The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1659 - JFK Files, Pardons, & Deportations： Trump's 1st Week EXPLAINED

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00:00:50.020 On the fourth day of President Trump's second term,

00:00:53.480 he pardoned pro-life political prisoners, deported Haitian gangsters,

00:00:58.420 and declassified the murder files of JFK, RFK, and MLK.

00:01:03.780 If Trump keeps fulfilling campaign promises at this rate,

00:01:07.940 he is not going to have anything to do after about the middle of next week,

00:01:12.820 which is a problem because a Republican congressman is trying to amend the Constitution

00:01:17.520 to give President Trump a third term.

00:01:20.140 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:20.860 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:23.480 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:42.860 We have DailyWire's very own Mary Margaret Olihan,

00:01:46.220 who, with the Daily Wire, broke a major story yesterday about President Trump

00:01:52.000 and the pro-life political prisoners.

00:01:54.460 We will have Mary Margaret on the show from D.C. 0.99

00:01:57.460 Now she's got a seat in the White House briefing room.

00:02:00.160 There's so much more to say.

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00:03:06.740 This was it.

00:03:07.640 This was the issue that since President Trump's been inaugurated, I said,

00:03:12.200 okay, this is all great stuff.

00:03:14.320 This is unbelievable.

00:03:16.360 He's signing all these executive orders.

00:03:18.680 He's killing DEI.

00:03:20.240 He's letting the January 6thers out of prison. 1.00

00:03:23.680 Okay, this is all great.

00:03:25.460 But when are the pro-life political prisoners,

00:03:28.840 some of whom are elderly women who all they've ever done is they pray in front of an abortion clinic 0.96

00:03:34.420 and ask people not to murder their children.

00:03:38.380 And they've been rotting in prison because Joe Biden has targeted them.

00:03:43.800 76 hours.

00:03:45.900 That's it.

00:03:46.700 76 hours after he was inaugurated with everything going on in the world,

00:03:51.560 with all of the inauguration festivities,

00:03:53.680 with all of the pomp and circumstance,

00:03:55.040 all of the important initiatives.

00:03:57.060 A mere 76 hours.

00:03:59.880 President Trump signs this.

00:04:01.580 Next, we have a set of pardons for peaceful pro-life protesters

00:04:06.280 who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment rights.

00:04:11.340 Do you know how many?

00:04:13.380 I believe it's 23, sir.

00:04:16.080 23 people were prosecuted.

00:04:20.640 They should not have been prosecuted.

00:04:23.180 Many of them are elderly people.

00:04:28.220 They should not have been prosecuted.

00:04:30.980 This is a great honor to sign this.

00:04:33.160 They'll be very happy.

00:04:52.300 So they're all in prison now?

00:04:54.200 Some are.

00:04:55.260 Some are out of custody. 0.89

00:04:56.980 It's ridiculous.

00:04:58.740 My man. 0.97

00:05:00.320 My man.

00:05:01.020 This is great stuff.

00:05:04.060 Further evidence that Trump is the most pro-life president in American history, period.

00:05:10.040 And you can say in American history because abortion was not a major political issue

00:05:15.160 until Roe v. Wade.

00:05:17.300 Until the Supreme Court intervened and decided to rewrite the Constitution.

00:05:21.640 This was not a major issue.

00:05:22.920 Abortion was not an issue in the 17th or 18th or 19th centuries in America. 0.75

00:05:28.120 Where it was addressed by the law, abortion was illegal.

00:05:31.440 But beginning in the early 20th century and then finally peaking in the 1970s, abortion

00:05:38.580 became a major political issue.

00:05:40.100 Since that time, Trump is the president who has shown up to the March for Life.

00:05:45.220 He's the only Republican president who's shown up to the March for Life while he was president.

00:05:49.060 He appointed the judges that overruled Roe v. Wade.

00:05:52.240 And now he has pardoned the pro-life political prisoners.

00:05:56.040 I, you know how much I hate to say I told you so?

00:05:59.320 In this case, I'd love to say I told you so.

00:06:02.400 Because during the campaign, President Trump was speaking about abortion in a way that was

00:06:08.420 a little mealy-mouthed and it was a little vague.

00:06:10.700 And there were some people who said, we can't support him because he's not pro-life.

00:06:15.280 Now, I understand some people were exerting pressure and I'm all for exerting pressure.

00:06:21.000 You know, this is politics.

00:06:22.080 We got to flex the power we got.

00:06:23.660 But there were some people who said, Michael, how could you?

00:06:26.840 How could you sell out, you unprincipled man, how could you sell the pro-life movement down

00:06:32.660 the river to support the mango Mussolini?

00:06:34.860 This man is not pro-life.

00:06:37.160 And what did I say?

00:06:38.440 I said, it is prudent during a political campaign to adjust your speech, not being dishonest,

00:06:46.300 but to adjust your speech so that you can get elected because the winners go to Washington

00:06:50.720 and the losers go home.

00:06:53.000 Don't look at just at what Trump says. 0.98

00:06:55.520 Look at what he does.

00:06:57.740 I am confident he will be a pro-life president.

00:07:00.700 Took him 76 hours to prove me right and to prove the rest of us right.

00:07:05.760 A magnificent start.

00:07:07.120 And we are joined now by the woman who broke this story, Mary Margaret Olihan, Daily Wire's

00:07:12.880 own, standing in front of the White House.

00:07:16.300 The White House, which is, the very look of it is giving me so much more joy these days

00:07:20.740 than it did a week ago.

00:07:21.760 Mary Margaret, wonderful to have you with us.

00:07:23.720 So great to be here, Michael.

00:07:26.880 How did this all go down?

00:07:30.160 Well, we were excited to report yesterday morning after a couple days of feeling out

00:07:34.860 sources and trying to get a handle on things and figure out if Donald Trump was going to

00:07:39.520 sign these pardons of the pro-lifers.

00:07:41.300 We were pretty sure he was, but we were waiting for it to happen.

00:07:44.160 And yesterday we were able to report that, yes, Trump was imminently about to sign these

00:07:49.520 pardons, pardon these pro-lifers unjustly imprisoned by the Biden administration and the Biden DOJ

00:07:55.440 because they were pro-life and as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

00:08:00.100 So we broke this a couple hours before it happened.

00:08:02.640 And then sure enough, just like you showed, Donald Trump signed this executive order in

00:08:07.580 the Oval Office.

00:08:08.380 He said that they were unjustly imprisoned.

00:08:11.000 This should not have happened.

00:08:12.260 And he specifically pointed out that some of these prisoners were really elderly.

00:08:16.020 He's talking about, for example, Ava Edel, who's one of the pro-lifers prosecuted by the 0.82

00:08:21.860 Biden DOJ.

00:08:22.800 She survived a death camp, Michael, and yet she was targeted by the Biden DOJ for her pro-life 0.91

00:08:28.580 activism.

00:08:29.140 So Ava is just one of a number of pro-lifers who no longer have to fear that they will

00:08:34.340 be targeted.

00:08:35.140 I spoke with Paul Vaughn last night, one of the fathers who was arrested by the FBI at

00:08:40.020 gunpoint, and he told me it feels really good to be free.

00:08:43.460 Of course it does.

00:08:44.480 And I think it's not just Ava.

00:08:45.960 I think of Joan Bell.

00:08:47.020 Joan Bell is certainly in her 70s.

00:08:49.360 You know, they tossed her in prison for the crime of praying at an abortion clinic. 1.00

00:08:55.280 What exactly is the context here?

00:08:58.260 These people were arrested and convicted for violating the FACE Act, this 1990s era Bill

00:09:05.880 Clinton nonsense law that basically just criminalizes demonstrating at abortion clinics. 0.83

00:09:13.680 You know, all these very tenuous kinds of rules around how you can protest at abortion clinics.

00:09:21.320 So I'm so happy to see the pardon.

00:09:23.740 Will there be any legislative movement to maybe repeal the FACE Act?

00:09:28.260 Well, there's a number of lawmakers, Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chip Roy, who have

00:09:33.300 both introduced legislation to repeal the FACE Act.

00:09:36.440 I know there's a lot of conservative groups and activists, including the Heritage Foundation,

00:09:40.560 that are starting to say we should be repealing this legislation because, well, some would say

00:09:45.580 it technically protects pregnancy centers and abortion clinics.

00:09:48.420 I think I and others and perhaps you would say, look, this has been disproportionately used to target pro-lifers over the past several years.

00:09:56.740 We have seen dozens of pro-lifers imprisoned or targeted by the Biden DOJ using this law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

00:10:05.860 And we've only seen maybe three or four pro-abortion activists who vandalized and targeted pregnancy centers prosecuted with the FACE Act.

00:10:13.600 So it's just disproportionate targeting of these pro-lifers.

00:10:17.340 You know, Pam Bondi said during her hearings with lawmakers recently that she would apply it equally.

00:10:22.820 I think some of us are hoping that she wouldn't apply it at all and that it would be repealed.

00:10:26.880 Exactly. You say disproportionate, which is true, but I don't even think that encapsulates it.

00:10:33.020 You look at the Biden administration, this thing was exclusively used against pro-lifers.

00:10:37.220 Until the very end, there was a little pittance thrown at the pro-lifers to avoid a legislative consequence like this,

00:10:43.940 where you have guys like Mike Lee, Chip Roy saying, you know, this law has been unjust from the beginning.

00:10:48.560 It has never been applied equally and we got to get rid of it.

00:10:51.560 Really hopeful stuff.

00:10:52.560 We're getting a great ROI on President Trump already, 76 hours in.

00:10:58.560 And Mary Margaret, dare I say, we are getting a great ROI on you.

00:11:02.440 Getting these scoops down there in front of the White House, this is good stuff.

00:11:05.780 I look forward to many, many more.

00:11:09.920 I do too, Michael. Thanks so much for having me.

00:11:12.380 Great to see you.

00:11:13.380 Okay, so Trump pardons the pro-lifers.

00:11:15.380 He then deports the criminals.

00:11:18.760 There are obviously many, many illegal aliens in the country. 0.74

00:11:23.540 We are told by the libs that the illegal aliens are sweet, doe-eyed little children. 0.96

00:11:27.480 They're just dreamers who want to stay here and be good, law-abiding citizens.

00:11:32.020 Well, we have footage from some of these ice raids.

00:11:35.220 I don't know.

00:11:35.780 They look more like nightmares to me.

00:11:37.480 These don't look like dreamers.

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00:12:58.920 Great footage, this from Fox News, of just one of the sweet, doe-eyed little dreamers,

00:13:06.240 also known as Haitian gangsters, who Tom Holman and Trump's deportation squad are shipping

00:13:12.920 out of the country.

00:13:14.580 I'm not going back to Haiti. 0.74

00:13:16.100 One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti. 1.00

00:13:19.620 ICE says he's a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years.

00:13:24.500 You feel me?

00:13:26.420 Yo, Biden forever, bro.

00:13:28.100 Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro.

00:13:32.660 ICE Boston quickly takes down its next targets, including this illegal alien from Brazil,

00:13:38.480 who has an Interpol Red Notice for armed robbery.

00:13:41.540 This Salvadoran illegal alien, charged locally with rape and released by a sanctuary jurisdiction.

00:13:48.040 And this Dominican illegal alien, charged with assault with a deadly weapon and heroin 0.99

00:13:53.940 trafficking.

00:13:55.260 Officers also arrested this Guatemalan MS-13 gang member, facing gun charges.

00:14:00.860 ICE says he was released from local custody just the day before.

00:14:04.760 Their detainer request was ignored because of sanctuary policies.

00:14:09.460 This is it.

00:14:10.920 This is illegal immigration in America, okay? 0.85

00:14:13.600 It's not the doe-eyed little dreamers.

00:14:15.900 It's not the sweet grannies, the abuela who's making paella, 0.99

00:14:20.480 all minding her own business.

00:14:22.060 This is what illegal immigration really looks like in America.

00:14:26.380 And we need to make sure that we remind the Democrats every day.

00:14:31.340 The sweet little doe-eyed kids are not being deported.

00:14:35.520 These guys are being deported.

00:14:36.820 This is what the Trump deportation plan looks like, okay?

00:14:41.060 So make the Democrats defend these people.

00:14:44.320 When the Democrats are whining and screaming and crying and refusing to enforce immigration laws in some of

00:14:50.380 these cities, say, okay, well, play the tape.

00:14:55.020 What about this Haitian gangster? 1.00

00:14:56.840 What about this Guatemalan rapist? 0.99

00:14:59.160 What about these people with Interpol notices?

00:15:02.420 What about them do you think we should defend?

00:15:04.940 Make them defend.

00:15:05.560 They can't defend them.

00:15:07.780 This is how you do it.

00:15:09.280 And even if you say, well, look, I favor an overall restriction of immigration,

00:15:12.700 and I actually do think that even the nonviolent illegal aliens should be deported.

00:15:16.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:15:16.760 Okay, I get it.

00:15:17.440 I get it.

00:15:17.860 Sure, I understand the immigration issue from the 30,000-foot view.

00:15:20.860 But as we are kicking off the enforcement of the law for the first time in years,

00:15:27.440 let's take the low-hanging fruit here, folks. 0.94

00:15:31.740 It's kind of like the abortion issue, actually, speaking of the pro-lifers.

00:15:34.660 The Democrats always want you to fight the abortion issue on the first three hours of

00:15:38.400 pregnancy.

00:15:39.080 Why would we do that?

00:15:40.700 Abortion doesn't occur in the first three hours of pregnancy. 0.99

00:15:43.560 And the abortion issue is not clear in the first three hours of pregnancy.

00:15:47.740 Make the Democrats defend the late-term abortions, in some cases the post-birth abortions,

00:15:53.060 just plain infanticide, that they support.

00:15:57.020 When John Fetterman votes against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act,

00:16:01.840 make the Democrats defend abortion on those grounds.

00:16:05.540 There, it's so much clearer for the public.

00:16:07.180 Same here. 0.79

00:16:07.940 You want Haitian gangsters in your neighborhood? 1.00

00:16:10.240 No, you don't? 0.63

00:16:10.960 Okay, then I guess you support Trump.

00:16:13.000 Bill de Blasio, former mayor of New York, I think he briefly ran for president as a Democrat.

00:16:17.880 Bill de Blasio says these mass deportations are downright un-American.

00:16:21.900 I think what's happened is the frustration that people felt about their economic reality

00:16:26.640 or the frustration they felt about the disorder at the border, which was real,

00:16:30.380 that was honest frustration.

00:16:31.840 That's going to be quickly replaced, I believe, by people saying, wait a minute,

00:16:35.720 we never signed up for actual mass deportation and something that looks like a police state.

00:16:41.180 That's just not American. 0.92

00:16:42.740 Americans have a very strong libertarian streak, left, right, center.

00:16:46.480 Okay, it's just not American.

00:16:49.800 Actual mass deportation is just not American.

00:16:52.920 Now, you might argue that mass deportation is wrong.

00:16:59.500 That's what Democrats are arguing.

00:17:01.680 And there are even some libertarians and right-wingers who argue that mass deportations are wrong.

00:17:07.340 The one thing you can't argue is that mass deportation is un-American.

00:17:11.300 I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not.

00:17:13.980 Have you ever heard of the Trail of Tears?

00:17:16.120 I know a lot of people don't defend the Trail of Tears.

00:17:19.400 But that was a mass deportation.

00:17:20.920 That was in, what, 1830?

00:17:22.560 Have you ever heard of Operation Wetback when we actually deported a ton of Mexicans, 0.98

00:17:26.800 like 100,000 or more Mexicans?

00:17:28.920 You might not defend Operation Wetback, in part because of the name, because it's an offensive word.

00:17:33.500 1954.

00:17:35.620 That was a mass deportation.

00:17:37.540 How about the Palmer Raids of all the communists, 1919, 1920?

00:17:43.380 Deported, because a lot of the communists were foreigners who were in America,

00:17:46.340 deported lots and lots of communists.

00:17:48.920 Communists, rather.

00:17:50.440 How about the Japanese?

00:17:52.820 We always talk about Japanese internment during World War II.

00:17:57.200 You know, we also deported a lot of Japanese.

00:17:59.080 Again, you might say, well, that was all really terrible.

00:18:00.760 Okay, but it's American, though.

00:18:02.420 We sure did.

00:18:03.000 I'm noticing a trend here, huh?

00:18:04.340 How about the Haitians and the Cubans that we deported after the Marielle Boatlift in 1980? 0.86

00:18:09.440 That was a mass deportation.

00:18:11.020 You say, well, that's wrong.

00:18:11.860 It's anti-American.

00:18:12.700 Again, I know, maybe you don't like it.

00:18:15.420 Maybe you can make an argument that some of these things were unjust.

00:18:18.320 But the one thing you can't say is that it's un-American or anti-American.

00:18:23.520 Mass deportation is as American as apple pie, okay?

00:18:27.400 We've been doing it for a very, very long time.

00:18:29.880 And frankly, if you want to argue that these things were deeply un-American,

00:18:34.160 I would encourage you to look into the details of them,

00:18:36.720 to put yourself in the historical positions of the people making decisions at that time.

00:18:40.700 And I wonder if you wouldn't make the same decision.

00:18:43.500 In fact, I know the Democrats don't seriously believe that lots of these decisions were unjust.

00:18:49.940 I just look at Joe Biden.

00:18:52.660 You know, the Japanese internment and deportations occurred on FDR's watch.

00:18:58.400 It was an FDR policy.

00:19:00.140 And so now the Libs rend their garments and gnash their teats, 0.88

00:19:02.500 and they say this was the worst thing ever.

00:19:04.800 And, you know, they compare it to Hitler's concentration camps.

00:19:07.540 And yet, Joe Biden had a big portrait of FDR hanging above his fireplace in the Oval Office.

00:19:14.700 FDR is still considered one of the great Democrat presidents.

00:19:17.200 So anyway, I don't want to hear it from the Libs.

00:19:20.320 It's not American. 0.81

00:19:21.540 What are you talking about?

00:19:23.180 These foreign nationals in our country are not American. 0.99

00:19:26.280 The Haitian gang members and the Ecuadorian rapists and those guys are not American. 0.99

00:19:30.700 That's why they got to go, because they're harming Americans. 1.00

00:19:33.180 And the hits just keep on coming.

00:19:34.340 President Trump also announced yesterday that he has officially declassified the murder files,

00:19:41.180 the FBI murder files surrounding JFK, his brother RFK, and no relation, MLK.

00:19:49.920 Lastly, sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files

00:19:55.980 relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,

00:20:00.080 Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

00:20:03.840 That's a big one, huh?

00:20:06.300 A lot of people are waiting for this for a long, for years, for decades.

00:20:16.260 And everything will be revealed.

00:20:19.920 Give that to, man, Trump is such a good showman.

00:20:35.060 He hands the pen that he signed the declassification with and says, hand that to RFK Jr.

00:20:40.500 We're going to reveal what really happened to his father.

00:20:43.820 Because RFK Jr. has stated over the years that he does not believe the official story

00:20:48.800 on the murder of his father, Robert Kennedy, or his uncle, Jack Kennedy.

00:20:54.500 Yeah, give that to Bobby.

00:20:56.240 Because RFK Jr., what a bizarre time we're living in.

00:21:00.060 RFK Jr., the Democrat son of the Democrat presidential candidate and attorney general,

00:21:05.980 and the Democrat nephew of the Democrat president is now working for Donald Trump,

00:21:12.120 the Republican president, the most consequential Republican president of our lifetimes, perhaps.

00:21:17.220 Yeah, give that to RFK Jr.

00:21:18.900 This order means that officials will have 15 days to, quote,

00:21:23.960 present a plan to the president for the full and complete release of records on the JFK assassination,

00:21:28.280 45 days to do so for the RFK and MLK murder records.

00:21:33.640 Now, there's nothing radical about this.

00:21:36.100 As I've said with so much of what President Trump has done,

00:21:38.700 this is really mainstream, middle-of-the-road moderate stuff.

00:21:41.460 But the culture's moved so far to the left.

00:21:43.560 The culture's been so on the fringe that it seems kind of extreme.

00:21:46.700 But the release of the JFK assassination files has been the official policy of the United States since 1992.

00:21:53.600 And the government has just ignored the law, has just never done it.

00:21:57.620 1992, I'll be precise, October 26, 1992.

00:22:02.720 Congress passes the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.

00:22:06.940 It's signed into law by the president.

00:22:09.560 It says that within 25 years, last date possible, October 26, 2017,

00:22:16.700 these records must be publicly disclosed.

00:22:19.660 Now, 2017, by my count, is about seven, eight years ago.

00:22:24.620 And they weren't disclosed.

00:22:26.660 Well, there were some exceptions here.

00:22:28.900 They didn't have to be disclosed if the president certified that,

00:22:32.200 one, continued postmoment is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense,

00:22:36.540 intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations.

00:22:39.680 And two, the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

00:22:45.060 Okay, hold on.

00:22:45.760 Well, that means that you have basically any reason to ignore this law.

00:22:50.900 So there are all sorts of theories.

00:22:52.200 Trump says all will be revealed.

00:22:53.540 There are so many theories on the JFK assassination.

00:22:56.780 There's one theory, which we were told, which is that it was a lone gunman.

00:22:59.220 And then the lone gunman was murdered by another lone gunman.

00:23:04.040 Lee Harvey Oswald gets killed by Jack Ruby.

00:23:06.740 But there are other theories.

00:23:08.140 Some theories that it's the deep state, a shadow government within a government.

00:23:11.660 Some say it's the CIA.

00:23:13.440 Some say the military industrial complex.

00:23:15.700 Some say it was Cuba or the Soviet Union or Israel or LBJ or George Bush or the Federal Reserve

00:23:25.480 or mobsters or I don't know.

00:23:27.800 And these are kind of mutually exclusive theories, a lot of them.

00:23:30.120 So anyway, it seems that all will be revealed.

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00:24:55.180 My favorite comment yesterday is from Jesus or Destruction.

00:24:58.320 It says, it needs to be more than just an executive order.

00:25:01.260 It needs to be codified into law.

00:25:02.620 Get on it, Congress.

00:25:03.440 So I don't even know what in particular that comment is referring to.

00:25:06.080 There have been so many executive orders, but I broadly agree with the concept here, which is Trump's doing his part.

00:25:14.820 He's signing all these EOs.

00:25:16.240 He's fixing things now.

00:25:17.780 DEI in the government.

00:25:19.140 Taking down the pride flags from the embassies.

00:25:21.760 Whatever.

00:25:22.560 Declassifying files.

00:25:23.300 I guess that is already a law.

00:25:24.620 The government's just ignored it.

00:25:26.420 The release of political prisoners related to the FACE Act.

00:25:33.200 Okay, what about the FACE Act?

00:25:34.400 What about the legislative teeth that we could give these executive orders?

00:25:38.980 I agree.

00:25:40.120 Congress is doing a great job to begin with here.

00:25:43.300 Getting the Republicans together in Congress is like herding cats.

00:25:45.780 But we need the Congress to get together and back up and codify into law what Trump is doing in executive orders.

00:25:52.140 Now, one member of Congress, my member of Congress, actually, my representative and my friend, Andy Ogles, is doing just that.

00:26:02.780 In fact, he's going even further than many of the Republicans were betting on.

00:26:07.860 Andy Ogles has just introduced legislation that would give President Trump a third term.

00:26:15.740 Cue the screaming, the shrieks, the calls of dictatorship.

00:26:20.240 What would this do?

00:26:21.820 Andy's resolution would amend the 22nd Amendment, 22nd Amendment, which, since the middle of the 20th century, has limited the president to two terms.

00:26:32.520 It 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.

00:26:44.420 So hold on.

00:26:45.200 So what this does is it says you can serve three terms maximum, but only if you don't serve two consecutive terms first.

00:26:54.780 Which means that this amendment would not permit Obama to seek a third term, but would permit President Trump to seek a third term.

00:27:04.360 And before, I know, I can already hear it.

00:27:06.020 Well, the libs are screeching, but I can already hear the conservatives.

00:27:08.760 Some conservatives are going to say, this is outrageous.

00:27:12.320 This is an overreach.

00:27:13.860 This is compromising our liberty and our constitutional government. 0.96

00:27:16.700 This is hypocritical.

00:27:17.880 This is contrary to our principles. 0.77

00:27:19.940 This is undoing the revolution of the great St. Ronald Reagan.

00:27:26.060 Ronald Reagan wanted this.

00:27:28.820 Ronald Reagan actually was more ambitious.

00:27:31.320 Ronald Reagan wanted to repeal the whole 22nd Amendment.

00:27:34.100 Ronald Reagan thought that the two-term limit was outrageous, was un-American, was imprudent.

00:27:44.740 He wanted presidents to be able to run for a third term, a fourth term, a fifth term.

00:27:48.880 Okay, that's your St. Ronald Reagan.

00:27:50.220 That's Mr. Conservative Principles.

00:27:53.080 So much for Andy overreaching, overstepping the conservative bounds.

00:27:58.380 But what about the libs?

00:27:59.020 The libs say, this is dictatorship.

00:28:01.520 This is monarchy.

00:28:02.420 This is terrible.

00:28:02.940 Hold on.

00:28:04.100 As I mentioned earlier, probably the most prominent and one of the most beloved Democrat

00:28:10.600 presidents ever, certainly of the 20th century, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

00:28:16.240 How many terms did he serve?

00:28:17.980 He served for a little over 12 years.

00:28:19.700 He was elected to four terms.

00:28:22.480 He was the American monarch.

00:28:24.780 Libs still love him. 0.89

00:28:26.080 Joe Biden, every day of his presidency, stared at his giant portrait, a portrait that was larger

00:28:32.340 than his portrait of Washington to the left, of Lincoln to the left, of Hamilton to the

00:28:38.940 right, and of my, I don't have my glasses on, but it looks like Jefferson to the right.

00:28:43.560 Much bigger than all those guys was his portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

00:28:48.840 Franklin 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.

00:28:59.520 Is Andy's resolution going to go anywhere?

00:29:02.920 It'll be tough.

00:29:03.780 It'll be tough.

00:29:04.180 I'm not, I wouldn't gamble the house that this will actually amend the 22nd amendment.

00:29:08.740 But don't tell me that this is totally contrary to the great principles of Ronald Reagan and the conservative movement.

00:29:15.980 It's not.

00:29:17.160 Ronald Reagan campaigned at the end of his term in office and after he left office to repeal the 22nd.

00:29:22.300 Don't tell me it's contrary to the beliefs of the Democrats, the party of Franklin Roosevelt.

00:29:26.620 Don't tell me that.

00:29:27.300 You can tell me you don't like the plan.

00:29:29.320 Don't tell me it's un-American.

00:29:31.440 Don't tell me it's anti-conservative, anti-liberal.

00:29:34.900 It's not.

00:29:35.180 It's none of those things.

00:29:35.820 Now, speaking of Barack Obama, there's a rumor going around.

00:29:39.980 I have to get to it.

00:29:41.000 I have to get to it.

00:29:41.700 I'm sorry.

00:29:43.800 Are Barack Obama and Jennifer Aniston dating?

00:29:47.760 I don't gossip monger.

00:29:49.500 I really don't.

00:29:50.040 I don't like that.

00:29:50.600 Gossip's a sin.

00:29:51.480 So I only mentioned the story in order not to gossip.

00:29:55.880 This is all this gossip going around.

00:29:57.720 Barack and Michelle are on the ropes.

00:29:59.160 She didn't go to Carter's funeral.

00:30:00.540 She didn't go to Trump's inauguration.

00:30:03.400 And Barack apparently knows Jennifer Aniston.

00:30:06.600 I don't know.

00:30:06.840 I don't really see any evidence of that.

00:30:08.880 So all these gossip mongers here are suggesting Obama is going to be divorced and he's dating

00:30:15.560 Rachel Green from Friends.

00:30:18.520 I bring it all up.

00:30:19.760 They're public figures.

00:30:20.820 And I bring it up because I don't buy it.

00:30:24.620 I don't buy it.

00:30:26.300 Barack Obama's a Democrat.

00:30:27.400 And the Democrats get a little loose with the rules.

00:30:29.720 And they get a little weird with the sex stuff.

00:30:31.240 So I guess it's not totally impossible.

00:30:33.740 Maybe I'll be eating my words.

00:30:35.400 But I don't buy it.

00:30:37.960 I don't think Barack Obama is the sort of guy who gets divorced.

00:30:42.220 I don't think a politician as calculating as Barack Obama, the former two-term president,

00:30:50.060 at least until a few months ago, the de facto leader of the Democrat Party,

00:30:54.880 I don't think he just like gets divorced because his heart's not in it anymore.

00:31:01.000 And, you know, the heart wants what the heart wants.

00:31:03.000 And I just want to be happy.

00:31:04.980 And I just totally fell for someone.

00:31:07.480 I think actually the reason these rumors are going around is because there are many people

00:31:14.440 who cannot believe that there are people like Barack Obama who, for all of their flaws,

00:31:21.100 for all of their faults and foibles and sins, are disciplined and place something beyond their

00:31:30.100 personal giddiness at any particular moment or their emotional fulfillment or whatever.

00:31:37.540 The Clintons didn't get divorced. 1.00

00:31:40.140 You think the Obamas are going to get divorced?

00:31:41.500 I don't know.

00:31:42.840 The reason I'm talking about this story is really has nothing to do with these individuals.

00:31:47.900 And it's certainly not to gossip monger about the Obamas.

00:31:50.900 It's to make a point about marriage and about discipline and about public life.

00:31:55.280 It would be insane for the Obamas to get divorced, even if they don't like each other anymore. 0.99

00:32:01.180 And again, there's no evidence that they don't like each other anymore.

00:32:03.140 But even if they didn't, it would be completely insane.

00:32:07.100 For what?

00:32:09.760 They're not teenagers.

00:32:11.500 They're not undisciplined people who are pulled away by their passions.

00:32:17.300 I don't like the Obamas.

00:32:18.900 But they actually, even the Clintons for this matter, and I certainly don't like the Clintons.

00:32:24.860 There is something, however, to admire in their public discipline, in their respect for institutions, in their steadiness, in their extreme political ambition.

00:32:41.560 Bill lacked some discipline in certain areas, but they would not get divorced.

00:32:46.700 They just wouldn't do it.

00:32:50.360 Even, they made a vow to God, even if they don't believe in God.

00:32:52.820 They made a promise to the public, even if they would lie to the public.

00:32:55.840 Like, they will not descend into such obvious selfishness.

00:33:03.940 They would not, they care about their reputations too much.

00:33:08.060 They care about their public standing too much.

00:33:09.740 I kind of admire it.

00:33:12.080 So, I don't know.

00:33:12.420 I could be eating my words.

00:33:13.480 If I find out that Barack Obama is, you know, going to have a second marriage to Rachel from Friends, I'll be eating my words.

00:33:22.300 I just do not buy it.

00:33:23.680 Now, 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. 0.98

00:33:38.860 She just went on The View to explain her preposterous rant. 1.00

00:33:44.420 So, let me ask you this.

00:33:45.980 You seem to have more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now, ma'am.

00:33:49.380 What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message, or didn't you have any apprehension about it?

00:33:58.400 My response, thank you, first of all, for allowing me to be with you today.

00:34:02.900 My responsibility that morning, yesterday morning, was to reflect, to pray with the nation for unity.

00:34:10.160 And 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.

00:34:25.360 And then I also realized that unity requires a certain degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding.

00:34:34.940 Yeah, unity requires mercy and compassion and understanding.

00:34:39.620 And that is why I straw-manned the President of the United States' views, the views, apparently, of the majority of Americans.

00:34:48.720 And 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. 1.00

00:35:03.940 Because I just love unity, and I'm just so caring, you know.

00:35:08.520 Okay.

00:35:09.800 I don't think that's what unity is.

00:35:11.600 I think she undermined her own sermon.

00:35:13.760 I think she's confused about a lot of things.

00:35:15.620 For instance, she thinks she's a bishop, which is not possible.

00:35:19.500 I think that she was actually dishonest.

00:35:22.660 She says we have to be honest.

00:35:23.720 I think she was dishonest.

00:35:25.740 Maybe she just doesn't know the truth.

00:35:27.920 And I think she has a rather tenuous relationship with the truth.

00:35:31.480 She was not humble.

00:35:32.600 She was quite prideful.

00:35:34.480 And she certainly did not achieve unity.

00:35:37.280 The question is how to achieve unity.

00:35:40.440 Do we achieve unity by pretending differences don't exist and singing kumbaya?

00:35:44.440 Yeah, that's what some people say.

00:35:45.980 Do we achieve unity by pushing radical leftism as she was doing?

00:35:49.080 I don't think that works.

00:35:50.340 I think we achieve unity by accepting reality.

00:35:56.680 That's what I think.

00:35:57.940 These people want to change reality. 0.98

00:35:59.500 They want to pretend that a little boy is a little girl and that a Guatemalan rapist is actually an American citizen. 0.94

00:36:04.180 A legal American citizen.

00:36:05.980 No, I don't think denying reality is going to achieve unity.

00:36:08.280 But the left thinks that.

00:36:10.140 They think if we all just agree to pretend, then we can be unified.

00:36:13.520 I know that's not going to work.

00:36:15.060 The way you have unity is by recognizing reality and encouraging people to accept reality.

00:36:23.000 Because reality is objective.

00:36:25.240 It's objectively true.

00:36:26.260 It's outside of our own subjective preferences and bizarre fantasies.

00:36:30.880 Reality can be agreed upon.

00:36:34.300 Subjective fantasies can't be agreed upon.

00:36:36.820 They're constantly changing.

00:36:38.100 They're not moored to anything real, anything solid.

00:36:43.060 Reality is going to do that for you.

00:36:46.700 Now, if you accept reality, you still might not be unified.

00:36:48.980 You still might fight all the time.

00:36:50.120 But at least you have a chance at unity.

00:36:52.200 With this lady's prescription, there's no chance whatsoever. 0.99

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00:37:24.920 Let's build the future together.

00:37:26.740 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:37:31.680 This mailbag is brought to you by Pure Talk.

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00:37:41.300 Hi, Michael.

00:37:44.800 This is Becca Howell.

00:37:46.060 I'm hoping you can help me.

00:37:47.580 I 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.

00:37:54.920 As 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.

00:38:03.380 Despite this, she is severely depressed and is contemplating ending her life in the future.

00:38:08.180 I feel like a failure.

00:38:09.480 What advice would you tell my friend from a secular point of view to encourage her to continue living?

00:38:14.520 And 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? 0.92

00:38:21.600 Thanks and God bless.

00:38:22.640 Okay, really sorry to hear that about your friend and what you're going through as well.

00:38:27.460 That's really hard.

00:38:28.500 You've asked me to make a reasoned argument that will convince your friend.

00:38:32.780 Now, of course, I don't know that that is going to be the first way to reach someone.

00:38:37.660 You know, it's kind of like C.S. Lewis writes, problem of pain and a grief observed.

00:38:43.560 And they're both about the problem of evil and suffering.

00:38:46.400 But one of them is written on a sunny day, purely rational.

00:38:49.180 The other is written while C.S. Lewis is going through this really awful experience.

00:38:53.240 And when you're really going through it, the reasoned arguments don't always penetrate.

00:38:57.820 But here's the reasoned argument from a, let's say, a natural standpoint, not a religious or supernatural standpoint.

00:39:03.520 From 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.

00:39:19.380 Because at the most basic level, we recognize that beings pursue their own good.

00:39:26.400 Okay, 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.

00:39:35.320 From that, we can ask, what is one's own good?

00:39:38.480 Killing oneself would seem, on its face, to be contrary to one's own good.

00:39:44.600 But 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.

00:39:51.500 Again, 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.

00:40:02.560 But, 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.

00:40:11.680 So, 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.

00:40:22.400 You would be engaging in an act of cowardice.

00:40:24.900 You would not be living up to the virtue of courage, because you would be throwing in the towel.

00:40:31.500 You would be refusing to face hardship head-on, and with dignity, and with courage.

00:40:38.640 So, that would be contrary to the good as well.

00:40:42.660 It is contrary to justice.

00:40:44.640 It 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.

00:40:54.200 And it's, there's no real argument against it.

00:40:57.280 However, 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.

00:41:04.400 So, what I would also say is just, hey, you're my friend, and I love you, and it would hurt me.

00:41:09.040 This also ties into a reasonable argument, which is that man is the political animal.

00:41:12.660 So, when you kill yourself, you are absconding from your social duties.

00:41:18.980 We have duties, one to another, to our families, to our communities.

00:41:21.540 And so, when you kill yourself, you are depriving the community of your service.

00:41:27.000 You're pulling something away from the community.

00:41:29.580 So, you could say that in a really personal way.

00:41:31.680 Just say, like, you're my friend, and I love you, and it would really pain me if you did that.

00:41:36.740 You know, that's the more personal touch that might reach.

00:41:39.700 But the reasonable arguments are there.

00:41:42.020 There's every argument for your friend to continue living, and no argument for your friend to end her life.

00:41:47.280 Next one.

00:41:49.540 Mr. Knowles, today you are cancelled for your uninformed and strongly held belief that women shouldn't be in the fire service,

00:41:57.180 which ultimately just works out to, I think it's yucky.

00:42:00.820 The reality is that more than 90% of what they do is medical, and women provide better medical care than men. 0.84

00:42:07.160 Of the 10% that are fire calls, only 1 to 3% of those are fires of note.

00:42:13.660 And of those, 1 to 3%, only about 1% requires a rescue.

00:42:17.960 And if you shoulder someone and stand up in a structure fire, you die, because that's where the heat is.

00:42:23.960 Instead, a team of people is sent in to drag them out on their hands and knees.

00:42:29.620 That is the reality of the situation.

00:42:31.780 So, firefighting is a team sport, and women play a critical role.

00:42:37.160 Just ask my wife. 1.00

00:42:38.240 She's been doing it for 34 years.

00:42:41.500 Well, your wife sounds like a lovely lady, but I'm afraid your argument does not persuade me.

00:42:45.900 Because you say, look, the vast majority of calls that members of the firefighting world face are really not fire calls.

00:42:55.440 They're emergency calls.

00:42:56.740 You know, someone trips and falls at home, and the firemen come because they can provide emergency services.

00:43:00.440 Okay, that's a good argument for women to be EMTs. 1.00

00:43:03.720 That's a good argument for women to be nurses and first responders who work with firemen but don't actually deal with the fires. 1.00

00:43:12.940 But that's not a good argument for women to be firemen. 1.00

00:43:15.540 My claim was not that women should have no association with the fire department or never ride in a fire truck.

00:43:19.280 My claim was women shouldn't be firemen. 1.00

00:43:22.220 That's crazy.

00:43:23.440 So, yeah, they can be nurses and first responders. 0.86

00:43:25.100 I don't know that they always provide better medical care than men, but in some cases they do.

00:43:28.120 So, yeah, in that case, that's great.

00:43:29.840 Now you say, when most of the fire calls don't involve pulling people out of the buildings.

00:43:34.360 Okay, I guess women can hold a hose, but men are better at holding hoses because hoses are kind of heavy. 1.00

00:43:41.620 And men are physically stronger than women. 0.57

00:43:43.240 You 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.

00:43:51.980 So, really what you do is just drag the people out in a team.

00:43:55.260 Okay, that's true.

00:43:56.420 But men will do a better job dragging the people out than the women will because men are physically stronger than women. 1.00

00:44:04.080 And then you say that my argument basically just comes down to sending women into burning buildings is yucky.

00:44:09.960 Now, my argument doesn't just come down to that.

00:44:11.880 My argument really comes down to men are physically stronger than women on one side. 0.80

00:44:14.920 But 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.

00:44:24.500 That's true.

00:44:25.300 But I think that's because I think there's a difference between men and women. 0.98

00:44:27.700 And 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.

00:44:44.040 We need to actually find distinctions between men and women in public life. 0.98

00:44:48.240 Or we can say, no, it's just about how strong you are or this or that or the other thing.

00:44:52.960 Okay, but then you are accepting the logic of transgenderism. 0.52

00:44:56.200 You'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.

00:45:03.080 There's no knock on your wife.

00:45:03.940 I'm sure she does a lovely job for the vast majority of what people who are employed by the fire department do.

00:45:09.660 But when it comes down to being a fireman, when it comes down to being a man, you know, women are different. 1.00

00:45:14.780 Next one.

00:45:15.980 Hi, Michael.

00:45:16.760 In the days leading up to Advent, I spent some time in New York City.

00:45:20.300 There was a stand selling Make America Great Again hats for just $10.

00:45:23.880 So excitingly, I bought one and put it on.

00:45:26.540 I did use discernment knowing that New York City has a lot of crazy people and I'm just 22 years old.

00:45:31.240 But 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.

00:45:40.000 Censorship wins. 0.84

00:45:41.360 However, when my husband and I sat down at a diner for lunch, a crazy lady got in my face, called me a... 1.00

00:45:46.740 Who voted for a rapist and told me to kill myself multiple times. 0.98

00:45:49.700 She was literally dragged out of the restaurant by charitable members of the diner staff and patrons of the restaurant, including my husband. 0.99

00:45:56.980 And I wasn't looking to be a martyr.

00:45:58.920 I was just really excited about my hat and the fact that Trump won.

00:46:03.100 That reality wins.

00:46:04.660 You're so right about that.

00:46:06.200 I don't have the same strength as Hulk Hogan to defend myself.

00:46:09.440 But 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,

00:46:17.900 Hey, thanks for wearing that hat.

00:46:19.840 Like, hooray.

00:46:21.120 We are patriots. 1.00

00:46:22.640 But I'm wondering, was this a stupid or unsafe thing to do in New York City? 0.99

00:46:28.060 No. 0.99

00:46:28.860 Obviously, it was not because you were not physically assaulted or murdered or something like that.

00:46:33.540 And the worst you had was that lady come up and scream at you. 1.00

00:46:35.740 I 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. 0.98

00:46:49.520 You know, and she called me this and then she, you know, and also said I voted for a rapist. 0.92

00:46:54.300 But so it sounds like you came out of the whole experience perfectly fine. 0.98

00:46:57.980 And 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.

00:47:07.140 Hulk Hogan actually would not do that because he's a big Trump supporter and I actually ran into him in D.C. twice.

00:47:12.480 However, 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.

00:47:24.240 This has been my wife's thesis for some time now and I've come around to it.

00:47:28.980 There are no liberals.

00:47:30.480 She says, Mac, is anyone really liberal?

00:47:32.360 Because everyone I talk to is like, hush, hush, you know, I actually voted for Trump or whatever.

00:47:36.460 But then the majority of Americans voted for Trump and then I don't know.

00:47:40.560 If you just read the media, you would think that you were the only Trump supporter in the world.

00:47:45.500 And that the vast majority of people are big libs who want to train the kids.

00:47:48.360 But no, even in New York City, people are coming up to you like, hey, yeah, you bet.

00:47:53.360 I'm on it, baby.

00:47:54.380 I'm on the team.

00:47:55.240 You know it.

00:47:56.280 So I like that.

00:47:56.980 When you just state your views publicly, it can also give people courage to do the same thing.

00:48:03.580 Next one.

00:48:06.580 Hi, Michael.

00:48:07.500 I meant to send a question in sooner but had some trouble figuring out how to do it.

00:48:11.620 In 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.

00:48:19.540 And obviously similar things are happening throughout the West.

00:48:22.880 I was just curious your thoughts on what led to this.

00:48:25.400 Is it because people have become more secular and are moving away from God?

00:48:29.420 Or is it feminism, MGTOW? 1.00

00:48:31.920 Why 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? 1.00

00:48:39.360 Thanks.

00:48:39.660 Good question.

00:48:41.540 The answer is yes.

00:48:43.120 For those who don't know, MGTOW is men going their own way, which is, you say, is it feminism? 0.92

00:48:49.540 Is it MGTOW?

00:48:50.380 And men going their own way is just the male version of feminism. 1.00

00:48:54.300 But they share basically the exact same premises.

00:48:57.100 And then you ask before that, is it people falling away from religion?

00:49:02.280 Certainly.

00:49:02.980 But, you know, you wouldn't have feminism or MGTOW if you didn't already have people falling away from religion. 1.00

00:49:08.920 And then just at a really practical level that no one wants to talk about, it's because of contraception.

00:49:14.340 That's why the birth rates have fallen.

00:49:16.320 But we have contraception because people have fallen away from religion.

00:49:20.320 You know, God says, be fruitful and multiply.

00:49:22.100 In the scripture, we read about the sin of Onan, you know, spilling one's seed. 0.99

00:49:28.520 We, in traditional Christianity, you know, in Orthodox Christianity, you see a call to be fertile, to, you know, be open to life.

00:49:39.580 You see this even in classical philosophy.

00:49:42.340 You know, our sexual nature is for procreation.

00:49:47.000 So if you use contraception, you're undermining the telos, the purpose of our sexual nature.

00:49:53.300 So all of that happens in the middle of the 20th century, and then the birth rates start to plummet.

00:49:58.100 But even that, people wouldn't so readily use contraception if they hadn't already weakened in their religion. 0.89

00:50:04.620 And 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.

00:50:22.920 And then later found, no, actually, everyone has a right to use condoms.

00:50:26.480 I 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.

00:50:35.360 However, that's why.

00:50:37.720 You 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.

00:50:45.640 We 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. 1.00

00:50:51.880 But all of that ultimately would have to come back to a core belief.

00:50:58.780 You know, it would have to come down to your first principles.

00:51:00.640 It would have to come down to your religion, you know, the bedrock of all of your thought.

00:51:06.240 So, it was a long way to go.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2025

Ep. 1659 - JFK Files, Pardons, & Deportations： Trump's 1st Week EXPLAINED

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