Ep. 1884 - Right-Wing YouTuber DESTROYS Tim Walz's Career
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Jim O Neill, Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stops by the show to talk about Somali fraud in Minnesota, the Iran Contra scandal, and why Tim Walz is not running for re-election.
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door. YouTuber Nick Shirley has officially bullied Minnesota Governor Tim Walz out of seeking
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re-election after Shirley's investigation exposed just how enormously Somali criminals defrauded
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Minnesota taxpayers on Tim Walz's watch. Now HHS in the federal government is turning off the federal
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funds and we have got the deputy director of health and human services stopping by to talk about it.
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Looks like the regime change is not just limited to Venezuela. We might get some in America too.
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Never let anyone tell you that the internet is not real life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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Welcome back to the show. I'm very, very excited to have Jim O'Neill, a friend of mine of many,
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many years coming on the show in a little bit. He is number two over at HHS right under Bobby Kennedy
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and he's spearheading a lot of really important initiatives that are coming out of HHS right now
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that pertain to the Somali fraud and a lot of waste and abuse in our government. So anyway,
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The internet is real, folks. Never let anybody tell you that the internet is not real.
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You can meet your wife on the internet. You can meet your husband on the internet.
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The activities that you engage in on the internet have moral implications, whether not just the one
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activity that a lot of people associate with the internet, which is gravely immoral, but also,
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you know, invective, wrath, pride, gluttony. I guess there's not a lot of gluttony on the internet,
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but envy, all the stuff that you do on the internet is not merely some virtual avatar that
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has nothing to do with your real soul. It has real effects on you personally. It shapes who you are,
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and it shapes events in the real world. Tim Walls was about to be one heartbeat away from becoming
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the second woman president, okay? Tim Walls was the running mate to a presidential candidate.
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They didn't come all that close, but it was Kamala Harris, but this guy was a real player.
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Now he is not even able to run for reelection in true blue Minnesota. Minnesota, the only state
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that voted Democrat when every other state in the country voted Republican in 1984 for Ronald Reagan.
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Minnesota, as democratic as they come, now all the more so because they've imported a bunch of
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Somalis in. Tim Walls cannot run for reelection because a YouTuber showed up to some fake daycare
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centers and exposed massive fraud. Tim Walls comes out, talks to the press yesterday,
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It's only making that fight harder. We've got Republicans here in the state legislature
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playing hide and seek with potential whistleblowers. We've got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers
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breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president of the United
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States. Conspiracy theorist YouTubers. That is true. Nick Shirley is a conspiracy theorist in that
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he had a theory about a potential conspiracy, but then the conspiracy was proven correct.
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Then he uncovered an actual conspiracy, which is why, Tim Walls, you're about to announce that you
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will not run for reelection. He says they're trying to get access to our children in our daycare.
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The whole conspiracy, the whole point of the fraud is that there weren't any children in our daycares.
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We, the taxpayers, were paying for the daycares, and our children weren't there.
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No children were there. There weren't even Somali children there in some cases.
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But even if there had been Somali children, when the YouTuber shows up and says, hey,
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can I get an application so that I can enroll my son in this daycare? The people say, no.
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Your son's not allowed, Han Solo, Gucci Gachi, Gucci Go. So any way you slice that statement,
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it isn't true. They weren't showing up to have access to our children, so rich coming from the
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left, which has spent the last 10 years pleading, begging, demanding to sexually groom young kids
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in elementary schools and expose them to weird ideologies. Now, all of a sudden, a conservative
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YouTuber shows up, exposes a fraud, exposes the absence of children in the state-run daycares,
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or in the state-funded daycares. And you get this nonsense from Tim Walls. Desperate as all get
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out. But the reason he's desperate is he knows this is the end of his political career.
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Demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on.
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It's disgusting and it's dangerous. Republicans are playing politics with the future of the state.
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It's shameful. And I've said it before, and I will continue to say it. But as I reflect on this
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moment, Republicans are playing politics with the future of this state.
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Yes, that's what happens in states. Yes, that is what politics is. Who wrote this?
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I think these were prepared. I think these were prepared remarks. I don't know. I don't know what's
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worse. If this was what Tim Walls could come up with off the top of his unimpressive head,
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or if this is what the staffers came up with, someone actually hired to write a speech. But
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to say, people, these politicians are playing politics. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's what they do.
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Would you expect them to play tennis? That's what they do. It's politics.
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And they're trying to bring their politics into our state government. Uh-huh. That's what government
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is. It's political. And these Republicans, they're bringing their politics and they come in and they
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say, hey, you shouldn't allow Somali criminals to defraud Minnesota taxpayers and fund Al-Shabaab and
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terrorist groups overseas. Oh, it's like, oh, they're politics. Yeah, that's, yes, that is politics.
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It's good that they did that. That is an example of very good politics. And now, Mr. Walls,
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what's the conclusion? With my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I
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can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute that I spend defending my own political interest
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would be a minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota. So I've decided to step out
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of this race and I'll let others worry about the election while I focus on the work that's in front
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of me. Hold on, hold on. Even here, man, this guy is so incompetent. Even here, he can't come up
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with a good excuse as to why he's leaving the race. He announced that he was going to run for
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re-election. So clearly something, not only did he announce he was going to run for his
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third term as governor, he already ran for re-election once to serve his second term as
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governor. So clearly, he previously thought it was okay to run for re-election, that it wasn't
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somehow contrary to the job of being the governor to run for re-election. Now he's changed his mind
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and his excuses. I realized I can't run for re-election and simultaneously do my job as
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governor. Oh, so why did you announce you were going to run in the first place? If it is the
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case that one cannot simultaneously run for re-election and be governor or do the job of
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governor in a good way, then why did you announce you were running in the first place? Why did you
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already run for re-election and win one time? It's so weak on every single way you slice it.
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It's so weak. The conspiracy theorist YouTuber was right. He was proven correct. Everyone
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acknowledges that now. The politicians who were getting political with our state government were
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right. And you are stepping down, not because you disapprove of running for re-election, which
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you've already done once and announced you were going to do again. You're not running for re-election
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because you got caught up in the fraud. And now you're going to be spending your time not governing
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the state of Minnesota. You're going to be spending your time trying to avoid an orange jumpsuit
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for your role in the fraud. And you know how we know that Mr. Walls is sweating here?
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lead program that is now a week into it. And at that time, I'll take all your questions. Thank you.
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You said you were going to take questions. Why didn't you?
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They're here in, I guess, the governor's mansion or, I don't know, state capital or something.
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Okay. And you hear these Minnesota journalists. We ain't talking about the Daily Wire. We ain't
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talking about the Blaze or Fox News. We're talking about Minnesota journalists. These guys are
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overwhelmingly liberal. And Walls says, okay, and I'm going to be a really good governor and be really
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responsive to the people. And that's why I'm going to leave as fast as I can. And there's going to be
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a Tim Walls shaped hole in the wall. The Walls wall. I'm going to run out like I'm Bugs Bunny and
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Looney Tunes. And you hear the liberal journalists presumably saying, what? Huh? Okay. And you hear
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that one at the end, just so exasperated, says, you said you were going to take questions. Why
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didn't you tell us you were going to take questions? So I'm announcing that my political career is
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completely over and I'm contradicting what I've been saying for months. And that's why I'll take
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your questions tomorrow when I talk about some nonsense program that the Somalis are also probably
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robbing blind. Okay. Bye. That's responsive government for you. The reason it's so delightful
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though, is not just because Tim Walls is awful, awful, awful, awful. The reason it's so beautiful
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is because it is a reminder that the internet is real life. It's not exactly the same as the physical
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public square. Sometimes when you pay too much attention to Twitter or TikTok or Instagram,
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it can distort your perception of public opinion. That's true, but it is real life.
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Your tweeting has an effect. You're viewing, you're sharing videos, you're sending information
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to your relatives and your friends and your neighbors. That has a real effect. That changes
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governors' races. That takes out former vice presidential candidates from the political order.
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and all the rest of that nonsense, I am very, very excited to have some relatively breaking news coming
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the number two over at HHS, who is transforming one of the most troublesome bureaucracies into
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really working for the American people and focusing specifically on some of this fraud
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we're seeing out of Minnesota. Jim, marvelous to see you, sir.
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Love you to see you, Michael. Happy 12th day of Christmas.
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Thank you. It's marvelous to see you on the Feast of the Epiphany. A very important date
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in American and world history. Jim, you've been a major figure in healthcare for a very long time
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now. And Trump comes in, he really shakes up HHS. He picks this Democrat presidential candidate,
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a Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, to run HHS. And you're seeing a lot of transformation over there.
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Just briefly, I know you're very busy. What is HHS doing on not only the fraud stories coming out of
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Minnesota and elsewhere, but also this breaking news about the vaccine schedule?
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Yeah. So, you know, fraud in Minnesota has probably been going on for years. Our inspector general's
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office really started tracking it in May when Minnesota was clearly not complying with federal
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attendance documentation requirements. So we've doubled down on this. We've gotten more intensely
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involved, investigating more. You know, there's this great November 19th piece by Chris Ruffo and
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City Journal exposing some of the specific types of fraud with autism diagnoses and daycare fraud in
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Minnesota. So Dr. Oz, the head of CMS, sent a CERN letter to Governor Walz in early December
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asking for a corrective action plan and setting a deadline of New Year's Eve if they want to keep
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getting Medicaid dollars. So on New Year's Eve, on the deadline, they sent, I guess you could call
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it a response. It was five pages. It wasn't quite written in crayon, but let's just say it was not
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sufficient for anyone here. And so we are going to get tougher. It's time to get more serious
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with Minnesota on Medicaid. And then at the same time, we have our child care program in our
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administration for children and families. So we turned on Defend the Spend program, which means that
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every time Minnesota state officials send a money request to us, it's going to automatically reply
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with, please show us the evidence, the receipts, the proof, the records, show us some reason to think
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this is real before we send you the money. We've turned that on. Let's just say they haven't sent in
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a lot of receipts in the last week so far. So there's nothing to look at and no money's going out
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the door. Yesterday, I also sent a letter to Governor Walz last Tuesday demanding some accountability on
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the child care side, similar to Mehmet's letter on the Medicaid side. Today, we started getting rid of
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a lot of really bad Biden rules. So the Biden administration, unfortunately, had put in some
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regulations that really limited the ability of state officials to look for fraud in the administration
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of some of our programs, like limited the number of times they could ask for verification or validation
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or attendance records. So we're getting rid of those bad rules. We're going back to full-on
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transparency, show us the receipts. And this is not about punishing or withholding anything from
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legitimate providers or parents or poor families or working families or hospitals or anything. This is
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about holding state officials accountable for making sure there's not fraud. I really think
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in Minnesota, it seems like there's a political patronage system that the DFL and a lot of entities
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in certain communities or certain parts of the state or certain layers of society all have a common
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interest in keeping a certain amount of grift going. And maybe some people are fully aware of it and some
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people are partly aware. We don't know all of that yet, but it really looks like there's a political
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machine that depends on welfare fraud and Medicaid fraud and we're going to shut it down.
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What I love about the action that you are taking right now at HHS is it's so simple and it's so
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restrained. It's so modest even to say you're not going in as the Democrats are alleging and punishing
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people and, you know, bringing retribution. You're simply saying, OK, you want this money for these
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programs? Show us any evidence at all that this is real and they're not sending you the receipts.
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It's like that scene in Office Space. You know, the consultants come in and say, so what is it
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exactly that you do here? You know, and it's it's these fraudsters who say, what? Sorry,
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got to go close the door. Sorry, no proof here. You know, applications. So look, I think this is great.
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It's marvelous. And to your point, it's not just oopsie daisy. You know, it's not just the
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incompetence of Tim Walls. I don't think at least it seems to me that these fraudsters are very good
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at politics and these corrupt politicians are very good at politics, too. This serves a political
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purpose, a machine purpose that has existed in politics, especially Democratic politics for
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hundreds of years. And it would seem that any reasonable person would have to come to the
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conclusion that that's probably what we're looking at here in Minnesota.
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Yeah, all the all the the facts that we know point towards that. And every week we learn more facts
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and they continue to point toward that as well. So and by the way, it's not just Minnesota.
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We're looking seriously at California and Maine and Ohio, and we're going to look at other states and
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and lots of other programs. You know, I've talked about two of our big programs that involve states,
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Medicaid and child care. But, you know, TANF, which is the generalized welfare program that we run.
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And then, of course, lots of programs in our peer departments, a treasury at HUD at labor.
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We're all cooperating in a very administration wide approach in in really making fraud something
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So, Jim, before I let you go, I have to pick your brain a little bit on on the vaccine changes.
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This is another one just within the last, what, 24 hours or so. Big changes to the vaccine schedule.
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What's funny is the Democrats used to be skeptical of all the new vaccines being added. But now,
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because Trump is also skeptical of that, now they have to be in favor of shooting up little kids
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with, like, 150 jabs. So, what is the change? What is this in response to? What can parents expect?
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Yeah. So, you know, when you're a sick person, you know, considering taking a drug,
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you and your doctor need to know, like, everything that's known about the risks and benefits of the drug.
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When you're a healthy person considering a vaccine, the standards are legitimately a little bit higher.
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Like, you're asking a healthy person to take on some potential risk.
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And we're talking about a baby. It should be even higher, right? Like, parents don't want to put
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their baby at risk, nor should they. And they have a right to very good, transparent information.
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In many cases, the really lengthy follow-ups to safety studies that people assume have been done
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on everything haven't been done. We're correcting that. But in the meantime, people need good advice
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based on the best information we have. And President Trump, about a month ago, asked me to
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really dig into this and specifically to look at what some other developed
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countries are doing on this front. And so I talked to health ministries in Germany, Denmark,
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Japan. I talked to a lot of our scientists at CDC and FDA. And it was really interesting that a lot
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of other countries recommend far fewer vaccines. And so I updated the official U.S. vaccine schedule
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yesterday to really prioritize the subset of vaccines that we think are most important for children.
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It seems so reasonable when you describe it that way. Also very funny that a lot of our ideological
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opponents, you know, they always look to every other country in the world as so much more civilized
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than us. And yet when it comes to certain aspects of medicine, especially public health,
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all of a sudden they ignore the norm elsewhere. And I know just speaking to so many parents,
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obviously I have three kids myself, it is kind of weird how the vaccine schedule has exploded.
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It's all so early. You know, people are trying to jab your little newborn baby with a hep B vaccine.
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I told the nurses that my son does not intend to go to any brothels anytime soon. I don't think he's
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interested in heroin, hopefully ever, but certainly for not the next few years. And so a lot of parents
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have legitimate concerns about that. Yes, of course. I think people are entitled to transparent
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information and to weigh risks and rewards. It's just too reasonable, Jim. Marvelous to see you.
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I know you've got a lot to do. You're juggling a lot of things. Thank you so much though for coming
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on, sneaking in right here at the end of Christmas. That's marvelous.
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Michael, it's great to see you. Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon.
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maybe because of all of the great changes that we're seeing as a result of Republicans finally
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having unified government and conservatives flexing our muscles around the country and
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the world, you're getting a reaction in New York. Our jihadi communist mayor up there is
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
00:25:35.760
kind of something of a point. He's taking it to all the wrong conclusions, but he is approaching
00:25:41.720
something kind of a point. And it's something that I've observed for years. Individualism and
00:25:48.600
collectivism are not really opposites. Some right-wingers, especially libertarians, insist
00:25:54.160
that they're opposites. They're not really opposites. They're two sides of the same modern liberal
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
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,
00:28:11.980
the white devil honkies, you know, yeah, mostly them. But I guess a few like slightly dusky people
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
00:28:47.840
devil too, but she especially hates you, the white devil. She posted on some social media platform,
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,
00:29:36.360
Pakistanis. It's not that. The Pakistanis probably speak English better than the white liberal ladies,
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
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
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.
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,
00:34:22.340
even though fascism is different from communism and socialism. Fascism is a helpful way into
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
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
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on the left that, you know, immigrants are actually good for the economy and immigrants actually use
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welfare at lower rates than any born population. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, we got the numbers
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gayer, too, than the Venezuela. The Venezuelan war was not gay. I know there are all sorts of jokes
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about the Navy. There are a lot of Navy SEALs and everything. But no, the Venezuelan war was not gay.
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It was very, very much not gay. And the Stranger Things finale was, was. It very much was. Okay.
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Folks, I can't believe we made it this far, and I haven't made an explicit reference to the day.
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before we get to the immigrants, I want to get to a really important story. Scott Adams is dying.
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
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
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
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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All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died.
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.
00:47:46.760
The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty.
00:47:52.220
And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
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.
00:48:19.980
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.
00:48:40.080
These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
00:48:47.300
They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.