Ep. 1864 - Dem Congressional Candidate Caught Admitting She Hates Constituents
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A federal judge dismisses indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and Letitia James on a technicality. Meanwhile, hundreds of Catholic school children are being held hostage by Islamic extremists in Nigeria. What should we do about it?
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Democrats just scored a major win on a minor technicality.
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A federal judge has dismissed indictments into James Comey, former FBI director,
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and Letitia James, the New York attorney general who led one of the witch hunts against President Trump.
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They got off the hook, even though we know that they committed crimes.
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We have the proof that they committed the crimes.
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On the bright side, Democrats continue to make egregious errors,
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running a candidate for Congress who openly says she hates her constituents.
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Then Democrats calling President Trump a fascist after palling around with him in the Oval Office.
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And Democrat legislators doubling down on men and women's sports,
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Maybe it'll be a live issue heading into 26 and 28.
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Then finally, as an added bonus, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant makes an NBC anchor worry that she is fat.
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is hundreds of Catholic school children are kidnapped by Muslims in Nigeria.
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Massive, massive persecution of Christians in that country.
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I'm going to blow through this story because it's super annoying and I don't want to think
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But, you know, the DOJ has been prosecuting or attempting to prosecute James Comey, former
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Letitia James, the former attorney general of New York who ran for office saying that she
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And they were going after Comey because he perjured himself under oath before Congress.
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He said something that wasn't true, that we now know is not true.
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When you testify before Congress, you have to take an oath that you will tell the truth.
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In fact, I testified before the Senate a few weeks ago.
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So, and afterward, I was talking with my old pal, Senator Cruz, and he said, you know,
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Michael, it took every fiber of my being, all of my restraint not to just grill you under
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oath over everything you don't want to talk about because you are compelled to tell the
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truth when you testify before the House or the Senate.
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Letitia James, former attorney general of New York, she committed fraud.
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She said that her primary residence was going to be at a house in Virginia, even though she
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She said that to get a better deal on her mortgage.
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She said that an apartment building that she owned in New York had fewer units than it did.
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And it was obvious that this was not just an accidental error because she listed the number
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of units as just one below what would have made the property commercial, given her a less
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So I know I have to say allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, but this is not just the rumor mill
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We have James Comey's congressional testimony that they committed these crimes, and they're
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going to get off the hook for now because of a technicality.
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The technicality, the judge in this case ruled, is that the prosecutor didn't have the right
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to bring these sorts of charges because the prosecutor was inappropriately appointed because
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the DOJ didn't follow the right procedures and whatever.
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Probably there will be some hand-wringing over at the DOJ about this, as well there should be.
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However, the cases were dismissed without prejudice, which means that the Trump administration
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could bring, or the DOJ, could bring these cases again.
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They should just make sure that they dot their T's and cross their I's this time.
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I think they should try again because what the American people want in all of these cases,
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whether we're talking about corruption in the federal bureaucracy, at the state level,
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prosecuting Trump, upending hundreds of years of American precedent, whether we're talking
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about the Epstein investigation, what people really want is accountability.
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Governments have to do certain things in an opaque way.
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It's not that they chiefly want, I don't know, a prosecution for a certain crime or
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What they want is to believe that there are consequences for elites for doing really bad
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So I think it's important to hold Comey and Letitia James to account.
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Now, that's the bad news for us, good news for Democrats.
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There is some good news for us, though, and some bad news for Democrats.
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There is, right here in my own town, Nashville, there's a woman running for Congress in a special
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election because Mark Green, member of Congress, is retiring.
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So there's going to be a special election, open seat.
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And one of the candidates is a woman named Afton Bain, Afton Bain, like a J.R.R.
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She is a cartoonishly bad candidate for Congress.
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She, well, to put this in perspective, after there was this horrific shooting where a trans
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identifying shooter targeted little Christian kids at the Covenant School.
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This woman comes out and she does a Norm Macdonald bit, except earnestly.
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She comes out and she says, you know, I was really, it was really, really troubling after
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that trans identifying person shot up this school of Christian children because the transphobia
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So for those of you who don't know, my partner has a trans son.
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And the month of April and the final week of March was incredibly upsetting for us.
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In the wake of the Covenant shooting and the disclosure that the Covenant shooter was trans,
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I was pulled into a chat with other trans organizers and activists across the state that were fearful
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We identified threats from white, green groups that they would show up at these Trans Day
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of Visibility events and threatening our trans kids.
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And so I had a snapped moment where I decided we need more people talking about the protections
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for trans kids in our trans communities at the legislature every day.
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The first thing I would do is I want to reiterate my, my first bill, which is to curb the expanded
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This woman says, yeah, remember when that psycho tranny shot up a school of sweet little
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Yeah, that was a really hard month for me because of all the transphobia.
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Because my partner, whatever that means, I don't think she's talking about an accounting
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And yeah, it was so inconvenient when that tranny shot up all those sweet little Christian
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It was so inconvenient because of the backlash against peaceful trannies.
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She then, you think that there's no clip that could be worse than that, right, for this
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In Tennessee, I know Nashville's liberal in a sea of conservatism.
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And that was a local tragedy that was seriously mishandled, actually, by authorities.
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They've concluded that it wasn't even ideologically motivated.
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The trans identification has nothing to do with this.
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No, this woman is caught on tape actually saying that she hates her city and her would-be
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I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city, I hate
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the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things
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that make Nashville, apparently, and its city to the rest of the country, but I hate it.
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I hate the city, hate everything about it, hate all of the character of the city, I hate,
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I hate anything that could define this city, up to and including the people, the people
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who come here, the bachelorettes, oh, I hate them.
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So, okay, you say, well, look, most of the district, I guess, technically is outside Nashville
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So, I have an unconventional background, I'm a social worker, but on the public policy
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side, and I was actually working in Europe when Trump was elected, and unlike a lot of
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my colleagues, decided to move back to East Tennessee, where I grew up.
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And I remember taking my parents out to eat and telling them I want to get into Tennessee
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politics, and my mom started sobbing at the table, and she said, you're never supposed
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Yeah, that's where all of us sophisticated people go.
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I came back, and she's, I'm shocked she didn't have an accent.
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I'm shocked she's not one of the people who goes, studies in France for three weeks.
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So, she comes back, she goes, yeah, I had to, I came back from Europe.
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I come back to America, to this awful state of Tennessee, okay?
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And then, just to round it out, there couldn't possibly be any other damaging clips of
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She couldn't possibly be, I don't know, celebrating and encouraging political violence, could she?
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So radical, Bain thinks, rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
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Worse, Bain went on a midnight joyride harassing ICE officers and state troopers.
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This is great, we've got our girl squad, and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers.
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We rioting, we like rioting, we like mostly peaceful arson, we love attacking cops.
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I mean, happily, Tennessee is all red, except for around Memphis and around Nashville.
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The fact that, I don't know, it's still a relatively conservative area.
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But truly, if this is the caliber of congressional candidate that the Democrats are running, it can mean one of two things.
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It can mean either the Democrats haven't learned a lesson, they haven't moderated, the people are going to reject them wholesale in the midterms.
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Or, if she does manage to get herself elected, then it's going to be a very rough next five to ten years for some.
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Democrat legislators in Congress are doubling down on men and women's sports.
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121 Democrat House members and nine Democrat senators filed an amicus brief last week in
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the Idaho case Little v. Hecocks and in West Virginia v. BPJ.
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The court's going to hear this January 13, 2026.
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And there's very, very little reporting on this.
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But just keep it in mind as we start to look ahead to the midterms, as we start to think
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where are the parties moving or is anyone moderating?
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Is anyone grabbing the center, especially as we look to what's going to happen after
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This was the cultural issue for the past, I don't know, five years.
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This is what caused the collapse of the Democrat Party, is that they embraced trans ideology
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all the way down to transing the kids, all the way down to men beating up girls in women's
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sports and men changing in women's locker rooms.
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That was it, more than the economy, more than immigration, more than any of the other issues.
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Because with the trans issue, it shows that the Democrats have no judgment.
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And if Democrats couldn't tell you the difference between a man and a woman, if they tried to
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seriously make you believe that a man could be a woman or vice versa, then they didn't know
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This is, it would turn up in public opinion surveys on like common sense, common sense
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It didn't always come up as, you know, do trans issues land in your top three priorities,
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but common sense, good judgment, these sorts of, do you trust them?
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And I thought that the Democrats got the message in 2024 after they lost the popular vote for
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I thought they got the message, okay, we got to get rid of this stuff.
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And they kind of pushed trans to the side for a while, but they're held hostage by their
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Because if they're going to hold on to feminism, if they're going to hold on to gay marriage,
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so-called, if they're going to hold on to radical egalitarianism, if they're going to hold on to
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all these other associated ideologies, they have to embrace transgenderism.
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If you uphold so-called gay marriage, you're saying that men and women are basically the
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There's no meaningful difference between men and women.
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And if you embrace transgenderism, you have to embrace men and women's sports.
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You can't, if you reject men and women's sports, you are implicitly rejecting transgenderism.
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And if you embrace transgenderism, you have to embrace transing the kids.
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Because you're saying it's true that a man can be a woman.
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Well, why is it true for a 30-year-old, but it's not true for a 13-year-old?
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And so they saw that it was a huge political liability.
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You haven't heard a lot about the trans stuff recently.
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Somewhat surreptitiously, but forcefully, 121 House members, nine senators coming out
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saying, no, we need to defend men and women's sports.
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This could be a live issue in the midterms and in 2028.
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Please, Democrats, sign any amici briefs you can.
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Please, give me those videos about congressional candidates saying the real problem with trans
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And for Republicans, hold their feet to the fire on this.
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I know it feels kind of like a dead issue because we want it so forcefully, but Democrats aren't
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going to give it up because they can't give it up.
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When pressed on the issue, they're going to have to defend transgenderism.
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I want you to beat that dead horse until it turns into a bottle of Elmer's glue.
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I want you to beat that dead horse issue into oblivion because it generates, one, as a matter
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of justice, but two, electorally, it's just gold.
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Speaking of men and women, Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary.
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Scott Besson just had a beautiful interview on NBC News.
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And look, they bring Scott Besson out not to talk about all the really sexy cultural
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So he's brought out to talk about things like inflation, sometimes trade or tariffs,
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the Federal Reserve, all these really boring, dry issues that just affect the economy or
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Well, and banana prices are up almost 7 percent.
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Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs in admission that ultimately they do drive up
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So we are trying, we try to push down the things we can control.
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And as I said, that we are working on the energy prices are down and everything flows
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And I think we're going to see these other prices come down.
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I love this so much because Besson's so smart and he just operates at a very high level.
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You know, she picks a few examples of places where prices have gone up.
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Inflation actually is quite under control right now.
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And the San Francisco Federal Reserve just discovered that the tariffs, far from being
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And so she says, but in these few examples, the prices have gone up.
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He says, Christian, how much does your arm weigh?
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You don't know how much your arm weighs, right?
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It's just a part of you and you don't, that's not a meaningful number.
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He says, of course, you don't know how much your arm weighs, but you know how much you weigh.
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Kristen, every morning you get up, you walk over to that scale, don't you?
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In the bathroom, you look at yourself in the mirror, disappointed more.
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More and more each day, wondering how many more flaps, how many more folds are going to
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appear on your body before the aging starts to reverse course and you start to thin out.
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You almost wish that that process might begin because of how fat you look, Kristen.
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Every time you reach for a muffin, you say, I can't eat it.
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I don't want to eat it, lest no man in my life ever look at me with desire again.
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Well, anyway, Kristen, that's kind of how inflation is.
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Because, you know, you're really measuring the whole thing, right, Kristen?
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Just say, I love that, the kind of the needling there.
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You know how much you weigh, though, don't you?
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And he makes a good point on how we should consider inflation and bananas and the whole economy.
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Because what the Libs are going to do and what the Lib journos are going to do is they're going to try to point to one number.
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This number, just whatever the bad numbers are, they're going to try to point to that.
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Meanwhile, if you're looking at Trump's economy right now, you can say, overall, stock markets are at record highs.
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In some cases, the tariffs actually were deflationary.
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Real wages are up because wage growth and salary growth has outpaced inflation.
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The jobs numbers in September doubled forecasts, so more than doubled forecasts.
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So overall, the economy's looking pretty good under Trump.
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And a lot of things that the genius economists in the Libs predicted would happen, namely massive inflation because of the tariffs, that didn't happen.
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So it was a very effective way for Scott Besson to do it, and I found it funny and delightful.
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And after President Trump said that, I said yes.
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And that's something that I've said in the past.
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And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were
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not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment.
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And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an
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You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our
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Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?
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Everything that I've said in the past, I continue to believe.
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And that's the thing that I think is important in our politics.
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He, man, Trump laid that trap out and he just walked right to it like a giant political bear
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trap right underneath the resolute desk and Mamdani walked right into it.
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Great question from Kristen Welker here because her incredulity is so obviously justified.
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I think he is an authoritarian ruler, an existential threat to our country.
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But then you look at the picture of Zoran in the Oval Office and there they are just broing
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And if Zoran really believed that Trump were Hitler, would he be smiling like a little schoolboy
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Would he and Trump be patting each other on the back, slapping, having fun, joking around
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If you seriously believe that someone poses an existential threat to your country and to
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What Zoran is saying on NBC News to try to save face and what Zoran did in the Oval Office
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With his words, he said Trump is a fascist and a dictator and a despot and an authoritarian
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But what he did, what he showed you in color, in 3D, is that he doesn't believe any of that.
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That was the guy you were hanging out with yesterday, like joking around with?
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I think I was palling around with Hitler yesterday.
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I think he's the, I think he's the devil incarnate.
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I've been retweeting things about, you know, I've been posting a little bit about it on social media.
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I don't, we've covered it broadly on the show, the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
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But the attack a few days ago was particularly egregious.
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315 Catholic school children were kidnapped by Muslims in Nigeria.
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12 teachers in addition to the 315 school children kidnapped by Muslim gunmen in Nigeria.
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They took so many kids that 50 kids were allowed to get out.
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Then also yesterday, another 25 Christian students were kidnapped from a school in Kebby.
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It's a reminder that we, we talk about the persecution of Christians in America, and specifically Catholics, actually, under Joe Biden.
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Where Joe Biden was, even when he was vice president, was bringing lawfare against nuns, you know, little sisters of the poor.
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And he was spying on Catholic churches, calling us traditionalist extremists, you know, terrorist threats, basically.
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Because we like the Latin mass, you know, mass of the ages.
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But, look, I guess that is a kind of a persecution.
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Compare that to what real persecution looks like in Nigeria.
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It's a reminder that, as everyone plays the victim game, and, you know, we all talk about, this is, the real threat's here, the real threat's there.
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The real threat's Islamophobia, we hear from this woman who wants to be the Congress lady from Nashville.
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The most persecuted religion in the world is Christianity.
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Christians are the most persecuted religious group.
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And Christians are persecuted by all sorts of different groups, you know, in secular liberalism, you know, there's a kind of an atheist persecution.
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But the chief persecutors of Christians are Muslims.
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That's been true for about 1,400 years now, and you're seeing it in Nigeria now.
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We're the global hegemon, but we don't want to get involved in wars that don't directly affect
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And we don't want to get involved in abstract ideological wars, you know, to spread liberalism
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Do we want to get involved for religious reasons?
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That's a little deeper and more defensible than ideological reasons.
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We are a Christian country, after all, and we want to support our Christian brethren.
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There are going to be some more isolationist types who don't want to do that.
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I guess the question that I would ask is, have you prayed?
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This is, because everyone says, why aren't we all talking about persecution of Christians
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But you do have to ask yourself, have you personally prayed for the Catholic school children
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in Nigeria who were kidnapped, who were under the control of Muslim lunatics there?
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For the 100,000 Christians who have been murdered in Nigeria recently?
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For the tens of thousands of churches that have been burned down?
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Because as my friend Father Ben Keeley points out, prayer is not the last resort.
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Another minor point before we get to the mailbag.
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But you'll recall, last week, I was talking about this congressional candidate, Democrat
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And I was making some jokes about his congressional campaign.
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And I said, you know, I don't want it to be personal because he was a schoolmate of mine.
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It became a major national, even international news story a couple days ago when it was revealed
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that his sister, JFK's granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, was diagnosed with a very aggressive
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And I really didn't know her as an undergraduate, even though she was in my class.
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I remember her vividly, but I didn't really know her.
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But by all accounts, she seemed really lovely, very sweet, very nice, nice gal.
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It was actually in the hospital while giving birth.
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So anyway, just a request of prayer for her as well.
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You know, obviously, she has a kind of political profile because she's JFK's granddaughter and
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she's done some work as a journalist and writer.
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Just also a little personal request, if you wouldn't mind praying for Tatiana.
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So much more to get to, but we don't have time because we have the mailbag coming up and
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My favorite comment yesterday, it's from Carrie T59.
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It says, when Mom Donnie got back to New York, he heard the displeasure from his people
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I know, it's like, it just, but it's great, actually.
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That was the point of the Oval Office meeting, was for Trump to kill him with kindness,
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do the thing that no one expected him to do, make Mom Donnie play nice, and then expose
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him as a hypocrite, because he's playing nice with Hitler.
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I thought Trump was Hitler, and you're friends with Hitler now, and you're going to work with
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He and I agree on a lot more, a lot more than I thought about.
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He, he called me Hitler, and he agrees with Hitler.
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I'm 12 years old, and I watch the show every day.
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Anyways, since you have so much experience rizzing up sweet little Elisa, I would like
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Thank you for your excellent taste and the best Daily Wire show.
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And I'm happy to give you some rizz tips because it's, it's, in fact, the case that I did rizz
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So how do you rizz up a girl, especially if you're 12?
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You know, I think I had my first girlfriend when I was 12.
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So, especially at that age, no boy is confident.
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It's not being a braggart or anything like that.
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It's, it's a little, you find it's a little more still.
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You know, when a girl is flirting, sometimes she'll like, she'll be kind of uneasy and
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You know, that's when a girl is flirting and she's feeling, you know.
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But the, the kind of compliment to that is when you are still and you're in command of
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yourself, of your voice, of your, you make eye contact, not in a creepy way, but enough
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And so you're confident, you're solid, you approach the girl, and you have to be sincerely
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And you can't, I wouldn't recommend faking that.
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When you talk about it a little bit, oh, you know, I love whatever that thing.
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Oh, we should go to the sock hop or whatever, I don't know, whatever kids do now.
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We should go to the mall this weekend or something.
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Oh, you like such and such, but we should go see that movie or whatever.
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And just, pretty confident, not overpowering about it.
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Hey, Michael, I just watched your latest episode of Bar Fight, which was lovely.
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The one fella brought up the marital contract where, in a marriage, a wife owes her husband a certain activity.
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And I was wondering if there is another side to that contract, if the wife gets anything from the husband.
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I mean, obviously, we get stuff from our husbands.
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But, like, in that sense, what is owed to us from our husbands?
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This is a great, this is a marvelously womanly question.
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Because the marital debt refers to the conjugal act, let's say.
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When you take your vows, when you sign up to get married, you are committing to, with some regularity, barring extreme circumstances, bumping uglies.
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And being open to life and, you know, the consequences of that and everything, right?
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And I love how you say, well, okay, so that means that the wife owes the man sex.
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Because the actual answer is, she gets the sex, too.
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You know, it comes, St. Paul writes about this, I think, in 1 Corinthians, right?
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He says, you know, men do not withhold the conjugal right from your wife, and wives don't withhold the conjugal right from your husbands.
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So, I like, you're thinking, like, does it mean I get to go to Cabo once a year?
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Does that, does it, do I get, like, a nice scented candle or something?
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And it is true that, generally speaking, men are more interested in that than women are.
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Not that women aren't interested, but men are very interested in that.
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And hopefully women, you know, as you say, hopefully women feel as though they get a lot of things from their men.
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The man owes it to the woman, the woman owes it to the man.
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So, one of my friends from high school, who was a Christian and still claims to be, came out as a lesbian our senior year.
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And while I know gay marriage isn't a thing, according to the state, she's legally married to a woman now.
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She and her partner want to use a donor to have a kid together.
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And while there are a lot of problems with that, here's my main issue.
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I don't want to have to explain why their friend Timmy has two moms.
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It's my only option to end my friendship with her to protect my kids from that.
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I would counsel you to maybe bring this up to your friend before she commits this very serious sin, before she creates a child at the baby store intentionally to deprive that child of his natural father.
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And so, I would maybe, since you're her friend, I would maybe counsel her to think about that, you know, to consider the bioethics of it and not to do that.
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And, you know, I'm not saying you need to, like, throw her off a rooftop or something.
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You don't even need to really address the lesbian thing.
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You could just, you know, say, hey, you know, we kind of are where we are, but I wouldn't recommend doing that thing and explaining why.
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And she might, who knows, she might end your friendship over that comment.
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That's a helpful and loving thing to do to your friend.
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And it's not to say that you can never, you know, see your friend again or go get drinks or something.
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But, you know, if you really fear that this woman, not just even having the lesbian partner, but, you know, going through the supposed marriage and then, you know, creating a child in this deeply, deeply immoral way.
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If you fear that that will really scandalize your kid, then it seems to me you're going to want to circumscribe that friendship.
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I'm not saying you got to cut the lady out entirely, but you're probably going to want to circumscribe that to protect your kid from that.
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And it's sad, it's sad, because maybe you can avoid that by explaining your concerns.
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And maybe your friend will be open to it, but it's not so easy.
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Some people, the open-minded liberal types will say, oh, what are you talking about?
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I heard something recently on modesty that has me questioning everything.
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Apparently, Our Lady of Fatima said that certain fashions would be introduced that offended our Lord.
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And then people on the internet are saying that means no shorts, no pants, no short-sleeved shirts.
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Or should I be wearing long sleeves and ankle-length skirts every day?
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Just trying to, you know, avoid hell and grow in virtue.
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Our Lady is an amazing woman, without question about it.
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You know, I do believe in the Fatima apparitions.
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For those of you who don't know, it's that Mary appeared to three children in Portugal about 100 years ago.
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So, it's much to say about that, that we don't have time here.
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And I suppose, you know, when it comes to an apparition such as Fatima, you are not obligated as a matter of your faith to believe in it.
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And maybe you believe in this supposed aspect of it.
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So, then let's get to the issue itself, the modesty.
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I think the Muslims take it a little bit too far.
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However, I have said a tasteful headscarf is nice.
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Good enough for Audrey Hepburn, good enough for any of us.
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On the point of shorts, sometimes the shorts are a little, they're a little much, you know, in public.
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Maybe not around the house, you know, when you're just with your husband or whatever.
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But when you're out in public, sometimes, let me, the athletic wear where it's the skin-tight little yoga pants and stuff, it's too much.
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Even sometimes, like, really form-fitting jeans or whatever, it's, it's not, I'm not saying it needs to be proscribed by law.
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And even with, I don't know, short-sleeved shirts, I think, are probably okay.
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But not if it's got a plunging neckline or if it's, I don't know.
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And this is not that we're instituting Sharia law in America.
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You know, our own culture was much, much more modest until pretty recently.
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I mean, the bikini was only invented in, what, the 40s?
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And our, and women did dress much, much more modestly.
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Or, but I would just say, you don't, again, you can use some prudence here, I think, as you're working through this question.
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Maybe you don't wear the, like, super, I don't know, skin-tight sweatpants or whatever.
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Maybe you opt for maybe a little more modest pants.
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Maybe you, you don't have to go full burkini at the beach, but maybe you wear a more tasteful bathing suit.
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Maybe you can, we can work around these things.
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And the girls would wear these really, like, you know, skin-tight pants and stuff like that.
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I remember I was taking a test, SAT or, I don't know, whatever standardized test.
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And I remember thinking, I was like, the girls are in an advantage here.
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Maybe for that kind of situation, maybe burkas are called for, I don't know.
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