Ep. 1032 - The List Of Republican Gun Control Squishes
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the vote by Republican Senators John Cornyn and Rob Portman to advance a new gun control bill, and why it's time to go "Pro-S.E.A.X."
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Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Shelley Moore Capito, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Tom Tillis, Todd Young, and most of all, John Cornyn.
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Those are the Republican senators who just voted to advance the Democrats' latest gun control bill.
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The worst part of this vote is not that these senators squished on an issue that is important to conservatives.
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These senators often squish on issues that are important to conservatives.
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Sometimes it's almost politically understandable for some of these people, at least in the blue and purple states.
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The worst part of this vote is that they squished at a time when they had absolutely no reason to.
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The political winds are entirely at the Republicans' backs.
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Even Democrat strategists are expecting a red tsunami in the midterm elections.
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Democrats are down historically on those midterm polls.
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American voters generally are extremely supportive of gun rights.
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And polls show that even the voters who do not like guns don't really care about them relative to other issues.
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The worst part of this is that it is completely needless.
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A completely needless surrender by Republicans who have absolutely no idea what time it is.
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and they reanimate it like a weird, spooky, creepy, ghost zombie demon,
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It's harder to build political consensus in Washington, D.C. and get something done.
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It's why I don't take pot shots at politicians broadly.
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I understand there needs to be compromise sometimes.
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My issue with this stupid gun bill that these 14 squish Republicans are backing, my issue
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You're not doing all that much about giving us back our way of life after COVID.
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It was pretty much just a federal judge that let us do that.
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I will give Mitch McConnell credit for the judges, and then the judges might overrule Roe v. Wade.
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The senators aren't doing a whole lot for that.
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Well, you're not doing much on a whole range of it.
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But this, this is the one issue, taking away Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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That's the issue where we have to do something.
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And the Americans that don't love guns don't care.
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Even for the most anti-gun Americans, the furthest left Democrats, gun rights, the Second Amendment is not at the top of their priority list.
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We don't know exactly what is in this bill, but it's nothing good, really.
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At least the really consequential parts of this Democrat gun bill.
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You've got red flag laws, which in principle sound fine, right?
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But the devil's in the details because they can be so broad that the red flag just becomes you.
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We're going to have to take away your constitutional rights.
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I would even understand if the Democrats were pushing this law as a sincere way to stop these specific horrific shootings that just took place in Texas and in Buffalo.
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The Republicans have proposed what should be uncontroversial, very modest reforms that would have protected the school in Texas and would have protected other schools too.
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Get some armed guards to, to be stationed at the schools.
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Maybe allow teachers who have the right to keep and bear arms to, to carry their weapons.
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And the Democrats won't go with any of that because their object is not to protect the schools.
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Their object is just to push the same stupid gun laws they've wanted for 50 years.
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So the Democrats are not sincere on this at all.
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You know, I don't like complaining, but I, why do Republicans have to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory?
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Do you think that this is going to win over Democrat votes in the midterms?
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Do you think this is going to win over the centrists?
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And the moderates and the independents, they're voting on gas prices.
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Do you think this is going to help motivate Republicans to come out to the polls?
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Why is someone going to go vote for John Cornyn?
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Well, they're not going to vote for John Cornyn and he's not up for election.
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He's probably not going to run for re-election, which is why a lot of these squishes are getting behind this thing.
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They know that they're not going to have to face the voters again so they can sell them out, which is what so frequently happens.
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It's, it's not even just that, well, Republicans are doing really well on the economic issues and the economic issues are going to bring us to victory in November.
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The, the issues that are actually pushing conservatives across the finish line are extremely cultural issues.
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South Dakota just closed its last abortion center.
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She said, abortions have stopped in South Dakota.
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We have prayed for this day and now it is here.
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Now we must redouble our focus on taking care of mothers in crisis.
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Kristi Noem has been a little bit squishy at times, at least on that transgender issue.
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And so conservatives are skeptical of her, but this is great news.
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And, and by the way, the very fact that Kristi Noem is the one pushing this is great news for conservatives.
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Precisely because she has squished on certain cultural issues.
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Precisely because she initially caved to pressure on transgender sports before she then reversed her position.
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She's not above playing politics and figuring out which way the wind is blowing.
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And she knows that on these cultural issues in this year, the year of our Lord, 2022, with the midterm elections right around the corner, all of the wind is in the sails of the Republicans on cultural matters.
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What do the Democrats have to say in response to this?
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This, this article from the Washington Post, I thought it was a spoof at first.
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The article says, this Texas teen wanted an abortion.
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Brooke Alexander found out she was pregnant 48 hours before the Texas abortion ban took place.
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The, the article online, on social media, it shows this girl taking care of the two twin babies.
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She's, it actually shows the babies, even as it insinuates that, that we should be able to kill those babies.
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It shows the two little babies and mommy taking care of the two little babies.
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I had to wonder, is there some secretly pro-life editor at the Washington Post?
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Either the editors are so completely oblivious, so cold, such stone cold psycho Patrick Bateman
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chopping people up in their freezers that they think that, that presenting a picture of a mommy
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taking care of her twin babies is going to convince people, yeah, we should kill them.
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We should be allowed to kill those babies or someone at WAPO is secretly pro-life.
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I actually think I have to believe it's the latter.
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In the article, you see that they say, sometimes Brooke imagined her life if she hadn't gotten
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pregnant and if Texas hadn't banned abortion just days after she decided that she wanted one.
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She would have been in school, rushing from class to her shift at Texas Roadhouse, eyes on a real
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estate license that would finally get her out of Corpus Christi.
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She pictured an apartment in Austin and enough money for a trip to Hawaii,
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where she would swim with the dolphins in water so clear she could see her toes.
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When both babies finally started eating, Brooke took out her phone and restarted the timer that
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had been running almost continuously since the day they were born.
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It would be two and a half hours until they had to eat again.
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Do they, are they, I have to think they're being ironic here or that someone involved in this
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Yeah, Brooke, she, she could have gone and kept working at Texas Roadhouse and then she could have
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Austin, you couldn't pay me to get an apartment in Austin. Austin is a gross place full of derelict
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people who were doing all sorts of crazy things and homeless people and crime and all sorts of
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libs running around wreaking havoc. Or she could feed her beautiful little babies.
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And then, and by the way, by the way, at the end of this article, the end of this article,
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the final bit is she told herself that alternate life didn't matter anymore. She had two babies she
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loved more than anything else in the world. I do, she said, tears in her eyes. Brooke pulled out her
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phone once they finished the ceremony. One hour, 15 minutes, time to grab some lunch and head home.
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The babies would be hungry. Even the Washington Post is wittingly or unwittingly sympathizing with
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teachers, allegedly, we have to say allegedly, groomed, coached a 12-year-old girl into becoming
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transgender behind her parents' back. These teachers come in and act as if they have nothing
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wrong. They've done nothing wrong. A mistake? How long of a mistake? How many mistakes are we going to
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take before my child almost lost her life? They didn't tell me that my child is suicidal.
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You allowed these teachers to open their classrooms teaching predatory information to a young child,
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a mindful child that doesn't even know how to comprehend it all. How do you not know what
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was going on on your own campuses? Do you think that no parent would ever come forward? You will not quiet me today.
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I will stand here today and protect my child along with every other child who has not come forward yet.
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Do you, do you, do they have psychiatry degrees that I was unaware of? Because I didn't hire them.
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Okay? I did not hire them to sit there and nitpick my child's brain. You took away my ability to parent my child.
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Even before I had any knowledge. I didn't even get to show support. You asked for support, I didn't get a chance.
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You planted seeds, Ms. Caldera and Ms. Baraki. Mr. Baraki and you, Ms. Cagarin.
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Your job was to educate my child in math, science, English, etc. Do your job and let me do mine.
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The key here to this video, it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. Could you imagine, could you
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imagine if it were you? I was, I was putting myself in this woman's shoes. I guess it's sort
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of unclear even if the child is a daughter or a son because, well, because transgenderism confuses all
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of those sorts of things. And she keeps saying, my child, my child, my child. Could you imagine if it
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were your child? I don't know that I could refrain from violence against the teachers. If I found out
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that some teacher were secretly grooming my sweet little baby boy behind my back and confusing him
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and giving him pathologies that are going to last the rest of his life and trying to convince him
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that he's a little girl and convince him to go on hormones and change his pronouns, change his
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government documents, chop up his body. Someone were trying to harm my child. Was actually harming my
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child like that. I'm not sure I could refrain from violence. I like to think I could. I don't think it
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would be good to commit some act of vigilante violence, but that is the way that it would pull
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on a, on a father's or mother's heart. This woman is being positively restrained,
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even as she's screaming her head off and steam is coming out of her ears. And you know, the most
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amazing part of this video, it's not even, it's obviously not that the mother's getting angry.
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It's not even that the teachers, these creeps, these psychos are grooming the little kid and
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screwing up the kid's life and having sexual perverse conversations with a little kid behind
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the parents' backs. The most amazing part of the video is the unanimous applause from everyone in
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the room. Everyone knows what's up. Everyone knows that this is wrong. Everyone knows what time it is
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on these allegedly controversial cultural issues. All the people get it. The only people that don't
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get it are in the crooked ruling class, are the teacher unions and the people who are controlling
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institutions, notably the academic educational institutions, but corporate America too, and
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government America and big tech and the media. Those guys, they don't get it. Everyone else
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does get it. We're not the crazy ones. Okay. They're, they're telling us that we're the crazy
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ones and we're, we're abusing our kids and what you'd rather have a dead daughter than a living son.
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And, and you're, you're, you're, you just don't understand. You're just a knuckle dragging
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troglodyte because you think that a man isn't, isn't actually a woman. How dare you? You big dumb
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idiot. You don't even have a degree in gender studies like I do. Yeah. You didn't even get a master's
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degree in some fake thing. So you, you don't have a right to an opinion. Everyone gets it
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other than these people. So it's a, it's a, it's a message for, it's a message for the squishes.
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It's a message for the centrists. Now is not the time to squish. If you, if you are reading and
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consuming the establishment media and listening to all the establishment self-appointed geniuses
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who are running our country, you might be convinced this is a tough call. Well, it's a
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complex issue. It's not complex at all. The people in that room didn't think it was complex.
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No, the voters of Virginia didn't think it was complex. The voters of Florida don't think it's
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complex. The, the movie goers who could have gone to see the Buzz Lightyear movie didn't think it was
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complex. No one thinks it's complex except for the, the pudding brains, the absolute mushy headed
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perverts who are running our major institutions. You do not need to squish. We are winning on so many
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fronts right now. Speaking of the schools, major, major Supreme Court win in, uh, for conservatives,
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for Christians, for religious liberty. Case called Carson v. Macon. Carson v. Macon, me really happy
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that we have six quasi conservatives on the Supreme Court. I'll tell you that the way that the case works,
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it's about a Maine law that allows public money to be spent on private schools.
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Because Maine is in many parts a sparsely populated state. And so, uh, every school age child has the
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right to a free public education. In some places in the rural districts, they don't have public high
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schools. And so there's a workaround where they can take the public money and go to some private
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school with public assistance. There was a law passed in Maine that said that you can't take that
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money to any Christian school. So you can take it to whatever kind of wacky private school you want to.
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It just can't be Christian. The Supreme Court 6-3 struck it down, which means even Roberts,
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who frequently sides with the libs, he's the swinging vote, he's the squish vote,
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even he sided with the conservatives here. The left is losing their mind. They're saying
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that this is a major attack on the firm wall of separation between church and state. Sonia Sotomayor
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on the court says, this court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state
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that the framers fought to build. In just a few years, the court has upended constitutional doctrine,
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shifting from a rule that permits states to decline to fund religious organizations to one
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that requires states in many circumstances to subsidize religious indoctrination with taxpayer
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dollars. Constitutional doctrine. Would you mind, if you're not driving or something, would you mind maybe
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pulling up the text of the constitution on your phone or on your computer? And just do a quick
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little word search. Search for wall of separation between church and state. Separation between,
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you're not, it's going to come up blank because that's not a constitutional doctrine. I feel like
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I want to, I'm in that meme of the, of the psychiatrist talking to the lunatic young man
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in the padded cell walls. You say this, excuse me, young man, sir, this wall of separation between
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church and state. Is it, is it in the room with us right now? Do you, do you hear it? Do you feel
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the wall of, because it's not real. It's not real. It was never real. That phrase, the wall of
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separation between church and state. It comes from a private letter from Thomas Jefferson. It means
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absolutely nothing in the American law. What it might sort of kind of maybe refer to is the
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establishment clause and the free exercise clause in the first amendment, which says that the federal
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government will not establish a church at the national level. The reason that the federal
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government did not establish a church at the national level is not because we were going to
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be an atheist, secular country and have nothing to do with religion. The reason we didn't separate
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a, establish a church at the national level is because there were already established churches at
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the state level. And they persisted for decades after ratification. Unfortunately, the 14th amendment,
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one of the negative, possibly unintended consequences of the 14th amendment is that later on the Supreme
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Court interpreted that, uh, to mean that you would deprive states of the rights to do a whole lot of
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things. And you would apply these, the federal constitution and the rights enumerated therein to
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the states to override the states. It's a topic, I suppose, for another day. You could go on at great
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length about that, but it's not in the constitution. At the very least, we have to say the separation of
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church and state. It's not in the constitution and it can't possibly be because just zooming out from
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the legal constitutional perspective for a second, uh, getting into the just broad philosophical
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historical perspective, all states have to have something to do with religion because all law has
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to have something to do with religion because all civil laws and constitutional laws ultimately have
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to say something about and derive from the natural and moral law. So it's just, it's just simply a fact
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when we come together in political society, we have to hold certain things sacred and certain
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things taboo. We have to value certain things when we have to discard other things. We, we have to
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encourage certain things and discourage other things. The basic charge of statecraft is do good
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and avoid evil and have human flourishing and pursue happiness and, and give, give people the kind
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of society that we want to live in, especially when you're talking about self-government.
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And all, all you had with this main law that was just struck down was a, a religious discrimination
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against Christianity. You could support the, the religion of transgender Gnosticism. You could
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support the religion of secular humanism, human rights. You could support the religion of LGBT,
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LMNOP. You could support all those, the religion of Marxism. You can support all those things. The only
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religion you couldn't support is Christianity. The only, the only religion you're not allowed to
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support is true religion, traditional religion, the religion that animated our country and our
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civilization. That didn't make a lot of sense. And so it's very good that the court struck it down.
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Welcome back to the show. Here's the rub with the big conservative win at the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court says in Carson v. Macon, Carson v. Macon, Michael very happy. 6-3,
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you can't discriminate against Christian schools. If you're going to fund private schools with
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taxpayer dollars, you've got to fund the Christian ones too. So here's what's going to happen.
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The Satanic Temple, which is a group of left-wing atheists, they are going to start filing a lot of
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cases, a lot of lawsuits. They're going to maybe establish some facade of a school and they're
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going to try to get taxpayer dollars to teach Satanism. The Satanic Temple is different than
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the Church of Satan, sort of. The Church of Satan, they are very committed Satanists who
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worship the devil. The Satanic Temple is a group of internet atheists who just worship the Satan
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ironically. It's just ironic. It's just really funny. Aren't they so clever? And they hate
00:28:06.720
Christianity. They hate Christianity. They want a firmer separation of church and state.
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You'll notice though, they always try to make this distinction between the Church of Satan and the
00:28:15.680
Satanic Temple. They say, we're totally different things. You see, they worship Satan earnestly and
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we worship Satan ironically. And my answer to that is always, are you sure? Are you sure you can worship
00:28:28.760
Satan ironically? I'm not sure you can. Your antipathies are both the same. You both hate God and you both
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hate Christianity. Your symbolism is the same. You are both exalting symbols of Satan.
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Your practical effect in society is the same. You are both seeking to undermine good, virtuous
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institutions and religion and cultural practice and church and replace it with
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hedonism and pursuing one's own will. I mean, I think of Alistair Crowley. I think of the more
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prominent Satanists in history. They've said, the only thing, the only moral law that you should follow
00:29:09.120
is do as thou wilt. Just do whatever you want to do. That's the only moral law. That's the true
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golden rule, they say. And then you look at the ironic, hipster, lefty, atheist Church of Satan.
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They say the exact same thing. Yeah, just do whatever you want. If it feels good, do it.
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I feel for them, the ironic, edgelord, atheist, Satan temple, because someday they're going to be in
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for a really big surprise. Someday, when it's all over and they're facing the judgment seat,
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they're going to find out you can't ironically worship Satan. More broadly, you can't do something
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ironically all the time and have it still be ironic. Eventually, if you live your life,
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hipsters really were very guilty of this. They were apathetic to everything. They would just do
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things ironically. Isn't that funny? But if you do things ironically all the time, it just becomes
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sincere. It's just earnest. That's just what you do. That is how you live. And then it's over and
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that was your life. And then you're being tortured by the devil for eternity. That's not good. Don't
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do that. You don't want to do that. So there's two reactions to the Satanists inevitably trying to
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get public funds in Maine to fund their satanic schools. The first is, would it really be all
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that different from the public schools? If actual outright self-styled Satanists formed a school,
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would the curriculum look all that different from what is currently being taught in schools? Namely,
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gosh, drag queen story hour. Drag queens often dressed up like actual demons going around and
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twerking for little kids. The teachers, like the ones in California, grooming a poor little child
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and convincing the child that the child should disregard his parents and should pretend to be
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the other sex and go on cross-sex hormones. Frankly, I think the Satanists might blush.
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I think that in some cases, the left-wing school teachers that are already around and the left-wing
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administrators would out-Satanist the Satanists. You'd have these Satanists in Maine, they'd say,
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yo, cool it, buddy. I don't want to chop up little kids, all right? Come on. Don't we have any limits
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anymore? So that's the first part. The second part though, which is a legitimate constitutional and
00:31:38.120
legal question is, can we have limits? Can we say, yes, we're going to fund non-sectarian,
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secular private schools with taxpayer money and Christian schools with taxpayer money and Jewish
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schools with taxpayer money and Muslim schools with taxpayer money, but not Satanist schools.
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Can we do that? I think we can. I think we can. We have to undo some stupid concepts that have
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cropped up in our jurisprudence in the last few decades. For one, the idea that the government
00:32:18.060
has to be completely neutral on all questions of politics, culture, and religion. That's a new idea.
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The idea of viewpoint neutrality, which some of the squish conservatives defend,
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that idea dates back to 1995. This is not something that George Washington and Thomas
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Jefferson and John Adams were defending, okay? If you went back to my rule of thumb, the old WWWD
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rule, what would Washington do? WWFFD rule, what would the founding fathers do? And you said,
00:32:47.420
hey, this government that you're setting up, the brilliant ideas enshrined in the constitution and
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this country. It naturally will follow from those ideas that we need taxpayer funded satanic temples.
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They would laugh at you or they would look at you with bemusement or they would chase you out of
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town on a rail. So we know that that wasn't the idea from the beginning. If you had told someone this
00:33:10.200
in 1947, that this is how things would be used, they would laugh at you. They would look at you with
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bemusement. Frankly, even if you told someone this in the 60s, other than the radicals of the new left,
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people would, they would laugh at you. And yet here we are. So what went wrong?
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Number of things went wrong. The overt government discrimination against Christianity,
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that went wrong. Kicking prayer out of public schools, pretending that the constitution prohibits
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prayer in public schools, it doesn't. Kicking the Bible out of public schools, pretending that
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the constitution bans the Bible, the most important book ever written, even if you don't believe in it.
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You have to at least admit it's the most important book ever written, without which
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Western civilization is completely incomprehensible. That's now, that's the only book you can't teach
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in schools. You think that's in the constitution? I don't think so. You've got to go back and undo,
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and ultimately what you have to undo is what Sotomayor was talking about. This fictional notion
00:34:05.120
that there is a firm wall of separation between church and state. There's not, it has never existed.
00:34:10.900
It's never been a real thing, at least for the first part of our country. It is a foreign concept
00:34:17.400
that was, that was brought about really in the middle to late 20th century. And it has not helped
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our culture. Our culture has not gotten better in most ways since then. So time to get rid of it.
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On this point of the ironic Satanists, this is just a minor point before we move on.
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I was reminded when I was reading about these ironic Satanists of this story that didn't get
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a ton of play. Mike Cernovich posted it around again recently too, that at CERN, the large Hadron
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Collider, this probably the most important site for physics research on earth, there was a film that
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leaked of a, of a satanic performed human sacrifice, like a sort of a show ritual, not a real human
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sacrifice, but a feigned satanic ritual at CERN in front of a Hindu deity. And you look, you can watch
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the video. It's really, it's, it's really, there's people in these black robes with fire all around and
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then a light on, I think it's a statue of Shiva. And then a, a performed human sacrifice. And she
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said, what, what the hell is, what are these scientists doing? And then CERN made a statement
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about it. And they said, oh yeah, the footage was recorded as part of a prank by scientists at
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Europe's top physics lab. CERN said that the ritual was just, it was just researchers and scientists
00:35:49.020
coming to work at the facility and taking their sense of humor a little too far. Ha ha ha. Yeah,
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it's not a big, it's just a big, funny ha ha. It's just a funny little hoax joke. You know,
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you know, when you joke, you know, you go out with friends and you, maybe you throw a couple back,
00:36:03.380
you have one too many Coca-Colas, and then you perform a black mass in front of a Hindu deity and
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you pretend to sacrifice a human being. Ha, you know, and then maybe we shoot some pool afterward.
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Maybe you gamble a little bit too much and you worship Moloch and Baal and the devil. You know
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how that happens? Ha ha ha. You jokester. You owe you with your dry sense of humor.
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I don't know about you. That explanation doesn't suffice for me. I'm going to need a little bit
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more before I just write this off. This is, gosh, you've got gay frogs. You've got weird stuff in
00:36:39.360
the water that the EPA just admitted. Now you've got devil worshipers at CERN. This is really shaking
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a lot of what I had believed previously about how normal politics is. If you do that, if you engage
00:36:54.340
in black satanic rituals, ironically, and it's not ironic, okay? And it's bad. And the fact that the
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symbolism continues to exist is, and has existed for millennia, that should tell you something.
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If you're on the side with the guys in the dark black robes and the fire performing the human
00:37:15.200
sacrifices, you're on the wrong side. Get on a different side, okay? It's demonic stuff.
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Transgenderism is demonic. It's the only way to describe, it is a way, I'm not saying that the
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people who are under the sway of transgenderism and in the thrall of this ideology are intentionally
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worshiping demons, but it is a demonic influence that tells you that your soul and your body are in
00:37:39.780
opposition to one another and you've got to mutilate yourself. It's just so anti-human. It's just so
00:37:44.560
extremely destructive. And whatever we know about the devil, we know two things. We know he's a liar
00:37:53.440
and we know that he hates life. He specifically hates human beings. And so when people are really
00:37:59.140
anti-human, when they're really anti-life, and when they ground their ideas on manifest lies,
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you've got a sense that the old devil might be lurking around somewhere and you probably want
00:38:11.380
to get on the other side. On this point of transgenderism and demonic policy, there is a
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new policy from FINA, the International Swimming Association, that is, it's being reported in some
00:38:23.920
places as being really good for the conservative side and really tough on the transgender side
00:38:30.200
because they're, they're tightening up the rules and they're saying, look, these dudes can't just
00:38:35.440
willy-nilly compete against the women because they're, they're going to beat all the women. And so
00:38:38.980
they're, they're going to have to, uh, they're, they're going to have to have transitioned
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before a certain age. If they transitioned before the age of 12, then they can compete against the
00:38:53.140
women. But if they transitioned after, they can't do that. And then FINA is going to try to create an
00:38:58.420
open category for these sort of sexually confused people to compete against one another that isn't
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the male category or isn't the, the female category. This is a bad idea. They're trying to split the baby
00:39:11.860
on this and it's not going to work. First, did you catch what the worst part of this policy is?
00:39:17.340
Did you get, it's the, it's right there at the top. If you transition before the age of 12,
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12, then you can compete against the women. What does that do? That creates an incentive
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to transition, to go on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and chop up your body
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before the age of 12. What do you, what happens when you get, when you create incentives, you get
00:39:38.580
more of that behavior. So the result of this policy is going to be an increase in the number of poor
00:39:43.620
little kids who get their bodies all chopped, chopped up and their lives ruined so that their psycho
00:39:48.420
parents can get them to compete in the swimming race where they think they're going to win and get a
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scholarship. That's the first part of it. Second part of it, this open category just punts the
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question. It says, well, yeah, we just don't want to rule on it. And so yeah, the men, they're not men.
00:40:06.880
They are men. They're not women. You, you can't, you can't split the baby on this. Okay. You have to
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come to an answer. And the reason that people don't want to come to an answer is because they're
00:40:17.100
squishes and because they're cowards in some way and because maybe they don't have moral clarity
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and also because they don't realize how common, how much common sense ordinary people have. We are
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inundated with this crazy transgender idea from every corner. And so we think that it's a common
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popular belief. It's not. The vast majority of people know this is completely insane.
00:40:40.340
You can say that. You can have confidence. In fact, if you say that, you're going to be more
00:40:45.320
politically popular. You're going to win more elections. You're going, you might be attacked by
00:40:49.600
some of the prevailing institutions, but the people are going to be on your side and they're
00:40:52.900
going to be on your side because it's right. Either a man is a man and not a woman or a man
00:40:57.620
is not necessarily a man and can be a woman. You've got to pick though. And if, if it's the latter,
00:41:03.940
if you can really be a woman born in a man's body or vice versa, then, then we need to trans the
00:41:08.900
kids. And then that's fine. And then we can incentivize it below the age of 12 or even
00:41:12.500
younger because it's true, right? And then it actually would be cruel to let the kids go through
00:41:17.040
puberty. But if it's fake, which we all know it is, if we, if it's just completely absurd,
00:41:21.620
which we all know it is, then you shouldn't do it at 12 or 14 or 20 or 75. It's wrong and destructive.
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We haven't lost this issue. There are some conservatives who want to preemptively surrender
00:41:34.700
this issue because they're the surrender party, because they're the John Cornyn party,
00:41:38.060
because they're giving in on very important issues. I'm not just gender. Let's talk about
00:41:43.300
gun rights, talk about constitutional rights without any need to whatsoever. But we haven't
00:41:47.380
lost this issue. We haven't even lost marriage by the way. We just radically redefined marriage in
00:41:53.140
this country. The Supreme court did within the last decade, changed the definition of marriage to
00:41:58.160
something that is completely unrecognizable from all of human history. And then what happened? The
00:42:02.060
squishes right away, they said, okay, it's over. Move on. Time to move on. The squishes were thrilled
00:42:06.060
when the Supreme court redefined marriage. It's over. Got to move on. It's not over guys. It's not over.
00:42:10.260
Actually, people are still, people are still standing up on this issue because, because the truth is on
00:42:17.660
our side. There's a court in Japan that just ruled that the Japanese constitution does not prohibit
00:42:27.640
bans on same sex marriage. There are, there are, this is such a semantically complex sentence.
00:42:35.240
It's, it's hard to even make sense of it because for, because the, the marriage debate was never
00:42:43.400
about whether or not you should ban gay marriage. It was never about whether or not you should legalize
00:42:48.520
gay marriage. It was never about whether gay people should have the right to get married. The
00:42:51.600
marriage debate really was always about what is marriage. It wasn't about hating gay people and
00:42:58.020
wanting to go, go attack gay people and throw them off a rooftop. It was not about any antipathy
00:43:03.020
whatsoever. It was about a very simple question that had been simply answered for all of human
00:43:07.260
history until five minutes ago. The question was, what is marriage? And at the very most basic level,
00:43:13.540
I think every society everywhere forever has said that sexual difference, the difference between men and
00:43:19.200
women has something to do with marriage. The, the complementarity of the sexes, the idea that
00:43:24.800
you come together and have the openness to the possibility of life and making a family and having
00:43:31.220
kids that has something to do with marriage. And it's not that there are, that everyone gets to have a
00:43:36.900
kid. It's not that there aren't problems and eccentricities in people's marriages, but,
00:43:41.120
but marriage looks like something. And then the Supreme Court in Obergefell, Anthony Kennedy,
00:43:47.240
the romantic poet decided, nope, doesn't look like that at all. It doesn't mean anything. It's
00:43:50.400
whatever I say it is. Love is love, equal sign, equal sign, equal sign. Well, this court in Japan
00:43:55.360
just said, no, that's not true. The Osaka district court sided with the argument from the country of
00:44:01.080
Japan, which said that, quote, the purpose of marriage is reproduction. And it agreed with the
00:44:05.760
definition that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman to bear children and raise them
00:44:09.860
together in cohabitation. Osaka said that the marriage system is a system that exists based on the,
00:44:16.340
quote, pragmatic purpose of the society protecting men and women to bear children and raise them.
00:44:22.240
That's true. Why do I bring this up? Why do I bring up this court case from Japan?
00:44:26.800
Just to remind you, this isn't over. The surrender caucus, the squishes don't need to give this up.
00:44:33.320
Why have the squishes in the conservative side gone weak on gay marriage? It's a simple reason,
00:44:38.820
and I sympathize with it because they don't want to be called phobes. They don't, and they don't,
00:44:42.820
and they legitimately don't want to offend their gay friends and their gay relatives,
00:44:46.520
and they don't want to be seen as haters and bigots. There's nothing, there's nothing hateful
00:44:51.200
and bigoted about saying that marriage has a meaning and people can pursue, pursue happiness as
00:44:58.120
they see fit. And people can have the intimate relationships as they like, but no one has the
00:45:06.560
right to redefine reality to something that it never was and is not now and never will be.
00:45:14.700
No one has the right, it's not good for anybody. It's not right, it's not good for the gay guys.
00:45:17.880
It's not good for the lesbian toys and toy story. It's not good for anybody else. It,
00:45:22.140
it doesn't expand marriage and make it more inclusive. It just destroys marriage because if
00:45:30.160
marriage has any meaning at all, it has to have something to do with sexual complementarity
00:45:38.080
and at least the possibility, the logical possibility of children. If it doesn't, then what is it?
00:45:47.620
Then what, and why is it only two people? And why can't it be, what's the difference between a
00:45:52.440
marriage and a town or a state or a country? It's just relationships of people. Love is love.
00:45:56.680
There are different kinds, of course. Speaking of identity politics, there's a coffee shop
00:46:01.200
looking to hire new people. And this coffee shop puts in their sign to go hire people. They say,
00:46:09.060
white cis males are the last choice. When you apply, if you're a black trans female, presumably you'll be
00:46:21.100
at the top of the list. But if you're a white cis male, you are the last choice. And people,
00:46:26.680
people know this is wrong, but this policy already exists. We're all going after this random coffee
00:46:33.760
shop that Libs of TikTok found. The policy already exists. It's existed for decades. It's called
00:46:38.980
affirmative action. And you see it in college admissions and you see it in hiring. The idea
00:46:44.940
that white people will be disadvantaged because of their race. I'm not saying they're disadvantaged in
00:46:51.800
life. I'm not saying, oh, woe is the white people. I don't know. I got a suntan the other day. I'm not
00:46:56.440
sure I count as a white person anymore. Swarthy people, where do we fall on that? I don't know.
00:47:00.720
That's a topic for another day. I'm not saying that there's, nope, the black people don't have certain
00:47:05.740
historical baggage in America. I'm not saying that socioeconomically everyone's on the level. I'm not
00:47:12.000
saying that, I'm just saying at a very practical level, there's a law, right? The only,
00:47:16.080
the only legal racial discrimination that you can have is against white people and to some degree
00:47:21.660
against Asians in favor of black people and Mexican people. That's the law. And so, yeah,
00:47:27.960
the coffee shop is being honest about it. The coffee shop's being a little provocative and in
00:47:32.320
your face about it, but that's the rule for every other business too, just about.
00:47:37.660
So if we have a problem with that, if we think that's unjust, then we should deal with that in our
00:47:42.540
law and say, no, no more racial preferences, no more racial discrimination. That's wrong. It's
00:47:47.680
racist. We used to call that racist. Now we, now we don't call that racist. I think the majority of
00:47:54.500
people are on our side there. I think the majority of people get that. The squishes don't. The, the
00:48:00.060
putting heads who run our institutions, they don't get it, but the people do. Frankly,
00:48:07.620
even the heads of the liberal institutions are starting to kind of get it. There was a report just
00:48:12.060
came out of, of media-ite about CNN. It says that CNN's president, Chris Licht, the, the new
00:48:18.600
president who took over for Jeff Zucker, just told CNN staffers to stop referring to Trump's election
00:48:25.740
claims that the election was rigged as the big lie. That CNN staffers, just like robots, had been
00:48:32.700
referring to, to Trump's questions about the election as the big lie. Republicans are pushing
00:48:37.880
the big lie, the big lie. And they're using that because it's a phrase that was used by Hitler
00:48:41.340
and Mein Kampf. But these guys are so dumb that they don't realize how Hitler was using the phrase.
00:48:47.220
Hitler was using the phrase and accusing the Jews of perpetrating a big lie when they were,
00:48:53.060
when they themselves were criticizing and going after a German general. So what's ironic about
00:48:58.560
the whole saga is that CNN was putting itself in the position of the Nazis and Republicans in the
00:49:05.680
position of the Jews, but they don't know anything. They've never read a history book. They don't know
00:49:08.520
what they're talking about. The reason that the new president of CNN is calling for the staffers
00:49:13.940
to stop using that phrase is he, he says it's worrisome, or I'm sorry, the staffers are saying
00:49:19.900
it's worrisome that we're being told how to talk about the worst things ever in American democracy.
00:49:23.460
The president of CNN is saying, guys, no one believes this. It's dumb. It sounds dumb. Most
00:49:29.400
people know it's not true. It's crushing our ratings. Even these guys get it. The wind is at the
00:49:35.300
backs of the Republicans, not just the Republicans, the conservatives, not just the conservatives,
00:49:39.640
the cultural conservatives. Now is not the time to squish. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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On today's episode, Florida and the White House feud over vaccinating young children.
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Explosive testimony reveals new details about the police response to the Uvalde school shooting.
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And Disney's new Pixar film Lightyear disappoints at the box office.
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