Ep. 1447 - Kamala Harris Plans For Grotesque Abortion Clinic Photo Opp
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The liberal media are continuing to exploit the death of a teenager who identified as non-binary to try to attack conservatives, even though the facts totally contradict their narrative. Meanwhile, the Mayflower Cigars are selling out of their entire stock of Smells and Bells candles.
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Hot on the heels of Belgium jailing a former member of parliament for sending spicy memes
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to a group chat, America's evil top hat is proposing life sentences for tweets.
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Canada's Online Harms Act, which was introduced last month with the backing of Prime Minister
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Justin Trudeau, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate genocide online,
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and would further allow provincial judges to impose house arrest and fine people if they perceive
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reasonable grounds that a defendant will commit an offense in the future.
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Huh. Who do you think is going to be prosecuted as a result of this law? Is it going to be the
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prominent liberals in media, politics, and academia who regularly call for abolishing whiteness?
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That sounds pretty directly genocidal. Or is it going to be the conservatives who say that men
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and women are different and are consequently accused of advocating genocide? Which group do you think
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is going to be prosecuted here? And what exactly constitutes reasonable grounds that a person
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will spread hate in the future? Perhaps being found in possession of a leftist here's Tumblr?
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Is that evidence? Perhaps liking a few too many Jordan Peterson tweets? What's the reasonable
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grounds in Canada for the future crime of being conservative? The Online Harms Act is designed
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to protect the Liberal Party from electoral harm from conservatives online. It's about criminalizing
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conservatives, not only for what they say, but before they even have a chance to say it.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. The liberal media are continuing to exploit the death of a teenager
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who identified as non-binary to try to attack conservatives, even though the facts of this
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very sad death totally contradict their narrative. We will get into the political lesson from that in
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exclusions may apply. Okay. Speaking of neighboring governments descending into tyranny,
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have you been following what's going on in Haiti? What's going on in Haiti right now is that the
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government has collapsed. Haiti is officially a failed state, and it is currently being run
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by a lot of different little gangsters. But the most prominent gangster is a warlord named Barbecue.
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That's his name. And the gangs in Haiti are going around eating people. It's cannibal gangs
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now governing the country. Not great. According to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, however,
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we should have a lot of empathy for what's going on in Haiti because, I'll use his exact words,
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quote, we call New York City the Port-au Prince of America. We feel the pain of our Haitian neighbors
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feel as the situation grows dire. To the people of Haiti and our own Haitian community here in New
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York City, know that we stand with you today and always. So, okay, that's nice to, we stand with
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you, we support you, whatever. The first sentence, it was a little confusing to me. We call New York City
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the Port-au Prince of America, capital of Haiti, right? I was born in New York. I grew up in New
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York, lived in New York for a very long time. I never heard anyone call it the Port-au Prince of
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America. And there's a great community note that was added to this tweet says, not one person has
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ever said this before Eric Adams. And then you can check it out. You can Google it, look at it over
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time. No one had ever said that until the New York City mayor. However, while everyone is mocking
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Eric Adams for this pandering and ridiculous statement, I want to defend it because while
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no one has yet, had yet, called New York City the Port-au Prince of America, Eric Adams is doing such
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a bad job as mayor, they might soon call it that. We don't yet have cannibal gangs terrorizing New York
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most of the time, but we might soon. That's how terrible a job Eric Adams has done. And actually,
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in Eric Adams' defense, it's been imposed on him largely by the Biden administration
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through this mass influx of illegal aliens, which Adams has called out until he was threatened with
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a corruption investigation, and then he kind of dropped the issue. This is not good. We don't
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want failed states in America, even in New York. We don't want failed states in the Caribbean. We don't
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want failed states anywhere. There's a lesson from this for conservatives, which is, one,
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keep a little order here. I mean, let's not allow the voodoo and the gangs and everyone to kind of
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run roughshod over your society. Another lesson would be that revolution is usually not that great.
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I mean, people now are blaming the problems in Haiti on recent government policies. I saw someone
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preposterously try to argue that the problem in Haiti was DEI policies being imposed. Like,
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that's it. That's the problem. Haiti had been just terrific until those woke World Economic Forum
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liberals went in there with their DEI. No, Haiti has been pretty much hell on earth ever since the slave
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revolt that led to the Haitian revolution. There was so much promise. There was so much hope at the
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moment of that revolution. This is the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world
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led to this revolution. But then the hope never paid off because Haiti has been a hellscape ever
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since then. The United States had to occupy Haiti for something like 15 years or more in the early 20th
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century. And every so often they get some dictator who keeps a little bit more peace, but it's always been
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just absolutely terrible. And now it doesn't even have what little government it once had.
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The real lesson for conservatives here is not just that revolution is usually terrible,
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and it's not even just that we probably don't want to import a lot of pathologies from around the
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world that could create problems in our own country. The lesson to me is government is good.
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I know conservatives are not supposed to say that. We're supposed to say government is the most
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evil thing ever, and we want to get rid of the government, and we just want to privatize
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everything. Government is good in principle. Government can go bad. Government can become
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too big and overbearing. Government can become too centralized and unresponsive to the real needs
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of people. But government in principle is good. We are the political animal. We live in society.
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And when we figure out how to live in society, we call that politics. And part of politics
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politics is a civil authority. We call that government. And the civil authority does not
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bear the sword in vain. The civil authority protects people's rights and maintains order
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and administers justice. And that is not just something that we have to deal with. It's not
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just a sad fact of life that we individualists have to put up with. That is a good thing. We want
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justice. None of us wants to live in Haiti. We don't want to live in the Port-au-Prince of America,
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and we don't want to live in the Port-au-Prince of Port-au-Prince. Speaking of politically
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sanctioned violence, Kamala Harris is about to make history by being the first vice president
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to ever visit an abortion clinic. This will be the first visit by a vice president or a president
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to an abortion clinic. She's going to go visit a Planned Parenthood in Minnesota. This is part of her
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Fight for Reproductive Freedoms tour, which started in January. And the point of it is to promote
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abortion. I just got back from Madison, Wisconsin. Had a really fun time there. If you missed my speech,
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it was on this topic. It was on abortion. It's called The Case Against Murder. I lay it out in ways
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that sometimes are missing from the pro-life movement. So if you want to hear a relatively
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dispassionate historical and legal and philosophical account of why abortion is bad,
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I think I laid it out as pithily as I possibly could. But the Q&A was what was really, really fun
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in Madison because we had a transvestite man, a student come up and object to the things that I
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have said. And we had a relatively, I think, respectful exchange that's gone a bit viral.
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Then I had some Looney Tunes gal come up and scream at me about abortion and then call me Matt Walsh.
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And so anyway, it was wild. It was all over the place. I guess it came at a good time, though,
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because the vice president now is not only saying what Democrats used to say, which is,
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you know, abortion, it's a very sad thing, a very tragic thing. We got to keep it safe, legal,
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and rare. Now she's saying, oh, it's a good thing. And so when you just think of the mechanics of
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what's going to happen on this tour, the sitting vice president of the United States is going to
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go into a place where babies are being murdered, where extremely predatory, evil doctors are taking
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money from poor women to murder their children. These desperate poor women, many of whom are being
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pushed into killing their children by their boyfriends or by their families or by the social
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expectations. Some of the women want to kill their children and they're happy about it. Most
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of them don't, though. Most of it are just being duped into this. Virtually all of them are going
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to live with a lot of regret and psychological trauma as a result of it. And this psycho vice
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president, Kamala Harris, is going to go in there smiling. There's a lot of tears in abortion clinics,
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okay? And those tears are indicative of the moral repugnance that's going on, the great,
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great evil that's going on. Lots of babies are actively being murdered in these places.
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Lots of women are being forced to commit a crime that is just about as horrific a crime as one can
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imagine for a human being, the murder of a child by his mother. And this woman's going to go skipping
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through there with her Kamala Harris cackle giggling about it, saying it's a positive thing.
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How did we get here? How did we get to the point where abortion should no longer be safe,
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legal and rare? But it's a wonderful thing that the vice president's going to go celebrate.
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The Democrats had to resolve the tension of safe, legal, and rare. Ideas have a momentum of their own,
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and we had to reach the conclusion of this. We had to work out the conflict and the contradiction.
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If abortion is no different than getting your tonsils taken out, then there's no reason that
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it should be rare. If abortion is in any way morally similar to murder, then it shouldn't be legal.
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Period. It's simple as. So the Democrats had to pick one. Which one did they pick?
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They picked legal, and they picked to give up rare. And so to do that, they have to grit their teeth,
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even if they're aware of just the profound evil of going into a building, the purpose of which
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is to slaughter babies. They got to go in there, and even if they feel uncomfortable with it,
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they got to grit their teeth and smile. Because the only alternative would be to say,
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this is barbaric and evil, and we're going to ban it. But they've decided they're the party of
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abortion at all costs. The vice president's going on a tour about it. And so she's going to go,
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and she's going to take that tour all the way to the infanticide factories themselves.
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Speaking of taboos, really, really interesting article in Vice. Or not Vice, Vox. I think Vice is
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gone now. It's the other left-wing outlet, Vox. Vice, at least, sometimes was kind of funny.
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Vox is just a pure establishment liberal journalism. And the headline is,
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why the blank does everyone swear all the blanking time?
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Curse words shift a lot over time. They're in the middle of a big shift right now.
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You know I'm interested in words and how words change over time. And I wrote a book about this
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called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you. And we're plugging a lot of
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products today, aren't we, on the show. But they're relevant. And this conversation is
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especially relevant when we're talking about the major political shift that's going on. Major
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political shifts will coincide with cultural shifts. And cultural shifts will always coincide
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with standards and norms and taboos changing. So what the Vox author is recognizing is something
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I've recognized, I'm sure you have too, which is that people swear much more casually these days.
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It used to be that there were seven words you couldn't say on TV. That was George Carlin's
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special. It used to be that Lenny Bruce would get arrested for saying what we would today
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consider very mild curse words if we considered them curse words at all. And now you can say pretty
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much anything, anywhere, to the point that it's banal. And so the author here at Vox says that
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swear words have undergone major shifts. Back in the Middle Ages, when people were religious,
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the real taboo words were blasphemous. GD or different versions of that, words that we don't
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even say anymore that reference the wounds of Christ or other religious imagery in a way that
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would be in vain or sacrilegious. That was really taboo. Now, bodily functions, that wasn't really
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considered taboo, according to the author of this article, because people didn't have a lot of privacy.
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They all lived together. They didn't have indoor plumbing in a lot of places. So that didn't
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really bother people. As you shift later on, especially culminating in the Victorian era,
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all of a sudden, the bodily functions, that became very taboo. So the F word, the S word,
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the this word, the that word, all the kinds of things that until pretty recently, you weren't
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really allowed to say. The C word, it's one of the last words that's still even semi-taboo
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in that category. That sort of stuff, you couldn't really say. But what about now? What is the swear
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word now? According to the article, the last one is the C word, which is just another bodily part,
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you know, refers to certain bodily functions. That's the last one you can't really say. But you kind of
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can. People use it more flippantly now. I think a lot of this article is smart, but it's missing
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the point. I can say any of those words on this show if I want to. I don't want to because I think
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swear words are vulgar and we try to class up the joint a little bit. This is a family show,
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but I could say that. If I wanted to, I could use all sorts of sacrilegious terms on this show.
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There would be no cultural taboo today. If I wanted to, I could use all sorts of nasty words
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to refer to bodily functions and fluids and acts and all sorts of things that were banned from TV
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for the 20th century. I could do that, no problem. The only words that I truly could not say on this
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show are racial and sexual epithets. It's the N word and other words like that. I can't do that
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anymore. Not that I would exactly like to do that on the show, like to class the place up,
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you know, and this is a family show. I'm just talking about the taboos. There's no real taboo
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around sacrilege. There's no real taboo around the F word or even the C word. The taboos are around
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racial and sexual epithets. Why? Because that's now what is considered sacred. In the Middle Ages,
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God was sacred. God remained sacred, but God was considered widely to be sacred and off limits for
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casual conversation. As we got a little bit later on, these kinds of bodily functions,
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they were considered to be taboo, unmentionable. You can't, they're just fascinating, but you want
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to keep them in an arm's length. Now it's just race and sex. We have made an idol out of race and sex.
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This is like when the Libs say, you know, we need to read banned books. You don't really want to read
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banned books. If you really wanted to read banned books, you would not be reading To Kill a
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Mockingbird. Okay, To Kill a Mockingbird is not banned. Books that are banned today are like,
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you know, Mein Kampf, Holocaust Denial. I don't know, you know, like really sort of vicious books.
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That's what's banned. The Bible actually is banned in schools. That's on a completely,
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you know, different category of book bans. But it's not To Kill a Mockingbird. It's not even gender
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queer or any of these books that I would like to ban from schools. That's not really it. You can get
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access to these things in, frankly, in most schools over the country, but certainly in most
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libraries and most bookstores. That's not an argument to say that no books should be banned.
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I have no problem banning certain books. I have no problem banning certain words. I have no problem
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having societal standards and taboos. But let's be honest about what those are.
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The Libs though, what they say like, oh, we're so naughty. You know, we said the F word on TV.
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There's no taboo around that anymore. That's not how our society functions. Now, speaking of taboos in
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politics, President Trump is avoiding a major taboo. The third rail of politics, President Trump
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says he will never do anything to harm social security. He says, quote, I will never do anything
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that will jeopardize or hurt social security or Medicare. We'll have to do it elsewhere, but we're
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not going to do anything to hurt them. There's so many things we can do. There's so much cutting and
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so much waste in many other areas, but I'll never do anything to hurt social security.
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This brings up a major political battle that has roiled the right for many years now,
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but DW has come under fire for it because Ben and Matt suggested that social security is going
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to go bankrupt. And so I mentioned on the show a couple of days ago that Ben and Matt obviously
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have a financial point. They're observing a fiscal reality. But what Trump is observing here is a
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political reality. And it's the reality that I think conservatives came to see from the Tea Party
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era into the Trump era. In the Tea Party era, there were conservatives who said, we need to have a
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social truce to get our fiscal house in order and deal with our national debt. And the only way to deal
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with the debt really effectively is to reform the entitlement programs. And then that didn't work.
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And it didn't work because we live in society. And you can't fix the economic problems without
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fixing the social problems. It's the other way around. So I totally get it. I understand if you're
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an actuary or something. I understand if you're an accountant and you're looking at the numbers and
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you say, well, the easiest place to make the cuts is here because it's the biggest part of the federal
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budget. I totally get it. I'm not denying that at all. But what Trump is saying is that that's not
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really how it works. It looks bad optically. It's not going to win over enough voters to actually go
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in and govern at all. And in principle, it's not true. It also doesn't work in principle because
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we're not just economic agents moving about trying to maximize our income as our primary goal.
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We're human beings, flesh and blood, living in society. And so if you want to change the way that we
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treat money, if you want to change the way that we treat our inheritance,
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if you want to change the way that we treat our wealth, you've got to change the way that we treat
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all these other aspects of culture. Are we going to have kids? Are we going to get married? Are we
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going to be responsible in other ways? Are we going to have a stable functioning border? Are we going to
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care for the common good rather than our own private interest? You've got to transform all of that
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before you ever even have a hope of dealing with the fiscal situation. Trump, I believe,
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gets it. Whether it's conscious or not, he's come to the right answer.
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who says, it's not identity politics. It's anti-whiteism. They're not dividing and pitting
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us against each other. They're uniting all other groups against white people. You're partly right,
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CoolPapaJMagic, but you're not totally right. It's true. The libs hate white people. I'm not
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denying that at all. They have campaigns to abolish whiteness, as I mentioned at the top
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of the show. But they also hate men, and they also hate Christians, and they also hate people
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of normal sexual behavior who engage in traditional customs. So it's not as simple as all that.
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I agree. In as far as the liberals' identity politics are racial, and they are largely racial,
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than it is directed against white people. No doubt about it. You and I both agree.
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But there's more to it. And at the heart of it, really, is religion. All human conflict is not
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ultimately racial. Race can play a role in it. But all human conflict ultimately is theological.
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It gets down to how we view ourselves and our place vis-a-vis other people, and all of our place
00:24:29.140
in the creation relative to our creator. It gets down to that fundamental point. And I don't think
00:24:35.180
there's any question that the secular libs hate Christianity and are trying to take it out of
00:24:41.340
public life. Speaking of electoral politics, Zoomer Democrats are worried. They are worried
00:24:49.120
that Joe Biden's TikTok ban, or that the Republicans' TikTok ban in coalition with the Democrats,
00:24:56.960
unclear if Biden will support it, could hurt Joe Biden's re-election chances. According to
00:25:02.160
Representative Maxwell Frost, Democrat from Florida, who is the first Zoomer member of Congress,
00:25:06.540
he says, this legislation, I think, is a mistake. We need to regulate social media, not just TikTok,
00:25:11.280
but all of it. And so he voted against the bill. He said it should be a political concern for Democrats
00:25:15.940
because the Democrats need to not exactly win over the young voters. They already have a lot of young
00:25:21.040
voters, but they need to convince them to show up to the polls. And the way that they do that is to
00:25:24.680
get in their faces where the Zoomer eyeballs are, and the Zoomer eyeballs are on TikTok.
00:25:30.740
TikTok is used by two-thirds of Americans under the age of 30. So there's another Democrat strategist
00:25:36.140
who was speaking to the liberal media who said, these voters are not going to say, this is my guy.
00:25:44.580
They're not going to all of a sudden become Trump voters overnight. But they might also not say that
00:25:51.460
Biden is my guy. If they're not getting constant Democrat talking points and Biden propaganda,
00:25:56.060
they might just remain somewhat disillusioned and stay home. And if they do that, Trump wins,
00:26:01.680
which is probably true. This gets to my basic suspicion that the TikTok ban is a fine idea.
00:26:12.440
But there's one hesitation I have with the TikTok ban. It's not government overreach. It's not that
00:26:18.700
they're going to come after the other social media platforms. Quite the opposite, actually.
00:26:23.140
My fear is that the direct beneficiary of the TikTok ban will be Mark Zuckerberg.
00:26:31.980
My fear is that the direct beneficiary of the TikTok ban will be the other woke, radical,
00:26:38.980
big tech CEOs who are far more responsible for rigging our elections and manipulating the American
00:26:46.280
population to do bad things than TikTok and the CCP are.
00:26:53.520
Mark Zuckerberg spent a lot of money in 2020 putting it into left-wing groups specifically
00:27:00.400
to change voting laws and practices such that Zuckerberg pretty directly was responsible
00:27:07.500
for installing lots of ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally, far away from county clerk offices.
00:27:13.700
This guy rigged the election. And he admitted it. Before he ever did it, he said, I am going to
00:27:19.140
spend a ton of money, a ton of money to kick Trump out of the White House. So legislation does not
00:27:26.360
happen in Washington, D.C. because of some pie-in-the-sky idealism. It happens because of
00:27:32.500
bare-knuckle, often monetary interests. You got to ask yourself when you're looking at a piece of
00:27:39.300
legislation. Who benefits? Who benefits here? As far as I can tell, it's Facebook and it's Google.
00:27:47.160
Maybe Elon and X benefit too. I guess that would be good. I would be fine with that.
00:27:51.920
But Zuckerberg and Google, that's not good news. Now, does that weigh out the benefits that
00:27:59.100
conservatives get, which is that you're killing the main social media channel that the Zoomers are on?
00:28:04.820
Maybe it does. Or maybe those Zoomers just go to Instagram reels and they get even more propaganda
00:28:10.480
controlled even more tightly by American liberals in the lead up to 2024. However you consider this
00:28:17.400
legislation, I wouldn't consider it as just a pie-in-the-sky ideological matter. Ask yourself,
00:28:22.460
what's this going to mean practically in American politics? Now, speaking of Zoomers, I mentioned this
00:28:27.680
story yesterday, so I won't go into too much detail on the lead up to this conversation. But next,
00:28:37.520
Benedict was a teenager who identified as a non-binary and this teenager died. And we were told
00:28:46.440
by the liberal media initially that, I think that she was a girl, that she was beaten up by awful,
00:28:55.080
terrible bullies. And it was the fault of all the evil right-wing transphobes and specifically
00:28:58.340
libs of TikTok. And then that turned out not to be true. The medical examiner's report is out and
00:29:05.400
she died of a drug overdose. And this has probably been a suicide. All tragic, everything about this
00:29:13.840
is just terribly sad. But it isn't what the liberal media told us it was. This wasn't caused by libs of
00:29:21.500
TikTok or the evil right-wingers or even the gang of people that was beating up this girl or whatever
00:29:28.020
was reported. It was a drug overdose, likely a suicide. Some of us suspected that that would be the case
00:29:35.820
or something like that would be the case. How did we get it right? And the liberal media and the liberal
00:29:40.940
media consumers, even more so, got it wrong? Because of a simple rule in politics. This is just a little
00:29:48.300
rule of thumb. And before you call me a hypocrite, before you accuse me of having double standards,
00:29:52.980
just hear me out. When a story, when a news story favors liberals, you can assume that the story is at
00:30:02.860
least somewhat false. When a news story favors conservatives, you can assume that the story is true.
00:30:15.740
Why is that? Because the liberals control the media, simple as. So it's not, sometimes the liberals
00:30:24.860
will accuse us of saying, well, hold on, when the news is good for you, you believe it. When the news is
00:30:29.640
bad for you, you don't believe it. Right. Because the Democrats have every incentive to paint Republicans
00:30:35.760
and conservatives in a terrible light. So when, on a very rare occasion, a news story paints
00:30:41.540
conservatives in a good light, it means they just couldn't do it. There was just absolutely
00:30:46.040
nothing that they could even sort of possibly try to twist to make us look bad. So it means that that
00:30:51.800
story is very likely reliable. Whereas, when it comes to stories that promote the libs,
00:30:56.300
there's really no reason to believe it's true because they have all these kind of crazy puff
00:31:01.400
pieces all the time. And then when their lies to build themselves up are proven, they retract the
00:31:06.760
story, you know, three months later on page Z 2000 of the newspaper. That's why it's not hypocrisy.
00:31:12.840
It's not a double standard. It's not picking and choosing. It's not saying, oh, you just want to
00:31:17.260
believe the news that's positive for you. No, I'm, I am just objectively looking at the news media and
00:31:23.780
realizing it's all libs and recognizing the incentives and the patterns and how the stories
00:31:28.080
come and then coming to a rule of thumb because of that. And I, Ann Coulter has a similar version
00:31:32.980
of this. She says, when there is a mass shooting, the longer the media don't report on the race of
00:31:41.580
the criminal, the more likely the criminal is not white. The more, you know, if it goes two days,
00:31:47.980
you don't know what the race of the shooter is, that shooter is not white every time. When the
00:31:53.400
shooter is white, they report it immediately. When the shooter is a straight man, they report
00:31:59.180
it immediately. When the shooter is a trans identifying person, they cover up that story
00:32:03.100
for years. We're still waiting to get the full story on the Nashville trans shooter. Of course,
00:32:09.560
if the shooter is black, it's, you know, a youth or an individual or a young man or whatever.
00:32:15.860
When the shooter is white or even not white, when a killer is Hispanic, like the case of George
00:32:21.920
Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman looks extremely Hispanic, but he had
00:32:26.700
a name that sounded almost like it could kind of plausibly be white. So the news media, they said,
00:32:30.600
he's a white guy. They got him. He's a white guy. Then they found out he's not a white guy.
00:32:33.240
And so they didn't want to totally walk it back. They said, he's a white Hispanic. He's a white Hispanic.
00:32:39.300
What is he? He wasn't even all that white. Anyway, that's the rule of thumb. And Ann Coulter's
00:32:43.700
version of it is right. And I think this version at a general level is right too.
00:32:47.540
Now, speaking of libs and women, this is a story I wanted to get to last week. I do want to touch
00:32:53.200
on it now. Kyrsten Sinema is out of the Senate at the end of this year. Sinema has announced this.
00:33:01.840
And if you don't know who Sinema is, she was a Democrat, but she's kind of moderate and she's been
00:33:06.360
relatively independent in the Senate. And it's been a big problem for the liberal Democrats who want to
00:33:12.120
ram through their agenda. Here she is saying she's out.
00:33:16.060
Through listening, understanding and compromise, we deliver tangible results that make America safer,
00:33:23.260
stronger and more prosperous. Yet, despite modernizing our infrastructure, ensuring clean
00:33:29.760
water, delivering good jobs and safer communities, Americans still choose to retreat farther to their
00:33:36.040
partisan corners. These solutions are considered failures, either because they're too much or not
00:33:42.020
nearly enough. It's all or nothing. The outcome, less important than beating the other guy.
00:33:48.820
The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic. Attacking your opponents on cable
00:33:53.860
news or social media. Compromise is a dirty word. We've arrived at that crossroad and we chose anger
00:34:01.800
and division. I believe in my approach, but it's not what America wants right now. I love Arizona and I am so
00:34:10.620
proud of what we've delivered. Because I chose civility, understanding, listening, working together
00:34:17.440
to get stuff done. I will leave the Senate at the end of this year. She's out. Okay. Sinema's out.
00:34:24.260
That's sort of unfortunate because she was one of the two even semi-reasonable Democrats in the Senate,
00:34:30.200
the other one being Joe Manchin. But in a way, it's not the worst thing because it raises the stakes.
00:34:35.960
Not only are we looking at the presidency being up this year, but this raises the stakes for 2024
00:34:43.160
considerably. The one of the two kind of moderates in the Senate, she is gone. So now the race is going
00:34:50.280
to be between Carrie Lake, the Republican, and Ruben Gallego, who's the Democrat. The election could
00:34:56.300
determine which party controls the Senate. Now we're going to see who controls the White House,
00:35:01.860
who controls the Senate. Who knows? We've got a razor thin majority in the House. The whole
00:35:07.440
government is up for grabs. This could potentially be the biggest swing election in our lifetimes at a
00:35:15.780
time when the Democrats have become extraordinarily partisan, openly encouraging an invasion across our
00:35:22.460
southern border, visiting abortion mills, and celebrating infanticide. They are as plain and
00:35:29.320
out in the open as it possibly comes. Republicans finding their voice, too, finding a little bit
00:35:33.980
more of a coherent vision, too. What's it going to be? One hopes it'll be a fair election. At the
00:35:40.960
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Hey, Michael. My sister's now fiancé finally proposed after about a year and a half of dating.
00:36:40.860
He is very smart and very sweet and kind, but he considers himself a Democrat. I think it is
00:36:47.000
because he is very kind and non-confrontational. Maybe he doesn't like the thought of imposing
00:36:51.420
moral standards on people. I have tried talking to him about how things like gender confusion are not
00:36:56.960
good for society and he doesn't disagree, but he still identifies as a Democrat. I haven't found
00:37:03.320
the root of his political leanings, but I'm not too concerned because his dad is a Republican and he
00:37:09.240
is going through the RCIA program. My sister and my family are already Catholic. Plus, as he gets older
00:37:16.060
and has kids, I think he'll lean more right. My question is, can you recommend a good book for me
00:37:22.320
to get for him for baptism and confirmation present? I'm looking for something that will be
00:37:27.460
appropriately religious for the occasion, but something that would also help shape his political
00:37:32.400
views. Thank you for your advice and I appreciate all that you do. Absolutely. Marvelous question. I'm
00:37:38.500
glad. I was a little nervous at the beginning. Then you said, okay, he's in RCIA, so he's becoming
00:37:45.060
Catholic. He's taking that kind of seriously. I mean, if you're Catholic, practically speaking,
00:37:50.360
you just can't really be a Democrat today because the abortion issue is non-negotiable and the nature
00:37:57.380
of the human person, the nature of sex, you know, the so-called transgender ideology, that's a
00:38:03.280
non-negotiable. And many more bioethical issues just basically prohibit a faithful Catholic from
00:38:13.840
practically being a Democrat. So hopefully he'll come to that conclusion. You could get him the
00:38:17.380
Catechism of St. Pius X. It's a pretty good catechism. In terms of political books, I would say
00:38:22.380
here maybe lean a little toward Chesterton, you know, Chesterton's Orthodoxy. He actually wrote it
00:38:28.340
before he was Catholic, I think, but it's quite Christian, obviously religious, but it gets to
00:38:34.080
much, gets to a lot of political issues. Maybe some Hilaire-Bellock books could be good. Lewis is
00:38:41.640
always fine, though. I would maybe lean toward Chesterton or Belloc for the occasion and then
00:38:48.220
just kind of slowly push him a little bit more and more and more. If he's going to raise his kids
00:38:53.760
as faithful, you know, to the church, practically he's going to have to, he's going to have to ditch
00:39:01.500
that Democrat stuff. That's good. Okay. Next question.
00:39:04.640
Hey, Mr. Knows. My name is Eli. I'm 21. And you are my favorite out of the Daily Wire cast because of
00:39:10.220
how well-spoken you are. Every sentence you speak is laced with philosophy, history, theology,
00:39:15.520
and virtue. Truly the Holy Spirit lives in you. My question is, how can I get like you? Well-spoken,
00:39:21.540
educated with wisdom. I am a Christian. I know wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord.
00:39:26.200
So I go to church, listen to sermons, and seek guidance from my church elders. I read when I
00:39:31.300
have free time, perhaps a book list from you your fans would appreciate. I'm considering going back to
00:39:36.760
school. I had dropped out to learn a trade so I could always have a skill in demand. I know your
00:39:41.260
view college is to educate yourself and not to get a job. So I'm not sure what major is best for me and
00:39:47.180
if it's the best choice because of how crazy expensive it is. But I'm thinking the education
00:39:52.360
will pay itself off. Any advice? Thank you. Well, thanks, man. Really nice. Appreciate that. You forgot
00:39:58.760
how handsome I am, but that's all right. The other ones were very nice. It seems like what you're
00:40:03.420
focused on in particular is trying to cultivate your ability to speak, which expresses some of
00:40:12.440
the other things that you've touched on there. If you can speak well, if you can argue well,
00:40:18.920
especially if you can write well, what that implies is you've probably read a fair number of books and
00:40:24.760
you thought about things and you've taken education at least somewhat seriously, and that's what you're
00:40:29.040
asking, right? So what I would recommend is I don't need to give, I mean, I can maybe give you a book
00:40:34.820
list, but you can even look, Harold Bloom, the late literary critic, has a great book list. It's huge,
00:40:40.140
and it's a list of great books. Going back to antiquity all the way to the present, I would go
00:40:46.640
through that. I wouldn't go through it in any particular order. Maybe if you want to start at
00:40:50.860
the beginning, I'd read a little Plato and Aristotle first, and then maybe I'd throw in, I'd read a little
00:40:56.580
Homer, you know, so you get your philosophy, Plato's going to be a little saucier than Aristotle,
00:41:01.160
Aristotle's going to be a little more nuts and bolts than Plato, and then you're going to get your
00:41:04.920
blood and gore and guts and poetry with the Iliad and the Odyssey, maybe the Aeneid too, which is sort of
00:41:11.400
the Bible of empire as Dante considered it, and then maybe you jump to the Middle Ages, you read some of
00:41:17.460
those tracts, obviously, you know, speaking of Dante, I'm a big Dante fan, you toss in some great, you skip
00:41:23.920
it way ahead, you toss in some great novels there, maybe the Russian novelists. What I'm saying is you
00:41:28.120
don't need to go in any particular order. Follow your desire, and then as you read, as you educate
00:41:33.740
yourself, your desires will become more finely tuned. They'll be pointing even more in the right
00:41:41.220
direction, and so I wouldn't make it just so rigorous that you have to start at the beginning
00:41:46.020
of the Western tradition and finish at the end, because you'll just get tired of it and probably give
00:41:50.540
up. Desire is a very important part of education that we downplay now. In terms of going back to
00:41:55.300
school or whatever, I don't know how old you are, I don't know your circumstances, so use your prudence
00:41:59.660
here. I wouldn't take out a lot of debt if you're not in a position to do that right now, to get a
00:42:04.860
degree that maybe you won't be able even to use in your leisure time. Don't forget, you know, a liberal
00:42:11.280
education is about cultivating your ability for leisure, ultimately, because it's not about learning a
00:42:17.380
trade. You go to trade school to learn a trade, or you get an apprenticeship, or you just start working
00:42:20.740
and train at your job. So there, I would just use prudence. And then if you are working, you say, in
00:42:26.400
between this time, I can read a little bit. I would listen to Spencer Claven's podcast. I would listen
00:42:31.000
to, I have a book show over at PragerU. You can listen to that. I would listen to lots of free lectures.
00:42:36.300
You can get them open. Courses are great. And I would follow your desire, then practice it.
00:42:43.820
Formulate your arguments. Say those arguments out loud. Bring them up in conversations with your
00:42:48.280
friends. And then find other friends who are interested in this, too, because education is a
00:42:53.260
group activity. Next question. Hey, Smokey Mike. It's Isaac, a long-time listener and huge fan. Back in
00:43:02.360
July, I was involved in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident that left me paralyzed. And I was hoping that
00:43:10.860
you would consider asking the creme de la creme, who are believers in Christ, to please pray for my
00:43:18.240
healing. Appreciate everything you do, man. Bye.
00:43:22.200
I certainly can. Simple enough. Very sorry to hear of the trouble you've gone through.
00:43:28.420
We were just talking today. A friend of ours, mine and Sweet Little Elisa's, underwent a kind of a
00:43:35.300
trauma, real tragedy. And we asked how she was doing. And she said, oh, you know, there's just
00:43:41.140
been so many graces, and it's been wonderful to suffer along with Christ. I thought, wow, that's
00:43:45.440
an amazing, saintly way of dealing with things that are so horrible. So you're dealing with a lot of
00:43:53.440
suffering. And really, the only consolation that can possibly come from that is binding it up,
00:44:02.600
drawing you closer to God and binding you closer to our Lord who suffers the utmost. And then we can
00:44:08.240
also pray for your healing. Absolutely. So I encourage everyone to do that. Next question.
00:44:13.360
Hello, Michael. I'm a fellow Roman Catholic. I love your show. On one of your recent shows,
00:44:18.300
you brought up an informal rule of thumb that if everyone who supports a given X tends to be wrong
00:44:26.340
about everything else, then there's a good chance that there's something wrong about X too.
00:44:31.280
And I bring this up because in my hobby, Dungeons and Dragons, I have very much struggled to get any
00:44:40.300
interest from my Catholic friends. And when I kind of go into the D&D community, everyone is left-wing
00:44:47.760
and the weird sex stuff, you know, big libs, etc. So my question is, why is it that it seems sometimes
00:44:56.660
that Christians hate and distrust fantasy? And how does your rule about if everyone that supports
00:45:04.400
this tends to be wrong about everything else, they're probably wrong about this too? How does
00:45:10.300
that play out in the current rejection of fantasy by Christians? Thank you very much. I love your show.
00:45:17.620
Thank you very much. I don't think Christians reject fantasy. I kind of do. I don't really like
00:45:24.140
fantasy stories and, you know, it's just a taste of mine. But Christians don't. I mean, the most famous
00:45:29.760
fantasy story of the last several hundred years is a deeply Christian story written by a devout Catholic
00:45:36.240
named Tolkien, right? The Lord of the Rings is extremely Christian. Same with Narnia, right,
00:45:43.800
written by Tolkien's buddy, who's another obviously extremely prominent Christian. The very genre of
00:45:51.300
fantasy, we see, you know, its origins. Well, the Pendragon cycle, we're making that here at Daily
00:45:56.300
Wire. And then those early Arthurian legends, Shretien de Troyes, you know, all of these, all of the
00:46:02.260
medieval literary tradition, which is obviously very Christian. So I don't think it's that Christians
00:46:06.840
don't like it. But maybe Christians don't like Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know. I don't know
00:46:09.860
anything about Dungeons and Dragons. So I'll have to defer to some other experts. But if you're
00:46:15.660
noticing, even within fantasy, that the Christians who like fantasy like all these other parts of
00:46:20.600
fantasy, but they don't necessarily love D&D, then yeah, I don't know, maybe something about D&D
00:46:28.360
is just not, just doesn't totally jive with the sort of things Christians want to do. And in that
00:46:35.480
case, I don't know. I mean, look, I'm not telling you you got to quit your Dungeons and Dragons club,
00:46:38.800
but in that case, probably just naturally over time, you might lose interest in it. That's just
00:46:44.700
how these things go. Okay. We have a mailbag question from Alex. Michael, so many are determined
00:46:51.880
to get the Michael Lowe stamp of approval for a divorce. Here is my attempt. My wife watches
00:46:57.940
Love is Blind and won't watch Die Hard. Should I cut my losses? Thanks.
00:47:03.220
You know, sometimes people have suggested there might be an exception to the hard and fast Christian
00:47:11.400
prohibition on divorce. And if there were to be, I'm no theologian, what do I, but if there were to be,
00:47:20.240
love is blind. That's, oh, yikes. There's much more mailbag to get to.
00:47:24.680
You probably shouldn't divorce your wife. I don't, I mean, you know, look, I'm, this is going to occupy
00:47:31.020
me. I'm going to, as we transition into the member block, I'm going to have to give this even
00:47:34.260
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