Ep. 1166 - Greta Vs Klaus Schwab
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Summary
In the wake of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Greta Thunberg and other globalists were given a chance to speak to the people who are at the very core of the climate crisis. And they did not disappoint.
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Sparks flew yesterday at the World Economic Forum as the environmentalist globalists
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started attacking the globalist environmentalists after Greta Thunberg arrived in Davos.
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We are right now in Davos, where the, basically the people who are mostly fueling the destruction
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of the planet, the people who are at the very core of the climate crisis, the people who are
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investing in fossil fuels, et cetera, et cetera. And yet somehow these are the people that we seem to
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rely on solving our problems, where they have proven time and time again that they are not
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prioritizing that. They are prioritizing self greed, corporate greed, and short-term economic profits
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above people and above planets. And we seem to be listening to them rather than the people who are
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actually affected by the climate crisis, the people who are living on the front lines. And
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and that's, that kind of tells us the situation, how absurd this is.
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The whole episode resembled the Iran-Iraq war in that normal people wish that both sides could lose.
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But even more than that, the fight resembled a stage play. The liberal elites wunderkind showing up to
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the fancy party in Switzerland to tell them all how very naughty they've been, all to the fawning
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praise and applause of the elites who lapped up the performative abuse. A tawdry affair and a play-acted
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fight for the cameras, while behind closed doors, the globalist agenda moved forward, full steam ahead.
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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 Big G, who says,
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if John Kerry couldn't get his friends off a remote island back when he was Thirst and Howell III,
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how is he supposed to save the world? That's so true. John, if you're going to save the world,
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how about you get off that island, huh? Lovey, you can't even keep your marriage in check, John.
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Lovey, bring me another coconut, please. I'm saving the planet, lovey.
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Talk is simply smarter wireless. Amid all of the silly little play for the cameras things that happened
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at the World Economic Forum, like the Greta Thunberg performances and all the rest of it,
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there was some scary stuff that went down. The European Commission Vice President made a claim
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that should put a little bit of fear in every single American. This European Commission VP said
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that the United States soon will follow Western Europe in banning hate speech.
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We need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country,
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because what qualifies as hate speech, as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the US,
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I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law. We need the platforms
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to simply work with the language and to identify such cases. The AI would be too dangerous.
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Yes, you will soon have it there in the United States, because we will make sure that you have
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it there, because we are going to take this rabbit narrow opportunity to reset the world.
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That was the subtext of what she was saying. Most conservatives are listening to that and saying,
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no, you won't, Dagnabbit. We're going to stand firm on our First Amendment. You're never going to make
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us give up free speech. She's right. She's right. Some version of hate speech laws are coming to the
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United States. In fact, they're already here. We already have versions of hate speech laws.
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If you commit a crime, if you rob a guy and you take his wallet and you say, hey, pal,
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I'm going to take your wallet. You take it and you go away. Then you'll be charged with robbery.
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If you go up to that same guy and you say, hey, N-word, hey, F-A-G-G-O-T, hey, whatever,
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insert, whatever slur you want, I'm going to take your wallet. You will be charged with robbery and
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a hate crime. And the only differentiating factor, the only thing that would distinguish the two
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robberies would be your speech. Speech is increasingly criminalized according to the
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standards of the ruling liberal elite, what they consider to be offensive. Furthermore,
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as I wrote in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, do I not have a bell in my
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hotel room? Want my bell? According to my book, as I explained pretty clearly there,
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there have always been laws about speech in the United States. We still theoretically ban obscenity.
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We've had blasphemy laws on the books. This is true in every single society. So when the Davos
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elites say, you're going to get some form of hate speech laws, we can either put our heads in the
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sand and pretend that that's not true and say, la, la, la, la, la, I've got the First Amendment,
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which is going to protect me for saying anything that I want to say, which is not true now and has
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never been true, or we can actually engage with the issue and say, okay, yeah, we're going to have
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standards and norms of speech. It can either be the insane backward Davos liberal standards,
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or we can assert our own standards. But we bury our heads in the sand at our own risk because these
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people, even though they're trying to downplay their power right now, they have a lot of power
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and they've got a lot of power specifically in the United States. So the effective conservatives are
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the ones who are pushing back specifically on their agenda. Where are we seeing this most clearly?
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We're seeing it down in Florida. We're seeing it with Governor Ron DeSantis, who has just announced
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that Florida will join a number of other Republican states in divesting from asset managers that push
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an ESG agenda, environmental, social, and governance policies, which basically just means radical wokeism.
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DeSantis said that the approval of this resolution will ensure that public fiduciaries, quote,
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invest state funds in a manner that prioritizes the highest return on investment for Florida's
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taxpayers and retirees without considering the ideological agenda of the ESG movement. So what
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DeSantis is saying here is we're not going to buy into the World Economic Forum view of capitalism,
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which they call stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism says it's not just shareholders,
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but every group in society is going to have some say in how businesses are run and businesses are
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going to be accountable, not just to the shareholders, but to the locals and to the consumers and to the
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suppliers. And how exactly is this going to work? Everything's a little, little vague when it gets
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to the specifics, but they say shareholder capitalism is not the way of the future. Shareholder
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capitalism is the system that we have right now. It says that the only duty of a company is to
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maximize profits for shareholders. And it has led to a lot of material prosperity in the last 50 years,
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but it's only really been about 50 years since shareholder capitalism became the dominant form
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of conducting business in the United States. The defenders of shareholder capitalism, the people
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you hear as the free market absolutists, the disciples of Milton Friedman, they are going to try to
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tell you that shareholder capitalism is some ancient sacred idea. It's not. It has been useful in many,
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many ways, but it isn't all that old. The critics of stakeholder capitalism, the woke stuff that the
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World Economic Forum is pushing, they're going to try to tell you that this is brand new, but it's not
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brand new actually. Stakeholder capitalism, the idea that companies ought to be responsible to more
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than just the shareholders of those companies, that's an idea that goes back at least to 1932.
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It probably goes back a little earlier than that, though now we're just using these terms
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to discuss more complex ideas because the economy is a complex thing and political philosophy is a
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complex thing. So what are we going to do? To stop stakeholder capitalism, the left-wing version of
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it, this is a fine way to do it. It's a fine way practically to say, we're going to divest from
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BlackRock. We're going to divest from State Street. We're going to divest from Vanguard. And how are we
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going to do it? We're going to repeat the same things that Milton Friedman told us in the 70s
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and the 80s. That's fine in the short term. But in the long term, we are going to have to deal
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with some of the real criticism, some of the legitimate criticisms of the economic policies
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of the last 50 years. Because the knock on those policies is legit. The knock is that it exacerbates
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economic inequality and it breaks down social solidarity. And you as a conservative might not
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care all that much about economic inequality. It doesn't bother me in principle, but it does
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actually bother me in practice. Because when economic inequality becomes too drastic, people
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start getting a little antsy and they start getting a little violent and society can break down. And
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this can cause or at least be associated with a breakdown in social solidarity. But the breakdown in
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social solidarity comes from a lot of other features of the economy too. An economic policy,
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for instance, which we've had for the last 50 years, that tells women that they should get a
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job. They should leave the home. They should delay having children. They should kill their babies if
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they do get pregnant. They should have multiple partners and not settle down and not raise a family
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at an early age. That kind of capitalism, and you're hearing that message as much from the right-wing
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capitalists as you are, from the left-wing feminists and radicals and free love type people,
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that is going to cause a breakdown in society. And that's a problem. So I don't want to sound like a
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pinko over here, okay? I don't mean to sound like I'm going to go dye my hair purple and start marching
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with Greta Thunberg or anything like that. But I think conservatives need to be completely
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unsentimental. And we need to give credit where credit is due when it comes to diagnoses of these
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problems. The libs, I mean, going back to Karl Marx, the libs are not bad at criticizing certain
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aspects of society. They don't have good solutions for what to do about it, but that's what we need
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to do. And so the long-term solution here is going to be, okay, if there are issues with the economic
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policies from the 1970s, let's address them. And let's not just dig up the graves of Milton Friedman
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and Ronald Reagan. They fought their battles. They did good for their time, I think. They did just
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fine. Now we have to fight our battles too. And if the libs are going to be the only people
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do apply. Speaking of institutionalized wokeness, there's some basketball player. You know me,
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I don't follow sports very closely. Baseball is the only one that I really follow much at all.
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But there's this basketball player. His name is Provorov. And Provorov has a religious objection
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to putting on the gay pride flag on his jersey. And he was told by his team that he had to wear
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a gay pride flag jersey. And he said, no, I'm Christian. That actually contradicts my faith.
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So no thanks. I'm not going to wear, I'm not going to wear the jersey. And they said,
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you have to wear the jersey. They said, I want to wear the jersey. And it was like that scene in
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Seinfeld. When during AIDS, everyone wanted you to wear a little ribbon on your clothing. And Kramer
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said, I don't want to wear the ribbon. He said, wear the ribbon. Why aren't you wearing the ribbon?
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And it has reached such a fever pitch that some Looney Tune anchor just went on an unhinged rant
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about this man not wanting to wear a gay symbol on his body.
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The theme is not hockey is for everyone, dot, dot, dot, unless you don't believe in gay rights,
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then do whatever you want. If the National Hockey League is going to do this, if any league is going
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to do this, do it properly or reevaluate what you're doing. Because there's not a lot of
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repercussions that I'm seeing from any league. Now, it could change with the NHL. Could change with
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the NHL. I think you find the Flyers a million dollars for this. I'm not kidding. Figure this out.
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And stop offending people on nights where it's not about that. It's supposed to be about
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inclusivity. The National Hockey League need to attack this and figure this out. Because what
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I heard last night was offensive and didn't make any sense. Because, for instance, if that was a
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military night, okay, if anyone in Canada or in the States on a military appreciation night
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wouldn't wear a jersey pregame, do you have any idea the uproar that would have happened on that?
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Do you have any idea the backlash? Do you have any idea what happened on social media?
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Do you have any idea? I'm laughing for a couple of reasons. One is I just proved my thesis that I
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don't know anything about sports because I thought it was a basketball player, but it's a hockey player.
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Okay. All right. Actually, I prefer hockey to basketball. There's more fights. It's a little bit
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more exciting. Manly sport, isn't it? And in this manly sport, this Christian guy says,
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I don't want to wear the gay thing. Please don't make me wear the gay thing. And then this Looney
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Tune on the NHL channel, he says, could you imagine if a player didn't want to wear a jersey
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honoring military veterans? As if to say that a man who goes out there and fights for his country,
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risks his life to go kill the bad guys and protect our freedom and our traditions,
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that that is the same thing as a guy who really,
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Both of those things are equally deserving of our admiration.
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Well, Colonel, I really appreciate the sacrifice you made being wounded overseas
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to protect my country. And you, Julio, I'm glad that you went to the bathhouse yesterday.
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I find both of those things so terribly honorable.
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Give me both of your jerseys. I'm going to, uh, no, no. One of those things is admirable.
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One of those things is at best kind of weird and a matter that we don't need to talk about
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all that much publicly at the best. That's the best case scenario. Okay. How can you imagine the
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guy? He seems genuinely confused and he goes on. Nothing scares me more than any human being who
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says, I'm not doing this because of my religious beliefs. Because when you looked at people's lives,
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you normally say that publicly, you'd throw up at what you saw. You would throw up at what you saw.
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And I have seen that a million times in a lot of different ways. So don't, don't give me that
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with respect. Don't give me that because no one's perfect. All right. Don't tell me, don't,
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don't feed me the religious beliefs line. And all of a sudden the NHL is going to back off this.
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The National Hockey League today needs to find that organization a million dollars and reevaluate
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how they support gay rights. Cause, cause that is insulting. That is the number one trending topic
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in Canada. That is insulting what happened in Philadelphia. Remember when the argument was,
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Hey, what's it matter to you? Hey man, what's your hangup? Why do you care what people do in
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their bedrooms? It doesn't affect your life. But if you don't wear the gay t-shirt, we're going to
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fine you a million dollars, but it doesn't affect you. Hey, come on. How does, how does my gay
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marriage affect your real marriage? It doesn't affect, but give me a million dollars. If you ever
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so much as, as even cast a slight glance of aspersion on the glorious, wonderful thing we call
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homosexuals, sexual behavior. How dare you? That would be like insulting a military veteran.
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You see how that, and do you remember at the time when the libs said all that, the conservatives
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said, no man, it's actually a slippery slope and we're not all just free floating atoms. So
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things that affect anyone and certainly groups of people end up affecting all of society. They say,
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shut up bigot, shut up with your stupid religion and wear the t-shirt of my religion. Get your
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religion out of public. Wear my religion. Wear my flag. Wear my symbols, except my moral order,
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my immoral order. Frankly, it was what the left is pushing. And what he used, one of the shallowest
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arguments you'll ever hear. He said, I'm sick and tired of people invoking their religion,
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especially these Christians. That's what he was insinuating. He didn't call, he's calling out a
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Christian in particular. He said, these religious people generally, do you know these, some of these
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Christians, they could sin. Did you know that they commit sins? Yeah. So you better not have any
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standard of right and wrong, good and bad. You better not try to do good and avoid evil because
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you're a fallen creature and you sin. So therefore, you're a hypocrite. Having a standard and falling
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short of that standard is not hypocrisy. We use the word hypocrisy today in a way that is very, very silly.
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Secondly, having a standard and falling short of that standard, as you sincerely try to uphold that
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standard, is called being human and pursuing virtue. And it is central to the Christian life. It is the
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premise of Christianity, that mankind has fallen. We can't save ourselves. We are in need of a savior. We
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require God's grace if we are to have salvation. That's it. And this man, this obvious religious
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bigot, is demonstrating his ignorance and his intolerance and all the things that he accuses
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us of. So maybe the next time that there is a cultural issue that comes up and those crazy
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right-wing, probably religious fanatical types try to draw a line in the sand and say, hey, this is not
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good. This is going to affect society. Maybe don't throw the nonsense back at them and say, oh, how does
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this affect you? Politics affects all of us. That's why it's politics. That's what politics means.
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Politics means public. Speaking of LGBT-ism, I just read the most disturbing story maybe that I have ever
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read. Most disturbing news story. I'm not going to read it. I'm not going to go too into detail at all because
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this is just horrifying. It's by Mia Cathall on Town Hall. I hope I'm not mispronouncing Mia's last
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name. Headline tapes, we investigated a suburban LGBT pedophile ring. Here's what we found.
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And it's a story of these two guys, these two gay guys who are in a gay marriage, and they adopted
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children, two male children. They adopted the children from a nominally Christian adoption agency.
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Obviously, a Christian adoption agency that endorses same-sex marriage adoption. It would be hard
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for me to understand how that's a Christian adoption agency, but they do it. And then the guys just
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constantly raped the children, just very young children. Now that the guys have been caught,
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the children are ages 9 and 11. They bragged about raping the children. They made all sorts of videos
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and things. They invited their friends to do it. If you want to read the grisly details,
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it's over at Town Hall. You can give it a read. Not for the faint of heart, so I don't necessarily
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recommend you do it. Obviously, these men, if they are guilty of what they are accused of doing,
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obviously they should be executed. There's no question about that as far as I'm concerned. Even
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if you are a little worried about the death penalty, and even if you have objections to the death penalty,
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which I do not, I think the death penalty is perfectly just and legitimate and Christian
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and acceptable, but even if you do, one, I think, irrefutable argument for the death penalty beyond
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mere retribution, which I think is ultimately the point of all criminal justice, but beyond that,
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you would have to say that for the purposes of protecting the public from the further predations
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of these animals, these absolute criminals, the death penalty would be justified, at the very
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least to protect people, if not purely for the purpose of justice and retribution, at least to
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protect people. And you know, with the way that our justice system works now, if these pedos go to
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prison, well, if there were justice in the prison system, they would not last very long in prison.
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But if they did make it, you know they'd be let out. You know they'd be let out. We don't keep
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criminals in jail in this country. Not these days. They probably would be let out. And what would they
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do? They'd do it again. So sure, I think most reasonable people agree these two men should
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be executed very swiftly for what they did. But when will we address the broader issues?
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Are we going to address the broader issue? Are we willing to end the absurd and barbaric practice
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of same-sex and single-parent adoption? And certainly when it comes to single-parent adoption,
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certainly single-male parent adoption. I think single-parent adoption generally should be
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discouraged, if not just made illegal outright. Certainly same-sex adoption should be illegal.
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A child has a right to his natural mother and father to be conceived within the context of a
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marriage and in the conjugal act of his parents. We know that there are something like 36 couples
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trying to adopt every newborn baby put up for adoption in the United States. There's no shortage
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of mommies and daddies married to one another who want to adopt babies. Okay, there's no shortage of
00:23:57.480
that at all. And yet because of wokeness and political correctness, we've got to say, no, well,
00:24:02.120
we shouldn't discriminate against gay men or single parents who want to adopt. But of course we should,
00:24:07.420
because it's not about the adults, whether they want to satisfy the most horrific lusts they could
00:24:12.900
have or whether they just want a kid and they didn't get married and they just want to have a
00:24:17.060
kid. We know that it is better for a child to be raised in a marriage, in a real marriage with a
00:24:23.540
mother and a father. And so at the very least for newborn babies, where the situation is really,
00:24:29.100
really straightforward, we should prioritize the children over the parents. No question about that.
00:24:34.880
We're not allowed to say that. That's not politically correct. We're not allowed to
00:24:37.420
point out that child sex abuse is much more prevalent among LGBT identified people. I'm not
00:24:44.500
saying all gay guys are child abusers. Obviously that is not the case. The vast majority of gay
00:24:49.300
guys are not child abusers, but the numbers are the numbers. The LGBT identification in the United
00:24:54.000
States is 7.1%. That's according to Gallup. According to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law,
00:25:00.180
so not some far right think tank, according to a very liberal storied institution, 20% of registered
00:25:08.340
sex offenders identify as LGBT. We're not allowed to say that. We're not allowed to confront that
00:25:13.300
fact because it's politically incorrect. So what happens? These stories pop up and you don't read
00:25:16.860
about it anywhere. You read about it in town hall. Maybe you hear it on my show and that's it. And it
00:25:20.520
gets buried. For what? So that we can continue perpetuating lies that harm all of society,
00:25:27.240
that harms certain people specifically, but harm all of us when we are forced to live in a culture
00:25:31.560
of lies. We should say no to that. This month, we are celebrating the anniversary of one of the
00:25:37.160
greatest moments in Daily Wire history when we said no to Joe Biden. After months of leading the
00:25:42.760
legal battle against the federal government and a national do not comply campaign, the Supreme Court
00:25:47.020
ruled in our favor, blocked the Biden administration's outrageous vaccine mandate. See, that was a Freudian
00:25:54.000
slip. I almost said the Obama. It's kind of like the O'Biden administration. It's just the third term
00:25:59.700
for Barack Obama. This mandate would have set a dangerous precedent, giving the unelected OSHA
00:26:04.460
power over the personal medical decisions of American citizens. The Supreme Court recognized this gross
00:26:10.120
power grab, obviously made the right decision. We are so proud to have led the charge in this fight.
00:26:15.420
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00:26:50.460
has still not managed to come up with a coherent and uniform line to answer for Joe Biden's
00:26:57.680
mishandling of classified documents. Mishandling of documents when he had no right to do it.
00:27:03.720
Unlike Trump, Joe Biden was not the president when he was allegedly mishandling these documents.
00:27:09.260
Unlike Trump, they weren't just locked in a closet where the National Archives,
00:27:12.400
knew where they were. They were in his garage. They were in a garage that Hunter had access to
00:27:17.980
and used Hunter Biden while he was shilling his influence for the Ukrainians and the Chinese.
00:27:23.560
Highly sensitive classified documents in their garage. Classified documents in Joe Biden's
00:27:28.300
fake think tank, which was funded by the Chinese communists. You think the donors maybe took a walk
00:27:32.580
through the office, maybe had some access to those documents. Entirely plausible. No. No, no.
00:27:39.280
They haven't come up with an answer to it. In fact, Karine Jean-Pierre is pretty much just walking
00:27:43.980
out because she can't answer. You told me six times that turned out to be false. Are you sorry
00:27:49.940
about that? I'll see you tomorrow. Come talk to me. I'll see you tomorrow. There she is. And the
00:27:56.340
reporter you heard, the first part was a little bit cut off by the microphones, was James Rosen,
00:28:01.120
who's a very serious journalist. He's worked for slightly more right-wing outlets. He worked for
00:28:07.140
Fox News for a while. But James Rosen is considered a very, very mainstream journalist. He pointed out
00:28:15.260
at least six times that KJP had claimed that all Biden classified documents were accounted for and
00:28:21.980
that turned out to be false. So she either was completely ignorant or she was lying. And so he said,
00:28:26.140
hey, you can't lie to us. I know that your job is to spin, but you can't really lie. Are you going
00:28:30.660
to apologize? She says, bye. See you. Not even going to acknowledge it. But we know this because
00:28:35.920
Joe Biden is, even by politician standards, the most notorious liar in our political life today.
00:28:42.860
More than Trump. I'm not saying Trump has never said anything that isn't totally true.
00:28:46.860
But Biden has said many more significant, serious lies for longer. Barack Obama has told very,
00:28:53.540
very serious lies. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Oh, Biden still got him beat.
00:28:58.980
Hillary, Bill, well, I did not have sexual relations. Biden still got him beat.
00:29:06.260
And now we just found out proof that Biden lied again. Biden claimed just a few days ago,
00:29:11.540
we talked about it on the show, that he grew up in a black Protestant church, which was a little
00:29:17.360
strange when he said it because Biden constantly brags about how he's a devout Catholic, even though he
00:29:22.620
doesn't believe undeniable truths required dogmas of the Catholic church. Joe Biden nevertheless
00:29:32.020
presents himself as this devout Catholic. So how could a devout Catholic every day after mass go
00:29:36.880
worship in a black, well, it doesn't matter if it's a black church. He called it a black church
00:29:42.140
because he also is offensively denying that there are black Catholics, which there are many. But to go to
00:29:47.200
a Protestant church, that itself would be considered a sin in, in the Catholic church. And no one believed
00:29:52.400
it anyway, though. Do you seriously believe that Corn Pop took Joe to the black church after? No,
00:29:56.540
of course not. And now we have proof of it because Joe Biden was at Raphael Warnock's church and there
00:30:01.660
were some real spiritual hymns going on. People were moving, they were flowing, they were clapping.
00:30:07.800
There he is. You see all the choir in the background singing about the spirit and Biden doesn't know what
00:30:21.120
to do. Even Warnock, he's clapping. Everybody out there in the congregation.
00:30:29.200
What does Biden do? He raises his hand. What do I do? That is not a man who has ever
00:30:43.940
seriously attended a black Protestant church. You got to move. He reminds like the opening scene
00:30:48.920
of The Jerk with Steve Martin. I was born a poor black child. And then he's there and the way that
00:30:55.620
he finds out he's adopted is because he can't, he can't dance because he doesn't have any rhythm.
00:30:59.860
Certainly Joe Biden too. Now, speaking of contrasting leadership, as the World Economic
00:31:04.900
Forum 2023 wraps up, this, this is an important year for the World Economic Forum because it marks
00:31:09.580
the first year in my life that there has been widespread attention to this globalist meetup in
00:31:16.120
the middle of the Swiss Alps in a very, very rarefied territory that's very expensive to get to.
00:31:22.620
And the reason it's held there is because it's hard to get to. And you're not going to have a
00:31:28.800
lot of protesters making it all the way up the mountain in the Swiss Alps. And now a lot of
00:31:33.140
people are paying attention to it. Don't forget though, Donald Trump showed up to the World Economic
00:31:37.560
Forum back in 2018. But unlike the Swiss Republicans who have gone, Donald Trump showed up to the World
00:31:45.280
Economic Forum with a clear message for the globalist liberals.
00:31:50.280
I'm aware that your strong leadership is open to misconceptions and biased interpretations.
00:32:00.100
So far, it is so essential for us in the room to listen directly to you.
00:32:07.980
I'm here today to represent the interests of the American people. The world is witnessing
00:32:13.660
the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America. I'm here to deliver a simple message. There has
00:32:22.220
never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest, and to grow in the United States. Regulation is
00:32:30.300
stealth taxation. The U.S., like many other countries, unelected bureaucrats. I mean, we have, believe me,
00:32:40.220
we have them all over the place. And they've imposed crushing and anti-business and anti-worker
00:32:46.660
regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability.
00:32:54.580
In America, those days are over. He showed up to the World Economic Forum to tell these people that
00:33:02.400
he disagreed with everything that they held dear. That's a beautiful thing. And it shows you a good
00:33:08.800
way forward because the Republicans who showed up to this thing got flack, rightly so, because the
00:33:14.340
Republicans who showed up to this thing broadly seem on board with the World Economic Forum Great
00:33:19.200
Reset type agenda. But the reason they were criticized for that is because we had these
00:33:25.880
people's numbers before they showed up to Davos. If Donald Trump showed up to Davos, I think we know
00:33:31.220
he's not going there to kiss the ring of Klaus Schwab. If Lauren Boebert showed up to Davos to give a
00:33:36.700
speech, if she were ever invited, I sort of doubt that someone, that right wing would be invited. But if
00:33:41.400
she were, we would know that she's going there to stick a finger in the eye. The question we've got to ask
00:33:47.060
about this is not, are you willing to engage in this culture? I think it'd be great. I want Trump
00:33:52.140
to show up every year. I want him to just stick a finger in their eye every single year. I think
00:33:55.660
that would be wonderful. I'm not saying we totally disengage from the libs. Frankly, I think that kind
00:34:01.020
of attitude is what's got us in this mess in the first place. We abandoned the universities. We
00:34:04.780
abandoned Hollywood. We abandoned the political realm because we convinced ourselves that wielding
00:34:09.840
political power was wrong per se. And what did that do? That just gave the libs the stage. No,
00:34:14.300
don't give them the stage. Show up and tell them what you think and bring them into line. That's
00:34:18.460
fine by me. You just got to know where they stand and who they stand for. Gretchen Whitmer,
00:34:23.080
the governor of Michigan, Democrat governor of Michigan was at the World Economic Forum today.
00:34:28.660
Why was she here? Was she here to represent the interests of the American people? Was she here
00:34:32.580
to represent her constituents? No, of course not. She was here to play along with the bidding of the
00:34:38.940
Davos set. Know who the people are standing for. If you can read clearly what they stand for,
00:34:46.900
then send them out. Send them out to engage in the world. There's nothing wrong with that.
00:34:52.900
We just have to win. Welcome back to my favorite time of the week. The voice mailbag brought to you
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00:35:02.560
to get 50% off your first month. Take it away with the first question. Hey, Michael. In today's world,
00:35:10.200
is it possible to separate someone from being conservative and being a Republican? With the
00:35:14.660
number of squish Republicans growing, when is it time that true conservatives cut ties and create
00:35:19.480
a party that actually stands on true conservative foundation and will actually stand by that? Thanks.
00:35:28.180
We will never purge the squishes from the Republican Party. That is not possible because there are not
00:35:34.140
enough hardcore conservatives. And there are many, many squishes. And there are many, many libs.
00:35:39.900
So you do have to figure out a way to get the squishes to work with you and to vote for your
00:35:45.260
sorts of candidates. The problem is not that there are squishes who vote for Republican candidates.
00:35:49.960
The problem is that the Republican politicians cater to the squishes over the conservatives. And so what
00:35:55.620
we have to do is figure out a way for the conservatives, not to leave the alliance that
00:36:01.940
we've made with the squishes, but to lead the alliance that we've made with the squishes.
00:36:07.620
We need to craft the political conditions, and this is an art, politics is an art,
00:36:13.580
such that the liberal, the squishes rather, will go along with what the conservatives,
00:36:19.300
we conservatives want them to go along with, and that the squishes will not be tempted to defect
00:36:26.880
for the liberals. And that's just, that requires a little bit of massage. It's why you've got to
00:36:34.480
be wise as a dove and innocent as a serpent. And you can't actually affect political progress and
00:36:42.560
change and all the buzzwords that we want to affect. You can't do good in the political realm
00:36:47.200
if you are going to let the perfect get in the way of the good. We've just got to figure out a way
00:36:53.120
to be a little gutsier, because as long as the conservatives remain the junior partner
00:36:56.680
in this alliance that we've made with the squishes, then we might as well vote for Democrats half the
00:37:02.380
time. Okay, next question. Hey, Michael. This is Jake. I've noticed there's a trend that seems to
00:37:09.480
be maligning millennials for not growing up. And I think that the boomers, who are my parents as a
00:37:19.540
millennial, don't receive this criticism when they absolutely should. I don't think that they have
00:37:27.560
ever got out of a materialistic, hedonistic mindset they had since they were children. And I think that
00:37:34.120
extrapolates into the fact that they run from being patriarchs and matriarchs of a family.
00:37:39.980
And they cut bait, abandon their children and their grandchildren for retirement homes in Florida
00:37:45.520
and hoarding wealth. They have 65% of the wealth in the country. They had 20% when they were my age.
00:37:53.480
And my generation, millennials, have 4% of the wealth. So I don't think that we should stop at
00:38:00.680
criticizing millennials for not growing up. Fair enough. Very good point. And yes,
00:38:05.440
as a matter of fact, the boomers deserve all the criticism that they get as a generation. However,
00:38:11.760
millennials, and I guess some of the older Zoomers should not be the ones to criticize them.
00:38:18.360
And the reason for that is they are our parents. And that's, and that's wrong. You have to honor your
00:38:24.340
father and mother. I'm not saying that the criticism of the boomers is not warranted.
00:38:30.000
I was talking to Drew, my very good friend who happens to be a boomer. He said,
00:38:35.040
Michael, we ruined everything. It was all the boomers fault. Everything they say about us is
00:38:38.900
true. And we know that. And yet it is still wrong for millennials as a rule to whine about the boomers
00:38:46.560
because there are parents and we should say thank you. Thank you, boomers, boomer parents for giving
00:38:51.380
us the things you gave us. Thank you for doing your best. We appreciate the gift of life you gave us.
00:38:56.220
We're going to honor our mothers and fathers and we can learn from the boomers and not make some of
00:38:59.980
the mistakes that they did. Hey Michael, huge fan of the show. I wanted to ask you a question related
00:39:06.100
to the medical world and what your opinion is on it. So in Star Trek Voyager, there's an episode
00:39:10.740
where a patient who is dying on the medical bed was offered treatment to save him. However,
00:39:15.760
the doctor who was performing the operation was a doctor who performed research on the patient's
00:39:22.340
species of people and almost entirely killed them all from these experiments. Obviously,
00:39:27.900
the patient refused treatment on the grounds that he didn't want research performed on him that was
00:39:32.740
done on his people involuntarily. So what would you do in this situation? I think I know your answer,
00:39:37.800
but I'd love to hear it. Thanks. Well, I'm glad that you know my answer. I'm not sure that I know my
00:39:42.660
answer. So I'd like you to inform me of my answer because I would just need to know much more.
00:39:47.680
I would need to know if the Mengele type of doctor had had a change of heart. Had he repented? Had he
00:39:58.640
regretted what he had done and then gone ahead and changed his ways? And could I trust that he was
00:40:06.520
going to give me decent medical care? If I could trust that, then I wouldn't refuse the life-saving
00:40:13.100
medical care just because of some sins he had committed in the past. I wouldn't cut off my nose
00:40:17.560
despite my face. That would be crazy. Now, if I thought that he was just going to experiment on
00:40:22.000
me and rip my guts out and do all sorts of experiments on them, then I'd say, no, I probably
00:40:25.220
would refuse the care because it wouldn't be care. It would be just further abuse. But I do, and it
00:40:30.720
also depends, do I have a terminal illness? Do I have a kind of disease that would require
00:40:38.880
extraordinary, extraordinary measures to keep me alive? And would I be very, very aged and frail at
00:40:45.120
this point? Would I be nearing natural death anyway? Would the care be ordinary kind of medical care
00:40:52.380
or extraordinary kind of medical care? What would it be? I'd have to, because if it were ordinary
00:40:57.880
medical care and it were a normal course of events, I think I would probably have an obligation to
00:41:02.480
accept it because of the law of self-preservation, which is part of the natural law. So I don't know.
00:41:08.560
And I've never seen Star Trek, so I really don't know. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name's RJ,
00:41:13.220
longtime listener. I was with my friends when the issue of whether or not God exists came up. I said
00:41:18.540
he did, and they agreed somewhat, but they said there was no way to be sure. I gave what was
00:41:22.980
essentially C.S. Lewis's argument for the Tao, that, you know, that there is such a thing as an
00:41:27.040
objective good and bad, and there's universal truth within all of us. They rejected this and said
00:41:32.100
there is no universal morality. And they used slavery as an example, not the fact that it existed and
00:41:37.880
still exists, but that there were many who genuinely did not believe they were doing anything wrong.
00:41:43.320
I've struggled with this, as the Tao, as C.S. Lewis describes it, would mean that no one,
00:41:47.480
or at least the vast majority of people, could participate in something such as slavery without
00:41:52.080
seeing it as objectively evil. The argument for universal truth and against moral relativism is
00:41:58.300
what brought me back to Christianity after several years of waning belief. Please clear this seeming
00:42:03.400
contradiction, as it would vastly improve my state of mind. The Daily Wire,
00:42:07.560
and of course C.S. Lewis, have been instrumental in guiding my faith. And though you've yet to
00:42:11.560
convert me to Catholicism, given more time, I have no doubt you'll get me there. Thanks, Michael. I
00:42:16.520
greatly appreciate it. I'm very pleased to hear all of that. That's absolutely wonderful. So, wow,
00:42:22.800
that's all really great. Well, since you're basically begging me to convert you to Catholicism,
00:42:27.640
I would quote the First Vatican Council. Not the Second Vatican Council, but the First Vatican
00:42:31.680
Council, which states that the existence of God can be known with certainty by the light of human
00:42:39.280
reason from the natural world. Okay? So, I know that today many modern people want to say, well,
00:42:45.380
we can never really know if God exists or not, and it's just a pure leap of faith, man. But that is
00:42:50.260
not true. We can know for certain that God exists. There are many good arguments as to why God exists.
00:42:55.720
You name one of those arguments, which is that we know that some things are better than other things.
00:43:01.060
We know that there are objective realities. There is objective goodness. If anything is better than
00:43:07.640
any other thing, then there has to be a maximally great thing, the sumum bonum, to use, I don't know,
00:43:14.800
some kind of, is that Spanish or something? I don't know. That's some kind of old language.
00:43:17.920
If anything is true or false, then there has to be an objective reality that underlies the whole world.
00:43:26.080
If things are in motion, we know that in our universe things are in motion, then there has to be
00:43:30.660
some way that they got to be in motion. If things are caused in this world, and if we see the effects
00:43:38.240
of those causes, then there has to be a first cause. There has to be an uncaused cause. There are many
00:43:43.340
other arguments. You can go through the five arguments for the existence of God of St. Thomas Aquinas.
00:43:48.520
There are many other good arguments. I love the ontological argument for God. That's not the most
00:43:52.480
popular one. The fact that God is by definition the maximally great being, and it's better to exist
00:43:58.360
than not to exist. Therefore, God by definition must exist. It's a charming argument. It doesn't
00:44:03.240
convince a lot of people. I think it did convince C.S. Lewis. Anyway, those are all good arguments.
00:44:08.100
If your friend's objection is that some people disagree over certain aspects of morality, I don't
00:44:15.360
deny that, but I don't think that undermines Lewis's understanding of the Tao either. That doesn't
00:44:21.140
undermine the fact that human beings are born with a moral conscience, and we can know that certain
00:44:24.960
things are right and wrong simply by reason because they're a part of the natural law. That doesn't
00:44:30.120
undermine that. It is, in fact, the case that, one, certain people are just so eccentric or so
00:44:36.460
depraved that their reason and conscience is defective. That happens in the world. This is a fallen
00:44:41.940
world, and so we need education to fix those rare occasions. It's also the case that certain
00:44:50.140
instantiations of moral laws can look different in different places. So we recognize that it is
00:44:58.940
wrong to commit murder, but different jurisdictions will have different laws on killing, killing by the
00:45:04.280
state, killing as a matter of retribution, killing in times of war. And so you can see different
00:45:09.020
instantiations of that, and reasonable minds can disagree over those things, but that wouldn't
00:45:12.280
contradict the natural law. Much more to say on this topic, but we're running out of time, and I want
00:45:15.960
to get to at least one mailbag question. Okay, this mailbag question is from John. It is on the topic
00:45:23.080
of pornography. Okay, and we don't have a mailbag segment, or rather a member block segment today
00:45:28.220
because I'm on the road. So I'm just going to go along, and I'm going to do it anyway because I want
00:45:32.220
to at least get to one written mailbag, and this is one people send in porn questions all the time.
00:45:35.940
Hello, Michael. Many young single guys like me have struggles with porn. I would also like to
00:45:40.560
get married and have a family someday, but I feel like my addiction is an obstacle to that. I don't
00:45:45.360
feel like it's very fair to subject a future wife to my problem, as I know how painful it is for women
00:45:50.420
whose husbands watch porn. What do you think is the best approach? You often make the point that it's
00:45:53.680
a fallen world, which is true, but should my fallenness discourage me from getting married? Thanks,
00:45:57.700
John. No, it shouldn't discourage you from getting married. It should encourage you
00:46:00.460
to practice virtue and to repent of your sins and to do so realistically. Okay, you point out here,
00:46:11.000
and I point it out on the show all the time, guys write into me constantly about porn. I talk to
00:46:17.680
priests. Priests tell me that 90% plus of the guys who show up into the confessional are confessing,
00:46:23.240
looking at porn at some point. It's ubiquitous. It's everywhere. Okay, and it's not entirely your
00:46:28.000
fault. You live in a culture that promotes porn, where we've all got these little portals to hell
00:46:32.160
in our pockets, and we've got computers everywhere, and even just ordinary billboards and TV shows have
00:46:36.220
a lot of pornographic content. So go easy on yourself, but don't relax your view of morality
00:46:43.080
because your moral intuition is right, and you're recognizing that it's destroying your life. So
00:46:46.740
treat it like any other addiction. You called it an addiction. Treat it like any other addiction,
00:46:52.040
and just try to go one day without looking at it. If you're looking at porn every single day,
00:46:58.000
just try to go one day without looking at porn. This is what you'd tell an alcoholic.
00:47:02.380
Some guys drinking all the time every single day say, try to go one day without a drink. Try to go
00:47:06.300
one day without looking at porn. You're not saying I'm going to go my whole life, and you're going to
00:47:10.340
get the shakes like you're a drug addict. Just say you're going to go one day. If you're looking at
00:47:14.060
porn, I don't know, let's say you're looking at porn three times a week. Say, okay, I'm going to try
00:47:20.360
not to look at porn at all, but if I do, I'm only going to look at it one time a week. And then you do that
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for a little bit, and maybe you backslide, people backslide. But then after a while say,
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okay, maybe if you reduced it to two times a week, reduce it to one time. If you reduced it to one
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time, reduce it to no times. You can grow in these things. The devil's trick is to convince you that
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you can never improve because he's going to make you a slave to your lusts. But habits are such that
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because virtue is a habit, the more you practice virtue, the easier it's going to be.
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Like vice is a habit. And so the more you engage in a vice, the harder it's going to be to pull
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away from that vice. And so time is your friend here, okay? And if you just keep it up day by day
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at a time, and I would recommend sacramental confession. I know that some people don't buy
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into sacramental confession. I think it spiritually is very effective. And even if you don't buy that,
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psychologically, it's very effective to get on your knees and confess your sins to God
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in the presence of a man who you believe has the power to forgive sins and cleanse your soul.
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And I happen to believe that those graces actually work. They have a real effect on your soul.
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But psychologically, at least, even if you're a hardcore atheist, I think you can understand why
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that would work and why that kind of accountability would work and why that reassurance that, okay,
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son, your sins are forgiven. It's a fallen world. Don't worry. Don't let your sins bury you.
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Don't let your bad habits bury you. You can improve. So take it seriously.
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But do so in the light of grace. That's the only way that you're going to overcome it.
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And I think you can overcome it. All right. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This