The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1853 - Are Dems Finally Ending The Longest Shutdown In History？

00:00:00.000 After 41 days, the government is on the brink of reopening.

00:00:05.260 There has not been any deal.

00:00:07.440 There has not been any concession.

00:00:10.280 It's just that eight Democrat senators finally flipped to side with Republicans.

00:00:15.260 We'll get into all the details.

00:00:17.100 They're great.

00:00:17.760 But the long and short of it is that when all is said and done, the Democrats instigated

00:00:24.580 the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States for no reason other than

00:00:31.160 to help them win an election in Virginia.

00:00:33.980 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:34.840 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:02.720 The government shutdown is not officially over, but it might as well be.

00:03:07.880 They had to get to 60 votes in the Senate.

00:03:11.600 Republicans were threatening to nuke the filibuster.

00:03:14.480 Plenty of generally restrained, moderate voices, myself included, by the way.

00:03:20.100 I include myself in that, in the Aristotelian sense of moderation.

00:03:23.560 They came out and said, nuke the filibuster.

00:03:25.680 All sorts of voices that you would not have expected came out and said, whatever.

00:03:29.260 It's been many decades, but we're going to nuke the filibuster because the Democrats are

00:03:33.540 going to do it.

00:03:34.080 We'll get a tactical advantage if we do it first.

00:03:36.260 So we're going to end the shutdown by nuking the filibuster.

00:03:38.680 All of a sudden, eight Democrats come out of the woodwork.

00:03:40.740 They say, okay, fine.

00:03:43.020 Okay, well, here's how it happened.

00:03:44.780 You know, they say that this is the way the world ends.

00:03:46.500 This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

00:03:48.680 The same thing with the government shutdown.

00:03:50.220 Here's how the government shutdown effectively ended.

00:03:53.100 For those of you just listening.

00:03:57.560 Just Rosen.

00:03:59.460 Aye.

00:04:01.360 That's it.

00:04:01.860 Just people moving around the Senate floor.

00:04:03.940 Senators talking.

00:04:04.900 That's it.

00:04:05.240 That's all clip.

00:04:07.320 Senator Rosen.

00:04:08.900 Aye.

00:04:09.400 Who's Senator Rosen?

00:04:10.200 That's Jackie Rosen.

00:04:11.100 Followed by Dick Durbin, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, Angus King, who's not a Democrat, but he might

00:04:18.960 as well be.

00:04:19.440 He's an independent in Maine.

00:04:20.800 Cortez Masto, Gene Shaheen, and John Fetterman.

00:04:24.780 Those are the eight.

00:04:26.100 Fetterman, who is now taking up the mantle as the last blue dog Democrat in the country. 0.97

00:04:30.540 They voted with 52 Republicans, brings it to 60, gets past the filibuster.

00:04:38.660 Now it goes to the House, but the House is controlled by the Republicans, albeit with a

00:04:43.240 slim majority.

00:04:43.960 It doesn't matter.

00:04:44.900 The Republicans will vote in lockstep to reopen the government.

00:04:47.700 What was this all about?

00:04:49.440 This went on for 41 days.

00:04:51.000 It might still go on for a day or two.

00:04:54.020 What did the Democrats get?

00:04:55.520 Why did they shut it down?

00:04:56.480 The Democrats said they shut the government down because Republicans wouldn't negotiate

00:05:01.040 on health care and they were going to strip health care from Americans and blah, blah,

00:05:03.840 blah.

00:05:04.200 Republicans came back to them and said, hold on, what are you talking about?

00:05:06.300 You mean, you're right.

00:05:07.220 We won't fund like illegal alien health care, which you apparently want to do. 0.99

00:05:11.580 We won't.

00:05:11.960 What do you want?

00:05:12.500 What is this about?

00:05:13.400 What are you doing?

00:05:15.260 And the Democrats said, we need to fix health care.

00:05:17.220 And the Republicans came back and said, guys, we gave you a clean CR, a clean continuing

00:05:22.140 resolution, which means that to continue funding the government,

00:05:26.480 you just had to vote for the budget that you already voted for under Joe Biden.

00:05:31.500 It's not like the Republicans said, Democrats, we're going to force you to give us a bunch

00:05:35.540 of our priorities and slash spending here and put in a bunch of social conservatism here.

00:05:40.220 And no, it had nothing to do with that.

00:05:41.880 They just said, hey, guys, do you want to keep the government open under the same budget

00:05:44.380 you already voted for under Biden?

00:05:45.760 And Democrats said, no.

00:05:47.720 So they owned the shutdown.

00:05:50.680 And then they came up with all these ex post facto arguments.

00:05:53.080 They said, you need to fix health care.

00:05:55.080 By the way, we're currently under a health care framework that the Democrats gave us

00:05:59.160 called Obamacare.

00:05:59.940 We'll get to that momentarily.

00:06:01.260 But they never really had anything.

00:06:03.480 So the current the agreement that the Senate came to is to fund the government through January

00:06:10.440 30th.

00:06:11.060 So not just to get us through the end of November, which we're pretty close to, to get

00:06:15.060 us through January 30th.

00:06:17.000 That will include a full year funding for SNAP.

00:06:21.780 We used to call it food stamps, SNAP.

00:06:23.200 We found out a huge number of Americans are on food stamps, many of whom apparently don't

00:06:28.060 seem to need it.

00:06:29.700 It will also.

00:06:32.680 Well, that's it.

00:06:34.240 That's pretty much it.

00:06:36.520 It'll it'll reopen the government.

00:06:38.020 It'll fund the welfare programs that Democrats like.

00:06:41.500 And later on, they will vote on those Obamacare subsidies that the Democrats want.

00:06:49.440 How are the Dems reacting to this?

00:06:52.080 Not very well.

00:06:53.900 Chuck Schumer is was opposed.

00:06:56.320 The Democrat leader in the Senate was opposed to the eight Dems siding with the Republicans.

00:07:00.960 Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha, Focahontas.

00:07:05.120 She said, I think it's a terrible mistake.

00:07:06.880 The American people want us to stand and fight for health care.

00:07:09.280 So they're still making it about health care.

00:07:11.180 Democrat Representative Greg Kesar of Texas says that the Democrats caving on this constitutes

00:07:17.000 a betrayal and a capitulation because it doesn't reduce health care costs.

00:07:22.320 They're still making it all about health care.

00:07:24.560 That's not a deal, says Democrat Rep.

00:07:27.280 Richie Torres.

00:07:28.220 It's an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums

00:07:32.760 are about to double.

00:07:35.120 So they're trying to make it about health care.

00:07:36.980 Now, why?

00:07:37.500 I explained this right when the government shutdown happened.

00:07:40.060 I said, what this is about is Democrats throwing a Hail Mary, is the Democrats are on

00:07:44.740 the wrong side of virtually every 80-20 issue in the country, with the exception of women's

00:07:50.180 rights, which just means abortion, environmentalism, and health care.

00:07:55.380 But no one cares about abortion.

00:07:56.760 That's not a top priority.

00:07:58.140 No one cares about the sun monster.

00:07:59.700 That's not a top priority.

00:08:00.800 The only one that approaches a relatively high priority is health care.

00:08:06.300 And so the Democrats said, shoot, we're losing on everything.

00:08:09.220 We've lost the whole government.

00:08:10.860 Republicans have a unified government.

00:08:12.480 So, okay, we're going to shut the government down, make a big spectacle to try to turn the

00:08:17.340 conversation away from immigration, to try to turn the conversation away from some of the 1.00

00:08:21.420 economic wins under Trump, to try to turn the conversation away from the geopolitical

00:08:25.200 wins under Trump.

00:08:26.520 Peace in the Middle East, some movement on the Ukraine war, Trump winning on the terror fight

00:08:31.700 when everyone said that he would be losing on the terror fights.

00:08:33.740 We're going to turn the conversation away from that, to health care.

00:08:38.020 The big problem, though, is we are currently under the Democrat health care regime.

00:08:46.480 Democrats told us under Barack Obama, if you vote for this bill, we're going to fix health

00:08:52.260 care.

00:08:52.380 We're going to fix this problem once for all.

00:08:53.980 Joe Biden, vice president at the time, says, this is a big effing deal, man.

00:08:57.520 So the Democrats, even as they get their best issue right before the election, they're admitting

00:09:03.360 that the last time they told you they were going to fix health care, it made everything

00:09:06.460 worse.

00:09:07.700 Now, in fairness, tactically, the shutdown did achieve one thing for Democrats.

00:09:14.800 The shutdown took 300,000 federal workers and had them sitting on their hands, not getting

00:09:21.080 paid with nothing to do but stew, just as there were consequential elections in Virginia.

00:09:27.860 And it worked.

00:09:28.840 They got their Democrat governor, Spanberger.

00:09:31.300 They got their Democrat attorney general, Jay Jones, even as he was calling to murder Republicans.

00:09:36.240 Seemed like his support among Democrats went up when it was revealed that he wanted to murder

00:09:40.440 Republicans and our kids.

00:09:42.380 They did well in the House of Delegates.

00:09:44.520 So they did well in that election.

00:09:46.740 They got it.

00:09:47.320 But that's it.

00:09:47.880 And now the story of this shutdown is going to be not what the Democrats wanted, which

00:09:53.780 is that Republicans are shutting down the government, not what the Democrats wanted, which was that

00:09:58.200 Democrats are making a heroic stand for health care or whatever.

00:10:02.140 The story of the shutdown, when all is said and done, is going to be that the Democrats shut

00:10:08.200 down the government to win an election in Virginia, which they did.

00:10:11.560 Good for you.

00:10:13.340 And it wreaked havoc in the country.

00:10:16.580 It cost a lot of money.

00:10:18.880 It didn't achieve anything.

00:10:20.160 Don't take my word for it.

00:10:21.980 Here's MSNBC reacting to the beginning of the end of the shutdown.

00:10:25.880 I have a lot more questions than answers.

00:10:29.700 I don't know why Senate Democrats are going along with it.

00:10:32.780 So hard for a date promised in the future.

00:10:38.000 And there looks like they're settling for something that is six weeks down the line.

00:10:42.980 I don't get it.

00:10:44.160 I would say it doesn't feel like a gentleman's agreement.

00:10:45.980 It feels like Lucy and the football.

00:10:47.660 You know, it's like, oh, yeah, we promised this vote.

00:10:51.880 Right.

00:10:52.340 Whoops.

00:10:52.780 You know, the vote's gone.

00:10:54.180 But they can even, in good faith, do a vote in the Senate.

00:10:56.620 Nothing's going to happen in the House.

00:10:57.920 Mike Johnson has never said that.

00:10:59.700 So, Mike, even if John Thune is being above board and saying, I'm going to do this.

00:11:03.520 But look at the base.

00:11:04.660 I mean, I'm already seeing a thing on social media and getting emails from listeners to

00:11:08.080 my radio show, by the way.

00:11:09.100 I have a radio show.

00:11:10.180 We already said that.

00:11:11.120 We gave you credit for that, Dean.

00:11:12.900 Come on.

00:11:13.820 People already, you know, but they're saying, for 40 days, you shut the government down.

00:11:17.440 And now you're going to open the government up.

00:11:18.880 And what did you get in return?

00:11:19.980 Right.

00:11:20.280 Nothing.

00:11:20.800 Right.

00:11:21.140 Nothing.

00:11:21.860 After the pain you inflicted.

00:11:24.120 There it is.

00:11:25.440 Don't take my word for it.

00:11:27.340 You shut the government down for 40 days.

00:11:29.020 What did you get?

00:11:29.900 Nothing.

00:11:30.540 After the pain you inflicted.

00:11:32.700 You Democrats.

00:11:33.480 Because I think the biggest shock to the Democrats was they always manage to blame

00:11:41.000 government shutdowns on Republicans for my whole life.

00:11:45.640 Sometimes it's Republicans fault.

00:11:46.860 Sometimes it's Democrats fault.

00:11:48.140 But Republicans always get blamed until this one, until this one.

00:11:52.300 So, okay, they got a little victory, more than a little victory.

00:11:55.140 They got a major victory in Virginia.

00:11:57.560 Momdani was always going to win New York.

00:11:59.000 They got a major victory in Virginia.

00:12:00.880 And then they got nothing else.

00:12:04.260 The Democrats are going to try to hang their hats.

00:12:06.120 Tim Kaine is already trying to do this.

00:12:07.980 Nearly one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president.

00:12:10.560 Tim Kaine, still a senator. 1.00

00:12:12.520 He said, well, we got the Republicans to give us a vote on our stupid health care plan 1.00

00:12:18.280 after we reopened the government. 1.00

00:12:22.420 Which is ridiculous.

00:12:23.700 That's nothing.

00:12:24.440 The Democrats were using all their leverage to get this vote on health care.

00:12:28.220 And Republicans, Trump very rightly said, we can't give it to them.

00:12:31.980 Because then they're going to run us over in every other negotiation.

00:12:34.840 We have to hold firm here, guys.

00:12:37.040 And then Democrats say, okay, fine.

00:12:39.200 Uncle.

00:12:39.860 We say uncle. 0.98

00:12:41.760 And it looks ridiculous. 0.92

00:12:43.180 The MSNBC lady is trying to spin it and make the Democrats look like victims here. 1.00

00:12:47.000 Oh, this is Lucy with the football.

00:12:48.740 They're being tricked by Republicans.

00:12:50.260 No, they're not.

00:12:50.780 Everybody knows what's happening.

00:12:52.640 Everybody knows this was a surrender.

00:12:55.440 But it's not Lucy with the football.

00:12:57.700 It's the Democrats realizing they have no cards to play.

00:13:00.860 They have no leverage.

00:13:02.060 They went into this thing so overconfident, so bullish, that their usual nonsense would work.

00:13:08.540 And it didn't work with the American people.

00:13:11.760 And so even, I think it was Tim Kaine came out and said, look, our constituents are going to make us vote for this.

00:13:15.960 We lost.

00:13:17.560 We just lost.

00:13:20.440 And still, they're going to try to hammer healthcare. 0.98

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00:16:24.040 Bernie Sanders makes one last valiant stand over the shutdown.

00:16:30.480 I understand that the way the process has been developed, it is impossible to delay the

00:16:38.180 votes that are going to take place.

00:16:39.600 And if that were not the case, that is certainly what I would do, because I think it is important

00:16:44.060 that the American people fully understand what is being voted on today.

00:16:49.380 Everybody in America knows that our current health care system is broken, it is dysfunctional,

00:16:58.080 it is cruel, it is by far the most expensive health care system in the world, and the only

00:17:05.180 health care system of any major country that does not guarantee health care to all people

00:17:10.600 as a human right covering every man, woman, and child.

00:17:14.600 We are unique in that respect.

00:17:17.500 And yet tonight, what this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse.

00:17:27.160 So let's be clear what this vote is about.

00:17:30.720 If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their

00:17:40.540 premiums in the Affordable Care Act.

00:17:43.640 In my state of Vermont and throughout the-

00:17:45.720 Okay.

00:17:47.600 Bernie is very old, so I can forgive him for this.

00:17:51.920 But that speech could have been given in 2007.

00:17:54.720 That's a Democrat speech from 2007.

00:17:59.640 The health care system is dysfunctional.

00:18:02.020 This is the most expensive health care in the world.

00:18:05.100 This is not working.

00:18:06.100 Our system is fundamentally broken.

00:18:10.640 The reason that that doesn't play as well in 2025 as it did in 2007 is that the Democrats,

00:18:18.960 by hook and by crook, gave us their health care program.

00:18:24.000 In 2007, we were operating on the pre-Obama health care system.

00:18:27.460 Today, it's all Dems.

00:18:28.960 It's all Obama. 0.53

00:18:31.060 Barack Obama ran.

00:18:33.020 He said, if you give me my health care plan, premiums are going to come down.

00:18:36.280 If you like your doctor, you're going to get to keep your doctor.

00:18:38.540 We're going to fix this health care once and for all.

00:18:41.180 And he gets it through, and it was very unpopular, and it's why the Democrats lost the midterms

00:18:44.380 in 2010.

00:18:45.320 And it was what led to the Tea Party, and that's what led to Trump.

00:18:49.880 Trump nearly repealed Obamacare.

00:18:51.600 He got very close, but John McCain was vindictive against Trump, and he cast the vote that said,

00:18:55.820 no, we're going to keep Obamacare.

00:18:58.040 So I actually think not only was this a feckless shutdown, other than giving the Dems some extra

00:19:04.080 seats in Virginia, not only was it feckless, not only did it not work, not only did they

00:19:08.920 have to surrender in the end, I think ultimately this will have been bad for their long-term

00:19:14.580 prospects.

00:19:15.140 Not only did it not shift the conversation back to an issue on which they think they're

00:19:20.540 winning health care, but in as much as it did shift the conversation, I think it's going

00:19:26.280 to highlight that their health care plan didn't work.

00:19:29.060 So to get us back to the Lucy and the football analogy, I think this reveals Democrats to 0.54

00:19:34.800 be Lucy. 0.99

00:19:35.240 Because we all remember, many of us remember, the last time they said, let us pass some crazy

00:19:42.160 spending bill, and it's going to make health care better. 1.00

00:19:45.640 It's going to reduce costs.

00:19:46.800 It's going to give Americans more choice.

00:19:48.400 They told us that, and then they took away the football.

00:19:52.460 So much so that Barack Obama had to come out.

00:19:55.140 They said, hold on.

00:19:56.460 You said premiums would go down.

00:19:57.520 Premiums went up.

00:19:58.560 And he said, well, you didn't think you were going to get all that good stuff for free,

00:20:01.040 did you?

00:20:01.300 You didn't, what, you believe me?

00:20:04.060 Why'd you believe me when I said that?

00:20:05.480 What I said didn't make any sense.

00:20:07.940 You didn't think you were going to get all that stuff for free, huh?

00:20:11.400 It was so egregious that PolitiFact rated, if you like your doctor, you can keep your

00:20:16.340 doctor, to be the biggest lie of the year.

00:20:20.040 And now Bernie is unwittingly, I think, acknowledging defeat on the issue.

00:20:26.220 Not just tactical defeat on the shutdown like the eight senators did, admitting defeat on the

00:20:30.140 issue.

00:20:31.580 Our plan didn't work.

00:20:32.900 So why would the American people give the Democrats more of their health care plan?

00:20:36.860 It completely failed to fulfill its promises the first time.

00:20:40.400 Why would they do it again the second time?

00:20:43.820 All in all, a big win.

00:20:45.060 It was a very painful election day.

00:20:46.840 They got their scalp for that.

00:20:49.460 All in all, Trump held firm.

00:20:52.800 There were plenty of Republicans wanting to go weak in the knee.

00:20:55.020 Maybe we need to negotiate with the Democrats here.

00:20:56.920 He said, don't go weak in the knee.

00:20:58.120 You have to hold firm on this.

00:21:01.400 Republicans won.

00:21:02.420 They won big.

00:21:03.300 Now, speaking of major potential Republican victories, huge one coming to the Supreme Court.

00:21:09.900 Maybe.

00:21:12.360 Here it is, New York Times headline.

00:21:15.160 A decade later, Supreme Court is asked to revisit same-sex marriage decision.

00:21:18.600 Kim Davis, a Kentucky County clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses,

00:21:24.000 has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

00:21:28.900 So the Supreme Court considered this on Friday.

00:21:31.640 They will announce their decision of whether or not to even take up the case, to take up the issue today.

00:21:36.920 By the time you're listening to this show, if you're listening later in the day,

00:21:39.060 the court might have already issued their opinion.

00:21:42.220 It sort of doesn't matter.

00:21:43.720 Because at some point, the court is going to have to overturn same-sex marriage.

00:21:51.620 At some point, I'll be more broad about it.

00:21:54.100 At some point, gay marriage, so-called, is going to go away.

00:21:59.300 And it's going to go away because it's contrary to nature.

00:22:03.000 It's going to go away because it doesn't make any sense.

00:22:05.840 Matrimony, matrimony comes from the word mater in Latin, okay, like mother.

00:22:13.540 You can't have matrimony between two dudes.

00:22:16.120 It doesn't make any sense.

00:22:17.280 The defining feature of marriage is that it involves sexual difference. 0.79

00:22:22.960 Because marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman for the begetting of children 0.96

00:22:28.720 and for the educating of children and for the mutual support of the spouses.

00:22:32.520 But primarily, it's about making kids and raising kids.

00:22:38.880 And you cannot remove the essential feature of marriage and still have marriage continue.

00:22:47.440 It doesn't work.

00:22:49.500 So you have Clarence Thomas in the Dobbs decision acknowledging that the reasoning 0.74

00:22:54.420 behind overruling Roe v. Wade and Dobbs would naturally lead to overruling all sorts of other dumb cases.

00:23:02.520 And we can get into the legal minutiae of why that is some other time.

00:23:06.320 But he admitted that.

00:23:08.320 He admits that Obergefell's got to go.

00:23:10.440 The other judges are being a little more coy about this.

00:23:12.660 So probably they don't want to take this up.

00:23:15.540 And they don't want to take it up because right now,

00:23:17.380 same-sex marriage still has majority support in the country.

00:23:20.240 However, that support is waning.

00:23:22.380 And the court does follow opinion polls, does follow election returns.

00:23:26.460 And in many ways, it should.

00:23:28.320 Because the court is not some ethereal body protected from the fall of man

00:23:32.940 with infallible judgment that comes down out of heaven to maintain our political order.

00:23:40.100 The court is a political institution.

00:23:41.540 It's one of the three co-equal branches of government.

00:23:45.000 And as support for same-sex marriage continues to decline, which it must.

00:23:49.580 I've been calling this one for years.

00:23:50.760 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:23:52.220 It must because the logic that gave us same-sex marriage 0.86

00:23:56.880 was the logic of feminism, which says that men and women are the same.

00:24:00.280 That led to the gay rights movement.

00:24:01.660 That led to redefining marriage. 1.00

00:24:02.740 That led to the transgender movement.

00:24:03.960 That led to transing the kids. 0.96

00:24:05.880 Necessarily as a consequence of those ideas.

00:24:08.340 As the public turned away, they were so repulsed by transing kids. 1.00

00:24:13.420 That finally aroused the wisdom of repugnance.

00:24:16.860 That aroused their indignation.

00:24:18.400 As the idea then moves back in the other direction,

00:24:22.200 it's going to start to unwind to all of those things.

00:24:25.360 So, look, I hope the court overrules Obergefell now. 0.81

00:24:28.640 It's a ridiculous decision on like every front. 0.97

00:24:31.880 On textualist grounds, it's ridiculous. 0.98

00:24:33.880 On originalist grounds, it's ridiculous. 0.96

00:24:35.760 On substantive grounds, it's ridiculous. 0.94

00:24:37.820 On natural law grounds, it's just crazy. 0.86

00:24:40.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:24:41.540 So I hope they do it now.

00:24:42.940 But even if they don't, it took 50 years to overrule Roe v. Wade.

00:24:46.000 It might take 50 years to overrule Obergefell.

00:24:48.640 It will be overruled.

00:24:51.060 It's just a matter of time.

00:24:54.040 You cannot maintain a political order that is contrary to reality.

00:25:00.180 You can't do it for very long.

00:25:01.500 Eventually, the Soviet Union is going to collapse under its own incoherence.

00:25:07.720 Eventually, we have a lot of power, we human beings, to enforce the tyranny of our wills on society.

00:25:18.220 But eventually, reality is going to win out in the end.

00:25:20.560 Now, speaking of the courts, really shocking numbers about how the courts are being weaponized against Trump.

00:25:27.860 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:26:56.980 We had Chad Mizell on the show.

00:26:59.020 What was it?

00:26:59.460 Two weeks ago, something like that.

00:27:00.740 He was the recent chief of staff over at the Department of Justice.

00:27:04.180 Really, really sharp guy.

00:27:05.460 He has a shocking number, set of numbers, about how the courts are being weaponized against Trump.

00:27:15.060 Bush had six injunctions against him.

00:27:17.920 Half of those were issued by Democrat-appointed judges.

00:27:20.880 Obama had 12 nationwide injunctions issued against his administration.

00:27:24.700 60% of those were issued by Republican-appointed judges.

00:27:28.840 In the first Trump term, he had 64 injunctions.

00:27:32.840 That compares with Biden's 14.

00:27:35.940 And then before the Casa decision, we have a rough count of about 40 issued in the first six months of the Trump administration.

00:27:42.860 So over 100 injunctions issued against the Trump administration.

00:27:47.800 Over 90% of those were issued by Democrat-appointed judges.

00:27:51.200 That means that since 1963, over three-quarters of the nationwide injunctions have been issued against President Trump,

00:27:59.460 with over 90% of those coming from Democrat-appointed judges.

00:28:03.340 Well, some might argue that's just because Trump is more lawless.

00:28:06.340 Well, again, let's look at the facts.

00:28:09.760 24 emergency petitions were filed at the Supreme Court by the Trump administration this year.

00:28:14.940 They won 22 of them.

00:28:16.540 That's a 92% win rate at the United States Supreme Court.

00:28:21.220 Since 1963, 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against Trump.

00:28:30.720 And as Chad points out, you might be tempted at this point to say, well, look, maybe it's just because Trump is more lawless than any president before him.

00:28:38.400 Give me a break.

00:28:39.100 But that's what the Democrats are going to say.

00:28:41.000 Yeah, three-quarters of the injunctions over the last 60 years have been against Trump because he's the most lawless guy.

00:28:45.920 Except when they then appeal these decisions, the Trump administration has a 92% win rate at the Supreme Court.

00:28:55.380 And the Supreme Court rules over the lower courts. 0.77

00:28:58.680 So it's just ridiculous.

00:29:00.240 At a certain point, the lower court should probably take note and stop issuing these injunctions.

00:29:03.380 And the injunctions are crazy.

00:29:04.620 It's against everything Trump wants to do.

00:29:06.520 Trump wakes up.

00:29:07.180 They say, sir, what would you like for breakfast?

00:29:09.020 Would you like an omelet or would you like pancakes?

00:29:10.700 I think I'll have pancakes.

00:29:11.720 Oh, sorry.

00:29:13.020 Federal district court judge rules you have to have an omelet today.

00:29:18.100 I think I'll wear a purple tie today.

00:29:20.820 Oh, sorry.

00:29:21.340 Federal district court judge issues an injunction.

00:29:23.080 You have to wear a green tie.

00:29:23.800 On everything the guy tries to do, they're trying to undo the 2024 election from these lower-level federal courts.

00:29:31.800 One random judge out of 700 can stop the executive branch from executing its responsibilities after Trump won the election, after Republicans won the House and the Senate.

00:29:44.580 Are you serious?

00:29:46.200 How does that work?

00:29:47.240 Look, this brings us to have to reconsider what the courts even are.

00:29:55.080 What do the courts do? 0.82

00:29:56.940 Because we're supposed to have three co-equal branches of government.

00:30:00.500 In practice, though, today, the Democrats have elevated the court into a kind of super government that is supposed to rule over all the others.

00:30:09.400 Now, they weren't doing that five minutes ago, were they?

00:30:12.340 Five minutes ago, they were talking about how the Supreme Court was lawless and unconstitutional.

00:30:16.140 We need to pack the court.

00:30:17.120 We need to abolish the way the court works because the court did things they don't like. 1.00

00:30:23.580 But now that the court is their last chance, it's that Hail Mary, it's that last-ditch effort, now they say, no, no, no, one federal district judge, he can rule the whole government.

00:30:34.060 The Supreme Court's not allowed to, but some random district judge will be like, he can rule the whole government.

00:30:39.320 And it's even the way we talk about the judges that I think should cause some introspection.

00:30:45.240 We talk about the judges as if they're some disembodied intelligence.

00:30:50.320 It's kind of the same way we talk about AI.

00:30:52.880 Oh, well, Grok said such and such.

00:30:55.300 So debate over.

00:30:56.180 Boom, owned, roasted.

00:30:57.720 Well, a federal judge.

00:31:00.560 They never even use their names.

00:31:01.840 No one even knows their names.

00:31:02.880 Is it not?

00:31:03.320 It's just a federal judge has declared.

00:31:07.460 The oracle at Delphi has declared that Trump can't do what the people elected him to do.

00:31:15.200 So be it nihil obstat.

00:31:17.340 And this reminds me of a line, providentially, that my pastor read during his homily yesterday.

00:31:23.780 He was quoting George Bernard Shaw.

00:31:26.140 George Bernard Shaw, a socialist, an atheist, a radical leftist.

00:31:32.400 Pretty good playwright, friends with Chesterton, but leftist.

00:31:36.020 And he has this really great line.

00:31:38.620 He says, quote,

00:31:39.660 The famous dogma of papal infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence.

00:31:48.880 Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers,

00:31:57.100 our infallible judges, our infallible parliaments,

00:32:00.840 the pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God,

00:32:04.780 asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else,

00:32:12.040 his decision shall be taken as final.

00:32:14.100 This is the way to understand it.

00:32:15.540 And you're getting it.

00:32:16.400 You know, I point you to MSNBC to show you it's not just some right winger invading against Democrats.

00:32:22.980 No, there's actually all reasonable people can see this.

00:32:26.700 Well, I point you to the socialist George Bernard Shaw here,

00:32:29.680 who wrote this, what, 100 years ago?

00:32:31.560 It's from his play, St. Joan.

00:32:32.800 I forget exactly when it was written.

00:32:34.780 And he could be describing 2025.

00:32:38.300 Plenty of people have a problem with people infallibility.

00:32:41.440 You know, the notion that when ruling through a definitive act on matters of faith and morals,

00:32:47.000 ex cathedra, the pope is infallible. 0.92

00:32:50.140 And people say, oh, that's ridiculous. 0.98

00:32:52.140 That's crazy. 0.97

00:32:53.440 And yet, look how we treat these other institutions.

00:32:57.720 Look how we treat the medical councils.

00:33:00.620 We think that Fauci is infallible.

00:33:02.320 We were told he was infallible for like five years.

00:33:04.780 How about our democracy, our sacred democracy?

00:33:07.800 When Democrats were winning elections, we were told democracy is infallible.

00:33:11.540 Vox populi, vox dei.

00:33:12.660 Even some right-wingers say that.

00:33:15.580 And now the federal judges.

00:33:16.680 That's the one thing Shaw could have added.

00:33:17.980 The infallible federal judges.

00:33:20.600 It's like, papal infallibility is really quite modest.

00:33:23.820 It's really quite restrained compared to the supposed infallibility of some random bureaucrat in D.C. 0.96

00:33:31.140 It's ridiculous. 0.76

00:33:33.300 The federal judges are not infallible. 0.95

00:33:35.820 They should not be treated as a priestly caste.

00:33:37.780 And I think people are coming to that realization.

00:33:44.320 They're going to have to because the Supreme Court keeps striking down the supposedly infallible lower-level judges.

00:33:50.620 Now, speaking of the Pope, the Pope had something very, very interesting to say about internet porn.

00:33:56.320 And people don't seem to be understanding what the Pope is saying.

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00:34:33.200 My favorite comment yesterday is from Mr. Rifley who says,

00:34:36.820 quote,

00:34:37.840 When I have an issue I care about, people will hear.

00:34:40.300 That's worth borrowing.

00:34:41.240 I know.

00:34:41.540 Sydney Sweeney.

00:34:42.140 If she's not going to be J.D. Vance's running mate in 2028, which I'm still holding out for,

00:34:48.220 she at least needs to train all Republicans on messaging, on interviews, on how to handle the media. 0.98

00:34:54.340 Papa Leone, Pope Leo, the 14th, has just weighed in on internet porn.

00:35:01.760 In recent times, addictions like drugs, alcohol, which continue to be the prevalent ones,

00:35:12.140 are joined by the use of the internet, computers and smartphones.

00:35:22.220 It doesn't only have clear benefits, but with overuse.

00:35:26.420 It results in dependencies, with bad outcomes for your health, that have to do with gambling,

00:35:37.220 with porn,

00:35:39.120 and the almost constant presence on platforms of the digital world.

00:35:46.300 These addictions become an obsession, changing behavior in daily life.

00:35:55.820 These phenomena, more often than not,

00:35:59.620 are the symptoms of mental problems and the inner malaise of the individual,

00:36:05.900 and a decay of social values.

00:36:09.340 He goes on, the whole statement is worth listening to.

00:36:15.620 First of all, it's very interesting, it's not just about porn.

00:36:17.860 He also points out that there's a big problem now with compulsive gambling on the internet.

00:36:22.000 And I agree.

00:36:23.600 I know plenty of people, plenty of my friends enjoy sports gambling,

00:36:26.700 sports gambling on the internet, which has recently been legalized and normalized.

00:36:30.200 I'm a little more cautious about that.

00:36:33.100 I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.

00:36:34.900 Having little bets here and there can be a lot of fun,

00:36:39.060 but if you're regularly, compulsively engaging in gambling,

00:36:42.480 that can be really, really damaging.

00:36:44.320 And then, of course, the clearest addiction problem that's come out of the internet

00:36:48.060 is porn, pornography addiction.

00:36:51.020 And the Pope is taking this on. 0.90

00:36:52.940 He's doing this, I think, quite intentionally.

00:36:56.920 I think he knew he was going to do this when he picked his name, Leo XIV,

00:37:00.420 because he took inspiration from his predecessor, Leo XIII,

00:37:03.380 who dealt with the problems of the modern world,

00:37:06.360 specifically with industrialization.

00:37:08.600 And wrote really important encyclicals,

00:37:10.860 Rerum Novarum, notably, about industrial society

00:37:14.420 and how it was changing our moral outlook and behavior

00:37:17.000 and how the Catholics need to react to it.

00:37:20.800 How Christians broadly should react to it.

00:37:23.540 And it was highly political.

00:37:25.440 And this is pretty political as well.

00:37:28.740 But it also calls to mind,

00:37:30.760 whether you're Catholic or not Catholic,

00:37:32.220 whether you like the Pope, whether you hate the Pope,

00:37:33.640 whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.

00:37:36.780 Something the Pope is calling our attention to

00:37:38.520 is how much we underestimate

00:37:41.200 the effect of technology on political problems.

00:37:44.780 I think we, the kind of people who follow political news,

00:37:48.120 read the paper, watch the shows,

00:37:50.760 follow every happening in the Senate and the House,

00:37:54.500 we tend to get abstract.

00:37:56.320 And we think it's all about ideology. 0.98

00:37:58.320 And it's just those crazy radical leftists 0.99

00:38:00.640 and their ideas, 0.98

00:38:02.460 almost abstracted from the tangible world.

00:38:06.160 I'm guilty of it sometimes too.

00:38:07.500 We all do that.

00:38:08.660 We think it's all ideology.

00:38:11.200 But the ideology doesn't just occur and grow in a vacuum.

00:38:16.040 It is intimately intertwined with technology,

00:38:19.240 with the real tangible physical aspects of the world.

00:38:22.760 You know, this does lead to,

00:38:25.980 I think of the School of Athens,

00:38:27.320 famous painting by Raphael,

00:38:29.020 of Aristotle and Socrates,

00:38:31.480 walking in the School of Athens,

00:38:33.300 and, or sorry, Aristotle and Plato.

00:38:34.880 Plato's pointing up,

00:38:36.020 Aristotle's pointing down.

00:38:37.260 Because for Plato,

00:38:38.940 his philosophy is all about the forms

00:38:40.860 that are kind of floating in outer space.

00:38:43.140 And for Aristotle, it's all incarnate.

00:38:47.020 Philosophy is all embodied.

00:38:48.680 It's all, it all has a connection to the physical world.

00:38:52.400 And Aristotle's right.

00:38:54.880 So think about the way that technology

00:38:57.820 has shaped our ideological fights.

00:39:00.020 Going all the way back,

00:39:01.800 the printing press,

00:39:04.760 the invention of the printing press

00:39:06.160 caused the crack up of Europe, 0.87

00:39:08.880 of what we used to call Christendom.

00:39:10.360 Now we call it the West 0.76

00:39:11.100 because we killed Christendom

00:39:12.880 because of the printing press.

00:39:14.680 And the Protestant narrative on this

00:39:16.620 is that the printing press allowed the Bible

00:39:18.620 to be translated and sent out.

00:39:20.400 And then people discovered the true gospel,

00:39:21.720 which had been hidden for 1,500 years.

00:39:23.860 And they discovered it now.

00:39:25.360 And that's what led to a revolt

00:39:26.240 against the Catholic Church.

00:39:27.060 That's like the Reformation 1.00

00:39:28.340 kind of narrative about it.

00:39:31.160 I obviously don't quite agree with that.

00:39:33.400 There were plenty of translations

00:39:34.320 of the Bible elsewhere.

00:39:35.420 The reason the Bible was not widely circulated

00:39:37.180 was because it was extremely expensive.

00:39:39.240 The reason that it was sometimes locked up

00:39:40.820 in churches or on a chain

00:39:42.300 is because these things were worth

00:39:44.140 the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars

00:39:45.740 and they could be robbed.

00:39:46.600 And anyway, I think that's historically,

00:39:49.000 the whole narrative is quite dubious.

00:39:50.300 But the thing we should all agree on is

00:39:51.660 what the printing press allowed

00:39:53.320 was the publication not just of the Bible,

00:39:56.180 but of political tracts, invectives, polemics,

00:40:01.640 Luther's 95 Theses to be printed widely circulated.

00:40:06.440 And that led to a political crack up of Europe,

00:40:09.040 first in Germany and then everywhere else.

00:40:11.320 There is no crack up of Europe.

00:40:13.580 There is no major religious war.

00:40:15.900 There is no piece of Augsburg

00:40:17.820 or piece of Westphalia

00:40:18.700 without the printing press.

00:40:20.060 It did it.

00:40:22.340 The automobile, fast forward a little bit.

00:40:25.100 The automobile caused teen culture,

00:40:27.420 rebellious teen culture,

00:40:28.840 you know, going out,

00:40:30.240 having a separate teen culture

00:40:32.000 from the broader social culture

00:40:34.340 and teenagers going out

00:40:37.320 and hooking up and whatever,

00:40:39.100 going and doing drugs and stuff.

00:40:40.400 That was facilitated by the automobile.

00:40:44.160 If you don't have an automobile,

00:40:45.840 then teenagers can't go sneak out a lot of the time

00:40:47.880 and, you know, form their own habits and views

00:40:51.140 and lead to that kind of rebellious spirit

00:40:53.500 that really came about in the 1950s and 60s and 70s.

00:40:56.520 That was caused by the car.

00:41:00.160 Even going back to the Enlightenment,

00:41:02.020 I'm hopping around time zones here,

00:41:04.220 but the mechanical clock,

00:41:05.800 the invention and development of the mechanical clock

00:41:09.000 impelled Enlightenment deism,

00:41:12.340 the ideas of the Enlightenment,

00:41:13.500 and specifically deism,

00:41:14.580 this idea that, okay, maybe God exists,

00:41:16.600 but he's like a clockmaker.

00:41:17.700 You know, he just builds the clock,

00:41:19.320 winds it up,

00:41:20.080 and then it runs on his own

00:41:21.480 without his interference.

00:41:23.940 These are ideas that were prominent,

00:41:25.560 even with the founding fathers of the United States.

00:41:28.880 Those ideas would not have gained currency

00:41:31.800 without the technological innovation of the clock.

00:41:34.660 That was the idea,

00:41:36.180 or rather that was the fact

00:41:37.580 that made these ideas seem to make sense to people.

00:41:40.960 There would be no Freud without the steam engine.

00:41:42.960 Freudian psychology is just an articulation

00:41:46.800 of the technology of the steam engine.

00:41:49.300 We even use that phrase.

00:41:50.780 We say people just got to blow off a little steam.

00:41:52.680 They don't want to repress everything.

00:41:54.140 They got to let it out a little bit.

00:41:56.240 That's where that comes from.

00:41:59.980 Bring it back to Congress.

00:42:02.100 Part of the reason that Congress

00:42:03.380 is so dysfunctional today

00:42:04.580 is because of C-SPAN.

00:42:06.060 C-SPAN, which goes into

00:42:07.180 the House of Representatives in 1979,

00:42:09.000 goes into the Senate in 1983 or 84,

00:42:11.460 I think it was,

00:42:12.460 starts televising

00:42:13.800 all of the deals,

00:42:16.780 all of the arguments,

00:42:18.060 all of the,

00:42:19.020 that made Congress much less functional.

00:42:22.400 Because all of a sudden,

00:42:23.720 the senators are not just trying

00:42:24.700 to persuade each other,

00:42:25.880 and they're not just playing to the print media

00:42:28.160 that would write about what happened.

00:42:29.620 They're playing to the cameras.

00:42:30.640 I did it myself the other day.

00:42:32.500 I was testifying before the Senate

00:42:33.900 two weeks ago,

00:42:34.800 and I knew the cameras were on me.

00:42:37.360 So I wanted to humiliate Cory Booker

00:42:39.560 because he was endorsing Jay Jones,

00:42:41.880 Jay Jones who called

00:42:42.480 for the murder of Republicans.

00:42:44.400 And I played that for the camera.

00:42:45.700 And you know what?

00:42:46.100 It worked.

00:42:46.440 And it went super viral.

00:42:47.440 And it did shame Cory Booker.

00:42:48.620 And he ran out of the room.

00:42:49.380 And there was a Cory Booker

00:42:49.960 shaped hole in the wall.

00:42:51.860 My argument would have been different

00:42:53.480 had that technology

00:42:54.480 not been in the room.

00:42:55.660 And it's not just me.

00:42:56.240 That's one tiny example

00:42:57.380 of how all of the legislators operate.

00:43:01.140 Technology is a huge part of it.

00:43:05.280 And the people on the left and the right,

00:43:08.480 they get so abstracted.

00:43:10.260 They get so in their own heads

00:43:12.980 about their ideology.

00:43:15.800 We have to grapple with,

00:43:17.960 we still haven't grappled with the internet.

00:43:19.520 We tried to in the 90s.

00:43:20.980 Both Democrats and Republicans

00:43:22.120 tried to pass laws.

00:43:22.940 They passed two laws actually,

00:43:24.020 trying to regulate porn,

00:43:26.840 specifically on the internet.

00:43:27.660 The Communications Decency Act,

00:43:29.020 which was gutted by judges.

00:43:30.240 And the Child Online Protection Act,

00:43:31.740 which also was gutted by judges.

00:43:33.760 So we weren't able to do it.

00:43:35.180 Now, with the development of AI,

00:43:36.680 it's only going to get worse.

00:43:38.900 So many of these problems, 0.84

00:43:39.980 the transgender ideology notably,

00:43:42.060 are a result of technology.

00:43:44.480 Because if we didn't live

00:43:45.740 all of our lives on these screens

00:43:46.940 in the compulsive way

00:43:47.880 that the Pope is talking about here,

00:43:50.620 if we didn't live our lives

00:43:52.000 in that way,

00:43:54.020 then we wouldn't have this crazy idea

00:43:55.860 that our identity

00:43:56.420 has nothing to do with our bodies.

00:43:58.220 The reason that that ideology

00:43:59.800 was able to set in

00:44:00.600 is because it was largely true.

00:44:02.280 A lot of our identity

00:44:03.060 is just mediated through a screen

00:44:04.480 and the body has nothing to do with it.

00:44:06.440 Now, ultimately,

00:44:07.260 that's contrary to reality.

00:44:08.720 And so it leads to that big crack up

00:44:10.340 that you saw in the transgender fight

00:44:11.460 a couple of years ago

00:44:12.120 that you're still seeing play out today,

00:44:13.920 including with revisiting Obergefell.

00:44:16.520 But it doesn't come from nowhere.

00:44:18.600 One last point I have to make

00:44:20.060 before we get to Music Monday.

00:44:22.680 Jennifer Welch,

00:44:24.280 this left-wing podcast gal

00:44:25.400 who's gone viral recently

00:44:26.940 because she was saying

00:44:27.620 all sorts of nasty things

00:44:28.440 about Charlie Kirk and Republicans.

00:44:30.380 But she's sat down

00:44:31.260 with Hakeem Jeffries,

00:44:32.420 Democrat leader in the House.

00:44:33.380 She's sat down

00:44:33.820 with members of Congress.

00:44:34.560 She's a thing.

00:44:36.640 She had this to say

00:44:37.980 about addictions,

00:44:39.960 not to online gambling,

00:44:40.820 not to porn,

00:44:41.780 not to drugs,

00:44:42.380 not to alcohol.

00:44:43.480 Addictions to religion.

00:44:45.580 I think a lot of the people

00:44:49.260 that are involved in this movement 0.98

00:44:50.980 are either psychopaths, 1.00

00:44:52.700 sociopaths. 1.00

00:44:53.260 They like it.

00:44:54.000 I'm talking about like Stephen Miller,

00:44:55.460 right?

00:44:56.220 And then you've got people 0.74

00:44:58.100 that are religious addicts.

00:45:00.620 And you guys,

00:45:01.100 that is a real thing.

00:45:02.520 Like somebody can be an alcoholic.

00:45:04.040 Somebody can be a drug addict. 0.97

00:45:05.200 A lot of people are religious addicts. 0.94

00:45:07.900 And you can Google it

00:45:08.760 and read about it. 0.95

00:45:09.860 And these religious addicts, 1.00

00:45:11.540 like all addiction, 1.00

00:45:12.360 like all addicts,

00:45:13.620 sabotage things.

00:45:14.680 Their default setting

00:45:15.500 is to break things

00:45:16.540 and create collateral damage.

00:45:18.700 And I think even

00:45:19.200 on the Supreme Court, 0.95

00:45:20.300 we have some religious addicts. 0.84

00:45:22.620 And I think in the administration, 0.98

00:45:23.740 we have a ton of religious addicts, 1.00

00:45:26.320 Mike Johnson, et cetera, 0.63

00:45:28.420 Marco Rubio.

00:45:29.540 And they think,

00:45:31.320 okay,

00:45:31.840 I'm doing a lot of bad

00:45:33.360 in my private life.

00:45:34.700 I guarantee you,

00:45:35.820 Sam Alito's Google search history

00:45:37.760 is full of a lot of,

00:45:41.360 all right?

00:45:41.780 It has to be.

00:45:43.020 Okay,

00:45:43.280 so a ton of projection here,

00:45:44.900 obviously.

00:45:45.900 It's these people. 0.98

00:45:47.240 You really see this with porn. 0.98

00:45:49.020 These people 0.95

00:45:49.820 who are obviously

00:45:51.180 involved with

00:45:52.940 and at the very least

00:45:53.920 approving of

00:45:54.620 lots of weird 0.96

00:45:55.420 deviant sex stuff, 0.98

00:45:56.740 they insist 0.95

00:45:58.180 that their opponents

00:45:59.480 must be too.

00:46:00.740 It's impossible for them

00:46:02.940 to imagine

00:46:03.640 that other people

00:46:05.020 are not

00:46:05.660 caught up

00:46:07.120 in the same addictions

00:46:07.780 that they are.

00:46:08.800 So they say,

00:46:09.140 oh, Sam Alito,

00:46:09.940 he's probably a total

00:46:10.960 gooner.

00:46:12.160 Is it gooner?

00:46:12.700 Is that the term?

00:46:13.360 I think that's the

00:46:13.980 Zoomer language.

00:46:14.860 He's a total 1.00

00:46:15.560 porn addict. 1.00

00:46:16.620 It was ridiculous. 1.00

00:46:17.920 I would be willing to bet 0.89

00:46:18.980 a lot of money

00:46:20.600 that that is not true.

00:46:23.300 And I would be vindicated

00:46:24.480 on that

00:46:24.860 or Mike Johnson

00:46:26.200 or whatever.

00:46:27.860 They project

00:46:28.800 all of this kind of

00:46:29.740 psychobabble on it.

00:46:30.640 but she has a little

00:46:33.180 bit of a point here

00:46:33.940 in the sense

00:46:36.120 that religion

00:46:36.960 does bear

00:46:38.260 some similarity

00:46:39.000 to an addiction

00:46:39.720 because all human behavior

00:46:43.080 bears some similarity

00:46:44.100 to an addiction.

00:46:45.280 What is religion?

00:46:46.300 Religion is a habit 1.00

00:46:47.020 of virtue

00:46:47.360 that inclines the will

00:46:48.120 to give to God

00:46:48.800 what he deserves.

00:46:50.060 Listen to that.

00:46:50.840 A habit

00:46:51.480 that inclines

00:46:52.980 the will.

00:46:54.400 That is

00:46:55.100 kind of like

00:46:55.820 an addiction.

00:46:58.480 A

00:46:58.960 methamphetamine addiction

00:47:01.460 is a habit.

00:47:03.460 You begin this habit

00:47:04.280 of doing drugs

00:47:05.040 and then that habit

00:47:06.040 inclines your will

00:47:07.300 even outside

00:47:08.400 of your conscious control

00:47:09.560 to keep doing meth.

00:47:11.800 Gambling is a habit.

00:47:13.200 Maybe you start out

00:47:13.800 just playing the penny slots

00:47:14.880 but if you let that

00:47:16.340 get out of control

00:47:16.960 it inclines your will

00:47:18.420 to do more and more

00:47:19.340 and get a bigger hit

00:47:20.180 and pretty soon

00:47:22.000 you're gambling

00:47:22.700 the family farm

00:47:23.540 on poker games

00:47:24.540 or whatever.

00:47:25.820 Well so too

00:47:26.780 with religion.

00:47:28.700 Religion

00:47:29.140 is not just

00:47:30.100 something in your mind

00:47:30.780 it's not totally abstract

00:47:31.700 it's stuff you do

00:47:33.660 you go to church

00:47:34.500 you read your bible

00:47:35.360 you avail yourself

00:47:36.200 of the sacraments

00:47:36.900 you pray to God

00:47:37.740 every day

00:47:38.440 you have to put it

00:47:39.300 and get down

00:47:39.780 on your knees

00:47:40.260 and the more

00:47:42.200 you do that

00:47:42.900 the more it inclines

00:47:44.360 your will

00:47:44.920 toward righteousness

00:47:46.060 toward sanctity

00:47:47.500 toward living

00:47:48.240 in accord with God.

00:47:49.500 That's true

00:47:50.300 you want that though

00:47:51.620 because

00:47:53.960 all

00:47:55.220 virtues

00:47:55.940 and vices

00:47:56.660 are just habits

00:47:57.620 and the more

00:47:58.440 you do of them

00:47:59.100 the easier

00:47:59.620 they are to do

00:48:00.260 and the harder

00:48:00.660 it is to do

00:48:01.120 the opposite

00:48:01.540 the more virtuous

00:48:02.620 you become

00:48:03.220 the harder

00:48:03.980 it is to sin

00:48:04.920 you can sin

00:48:05.960 if you're not

00:48:06.780 in a state of grace

00:48:07.300 you will commit

00:48:07.860 mortal sins eventually

00:48:08.600 if you are in a state

00:48:09.260 of grace

00:48:09.480 you'll still commit

00:48:10.020 venial sins eventually

00:48:10.900 but it's harder

00:48:12.000 to do it

00:48:12.580 and the more

00:48:13.920 you're addicted

00:48:14.400 to gambling 0.90

00:48:15.060 and porn

00:48:15.480 and drugs

00:48:15.920 and booze

00:48:16.720 and whatever

00:48:17.140 the harder

00:48:18.100 it is

00:48:18.480 to go the other way

00:48:19.840 that's true

00:48:20.420 and the big error

00:48:22.960 she's making here 0.67

00:48:23.900 is this error

00:48:24.580 of liberalism

00:48:25.220 which is to pretend

00:48:25.820 it's all the same

00:48:26.500 so oh yeah

00:48:27.480 some you know

00:48:28.880 Uncle Johnny

00:48:29.960 he's addicted to gambling

00:48:31.400 and Aunt Sue 0.89

00:48:32.260 she's addicted to religion

00:48:33.880 you know

00:48:34.340 addictions

00:48:34.860 am I right

00:48:35.480 yeah so

00:48:36.640 Uncle Johnny

00:48:37.500 he destroyed his whole family

00:48:38.960 and his wife left him

00:48:39.940 and he bankrupted the kids

00:48:41.620 and he is gonna be

00:48:43.640 taken out by the mafia

00:48:44.660 because he owes them money

00:48:45.340 yeah that's bad

00:48:46.180 and Aunt Sue

00:48:47.920 she prays a lot

00:48:49.620 she bakes pies

00:48:53.020 for orphans

00:48:53.860 she

00:48:54.300 you know

00:48:54.860 addictions

00:48:55.360 am I right

00:48:55.940 she can't help herself

00:48:57.840 she's just

00:48:58.580 oh you know

00:48:59.700 it's like Uncle Johnny

00:49:00.540 he can't

00:49:01.060 he just can't walk by

00:49:01.940 a blackjack table

00:49:03.260 without blowing his paycheck

00:49:04.860 and Aunt Sue

00:49:05.820 she can't

00:49:07.340 help but do

00:49:08.960 corporal and spiritual acts

00:49:09.900 of mercy

00:49:10.180 you know

00:49:10.540 addictions right

00:49:11.400 that is obviously

00:49:13.740 ridiculous equivalence

00:49:14.840 we should encourage 0.94

00:49:17.080 we should recognize

00:49:17.900 yes

00:49:18.200 human behavior

00:49:19.160 is habit forming

00:49:20.080 and is in that way

00:49:21.540 akin to addiction

00:49:22.140 and that is why

00:49:23.580 we need to encourage

00:49:24.980 religion

00:49:26.340 this is not like

00:49:28.280 the Pope of Rome

00:49:29.120 declaring on high

00:49:30.200 you know

00:49:30.500 this is like

00:49:31.440 what all the founding fathers said

00:49:33.000 what all the men

00:49:33.680 who built our country said

00:49:34.440 what every sane

00:49:35.900 smart person has said

00:49:37.040 throughout the entire history

00:49:38.580 of politics

00:49:39.300 and political philosophy

00:49:40.200 yes

00:49:41.260 accidentally

00:49:42.860 they've admitted something

00:49:44.940 I guess that's the theme today

00:49:46.000 accidentally the libs

00:49:46.980 admit stuff

00:49:47.600 they admit their

00:49:48.340 health care program

00:49:49.040 is terrible

00:49:49.480 and no one should ever

00:49:50.120 trust them on it again

00:49:50.880 they admit that we need

00:49:52.140 much more religion

00:49:52.800 in this country

00:49:53.480 they admit

00:49:54.420 that the federal judges

00:49:55.660 are not infallible

00:49:57.400 they admit

00:49:57.800 they admit

00:49:58.120 they admit

00:49:58.500 and I guess we should

00:49:59.420 believe them

00:49:59.820 and take the win

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 10, 2025

Ep. 1853 - Are Dems Finally Ending The Longest Shutdown In History？

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