Ep. 1769 - BREAKING： FBI Admits Epstein Had Over 1,000 Victims
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A new report from the DOJ sheds new light on the number of Epstein victims. And it's not just a dozen. It's a thousand. And the FBI won't even respond to a reporter's request for comment on this.
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I know we're all supposed to move on from the Epstein saga.
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The government is not going to pursue it under Democrats, under Republicans, under anyone.
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There's no surprise there. I never expected the government to give us the full story. But
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there's one last little detail that has just trickled out to remind us, if anyone ever had
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any doubt, that the official story that we've been hearing for years and years now
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is preposterous. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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totally fine. Epstein had no clients. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking underage girls
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to no one. He was definitely not blackmailing anyone. He had cameras on every square inch of his
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widespread properties, but he was not blackmailing anyone. There were hours and hours of tapes
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of no one. We got to move on. Okay. One last little cherry on top of the evidence Sunday here.
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This is great email from Ken Klippenstein. I think it is. Journalist here. Writes to the FBI to get
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comment on a new report. This is a report that comes from the DOJ. Previously, we were told that Epstein
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had about a dozen underage victims. There were about a dozen victims of his sex trafficking ring.
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Pretty big delta, wouldn't you say? A dozen? Okay. You might just be a weird pervert with a dozen.
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A thousand victims? So this journalist, Ken Klippenstein, writes to the FBI, says,
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hey, do you have any comment on this? And the FBI responds, thank you for reaching out. The FBI
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declines to comment. So that's it. That's it. We're not going to hear much more. A thousand victims.
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This again, the official story that we're told for years now, not just under this administration,
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but for years, is Jeffrey Epstein was just a rich pervert. And yes, he was friends with the richest
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and most powerful people in the world who would come to his private island, but that had nothing to
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do with his weird, perverse sexual activities. Totally separate, just a coincidence. Nothing
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to see here. Move along, move along. You could almost maintain that with a dozen victims.
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Oh, it's a dozen victims. Maybe it's just a weirdo. I'm sure there are plenty of weirdos who pick up a
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dozen victims for various prostitution activities. A thousand? Genghis Khan didn't have that kind of
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appetite. A thousand? Seems, it seems at this point, almost as if the government is kind of
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admitting to us, yeah, there's a lot more here and we're not going to tell you about it.
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And as I, I mean, a lot of people are saying that right now, seems like it's obviously an
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intelligence operation, might have foreign involvement, might have domestic involvement,
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but like the one thing I'm pretty confident it's not is what the government is saying it is.
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And a lot of people are saying that. I'm one of the few people though who's saying, yeah,
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right. I never expected to get the full story. It's right. Either the official story is true,
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or if it, if the story is what you think it is, then you were never going to get the information
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and states engage in espionage and the governments are not totally transparent and they cannot be
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totally transparent and they should not be totally transparent. And it, this takes me back to a line,
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it's going to irritate a lot of people, but it takes me back to a line from Edmund Burke.
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Edmund Burke, who points out, you elect your representatives,
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not just so that they can be a rubber stamp on your will and your passions, but you elect
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representatives for their judgment. And so in this case, you might, you might hate, you might,
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hey, I get it. You might hate that you are not getting the full story on Jeffrey Epstein.
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You might think the government should give you the full story on Jeffrey Epstein.
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This might make you pull your hair out, but Biden, Trump, all the guys, but when did this story
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really, I guess Obama was already out by the time the story really came up, though it had been
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percolating for many, many years, but both parties, Democrat, Republican, Biden, Trump,
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establishment, anti-establishment have come in and said, we're not going to release information about
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this. That's their judgment. You might not like it, but that's the judgment you elected.
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But I think most of us know that's what's going on here. It's a judgment call. They're not going
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to release it. The FBI put it very, very well. Thank you for reaching out. The FBI declines to
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comment. That's really what's going on here. At this point, it's so brazen. I think the government,
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really, the way you should interpret this is the government saying, hey, yeah, you know,
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you know, and we know that you know, and you know that we know that you know, and, but just for the
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sake of the world order, we're just going to move on. Unsatisfying, but there it is. Now, speaking of
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cover-ups, Joe Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, was just brought in to testify before Congress.
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And people want a testimony on whether or not Joe Biden was the president. Was he senile? Did he now
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has this very aggressive advanced cancer? It seems we hold on. You doc said that his, his mind was
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working perfectly and his body was totally fine. And then all of a sudden he leaves office five
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seconds later, he has super advanced cancer and he's drooling and he can't speak. Hold on.
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What was really going on? Did you lie? And this is astounding. I think this is unprecedented.
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Joe Biden's doctor pled the fifth. He just pled the fifth against self-incrimination. He refused to
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answer questions. According to James Comer running the testimony, Biden's physician was asked two
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questions. Were you ever told to lie about the president's health? One. Two, did you ever believe
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President Biden was unfit to execute his duties? And the physician, rather than saying, no, I was not
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told to lie. No, I never believed Biden was unfit. He said, I plead the fifth. I exercise my fifth
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amendment right against self-incrimination. Comer points out this is unprecedented and adds more fuel
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to the fire that there was a coverup. Just a reminder in case you'd forgotten.
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The White House physician who clearly lied to us about Biden's health was saying Biden's fine. Now
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he's saying, I plead the fifth. I don't want to be caught perjuring myself before Congress. I want to
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go to jail over this, but yeah, pretty much it looks like I lied to you. Meanwhile, at the time,
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this is what we were being told by the likes of Morning Joe. And F you, if you can't handle the
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truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a
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close second. And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years.
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If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. Much has been said about conspiracy theories.
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And some people really do engage in wacky, wild theories about aliens and all sorts of nonsense,
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you know, that just boggle the mind. This is why the conspiracy theories come out.
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This is why, because the media, Joe Scarborough and the White House physician come to you and say,
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Biden, he's more fit than ever. He could run a decathlon. Oh yeah, that guy, man, he's as fit as
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can be. And then we find out that was just a complete lie. And they, and they start to spread
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because the government says that Jeffrey Epstein was just coincidentally, he was hanging out on
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this island with a bunch of rich people and his business partners in prison for trafficking girls
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to nobody. And I get, I get why those things flourish. Something to keep in mind though.
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I'm not telling you not to engage in interesting theories. In fact, I kind of get a kick out of
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conspiracy theories. They always seem to attend a little bit to right-wing media.
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Even back in the nineties and two thousands, late night talk radio, you'd get the, you get
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the normal conservative show. Then you get the slightly wackier conservative show. And then you'd
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get ghosts and aliens and Bigfoot. And so there's, it's something, a conspiracy theory is the sign of
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an active mind, even if it's a little bit a sign of insanity sometimes, but, but I get a kick out of
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them. Here's the thing to remember. When you doubt the established narrative, because these people
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lie to you, like the white house doctor, when, when you doubt that narrative and you say, there's
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got to be some other explanation, you're going to enter, you're going to open your mind up and
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you're going to entertain all sorts of explanations for everything. And some of the things you can
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come to are going to be way wackier than others. Just remember one rule. And this comes from GK
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Chesterton. The purpose of an open mind, like an open mouth is not to keep it open forever.
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It's to close it on something solid. That's the point. So you open it, you say, look, the white
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house doctor, the establishment is lying to me. I'm going to open my mind, but you got it two things.
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You got to close it and you got to close it on something solid. You don't want to close it on
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something kooky because then you're, you're going to be a kook and you're understanding the world is
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going to be wrong. And you're going to keep banging your head against the wall and getting
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upset. You got to close it on something solid and you do have to close it. This is the same thing
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when we rail against the establishment. Yeah, good. The establishment right now is very, very corrupt
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in government, in the academy, in media. It's very, very corrupt. We're in a process actually of
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shifting that establishment. So it's, it is changing. It is getting better. But the purpose of attacking
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the establishment is not so that there is no establishment. The purpose of attacking the
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establishment is to fix the establishment, is to have a new establishment. But you need some,
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we're a global empire. You need some kind of established power. You need, you need institutions
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in order to do anything. Open your mind up and close it on something solid. Knock down some of
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those buildings of the establishment so that you can rebuild them and make them more functional and
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more beautiful and more correct. Now, speaking of open minds, got to give credit to Chris Ruffo.
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Chris Ruffo just got the SAT score of the next mayor of New York, most likely. Zoran Mamdani,
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the Muslim socialist next mayor of New York. And his SAT score is really, really funny.
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Chris Ruffo. Man, he's good. He's good, that Ruffo. He got Zoran Mamdani's SAT score.
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I encourage you to go to Chris's substack. It's very funny. Zoran's SAT score. You know why this
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matters? It's not just to call him a dummy or something. It's because Zoran Mamdani got caught
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lying about his race. Not quite lying, actually. Lying in the spirit of things. Technically not
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lying. He got caught exaggerating his race on his Columbia University application. Because Mamdani,
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you can see, he was a pretty white-looking guy. He's part Indian or something, but very,
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very light-skinned. But he pretended to be a black guy in his college application. He checked the African
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box because he was born in Uganda. Pretty white, probably lighter than I am, but he was born in
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Uganda. So he says he's out. And why did he do it? Well, he said, because my identity is so complex
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that there's no way to capture it in a single box. And so I pretended to be black. Okay.
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You know why he really did it? Here's his score. His score is 2140 out of 2400. Now, even that score,
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at that time, he's roughly my age, Zoran Mamdani. At that time, the college board had introduced a
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third section to the SAT. Typically, the SAT is out of 1600. But they had introduced a third section
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into it. So it brought it up to 2400. Some schools looked at the third section, some did not.
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That's why. So I don't know, out of a normal SAT score, I don't know what his score would have been.
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But it was lower than, say, the Asian average accepted Asian student score. But it was a little
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higher than the average black accepted student score. Because obviously, Mamdani pretended to
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be black on his college application because being black on your college application gave you, at that
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time, and probably still does, bonus points. So it was easier to get in if you were black. That's why
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he did it. Now, this tells you something about Mamdani. We're not here to just call him a dummy.
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We're not here. You can really learn something about politics here. People are trying to attack
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Mamdani as a radical Muslim. I don't think he's a radical Muslim. I don't think he cares about
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Islam really at all. Listening to him speak, he doesn't sound like Saeed Qutb. He's talking about
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queer liberation. Listening to him speak, I don't think I'm hearing Anwar al-Awlaki. I think I'm
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hearing a Columbia lib. Actually, he didn't get into Columbia, but it sounds like a regular Columbia
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lib. I actually think he's less ideological than people are saying. I don't think he's a radical
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Muslim. He makes himself out to be a communist. I don't know that he's even all that ideological.
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I think Mamdani is a typical millennial striver. I think he's a typical millennial political striver.
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He wants to say the right thing, smile the right smile, wink the right wink so that he can
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make something of himself and get political power.
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And at the time, for his generation, and his political party still right now,
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if you want to get ahead, you got to go to schools like Columbia.
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You got to pretend to be black. That'll help. You got to start talking about all the weird queer
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stuff. You have to have a non-Christian religious identity. These days, you also have to be non-Jewish
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to be a successful Democrat. You got to be something kind of a little more exotic. Ooh,
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Muslim. That's good. Yeah, that'll check. And that's how you become the Democrat nominee for
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mayor of New York City and probably the mayor of New York City. But if the incentives were different,
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mark my words, I promise you, this guy would have positioned himself differently.
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If you did not get bonus points at that time, and probably still after the Supreme Court
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knockdown affirmative action, but probably even still, if you did not get bonus points for being
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black on your college application, Mamdani would not have lied about being black. He wouldn't have
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cared about the complexity of his identity. He would have done anything to give himself an
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advantage to get in. That's how incentives work. That's sticks and carrots. If you didn't get bonus
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points, if you didn't get cultural currency, certainly at that time, but even today on the left,
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by exalting all manner of sexual deviancy, this guy would be father knows best. This guy would be
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wearing a tweed suit, smoking a corncob pipe, okay? If the cultural incentives were there to give him
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power by believing different things, I promise you this guy would have done it. If in the current
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political culture, especially in the Democratic Party, if it weren't cool to be Muslim, if it were
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cool to be Christian, this guy would be campaigning at Liberty University. You can craft, you can
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help guide society's development through incentives. Conservatives pretend that they know this
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in the economic front, but then they deny this in the cultural and political fronts. They say
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things like, politics is downstream of culture, as an excuse to ignore political realities.
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No, you need to go in there. One of the reasons it's important to get rid of affirmative action in
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college admissions is because it's racial discrimination against whites and Asians,
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and that's bad. So it's a matter of justice, that's true, but it's also just a matter of political
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prudence and incentives. What kind of society do you want? Do you want a society where
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Mom Donnie is lying about being black and white people are being told they're evil
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and are being alienated from the society? No, you don't want that.
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So create different incentives. Sometimes politics is a little more basic than the highfalutin. Look,
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I'm all for highfalutin ideology and religion and all the rest, but sometimes politics is a little
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more basic. A lot of these people in politics, including on the left, are just cynical strivers.
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And if you give them different carrots and different sticks, you're going to get a different
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and better society. Mom Donnie strikes us a little bit as a clown. He's a killer clown,
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but he's a clown. Now, speaking of clowns, the Washington Post has a really amazing,
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this is an amazing article. There's a picture of a clown, like a clown with a clown nose and hair.
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And this is an opinion piece from the Washington Post. Donald Trump is not a clown.
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I should know. That's written by a clown. Is a clown actual? The Washington Post has had
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amateur clowns writing for it for a very, very long time. Now they have a professional clown.
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Trump is not a clown. I should know. Real clowns bring joy to the world,
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not chaos to Washington by Tim Cunningham. Tim Cunningham is board president of Clowns Without
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Borders, a non-profit of clowns. We have reached the logical conclusion of the Washington Post,
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where the articles are now written by literal clowns about clownish things. What is the criticism
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of Trump here? Is the criticism of some policy or other's handling of the economy? No, not exactly.
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The criticism is that he's not bringing joy. So the second thing here,
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that means Democrats are still running with this joy line. Remember joy? You might not even remember
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this. Politics moves so fast right now. Kamala Harris, when she ran for president, when she took
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over for Biden, after Biden was exposed to be senile, after the White House doctor said that he was in
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perfect health and Mourning Joe said that too. Kamala ran on joy. I'm joyful. We're bringing joy to
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why. The thing is, she's not joyful. Trump seems much more joyful than Kamala. That was one reason
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this didn't work. But that's what you're going to take joy. That's how you know that the libs have
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nothing to attack Trump for. That's how you know. Just like I said on the show yesterday, they were
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attacking him because some audio came out of Trump threatening to bomb Moscow and Beijing. This is a
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story that's three years old and they're dredging this back up, which is a good sign. And it's part of
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why when you read the news, it will benefit you not merely to read the news, but read the news.
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That wasn't very articulate. You should not just read the stories that are in the news.
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You should read the selection of the stories that are in the news, how the news is being presented.
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When the news is just pummeling Trump on the economy and the border and war is breaking out and boom,
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boom, boom, boom. Okay, now Trump has some problems. The attacks are going to be constant from these
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people. But when the attacks are dredging up a story from three years ago that wasn't a big deal
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then, when the attacks are literal clowns whining about abstract joy and its dearth, its supposed dearth
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Once again, the drummer's workshop, enormous music. Hey, Grok, did Sierra Ortega use a racial
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slur against Chinese people? Grok. Indeed, Sierra Ortega crossed the Rhine.
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Three in 10 pregnancies in England and Wales ends in abortion. This according to the Times of London.
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I want to translate that for you. Here it is. Here's the article. I want to make sure I'm getting
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it word for word right. Almost three in 10 pregnancies in England and Wales end in abortion.
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So what that means is Brits murder almost a third of their children. Almost one in three children,
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the Brits murder. Official figures show that a record 29.7% of conceptions were legally aborted
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in 2022. Up from 26.5% a year earlier and 20.8% in 2012. I'm going to translate that again.
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Almost a third, almost one in three babies in the UK is murdered. Three years ago,
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it was only one in four babies in the UK murdered. And 13 years ago, it was only one in five babies in
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the UK murdered. This is the most direct and immediate cause of all of our political problems.
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That's it. I'm speaking at TPUSA later today. This will be one topic that we really hit on.
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If politics is so complicated, we've got migration and the economy and wars and alliances and this and
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that. It's not that complicated. Almost all of our political problems come from us murdering our
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children. One in five to one in four to almost one in three. If the UK did not murder a third of its
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children, the UK would not need to import migrants from all over the world. If America did not murder
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a million babies a year, now more than a million babies a year because of the abortion pill,
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we would not have any excuse from the big business leaders and the left to import all the migrants.
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If we didn't import all of the migrants, we would not have the labor issues that we're dealing with
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with the American working class. We would not have 75,000 Americans a year dying of fentanyl poisoning.
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We would not have the social discord and breakdown. We would not have statistically a ton of new people
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voting for Democrats, which brings with it all sorts of other problems. We would not have the
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collapse in religion, which is attendant and goes along with the murder of our children. Sacrificing
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our babies to Baal does not necessarily conduce to proper Christian worship. We would have proper
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family formation. We would not have all of the psychological problems that go along with killing
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your kids. We would not have the licentious culture that dulls its own conscience to engage
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in all other manner of deviancy. This one weird trick, the only political issue really that matters
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right now is getting the birth rates up because our civilization, not just the UK, not just America,
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the whole civilization faces an existential crisis. I'm not an alarmist. I don't use the E word all the
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time. This is an existential problem. We are not having enough people to replace ourselves,
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which means in the long run, we go extinct. And in the short run, our social services collapse,
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our economy collapses, and we're overrun by people who are having children.
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But in the long run, we just don't have enough people. We die out. That's an existential problem.
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There are ways to fix that, like encouraging marriage and discouraging contraception and all the
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rest. But if we just didn't kill a third of our babies, we'd be good. We'd be good. The birth rate
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would recover. But we can't do that. And so why can't we do that? That's the other issue. People see
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that we face an existential problem, and so that inclines us more towards scapegoating. You know,
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we've talked about scapegoating on the show in a real technical sense. I've talked about the
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philosopher René Girard, a great writer and philosopher who died only relatively recently in
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history. He's a favorite of thinkers on the right. And Girard has this great theory of mimetic desire,
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that we imitate each other, we imitate each other's desires, and this leads to ever-increasing
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competition until there's a war of all against all, until we scapegoat. Scapegoating, which is a
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biblical principle, it's an ancient principle, which is that you push the sins of the community
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onto a goat, and you basically send it out to be punished for our sins. And the archetypal scapegoat
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is the goat, and the Jews, I guess, in the Bible. It's the Jews, and then the perfect scapegoat is
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Christ, the fulfillment. You have the figure, and then you have the fulfillment, and that would be
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Christ, who takes all of our sins upon us and conquers death. But we have all sorts of scapegoats.
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We blame the deep state. The reason we don't have kids is the deep state. Oh, no, the reason that
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we're facing this existential social crisis, it's the uniparty. Oh, no, the reason we face this crisis
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is the Jews. Actually, to go back to one of the original ones, it's the this, it's the that.
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How about you don't kill your kids? How about you don't kill your kids? How about we as a people
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don't let you kill your kids? That's not the deep state. Exactly. That's not the uniparty. Exactly.
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That's not this group or that group or this group. That's you. You allow that. You're the one who
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permits that in your political order. You're the one not having kids. You're the one not getting married.
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One simple trick would go, well, I hate to be so harsh. Usually, I'm a little, you know, more
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happy-go-lucky. But, you know, if I had to pick a scapegoat between the deep state and the uniparty
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and the Jews and the, I don't know, this group or that group, this, do you know who I blame?
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If I had to pick one cause, I would say liberalism, which spreads like a miasma and brings with it all
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of these various policies with its ideology because liberalism is the ideology of the fall.
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All. Liberalism is the ideology of the fall. Liberalism is the ideology of ye shall be as
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gods. Liberalism is the ideology of no kings, no gods, only men. Liberalism is the ideology
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that says we are going to save the world ourselves. We are going to create the world anew. We are going
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to make our own moral order. We are going to make our own reality. We won't respect even physical
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reality. We won't respect everything. We are the creator. That's what I blame. So I blame us.
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And if you want to fix it, one weird trick. It's not that, it's, it's not complicated.
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I'm not saying it's easy, but I think, I think Reagan was right. This is a great point that
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Reagan made. Sometimes the answers are really simple, not necessarily easy, but really simple.
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Okay. Speaking of saving the West, I have to get to this story before, you know, the, the movie
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came out, Superman came out. I think I'm going to do a separate video about Superman, but Sean
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Gunn, who I guess is in the movie and he's the brother of James Gunn, the director of
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the movie, he tipped people off to what that movie is going to be like when, well, I'll
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Your boss, your brother, um, talked about Superman being an immigrant and now MAGA is
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already upset that he's called Superman an immigrant. I wanted to get your reaction.
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Uh, you know, my reaction to that is that it is exactly what the movie is about. I think
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that like we support our people, you know, we love our immigrants. We love, yes, Superman
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is an immigrant. And yes, the people that we support in this country are immigrants. And
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if you don't like that, then you're not American. People who say no to immigrants are against
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the American way. They're against what the American dream is all about.
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Now for much, if not most of American history, we've had minimal or no immigration, including
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recent history. We had severely restricted immigration from the very beginning of the
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country that we loosened it up a little bit, caused some problems. We tightened it up.
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Then for much of the 20th century, we had very, very little immigration. It's really only since
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1965 that we've opened up the borders. And really it's only in the last few decades that
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we've literally opened up the borders and told illegals to come here. So what he's saying
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is not true. Being opposed to immigration is deeply, deeply American. And being for open
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borders is itself very un-American. And it shows you that this movie, I'll do a separate video
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on the movie, but not set up for success. Sweet little Elisa asked, she said, is it possible
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that the studios at this point are trying to bait conservatives? They're trying to get publicity
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by intentionally sending out people to make their movies sound insufferable. And maybe,
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I don't know, maybe that's one way to get people to go to the movie theater.
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Finally, finally, we get to my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in
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Hi, Michael. My husband and I recently had our first baby and I had to have a C-section
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to deliver her because in my wayward youth, I acquired an STD that I didn't want to spread
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to my child. So thankfully she didn't get it and she's happy and healthy and doing great.
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However, when we brought our child to church, we have all these people asking me why I had a C-section.
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Well, I feel like that's really personal. I don't really want to tell them that information,
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but I also don't want to hurt anyone's feelings or lie to them. So how should I respond when people
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Okay. Well, congratulations. First of all, that's great and very rude for people to ask
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those questions. Truly, basically anything pertaining to pregnancy, I'm reluctant to ask.
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If I don't know a woman's pregnant, she could be 400 pounds sticking out wider than she is tall.
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I will not ask when the baby is due because I just don't want to presume. And to say something,
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why did you have a C-section? What kind of, who asks that? That's very, very rude and ridiculous.
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But anyway, I think your answer should be, if it were me, I would, I would probably say,
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oh, well, sometimes things don't work out the way that you're hoping that they will, but
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oh, we got the end result that we were after. So, you know, it's a happy ending.
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I would leave it at that because that's a, that's a polite and diplomatic way of saying,
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mind your own business. Oh, well, sometimes, you know, I'm sure you would have loved to deliver
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naturally. Maybe, probably you would have. And, but sometimes things don't work out the way that
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you're, you're hoping they will, but, you know, look, all's well that ends well.
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Hi, Michael. Years ago, my son's team made it to the Little League World Series,
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a wonderful slice of Americana, as our town rallied around our home team of 12-year-olds.
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Despite the good vibes, that summer, our narcissistic manager was explosive,
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unkind, and alienated most families on the team. Upon elimination, the team splintered,
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returning home with hurt feelings, anger, and disillusionment. Our ill-mannered manager soon
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divorced, remarried, and abandoned his kids. Our boys are now young men and no longer dwell on
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losing at the series, but thankfully recognize the incredible feat it was to qualify. It's time
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to celebrate and relive the journey with the wonderful community that embraced them that
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epic summer. Tentative plans have begun for a milestone celebration in a couple years.
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However, the player families I've talked with love the idea, but will not attend if the manager
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comes. He would hear about it from the one friend he still has from the team. It's not a secret
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event. We just don't want him to spoil it. My question, how do I exclude this manager from the
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gathering? How should I tell him? We are prepared to remove him if he shows. Thanks, Michael.
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No, I just don't invite him. That's what I would do. You're throwing a party. He's not invited to the
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party. That's that. I don't know. I mean, do some of the families want him there and some don't,
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and who's throwing the party, and is there some discord? That, I don't know. But if you're all
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in agreement that you don't want this guy at your party, then just don't invite him. You don't have
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to talk to him. What do you have to talk to him for? You're throwing a party. He's not invited.
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You don't need to give him a warning or make a big deal out of it. He's just not invited.
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And if he shows up, just like if you show up uninvited to a party, a lot of the time you're not
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going to be let in, that's that. You don't need to make a big deal out of it. Just move along.
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Hello, Mr. Knowles. My wife and I have been listening to your show for quite some time and
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have come to really respect your advice. We're expecting our first child in the next month.
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It is a boy. We're pretty confident on everything, except we're on the fence for two things,
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his name and circumcision. We've heard arguments from both sides of the circumcision debate,
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whether it be matching dad and the status quo, health, is it normal, no religious reasons,
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no real reasons. So we're just kind of curious about your thoughts. I figured you would have a
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good and strong opinion on the matter. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say. Thanks.
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I don't have a strong opinion on the matter. I have strong opinions about opinions on the matter.
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But first of all, just a little point that you said, religious reasons, real reasons,
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but you would surely agree. Religious reasons are real reasons. Now that said,
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unless you're an Orthodox Jew, there's no religious reason to circumcise.
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So if you're a Christian, you don't have to serve. Baptism is the new circumcision.
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It's the fulfillment of circumcision. So you don't have to do it for that reason. But
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if you already have another kid who's circumcised, you should circumcise all your next boys. You
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don't want one kid got the snip and the other one doesn't. That's going to give them a complex.
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But beyond that, okay, maybe dad's got the snip and the kids don't and you want them to look like
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dad. Okay, that's fine. Really, this gets to a political problem. And the political problem is
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in America, in Europe, Christians don't circumcise. In America, I think largely because
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of our puritanical tradition, Christians do circumcise. It's just a cultural thing. It's fine.
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It doesn't really matter. It's probably a little bit cleaner if you do circumcise.
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It's not the end of the world if you don't. It's fine. Back when, everybody circumcised.
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I would just say, yeah, well, if you're an American, circumcise. That's just what 95%
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of American boys do. And so you want to kind of fit in with the culture and it's no big deal. So why not?
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If you were in Europe and where basically no one circumcised, I'd say definitely don't circumcise.
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The reason it's confusing right now is because I think it's about 50% either way.
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Okay. So now you're kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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Because you're, either way, it's going to be, he's going to be weird.
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And you hope that it's only really a matter for his wife one day, but it's going to be a bit,
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half the guys are not going to be like him. So that's trickier. There, I guess I would lean toward,
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I guess I'd lean toward whatever the father did, but I don't know. Mostly because if you're a father,
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you got to teach the kid, you know, how to, how to, how to manage all manner of questions in life.
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And you probably might not be familiar if the kid is not circumcised. So I'm sorry. I know you wish I
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had a really strong, hardcore opinion about it. I don't really. I would say this is, this is one
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where you should just go with cultural norms. But here, the cultural norms have been totally
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shattered in America. And it was kind of a weird cultural norm to begin with for, for non-Jews
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to circumcise. All right. Next question. Hi, Michael. I have a religious question for you this
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week. I'm a Protestant and I'm also a singer of sorts, whatever the community theater version of
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a singer of sorts, that's me. Occasionally I get paid to do ball games or weddings, things like that.
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I recently got a request from a dear friend to sing at her wedding. She is Catholic and she wants
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me to sing Ave Maria. It's a beautiful song and really fun to sing, but I am a Protestant, as I
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said. So I have a couple of sort of hesitations about it. My father's a Presbyterian pastor. He's
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sort of filled me in on the Protestant point of view, and I would love to get the Catholic point of
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you. You know, from your perspective, what does it mean to sing the Ave Maria? And as a Protestant,
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is that something that's appropriate for a Protestant to sing? And, and just kind of get
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your take on it. So let me know what you think. Thanks. Sure. Yeah, I see the problem. That's a
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good question. So Ave Maria, the Hail Mary is one of the most popular prayers in all of Christianity.
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After the Our Father, it's probably the single most popular prayer. It's been around for,
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in its current form for over a thousand years or thereabouts. And so the first part, you have no
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problem. Ave Maria, Ave Maria, gratia plena dominus tecum benedictitum mulieribus benedictus
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fructus ventris tui Jesus. That's all scriptural. Comes from the Gospel of Luke. Hail Mary, full of grace,
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the Lord is with thee. You know, it's from the archangel. Blessed are you among women. And from
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Elizabeth, her cousin Elizabeth, blessed are you among women. Blessed is the fruit of your womb,
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Jesus. So you're, that, that part you don't have a problem with. It's the second part that you have
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a problem with, which is Holy Mary, Mother of God. That part you should have no problem with.
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Mary as the Mother of God has been affirmed definitively since the Council of Ephesus and
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fourth, what was it, 431 or something like that. So I don't think you have a problem with that.
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You're not denying the divinity of Christ. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the
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hour of our death. That's the part that might give you trouble if you don't believe in praying to the
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saints. Now, plenty of Protestants do believe in praying to the saints. I certainly believe in
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praying to the saints. I think praying to the saints is biblical. I think you see it in the book
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of the Apocalypse. And it's obviously a Christian tradition that has gone on for 2,000 years. And
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so I think it's fine. Lutherans say the Hail Mary. Anglicans say the Hail Mary.
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But you're saying you're Presbyterian. So that might give you pause. I would encourage you to do
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it because I think it's a wonderful prayer and it's good to honor the Mother of God and praying
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to the saints is scriptural and part of the Christian tradition. But if you disagree with that,
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I see there is a problem there because you are, the second part of the Hail Mary is asking the Mother
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of God to pray for us. Now, just to assuage your issues, you would ask Bob down the street to pray
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for you. You'd say, Bob, Shelly's in the hospital. Could you pray for her? So all the more so you
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should ask the Mother of God. You say, well, Bob's alive and Mother of God is dead. Mother of God is
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not dead. Our God is the God of the living. Those who are in heaven, we know are living. We can have
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greater confidence that the people who are enjoying God in heaven are living than we have confidence
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that the people we see around us are living. And if anyone's in heaven, if any created being is in
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heaven, I think it's going to be the Mother of God. Wouldn't you say? Blessed are you among women
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and blessed is the fruit of you. All generations will call you blessed. We know she's in heaven.
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We know she's alive. There's nothing wrong with praying to people who are alive and there's nothing
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wrong with praying to the saints. That's my argument for you to do it. But if you oppose those things
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in principle for whatever reason, I see your problem and you will have to, you will either
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have to compromise on your apparently principled belief or you'll have to forego it. But I encourage
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you to do it because it's a beautiful prayer and a beautiful song. And it's a beautiful thing to do.
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