Ep. 1129 - Based Moms Strike Fear Into The Heart Of Woke School Boards
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The only political group on the right that is winning right now is Moms For Liberty. The Berkeley County School District in South Carolina just swore in its new school board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative group.
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The only political group on the right that is winning right now is moms. It's not the GOP
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congressman. It's certainly not the GOP senators. Those losers are selling our whole political
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order down the river, as they made perfectly clear yesterday. We'll get to that in just a minute.
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Those guys are useless. No. The only political group on the right, right now, that is scoring
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wins is moms at school boards. Listen to this. The Berkeley County School District in South
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Carolina just swore in its new school board members who were elected last week, six of
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whom were endorsed by the conservative group Moms for Liberty. Within two hours, the new
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members replaced the board chairman with a solid conservative, fired the district's woke
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superintendent, fired the district's woke lawyer, banned critical race theory from the curricula,
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and set up a committee to round up all the idiotic and pornographic books from the school
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libraries and ban them. Two hours. Imagine what they could do in two weeks, two months,
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two years, two decades. That's vision. That's courage. That is the right way to wield political
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power. I only want to know two things. One, when can we send these Moms for Liberty candidates
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to Washington? And two, where can I donate? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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stuff from the Moms for Liberty and the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina. But you're
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seeing this around the country. There was another mother. She just showed up to a school board meeting
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in Texas. She showed up to this school board meeting, and she just read from a book that is
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in the school library. Listener discretion advised, if your kids are listening right now,
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maybe just skip ahead 30 seconds or a minute. Listen to the way that the board reacts to the
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What we fill our minds with matters. Consider that as I read this from a current library book.
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This one couple stumbled into my room and asked if they could use the room anyway with me still in it.
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They closed the door and started kissing. After a few minutes, the boy's hand went up the girl's
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shirt, and she started protesting. Pretty soon, he took off her bra and started to kiss her breasts.
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And then he put his hand down her pants, and she started moaning. He reached to take off her pants,
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but she started crying really hard. So he reached for his own. He pulled his pants and underwear down
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to his knees. Please, Dave, no. But the boy just talked soft to her about how good she looked,
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and she grabbed his breasts with her hands and started moving it. The boy pushed the girl's head
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down, and she started to kiss his breasts. She was still crying. Finally, she stopped crying
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because he put his p***s in her m***h, and I don't think you can cry in that position.
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I ask you why this book has survived two attempts.
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Your time is up. Thank you so much. And there's a child in our boardroom,
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so I'd like for you to please stop reading that.
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Did you see the child? Okay. Then your time is up. Thank you.
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So they cut off her microphone so you can't hear her response, but you can hear the people
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laughing in the audience. She says, excuse me, ma'am, there's a child here.
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You need to stop reading from the books in our school library. There's a child here.
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You hear the audience say, yeah, right, that's the point. The mother's there. She goes, no,
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I didn't see the child, but that's the point. What are you talking about? Ma'am, that's very
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pornographic and obscene and not appropriate for children. Stop reading the books that we put in
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our libraries out loud. Don't read the books that we're teaching your kids. No, the real reason that
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the school board doesn't want that mother to read the book is not because a child might hear it.
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It's because the other parents might hear it. And the other parents might realize what insane
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radicals are running the schools. So this is good stuff. It's good when the parents come out there
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and expose this stuff. It's good when the handful of people in the conservative media who will break
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through that kind of mainstream gatekeeper and actually tell you what's really going on. It's
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good when that happens to expose these things. That can't be the end of the story.
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The end of the story cannot be, look at how crazy the left is. Wow, they're hypocrites.
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They, those guys, man, they're bad. They say that they're good, but they're really bad.
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That can't be the end of the story. The end of the story has to be, yeah, it's bad. We've exposed
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the problem. We see the problem. After that diagnosis, we need to take action, okay?
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Okay. The, the, the end of the story has to be, we elect new school board members and they
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immediately fly into action, fire the crazy teachers, fire the superintendent, fire the
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chairman of the school board, kick all of them out and start banning these pornographic books from
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schools. You have to do stuff. And the libs aren't going to like that. And the libs are going to try to,
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try to convince the conservatives that actually it's not very conservative to actually do anything.
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This is what happened for the past 20 or so years on the right is that the libs convinced the,
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the right to adopt this kind of weird libertarian kind of shallow ethos where the conservatives
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convinced themselves that doing anything in politics is somehow immoral or unprincipled.
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Well, it would be, you know, if we do anything, then that would make us no different from the left.
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The left, you see, puts a bunch of weird porn in schools. But if we take the weird porn out of
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schools, we're no different than the left. No, we're totally different. That's the opposite,
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actually. You're saying if we wield political power, we're no different from the left? No,
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I guess we would be, we would be similar to the left in that we would be actually participating in
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politics, but we would be the opposite of the left because we would be doing the opposite things.
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They want to make our country worse. We want to make our country better.
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They want to peddle falsehood. We want to peddle the truth. We want to reveal the truth and inculcate
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the truth in the minds, especially of young children. This is why education has become such
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a flashpoint because for years, the conservatives, we threw up our hands. We retreated from the public
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square. We said, well, you know, I don't, I, you do you, but I don't, I'm out of here. Okay. I'm just
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going to go off to my own little Island and that's not going to work because that just gives the
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political space all over to the left. So now conservatives have woken up. This occurred
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during the Trump years. This was really one of the consequences of the new Trumpian approach to
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politics, which is not really new at all. It's actually a reversion to the old right. It's a
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reversion to how conservatives rightly understood politics to be until about 20, 25 years ago.
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And, and the moms started showing up to the school boards and then the moms started electing people.
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And then the moms are the reason why Glenn Youngkin became the Republican governor of Virginia.
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And the moms are the reason why Ron DeSantis has been so successful in Florida. And what is one,
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one of Ron DeSantis' greatest pieces of legislation he's passed? It's the Stop Woke Act. The Stop
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Woke Act, which says, no, we are going to have standards. We are going to have norms. We're going to
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give parents rights in education. We're not going to let these radicals just poison the minds of
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children. And so now the libs are relying not on the people. The people love the Stop Woke Act. The
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people hate it when the radicals try to poison our kids' brains with weird race stuff and transgenderism
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and all the rest of it. So now the left is relying on the judges and the judge, the judges are trying to
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stop the parents from having a say over their kids' education. This is what a chief U.S. district
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judge, Mark Walker, just said as he issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Stop
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Woke Act. Stop Woke, by the way, refers to stop wrongs to our kids and employees. Politicians love
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a good initialism. They do, or a good acronym. So this is what the judge had to say about it.
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The judge says that lacking explicit standards to circumscribe enforcement of objectivity,
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defendants can weaponize this term to further discredit the eight concepts in the marketplace
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of ideas, which now permits endorsement of only one side of the debate. Accordingly,
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because this objectivity savings clause commands the entire statute, the IFA, this is another way to
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refer to the Stop Woke Act as the Individual Freedom Act, is impermissibly vague on its face in violation
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of the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Let me translate that gobbledygook into English for
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you. The judge is saying that by kicking radicalism and transgenderism and critical race theory and all
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this nonsense out of our schools, that we're threatening the free marketplace of ideas.
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Then we'll only have one side of the debates. Now, two problems with this. One,
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would you describe classrooms today as a free marketplace of ideas where all sides are heard
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and well represented? Or would you describe it as an ideological echo chamber where only leftism thrives?
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Obviously, it's the latter. The idea that there is a free marketplace of ideas in our classrooms today
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is completely preposterous. I don't think I need to explain myself. You've all seen the videos of me
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and other people going to classrooms all around the country. You've been to school yourself. Your kids have
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been to school. You understand what this means. But second of all, even if there were such a thing
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as a free marketplace of ideas in classrooms, there really shouldn't be. Certainly not in elementary
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schools or middle schools. Do you really believe a fourth grade classroom is supposed to be a free
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marketplace of ideas where new scientific discoveries are being made? Of course not.
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It's a place to learn your ABCs and two plus two equals four and boys are boys and girls are girls.
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The problem is that these days, the kids in the schools are learning that two plus two equals five
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and that little Johnny actually can be little Jane. Just don't tell your parents, head on down to the
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guidance counselor and he's going to give you some puberty blockers. That's what's happening.
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There, of course, there's no free marketplace of ideas. In early education, at the very least,
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there is coercion to learn a certain set of facts. And if you get those facts wrong on your test,
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you're going to get a bad grade and flunk out. That's what it really is. Even the justification
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for a free marketplace of ideas is that, well, that will allow new discoveries to be made and advance
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the human race. It's a dubious prospect in many cases. But let's say even that that were true.
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Even if it were true, that's not happening in third grade. It's just complete nonsense from
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the federal judge who is threatened, is feeling threatened that leftism is not going to have
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its absolute establishment in the elementary schools and throughout education. It's really
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Ron DeSantis' Stop Woke Act by claiming it threatens the free marketplace of ideas that doesn't exist,
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but also saying this. He says, one thing is crystal clear. Both robust intellectual inquiry
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and democracy require light to thrive. Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy,
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and the state of Florida's decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and
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which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all. If our priests of democracy are not
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allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness. There's a federal
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judge writing this nonsense. But the First Amendment does not permit the state of Florida
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to muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints, and cast us all into the
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dark. Hold on. The First Amendment does not permit the state of Florida to impose its own orthodoxy of
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viewpoints on the priests of democracy, which is how the judge describes the professors. Do you see
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the problem there? The judge is saying that the people of Florida, the people as represented by the
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state, have no right to have their own moral views. They have no right to impose that orthodoxy into the
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classroom, and by impose it means set the standards for the community that is going to be taught to the
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children. Instead, the priests of democracy have that exclusive right to impose their
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orthodoxy. So he's saying the people don't have the right to orthodoxy, to their beliefs. It's the
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leftists. They're the only ones with the right to their orthodoxy, which is evil and wrong.
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I just, anytime someone tells you leftism is not a religion, please quote them Judge Walker's opinion
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on the Stop Woke Act. He is admitting it is a religion. The professors are the priests of that religion.
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He then goes on to quote a slogan from a left-wing newspaper, the Washington Post.
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Democracy will die in darkness. I mean, this is really sad stuff. Really sad stuff that a federal
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judge has the intellect and education that stops at the level of popular newspaper slogans. Really
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pathetic how far our country has fallen. But an important reminder that this is a religious battle.
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And I know there's a lot of conservatives who say, I'm not all that religious. I'm sort of agnostic.
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Oh, come on, enough with the religion talk. I didn't start the religion talk, okay? The religion
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talk is all around politics because all human conflict is theological. It's the left that is
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imposing the religion talk. The religion of leftism, the priests of which are the professors in the
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universities and the teachers and all the rest of the apparatchiks in this hierarchy of the church
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of leftism. And the only way to fight that bad religion is with good religion. Nature abhors a
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vacuum. Man is fundamentally a religious being, okay? We have ultimate questions that we have to
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answer that inevitably we are going to grapple with. What is death? What is judgment? Is there a heaven?
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Is there a hell? What am I for? What is the good life? Who made me? What is life? Those are questions
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that will not be answered by history or natural science or, I don't know, chemistry. They can't
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be answered by those things. Those are questions that ultimately have to be answered by religion. And
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they will either be answered by false religion, like the religion of Judge Walker here, or by true
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religion, by Christianity, by the religion that animates and built our entire civilization. And
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you've got to pick a side. If you stand in the middle of the road, you will be run over by a
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truck. You're either with God or against God is what it ultimately comes down to, okay? And I think
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the greatest trick the devil ever played is pretending that he doesn't exist. And for a long time,
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the leftists have pretended that they're just secular. You know, they're just secular. They don't have,
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this religion stuff, that's all hooey from the dark ages or whatever. No, they're admitting it.
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They're admitting that they have a religion. So you're either going to be part of their religion
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or you're going to be part of true religion. I advise you to choose wisely. So meanwhile,
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as the Libs' awful sort of religion of leftism takes over, unfortunately, I'm sorry to say,
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many so-called conservatives are going along with it. This was so pathetic yesterday.
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Okay. Democrats in Congress just proposed a further destruction of the family.
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The family has been very weakened. It's been weakened for 60 years now. The left has done
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everything it can to weaken the family. Now they're trying to deal a death blow. And that
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would be through something they euphemistically call the Respect for Marriage Act. The Respect for
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Marriage Act would codify the Obergefell decision, which invents a new definition of marriage,
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completely contrary to the actual definition of marriage that has prevailed everywhere for all
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of human history. And it would codify it and go further. It would prohibit businesses from
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following their conscience, from being Christian or Jewish or Muslim. Though as a practical matter,
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they will only enforce this against Christians. This sort of law would make Jack Phillips and
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Masterpiece Cake Shop illegal. If you don't want to participate in a gay wedding, that will be
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illegal now if you're a business. It's a radical, radical redefinition of the family, which is the
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fundamental unit of society. So I'm not surprised that the Libs peddle this. They hate the family.
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They hate society. And they want to destroy the country. But I am disgusted that conservatives would
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go along with it. And a dozen of them did. These are the senators who went along with it. There were a
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and then the senators yesterday went along with it to advance this legislation beyond the filibuster,
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which puts it on a fast track to being passed. Roy Blunt, Richard Burr. So Roy Blunt from Missouri,
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Richard Burr from North Carolina, Shelley Capito from West Virginia, Susan Collins from Maine,
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Joni Ernst from Iowa, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming. It's too bad. I actually like her. But horrible,
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horrible judgment here. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Rob Portman from Ohio, and of course,
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Mitt Romney from Utah. Absolutely pathetic. So these people, these conservatives can't conserve
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anything. They can't conserve anything. We joke about how, oh, these conservatives, they can't even
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conserve the women's bathroom. They can't conserve anything. They can't conserve the basic unit of
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society. They just are Democrats. They just are liberals. And they're radical liberals. They're liberals
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further to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2011. Okay? That's how radical they are.
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Really, really pathetic. What is marriage? A lot of people just don't understand this anymore.
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Marriage is the lifelong communion of a husband and his wife for the good of the spouses and for the
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sake of the generation and education of children. That's what marriage is. Well, why can't two people
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who love each other just get married? Well, they can. But not all love is the same. And not all unions
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are the same. I love my grandmother. I'm not going to marry my grandmother. I love my friends. I'm not
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going to marry my friends. I love my co-workers. I'm not going to marry my co-workers. What is marriage?
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Marriage cannot be redefined because marriage is not merely a social construct or a sort of political
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contrivance. Marriage is a natural institution. This is defined by Aristotle, defined by St. Thomas
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Aquinas as the natural state of man. Man is a pairing creature. We are connubial creatures, even more than
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political creatures. And we are drawn to propagate the species with our spouse and to help one another.
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And that's what marriage is. So you cannot redefine it. Sexual difference is at the very heart of
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marriage. If you don't get that, you don't get anything as a conservative. If you cannot conserve
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the natural institution, maybe one of the most fundamental aspects of human nature,
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you can't conserve anything. So why did these people vote for it? Why did they vote for it?
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I suspect some because they're just absolute disgraceful sellouts like Mitt Romney. But some
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because they think, well, it's a lost cause. It's a lost cause. People support the redefinition
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of marriage now. So Michael, give up. It's a lost cause. That's what they told us about abortion for
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49 years. It's a lost cause. Give it up. Oh, come on. It's a lost cause.
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you got to talk about this on the show. It's a quote from T.S. Elliott on lost causes. And T.S.
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Elliott writes, if we take the widest and wisest view of a cause, there is no such thing as a lost
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cause because there is no such thing as a gained cause. We fight for lost causes because we know
00:25:38.580
that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successor's victory, though that victory itself
00:25:43.700
will be temporary. We fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will
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triumph. Of course, there's no such thing as a lost cause. We know this because when we win something,
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we have to fight like hell to preserve it because we know that that thing that we won is on the brink
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of decay at any given moment, on the brink of collapse. So if there are no one causes, there are no
00:26:07.920
lost causes. People say, well, move on. Who cares? It's just the definition of marriage.
00:26:13.560
It's kind of everything, isn't it? Why won't you just give this up and move on? Because if we cannot
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preserve the fundamental political institution, we can't conserve anything at all. And the tax thing
00:26:26.260
doesn't matter. Immigration doesn't matter. I mean, kind of like nothing matters. If you fundamentally
00:26:34.020
reorder your society down to that atomic level, okay, then it's just a matter of time.
00:26:41.200
Do not do that. I think even for the conservatives who say, well, who cares about marriage? I'm not
00:26:46.780
with you on this one, Michael. You crazy religious people. You crazy Christians and Jews and Muslims
00:26:52.960
and everybody for all, and virtuous pagans and everybody for all of history. I just, come on,
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I don't see it. Ask yourself, why don't you get it? Have a little bit of humility perhaps and ask
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yourself, why is it that statistically every single person for all of history and 100% of the smart
00:27:12.780
people through all of history have thought that marriage means one thing until seven or so years
00:27:19.640
ago, including the leftists until about 11 years ago. And now I think that all those people were
00:27:27.100
wrong. Why? Why is it? And when people say, I just don't understand the issue of marriage. Well,
00:27:32.840
right, that's the problem. Then maybe have a little humility and do not take on a stance on this issue.
00:27:39.660
Do not destroy marriage until you understand why people thought the way they thought about it in
00:27:45.280
the first place. It's just Chesterton's fence. Before you, you walk into the middle of a field,
00:27:50.200
you see a fence. Fence appears to have no purpose. And you say, okay, I'm going to tear down that fence
00:27:55.880
because I don't know what it's there for. You've got to take a pause and say, hold on. It is not until
00:28:00.580
I figure out what it is there for that I will tear it down. Because I don't want to go into this
00:28:06.460
thing ignorantly and potentially destroy society, which is what the people have done.
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Now, a little bit of good news, better news coming out of the House of Representatives.
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And with great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek re-election
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Nancy Pelosi is out. I love that was a Daily Wire video of a superposition of Nancy Pelosi at a bar.
00:28:32.660
Well, see, Nancy, she's gone. So she's no longer going to be the Speaker of the House because she's
00:28:37.420
not in the majority anymore. And she is not going to run for House Minority Leader, which means,
00:28:42.480
in fact, she'll keep her seat in the House of Representatives. But Nancy Pelosi is done.
00:28:47.520
She is done as a major force in American politics. She held on for a very long time.
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Now she is done. Now the Republicans are taking over. What are the Republicans going to do? Well,
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we've got an announcement from Representative James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky,
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who says they are going to waste no time getting to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden.
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This is an investigation of Joe Biden, the President of the United States,
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and why he lied to the American people about his knowledge and participation
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in his family's international business schemes. National security interests require the committee
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conduct investigation, and we will pursue all avenues, avenues that have long been ignored.
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Committee Republicans have uncovered evidence of federal crimes committed by
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and to the benefit of members of the President's family. These include
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conspiracy or defrauding the United States, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud,
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violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
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violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, tax evasion, money laundering,
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and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Biden family's business dealings implicate a wide
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range of criminality from human trafficking to potential violations of the Constitution.
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In the 118th Congress, this committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden's relationship
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with his family's foreign partners and whether he is a president who is compromised
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or swayed by foreign dollars and influence. I want to be clear. This is an investigation of Joe Biden.
00:30:22.940
Okay, so I like the way he frames this. He says, this is not just an investigation
00:30:29.000
of Hunter Biden, who nobody really cares about, but it's an investigation of Joe Biden, right?
00:30:34.700
We see on Hunter Biden's laptop, he says 10% goes to the big guy. So is Hunter just off there on his
00:30:39.220
own, making a bunch of money without any knowledge of his father, trading on his father's name,
00:30:44.060
getting his father to potentially make some phone calls? Or is this corruption that implicates Joe?
00:30:50.000
I like it. I think it's important to investigate Hunter Biden. I think it's important to investigate
00:30:54.880
Anthony Fauci. I think it's, even though Fauci now is quitting so that he hopefully doesn't get
00:30:59.540
investigated. In his views, I hope he still does. We need to do all of this. However, I go back to
00:31:07.340
those Moms for Liberty-backed candidates at the school board. We need results. Okay, very often House
00:31:15.100
panels don't do anything. There's lots and lots of investigation, and it amounts to nothing. When
00:31:20.260
the Democrats do it, there's the January 6th investigation that's not going to do anything.
00:31:24.180
And then there's the Benghazi investigation, didn't do very much, and on and on and on.
00:31:29.960
We need results. Okay? If this investigation is not going to end in Joe Biden or people very close
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to him in orange jumpsuits, then just don't do it. Then spend your time on other stuff.
00:31:46.620
It's very frustrating to me that we spend a ton of money sending people to Washington, D.C.
00:31:53.280
as conservatives, and they conserve basically nothing. And as we saw this week with the
00:31:57.940
Republicans in the Senate, they can't conserve even the basic fundamental political unit.
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government. And then we spend very little money sending women to school boards. And then they
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actually get things done that actually matter in Americans' lives and shape the minds of the next
00:32:13.600
generation. So when I'm looking at those two things, I'm thinking, okay, maybe I'm not going to write as
00:32:17.740
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00:32:22.240
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Hi, Michael. I just found out that I am having a boy. I'm pregnant with my first child and I am a
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hairstylist, so I've been excitedly announcing that to people. But I had an encounter today where
00:34:33.060
one of my clients was less than thrilled about my news and she was telling me how we would have to
00:34:41.380
basically untrain my son from the patriarchy and how he was going to be privileged and just born
00:34:48.640
that way. And I feel like I didn't know what to say and I didn't really defend him and I feel like
00:34:56.560
maybe I should have. My husband said I did the right thing by not making a big encounter with someone who
00:35:02.600
I'm trying to be professional with. But I wondered if you had any thoughts about how to handle a situation
00:35:09.800
like that if it does come up in the future. Thanks so much. I think your instinct is probably more
00:35:16.340
correct than your husband's, but it depends on how the woman said it. Did the woman say,
00:35:22.100
oh, you're having a boy. Oh, you know, he's going to have that patriarchy. You're going to have to
00:35:26.580
train him to be a good little feminist. He he he. And then you can say, oh, he he he. I think he'll be
00:35:30.840
just fine. Don't worry. He he he. Tee he. And you can all be laughing. If the woman was more serious
00:35:36.400
about it, if the woman actually said, oh, a boy. And I know people like this. Oh, boy. It's too
00:35:41.880
bad you didn't have a girl. Boys are terrible. Oh, you're going to have a hard time. You're
00:35:45.500
going to have to train him. I would tell her to leave my shop. This is your kid. I mean,
00:35:49.020
your kid's alive, right? That's a real kid in there. It's not just an image of a kid. It's not
00:35:53.800
just a fantasy of a kid. It's a real kid in there. This is your real son. And that's fighting words
00:35:58.640
from this woman. So, you know, you'll have to use your judgment in how how this woman really
00:36:04.560
means it. But if she is really insulting your son, you know, I try to I try to keep it clean.
00:36:12.300
You know, I don't I don't I don't go blue too often, but I probably would in that case. I'd
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probably have have a couple words for that lady that were not happy birthday. And I did the very
00:36:20.580
least tell her to leave my shop. If she's jokey jokey, then you can be jokey jokey, too. But
00:36:25.220
I would still be firm about it. Say, no, my kid will be just fine. Don't worry. And he's
00:36:29.140
going to grow. I'm going to train him in the patriarchy. And then he's going to grow up and
00:36:31.900
he's going to put feminists like you in their place. Actually, lady. See if she laughs
00:36:36.840
at that. Next question. Hi, Mr. Knowles. Thank you for being the best DW commentator
00:36:41.560
out there. My question for you is, is it possible to be anywhere as a conservative and be an emotional
00:36:48.500
person? Because I look at guys like you, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan and Jordan
00:36:53.180
Peterson. And it seems like you guys are thinkers. You guys just have these qualities more associated
00:36:59.120
with being a thinking person. Me, I base the majority of my decisions on my emotions. And
00:37:06.240
I've noticed that the left likes to do that all the time, based every single decision or
00:37:11.420
opinion that they have based on their emotions. So is it possible to be anywhere near the right
00:37:18.360
and be an emotional person? Or is the right just reserved for the thinkers? Thank you for taking
00:37:25.160
the time to hear my question. And I can't wait to hear your answer. Thank you.
00:37:30.460
Listen, you clearly have excellent taste in your choice of podcasts and posts. But your
00:37:37.820
question raises another question, which is, what do you mean by emotional? I consider myself very
00:37:49.280
emotional. I mean that. I'm not joking. My wife might disagree. She might think of me as a block of sort
00:37:53.960
of stoic obsidian that has no feeling whatsoever. But I consider myself very, I'm moved emotionally
00:37:59.780
very easily by books, by films, by a butterfly floating next to a flower. Okay? I feel lots of
00:38:09.420
things. But I don't allow myself to be blown away by my emotions. So I think a conservative has to be
00:38:17.420
emotional. A conservative has to have a sort of feeling with his fellow man. The left often doesn't,
00:38:26.740
though the left allows themselves to be blown away by their emotions. They often won't allow
00:38:30.540
themselves to actually have compassion with their fellow man. They say that half of the people are
00:38:37.280
just awful, evil, terrible fascists, right? I mean, there's a great story recounted in Whitaker
00:38:41.420
Chambers' book Witness. Back when Chambers was a communist, before he left communism, he was walking
00:38:48.100
with a fellow communist and a derelict came up to him on the street and begged for some pennies or for
00:38:52.740
some food. And Whitaker Chambers gave him a couple of coins. And the other communist turns to him and
00:38:58.720
says, you shouldn't have done that. We can't feel anything for them. It dulls the revolutionary spirit.
00:39:03.040
And that chamber is obviously felt a natural kind of human feeling, right? Natural human compassion.
00:39:12.620
But you have to bring your emotions into line under your reason. You have to bring your base passions
00:39:20.520
and your unruly emotions into line underneath your rational will, which mediates between the appetite
00:39:26.640
and the divine will. Okay? Otherwise, you will be just blown away on gusts of appetite and passion.
00:39:33.180
And he won't be able to get anything done. So really, if you want to be a conservative,
00:39:39.480
if you want to be a sort of educated person, period, you should heighten your feeling of emotion.
00:39:47.080
Not just to some narrow kind of childish feeling of passion, but to the whole host of human emotions.
00:39:54.180
All the way up to, you know, gazing up at the sky and, you know, being moved in the way that men
00:40:01.760
have been moved for millennia, all the way up to longing for the love that moves the sun and the
00:40:08.040
other stars. And you need to cultivate your reason and your rational will to direct those desires into
00:40:21.620
Michael, good morning. Braden here. How are you doing?
00:40:26.500
My question relates to Twitter. Do you think Elon Musk should give Trump his access back?
00:40:36.180
Second question. If he does give Trump his access back, do you think he should do it before the midterms?
00:40:42.480
My argument is no, because I don't want Trump to mess anything up.
00:40:49.460
Obviously, I guess that voicemail bag came in last week before the midterm elections.
00:40:56.700
Yes, Elon should give Trump his Twitter back. It will be great. It will be awesome. I don't care.
00:41:02.320
I'm not of the opinion that Donald Trump, he's ruining everything for the Republican Party.
00:41:05.900
The Republicans are ruining everything for the Republican Party. The squishes and the losers and
00:41:10.920
the morally vacuous, spineless jellyfish in Washington are ruining the Republican Party.
00:41:17.400
Mitt Romney is ruining the Republican Party. Take his Twitter account away. I don't want Mitt Romney
00:41:21.340
to have a Twitter account. I want Trump to have a Twitter account, okay? So yes, he obviously should
00:41:25.460
get it back. He should get it back because when Twitter took it away from him, that was a major
00:41:30.640
assault on our political system. That was a billionaire in Silicon Valley saying, or really just the sort of
00:41:37.580
deputy to a billionaire in Silicon Valley, saying that she ought to be able to control the public
00:41:45.740
square, which in a self-governing republic means control the political order, much more than the
00:41:51.220
people and the duly elected sitting president of the United States. So yeah, he should get his Twitter
00:41:55.500
account back. Also, it will be super funny. Also, Trump is much better for the Republican Party than 99%
00:42:01.100
of Republicans. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name's Will. Like you, I come from the fabulous
00:42:06.760
Democratic People's Republic of New York. And like you, I've gone from the edgy atheist in my teen years
00:42:11.900
to the path of Catholicism now in my mid-20s. This has brought up a question, though. As a Catholic,
00:42:17.680
how do you reconcile the current Pope's views on things like supporting same-sex marriage and his
00:42:22.440
apparent support of the Chinese Communist Party when he should be holding up the views of his faith?
00:42:27.220
I'm still new to my church, so I don't want to go and ask these kinds of questions to anyone there
00:42:32.180
because I feel like I'd be the newcomer questioning things he doesn't know anything about. Thanks for
00:42:37.860
your time. Love the show. And God bless you and everyone there at The Daily Wire.
00:42:42.440
Thank you very much. God bless you as well. And your intuition is correct. You would, in this case,
00:42:47.900
be the newcomer who doesn't know what he's talking about because the Pope certainly does not support
00:42:53.540
gay marriage. This Pope has made lots of confusing statements, and I will be the first to ask questions
00:43:00.700
about those statements, and I have many doubts about things that he's said. But he has been crystal
00:43:06.720
clear on gay marriage. In fact, when he was Cardinal of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis, then Cardinal
00:43:14.380
Bergoglio, said that gay marriage is, quote, no mere political lobby. It is a machination of the father
00:43:22.080
of lies who seeks to deceive and confuse the children of God. He was then asked later on,
00:43:27.980
this was fairly recently actually, if Catholics, if they obviously can't have gay marriage because
00:43:33.820
that doesn't exist, but can they have blessing ceremonies for homosexual unions? And the Vatican,
00:43:43.020
this is Pope Francis, said no because God cannot bless sin. God blesses people who sin, namely all of us,
00:43:54.580
we all sin, but God does not and cannot bless sin itself. So the Pope has been absolutely crystal
00:44:00.840
clear on that. As for what the Pope has done with the Chinese Communist Party, yeah, it's unfortunate.
00:44:07.780
Throughout the history of the church, the sovereign pontiff has made certain deals with different
00:44:15.900
governments that one hopes are, in his view, for the good of the church. And Pope Francis has done
00:44:21.560
all sorts of things in China that are dismaying and worrying. But that would be much more of a
00:44:30.160
political matter, I think, than something on the faith and morals, which was alluded to in your first
00:44:36.400
point. And that, I see why you got the impression that Pope Francis is in favor of gay marriage or
00:44:41.120
something. But that's just because the newspapers lie, you know, because the newspapers always lie.
00:44:46.880
So you definitely should not believe everything you read in the papers. Okay, let's get to some
00:44:52.440
written mailbag, the old school way, from Jarrett. Hey, Michael, my wife, who I've been married to for
00:44:58.760
three years, informed me her father has been taking hormones and believes that he is transgender for
00:45:03.900
some time now. We have a 10-month-old child, and we don't feel it'd be right to cut his grandpa out of
00:45:08.100
his life. However, we believe the transgender movement is possibly the biggest threat to youth
00:45:12.440
in this world. I am so angry at the world's approach to this situation, as well as the people
00:45:17.480
who knew this was going on. Rather than getting him help, they decided affirming was the best thing
00:45:24.180
to do. I want so badly to get him help, but fear he is too stubborn and too far gone to reason with.
00:45:29.320
Any advice that you have, whether relating to how I approach getting him help or handling this with
00:45:34.220
my own son and the possibility of having a transgender grandparent, I appreciate the time.
00:45:38.260
Thank you. Awful position that you are in. You say that you think it would be wrong to deprive
00:45:45.280
your child of his grandfather. Your child's grandfather is the one who is depriving the
00:45:53.320
child of his grandfather. Because the grandfather is the one who is renouncing his position as a
00:45:58.480
grandfather and pretending to be, I don't know, a grandmother or something else. So it's your
00:46:03.900
grandfather who's doing this because he's either mentally ill or taken up in a social contagion of
00:46:10.560
gender ideology or both. Either way, though, I would approach the relationship in the same way you would
00:46:16.220
with any other person who is mentally ill, which is, you know, you try to get them help. You should
00:46:21.660
not affirm this stuff. The way you phrase it, you say, you know, it was decided that they would
00:46:26.780
affirm this. No, well, I don't know who they are and I don't know what it was decided means, but
00:46:30.820
you should not affirm this. Your wife should not affirm this. And this would be very, very confusing
00:46:37.740
for your child. And so I would proceed with great caution and I would make it clear when you do see
00:46:45.640
your grandfather or whatever, the child's grandfather, I would make it clear that, you know,
00:46:50.860
grandpa has a mental illness and we need to treat him with pity and compassion, but this is not right.
00:46:57.160
This is not right. This is not good. And even that, I don't know, exposing a child to that kind
00:47:03.600
of madness that close could be very detrimental to the child. So I would proceed with great caution.
00:47:10.900
And I wouldn't feel guilt about you making the decision to deprive your son or daughter of
00:47:16.500
a grandfather. The grandfather made that decision and the family that enabled that
00:47:21.400
made that decision. So I'd be very, very cautious. All right, let's see. Take one more from Brian.
00:47:27.180
Greetings, Nolstradamus. My question could be addressed to any of the Daily Wire hosts,
00:47:31.740
as I can imagine. All of you spend countless hours poring over the mainstream liberal media in
00:47:36.120
preparation for your shows. How do you spend so much time in mainstream liberal media,
00:47:40.140
yet keep your sanity? I feel confident in my conservative beliefs, yet I don't want to trap myself in an
00:47:44.640
information silo. Whenever I attempt to watch liberal sources, I find myself becoming angry
00:47:49.180
from the obvious lies. How would you recommend individuals like me pursue both sides of political
00:47:54.460
issues? Thank you, Brian. Oh, well, I would do so from a position of amusement and as a kind of
00:48:01.320
investigation and training. One great thing about reading a lot of liberal press is that you learn
00:48:08.080
the tricks. You learn how they do things. The most basic example would probably be when Democrats have
00:48:13.700
a scandal. That's not how it's reported. When Republicans have a scandal, the headline is
00:48:20.140
Republican has a scandal. When Democrats have a scandal, the headline is Republicans pounce on
00:48:25.980
Democrat scandal. And I don't think, as some people say, that you should spend equal time reading the
00:48:31.860
conservative news and the left-wing news. I don't think that's true at all. Why would you waste so much
00:48:36.980
of your time reading falsehood? I would read the true stuff, and then I would sprinkle in the liberal
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stuff. I do consume a decent amount of liberal media. That's my job. But I've never watched a
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full episode of The View. I watch little clips of The View. I've never watched a full episode of CNN,
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certainly not in the last 20 years. But I'll watch little clips of it. I'll read a column or two. I
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don't read the New York Times every day. I read a column or two, maybe. So I would sprinkle that in.
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But surround yourself with the truth. You don't need to give equal weight to truth and falsehood.
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That is a lie and a great error of our modern age that too many people on the right have fallen into.
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You can pick. You can choose. As Bill Buckley pointed out very wisely in God and Man at Yale,
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skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction. You know, the rest of the show starts
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now. We have got really important stuff today. This is Fake Headline Friday. I have been on an
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absolute tear. Ben Davies is so upset because I keep guessing the fake headline. I need your help
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