Ep. 1109 - The Walls Are Closing In On Trump
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The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. The Democrats have issued a subpoena for him to appear before a committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol by a group of white supremacists. President Trump is fighting back.
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I know that we've heard that at least a dozen times before.
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But now, the Democrats are super-duper serious.
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Because this time, they've issued Trump a subpoena to appear before the January 6th committee.
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I am offering this resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from Donald John Trump in connection with the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.
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And they can, okay, they can go on TV and talk about the subpoena and how this is it and the walls are closing in.
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Because that subpoena, like the entire committee, is a complete joke.
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Look, the selfish part of me wants Trump to appear because it would be absolutely hilarious and probably the best TV of the past two years.
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But Congress has absolutely no right to drag the man before them.
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Presidents have been subpoenaed a few times in the past.
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President John Tyler actually indulged Congress.
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John Quincy Adams gave Congress a sworn deposition, so he sort of half indulged them.
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And Harry Truman basically told them to pound sand.
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Truman said he'd be happy to oblige if the congressman wanted to, quote,
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inquire into any acts as a private individual either before or after his presidency and unrelated to any acts as president.
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But if the subpoena concerned his actions as president, Truman could not assent to that because it would violate the separation of powers.
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Truman was right, and President Trump should follow his example whenever he gets through laughing at them.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Jeff Caldwell, who says a bill worth of damages for Alex Jones?
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Well, I guess the courts are experiencing the same Bidenflation that we all are.
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But, you know, frankly, in the Biden economy, that's the cost of about four pumpkin spice lattes.
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We're going to, they're going to impeach him again.
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I know he's not in office anymore and they already impeached him twice.
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Didn't convict him either time, obviously, but they're going to do it again.
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Meanwhile, it's a little, little noticed story.
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Joe Biden appears to have committed an actually impeachable offense.
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Joe Biden is vowing consequences for Saudi Arabia after an OPEC decision to cut the oil
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Well, according to Saudi Arabia, Joe Biden came to them begging on his hands and knees,
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begging them not to cut oil production before the midterm elections.
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Because Biden is completely sunk on every single issue.
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And one of the biggest drivers of his dismal popularity ratings is the cost of energy, which
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And he's saying, please don't cut your oil production until after the midterm elections.
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Then you can cut it and screw over the entire world economy.
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But just please don't destroy the Democrats heading into November.
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Now, so far, none of those things are an impeachable offense.
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What happened next is the problem, which is that Biden is vowing consequences for Saudi
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So the U.S.-Saudi relationship is a complicated one, but it's a very important relationship.
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And it's been a longstanding supportive alliance.
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And it's benefited both sides over many, many years.
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Joe Biden is threatening to damage that relationship.
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He's wielding U.S. government power and a decades-long alliance because Saudi Arabia won't
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help him try to do a little bit better in the elections than he looks like he's going
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This is certainly as bad as anything they ever accused Donald Trump of.
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Don't forget, what did the Democrats impeach Donald Trump for?
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Democrats impeach Donald Trump for allegedly calling Ukraine and requesting that Ukraine
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expose some of the corruption that we already know about that the Biden family engaged in
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And Hunter Biden, Joe's son, got a ridiculous crony deal from the corrupt Ukrainian government
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to pay him $50,000 or more per month to sit on the board of Burisma, a crooked Ukrainian state-controlled
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Why do you think the Ukrainians hired Hunter Biden for that position?
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Do you think it's because Hunter Biden has any expertise in oil or utility companies or the
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Ukrainian language or, no, of course, he doesn't know anything about any of those things.
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It was a payoff to Joe Biden because Joe Biden was the point man on Ukraine.
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So the allegation, at least, was that Donald Trump called the Ukrainians and said, hey,
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expose the corruption that went on specifically with Joe Biden in Ukraine.
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And you remember, Joe Biden then pressured the Ukrainian government to fire one of their
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prosecutors who appeared to have been looking into the Hunter Biden corruption scandal and at the
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very least looking into Burisma. And there was a whole bunch of shady stuff in that very corrupt
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part of the world. And so Donald Trump was accused of saying, hey, Ukrainians, come clean about all
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that corruption. And maybe he was using as leverage a military payment, some military aid, which again,
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there was not a lot of evidence of that either. Here, we see very clear evidence. Joe Biden is
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publicly threatening to punish Saudi Arabia, a longstanding ally, because they won't help him
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try to do a little bit better in the midterm elections. Are they going to impeach Biden for
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that? No, probably not. But they certainly should. If the new standard is the Trump standard of
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impeachment, then this guy should be thrown in Guantanamo Bay. Okay, this is absolutely corrupt
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stuff. Speaking of the Muslims, really interesting story out of the Washington Post. This is a report
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from Michigan. The Washington Post reported that Muslims and Christians are teaming up in Michigan
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to protest the creepy LGBT curricula in the schools. So the way the Washington Post reports it is that
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the Christians are the bad guys, and the Muslims were just kind of duped and brought along for the
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ride. If you look at the videos, by the way, it looks like the Muslims here are actually leading the
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show. And Muslims are obviously very, very represented because of mass migration in Michigan
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and in Dearborn particular. They show up to a Dearborn public schools meeting, and they chant
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that they want to throw the bums out because these weirdos in the schools are trying to trans the kids
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and push the rainbow ideology on them. Take a listen.
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Vote them out, vote them out, vote them out. Now, as far as I can tell, every single person in that
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room is a Muslim. I don't see anyone that looks particularly Christian there at all. But the
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Washington Post has to frame it. They can't frame it as the Muslims or the bad guys. It always has
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to be the Christians who are the bad guys or the white people who are the bad guys or the men who
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are the bad guys or the straight people who are the bad guys. That's the way that their identity
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politics works. So they say the Christians are leading this movement against LGBT progress and
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openness and inclusion in the schools. And, you know, okay, yeah, some of the Muslims went along
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with it. No, it's the Muslim. I'm sure Christians back this too. I'll speak as a Christian. I
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absolutely 100% support those guys who are in Michigan pushing back on the LGBT curriculum.
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But it's the Muslims saying, wait a second, we don't want this crap. We don't want you to tell
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our daughters that they're secretly boys or vice versa. Get this stuff out of the schools.
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And what makes the story so interesting to me is that this is clearly going to be an important
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political alliance moving forward. And it's a major shift. In the early 2000s, after 9-11,
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you did not exactly see the Christians and the Muslims teaming up in American politics.
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There was a great threat from radical Islam. The wars that we were fighting during that period were
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against radical Muslims in the Middle East. There were terror attacks by radical Muslims in the United
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States. And so you didn't see that kind of alliance. But now, in the year of our Lord 2022,
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the major threat to the United States does not seem to be coming from Al-Qaeda, which barely exists
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anymore, or ISIS, or the radical Muslims. That doesn't seem to be the big threat. If I asked you
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right now, what are you most worried about in terms of threats against you and your family,
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and specifically your kids? Are you more worried about some crazy Muslim terrorist somewhere in the
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world? Or are you more worried about the drag queen who's showing up to your kid's kindergarten
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classroom? It's obviously going to be the latter. And because that's the threat, because the most
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immediate threat right now to our society is from the radical left right here at home. I think you're
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going to see more and more of this kind of an alliance. Religious and conservatives, Christians, and
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Muslims, and Jews, and just normal people who are even, perhaps even somewhat vague or agnostic in their
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religion, but they prefer a kind of traditional moral order. We are all going to team up together,
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because we have a common foe right now that threatens the very fabric of our society and all
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of the beliefs and traditions and virtues that we all hold so dear. Get ready for much more of a,
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many more Christian Muslim rallies against the creeps who are trying to trans your kids.
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specifically the weird creepy sex curricula in the schools, the Charlotte Mecklenburg schools in
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North Carolina are apparently promoting a gay sex guide to seventh graders. Here is a mother
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showing up to a school board meeting just reading. And I have instructed, by the way, our editors to
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bleep this very, very liberally because it's actually scandalous and obscene. And I don't want to expose my
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listeners to it. But this is the sort of thing that seventh graders are being exposed to in their
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schools in Carolina. This book is Gay by Juneau Dawson was found in a seventh grade classroom at
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Collinswood Middle School. It was also on the ELA recommended reading list for seventh graders at
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J.M. Robinson. I'm going to read from chapter nine, the ins and outs of gay sex, starting at page 201,
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part one, boy on boy sex. Perhaps the most important skill you will master as a gay or bi man is a timeless
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head of his back and forth with your hand. Try different speeds and pressures until he responds positively.
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A bad is grasping a piece and shaking it like a ketchup bottle. It's no wonder that 92% of CMS
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graduating seniors aren't college or career ready when you're instructing them on how to give blow
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and instead of teaching them how to add and subtract. Superintendent, you stated this book was, quote,
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brought into the classroom by a teacher with no intent to allow students access. Any teacher that puts
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material like this on his or her bookshelf is either a bad teacher or a pedophile who grooms children.
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Here, here, lady. By the way, I cut out some of the most obscene parts, okay? That wasn't,
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and I don't mean to laugh at it. I mean, she has a very good point. She says,
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maybe if these kids spent more time learning addition and subtraction and less time learning
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about gay sex, maybe their test scores wouldn't be so bad. But the one that really got me is the
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ketchup bottle line. And I think this is, I don't mean to laugh, but it's so, it's so absurd. You
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wouldn't, you wouldn't believe this if you hadn't heard it. I wouldn't believe this had I not heard
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that. And I, and I'm relatively young and it's, I was in school relatively recently. And so I know how
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crazy things have gotten. But constantly when I'm talking to friends and relatives and just people,
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when I go give speeches who are in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, sometimes, they don't believe that
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this stuff is actually happening, but you just, you just heard it. This is in schools. That book,
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which reads like a cartoon caricature of gay porn is in seventh grade classrooms. It's on,
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it's on recommended reading lists. Okay. That is obviously insane. And then I love the defenses
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that obviously dishonest defense is that, well, no, the teacher just brought it in for what his
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or her own reading pleasure. That's creepier. That's even creepier than bringing it in as a
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learning material. Cause then you've just got a teacher reading gay porn in a seventh grade
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classroom surrounded by 12 year olds. Just what to titillate himself. That's, that's even creepier,
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but obviously it was as part of a teaching material. That's why it was on a recommended reading list.
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And then, so obviously these teachers should be fired. The book should be banned from the schools.
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This is just complete. The school board should resign if they tolerate this. Obviously that
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goes without saying, put that aside for a second to the woman's point at the end. This is such an
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important reminder about the nature of sin and vice. Yes. Sin corrupts your soul. Yes. It leads you
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down the road to perdition. Yes. It has these distorting perverting effects on your metaphysical
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self. Another big problem with sin is that it's such a waste of time. All sin is just such a waste
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of time. When you could be doing good things and edifying things and sanctifying things,
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you instead do things that are bad and corrosive and just a waste of time. Think about the precious
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time that you're 12 years old. Your brain is so malleable. You could be learning foreign languages.
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You could be learning trigonometry. You could be learning history and dates and facts and things
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that are going to help you to be learning to write and important things in your life.
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And then that precious time is being wasted learning about how to handle yourself and your friends like
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a ketchup bottle. What a dark, sad, in a way, kind of funny waste of time. Don't do it. You will die.
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We were just talking about Epic Will. You will die someday. When you get to the accounting at St.
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Peter's Gate, okay, and you have to account for your whole life. Yeah, there's the good stuff and the
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bad stuff. But then just think about the waste of time. Like, yeah, I decided in those precious moments
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of beautiful life that I was given, I decided to read about the ketchup bottle. Don't do that.
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Do not do that. Speaking of sexual confusion, a lot of big divorce stories recently. And I'm
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obsessed with the divorce stories because I think, one, I don't think they're a private matter. I think
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they're a public matter because marriage is a public institution. It's the fundamental political
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institution. And so much of the rot of our society is because the fundamental political unit has
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collapsed. And it hasn't collapsed of its just own organic progression. It's collapsed because
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political actors have intentionally set about to destroy the institution of marriage for 50 years
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now. But that creates, obviously, major political problems. It has to, that is inevitable. And so in
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the potential divorce case of Tom Brady and his wife, Giselle Bundchen, Bundchen or Bundchen, I actually
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don't know how to pronounce her name. Giselle was recently spotted visiting a holistic healer on
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several occasions and burning sage as the rumors of her impending divorce persist. So I looked up the
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holistic healer and sage burner that Tom Brady's wife is apparently visiting. And this is what it says
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on this lady's website. I offer a natural and holistic approach to medicine. I'm an
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Ayurvedic traditional medicine doctor based in the Boca Raton area. Not Varanasi, India. Not some
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guru baba in India. No, in Boca Raton. Right outside of Palm Beach. Okay. And I believe in the
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power of healing through natural and healthy alternatives, man. Or compliments to Western
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medicine, you know. I'm an educator and a healer with the mission to teach each patient about the
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natural healing powers they hold within. So I'm not being hyperbolic at all when I say this.
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She's a witch. She's just, this is what witchcraft is. If you ever were reading a book and you said,
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what is witchcraft really? It's that. That is what witchcraft is. And it's so, talk about a waste of
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time and also something that will corrupt your soul. This woman, this wealthy, famous woman,
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you know, on the surface seems like she's got everything in the world. She is spending her time
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visiting a witch because she thinks that's going to help her.
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Do you know what will make this woman feel better? Giselle Bunjen Brady? Do you know what will make
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her feel better than going and visiting a witch and burning sage? Fixing her marriage.
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It's amazing to me because people will accuse modern religious people, people who take religion
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seriously and they go to church on Sunday and they believe in God, you know, the Father Almighty,
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maker of heaven and earth and Jesus Christ is only son, our Lord and the Holy Spirit and all the rest
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of it. They will accuse us of being silly, superstitious. Oh, you, you crazy old guy stuck in
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the middle ages or something. You probably don't understand science. You're just not a modern,
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sophisticated person. Yeah, at least I don't go to witches because all the people I know who mock
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traditional religion, they all do weird stuff like this. Yeah, maybe they don't all go to the Ayurvedic
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traditional witch in Boca Raton, but they all do weird stuff. They do yoga, which is obviously
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spiritual. Yoga is not just stretching. Yoga involves spiritual chans and it derives from
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Hinduism. It derives from an actual Hindu religious practice. Or they'll, they'll go to,
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they'll, they'll do Reiki. That's another one of these weird pagan occult rituals. Or they'll have
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crystals. Or, you know, they'll just kind of vibe and have energy with the universe, man. Or they'll
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say, you know, man, I'm spiritual but not religious. Or, you know, I'm putting out good energy for you,
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and so the consequence of it is, the people who reject traditional religion, Christianity
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specifically, as being superstitious or outdated, they are the most superstitious people in the world.
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And ironically, they usually fall back to much older religious practices. They fall back to pagan
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religious practices. They go to actual witch doctors. But in my experience, and in the experience
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of our civilization and culture at its height, it is when we go to our traditional religion,
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when we go back to the practices of Christianity, when we go back to the Bible, that we find we lose
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superstitions. And we get back to really basic stuff. If this lady went to a priest right now,
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the priest would say, Giselle, reconcile with your husband. Go work it out, reconcile with your
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husband, have a talk with him, sit down, do it for the sake of the family. If she goes to the witch
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doctor, she's going to say, okay, well, you got to pull out the tea leaves, man, and read it on your
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palms and the tarot card because the mercury's in retrograde, and we're going to burn some sage,
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and that's how you're going to feel better. Which one of those sounds more reasonable to you?
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The really modern, sophisticated lady who probably goes to brunch on Sundays and
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goes to the witch doctor, or that little old priest with his little old wisdom who says,
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go fix your marriage? A few weeks ago on this show, I read you an email where we were copied,
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Speaking of the corruption of medicine, whether we're talking about the witch doctors in Boca Raton,
00:26:48.040
or whether we're talking about Washington, D.C., Representative Angie Craig, she is a Democrat
00:26:54.740
congressman from Minnesota. She just fell into one of the most beautiful Freudian slips I have ever
00:27:03.360
seen. This was in a debate with her opponent. Take a listen.
00:27:08.160
I will never stop standing up for big pharma and standing against my constituents.
00:27:14.760
So true. Probably the truest thing that lady has said in politics. She will never stop standing up for
00:27:19.940
big pharma. She will never stop opposing her constituents. Now, presumably, she meant to say,
00:27:27.200
I'll never stop standing up for my constituents and standing against big pharma. But that's not what
00:27:32.020
she said. And why did she make that claim? She made that claim because she wanted to institute a price
00:27:36.520
control for certain drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. But at a deeper level, on issues that are
00:27:44.820
much more important than whether the cost of some particular prescription is 30 bucks or 35 bucks or
00:27:49.960
40 bucks, much more important than that over the past two years would be the huge power grab by the
00:27:55.760
medical establishment to the insane profit of big pharma. And on that question, even when it endangered
00:28:03.000
Americans' lives, specifically when it endangered the lives of American children, Angie Craig took the
00:28:09.180
side of big pharma. Here's a tweet from Angie Craig regarding the vaccines. She said, quote,
00:28:15.620
in case you missed it, COVID vaccines are now available for children under five years of age.
00:28:20.880
More information about where to access vaccines here. And she sent that tweet out saying, hey,
00:28:27.920
here's how you get your zero to five-year-olds. Here's how you get your little babies and toddlers
00:28:32.960
the COVID shot. Babies and toddlers at basically no risk whatsoever from COVID. But you got to get
00:28:39.400
them that shot anyway. Angie Craig sent that out in June of this year. If she had sent it out last
00:28:46.380
year, I would still think she was insane. And I would still think it was endangering kids. And I
00:28:51.260
would still think she was shilling for big pharma. But I'd say, okay, maybe at that point, some people
00:28:55.240
sincerely didn't know that the risks of these vaccines for young people, generally speaking,
00:29:01.160
at least very frequently, outweigh the potential benefits. It was June of this year.
00:29:07.420
Just a few months ago. We've known this for a long time now. We played on the show yesterday,
00:29:14.400
a voting member of the FDA independent panel that approves the vaccines, saying that young people
00:29:19.100
generally, and young men in particular, should not be getting all of these booster shots. They haven't
00:29:23.740
gone through a rigorous enough review process. And he was a firm no on that. And the FDA basically
00:29:28.720
didn't care because the FDA is captured by big pharma. And what is this woman doing? She's
00:29:33.440
standing on behalf of big pharma, which is what the entire left does. The entire left, which pretends
00:29:38.220
to be on the side of the people, man, and against the establishment and down with the man and speak
00:29:44.560
truth to power and whatever. They are the establishment. They are the power. They will always take the side
00:29:50.920
of the entrenched interest against you. Half the Republicans will do that as well. All of the
00:29:55.680
Democrats will do that. Half of the Republicans will do that. And then there is a sizable portion
00:30:02.720
of the Republicans and the conservatives broadly who stand against that power structure. Because
00:30:08.140
the power structure right now that is going in and jabbing your three-year-old and killing your
00:30:12.980
babies and transing your kids and opening up our borders and flooding the country with foreign
00:30:17.520
nationals and printing money willy-nilly and destroying our energy and all the rest of it,
00:30:23.280
the people who are doing that are a very, very small radical political minority. The vast majority
00:30:27.660
of Americans oppose all of those things. The people are very much on our side here. But that small,
00:30:34.280
radical, liberal minority has effectively all of the power in the United States. They've got at least
00:30:40.320
the vast, vast majority of the power. And that is the side that Angie Craig and all of the Democrats
00:30:45.740
are on. Speaking of Democrats harming children, really sad story. There's a former Democrat mayor
00:30:53.280
of Beaverton, Oregon, who just pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday for possessing child
00:30:59.040
pornography. Guy's 73 years old. He waived his indictment. He pled guilty to one count of possessing
00:31:05.540
kiddie porn. According to the attorney general's office, they say, according to court documents between
00:31:10.260
November 2014 and December 2015, Doyle knowingly and unlawfully possessed digital media containing
00:31:16.700
child pornography. And so he's made this guilty plea now, which makes it illegal for him to own a
00:31:22.220
firearm or to vote while in prison. Actually, in Oregon, he'll be able to vote once he's out of
00:31:26.280
prison or to hold public office. The reason I mention this is not even to embarrass this guy.
00:31:33.180
He pled guilty, at least. He's at least sort of fessing up to it. It's a very horrible thing.
00:31:37.400
And certainly in our society, probably in most societies, certainly sensible societies,
00:31:45.320
sexual attacks on children are just considered basically the worst thing you can do.
00:31:51.360
It's the worst thing you can possibly do. This guy, his life is basically ruined at this point. I think
00:31:59.680
he can find a kind of personal salvation if he repents and atones and all the rest of it. But as a public
00:32:05.580
matter, his life is ruined, who knows if he'll make it out of prison. Murderers can be rehabilitated in
00:32:12.340
our society. But sex offenders, and specifically child sex offenders, they are truly considered the
00:32:18.660
absolute lowest of the low in our society. And so I'm not even bringing up the story to kick the man
00:32:24.440
while he's down, while he's already paying his price and going to jail and all the rest of it.
00:32:34.720
Is that worth it? Is that worth it? This guy, a 73-year-old guy, he had a public career. He
00:32:41.780
clearly was a pillar of his community. Because he had this sick addiction that he indulged,
00:32:49.220
presumably in his own room, on his little computer, with the blinds turned down, what he thought was
00:32:54.120
totally private life. His life is ruined. For what? To be a little titillated by this perverse thing.
00:33:00.640
Now, the child pornography is the most extreme example of this. But this is true, as I mentioned
00:33:06.060
earlier about sin brought, this is true of all sin. This is true across every single sin, all the way
00:33:13.500
down to eating a little too much at dinner, all the way down to gluttony or anything else.
00:33:17.820
The question is, is it ever worth it? Is that momentary disordered pleasure worth destroying
00:33:26.140
your reputation, destroying your family life? This guy is not going to be able to see his grandkids,
00:33:32.120
at least unsupervised, and ultimately destroying your soul and salvation. Is it worth it?
00:33:37.660
Of course not. And it gets to this real danger. I'm specifically sensitive to this because of how
00:33:44.360
many of our listeners write in saying they've got porn problems. I'm just showing this to you to show
00:33:50.220
you the logical conclusion of that kind of a thing. We are living in an age where, paradoxically,
00:33:58.780
everything is private and nothing is private. Everything is virtual and digital, and it's all
00:34:05.340
can be done from the privacy of your own home in a tiny little room where you think you're totally alone.
00:34:09.280
But because it's the internet, because it's data, because it's going through telecom systems,
00:34:13.120
nothing is private at all. Everything is being recorded. And so in a way, I feel bad for this
00:34:18.700
guy. I feel worse for his victims, the child sex abuse victims who were photographed or videotaped
00:34:25.540
or whatever. But I feel bad for this guy too. And the way that I feel bad for everybody who commits
00:34:30.040
crimes and sins, it's just, it's so corrosive. And it's such a waste of time. It's so obviously not
00:34:39.260
worth it. Let this guy, let this guy be a lesson to you. You know, now we are getting to my absolute
00:34:47.480
favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. The mailbag is sponsored by
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your first month. All right, let's get to the voice mailbag. First question up.
00:35:05.140
Hi, Michael. My name is Nalen. I'm from Colorado. I just had a quick question about something they're
00:35:10.780
trying to pass in my town right now called rank choice voting. I was a little skeptical about it
00:35:16.640
because I saw what happened in Alaska, as well as when I looked at the supporter page, almost all,
00:35:22.340
if not all of the supporters were Democrats. And obviously when you see that, you got to be
00:35:26.520
a little skeptical. You got some alarms going off. So I'd love to hear your opinion on rank choice
00:35:31.740
voting, whether or not, you know, if it really is Democratic or not, and why you think it's bad
00:35:38.040
or why you think it's good. Thank you so much. Ranked choice voting is awful. All Republicans
00:35:43.500
and conservatives should oppose it. You just saw what happened in the special election in Alaska.
00:35:47.960
Alaska is going to be sending a Democrat congressman to Washington, D.C., even though the
00:35:53.220
Democrat congressman got fewer votes than the Republican options broadly. I think it was 40% or less
00:36:00.300
of the vote because the Democrat was number two, you know, because the Democrat was the lowest common
00:36:08.600
denominator. The Democrat is going to make it to Washington, D.C. And that's what rank choice
00:36:12.400
voting does. One, it makes the whole thing much more complicated, much more involved in terms of
00:36:18.280
time. And so that gives Democrats a greater opportunity for fraud. When you drag out voting,
00:36:23.520
Democrats usually are better than Republicans at turning that to their advantage.
00:36:26.800
But it also, just by its very nature, privileges the lowest common denominator.
00:36:35.740
Okay, well, this is the candidate that I'm voting for, but I would settle for this person.
00:36:40.600
Well, that other candidate is the one that I'm voting for, but I would also settle for that same
00:36:44.420
person that the other guy would settle for. Okay, I guess we'll just go for the guy that we settled
00:36:47.580
for. So it's the lowest common denominator, and it results in an even lower form of democracy than
00:36:55.600
we find ourselves in now. So very, very bad idea. You should oppose rank choice voting. It's a total
00:37:03.540
Hi, Michael. My name's Edward. And first off, I wanted to say thank you for going over in your show
00:37:09.000
on Wednesday, how to actually send in a voicemail by question with the very detailed instructions.
00:37:16.340
Appreciate it. My comment is actually about that same episode where you were responding to the,
00:37:22.520
I guess, TikTok guy who said that homosexuality is not disordered because of what the American
00:37:28.780
Psychiatric Association says since 1973. And I just think that that's obviously not what he actually
00:37:35.740
believes, because if that association tomorrow changed the definition to say homosexuality is
00:37:42.120
disordered, I don't think he would say, yes, I agree. It's actually disordered. I was wrong.
00:37:46.540
He'll say, no, it was something else, some other reason. So what are your thoughts on pressing the left
00:37:53.100
to defend what they actually think instead of coming up with excuses like what the American
00:38:02.000
They'll never defend what they actually think. What they actually think is delusional. And this
00:38:09.140
is true going back not just 10 or 20 years. This is true going back to the Garden of Eden.
00:38:13.700
This is true going back to, as George Bernard Shaw described, the socialist playwright, then quoted
00:38:18.860
by John F. Kennedy and by Bobby Kennedy and by so many Democrats since then. It says,
00:38:24.720
some people see things that are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?
00:38:28.580
The former is the conservative, godly view of things. You look at the world. You accept the
00:38:33.420
world as it is. You are curious about the world. You want to understand the world better and you
00:38:38.060
want to understand the creation to be a good steward of it and to know better the mind of the creator.
00:38:42.800
And the latter view is the liberal view of the world. I see things that never were and say,
00:38:46.620
why not? And you try to create a world of your own that is divorced from the realities of the
00:38:51.480
world given to you by your gracious God and maker. So the libs can't pull themselves away from that
00:39:00.460
because their view is fantastical and delusional. And so the only thing holding it up is the
00:39:08.000
sincere defenses of people. Well, the American Psychiatric Association says this. Well,
00:39:15.580
the American Medical Association says the boys are really girls. Well, this teacher says boys are
00:39:19.940
really girls. Well, Joe Biden says boys are really girls. Yeah, they all say that, but it's just made
00:39:24.520
up. Show me where that is in nature. Show me where that is in philosophy. Show me where that is
00:39:29.400
in reality. And they can't do that. So no, they'll never get beyond these kinds of arguments from the
00:39:36.940
authority of their own delusional, their own fellow delusional men. That's where it comes from in the
00:39:42.520
first place. Next question. Hi, Mike. It's Arielle. I have a question for you. And I do feel like it's
00:39:50.100
pretty weighty one. You talk about a lot of really important topics on your show. You delve really
00:39:57.500
pretty deeply into a lot of them and you have some really great analysis. But I do feel like the
00:40:01.520
question that I am going to ask you is a tough one. And it's probably going to stretch you a little
00:40:06.340
bit. So here goes. Is it pumpkin spice latte or is it pumpkin spiced latte? I look forward to hearing
00:40:19.600
your answer. After what I'm sure will be quite a bit of thought. Thanks, Mike.
00:40:25.860
It's a really good question. It is the hardest. I'm not joking. This is the hardest question I've
00:40:31.120
probably dealt with all day. I cautiously lean toward pumpkin spice latte because I don't think
00:40:44.040
that pumpkin spice is a verb in this context. You're going to pumpkin spice that guy? Oh, yeah,
00:40:53.040
bro. I pumpkin spiced him real hard. You're going to, yo, pumpkin spice that drink for me. Okay,
00:40:56.340
it's pumpkin spiced. I think it is a latte defined by a noun. You just kind of mash up. Pumpkin spice
00:41:05.740
latte. Like a caramel cold brew. You wouldn't say caramelled cold brew. You just say it's the noun
00:41:12.600
caramel and cold brew put together. And so the caramel does define the drink, but it's not acting
00:41:21.180
as a verb. I was thinking about this with iced tea because I so usually write out iced tea. But then
00:41:28.320
I thought maybe it actually is iced tea because I don't ice the tea. Like I'm going to shoot the tea,
00:41:34.320
you know, like, hey man, I totally iced that tea. Yeah. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Yeah, that tea got totally
00:41:39.460
iced. No, it's just ice. It's ice and tea. Iced tea. So I cautiously lean toward pumpkin spice latte,
00:41:47.380
but I could be convinced otherwise. Next question. Mr. Knowles, how's my favorite host at the Daily
00:41:54.940
Wire? Had a question for you regarding a dilemma I have. So I have a friend of mine who is a very big
00:42:02.620
fan of my band, Purging Sin, and he is transgender. He basically dresses up in women's clothing. He's on
00:42:11.220
hormones, but he still has his male appendages. Now, I value his friendship and the fact that he
00:42:18.600
has been a huge fan of our band for the longest time and would really hate to break off this
00:42:27.340
professional relationship as a result of difference of views. And to top it all off, he's very conservative,
00:42:34.780
pro-Trump. So my question to you is, in this situation, how would I retain my friendship with
00:42:41.200
this guy? But at the same time to express that I do not believe in what he believes in?
00:42:49.720
Shout out to Davies and the Fourth Thursday Cigar Club.
00:42:53.960
Does that slap my base? That might be slap my base. That's a great Daily Wire member.
00:42:59.560
Great Michael Knowles show member. What would I do if I were in your shoes? I would remain friends
00:43:07.220
with the guy if you can and just view that friendship and view him as you would any other
00:43:14.440
friend who has a mental illness. Because it obviously is a mental illness if you're a man
00:43:18.800
and you think that you're a woman and you behave that way. I have plenty of friends and family members
00:43:23.500
with mental illnesses. Especially, you know, I grew up in New York. I think there's a higher
00:43:27.120
disproportionate, a higher proportion of mental illnesses in New York. Something about the city or
00:43:31.400
something. But I would, yeah, I would treat it like you have a friend or a family member who's
00:43:35.460
bipolar, who has, I don't know, some kind of mood disorder or someone who has schizophrenia or even,
00:43:42.980
you know, has transgenderism. I'm trying to think if I still have friends who are transgender.
00:43:51.200
I have had friends who are transgender, some of whom don't speak to me anymore because they're
00:43:55.900
very upset that I won't affirm their delusions. But I've never broken up a friendship because
00:44:02.540
someone has some weird sexual hangup. Quite the opposite. I'm always happy to spend time. I've
00:44:08.240
gotten along with Blair White, you know, who's in the media and had Blair on the show. And he and I
00:44:13.400
got along just fine. I always get in trouble with a very small number of people on the right who,
00:44:20.100
when they're trying to attack me, they'll point to a photo. I once took a photo with a transvestite
00:44:25.880
at a big political convention. And I think they're very upset that I was nice to a transvestite
00:44:34.020
guy. I thought, I have no reason not to be nice to a transvestite guy. I would never lie to him and
00:44:39.780
tell him that he's really a woman. I would never say that the society should tolerate or encourage
00:44:46.940
transvestitism or transgenderism. But I see no reason to be nice to somebody or to have a friendship
00:44:51.740
with someone who's confused. I think what's required is a little bit of humility.
00:44:55.880
You know, as is often the case, what's required is just a little bit of humility and recognizing
00:45:01.800
this is a fallen world. And so you speak the truth with love and the truth as far as you can
00:45:08.940
see it. And you recognize that you've got flaws too. And your friends tolerate you for all of your
00:45:13.140
many flaws and problems and struggles. And so you should do the same to other people.
00:45:18.380
You should not squish at all. You should not call him by his woman name or whatever,
00:45:23.700
you know, or call him she or something. But yeah, I wouldn't not be friends with a guy because he's
00:45:28.500
mentally ill. That seems like the time you should most be friends with a guy. Okay, let's get to the
00:45:32.640
physical written mailbag from Eric. Eric, dear Michael, for the last two years, I've been working
00:45:39.200
maintenance at a job that I absolutely love. My girlfriend and I have been together over a
00:45:43.720
year now. I love her greatly and have every intention of marrying her. A year before we
00:45:47.580
started dating, however, I developed a crush on a girl at work. Since I've been dating my girlfriend,
00:45:51.720
I have no more interest in this work crush, but still find her very attractive and can't help
00:45:56.000
asking myself what could have developed between us. Do you have any advice on how to avoid that
00:46:00.780
nagging question? Respectfully, Eric. Yeah, that question is a constant for men throughout all of
00:46:10.580
time in all places. That's just part of our nature. So it's funny because you say you have
00:46:16.160
no more interest in this girl, but you still find her attractive and you wonder what could have been.
00:46:19.040
So obviously you do still have an interest in this girl, but you have this girlfriend. So you have
00:46:23.400
two options. You can break up with your girlfriend and pursue this other girl. You've been with your
00:46:28.580
girlfriend a year. You say you want to marry her, but are you engaged yet? If you're engaged,
00:46:32.720
then I would say, certainly if you're married, I would say, okay, then forget about that. But you know,
00:46:37.020
if you're just dating and you're not, you haven't expressed that you actually are going to marry
00:46:41.340
her yet, then you have a choice to make. Either break up with your girlfriend and date this girl
00:46:48.560
at work or date your girlfriend and then maybe get engaged and get married and put the thought of the
00:46:56.160
girl at work out of your head. You might be thinking about this girl at work because she really is
00:47:02.540
beautiful and there's really something about her that you really like. Or what I think is probably
00:47:07.000
even more likely is you are projecting onto the girl at work your kind of fantasies and desires and
00:47:15.540
dreams about some ideal woman who doesn't really exist in reality. It could be either. I don't know
00:47:20.620
the girl at work. I don't know you. So it really could be either. But either way, you have an obligation
00:47:26.600
to put that woman out of your mind if you are going to seriously date this other girl and get
00:47:33.140
engaged and get married. And it's not just to say, well, what's the, you know, what's the, do I think
00:47:38.060
about baseball? Yeah, sure. Think about baseball. Think about grandma. But you have an actual duty
00:47:43.140
because the thing is, the more you think about the girl at work and you fantasize about her and you
00:47:49.080
think what could have been and you formulate this whole fantasy in your head, the more attracted to her
00:47:54.460
you are going to be. The harder it's going to get not to think about, you're going to think about her
00:47:59.140
more and more and more. You're going to flirt with her more and more and more. Maybe you go out on a
00:48:02.280
date with her or something. Maybe something really physical starts to happen. And the more you put her
00:48:07.480
out of your mind and you say, that's over. Even if I really, really wanted to date her, too bad.
00:48:13.060
I've made my choice and I'm sticking with my choice. The less you're going to think about that girl,
00:48:17.820
the less you're going to be tempted, the less you're going to be attracted to her and you're just
00:48:20.680
going to move right along. But you've got to make that choice. It's not just
00:48:23.980
a matter of being swept away forever on your emotions. I think of Canto V of The Inferno by Dante
00:48:28.800
is the adulterous lovers who are, their punishment is to be blown forever on the winds
00:48:33.980
of their own passions because they can't control it. And how did they start? It's Paolo and Francesca.
00:48:38.600
How did they start? This was an adulterous affair between a woman and her brother-in-law.
00:48:42.620
It's because they were reading to each other. They were reading Lancelot, Galliot, you know,
00:48:47.000
and Galeotto. And they're reading about this love. And so they're really taken by the fantasy
00:48:54.560
of this other love of, you know, the Knights of the Round Table. And that fantasy drives them
00:48:59.400
together. And then finally, one day, they read no more. They put the book away. They get down to
00:49:03.940
business. And then her husband comes in and kills both of them. And Francesca says to Dante,
00:49:10.340
The love which to the gentle heart, gentile, you know, sort of seizes you, seizes you up by this
00:49:22.600
passion. A love which does not permit any lover not to love. Love led us to one death.
00:49:27.760
And so it was not fixed from the very beginning that she had to be taken away on this love.
00:49:39.280
She indulged her fantasies. And so did Paolo. They indulged their fantasies. And then that led
00:49:44.300
to the really bad conclusion. So what you have to do is stop indulging those fantasies. Make your
00:49:49.840
choice. You're a man. You've got intellect and free will. Love your girlfriend. Or dump her and
00:49:54.960
love this other girl. But make a choice. The rest of the show is continuing now. There are
00:49:59.280
fake headlines that we need to work through today. Okay, this is Friday. On Friday, it's fake headline
00:50:06.460
day. Davies picks out five headlines. Four are real. One is fake. I had had a perfect score.
00:50:14.280
Now I don't. I got it wrong last week. I need you to help me in the comments section to pick out which
00:50:19.620
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