Ep. 1208 - DeSantis Hints At A YUGE Announcement
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Ron DeSantis has reportedly told Piers Morgan in an interview released Thursday that he has what it takes to beat Joe Biden. And, no matter what you think about Ron, I think just about everyone has to admit that he is right.
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Ron DeSantis has reportedly told Piers Morgan in an interview to be released Thursday that he has
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what it takes to beat Joe Biden. And no matter what you think about Ron DeSantis, I think just
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about everyone has to admit that he is right, since pretty much anything can beat Biden these
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days, from bicycles to staircases to multi-syllabic words, as the president showed us
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yesterday during a speech in honor of National Poetry Day. Richard Blanco returned to a poem he
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wrote from the second inaugural of Barack in Maine, a poem won today. It says, and always one moon like
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a silent drum tapping at every rooftop and every window of every county, country. Let me start this
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over again. I'm getting so intimidated by you being here. And always one moon like a silent
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drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country, county, county, all of us facing the
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stars. Hope, a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it together.
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If the country is waiting for Joe Biden to name it, then America is in even worse shape than I thought
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that it was. But Ron DeSantis is not waiting. He reportedly told Piers Morgan, if I were to run,
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I'm running against Biden. Like we, Trump and I, are competing for the Republican, potentially. I get
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that. But ultimately, you know, the guy I'm going to focus on is Biden, because I think he's failed the
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country. I think the country wants a change. I think they want a fresh start and a new direction.
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And so we'll be very vocal about that. That's what DeSantis said verbatim. He's running. And he has to
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run. DeSantis' final term as governor is up in 2026, two years before the next election, after which he
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will quite likely be yesterday's news. There is no waiting until 2028. If DeSantis passes it up now,
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like Chris Christie did in 2012, it is never coming back. DeSantis is lagging Trump, but he's
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within striking distance. And perhaps even more important, should he beat Trump and secure the
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nomination, he will almost certainly be running against a Democrat who can no longer reliably
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speak or even read. This may or may not be Ron DeSantis' moment. But if he is ever going to have
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a moment, it's now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. We've got so much coming up. As part of our national identity crisis that
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we're all going through, there is a man who positively lost it in a fast food restaurant
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because someone misgendered him, allegedly. We will delve into the depths of the madness.
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First, though, I want to delve into the depths of the political madness that we've got.
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President Biden couldn't get through the poem. The poem, poem one, Biden zero. Biden also could
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not pronounce the name of a new monument that he is inaugurating.
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I'm proud to use my authority under the Antiquities Act to establish the, and I want you to know it's a
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big deal. The Havana Qua May. I'm having trouble. Thank you. I got it.
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This is a really, and I want you to know it's a really big deal, the thing that we're doing that
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I'm just reading about now. We're inaugurating, we're naming this mountain, this new national
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monument is a. What he was trying to say is the Aviqua May, which is the Mojave name for Spirit
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Mountain in Southern Nevada. This site apparently is sacred to tribes, including the Paiuti and the
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Chema Wavy, and it provides a habitat for a bunch of different species. I have nothing against the
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Paiuti. I've got nothing against the Chema Wavy. I've got nothing against the Mojave or any of the
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other Indian tribes in America. This trend, though, of naming monuments and national places for
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veneration after cultures other than our own is very troubling because what it represents is a loss
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of confidence in our own culture, a loss of affection for our own culture, an embracing of
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this preposterous premise that America is evil, our civilization is evil, we stole the land, we killed
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all people, we're the worst people that have ever walked the earth, and so we need to negate our
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culture. We need to concede our culture, and we need to just embrace every other culture under the sun.
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This is not how the Mojave would operate. This is not how the Paiuti would operate. This is not how
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the Chema Wavy would operate. This is why I always think it's so preposterous when you see people write
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in their email signatures now. Liberals will do this. They'll say, sincerely, John. P.S. I hereby
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acknowledge that I am on occupied land from the Hamahooki peoples that lived here 500 years ago and
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whatever. Because the question that you always have to ask is, okay, this land was previously occupied
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by the Hamahooki peoples. Well, who did the Hamahooki peoples take it from? This is what I've never
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understood about giving the land back to the Indians. Who are you going to give it back to? Are we going
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to give parts of the southwest United States back to the Comanche? Or are we going to give it back to
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the Apache from whom the Comanche took the land? Or are we going to give it back to whichever Native
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American group the Apache took the land from? This is what's so crazy about Mount Rushmore.
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We're told that Mount Rushmore is a terrible desecration of land that was terribly sacred
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to the, I think it's the Lakota is who claims that they had that land. But the Lakota had taken that
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land as recently as 1776. What about the people that they took the land from? This is a big problem.
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And it's now infecting all of our national monuments, not just naming mountains after a
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Native tribe. Think about even the Martin Luther King monument that was established a few years ago.
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Not saying it's a problem intrinsically with Martin Luther King or anything like that, but the point of
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the monument is that it's an unfinished monument, that Martin Luther King is emerging out of this
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monument. It's unfinished because America's unfinished because it's still a rotten, evil place. So you're not
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even celebrating anything. It's a monument to resentment. It's not even a monument to Martin
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Luther King. It's a monument to resentment. It's a monument to progressivism. It's a monument to
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detract from American history and the American story and even the American present. That's the
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point of that monument. It's a monument that represents a loss of faith in the country and of
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us as a people. Compare that to Mount Rushmore. What's Mount Rushmore? We go to a mountain that nobody was
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really using and we go blow up parts of it and carve our founding fathers and Teddy Roosevelt
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on the face of the mountain. That's cool. That represents a country that believes in itself
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and that is growing. But we're depressed now. We don't believe in our own culture. Our culture
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is depressing because our modern religion is depressing. The weird new kooky religions that
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we've taken on. The weird Albigensian gender religion that we've taken on. The idea that our
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body and soul are in opposition to one another. The weird environmental religion we've taken on
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which suggests that we all have to give up our most cherished goods and sacrifice them to Mother
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Gaia. And if we just stop producing and if we just stop procreating and if we just stop
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living our lives, then Mother Earth will be happy and we'll save the planet from imminent
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destruction. That is probably the most prominent fake religion that is animating liberal policies.
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And who is the prophetess of that religion? Who is the high priestess of that religion?
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Who is the secular saint of that religion? You know who it is. It's Saint Greta of the
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Blessed Sailboat. Now for many, many years now, as I have called her Saint Greta of the Blessed
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Sailboat, for many, many years now, as I've pointed out, that global warming constitutes
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less a scientific observation about the world and much more a fake false religion. People have said,
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that's crazy, Michael. That's awful. You're wrong. You're an idiot. You're ignorant. You don't know the
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science. Okay. Well, you know, I hate to say I told you so. We just got a little evidence for my
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theory, which is that the University of Helsinki has decided that it will confer an honorary doctorate
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on Greta. Saint Greta Thunberg. Now, are they going to give her a doctorate in geology? Are they
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going to give her a doctorate in climatology? Whatever that is. Are they going to give her a
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doctorate in meteorology? Are they going to give her a doctorate even in biology? No. They're going to
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give her a doctorate in theology because she is a religious figure for the false religion of
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environmentalism. That will happen on June 9th, 2023. I have never been happier to see somebody
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receive an honorary doctorate because this honorary doctorate proves that everything that I and
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everything that you have been saying about environmentalism and Saint Greta in particular
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has been true. Has been true. That's what this is about. It's about a new religion to get rid of our
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old religion, Christianity. This is a new, weird, secular, liberal religion to animate and to
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motivate all of the social upheaval that they have been trying to undertake and that they have largely
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is simply smarter wireless. Great new law coming out of Texas. This is called the Texas Millstone Act.
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The Millstone Act, wonderfully named, would prohibit gender mutilation procedures for people under the
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age of 26. The Texas scorecard says, as more people have been taken advantage of by greedy physicians,
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the Texas Millstone Act would help protect innocent people from these life-altering procedures.
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Love it. It's a great idea. Obviously, the transgender butchery should be banned for people under 26,
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without question. But it's really just a good start, because the gender reassignment butchery should
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be banned for everybody, for a number of reasons. One, you know I don't really trust social science,
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but in as much as we can rely on social science, the largest data set on satisfaction post-gender
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reassignment surgery shows it does not improve mental health outcomes. And on at least one score,
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on the score of anxiety, it would appear to have made those underlying conditions worse.
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So from a social scientific perspective, it doesn't work. From an anthropological perspective,
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it's absurd, because men cannot really be women, and women cannot really be men.
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That puts forward a false human nature that does not fall in line with reality.
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From a political perspective, and the perspective of culture and tradition, it's obviously awful,
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because the moment that you allow one deluded person to present himself as a woman in public,
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and demand all the rights and privileges of women, then you've abolished women's bathrooms,
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then you've abolished same-sex schools, then you've abolished girls' sports teams,
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and you've abolished every special right and space that women have. The minute you allow one person
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of any age to pretend to be the opposite sex in public life, all of that's over for women. They
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lose all of it. They can no longer expect to have any space or right in public that is exclusive to
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them and not for men. And it's called the Millstone Act because of the verse from the gospel, in which
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Christ says, whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in me to sin, it would be better for
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him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck. Now, this verse is often invoked to describe
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direct child abuse, as if it said, whoever harms one of these little ones. It's often invoked when
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it comes to abortion. It's often invoked when it comes to the transgender surgeries or any other kind
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of child abuse. But the verse is not actually about direct child abuse. The verse is about scandal.
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It's sometimes translated as whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble.
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The Douay-Rheims translation says, he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believes
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in me, it would be better for him for a millstone to be hanged around his neck. It's about scandal.
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And so if it's about scandal, then you have to ban the surgery for everybody. Because what is
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scandalous is not when you directly go in and trans a kid. What is scandalous is when anybody is
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permitted to indulge this falsehood in public? That scandalizes the child. That's a stumbling block
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for the child on his way to maturity and education and understanding reality. So it's a good start,
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but you've got to take it to its logical conclusion. Even the logical conclusion of the name,
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the Millstone Act. Right. It's about scandal. And we have the right to take action against scandal.
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We always have in America. We always have in every society in the history of the world.
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We have the right to public standards and norms. To protect the children, certainly,
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but to protect everybody. We have a right to stand up against obscenity. This is the point of my book,
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Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now.
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Conservatives need to get a lot more comfortable speaking in explicitly religious terms.
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For one, it works. Okay? It works. And the libs know this. And the libs speak in religious terms.
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Conservatives got a wrong idea. Sometime after the 90s, conservatives got a wrong idea that the
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religious right is ineffective. And we need to stop thumping our Bibles and speaking in religious
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terms. Let's just talk about taxes or whatever. No. The issues on which conservatives have spoken in
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explicitly moral and religious terms are the only issues we've won on. There are two issues conservatives
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have won on in recent decades. And as far as I can tell, only two. Abortion and guns. The Second
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Amendment. And in both of those cases, we speak in explicitly religious terms. Obviously, an abortion,
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the right to life given to us by God. And even on the right to guns through the Second Amendment,
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because that derives from a right to self-defense, which is evident from the natural law. We have a right
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to preserve our own lives and to defend ourselves. Those are the issues. On all the other issues where
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we've rejected the religious language, we've completely lost. On marriage, on immigration,
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on foreign policy, on the way the economy works, on everything. Okay? So we need to get a lot more
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comfortable with that. The libs do it. That's why one of their most popular public figures, St. Greta Thunberg,
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is about to be given a doctorate in theology. And it's resonating. It's resonating not just with the
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right and not just with the far left. It's resonating with people in the middle. It's resonating
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even with center-left people. Tulsi Gabbard just went on TV to explain what drove her away from the
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Democrat Party. And it wasn't just foreign policy. And it wasn't just the corruption of the Clintons.
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It was the central issue. You see this erosion of this spiritual foundation of our country
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as a direct consequence of those who are trying to erase God from just about every facet of our
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public lives. This is one of the main reasons why I chose to leave the Democratic Party, because I saw
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increasingly how not only were they trying to erase God or any mention of God or attacking people of
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faith, attacking people of spirituality, especially Christians, you see these attacks and you see the
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consequences in the direction, unfortunately, that much of our country is headed in and the damage
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it's causing to families, to children, to our communities, to our policymakers, many of whom think
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that they are God and are trying to control us in every possible way. Exactly. I mean, that's been the
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error in human society going back to the fall, going back to the Garden of Eden, ye shall be as gods.
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It's the error, the ex-communist Whitaker Chambers pointed out, that motivates communism, that we
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shall be as gods. And it motivates leftism more broadly, that we're going to control the whole world.
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If we don't like the circumstances of reality, we're going to deny them. We're going to do everything
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we can to change them, even down to our own identity. We will liberate ourselves not just from
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the constraints of our natural environment. We will liberate ourselves from our very own identities.
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If you're a man and you don't like that you're a man, you can change your name. You can refer to
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your true name as a dead name. It's a sort of ritual suicide of your identity. You will take
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on a new identity. You'll change your body. You'll be a completely different person by killing the person
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that you actually are, calling that an old dead person. You will liberate yourself even from that.
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We shall be as gods. Exactly what Tulsi Gabbard is saying. And that is an unappealing religious
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vision. Okay? The conservative religious vision is a lot better. Hey, be grateful. Give thanks to God.
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Accept reality. Accept who you are. Get to know the creator who made you in his image.
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Much, much, much better. Way better than the Libs religious vision at this point,
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in as much as they're speaking in explicitly religious terms, is basically, as Tulsi Gabbard
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implies, give us all the power and do some weird sex stuff. This was what John Kirby, the National
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Security Council spokesman, just said at the White House the other day. He said that LGBT,
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LMNOP ideology is now a key aspect of American foreign policy.
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President Biden has been nothing but consistent about his belief, foundational belief in human rights
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and LGBTQ plus rights are human rights. And we, again, back to the earlier question,
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are never going to shy away, be bashful about speaking up for those rights and for individuals
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to live as they deem fit, as they want to live. And that's something that's a core part of our
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foreign policy and it will remain so. That's a core part of our foreign policy.
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Transgenderism is a core part of our foreign policy.
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Then call me an isolationist, I guess. I've never considered myself an isolationist. I think
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that great nations and empires need to be involved around the world. That's just a fact of politics and
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might not be a happy fact, but it is what it is. And so we have a responsibility and we have
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a privilege in some ways to throw our weight around in the world. But what is our weight?
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If throwing our weight around in the world and maintaining a world order meant truth, justice,
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and the American way, great. If throwing our weight around in the world meant what it traditionally has
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in our civilization, which is Christendom, a Christian civilization, great. That's what it meant until
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60, 70 years ago, even more recently, probably. But if throwing our weight around in the world,
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if spreading our values, if American hegemony means imposing transgender absurdity
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on every other nation around the world, I'm out. Bring the troops home, baby. Get rid of the bases.
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Forces and a lot of other Americans feel this way. This is why we ended up pulling out of Afghanistan.
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This is why there were so many Americans who were skeptical of intervention around the world right
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now. Because they say, okay, if we're going to raise the American flag all over the place,
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whether it's some country in the Middle East or whether it's on the moon, that's one thing.
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But what if we're not raising the American flag? If we're raising the rainbow flag,
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if the rainbow flag is now supposed to represent me, I'm out. Because that doesn't represent me.
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And whatever political body that flag represents, that is unrecognizable to me. You want to talk
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about a national identity crisis. I do not identify with that symbol. So what is our country about?
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Joe Wojnowski, who says, Michael, does your contract
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with DW have a built-in microphone replacement clause to hedge against your Italian speaking
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habits? Hey, a beepity-boppity-boo! Beepity-boppity-hey! Forget about it. Forget about it. I know.
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I know. That's really, that's too bad. I'm going to, don't tell Jeremy about that. These microphones
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are very, very expensive. Best we can muster with foreign policy these days
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is to ban TikTok. The best, while the Pentagon is out there, they want to treat, teach transgenderism
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to little Afghani boys, or I don't know what they want to do. I think the best, the best option that
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they have offered is to ban TikTok, for which the CEO of TikTok has now flown to the United States.
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He is lobbying lawmakers, and he's directly appealing to the American people to get their
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lawmakers to allow TikTok to remain in this country. Here's his argument.
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Hi, everyone. It's Joe here. I'm the CEO of TikTok. I'm here in Washington, D.C. today,
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and I have some news and updates to share with everyone here. Today, I'm super excited to announce
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that more than 150 million Americans are on TikTok. That's just half of the U.S. coming to TikTok
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to connect, to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun. This includes 5 million businesses
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that use TikTok to reach the customers, and the majority of these are small and medium businesses.
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Now, these numbers are amazing, and I'm so thankful to all of you and the 7,000 TikTok employees in the
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U.S. who are helping us build this incredible community in America and around the world.
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Now, this comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about
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banning TikTok. Now, this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you. I'll be testifying
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before Congress later this week to share all that we're doing to protect Americans using the app
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and deliver on our mission to inspire creativity and to bring joy.
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Yeah, don't threaten me with a good time. Take away TikTok from 150 million Americans.
00:25:33.620
I think a lot of people can get behind this because we think, wow, more than half of the
00:25:37.140
country is hooked on this stupid doom-scrolling app that doesn't add anything to our lives and only
00:25:41.420
destroys our brains and our memories and opens us up to all sorts of propaganda and has backdoors
00:25:49.240
to the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, no thanks. A lot of people think that. When you add on to that,
00:25:54.760
the amount of time that TikTok users spend on the app, the average Twitter user, depends on which
00:26:03.080
survey you're looking at, the average Twitter user spends something like two to six minutes a day on
00:26:08.180
the app. Some of us spend a lot more time on the app, but that's the average Twitter user.
00:26:13.680
The average TikTok user spends something like 56 minutes a day on the app. It's not even close.
00:26:19.140
It's so many multiples higher, order of magnitude higher, and then some. So yeah, this represents a
00:26:26.640
threat to the American mind. But then my question is, okay, we're going to ban TikTok.
00:26:35.500
What about Facebook, Twitter, and Google? I'm not saying we ban all those things,
00:26:40.500
but I am wondering, hold on, why are we so worried about TikTok? Well, we're worried about TikTok
00:26:46.840
because it's a Chinese company. Okay. Was it TikTok that deplatformed the duly elected sitting
00:26:54.980
president of the United States? Was it TikTok that interfered in the 2020 presidential election
00:27:03.680
and suppressed a news story that was damaging to Joe Biden and suppressed it at every single level,
00:27:09.540
including private messages? Was it TikTok that did that? I don't think it was TikTok. As I recall,
00:27:15.340
it was Twitter and Facebook and Google. TikTok's got a bunch of problems. If the lawmakers want to ban
00:27:23.560
it, fine, whatever. But actually, the people who benefit from TikTok being banned are Facebook and
00:27:31.400
Twitter and Google. The very companies that have taken so much of our political power and so many of
00:27:41.140
our rights away, that have acted in a way to dominate the public square, which is the political
00:27:46.120
order in a republic, in which brazenly deplatformed conservatives and censored conservative news stories
00:27:54.340
and censored the duly elected sitting conservative president of the United States. I've heard enough
00:27:59.820
about TikTok. Do whatever you want with TikTok. What about those other guys?
00:28:05.400
They're my main concern. And in as much as banning TikTok helps Facebook and Google and Twitter,
00:28:14.580
Twitter now is owned by Elon, so I give it more slack. But in as much as banning TikTok just helps
00:28:21.340
American big tech companies, which pose one of the biggest threats to conservative political power and
00:28:28.400
to our whole political order in the United States, then I'm not for it. In as much as it helps those
00:28:35.060
big tech companies here in Silicon Valley, I would prefer that TikTok remain available just to give
00:28:40.580
those guys a little bit of competition. Because the next time that they move to censor Trump or whoever
00:28:45.520
the next Republican nominee is, maybe that Republican nominee will be able to find a home on TikTok.
00:28:50.560
They seem to be playing much more fairly with American conservatives than the allegedly American
00:28:55.880
businesses over in Silicon Valley are. Now, social media, I think, is fueling a lot of the insanity
00:29:04.480
around our culture. This is one of the big drivers, I'm convinced, of the identity insanity. You know,
00:29:10.140
I talked to a detransitioner, Helena Kirshner, some time ago, and she said one of the big factors that
00:29:16.800
got her down the transgender rabbit hole was social media. She would sequester herself in her room for
00:29:22.840
hours and hours and days on end. And she would be on Tumblr, I think, was the social media platform
00:29:29.960
that really got her into it. But all these different social media sites, she'd be divorced from the real
00:29:33.860
world. She'd be living in virtual reality, online where the body doesn't really matter. And they
00:29:39.820
would fuel her different anxieties. And they convinced her that she was really a man. And then she came to
00:29:44.700
regret this delusion. And then she has attempted to detransition mostly successfully so far.
00:29:49.860
Social media is fueling a lot of that insanity. And we're seeing it spill out beyond the digital
00:29:56.200
world. We're seeing it now in fast food restaurants.
00:29:58.980
It's like every single day, you guys. And this is what I complain about all the time. Look, what's his name?
00:30:04.980
What's your name? Alex? Yeah, your name's Alex. And I'm going to be talking to your manager. This guy
00:30:09.100
called me, sir. This happens every f***ing day. Everywhere I go, I get called sir. I'm so f***ing hard.
00:30:14.820
Why would you call a big a**? Why would you call? No, stop trying to gaslight trans people and tell us
00:30:22.640
that we're crazy. Why would you call me sir? You need a f***? I'm not being a beautiful woman.
00:30:26.260
I didn't say that. And stop being a f***ing scumbag and you're a liar. I heard you. Stop f***ing gaslighting
00:30:31.320
trans people. Okay. Wait, what? Did you call me sir again? What was that? You said good night, sir?
00:30:40.200
Alex, I'm going to be talking to the corporate guy. How many times have we seen this video?
00:30:43.060
F*** you. Okay? That's bullshit. You know where there's the one that hulking dude goes into a bodega
00:30:47.200
in New York and says, it's ma'am. Remember, it's ma'am. What the f*** is that? No, you don't f***ing do this to
00:30:53.940
trans people. This is discrimination. No, this is discrimination. I'm f***ing done with it.
00:30:58.920
Who behaves like this? Forget the gender identity problems for a second. Who behaves like this ever?
00:31:06.380
I go out in public. Occasionally, someone will slight me on occasion. Most people love me. But
00:31:12.920
on occasion, someone will say a nasty comment or insult me or be rude, sometimes even at a fast food
00:31:20.080
joint. And you know what I do? I do the same thing that you do that every normal person does.
00:31:25.240
Say, okay, yeah, whatever, buddy. Okay, fine, whatever. You take your hamburger and you leave.
00:31:30.780
The kind of people who behave this way are, I'm probably not allowed to say it on YouTube,
00:31:36.600
so bleep me if you have to, whatever. Crazy people. Crazy people behave this way. And when people are
00:31:43.560
acting crazy, a lot of people go crazy at some point in their life. What we do is we try to help them.
00:31:48.800
And we pull them back from the brink of delusion. And we say, no, hey, calm down. Deep breaths.
00:31:57.060
Here's what you're perceiving. Here's reality. Forget the first one. Embrace the second one. You will live
00:32:03.920
a better life. It's not just these random weirdos who throw hissy fits at fast food restaurants.
00:32:13.040
This is even prominent people who are behaving in a way that is hysterical in the face of reality.
00:32:19.460
There's an actor, Billy Porter. I'm not sure that I've ever seen him in anything, but I do see him
00:32:23.720
pop up on talk shows and in commercials and things like that. Billy Porter was just on The View,
00:32:30.440
whining and screaming and carrying on about Ron DeSantis.
00:32:33.640
Everything is about power and you could always trace it back to the money. You say that all the
00:32:38.520
time. Yeah. You know, it's follow the money, follow the power, power at any cost. It's very
00:32:45.300
hypocritical. You know, the the leading cause of death in children are guns. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:52.900
They're guns. Yeah. I know it's the morning and I'm not supposed to be screaming, but they're guns.
00:32:58.900
Yeah. Not drag queens. Not drag queens. No. Leave us alone. Yes. You know, and it's just,
00:33:06.880
it's a distraction. It's a distraction on purpose. He goes on and he just says a lot of things that
00:33:14.980
sound like they're an argument, but they're not, which libs do a lot. They're these kind of
00:33:21.660
non-sectaries and it's hypocrisy and there are distractions and you want to talk about something.
00:33:26.920
Let's talk about, let's talk about corporate taxes. Okay. Let's talk about the second amendment.
00:33:31.620
All right. Let's talk about the 12th amendment. Okay. And you just think, well, what are we,
00:33:35.720
what are you saying about any of those things? Nothing really. Guns. Guns. I can't even do it.
00:33:42.360
I can't even do the Billy Porter impression. What is he talking about with guns? He's saying
00:33:46.180
the big threat to children is guns, not drag queens. No one's saying that drag queens are murdering
00:33:51.640
children. We're saying that drag queens are scandalizing children and drag queen story hour
00:33:56.440
is bringing often sexual criminals, child molesters into places like libraries and schools to jiggle
00:34:03.120
around in sexualized costumes for children. And that's obviously depraved and wrong. And in some
00:34:09.580
cases already is illegal. And in other cases should be illegal and we should stop it.
00:34:14.380
Well, what about the guns? What are you saying about that? That's a completely separate issue.
00:34:17.900
And it's true that guns are the leading cause of death among children. It's very close. It's just
00:34:24.560
slightly ahead of automobile accidents. So are you suggesting that we ban automobiles too?
00:34:30.540
What's your, is your argument that we ban guns and we take away the second amendment,
00:34:33.840
we rewrite the constitution and we deny people's right to defend themselves? Is that, is that what
00:34:38.060
you're saying? What are you saying? You're not saying any of that. You're not making any kind of
00:34:40.780
argument at all. You're trying to distract and you're distracting by yelling and screaming and wailing
00:34:46.620
and carrying on. And as a rule of thumb, if your ideology causes you to wail and scream first thing
00:34:54.360
in the morning, as Billy Porter acknowledges, there is probably something wrong with your ideology.
00:35:02.120
I notice this every time I go visit different schools. I'm going to be going to Purdue this week.
00:35:08.400
More on that in a second. But I was just at the University of Buffalo and the protesters come out
00:35:15.240
and they wail and they scream and they carry on. Occasionally, I'm able to speak to them. We
00:35:20.740
actually have a pretty, pretty interesting interview with, with some of the protesters at
00:35:25.740
Buffalo coming out soon. Stay tuned for that. But when you speak to them one-on-one and you just try
00:35:31.180
to get them to be reasonable and you say, hey, okay, here's, here's your premise. Here's the logical
00:35:37.040
conclusion of that. Here's why your premise is wrong. Here's my premise. Here's the conclusion of
00:35:41.880
that. Here's why that's correct and more appealing and more conducive to human flourishing.
00:35:46.240
They can calm down. But then sometimes they just, they go right back to it and they start wailing and
00:35:52.860
they start screaming. That's a good, if you find yourself falling down that rabbit hole,
00:35:57.940
recognize there's something wrong. The people who are correct, the people who are confident in their
00:36:03.460
views don't need to wail and scream. Sometimes cooler heads prevail. Before we go, we weren't able to
00:36:09.920
get to too much on this today, though there's not a ton of breaking news on it. We're waiting to see
00:36:14.500
if the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, indicts Donald Trump, arrests El Donaldo. And Trump seems to be
00:36:23.160
leaning into this. Might be the best thing that could happen to his campaign. And it shows you just
00:36:27.460
how obscenely corrupt the political system is in the United States, that the libs would now try to
00:36:32.680
arrest the leader of the political opposition, the chief rival to the current president.
00:36:36.420
Van Jones, who is a Democrat, he's a lib, he's on CNN. He is imploring his fellow Democrats. He's
00:36:43.380
imploring the DA. He's saying, hey, let's let cooler heads prevail and not cross the Rubicon here.
00:36:48.960
My view about this is, I think that the heat is on this DA. I think he's going to make a very sober
00:36:55.720
decision. And I would not be surprised if he doesn't step back from the brain.
00:36:59.140
So is this Van Jones's prediction or is this Van Jones's advocacy? Saying, yo, Bragg,
00:37:08.780
calm down here, man. This is going to be an escalation of the political war in this country
00:37:16.760
that we have never seen anything like this. A former president and current top presidential
00:37:22.160
candidate being arrested for what? Because of totally trumped up charges. Now, the libs are
00:37:29.860
very angry with Van Jones, but he's obviously right. Hard to go back from that because if they
00:37:34.740
do arrest Trump, one, it might help Trump's campaign. But two, the Republicans who are in
00:37:40.660
these positions of authority, DAs, attorneys general, and governors to bring political pressure
00:37:45.600
should arrest five of their guys. Not innocent people, but criminal libs. There's no shortage
00:37:52.040
of criminal libs out there who are not being held to account by the law. If they arrest our guy,
00:37:57.320
we need to arrest five of their guys. Okay? And we'll see who's laughing by the end of that exercise.
00:38:06.060
Okay? If the conservatives can muster the spine, I think they might be able to. Conservatives have
00:38:10.360
mustered a lot more of a spine in recent years. Then we can't just roll over and allow the libs
00:38:15.520
to arrest the political opposition and turn us into a complete banana republic. So then we have
00:38:21.260
to arrest their guys. And it escalates and it escalates and it escalates. And is that where
00:38:24.860
the libs want to take the political order? Maybe they're willing to take the bet. Maybe they're
00:38:28.960
willing to play that game of chicken. But that's a dangerous game of chicken, says Van Jones. And he
00:38:32.980
says, back off. Guys, right now our political order is hanging on by a razor's edge.
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I'm going to Purdue. I guess I'm going to Purdue tomorrow. I better finish writing my speech.
00:39:43.540
I have not finished writing my speech yet, and already multiple protests are scheduled to try
00:39:51.600
to stop my visit. According to the Purdue exponent, two different protests have been planned against me.
00:39:58.420
One will take place at the same ballroom that I will be speaking in. My critics are so confused
00:40:06.220
that they can't even agree on how to protest me. And the posters, the ones that I've seen at least,
00:40:15.640
say that I'm a fascist. They put all sorts of swastikas on me. They say no fascists allowed on campus.
00:40:22.380
You know, a week ago, I learned that I was a genocidal maniac. I had never considered myself
00:40:29.660
much of a genocide man, but that's what I learned by reading the newspapers. Now I learn I'm a fascist.
00:40:36.520
Again, had not really considered myself a fascist, but maybe I'll have to go back to some of those
00:40:40.960
fascist writings. I'm pretty sure I'm not a fascist, but that's what they say. They just escalate it up
00:40:48.500
and up and up and up. It does go along with my new nickname, Benito Michelini. But they'll do
00:40:54.120
anything. They'll do anything to prevent me from speaking. And why? Why is that? It's because two
00:41:00.920
weeks ago, I said that men can't really be women and we should stop pretending that they can. And we
00:41:06.700
should stop indulging this preposterous ideology in public life at every level. And they lost it.
00:41:13.740
And they were so convinced they could cancel me. And then when the entire conservative media from
00:41:20.540
the most squishy to the most from, yeah, basically the most squishy, I'm not going to name names, but
00:41:25.880
very, very squishy media figures on the right, all the way to the most right wing, they essentially all
00:41:32.080
defended my speech. Because it's obviously true. Men can't really be women and we can't tolerate this
00:41:36.860
stuff. We really should not tolerate it. Then top Republican politicians, multiple US senators,
00:41:42.700
they came out and the Libs were so angry that they weren't able to squash this idea.
00:41:48.480
They were so angry that for the first time in a very long time, conservatives might not just be
00:41:53.060
playing defense and trying to slow down the Libs, might be trying to reclaim ground that the Libs
00:41:58.200
thought they had already conquered. They were so angry that now they're calling me Hitler. They're
00:42:01.720
going to try to shut this down. They threaten violence. They do all this kinds of stuff. Okay,
00:42:05.400
well, doesn't worry us. We come in prepared. You're not going to intimidate us. We'll be there
00:42:10.900
on Thursday. So if you're in the Purdue area, come on by, say hey, and you can listen to the
00:42:16.520
speech. There's a story I wanted to get to a few days ago, and I'm glad we have at least a minute
00:42:20.760
to get to it right now. This was a story in Vice. It's a kind of a science story. And I don't know
00:42:27.280
anything about the science, but it did get me thinking. The headline is, a growing number of
00:42:30.800
scientists are convinced. The future influences the past. It's not just that causation goes from
00:42:39.640
the past to the future, but that the future can influence the past in a way. I talked to a guy who
00:42:46.580
has one of the highest IQs ever recorded, and he suggested something similar. I couldn't quite
00:42:54.300
understand it. Someone here says, our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest
00:42:59.440
instincts that physicists and philosophers and humans are loathe to give up. But that's what
00:43:05.980
these scientists who are quoted in Vice are saying. Got me thinking. There's a Catholic saint,
00:43:10.640
a recent saint, very, very famous priest of the 20th century named Padre Pio. Padre Pio had all
00:43:17.220
these sorts of miracles associated with him. He received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ,
00:43:21.740
miraculously. Many, many miracles are attributed to Padre Pio. And there's a story about him,
00:43:30.480
apocryphal or not, which is that one time he was praying, and someone asked Padre Pio,
00:43:35.680
who are you praying for? And he said, I'm praying that my great-great-grandfather will have a good
00:43:39.520
death. And the person said, well, your great-great-grandfather obviously died a very long
00:43:44.600
time ago. Why are you praying for that? And Padre Pio said, because God is outside of time and space.
00:43:48.980
And so my prayers, for me, inside of time and space, can be efficacious. Because for God,
00:43:55.640
time is not a problem. Whether it's apocryphal or not, it tells you something true, I think,
00:44:03.520
and important. Life has integrity to it. The creation has integrity to it. This is something
00:44:10.780
I've noticed about all the greatest works of art, is that the great works of art that can really make
00:44:15.660
you, reduce you to tears, that can really inspire you, that really resonate with the soul, are works
00:44:21.400
of art in which everything fits together. And this is one of the great debates of our time,
00:44:26.660
is does the world make sense, or does the world not make sense? Is the world, is there providence?
00:44:34.200
Do things matter? Do things have purpose? Do things have meaning? Are we here for a reason? Are we here
00:44:37.980
at the very right moment? Did God know every hair on our head before we were born? Or is it all just a
00:44:42.880
kind of a cosmic accident caused by a random blip in the natural laws of the universe created by who
00:44:49.560
knows, whatever, they're just there. And one day we're going to turn off and take a dirt nap and
00:44:53.740
turn to warm food. Which is it? Which is it? I tend to believe it's the former. I don't think we could
00:44:58.900
even wonder at the question if the world were not intelligible, if there were not an underlying
00:45:05.320
intelligibility to things. And so it is the former. And if it's the former, this means that one wants to
00:45:11.860
have integrity throughout one's whole life, throughout all of creation. Because when God
00:45:15.900
looks at our lives, he's not looking at us moment by moment by moment. He's looking at the whole thing
00:45:21.680
from outside of time and space. That's how you resolve free will and providence and grace.
00:45:28.480
The fact that things happen according to a divine order. It's the first time I've ever read any religious
00:45:34.920
insight in Vice magazine. But it seems to be catching on. It's catching on with Tulsi Gabbard.
00:45:41.260
It's catching on with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Remember he said that things really went
00:45:46.400
downhill when we took prayer out of schools? It's catching on even in Vice. True religion is
00:45:51.940
resonating. We've had enough false religion. True religion is resonating. Conservatives should get
00:45:56.740
more comfortable thinking about it and acting on it and speaking in those terms. The rest of the show
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