The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1034 - The Supreme Court Gets Based On Guns

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00:00:37.720 The Supreme Court just delivered the biggest win for the Second Amendment and for gun rights in almost 15 years.

00:00:46.100 The case was the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin,

00:00:52.220 and the question concerned whether or not New Yorkers are allowed to bear arms, to carry a gun outside of the home.

00:01:01.820 The decision was not close.

00:01:03.620 Even Roberts, who is the swing vote, the squish of the court, he sided with the conservatives.

00:01:08.740 Six-three decision.

00:01:10.740 The opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas.

00:01:14.600 It came down to a law in New York that said that if you wanted to be able to carry a gun, you had to have proper cause, and you had to demonstrate proper cause.

00:01:27.140 But, of course, the proper cause from the Second Amendment is this.

00:01:32.800 When the government is trying to take away your Second Amendment rights, that is proper cause to exercise those rights. 0.68

00:01:39.280 A major win for conservatives.

00:01:41.480 A major win for the rule of law in an already excellent Supreme Court term for the Constitution for conservatives.

00:01:49.740 As we all await with bated breath the decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the decision that could overrule Roe v. Wade.

00:01:59.660 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:00.420 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:08.920 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:11.100 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:04:16.520 Really, really big win.

00:04:18.560 It's almost sad that we have to celebrate a win like this.

00:04:23.820 It's sad because the Second Amendment is pretty clear.

00:04:28.400 The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:04:31.660 I know that we redefine all the words these days.

00:04:33.640 Shall not be infringed should be pretty clear.

00:04:37.120 Keep and bear arms should be pretty clear.

00:04:38.880 And by the way, we're not talking about a bazooka or a nuclear weapon.

00:04:41.780 We're talking about a regular gun.

00:04:43.840 So the Supreme Court makes the right decision here.

00:04:46.480 It's not even close.

00:04:47.140 It's a 6-3 ruling.

00:04:48.540 And then in a move that if it's not unprecedented, it's certainly extremely unusual.

00:04:53.660 And it might be unprecedented.

00:04:55.480 The Biden DOJ came out and said they disagree with the Supreme Court.

00:05:00.500 Just shows you how stacked things are for conservatives here.

00:05:03.940 This is coming on the very day when Senate Democrats passed the most radical gun control legislation that they passed since 1994.

00:05:14.100 This on the day that the executive branch comes out and says, no, we hate your gun rights.

00:05:17.900 We want to get rid of them.

00:05:19.120 This as all the corporations, as all of the institutions come out against your basic Second Amendment rights.

00:05:28.280 And we need to celebrate that the Second Amendment hasn't been completely gutted.

00:05:32.280 A really, really basic right.

00:05:33.600 The right to defend ourselves.

00:05:35.280 But we'll take the wins while we can get them.

00:05:37.720 This was a slam dunk though.

00:05:39.020 This one was so clear from the perspective of the law, from the perspective of the Constitution, from the perspective of centuries of American history.

00:05:49.660 What did the Democrats have on their side?

00:05:52.620 What was pushing the Libs argument here?

00:05:56.640 I would say pretty much just this.

00:05:59.960 Land of the free, home of the brave.

00:06:03.840 Land of the AR-15, home of kids in the grave.

00:06:06.860 I've struggled to find the words, keep the disposition sunny.

00:06:09.740 I'm always trying to turn the unfunny things funny, but laughing feels wrong.

00:06:13.660 Hypocrisy's rife, I gotta say something.

00:06:15.260 Cause you're all pro-life unless it's taken by a gunman.

00:06:18.000 Nineteen more tiny heartbeats stopped in the raw mamater.

00:06:20.640 You force kids into the world, then condemn them to slaughter. 0.99

00:06:23.120 We teach our daughters how to hide when they should be learning history.

00:06:26.200 Then we're surprised when it repeats itself.

00:06:28.080 It's no mystery, it's indifferent.

00:06:29.400 See them run when asked how to combat the madness.

00:06:31.740 If you don't care about your rights, they only care about their status.

00:06:34.380 And they have us where they can hold us.

00:06:35.760 Packed in the Senate and SCOTUS.

00:06:37.080 And acting bogus, hocus, pocus, while we hopelessly focus on the joke that is trying to feel safe in this country.

00:06:42.420 I love my home, but I don't know if we'll truly become free if we can't agree.

00:06:46.040 Uncle Sam's holding a bad gun.

00:06:48.040 The nation's fighting for its soul.

00:06:49.640 Are we sure it ever had one?

00:06:51.800 Children dying in the school.

00:06:55.600 But can you tell me why?

00:06:57.020 Are they not trying to change the rules?

00:06:59.680 We're crying, but we're not fools.

00:07:01.380 I am calling for a complete and total ban on all theater kids until we figure out what the hell is going on.

00:07:11.640 I mentioned this clip, I alluded to it at the end of the show yesterday, and I told you, you had to prepare yourself.

00:07:17.980 You had to give yourself a facial massage so that the cringe would not just be stuck on your face permanently forever listening to that.

00:07:26.660 Watching that, if you had the misfortune of watching that with your eye, that's, I know it's really challenging.

00:07:32.900 I think that's pretty much the best argument the Dems had to take away our guns.

00:07:37.960 That's it.

00:07:39.260 That's what, it also raises this question.

00:07:42.400 What was the purpose of that video?

00:07:45.060 What was the purpose of that guy releasing that Hamilton impression?

00:07:50.200 You know, that rap, singy, songy political activism.

00:07:53.320 Was it to effect political change?

00:07:57.500 Or was it to just get clicks and clout?

00:08:00.400 It was obviously the latter.

00:08:01.980 Is that video convincing anybody in the middle?

00:08:05.060 No.

00:08:05.740 The people in the, the ordinary people, the conservatives and the people in the middle and in the center,

00:08:10.140 the only thing they will take away from that video is wanting to give that guy a swirly.

00:08:14.120 They're not going to be persuaded to give up their Second Amendment rights.

00:08:18.560 But what did this guy get?

00:08:19.460 He got a lot of clicks and he got a lot of attention and I assume he wants to be in a

00:08:22.880 Broadway musical or something and maybe that'll work out for him.

00:08:26.300 But that's it.

00:08:27.240 I mean, that is the best that they've got. 0.96

00:08:28.960 The left has silly, bizarre, outlandish appeals to emotion and they've got the raw exercise 0.96

00:08:37.700 of power. 0.96

00:08:38.300 So they do control a lot of the institutions and they use those institutions to push their

00:08:42.560 radical agenda.

00:08:43.180 Believe it or not, that video, that gun rap from that guy, that is not,

00:08:49.460 even the most cringe inducing video on the internet right now.

00:08:53.960 That honor would go to the United States Navy.

00:08:57.100 Hi, my name is Johnny and I use he, him pronouns.

00:09:00.820 Hi, and I am Kanchi and I use she, her pronouns.

00:09:03.520 And we're here to talk about pronouns.

00:09:05.920 What is a pronoun?

00:09:07.160 A pronoun is how we identify ourselves apart from our name and it's also how people refer

00:09:12.860 to us in conversations.

00:09:14.280 Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity.

00:09:18.620 It is a signal of acceptance and respect.

00:09:21.360 If it's a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for

00:09:26.800 everybody?

00:09:28.080 That's a good question.

00:09:29.140 A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language.

00:09:32.340 Instead of saying something like, hey guys, you can say, hey everyone or hey team.

00:09:37.740 Yeah, and now that you say that, another way that we could show that we're allies and that

00:09:42.960 we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails or, like we just did,

00:09:49.080 introduce ourselves using our pronouns.

00:09:51.220 The sound you're hearing right now is General Patton rolling over in his grave, old blood and

00:09:57.660 guts about to become reanimated so he can show up and beat up whichever Navy officer okayed this

00:10:04.620 video.

00:10:05.120 I still don't even really believe that this is real.

00:10:08.520 I have to think this is a hoax cooked up somewhere, except that we've seen this kind of rainbow 0.76

00:10:13.900 activism from the other branches of the services.

00:10:16.720 And so the Navy seems to have followed suit here.

00:10:20.600 A great way for you to, a great way for you to affirm everybody's sexual desires and beliefs.

00:10:27.200 Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is just rolling tanks through Eastern Europe.

00:10:30.940 Hold on, we'll deal with that in one second. 0.89

00:10:33.020 First though, did you really call him a pansexual when he's a transsexual? 0.86

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00:10:48.580 First though, did you affirm that man's sexual fantasies?

00:10:52.800 Did you?

00:10:53.240 Because that's, we need to take care of that first.

00:10:55.320 In 2013, women were not in combat positions.

00:11:00.420 Women were not allowed to be in combat positions in the United States military. 0.54

00:11:05.740 And in 2013, the Obama administration moved to put women in combat roles. 1.00

00:11:10.880 And that was really, really controversial.

00:11:12.660 And a lot, the Republicans were against it.

00:11:15.480 And even a lot of Democrats were against it.

00:11:18.380 Fast forward nine years.

00:11:20.860 And we are here with our sailors and the other servicemen too, having to sit through these

00:11:25.920 bizarre training videos where you have to pretend that a dude can be a chick.

00:11:29.060 Nine years.

00:11:31.740 Think about how fast that is.

00:11:34.100 And think about too, how just insanely navel-gazing and narcissistic it is.

00:11:40.280 I am coming to you right now from Santa Barbara, California.

00:11:43.720 I came up to Santa Barbara to speak to the YAF high school conference.

00:11:48.500 I'm going to have to miss the YAF college conference because little Buddy Knowles, little

00:11:51.720 baby number two is coming out.

00:11:52.960 So I came up here.

00:11:53.600 I was really pleased to be able to speak to high school students.

00:11:57.080 The topic of my speech was the narcissism of gender ideology.

00:12:02.380 And I hope you check it out.

00:12:03.600 I think it's on the YAF YouTube channel now.

00:12:05.940 We always talk about the absurdity of transgenderism. 1.00

00:12:08.640 We talk about the absurdity from a biological standpoint, the incoherence from a metaphysical

00:12:13.540 standpoint.

00:12:14.140 We don't really focus on the narcissism of it.

00:12:16.940 It's just people talking about themselves all the time.

00:12:19.880 They're just focused on themselves and the most base aspects of themselves. 0.95

00:12:23.600 We're talking about their genitals and their libido and their sexual desires ad nauseum. 1.00

00:12:27.900 And it's sad and it's pathetic. 1.00

00:12:29.820 And it's the sort of thing that children do, the people who haven't gotten an education, 0.98

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00:12:35.640 This is not the sort of thing we should expect from adults.

00:12:37.820 It sure as hell isn't the sort of thing that we should expect from the United States military.

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00:14:24.140 We are now approaching the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

00:14:32.460 Title IX is this way to give women lots of distinct opportunities in educational environments. 1.00

00:14:39.320 And in the most ironic, hilarious way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX,

00:14:44.260 Joe Biden has decided to push to extend the Title IX protections that go to women to men who pretend to be women.

00:14:55.120 So Joe Biden is celebrating the half-century anniversary of Title IX by completely destroying Title IX.

00:15:02.100 And it's bad.

00:15:03.040 The stuff that he's doing is bad.

00:15:04.580 And it's bad to recognize this delusion of transgenderism in federal law. 0.99

00:15:08.660 And it's just wrong from an ontological and moral and legal standpoint.

00:15:13.760 But it's kind of funny.

00:15:16.800 We have to admit it's kind of funny that we've gone full circle here and had feminism completely destroyed by the poisonous fruits that it put out well over 50 years ago,

00:15:29.080 that the second wave of feminism put out. 0.99

00:15:31.140 It does remind us, too, you can't have it all.

00:15:34.660 You can't have everything.

00:15:36.360 This is a theme I've talked about a lot.

00:15:38.020 I wrote a book about it.

00:15:38.780 We talk about it in this show.

00:15:41.740 Society requires limits.

00:15:43.580 Limits to our speech.

00:15:44.640 Limits to our behavior.

00:15:45.680 Limits to our institutions.

00:15:47.100 Limits to our laws.

00:15:48.260 Limits to our rights.

00:15:49.340 You need limits.

00:15:50.880 You need limits for liberty.

00:15:52.600 If liberty is to have any sense at all, it needs to have limits.

00:15:55.800 If it doesn't have limits, it becomes licentiousness, and you lose the whole system.

00:15:59.020 So what Biden is proposing is to change Title IX protections, which protect people on the basis of sex,

00:16:08.720 to protect LGBTQI plus students from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.

00:16:17.400 This according to Biden's Department of Education.

00:16:20.280 But you can't.

00:16:21.240 You can't protect everything.

00:16:22.840 You can't be totally inclusive of everything and everyone.

00:16:25.520 You can't tolerate everything.

00:16:27.080 If we're going to be really tolerant and open toward the transgender students, then we are not going to be so tolerant of the women who don't want dudes changing in their locker room. 1.00

00:16:40.340 If we're going to be tolerant of the women and protect women, which was the whole point of Title IX in the first place, then you can't protect the so-called rights of the so-called transgender students. 0.98

00:16:49.040 Because you can't let the dudes into the women's sports leagues and into the locker rooms and into the bathrooms. 1.00

00:16:53.980 You have to pick one.

00:16:55.880 And the Biden administration is pretending not to pick one.

00:16:58.360 The Biden administration is pretending to just be really open and inclusive to everybody, man.

00:17:02.400 But they're not. 0.79

00:17:03.680 They are tacitly endorsing transgenderism, and they are tacitly throwing the chicks under the bus. 0.97

00:17:10.200 Does Joe Biden know that he's doing that?

00:17:12.260 Probably not.

00:17:13.080 But the people who are working for him and the people who are leading him around by the hand certainly are.

00:17:18.100 There's been a big debate over just how far gone Joe Biden is.

00:17:23.200 Some people have argued that Joe Biden actually, even though he talks like he's not all there and even though he seems to fall down a lot, he's the president.

00:17:31.700 He's the one calling the shots.

00:17:32.760 He's not being handled.

00:17:33.980 He's not being led around.

00:17:35.700 He's the decider.

00:17:37.240 I don't think that's true.

00:17:38.680 I don't think it's true, not just because the man is obviously diminished.

00:17:44.960 I don't think it's true because the man has never believed anything ever.

00:17:48.080 The man was always kind of being led around, if not by handlers, then by the prevailing political wins.

00:17:54.140 The guy is just an empty suit.

00:17:56.160 And now it's not merely a matter of him not knowing what he thinks about a certain issue.

00:18:00.800 Now it's a matter of he doesn't know how to act when he walks into a room.

00:18:03.660 And we just saw this because of a photograph that the White House released.

00:18:09.420 It was zoomed in on.

00:18:10.240 Greg Price pointed this out.

00:18:12.240 Biden was holding a sheet of paper that told him exactly what to do, where to sit, what to do.

00:18:20.300 You can read it right there.

00:18:21.600 He says, you, all capital letters, you enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.

00:18:28.140 You take your, all caps, seat.

00:18:31.280 Press enters.

00:18:31.860 You give brief comments.

00:18:34.760 The press departs.

00:18:35.640 You ask Liz Shuler of the AFL-CIO a question.

00:18:39.500 You thank participants.

00:18:41.660 You depart.

00:18:42.480 So even these really basic things, you sit down in your chair.

00:18:45.980 You stop making it so obvious that you're reading these notes that we gave to you.

00:18:50.360 This is pretty clear that Joe Biden is being led around.

00:18:53.320 I do wish that whoever gave him the sheet of paper would instruct him on how to fix the economy,

00:18:59.880 would instruct him on how to restart American oil and gas production, would teach him anything productive rather than how to comport himself around the press.

00:19:11.040 But that is probably, that is probably too much to ask.

00:19:13.760 He just looks so weak.

00:19:15.360 He looks so weak because he's frail and he's doddering and he's stuttering and he's falling down and he doesn't even know how to get into a room by himself.

00:19:22.240 But he also looks weak from the standpoint of policy.

00:19:27.000 We have record high gas.

00:19:28.620 We've had record high gas for what, over 20 consecutive days now or something like that.

00:19:33.060 I'm in California.

00:19:34.480 Gas is $7 a gallon in some places or more, $8 a gallon in some places.

00:19:39.560 So what's Joe Biden going to do to fix it?

00:19:42.960 Well, Joe Biden's plan is he's going to ask the gas companies, in a really stern voice, to just to lower the prices.

00:19:50.680 So let's be honest with one another.

00:19:52.860 My message is simple.

00:19:54.460 To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war.

00:20:02.720 Global peril.

00:20:04.100 Ukraine.

00:20:05.240 These are not normal times.

00:20:06.920 Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product.

00:20:14.220 Do it now.

00:20:15.520 Do it today.

00:20:17.220 That's his plan.

00:20:18.600 His plan is asking the gas companies to lower their prices and then say, do it now.

00:20:24.260 That's not a plan.

00:20:25.800 That's not a plan.

00:20:27.380 By the way, they're not, it's not as though the gas companies are just raising their prices to make a lot of money.

00:20:32.760 Yes, the gas companies want to maximize their profits, but that's nothing new.

00:20:37.620 That's true in ordinary times.

00:20:39.080 That's true in extraordinary times.

00:20:40.380 And if the gas companies were not facing pressure because of things like the war in Ukraine, because of things like increased demand, because of things like Joe Biden shutting down new oil and gas production, shutting down new oil pipelines, if they weren't facing that, they would be able to lower their prices.

00:20:56.980 They are trying to compete with one another.

00:20:58.740 It's not just like there's one gas company.

00:21:00.820 They are trying to compete with one another, but that's where the market is right now.

00:21:04.920 And the market's there, not just because of these sad, terrible turns of misfortune that have afflicted Joe Biden out of pure happenstance.

00:21:14.480 These things are happening because of decisions that Joe Biden made.

00:21:18.140 So for all those republicans in Congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in America, are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine?

00:21:28.840 Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin?

00:21:32.000 Are you saying that we would rather have lower gas prices in America and Putin's iron fist in Europe?

00:21:38.100 I don't believe that.

00:21:41.220 No, we're saying you should have dealt with all of that stuff the first time and not personally invited Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

00:21:47.240 The revisionist history that comes from this guy is so audacious, you almost have to respect the sheer tenacity of it, except to be fair, he probably doesn't remember he said it.

00:21:58.340 Joe Biden, one, rolled out the red carpet for Putin by lifting the sanctions on Putin's oil pipeline, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which Ukraine President Zelensky says caused the Russian invasion.

00:22:11.140 So Biden causes the Russian invasion.

00:22:14.180 Then when Putin's getting ready to invade, he literally invites him to invade and says, well, if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, then we're not going to really do anything about that.

00:22:23.140 So he says, you can do it. You can invade Donbass. You can invade the eastern parts of the country. That's totally fine. 0.97

00:22:28.880 Then, knowing that we're going to have the oil markets going crazy, he shuts down future oil and gas leases in America.

00:22:35.640 He didn't need to do that. He just chose to do that.

00:22:38.080 Previously, he had shut down oil pipelines in America, so he gives the green light to Putin's pipeline, but he shuts down the American pipelines.

00:22:44.200 And when you shut down one pipeline, it's not just that you shut down one pipeline.

00:22:48.160 You are signaling that the government is not going to back any new oil pipelines when there's pushback, so he does all of those things.

00:22:55.260 No, buddy, when we're complaining about this, you can't just fall back on the traditional Democrat strategy of saying that we're colluding with Vladimir Putin.

00:23:04.160 You can't do that.

00:23:05.060 First of all, you're the one who was weak on Putin, and you were so weak on Putin that it caused all these problems in the first place.

00:23:10.580 And then you showed up and got tough a little bit too late. 0.99

00:23:13.160 And then you made a bunch of stupid decisions on how to punish Vladimir Putin that had no effect on him, by the way. 1.00

00:23:19.420 Russia's doing just fine right now. 1.00

00:23:21.200 We're the ones feeling the pain.

00:23:23.120 Russia is not feeling the same kind of pain that Joe Biden insisted that he would be, that Putin would be, and that Russia would be.

00:23:31.200 And so now we're in this situation that because of him, the only thing that he can do is say, hey, you oil companies, bring down your prices.

00:23:38.220 Thanks a lot, buddy.

00:23:38.860 Tell me when that's going to work.

00:23:40.420 Not very intimidating.

00:23:41.880 It's not intimidating to Putin or any of our enemies overseas.

00:23:45.780 It's not intimidating to domestic opponents either.

00:23:49.720 Ron DeSantis, Governor Ron DeSantis, absolutely crushing it as per usual down there in Florida.

00:23:55.720 He's pushing back on the White House, not on the issue of energy, not on the issue of Ukraine, but on something that is probably certainly closer to home for us than Ukraine.

00:24:04.760 And it's up there with the gas prices.

00:24:06.440 It is this insistence by the White House, by Washington DC, that we shoot our little babies up with these experimental Fauci ouchies that are so extraordinarily safe and effective that we all need to take 10 million boosters.

00:24:20.220 Ron DeSantis said, no, we're not going to follow any of that guidance.

00:24:25.020 Governor Ron DeSantis asked in Florida if he will be going along with the White House's insistence on shooting up babies full of Dr.

00:24:38.580 Fauci's super duper safe and effective experimental vaccines that don't stop you from catching or spreading the virus.

00:24:44.920 And Ron DeSantis says, no, I don't think we're going to be doing that.

00:24:48.360 What do you make of the White House saying that the state reversed on child vaccines?

00:24:53.720 So the White House is lying about it.

00:24:56.040 We are surprised.

00:24:57.760 Not surprised the White House would lie.

00:24:59.800 Definitely not surprised that legacy media would amplify the lie because that's what they do.

00:25:05.040 The state of Florida, they came out with an article saying the state of Florida has not ordered, its Department of Health has not ordered mRNA jabs for the babies.

00:25:13.380 Yes, we didn't.

00:25:14.740 We recommend against it.

00:25:16.340 We are not going to have any programs where we're trying to jab six-month-old babies with mRNA.

00:25:22.980 That's just the reality.

00:25:28.500 And I think what happened was they thought somehow we would be embarrassed by that.

00:25:34.180 No, we're following the data.

00:25:35.680 You look at these European countries.

00:25:37.260 A lot of them don't even allow Moderna for under age 30 or they recommend against it.

00:25:43.720 So that was always that.

00:25:44.860 We still have not ordered it.

00:25:46.020 We're not going to order it.

00:25:47.160 Now what they're saying is because practitioners and hospitals can order it, somehow we've reversed.

00:25:52.500 I said from the beginning they'll be able to do that.

00:25:55.280 We don't have the authority to prevent it.

00:25:57.280 And quite frankly, if someone wants to make a different decision, I would just caution people, look at the actual data in the clinical trial.

00:26:04.340 It is the weakest possible data that you could possibly see.

00:26:10.500 No, we're not going to do it.

00:26:12.160 I love that way that DeSantis talks.

00:26:13.900 He's just so confident about everything.

00:26:16.960 He's just so, hey, Governor DeSantis, what should we have for lunch today?

00:26:21.080 We're going to have cheeseburgers for lunch, okay?

00:26:24.040 And other people, they want to have a turkey sandwich.

00:26:27.620 And other people, they tried having pizza.

00:26:29.840 And that doesn't work.

00:26:31.040 And we're not going to do that in Florida, and we're not going to do that for America.

00:26:34.300 And on this issue, I'm not making fun of him.

00:26:35.860 I genuinely like that kind of clarity.

00:26:38.440 And he's completely right on this issue.

00:26:40.600 Well, what do you say about you're not ordering vaccines, Fauci-ouchi experimental vaccines for little tiny babies?

00:26:47.480 Correct.

00:26:48.080 Bingo.

00:26:48.540 You got it.

00:26:49.440 I know you're upset about it.

00:26:50.880 But the report actually totally, totally right.

00:26:53.560 This is also really important for DeSantis to focus on because this is the distinguishing feature between him and Trump.

00:27:03.680 Trump and DeSantis speak broadly to the same group of voters.

00:27:08.540 They speak in largely the same way.

00:27:10.560 They even use the same kind of hand gestures and the same modes of speaking.

00:27:14.240 They both are talking to a kind of populist, kind of nationalist, kind of new right audience.

00:27:22.280 But Trump backed the vaccines.

00:27:26.920 Trump, wittingly or unwittingly, gave the stage to Dr. Fauci.

00:27:30.240 I'm not knocking him too much forward.

00:27:31.500 It was very, very hard to resist that sort of thing at the time.

00:27:34.080 And Trump went very hard for the vaccines.

00:27:37.040 Not to mandate anything, but to encourage people to take them.

00:27:40.640 But DeSantis, a little softer on the vaccines.

00:27:46.000 And he was a little more reticent to follow Dr. Fauci.

00:27:49.600 And he just looks better to conservative voters on COVID.

00:27:56.040 And so in this stealth race for the 2024 presidential nomination, where DeSantis and Trump, they're not going after each other yet explicitly.

00:28:06.500 This is going to be the issue that DeSantis is going to run with because it's by far his greatest strength vis-a-vis Trump.

00:28:16.880 Now, the criticisms of Trump on COVID, again, I think it would have been very tough for Trump to actually withstand the libs trying to lock down the whole world and rig the election and kick him out of office.

00:28:30.420 But that's the most legit attack, I think, that you can find on Trump.

00:28:34.460 The vast majority of attacks on Trump are complete BS.

00:28:37.340 Notably, the idea – well, starting with the idea that he colluded with the Russians.

00:28:41.260 Turns out that was a total Fed Democrat hoax, and we now know that for a fact.

00:28:45.040 But two, the idea that Donald Trump tried to stage a coup d'etat on January 6th, the worst day ever in American history.

00:28:56.420 And we were this close to being governed by the dictatorship of the Horn Hat guy, but we made it through. 1.00

00:29:02.400 So that's obviously completely absurd, and that never happened.

00:29:06.880 But did you catch the insurrection that did happen? 0.98

00:29:09.020 No, probably not, because you wouldn't have heard about it, and it wasn't talked about on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post and blared endlessly on all of the stupid left-wing news networks. 0.88

00:29:21.380 But there was – if January 6th was an insurrection, there was an insurrection in the Wisconsin Statehouse. 0.95

00:29:30.840 Did you hear that?

00:29:36.000 If you weren't watching, if you're just listening to this show right now, I'll describe the scene for you.

00:29:41.360 It wasn't Horn Hat guys painted in red, white, and blue, popping cores, wearing MAGA hats.

00:29:45.820 It was a bunch of left-wingers wearing pink T-shirts, Planned Parenthood T-shirts, that were chanting,

00:29:52.940 shut it down, we don't care, all throughout the Wisconsin Statehouse.

00:30:00.400 If January 6th was an insurrection, certainly this was an insurrection too.

00:30:04.840 They're explicitly trying to interfere with government business.

00:30:10.200 They are saying, shut it down.

00:30:12.180 Shut down what?

00:30:13.480 Shut down the legislature.

00:30:15.180 Shut down the government.

00:30:16.620 Shut down the lawmaking process.

00:30:18.300 The lawmaking process in Wisconsin's sacred temple to our democracy.

00:30:24.180 No, you don't hear any of that because the libs don't care about it. 1.00

00:30:27.120 Because in this case, the insurrectionists are on their side.

00:30:30.080 And they don't really care about our democracy or anything like that.

00:30:33.660 When the libs say democracy, they just mean liberalism, progressivism, leftism, this sort of stuff that they are after.

00:30:40.620 Just another reminder not to take anything about January 6th seriously at all.

00:30:47.340 It's a complete political operation.

00:30:49.360 The way that it's talked about is a hoax, is exaggerated to the point of really just being a fabrication.

00:30:56.660 And people are still attacking Trump.

00:30:59.200 They're still attacking Trump, even in that great temple to our sacred democracy.

00:31:02.560 Eric Swalwell, the man who was almost president.

00:31:06.760 One of the first people out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary,

00:31:10.240 who later was found out to be sleeping with a Chinese spy who never stops stepping on rakes of his own making.

00:31:17.320 Eric Swalwell tells this harrowing tale from the Capitol.

00:31:21.720 Quote,

00:31:21.980 Today I gave a tour in the Capitol and was stopped by a father with his young boy.

00:31:25.560 The father yelled at me, hey, Swalwell, then told his son that Swalwell, he's trouble.

00:31:29.040 He doesn't back Trump.

00:31:30.160 I kept walking and felt sad for the boy.

00:31:32.180 He's being raised in a cult family.

00:31:35.200 In a cult family because a Republican made fun of Swalwell and said,

00:31:39.080 we're backing the other guy.

00:31:40.080 We're not backing the Democrats.

00:31:41.320 We're backing.

00:31:41.540 That's a cult, according to them. 0.99

00:31:44.080 The people who believe that men can secretly be women and who are chopping off the genitals of children, 0.91

00:31:49.520 that they're accusing other people of being in a cult because we backed the Republican

00:31:54.140 who wanted to cut our taxes and let us be a little bit freer.

00:31:58.020 That's what they say.

00:31:59.060 And it's important.

00:31:59.820 This kind of language is important.

00:32:02.740 It's not a mere political disagreement here.

00:32:04.640 They are delegitimizing any opposition.

00:32:06.980 If you oppose them in any way, you contradict them in any way,

00:32:10.500 it's not just that you're kind of wrong and we're going to fight you at the ballot box. 0.96

00:32:12.980 It's that you are a dangerous, insurrectionist, terrorist cult member, 0.91

00:32:18.200 and you will be dealt with accordingly. 0.92

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00:34:16.300 All right, without further ado, let's get the first question.

00:34:18.740 Mr. Knowles, I recently listened to your yes or no with Will Witt on a road trip,

00:34:23.480 and I would like to challenge you on your stance on marijuana.

00:34:26.560 It is sheer hypocrisy for you to sit there, sipping your martinis, saying that weed should be illegal. 0.88

00:34:33.140 God created grain, which you turned into booze.

00:34:36.140 God also created grass, which I turned into brownies.

00:34:39.640 Your justification that alcohol should remain legal is based on the second chapter of John,

00:34:43.760 Jesus turning water into wine, and that it has been in our culture forever.

00:34:47.020 Basically just an appeal to tradition, not a moral stance.

00:34:51.680 Is your view really so narrow that you cannot see the generalization of mild natural intoxicants?

00:34:56.980 If so, why do you generalize to the view that all alcohol is okay instead of wine only?

00:35:01.820 Where's the verse about Jesus turning water into whiskey?

00:35:04.940 Really good question.

00:35:06.360 You are completely wrong, but it's a very, very good question.

00:35:09.000 You say that my justification for booze comes from the Gospels.

00:35:16.660 In part, that's true. 0.96

00:35:17.680 I cite it.

00:35:18.340 I mean, I'm not arguing that because booze is in the Gospels, that is the sole reason why we should have booze.

00:35:28.560 I am saying that second part, that part that you kind of glided over a little bit, which is,

00:35:34.620 and because it's been in our culture traditionally for a long time.

00:35:37.840 Yes, I'm saying it's been in our culture.

00:35:40.080 It's so important to our culture.

00:35:41.140 It goes back so long.

00:35:42.420 Actually, it was the first miracle of Jesus.

00:35:45.040 That's how far it goes back.

00:35:46.560 That's how deep it is in our culture.

00:35:48.220 And you're saying, so you're telling me, Michael, that just because it's traditional, we should do it?

00:35:52.560 That just because it's traditional, we should think about it differently than something that is not traditional

00:35:56.440 and is some relatively newer, relatively more liberal thing that was introduced from a foreign culture?

00:36:01.680 And my answer is, yeah, yup, uh-huh, that's my view.

00:36:08.000 That happens to be a conservative view.

00:36:11.000 I do not have a highly ideological, rationalist view about which intoxicants I support.

00:36:16.980 I have a conservative view, a traditionalist view, a prudential view.

00:36:24.080 Even if you wanted to get rid of booze, it wouldn't work.

00:36:26.960 It's too deep in our culture.

00:36:28.440 You could get rid of pot.

00:36:30.040 You could suppress the use of marijuana in our culture.

00:36:32.660 We did it for a very long time.

00:36:34.460 And then the libs wanted to legalize pot, and now more people smoke pot. 1.00

00:36:38.120 And by the way, I don't think that they're the same sorts of things.

00:36:41.800 I do think that whiskey and gin and tequila and everything is fairly similar to wine and beer,

00:36:53.500 though they're a little bit different.

00:36:54.940 But I think they're different in kind from something like pot.

00:36:57.780 I don't think all drugs are the same.

00:37:00.040 Marijuana and cocaine are very different drugs.

00:37:02.640 One kind of chills you out.

00:37:03.940 One gets you really hopped up and crazy.

00:37:06.260 Booze is a great social lubricant.

00:37:09.700 Marijuana really is not.

00:37:11.560 I'll be totally frank with you.

00:37:13.600 I've puffed on the devil's lettuce a little bit in my wayward youth.

00:37:16.460 Okay, not too much.

00:37:17.140 It was never really my thing. 0.77

00:37:18.140 But I tried it, and I didn't like it very much because it made me, I felt dumber and not as funny.

00:37:25.400 And I just, I don't know.

00:37:27.120 I just don't really like it.

00:37:28.220 And so what's my argument for why we should suppress that and not necessarily,

00:37:33.000 not totally suppress booze, that we suppress booze in some ways too?

00:37:36.720 Because that's what I want.

00:37:38.680 And it's not just what, I'm not saying it's just not just because of what I want and my tyranny of the will.

00:37:42.820 I think we have the right to set community standards.

00:37:45.320 And we have the right to say, no, certain intoxicants we don't like because of their effects.

00:37:50.100 And certain intoxicants maybe we don't like, but we're going to tolerate them because it would be too hard to get rid of them.

00:37:54.280 And certain intoxicants we sort of like, you know, nicotine or something.

00:37:58.620 In certain ways, that's going to be okay, and we're going to accept that.

00:38:02.320 And yeah, we do have the right to make those judgments.

00:38:04.440 We do have the right to set those standards.

00:38:06.840 Unless you're going to make the argument that we should legalize all drugs, including black tar heroin, including fentanyl and all of that,

00:38:12.900 I don't think there would be any good argument for that whatsoever.

00:38:15.380 But it's not hypocrisy.

00:38:17.300 It's standards.

00:38:18.320 It's culture.

00:38:19.200 It's tradition.

00:38:19.860 It's very, very conservative.

00:38:21.560 Okay, next question.

00:38:22.940 Hi, I've been meaning to send in a message for a couple weeks, and I'm finally getting around to it.

00:38:27.360 This is a little out of date now, but during your debate with the girl over abortion,

00:38:30.360 one thing I noticed you didn't point out, which I've seen very few people point out,

00:38:33.720 is the false equivalence of her analogy.

00:38:35.780 Whether it's the violin analogy or a car as she framed it,

00:38:38.600 the analogy posits that allowing the natural flow of events leads to death,

00:38:41.940 and taking direct action by contravening nature leads to life,

00:38:45.200 where in reality, inaction leads to a living baby, and taking action directly leads to a dead baby.

00:38:50.400 The false equivalence goes directly toward the pro-abortion side's deliberate reframing of pregnancies

00:38:54.500 and unnatural occurrence, like a parasitic infection that needs to be stopped.

00:38:58.760 And I think a lot of people on that side would be against that if they understood where the arguments were coming from,

00:39:03.500 similar to how they would be for abolishing Roe if they knew the actual impact that will, God willing, have.

00:39:09.160 It's a dishonest framing, and I wish you'd pointed that out during the debate.

00:39:12.140 What would your thoughts be there?

00:39:13.560 My thoughts are you're exactly right.

00:39:15.440 It's a very good point to make. 0.99

00:39:16.940 There are lots of problems with the stupid violin analogy and all sorts of arguments for abortion, 0.98

00:39:21.520 but I have very little to add there. 0.99

00:39:22.820 I think you're totally right.

00:39:24.980 One of the problems debating abortion is it's so wrong.

00:39:29.220 It's so wrong for so very many reasons that one could be there all day,

00:39:33.240 and you kind of have to pick and choose.

00:39:34.540 But I agree.

00:39:35.080 That's a very good point.

00:39:35.780 I'm glad you brought it up.

00:39:36.740 Well put.

00:39:37.880 I couldn't have said it any better myself.

00:39:40.900 Next question.

00:39:41.980 Hey, Michael.

00:39:42.800 Huge fan of the show.

00:39:43.940 Super appreciative of all that you guys do over there at The Daily Wire.

00:39:47.700 My question for you is about religion and spreading Christianity.

00:39:51.160 This might sound backwards, but I find it easier to share the gospel with people who are atheist or agnostic

00:39:57.060 than it is to share the gospel with religious friends.

00:40:00.500 If somebody is already Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or whatever their religion may be,

00:40:05.380 how would you recommend sharing Christianity's message about Jesus?

00:40:09.720 They already have a belief system.

00:40:11.580 They already trust God.

00:40:12.820 They already worship regularly.

00:40:14.580 So how are we supposed to just convince them to abandon their faith and choose ours instead? 0.91

00:40:20.640 Thanks and God bless.

00:40:22.040 Congrats on the second baby too.

00:40:23.740 Thank you very much.

00:40:25.120 I agree with your perception.

00:40:27.580 I think that's true that it is easier to talk to atheists about God and evangelize to them

00:40:32.740 than it is to evangelize to people who already have some conception of God in religion,

00:40:37.080 albeit maybe not the correct one.

00:40:39.480 That's true.

00:40:40.140 In part, it's because the atheists are just so obviously wrong, 1.00

00:40:45.060 and either they haven't given the topic a lot of thought,

00:40:49.120 or if they have, they've really gone down very bad paths.

00:40:52.900 And so it's much easier to do that,

00:40:54.940 whereas someone who is, let's say, a Muslim or a Jew or some type of sect of Christianity that you do not agree with,

00:41:01.320 they probably have given it a fair bit of thought.

00:41:03.720 And so one wants to tread lightly, also because we need allies.

00:41:09.740 And so as a political matter, you might totally disagree with the Jews and the Muslims and the Methodists and the this and the that,

00:41:16.560 but you know that in this day and age when belief in God, period, is so under attack by the atheists and the secularists,

00:41:24.600 you don't want to alienate them because as just a practical matter,

00:41:27.260 you need to form a coalition to fight back against the radicals.

00:41:30.720 So I totally agree with your point.

00:41:33.620 But yes, you do have to evangelize.

00:41:35.480 So how would I go about that?

00:41:37.000 Well, if I were evangelizing to a Muslim, 0.86

00:41:39.380 I would probably focus on God as logos, as the divine logic of the universe.

00:41:46.420 This is not accepted in Islam.

00:41:49.860 In Islam, Allah is totally transcendent.

00:41:54.120 In Islam, Allah is pure will.

00:41:56.820 So I mentioned this on the show the other day.

00:41:58.960 It's funny that this is coming up again now.

00:42:01.680 Pope Benedict puts it very well in the Regensburg Address

00:42:03.900 where he's quoting a Muslim theologian, Ibn Hazm,

00:42:06.180 who points out that Allah can order you to do anything.

00:42:11.740 Allah could order his followers to worship idols. 0.58

00:42:15.100 And that would make some sort of sense in Islam.

00:42:18.560 Very different from Christianity where Christ and God, the Trinity, 0.99

00:42:25.380 is not merely will, but also logic.

00:42:29.140 So that would be one place.

00:42:30.400 And then you would probably want to point to the divinity of Christ,

00:42:33.240 which is a point of contention with Islam.

00:42:37.460 Islam views Christ as a figure to be honored,

00:42:40.700 but they say that he's not God.

00:42:44.060 And you would also want to point to the crucifixion

00:42:46.120 because Islam denies the crucifixion 0.97

00:42:48.060 and the crucifixion is simply an historical fact.

00:42:50.880 So you would want to point to that as well.

00:42:52.700 If you're evangelizing to a Jew, 0.76

00:42:54.960 obviously you would just need to convince the Jew 1.00

00:42:57.460 that Christ is who he says he is.

00:42:59.520 You might go for C.S. Lewis's argument that Christ is either a Lord,

00:43:04.320 the Lord, a liar, or a lunatic. 0.97

00:43:07.660 Sometimes you will hear people suggest, 1.00

00:43:09.680 no, there's a fourth L.

00:43:10.640 He could be a legend.

00:43:11.800 This, I think, is the weakest of all.

00:43:13.240 We just have so much historical evidence of Christ's existence

00:43:17.500 and his life broadly as we know it to be.

00:43:21.500 So I would go through that.

00:43:23.120 You might also focus on the Old Testament,

00:43:25.600 the Old Testament as prefiguring Christ,

00:43:28.540 as various Old Testament figures, as types of Christ.

00:43:31.320 And I would focus specifically on the book of Isaiah.

00:43:33.620 If you're trying to evangelize to a Protestant, 0.85

00:43:37.460 let's say you're a Catholic

00:43:38.100 and you're trying to evangelize to a Protestant,

00:43:40.480 you would point to the historical continuity of the church.

00:43:44.320 And you would point to the doctrines and dogmas

00:43:48.760 and practices in the Catholic church

00:43:50.200 that different Protestant sects might take issue with.

00:43:53.620 And you would want to show their historical continuity

00:43:56.740 and their place in the scripture,

00:43:59.560 which is true.

00:44:00.700 There's some grounding in the scripture for all of it.

00:44:03.300 And so you would speak in that kind of language.

00:44:05.540 And if you were trying to evangelize to,

00:44:07.580 I don't know, to a Catholic,

00:44:09.200 well, I don't know.

00:44:09.960 I wouldn't, I don't think you have to do that.

00:44:11.600 It's just my point of view.

00:44:12.480 Okay, next question.

00:44:13.780 Hey, Michael, huge fan of the show.

00:44:15.800 Quick question for you.

00:44:17.120 You're always talking about how,

00:44:18.580 if there are things in our community, state,

00:44:20.520 or even the country at large that we want changed,

00:44:23.020 we should contact our senators and representatives

00:44:25.140 asking for said change.

00:44:27.340 However, I live in Georgia.

00:44:29.280 So unfortunately, my senators are Warnock and Ossoff. 0.98

00:44:33.100 Warnock is crazy. 0.99

00:44:34.500 Ossoff is slimy. 1.00

00:44:35.700 And unfortunately, my congresswoman is also crazy. 1.00

00:44:40.800 Luckily, she just got primaried, 1.00

00:44:42.720 but I'm still stuck with her until November

00:44:44.700 when Warnock will be up for re-election.

00:44:46.640 Come November, I will still be six months away

00:44:50.420 from being old enough to vote.

00:44:51.960 Do you have any advice on how I can affect change until then?

00:44:55.280 Or do I just have to wait for the red wave

00:44:57.260 that's hopefully coming and being old enough to vote?

00:45:00.620 Thanks so much for everything you do.

00:45:02.700 Great question.

00:45:03.700 Yes, there is something you can do right now,

00:45:05.540 right this very second,

00:45:06.480 especially in a midterm election year

00:45:09.360 and in a state where the elections will be tight.

00:45:11.920 You can volunteer for a campaign.

00:45:13.400 You might not be able to vote,

00:45:14.500 but you can volunteer for a campaign.

00:45:16.540 It's a really, really good experience.

00:45:18.820 One of the most educational experiences of my entire life

00:45:21.820 was the first congressional campaign

00:45:23.460 that I worked on when I was 19 years old, I think.

00:45:26.500 So I'd really recommend that you do that.

00:45:28.400 I mean, it's gonna be a really bitter fight

00:45:29.740 down there in Georgia,

00:45:30.400 so you should absolutely get involved in it.

00:45:33.180 All right, enough of the voicemail bag.

00:45:35.160 Now we get to the old-fashioned,

00:45:37.200 old-timey typed-up mailbag.

00:45:39.000 Question from David.

00:45:40.960 Hi, Michael.

00:45:41.400 What do you think about monarchy?

00:45:43.400 I believe monarchy is the one form of government

00:45:45.900 which is best supported by the Bible

00:45:47.960 and Christian tradition.

00:45:49.860 If you are not a monarchist,

00:45:51.120 how do you reconcile this

00:45:52.020 with your traditional Catholic faith?

00:45:53.580 Really good question.

00:45:54.880 I'm not anti-monarchy.

00:45:57.520 I know that some people think

00:45:59.780 that the American Revolution

00:46:00.900 was about overthrowing monarchy

00:46:02.660 or a total rejection of monarchy.

00:46:04.520 I don't think that's true.

00:46:06.060 I think a lot of the founding fathers

00:46:07.660 were perfectly open to monarchy,

00:46:09.660 and there are kind of monarchistic elements

00:46:11.660 in the American regime.

00:46:14.700 There are three kinds of just regimes.

00:46:18.920 Monarchies.

00:46:19.540 There have been good monarchies.

00:46:20.620 There have been good monarchies

00:46:21.440 and bad democracies.

00:46:23.400 The monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

00:46:25.700 The bad version of those three regimes

00:46:28.040 is tyranny for monarchy

00:46:31.120 and oligarchy for aristocracy 0.66

00:46:33.060 and mob rule for democracy.

00:46:36.140 That's the bad version,

00:46:37.180 or you could have the good version.

00:46:38.020 In terms of the ideal regime,

00:46:41.900 I tend to side with Thomas Aquinas,

00:46:43.840 as I do on most things.

00:46:45.420 And Thomas Aquinas has a very interesting description

00:46:48.320 of the ideal regime.

00:46:49.720 He writes in the Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae,

00:46:52.580 question 105, he says,

00:46:54.000 the best form of government

00:46:55.300 is in a state or kingdom

00:46:57.320 where one is given the power

00:46:59.880 to preside over all,

00:47:01.120 while under him are others

00:47:02.460 having governing powers,

00:47:03.780 and yet a government of this kind

00:47:04.940 is shared by all,

00:47:05.740 both because all are eligible to govern

00:47:07.500 and because the rules are chosen by all.

00:47:09.760 For this is the best form of polity

00:47:11.260 being partly kingdom,

00:47:12.560 since there is one at the head of all,

00:47:14.280 partly aristocracy,

00:47:15.320 insofar as a number of persons

00:47:16.540 are set in authority,

00:47:17.640 partly democracy,

00:47:18.700 that is government by the people,

00:47:20.480 insofar as the rulers

00:47:21.420 can be chosen from the people,

00:47:22.680 and the people have the right

00:47:23.620 to choose their rulers.

00:47:25.220 Did you hear that?

00:47:26.340 Did you listen to what he was describing?

00:47:29.240 Sounds pretty similar to me

00:47:30.880 to the American form of government,

00:47:32.700 which has one person

00:47:34.080 presiding at the head of all,

00:47:35.140 and aristocratic elements,

00:47:36.480 certainly at the founding of the country

00:47:37.880 before the 17th Amendment

00:47:39.060 when the Senate exercised a role

00:47:40.900 that was a sort of aristocratic role.

00:47:42.960 There are other elements too.

00:47:44.160 And then, obviously,

00:47:45.360 a large democratic role

00:47:46.640 in the government too.

00:47:47.980 In many ways,

00:47:49.600 the American form of government

00:47:50.800 is a reflection,

00:47:52.940 or pretty close to a reflection,

00:47:54.380 of St. Thomas Aquinas' ideal regime.

00:47:57.640 And it does remind us too

00:47:59.040 of what Tocqueville wrote.

00:48:00.520 Alexei de Tocqueville,

00:48:01.680 writing the most famous book ever

00:48:03.980 on democracy in America,

00:48:06.120 on both of those things.

00:48:07.740 Alexei de Tocqueville was a liberal,

00:48:10.100 and he was pro-democracy,

00:48:11.500 and he was very pro-America,

00:48:12.700 and he's a French aristocrat.

00:48:14.560 And he pointed out

00:48:16.520 that we think of Catholicism

00:48:17.980 as a kind of foreign element

00:48:19.040 in America,

00:48:19.640 but actually,

00:48:20.700 it's kind of the most American

00:48:22.060 type of religion.

00:48:23.880 And he actually predicted

00:48:24.800 that Americans would either

00:48:26.300 become Catholics

00:48:27.160 or give up Christianity altogether.

00:48:29.340 That's an interesting topic

00:48:30.540 for another time.

00:48:31.460 But as for the form of government,

00:48:33.480 well, the American form,

00:48:34.640 at least the,

00:48:35.260 maybe not the way

00:48:36.000 it's functioning now,

00:48:36.840 but the way that it was

00:48:37.640 originally set up

00:48:38.640 is pretty close to the ideal.

00:48:41.280 Okay, that's it.

00:48:42.040 I'm Michael Knowles.

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