The Michael Knowles Show - October 08, 2025


Ep. 1831 - BREAKING： Over 200 Bombs Found At Church Before Apparent Left-Wing Attack


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

173.52965

Word Count

8,580

Sentence Count

730

Misogynist Sentences

26

Hate Speech Sentences

52


Summary

A man was arrested outside of St. Matthew s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. with 200 explosives. When asked why he had them, the suspect reportedly expressed his disdain for Catholicism, Judaism, the Supreme Court, and immigration enforcement. We ll get into the latest apparent left-wing violence as America lurches one step closer to our own Spanish Civil War.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A man was just arrested outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,
00:00:04.060 with some 200 functional explosives ahead of an annual mass attended by Supreme Court justices.
00:00:11.080 When asked why he had all the bombs outside the church,
00:00:14.660 the 41-year-old reportedly expressed his disdain for Catholicism, makes sense,
00:00:19.860 Judaism, the Supreme Court, and immigration enforcement.
00:00:24.400 We will get into the latest apparent left-wing violence
00:00:27.980 as America lurches one step closer to our own Spanish Civil War.
00:00:32.580 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:45.440 Are we heading toward our own Spanish Civil War?
00:02:48.880 Do you know the Spanish Civil War?
00:02:50.240 Are you familiar with the Spanish Civil War?
00:02:52.480 The short version of the Spanish Civil War is that the communists tried to conquer Iberia.
00:02:57.660 So the communists, actual communists, I don't mean this figuratively,
00:03:00.340 like actual communists backed by the Soviet Union, tried to conquer Iberia, tried to conquer Spain,
00:03:08.300 and they were rebuffed by this collection of right-wingers, of conservatives, of traditionalists,
00:03:15.700 of monarchists, of Christians.
00:03:17.440 There were some fascists.
00:03:19.200 People resisting the communists.
00:03:23.800 And the war was particularly brutal, I think in part because of the clear ideological divide.
00:03:32.280 Something like 20% of Spain's clergy was destroyed.
00:03:37.520 I mean, nuns were raped and then murdered.
00:03:39.580 Priests were murdered by these godless communists.
00:03:42.080 It was crazy.
00:03:43.860 It was crazy how wickedly evil this attempted takeover was.
00:03:49.840 And happily, though, the communists were defeated.
00:03:52.860 And then after the Second World War, you had the Spanish Miracle.
00:03:56.420 And anyway, it kind of worked out.
00:03:58.380 But it was pretty brutal there for a while.
00:04:00.300 And one fears.
00:04:01.600 I'm not saying that we're on the brink of a civil war.
00:04:03.500 But if we are on the brink of a civil war, if we are lurching closer and closer toward a civil war,
00:04:08.800 it doesn't seem to be like the American Civil War.
00:04:11.540 It seems to be more like the Spanish Civil War.
00:04:12.940 It seems to have this kind of deep religious basis to it.
00:04:16.060 It seems to have a kind of the radical left seems to be really, really driving it.
00:04:21.200 And I guess in this case, Spanish is involved because it's about immigration enforcement.
00:04:27.120 So it actually would be the American-Spanish Civil War if it's about ICE and all the illegals and Espanol.
00:04:35.400 What happened in this particular, today's instance of left-wing violence?
00:04:40.600 A guy, a few days ago, it was on Sunday, a guy was arrested with 200 explosives targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics and Jews reportedly.
00:04:51.480 Again, this is according to his manifesto that was being reported in the Washington Post and elsewhere.
00:04:55.920 He also didn't like Judaism.
00:04:57.440 That's a hot topic now.
00:04:59.240 You know, the Jews always seem to somehow be the targets of all manner of political fighting.
00:05:04.380 And immigration enforcement.
00:05:08.840 Louis Jerry, 41 years old, he's from Arizona and New Jersey, apprehended outside of Cathedral of St. Matthew.
00:05:15.660 I've been there a number of times in Washington, D.C.
00:05:20.560 During this big mass for lawyers and jurists and even the Supreme Court before the court's new term.
00:05:26.600 He had Molotov cocktails.
00:05:28.760 He had nitromethane, which is a compound used in explosives.
00:05:31.980 He had modified bottled rockets covered with aluminum foil, treated in a pyrotechnic solution.
00:05:37.340 He just had bombs.
00:05:38.640 He just had a bunch of bombs.
00:05:40.300 He told the officers, quote, several of your people are going to die from one of these.
00:05:43.940 And then he handed over a nine-page manifesto, which reportedly expressed his hatred for Catholicism and Judaism and the Supreme Court justices and ICE.
00:05:53.820 This is spooky, not just because you're seeing a spike in left-wing political violence, though you are, not just because the mainstream left doesn't seem to care about it, doesn't really seem to disavow it.
00:06:12.160 In some cases seems to celebrate it.
00:06:14.100 In the case we saw just a few days ago of Jay Jones running for the top law enforcement and official in Virginia, Jay Jones said he wants to murder Republicans and their children, and he calls them little fascists, and he says he wants them to die in their mother's arms.
00:06:25.820 He doesn't lose a single Democrat endorsement.
00:06:27.560 So, it's not only the spike in the violence, obviously, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, but it's the fact that the mainstream Democrats seem totally cool with it, and it just seems to be ramping up.
00:06:38.560 Thank God no one was killed in this would-be attack.
00:06:41.880 You could have had a Supreme Court justice or multiple Supreme Court justices assassinated in this attack.
00:06:48.940 You could have had, back in the day, it wasn't even just the Catholics who would go to this mass.
00:06:54.160 The Supreme Court is divided between Catholics and Jews, basically.
00:06:57.560 And occasionally, I think, isn't John Roberts an Episcopalian or something?
00:07:01.400 You know, he's kind of like in the middle.
00:07:02.880 But basically, it's Catholics and Jews, because both have a profound legal tradition to their religious tradition.
00:07:09.940 I think that's the reason why, anyway.
00:07:11.600 And you would have Ruth Ginsburg would show up with Antonin Scalia at this red mass.
00:07:16.300 So, you could have had a branch of government wiped out by this attack, an attack that is specifically anti-Captic.
00:07:27.000 Anti-Captic, anti-law and order, anti-court, pro-invasion, pro-migration.
00:07:34.140 I mean, this is as close an analog to the civil unrest you saw in the Spanish Civil War as there is.
00:07:41.840 And it's going to come to, that is what the battle will ultimately be, if we are to have one.
00:07:45.820 Now, I think there are ways to avoid serious civil strife.
00:07:49.360 But as I've pointed out from the beginning, let's not be complacent here.
00:07:51.980 Civil wars have started for less than this.
00:07:54.660 We've seen this before in American history.
00:07:56.340 In the 19-teens and 20s, you had radical leftist violence, a lot of anarchists.
00:07:59.400 In the 1960s and 70s, into the 80s, actually, attacks on judges, kidnappings, radical leftism, and a bombing of the U.S. Capitol, which all the libs seem to have forgotten after January 6th, when, you know, grannies were taking selfies in the rotunda.
00:08:13.780 They forgot that they, the leftists, blew up the Capitol in 1983, anyway, and multiple other times.
00:08:19.460 Anyway, that's a topic for another time.
00:08:20.860 It's not that we can't get close to the brink and then pull back.
00:08:26.900 However, we've got to make sure that we pull back.
00:08:29.000 And the only way to do that is to arrest these guys, to investigate left-wing political terrorist groups, to ruthlessly suppress them.
00:08:39.600 President Trump has said he will do that in an executive order.
00:08:42.160 But you have to do that because, and this is going to be hard for some people to hear, when you have disorder like this, when you have people who call themselves very liberal being eight times as likely as people who are very conservative to defend political violence, when you have upwards of 30% of young liberals saying that political violence is justified, when you have attack after attack after attack from the left on the right,
00:09:04.020 when you have the most prominent proponent of civil debate in America, Charlie Kirk, murdered for debate by an apparently ideologically motivated leftist.
00:09:14.340 When you have all of these things, the choice is not between peace and violence.
00:09:19.540 There is violence.
00:09:20.840 There just is violence.
00:09:21.900 When you have leftists in cities and states defending violence on the streets, defending gangsters, stopping federal law enforcement from arresting face-tattooed gangsters, cartel members, members of foreign terrorist organizations,
00:09:34.020 you don't have a choice between peace and violence because in a battle, your opponent has a say.
00:09:39.580 You don't get to decide everything.
00:09:41.260 And the left has said, we will have violence.
00:09:43.120 They've told us that every possible way they can.
00:09:46.440 They are uniformly supporting for the top law enforcement official of one of America's most important commonwealths, a guy who explicitly wishes for the murder of his opponents and their children.
00:10:00.040 So, if they want to say that, if they want to do that, we can't exactly stop them.
00:10:07.120 The choice is not between peace and violence.
00:10:09.540 The choice is between state violence and private violence.
00:10:13.860 That's it.
00:10:14.620 State violence circumscribed by the law in accord with justice executed by the civil authority or private violence,
00:10:24.060 which, in this case, practically is just leftists in the streets murdering us, but could, in principle, be right-wingers in the streets murdering the left.
00:10:32.220 That doesn't really happen, but it could be that, in principle.
00:10:35.160 But those are the choices.
00:10:36.000 So, when President Trump comes out and he says, we are designating Antifa, a domestic terrorist organization,
00:10:44.000 we're designating a lot of these illegal cartels, foreign terrorist organizations,
00:10:49.340 we're bringing the federales in to Portland and Chicago to restore order because there are so many murders going on, people can't live safely.
00:10:56.780 When Trump says that, when he says, we're going to execute justice, we're going to prosecute the criminals, we're going to fill the prisons,
00:11:04.400 when he says that, anyone who does not want a civil war should be applauding.
00:11:09.560 That's the closest thing to the peaceful solution you're going to get.
00:11:13.600 There's no kumbaya here.
00:11:15.560 When half the country is embracing political violence and actually effecting political violence, you don't get the choice between peace and war.
00:11:23.240 You get state violence within the confines of the law and justice or vigilante violence, which is not just.
00:11:32.860 Those are your choices.
00:11:34.620 You want peace?
00:11:35.740 You should be applauding President Trump bringing down the full weight of the federal government to brutally crush the left-wing terror groups.
00:11:43.580 You should say, thank you so much, President Trump.
00:11:45.860 That is the most likely course to lead us to peace and order.
00:11:50.200 However, the alternative, I promise you, is much, much worse.
00:11:53.420 Okay, speaking of left-wing political violence, finally, the United States Senate, or at least one member of the United States Senate, is taking this seriously.
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00:13:25.300 Some Republicans, not all, far from all, but at least some Republicans in Washington are doing something about left-wing political violence.
00:13:33.540 Here we have Senator Eric Schmidt calling attention to the problem that the left is denying and promoting.
00:13:43.640 And so, Attorney General, I do want to ask you a couple questions about that because I feel like we have got to get a handle on this.
00:13:54.200 Despite the overwhelming evidence that the political violence threat right now comes primarily from the left, the media just won't do it.
00:14:00.920 They won't go along with it.
00:14:02.220 They cite a few ridiculous studies to say that right-wing political violence is the main problem.
00:14:07.900 For example, one of those studies was written by an Antifa-affiliated professor, and others count classes on prison gang violence as right-wing political violence,
00:14:21.760 but refuse to count anything from the 2020 Summer of Love.
00:14:24.840 For example, Antifa attacks, like the ones that set off the explosive outside Michael Knowles' campus speech.
00:14:35.700 We need good data.
00:14:37.780 We need good data here.
00:14:39.780 Will you commit to having the Department of Justice and the FBI research and release a public report on left-wing political violence?
00:14:48.920 Yes, Senator Schmidt.
00:14:50.440 Thank you.
00:14:50.940 Okay, so this is Senator Schmidt talking to the Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
00:14:55.300 Really appreciate this.
00:14:56.560 I say at a personal level, I appreciate him calling attention to this left-wing organized Antifa terror attack at a speaking event of mine at the University of Pittsburgh
00:15:05.620 that because of an intrepid FBI agent was eventually prosecuted but was not considered left-wing political violence or terrorism, even though it was.
00:15:16.040 I appreciate him calling some attention to that because the liberal media tried to paper over these things.
00:15:22.180 But more importantly, I appreciate him calling attention to the problem that that represents, the problem being this.
00:15:28.440 The left cites all sorts of studies and reports from the government about how right-wingers actually commit most of the political violence in America.
00:15:40.100 Seth Moulton, the Democrat congressman, said over 75% of political violence is committed by the right, rather.
00:15:45.940 And it's the left only commits 4%.
00:15:49.000 That isn't true.
00:15:50.800 The way that they arrive at those numbers is by not counting the left-wing political violence, like at the University of Pittsburgh, like the Summer of Love, BLM, so on and so forth, like the trans shooting of the Christian school in Nashville, on and on and on.
00:16:05.600 So, what Schmidt is saying here is, hey, Attorney General, the studies that the government is citing, that the politicians are citing, are being written in some cases by Antifa-affiliated scholars.
00:16:21.600 You know, like people who literally embrace Antifa themselves.
00:16:25.120 So this is ridiculous propaganda, and what we need is good data to start, to start.
00:16:31.900 Then we need enforcement, but you need to establish the argument.
00:16:36.260 And the left was so well-organized, and I suppose continues to be so well-organized, that they just do this.
00:16:43.140 There's so many steps ahead.
00:16:44.820 They justify their enforcement, their crackdowns on the right, using these social scientific data that are false, that are lies.
00:16:55.920 And so what we need to do is we need to suppress these left-wing groups.
00:17:00.680 We need to reestablish order.
00:17:02.160 We need to punish the bad guys.
00:17:03.540 We need just state violence in order to prevent the unjust vigilante violence.
00:17:10.140 But in order to do that, we at least need to establish the facts first, too.
00:17:13.760 So can the government, now that we're in control of it, now that the people gave us uniform control of the government,
00:17:19.020 which is one of the reasons that the left is blowing stuff up now, is because they can't deal with being out of power.
00:17:23.520 However, can we at least establish the facts?
00:17:28.940 The left is committing the violence, not the right.
00:17:31.960 Pine Bondi says, oh, yeah, we can do that.
00:17:33.800 They have to do that.
00:17:35.940 They have to do that.
00:17:37.140 I don't want to pretend that all that matters is, you know, just white papers and ideas and studies and stuff.
00:17:41.880 But white papers and ideas and studies and stuff can be very, very effective.
00:17:45.860 The left wields them very effectively.
00:17:47.800 They get their Antifa professors to produce the studies that then serve as the predicate for the state to suppress right-wing groups unjustly.
00:17:54.980 We can learn something from those tactics, and we need to use them in a just way.
00:17:59.180 Because there's a lot of violence, and we need to suppress it.
00:18:01.680 Well, Kash Patel over at the FBI just revealed how many gang members are currently on the streets of Chicago.
00:18:09.660 How many would you guess?
00:18:10.240 Before I play this, how many gangsters would you guess are on the streets of Chicago?
00:18:15.600 You would say, look, Chicago, it's a pretty bad city.
00:18:17.840 It's Chirac these days.
00:18:19.060 You know, people are getting killed there all the time.
00:18:20.600 But what would you guess?
00:18:23.320 5,000?
00:18:24.460 I don't know.
00:18:24.860 If you asked me, I've already seen the number, so maybe I'm colored by this.
00:18:27.640 But I would have guessed 5,000, and maybe, I don't know, maybe it's more than that.
00:18:34.320 Maybe it's really some crazy number.
00:18:35.940 Maybe it's 20,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago.
00:18:39.280 20,000 gang members.
00:18:40.480 I mean, that's an army.
00:18:42.960 You have your number.
00:18:43.900 You close your eyes.
00:18:44.720 You write it down on a sheet of paper.
00:18:47.180 Here's the real number.
00:18:49.840 Taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization of law enforcement and bringing it to places like Chicago.
00:18:55.120 When I was there today with Todd, we learned that the Chicago city streets have 110,000 gang members.
00:19:01.240 That's right.
00:19:01.600 You heard me right.
00:19:02.440 They had 1,200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides.
00:19:07.080 When politicians choose to side with those metrics and not their citizenry, thank God we have President Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going in there and crushing violent crime.
00:19:16.720 And President Trump sent us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to set up for the National Guard, to see the success that we saw in Washington, D.C., in Memphis.
00:19:24.880 The FBI has been leading the charge in every single one of these streets because we know how to gather ground-level intelligence, and we know how to put handcuffs on the bad guys, and we know that we have the backing of this administration.
00:19:34.720 And most importantly, the agents at the FBI know that they have the backing of the American people and their government.
00:19:40.440 So, look, that's very helpful.
00:19:42.580 Patel says we're going to do something about this because the problem is much, much worse than you guys thought.
00:19:48.220 110,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago?
00:19:53.140 110,000 gang members?
00:20:00.060 Chicago is one of the great American cities, or at least it's supposed to be.
00:20:03.140 110,000, I mean, listen, I guess they used to have Al Capone out that way, but then we would prosecute them.
00:20:12.660 110,000 gang members, that's a failed city.
00:20:15.200 That's a failed state, which is why the federal government has to go in.
00:20:21.180 It's not just that J.B. Pritzker is wrong, that the federal government has no right to go in here.
00:20:26.440 It's not just that the mayor of Chicago is wrong.
00:20:28.180 He says we're going to establish ice-free zones.
00:20:30.440 Ice-free zones where we will not allow the federal government to enforce federal law and to restore order is if they could do that.
00:20:39.300 It's not just that the federal government doesn't have, has the right to do that.
00:20:43.900 The federal government has the responsibility to do that.
00:20:46.440 We cannot permit this situation to continue because what are the options in Chicago?
00:20:52.100 Chicago is a great example.
00:20:53.440 The options are state violence.
00:20:55.260 Federal government goes in, big tough guys with big tough guns ready to shoot the bad guys and arrest them and then execute state justice on them, keep them in prison for a long time or worse.
00:21:06.060 It's either that, which some people, they don't want to hear about, even on the right, oof, I don't know, it seems so messy, can't we just all get along?
00:21:12.120 There's that, big tough guys with big tough guns shoving the guns in the faces of the criminals and arresting them, or 110,000 gangsters running roughshod over the city and brutalizing innocent people.
00:21:27.760 Those are the only two options.
00:21:30.400 You can't just politely ask the gangsters to go away.
00:21:33.140 They won't leave.
00:21:34.620 Those are your options.
00:21:35.240 Which side are you on?
00:21:36.160 Which side do you support?
00:21:39.120 It kind of gets down to some of the historical comparisons, too, with other civil strife.
00:21:43.000 People don't want to be on any side of tough battles because they don't want to get their morally pure hands dirty in the yucky muck of politics.
00:21:53.500 They want some option where they can just excuse themselves from politics.
00:21:58.700 You can't excuse yourself from politics.
00:22:00.280 Human beings have a natural inclination to live in society.
00:22:02.860 We're a social creature.
00:22:03.840 So you have to involve yourself, to some degree at least, in politics.
00:22:08.220 The question is what side do you want to be on?
00:22:09.700 You want to be on the side of Trump and state violence?
00:22:12.400 Or on the side of the Democrats and private gangster violence?
00:22:17.000 Those are your two options.
00:22:18.100 Both are going to involve violence.
00:22:20.460 Do you want the just kind or the unjust kind?
00:22:23.500 Now, how are we going to restore the country long term?
00:22:28.640 That's more of a spiritual question, but it looks like there's a spiritual answer.
00:22:31.980 We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:23:51.960 You know, we got a new show, folks.
00:23:53.560 It's called Bar Fight.
00:23:55.060 We just aired it.
00:23:56.260 We just aired the pilot.
00:23:57.200 It's me and two libs in a bar in downtown Nashville.
00:24:01.100 I sat down with Cecilia Ray and Adam Mockler.
00:24:04.220 Take a look.
00:24:06.080 Trump is Putin's bitch.
00:24:07.600 You are anti-American.
00:24:08.860 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:24:09.740 Let me talk.
00:24:10.800 Most of the illegals are asylum seekers or are they economic right?
00:24:13.800 Wait, no.
00:24:14.280 Wait, wait, wait.
00:24:14.780 Let's see what you just said.
00:24:16.000 I want to help you get laid.
00:24:18.860 Not me, Layu.
00:24:19.600 Are you pro-incel?
00:24:20.620 No.
00:24:24.860 Well, welcome to Bar Fight.
00:24:27.260 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:24:28.020 I'm joined tonight by two guests.
00:24:30.500 Wow, real sophisticated answer.
00:24:32.040 I know.
00:24:32.720 You would know him from CNN if anyone ever watched Adam Mockler.
00:24:36.540 Well, dude, you've got to answer my questions a little better.
00:24:38.120 Just because you're wrong about something doesn't mean it's not as convenient.
00:24:41.360 You know what?
00:24:41.940 You should get out of my country.
00:24:43.480 They want more deportations.
00:24:44.360 I'm also joined.
00:24:45.940 One of the most reasonable people ever to appear on Jubilee.
00:24:49.340 That would be Cecilia Ray.
00:24:52.820 You can watch it all now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel and on Daily Wire+.
00:24:58.780 There's a lot of bad news today, like for the first half of the show.
00:25:04.580 But here's some good news.
00:25:06.340 We know that the decline in religion has stalled out.
00:25:10.680 We've known that for some months.
00:25:11.940 We know that maybe there's even an increase in religiosity, specifically Christianity,
00:25:16.160 specifically Catholicism, actually, but other Christian traditions as well.
00:25:22.380 Folks, do you know who's leading the way?
00:25:25.100 This is a really good sign.
00:25:27.580 It's young men.
00:25:29.360 Young men are leading the return to religion.
00:25:33.260 Where's my, let me see my chart here.
00:25:35.300 Okay, so the blue is the men.
00:25:38.220 If you're, I'll describe this to you if you're only listening.
00:25:40.560 Blue here is the men.
00:25:41.780 The red is the women.
00:25:43.120 And if you look at the boomers, the, okay, so it's percentage of U.S. adults by generation
00:25:49.180 who say, I've made a personal commitment to follow Jesus.
00:25:51.520 That is still important in my life today.
00:25:53.940 If you look at the boomers, women are leading.
00:25:57.500 66% of women agree with that statement.
00:26:03.160 They're religious.
00:26:04.600 62% of men.
00:26:06.220 Now, what's interesting here is from 2019 to 2025 among the boomers,
00:26:10.580 the number, the percentage of women has declined.
00:26:13.400 The percentage of men has increased, 53 to 62.
00:26:17.080 For Gen X, women are still leading.
00:26:20.520 But women have remained exactly the same, 2019 to 2025.
00:26:24.580 There are dips and peaks in between there, but it's 66, 66.
00:26:27.920 The men have increased, 57 to 64.
00:26:30.760 Then when you start to get to the younger generations,
00:26:33.560 there's where you see that shift.
00:26:36.580 Women have increased, but men have increased by a lot more.
00:26:39.260 By a lot more.
00:26:40.100 And now it's 71% of men, 64% of women.
00:26:44.300 And then for Gen Z, same thing.
00:26:47.240 You got the women, 2019, the women were edging out the men by a little bit,
00:26:51.460 but then it really splits off.
00:26:52.740 67% of men, 61% of women.
00:26:55.480 Men are leading the way.
00:26:57.440 This is a good sign.
00:26:58.840 We want the women to come along too.
00:27:00.260 It looks like, you know, women are doing all right too.
00:27:01.760 But you need the men to lead the way.
00:27:04.240 And do you know why?
00:27:05.540 Because men lead.
00:27:07.500 Men lead in everything.
00:27:10.820 Any social trend, any industry, any campaign,
00:27:14.940 the men will lead and the women will follow.
00:27:17.500 I know that that's not politically correct.
00:27:19.320 You know I am as far from a misogynist as one can possibly be.
00:27:23.220 This is simply a fact of the sexes.
00:27:25.340 The men lead, the women follow.
00:27:27.020 Name me a great campaign in history that was led by a woman.
00:27:34.560 Can you think of one or two?
00:27:37.300 So we will say, Joan of Arc.
00:27:39.140 Okay, yes, Joan, sure.
00:27:41.780 Joan of Arc would be one.
00:27:43.220 Any, do you have other examples?
00:27:45.400 Not a lot.
00:27:47.080 The fact that everyone says, well, what about Joan of Arc?
00:27:48.680 Shows you, they all of, statistically, every campaign in history led by men.
00:27:54.860 Not by women.
00:27:56.460 Industries, pioneering industries.
00:27:58.960 Who were the great female film directors of the 1930s?
00:28:02.360 Can you name any?
00:28:03.340 You can name some now, most of whom are terrible.
00:28:05.360 But some are good.
00:28:05.820 Like Reddy Gerwig is pretty good.
00:28:07.220 But they come way later.
00:28:09.600 Political leaders.
00:28:12.060 Inventors.
00:28:13.420 Artists.
00:28:14.740 I'm talking about leading ones.
00:28:16.380 Not that there are no women artists.
00:28:17.360 There are plenty of women artists.
00:28:18.200 But the ones who are really leading, innovating.
00:28:21.400 Signs of social change.
00:28:22.960 It's always the men.
00:28:23.800 Men always lead.
00:28:25.960 So, as men led the new atheism of the 2000s, so too, the fact that men are leading here is not just good for men.
00:28:34.480 And it's not good that, you know, I don't know, the men are doing and not the women in itself.
00:28:38.000 The reason it's good is it signals the direction that things are going to go.
00:28:42.340 Whichever way men are going, that's how society is going to go.
00:28:45.360 And the men are coming back to Christ.
00:28:47.920 It's just happening.
00:28:48.840 And the men are moving to the right politically.
00:28:51.960 And women are going to follow.
00:28:54.520 Women already are following, to some degree.
00:28:57.480 Really good sign.
00:28:59.800 You can be the most, I am woman, hear me roar, kind of, you can think that men have all sorts of problems.
00:29:05.180 But it's just what I'm describing as a social fact.
00:29:07.700 And so, if you like this outcome, if you like that men are getting more religious, you should be thrilled that it's, or rather, if you like that people are getting more religious, you should be thrilled that it's men leading the way.
00:29:18.260 Because it means the whole culture is going to go further.
00:29:20.800 Okay.
00:29:21.860 Speaking of religion, President Trump, in his folksy way, in his typically folksy way, just articulated a profound truth about not only America, but about statecraft and religion.
00:29:34.980 And I've felt for a long time that, you know, if you don't, if a country doesn't have religion, doesn't have faith, doesn't have God, it's going to be very hard to be a good country.
00:29:45.140 You know, there's no reason to be good.
00:29:47.620 I want to be good because you want to prove to God that you're good, so you go to that next step, right?
00:29:53.480 So, that's very important to me.
00:29:55.400 I think it's really very important.
00:29:56.780 I love this.
00:29:57.480 I love that statement.
00:29:58.380 So beautiful.
00:29:59.080 And there, I know, I can already hear the objections.
00:30:02.960 One from the atheists, one from the Christians.
00:30:05.680 Here's the objection from the atheists.
00:30:08.080 Yeah, Trump said that you can't be good if you're not religious.
00:30:11.900 But actually, you don't need to have religion to be a moral person.
00:30:15.060 You can just, like, be a good person, okay?
00:30:16.580 I don't need my sky daddy to tell me not to murder people.
00:30:19.260 Actually, you do, because you guys increasingly support political violence.
00:30:22.220 You support slaughtering babies.
00:30:23.220 You support killing old people.
00:30:24.440 So, actually, you do.
00:30:25.120 I don't need, I can be a good person without religion.
00:30:30.580 No, you can't.
00:30:33.000 I'm afraid you can't.
00:30:34.360 I'm afraid you can't, actually.
00:30:36.000 You can't.
00:30:37.100 Immanuel Kant tried to do this.
00:30:39.040 And he's way smarter than you, and he failed.
00:30:42.420 And the project of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment, or since before the Enlightenment,
00:30:48.460 has been to try to ground morality in something other than religious truth,
00:30:52.740 including revealed religious truth.
00:30:54.240 And you can't.
00:30:56.040 You can't.
00:30:57.640 It's always failed.
00:30:59.420 You got nothing.
00:31:02.080 Look, hey, maybe you'll figure it out.
00:31:04.000 Maybe you, Reddit Atheist with a Fedora, will figure out how to firmly establish morality
00:31:09.020 without religious truth.
00:31:12.500 Maybe you're smarter than Kant.
00:31:14.660 I don't know.
00:31:15.240 Maybe.
00:31:15.840 I guess.
00:31:17.460 Probably you're not.
00:31:19.340 You can't have a good country if it's not religious.
00:31:21.860 Period.
00:31:22.500 You just can't.
00:31:23.280 Moving on to the Christian objection.
00:31:26.900 The Christian objection is going to be, Trump said that you do good things to make God happy
00:31:32.820 so that you can go to heaven.
00:31:34.200 And actually, that's the Pelagian heresy.
00:31:37.380 And Pelagianism was condemned in antiquity.
00:31:39.540 And that's the salvation by works.
00:31:41.400 And could you please, can you please, and I say this very respectfully and with a great
00:31:47.160 deal of patience, can you please shut up?
00:31:49.540 Can you please just shut up for one second?
00:31:52.420 And just take the dub.
00:31:54.900 Take the win.
00:31:55.640 Yes, it is certainly the case that you cannot earn heaven and that our good works do not impress God for their goodness.
00:32:07.780 None is good.
00:32:08.460 No, not one.
00:32:09.180 The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
00:32:12.440 God saves us.
00:32:13.480 He comes down.
00:32:14.220 The grace of God comes down the mountain.
00:32:16.080 And we, if we do anything at all, we can cooperate with that grace, but we do not save ourselves.
00:32:23.620 We are not the cause of our salvation.
00:32:27.340 Yeah, of course.
00:32:29.260 But like, come on, man.
00:32:32.340 We do, we try to be good because we know that God wants us to be holy.
00:32:38.980 And when we do cooperate with God's grace, we recognize, as St. Thomas attributes to St. Augustine,
00:32:46.700 that God made us without our participation, but he will not save us without our participation.
00:32:51.260 And we know that it's better to be good than not to be good.
00:32:55.020 And we strive toward virtue.
00:32:58.280 And that's fine.
00:32:59.780 And sometimes we seek religion not merely because we love God in a perfect way and we have perfect
00:33:09.660 contrition and we repent of our sins because they offend God, but sometimes we do it because
00:33:16.400 we dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell.
00:33:19.400 Christians have known that for 2,000 years.
00:33:21.320 That's one of the reasons that our Lord gives us the sacrament of confession and the act of
00:33:25.180 contrition that we say in confession.
00:33:26.380 That's why he gives to his apostles and to their successors, the power to bind and to
00:33:31.760 loose, to forgive sins and to retain sins is because, yeah, we don't have perfect contrition.
00:33:37.300 And sometimes we do, we, we don't sin really just because we want to go to heaven and not
00:33:41.700 just, not, not because we are truly cooperating with God's grace in a perfect way.
00:33:47.140 Yeah, of course.
00:33:47.560 Of course.
00:33:49.420 But like, yes, also we, we, we like, we try to be good because we know God wants us to
00:33:56.400 be good.
00:33:56.840 That's okay.
00:33:58.020 That's okay.
00:33:58.680 Trump is just politically right.
00:34:00.860 Not saying he's a theologian, just saying he's politically right on both counts.
00:34:05.240 You can't have a good country without religion.
00:34:08.400 And you, you want to make God happy.
00:34:11.140 And it makes God happier when you try to be good than when you, when, when you do bad
00:34:16.560 stuff, all true, all true.
00:34:20.280 And you want to see a country without religion, wait till you hear how the New York times is
00:34:23.560 reporting on Gen Z getting divorced.
00:34:27.240 Father time comes for us all.
00:34:29.160 And those hip, cool youths, those gen, those zoomers who make fun of the boomers and the
00:34:36.100 Gen Xers and even the millennials, there's a lot to make fun of with millennials.
00:34:39.540 But the zoomers are getting, getting a little long in the tooth themselves.
00:34:43.840 You know that?
00:34:45.000 Not only have some of them kind of gotten married, they're also getting divorced now.
00:34:48.700 And if you thought boomer divorce was bad, man, wait till you hear about zoomer divorce.
00:34:52.720 Every time the libs try to censor us, we get louder.
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00:35:24.760 Not to be obscene, but those are underwhelming breasts.
00:35:27.240 By the way, that is the best evidence that he did not draw it.
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00:35:31.320 We're celebrating our first decade and kicking off the next 10 years by doing what we do best.
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00:36:26.300 My favorite comment yesterday by Pyro5263, who says, I'm declaring my house an IRS-free zone.
00:36:34.980 Yes, that's about as legitimate as Chicago declaring its shops ice-free zones.
00:36:42.700 That's good for you, mayor of Chicago.
00:36:46.360 Good for you.
00:36:47.060 You put a sign in your window that says that the federal government can't enforce federal law.
00:36:52.480 That's good for you.
00:36:55.020 Hey, here's a lollipop.
00:36:56.860 You want a lollipop?
00:36:58.180 All right, boys.
00:36:59.060 Bring in the guns.
00:37:00.380 Bring in the tanks.
00:37:01.280 Let's go.
00:37:01.780 Round up the...
00:37:02.780 Sorry, little boy.
00:37:05.200 We're going to do our jobs.
00:37:06.800 We're going to do what we are entitled to do and what we have to do.
00:37:10.040 But you can keep doodling on your sign.
00:37:13.160 That's really good.
00:37:14.260 I like those colors you picked.
00:37:16.100 Those are nice crayons for no ice here.
00:37:18.760 Me no like ice.
00:37:19.780 That's good.
00:37:20.460 You would say, I don't like ice.
00:37:22.720 That's the subject.
00:37:23.400 That's okay.
00:37:24.460 Hey, good job.
00:37:25.420 Hope you like that lollipop.
00:37:26.540 Okay.
00:37:27.740 You want to look at a country without religion?
00:37:30.380 That's what we've come to in recent years.
00:37:32.600 And it's not great.
00:37:37.420 A lot of people, you will notice this, a lot of people who leave religion because, you
00:37:42.920 know, they realize they don't want to be religious anymore.
00:37:44.800 They're going to be spiritual.
00:37:45.800 Okay, they have a spirituality, but they're not religious.
00:37:48.740 Other people say, I don't want that organized religion.
00:37:51.120 I like the more, I like more, what, disorganized religion?
00:37:53.780 Yeah, I don't, I don't like the rules, especially, you hear this, especially when people leave
00:37:57.640 the Catholic church.
00:37:58.320 Church, it's often not that they leave the Catholic church because they disagree with
00:38:04.020 some dogma or doctrine.
00:38:06.360 They have a sudden epiphany that, you know, they disagree with ecclesiology or something.
00:38:13.120 Often, they might come to that.
00:38:15.260 They might ex post facto come up with all these sorts of things that they supposedly disagree
00:38:19.840 with about the Catholic church.
00:38:21.280 But if you look at the timeline of when they leave, often it's because they get divorced.
00:38:28.120 Often.
00:38:29.620 And it's hard because you can't, you're not allowed to get divorced in the Catholic church.
00:38:33.120 And so they, there will be justifications for it afterward.
00:38:36.180 But if you just look at the timeline, it's often like Sally, you know, be left the Catholic
00:38:40.560 church and joined some other religious group.
00:38:42.920 And, you know, now she's explaining all the terrible heresies of the Catholic church,
00:38:46.440 supposedly.
00:38:46.940 But if you look at it, it's like Sally gets divorced in 2017.
00:38:49.360 She comes to her religious epiphany in 2018, you know, and you say, that time he's a little
00:38:55.040 suspect.
00:38:55.820 It's, it's off.
00:38:56.660 It's not that sexual sins are the worst sins.
00:38:58.780 It's that they're, they're so common.
00:39:00.780 They might be the most common.
00:39:01.700 And they're so human because sex is so much a part of who we are that the sexual sins often
00:39:09.560 lead us astray.
00:39:10.140 This has been true of heretical and schismatic groups going back to antiquity.
00:39:13.600 The Gnostics, the, the, uh, various cults, the, even in their own weird way, the, uh, Albigensians.
00:39:22.980 So they had, they had, they had an almost too rigorous, uh, view of sexuality, but a lot
00:39:28.340 of these, a lot of the other schismatic groups and heretical groups, there was a lot of weird
00:39:33.060 sex stuff going on.
00:39:34.740 You see this, especially in the East, a lot of weird freaky sex stuff.
00:39:37.600 It just, that's, that's how they get you.
00:39:40.500 So Gen Z has been engaging in a lot of freaky, weird sex stuff.
00:39:45.800 They think they're the opposite sex and they, they, uh, engage in polyamory and polycules
00:39:52.320 and so, okay.
00:39:54.420 Turns out it's not all roses when you engage in freaky, weird sex stuff.
00:40:00.600 Some of them are finding that they're actually going to get divorced.
00:40:03.700 Some of them are finding the gods of the copy book headings are reasserting themselves.
00:40:07.240 What, what does the New York Times say about this?
00:40:10.500 I've lost my headline.
00:40:12.140 When this printed, it actually didn't give me my headline.
00:40:14.100 I'm sorry that I can't point you to the, uh, to the article.
00:40:18.960 Gen Z, Gen Z divorce.
00:40:22.860 Uh, just a couple of paragraphs.
00:40:24.340 In 2021, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle, knew it wasn't time, knew it was time
00:40:29.920 to get a divorce.
00:40:31.360 Ending their two-year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive
00:40:38.360 ally.
00:40:38.840 Now, ending their, it's unclear if the there refers to the couple or if it refers to the
00:40:45.060 individual, because sometimes the producers are now telling me what the headline was.
00:40:50.120 If you want to look at it, it's what does Gen Z divorce look like?
00:40:53.680 Ending their two-year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive
00:40:57.480 ally.
00:40:57.840 Quote, if you have to dump your ex-husband, mix, Benson said.
00:41:01.700 Mix.
00:41:01.920 Not Mr., not Ms., not Miss, not Mrs. Mix.
00:41:06.360 That's like the androgynous prefix, I guess.
00:41:10.940 I don't know.
00:41:11.440 Mix Benson said.
00:41:13.380 If you, if you have to dump your ex-husband, co-dump him with his mistress.
00:41:18.360 Before the breakup, Mix Benson, 27, who uses the pronoun they.
00:41:22.420 Okay, that answers my question.
00:41:23.380 Checked in with their therapist who said a divorce would be a good choice.
00:41:29.020 I love some therapist.
00:41:32.440 Yeah, you should get divorced.
00:41:34.140 The, you, the, you know, the basic element of politics, you know, the fundamental social
00:41:38.740 unit, uh, the, the, um, lifelong union between a man and a woman.
00:41:43.700 Yeah.
00:41:43.860 Yeah, you should get rid of that.
00:41:45.860 Okay.
00:41:46.280 That's therapists for you.
00:41:48.000 Imagine a therapist who says, hey, if it, who tells a man that he's not a woman, that
00:41:52.680 therapist would lose his license because that's conversion therapy.
00:41:55.320 But the therapist who tells Mix Benson to get, get a divorce, because that's a good choice.
00:41:59.060 That, that therapist gets zillions of dollars.
00:42:01.560 I'm sure.
00:42:02.720 Out of queer solidarity, they informed their husband's mistress.
00:42:07.980 This was kosher and Mix Benson's arrangement.
00:42:10.520 And here's the killer, killer line, which was not a legal marriage, but a domestic partnership
00:42:16.160 about their shared partner's troubling behavior.
00:42:19.040 Divorce Gen Z style is so disordered that it pertains to couples that are not even married.
00:42:27.960 Talk about, talk about getting everything wrong.
00:42:32.840 I don't want to, I don't want to take shot and for ready here.
00:42:35.160 I love the zoomers in many ways.
00:42:36.360 They're leading all these like great social trends and the young guys are becoming right
00:42:40.040 wing and Christian.
00:42:40.960 But some of them, man, when the zoomers, well, it's kind of like a, it's kind of like
00:42:44.800 the Spanish civil war.
00:42:45.560 You know, the right wingers are really right wing and the left wingers are really left wing.
00:42:49.460 The left wing zoomers are like chop their, their body parts off left wing.
00:42:54.840 And so they think that they're going to reinvent the wheel.
00:42:59.680 They're going to reinvent society.
00:43:00.660 It's going to be so great.
00:43:01.760 We're going to reinvent sex and marriage and gender and this and stuff.
00:43:05.360 And they end up, what do they end up with?
00:43:08.440 They end up with the evil of divorce and they never even had the good of marriage.
00:43:12.700 Isn't that ironic?
00:43:13.600 This is like every Faustian bargain.
00:43:15.740 You make a deal with the devil because you misvalue things.
00:43:19.880 Your priorities get out of whack.
00:43:21.020 You make a deal with the devil and you trade something valuable for something that's much
00:43:25.200 less valuable.
00:43:25.840 And then ironically in the Faustian bargain, you, you don't even get the thing that's
00:43:31.380 not valuable.
00:43:32.420 You don't, you get, you gave something of inestimable value away for nothing.
00:43:38.240 The night of the breakup, Mix Benson and the mistress spent a cozy evening together.
00:43:43.780 We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a lot of animal crossing.
00:43:47.560 Is that a video game or I don't know what that is.
00:43:49.480 Who could have guessed, who could have guessed that that wouldn't work?
00:43:55.600 Changing your sex, redefining marriage, pursuing polyamory.
00:44:01.920 I mean, this, the early Christians wrote about this.
00:44:04.560 I want to say it was, I want to say it was St. Jerome or St. Athanasius, but I forget,
00:44:10.100 I don't want to attribute this to an early Christian writer specifically, but writing about
00:44:14.000 the difference between the Christians and the pagans.
00:44:16.500 I said, the Christians share everything except their wives, which is the only thing the pagans
00:44:22.360 share.
00:44:24.000 You know, it's amazing.
00:44:26.300 It's like a mirror image, the Christians and the pagans.
00:44:28.700 And this is it.
00:44:29.880 Because this is paganism.
00:44:31.000 Sometimes the left, they'll recoil when you call them pagans or something.
00:44:35.440 They'll think that's antiquated language, kind of ridiculous.
00:44:39.360 They'll laugh at you.
00:44:40.080 But I'd say, why would you laugh?
00:44:42.780 They say, well, you're, you're being so silly.
00:44:44.400 You're being so ridiculous.
00:44:45.280 How could you, you're not, you're not taking us seriously.
00:44:49.060 And I guess my response to that is you're not taking paganism seriously enough because
00:44:53.020 paganism is not just some crazy thing that they used to do in the past.
00:44:56.620 Paganism is a way of life.
00:44:58.160 It is a set of ideas.
00:44:59.580 It's a conception of the human person and it's existed in every age and in every place.
00:45:05.700 And so the zoomers who were, you know, in the thruple quasi marriages, changing their gender
00:45:12.540 and doing weird stuff like this, they're, they're just pagan.
00:45:16.140 That's just, there were plenty of people who did that stuff in ancient Rome and ancient
00:45:19.440 Greece and the far East and all over.
00:45:22.820 Yeah.
00:45:23.900 And it, it didn't work out then and it doesn't work out now.
00:45:26.780 And it's, it's funny having seen this a little bit up close because the millennials did this
00:45:31.880 to some degree too, but the zoomers took it to another level when it was happening.
00:45:35.540 This is 10, 15 years ago when they were saying, actually, you can change your sex and we don't
00:45:40.360 need to be monogamous and I don't need to get married and I'm going to delay getting married
00:45:43.680 and I don't want kids.
00:45:44.520 And I didn't mean, me, me, me, me.
00:45:45.640 I'm going to reinvent the world.
00:45:46.700 Everyone who ever came before me was a big dumb idiot, but me, I'm really smart.
00:45:49.300 And you look at it and you say, and at the time you think, I don't know, maybe it was
00:45:52.900 very avant-garde.
00:45:53.700 Maybe it'll work out.
00:45:54.840 It won't.
00:45:56.520 And now, now that everyone's a little bit older, including the zoomers, now everyone's
00:46:01.100 got a few more wrinkles on them.
00:46:03.100 It's, it's just really sad.
00:46:05.120 All those avant-garde hip, really cool people who thought they were leading a revolution
00:46:09.980 in liberty and compassion.
00:46:12.680 Now they just look kind of sad.
00:46:14.180 Now they're just kind of like fatter, sadder, kind of divorced eunuchs playing video games
00:46:25.760 with their, their mistresses as their ex-wives divorce.
00:46:29.820 It's just sad, man.
00:46:31.920 And I don't mean to beat up on them too much because you can always repent.
00:46:34.480 It's never too late.
00:46:35.180 You can always turn your life around, but you have to turn it, turn toward the truth.
00:46:38.580 Because you have to, you know, the first step in personal development is recognizing when
00:46:44.620 you've done something wrong and repenting of that.
00:46:48.020 You know, who could have guessed this wouldn't work?
00:46:49.760 I don't know, anyone with two brain cells to rub together, but often that eludes us.
00:46:52.980 And so the zoomer conception of sexuality is aging like milk.
00:46:59.160 And now the way they're talking, we will come to view the way that younger millennials and
00:47:03.940 zoomers talked about sex the same way that we now view boomers talking about Woodstock.
00:47:10.560 We were doing, man, you know, they're all like, their brains are turned to mush from
00:47:14.340 decades of drug abuse and they're all divorced and they're all just like, they're kind of
00:47:18.420 dirty and they're all, but they say, man, you know, we were on the verge of the age of
00:47:24.360 Aquarius, man.
00:47:25.960 Yeah.
00:47:26.620 We'd go to these like festivals and whatever, man, and all like do a bunch of drugs.
00:47:31.680 It's like poor Brian Wilson, you know, of the Beach Boys, a pop music genius who just
00:47:36.200 got one-shotted by a tab of LSD.
00:47:38.600 He did many, many multiples, the tolerable dose of LSD, he turned his brain to mush.
00:47:43.780 And you just think like, well, yeah, who could have seen that one coming?
00:47:46.280 You take a bunch of bathtub poison and it screws up your brain.
00:47:49.760 You, an artist who relies on your brain to create music.
00:47:52.240 Yeah.
00:47:52.420 Wow.
00:47:52.740 Gee, who could have, you know, it's sad.
00:47:53.940 It's sad.
00:47:54.480 You feel for the guy.
00:47:55.400 Well, same thing with these guys.
00:47:56.460 Oh, who would have thought?
00:47:57.440 You inject yourself with a bunch of hormones that are not proper to your sex.
00:48:00.600 And then you cultivate all sorts of completely bizarre, deviant sexual behaviors and you
00:48:06.780 lose your discipline and you constantly deny the truth and divorce yourself from reality.
00:48:11.720 And oh, you're unhappy and your life is in shambles.
00:48:15.260 Gee, who could have seen that coming?
00:48:17.640 You know, reality reasserts itself.
00:48:19.320 The gods of the copybook headings reassert themselves.
00:48:21.440 I wish that we could, we had the time to get to the apotheosis of all of this, which is
00:48:28.700 Katie Porter, the leading Democrat in the California governor's race, freaking out.
00:48:35.160 It's not quite the apotheosis, but it's up there.
00:48:37.320 It's on the way.
00:48:38.400 Freaking out at a CBS reporter.
00:48:40.900 We don't have time.
00:48:41.660 Those could be my tease.
00:48:42.360 You know, I'm a tease.
00:48:43.420 I'll be the tease for tomorrow.
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00:48:47.620 Is it, did we replace Woke Wednesday?
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