The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1884 - Right-Wing YouTuber DESTROYS Tim Walz's Career

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00:00:13.260 door. YouTuber Nick Shirley has officially bullied Minnesota Governor Tim Walz out of seeking

00:00:19.040 re-election after Shirley's investigation exposed just how enormously Somali criminals defrauded

00:00:25.440 Minnesota taxpayers on Tim Walz's watch. Now HHS in the federal government is turning off the federal

00:00:31.980 funds and we have got the deputy director of health and human services stopping by to talk about it.

00:00:37.620 Looks like the regime change is not just limited to Venezuela. We might get some in America too.

00:00:42.440 Never let anyone tell you that the internet is not real life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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00:00:55.440 Welcome back to the show. I'm very, very excited to have Jim O'Neill, a friend of mine of many,

00:01:12.760 many years coming on the show in a little bit. He is number two over at HHS right under Bobby Kennedy

00:01:18.820 and he's spearheading a lot of really important initiatives that are coming out of HHS right now

00:01:23.340 that pertain to the Somali fraud and a lot of waste and abuse in our government. So anyway, 0.96

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00:02:50.220 The internet is real, folks. Never let anybody tell you that the internet is not real.

00:02:56.200 You can meet your wife on the internet. You can meet your husband on the internet.

00:02:59.840 The activities that you engage in on the internet have moral implications, whether not just the one

00:03:06.000 activity that a lot of people associate with the internet, which is gravely immoral, but also,

00:03:10.420 you know, invective, wrath, pride, gluttony. I guess there's not a lot of gluttony on the internet,

00:03:16.780 but envy, all the stuff that you do on the internet is not merely some virtual avatar that

00:03:22.580 has nothing to do with your real soul. It has real effects on you personally. It shapes who you are,

00:03:28.540 and it shapes events in the real world. Tim Walls was about to be one heartbeat away from becoming

00:03:35.340 the second woman president, okay? Tim Walls was the running mate to a presidential candidate. 1.00

00:03:41.520 They didn't come all that close, but it was Kamala Harris, but this guy was a real player.

00:03:47.340 Now he is not even able to run for reelection in true blue Minnesota. Minnesota, the only state

00:03:54.180 that voted Democrat when every other state in the country voted Republican in 1984 for Ronald Reagan.

00:03:58.960 Minnesota, as democratic as they come, now all the more so because they've imported a bunch of 1.00

00:04:04.460 Somalis in. Tim Walls cannot run for reelection because a YouTuber showed up to some fake daycare

00:04:12.620 centers and exposed massive fraud. Tim Walls comes out, talks to the press yesterday,

00:04:19.120 stuns everybody in the room.

00:04:20.220 It's only making that fight harder. We've got Republicans here in the state legislature

00:04:27.120 playing hide and seek with potential whistleblowers. We've got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers

00:04:33.560 breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president of the United

00:04:41.340 States. Conspiracy theorist YouTubers. That is true. Nick Shirley is a conspiracy theorist in that

00:04:49.020 he had a theory about a potential conspiracy, but then the conspiracy was proven correct.

00:04:56.640 Then he uncovered an actual conspiracy, which is why, Tim Walls, you're about to announce that you

00:05:01.800 will not run for reelection. He says they're trying to get access to our children in our daycare.

00:05:07.700 The whole conspiracy, the whole point of the fraud is that there weren't any children in our daycares.

00:05:13.940 We, the taxpayers, were paying for the daycares, and our children weren't there.

00:05:20.220 No children were there. There weren't even Somali children there in some cases.

00:05:24.900 But even if there had been Somali children, when the YouTuber shows up and says, hey,

00:05:29.200 can I get an application so that I can enroll my son in this daycare? The people say, no.

00:05:34.860 Your son's not allowed, Han Solo, Gucci Gachi, Gucci Go. So any way you slice that statement,

00:05:42.280 it isn't true. They weren't showing up to have access to our children, so rich coming from the

00:05:48.140 left, which has spent the last 10 years pleading, begging, demanding to sexually groom young kids

00:05:54.180 in elementary schools and expose them to weird ideologies. Now, all of a sudden, a conservative

00:05:58.840 YouTuber shows up, exposes a fraud, exposes the absence of children in the state-run daycares,

00:06:04.620 or in the state-funded daycares. And you get this nonsense from Tim Walls. Desperate as all get

00:06:11.520 out. But the reason he's desperate is he knows this is the end of his political career.

00:06:18.060 Demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. 0.99

00:06:24.460 It's disgusting and it's dangerous. Republicans are playing politics with the future of the state.

00:06:30.620 It's shameful. And I've said it before, and I will continue to say it. But as I reflect on this

00:06:36.340 moment, Republicans are playing politics with the future of this state.

00:06:41.920 Yes, that's what happens in states. Yes, that is what politics is. Who wrote this?

00:06:51.260 I think these were prepared. I think these were prepared remarks. I don't know. I don't know what's

00:06:54.920 worse. If this was what Tim Walls could come up with off the top of his unimpressive head,

00:06:59.460 or if this is what the staffers came up with, someone actually hired to write a speech. But

00:07:03.160 to say, people, these politicians are playing politics. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's what they do.

00:07:09.700 Would you expect them to play tennis? That's what they do. It's politics. 0.79

00:07:13.860 And they're trying to bring their politics into our state government. Uh-huh. That's what government

00:07:20.020 is. It's political. And these Republicans, they're bringing their politics and they come in and they

00:07:25.400 say, hey, you shouldn't allow Somali criminals to defraud Minnesota taxpayers and fund Al-Shabaab and 0.98

00:07:32.240 terrorist groups overseas. Oh, it's like, oh, they're politics. Yeah, that's, yes, that is politics.

00:07:38.820 It's good that they did that. That is an example of very good politics. And now, Mr. Walls,

00:07:47.740 what's the conclusion? With my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I

00:07:54.300 can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute that I spend defending my own political interest

00:08:01.060 would be a minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota. So I've decided to step out

00:08:05.800 of this race and I'll let others worry about the election while I focus on the work that's in front

00:08:10.240 of me. Hold on, hold on. Even here, man, this guy is so incompetent. Even here, he can't come up

00:08:17.660 with a good excuse as to why he's leaving the race. He announced that he was going to run for

00:08:25.020 re-election. So clearly something, not only did he announce he was going to run for his

00:08:30.220 third term as governor, he already ran for re-election once to serve his second term as

00:08:34.800 governor. So clearly, he previously thought it was okay to run for re-election, that it wasn't

00:08:40.160 somehow contrary to the job of being the governor to run for re-election. Now he's changed his mind

00:08:46.020 and his excuses. I realized I can't run for re-election and simultaneously do my job as

00:08:51.380 governor. Oh, so why did you announce you were going to run in the first place? If it is the

00:08:57.660 case that one cannot simultaneously run for re-election and be governor or do the job of

00:09:03.320 governor in a good way, then why did you announce you were running in the first place? Why did you

00:09:08.760 already run for re-election and win one time? It's so weak on every single way you slice it.

00:09:16.740 It's so weak. The conspiracy theorist YouTuber was right. He was proven correct. Everyone

00:09:23.200 acknowledges that now. The politicians who were getting political with our state government were

00:09:30.580 right. And you are stepping down, not because you disapprove of running for re-election, which

00:09:36.820 you've already done once and announced you were going to do again. You're not running for re-election

00:09:40.320 because you got caught up in the fraud. And now you're going to be spending your time not governing

00:09:46.460 the state of Minnesota. You're going to be spending your time trying to avoid an orange jumpsuit 0.98

00:09:49.480 for your role in the fraud. And you know how we know that Mr. Walls is sweating here?

00:09:57.260 This is how he concluded his remarks.

00:10:00.640 Tomorrow, I'll be back with you. I'll give you an update on America's best paid family medical

00:10:05.360 lead program that is now a week into it. And at that time, I'll take all your questions. Thank you.

00:10:13.860 Thank you.

00:10:17.580 You said you were going to take questions. Why didn't you?

00:10:27.680 They're here in, I guess, the governor's mansion or, I don't know, state capital or something.

00:10:31.900 Okay. And you hear these Minnesota journalists. We ain't talking about the Daily Wire. We ain't

00:10:38.060 talking about the Blaze or Fox News. We're talking about Minnesota journalists. These guys are

00:10:41.680 overwhelmingly liberal. And Walls says, okay, and I'm going to be a really good governor and be really

00:10:46.300 responsive to the people. And that's why I'm going to leave as fast as I can. And there's going to be

00:10:50.760 a Tim Walls shaped hole in the wall. The Walls wall. I'm going to run out like I'm Bugs Bunny and

00:10:56.760 Looney Tunes. And you hear the liberal journalists presumably saying, what? Huh? Okay. And you hear

00:11:07.060 that one at the end, just so exasperated, says, you said you were going to take questions. Why

00:11:11.660 didn't you tell us you were going to take questions? So I'm announcing that my political career is

00:11:17.460 completely over and I'm contradicting what I've been saying for months. And that's why I'll take

00:11:21.280 your questions tomorrow when I talk about some nonsense program that the Somalis are also probably 1.00

00:11:25.640 robbing blind. Okay. Bye. That's responsive government for you. The reason it's so delightful

00:11:33.140 though, is not just because Tim Walls is awful, awful, awful, awful. The reason it's so beautiful

00:11:41.980 is because it is a reminder that the internet is real life. It's not exactly the same as the physical

00:11:50.700 public square. Sometimes when you pay too much attention to Twitter or TikTok or Instagram,

00:11:54.840 it can distort your perception of public opinion. That's true, but it is real life.

00:12:02.080 Your tweeting has an effect. You're viewing, you're sharing videos, you're sending information

00:12:08.400 to your relatives and your friends and your neighbors. That has a real effect. That changes

00:12:13.760 governors' races. That takes out former vice presidential candidates from the political order.

00:12:18.680 That moves things. It moves the conversation. Now we're beginning to see a big shift in the

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00:14:12.920 and all the rest of that nonsense, I am very, very excited to have some relatively breaking news coming

00:14:20.320 out of the federal government and to hear it straight from my friend Jim O'Neill's mouth. Jim O'Neill,

00:14:25.780 the number two over at HHS, who is transforming one of the most troublesome bureaucracies into

00:14:32.920 really working for the American people and focusing specifically on some of this fraud

00:14:37.240 we're seeing out of Minnesota. Jim, marvelous to see you, sir.

00:14:41.500 Love you to see you, Michael. Happy 12th day of Christmas.

00:14:44.980 Thank you. It's marvelous to see you on the Feast of the Epiphany. A very important date

00:14:51.100 in American and world history. Jim, you've been a major figure in healthcare for a very long time

00:14:58.220 now. And Trump comes in, he really shakes up HHS. He picks this Democrat presidential candidate,

00:15:04.600 a Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, to run HHS. And you're seeing a lot of transformation over there.

00:15:10.360 Just briefly, I know you're very busy. What is HHS doing on not only the fraud stories coming out of

00:15:20.320 Minnesota and elsewhere, but also this breaking news about the vaccine schedule?

00:15:26.380 Yeah. So, you know, fraud in Minnesota has probably been going on for years. Our inspector general's

00:15:31.600 office really started tracking it in May when Minnesota was clearly not complying with federal

00:15:39.980 attendance documentation requirements. So we've doubled down on this. We've gotten more intensely

00:15:48.020 involved, investigating more. You know, there's this great November 19th piece by Chris Ruffo and

00:15:54.900 City Journal exposing some of the specific types of fraud with autism diagnoses and daycare fraud in

00:16:02.340 Minnesota. So Dr. Oz, the head of CMS, sent a CERN letter to Governor Walz in early December

00:16:11.260 asking for a corrective action plan and setting a deadline of New Year's Eve if they want to keep

00:16:18.260 getting Medicaid dollars. So on New Year's Eve, on the deadline, they sent, I guess you could call

00:16:24.860 it a response. It was five pages. It wasn't quite written in crayon, but let's just say it was not

00:16:29.420 sufficient for anyone here. And so we are going to get tougher. It's time to get more serious

00:16:38.460 with Minnesota on Medicaid. And then at the same time, we have our child care program in our

00:16:46.480 administration for children and families. So we turned on Defend the Spend program, which means that

00:16:52.880 every time Minnesota state officials send a money request to us, it's going to automatically reply

00:16:59.680 with, please show us the evidence, the receipts, the proof, the records, show us some reason to think

00:17:05.540 this is real before we send you the money. We've turned that on. Let's just say they haven't sent in

00:17:10.240 a lot of receipts in the last week so far. So there's nothing to look at and no money's going out

00:17:14.860 the door. Yesterday, I also sent a letter to Governor Walz last Tuesday demanding some accountability on

00:17:22.420 the child care side, similar to Mehmet's letter on the Medicaid side. Today, we started getting rid of

00:17:29.440 a lot of really bad Biden rules. So the Biden administration, unfortunately, had put in some

00:17:34.720 regulations that really limited the ability of state officials to look for fraud in the administration

00:17:41.860 of some of our programs, like limited the number of times they could ask for verification or validation

00:17:48.720 or attendance records. So we're getting rid of those bad rules. We're going back to full-on

00:17:54.340 transparency, show us the receipts. And this is not about punishing or withholding anything from

00:18:01.200 legitimate providers or parents or poor families or working families or hospitals or anything. This is

00:18:07.820 about holding state officials accountable for making sure there's not fraud. I really think

00:18:13.120 in Minnesota, it seems like there's a political patronage system that the DFL and a lot of entities

00:18:20.780 in certain communities or certain parts of the state or certain layers of society all have a common

00:18:26.500 interest in keeping a certain amount of grift going. And maybe some people are fully aware of it and some

00:18:31.580 people are partly aware. We don't know all of that yet, but it really looks like there's a political

00:18:35.300 machine that depends on welfare fraud and Medicaid fraud and we're going to shut it down.

00:18:40.040 What I love about the action that you are taking right now at HHS is it's so simple and it's so

00:18:47.020 restrained. It's so modest even to say you're not going in as the Democrats are alleging and punishing

00:18:52.480 people and, you know, bringing retribution. You're simply saying, OK, you want this money for these

00:18:57.980 programs? Show us any evidence at all that this is real and they're not sending you the receipts.

00:19:05.620 It's like that scene in Office Space. You know, the consultants come in and say, so what is it

00:19:10.720 exactly that you do here? You know, and it's it's these fraudsters who say, what? Sorry,

00:19:15.500 got to go close the door. Sorry, no proof here. You know, applications. So look, I think this is great.

00:19:20.600 It's marvelous. And to your point, it's not just oopsie daisy. You know, it's not just the

00:19:26.220 incompetence of Tim Walls. I don't think at least it seems to me that these fraudsters are very good

00:19:32.640 at politics and these corrupt politicians are very good at politics, too. This serves a political

00:19:37.160 purpose, a machine purpose that has existed in politics, especially Democratic politics for

00:19:42.900 hundreds of years. And it would seem that any reasonable person would have to come to the

00:19:48.020 conclusion that that's probably what we're looking at here in Minnesota.

00:19:52.940 Yeah, all the all the the facts that we know point towards that. And every week we learn more facts

00:19:58.380 and they continue to point toward that as well. So and by the way, it's not just Minnesota.

00:20:04.940 We're looking seriously at California and Maine and Ohio, and we're going to look at other states and

00:20:11.560 and lots of other programs. You know, I've talked about two of our big programs that involve states,

00:20:16.860 Medicaid and child care. But, you know, TANF, which is the generalized welfare program that we run.

00:20:22.220 And then, of course, lots of programs in our peer departments, a treasury at HUD at labor.

00:20:29.040 We're all cooperating in a very administration wide approach in in really making fraud something

00:20:36.320 that we're not going to tolerate.

00:20:37.480 So, Jim, before I let you go, I have to pick your brain a little bit on on the vaccine changes.

00:20:42.500 This is another one just within the last, what, 24 hours or so. Big changes to the vaccine schedule.

00:20:48.860 What's funny is the Democrats used to be skeptical of all the new vaccines being added. But now,

00:20:54.620 because Trump is also skeptical of that, now they have to be in favor of shooting up little kids 0.99

00:20:59.120 with, like, 150 jabs. So, what is the change? What is this in response to? What can parents expect? 0.76

00:21:07.520 Yeah. So, you know, when you're a sick person, you know, considering taking a drug,

00:21:12.080 you and your doctor need to know, like, everything that's known about the risks and benefits of the drug.

00:21:17.880 When you're a healthy person considering a vaccine, the standards are legitimately a little bit higher.

00:21:22.940 Like, you're asking a healthy person to take on some potential risk.

00:21:25.640 And we're talking about a baby. It should be even higher, right? Like, parents don't want to put

00:21:30.400 their baby at risk, nor should they. And they have a right to very good, transparent information.

00:21:35.940 In many cases, the really lengthy follow-ups to safety studies that people assume have been done

00:21:41.700 on everything haven't been done. We're correcting that. But in the meantime, people need good advice

00:21:46.000 based on the best information we have. And President Trump, about a month ago, asked me to

00:21:50.620 really dig into this and specifically to look at what some other developed

00:21:55.480 countries are doing on this front. And so I talked to health ministries in Germany, Denmark,

00:22:00.900 Japan. I talked to a lot of our scientists at CDC and FDA. And it was really interesting that a lot

00:22:07.620 of other countries recommend far fewer vaccines. And so I updated the official U.S. vaccine schedule

00:22:15.000 yesterday to really prioritize the subset of vaccines that we think are most important for children.

00:22:22.180 It seems so reasonable when you describe it that way. Also very funny that a lot of our ideological

00:22:28.240 opponents, you know, they always look to every other country in the world as so much more civilized

00:22:32.920 than us. And yet when it comes to certain aspects of medicine, especially public health,

00:22:37.360 all of a sudden they ignore the norm elsewhere. And I know just speaking to so many parents,

00:22:44.360 obviously I have three kids myself, it is kind of weird how the vaccine schedule has exploded.

00:22:49.660 It's all so early. You know, people are trying to jab your little newborn baby with a hep B vaccine.

00:22:55.760 I told the nurses that my son does not intend to go to any brothels anytime soon. I don't think he's

00:23:01.180 interested in heroin, hopefully ever, but certainly for not the next few years. And so a lot of parents

00:23:06.540 have legitimate concerns about that. Yes, of course. I think people are entitled to transparent

00:23:11.540 information and to weigh risks and rewards. It's just too reasonable, Jim. Marvelous to see you.

00:23:16.820 I know you've got a lot to do. You're juggling a lot of things. Thank you so much though for coming

00:23:21.620 on, sneaking in right here at the end of Christmas. That's marvelous.

00:23:25.020 Michael, it's great to see you. Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon.

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00:25:10.500 Oren Mamdani, vowing to replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

00:25:16.520 Okay. I hate to give Mamdani any credit for anything, but he's almost nearly approaching

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00:25:59.920 ideological coin. Because the collectivist modern ideologies come out of the individualist liberal

00:26:09.780 ideology. But people are not primarily individuals. Society is not fundamentally about the individual.

00:26:19.420 The individual is not the fundamental political union. And likewise, societies are not, you know,

00:26:25.200 people are not just these undifferentiated blobs of human flesh, no different one from another.

00:26:31.520 The reality is a little more complicated than that. The reality is that we are people,

00:26:36.460 we're individual human beings, who are born into the context of organic community, primarily the family.

00:26:44.080 And then the extended family, and then the township, and the county, and the state, and the nation,

00:26:49.380 maybe the empire. But all of these sort of cascading political communities that operate ideally on

00:26:58.020 principles of subsidiarity. But down to that basic one, you are not born, to quote Kamala Harris,

00:27:02.800 I guess we're all the way back to Tim Walls, to quote Kamala Harris, you are not falling out of a

00:27:06.400 coconut tree when you're born. You're born into a family. But it is you, and you are an individual.

00:27:10.800 So what does this mean? The frigidity of individualism giving way to the warmth of

00:27:16.980 collectivism. Sounds like hell. The warmth of collectivism is hell, is what he's describing.

00:27:21.540 What does it actually mean? Well, his tenant director, Sia Weaver, explains this pretty clearly

00:27:28.400 on social media. I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an

00:27:37.860 individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to, and transitioning to treating it as

00:27:44.160 a collective good and towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it

00:27:50.860 differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families 0.98

00:27:57.380 who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one

00:28:04.660 that we currently have. They're going to have, mostly those evil, dirty white people, you know, 1.00

00:28:11.980 the white devil honkies, you know, yeah, mostly them. But I guess a few like slightly dusky people 1.00

00:28:16.540 will get caught up to. They're going to have a different relationship to private property.

00:28:21.400 Namely, they're not going to have it because we're going to take it from them.

00:28:25.260 We're going to transition. We're not just going to transition your little boy into a little girl.

00:28:29.520 We're going to do that too. But we're going to transition your property, what you consider to

00:28:35.660 be like your property. We're going to transition that into my property. I'm going to have it now.

00:28:43.040 Especially if you're a white devil, because we hate you white people. Even though she's a white 1.00

00:28:47.840 devil too, but she especially hates you, the white devil. She posted on some social media platform, 1.00

00:28:54.560 thanks to Libs of TikTok for finding this one. She types this one out. She goes,

00:28:58.540 private property, including, and kind of, especially, all caps, home ownership,

00:29:05.140 is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building public policy.

00:29:10.960 I love this too. Even that millennial lib way that like, you know, like kind of, I mean,

00:29:18.800 kind of especially, you can't say kind of especially, especially gives emphasis for the

00:29:25.420 particular thing you're talking about. And kind of creates ambiguity.

00:29:31.380 The people running New York can't speak English. And it's not just because they're Arabs or whatever, 0.90

00:29:36.360 Pakistanis. It's not that. The Pakistanis probably speak English better than the white liberal ladies, 1.00

00:29:41.500 millennials, who say kind of especially. But how are we to think of private property?

00:29:46.720 Because there's the modern right wing, sort of right liberal ideological view. There is the

00:29:55.480 communist view that Mom Donnie and this lady are espousing. But even though I'm certainly much more

00:30:02.260 on the right than I ever entertain ideas on the left, I also eschew aspects of modern right wing

00:30:09.040 ideology. You know, because I don't like, I don't really like modern stuff and liberal stuff and

00:30:12.640 ideology. So what is the Christian view? What's the conservative view? What's the traditional view

00:30:18.500 that we've held of private property? For that, we turn to our friend, John Paul II. John Paul II

00:30:24.960 writes in the midst of the Cold War as Pope, he writes an encyclical called Centesimus Annum.

00:30:33.000 Centesimus Annum, which is a reflection on Rerum Novarum, which is an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII,

00:30:39.700 predecessor to Pope Leo XIV, Pope Leo XIII, who is writing during the rise of socialism and industrial

00:30:45.720 capitalism and all of this massive economic upheaval. Where, look, socialism and communism

00:30:51.360 is really, really bad. There are some issues with capitalism too, if capitalism is not bounded by a

00:30:55.580 moral order in order toward the flourishing of the community. So what do we think? What are we

00:31:01.480 supposed to think? And JP too, I think, puts it very well. He says, the fundamental error of

00:31:06.340 socialism is anthropological in nature. It's about what a human is. Socialism considers the

00:31:11.960 individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism so that the good of the

00:31:16.580 individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socioeconomic mechanism.

00:31:20.440 It just crushes the individual person and says, you are undifferentiated flesh, only serving the

00:31:27.140 Borg. That's what Mamdani and this lady are talking about. Man is thus reduced to a series of 0.97

00:31:32.360 social relationships and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision

00:31:36.320 disappears. The very subject whose decisions build the social order. They're saying, yeah,

00:31:40.640 the social order is good, but in order to have a social order, you have to have people making moral

00:31:44.800 decisions. And if you deny the individual and you deny any agency and you deny that he's a moral actor,

00:31:50.940 you actually completely undermine the social order. It's not that socialism is bad because it

00:31:55.480 acknowledges community. Socialism is bad because it actually undermines community by undermining the

00:32:00.600 individual. The individual and community do not have to be at odds. The modern ideological view

00:32:07.160 that it's the individual or the collective, you have to pick one. Both of those ideologies are wrong

00:32:12.080 because a true understanding of politics recognizes that the individual and the community have to go

00:32:19.380 hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. JP2 goes on, only a little bit more.

00:32:24.660 From this mistaken conception of the person, there arise both a distortion of the law,

00:32:27.840 which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and in opposition to private property.

00:32:31.880 So JP2 is just seeing this. He's seeing the Mamdani administration come down the pike decades 1.00

00:32:36.720 in the future. Any person who is deprived of something he can call his own and of the possibility

00:32:42.280 of earning a living through his own initiative comes to depend on the social machine and on those

00:32:47.060 who control it. That's what this is about. This is about Mamdani and his cronies crushing the

00:32:54.740 individual by pretending to offer him something so that he can gain control over him. This makes it

00:33:01.640 much more difficult for him to recognize his dignity as a person and hinders progress toward

00:33:05.500 the building up of an authentic human community, even that dignity of the person. So when communism

00:33:10.540 and socialism expand, you see a reduced dignity of the person. Now, this can happen with capitalism

00:33:18.400 that's unbridled from moral order too, or unbound by moral order, but you especially see it with

00:33:23.740 socialism and communism, a degradation of the person, an undermining of the family, an undermining

00:33:28.440 of the moral order, an expansion of vice and sin, an expansion of euthanasia. You get socialist

00:33:35.920 healthcare, next thing you're going to get is abortion and euthanasia, so-called assisted suicide. 0.88

00:33:40.640 You don't really get a ton of assisted suicide in the less socialistic healthcare systems. Why?

00:33:46.960 Because the socialist system degrades the human person, undermines the dignity of the human person,

00:33:52.200 and hinders progress, JP2 writes, toward the building up of an authentic human community.

00:33:58.240 The problem with collectivism is not that the people are all together doing stuff that's good

00:34:01.640 for all of them. The problem with collectivism is that they're not. The problem with collectivism is

00:34:06.320 that it is a fake, contrived, artificial community, based on the breaking down of organic,

00:34:15.460 real community into the individual. This is how fascism works. Fascism is helpful here, 0.98

00:34:22.340 even though fascism is different from communism and socialism. Fascism is a helpful way into 0.99

00:34:28.900 understanding how all of these ideologies work, because fascism has the symbol of the bundle of

00:34:33.620 sticks bound up together, the fascism. And so what is expressed by that symbol is that in order to

00:34:40.500 create this collectivist state, you have to first break down all the natural community so that once

00:34:45.420 everyone's an alienated individual, they're much more easy to control, to manipulate, to bound up,

00:34:51.720 and then you can bound them up to this contrived community. So what are we supposed to do?

00:34:55.480 Very briefly, JP2, the channeling Pope Leo XIII says,

00:34:59.280 In contrast, from the Christian vision of the human person, there necessarily follows a correct 1.00

00:35:04.420 picture of society. According to Rerum Novarum and the whole social doctrine of the church,

00:35:08.860 the social nature of man is not completely fulfilled in the state, but is realized in various

00:35:14.560 intermediary groups, beginning with the family and including economic, social, political, and

00:35:19.600 cultural groups, which stem from human nature itself and have their own autonomy. They have their

00:35:23.940 own kind of liberty, their own kind of exalted liberty, always with a view to the common good.

00:35:29.280 This is what I've called the subjectivity of society, which together with the subjectivity

00:35:32.720 of the individual was canceled out by, quote, real socialism. This is the key. And it's a warning

00:35:39.100 against ideologies that purport to be on the right as well as ideologies from the left like you see with

00:35:43.160 Mamdani. Any ideology that tells you that the individual is contrary to the community is going to be

00:35:53.340 wrong. Any ideology that tells you that material flourishing, that private property is contrary to

00:36:02.820 the common good is going to be wrong. Those ideologies are getting some wrong, whether you

00:36:07.160 see them on the left or on the right. The real deal, the real stuff, the stuff that the church

00:36:13.660 coincidentally, maybe not merely coincidentally, has taught for a very long time. The real stuff

00:36:19.280 recognizes all of these goods and puts them together into an organic hole or even sees them

00:36:25.480 together as an organic hole. Okay. Now, speaking of welfare, you have heard from some of your friends

00:36:32.480 on the left that, you know, immigrants are actually good for the economy and immigrants actually use 0.99

00:36:36.020 welfare at lower rates than any born population. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, we got the numbers

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00:37:08.200 now on iOS, Android, Roku, Samsung, and more. My favorite comment yesterday is from Matty with a fatty,

00:37:14.140 who says, the Stranger Things finale was longer than the Venezuelan war. That's so true. And much 1.00

00:37:19.740 gayer, too, than the Venezuela. The Venezuelan war was not gay. I know there are all sorts of jokes 0.94

00:37:24.820 about the Navy. There are a lot of Navy SEALs and everything. But no, the Venezuelan war was not gay. 0.76

00:37:31.400 It was very, very much not gay. And the Stranger Things finale was, was. It very much was. Okay. 0.84

00:37:38.620 Folks, I can't believe we made it this far, and I haven't made an explicit reference to the day.

00:37:44.400 You know what today is. Today is the day when wise men traveled to follow their leader,

00:37:53.600 the true leader of us all, you know, in the face of an oppressive government. You know what I'm

00:37:57.660 talking about? I'm talking about the Feast of the Epiphany. But the Feast of the Epiphany also

00:38:03.600 coincides with the darkest day for democracy ever. In all of the days of democracy and republics,

00:38:10.700 I'm talking about January 6th. January 6th, the worst day ever. So anyway, Jeremy's Razors

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00:38:51.200 Go to jeremysrazors.com and shop wistfully now. Speaking of Christianity, 0.68

00:39:00.100 before we get to the immigrants, I want to get to a really important story. Scott Adams is dying. 0.99

00:39:06.860 Scott Adams is the cartoonist behind Dilbert. Not only did he make Dilbert, which is a favorite of

00:39:12.080 many, many people for decades. Now, I remember reading Dilbert when I was a kid. But he also,

00:39:17.040 especially at the beginning of the Trump era, he came out as this really insightful political observer.

00:39:22.000 So he came out and he would explain President Trump's rhetoric from the perspective of persuasion.

00:39:30.800 And he's just good. He's been really accurate on a lot of the moves from the Trump administration.

00:39:35.560 He's just a delightful public figure. And he's dying. He is dying. And I know a lot of people

00:39:42.200 try to say, oh, no, buddy, you know, you'll duke it out. No, he's dying. We're all dying. We all have a

00:39:47.980 death sentence from the minute we're conceived. And he is dying. And that, you know, Norm MacDonald

00:39:53.900 always had this bit where he said, I hate how they describe cancer as a fight. You know, it's a battle

00:40:00.280 with cancer. Because then, eventually, when you die, you're just lost. The last thing you do in the

00:40:04.980 world is you lose. He's like, I hate that. And he goes, by the way, I don't even think you lose.

00:40:08.460 Because if you die, the cancer dies, then it's a draw. And so I love Scott's very human, very,

00:40:17.700 he's a very realistic guy. And Scott says, no, look, I'm going to die. And he says, I'm going to

00:40:22.240 die this month. It's very sad for those of us who really like him. And he has millions of fans.

00:40:28.460 But there's a little silver lining out of it, which is that Scott Adams is converting to

00:40:34.120 Christianity. Whenever I talk about the simulation, and especially when I talk about my own impending

00:40:43.280 death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott, you still have time.

00:40:53.060 You should convert to Christianity. Any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly 1.00

00:41:01.020 answered if I wake up in heaven. I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that I would wake

00:41:09.600 up in heaven if I have a good life. I don't necessarily have to state something in advance.

00:41:18.040 And so, to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming. So you don't need to talk me into it.

00:41:26.500 I am now convinced that the risk-reward is completely smart. If it turns out that there's

00:41:34.980 nothing there, I've lost nothing. But I've respected your wishes, and I like doing that. If it turns

00:41:42.600 out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win.

00:41:48.580 I love this. I love this. And some Christians don't love this. And they don't love it because

00:41:57.540 this is Pascal's wager. Blaise Pascal, one of the great geniuses of modernity, actually,

00:42:03.860 who is a Catholic, who flirted with some quasi-Calvinist ideas, Jansenism, though he died a

00:42:10.700 loyal son of the church. His great book is the Ponce, which is basically a series of notes and note

00:42:15.600 cards. But he comes up with this wager. And the wager is, look, if I believe in God, if I believe

00:42:22.600 that God, I can't really know that God exists, which I disagree with. I think you can know with

00:42:26.140 certainty that God exists. But he says, if you don't know that God exists, or perhaps you don't

00:42:32.480 know the specific revelation of Christ, if you believe in it, the worst thing that happens is

00:42:39.940 lights go off when you die. Worst thing that happens is you live a good life, and then the

00:42:46.580 lights go out when you die. And the best thing that happens is that you enjoy God forever in heaven.

00:42:53.140 Now, if you don't believe in God, if you don't believe in Christianity, best thing that happens 0.98

00:43:00.960 is the lights go out when you die. It's all just nothing. And worst thing that happens is you are

00:43:06.760 tormented by the devil for all of eternity. You're tortured eternally by the devil in the absence of

00:43:13.920 God, in the absence of all goodness and beauty and truth and love. So that's pretty bad. And so

00:43:23.020 probably you ought to be Christian. And there's some people who are coming out and saying, well,

00:43:27.800 this isn't a true conversion. He's only dreading the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. He's only

00:43:32.280 thinking about himself. He's not really feeling it, man. And I find this so, so funny because there

00:43:39.380 are many, many people who insist that your actions have nothing to do with your sanctification,

00:43:47.520 nothing to do with you. You can't lose your salvation. It has nothing to do with you

00:43:50.980 whatsoever. You don't have to participate in anything. Who nevertheless are saying, you know,

00:43:57.180 Scott's not doing enough. He's not doing enough. Or even worse, he's not feeling enough. A lot of

00:44:02.160 modern religion, and I've noticed especially the kind of religion that downplays the role of works

00:44:07.960 and acts of charity and things that you do, downplays sacraments and all the rest. It is

00:44:12.460 precisely that kind of modern religion that insists on a saccharine emotivism that you have to be

00:44:19.300 feeling all the right things for it to work. You know, sometimes we even deny the efficacy of

00:44:26.980 baptism if you didn't truly believe or, you know, if you didn't truly feel the right things at the

00:44:32.080 time. But of course, this is contrary to the belief that, you know, it's really God's grace

00:44:37.560 acting on you. This is why, and this was a heresy that was worked out, you know, back in antiquity.

00:44:43.960 This is why you could have a bad priest, a sinner priest, baptize someone, and the baptism is valid 0.99

00:44:49.360 because the baptism is God's grace acting on someone. And here, I think God's grace is acting

00:44:55.540 on Scott. And look, I'd love for him to be received into the church with all of the sacraments and

00:45:01.540 receive last rites, you know, extreme unction, and I'd love that. I hope that happens. Maybe Scott will

00:45:05.760 see this video. I hope that's great. I do find it generally a little unseemly to just constantly

00:45:13.080 pester people on their deathbeds to, you know, do this or that. I'm very glad that, you know,

00:45:18.580 it seems like he's taking matters of his eternal soul quite seriously. And anyway, I hope all that

00:45:23.220 happens. But I can't help but look at that video of Scott and think that his calculation here is not

00:45:30.840 cynical. It's not, you know, cheap or something. It's kind of childlike. It's kind of childlike.

00:45:39.800 And I think that delights God. I think God actually tells us that that delights God.

00:45:44.340 And so I hope Scott receives the sacraments, obviously. We pray that Scott receives the

00:45:49.820 sacraments and, you know, all the rest of it. But I like that. This is a childlike trusting,

00:45:57.000 I think, in God's grace. And he exhibits that a lot in his public life. I think that's at the very

00:46:02.580 least a good sign. Okay. I want to get to the immigration numbers, but I'm a tease. And today

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00:46:29.800 All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died.

00:46:36.540 And soon that echo will cease.

00:46:42.140 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:46:56.020 They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis. They say the future

00:47:04.720 and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.

00:47:12.140 The magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.

00:47:18.180 They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds, do you hear? That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.

00:47:30.020 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

00:47:34.180 Merlin is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here. 0.97

00:47:46.760 The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. 0.98

00:47:52.220 And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.

00:47:57.180 And he will have it.

00:47:58.680 If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope.

00:48:05.160 A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.

00:48:09.020 A high king who will be the wonder of the world.

00:48:11.520 To a future of peace.

00:48:19.980 There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.

00:48:23.660 Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together.

00:48:28.900 You stand as Britons.

00:48:32.020 You stand as one.

00:48:32.760 Great darkness is falling upon this land.

00:48:40.080 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

00:48:44.420 Not our only hope.

00:48:47.300 They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.

00:48:51.480 And Gathay, he slew 500.

00:48:55.540 No man is capable of such a thing.

00:48:58.540 No mortal man.

00:49:02.760 No mortal man.

00:49:05.440 No mortal man.

00:49:07.660 No mortal man.

00:49:09.980 No mortal man.

00:49:10.500 No mortal man.

00:49:11.420 No한 way. 0.92

00:49:12.020 No.

00:49:12.340 No mortal man.

00:49:12.940 No mortal man.

00:49:15.280 No.

00:49:15.780 No mortal man.

00:49:16.480 No mortal man.

00:49:17.820 No mortal man.

00:49:19.820 No mortal man.

00:49:22.960 No mortal man.

00:49:24.480 No mortal man.

00:49:26.840 No mortal man.

00:49:30.600 No mortal man.

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