Ep. 1373 - The Lib's Embarrassing Attack On Mike Johnson
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Breaking news from Politico, a major scandal involving the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who sits on the board of a Christian publishing house called Living Waters Publications, and who once narrated a video which suggested there is a link between monkey pox and weird sex stuff among the fellas.
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Breaking news from Politico, a major scandal involving the new Republican Speaker of the House,
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Mike Johnson. They've got him now. The walls are closing in. It turns out,
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according to Politico's crack team of reporters, that Speaker Johnson
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sits on the board of a Christian publishing house called Living Waters Publications,
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the CEO of which is a man named Ray Comfort, who once narrated a video which suggested that there
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is a link between monkey pox and weird sex stuff among the fellas, which is true, obviously.
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But also, the Speaker's office says this is not a reflection of his views.
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That's actually the attack. You might think I'm mocking it or being hyper- That's the attack.
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That's the big breaking news. This attack is so weak that even the other lib outlets are
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just ignoring it. It's just a total flop. If anything, the only reason I mention it,
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it speaks pretty well of the new Speaker in that if this is the best that his opponents have on him,
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then Speaker Johnson must be the cleanest man in the United States.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Okay. Crazy, crazy tension and fighting going on last night in Washington, D.C. The Capitol
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Police tried to wrangle pro-Palestine protesters outside of the DNC headquarters. We'll get to that
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in just a moment. First, though, I don't want to move off Mike Johnson too quickly. This guy seems
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great. He seems so great. He just states basic truths bluntly. He doesn't shy away from them.
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He's extremely socially conservative. He goes on CNBC and was asked about the sacred American
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separation of church and state, and he gives a perfect answer. There is a question about the
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separation of church and state. We often talk on this show about folks, about whether religion
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should play a role inside a company, whether people should be allowed to pray inside a company.
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There's one thing to pray outside and to have your faith, and there's a great importance in that.
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But how do you think about that, and how do you think about the public perception of that?
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Okay, put a pause right there. Buddy, spit it out. What are you talking about? The question is,
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what do you think about the separation of church and state? But he opens up, he goes,
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and there's a question. It's not for me necessarily. It's just a question. Critics say,
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a lot of people are asking, many people are talking about it, that people can have religion,
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but should they be able to have religion in public? Because you can have religion in private,
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I guess. So maybe okay in some cases, unless you think bad things that I disagree with.
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But are you allowed to have those beliefs and do the things and even maybe pray possibly once you
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leave your home? A lot of people are talking about that. What do you think? What do you think about
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that? So he finally spits out some vague semblance of a question. And then, here's Mike Johnson in
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the batter box here, knocks it out of the park. Listen, faith, our deep religious heritage and
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tradition is a big part of what it means to be an American. When the founders set this system up,
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they wanted a vibrant expression of faith in the public square because they believed that
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a general moral consensus and virtue was necessary to maintain this grand experiment in self-governance
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that we created, a government of, by, and for the people. We don't have a king in charge. We don't
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have a middleman. So we've got to keep morality amongst us so that we have accountability.
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And so they wanted faith to be a big part of that. The separation of church and state is a
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misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that
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Jefferson wrote, it's not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the
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government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn't want principles of faith to have
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influence on our public life. It's exactly the opposite. Washington said, of all the
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dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable
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supports. And John Adams came next and he said, our Constitution is made only for a moral and
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religious people. It is wholly inadequate with the government of any other.
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But isn't it bad to pray? Can you imagine that poor CNBC host? And Mike Johnson there,
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completely off the cuff, just gives a perfect summary of the role of religion in public life
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and the way that liberals have revised history to pretend that we were founded as some sort of
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atheist nation or some other such nonsense when our founding fathers were extraordinarily clear
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about the, not only importance, but the necessity of public religion for our government to work.
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Just rattles it right off, knocks that nonsense down. This guy is good. It also shows you Mike Johnson
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is a clearly a very intelligent and educated man, which is not always the case in Congress.
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I remember some years ago, a friend of mine was running for Congress and Tom Price came to the district
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to do a fundraiser. Tom Price became the head of health and human services under Trump.
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Before that, he was a member of Congress, head of the Republican Study Committee. He was a very
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intelligent member of Congress. And he said to my friend, he said, you know, I don't know if you're
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going to like Washington because the median IQ over there in Congress is probably a couple standard
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deviations below what you're used to. Listen, I like the members of Congress. Some of my best friends
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are in Congress, but not always the brightest bulbs in the pack over there. This guy is smart and he's
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educated and he knows what he believes. He's not one of these blow in the wind politicians and he's
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willing to take the fight to the libs, even on contentious cultural social issues. Really, really
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good stuff. Now, is Mike Johnson the most conservative politician in America? No, no, he's not. Because I
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think we would have to give that title right now to Xi Jinping. The Chinese communist dictator came to
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visit California, specifically came to visit San Francisco. And Chairman Xi, with his very brief
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visit to San Francisco, has done more to clean up that city than any politicians, liberal or conservative
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in other parts of America, seem to have done in decades. San Francisco, absolute disaster, druggies,
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criminals on the street, shooting up, dying of exposure, breaking into cars,
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wealthy people fleeing the city, burglaries, vandalism, all that. Xi shows up and right
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before he gets there, all the bums are gone. The crime is cleaned up. All of the broken windows,
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they're all fixed. And you could basically eat off the sidewalks. Very, very impressive.
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Some conservative commentators were dismayed at the pictures from Xi's visit. And I understand why,
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because the streets of San Francisco look like they're the streets of Beijing. There are just
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Chinese red flags everywhere. And it's a little spooky. I don't think we want to become a vassal
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state of China. And I don't want to. I don't want it to seem like I'm singing Xi's praises. Just
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because the Chinese communists are better than American liberals at many, many things,
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that's damning with faint praise. Okay? I'm not saying that's ideal.
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But there are even some conservative commentators who say, look at these images from the streets of
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San Francisco and get ready. That's what America is going to look like soon enough.
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And the fact is, they're basically right about that. It sounds like one of those hyperbolic
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conspiracy theorists, fear-mongering, catastrophist lines. Get pretty soon,
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we're going to just turn into communist China and Chairman Xi is going to be ruling us with an iron
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fist. But what is going to happen? What's going to happen? At the present trajectory of American
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decline and Chinese ascent, two things can happen. The most likely thing is that we're going to have
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a global war. Because most of the time, as the Harvard political scientist Graham Allison has
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showed, when rising powers confront great powers, three quarters of the time in recent history,
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that has led to a major conflict, a war. So likely that's what's going to happen. And then the
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question is, can the United States win a war right now? Can we fight a war? I'm not convinced that we
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can. We're extremely divided. The libs have turned our military into a critical race theory,
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sexual identity struggle session. So I don't know that that's a great idea. The American people are
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extraordinarily divided even on basic first principles. And we're bogged down in all sorts
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of wars of empire around the world that don't directly affect our vital national interests.
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So if some of our vital interests were threatened, say by a rising China, we would probably be
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scrambling to do anything about it. Also, our military was degraded over eight years of Barack
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Obama and certainly neglect under Joe Biden. So that's probably the first thing that would happen.
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But then even, let's say we somehow avoid war or the war turns out fine in the end.
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What will happen is, if China manages to keep on its path, and if America doesn't reverse the decline
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that decadence and liberalism have put us in, then China will be a global power. We'll have first a
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multipolar world with the United States and China as two of the great powers. And then, you know,
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empires are born and they rise and they fall. If America, we hope it doesn't happen, but if America
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does really decline, then we will be subject to the same kind of cultural imperialism that we have
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subjected the rest of the world to. And that's not good. We don't want that. I don't want red Chinese
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flags anywhere in the United States, other than for a few days to clean up the city of San Francisco.
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But that's not something I look forward to. Well, if that's not something you look forward to,
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country from San Francisco, you have Washington, D.C., where a riot broke out last night because
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leftist protesters were rioting outside of the Democrat National Committee headquarters.
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So much so that the news is reporting the DNC had to be evacuated by Capitol Police.
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So hold on here. This wasn't the January 6thers. This wasn't the neo-Nazis and the whites. Well,
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in a way, we'll get to what they were protesting about. This wasn't the white supremacists. This
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wasn't the far right wing, blah, blah, blah, Charlottesville, whatever. These are libs.
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These are the people who were protesting outside of the DNC.
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We're outside the DNC. We're outside the Democrat Party headquarters because this party claims to
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be on the side of life and peace and equality. And we're saying that we want them to live up to
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their values and oppose this horrific war and call for a ceasefire now. And we're being responded to
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by the police shoving anti-war activists down the stairs, shoving peaceful protesters back with their
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bikes. And because our party, our party that 80% of us want a ceasefire, would rather beat up
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protesters. Hold on. One second. One second. One second. Oh, my goodness. Howling like animals.
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There's a lot of cops out there tussling with a lot of protesters outside the DNC.
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This is an example of the phenomenon you saw in the Iran-Iraq war, in which Henry Kissinger famously
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said he wanted them both to lose. That's how I feel about the DNC fighting the leftist protesters.
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What are they fighting over? They're fighting over the conflict in the Holy Land. Of course.
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Because this war in the Holy Land is a real wedge issue for the Democrats. The Democrat elite,
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the Democrat establishment, the Democrat donors support the state of Israel, by and large.
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The Democrat base opposes the state of Israel and supports the Palestine liberation movement,
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by and large. And it's not even particularly close. The vast majority of the activist base
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is extremely anti-Israel, pro-Palestine. And the vast majority of the Democrat establishment
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and donor class is at least significantly pro-Israel and anti-Palestine liberation, which is why
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I really don't have much to say about that war, which has gone on for a very long time and will
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continue to go on for a very long time. For the American political order, the key here is that
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Mike Johnson is a genius for separating Israel funding from Ukraine funding.
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The key to this, I guess my whole thesis today is that the new Republican speaker is just extremely
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clever and is doing a pretty good job. Despite compromising with the Dems on certain things and
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disappointing conservatives in some ways, this is really smart. The first thing that Mike Johnson
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came down and said was, we need to support Israel and we need to get a bill to fund Israel's
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military immediately. And a lot of conservatives said, wait a second, you're supposed to be America
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first. Wait a second. How about we focus on the economy or the border or this or that or the other
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thing? But I read that as a pretty clever move because there was going to be military funding.
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What the Biden administration was pushing for was just massive, virtually endless funding for the
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war in Ukraine and the war in Israel and the war in Taiwan and the war here and the war there.
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And by splitting those things off, you're putting the Democrats on, he's already done it,
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putting the Democrats on the record as being for or against the state of Israel. And either way the
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Democrats vote, they lose. Either the Democrats irritate their country club buddies, the establishment
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types and the neckties with the donor checks, or they irritate those lunatics screeching on the street
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of Washington, D.C. But they need those lunatics to win the elections because those lunatics make up a
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lot of the voters. Now, speaking of liberal activism, liberal activists who just succeeded
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at passing a pro-abortion ballot measure in Ohio are trying to do the same thing in Nebraska.
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This new ballot measure is being supported by Protect Our Rights, which is endorsed by groups
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like the ACLU and all sorts of awful left-wing organizations, Planned Parenthood Advocates of
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Nebraska. They're submitting a petition to the Secretary of State of Nebraska to enshrine the
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supposed right to kill your child in the Nebraska Constitution. Bad idea.
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What do we do about it? Well, what we do about it is we need our own ballot measures.
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Think about what happened in Ohio. Everyone's wringing their hands about this. And they're saying,
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oh, I guess abortion's a losing issue for us. Oh, the squishes are saying the Republicans need to
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ditch abortion. And the conservative answer, I think, is, well, hold on. Where was our ballot
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proposition? The conservative response, I think, is, hold on. What did the Ohio ballot measure say?
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Here's what it said. This is issue one in Ohio. A yes vote for this ballot prop
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supported amending the Ohio Constitution to provide a state constitutional right to
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make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions about
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abortion and contraception and fertility treatment and miscarriage care and continuing pregnancy.
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And it's all this gobbledygook language with a bunch of nonsense, but abortion snuck right there in
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the middle. And so people voted for that because they're not reading these things very closely.
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And it sounds like a vote for yes is a vote for freedom and health and choice and tradition.
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This was really well written by the libs to confuse people.
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Why didn't we have our own ballot measure? Why can't we write the pro-life ballot measure,
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which uses all the same kind of feel-good language, but for something that's actually good
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instead of something that's evil like the liberals are doing? I don't think this is a failure of life.
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I don't think this is a failure of the American people who have overnight become just evil maniacs
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who want to kill all the babies. I think this is a failure of conservative organizers to be wise as
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serpents and innocent as doves. I think this is a failure of the imagination of conservative organizers
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to go out there and get our own ballot props. I also think it's a failure of ambition because
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the conservatives, after Roe v. Wade was overruled, they said, okay, we got it. Now we got to be cool.
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We got to play cool, guys. Let's play a real cool. And we got what we wanted, but let's not push too
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hard on abortion just yet. No, man, that's not how politics works. You got to go with the momentum
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when you've got it. That's not how politics works. In politics, sometimes the best defense is a good
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offense. You're winning on the issue of life. Keep pushing. That's what we did on the trans issue.
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And it got us Virginia and it got us Florida. And it's, it's gotten us a whole lot of other
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elections since then. It turned parents into a conservative voting group because we didn't just
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say, okay, well, we, we were able to win a little bit and raise the age at which you can transition
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quote unquote. No, we said, Hey, these weirdos are trying to push a bunch of weird propaganda
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and sexual grooming in schools. And we're going to kick all of that out. And we're going to eradicate
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transgenderism from public life entirely. The whole ideology at every level to just use a phrase
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off the top of my head. And we've been winning on it ever since it's, it's like when you try to pick
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up a girl at a bar, if you go and you're kind of timid and you, you say, well, hi, hello there,
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lady. No, no, you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to, but maybe would you like to maybe
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go get a cup of coffee? Then you're the girl's going to think you're a weirdo. And she's going to
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think you have something to hide. And she's going to think that you're not very attractive,
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but if you're confident as conservatives ought to be in what we believe, because the things we
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believe are true and good. If you're just confident and normal and you say, yeah, killing babies is
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bad. We're going to get rid of it. Right? We all agree. Cool. Killing babies. No good. Yeah. All
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right, great. And you put that on the ballot. You're going to do a lot better because that's
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slash Michael. Terms and conditions apply. Speaking of babies, Congress Lady Yadira Caraveo
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yesterday was celebrating birth control. This was one of the things trending on Twitter yesterday.
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Thanks, birth control. And this woman, I've never heard of this, this congressman, but she says,
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by age 50, women who had early access to contraceptives earned 8% more per hour than
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those who did not. As a doctor, as a woman, as a member of Congress, I will always defend the
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freedom to choose. Thanks, birth control. I love this tweet. I love it. I don't love contraception.
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I think that's very bad. But I love this tweet because this is the best argument they've got.
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And it's a terrible argument. This is the argument for contraception. The argument for contraception is
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sacrifice your children so that you can earn 8% more money making widgets at the factory. That'll
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be fulfilling. You'll love that. That'll lead to a flourishing life. Yeah, yeah. Don't have kids.
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I understand there are plenty of conservatives who use contraception and who think contraception's
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fine. And I'm just even, pull yourself out for one second and just think about what contraception
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means socially. Forget about the personal choice and if you like it or if you feel that you've
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benefited from it, just pull yourself out. Socially, what it means is fewer babies. We in the United
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States have a dying population. We don't replace ourselves. It's literally a dying country. There
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are fewer Americans every single year, which is why we have to replace those who are not being born
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with mass migration. So you've got a dying country with a dying Western civilization.
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And then what does contraception mean? It means divorcing sex from the purpose of sex, from the
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natural ends of sex, which is procreation, which means what? It means decadent behavior. It means
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ignoring consequences. It means being more promiscuous. It means, what does being more
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promiscuous mean? It means more broken hearts. It means more Me Too movement. It means more using human
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beings just as vessels for our own pleasure rather than actually giving fully of ourselves to another
00:24:49.560
person in holy matrimony through a love that's so real that it actually creates another person.
00:24:54.500
It means things go wrong. If you criticize the sexual revolution, if you are one of the people who
00:25:02.260
says, man, this trans stuff has gone really crazy. Can you believe what they're teaching kids in
00:25:06.060
elementary schools now? You got to ask yourself, okay, did that pop out of thin air or did that come
00:25:11.520
from somewhere else? Well, no, it obviously came from somewhere else. This crazy sexual revolution
00:25:17.140
didn't appear overnight. The trans agenda probably comes from the radical LGBT agenda more broadly,
00:25:23.680
which denies the difference between men and women. Uh-huh. That's right. Keep going. Well,
00:25:27.900
and that was enshrined in the redefinition of marriage, which was a decision from the Supreme Court.
00:25:32.960
Yup. Totally agree. Keep going. Well, I guess the premise that men and women are exactly the same and
00:25:38.500
indiscernible and can substitute for one another. I guess that comes from, well, feminism. Yeah,
00:25:44.560
it does. Feminism, which says women and men are pretty much the same and a woman needs a man like
00:25:48.040
a fish needs a bicycle. That's totally true. Where else though? Where does the sexual revolution come
00:25:53.200
from? What was the single event that upended sexual mores and behavior in the United States?
00:25:58.840
It was the advent of contraception. And not just the advent of contraception as a scientific discovery.
00:26:07.440
There have always been technological means, some more effective, some less effective,
00:26:11.920
for putting off conceiving. That's been true for all of history. We flatter ourselves into thinking
00:26:18.020
that we invent everything under the sun, but we don't. A lot of these things have been longstanding
00:26:24.300
in history, albeit perhaps less effective in the past. The big change was not a technological discovery
00:26:31.340
of birth control. The big change was the cultural mainstreaming of it and the legal enshrining of a
00:26:41.940
license in the constitution. The founding fathers didn't think there was some sacred right to
00:26:47.920
artificial contraception, right? The Supreme Court, the liberal Supreme Court in 1965,
00:26:53.740
just invented that supposed right out of whole cloth. And they said, yeah, in the constitution,
00:26:58.420
somewhere between the first and second amendments, I don't know, it's written in invisible ink,
00:27:02.000
there is a right for married couples, but only married couples to use contraception.
00:27:08.100
And that was the rule. That was Griswold v. Connecticut. And where was that right in the
00:27:12.620
constitution? I don't know. No one's ever shown it to me, but that's what the judges said. So I guess
00:27:16.300
there it is. Seven years later, the judges revisit the issue and they say, hey, actually, no,
00:27:21.220
we got it kind of wrong. Turns out between the second and the third amendment somewhere in
00:27:26.200
invisible ink is a right of unmarried couples to use condoms and stuff too. Where is it? I will
00:27:33.460
show you our work later, but it's anyway, it's in there. It's definitely in there. And we should,
00:27:36.440
yeah, it wasn't, we didn't get it totally right in 65, but 72. Yeah. Artificial contraception.
00:27:41.860
Then what happens the very next year? Abortion, Roe v. Wade is, is discovered in the constitution,
00:27:49.700
the, the magical right to kill your kid. That was between the third and the fourth amendments,
00:27:53.760
I guess, in invisible ink. But that's the, that's the logical consequence of it. If people are having
00:28:00.800
what they perceive to be totally consequence-free sex, if people believe that they have the right
00:28:06.500
to an activity without the natural consequence of that activity, then when the natural consequence
00:28:12.400
of that activity crops up, as of course it's going to do, people have to invent another supposed right
00:28:17.420
to kill that thing, to do whatever they can do up to and including murder to deny the natural
00:28:24.680
consequence of one's actions. So it's not, it's not merely a simple answer of, oh, you old fuddy
00:28:32.140
duddies, you think there's a problem with condoms. It goes much, much deeper. It goes much, much deeper
00:28:37.980
than that to an entire way of viewing the human person and love and marriage and the relationship
00:28:43.600
between men and women, which is the fundamental distinction and fundamental relationship within
00:28:48.040
the human race. And, and this woman boils it down to the, so that's the, that's the conservative
00:28:54.360
argument of why we ought to be a little cautious when it comes to contraceptive methods.
00:28:58.640
The liberal argument is, yeah, but you can make 8% more at your widget job. That's the,
00:29:04.480
that's the best argument. I'm not even mocking this woman. That is the single best argument you
00:29:08.380
can make for mandating the right to contraception everywhere in the world is yeah. But if you,
00:29:16.120
if you have kids, you might not work as much at the widget factory. This is secular liberalism.
00:29:21.600
This is mammon worship. This is all that matters is ticking up GDP and bringing home a slightly
00:29:27.500
larger paycheck and having dual income and no kids. Ah, yes. In my old age, I'll be so comforted
00:29:33.740
by the extra 8% that I made at my widget job. No, I don't think so. I don't think anyone has ever said
00:29:40.140
that, but that's why this kind of secular liberalism is collapsing. And it's why what,
00:29:47.260
what is giving way to is a serious conservatism, a cultural and a social conservatism now represented
00:29:53.360
even in the speaker of the house of representatives. We haven't seen that maybe ever. And on the left,
00:29:58.460
it's giving way to a, a more radical and aggressive, but in some ways, a more serious
00:30:05.560
form of political activism. It says, no, life isn't totally about money. It's about, and they come up
00:30:12.200
with their own cockamamie answers. It's about my identity. It's my, my racial essence. It's about my
00:30:17.740
gender fluidity. It's about, but what they're talking about are still things that are essentially
00:30:23.300
immaterial. It's about my loyalty to this group or to that group. The, the shallow materialism of
00:30:31.220
sacrifice your kids to make 8% more in your widget paycheck, that is not going to speak to the ultimate
00:30:38.540
longings of the human soul. So then the question is, which direction are we going to go in? The radical
00:30:42.920
left direction that tears the whole country to the ground or the conservative direction, which says,
00:30:47.260
no, we actually have things that bind us together and we have responsibilities toward one another.
00:30:50.800
And we shouldn't just use each other as, as economic vessels to, to, to exploit or as sexual
00:30:57.960
vessels to exploit for our own selfish interests, but as fellow citizens with a common interest and a
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Now, speaking of babies, you know, I'm very pro-baby and babies are great and they drive
00:31:42.700
you crazy sometimes because they're up screaming at night and they age you prematurely and they,
00:31:47.820
you know, uh, can really wear you down, but they're also the, the most gratifying thing
00:31:55.180
out there. They, you know, you ask anyone, ask any parent, what, what is your greatest
00:32:01.340
accomplishment? They're not going to say the promotion I got at the widget factory.
00:32:04.600
They're going to say, oh, my kids. But increasingly people are replacing children with pets and they
00:32:11.660
say, well, look, my, I'm a, I'm a dog mom or something. And people will say I'm a dog
00:32:17.560
grandma. And this is, this is very sad. And I don't mean to mock people for it or even attack
00:32:24.320
people for it. We live in a really messed up culture where it's hard to find a husband and
00:32:27.480
it's hard to have kids. And because our culture has lied to us and told women to put off having
00:32:30.800
kids until they're 62, then they discover they can't have kids. And it leads to a deep crisis
00:32:36.440
and a great deal of sadness. So, and, and also they're pumping the food and every, and, and the
00:32:42.600
people full of so many chemicals that infertility is on the rise. So I have a great deal of, of sympathy
00:32:47.540
for people who are dealing with all of that. The answer to those issues is not going to be
00:32:53.480
to project your natural longing for a child onto a puppy or onto a kitten or something like
00:32:59.360
that. The, the answer to that is to be a mother or a father in some kind of way. Not everyone can
00:33:07.800
have kids. Even adoption is not for everybody, but you should endeavor to be involved with human
00:33:15.740
beings. Matt made a great point on one of the last backstages. He said, not everyone's called to be
00:33:20.420
literally a mother or a father, but you can at least be a kind of spiritual mother or father.
00:33:24.920
Obviously people in religious life are that they forego having biological children and,
00:33:28.780
and they have spiritual children and they, you could even call them father. If you, if you go to
00:33:32.960
a more traditional style church or Catholic church, um, you could be a godparent. There are plenty of
00:33:40.480
wonderful godparents out there who don't, they don't have kids of their own, but they have a kind of
00:33:44.560
spiritual parenthood for other people. But increasingly what people are doing is they're saying, no,
00:33:49.080
I'm just going to have a dog and I'm going to treat my dog like a kid. And I'm going to spend more
00:33:52.860
money on my dog than I would sending my kid to Harvard. But there's a new study up and you know,
00:33:57.640
I think studies are fake, but when they back up my points, I'm willing to cite them. The study shows
00:34:02.840
that having pets does not really bring happiness and it doesn't even really improve people's wellbeing.
00:34:11.380
Uh, this study out of Michigan state university assessed, uh, 767 people on three separate occasions
00:34:20.160
in May, 2020. So specifically looking during COVID when people are locked up and, you know,
00:34:25.720
we were told that having a pet, having any life around was going to be really, really helpful.
00:34:29.660
And it just didn't do it. The data sets showed no difference in the wellbeing of pet owners and
00:34:35.540
non-pet owners over time. As a William Chopik, an associate professor in MSU's psych department,
00:34:42.380
coauthor of the study, he says, people say that pets make them happy, but when we actually measure
00:34:45.780
happiness, that doesn't appear to be the case. People see friends as lonely or wanting companionship
00:34:51.600
and they recommend getting pets. Uh, it's unlikely that that will be as transformative as people think.
00:34:56.120
This is really important. Again, I'm skeptical of the entire university system of psychology
00:35:02.220
departments of studies broadly. Uh, yeah, I'm skeptical of all, and even the notion that you
00:35:06.200
can measure happiness, but this rings true to me because human beings are different from animals.
00:35:14.540
It's, it's one of these same lies of liberalism, which tells us that we're actually no different
00:35:18.680
from monkeys or dogs or the Delta smelt or a rock or a tree. We're all just bags of chemicals, man.
00:35:25.580
And, and human beings aren't special. That's a very liberal view. The traditional view is that man is
00:35:31.180
made in the image and likeness of God, and we enjoy the creation. We are stewards of the creation
00:35:35.840
though, and we are quite different from the animals and the rest of creation. And so what we need to do
00:35:41.260
is be involved in, with human beings. The left being misanthropic eschews this idea and says, no, no,
00:35:50.600
you don't need people. People are terrible. Forget about that. We actually need to stop having children.
00:35:54.680
We need to kill old people. We need to kill sick people. We need to kill babies when they are conceived
00:35:59.200
and we don't like them. We need to, we need to just go worship mother nature. People are bad.
00:36:05.580
But the conservatives too, the conservatives for many decades have said, well, actually selfishness
00:36:11.580
is a virtue and we should just go out there and make a lot of money and we can limit family sizes
00:36:15.800
and we shouldn't, I don't need to worry about my fellow man and you do you and I'll do me and just
00:36:20.040
don't bother me and don't make me pay for anything. And both are just not, they're just not true.
00:36:25.320
That's not how human beings actually work. We are the social creature. We're the political animal.
00:36:29.700
We need one another. And there's no substitute for that. You're not going to substitute that for
00:36:34.080
material possessions. You're not going to substitute that with robots or AI. And you're not going to
00:36:39.700
substitute that with a little puppy. You need people. That's why I always say people say, are you a cat
00:36:43.960
person or a dog person? I say, baby, I'm a people person. Speaking of people, my favorite coming
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yesterday is from Sol, quite a name. Wow. Who says, like Dan Bongino says, America's not an
00:36:56.760
airport. You don't need to announce you're leaving. Just leave. That's a good line. Dan has very good
00:37:00.980
lines. That's a good line. The libs always threaten to leave. Barbara Streisand I was saying, I can't,
00:37:07.100
I can't live in America if Trump is president. But lady, you did. You did. And you keep promising to
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Friday deals starting Monday. Speaking of human nature and happiness, here's a story that might tickle
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the conspiracy theorists among you. You know, those awful, crazy conspiracy theorists who are
00:38:46.860
usually almost always right about everything in the last few years. We say the difference between a
00:38:50.660
conspiracy theory and the truth is six months. But the conspiracy theorists and the religious people
00:38:56.120
and the conservatives and... Pope Francis has just signed off on a new document, an official document
00:39:03.960
from the Vatican, reaffirming that Catholics cannot be Freemasons. What? Why can't Catholics be Freemasons?
00:39:12.080
Wait, hold on. Pope Francis, he's supposed to be a big lib and a kumbaya, and some people accuse him of being
00:39:16.200
a Freemason. What do you mean Catholics can't be Freemasons? Hold on, the Freemasons are still around?
00:39:20.080
I know there's some old secret society that I heard about in some movies, but they're that real, and why does
00:39:25.980
the Vatican even care about this? There are all sorts of reasons. The Freemasons are a real group. It's not just
00:39:32.480
something that comes out of conspiracy theory YouTube videos. The Freemasons have largely been opposed to
00:39:39.680
the Catholic Church in particular over the centuries. That part is true. There are lots of conspiracy theories
00:39:45.300
about the Freemasons. Some of those conspiracy theories are true. Some of them seem somewhat dubious
00:39:50.060
to me, but the reason that Pope Francis is reaffirming the consistent and traditional Catholic
00:39:56.580
teaching that Catholics can't be Freemasons is much more basic, and it's a lesson for all of us,
00:40:01.380
no matter what you think your religion or political views are. The basic reason that Catholics can't be
00:40:07.840
Freemasons is because Freemasonry is a sort of religion unto itself. That's the most basic reason.
00:40:15.340
Freemasonry has its own particular conception of God. Freemasonry has its own particular rites and
00:40:24.800
rituals. It even has burial rites. Freemasonry has its own particular conception of mankind and his role
00:40:31.640
in the cosmos vis-a-vis God, whether the Freemasons would call God God or use a different term to refer to
00:40:38.340
God. It's just a different religion. And you cannot simultaneously be a member of two contrary
00:40:48.660
religions. You cannot simultaneously believe contradictory things. You cannot simultaneously
00:40:57.920
serve two gods. You can't do it. I mean, this has been true since the origin, the advent of Christianity.
00:41:03.480
And in fact, since the advent of faith in the Old Testament, since Abraham comes around and says,
00:41:10.540
no, we're going to give up all that pagan stuff because the true God, my God, has told me that
00:41:16.000
he is the one true God and he's greater than all the other gods. You can't do it. I mean, it goes back
00:41:21.600
to Aristotle's law of non-contradiction. Things that are simultaneously, pardon, things that are
00:41:30.160
mutually contradictory cannot simultaneously be true. That's just a fact. And I think a lot of
00:41:36.740
people need to examine that because people generally hold all sorts of different views,
00:41:41.700
especially in a pluralistic country, many of which conflict with one another. So the question you have
00:41:46.360
to ask is, what do you ultimately believe? Where is your ultimate devotion? Where does that lie?
00:41:52.940
And in modern pluralistic countries, we just try to push that question off. And we say, no, you can
00:41:59.480
believe all sorts of contradictory things and be sorts of all party groups. Just don't think too
00:42:03.380
deeply about it. But that's not possible. And even a pope who many refer to as a liberal is pointing
00:42:11.720
that out. Of course. Now, speaking of religion and human flourishing, I meant to get to this story
00:42:18.640
earlier this week, but a lot of you have written in about it. So I think I should address it.
00:42:24.520
Mayflower cigars flew off the shelves. And I want to thank all of you for doing that.
00:42:30.200
We had a supply that even some of the biggest people in the cigar industry, some of the most
00:42:34.240
respected people in the industry said this supply, even at an ambitious sales rate, will last you four
00:42:39.160
months. And it lasted 24 hours. Then you may have seen some new cigars showed up on the website in a
00:42:46.300
totally different size in a Corona Gorda, which is, I think, five and a half by 46 ring gauge or so.
00:42:52.180
Those cigars were cigars that I personally ordered. They were going to make them for me. It was 3,000
00:42:56.540
cigars they were just going to give for my humidor so I could give to friends or more likely smoke than
00:43:00.620
myself. And I get a call from the wonderful woman who is running the operations of Mayflower
00:43:07.100
cigars. And she said, hey, you're not getting your cigars. Sorry, I got to sell them. I'm putting
00:43:10.940
them on the website. And they went on the website. And those also sold out in about two seconds.
00:43:14.740
What you can do now, if you want Mayflower cigars, is go to the website, mayflowercigars.com.
00:43:25.380
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00:43:29.480
come up. I am fairly confident. A lot is in motion right now. I am at least somewhat confident that we
00:43:36.020
will get another batch of cigars in time to ship and arrive before Christmas. But I don't know when
00:43:42.480
that's going to happen. There are a lot of moving parts. So if you want the cigars, go to
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I have to say that every time I talk about it. Put your email address down and you will be notified
00:43:59.620
very, very quickly. The thing is, man, some people, they're talking about all this crazy stuff in the
00:44:06.300
world. All these wars, you know, all economic turmoil, all sort of social turmoil. I'm just
00:44:13.240
here trying to sell you quality cigars at a competitive price. You know, that's just what
00:44:17.660
we're doing over here. A story I did want to get to today, Nikki Haley going after Vivek Ramaswamy
00:44:23.000
and a new poll out from New Hampshire, upending a lot of the undercard race. Trump is still,
00:44:31.100
as he is pretty much everywhere, just dominating by a lot of points in the polls. But the undercard,
00:44:37.040
the number two, number three, number four place candidates, they are shifting around. So I guess
00:44:41.640
we're going to have to get to that tomorrow because today is Theology Thursday. And I am extraordinarily
00:44:45.540
honored to be joined by one of the great living theologians, a friend of mine who I was supposed
00:44:52.940
to see in Nashville a week or two ago. And Daily Wire unceremoniously shipped me out of the country
00:44:58.200
so I couldn't see him. But we will talk to him now. And a lot of you have requested that he come
00:45:02.200
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