Ep. 1437 - DANGEROUS： Rural White People Are Terrorist To The Libs
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A new threat to democracy just dropped, according to the left. Can you guess what it is? If you ve been paying attention to liberal politics for even five seconds over the last 60 or so years, this should be an easy one. You ve got your guess.
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New threat to democracy just dropped, according to the left. Can you guess what it is?
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If you've been paying attention to liberal politics for even five seconds over the last
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60 or so years, this should be an easy one. You got your guess? You know the big threat
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to democracy? All right, MSNBC, take it away. Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy
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at this point? You would think, as we pointed out, looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald
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Trump said that the opposite would be true. I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected
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threat that white rural voters pose to the country. First of all, and we show 30 polls
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and national studies to demonstrate this. We provide the receipts in Chapter 6. They're the
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most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay geodemographic group in the country. Second,
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they're the most conspiracist group. QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism,
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COVID denialism, and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments.
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They don't believe in an independent press, free speech. They're most likely to say the president
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should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or their
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bureaucracy. They're also the most strongly white nationalists and white Christian nationalists.
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And fourth, they are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to
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peaceful public discourse. So you mentioned a lot of negative factors about this demographic.
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A lot of negative factors. Basically, none of them true. They're the most science-denying people.
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What are you talking about? The liberals believe that men can become women.
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Science is the white rural voters are the science deniers. They're the most in favor of censorship.
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The Biden White House is working, and frankly, even the liberal Washington bureaucracy before Joe
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Biden gets in, is working with the liberal big tech companies to censor who? To censor the liberals?
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No, to censor the white rural voters. Are you kidding me? Nobody seriously believes that white
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rural voters pose the gravest threat of violence. According to every statistic we've got, whites are
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significantly less likely than blacks and Hispanics to commit violent crime. And cities are twice as
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violent as rural areas, not just in the aggregate, but per capita. So when we're talking about white
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rural voters, we're talking about pretty much not quite, but almost the least violent group in the
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country. They're certainly not the most racist. They're the least racist. Pew Research has shown for
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years now that whites have virtually no racial consciousness whatsoever. Unlike every other race,
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every other race which has rates of racial consciousness anywhere from three to almost five
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times that of whites. Homophobic? What a ridiculous word. And again, not true. Whites are far and away
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the most accepting group when it comes to light loafers. Hispanics, and especially blacks, are
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significantly less likely to be down with the friends of Dorothy than the whites are. It's not even close.
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But all of that actually is beside the point. Even if the claims that these guys are making were true,
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how would that threaten democracy? Homophobia threatens democracy? When did that happen?
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Nationalism threatens democracy? Of course not. Democracy just means government by the people.
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Nationalism, ironically, is a prerequisite for democracy. But if it wasn't clear before,
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the liberals are not worried about any threat to democracy. They're worried about the threat that
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is coming at them from democracy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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things to burn and to smell. The biggest immediate democratic threat to the liberals
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is Donald Trump. Once again, Trump is not a threat to democracy. Donald Trump is a threat of democracy
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to them. And they admit this. They say, oh no, Trump is leading in the polls. Most voters want
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to vote for Trump. That's a threat to democracy. Most voters doing anything can't be a threat to
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democracy because democracy simply means government by the people. So what they're really talking about
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is liberalism, of course. And Trump is probably the biggest threat to their version of liberalism,
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secular, globalist liberalism in my lifetime. And he's really coming at them pretty strong.
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So they're trying to shut him down. How are they trying to shut him down? They're trying to bankrupt
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him. They're trying to put him into prison. They're prosecuting him on four fronts. And they're
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prosecuting him at the local level. They're prosecuting him at the federal level. But they just had a
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setback, which is that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear President Trump's request to decide
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whether or not he is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of
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the 2020 election. So President Trump is being accused of trying to overturn the results of the
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election. He didn't exactly do that. He was questioning an election that was obviously rigged.
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And they're trying to jail him for that. Well, what do we do? He's running for president again.
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He's ostensibly the Republican nominee. He elevates this up to the Supreme Court. The court will
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consider, quote, whether and if so, to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity
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from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office?
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Now, this is actually a very important question. Whether you love Trump or hate Trump or you care
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about the 2024 election or not, this is a very important question because in banana republics and
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tinpot dictatorships, when a party falls out of power, their opponents who come into power prosecute
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the ousted party. That's what happens in a lot of unstable regimes. In our country, we don't do that.
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That's just not the sort of thing we do. We certainly don't prosecute people for things that
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they did while they were in office, official acts as president of the United States. And we don't do
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that, not because sometimes presidents don't get a little bit loose with the law. Barack Obama
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certainly did. He behaved in a way that was not only illegal, weaponizing the government against his
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enemies, but unconstitutional in the case of the executive amnesty. We don't even really do it with
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Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton perjured himself as president of the United States. It's a very serious crime.
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He was impeached when he was president, but we didn't go after, try to throw him in prison
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after he left office. Clintons have done many, many shady things that were pretty clearly criminal
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over the years. We just don't do it. And we don't do it not because we like the Clintons,
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not because we like Obama, not because we like Trump, but because that would pose a grave threat
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to the integrity of the office of the president and to the way that our government functions.
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So the court has decided that oral arguments will begin the week of April 22nd.
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And the court has instructed the appellate court to keep special counsel Jack Smith's case against
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the president, against President Trump, paused until the Supreme Court reaches a decision,
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obviously, because the Supreme Court is going to decide whether or not Trump has immunity. That's
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the bedrock of the entire Jack Smith investigation into Trump. The whole federal Joe Biden,
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DOJ-led investigation into Biden's top political rival. Why is the court hearing this? Because
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they have to, of course. I mean, if the Supreme Court doesn't hear a question like this, what are
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they supposed to hear? What are they supposed to decide? We have co-equal branches of government
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for this reason, of checks and balances, to have a separation of powers, and to resolve
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questions for which there is no immediately clear answer. So it's not going to be an appellate
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court that does that. It's not going to be a district court that does that. It's going to
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be the Supreme Court of the United States. The liberals are furious over this. The gals over
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at The View are suggesting, as the libs always do, this is the end of democracy.
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They're listening to these arguments in April. The end of their term is in June,
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right? They return again, I believe, in October. The Bush B. Gore case happened real quick.
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Do you remember that? The Supreme Court knows how to work real fast.
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That was the day democracy died. Well, it was certainly an injustice to many people.
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So I guess that's a relief that democracy already died 20 years ago, 24 years ago,
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so we don't need to worry about democracy dying again. But it wasn't the day democracy died,
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and it wasn't an injustice at all. And most libs who bring up Bush v. Gore as a way to attack the
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credibility of the Supreme Court know absolutely nothing about that case. The irony of Joy Behar
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saying, the Bush v. Gore case of the day democracy died, the Bush v. Gore decision upheld democracy by
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saying that the vote, which was clear enough, it was a close election in Florida, but it was clear
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enough, and there were recounts, and it stands. The guy the people elected gets to be the president.
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And when the libs tell you that this is an outrage to democracy because it was a 5-4 decision,
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and it was the five conservative judges who ruled for Bush, and it was the four liberal judges who
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ruled for Gore, that isn't even true. There were two decisions that came out. One, over the substance
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of the case, over the Equal Protection Clause, over how the election was conducted, and two,
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a remedy for what to do because the supposedly greatest democracy in the world couldn't conduct
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a presidential election. On the more substantive matter, the decision was seven to two. So you had
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two liberals coming over and siding with the conservatives. It was only on the remedy. What
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do we do now? Do we drag out this recount even further and stop the president of the United States
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who obviously won the election from taking office when he's supposed to? We can't even have the
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peaceful transfer of power in the United States. Are we going to do that? Or are we just going to
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cut to the chase and uphold what everyone has found already, which is that Bush won the election?
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Well, that was very bad, though, because the people elected Bush, and the people had to be wrong.
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They had to be wrong. Even though, I guess technically, you know, that was an expression
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of democracy, it can't be. Because for the liberals, democracy, if the people are operating in a rational
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way, they always have to vote for the liberals. So any time that the people oppose the liberals,
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any time that people vote for the conservatives, in the liberals' minds, it has to be an attack on
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democracy. Somehow, either because you've suppressed a vote, or you've brainwashed people,
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or you've put them under a false consciousness where they're voting against their own interests,
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or whatever they're going to call it, it can't ever be legitimate for people to vote for the
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conservatives and to vote against the liberals. Because the glories of liberal government are just
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so clear that if they don't win, something had to go wrong. The election had to be. In the face of
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peace of mind. That is tnusa.com slash Knowles. Speaking of democratically elected leaders,
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Mr. Javier Millet, the new leader of Argentina, the arch-libertarian who got elected. He's sort of
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a populist. He's got kind of crazy hair, and many American right-wingers find him eccentric and
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delightful. He has just done something that I'm really happy about. Javier Millet in Argentina has
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banned trans language in government. And you might say of all the things that matter, you know,
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he's got to fix the economy. He's got to give greater representation to the people. He's got
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to restore some traditional norms. Why does this matter? Well, first of all, this is a traditional
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norm that he has to reassert. And also, I was a little skeptical of Millet. You know I love the
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leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who I was supposed to meet a week ago, and then I had to fly out too
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early. I missed him. He's really great. Why do I like him? Because he's doing good things,
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and he's stopping bad things. He turned his country from the most crime-ridden country in the world
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into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. And he did it by exercising power in a just and
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moral and effective way. Really like him. Daniel Nuboa in Ecuador, I think he's doing a very good job.
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He's going about three-quarters of the way to the Bukele option. But he's rounding up the
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gangsters. He's doing a good job. Javier Millet, I was a little skeptical of because he's not
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a rock-ribbed conservative exactly. He's a libertarian. And there's a lot of overlap,
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but there's a lot of places where the libertarians and the conservatives disagree.
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But this decision on this trans language in government, that's not a libertarian decision.
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That's not a you do you, do whatever you want. Who am I to judge? Just get the government out of
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it. I can't say what a man or a woman is and let anyone use whatever bathroom they want.
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It's not that kind of decision. This is conservative. This is what the libs call
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authoritarian. It's not authoritarian. It's just normal. But that's what they call it.
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Argentina announces that they're going to ban this leftist inclusive language across all
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public administration offices and documents. Everything related to the gender-based perspective,
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end quote, will be banned throughout the administration. This is really, really great
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news. They're going to ban. They're going to proceed to initiate the proceedings to ban inclusive
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language and everything related to that. And we all know the details. This is the sort of thing that
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conservatives have wanted for a long time and that ordinary people want for a long time.
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I mentioned the story not because Argentina matters all that much to American politics,
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but because even the libertarians know that the trans thing is totally nuts. It's nuts.
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Nobody wants it. It's crazy. There's no right to it. It's not good for anybody. It's especially not
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good for the people who are chopping their genitals off and pretending to be the opposite sex.
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It's this issue is a total winner for conservatives. When I came out and did my CPAC speech about how
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the ideology is terrible for everyone and should be eradicated from public life entirely like it was
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until six, seven years ago, when I said that there were a lot of squishes who said,
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we can't have this kind of language. This is going to scare off the independent, moderate voters.
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No, this is a total winner. Everyone agrees with this. Everybody agrees with this. Who has two
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functioning brain cells and who isn't totally deluded and perverted by our crazy, irrational
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culture. The vast majority of people know that a man can't be a woman. It's so obvious. It's so clear.
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Any conservative who doesn't run on this full steam ahead is nuts. To say nothing of the fact that
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it's the right thing to do is just politically, it's a total winner. Now, speaking of problems in
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foreign countries, Mitt Romney has just made a pretty stunning admission during an interview on
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CNN. Of course, he's on CNN. And he's being interviewed about Ukraine funding, which he's
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very much in favor of. And most conservative, most Americans, but especially most conservatives are
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opposed to. The CNN interviewer, to her credit, she comes out and she raises the big question about
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Ukraine war funding, which is, how will this money possibly change the outcome of this war?
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If we're going to forget for a second any other thoughts you have about foreign policy,
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let's say that we're just going to give them this money based on whether or not it's going to be
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effective or not. How can you say this is going to be effective when everyone agrees that the amount
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of money that we're giving them, the amount of arms that we're giving them, to say nothing of the
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amount that's just going to the oligarchs through graft? How are you going to say that this is going
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to change the outcome of the war? And Mitt Romney says, oh, it won't.
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So you disagree with your colleague, Senator J.D. Vance, who is making the argument that 60 billion
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more dollars won't fundamentally change Ukraine's stance on the battlefield.
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Yeah, that is an interesting point. It just happens to be as accurate as it is irrelevant.
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All right. It may not change their stance on the battlefield. What it does do is communicate to
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the entire world that we honor our commitments and we stand with our friends and we will help
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freedom fighters around the world who are our friends and allies.
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So initially when I heard Romney say this, I thought, hold on, was that a gaffe?
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Did he mean to say it's as accurate as it is relevant?
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Meaning to say it's not accurate? No, no. He's saying it's accurate. J.D. is right. The money
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that we're about to send them, it's not going to change the outcome on the battlefield. But that
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doesn't matter. The effect of our money in actually helping the Ukrainians doesn't matter at all.
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All that matters is that we look like we're helping the Ukrainians.
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But of course, he's just undermined even that point because he's admitting we're not actually
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helping the Ukrainians because it won't change the outcome on the battlefield. It's all just
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kabuki theater. It's all just a show and a way to launder some money and a way for Ukraine oligarchs
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to get rich and a way to keep our military industrial base, I guess, churning out weapons. Although,
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frankly, we could probably use some of those weapons ourselves. It's not like you can ramp up that
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kind of manufacturing forever. So what's the end? We're going to keep giving them money.
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To prove that we stand with our allies, even though we're acknowledging that we're not
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actually going to help our supposed ally Ukraine at all. And we're going to do that to prolong the war
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so that many, many more Ukrainians and many more Russians can die not to achieve anything.
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That is a very, very wicked view of politics and foreign policy.
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It'd be, it'd be, I can't believe it, but, but he's, he clarified. It's not even then he just said
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it's, it's as accurate as it is irrelevant. He says that point might be true. Yeah, sure. It is true.
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He said, no, no, I know what I said. It's accurate. Not going to change a thing, but we can at least
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pretend and we'll make some more weapons and a lot of Ukrainians and Russians are going to die and
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nothing will change, but, you know, we'll feel good about pretending that we're doing the thing
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that I'm admitting that we're not going to do. America. And, and we're the bad guys. Hold on.
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We, the people who have been skeptical of the Ukraine conflict and our involvement in it and
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a proxy war with Russia and the Ukraine joining NATO for that matter. We're supposed to be the
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bad guys. We're the Putin apologists. We're the ones who are going to let the evildoers go in and
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do all this. This guy, the nice guy just admitted that he's just going to needlessly kill or allow
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to be killed or fund to be killed thousands and thousands, maybe tens of thousands of Ukrainians
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and Russians for no reason other than to pretend. We're the bad. I don't know. I don't know. I'm
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starting to think maybe, I'm starting to think maybe these pro, pro-Ukraine war guys are a little,
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Dominic Zelenak, who says,
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some girls are dancing around a gas station with Stanley cups. For this, we reference the works of
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St. Thomas Aquinas. That's true. Actually, you know what's amazing? So yes, my analysis of the
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dancing white girls underneath the gas station did basically come down to St. Thomas Aquinas on the
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relation of the natural law to the human law and how we ought to legislate these things and how we ought to
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encourage virtue and discourage vice. But even when I was driving into work yesterday,
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I was listening on audiobook to the City of God by St. Augustine. And St. Augustine is much more
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readable than St. Thomas Aquinas. He's just more vivid. He kind of pulls at the heartstrings a little
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bit more than St. Thomas is an encyclopedia. He's like a human encyclopedia. And St. Augustine,
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I was reading this part of him, of City of God, where he's talking about reply guys,
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where he's examining the obligation you owe to reply to every one of your adversaries who makes
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some dumb point. And he basically says, don't fall into the trap of going too far down a Twitter
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thread and replying to some dummy. And I thought, man, I know both St. Thomas Aquinas and St.
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Augustine, I know their works are so relevant to today, even though people don't read them as much
00:23:49.500
as they should. But like, wow, man, St. Augustine, the guy is so perspicacious. He's so deeply
00:23:55.640
insightful. He understood Twitter many, many centuries before Twitter ever existed, and then
00:24:01.960
became X. Really important news has come out. Speaking of slick politicians like Mr. Willard Romney,
00:24:10.720
President Trump has a new nickname for the slickest politician in America. That would be
00:24:16.320
Governor Newsom. Now, Governor Newsom reminds me of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. So I've
00:24:22.280
called him Governor Bateman. You know, I just, not to be clever or anything, just because that's what
00:24:27.400
he, to me, they look and sound identical. But Governor Bateman, it doesn't work on a campaign
00:24:33.980
trail. No one's going to make that connection. So President Trump has just unveiled his new nickname
00:24:40.200
for Newsom. We weren't promising free education, free medical, free everything. I mean, all the
00:24:46.660
promises that are made, no wonder they come. I mean, you look at what this governor, Newscum from
00:24:52.820
California, isn't that his name, Newscum? What he's done to California is unbelievable.
00:24:59.420
Did you hear that? I said, Newscum. What do you think about that? It's pretty funny, huh? Newscum.
00:25:03.780
It's a good nickname. It's a good nickname. And it reminds me of something about Trump's nicknames
00:25:10.800
that make them better than the other nicknames. I say this with true humility, no false modesty here.
00:25:16.520
My nickname for Newsom is not that good. Because it just doesn't, I mean, if you've seen American
00:25:22.140
Psycho, maybe it's amusing, but it doesn't hit you right away. Newscum does. Everyone gets Newscum.
00:25:32.000
It's just like when Trump started calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas. The name that
00:25:37.900
we had all been previously calling Elizabeth Warren was Focahontas. It was a pun. It was a
00:25:42.660
little play on words there because she pretends to be Indian, but she's not really Indian. You get
00:25:46.920
it? So she's, it's not Pocahontas. She's Focahontas, F-A-U-X. But that's too much. It doesn't
00:25:52.860
work on the campaign trail. Focahontas, it's a little too clever. Just Trump just punches him at the
00:25:58.280
absolute lowest, most grade school level. Yeah, she's Pocahontas. And it's much funnier and it
00:26:04.620
worked a lot better. Even all of the nicknames for the contenders in 2016. There are all these
00:26:12.240
sorts of attacks you could think of to hit Marco Rubio that would be clever, have something to do
00:26:16.900
with his personality or is, but little Marco, that was it. Even Jeb, for goodness sakes, the Bushes have
00:26:22.840
been in American politics for a hundred years. No, it's just low energy, Jeb. It's so evocative.
00:26:28.180
It just, it puts an image in your mind that anybody can get. And now Governor Newsom has his,
00:26:34.560
new scum. Hmm? Hmm? Now, you know what scummy people would never do? They would never subscribe
00:26:43.560
to my YouTube channel, but you should subscribe to the Michael Knowles YouTube channel right now.
00:26:47.920
All you have to do is ring the bell and smash it and click it and whatever, do whatever you have to do.
00:26:52.840
Now, speaking of Democrat executives turning from California to New York, New York City Mayor Eric
00:26:59.900
Adams continues his right-wing redemption tour when this guy who ran as a kind of moderate Democrat,
00:27:07.360
and then he governed as a pretty liberal Democrat, well, he's now recognizing that the consequences
00:27:12.540
of his policies are terrible and deeply unpopular, especially when it comes to illegal immigration,
00:27:17.080
which Eric Adams has previously said could destroy New York City. So he's, this was months ago. He said
00:27:23.140
illegal immigration is going to destroy New York City. And it really is crazy. They filled up classic
00:27:27.200
legendary New York hotels with just young fighting age men from, from Latin America who are obviously
00:27:33.420
economic migrants who are unvetted, who should not be there. Nobody wants them there.
00:27:37.700
We're not even talking about young families here, poor little kids. No, we're talking about pretty
00:27:43.240
much just young men. So he said, that's really terrible. He goes to meet with Biden at the White
00:27:46.880
House over, over this. And then just before his scheduled White House meeting, there's an
00:27:51.760
investigation into Eric Adams that's announced, a corruption investigation. All of a sudden, Eric
00:27:56.500
Adams backs off the White House meeting, but he's coming back. He's hitting hard again. He says,
00:28:01.140
at the very least, okay, if we can't get rid of all the illegal aliens, New York has got to do
00:28:06.500
something to, in any way, circumscribe its sanctuary city status.
00:28:14.320
The women in the migrants in the sanctuary cities that are here, they want to grow. I still don't
00:28:19.880
understand why the federal government is not allowing them to grow. They need to have the right
00:28:23.480
to grow, like all of us that have come to this country had the ability to do so. But those small
00:28:28.740
partners that are committing crimes, we need to modify the incentive of the city law. And if you
00:28:34.840
commit a felony, a buying act, we should get to turn you over the ice and have you deported. It is
00:28:39.800
a drive to live in this city. And if you need to do so, you don't have to be afraid to do so.
00:28:48.900
How pathetic is this? The audio is a little weak there. Obviously, the Democrats are not blasting
00:28:53.440
this on CNN, so you're not getting really high quality audio. What he's saying is, hey, look,
00:28:57.320
I know we're a sanctuary city and everything, but if you commit like a bunch of violent felonies,
00:29:04.420
can we at least turn you over to ICE? Can we maybe at least turn you over to the immigration
00:29:11.360
enforcement? And then they'll probably do nothing about it because Biden wants them to let all the
00:29:15.880
illegals into the country. But can we at least do that? And is that, how pathetic, how pathetic.
00:29:21.680
If you're in this country illegally, you should be deported. And then if you really want to come in,
00:29:27.620
you can apply to be an illegal immigrant. We have a lot of that too, by the way. We have way more of
00:29:33.200
that than most people want, but that's a conversation for another. At the very least,
00:29:38.220
you're here illegally, you get deported. We don't do that. If you're here illegally,
00:29:42.960
you get to stay. If you're here illegally and you commit a crime, you usually get to stay.
00:29:50.660
You might get out on bail that day and then go commit more crimes. If you are here illegally and
00:29:56.680
you commit a violent crime, you still get to stay. And so all Eric Adams is doing, he's not saying we
00:30:03.880
need to restrict all migration, which we do. He's not saying we need to deport all illegals, which most
00:30:09.320
people would like us to do, but it probably is impractical. He's not saying we should even
00:30:13.960
deport all the illegals who commit the crimes. He's saying just these particularly bad crimes,
00:30:17.820
can we please? And even that, you know what that's going to be met with? Totally deaf ears. The
00:30:21.880
Democrats don't want that because they think it, one, they think it serves their permanent electoral
00:30:29.440
advantage. But two, they just hate America. I don't know how else to put it. I don't mean to be
00:30:36.160
needlessly provocative. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but they don't like America. Whenever
00:30:40.740
they talk about America, they talk about our evil racist ancestors and how we genocided the Native
00:30:45.200
Americans and how we had slavery and Jim Crow and it's just a dirty, rotten, evil place. And the only
00:30:51.380
good thing about America is how we might be able to claw our way out of our terrible, disgusting past.
00:30:56.980
Everything that America was and presently is is bad, but America might be something decent in the
00:31:01.440
future. That's why we need to fundamentally transform America. That was the campaign message of
00:31:05.000
Barack Obama, which is an admission that he hates America because you don't want to fundamentally
00:31:10.720
transform things that you love. And Obama was not just speaking for himself. He was speaking for
00:31:14.640
most, most prominent liberals in public life. Not saying all liberals, not saying all people who
00:31:22.040
say, well, you know, I'm not quite a right winger, you know, but I just, hasn't the left gone a little
00:31:26.300
crazy? I'm just saying for the, the, the current crop of democratic leadership, they, and, and the,
00:31:33.500
the current crop of the democratic base, you know, the real activist base, the AOCs of the world,
00:31:38.040
they don't like the country and they want to fundamentally transform it. And part of that is
00:31:43.220
opening up the borders, not even just as a cynical political play, but because they think America
00:31:47.160
doesn't deserve to exist because this is stolen land and it's a terrible country and we're really
00:31:50.740
racist or whatever. And, and we, we need to, we need to really, you know, give America stripes,
00:31:56.140
really just beat it up a little bit. And, and so you have poor Eric Adams. He's saying, well,
00:31:59.920
I got to bear the brunt of this. None of you liberals in Martha's Vineyard actually have to deal with this.
00:32:03.900
When, when, uh, Governor DeSantis sent some illegals to your nice part of the world,
00:32:08.340
you shipped them out of there within 48 hours. Me, I'm not allowed to ship out even the felons.
00:32:12.600
And they say, yeah, whatever, Eric Adams, be quiet. We're going to investigate you for corruption.
00:32:16.120
If you, if you raise any more questions about this now, there's so much more to say.
00:32:23.000
There's so many more stories I have to get to this story. There's one story I've been trying to get
00:32:26.840
to for a week, but alas, you know, I'm a tease. And today is my favorite day of the week
00:32:30.840
when I hear from you in the mailbag. So all I'm going to tell you is this lady ballers is the
00:32:37.800
hilarious story of how a group of male losers who can't win against other men decide to identify
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00:32:47.920
Here's a quick look at what it's being called by us. The most triggering movie of the decade.
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Leftists are losing it over lady ballers. Nothing's changed. This movie is a straight
00:32:59.760
up and intentional transphobic hate crime. What? I see you. The lady ballers movie needs
00:33:06.460
to be banned. I'll cancel you. I can get the blinds, please. Total 11. The most toxic BS you've
00:33:14.160
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00:33:50.200
Hey, Michael. My question is around pot, weed, devil's lettuce, whatever you want to call it.
00:33:55.680
My husband likes to smoke and he liked to smoke even before we met over nine years ago.
00:34:01.680
So I just made it clear early on that I just wanted to know when he was going to do it or
00:34:06.920
when he had done it. So I knew when I'm interacting with him, what sort of state of mind he's in.
00:34:10.740
But we've run into a situation, it's probably seven or eight times where he smokes, does not
00:34:18.040
tell me. I kind of figure it out after some nagging. And then he fesses up to it after lying
00:34:24.340
for a bit. And so it just feels exhausting. It feels like the definition of insanity, expecting
00:34:29.560
his behavior to change over the last seven or eight times this has happened. And now we have two young
00:34:34.840
boys under the age of two. And this most recent time he had smoked before coming home to see us.
00:34:39.900
So it just felt a little sad that he was doing that before coming home to see us, insulting, being
00:34:46.100
lied to. And so I suggested that he either join me in my next session with my faith-based counselor,
00:34:52.120
or we do a joint meeting with some leadership within our church. And he's not really up for
00:34:59.440
either of those options. So I wanted to see what ideas you might have. And I would appreciate any
00:35:05.320
input. Thanks. The big problem is not that he's puffed on the sin spinach. That's a problem. But
00:35:11.700
the bigger problem is that he's lying to you. That's a big problem. A husband is not to lie to his wife,
00:35:19.520
and a wife is not to lie to her husband. That is a major, major problem. That is a type of infidelity.
00:35:26.140
Okay, that is really bad. And he should be made to know that that is really, really completely
00:35:32.600
unacceptable and a major violation of trust and of the marriage. So why is he lying? He's lying
00:35:42.000
because he's addicted to drugs. That's why. And he probably doesn't know it or he won't admit it to
00:35:47.000
himself. And in part, that's not all his fault because our culture tells us constantly that you
00:35:52.860
can't become addicted to marijuana. But you obviously can. And the evidence is that the
00:35:59.360
people who are really into it exhibit all the behaviors of addicts. In this case, he's sneaking
00:36:04.520
it around when you're not there. He's trying to hide it from you. He's downplaying his dependence
00:36:10.420
on it. He's not even able to go see his family without toking up. Obviously, that's addictive
00:36:15.140
behavior. But it's not just your husband. I mean, I've got plenty of buddies who like a little of
00:36:21.300
the Haitian oregano. And the ones who've really gotten into it, the wake and bake kind of guys,
00:36:26.300
they will become furious if you ever suggest that maybe marijuana isn't the greatest thing in the
00:36:33.200
world. If you ever suggest that maybe it might be at least psychologically addictive, they'll become
00:36:39.560
furious with you. And Mike Cernovich has made this point. And that's how you know that it's obviously
00:36:43.880
addictive. If you tell me, cigars which actually are not addictive because you just don't get enough
00:36:49.080
nicotine from them to have the same effect of like if you were smoking cigarettes or those little
00:36:55.520
pouches or whatever, zin. But they're habitually addictive in the sense that any habit is kind
00:37:01.980
of addictive. But if you tell me, Michael, you're having five cigars a day. It's too much. It's not
00:37:06.400
good for you. You need to have three cigars a day or one cigar a day or something. I think I would
00:37:12.760
say, okay, yeah, you're right. Five is probably too much. Okay, I'll take a little break for a while.
00:37:15.940
Just make sure I'm not actually addicted to it. Or if I were drinking too much. Michael, you're
00:37:21.420
having three drinks a night. This is not, okay, maybe I'll take a step back. You're right. It's
00:37:26.420
not good to have three drinks a night. But with pot, if you tell potheads, hey, you know, guys,
00:37:32.960
you shouldn't be like smoking. You shouldn't be ripping your vape like five times a day. They will
00:37:38.260
yell at you. They'll say they're self-medicating. It's actually, it's fine. All the studies show
00:37:43.100
blah, blah, blah. So he's a drug addict and he's lying to his wife. And I think maybe you should put
00:37:48.860
it in those kind of blunt terms. And, you know, wives are to submit to their husbands and husbands
00:37:54.440
are to love their wives. But especially if you're already going to this kind of counseling and he's
00:37:57.740
not that interested in it, I think you need to make clear to him that he is failing in his
00:38:02.780
responsibility as a husband. And you don't need to be insulting about it. You should be very loving
00:38:06.760
about that. But he's on a very bad path that is imperiling your family. And he needs to cut it
00:38:11.960
out and act like a man. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name is Heather and I am a Christian
00:38:16.740
of the Dutch Reformed tradition, which means that I'm a Calvinist. I've been reading up on the
00:38:22.080
teachings of Augustine and Aquinas. And it seems to me that they both believed that God predestined
00:38:27.740
all who would be saved. Like Calvinists, they did not reject free will, but rather understood the
00:38:33.480
expression of free will as acting according to one's strongest inclination. This view of free will
00:38:39.400
is compatible with deterministic predestination. As a Calvinist, I believe that humans, in our fallen
00:38:45.220
nature, are inclined only toward evil. But God, in his mercy, grants his saving grace to whom he
00:38:50.900
chooses. And that saving grace changes our hearts so that we have a desire to glorify God. My question
00:38:56.740
for you is, why is Calvinism considered heresy and Catholicism, given what Augustine and Aquinas taught?
00:39:03.480
Thank you for answering my question, and God bless you.
00:39:06.600
Very good question and very well articulated, though I think you are a little mistaken. And
00:39:12.500
it's funny because we've been talking about St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine over just the
00:39:15.880
past couple of days. Providential, you might say. St. Augustine, usually Calvinists don't cite
00:39:22.880
St. Thomas Aquinas as being a proto-Calvinist. I think St. Thomas Aquinas' defense of free will
00:39:32.040
is usually pretty clear. But St. Augustine sometimes is one who Calvinists will invoke.
00:39:39.340
And I think it's mistaken. There's a famous quote from St. Augustine that comes from, I think it's
00:39:44.840
Sermon 169, which is that God made you without you. This is actually a point that I make sometimes
00:39:52.800
when discussing the right to life, questions of abortion and the death penalty. God made you without
00:39:58.140
you. This is the crucial part. But he doesn't justify you without you. So St. Augustine very
00:40:04.940
explicitly says that you participate in responding to God's grace. Now, if you say, well, no, I'm not
00:40:13.480
describing a kind of Calvinism that denies free will. I'm just saying that you seem like you have
00:40:18.860
free will, but it's all an illusion. Well, if we're just talking about illusion, then there's really
00:40:22.560
nothing I could possibly say to convince you because it's unfalsifiable if we're all just
00:40:29.820
living in an illusion, right? But there, I think it's a mistake for Calvinists to, certainly to
00:40:35.120
quote St. Thomas Aquinas, or to justify their views on St. Thomas Aquinas, but also Augustine,
00:40:40.900
who is the one that they usually go to. A question that I have for Calvinism and all novel theological
00:40:47.040
movements is, why did it take so long? If this is true, if the true version of Christianity came
00:40:55.080
out in 1652 or whenever, 1545, why did it take so long? And what happened in those intervening years?
00:41:02.800
And what did the church fathers believe? What did people believe in the apostolic age? I think this
00:41:06.200
is in part why people who are part of more novel Christian sects, or even other sorts of religious
00:41:16.420
sects will try to tie their views to antiquity, which is, again, part of the attraction of St.
00:41:22.120
Augustine, because he was writing so much earlier even than St. Thomas Aquinas. But I think those are
00:41:28.280
weak arguments. And so the question is, if these are novel views, as it seems to me, why did it take
00:41:34.000
so long if that's the true religion? Because also, to me, it's clear enough that the Calvinist premise
00:41:41.000
is contradicted by scripture. Again, I'm no expert, but it's clear enough because God does not will
00:41:49.120
that people go to hell. Meaning we see in 1 Timothy, we see in 2 Peter, we see elsewhere throughout the
00:41:58.540
scripture that God does not will for us to go to hell. He wills that all be saved. But we have a free
00:42:06.340
will and we can respond to his grace in any way we choose. We can either cooperate with it or we can
00:42:11.360
turn away from it. So it seems to me, I'm of the opinion that Hilaire Belloc was. Hilaire Belloc, a
00:42:15.960
great Anglo-Franco-Catholic writer and historian. And he said, Calvin is the true genius of Protestantism.
00:42:25.860
And his idea is fatalist. And obviously, Hilaire Belloc would say that it's wrong. But it's a coherent
00:42:34.340
system. It's a coherent system of thought, unlike some of the other versions, which I think are a little
00:42:38.900
less coherent. But it just seems to me to be mistaken, vis-a-vis Aquinas and Augustine and scripture and sacred
00:42:51.020
Dirty Mike, USMC Matt here. Just wanted to ask you a question. So I, unfortunately, had to move back to
00:42:59.540
California a while ago and am now being forced to go through implicit bias training at work.
00:43:06.140
I'm not worried about the online portion because I've been just going to mute it and click through
00:43:10.300
it and not pay attention to it and click whatever answer they want me to click. However, there is a
00:43:15.340
mandatory in-person portion that I can't get out of. And I'm just wondering how to navigate this because
00:43:22.940
I don't buy into any of it, obviously. I think it just creates more division. But unfortunately,
00:43:30.540
I don't have a choice in that matter. I do have a position where I could create something and step
00:43:36.560
out. I'm contemplating that. But just curious as to what your thoughts are and how to deal
00:43:45.540
Create something and step out. I don't quite know what you mean by that. You mean you quit your job and
00:43:49.020
become an entrepreneur or you mean you could, in your role in this company, come up with an excuse
00:43:54.100
not to go to the training. Either way, I think it's a matter for prudence. You know, we do what
00:44:00.820
our bosses want us to do, even if it's unpleasant. We don't do what our bosses want us to do if it's
00:44:06.960
immoral. But if it's unpleasant or we disagree with it or whatever, we sometimes do it. So this,
00:44:12.800
to me, is not the sort of thing where you have to show up and then make your stand and tell off this
00:44:16.600
lady and whatever or quit your job necessarily because you have to sit through a one-hour stupid
00:44:22.380
training. Depending on your circumstance, I suppose I would suggest that you just sit through
00:44:31.340
it and then ignore it, you know, and then just don't do anything about it. Now, if the training
00:44:37.100
is going to cause you to sin, you know, if it's going to cause you to behave in a way that doesn't
00:44:47.400
keep with your integrity, then maybe you have to figure out another option. But we have to be wise
00:44:51.500
as serpents and innocent as doves. The problem with this bias training is a political problem.
00:44:55.720
You're not, some of our focus on individuality and individualism on the right has really weakened us.
00:45:01.040
You're not going to fix this problem until you go in, you engage in political action as the left has
00:45:07.740
done to push corporate culture more in your direction and then take political action by
00:45:12.120
electing good leaders and having those leaders replace the bureaucrats with better bureaucrats
00:45:16.260
who can go in and take away some of the mandates from the office of civil rights or whoever's
00:45:20.400
mandating these stupid trainings. That's what I would recommend doing. And in the meantime,
00:45:24.680
you know, you don't need to impoverish yourself in the meantime, then you probably won't be able to
00:45:28.960
to take much political action anyway. Next question.
00:45:33.180
Hi, Michael. This is David. Thanks for all you do. A quick question. I've been reading some about
00:45:38.640
Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary. And I wonder what your reaction is to the harsh criticism
00:45:47.540
coming from the West toward Orban as a dictatorial strongman,
00:45:52.440
or whether he is merely attempting to uphold Christian social values and national identity
00:46:04.000
within Hungary. I wonder if the reaction comes from the progressive left, which is
00:46:11.960
attacking all who would uphold traditional values. Thanks a lot. Have a great day.
00:46:19.860
Sure. Yeah. I really like Viktor Orban. I think he's done a great job. By the standards of even
00:46:25.680
30 to 50 years ago, Viktor Orban is a centrist liberal politician. Okay. The fact that liberals in
00:46:34.240
the right, or in the West rather, are accusing him of being some far-right fascist just tells you
00:46:39.740
that the left in the West has gone completely insane and is now effectively, you know, a bunch of
00:46:46.560
commies. It's totally crazy. Viktor Orban leads a very tolerant country. What does he say? He says,
00:46:54.540
we need to follow the laws. We need to recognize that God exists. In your personal life, you don't
00:47:01.560
even need to, but we're going to do that as a matter of our public policy. We're not going to totally
00:47:06.500
throw out our thousand-year political tradition. We are going to recognize what marriage is. We're going
00:47:13.300
to have clean streets. We're going to arrest criminals. We're not going to totally open our borders to
00:47:17.820
a bunch of unassimilated foreign people. Really kind of basic stuff. And for that, they call him
00:47:24.560
Hitler. You know, it's just so profoundly stupid and offensive. No, he's great. Love, love Viktor
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