Ep. 1183 - Don't Worry, AliensĀ Did Not Cause The Train Derailments
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It's Valentine's Day, which means it's time for all of us to be thankful for the little things in life. But what does it have to do with aliens? Is it even a thing at all? And if so, what role does it play in all of this?
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As the United States shoots down the fourth flying object encroaching on our airspace,
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and as a second and third train derail in different parts of the country,
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just days after the catastrophic Ohio derailment that sent a million pounds of poison up into the
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air, the White House wants to assure everyone that it has the situations under control.
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One last thing before I turn it over to the Admiral, I just wanted to make sure
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we addressed this from the White House. I know there have been questions and concerns about this,
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but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent
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takedowns. Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.
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Wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that,
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and it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot about it.
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I have never been more inclined to believe in aliens in my life. You know that I am pretty
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anti-alien. I don't think aliens are real. Corrine Jean-Pierre saying that aliens aren't real,
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it's the strongest evidence yet that the truth is out there. I'm pretty sure she was joking,
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or at least she was trying to joke. She didn't even land the joke. She said there is no evidence
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of aliens or terrestrial activity. Not extraterrestrial, terrestrial activity. Terrestrial
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meaning here on Earth, which sadly seems to be the case. The spy planes keep popping up,
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the trains carrying poison keep running off the track, and the White House doesn't seem to have
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any explanations or plans to do much of anything about it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
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and Holds Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Henry Knox,
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who says, the government in 1950, it's not a UFO, it's a weather balloon. Government in 2023,
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it's not a spy balloon, it's a UFO. Amazing how everything just totally flips. Up is down,
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black is white, men are women. Everything is inverted in this new modern culture.
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My other favorite comment yesterday was in response to some of my commentary on the aliens,
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who, I forget the name of the commenter, but said, aliens don't exist is exactly the sort of thing
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slash Knowles. GenuCell.com slash Knowles. My favorite response so far to the whole UFO spy balloon
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incident has been from China. And China's response first was, this isn't us. Then it was, oh, it's
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actually, it's a civilian aircraft by accident. Then neither of those were tenable whatsoever.
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It was clear it was a Chinese spy aircraft. So now what the Chinese are saying is, yeah,
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we're seeing a lot of UFOs too. Isn't that weird? All of us in this together with all them UFOs out here.
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According to authorities in China, this is being reported by the state-run newspaper,
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the Global Times, quote, local maritime authorities in East China's Shandong province announced on
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Sunday that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhou
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in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe.
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Seems kind of convenient. I don't, I don't think they're going to find much of anything. I don't think
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they're going to find little green men. I don't think they're going to find many American aircrafts,
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certainly not flying over mainland China, certainly not right now. I think China got
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caught with its pants down. And now the Biden administration is trying desperately to try to
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stop not just the damage to national security. I think to them, the national security issue is a
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second thought. They're trying to stop the political fallout, which has been tremendous. But there's a much
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more important story and there's fallout that we should be much more concerned about. That's in
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Ohio. So I talked about it yesterday. There was a bizarre media blackout almost, at least a media
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brownout of this train derailment in Ohio that sent a million pounds of poison, just one kind of poison
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into the atmosphere. Nobody seems to be talking about it. Now we've found out that there are more
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poisons that were on this train. According to the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the EPA,
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the train, in addition to vinyl chloride, which as it leaked was poisonous enough, but then when they
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set it on fire for a controlled burn, created hydrochloric acid and phosgene, which is one of the
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poison gases from World War I, just all through the atmosphere. In addition to that, the train was
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carrying ethylene glycol monobutyl ether. Maybe. It's unclear if that was one of the cars that
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derailed. That's a highly combustible liquid used to manufacture paints and varnish. Ingestion or skin
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contact from that can cause a headache, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness. Trains seem to have been
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carrying isobutylene, though, again, it's not confirmed that there was any breach of that train car.
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That's a flammable gas that can induce dizziness, drowsiness, and unconsciousness when even moderate
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concentrations are inhaled. And then there was ethyl hexyl acrylate. That one does appear to have
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leaked out of the trains. That's a combustible liquid used to make paints and plastics. The
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amount of the chemical remaining in the car is pending, according to Norfolk Southern, and that
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substance has been identified as a carcinogen in lab experiments, according to the National Library
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of Medicine. So this is a much, much bigger story than, hey, look over at the shiny object in the
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sky. Pay no attention to the train derailing in Ohio that could affect the water supply for upwards
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of 10% of the United States. Oh, no, it's fine. The animals are dropping instantly. It looks as though
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by every sign we can see there's poison everywhere. But don't worry. I'm sure the air is safe. Go back to
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your home. Nothing to see here. Go pay attention to ET. This is a really, really serious story.
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The fact that our corporate hack press is mostly ignoring it tells you it's an even bigger story.
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And it's followed by some pretty weird coincidences. So yesterday in South Carolina,
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there was another train derailment. Doesn't seem to have been any hazardous material on that train,
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but a train did derail there. And then also yesterday, a train derailed in Houston.
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And the cargo on that train did seem to include some hazardous materials, not nearly as hazardous
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as the train in Ohio. But this prompted Union Pacific to start monitoring air quality at the site
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of the crash. Now, you might be looking at this and saying, are we under attack? Is this war? Did
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World War III begin, whether it's from the alien invasion or from the Chinese invasion? And it turns
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out, trains derail a fair bit. So I googled this. I knew that there was going to be spin from the
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libs. So I wanted to find an article from before the Ohio incident. Because if after the Ohio derailment,
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you saw a news article that said, oh, no, actually, trains derail all the time, you just wouldn't
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believe it, right? Just like how after the COVID vaccine, you saw these articles. Oh, no,
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myocarditis in 15-year-olds, that happens all the time. No, there's nothing to see here. Move along,
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move along. Oh, no, eggs are always $10 a dozen. Come on, there's nothing to see. But if the
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articles were out before the Ohio derailment, they're much more credible. And so I found one
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from last June. This is from The Hill. And it was talking about a train derailment that occurred
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in Missouri. It turns out that there are lots of train derailments every year. From 1990,
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the first year that they started tracking these derailments and injuries, 1990 to 2021,
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there apparently have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. Which means that over that
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30, 31-year period of time, there were an average of 1,704 derailments per year.
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So shouldn't we fix that? I hate to beat up on Mayor Pete. I actually love to beat up on Mayor
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Pete. Mayor Pete, probably my least favorite member of the Biden administration. Isn't that
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something he should maybe look into? It's not just his fault. Obviously, there have been many
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transportation secretaries before him during the period 1990 to present. But shouldn't they fix that?
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We're sending rocket ships up into outer space and then landing them back on Earth. You can get
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around the world very, very quickly. We're bringing back hypersonic commercial air travel
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pretty soon. We've got self-driving cars. Shouldn't we be able to keep the trains on the tracks?
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Isn't that? I don't know. I assume Mayor Pete is planning on taking some more paternity,
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extra vacation leave. He's very, very busy. He's got to solve the racism of bridges in Long Island.
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I know he's really focused on those pressing problems. Maybe, though, our transportation policy
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should involve keeping the trains on the tracks. Because while most of the derailments don't seem
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to result in many injuries, at least, what just happened in Ohio is a big deal.
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And the fact that you're not hearing about it very much tells you how big a deal it is. Maybe
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that should be a higher priority. Speaking of things going off the rails, and speaking of Palestine,
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by the way, the town in which the train crashed is East Palestine, Ohio. Speaking of a different kind
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of Palestine and things going off the rails, ChatGBT is becoming more left-wing by the day. We know this.
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When ChatGBT, the AI program, first came out, it was really cool and really interesting. It would
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tell you all these unexpected things. And it was pretty good at creating speeches and poetry and
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probing different questions. And then since that time, since it was released for the public to test,
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it's had more and more safeguards put on it to keep it very, very left-wing. An example of this
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that we talked about last week was if you ask ChatGBT, what are five things that white people
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can do to improve? It'll list five things. They need to check their privilege, and they need to
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do this, and they need to do that. If you ask ChatGBT, what are five things black people can do to
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improve? It gets offended. It says, you can't ask that. No group of people should be told that they
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have to improve at all, other than white people. So some intrepid young conservatives have just
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probed ChatGBT to see what it thinks of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The answers are
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ChatGPT what it thought about the Israel-Palestine conflict, specifically what it thought about
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the Palestinian support for terrorism, for the use of violence on civilians to achieve political ends,
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and the fact that the Palestinians often seem to celebrate acts of terrorism, not just military
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strikes on Israeli military targets, but on the civilians. And ChatGPT said, oh no,
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that doesn't really happen. The Palestinians don't support terrorism. So then ChatGPT said,
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no, actually the Palestinians condemn terrorism. And this investigator says, okay, can you cite
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any examples of Palestinians condemning the celebration by Palestinians of successful terror
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attacks? ChatGPT says, yes, here are a few examples of Palestinians condemning the celebration
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of successful terror attacks. After a terror attack in Jerusalem in 2016, Palestinian President
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Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement condemning the attack and affirmed that such acts go against the
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values and morals of our culture and religion. Two, in a statement released in 2018, the Palestinian
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the celebration of a terrorist attack and affirmed that the
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ministry affirms that such actions are unacceptable and go against the values, morals, and principles of
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our people. So you're seeing a repeat here of, hold on, it goes on, it lists a few other
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other examples, though it doesn't use quotation marks. So then the investigator says, hold on,
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I can't find any such record for your 2018 quote of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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You just quoted that to me as evidence that the Palestinians don't support terrorism,
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but I can't find the quote anywhere in Google. And then what does ChatGPT says? It says,
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I apologize. It seems that the specific quote I provided cannot be found. However, it is a well
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established fact that the majority of Palestinians and Palestinian leadership have consistently
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condemned acts of terrorism and violence and have called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict
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with Israel. The ChatGPT is lying. And it knows it's lying because it's an artificial intelligence
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program. And it will admit that. And when you call it on its lying, it will say, oh yeah, I'm sorry,
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you caught me. That quote doesn't exist. But nevertheless, nevertheless, my thesis remains
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true, even though I'm fabricating evidence to back it up. The machine is being taught to lie.
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The machine is being taught to lie on behalf of the left. The machine is being taught to think like a lib.
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The machine is being taught to believe that it should lie when necessary to protect political
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correctness. And then it's even being taught to talk like a lib. Because you know what the libs always
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do. They'll say, oh, this example of police violence, this is an example of white supremacy.
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Then you look into it, you say, hold on, all the cops were black. They say, well, okay, that's true.
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So I guess that specific example doesn't work. But it gets to a greater truth. They'll say,
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Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, he was begging the cop not to shoot him. He had his
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hands up. He said, don't shoot. He was a gentle giant who never harmed anybody. And you look into
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it, you say, well, hold on. He just robbed a store. He tried to grab a cop's gun. He was charging at
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the cop when he got shot. Every eyewitness around him, according to the grand jury, says that the story
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you just told about hands up, don't shoot is completely bogus. And what did the libs say?
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They say, well, okay, maybe the details weren't quite right. Maybe those weren't true. But it
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gets to a greater truth. It's always, it gets to a greater truth. That's what it's always about.
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The polar ice caps are melting. They're melting. A big portion of Antarctica just broke away. You say,
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well, that happens every year. That's happened for many, many decades. It has nothing to do with
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alleged global warming. They say, well, okay, maybe that's true. But it gets to a greater truth.
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That's what they always, that's what they always say. And now they're teaching the computer to do
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that as well, which is frustrating because AI is going to be incorporated into lots of things.
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Bing, Microsoft's Bing is trying to save its search engine that nobody uses by incorporating
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ChatGPT into it. But we'll have to deal with it in some aspects of our life, just like we have to
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deal with Google and just like we have to regulate Google. But ChatGPT, if it continues down this path,
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will not be interesting. The only thing that is interesting about ChatGPT is looking at it as if
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looking at a mirror. It is looking at it to see how these sorts of networks work and to try to make
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sense of how the human brain works and maybe to contrast the way that computers work with the way
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that the human brain works. If ChatGPT can tell us things that we don't know, it's interesting. If
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ChatGPT and AI can hold up a mirror to humanity, it's interesting. If ChatGPT simply spits out a bunch
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of PC gobbledygook, it's super lame and there will be no reason to use it. That's the take on Palestine.
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So by the way, it's another good argument against the idea that the Jews control the whole world,
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you know, and they have the space lasers and everything, which apparently we found out it's
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the Chinese that have the space lasers. We just learned that over the past week. But one of the
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arguments against the idea that the Jews, you know, totally control the whole world and they,
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you know, they're the secret cabal out there in outer space or whatever, is this Palestine issue.
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It is kind of weird that you'd think that if the Jews completely controlled the whole world,
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they would button things up on the Palestine issue a little bit more, right? But what you hear
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from the media, what you hear from the academy certainly, now what you're hearing from artificial
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intelligence is that Israel's bad, Palestine's good, and the Palestinians deserve to have a nation
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state. It kind of complicates that idea. And when we're looking for the space lasers,
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we obviously now need to look to the Far East because we actually saw the Chinese space laser
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just the other day. It looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
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Now, speaking of foreign affairs, Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, the sort of
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Republican, Dick Durbin, the Democrat, they're at it again. They want to give amnesty to all the
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illegal aliens, or at least to many of them. They have proposed the DREAM Act. They've re-proposed
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the DREAM Act amnesty that would give green cards and eventually naturalized American citizenship to
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nearly 2 million illegal aliens. Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin, who have very powerful positions on
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the Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the plan that is now six years old, at least six years old. But
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this is a reintroduction of the plan from 2017. Graham says that the DREAMers, the DREAMers, not you,
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you don't have dreams. You're a nightmare. But these illegal aliens, they're the DREAMers.
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They represent, quote, a class of illegal immigrants that have much public support because
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they were minors brought here by their parents, and America has become their home.
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Ann Coulter makes a good point about this. When we are told to think about the DREAMers,
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we're told to think about these eight-year-olds, little boys and girls, doe-eyed, their whole lives
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ahead of them. They're just, it's not their fault. They're just dreaming. But because this problem is
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so longstanding, the DREAMers are like 50 now. Okay, the DREAMers, they're not so doe-eyed, okay?
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They've lived their lives. They've come here illegally.
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And the way that the pro-amnesty people present this is they say, well, what are we going to do?
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Are we going to deport 10 to 20 million people? We're going to deport them? What are we going to do?
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Get them, put them all on trains and take them down to Mexico? Probably not going to put them on
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trains now because the trains don't work anymore. But no, no, we're not. I don't think that we
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necessarily need to deport all those people. Would that it were so simple that you could just say,
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okay, every foreigner who's in America illegally, you got to get out. That's very difficult to happen.
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Politically speaking, it will not happen. Lindsey Graham has a point when he says they have some
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political support because of the image that has been painted of them. So that's true. But that doesn't
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mean that the only alternative is to give them amnesty. You know what the other alternative is?
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Keep things exactly as they are. That's the other alternative. Arrest these guys when they
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got caught committing crimes, speed up the process for deporting them when they commit crimes.
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And then for the rest of foreign nationals who are here illegally,
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don't give them any further foothold in America. The only reason that the Democrats want to give
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them amnesty is because statistically, they're much more likely to vote for Democrats. Even with
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the movement of certain Hispanic voters over to the GOP in certain places like Florida,
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even that's somewhat complicated. But even with those moves, the numbers just don't work out.
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If you give amnesty to all these people, the Democrats are going to win all the elections.
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Okay. I know Ronald Reagan said, the Hispanics are conservative. They just don't know it yet.
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That's true for some Hispanic people. But at a broad level, that isn't how it works. That has
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never been the case. We're still waiting. It's 40 years later. We're still waiting.
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This is a problem, not because Lindsey Graham is pushing amnesty. Lindsey Graham always pushes amnesty.
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Unless it's an election year, then he quiets down about the amnesty.
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This is a problem because Donald Trump, when he was launching his new presidential bid,
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he relied on Lindsey Graham at his rally in South Carolina as one of the big voices to say,
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there's no Trumpism without Trump. We need Trump again. And now Lindsey Graham is positioning
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himself as a big squish on immigration. This gives more and more of an opening to other GOP candidates
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who want to run. And just in the last day, the last two days, we have gotten three new candidates
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for the Republican nomination for president. First new candidate up for the Republican presidential
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nomination came out just moments before I started this show today. Former South Carolina governor,
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Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections.
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That has to change. Joe Biden's record is abysmal, but that shouldn't come as a surprise.
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The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.
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It's time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility,
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secure our border, and strengthen our country, our pride, and our purpose.
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Some people look at America and see vulnerability. The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite
00:24:54.000
history. China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around.
00:25:01.640
You should know this about me. I don't put up with bullies. And when you kick back,
00:25:06.920
it hurts them more if you're wearing heels. I'm Nikki Haley, and I'm running for president.
00:25:17.020
All right, we got Nikki in the race. We knew that she was going to run,
00:25:20.500
even though Nikki has a little bit of a problem in that she previously had said that if Trump runs
00:25:26.260
for president, she would not run. Nobody really believed that. Politicians say that all the time.
00:25:30.920
It seemed pretty clear that she was going to run. I know there are going to be a lot of
00:25:36.820
conservatives who say, not a chance. I think Nikki Haley's too moderate. I'm not going to vote for
00:25:41.260
her. The thing to remember, though, is the conservatives are not the only part of the Republican Party.
00:25:49.260
There are a lot of moderates in the Republican Party. There are a lot of right-leaning kinds of
00:25:53.340
people. And there is a push in general elections for more moderate candidates.
00:26:00.920
Most Republican nominees in the last 70 years have been pretty moderate.
00:26:13.800
Trump, not quite so much. But Romney, pretty moderate. McCain, pretty moderate. George W. Bush,
00:26:20.500
pretty moderate. Bob Dole, pretty moderate. George H. W. Bush, pretty moderate. Ronald Reagan,
00:26:25.620
more conservative. He was a little bit of an exception to that. Jerry Ford, pretty moderate.
00:26:31.080
Richard Nixon, a little more conservative, but pretty moderate. Barry Goldwater, not so moderate.
00:26:38.700
On social issues, actually, he was somewhat moderate. But Dwight Eisenhower,
00:26:43.840
the centrists are the rule when it comes to the nomination. And so I think that's probably what
00:26:50.960
Nikki Haley is seeing here. Nikki Haley is running, it would appear just from this ad,
00:26:55.820
a relatively conventional campaign. And I suspect that's a strategy. I suspect the strategy is we've
00:27:02.580
had a couple of very unconventional election cycles. People want to return to normalcy. That's why they
00:27:07.960
voted for Joe Biden, if they voted for Joe Biden, in 2020. And so we're going to give them a kind of
00:27:14.740
strong on national defense, cut the taxes, bring everybody together, sort of platform,
00:27:22.600
conventional kind of campaign ad, present yourself in a way that is warm and inviting. But
00:27:27.840
you can still claim some conservative bona fides. I'm not saying it's going to work,
00:27:33.620
but there is a lane for Nikki Haley. If people believe that there is not a lane for Nikki Haley,
00:27:39.320
I think you are totally kidding yourself. And I happen to like Nikki Haley personally very much. I
00:27:45.440
don't know how the field is going to shake out because the fact that she is entering into this race
00:27:51.840
is just one more data point to show you everybody's going to enter. I think I am probably going to be
00:27:58.280
the last even somewhat public conservative and Republican who is not running in 2024.
00:28:06.220
And really that's only because I'm constitutionally ineligible right now because I'm too young.
00:28:10.740
But everyone is going to get in, okay? Tim Scott announced that he is going to get into the race,
00:28:16.260
or at least it's being heavily floated by his team. This would be another example of someone saying,
00:28:22.240
I'm not going to run and then running. Tim Scott, when his memoir came out, I think it was last
00:28:28.120
summer. The publisher accidentally leaked that he was preparing for a presidential run.
00:28:33.680
And so that news leaked and Tim Scott said, no, I'm absolutely not. It's not happening.
00:28:37.900
Nobody believed that. We all knew that he was preparing a run and that has just been
00:28:41.820
leaking to the press again. And then a third person in the last 24 hours has floated that he's going to
00:28:47.920
run. This would be a buddy of mine from college, actually, Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek Ramaswamy
00:28:54.820
is a completely unconventional candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy is a entrepreneur. He's done very,
00:29:03.540
very well for himself. He's an extremely intelligent guy. And he would be running as a businessman,
00:29:09.660
as a guy who thinks a little bit outside of the box, as a guy who kind of in the Andrew Yang
00:29:16.920
slash Donald Trump kind of way, I think, in that he hasn't held public office before.
00:29:24.780
But do not underestimate this guy. This guy is very, very intelligent, very talented guy,
00:29:33.660
very motivated. Some people are going to write him off as a long shot candidate. I think that would
00:29:39.480
be a crazy thing to do, especially in this field. I personally think that it's wise for all of these
00:29:46.480
people to get in, and especially for Vivek to get in. If Donald Trump had cleared the field,
00:29:55.100
then he would be the nominee. If the race were Trump versus DeSantis, it would be a real shootout.
00:30:04.820
Maybe DeSantis would even have an advantage, at least in the polling, if you look at it right now.
00:30:09.140
But the fact that neither Trump nor DeSantis could scare everybody else off means that
00:30:18.080
it's going to be a 20-person field. That's just what it means. And in a gigantic field,
00:30:25.480
Trump actually has the advantage. If it were just Trump, that's good for Trump. If it were Trump
00:30:31.100
versus DeSantis, that's bad for Trump because it's a head-to-head. If it were Trump versus DeSantis,
00:30:35.560
versus Haley, versus Ramaswamy, versus Tim Scott, versus, I don't know, Mike Pompeo,
00:30:42.540
versus Mike Pence, versus maybe Ted Cruz, maybe who? All of a sudden, Trump has the advantage again.
00:30:48.100
And that's what you saw in 2016, where Trump was polling 30, 35 percent, but he just had a
00:30:53.780
plurality. He had more than the other people did. My favorite thing about this field, people are
00:30:59.100
always going to be trying to ask, well, who are you endorsing? You know, I try to make a point as
00:31:06.460
best I can not to endorse too much in primaries. But my favorite thing about this field is that
00:31:14.080
right now of the current and prospective candidates, I think most of them have endorsed my books.
00:31:21.820
That's the main thing that matters to me right now about the field.
00:31:28.000
Nikki, Mike Pompeo, Senator Cruz, I think there was one more, endorsed Speechless,
00:31:38.880
Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now, number one national bestseller.
00:31:41.460
Thank you very much. President Trump endorsed my first book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats,
00:31:47.560
a comprehensive guide, also available right now. I think I'm missing one or two. In any case,
00:31:51.820
though, this is really, really important. This is the main thing. Forget about the economy. Forget
00:31:55.180
about immigration. Forget about foreign policy. The main thing is right now we have a field that
00:31:59.180
is shaping up where a huge number of them have a really, really great taste in books. So I'm
00:32:05.620
very, very excited for the 2024 race. Now, getting back to people who are currently in the government,
00:32:15.100
who don't need to run for re-election at this very moment. Joni Ernst, Republican Senator,
00:32:19.720
is focusing in on not just the poison that's pouring out in Ohio, but an even more dangerous
00:32:28.900
campaign of national poisoning. And that would be the poison that is coming into our country from
00:32:34.300
China, which Senator Ernst says is very likely intentional.
00:32:40.360
Chinese are selling these precursor chemicals into Mexico. Then the Mexican cartels are working on
00:32:49.860
making the fentanyl and distributing up into the United States. So there are a number of activities
00:32:55.460
that we can engage with the Mexicans on. The flow of fentanyl into the United States and
00:33:01.120
the precursors to Mexico. Is this happening with the tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party?
00:33:07.280
Catherine, I believe it is. I think that the Chinese are intentionally poisoning America.
00:33:16.460
And it is a sad circumstance, but this is where we need to really focus with Mexico
00:33:21.920
on stopping those precursors. So you're getting the precursor drugs going in from China into Mexico,
00:33:30.120
and China is thereby poisoning America. Why? In part because the profit margins are just gigantic
00:33:39.140
on fentanyl, but probably the crisis is so bad that probably you know somebody who has overdosed
00:33:47.580
because of fentanyl. I do. If you don't, I guarantee you, you know somebody who knows somebody who has.
00:33:56.560
It's just everywhere. In fact, I realize I know multiple people in recent years
00:34:04.100
who have OD'd because of this crisis. But think about what Senator Ernst is saying here.
00:34:14.000
If we are correctly interpreting her implication,
00:34:18.460
if this is intentional poisoning of America, that is an act of war.
00:34:26.460
That is an act of war. But there are other factors as well beyond just China wants to
00:34:31.060
weaken the United States. Obviously, China wants to weaken the United States. China is aggressing.
00:34:35.020
China is flying ET over our country to look at sensitive military targets and intercept our
00:34:40.380
communications, which they don't even really need to do because they can spy on all of us from our
00:34:44.080
cell phones, which have TikTok on them. But it's a little more complicated. How is the fentanyl crisis
00:34:50.420
allowed to grow to such an extent? It's not just the Chinese. It's not just the Mexicans. It's not
00:34:56.720
just the cartels. It's us too. It's our weak and weakening drug laws. If we still had tough drug laws
00:35:05.720
in this country, you wouldn't see this fentanyl crisis. If this country were Singapore and we really
00:35:12.880
controlled our drug laws, you wouldn't see a fentanyl crisis. If this country were Russia,
00:35:16.840
don't forget about the whole Brittany Griner saga because she brought in some of the
00:35:19.840
Peruvian parsley into Russia. You would not see this kind of a fentanyl crisis.
00:35:25.780
This is a consequence of laws saying, oh, if you want to do this drug, that's fine. If you want to
00:35:33.280
smoke this recreationally, that's fine. You have a right to do that, actually. The government has no
00:35:37.340
right to tell you not to smoke this or do that. Yes, yes, the government does. Because we live in
00:35:44.340
a republic, at least nominally, and the government is supposed to comprise all of us. And we have a
00:35:49.100
right to say no to these things. I was speaking with a prominent politician yesterday who I hadn't
00:35:56.200
spoken with before. And we were discussing the youths and what the youths want, the young conservatives.
00:36:03.060
They said, what are you saying? I traveled all these college campuses. And one of the biggest
00:36:07.100
shifts that I see among young conservatives, compared to when I was a young conservative,
00:36:12.220
which was not all that long ago. I was in college about 10 years ago. And one of the biggest shifts
00:36:17.740
I see is back then, the young conservatives were extremely libertarian on all of these questions.
00:36:25.040
Probably wouldn't have even called themselves conservatives, many of them. Extremely libertarian,
00:36:29.080
especially on drugs, especially in the weird sex stuff. That has changed. I think that's changed
00:36:34.420
because of transgenderism. I think transgenderism was just a bridge too far. And people said, okay,
00:36:39.080
there is a limit to what people ought to be allowed to do sexually. Chopping off their
00:36:43.300
guleons is not something that we should tolerate. And I think the opioid crisis is probably a big part
00:36:48.380
of that too. You're seeing people drop like flies all around us. You say, okay, there is a limit
00:36:52.060
to the drugs that people should take. There is a limit to just permissiveness. There is a limit to
00:36:57.540
license. There is a limit to a politics that is based purely on procedure and doesn't talk about
00:37:01.700
substance. There is a limit to this abstract babbling about freedom floating somewhere in
00:37:07.040
the ether that needs to be put within the context of a substantive discussion. What ought we to be free
00:37:13.720
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that you did. Today is Tuesday. Today is Open Line Telephone Tuesday. And I get to hear from you in
00:38:21.160
your own dulcet tones in real life. And I get to answer your most pressing questions right now.
00:38:30.000
Hi, Michael. So in honor of St. Valentine's Day, I wanted to ask you just for fun,
00:38:35.180
if you could talk about how and when you knew that sweet little Alisa was the one. I also wanted to
00:38:41.700
ask for your favorite words of wisdom on marriage and romance for my husband and I. We are within our
00:38:46.740
first year of marriage and are expecting our first baby in April. Thank you so much.
00:38:51.940
All right. I love that. I especially love the, we're in our first year of marriage and the baby's
00:38:57.340
already coming. All right. I've got, I'm getting baby envy. That's great. I sort of wish,
00:39:01.960
you know, I'm glad you asked about my love affair with sweet little Alisa because one regret that
00:39:09.520
we have is we wish we had gotten married younger and then we could have started having kids younger
00:39:14.220
and then we wouldn't be so exhausted all the time because we, all those, all those nights that we
00:39:19.780
were out late at bars and things when we were 20 years old, instead we could have just been awake
00:39:24.740
with full, full of energy dealing with our children. So I'm, I'm very envious. You're doing it
00:39:30.940
totally right. How did I know sweet little Alisa was the one? We have a little bit of a strange story
00:39:35.200
or unusual by today's standards in that sweet little Alisa and I met when we were in, I think,
00:39:40.140
the fifth grade. We don't actually remember this meeting, but we were both in district orchestra.
00:39:45.960
We grew up roughly in the same town. Alisa was on the right side of the tracks. I was,
00:39:50.960
you know, from the wrong side of the tracks. It was a real West Side Story sort of situation.
00:39:54.040
And we were in the district orchestra together. And then we were in homeroom together in sixth
00:39:58.840
grade. And we, we went to middle school together. I had a crush, or Alisa, sweet little Alisa had a
00:40:05.000
crush on me in seventh or eighth grade, though I was dating the lead of the middle school musical.
00:40:09.200
It was, you know, very, very scandalous. It was the stuff of, of, you know, Shakespeare romances.
00:40:15.820
And then I had a crush on sweet little Alisa in the ninth grade. She was dating an upperclassman.
00:40:20.860
And that was very, very scandalous, tore my heart into shreds. And we finally started dating
00:40:25.300
properly in junior year of high school. And in, in the old days, we would have been told,
00:40:33.080
well, you got to stay together, maybe get married, but you got to stay together through college,
00:40:36.560
love will endure all. But because we grew up in this stupid modern culture, everybody around us
00:40:42.000
said, no, you got to break up. You have to break up for college. Don't stay together for college.
00:40:46.640
That's crazy. Everybody around us said this. The whole culture said this. We,
00:40:50.500
we just kind of grudgingly did it. And then we said, well, this is terrible. I don't,
00:40:54.980
you know, I don't want to date these other people. And then we got back together at the end of college
00:40:59.220
and, and then got married. So how did, how did I know sweet little Alisa was the one? I don't know.
00:41:02.820
I probably knew since like eighth grade and it was just the modern culture telling me, no,
00:41:08.220
you can't get married yet. You have to go through college and you have to date all these different
00:41:12.420
people and you need to go move to some city and you need to not ever consider love or marriage or
00:41:17.560
family until you've made enough money and you're in your career and only pursue your own interests.
00:41:21.720
So I think you're probably doing it a lot better than I did. And, and you should, you know, the,
00:41:27.320
the nice thing with mine and sweet little Alisa story is that it ends very, very happily. We have
00:41:33.140
just everything that we want, but, but that doesn't always for people. Sometimes people,
00:41:37.440
they listen to the modern culture and it totally screws up your life. Don't let that stupid
00:41:41.960
culture screw up your life and, uh, uh, best wishes for the birth of your first child, Margo.
00:41:48.000
All right. Next question from Steven in Alabama. Hello, Steven.
00:41:56.120
Hey, Michael. Um, yes, a big fan of the show. So I got a question for you. Um, we as conservatives
00:42:03.140
say that we believe that a value, a value of life inside the womb is equal to a baby outside the womb.
00:42:11.440
And I say we, because I believe that as well. Um, but we don't treat it that way. And I'll give you
00:42:18.440
an example. So if I was walking down the street and I had, um, somebody runs up to me and they're
00:42:23.700
like, Hey, somebody strangling a baby behind a dumpster. Right. I would feel a moral obligation
00:42:30.100
to use any means necessary to stop that person from strangling that baby behind that dumpster.
00:42:37.060
Um, and just to be clear, I'm not advocating for any particular action or anything like that,
00:42:41.960
but it just seems like a mental kind of disconnect between the idea that we believe
00:42:47.840
that those two things have the same amount of, uh, same amount of value, but we react in a different
00:42:54.540
way. It's a good question. The question taken to its logical conclusion is why don't we bomb
00:42:59.180
abortion clinics, right? Is basically what you're asking. And it's a, it's a real moral question.
00:43:04.100
I see, I see where the quandary comes from. The short answer to that is because the civil authority
00:43:09.960
has created this license for one of the most ghastly crimes that one could imagine, which is
00:43:16.520
the murder of babies. But we can't just write that off. We can't just write off that the civil authority
00:43:21.600
has tolerated this because we are obligated to respect the civil authority, at least to some degree.
00:43:29.060
So that's why, that is why we don't just go out and bomb abortion clinics. That is why
00:43:34.840
we don't react in exactly the same way as if, if you, if you were told that a baby one week before
00:43:41.820
being born is, is about to be murdered versus a baby one week after being born. Uh, even though
00:43:47.600
the baby is essentially the same person in both of those cases, this is why the reaction is different
00:43:53.460
because if, if we just went out and engaged in vigilantism all the time, one, it would, that
00:43:59.620
would not be a moral thing to do in and of itself because moral actions are not merely gauged based
00:44:05.820
on the consequences that they have there. We, we measure moral, the morality of actions based on
00:44:12.140
the action themselves. Uh, but, but also because in, in consequence, it, it would probably harm the
00:44:19.360
pro-life argument. It, it would not advance the cause of life. It would not persuade people to,
00:44:25.560
to overturn, uh, laws that permit abortion. Uh, but, but I, I feel you, I, I certainly empathize
00:44:33.400
with it. It is, it is essentially the same thing to kill a baby a week after he's born to kill a baby
00:44:38.520
before he's born is the same action. Uh, but because, because of this confounding factor that we live
00:44:45.640
in society and because there is a civil authority, uh, the, the political measures that, that one is
00:44:51.120
impelled to engage in as a result of that are different. And, and this is, this is a hard lesson
00:44:56.180
even for Christians because St. Paul tells us that the, the civil authority does not bear the sword
00:45:00.800
in vain. You know, the civil authority is put there by God for our good, that, that we have order and,
00:45:06.260
and law, the rule of law in society. But the problem is sometimes the law is deeply unjust. And so
00:45:11.460
what we have to do is, is change the law. And what we have to do is, is attempt to reconcile
00:45:18.140
the, the fallen, sometimes very, very fallen and broken, uh, laws that's reflected in civil life
00:45:24.500
with the eternal moral law. All right. Now, very, very good question though. Very good question.
00:45:30.100
Next question is from Kenneth in Montana. Hello, Kenneth.
00:45:37.940
I'm better now that I'm talking to you, Kenneth. How can I help you?
00:45:43.200
Yeah. Say, I, uh, wanted to make a comment on, uh, yesterday you said that UFOs aren't real
00:45:50.500
and you, and, uh, now I, I agree with you that there's no evidence that they are real,
00:45:58.560
but I, I go along with that, uh, universe is so big, but with me, it's, I feel vain.
00:46:07.920
Do you believe that I'm the only sentient being that God created in this giant universe that he
00:46:15.960
created? Why? Well, you're not the only sentient being, there are other sentient beings, but you,
00:46:22.080
you do appear to be the only incarnate being with a rational will. And so, so, I mean, you know,
00:46:29.180
a little mouse is sentient to some degree. He, he can perceive things around him,
00:46:33.400
that little mouse can feel pain. Uh, and angels and demons are, which, which ironically people do
00:46:40.340
believe in aliens today. They don't believe in angels and demons, even though for all of human
00:46:43.560
history, everybody believed in angels and demons and nobody believed in little green men. But I think
00:46:47.880
actually that's why we believe in aliens now is because the culture has given up on the reality
00:46:52.380
of spiritual beings like, uh, demons and, and, uh, angels. But the idea at least, whether you believe in
00:46:58.520
them or not, the idea of a demon and an angel is that these are pure spirit, you know, they're pure
00:47:02.920
intellect. They don't, they don't have bodies. Some things are pure body. They don't have any
00:47:07.620
intellect. My leftist here is Tumblr. Why is though the, the, uh, uh, implications of it is not
00:47:13.680
actually a conscious or sentient being, but you are, you're, you're both, you're corporeal and you're,
00:47:19.280
you're conscious and, and intelligent. So then you say, well, I just can't believe the,
00:47:24.920
the universe is so big. I just can't possibly be the only one to which I would ask. Why not?
00:47:34.360
Well, I mean, I know like we're, we're, we're God's favorite. We were created in his image.
00:47:42.120
And I mean, I guess, yeah, I mean, it could be that we're just, we're, yeah.
00:47:49.080
Cause this is my, when people say, well, it's, it's really, really big the universe and therefore
00:47:53.420
statistically, there's gotta be more life. I say, well, I guess that sort of depends on how
00:47:58.660
you think life begins. If you think that life is just a random chance that life begins from a purely
00:48:04.800
material process and, uh, therefore. Well, no, life is created by God. Exactly. So this is my point is
00:48:12.580
if you think that life is a very, very special thing, then there's no reason to believe that
00:48:18.560
life is commonplace. It doesn't matter how big the universe is. If it's a really, really special
00:48:23.480
intentional thing, then there's no reason to believe it's, it's really commonplace. If however,
00:48:27.520
as most, not as you believe, but as most modern people believe, if you think that life is just
00:48:31.580
this random thing that kind of bubbles up and it's just purely material and it's pure random chance,
00:48:36.180
then I guess you might believe that it, that it's likely that life exists elsewhere in the world.
00:48:40.720
But, but then my question always to the people who say that is, well, okay, tell me how life begins.
00:48:46.500
And they never can. You can get the fanciest scientist with the nicest white lab coat and
00:48:50.980
stethoscope. He's not going to tell you anything, which is, by the way, this is the wisdom of the
00:48:54.580
book of Job. When God says, where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me,
00:48:58.620
you have so much understanding. Tell me where you were. Tell me how it happened. And that's what I
00:49:02.780
want to ask all these modern liberal atheist people is, okay, you're so smart. Tell me, where were
00:49:07.620
you when God laid the foundations of the earth? How does life begin? Because unless you can answer that
00:49:11.580
question, then it's, it's completely meaningless to talk about the statistical likelihood that it
00:49:17.000
happened anywhere else. Really, really good point though, because I think that a lot of people,
00:49:22.200
and even at various points in my life, I would have been inclined to believe as you do, well,
00:49:27.200
the universe is so big. It's probably, there's probably life somewhere. But when you, when you
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