Ep. 734 - Si, Se Pwodway
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The CEO of a Fortune 100 company is very upset that the voters of Georgia, through their elected representatives, are trying to protect their elections. He s really upset about this, and he s going to do everything he can to stop it.
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The British CEO of a Fortune 100 company is very upset that the voters of Georgia,
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through their elected representatives, are trying to protect their elections.
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He's really upset about this, and he's going to do everything he can to stop it.
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It is a step backwards, and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting,
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around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity.
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We've spent many decades promoting within Georgia a better society and a better environment for prisoners,
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and this is a step backwards, and we're very clear on that, and our position remains the same.
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This legislation is wrong and needs to be remedied, and we will continue to advocate for it, both in private and now even more clearly in public.
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Yes, we will, because we're all Americans here.
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We're all residents of Atlanta and Georgia, and that's what it turns out that he's Michael Caine is the closest that he's got.
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Really not helping his case, and really not a compelling argument when multinational corporations are coming in.
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There are a bunch of these corporations going in and saying that the voters of Georgia have no right to protect their elections.
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This guy's got every right, I suppose, to lobby in the public, certainly, maybe in private, too.
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And the Georgia representatives have every right to punish Coca-Cola for trying to undermine their government, for undermining their politics.
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It is long past time that Republicans stopped harping on abstract economic theories and started talking about old-time politics,
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particularly when it comes to the corporations that hate us.
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Not just Coca-Cola that is trying to undermine election integrity in the United States.
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American Airlines, which is based in Fort Worth.
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American Airlines has come out against voting legislation that was passed by the Texas Senate to protect the integrity of those elections.
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American Airlines says to make American stance clear.
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We are strongly opposed to this bill and others like it.
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Is that all around this country, leftist activists overturned election integrity measures in 2020.
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And they used the virus as the excuse to do it.
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In some cases, they violated the state constitution to do it.
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And so now, after the unbelievable nonsense that went on during those elections, the outrageous power grabs, the collapse of voter integrity measures,
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people are going in and saying, no, we got to make sure that you don't try to steal elections.
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Because political parties, and notably the Democrats, have stolen elections by stuffing ballot boxes for a long time.
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This was outlined in excruciating detail by Robert Caro in his description of the 1948 Senate election in Texas involving Lyndon Johnson,
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They do this a lot, and so we need to protect the ballot.
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Because, you know, when someone is not permitted to vote, if that person is eligible to vote, that's a big problem.
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But when an ineligible voter votes, in both of those cases, a vote from a legitimate voter is taken away.
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It's not the only way to take away a vote from a legitimate voter if you prevent him from voting.
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You can also just enfranchise an ineligible voter.
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So what is the Texas legislature going to do here?
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What I think they should do is punish American Airlines.
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The, well, I think the old school Republican view of this would be, yes, punish companies that are trying to subvert your republic.
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But then over the last 20 years, the Republican Party has gone stupid.
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And the conservative movement even has really atrophied.
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And the conservative movement has become little more than shills for giant corporations that hate us.
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And it's because of some misbegotten principle that conservatives are never supposed to use political power and we're supposed to let corporations run our country.
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It's because, I don't know, because too many conservative movement leaders read Ayn Rand or something and forgot that there is actually a political tradition here.
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And if, if the wokeism and the upending of our culture is being pushed by corporations, that's really no better in the end than if it's being pushed by big government or something else like that.
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So I think the Texas legislature, I don't know what kind of tax breaks American Airlines gets.
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The Texas legislature should go in and strip them of those tax breaks.
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They should go in with the punitive purpose of preventing a very powerful company like American Airlines from subverting the electoral process.
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Same thing going on back in Georgia with, with Delta.
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Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, one of the woker of the airline CEOs.
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He said that the new election law in Georgia, quote, does not match Delta's values.
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So Delta does not value protecting the ballot box in Georgia.
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It doesn't, the, the protection of American elections does not match Delta's values.
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Delta has very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Delta in 2015 bought a three and a half percent stake, a little bit more than that actually,
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in China Eastern Airlines, which is a state airline.
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Purchased that for almost half a billion dollars.
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So the Chinese Communist Party and the policies associated with it, for instance, the genocide of the Uyghur minority,
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the longstanding, though fortunately now seems to have gone by the wayside policy of one child, on and on and on.
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China, our number one geopolitical adversary, so supporting our, our number one enemy,
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that goes along with Delta's values, but protecting the ballot box in Georgia does not.
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And they're, they're moving to do that right now.
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So the Georgia State House passed an amendment that would strip Delta of a multimillion dollar tax break.
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I don't know how well they could weather these sorts of things right now because the airlines are hemorrhaging cash.
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But it, it, even this sort of thing, this punishment of not, of losing your tax break has not worked very well in the past.
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Meaning, this is, this is not an ordinary disagreement over, well, you want more immigrants, I want fewer immigrants.
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You support this kind of funding for this project, I support this thing.
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Even you support this view of marriage, I support this view of marriage.
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This is, the people of Georgia are saying, we support our right to vote and secure elections.
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And Delta's saying, nah, we don't, we don't support your right to vote.
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We support whatever outcome we want and we're going to undermine the integrity of elections to do it.
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The Georgia State House should consider getting even tougher than they already doing, than they already are doing.
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For an answer to that question, we turn to Dr. Jill Biden.
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Si se puede. The future is ours. Thank you. Yes, we can do it. Si se puede.
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No, no se puede. If we're talking about Jill Biden, Jill Biden was not able to do it.
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The Democrats have always been good at pandering, particularly on racial issues.
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This is why they try to sprinkle their conversation with Spanish. Usually it doesn't go very well.
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If you watched the first couple of presidential primary debates during 2020 on the Democrat side,
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it would have been like you were in a sixth grade Spanish classroom with Cory Booker trying to babble
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out some broken Spanish, Beto O'Rourke. That was unfortunate. And isn't he Spanish? He's Hispanic.
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He should be able to do it. And now Jill Biden butchering that language. However, it's funny.
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I mentioned the Jill Biden thing in part because we, for the past four years, had a first lady who
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spoke something like five languages, maybe more, very elegant, very urbane. And the entire left just
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tried to make her out to be some kind of evil bimbo. But Jill Biden, who I'm not going to attack
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Jill Biden. She might be a nice lady. I don't know. But they try to make her out to be like a Rhodes
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scholar, you know. And for a while, Whoopi Goldberg on The View was campaigning for her to be the
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surgeon general because she didn't know what kind of degree Jill Biden had. And so anyway, just to
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note the double standard. To the question, though, that Jill Biden, I guess, is trying to allude to,
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can we do it? I want to apply that question here in the question of the woke companies. Can we,
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as conservatives, say no to the companies? Can we say, hey, you've gone too far. You're trying to
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undermine our system. And we're not going to let you do that. And we are going to wield the power
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of the state when the people have given it to us against the allegedly free market. I think that
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phrase has been stretched beyond all meaning recently. But can we wield the power of the
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state as conservatives to undermine the working of the free market when those actors in the free
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market are trying to subvert our republic? My answer, si, se puede. Se puede mucho, mucho,
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muy, muy. I don't know. I don't speak Spanish any better than, than Jill Biden does. Of course we can.
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Conservatives, by writing a blank check to the corporations, we have given away the game.
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Because have you noticed that the big corporations around the country are pretty into woke politics?
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Have you noticed that there are some of the leaders in terms of pushing wokeism around our
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country? Why would we let them get away with that? Because we've made some idol out of
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a misbegotten conception of free markets. I love free markets. In their proper place toward the actual
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end of politics, the free markets are not the end of my politics. They're an instrument toward a good
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polity, toward a flourishing regime, toward justice, which James Madison says in The Federalist is the end
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of government. Si, se puede. Si puede muy, muy. Mucho, mucho.
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to ensure your title is still in your name. Speaking of childish Spanish, Jen Psaki was just
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asked a very difficult question and she didn't have a very good answer. What's going on at the
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southern border right now is that coyotes are hurling Hispanic children over the border.
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Peter Doocy brings this question up to Jen Psaki, says, hey, you know, your border policies don't seem
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to be working that well if it's incentivizing criminal cartels to just hurl children across
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the border. What are you guys doing about that? On immigration, has the White House considered
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beefing up border security now that there is video of a three-year-old and a five-year-old being
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thrown over the wall in New Mexico? Beefing up border security? Well, there's video now of a
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three-year-old and a five-year-old. I've seen the video and I think any of us who saw the video
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were incredibly alarmed by the steps of smugglers, ones that we have been quite familiar with,
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that we've spoken out about, our concerns about. As Secretary Mayorkas said, the inhumane way smugglers
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abuse children while profiting off parents' desperation is criminal and morally reprehensible.
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The president certainly agrees with that. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that the president agrees with
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that, but why is he still pursuing policies that encourage the behavior? If you've got
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effectively an open border, if you're pursuing catch and release, if you're saying the kids get
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to stay, then what do you think is going to happen? The coyotes are going to start throwing the kids
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over the border. They're making a lot of money doing this. There was a coyote just the other day
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told Univision business is booming. The president of Mexico blamed Joe Biden for what's going on.
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Everyone in the country is blaming Joe Biden for this, but Biden doesn't want to take
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responsibility. It's quite clear. While the border has always been an issue, things have gotten much,
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much worse under Biden because Biden said, come here, come surge, get over here. So Jen, you know,
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he might have the best of intentions, but look at what's going on. Look at what his policies are
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actually resulting in. What's your answer to it, Jen? These kids, I believe were rescued from, by,
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by individuals who are working at the border. Yes, but they still got close enough,
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as you guys are talking about addressing root causes in the region for a smuggler to throw them
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over a wall into the desert. And I'm just curious what the White House is doing to stop that from
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happening. And are you concerned more about the kids' safety or are you concerned about kids getting
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in? Or tell me more about your concern here. Kids' safety is, as you just mentioned, the main concern.
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Well, of course it is, which is why I'm often surprised by some of the line of questioning here. But
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I will say that our concern and our focus is on sending a clear message to smuggler, to the region
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that this is not the time to come. Not the time to come. Not the time to come. We want to send a
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very clear message about this issue of violating our laws. And we want to send a very clear message.
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Wait until next week. Come on. Come on, man. This is a very clear message. We are not going to
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tolerate this sort of thing until at least 2 p.m. today. So just don't, you know, hey, come on.
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We're being serious. Come on, man. That's not even the most egregious part of that exchange.
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Peter Doocy asks the very serious question. Why are we allowing these criminals to get close enough
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to hurl three-year-olds over the wall? And Jen Psaki, she says, well, hold on, Peter. Is your concern
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concern the law or is your concern the safety of the children? I want to know about your concern.
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I don't care about Peter Doocy's concern. Why should anybody care about Peter Doocy's innermost
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concerns and motivations? I care about the question he's asking, which is the actual policy.
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Well, yeah, but what are your intentions? What are your feelings, Peter? First of all, by the way,
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you can both be concerned about the safety of the children and the safety of the American people
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and the enforcement of our laws that were passed through the democratic process here in the country
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that at one time was governed underneath, under a constitution. You can be concerned about all,
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I'm concerned about the whole thing, Jen. Why is it that it's only permissible to be concerned about
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the little children, but it's not permissible to be concerned about the enforcement of the law?
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Well, conservatives sometimes fall into making these arguments too, which is if you're talking
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about, say, the injustice of affirmative action policies that, you know, disadvantage white and
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Asian students in college and job applications and give an unfair advantage to black and Hispanic
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students. Sometimes you will hear people say, look, it's actually, it's really, it's unfair to the
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students who get the advantage because then they'll be, it'll be, they'll be looked at as though they
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didn't deserve to get in, that will follow them, their career. It's, it's the soft bigotry of low
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expectations. It's really unfair to them. Sure. Okay. It's all, it is also unfair to the people.
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It's disadvantaging. Yes, it's true that what's going on at the border is unfair to these children.
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It's creating awful incentives and it's bad to put kids in cages. Yeah, that's true. That is bad.
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And it's also unfair to the American people. And it's not, it's not illegitimate to mention the
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concerns of the American people and the enforcement of our laws. The only interest Jen Psaki has,
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the only pseudo argument she can make is about motivations and intentions and psychobabble.
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Speaking of dubious motivations on another major issue of public safety and public health,
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the vaccines. Chris Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo on CNN had Liana Nguyen on. Dr. Liana Nguyen was the former
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president of Planned Parenthood and she was booted out, I believe for not being radical enough on
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abortion. She was, she was radical enough to become the president of Planned Parenthood, but,
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but not so radical, uh, that they, that she would go as far as the organization wanted to go,
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which really tells you some spooky stuff about that organization. Liana Nguyen, hate to have to
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say something sort of nice about her. She was fairly honest on television. She said the quiet part
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out loud about the left's maniacal push, un, unconstitutional push to get everyone at all
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times immediately to get the vaccine and to prove to everybody that they got the vaccine.
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She said that time is running out to, to force everyone to do this because ultimately they're
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probably not going to need to. We need to make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back
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to pre pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing. I mean, you were mentioning Chris
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about how all these States are reopening. They're reopening at a hundred percent. And we have a very
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narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status because otherwise if everything is reopened,
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then what's the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the
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vaccine? So that's why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder
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and say, if you're vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have
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because otherwise people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway.
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Heaven forfend. We enjoy our freedoms anyway, without her permission. Really, I don't mean to
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beat up on her too much here. She's at least blowing the whistle on what the public health apparatus
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believes and what the left believes. What's the stick going to be? What's the carrot going to be?
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What's the carrot going to be? She's saying that the States are going to reopen to a hundred percent.
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That just is happening. And the left is pretending that the States reopening to a hundred percent
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is contingent upon a hundred percent of people getting the vaccine. But Liana Wynn admits that's
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not really true. That's just a lie, a noble lie that the public health left is telling people right now
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in this narrow window before the States reopened to a hundred percent.
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I don't have any interest in getting the vaccine. Not because I'm afraid that the vaccine is going
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to kill me. Not because I'm afraid that the vaccine is going to inject me in 5G or something going
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around. Frankly, I could use the extra cell service, right? So I'm not, I'm not totally concerned about
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that. It's because I'm making a prudential calculation of risk, which is that I'm young. I think I'm
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unhealthy. I'm not saying I'm invincible. There's a chance that I could very, very small chance,
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but there is a chance I could suffer some real awful complication from COVID and I'm going to
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roll the dice. Okay. If I were 85, maybe I would think differently. And Liana Wynn and the public
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health apparatus are saying, you need, you must get the vaccine. We're going to force you to get the
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vaccine. If you don't get the vaccine, you're not going to be allowed to engage in commerce,
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which by the way is convincing me more and more that I I'm not interested in getting the vaccine.
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If, if I'm going to be told that I'm going to be ostracized from society,
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not because of any medical necessity, but because of the political desires of these people. When you
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talk about sticks and carrots, when you're talking about public, the public side of public health,
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you're talking about politics. And I think these, these people's politics just totally whack.
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And I'm not, not interested in indulging that at all. I do appreciate it when our political
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opponents tell us what they want, tell us what they think. When your opponents tell you what
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they're after, you should believe them. Even if it is someone like the former director of Planned
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Parenthood, even if it's someone like Dr. Fauci, who has admitted that he was not exactly truthful
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on the masks. Can I say, can I just say he lied when he came out initially and said, the masks don't
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do anything. Don't wear the masks. And then later on said, you need to wear the masks. They do a lot.
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And then he was asked why he flipped. And he said, well, you know, part of it is the science change,
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but really the reason I flipped is I wanted to save the masks for the nurses. And so I,
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if I told people that the masks worked, then they would all go out and buy them and we wouldn't be
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able to save them for the people I wanted to have them. That's all politics. I, I, I don't agree
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with most of what these people are saying, but when they tell you what they believe, believe them.
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of George Floyd is going on right now. Now I'm using my words carefully. I'm not saying the officer
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who killed George Floyd or the officer involved involved in the killing of George Floyd. I'm saying
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he was there at the death. And the question is, did this police officer murder George Floyd? Did he
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accidentally kill George Floyd or did George Floyd suffer a drug overdose? Did he resist arrest?
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Well, we know he resisted arrest. We know he was on drugs. We know that he asked to be taken out of
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the car. We know all of those things just from video. So what was the cause of death?
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Already the left thinks that this cop is going to get off. If there's justice, the left seems to
00:25:48.220
think that the cop will get off because they're preemptively saying there shouldn't even be a
00:25:52.660
trial. We should just pay money to the family of George Floyd and the other race hustlers who are
00:25:57.920
trying to exploit this situation. We're bracing for riots. We're bracing for... Why? Because you think
00:26:03.500
he's going to get off. Why do you think he's going to get off? Well, for instance, because George
00:26:06.640
Floyd's girlfriend admitted on the stand yesterday that George Floyd had a very, very bad drug habit
00:26:14.820
and a drug habit that was so bad that he did overdose within two months of his death, which
00:26:22.220
may or may not have been caused by an overdose. We went to the hospital a couple of times in March.
00:26:26.680
Okay. He was hospitalized for a more extended period of time in March, right?
00:26:32.240
Yes. That's the incident I'm talking about. Okay. I went to go pick Floyd up from his house
00:26:38.640
that night. I thought I was taking him to work. He wasn't feeling good. His stomach really hurt. He
00:26:48.000
was doubled over in pain. Just wasn't feeling well. And he said he had to go to the hospital. So
00:26:55.120
I took him straight to the hospital. We went to the ER and they were checking him out in the ER. And
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it was getting late and I had to get home to my son. So I left that Friday night.
00:27:15.080
So it goes on. More and more evidence that George Floyd died of a drug overdose. I mean,
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even just the report of the toxicity in his blood, he had very, very toxic levels of drugs in his blood.
00:27:36.580
This is, I'd like to stake out a third position here between George Floyd is the worst person in
00:27:42.300
the world and he got what he deserved. And this cop killed George Floyd and, you know,
00:27:47.640
he needs to go to jail forever or something like that. What if it's the case that George Floyd
00:27:53.880
resisted arrest, took a bunch of drugs, overdosed, that this cop has been wrongly maligned,
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whatever happened in the moment that he's, what people are accusing him of doing, he didn't do.
00:28:07.040
And what if one can sort of feel bad for George Floyd? But George Floyd robbed a pregnant woman
00:28:13.940
at gunpoint. Yeah, he doesn't sound like a good guy. He does not sound like a good guy at all.
00:28:17.640
But what if one can feel sort of bad for George Floyd in that the, the drug addiction that he
00:28:24.740
obviously had is just the clearest representation of vice and sin and broken human nature. This guy
00:28:36.100
was obviously not totally in control of what he did. He's an addict. I know that in the modern
00:28:41.560
liberal view, being able to pursue your base desires is considered the definition of freedom,
00:28:46.620
but it's not. It's the opposite of freedom. It's licentiousness and it compromises your free will
00:28:50.560
and it, it compromises your ability to control yourself and your desires and it compromises your
00:28:56.520
rational faculties. And that's a very sad thing. It's why we shouldn't let druggies completely off the
00:29:02.960
hook and say, well, it's not your fault. No, it kind of is your fault. Maybe, maybe it's a vicious
00:29:08.480
cycle. Maybe you had bad circumstances and then you turned to drugs and then you further impaired
00:29:12.440
your will and then you couldn't get out of it. Maybe it's a bad cycle and you're somewhat responsible,
00:29:16.340
but you've also compromised your free will during that. What if that's the case? I'm thinking of this,
00:29:22.280
this Matt Gaetz thing here. And Matt Gaetz, speaking of potential crimes, is being accused of all sorts of
00:29:29.720
things. But right now, the latest that's come out is that he allegedly paid hookers using electronic
00:29:35.760
apps and, and he, I'm not even saying he did this a long time ago. He did apparently, according to the
00:29:42.020
allegations, he did this like two or three years ago. I don't know if it's true or not. I don't, I
00:29:45.740
generally don't believe things in the New York Times, but we certainly have seen this kind of
00:29:49.780
behavior with other politicians. Elliot Spitzer, paying hookers while, while in office, while I think
00:29:55.820
he was prosecuting people for prostitution. Katie Hill, all sorts of weird sex crimes while she was
00:30:03.220
running for office and in office. Bob Menendez, all sorts of weird sex allegations and, and I think
00:30:09.580
underage prostitutes in the case of, of him and his allegations while he was a sitting senator.
00:30:16.720
I mention all of this, especially today on Good Friday, because the thing that strikes us about all
00:30:23.640
these, I'm not even just singling out Matt Gaetz. I don't know if those are true or not, but, but all
00:30:26.600
these allegations and sometimes proven crimes of politicians, you look at them and you, you're not
00:30:32.220
really astounded that they would give into sins of the flesh. That's, that's actually not what
00:30:37.100
surprises me. Didn't surprise me about Katie Hill. Doesn't surprise me about any of these guys.
00:30:40.700
We're kind of fleshy beings and we have these desires. I'm not, I'm no more surprised at that than I
00:30:45.280
would be surprised that a fat guy gives into eating a cupcake. But what surprises you is that someone with
00:30:51.080
this kind of power, Bob Kraft, you know, super rich sports team owner goes to a massage parlor in
00:30:57.600
Jupiter. Why, why would you, why are you doing it? You have everything and yet you give into this really
00:31:02.400
basic base desire. Genesis chapter four, verse seven, sin is crouching at your door and it desires you.
00:31:15.040
It's there. It's, it's there. It's always there waiting to devour you. And it doesn't matter how
00:31:22.500
big and powerful and rich and famous you get. In some ways you're more susceptible to it then.
00:31:29.600
And it doesn't matter how old, it's not like, you know, when you're a kid, you make all these
00:31:32.400
mistakes, but then you become an adult and you don't have to worry about this anymore. You do.
00:31:36.940
You of course do. The, the thing that's interesting to me about the Matt Gaetz allegations or really
00:31:42.820
any of the other, you know, proven crimes we've seen from politicians is how stupid it seems
00:31:50.100
from the outside perspective, but how persuasive it must have been for these people in this moment.
00:31:58.860
The hubris it has to involve, the lust that it has to involve, the lack of self-control that it has to
00:32:05.900
involve. Like an addiction, you know, we are reminded that the man who sins is a slave to sin.
00:32:14.060
Any coherent understanding of liberty in the American context or in any context has to start
00:32:21.820
from there, has to start from this distinction between licentiousness and liberty. Because if we
00:32:28.380
can continue to conflate the two, we're going to lose our liberty more and more and more and more.
00:32:34.720
And we're not going to need some woke corporation to undermine our political liberty. We will have
00:32:40.240
done it ourselves. We're not going to need to, to, to focus only on Delta or Coca-Cola or some crazy
00:32:48.960
blue hairs or anything like that. We, even as conservatives, even as Republicans, will,
00:32:55.160
will have done it ourselves. Are we going to continue to have intellect and will as conservatives?
00:33:00.700
Are we going to try to, to pull that back from the bizarre, silly, shallow philosophy we've embraced
00:33:06.580
over the last 20 or so years? My answer is C.C. Poadwe. C.C. Poadwe. Muy, muy, mucho, mucho.
00:33:14.140
Ben is going to be talking about this on his show, the Woka Cola nonsense, and also AOC's plan to spend
00:33:20.360
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00:33:54.800
Welcome back. My absolute favorite time of the week, beginning with Nicholas. Dear Michael,
00:34:00.880
you talk a lot about Gnostic dualism and how it relates to transgenderism. Could you give an
00:34:07.220
explanation in detail of what exactly the heresy is and why it is such, but without the parallels to
00:34:14.740
the transgender movement? Thanks. Love the show. Can't wait for the new book. Oh, thank you very
00:34:17.660
much. Yes, gladly. Wow. Oh my gosh. You've just reminded me. This must be the longest I've gone
00:34:21.380
without plugging my new book in, in weeks. The new book, by the way, titled Speechless, Controlling
00:34:26.300
Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order and you can also pre-order an autographed copy
00:34:29.700
at Premier Collectibles. Great question on Gnostic dualism. So Gnostic dualism has taken many forms
00:34:38.760
over the millennia. One of the clearest versions of this would be Manichaeism, this battle between
00:34:45.760
good and evil and the evil of this world and the good of the eternal realm. You see a kind of softer
00:34:51.420
version of this in a revival of Manichaeism, which occurred a little over a millennium later in the rise
00:34:57.620
of Albigensianism, also known as Catharism. What all of these versions have in common is that the
00:35:05.960
physical world is evil and the metaphysical world is good. And so we need to oppose the physical world.
00:35:14.180
It lends itself to a sort of asceticism and we need to only embrace the truth of the metaphysical
00:35:19.260
world. This is why we use this term Gnosticism is because what you see, what we all sense this
00:35:27.760
world and perceive this world to be is not true according to this philosophy. That actually there's
00:35:32.720
a secret knowledge. That's where the word Gnostic means, right? Secret knowledge that really tells you
00:35:39.780
the truth. So I look like a boy. The parallel to transgenderism then is I look like a boy, but
00:35:46.000
secretly I know that I'm a girl. So, so therefore it's not just an open question. Am I a boy as I
00:35:54.020
appear or am I a girl as I secretly know deep down somewhere? What Gnostic dualism would posit is
00:35:59.540
physical world, always bad, metaphysical world, purely good. But the reality of the situation is that
00:36:05.200
God who exists outside of time and space creates this whole physical world that we have around us
00:36:12.600
through this, this loving act of speech and the, the words that God, with which God speaks the
00:36:20.260
universe into creation is God. The word is God, the divine logic of the universe, the logos is God.
00:36:25.540
And then the bond of unity between the father and the son is so substantial that he is a third person,
00:36:31.480
which makes up the Trinity. The physical world is created good, but goes bad through the fall of man,
00:36:41.240
through the disobedience of Adam in the garden to turn away from God and to disobey. And then man is
00:36:49.220
kicked out and sin and death pervade the world. However, that's not the end of the story. The
00:36:55.620
line that we celebrate on Easter is the, the felix culpa, oh happy fault that won for us so great,
00:37:05.120
so glorious. So glorious a redeemer that God in his providence, even though the world goes so, so bad
00:37:11.140
becomes incarnate, sends his only begotten son. And so the second person of the, of the Trinity
00:37:17.980
becomes a man, fully human, fully divine and dies on the cross today on Good Friday and really dies.
00:37:28.260
And on the cross in his death repays this, this debt, this infinite debt, repays it and redeems
00:37:38.200
mankind and descends into hell, harrows hell, rises again from the dead, ascends up into heaven to see
00:37:45.540
that the God, the right hand of God, the father almighty, he shall come again to judge living in
00:37:48.700
the dead and his kingdom will have no end. That's the, it's a great question for Good Friday from
00:37:53.300
Justine. Hey Michael, do you think men of Italian descent make for a better mate? If so, what
00:37:59.540
qualities make them better? I'm a little bit biased in this question, but I'm going to try to give you
00:38:04.880
as objective an answer as I can. Yes, absolutely. 100%. There's no question about it. Why?
00:38:12.800
I will acknowledge there are some downsides to Italian men. We are, well, I think this is an upside,
00:38:20.760
but today it would be considered a downside. We tend to be a little more old school, okay? Of all
00:38:25.500
the immigrant groups that ever came to America, basically the only one that ever turned out
00:38:28.980
conservative were the Italians. Cubans too, though that's weakening over time. The Italians, by and
00:38:36.260
large, a pretty conservative group that came over here, a little more old school. We're probably not
00:38:41.240
going to be, you know, Mr. Mom, okay? We're probably not going to get up and do the dishes all the
00:38:47.420
time, clean up the house. We're, okay, that, and that is, you know, that's unfortunate sometimes.
00:38:52.240
However, Italian men, beyond our immense charm and physical attractiveness and things like that,
00:38:59.600
good cooks. So we actually, you know, do cook a little bit at a time. Very passionate. Make of that
00:39:07.160
what you will. Very, very sentimental Italian men. You know, we put on a good stern exterior. Very,
00:39:13.540
very loving people. Think of the greatest love poetry ever written. Think of Dante. Think of
00:39:19.560
Petrarch. Oh, my gosh. We are, we are just so in love. We are so, you know, we, we, I'm speechless.
00:39:28.680
I'm left speechless by that. So yes, I think Italian men do make a good mate. I will say, just, I know
00:39:35.400
my wife listens to this show. I don't want her to get the wrong idea. I am taken, but there are lots
00:39:38.920
of Italian men out there. And so I wish that you will find your, your perfect match. From Joshua,
00:39:44.120
dear Michael Knowles, I understand that you do not enjoy marijuana yourself. It's never been your
00:39:49.920
personal thing. I do know you drink and use tobacco. So do I, but I'm wondering how you can morally
00:39:55.300
advocate for the legalization of alcohol and tobacco when they have similar, if not more harmful
00:40:01.060
effects than marijuana. This is probably the only area I disagree with you on. Love the show. We'll
00:40:06.060
continue watching regardless of the answer. Well, I'm not advocating for the legalization
00:40:09.680
of alcohol and tobacco. Those two things are legal. And marijuana is now increasingly legal,
00:40:19.000
but it's still broadly illegal. So we're not starting, we're not beginning from the same place.
00:40:24.860
One mistake that liberals make, and when I say liberals, I mean liberal Republicans and liberal
00:40:31.620
Democrats is they think that everything is abstract. They're, they're only looking at the alcohol or the
00:40:39.360
tobacco or the marijuana, but I'm actually looking at them in reality, in the practical tradition that
00:40:44.340
we have. Alcohol and tobacco are already legal. I don't see any reason to make them illegal. They
00:40:49.540
are heavily regulated. I'm not totally against that. I do wish I could still smoke my cigar in bars
00:40:55.240
somewhere, but you know, unfortunately Mike Bloomberg ruined that, but okay, that's fine. I'm talking
00:40:59.980
about the real practical tradition. Whereas marijuana is different. It's a bad thing. I don't think it
00:41:06.840
does anything good for the culture. Now you might say, Michael, that's not a perfectly abstract
00:41:11.720
rationalist argument. Right. I don't think we should be making abstract rationalist arguments
00:41:16.460
primarily in politics. I think we should be making prudential, practical arguments in politics.
00:41:22.120
There is another cultural aspect here, which is that tobacco has been a part of our culture for a
00:41:26.500
very long time, 500 years or so. It's been a part of American culture, you know, before Columbus
00:41:32.680
discovered America, it's been a part of American culture for a very, very long time. Now we live
00:41:37.000
in America. There's a little blending of culture there and alcohol has always been part of our
00:41:41.720
culture. Christ's first miracle is turning water into wine. I just don't think, speaking of rationalist
00:41:50.140
abstraction, I don't think it's a good idea to try to uproot these very important things from our
00:41:55.840
culture. And I don't know that we could do it even if we tried. I think that's part of why prohibition
00:42:01.400
failed. But I don't think that marijuana prohibition necessarily would fail. We kept marijuana illegal
00:42:07.620
for a really long time and I think that's perfectly fine. Or we can slowly start to regulate it. Okay.
00:42:13.920
I mean, I'm not going to, not going to flee the country because of that, but I just don't think
00:42:18.180
it's good. And I think that we are absolutely entitled in our Republic to have a vision of the
00:42:26.700
good and a vision of the true and a vision of the beautiful and a vision of what's right.
00:42:30.460
And to express that vision through our elected representatives in laws. And I don't think there's
00:42:34.280
anything wrong with that, particularly when that, those sorts of expressions and those regulations
00:42:38.380
are at the more local level. From Nick, Michael, I've been struggling with my faith for a number of
00:42:42.880
years now. I was brought up as a Christian, but have had a lot of exposure to a lot of
00:42:47.280
different religions during my formative years. This caused me to have many unanswered questions
00:42:52.140
regarding what I should and shouldn't believe. Being raised in the church, I want to believe in
00:42:57.000
God, but I just can't seem to fully commit. Could you please give me some insight as to what I should
00:43:01.020
do? Sure. I can recommend a bunch of books to read. I was an atheist for about 10 years. I was
00:43:05.900
brought back through certain arguments for the existence of God. The modal ontological argument got me
00:43:11.640
as formulated by Alvin Plantinga. The Thomistic arguments are very persuasive from St. Thomas
00:43:16.900
Aquinas. The book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis did a lot for me. But it depends what aspect you're
00:43:23.320
going after. You know, for me, the hang-up was intellectual pride. And so the way back in was
00:43:28.560
an intellectual way back in. If the hang-up for you is more, I don't know, emotional or something like
00:43:36.040
that, then you'll have a different way in. If it's more liturgical, you'll have a different way in.
00:43:39.460
You should know that God exists. The existence of God is knowable by the light of reason from
00:43:45.560
the natural world. So there are a lot of good arguments for God, and there are no good arguments
00:43:51.100
against God. But that might not bring you all the way. You might not say, well, okay, I acknowledge
00:43:55.140
God exists, but, you know, does that mean Christianity is true? Well, what are the arguments
00:43:59.640
for Christianity? They're really historical arguments, Christological considerations here,
00:44:05.900
right? You know, the nature of Christ himself, what Christ means. But Drew Clavin has a great
00:44:13.040
answer on this, which is that if you can't bring yourself to believe in God, just behave as though
00:44:18.900
you do for 60 days. Pray, behave in your personal life, and that will start to happen. Access to the
00:44:24.340
sacraments is very important here. And I think it's important not to fall into either of two
00:44:32.240
heresies. I don't think you should fall into the heresy of skepticism, that we just can't know
00:44:38.260
about these things for certain, which is a very popular heresy right now. But I also don't think
00:44:43.120
you should fall into the heresy of fideism, that reason is totally useless, and we just got to
00:44:48.260
believe our Bible, darn it, even if it contradicts reason. The Bible does not contradict reason,
00:44:52.720
by the way. The truth of the matter is that we can know these things through reason,
00:44:57.700
and also revelation tells us quite a lot. But the faith is reasonable, and you should know that.
00:45:05.880
If you have any more specifics on this, I'd be happy to answer a further question.
00:45:09.780
From Yarb, dear Michael, have you gotten more into guns and shooting since leaving California?
00:45:14.080
No, actually, I haven't. Unexpectedly. I got into guns and shooting in California.
00:45:21.480
I bought my first gun because the government told me I couldn't. So then I bought the gun,
00:45:27.200
and they told me I couldn't buy. I was much more into it there. Here, I'm kind of more laid back.
00:45:32.320
I'm more relaxed. I also have less time because I've got my sweet little screaming bundle of joy
00:45:35.720
24-7. So one does not have as much time to head on over to the range. But I'm interested. I want to
00:45:42.440
get more into it here. But I do think this is true more broadly in politics. I think much more
00:45:50.920
about very particular political questions when I'm surrounded by my opponents. Because I have to,
00:45:58.360
because the bullets are flying all the time. And so I've got to really consider down to the
00:46:01.340
nitty gritty. I think the same is true with all manner of behavior. You think much more about your
00:46:05.880
Second Amendment rights when you're in a place that, you know, there's no right, real right for
00:46:11.260
you to have it, or the right is really threatened. It's much, you're much more conscious of it when
00:46:17.100
you're in a place where you're under fire. From Spencer, dear Michael, first, I wanted to say
00:46:21.360
congratulations for becoming a father. Thank you very much. My question is this. Do you think the
00:46:25.780
public school system will pull back with their woke agenda anytime in the near future, at least
00:46:30.920
enough for very conservative parents like my wife and I to be comfortable and confident our daughter
00:46:35.680
won't be subjected to all the critical race theory and gender ideology nonsense? We are middle class.
00:46:40.160
We don't know if we'll be able to afford private school when our daughter is starting school.
00:46:43.860
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, this is a big issue. I'm, I'm,
00:46:47.100
grappling with this too. No, I don't think the public school system is going to get any better
00:46:50.740
anytime soon. The problems of the public school system have been built in from the beginning.
00:46:56.740
It goes way, way back many decades ago to John Dewey. It goes back well over a century and a half ago
00:47:01.420
or more to Horace Mann. There, there was always this progressive character to it. Your best hope,
00:47:08.100
I would suspect, is to move somewhere. Sorry to say this. I know that's not cheap either,
00:47:12.840
but your best hope is probably to move somewhere, uh, where the public schools are just less decayed
00:47:19.520
at this point. But it's very tricky. This is how they get you because the public schools are free.
00:47:23.400
The private schools are extremely expensive and homeschooling is expensive too because it's
00:47:26.560
expensive with your time. Last question from Mike. Hey, Michael, do you think that Sleepy Joe is so
00:47:31.420
sleepy because he can't sleep at night knowing that Corn Pop is still out there? Well, Mike,
00:47:35.280
great question. Corn Pop is a very bad dude. So that would not surprise me at all. Great question
00:47:40.660
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00:47:53.960
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