Ep. 290 - Fourth Trimester Abortion
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Summary
As Democrats embrace fourth trimester abortion, they make the same mistake Republicans have made on the abortion debate in reverse. We will analyze the undocumented infants, then deep fakes, gene editing, and Cheerios. Finally, the mailbag.
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As Democrats embrace fourth trimester abortion, they make the same mistake Republicans have made on the abortion debate in reverse.
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We will analyze the undocumented infants, then deep fakes, gene editing, and Cheerios.
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Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So much to get to today. The Democrats destroy their entire abortion argument.
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It's being reported that Herman Cain, former presidential candidate, 999 plan of 999 fame,
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This news about Herman Cain, I just want to get to it briefly because it's terrific.
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People are making fun of Donald Trump for picking Herman Cain because Herman Cain is supposed to be some big idiot or something.
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Herman Cain is an extraordinarily intelligent and successful man.
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You know, not your mom and pop shop down the street.
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He's actually already served, I believe, on the Federal Reserve Board in Kansas or somewhere, one of the Federal Reserve Boards.
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So he's actually a pretty great candidate for this, and he's well-known.
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He's a public figure. He's been vetted by the media and been vetted by voters.
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I think it's a terrific choice, and he's a great character.
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I mean, he's just a great personage to have out there.
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It also takes the Federal Reserve, which is one of the most opaque institutions in the history of government,
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and it makes it a little bit more transparent by having a public figure serving on the board.
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Bring it on, and it'll drive the left crazy because Herman Cain drives them crazy.
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A really dark story that actually is redounding well, I think, for the pro-life movement is in Virginia now.
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Governor Northam appears to be one-upping Andrew Cuomo in New York.
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You remember that last week Andrew Cuomo cheered, signed legislation that would allow a baby to be killed one second before it's born.
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And now in Virginia, Northam wants to out-infanticide even Andrew Cuomo by saying that you can kill babies even after birth.
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And she was pressed by a Republican delegate about whether her bill would permit an abortion,
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even as a woman is essentially dilating, ready to give birth.
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And she answered that it would permit an abortion at that stage of labor.
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Do you support her measure and explain her answer?
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Yeah, you know, I wasn't there, Julie, and I certainly can't speak for Delegate Tran.
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But I will tell you, one, first thing I would say, this is why decisions such as this should be made by providers,
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physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved.
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But there are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother,
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with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
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And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
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First of all, he says, I don't really want to comment on this.
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I'm really, this is an awkward topic to talk about.
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But that's why decisions should be made by the parents and the doctor.
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So when he's saying that, this decision should be made by the parents and the doctor,
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he's saying it's perfectly fine for parents and or doctors to kill babies one second before they're born as the woman is dilating.
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But then, I mean, that's just the sort of political empty slogan that allows you to say nothing but sound like you're saying something.
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Where it gets really dark is he says, look, most third trimester abortions, they happen because the baby's deformed.
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Oh, you don't want any of those deformed babies.
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Why would we want any deformed people in our society?
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There was a video, I wish we had it, we don't have the clip, of a man with Down syndrome testifying on this point.
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You'll remember last year, Iceland said that they had eliminated Down syndrome in the country.
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They didn't eliminate Down syndrome, they just kill all the Down syndrome babies.
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And he said, I am a man, this man with Down syndrome.
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But according to Governor Northam, that baby should be killed.
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Because he's not perfect in Governor Northam's eyes.
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Morally speaking, I'm sure that that Down syndrome baby is far more perfect than Governor Northam,
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who thinks it's perfectly fine to kill babies after they've been born.
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Maybe you're spiritually deformed or mentally deformed.
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You know, look, I don't want to talk myself down here.
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I probably wouldn't do very well in armed combat.
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Does that make me, yeah, I guess I'm not perfect.
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Does that mean that I should be killed as I'm, not even just before I'm born, but after I'm born?
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And throughout all of history, the vast majority of barbaric cultures have done this, have killed babies.
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And now we, ostensibly a civilized culture, are delving into this.
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We're going back to our animal, brutish, barbaric roots to kill babies, not just before they're born, but after they're born.
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In this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
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The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
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And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
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So I think this was really blown out of proportion.
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Governor Northam has made this worse by saying the baby.
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And then if the mother and father don't want the baby, they won't help it to survive.
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And then if the mother and father want to resuscitate it or sustain it or keep it alive, they can do that.
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And then they'll have a conversation about whether they want to kill it, whether they want to go right back and kill it.
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And then you decide if you want to kill it again.
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I love that Democrats are finally, honestly speaking about the logical conclusion of abortion.
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And you're seeing it in all of its gory logic, in the natural conclusion of abortion.
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Then the parents will talk about it if that's what's desired.
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I think there are a lot of parents who might have various desires about their 15-year-old teenage boys.
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I think there are a lot of parents who, if you ask them on any given day what their desires are about keeping their teenage boy or not keeping their teenage boy, you might get different answers.
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That doesn't mean that parents should be allowed to do whatever they want with children.
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The child is entitled to certain rights as well, not to be killed an hour after it's born.
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And then the mother says, nah, pish posh, I don't want it.
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And okay, and then you're talking to your doctor.
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And okay, the doctor says, well, you don't want it.
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It's only been moving around this earth for an hour or so.
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Because it's being blown way out of proportion, according to Governor Northam.
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But again, we want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.
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We want the decision to be made by the mothers and their providers.
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And this is why, Julie, that legislators, most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't be doing with her body.
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But to begin, he says, we don't think the government should be involved in this.
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You never met one single action on earth that you didn't think the government should be involved in.
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Democrats think that the government should now be involved in all of industry.
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You think the government should be involved in 70% of my paycheck.
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And actually, when you add state and local in New York, it gets up to 82.3% of my paycheck.
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You want the government to be involved in my church.
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You want the government to be involved in my home.
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You want the government to be involved in what I eat, in fast food, in my car, in my every single thing.
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You want the government to be involved, except protecting a baby from being murdered.
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And now I want to drop any sense of euphemisms.
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At least I can understand an honest debate where you say, is abortion identical to murder?
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I understand that there is an ethical debate to be had.
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I think the answer is relatively clear, but I'm willing to use more clinical language.
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It's kicking and crying and moving its little arms around.
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There is no way that you could jump through any sort of mental gymnastics to pretend that that isn't murder.
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Murder is the only instance that Governor Northam doesn't want the government to be involved in your life.
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And then he says, and this is why, this is why the legislators, most of whom are men, and we all know men are idiots.
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At least one man in this situation is a complete dummy.
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That's why they shouldn't be involved in these decisions.
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Well, first of all, that conclusion does not follow from that premise.
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He's just describing murdering a baby, and then he says, as an absolute non sequitur, that's why legislators, the majority of whom are men, should not be involved in this decision.
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There is no logic at all that connects those things.
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Men who are not Governor Northam or Andrew Cuomo have brains.
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And we can think about ethical questions and political questions that we have for all of human history and constructed every civilization ever in all the history of the world.
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So I think that men can consider the question of whether we should kill our children or not.
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I mean, it's for, and I don't mean to use the two synonymously, but it's for Democrats like Governor Northam who don't want to lead.
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They don't want to lead politically or intellectually or ethically.
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This is the only time they want the government to be involved.
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The good side of this, it's so, you know, watching that clip, you get so, you just want
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But there is a very good side to this, which is that right now, the Democrats are making
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exactly the same mistake on pro-life that Republicans have made in arguing pro-life for 20 years,
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For them, you know, the Democrats have followed their own logical, their own logic to its conclusion.
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So now they're arguing about pro-life at the moment of birth.
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What the Democrats used to always do was try to argue about pro-life at the moment of conception.
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And so they would say, were you telling me a little egg that has been fertilized for one hour,
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that's a baby, and if you take that out, that's murder?
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Now, this is a disingenuous argument because no abortion happens at one day, happens weeks
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and weeks later, and often in the second trimester, and now apparently in the third trimester.
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But in both instances, you have the left and the right following their ideas to their logical
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So if abortion is wrong, if it's morally similar to murder, if it is murder, then it's not wrong
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It's not wrong because it sprouts a couple fingers or because it opens its eyes or something
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That's the logical conclusion of abortion being wrong.
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Now, if abortion is not wrong, if it's, you know, it's just nothing, it's perfectly fine,
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then it's not just that it's not wrong at the moment of conception, it's not wrong at
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And frankly, if it's not wrong at the moment of birth, it's not wrong an hour or two after
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And really, really, if it's not wrong an hour or two after birth, it's not wrong when they
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They're taking their idea to its logical conclusion.
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It's been radicalized, I think, in part by Donald Trump.
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The left's radical abortion agenda on demand at not just at the moment of birth, but after
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I love that we are now arguing about abortion there, because as a matter of principle, both
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The right has to accept that life is life at the moment of conception.
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And the left, rather, has to accept that the fetus, the morally irrelevant embryo, has
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to remain morally irrelevant even at the moment of birth.
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They both have to follow that to its conclusion.
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But just from a PR perspective, just from an optics perspective for people who don't think
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about this very deeply, it's much easier to argue for pro-life at the moment of birth than
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This is why sonograms are so helpful to the pro-life cause, is that you see that it's
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It's a baby with a face and eyes and nose and a mouth and little fingers.
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It's not that the fingers make it a morally significant being.
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It's that the fingers remind us that it is a morally significant being.
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I have friends who have had abortions who say that late-term abortion is infanticide.
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Now, they don't see that it's morally grave in the second trimester, in the first trimester
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When you look at the public opinion polls, over 80%, 90% of people oppose late-term abortion.
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This is absolutely a terrific place to be having this battle.
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Governor Northam, I'm going to donate to his campaign so that he keeps going on the radio
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They're the ones who always force us to have the abortion debate two days after conception.
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They know this, and so they're not covering this.
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Last night, MSNBC and CNN did not cover Governor Northam's comments where he advocated killing
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No, we have to talk about tweets more, don't we?
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We don't have time to talk about a sitting U.S. governor advocating the slaughter of babies
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after they've been born because we've got to talk about Russia or something or whatever
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or Roger Stone or I don't know, anything but that, anything but talking about abortion.
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The Democrats fell into this because we have been pushing their buttons,
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and President Trump in particular has been pushing their buttons.
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I mean, that guy, those little things he would say, you didn't build that.
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He'd say that the day that the Supreme Court invents a fictional right to gay marriage by
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redefining the essential human institution, the day that he does that, what does Obama do?
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He paints the White House rainbow colors in light.
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He just knew how to push our buttons, and it drove us a little crazy, and now Trump is doing
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He's pushing their buttons, and he's driving them a little crazy.
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You'd have to be crazy to advocate killing a baby a day after it's born.
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The Democrats are telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
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We talked about it on the show yesterday with the Grieven Study Guys.
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This is born out of a culture which increasingly undermines reality.
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The sort of funny version of this, I mean, the not just darkly funny, but just bizarrely funny
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version of this is something called deep fakes.
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If you haven't seen them, deep fakes are videos of real people that look totally real,
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If you're listening, I think you're actually probably better off.
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This is a deep fake of Jennifer Lawrence receiving her Golden Globe Award or speaking to the press
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at the Golden Globes with the head of Steve Buscemi on her, an image I never want to see.
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I want to spoon out my mind's eye just having looked at it.
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You can hear Jennifer Lawrence and her Steve Buscemi head is moving around perfectly.
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Just little, little tics, the eyebrows going off.
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My least favorite, I don't want to have to say.
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I don't want to have to say, because who knows when you're going to run into these people.
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This needs to be set on fire and burned until it is gone.
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When deep fakes, and actually, I think it already has.
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I think Scarlett Johansson tried to sue some people or was looking at legal options because they were doing this with Scarlett Johansson, except in porn.
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And she basically concluded, you can't stop this.
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You can't stop the creation of fake videos, videos that really look like you're doing something.
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It could be you, you know, a video of you committing an axe murder, and it would look really convincing.
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If Steve Buscemi can convincingly become Jennifer Lawrence, anything is possible.
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And so when this, I think once we get the combination of sex robots, virtual reality, and deep fakes, that is the end of society.
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Japan is having its already dwindling population, have now a population crisis, in part because of porn and sex robots.
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Deep fakes mean that you can turn any fantasy into reality, almost.
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And this is going to have some seriously negative effects, not just on weird videos on the internet, but on our culture and our politics.
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What this means, what the deep fakes mean, what the combination we're seeing, sex robots and virtual reality porn,
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what this means is that you can turn any fantasy into a virtual reality.
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And it's symptomatic of a culture that we have, which is a culture of fantasy.
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The fantasy that men can be women and women can be men.
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The fantasy that indulging in fantasy will make it a reality, but it won't.
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It goes further than weird videos or videos of Scarlett Johansson that we certainly can't play on the show.
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This goes to the physical essence of the human person.
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A San Francisco biochemist and entrepreneur, Josiah Zahner, is now making gene editing equipment available to the public.
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There was that horrifying story that came out a couple weeks ago about a baby in China who was gene edited.
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So some scientist went in, edited the genes of a baby, and it came out as a designer baby.
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And it's being done in a laboratory with people who should not be tooling around with this stuff.
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Now, this is being released to consumers and the public.
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This guy, what's his name, Josiah Zahner, he is making it such that you can inject frogs with this.
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And the frogs will double in size in two months.
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And certainly people will start using this on themselves.
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He'll just go in and inject it with himself and growth gene editing or whatever.
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It comes out of this individualist culture that prioritizes the radical subjective, just you, me, me, me, I, me, mine,
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This is the logical conclusion of liberalism, lowercase l and capital L liberalism, that has been going on now for centuries.
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Fortunately, we're starting to see the illogic of it.
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You know, one of the great advantages of conservatism and conservative thought is that you can't defeat reality.
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Before we go, just really quickly, I have to comment on the stupidest thing on Morning Joe yesterday.
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But to call it the stupidest thing on Morning Joe is really high praise.
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I mean, there's a lot of competition for that segment.
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On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski has likely presidential candidate Howard Schultz on, and she asks him the important questions.
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How much does an 18-ounce box of Cheerios cost?
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We're going to ask you questions about Cheerios.
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Howard Schultz does not eat Cheerios because he is an adult.
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I also don't eat Cheerios because I am an adult.
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I have eggs for breakfast, or if I don't have time, I'll have coffee.
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The last time I ate cereal, I think I was nine years old.
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What she's doing, she's trying to play it off like it's a harmless question.
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What she's saying is, oh, you're a billionaire.
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Frankly, I don't know how much eggs cost because I'm married.
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When was the last time Mika Brzezinski did her own grocery shopping?
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Do we really think that maybe she and Joe, they make a date out of it?
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They're going to try to do to Schultz what they did to George Bush, George Bush I,
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which is he was doing a press op at a grocery store,
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and he was asking perfectly reasonable questions to the cashier lady.
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And they pretended that he didn't know what a grocery scanner was because he's so out of touch.
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If Howard Schultz were doing his own grocery shopping, I would seriously doubt his judgment.
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You know, when these billionaires run as Democrats, they have a hard time
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because they have to play into this stupid idea that you're supposed to be ashamed of your success.
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Trump probably exaggerated his wealth, and it was to his benefit.
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If Schultz is going to run as a billionaire in this day and age with his political party,
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he is going to have to lean into it, and he's going to have to say,
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Yeah, I don't eat Cheerios, and I don't go grocery shopping because I'm Howard Schultz.
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I grew up in the projects penniless, and I became a self-made billionaire.
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And I got two words for you, Mika, and they're not happy birthday.
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Ten bucks a month, hundred dollars for an annual membership.
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You get the Leftist Tears Tumblr because I don't know how much a box of Cheerios costs,
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but I know how much a vessel of Leftist Tears costs.
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What are the most important benefits of the free market?
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Why do so many claim that it is inherently for the rich and against the common worker?
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Well, what aren't the benefits of the free market?
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I mean, I suppose I really should reverse that.
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You can exchange that labor for goods and services.
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You can exchange that property for goods and services.
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Pope John Paul II in Centesimus Annus talked about how free markets are the most efficient way to allocate resources.
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And they're not just efficient, but they come out of your natural rights and the natural law.
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They come out of your property and that to which you are entitled.
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The reason that the left is able to demagogue free markets is envy.
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Because in free markets, to use Thatcher's example, let's say you've got the poor guy here and the rich guy here.
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The rich guy's got a little bit more money than the poor guy.
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When you have free economies, inequality can be exacerbated.
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Just maybe the rich are getting richer faster than the poor.
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The other thing that they forget is that these economies are very dynamic.
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So if you're in the upper quintile of wealth or income for one generation, it's unlikely that your family will get to stay there because the free markets are so dynamic.
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And the lowest quintiles, controlling for cultural factors, can increase in free economies because they don't have to game the system or deal with corrupt politicians or deal with nepotism or whatever.
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The way that the left demagogues it is by playing on envy.
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It's just, I mean, there are commandments against this.
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And unfortunately, it works because we have a broken human nature.
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Would you care to record a game between you and Ben?
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And if I were to predict how that game would turn out, I think somehow we would both lose.
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I don't know how exactly, but we would both, I think everybody would lose that game.
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Dear Michael, you seem like the kind of charming fellow who can probably handle the uber leftists of LA as well as anyone.
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How would you respond to someone who asked your preferred pronouns?
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Over the past year, I have been reading incessantly, trying to get myself more enlightened.
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I read Harvey Mansfield's Manliness because you mentioned it and I found it really useful.
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I'm wondering if you have any other suggestions for other important works of classic or modern literature that I should read.
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I'm not a Catholic, but I'm always trying to understand more about them and have read a little of St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila.
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For a book that you could read right now in politics and philosophy, you should read what I am now going through again, which is The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk.
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And in many ways, it's the beginning of the modern conservative movement or the post-war conservative movement.
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From Arun, dear Dr. Kofefe, you mentioned recently that your degree is in history.
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If, God forbid, Ben Shapiro fired you and you went to grad school for your PhD, what area of history would you study for your dissertation?
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Are there any specific subfields that are in dire need of a conservative perspective or that are simply of particular interest to you?
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It's the most misunderstood era in all of human history.
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It's a brilliant era, a brilliant era of scholarship.
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The greatest poem ever written was written during that era, the comedy by Dante.
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And a wonderful era of theology and philosophy.
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You know, the one downside of this is it's probably the only field that is conservative.
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You know, you don't become a medievalist if you're not a little weird and certainly a little conservative.
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I suppose if I wanted to be really helpful to the culture, I'd go into, you know, the history of the progressive era or something.
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Michael, you're certainly the biggest optimist at the Daily Wire.
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Ever since Trump conceded on the government shutdown, I've been feeling that conservatives keep losing even when they are in power.
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And I'm afraid conservatives won't be in power for long.
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What reasons do I have to be optimistic that conservative ideas will win out or gain ground in the future?
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Optimism and pessimism are two sides of the same coin.
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Obviously, first and foremost, in Christ, in my faith.
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I'm not, I don't have a sort of glib, silly, oh, it's all going to be sunny.
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Actually, I'm fairly confident that politics will spiral and spiral.
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I just have hope anyway, despite the politics spiraling.
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The one bit of political hope that I think I can give you is this.
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Well, I mentioned it probably 10 minutes ago in the show.
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The oldest continuous running political party in the world, the Democrat Party,
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is embracing the idea that a baby is only a baby if a mother wants it to be a baby.
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It's embracing the idea that men can really be women or women can really be men.
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It's embracing total fantasy, total self-definition, ridiculous fantasies.
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It's that we go, there was that video of a transgender guy who clearly had mental issues,
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who is six foot two and he's walking into a store and he says,
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That is, I don't mean to mock the guy who was acting like a jerk,
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I mean to mock the acceptance of that premise, which is absurd.
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But you should not ground your hope in politicians.
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You have to ground real hope in something more profound than that.
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My question is about the argument that Jesus is just a retelling of the god Mithra.
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Mithra, for those who don't know, is a pagan god.
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For a while, the scholars tried to link it to a different Persian god, but that's sort
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So the reason that Jesus is not a retelling of Mithra is that Christianity predates the
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So Mithra might be a retelling of Christ, but it's not the other way around.
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Also, they don't really bear many similarities.
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They try to say that Mithra was referred to as the Prince of Peace, and the this and the
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They say Christmas, there's no way it really happened on December 25th.
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The only reason that we celebrate it on December 25th is because of the popularity of the pagan
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The celebration of Christmas predates the popularity of Sol Invictus.
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Sol Invictus, if anything, was a reaction to Christianity.
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December 25th has been celebrated for Christmas since the earliest days of Christianity.
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In part, this was calculations from the resurrection, from the passion of Christ, and they calculated
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it within, I think, nine months, and that's how you arrive at December 25th.
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But regardless, the left, as always, gets things exactly backwards.
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So they say, maybe it's a retelling of this pagan tradition.
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Dear The Smart One, I was wondering if you could elaborate on your return to Jesus after being
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What was the one event that began your turnaround?
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I was an atheist for 10 years, more or less, agnostic.
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Probably would have called myself an atheist from 13 to 23-ish.
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It started to break down, and you can identify, I could identify a dozen moments that were really
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One thing that really started to crack my atheism was that all of the smartest people I met
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in college were Christians, and most of them were Catholic or Eastern Orthodox.
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You know, there were a lot of smart atheists, and in particular, I came across the modal
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ontological argument for God, which I really found quite clever, done by Alvin Plantinga,
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who's a Calvinist philosopher out of Notre Dame.
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Then I started looking at other arguments for God, some of the Thomistic arguments for God.
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Then I started looking at the arguments against God, and there aren't really any.
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Then I delved into C.S. Lewis was helpful in this.
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Then Chesterton, obviously, and I became firmly convinced that God exists, and then the question
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And if we think that God exists, then we must confront the person of Christ, the fact of
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Christ, because Christ is not just a poem or a philosophy.
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Christ is a man who claimed that he was God and died, was crucified, and then resurrected.
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And then you have to look at evidence for the resurrection.
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You have to look at evidence for Christ, and the evidence is overwhelming.
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And really, only at that point did I begin to have what would be recognizably religious
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It's so much more convincing than reading an argument.
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Thomas Aquinas, probably the greatest theologian ever to live, said he had a religious vision,
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and he said, all that I have written seems like so much straw compared to what has been
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If you and I ever grab a cigar, I'm sure we could go on about this for eight or ten hours.
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My question is, why do politicians tend to speak in gibberish instead of speaking plainly?
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So they don't want to have to say anything or take a position on any subject.
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So they try to speak out of both sides of their mouth.
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He said he could go into a room and have every person in that room, even if they had different
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He was asked, I believe it was about the Gulf War, if he would go in and he said, well,
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you know, I would have, my sympathies would have been with the minority, but I would have
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reluctantly understood the views of the majority.
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It's because the short answer is because they're cowards.
00:43:27.380
Michael, you said on your podcast this week that you intend to send your kids to a liberal
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You then went on to say that not all kids need to go to college and that some may instead
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But is it right for you to presume that liberal arts is the best education for your yet to be
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I think I can reasonably expect that my children will be somewhat like me.
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And certainly for me, that was the best choice.
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Education also comes as a result of other education.
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So if I, I hopefully am going to have a role in educating my children, not just when I pay
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for college, but earlier on, I will educate them toward a liberal education.
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I've got plenty of people in my family who went straight into the military, plenty of
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people who went straight to trade school, plenty of people who went straight to work.
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Then you've got to guide kids to where they're leaning toward.
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But I think, I think I'm sorry to say it's reasonable to expect that my child will not
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So I would probably guide my child in that direction.
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But, you know, if he proves his old man wrong, then he can do whatever he wants to do.
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And I certainly wouldn't want to force a kid who would be better off enlisting or going
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I wouldn't want to force him into a quarter million dollar liberal education that by that
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I am out of here, but I will see you on Monday.
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The Matt Walsh Show today, we're going to talk about infanticidal Democrats who just
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cannot manage to quell their enthusiasm for killing babies.
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Now the governor of Virginia is suggesting that we kill babies outside of the womb.
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He's tried to backtrack from it, but he can't change what he actually said.
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Also, uh, the media was very upset yesterday, not over the infanticide thing.
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They were upset because Howard Schultz doesn't know how much a box of Cheerios costs.
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But we'll talk about that today as well over on The Matt Walsh Show.