On the fourth day of President Trump s second term, he pardoned pro-life political prisoners, deported Haitian gangsters, and declassified the murder files of JFK, RFK, and MLK. If Trump keeps fulfilling campaign promises at this rate, he is not going to have anything to do after the middle of next week, which is a problem because a Republican congressman is trying to amend the Constitution to give President Trump a third term.
00:09:23.740Will there be any legislative movement to maybe repeal the FACE Act?
00:09:28.260Well, there's a number of lawmakers, Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chip Roy, who have
00:09:33.300both introduced legislation to repeal the FACE Act.
00:09:36.440I know there's a lot of conservative groups and activists, including the Heritage Foundation,
00:09:40.560that are starting to say we should be repealing this legislation because, well, some would say
00:09:45.580it technically protects pregnancy centers and abortion clinics.
00:09:48.420I think I and others and perhaps you would say, look, this has been disproportionately used to target pro-lifers over the past several years.
00:09:56.740We have seen dozens of pro-lifers imprisoned or targeted by the Biden DOJ using this law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
00:10:05.860And we've only seen maybe three or four pro-abortion activists who vandalized and targeted pregnancy centers prosecuted with the FACE Act.
00:10:13.600So it's just disproportionate targeting of these pro-lifers.
00:10:17.340You know, Pam Bondi said during her hearings with lawmakers recently that she would apply it equally.
00:10:22.820I think some of us are hoping that she wouldn't apply it at all and that it would be repealed.
00:10:26.880Exactly. You say disproportionate, which is true, but I don't even think that encapsulates it.
00:10:33.020You look at the Biden administration, this thing was exclusively used against pro-lifers.
00:10:37.220Until the very end, there was a little pittance thrown at the pro-lifers to avoid a legislative consequence like this,
00:10:43.940where you have guys like Mike Lee, Chip Roy saying, you know, this law has been unjust from the beginning.
00:10:48.560It has never been applied equally and we got to get rid of it.
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00:26:21.820Andy's resolution would amend the 22nd Amendment, 22nd Amendment, which, since the middle of the 20th century, has limited the president to two terms.
00:26:32.520It amends the 22nd to say, no person should be elected to the office of president more than three times, not more than two times, more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms.
00:28:26.080Joe Biden, every day of his presidency, stared at his giant portrait, a portrait that was larger
00:28:32.340than his portrait of Washington to the left, of Lincoln to the left, of Hamilton to the
00:28:38.940right, and of my, I don't have my glasses on, but it looks like Jefferson to the right.
00:28:43.560Much bigger than all those guys was his portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
00:28:48.840Franklin Roosevelt, the only thing he would have opposed about Andy's resolution is that it was, it placed too much of a limit on the power of the president.
00:28:59.520Is Andy's resolution going to go anywhere?
00:32:18.900But they actually, even the Clintons for this matter, and I certainly don't like the Clintons.
00:32:24.860There is something, however, to admire in their public discipline, in their respect for institutions, in their steadiness, in their extreme political ambition.
00:32:41.560Bill lacked some discipline in certain areas, but they would not get divorced.
00:33:23.680Now, speaking of ladies on TV, that bishopress, that silly priestess lady who hectored Donald Trump during the National Prayer Service that I happen to be attending, she has gone on a media tour now.
00:33:38.860She just went on The View to explain her preposterous rant.
00:33:45.980You seem to have more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now, ma'am.
00:33:49.380What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message, or didn't you have any apprehension about it?
00:33:58.400My response, thank you, first of all, for allowing me to be with you today.
00:34:02.900My responsibility that morning, yesterday morning, was to reflect, to pray with the nation for unity.
00:34:10.160And as I was pondering what are the foundations of unity, I, you know, I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility.
00:34:25.360And then I also realized that unity requires a certain degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding.
00:34:34.940Yeah, unity requires mercy and compassion and understanding.
00:34:39.620And that is why I straw-manned the President of the United States' views, the views, apparently, of the majority of Americans.
00:34:48.720And that's why I took the opportunity at the National Prayer Service to give a diatribe about the supposed goodness of castrating little children and allowing Haitian gangsters and rapists to run roughshod over our citizens.
00:35:03.940Because I just love unity, and I'm just so caring, you know.
00:37:47.580I have an atheist friend who has gone from being completely able-bodied to being in a wheelchair with chronic regional pain syndrome in a matter of months.
00:37:54.920As someone who suffers from chronic pain, I have done my best to encourage her that she will find her, quote, new normal, that it just takes time.
00:38:03.380Despite this, she is severely depressed and is contemplating ending her life in the future.
00:38:09.480What advice would you tell my friend from a secular point of view to encourage her to continue living?
00:38:14.520And what can you say to me because I feel like a failure if I can't convince her there's still life worth living, even if it's from a wheelchair?
00:38:28.500You've asked me to make a reasoned argument that will convince your friend.
00:38:32.780Now, of course, I don't know that that is going to be the first way to reach someone.
00:38:37.660You know, it's kind of like C.S. Lewis writes, problem of pain and a grief observed.
00:38:43.560And they're both about the problem of evil and suffering.
00:38:46.400But one of them is written on a sunny day, purely rational.
00:38:49.180The other is written while C.S. Lewis is going through this really awful experience.
00:38:53.240And when you're really going through it, the reasoned arguments don't always penetrate.
00:38:57.820But here's the reasoned argument from a, let's say, a natural standpoint, not a religious or supernatural standpoint.
00:39:03.520From the natural standpoint, the first principle of practical reason, the first precept of the natural law is that good is to be done, good is to be pursued, and evil is to be avoided.
00:39:19.380Because at the most basic level, we recognize that beings pursue their own good.
00:39:26.400Okay, so we can deduce this principle, which is the first principle of practical reason, that good is to be pursued, and evil is to be avoided.
00:39:35.320From that, we can ask, what is one's own good?
00:39:38.480Killing oneself would seem, on its face, to be contrary to one's own good.
00:39:44.600But you might say, well, you know, I'm depressed, or I'm in pain, or I'm, so therefore, maybe it's for my own good that I end my life.
00:39:51.500Again, I don't think that really makes it up to muster, because, you know, you're, by killing yourself, you've committed the ultimate evil against yourself.
00:40:02.560But, even furthermore, you have engaged in further evils, you've divided the self against the self, but a human being is a unified, integral whole.
00:40:11.680So, by making yourself the persecutor of yourself, by making yourself the victim of yourself, you have divided the human person, that would be contrary to the good.
00:40:22.400You would be engaging in an act of cowardice.
00:40:24.900You would not be living up to the virtue of courage, because you would be throwing in the towel.
00:40:31.500You would be refusing to face hardship head-on, and with dignity, and with courage.
00:40:38.640So, that would be contrary to the good as well.
00:40:44.640It is contrary, you know, you can go, you can reason, from the first principle of practical reason, from the first precept of the natural law, all the way to why you shouldn't kill yourself.
00:40:54.200And it's, there's no real argument against it.
00:40:57.280However, I don't know how that's going to work, because your friend is really upset, and depressed, and despairing, and is in constant pain.
00:41:04.400So, what I would also say is just, hey, you're my friend, and I love you, and it would hurt me.
00:41:09.040This also ties into a reasonable argument, which is that man is the political animal.
00:41:12.660So, when you kill yourself, you are absconding from your social duties.
00:41:18.980We have duties, one to another, to our families, to our communities.
00:41:21.540And so, when you kill yourself, you are depriving the community of your service.
00:41:27.000You're pulling something away from the community.
00:41:29.580So, you could say that in a really personal way.
00:41:31.680Just say, like, you're my friend, and I love you, and it would really pain me if you did that.
00:41:36.740You know, that's the more personal touch that might reach.
00:41:39.700But the reasonable arguments are there.
00:41:42.020There's every argument for your friend to continue living, and no argument for your friend to end her life.
00:43:29.840Now you say, when most of the fire calls don't involve pulling people out of the buildings.
00:43:34.360Okay, I guess women can hold a hose, but men are better at holding hoses because hoses are kind of heavy.
00:43:41.620And men are physically stronger than women.
00:43:43.240You say, well, usually you don't have to shoulder someone to drag them out of a building or to haul them out of a building because that can actually hurt the person.
00:43:51.980So, really what you do is just drag the people out in a team.
00:43:56.420But men will do a better job dragging the people out than the women will because men are physically stronger than women.
00:44:04.080And then you say that my argument basically just comes down to sending women into burning buildings is yucky.
00:44:09.960Now, my argument doesn't just come down to that.
00:44:11.880My argument really comes down to men are physically stronger than women on one side.
00:44:14.920But it does also involve a little bit of it's yucky to send women into fire to burning buildings because I just don't think we should be sending women into danger, into physical danger.
00:44:25.300But I think that's because I think there's a difference between men and women.
00:44:27.700And I think that if a society recognizes that the real dichotomy in man comes down to our sexual nature, if we really think there's a difference between men and women, if we're not going to be like trans or whatever, then we need to live that out.
00:44:44.040We need to actually find distinctions between men and women in public life.
00:44:48.240Or we can say, no, it's just about how strong you are or this or that or the other thing.
00:44:52.960Okay, but then you are accepting the logic of transgenderism.
00:44:56.200You're accepting the logic of same-sex marriage and the logic of transgenderism and the logic of all of it because you're saying basically there's no real difference between men and women.
00:45:16.760In the days leading up to Advent, I spent some time in New York City.
00:45:20.300There was a stand selling Make America Great Again hats for just $10.
00:45:23.880So excitingly, I bought one and put it on.
00:45:26.540I did use discernment knowing that New York City has a lot of crazy people and I'm just 22 years old.
00:45:31.240But since I was with my husband, I reminded myself that if we let the deranged people of leftist society dictate what we say and do and wear, then they win.
00:45:41.360However, when my husband and I sat down at a diner for lunch, a crazy lady got in my face, called me a...
00:45:46.740Who voted for a rapist and told me to kill myself multiple times.
00:45:49.700She was literally dragged out of the restaurant by charitable members of the diner staff and patrons of the restaurant, including my husband.
00:46:06.200I don't have the same strength as Hulk Hogan to defend myself.
00:46:09.440But I was so heartwarmed by the amount of people that came up to my husband and I throughout our day, literally stopping their cars to just say,
00:46:28.860Obviously, it was not because you were not physically assaulted or murdered or something like that.
00:46:33.540And the worst you had was that lady come up and scream at you.
00:46:35.740I have to tell you, too, it's really quite charming and delightful and unexpected to hear someone with this bubbly, well-formed, very, you know, serious and articulate voice say the words C-U-N-T, but still in a kind of bubbly way.
00:46:49.520You know, and she called me this and then she, you know, and also said I voted for a rapist.
00:46:54.300But so it sounds like you came out of the whole experience perfectly fine.
00:46:57.980And part of the prudence there was you were with your husband who could intervene if Hulk Hogan did come up to you and try to hit you or something like that.
00:47:07.140Hulk Hogan actually would not do that because he's a big Trump supporter and I actually ran into him in D.C. twice.
00:47:12.480However, the other good that comes out of you wearing your MAGA hat in relatively reasonable circumstances is it reminds us all there are no liberals.
00:47:24.240This has been my wife's thesis for some time now and I've come around to it.
00:48:07.500I meant to send a question in sooner but had some trouble figuring out how to do it.
00:48:11.620In episode 1645, when you were talking about the Muslim rape scandal, there was a part of the episode where you said England needs migrants because birth rates are declining.
00:48:19.540And obviously similar things are happening throughout the West.
00:48:22.880I was just curious your thoughts on what led to this.
00:48:25.400Is it because people have become more secular and are moving away from God?
00:48:31.920Why are all these Western nations choosing not to have children and then importing immigrants who don't care about their country and destroy it from within?
00:49:02.980But, you know, you wouldn't have feminism or MGTOW if you didn't already have people falling away from religion.
00:49:08.920And then just at a really practical level that no one wants to talk about, it's because of contraception.
00:49:14.340That's why the birth rates have fallen.
00:49:16.320But we have contraception because people have fallen away from religion.
00:49:20.320You know, God says, be fruitful and multiply.
00:49:22.100In the scripture, we read about the sin of Onan, you know, spilling one's seed.
00:49:28.520We, in traditional Christianity, you know, in Orthodox Christianity, you see a call to be fertile, to, you know, be open to life.
00:49:39.580You see this even in classical philosophy.
00:49:42.340You know, our sexual nature is for procreation.
00:49:47.000So if you use contraception, you're undermining the telos, the purpose of our sexual nature.
00:49:53.300So all of that happens in the middle of the 20th century, and then the birth rates start to plummet.
00:49:58.100But even that, people wouldn't so readily use contraception if they hadn't already weakened in their religion.
00:50:04.620And our societies wouldn't tolerate such rampant contraception as some kind of right or something, as the Supreme Court invented in the 1960s and 70s, in the Griswold decision and the Eisenstadt decision, which first found that married couples have a constitutional right to use condoms.
00:50:22.920And then later found, no, actually, everyone has a right to use condoms.
00:50:26.480I don't know. I guess the invisible ink in the Constitution finally appeared to the justices when they discovered these supposed rights written by our framers.
00:50:37.720You know, if people just, like, stopped using contraception all the time, and if people just got married a little bit earlier, we would have a lot of kids.
00:50:45.640We wouldn't have a birth rate problem, and we wouldn't have politicians who can scam us by flooding the country with all sorts of migrants.
00:50:51.880But all of that ultimately would have to come back to a core belief.
00:50:58.780You know, it would have to come down to your first principles.
00:51:00.640It would have to come down to your religion, you know, the bedrock of all of your thought.