The Michael Knowles Show - December 19, 2023


Ep. 1391 - Did The Pope Bless Same-Sex Couples？


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Summary

Did the Pope give his blessing to same-sex relationships yesterday, as the media breathlessly reported? No, not quite, but I understand why you might think so. In a new document for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office, the Holy See's formerly-known as the Inquisition, the Church has declared that priests can give same sex couples a spontaneous blessing, but not one that is liturgical or resembles marriage.


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00:00:30.320 Did the Pope give his blessing to same-sex relationships yesterday as the media breathlessly reported?
00:00:36.940 No, not quite, but I understand why you might think so.
00:00:42.540 In a new document for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith,
00:00:45.600 formerly known as the Holy Office, formerly known as the Inquisition,
00:00:48.100 the church has declared that priests can give same-sex couples a, quote,
00:00:52.740 spontaneous blessing, but not a blessing that is, quote, liturgical or resembles marriage.
00:00:58.460 No, quote, clothes, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding can be included so as to,
00:01:05.160 quote, avoid any form of confusion or scandal.
00:01:08.500 The blessings cannot be connected in any way to civil unions and, quote,
00:01:12.880 rites and prayers that could create confusion between what constitutes a marriage,
00:01:16.420 which is the exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman,
00:01:22.120 naturally open to the generation of children.
00:01:25.340 So, no.
00:01:27.100 Now, the church did not approve the blessing of same-sex unions, exactly.
00:01:33.740 And yet, some liberal priests, including one media-savvy Jesuit in particular who's inordinately
00:01:40.000 obsessed with weird sex stuff, has celebrated the document as, quote, a major step forward
00:01:45.880 and mocked the notion advocated by conservatives that nothing had changed.
00:01:49.880 So, what does this mean?
00:01:52.080 It means, I'm sorry to say, just about whatever you want it to mean.
00:01:57.240 It means that the Vatican has not officially approved blessings for same-sex unions,
00:02:01.960 as many are reporting, but it also means something else.
00:02:05.320 Something that affects not just Catholics, not just professing Christians broadly, but everyone.
00:02:11.320 It means, this is why I even bring up the story, it means that weaponized ambiguity will cause scandal.
00:02:21.880 Because clarity is charity and confusion is not.
00:02:25.800 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:26.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:41.320 Welcome back to the show.
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00:04:13.800 A lot of people listening aren't Catholic, and so they don't really care what the Pope or the Vatican say about marriage,
00:04:19.280 and I totally get that.
00:04:20.500 A lot of people listening are not Christian.
00:04:22.220 A lot of people listening are not religious in any conscious way.
00:04:26.160 So who cares what the Vatican has to say about marriage?
00:04:32.240 Everybody really should care because the Catholic Church, whether you like it or not,
00:04:37.100 or you believe in it or not, or you're a member of it or not,
00:04:39.280 the Catholic Church is the oldest continuously extant institution in the West.
00:04:45.800 The Catholic Church, whether you like it or not or don't like it,
00:04:47.960 you know, it built our civilization.
00:04:51.480 It is the single institution that built our civilization.
00:04:55.940 It affects many, many people around the world,
00:04:58.980 and marriage is the fundamental political building block.
00:05:04.180 So the way that those two things interact,
00:05:09.220 the Catholic Church and marriage,
00:05:10.760 is going to have effects everywhere on Earth.
00:05:14.220 And it makes perfect sense for people to be concerned here
00:05:18.160 because of the confusion.
00:05:20.620 You know, this is something in modern politics that we see a lot.
00:05:25.720 It's kind of like the Bill Clinton political strategy.
00:05:28.960 And I'm not accusing anyone in the Vatican of intentionally undertaking this strategy,
00:05:33.040 but this is how it's being perceived by a lot of people.
00:05:36.680 The Bill Clinton strategy of you go into a room with 100 people,
00:05:39.820 all of whom disagree,
00:05:40.940 and everyone leaves the room thinking that Bill Clinton agrees with them.
00:05:44.700 Barack Obama had a similar strategy.
00:05:46.480 Go into a room, everyone disagrees,
00:05:48.100 and yet everyone thinks, oh, that guy's on my side.
00:05:50.100 That guy agrees with me.
00:05:52.660 People with wildly different views on marriage,
00:05:56.220 the fundamental political unit,
00:05:57.740 are going to read this document.
00:05:59.080 And they're going to think, oh, the church agrees with me.
00:06:02.560 Fairly or unfairly.
00:06:04.040 But that kind of ambiguity is going to be weaponized.
00:06:07.080 It is going to cause scandal.
00:06:08.040 And it's going to cause scandal regarding the fundamental political institution.
00:06:12.680 That's very worrisome.
00:06:14.000 Now, speaking of holy questions,
00:06:15.460 turning to a completely different matter,
00:06:17.600 there is a very disturbing claim coming out of the war in Israel.
00:06:21.840 And the claim is that the IDF, the Israeli army,
00:06:27.380 shot an elderly Christian woman and her daughter
00:06:31.300 on the grounds of a parish, the Holy Family Parish, on Saturday.
00:06:37.120 There's also a claim that a rocket, at least one,
00:06:40.460 fired from an Israeli tank struck a nun's convent,
00:06:45.380 a convent actually for the order that was founded by Mother Teresa.
00:06:49.620 So this is obviously a very disturbing allegation,
00:06:52.260 but it's the fog of war.
00:06:53.480 So who knows if it's true?
00:06:55.300 We hear these sorts of claims.
00:06:56.780 Sometimes it's propaganda coming from Hamas.
00:06:59.040 We hear these sorts of claims.
00:07:00.500 Sometimes they're credible.
00:07:01.520 In this case, the claim is coming from a credible person.
00:07:04.800 That would be the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
00:07:06.640 This is the highest ranking official,
00:07:09.860 Catholic official in the Holy Land.
00:07:11.680 It's an office that was established in the 11th century.
00:07:14.540 So what happened?
00:07:15.900 Well, the IDF now is denying it.
00:07:17.660 The IDF is saying that they are refuting the claim
00:07:21.860 that it had targeted a Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip.
00:07:27.220 They are stressing that the IDF, quote,
00:07:29.760 does not target civilians no matter their religion.
00:07:33.180 They say that they spoke with church representatives
00:07:36.420 about an incident in the Holy Family Parish,
00:07:38.500 but, quote, no reports of a hit on the church,
00:07:41.960 nor civilians being injured or killed,
00:07:43.780 were raised during this phone call
00:07:47.040 that they had with church officials.
00:07:49.880 And then the IDF says,
00:07:50.820 a review of the IDF's operational findings support this.
00:07:52.980 The IDF takes claims regarding harm to sensitive sites
00:07:55.120 with the utmost seriousness,
00:07:56.320 especially churches considering that Christian communities
00:07:58.840 are a minority group in the Middle East.
00:08:00.240 Okay, I don't like this denial
00:08:02.060 because notice they're not exactly denying it.
00:08:06.580 Notice the language.
00:08:07.660 The language here is very, very precise.
00:08:09.780 The IDF is saying they didn't target a Catholic parish.
00:08:13.520 Well, okay, they might not have targeted the parish,
00:08:15.800 but they might have accidentally shot these people.
00:08:19.220 I mean, the IDF just admitted
00:08:20.180 to accidentally killing Israeli hostages
00:08:22.860 that were being held by Hamas.
00:08:26.400 So it happened.
00:08:28.200 I'm not saying these things are not understandable in any way.
00:08:32.700 It's the fog of war and accidents happen.
00:08:34.440 That's why we have clinical terms that are so ghastly,
00:08:36.720 but terms like collateral damage or, you know,
00:08:40.580 bad and accidental things happen in war.
00:08:43.500 The IDF is not denying, it seems to me,
00:08:46.000 that a bad and accidental thing happened.
00:08:47.800 They're just saying we don't target it.
00:08:49.080 Then they go on.
00:08:49.760 We don't target civilians, no matter their religion.
00:08:51.880 They say no reports of a hit on the church,
00:08:55.360 but they were contacted by church representatives
00:08:57.640 about an incident in the parish.
00:08:59.380 Well, what does that mean?
00:09:00.160 I don't understand why the church representatives
00:09:05.600 would have called the IDF about an incident in the parish
00:09:08.540 if that did not pertain to some kind of hit on the church,
00:09:13.000 unless the IDF is drawing a very fine distinction here
00:09:15.820 between the church and the parish.
00:09:17.960 Maybe it were some other building.
00:09:19.180 Maybe it were a convent.
00:09:20.760 Maybe it were a dormitory.
00:09:22.500 Maybe it were some other,
00:09:23.360 but this distinction seems to me to be a little too precise
00:09:28.380 to really constitute a denial.
00:09:31.800 And then you have to deal with the IDF's first statement.
00:09:36.340 When the IDF first came out here, they said,
00:09:38.320 an initial review suggests that IDF troops
00:09:40.380 who were operating against Hamas,
00:09:42.540 terrorists in the area,
00:09:43.820 operated against a threat that they identified
00:09:45.780 in the area of the church.
00:09:47.200 The IDF is conducting a thorough review of the incident.
00:09:49.080 So initially, the IDF seems to admit
00:09:51.820 that they were conducting some kind of operation around here.
00:09:55.040 And the operation could even have been justified
00:09:57.800 to say, well, we were going after Hamas terrorists
00:09:59.620 and we just got it wrong.
00:10:01.640 We just, we thought we were killing Hamas terrorists.
00:10:03.340 We killed two innocent Christians, civilians,
00:10:05.560 who were just taking shelter.
00:10:08.800 But whatever this denial is, it is not sufficient.
00:10:14.160 Not sufficient at all.
00:10:15.680 Seems very weak.
00:10:16.840 And especially that you've got the claims
00:10:19.180 not coming from some, you know, Hamas media outlet,
00:10:22.080 not coming from some Islamist news organization,
00:10:25.800 but it's coming from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
00:10:28.320 that has a fair bit of credibility, let's say.
00:10:31.620 The IDF needs to answer for this.
00:10:33.960 Not just in the name of justice,
00:10:37.760 though that would be good.
00:10:39.660 The IDF, the State of Israel,
00:10:41.320 should take this incident very, very seriously.
00:10:43.980 And they should answer for this,
00:10:45.660 if for no other reason than out of self-interest.
00:10:49.060 If you are a supporter of the State of Israel,
00:10:52.940 you should be very, very interested
00:10:55.540 in an answer for this incident.
00:10:57.480 Because there is nothing,
00:10:59.180 there is nothing in the world
00:11:00.480 that will more quickly lose support
00:11:02.800 for the State of Israel
00:11:03.620 than this kind of an incident.
00:11:08.320 Than an unanswered claim
00:11:10.480 that the IDF is sniping Christian civilians,
00:11:13.400 women, blowing up a convent.
00:11:15.440 There is nothing, there is nothing
00:11:18.700 at a time when international support
00:11:20.920 for Israel is shaky at best.
00:11:22.780 And even in the United States
00:11:23.760 for the first time in decades
00:11:24.740 is beginning to weaken.
00:11:26.400 There is nothing that will more quickly
00:11:28.560 crater Western support for the State of Israel
00:11:32.400 than this kind of a claim
00:11:33.720 if it goes unanswered.
00:11:35.740 And perhaps it is the case
00:11:37.660 that the IDF just says,
00:11:38.820 shoot, we didn't mean to do this.
00:11:41.360 This looks really, really bad.
00:11:43.020 We're just going to try to vaguely talk around it
00:11:45.400 and hope that people move on.
00:11:46.480 I don't think people are going to move on.
00:11:47.980 This has risen to the level
00:11:48.880 of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
00:11:50.000 and the Pope.
00:11:51.080 The Pope repeated this.
00:11:52.520 And look, some people have mixed opinions
00:11:54.000 on the Pope.
00:11:54.900 But when it comes to Christian civilians being killed,
00:11:57.020 that's going to interest everybody in the West.
00:12:00.580 It would be good to get an answer
00:12:02.000 for the cause of justice.
00:12:04.280 In times of war,
00:12:06.460 bad accidents happen.
00:12:08.400 In every war, on every side.
00:12:10.160 But even for the purpose of self-interest,
00:12:16.620 even for the most,
00:12:18.320 and especially for the most ardent defenders
00:12:20.580 of the State of Israel,
00:12:21.780 there needs to be an answer for this.
00:12:23.620 People are not going to move on
00:12:24.760 from this kind of thing.
00:12:26.720 No one on the right,
00:12:28.240 and perhaps I'm overstating it,
00:12:30.320 no mainstream person on the right
00:12:31.920 is an ardent Palestine liberation activist.
00:12:37.120 Okay?
00:12:37.220 No serious person on the right
00:12:39.640 would ever support Hamas
00:12:41.940 or the radical Islamists
00:12:43.300 or anything like this.
00:12:44.400 Okay?
00:12:45.200 Which is why support for the State of Israel
00:12:46.940 tends to be much more concentrated
00:12:48.380 on the right.
00:12:49.100 The left is now marching
00:12:50.200 in defense of Hamas.
00:12:51.620 And Ivy League universities
00:12:52.920 are talking about how
00:12:53.880 Hamas committing a genocide
00:12:55.660 on the Jews is a little contextual.
00:12:57.960 You know, and we need to just consider it.
00:12:59.380 And certain pogroms
00:13:00.460 are actually totally fine.
00:13:01.500 Right, so the right
00:13:03.960 is still strongly supportive
00:13:07.380 of the State of Israel.
00:13:08.240 This is the one issue
00:13:09.000 that could start to break that.
00:13:10.780 And so there needs to be an answer.
00:13:12.740 Now, speaking of the Catholic Church,
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00:14:47.620 Speaking of foreign policy,
00:14:49.820 Nikki Haley
00:14:50.340 is attacking Donald Trump.
00:14:52.040 She smells blood
00:14:53.680 in the water.
00:14:54.960 And so she's going
00:14:55.520 after Trump,
00:14:56.060 not on the economy,
00:14:57.420 not even on domestic matters,
00:15:02.360 on foreign policy.
00:15:03.600 Here she is.
00:15:04.500 There are things
00:15:05.420 I agree with the president on.
00:15:07.100 I had a good working
00:15:07.900 relationship with him.
00:15:08.820 There are things
00:15:09.220 I don't agree.
00:15:10.080 I don't agree
00:15:11.080 with the fact that,
00:15:13.320 yes, we had a good economy
00:15:14.860 while he was there,
00:15:15.820 but he put us
00:15:17.080 $8 trillion in debt
00:15:19.280 that our kids
00:15:19.820 are never going
00:15:20.360 to forgive us for.
00:15:21.380 I don't agree
00:15:22.360 with how he handles
00:15:23.560 national security.
00:15:24.840 He focused on trade
00:15:25.920 with China,
00:15:26.400 but he did nothing
00:15:27.180 about the fentanyl flow.
00:15:28.460 He did nothing
00:15:29.220 about the fact that fentanyl
00:15:30.840 has killed so many
00:15:32.040 of our Americans.
00:15:33.140 I don't think
00:15:34.040 you should praise Hezbollah.
00:15:35.560 I don't think
00:15:36.280 you should criticize Netanyahu
00:15:37.800 when Israel's down
00:15:38.880 on her knees.
00:15:39.600 I don't think
00:15:40.300 you should congratulate
00:15:41.140 the Chinese Communist Party
00:15:42.620 on their 70th anniversary.
00:15:44.580 I think that when it comes
00:15:46.060 to national security,
00:15:47.500 we don't praise thugs.
00:15:49.200 We let them know
00:15:50.560 where we stand
00:15:51.240 and we let them know
00:15:52.280 they'll be held to pay
00:15:53.120 if they do anything
00:15:54.280 against us.
00:15:54.980 That's who I am.
00:15:56.640 Okay.
00:15:57.520 This is Nikki Haley
00:15:59.560 fully embracing
00:16:01.940 the establishment lane
00:16:03.820 in the GOP race.
00:16:06.760 And it's probably
00:16:07.860 a smart political move
00:16:08.800 for her.
00:16:10.140 This is Nikki Haley
00:16:11.400 saying the ways
00:16:13.200 in which Donald Trump
00:16:14.540 changed the Republican Party's
00:16:16.940 position on foreign policy,
00:16:19.420 I am going to change it back,
00:16:22.420 which is smart.
00:16:25.000 Donald Trump
00:16:25.960 upended some aspects
00:16:28.300 of domestic policy,
00:16:29.760 but not too much.
00:16:30.880 He changed the Republican line
00:16:32.520 on domestic policy
00:16:33.380 a little bit
00:16:33.840 in that he said,
00:16:35.220 hey, Paul Ryan,
00:16:36.960 the young guns,
00:16:38.240 the fiscal hawks,
00:16:39.860 we're done with those guys.
00:16:41.260 We're not going to
00:16:42.160 reform entitlements.
00:16:43.440 We're not going to cut
00:16:44.140 Medicare, Medicaid,
00:16:44.980 Social Security.
00:16:45.560 We're going to keep them
00:16:46.580 exactly as is.
00:16:48.580 That was a little bit
00:16:49.560 of a shift.
00:16:51.320 On domestic policy,
00:16:52.620 he said, hey,
00:16:53.240 we're going to limit
00:16:54.260 illegal immigration.
00:16:56.160 Remember, he said that
00:16:56.720 we want more legal immigration
00:16:57.800 than ever.
00:16:58.240 So he didn't even really change
00:16:59.280 the GOP line too much
00:17:00.940 on that.
00:17:01.780 But on foreign policy,
00:17:02.600 that was a big shift.
00:17:03.640 He said, Bush was totally wrong.
00:17:05.140 The wars in the Middle East
00:17:05.940 were stupid.
00:17:07.220 Vladimir Putin's
00:17:08.000 a very smart guy.
00:17:09.280 We're going to stop
00:17:10.760 cozying up to China.
00:17:12.020 We're going to radically
00:17:12.640 change our trade relationship
00:17:13.780 with China.
00:17:14.380 We're going to,
00:17:15.400 I'm going to go meet
00:17:15.940 with Kim Jong-un,
00:17:16.840 even though he's
00:17:17.300 a short, fat guy
00:17:18.080 and I got a bigger button.
00:17:19.000 I'm going to blow him up
00:17:19.720 if he threatens me again.
00:17:20.720 And he totally upended
00:17:22.540 foreign policy.
00:17:24.600 Now, the problem
00:17:25.760 for Nikki Haley's
00:17:26.600 attack here is
00:17:27.580 Donald Trump
00:17:28.680 is the most successful
00:17:29.440 foreign policy president
00:17:30.520 probably of my lifetime.
00:17:32.560 I guess you would give
00:17:33.180 a little bit of credit
00:17:33.920 to George H.W. Bush
00:17:35.080 who managed
00:17:35.820 the collapse
00:17:36.460 of the Soviet Union
00:17:37.360 and who managed
00:17:38.420 the first Iraq war.
00:17:39.460 Even if you didn't support
00:17:41.920 going into that war
00:17:42.540 in the first place,
00:17:43.240 it was a relatively
00:17:44.000 successful war.
00:17:45.140 Maybe he's the most
00:17:45.820 successful foreign policy
00:17:46.660 president since Ronald Reagan
00:17:47.860 who won the Cold War.
00:17:50.140 But if you're Nikki Haley
00:17:51.260 and you're attacking
00:17:52.000 Trump on foreign policy,
00:17:54.240 what exactly
00:17:55.520 are you going to attack?
00:17:56.440 You're going to attack
00:17:57.120 his language.
00:17:58.820 You're going to attack
00:17:59.460 his tweets.
00:18:00.140 But in terms of results,
00:18:05.040 the guy convinced Putin
00:18:08.580 not to further invade
00:18:10.020 any more countries.
00:18:11.040 That's the first time
00:18:11.500 since George W. Bush.
00:18:13.160 Under George W. Bush,
00:18:14.560 Putin invades Georgia.
00:18:15.940 Under Barack Obama,
00:18:17.160 Putin invades Crimea,
00:18:18.560 part of eastern Ukraine.
00:18:20.140 Under Trump,
00:18:20.860 Putin just stops.
00:18:22.220 And then under Biden,
00:18:23.800 Putin goes whole hog
00:18:25.200 into Ukraine.
00:18:26.380 He puts China
00:18:30.280 on its heels
00:18:30.760 in the trade war.
00:18:32.300 He renegotiates NAFTA.
00:18:35.340 He takes out
00:18:37.020 the top Iranian general.
00:18:38.740 He destroys ISIS.
00:18:40.840 He basically fixes
00:18:43.700 the problem in Syria
00:18:44.800 and stabilizes Syria
00:18:45.840 after long calls
00:18:47.020 for Assad to go
00:18:48.000 and regime change in Syria.
00:18:49.260 That issue all
00:18:49.980 kind of went away.
00:18:51.780 He even gets
00:18:52.320 Kim Jong-un to play nice.
00:18:54.900 What are you going
00:18:55.500 to attack him for?
00:18:57.200 Nothing other than
00:18:58.060 the tweets.
00:18:58.580 But the tweets
00:18:59.100 will be enough
00:18:59.780 to rally establishment support.
00:19:03.680 And the tweets
00:19:04.620 will be enough
00:19:05.220 to justify
00:19:07.100 the foreign policy vision
00:19:08.980 of people
00:19:10.440 who have a much more
00:19:11.260 expansionist,
00:19:12.140 interventionist,
00:19:12.860 liberal imperialist
00:19:13.840 kind of foreign policy
00:19:15.020 who will now be backing
00:19:17.040 Nikki Haley.
00:19:17.700 And it's smart for her
00:19:18.540 because whatever
00:19:19.400 her personal views are
00:19:20.600 on foreign policy,
00:19:22.020 that's the only lane left.
00:19:24.060 And for a candidate
00:19:25.060 like Ron DeSantis,
00:19:25.840 who's great,
00:19:26.840 who's best governor
00:19:27.460 in America,
00:19:28.220 who I really like a lot,
00:19:29.580 for a candidate
00:19:30.800 like Ron DeSantis,
00:19:32.140 who is in many ways
00:19:34.080 trying to split
00:19:34.660 the difference
00:19:35.120 between those two
00:19:35.760 foreign policy positions
00:19:36.820 and lean a little bit
00:19:38.000 more on the Trump side
00:19:39.080 of the foreign policy position,
00:19:41.780 he's going to wind up
00:19:42.760 in the middle of the road
00:19:43.400 and get hit by a truck
00:19:44.120 because he's not going
00:19:44.880 to pull the Trump people over.
00:19:46.280 He's not going to pull
00:19:46.800 enough of them over to win.
00:19:48.360 But he's also not going
00:19:49.500 to pull the establishment over,
00:19:50.760 which is why the Koch network
00:19:51.600 and other more
00:19:52.520 establishment GOP operatives
00:19:54.540 are now backing Nikki Haley.
00:19:56.560 So he's going to be left.
00:19:57.920 Some would say
00:19:58.700 he's the best candidate,
00:20:00.140 but some would say
00:20:00.780 he's the worst candidate
00:20:01.520 because he isn't able
00:20:02.780 to pull enough support
00:20:03.440 to actually have
00:20:04.340 his own lane.
00:20:06.160 Now, speaking of
00:20:06.900 military readiness,
00:20:09.080 very disturbing report
00:20:10.460 out from the U.S. military.
00:20:12.560 The Army,
00:20:14.100 the Navy,
00:20:14.940 and the Air Force
00:20:15.680 all missed
00:20:16.360 their 2023
00:20:17.380 recruitment goals.
00:20:19.640 They missed
00:20:21.160 their recruitment goals
00:20:21.900 by a combined
00:20:22.380 41,000 personnel.
00:20:24.460 It's not good.
00:20:25.920 The annual
00:20:27.000 defense authorization
00:20:27.780 bill passed by Congress
00:20:28.680 this year
00:20:29.140 stated that active duty
00:20:30.560 troops will drop
00:20:32.060 to a little under
00:20:33.800 1.3 million
00:20:34.760 in fiscal year 2024.
00:20:36.500 That's down by
00:20:37.260 64,000 troops
00:20:38.660 over the past
00:20:39.600 three years.
00:20:40.420 That gives the U.S. military
00:20:41.680 its smallest force
00:20:43.420 since 1940
00:20:44.960 while we are
00:20:46.180 on the brink
00:20:46.720 of World War III
00:20:47.500 in two different places.
00:20:48.420 in Eastern Europe.
00:20:50.120 Well, three places, actually.
00:20:51.400 Eastern Europe,
00:20:52.540 the Holy Land,
00:20:53.660 and potentially
00:20:54.500 in Taiwan.
00:20:57.900 What does this mean
00:20:59.220 for the U.S. military?
00:21:01.480 It's even worse
00:21:02.220 than just not
00:21:02.760 recruiting new people.
00:21:03.720 The people who have
00:21:04.260 already been recruited
00:21:04.960 are now taking
00:21:05.580 to TikTok,
00:21:06.260 a Chinese platform,
00:21:07.360 to complain about
00:21:08.120 how much they hate
00:21:08.900 the Army.
00:21:11.460 Okay, this guy says,
00:21:12.660 cons of being in the Army,
00:21:13.700 part one.
00:21:14.300 No privacy.
00:21:16.200 The pay sucks.
00:21:18.420 Bad food.
00:21:21.140 Disrespectful leadership.
00:21:22.600 No sleep.
00:21:24.400 Go Air Force.
00:21:25.160 five reasons
00:21:25.760 on why you shouldn't
00:21:26.400 join the military.
00:21:27.680 Reason number one
00:21:28.400 is pay.
00:21:28.940 We do not get paid
00:21:29.860 enough for what we do.
00:21:31.040 I'm not here to say
00:21:31.740 that we get paid pennies.
00:21:32.860 I'm just saying
00:21:33.260 that we don't get paid
00:21:34.060 enough to perform
00:21:34.920 the mission that is
00:21:35.740 tasked to us.
00:21:37.080 Reason number two,
00:21:38.160 family.
00:21:38.720 You will not see
00:21:39.480 your family often.
00:21:40.860 You might see them
00:21:41.460 on holidays
00:21:42.180 and that's about it.
00:21:44.940 I can elaborate.
00:21:46.180 Reason number three,
00:21:47.580 schooling.
00:21:48.340 Now, I know you're like,
00:21:49.040 whoa, that was a benefit.
00:21:50.240 But it's requirements
00:21:51.060 you have to meet first
00:21:52.260 to be able
00:21:53.080 to get to that schooling.
00:21:54.600 So if you're thinking
00:21:55.180 about joining
00:21:55.740 because of schooling,
00:21:56.780 just go to school.
00:21:58.180 Reason number four,
00:21:59.060 if you're a parent.
00:21:59.820 Now, if you join
00:22:00.560 single and get married
00:22:01.560 and then have kids,
00:22:02.360 that's one thing.
00:22:02.960 But if you're already
00:22:03.760 having a child
00:22:04.760 and you're thinking
00:22:05.100 about joining,
00:22:05.760 don't.
00:22:06.260 You got to think about it.
00:22:07.300 Bootcamp is between
00:22:07.980 six to eight weeks.
00:22:09.060 After bootcamp,
00:22:09.680 you go to school.
00:22:10.180 That's between
00:22:10.540 10 days to a year.
00:22:11.820 After that,
00:22:12.320 you go to deployment.
00:22:13.320 That's between
00:22:13.820 eight months
00:22:14.840 to nine months.
00:22:16.440 Think about how much
00:22:17.000 time you miss
00:22:17.480 with your child.
00:22:19.140 Reason number five,
00:22:19.980 you do not have
00:22:20.500 a 100% say
00:22:21.300 on what you want to do.
00:22:22.140 How do you spell depression?
00:22:25.260 This is a lady
00:22:25.960 in the army.
00:22:27.440 This M-I-L-I-T-A-R-Y.
00:22:31.180 Whining about that.
00:22:32.980 The thing about
00:22:33.880 these complaints
00:22:34.660 that all of these
00:22:36.440 people are making
00:22:37.040 is they're all
00:22:38.560 totally correct.
00:22:40.680 I know there are
00:22:41.680 going to be
00:22:41.920 conservatives out there
00:22:42.780 who are attacking
00:22:43.480 these guys who say,
00:22:44.400 how dare you?
00:22:45.040 Where's your patriotism?
00:22:45.940 What did you sign up for?
00:22:47.440 This is crazy.
00:22:48.140 That's not what
00:22:48.620 the military is like.
00:22:49.300 No, that is what the military.
00:22:50.080 I've never served
00:22:50.540 in the military.
00:22:51.280 I'm very grateful
00:22:51.800 to everyone who has.
00:22:52.740 I have a lot of family members
00:22:53.600 who've served in the military.
00:22:55.180 And what these guys
00:22:56.420 are saying,
00:22:56.920 it's absolutely correct.
00:22:59.800 And the problem,
00:23:00.840 the reason that this
00:23:01.440 is coming out now,
00:23:02.220 the reason people
00:23:02.980 are complaining about this,
00:23:04.040 the people that,
00:23:05.120 the reason that the military
00:23:06.800 is having a hard time
00:23:07.460 recruiting people
00:23:08.180 is because the top brass,
00:23:09.960 the military leadership,
00:23:11.180 have taken away
00:23:12.740 all of the incentives
00:23:14.200 to actually sign up
00:23:16.240 for the military.
00:23:16.880 So now what new recruits
00:23:19.880 are looking at
00:23:20.560 is just all the list
00:23:22.180 of negatives
00:23:22.680 that have always existed.
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00:26:20.720 Serving in the military
00:26:21.580 is very, very difficult.
00:26:23.560 The pay is bad.
00:26:24.880 You don't get to sleep.
00:26:26.080 People yell at you
00:26:26.780 all the time.
00:26:27.620 You have to do
00:26:28.380 a very dangerous job.
00:26:30.200 You don't get to see
00:26:31.160 your family.
00:26:32.420 There are not a ton
00:26:33.820 of benefits
00:26:34.360 that go along with it.
00:26:36.200 So,
00:26:36.980 the reason you do it,
00:26:38.340 the reason that one
00:26:39.060 enlists in the military
00:26:40.320 is out of
00:26:42.020 a sense of patriotism.
00:26:44.420 Because you love
00:26:45.200 your country.
00:26:46.040 It's out of a sense
00:26:46.600 of honor.
00:26:48.020 The notion
00:26:48.820 that it is
00:26:50.000 an honorable thing
00:26:51.720 to defend your country
00:26:52.740 and it is dishonorable
00:26:54.020 in a time of crisis,
00:26:55.740 in a time of war,
00:26:56.800 to, say,
00:26:57.380 dodge the draft.
00:26:58.960 Why else do you
00:26:59.580 join the military?
00:27:00.300 Well, there are
00:27:00.600 some fringe benefits.
00:27:02.240 In part,
00:27:03.300 the respect that you
00:27:04.300 will receive
00:27:04.900 for the rest of your life.
00:27:06.400 People,
00:27:06.820 every time they see you
00:27:07.700 and they find out
00:27:08.360 you serve,
00:27:08.760 they'll say,
00:27:09.060 thank you for your service.
00:27:11.020 In part,
00:27:12.480 because of the fringe
00:27:13.800 benefits like schooling.
00:27:15.800 GI Bill
00:27:16.320 sends you to school.
00:27:17.360 That's a great way
00:27:17.940 to pay for school.
00:27:20.060 In part,
00:27:21.340 well, I don't know.
00:27:21.720 I guess that's about it.
00:27:23.080 And the problem
00:27:23.780 right now is
00:27:24.500 our top brass
00:27:26.040 at the Pentagon
00:27:26.820 and our entire society,
00:27:30.460 our whole culture,
00:27:31.920 have knocked
00:27:33.240 all of those reasons down.
00:27:34.900 Now mock those reasons.
00:27:37.200 Hold them in contempt.
00:27:39.380 They say,
00:27:40.060 patriotism is a joke.
00:27:41.200 This is an evil country
00:27:42.060 founded by slavers
00:27:43.120 for no other reason
00:27:43.940 than to exploit
00:27:44.680 poor oppressed minorities.
00:27:46.500 It's an evil,
00:27:47.200 evil place.
00:27:48.020 We continue to perpetuate evil
00:27:49.320 all around the world.
00:27:50.400 If you serve your country,
00:27:51.460 not only are you not honorable,
00:27:52.540 but you're actually dishonorable
00:27:53.720 because this place is terrible.
00:27:55.860 That's the first one.
00:27:57.360 The second one,
00:27:58.180 what about that?
00:27:58.720 What about the notion of honor?
00:28:01.260 That it's actually good
00:28:02.360 to go serve your,
00:28:03.280 forget about the country for a second,
00:28:04.160 it's just good for you
00:28:04.860 to go serve.
00:28:06.220 We don't have a culture
00:28:07.180 of service anymore
00:28:07.940 and that's a problem
00:28:08.820 largely driven by the left,
00:28:10.220 by the right too.
00:28:11.240 Because the right has adopted
00:28:12.440 a greed is good mentality
00:28:13.880 in recent decades
00:28:15.080 and has said that
00:28:16.060 all that really matters
00:28:16.760 is going out
00:28:17.320 and getting yours.
00:28:18.100 I'm going to go out there
00:28:18.760 and make my money,
00:28:19.540 do what's good for me,
00:28:20.400 hook up with the girls
00:28:21.060 I want to hook up with,
00:28:21.940 live my life,
00:28:22.980 forget about other people,
00:28:24.700 virtue of selfishness,
00:28:26.420 let's go baby,
00:28:27.320 let's read our Ayn Rand
00:28:28.240 and then go out there
00:28:29.420 and get ours.
00:28:31.400 That's been,
00:28:32.000 I think that is
00:28:32.920 ebbing on the right.
00:28:35.180 I think that view
00:28:36.000 is certainly on its way out.
00:28:38.080 But that was a,
00:28:38.720 that was a big view
00:28:39.500 on the right.
00:28:41.280 Certainly in the 1980s,
00:28:43.400 90s, 2000s.
00:28:45.940 Okay,
00:28:46.460 what about the,
00:28:47.680 the respect you'll get
00:28:49.340 from other people?
00:28:50.280 Look, you're a veteran,
00:28:51.480 you know,
00:28:51.780 thank you for your service,
00:28:52.940 sir.
00:28:53.180 What are you talking about?
00:28:53.860 Since Vietnam,
00:28:54.700 we treat our veterans terribly.
00:28:56.200 Some people still support
00:28:57.680 the troops,
00:28:59.000 but a lot of people don't.
00:29:00.620 They don't get decent care
00:29:01.880 from the VA
00:29:02.880 when they get here.
00:29:03.740 There have been efforts
00:29:04.860 to reform the VA.
00:29:05.680 It hasn't gone very well.
00:29:07.420 Since Vietnam,
00:29:08.920 troops have been spit on.
00:29:10.920 They've been called
00:29:11.660 baby rapers,
00:29:12.900 child killers,
00:29:13.820 all sorts of terrible things.
00:29:14.980 where's the,
00:29:18.760 where's the honor
00:29:19.440 that you get?
00:29:20.580 Just the nice,
00:29:21.440 you don't,
00:29:22.560 I,
00:29:22.880 I,
00:29:23.200 presumably one does not serve
00:29:24.660 strictly for the social honor
00:29:26.040 that that will confer,
00:29:26.900 but that's a nice,
00:29:28.380 that's a nice little perk,
00:29:29.220 isn't it?
00:29:29.620 Well,
00:29:29.740 that's gone too.
00:29:30.360 So much for that.
00:29:31.080 Okay,
00:29:31.260 final one.
00:29:31.660 What about the GI bill?
00:29:32.860 You get to go to school.
00:29:33.840 Well,
00:29:33.980 the schools are worthless now.
00:29:35.660 They still matter
00:29:36.600 to some degree
00:29:37.380 as a credentialing institution.
00:29:39.860 For some jobs,
00:29:40.820 you still need to check that box,
00:29:42.120 but we all know
00:29:43.020 that the schools
00:29:43.540 have been totally hollowed out
00:29:44.620 from within.
00:29:46.280 The schools focus
00:29:47.240 much less on good scholarship
00:29:48.880 than they do
00:29:49.400 on the latest DEI initiative
00:29:51.080 with the 10,000 person army
00:29:52.860 of,
00:29:53.460 of deputy assistant,
00:29:54.760 deputy deans
00:29:55.480 of diversity,
00:29:56.380 inclusion,
00:29:56.740 and equity
00:29:57.240 whose entire job it is
00:29:58.660 to make straight white guys
00:29:59.800 feel terrible about themselves.
00:30:01.760 Okay.
00:30:02.240 And to talk about
00:30:02.920 how evil the army is
00:30:03.800 and how terrible America is
00:30:04.900 and how we all need to feel awful
00:30:06.260 for the sins of our country.
00:30:08.000 So what's the point?
00:30:09.680 Oh,
00:30:09.900 and by the way,
00:30:10.460 the Democrats are going to pay
00:30:11.300 for your school anyway.
00:30:12.120 Eventually,
00:30:12.840 eventually Elizabeth Warren
00:30:14.080 and Bernie Sanders
00:30:14.720 are going to get their way
00:30:15.380 and they're going to pay
00:30:16.180 for your school.
00:30:18.160 Bernie's actually a little better
00:30:19.060 on that issue
00:30:19.520 than Elizabeth Warren is.
00:30:22.060 Elizabeth Warren,
00:30:22.740 she's going to get her way.
00:30:24.440 They're going to,
00:30:24.800 they're going to slowly
00:30:25.440 start paying for more
00:30:26.240 and more college.
00:30:26.900 So the GI bill
00:30:28.020 is not even an inducement anymore.
00:30:29.460 So why would you join?
00:30:31.320 At that point,
00:30:32.280 when all of the good reasons
00:30:34.260 to sign up for the military
00:30:35.320 are gone,
00:30:35.980 all you're left with is
00:30:37.240 crappy pay.
00:30:38.720 You don't see your family.
00:30:39.580 You don't sleep.
00:30:40.120 You get screamed at
00:30:40.740 and you have a very dangerous job.
00:30:43.100 Okay,
00:30:43.580 don't be surprised.
00:30:44.720 When the top brass
00:30:46.220 is turning red in the face,
00:30:49.440 screaming before Congress,
00:30:50.840 talking about how important
00:30:51.680 it is for the troops
00:30:52.400 to learn about
00:30:53.660 the sources of white rage
00:30:55.160 and critical race theory
00:30:56.780 and DEI ideology,
00:30:58.960 how important that is
00:31:00.060 for military readiness.
00:31:00.980 Don't be surprised
00:31:01.600 when no one wants to join.
00:31:02.460 I wouldn't want to join either.
00:31:04.940 Now, speaking of progressivism
00:31:07.180 and speaking of the U.S. Senate,
00:31:11.660 John Fetterman,
00:31:12.440 this is a nice little turn.
00:31:13.920 This is actually a nice little
00:31:14.840 surprise, Christmas surprise.
00:31:17.340 John Fetterman has just come out
00:31:18.800 and said,
00:31:20.060 I am not progressive.
00:31:21.400 He says,
00:31:21.780 I am not a progressive.
00:31:23.580 I just think I'm a Democrat
00:31:24.840 that is very committed to choice
00:31:27.080 and other things.
00:31:27.840 That's no good.
00:31:28.280 He's still super pro-abortion.
00:31:30.160 But he says,
00:31:30.700 but with Israel,
00:31:31.620 I'm going to be
00:31:32.060 on the right side of that.
00:31:33.940 So the Dems are moving
00:31:35.280 very anti-Israel.
00:31:36.600 Fetterman says,
00:31:37.020 I'm going to be pro-Israel.
00:31:39.500 He says,
00:31:39.840 immigration is something
00:31:40.720 near and dear to me.
00:31:42.200 And I think we do have
00:31:43.380 to effectively address that as well.
00:31:45.120 A lot of Democrats
00:31:45.720 are totally for open borders,
00:31:47.220 shipping immigrants up everywhere
00:31:48.680 except for their own neighborhoods.
00:31:50.340 And John Fetterman says,
00:31:51.880 no, we have to restrict
00:31:52.660 immigration, actually.
00:31:54.620 The Democrats
00:31:55.420 are the party of Bob Menendez.
00:31:58.040 This totally corrupt senator
00:31:59.660 who is taking a ton of bribes,
00:32:00.900 peddling American influence.
00:32:03.120 Much like Joe Biden.
00:32:05.520 John Fetterman,
00:32:06.340 one of the few Democrats
00:32:07.160 openly, aggressively
00:32:08.500 calling on Menendez to resign.
00:32:10.300 What's this about?
00:32:12.040 The Babylon Bee observed
00:32:14.080 that as John Fetterman
00:32:16.620 recovers from his brain injury,
00:32:18.300 he's becoming more right wing.
00:32:19.720 That's quite a coincidence.
00:32:20.780 Interesting how that works.
00:32:22.340 But there's something else
00:32:23.260 going on here too,
00:32:24.600 which is John Fetterman knows,
00:32:26.300 or at least his political advisors know.
00:32:30.360 Democrats cannot win Pennsylvania
00:32:32.620 without normal people
00:32:34.620 and the working class.
00:32:35.980 Immigration is a working class issue.
00:32:37.580 The more migrants
00:32:38.540 that are allowed to come in,
00:32:39.980 the worse it is
00:32:40.780 for the working class
00:32:41.500 because their wages go down,
00:32:42.880 the job competition goes up.
00:32:44.560 It's bad.
00:32:47.880 Pennsylvania is not Los Angeles.
00:32:50.460 Pennsylvania is not Beverly Hills.
00:32:52.180 Pennsylvania is not the Upper East Side.
00:32:53.720 Pennsylvania is a Rust Belt state.
00:32:59.860 John Fetterman knows
00:33:00.900 he's going to lose his seat
00:33:02.260 if he alienates normal people
00:33:05.620 in the working class.
00:33:06.720 Normal people in the working class
00:33:08.200 recognize that we can't just have
00:33:09.500 a totally open border.
00:33:11.660 Normal people in the working class
00:33:12.940 are not marching in the street
00:33:14.640 talking about from the river to the sea,
00:33:16.700 the jihadis will be free,
00:33:18.460 and we need to have more pogroms
00:33:20.760 on the state of Israel
00:33:21.460 because contextually you have to consider
00:33:24.100 the purpose of a genocide.
00:33:26.180 Normal people just don't like that.
00:33:28.400 Okay?
00:33:29.600 Democrats can win in California
00:33:31.560 by alienating normal people
00:33:33.040 in the working class.
00:33:33.660 They already have.
00:33:34.540 Democrats can win,
00:33:35.960 even in New York,
00:33:36.760 though it's a little dicier there,
00:33:37.960 by alienating normal people
00:33:39.260 in the working class.
00:33:41.320 They can't do it in Pennsylvania.
00:33:43.720 They can't really do it in Michigan.
00:33:46.440 They can't do it in Wisconsin.
00:33:48.480 They can't do it in Arizona.
00:33:49.580 They can't do it in Nevada.
00:33:51.740 They can't do it in the swing states,
00:33:53.840 which is why Fetterman
00:33:56.120 is leading here
00:33:58.480 because no matter what
00:34:00.040 his personal issues are,
00:34:02.200 he's lived in Pennsylvania a long time,
00:34:04.100 and he knows that state
00:34:06.780 a little bit better.
00:34:07.360 And if you're looking at the polls
00:34:08.440 right now for Joe Biden
00:34:09.820 and you're a Democrat,
00:34:11.220 you've got to be real, real worried
00:34:12.560 because as the left
00:34:14.240 careens extremely to the left,
00:34:17.200 that leaves a wide opening
00:34:18.760 for Republicans.
00:34:19.780 And by the way,
00:34:21.460 if the Democrats push their luck too far
00:34:23.080 and if Biden's approval falls so far,
00:34:25.860 now we're at historic lows,
00:34:28.000 then even with all the little
00:34:29.900 Democrat shenanigans
00:34:30.840 changing the voting rules,
00:34:32.780 widespread mail-ins,
00:34:34.360 ballot harvesting,
00:34:36.180 fraud will only take you so far.
00:34:38.340 An election has to be
00:34:39.500 a little bit close to steal it,
00:34:41.180 or you have to just be
00:34:42.360 in a totally anomalous time
00:34:44.100 like COVID
00:34:44.600 where you've locked down
00:34:45.240 the global economy.
00:34:46.780 Barring those things
00:34:47.700 would be very, very tricky
00:34:50.400 for Democrats on this current path,
00:34:52.980 especially if they don't listen
00:34:53.780 to John Fetterman.
00:34:54.960 Biden's numbers are awful,
00:34:56.140 so Republicans are seeing
00:34:57.180 a chance here.
00:34:57.840 This is why Nikki Haley
00:34:58.680 is full steam ahead.
00:35:02.180 And the way that Nikki Haley
00:35:04.620 is seizing what she perceives
00:35:06.920 to be her opportunity
00:35:08.060 is not by doubling down
00:35:12.140 on the right-wing ideas,
00:35:13.680 it's by moderating
00:35:15.160 on every issue
00:35:16.660 and expressing her
00:35:19.740 already moderate stances
00:35:21.320 on a lot of issues,
00:35:22.440 including abortion.
00:35:24.100 So here, Nikki Haley
00:35:25.340 in an interview on ABC News
00:35:27.560 expressed her moderation
00:35:30.260 on abortion.
00:35:31.240 She says, well, look,
00:35:32.060 I'm pro-life,
00:35:32.900 but some of these pro-life laws
00:35:35.120 in the various states,
00:35:36.460 they're a little harsh.
00:35:38.980 They need a little tweaking.
00:35:40.020 It is the right thing
00:35:41.940 that unelected justices
00:35:43.060 no longer decide this,
00:35:44.320 and it's in the hands
00:35:45.060 of the people.
00:35:45.960 I appreciate that Texas
00:35:47.140 went more on the pro-life side,
00:35:49.060 but as we go through this,
00:35:50.980 listen, my heart broke for her
00:35:52.820 because I had trouble
00:35:53.820 having my children.
00:35:55.700 The states are now
00:35:57.100 going to have to look at these
00:35:58.240 because what we don't want to see
00:35:59.780 is a woman with a rare condition
00:36:02.240 having to carry a baby
00:36:04.140 until term.
00:36:05.500 So that's when a state
00:36:06.740 corrects itself and says,
00:36:09.020 how do we make sure
00:36:09.920 that doesn't happen again?
00:36:11.240 We tweak things all the time
00:36:12.700 as governors.
00:36:13.120 So it was the right decision
00:36:13.980 by the court?
00:36:15.120 Well, the court had to
00:36:16.140 follow the law.
00:36:17.180 The law said
00:36:18.280 that she couldn't have
00:36:19.800 the abortion.
00:36:20.800 Now it's up to the legislature
00:36:22.320 in Texas to say,
00:36:23.660 how do we make sure
00:36:24.880 there are no more Cates
00:36:25.940 that go through that?
00:36:27.400 That's what you look at.
00:36:28.800 As a governor,
00:36:29.620 you don't just say
00:36:30.480 this is golden.
00:36:31.820 As a governor,
00:36:32.600 when something happens
00:36:33.720 that churns your stomach,
00:36:35.460 that says that's not
00:36:36.360 what this was intended to be,
00:36:37.820 you go back and say,
00:36:38.960 okay, what do we do
00:36:40.260 to make sure
00:36:41.260 that we are saving
00:36:43.000 as many babies as possible
00:36:44.660 but also supporting
00:36:46.140 as many moms as possible?
00:36:47.660 It's not as cut and dry
00:36:49.040 as everybody wants,
00:36:50.200 but states will self-correct to this.
00:36:52.340 That's what they do.
00:36:54.160 Okay.
00:36:55.200 So what Nikki is saying here is
00:36:57.260 there's this case
00:36:57.980 where a woman was pregnant
00:36:59.860 and the doctors said,
00:37:02.280 your baby might have some problems,
00:37:04.600 so we recommend you abort the baby.
00:37:07.400 And if you don't abort the baby,
00:37:09.140 you might have a harder time
00:37:10.740 getting pregnant next time.
00:37:14.140 Again,
00:37:14.640 seems a little dubious to me
00:37:16.320 as far as medical advice goes.
00:37:17.380 A lot of the time,
00:37:18.160 a huge,
00:37:18.800 huge amount of the time,
00:37:20.180 the majority of the time,
00:37:21.080 I believe,
00:37:21.540 that doctors say,
00:37:22.340 oh,
00:37:22.500 your child has terrible conditions,
00:37:24.000 oh,
00:37:24.080 your child probably won't live.
00:37:25.240 It doesn't turn out to be true.
00:37:26.680 So often,
00:37:27.420 they will convince women
00:37:28.460 to abort their children.
00:37:29.740 Had they just allowed
00:37:30.840 the children to grow,
00:37:31.500 they would have been totally fine.
00:37:32.660 I'm not saying that's true all the time,
00:37:33.640 but it's true a lot of the time.
00:37:35.540 And then this claim,
00:37:36.780 well,
00:37:37.060 you know,
00:37:37.180 if you don't abort your kid,
00:37:38.280 if you don't kill your kid,
00:37:39.120 then you might not be able,
00:37:40.160 there's a chance
00:37:40.880 you might not be able
00:37:41.420 to have kids in the future.
00:37:42.640 And so what Nikki is saying here
00:37:43.860 is in this case,
00:37:44.660 the woman should have been allowed
00:37:45.540 to kill her child.
00:37:46.740 And we need to tweak
00:37:47.580 this pro-life law.
00:37:48.460 And I,
00:37:49.080 you know,
00:37:49.260 I like Nikki Haley
00:37:49.920 very much personally.
00:37:51.700 I strongly disagree
00:37:52.940 with her view here.
00:37:54.780 And yet,
00:37:55.560 I agree
00:37:56.640 with the political calculus.
00:37:58.700 I think politically,
00:38:00.300 this is really smart
00:38:01.920 of her.
00:38:04.460 For the reasons that I've said
00:38:05.820 since basically
00:38:06.920 the beginning of this primary,
00:38:08.540 you already have Trump.
00:38:11.560 Trump is the pro-life candidate.
00:38:13.000 He got Roe v. Wade overruled.
00:38:14.120 If you're a DeSantis supporter,
00:38:15.040 you might say,
00:38:15.380 well,
00:38:15.460 DeSantis is even more pro-life
00:38:16.760 than Donald Trump.
00:38:18.060 Maybe you could say,
00:38:18.920 well,
00:38:19.380 DeSantis signed
00:38:20.200 a six-week abortion ban
00:38:21.320 in Florida
00:38:21.660 and Trump criticized
00:38:22.580 the abortion ban.
00:38:23.540 Now,
00:38:23.680 a Trump supporter might say,
00:38:24.820 well,
00:38:25.020 Trump was only criticizing it
00:38:26.000 because he reflexively
00:38:26.600 criticizes everything
00:38:27.340 his opponents do.
00:38:27.960 And Trump got Roe v. Wade
00:38:29.000 overruled.
00:38:29.560 And so,
00:38:29.900 he's got a great record
00:38:30.700 on pro-life too.
00:38:31.560 And, you know,
00:38:32.060 whatever.
00:38:32.400 You guys can duke it out.
00:38:34.600 I'm just saying,
00:38:36.100 Trump already claims
00:38:38.560 the mantle
00:38:39.020 of the hardcore
00:38:39.760 pro-life candidate
00:38:40.580 by virtue of his first term.
00:38:42.980 So,
00:38:43.580 if you want
00:38:44.520 to find an opening
00:38:45.700 in the GOP race,
00:38:46.720 there are plenty
00:38:47.360 of Republicans
00:38:47.820 who are not
00:38:48.520 extremely pro-life.
00:38:49.780 There are a lot of them.
00:38:52.560 The non-pro-life,
00:38:54.840 non-hardcore
00:38:55.740 pro-life Republicans
00:38:56.540 are not going
00:38:57.600 to be supporting
00:38:58.180 Ron DeSantis
00:38:58.840 and they're not going
00:38:59.420 to be supporting
00:38:59.740 Donald Trump.
00:39:00.580 They're going to want
00:39:01.140 a different candidate.
00:39:02.860 Nikki Haley
00:39:03.500 is positioning herself
00:39:05.140 to be that candidate,
00:39:06.580 which is why
00:39:07.380 she's gaining
00:39:07.920 in the polls.
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00:40:16.240 My favorite comment
00:40:17.100 yesterday is from
00:40:17.640 Karina Bottei,
00:40:19.180 who says,
00:40:19.760 he was just analyzing
00:40:22.120 the legislative matters
00:40:23.320 before the Senate.
00:40:24.020 Okay.
00:40:24.900 All right.
00:40:25.880 That,
00:40:27.080 I think we're referring
00:40:28.220 to certain
00:40:29.400 video that was filmed
00:40:32.160 in the Senate Judiciary
00:40:33.460 Rearing Room,
00:40:34.120 Hearing Room,
00:40:34.780 and
00:40:35.360 we're talking about
00:40:37.260 what some people
00:40:38.660 have called
00:40:38.880 the insurrectum,
00:40:39.780 and
00:40:40.080 the,
00:40:41.600 I don't want to,
00:40:42.500 look,
00:40:43.040 I like the jokes,
00:40:44.100 okay,
00:40:44.860 but I don't,
00:40:45.840 I don't need
00:40:46.700 any more screenshots.
00:40:47.380 I don't,
00:40:49.740 there's no reason
00:40:50.420 to post the screen.
00:40:51.180 If you're a conservative,
00:40:52.120 I don't need to see
00:40:52.660 the screenshots.
00:40:54.260 Keep it to the puns.
00:40:56.100 Those are bad enough.
00:40:58.780 CBS poll showing
00:40:59.840 Haley gaining on Trump,
00:41:01.340 not nationally exactly,
00:41:02.680 but at least in New Hampshire.
00:41:04.520 So,
00:41:05.020 in Iowa,
00:41:06.220 Trump is far and away
00:41:08.320 the leader,
00:41:08.860 DeSantis comes next.
00:41:10.760 In New Hampshire,
00:41:12.740 Trump is far and away
00:41:13.420 the leader,
00:41:14.140 Haley comes next,
00:41:15.280 DeSantis,
00:41:15.540 I think is third,
00:41:17.080 but Haley is gaining
00:41:18.120 pretty significantly.
00:41:19.680 And it's not even just
00:41:20.640 in the head-to-head polls,
00:41:21.700 it's on all sorts of issues.
00:41:23.420 So,
00:41:24.240 2024,
00:41:25.840 who would you likely
00:41:26.900 vote for today?
00:41:28.300 In New Hampshire,
00:41:28.840 44% Trump,
00:41:29.660 29% Haley,
00:41:30.700 11% DeSantis,
00:41:32.320 10% Christie,
00:41:33.680 5% Vivek,
00:41:34.720 Asa Hutchinson's
00:41:35.380 still in the race.
00:41:35.860 Do you remember that?
00:41:37.080 So,
00:41:38.020 it's not really close
00:41:38.940 with anyone
00:41:39.300 other than Trump and Haley.
00:41:40.420 44 to 29,
00:41:41.600 it's still a huge margin,
00:41:43.340 but it's within sight,
00:41:46.280 at least.
00:41:48.140 Iowa,
00:41:48.980 DeSantis,
00:41:49.600 still far ahead of Haley,
00:41:51.020 but still far behind Trump.
00:41:53.140 Now,
00:41:53.900 when you get into
00:41:54.760 the cross tabs here,
00:41:56.800 New Hampshire,
00:41:57.360 who would you describe
00:41:58.220 as prepared?
00:41:59.920 54% say Trump,
00:42:01.240 53% say Haley,
00:42:04.340 44% say DeSantis.
00:42:06.820 Trump and Haley,
00:42:07.720 virtually tied.
00:42:09.100 Described as likable,
00:42:11.000 who's the most likable
00:42:11.820 candidate in the race?
00:42:13.280 Or who are you more likely
00:42:14.140 to describe as likable?
00:42:15.400 55% say Haley,
00:42:18.520 the majority,
00:42:19.200 clear majority.
00:42:20.340 37% DeSantis,
00:42:22.040 36 Ramaswamy,
00:42:23.680 36 Trump.
00:42:24.680 So,
00:42:25.060 DeSantis,
00:42:25.460 Ramaswamy,
00:42:25.860 Trump,
00:42:26.140 all tied,
00:42:27.380 Christie,
00:42:27.680 very unlikable.
00:42:28.740 Haley,
00:42:29.180 far and away,
00:42:29.960 the most likable,
00:42:30.880 according to New Hampshire voters.
00:42:32.900 Described as reasonable,
00:42:34.840 51% say Haley,
00:42:37.520 37% DeSantis,
00:42:39.040 36% Trump.
00:42:39.860 Trump and DeSantis tied.
00:42:41.040 Haley,
00:42:41.200 far and away the winner.
00:42:42.680 Unmost likely to be described
00:42:43.840 as reasonable.
00:42:45.340 Described as a strong leader,
00:42:46.900 66% say Trump,
00:42:48.420 45% DeSantis,
00:42:49.920 41% Haley,
00:42:51.100 everyone else way down.
00:42:52.540 So,
00:42:52.820 DeSantis still has an edge
00:42:53.640 on Haley,
00:42:54.160 but close to being tied,
00:42:56.020 Trump far and away
00:42:56.640 the winner there.
00:42:58.120 Most likely to beat Biden,
00:43:01.100 51% say Trump,
00:43:03.440 32% say Haley,
00:43:05.560 27% DeSantis.
00:43:06.780 So,
00:43:07.020 Haley and DeSantis
00:43:07.520 within striking distance,
00:43:08.460 but Haley still has the edge.
00:43:09.920 Trump has a huge lead.
00:43:13.040 On and on,
00:43:13.740 more cross tabs.
00:43:16.140 That's good news for Haley.
00:43:17.660 That's big news
00:43:18.800 for the Haley campaign.
00:43:20.320 And you know how much
00:43:20.900 I hate to say I told you so,
00:43:21.840 but
00:43:22.000 I did call it,
00:43:24.480 I did call it
00:43:25.260 from the beginning
00:43:25.780 of this race
00:43:26.440 that
00:43:27.640 there were two lanes.
00:43:29.380 There's the Trump lane
00:43:30.320 and there's the not Trump lane.
00:43:32.300 That's it.
00:43:33.180 And probably,
00:43:33.960 it doesn't even matter
00:43:34.600 who's in the not Trump lane
00:43:35.520 because of the
00:43:36.460 unique circumstances,
00:43:37.500 almost unique circumstances
00:43:38.820 of this race.
00:43:39.500 We haven't seen a race like this
00:43:40.400 in over 100 years.
00:43:41.780 A candidate
00:43:42.240 who was president,
00:43:43.820 who's now running
00:43:44.380 for a non-consecutive
00:43:45.180 second term.
00:43:46.760 It's weird,
00:43:47.820 but
00:43:48.100 Trump is going in
00:43:50.620 effectively
00:43:50.960 as the incumbent.
00:43:52.520 So,
00:43:52.960 the non-Trump candidates
00:43:53.700 really got to be non-Trump,
00:43:55.340 which means
00:43:56.140 it's going to be tougher
00:43:56.760 for DeSantis.
00:43:58.240 It's going to be easier
00:43:59.120 for a candidate
00:43:59.680 like Nikki Haley,
00:44:00.880 and she's capitalizing on that.
00:44:02.300 Meanwhile,
00:44:02.740 other Republicans
00:44:03.280 are consolidating
00:44:04.060 around Trump.
00:44:04.960 Josh Hawley,
00:44:05.900 senator from Missouri,
00:44:06.640 a Republican just endorsed Trump,
00:44:07.880 said,
00:44:08.400 Trump,
00:44:08.840 President Trump
00:44:09.240 doesn't need to worry.
00:44:09.920 I'm with him.
00:44:11.440 He's asked me several times
00:44:12.360 to support him.
00:44:12.880 I said yes,
00:44:13.780 and I've been saying
00:44:14.760 for a year
00:44:15.240 that I think
00:44:15.880 he's going to be the nominee.
00:44:16.740 I support him.
00:44:17.280 I'm going to vote for him.
00:44:17.940 Don't worry.
00:44:18.360 You can put me down
00:44:18.840 as support,
00:44:19.300 endorse,
00:44:19.560 stand with.
00:44:19.920 So,
00:44:20.320 this is a little bit
00:44:21.120 of a tepid endorsement here.
00:44:22.660 He's not saying,
00:44:23.860 Trump is my man.
00:44:25.040 He can do no wrong.
00:44:26.060 I totally,
00:44:26.420 he's saying,
00:44:26.880 yeah,
00:44:27.320 I'm with him.
00:44:28.580 He's asked me
00:44:29.240 for a long time.
00:44:31.000 I previously
00:44:31.780 did not say yes.
00:44:33.080 I am saying yes now
00:44:36.640 this is a consolidation now
00:44:40.460 of people who,
00:44:41.860 whether they really like Trump
00:44:43.100 or they're lukewarm on Trump
00:44:45.640 or they don't even like him.
00:44:47.440 These are people
00:44:48.280 who think they see
00:44:48.940 the writing on the wall.
00:44:50.600 Now,
00:44:50.780 this endorsement came two days
00:44:52.340 after Trump threatened
00:44:53.220 Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
00:44:55.240 Trump posted
00:44:56.080 on his social media network,
00:44:57.140 he said,
00:44:57.720 so interesting
00:44:58.560 that the Dems
00:44:59.460 are looking hard
00:45:00.660 at the Senate races
00:45:01.400 in both Missouri and Texas.
00:45:03.020 Josh and Ted
00:45:03.680 must be very careful.
00:45:05.480 Stranger things
00:45:06.320 have happened
00:45:06.900 three exclamation points.
00:45:09.440 So we'll see.
00:45:10.180 I don't think
00:45:10.540 Senator Cruz
00:45:10.980 has endorsed Trump yet.
00:45:13.880 Hawley has.
00:45:15.500 You're going to see
00:45:16.160 more and more
00:45:16.620 come along
00:45:17.160 as a consolidation happens.
00:45:18.920 Now,
00:45:19.740 speaking of writing
00:45:20.740 on the wall
00:45:21.240 and writing
00:45:21.580 in all sorts of places,
00:45:22.940 a Seattle high schooler
00:45:24.140 was just marked
00:45:25.960 incorrect on a quiz
00:45:26.980 for saying
00:45:28.520 that only women
00:45:29.340 can get pregnant.
00:45:31.340 There was a quiz
00:45:32.260 on understanding
00:45:35.340 gender versus sex.
00:45:36.660 This was administered
00:45:37.420 by a 10th grade
00:45:39.520 ethnic studies
00:45:40.540 world history teacher.
00:45:42.400 What?
00:45:43.400 What are they teaching
00:45:44.360 in school?
00:45:44.960 Ethnic studies
00:45:45.760 world history
00:45:46.420 at Chief Sealf
00:45:48.180 International High School.
00:45:49.960 And the student
00:45:50.720 was marked wrong
00:45:51.360 for answering
00:45:51.860 the question
00:45:52.360 that all men
00:45:53.880 have penises
00:45:54.540 as a true statement
00:45:56.580 and also marked wrong
00:45:58.420 for saying
00:45:59.000 that only women
00:45:59.660 can get pregnant
00:46:00.520 as a true statement.
00:46:02.340 So for the first question,
00:46:05.660 I guess there are
00:46:06.380 freak accidents,
00:46:08.080 right?
00:46:08.700 I guess there are
00:46:09.440 kind of,
00:46:10.240 you know,
00:46:10.840 surgeries going wrong
00:46:11.940 or,
00:46:12.340 you know,
00:46:12.560 technically speaking,
00:46:14.420 I guess not all men do.
00:46:16.940 No women do,
00:46:17.980 but some,
00:46:18.700 I guess some,
00:46:19.340 you know,
00:46:19.540 God forbid,
00:46:20.660 like awful,
00:46:21.380 you know,
00:46:21.580 but could be a freak accident.
00:46:22.720 But then the second one,
00:46:23.620 only women can get pregnant.
00:46:25.020 That leaves no doubt.
00:46:27.440 Obviously,
00:46:27.840 only women can get pregnant.
00:46:28.860 But then zoom back out.
00:46:32.420 What class is this in?
00:46:33.540 Ethnic studies.
00:46:34.320 Why are you sending your kid
00:46:35.280 to study ethnic studies?
00:46:36.380 That's a,
00:46:36.680 that's a pseudo-academic discipline
00:46:38.580 that is strictly,
00:46:40.660 from the very beginning,
00:46:41.460 it has only ever been
00:46:42.760 a political operation
00:46:45.320 to indoctrinate students
00:46:46.840 in a far leftist ideology
00:46:48.220 deriving from critical theory
00:46:49.500 and the various
00:46:50.700 critical studies departments
00:46:51.620 that proliferated
00:46:52.220 in the universities,
00:46:52.820 now apparently in high schools
00:46:53.760 in the 60s and 70s.
00:46:56.860 Then furthermore,
00:46:57.860 what's the quiz?
00:46:59.340 The quiz is called
00:47:00.080 Understanding Gender vs. Sex.
00:47:01.420 So if you believe
00:47:02.480 that there is a hard
00:47:04.240 and fast distinction
00:47:05.140 between gender and sex
00:47:06.340 and the two have nothing
00:47:06.980 to do with one another,
00:47:08.100 as the left believes,
00:47:09.680 if that's the premise
00:47:10.520 of the quiz,
00:47:11.200 then I gotta ask you,
00:47:12.540 why are you sending
00:47:14.460 your kid to this school?
00:47:17.320 You know what you're getting
00:47:18.480 going in.
00:47:19.000 The school is not
00:47:19.620 being dishonest here.
00:47:22.380 Look,
00:47:22.780 I think there's a distinction
00:47:23.780 between gender and sex.
00:47:24.900 I know it's not popular
00:47:25.660 for a lot of conservatives
00:47:26.840 to say that,
00:47:27.320 but I think there is.
00:47:28.860 And I think it's really
00:47:30.080 a modern lib way
00:47:31.140 of talking about
00:47:31.780 the distinction
00:47:32.220 between the body
00:47:32.840 and the soul.
00:47:33.560 I disagree with the way
00:47:34.700 the libs talk about
00:47:35.440 the distinction
00:47:35.860 between gender and sex
00:47:36.920 because I think
00:47:38.820 that the body and soul
00:47:39.540 are inextricably linked
00:47:40.460 and the soul
00:47:40.800 is the substantial form
00:47:41.620 of the body.
00:47:42.060 So I think that if you feel
00:47:44.960 a disagreement between
00:47:45.960 your gender identity
00:47:47.040 and your sex,
00:47:48.420 the reality stems
00:47:50.280 from your biological sex
00:47:51.440 because I think that
00:47:52.200 sex and gender
00:47:53.380 derive primarily
00:47:54.100 from the matter
00:47:54.940 of the body,
00:47:55.640 not from the form
00:47:56.400 of the soul.
00:47:57.480 And it applies
00:47:58.080 to the person
00:47:58.620 as an inseparable
00:48:00.980 accident of the individual
00:48:02.120 for as long as you
00:48:02.760 exist as an individual.
00:48:05.300 Okay,
00:48:05.740 I bet that's nowhere
00:48:06.840 on that quiz,
00:48:07.620 but that's the way
00:48:08.160 that our civilization
00:48:08.980 has thought about gender
00:48:09.960 and sex for all of history.
00:48:12.260 So if you want
00:48:13.680 to teach your kids that,
00:48:14.740 you can't send them
00:48:15.500 to this school.
00:48:17.200 If you are a parent,
00:48:18.960 why would you subject
00:48:20.420 your child to this?
00:48:21.420 And furthermore,
00:48:22.120 forget about the parents.
00:48:22.800 I don't know the circumstances.
00:48:23.760 Maybe it's the only school
00:48:24.400 in the neighborhood.
00:48:26.220 What kind of country
00:48:27.640 subjects students to this?
00:48:30.620 What kind of country
00:48:31.660 intentionally maleducates
00:48:34.140 students,
00:48:35.800 intentionally alienates
00:48:37.380 them from reality,
00:48:38.620 makes them dumber,
00:48:39.960 makes them confused
00:48:41.260 about who they are
00:48:41.880 and potentially entices
00:48:43.400 them to fall into ideologies
00:48:44.580 that will harm them
00:48:45.320 and may well reduce
00:48:46.600 their life expectancy.
00:48:47.920 But furthermore,
00:48:48.640 just what kind of country
00:48:50.020 puts their kids
00:48:51.340 in classrooms
00:48:51.880 to make them stupider
00:48:53.060 and more ignorant?
00:48:54.920 Our country does that.
00:48:57.460 That's very sad.
00:49:00.060 It's very unfortunate.
00:49:01.400 There's no surprise here
00:49:02.820 that parents are pulling
00:49:03.700 their kids out of school now
00:49:04.920 and homeschooling.
00:49:05.820 It's very difficult
00:49:06.320 to do that
00:49:06.840 in our modern economy
00:49:08.200 where both parents
00:49:08.880 are working
00:49:09.320 and a lot of people
00:49:09.980 just maybe they can
00:49:11.040 make it work
00:49:11.440 but it's going to take
00:49:12.000 a little while
00:49:12.480 even to pivot.
00:49:13.860 What kind of country
00:49:14.460 does that?
00:49:16.300 Not a great one.
00:49:17.680 Not a country
00:49:18.640 that is as great
00:49:19.340 as it once was.
00:49:20.040 It's a country
00:49:20.400 that needs to be made great.
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