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00:00:00.000 According to the ABC News affiliate in Pittsburgh, Senator John Fetterman just sent a letter to

00:00:05.380 the CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway, urging the company to help residents of Darling Township.

00:00:11.620 According to the Pittsburgh Capital Star, Senator Fetterman just introduced legislation in the

00:00:17.020 Senate aimed at preventing future train derailments like the one we saw in East Palestine.

00:00:23.340 But in reality, Senator Fetterman did neither of those things, because for the past two weeks,

00:00:29.060 he's been isolated in a psych ward, allegedly for depression, as he has struggled to recover

00:00:34.540 from a major stroke. It is troubling that some staffer, one presumes, has appointed himself

00:00:41.580 senator in Fetterman's place. It's even more troubling that the establishment media would

00:00:47.440 publish this kind of propaganda, this absurd, without even so much as asking, hmm, how did

00:00:54.600 Senator Fetterman do all those things from his hospital ward? But the most troubling

00:00:59.160 thing of all is that a U.S. senator can fail to function, can remove himself from the government

00:01:04.820 entirely. That a U.S. president, for that matter, can fail to function. And somehow, the presence

00:01:12.100 or absence of those people has no effect on the way the government is run. I'm Michael

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00:03:25.800 Doesn't seem to be a lot of Democratic oversight going on right now in Pennsylvania, or rather in

00:03:33.900 the U.S. Senate regarding the senator from Pennsylvania. Assuming John Fetterman is not

00:03:40.320 actually doing anything from his hospital room, then who's introducing this legislation?

00:03:47.340 If John Fetterman can't carry out the duties of a senator and it's no knock on him, the guy should

00:03:51.640 have been allowed to recuperate from his stroke, then he needs to resign. And we need a new senator.

00:03:58.540 And the people of Pennsylvania ought to know that. People of the whole United States ought to know

00:04:03.380 that. But increasingly, we are seeing a turning away from Democratic oversight, particularly among

00:04:10.880 Democrats. There was a woman who went viral yesterday. She's an Arizona teacher explaining

00:04:18.480 why parents should have no right to control the books that are on the curricula that their kids

00:04:23.660 are being taught. This involves a bill called SB 1700 would require the Arizona Department of

00:04:29.500 Education to maintain a list of books that public educational institutions may not use or make

00:04:35.120 available to students. Now, before people start whining about book bans and book burning and

00:04:41.620 we need to allow all books, you know that that isn't true. First of all, the most important book in our

00:04:46.980 whole civilization is currently banned in schools. You're not allowed to teach the Bible in schools,

00:04:51.120 which is absurd. But there are plenty of books that are banned in schools or that have been banned

00:04:56.220 that should be banned. Pornography, you're not allowed to have a huge porn collection in schools.

00:05:00.840 Well, at least you weren't until recently. Now, actually, woke teachers are smuggling in specifically

00:05:05.260 gay porn. So this bill says you're not allowed to have lewd or sexual books, books that promote

00:05:10.500 gender fluidity or gender pronouns or groom children or normalized pedophilia. And this bill,

00:05:17.240 I'm just quoting from the text of the bill, by the way, grants parents the right to request removal

00:05:21.560 of the school district or charter school library or classroom materials, extends public review periods

00:05:28.100 for library materials and district textbooks, and removes exceptions from district curriculum approval

00:05:33.120 and school library access requirements. Really pretty basic stuff. Parents have the right to not

00:05:39.840 have their kids exposed to weird, creepy porn and pedo stuff in the schools, in the public schools

00:05:45.040 that they're funding. Seems pretty normal, right? One teacher says absolutely not. Parents have no

00:05:49.780 right to do this because some parents don't even have a master's degree.

00:05:55.540 I have a master's degree because when I got certified, I was told I had to have a master's degree

00:06:01.040 to be an Arizona certified teacher. We all have advanced degrees. What do the parents have?

00:06:08.380 Are we vetting the backgrounds of our parents? Are we allowing the parents to choose the curriculum

00:06:14.480 and the books that our children are going to read? I think that it's a mistake. I'm just speaking

00:06:20.260 from the heart. The one line that I love is, we must remember that the purpose of public education

00:06:27.000 is not to teach only what parents want their children to be taught. It is to teach them what society

00:06:33.680 needs them to be taught. We have master's degrees. What do these parents have? Right reason and proper

00:06:43.400 perception and a good formation and a rational will and love for their children. But they don't even

00:06:50.020 have a master's degree. I do not wish to demean anybody's educational accomplishments or credentials

00:07:00.080 or whatever. These degrees mean nothing. They mean nothing. A master's degree means nothing.

00:07:10.020 A bachelor's degree now means nothing. A PhD still in many disciplines still means something,

00:07:20.620 I guess, but in some disciplines actually not that much. There are plenty of very smart,

00:07:26.980 good, normal people with master's degrees. Listen, some of my best friends have master's degrees,

00:07:32.320 okay? But it doesn't mean anything. And the fact that this woman got her master's degree because she

00:07:40.720 needed that to get this job as a teacher working to peddle this crazy left-wing agenda means that it

00:07:47.660 means even less than it ever did. What are we really talking about here? Once you get past all the

00:07:55.220 credentialism and all the bureaucracy and all the layers that the state has established to mold your

00:08:03.360 children's minds, the question is, hey, what should your kids learn? And if the lady with the master's

00:08:11.460 degree says your kids should be taught gay porn in the fifth grade, then that does not speak very highly

00:08:17.660 of the credential. But this is what they say. They say, if you don't have the special credential,

00:08:21.840 then you don't get to have a say about how your kids are raised, how your government is conducted,

00:08:26.340 what your immigration policy is, what the foreign policy is, nothing.

00:08:32.260 The state of education is pretty sorry right now. I was having a conversation with my friend Spencer

00:08:38.400 Clavin just a couple of nights ago, and Spencer knows a thing or two about education. He has a PhD,

00:08:44.680 one of those with the PhD, who's one of the good ones. And Spencer Clavin mentioned a clip to me,

00:08:50.680 and he said, Michael, you have to see this clip. It is so sad, but not sad in the way that everybody

00:08:57.600 else is saying. It's sad.

00:08:59.540 I think like the biggest thing that like annoys me in like the whole dating world is like

00:09:06.100 talking stages. Like that's so annoying. Like the whole like, and just like the inconsistency

00:09:12.460 in them. Like I literally like hate that like so much. But I think that's like my biggest thing

00:09:16.440 is just like, what specifically? Just like the fact of just like, you like, I don't know how to word

00:09:23.260 this. Like in like talking stages. And it's just like, you're like labeled that. And it's like,

00:09:27.800 people like are considered like, you can't like, you're just like confused. And like,

00:09:32.920 most of the time, like the girl get, but gets like attached or something. And they like see it,

00:09:36.880 like it's going to lead to a relationship. And it's always not. And it's just like,

00:09:41.680 that's like my biggest thing is like, I just hate the whole like how like talking stages are so

00:09:45.660 like normalized, like traditional dating does not exist in this generation.

00:09:49.100 So the reason people think this is really sad at the first layer is because of what this young

00:09:56.500 woman is describing, or at least attempting to describe, which is that women get used in this

00:10:02.700 hookup culture, which now is referred to as talking stages. Like one would say euphemistically,

00:10:08.780 oh, we're not dating, we're talking. And what are the talking stages? Sort of like rounding first

00:10:15.160 base, second base, that would probably be the old way to talk about it. But now,

00:10:19.100 there's not even a sense that so-and-so is my girlfriend, so-and-so is my boyfriend. It's just,

00:10:23.920 oh yeah, we're talking, we're doing this, we're doing that. You know, you don't really know there's

00:10:28.120 no commitment here. And so she's lamenting this. And so that's sad. The somewhat deeper reason that

00:10:33.620 people are saying that this is a very sad clip is because the woman is not the most articulate.

00:10:42.240 So people are kind of making fun of the woman for speaking this way. I am not making fun of her.

00:10:46.780 She seems like a perfectly nice girl. She's describing a serious problem, and she's doing

00:10:52.580 it as best she can. And if she is a person under the age of 50 in America, then she has had probably

00:11:00.020 a pretty crappy education, and that's not her fault if she's not totally articulate.

00:11:04.600 The deepest reason, though, that I think this is a really sad clip is that one line there where she

00:11:10.640 says, I don't know how to say this. I don't know how. And this woman is using the same

00:11:15.620 five or six words for the whole clip. And she's struggling. There's something that she wants to

00:11:21.800 express that she can't express because she doesn't know the words to use to express the thing that she

00:11:27.800 is perceiving and feeling. That's what's so sad. And it's an issue that I talk about all the time.

00:11:34.140 It's the point of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available.

00:11:39.500 There we are. We have it. If you can't articulate a problem, you can't solve the problem.

00:11:48.020 Language establishes the limits and contours of our thought, of our consciousness,

00:11:56.100 of the way that we perceive and conceive of the world. Not just what we think, but what we even

00:12:04.420 can think. I'll give you a great example of this that I was thinking about just the other day

00:12:08.080 in the Italian language. There is no word in Italian for privacy. When Italians talk about privacy,

00:12:17.340 they just say, la privacy. Abbiamo bisogno della privacy. They use the English word,

00:12:22.760 which tells you a lot about the Italian culture. It tells you something serious about the Italian

00:12:27.800 culture, which is that Italians don't value privacy in any way and never have.

00:12:31.840 So if they're going to refer to this concept, they refer to it as a foreign concept and they use

00:12:35.320 a foreign word. If your culture doesn't have a word for privacy, then your culture is not going

00:12:39.680 to have privacy. The fact that the liberals control our language, they do their best to shape our

00:12:46.700 language and make us use stupid pronouns and tell us we can't say all sorts of words. The reason they do

00:12:51.300 this is not just because they're scolds. The reason they do this is not because they're neopuritans,

00:12:56.020 not entirely at least. The reason they do this is because they know that if they take certain words

00:13:00.960 out of our vocabulary and they twist the meaning of other words, it's going to completely warp the

00:13:05.720 way that we view the world. We won't even be able to express our dissatisfaction and our objections

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00:14:50.220 symbols, my man over in El Salvador, Naib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has another great

00:14:58.220 propaganda video out. We played earlier this week a propaganda video from the El Salvadoran president

00:15:03.440 of all these MS-13 gangsters just being hauled around this giant prison like insects looking so

00:15:11.760 weak, so humiliated. Then there was an answer video to that. The kind of complimentary video to that

00:15:17.620 was the president addressing the army troops who have rounded up all these gangsters. And it was bright,

00:15:23.620 and it was inspiring, and he was talking about God, and it was great. Now we've got another propaganda

00:15:27.880 video. It's a propaganda video of the president sending these gangster prisoners to go destroy

00:15:36.320 tombstones that have MS-13 symbols on them. I love this video. You see their MS right there on a tombstone,

00:15:45.200 and you'll see too the symbolism of Santa Muerte, all this occult, demonic, downright satanic

00:15:52.600 symbolism, which has always been associated with MS-13. MS-13 has a deeply satanic element to it.

00:15:59.720 And so what does the president do? He not only destroys their monuments, these occult, criminal,

00:16:07.040 gangster, satanic monuments. He has the gangsters do it themselves. He forces them to do this.

00:16:15.320 Is this authoritarian? I guess. As I've said before, I don't really know what that word means.

00:16:23.640 As far as I can tell, the word authoritarian is just the word to describe one's political opponents.

00:16:29.960 Whenever we do something in politics, that's good. That's wonderful. That's very liberal. That's

00:16:36.520 great. But when our opponents do something in politics, that's always authoritarian. So sure,

00:16:40.680 call it authoritarian. This is my kind of authority, baby, because the president in El Salvador is the

00:16:46.320 legitimate civil authority. He inherited this massive problem where there was a rival power.

00:16:52.780 The rival power to the duly elected government is the gangsters, these absolute devils who rape,

00:17:02.020 kill, pillage, and burn. And so what does the president do? He says, we're going to get rid of

00:17:05.780 their power. And not only are we going to round them up, and not only are we going to cut off

00:17:09.420 their commerce, we're going to humiliate them, and we're going to destroy their symbols and their

00:17:16.840 gravestones. We are going to desecrate everything about these people because there's nothing sacred

00:17:22.020 about what they're doing. Everything they do is sacrilegious, in fact. Really important.

00:17:28.860 And the squishes don't quite get this. The squishes are the kinds who will say, oh, who cares

00:17:34.280 whether you call a man he or she? Who cares? Let's talk about something important, like taxes.

00:17:42.340 Come on, let's talk about something that really matters, like the deficit or whatever. Who cares

00:17:48.160 if we call a man he or she? Well, the libs care. That's why they spend so much time focusing on it.

00:17:54.460 And they care because symbols matter. Symbols might be the most important thing in politics

00:18:02.820 because symbols are how we communicate with one another. Symbols are what binds a community together.

00:18:09.800 If someone comes in and controls all the symbols, changes all the symbols to better jibe with their

00:18:17.340 political program, then they're going to control the political order. So Bukele knows it's not enough

00:18:23.720 to just round up the physical criminals. You've got to change the symbols too. And that changes

00:18:31.560 the meaning of our political communities. Hershey's showed this just yesterday. Hershey showed this

00:18:39.340 with the Her4She campaign. Her4She campaign was for International Women's Day. And what Hershey did

00:18:50.020 was they went all feminist, but there was a twist on it. They went feminist and then cast a man

00:18:58.620 dressed as a woman in the role of the woman for International Women's Day.

00:19:03.620 My name is Faye Johnstone. I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action. We can create a world where

00:19:11.060 everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves. See the woman changing

00:19:17.380 how we see the future at Hershey's Canada. I know. I know. Everyone knows. It's so offensive in

00:19:28.400 every way to every group, it seems. It's so offensive that you know it crossed Jeremy's mind.

00:19:39.000 Right? You know. Actually, some of you tweeted it at us. You said, this company, I just want to eat my

00:19:43.820 chocolate, but this company is just rubbing my face in this stupid, not only woke feminist ideology,

00:19:50.420 but this woke trans feminist. You know it crossed Jeremy's mind, but you probably thought, there's no

00:19:59.380 way, there's no way that Jeremy would actually launch a chocolate company. If he did, there's no way that he

00:20:10.220 would do it on the very day that Hershey's launched the trans campaign, right? Well, just because we

00:20:19.200 launched Jeremy's razors after Harry's canceled conservatives, took on Disney with hiring Gina

00:20:24.140 Carano after they canceled her, sued the federal government over the vax mandate and won. People

00:20:29.760 think that we can just take on every woke company when they make these ridiculous statements. Of course

00:20:34.320 we can't do that every time. Or can we? You might be thinking, how could you have launched a chocolate

00:20:43.280 company in one day? Well, they don't call him the God King for nothing. Don't wait. Pre-order your

00:20:47.020 Jeremy's chocolate now at ihatehershey's.com. That is ihatehershey's.com. Get your he, him,

00:20:55.780 and she, her chocolate bars today. Yet another way to stop giving your money to woke corporations

00:21:00.460 that hate you. Back to Hershey's for a second. Hershey's made an error here, I think, and irritated a

00:21:15.140 lot of the customers. But they exposed something that a lot of people don't understand about the

00:21:22.580 way our culture works. A lot of people believe that the problem that our society faces is that we put

00:21:28.920 too much value on our bodies, on material goods, on the stuff of this world. We deny the soul. We deny

00:21:35.300 metaphysical morality. We deny everything, right? No. What this Hershey's ad and transgenderism

00:21:44.920 broadly, what it shows you is that increasingly we think the body doesn't matter at all. Increasingly,

00:21:52.880 we live our lives digitally. Increasingly, we live our lives on our phones or in the metaverse or

00:21:59.900 online internet forums. And so we don't think the body matters. We think it can all be, we Zoom,

00:22:05.820 we Skype, it's all digital. We work from home. No, this is where the meme of go touch grass comes from.

00:22:12.140 People saying, go put down the screens. Go outside. Go do something. Go do something in the real world

00:22:15.760 with real people in real time and space. Because if we live our lives as though the body doesn't

00:22:22.160 matter, we're going to come to think that the body doesn't matter. Lex Arandi, Lex Credendi.

00:22:26.580 If we live our lives just like couch potatoes plugged into the matrix where we do everything digitally,

00:22:33.180 then not only are we going to accept trans ideology, we're going to accept all of it.

00:22:37.900 Even if we don't want to, because belief follows our behavior and the rituals that we engage in.

00:22:44.580 No surprise here from Hershey's, but it's something that we should all watch out for.

00:22:49.460 We need some accountability. Remember that word? We were taught to have it from a young age,

00:22:53.480 or we should have been. But if we weren't, then we think the world revolves around us. And that's

00:22:57.580 not healthy for anybody, as we are witnessing every day. But don't take my word for it. Listen to this

00:23:01.920 clip from Jordan Peterson's new five-part series, Vision and Destiny, only on Daily Wire+.

00:23:07.880 It's unpopular children who say, oh, well, the game is only going to be the one I want to play.

00:23:14.380 And those children, other children just move away from. They alienate and isolate them instantly,

00:23:20.160 and they go look for other play partners. Those kids are no fun. And it's because they're

00:23:25.980 too insistent that their subjective state dominate the social space. And that's exactly what's

00:23:32.840 happening on the identity politics front. It's like, well, I feel I'm this way, and you better

00:23:37.460 treat me like that or else. It's like, you are a bad little kid. You're a kid that never learned how

00:23:43.460 to play. And you're being fostered in your juvenile delusion by your narcissistic, virtue-signaling

00:23:51.280 parents who aren't sensible enough to help you guide yourself towards the establishment of

00:23:56.840 identity that would allow you to be appreciated by other children.

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00:24:10.960 Vision and Destiny. Speaking of the weird transgender stuff, another video went viral yesterday, which I

00:24:19.880 wish I didn't have to subject you to, but I'm sure you saw it somewhere else anyway.

00:24:24.040 From a family-friendly drag event in the United Kingdom called Kabababareve. It is, according to the

00:24:37.640 advertisement, an exciting new event for parents and their babies. Babies. Not 18, not 16, not wait till

00:24:48.180 eight. Babies and toddlers. A little slice of afternoon delight that provides show-stopping

00:24:54.120 cabaret interspersed with captivating baby sensory moments ending in a rave. Here it is.

00:25:02.960 So it's a guy dressed up in fetish bondage type gear with stiletto heels on all leather,

00:25:10.860 dangling his mostly naked body around on leather ropes. Then a guy who is almost entirely naked wearing

00:25:17.720 a thong. This is in front of little toddlers, little babies. He's got some kind of feather boa

00:25:24.280 on. He's got a weird, that's really unpleasant to look at. All these kids there. There's a little

00:25:31.040 toddler crawling up. Another one of these people, another one of these perverts just sort of dancing

00:25:36.640 around. And the parents there too. I don't know how you can watch this and not conclude that the

00:25:46.220 performers are pedophiles. I don't use that word lightly. I know a lot of people on the right use

00:25:50.800 that word and they fling it around and they use it imprecisely. I don't see how you can dance around

00:25:55.860 in a thong or in a leather harness in front of babies and toddlers if you are not a pedophile.

00:26:01.540 So I would bet, if not the farm, I'd bet a lot of my money that that's the case and that's being

00:26:07.520 normalized. I don't see how these parents should be permitted to keep their children. They're abusing

00:26:13.560 their children. They're sexually abusing their children by taking them to these events.

00:26:16.940 I don't see how whatever company is hosting this should be allowed to keep its doors open.

00:26:21.580 All of this should be shut down by the heavy hand of the state. All of these people, other than the

00:26:26.680 children, should be arrested. And some of them should face pretty severe consequences. That all

00:26:31.980 goes without saying. When the conservatives said that the drag queen reading hour for all the little

00:26:37.180 kids, all these weird drag queens who really, really are gung-ho about spending time with a lot of

00:26:41.880 really, really little kids, when they said that those guys might be pedos and creeps and sexual

00:26:46.720 abusers. And then at drag queen story hour, a number of them turned out to be convicted child

00:26:51.460 molesters. Wow. Surprise, surprise. Everybody said, this is being normalized. This is being normalized.

00:26:59.000 And that's true. This is a slippery slope. Of course, the conservatives are always right about

00:27:03.120 the slippery slope. We've never been wrong. We've never once been wrong. When we say, golly,

00:27:08.120 what they're doing now, in five years, it's going to be X, Y, or Z. We've never once been wrong about

00:27:12.760 that. Sure. A lot of conservatives are reacting to this clip with shock and surprise. I am not.

00:27:24.280 I am not shocked. I am not surprised. I always assumed this was the end of it. I've said for many

00:27:31.180 years, this was the end of it. And the slippery slope is obviously going to lead here. I'm not surprised

00:27:35.340 at all. And I'm not even surprised from a historical perspective. Think how far we've

00:27:42.360 fallen. Back in the good old days, we never would have had these perverts doing weird sex stuff with

00:27:45.980 kids. But now, because of this modern era, now this is the first time ever that perverts have done

00:27:50.960 weird sex stuff with and to kids. No, not at all. I'm not shocked by that either. It is not shocking

00:27:57.400 when perverts do weird sex stuff in front of and for and to and with and from and around kids.

00:28:07.300 That's not what's shocking. What's shocking is when they don't. That's the exception. When they don't,

00:28:13.540 that's the nice, happy break from the rule. All sorts of pagan cultures and backward societies

00:28:21.360 around the world have done all sorts of creepy sex stuff with each other, with adults, with kids.

00:28:28.120 They've practiced human sacrifice. They've practiced cannibalism. They've done all sorts of crazy stuff.

00:28:32.660 That's the rule for humanity. The exception, the happy break from that is what we call civilization,

00:28:40.300 specifically Western or Christian civilization, which said, no, not going to do that stuff anymore.

00:28:45.840 You're not going to kill people and sacrifice them to the gods. You're not going to do your weird,

00:28:52.180 creepy, sexual occult rituals. You're not going to do your weird demon performances where you pretend

00:28:58.100 to be not only the other sex, but even these mythical creatures and dress up with horns on your head and

00:29:03.400 all this. None of that. That's gone. Sorry, no more. And if you do that, we're going to punish you

00:29:10.760 because that is not good. If you do that because you have this deep feeling that you're the opposite

00:29:16.600 sex, we're going to get you the psychological help you need. If you start doing creepy, weird stuff with

00:29:20.500 kids and we're going to punish you for that. Make sure you don't do that again.

00:29:25.800 And now that's weakening. And as Christian civilization has declined, as the role of Christianity

00:29:32.900 and our Western traditions has declined in our society, what have we seen arise in? We've seen

00:29:37.940 arise in abortion, which is child sacrifice. There is no difference between what those ancient backward

00:29:44.080 pagan people did and what we do. Our society slaughters children on the altar of our false gods.

00:29:51.760 Today, we call it career or money. In some cases, they call it Satan overtly, witchcraft covens and all

00:29:57.600 the rest of it. But often we use secular terms to describe, it's just the same thing. All the weird

00:30:03.260 gender bendy stuff, totally pagan. All of the bizarre sexual rituals, totally pagan. No difference.

00:30:16.100 People who complained about Christianity, oh, it's repressive. Oh, it's patriarchal. Oh, it's,

00:30:23.560 I don't know, whatever people say.

00:30:27.620 Even if you're not a Christian yourself, you're going to miss Christian civilization

00:30:31.020 if it's gone, if it's ever gone. I like to think it won't be gone. Christianity will never be gone.

00:30:35.660 But Christian civilization very likely will pass, at least for some period of time.

00:30:41.860 And you are going to miss it when it is gone, I promise you.

00:30:47.900 You know, speaking of the weird sex stuff, I've got to get to, there's just one story I want to get to

00:30:51.400 before the mailbag, which is a guy, his name is Julio Cesar Bermejo. He's a Peruvian man, 26-year-old.

00:31:01.020 Who owns a mummy. He's got this 800-year-old mummy. And he keeps the mummy in a food delivery bag.

00:31:08.340 And he calls the mummy his spiritual girlfriend. And says the mummy's name is Juanita. And he was

00:31:14.800 in for a big surprise. He was discovered having a picnic with his mummy. The mummy with whom he

00:31:19.700 sleeps every night. Takes care of the mummy. He says, it sleeps in my bedroom with me. There's my bed.

00:31:26.060 The TV set next to it. There's Juanita. I take care of it. It's like, if you'll pardon the expression,

00:31:30.600 as if it were my spiritual girlfriend. And so he was in for a big surprise because the authorities

00:31:35.020 took the mummy when they found it. And they did an analysis of it. And it turns out Juanita was more

00:31:41.580 likely Juan. It's a male mummy. I don't know if this is causing any psychological trauma for Julio Cesar

00:31:49.220 Bermejo. I assume he's got other psychological problems here. The question I have for all the

00:31:54.920 people who object to the social and cultural conservatives, obviously the libs, but even the

00:32:02.060 squishes on the right, even the people who say, oh, live and let live. Who cares? I don't want,

00:32:06.260 I'm not, don't yuck my yum. If it doesn't hurt anybody, if it's just consenting adults, who cares?

00:32:10.500 Why is this against the law? If that's your perspective, and if you're saying that when we

00:32:20.540 try to legislate morality and legislate views of the good, the true, and the beautiful, and that's

00:32:25.240 terrible and authoritarian and anti-American and wrong in every way, then why should this be against

00:32:32.400 the law to sleep with an 800-year-old mummy every night and take out the mummy and call the mummy your

00:32:36.900 spiritual girlfriend? Why can't Julio Cesar Bermejo keep his mummy boyfriend, if that's your view?

00:32:44.620 The conservatives have an answer to that, which is that it's wrong and disordered and creepy and weird,

00:32:49.400 and he needs to be normal and needs to get some help. And he, and the law has to say, no,

00:32:54.500 no mummy boyfriend for you, Julio. You can't do that. No, you need a human boyfriend or girlfriend

00:33:03.120 if you're going to have one at all. But what about the libs and the squishes and the you do you as

00:33:10.480 long as it doesn't hurt anybody else? It's a bag of bones. It's 800 years old. And especially if you

00:33:16.800 think that the human soul is imaginary and there's no God and there's no heaven, there's no, then who

00:33:21.300 cares? It's just a bag of bones. Why? What's wrong with it? Hmm? What's wrong with the mummy boyfriend?

00:33:26.340 We finally arrived at my favorite time of the week. This mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to

00:33:32.040 puretalk.com, select a plan, enter code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S to get 50% off your first month.

00:33:37.620 Take it away with the voice mailbag. Good morning, Mr. Knowles. I'm reaching out for your advice on a

00:33:43.020 topic involving my best friend of 20 plus years. He recently was trying to cheat on his wife with my

00:33:50.960 mother of all people. He was sending her lewd messages, uh, saying things like nobody has to

00:33:56.560 know, obviously meaning me. Um, I know he and his wife have gone through a lot. She said postpartum

00:34:02.320 depression. I know they haven't gotten along very well lately. I think a lot of that's what drove him

00:34:07.140 to this. I'm not making excuses, but I'm trying to give you as much as I can here. Um, as a Christian

00:34:13.700 man, I, I feel like as a friend, I should help him through this dark time in his life with his

00:34:19.620 marriage. But at the same time, I don't want to talk to him. I certainly don't want to see him.

00:34:24.120 And I'm just wondering as a man of God, what do you feel like my responsibility here should be?

00:34:31.240 Thank you so much. God bless. When you started out asking that question, I assumed it was a troll

00:34:38.280 and it was, but by the, you sound sincere. So maybe this actually is happening. Well, I guess what I would do

00:34:46.100 is maybe send him a text. You're right. I don't think I'd want to go have a beer with him.

00:34:54.040 I don't think I would want to even talk on the phone with him. Maybe send him a text though and say,

00:35:01.000 Hey man, you should not cheat on your wife and you certainly shouldn't sleep with my mother

00:35:07.720 or proposition her at all. And you should seek help from a psychologist and confess your sins to a

00:35:17.240 priest and then act normal. It's just like the last story I did. It's, this is unbelievable how

00:35:23.420 many political problems would be solved if people just acted normal and understood that that is a

00:35:31.400 legitimate political request. Especially on the right, because the right denies norms and standards

00:35:39.340 because we now say, Oh, listen, you know, don't, I don't want the government coming in and telling me

00:35:44.300 what to do or whatever. So we, we deny that norms and standards exist or taboos exist, but obviously

00:35:48.920 they do. You shouldn't violate them. This is one of them. I don't know if your parents are still

00:35:52.160 married. And so he's telling your mother to cheat on her husband with him or if she's widowed or

00:35:58.740 divorced or something. But in any case, it's just all so disordered and just say, bro, get help and

00:36:03.920 be normal and stop being a degenerate and a weirdo and a creep lovingly your friend. So-and-so next

00:36:11.620 question. Dear Michael, a friend of mine and I had a conversation discussing morality and I could really

00:36:17.840 use your help for the next time it comes up. I argue that morality does not change based on the

00:36:22.980 person or situation. He argued that is a religious belief and things like abortion can be justified.

00:36:28.740 My problem came trying to explain why morality is absolute when people have different beliefs.

00:36:33.960 I know you have covered similar topics on the show and I could really use your help in

00:36:37.520 articulating my thoughts. I know right from wrong, but when asked why, I feel that my

00:36:42.320 justifications fell short. Sincerely, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

00:36:47.180 Really good question. And you're absolutely right. Morality is objective and it does not vary based on

00:36:52.880 situation. The morality of an action does not change based on, say, the consequences that could result

00:37:01.660 from it. Now, if I heard you right, what you said is your friend's objection was, well, no, no. Morality

00:37:07.880 is religious and therefore you can't make an argument against abortion. And he's half right. Morality is

00:37:15.540 religious. Everything ultimately is religious. But it can be objectively true or objectively false.

00:37:25.480 The reason your friend might be forgiven for his ignorance is because many, many people have bought

00:37:33.320 into this lie. And it derives, frankly, from the way that we talk about religious freedom. The way that

00:37:39.460 we talk about religious freedom today is very different than the way people talked about religious

00:37:43.920 freedom in the past. In the past, people talked about religious freedom as a matter of prudence

00:37:49.000 and toleration. That we're not going to be leading crusades and pogroms all the time. We're not,

00:37:55.060 we don't want bloody conflict for 30 years between the Catholics and the Protestants. We don't want all

00:37:59.720 that stuff. And so we're going to exercise a decent degree of religious toleration. The people who

00:38:06.360 promoted this idea, by the way, did not suggest total religious toleration. Or I'll even take

00:38:13.860 the word religious out of it. The toleration of, say, Satanism or something like that, or atheism.

00:38:18.220 The people who advocated religious toleration explicitly rejected that idea. But they said,

00:38:23.560 you know, people whose religious practices differ a little bit, we're going to, we'll do that as a

00:38:28.040 matter of prudence. But all religions are not equally true. Some religions make claims that are

00:38:36.580 truer than others. And ultimately, only one religion could be true in as much as that religion

00:38:42.460 contradicts other religions. And so to say, well, that claim is religious. Yeah, well, sure it is.

00:38:48.040 But is it true or is it false? Matthew Petrucic has a great little diagram in a book about how to

00:38:53.320 think about this. On one level, you've got politics. And we're talking about political issues like

00:38:57.780 abortion. On another level, this is the level actually that politics is resting on. You have

00:39:02.760 applied morality. How do we apply moral concepts to situations? Beneath that, you've got morality broadly,

00:39:10.700 the moral order. Beneath that, you've got epistemology. How do we know things at all?

00:39:19.540 Beneath that, you've got anthropology. What is human nature? Who are we, knowing creatures?

00:39:26.680 Beneath that, you've got ontology. What does it mean to be? And beneath that, you've got theology,

00:39:32.780 which is ultimately what it all comes down to. What is. What is real? What is the basis of reality?

00:39:40.740 So yeah, that's what I would say. You say it's true. And so you've got to go through all of those

00:39:45.060 stages. And if it comes down to a religious question, yeah, that's no surprise. Everything

00:39:48.840 does. Next question. Hello, Michael. This is Dr. Ann Lesby, head of gender studies at ACL University.

00:39:55.740 I wish I could say it's a pleasure speaking with you, but that is not true. As a semi-trans,

00:40:01.900 non-binary, fluid, neurodivergent woman of color, I find interaction with an intersectional oppressor

00:40:08.360 such as yourself deeply repulsive and triggering. Unfortunately, there is an urgent question I feel

00:40:14.740 I must ask. Several days ago, Ari Drennan, the LGBTQWIIAAAN-BKPP-S2-plus program director at Media

00:40:25.940 Matters, publicly exposed your unspeakably horrific plan to genocide trans people by denying them access

00:40:32.980 to things like gender-affirming care, vaginoplasty, and women's bathrooms. In response to Ms. Drennan,

00:40:39.960 you launched a vicious, gaslighting social media attack on her, denying your own genocidal

00:40:46.540 statements, falsely referring to her as your publicist, and inciting your rage mob of multi-phobic

00:40:53.440 fascist followers to engage in malicious mockery of Ms. Drennan for hours on end. But this was not

00:41:00.380 enough, was it, Michael? You then issued a public invitation for Ari to debate you on your own show.

00:41:07.800 So this is my question. How in good conscience, assuming you have one, can you expect a victim

00:41:16.900 of threatened genocide, violent verbal assault, and rampant misgendering to appear with you on your

00:41:26.480 program? I await your reply. Thank you for the question, Dr. Lesby. How could I have such an

00:41:37.140 expectation? I suppose because hope springs eternal in the human breast. Though, as you can see, I do not

00:41:44.100 have breasts, and so perhaps I should harbor no such hope. Next question.

00:41:50.920 Michael, you said that Trump and Republicans should not be talking about the stolen elections.

00:41:55.920 So long as everyone ignores how Democrats are ringing elections, we will never win.

00:42:00.400 2020 and 22 prove the effectiveness of their methods. No party in history wins 51% of the vote

00:42:07.780 when 75% of the country is against their policies. Provisional ballots cast without ID deliberately

00:42:14.340 mixed in with legitimate ballots used to be their best method of fraud through multiple voting days.

00:42:20.900 Now they just use anonymous mail ballots that are 100% fraud because you don't know who fills them

00:42:26.280 out and keep on counting until they win. There is only one solution to this. One election day with

00:42:33.020 only in-person voting, only with photo ID proof of citizenship. If no one talks about this and stops

00:42:39.920 Democrats' election rigging, we will become a one-party Marxist dictatorship wherein Republicans are just

00:42:46.340 there to be scapegoats. This won't be solved in corrupt courts that won't hear proof. Will we spread the

00:42:52.500 word or just accept Democrats squelching the truth, mocking patriots as conspiracy nuts?

00:42:59.940 Good question. I think you may have misunderstood what I said, or maybe I was not clear in what I

00:43:04.640 said. I do not believe that Republicans should stop talking about all the ways that the libs

00:43:09.280 rig the elections. I think it's important to talk about that. It's more important, though,

00:43:14.460 to just fix it, to go in and change the rules so that the Democrats don't give themselves such a big

00:43:19.300 advantage. And when I'm talking about the way Trump should speak, I just don't think he should

00:43:24.880 focus on it. I think that Trump, running for the Republican primary in 2024, should focus on

00:43:31.300 passing Big Macs out to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, and should talk about trade,

00:43:36.860 and should talk about foreign policy, and should talk about things that directly affect people's

00:43:42.860 day-to-day lives. And that doesn't mean that you ignore the ways that the libs rig the vote.

00:43:49.780 Doesn't mean that you never mention it. Certainly doesn't mean you don't do anything about it.

00:43:54.340 Just in terms of what people want to hear, in terms of, I think, what will help Donald Trump

00:43:59.260 win the Republican nomination, as he wants to do, and then win a general election, I think he's going to

00:44:04.680 get a lot more support if he focuses on the way that the Biden administration is allowing a town in

00:44:09.680 Ohio to be poisoned without doing anything about it. And it talks more about the disastrous foreign

00:44:15.820 policy, and the open border, and the complete offshoring of American manufacturing, and all

00:44:20.780 the rest of it. I think that's going to be more compelling to people than going back and complaining

00:44:25.700 about all the ways that the libs rigged the election. No matter how much or how little the

00:44:30.700 libs rigged the election, I just think that message is not going to resonate quite as well.

00:44:35.060 And this is coming from me, who I am as persuaded as one can be of all sorts of shenanigans in 2020.

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