The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1674 - The Liberal LIES About Mass Deportations Debunked


Summary

Bill Burr says billionaires need to be put down like rabid dogs. President Trump is doing a better job deporting illegal aliens than Joe Biden did when he was elected in 2016, according to the latest numbers from the Center for Immigration Studies.


Transcript

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00:00:47.540 President Trump ran and won on mass deportations.
00:00:51.320 Now the establishment media are claiming that President Trump isn't even deporting as many illegal aliens as Joe Biden.
00:00:58.100 But the establishment media are, as we all know, dirty, rotten liars.
00:01:02.840 So what is the truth?
00:01:04.580 Well, happily, we have the numbers, the real numbers.
00:01:08.160 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:08.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:09.780 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:30.280 Comedian Bill Burr says that billionaires need to be put down like rabid dogs.
00:01:37.380 Bill Burr is, he's a funny guy, but he's been trending a little lib in recent years.
00:01:41.280 We'll get to his exact comments.
00:01:43.040 Didn't even totally sound like he was kidding.
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00:03:36.140 Okay, all of that business tucked away.
00:03:39.980 What are the numbers?
00:03:41.340 The libs are saying that Trump isn't even doing as good a job on deportations as Joe Biden did.
00:03:46.040 Joe Biden was probably the worst open borders president we have ever had in our country's history.
00:03:51.020 Well, here are the real numbers.
00:03:53.220 According to Customs and Border Protection, only 359 illegal aliens are being processed daily across the southern border.
00:04:02.240 That means that in just the first few weeks of the Trump administration, of the second Trump administration,
00:04:08.580 illegal border crossings are down 90%.
00:04:12.020 Those are the numbers.
00:04:15.600 90% drop since Trump was inaugurated.
00:04:20.620 That is 90% down from the same time last year.
00:04:24.320 According to Mark Krikorian, who's the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies,
00:04:28.520 he says if you kind of break down the numbers, we haven't had numbers this low since the 1960s.
00:04:36.800 But according to Newsweek, Newsweek is saying that the numbers aren't that good.
00:04:47.240 They're saying according to publicly accessible data, Joe Biden's numbers were actually better than Trump's.
00:04:55.800 This doesn't make any sense.
00:04:56.800 Now, Daily Wire has then done a fact check of Newsweek's fact check of the immigration numbers.
00:05:03.100 And the problem is that Newsweek is lumping in repatriations, people who were turned away at the border who never made it into America.
00:05:11.660 So they're comparing apples to oranges here.
00:05:14.540 Doesn't really check out.
00:05:17.180 When you actually look at Joe Biden's numbers, Biden removed just under 48,000 illegal aliens in all of fiscal year 2024.
00:05:28.180 And that was the most that Joe Biden had ever removed.
00:05:30.860 And that is nothing.
00:05:32.100 President Trump is on pace to vastly exceed that.
00:05:35.960 Now, this has to turn us back to another piece of fake news, not just the left-wing media trying to pretend that Trump's numbers aren't as good as Biden's.
00:05:47.500 This needs to bring us back to fake news at the end of the campaign over the summer and in the early fall of last year.
00:05:52.340 Remember, we were told that the Democrats really, really wanted to deal with the border crisis.
00:05:57.320 They just needed a bill to do it.
00:05:59.860 You remember this?
00:06:00.360 We just, we have a border bill.
00:06:02.320 We want to get that border bill passed.
00:06:04.360 But that mean old Donald Trump, who's not a member of Congress, but he's calling up members of Congress.
00:06:08.460 He's telling them to vote against this.
00:06:09.860 If only we had that border bill, then we could take on the crisis of illegal immigration, the mass inflow of people across our southern border.
00:06:19.160 But Trump didn't have a bill.
00:06:21.620 It's not like the Congress passed some border bill since Trump was inaugurated.
00:06:25.700 Trump is dealing with the same law, the same statutes that Joe Biden was dealing with.
00:06:33.760 So why is it that Trump was able to knock the numbers down by 90% in just a few weeks on the job?
00:06:41.220 Because Joe Biden never needed a border bill.
00:06:43.880 So for the left and the squish Republicans, I remember at the time I was catching so much flack because I said, this is ridiculous.
00:06:51.200 We have immigration laws on the books.
00:06:52.920 You just need the executive to enforce the immigration laws already there.
00:06:56.620 House Republicans certainly should not vote for this stupid border bill.
00:06:59.740 One, it would make the border crisis worse.
00:07:02.140 But two, even if we could pretend that it was going to improve the border crisis, the fact that the Democrats would not enforce the laws that are already on the books means we have no reason to believe they would enforce some new immigration law that we passed.
00:07:14.180 You don't need the border bill.
00:07:16.540 You can just enforce the law if you want to do it, which the Democrats did not want to do.
00:07:20.540 And now we have proof positive of that.
00:07:22.920 90% drop in just a few weeks.
00:07:27.620 One hopes a good sign of even better things to come.
00:07:30.660 Now, speaking of migration, really, really sad news out of Germany yesterday.
00:07:36.760 An Afghani asylum seeker drove his car into a crowd of people in Munich, injuring 28 people, including children.
00:07:44.620 This days before the Munich Security Conference, at which J.D. Vance is supposed to speak.
00:07:49.680 J.D. Vance just got in hot water for wading in to the issue of immigration and pointing out that traditionally, Christianity understands an order of charity.
00:08:03.200 That we have particular responsibilities to those who are closest to us, to our families, those in our local communities, to our co-religionists, to our countrymen.
00:08:15.200 And we need to make sure that we take care of them.
00:08:19.000 Because if we totally ignore their needs and their safety and their concerns, and we give all of our charity to people on the other side of the world that we don't really know, that would actually be a perversion of charity.
00:08:30.520 That was his argument.
00:08:31.480 He cited the Ordo Amoris and the scholastic Christian tradition.
00:08:36.360 Well, this is a good example of this.
00:08:39.020 Because the German government in particular, but Europe broadly, and including America, the whole West, has prioritized the supposed needs of others.
00:08:51.560 People from far-flung nations around the world, people of dubious ideologies of different religions.
00:08:57.740 Because they've brought them all in there, and it's led to rape gangs throughout Europe and the UK.
00:09:02.780 It's led to stabbings.
00:09:04.480 It's led to mass murder.
00:09:05.900 It's led to multiple attacks by the same kinds of people always on big markets in Europe.
00:09:12.600 Now, just before the security conference, you have an Afghani asylum seeker who mows down a crowd of people.
00:09:18.980 It's always the ones you most expect.
00:09:21.540 Seems to prove JD's point.
00:09:23.380 And it's important, I think, that this guy was an asylum seeker.
00:09:27.100 Because a lot of this debate over migration hinges on the asylum seekers, the people who are supposedly seeking refuge.
00:09:37.540 Okay?
00:09:37.800 In America, we can say, well, actually, the vast majority of illegal aliens are not asylum seekers, you know, fleeing violence or something.
00:09:44.100 They're actually just economic migrants who realize they can make more money in the United States, so they're going to break our laws to do it.
00:09:49.700 And there's very, very little argument to take those people in.
00:09:52.300 But what about the asylum seekers?
00:09:53.800 Well, look, this guy, allegedly, who just mowed down a crowd of people in Germany, he was an asylum seeker.
00:10:01.940 But he obviously should not have been permitted into the country.
00:10:05.320 It was a dereliction of the German government's duty toward its own citizens to let this guy in.
00:10:10.860 It means that our leaders need discernment to decide who can and who cannot come in.
00:10:19.440 There is a novel suggestion that Christianity means we need totally open borders.
00:10:26.120 There's this novel suggestion that it is immoral or intrinsically evil to point out that breaking immigration law makes one a criminal.
00:10:36.020 But that has never been the case in the West, and great evils can come from neglecting our duties toward our own citizens.
00:10:47.460 Now, speaking of Muslim terrorists, there is a story out of USAID.
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00:12:30.120 Speaking of Muslim terrorists, not only are we subsidizing the lifestyles of Muslim terrorists, inviting them into our countries,
00:12:41.740 we're also apparently funding their education.
00:12:44.660 There's a new report out that shows that the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID,
00:12:52.360 which Elon Musk and President Trump have shut down, provided full funding for Anwar al-Awlaki to attend Colorado State University in 1990.
00:13:05.720 Full funding.
00:13:06.700 Did you get full funding from the government for your college education?
00:13:10.680 Some people maybe did.
00:13:11.840 Probably you did not.
00:13:13.820 Well, your mistake was you weren't a leader of al-Qaeda.
00:13:16.760 Al-Qaeda because Anwar al-Awlaki, who had a pretty serious leadership role in al-Qaeda,
00:13:21.820 who had connections to 9-11 hijackers,
00:13:25.600 who had contact with that army psychiatrist, Nadal Hassan,
00:13:28.920 before Hassan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
00:13:32.680 Remember that shooting?
00:13:34.660 He knew all these people.
00:13:36.860 And he had his college education funded by the U.S. government,
00:13:41.520 by USAID in particular.
00:13:43.200 Really scandalous stuff.
00:13:48.700 However, good on, well, this was reported by Pamela Brown,
00:13:53.640 but good on the Doge team and everyone who's looking into USAID for finding this.
00:14:01.960 USAID is the gift that keeps on giving.
00:14:03.820 Because the Democrats have used that to fund all of their little pet projects
00:14:11.700 and all of their broadly anti-American schemes.
00:14:14.920 I mean, frankly, the fact that this guy went to an American public university in the last 30 years
00:14:23.220 actually probably explains how he became an anti-American terrorist.
00:14:27.040 You know, that's kind of what you sign up for when you go to an American university these days.
00:14:31.620 But the fact that every time you look further into USAID,
00:14:38.880 you find something more egregious, more ridiculous,
00:14:41.960 puts President Trump and Elon Musk in a really good political position here.
00:14:45.420 There is very little to defend in USAID.
00:14:48.180 I'm not saying there's nothing, but there's very, very little.
00:14:50.100 And even the stuff that is defensible has been tainted by leftist accoutrement
00:14:55.660 that have attached to those policies.
00:14:58.260 What are we going to find next?
00:15:01.580 Did USAID grow, you know, Bin Laden in a petri dish or something?
00:15:05.780 Now, we know for a fact that USAID is going to dubious figures,
00:15:10.820 not only Muslim terrorists, but also just liberal nonsense all around the world.
00:15:16.120 You remember Rory Stewart.
00:15:17.520 I mentioned Rory Stewart last week.
00:15:20.020 Rory Stewart is this British politician turned Yale University professor.
00:15:24.560 I think he's one of the teachers of grand strategy at Yale now,
00:15:27.480 who picked a fight with J.D. Vance over J.D. Vance's stance on immigration
00:15:32.520 and his invocation of the Ordo Amoris.
00:15:35.360 And Rory Stewart claimed that this was not Christian,
00:15:39.980 and he pontificated without much knowledge of the Bible or of Christian tradition.
00:15:45.260 He was really, really upset at the Trump administration.
00:15:48.500 Well, got to give a hat tip to a muse here.
00:15:51.860 However, I'm beginning to understand a little bit
00:15:55.160 why Rory Stewart seems to have such a personal grudge
00:15:57.960 against the Trump administration.
00:16:00.100 Here is Rory Stewart explaining his connection to USAID.
00:16:06.700 Stopped. Doesn't matter. You have a contract.
00:16:09.180 So, you know, Turquoise Mountain, which my wife Shoshana runs,
00:16:12.000 has a contract, had another million dollars to go.
00:16:15.000 Money just stops.
00:16:16.740 Hold on.
00:16:17.560 Wait, there's a contract between some organization and USAID,
00:16:22.400 and the contract stopped.
00:16:23.660 And hold on.
00:16:24.020 His wife ran that organization,
00:16:28.500 and they were supposed to get another million dollars,
00:16:30.860 another million dollars from the U.S. government,
00:16:33.120 and that just stopped?
00:16:34.860 Well, what organization does his wife run?
00:16:38.480 It's called the Turquoise Mountain Foundation.
00:16:42.640 And this, you can't make this up.
00:16:45.360 The Turquoise Mountain Foundation exists
00:16:48.960 to teach Afghani peasants about degenerate modern art.
00:17:00.540 So, this is in some ways often called
00:17:03.540 the first piece of conceptual art.
00:17:05.480 Does anyone know what it is?
00:17:17.800 I don't expect the ladies to know.
00:17:22.080 Exactly.
00:17:25.520 An artist called Marcel Duchamp,
00:17:28.580 who's very important in Western art,
00:17:30.640 put this toilet in an art gallery
00:17:35.100 about a hundred years ago.
00:17:36.860 It was a huge revolution.
00:17:40.820 That's where your money's gone.
00:17:42.240 Your money is going,
00:17:44.680 or was going until Trump got hold of it,
00:17:46.680 to pay off the wives of British politicians
00:17:50.520 turned Yale professors,
00:17:52.640 to teach Afghanis,
00:17:55.340 who probably have more important things on their mind,
00:17:58.180 about how perverse Western anti-artists
00:18:04.420 decided to pretend that urinals and toilets
00:18:07.760 were Caravaggio paintings in the early 20th century.
00:18:13.880 That's where your money's going.
00:18:15.880 We don't have money to rebuild North Carolina
00:18:17.820 after the hurricane,
00:18:18.920 but we need to pay off the wives of British politicians
00:18:22.620 to teach Afghanis about urinals
00:18:25.360 that perverts pretended were art in the 20th century.
00:18:31.160 Very few things make me angry,
00:18:33.360 but this is making me really, really angry.
00:18:36.720 What a huge, not just waste of money,
00:18:40.380 what corruption,
00:18:42.480 what bad judgment,
00:18:46.060 what perversion.
00:18:47.000 Oh, man, USAID.
00:18:51.680 The more the libs protest the USAID cuts,
00:18:56.000 the more supportive normal taxpayers get of USAID cuts.
00:19:01.720 I guess this is what should not make me angry.
00:19:04.080 This should make me happy about USAID.
00:19:07.160 Pointing to USAID as examples of government waste,
00:19:10.380 it is like shooting fish in the barrel.
00:19:12.500 And every time the Dems try to defend this stuff,
00:19:14.920 they look worse and Republicans look better
00:19:17.460 and our chances of winning
00:19:18.620 a third through 30th term for President Trump
00:19:22.280 go up and up and up.
00:19:24.940 Now, speaking of the Commonwealth,
00:19:27.280 we turn from the UK
00:19:28.520 over to America's evil top hat, Canada.
00:19:31.240 President Trump just referred to the leader of Canada
00:19:34.100 in a way that raised some eyebrows from the Oval Office.
00:19:37.600 The president of the United States
00:19:39.000 was not going with Canada.
00:19:40.660 There was obviously a delay in implementing those tariffs.
00:19:44.920 I spoke to Governor Trudeau on numerous occasions
00:19:48.440 and we'll see what happens.
00:19:50.200 But it just sets up so good for them.
00:19:52.720 Look, the people would pay much less tax
00:19:54.520 than they're paying right now
00:19:55.520 that have perfect military protection.
00:19:57.960 They don't have any military protection
00:19:59.380 because they essentially because...
00:20:02.600 And you take a look at what's going on out there.
00:20:04.460 You have Russian ships, you have China ships,
00:20:06.500 you have Chinese ships,
00:20:08.440 you have a lot of ships out there.
00:20:11.000 And, you know, people are in danger.
00:20:13.420 This is a different world today.
00:20:14.900 It's a different world.
00:20:15.940 They need our protection.
00:20:17.060 Yes.
00:20:17.660 The entire purpose of that answer.
00:20:19.760 You can see even President Trump
00:20:21.000 sort of stumbles at the end there.
00:20:22.600 And I don't think he's stumbling
00:20:23.840 because he doesn't know about China's
00:20:27.560 and Russia's various military positions.
00:20:29.440 I think he's stumbling a little bit
00:20:30.920 because he's laughing at his own joke
00:20:33.020 that he made earlier.
00:20:33.820 And he straight faced it perfectly
00:20:35.240 because the guy's a showbiz genius.
00:20:37.180 But the line, he goes,
00:20:38.200 well, I've spoken to Governor Trudeau
00:20:40.260 on a number of occasions
00:20:41.980 and he doesn't wink at it.
00:20:44.460 Sometimes Trump leans into the joke
00:20:46.960 a little bit too much
00:20:47.860 and he kind of tips his hand.
00:20:48.940 But here, just totally straight faced.
00:20:51.100 Yeah, yeah, no, I've spoken to Governor Trudeau.
00:20:53.920 Yeah, the 51st state, you know,
00:20:56.120 because they don't have any military protection.
00:20:58.440 They don't have any trade.
00:20:59.140 They're completely dependent on us.
00:21:02.760 Essentially, is what he says.
00:21:03.820 Because, you know, Canada has a military.
00:21:05.460 Their military helped us out
00:21:06.980 in the global war on terror.
00:21:09.040 And they do have some industry
00:21:10.420 and they do trade with us a little bit.
00:21:11.740 But Trump's point still stands.
00:21:15.480 America effectively provides
00:21:17.240 the defense for Canada.
00:21:18.880 America is the reason
00:21:20.080 that Canada has an economy.
00:21:22.260 Canada is an appendage of the United States.
00:21:24.500 It's our evil top hat.
00:21:26.280 And Trump is going to keep needling.
00:21:29.400 I think he literally would like
00:21:31.460 to acquire Canada,
00:21:33.040 which would make sense.
00:21:34.480 It's probably Washington's greatest mistake
00:21:36.020 that he didn't take Canada.
00:21:37.980 But just the nickname alone,
00:21:41.440 of all the nicknames,
00:21:43.340 Low Energy Jeb, Crooked Hillary,
00:21:46.000 Lion Ted,
00:21:47.340 all of the nicknames,
00:21:50.180 this is his masterpiece.
00:21:52.820 The subtlety of it,
00:21:54.380 the dig,
00:21:55.000 the audacity.
00:21:56.540 Governor Trudeau,
00:21:57.700 that is Trump's nickname masterpiece.
00:22:01.880 Ron DeSanctimonious,
00:22:03.080 it was good.
00:22:03.700 They're all good.
00:22:04.860 They're all kind of funny.
00:22:05.660 They're all Governor Trudeau.
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00:22:38.800 My favorite comment yesterday
00:22:40.300 is from MissMegan3694
00:22:42.020 who says,
00:22:43.120 the Associated Press
00:22:43.920 also dictated
00:22:45.540 that we must capitalize black
00:22:47.440 and lowercase white
00:22:49.340 when referring to people.
00:22:51.040 Sickening.
00:22:51.660 Yeah,
00:22:51.900 the AP is fake news.
00:22:53.840 They should be kicked out
00:22:54.580 of the White House.
00:22:55.600 President Trump kicked them out
00:22:56.700 of an Oval Office briefing,
00:22:58.560 which is great.
00:22:59.340 I love that.
00:22:59.920 But they are really
00:23:00.980 probably the worst offenders
00:23:02.960 of fake news
00:23:03.800 in the entire briefing room.
00:23:06.520 They put
00:23:07.280 the New York Times,
00:23:09.060 Washington Post,
00:23:10.260 CNN,
00:23:10.960 MSNBC,
00:23:11.480 put them all to shame.
00:23:12.860 Especially because the AP
00:23:14.140 pretends to be
00:23:15.100 just totally
00:23:15.660 non-biased.
00:23:17.200 You know,
00:23:17.340 it's the newswire.
00:23:18.200 It's totally legit.
00:23:19.200 And then,
00:23:21.020 what?
00:23:21.240 Then they have
00:23:22.520 radical views
00:23:23.920 and style guides
00:23:25.140 on transgenderism,
00:23:27.540 on race,
00:23:28.700 on ideology,
00:23:30.900 on the very word woke.
00:23:32.760 Yeah,
00:23:33.020 kick them out.
00:23:33.520 Get them out of there.
00:23:35.000 Now,
00:23:35.200 speaking of President Trump's comments
00:23:36.640 from the Oval Office,
00:23:39.300 you might recall,
00:23:41.500 I played this clip yesterday.
00:23:43.180 President Trump was asked
00:23:44.360 about Hamas's decision
00:23:46.820 to stop releasing hostages,
00:23:49.620 thereby compromising
00:23:50.880 the ceasefire deal
00:23:51.640 in the Middle East.
00:23:52.760 Here was President Trump's
00:23:54.180 response
00:23:54.840 to Hamas.
00:23:57.280 Mr. President,
00:23:58.060 when you say all hell
00:23:58.920 is going to break loose,
00:24:00.000 are you speaking
00:24:00.600 about retaliation?
00:24:02.780 You'll find out.
00:24:03.920 And they'll find out, too.
00:24:05.380 Hamas will find out
00:24:06.500 what I mean.
00:24:07.560 Mr. President,
00:24:08.120 they're going to find out
00:24:09.700 what I mean.
00:24:10.100 These are sick people.
00:24:11.780 And they'll find out
00:24:12.600 what I mean.
00:24:13.040 They'll find out
00:24:16.940 what I mean.
00:24:17.460 You don't need to find out.
00:24:19.020 I don't need to explain to you.
00:24:20.780 They're going to find out
00:24:21.760 what I mean.
00:24:22.960 If they don't honor
00:24:24.320 their obligations,
00:24:25.900 their promise
00:24:26.960 that they made,
00:24:27.680 not just to Israel,
00:24:28.400 but to the United States,
00:24:29.520 they're going to find out
00:24:30.440 what happens
00:24:30.960 when you cross
00:24:31.920 the United States.
00:24:34.300 You said there's going
00:24:35.180 to be hell to pay.
00:24:35.980 Yeah, yeah.
00:24:36.320 They're going to find out
00:24:36.900 what that means.
00:24:39.180 Well, guess what?
00:24:41.440 24 hours or so
00:24:42.680 after those comments,
00:24:44.700 Hamas is releasing
00:24:45.620 more hostages.
00:24:46.640 What do you know?
00:24:47.700 What do you know?
00:24:49.380 That's amazing.
00:24:50.600 I made the point
00:24:51.200 yesterday on the show.
00:24:52.160 If I were running Hamas,
00:24:54.260 I probably would release
00:24:56.560 some more hostages.
00:24:58.200 Because President Trump
00:24:59.480 does not look like a guy
00:25:00.500 who's bluffing there.
00:25:02.020 And because in this case,
00:25:04.320 he can't be bluffing.
00:25:07.840 Trump's foreign policy genius
00:25:09.400 is his unpredictability.
00:25:11.200 He talks like a dove.
00:25:12.280 He criticizes all the wars
00:25:13.900 in the Middle East.
00:25:15.000 He wants to pull out.
00:25:16.440 He wants to allow
00:25:17.400 other powers
00:25:18.500 to exercise
00:25:19.840 some of their
00:25:21.400 traditional sphere
00:25:22.020 of influence.
00:25:23.060 He's,
00:25:23.600 in that way,
00:25:25.080 he's really dovish.
00:25:27.440 And then he'll drop
00:25:28.360 the Moab.
00:25:30.020 He'll talk about how
00:25:31.400 we don't want Ukraine
00:25:32.300 and NATO
00:25:32.740 and how Putin
00:25:33.920 is not the worst guy
00:25:35.360 in the world
00:25:35.940 and how we need
00:25:37.060 to be able
00:25:37.300 to work together.
00:25:38.600 And he seems
00:25:39.220 really dovish.
00:25:40.240 And then he'll
00:25:41.240 assassinate
00:25:41.840 the top Iranian general.
00:25:44.400 And then he'll go
00:25:45.280 hug Kim Jong-un.
00:25:46.400 But then,
00:25:46.940 you know,
00:25:47.160 you just,
00:25:48.560 he keeps people
00:25:49.200 on their toes.
00:25:49.800 Which is why,
00:25:50.500 to use the Putin example,
00:25:51.760 it's why Putin
00:25:52.500 did not invade
00:25:53.600 further into Ukraine
00:25:54.440 during Trump's first term.
00:25:55.880 It's why Trump's
00:25:56.540 first term
00:25:56.880 was the only term
00:25:57.960 of the last
00:25:59.800 20,
00:26:00.560 25 years now
00:26:01.340 during which
00:26:02.760 Putin did not
00:26:03.640 further invade
00:26:04.360 another country.
00:26:05.780 Because he just
00:26:06.540 can't take that risk.
00:26:07.900 Here,
00:26:08.400 President Trump says
00:26:08.980 they're going to
00:26:09.280 find out what I think
00:26:10.680 and they're going to
00:26:11.020 find out at noon
00:26:11.680 on Saturday.
00:26:12.600 So with such specificity,
00:26:14.560 he is telegraphing here,
00:26:16.220 I ain't bluffing
00:26:17.020 because I'll look bad
00:26:18.740 if I don't follow through.
00:26:19.700 So anyway,
00:26:20.120 I'm glad that Hamas
00:26:21.000 came to their senses.
00:26:22.220 They don't have
00:26:22.700 a ton of sense,
00:26:23.460 but they came
00:26:24.160 to their senses here.
00:26:25.400 That's good.
00:26:26.040 That's called
00:26:26.440 peace through strength.
00:26:27.280 That's the real implementation
00:26:28.320 of peace through strength.
00:26:29.400 The neocons pretend
00:26:30.380 that peace through strength
00:26:31.320 means invading
00:26:32.120 every country
00:26:32.780 on the face of the earth
00:26:33.620 and lighting up
00:26:34.880 the Middle East
00:26:35.360 and trying to build
00:26:36.000 Madisonian democracies.
00:26:37.060 That's not what
00:26:37.840 Ronald Reagan meant
00:26:38.540 by peace through strength.
00:26:40.100 Don't forget,
00:26:40.640 after the Beirut barracks
00:26:41.440 bombings,
00:26:41.820 what did Reagan do?
00:26:42.460 He pulled out.
00:26:44.340 Okay?
00:26:44.920 Peace through strength
00:26:45.840 is a little bit more
00:26:47.480 nuanced
00:26:48.420 than just
00:26:49.860 shock and awe
00:26:51.360 and invading
00:26:52.120 every country on earth.
00:26:53.520 But you do have
00:26:54.640 to back up
00:26:55.360 the threats sometimes.
00:26:57.540 And I think
00:26:57.920 Hamas realized
00:26:58.700 that it was not,
00:27:00.640 they did the calculation,
00:27:01.940 they said,
00:27:02.180 it was not worth
00:27:02.900 calling President Trump's
00:27:03.940 bluff here.
00:27:04.620 Now,
00:27:05.500 speaking of death threats,
00:27:06.740 comedian Bill Burr
00:27:08.060 says that
00:27:09.260 billionaires
00:27:10.500 need to be picked off
00:27:11.400 like rats.
00:27:13.000 People that are
00:27:13.780 struggling out there
00:27:14.480 because of these
00:27:15.020 billionaires.
00:27:16.640 And they got us
00:27:17.520 all arguing
00:27:18.340 liberal and conservative.
00:27:21.680 We got to stop
00:27:22.660 doing that.
00:27:23.340 Like,
00:27:23.540 I am so
00:27:24.200 tired of hearing
00:27:26.500 about people
00:27:28.520 going to bed
00:27:30.800 worried about
00:27:31.680 what's going to
00:27:32.240 happen next week.
00:27:33.080 There is so much
00:27:33.760 f***ing money
00:27:34.580 in this country.
00:27:37.500 And there's so much
00:27:38.580 work being done.
00:27:40.380 You know,
00:27:41.320 and if you work
00:27:42.000 a full f***ing week
00:27:43.280 at a job,
00:27:45.380 you should be able
00:27:46.180 to pay your f***ing rent.
00:27:48.360 You shouldn't have
00:27:49.200 to go out
00:27:49.600 and get a
00:27:50.060 f***ing job
00:27:51.220 and still be struggling.
00:27:53.740 It's bad
00:27:54.480 for the country.
00:27:56.500 Because then the kids
00:27:57.160 don't see their parents
00:27:58.180 and they're not getting
00:27:58.960 the upbringing
00:28:01.680 that they need.
00:28:02.540 It's so f***ing
00:28:03.180 these f***ing billionaires.
00:28:06.080 They need to be
00:28:07.400 put down.
00:28:09.260 You know,
00:28:09.680 like f***ing rabid dogs.
00:28:12.100 They're like
00:28:12.500 rabid with f***ing greed
00:28:14.140 and just going out
00:28:15.600 and just dividing
00:28:16.620 everybody.
00:28:18.320 Now,
00:28:18.820 Bill Burr
00:28:19.360 has been trending
00:28:20.080 left in recent years.
00:28:20.980 I think he's
00:28:21.340 pretty funny.
00:28:22.260 He's a pretty funny guy,
00:28:23.040 but he's been trending
00:28:23.640 left, unfortunately.
00:28:25.500 I don't know why.
00:28:26.180 I don't know
00:28:26.560 what's been pulling him
00:28:27.620 lib in recent years.
00:28:29.480 But
00:28:29.640 the reason that people
00:28:31.800 are struggling
00:28:32.460 right now in particular
00:28:33.580 in this economy
00:28:34.400 is inflation.
00:28:35.860 And the reason that we
00:28:36.560 see inflation
00:28:37.100 is not because
00:28:37.560 of the billionaires.
00:28:38.380 It's because politicians
00:28:39.480 printed too much money
00:28:40.500 as they were buying votes.
00:28:42.100 That's why.
00:28:43.160 It's really not the billionaires.
00:28:44.480 I'm not even a big defender
00:28:45.600 of most billionaires.
00:28:46.800 Most billionaires
00:28:47.560 are huge libs
00:28:48.280 and I
00:28:49.340 don't feel any need
00:28:50.700 to defend them
00:28:51.220 because they undermine
00:28:52.400 my vision of the country
00:28:53.840 consistently.
00:28:55.160 But
00:28:55.560 fair is fair.
00:28:57.220 This is not
00:28:57.880 the billionaires' fault.
00:28:59.240 Inflation is not
00:28:59.860 the billionaires' fault,
00:29:00.620 okay?
00:29:02.100 I was with him
00:29:03.040 on a lot of
00:29:04.520 what he was saying.
00:29:05.560 It's crazy
00:29:06.360 that kids
00:29:07.080 don't get to see
00:29:07.720 their parents
00:29:08.420 because their parents
00:29:09.200 are working so much.
00:29:09.920 I agree.
00:29:10.780 I think that's terrible.
00:29:11.600 I think we need
00:29:12.000 a fundamental change
00:29:13.020 to our political economy.
00:29:14.200 The fact that women
00:29:14.920 are expected
00:29:15.640 to work a job
00:29:17.100 now for a wage,
00:29:18.520 that's bad.
00:29:19.860 Mommy should be able
00:29:21.920 to stay home
00:29:22.360 with the kids
00:29:22.840 if she wants.
00:29:23.600 For many women,
00:29:24.240 that's not the case.
00:29:25.800 I agree.
00:29:26.720 I think there are
00:29:27.100 a lot of problems.
00:29:27.720 I think the inflation
00:29:28.620 is out of control.
00:29:29.420 That's a political problem.
00:29:30.500 It's not just
00:29:30.900 a billionaire problem.
00:29:32.560 I guess that
00:29:32.980 what's wrong about
00:29:35.180 what Bill Burr
00:29:35.780 is saying here
00:29:36.380 is it's just
00:29:36.920 it's a leftist analysis
00:29:38.720 of the situation
00:29:39.760 that makes the mistake
00:29:42.000 that leftists,
00:29:42.860 including Karl Marx,
00:29:44.180 up to and including
00:29:44.760 Karl Marx,
00:29:45.380 often do,
00:29:45.820 which is that
00:29:46.300 he mistakes man
00:29:48.460 for a fundamentally
00:29:49.360 economic creature
00:29:50.660 and man is not
00:29:52.360 a fundamentally
00:29:52.980 economic creature.
00:29:54.820 We are not
00:29:55.840 just defined
00:29:56.940 by our money.
00:29:58.860 We are not
00:29:59.540 motivated purely
00:30:00.880 or even primarily
00:30:01.880 by money.
00:30:03.140 Man is more than that.
00:30:05.300 Our politics
00:30:06.020 is not defined
00:30:07.100 fundamentally
00:30:08.360 by material divides
00:30:10.760 and by
00:30:12.480 classes of material wealth.
00:30:16.060 There's just more
00:30:16.760 going on.
00:30:17.840 Ideas have force
00:30:18.880 in the world.
00:30:20.580 Even all the other stuff
00:30:21.700 that leftists
00:30:22.240 sometimes talk about,
00:30:23.100 race has force
00:30:24.100 in the world.
00:30:24.880 Sex has force
00:30:25.920 in the world.
00:30:27.960 Great power struggles
00:30:29.480 have force in the world.
00:30:30.220 You know,
00:30:30.360 it's not just
00:30:31.040 it's so reductive
00:30:32.080 and just wrong,
00:30:33.360 just stupid.
00:30:34.700 So it's the billionaires.
00:30:36.100 I mean,
00:30:36.320 there are plenty
00:30:36.720 to blame billionaires for.
00:30:38.500 Some billionaires,
00:30:39.380 not all billionaires,
00:30:40.460 okay?
00:30:40.700 Who are you talking
00:30:41.880 to, you people?
00:30:42.560 But there's plenty
00:30:43.260 to blame some billionaires for.
00:30:46.020 But this just,
00:30:46.900 this isn't it.
00:30:47.540 I don't know.
00:30:48.040 I don't know what's
00:30:48.480 gotten into Bill Burr.
00:30:49.460 Now, speaking of celebs,
00:30:51.220 big breaking news.
00:30:54.140 There's a report out now.
00:30:57.140 Kanye
00:30:57.520 and his wife,
00:30:59.520 Bianca,
00:31:00.080 are reportedly
00:31:01.040 headed for divorce.
00:31:04.000 This,
00:31:04.580 according to the Daily Mail,
00:31:05.760 just 11 days
00:31:06.640 after Kanye
00:31:07.780 strutted his wife
00:31:08.740 out to the Grammys
00:31:09.660 and had her strip nude
00:31:10.900 and make an obscene display
00:31:13.060 on the red carpet,
00:31:14.580 followed by all the,
00:31:16.000 all the Hitler posting
00:31:17.060 and the porn posting
00:31:18.400 on X.
00:31:19.740 And
00:31:19.800 11 days later,
00:31:23.480 reportedly,
00:31:24.280 they're headed for divorce.
00:31:25.540 You know,
00:31:26.600 if those kids
00:31:27.540 can't make it,
00:31:28.620 is there really any hope
00:31:29.660 for the rest of us?
00:31:30.660 I don't,
00:31:31.280 hmm.
00:31:32.360 I almost didn't bring
00:31:33.680 this story up
00:31:34.400 because I said,
00:31:35.600 I don't want to just engage
00:31:36.600 in trashy celebrity
00:31:38.660 tabloid gossip,
00:31:40.080 certainly,
00:31:40.700 you know,
00:31:40.960 maybe this is a private affair.
00:31:42.780 But then,
00:31:43.300 actually,
00:31:43.520 I thought,
00:31:43.760 no,
00:31:44.840 this isn't a private matter.
00:31:46.560 Not just because Kanye
00:31:47.600 is a celebrity,
00:31:49.580 but because
00:31:50.380 marriage
00:31:51.260 is not a private matter.
00:31:52.800 Now,
00:31:53.020 there are questions
00:31:53.560 about
00:31:54.040 the validity.
00:31:55.860 I actually don't even know
00:31:56.800 if these two
00:31:57.240 were officially married.
00:31:58.820 It's kind of unclear
00:31:59.580 when you look it up online
00:32:00.820 and then if you're,
00:32:02.060 if you consider marriage
00:32:02.860 as a sacramental act,
00:32:04.360 then probably
00:32:05.320 none of these people
00:32:06.080 have really been
00:32:06.580 married because
00:32:07.200 Kim Kardashian
00:32:07.920 had been married
00:32:08.580 twice before she
00:32:09.400 married Kanye
00:32:09.980 and then they had
00:32:10.480 the divorce
00:32:10.920 and the whole thing
00:32:11.560 is just very sad.
00:32:13.360 However,
00:32:14.340 marriage itself,
00:32:16.280 sacramental
00:32:16.800 or just as a natural
00:32:17.560 institution,
00:32:18.460 is not a private act.
00:32:22.020 It's not a private union.
00:32:23.480 And actually,
00:32:24.500 so many of our
00:32:25.460 cultural problems today,
00:32:27.360 in particular,
00:32:28.120 pertaining to marriage
00:32:28.880 and the family
00:32:29.460 and children,
00:32:30.380 arise from our
00:32:31.360 misunderstanding of marriage.
00:32:33.060 It's something
00:32:33.360 just kind of private.
00:32:34.520 You know,
00:32:34.700 it's just a private act
00:32:35.700 of consenting adults,
00:32:36.540 since it has nothing
00:32:37.140 to do with you.
00:32:38.620 That is not what
00:32:39.200 marriage has been.
00:32:39.800 Marriage is the
00:32:40.520 fundamental political unit.
00:32:43.240 When you get married,
00:32:45.040 you make public professions
00:32:47.160 that you will be faithful,
00:32:49.140 that you will stay
00:32:49.760 in this union.
00:32:50.420 You make those professions
00:32:51.300 to God.
00:32:52.160 You make them
00:32:52.680 before a minister.
00:32:53.600 You typically make them
00:32:54.680 before the public.
00:32:56.000 Then you register
00:32:56.980 with the government
00:32:57.940 and often with the church.
00:33:00.720 But it's public.
00:33:03.760 And it's public
00:33:04.920 because marriage
00:33:05.780 is intrinsically
00:33:07.040 a public institution
00:33:08.440 because marriage
00:33:09.620 is ordered toward
00:33:10.560 the creation
00:33:11.240 of new people
00:33:12.240 and the future generation
00:33:15.640 of all of society.
00:33:17.600 Okay?
00:33:18.700 So we do have to take this
00:33:20.080 as a public matter.
00:33:22.180 We do have the right
00:33:23.360 to talk about it.
00:33:24.340 We do have the right
00:33:25.420 to discourage
00:33:26.180 the breakdown of marriages.
00:33:28.260 Marriage is not just about you.
00:33:29.880 And the view that it is
00:33:31.200 is a sign of the selfishness
00:33:32.420 of our culture,
00:33:33.280 which is why
00:33:34.160 we are now a dying culture.
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00:34:22.540 Hey, Michael.
00:34:23.260 I'd really love
00:34:24.140 some relationship advice.
00:34:25.560 So I'm 23
00:34:26.820 and I've been with
00:34:27.580 my boyfriend
00:34:28.040 for like seven months now.
00:34:29.940 We are best friends
00:34:31.220 for years.
00:34:31.920 I love him.
00:34:32.500 He's such a good,
00:34:33.260 kind, sweet Catholic,
00:34:34.160 but I am not
00:34:35.980 at all attracted to him.
00:34:37.500 Never have been
00:34:38.760 like romantically
00:34:39.520 or anything.
00:34:40.660 And he's been in love
00:34:42.060 with me since first sight.
00:34:44.220 So I'm autistic.
00:34:46.260 I'm really bad
00:34:46.920 at reading people.
00:34:47.840 I've had awful judgment
00:34:49.120 towards men
00:34:49.840 and friends in the past.
00:34:50.960 I don't trust my judgment,
00:34:52.540 but he's proven himself
00:34:53.980 to be reliable and stable.
00:34:55.840 And I know he'd give me
00:34:56.740 a good life.
00:34:57.360 He'd be a good dad.
00:34:58.660 He'd be a good husband
00:34:59.560 and stuff.
00:35:00.200 But I'm a hopeless romantic
00:35:01.780 and it's high key depressing
00:35:03.800 to imagine completely
00:35:05.800 giving up on that dream
00:35:06.920 and never falling in love.
00:35:08.420 And I know women
00:35:09.260 have married for security
00:35:10.680 and stuff for centuries
00:35:12.520 and that worked for them.
00:35:14.280 So I don't know what to do.
00:35:16.180 I'd really miss him.
00:35:17.480 I love him.
00:35:18.280 I don't want to lose him.
00:35:19.380 But any advice would be helpful.
00:35:21.180 Please pray for me.
00:35:22.580 And thank you so much.
00:35:23.540 Have a great day.
00:35:24.580 Okay.
00:35:25.220 Well, tough problem
00:35:26.560 that you find yourself in
00:35:27.560 because until that
00:35:29.460 very last line there,
00:35:31.080 I thought you were really
00:35:32.740 just asking me for permission
00:35:34.200 to break up with your boyfriend.
00:35:36.420 Because what you're saying is,
00:35:37.240 look, I'm not attracted to him
00:35:38.260 at all.
00:35:38.980 Not physically,
00:35:39.880 not romantically.
00:35:40.940 I don't love him.
00:35:42.420 Like, I want to fall in love
00:35:44.340 with someone.
00:35:45.120 That's what you said, right?
00:35:45.900 I still don't want
00:35:47.280 to give up that dream.
00:35:47.840 It's very depressing
00:35:48.680 to even think about marrying him.
00:35:50.640 So, all right.
00:35:51.160 Then you're just asking me
00:35:51.960 for permission
00:35:52.460 to break up with your boyfriend.
00:35:53.580 Sure, break up with your boyfriend.
00:35:54.620 You're 23.
00:35:55.120 It's fine.
00:35:56.680 He loves you.
00:35:57.720 You don't like him that much.
00:35:59.060 That's fine.
00:35:59.880 But then at the end,
00:36:00.460 you said,
00:36:00.700 but I really don't want
00:36:01.300 to lose him.
00:36:03.220 I love him.
00:36:03.900 He's great.
00:36:04.300 Well, hold on.
00:36:04.640 Now I'm confused.
00:36:06.380 If you break up with him,
00:36:07.280 you're going to lose him.
00:36:08.940 You're not going to stay friends.
00:36:10.660 Okay.
00:36:11.440 So,
00:36:12.280 if you're willing to do that,
00:36:14.140 I think it's fine.
00:36:14.980 I don't think you need to settle
00:36:17.080 for what you view
00:36:18.640 as a highly depressing marriage.
00:36:22.100 Certainly not at age 23.
00:36:24.360 At a later age,
00:36:25.480 perhaps it is time
00:36:26.320 to get some of your fantasies
00:36:28.080 out of your head
00:36:28.580 and, you know,
00:36:28.980 maybe settle down,
00:36:30.660 settle for something
00:36:31.880 that's imperfect.
00:36:32.700 But now you're 23 years old.
00:36:34.720 You can play the field
00:36:36.560 a little bit.
00:36:37.060 It's okay.
00:36:37.560 But at the very least,
00:36:41.620 you need to be aware
00:36:42.600 when you break up with him.
00:36:45.060 It sounds like you can
00:36:45.540 break up with him.
00:36:46.140 When you break up with him,
00:36:47.880 he's gone.
00:36:49.500 You're not going to,
00:36:50.400 you're not going to remain friends.
00:36:52.020 That's not how it works.
00:36:53.340 So,
00:36:53.740 if you're willing to do that,
00:36:55.620 because you think,
00:36:56.120 look,
00:36:56.280 I gave it a good shot.
00:36:57.340 I know on paper,
00:36:58.400 the guy,
00:36:59.240 you know,
00:36:59.560 he's a nice guy,
00:37:00.280 but I just want,
00:37:02.300 I don't know,
00:37:02.580 I want a hunk or something.
00:37:03.860 Okay.
00:37:05.240 That's your right.
00:37:05.680 I think physical attraction
00:37:06.720 is important in a marriage
00:37:08.360 because sex is important
00:37:10.320 in a marriage.
00:37:11.160 You know,
00:37:11.340 it's like one of the
00:37:12.380 defining features of marriage.
00:37:13.640 So,
00:37:13.960 if you're really just like
00:37:15.120 repulsed by this guy
00:37:16.160 physically,
00:37:17.220 or he just doesn't do
00:37:18.740 anything for you,
00:37:19.420 then that's important.
00:37:21.220 You know,
00:37:21.440 you're not,
00:37:21.880 you're not just hiring
00:37:22.800 a roommate here.
00:37:23.640 You are getting married.
00:37:25.160 So,
00:37:25.460 that matters.
00:37:26.660 But be aware,
00:37:27.440 you will lose him.
00:37:28.200 He's out of your life
00:37:29.100 once you break up with him.
00:37:30.640 Which is like,
00:37:31.220 all right,
00:37:31.420 that happens,
00:37:31.880 you know.
00:37:32.720 They say that breaking up
00:37:34.280 is hard to do.
00:37:36.560 Oh,
00:37:37.000 so hard to do.
00:37:38.000 Okay,
00:37:38.240 next question.
00:37:39.940 Mr. Knowles,
00:37:41.040 in honor of your recent
00:37:42.100 Music Monday with The Weeknd,
00:37:43.920 I wanted to ask
00:37:44.800 if you've ever found yourself
00:37:46.100 placing your wife
00:37:47.280 too high on a pedestal
00:37:48.760 next to the Almighty.
00:37:51.020 In my collegiate years
00:37:52.320 of debauchery
00:37:53.100 and groping in the darkness,
00:37:54.400 I prayed for the blessing
00:37:55.960 that is my beautiful wife,
00:37:57.580 and in the fullness
00:37:58.200 of his time,
00:37:59.380 God blessed me with her
00:38:00.700 and now two beautiful children.
00:38:02.700 She has led me back
00:38:05.260 to my faith
00:38:06.000 and we have grown
00:38:07.360 stronger for it.
00:38:09.300 However,
00:38:10.140 there are times
00:38:11.080 that I feel
00:38:11.980 a pull mentally
00:38:12.780 to place her
00:38:13.440 higher than my Savior
00:38:14.620 or just below him.
00:38:17.340 I wonder if I am
00:38:18.380 starting to worship her
00:38:20.240 more than I am God.
00:38:22.160 Am I doing something wrong?
00:38:24.560 If so,
00:38:25.680 how would you suggest
00:38:26.880 one course correct?
00:38:28.540 May our Almighty Father
00:38:29.880 continue to be a blessing
00:38:31.040 in your life.
00:38:33.320 Okay,
00:38:34.060 no,
00:38:34.700 I've not had that problem
00:38:35.720 with my wife.
00:38:37.240 Though I love my wife
00:38:38.380 as much as is possible
00:38:39.860 for a husband
00:38:40.660 to love his wife.
00:38:42.380 But I've not had that problem
00:38:43.980 of confusing my wife
00:38:45.200 for God
00:38:45.960 because I love
00:38:47.740 my real wife.
00:38:50.500 It's not just that
00:38:51.520 I love the idea
00:38:52.860 of my wife
00:38:53.840 or some mistaken
00:38:54.640 conception of my wife
00:38:55.860 or some kind of
00:38:56.680 poetic
00:38:57.540 tool of my wife.
00:39:01.320 What you're describing
00:39:02.800 kind of reminds me
00:39:04.760 of Dante
00:39:05.200 writing about Beatrice
00:39:06.300 who he doesn't place
00:39:07.680 higher than God
00:39:08.540 but she is a kind
00:39:09.420 of Christ figure
00:39:10.280 who plays this role
00:39:11.200 in his salvation.
00:39:12.540 But Beatrice
00:39:13.040 is this woman
00:39:13.940 that he met twice
00:39:14.740 in his whole life
00:39:15.460 and she died very young.
00:39:17.760 He met her
00:39:18.020 when they were nine
00:39:18.800 or something.
00:39:19.600 So Beatrice
00:39:20.840 is more an idea
00:39:22.180 for Dante
00:39:23.060 than a real
00:39:23.740 flesh and blood
00:39:24.500 human being.
00:39:25.780 And that sounds like
00:39:26.400 what's happening
00:39:26.760 with your wife.
00:39:27.580 Your wife
00:39:28.040 is kind of
00:39:28.500 an idea for you.
00:39:30.460 You're considering
00:39:31.360 this idol
00:39:34.360 rather than
00:39:35.560 the actual human being
00:39:36.740 who's before you.
00:39:37.980 So I don't
00:39:38.420 have that problem
00:39:39.940 because I
00:39:40.760 maybe it's because
00:39:44.400 you say you've met
00:39:45.440 your wife later
00:39:45.980 or whatever.
00:39:46.460 I've known my wife
00:39:47.120 since we were 11 years old.
00:39:48.700 And so
00:39:49.100 I love my wife
00:39:50.500 so much
00:39:51.020 because I know
00:39:52.680 who she really is
00:39:54.140 so well.
00:39:56.320 And so I don't
00:39:57.500 confuse her
00:39:58.060 for God.
00:39:58.880 I know my wife
00:39:59.540 is sweet little Elisa
00:40:00.440 and I love sweet
00:40:01.240 little Elisa
00:40:01.840 and that allows me
00:40:02.800 to love her
00:40:03.160 in an appropriate way
00:40:04.160 knowing that I'm
00:40:06.200 her husband
00:40:07.160 and she's my wife
00:40:08.320 and I can't
00:40:10.340 I'm not
00:40:10.840 going to confuse her
00:40:12.080 for God
00:40:12.540 or anything like that.
00:40:13.600 It just seems like
00:40:14.600 you need to
00:40:15.280 pay more attention
00:40:16.460 to your wife
00:40:17.300 who your wife
00:40:17.780 really is
00:40:18.460 and love her
00:40:20.180 appropriately
00:40:20.880 because
00:40:21.880 if you make
00:40:22.960 an idol out of
00:40:23.440 your wife
00:40:23.760 or something
00:40:24.140 if you become
00:40:24.620 King Simp
00:40:25.240 or something like that
00:40:25.920 you know
00:40:26.160 that won't be good
00:40:27.200 for her
00:40:27.480 that won't be good
00:40:27.940 for you
00:40:28.300 it will just
00:40:30.260 really pervert
00:40:31.620 you know
00:40:32.060 the order of love
00:40:33.580 actually
00:40:34.420 to use a popular
00:40:35.400 phrase of the last
00:40:36.400 two weeks
00:40:36.740 that would be
00:40:37.820 a corruption
00:40:38.840 of the
00:40:39.200 Ordo Amoris
00:40:40.300 next question.
00:40:42.860 Smokey Mike
00:40:43.780 Bible question
00:40:45.000 for you
00:40:45.420 I was at a Bible
00:40:47.340 study one day
00:40:47.980 with some friends
00:40:48.680 and we got on
00:40:49.680 the topic of
00:40:50.520 Jewish tradition
00:40:51.720 and sacrifices
00:40:53.780 being made
00:40:54.720 and obviously
00:40:56.220 as a Christian
00:40:56.860 I'm fully aware
00:40:58.540 and I know
00:40:59.140 that Jesus Christ
00:41:00.620 was sent
00:41:01.920 and was our
00:41:02.880 final sacrifice
00:41:03.860 for the atonement
00:41:04.840 of our sins
00:41:05.760 but where
00:41:08.600 in scripture
00:41:09.240 does it point
00:41:11.040 to the Jews
00:41:11.840 ever giving up
00:41:13.560 their sacrifices
00:41:15.500 of cows
00:41:16.480 and sheep
00:41:17.080 and you know
00:41:17.860 doves
00:41:18.220 and pigeons
00:41:18.700 obviously
00:41:19.220 Jesus
00:41:19.780 Jesus' parents
00:41:21.520 sacrificed
00:41:23.520 a couple
00:41:24.460 of pigeons
00:41:25.280 after he was
00:41:26.380 born
00:41:26.720 as was necessary
00:41:27.860 with the Jewish
00:41:28.380 tradition
00:41:28.900 but
00:41:29.460 after that
00:41:31.840 you never hear
00:41:32.560 of sacrifices
00:41:33.300 being made
00:41:33.980 again
00:41:34.560 so
00:41:36.900 that's my question
00:41:38.520 when did
00:41:39.020 when did Jews
00:41:40.300 and the Jewish
00:41:41.320 tradition
00:41:41.840 stop animal
00:41:42.980 sacrifices
00:41:43.560 for the atonement
00:41:44.180 of their sins
00:41:44.880 thanks
00:41:45.640 the destruction
00:41:47.220 of the second temple
00:41:48.020 this is one of those
00:41:49.240 questions that actually
00:41:49.800 has a very simple answer
00:41:50.620 it's with the destruction
00:41:51.540 of the second temple
00:41:52.240 because there are
00:41:52.940 three types of laws
00:41:54.020 in the old testament
00:41:54.940 sometimes people
00:41:56.020 will ask
00:41:56.380 why do Christians
00:41:57.420 not practice
00:41:58.200 all of the laws
00:41:59.080 from the old testament
00:41:59.920 I thought
00:42:00.420 you know
00:42:00.820 Christ came not
00:42:01.800 to abolish the law
00:42:02.560 but to fulfill it
00:42:03.380 not a jot or tittle
00:42:04.180 will pass
00:42:04.620 until all is completed
00:42:05.480 well you have to look
00:42:06.620 at the type of law
00:42:07.440 in the old testament
00:42:08.080 there are moral laws
00:42:09.920 which are eternal
00:42:11.060 and enduring
00:42:11.680 there are
00:42:13.260 liturgical laws
00:42:14.940 laws pertaining
00:42:15.660 to the worship
00:42:16.260 of God
00:42:17.000 temple worship
00:42:17.740 but those
00:42:18.740 liturgical laws
00:42:19.820 are fulfilled
00:42:20.880 and transformed
00:42:21.660 in the new covenant
00:42:22.640 but also
00:42:23.740 they literally
00:42:24.260 can't continue
00:42:24.940 to take place
00:42:25.460 because the temple
00:42:25.940 was destroyed
00:42:26.540 in 70 AD
00:42:27.360 and then there are
00:42:28.660 juridical laws
00:42:29.380 pertaining to
00:42:30.240 the political
00:42:30.980 organization
00:42:31.660 of the ancient
00:42:32.140 Israelites
00:42:32.500 which also
00:42:33.200 is ripped apart
00:42:35.560 as the ancient
00:42:37.100 Israelites
00:42:37.440 are scattered
00:42:38.020 by the Roman Empire
00:42:39.820 so
00:42:40.240 you see
00:42:41.840 a new
00:42:42.760 fulfillment
00:42:43.700 of those laws
00:42:44.540 in the new covenant
00:42:45.420 in the liturgical
00:42:46.880 practices
00:42:47.340 of the church
00:42:48.100 you know
00:42:48.980 our lord
00:42:49.480 rebuilding the temple
00:42:50.820 on the third day
00:42:51.960 in his own body
00:42:53.080 and you know
00:42:54.700 then through his church
00:42:56.400 but
00:42:57.480 and then the moral laws
00:42:58.280 of course endure
00:42:59.000 you know
00:42:59.700 eternally
00:43:00.500 but that's why
00:43:01.340 there ain't no temple
00:43:03.140 to sacrifice the goats
00:43:04.100 in anymore
00:43:04.560 okay
00:43:04.960 next question
00:43:05.720 hi Michael
00:43:07.560 my name is Sarah
00:43:08.980 I am a
00:43:10.380 stay-at-home mom
00:43:11.620 of three young kids
00:43:13.040 in Wisconsin
00:43:14.900 and
00:43:16.440 my question
00:43:17.380 is
00:43:18.320 how
00:43:19.240 does
00:43:19.980 sweet little
00:43:21.000 Lisa deal
00:43:21.980 with
00:43:23.020 your sweet
00:43:24.020 children
00:43:24.460 when you are
00:43:25.900 traveling
00:43:26.380 my husband
00:43:28.220 travels a handful
00:43:29.180 of times
00:43:29.720 throughout the year
00:43:30.400 and it is
00:43:31.120 rather challenging
00:43:33.040 to handle
00:43:35.100 the sweet
00:43:36.040 darlings
00:43:36.560 with
00:43:37.760 no man
00:43:38.740 around the house
00:43:39.420 so I'm just wondering
00:43:40.720 if you have any tips
00:43:41.660 or tricks
00:43:42.340 for
00:43:43.420 how you work
00:43:44.580 through those times
00:43:45.560 um
00:43:46.680 that would be great
00:43:47.800 thanks
00:43:48.720 well I suppose
00:43:50.380 I should connect you
00:43:51.160 with sweet little
00:43:51.720 Elisa
00:43:52.080 because I'm usually
00:43:53.600 away during these times
00:43:54.660 but
00:43:54.940 it's difficult
00:43:56.280 because I travel
00:43:57.000 a lot
00:43:57.420 I give a lot
00:43:59.240 of speeches
00:43:59.660 I go to a lot
00:44:00.920 of political events
00:44:01.840 I
00:44:02.860 do a lot
00:44:04.240 of film projects
00:44:05.080 and so
00:44:05.880 I'm on the road
00:44:06.820 a fair bit
00:44:07.280 and sweet little
00:44:08.900 Elisa
00:44:09.160 it's not like
00:44:09.560 we have a lot
00:44:09.860 of family
00:44:10.240 in Tennessee
00:44:10.720 we don't have
00:44:11.080 any family
00:44:11.420 in Tennessee
00:44:11.800 but
00:44:13.200 she makes do
00:44:15.280 she's a good woman
00:44:16.780 that sweet little
00:44:17.460 Elisa
00:44:17.740 that's how she
00:44:18.200 makes do
00:44:18.480 but it ain't easy
00:44:19.100 it's not
00:44:19.580 it isn't easy
00:44:20.340 so if you find
00:44:21.100 yourself
00:44:21.520 you know
00:44:22.640 pulling your hair
00:44:23.320 out or something
00:44:23.940 or having the kids
00:44:25.040 you know
00:44:25.400 just ready to make
00:44:26.540 you run through
00:44:27.080 a wall
00:44:27.600 just know
00:44:29.100 that's normal
00:44:29.980 that's normal
00:44:31.040 and
00:44:31.740 if your husband's
00:44:33.140 only on the road
00:44:33.600 a few times a year
00:44:34.340 you know
00:44:36.040 you're relatively lucky
00:44:37.180 compared to those
00:44:38.480 of us who are on the road
00:44:39.360 once a week
00:44:40.840 sometimes
00:44:41.760 that can be
00:44:43.260 that can be rough
00:44:43.960 but you know
00:44:44.640 if you're
00:44:45.860 if you're
00:44:46.240 going through it
00:44:47.040 a little bit
00:44:47.440 that's okay
00:44:47.880 that's normal
00:44:48.400 that's part of it
00:44:49.920 okay
00:44:50.540 because there has been
00:44:52.300 such major debate
00:44:54.380 even religious debate
00:44:55.720 over this issue
00:44:56.320 of deportation
00:44:57.040 I've decided
00:44:58.080 to assemble
00:44:58.660 an expert panel
00:44:59.780 with a priest
00:45:01.120 a protestant
00:45:02.400 and a progressive reverend
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