Ep. 1047 - Trump's Huge Announcement
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A new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reveals that the top 68 officials in the Biden administration have spent an average of 2.4 years in the business world. Of those 68, just 8 of them can claim extensive business experience. And even better, the median length of business experience among Biden s top officials is zero years.
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I think I figured out why the economy is in total collapse,
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and most people are much poorer than we were three years ago.
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Turns out, the Biden administration doesn't know anything about business.
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And I don't mean that in a cheap, political shot kind of way.
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I mean that in a quantifiable, indisputable kind of way.
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A new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity has just revealed that the top
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68 officials in the Biden administration have spent an average of 2.4 years in the business
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These are the top guys in the administration, 2.4 years.
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Of those 68 people, just eight of them can claim extensive business experience, and gets
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even better, the median length of business experience among Biden's top officials is zero.
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Now, I am not one of those people who thinks that the government should be run exactly like
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There is more to politics than just profits and efficiency and GDP.
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But don't you think the people running our country should know something about how the economy
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Have some practical, first-hand experience with it?
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Our last president had spent his whole career in business, and he hired lots of business people,
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and what do you know, they spent their time making America's business run better.
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Our current president has spent his entire career in left-wing politics, and he's hired lots
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of leftist ideologues, and what do you know, they spend their time trying to expand abortion
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and trans all the kids, and watch the economy completely collapse.
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Personnel is policy, and as long as these people are running the show, do not expect things
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Every day, I feel like this is my opening every single day, and it's because every single
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We keep talking about the lowest approval ratings ever.
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There's a new poll out from Yahoo News and YouGov that shows that.
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I'll ask you before I get, I don't want to give it away yet.
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What percentage of Americans do you think want Joe Biden to run for re-election?
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This is all Americans, but this is the guy who allegedly was elected with more votes than
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What percentage of Americans want the incumbent president to run for re-election?
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Maybe you'd say, I don't know, if things are bad, 40 percent.
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18 percent of Americans, less than one in five Americans, wants the president to run for
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Yahoo describes this as the lowest number to date.
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This reflects a seven point drop, a seven percentage point drop from the number of Americans
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And even worse news, perhaps, for Biden, even worse than the people turning on him and the
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CNN doesn't seem to want him to run for re-election either.
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Anderson Cooper ran a devastating segment on CNN about Biden.
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Joining me is our favorite and only CNN senior data reporter, Harry Enten.
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How does President Biden stack up against other presidents at this time in administrations?
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Yeah, so we can look at both Joe Biden's disapproval rating on inflation and Joe Biden's disapproval
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And what we see is his disapproval rating on inflation is topping 70 percent.
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His disapproval rating overall is still in the 50s.
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But if you compare that to every single other president at this point in the first term throughout polling history,
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And the reason he is the worst overall is because inflation is eating his presidency alive at this point.
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But they are being harsher toward Biden than sometimes even I am, than the right wing media are.
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It's because the libs, not just the regular rank and file lib voters, but the liberal leaders and the liberal intellectuals
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and the liberal communicators, they all know that Biden is a dead man walking.
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And they know that in a fair election, his odds of winning re-election are the odds of a snowball in hell.
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So they realize, gosh, we've got to change course.
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We need him to get behind some other candidate.
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Maybe some candidate that we're not even aware of yet.
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And this is where things get really spicy and saucy.
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Because the Republicans have what would appear to be the most winnable election,
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maybe in my lifetime, that they've got in front of them.
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If you believe the polls, take them with a grain of salt, of course.
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Trump does not do very well against a Democrat,
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compared to other candidates who've been floated, such as Ron DeSantis.
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And two, I don't really trust the libs when it comes to Donald Trump in particular.
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And the fact that they hate this guy so much is one of the reasons that I like the guy so much.
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A liberal magazine, New York magazine, just did an interview with Trump.
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And according to the magazine, they seem to suggest that Trump is going to run in 2024.
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The interviewer asked him, when are you going to make a decision?
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Does that mean he's decided he's not going to run,
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but he's going to keep leading people on to believe that he's going to run
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so that he can maintain some influence in the party?
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But then later on in the interview, the interviewer says he kind of loosened up
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do I declare before the midterms or after the midterms?
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I think he still leaves himself some ambiguity.
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it would be very hard to make the case that it seems like Trump is not running.
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He is doing and saying everything that someone would do or say
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He's leading the field by, what, 40 points now?
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Elon Musk recently said no one over the age of 69 should run for president.
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And I think it was mostly because he wanted to make a joke about the number 69.
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Ronald Reagan famously said he's not going to make age an issue of his campaign
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and he's not going to exploit for political purposes
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his opponent's relative youth and inexperience.
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Ronald Reagan was the oldest man we had ever elected president.
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And he's one of the best presidents in recent American history.
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Joe Biden is now the oldest man who's ever been elected president.
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So I think you've got to make that calculation,
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not based on some arbitrary number, but on the man.
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And if you look at Donald Trump, love him or hate him,
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He's campaigning like a much, much younger candidate.
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Even now, he's going out and campaigning for midterm candidates.
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And he was asked about age during the 2020 race.
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And he said, look, listen, I don't know if Biden's too old.
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I don't know if it's because he's mostly aspartame and fast food preservatives now.
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And if he runs, he seems likely to win the primary.
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I think if a DeSantis ran or if a different candidate ran, I think they would have a chance
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But again, just looking at the numbers, just looking at the name recognition, just knowing
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the candidate, if Trump runs, he's very likely to win the primary.
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And so if you don't want Trump to be the nominee, and if you feel that Trump is going to lose
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the general election, all of your energy has to be focused right now on stopping him from
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And I know there are a lot of conservatives who either they hated Trump, then they liked
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Trump, then they hate Trump again, or they liked Trump from the beginning, but they're
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sick and tired of Trump, or they really like Trump, but they think, look, Trump's just not
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going to win re-election, so we got to move on to somebody else.
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I know some people have already picked their horse.
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I like a lot of other candidates who potentially could throw their hats in the ring from other
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I say let the process play out, but you are seeing that primary already taking place, and
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The primary for 2024 for the Republicans is playing out not with snipes between Trump and
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Ron DeSantis or snipes between Trump and Ted Cruz or snipes between Trump and Mike Pompeo
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Remember, the 2024 primary right now is playing out between Trump and Elon Musk.
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Why are these two social media genius billionaires, why are they going at it?
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Because Elon Musk is an avatar for Ron DeSantis.
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The Elon-Trump feud has been just continuing in recent days, and Elon has said about Trump,
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I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset.
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Don't make it so that Trump's only way to survive is to regain the presidency.
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Trump would be 82 at the end of his term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything,
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And then here is where, even with all of that, Trump would probably snipe it at Elon.
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But here is where Trump felt he had to snipe it at Elon.
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Elon said, if DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win.
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Now, I disagree with that perception, not because of any weakness of DeSantis,
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just because of how corrupt the liberal establishment is.
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DeSantis would be, I think, a phenomenal candidate.
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I think they would do the same thing to DeSantis that they did to Trump,
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that they did to Bush, that they did to Reagan, that they do to all of them.
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And they'd say, he's a Nazi, and he's a rapist, and he's a racist, and he is a pedophile,
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and he probably punched his grandmother in the face.
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You know, they would throw the kitchen sink at him.
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The reason he's punching at Elon, too, it's not even just about DeSantis.
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It's about anyone saying anything nice about any Republican candidate other than Donald Trump.
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Trump, at this moment, knows that he's on the top of the heap.
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He knows that the nomination is his, basically, if he wants it.
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And so he's got to make it very painful for anybody to endorse any other candidate.
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He's got to make it very painful for anybody to boost or raise money for any other candidate.
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Whether that's Ron DeSantis, whether it's Ted Cruz, whether it's Josh Hawley,
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whether it's Rand Paul, whether it's Nikki Haley, whether it's Pompeo, whether it's whoever.
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Could Ron DeSantis or someone else, but DeSantis seems to be top of the heap right now,
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could he mount a successful primary campaign against Trump?
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DeSantis has been on a rocket ship of success and name recognition and goodwill in the Republican
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But one thing I know for sure is Republicans want to avoid a bloody, messy primary contest
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They don't want to see the golden boy governor of Florida who's doing such a great job destroyed
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Now, it gets even more interesting than all of that because of a figure not in state government,
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not in the federal government, not a former president, because of a TV show host.
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A TV show host who is just, just for some reason, going to be taking a trip to Iowa.
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So this show has come to Iowa for a couple of days, giving a speech at the Family Leadership
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Lots of people who are running for president are swinging through Iowa.
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We're going to stream that speech live on Fox Nation tomorrow, Friday, 5 p.m. Eastern.
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It's not just that he's covering it on the ground.
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He's giving a speech to an important conservative summit.
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And then, just in case anybody missed what he's putting out there, he said,
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lots of people who are running for president are making tours through Iowa right now,
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And then, he gives himself the out, a little plausible deniability.
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He says, so we're just here surveying the field.
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And I'm giving a speech with the other people who are maybe running for president.
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A lot of people have called for Tucker to run for president.
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I think he could mount a pretty serious campaign.
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Not saying he would win the nomination, necessarily, but he could mount a pretty serious campaign.
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And then it occurred to me, he could mount possibly the greatest campaign in the country
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for vice president, especially if Trump is the nominee.
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If Trump is the nominee, who is he going to pick for vice president?
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Again, it's a little awkward because I host a show with Senator Cruz.
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The United States senator, so it kind of balances things out.
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She brings in a little bit more of the moderate side of the party.
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Though she did irritate some Trump voters when she went after him in Politico.
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But then she kind of, she said that this didn't represent my actual views about Trump.
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And so I don't know, she might be able to do that.
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I just think DeSantis and Trump are too similar.
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They have, they've had roles that are too similar in government.
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Their personalities are a little bit too similar.
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But Tucker, there's a lot of ideological overlap between the two men.
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They come from totally different parts of politics.
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Trump from, from the executive, from actually being the president.
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He's the most popular conservative TV show host.
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And yet there's a lot of overlap there too between the guys.
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Trump really respects guys who come from the media.
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Trump endorsed Dr. Oz, I think primarily because Dr. Oz had a TV show.
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I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but that could be, there could be a kind of
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natural spot if Tucker wanted, if Tucker went crazy and wanted to give up his extremely lucrative,
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very influential post on television to go join the melee of elected politics.
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Speaking of the Midwest, there's an update to that horrible story and kind of sketchy story
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about a child who was raped in, in Ohio and then went to Indiana to get an abortion.
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And the story was first reported on by a very pro-abortion activist doctor.
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And she wouldn't give any details and it was dodgy.
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And she said, she didn't meet this patient, but she got a call from a doctor who knew a person who got
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And it was all really part of an anti-pro-life, pro-abortion argument that the left was making.
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The attorney general of Ohio couldn't find details on the crime.
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Then some days later, some reports about a crime that seemed similar cropped up.
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And there was a girl who was not quite the same age, but almost that age that it was being reported
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on. And then it came out later that the man who raped her was an illegal immigrant, 27-year-old
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illegal alien. So that could have explained why the story was being reported in such a weird way,
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because the media didn't want to divulge these details because it cuts against their
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immigration narrative. Well, now it's getting even dodgier.
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A Telemundo reporter, Maria Vargas Pion, went to the home of this girl and really the girl's
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mother and tried to interview her to get more details because the story just doesn't really
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totally add up. The mother would not open the door and contradicted pretty much all the reports
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about the rape. The reporter says, did the girl live here as well? Mother says, yes, but she's fine.
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Everything that they're saying against him is a lie. And the child, are you related to her or the
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mother? Yes, she's my daughter, she says. The woman refused to provide her name, show her face.
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She said she's not filed charges against the 20-year-old Gerson Fuentes, who is charged with
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the rape. According to the authorities, he confessed to having a vaginal contact on at least two occasions
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with the girl who recently turned 10. So he did this when she was nine or younger, I guess,
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when she was raped and then became pregnant. Really, really crazy story because people are
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inferring from this that, and I think justifiably, I think pretty inarguably, that the mother knows the
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accused rapist. Maybe the accused rapist was the boyfriend. Maybe the accused rapist was living
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with them. Maybe the accused rapist was very close. And so she's saying, yeah, the girl's fine. Don't
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worry about it. Yeah, she was raped by the, whether she was raped or not, forget about that. She's fine.
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He's wonderful. Don't charge him with any crimes. He's a great guy. And so now we're seeing this
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as very possibly just a case of a horrible, horrible family of illegal aliens, that this
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mother and potentially a boyfriend or a relative or someone that at least is known to the mother
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endangering the welfare of this poor little girl. It becomes a much different story than what was
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initially reported. Now, one of the questions that has come up tangential to this highly politicized
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Ohio rape case is what should be the punishment for rape? The mother of the poor little girl is
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saying, no, don't punish the guy. He's fine. It's all a lie. He's great. Don't worry about it. So
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that's obviously sickening. It somehow makes the story even more repulsive. Some people are saying
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the penalty for rape, certainly rape of a child should be the death penalty. And I think,
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I understand why people have that natural reaction, but this is an example of even conservatives
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thinking too much with their emotions and not thinking enough with their logic and their reason
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and their minds. I got into a debate with a number of conservatives over this. I'm all for the death
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penalty. I think the death penalty should be more widely applied in society, but I'm opposed to the
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death penalty for rape. And the reason for this is not because the rapists don't deserve it. They
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certainly deserve death, but because of incentives. If the punishments for rape and the punishments
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for murder are the same punishments, then the rapist has an incentive to murder his victim.
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Because if he murders his victim, he will reduce the likelihood that he is caught, but he will not
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increase the risk of punishment that he has. Whereas if the punishment for rape is less than the
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punishment for murder, he at least has some incentive not to murder his victim. By not murdering his
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victim, yes, his risk of being caught will increase, but his risk of punishment will decrease and
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decrease pretty dramatically if we're talking about the death penalty. This is an area where the libs are
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always discarding their reason and their logic and their minds and making political decisions with their
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emotions and their will. Conservatives sometimes are liable to do this too. You've got to ask, yes, it might
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feel emotionally satisfying to say death penalty for these rapists. Yes, it is even true to say that rapists
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deserve the death penalty. But what's going to be better for the victims? What's going to serve the
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cause of justice better? Seems to me in this case, it's pretty clear that the penalty has to be a little
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bit lower or else all you're going to do, you might feel a little bit better, but all you're going to do
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is incentivize monsters to be even worse to their victims and to punish their victims even, even more.
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Speaking of child abuse, the CDC is encouraging your kids to visit groomer chat websites and hide it from
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you, from their parents. I'm not joking, it sounds like a sensational headline. It's really not. The
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Center for Disease Control is promoting to young people an online chat space that discusses sex,
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polyamorous relationships, sex change operations, activism, and the occult.
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It's a little bit of a sidebar, but isn't it weird how whenever you go far enough down the leftist,
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especially the sexual revolution, leftist activism, you end up at overt Satanism? Isn't that weird?
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Even Drag Queen Story Hour, why do the drag queens dress up like demons frequently? Why does the pro-abortion
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activism often take on explicitly satanic imagery? Why does, why do, why does leftist activism take
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on the language of witchcraft or spells or the occult? Why does that happen? Almost as though
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there's a spiritual reality to all of this. And certainly at a practical level, we have to ask,
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why is the CDC promoting creepy, weird sex stuff and the occult to little kids on websites? The website
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is called QChat that, that have buttons that you can make it, that make it much easier for the
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children to hide the websites for the parents if the parents walk by. The chat hosts conversations
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on topics such as drag culture 101, sex and relationships, having multiple genders,
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bi slash pan youth, gender affirmation surgeries, hormone therapy, self-discovery in astrology,
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and queering tarot. Tarot, the weird occult cards. Tarot seems bad enough, but then they're going to
00:28:37.340
queer tarot as well. Why? Why did that? One, this reminds us that there is no neutrality here.
00:28:45.540
The government is going to be pushing some set of values or another, and either they're going to be
00:28:50.940
pushing the devil's values like this, tarot and queering the occult and chop off your genitals
00:28:58.660
five-year-olds, or they're going to be pushing good, true, virtuous values. Your pick. I think
00:29:04.880
conservatives need to stop throwing our hands in the air and pretending this is all neutral
00:29:08.460
and enforce our vision of the good. All political life involves promoting some vision of the good and
00:29:15.180
discouraging some vision of the bad, and so we ought to do the correct one, not this creepy one.
00:29:19.220
But it is a reminder to, I've mentioned this a few times in recent weeks, it's the IQ bell curve
00:29:24.800
meme. Really dumb people who are drooling, who just, duh, they don't know anything about politics.
00:29:30.780
They say, duh, I think the bad stuff is because of the devil, and the good stuff, you know, good stuff
00:29:36.060
is about God, right? And then the people in the middle, it's like, well, actually, you know, those
00:29:40.940
are all just metaphors, and what it's really about is Marxism and post-modernism and this-ism
00:29:47.760
and that-ism, and it's really just the metaphor of your inner blah, blah, blah. And then you get
00:29:54.220
to the people who are really smart, like the Thomas Aquinas end of the IQ spectrum, and they
00:29:58.300
say, no, it's about God and the rejection of God that is personified in the devil, who is a real
00:30:04.260
person, by the way, who you can worship, but you shouldn't worship. That's what it's really about.
00:30:08.500
It's why it always comes down to this. This is why the weirdos on TikTok who are trying to trans your
00:30:12.740
kids, it's why they always look like demons. And the more they get into it, the more they look like
00:30:16.740
demons, and they wear, they have explicit satanic imagery on there. Maybe instead of dismissing
00:30:21.900
all of that and saying, oh, we're so, we know none of that exists. How about we look at all of
00:30:25.540
human history, at all cultures, and say, how come they all have a conception of God and a conception
00:30:30.340
of the devil? Isn't that kind of weird? Maybe there's some wisdom in that that we should pay
00:30:34.540
attention to. Speaking of computers and naughty things that you shouldn't do, really interesting
00:30:42.860
story, almost entirely unrelated here, about artificial intelligence, but it's really going
00:30:47.360
to affect students and teachers and our education system. There's a University of Kansas professor,
00:30:52.300
John Simons, who's pointing out that this coming school year in particular, you're going to see a
00:30:58.140
major technological revolution when it comes to writing papers. And it's because artificial intelligence
00:31:03.980
is now good enough that AI can write papers for students that are B plus, A minus papers,
00:31:10.580
and they can't be caught by the plagiarism software. So in recent years, if a student
00:31:14.800
submits a plagiarized paper, there's just checking software, you can run the paper, you say, okay,
00:31:18.740
80% of this paper is plagiarized, you get an F. But now, because of artificial intelligence,
00:31:23.260
you don't just need to plagiarize, they can write a new paper without having the student actually have
00:31:28.260
to write it. And the professor makes a good point, and it's a point that we've made on this show before.
00:31:33.980
So what's the solution to this? The only solution to this is going to be to minimize the role of
00:31:42.260
technology in education. The only solution to this is to get rid of the Zoom, get rid of the
00:31:50.720
submit your papers online, get rid of the do everything from a remote distance, whether it's
00:31:57.820
in your parents' basement or whether it's from your dorm room. It's going to have to increase the
00:32:02.400
amount of in-person learning. You're going to have to minimize the number of papers and increase the
00:32:06.460
number of oral exams because you can't use artificial intelligence on an oral exam. And
00:32:11.000
this would be a really, really good thing. So many of our political issues way beyond education
00:32:15.320
come down to the isolation of man from the real world. And we're living our lives virtually.
00:32:22.080
It explains a lot of the transgender stuff. You talk to people who have gone down the
00:32:25.080
transgender rabbit hole. Most of them, it seems to me, at least in my experience,
00:32:29.600
have been radicalized online in these online communities. And that makes perfect sense because
00:32:34.800
online, your body doesn't matter. You are just a free-floating mind, and you have avatars in a
00:32:40.880
virtual space. So much of our lives, the way we work now, we telecommute. A lot of people telecommute.
00:32:46.720
I don't, but a lot of people telecommute. A lot of people do e-distance learning where your body
00:32:52.100
doesn't matter as much. And it alienates you from the world, and it makes society a lot worse,
00:32:56.500
and it's depressing, and it's inhuman. If we want to restore a more flourishing society,
00:33:01.520
we've got to put the body back into it. Salvation hinges on the flesh, it has been said.
00:33:07.120
And so much of civilization hinges on the flesh, too. We've got to see people in real life and hug them,
00:33:11.520
not through weird bulletproof glass like they made us do during COVID. We've got to hug real people in real
00:33:16.440
life and go have dinner with them in real life and go learn from real professors in real life and go
00:33:21.480
work with people together in real life. We've got to be human again, or this is just necessarily the
00:33:29.580
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00:35:02.320
Hi. Obligatory introduction saying thank you for what you do. Love it. So I'm reading Speechless by
00:35:09.060
the great Nolstradamus. It has obviously provided a lot of fodder for thought and dinner table conversations
00:35:14.880
with the fam. One phrase in the book struck me as particularly thought-provoking is,
00:35:20.420
a humility parade would seem self-defeating. This is in reference to pride parades. Thankfully,
00:35:27.060
June turned out really good for us conservatives, but, you know, there's still stuff that we disagree
00:35:32.260
with going on. Anyway, my question is this. How do we oppose pride, and not exclusively gay pride,
00:35:39.400
just the sin of pride that's, you know, rampant in our society, with humility, which is the opposite
00:35:45.940
of pride, while managing to remain humble? So what does this look like in daily life?
00:35:54.540
You've got to keep your eyes on God. That's what it's about. Instead of thinking about yourself
00:36:00.960
and how to even think about yourself, should I think, should I be confident? Should I,
00:36:06.680
should I think of all the good stuff I've done? Should I think of all the sins that I commit? Should
00:36:10.100
I think about what I did yesterday? Should I think about what I did 10 years ago? Instead of that,
00:36:14.400
just turn the focus off of yourself entirely, and you've got to put your focus entirely on God,
00:36:22.260
which will accomplish all of those things. It will remind you that you do have an inherent worth
00:36:28.160
because you're made in the image and likeness of God. If you were looking at the cross, looking at
00:36:31.840
your crucified Lord on the cross, you will recognize that you have worth because God himself,
00:36:36.700
God the Son, died for your sins. It will also remind you that you are a sinner. You're not all that,
00:36:42.040
man. There's a reason that God had to come down to earth to die for your sins.
00:36:46.900
That will remind you of your flaws and your worth and all of those things, and it will just kind
00:36:54.420
of, it'll just click everything into the right place, and then you have to do these, you have to
00:36:59.480
do these good things in the world that you want to do, and you need to pursue virtue, not just for
00:37:06.760
it yourself, but because your focus is in the right place. Next question.
00:37:12.500
Hey, Michael. Thanks for taking my question. I've listened to the show for a few years,
00:37:16.820
have always enjoyed the be a man advice, and the constant reminder to get a girlfriend before a
00:37:21.880
dog. But following that, I've moved to Indiana, but stayed in Illinois to finish my associate's
00:37:27.660
degree. And I've taken an interest in this girl, and I don't want to lead her on for a relationship
00:37:33.880
because I'm leaving for Indiana at the end of August. So I don't really see a point in dating
00:37:40.620
right now, but I would like to take her out to see a movie that she wants to see. How would I go
00:37:48.120
about starting this friendship without it morphing into something more? Thank you for taking my
00:37:53.740
question, and look forward to the advice. You don't. That's how. You don't do that. If you're asking
00:38:00.980
me, how do I take a girl out on a date without taking her out on a date? You can't. That's not
00:38:04.760
possible. You obviously are interested in this girl. That's why you want to go on a date with her.
00:38:11.020
But you don't want to lead her on because I guess you're not interested in her enough to try to
00:38:15.960
pursue a longer relationship. So you just need to make a decision. You need to make a decision and
00:38:21.080
stick to that decision. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too, and that's not going to work.
00:38:24.400
You can, since you alluded to it at the top. Act like a man. What's the matter with you? Now,
00:38:29.560
I will tell you, if it were me, I don't know all the details of your particular situation.
00:38:33.280
If it were me, I would take the girl on a date and maybe try to discern if we're going to have
00:38:38.260
some love affair here, and if it's going to blossom into a marriage, and we're going to
00:38:41.520
have 10 kids and have a great life together. I know that you're planning out every step in your
00:38:46.100
life. Well, and then I'm going to move here, and so it's not going to work, and then I'm going to get
00:38:48.960
this job, and then we're going to go here, and then I'm going to do this, and you're trying to be
00:38:52.120
really rationalistic about the whole thing. But no, you like the girl. The girl likes you. You want to go on a date?
00:39:00.180
Maybe you end up moving, but maybe you keep the relationship going a little bit long distance,
00:39:04.140
and then you try to work out a way for you to both end up in the same place together. That's what I
00:39:07.900
would do if it were me. But if you for sure say, nope, not going to do it, we're not going to date
00:39:12.700
long term, then don't take her out on a date now. You're asking me, how do I lead a girl on without
00:39:19.200
leading her on? You can't. So then you got to just write that off, and she's going to go see a movie
00:39:24.860
Hey, Michael. My name's Chris. I'm 17, and I'm a resident of Central Florida after fleeing
00:39:30.280
Ontario, Canada last November. I'm a big fan of the Daily Wire, and I've heard almost all of the
00:39:35.160
main personalities share their opposition to red flag laws, which I'm also opposed to. My only
00:39:40.360
confusion is with the proposed alternatives. I've heard that the mass shooters that seemed
00:39:44.480
unstable before committing the shootings should have been institutionalized, which I'm not opposed to,
00:39:49.220
but my issue comes up with the fact that if we're able to lock people up in mental facilities
00:39:53.600
against their will for seeming dangerous, couldn't the government use this institutionalization as a
00:39:59.100
tactic in the same way they might use red flag laws? Thanks again. Big fan.
00:40:03.640
Really good question. The answer is yes, but not exactly in the same way. And this is why a lot of
00:40:11.060
people who oppose things like red flag laws and oppose things like most gun control measures also support
00:40:17.940
increasing the ease with which people can be institutionalized. Because you've just got to
00:40:24.900
make the threshold very, very high. The problem with red flag laws is the threshold for depriving
00:40:29.920
people of their constitutional and civil rights is very, very low. The way Democrats talk about red
00:40:34.780
flag laws, the red flag is you. Listening to this show is a red flag. Voting for Donald Trump is a red
00:40:41.440
flag. Having an American flag outside of your home is a red flag. It's the red, white, and blue flag,
00:40:45.800
they're going to take away your guns. So that threshold is so low and it's so vague to involuntarily
00:40:52.980
commit someone to an insane asylum. The threshold has to be at least relatively high. Now it's so high
00:41:00.260
that it's virtually impossible. I think we should lower that threshold a little bit, but it's still
00:41:04.020
going to be very, very high. And it forces you to grapple with the reality of what it means to
00:41:09.000
deprive someone of their second amendment rights. When you deprive someone of their second amendment
00:41:13.100
rights, which is a basic right, a constitutional right, a civil right, and the right to self-defense
00:41:18.200
is a natural right, you are saying, I must deprive you of all of your rights because you are not able
00:41:25.060
to exercise them at all. You are not able to live your life as a normal human being. So you're really
00:41:31.300
making that clear. And for some people, that's true. People who are insane, people who are not able
00:41:37.220
to take care of themselves, sure, okay. We already have laws in the books for this, right? Relatives
00:41:41.880
can exercise power of attorney if a loved one, say, becomes senile or otherwise incapacitated. So
00:41:49.880
we already have ways to do this. But it's a way of saying, okay, you want to take away my rights?
00:41:56.040
Well, then take away my rights. Really take away my rights. Because if you're not willing to do that,
00:42:02.900
if you're not willing to lock me up in a straitjacket, then let me have my guns. Let me
00:42:07.760
have my right to self-defense. Don't pull a little bait and switch here. Well, you're not crazy enough
00:42:14.520
that we're going to take care of you or really change your lifestyle at all. But you are so crazy
00:42:20.100
that we need to deprive you of your really, really basic rights. That's the game that the
00:42:25.080
libs are trying to play right now. We want to clarify the stakes. Next question.
00:42:29.340
Hi, Mr. Knowles. I have a philosophical and theological question about the so-called
00:42:35.240
God of the Gaps logical fallacy. I was thinking about it earlier and I realized I can't make any
00:42:40.860
sense of it anymore. You've mentioned on the show that St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that God
00:42:46.020
is reason and will and that his reason and will do not come into conflict. The God of the Gaps posits
00:42:52.220
that anything we can't explain by reason, we cheat and ascribe to God's will. This is supposed to show
00:42:58.920
that God is a psychological condition, but it just assumes that reason is separate from God
00:43:04.860
and then makes this incomplete version of God a psychological condition. Am I missing something
00:43:12.620
about this argument or does it really basically assume its conclusion? And then as a sort of bonus
00:43:19.520
question, I was wondering if you could speak to this concept of moving an idea from God's will to God's
00:43:28.300
reason and what we can say about that as Catholics. Thank you. Sure. Actually, both questions kind of tie
00:43:35.220
into the same place. When people use the phrase God of the Gaps, usually they're not using it in the way
00:43:40.960
that Nietzsche meant the phrase, for instance. They're using it in the way that edgy online atheists from the
00:43:46.760
mid-2000s used it and journalists who were part of the New Atheist Movement used it, which is to say
00:43:51.980
that God is opposed to reason. And what this reveals is that these people just know very little about
00:43:56.800
God. They know absolutely nothing about religion. They haven't read any of the works that they're
00:44:00.780
purporting to be experts on because in Christianity, at least, God is logic. God, it's right there in
00:44:09.460
John chapter one. In the beginning was the logos, the divine logic of the universe, the word,
00:44:15.040
and the word was with God, and the word was God. There are differences between religions here.
00:44:21.960
Pope Benedict XVI, in his Regensburg Address, probably the greatest address of the 21st century,
00:44:28.000
described a big difference with Islam. In Islam, according to Islam, Allah is pure will. Allah is
00:44:34.020
so utterly transcendent that he's pure will. Allah could order his subjects to violate logic,
00:44:41.100
to worship idols even. And they would be bound to do that. Where in Christianity, God is logic. So
00:44:47.020
that would be the one difference there. The phrase God of the gaps can have some use to make fun of
00:44:54.640
bad theology, to make fun of faulty theology, to make fun of shallow religion. But God of the gaps does not
00:45:03.180
describe Christianity, orthodox traditional Christianity. Read Thomas Aquinas. I guarantee
00:45:10.800
you none of these people have read Thomas Aquinas. Read Thomas Aquinas and say, that man's not logical.
00:45:16.360
I, an edgy online atheist, I am much more logical than Thomas Aquinas. Give me a break. It's ridiculous.
00:45:22.020
So that would be the issue. And so when you ask, how do we move from a conversation about God as will
00:45:27.880
to God as logic and reason? Well, you have to recognize those are unified in God. The logic and
00:45:35.640
the power are unified. And will and power are unified in God as well. This is what Dante writes
00:45:41.640
in the mouth of Virgil. When Virgil and Dante are about to cross into hell, and Charon, the boatman,
00:45:48.220
doesn't want to let him in because he says, Dante, you're a living person. You're not allowed to come
00:45:51.500
into hell. And it's one of the most famous lines of the comedy. Virgil says,
00:45:54.920
which is a great line. If you want to memorize it in Italian, it's very funny because it means
00:46:02.500
this is willed where will and power are united and don't ask any more questions. This is desired
00:46:09.940
where people can, where it can be done what is willed. And so you stop, shut up, stop asking
00:46:15.420
questions, let me into the boat. And so in God, all of that is unified, not just desire and power,
00:46:21.680
but desire, power, and logic, and reason. Okay, let's get to a written mailbag question
00:46:27.220
from Bailey. Michael, I have a question about guilt and forgiveness. In my youth,
00:46:31.900
I was not a good person. Isn't that true of all of us? Probably 99.7% of people could say that.
00:46:39.680
Okay, Bailey says, I started drinking and smoking at 16 years old and slept around.
00:46:43.620
I became addicted to painkillers and began smoking weed daily at 18 years old. My high school
00:46:48.940
boyfriend did the same and was an alcoholic. We were together from age 16 until I got pregnant
00:46:53.500
at 23. At the moment, I found out I quit everything. My daughter's three now. Me and her father split
00:46:58.120
shortly after she was born. I've met an amazing Christian man, got saved, got married, and we
00:47:02.480
have a one month old son. My problem is I deal with so much guilt. My daughter now has a broken home,
00:47:07.360
just like the one I grew up in. Her father gets her every other weekend while my son has both parents
00:47:12.420
at home. My husband treats her like his own, but I constantly, I think constantly about how unfair it is
00:47:17.600
to my daughter and have a terrible time forgiving myself for who I used to be. How do I get past
00:47:21.280
this? Thanks and love the show. Sincerely, a reformed degenerate. Well, not all of the saints
00:47:29.300
started well, but they all ended well. That's a line from St. John Vianney. You think maybe most
00:47:35.200
famously of St. Augustine, who had a pretty wild, sinful youth. He even has that great line that he
00:47:41.540
prayed, which is, Lord, make me chaste, but not yet. And he slept around and did all sorts of bad
00:47:47.960
things that he shouldn't have been doing. And then he reformed. And this is true of not just regular
00:47:53.700
run-of-the-mill good old people, but some of the greatest saints in history. They didn't all start
00:47:58.280
well, but they all ended well. You're asking me a very practical question about your conscience,
00:48:03.000
which is nagging you. And so I'm going to give you a technical answer, and I don't know if it's going to
00:48:06.880
work for you or not. Well, I do know if it'll work for you, but I don't know how you will perceive it
00:48:12.320
because I don't know if you're Catholic or not. But my views on these things obviously come from a
00:48:17.080
Catholic view of the world. And so I think that the way to receive absolution and the way even at a
00:48:23.020
psychological level to assuage your nagging conscience is to go to sacramental confession.
00:48:27.840
And so I don't know if you're Catholic or not, or if you're interested in becoming Catholic,
00:48:31.600
or if you believe in the sacraments, or you believe in confession, or any of those sorts of things.
00:48:34.700
But that would just be the technical answer. I have found that really has worked for me.
00:48:39.520
I think it is totally legit. I 100% believe in that. At a kind of broader level than just that
00:48:45.840
technical answer, you're asking, how can I forgive myself for my past more generally? And I think
00:48:51.580
you've got to, again, look not at your own person, but look at God. Who forgives you? Who sends his son
00:48:58.880
to die on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins? And so if God can forgive you,
00:49:04.980
you should be able to as well. I know that practically is not always easy to do, but part
00:49:09.920
of that stems from pride. It's very presumptuous to say, oh, well, forgiving me, yeah, that's fine
00:49:14.740
for God, but I'm holding myself to a higher standard. Oh, are you? Don't you think that's a
00:49:19.220
little presumptuous? I think it is as well. You cannot change the past. The past is gone. You cannot
00:49:25.960
do anything in the past. I know we all want to, and we think about it, and depending on how anxious
00:49:31.900
a person you are, you might be nagged by some comment that you made 10 years ago to some random
00:49:37.600
person. I know that we dwell on the past. The devil wants you to dwell on the past because you can't do
00:49:42.480
anything in the past, and so you become impotent, and you become depressed, and you despair. You can
00:49:47.460
only do things in the present. Could life have worked out better for you and your kid and your
00:49:52.960
ex-boyfriend? Had you all done things all differently when you were younger? Maybe.
00:49:58.860
Maybe. I guess so. I'm not totally sure about that in the unfolding of Providence, but maybe they
00:50:03.920
could have, but that is totally beside the point. All you can decide to do is what are the decisions
00:50:10.900
that are presented to you today. The only place you can live is in the present. You can't even live
00:50:16.420
in the future. A lot of people want to live in the future, too. You can't. You can only live in the
00:50:19.580
present. So all you can do is do the right thing, and harping on your past incessantly, particularly
00:50:26.460
if you have taken the steps to get over that psychological, spiritual, everything in between.
00:50:34.920
Harping on the past is a waste of your time. It's worse than a waste of your time. You'll be
00:50:39.200
neglecting the things you ought to be doing right now. It's a story. It's not unique to you. I think
00:50:43.720
most people, they don't have the particulars of your circumstance, but most people have a similar
00:50:50.120
story, and it's a common problem for human beings. The solution to that is to accept God's
00:50:58.020
forgiveness, accept that grace, which you're free to turn away from that grace, but I don't recommend
00:51:02.200
it, and then do the right thing in the present, which is where you live. I'm Michael Knowles. This
00:51:07.620
is The Michael Knowles Show. See you next week.
00:51:14.020
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