Ep. 1874 - Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Smirks During First Court Hearing
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After three months, the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk has finally been charged with murder. But what will it take to bring him to justice? And will it be enough to solve the mystery of what happened to Charlie?
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The smirking leftist trans furry fancier who allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk made his first
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appearance in court yesterday, and though it was infuriating for Charlie's friends and for his
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many, many admirers, the alleged shooter's mere demeanor, I think, cleared up a lot of the apparent
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confusion over whodunit. Then, tensions ramp up between the U.S. and Venezuela as Venezuelan
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dictator Nicolas Maduro threatens to break America's teeth, and everyone seems to forget
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that a Catholic mystic who prophesied 9-11 said of some major global event that it will start in
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Venezuela. You don't really hear about that little tidbit a lot in the mainstream media. We'll get
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into that. Also, the president of the European Commission finally decides to stop illegal Muslim
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because in journalism, until someone's been convicted of a crime, you have to say alleged.
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But the guy whose fingerprints were found all over the gun, who was turned in reportedly by his
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parents, who reportedly sent text messages confessing to the crime, who did this, that,
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and the other thing. This guy finally appeared in court. He was wearing a shirt, a tie, and shackles.
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And he was smirking. And the smirk, I think, is real key here because it's been three months. It feels
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like it's been three years, but it's been three months since Charlie was murdered. And we all saw
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the guy get arrested. Tyler Robinson is the suspect. We all saw him get arrested. We all learned about
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his trans, furry, gay boyfriend. We all saw the weird text messages. We all saw that they were part
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of a Discord server with other pro-LGBT, pro-anarchists, leftists. We all saw a lot of weird
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stuff. And then he went away because he's been arrested. And there's an investigation. There's
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gonna be prosecution. So people have kind of had this guy out of their minds. And then you can fill
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in the gaps or you can forget about him entirely. But now we have to see him. We have to look at this
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guy. And the thing that I noticed, and I think the thing that a lot of people noticed, whether you
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were friends with Charlie, whether you were one of the many millions of people who admired Charlie,
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the thing you notice is this freak was smirking. He was smirking. In the courtroom video, in the
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courtroom pictures that we have, he was smirking. He wasn't saying, I'm an innocent man. You got the
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wrong guy. I'm wrongly accused. He was smirking. He was showing no remorse. And he would seem to me
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to be insinuating his guilt with his facial expressions, with his demeanor, with his laughter,
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with his nonchalance. Here's how PBS described it. He, Tyler Robinson, smiled at family members
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sitting in the front row of the courtroom where his mother teared up after he entered the court.
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Next to her were Robinson's brother and father who took notes throughout the hearing.
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Robinson's legal team says his pretrial publicity reaches as far as the White House with Trump
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announcing soon after Robinson's arrest. With a high degree of certainty, we have him. I hope he
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gets the death penalty. Fair point. But defense attorney Kathy Nestor has raised concern that
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digitally altered versions of Robinson's initial court photo. This is the best part of the reporting
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to me. The defense attorney is arguing that digitally altered versions of Robinson's initial court photo
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has spread widely, creating misinformation about the case. So this is deep fakes. This is AI. This is
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photoshopped. Some altered images show Robinson crying or having an outburst in court, which did not
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happen. Very interesting that the defense attorney would bring this up because I think this argument
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actually cuts against her defense, cuts against Tyler Robinson's defense. If he were crying, if he were
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having some kind of emotional outburst, to me, that would speak much more toward his potential
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innocence than a kid sitting there smirking while he's being brought up for murdering Charlie Kirk after
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he reportedly confessed to having killed Charlie Kirk after his DNA was found on the gun.
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As I frequently say, long before Charlie was murdered in many other circumstances,
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it's always the ones you most expect. This guy, everything we know about him is that he's an LGBT,
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highly online, furry loving, radical, anarchist, violent freak. And these kinds of guys have been
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threatening to murder Charlie and everyone around Charlie and all the people who kind of do what
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Charlie does forever. And some of them have tried. Some of them have gotten closer.
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One piece of evidence that I've mentioned in all of this, as we talk about the left-wing terror
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problem that even the Atlantic Magazine has to admit, is when I was giving a talk at the University of
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Pittsburgh two years ago and a radical leftist, very online anarchist showed up and threw an explosive
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into the crowd as I was walking on stage and seriously injured a female cop. Would have happily
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killed many more people had he had the opportunity. He's in federal prison for this. That guy at least
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was ostensibly straight. He worked in cahoots with his wife who got off with a slap on the wrist.
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But it all kind of goes together. The anarchism and the leftism and the radicalism and the violence and
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frequently the LGBTism and especially the T part of the LGBTism. It always kind of seems to go
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together. It's not like there weren't warning signs. Now, one part of the murder that we still
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need to figure out. There are two parts to the murder, as far as I'm concerned, that we still
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need to figure out. One, who was that guy who popped up after the shots rang out? And that older
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looking guy, the guy who got up and said, I did it, I did it. And he gets arrested and then he admits
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when he gets to the jail. No, I didn't. I didn't really do it. I was just distracting so the real
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shooter would get away. Who was that guy? Was there some planning involved or was he just a total freak?
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Both of those are plausible to me. I've met a lot of these freaks. Could have been part of a broader
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conspiracy. We do know that people were posting on social media in advance of the murder saying,
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this will happen, this will happen. Now, that's not dispositive because that happened. That's what
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these guys do. These radical leftists, these violent leftists will say before conservatives
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go out and give talks and appear places, run for office. President Trump always, you know,
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be ashamed if something happened to him tomorrow at such and such event. Oh, tomorrow, that's going to
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be a big event. That's going to change the world. They do this kind of thing.
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Now, they also might've plotted this all out. Maybe that weird freaky text exchange between
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Tyler Robinson and his trans furry boyfriend, maybe that was to cover up the trans furry boyfriend's
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involvement. That's how it read to me. I don't know. I haven't looked at more evidence. Maybe
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more people were plotting this out in the discord server. Maybe. But what about Tyler Robinson? We're
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seeing him now. He's in court now. He's smirking. He's having a grand old time.
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There are two ways that this guy could get off. As far as I can tell, there are two ways that this
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guy can get off. One is that people just don't believe that this kind of guy could do it.
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It can't be some fruity leftist who likes his discord server and has a bizarre affection for
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his trans furry roommate. It can't be him. He's a fruit loop. He's a poof. He's a weirdo. No way.
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Couldn't be him. They don't do that. The left isn't violent. The LGBT, it can't be him.
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It can't be just one leftist tries to murder a conservative. There have been plenty of examples
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of this, of course, over the years, even in recent years. But no, it couldn't be. It couldn't have
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been this guy. It had to be someone else. The left is always there. It has to be a white supremacist.
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It has to be a white guy. Even when it's Hispanic, they say, well, he's a white Hispanic.
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He's a white Middle Easterner. And he has to be a right winger. He can't be a leftist. Or the
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moment they prove that it is a leftist, they say, well, his politics couldn't be discerned.
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The trans shooter who murdered the Christian kids at the Covenant School in Nashville,
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they said, oh, no, she wasn't political. The moment we found out her ideological motivations,
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no, no, it was no ideological motivation. She was just after fame. So it's just one way that
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Tyler Robinson could get off is to say, oh, no, it couldn't be. It couldn't be him. The left isn't
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violent. The LGBTs aren't violent. Or here's the other way they get off.
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That people are happy he did it. That's the other way. The other way that this guy gets off the hook
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with all of this evidence is that people say, well, you know, hate breeds hate, doesn't it?
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That was MSNBC's reaction while Charlie was bleeding out in Utah. MSNBC's reaction while they were covering
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this event. While the most prominent promoter of peaceful debate in the country was dying
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after being shot by a leftist, Matthew Dowd, Democrat analyst on MSNBC said, well, you know,
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hate breeds hate. That's what happens, isn't it? Wasn't he asking for it, essentially, is what he was
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saying? Don't think that Tyler Robinson, they got his fingerprints, they got his DNA, they got the
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family turning him in, they got the texts to the furry boyfriend, they got this, they got that,
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they got this. Don't think he can't get off. Don't think he can't get off. Don't doubt the power of
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narrative in deluding people. Gosh, we've all lived through that for decades, haven't we?
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Charlie? And don't doubt the targeted intentional violence of the left and the degree to which they
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will downplay, excuse, justify, and even celebrate political violence. That's exactly what they did
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when Charlie was killed. We'll see more. We'll see more from him. If I were the defense attorneys,
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I would do everything I could to get those cameras out of the room. To me, if there was a shadow of a
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doubt in someone's mind, you see the smirk on the guy's face, that's it. Okay. Speaking of violence,
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tensions between the US and Venezuela are ramping up. Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela,
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is threatening to punch in the teeth of America. And people are kind of sleepwalking into this war
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in Venezuela. Myself even, I've been kind of glib and dismissive of it. There is a warning of a Catholic
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mystic, a 20th century Catholic mystic who is now a servant of God. Her case for canonization has been
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opened. There's a warning in which she says that a major global event, a catastrophic global event,
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will begin in Venezuela. And this is a woman who prophesied 9-11. We'll get to that momentarily
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slash Knowles. Nicolas Maduro. We've been trying to oust him for how long now? How long has the CIA
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been trying to prod that guy out of, I mean, going back multiple presidential administrations.
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Now, especially that President Trump is turning his attention away from the Middle East toward
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the Western Hemisphere, where we've asserted dominance for, gosh, for over 200 years now.
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Trump is zapping the drug boats, and he's building up the military off the coast, and he's reportedly
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just calling Maduro and saying, hey, we'll let you out if you leave now, but I can't guarantee your
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safety afterward. And he's, and he's, and he's now seizing a Venezuelan oil ship. Maduro says he's
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going to break America's teeth. Trump's response, it's kind of funny, according to the reporting,
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he says, I assume we keep the oil. Do we finally get the oil? This is always Trump's great criticism
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of the Iraq war. I loved it so much. His criticism of the Iraq war was not some left-wing criticism.
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You know, oh, Islam's a religion of peace. Oh, we can't, oh, the precious Ba'ath party. We can't,
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you know, it wasn't that. And it wasn't even a nationalist kind of opposition. It wasn't saying,
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we need to stick within our own borders. We can't ever have interests around the world. His opposition
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to the Iraq war was, we didn't even get the oil. The Libs said, no war for oil, no war for oil. My
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problem is, we didn't have a war for oil. No war for oil? I thought this was a war for oil. Hold on.
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Wait, you guys sold this to me in a terrible way. So, Trump's reportedly, this is according to the
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Sun, he says, I assume we keep the oil. 70 million bucks on board. So, what does that mean for Venezuela
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to kick us in the teeth? It's Venezuela. Who cares? They are allies of our geopolitical adversaries,
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Russia, Iran, China. I love that Trump's playing tough. He's not getting in the muck with, I don't
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like it when people get in the muck. Everyone loves to get in the muck. They love to get in the
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muck and be gossipy, little reviling detractors, and they just love to just like try to, but why
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would Trump do that? He's going to go get, Fidel Castro benefited from this. When the United States
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would really go after Castro in an over-the-top way, Castro loved it because it built up his profile.
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I think that's what Maduro wants here. Trump says, nah, who cares? Who's he? What? Nada. He is nada.
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We are going to keep the oil. Comprende? He says he's going to give the U.S. a real being. He says,
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in times like these, we must be like warriors. This is Maduro. With both eyes peeled, working,
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producing, building, keeping the country functioning, and be prepared to kick in the teeth the North
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American empire if necessary. Okay. Trump, too. He was asked for why this operation happened. He said,
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quote, it was seized for a very good reason. What happens to the oil? We keep it, I guess. Okay.
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I'm fine with this. I don't lose sleep at night over the United States asserting influence,
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especially, anywhere really, but especially within our traditional sphere of influence and within the
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Western hemisphere. However, we don't want to just rush into war and we don't want to be led blindly
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into war because wars can spin out of control. There's a Catholic mystic. Bear with me. I know there
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people who don't believe in mystics, period. There are people who aren't Catholic or aren't Christian
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or just bear with me. There's this woman, Maria Esperanza de Bianchini. She was Venezuelan. She
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died about 20 years ago, 21 years ago. She's a servant of God. The canonization process includes
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all these steps, servant of God, venerable, blessed, and then finally you're canonized a saint.
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Now, basically, a saint is just anyone who's in heaven. Your grandma might be a saint, but the
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canonization process formally recognizes with the keys of Saint Peter, with the power to loosen,
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to bind, with the authority divinely instituted, we believe, to say this person is definitively in
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heaven. And she's in that process, this woman. This woman predicted 9-11. Maria Esperanza de Bianchini
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prophesied 9-11 in 1992, I think it was, so before the attacks of 1993, said that she saw two buildings
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with black smoke pouring out. So that was interesting. Not only was it before the attack
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in 2001, it was before the attack in 1993. Then apparently prophesied it again in 2000 and then
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yet again in August 2001. This is a woman who had mystical visions of Mary, of Our Lady.
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Catholics are not required to believe this, to believe private revelation, but many people do.
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And apparently, this Catholic mystic once said, of Venezuela, it will start here.
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What is it? What is it? What is it though? She didn't say World War III will start here. She
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didn't say, she just was discussing calamities with global implications and said, it will start here
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in Venezuela. And what I find so arresting about that, let's say for a second, you're not Catholic.
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Let's say you're not Christian. Let's say you're not religious in any way. Let's say you don't believe
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in mystics. Let's say you think that's all woo-woo claptrap and you're a real hardened materialist
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realist and you just stick with the empirical facts. Okay. Do wars ever start in unpredictable ways?
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Like for instance, if a Serbian nationalist were to murder an archduke and the child of
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an imperial leader, could you ever imagine that that would start the world war that would fundamentally
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change the civilization? You probably wouldn't predict that. You wouldn't say that because
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an automobile made a wrong turn down a street, a Serbian nationalist would kill an archduke
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and a Habsburg archduke and that would fundamentally reorder the entire world and lead not only to
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one other, but actually two other global wars because it would lead immediately to the second
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world war and then to the cold war, all of which are basically the same struggle. No, you wouldn't
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predict that. World wars have started for less than what's going on in Venezuela. And don't forget,
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what's going on in Venezuela is not just about, you know, some two-bit dictator trying to hold on to
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oil. There are Chinese interests there, Russian interests there, Iranian interests there. It's
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kind of like the war in Ukraine. It's kind of like the war in Israel-Gaza. There are a lot of interests
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intersecting. I would not be, and this is, look, I'm, this is a, an admonition as much for me as it is
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rebuffing them for 1,400 years. Just, well, please, come on in. Well, now, some Europeans don't like
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that. They say, you know, we don't really like all these Muslims murdering our family members and
00:24:42.900
raping our daughters and taking over our civilizations and putting, you know, Palestine flags on our
00:24:48.220
cathedrals. We don't like that. We don't love it. Minarets everywhere. So, ever responsive, the
00:24:55.760
president of the European Commission says, okay, okay, you're right. We need to stop illegal
00:24:59.760
immigration, and I figured it out. I figured out how to do it. We're going to have way more legal
00:25:03.600
immigration. Here she is. We must open more safe, safe pathways, legal pathways to Europe. We must
00:25:15.100
create more bridges between our continents. We must make sure that people can find a job where their
00:25:22.780
talent is needed, match the skills, bring skills across our borders. And this is at the heart of our
00:25:31.440
new talent partnership, which offer work rules into Europe. Said Contra, what if we don't have more
00:25:41.940
legal and safe and open pathways to Europe? What if we, what if we don't need that? What if we, she says,
00:25:49.940
we must open more safe and legal pathways to Europe so that we bring in the Indians and all these other
00:25:56.860
people. What if though, what if you don't? Why do you have to do that? She thinks, we talked about
00:26:01.940
this on the show, I think yesterday, two days ago. She thinks that the part that everyone is really
00:26:06.940
upset with about the illegal immigration is the illegal part. And so she said, hey, I have an idea.
00:26:13.860
You all hate this mass illegal immigration. Well, what if we just make it all legal?
00:26:20.260
I wave my European wand and now it's all legal. Now you're not going to be upset, right?
00:26:23.940
I mean, sure. All these people are still going to be raping your daughters and killing your family
00:26:28.980
and putting minarets up over your skyline and, but shooting up your Christmas markets, but, but now
00:26:35.640
they'll be legally shooting up your Christmas markets. Okay. Not, it won't be illegal shootings
00:26:42.060
anymore. What if we just don't, this has been a major shift in rhetoric from the White House,
00:26:50.100
which is, by the way, people are going to ask about this. I'm wearing a Christmas tie. Yes. I'm
00:26:55.900
wearing, so some say, but you'll notice it's got little Christmas trees on it, red tie, but only
00:27:01.400
some of the trees have stars on it. I consider this to be more of an advent tie. And I'm wearing this
00:27:07.300
because I was so honored and so happy to be able to go to the White House advent party yesterday.
00:27:13.260
It was great. I think on the invite, it said it was a Christmas party. Obviously it's an advent party.
00:27:16.920
It was beautiful. It was really gorgeous. President Trump made beautiful remarks. A little bit of a
00:27:21.700
sidebar, but don't ever, don't think people are, you went to a Christmas party, you're wearing
00:27:26.240
Christmas, it was an advent party. I'm wearing an advent tie. The Muslims are shooting up Christmas
00:27:32.100
markets though. And that's a big problem. Now maybe Europe needs to follow America's lead as it often
00:27:38.300
does. Europe followed our lead into wokeness. That was unfortunate. Now they got to follow Trump's
00:27:44.080
lead. Trump is recognizing, hey, the issue isn't illegal versus legal mass migration. We just want
00:27:49.800
less migration. The issue is on the substance, not just on the procedure. Now for this, major Democrats
00:27:57.400
are accusing President Trump of not understanding what it is to be an American. I don't think Donald
00:28:03.980
Trump has read the Constitution. I think he's ignorant to it. He's ignorant to a lot. I don't think
00:28:11.380
he understands that this is the foundation of our democracy. I don't think he understands what it is
00:28:19.300
to be an American. I mean, nobody in his family has ever served in our military. I mean, you go back
00:28:29.120
generations. I mean, my family, four generations, Donald Trump, nothing. I mean, all this guy cares
00:28:36.380
about is figuring out how he can fleece the American people out of their money. You know, this, this
00:28:42.740
president's presidency has been a travesty for this country. So Mark Kelly's contention is that
00:28:50.360
Trump doesn't know what it is to be an American. Because why? Because he's never served in the
00:28:56.700
military. Barack Obama never served in the military. Is Mark Kelly going to come out and say, Barack Obama
00:29:01.760
doesn't know what it means to be an American? Please give me that. Kamala, did Kamala serve in
00:29:06.380
the military? I don't think so. Did Joe Biden serve in the military? I don't think so. Did Bill Clinton
00:29:10.400
serve in the military? I don't think so. He's a bigger draft dodger than anybody. It's such a cheap
00:29:16.700
shot, which is all these kind of people take. He's not in America. He's not served in the military.
00:29:24.620
You know, I have a lot of buddies who have served in the military, a lot of family members who've
00:29:27.580
served in the military. They find this stuff disgusting. When some cheap two-bit politician
00:29:32.940
maybe served in the military, maybe he violated the uniform code of military justice, as Mark
00:29:38.040
Kelly appears to have done recently, when he encouraged soldiers not to follow orders.
00:29:42.920
Regardless, when they come out there and say, you, you're not American. I'm on, I'm American
00:29:46.900
because I serve in the military. You're not American. When they kind of just use it for cheap political
00:29:50.180
points, my friends who've served in the military and my family members, they find that disgusting.
00:29:54.680
But, but obviously it, it doesn't work on his, so then what is it? It's not that you have to serve
00:30:02.700
in the military to be an American. That's not a citizenship requirement. That's not how we
00:30:06.280
can conceive of ourselves. We wouldn't have any Democrat presidents in recent history if that were
00:30:10.340
the case. What's he saying? He's saying that Trump doesn't believe the right things. So actually
00:30:18.280
there are people on the right who, you know, people who at least would call themselves on the right,
00:30:22.020
who agree in principle with what Mark Kelly's saying. Namely that American identity is purely
00:30:29.940
creedal. In other words, that a guy today in Bangladesh who can recite the Declaration of
00:30:39.720
Independence, you know, we hold this truth to be self-evident and all the men are created equal
00:30:43.360
and they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights. That that guy is American.
00:30:50.720
And the farmer in Idaho, whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower or something, that that guy,
00:30:59.200
if he holds the wrong political opinions, that that guy's not American.
00:31:03.760
How can you say Trump is not American? The Trumps have been in America since the end of the 19th
00:31:12.320
century. Some people go back further. The Knowles have been in America since 1660 and the Fullers,
00:31:17.760
who the Knowles is married into in the 18th century, the Fullers have been here since 1620,
00:31:23.920
since the Mayflower. But I don't know, 1880s is pretty good. That's when the Trumps got here.
00:31:29.200
Would we say this about any other people? Would Mark Kelly say, you know, a Chinese guy who doesn't
00:31:36.960
believe in Chinese things? He doesn't believe in the CCP. He doesn't believe in socialism with
00:31:44.240
Chinese characteristics, as Chairman Xi describes it. Even if that Chinese guy's family had been here
00:31:50.000
since, you know, Qin Shi Huang or something, since the first emperor of China. They say,
00:31:55.200
he's not Chinese. He doesn't believe the current thing. He's not. No. And this is part of what
00:32:01.120
we're coming out of. I think that's what a lot of these debates over immigration are about.
00:32:04.560
It's what a lot of the racism accusations are about, is a grappling with American identity.
00:32:10.720
America is a younger country than China. America has taken in lots of disparate peoples,
00:32:18.000
a lot of African slaves who were not considered Americans until the 14th Amendment, and now they are.
00:32:22.080
Now they are, they are American citizens because of the 14th Amendment. You got to grapple with that.
00:32:26.960
The 14th Amendment was ratified a long time ago. So you can't, you can't say it's just white guys,
00:32:32.320
or just black guys. And you can, there are immigrants who have been here for a long time.
00:32:37.440
So it's just believing something? So some guy in Tibet today, he's American, and I'm not? I don't think
00:32:44.240
so, Mark Kelly. Really shallow stuff. But it comes to an important question. Okay, before, speaking of
00:32:50.400
shallow stuff, before we get into Mailbag, I have to get to this really, really amazing, shocking,
00:32:57.760
arresting show that is on Netflix called Steps. Steps is about Cinderella's stepsisters. It's an
00:33:06.880
animated show, but here's how they pitch it. They say, think you know Cinderella's evil stepsisters?
00:33:12.640
Think again. When misunderstood Lilith is blamed for hijacking the royal ball with a stolen magic wand,
00:33:18.880
she accidentally turns her sister Margo into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a
00:33:22.560
prince-obsessed mean girl. Now, Lilith must team up with Cinderella, and a surprisingly dreamy troll,
00:33:29.760
to save their kingdom, repair the fractured fairy tale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve
00:33:35.120
a shot at happily ever after. Huh. You thought she was one of the bad guys. But what if the bad guy is
00:33:43.600
really the good guy? This is, this kind of storytelling is as dumb as when, you remember when
00:33:51.200
you were a kid and you had this, I remember when I had this thought, I said, what if the color I see
00:33:57.440
as green, someone else sees as blue? Do you ever think about that? Do you ever think about that? I'm
00:34:04.480
looking over at Professor Jacob, he's sitting here running the show because we're on the road, and he's
00:34:08.480
looking up and says, I had that thought this morning, Michael. No, it's not. No, it's not. No.
00:34:14.720
The color you see is green is the color green, okay? And the bad guys are the bad guys. And the good
00:34:20.800
guys are the good guys. And people are complex, but in narratives, it's not so lazy. It's like,
00:34:26.480
hey, this kind of storytelling is just, hey, what if it were opposite day? Hey, I have an idea. I have a
00:34:33.200
really great idea for a movie. What if it were opposite day? So we're going to take all the great stories,
00:34:38.240
and we're just going to like scramble them up a little bit. And that'd be even interesting. We're
00:34:42.480
just going to flip them. And the problem, the reason I don't care about Netflix or this movie
00:34:47.120
or whatever, but the reason I care is because this has poisoned our political culture, and we just
00:34:52.240
always assume that. That's why freaks who murder innocent good men can get off the hook. This is
00:34:58.160
why repeat offenders who've been arrested 75 times are allowed out to go murder and rape and kill and
00:35:03.600
pillage and burn. This is why. Because we had this thought. We had a functioning society called
00:35:10.080
Christendom, a functioning civilization, the greatest civilization ever in the history of the world.
00:35:16.320
And then one day we came out. This was roughly around, some date it differently. Some would say
00:35:22.480
it was in the 1960s. Some would say it was around the time of the so-called enlightenment,
00:35:27.600
liberalism, secularization, whatever it was. There was time that we now call modernity, where we just
00:35:35.600
came out and said, hey, but what if it were opposite day? What if the bad stuff is actually good, and the
00:35:41.840
good stuff is actually bad? Wouldn't that be wacky and interesting? It's not. It's wacky, but it's not
00:35:47.920
interesting. It's very, very bad. And it causes a lot of moral confusion. Okay.
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myself. Hey there, Mr. Knowles. My name is Cameron. And I heard you encouraging someone to,
00:37:33.280
when they said they were going to get baptized, to make sure it was in the titles. And I was
00:37:38.800
wondering why it is that the Catholic Church baptizes in the titles when Peter, the apostle,
00:37:46.880
commanded in Acts chapter two, for people to be baptized in the name of Jesus. And it looks like
00:37:54.720
that's the only way that they baptized throughout the book of Acts. I'm really curious to hear what
00:38:00.640
you have to say about this matter. And I look forward to your response. Thank you. Bye.
00:38:05.760
This is a really, really good question. And there's, there's a lot of confusion on this,
00:38:10.640
especially, I know there's some people who insist only on baptizing in the name of Jesus,
00:38:15.920
and they might do it for good intentions. But the reason that we baptize in the Trinitarian formula,
00:38:21.120
the reason that for a baptism to be valid doesn't have to be done by a priest, doesn't have to be
00:38:25.920
done by a Catholic or an Eastern Orthodox or whatever. For a baptism to be valid requires the
00:38:33.040
proper matter, which is water and the Trinitarian formula to be baptized in the name of the Father and
00:38:40.480
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The reason for this does not come from the book of Acts. It
00:38:45.760
actually comes from the gospels and it comes from our Lord in the gospel, according to St. Matthew,
00:38:49.840
Matthew 28, 19, where Christ gives the great commission. He says, go therefore and make
00:38:54.560
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
00:39:00.240
Spirit. So that's it. Now, people might leave it as saying, okay, well, you've got Jesus saying one
00:39:08.880
thing and his apostles saying another. The gospel of Matthew saying one thing and the book of Acts
00:39:12.720
saying another. So are the apostles disagreeing with Christ? No, because in the book of Acts itself,
00:39:21.920
you see different versions of baptizing in the name of Jesus. You see different
00:39:25.760
baptizing in the name of the Lord Jesus, baptizing in the name of Jesus Christ. So,
00:39:30.800
which is it? Is it in the name of the Lord Jesus or in the name of Jesus Christ? Or does it not matter
00:39:38.000
as long as it's only Jesus, but not the Father or the Son? And then we ignore what Christ says in
00:39:42.640
the great commission or no, there's no contradiction here. What the apostles are talking about in the book
00:39:46.880
of Acts is to distinguish Christian baptism from other kinds of baptisms. There were other kinds of
00:39:51.680
baptisms. I mean, our Lord is baptized by John the Baptist. John the Baptist was baptizing as he was
00:39:56.400
making straight the ways of the Lord. There were Jewish baptisms, there were pagan baptisms. And so
00:40:00.720
I think that's really what's going on in Acts is to say, no, no, no, you need to baptize people
00:40:06.400
in the name of Jesus into Christianity, into true religion. And how do we baptize? Well, Christ tells
00:40:13.600
us in the gospel according to St. Matthew, with water in the name of the Father and of the Son and
00:40:18.560
the Holy Spirit. Okay. Next question. I'm going to pull it up right now.
00:40:23.200
Hi, Michael. I recently listened to your analysis of the Trump immigration numbers.
00:40:29.360
And being the former high school teacher, well known to you, I couldn't help but decide what
00:40:35.920
kind of grade you deserve for your analysis. I would give you an A, maybe an A plus, but certainly not
00:40:41.520
the A plus, plus, plus, plus, plus that Trump has given himself. The reason for my slightly lower grade
00:40:48.000
than you were accustomed to when you were my student is because there was a slight omission.
00:40:53.840
In your analysis, I would suggest, and I'd like to know what you think, that you should add to the
00:40:59.200
numbers the number of immigrants that have been deterred from immigration. So the total number should
00:41:09.440
be everything you added plus the number of immigrants that would have come if Trump was not president,
00:41:16.960
which would balloon the success rate of his immigration policy beyond imagination.
00:41:21.760
So I'm suggesting a new data point, which will be immigrants deported, departed, and discouraged.
00:41:29.520
The new number and total of all that would be a wonderful improvement in the success rate
00:41:35.760
currently being reported. Have a great day. That is a great point, Mr. Poplardo. I heard that voice.
00:41:43.440
I said, wait, I know this voice. Who is the, wait, you were a teacher. You were, that's my civics teacher,
00:41:48.640
Mr. Poplardo from Fox Lane High School. And look, this is why Mr. Poplardo is the teacher and I'm the
00:41:56.240
student, because you make an excellent point. I mentioned, there are these people who are attacking
00:42:02.000
Trump. And it's not really attacking Trump from the left. The way you attack Trump on immigration
00:42:06.320
from the left is to say, it's inhumane to deport the face tattooed gangsters. It's in your,
00:42:12.240
because the bad guys are good, remember? And so we need to protect the bad guys.
00:42:16.240
And that's not, that's not in any way persuasive. The, at least certainly not for us. The attack from
00:42:25.360
the right by people who just hate Trump and I don't know, they want to burn the GOP down or they're
00:42:30.320
secretly helping the Democrats or whatever. But the, the, the attack is, well, Trump's not
00:42:34.640
really deporting enough people. He's only deported three or 400,000 people this year. And so first of
00:42:39.040
all, even just using the official formal deportations, Trump has deported over half a
00:42:44.960
million people this year, all through the official channels, you can document them. But that doesn't
00:42:50.640
tell you the whole story because in addition to that, you have 1.6 million or so self-deports.
00:42:57.440
So people who have, and maybe substantially more than that, people who have voluntarily
00:43:03.600
left the country, there are some lower estimates of that that put it at 800,000 self-deports.
00:43:09.440
Even, even down to, I've seen as low as half a million to 700,000. It's a little trickier to
00:43:14.800
figure out because these people are undocumented. However, you're looking at somewhere in the
00:43:19.600
neighborhood of certainly over a million to 2 million people leaving. That's pretty good. That's a,
00:43:26.400
that's a very good number, but Mr. Poplar makes very important point. Trump has also just stopped
00:43:32.480
bringing in the illegal aliens. There were 3 million, 3 million illegal aliens who are entering
00:43:36.480
per year at one point under the Biden administration. So that's right. If you add that in, now you're
00:43:42.720
looking at four to 5 million people who otherwise would have come in or stayed in this country who
00:43:48.480
have left. That is a success. And Trump has only had 11 months or so, so far. That's a success. And
00:43:55.920
really, I think the people who were hitting him over that are just trying to cope because they
00:44:00.560
didn't support him. They didn't believe in him. They, for whatever reason, they wanted to undermine
00:44:04.560
him and it, it, it didn't work out. He deserves a lot more credit on them. Okay. Let's take one more.
00:44:09.600
I know I'm running late. Let's take one more question. Hi, Michael. You're an inspiration to
00:44:13.840
me. I wanted to share that I framed my prenup after your wisdom. Neither my fiance nor I believe
00:44:18.560
in divorce. So I had my lawyer draft the Knowles prenuptial agreement stipulating that whichever party
00:44:23.040
initiates the divorce forfeits everything. It may not hold up in the state of New Jersey,
00:44:27.360
but I figured I'd give it a try. I'm pretty confident that the prenup won't be needed. I want
00:44:32.080
it as a deterrent to divorce. Thanks for all that you do. I love that. Congratulations on your
00:44:38.080
marriage. I've suggested for years, the Knowles prenup. I said the, I, I do not support divorce
00:44:42.480
in any circumstance. Sometimes in extreme circumstances of danger, you need a separation,
00:44:49.840
but I just don't recognize divorce. Lord is our Lord. And, uh, what God has joined,
00:44:55.360
no man can separate and divorce has all these terrible practical, uh, consequences to it that
00:45:00.480
has really ruined society. And it's just bad for basically everyone involved. So I said, I support
00:45:06.080
one kind of prenup when you have all these manosphere kind of, they say, well, there,
00:45:10.160
therefore we need a prenup. You know, you got to protect men because of all the divorces. I said,
00:45:13.120
no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to protect men in the case of divorce. I don't want to protect
00:45:16.320
women in the case of divorce. Exactly. My chief goal is to prevent divorce. And that's why I support the
00:45:22.560
Knowles prenup, which is very simple. You get one line, whoever initiates the divorce forfeits
00:45:28.160
everything. That's the Knowles prenup. Now, uh, a thoughtful person did say, well, Michael,
00:45:36.320
uh, if you, if you begin with a prenuptial agreement of any kind, that would invalidate
00:45:41.920
the sacrament of marriage because you were opening yourself up to the possibility of divorce.
00:45:46.160
You're going, but, but I think the Knowles prenup gets around it because what the Knowles prenup is,
00:45:51.120
is, is not just a negative kind of whoever, whoever initiates a divorce forfeits everything.
00:45:57.120
What it really is, is a positive affirmation. You could also phrase it another way.
00:46:09.120
Sign it. That's it. Those, those two documents, those two statements mean the same thing.
00:46:16.320
We believe in marriage. That's great. I love that. You say it might not be recognized in the
00:46:22.160
state of New Jersey. I guess it might not. It should be. It should be. I want to see candidates
00:46:25.920
for governor, state legislature running on that. It's a very important one. Okay. I'm late. I don't
00:46:30.800
care. I'm in Washington. What am I going to do the rest of the day? I'm Michael Knowles. This is
00:46:34.880
the Michael Knowles Show. Wonderful to be with you as always. See you on Monday.
00:46:53.360
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