Ep. 1158 - Joe Biden Stole Classified Documents & Didn't Get Raided
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Biden and Trump have both been accused of stealing top-secret documents from the White House, but what's different between them is that Joe Biden did it in his office and Donald Trump did it at Mar-A-Largo.
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Hey, remember when Donald Trump took classified documents out of the White House to a private
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location? So the FBI raided his home and the liberal press assailed him for weeks and the
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DOJ threatened to prosecute him. You remember when Joe Biden called Trump's actions unbelievably egregious?
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When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago,
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what did you think to yourself looking at that image?
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How that could possibly happen? How anyone could be that irresponsible?
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And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that,
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I mean names of people who helped or et cetera. And it's just totally irresponsible.
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Totally irresponsible. Well, it turns out that Joe Biden did the exact same thing.
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According to a report from CBS News, approximately 10 documents were found
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at Biden's private office in Washington, locked, just like Trump's documents,
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inboxes in a closet. The documents reportedly included top secret files designated as sensitive
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compartmented information, meaning that they include highly sensitive information obtained from
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intelligence sources. And they've apparently been sitting in Biden's closet ever since he left
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the vice presidency seven years ago, which raises the only way in which what Biden did was different
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from what Trump did. When Trump took his classified documents, he did so as the outgoing president,
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who has the right to declassify whatever he wants, whenever he wants, without any formal process.
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When Biden took his classified documents, he did so as the outgoing vice president,
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who doesn't have any right whatsoever to declassify documents on his own.
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Did the FBI kick in Joe Biden's door? Are the media accusing Biden of selling state secrets
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and getting spies killed? No, not quite. The authorities have just gone ahead and collected
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the documents, swept the story mostly under the rug, and moved along to look out for the next big
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Trump scandal. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Moose Chuckle,
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Congress getting back to business and screwing up things for the American people is that now with
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We are starting off the year right in Congress. We are starting off the year right here at The Daily
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dailywire.com slash Knowles. Become a member today. Goodness gracious. Great way to start off the year
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here at The Daily Wire, and a great start to Kevin McCarthy's speakership. You know I was probably
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the most vocal defender in the conservative media of the 20 holdouts, those conservatives who would
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not vote for McCarthy, who were demanding more concessions from him to make sure that the
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conservatives really had a voice in the new Republican Congress. That's good. They got those
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concessions. They had a great fight. I also pointed out that Kevin McCarthy was considerably more
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conservative than recent speakers of the House that Republicans have had. Relatively low bar that we're
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talking about here when we talk about people like John Boehner. But still, I said, you look at the
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issues. Kevin McCarthy might be the most conservative speaker that we've had since the 1950s.
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Well, we're seeing some good signs right now. According to an AP congressional reporter,
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McCarthy is moving ahead with taking Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, and Eric Swalwell off of their committees.
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You couldn't have wished this for three more fitting people. He has said that these people
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need to get off of their committees, which are pretty significant committees, the Intelligence
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Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee. He says, quote, Swalwell can't get a security clearance in the private
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sector. I'm not going to give him a government security clearance. Schiff has lied to the American
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public. These Democrats in particular have proven themselves irresponsible and not worth trusting
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with this kind of serious information. Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy, allegedly, reportedly. And
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Adam Schiff, it was even worse, frankly, than Swalwell. Swalwell is a bloviating bag of air. Adam Schiff,
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though, has been a little more nefarious than that. He has lied. And he's lied on behalf of
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really bad actors within the executive agencies to undermine the Trump administration, to advance
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the Russia hoax, to undermine, as far as I'm concerned, American self-government. And so one of
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the big concessions that the conservatives wanted to get out of a McCarthy speakership was, you need to
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go after the weaponization of the FBI and the other government agencies against conservatives. And this is
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a great move in that direction. By taking these people off their committees, specifically by taking
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Schiff off the committee, Kevin McCarthy is signaling that he is going to get serious about
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the weaponization of the agencies. He is going to take the bad left-wing actors in the intelligence
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community down a peg. And the first step is going to be taking these absolute loose cannons off of the
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Intel and Foreign Affairs Committee. So good on him. Good start to the speakership.
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And then you turn to Matt Gaetz, one of the people who was leading the charge of the 20 holdouts
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against McCarthy. And you say, okay, well, if McCarthy seems to be magnanimous in victory,
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are those 20 holdouts, are they still angry? Is the Republican caucus still fractured? Are the
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Republicans going to be able to get absolutely nothing done like the liberal media told us they would?
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Matt Gaetz says it's all going to be fine. There was a tense moment late night Friday night when
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Congressman Mike Rogers, expected to be the next chairman of House Armed Services,
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confronted you. You guys both serve on the Armed Services Committee. What was that all about? And
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are you guys going to be able to work together on Armed Services? Well, Mike Rogers is going to be a
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terrific chairman of the Armed Services Committee. And we share a deep commitment to our national defense,
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to our men and women in uniform. And of course, in a late night moment of high drama, people can have
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moments of frustration. But Mike Rogers and I have a six year productive working relationship. We're going to
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work together wonderfully going forward. And I don't think there should be any punishment or reprisal just
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because he had an animated moment. He has my forgiveness and certainly is someone who's done great things
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for our national defense and will continue to do those great things.
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Great answer from Gaetz. That's a great answer. It's very magnanimous of Gaetz and the other
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conservatives as well. It's all working out just fine, folks. And so regardless of this incident that
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got a lot of play about Mike Rogers lunging at Matt Gaetz, I don't think he was actually going to
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punch him in the face, but he was clearly pretty animated. It was a high intensity moment. As part of
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this high intensity, three or four days, you had the establishment Republicans calling the
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conservatives terrorists. You had the conservatives saying that McCarthy was basically no different
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from a Democrat. It was a moment of intense rhetoric and the libs and the squishes, they all said,
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this means the Republican party is over. They're a mess. No. Some of us, as this was happening, we said,
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this is constitutional government in action. This is how things are supposed to be in the
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Congress. You fight, you negotiate hard, you get concessions. You're not supposed to just get
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rubber stamped into whatever leadership position you want. And then you move on and you come back
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together after a few difficult days. You come back together, you're stronger for it. The libs still want
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to spread this idea that there is historic chaos in the Republican Congressional Caucus.
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The historic chaos in the House of Representatives this past week embarrassed not only a party,
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but an entire nation. A small minority blocked the House from electing a leader or even swearing in its
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own members. Vote after vote, a would-be speaker could not bring himself to stand aside in favor of a
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colleague. Yes, it was only for a few days in January. But if members of the incoming majority
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party can't bring themselves to support a new leader, then one wonders what happens when Congress
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faces tough decisions on budgets, taxes, defense, or raising the debt ceiling. Actually, governing.
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I'm Leslie Stahl. We'll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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What happens when the congressional Republicans face real tough issues? What are they going to do?
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I guess now they're going to debate those issues. A prospect that strikes fear into the heart of
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liberals like Leslie Stahl. Oh no, those Republicans, they were just supposed to rubber stamp whatever the
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liberal establishment wanted. But now some of them are actually debating the issues. They're making
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arguments. They're questioning the liberal agenda and perhaps even impeding that agenda. Oh my gosh,
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can you imagine anything worse? These Republican congressmen, if they're willing to put up a fight on
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principle and exact concessions from the establishment wing of their party, by golly, they might not just
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go along with the whole liberal agenda. Oh my goodness. They might actually fight back and make
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arguments. Oh boy, we can't have any of that. This is Congress. We're not supposed to have any debates
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here. Now, when the government does not debate things, when they just go along blindly into unwise,
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That is refunds with an S, pro.com. Speaking of COVID, speaking of establishment propaganda,
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Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon was always my favorite of the new crop of late night hosts. He seemed to be the
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least overtly hostile to conservatives, the most fun, the most entertaining, certainly the most talented.
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There was Alpha, then Delta, then Omicron X, but this latest variant might be the best.
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It's XBB.1.5. Another friend of COVID-19 has arrived. It's a new strain, but it isn't the same.
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Sounds more like Elon Musk, his name. It's XBB.1.5.
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Not UB-40, who sings red, red wine. Put on your mask when you're inside a facility.
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It could be a robot from a Star Wars trilogy. It's XBB.1.5.
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Not OMT or MP3 or DCBY. Or an eye chart made by a really high guy.
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Sounds like the password of your parent's Wi-Fi.
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So I'm always trying to see the good in things. It's hard to see the good in that absolutely
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cringe-inducing performance. But are we at least now admitting that COVID is a total joke?
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I guess that's what we're doing now. Because you don't do little song and dance routines about
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serious illnesses. You don't do a song and dance routine. Some people have AIDS, HIV and AIDS,
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AIDS, AIDS. You don't see late night hosts doing that. You don't see people singing songs and dance
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routines about cancer or about serious illnesses. But they do now sing song and dance routines about
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COVID. Ha ha ha, tee hee, there's another round of COVID. Which is fine. I think it's fine to make
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light, even of things that cause some suffering and inconvenience and even things that really
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are quite unpleasant. But the regime, the ruling political order, locked down our country for two
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and a half years over this thing. They locked down our country. They said it was so serious that we had
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to take unprecedented action to destroy businesses, close churches, have our loved ones die alone,
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destroy your career, kick you out of the army, kick you out of your health care job, kick you out of
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school. Because of how serious COVID was. And then, oh, just kidding. COVID. Ha ha, tee hee hee.
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It's a joke. Don't you get it? Why aren't you laughing with me? Hee hee hee. It reminds me of when
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Stephen Colbert on his own late night show decided to do a song and dance routine about the COVID vaccine.
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Remember this? So there's Colbert. I actually shouldn't downplay his talent either. I was
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saying Jimmy Fallon was obviously the most talented. You see, you see Stephen Colbert's a
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very good dancer. He's actually a very funny physical performer, even though he's a tedious
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And it's Colbert there dancing around with people dressed up as giant syringes.
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Which is a different kind of joke, by the way, than the joke that Jimmy Fallon was making.
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In a way, Stephen Colbert's, though equally cringey, possibly even cringier,
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was more justifiable. Because Stephen Colbert was making light of the vaccine. Everyone was
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nervous about the vaccine. We now know rightly so, because the vaccine was not effective in the way
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that we were told it would be effective. And the vaccine was not safe in the way that we were told it
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would be safe. So people had legitimate fears about it. And the establishment propaganda went into full
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force to convince people, oh, it's not a big deal. So if you do a song and dance routine of, oh,
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tee hee hee, it's just a funny little vaccine. Don't worry, it's a shot. It's no big deal.
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That makes some more sense. Now, the establishment propaganda has become even more egregious.
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Which is that they're telling you to laugh and giggle about the virus that they just recently had
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told you was so serious you had to lock down your whole life and put your whole life on pause,
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or worse because of it. Why is Jimmy Fallon doing this?
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Either it means that Jimmy Fallon is just shilling the talking points that the powers that be want
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him to shill, which is possible. I don't think he's some hard leftist, but he's a nice guy,
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go along to get along kind of guy. He'll rub Donald Trump's hair when it's funny. And then he'll also
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sound like a big lib when it's funny too. So it could be that.
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Or the scariest possibility is that libs and conservatives actually live according to
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If the libs actually believe that that kind of performance is funny, the performance of COVID or
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the vaccine dance or anything like that, then putting aside our views about a particular set
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of lockdown policies or anything like that, it means that our perception of reality is just totally
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different. Because there is nothing less funny. There is nothing less intentionally funny that I've
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ever seen than those two performances about COVID. But for the libs, they really live in dread of,
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enthrall of COVID and Dr. Fauci. And they believed all of the propaganda and all of the nonsense. And so
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it really might resonate with them. That might be the scariest possibility of all. Now, speaking of the
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science, one of the men who is held up as proof that we shouldn't always go along with the scientific
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consensus, he's finally striking back. This is a man named Paul Ehrlich. Paul Ehrlich is the man behind
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the population bomb. This is a man behind the false idea that we were headed into a period of overpopulation
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in the 1960s and 70s. And that this would cause, not might cause, would certainly cause mass famine
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all over the world. This is a man who said that in order to avoid the problem of overpopulation,
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we needed to encourage people to use contraception and to kill their children through abortion and
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potentially to sterilize themselves. And if we couldn't convince them to do that voluntarily,
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we should potentially do that by force. This is a man on whose ideas China and India,
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to a degree, based their population control policies that forced the population to kill
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their own children, force the one child policy in China, which they've now had to reverse because
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overpopulation was a complete lie. That in India caused untold numbers of people to become sterilized
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in order to access basic things like food and water in the country. Hideous. Some of the cruelest,
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most hideous policies that we've seen in the last hundred years. And Paul Ehrlich was proven totally
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wrong. And he is a punchline to conservatives. I mentioned him many times on this show.
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Well, Paul Ehrlich is striking back. Ehrlich says, this is in response actually to another story
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by 60 Minutes. He says, 60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right wing out in force.
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If I'm always wrong, so is science. Since my work is always peer reviewed, including the population
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bomb. And I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure, I've made some mistakes, but no basic
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ones. I love this defense. Because this is not the defense that Paul Ehrlich thinks that it is.
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He says, look, if I'm always wrong, then so is science. Because my work is always peer reviewed,
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including the population bomb that predicted that there would be inevitably mass famines because
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of overpopulation by the mid 1970s and 1980s. I've received every scientific honor. So if I am wrong,
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then science is wrong. So okay, let me try to work out a little syllogism here.
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If Paul Ehrlich is always wrong, then so is science. That's number one. Number two,
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Paul Ehrlich is always wrong. His big claims are just wrong. Therefore, I guess science is wrong.
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And by the way, I gave a speech on this very topic just a couple of months ago at, where was I? I think
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I was at, was I at Franciscan or Wisconsin Lutheran University? I forget. I, or Wisconsin
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Lutheran College. It was one of my YAF speeches last semester. You can find it online. Science is
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fake. I'm not saying that, I'm not making any particular claim about any particular scientific
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theory other than, I guess, Paul Ehrlich's because the population bomb theory was totally wrong. He says,
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I've never made any basic mistakes. Pretty sure predicting inevitable mass worldwide famines
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within 10 years, when in fact the opposite happened. When in fact, instead of overpopulation
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starving everybody, the world population doubled and malnutrition fell to an all time low. I'm pretty
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sure that's a basic mistake. But regardless, my claim that Paul Ehrlich appears to be demonstrating
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is that the scientific view of the world, the idea that the world is basically reducible just to its
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physical elements, that there is no metaphysical level beneath the world, and that the scientific
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method is sufficient for understanding the fundament of reality, if the fundament of reality is physical,
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that idea, the idea that has been promoted by the scientific revolution is totally wrong,
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just like Paul Ehrlich. Speaking of controversial science, the former head of Media Matters,
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one of the big heads of Media Matters, Parker Malloy, may have left Media Matters. That's the
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left-wing activist organization that putatively exists to get us all fired, that has tried to
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destroy my career many times, but I've always considered them to be my unpaid publicists. They always clip
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out some of the really best moments of my show, so I really thank them. The former, one of the big
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people behind Media Matters, has apparently left, is now writing a substack, just like all of these
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people do when they leave their jobs. But she had a really funny headline. She says, the New York Times
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declares war on LGBTQ people with the hire of an anti-trans columnist. I said, oh, the New York Times
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hired an anti-trans columnist and is thereby declaring war on LGBTQ people. Who would that
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columnist be? David French. She's talking about David French. You may or may not know who David
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French is. David French previously was a pretty much conservative columnist, conservative libertarian
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type columnist who wrote for conservative outlets. And then now he has become a liberal columnist who
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writes for the Atlantic and now the New York Times. The pivot in David French's career, the reason that
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he shifted from being a center-right conservative person to being a liberal person, is because he
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defended the transgender agenda. The knock, the reason that David French has aroused the ire of pretty much
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everybody on the right, is because in a debate with Saurabh Amari, David French claimed that drag queen
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story hour is one of the blessings of liberty, at which point James Madison, I think, rolled over in
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his grave. Not only has David French defended transgenderism, he has defended exposing little
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children at the public library to these drag queen perverts who are jiggling around for them and
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twerking and doing all sorts of depraved things that obviously should not be tolerated or legal.
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That is the defining feature of this man's career. Now, I'm sure he wishes that were not the case.
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It's sad that that defines his career, but it does define his career. And so why do I mention it?
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Because I care about the Media Matters lady or because I think that David French's literary
00:27:28.160
pursuits are particularly interesting? No. I mention it as a warning to any conservative who
00:27:34.800
might want to squish. The libs will never like you. They will never like you. Even if you squish
00:27:44.200
like a jellyfish, they still won't like you. Even if you head on over and you disavow all of the
00:27:52.040
conservatives and you say, look, I might be on the right. I might be a conservative person,
00:27:56.640
but I'm not like those mean, evil conservatives. I'm not like Donald Trump. I'm not like the Daily
00:28:02.660
Wire. I'm not like Michael Knowles. I'm not like, insert whatever conservative person you are.
00:28:08.400
No, no, no. I'm a good conservative. I read the New York Times. I'm open-minded. I totally want to
00:28:17.280
redefine marriage and let Joe Biden win the presidency. And hell, I'll even trans the kids.
00:28:24.920
Please don't hate me. Please like me. They still won't like you. They still won't like you.
00:28:30.780
They view you as the enemy. You will never go far enough over to be acceptable to them.
00:28:37.720
They will call you, even if the defining feature of your career is going radically woke on the
00:28:44.580
transgender question, they will still call you anti-trans. They will still call you an LGBTQ
00:28:50.120
hater. Just know that going in. If you sincerely completely change your entire view,
00:29:00.380
and you're not just trying to get an audience, and you're not just trying to be acceptable at
00:29:05.980
cocktail parties, if you sincerely say, okay, I renounce my political beliefs. I renounce my faith.
00:29:12.080
I renounce my friends. I renounce everything. And maybe then you've got a shot. But if you're
00:29:17.080
trying to be a CNN Republican, if you're trying to be a New York Times conservative,
00:29:23.660
almost without exception, I guess Ross Douthat would be one rare kind of exception. But all the
00:29:30.080
rest of them, all the rest of them will not be able to maintain their conservative cred as Ross Douthat
00:29:38.480
sort of uniquely has. And if you just try to be acceptable to the libs, they will not accept you.
00:29:42.640
It's just not going to happen. Speaking of weird sex stuff, this is the most disturbing story that I
00:29:49.940
have read in weeks. If you've got little kids listening right now, maybe just skip ahead a
00:29:55.280
minute or two. Last Friday, 11 people appeared before the high court in Glasgow, accused of operating a
00:30:01.920
satanic cult which abused two young girls and a boy who were allegedly forced to engage in witchcraft
00:30:08.980
rituals and subjected to sexual and violent abuse by members of the group. The court heard testimony
00:30:16.680
that the two young girls and the young boy had been forced to kill animals, use a Ouija board or a
00:30:24.560
sort of tool. Quote, to call on spirits and demons in witchcraft ceremonies, the children were then
00:30:31.260
forced into performing satanic seances, including drinking blood and eating a heart. One of the
00:30:37.880
alleged girl victims was reported to have been locked in a fridge, a freezer, a microwave, and an
00:30:42.080
oven in an attempt to kill her. Okay, that's the disturbing stuff. You can raise the volume back up
00:30:48.380
again if you're listening with young children. Obviously, an insanely disturbing story.
00:30:57.360
But the point of the story that is going to be discussed, if it is discussed at all in the liberal
00:31:05.540
media, is that there was this pedophile ring and they abused children sexually. That part is actually
00:31:14.180
the easiest part to understand. It's easy for people in our modern liberal decadent age to
00:31:20.840
recognize that sex is a powerful motivator and some people are perverts and people can commit sex
00:31:28.000
crimes. That part, it's disturbing to anybody with even a shred of a conscience, but it's at least easy
00:31:34.100
to understand. The part that's very difficult for people to understand in our modern liberal
00:31:40.160
scientific age is the satanic witchcraft occult ritual of it all. That part, people have a really hard
00:31:51.420
time getting. They say, look, I understand how a pervert could want to commit a sexual crime. Why the hell
00:31:58.000
did they pull out a Ouija board? Why were they doing weird witchcraft stuff? Why were they calling up
00:32:02.940
that? That can't be real. That doesn't. The hard part to understand isn't the pedophile stuff. It's
00:32:09.740
the satanic stuff. Because even the libs, even the people who are trying to normalize pedophilia,
00:32:15.160
I suppose perhaps especially the people who are trying to normalize pedophilia and refer to pedophiles
00:32:20.040
as minor attracted persons and all the rest of it, they believe in pedophilia. Everybody believes that
00:32:26.560
Satan exists. Half of the people around today, maybe more, do not believe that Satan exists. I always go back
00:32:35.260
to this amazing interview in New York Magazine in 2011, I think it was, between some young, know-nothing
00:32:42.260
liberal reporter and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the conservative. And somehow, heaven and hell
00:32:50.280
came up. And the reporter goes, do you believe in heaven and hell? And he goes, yeah.
00:32:56.560
And she goes, that's got to be awful scary to live in a world with hell. And he goes, you know, in a theatrical
00:33:03.920
whisper, he says, I even believe in the devil. She goes, well, boy, you got to be shaking in your boots
00:33:09.800
believing in the devil. He goes, do you know how out of touch you seem? Do you realize that people throughout
00:33:17.300
all of history have believed in the devil? Do you realize that many more intelligent people than you or I
00:33:26.120
believe in the devil? And she didn't know what to say. I always go back to Hamlet. There are more
00:33:35.480
things in heaven and earth, the ratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. And I can't help but
00:33:42.180
notice when you read these stories of the pedo sex rings that we were all told were total conspiracy
00:33:49.900
theories until they keep being proven again and again and again, including some of the most prominent,
00:33:54.760
wealthy, powerful people in the world. You can't call it a crazy conspiracy theory after the Jeffrey
00:34:00.320
Epstein stuff came to light. But I can't help but notice it always seems to involve something more
00:34:05.760
than just the physical body. You look at Jeffrey Epstein's weird pedo island, there's this bizarre
00:34:10.460
pagan Egyptian temple looking thing there. You look at the cases of sexual abuse in religious
00:34:18.900
communities and non-religious communities. It always seems to involve weird occult rituals.
00:34:24.480
The stories one hears about this from people who have been convicted of it very often goes back to
00:34:29.840
Satan. I wonder why that is. I wonder why that is. Why does it always keep coming back to the same sort
00:34:36.340
of imagery? Maybe it's because many more intelligent people than you and I have believed in the devil.
00:34:40.640
Speaking of devilish things, Andrew Tate, the most googled man on earth last year. I don't know where this
00:34:47.440
guy came from. He seemed to pop out of nowhere, which always makes me suspect. Always makes me a little
00:34:54.680
bit skeptical and makes people seem suspect to me. But my producers one time said, you got to watch this
00:34:59.000
guy, Andrew Tate. So I did. I reacted to some of his videos and I said, you know, he's saying things that
00:35:04.700
contradict the established liberal dogma. So for that, I guess, he ought to be applauded or at least
00:35:12.940
we ought to entertain him. But he's also saying things that seem pretty degenerate. And isn't he
00:35:18.340
a pimp? Doesn't he run a weird sex online business? And that's not good. That's not conservative at all.
00:35:23.780
That should be discouraged. So then Andrew Tate gets arrested for apparently running a criminal sex
00:35:29.920
trafficking ring. And some people on the right have rushed to his defense. I don't really know
00:35:37.080
what the defense is. I mean, the defense could be he's not being arrested because he's a sex
00:35:41.120
trafficker. He's being arrested because the libs hate him. Yeah, that could be true. I mean,
00:35:44.200
they let Epstein operate with impunity for years. They don't go after the sexual criminals on their own
00:35:49.040
side. And they promote sex work as real work. So they don't sincerely believe that sex trafficking
00:35:55.460
is a problem. But nevertheless, the question is, did he do these things? Did this guy commit
00:36:02.720
crimes? And there's a video that's just come to light of Andrew Tate bragging that his whole business
00:36:06.880
was a scam. Here's maybe this is a bit bad. Here's where the famoose would start. So it'd be
00:36:12.440
good. Like I had a lot of girls that worked for me and the best was like the Ukrainians or the
00:36:15.180
Russians. It was amazing because they get some guy fall in love that arranged today to meet all this
00:36:20.740
shit. Ah, I need a visa. Okay. Get a visa. I need money for a visa. Okay. How much is a visa?
00:36:27.540
It's $900. No, but it's not $900 because I went to the embassy. They think I'm a risk and I need a
00:36:32.260
return flight there and back. I need a hotel. I need to have spending money in my bank account.
00:36:35.660
They won't let me come or how much you need. All right. 10 grand. Boom. It's 10 G's. Thanks.
00:36:40.220
Go to the embassy. Take a picture outside the embassy. Boom. Come back. They rejected my visa.
00:36:43.760
They said we have to wait two weeks after two weeks. They'll give it to me. Okay, baby. Boom. Two more weeks of
00:36:47.520
tips. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Because now we think it's going to right. Things we get the girls. Now we spend
00:36:50.640
more than ever. Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. Two weeks come. Some other problem. Whether it's
00:36:55.920
visa, whatever, whatever. We make up some bullsh**, right? All these OnlyFans chicks can learn
00:36:59.740
from you, man. Oh, man. No, but you know what? People, people, people watch. Free OnlyFans
00:37:03.680
tutorial here in the DMs. Yeah, people who, people, people would say, why did those girls work for
00:37:06.920
you? Because the girls would work for me and at 50%, because it was 50-50, would make millions
00:37:12.400
per month. If they worked for themselves, they'd make f**king nothing. I was the best in the f**king game. Me and I had a
00:37:18.440
whole team of staff. Now, one thing you always have to ask yourself with online self-help guru
00:37:24.360
promoter guys like this is, are they telling the truth? And we have no reason to believe that Andrew
00:37:29.940
Tate is telling the truth, because the thing that he is talking about is how he's a liar.
00:37:34.980
So if you present yourself in public as a liar, then I can't believe you. In fact, I can't even
00:37:43.040
believe any specific claim of you lying and scamming, because you might, though you are dishonest in
00:37:48.380
other ways and claiming to be dishonest, you, you may actually be being truthful or dishonest about
00:37:54.500
being dishonest. You see how it gets very confusing. But, but if this part is true and he's the best in
00:38:03.020
the f**king game and I'm scamming all these guys, then isn't that fraud? Isn't that a crime? Isn't
00:38:10.560
that, should we really be surprised that you get arrested? And even if you say, well, there's plenty
00:38:16.480
of scammers, plenty of fraudsters, plenty of pimps out there. They don't get attacked by the liberal
00:38:20.160
regime. Right. But you're, you've made a name for yourself attacking all these liberal orthodoxies.
00:38:26.360
Meanwhile, you're bragging about all the crimes that you're committing. So you're just showing your
00:38:30.060
neck to your enemies. Not very good stuff. In any case, none of this particularly virtuous or
00:38:36.320
worth emulating, I strongly suspect. We're going to be moving on to calls. I'm very, very excited.
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Mr. Davies, do we have callers on the line? Excellent. All right, let's turn first to Dean
00:40:10.420
Good morning, Michael. Thanks for taking my call. I just was going to point out in our diocese on the
00:40:17.640
day that Pope Benedict died. It was also the day that our diocese implemented a ban on the celebration
00:40:24.520
of the Latin Mass in the extraordinary form. So they're saying, oh, you can use Novus Ordo, but not
00:40:31.260
the old Rite Latin Mass anymore. My question, you might not have the specific answer to this. Maybe you
00:40:38.680
can bring on an expert in the member's block, but can each Pope just flip-flop on this issue,
00:40:45.660
or does some sort of a decree need to come down from the Vatican saying the Latin Mass may be
00:40:51.740
celebrated or may not be? Obviously, our diocese has had quite a difficult reaction to all this coming
00:40:59.180
into play. So I appreciate your thoughts, Michael, and I'm sure you share the same sadness regarding the
00:41:04.680
Latin Mass going away. Well, Dean, first of all, I have to say, I find your lack of faith disturbing.
00:41:09.600
Not about your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and your membership in the Holy Catholic Church,
00:41:14.820
but your lack of faith in me that you think I have to bring an expert on to the member block? Come on,
00:41:19.360
man. Though probably I should. The short answer to your question is, practically speaking, yes,
00:41:26.160
the Popes can flip-flop on this question. Now, it's more complicated than that because as far as I can tell,
00:41:31.900
Pope Pius V gives us the right to the Latin Mass in perpetuity, as far as I'm concerned,
00:41:40.280
in my limited knowledge. Again, I'm not a doctor of the church. I'm not a theologian. People don't
00:41:44.920
ask my opinion on these things, but this is the mass of the ages that has existed for basically the
00:41:50.300
entire history of the church and the radical liturgical reform, which may have had good intentions,
00:41:57.920
maybe it didn't. But in any case, it led to a deformation of the liturgy in the late 1960s and
00:42:03.560
into the early 1970s. It did not achieve any of the things that it was intended to achieve.
00:42:09.680
It did not increase participation. It did not bring the youths back to the mass by bringing in all sorts
00:42:15.420
of electric guitars or whatever. And so what Pope Benedict did, not being a total conservative,
00:42:20.900
not being a total trad, but not being a lib either, is he tried to, in the spirit of tradition,
00:42:27.480
to reform the reform and to bring that back. And then it was later on suppressed by Pope Francis,
00:42:36.320
unfortunately. But there were still places for it. There's still the Priestly Fraternity of St.
00:42:40.620
Peter, the Institute of Christ the King. There are some diocesan Latin masses, depending on
00:42:45.700
on which diocese you're in. So yeah, I suppose we just have to pray that the Lord will bring back
00:42:53.940
this very beautiful, reverent, highest form of prayer, which is the Holy Mass in a proper liturgy.
00:43:00.280
And it reminds me of an important phrase, lex irandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. The way that we
00:43:05.720
worship is going to affect the way that we believe. It's not just the other way around. It's not just the
00:43:10.260
way we believe is going to affect the way we worship. The way we worship is going to affect the way we
00:43:13.540
believe. And the way that we live our lives, because we're incarnate beings in time and space.
00:43:18.160
And I do have faith, though, that it will all work out in the end. Because to quote Hilaire Belloc,
00:43:23.320
he says that he is forced to believe, as I am by faith, that the Catholic Church really is
00:43:28.080
divinely instituted. But a good evidence for its divine institution to non-believers is that no
00:43:33.580
other institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. So keep
00:43:39.360
the faith, Dean. Good to hear from you. Next up is Mark from Nashville.
00:43:43.540
Mark, you're on the air. Hey, Michael, long time listener, first time caller.
00:43:48.940
I don't know if you've heard about this story about the government trying to ban gas stoves for
00:43:53.600
safety. Do you think it's more likely that it is actually for safety or so that we can continue
00:43:59.800
shipping all of our natural gas overseas to Europe in an effort to sanction Russia?
00:44:06.520
Mark, since you phrased the question that way, I think I know which angle you're coming at this from.
00:44:13.260
I had just seen the headline yesterday that all of a sudden now, I think it was in California,
00:44:18.180
people are claiming gas stoves are terrible. And I find when I cook, gas stoves are much better to
00:44:23.000
cook on than electric stoves. I've had both. I grew up with an electric stove. Since then,
00:44:27.760
I've had some gas stoves. It's much better to cook on the gas. So you're suggesting,
00:44:31.160
you think that the big push now against the gas stoves is that the powers that be in commerce and
00:44:41.560
in the government basically just want to export more of that gas?
00:44:44.840
Well, it's obviously for safety. No, of course. Of course. They just want to export the gas to
00:44:50.740
Europe to try and stick it to Russia and to, I guess, demoralize us. It started with the shower
00:44:56.000
heads and now gas stoves, they're so effective. They're so great. And now they want to ban them
00:45:00.900
just like those high flow shower heads. They were so great.
00:45:03.380
It's funny you mentioned this, Mark, because I always felt this way with the light bulbs. We were told
00:45:08.620
you had to get rid of incandescent light bulbs and use those hideous fluorescent or LED things
00:45:14.380
because they're better for the sun monster so that we don't get killed in global warming or whatever.
00:45:19.700
Mother Gaia will be happier if we replace our beautiful warm light with some hideous flashing
00:45:23.760
light. And for a while, it was illegal. Don't forget, Congress banned those light bulbs. And
00:45:28.340
then Michelle Bachman, great, great accomplishment by Congress Lady Michelle Bachman. She comes in and
00:45:32.820
she says, no, you get the light bulb freedom of choice act. And so I don't know. I mean,
00:45:37.140
I just saw the headline. You're actually giving me a more interesting idea on it than any first
00:45:41.420
reaction I had. But I wouldn't be terribly surprised because when you see legislation coming
00:45:48.180
down the pike, it rarely happens by accident. And it rarely happens for a purely abstract reason.
00:45:56.440
Very often there are moneyed interests and powerful interests behind pushing every piece of legislation.
00:46:01.540
So I keep an open mind on your theory, Mark. Before we go, let's get to Brian from New Hampshire.
00:46:09.700
Mr. Knowles, it is your favorite resident bass player in the chat slot, my bass.
00:46:14.700
What's going on, man? Oh, I'm so glad to hear your voice live. I am a big fan of your comments
00:46:20.580
and your music, but great to hear you live. What's up? How can I help you?
00:46:24.000
Thank you. Thank you. So I kind of had a hard time trying to pick out a topic to discuss. And I was
00:46:29.800
actually going to call Ben about this, but I could never get through. So I guess the question I will
00:46:34.700
have is, how can we be sure to hold politicians more accountable for their actions as it seems like
00:46:41.800
the current methods that we have, whether it be asking our congressmen to reach out to the Senate or
00:46:50.080
basically just like everybody standing on the line, standing on the lawns and protesting doesn't seem
00:46:56.960
to be quite as effective. And basically, at the same time, the stormtroopers will come in and arrest
00:47:05.320
Um, or so do you have any suggestions for people who would like to hold their, their people,
00:47:14.000
their, uh, senators, their, uh, house representatives more accountable? Uh, I would have almost thought
00:47:19.620
like gather a group of people and actually go into the building, not like January 6th. Like
00:47:24.280
here we go. Here comes the horn hat. Yeah. Not like the horn hat guy, but, um, but I mean,
00:47:31.580
like go in just like politely say the secretary, Hey, we'd like to speak with our governor and like
00:47:36.720
almost like an in-person confrontation. Yeah. I, I, I don't know that that is going to be
00:47:40.900
terribly effective because what that will do is that will cause your representative to view you as
00:47:46.020
an enemy. If you're physically aggressive in that way, that, that would be an escalation that I just
00:47:51.220
don't, I'm not opposed to it in principle. I just think, and I know, I know that you're not suggesting
00:47:55.660
anything violent. You're suggesting being very polite, but I just think the reaction to that will not be
00:48:01.240
to say, okay, let me hear out the concerns of these people. I don't think that's really going
00:48:05.260
to work. Uh, I do think that, uh, phone calls and things like boycotts actually work a lot better
00:48:12.520
than most people believe that they do. This is how media matters operated for years and years and
00:48:16.880
years that what media matters would do is they clip out some little bit that either I said or any
00:48:22.320
other conservative figure media host. And then they would get their list of 20 to a hundred people
00:48:28.980
to call a company and say, you need to pull your sponsorship from this person.
00:48:33.620
It's not a lot of people. We're talking often like 20 people, but when, when you are that secretary
00:48:39.540
and you're hearing that, it doesn't come to you as a physical threat so that you're reacting very
00:48:43.500
strongly against these people. But, but it, it, you do perceive that as a brand threat. And so you,
00:48:48.280
you will take that more seriously, but, but more importantly than all that, the way that you get
00:48:53.360
your government to be more responsive is you, you need structural change. It's not just the
00:48:58.700
individuals. Very often the individuals don't have very much power. The problem is one problem
00:49:04.640
in this regard is that the Congress, for instance, just delegated a lot of its power away to executive
00:49:11.340
agencies that don't need to answer the phone when you call. And so the Congress can throw its hands
00:49:15.660
in the air and say, listen, I didn't do anything. The, the Congress, because of the rules instituted
00:49:20.940
under Nancy Pelosi did not have a lot of ability to, to introduce amendments on the floor of the
00:49:26.180
House or to recall a speaker if the speaker was wielding too much power in an unaccountable way
00:49:30.600
or to stop the debt ceiling from being wased or any of these other issues. And so I mentioned those
00:49:36.160
specific examples because those 20 holdout conservatives the other day who deprived McCarthy
00:49:41.600
of the speakership for three, three or four days, they exacted a lot of concessions that are
00:49:46.620
structural. They're not political issues per se. They're meta-political issues. They're,
00:49:51.160
they're issues about how politics is conducted. One issue in this regard would be the border wall
00:49:58.660
or immigration enforcement. It's sort of a political issue, but it's really a meta-political
00:50:02.520
issue because it's about who comes into the country and then who is going to participate
00:50:05.120
in the Republic. That's where the change has to take place. If we keep fighting it on these little
00:50:10.120
individual issues or, or only putting lawn signs in our yard, got to put the lawn sign out there,
00:50:14.900
but you've got to do more than that. That's not going to give you the kind of significant
00:50:18.860
change that you want. You've got to, you've got to take on the issue a level above, not just about
00:50:23.980
politics, but the politics of politics. Excellent to hear from you. Excellent question. You know,
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