Trump has officially been back in office for 100 days, and to celebrate, he completely owned a lib at a rally in Michigan. What's the problem over there? Is that a radical left lunatic? He's just a child.
00:18:01.660Governor of Michigan is a huge Democrat.
00:18:05.600Gretchen Whitmer, some call her Whittler because she's a very extreme and unpleasant politician.
00:18:11.480He shows up there and a lesser Republican politician would ignore her.
00:18:17.040A lesser Republican politician might take a pot shot at her.
00:18:20.120But Trump, realizing the moment, realizing what time it is, having a good instinct for comedy and for show business and for politics, all of which are really tied in together, he decides, no.
00:19:04.640Well, I didn't plan to speak, but on behalf of all the military men and women who serve our country and serve so honorably on behalf of the state of Michigan, I am really damn happy we're here to celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge.
00:19:19.720It's crucial for the Michigan economy.
00:19:21.720It's crucial for the men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
00:20:07.900I am so glad that this thing was said.
00:20:09.540I'm sure you're very glad that this podcast was produced, and that this news was heard, and that your iPhone was held, and your AirPods were inserted.
00:20:25.100That's a very strange use of the passive voice.
00:20:27.140But she's so off-footed by this, and Trump, it's just so delightful, because he gets up there and goes, look, I'm not supposed to do this.
00:20:35.880They all told me, don't do this, Trump.
00:32:12.600I've been to D.C. probably six times since the election or more.
00:32:17.420I've probably been to D.C. six times this year, since January 1st.
00:32:21.980I wasn't in D.C. a lot during the Biden administration.
00:32:24.400I wasn't even conscious of this, but I was in D.C. a lot during the first term.
00:32:27.840I was in D.C., I don't know, it seemed like every other week or certainly every month on average during the first term.
00:32:35.240Because the Republicans are back in town.
00:32:37.040And these guys being beltway, coastal, elite Democrats, they only really encounter Republicans during these kinds of administration changes.
00:32:46.460So they say, oh, look, everyone's wearing crosses all of a sudden.
00:32:48.700It's not necessarily that they hadn't been wearing crosses before, just they hadn't seen these people.
00:32:52.580But I do think the New York Times is on to something real, which is that popular Christianity is making a comeback.
00:33:14.480Why is Christianity making a comeback?
00:33:16.180Well, basically, at the most fundamental level, because it's true, because the crucifixion and the resurrection are historical events, because God entered into history, and he lives.
00:33:31.560And I know there are going to be atheists and secularists and agnostics and people with other religious views who don't like that or who don't agree with that.
00:35:04.440We've had periods where the political order is very pro-Christianity, but we're just at a period right now where the dominant liberal political order really doesn't like Christianity.
00:35:10.840So, if you want to be subversive, if you don't like the status quo and you want to upset the status quo, the cross is a symbol of that.
00:35:21.840Much as Christianity was a symbol of subversion of corruption, not of political order per se, but a subversion of corruption and the wicked principalities and powers that so often have control in this world.
00:35:38.840Just as that was true in the ancient Roman Empire, that is true again today.
00:35:44.260And it will be true throughout history because we'll have trouble in this world, but Christ has overcome the world.
00:35:49.100And when there are popular movements to push back against the corruption of those dark powers that exist, it's going to be the cross.
00:36:01.080It's going to be the cross is coming back.
00:36:03.200I hope the New York Times watches this segment.
00:36:06.160I hope that helps them, not just in their political understanding, but maybe their spiritual understanding too.
00:40:21.600But, you know, I love that the New York cardinal, Cardinal Dolan.
00:40:25.040And, frankly, we could do a lot worse than Dolan.
00:40:29.460There are some candidates who are popopili who would be a lot worse than Cardinal Dolan from New York.
00:40:34.380But it seems unlikely that it will be an American who will become the pope.
00:40:37.740There are some leading candidates who are viewed as being a little bit more liberal, modernist, who probably, just in my limited capacity of reason, it seems to me, would not be great for the church.
00:40:50.400But there are some really good ones, really strong popopili who could be wonderful for the church.
00:40:57.560If you believe the reporting coming out of Rome, some of the same similar forces that you're seeing in politics here, a revulsion against liberalism, leftism, ideology, modernism, innovation, hyper-individualism.
00:41:16.400Well, those same kinds of natural and, I think, correct reactions, you're seeing that play out with the laity in the church, even among some of the prelates.
00:41:29.940You say, you know, when someone dies, we only say good things.
00:41:35.940We don't lie, but we only focus on the good things.
00:41:37.660Because as the legacy of Pope Francis is evaluated over history, there are going to be a lot of things that people look to and say, you know, that wasn't great.
00:41:48.800That was, that seems, maybe that was misguided.
00:41:55.420And especially, I think, a controversial pope like this, I think there is going to be a push to restore some normal to, to even to the Vatican.
00:42:10.800Speaking of religious visions, the, the modern ideology, which is an anthropology, which has religious aspects to it, of, of transgender ideology.
00:42:20.640I've said that issue, I'm done talking about it, it's tedious, it's over, it was defeated, I think, decisively.
00:42:28.000I think that transgenderism is now in the process of being eradicated from public life entirely, as well it should be, because it's a false account of human nature, and it helps no one, and it hurts a lot of people, hurts basically everyone it touches, and we just need to get rid of it.
00:42:41.820Well, the UK would seem to agree with me.
00:42:45.360You know, the, the UK put out that CAS review, which seriously called into question the efficacy of the transgender procedures for kids.
00:42:53.980Then the UK is, is stopping the, the transmutilations.
00:43:03.280Well, the UK NHS, National Health Service, is now planning to test all trans kids, quote unquote, for autism.
00:43:11.860Now, I was clued into this a few years ago, I was speaking at a school, and a girl came up to me and she said, Michael, just want, I want to thank you for speaking out on the transgender ideology, because it, I, I fell into it.
00:43:24.860I thought I was a boy, and thankfully, I had good parents, and good teachers, and good doctors, and good priests even, and they, they said, I don't think you're a boy, and they tested me for other issues, and it turns out I had undiagnosed autism, and now they're treating me for autism, and my gender dysphoria has greatly abated.
00:43:42.460I'm glad they didn't start chopping up your body, and sterilize you, and make your bones brittle, and lead you to an early death, instead of just actually treating the condition.
00:43:50.820Well, now they're going to apply this insight broadly.
00:43:54.600Previously, on, on certain social media platforms, you were not even allowed to observe the scientific evidence that trans identity frequently coincides with autism, and rather than treating the autism, they pretend that a boy can be a girl, and they would screw up these poor kids' lives even further.
00:44:16.240Now, even the left in the UK, even the left-wing Guardian, liberal newspaper, a couple years ago pointed out that books about the trans procedures at, at the most infamous trans clinic in the UK, the Tavistock Clinic, quote, reads like a dystopian novel.
00:44:39.260Okay, so the thing you got to ask yourself, if, if you are somehow on the fence about the transgender issue, and you still think it's nice to affirm people in their delusions, and you think it's cruel to, to tell people the truth, or whatever, just, just ask yourself, what is more likely?
00:44:56.140Try to take your ideology out of it for a second, and just ask yourself, what is more likely that these kids, who in the last five years, seemingly came out of nowhere, and said, hey, I'm the opposite sex.
00:45:07.420I'm actually, the account of human nature that we've had for all of history everywhere is wrong.
00:45:12.860Actually, you can be born in the wrong body, and I can't explain to you how that's possible, and if I do try to explain to you, I'll give you mutually contradictory explanations that it has to do with the brain, or it has nothing to do with the brain, or it has to do with the soul,
00:45:25.720or we actually don't have a soul, or whatever, regardless, I'm, I look like a boy, but I'm actually a girl.
00:45:31.140What's more likely? That that's true? That everyone everywhere for all time has fundamentally misunderstood how human nature works, or that these kids have a touch of the tism?
00:45:45.180What do you think's more likely? Because the UK, including libs, the UK is a liberal country, libs are admitting, okay, maybe,
00:45:55.720if you, if you believe something that is so obviously contradicted by all of our sense perceptions,
00:46:01.900maybe the likely answer is that you've got a problem with your perception, rather than everyone everywhere for all of history
00:46:13.460has been wrong about the most basic aspects of who we are.
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