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00:00:44.680 Amid tensions over the Iran war, the president launched a broadside against the Pope last night

00:00:50.180 and then followed it up with an unfortunate post that offended many Protestants too.

00:00:54.720 We will get to the proper relation between church and state.

00:00:59.360 I am sorry to say everybody's getting it wrong.

00:01:01.740 Then the leading Democrat candidate for California governor goes down in flames.

00:01:06.940 And on the other side of the world, a new apparently anti-immigrant right wing prime minister is elected in Europe.

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00:01:27.020 all of which reminds me of that ancient Chinese curse. 1.00

00:01:31.040 May you live in interesting times. 1.00

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00:01:49.180 Welcome back to the show. A little bit of maybe good news by the end of the show,

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00:02:23.420 I'm not even convinced that's good news.

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00:03:35.680 Rough weekend politically, folks,

00:03:38.040 wouldn't you say?

00:03:39.720 You get the leading right-wing figure in Europe.

00:03:42.340 He goes down in a brutal election.

00:03:44.140 All the globalists are thrilled about that. The peace negotiations in Iran, J.D. Vance goes over

00:03:49.840 to Pakistan, gives it the best effort that I think it is possible to give. No peace deal in Iran.

00:03:56.480 Then you have the president offending both Catholics and Protestants right on the heels

00:04:01.780 of one another. And the Yankees got swept by the devil race. And I'm just saying politically, 0.97

00:04:06.660 it was a tough weekend. So I want to start with the least bad news. This is news that many

00:04:15.660 conservatives think is good news because a Democrat politician who was the leading Democrat

00:04:20.660 to take over California, he went down in flames. I mean, this was the worst political crash out

00:04:26.960 that we've seen since Anthony Weiner. And yet even that is actually really pretty bad for Republicans,

00:04:33.280 Though it tells you a lot about how efficient the Democrat Party is.

00:04:36.840 So what's the news?

00:04:38.400 The news is that Eric Swalwell, remember Eric Swalwell, the former future president?

00:04:43.560 He ran for president last time. 0.76

00:04:45.540 Total joke, total goofball out of Congress.

00:04:49.040 He was going to be the leading Democrat for governor of California.

00:04:54.100 And it seems that Mr. Swalwell has a little bit of a trouser issue. 0.98

00:04:58.300 all these women coming out of the woodwork to say, either when I worked for Swalwell,

00:05:04.440 he slept with me even though he was married and he pressured me to do this stuff and he did all 0.99

00:05:08.840 this degenerate sex stuff. Some women going so far as to say, I think he raped me. We'll get 0.99

00:05:13.940 into those claims as well. I mean, this was just a brutal pile on. And I had been telling you,

00:05:20.480 though you know I hate to say I told you so, I'd been telling you this is coming for weeks

00:05:23.160 because it started with the attack from Tom Steyer, who's another Democrat running for

00:05:28.780 governor of California. That attack came out and said, Eric Swalwell is not qualified to be,

00:05:35.660 he's not legally qualified to be the governor of California because he's not a California resident.

00:05:39.820 And the California state constitution says you have to be a resident to be governor.

00:05:43.400 Swalwell's a resident of Washington, DC. He's not actually a resident of California.

00:05:46.980 Looked like there might've been a little fraud there. So I said, look, that's the shot across

00:05:50.000 the bow. That's the first signal Swalwell get out of this race from the Democrats, not from the

00:05:54.280 Republicans. Then the next shoe to drop was that Swalwell was apparently paying his wife

00:06:00.900 out of campaign funds to watch their kids. Maybe that's not illegal. I don't know. I'd have to look

00:06:09.280 into the finance regulations. But even if it's not illegal, it's so corrupt. That expose too is

00:06:14.840 really being pushed by the Democrats, not by the Republicans. So they're going to chase this guy

00:06:19.140 out of the race. If Swalwell had been smart, he would have gotten out after the second shot at

00:06:24.220 him. But he didn't get out. Therefore, logic would tell you he might not be the brightest

00:06:30.180 bulb in the candelabra. Anyway, this was the political death shot. This was the one all these

00:06:36.480 women. I mean, just an avalanche of women coming out saying this guy, he cheated on his wife. He 1.00

00:06:42.180 was getting drunk all the time. He was pressuring his staff to sleep with him. He was exploiting

00:06:47.080 power dynamics all the way up to, I was too drunk to consent and he raped me. 0.97

00:06:52.680 Now, this takes us back. Many people have short memories in politics. This takes me back at least

00:06:58.240 to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, where the best that the Democrats had on Kavanaugh

00:07:04.120 to try to torpedo him was a sex scandal, quote unquote, from decades earlier when Kavanaugh was

00:07:12.100 a teenager, a campaign kicked off by this woman who constantly was contradicting her own story,

00:07:19.920 whose best friends were coming out saying this didn't happen. I mean, it was just totally bogus.

00:07:25.520 It was the most ridiculous railroading we've probably ever seen of a Supreme Court justice. 0.93

00:07:30.440 That includes Robert Bork, that includes Clarence Thomas. And Eric Swalwell was one of the Democrats 0.90

00:07:35.560 leading the charge, the Me Too charge against Brett Kavanaugh saying, we need accountability

00:07:39.740 for these men abusing their power and taking advantage of women. Here he is on MSNBC.

00:07:46.680 What was important to you about anything that you heard tonight from President Trump speaking

00:07:51.300 out at length from Mr. Avenatti, who I believe you just were able to hear, and new reports that

00:07:56.940 there are new allegations being probed by the Senate regarding Judge Kavanaugh.

00:08:01.120 Good evening, Ari. I saw continued demeaning of victims of sexual assault, people who deserve

00:08:08.920 to be heard, who deserve for their allegations to be investigated, and a president who wants

00:08:14.840 to just rush this through. He criticized the Senate for even taking this long, Ari. And so

00:08:20.240 for Brett Kavanaugh's sake, if he is innocent, I hope tomorrow he opens his statement and says,

00:08:25.800 you know what? Bring in all the victims. Allow them to be heard. Allow them to be questioned.

00:08:30.540 That will clear his name if he's indeed innocent. And if he's not, for the sake of the credibility

00:08:34.760 of the court, I hope that the senators would vote against him.

00:08:38.920 how the turntables, my oh my, how the turntables. Is that how the expression goes?

00:08:46.640 Swalwell, one of the leaders here, along with, you heard him reference, Michael Avenatti. That

00:08:50.780 was the other one. You remember him? He was the man, he was known as the creepy porn lawyer.

00:08:55.540 He represented Stormy Daniels. Then it turned out he was a fraudster. He was robbing his own 0.97

00:09:00.700 porn star client, blind, totally dishonest lawyer. Avenatti went down some years ago. 0.98

00:09:08.160 Now, Swalwell says these victims deserve to be heard.

00:09:11.580 We need to air it all out.

00:09:13.560 Not only are there allegations, there's video.

00:09:16.320 I won't even play you the whole video, but you can see a little bit of it in the B-roll.

00:09:19.800 This is Eric Swalwell on what seems like a hotel room bed. 0.89

00:09:24.600 I don't know, with some kind of hooker looking lady. 0.94

00:09:28.160 I don't know, with other guys and girls in the room kissing this woman. 1.00

00:09:32.920 Not good.

00:09:34.100 Not good.

00:09:34.620 Swalwell's been married for 10 years.

00:09:36.100 Very sad.

00:09:36.680 He has a bunch of kids.

00:09:38.160 So, you know, we should pray for the family. It's very unfortunate. This guy obviously has no self-control. No surprise there. He's a bit of a doofus, that one. A reminder of one eternal maxim. The male feminists are always the biggest predators. Always. All the time.

00:09:58.300 I remember one time when I was in college, this was at the beginning of the Title IX investigations, which actually started at my school.

00:10:06.380 And then it kind of spread around the country, this idea that American campuses are rape cultures and women are less safe on Harvard Yard than they are in the back alleys of Botswana. 0.82

00:10:17.320 It was all these girls talking about the rape culture. 0.74

00:10:19.660 And it was very interesting. 0.99

00:10:21.300 Some friends and I had a conversation one day with one of our real feminist friends on campus, super lib, hated all of our politics.

00:10:27.120 and he said, are you kidding me? You think this is a rape culture? What are you talking about? 1.00

00:10:31.080 And she said, you know, it's not you guys. It's not the conservatives. It's not the right-wingers

00:10:36.860 generally. I mean, everyone's a little irresponsible on college campuses, but he's like,

00:10:40.340 I'm not, this issue here is not the conservatives. It's the liberal guys. It's the male feminists.

00:10:46.840 They're the ones, the ones who say women need to be empowered and casual sex is empowering. 0.99

00:10:51.320 And, you know, men should never take any special care of women and chivalry is bogus and ridiculous. 1.00

00:10:55.920 Come on, girl, let's empower yourself by sleeping with me so that I can just discard you the next 1.00

00:11:01.440 day. It was plenty of blame to go around, but it was mostly the liberal guys. It was mostly

00:11:06.600 the male feminist guys. It's always those male feminist guys. So what was this guy doing? 0.99

00:11:11.880 I think it was Michael Tracy, the kind of liberal journalist who came out and said,

00:11:16.200 look, these girls who are claiming rape, I don't really buy it because some of the staffers who

00:11:20.840 were claiming this about Eric Swalwell, you know, they engaged in sexting with him and they had

00:11:26.080 long standing sexual relationships with him. And they say, you know, they got drunk one night and

00:11:30.960 slept with him, but then they kept hanging out with him and they kept seeing him multiple times.

00:11:34.900 And this doesn't really sound like rape. And so this isn't really sexual misconduct

00:11:38.740 because it's consenting adults. And the point here is one, the women are saying, well, I was

00:11:44.900 too drunk to consent. But even beyond that, I think the reason that you've seen a lot of the

00:11:51.100 me too arguments center around this notion that women, even if they seem to consent or not really

00:11:56.120 consenting is because we all realize that there is more to misconduct than just consent or lack

00:12:04.260 thereof. We all know that. We all know that there are things that ostensibly consenting adults can

00:12:10.980 do that are still wrong. We all know that. But the liberal morality tells us we can't admit that.

00:12:17.640 The liberal morality tells us that the source and summit of all morality is just consent.

00:12:24.540 And that raises legitimate questions about consent. Can people really consent if they're

00:12:29.200 drunk? No. Can people really consent if they're underage? We were told that kids could consent

00:12:36.520 to transgender therapies and surgeries. But kids can't consent. That's why we have an age of 1.00

00:12:41.460 consent, which is not for kids. Can people, I'll go further, can people really consent if they're

00:12:48.100 addicts? No, we would say no. He couldn't control himself. That's just his condition.

00:12:53.760 He has the disease of alcoholism or drug addiction or sex addiction. Could Eric Swalwell really

00:13:00.120 consent? Could he control himself? No, he obviously can't control himself. Does that

00:13:03.780 let him off the hook, it obviously doesn't let him off the hook. Because there is more to morality

00:13:10.280 than consent, and because freedom, this is a point I come back to again and again, freedom is not,

00:13:16.940 as the liberals would have it, neutrality and choosing. I could pick this, I could pick that.

00:13:21.340 Freedom, rather, is willing. It's the ability to will, to pursue your desires, predicated on

00:13:29.480 knowledge, which is why if your will is messed up, like for instance, if you're an addict,

00:13:34.900 you can't really consent. And if you're ignorant, you just don't know what you're choosing, 0.97

00:13:41.140 you also can't really consent. So what's the misconduct here? Well, I think we would at least 0.98

00:13:45.600 say that a member of Congress has a greater degree of power than his staffers. And a member of

00:13:53.980 Congress who's hitting on his staffers, who's asking his staffers to have sex with him, 0.98

00:13:58.180 even if the staffers say they want to go along with it, that's misconduct. 0.91

00:14:02.620 That's not appropriate. That would be disqualifying.

00:14:07.440 Cheating on your wife, probably not appropriate, right? Probably that counts as misconduct.

00:14:13.500 Doing this for years and years and years. While you are a hypocrite on television, 1.00

00:14:19.740 going after Brett Kavanaugh for nothing, not good. Misconduct. Hypocrisy is the only 1.00

00:14:28.140 other slight caveat to liberal morality. It's all about consent, but hypocrisy is a big point there

00:14:35.680 too. This is why Norm MacDonald, he had this great bit, it's kind of a sad story with Bill Cosby

00:14:41.900 doing all the creepy sex stuff. And he said, you know, someone told me that the worst part about

00:14:47.220 the Cosby scenario is the hypocrisy. But I don't think that's the worst part. I think it's the

00:14:52.120 raping. I think hypocrisy, the raping, the scheming, the drugging, hypocrisy is pretty low down on the 0.99

00:14:57.680 is. So all weekend, people say, is Swalwell going to drop out? Is he not going to drop out? 0.91

00:15:02.380 Republicans jumping on, making fun of Swalwell. I was making fun of Swalwell. Everybody was doing

00:15:06.220 it. What's he going to do? And is that actually good for Republicans? We'll get to that in a

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00:16:31.200 to enroll for free. Last night, 7.36 p.m., Eric Swalwell posts, I am suspending my campaign for

00:16:43.520 governor. Oh man, they got him. The illegal residency that he was, he was going to just

00:16:49.560 knuckle through it, white knuckle through it. Then the payouts to his wife from the campaign,

00:16:54.340 very corrupt. He was going to get through this one. They got him. I said it to sweet little Lisa

00:16:58.540 after like the third woman came out. I said, they got him. They got him dead to right. They

00:17:02.460 already had him. I'm suspending my campaign for governor to my family, staff, friends,

00:17:06.740 and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past. In my past,

00:17:15.200 by the way, not being 20, 30, 40 years ago, my past in this case being like yesterday.

00:17:20.620 And then he concludes, I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made.

00:17:26.520 But that's my fight, not a campaign's. In other words, let me translate that for you.

00:17:30.480 I'm dropping out of the governor's race. I'm deeply sorry for all the things I didn't do.

00:17:38.780 What a joke. What a joke. This goofball at the end of his political career

00:17:43.820 can't even make a coherent statement. This guy, he's been in politics his whole life. 0.98

00:17:50.920 He's accomplished precisely nothing. He's humiliated himself. He's humiliated his family

00:17:56.560 and friends. He's out, and he still doesn't understand the basics of logic or the English

00:18:01.060 language. Now, he gives himself a little out. I should be fair. He says, I will fight the serious

00:18:07.320 false allegations that have been made. He doesn't say all of the allegations are false.

00:18:13.680 He doesn't say I will fight all of these allegations. He says, I'll fight the serious

00:18:17.560 false allegations that have been made. All of the allegations, it would seem, are true.

00:18:23.980 there's a lot of evidence for all of them he slept with his staff he cheated on his wife he hung out

00:18:29.060 in hotel rooms with hookers or whatever there's a video that appears to show that but i don't know

00:18:33.940 maybe maybe at some point someone called swalwell late for dinner i don't know and maybe at some

00:18:38.500 point they said swalwell was wearing a blue shirt he was really wearing a white shirt and that so 0.95

00:18:42.180 he could there could be a minor false allegation there but pathetic really pathetic now why is he 0.98

00:18:49.520 quitting in this way. I'm quitting. I'm really sorry for all the things that you've now seen, 0.99

00:18:55.540 not only alleged, but on video, but I didn't actually do them.

00:18:59.600 The reason he's quitting in this way, and the reason this is bad for Republicans,

00:19:03.240 is because he's going to quit the race for governor. He says, look, I'm totally unqualified

00:19:06.940 to be governor. I'm unfit as a matter of morality and my character. I do not deserve

00:19:11.700 the public trust to be governor, but I will remain in Congress. Look, I know that Congress

00:19:17.720 doesn't have the best reputation right now or ever, really. But how is it that you do not have

00:19:24.280 the character for the public to trust you to be governor, but you're totally fine to remain in

00:19:28.920 Congress? Well, I'll tell you why. Because it would be very bad for the Democrats to kick

00:19:36.020 Swalwell out of Congress, so they're going to try to avoid doing it. But it's very good for Democrats

00:19:41.300 for him to drop out of the governor's race. And you know why? You know what this is really

00:19:45.260 all about. Let me see. A lot of headlines here today to pick through. Here it is.

00:19:52.620 This from April 9th. It's from governing.com, but it's backed up in a lot of other polls and

00:19:59.560 outlets. Top three candidates in the California governor's race. You got two Republicans up there.

00:20:07.000 Polls show some Democrats in a large primary field gaining support, but if the election were

00:20:10.780 held today, two Republicans would likely advance to the runoffs, shutting Democrats out. So there's

00:20:16.380 so many Democrats running for California governor that they're splitting up the Democrat vote.

00:20:20.760 Also, Democrats under Gavin Newsom have so destroyed California that even in California,

00:20:26.960 voters are looking to Republicans right now. And because of the way the California electoral

00:20:31.760 system works, if the race were held right now, a Republican would win. That's what this is about.

00:20:38.120 That's all that this is about. This has nothing to do with sexual misconduct.

00:20:42.820 This has everything to do with Democrats losing power. So the Democrats came in and they said,

00:20:48.880 sorry, Swalwell, you're out. People have known, I was talking to some friends of mine in Congress,

00:20:54.160 people have known these stories about Swalwell forever. In fact, you had some Democrats as they

00:21:01.740 were pulling their endorsements from him over the weekend saying, you know, I knew about these

00:21:04.720 rumors and I asked Swalwell about it. I said, do you think this is going to hurt your chances at

00:21:07.960 governor. He said, no, it's no big deal. Don't worry. We'll get through them. And he would have

00:21:12.020 gotten through. If the top two guys in the California governor polls right now were not

00:21:19.200 Republicans, not one Democrat would have said peep about this. This guy would be governor of

00:21:24.180 California. This is entirely, entirely about power. So the only thing Republicans can do now

00:21:31.560 is try to force a vote to kick Swalwell out of Congress. If he doesn't have the integrity,

00:21:38.040 which he obviously doesn't, to resign himself, you at least have to shame, not even him,

00:21:44.380 he is incapable of shame, but the other Democrats. You at least have to put them in a bad spot

00:21:49.960 in Congress and make them vote to keep Swalwell in Congress. Now, again, it's California.

00:21:56.500 So if they boot out Swalwell, they'll just send another Democrat in there.

00:22:00.500 This is something they're willing to deal with.

00:22:03.240 It's the same reason why the Democrats were fine getting rid of Al Franken. 0.95

00:22:08.820 Al Franken had this scandal where he was shown taking a picture pretending to grab a girl's boobs. 0.70

00:22:16.380 And apparently he got a little grab happy in some photo lines. 0.73

00:22:19.360 And so they threw him out.

00:22:20.340 And the Democrats say, see, this is proof we police our own party.

00:22:22.480 That's not true.

00:22:23.980 They just booted him out because they knew they could easily replace him with another Democrat.

00:22:27.260 It'd be simple and they wouldn't lose any power.

00:22:29.760 When push comes to shove, though, when it comes to the real tough races,

00:22:33.300 when it comes to Bill Clinton, greatest example,

00:22:36.020 when it comes to impeaching Bill Clinton for not only sexual misconduct,

00:22:40.700 but perjuring himself for the same misconduct that Eric Swalwell seems to have engaged in,

00:22:44.900 but also perjuring himself, breaking the law, the Democrats close ranks.

00:22:50.440 It's strictly about power, which is so amazing.

00:22:53.100 You have this leading candidate for a Democrat governor of California, and he was taken out

00:22:58.320 entirely by Democrats because he wasn't a strong enough candidate.

00:23:03.420 So now you're going to get someone like Katie Porter or some other Democrat to come up there

00:23:07.000 to maybe pose a greater challenge, consolidate the field, take those Swalwell votes such that

00:23:12.480 the Republicans are not going to win in California.

00:23:15.700 Not good.

00:23:16.540 Not good.

00:23:17.100 I mean, I'm tempted to start a Republicans for Swalwell campaign right now.

00:23:21.520 I know I can't bring myself to do it and still be able to keep my breakfast down.

00:23:25.140 But not every time a Democrat goes down is that a win for Republicans.

00:23:30.180 In this case, it's a loss.

00:23:31.680 In fact, the whole thing was coordinated by Democrats.

00:23:33.680 Now, you're seeing a similar thing happen in Hungary.

00:23:36.060 Hungary, which was the exemplar, the last remaining bastion of conservatism

00:23:40.100 at any extreme degree in Europe. 0.63

00:23:43.200 The one guy who stood up to Brussels and said, we are not taking the migrants in.

00:23:47.460 We're not going to destroy our country.

00:23:49.080 We're not going to erase our cultural patrimony. 1.00

00:23:50.800 We're not going to ruin our society by flooding it with foreigners who don't want to assimilate. 1.00

00:23:56.580 And he went down in flames in the election last night. 0.95

00:24:00.520 And some people, some unfortunately benighted, ignorant people on the right think that it's a 0.96

00:24:07.740 good thing because they say the candidate who beat him, he's actually even more right wing 0.95

00:24:11.880 than Viktor Orban, the ousted prime minister. We'll get to that in a second, folks. You've

00:24:16.400 been taken for a ride. First though, then of course, we'll get to President Trump's posts

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00:25:37.100 at takelean.com. Orban, the great conservative right-wing leader of Hungary, has gone down.

00:25:45.360 The guy who beat him is this guy, Peter Magyar. Magyar, M-A-G-Y-A-R. Magyar is the name of the

00:25:56.780 Hungarian language. It's like a name of Hungary. His name is basically Peter Hungary. And this guy

00:26:03.200 this guy wins. And he's a center right candidate. But some are now arguing he's even more right

00:26:09.980 wing than Orban. So we shouldn't be upset about losing Orban. Because yeah, it's too bad. A guy

00:26:15.060 who's a real ally of American conservatives. So much so that the vice president just flew over

00:26:20.080 to help campaign for him. So much so that President Trump endorsed him. So much so that

00:26:24.840 a lot of American conservatives have gone there to help support Hungarian conservatism. Myself

00:26:29.680 included. I've been to Hungary three times in the last three years, I think. Twice in one year.

00:26:34.160 I wanted to get back there this year. Unfortunately, I couldn't make the schedule work.

00:26:38.080 He goes down and people are saying, no, don't worry. The new guy who took over,

00:26:41.560 he's even more right wing. The only reason they ousted Orban is because he's corrupt. 0.98

00:26:46.200 I would just say, guys, please try to recognize that politics is not debate club. This is one

00:26:52.300 of my big problems. This is one of my big problems with the way some of the wonks and the academic

00:26:58.740 people in politics debate. This is one of my big problems with the podcast war.

00:27:02.760 This is one of my big problems with how people are reacting to these

00:27:05.560 election results and campaign collapses. Politics is not just about ideology. Politics

00:27:13.360 is not debate club. I want to just show you my evidence here. Here are the people celebrating

00:27:20.260 Orban losing to the supposedly far-right anti-immigration candidate in Hungary,

00:27:24.780 Hillary Clinton.

00:27:26.600 The end of Viktor Orban's autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary,

00:27:30.180 but for people who value democracy around the world.

00:27:32.820 Congratulations to Tiza, the party that won, to incoming leader Peter Magyar, and to Hungarians

00:27:39.020 everywhere.

00:27:40.520 First of all, I love this first line.

00:27:42.840 The end of Viktor Orban's autocratic regime.

00:27:45.340 They've been saying that Orban is a dictator, he's an autocrat, he destroyed democracy for

00:27:49.040 years, it was always total nonsense.

00:27:50.720 have seen it firsthand. And now the whole world has seen it firsthand because he lost an election

00:27:55.040 and he conceded power immediately. Small consolation for us is, see, we were right.

00:28:00.860 You called us fascists, but we're not really fascists. The libs don't care. They level these

00:28:05.560 accusations totally cynically. But the question you got to ask yourself, why, if a far right-wing

00:28:12.140 anti-immigration candidate just won in Hungary, why is Hillary Clinton so happy about it?

00:28:15.460 Alex Soros, who's now running the Soros organization, son of George Soros.

00:28:22.140 The people of Hungary have taken back their country, a resounding rejection of entrenched

00:28:25.300 corruption of foreign interference. Gavin Newsom, J.D. Vance. I love also Alex Soros is saying,

00:28:31.940 hey, we ousted Orban in Hungary. Thank goodness there is no foreign interference.

00:28:36.840 Hillary Clinton and I and Barack Obama and Gavin Newsom and the EU, we all ousted the 0.82

00:28:41.620 Hungarian leader. Thank goodness there's no more foreign interference. Give me a break. 0.65

00:28:45.840 Gavin Newsom, J.D. Vance proves he's a lightweight. Congratulations to the people at White House.

00:28:49.800 Newsom is trying to attack J.D. because J.D. is the heir apparent to the Trumpism and to the

00:28:56.460 Republican Party. So Newsom wants to be president. He realizes J.D. is the toughest guy in the race.

00:29:00.460 He's most likely going to be the nominee. I'm just going to use any excuse to attack J.D.

00:29:04.960 Congratulations to the people of Hungary. Democracy, free press, and human rights win.

00:29:08.380 There's hope. Tim Walz, that old knucklehead, former vice presidential candidate for the Dems, a big win for freedom and democracy.

00:29:15.060 The tides are turning. Barack Obama, the victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe, but around the world.

00:29:23.920 Most of all, it's a testament to the resilience and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:29:26.920 if orban's loss in hungary is is secretly really good for the right

00:29:34.160 how come the entire global left the very worst elements of the global left

00:29:41.540 are unanimously celebrating it i don't it doesn't take a phd in political science

00:29:48.140 doesn't take a a dissertation on machiavelli and count von metternich to know this is a loss for

00:29:55.700 conservatives. Major loss. Now, their rejoinder is, well, no, this is actually just about corruption.

00:30:03.320 See, Orban was corrupt, and this new guy, he's not corrupt. Yeah, okay. We're talking about

00:30:08.380 Central and Eastern Europe, okay? Corruption is just kind of part of the game, all right?

00:30:13.520 We're talking about former Soviet bloc countries. Corruption is just kind of part of the game here.

00:30:18.500 But you're telling me, hold on, you're telling me that the global left is excited about a truly

00:30:25.500 anti-immigration, right-wing, stalwart, conservative, new prime minister,

00:30:31.100 because they're so concerned about corruption? Hillary Clinton, that vaunted enemy of corruption, 1.00

00:30:39.240 she's just so excited. Oh, thank goodness, corruption lost today. If there's one thing 0.99

00:30:43.900 Hillary hates, it's corruption, wouldn't you say? Obama, Newsom, Brussels, the Soros family. 1.00

00:30:51.340 no i'd love to be proven wrong i hope i hope that this guy peter major in hungary can resist

00:30:59.860 brussels but if i were a gambler man i would say probably not okay speaking of tough news for the

00:31:05.940 global right generally especially the american right president trump last night he pope posted

00:31:12.860 he he launched this broadside against the pope i won't read the whole thing because it was very

00:31:18.240 very long. But here's the first part. Pope Leo is weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.

00:31:26.600 So right off the top. Foreign policy, one can debate. What does it mean that the Pope is weak

00:31:35.160 on crime? There used to be a Vatican executioner who executed some 500 criminals back when the

00:31:42.580 papacy controlled substantial territory called the papal states. We haven't had that in like 150

00:31:49.180 years or more. So what does it mean weak on crime? There is a Vatican penitentiary because it is a

00:31:57.400 city state, but I don't, what does it mean for the Pope to be weak on crime? You can say foreign 1.00

00:32:02.340 policy. Okay. There's this disagreement. This, this tweet comes in the context of a disagreement

00:32:07.060 between the president and the Pope on the Iran war, the crime thing. I don't really get that.

00:32:11.360 Then, terrible for foreign policy. He talks about fear of the Trump administration,

00:32:16.520 but he doesn't mention the fear that the Catholic Church and all other Christian

00:32:18.900 organizations had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers. Hold on,

00:32:22.440 the Catholic Church was arresting priests? No, I think probably what the president means here is

00:32:26.120 when the liberal politicians, the secular authority was arresting priests and a lot

00:32:33.020 of Christians rolled over for COVID lockdowns. That's true. Not sure the church exactly rolled 0.99

00:32:39.600 over for the arresting of priests. But sure, not just the Catholic church, but Christians broadly

00:32:46.960 did go along with the COVID lockdowns in a way that I didn't like, certainly. Okay. 0.62

00:32:51.140 So I see that. He goes, I like his brother, Lewis. The Pope's brother, Lewis, is apparently

00:32:57.040 more right-wing. I like Lewis much better than I like him because Lewis is all MAGA. He gets it.

00:33:02.660 Leo doesn't. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

00:33:05.560 So this is really what it's about. It's not about crime. It's not about COVID. This is about Iran.

00:33:09.280 I don't want a pope who thinks it's terrible

00:33:10.660 that America attacked Venezuela,

00:33:12.000 a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs in here.

00:33:13.940 I was elected in a landslide.

00:33:15.560 And the only reason Leo was elected

00:33:17.860 is because they wanted an American

00:33:19.860 to counter me in the Vatican.

00:33:21.260 And he met with David Axelrod.

00:33:25.280 The pope apparently met with this liberal advisor to Obama.

00:33:28.460 And that's bad. 0.99

00:33:29.120 Axelrod's a loser from the left. 0.96

00:33:31.280 And this pope should focus on being a great pope, 0.99

00:33:34.440 not a politician.

00:33:35.420 It's hurting him very badly.

00:33:36.540 And more importantly, it's hurting the Catholic Church.

00:33:37.900 Okay. Okay. Not great. Don't love this. Don't love this at all. One in five Americans is Catholic.

00:33:47.580 One in five Americans is Catholic. And there are plenty of non-Catholics who don't like seeing 0.99

00:33:53.160 attacks on the Pope. One in five Americans is Catholic. The Catholic Church is the largest

00:33:58.120 single Christian denomination in the United States, to use the modern terms. President

00:34:03.720 Trump sends out the post, and he also clarifies to the reporters what he means.

00:34:10.200 I don't think he's doing a very good job. He likes crime, I guess. He hit us. Think of it.

00:34:17.620 He's worried about fear. What about the fear when the ministers and the priests and all of those

00:34:25.800 great people that were arrested during COVID, and in many cases, they're outside 10 feet apart,

00:34:32.000 and they were arrested so we don't like it we don't like a pope that's going to say that it's

00:34:38.260 okay to have a nuclear weapon we don't want a pope that says crime is okay in our cities

00:34:43.740 i don't like it i'm not a big fan of pope leo okay so i don't like the pope now you'll remember

00:34:49.640 though some of you will remember some of you were too young in the early days of the iraq war one

00:34:54.460 of the last things that pope john paul ii did was speak out against the iraq war and you didn't see

00:35:01.360 President Bush say, I don't like the Pope, which I hold is spiritually a very bad thing to do.

00:35:08.580 But even politically, politically, I think it's not a good thing to do. And I assume someone has

00:35:14.520 told this to the president already. But if not, I'm as bona fide a Trump supporter as ever there

00:35:21.540 was. I have voted for Trump in every presidential election that he's run in. And I really like the

00:35:28.040 guy and I love all the good that he's done. Spiritually, I think this is bad. And politically,

00:35:33.460 this is not good. I get it. I get it because there's a tension that goes not just through

00:35:40.660 the Trump era or the Bush era, but goes all the way back to antiquity between the Pope and the

00:35:45.940 emperor. There's a tension that goes back between the spiritual authority and the secular authority

00:35:52.140 all the way back to the beginning of our civilization. But I don't think this is very

00:35:56.700 helpful. So the Pope himself has now responded to reporters on the papal airplane.

00:36:04.540 I will not enter into debate. I think the things that I say are certainly not meant as a test on

00:36:11.820 anyone. And the message of the gospel is very clear, blessed are the peacemakers.

00:36:17.840 I will not shy away from announcing the message of the gospel, of inviting all people to look for

00:36:25.640 ways of building bridges for peace and reconciliation, of looking for ways to avoid war anytime that's

00:36:34.940 possible. To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do

00:36:43.360 here, I think, is not understanding what the message of the gospel is. And I'm sorry to

00:36:52.360 hear that but but i will continue on what i believe is the mission of the church in the

00:36:57.860 that's the key that's the key phrase here to put my message on the same plane is not a good

00:37:05.260 understanding that's the key phrase and and this gets back to this perennial tension between the

00:37:14.440 secular ruler and the spiritual ruler i mean let's not forget in the middle ages you had popes and

00:37:19.060 emperors fighting wars against each other. So actually, by historical standards, this is

00:37:24.360 relatively tame. But this idea that there are different planes here, this, I think, is the key.

00:37:31.880 And I think the Pope's statement here was very effective. And the way to understand this conflict

00:37:39.040 and the way, I think, to move forward in a good way requires us to reacquaint ourselves with how

00:37:46.220 this debate has been settled going back to the fifth century. We'll get to that, and then we'll

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00:39:48.640 My favorite, I have two favorite comments from Friday.

00:39:51.840 One is from Aldous Huxtable.

00:39:53.580 Great name.

00:39:54.040 Wow, great name.

00:39:55.120 Says, also providential that I mentioned Bill,

00:39:58.460 I never mentioned Bill Cosby.

00:39:59.780 See, all nature is but art unknown to thee,

00:40:01.940 all chance direction which thou canst not see.

00:40:03.840 Anyway, the comment is, Michael,

00:40:05.700 I'm being sincere when I say this.

00:40:07.060 your sane washing is truly brilliant. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I like that phrase,

00:40:12.140 sane washing. There's brainwashing. That's what you get on the other shows. That's what you get

00:40:18.300 from governments. But there's sane washing. That's what I like to do. And there's a related

00:40:23.020 comment. It's kind of funny, people, but I don't even remember what this is directly in response

00:40:26.120 to. But it does get to something I try to do, which is from A Studios 9930 says, well done,

00:40:31.100 Knowles, your real one, most logical coverage over this dumb mess. I don't even know what 0.84

00:40:34.620 that's in response to, but that's what I try to do. And folks, sometimes I think it hurts my

00:40:40.560 ratings because the temptation in political media, especially in podcasting, is to take the most

00:40:47.600 extreme stance, is to take the most provocative extreme stance. I find a lot of podcasters what

00:40:52.460 they do. They often, sometimes they'll just say totally crazy things, but sometimes they'll say

00:40:56.100 relatively moderate things, but they'll say them in the most provocative, offensive way possible.

00:41:02.140 Whereas what I try to do is the opposite.

00:41:03.920 I try to say sometimes radical things

00:41:05.500 in the most moderate, reasonable way possible.

00:41:07.600 And it's not always the best for ratings.

00:41:10.580 That's what I try to do, folks.

00:41:12.620 That's what I'm trying to offer you.

00:41:14.500 Trying to offer you a constructive way forward.

00:41:16.440 My friend Yoram Hazoni made the point one time

00:41:18.140 when all the right was talking about

00:41:19.600 how we need more critical thinking.

00:41:21.200 We need critical thinking.

00:41:22.640 I said, do we need critical thinking?

00:41:23.820 And Yoram made this point.

00:41:24.600 He said, we don't need critical thinking.

00:41:26.740 We have enough of that.

00:41:27.960 We need constructive thinking.

00:41:29.960 That's what I try to offer.

00:41:31.220 it's an insight of the conservatives is that it's easier to destroy than to build

00:41:35.640 so often people just want to destroy we've all done it we all have those videos so and so destroys

00:41:40.960 so and so but we want to build we want to build especially when we're in power so how do we think

00:41:45.780 about this fight between the pope and the president two planes here i go back to my old

00:41:54.140 buddy pope galassius the first you know i mean hardly a day goes by we don't talk about pope

00:41:58.940 Galatius. He writes a letter in AD 494 to Emperor Anastasius, the Byzantine emperor.

00:42:04.760 And he opens the letter. He says, hey, I'm sorry, you seem to be offended that I didn't send you

00:42:08.740 greetings. He opens up. He says, I heard you're offended. I heard you're upset with me, Emperor.

00:42:13.880 Mr. President, Mr. President, Emperor, I heard you're offended with me because I wasn't flattering

00:42:19.280 enough or I wasn't courteous enough or something. But hey, the only reason that I didn't send you

00:42:23.880 a letter, the reason I didn't call is because you were upset with me. So I didn't want to

00:42:28.820 further annoy you or anything like that. But I'm going to say what I'm going to say, and you're

00:42:33.440 going to say what you're going to say. And then here's what he says, verbatim. I pray your piety

00:42:38.600 not to judge my duty toward the divine plan as arrogance. Far be it from the Roman prince,

00:42:43.620 I beg, that he judge the truth that he senses in his heart to be an injury. This is the key.

00:42:49.140 For there are two, O Emperor Augustus, by which the world is principally ruled,

00:42:54.480 the sacred authority of pontiffs and the royal power, the spiritual authority and the temporal

00:43:00.620 power, among which how much heavier is the burden of priests such that they will have to render an

00:43:06.660 account to the Lord at the time of judgment, even for the very kings. He says there are two powers

00:43:11.420 in the world, the spiritual authority and the temporal power, and they're distinct. But the

00:43:18.920 greater weight lies with the spiritual authority because the Pope is responsible for the president

00:43:25.740 in a way that the president is not responsible for the Pope. This is this longstanding debate.

00:43:30.600 Now, fast forward to the Middle Ages. You have Dante. Truly, hardly a show goes by. I don't

00:43:34.600 talk about Dante. Dante is fighting the Pope. He's a member of the pro-Pope party. There were

00:43:41.520 the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. The Guelphs are pro-Pope. The Ghibellines are pro-Emperor. Dante

00:43:45.840 is part of the pro-pope party, but the pro-pope party divides into factions, the black welfs and

00:43:50.480 the white welfs. Dante is part of the more favorable to the emperor side of the pro-pope

00:43:56.960 party. He's kind of like a medieval rhino. Dante there, even as he is fighting, he wants to 0.50

00:44:02.940 diminish the temporal power of the pope. He wants to increase the temporal power of the emperor.

00:44:07.640 He'd be inclined to take the president's side over the pope's side. He writes this in his treatise

00:44:12.020 about how the Pope is wrong and the Emperor needs more power. He concludes it with this line,

00:44:16.580 important for us to keep in mind. Let Caesar honor Peter as a firstborn son should honor his father

00:44:21.500 so that refulgent with the light of paternal grace, he may illumine with greater radiance

00:44:25.780 the earthly sphere over which he has been set by him, God, who alone is ruler of all things,

00:44:30.920 spiritual and temporal. Even Dante is saying, hey, Pope, lay off. Hey, Emperor, you should get

00:44:37.380 a lot more power. But even there he says, but Emperor, you should be respectful toward the

00:44:41.160 Pope. You should allow the spiritual authority to illumine the temporal authority, which is

00:44:46.720 distinct. I think the issue with the president's commentary here is less the substance and more

00:44:53.700 the tone. It's actually, I hate to sound like a lib or like a woman, but you know, like sometimes 0.87

00:44:57.880 like a liberal woman, really. It's not what you said, it's how you said it. But really here,

00:45:02.320 the tone is the key. Because reasonable minds can disagree over foreign policy. Reasonable

00:45:08.600 minds can disagree over certain political judgments. The president does have the politics

00:45:14.720 as his lane, but it's the tone. The temporal authority, while distinct, should be respectful

00:45:21.240 of the spiritual authority. As we are respectful of our fathers, you don't always have to agree

00:45:26.500 with your father, like your dad, your regular dad. You don't always have to agree with him.

00:45:31.020 Sometimes you do. In certain limited circumstances, you do have to do what your father says.

00:45:36.300 But a lot of the time, you don't have to do what he says.

00:45:38.840 You're your own man, especially when you're, but you always have to be respectful toward him.

00:45:43.640 God tells you to be respectful to your father.

00:45:45.640 And that's how we feel with the spiritual authority.

00:45:48.660 So what do we make of this?

00:45:51.680 Some people are saying, well, look, even Catholics are saying, well, the Pope is only infallible

00:45:55.520 on certain matters of faith and morals defined through a definitive act ex cathedra.

00:45:59.660 And so you don't have to listen to the Pope on anything else.

00:46:01.520 That's not quite it either.

00:46:02.700 because some people basically want to say the president should do politics and the pope should

00:46:06.660 do religion and never the twain shall meet that's not going to cut it guys that's a cheap way out

00:46:11.640 but it's not going to cut it there's a reason this issue has been going on since the fifth century

00:46:15.380 at least it's not going to cut it because you can't do politics the president can't do politics

00:46:21.760 without recourse to religion because you can't do politics without laws and you can't do laws

00:46:26.140 without morality and you can't do morality without religion so the president has to engage in

00:46:31.240 religion, even if he doesn't want to admit it. This president, I think, does want to admit it.

00:46:36.040 This president is openly pro-religious most of the time, the vast majority of the time.

00:46:40.240 Same with the Pope. You can't just say, hey, Pope, just do religion, don't do politics,

00:46:44.740 because the Pope has to shepherd a flock that lives in the world. So the Pope necessarily

00:46:51.960 has to do politics. Even if you're not Catholic, you don't care about the Pope.

00:46:54.540 Your pastor has to do politics. Whoever your spiritual guidance comes from,

00:47:02.480 that guy has to do politics to some degree. There is overlap. There is a relation between the two.

00:47:08.160 And so we want the two to work together, each respecting the legitimate prerogatives of the

00:47:12.860 other, but cooperating. That's how it's got to work. It's really the tone. You can say,

00:47:19.400 you can say pope i respectfully disagree with you here but those those are the two planes that we're

00:47:26.060 talking about okay the pope before we get to cabot the po the the line that i think that

00:47:31.740 offended not only the catholics but the protestants as well is this the post that followed

00:47:36.400 immediately after the post post the pope post sally sold seashells by the seashore it's very

00:47:41.580 difficult to say all those words in a row the president posts this picture of it it's a meme

00:47:48.880 It's like an art meme of him. It appears to be as Jesus holding a divine light, whether that's

00:47:57.360 the blessed sacrament or whether that's just a divine light in clothing that is typical of Christ

00:48:03.740 in artistic depictions, putting his hand on an ailing man, healing him with these angels or

00:48:12.820 demons or celestial beings coming out of the clouds with the American flag. And it's obviously

00:48:16.360 kind of trolly. What I think Trump is trying to say here is, look, I'm healing the country. I'm

00:48:22.340 really great for the country. And I think even further, he's trying to say, I've been really

00:48:25.340 good for Christians. Joe Biden locked up Christians, locked up pro-life Catholic

00:48:28.580 grannies, and I pardoned them, and I let them out, and I overruled Roe v. Wade, and I've been 0.99

00:48:34.000 good for religious liberty. I'm good. What's the matter with you Christians? What more do you want 0.98

00:48:37.280 from me? I think that's what he's trying to say. But the post is sacrilegious. It just is. It's

00:48:43.100 just inescapable. It's just a sacrilegious post. To put oneself in the position of Christ is just

00:48:47.900 sacrilegious. It just, I don't think that was the intention exactly. I don't think this was

00:48:53.440 thought out for all that long. I think it was a meme. And so I would say with all the grace that

00:48:59.440 we can give and all the charity with which we can speak, it is a fact that in an irreverent age,

00:49:05.880 sometimes people don't know what taboos are legit and what taboos are nonsense,

00:49:11.120 what taboos are woke shibboleths that should be made fun of in that irreverent age we just you

00:49:17.440 know sometimes comedians they tell a joke that's a little out of line and i would say in this case

00:49:23.500 for both spiritual reasons and political reasons i'm sure someone's already told the president

00:49:30.320 this but if not the post should come down simple as i think i think i could go further and say

00:49:39.840 I think it would benefit the president spiritually and politically to just take it down. It's okay.

00:49:45.400 And we can remember that he's been very good at promoting Christian causes against the godless 0.96

00:49:50.120 left that wants to destroy the church. But sometimes people make mistakes. Even a guy 0.72

00:49:55.780 who's right 99.7% of the time politically, sometimes people make mistakes. I think it

00:50:00.020 should probably definitely come down. Okay. There's so much more I want to get to. There's

00:50:05.700 a guy who went viral for saying religion stole his sexual prime. He's really upset. He got married

00:50:11.220 young, then he divorced, and now he's upset that he didn't go to orgies or something in his 20s. 1.00

00:50:15.720 I want to get to that because it's just, it's the most, oh my goodness, it's the most millennial

00:50:21.320 2026 complaint I've ever heard in my entire life. I also want to get to the left wanting to kill us 0.97

00:50:26.840 all. This basically admitted by Ezra Klein in the New York Times. I also want to get, I do have to 0.98

00:50:33.660 get, well, I can cover this story quickly. They sent the vice president, last best hope to go get

00:50:39.320 a deal with the Iranians in Pakistan. Just didn't happen. We've been trying to get a deal with the 0.58

00:50:44.340 Iranians for 47 years. It hasn't worked out. So the Iran war continues on really, really tough 1.00

00:50:49.520 because it means that there's a very good chance that the United States will either have to lose

00:50:55.860 stature or invade Iran, neither of which people really want to do so. As we said, when I was

00:51:01.980 sitting with Cabot on the day the Iran war started, I said, this is the highest stakes

00:51:05.160 action the president's ever undertaken. You know, had I been on the national security council,

00:51:09.900 I would have argued against it as I'd been arguing against it, but I see the good that

00:51:13.260 could be done. I see what the good that president Trump is aiming at. If, if this works, it'll be

00:51:17.660 the greatest stroke of grand strategy since the end of the cold war. If it doesn't work,

00:51:21.480 this is the greatest danger that Trump's presidency has ever had. I think that's what

00:51:25.940 we're seeing out of Pakistan. But speaking of Cabot, we'll have to get to all those things

00:51:29.480 tomorrow because I want to bring Cabot on right now to talk about his new show and some actual

00:51:33.940 good news. A little sliver of good news in a rough news day. Cabot, excellent to see you.

00:51:39.200 You scared me a bit. You said, we're going to get to Cabot. And then you said, we're going to talk

00:51:42.240 to a millennial who's mad that religion stole a sexual prime. And I thought, that's not what I'm 0.53

00:51:46.620 ready to talk about. I'm not ready. Yeah, that's good. At least six more months before you're

00:51:50.140 willing to go into that story. Absolutely. Of course. Now, actually, what you are talking

00:51:54.480 about from your beautiful set of the new show, Wired in Live, is that the conservatives are, 0.98

00:52:01.080 if not having more sex, they're at least having much better sex and doubtless more fruitful sex 0.99

00:52:06.500 than the liberals. Are we going to win by outbreeding the left? We are, Michael. That is 0.99

00:52:11.980 the pace that we're on right now. And first, I have to get the promo out of the way. Like you

00:52:14.740 said, Wired in Live, the Daily Wire is doing a live news show Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m.

00:52:19.740 to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Tune in if you're saying, hey, I wish there was more live coverage,

00:52:24.480 happening when I'm driving home from work. So tune in every day at this beautiful set. But

00:52:29.420 beautiful set, and also let's talk about beautiful sex, the kind that produces babies.

00:52:33.800 There is a study that came out from the University of Chicago showing how many more babies conservative 1.00

00:52:39.320 women are having than their liberal counterparts. So if you look back to 1980, conservative women 1.00

00:52:43.880 before they hit the age of 35, 65% had had a baby. For liberals, it was 61%. So libs and

00:52:50.620 conservatives. They're both having babies at about the same rate. Jump to 2010. The conservative 1.00

00:52:55.680 women by 35, 67% had had babies. For liberals, it had trickled down to 51%. Today, Michael,

00:53:03.000 71% of conservative women have had a baby by the age of 35. For liberals, it's 40%. So the trend

00:53:10.380 is going in completely different directions. And for what this means for the future, if this

00:53:15.640 current rate holds, by the year 2100, by the end of this century, that's not that far away,

00:53:21.840 if the current rate holds, 80% of babies in America will be born to conservative women.

00:53:27.520 And I think a lot of us wonder, like, why? Why is the left trying so hard to dominate what's

00:53:32.000 being taught in schools? A big part of it, I think, is that, hey, they're not having enough

00:53:35.480 kids to influence with their worldview at home, so they have to start doing this to our kids.

00:53:40.900 And also, this plays, I think, into immigration policy, where they're saying, hey,

00:53:43.220 we're not raising our own children. So let's just bring in these third world masses that we can 1.00

00:53:48.340 influence by giving endless free taxes, free welfare, whatever it is. And so I think that 1.00

00:53:54.140 it kind of explains a lot of their policies when you look at, oh, they're not having kids. And all

00:53:59.740 of this anti-baby rhetoric and all of this thing about, hey, we're going to give people the right 0.77

00:54:03.580 to not be mothers by killing their babies. Yeah, that actually has an impact on the amount of

00:54:08.040 babies being born. You see this explicitly. The teachers unions will come out and say,

00:54:11.640 your kids are our kids. When they go to school, they're our kids. Hillary Clinton, it takes a

00:54:16.620 village. A true enough maxim in itself, what she meant by that is we're going to raise your kids. 1.00

00:54:21.180 Now bring me that chart again. This is too happy a story that conservatives are having all these 0.60

00:54:26.540 kids and liberals aren't having kids. So I want to just look at the numbers here and make this sad

00:54:30.840 again. I guess that's kind of the theme of the show today is some apparently good news is actually

00:54:35.260 kind of bad. I look at this. Okay. So, the mean children by ideology, 0.87 for the liberal women.

00:54:42.980 But for the conservative women, it's only 1.67. So, they're both well below replacement rate.

00:54:49.080 Replacement rate is what, 2.1? Yep. And you want it to be 3, 4, 5. You know what? I want it to be

00:54:54.960 like 10, 11, 12 kids per family. Both well below replacement rate. So, to your point, Cabot,

00:55:01.320 if the libs do succeed at winning the elections and flooding the country with illegals and 0.86

00:55:05.220 giving amnesty to the illegals here. They're going to reshape the demographics of the country 0.98

00:55:09.020 anyway. It doesn't matter if the conservative women start having six kids each. And then to 1.00

00:55:14.240 your point on education, you think, all right, well, that means that the libs are going to

00:55:17.680 redouble their efforts. I mean, how many conservative families do you know where

00:55:21.740 one or all of the kids goes woke? Yeah. That is the other big issue here is

00:55:28.820 the, we do know that, and you feel like it's studies anywhere from like 30 to 50%

00:55:33.900 of political ideology can be explained from heritability. So there is a genetic aspect here

00:55:39.300 where people are more predisposed to the political views of their parents. But of course, when you

00:55:43.620 see the domination of the left in all of our institutions, social media, Hollywood, and the

00:55:47.900 big one education, yeah, you've got to make sure that you're not just having kids, but you're

00:55:50.880 making sure that they stay conservative. And I want to also get to one of the responses from

00:55:55.120 the left to this, because they look at this and they say, well, number one, well, that's no

00:55:58.660 problem. Women are more free and they're tied down by childbirth. And the other thing that the 1.00

00:56:03.320 left says is, well, that's because liberal women are more educated and more successful professionally 1.00

00:56:09.180 and more educated women. They just have fewer kids. They're so smart. They're going to go 1.00

00:56:14.360 extinct. Yeah, real geniuses there. If you dig into the numbers and you look at college-educated

00:56:20.040 women, college-educated conservative women are still twice as likely to have kids. Women in the 1.00

00:56:25.000 workforce are still twice as likely conservatives to have kids. And if you look at the study,

00:56:30.160 actually broke down IQ based on vocabulary, which is a good marker for that. High IQ conservative

00:56:36.700 women are three times as likely as high IQ liberal women to have children by the age of 35. 1.00

00:56:41.520 And by the way, I think they're more pulchritudinous too. 0.82

00:56:44.760 Yes, that word that you just said, I think that I agree with that word that you just said, Michael.

00:56:49.620 We don't use words like that on Wired and Live. We're much more accessible. If you watch Michael

00:56:54.000 just so that your friends see you watching Michael, but you're not actually understanding

00:56:57.400 a lot of what he's saying. Come to my show, The Everyman's Show, Wired In Live, because we're for

00:57:02.840 the people, and we don't smoke cigars on our set. We just have good old-fashioned conversations.

00:57:08.220 That's beautiful. You know what? Yeah, the other reason they do it, the other reason some of these

00:57:12.220 people watch the show is they accidentally think they're tuning into Rachel Maddow, who is one of

00:57:18.760 those liberal women, actually, and I don't think has kids. I'm actually not totally sure about that.

00:57:23.020 It's a complicated rule these days.

00:57:24.280 But in any case, you're right.

00:57:26.320 You get different things.

00:57:27.980 You get different outcomes

00:57:28.940 depending on what you watch and what you do.

00:57:31.180 And I think the key here,

00:57:32.200 the key takeaway from this study,

00:57:34.160 which is really, really helpful,

00:57:35.680 is it's not enough just to be conservative.

00:57:38.260 And oh, it's great.

00:57:38.780 We're going to have some more kids

00:57:39.680 and we will outbreed them.

00:57:41.140 You got to be so conservative.

00:57:43.580 You got to be so thoroughgoing.

00:57:45.680 You need to be so comprehensive

00:57:46.860 in your view of things,

00:57:48.260 going all the way down

00:57:49.100 to the deepest spiritual level,

00:57:50.300 because you are going to have to inoculate

00:57:52.020 your kids against the leftism that is going to be redoubled the minute they get to schools.

00:57:55.940 Cabot, when and where can people see Wired in live?

00:57:59.800 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Thursday. You got to go to dailywire.com, though, to watch it.

00:58:04.560 That's the only place where we're going out. So dailywire.com, become a subscriber,

00:58:08.480 and you can jump in the chat every episode. I get to live questions at the end. It's a lot of fun,

00:58:12.860 but 4 to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. It pains me to say it. It takes a big,

00:58:17.640 handsome man to say something that pains him so much. It's an excellent show,

00:58:20.500 and you should all go watch it.

00:58:21.460 Go watch Wired and Live

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00:58:23.120 Cabot, good to see you.

00:58:24.240 Wonderful to see all of you.

00:58:25.640 I will see some of you, 0.91

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