right? (source: Michael Knowles on Daily Wire)

Well, Trump is on trial in New York and MAGA media is pissed. For context, Donald Trump is currently on trial for allegedly falsifying records related to a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels made in 2016 in order to keep her from talking about a sexual encounter that the two had in 2006. This is the first time in US history that a president has been on trial and this is certainly an important and quite possibly very messy moment in history. Naturally, the Daily Wires Michael Knowles has the dumbest take possible on the trial. Lets get into it.

03:36, Michael Knowles: "This trial in New York is obviously a miscarriage of justice, the trial in New York is obviously a threat to our constitutional order, the first time a former president has ever been criminally prosecuted ever in American history."

This is the first time that a former president made hush money payments to a porn star. Donald Trump has quite blatantly committed numerous crimes and now the justice system is catching up with him. Needless to say, Michael "Porn is evil and can turn you trans" Knowles spends a lot of this episode tip-toeing around the actual charges. Perhaps this is because if he actually took the time to do his job properly and inform his viewers about what Trump is actually on trial for, it might make is god-king look bad.

04:02, Michael Knowles: "And it's so -- it's so personal that they're not even -- they're not even playing around anymore. They're not even pretending that 'this is just a purely procedural matter and look, you know, Donald Trump he committed this crime.' And what is the crime exactly? He, eight years ago, he donated some money to his own campaign which is completely legal but it was in kind because he didn't fill out form 72b for the FEC and so it was hush-money to this porn star -- I don't really remember but anyway-"

Then maybe you shouldn't be covering this Michael. For a guy who titled his video "The Trial Of President Trump EXPLAINED In 4 Mins", Michael really does not know what he's talking about.

Since Michael doesn't seem to know the details of this trial, allow me to fill in the blanks. This trial is concerning a $130,000 payment that Donald Trump had his former lawyer Michael Cohen make to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election. It also concerns the fact that Donald Trump allegedly falsified records to cover this payment up. Trump is currently being charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Michael doesn't really get into the finer details of this case even though he promised to EXPLAIN (all caps as per Daily Wire tradition) this case to me in four minutes in the title of the video. Instead he spends way too much time complaining about Trump supposedly missing his sons high school graduation.

04:44, Michael Knowles: "President Trump made one request, he said 'Hey, during this ridiculous political persecution that you're all undertaking against me, can I have one day off so that I can go to my sons high school graduation?' and as of now it appears that the answer is no."

This thing about the high-school graduation is a lie. First of all, the high-school graduation is on May 17th so Michael talking about it like it's already happened is a lie on it's face. But Judge Merchan hasn't even ruled on this yet. He stated that "It really depends on how we’re doing on time and where we are in the trial,” and that he's willing to adjourn for the day of the graduation. In short, call me on the 17th and then we can talk about this graduation.

What exactly makes Donald Trump deserving of special privileges? He used to be the president but that doesn't elevate him over anyone else who walks into that courtroom. Trump broke the law and is now facing the consequences, that's just how the system works.

06:44, Michael Knowles: "This dirtbag judge won't let President Trump go to his kids high school graduation over this farce of a trial. He's gonna punish an eighteen year old kid because he hates Trump so much."

Like I said, this segment of the show is supposed to be the Trump trial explained in four minutes. The only takeaways here are "Trump's trial is a miscarriage of justice even though I don't know the details" and "Trump can't see his sons high school graduation - never mind the fact that the judge hasn't ruled on this yet".

07:44, Michael Knowles: "There's going to be this appearance in Washington D.C before the Supreme Court that will pertain to immunity - whether or not a president of the United States has some immunity from prosecution after he leaves office for things he does while he is in office. This is obviously pretty important to all of the prosecutions against Donald Trump right now, it's very important to our constitutional order, it's very important to the 2024 presidential election and this dirtbag judge Jaun Merchan, I don't even know if I'm pronouncing his name correctly, is not gonna let Trump appear before the Supreme Court."

So, the reason that Merchan isn't allowing Donald Trump to attend the Supreme Court on April 25th is because there's a trial date in New York scheduled on that day. Again, Donald Trump has no greater right to receive special privileges than anyone else.

Lets get one thing straight here, if it was a Democrat on trial for paying off a porn star this would be the main topic on the Michael Knowles Show for the next twenty years or so. I love how he's willing to just push all his supposed "principles" aside just to tow the party line.

Conclusion:

So, Michael Knowles is really obsessed with Baron Trumps graduation and I'm actively less informed on the actual trial than I was coming in. I know this was a bit of a shorter post but I wanted to address the right-wing narrative on Trumps trial and I have more stuff coming down the pipe soon. Cheers and I'll see you in the next one.

Sources:

Original Video:

“Ep. 1469 - the Trial of President Trump EXPLAINED in 4 Mins.” The Daily Wire

Trump Hush Money Trial:

“Trump Hush Money Trial Live Updates: Trump Calls Trial “Assault on America.” ABC News.

Smith, David. “History in the Making with Debut of Donald Trump: Criminal Defendant.” The Guardian, 14 Apr. 2024.

Lee, Ella. “New York Judge Says Trump Can’t Attend Supreme Court Arguments on Presidential Immunity.” The Hill, 15 Apr. 2024.

#right wing bullshit #conservative bullshit #journalism #fact checking #bad takes #conservatives #disinformation #politics #debunking #daily wire #michael knowles #crooked donald

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 10 months

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For the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology — at every level.

Michael Knowles

#- HK #respublica #sexuality #x #Michael Knowles #Haiqueue!!

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queercowpoke · 1 year

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I haven't seen this on tumblr but its worth sharing. My city came out en mass to protest Michael Knowles speaking at the University of Pittsburgh. The protest was student led and organized and most of the protestors were students. This is the 3rd and so far largest protest against transphobic speakers at Pitt. There were approx. 400 people there at one point, although after a firework was set off the crowd shrank to about 250. These are trans kids and young adults fighting for their lives against a man who has said he wants to "eradicate transdenderism" In the very debate they were protesting he advocated for institutionalization of all trans people. They could use the support and encouragement of the wider trans community.

Images taken from Pittsburgh Tribune Review

#michael knowles #transgender #trans rights #trans genocide #trans rights protest #protest #pittsburgh #university of pittsburgh

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juniperika · 7 months

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If you've seen a couple of episodes, or even parts of it bur you're aware of the basic plot/main characters, please consider yourself familiar with the series.

I am intrigued, so please vote (also, I don't have a lot of followers, so I'd appreciate reblogs!)

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blackmensuited · 7 months

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#michael knowles #male model #three piece suit #suit #tie #vest #style #handsome #sharp #sexy #suave #men's fashion #phyne #attractive #fine

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Michael Knowles, the far-right Daily Wire host who recently called for eradicating “transgenderism,” played a gay character in a student film.

On Thursday, Twitter user @RightWingCope posted a clip from the low-budget short. “The current headliner of conservative homophobia and transphobia played a gay twink,” they wrote. “So much for restoring ‘traditional masculinity.’”

In the scene, Knowles’s character and another man are shirtless in bed, having apparently just had sex. “That was…wow,” Knowles’s character says.

Before becoming a right-wing pundit and anti-trans lightning rod, Knowles was a struggling actor, appearing in short films and television shows. According to IMDB, he even landed an uncredited role in an episode of the acclaimed Steven Soderbergh-directed series The Knick. But if you scroll down far enough on Knowles’s IMDB page, you’ll find a credit for a 2012 short film called The House of Shades.

The full student film, which appears to date back to Knowles’ time at Yale University, is available on YouTube, and it didn’t take long for Twitter users to unearth it. YouTuber Jackson Wagon also recently included the film a video in which he critiqued all of Knowles’s acting performances.

According to the film’s description, The House of Shades “revolves around the interconnected relationships of a group of college students and the student-ran nightclub/cabaret they call home.” On both YouTube and IMDB, Knowles gets top billing in the film.

In the film, Knowles plays a queer student named Gavin who, having just broken up with his girlfriend, sets his sights on a male athlete. After a night out, the two end up sleeping together.

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The clip surfaced a little over a week after Knowles made headlines for a virulently anti-trans speech he made at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). In his speech, Knowles claimed that “For the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”

Critics quickly accused Knowles of advocating for genocide. In response, Knowles attempted to walk back his statement, claiming he was calling for the eradication of an ideology rather than people. Being transgender is an identity, not an ideology.

Since the House of Shades clip surfaced on Twitter, users have lambasted Knowles as yet another anti-LGBTQ+ figure with some inconveniently queer skeletons in his closet.

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