Ep. 561 - American Taliban
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When you tear down your own history, expect to get smushed. That is the lesson that the left taught us yesterday in a very sad story about a statue being pulled down in Virginia and a rioter getting hit in the head.
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When you tear down your own history, expect to get smushed. That is the lesson that the
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left taught us yesterday. It's a very important lesson. I don't think they meant to teach us this.
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I don't think they meant for all this symbolism, but that is what happened when they literally
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pulled the statue down and it literally smushed one of the rioters. This happened in Virginia.
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It's a very sad story. It is actually a genuinely sad story all around, every single part of it.
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A bunch of these leftist goons went around the American Taliban, tied a rope around a statue,
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pulled it down, and they didn't expect the statue was going to hit them on the head. Let's take a
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listen. So they've, you know, they've got the statue here. They're all very excited. They're
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pulling it down, goes down and their excitement turns to terror in just a moment because
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they realized that the statue has crushed one of their own guys.
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Get a medic, get a medic. They're all of a sudden, by the way, all of a sudden they want the services
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of the state, you know, the cops, the ambulance, the EMT, all of that, because it has crushed them.
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All the other statues around this had been beheaded in the moments just before they pulled this one
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down. A few takeaways. There are no cops stopping these guys, right? Of course not. If I were a cop,
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I wouldn't want to stop them either because there's no institutional support for the police.
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Another big takeaway. We are tearing down our history to liberate us, but the destruction of
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our traditions will actually kill us. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
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We are living through the rise of the American Taliban. That's what it is. Senator Cruz tweeted
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that out yesterday when he saw these videos of people beheading statues, pulling them down. It's
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just like the Taliban. When they go through Afghanistan, they get, they see 2,000 or 2,500
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or 3,000 year old statues and they blow them up. Well, that's what we're getting with American history.
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And these are statues that are 150 years old or 100 years old or maybe 200 years old and
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they're pulling them down. That's what these left wingers are doing. And it's not just the
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Confederate statues. The one they're going after the most is the guy they always go after the most.
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In recent years, you've seen statues of this guy beheaded. You've seen this guy's celebratory day
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renamed. You've seen his other statues vandalized and graffitied. I'm talking about my man,
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Christopher Columbus, whose statue was pulled down just yesterday as well.
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Oh, how happy they were. They got him. I mean, this, these are images that you saw during the
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Iraq war. These are not, not with Columbus. They pulled down Saddam Hussein, right? These are images
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you see during times of war, except we're not in a time of war. At least I don't think we're in a
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time of war. This is supposed to be a time of peace and we're not pulling down other people's
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statues. We're pulling down our own. This is about a lot more than George Floyd or Black Lives
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haven't already. So when I saw the Columbus statue come down, I realized this is about a lot more than
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Black Lives Mattering. Okay, this is about a lot more than George Floyd. This is about a lot more
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police brutality. My first question was, what does Christopher Columbus have to do with Black
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Lives Matter or the police in 2020? Obviously nothing. He has nothing to do with it. What
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this is about ultimately is an attack on our very civilization, on Western civilization. This has
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been building among the left for a very long time. You saw it really start to come to fruition in the
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70s and 80s in the United States, where you had Jesse Jackson marching on college campuses,
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leading kids in chants that said, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go. Western cultures got to
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go. And Columbus is the first guy they got to go for because Christopher Columbus is the symbol of
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Western civilization. They hate Christopher Columbus for the exact same reason that I love
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Christopher Columbus. This guy was a devoutly Catholic, transnational, autodidact. He was mostly
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self-taught. He was not a noble when he was born, right? He was of low birth. He married pretty well.
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He was first and foremost, so intrepid. He was afraid of nothing. He was the greatest navigator of
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his age, sailed all over the world. He wanted to sail to get a new trade route to the Indies. So what did
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he do? He went to Portugal. He lobbied the crown in Portugal. They wouldn't give it to him. He was
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dogged about it, but it didn't happen. He goes to Spain. He studies for years all the great works
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in Spain so that he can converse with the court, so he can win them over, so he can get funding
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for his voyage to the Indies. They say no. But finally, just as Columbus is leaving to go regroup
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and try again, they call him back in. His biographers say it was because of the brilliance of his personality
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and his determination. The crown says yes. Queen Isabella says yes. Another great hero of Western
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civilization that people don't talk about. He manages to make it to the new world, running on
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nothing but prayer and dead reckoning. This guy didn't have any instruments, at least on his first
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voyage. He's just looking at the stars. He makes it to the West Indies. He has this first encounter with
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a primitive native peoples. They accuse him of treating the natives horribly. They say he's a
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murderer. He's a genocidal maniac. None of that is true. He was a conqueror in the sense that he came
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over and he established the West in this new world. But he was actually much nicer to the natives than
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any of the Spaniards he was traveling with. He would intervene on their behalf a lot. He adopted the
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son of a Native American friend of his and raised him as his own son. The guy is totally misunderstood
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and attacked, but he expresses so much of our civilization. And that's why they hate his guts.
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Okay. The leftist radicals are tearing things down, not for principles, but for power.
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You think, and they want you to think that they are tearing these things down because they hate them
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per se, but it's not that. The left here hates this specific civilization they're tearing down.
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So for instance, they tear down history, not because they oppose all history. It's because
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they oppose our history. They tear down churches, not because they oppose religion. In a way, politics
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is religion for them. So they do like a certain kind of religion. They just don't like our religion.
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Okay. They tear down the government, not because they oppose government, but because they oppose
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our government. They have their own governments, which we'll see in a moment. They abolish the
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police, not because they hate the police even, but because they hate our police. And guess what's
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going to happen the minute they get into power? They're going to set up their own governments and
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their own police. And trust me, those governments and those police are going to be a lot less just
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than our own. You saw this in Seattle. So in Seattle right now, Antifa radicals have set up
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an autonomous zone. They're calling it the city hall autonomous zone or CHAZ. This is an area where
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the civil authority in Seattle and the cops and the mayor and everybody else have lost power. They
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are not running those streets anymore. And you've got these leftist radicals now running the streets.
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And the thing that's so ironic about it, they talk about how they want to open borders. They talk about
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how they want to abolish the police. What's the first thing these guys do the minute they take any
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power in the city. They set up rigid borders. They don't let people in and they set up their
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own system of cops. Obviously it exposes them as total hypocrites, but it's pretty spooky too.
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Take a listen to some video that was captured within the autonomous zone of these leftist radicals
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taking justice into their own hands. You don't know the owner of this place? The owner that's
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actually being nice and letting us stay here? Don't go. You forgot. We are the police of this
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community now. We are the police. I thought you wanted to abolish the police. Oh no, you just want
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to be the police. Okay. Different, different thing. Now there's no law and order. So they're not the
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police in that way. They're thugs. They're being disrespectful. That's what the point is. They're a gang.
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Uh-oh. Getting a little bit violent over here. A little bit loud. The camera starts shaking.
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That is the police without law and order. That police looks a lot worse than the other kind of police.
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That these leftists want to abolish. This is not a situation that you want to be in because
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if you're one of these utopians, one of these radical communists or anarchists who think that
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abolishing the police means abolishing the police, well, you're in for a rude awakening because when
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you abolish the police, all that means is that a new set of police are going to come in. When you
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abolish the government, all that really means is that a new government is going to come in. There's a
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line about communists which is that Christians go to heaven and socialists go to communism. What they
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mean by that is you're not going to get there on earth at least, okay? This is a utopian vision that
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as long as we're in a fallen world is not going to exist. And so these leftist dreams of abolishing
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the state, abolishing the police, it can't happen. That's why every communist or socialist regime that's
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ever come around maintains a tight grip on power. The police don't go a little lighter. They go a lot
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harder when you get these regimes. The state doesn't fall away. The state becomes much, much more
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important. The Seattle police abandoned this precinct, okay? And what they're now receiving,
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according to Como News out there, is that they're getting reports of armed people manning the
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checkpoints intimidating people trying to enter and people committing extortion. You have now got,
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as always happens with these revolutionaries, these insurrectionists, you've got a politics much
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less just, much less equitable, much, much less prosperous taking its place. That should terrify
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in Seattle and Washington. You get to Governor Jay Inslee, who you probably forgot ran for president.
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I kind of forgot that, but there he is. Jay Inslee was asked, what's going on in this freaking
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autonomous zone? You know, are we some two-bit banana republic? Inslee's response puts his head
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in the sand and says, I don't know nothing about it. Governor, I'd like to ask you about what's
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going on in Seattle. There's this thing called the Capitol Hill autonomous zone. What's your
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thought on that? The fact that the protesters have taken that over and not allowing people
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to come and go freely? And I hope regarding the National Guard. Well, that's news to me,
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so I'll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not, I have not heard anything about that.
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From any credible source. Not that you're not credible. It's just like, before I
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espouse an opinion, I should know of which I speak.
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What you're saying, terrorists took over one of the most important city in our state.
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I mean, I just don't know. And you're saying that's the main news story and it's the only
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thing that's being reported in Washington. I guess, well, it's just so funny because I guess
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I haven't seen the news. Please, please, please don't ask me about that because I don't have an answer.
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He doesn't have an answer and he's, he's not doing a very effective job of lying about it either
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because he doesn't have an answer. He's got to lie about it because he doesn't have an answer.
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Because in his rhetoric, in his ideology, he's supporting these wackos and he's seeing in real
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time the effects of that. He's saying, one, it's going to take power away from him. But two, it doesn't
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look like it does in the, in the picture books. Okay. It doesn't look like it does in the leftist
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daydreams of this utopian vision, because so long as human nature is broken, you're not going to get
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that utopia on earth. And he's seeing it played out in real time and it's, it's left his ideology
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exposed as bankrupt. So there's a follow-up question on this. They say, well,
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what about these takeovers of the streets, even hypothetically speaking, here's a hypothetical
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answer. As far as the national guard, how long are you going to keep them there? And with,
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if there is a takeover of a street in Seattle where they're barricading and keeping people out,
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the protesters are, would you want to be involved? You know, that's a hypothetical look at,
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we've got to have safety. I'm sure that people will find a way to have public safety everywhere
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in the state. I'm confident of that. Uh, the, the national guard is demobilizing over
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two thirds of them were demobilized of yesterday. I don't know if they're completely demobilized at
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this point or not, but if not, that'll be shortly, I believe. So you see what the reporter has to do
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because Jay Inslee is not playing on the level here is he's got to pretend like it's hypothetical.
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Say, okay, so hypothetically, if a bunch of communists and anarchists took over an entire
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neighborhood of Seattle, what would you do? You're not giving us an answer on what you're
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going to do because it is happening. So what about hypothetically? And then Inslee says, well,
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you know, look, that's hypothetical. He then doesn't answer the question. And then the best
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he's got is we're demobilizing the national guard. The best he's got is we're, we're going to use less
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police force. We're going to use less force on the streets to stop this. Cause he's like a robot.
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He's like a non-playing character in a video game, right? He's, he's only got one mode and the mode
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is leftism, at least in his rhetoric. So he says, well, the only thing I can possibly say about the
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police is we're going to take away their power. Even though, guess what? Right now, I think the
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people in Seattle probably want a little bit more police power on the streets. I think even if
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they're super duper left wing, they're looking around and saying, I don't want warlords running
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around and controlling my neighborhoods. So maybe give us a little more police power,
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but Inslee, a prisoner of his own ideology can't, can't compute that. And so even in the hypothetical,
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which is really happening, he can't give that answer. This gets to something that yesterday I
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talked about and some people sent me some criticism. I pointed out that the left controls
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every major institution in America. They control the mainstream media. They control education and the
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academy and, and higher education, the college campuses, but they control education all the way
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from pre-kindergarten on upward. They control Hollywood. They control big tech. They control
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administrative government. They control all of these things. And so some people wrote into me and they
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said, well, what about the police, Michael? You know, the cops and the military, those are right-wing
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controlled institutions. And there's a little bit of truth to that. They're definitely a bit more
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right-wing than, than, you know, for instance, the New York teachers union. Okay. But they're still
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subject to the civil authority. And ultimately what we're seeing around us right now is they don't have
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all that much power. You know, they're still being run by bureaucrats and occasionally by the elected
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people. So there, there was a really idiotic tweet going around yesterday. Got 151,000 retweets,
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442,000, 443,000 likes. And the tweet said, defund the police. Impossible. They cried as they
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defunded education, healthcare, social security, welfare, Planned Parenthood, public transit. And
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one thing that makes this a really stupid tweet, even though everyone thinks it's true, is that none
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of those institutions are being defunded. Education funding has only increased over the past several
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decades. Increased dramatically in many cases, both private and public. Think about the cost of
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schooling now in terms of what, where your taxes are going. And in terms of when you go to a private
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school, the cost of college, for instance, or a state college, right? It's gone through the roof.
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Healthcare prices gone through the roof. Social security has exploded. We haven't cut a single
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thing from social security. That's the third rail of American politics. Welfare. We haven't seriously
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cut welfare in this country. If anything, we've expanded it dramatically. Planned Parenthood's
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market share of abortions has increased dramatically. And even with a Republican elected
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president, their funding hasn't really been cut all that much. A little bit here, a little bit there,
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but actually much of the funding that was cut from Planned Parenthood was Planned Parenthood's own
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choice because they didn't want to play by the laws that were already on the books.
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Public transportation, same thing, on and on and on. The only institution that's actually being cut
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right now in real time is the police. During the Obama administration, what was getting cut?
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You had military cuts. You had the sequester, right? You had those institutions, which I think a lot of
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people consider to be the most powerful because, you know, it's guys walking around with guns on their
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hips. Compared to those other institutions, they don't have a whole lot of power. The conservative
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influence that is on them is, is not particularly strong. And when you think about shaping a country,
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I know it doesn't seem like it at the time, but the teacher in the New York public school union who
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teaches, you know, pre-kindergarten actually has more influence than any beat cop or any soldier who's
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being deployed. When you think about actual nation crafting influence, the cops are coming under such
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fire. They're being so defunded that even the show cops is being canceled. Bad boys, bad boys,
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what you going, what you going to do, what you going to do when they come for you, bad boys,
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bad boys is getting canceled. So, you know, I mean, I've been watching cops. Cops is older than I am,
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actually. Cops has been on the air for 33 years or maybe 32 years. It was about to be 33,
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but their network, the Paramount network just spiked it. They killed it.
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They killed it because the cops are unpopular now. Okay. And this is a kind of absurd way of the
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politically correct cancel culture showing you something that the broader popular culture has
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already decided. Cops are bad. So even now TV shows about cops have to be bad. It's not just cops
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getting canceled, by the way, which is too bad because I always thought that was a great, great show.
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One of the early reality TV shows, even one of the great films of all time, Gone with the Wind
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is being canceled because it depicts the South in the 19th century. And that is very politically
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incorrect. And so it's being pulled from HBO Max. And there's a real irony to this, which is that the
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movie Gone with the Wind depicting the 19th century South actually played an important role in the
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development of racial relations in the country because Hattie McDaniel, the black actress in
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Gone with the Wind, won an Oscar, broke a barrier for her performance. So just listen to her
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introduction at the Oscars ceremony, which was much more bearable at the time. Much, you know,
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back in those days, it wasn't all glitz and glamour and Jimmy Kimmel. It was, they kept things much
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shorter. It was much more humble, but listen to this beautiful introduction and a recognition that her
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winning the Oscar was an important step in American race relations.
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I'm really, especially happy that I'm chosen to present this particular plaque. To me, it seems
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more than dust a plaque of gold. It opens the doors of this room, moves back the walls,
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and it enables us to embrace the whole of America, an America that we love, an America that almost alone
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in the world today recognizes and pays tribute to those who give their best, regardless of creed, race,
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or color. It is with the knowledge that this entire nation will stand and salute the presentation of
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this plaque that I present the Academy Award for the best performance of an actress in supporting roles
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Listen to that introduction. What we're being told by the left now is that everybody before yesterday,
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every day, everybody before we, our wonderful selves were born, was hopelessly bigoted and racist and terrible,
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and now it's up to us to tear down their statues if we want to continue to be good people.
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That introduction was very self-aware. That introduction was aware that there was a race
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problem in America, and there were concrete steps you could take to ameliorate that race
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problem, to bring people together. And this is true going back a long way. If you go back all
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the way to the Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence written by that terrible
00:24:07.520
guy, Thomas Jefferson, who is a mean old racist who is so much worse than we are, you see that Americans
00:24:13.960
at the time understood there was a race problem. There was this peculiar institution of slavery that
00:24:19.140
a lot of people really didn't like, and that everybody recognized was foisting a very difficult
00:24:24.360
dilemma on the American colonies. They complained about it. You know, in the Declaration of Independence,
00:24:30.260
they're complaining about this and trying to work their way through it. That kind of nuance is lost
00:24:35.000
when you're in the business of tearing down statues. So Hattie McDaniel gets up there,
00:24:39.300
first black woman to win an Academy Award. Is her speech about how it's damn well about time a black
00:24:46.300
woman wins an Academy Award, and all you people in the room who gave it to me are terrible bigot racists.
00:24:51.080
No, not quite. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, fellow members of the motion picture
00:24:57.060
industry, and honored guests, this is one of the happiest moments of my life. And I want to thank each
00:25:03.080
one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of the awards. For your kindness, it has made me feel
00:25:09.140
very, very humble. And I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the
00:25:14.820
future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.
00:25:22.720
My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel. And may I say thank you, and God bless you.
00:25:28.840
So this is one of the great acceptance speeches in the history of the Oscars. And most notably,
00:25:36.600
because it was short. Back in these days, people had class and decorum, so they knew not to make
00:25:42.220
their rambling speeches go on for 10 minutes. They kept it to, I think, Hattie McDaniel did it for a
00:25:46.620
minute or 90 seconds. But you heard what she said. She used phrases that are very politically incorrect.
00:25:51.760
She said, I hope to be a credit to my race. Now, that phrase, you certainly couldn't say anymore.
00:25:56.420
But what is in that phrase, what is in that phrase is an acknowledgement of the racial significance of
00:26:02.820
this moment. And to say, I hope that I am representing my race in a good way, just as
00:26:09.940
the presenter was representing her race in a good way. Imagine if the presenter came out and said,
00:26:14.360
you know, she was wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and, you know, she made some sort of bigoted comments.
00:26:19.320
That woman would not have been a credit to her race. But what this is representing is a moment
00:26:25.100
of coming together, two people recognizing their significance. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
00:26:28.960
and Sciences recognizing the significance of this and trying to help American race relations. And then
00:26:34.940
the word she used that's probably even less popular now is humble, humility. You're not allowed
00:26:42.200
to be humble anymore. We've got to be prideful. Pride, which we've always considered to be the queen of
00:26:47.200
all vices, the queen of all sins, is now considered the paragon of virtue. But humility is a lot better
00:26:53.160
than pride. When you consider the great saints of history, do you remember them for their pride or
00:26:59.020
their humility? If you're familiar with the real saints, then it's probably the humility. Saint John
00:27:04.840
Vianney, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the most intelligent, brilliant minds
00:27:10.260
ever to exist on earth, was known for his humility. At the end of his life, after Thomas Aquinas had
00:27:18.040
written the greatest works of theology, of philosophy ever written, Thomas Aquinas, after a religious
00:27:24.560
vision said, everything that I have written seems like so much straw to me now compared to what I've
00:27:30.940
seen. All of my efforts, my humble efforts have been really nothing compared to the immensity of God
00:27:38.300
himself. A perfect example of humility. Even the secular saints, even if you reject the real saints
00:27:45.440
and you're just talking about political saints or leftist saints or secular saints, I think of guys
00:27:50.740
like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. These are people who are really by the secular culture considered
00:27:56.620
some of the greatest men to ever live. Well, what are those guys known for? Their humility, not their
00:28:01.680
pride. Gandhi in particular puts forward this image of humility. And Nelson Mandela, you know,
00:28:07.480
the guy was imprisoned for a long time. Nelson Mandela was involved in some very radical,
00:28:11.780
radical left-wing politics, which is why conservatives have a little bit of an issue
00:28:14.680
with him. But when he came out of prison, he represented a political humility, a political
00:28:21.820
healing, a political coming together. That's what we want. That's what we need more of. If you want to
00:28:28.160
come together and heal as a country, you need that sort of thing. But unfortunately, humility along with
00:28:32.860
the wind has been canceled. Race and sex are being used as tools of prideful ideologies to tear down
00:28:40.220
everything that we once held dear. Sometimes both race and sex are being used at the same time to do
00:28:46.780
that. This is my favorite article that I saw on the internet yesterday. This is from Amru Al-Kadi
00:28:55.180
in the Independent, British paper. The headline is, how Britain's colonial past can be traced through to
00:29:02.960
the transphobic feminism of today. Huh? What's that mean? Well, the tweet about it is even weirder.
00:29:10.320
Tweet about it, title, opinion. What the white supremacist roots of biological sex reveal about
00:29:18.800
transphobic feminism. Let me try to delve the depths of that very bizarre statement.
00:29:27.180
Transphobic feminism. These are people like J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter,
00:29:30.640
who came out and said, men are men and women are women. And if men can be women,
00:29:33.820
the women don't mean anything at all. And I'm a woman and I want to identify as a woman. I don't
00:29:37.740
want men wearing a dress to tell me that I'm not really a woman or that they are women and can tell
00:29:42.300
me what a woman is. Okay, so that's transphobic feminism. Biological sex obviously is an offense
00:29:51.740
to the transgender ideology. And so biological sex has to be bad. But the only way that we can
00:29:57.440
understand good and evil today where we've lost that kind of dialogue is to say that anything bad
00:30:02.880
is white supremacist or white nationalist or white privilege or something to that effect, right?
00:30:12.800
That's the political way that we can understand ideas like good and bad and evil and virtue and
00:30:17.840
things like that. So biological sex now is white supremacist. News to me because I actually am under
00:30:23.120
the idea that black people have biology too and Asian people have biology too. But I don't know.
00:30:30.060
Allegedly, that is not the case. It gets down to this debate that happened between Daniel Radcliffe
00:30:35.300
and J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling, you know her position on it. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry
00:30:40.480
Potter in J.K. Rowling's movies, came out and said, transgender women are women. And any statement to
00:30:47.940
the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice
00:30:52.140
given by professional healthcare associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than
00:30:57.840
either Joe or I, referring to J.K. Rowling. First of all, professional healthcare associations don't
00:31:04.520
know anything about the nature of mankind. They're not philosophers. They don't understand the human
00:31:13.640
nature itself. They don't understand these internal sorts of questions. They have no more expertise on
00:31:19.120
it than anyone else. And as we've seen in the past few weeks, the public health experts don't appear to
00:31:23.860
have much expertise. They are tools of political ideology. But moreover, look at how ridiculous
00:31:28.560
this is. You've got a man, Daniel Radcliffe, attacking a woman, J.K. Rowling, who's been very
00:31:36.080
good to him, by the way, because she said women should be able to define what a woman is. Women should
00:31:41.960
exist. And Daniel Radcliffe says, no, how dare you? I'm a man. There is an article. This is such an
00:31:46.300
outrageous article. The article is titled, J.K. Rowling is still talking. J.K. Rowling is still
00:31:54.920
talking, written by a man. How outrageous. You've got one man who J.K. Rowling has really helped to
00:32:04.340
create his whole career, attacking her. Another man attacking her, telling her to shut up because she
00:32:09.180
says that women are women. Because she says, rightly, that if the transgender ideology is
00:32:16.440
correct, then to be a woman doesn't mean anything at all because men can be women too. That's the
00:32:23.200
state that we're in. That's what happens when you start pulling down the statues, not just of our
00:32:28.220
history, but of our philosophy, of our understanding of ourselves, of human nature. We think that we're
00:32:33.060
liberating ourselves from that. In a way, we're liberating ourselves. We're liberating ourselves from
00:32:38.900
every single thing that grounds us. We're liberating ourselves from ourselves, and we're going to get
00:32:43.000
smushed by that statue. We've got to get to the mailbag first, though. I've got to thank our friends
00:32:47.260
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00:32:54.740
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channel when it goes up live. But it should be a lot of fun. I always like hanging out with that
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guy. It's usually one expects the unexpected. So I'll see you over there. Let's get into The Mailbag
00:34:14.780
from Stacey. As the history nerd, I'm seeing something odd on social media. Perhaps you are
00:34:20.340
too. That those lovely African stoles that the Democrats were wearing for their photo op
00:34:25.260
were Ashanti in origin. Perhaps Democrats didn't research enough to know that the Ashanti tribe was one
00:34:30.860
of the trading partners with Portugal for enslaved Africans in the 18th and 19th centuries. So I ask
00:34:36.920
you to ask the Democrats, one, what happened to the evils of cultural appropriation? Two, does this
00:34:43.800
mean they actually support slavery in the slave trade? Three, recreating the position that caused
00:34:48.320
the death of George Floyd, this sort of irony that people are now kneeling? Really, keep up the good
00:34:53.040
work. Daily Wire is where I get my sanity check. You make a good point. First of all, on cultural
00:34:58.060
appropriation, that was always a cynical attack. That's just an attack to shut up conservatives.
00:35:03.560
Okay? There was always going to be a double standard there. The left is going to do whatever
00:35:07.420
they want in terms of cultural appropriation, and the right doesn't get to do anything. It's just a
00:35:12.340
way of saying shut up, which is what the left does to us all the time. On the Kente scarves that they
00:35:18.040
were wearing, which I'm really sorry that Chuck Schumer didn't go the full way and wear the full
00:35:23.160
dashiki with the kufi hat or something. He just wore the stole. You know, I didn't know this about
00:35:30.700
the Ashanti tribe. I mean, I'll look into it. It wouldn't surprise me at all because the left does
00:35:34.740
this a lot. You'll see very often white liberals are the people promoting the socialist holiday,
00:35:42.100
the invention of the 1960s, Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa, which virtually nobody on earth celebrates. It was
00:35:48.120
created by an African-American critical studies professor in Los Angeles, and it's supposed to
00:35:55.620
be a pan-African holiday, but it's just a socialist invention. And the irony of it is that the phrase
00:36:02.620
Kwanzaa comes from Swahili, which is an East African language, and yet virtually every African-American
00:36:09.820
is of West African origin. It doesn't matter, okay? The specifics there don't matter because it's just
00:36:15.340
ideological. It's just a narrative creation. It doesn't have a root in real historical experience.
00:36:22.940
And so I'm not surprised at all that Chuck Schumer, who's also contriving these sort of
00:36:27.480
political conveniences, doesn't know the whole deep history of the African stole that he decided
00:36:33.400
to wear for a photo op. From Mitch. Hey, Michael, with all of the washing of the feet, genuflecting,
00:36:40.200
kneeling, and reciting of creeds, does the Roman Catholic Church have grounds to sue Black Lives
00:36:45.720
Matter over copyright infringement? Asking for a friend. Also, what are your personal thoughts on
00:36:51.040
this event? Love the show. Yeah, this is a good comparison, I think, which is that you now have a
00:36:56.200
secular liturgy of liberalism, and like all liturgies that have come out of the secular West,
00:37:03.020
they are mimicry of Catholic liturgy, because that is the defining liturgy of the West that has shaped
00:37:09.340
so much of our history and our culture. But it's perverted, at least, or it's inverted. It's just
00:37:15.120
like a weird liturgy, because instead of worshiping the creator, we're worshiping certain creations.
00:37:21.440
Instead of recognizing the original sin lurking in all of our hearts, we're just recognizing this
00:37:26.260
little portion of sin, which is called racism. Still sinful, but not the whole story here.
00:37:34.680
Instead of recognizing our own brokenness and fallenness, we're recognizing only the brokenness
00:37:39.080
and fallenness of white privilege, for instance. And so things go off kilter here. In a way, I have
00:37:46.440
empathy for the Black Lives Matter, left wing, even Antifa. Even these insane, violent, thuggish Antifa
00:37:55.000
guys, I have a sort of empathy, or at least sympathy for, because they have natural religious longings
00:38:01.940
that they cannot express religiously, because they've convinced themselves of a bunch of stupid
00:38:07.000
religious ideas. So they still have to express them some way. It's like steam. You know, the steam's
00:38:12.060
got to come out of the engine somewhere. The steam, or the steam, rather, has to come out. You know,
00:38:15.620
it's too pressure, full of pressure. So it's got to be released somewhere. It's being released in
00:38:19.800
politics. And that is not going to make anybody happy. That is not going to fulfill that longing.
00:38:23.860
And it's going to make things a lot worse. So I would recommend, since they've got the cheap
00:38:28.240
knockoff of the Catholic liturgy, maybe they head over to a church whenever those reopen,
00:38:32.260
attend a mass and get the real thing. From Jenna, speaking of Catholicism,
00:38:38.500
I'm a Catholic woman in her mid-20s. I met my boyfriend three years ago when I was struggling
00:38:42.620
with my faith. Due to this, we did not wait until marriage to sleep together. But especially in the
00:38:47.480
past year or so, I've been struggling with guilt and wanting to stop until we're married. How do I
00:38:52.180
tell my boyfriend? He respects your opinion. So what are some arguments as to why this would be a good
00:38:56.920
decision for ourselves and future marriage? Thanks. I think this is a great idea. And I, you know,
00:39:01.080
it's weird because a lot of people beat themselves up over this. They say, okay, well, I did one thing
00:39:06.260
in the past, and then I've now changed my mind about that thing. But I feel like I've still got
00:39:11.240
to do that thing, which I now think is wrong. No, you don't. You've changed your mind. Now change
00:39:15.020
your behavior. It's a little bit easier to change your mind than to change your behavior sometimes.
00:39:20.480
But surely your behavior should follow from that changed mind. What are some good arguments for this?
00:39:27.480
Well, a good argument from tradition is simply that this has developed when our society had a sane
00:39:34.660
sense of social relations, and it developed presumably for a reason. And you actually don't
00:39:40.340
need to boil that down to an explicit, rationalist, ideological summation of why it works. The very fact
00:39:48.500
that it has worked for so long and led to flourishing cultures is in itself, actually, a pretty good
00:39:53.160
argument. Why is it better to wait until marriage? Well, it's better to wait until marriage, even
00:39:58.660
though in this culture, virtually nobody has done that, especially among millennials or Gen Z. But
00:40:04.000
when we realize it is better, why is it better? Well, because it represents a commitment. It
00:40:09.160
represents a giving wholly of yourselves to the other person. Presumably, if you've been sleeping
00:40:14.680
together before marriage, probably you're using contraception, I would imagine. That in itself,
00:40:19.220
also part of Catholic teaching, is withholding. Withholding a very important piece of yourself
00:40:25.960
from your spouse. And so, in a way, it represents you and your spouse using each other merely for
00:40:32.180
pleasure, not to give yourself wholly to someone. Norm Macdonald, the comedian, has a great bit on sex.
00:40:40.220
I forget which album of his this is, but go back and check it out. He walks in, he goes into this
00:40:45.760
nightclub, he goes, okay, so I was thinking the other day that sex is a filthy, shameful thing that
00:40:51.460
is obviously only meant for procreation. And it gets this big shock and surprise from the whole
00:40:57.140
audience. But the thing is, he's sort of right, and he goes through all the reasons why. So that's a
00:41:03.520
more comedic way of thinking about why this is. And another reason that it might behoove you to stop
00:41:10.580
now and then wait until you get married, which, by the way, good friends of mine have done. Friends who
00:41:15.760
were definitely getting down to business before they had a reversion to the faith. And then they
00:41:21.380
have paused it before their marriage. One of the reasons is that the anticipation will make
00:41:28.060
the marriage itself, one of the most significant events of your life, more special. You know,
00:41:32.900
the kind of Catholic idea of the world is first the fast, then the feast. The idea is we live in time
00:41:38.300
and space. And so it is important discipline for us to fast sometimes, to deprive ourselves of certain
00:41:44.460
things, to discipline ourselves a little bit. And then on feast days, to gratify some more of those
00:41:51.500
longings. And through this process, we come to a fuller understanding, not just of our bodies,
00:41:57.360
but of our spiritual selves as well. And the tough line on other religious ideas, and certainly on
00:42:04.200
secularism, is instead of first the fast, then the feast, you have first the feast, then the hangover.
00:42:08.760
And that's the culture that we're living in right now. And that's just not the best way to live for
00:42:15.080
human flourishing. So I hope somewhere in there, you get a good argument to convince your boyfriend.
00:42:20.900
Because I'm telling you, if you take a little break for a while, it'll be that much better when
00:42:24.680
you start again. Okay. From Daniel. Congrats on beating Klavan's YouTube subs. Thank you very much.
00:42:31.440
I'm a conservative member of a very far-left music industry. I've always kept my mouth shut on
00:42:35.520
politics among my peers. So far, that's been easy. However, with the new rise of BLM mandating that
00:42:42.300
the huge majority of people I work with start, you know, talking about these things, I'm starting to
00:42:47.280
think that I'm going to be forced to either voice what side I'm on, or risk being exposed by somebody
00:42:53.780
else due to my silent complicity with white supremacy, quote unquote. Should I continue to censor
00:42:59.360
myself, or should I go all in for patriotism, justice, liberty, dying in a blaze of glory?
00:43:06.880
Patriotism, justice, and liberty are important things. More important even than that is the truth.
00:43:13.320
Okay. And what you're being asked to do is lie and you shouldn't lie. I think that there's good reason
00:43:20.180
to sometimes not just go all out with what you think. You don't need to go to every water cooler
00:43:26.620
conversation and tell them how much you love Donald Trump. You can be wise as a serpent and innocent
00:43:32.120
as a dove, but you shouldn't lie. Okay. And we're in this very dishonest political moment, very scary
00:43:39.140
political moment, where you're being told if you don't go along with a radical, false, dishonest political
00:43:45.940
movement, then you're a terrible bigot, white supremacist murderer. And so you've got to constantly
00:43:53.700
perform your affirmation of this, this crazy leftist movement. I wouldn't lie. Okay.
00:44:01.300
I haven't lied generally in, in my public life. And that has cost me certain things. Okay. That does
00:44:08.200
come with costs. Every night I go to bed, I put my head on the pillow. I'm grinning ear to ear. I sleep
00:44:12.780
like a baby. Okay. But there was a cost to that. You might have to pay a cost to that. There are times
00:44:18.840
in life when you are told lie and have a pleasant professional life, you know, get more money, get
00:44:25.920
more success, whatever, or tell the truth, be honest, live with integrity and take a cost.
00:44:34.640
You, you're, this is an eternal decision that you could make. I mean, this is, this is up to you.
00:44:39.380
It's your life, but you know, which one I would be making. All right. Let's see. What do we have?
00:44:47.560
Last question from Nick. Dear Knowles, master of words and phrases that have been dead for 100
00:44:52.200
years. Oh my God. Are you serious? You think that I use old timey phrases? That's so embarrassing. I
00:44:57.200
feel like I'm, I'm sweating like a whore in church here. As a white man, I'm doing everything I can to
00:45:02.560
listen and be aware of my whiteness like BLM tells me to do. Unfortunately, after spending weeks
00:45:09.040
refraining from speaking and only listening, I'm no closer to fixing my whiteness. I am still white.
00:45:14.480
However, I've discovered a possible solution. Since the crime is not an action, but rather actual
00:45:19.240
skin color, I've come to the conclusion that I must literally erase whiteness by darkening my skin to
00:45:25.720
cover up the shame and fully become an ally. Do you think this is the best approach to erase
00:45:31.320
whiteness in America? Only if you want to get elected governor of Virginia, then it's a good,
00:45:36.600
but only if you're a Democrat, by the way, it's not going to work. If you're a Republican,
00:45:40.040
you have made a really good point here, which is if you're white, you'll be smeared as a bigot
00:45:47.640
just, just by virtue of being white. But if you try to change the fact that you're white,
00:45:52.620
you'll certainly be smeared as a bigot because you will be wearing black face. If you speak up
00:45:59.660
against racism, you will be smeared as presumptuous as using your white privilege
00:46:05.780
ultimately as a bigot. But if you are silent and you don't voice your support for these radical
00:46:11.300
leftist movements, you will also be smeared as a bigot because as we've been told, silence is
00:46:15.520
violence. Silence is consent to white supremacy. What the radical left has done here is set you up
00:46:22.620
in a situation where you cannot win if you accept their premises. So perhaps the key
00:46:27.200
is not to accept their premises and certainly, certainly not to dress up in blackface. I don't
00:46:33.400
think that's going to help the situation at all. That's our show. I'll see you over at Crowder
00:46:36.860
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00:46:45.200
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00:47:41.380
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