Ep. 1263 - Toxic Clouds And Conspiracies： NY Apocalypse？
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Over 100 million Americans are experiencing some of the worst air quality ever recorded as smoke from wildfires in America s top city makes its way south. And you know what that means? It s the perfect opportunity for liberals to push their fear-mongering climate change agenda.
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Over 100 million Americans are experiencing some of the worst air quality ever recorded
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as smoke from wildfires in America's top hat makes its way south. The scenes from New York City
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are downright eerie. A Broadway performer walked off stage during a matinee yesterday
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because she couldn't breathe. It is genuinely scary for people. And you know what that means?
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Means it's the perfect opportunity for liberals to push their fear-mongering climate change agenda.
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The smoke had just barely appeared in the sky when Randy Weingarten, the nation's teacher union boss
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and Democrat Party operative, but I repeat myself, she blamed the smoke on, you guessed it, climate
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change. Weingarten tweeted, climate change is real. Please be careful today in NYC.
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But Weingarten, a well-known private jet enthusiast, neglected to mention how the wildfires in Canada
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are connected to global warming or global cooling or climate change or whatever. And the reason for
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that omission, one suspects, is that there is no discernible connection at all. The wildfires in
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Canada have burned 9 million acres of land. Pretty bad. But is it historically bad?
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No. 9 million acres is a lot. But 9 million acres is nothing compared to the 49 million acres that
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burned 20 years ago during the Russian wildfires of 2003. Still, 2003, relatively recent. Maybe that was
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climate change too. Well, what about the 1987 Black Dragon Fire, also in China, which burned 18 million
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acres, twice the Canadian burn that turned New York City orange. Were the 1987 Chinese fires caused by
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climate change? Maybe, I guess. The libs have been shrieking about some sort of environmental
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catastrophe since the 70s. How about the Siberian wildfires of 1915, which burned a whopping 35
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million acres of land in Russia? Was climate change already in full swing by 1915? Industrialization
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started in Russia in the late 19th century. So maybe? Would have had to act awful quick to blame
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industry for that one. How about the Black Thursday bushfires of 1851 in Australia, which burned 12
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million acres, 33% more land than the amount that has sent this historic plume to America from Canada?
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How about the half million acres that burned every single year in Oregon and Washington state alone
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since time immemorial, prehistory, before a European ever set foot on that land? Were those climate change
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too? Even a cursory glance at history shows that lots of North America, just like the rest of the world,
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has been regularly set ablaze long before any of the supposed causes of climate change ever had any
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effect or even existed. But a photograph and some liberal demagogues with an agenda say that wildfires
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are caused by your pickup truck and your air conditioning. They're choosing to exploit a
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natural crisis for their political purposes. They're confident enough that you were never taught
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any of that history. They're confident because they control the education system and the media
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and the big tech platforms on which you're seeing all those scary pictures. I'm Michael Knowles,
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the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. You want to talk about scary. A group of Christians
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was escorted by police away from a pride parade simply for praying. One man was arrested, actually.
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We will talk to one of those Christians who is led away by the coppers. It wasn't in some liberal city
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either, by the way. It was right here in Franklin, Tennessee. It's one of the most conservative places
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in the country. We will speak to him a little bit later if we can get him on the line. First,
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though, up in Canada. Canada, not looking good, man. Not looking good. Forget about the natural
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disaster that's going on. What about the ideological disaster? What about the political disaster?
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You know, the libs, especially on climate change, they're very, very concerned about the imminent
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death of all of humanity sometime in a hypothetical future. But in the present,
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they are actively killing humans. They're actively killing humans through abortion.
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Canada has one of the most barbaric abortion regimes in the country. And they're actively
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killing old people and the poor and the homeless through what they euphemistically call MAID,
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medical assistance in dying. It's assisted suicide. They euphemistically call it euthanasia.
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It means good death. It's the opposite of a good death. And they're doing it at an alarming rate.
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I got this email. I got this email from a nurse yesterday who wishes to remain anonymous,
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so I'll leave her anonymous. But it gives a little personal side to the statistics we're seeing. We saw
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last year, some 3% of Canadians died through assisted suicide. It's a shocking number. 3% of your
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country killing itself every year. Or 3% of deaths, rather. 3%. And that number is way up from the
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previous number of suicides. And it shows no sign of stopping. So this is what this nurse writes.
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She writes, quote, I'm a nurse in Canada. My specialty is in wound care. Today, I had a patient who told me
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tomorrow he's receiving MAID, that is euthanasia. The patient has all his mental faculties, happily married
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as far as I can tell, and is not currently in significant physical discomfort. I'm in shock.
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My job is to care for people physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I feel sick to my stomach to see
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a patient who still has so much opportunity to live life choose euthanasia. So much for euthanasia
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being for rare cases, we are flying down the slippery slope. Of course. Of course we are.
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When the libs tell us that euthanasia, quote unquote, assisted suicide, is just about these fringe
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cases of people who are imminently going to die. They're in immense pain. They're very,
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very elderly. We just need to put them out of their misery, allow them that choice.
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That was never going to remain there. It was always going to become widespread. That's what
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happened in the Netherlands. The Netherlands now, which has legalized children killing themselves.
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Legalized little kids killing themselves. The Netherlands, where a woman who had previously
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assented to assisted suicide was told by her doctor, okay, time for you to die now. And she said,
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no, I don't want to, not yet. And the doctor forced her to kill herself anyway. And her family held her
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down while she was resisting. That happened there too. And by the way, the Dutch courts and the Hague
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even, the International Criminal Court said, no, it's fine. No big deal. The doctor was totally within
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his rights to do that. Of course this is spreading. Because the principle is either that life is good,
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and you don't own yourself, and you're not allowed to do anything that you want with your own body,
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and therefore we can pass laws against suicide. And therefore you're going to get a much lower suicide
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rate. Or the principle is you can do whatever you want with your own body, and life is not
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necessarily good. And the only purpose of life is not to seek God, to seek virtue, to suffer in a way
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that is sanctifying and edifying. No, the only purpose of life is to get pleasure. So whenever
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you feel like you're not getting enough pleasure, you can just off yourself. They're principles,
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okay? And principles and ideas have consequences. That's why transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire.
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Transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire, because if we establish the principle in society
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that a man secretly can be a woman, if that's just what we all believe about human nature,
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then you're going to see a lot more people falling into that mistaken view of human nature.
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The worst air quality ever recorded in New York City. If you look at the pictures, it's bright
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orange there. It's weird. It's crazy and hazy. The wildest reaction to this came from some yuppies
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yesterday at Equinox. The Equinox is a fancy gym for rich urbanites. And the picture was taken and
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published, I think, by the New York Times, but it was taken of this rooftop of some building in New York
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where amid all the haze, the dangerous air quality, there are a bunch of wealthy young New Yorkers
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standing, doing some kind of yoga salutation, standing up arms in the air,
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like a religious worship ceremony, which is exactly what yoga is. If you were an anthropologist,
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you were an historian, and you came across this picture 500 years into the future, you would say,
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oh, this is an example of religion in 2023 in New York. This is an example of the kind of public
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worship that existed in liberal America in 2023. And a modern person right now would say,
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no, that's not true. They're just doing yoga. You don't understand, man. But the thing is,
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the historian would be right. This is an example of religious practice. All these little millennial
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yogis who, instead of going to church, they go to yoga and they go to brunch. That is a religious
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practice. They're risking something about their physical health here, which is the air quality.
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They're risking that because of something more important, which is what? It's the religion of
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self-actualization. It's the religion of being at one with the universe, man. It's the religion of
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looking around and seeing the big, vast, beautiful view from the very, very top of the tower. It's
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the religion of self, the religion of do whatever you want, the religion of take a moment and relax
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from your busy work schedule. It's a religious practice. Yoga is an actual Eastern religious
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practice. That's why there's so much spirituality associated with it. And a lot of Westerners pretend
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they can divorce those things, but you can't. Whatever you do a lot, whatever you do habitually,
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is going to have some tie-in to religion. And in the case of yoga, it just happens to be much more
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directly spiritual. Previously, during a natural disaster or some kind of crisis, you'd go in,
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you'd pray. That's what Christians would do. I don't know, maybe you'd go to church or something.
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But that is the church in New York, and they're not going to shut down yoga church. During a natural
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crisis, the government might shut down your actual church. They might shut down a synagogue. They might
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shut down maybe a mosque. I don't know if they would actually shut down a mosque. But they're
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not going to shut down liberal church. Liberal church being the yoga studio and the brunch spot
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and the pot dispensary. They're never going to shut those down. Now, speaking of the modern religious
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views, the Air Force has just joined the Pride Coalition, tweeted out, June is Pride Month.
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The Department of the Air Force proudly recognizes and celebrates generations of LGBTQI-positive
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service members and their contributions to the Air Force and Space Force. And the image is a silhouette
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of an airman saluting in front of the Pride flag. So because it's a silhouette, you don't know which
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way he's facing. If you look at his arm, it looks like it's his right arm. So it looks like he's saluting
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out, away from the Pride flag. I suppose you could also see it as the airman saluting the Pride flag.
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Either way, it's basically the same effect. The rainbow flag is our new imperial flag.
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The Star Spangled Banner might be our old national flag, but the liberal imperialists who don't believe
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in borders, who don't believe in particular people, who think that their values are absolutely,
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totally universal, and they're going to spread them all over the world. They think it's the role
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of the U.S. military to spread these liberal values all over the world. A lot of people,
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probably the majority of our ruling class that believes that right now, for them, the American
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flag is the rainbow. They have much more loyalty to the rainbow. They show the rainbow flag much
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more respect than they would ever show to the Star Spangled Banner, which many of them openly protest
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in sports, in the NFL, even in elected office among Democrats. That's the flag. Flags are symbols.
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That's why flags really matter. That's why if you were raised right, you were taught that if the flag
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ever touches the ground, you've got to pick it up right away. If the flag is desecrated,
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you've got to burn the flag in a way, not like a Jane Fonda kind of way, not in a hippie,
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I hate America kind of way, but in a respectful kind of way, like a funeral pyre, because we treat
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symbols with the sort of reverence that we want to treat the thing that the symbol symbolizes.
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That's why they're symbols. So what does the American flag symbolize? The old one,
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the Star Spangled Banner. It symbolizes the 13 colonies. That's what the stripes are for.
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Symbolizes the 50 states in the stars on the blue background. And the red symbolizes what?
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Valor, hardiness, blood. The white, what does the white symbolize? Purity, innocence.
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You'll notice, I don't see a lot of white on the rainbow flag. I don't see the white,
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because we as a culture no longer value purity and innocence and modesty and chastity. We don't
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value those things at all. In fact, we mock those things. We say those things are evil and awful and
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oppressive and stupid and prudish. So okay, there goes that symbol. What about the red of the valor
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and the hardiness and the blood and the sacrifice? Yeah, that's gone too. There's red in the rainbow
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flag, but it just symbolizes all sorts of eccentricity and variety and diversity for its own sake.
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What about the 50 states? Yeah, that's gone from the flag, the blue backdrop. It's gone.
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The blue is supposed to represent justice, perseverance, vigilance. Yeah, that's gone. No more justice.
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Just different flags. Different flags mean different countries. It means even different
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kinds of countries. A national flag represents a nation. An imperial flag, that rainbow flag,
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you can fly that anywhere. You can fly that in Europe. You can fly that in the east.
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You can fly that in Kandahar. And that is what the liberals in our country want to do and do,
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in fact. The pride ideology is spreading like wildfire. There was a story yesterday.
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Matt broke this story. It came from one of our Daily Wire investigative producers, Greg, Greg Ray.
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Matt had Greg, producer Greg, go out and just see how easy it is to be approved by the official serious
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medical providers to have your testicles removed. Okay? And how long do you think it would take?
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I don't think anyone should be allowed to do that, save for some medical emergency like testicular cancer
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or something like that. I don't think you should be able to have an elective surgery to remove your
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gulions. Okay? At any timeline. But at the very least, you'd say, well, maybe it should take a year.
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It should take a few years or a year of counseling or, I don't know, at least six months, right? You know
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the real answer? 22 minutes. Here is Greg speaking with one of these medical agencies whose job it is to
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approve or disapprove of male testicle removal. Give me a little bit of history with your gender dysphoria.
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That may kind of help me. I want to make this letter as solid as possible to be like, this orchid is definitely needed.
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I'll tell you, I'm happy to. So when I was in school and I actually wrote a big essay for admission to a club
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about how I didn't feel like my biological sex went along with how I felt. And I told people that
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and they thought it was ridiculous. So, because they thought I just look like a guy. So they're like,
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this is ridiculous. Okay, approved. So Greg comes up with probably the most ridiculous story to explain
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his supposed gender dysphoria, which is, one time in school I wrote an essay about how I'm a girl and
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people made fun of me. So can you chop my guglioni off? Oh yeah, sure. That's fine. Here we go.
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Here's the letter from Plume Health, which is one of these sham medical providers, which says,
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despite these interventions, she, referring to Greg, who went by Chelsea Bussey, that was his
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gnome to plume, she reports significant ongoing gender dysphoria. She's seeking
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orchiectomy. I guess that's the, I guess I should stop using the Italian word, the Italian
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dialect word, guliuns, and say it's orchiectomy. She has the capacity to provide informed consent
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for this procedure. This procedure has been defined as medically necessary by the World
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Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH, to treat gender dysphoria. WPATH is a bizarro
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organization, by the way. We'll get into them at some later date. That's the real big trans activist
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organization that is used as credible by medical providers. So anyway, 22 minutes, Plume says,
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okay, you got it. There's another one of these scam companies, FOLX, F-O-L-X. FOLX says,
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right on the website there, insurance companies usually require a medical diagnostic code for gender
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dysphoria in order to cover transition-related care as medically necessary. You may not fit this
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diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases, the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for
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the surgery. A good example of this might be a person, might be a letter for a person who identifies
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as non-binary and does not have dysphoria. They might still need a gender dysphoria diagnostic code
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attached in order for insurance to cover the surgery. So FOLX here is laying it out in totally
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plain English. They're saying, hey, give us some money and we will commit insurance fraud with you.
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Give us some money and we'll just lie and say that you have gender dysphoria even though we know that
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you don't and you know that you don't, regardless of what you even think about gender dysphoria to
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begin with. Here you go. There it is. And a lot of people are calling this a scam. And it's kind of a
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scam in that people are making money on it. People are cutting corners, breaking the rules, breaking the
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law, getting some money on people who are obviously having a rough go of it. People are scamming the
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system. Yeah, okay. But it's not just a scam. It's larger than a scam. It's part of a new national
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sacred right. It's a slightly dodgier way to do something that is totally enshrined in our law and
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our culture now and being pushed by our liberal elite. Being pushed at schools around this country,
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being pushed at colleges, being pushed at workplaces, being pushed all over the place.
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It's the ritual, the right of transition, which is just a further extension of the ritual and the
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sacred right in liberalism of coming out. I remember when I was in college, there was a big
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fancy ceremony on the quad for National Coming Out Day. And it was a big rainbow gate and you walked
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through the gate to say, I'm coming out. I previously adhered to a normal traditional sexual ethic,
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but now I'm coming out and I'm gay or lesbian or bisexual or this sexual or that sexual. Back in
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those days, we didn't have all 56 of them or 72 or whatever we're at now. But that's a ritual.
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I'm Catholic. When I was a little baby, I was baptized. That's a sacrament with real spiritual
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effect, I believe, and the operation of the Holy Spirit and also an outward sign. You put the baby
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in the baptismal font and the priest performs an exorcism and then puts some water on the baby's
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head. And that's the ritual of it. I was then, I received First Holy Communion. Again, a sacrament
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that I am quite confident has real spiritual effect, real metaphysical working, and also an appearance
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and an outward sign that we know this ritual by. You get on your knees, you open your mouth,
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you receive the Holy Eucharist. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church. That's when the bishop
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is at least supposed to come, shows up, and gives you a little smack on the cheek, and then you're
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confirmed in the church. These are rituals. And as these rituals have ebbed away from society,
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new rites and rituals have replaced them. And today, the rituals of the coming out, the ritual of the
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transition, those are treated as much, much, much more sacred by our state, by our ruling class
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the show some months ago. There was a woman in the UK who was arrested for silently praying
00:25:25.600
outside of an abortion clinic on the other side of the road, by the way, not even directly outside.
00:25:31.020
She was on the other side of the road and the cops came up to her. Here's what they said.
00:25:34.560
What are you here for today? Physically, I'm just standing here.
00:25:38.560
Okay. Why here of all places? I know you don't live nearby.
00:25:48.080
So I'll ask you once more, will you voluntarily come with us now to the police station for me to
00:25:52.740
ask you some questions about today and for the days where there are allegations that you've
00:26:04.420
I can't suspicion of failing to comply with the public spaces protection order.
00:26:11.740
They're so British about it, which makes it somehow even more chilling. There's no screaming,
00:26:17.120
yelling, fighting. It's just, what are you doing here yet?
00:26:20.300
Yeah. I'm just, you're just standing here. Physically, just standing here. Spiritually,
00:26:25.000
she's praying. I'm just physically standing here. Yeah. Well, you're going to come down to
00:26:29.920
the police station with us then voluntarily. And if I have a choice, no, I'm not going to do that.
00:26:33.900
Well, all right. Then you're under arrest for praying quietly, silently in your own head
00:26:40.460
outside of an abortion clinic. And when that video came out, we said, well, at least that'll never
00:26:46.080
happen in America, right? It's happening in America. There was a pride parade, not in San
00:26:52.660
Francisco, not in New York, in Franklin, Tennessee, just this past weekend. And there was a small group
00:27:00.340
of Christians who showed up to pray very quietly, just pray at the pride parade. And when it became
00:27:10.240
clear that they were praying, not that they were screaming, not that they were yelling through a big
00:27:14.740
microphone about all sorts of things with the pride people, just quietly praying, that was when the
00:27:21.140
pride organizers had had enough. Spiritually, they couldn't bear the thought of silent prayer,
00:27:28.860
quiet prayer for them. So they sicked the cops on them and the cops escorted them away. The cops
00:27:35.120
apparently even arrested one of these guys. I'm being told that our connection is too weak
00:27:41.100
to speak with one of the people who was escorted away. Maybe we'll try to get them later on in the
00:27:45.780
week. But luckily we, we have some, some clips anyway. Here's what happened.
00:27:51.220
Praying at the Franklin Pride Festival held at a public park until this group,
00:27:55.640
which opposes the event, was met by officers and an event organizer asking them to leave.
00:28:01.160
We're not here in support of pride. We are asking you to leave.
00:28:05.220
You may, you feel free to exercise your first amendment of rights, but that area is across the street over
00:28:10.820
from the property. Who's not in support of pride? So we've heard multiple, like we've been watching
00:28:17.200
and listening to the conversation. But we just need to make sure that folks here are comfortable,
00:28:21.820
safe, and so the event organizers have the discretion to ask folks to leave the footprints that we're
00:28:27.000
asking. Officers escorting the group off the premises. Brian Sullivan and Jeremy Sladen say they came
00:28:32.640
to pray for all at the festival. Some of those words to God, also about what they believe is not a
00:28:38.380
family-friendly festival. We, we know that we all mess up and we all make, make mistakes,
00:28:42.880
but when you start pushing things and agreeing and accepting what's going on, then, then that
00:28:48.740
becomes an issue. So you see this type of prayer here, which is, hey, we all make mistakes. We all
00:28:54.380
go through bad stuff. And so we're just going to pray for everybody here. Okay, that's great.
00:28:58.540
Pride organizer can't take that. Probably the pride organizers would have preferred
00:29:01.980
if the Christian group were out screaming, yelling, being really nasty. That, that makes for a really
00:29:07.500
nice clip. And then they can claim to be oppressed and that they can have something to feel righteous
00:29:12.600
indignation about. What they can't bear is just the quiet prayer, the quiet reminder of moral and
00:29:22.240
biological reality. That's too much. And so the people praying quietly get sent away. That's happening
00:29:29.660
here. There is, there is no room for contrary forms of prayer in the present United States.
00:29:40.320
We have an established church with established rights at the national level. It's the church of
00:29:45.060
pride, the queen of all vices, and it's got its rights and its rituals. And if you contradict that,
00:29:51.940
the cops are coming for you and they're coming for you even in your red state. The answer to that
00:29:59.020
is to vocally and confidently defend religious truth. The answer to that is not to pretend that
00:30:07.480
religious neutrality, there is no such thing. There never has been, there never can be. There's
00:30:12.020
no such thing as a separation of church and state. We're either going to have one conception of the
00:30:17.820
good or we're going to have some other conception of the good. We're going to have one set of rituals
00:30:21.120
or we're going to have another set of rituals. Are Christians willing to state religious truth?
00:30:26.240
Christians joined by religious Jews, joined by religious Muslims for that matter,
00:30:30.940
joined by normal people who might be a little bit agnostic and might not know exactly what they
00:30:35.680
think, but they know that the old way was better than the new way where we're chopping off people's
00:30:39.020
gulions. Are we going to state, yeah, actually maybe the religion that built our whole civilization,
00:30:46.200
that's the right one. We're going to follow that one. Rather than the new religion of pride,
00:30:50.640
which is an even more zealously, jealously established religion than the one that built
00:30:57.780
our country. This is happening nationwide. You know, Bud Light, they pretend that they learned
00:31:04.160
their lesson. Transheiser Bush, they pretend that they, okay, we're sorry. Well, we're not exactly
00:31:09.060
sorry, but we're going to back off the Dylan Mulvaney stuff. We're not going to push the trans stuff too
00:31:13.100
much. Hey, come on, we're just going to have commercials of horses and cowboys now. Please buy our beer
00:31:17.860
again. But then at the same time, Bud Light is currently sponsoring an all ages drag event in
00:31:24.660
Flagstaff, Arizona. It's going to happen on June 17th. This was reported first by the Washington
00:31:30.360
Free Beacon. It was then republished in the Washington Examiner. It's happening. It's unclear
00:31:38.660
how many drag queens will be performing. Nine drag queens were featured on the flyer. Attendees who are
00:31:44.460
minors are more than welcome to come in. If you're 15 years old or older, you can just walk right in.
00:31:50.380
No problem at all. If you're under 15, you can still come in. You just need to be accompanied by
00:31:56.120
a parent or a guardian, according to the flyer. So it's for kids. It's for everybody. That's
00:32:00.700
Transheiser Bush. Totally unrepentant. We've done a good job really weakening them. I mean,
00:32:05.200
they've lost well over 20 billion in market cap. That's great news. The only thing that's going to
00:32:08.980
work here though is political intervention. Because Transheiser Bush is caught between a rock and a hard
00:32:13.920
place because Transheiser Bush has signed on to all sorts of agreements that are across corporations,
00:32:19.660
across industries, across countries, which say that they are going to promote pride as the new
00:32:24.420
established religion of liberalism. They're going to promote it. And so if they don't promote it,
00:32:30.560
if they turn against it, they're going to lose access to social media platforms. They're going to
00:32:33.940
lose access to other advertising platforms. They're going to lose access to capital because the asset
00:32:38.400
managers are pushing this stuff. So what is required here is not just all of us together
00:32:43.920
in a grassroots way stop stopping our consumption of Bud Light and Transheiser Bush products. We need
00:32:50.600
our elected officials to go in and intervene and break up these pride cartels that are pushing GARM,
00:32:58.440
you know, the big pro-liberalism, you know, pro-leftism organization that's now under the World Economic
00:33:07.540
Forum banner, or ESG, environmental social governance policies, and all the rest of it. We need the heavy
00:33:12.340
hand of the state to go in as our duly elected representatives and break up that pride cartel.
00:33:18.080
Now, speaking of the heavy hand of the state, we got a new presidential candidate in the race.
00:33:23.740
And I know you're thinking of a bunch of names. Oh, is he talking about this new presidential
00:33:27.720
candidate? I promise you, you're not thinking of the man that I'm about to name. That would be
00:33:33.580
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. Are you feeling the Burgum momentum? Are you? Take it away,
00:33:42.160
Governor. I grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota. Woke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day.
00:33:49.360
A place where neighbors rally around you. My mom was our rock, our hero.
00:33:57.720
I started a shoeshine business, worked at the grain elevator, and has a chimney sweep. Paid my way
00:34:09.100
through college, then earned an MBA from Stanford. I ignored those who said North Dakota was too small,
00:34:17.980
too cold, too cold, and too remote to build a world-class software company.
00:34:27.840
In North Dakota, something about, I grew up and I had a software company.
00:34:32.980
What are you going to do if you're president? America's facing new challenges, and how we
00:34:44.400
respond will define our future. We need new leadership for our changing economy. Innovation
00:34:52.000
over regulation. Instead of shutting down American oil and gas, we should unleash energy production and
00:34:59.360
start selling energy to our allies instead of buying it from our enemies. High taxes, red
00:35:06.180
tape, and inflation are choking every American. As governor, we cut red tape and took North Dakota
00:35:13.760
from billions in the hole to a surplus. We balanced the budget every year, and we did it all while
00:35:21.160
passing the largest tax cuts in North Dakota history. A smart guy who's achieved a lot.
00:35:28.980
Doug Burgum for president. A new leader for a changing economy.
00:35:35.480
He seems like a nice guy, so I don't want to be too harsh about this campaign ad and this. I mean,
00:35:41.220
I already fell asleep during the year, so I guess I'm being a little bit harsh.
00:35:43.980
This ain't it. Whatever it is right now, this ad and candidacy ain't it. And you see it right
00:35:56.480
there at the very end. Doug Burgum, new leadership for a changing economy. Economy.
00:36:03.940
Are we an economy with a nation attached to it? Or are we a nation with an economy?
00:36:15.100
Do we exist here in America so that we can serve the economy and markets and GDP? Or do we have
00:36:26.960
prosperity and GDP and markets and everything to serve us, the American people? Is the nation more
00:36:33.220
than just the economy? Yeah. For the 90s, for a lot of the 2000s, we were told that the whole point
00:36:40.860
of government is just so that we can make a little bit more money. That the nation is nothing more
00:36:44.700
than that. And people who happen to be living next to one another so that we can all just make more
00:36:48.280
money. Separately, but I guess we'll have to have some bare minimum regulations so that we can
00:36:53.960
continue to exist in physical proximity to one another. But all we are really here to do is worship
00:36:59.100
at the altar of the free market. And that has led to absolute chaos such that now between America and
00:37:05.180
our neighbor up in the north, which is giving us plumes of smoke right now and is a crystal ball
00:37:10.140
into America's future, we are killing babies. We're killing our children. We're killing our elderly.
00:37:16.520
We're killing our poor. We're killing our homeless because they're not productive. They're kind of
00:37:19.620
inconvenient. They're not going to serve the economy. We are chopping off people's genitals. We're
00:37:26.420
creating a generation of Unix. And well, frankly, one of the reasons we're doing it is so that scam
00:37:31.900
companies like Volks and Plume can make some money so that big pharma can make some money so that even
00:37:37.580
the whole system will create more perfect consumers who don't worry about these extra things like
00:37:44.080
family and raising children and all sorts of non-economic considerations. But they just exist out
00:37:50.680
there to keep on working. Good little worker bees who aren't going to have to worry about any of those
00:37:54.240
things. We've destroyed the family. We've destroyed our borders in part so that we can import more
00:37:58.360
workers and make more money. You heard that. Just this strict focus on the economy hasn't served us
00:38:04.460
well. It hasn't even served our economy, which is on the brink of collapse. Now, we've got a more
00:38:10.340
plausible candidate who's just entered the race. We don't have time, I fear, to totally get to. Maybe we
00:38:17.320
do. We've got a little bit of time. We'll fly through these candidates and then get to one last
00:38:23.260
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out. My favorite comment yesterday is from Valerie Vaughn. Valerie, who says,
00:39:27.640
someone needs to tell Michael that his Mayor Pete impression sounds more like Kermit.
00:39:32.460
Ha ha, does it really? Do you really think so? Do you think maybe someday we'll find it,
00:39:36.540
the rainbow connection? Huh? The lovers, the dreamers, and me. And by the dreamers,
00:39:40.820
I of course mean 40-year-old Venezuelan immigrants. Ha ha, yeah, that doesn't. Never occurred to me,
00:39:45.240
but I guess maybe it does. Pete Buttigieg obviously wants to be president.
00:39:50.740
He's running that shadow race against Kamala Harris right now in case Joe Biden takes a nasty fall.
00:39:56.260
Gavin Newsom, too, wants to be president. On the Republican side, we have yet another Republican
00:40:00.360
candidate who's officially announced. That would be former Vice President Mike Pence.
00:40:05.480
It'd be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that's not how I was raised. That's why today,
00:40:12.860
before God and my family, I'm announcing I'm running for president of the United States.
00:40:18.660
We can bring this country back. We can defend our nation and secure our border. We can revive
00:40:23.620
our economy and put our nation back on a path to a balanced budget, defend our liberties,
00:40:28.080
and give America a new beginning for life. President Reagan described us as a shining city on the hill.
00:40:34.140
And above all, he called on Americans to renew optimism and believe in themselves again,
00:40:40.660
to believe in each other. Every time our nation has produced leadership that has called upon this
00:40:45.380
country to do hard things, the American people have always risen to the challenge, and we will again.
00:40:51.620
Okay. Okay, I got the message. This is a really great 2012 campaign launch.
00:40:59.160
It's a really great 2012 campaign launch, but we are facing a regime-level crisis right now.
00:41:06.860
And so, Mike Pence, who I really like personally, seems like a really, really great guy,
00:41:15.340
the, we're going to make America stronger, and our best days lie ahead, and we're really going to be
00:41:20.280
optimistic now and restore confidence in America. I believe in America. It just doesn't
00:41:25.160
resonate. We all want to be hopeful, but we don't want to be optimistic. Optimism and pessimism are
00:41:30.980
two sides of the same coin. They're just feelings that you, you pretend to have through sheer tyranny
00:41:37.140
of will. Hope is a fact. It's a, it's a theological virtue, and it's a fact grounded in reality.
00:41:44.640
If we're going to be hopeful, that's got to be grounded in fact, and, and to be grounded in fact is
00:41:50.640
to recognize that we, we no longer believe in our institutions of government. Neither side trusts
00:41:55.860
the elections anymore. Neither side trusts the other one to have a, a sensible understanding of
00:42:02.020
the common good. We don't even really speak the same language anymore. We don't have borders.
00:42:06.440
We don't have a functioning economy. So you got to fix those problems first. It's a regime-level
00:42:12.380
crisis. Something about the, the way that the government itself is structured and operates
00:42:18.720
is not working. That's why for all of modern American history, certainly in the 20th century
00:42:29.100
into up to 2016, you had candidates who were just running on these rosy,
00:42:34.320
uh-huh, well, America's best days lie ahead. I believe in, we have mourning in America. Both
00:42:38.660
sides of the political aisle said that. 2016, something changed. Trump came out and he said,
00:42:43.040
man, this country sucks right now. This is in really terrible shape. These people,
00:42:46.600
these libs have completely destroyed our country. This, we got to fix it. We got to make it great
00:42:51.200
again. But right now it's terrible. And a lot of people said, there's no way he's going to win.
00:42:55.280
That's a negative message. But that resonated for people because the country is, is in crisis. So
00:43:00.840
Pence, very nice guy. But if he doesn't, if he doesn't change the campaign note, he's going to be,
00:43:09.780
he's going to be fighting yesterday's battles, 10 years ago battles. So now we're all just waiting
00:43:15.060
on Chris Christie, the Chris Assange, Chris Assange for short. Uh, I've told you, I'm not even just
00:43:22.640
joking about it. I think Chris Christie could have a moment in the race. I want to put a little bit
00:43:25.680
of money, not a lot of money, but a little bit of money on it on the predicted markets. They're not
00:43:29.020
even showing Chris Christie yet on the betting markets for the presidential race. So, okay,
00:43:35.000
we got to wait. We will await the Chris Assange. We are in an extremely cultural battle right now.
00:43:42.740
And we're getting some wins on it too. Oklahoma just approved the nation's first ever religious
00:43:50.340
charter school. It was a tight vote. One vote determined how, how it would turn out. A 3-2 vote,
00:43:57.420
the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic
00:44:02.020
Virtual School. So it's not a physical charter school. It's an online charter school. It's funded
00:44:06.980
by taxpayers run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on Monday. St. Isidore named after
00:44:13.020
the patron saint of the internet will include religious, which is, that's a topic for another
00:44:19.140
time, whether there is a patron saint of the internet or what it means to be a patron saint
00:44:21.820
of the internet. But anyway, that's the idea with the school. Uh, it includes religious instruction
00:44:26.380
and it has a mission to quote, educate the entire child's soul, heart, intellect, and body. Set to begin
00:44:32.140
late next year. School will offer online classes to around 500 students, K through 12, and receive
00:44:37.140
an estimated $23.3 million in state funding for its first five years. Great stuff. Great stuff.
00:44:45.220
Because it recognizes that all schools are religious schools. All schools educate the entire child's
00:44:50.300
soul, heart, intellect, and body. The question is just how are they going to educate the child?
00:44:54.500
Liberalism does it by having coming out ceremonies and Earth Day ceremonies and transition ceremonies
00:44:59.100
and diversity trainings and all the rest of it. Catholic schools do it through catechism classes.
00:45:06.400
Jewish schools do it. I don't really know how Jewish schools do it, I assume, in some kind of
00:45:10.100
Jewish instruction. Muslim schools, I don't really know how they do it, probably through some Muslim
00:45:14.940
instruction. That's why they have madrasas. But all schools do it. And the question is, do you want
00:45:23.080
your kid educated in the leftist religion or in the normal religion, the true religion? There are going to
00:45:27.920
be some religious conservatives who are worried about this. It's not just going to be the secularists
00:45:31.300
and the libs who are worried. Some religious conservatives are going to be worried. They're
00:45:33.520
going to say, we don't want the state involved in our religious education, because then the state is
00:45:38.440
going to exert influence. So better to say no to the state funding and keep our own religious schools
00:45:43.980
where we can totally control it, rather than get the state involved at all. I see that worry,
00:45:51.440
but the greater threat lies in not wielding the political power. Look at the libs. Do you think
00:45:57.860
that having state support has undermined the libs' religious convictions? No, it's only amplified
00:46:04.240
the libs' religious convictions and all the rites and all the rituals and all the mantras and all the
00:46:09.180
rest of it. No, the greater risk lies in not wielding that power, because the state is going to be
00:46:16.300
animated by some kind of religion. So I'd rather it be ours than theirs. Now, the rest of the show
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