Ep. 1678 - Libs Panic! Kash Patel Takes Control of The FBI
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Kash Patel is confirmed as the new FBI Director, and the National Economic Council Director has floated getting rid of the federal income tax. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services takes the first step toward eradicating transgenderism from public life entirely.
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I'm at CPAC, where the president of Argentina just gave Elon Musk a chainsaw.
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Meanwhile, across town, the Department of Health and Human Services
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just took the first major step toward eradicating transgenderism from public life entirely.
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Kash Patel was just confirmed as the FBI director,
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and President Trump's National Economic Council director
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just floated getting rid of the federal income tax.
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So, you know, just another week in Trump's second term.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Will the income tax disappear before you have to pay your taxes?
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I was going to fly out right after I did my speech at CPAC.
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You'll have to tune in to figure out who we're eradicating this year.
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Then I went over, I did an interview for PBS NewsHour,
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news outlets that are traditionally quite left-leaning have been calling me up
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because they want to figure out why most Americans voted for Donald Trump.
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and many of their viewers I think were horrified to have heard from a conservative.
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But then we came back, we did a backstage show also at CPAC,
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Every time I look down at my phone, there's new news.
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Well, I don't even know if I can say this is the biggest,
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Yesterday, Kash Patel was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next FBI director.
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The two squishy Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against him.
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They didn't lose McConnell on the Republican side,
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One, it's really important to have a good FBI director,
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because there have been abuses at the FBI since 2016, 2015.
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Actually, it goes back a lot further than that.
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You had FBI agents spying on Catholic parishes.
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You had FBI agents going down, raiding Mar-a-Lago,
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the home of the former president and the then leader of the political opposition.
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It's good to have a serious reformer like Kash Patel in there.
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But the other great news about Patel getting through is
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pretty much all of Trump's nominees got through.
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Matt Gaetz was floated, and then he quickly pulled out,
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But pretty much all of the controversial nominees,
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Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel,
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And then the less controversial candidates sailed right through,
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not just for President Trump being able to staff his administration,
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but also for President Trump being able to pass legislation.
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well, the executive orders, they're great, generally.
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could just rescind all of them on day one, minute one.
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You know, wrangling the U.S. Congress, it's like herding cats.
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Well, if the nomination process, if the confirmation process is any indication,
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President Trump seems to be doing a pretty good job
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Now, speaking of good things to come, good things being here,
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memorandum just came out from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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And this is being reported as a memorandum on transgenderism.
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You know, it's a big victory against gender ideology.
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Because part of this people are not totally acknowledging,
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It's a major victory for the pro-life movement.
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It's guidance for federal agencies, external partners,
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and the public implementing Executive Order 14168,
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and restoring biological truth to the federal government,
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It says, there are only two sexes, female and male,
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based on whether the person is of the sex characterized by a reproductive system
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with the biological function of producing eggs or sperm.
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But to just say there are only two sexes, male and female,
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all right, there are two sexes, male and female,
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Obviously, it still exists in various parts of the law
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and regulations and in Supreme Court decisions.
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but something that is politically incorrect among the left,
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Just kind of directs the National Policy Council
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Okay, I don't want to sugarcoat it or anything.
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But if the day after you get that executive order,
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real firm policy being put in place by the agency,
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We're even going to define conception as fertilization,
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Oh yeah, and also transgenderism's done in public life.
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Here, the Allegiance Flag Supply American Flags
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This is a great time to celebrate this great victory
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I have flown an American flag in the back of my car
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I think right about since I got my car after college.
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I really like, too, Elon had his kids with him.
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Probably not the best thing for the kids to play with.
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I actually got to meet Elon either right before or right after this happened.
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And Millet, obviously, has a sense of humor, too, because he gives Elon this chainsaw.
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Now, there is some deeper political meaning here.
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Obviously, Millet, arch-libertarian, so libertarian he's converting to Judaism.
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Okay, that is a serious commitment to libertarianism.
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But he is a real slasher of budgets and economic pork down in Argentina.
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And he's giving this slasher to Elon Musk for doing the same thing here in the U.S. government.
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But I think the deeper political problem here is I don't think Trump got elected.
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I don't think Trump won the popular vote because people suddenly became libertarians.
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What we're getting is Elon Musk, an exemplar of Silicon Valley, of innovation, of upsetting the status quo.
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And his ideology seems to be a libertarian just slashing, cutting spending, teaming up with, or culturally at least, teaming up with Javier Millet here.
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I don't think that is why Trump was able to pull one in five black male voters, half of Hispanics, 40% of women under the age of 30.
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I think there were all sorts of reasons why people voted for Trump.
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But I think a big part of it was they want less migration.
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So that, I don't know, that seems to be a little bit of a break between the base and this empowered class.
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I'm not sure that the libertarians are all that gung-ho about the tariffs, which is really the centerpiece of President Trump's trade policy.
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All I'm saying is it's a cool scene and everyone loves what Elon is doing at Doge.
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I think he's one of the all-time great political figures of my lifetime.
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But I like what Elon is doing at Doge because it's rooting out corruption.
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I think libertarians are more focused on how it's rooting out waste and government spending and it's reducing the size and scope of the government and this, that, and the other thing.
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I don't, my issue with it is, my issue with USAID is that it was being used to advance leftism.
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I don't really care that it was spending money.
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I think at some point that traditionalism or that populism or that more classical conservatism is going to clash with the libertarianism.
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Right now everyone's playing nice and everyone's really happy with the results.
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Now, Elon, after receiving his chainsaw, goes on stage with Rob Schmidt from Newsmax and addresses one of the stupidest criticism I've seen made at Elon Musk.
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Namely, that he is spending this time, not being paid for it, giving up his very, very valuable time to go in and reform the federal government so that he can, like, steal your social security check or something.
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I'm saying right now that the reason that you want to get into social security, that you want to get into all of these different, into treasury and things like that, is that you're looking for personal information and you're trying to make more money.
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I've never met anybody as rich as you that cared less about money in my life.
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Every time I hear a story about you, you're sleeping on a couch of some other guy in a city that you could buy the entire thing.
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No, actually, I mean, listen, like, if I steal some social security, I can finally buy nice things.
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He's not like a politician where he's totally fluent and he's always got the right word ready.
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He sits, kind of laughs, he shrugs, he goes, yeah, yeah.
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If I steal someone's social security check, I can finally buy nice things, says the man worth $400 billion.
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This is the way to respond to these kinds of attacks from the left.
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Yeah, that's why Elon, with five or six historically successful companies, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world,
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in terms of just raw dollars, not inflation adjusted, the richest man ever in the history of the world.
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This guy got involved in the government to get your financial information.
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This is the guy, by the way, who owned PayPal that more than 70% of American adults have used.
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He got in it to steal your, like, $400 social security check.
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Now, speaking of revenue to the government, big, big news.
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There's coming out of the White House, this care of Kevin Hassett, the director of President Trump's National Economic Council,
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who floated the idea of getting rid of the income tax.
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President Trump has spoken about replacing income tax with tariff revenue,
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especially with all this waste, fraud, and abuse that we're seeing cut.
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And, in fact, if you think about the China tariff revenue that we're estimating is coming in from the 10% that we just added,
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plus the de minimis thing, that it's between $500 billion and $1 trillion over 10 years is our estimate.
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And that's something that is outside of the reductions that markets are seeing through the negotiations up on the Hill.
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And so we expect that the tariff revenue is actually going to make it much easier for Republicans to pass a bill,
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And President Trump has talked about this on the campaign trail.
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He suggested, oh, we're going to go back to the McKinley era.
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Now, the McKinley era, notably, was before the federal income tax.
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It was the history of the income tax in the United States goes back basically to the Civil War.
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It was floated during the War of 1812, but then the war wrapped up, so it became a moot point.
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We did not have a federal income tax until the Revenue Act of 1861, which was a flat tax on incomes over $800.
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Now, to put that in perspective, $800 in 1861 is something like $400,000 today.
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Then, that was repealed in 1872, and then there were all sorts of different revenue-raising instruments.
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But we didn't really have a federal income tax until the 16th Amendment in 1913, during the progressive era.
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So, when Trump comes out here and he says, look, we're going to go back to the McKinley way of doing things.
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We're going to get all of our revenue from tariffs.
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Now, again, I'm a little skeptical of being able to shift those numbers so quickly.
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But that would be pretty cool, man, if I didn't have to pay an income tax anymore.
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And I guess what's so amazing about this story is not even the notion that you might not have to pay an income tax anymore,
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that somehow maybe they'll repeal the 16th Amendment or just not enforce an income tax.
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What's so amazing is that we're even having this conversation.
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Fifteen years ago, the idea that a Republican would campaign on tariffs was unthinkable.
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So, today, we have the Republican president and his top economic advisors talking about using tariffs so aggressively that we don't have an income tax anymore.
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There were many beautiful lines from Cardinal Manning, one of which is,
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there is a day to come that will reverse the confident judgments of men.
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The dizzying pace of Trump's first month is so encouraging, not even just because of all the individual things he's done,
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virtually all of which have been great, but because it means we can still do things.
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The illegal border crossing has just dropped to nearly zero.
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Meanwhile, back at CPAC, J.D. Vance made a beautiful statement,
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a series of beautiful statements in recent weeks.
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He was asked about the Christian faith, and he made a really, really important point about the meaning of Christianity.
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First is, I believe, I think the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith,
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it's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that.
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I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the Son of God became man, he died, and he raised himself from the dead.
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That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, and I think so much flows from that.
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And I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death.
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Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more terrible things than just losing one's life,
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And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens,
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I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people,
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can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm trying to raise them to be,
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and that's what our public policy is trying to do.
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This is straight out of C.S. Lewis, not just C.S. Lewis, but out of many, many Christian writers.
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And it's contradicting the prevailing spirit of the age, which says,
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if it says anything nice about Christianity at all, it says that Jesus was a nice moral teacher.
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That's really, we should just learn some lessons, and J.D. Vance is saying,
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no, no, no, no, he's really not primarily a good moral teacher.
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The essential fact is that God becomes man and dwells among us and is crucified and is raised from the dead.
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I don't mean to diminish the importance of his teachings.
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God sends his only begotten Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
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God becomes man, dwells among us, is crucified, dies and is buried, and then is resurrected on the third day.
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That tells us really practical things about human nature, about our relationship to God,
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about the forgiveness of sins, about life everlasting, about the meaning of life, about our purpose.
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At the very least, about how we ought to view death.
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Because from the political perspective, the resurrection of our Lord is the ultimate political revolution.
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Inasmuch as the ultimate power that rulers have in pagan societies is the fear of death.
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And the resurrection of our Lord says, actually, death has no ultimate power on you.
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It is the fact that created our civilization, allowed our civilization to flourish.
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Even if you don't believe in it, though you should, because all the evidence is for it,
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but even if you don't believe in it, you have to recognize that is a crucial, pun intended, fact
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about the civilization once known as Christendom.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from CJ Blake, RF7MV, who says, the racist South African DJ
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is using the English language because it's inferior, L-M-A-O.
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There was this guy who is South African, he's a black guy, and he's saying, the whites are
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They are subhuman, they are this, they are that.
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But of course, one notices, he is speaking in English.
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You know, it's not a lot of clicking or any of, it's not Swahili, it's not, I don't really
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know what the indigenous language of South Africa is, but it ain't that, he's speaking
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So, you know, if the white people are so inferior, why are you allowing their language to actually
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Now, speaking of moral clarity, the State Department has officially classified a bunch
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of criminal cartels, drug cartels at the southern border, as foreign terrorist organizations.
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The U.S. Department of State designated six Mexican drug cartels, plus MS-13, which is a Salvadoran
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criminal syndicate, plus the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, which recently took over Aurora,
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So, Trump has designated them as foreign terrorist organizations.
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So, this is the State Department following up on an executive order, which instructed
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They hear this news report out of the State Department.
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They think it means that we're going to be harsher in our rhetoric about the drug cartels.
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It means we're going to, you know, really start to think seriously about them.
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That designation brings with it real power to the government to take them on.
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Notably, it means that the commander-in-chief can now use the military against them.
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I said, the moment that Trump announced that he was going to reclassify these drug cartels
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as foreign terrorist organizations, I said, oh, so that means he's going to send in a ton
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of special operators to just blow these guys' tattooed faces off in the middle of the night.
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Previously, he was somewhat restricted in unleashing the full force of the U.S. military.
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Also, now that these groups are foreign terrorist organizations, it becomes illegal for U.S. persons
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to provide material support to them, which means that people who are operating in the United States,
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maybe who are United States citizens, maybe who in some way have legal status,
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but they're working with these organizations because those organizations control the border,
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and many, many people who cross the border illegally wind up in debt to these organizations.
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Well, now it means that those people are committing crimes.
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This means that the Trump administration can deny entry to people who are linked to these groups.
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It makes it easier to stop them from coming here in the first place.
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It means that the U.S. can coordinate international efforts to stop them.
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The same way we're able to form an international coalition to take out Saddam Hussein,
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we can form an international coalition to fight ISIS.
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Now we can do the same thing for MS-13 or Trende Aragua or any of the other cartels,
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which pose a far more direct and serious threat to the United States even than ISIS.
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And then, what it also means is Trump is now free to digitally and financially attack their organizations
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with far greater severity than they were able to before.
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It says Kanye West has relapsed and is inhaling nitrous oxide, leaving his memory messed up.
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Now, you might have heard, I think these reports have been published,
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that Kanye has an affinity for laughing gas, for nitrous oxide.
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And I think Milo Yiannopoulos, who was his campaign manager when he was running for president briefly,
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So, you know, one doesn't wish to reveal any personal sins, but this has all been reported in the press.
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When he got back to L.A., he got dental work again, and I think that's when he relapsed,
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a friend said, referencing his return to the city after six months away at the end of January.
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The 47-year-old rapper and clothing designer's recently erratic behavior has worsened by using nitrous oxide,
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commonly known as laughing gas, and anesthetic.
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I don't want to reveal any personal sins of Kanye.
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I don't want to engage in the sin of detraction.
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I'm not, you know, Kanye is an eccentric figure and has been for a long time.
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If this report is true, there seems to be some evidence that it's true.
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Political nerds, political nerds like you and me, we tend to think a lot about ideology.
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And then he was tweeting about doing stuff with various people and different threats.
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And then he was tweeting out how much he loved porn.
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And did you see all the tweets from, wow, what does it mean?
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Often, behavior is just best explained by vice, by habitual vice,
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which darkens the intellect and messes up our appetites.
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When people come to me, when guys come to me, sometimes they write into the show.
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You know, I'm either I'm fighting with my girlfriend, I'm fighting with my wife,
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or I can't attract a girl, and I go on these dates, and it's not satisfying,
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My first question, always, do you look at pornography?
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Now, I'm not asking, I'm not getting in your head on your grand theories of romance
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Does it match up with the traditional view and the catechism?
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So you look at this obscene material that we know warps people's minds
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and appetites and desires and actually messes up even their biochemistry,
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and now are you telling me you have problems with women?
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Hey, come back to me again when you stop doing that.
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Is it because he read Mein Kampf and he watched Triumph of the Will
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and now he's just suddenly so taken with Hitler's arguments?
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Or maybe he just has a drug problem or something, you know?
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And we know that because he admits that publicly.
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Maybe it's, maybe we can fix a lot of the problems that we attribute to ideology
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just by correcting our behavior and cutting out some vice and practicing virtue.
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And then we don't need to be nerds arguing about abstract ideology forever.
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Now, speaking of vice, transgender cult members who are vegans
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have been arrested and charged with murder in Maryland.
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You know, I've spoken my mind on the gender ideology for a long time,
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And I've been involved in plenty of political campaigns.
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And I have plenty of ideological interests that I speak on.
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And the only times that I have been threatened with violence or nearly attacked or actually attacked
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have been when I have criticized transgenderism or contradicted transgenderism.
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First time was at UMKC, University of Missouri, Kansas City, in 2017 or 2018.
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Second time was at the University of Pittsburgh recently where Antifa terrorists tried to blow up the building
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and actually seriously injured a cop when I was walking on stage.
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But the thing that's kind of funny is the vegan thing.
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Every vegan you know, I bet, just about, is in favor of abortion.
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Andy Ngo, a great reporter, especially on Antifa, has a great thread on the subject.
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The Zizians have been tied to the killing of a U.S. border patrol agent,
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They've been linked to five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania, California.
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You know what I say to this transgender, murderous, vegan cult?
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It's just like the laziest phrase you could possibly hear in political commentary.
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Because, of course, the left is not peaceful or tolerant at all.
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But these people in particular are seriously misanthropic.
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And it really is always the ones you most expect.
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Because when we're talking about this kind of people in particular,
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They have a fundamental misunderstanding of the world or a willful misunderstanding of the world.
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And they are misanthropic in the truest sense in that they hate their own actual human identities.
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And the fact that our identities are linked with our bodies and we don't have a choice over it.
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And it is why they are angry a lot of the time.
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And why they become violent and, in some cases, commit murders.
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Finally, finally, we have arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.
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So I just saw your fantastic debate informants in that Jubilee video where you were talking to a bunch of LGBTQ activists.
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One of the things that they kept trying to do was accuse you of being poorly motivated.
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And one of the guys afterwards was saying, all you do is try to get people to have emotional reactions to what you say so that you can make them look dumb.
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And my whole thing is, even if that were the case, who cares?
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They should still be able to win the debate if they're right.
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That should make it easier for them to take apart your arguments.
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And in my opinion, the only people that complain about their opponent's tactics are losers.
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And there were a lot of people complaining about your tactics that evening.
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Would that be something that you would employ in another debate?
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I understand you're saying, well, even if the premise were true, you know, what would it matter?
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They're saying that I wish ill on them or that one guy said I was just trying to push his buttons, you know.
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In fact, I'm kind of rare in political commentary and even on the right in that I really am not just provoking for provoking sake.
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I'm happy to be convinced by nuance or subtlety or whatever.
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I don't use nasty, obscene language or anything like that.
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I think the reason that so many of those interlocutors maligned me and questioned my motives is because they had nothing else to say.
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So they just said, well, you're a meanie or something.
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Yeah, even if I hated their guts, they should still just answer the arguments.
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As a Catholic preparing for an upcoming marriage, I've been revisiting the Gospels to strengthen both my relationship with God and the Church.
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In this pursuit, I've become curious about the non-canonical Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Thomas.
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Do you believe these non-canonical works hold any value for study or spiritual growth, especially for someone seeking to deepen their faith?
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Thanks for your time and all the incredible work you do.
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No, they have value as quirks of the 4th century.
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They have value as evidence of what the Gnostics believed.
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Not of what the Christians believed, but of what the Gnostics believed.
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They have value in as much as they're weird, and that's illuminating in some ways.
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But no, they don't have any value for Christians, and we know this from antiquity.
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Early Christian writers discussed the Gospel of Thomas, so-called Gospel of Thomas.
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But even to call it a Gospel, albeit a non-canonical Gospel, is really giving it much more credit than it deserves.
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The actual Gospels are written within living memory of the events that they describe.
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The so-called Gospel of Thomas is from the 4th century.
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And it depicts a person who might be named Jesus, but who is a rather different person than the actual Jesus.
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You'd even have to be specific on what you mean by the Gospel of Thomas.
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There are two books that purport to be Gospel of Thomas.
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One is a sayings gospel, you know, just purported quotes of our Lord, which are not real.
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And then the other is the infancy gospel, which involves all sorts of heretical nonsense.
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If you are seeking to deepen your Christian faith, then you should read the Christian works.
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You know, the Church Fathers, the Ecumenical Councils, they did a good job at figuring out which books are legit and which books are not.
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And I don't think we need to upend that with 4th century Gnostic nonsense.
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Happy Feast of St. Valentine, love Dr. Knowles.
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It's the Shuckmeister, and I'm checking myself in for a little dating advice.
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I've had a hard time getting past the first date.
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I've been trying to date more traditional girls, especially those from the Latin Mass, and they seem the least likely to want to go on a second date.
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I just do the typical date activities like dinners and outings instead of rizzing them up with my diatribes about the Fourth Laddering Council.
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I feel like I'm finally in a place where I've cultivated a lot of virtue and I'm ready for something more.
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But the dating pool is very, very poor right now.
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I know you always say dating should be fun, and you're right, until I get ghosted or rejected.
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I personally know many of the members of the Chame de la Chame, but I know the Shuckmeister because I see him at Latin Mass.
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But one issue about dating at the Latin Mass, I've heard this for years now.
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Dating at the Latin Mass is kind of like dating in Alaska.
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And I say this as someone who attends the Latin Mass.
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I love it more than almost anything in this world.
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But, you know, it attracts a quirky kind of set.
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So your problem, Shuckmeister, since I know you personally, I can say you're a normal kind of guy.
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You know, you dress well, you speak normally, you want to take a woman out to a nice dinner.
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But if you want to date at the Latin Mass, you need to show up in like a horse-drawn carriage with mules.
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And you need to go take the woman to milk some cows or something and churn butter.
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I don't, you know, I mean, you've got to do, it's not, you're too normal.
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So I don't mean to be glib in my response to you.
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If I were you, I would look at, well, keep looking around the TLM, you know.
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But you might also look more broadly at Catholic social groups.
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I know it's not abstract enough for modern liberal sensibilities.
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But I think like people you go to school, you've gone to school with or people that you've worked with or friends of friends or being set up on blind dates or that sort of thing.
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I think the personal connection is a good thing.
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But I would expand that circle out a little bit.
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I understand why, in principle, one would say, well, the Latin Mass is the first place to go.
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It's probably the first place that I would go to look if I were single.
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But, you know, if it's not working out, all right, expand it out a little bit.
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You know, maybe look at that Catholic young adult, whatever, you know, or mid-20s meetup group or whatever.
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You know, I would just expand it out a little bit.
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I'm not saying you really need to hire the mule-drawn carriage and go churn butter.
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You're going to be a charming guy in your own right.
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I am looking for some advice on how to effectively and yet respectfully communicate a difference of religious opinions to one's parents.
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I grew up in a very non-denominational charismatic household.
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In fact, my entire family is very, very conservative and religious.
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However, I have recently converted to the Anglo-Catholic Church.
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Um, and I know you might not consider it to be Catholic, but coming from my background, my parents certainly find it to be much too Catholic.
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They have largely accepted or at least realized that I am staunch in my decision, yet I still get videos about explain the saints, explain this aspect, make sure you don't listen too much to tradition, make sure you still allow freedom, which are true things.
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But there's always just this undertone of what you're doing is a little silly or you should come back to us.
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So I'm wondering how I might, uh, responsibly and effectively communicate a difference of opinion on something with my parents.
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On a separate note, when is there going to be some nice, juicy, delicious Mayflower pipe tobacco?
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I have, I smoke a pipe once a year and I have for probably 20 years, but I'm just not good enough at it.
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I can't, cigars are a little bit of an expertise.
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So I know I can make a great cigar product, but the pipes, uh, well, you'll, we'll have to leave it.
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As for your parents, it's kind of, kind of interesting that you've converted to Anglo-Catholicism, which is Anglicanism.
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You know, it's a form of Protestantism, but it's a high church Protestantism that has a lot of trappings,
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of Catholicism, and even a fair bit of Catholic theology, uh, but no Pope.
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There aren't that many people who convert to Anglo-Catholic Protestantism.
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Andrew Clavin is one who has done that too, and he loves his Anglo-Catholic church.
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And it's understandable if your parents are, uh, lower church Protestants who, uh, you know,
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not only don't like the liturgical aspects of what you're getting into now, but probably disagree in a lot of theological things.
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And they're your parents, and you owe them respect.
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So when they ask you questions, it's a great opportunity to answer those questions.
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People ask me all the time, why do you confess your sins to a priest?
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Why do you believe that our Lord is really and truly present in the Eucharist?
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What a great opportunity to tell them the scriptural basis for those practices and beliefs.
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What a great opportunity to deepen your own understanding of what you believe.
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What a great opportunity to maybe pull them over.
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Now, when they say, you know, don't do this, don't do that, when they start haranguing you about it,
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you can say, listen, listen, mom and dad, I'm just telling you, this is biblical.
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And then hopefully we'll get to pull you all the way across the Tiber, too,
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But in any case, you can say, look, this is a biblical practice.
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Look, in the writings of the church fathers, very early church fathers,
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you can see the Eucharist, the belief in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
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You see it in Scripture, too, in John chapter 6.
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Okay, no member block today because I'm still here in the imperial capital,
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So I apologize that we've not had sufficient Membrum Segmentum this week
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because of, you know, the Daily Wire shuts down for three snowflakes,
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But, I don't know, we need to do extra Membrum Segmentum next week.