Ep. 1833 - Trump Brings Peace To The Middle East
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Today we have your Columbus Day Proclamation, which we re signing a bit early. Today is a holiday for Italian-Americans who celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the innovation and explorer zeal that he represented. In other words, we re back to Columbus Day.
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President Trump seems to have brought peace to the Middle East again, the second time,
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as he gets Israel and Hamas to agree to end the war. New York's Democrat attorney general
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gets indicted for actually doing the thing that she preposterously accused President Trump of
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doing some time ago. But more important than any of that, Columbus Day is back.
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Today we have your Columbus Day proclamation for Monday, which we're signing a bit early.
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Christopher Columbus, obviously, discovered the New World in 1492. He was a great Italian explorer.
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He sailed his three ships, the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean,
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and landed in what's today the Caribbean. But this is a particularly important holiday for
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Italian-Americans who celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the innovation
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and explorer zeal that he represented. In other words, we're calling it Columbus.
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Columbus Day. That was the press that broke out in applause.
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Columbus Day. We're back. Columbus Day. We're back, Italians.
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We're back, Italians. Repeal the 22nd Amendment. Make Trump Caesar. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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so much, I don't have any quarter for people who criticize it. Sorry, I don't care what you think
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about tariffs or immigration or whatever. He's in the right on these questions, but I don't even care
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if he'd be in the wrong. The man gave us Columbus Day back. Okay, and did you see how he did it?
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Did you see how the administration announced that Columbus Day was back? Because we've had
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Columbus Day for a long time for, depending on how you score it, either 130 years or at least 90 to 100
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years in the American public consciousness. Though it really goes back to 1891, 1892,
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that Columbus Day really enters the American mind as a celebration of the man who discovered
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America. Then there was pushback within the last 10, 15 years. They said Columbus was a murder or
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a genocide or a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they tried to replace it with Indigenous People's
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Day, whatever that means. And it wasn't just the libs doing it. There was even, I'm not going to name
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him because he backed off. There was a Republican senator who proposed replacing Columbus Day
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on the federal holidays with Juneteenth. They were going to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
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This Republican senator said, oh, well, we don't want to add too many holidays and mess up the
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economy. So let's just get rid of Columbus Day. Who cares? That was a Republican.
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And I said that I would donate to whoever would primary that Republican if he kept it up. But then
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he dropped it. So now we're all good. Okay. Columbus has been getting it coming and going for like 10
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years now. And Trump ends it. He says Columbus Day is back and the administration did so
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by referencing one of the great Columbus scenes in recent popular media, Care of the Sopranos.
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That's what he did. He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer.
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And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.
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It was a brave Italian explorer. Even the way that the White House,
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the administration is announcing it. Okay. And of course, Mr. President, you know,
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Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492. And the first time I heard it,
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I heard literally the verbatim phrase. He was a brave Italian explorer. He did this,
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he did that. Now, I don't think upon re-listening, I don't think he said brave and he said great,
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but it's assonant. It's the same number of syllables. It's obviously a reference to that
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well-known clip. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this White House,
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Christopher Columbus is a hero. So true. So, so true. There's going to be a lot of
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introspection. There are going to be a lot of stories told about what America is as we enter
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the bicesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America. And be on the lookout for
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this kind of stuff. Because as I see it, there are three ways that we can tell the story of America.
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There's the liberal story of America, which is America's always been evil. You know,
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was founded by this evil genocider, slave trader, Christopher Columbus. Again, Christopher
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Columbus, a great man. Not only a great man, but a good man. A devout Catholic, a brave Italian
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explorer, a man who is not guilty of half the nonsense they accuse him of. On the witness of
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his political enemies, do we come up with this nonsense about Columbus? Anyway, well, there'll be
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more to say about Columbus later. But they say he was discovered by this evil guy named Columbus,
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and then it was settled by these crazy religious kooks. And then they killed all the Indians. And
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then we had slavery. We basically invented slavery. And that was the original sin. And then we oppressed
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women. And then we oppressed blacks. And then we oppressed Hispanics. And we're just so dirty and
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rotten and evil. And we oppressed homosexuals. Then we oppressed the transsexuals. And then we're
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just so dirty, rotten and evil. And this country sucks. That's the liberal story of America that
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you're going to hear it next year in the 250th. Then there's the squishy conservative story of
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America. This is the liberal Republican story of America. And what they say is,
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they say, yes, we were discovered by that at Columbus. He was kind of a genocider. And he
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was bad. It was really bad. And yeah, the Puritans, they had a lot of problems. And Washington and
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Jefferson owned slaves. And so they weren't great. And yeah, we had slavery. And we did kind of oppress
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women. And we did oppress blacks and gays and trans, blah, blah, blah. But look how far we've
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come. Look how far we've come. America, it's not like the left liberals say. It's not that America's
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a bad country. It's just as bad as we've always been. No, no. We can be a good country. I mean,
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we've been very bad, but we've overcome all those evils. And we're getting better by the day. That's
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like, that's the squish conservative view, which accepts all the premises of the left liberal view.
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But instead of coming to the conclusion that we're evil today, they come to the conclusion
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that we're better today and we could be even better tomorrow. But they're essentially the same story.
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Then there is a third view, which I would recommend. And that's the conservative view,
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the actual patriotic view, which says, you know, a bunch of the stuff you're talking about
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is nonsense. The things you say about Columbus, nonsense. The things you say about the institution
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of slavery vis-a-vis America, nonsense. Not that slavery is not unique to America, far from it.
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The unique thing about America is we ended slavery a relatively short period of time. But slavery is
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just a fact of human life. It exists today in Asia and Africa. And there are gradations of servitude
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and there are moral and immoral ways to think about it. But it's like, give me a break, guys.
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You try to identify that as essentially American, that's nonsense. And, you know,
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basically your whole liberal history of America is just bunk. A lot of the facts are wrong. But more
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importantly, the relevance of those facts to the story of America is wrong. All that stuff,
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it's basically irrelevant. Even when you guys say something that is true on the rare occasions
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that your invective against America touches on something that is factually true, it's unimportant.
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This is a country that was founded by intrepid brave explorers, starting with those brave Italian
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explorers down there, down there in the Caribbean. And then the Puritans, not the Puritans, actually,
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the pilgrims on the Mayflower, the founding of America. Mayflower, a great cigar brand, by the way.
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Those guys had a vision for a new Jerusalem, okay? Actually, in Massachusetts Bay, John Winthrop
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understood that America would be a model of Christian charity. And then the founders and
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framers were asserting their rights as Englishmen. And they said that the principles of Christianity are
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the principles on which independence was won. And they said, thank providence, thank God,
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that we come from a common stock and we have common beliefs and we have this common experience
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of the revolution. And then we pushed through because we were not only a religious country,
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but we also had this entrepreneurial commercial aspect, Plymouth and Virginia. And we were building
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and we've had all of this amazing intrepid innovation and discovery and bravery and audacity.
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And that's the story of America. And tradition. And at the same time, perhaps paradoxically,
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this great love of tradition. We're in some ways the most avant-garde and the most conservative
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country on earth. We're the revolutionary country. We might be the last of the old regimes
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when you consider the power of the American president. We're this amazing country, man.
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And all that stupid nonsense that the left talks about, that barely has anything to do with it.
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But that's the third way to talk about it. Anyway, that's the way Trump's talking about it.
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That's what Trump's talking about here. That's the story Trump is telling. And which is good that
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the gift of a lifetime. Much less important than Columbus Day being back. President Trump has secured
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peace in the Middle East again. It seems, it seems, you never know in the Middle East.
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Uh, Trump has, has reached a peace deal in Gaza and everyone's going to be skeptical. They say,
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well, is, is Hamas really going to stick to it? Are they going to uphold their end of the
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bargainers? This is just a stalling tactic. Israel, I think probably will because Israel
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is more accountable to America. And sometimes Israel undermines what America is trying to do
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internationally. But here it seems like that, I think it seems like they're on board.
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So the question is Hamas. Hamas never honors anything, but who knows? Maybe there might be
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the right incentives here. Trump proposed this peace deal a week or two ago. And I read through
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it. We actually didn't have time to talk about it on the show, but I remember reading through it and
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I said, man, this is a good deal because it not only is it plausibly going to bring peace to the
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Middle East again for President Trump. Don't forget he had the Abraham Accords. There's peace in the
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Middle East. It was historic. It was amazing. Then the Democrats put Joe Biden into office.
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Joe Biden screws up everything. Major war breaks out in the Middle East. Would not have happened
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had Trump been president. Now Trump has to restore peace to the Middle East. Again,
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it looks like he's doing it. But what I love about this deal also is that it totally vindicates me.
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Not to make it up, but we got to have priorities here. Peace in the Middle East, that's good.
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But me being right, slightly more important. You remember those panicans who freaked out when Trump
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said, out of the blue, it seemed to freak out Netanyahu, frankly, when they were sharing a stage
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together. He said, we're going to take over Gaza. It's ours now. I'm going to build a Trump casino
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there, basically, is what he was insinuating. And we're going to send all the Palestinians away.
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They're going to leave. And who knows? The Israelis were floating that the Palestinians would go to
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South Sudan, the one place on earth less pleasant than Gaza. And everyone starts freaking out.
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Some of the pro-Israel people were freaking out. A lot of the anti-Israel people,
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the pro-Palestine people were freaking out. Some of the kind of America first guys who don't really
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want anything to do with the Middle East were freaking out. I said, guys, let him cook.
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This is obviously a negotiation tactic. It would not be just to ethnically cleanse this area and send
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2 million Palestinians to Africa or anywhere else for that matter to force them out. This is a
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negotiation tactic to force Hamas to the table, to keep Israel in line.
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What Trump was proposing was the only thing that could irritate both the Palestinians and Israel.
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Because Trump was saying, we're going to kick all of you out of your homes. It's obviously going to
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freak out the Palestinians. And Trump seems crazy enough that he might do it. And he said, and by the
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way, Israel, you're getting out too. We're going to take over. You're not going to annex it. We're
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going to do it. We're going to do what we want. Maybe we're a little bit of a wild card. Freaks out Israel
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too. I said, it's a negotiation tactic. This isn't going to happen. Chill. And so what was Trump's
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plan? Gaza will be de-radicalized, terror-free, so it doesn't pose a threat to its neighbors. It'll
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be redeveloped for the people of Gaza who have suffered more than enough, a recognition of the
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suffering in Gaza. The war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to an agreed upon line
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to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and
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artillery bombardment, will be suspended. So that's a message to Israel, because you'll recall
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when President Trump was negotiating an end to the hostilities between Iran and Israel,
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they negotiate an end to this. And then Israel just keeps bombing them. And Iran, you know,
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Iran's not exactly a good faith player in this either. But he's saying, look, we got to stop.
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Once we agree to this, immediate stopping of the aerial and artillery bombardment, the Palestinians,
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good luck getting them ever to stop firing rockets. Battle lines will remain frozen.
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Okay. Then within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages alive and
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deceased will be returned. That's where we are. We're at number four right now. Hamas and Israel
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have in principle agreed to the first part of this plan. Now we're in the 72 hours.
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20 hostages or so are believed to be alive right now. 28 are presumed dead. Israel, now to fill in the
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specifics of what was outlined here in the broad plan. In exchange for 20 live hostages,
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250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails will be released to Palestine,
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to Gaza. 1,700 detainees from Gaza will be sent back. So Israel's paying a high price for the hostages.
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But Israel can afford to pay a higher price is basically the thought. This is all a very live
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thing. Will it work? Has Trump brought peace to the Middle East a second time? Not totally clear.
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This is the most impressive advance toward Middle East peace since the last time Trump did it.
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Even Barack Obama's admitting it, though Obama won't give Trump credit. Obama sent out some lengthy
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tweet last night about how great this is and wonderful for peace in the Middle East and
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everything. He just forgot to put Trump's name in the tweet. There's just one person missing.
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You know, this didn't just happen organically. It didn't spring out of the ground like a rutabaga.
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It was put together by the president who succeeded where you, Barack Obama, failed,
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who succeeded where your successor, Joe Biden, failed.
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This is the best chance at peace in the Middle East since the last time Trump did it.
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And I'd love in this case to tell you that I told you so. Now, other great news.
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Letitia James in New York, the attorney general of New York, you might remember her
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for campaigning on prosecuting Trump and holding Trump liable for all sorts of civil offenses,
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just trying to take Trump down, using the law. Letitia James did her best. She was part of the
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broad lawfare effort by the Democrats under Joe Biden to put Trump into prison because he was not
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only the predecessor, but also the leader of the opposition and obviously popular enough to become
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president again with the popular vote. Letitia James appears to have been hoisted with her own
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petard. Letitia James has just been indicted and she hasn't been indicted for anything.
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She's been indicted for actually doing the kinds of things she wrongly accused Trump of doing.
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What did she accuse Trump of doing? She accused Trump of falsifying business records to get loans
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at more favorable rates and to overinflate, for instance, the value of some of his homes.
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That wasn't really true at the time. They like sort of nabbed him on it, but it was preposterous,
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the sort of things that they were alleging and the sort of things that judges were finding.
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But what was Letitia James indicted for? She's charged with bank fraud and making false statements
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to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia in 2020.
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What? So she, she buys a home in Virginia and this home is supposed to be a residence of hers,
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but she was just going to use it as an investment property. Here's some evidence for that. She's the
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attorney general of New York. She's not living in Virginia. She clearly lied, clearly lied.
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She also had an apartment building in Brooklyn. She said in order to get the loan that the,
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the building had four units. The building actually had five units. This was not an idle mistake,
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a clerical error. That was a very significant difference. One, I don't think Letitia James
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is so stupid that she doesn't know how many apartment units are in the building she bought.
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We're not talking about a 200 apartment high rise. We're talking about four or five. I think she knows.
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I think she can count to five, can't she? Maybe, maybe I'm being too generous in my expectations.
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I think she can count to five. But if she had five units in the building, it would be a commercial
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building and she would get a less favorable rate. If she had four units, she'd get the more favorable
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rate as a, as a residential building. And so she lied. They got this woman dead to rights.
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Allegedly, I suppose I have to say allegedly, but pretty clear from the facts that are being reported.
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This woman lied. She defrauded a financial institution. What about the Trump case that
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she was driving? In the Trump case, even, even the liberal media acknowledge this was kind of
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ridiculous. Even CNN, even CNN obviously doesn't like Donald Trump, especially at that time was
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going very hard. Real estate insiders question how Trump fraud judge valued Mar-a-Lago. The argument
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in that case, and a judge found this, I'm a liberal judge, was that Trump had overvalued his Mar-a-Lago
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estate by 2,300%. So he overvalued this in order to have more access to capital and it was all a bunch
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of business fraud. This was Judge Angeron. He based that on the presumption that Trump's Mar-a-Lago
00:23:41.820
club was worth between 18 and $27.6 million, which was always completely absurd. There are private
00:23:53.540
homes in Nashville today that are listed for over $18 million, that are listed for probably around
00:24:01.480
$25 million. Do you think that some random home in the middle of Nashville is worth the same amount as
00:24:06.380
Mar-a-Lago, one of the most prestigious, beautiful, sprawling clubs in Palm Beach,
00:24:12.480
some of the most expensive real estate in the country with, with some of the most expensive,
00:24:16.080
wealthy, you know, well-heeled members? And are you kidding? Not even close, not even close.
00:24:21.860
That was such a preposterous number. Was he talking about some fraction of a fraction,
00:24:28.800
some little plot of what one, one room at Mar-a-Lago? What was he talking about? He based it on the
00:24:34.500
Palm Beach County assessors appraising the market value. But that was always, always absurd. Everyone
00:24:38.960
knows that the tax assessor valuation is less than the property would command. And in the case of a
00:24:44.140
private club like that, way, way less. So anyway, total nonsense. In that case though,
00:24:51.800
we're not talking about, I think President Trump actually was right in his valuations or roughly
00:24:55.700
right at least, but we're not talking about, ah, you know, I thought, I thought it was 10% higher
00:24:59.500
than it was or 10% lower than it was or whatever. We're talking about Letitia James saying,
00:25:03.240
I'm going to live in that home in a different state while I'm attorney general of New York.
00:25:07.020
That's a lie. That's Letitia James saying, oh yeah, actually it's a, it's four units, not five.
00:25:11.980
That's just a lie. They got her dead to rights. The libs are furious about this. They are now
00:25:16.860
claiming that Trump is weaponizing the government to go after his political enemies. And I just,
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breaks down over the indictment of Letitia James. Here is CNN's Casey Hunt, one of the most delightfully
00:26:46.140
partisan and ideologically blinded of the journalists today. She comes out, and here's
00:26:56.680
Aside for a second, what Tish James, and again, we're still getting the details, but if it's
00:27:01.720
related to this mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that everyone in America, or many people
00:27:06.540
at least, if you're lucky enough to be able to buy a house in America, you deal with this, right?
00:27:10.900
The federal government doesn't go after all of these people for doing this.
00:27:17.220
Yeah, yeah. Look, this is the sort of thing, I mean, Americans all the time commit mortgage fraud,
00:27:22.720
don't they? I mean, all the time. Who among us has not lied to a financial institution about what
00:27:30.620
state they're living in in order to get a more favorable mortgage rate? Who among us? Let he who
00:27:35.320
has not lied about the nature of his investment apartment building cast the first stone. Come on,
00:27:42.180
who am I? Is she telling on herself? I don't know. Should the feds start investigating Casey Hunt, too?
00:27:47.600
I've not committed mortgage fraud. Have you committed mortgage fraud? You haven't? No?
00:27:52.720
And again, we're not talking about like, yeah, I think I have $100,000 in the bank, but actually,
00:27:58.400
I only have $97,000, or I have $103,000. We're not talking about that. We're talking about like,
00:28:02.880
I live in a different state kind of lying. We're talking about there are a different number of
00:28:07.680
units in the building I'm buying kind of lying. Have you done that? This is not even reaping and
00:28:14.220
sowing. Some people, I think, are going to present this as, you know, the Democrats, while they're
00:28:17.960
sowing, they're loving it, right? Where they're sowing all this discord and political lawfare,
00:28:24.060
they're loving it. Woohoo! Yeah, this is me while I'm sowing. But then while they're reaping the fruits
00:28:28.080
of their sowing, then they're really upset because it's coming back on them. It's not even that.
00:28:31.180
This is just pure projection. Trump really didn't do the thing they're accusing him of doing.
00:28:37.200
Mar-a-Lago is not worth $18 million. It's worth a lot more than that, okay? He actually didn't do
00:28:43.500
the thing that they're accusing him of. She did this. It's just projection. Once again,
00:28:50.700
every leftist accusation is a confession. Speaking of those leftists, Abigail Spanberger,
00:28:56.840
running for governor of Virginia, she is endorsing Jay Jones, the attorney general,
00:29:02.760
candidate, the Democrat, who fantasizes about murdering his Republican opponents and their
00:29:07.080
children and murdering cops. Abigail Spanberger has stood by Jay Jones. She refuses to pull her
00:29:15.680
endorsement. Not one Democrat has pulled their endorsement of him because they agree with him.
00:29:19.600
Well, good on the moderator at her debate with Winsome Sears last night.
00:29:24.440
She was asked, do you stand by the endorsement? She tried to get out of it. She tried to wiggle
00:29:29.880
out, and the moderator kept up. Here's her answer. This is the end of her answer.
00:29:34.620
Ms. Spanberger, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you yourself,
00:29:37.680
do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones? 15 seconds, yes or no?
00:29:42.300
I, we are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about
00:29:46.740
her lieutenant governor nominee. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. I am
00:29:53.400
running my race to serve Virginia, and that is what I intend to do. Thank you, Ms. Spanberger.
00:30:00.520
We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones
00:30:07.320
as attorney general. I'm saying as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own
00:30:11.320
individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say for the
00:30:17.180
acts that I take for the policies that I have put out. Thank you. I am responsible for the policies
00:30:23.520
I put out and the work I will endeavor to do tirelessly for the people of Virginia.
00:30:31.180
Wow, it's brutal. It's because she's refusing to answer the question. A very simple question,
00:30:37.060
moderators on it. That was after a minute of her flailing around. And the question was,
00:30:40.340
do you stand by your, you endorsed him. You explicitly endorsed this guy. He fantasized
00:30:45.060
about murdering Republicans and their children and called them, accused them of breeding fascists
00:30:49.100
and fantasized about killing cops. And do you stand by your endorsement? And she said,
00:30:53.580
every voter has to make up his own decision. That wasn't the question. The question wasn't,
00:30:57.900
do you think voters can make up their decisions? The question was, do you endorse him? Do you still
00:31:03.880
endorse him? You made up, first of all, you were telling voters to vote a certain way. That's what an
00:31:07.140
endorsement is. But stop asking about this. I remember I just did this great show, Adam Friedland's
00:31:14.860
show. He's this very left-wing guy. It was very funny. We had a great time in New York. It's out
00:31:20.020
now. And I really enjoyed going out. But there was this one moment. And actually, I think he might
00:31:26.240
have cut it out of the show. Because I went, I don't know, I didn't watch the whole thing meticulously.
00:31:29.840
But I actually think he might have cut this segment out of the show, which is kind of funny,
00:31:34.500
where he was hitting me on the transgender thing. And I said, well, do you believe in
00:31:39.140
transgenderism? You know, is it, do you really? And we were kind of going back and forth on it.
00:31:44.860
Again, I'll see if I can find the clip. It might have been left on the cutting room floor,
00:31:48.120
understandably so, I guess, from his point of view. But I said, I said, look, do you believe in it?
00:31:54.560
And he said, oh, you guys are asking this question all the time. I said, no, no,
00:31:56.520
it's not what is a woman. It's do you, I just want to, do you really believe in transgenderism?
00:32:01.360
Do you think a man really can be a woman? And he said, well, I don't care. I said, I didn't ask
00:32:07.260
if you cared. I asked what you think. Do you think, what do you have a, you can think just
00:32:13.600
between us gals. It's just us gals on the camera. What do you think? Do you think a man, and he
00:32:17.620
refused to, he couldn't answer the question, which I kind of get because his liberal audience would hate
00:32:22.640
hate the answer, if he, if he were being honest, because we all know, you know, you can't be.
00:32:27.280
So I don't, I got to go back. I got to see if that clip is in there, right? It might,
00:32:30.020
it might've been cut out kind of funny. Well, that was the same thing Abigail Spanberger did.
00:32:34.180
Same exact thing. Do you stand by your endorsement? I don't. I mean, I think everyone
00:32:38.820
can make their decision. That's not what I asked you. I'm at, I'm not asking you about everyone
00:32:43.760
else. I'm not asking you about decision-making. I'm asking about a thing you did. You endorsed him.
00:32:49.880
You can unendorse him. Do you do that? Can't answer. Part of the reason she can't answer that
00:32:58.440
is that the Democrats broadly agree. That's what they showed us when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
00:33:02.980
Speaking of democracy and liberal women who seem confused about things, Jane Fonda
00:33:07.060
raised the seriousness of an issue that no one's really talking about anymore.
00:33:15.120
But she's, you know, she's of a certain age. Maybe she's stuck in the past. She raised
00:33:23.220
We're facing two existential crises, climate and democracy. And it's now or never for both.
00:33:34.020
They are very interconnected. We have to solve them together. We can't have a stable democracy
00:33:40.440
and with an unstable climate, and we can't have a stable climate unless we have a democracy.
00:33:49.260
Okay. The first part I kind of get, we can't have a democracy if we don't have a stable climate.
00:33:56.180
I guess that's true. You know, if like asteroids are hitting the earth and volcanoes are erupting and
00:34:00.220
the atmosphere dissipates, then it's true. You can't have a democracy. You can't have life. You can't have
00:34:06.480
human life either. But you can't, if you can't have human life, you can't have democracy. QED. Okay,
00:34:11.620
I get that. Said, and you can't have a, you can't have a stable environment if you don't have a
00:34:19.440
democracy. That part is a little more suspect to me because there have been, there was democracy in
00:34:26.900
ancient Greece, though the liberals today would not recognize that as democracy because it involved a
00:34:30.540
lot of slaves and things like that. But they had democracy then. And then for like most of the history
00:34:37.640
of our civilization, we've not had democracy. Anything resembling what we would call democracy
00:34:43.240
today. And the founding fathers, even the framers of the constitution were very, very skeptical of
00:34:47.100
democracy, even as they gave us a government that had a huge democratic element to it.
00:34:52.840
We had a stable environment for all that time. In fact, to Jane Fonda's point, when we didn't have
00:34:59.280
democracy, which is for most of the history of our civilization, by her own arguments, by the climate
00:35:04.840
change hysterics, the climate was fine. And actually it's only since we've had democracy,
00:35:12.620
and specifically only since we've had real hyper-democracy, not the democracy of the 18th
00:35:17.540
century, but the, the greater spread of democracy in the 19th and especially into the 20th century.
00:35:22.740
Well, that's when all the climate change increased. So as kind of, not only is what she's saying kind of
00:35:29.640
babble, you know, we can't have democracy without climate, without a good climate. We can't have a good
00:35:33.820
climate without democracy. Well, good luck, lady. But it's, it's actually, if according to her own
00:35:39.200
premises, what she's saying makes no sense at all. If, if the, the climate change is really dependent
00:35:46.300
on the nature of democracy, the state of democracy, we need to abolish democracy to save the climate.
00:35:52.500
We have, we have to, which is the only way we can get democracy, according to Jane Fonda. I don't know.
00:35:55.820
She, not, not much of a political philosopher, that one, I think. Okay. Uh, before we go,
00:36:02.600
and speaking of Hollywood celebrities, Jimmy Kimmel, after his temporary cancellation, has,
00:36:07.820
has identified the real victim of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:36:11.780
So you felt like your initial comments had been mischaracterized.
00:36:14.800
I didn't feel like it was. It was intentionally. And I think maliciously mischaracterized. Yeah.
00:36:23.700
He's lying again. He lied about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Then he lied about what he said.
00:36:29.000
Now he's lying about what we said about what he said. He hasn't learned a single lesson.
00:36:34.840
What did he say? He came out. He said, these MAGA, but Charlie Kirk was murdered. He made light of
00:36:38.840
Charlie Kirk's murder. He then put on the crocodile tears after he got uncancelled when he could audition
00:36:43.860
for his show again. But he didn't have any, any crocodile tears when he was initially talking
00:36:47.800
about it shortly afterward. He said, yeah, Charlie Kirk is murdered. And these MAGA people, they're
00:36:51.620
trying to, they're trying to just pretend like he, the shooter was anything other than one of them.
00:36:56.300
They're doing anything they can to say he was, wasn't one of them. The guy was a far leftist
00:37:01.760
engraved Antifa slogans on the bullets and confessed his left-wing idea ideological motivations
00:37:07.220
reportedly to his transfery boyfriend. Don't think he was a MAGA Republican. So he lied.
00:37:13.860
He just lied on TV. And then he lied about lying. I never meant to say that. And now he's lying
00:37:19.400
about our reaction. He said, oh no, these people, they knew, not only was I not lying,
00:37:23.060
they knew I wasn't lying and they maliciously smeared me. And I'm the real victim. I'm the
00:37:26.520
victim. He learned nothing. He learned nothing. And it's a great pity that he got his show back.
00:37:31.300
It's a great pity. We should have held the line more firmly. And if we don't, if we don't enforce
00:37:35.900
standards and if we don't punish people with social consequences and sometimes political
00:37:41.700
consequences, if they violate the law, if we don't ostracize people who remain stubborn in their
00:37:47.680
antisocial behavior, we're not going to have much of a society. And these guys are going to run rough
00:37:53.400
shot over us. And then the minute they get power again, they are going to send us to the gulags.
00:37:57.700
Very, very unfortunate. Okay. On that chipper note, we got to get to the mailbag.
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Conditions apply. Favorite comment yesterday is from Toady Coyote. Says, Michael Knowles has great genes.
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What did we think? What did we think of the jean jacket? I know the jean jacket itself I think is
00:39:08.800
pretty cool with the Mayflower logo and then the Mayflower on the back. It's pretty, you know,
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you feel like I need a cigarette behind my ear, need to be like riding my Harley to behind the gym,
00:39:17.820
you know, to pick up my girlfriend or whatever. Um, on me. Did we approve of the, if you weren't
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watching the show yesterday, I was wearing this jean jacket. Some, some friends of mine really,
00:39:29.100
they loved it. And, but a lot of people, uh, hated it. They hated it. And I, I do feel a little
00:39:34.720
more myself in the smoking jacket than I do in the, in the jean jacket, but tell me in the comments.
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Daily Wire Plus. Take it away. Hi, Michael Knowles. Um, I'm listening to your podcast and you don't
00:39:55.900
seem to believe that Mamdani is a devout Muslim or a practicing Muslim. However, when I listen to
00:40:04.940
other Muslims talk about Mamdani, they say that he's practicing, practicing takia, takia. Takia is the
00:40:12.720
art of lying to gain the upper hand over an enemy and the art of lying to non-believers.
00:40:22.240
So have you ever considered that? And have you ever considered that the threat of these Muslims,
00:40:29.360
when you call them our friends, is more dangerous than you are willing to say on your podcast? Thank you.
00:40:37.440
So, uh, I have considered that and, uh, I, I am not persuaded by it. Yes. First of all,
00:40:43.960
I've never called Mamdani my friend. Don't, there are certain kinds of Muslims, uh, not going to be
00:40:47.940
our friends. Some others who vote against Joe Biden, you know, or Kamala Harris in 2024, they,
00:40:53.060
I, we, we like those guys, you know, we can, we can bring them along. It'd be nice if they
00:40:56.320
converted to Christianity, but you know, we'll see politically speaking, it's, uh, politics is the
00:41:00.740
art of inclusion and the art of the second best. As for Mamdani, yes, I'm, I'm familiar with
00:41:05.740
the concept of takia, dissimulation, the, the notion that when one, especially when one is
00:41:10.460
threatened by a non-believer, one can deceive, uh, if you're Muslim, uh, I'm familiar with that.
00:41:18.500
He'd be playing a real long game. I think Mamdani, because, uh, the, the two thoughts on Mamdani are
00:41:26.760
Mamdani is secretly Osama bin Laden, but he's pretending to be a wimpy, you know, New York millennial
00:41:34.380
who marches along with all of the alphabet people, but he's secretly, you know, a Wahhabi who would
00:41:42.420
chop off all of their heads at the first moment and give them all a tour of the rooftops when he
00:41:46.600
kicks them all off the moment he gets power. Uh, that's one thought of it. The other thought is he is
00:41:53.060
a millennial leftist, uh, steeped, who happened, who also happens to be Muslim, but those things
00:42:01.460
aren't in conflict because to be a millennial leftist is to be steeped in all kinds of anti-Americanism.
00:42:07.780
Uh, the weird sex stuff and the radical open borders stuff and despising American history and
00:42:15.760
opposing the religions that built America, uh, and therefore supporting other religions with whom we've
00:42:21.080
been at war. I remember, I remember I was in, uh, middle school. I was in middle school during nine
00:42:26.600
11. Then I was in high school and the liberal teachers were really favorable in their teaching
00:42:32.680
of, uh, Islam. So even I made a joke one time, I was in like ninth grade or something like that.
00:42:39.040
I made a joke that the first terrorist was Muhammad and my teacher got really angry at me. My teacher
00:42:42.540
was very liberal. So you'd say on the one, how can these liberals who support LGBTism, uh, support Islam,
00:42:48.620
which would kick all of those people off of rooftops? How can those, and the, the common
00:42:53.580
threat is just a reflexive anti-Americanism. That's what I see in Momdani. He is a communist,
00:42:59.780
like an actual communist. He talks, he openly promotes communist ideas. He is radically pro-LGBT
00:43:06.760
and has called for queer liberation explicitly. And he seems favorable to the Muslim issues,
00:43:14.320
the pan-Muslim issues, but so is Greta Thunberg. So what, what is it? Is it a Zawahiri? Is it a
00:43:21.800
Sayyid Qutb? Or is he just like a, a typical whiny New York liberal millennial? I don't know. To me,
00:43:30.660
the evidence is all, all on the ladder. I've, I've no illusions about the threat of Islam. I note
00:43:35.800
frequently that we've been in conflict with Islam for, uh, 1400 years. We celebrated the anniversary
00:43:40.580
of the battle of Lepanto just a few days ago, but that ain't Mondani. In some ways,
00:43:45.660
it would be a recommendation of Mondani if that were the case. Okay, next one.
00:43:49.740
This weekend, our family of five is entering the Catholic church, no small part because of you,
00:43:54.340
Michael. So thank you for all your work. Um, I've been getting regular emails from the Vatican
00:43:59.180
and today, October 1st, there was an article in one of the Vatican's emails about how all Catholics
00:44:05.040
should pray for the abolishment of the death penalty. Uh, you and Mike, you and Matt Walsh
00:44:11.260
have talked a lot about how the death penalty is a good thing, especially in light of Charlie Kirk's
00:44:15.080
assassin. Um, but then it pointed me to the catechism of the Catholic church and paragraph
00:44:19.880
2267 talks about how the church should be seeking to abolish the death penalty worldwide.
00:44:27.120
I want to believe in everything the Catholic church has to teach and I have such open hands to
00:44:31.460
listen to it, but I just don't agree with this. Um, can you please help me catechize me? Uh,
00:44:37.460
how should I believe, what should I think about this? Um, as a Catholic now? Um, yeah,
00:44:42.900
I would love to hear your thoughts about that. Yes, really, really good question. And the short
00:44:47.520
version is the catechism of the Catholic church is great. The catechism as we know it is a document
00:44:51.960
from the early nineties from John Paul II. There have been other catechisms over the years,
00:44:55.780
the Baltimore catechism, the catechism of St. Pius X, many other catechisms going all the way back
00:44:59.700
to antiquity in the didache. Uh, and the, you know, the, the one that we refer to is from the
00:45:04.640
early nineties and then Pope Francis gave us, gave it an update. And the one in the early nineties
00:45:08.380
included this odd prudential insertion that while the death penalty is not intrinsically evil,
00:45:13.760
practically speaking, you know, we should, it shouldn't be practiced generally. And then
00:45:18.640
Francis took that to a greater extreme and said, it's morally inadmissible. Curiously though,
00:45:23.560
he couldn't say it was intrinsically evil because the church has, uh, uh, robustly vociferously
00:45:30.300
defended the, the death penalty for two millennia. And some popes have carried it out,
00:45:36.080
including blessed Pius IX who, who personally oversaw the execution of 500 prisoners in the
00:45:40.040
papal states. Uh, so is there a conflict here? No, the, the catechism of the Catholic church is a
00:45:46.260
great teaching tool, but it's, it's not as if, uh, the catechism is an infallible pronouncement of the
00:45:51.560
Pope on faith and morals like cathedra. Uh, it is, uh, not the case that, uh, you know,
00:45:58.120
we're hyper ultramontanists where if the, if the Pope tells us that we have to eat whoppers,
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we can never eat a quarter pounder again. Uh, Pope Benedict XVI of blessed memory, a recent Pope
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observed that unlike on certain issues, um, abortion say, uh, where there's really no question
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about Catholic teaching going all the way back to the D.K in the earliest days of the church on the
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death penalty, reasonable minds might disagree. Uh, so that's, that's how I would think about it.
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I would take it with a little bit of a Mediterranean nonchalance and recognize that
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not every pronouncement of a Pope is of, uh, equal significance. Next question.
00:46:32.960
Hello, Michael. My question revolves around Catholicism and fulfillment in life. Can a
00:46:38.260
Catholic devote their life to celibacy even without being part of holy orders? I'm a 23-year-old
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Catholic trying to focus more on creating a fulfilling life. And that involves understanding
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my faith more, training myself to be a boxer-like fighter, and educating myself to be like one of
00:46:55.080
the autodidacts of history. From my perspective, finding a wife or pursuing the family life would
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get in the way of my education and training. I know I'm still young with more life ahead of me,
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but best I ask the question than stay conflicted. So can a Catholic swear to celibacy even if they have
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no intentions of becoming priests, monks, bishops, or deacons? Thank you for your time.
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And professor, stop crashing your Camaros and get back to work. Quit gallivanting with your
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girlfriend. You got a job to do. That's nice. Very smart man on many fronts. Short answer is yes.
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Yeah, of course. Not everyone is called to marriage. In fact, just from the perspective of
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the Catholic Church, if you're a certain type of member of Opus Dei, which is a, you know,
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Catholic order from, starts out in the Spanish Civil War when the Bolsheviks, which we were
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talking about the other day when the Bolsheviks were trying to destroy the church and killed 20%
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of clergy in Spain. There are lay members, not clergy, lay members of Opus Dei who are celibate.
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And there are people who are celibate also. But whether you get married or whether you're celibate
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and a lay person or whether you take holy orders, the key is it has to be for God.
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So I wouldn't be celibate just so that you can make an extra dollar. I wouldn't be celibate just
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so you can paint an extra painting. I think your opinion could change over time when, you know,
00:48:18.140
look, I'm pretty career focused. Myself, I spent a lot of time thinking about work and working and,
00:48:22.360
you know, pursuing my career. But practically speaking, the greatest thing in my life is my family.
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And I, you know, I don't know that in my early 20s, I would have imagined that, but that is the
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case. You know, in terms of the practical, tangible, day-to-day human stuff, obviously one's
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faith is the most important thing, but it ends up being the family. That might surprise you. But
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regardless, maybe you're called to celibacy. But if so, it's just, your marriage has to be a symbol
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of Christ's love for his church. Your celibacy has to be for God. Obviously, your holy orders would be
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for God. So just make sure it's in the right place. Okay, I know they want me to go to the
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Membrum Segmentum. I want to get to the last question.
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Hey, Michael. So I'm headed to the Nashville Dance Fest this weekend because I recently took
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up Western Swing Dancing to help me meet people. And it's been really great for me, honestly. I've
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made a lot of friends. Granted, the women tend to be crazy. I'm not really sure if it's because
00:49:10.640
they're dancers or just because they're women. But I was wondering if there's any other activities
00:49:13.980
that you would recommend to help me be more social because I'd really like to branch out. Thanks.
00:49:18.380
Yeah, that's a great one. That's a really great one. And yeah, look, they're probably a little
00:49:22.160
crazy for both of those reasons. Maybe the dancing part is kind of eccentric, but maybe that
00:49:29.000
exacerbates the kind of natural level of craziness common to the gentler sex. But I would go for
00:49:38.220
other stuff like that. I often say, look, you can meet a girl in church. That's great. Isn't that
00:49:44.440
great? Or you meet a girl in school. I think in some ways that's almost better because you're
00:49:49.040
often younger in that case. You're kind of looking to date in high school or something. And that worked
00:49:53.800
out for me. I recommend that. But at work, it's a little dicier. Sometimes people, they eat
00:50:01.260
one place and they defecate, ideally at another place. It is not good to do those two things at the
00:50:09.320
same place, you understand. But I don't know. What's like swing dancing? I don't know. You could
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take, you could join, I don't know, the symphony. Depends on how kind of pretentious you want to be.
00:50:18.780
Fancy and sophisticated. But you could go, there are all those kinds of groups. Like if there's,
00:50:22.160
if there are artistic groups there, you obviously have an interest in the arts. So I don't know,
00:50:26.100
you go join the local symphony or ballet or some theatrical kind of thing. That, you know,
00:50:32.860
you could join that. They're always young supporters of those groups. Or you could go, I don't know,
00:50:38.220
you could join a kickball league, you know? I mean, that's like another version of it.
00:50:40.660
You are doing something that is artistic and athletic. So you could kind of go either way.
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But I think those are kind of fun. And the people who join those things are doing it
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because they want to meet people. You know, so it's not, it's, there is an intentionality to that,
00:50:53.580
that might make it a little easier to ask a girl out. Okay. Thus speaketh the love doctor,
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