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00:00:00.000 Breaking news from Politico, a major scandal involving the new Republican Speaker of the House,

00:00:07.260 Mike Johnson. They've got him now. The walls are closing in. It turns out,

00:00:13.520 according to Politico's crack team of reporters, that Speaker Johnson

00:00:18.160 sits on the board of a Christian publishing house called Living Waters Publications,

00:00:27.500 the CEO of which is a man named Ray Comfort, who once narrated a video which suggested that there

00:00:37.500 is a link between monkey pox and weird sex stuff among the fellas, which is true, obviously.

00:00:45.180 But also, the Speaker's office says this is not a reflection of his views.

00:00:54.700 They've got him now. The walls are closing in.

00:00:58.460 That's actually the attack. You might think I'm mocking it or being hyper- That's the attack.

00:01:04.040 That's the big breaking news. This attack is so weak that even the other lib outlets are

00:01:13.680 just ignoring it. It's just a total flop. If anything, the only reason I mention it,

00:01:20.380 it speaks pretty well of the new Speaker in that if this is the best that his opponents have on him,

00:01:29.160 then Speaker Johnson must be the cleanest man in the United States.

00:01:33.540 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:07.700 Okay. Crazy, crazy tension and fighting going on last night in Washington, D.C. The Capitol

00:02:17.180 Police tried to wrangle pro-Palestine protesters outside of the DNC headquarters. We'll get to that

00:02:22.620 in just a moment. First, though, I don't want to move off Mike Johnson too quickly. This guy seems

00:02:27.020 great. He seems so great. He just states basic truths bluntly. He doesn't shy away from them.

00:02:33.560 He's extremely socially conservative. He goes on CNBC and was asked about the sacred American

00:02:42.300 separation of church and state, and he gives a perfect answer. There is a question about the

00:02:47.820 separation of church and state. We often talk on this show about folks, about whether religion

00:02:54.680 should play a role inside a company, whether people should be allowed to pray inside a company.

00:03:00.980 There's one thing to pray outside and to have your faith, and there's a great importance in that.

00:03:06.420 But how do you think about that, and how do you think about the public perception of that?

00:03:10.560 Okay, put a pause right there. Buddy, spit it out. What are you talking about? The question is,

00:03:18.140 what do you think about the separation of church and state? But he opens up, he goes,

00:03:20.860 and there's a question. It's not for me necessarily. It's just a question. Critics say,

00:03:24.740 a lot of people are asking, many people are talking about it, that people can have religion,

00:03:28.860 but should they be able to have religion in public? Because you can have religion in private,

00:03:33.640 I guess. So maybe okay in some cases, unless you think bad things that I disagree with.

00:03:38.540 But are you allowed to have those beliefs and do the things and even maybe pray possibly once you

00:03:43.780 leave your home? A lot of people are talking about that. What do you think? What do you think about

00:03:48.080 that? So he finally spits out some vague semblance of a question. And then, here's Mike Johnson in

00:03:56.140 the batter box here, knocks it out of the park. Listen, faith, our deep religious heritage and

00:04:02.200 tradition is a big part of what it means to be an American. When the founders set this system up,

00:04:06.300 they wanted a vibrant expression of faith in the public square because they believed that

00:04:09.900 a general moral consensus and virtue was necessary to maintain this grand experiment in self-governance

00:04:15.720 that we created, a government of, by, and for the people. We don't have a king in charge. We don't

00:04:19.380 have a middleman. So we've got to keep morality amongst us so that we have accountability.

00:04:24.260 And so they wanted faith to be a big part of that. The separation of church and state is a

00:04:28.060 misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that

00:04:32.040 Jefferson wrote, it's not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the

00:04:35.960 government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn't want principles of faith to have

00:04:40.500 influence on our public life. It's exactly the opposite. Washington said, of all the

00:04:44.400 dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable

00:04:48.940 supports. And John Adams came next and he said, our Constitution is made only for a moral and

00:04:53.520 religious people. It is wholly inadequate with the government of any other.

00:04:56.980 But isn't it bad to pray? Can you imagine that poor CNBC host? And Mike Johnson there,

00:05:06.740 completely off the cuff, just gives a perfect summary of the role of religion in public life

00:05:14.400 and the way that liberals have revised history to pretend that we were founded as some sort of

00:05:20.180 atheist nation or some other such nonsense when our founding fathers were extraordinarily clear

00:05:25.980 about the, not only importance, but the necessity of public religion for our government to work.

00:05:33.460 Just rattles it right off, knocks that nonsense down. This guy is good. It also shows you Mike Johnson

00:05:41.160 is a clearly a very intelligent and educated man, which is not always the case in Congress.

00:05:46.760 I remember some years ago, a friend of mine was running for Congress and Tom Price came to the district

00:05:51.840 to do a fundraiser. Tom Price became the head of health and human services under Trump.

00:05:56.740 Before that, he was a member of Congress, head of the Republican Study Committee. He was a very

00:05:59.660 intelligent member of Congress. And he said to my friend, he said, you know, I don't know if you're

00:06:03.400 going to like Washington because the median IQ over there in Congress is probably a couple standard

00:06:09.540 deviations below what you're used to. Listen, I like the members of Congress. Some of my best friends

00:06:15.120 are in Congress, but not always the brightest bulbs in the pack over there. This guy is smart and he's

00:06:22.820 educated and he knows what he believes. He's not one of these blow in the wind politicians and he's

00:06:28.000 willing to take the fight to the libs, even on contentious cultural social issues. Really, really

00:06:34.420 good stuff. Now, is Mike Johnson the most conservative politician in America? No, no, he's not. Because I

00:06:42.820 think we would have to give that title right now to Xi Jinping. The Chinese communist dictator came to

00:06:49.700 visit California, specifically came to visit San Francisco. And Chairman Xi, with his very brief

00:06:57.640 visit to San Francisco, has done more to clean up that city than any politicians, liberal or conservative

00:07:05.300 in other parts of America, seem to have done in decades. San Francisco, absolute disaster, druggies,

00:07:14.320 criminals on the street, shooting up, dying of exposure, breaking into cars,

00:07:18.780 wealthy people fleeing the city, burglaries, vandalism, all that. Xi shows up and right

00:07:27.180 before he gets there, all the bums are gone. The crime is cleaned up. All of the broken windows,

00:07:31.960 they're all fixed. And you could basically eat off the sidewalks. Very, very impressive.

00:07:39.840 Some conservative commentators were dismayed at the pictures from Xi's visit. And I understand why,

00:07:46.760 because the streets of San Francisco look like they're the streets of Beijing. There are just

00:07:51.520 Chinese red flags everywhere. And it's a little spooky. I don't think we want to become a vassal

00:07:59.940 state of China. And I don't want to. I don't want it to seem like I'm singing Xi's praises. Just

00:08:04.820 because the Chinese communists are better than American liberals at many, many things,

00:08:09.960 that's damning with faint praise. Okay? I'm not saying that's ideal.

00:08:15.020 But there are even some conservative commentators who say, look at these images from the streets of

00:08:20.340 San Francisco and get ready. That's what America is going to look like soon enough.

00:08:25.400 And the fact is, they're basically right about that. It sounds like one of those hyperbolic

00:08:33.560 conspiracy theorists, fear-mongering, catastrophist lines. Get pretty soon,

00:08:39.400 we're going to just turn into communist China and Chairman Xi is going to be ruling us with an iron

00:08:44.460 fist. But what is going to happen? What's going to happen? At the present trajectory of American

00:08:51.180 decline and Chinese ascent, two things can happen. The most likely thing is that we're going to have

00:08:57.180 a global war. Because most of the time, as the Harvard political scientist Graham Allison has

00:09:04.540 showed, when rising powers confront great powers, three quarters of the time in recent history,

00:09:13.080 that has led to a major conflict, a war. So likely that's what's going to happen. And then the

00:09:18.520 question is, can the United States win a war right now? Can we fight a war? I'm not convinced that we

00:09:23.060 can. We're extremely divided. The libs have turned our military into a critical race theory,

00:09:28.960 sexual identity struggle session. So I don't know that that's a great idea. The American people are

00:09:37.060 extraordinarily divided even on basic first principles. And we're bogged down in all sorts

00:09:41.420 of wars of empire around the world that don't directly affect our vital national interests.

00:09:46.080 So if some of our vital interests were threatened, say by a rising China, we would probably be

00:09:52.620 scrambling to do anything about it. Also, our military was degraded over eight years of Barack

00:09:58.540 Obama and certainly neglect under Joe Biden. So that's probably the first thing that would happen.

00:10:04.060 But then even, let's say we somehow avoid war or the war turns out fine in the end.

00:10:10.500 What will happen is, if China manages to keep on its path, and if America doesn't reverse the decline

00:10:18.540 that decadence and liberalism have put us in, then China will be a global power. We'll have first a

00:10:24.040 multipolar world with the United States and China as two of the great powers. And then, you know,

00:10:29.260 empires are born and they rise and they fall. If America, we hope it doesn't happen, but if America

00:10:35.200 does really decline, then we will be subject to the same kind of cultural imperialism that we have

00:10:41.100 subjected the rest of the world to. And that's not good. We don't want that. I don't want red Chinese

00:10:47.520 flags anywhere in the United States, other than for a few days to clean up the city of San Francisco.

00:10:52.520 But that's not something I look forward to. Well, if that's not something you look forward to,

00:10:56.320 if you don't look forward to decline, if you don't look forward to cultural imperialism and

00:11:01.420 outright invasion when you don't have any borders, then you have to support an agenda that will make

00:11:07.740 America great again. Then you have to support an agenda, not just of small government, not just of

00:11:15.520 global liberalism and running every single country around the world. You have to support an agenda that

00:11:23.540 is specifically oriented toward national greatness in the United States. And very few people seem willing

00:11:30.380 to do that. Now, one way to begin is around the kitchen table. Ronald Reagan said all good politics

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00:13:06.580 country from San Francisco, you have Washington, D.C., where a riot broke out last night because

00:13:10.960 leftist protesters were rioting outside of the Democrat National Committee headquarters.

00:13:19.220 So much so that the news is reporting the DNC had to be evacuated by Capitol Police.

00:13:23.500 So hold on here. This wasn't the January 6thers. This wasn't the neo-Nazis and the whites. Well,

00:13:30.200 in a way, we'll get to what they were protesting about. This wasn't the white supremacists. This

00:13:34.920 wasn't the far right wing, blah, blah, blah, Charlottesville, whatever. These are libs.

00:13:41.120 These are the people who were protesting outside of the DNC.

00:13:43.880 We're outside the DNC. We're outside the Democrat Party headquarters because this party claims to

00:13:49.980 be on the side of life and peace and equality. And we're saying that we want them to live up to

00:13:54.900 their values and oppose this horrific war and call for a ceasefire now. And we're being responded to

00:14:00.600 by the police shoving anti-war activists down the stairs, shoving peaceful protesters back with their

00:14:06.480 bikes. And because our party, our party that 80% of us want a ceasefire, would rather beat up

00:14:14.020 protesters. Hold on. One second. One second. One second. Oh, my goodness. Howling like animals.

00:14:22.960 There's a lot of cops out there tussling with a lot of protesters outside the DNC.

00:14:34.080 This is an example of the phenomenon you saw in the Iran-Iraq war, in which Henry Kissinger famously

00:14:41.720 said he wanted them both to lose. That's how I feel about the DNC fighting the leftist protesters.

00:14:47.760 What are they fighting over? They're fighting over the conflict in the Holy Land. Of course.

00:14:52.960 Because this war in the Holy Land is a real wedge issue for the Democrats. The Democrat elite,

00:15:02.120 the Democrat establishment, the Democrat donors support the state of Israel, by and large.

00:15:06.340 The Democrat base opposes the state of Israel and supports the Palestine liberation movement,

00:15:12.560 by and large. And it's not even particularly close. The vast majority of the activist base

00:15:20.300 is extremely anti-Israel, pro-Palestine. And the vast majority of the Democrat establishment

00:15:26.220 and donor class is at least significantly pro-Israel and anti-Palestine liberation, which is why

00:15:33.100 I really don't have much to say about that war, which has gone on for a very long time and will

00:15:37.860 continue to go on for a very long time. For the American political order, the key here is that

00:15:45.000 Mike Johnson is a genius for separating Israel funding from Ukraine funding.

00:15:52.140 The key to this, I guess my whole thesis today is that the new Republican speaker is just extremely

00:15:56.380 clever and is doing a pretty good job. Despite compromising with the Dems on certain things and

00:16:03.000 disappointing conservatives in some ways, this is really smart. The first thing that Mike Johnson

00:16:07.240 came down and said was, we need to support Israel and we need to get a bill to fund Israel's

00:16:11.840 military immediately. And a lot of conservatives said, wait a second, you're supposed to be America

00:16:15.460 first. Wait a second. How about we focus on the economy or the border or this or that or the other

00:16:19.500 thing? But I read that as a pretty clever move because there was going to be military funding.

00:16:24.360 What the Biden administration was pushing for was just massive, virtually endless funding for the

00:16:29.160 war in Ukraine and the war in Israel and the war in Taiwan and the war here and the war there.

00:16:33.500 And by splitting those things off, you're putting the Democrats on, he's already done it,

00:16:38.080 putting the Democrats on the record as being for or against the state of Israel. And either way the

00:16:44.840 Democrats vote, they lose. Either the Democrats irritate their country club buddies, the establishment

00:16:51.640 types and the neckties with the donor checks, or they irritate those lunatics screeching on the street

00:16:56.900 of Washington, D.C. But they need those lunatics to win the elections because those lunatics make up a

00:17:01.940 lot of the voters. Now, speaking of liberal activism, liberal activists who just succeeded

00:17:09.560 at passing a pro-abortion ballot measure in Ohio are trying to do the same thing in Nebraska.

00:17:18.300 This new ballot measure is being supported by Protect Our Rights, which is endorsed by groups

00:17:23.800 like the ACLU and all sorts of awful left-wing organizations, Planned Parenthood Advocates of

00:17:29.440 Nebraska. They're submitting a petition to the Secretary of State of Nebraska to enshrine the

00:17:38.980 supposed right to kill your child in the Nebraska Constitution. Bad idea.

00:17:45.680 What do we do about it? Well, what we do about it is we need our own ballot measures.

00:17:51.800 Think about what happened in Ohio. Everyone's wringing their hands about this. And they're saying,

00:17:56.740 oh, I guess abortion's a losing issue for us. Oh, the squishes are saying the Republicans need to

00:18:01.240 ditch abortion. And the conservative answer, I think, is, well, hold on. Where was our ballot

00:18:08.400 proposition? The conservative response, I think, is, hold on. What did the Ohio ballot measure say?

00:18:13.440 Here's what it said. This is issue one in Ohio. A yes vote for this ballot prop

00:18:21.900 supported amending the Ohio Constitution to provide a state constitutional right to

00:18:28.240 make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions about

00:18:35.560 abortion and contraception and fertility treatment and miscarriage care and continuing pregnancy.

00:18:42.180 And it's all this gobbledygook language with a bunch of nonsense, but abortion snuck right there in

00:18:47.360 the middle. And so people voted for that because they're not reading these things very closely.

00:18:53.280 And it sounds like a vote for yes is a vote for freedom and health and choice and tradition.

00:18:58.660 This was really well written by the libs to confuse people.

00:19:04.400 Why didn't we have our own ballot measure? Why can't we write the pro-life ballot measure,

00:19:08.280 which uses all the same kind of feel-good language, but for something that's actually good

00:19:12.920 instead of something that's evil like the liberals are doing? I don't think this is a failure of life.

00:19:18.120 I don't think this is a failure of the American people who have overnight become just evil maniacs

00:19:23.040 who want to kill all the babies. I think this is a failure of conservative organizers to be wise as

00:19:28.520 serpents and innocent as doves. I think this is a failure of the imagination of conservative organizers

00:19:33.720 to go out there and get our own ballot props. I also think it's a failure of ambition because

00:19:38.860 the conservatives, after Roe v. Wade was overruled, they said, okay, we got it. Now we got to be cool.

00:19:43.140 We got to play cool, guys. Let's play a real cool. And we got what we wanted, but let's not push too

00:19:48.860 hard on abortion just yet. No, man, that's not how politics works. You got to go with the momentum

00:19:54.360 when you've got it. That's not how politics works. In politics, sometimes the best defense is a good

00:20:01.140 offense. You're winning on the issue of life. Keep pushing. That's what we did on the trans issue.

00:20:06.560 And it got us Virginia and it got us Florida. And it's, it's gotten us a whole lot of other

00:20:10.480 elections since then. It turned parents into a conservative voting group because we didn't just

00:20:16.360 say, okay, well, we, we were able to win a little bit and raise the age at which you can transition

00:20:22.060 quote unquote. No, we said, Hey, these weirdos are trying to push a bunch of weird propaganda

00:20:26.900 and sexual grooming in schools. And we're going to kick all of that out. And we're going to eradicate

00:20:31.660 transgenderism from public life entirely. The whole ideology at every level to just use a phrase

00:20:36.720 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

00:20:41.900 up a girl at a bar, if you go and you're kind of timid and you, you say, well, hi, hello there,

00:20:47.440 lady. No, no, you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to, but maybe would you like to maybe

00:20:50.020 go get a cup of coffee? Then you're the girl's going to think you're a weirdo. And she's going to

00:20:54.200 think you have something to hide. And she's going to think that you're not very attractive,

00:20:57.600 but if you're confident as conservatives ought to be in what we believe, because the things we

00:21:02.860 believe are true and good. If you're just confident and normal and you say, yeah, killing babies is

00:21:07.380 bad. We're going to get rid of it. Right? We all agree. Cool. Killing babies. No good. Yeah. All

00:21:11.540 right, great. And you put that on the ballot. You're going to do a lot better because that's

00:21:17.180 what the lives have done for things that they should not be confident about that are false and

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00:22:32.640 yesterday was celebrating birth control. This was one of the things trending on Twitter yesterday.

00:22:40.040 Thanks, birth control. And this woman, I've never heard of this, this congressman, but she says,

00:22:47.120 by age 50, women who had early access to contraceptives earned 8% more per hour than

00:22:52.900 those who did not. As a doctor, as a woman, as a member of Congress, I will always defend the

00:22:57.760 freedom to choose. Thanks, birth control. I love this tweet. I love it. I don't love contraception.

00:23:05.140 I think that's very bad. But I love this tweet because this is the best argument they've got.

00:23:13.280 And it's a terrible argument. This is the argument for contraception. The argument for contraception is

00:23:18.320 sacrifice your children so that you can earn 8% more money making widgets at the factory. That'll

00:23:27.800 be fulfilling. You'll love that. That'll lead to a flourishing life. Yeah, yeah. Don't have kids.

00:23:31.940 I understand there are plenty of conservatives who use contraception and who think contraception's

00:23:37.780 fine. And I'm just even, pull yourself out for one second and just think about what contraception

00:23:44.600 means socially. Forget about the personal choice and if you like it or if you feel that you've

00:23:50.840 benefited from it, just pull yourself out. Socially, what it means is fewer babies. We in the United

00:23:56.060 States have a dying population. We don't replace ourselves. It's literally a dying country. There

00:24:02.020 are fewer Americans every single year, which is why we have to replace those who are not being born

00:24:08.460 with mass migration. So you've got a dying country with a dying Western civilization.

00:24:15.300 And then what does contraception mean? It means divorcing sex from the purpose of sex, from the

00:24:22.220 natural ends of sex, which is procreation, which means what? It means decadent behavior. It means

00:24:31.160 ignoring consequences. It means being more promiscuous. It means, what does being more

00:24:36.080 promiscuous mean? It means more broken hearts. It means more Me Too movement. It means more using human

00:24:43.900 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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00:31:36.020 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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00:37:00.980 lines. That's a good line. The libs always threaten to leave. Barbara Streisand I was saying, I can't,

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00:38:42.160 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 Enter your name at the bottom of the page. Enter your email address. You will be notified when they

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

00:43:46.640 mayflowercigars.com. You must be 21 years old or older to purchase. Some exclusions may apply.

00:43:52.960 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

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