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00:02:42.600 cough. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:52.720 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sup Kiao, who says,

00:02:57.440 it's amazing how many people want to grill Michael for calling Jeffree Star a transvestite. He is,

00:03:02.840 while they don't even know what that means. That's true. A lot of people came after me yesterday

00:03:07.200 because I referred to that guy, Jeffree Star, as a transvestite. The conservatives were all

00:03:13.780 lauding because he's fine with transgenderism, but he says that non-binary pronouns, that's too far.

00:03:20.140 And I said, he's a transvestite. And if this is the new line, then conservatives are totally sunk.

00:03:24.320 We haven't conserved anything. He is a transvestite. He might not identify as transgender or whatever,

00:03:30.600 but I don't really use the word transgender all that much when I'm referring to a person

00:03:35.200 because there's no such thing as transgenderism because a man can't really be a woman or a woman

00:03:39.880 can't become a man. You know that I care a lot about words and I try to use precise language when

00:03:44.140 I can. There's a great book about that called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,

00:03:47.040 which is available now. You can order it. There we go. Transvestite just means you put on the clothing

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00:05:17.360 The side effects list in that COVID medicine commercial, it's like two-thirds of the commercial.

00:05:27.580 Now listen, my symptoms aren't that bad yet, because it's COVID, and it just doesn't get

00:05:31.920 that bad for pretty much everybody. But if it did get bad, I would take this drug that could kill me,

00:05:37.140 so that I have fewer aches for a few days. Speaking of medical malpractice,

00:05:44.320 a really big story coming out of Canada, speaking of transgenderism too, this is a story that we have

00:05:52.640 been calling for and predicting for years now, really since the transgender craze started,

00:05:59.100 and we're finally seeing it happen. A detransitioner is suing her medical providers.

00:06:06.160 A woman in Ontario who identified as transgender and underwent hormone therapy, a bilateral mastectomy,

00:06:14.660 and a hysterectomy, this woman had her womb removed, filed the first lawsuit in Canada

00:06:19.760 against her doctors for facilitating her transition, which is a euphemism for chopping up healthy people

00:06:26.340 who are suffering from delusions and mental illness, chopping up their healthy body parts

00:06:30.600 in order to indulge their disordered and destructive fantasies. That's what the doctors did.

00:06:37.340 It's not this woman's fault. People fall prey to delusions all the times. But doctors take the

00:06:42.060 Hippocratic oath, and doctors swear a vow first to do no harm. And what the transgender affirming

00:06:49.260 doctors are doing is a lot of harm. And this woman is recognizing this because she snapped out of

00:06:53.840 her craziness. And she said, wait a second, I'm not really a man. And what have you people done to me?

00:06:59.860 You've chopped off my body parts, and you've removed my womb, so now I can never have a child.

00:07:04.680 The woman's name is Michelle Zakina. She is 34 years old. She pointed out that these medical

00:07:13.380 professionals failed to address her complex mental health needs. I'm going to put a pause here for a

00:07:18.020 second because I would not be surprised if what I just said in the YouTube version of this show gets

00:07:24.200 cut out because YouTube has all sorts of rules about how you're supposed to talk about transgenderism,

00:07:29.320 and you're not supposed to refer to it as a mental illness, even though that's obviously

00:07:34.380 what it is. And so what happens is for the YouTube part of the show, sometimes they'll bleep it or

00:07:39.900 they'll put a censor bar or they'll say, you've got to go to dailywire.com because at dailywire.com,

00:07:43.800 we can say whatever we want. We're not going to be deplatformed by YouTube. We're not going to

00:07:46.820 receive any further strikes on our account on YouTube or the other platforms. But that's obviously what

00:07:52.000 it is. You don't need to take my word for it. That's what this woman is saying. The woman who

00:07:56.180 identified as transgender for a long time and had her breasts cut off and had her womb removed.

00:08:00.360 She is now saying, I had a mental illness and my doctors failed to treat my mental illness.

00:08:06.220 And now I've had much of my life destroyed because of it. She says, I will live the rest of my life

00:08:13.340 without breasts, with a deepened voice, with male pattern balding, and without the ability to get

00:08:19.700 pregnant. Removing my completely healthy uterus is my greatest regret. And so she's saying,

00:08:26.880 it's a regret that I have. She's taking some responsibility for falling into this. But she

00:08:31.400 shouldn't take all of the responsibility or even most of it. None of these transgender people are.

00:08:36.420 They've fallen into delusion. Maybe that's through the indulgence of vice. A lot of people get into it

00:08:42.060 because they're addicted to porn. Maybe that's because of certain psychological conditions that they

00:08:46.940 have. A major associated factor for transgender identity is autism that sometimes goes undiagnosed.

00:08:55.100 Or maybe it's because of any other number of host of mental problems that are associated with

00:09:00.220 transgenderism. The people that I blame are not the people who fall into it. The people that I blame

00:09:05.640 are the ones who indulge it. And especially the doctors who took an oath to do no harm. And they're

00:09:13.500 chopping out this woman's uterus. And they're severely damaging the rest of her life. I hope

00:09:18.040 she sues them for all that they're worth. I hope these medical facilities go totally bankrupt if

00:09:24.980 they're not first banned by the state. I hope these doctors lose their licenses. And I hope this is

00:09:30.180 totally banned for everybody as soon as possible throughout the West. This is a horrifying thing.

00:09:37.040 This woman is just the first really public victim to come forward in Canada and sue. I want to see

00:09:44.300 thousands and thousands of these lawsuits. I strongly encourage anybody who regrets being transitioned

00:09:50.760 to sue these people for all that they're worth. Especially people who are transitioned at a young

00:09:56.080 age, which is happening more and more and more. Teenagers, sometimes even younger. Which brings us to

00:10:01.120 an almost entirely different political issue right now. It's the war in Ukraine, which is really a proxy

00:10:07.880 war between Russia, which invaded Ukraine, and America, which has tried to deepen ties to Ukraine

00:10:15.040 and has encouraged Ukraine to apply for membership in the European Union and turn toward NATO for protection.

00:10:21.460 And has tried to oust some of the more pro-Russian leaders of that country. Now you've got a proxy war in

00:10:27.980 what was once a buffer state. Well, Vladimir Putin has just raised the stakes of the war because he's

00:10:34.880 choosing not to continue along with a major nuclear treaty. This is the New START treaty. He's saying that

00:10:44.580 he's going to suspend the New START treaty. Doesn't really bode very well for the war. And in a speech

00:10:50.700 in which he lambasted the West, he attacked the West specifically for the woke virus that it is

00:10:57.960 spreading around the world that Vladimir Putin says is threatening the children of non-Western states,

00:11:07.380 Russian children, and other places where the culture hasn't totally seeped in. I'll translate the

00:11:13.500 speech. Not from Russian, but I'll read the subtitles while he speaks.

00:11:18.400 And here they lie constantly. Perverts, historical facts, do not stop attacks on our culture.

00:11:28.000 The Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional religious organizations of our country see what

00:11:33.020 they do with their own peoples. This is in the West. The destruction of the family, cultural,

00:11:37.980 and national identity. Perversion, mockery of children, and pedophilia are declared the norm,

00:11:44.660 the norm of their life. And priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages.

00:11:55.500 God with them, let them do what they want. What do I want to say here? Adults have the right to live

00:12:01.040 as they want. We have always thought like this in Russia, and we always will. First of all, what?

00:12:05.860 Are you kidding me? No one will invade private life. We are not going to do this. I know we were

00:12:10.840 communists for like a hundred years, but forget about that. I added that part. But I want to tell

00:12:15.860 them, look at the holy scriptures, the main books of all other world religions. Everything is said there.

00:12:23.840 Including that the family is the union of a man and a woman.

00:12:26.420 We see people applauding and a number of Russian religious leaders out there. But these sacred texts

00:12:38.420 are now in doubt. As it became known, the Anglican Church, for example, plans to consider the idea of a

00:12:45.400 gender-neutral God. But the Russian accent is getting worse the longer this goes along. What can we say?

00:12:52.400 Forgive us, Lord. They know not what they do.

00:12:57.400 Millions of people in the West understand that they are leading to a real spiritual disaster.

00:13:07.400 The elites directly, I must say, go crazy, and it seems that they can no longer be treated.

00:13:13.400 Show me the lie there. But these are their problems, as I said. And we must protect our children.

00:13:19.400 And we will do this. Protect our children from degradation and degeneration.

00:13:24.400 I talked on the show yesterday about the most important aspect of good propaganda.

00:13:32.400 And coincidentally, now we're seeing Vladimir Putin, who's an excellent propagandist, exercise this.

00:13:37.400 Good propaganda is the kind that's true. And even if it's not 100% true, it's got a lot of truth to it.

00:13:46.400 There are a lot of things that Vladimir Putin is suggesting here that are not true.

00:13:49.400 He's suggesting that in the West, the Church blesses same-sex marriage. That isn't true.

00:13:54.400 That is true in some of the Protestant churches. That's not true in the Catholic Church, which is the Church of the West for 2,000 years.

00:14:00.400 But it's true in some Protestant churches. There's a fair bit of truth to that.

00:14:03.400 It's true that in the West now, the West doesn't really respect many aspects of private life.

00:14:08.400 Now, of course, Russia was the communist empire for much of the 20th century.

00:14:12.400 So I don't want to hear too many lectures about respecting private life from Vladimir Putin, okay?

00:14:17.400 But he's right about what he's saying about the West in many ways.

00:14:21.400 He's saying that in the West, there are policies encouraging the destruction of the family. That's true.

00:14:25.400 Russia has not been very successful at promoting the rebirth of the family.

00:14:29.400 But they have taken certain state measures to turn around their birth rate problem and encourage the family.

00:14:35.400 It's true. Now, Russia has a lot of other problems in that.

00:14:38.400 They allow all sorts of pornography and they promote, I think they even promote sort of underage pornography and all sorts of abusive, terrible stuff.

00:14:45.400 But what they're saying about the West, there's a lot of truth to it.

00:14:49.400 The degeneration, the degradation that's being pushed in the West.

00:14:52.400 That's a problem. He's saying we're going to protect our kids from that.

00:14:54.400 That's the kind of message that is going to resonate.

00:14:57.400 Very, very good propaganda.

00:14:59.400 And you can say, well, Vladimir Putin, you're misrepresenting your country.

00:15:02.400 Well, Vladimir Putin, you're misrepresenting your war aims.

00:15:05.400 Well, Vladimir Putin, you're a meanie and you're a terrible guy.

00:15:10.400 You can say all that. That can all be true.

00:15:12.400 But much, if not most, of what he is accusing the West of doing is true.

00:15:18.400 What are we going to do about it?

00:15:19.400 If we want Vladimir Putin to have less effective propaganda, we should probably stop encouraging the conditions that allow a lot of that propaganda to be true.

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00:16:41.400 Speaking of the war in Ukraine, a major incident in the presidential race in 2024 that a lot of people aren't talking about.

00:16:51.400 It's not that there's a new candidate, though there is a new candidate.

00:16:54.400 We'll get to that in a second.

00:16:55.400 Probably the biggest change in the 2024 race is that we have now, I think for the first time, gotten a foreign policy statement from the chief Republican rival to Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis.

00:17:09.400 Here's what Ron DeSantis thinks about the war in Ukraine.

00:17:12.400 They have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified.

00:17:18.400 And these things can escalate.

00:17:21.400 And I don't think it's in our interest to be getting into proxy war with China getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea.

00:17:30.400 So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they're trying to achieve.

00:17:37.400 But just saying it's an open ended blank check, that is not acceptable.

00:17:41.400 So, Governor, what does a win look like for us in Ukraine, for Ukraine?

00:17:46.400 Well, I think it's important to point out, I mean, you know, the fear of kind of Russia going into NATO countries and all that and steamrolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening.

00:17:58.400 I think they've shown themselves to be a third rate military power.

00:18:01.400 I think they've suffered tremendous, tremendous losses.

00:18:05.400 I got to think that the people in Russia are probably disapproving of what's going on.

00:18:10.400 I don't think they can speak up about it for obvious reasons.

00:18:13.400 So I think Russia has been really, really wounded here.

00:18:16.400 And I don't think that they are the same threat to our country, even though they're hostile.

00:18:22.400 I don't think they're on the same level as a China.

00:18:25.400 This is a masterful answer from Ron DeSantis, because don't forget, Donald Trump's greatest strength in the presidential race today is probably his foreign policy.

00:18:37.400 It was the most different from the other Republican rivals in 2016 and from probably most other Republican politicians today.

00:18:46.400 And it's the most effective foreign policy we've seen, certainly in my lifetime.

00:18:50.400 It's the most effective foreign policy, certainly since George H.W. Bush, maybe since Ronald Reagan, because Donald Trump was unpredictable.

00:19:02.400 The bad guys were not nearly as aggressive on Donald Trump's watch as they have been on the watch of other presidents.

00:19:09.400 Donald Trump scored major foreign policy wins.

00:19:11.400 Donald Trump brought a fair degree of peace to the Middle East, which people probably would not have guessed when he was first elected.

00:19:18.400 But he has a very strong foreign policy record.

00:19:21.400 And the GOP base is torn right now between the really bullish pro-war, go-in, glass Russia, take over Ukraine side, which is not as represented among the base.

00:19:34.400 But the GOP elites really like that idea.

00:19:36.400 And then the base and the more paleo-conservative and the more isolationist side, which says, why are we focused on Kiev when we've got a chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio?

00:19:46.860 People can't drink the water in their town, but we're focused on giving pensions to Ukrainians for what?

00:19:52.060 Give me a break.

00:19:53.860 And then you've got the more hawkish side in the GOP saying, no, if we don't go in and take over Ukraine, Vladimir Adolf Putin is going to conquer all of Europe.

00:20:05.320 He's not only the next Hitler, he's the next Napoleon, he's the next Genghis Khan.

00:20:10.580 We have to stop him now.

00:20:12.000 And how does Ron DeSantis handle this?

00:20:15.180 He says, the threat from Russia has been exaggerated.

00:20:20.700 There is not evidence that Russia is going to steamroll into Poland or Hungary or other places in the West.

00:20:29.620 Russia's been degraded.

00:20:31.140 Russia has been revealed to be not a very strong military power.

00:20:37.520 They are a nuclear power, so there is still some threat there.

00:20:40.120 It's a very good answer.

00:20:41.920 It's a very good answer for Ron DeSantis.

00:20:44.140 We'll see how that keeps up.

00:20:46.920 Talk is cheap, of course, and Trump has the advantage of having had an actual foreign policy.

00:20:50.940 It's not DeSantis' fault.

00:20:52.060 Florida just doesn't have a foreign policy.

00:20:53.580 We will see now how consistent Ron DeSantis can be in his foreign policy.

00:20:59.640 As for Trump, Trump, because he's already pretty squared away in the foreign policy stuff, he can focus on matters at home.

00:21:07.560 And that is where Donald Trump really, really shines.

00:21:11.140 So Joe Biden flies over to Kiev to pal around with Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.

00:21:16.120 And Donald Trump says, I'm going to East Palestine, Ohio.

00:21:21.200 In fact, Trump has made such a fuss about this.

00:21:23.880 I believe he's going to East Palestine today, so we'll see more from the rally later on.

00:21:28.560 He's made such a fuss about this that I think at least Pete Buttigieg and probably Joe Biden are going to have to make a visit as well.

00:21:36.280 So Trump's most distinguishing characteristic from the high-level perspective of the candidates is probably the foreign policy.

00:21:44.620 That's why you're seeing the GOP candidates trying to figure out exactly how to thread that needle.

00:21:48.980 But where Trump shines the most is when he goes to the Rust Belt, when he goes to blue-collar places,

00:21:54.020 when he goes to the forgotten man, the flyover country, the bitter-clinging, Bible-thumping, deplorable, irredeemable people that the Democrats and the elite Republicans hate.

00:22:04.300 When he goes there and he speaks to their concerns and he breaks away from the free-trade orthodoxy, globalization orthodoxy,

00:22:15.420 outsource everything and flood the country with foreigners orthodoxy that took over not just the leftist institutions,

00:22:21.260 but even the right-wing think tanks and elite institutions on the coasts.

00:22:26.280 When Trump contradicts that, that is where he shines.

00:22:28.880 That is a big break from the rest of the GOP, which has now been remade in Trump's image.

00:22:36.700 He, I suspect, is going to do very, very well in Ohio.

00:22:39.920 Now, the other thing that distinguished Trump is that Trump was not a career politician.

00:22:43.300 He's a businessman.

00:22:45.000 There is another businessman candidate in the race, just announced his run for president yesterday.

00:22:49.500 That would be my friend Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:22:52.520 The things that used to fill that void, like faith, patriotism, hard work, and family, have disappeared.

00:23:11.400 We now embrace one secular religion after another, from COVIDism to climatism and gender ideology,

00:23:19.700 to satisfy our deeper need for identity.

00:23:23.000 Yet we cannot even answer the question of what it means to be an American in the year 2023.

00:23:28.400 This isn't just a political campaign.

00:23:30.540 This is a cultural movement to create a new dream for the next generation of Americans.

00:23:35.440 And this time around, it isn't just about money.

00:23:39.380 It's about the unapologetic pursuit of excellence in our country.

00:23:45.100 This is a great message.

00:23:47.400 This is a really, really great message.

00:23:49.820 Vivek opens up the announcement with talk about Martin Luther King and I Have a Dream,

00:23:55.260 and the sort of stuff that people have heard before.

00:23:56.880 So you might start to think, all right, this is going to be a regular old Republican talking points campaign.

00:24:01.680 But notice how quickly he shifts it.

00:24:03.500 And he says, I'm running a campaign about American identity and who we are.

00:24:13.380 He's focusing on culture.

00:24:16.280 He's focusing on religion.

00:24:17.300 He says, we've got to do away with the climate religion.

00:24:19.120 I really like that phrase.

00:24:20.800 That's what it is.

00:24:21.700 It's the climatism, the green people, not the little green men from outer space that everyone said was flying over Montana the other day.

00:24:30.440 But the green movement that worships Mother Gaia, that is a false religion.

00:24:35.840 We've got to get away from that.

00:24:37.720 What are we going to go back to?

00:24:39.020 He says, there, I've got faith in God.

00:24:40.520 Okay, that's going to be a traditional religion.

00:24:42.300 What's our identity?

00:24:44.180 He says, our identity is not going to be just about money this time.

00:24:47.380 That's an amazing, amazing statement.

00:24:50.060 Because the Republican talking points for 30 years have been, hey, do whatever you want.

00:24:53.420 Believe whatever you want.

00:24:54.820 Behave however you want.

00:24:56.620 Just don't make me pay for it.

00:24:59.800 Veig saying, nope, none of that.

00:25:01.620 What are we going to pursue instead?

00:25:02.680 He says, we're going to pursue excellence.

00:25:05.280 That is a very, very traditional conservative idea.

00:25:11.680 Excellence.

00:25:13.500 Maybe in the ancient Greek, arete.

00:25:15.740 This idea that we want to pursue not just maximal individual autonomy, but excellence in all of our fields.

00:25:24.820 That we perhaps want to pursue virtue.

00:25:27.040 That we want good stuff, more good stuff, less bad stuff.

00:25:31.060 That's a very compelling campaign message.

00:25:34.920 And I know some people are saying, oh, this guy, Veig.

00:25:37.140 Who is he?

00:25:37.900 Is he just the Andrew Yang of this cycle?

00:25:39.940 Does he really know what he's talking about with politics?

00:25:41.900 I told you when there were first rumblings that Veig might run for president.

00:25:45.640 I said, this is a very serious guy.

00:25:47.000 I know him.

00:25:47.820 I've known him for quite a long time.

00:25:50.280 And this guy's very intelligent.

00:25:53.540 This guy has a clear vision.

00:25:55.140 He is not just some joker vanity candidate running.

00:25:58.780 He is going to run with a purpose.

00:26:01.760 And as he said there, he said it's bigger than one candidate.

00:26:04.260 Most of the time when politicians say that, I think it's just BS.

00:26:07.480 It's actually all they really care about is their own aggrandizement and power.

00:26:12.660 Veig is offering something here.

00:26:13.820 We'll see how the campaign goes.

00:26:14.940 This is the first day of the campaign, basically.

00:26:18.480 Very impressive launch, especially for a candidate who comes really out of left field.

00:26:23.560 Not leftist field, but comes out of left field.

00:26:25.360 Comes out of the blue.

00:26:26.320 People were not expecting this guy to run.

00:26:28.960 An auspicious start to his campaign.

00:26:33.420 Now, speaking of auspicious moments, I'm very excited.

00:26:37.680 I'm hopeful.

00:26:38.200 I'm looking forward to the future because I will get to hear from you on Friday in the voice mailbag.

00:26:44.960 The way to submit a question in the voice mailbag is you go to thedailywire.com.

00:26:48.460 You click on my show page.

00:26:50.680 You go down to the mailbag.

00:26:52.920 And you click the button, submit a mailbag question.

00:26:55.360 It's going to pop up with an email screen.

00:26:57.420 What you do then is you just attach your audio file.

00:27:00.060 You can record your audio file on your computer.

00:27:01.800 You can record your audio file on your phone.

00:27:03.560 You can record it on a cassette player.

00:27:04.920 I don't really care.

00:27:06.000 Somehow, get this digital file to be less than one minute.

00:27:10.100 Attach it to the email.

00:27:11.000 Send it in.

00:27:11.460 And then I will get to hear your mellifluous voice on the show on Friday.

00:27:17.340 So you got a bunch of Republicans running for president.

00:27:19.040 They're all running, at least ostensibly, against Joe Biden.

00:27:23.920 And Joe Biden is not looking great.

00:27:27.420 You saw the contrast.

00:27:28.420 The Republicans are focused on Ohio.

00:27:30.120 Joe Biden's focused on Kiev.

00:27:31.620 Joe Biden flew to Kiev just the other day.

00:27:34.260 Took a lot of big photo ops with Vladimir Zelensky.

00:27:38.580 And even as Joe Biden was walking out, you heard an air raid siren going on.

00:27:43.640 Here's our intrepid president walking out in a war zone.

00:27:46.500 It's pretty crazy because Joe Biden doesn't seem totally stable or safe when he's walking

00:27:50.240 out on the lawn of the White House.

00:27:51.800 But now he's flying into this war zone with air raid sirens.

00:27:54.740 Wow, this is pretty cool, man.

00:27:56.740 Look at Clint Eastwood over here.

00:27:58.780 Except one could not help but have the impression that the whole scene was staged.

00:28:05.300 And it's not just me saying that.

00:28:06.600 It's not just the conservative.

00:28:07.640 It's not just the conspiracy theorist, tinfoil hat wearing people.

00:28:12.380 Even CNN admitted the whole scene looked a little bit sus.

00:28:17.240 I've been here for the past five days.

00:28:19.360 I have not heard any explosions.

00:28:21.440 I have not heard any air sirens until about half an hour ago, right when President Biden

00:28:27.300 was in the center of Kiev.

00:28:29.660 So CNN doesn't make the accusation that CNN's Alex Marquardt, he says, look, I'm not making

00:28:37.780 any accusations, but I've been here for five days.

00:28:40.480 I haven't once heard an air raid siren.

00:28:43.160 And the only air raid siren I've heard just coincidentally happens when Biden walks out

00:28:48.300 the door with Vladimir Zelensky.

00:28:49.640 As I mentioned the other day, you know I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

00:28:55.760 I am simply a coincidence noticer.

00:28:58.500 And that is pretty pathetic.

00:29:00.360 It reminds me of Hillary Clinton saying that when she landed in Bosnia, she landed under sniper

00:29:05.740 fire.

00:29:06.520 She was in a war zone.

00:29:07.500 It was just total BS.

00:29:08.540 It's the same thing for Joe Biden as well.

00:29:12.060 It's a deception and not a very persuasive one.

00:29:14.340 Speaking of deception, your regularly scheduled update on white women pretending to be ethnic.

00:29:27.640 This from the New York Post, a progressive activist, Raquel Evita Saraswati.

00:29:37.100 She is a Muslim progressive activist.

00:29:40.620 She is an Arab woman.

00:29:42.760 She is a Latina.

00:29:45.140 She has made this ethnic identity part of her activism for 20 years.

00:29:51.880 And it turns out, you're going to be shocked to hear this, she's just a regular white lady.

00:29:58.160 Raquel Evita Saraswati, 39 years old, was just outed by The Intercept for pretending to be

00:30:05.160 South Asian, Latina, ayayay, and Arab.

00:30:10.280 She spoke to Boston.com in 2004 about her upcoming wedding, saying she wanted to do something to

00:30:18.040 respect her Arab and Latin culture.

00:30:20.880 Actually, her name is Rachel Elizabeth Seidel.

00:30:24.600 She's referred to in that article as Raquel Evita Seidel.

00:30:30.640 I guess she's dropped the Seidel.

00:30:32.360 Now she's Saraswati.

00:30:34.280 And her mother, Carol Peroni, says that it's all BS and her family is white as the driven snow.

00:30:42.760 I call her Rachel.

00:30:44.100 I don't know why she's doing what she's doing.

00:30:45.960 I'm as white as the driven snow.

00:30:47.460 And so is she.

00:30:48.880 I'm German and British.

00:30:49.880 Her father was Calabrese Italian, which, to be fair, is a racially liminal group of people.

00:30:55.020 I happen to be Calabrese as well.

00:30:57.100 She's chosen to live a lie.

00:30:58.520 And I find that very, very sad.

00:31:00.800 What is Saraswati's job?

00:31:04.180 Do you think she's a truck driver?

00:31:06.100 No.

00:31:06.980 Do you think she's an electrician?

00:31:08.500 No.

00:31:09.140 She is, of course, the chief equity, inclusion, and culture officer of a Philadelphia-based group,

00:31:17.600 the American Friends Service Committee, which is a leftist Quaker group that fights violence,

00:31:23.760 inequality, and oppression.

00:31:26.720 She's the latest Rachel Dolezal.

00:31:28.320 But there have been many Rachel Dolezals since then.

00:31:30.360 Lots of white women, usually women, pretend to be other ethnic groups.

00:31:38.600 Why is that?

00:31:40.440 Because exhibit Z, exhibit number 10,576, that white privilege does not exist.

00:31:54.100 It does not exist, certainly, as our culture pretends that it exists.

00:31:57.120 You don't get special social points for being white.

00:31:59.900 In fact, white people are the only group in our culture that one can legally discriminate against

00:32:05.820 and socially insult, exclude, ostracize, where it's actually encouraged by our culture

00:32:13.380 to attack white people.

00:32:15.080 And so, white people are pretending to be other races.

00:32:20.420 It's just basic incentives.

00:32:22.080 The proof of the pudding is in the tasting.

00:32:23.440 You don't see many, if any, black people pretending to be white people.

00:32:31.040 You don't see many Arab people or Middle Eastern people pretending to be white people.

00:32:36.360 In fact, in the U.S. census, Arab and Middle Eastern people used to be classified as white.

00:32:42.540 Then there was a movement over the last 10 years to reclassify that group as Middle Eastern and North

00:32:47.800 African, Mina, Linda Sarsour, the leftist activist, was one of the people pushing this.

00:32:54.380 Why was she pushing this?

00:32:55.520 If there were a privilege associated with being white, don't you think that the people who were

00:32:59.640 already lumped in as being white would want to remain white?

00:33:03.260 They're not doing that, though.

00:33:04.480 Why?

00:33:05.100 Because being white is the only group with which there is not a social privilege associated.

00:33:09.400 So, they're trying to be some other group.

00:33:12.800 And yet, if you went out and you polled 100 people on the street in New York, San Francisco,

00:33:18.060 Chicago, Washington, D.C., if you polled any CNN watchers, so I guess you'd have to go to the

00:33:23.200 airport for that, and you said, hey, which group is the most socially privileged?

00:33:29.360 You would hear a lot of people say, oh, it's white people.

00:33:32.500 It's white people.

00:33:33.040 It's the opposite of reality.

00:33:34.280 So often, we can just be hypnotized by the popular culture.

00:33:40.400 But this is the proof that it's all BS.

00:33:42.760 Speaking of privilege, speaking of white privilege, a gang member in L.A. is a Korean guy.

00:33:50.740 This Korean guy comes with his family to America as a kid.

00:33:55.540 He then joined a gang and committed murder, and then he went to a prison for that.

00:34:01.760 And now, he's being deported.

00:34:04.280 Because he got out of prison, which is absurd.

00:34:06.480 The guy committed murder.

00:34:07.500 He should, at the very least, be in prison for the rest of his life.

00:34:11.140 But, okay, fine.

00:34:13.120 Let's say it were a legitimate reason for which he was granted some clemency here, some mercy.

00:34:20.200 He was allowed out of prison.

00:34:21.120 He is being deported.

00:34:21.900 He's not an American citizen.

00:34:23.500 He is a gangster and a murderer.

00:34:26.100 And so, he's being deported.

00:34:27.260 This is being reported in the New York Times, or I'm sorry, the L.A. Times, as a kind of a sad story.

00:34:32.180 This guy, Justin Chung.

00:34:37.080 Justin Chung was brutally honest, admitting that it took him years to feel remorse.

00:34:42.160 He wanted to share his complicated journey, and he was rallying support for another fight.

00:34:46.900 Because of the murder he committed when he was 16, he had lost his chance to apply for a green card.

00:34:51.820 He's on the verge of being deported to South Korea, the country he left as a two-year-old.

00:34:56.020 Especially being Korean, I do want to be private for my family, said Chung, 33.

00:35:01.220 But I have to fight.

00:35:02.960 I have to do something before I get deported.

00:35:06.880 No, you don't.

00:35:07.840 Just go away.

00:35:09.420 Go away.

00:35:09.900 You're very, very lucky that you were allowed out of prison because of the Democrat policies of people like Gavin Newsom.

00:35:16.640 You're very, very lucky that you were not executed when you committed that murder in cold blood.

00:35:20.580 But when he committed that murder, he was in a gang.

00:35:24.060 He thought he was killing people of a rival gang.

00:35:26.060 He just didn't like the cut of their jib or the kind of clothes they were wearing.

00:35:28.620 So he went to murder them.

00:35:29.480 And it turned out the people that he murdered were not in any gang at all.

00:35:33.200 They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

00:35:35.360 And this cold-blooded psycho murdered them.

00:35:39.640 So now he's getting deported.

00:35:41.760 And now that's the sob story.

00:35:44.140 That's the sob story.

00:35:45.060 That is how much our culture favors immigrants, the foreigners, the people who they look different, they sound a little different.

00:35:56.300 That's how insanely our culture favors them is that they can come here, literally commit murder, and they're still the sympathetic characters in the story.

00:36:06.940 You remember when Donald Trump in 2016, he said, my followers love me so much I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't lose a single vote.

00:36:14.140 And the left used this line.

00:36:15.820 They said, oh my goodness, this is cultish behavior.

00:36:18.300 This is horrible.

00:36:19.180 Can you imagine what a terrible country we're living in where that sort of statement can be true?

00:36:23.320 Well, it's not exactly true of Trump.

00:36:25.580 His followers are pretty loyal, but he was exaggerating for comic effect.

00:36:30.140 That is true when it comes to the libs in immigration.

00:36:33.080 They could literally murder people.

00:36:35.360 They do regularly murder people.

00:36:38.300 And the libs will not lift a finger to do anything about it.

00:36:41.540 In fact, they will lift a finger to try to stop these poor put-upon murderers from being deported.

00:36:49.720 Speaking of murderers in prison, great story coming out of Miami.

00:36:55.400 Reported in the Miami Herald, headline, held without charge, a Miami inmate's unborn child asks court for release in odd case.

00:37:05.600 What's the story?

00:37:07.600 Well, an attorney, William N. Norris, filed an emergency writ of habeas corpus, which allows the court to determine whether someone's imprisonment is lawful.

00:37:17.320 They say this lawyer is speaking not on behalf of his client who's committed murder, but of an unborn child.

00:37:25.860 I'm sorry, allegedly committed murder.

00:37:28.340 But rather, it's on behalf of an unborn child who, he says, has not been charged with any crime by the state.

00:37:34.420 Further, the state has placed the unborn child in such inherently dangerous environment by placing the unborn child in close proximity to violent criminal defenders.

00:37:42.100 The child's mother, 24 years old, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder while she was six weeks pregnant.

00:37:50.900 So now there's two people being held in this jail.

00:37:53.800 And the lawyer is saying, well, on behalf of one of my clients, that person's being held without a charge, and that would be the unborn baby.

00:38:02.280 I love this case.

00:38:04.100 This is a real post-Dobbs case.

00:38:06.640 This is a case that shows, it's probably going to be laughed out of court, but it shows a major shift.

00:38:14.840 Now that Roe v. Wade has been overruled, now that Planned Parenthood v. Casey's been overruled, people are beginning to talk about babies in the womb as actual babies.

00:38:23.760 And they're not just doing it from places of sincerity or because their minds have been changed.

00:38:27.780 They're doing it from places of opportunism, looking at how the law is now treating unborn babies, which is fine by me.

00:38:34.160 Either way, I just want the babies to be treated as babies.

00:38:37.920 Now, of course, this is absurd.

00:38:40.240 And the reason it's absurd, though, is not that the baby is not really a baby.

00:38:43.640 The reason it's absurd is that the baby is not primarily an individual.

00:38:49.120 The reason this legal motion is absurd is because none of us are primarily individuals.

00:38:54.980 Man is a political animal.

00:38:56.820 Man is a social animal.

00:38:58.300 That was the wisdom of Aristotle.

00:38:59.660 That was the wisdom that animated the political philosophy of the West.

00:39:04.160 And only in recent years, around the Enlightenment into modernity, did some of the liberal thinkers start to say, no, no, no, man's not a social political animal.

00:39:12.080 Man's an individual.

00:39:13.100 And we're all just atomized individuals floating in the ether.

00:39:15.460 And we've all gotten much more miserable since that time.

00:39:19.760 The baby cannot be separated from the mother.

00:39:23.000 Man is a social animal.

00:39:24.080 If the mother murders somebody and goes to prison, the baby is going to have to go to prison, too, at least for nine months.

00:39:30.100 That's another political truth that we're going to have to learn or relearn.

00:39:36.660 We're going to have to relearn that man is not simply an individual floating in outer space.

00:39:41.380 We're not born primarily with rights and entitlements.

00:39:43.420 As individuals, we are actually born with duties and responsibilities to our family.

00:39:47.960 We're born into that social context, into the context of a township, into the context of a state, into the concept of a nation.

00:39:53.100 And into that whole political community, and we do have something to do with one another.

00:39:57.420 That's the lesson that we're going to have to start learning now.

00:39:59.280 But I love that we've learned that first lesson, and we're learning it pretty well.

00:40:02.960 Babies are, in fact, people.

00:40:05.080 Absolutely love it.

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00:40:57.060 Speaking of young people, it's a story from last week, but I do want to get to it.

00:41:00.980 The DOJ has announced that it won't charge Matt Gaetz, Republican congressman, with any crimes.

00:41:06.100 You might recall that there was a big scandal.

00:41:08.140 People thought not only was Matt Gaetz going to get run out of Washington, D.C.,

00:41:11.040 but he was going to wind up in an orange jumpsuit because they accused him of sex trafficking.

00:41:15.040 Not just any sex trafficking, underage sex trafficking.

00:41:17.440 And they accused him of this because apparently Matt Gaetz is a single guy and likes to hang out with women.

00:41:23.220 And I guess one of these women may or may not have been underage at the time, and maybe it was in a different state.

00:41:29.700 And anyway, there were all these allegations.

00:41:31.820 They were trying to portray Matt Gaetz as a pedophile.

00:41:36.000 They were trying to portray Matt Gaetz as Jeffrey Epstein, you know,

00:41:40.080 the guy that the Democrat elites all hung out with for years and years and years with total impunity.

00:41:44.060 They were trying to portray Matt Gaetz in that way.

00:41:47.080 And ultimately, it appears not to have worked all that well from the legal perspective.

00:41:51.640 Because the DOJ has confirmed to Matt Gaetz's attorneys that their investigation has concluded,

00:41:58.580 and he will not be charged with any crimes.

00:42:02.020 Okay, does this exonerate Matt Gaetz?

00:42:04.300 Should he settle down and get married and stop hanging out with lots of girls?

00:42:07.320 Yeah, he probably should do that.

00:42:08.600 It doesn't exonerate him on the personal level, I guess.

00:42:11.780 But it certainly exonerates him on the legal level.

00:42:15.720 And that's very, very important.

00:42:18.800 One, it's important for the separation of powers.

00:42:21.100 If the DOJ, if some executive agency, can go around arresting members of Congress willy-nilly,

00:42:27.080 that becomes the norm.

00:42:28.220 That's a big problem for the separation of powers in our country.

00:42:31.280 Then it's just the executive agencies and the bureaucracy runs the whole government.

00:42:37.500 And the legislature, the duly elected representatives, and the judges, and everybody else is just

00:42:41.540 subservient to them, not the way the Constitution is supposed to work.

00:42:45.200 So it's good that Matt Gaetz is not being charged.

00:42:49.620 But it's not a total win for Gaetz.

00:42:51.620 It's not a total win for Republicans.

00:42:53.720 Because the libs basically got what they want.

00:42:57.340 Matt Gaetz was tried in the court of public opinion.

00:42:59.100 Matt Gaetz had all of these insinuations leveled against him.

00:43:04.960 The very fact of being under investigation for this kind of stuff,

00:43:07.740 with all kinds of leaks and all sorts of naughty implications coming out of it,

00:43:11.880 really damaged this guy's political career.

00:43:16.000 He's never going to get that stain off of him.

00:43:19.020 Does he bear some responsibility for that?

00:43:20.600 I suppose so.

00:43:21.360 But this was also a political operation.

00:43:23.620 This was also an attack by the libs.

00:43:25.080 They didn't need to get him.

00:43:26.400 They didn't need to put him in that orange jumpsuit in order to get him, in order to severely damage him.

00:43:35.000 This is what they did to Trump for years.

00:43:37.400 With Trump, they said for years, oh, he's maybe colluding with the Russians.

00:43:41.220 We're going to have to investigate that.

00:43:42.820 Oh, he maybe cheated in 2016.

00:43:45.000 We're going to have to investigate that.

00:43:46.120 We're going to need a special counsel.

00:43:47.120 Oh, he maybe has this crooked deal.

00:43:49.540 Oh, we've got to investigate, investigate, investigate.

00:43:52.720 And then what did they have?

00:43:53.460 They had nothing.

00:43:54.240 Oh, we got a kick in his door at Mar-a-Lago.

00:43:56.080 He's got secret documents.

00:43:57.920 Apparently nowhere near the number of secret documents and nowhere near the number of places

00:44:01.460 that Joe Biden had next to his Corvette and his Chinese-funded fake think tank at Penn

00:44:06.800 and all these other places.

00:44:09.020 No, Trump, maybe he was selling the nuclear codes.

00:44:11.440 We don't know.

00:44:12.120 And so they don't ever charge him with anything because they don't have anything on him.

00:44:14.680 But the very fact that they can make these insinuations is damaging enough.

00:44:19.320 That is a political operation.

00:44:20.860 And they could do it to anybody.

00:44:22.540 They could do it to anybody who crosses them.

00:44:27.340 Think about the data that they have on you, all of the surveillance,

00:44:30.580 every naughty thing you've ever looked up online,

00:44:32.920 every impolitic email or text message you've ever sent.

00:44:37.480 That's in a surveillance state such as we have.

00:44:41.020 That means it's all available.

00:44:42.220 They're not going to go after you now.

00:44:43.300 They probably, unless you're a criminal,

00:44:45.560 they probably don't have things where you've actually violated the law.

00:44:48.960 But they can embarrass you.

00:44:50.380 They can harm you.

00:44:51.340 They can, that's a lot of power being wielded by a bureaucracy that is mostly unaccountable.

00:44:58.480 Speaking of cultural power, this is a story that was trending yesterday on Twitter.

00:45:03.180 I didn't know how much interest it would be to the public at large,

00:45:06.820 but it's a great deal of interest to me.

00:45:08.500 And it actually does have some pretty deep political implications.

00:45:11.920 That's a story relating to the Catholic Church.

00:45:14.400 There's a big fight in the Catholic Church over the Latin Mass.

00:45:18.080 Some Catholics, myself included, like to go to the Old Mass, which is in Latin,

00:45:22.420 but there are a lot of different things about it compared to the New Mass.

00:45:25.420 Yes, it's in Latin, but the priest is facing the altar.

00:45:28.540 There are many more prayers.

00:45:29.740 It tends to be much more reverent and respectful and traditional.

00:45:33.940 And the symbolism tends to be much richer.

00:45:37.260 And so a lot of Catholics, especially young conservative Catholics,

00:45:42.660 especially the ones who believe the teachings of the Church,

00:45:46.820 especially the ones that are having lots of kids,

00:45:48.580 especially the ones that are returning to the faith,

00:45:51.840 they tend to prefer that Latin Mass.

00:45:53.540 And the New Mass that came about 50 years ago, roughly,

00:45:57.820 is being promoted by a lot of liberal boomers in the church.

00:46:02.740 That's kind of the main constituency.

00:46:04.420 And you go to those churches, those parishes,

00:46:07.160 where they've got the New Mass in English,

00:46:09.280 with not just in English, but the priest is facing the people,

00:46:11.980 and he's yucking it up during the homily,

00:46:13.440 and there's a mariachi band in the corner,

00:46:15.000 and they've got clowns dancing up and down the aisle.

00:46:16.960 I'm only half exaggerating with that one,

00:46:19.020 and it's all really sappy,

00:46:20.800 and it basically looks like a rock opera from the 1970s

00:46:26.180 that wasn't cool even then.

00:46:27.960 Unfortunately, a lot of the time,

00:46:29.260 that's what the liturgical abuse looks like.

00:46:30.940 So young people are drawn more toward orthodoxy,

00:46:35.440 tradition, reverence, smells and bells,

00:46:37.680 lifting your eyes up to heaven,

00:46:39.100 not a liturgy that is more worldly,

00:46:42.360 not a liturgy that is more casual,

00:46:45.160 not a liturgy that is less respectful.

00:46:49.740 The Pope is clamping down on this,

00:46:51.580 and he just issued an edict yesterday

00:46:54.000 that would essentially ban the Latin Mass

00:46:57.940 for all intents and purposes

00:46:59.060 in most diocesan churches around the country.

00:47:02.620 And one of the big promoters of this,

00:47:05.300 a liberal Catholic writer,

00:47:07.880 Massimo Fagioli, tweeted out,

00:47:11.600 he said,

00:47:11.860 the absurd situation is that while the USA and Russia

00:47:14.880 are moving toward the brink of nuclear war,

00:47:16.660 the Vatican has to deal with liturgical wars

00:47:19.340 within the Catholic Church.

00:47:21.280 I thought, hold on, has to?

00:47:22.340 What do you mean has to?

00:47:23.760 They don't have to do this.

00:47:25.380 The Vatican and certain liberals in the Vatican

00:47:27.280 are picking this fight

00:47:28.240 to attack the relatively small number

00:47:30.640 of people who attend the traditional Mass.

00:47:34.280 Though there's a lot of growth there,

00:47:35.720 and it's young people,

00:47:36.360 and they're very energetic,

00:47:37.060 and they're very vibrant

00:47:38.040 compared to some of the more ossifying elements

00:47:42.080 of the Church.

00:47:43.980 He says, no, they have to do this.

00:47:45.520 I don't think they have to do this.

00:47:47.740 They're choosing to do this.

00:47:49.000 But they're choosing to do this for good reason.

00:47:51.420 And this is where we can all learn a political lesson,

00:47:53.520 whether you're Catholic or not,

00:47:54.440 whether you go to church or not.

00:47:56.020 The political lesson is

00:47:57.460 that liturgy really matters.

00:48:01.400 Liturgy, by which I mean

00:48:02.940 the way that we enact our worship.

00:48:06.680 The getting down on our knees,

00:48:08.460 and the smells and the bells

00:48:11.280 and the way that we pray

00:48:13.620 and what we pray to

00:48:16.460 and the modes of our behavior

00:48:19.640 really, really matter.

00:48:22.880 There's a Latin expression,

00:48:23.980 lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.

00:48:27.280 The way that we worship

00:48:28.120 will affect the way that we believe.

00:48:31.360 It's not just that the way we believe

00:48:32.580 affects the way that we worship and behave.

00:48:34.380 It's the way that we act

00:48:35.600 will actually affect our opinions.

00:48:37.840 And that will, in turn,

00:48:40.280 affect the whole way that we live our lives.

00:48:45.160 When a kid in a school

00:48:46.740 stands up before school

00:48:48.820 and says the Pledge of Allegiance,

00:48:50.300 that is going to inculcate

00:48:52.420 a spirit of patriotism in him,

00:48:54.620 a love of his country.

00:48:57.140 I guess it's explicit

00:48:58.480 you're pledging allegiance to your country,

00:49:01.040 but more it's implicit.

00:49:03.100 The fact that you're standing up for the flag,

00:49:05.200 the fact that you're putting

00:49:05.960 your hand over your heart,

00:49:07.940 the fact that you are imbuing

00:49:09.340 the symbol of the flag with meaning.

00:49:11.240 What's the symbol represent the country?

00:49:12.500 You're going to love that country.

00:49:13.820 If you don't love your country

00:49:16.000 and you want to teach a whole generation

00:49:18.100 not to love the country,

00:49:20.940 yeah, you can teach them

00:49:22.720 other history books.

00:49:24.760 Yeah, you can lambast them

00:49:26.900 with all sorts of diatribes

00:49:28.800 against America and George Washington

00:49:30.360 and all the rest.

00:49:30.840 They do that too.

00:49:31.480 But probably the most effective way

00:49:33.640 you're going to do it

00:49:34.280 is just don't have them say

00:49:35.900 the Pledge of Allegiance anymore.

00:49:37.980 Just take that flag out of the classroom.

00:49:39.980 If it's in the classroom,

00:49:40.900 disrespect it.

00:49:42.820 Just have them not

00:49:44.080 take any of these things seriously.

00:49:46.840 Because we're corporeal beings.

00:49:49.560 We're incarnate.

00:49:50.660 So we live in time and space.

00:49:53.720 And the things that we do with our body,

00:49:56.080 the things that we do with our time,

00:49:57.880 that's going to affect

00:49:59.460 the way that we believe.

00:50:00.300 If you devote a lot of your time

00:50:01.780 to God, to prayer,

00:50:05.900 you're going to be more religious.

00:50:09.080 You are going to believe more deeply.

00:50:12.080 That's going to affect your life much more.

00:50:14.200 If instead you say,

00:50:15.240 look, I believe in God,

00:50:16.060 I believe in religion,

00:50:17.020 but I spend all my time

00:50:18.400 just playing video games

00:50:19.600 or eating potato chips

00:50:20.680 or going to the movies,

00:50:22.360 you're going to be less religious.

00:50:23.940 You're going to be more focused on that.

00:50:25.660 That's what culture is.

00:50:26.960 Culture and cult

00:50:27.660 come from the same root word.

00:50:29.460 What the culture worships

00:50:32.580 is going to define that culture.

00:50:34.440 And what does the culture worship?

00:50:35.680 Well, you know the tree by its fruit.

00:50:37.260 You know the pudding from the tasting.

00:50:40.780 How many more metaphors can I use?

00:50:43.000 What are we doing?

00:50:46.160 Very smart stuff

00:50:47.480 from the liberals in the Vatican.

00:50:49.360 If they want people

00:50:50.560 to disregard

00:50:51.660 some of those old teachings

00:50:53.420 that have only persisted

00:50:54.580 for 2,000 years in the church,

00:50:55.840 if they want people

00:50:57.000 to turn away

00:50:59.640 and adopt

00:51:02.280 even new religious practices,

00:51:03.820 new religious beliefs,

00:51:04.720 the way to do it

00:51:05.580 is not to write

00:51:07.940 some long encyclopedic entry

00:51:09.860 or some long essay

00:51:10.920 or some long book

00:51:11.680 about why they should believe

00:51:13.520 what they should believe

00:51:14.020 in some rational argument.

00:51:15.020 No, just change the way they behave.

00:51:17.020 Change the way they worship.

00:51:18.480 You want people

00:51:19.120 to worship a different,

00:51:20.220 you want people to have allegiance

00:51:21.160 to a different kind of country?

00:51:22.380 Well, change the pledge.

00:51:24.000 Change the flag.

00:51:24.700 Change the symbols.

00:51:25.700 Change the behavior.

00:51:26.800 Change the parades.

00:51:27.780 Change the marches.

00:51:29.620 Change the hand over your heart.

00:51:30.800 That will do it a lot more

00:51:32.120 than some rational argument will.

00:51:33.740 Okay, speaking of prayer,

00:51:34.900 it's Ash Wednesday.

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