Ep. 1119 - The End Of Our SaCrEd DeMoCrAcY？
Summary
Jack and Jack are joined by Democratic presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom to discuss the possibility of a "red wave" in Tuesday's midterms. They also talk about Joe Biden's speech to the Democratic National Convention and why he should have been more worried about a "blue wave."
Transcript
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You know things are bad for the Democrats when their most prominent governor
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is joining us, the conservatives, in predicting a red wave next Tuesday.
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Yeah, of course it does. And again, I'm not paid to say that. I'm paid to say,
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you know, fate and fuel. I mean, I get it. Look, I mean, I could be the cheerleader.
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Of course it does. Now, do you ever listen to Huey Lewis in the news? Governor Bateman,
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he's right on this, okay? The guy is a stone cold psychopath and he's looking at the situation and
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he's saying, yeah, of course it looks and feels and seems like a red wave. If water pipes don't
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break in Georgia and ballots are not submitted days after the election in Philadelphia,
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then it certainly does feel like a red wave. Now, Gavin Newsom has something of an ulterior
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motive here for pessimism. He is the top Democrat prospect to replace Joe Biden in 2024. So the
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worse that Biden is perceived to be governing, the better things are for Newsom. But Newsom is not
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alone in predicting this red wave on the Democrat side. And while Newsom seems rather placid about
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the whole situation, the other Democrats are not. They are now going on TV warning that a GOP win on
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Tuesday will mean political violence, the end of democracy, and even the wholesale slaughter of
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children. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite
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comment yesterday is from Connor Schoenfeld, who says, Biden did not double down on his mega,
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MAGA threat to democracy speech yesterday. He just forgot that he already gave the speech a couple
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of weeks ago. You make a good point. Maybe it was not a double down. The staff probably thought of it
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as a double down, but Biden, he probably just thought, wow, this is going to be the greatest
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speech I've ever given. Did I tell you the one, did I tell you the one, Jack, about how the Republicans
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are fascists? Yes. I don't know, Mr. President. Tell me that one again. Well, Jack, you see,
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I don't know. I want to, before I make that point, I want to tell you, did you know the Republicans
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case, not just because the politicians are saying it, but because even very serious,
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necktie-wearing, dark blazer-having presidential historians say so. The man who made this claim on TV
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is a guy named Michael Beschloss, who is always billed as presidential historian. And he sort of
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is, but it's stretching it a little bit. Michael Beschloss is not an academic historian. Michael
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Beschloss is a guy with a BA in poli-sci from Williams, who then went to Harvard Business School.
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And he writes history, so I'm not saying that he's not an historian in any sense of the word.
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But the guy is not Samuel Elliot Morrison, okay? The guy is not Thucydides that we're talking about.
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Really, this guy's function in public life is to go on liberal news channels and whine about
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Republicans. That's his main activity. The fact that he writes books about the presidents
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is kind of tangential, actually, to what he actually does in public life. But his utility for the libs
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is that they can bring him on and they can say, he's a presidential historian.
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Tell us, presidential historian, what you think of the situation. And he'll always say,
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well, from my very serious, highly credible position of authority as an historian,
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I want to tell you that the Republicans are very bad. And the Democrats are very good.
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And so that's what he's doing now, except they're turning the rhetoric up to 11.
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And Beschloss actually believes if the Republicans win on Tuesday, well, I'll let him tell you in his
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words. Well, he was absolutely candid and he was absolutely right, because as you know, Chris,
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six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country. There are signs
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that that may happen, may God forbid, that losers will be declared winners by fraudulent election
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officers or secretary of state candidates or governors or state legislatures. We could be six days away
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from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we all can rely on.
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You know, those are the foundation stones of a democracy. A historian 50 years from now,
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if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses
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and a free press, which I'm not certain of. But if that is true, a historian will say,
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what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future,
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whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed. We're on the edge of a brutal
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authoritarian system and it could be a week away. What? Hold on. I was tracking it. I mean,
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it's total hack partisan nonsense. But hey, that's MSNBC and that's what Michael Beschloss does.
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So I was tracking it. You know, it's a threat to democracy. Okay, we've heard that before.
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And this was the moment, the 2022 midterm elections, the congressional elections, that was the point
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at which we lost the rule of law and the historians were all sent to the gulag and our children were
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arrested and conceivably killed. What the hell are you talking about? It's even worse than what the
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hell are you talking about? It's even worse than absurd because not only are the Republicans not doing
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that, the Democrats are doing that and actually campaigning on that. The Democrats not only encouraged
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political violence for the past three years, not very high level people bailing rioters out of the
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BLM riots, bailing the violent people out, encouraging people to illegally protest outside of Supreme Court
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justices houses, encouraging Democrats to push back on Republicans in public and to go to their homes
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where their children sleep, encouraging people. Hillary Clinton said, don't be civil with Republicans.
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You can't be civil with them. So not only have the Democrats encouraged the political violence,
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not only are the Democrats the ones suppressing speech, suppressing people who make historical
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claims, suppressing people who dissent from the current ruling regime through the enforcement of
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big tech, through monthly meetings from the federal government that they control to the allegedly
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private companies that control the public square saying, don't let these people speak. Don't let the
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New York Post run a story on Hunter Biden's laptop. Don't let anyone question COVID. Don't let anybody
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question election fraud. Don't let anybody do this. Not only are they doing that, they are explicitly
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running on killing children. This election, this one in particular, the Democrats, because they were
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losers on every single issue, the economy, immigration, foreign policy, the list goes on and on,
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they chose to run primarily on abortion. They actually, they said, okay, the Dobbs decision overrules Roe v.
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Wade. And so we are going to stake our campaign specifically on the alleged right to kill babies.
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I know that when the Democrats make accusations, it's really projection and it's really confession.
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And we all know that. But what's amazing about Michael Beschloss, maybe he really is an historian.
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Maybe he really does have some academic chops because it's, what's amazing is the absolute precision
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of projection here. He is putting on the Republicans with no evidence whatsoever,
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the stuff that the Democrats are campaigning on. The rule of law could be over. Bro,
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you guys were just campaigning on abolishing the police and not enforcing some of our most basic
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laws. What are you talking about? And bailing criminals out of prison, which Kamala Harris did
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and Stafford's for Biden did. The Republicans want to kill babies. No, man, that's what,
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that's not only what you guys do, that's your platform. And you see this now,
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you don't need to take my word for it. I mean, you've all seen this obviously in our culture for
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many years. But even this week, even as the abortion issue has been such a loser for Dems
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in the midterm elections, they're doubling down on it. This week on The View, those sort of cackling
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hens of the liberal establishment came out and they're furious. Because the abortion issue has not
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worked to bring the women over to the Democrat Party, they don't change their views on it. They don't
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have any introspection. They just attack the women who are voting for Republicans as cockroaches.
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I read a poll just yesterday that white Republican suburban women are now going to vote Republican.
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Why? It's almost like roaches voting for raid, right? It's like they're voting.
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They're voting against their own self-interest. Do they want to live in Gilead?
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Do we love democracy or not? Because just saying that it's insulting to the voter. People make up
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decisions on what's right for their family and the idea that you should have a say for everyone
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else's vote. The fact that women are voting against their own health care. You had a different view
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on abortion not that long ago and you evolved on it. I have that view. But then why is another woman
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not able to have a different view? But I am very surprised that white Republican suburban
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women are voting against their own health care. But why have you so recently evolved on the issue?
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That'll probably win them over, don't you think? When you have voters that you're trying to court
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who reject you and your platform, the way to win them over is to insult them and call them
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cockroaches and idiots, right? Hey, idiot roaches, you gotta vote for me, dummies. You dumb,
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disgusting people. Vote for me. Yeah, okay. Let's try that one until next Tuesday. Please keep that
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going. And it's so offensive, but you hear this argument from Democrats all the time and they
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apply it to black people and Hispanics and all the rest. They say, you're voting against, and they
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apply it to the working class. You're voting against your own interest. And they're so smug about
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it. They say, it's in your interest to vote for us Democrats because we'll give you money and we'll let
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you kill your babies. Did it ever occur to these women, to these Democrats broadly, that maybe
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mothers don't consider it in their interest to kill their own children? Have they ever considered that
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maybe workers don't consider it in their own interest to vote for a party that is going to
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destroy the energy industry, potentially plunge the world into World War III and cause record high
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inflation, which disproportionately affects the poor? Did they ever consider that it might not be in the
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interest of black people to vote for a party that wants to get rid of all the cops and allow
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neighborhoods that are already rife with crime to become even more criminal and dangerous? Did it ever
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occur to them? Did it ever occur to these people that maybe Hispanics in the United States, especially
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those who came here legally, don't think that it is their interest to have a completely open border
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and flood the country with foreign nationals just because they have roughly the same hue of skin
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as that they do? Did it ever occur? No, of course not. They're just so freaking smug. They are frequently
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wrong, but they are never in doubt. And they are doubling down and they are not going to give up their
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and America's coffee. I just saw the most nauseating news story I have ever seen in my entire life. And
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it came out yesterday and you paid for it actually. No, you didn't pay for it with your Daily Wire
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subscription. You paid for it with your tax dollars because it was on NPR. And I'm going to urge
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listener discretion right now and viewer discretion. If you have a weak stomach, just skip forward one
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minute right now. Just one minute, that's all it's really going to take. Because NPR aired the audio
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of a woman's abortion. NPR aired the room with the doctors, you know, with the abortionists and a
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mother murdering her own child. And play the tape. She's from Michigan. She already has one kid.
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She's having her abortion at about 11 weeks. Nearly all abortions in Michigan are before 13 weeks.
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Put a pause right there. I just had, well, I didn't just have my second child. My wife had my second
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child. But you know, it's a group effort at least to some degree. I participated at least, you know,
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in the very beginning. And we would go to the sonograms. 11 weeks. Not only do you know the
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sex of your child, not only are the basic features of your child quite formed at that point. 11 weeks,
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that baby is a baby. That baby is moving around. That baby is recognizable as a baby. 11 weeks is
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pretty far along. And so they're saying this woman who's already got one child out here in the world
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is going into this room to murder her child who is 11 weeks. Who is, you know that this baby is a baby.
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You know, mothers, mothers know really instantly, but, and you know that this mother knows that this
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baby is a baby because the mother is crying in the audio and it's not tears of joy. Again,
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if you've got a weak stomach, just skip ahead one or two clicks right now. You'll move past the audio.
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I think it's important to hear it though, because I think that this news story completely backfired
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on NPR. And like many patients at Northland, she said I could record her procedure.
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We're going to hear some of that now. So I'm just going to get you set up on the table and we're
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going to do that sedation medicine. I'm going to pull this out under your legs. Most patients are
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partially awake during the procedures. They get IV medication for pain and anxiety. The lights are
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dimmed. There's soothing music. It actually feels a lot like a childbirth, the medical gown,
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your bare legs and stirrups, and a person next to you saying, you can do this.
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Please, I just keep breathing. That's Brandy. She's one of the staffers. Her job is to monitor
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vital signs, but it is also to hold the patient's hand and talk her through this. Whether it's a birth
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or an abortion, it is often women guiding other women.
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I'm going to hear this machine turn on now. Okay, it makes a loud noise.
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Blow it out. Blow it out. Breathe it. Breathe it. Blow it out. Listen to me. Blow it out. If you
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hold your breath, it just makes it harder for you. Keep breathing. Keep breathing.
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Just keep breathing, Brandy tells her, over and over. I can't, the patient says at one point,
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when the cramps get painful. Yes, you can, Brandy tells her. You're doing it.
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Listen, you got this. And then within just a couple of minutes, it's over.
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All right, I'll work on. Take some deep breaths for me.
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I really went back and forth over whether to play that on the show or not, because it's
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truly nauseating. And I bet that many of you are sick to your stomach hearing it.
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And it's not because you haven't, it's not because you haven't seen violence before or
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heard violence or probably seen or heard people die on video. I mean, we see crime videos. We've
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seen videos from war, real videos. I'm not talking about Hollywood or anything like that. You've seen
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news footage from wars. You've seen crime videos. You've probably seen or heard people die before.
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There's something especially nauseating about this, even compared to crime videos or war videos,
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because it's a mother doing it. And the way that this NPR host introduces it, she says,
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you know, it's in many ways, this procedure is a lot like giving birth. Yeah, it is because you are
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giving birth. It's just instead of giving birth to a living baby to nurture this baby and care for this
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baby as you ought to do, you're giving birth to a baby that you've likely already killed in the womb.
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And then you're giving birth to it to throw them away in the trash. So it's just nauseating.
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And someone wrote in when this story was going viral. The reason I ended up deciding that we
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should play it on the air is because this was on national public radio. This was as public as
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it could possibly be. Public in the sense that, yes, it was aired on a mainstream platform,
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but public in that our political system paid for it. You paid for this to air. And I believe the
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reason that NPR chose to do it, because NPR is very far left and why we fund it, I have no idea.
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But the reason they chose to do it is because they think that it's going to de-stigmatize and
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demystify abortion. Well, yes, it will demystify abortion because it will get rid of the euphemisms
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that people always use. Reproductive rights, women's health care, all these euphemisms that
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actually are deceptive, that actually not only do they sugarcoat the procedure, but they invert it.
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They say it's reproductive. It's not. It's the opposite of reproductive. They say it's health care.
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It's not health care. It's murder. And so it demystifies it, but I don't think it de-stigmatizes
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it. I think it really demonstrates to people why there is a stigma around abortion. There's a stigma
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around abortion because it's the murder of a child. And so I think it completely backfires.
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And I think it's actually important to amplify this for people to see, to hear, to hear the
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reality of it. Some mouthy lib that I saw on social media when I posted this along with other people
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said, oh, you're so sickened by this. What, you've never seen video of a school shooting? And I thought,
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first of all, no, I never have seen video of a school shooting. I don't know that anyone has.
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Are there videos of the school shootings? I don't think so. But furthermore, even if such
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a thing existed, this would be worse because killing is a fact of life. This is a fallen world
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and it's a sin that just exists. There is murder in the world and there's war and there's just
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regular street murder. And there's even murder in high schools and there's even murder of poor
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little children and all these things. But it's even worse when the murderer is the mother.
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It's so much more perverse. I mean, this was Mother Teresa's speech to the UN. She said the biggest
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problem in the world today, the cause of political evils more so than any other cause
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is abortion. Because if a mother can kill her own child, then there's nothing that anyone won't do.
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Absolutely horrifying stuff. And in the face of this horrifying stuff, is it any wonder that people
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are turning away from the Democrats? That NPR audio, that was their election strategy. Because
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they couldn't run on anything else, they were running on that. And why is it not working? Because
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when the reality of what the Democrats want or what the libs want is presented to people,
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they see that it's horrifying. Once you get past all the euphemisms and all the mealy-mouthed BS
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language, what you hear is the vacuum turn on. And you say, wow, we can't have that.
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And this is, even people who were so personally offended by Donald Trump, even the squishes and
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the moderates and the never Trump conservatives and whatever, all of these people who endorsed Joe
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Biden, you're seeing them move away now. Forget about the libs, the kind of moderate libs like
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Bill Maher or Joe Rogan or Elon Musk, who you've seen for much, move much more to the right. But
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even someone like George Will, who was a major conservative writer, and then he went full on
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never Trump and he endorsed Joe Biden and he voted for Joe Biden. Well, George Will has even come out.
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It's one of the most anti-Trump voices in the country. And he just came out and he said,
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for the good of the country, Biden and Harris should bow out of the 2024 election. Even the
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people who made such a show of endorsing Joe Biden are having buyer's remorse. The collective
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leftist meltdown that is going to occur on election night next week, I think it's going to be glorious
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unless some water pipes break, unless some votes come in in Philly at three in the morning.
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has just released the documentary film My Dinner with Trump. This is a behind the curtain look at the
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former president and his closest advisors as they have a dinner together at his private club at
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Bedminster. If you're not a member, there's never been a better time to join. Go to dailywire.com
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slash Knowles to become a member today. George Will has come back around. He left the GOP because
00:25:20.860
he hates Trump so much. He endorsed Joe Biden because he hates Trump so much. And he says for
00:25:24.720
the good of the country, Biden and Harris should bow out of the 2024 election. He says Joe Biden should
00:25:34.060
not seek another term. Democrats should promptly face that fact. And this one, an Everest of evidence
00:25:39.800
shows that Vice President Harris is starkly unqualified to be considered as his successor.
00:25:46.220
And then he goes through the litany of terrible things that Biden has done. I'm glad he has
00:25:49.980
buyer's remorse. I'm glad he realizes, albeit late, that he made a mistake. I'm not sure that George
00:25:57.400
Will would say I was wrong to vote for him in 2020, but he's effectively saying that when he says that
00:26:02.780
Biden and Harris are not fit to be president, neither of them. I prefer people that got it right the first
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time. I'm all for grace for the people who get things wrong. And then way after the fact, they
00:26:15.260
say, oh, actually, maybe you guys weren't totally wrong. But when I think of the moral preening that
00:26:23.460
we heard from people like George Will, whose writing I've enjoyed for much of my life, but the preening,
00:26:29.500
the constant haranguing of those allegedly unprincipled conservatives who voted for Trump.
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Certainly in 2016, we heard this. And then in 2020, we heard it too. And now they come around and they
00:26:40.940
say, wow, gosh, golly, look at this. Joe Biden has completely destroyed the world and Kamala Harris is
00:26:45.340
also not fit to be president. And I think, yeah, yeah, you're right. We were totally right, man.
00:26:51.600
And you were totally wrong. And it wasn't just that it was an honest disagreement. You harangued us
00:26:56.140
and you called us immoral and you called us stupid and you called us unprincipled and all the rest of it.
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And we were right and you were wrong. And this is just how it goes with especially political
00:27:07.660
punditry. It's kind of like sports punditry too. It's just these guys go on TV and they get
00:27:13.360
everything wrong every single day and all their predictions turn out to be bogus. And then they're
00:27:18.420
invited back the next day for some reason. This is why I can't wear my Noel Stradamus hat too much
00:27:24.780
is because if I keep showing that my predictions are more often correct, then I'm going to lose
00:27:30.820
my job because you're not allowed to have correct predictions and be a political pundit.
00:27:35.000
You're not allowed to be in politics if your predictions are right. Okay. But it just,
00:27:40.260
it can be very frustrating for those of us that there are many people listening who were right
00:27:45.580
about Trump from the beginning and they faced all sorts of abuse because we were right and the
00:27:51.100
other guys were wrong or who were right about COVID from the beginning. And we faced all sorts
00:27:54.960
of abuse and we were called idiots and we were called murderers and we were called uneducated
00:27:59.500
and whatever. And we were right and they were totally wrong on every aspect of COVID, on the
00:28:03.080
origin of COVID, on the masks, on the distancing, on the vaccines, on everything. We were right and
00:28:08.840
those people were wrong. And it's, the lesson to take from this is not, I think, one of vendettas
00:28:17.140
and vengeance and, you know, even casting George Will into the outer darkness where there's wailing
00:28:21.120
and gnashing of teeth. I'm all for bringing people back in. If they come back and they even tacitly
00:28:25.940
admit, okay, you were right, I was wrong, I'm back on the team now, I welcome people back onto the team.
00:28:30.580
But it is a lesson for all of us when we're listening to voices and when we're looking for
00:28:36.660
people to read and listen to on what's going on in politics. It's good to take note of who got
00:28:42.500
things right and who got things wrong. I'll probably still read George Will sometimes because
00:28:47.100
he's a good writer. His prose is just very good. But his political perception is not what it once
00:28:53.340
was. It's totally, totally off because these people allowed themselves to be driven crazy by
00:28:59.020
their personal and irrational hatred of Donald Trump. It also, when people spend too much time in
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the beltway and too much time in the fancy circles and they just get divorced from reality. That's just
00:29:10.520
what happens. There was an amazing divorce from reality we saw. The United Nations just tweeted out,
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this is from UN Women, a big warning about journalists being killed. And here's the statistic.
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They say, of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%.
00:29:31.640
On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, let us say out loud,
00:29:37.540
stop targeting women journalists. Hashtag protect journalists. I'm going to look at those numbers
00:29:45.580
again. Of all the journalists killed, 11% are women. Stop targeting women. So hold on, if 11%,
00:29:51.500
what's 100 minus 11? That's 80. 89% of the journalists killed are men. 11% of the journalists
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killed are women. Would you say that constitutes a targeting of women? Would seem to constitute a
00:30:06.120
targeting of men. Or just journalists generally, they probably weren't paying much attention to the
00:30:10.620
sex at all. In what world is this targeting women? Well, what this tells you is a fact of our culture,
00:30:20.540
which we've talked about for a while and it's just becoming clearer every single day.
00:30:25.660
Men can never be the victim unless they've got something that makes them transgressive or
00:30:32.540
subversive or otherwise different from the norm. So if they're gay or transvestites or something like
00:30:39.140
that, then they can get some points and some sympathy. But men who are just regular old men
00:30:45.180
who behave like men who are just normal, they can never be the victim according to our culture's
00:30:51.020
narrative. In the same way that white people can never be the victim. Everything white people do is
00:30:55.980
wrong. If white people eat taco bowls on Cinco de Mayo, that's cultural appropriation. If white
00:31:01.900
people don't eat taco bowls on Cinco de Mayo, that's cultural erasure. There's nothing they can
00:31:06.620
do that's right. If men assert themselves, they're toxic. If men don't assert themselves,
00:31:12.700
they're incels. There's nothing they can. They're always terrible. And it doesn't matter if men die
00:31:18.500
younger. It doesn't matter if men in this case of this statistic are being disproportionately
00:31:22.320
killed. Almost every journalist that's killed almost is a man. 89%. Doesn't matter. Their pain
00:31:31.980
is not only doesn't matter, but it's something to mock. It's something to laugh at. And we can yell
00:31:40.240
until we're blue in the face about the hypocrisy. But the takeaway from it is the liberal establishment
00:31:46.260
just hates men and hates white people. And broadly speaking, hates conservatives. And even though this
00:31:54.860
is not a fair conflation, they conflate all three of those things. And so you're never going to get
00:32:01.300
really anywhere by pointing out the hypocrisy. You might be able to persuade some people in the
00:32:06.260
middle or some people who are on the fence, or you might be able to encourage conservatives to see
00:32:10.640
this thing more clearly. That's what we're trying to do now. But you're never going to convince the
00:32:13.820
libs to say, nay, guys, you're being hypocritical. You're not being nice to the men or the white
00:32:17.600
people. They don't care. They don't like us. They don't like us. They don't consider us legitimate
00:32:22.160
participants in our democracy. That's why when the Republicans win, the Democrats reject the
00:32:27.800
election results because they don't consider us legitimate participants in our sacred democracy.
00:32:32.420
And when the libs win, now we don't really buy those results because the libs rig the elections
00:32:37.640
and brag about it. The libs keep telling us everywhere. They say, it's going to take days. It's
00:32:42.520
probably going to take weeks to count all the votes. And my question is, why are the Democrats
00:32:46.280
so confident that it's going to take days and weeks to count the votes? Isn't there a chance
00:32:50.760
that we know the results on election night like we did for all of American history until five minutes
00:32:54.560
ago, until the Trump administration when the libs lost their minds? Isn't there a chance that we know
00:33:00.320
the results? No, they're so confident. Why is that? Why is it that they're so confident? Because
00:33:05.800
they have a plan in place to try to rig things. Now, the red wave might be so massive that it just
00:33:10.960
doesn't matter. But make no mistake, the libs believe they are totally justified in doing
00:33:16.040
anything illegal, immoral to stop Republicans from winning because they believe, as Michael
00:33:20.840
Beschloss said, as Joe Biden said, democracy is on the ballot and that if they lose, the whole
00:33:26.540
country is going to go to pot and we're going to ship journalists and historians to the gulag
00:33:31.440
and we're going to arrest and murder their children. That's what they're saying. That's what
00:33:35.880
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Hello, Nostradamus. First of all, greetings from Sydney, Australia. My question is, there's this quote
00:33:59.040
that has been incorrectly attributed to Voltaire. The quote is, if you want to know who controls
00:34:05.800
you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize. Now, the quote belongs to a white supremacist
00:34:12.400
called Kevin Strom. However, there's quite a lot of truth in it, which is why I think it
00:34:18.780
is often attributed to Voltaire. And my question is, is it possible for an evil man or an evil
00:34:24.260
woman to say something or have an idea that from a more righteous source will be true or
00:34:32.600
righteous? That's it. Once again, take care. Hope to see you in Australia one day. Thanks heaps.
00:34:42.020
Yeah, of course. Of course that's possible. It's funny. I have seen that quote going around the
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internet. And it's a reminder that whenever you see a quote on the internet, especially one that is
00:34:53.780
attributed to a prominent figure like Voltaire or Ben Franklin or Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill
00:35:00.020
or Abraham Lincoln, just assume it's a false attribution. You have to Google it yourself,
00:35:05.060
and you have to go down and find a legitimate citation. Otherwise, I think it's pretty safe
00:35:08.960
to assume the quote is not legit. And so this one is particularly embarrassing because people are
00:35:13.500
posting this around. Because the quote seems true, it has the ring of truth to it, they post it
00:35:18.840
around. And most people don't even know who Voltaire is, but they know that he's like a fancy
00:35:22.480
person that educated people, quote. And so they attribute it. And then it turns out it's this
00:35:26.880
neo-Nazi criminal guy. And so that's very embarrassing. But of course, bad people can
00:35:32.300
say true things. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I mean, Karl Marx said a lot of true
00:35:36.880
things. He was an evil man who had extremely perverse ideas and was probably obsessed or possessed by demons.
00:35:44.760
But he made some astute observations about politics. So did Lenin and Stalin.
00:35:49.720
Okay, you know, I mean, this gets to that problem of in politics, you know, everyone I don't like is
00:35:54.840
Hitler. And so you'll say, oh, you know, Donald Trump just drank some water. Hitler drank water too.
00:36:01.700
You know who else drank water? And you think, okay, yeah, not every single thing that bad people say or do
00:36:08.500
is wrong or evil. Okay, life is a little more complicated than that. But my only other point on
00:36:15.080
that quote, which the quote has certainly has the ring of truth to it. So that's why people are
00:36:19.300
quoting it across the political spectrum. You also shouldn't quote Voltaire. Voltaire was a very bad
00:36:25.920
guy who had very stupid ideas. So you should, yeah, I guess you shouldn't quote neo-Nazis. But also,
00:36:31.720
you also shouldn't quote Voltaire. Okay, you should quote good, smart, virtuous people,
00:36:36.040
not derelicts like Voltaire. Okay, next question.
00:36:40.140
Michael Knowles, your number one fan in the world coming to you right now asking for your advice.
00:36:46.540
I'm a pretty traditional guy. And I believe that the husband should have the final say
00:36:51.720
in most things in a marriage. But my wife brings up an interesting point. When it comes to naming your
00:36:58.280
children, who should have the final word there? Because that to me does seem like a category that
00:37:04.820
would fall more under motherly instinct than fatherly instinct. And my wife also argues she's
00:37:09.960
the one who has to carry the baby for nine months and push it out. So if there is a disagreement,
00:37:14.920
she should be the one who gets the final word. So I'm just wondering what you think about this.
00:37:19.580
Is this something that husbands should stand up and fight for? Or is this one that the ladies can take?
00:37:26.520
Great question. I'm so pleased to hear from my number one fan. It's a very important question.
00:37:31.640
But your instinct is totally wrong. The husband should have the final say in everything because
00:37:39.240
the husband is the head of household. And the husband does not get the final say because he
00:37:45.660
works extra hard. The mothers work extremely hard. Wives work extremely hard. And in many ways,
00:37:51.540
in many cases, they work harder than the husband. That's not. The reason the man has the final say
00:37:56.920
is because he is the head of household. That is what you are signing on to when you get married.
00:38:04.240
At least traditionally. These days, I guess, people get married and they have like,
00:38:07.720
you know, polygamous five sums and then they get divorced five minutes later. But
00:38:11.040
in the traditional understanding of marriage, that's the way that it is.
00:38:15.920
The husband is the head of the household, not because of the individual merit of the husband,
00:38:20.380
but because that's what marriage is. The husband has the final say and is that because he's the
00:38:26.540
head of household. So either the husband has the final say on everything or he doesn't have the
00:38:34.300
final say or he isn't the head of the household. It is an all or nothing thing. Now, when I say the
00:38:41.300
husband has the final say, I just, I'm not saying he's going to rule like some tyrant or anything like
00:38:45.620
that. On maybe the majority of decisions, particularly pertaining to the family or the
00:38:53.420
household, what the woman wants, she's probably going to get. And the head of household, just like
00:39:00.240
the head of a company, just like the head of a country, will delegate most things. But ultimately,
00:39:07.300
if the man is to be the head of his household, if the man is to be the head of his wife, as Christ is
00:39:12.860
the head of the church, then he's got to have the final say. That's just by definition. And so
00:39:18.300
have conversations with your wife, you know, go back and forth. Don't pick some stupid name for
00:39:22.300
your kid. But, you know, act like a man. What's the matter with you? Okay, next question.
00:39:27.620
Hey, Michael, my name is John. I'm a student at Marquette University and a resident of Illinois.
00:39:32.360
As such, I can vote in either of the Senate races, and I'm hoping that you can help me decide which
00:39:36.820
would be more efficacious in the coming elections. The Wisconsin polls are very close, though Johnson seems to be
00:39:41.980
pulling ahead. Whereas in Illinois, Kathy Salvi, a staunchly Catholic, non-squishy Republican mom,
00:39:48.040
a friend of my family's, and ostensibly the best chance Republicans have had in decades,
00:39:52.900
is down in the polls by around 11 points, though there have only been a few polls since the race
00:39:58.220
seems to be obviously one for Tammy Duckworth already. My friends working in the Salvi campaign
00:40:03.860
think that the polls are vastly undercounting Kathy's support and are hoping to ride the red wave,
00:40:09.400
but I am skeptical given the gap. Which race would you suggest that I vote in and why?
00:40:14.420
Thank you so much for all you do, and hopefully I can tempt you back to Wisconsin with a cigar and
00:40:19.960
a glass of whiskey upon arrival. That sounds great. I'll look forward to that next time I'm in
00:40:25.220
Wisconsin. In terms of the race, I'd probably vote in Wisconsin, and I'd probably vote for Johnson.
00:40:31.740
Not because I think Ron Johnson is the most right-wing member of the Senate, and not because I have any,
00:40:38.160
you know, particular affection for Wisconsin over any other state. I like Wisconsin a lot. There's
00:40:43.160
a good cigar bar in Milwaukee, but just because that's the tight race. And you mentioned that
00:40:49.460
it's a red wave here, and you're friends with the candidate in Illinois, and the people on her
00:40:56.140
campaign say, you know, look, the polls are undercounting. Maybe the polls are. Are the polls
00:41:02.340
undercounting, though, and underestimating her by 11 points? Maybe the polls are underestimating her
00:41:07.360
by five points, six points, seven points. I'm not saying it's impossible that she wins. She sounds
00:41:13.520
great. I haven't looked into the race. I hope she wins. But when you've got a real nail-biter of a race,
00:41:20.440
as we could be seeing, the race in Wisconsin right now is five points or within five points. So
00:41:25.600
I just, prudentially, I'd probably vote up there. I just, politics is, I follow that Buckley rule. You
00:41:32.040
vote for the most right, viable candidate, and politics is not about perfection exactly, and it's
00:41:40.460
not about idealism exactly. You've got to deal with political realities. And on a nail-biter, I'd
00:41:47.860
probably vote in the nail-biter race, if you have the choice to vote in either. All right, next voicemail
00:41:52.580
by question. Hey, Michael. I had a question about pursuing a good career for young people.
00:41:58.240
It seems to me that my older friends and my peers have different perspectives on this.
00:42:03.240
This is kind of oversimplifying it, but I would say that the older generations seem to have a
00:42:08.080
perspective about work, that it's just your responsibility and you have to do it. And,
00:42:13.300
you know, yeah, chasing your dreams is okay, but ultimately you just have to do what's going to put
00:42:17.400
food on the table. And the younger generations seem to have more of an intense focus on
00:42:22.260
finding your true passion and what your calling is. And I think there's some crossover, but
00:42:27.220
what would be your advice to someone who's young, who's trying to figure out where they fit in their
00:42:32.780
career? Because I'm finding it really difficult to find what my sweet spot is. And it seems like a lot
00:42:38.820
of employers nowadays want to know what that is. And, you know, I'm obviously very passionate about
00:42:44.160
being able to put food on the table. But there's also some truth in that you can probably find
00:42:49.480
a much easier path to success if you're in work that you love and work that you're good at. And
00:42:55.000
so I'd just love to hear your perspective on this. Thanks so much. Love the show.
00:42:59.140
Thank you. I don't recommend desperately chasing your dreams. I think that's a bad idea.
00:43:05.160
But I do recommend strategically and methodically and prudentially pursuing your dreams.
00:43:12.120
It's not just follow your dreams or settle for some job that you hate that will give you a steady
00:43:20.340
paycheck. There is another option there too, which is you can apply rigor and reality and logic and
00:43:30.700
prudence to the pursuit of your dreams as well. I have a fake job.
00:43:36.440
In the sense that if you just look at the hours that I work, I work all the time. I work a lot.
00:43:46.460
There are very few hours where I'm not doing something that somehow relates to my job for
00:43:53.180
most of the week. But I feel like I am never working or at least very rarely working because
00:43:59.900
I love what I do because I have a fake job because I get to go and speak about the things that I care
00:44:06.040
about and write essays and books about the things that I care about and talk to you guys on the show
00:44:10.940
and get to have some influence in politics on things that I want to. And all of that
00:44:16.320
fortunately relates to my job. I've worked plenty of other just pay the bills jobs.
00:44:22.540
And as I have pursued my dreams, I've gone down bad paths on my dreams and had to turn around.
00:44:29.820
And I've met certain dead ends and then I've kind of zigzagged. And so there's all of that.
00:44:34.200
And then I've worked different jobs to kind of pay the bills and keep a roof over my head
00:44:37.420
while I was doing that. It would be a mistake to throw off all of your responsibilities
00:44:45.280
to just chase some pipe dream that very likely will not be good for you.
00:44:52.420
Very often the things that we think our dreams are would ultimately be sort of harmful for us.
00:44:58.760
And God generally has better plans for us than we have for ourselves because he is omniscient and
00:45:05.500
omni-benevolent and we are fallen and corrupt and have little pea-sized brains. So it's good.
00:45:14.640
You ought to have a sense of where you want to go. You ought to have ambition. You ought to
00:45:18.800
really apply some rigor to that thought. And you ought to pursue it. And you ought to do the right thing.
00:45:24.160
And you ought to not compromise morally. And if you can do all that while meeting your
00:45:30.400
obligations to your family, to your community, to your God, and if you can do all of that while
00:45:37.460
meeting your moral obligations as well and while acting with virtue, then I think that's great.
00:45:45.720
A lot of conservatives on this question will say, give up your dreams and just work some job that you
00:45:49.060
hate that gives you a paycheck. I don't think that's true. I didn't take that advice.
00:45:52.780
And I'm glad I didn't. Just like you'll often hear conservatives say, forget about it. You should
00:45:57.900
never go to college. And if you do go to college, you should never study anything that has anything
00:46:02.920
to do with culture or humanities. You should just study engineering or something. I don't think that's
00:46:06.440
true. I didn't follow that advice. And no, if you have an inclination toward philosophy or history or
00:46:11.580
literature or culture, and you have any inclination or aptitude and aptitude for it at all, then yeah,
00:46:17.740
you absolutely should pursue that. But don't just go take out half a million dollars in debt and have
00:46:23.860
no plan for what you're going to do after. But absolutely you can do that. Come on. I don't
00:46:30.520
think the conservatives are the political party of kill all of your dreams. Don't think of anything
00:46:37.840
higher than just putting a slab of beef on the table. No, of course not. That's what the materialists
00:46:43.520
say. That's what the libs say. Conservatives understand that there is much more to life
00:46:47.760
and that if we want to have a thriving family and thriving communities and we want to pursue the
00:46:55.400
purpose that God has for us, that we do need to have higher ideals. And we do need to have a broader
00:47:01.380
view of life than just consuming stuff. All right, there's more to get to. I've got the regular old
00:47:07.500
written mailbags. I'm going to get to a few of those in the member block. And then it is fake
00:47:10.820
headline Friday. So I will need your help. Ben Davies has given me four real headlines,
00:47:17.240
one fake headline. He's going to test my ability to understand our always absurd news cycle to parse
00:47:25.240
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