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00:00:37.680 for this. A Trudeau fellow in Canada, a Trudeau fellow, no less, named after a prime minister,

00:00:44.780 two prime ministers of Canada, admits that assisted suicide is mostly for killing white people. 0.92

00:00:51.300 Democrats pretend to be Christian for the midterm elections. 0.98

00:00:54.300 And Elmo goes Muslim for Lent. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. 0.91

00:00:58.560 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:18.780 A priestess of some heretical denomination is going viral right now wearing a planned parenthood 1.00

00:01:27.740 stole explaining how life in the womb is sacred and how abortion is sacred too. We'll get to 0.90

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00:02:55.860 an expert testifying to the Canadian government about how the medical assistance in dying,

00:03:04.580 also called euthanasia, which is a euphemism, means a good death. It's actually the worst kind of death.

00:03:11.000 It's just assisted suicide. It's the government sanctioning and even encouraging people to kill

00:03:15.320 themselves. Even before the debate that's gone viral in which an expert admits that assisted suicide

00:03:21.200 is mostly about killing white people in Canada. Here's an example of that. Just so awful. 0.98

00:03:25.760 Reported in the Daily Mail, distraught family blasts Canada for a euthanizing son, 26 years old,

00:03:33.220 who suffered from seasonal depression. 26-year-old guy, basically healthy, has seasonal depression.

00:03:41.520 The government encourages this kid and, in fact, helps him to carry out suicide.

00:03:46.880 suicide. This is the slippery slope. Remember when they started talking about assisted suicide

00:03:52.600 decades ago, what did the Libs say? Oh, it's only for the people who are in extraordinary physical

00:03:58.120 pain, who are 155 years old, who are nearing the end of their lives anyway, and this is to help them

00:04:03.420 avoid pain, to take greater control over their suffering. And we said, you know what's going to

00:04:08.320 happen? First of all, it's not acceptable even in those cases. That fundamentally misunderstands the

00:04:13.720 point of life. That's going to encourage people who are elderly, who do have serious illnesses.

00:04:19.580 That's going to encourage them to fall into despair, a grave sin, to consider themselves a

00:04:25.220 burden on their families or a burden on society. So even in that case, it's really awful. But what

00:04:31.080 it's going to do is it's going to slip on down that slide, and all of a sudden, you're going to get

00:04:35.900 people with less grievous illnesses. All of a sudden, you're going to get people who are much younger

00:04:40.000 who are killing themselves and doing so with the sanction and encouragement of the state.

00:04:44.060 That's exactly what's happened here. Just a little bit from the story. This kid,

00:04:49.360 Keanu, a kid, he's not a kid, a young man. Keanu Vafan, a 26-year-old guy who had some problems.

00:04:57.880 He was blind. He had diabetes, type 1 diabetes. These are not fatal illnesses. There's serious

00:05:04.780 problems. It's tough, cross to bear, but a lot of people suffer from those ailments. He was killed.

00:05:11.800 He killed himself, and doctors helped him kill himself, and the government encouraged him to 0.82

00:05:15.520 kill himself. How did this guy, whose worst medical problems were blindness and diabetes,

00:05:21.800 how did he qualify for medical assistance in dying, which we were told is only for the most grievous

00:05:27.980 terminal illnesses? Well, according to the poor guy's mother, apparently, this guy's doctor,

00:05:37.420 Dr. Wiebe, was coaching her son on how to qualify as a track two patient, which is for the people

00:05:45.060 whose natural deaths are not deemed reasonably imminent. So the people who aren't going to die

00:05:49.840 anytime soon, but they want to kill themselves anyway, and these psycho doctors and this psycho 0.98

00:05:54.300 government of America's psycho neighbor, the evil top hat of America, Canada, are encouraging them, 0.99

00:06:01.340 encouraging them by discouraging them, by taking away their courage, by taking away their heart, 0.55

00:06:05.140 by leading them into despair. According to the mother, we believe that she was coaching him on

00:06:10.280 how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away

00:06:14.880 with approving him for. Okay, so it's really, really sad, and this is a really clear example of

00:06:20.160 something that an expert on assisted suicide in Canada, who is even a Trudeau fellow. There have

00:06:25.680 been two prime minister Trudeaus in Canadian history, Pierre and Justin. Justin, who's now

00:06:31.660 hanging around with Katy Perry, and we don't have to get into that, but super lib prime ministers. 1.00

00:06:37.020 This is a Trudeau fellow explaining the real purpose of assisted suicide, which is to kill white people. 0.86

00:06:42.260 Well, promote supports and services for people with mental disorders, all the various things that 0.99

00:06:51.700 bring about socioeconomic vulnerability. Parliament has an obligation to do those two things at the

00:06:59.040 same time. Don't hold individuals' rights hostage to Parliament's failure to promote mental health

00:07:06.960 supports and services, disability supports and services. Do them both. I think that's your

00:07:11.220 responsibility is to do both at the same time, and to know, and when you're answering back to your

00:07:16.900 constituents, is to be able to tell them that these are not the drivers of MAID. People who are

00:07:22.300 getting MAID are actually very, very privileged. They're white. They're well-off. They're highly

00:07:29.260 educated. They're not in institutions. They have families. So the picture of it is one of privilege,

00:07:34.500 and so it doesn't mean we don't want to look after the people who are vulnerable. Sorry.

00:07:37.320 Yeah, thank you. I just got a couple of minutes left.

00:07:40.380 Sorry about that.

00:07:41.220 It's a stunning admission, and I know that this lady thought she was making a good point in defense

00:07:47.340 of assisted suicide, but this is a stunning and horrifying admission. She says, no, no,

00:07:52.520 I understand there's this fear that marginalized people, vulnerable people, minorities are going to

00:07:59.380 be killed through MAID, but don't worry. It's just rich white people. Don't worry. We're just killing 0.96

00:08:04.840 the white people. And who needs them? Who likes them? None of us. We want to kill them all. So 1.00

00:08:10.180 don't worry. You can rest easy at night. Oh, we would never try to kill vulnerable minorities.

00:08:17.380 No, no, no. We're killing white people and rich white people at that. Doesn't that make you feel 1.00

00:08:21.580 better? That doesn't make me feel better. We shouldn't be killing the vulnerable people or

00:08:29.980 minorities or the handicapped or the elderly for that matter. But the fact that her defense here

00:08:37.560 is to say, yeah, I know we're killing a lot of people, but don't worry. We're only killing white 1.00

00:08:41.540 people somehow makes it even more sinister because it's a confession. On the one hand, we're told this 0.99

00:08:47.540 is really good. Assisted suicide is really good. It's wonderful. It's something we should want for 1.00

00:08:54.420 everybody. But don't worry. We're not doing it to the minorities. We're just doing it to the white 1.00

00:08:57.640 people mostly. So it's kind of a confession by pointing out this one group, the only group that

00:09:04.060 not only can legally be discriminated against, but is culturally encouraged to be discriminated against.

00:09:09.280 In confessing that assisted suicide targets that really awful group that everybody hates,

00:09:16.360 it's a kind of a tacit admission, an implicit admission that assisted suicide maybe isn't great.

00:09:22.260 If you need to protect the vulnerable communities from it, then it's not a great thing in the first 0.85

00:09:28.620 place, right? What it really is, is just a way for the socialist healthcare system in Canada

00:09:32.780 to control costs and to not have to deal with people who are a nuisance.

00:09:38.040 You know, poor people, they cause problems. The reality is poor people are being killed by 0.92

00:09:43.060 assisted suicide and people who are vulnerable, who are sick, or they are being killed by assisted

00:09:48.000 suicide. But the reason that the healthcare system is encouraging them to kill themselves

00:09:55.100 is because they're a nuisance. They are kind of a nuisance, right? We have to pay for them. 0.96

00:09:59.560 They have problems. I mean, we're all kind of a nuisance sometimes, you know, because we all have

00:10:04.240 problems. And so we could either do what Christian civilization tells us to do. Christian civilization,

00:10:09.760 which says that suicide is a grave mortal sin, that homicide and suicide are grave mortal sins,

00:10:16.880 not to be permitted, to be outlawed everywhere. Christian civilization says, you know, people, 0.98

00:10:22.380 we're all a nuisance sometimes, and we're going to try to help each other, and we're going to work

00:10:26.320 through those problems. And we're not going to take what seems like the easy way out, which is

00:10:30.020 a fast track to hell. We're not going to do that. Or we can do the liberal thing,

00:10:34.860 which says that virtue and the moral order are not to be followed, at least when they conflict with

00:10:41.300 personal autonomy. And the fullest expression of personal autonomy is killing yourself.

00:10:46.500 It's how you know that the modern liberal conception of freedom is, in fact, satanic, 0.93

00:10:51.480 luciferian. But there's that ideological component, to be fair to them. And then there's

00:10:56.440 this practical component, which is these people are a nuisance, and we don't want to pay for them.

00:11:02.360 And we don't want to listen to them, and we don't want to deal with them. And just,

00:11:05.160 can you just kill yourself, please? Can you, I'll tell you what, we'll help you. Can you just kill 1.00

00:11:08.360 yourself so I don't have to listen to you anymore, and I certainly don't have to pay for you? 1.00

00:11:11.680 That's the practical argument for assisted suicide. And so when you point out that that's

00:11:16.880 extremely evil, they say, no, don't worry, we're protecting vulnerable populations from

00:11:21.360 assisted suicide. Wait, wait, wait, five seconds ago, you were telling me assisted suicide

00:11:24.300 was a good thing. Now we have to protect people from it. Which is it? We know what it is. Now,

00:11:29.880 speaking of morality, there are libs here in America who are trying to convince us that after

00:11:36.700 years and years of the left denigrating religion, mocking those Bible-clinging, bitter-clinging, 1.00

00:11:44.540 Bible-thumper, awful, regressive conservative Christians, what we're now being told is actually 0.80

00:11:52.540 the Democrats not only like Christianity, but they're the real true Christians. Quite a shift 0.97

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00:13:32.620 Big update to the Democrat messaging. I don't know if the various robots and automatons that are

00:13:40.080 projecting the Democrat message ahead of the midterms, I don't know if they've all received the

00:13:43.780 update yet. But the old messaging said, Christianity bad, Bible thumpers bad, people who believe in

00:13:51.580 Christ are just a bunch of rubes, basically. All the smart people are atheists, secularists.

00:13:57.520 They move past that retrograde religion. Now the upgrade says, no, no, no. Christianity good, 0.98

00:14:02.960 actually. But conservatives, not real Christians. No, no, no. We are the real Christians.

00:14:08.600 Here is James Tallarico. He's running for Senate in Texas. He goes on Stephen Colbert's show.

00:14:16.660 Stephen Colbert made a big point to highlight this interview. In fact, Colbert claimed that CBS,

00:14:22.440 his current employer, was trying to kill the interview because he said the FCC was threatening

00:14:30.620 CBS. And CBS tried to threaten Colbert and kill the interview. And then CBS came out and said,

00:14:35.560 that's totally bogus, Stephen, that you made that up. And Colbert is not backing down from it. It's

00:14:40.680 big hullabaloo to bring a lot of attention because Colbert thinks this is a really important message

00:14:45.100 for Democrats in November. Here's the message. Well, for 50 years, the religious right,

00:14:52.880 a political movement, that is the perfect description for it. They convinced a lot of

00:14:58.840 our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage. Two issues

00:15:06.400 that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25

00:15:12.780 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow believers, how we're going to be judged and

00:15:18.640 how we're going to be saved. By feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger.

00:15:25.040 Nothing about going to church. Nothing about voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other

00:15:32.320 people. Don't, don't. I've said, I've said before, don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat

00:15:45.720 other people and I'll tell you what you believe. And, and I think in our, in our faith, we've got to get

00:15:53.260 back to those fundamentals. My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas. Oh, I can tell.

00:15:59.920 I can tell. You got that, you got that slick tongue, that silver tongue devil, Tallarico. He 0.95

00:16:05.660 doesn't have the morality to back it up. He doesn't have the serious biblical exegesis to back it up,

00:16:11.060 but he is a silver tongue devil, isn't he? You know, listen, no guys, no, Christianity is great, 0.56

00:16:17.340 but we're the real Christians. If you were really a Christian, Jesus never said you had to vote

00:16:21.940 Republican. He said you had to vote Democrat. That's the new message. Okay. All right. I guess

00:16:27.240 hypocrisy is the tribute vice-paste to virtue, as La Roche-Foucault tells us. So if the Democrats used

00:16:34.220 to say Christianity is bad, ignore Christianity, let's make fun of the Bible, if they used to do 0.98

00:16:39.060 that, and now they're saying Christianity is good, I guess that could be an upgrade. 0.78

00:16:43.100 But I want to be really clear on this point. I want all the Democrats to assent to this,

00:16:50.020 or at least to answer the question. Is Christianity good or bad? Because right now, 0.87

00:16:56.940 the Democrat messaging is a little confused, and people like Tallarico and Colbert are trying to

00:17:00.280 shift it. But some of the Democrats make it seem like Christianity is awful, and Christianity is this

00:17:05.260 terribly oppressive religion, and it's false, and we shouldn't follow it, and the followers of Christ 1.00

00:17:10.660 are idiots, and bigots, and racists, and it's not real, and maybe God's not even real. And so I'm 1.00

00:17:16.840 getting a lot of that from the Democrats. But then I'm also hearing this Tallarico guy who says,

00:17:21.620 really, we need to truly be Christian. It's so wonderful to be Christian. Let me tell you

00:17:25.840 why I'm the most Christian guy in the world. Which is it? Because if you're going to say the

00:17:33.120 Christianity is good, and true even, and should be followed, then at least we can have a conversation.

00:17:40.620 You're saying Christianity is true, and we should believe what the Bible says,

00:17:43.940 and we should believe what Christ says, and we should do what Christ tells us to do.

00:17:47.960 Now we can have a conversation. Do you really believe that? I don't think they do. Because

00:17:51.740 Tallarico says that there's no mention of abortion in the Bible. Christ doesn't say any. He specifically

00:17:58.300 says Jesus doesn't say anything about this. Now, of course, our Lord says, let the little children

00:18:02.220 come to me, which would seem to preclude the notion that we should let the little children be

00:18:06.500 sucked up by a vacuum cleaner and shredded up by blades, right? Our Lord tells us that he doesn't

00:18:13.180 abolish a jot or tittle of the law. Well, the law says thou shalt not commit murder. So I think the

00:18:20.160 Bible's teaching and our Lord's teaching on abortion is pretty clear. It's funny that he says our Lord 0.98

00:18:24.420 doesn't say anything about marriage. Marriage is one of the very few hyper-specific things that

00:18:31.520 our Lord does speak about. First of all, his first public miracle is at the wedding at Cana.

00:18:37.320 Pretty important. And then he describes what marriage is. He says a man and a woman leave

00:18:42.060 their families and come together and become one flesh. And what God has joined, no man can separate.

00:18:47.680 So he actually quite explicitly raises marriage from a natural bond to a sacramental bond.

00:18:53.020 And it doesn't involve two fellas and it doesn't involve two chicks. 1.00

00:18:55.860 So he's wrong on the points. But let's say he weren't wrong on the points. He obviously comes

00:19:01.640 from some tradition that really emphasizes personal exegesis and personal interpretation,

00:19:08.620 private interpretation of the Bible rather than an authoritative interpretation. Okay,

00:19:11.800 well, let's just go back then. If we're going to be a little more open-minded about this,

00:19:17.440 let's see what other people had to say. Even just, this is a great reference from Church

00:19:22.560 Father's website. On abortion, on abortion specifically, we have the Didache, the first 0.78

00:19:28.420 catechism, which comes from the apostolic age, the first century. The Didache says,

00:19:33.760 the second commandment of the teaching, you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery,

00:19:36.760 you shall not seduce boys, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not

00:19:39.860 practice magic, you shall not use potions, you shall not procure an abortion, nor destroy a newborn

00:19:45.060 child. Where else do we see proscriptions against abortion? From AD 74, the letter of Barnabas,

00:19:52.160 from AD 137, the Apocalypse of Peter, from Tertullian, from, I'm skipping over people just

00:19:58.780 to names you might have heard, Hippolytus, Basil the Great, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom,

00:20:04.980 the Apostolic Constitutions, more even, we don't have total time to go through.

00:20:09.180 So I mentioned all of that to say, if the Democrats want to change their messaging from

00:20:15.540 we hate Christianity to we actually, we like Christianity and we're the real Christians and

00:20:18.980 you're not. That can be good for Republicans. You have to get them here though, to the point.

00:20:26.040 You have them to say, okay, so you're saying Christianity is good and we should follow what 1.00

00:20:28.340 Jesus teaches and we should, okay, great. Then let's talk about it. And they're not going to

00:20:33.120 really want to talk about that because the entire leftist project began, is by definition,

00:20:41.200 an attack on the church. That's where it begins in the French Revolution.

00:20:44.220 The notion that a Christian could support abortion or this crazy new definition of marriage or whatever 0.99

00:20:50.820 is insane. No Christian has ever seriously believed that until at most very, very recently.

00:20:57.280 And even there, I have my doubts. So that's fine. Great. But let's establish it off the front.

00:21:03.020 Is Christianity good or bad? The funny thing is you won't get to that point with most Democrats

00:21:06.340 because they'll tell you, no, it's bad. It's just this meme. There's this really smug guy meme where it

00:21:10.280 says, well, look, I think your religion is completely stupid and I don't believe any of 1.00

00:21:15.960 it. But here, let me try to use your religion. Let me tell you what your religion believes and try 1.00

00:21:20.760 to use it against you. It's this smug, disingenuous nonsense, which I think is the best descriptor of 0.98

00:21:27.000 everything James Tallarico has ever said. Now, you are seeing some people who pretend to be Christian 0.98

00:21:32.940 doing this. There's a lady who just went viral. She presents herself as a priestess, 1.00

00:21:37.220 which does not exist in Christianity. It exists in pagan cults, but it doesn't exist in Christianity.

00:21:43.240 This priestess puts a collar on to pretend to be a priest and she puts a stole on and to make the 1.00

00:21:49.680 whole thing even more satanic, she has the Planned Parenthood logo on the priestly stole. 1.00

00:21:56.720 Here is her defense of the left's highest sacrament, abortion.

00:22:02.380 In the abortion imaginary, all people of faith are against abortion.

00:22:10.640 This imaginary has colonized our minds, traumatizing many people with its toxic theology

00:22:16.840 and shaping a culture of stigma and shame that has silenced millions of women and people who have

00:22:24.040 had abortions, erasing their voices, their stories, and their witness from the public sphere.

00:22:30.060 As a child of God, I can certainly appreciate the lyrical beauty of this text as well as the

00:22:35.640 descriptions in Jeremiah and Job of their certain knowledge that God was with them in the womb.

00:22:41.940 I too feel that I am known by God in these ways. As a woman who has born two children, I can affirm that

00:22:49.720 I felt something sacred happening in my gestating body during those pregnancies. I can also attest that

00:22:57.540 I felt God's presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies. And I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin.

00:23:06.800 Okay, it's horrifying, but you have to give this murderous woman, this truly sacrilegious heretic, 1.00

00:23:15.840 you have to give her some credit for honesty here. Because she's acknowledging something that most

00:23:22.680 pro-abortion Christians will not, which is, you know, something sacred was going on in my womb

00:23:28.920 when that baby was being knit in there. And you know, Jeremiah and Job, they describe being knit

00:23:35.180 in the womb. And yeah, that's all real. I totally grant that. And I felt it. I know, I personally know

00:23:40.420 it's real. But I chose to kill my kids, and I felt that that was cool too. So of course, 0.99

00:23:47.980 the difference between Christianity, real Christianity, and some woo-woo religions and

00:23:53.940 a lot of pagan cults is that Christianity is a definitive religion. Like, our Lord is a real

00:23:59.380 person who lives in real time and space and picks real people to build his church with and upon,

00:24:05.060 like St. Peter, to whom he gives the keys to the kingdom of heaven and the power to bind and to loose.

00:24:10.420 So this is definitive. This is a religion that has real authority, visible authority in the world

00:24:15.940 throughout history. During that history in which our Lord says, I will send the helper. I will send

00:24:22.580 the Holy Spirit to you. And I will be with you always, even until the end of the age, because our

00:24:26.280 Lord is the bridegroom and the church is the bride. So it's a real definitive religion. We can 0.91

00:24:30.420 definitively say Christianity outlaws abortion. Christianity has a real view of marriage,

00:24:36.200 and it doesn't change. So we can really say all that. But this woman kind of admits that.

00:24:40.420 Which is where you have to give her honesty points. What she says is,

00:24:45.620 I felt a divine thing happening when babies were being created in my womb. 0.98

00:24:49.700 But I killed them anyway. Because my autonomy trumped even the spark of the divine.

00:24:59.460 In other words, my autonomy trumps even God himself. And it's nuts when you hear it that way from a

00:25:10.660 liberal lady who's being forthright. But that is the premise of liberalism. The premise of liberalism.

00:25:17.800 Certainly today, but the seeds were there from the earliest moments of liberalism.

00:25:22.600 The premise is, nothing is more important than my autonomy.

00:25:27.000 I will make of myself the highest God. You saw this in the Biden administration.

00:25:34.600 When Biden could be a liberal and plausibly be a Christian, he was happy to do it and call himself

00:25:40.740 the most devout Catholic in the world. However, when his liberalism conflicted with his Christianity,

00:25:46.220 he always chose liberalism. And this is what liberalism tells us to do. We can believe any

00:25:52.880 wide number of things. We can engage in any wide number of behaviors we like. We can even join many

00:25:57.880 political parties. But the highest good is my autonomy. It's numero uno. I'm really number one.

00:26:06.360 I will make a God of myself. I mean, it's a fulfillment of what the serpent promises to

00:26:13.660 our first ancestors in the garden. You will be as gods. You will be like gods. Okay? Surely you will

00:26:18.940 not die. You'll be like gods. You don't have to listen to him. And that's what she's saying.

00:26:25.320 It's all the more satanic because she admits, says, yeah, Jeremiah and Job talk about that divine

00:26:31.900 spark in the womb. I felt it too. And I killed it. Press them on that. Press the Democrats. Press

00:26:40.860 the libs on that. But you're a Christian. Okay. What about when the Christianity contradicts your 0.73

00:26:47.100 liberalism? Which side do you pick? Now, speaking of religion, Elmo has decided on a very interesting

00:26:57.400 religious course as we embark from Ash Wednesday into the penitential season of Lent. Elmo's going

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00:28:26.140 Elmo has a message for you on Ash Wednesday.

00:28:31.340 Elmo actually posts it on the first day of Lent, the first full day of Lent.

00:28:41.420 Ramadan Mubarak to all of Elmo's friends. Elmo loves you.

00:28:46.060 Ramadan Mubarak. Hold on. So it looks like, hold on, it went up at 1237 p.m. on February 19th.

00:28:55.700 So it's a little after. You've had one full day of Lent in Ash Wednesday. Now we're in the season

00:29:00.560 of Lent before. And I guess this weird thing this year, Ramadan, the Muslim holiday, began at the 0.96

00:29:07.020 same time as Lent. And yet, it scoured Elmo's timeline. There was no posting about Lent.

00:29:16.480 The beginning of the most important liturgical season in the church. This is it. We're looking

00:29:20.600 ahead to Easter, which is the commemoration of the resurrection. Why would Elmo, a product of the

00:29:29.620 mainstream liberal pop culture? Why would Elmo choose to celebrate the Muslim thing and not the

00:29:36.460 Christian thing? Elmo? Elmo has bought his Kalashnikov and wants you to know not to be 1.00

00:29:43.420 friends with the Jews or the Christians because they are each other's friends. Elmo wants you to 0.56

00:29:49.500 hack at their necks where they pray. Okay. All right. That's enough, Elmo. Enough, Elmo. I know he's 0.94

00:29:55.220 got the zeal of a convert. Have you ever noticed the Libs celebrate all sorts of things that most

00:30:01.340 of us have never even heard of? Like you think of this stuff Google celebrates every day. Every day,

00:30:07.320 there's some new holiday you never heard about that Google celebrates. But have you noticed that

00:30:11.940 all of the liberal celebrations are really anti-celebrations? Google is actually the perfect

00:30:17.700 place to see this because it could be Easter Sunday and you go to Google and Google has a

00:30:25.200 little cartoon, a little animation celebrating something. And they're going to be celebrating

00:30:29.000 the half birthday of some Polynesian tap dancer that no one has ever once heard of, ever.

00:30:36.700 They'll find the most obscure, bizarre thing to celebrate, but they won't celebrate Easter.

00:30:41.400 But they won't celebrate, I don't know, some other normal holiday, Thanksgiving, whatever.

00:30:46.360 It's always an anti-celebration. Elmo's going to celebrate Ramadan. Elmo was not conceived in 0.99

00:30:54.580 Dubai. Elmo was not conceived in Tehran. Elmo is a product of the civilization that succeeded

00:31:03.200 Christendom. We call it the West. Why would he celebrate the Muslim religion rather at the very 1.00

00:31:12.380 same time that there is a Christian holiday? Is it because Elmo really loves Islam? I don't think so. 0.50

00:31:19.360 I don't think Elmo is joining any jihadi groups anytime soon. It's really about Lent. He's really 0.95

00:31:27.980 celebrating about Lent. Same reason Elmo just went out and celebrated Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl.

00:31:33.360 And he said, Elmo loves Bad Bunny. You're a good bunny or whatever. And you think about Bad Bunny.

00:31:37.920 What did Bad Bunny do at the end? At the big celebratory moment, at the end of his

00:31:40.900 bit at the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny comes out and he says, God bless America.

00:31:47.360 And then he names every single country in the Western Hemisphere.

00:31:50.620 He names every country in the Western Hemisphere, weirdly, other than Greenland,

00:31:53.920 which is about to become America. And he shoves America in there, but he intentionally downplays

00:31:58.640 the importance of actual America, like the United States. So even there, even in that celebration

00:32:03.820 of America, God bless America, one of the most traditional, simple statements of patriotism we

00:32:08.480 could have. It was God bless America, by which I mean Argentina and Chile and Cuba and Colombia

00:32:16.220 and Puerto Rico, which is supposed to be part of America. And when it's convenient, 0.88

00:32:20.940 they say they're American. But when it's not convenient, they say they're not American.

00:32:23.540 And even that was an anti-celebration. Because liberalism is just perversion.

00:32:30.260 I don't know. I'm feeling a little slap-happy today. So I'll be a little more blunt.

00:32:33.260 It's just perversion. It's fighting against something. It's a revolt against good manners,

00:32:41.780 your dad, society, family, truth, justice, and ultimately against God. But it's oppositional.

00:32:49.800 That's really what it's about. It's you against the world. That's liberalism.

00:32:54.040 It's an opposition to human nature and all the things that we cherish in our society.

00:33:02.200 That's why conservatives try to conserve things and the liberals try to liberate themselves from

00:33:06.620 everything, including from our own bodies. So it makes sense that their celebrations are kind of

00:33:10.860 anti-celebrations. If I were a Muslim, I might actually be a little offended by Elmo's celebration

00:33:16.160 of Ramadan. Because it's not about Ramadan. It's about not celebrating Christianity.

00:33:24.840 Even Bad Bunny, he doesn't care about Chile or Argentina or whatever. I guess he probably

00:33:29.020 cares about Puerto Rico because he's from there. He doesn't care about half the countries he named.

00:33:33.080 His celebration of those countries was a way to oppose the United States. It's always anti.

00:33:39.100 It's always oppositional. It's kind of like how evil is the privation of the good.

00:33:42.020 Okay. Before we go, speaking of little fictional characters, we turn from Elmo to aliens.

00:33:49.640 President Trump was just asked on Air Force One about Barack Obama's declaration,

00:33:55.920 admission, announcement that aliens are real.

00:33:59.480 Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?

00:34:09.760 Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that.

00:34:13.500 So aliens are real?

00:34:14.580 Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information.

00:34:17.960 He's not supposed to be doing that.

00:34:19.320 He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.

00:34:24.320 No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it.

00:34:31.340 Do you believe it, Peter?

00:34:32.780 Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to.

00:34:36.060 So if you want to make an announcement.

00:34:37.600 I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.

00:34:39.600 What? Hold on. What? Am I going to? I've had a long-standing, sort of a bet, I guess, a long kind of abstract wager with Matt Walsh at this company.

00:34:53.900 Matt is very pro-aliens. I'm quite convinced there is no such thing as E.T.

00:34:58.300 The only aliens that we have to deal with are from Venezuela. 0.99

00:35:02.000 Did Trump just? So Obama comes out, he goes, aliens are real.

00:35:05.360 No. And Trump says he gave out classified information.

00:35:09.280 You say, wait, what? Are aliens real?

00:35:11.620 Now, the other thing that could be the classified information is when Obama said, you know, the aliens aren't at Area 51 or they're not at Roswell or whatever.

00:35:19.220 You know, he said other things in that statement.

00:35:22.600 And then Obama came out and clarified and said, well, no, I actually, I don't have any direct knowledge of aliens.

00:35:29.500 I just believe the universe is so big.

00:35:31.060 So maybe was that the classified information that we don't know?

00:35:34.400 Or is Trump just having fun?

00:35:37.760 Because they went after Trump.

00:35:38.940 Remember, the Biden administration, which was the third term of Obama, raided the guy's home because they said that Trump was illegally storing classified information.

00:35:47.640 Was he just trying to needle Obama, say it was classified information?

00:35:50.920 Maybe I'll get him off the hook by declassifying.

00:35:54.320 And then tantalize.

00:35:54.960 I don't know what to make of it.

00:35:58.660 He could be doing, he could be saying aliens are real.

00:36:01.100 He could be just needling Obama.

00:36:04.400 He could be just taunting the press and getting them to talk about that.

00:36:07.200 I don't know.

00:36:07.500 It could be any one of those three things.

00:36:08.780 I don't know what's in Trump's head.

00:36:09.900 I'm not a mind reader here.

00:36:11.920 I just want to say I'm planting my flag here.

00:36:13.700 I'm saying this for the record.

00:36:14.800 I am as convinced as a person can be that aliens are not real.

00:36:22.400 They're not real.

00:36:24.180 They're not real.

00:36:26.920 Maybe you disagree with me.

00:36:28.220 You can tell me why in the comments.

00:36:29.600 But I don't.

00:36:30.140 Even this.

00:36:30.780 This has shaken my confidence as much as anything can that aliens are not real.

00:36:37.540 And yet I am still more or less 100% convinced.

00:36:41.160 E.T. is fake.

00:36:43.400 And it's either a bunch of people with overactive imaginations or deception on the part of our government.

00:36:51.340 Maybe to mess with our adversaries or it's demons.

00:36:55.380 But whatever it is, it's not E.T.

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00:38:34.240 My favorite comment yesterday.

00:38:36.400 Again, the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.

00:38:38.700 The modal commenter of the last decade on this show

00:38:42.300 says that the Potomac River will be renamed

00:38:44.940 the Gulf of Joe Biden.

00:38:46.080 That's a great idea.

00:38:48.100 The Potomac River, which has now, I think,

00:38:49.960 300 million gallons of sewage in it,

00:38:53.100 thanks to the DEI hiring practices

00:38:55.000 of the DC Water Utility.

00:38:56.940 The Gulf of Joe Biden.

00:38:58.920 We have the Gulf of America in the South.

00:39:00.420 We have the Gulf of Joe Biden in the swamp.

00:39:01.920 It's not a bad idea.

00:39:03.240 Finally, finally, we get to my favorite time of the week

00:39:05.460 when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

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00:39:17.440 Hey, Michael.

00:39:18.720 Now, while I know you're not Gen Z, 0.99

00:39:20.480 I was wondering if you had any advice

00:39:22.240 for a Gen Z man in the dating world.

00:39:25.480 How are we supposed to properly court a Gen Z woman? 1.00

00:39:28.900 Thanks.

00:39:30.480 Very good question.

00:39:31.640 I was actually, I was gathering intel from Zoomers. 1.00

00:39:36.380 Because Zoomer men come to me, you know, 1.00

00:39:39.760 I don't know if I'm on the street,

00:39:41.040 if I'm at, especially at church,

00:39:42.500 because they want to meet girls at church.

00:39:44.420 They'll come to me and they'll say,

00:39:45.800 Michael, your advice isn't working.

00:39:48.300 You know, you told me go to Latin Mass.

00:39:49.860 I go to Latin Mass.

00:39:50.720 I still haven't met a chick. 1.00

00:39:51.900 We still aren't dating.

00:39:53.500 And Michael, you told me to do this,

00:39:55.100 that it isn't working.

00:39:56.080 You're out of touch.

00:39:57.600 Boomer? 0.99

00:39:58.700 Millennial?

00:40:00.580 Moomer?

00:40:01.100 I don't know.

00:40:01.420 Is that the millennial?

00:40:02.040 Whatever it is.

00:40:02.620 They say, you don't know.

00:40:03.800 So I've talked.

00:40:04.420 I was asking.

00:40:05.140 I spoke to some Gen Z women. 0.91

00:40:07.080 And here's what I'm hearing.

00:40:08.900 What they want is for you to not smell.

00:40:13.340 I'm not joking.

00:40:14.080 I actually, a Zoomer lady told me this.

00:40:16.460 Said, you know, one thing,

00:40:17.440 the guy, he can take you to the nice restaurant.

00:40:19.160 He can dress nicely.

00:40:19.920 If he smells, that's a deal breaker.

00:40:22.300 And I agree.

00:40:22.840 I don't think that's just particular to Zoomer women. 1.00

00:40:25.620 I think that's true of all women all the time. 1.00

00:40:27.100 You don't want the guy to smell, really.

00:40:28.820 So you need to clean yourself.

00:40:31.080 You need to practice basic hygiene first.

00:40:33.320 You need to dress well.

00:40:35.280 Then, this is a very interesting insight

00:40:37.240 that totally backs up what I would imagine.

00:40:40.400 One Zoomer gal I talked to said, 0.99

00:40:42.700 look, I want the guy to be confident.

00:40:44.640 So I want him to come ask me out in person.

00:40:47.020 But I don't want him to text me all the time.

00:40:49.540 Take it a little slow.

00:40:52.260 Be not aggressive.

00:40:53.900 Be commanding, confident when you go ask.

00:40:56.660 Hey, you want to go get a drink?

00:40:59.620 You want to be serious?

00:41:01.860 Look the girl in the eye. 0.53

00:41:02.860 Great.

00:41:03.580 But then don't be texting her all the time.

00:41:05.500 Like, I mean, I basically text nobody ever.

00:41:07.780 But don't be texting all the time.

00:41:10.880 Don't be needy.

00:41:11.800 Don't be womanish. 1.00

00:41:13.120 You know, okay.

00:41:14.140 That's good.

00:41:15.620 And then two, three.

00:41:18.000 This is the last piece of advice

00:41:19.180 that this one Zoomer gal gave me 1.00

00:41:20.920 that is very, very good.

00:41:21.880 And this backs up advice

00:41:25.380 that I've given to Zoomer guys.

00:41:26.400 Zoomer guys, you take it a little too seriously. 0.99

00:41:28.280 And maybe it's because you're nervous.

00:41:29.660 Maybe it's because the culture

00:41:30.820 is so arrayed against you.

00:41:32.020 Maybe it's because Me Too, you know,

00:41:33.580 makes you think that, you know,

00:41:34.560 if you make any slightly wrong move

00:41:35.980 or get a little too flirty,

00:41:37.160 you're going to be thrown in jail or something.

00:41:38.420 But whatever it is,

00:41:39.520 they're too serious about it.

00:41:40.920 You hear some of these conservative guys

00:41:42.080 talk about dating.

00:41:42.780 It's like they're going on a job interview

00:41:44.360 or, you know, waiting in the doctor's office

00:41:46.380 for a prostate exam or something.

00:41:47.820 I mean, it just sounds really kind of dreadful. 0.74

00:41:50.480 Dating is fun.

00:41:51.640 Women are fun. 1.00

00:41:52.540 They're pretty, you know.

00:41:53.920 It's fun to, like, chase them.

00:41:57.300 Marriage is great.

00:41:58.280 Kids are great.

00:41:59.060 So I said, okay, well, you what?

00:42:01.340 You want the guys to take it lighter?

00:42:02.600 And she said, no.

00:42:03.980 Yes and no.

00:42:05.720 I don't want to waste time.

00:42:06.860 So I want to know off the bat

00:42:08.120 that we're kind of aligned.

00:42:10.000 Yeah, I believe this.

00:42:11.080 I kind of want to do this.

00:42:12.000 This is how I see my future life.

00:42:14.020 You want to establish that

00:42:16.560 and then move on

00:42:17.600 and then have fun.

00:42:18.860 Yeah, don't ignore the serious stuff.

00:42:21.480 Yeah, hey, yeah, I don't know.

00:42:22.860 Here's what I want to do.

00:42:23.840 I see myself kind of living here.

00:42:25.480 This is what I do for work.

00:42:26.760 This is how I want to raise the kids.

00:42:28.820 Okay, now let's talk about something else.

00:42:31.460 The other thing she said, activities.

00:42:33.060 And I talked to Clavicular about this.

00:42:34.800 I said, Mr. Icular,

00:42:36.140 why are you so kind of gun-shy on dating?

00:42:41.560 I forget the exact context

00:42:42.780 of what we were talking about.

00:42:43.760 And he said, you know, going on dates,

00:42:45.160 that's gesture maxing

00:42:46.200 because then, you know,

00:42:46.900 I have to be an activity cell.

00:42:48.280 I said, I said, what?

00:42:50.940 An activity cell?

00:42:51.940 He said, yeah,

00:42:52.240 I got to take her bowling or something.

00:42:53.340 I said, well, you don't have to take a girl bowling. 1.00

00:42:54.840 Why don't you take her to dinner 0.83

00:42:55.560 or drinks or something?

00:42:56.640 But then the Zoom, Clavicular,

00:42:59.040 you got to hand it to him.

00:43:00.000 He was right about the Zoomer girls. 1.00

00:43:01.560 I talked to this girl.

00:43:02.460 She says, yeah,

00:43:03.460 I want to go like miniature golfing

00:43:05.520 or something.

00:43:05.840 I want to.

00:43:06.680 So anyway, yeah,

00:43:08.000 maybe you have to activity max

00:43:09.240 and maybe that will make you adjust your cell.

00:43:12.680 And I don't know.

00:43:13.160 But that's I've done deep research on this

00:43:15.580 because I talked to a handful of guys

00:43:18.000 and like one chick who are Zoomers. 1.00

00:43:19.560 And anyway, that's my.

00:43:21.900 Do with that what you will.

00:43:24.080 But that is my empirically obtained advice

00:43:28.220 on how to date as a Zoomer,

00:43:30.220 even though I'm a millennial.

00:43:31.300 Next question.

00:43:32.980 Hey, Michael, love the show.

00:43:34.520 I've been listening to you nonstop

00:43:35.460 for the last three years.

00:43:36.780 And you've definitely been helping

00:43:38.640 on my conversion to Catholicism.

00:43:40.000 So thanks.

00:43:40.800 The reason for my question today

00:43:41.860 is that earlier this week,

00:43:43.000 I had a little news story

00:43:43.820 on the Canadian school shooting.

00:43:46.440 I talked about how we need to help

00:43:48.360 transgender people to prevent stuff 1.00

00:43:50.240 like this from happening in the future.

00:43:51.860 And me and the teacher

00:43:52.840 ended up getting a little debate

00:43:53.820 about is it a mental illness?

00:43:56.420 He kind of pointed out,

00:43:57.460 you know, you can't label

00:43:58.420 a whole group like this

00:43:59.440 for just one incident,

00:44:00.840 even though there's a lot.

00:44:02.520 And that you can't.

00:44:05.200 Even though that the UK

00:44:06.580 and there's been a malpractice suit

00:44:08.480 have kind of said

00:44:09.320 that it's not good for kids,

00:44:11.060 that, you know,

00:44:12.040 that doesn't mean

00:44:12.500 it's not good for adults

00:44:13.340 and you can't talk about

00:44:14.960 how it's bad and stuff like that.

00:44:16.800 And there's nothing to back it up

00:44:17.800 and it's not a mental illness

00:44:19.020 and nobody talks like that.

00:44:20.740 I was really hoping

00:44:21.660 you could help give me

00:44:22.820 a really good

00:44:23.620 and articulate argument

00:44:24.760 for this to talk about

00:44:26.360 why it is a mental illness,

00:44:28.300 even though people say it's not.

00:44:30.360 Evidence for why they're more violent

00:44:32.260 and stuff like that.

00:44:33.080 Because it's really hard for me

00:44:34.060 to find anything like this

00:44:35.080 on the internet

00:44:35.560 because they hate anything

00:44:36.600 that goes against the narrative.

00:44:38.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:38.520 Thank you so much for what you do

00:44:39.620 and I'm looking forward

00:44:40.180 to your response.

00:44:40.960 Okay, great question.

00:44:42.940 There's just a misunderstanding

00:44:44.340 at the premise

00:44:45.200 and maybe your teacher

00:44:46.160 misunderstands this.

00:44:48.540 Transgenderism is obviously 1.00

00:44:50.180 a mental illness 1.00

00:44:51.380 not because they sometimes

00:44:53.440 shoot people, 0.88

00:44:54.720 but because they think 1.00

00:44:56.700 they're the opposite sex. 0.95

00:44:58.060 they have a severe impairment

00:45:02.000 of their perception

00:45:03.700 and judgment

00:45:04.500 such that they think

00:45:08.320 that reality is other than it is.

00:45:10.980 That's the most basic definition

00:45:12.980 of a mental illness

00:45:13.860 that there is.

00:45:15.180 And so a comparison

00:45:16.620 to get this through

00:45:17.340 people's thick skulls,

00:45:18.860 it would be to other forms

00:45:21.360 of body dysmorphia

00:45:22.300 where the anorexic is very thin,

00:45:24.460 but she thinks

00:45:25.200 that she's very fat.

00:45:26.180 The problem there

00:45:27.720 is not that anorexics 0.56

00:45:28.820 are going to shoot people sometimes.

00:45:30.200 I don't think they generally do.

00:45:31.600 That's not what makes

00:45:32.380 it a mental illness.

00:45:33.080 What makes it a mental illness 0.99

00:45:33.920 is that there is

00:45:34.940 a severe defect

00:45:35.720 of that person's perception

00:45:37.280 and judgment.

00:45:38.380 That person perceives the world

00:45:39.920 in a way that is radically different

00:45:41.140 than it actually is.

00:45:42.360 That's the problem

00:45:43.280 with transgenderism.

00:45:45.940 And if you can't even agree

00:45:47.660 that men aren't really women,

00:45:51.100 then the problem that you have

00:45:53.400 is much more basic

00:45:56.440 than some clinical definition

00:45:59.520 in a textbook.

00:46:01.040 The problem that you have

00:46:02.080 is epistemological,

00:46:03.940 anthropological.

00:46:05.120 You guys simply are not

00:46:06.380 speaking the same language.

00:46:08.200 You can't even agree.

00:46:09.940 You can't agree on the definition

00:46:11.360 of mental illness

00:46:12.060 because you can't agree

00:46:12.800 on even more basic definitions

00:46:14.140 of the words that are required

00:46:15.700 to build up to such a definition.

00:46:17.560 Okay, next question.

00:46:18.420 Hey, Michael.

00:46:20.600 The debates over saving

00:46:22.080 Western culture,

00:46:23.600 if there even is

00:46:24.440 a Western culture,

00:46:25.960 have been intensifying

00:46:27.460 as of late.

00:46:28.620 One of the major challenges

00:46:29.740 to doing this

00:46:30.660 is that Westerners

00:46:31.760 are using contraception

00:46:33.160 at an extreme rate.

00:46:35.200 Is there still time

00:46:36.520 to reverse this demographic collapse

00:46:38.840 in order to save

00:46:40.540 Western culture?

00:46:42.640 You know,

00:46:43.520 the birth rates

00:46:44.420 keep trending down

00:46:45.540 and it's starting to look like

00:46:46.680 we might be in a mathematical checkmate.

00:46:48.680 Is there still time

00:46:49.520 for the West to change course?

00:46:51.860 Thank you very much.

00:46:52.840 Love the show.

00:46:54.280 Yes, there certainly is.

00:46:56.660 You know,

00:46:56.920 it's not like

00:46:57.620 the birth rate problem

00:46:58.620 is really bad,

00:46:59.440 especially in Europe,

00:47:00.580 but people are at least

00:47:02.480 beginning to recognize

00:47:03.320 that it's really bad

00:47:04.040 and they're recognizing

00:47:04.700 that they're band-aid

00:47:05.520 to fix that problem,

00:47:06.640 namely mass migration

00:47:08.180 from the third world 0.99

00:47:09.020 is not really working out

00:47:10.200 very well.

00:47:11.140 So people are coming

00:47:12.180 to it slowly

00:47:12.840 and it's not like

00:47:13.960 the Europeans

00:47:14.640 are going to go extinct overnight 0.96

00:47:15.740 or the Americans 0.91

00:47:16.340 are going to go extinct overnight,

00:47:17.620 but it's pretty dire.

00:47:19.580 So how do you fix it?

00:47:21.160 Well, you point out

00:47:22.280 contraception's a big problem.

00:47:24.940 However,

00:47:25.700 it's worth observing

00:47:27.020 that it's not

00:47:28.760 an inevitable problem.

00:47:30.380 You know,

00:47:30.540 contraception was introduced

00:47:32.020 100 years ago or more

00:47:33.460 and there have been

00:47:34.480 different forms

00:47:35.060 of kind of contraception

00:47:36.900 for all of human history.

00:47:39.000 It only really became

00:47:40.220 a problem in the 70s.

00:47:42.260 Same thing with abortion. 1.00

00:47:43.420 There have been forms

00:47:44.160 of abortion

00:47:44.620 for all of human history

00:47:45.660 and advances

00:47:48.580 in surgical abortion

00:47:49.600 took place

00:47:50.320 long before

00:47:51.040 it became a major

00:47:52.440 widespread political problem

00:47:53.700 in the country.

00:47:54.260 That only really happened

00:47:55.440 once again

00:47:56.120 in the 70s.

00:47:57.520 Why?

00:47:58.620 Because the Supreme Court

00:48:00.040 created a fake right

00:48:01.740 to contraception

00:48:03.000 twice,

00:48:03.900 initially only

00:48:04.580 for married people

00:48:05.300 and then next

00:48:06.340 for unmarried people

00:48:07.280 through two Supreme Court decisions

00:48:09.240 and then they created

00:48:10.220 a fake right to abortion 0.90

00:48:11.200 with Roe v. Wade.

00:48:11.880 And that's what spread

00:48:14.200 the use of contraception

00:48:16.060 and the killing of babies

00:48:17.360 through abortion.

00:48:18.900 Now,

00:48:20.040 we can overturn those things

00:48:22.160 if we like.

00:48:22.800 I don't know that we have

00:48:23.380 the political will to do that

00:48:24.260 but we could

00:48:24.860 in principle.

00:48:26.760 We did.

00:48:27.340 And we did overturn Roe v. Wade

00:48:28.480 though now we have

00:48:29.080 an additional problem

00:48:29.820 which is the abortion pill

00:48:30.740 which is

00:48:31.160 the development of which

00:48:32.920 coincided with

00:48:34.220 overturning

00:48:35.240 the protections

00:48:36.940 for surgical abortion.

00:48:38.180 It's,

00:48:38.380 you know,

00:48:39.520 satanically coincidental

00:48:40.580 but in any case

00:48:41.340 you could do it

00:48:42.360 if you wanted to.

00:48:43.260 The reason I mention

00:48:43.860 those court cases is

00:48:44.720 we're kind of doomers

00:48:46.680 on the right

00:48:47.100 and the libs

00:48:47.720 want to be

00:48:48.300 historical determinists

00:48:49.640 who just insist

00:48:50.920 that their conception

00:48:51.560 of progress

00:48:52.040 is the end of history

00:48:53.560 and we will get there

00:48:54.820 eventually

00:48:55.200 because that's a perversion

00:48:56.920 of the Christian view

00:48:57.880 of history

00:48:58.220 which is that we know

00:48:58.960 how history ends

00:48:59.620 with the second coming

00:49:00.360 and eschatology

00:49:01.080 and that we will

00:49:02.520 get there eventually.

00:49:03.440 Well,

00:49:04.100 progressivism is like 0.92

00:49:04.960 the perverted

00:49:06.800 humanist version of that.

00:49:08.180 In any case,

00:49:09.160 no,

00:49:10.300 progressivism is not

00:49:12.280 written in stone.

00:49:14.420 The thing that drove

00:49:15.680 the problem

00:49:16.360 was not the development

00:49:18.220 of a technology

00:49:18.980 as much as it was

00:49:20.280 real political decisions

00:49:22.320 in this case

00:49:23.040 made by judges.

00:49:23.680 So just as judges

00:49:25.140 can make a decision

00:49:25.900 to pervert the law,

00:49:26.800 the law which is a teacher

00:49:27.620 and teaches bad things

00:49:28.540 in that case,

00:49:29.980 so too the law,

00:49:31.100 the judges can make

00:49:31.720 a different decision

00:49:32.300 and then the law

00:49:33.100 could teach good things again.

00:49:34.560 You can do it.

00:49:36.100 All hope is not lost.

00:49:37.480 Hope springs eternal

00:49:38.180 in the human breast.

00:49:38.960 Okay,

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00:49:53.680 What was it like, Merlin,

00:50:00.060 to be alone with God?

00:50:07.020 Is that who you think

00:50:08.200 I was alone with?

00:50:13.140 Meriton,

00:50:14.100 I knew your father.

00:50:15.640 I am yet convinced

00:50:16.640 that he was not

00:50:17.340 of this world.

00:50:18.000 All men know 0.94

00:50:22.140 of the great Taliesin.

00:50:24.120 You are my father.

00:50:25.300 That the gods

00:50:25.820 should war for my soul.

00:50:28.460 Princess Garrus,

00:50:29.980 savior of our people.

00:50:33.960 I know what the bull god

00:50:35.080 offered you.

00:50:36.500 I was offered the same.

00:50:38.520 And?

00:50:40.000 There is a new power

00:50:40.980 at work in the world.

00:50:42.120 I've seen it.

00:50:44.140 A god who sacrifices 0.85

00:50:45.500 what he loves for us.

00:50:46.880 We are each given

00:50:47.560 only one life, Singer.

00:50:49.640 No.

00:50:50.780 And we're given another.

00:50:54.620 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

00:50:56.900 And I have become

00:50:57.740 his follower.

00:50:58.780 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:51:00.320 And I think you

00:51:01.060 can give him one.

00:51:02.340 Trust in Yazoo.

00:51:03.680 He is the only hope

00:51:04.820 for men like us.

00:51:06.620 Vader Britain 0.91

00:51:07.180 never rests

00:51:07.860 in the hands

00:51:08.360 of the great light.

00:51:09.620 Great light?

00:51:10.760 Great darkness.

00:51:12.220 Such things mattered

00:51:13.080 to me then.

00:51:14.580 What matters to you

00:51:15.680 now, Mistress?

00:51:16.340 of lies. 0.95

00:51:18.420 You, nephew. 0.95

00:51:22.880 The sword

00:51:24.020 of the high king.

00:51:27.180 How many lives

00:51:28.340 must be lost

00:51:29.000 before you accept

00:51:30.020 the power

00:51:30.600 you were born

00:51:32.060 to wield?

00:51:34.860 Circling to the promises

00:51:36.260 of a god

00:51:36.840 who has abandoned you.

00:51:38.200 I cannot take up

00:51:39.300 that sword again.

00:51:40.960 You know

00:51:41.680 what you must do.

00:51:44.560 Great light,

00:51:45.220 forgive me.

00:51:53.780 The time has come

00:51:54.500 to be reborn.

00:51:56.420 The time is gone.

00:51:57.740 The time is done.

00:51:58.260 God bless you.

00:51:58.960 The Word of the High

00:52:00.700 will come.

00:52:07.900 You want me to reflect

00:52:08.840 fears?

The Michael Knowles Show - February 20, 2026

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