Ep. 1264 - This Could Be Serious Trouble For Trump
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On the same day that a Republican lawmaker revealed allegations from a previously undisclosed FBI memo that Ukraine did in fact bribe Joe Biden and his son Hunter to the tune of $5 million each, the DOJ announced that it would indict Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
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On the very same day that a Republican lawmaker revealed allegations from a previously undisclosed
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FBI memo that Ukraine did in fact bribe Joe Biden, Joe himself, and his son Hunter to the tune of $5
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million each, the Biden DOJ announced that it would indict Donald Trump over his alleged
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mishandling of classified documents. We sometimes joke about these indictments. Oh, here they go
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again. Seems to me I've heard that song before. Which radical DA is exploiting a porn star or a
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gossip columnist or whoever to, to drag Trump over bogus charges this time?
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We sometimes say this will only help Trump's political chances. His numbers are going to go
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up. Yeah, sure. This is a little bit different. This isn't some two-bit prosecutor in New York.
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This is the federal government. Joe Biden's federal government. Indicting Joe Biden's chief political
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rival over an alleged crime that Trump not only could not have committed because he couldn't have
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mishandled the classified documents because as president, he had the right to declassify whatever
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he wanted, however he wanted to do it. But furthermore, it's over an alleged crime that Joe
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Biden himself committed. Joe Biden had classified documents strewn all over the place, unsecured
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in multiple states. And he committed that crime when he did not have the power to declassify those
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documents at will. The DOJ is indicting Trump for having some outdated physical copies of presidential
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documents in his home under lock and key, all with the full knowledge of the government. While Hillary
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Clinton stored classified contemporary information on an easily hackable home server and didn't get so much
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as a slap on the wrist. No Democrats have gotten in trouble at all for that. Donald Trump could
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go to prison for the rest of his life. Now, even Joe Biden's DOJ is not so reckless and stupid
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as to go after Trump on the classified documents charge per se, since they know as well as anyone
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that Trump had the right to declassify. So instead, they're going after him for violating the Espionage
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Act. You know that super spy Donald Trump, agent for Moscow or whatever, the same nonsense they've
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been promoting for seven years that has now been totally disproven time and time again.
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They're going after him for, quote, gathering, transmitting, or losing information respecting
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the national defense. They're going after him for obstructing justice. Vague charges that are so
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obviously political that even my leftist doppelganger on MSNBC is admitting it.
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You have to wonder if the Justice Department is considering whether there is some political
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solution to this criminal problem, whether part of the issue here is not just that Trump has
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committed crimes, but that Trump has committed crimes and plans on being back in the White House.
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Do they consider as part of a potential plea offer something that would prescribe him,
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proscribe him from running for office again? I don't know.
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Well, there it is. So maybe they'll make a deal. We won't throw you in prison for the rest of your
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life, but you just got to stop running for office. I don't care, especially, not only do I not care
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how high your poll numbers are, especially when your poll numbers get high, we're going to stop you
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from running. We're going to stop people from having the chance to vote for you. How's that sound?
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Is that a good deal for this allegedly terrible crime? For all the pearl clutching over Trump's
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upending of norms and our sacred democracy? Trump pretty much just joked about it. Lock her up was
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a funny line against Hillary in a debate. It was not something that he ever seriously intended to do.
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When Democrats worried that locking up presidential candidates to say nothing of former presidents
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would send us fully into banana republic territory, they were right. That's why we didn't do it then.
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And that's exactly why they are doing it now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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reasoning that a lot of modern people take up. So we'll get to that in a second. First though,
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I don't want to let our corrupt establishment off the hook. Not even just here in the United States,
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even over in France. Did you hear about this attack yesterday? Horrific, horrific attack where
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a migrant in France, a Middle Eastern migrant, starts wreaking havoc around a playground and starts
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stabbing little toddlers, cute little toddlers, two French, two tourists, I think one British,
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one Dutch. These are kids. I have a son who's the age of these kids right now. So it especially
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rings a chord here, which is, these are sweet little innocent kids, two-year-old kids.
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And then this migrant goes over and just starts stabbing them. And I think all of them were in
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critical condition. I don't know how it's shaken out. I haven't seen an update yet. Absolutely
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horrific, horrific crime. The story here is not even the horrific attack, which had become all too
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common. That's why they're not exactly newsworthy anymore. Ever since mass migration took over,
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Europe, you're seeing a lot of this in countries that previously had relatively low crime,
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even the Scandinavian countries. No, the story here is how this is being reported
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across the pond. This is what Sky News had to say about it.
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It seems to me that the French police, not the anti-terrorist investigators,
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have taken charge of the case. And this tells me that this is not a terrorist-driven case.
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It's mainly of a criminal case. My fear is that regardless of what, I mean, the investigation
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shows, the fact that the suspect is a Syrian refugee and an asylum seeker will likely be
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used a great deal by the far right in France, given how, I mean, the cultural wars and the question
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of refugees. The first thing I would say, the most important thing is that really our hearts are with
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the victims and their families, given the fact that they are children, I mean, three years old.
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And finally, even though we don't have information, my first instinct tells me that this is really
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a mentally disturbed individual, as opposed to being part of a terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda
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or the so-called Islamic State. He says, my first reaction is to say how terrible this is for the
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little children. That wasn't his first reaction. You heard his first reaction. He said, my first
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reaction is that this is going to be seized upon by the far right to advance their anti-immigrant,
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anti-refugee campaign. That's the real tragedy here. Oh yeah, the first thing that strikes me about
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this crime is how the Republicans are going to pounce. That's how we talk about it in America,
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the way they talk about it in Europe. They say, the far right is going to seize upon this
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to advance their anti-immigrant agenda. Secondly, it's really sad that these little
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toddlers were stabbed by the refugee who had no business being in France, who received asylum
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up north and then comes down to France because, I don't know, I guess he likes the weather in France
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a little bit better. Then is told, no, you got to go to the first country that you received asylum in.
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And then what's the next thing he says? And by the way, I just want to know,
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this has nothing to do with ideology. This has nothing to do with his belief system.
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It's purely mental health. Maybe it is. I don't know. I have no idea what motivated this guy.
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But you just, you see this instinct. Anything that goes wrong always has to be the fault of
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the far right. The far right always has to be to blame. Far right, by the way, means anybody to the
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right of Barack Obama. It has to be their fault. It's either their fault for committing the crime,
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which is unusual, or it's their fault for seizing upon the crime to advance their terribly unjust
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agenda. That's the first thing. Second thing is ideologies that the left embraces can never be at
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fault. If a leftist commits a crime and his ideology is a part of that crime, plays a role in it, then
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it's just a mental health problem. You saw this in the transgender shooting in Nashville. You saw this
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in the leftist shooting of the congressional baseball game. You see this every single time.
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And then the third thing you see is the incidents are never about themselves as far as the left is
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concerned. It's only about how they can achieve political advantage. And you especially see that
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now with the classified documents issue. The libs have been mishandling classified documents
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forever with no right to do so whatsoever. But then the moment that a Republican that they don't
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like, who seems popular, who seems like a threat to the system, not just a threat to the Democrats
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instead of the Republicans, but to the whole liberal system. When that guy crops up, all of a sudden,
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they go after him, they throw the book at him, even when he had every right to have those documents.
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You want to talk about the people versus the elites? Forget about Trump for a second, who's the most
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populist major candidate on the right that we have seen in a very, very long time. And that's why the
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libs hate him so much. That's why they hate him more than his rivals. But you see it on the left
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too. Cornel West is a socialist professor. He was at Harvard for a while, then he was at Princeton.
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And he's really leftist. I mean, he's really out there. He would produce rap. He produced a rap album.
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He campaigned for Bernie Sanders. He is a radical. He's a radical leftist.
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He's announced that he's running for president on the People's Party platform.
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MSNBC is furious about it. It's not Fox News that's furious about it. Well, Fox News now,
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you know, not the most right-wing network. It's not the Daily Wire that's furious about
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Cornel West running. I welcome it. I think it's probably going to be a pretty funny campaign.
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I think it'll be entertaining. He'll probably raise some ideas that are at least
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more insightful, perspicacious than what Joe Biden is talking about.
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No, it's the liberals that are upset that Cornel West is running. There's a piece here
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on the Joy Reid blog of MSNBC. Cornel West's leftist presidential bid has right-wing DNA.
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The people framing newly announced presidential candidate Cornel West as a leftist seem to be
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lazily sanitizing his recent history, and voters deserve better. What are you talking about?
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Cornel West is an actual Marxist. He said, you can't, how are you going to say this guy
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is a right-winger? This guy advocates abortion, and he has an extreme view about abortion.
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He embraces socialist economic policies. He's attacking Joe Biden and the liberals from the left,
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and the liberals don't like that. So the liberals are trying to characterize him as a right-winger.
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But he's not a right-winger. What does, this doesn't make any sense. What is this campaign
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Democracy creates disruption. It creates an eruption. It creates an interruption.
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Wide from below, the energies of everyday people is manifest. And I know there are precious people
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in your life who you care for. That's why it's important for you to be involved, important for
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you to participate. We're not talking about hating anybody. We're talking about loving. We're talking
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about affirming. We're talking about empowering those who have been pushed to the margins. Because
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neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon,
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about big tech. Oh, that's why they hate him. They don't hate him because he's a right-winger. He is
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very much not a right-winger. But he's anti-establishment. He's anti-liberal. This is hard
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for some conservatives to make sense of because for decades now, we've failed to distinguish between
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liberals and communists. And also for many decades now, we've defended liberalism. Some conservatives
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have said, oh, I'm a classical liberal. I identify as a liberal. The liberals are the true conservatives
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or whatever, which is not true. And so we've blurred the lines in part because it's funny.
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It's funny when we call Joe Biden a communist or something, in part because the liberals and the
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communists have a fair bit in common with one another. But they're distinct groups. And it's worth
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pointing out that the Marxists and the conservatives also have some things in common with one another
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as opposed to liberalism. Politics is a little bit more complicated than just left versus right
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exactly. A friend of mine who's a Marxist, very intelligent, educated guy, he thinks that Karl Marx
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would have been in the Tea Party. If Karl Marx lived in 2011, he would have been a member of the Tea Party.
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This is why Cornel West, who is extremely left-wing, is a big promoter of democracy. The liberals hate
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democracy. The liberals are always trying to undermine democracy. Whenever the people vote
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for something they don't like, they try to suppress the will of the people. That's very pro-liberal,
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but very anti-democratic. Cornel West just wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal with a
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conservative defending the classics, defending DeSantis for defending the classics. Cornel West has read
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all of the classic works in the West. He's come to very leftist conclusions as a result of that.
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But he embraces the classics, the classical tradition, unlike the liberals who are trying
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to suppress that, get the classics out of school and replace it with a bunch of modern nonsense and
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gay porn in the case of a lot of these school libraries. So the liberals hate him too. There's a
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good book out, or it's about to come out. I just did a review of it in the American Conservative.
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It's by Patrick Deneen, who wrote Why Liberalism Failed. And the new book is called Regime Change.
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And he has a really helpful little chart in it, where he points out four quadrants of politics.
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And on one axis, you have favors the people, doesn't favor the people. And on the other axis,
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you have views the people as revolutionary and views the people as conservative. And so you've got four
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versions of politics here. Classical liberalism, libertarianism, say, progressive liberalism,
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conservatism, and Marxism. And each goes in a different quadrant. The classical liberals don't
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favor the people. They favor revolt. They favor rule by an elite. Same goes for the progressive liberals.
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They don't really favor the people. They favor rule by the elite. But one of them thinks the people
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are revolutionary. The other thinks that the people are a conservatizing force.
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The Marxists do favor, at least in theory, favor rule by the people. That's why you always hear power
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to the people. And we need a people's revolution. Workers of the world unite. They, at least in theory,
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favor rule by the people. They think the people are revolutionary. They're going to be the leaders of
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the revolution. Conservatives also favor rule by the people. They also, they think the people are
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generally right. But they think the people are not revolutionary. The people are a conservatizing
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force. That's why you see Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, many American conservatives who say,
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Alexei de Tocqueville, say, you know, that the people have this common sense. They've got this wisdom
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that slows down the crazy schemes of the ruling class. Conservatives and Marxists have a fair bit
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in common. And the liberal establishment, the liberal ruling class is going to go after those
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left-wingers. That's why they went after Bernie so hard. That's why they're going after Cornel West
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now, even in MSNBC. And that's why they go after Trump. Because Trump is not a classical liberal
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exactly. He's not a member of the ruling class. He's a populist. He does favor the people. He favors
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shaking things up and giving the people a greater say. That's why they're going after him so hard.
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Donald Trump doesn't fit neatly into the Republican box or the conservative movement box.
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That's what makes him so dangerous to them. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Think about
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how the conservatives tend now to agree with the radical feminists on pornography. Radical
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feminists were very anti-porn. The kind of liberal squishy feminists were pro-porn, sex positive. But
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the radical feminists were very anti-porn. They said it's misogynistic and exploitative. Conservatives
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agree with them. The classical liberals agree with the squishy feminist liberals. They say,
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oh, porn is good. Don't worry about porn. People have the right to porn or whatever.
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So that makes strange bedfellows. Think about it on transgenderism. It's the radical feminists
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who are probably most vociferously anti-trans. So the conservatives now make common cause with
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someone like J.K. Rowling, who's very to the left. Because we agree with each other on this topic.
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We disagree with the liberal establishment. And on that topic, we just got a really disturbing bit of
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info about Ellen Page. She's the actress who now goes by Elliot, who says that she was, I don't know,
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she was accosted in MAGA country holding her Subway sandwich a year ago. She told a difficult
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to believe tale of transphobic, homophobic attacks in West Hollywood, which is the gayest neighborhood
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in America. And a lot of people didn't believe it. But where did she come up with what appears to be a
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fable? She's a troubled lady. She's got some trouble. In fact, she explains in an interview
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with the LA Times about how she tried to kill herself. So one night, well, LA Times writes he,
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I'll change it to she, because Ellen Page is a woman. One night she tried to knock herself out,
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took her knuckles to her face, and pounded over and over until bruises formed. For days after,
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she sat in a lawn chair on the porch, ashamed, her face sore. And then she heard a voice,
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you don't have to feel this way. It was a small voice, barely discernible, but it kept echoing
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in her head a way out. If it, it was as if something in my brain turned around, recalls
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Page, now 36, the agonizing voice saying, no, you're not. No, you can't just switch and you can't just
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switched and became very gentle and loving. Oh, maybe I'm trans. Why don't I explore that? Within weeks,
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she had scheduled a Zoom consultation with a doctor to discuss top surgery, meaning lopping her breasts
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off. The procedure was scheduled for November. A month later, she announced her fans on Instagram
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who have known her since the release of Juno, 13 years prior that her name was now Elliot.
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What do you call it when you're in the midst of a breakdown, where you're harming yourself,
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where you're behaving very irrationally, and then you hear a voice in your head
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telling you that reality is different than it is. And that voice in your head then leads you to even
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more destructive and harmful behaviors. We, in our modern culture, we just call that,
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we either call that mental illness, or in this case, what the liberal culture calls it is your
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intuition, your true, the vibes of the universe telling you the truth, man. In traditional culture,
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in Christian culture, there's another word for that. And, and if you want to hear a description of
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I'd seen some reports of this that not infrequently is the case. And what's ironic is in some cases,
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the people who commit this environmental destruction are environmentalists themselves.
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I'm not saying that's what happened here in Canada. I'm not saying that's not what happened
00:24:19.700
either. We don't know. We'll see how that plays out in the courts. But very often that is the case.
00:24:25.180
And it's like the black people who hang nooses from trees and say that they were set burning
00:24:33.760
crosses and say they're the victims of an anti-black hate crime. Why do they do that?
00:24:36.820
Why does Jussie Smollett walk around downtown Chicago and say he was attacked by white supremacists
00:24:42.500
who happen to be Nigerian, we later found out? They do it, one, because they're a little off,
00:24:48.120
two, to get attention, and three, because they think that will accelerate social change to bring
00:24:53.660
about the political changes that they want. So they think that, okay, people aren't taking climate
00:25:00.500
change seriously enough. Well, maybe if I burn down forests, then they'll start to take it
00:25:04.640
seriously. People aren't taking racism seriously enough. Okay, well, maybe if I pretend that I was
00:25:09.580
almost lynched in Chicago, maybe then they'll take it seriously enough. So they'll lie, they'll harm
00:25:13.780
themselves, they'll harm the cause that they allegedly care about. But it's for a greater good. It's to
00:25:20.460
accelerate that kind of change, and it's pretty bizarre. Now, speaking of Christianity, as we just
00:25:29.580
were, Pat Robertson just died. Pat Robertson was the host of the 700 Club. He was quite aged, 93 years
00:25:37.100
old, and he just kept broadcasting. So he'd just still be in that chair. He was still very sharp until
00:25:42.080
the end. I really like Pat Robertson, and I like him for a number of reasons. He and I had, you know,
00:25:48.860
probably would have some theological differences, let's say. But he was basically on the right side
00:25:53.240
of things. He was basically fighting for all the right stuff. He basically had all the right enemies.
00:25:57.820
And Pat Robertson was a confounding figure in modern politics in that he helped me to see how
00:26:06.580
corrupt our media and establishment are. Because this guy was portrayed as a complete looney tune idiot
00:26:11.700
by our mainstream establishment media. He was anything but. This was a very, very serious man.
00:26:18.720
A lot of people don't know this. He had a law degree from Yale, the top law school in the country.
00:26:24.460
He worked on Wall Street. He was, by the standards of the modern world, he was extraordinarily successful,
00:26:30.980
pretty much as successful as one can be. And then he had a conversion experience,
00:26:35.880
gave up his wicked ways, and became a televangelist, became a presidential candidate. When you look at his
00:26:44.700
interviews as a presidential candidate back in 1988, he was a very sober, serious person, giving
00:26:49.440
really detailed answers on domestic policy, foreign policy. Very serious guy. And he never shied away
00:26:54.780
from his faith. And he never shied away from blunt language. Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter in
00:27:01.200
1992, formulated one of my absolute all-time favorite quotes in American politics. And I'm going to read
00:27:08.680
it. I've memorized most of it, but I'm going to read it to get it word perfect. I cannot improve on what
00:27:13.460
Pat Robertson said. He said, quote, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It
00:27:18.060
is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands,
00:27:22.680
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
00:27:29.120
Little harsh, and yet, and yet. Show me the lie. Show me the lie. I don't see the lie anywhere.
00:27:38.620
Speaking of weird sex stuff, the CIA has come out of the closet. CIA usually hides in closets and under
00:27:45.060
beds and does all sort of secret spy stuff. Well, they've come out of the closet. CIA is pro-pride.
00:27:52.320
They tweet out, CIA's 2023 theme for Pride Month is welcome. Wellness, equity, LGBTQ positive,
00:28:02.580
community, openness. Me! Pride Month is an occasion for all of us at the agency to pay tribute to the
00:28:09.620
rich history, community, and mission contributions of our LGBTQ positive officers. Hashtag pride.
00:28:15.900
What's funny is CIA, for most of its history, would regularly try to ferret out homosexuals because
00:28:24.960
they knew that they were a security risk because they could be blackmailed. But I guess now, one of the
00:28:29.640
silver lining in the storm cloud of all this sexual revolution stuff is that it's hard to blackmail people
00:28:36.040
because it's all out in the open. If a guy like Sam Brinton worked for the federal government, the former
00:28:42.540
nuclear waste czar, if he worked for the federal government in the past and someone had a picture of him
00:28:48.260
wearing leather costumes, leading a guy around on a leash, dressed up like a dog, wearing women's clothing,
00:28:53.560
lipstick, whatever, they could have turned that guy, if the Soviets got that picture, they would have flipped him.
00:28:58.360
He would have been a double agent. Oh, they would have gotten him, right? But now, Sam Brinton is
00:29:04.740
publishing the photos himself. So there's no blackmail. It's really bizarre and degenerate, but
00:29:10.940
that would be, I guess, the silver lining. So the CIA, they're all for it. The other thing in defense of
00:29:17.220
the CIA here is that pride is obviously a massive psyop. It's a massive psyop intended to weaken our
00:29:24.860
country that was regularly promoted by our enemies who encouraged all this kind of sexual
00:29:29.980
deviancy. The Soviet Union had many memoranda written about this, about how they were going to
00:29:34.960
try to infiltrate the United States and promote this sexual deviancy because it would weaken the
00:29:39.080
nation. You hear former KGB officers talking about this openly. And so because pride is a massive psyop
00:29:45.020
and because the job of the CIA is to run psyops, I guess there is a little bit of a congruency there.
00:29:52.560
You'd hope that the CIA doesn't run psyops against America. That would be your hope, I guess. But
00:29:57.240
anyway, there it is. CIA went gay. More like CI gay, am I right? Am I right? Speaking of the weird sex
00:30:02.880
stuff too, there's a really telling interview from an OnlyFans girl whose name eludes me or escapes me at
00:30:09.900
the moment. But she was speaking to Piers Morgan on one of his TV shows. And what separates this
00:30:15.620
OnlyFans girl from other OnlyFans girls is that she has a lot of academic credentials. She has a
00:30:21.040
professional credential. She could have made a good amount of money as a lawyer. Instead, she chose to
00:30:26.700
strip on camera. Here's why. I'm just curious about you being someone who embarked on a law career,
00:30:36.140
was obviously very bright, went to university, packed it in just for money to be effectively
00:30:43.360
an online stripper. I mean, that's what you do, right? Yeah. Way worse than an online stripper.
00:30:48.120
What do you mean, way worse? Way worse. Online stripper is just, you know, naked. I do things that
00:30:52.860
are way more grotesque than that. Just pornography? Pornography, anything. But it's all within what I
00:30:58.040
want to do. And I absolutely love it. And I'm really good at it. You know, I could be a good lawyer,
00:31:01.920
yes. But also, am I good at doing other things on video and camera? How do you feel when you want
00:31:06.940
to have kids yourself? Well, I mean, that's, I don't really want kids right now. But at least
00:31:11.540
How old are you? 25. Right. So you will do at some stage, probably, right? Maybe. When you do,
00:31:16.880
are you going to be proud that you have your little ones and they look at you and go,
00:31:21.380
didn't you want to be a lawyer, mummy? What happened? Yeah. And you go, yeah, but look at all my stuff.
00:31:25.460
They can cry in a Ferrari. They can cry in a Ferrari. That's a good line.
00:31:30.300
But think about what that line means. It means this woman is willing to compromise
00:31:38.860
her children's well-being for money. Because they will cry. And I guess maybe they'll cry in
00:31:48.640
a Ferrari. I doubt she's making Ferrari money. They'll probably cry in like a mid-grade Lexus. But
00:31:52.360
she's saying, one, I'm willing to compromise my kids' well-being for money.
00:31:57.420
And two, she's saying money is more important than a more metaphysical sense of well-being.
00:32:06.900
Money is more important than integrity. Maybe not at every level, but enough money.
00:32:11.360
At the high levels, when you're talking about Ferrari money, that is more important.
00:32:15.620
It's like that old joke about a guy walks up to a girl at a bar and says, hey, would you sleep with
00:32:23.240
me for a hundred bucks? She says, absolutely not. He goes, would you sleep with me for a million
00:32:26.760
dollars? I got a million dollars to pay you right now to sleep with me. She goes, oh, well, yeah,
00:32:33.260
maybe. He goes, okay, how about 200 bucks? She says, what? What are you talking about? He goes, well,
00:32:37.580
now I know what you are. Now we're just haggling about the price. That there's a difference,
00:32:42.300
not in degree here, but a difference in kind. Are you the sort of person who would sell your integrity
00:32:46.700
for money? Or are you not? I'm not really knocking this girl. The temptations here are
00:32:53.860
extraordinarily high. And I'm sure that if you're very, very good at OnlyFans, you can make a lot
00:32:58.480
of money. The vast majority of girls make essentially no money on this and then sell out their image and
00:33:04.700
their integrity and their future marriages and relationship with their children for nothing.
00:33:10.980
Like a lot of Faustine bargains, they actually won't even get the material benefit from it.
00:33:14.800
But I see how some people could be really tempted to do this stuff in our modern culture,
00:33:20.740
especially a modern culture that ignores the moral order. But it's really not a complicated
00:33:25.160
question. There are some things that you should not be willing to do for any price,
00:33:33.520
in part, in no small part, because money isn't all that. Beyond a certain point, money doesn't
00:33:39.700
really make you any happier until you can afford private air travel. And then it does make you
00:33:44.020
happier in certain circumstances. But other than that, it doesn't really make you happier.
00:33:48.560
The material things of this world will pass away. Possession will not make you happier. In fact,
00:33:55.740
it'll probably just arouse your desires to get more material things. All the money in the world is not
00:34:01.580
worth a sense of spiritual peace. Not even close. It's just, this is not soft, so proselytizing.
00:34:10.580
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00:34:15.940
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50% off your first month. Take it away. Hi, Michael. When the right says that we love America and the left
00:35:55.120
does not, I think this needs to be reevaluated. When the left says they love America, what they
00:36:00.440
really mean is they love what America could be if their values were put in place. But when the right
00:36:05.840
says they love America, it seems to amount to basically saying that they loved it when America
00:36:10.600
defeated the Nazis, for example. But I'm looking around as a conservative in 2023, and I can't find
00:36:19.880
anything to love about our nation broadly. We kill babies. We deny God. We trans the kids. We open our
00:36:28.520
borders to thieves and criminals and rapists and drug dealers, and we look the other way when it
00:36:32.260
affects our neighbors. Our nation seems evil from shore to shore. Why would I love America? Am I wrong
00:36:39.600
in thinking this way, or should conservatives think long and hard about what patriotism is?
00:36:45.560
Thanks, and I appreciate your response. Great question. I had a wonderful mother.
00:36:51.640
Absolutely wonderful mother. Just love her to death. So it's easy to love my mother.
00:36:55.480
I have a wonderful father. It's very easy to love my father. Some people don't, though. Some people have
00:37:01.240
deadbeat dads. Some people have drug-addicted, neglectful mothers, vicious parents. Some people
00:37:10.280
have bad parents, okay? And yet, all people are called upon to show some respect for their parents,
00:37:18.900
and one hopes to love one's parents. This is filial piety, which is a good thing in itself. In the right,
00:37:30.060
proper order, we are called to respect and even to love our parents. If they're worthy of respect and
00:37:37.800
lovable, all the better, but we have that obligation. When people just openly, constantly
00:37:44.140
resent their parents and diss them all the time and whine and complain and blame them for everything,
00:37:49.120
that's when they become big libs, right? They say, I hate you, dad. That's what all liberalism
00:37:52.860
basically boils down to. Patriotism is an extension of filial piety. We owe our nation our support and
00:38:02.420
respect because it is our nation. And sometimes our nation resembles my loving, wonderful, great
00:38:08.260
parents. And sometimes our nation resembles the heroin addict, neglectful, degenerate people.
00:38:14.920
But we owe them a little bit of reverence and, at the very least, and love. And we owe it to them
00:38:23.120
and to ourselves to help them to improve and to live a good and more flourishing life. In no small part
00:38:31.180
because we're part of it. We're in that family. It's our community. You can't really leave that.
00:38:36.560
Your family is your family. Your country is your country. And so we owe it to our country, but we owe
00:38:41.340
it to ourselves also to love it. You can't really improve anybody if you hate that person. It's not
00:38:48.760
going to work. Next question. Michael, big fan and fellow Catholic here. I wanted to ask about at one of
00:38:56.260
your relatively recent speaking events, probably a couple of months ago, you briefly touched on the
00:39:03.120
topic of limbo during the Q&A section when somebody asked about whether or not unbaptized babies go to
00:39:09.340
heaven. I was wondering if you could expound on that and what the Catholic Church has historically taught
00:39:16.480
about limbo and what the Catholic Church currently teaches about limbo. And I had a second question,
00:39:22.800
which was, how does it feel to share a nickname with the former first lady of the United States?
00:39:35.700
Really good questions. I guess I'll take the first one first. Yes, someone asked me,
00:39:41.360
some wise guy decided while I was giving a speech about abortion. He said, hey, do babies go to heaven?
00:39:47.380
Do pre-born babies go to heaven? And he expected me to just say yes, but I started to give the
00:39:53.300
traditional Christian answer on it, which is, well, there's actually this concept called limbo.
00:39:57.120
And then he cut me off because he realized he wasn't getting the gotcha answer he wanted. He goes,
00:40:00.280
well, if they go to heaven, we should kill them all, right? Isn't that good? And I was like, well,
00:40:03.400
that's not the answer. That was the problem. So what is limbo? A lot of people are confused about
00:40:07.960
this, including Catholics who don't even know what the church teaches anymore.
00:40:11.540
Limbo is, well, there are two kinds of limbo, traditionally understood. There is the limbo
00:40:19.500
of the just. And the limbo of the just is also referred to in the Bible as the bosom of Abraham.
00:40:24.820
It's the place that souls go after death before the opening up of the kingdom of heaven, before
00:40:33.360
the crucifixion and the resurrection and the redemption of mankind. So it's a kind of a hell,
00:40:43.040
but it's not like the hell with the pitchforks where you're being just brutally tortured for all
00:40:46.900
of eternity. It's nice enough. Maybe you would compare it to the Greek understanding of the
00:40:52.820
Elysian fields. It's kind of nice. Maybe a little less nice than that, but it's okay. And then Christ
00:40:59.020
goes down and harrows hell. And you see this in the writing of St. Peter. You see this in the
00:41:05.740
writing of St. Paul. You see also the necessity for limbo in the gospels, which is Christ goes in
00:41:13.320
and brings the just souls who died before the crucifixion and the resurrection and brings them
00:41:21.020
up to heaven to see the face of God. Christ says that to have eternal life, to be with
00:41:28.920
him in heaven, to see the very face of God, right? You need baptism. You need to be born
00:41:35.900
of water and of blood, reborn. And this baptism washes away original sin. So what happens if you
00:41:43.840
die before you've been baptized, especially in the case of like little unbaptized babies?
00:41:48.120
The traditional teaching of the church is a little complicated in that St. Augustine took a view
00:41:52.280
that was a little bit harsher, which is that they go to hell essentially. But it's not the worst kind
00:41:56.900
of hell. They're not at the very pit being in the most kind of physical and spiritual torture,
00:42:02.220
but it's still hell. St. Thomas Aquinas took a little more lenient view, which is that the limbo
00:42:10.300
of the infants, the place that the infants go after death, is a place of perfect natural happiness,
00:42:16.100
but not supernatural happiness. That in order to have the supernatural happiness of the vision of God
00:42:20.240
himself, the beatific vision, that one must be baptized, that one must be redeemed and have his
00:42:28.860
soul sealed in Christ. But for babies who are not guilty of any sin other than the fallenness of human
00:42:36.620
nature, which we call original sin, they are still able to achieve perfect natural happiness. So it's not
00:42:45.020
like they're whining and complaining. Well, babies always whining and complaining. But it's not that
00:42:49.280
they're despairing in the sense of longing for this supernatural happiness that is unattainable for
00:42:57.400
them. They've got the perfect amount of happiness that one is capable of naturally, but they lack the
00:43:03.620
supernatural happiness that those who have been reborn into Christ can achieve. There's a lot more to say
00:43:09.940
about limbo. I mean, we could go on for hours and hours about what church fathers and doctors of the
00:43:14.420
church have said about limbo, but that's the basic idea. And it is necessary in order to
00:43:20.820
make sense of church teaching, which we get from our Lord himself in the Gospels, which is that
00:43:26.620
to enter heaven, you've got to be baptized and to be reborn in Christ. And so in order to make sense of
00:43:33.640
that, limbo is a place that, one, we actually do see it in the scriptures, but two, we can also
00:43:40.180
deduce it for a reason as great thinkers and theologians have done throughout history. Okay,
00:43:44.880
next one. Hey, Michael, this is a really quick message. Let's say hypothetically, I killed someone
00:43:52.860
because this didn't happen. This didn't happen. Let's say I killed someone and they, just imagine,
00:44:00.580
because you need to imagine, they are laying in front of me. I'm in the kitchen and some people are
00:44:08.060
just knocking at my door. So what can I do to get rid of the body and not get caught? That's my
00:44:18.740
question. It would be great if you could answer that before tomorrow, but anyway, yeah, yeah.
00:44:28.660
So hypothetically, I guess if someone were knocking at the door in this case, what you should do, if you
00:44:33.560
want to avoid jail time, if you don't care about the morality of it, you just open the door,
00:44:36.680
you tell them you are a Democrat. You tell them you're a Democrat, tell them you're happy to help
00:44:41.720
Joe Biden's re-election, you're able to do that, and then you'll get off without a hitch, and probably
00:44:48.040
those coppers will help you get rid of the body themselves. Next question.
00:44:53.220
Hey, Dirty Mike. Mr. Reality here. I wondered if you thought trans people who undergo surgery
00:44:58.660
and claim they're happy with being trans are experiencing a sort of Stockholm syndrome,
00:45:04.280
not unlike someone who's been kidnapped. Obviously, there's some trans people who
00:45:10.020
detransition, and then there's others who insist that they're the happiest they've ever been after
00:45:14.560
they've removed various body parts, and it just doesn't seem like that would be something someone
00:45:19.480
happy would do. But do you think they're all lying about being happy, or do you think some of them have
00:45:25.320
a sort of Stockholm syndrome almost? Thanks. Yeah, probably the latter. I don't know that I'd
00:45:31.260
call it exactly Stockholm syndrome. But yeah, people who engage in destructive behaviors
00:45:37.260
will very often find ways to justify those behaviors to themselves, even if they are conscious
00:45:46.180
at some level of the ways in which it is harming and destroying them. This is because it's easier for
00:45:50.760
people to change their mind than to change their behavior. And especially, in fairness to these people,
00:45:54.660
if they've turned themselves into eunuchs, if they've sterilized themselves, if they've given
00:45:57.880
themselves osteoporosis, if they've completely, or almost completely destroyed their bodies,
00:46:04.080
it's very hard to grapple with that fact. It's very hard to accept that. And so,
00:46:08.580
it's much easier to say, no, this is actually good. Boy, I'm so happy. Aren't I happy? And sort of
00:46:13.860
grit your teeth and bear it. Ultimately, that won't be good for them. The only way out is through. The only
00:46:18.320
way out is to say, gosh, I made a big mistake. Everyone makes big mistakes at some point. And say,
00:46:22.360
I made a big mistake. There's no totally fixing this. But in an ultimate sense, meaning to pursue
00:46:29.020
the good, to pursue the true, to live my life in accordance with the reality. One can do that.
00:46:34.540
But the first step is admitting that you have a problem, which a lot of people won't do.
00:46:38.860
It's true of all sorts of advice. Before we go, really quick, Brittany, would you marry Tim?
00:46:43.500
Brittany is the girlfriend of Tim, who is a member of the Creme de la Creme, a daily viewer of the show,
00:46:54.420
along with his, I hope, soon-to-be fiancee, Brittany. And so, yeah, this is for Tim Blanchfield. He wrote
00:46:59.820
in and asked, hey, Michael, would you mind bringing up a potential marriage proposal for me to the woman
00:47:06.560
I hope will be my wife, you know, love of my life, all that, you know, all that kind of schmaltzy stuff.
00:47:10.780
So anyway, Brittany, just wondering if you would marry Tim. Okay, we've got much more chatting to
00:47:16.860
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