The bromance between President Trump and Elon Musk is officially over, and boy oh boy, is it over. Which side are you on, Team Elon or Team Trump? Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Michaela Knowles ( ) Michaela, Greta Thunberg ( ) Greta is on a boat. Greta used to be concerned about the weather. Now she's concerned about people who control the weather
00:01:12.760And he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars.
00:01:41.260But he knew every aspect of this bill.
00:01:44.300He knew it better than almost anybody.
00:01:46.560And he never had a problem until right after he left.
00:01:49.540And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm sure you can get very easily, it's very fresh on tape, he said the most beautiful things about me.
00:01:57.840And he hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.
00:02:07.000So on at least one of those claims on the, you know, Elon's going to start speaking bad about me personally, that is a fact check true.
00:02:14.840Elon Musk returned the volley by writing, quote, whatever, keep the EV solar incentive cuts, but ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill.
00:02:24.140In the entire history of civilization, there's never been legislation that is both big and beautiful.
00:10:09.140The last time we had a balanced budget in America was 2001, and that's only because we were coming off of the Internet bubble and we had the post-Cold War dividend.
00:10:17.320Explain to me how you're going to get that.
00:11:25.420People start tuning them out, not only at the ballot box, but on all their media channels, because the liberals know they were lied to by their own elites.
00:11:30.940And then KGP comes out and says, well, I'm leaving the Democrat Party because Biden was betrayed by the Democrats.
00:11:40.500In other words, I'm on Team Biden and the Democrats betrayed us.
00:11:43.740But then, no sooner does she do that than the people in the Team Biden say, well, hold on.
00:12:10.420The Democrats are probably not going to get their act together before the midterms.
00:12:15.140They'll have some momentum going to the midterms because the party that's out of power always has momentum going to the midterms.
00:12:20.180But I have not seen the Democrats in this degree of disarray since at least 2006, since at least the time when the Howard Deans of the world were trying to pull the Democrats to the left after the failures of John Kerry and Al Gore and all the rest.
00:13:51.420Speaking of clear moral issues, really disturbing story in the Wall Street Journal.
00:14:11.520Longevity is now a factor when picking an embryo for IVF.
00:14:17.520DNA analysis predicts likelihood of age-related conditions such as heart disease and cancer.
00:14:23.340So, you know, I hate to say I told you so, and I've been telling you so on IVF for a long time.
00:14:30.240And the way that people are going to read this is they're going to say, okay, well, with IVF, IVF allows us to know certain things about our children, and it allows us to know the sex, you know, before they're implanted in the womb.
00:14:43.700Well, now, doing DNA analysis, we can know how long they're going to live.
00:14:49.860I think it's kind of dubious information.
00:14:50.860I think it's kind of dubious information, but fair enough.
00:14:53.260The way most people are going to read that is they're going to say, okay, this new technology is going to help us extend the lives of our children.
00:15:04.840This technology, once you get past all the euphemisms, this technology is supplying parents with dubious information, but information nonetheless, that will help them to decide how to kill their weakest children.
00:15:22.820Because in IVF, you make a bunch of little babies, a bunch of little embryos, and then you pick which ones you want.
00:15:27.480And sometimes you implant multiple of them, and if too many of them take and you don't want that many children, then you kill the extra ones through abortion, and then you take the rest of the babies that are in the Petri dish, and you put them in a freezer forever until the clinic or you decide that you want to finally get rid of them.
00:15:42.180And what this technology does is allows you to look at all the little persons in the Petri dish and say, I think that one's going to be weak.
00:16:39.660Because IVF transforms how we view human persons away from being subjects with proper rights into being commodities, into being objects to be bought and sold and tinkered with as we please.
00:16:53.760Now, speaking of former children, Greta is on a boat again, loves being on a boat, and she's wearing a keffia, and she's raising the Palestine flag.
00:17:05.380The Greta sailboat went dark real quick.
00:17:11.760She's sailing into Gaza, and the state of Israel is threatening, it seems, to blow her up.
00:17:18.020According to reporting, Israel warned Wednesday that it is prepared to act accordingly to stop Greta Thunberg's so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition from reaching Gaza.
00:17:30.960Okay, the whole thing's getting real dark, man.
00:17:34.620But I don't think Israel is going to blow up Greta.
00:17:40.800Greta's going to keep making a show of herself, as she's been doing.
00:17:43.600You know, she's not a little girl anymore.
00:17:45.880She started out when she was in her, what, mid-teenage years, and that was a while ago.
00:17:52.500And as some have observed, she went from being focused on the weather to the people who control the weather, ostensibly.
00:18:01.840So, okay, maybe there's a kind of coherence there, but there's not much coherence.
00:18:04.600How do you go from having your raise on debt be, to stop the sun from shining, to putting on a keffia and shilling for Islamist political movements?
00:18:18.740Because Greta, whatever her motivations when she was a teenager, Greta now is not a political activist who is just pulled by the necessity and the urgency of the moment to help save the world.
00:18:40.160She got a lot of notoriety and she got a lot of plaudits because when she was a teenager, she got in a sailboat and actually caused more environmental pollution because then her handlers flew over in jets and it would have been easier if she just got on a Southwest flight or something.
00:18:54.840But she got in a little boat and she kind of sailed across and made a big media show out of it and dropped out of school.
00:19:28.020Okay, I'm going to be pro-Palestine now.
00:19:29.580Okay, whatever the next issue is, whether it's saving the baby seals or, I don't know, opening the southern border or something, she'll just do that.
00:19:50.560According to GLAAD, GLAAD is this pro-LGBT, LMNOP organization, according to GLAAD, the number of LGBT characters on television is down 36%.
00:20:04.820This is according to their 19th annual report.
00:20:09.800And the GLAAD researchers say we're not going to have new data on this year until September, but the numbers are likely to trend down.
00:20:18.460I predicted this on the show, I think, yesterday.
00:21:03.340It would be better for the pro-LGBT radicals if this were still a really contentious issue and you had people on the right who were really trying to clamp down on the LGBT stuff.
00:21:13.260And you people on the left who were really defending the trans books in kindergarten.
00:26:20.320Which is why, as we're kind of, I think, showing some of the flaws in libertarian analyses, you know, the kind that make people, get people really, really excited that the government spends money and everything.
00:26:34.960When we're looking at flaws in libertarian analyses, this shows us a flaw in that old analysis that politics is downstream of culture.
00:26:41.300Because in this case, culture, the companies, is downstream of politics, of the government.
00:26:46.500I don't think you can really even distinguish between politics and culture, but as the government came in, it changed, and the companies looked around and they said, oh, shoot, Trump won the popular vote.
00:26:57.680And then he, furthermore, they looked at who's in the White House, and they realized that Trump not only won, and not only won the popular vote, but Trump is willing to use the bully pulpit to bully companies that try to mess up our culture.
00:27:11.420So he's not even one of these laissez-faire, oh, well, you know, I might not, I might not support transing the little kids, but I'll defend to the death some international corporation's right to do it.
00:27:52.680But Father James Martin, just as the church is coming together, is unifying, is returning to a clear articulation of orthodoxy and norms, and it's really great.
00:28:05.980Just as the whole pop culture, even in the secular world, is turning against the rainbow month, Father James Martin, who was famous for, after a confusing guidance came out from the Vatican,
00:28:17.660a New York Times reporter just happened to see him blessing a same-sex couple holding hands.
00:28:25.180Father James Martin says, it's especially important for churches to mark Pride Month, since much of the rejection that LGBTQ people have faced has been motivated by Christianity,
00:28:35.560at least what many people think Christianity teaches.
00:28:38.740It's like, no one, no one, absolutely no one, Father James Martin, we need to mark Pride Month.
00:29:44.160It's frustrating, but it also reminds me of something that's kind of weird.
00:29:49.080I used to say this during the Francis pontificate.
00:29:51.160It's notable that even the most pro-gay Catholic priests are often, in practical terms, to the right of even conservative, non-Catholic denominations.
00:31:28.740Because there's an Ohio woman who claims she did not get a job and then was demoted because she's not a lesbian.
00:31:36.540Had she been a lesbian, she might have kept her job or been promoted.
00:31:40.000But instead, she didn't get a job and then was demoted.
00:31:42.640This decision affects lawsuits in 20 states and D.C.
00:31:47.660Where, until now, the courts had set a higher bar when members of a majority group, so white people or straight people or maybe even men,
00:31:58.000which is funny because men are not a majority of the population, but they're somehow viewed as a kind of majority,
00:32:02.280when they sue for discrimination under civil rights law.
00:32:05.340And left-wing justice, Ketanji Jackson, wrote for the court and said that federal civil rights law makes no distinction between members of majority and minority groups.
00:32:15.900And I know there are going to be some people who are kind of the idealistic types, working on their first campaign, those types.
00:32:21.600They say, well, we conservatives shouldn't ever use the civil rights law.
00:32:25.920The civil rights law is a left-wing accretion that undermines the Constitution.
00:32:29.980And we, true small government constitutional conservatives, we would never want to use the abomination of bureaucracy that civil rights law has created.
00:36:02.720But we might, you want to, this is really the synthesis.
00:36:05.820You had thesis, which was like Bush era, neoconservatism, you know, invade all these countries around the world and install Madisonian democracies.
00:36:14.160Then you had antithesis that was Trumpian nationalism.
00:36:19.140Don't, don't build nations around the world, you know, make our own country great again.
00:36:22.540And now we have synthesis, which is we're getting those F-35s to fly over Greenland.
00:36:28.380They're going to greet us as liberators, baby.
00:36:53.860Hey Michael, I recently told a friend of five years had romantic feelings towards her.
00:36:59.260She is conservative, Christian, wants a family, and is basically my dream wife.
00:37:02.320She responded that she isn't interested in dating anyone right now, but implied that she might be interested in dating in the future, saying that she simply didn't know.
00:37:08.560I'm 18, she's 17, neither of us have dated before, and I really trust her to be honest with me.
00:37:12.600My question is, how long should I wait for her?
00:37:14.060In the meantime, should I act as if I view her as just a friend or be a little more affectionate or complimentary?
00:37:18.700How should I avoid being overbearing while making sure my intentions remain clear and that I understand hers?
00:37:23.140She's one of the kind, and I really don't want to just pass her by.
00:37:34.760And so you don't know what to do because you want to get out of the friend zone.
00:37:38.420It might not be that she's just totally brushing you off.
00:37:42.420Inasmuch as you say she's very Christian, she's never had a boyfriend before, she says maybe she's interested in dating in the future, but just not now.
00:37:48.700So, unlike 99% of the time that a guy hears something like that, she might be telling the truth.
00:37:55.080It might not just be about you, she might actually just feel like she's too young to date.
00:39:17.840Dear Executive Grassy Knolls, I would like to sing you a song.
00:39:22.800On the shore dimly seen, through the mists of the deep, where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes.
00:39:35.520I would suspect you recognize the tune.
00:39:38.900It sounds familiar, but all the words, though, describing the exact same historical event by the exact same author within the same poem are completely different.
00:39:49.040This, as a Protestant, is how I view the Roman Catholic Church.
00:39:53.860Same author, same book, different song.
00:39:56.400In his book, Long Before Luther, Nathan Bussinitz, who holds a doctorate in church history, says,
00:40:03.300It was the reformer's commitment to scripture as the ultimate authority that compelled them to teach the doctrine of sola fide.
00:40:30.400It's kind of funny that you base this invective against the Catholic Church, or this vicarious invective against the Catholic Church, on the phrase sola fide.
00:40:40.640You say, look, the Protestant reformers, so-called, they understood that scripture comes first.
00:40:47.300And so they had the faithful interpretation of scripture, and that is why they came to the conclusion of sola fide, which means faith alone.
00:40:54.300This is funny, because the phrase faith alone appears in the Bible exactly one time in James 2.24, when he writes, a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
00:41:08.880So that's the only time that phrase appears in the Bible is there.
00:41:14.560Now, I don't think we're going to resolve debates over sola fide here.
00:41:17.380I just use that example as a particular irony, that when one says, you know, well, look, I have this great interpretation of scripture.
00:41:27.700Sometimes people can contradict scripture, because sometimes what Protestants will say is, well, no, the phrase also appears in the letter to the Ephesians, faith alone, which is not true.
00:41:38.720Martin Luther added the word alone to his translation because it didn't back up his theory.
00:41:42.700So, again, there is much more to say on the question of faith and grace and justification, and I'm aware of that.
00:43:16.840Yeah, I basically react to it by throwing these devices in the river.
00:43:24.000If I could, you have to be, you can't just be a Luddite, though I'm tempted to be a Luddite, and you can't just divorce yourself from using modern technology.
00:43:34.900You have to just engage in it, engage with it in a way that involves some spiritual protection.