Ep. 1540 - Disgusting Olympic Ceremony Mocks Christians
Summary
A parody of the Last Supper, in which the Apostles are replaced with drag queens and a bunch of other deviants, and one of them has his genitals hanging below his costume next to a child. What does that have to do with religion?
Transcript
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You know how much I hate to say I told you so. I have never been more vindicated in not watching
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the Olympics than I was on Friday night when the Olympic ceremony kicked off in Paris by mocking
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God. The ceremony culminated in a parody of the Last Supper, replacing the Incarnate Lord with
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some sort of astral witch and replacing the Apostles with a bunch of drag queens and similar
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deviants, one of whom had his genitals hanging below his costume next to a child. Unlike the
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television networks, I have decided to blur this image because it's sacrilegious and also just
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generally revolting. The homosexual leftist who put the display together, Thomas Jolly, denies that
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the tableau was meant to evoke the Last Supper. Instead, we are now told by the scene's apologists
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it was meant to call to mind the Feast of the Gods by the 17th century Dutch painter Jan van
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Billiart. Or else it was meant to call to mind preparations for the wedding banquet of Cupid
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and Psyche by the 16th century Italian engraver Diana Scultori. These alternative interpretations
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are pretty weak. One, because no ordinary person would recognize those paintings, whereas everyone
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recognizes the Last Supper. But two, because the tableau clearly bears greater resemblance to the
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Last Supper. One of the most distinctive features of which is that the dinner guests are all seated,
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like in the tableau, but unlike in those other works, on one side of the table. The fact that the
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tableau's defenders can't even agree on which work it was supposedly based on tells you the whole
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defense is disingenuous. Now, the sacrilegious depiction certainly was pagan. The Olympics is
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a late 19th century revival of ancient pagan games, and it includes lots of pagan imagery. As I mentioned
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last week, the Olympic torch relay begins with a reenactment of vestal virgins worshiping at the
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temple of Hera. But this modern pagan imagery is sacrilegious in a way that ancient paganism wasn't,
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because modern paganism has to grapple with Christianity. Ancient paganism, at its worst,
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was fables and demon worship. But at its best, the paganism of Plato and Aristotle, for instance,
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it was a kind of vague intuition of Christianity, a deduction through natural reason of the one true
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God. Modern religion can't ignore Christianity. The incarnation is the central event in history.
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Whether you think that's good or bad, whether you believe in the meaning of the incarnation,
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it just is the central event. It changes everything. Islam grapples with Christianity.
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Christ is mentioned in the Quran. Even Judaism, which seems to have come before Christianity,
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grapples with the person of Christ in the Talmud. France was Christian by the end of the 5th century.
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It's the home of countless saints and cathedrals. It's been known as the eldest daughter of the church.
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Ancient Athens can innocently, or at least ignorantly, celebrate the pagan gods. Modern
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France can only do so by rejecting the true God. I, for one, think we ought to leave pagan worship to
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the past. And I am inclined to leave the Olympics there, too. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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of the Olympics, but there was other insane stuff too. We also had, as part of the French Olympics,
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a depiction of the beheading of France's queen, Marie-Antoinette.
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So you have the queen holding her head, followed by fire blasting out of the ground,
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and heavy metal musicians playing devilish-sounding music while the French celebrate beheading their
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queen. This too, by the way, has a religious aspect to it. So what do we know about the
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organizer, the artistic director of these ceremonies? We know that he's a touch light in
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the loafers. We know that he's a leftist. But, you know, it's France, so doesn't that describe
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everybody? We know that the scene was meant to call to mind. In fairness, I think this part is true.
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It was meant to call to mind the pagan basis of the Olympic Games. But because it's happening in
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2024 rather than, I don't know, you know, 24 BC or centuries earlier BC, we know that it's,
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in order to be pagan, it's got to reject millennia of development, specifically after the incarnation.
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So it's a rejection of Christ. It's a rejection in that tableau of the Last Supper. It's a rejection
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of the Christian civilization that once was France. You know, it's a celebration of the
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French Revolution, which beheaded Queen Marie-Antoinette, and which has religious overtones to
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that too. The beheading of the queen, one of the worst events in the history of Europe. I mean,
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the French Revolution was a kind of return of paganism, a rejection of Christianity. They
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went into Notre Dame, turned it into a temple to reason. They remade everything after secularism
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and atheism and tried to destroy the last vestiges of Christianity in France. But one of the most famous
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descriptions of all this came from Edmund Burke, an Englishman, in his book, Reflections on the
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Revolution in France. And the most famous passage of that work refers to Marie-Antoinette.
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There was a time when I knew this by heart, but I'll make sure I don't miss a word here.
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It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphinus at Versailles,
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and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
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I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move
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in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution,
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or what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion and elevation, that elevation and that fall.
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Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,
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respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed
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in that bosom. Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her
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in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought 10,000 swords
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must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. It goes on to the even more famous parts of that passage.
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I read all of this because he's obviously not just writing about Queen Marie Antoinette here.
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There's something deeper going on. This passage has been mocked, even at the time,
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as being so over the top. The Queen of France was a nice lady, but why is it over the top?
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Because obviously, he is referring literally to Queen Marie Antoinette, but he's referring by way
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of allegory to Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Mary, Mary. One's the Queen of France, one's the Queen of Heaven.
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Listen to this language. Yes, the most delightful vision. She hardly seemed to touch the earth.
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She's glittering like the morning star, full of life, splendor and joy. This is the language of prayer.
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Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. What a revolution. She added titles of veneration.
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Of course, we traditionally and famously venerate Mary.
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And you would imagine that 10,000 swords would leap from their scabbards to avenge even an insulting
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look. What is France? Paris is the city of Notre-Dame de Paris, Our Lady of Paris. It's
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the most famous church there. So the French Revolution was so evil in part because of the
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literal action of beheading the Queen, but also in the figurative action, in what that means by way
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of allegory, that it was an overthrow of Christianity in favor of atheism, in favor of a new kind of
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paganism. The worship in Notre-Dame de Paris of the goddess Reason, a statue of the goddess Reason.
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That new paganism is even worse than the old paganism. You think of the new pagan cults like the new age
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cults. They refer to Christ. They refer to Christianity. They're a perversion of Christianity.
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Modern liberalism is a perversion of Christendom. The civilization that gave rise to liberalism was
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Christendom. And then liberalism attacks that which begat it. It's a violation of it, as you see in the
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French Revolution. Very much in keeping with France's modern history. The Olympics has always been super
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lib. That's one of the reasons I never really watched it. It's this very kumbaya. We have to
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pretend that all the nations of the earth are equal. And even though all the best athletes just
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train in America, and then we let them go back to their countries and compete against us. And
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you know, it's all, you know, we are the world kind of nonsense. You know, it even comes about the
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modern games at the end of the 19th century. This age of advancing liberalism. And it's the libs.
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I know some conservatives like the Olympics too, but it's generally libs who like the idea of the
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Olympics. Well, now we're seeing the darker meaning of that liberalism, which is that it is explicitly,
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overtly a rejection of Christianity. That's always been what it is. Now, speaking of belligerent
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liberalism, I got some tea to spill. Get your saucers out. I got tea to spill. The Murdoch family is at war
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right wing is in the financial benefit of these shareholders, of these beneficiaries, which is
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good to anybody. But the family is still fighting Rupert Murdoch on this point. They don't want him
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to take the steps necessary to keep Fox News right wing, meaning the Fox News heirs, the Murdoch
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That is how much pressure there is to be liberal in the elite spheres of our society. They would
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Bitcoin conference. Here's what he had to say. You need tremendous amounts of electricity.
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States to dominate, and we'll get that done. Who would think we can get that done? But we're
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to have to. We'll be using nuclear. We'll be doing it in an environmentally friendly way. But we will be
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creating so much electricity that you'll be saying, please, please, President, we don't want any more
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electricity. We can't stand it. You'll be begging me, no more electricity, sir. We have enough. We have
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enough. This afternoon, I'm laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto
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capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world, and we'll get it done.
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I love that President Trump has like five lines, and he just applies them to different
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circumstances. So here we see the application of the, you're going to win so much, you're going to
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say, please, I'm tired of winning. We don't want to win anymore. So he's saying, look, crypto requires
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a lot of electricity. That's one of the reasons that the libs are against crypto, and you need a lot
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of electricity. We're going to give you electricity. We're going to give you so much, you're going to
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say, please, no more. I've got too much electricity. I love it. I love it. And the crowd goes wild
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there. Now, President Trump stopped short. He made all sorts of promises about crypto. He said
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that he's going to establish a presidential Bitcoin advisory council. He said he was going to keep all
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the Bitcoin jobs in the United States. He said that there would be no central bank digital currency,
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which would be a way for the government to go in and gut Bitcoin while he was president.
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He stepped a little bit short of a promise that was made on his behalf the day before
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by Bobby Kennedy Jr., who also addressed the Bitcoin conference.
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Has the potential to return monetary discipline to the Fed and to restore the dollar as the
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unchallenged global reserve currency. And just as Bitcoin can fortify the dollar,
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it can also secure America's position in cyberspace. I understand that tomorrow President Trump may
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announce his plan to build a Bitcoin Fort Knox and authorize the U.S. government to buy a million
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Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. And I applaud that announcement and we should all applaud it.
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Now, Trump didn't actually do that. So what's going on here? Is Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is running
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against President Trump, is he trying to take the wind out of Trump's sails by claiming this
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announcement for himself? Is he working on behalf of Trump to float this idea, see how it plays,
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not just in the room, but how it plays in the markets and the broader public opinion?
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I don't know exactly what he's up to. We know that Trump stopped short of that,
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but Trump did go pretty far to say, look, I'm going to do everything that I can to support Bitcoin
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and crypto digital currencies. And Bobby Kennedy, also running, so now we've got two of the three
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who are running for president. He says, I too am going to support Bitcoin as much as I can.
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The Democrats are quite opposed to Bitcoin. Kamala Harris maybe was going to show up to the
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there was a rumor she was going to make it. And then at the last minute, she did not make it.
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At first, I thought that she declined to show up because she didn't want to be booed back into
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Kentucky. The people in that room were not the most favorable to her. I heard some scuttlebutt on
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the floor of the Bitcoin conference that Kamala Harris didn't show up because she was disinvited,
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because she wouldn't agree to certain terms laid out by the Bitcoin organizers. So I don't know.
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I don't know where the reality of that really lies. I do know that Trump has made this a point
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to see his light. The Dems have come out strongly against Bitcoin.
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Trump has said, okay, Bitcoiners, hey, all you people who are fanatically passionate about your
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subject and who have a ton of money, you're welcome in my party. Yeah, come on over here.
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Send that Bitcoin over here, baby. That's I'm for you. And this is actually scaring the Democrats.
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So Democrats just came out. A number of Democrat lawmakers sent a letter to prospective presidential
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candidates and to the chairman of the Democrat National Committee asking that the party change
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its position on Bitcoin. We respectfully call on you, they write, to include pro-digital asset
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language in the party's platform. It's imperative that the party's platform reflects the potential
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benefits of digital assets and blockchain technology. Select a VP candidate sophisticated in digital
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asset policy. Select a pro-innovation SEC chair. So for the Securities and Exchange Commission,
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not someone who's going to be reflexively anti-Bitcoin and crypto, but who's going to be
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open to it. And engage with industry experts. What all these people, we're talking about Congressman
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Colin Allred, Nikki Budzinski, Angie Craig, Don Davis, Dan Goldman, the Ro Khanna's list goes on and
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on and on. A lot of Democrat lawmakers here saying, hey guys, you're missing the boat. We need you to be
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pro-crypto. But the DNC is not. That's why they have to write this letter. The Democratic Party is the
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anti-Bitcoin party. It's the anti-crypto party. And the Republican Party is the pro-Bitcoin party and the
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pro-crypto party. And what do I think about Bitcoin? I don't think very much about Bitcoin. I went to the
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conference. I still don't really totally get what it is. It owes more to my ignorance and, you know,
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nature as a stunad than to Bitcoin necessarily. But all I know is, from a political perspective,
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this makes the Republicans look like the party of the future. And this makes the Democrats look like
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the party of the past. And that didn't used to be the case. It used to look like the Republicans
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were the party of the past. We just want to go back to the 1950s or something. And the
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Democrats are the party of the future. But for the past at least three or four years,
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and maybe more than that, maybe eight or nine years now, the Republicans have looked like the
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party of innovation. Trump shaking up the party platform, looking ahead, shaking up foreign policy.
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There was a foreign policy under Bush. It was pretty much the same foreign policy under Obama.
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Trump shakes that up. There was a trade policy under Bush. It was pretty much the same trade policy
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under Obama. Trump shakes that up. And then, obviously, the Democrats have a presidential
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candidate, then president, who was a walking cadaver. That didn't make them look like the
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party of the future. Even now, they have a younger candidate. Trump is chronologically older than she
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is. But he seems to have younger ideas. He seems more vibrant. With Kamala, because she's an empty
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suit, she just regurgitates whatever the Democrat party platform is. And the party platform is out of
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The libs are not looking good right now. Their policies are not popular generally. Their record
00:24:47.700
over the past three years is really unpopular. Their nominee until a couple of weeks ago was
00:24:53.660
really unpopular so much so that they had to ditch him, and they get this new lady who's also not
00:24:57.300
popular. So the best they can do right now is lie. I don't mean that as a cheap political shot.
00:25:04.420
I'll give you an example of it, a pretty clear one. CBS News. Trump falsely accuses VP Harris of
00:25:13.520
donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. What's the Minnesota Freedom Fund? The Minnesota Freedom Fund
00:25:20.680
is this jailbreak organization that came to prominence during the George Floyd riots.
00:25:26.960
So Trump has mentioned this. He's mentioned that Kamala Harris has been supportive of this
00:25:31.020
organization that bails out violent criminals. And just here's the headline. I'm not going to go into
00:25:37.000
the nitty-gritty details of the article or the video or even the subheader that contradict the
00:25:42.860
headline. This is the headline. This is what most people are going to see. Trump falsely accuses
00:25:47.400
VP Harris of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund. I'm going to show you a tweet from VP Harris.
00:25:55.860
June 1st, 2020. If you're able to, chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for
00:26:05.000
those protesting on the ground in Minnesota with a link to donate. The link comes from Act Blue,
00:26:11.380
which is probably the most prominent left-wing organization in the country.
00:26:19.260
Trump falsely accuses VP of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund. Please donate now to Minnesota Freedom
00:26:24.360
Fund. Now, I guess you could say, hold on, let me see. I guess you could try to say
00:26:29.500
that Kamala Harris, while she encouraged others to donate to the millions of people
00:26:35.880
whom that tweet reached, she encouraged them to donate, but she was hypocritical. She didn't
00:26:40.280
really donate herself. I guess you could say that. But even so, I don't think that gets her off the
00:26:44.980
hook. If I'm a political bundler and I host a dinner for all my rich friends, and I bundle $5 million
00:26:56.140
for a presidential candidate, but I don't really give money myself other than my work,
00:27:02.700
other than my effort, other than an in-kind contribution, like Kamala's tweet, which would
00:27:07.000
constitute an in-kind contribution. She's turning her political apparatus to raise money for this
00:27:11.940
group. But other than the in-kind, even if I don't explicitly write a check, am I not a donor to
00:27:16.440
that candidate? I just raised him $5 million. I'd probably be appointed the ambassador to the
00:27:20.660
court of St. James. You're telling me I'm not really a donor in that case? That's the kind of
00:27:25.020
sophistry that the left is trying to engage in right now. To lie, because this woman is extremely
00:27:33.840
radical. She raised money to bail out very violent, nasty, evil people who committed all sorts of
00:27:40.600
crimes. She wanted to bail them out of jail. She was the most left-wing Democrat. Well, obviously,
00:27:46.860
if you're the most left-wing Democrat senator, you're the most left-wing senator while she was in the
00:27:51.280
Senate, she has a terrible, terrible record. And we've got 98 days till the election or something
00:27:59.960
like that. So the best the libs can do is just lie. They're going to look you right in the eye
00:28:04.940
and they're going to lie to you about all of the unfortunate aspects of her record. And there are
00:28:09.780
many of those. They're going to lie to you about a lot of other stuff too. Remember last week,
00:28:14.300
Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, appears before a congressional committee.
00:28:19.860
And Chris Wray floats a conspiracy theory that Trump was not actually shot by a bullet.
00:28:25.640
Where did all eight bullets go is, I guess, my question.
00:28:30.480
I don't have that in front of me. I'm happy to circle back and get that to you. It's assuming
00:28:35.840
we have that information yet. As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump,
00:28:44.400
there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.
00:28:51.060
So it's conceivable. Although, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet
00:28:54.820
in addition to causing the grazing could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we've
00:29:01.680
accounted for all of the shots and the cartridges. So let us get that in circle.
00:29:05.740
It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president. Is that
00:29:12.200
I don't, as I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that. I believe we know the answer
00:29:17.420
Okay. Yeah, it's just, it's a little unclear. You know, when that guy, after we spent, you know,
00:29:23.360
we in the liberal establishment spent the last eight years calling Trump Hitler and an existential
00:29:28.320
threat to democracy. And then that guy went out and tried to blow his head off and came within a
00:29:32.460
hair's breadth just a nanosecond earlier, Trump moved his head about 20 degrees. And it really,
00:29:37.240
the clearest explanation is that it was a miracle because natural explanations fail. Yeah,
00:29:42.260
I just don't know if it was really a bullet. You know, it's like, is it really a big deal?
00:29:46.420
Yes. I just don't know. I'm the director of the FBI. Why am I supposed to know anything? I don't
00:29:49.520
know anything. Huh? Is it a bullet? So the FBI clarified this, by the way, the FBI issued a
00:29:55.200
statement said, quote, what struck former president Trump in the ear was a bullet. Christopher Wray,
00:30:04.700
whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces fired from the deceased subjects rifle.
00:30:09.060
No, no blue anon, no tinfoil hat FBI director. No, it wasn't, it wasn't a piece of a, I don't know,
00:30:20.140
a teleprompter or something. It was, it was a bullet that hit him, buddy. That was the FBI that
00:30:24.560
acknowledged that Trump had a field day with this dishonesty. In fact, my chart that I looked over to
00:30:32.480
the right, that chart, you know, the famous chart that showed we had the best numbers in history,
00:30:38.080
at least recorded history on the border. That chart probably saved my life. Can you believe it?
00:30:44.720
Because I looked over. If I didn't look over, I got a problem.
00:30:52.860
Wasn't too good anyway. Did you see the FBI today apologize? They said, well,
00:30:58.020
it might've been a bullet, but it might've been glass. Oh really? Where did the glass come from?
00:31:01.780
Or it might've been shrapnel. Where did the shrapnel come from? No. They then said it was a
00:31:08.760
bullet. They just try and do it. It just never ends with these people. They raid Mar-a-Lago. They
00:31:13.420
do things so bad, so bad. Our country is so sick, but they apologize. We accept their apology.
00:31:19.900
I love everyone. But look, we accept their apology, okay? This is what they're going to do.
00:31:27.320
The FBI director is going to, with a straight face, he's going to look Jim Jordan in the eye and say,
00:31:33.920
yeah, well, we don't know if it was a bullet. I mean, you all saw the bullet go through his ear
00:31:37.800
and very nearly through the back of Trump's head. Yeah, we don't know though. Don't believe your
00:31:41.460
lying eyes. CBS News is going to look at you and say, oh, Kamala, she never raised a lot of money for
00:31:46.580
this jailbreak fund to bail violent criminals out of jail, who then would go on to commit
00:31:52.740
more violent crime. No, she never did that. That tweet she sent, she didn't really send that.
00:31:58.140
You're not reading that tweet. That's not real. Don't believe your lying eyes. Put your fingers
00:32:02.940
in your ear and go, la, la, la, la, la. That's what they're going to do. What's their alternative?
00:32:09.220
They can't gin up any more scandals about Trump. I've pretty much exhausted that, I think,
00:32:14.220
over the last eight or nine years. They can't point to the good stuff that Kamala's done. She
00:32:18.780
has not accomplished anything. The things she has done have been failures. The borders are. She
00:32:28.320
was put in charge of the borders. She failed on that. She failed on every other assignment that
00:32:32.260
she was given. We'll get to that in a moment. And the policies she's advocated are deeply unpopular
00:32:38.760
and extremely left wing. So they just have to distract from her. The way they're going to do
00:32:45.440
that is just, they're just going to lie. I just mentioned Kamala has failed on everything she was
00:32:52.480
put in charge of. So we know that Biden put her in charge of the border. I read his words verbatim
00:32:59.340
from the White House transcript on the show and on Piers Morgan's show when a Democrat columnist
00:33:04.480
was desperately trying to deflect attention from Kamala's role as the borders are.
00:33:11.440
But that's not the only area of White House policy she was put in charge of. Kamala was also
00:33:16.880
put in charge of connecting people in rural areas with high-speed internet.
00:33:22.040
So here's Biden's own words. Again, I'm not putting any words in Biden's mouth. Here's Biden at the
00:33:27.900
2021 State of the Union address, giving a task to Kamala Harris.
00:33:32.860
And the process will create thousands and thousands of good-paying jobs.
00:33:39.400
It creates jobs connecting every American with high-speed internet, including 35 percent
00:33:45.400
of the rural America that still doesn't have it. It's going to help our kids and our businesses
00:33:52.780
succeed in the 21st century economy. And I'm asking the Vice President to lead this effort,
00:34:03.940
How many people do you think Kamala Harris connected with high-speed internet?
00:34:10.220
Biden, he turns to her. During the State of the Union, she responds. She goes, yes, of course.
00:34:14.320
Of course I'll do it. I know it'll get done if I put Kamala Harris in charge of this.
00:34:18.340
Guess how many people were connected with high-speed internet, thanks to Kamala Harris?
00:34:30.020
$42.5 billion from this supposed infrastructure bill. It was not an infrastructure bill.
00:34:37.420
Not one person was connected with high-speed internet as a result of this.
00:34:43.020
Kamala Harris did not get the job done. She didn't get even one iota of one fraction
00:34:47.780
of one tiny, teensy, weenie little percent of the job done. She did nothing.
00:34:59.120
The Kamala Harris campaign, I guess is what we would call it now, tweeted out yesterday,
00:35:03.860
said, you know, all of these attacks on Kamala, they're so disgusting. She's an historically
00:35:08.120
accomplished Vice President. But in that social media post, they didn't name any accomplishments.
00:35:14.940
I don't want to be overly tough on Vice President Harris. So I'd ask her supporters.
00:35:24.320
What has she accomplished? You have the floor. You got the comments section here on all the
00:35:31.520
different platforms that this show will be broadcast on. What? Name me one thing she did.
00:35:37.620
She prosecuted people, some people that were worth prosecuting, many people who she should not have
00:35:43.660
prosecuted when she was AG of California. Okay, that's something. Probably doesn't play very well
00:35:49.440
in the Democratic Party. She did the bare elements of her job, usually poorly when she was the Attorney
00:35:55.480
General of California. What did she accomplish as a member of the U.S. Senate? Give me one thing.
00:36:00.860
What did she accomplish as the Vice President of the United States? Name me one thing. What did she
00:36:05.500
accomplish in her czar roles, the specific areas of public policy that she was put in charge of by
00:36:10.520
the President of the United States very publicly? What did she accomplish? Nothing. She didn't accomplish
00:36:18.560
anything. She's been things. One thing that she has been, and this has gone under the radar,
00:36:27.300
but my friend Steve Guest pointed this out to me the other day. She's the daughter of a Marxist
00:36:33.020
professor, and I'm beginning to notice a pattern here of people in the Biden administration who are
00:36:39.440
the children of Marxist professors. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, my favorite comment
00:36:43.820
yesterday or Friday is from Diana Arcee. No one is above the law, says Kamala Harris in her new campaign ad,
00:36:52.120
except people who are here illegally. Yeah, it's kind of a funny one. It's funny that the libs,
00:36:57.400
while they're trying to prosecute Trump on unprecedented and obviously trumped up charges,
00:37:03.320
they will simultaneously argue that no human being is illegal, and it's not a crime to enter the
00:37:09.080
country illegally. Well, hold on. And they'll try to ban use of the term illegal alien. If you're
00:37:13.580
watching this show on a certain video social media platform right now, probably my audio is dipping out
00:37:19.040
when I use the technical phrase illegal alien. I have been told by my producers that we are no
00:37:27.400
longer permitted by one of these big tech platforms to use the phrase illegal alien. Illegal alien is
00:37:32.940
technical language advised for a very long time by the federal government. It just means a foreign
00:37:39.960
national who is in the United States criminally illegal alien. It doesn't mean someone from the planet
00:37:47.320
Neptune. I mean, you know, it just means a foreigner who's here against the law. You're not allowed to
00:37:53.240
use that phrase. No one is above the law except for about 11 to 20 million people who either themselves
00:38:01.180
or at least their children will likely vote for Democrats. Those guys, they are in fact above the
00:38:06.100
law. Who is Kamala Harris? My friend Steve Guest, very observant man in politics, pointed out
00:38:13.960
her father is a Marxist professor. And I knew, I think I knew that her father was some kind of
00:38:19.860
economist or professor. So his name is Donald J. Harris. It's kind of funny that the first part of
00:38:24.140
his name is Donald J. Donald J. Harris. He's a Marxist economist who for many decades taught at
00:38:31.300
Stanford. When I say he's a Marxist economist, I don't just mean that as some term of derision.
00:38:37.620
I mean that as a technical term. This is the same language that is used by left-wing outlets to
00:38:42.980
describe him, by the New Yorker, by the economist. That's just what he is. He's an economist in the
00:38:48.780
tradition of Karl Marx. That got me thinking, okay, so the VP for Biden, who was one of the
00:38:55.640
presidential candidates who ran against him in 2020, she's the daughter of a Marxist professor.
00:39:02.280
Kind of like the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg's dad was a very,
00:39:07.420
very famous Marxist literary scholar, Joseph Buttigieg. I encountered Joseph Buttigieg because
00:39:13.520
in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, I devote, thank you, I devote a fair bit of
00:39:18.240
time to Antonio Gramsci, who is an Italian Marxist philosopher and political activist. Really important.
00:39:26.260
A lot of his work inspired leftists in the United States. And happily, I can read Italian.
00:39:35.180
There aren't many practical applications of reading Italian in the world. It's not like
00:39:39.380
French or Spanish. But one of them is you can read these Italian communists from the 20th century.
00:39:44.520
A lot of people in the West were not able for a long time to, at least to read the whole corpus of
00:39:51.620
Gramsci until Joseph Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg's dad, translated the prison notebooks into English.
00:39:59.340
He was, I think he was the president of the Gramsci Society. This guy was a hardcore committed Marxist.
00:40:08.860
And he was, he was a literary scholar at Notre Dame. So what does this mean? So some grand conspiracy?
00:40:16.400
Well, in a way it is, it's a, it's a really broad conspiracy, which is this, we are now seeing the
00:40:21.420
fruit of the left's long march through the institutions. Another Marxist who, who inspired
00:40:28.840
the left-wing campus movements, Rudy Dutschke, you coined that phrase, the long march through
00:40:35.220
the institutions. And it was obviously a viewing the West's leftward march in light of Mao's cultural
00:40:43.700
revolution in long march. So the work of people, well, not, not just Gramsci, but people like
00:40:51.360
Herbert Marcuse, the scholars of the Frankfurt school, and then their, their followers and the
00:40:57.740
left-wing activists, they said, we're going to, we're going to take the long view of how to transform
00:41:02.420
American. We're going to do it not just by winning elections. We'll win some elections, but we're going
00:41:06.920
to take over the classrooms. We're going to take over the entertainment media. We're going to take over
00:41:11.920
the news media. We're going to tilt everything very far to the left. And then the fruit of that is going
00:41:16.640
to be a political order in which the, the frame of the debate is set by us. So people, it's not just
00:41:26.160
that we're going to win the arguments for leftism. We're going to exclude alternative views. So the only
00:41:33.580
way that people can think is in a fundamentally liberal and even more than liberal leftist socialist
00:41:41.020
Marx-tinged way. We're seeing the fruit of that. Now, the kids of these two Marxist scholars are
00:41:48.680
serving at some of the highest levels of government. Now, one of them is the presidential nominee for
00:41:53.360
the Democratic Party. The long march through the institutions works. It's, the conservatives get
00:41:59.980
impatient. Sometimes we want to see immediate results or we lose interest and move on. The left
00:42:04.820
doesn't move on. The left, whatever virtues they lack, I think they lack most of them, they are patient.
00:42:09.960
And they are persistent. And now we're seeing the fruit of that. Now, speaking of progeny,
00:42:16.940
weird story just hit the news. A sperm donor has just won over custody of his child from a couple
00:42:24.100
of lesbians. And actually it was the sperm donor and the lesbian girlfriend who's not the biological
00:42:30.780
mother of the kid. The two of them have won the rights over the biological mother of the child.
00:42:36.800
What does all of this mean? A ruling was just handed down by the Federal Circuit and Family
00:42:41.960
Court of Australia. And it pertains to a nine-year-old boy, this poor little boy. How did
00:42:48.440
this poor little boy end up in this predicament? He was conceived via IVF. Of course, he was conceived
00:42:54.600
by commoditizing human life, establishing the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human
00:43:01.440
life and establishing the legal space for baby stores. So he was purchased at the baby store,
00:43:08.420
conceived at the baby store. And the female couple, these two lesbians, chose donor eggs
00:43:14.260
and donor sperm. So I guess in that way, you wouldn't even say the biological mother was the
00:43:20.040
biological mother, though it does appear that she carried. So she was at least, I guess, the surrogate
00:43:24.300
mother. All the parties were known to each other. That's what makes this a little bit weird. The eggs
00:43:28.660
were donated by a mutual friend of the birth mother, though not the biological mother, and her
00:43:34.540
then-lesbian partner. And the sperm donation was by a man that the boy refers to as daddy and the man
00:43:40.460
who donated his sperm with the agreement that he would have a role in the boy's life, albeit not
00:43:47.660
the role of a proper father living at home with a mother and raising the kid in a family. But he would
00:43:53.920
still be involved somehow. Okay. The birth mother lost her parental rights. Presumably, she was
00:44:01.300
involved in all sorts of terrible things. And she wanted sole responsibility of the child. But now it's
00:44:05.620
the lesbian ex-girlfriend and the sperm donor get the kid, which I guess is, I guess it's a relatively
00:44:12.360
better outcome here. But I don't know. The whole thing is really sad. And it fills one both with
00:44:19.720
sadness for the boy and anger at these extremely selfish degenerate people who insisted on a
00:44:27.780
commoditizing human life and purchasing a child at the baby store. It's even dark creating a child
00:44:34.440
at the baby store. But it's a reminder that we have to pay close attention to our language here.
00:44:41.160
That was the whole point of my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. And we got to
00:44:44.880
thank you. We have to focus on this a lot because the left sets the boundaries of debate by controlling
00:44:50.980
language, by setting the terms of language. If an illegal alien, if you can't say illegal alien
00:44:55.380
anymore, as I'm apparently not allowed to say on certain big tech platforms, then we have to use
00:45:01.120
what phrases like undocumented American. Well, undocumented Americans should get to stay in
00:45:05.760
America. They're Americans after all. They just don't have some documents. Illegal aliens have no right
00:45:09.840
to stay in America. Depending on how you describe that person, you will be able to persuade people
00:45:18.700
much more easily of your own position. So what's the operative phrase here? Sperm donor. That's the
00:45:25.800
operative phrase. There's no such thing as a sperm donor. That's not real. There are only fathers.
00:45:32.100
There are fathers and mothers. And there are good fathers and bad fathers. And there are some fathers who
00:45:36.880
do the right thing and get married and raise their kids and act like fathers. And there are some fathers
00:45:42.380
who go to a store and get paid money to do intrinsically evil and depraved actions into a cup
00:45:49.480
or something, and then have no responsibility for the child. And I guess this guy lies somewhere in
00:45:55.320
the middle. He's kind of a good father in the sense that he wants to be involved in the kid's life and
00:45:59.820
in some ways protect the kid. But he's certainly a bad father in that he abandoned the child and allowed
00:46:04.360
the child to be raised in this very disordered way with these two ladies. Regardless, he's a father.
00:46:12.300
I remember when I was in college, I remember hearing that one could make $1,000 a week
00:46:18.320
donating sperm or whatever, selling sperm, I guess. And I'd be lying to you if I said the thought didn't
00:46:25.200
cross my mind. I was an atheist. I was a libertarian. I wasn't seriously inclined to do it,
00:46:30.280
but I thought $1,000 a week. Say I do it 50 weeks a year. Maybe I'll take a little vacation
00:46:38.260
two weeks. Maybe I don't do it. And that could be, what, $200,000 over the course of four years.
00:46:47.380
And actually, it might have been more than $1,000 a week. Because in my recollection, I did the math
00:46:51.740
and I could have made about $400,000 over the course of my time in college. So I don't know,
00:46:56.080
let's say it was $2,000 a week, whatever it was. I'm obviously very glad I didn't do that because
00:47:01.260
I would have all these children that I would have abandoned. My own flesh and blood who I would have
00:47:05.640
abandoned. And when you look at something like the sperm donation or whatever, you're abandoning them
00:47:10.280
to people who are at the very bottom of the list of those who should be parents. Because it's people
00:47:15.940
who would commoditize human life by buying them at the baby store. Often in very disordered
00:47:22.160
kinds of relationships or single parents who are intentionally creating a child for that
00:47:28.440
environment that is not conducive to their flourishing. Really, really bad stuff. There's
00:47:34.100
no such thing as that though. There's mothers and there's fathers. No matter how we want to change
00:47:37.420
the language, no matter how we want to redefine marriage or redefine human life, we actually don't
00:47:43.120
have the power to do that with our words. We only have the power to lie and deceive. Very often lie
00:47:47.940
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00:47:53.400
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