Ep. 1942 - JD Vance Thinks Aliens Are Demons： I Told You So
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Happy Holy Week! This week on The Michael Knowles Show: An amazing No Kings protest this past weekend, Tim Walls, the old knucklehead from Minnesota, promises never to leave the side of the Somalis, the criminals who've defrauded the Minnesota taxpayer, Maisie Hirono, the senator from Hawaii, admits accidentally that Trump is not a king. And finally, oh boy, this is a tasty one. You have become accustomed over many years to how much I hate to say I told you so, but the Vice President has acknowledged that UFOs are most likely demons.
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An international incident breaks out when the top bishop in Jerusalem is barred from the Church of
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the Holy Sepulcher to kick off Holy Week. Then Jimmy Kimmel attacks President Trump
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by mocking blue collar workers. It's a bold strategy for the Democrats. We'll see how it
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plays out. And finally, oh boy, this one, this is a tasty one. You know, you have become accustomed
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over many years to how much I hate to say I told you so, the vice president has acknowledged that
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UFOs are most likely demons. So, you know, we'll get to it. Happy Holy Week. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show. An amazing no kings protest this past weekend. You have Tim Walls,
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the old knucklehead from Minnesota, promising never to leave the side of the Somalis,
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the criminals who've defrauded the Minnesota taxpayer. You have Maisie Hirono, the senator
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The vice president just appeared on Benny Johnson's show. Benny hit him with the real
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questions. I mean that. Some people are making fun of this question from Benny. I love this question.
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He said, why don't you talk about taxes or Iran or whatever? Yeah, it's a long interview. He talks
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about a lot of stuff, but this is the one I want to hear about. Benny Johnson asks the vice
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president of the United States, who I will remind you is extremely intelligent, extremely well
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educated, extremely normal guy, one of the most powerful men in the country, heartbeat away from
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the presidency. He asks him about the true nature of UFOs. Matt Walsh and I both just clenching our
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fists, gritting our teeth, waiting for the answer. Who's going to be right? Is it going to be Walsh
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who says that there is such a thing as E.T., little weird green aliens flying around the
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universe? Or is it going to be your boy? Is it going to be Michael who says that there's no
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such thing as E.T. and actually the UFOs are more likely demons? Mr. Vice President, I defer to you.
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You're going to release all the UFO files. We're working on it. It's funny. When I came in,
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I was obsessed with the UFO files. And then you start getting really busy worrying about the
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economy and national security and things like that. But I've still, I've still got three more
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years as vice president. I will get to the bottom of the UFO files. Okay. Have you peaked? Have you
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done a peek? Have I what? Have you done a peek? I mean, like, you know, so I actually haven't,
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I have not, I have, I have, I have not been able to spend enough time on this to really understand
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it, but I am going to trust me. I'm obsessed with this. I've already had a couple of times
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where I'm like, all right, we're going to Area 51.
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We're going to sort of get to the bottom of this.
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And then the timing of the trip just didn't work out.
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But trust me, anybody who's curious about this,
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well we're waiting for it we saw aliens we saw aliens.gov i don't think they're i don't think
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they're aliens i think they're demons anyway but that's a longer discussion well i can't let you go
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should i just end the show right now like forever should i just can we i has anyone ever been more
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vindicated then i hate no look i hate to say i told you so so i i won't belabor the point but
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all joking aside this guy gets it we we joke about it it's a little funny running joke at
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the Daily Wire. Walsh is really into aliens. I think aliens are totally fake. And then we talk
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about what these things could be. Are people having hallucinations? Are there alien craft
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that are alien, meaning from China, like illegal aliens or alien nations? Is this military equipment
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from our own military? Or is there something spiritual going on? And beyond all the jokes,
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I do think that there is such a thing as spiritual reality. I do think that there's
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such a thing as immaterial reality. Virtually everyone for all of history everywhere has
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agreed with that. And so the vice president, beyond a little bit of joking,
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Benny presses him and he explains what he means. Well, look, I think that celestial beings
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who fly around, who do weird things to people, I think that the desire to describe everything
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celestial everything is otherworldly to describe it as aliens i mean every great world religion
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including christianity the one that i believe in has has understood that there are weird things
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out there and there are things that are very difficult to explain and i i naturally go when
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i hear about sort of extra natural phenomenon that's where i go to is the christian understanding
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that you know there's a lot of good out there but there's also some evil out there and i think that
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one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed.
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Love this. So people are going to try to say that Vance is being kooky or weird or dumb or
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something by suggesting that there's such a thing as demons and angels. But what does he do at the
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very end there? He's quoting Baudelaire. Baudelaire, who says the finest trick of the devil is to
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persuade people that he doesn't exist, which has been reiterated in all sorts of different
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popular media over the years. What Vance is saying is that there is such a thing as spiritual
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reality, immaterial reality, which we all know. Actually, that's not true. A lot of people don't
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know that because they just haven't thought deeply enough about it. But anyone who has two brain
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cells to rub together and who has thought about this question knows that there is such a thing
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as spiritual reality. There's such a thing as immaterial reality at the very least. For instance,
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are intellects or mathematics or, I don't know, universals, the concept of justice.
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Need I go on? We would be here forever. There are physical things. It's like my tumbler here,
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my microphone, my delicious cigars. But there are immaterial things as well.
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And we, in part, have an immaterial aspect because we have an intellect which can receive
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universals, immaterial substances. So that's just a fact. And the reality is that unless
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the aircraft that people are seeing are from China or DARPA or something like that,
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the odds that they are demons or angels are much greater than the odds that these are ET,
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just because of distances. The distances between stars and galaxies are simply too great,
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and there are limitations to the physical world, like the speed of light.
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The odds are great. And really, not to put too fine a point on it, but just to conclude,
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this interview from Vance reminds me of one of my favorite interviews from any politician.
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It was Scalia back in 2013, where Scalia, I've mentioned it on the show many times.
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Scalia was doing an interview with New York Magazine, some lib, know-nothing reporter.
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And she was asking him something about hell or punishment.
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He goes, well, it must be awful scary to believe in hell.
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And Scalia says, you're looking at me like I'm weird.
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He says, in a theatrical whisper, he says, you know, I even believe in the devil.
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She says, boy, oh boy, howdy, you know, that must be spooky.
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And he says, you know, you're condescending to me right now,
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Do you realize how out of touch you are with most Americans?
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Do you realize how out of touch you are with virtually every intelligent person
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through all of history, virtually every person through all of history,
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which should be applied to anyone who's criticizing J.D. Vance over this.
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He says, many more intelligent people than you or I have believed in the devil.
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Many more intelligent people than you or I or J.D. Vance, for that matter, have believed in demons.
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Okay, speaking of religion, major international incident yesterday.
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got everybody chattering on the brink of Holy Week. The headline that caused truly a global
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uproar is that the government of Israel prohibited the top bishop in Jerusalem,
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Cardinal Pete Zabala, he's the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the church of the
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Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is the day when Christ enters as a king into Jerusalem.
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It kicks off the beginning of Holy Week, which will end with the crucifixion on Good Friday, followed by Holy Saturday, and obviously followed by the resurrection on Easter Sunday.
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Major outcry that this was a Christian persecution by the Israeli government.
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Then you had ardently, I won't even just say regular pro-Israel people, but ardently, zealously, perhaps unreasonably pro-Israel people who were attacking the cardinal.
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And Cardinal Pizzaballa, who was a man who being considered for pope at the last conclave,
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Cardinal Pizzaballa, who's the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem,
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he has one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
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He went to hold a private mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
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this was not a major public event, but he was going there with a small number of people to
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say private mass to continue the very longstanding tradition of a mass on Palm Sunday.
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He recognized that sometimes there are security precautions, be they for public health,
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be they because of times of war. But this was a small number of people, and the Israeli police
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told him no. And they turned the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem away from Jesus's tomb on the first
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day of Holy Week. So right off the bat, it should be said, I totally understand the Israeli
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government's security concerns. I get it. I appreciate it. I also recognize that the Israeli
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government closed down all the holy sites. So it wasn't particularly anti-Christian discrimination.
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That government has no right whatsoever to ban the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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This was an egregious fumble by the Israeli government.
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This was not just people who don't like Israel.
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This was not Mike Huckabee, who is as pro-Israel as any human being has ever been, including Theodore Herzl.
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Okay, Mike Huckabee loves Israel, not Catholic, is a Southern Baptist.
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He says, while all holy sites in the old city are closed due to safety concerns for mass gatherings, including the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Al-Aqsa Mosque, the action today by the Israel National Police to deny Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierre Battista Pizzaballa and three other priests from entering the church to offer a blessing on Palm Sunday is an unfortunate overreach, already having major repercussions around the world.
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Homefront command guidelines restrict any gatherings to 50 people or less.
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The four representatives of the Catholic Church were well below that restriction.
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Statements from the government of Israel indicate the action to prohibit Cardinal
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Pizzaballa entry to the church of the Holy Sepulchre were for safety reasons,
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but churches, synagogues, and mosques throughout Jerusalem have met with the restrictions of 50 or
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less. For the patriarch to be barred from entry to the church on Palm Sunday for a private ceremony
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is difficult to understand or justify. Israel has indicated it will work with the patriarch
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to accommodate a safe means of carrying out Holy Week activities. Okay. Mike Huckabee is a really
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nice guy. And he's very, very pro-Israel and he's very diplomatic. This is as tough a statement as
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you are ever going to get, saying the Israeli government just blew it here, followed up by
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the most pro-Israel person in the United States Senate. Self-defined that way. My friend,
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Senator Ted Cruz, also not Catholic, he's a Southern Baptist, comes out, he says,
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Ambassador Huckabee is correct. This was a mistake by the Israeli police. The security concerns are
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real, but they should not have prevented the patriarch from entering the Church of the Holy
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Sepulcher to conduct the Palm Sunday blessing. I trust this mistake will be corrected quickly.
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Beyond just these two American politicians, do you know who else agrees with me and Huckabee
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and Cruz and the Latin patriarch and Catholics around the world, Christians around the world,
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the heads of state around the world. Do you know who else agrees? Benjamin Netanyahu.
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And Isaac Herzog. So you had the president of Israel and the prime minister of Israel
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coming out successively throughout the day and saying, hey, yeah, we blew it. Here's the comment
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from Netanyahu, who's the most powerful guy in Israel. I have instructed the relevant authorities
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that Cardinal Pier Batista Pizzabala, the Latin patriarch, be granted full and immediate access
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of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem
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In one strike, missile fragments crashed meters
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to temporarily abstain from worshiping at the holy sites.
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Cardinal Pizzabala was asked to refrain from holding mass.
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I instructed the authorities to enable the patriarch
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Good. I'm glad. Huge mistake. We don't know how high the mistake went up. Some people are saying,
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oh, it was just a rogue cop who didn't know what he was doing. Some were saying it was
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more of a decision from the Israeli government proper. Some are saying that Cardinal Pizzaballa
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had been notified the day before, which makes this much, much worse because it means that this was a
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premeditated decision by the Israeli government, which is a huge error. Some say that wasn't
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Now, who knows? Fog of war, when it comes to the Middle East, Israel, and the surrounding region,
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it's just propaganda all around. But you know, what I do know, is that the cardinal,
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the patriarch, came out and made this extremely diplomatic and conciliatory statement.
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It's true, there were these orders from the command.
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Yeah, and so they were prohibiting it from the places of worship that didn't have a bomb shelter.
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But we didn't request a public celebration, just a small private ceremony.
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that we need to respect security concerns, but also the right to prayer.
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And so what I notice about this incident, which dominated the headlines yesterday,
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everybody was talking about it, is that the actual people involved
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were much more reasonable than the partisans who are just propagandists online.
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this was a major error by the government of Israel.
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Huckabee, Cruz, the Catholic Church, Netanyahu, and Herzog themselves.
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If you disagree with that, you are a kook.
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But when the Israeli government, the Catholic Church, the evangelicals, and the American government all agree on something,
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and you're on the opposite side of that, I don't know.
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The prime minister of Israel said, yeah, shouldn't have happened.
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We're letting him back into the Holy Sepulcher.
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And then the patriarch says, yeah, this shouldn't have happened.
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It's unfortunate, but this can be a good opportunity to figure out how to balance
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I mean, some people, my favorite thing about this whole incident, looking at the silver lining in
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the storm cloud, is it really showed who just the most rank propagandists are. Because some people
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came out, they started attacking Pizzabala. They started attacking this cardinal. This cardinal,
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they called him a terrorist sympathizer. I mean, just ridiculous nonsense. This is a great man.
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Just to give you one example, during the Gaza war, this man offered himself in exchange for
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the Israeli hostages. He offered himself to Hamas in exchange for the release of the Israeli
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hostages. You're going to call this man a Hamas sympathizer, a terrorist. It's outrageous. This
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is a wonderful holy man. He's a great prince of the church. Likewise, some people are saying that
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the Israelis are just really trying to get at the Christians here. Once again, how would that
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benefit the Israelis? How would it benefit the Israelis when their whole nation is existentially
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dependent upon the support of Christians, especially in America. How would it benefit
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the Israelis to just really stick it to the Christians? It doesn't make sense. They might
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have been a little bit high-handed here, and they might have misunderstood their rights when it
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comes to prohibiting the patriarch from the Holy Sepulcher. But to suggest that this was some,
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I don't know, broad-sided attack on Christians, I think is really overstating it.
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It was an unfortunate incident. I'm glad that people have been brought back into line. They
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all recognize the right balance here. And if the patriarch and the prime minister of Israel
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and the American government can all be gracious about it, I think everyone else can too.
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Speaking of Christianity, also on Palm Sunday, a horrific incident that doesn't get a lot of play.
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I've talked about this issue a lot on my show, but in Nigeria, another 10 Christians, at least,
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maybe more, were martyred by Muslims in Nigeria. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to
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region of Nigeria, more Muslims have been killed. Sorry, more Christians have been
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killed by Muslims. Here's a video from on the ground.
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In Kabul, you just murdered over 10 people. Innocent Christians. On Palm Sunday.
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Tanubu, where are you? As your people are slaughtered in the night,
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as you sit in Aso Rock and you do absolutely nothing, you allow your people to be killed.
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When will you hear the cries of Nigerians, of Christians?
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So I've met, actually, I forget where I was flying out to last time.
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but I ran into a missionary who's done a lot of work in Nigeria. We've obviously talked about
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the Nigeria issue a lot on the show, but the Muslims have been persecuting the Christians
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in Nigeria to an extreme of savagery that most people can't even comprehend. And it happened
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again on Palm Sunday. And it's a reminder that Christianity is a religion spread by the martyrs.
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We say that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. It's why cardinals wear red slippers.
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They wear red slippers because they're walking in the footsteps of the martyrs.
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And it remains the case that by the numbers, Christianity remains the most persecuted
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religion in the world. And usually that's by Muslims. And that's been true for 1400 years.
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And people don't really pay attention. Of course, there's a lot of focus on religious issues in
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America because that's domestic. There's a lot of focus on religious issues in Europe,
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even, where Muslims have burned down churches and things like that, shut down Christmas markets.
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There's always a religious focus in the Holy Land. Obviously, it's a pretty particular case.
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But Africa, we kind of forget about. Some of the Christian persecution in East Asia,
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we kind of forget about. Nevertheless, it's a reminder, this stuff is very real.
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And there's a point for all of us, even not thinking across the world, which is,
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I don't know if any of you have noticed this. I alluded to this point a little bit last week.
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things get a little tougher during Lent, I've noticed. I've just noticed that.
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Things get a little more stressful. Temptations become a little more tempting.
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Things get a little tough during Lent. Isn't that weird? Lent is this period of time when
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Christians are to walk with Christ like the 40 days in the wilderness and then leading up to
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his passion. And I've just noticed that things get a little wacky. So people without faith are
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going to look at me, even some people with faith, they're going to look at me and say,
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well, that's just nuts, Michael. You're just imagining things, whatever. But something that
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a lot of people, a lot of religious people notice, for me, this was a big part of my
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reversion to the faith, is that it's all real. Part of numinous experience, religious experience,
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is encountering the reality of God, the imminent reality of God. Oh, it's real.
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These aren't just stories that have archetypes, that are metaphors, that tell us something about
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the human experience. It's not just that. It's real. God is real, and he's very, very close to
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you. Jesus Christ is a real person. He was born of a virgin and lived in a time and a place and
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was crucified under Pontius Pilate, suffered death and was buried. He descended into hell
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and rose again on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. It happened. And then real
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guys went out and spread the religion all over the world. That all actually happened. And so
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if you believe that, if you believe that even, let's just say at the most basic level,
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you acknowledge that there is such a thing as God, that that is real, then why would it not
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be the case that there are different seasons, that there are different spiritual realities?
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I mean, I guess bringing us all the way back to what we were talking about with
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J.D. Vance saying, look, I think the UFOs are demons, but that's a story for another time.
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if you acknowledge that there's such a thing as immaterial substances and spiritual realities.
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And why wouldn't it be the case that things get tougher during Lent?
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Maybe that's not just an hallucination or an illusion.
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Maybe that helps you to make sense of the world because it's real.
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Now, speaking, I actually want to jump down on a story because this makes the point, drives it so home.
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You know, Perez Hilton, Perez Hilton, the gossip columnist.
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Perez Hilton just got into some serious medical trouble.
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Started out as just the flu, but then he started taking medicines on an empty stomach,
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which caused a tear in his stomach, which then caused him to go into sepsis.
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And Perez Hilton is now claiming that he had a direct experience of God.
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And not a feeling. It was not a feeling. It was real.
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God presented himself to me in the hospital and then did something.
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Did something that I could only describe as miraculous.
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And ever since then, I've had such a connection to God.
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and I'm so thankful that people are watching right now.
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i'm gonna try not to cry some people don't believe him they don't believe him because
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perez hilton i'm not telling any tales out of school this is all very public perez hilton is
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a gay guy he's an openly gay guy and has openly you know acquired children through surrogacy and
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all sorts of things that people are are saying are uh to put it diplomatically contrary to church
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teaching. And they say, so I don't think this is real. I don't come to that conclusion at all.
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On the contrary, on the contrary, the fact that Perez Hilton has had a little bit of a colorful
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life, he's kind of a gossipy columnist, journalist type, and all the personal stuff.
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The fact that that is all true, and he is claiming this direct experience of God,
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actually makes even more sense to me. In as much as I don't think, as many modern people do,
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that God is just some projection of our own minds or our desires.
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And I don't think that God is constrained by us. And I don't think he can be comprehended
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ultimately by us. Of course, just in his very nature, he's God. If he can be comprehended by
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you, he's not God, then you're God. He's real. He's a real person. Actually, he's three distinct
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persons in one divine unity. Good luck fully comprehending that. But he really intervenes
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in people's lives, God. He actually does that. And it doesn't always have to fit your plan or
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what you would imagine or what you would expect, but he really does that. And listening to, I've
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had Perez Hilton on this show many years ago, listening to him in that video, he doesn't sound
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crazy. That's the amazing thing about people who have had real religious experience is they don't
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sound crazy. They sound more normal than ordinary people. This is something I've noticed even
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talking to exorcists. I had Father Rehill on this show, which got 10 bazillion views and people
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still watch it. The funny thing about talking to an exorcist, this is someone involved in
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about as mystical a profession as you can possibly imagine, is the exorcists actually,
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it's kind of like talking to a plumber or an electrician. In many ways, the exorcists sound
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more normal and grounded speaking about what they do than certainly the most white-collar workers
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are speaking about what they do. I'm a project, I'm a assistant project manager working on
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how to create synergy between different departments in a store, in a business that
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optimizes consulting firms' abilities to implement data analytics in storefronts.
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What is that? What? That's the most abstract thing I ever heard in my life.
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You talk to an exorcist, he says, yeah, I cast demons out of people. I chop demons off people,
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you know, basically is what I do. It's from God. I'm merely an instrument of this,
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but that's what I do. It's like talking to an exterminator. Hey, what do you, oh,
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I kill cockroaches. An electrician, what do you do? I fix wiring. Oh, okay. It's very,
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and this, I've noticed this with people who have had mystical experience.
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They're pretty placid. They're pretty, they're pretty grounded. They're pretty peaceful. They
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sound really normal. That's kind of what I'm getting out of Perez Hilton here. I don't know,
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again, I don't really know him all that well personally. He says he's obviously emotional
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about this. The guy almost died, but he says, yeah, I saw God. And what does that mean? Well,
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it means that he is real. We should remember that. People are scandalized by particularity
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because we think that everything has to just be some dumb, abstract, generalized idea. That's
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one of the temptations of modernity. But no, God's like a real guy. In fact, we know what he looks
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like, because he walked the earth. And he tells us to do things and not to do other things,
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and we should probably listen. And how can it be that God is so particular? Yeah,
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that's a real stumbling block, isn't that, to some people who want to comprehend God and yet
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ultimately cannot. Now, speaking of religion, religious differences, we have a lot of Somalis
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in Minnesota. And the Democrats there are doubling down on mass migration and their
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support of an alien culture. We'll get to that momentarily first, though. Transgenderism,
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racism, sexism. These are just a few of the isms that we've covered in the latest episode of Yes
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or No with comedian Jeff Dye. Check out this teaser. Can you believe we were just pantsing
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people? Yeah. You'd wait for your friend who trusts you to be like holding a tray of food
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or something, and then you would just pants him.
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All we did was pull his pants and underwear down,
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We're going to have to beat the shit out of that guy.
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I'm not saying that Jeff Dye is my favorite guest
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Thursday, we've got our exclusive Passion of the Christ Roundtable
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now's the time. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe today. My favorite comment yesterday
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is from Hard Boiled Entertainment. It says, the big question about the gay hockey team issue. Oh,
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yeah. The Nashville Predators celebrated Pride Day in March. Not even, it's bad enough they do
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it in June, which is the pride month now. But they did it in March. They were so excited. I don't
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want to call the hockey guys gay because hockey is a pretty straight sport. But I don't know,
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the executives of the NHL and the Nashville team.
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will this mean fewer brawls in the middle of the game
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look, they can really relate to the ordinary American.
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What we're going to do instead is ignore immigration law, flood the country with Somalis
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who defraud them and steal all their money, and there's nothing the ordinary American
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And I will add a special, a special thank you and a special acknowledgement that we
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will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans.
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here's our pledge to you our somali minnesotans your great grandchildren will still be here
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when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history you will be here
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so you know tim wallace is a knucklehead and he usually says things that are totally ridiculous
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and you would just say he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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He said, my message to the Somalis is that their grandchildren will be here long after
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When you import a bunch of foreigners, that helps Democrats because the Democrats campaign on weakening the United States and bringing in lots of different people.
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It's no knock even on the particular people necessarily, but when you bring in lots of different people, that just weakens social solidarity, weakens the country.
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And the Democrats campaign on that pretty explicitly, and they benefit from that.
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So Democrats can either persuade people to vote for them, which they sometimes do to some degree, but they're not very good at it.
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And if you look at just ordinary native-born Americans in most places in the country, Democrats don't play very well with them.
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So they say, okay, well, we're going to change the demographics of the country.
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So when you look at recent immigrants or new immigrants or what, they do a lot better among them.
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And the thing is, when you run a campaign and you persuade a stable electorate of native-born Americans in one election,
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there's a decent chance that the other party is going to persuade him in the next election.
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And there's some stability even as the pendulum swings. When you just import new voters,
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that changes the demographics in perpetuity. And even if some of those immigrant groups
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do kind of come over over time, I mean, the Italians did this very well. The Italians split
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almost perfectly. So you got the Scalia's, but you got the Pelosi's too. You look at an Italian,
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and you can't really tell who they vote for. Other immigrant groups, that's not true.
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The vast majority of Latin American immigrants just vote Democrat. There's some exceptions.
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We love our Cubans. Our Colombians are pretty gettable for the conservatives. But generally,
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that's how it goes. You track it, and it's not just them. Obviously, most immigrants now come
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from Latin America, but you can track it with the other immigrant groups too. So you just can kind
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of tell, and that's what the Democrats are after. They say, look, Trump, he won at least two
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elections. That's unfortunate. But the Somalis are going to be here. Their grandkids are going
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to be here long after Trump is gone. That's true. That's the urgency of the immigration question.
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Also at a No Kings protest, Maisie Hirono, the Democrat senator from Hawaii, one of my absolute
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favorite characters out of the US Senate. Maisie Hirono made an accidental admission
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about No Kings. Maisie Hirono comes out. She tweets, Donald Trump is not, never will be,
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Did you catch the flaw in her argument? I mean, it's not, I guess it's just really an admission,
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but I thought when you use the hashtag no kings, the implication for the whole no kings protest
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is that Trump is a king. He has made himself into a king. He will further entrench himself
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as a king. We don't like Trump. We don't want kings. We're going to kick him out.
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And so Maisie Hirono, she says, yeah, guys, yeah, we don't want any kings here.
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And so Donald Trump is not, never will be, and never has been a king.
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hey, AOC, you know, I agreed with AOC the other day too. AOC was coming at, she said, you know,
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I don't like the pervasive move to legalize gambling. I think that's probably bad. And I
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agree with her on that point. It's a controversial point, but I agree with her. Well, I agree with
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her on something else now. AOC just came out and addressing the problems caused by AI.
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she said that she does not use artificial intelligence chat gbt grok to write
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so um so you know i i don't think those efforts are working on behalf of the administration
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as far as ai i i do not regularly integrate it into my daily life um but i know many people do
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I think our job tends to be a little bit more, for me, my job, a lot of my job is quite writing-based, and I like to do my own.
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Can I just say, we know that you do your own writing.
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And in most, I would say in 99% of cases, I think people should not use AI for writing.
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Because one, the AI writing is simply not good, and you can tell when someone uses AI to compose something.
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but two it renders you incapable of coherent thoughts because to write well is to think
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clearly which is why it's so hard and so in 99% of cases I tell people don't use AI to write
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when it comes to AOC maybe let's just cut our losses and turn to chat GPT it would be my
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suggestion when she comes out there she goes listen I um like so um like for me I just when I
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when I write, when I do the I letters, words and letters I put together in a, on a paper or
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screen and I don't, GBT, no, I know, use, no. I do me, I do me. Me. Say, yeah, yes, I know.
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I can, I know that. And this is one exception. You should, AOC should use chat GBT.
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I give you permission as, as someone with a great interest in language, someone who's written a
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number one national bestselling book about language and speech called Speechless, highly
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recommend you pick it up wherever, where's my bell? Is there no, wow, they're falling, the guys are
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falling asleep in the control room today. Anyway, with whatever authority I have on the subject,
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AOC, you have permission, you should use ChatTBT. Before we go, Jimmy Kimmel has just
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just gone a little bit viral. I think he just kind of stepped in it. We're talking about egregious
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missteps, bad communications today. Well, this was pretty bad communications. Jimmy Kimmel comes out
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and mocks President Trump's new Secretary of Homeland Security, former senator, now confirmed
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as the DHS Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen. And he makes fun of him specifically for his background
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Rudy Giuliani might not be with us much longer,
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Trump's got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up,
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At least we can get a concert out of it, right?
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gnome who was ousted three weeks ago and will never be seen again. Ah, you get it? We got this
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dumb plumber. We got this dumb, stupid idiot plumber is running a government agency. Why?
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He didn't even go to a fancy college. Well, actually, that's not totally fair. Mark Wayne
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Mullen did go to college and then he dropped out of college because his father became gravely ill
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he does the thing that a lot of people do in America.
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someone who has run a successful plumbing business
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is more qualified to run a government agency, will do a better job running a government agency
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than probably, at least, I'm being generous here, 87% of the staffers and politicians in D.C.
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Why, he didn't even go to Williams College. He doesn't even have a law degree from NYU or
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whatever. Yeah, you're right. He ran a business and took care of his family and was a successful
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United States Senator and is now the Secretary of Homeland Security. Why? He's never even told
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jokes on television, says Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, you're right. This is your pitch? The big
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Democrats' pitch, as Trump is supposedly losing all sorts of support. The Democrats' pitch is
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look at president trump he surrounds himself with so many of these dirty poor people
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it's like can you guys just shut up and clean my toilet
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we need to go out there and win the votes of the people
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i don't want to hear from you you disgusting filthy plumber you blue collar worker
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you keep your you you look down at the floor when you come into my house
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i don't you know i'm a working class hero i won't have you looking at me you insolent little twerp
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when he embeds with a hardworking cattle farmer.
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Yes, to pregnancy check cattle, gross, clean grain bins, and even harvest corn.
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I was very much encouraging him to make this show.
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really highlights the importance of our farmers.