Ep. 1987 - INFURIATING： Shocking Body Cam Shows Henry Nowak’s Final Moments
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An 18-year-old English boy was stabbed five times by a 23-year old Indian immigrant. And, instead of responding to the attack, local police arrested the man who laughed as the young man bled out on the pavement uttering the words I can t breathe.
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an 18 year old english boy was stabbed five times by a 23 year old punjabi and rather than
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administer medical care local police arrested the boy and joked with his killer as the young
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man bled out on the pavement uttering the words i can't breathe new body cam footage has shocked
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anyone with even a slightly functioning conscience but the most arresting aspect of the video as i
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was watching it was the realization that Henry Nowak actually was who the left tried to make
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George Floyd out to be. They uttered the same dying words. The phenomenon that the George Floyd
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mythologists pointed to was real. The only difference was that the details were precisely
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inverted. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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heading out to the UK now, this story from the UK is one of the most shocking stories in the news
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right now, and the establishment media are doing anything they can to cover this up, and I think
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you'll see why. The broad outlines of the story are that an 18-year-old English boy was stabbed
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five times by a British-born Punjabi guy who was 23 years old. The 18-year-old English guy
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was coming back from a pub, but he wasn't drinking very much. They tested his blood alcohol. His
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blood alcohol was way below the legal driving limit. So he'd gone, he had a beer or two,
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something like that. He was walking back. He was singing to himself on camera. He was
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Snapchatting as he was walking, and he was just singing to himself. And then I guess he walks by
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this Punjabi guy, and he says, quote, in it bad man. What bad man? You're a bad man. Say you're
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a bad man. Go on. It's unclear exactly what the significance of that is, but he's just kind of
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talking, just kind of joking around. The killer then turns to him and says, I am a bad man,
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and then stabbed this 18-year-old boy five times. The killer then filmed Henry running away.
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then the killer called his parents and the parents it seems covered up for him so the killer tells
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police that henry noack this boy had called him racial slurs again we have the video this did not
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happen it then came out later on that the killer made all of this up the killer apparently uh in a
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in a conversation with his brother that was secretly recorded uh the the brother advised
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this killer to claim self-defense. So they concoct the story that it was actually a racist white guy
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who was threatening him and calling him racial slurs. And even the killer went on to say,
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he attacked me. So this was self-defense. And so the cops show up and they say, oh, sir, sir,
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are you okay? You've got this English boy bleeding to death on the ground. They're totally ignoring
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the guy at first. And they're talking to the killer and the killer says, oh, yeah, yeah,
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You can see he has no injuries whatsoever, of course, because he wasn't attacked.
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He's just making it up, oh, my eye was swollen.
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Finally, finally, the police turn their attention to the actual victim,
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this 18-year-old English guy who is bleeding out on the pavement.
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but I want you to see enough of it to grasp what's going on here.
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He's fallen from there and he's slipped from there
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Meanwhile, you can see the poor kid on the ground
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The boy at this point has been stabbed five times.
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I can't breathe. Put the hand in the cuff, mate.
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I've been stabbed. Don't think you have, mate.
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The killer says, you haven't been stabbed. Nothing happened.
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They're all staying around. Families staying around. They know exactly what happened.
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In the face? Oh, no, but we have to check, don't we?
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Tells the killer, oh, I know he hasn't been stabbed.
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That's for assault, so you do not have to say anything.
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Anything you do say may be given in evidence, right?
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They're arresting him and reading him his rights.
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The line that really drives the story home, I think,
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The killer, the Punjabi killer, says he hasn't been stabbed.
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Of course, the guy who's dying on the ground right now,
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What was most striking to me about the body cam footage,
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what's most striking is this is what they said happened to george floyd george floyd who had
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just committed a crime who was resisting arrest for how long for 10 minutes we have the footage
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of that too the cops trying to be really gentle with george floyd hey come on calm down george
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floyd acting all crazy why in part because he had just taken a lethal dose of drugs he he had
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illegal drugs on him. He swallowed it to try to avoid an arrest. And then what does George Floyd
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say? George Floyd says the exact same thing that this young man says. He says, I can't breathe.
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Of course, in the case of George Floyd, he was resisting arrest for 10 minutes. The cops were
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being as polite and courteous and soft on him as they possibly could have been.
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In this case, no benefit of the doubt given to this victim. He says, I can't breathe.
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and then he dies as they're arresting him police totally not only shirking their responsibilities
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but treating the perpetrator as if he's the victim and the victim as if he's the perpetrator
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and it's so dark but in the grand scheme of providence there's a lot of meaning that we
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can pull out of this and the meaning that we can pull out of this is in a certain sense blm was
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right about george floyd they weren't right in the details they weren't right about derek chauvin
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they weren't right about George Floyd. They weren't right about the circumstances of George
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Floyd's death. They weren't right about the meaning of the phrase, I can't breathe,
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but they were right in principle. And the principle here was, there's a two-tiered
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system of justice. What are we hearing? George Floyd, we heard it's these racist whites who
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are always giving preferential treatment to white people, and they're always going much harder on
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brown people. And this is the two-tiered system of injustice is what it is. And that is real.
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That phenomenon really happened. You're seeing almost the exact same thing play out in the
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killing of Henry Nowak with the exact same words. The only difference is the details were precisely
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inverted. Yes, there is a two-tier system of justice. This is taking place in the UK.
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The two-tier system of justice is anyone who is not white is given every benefit of the doubt,
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far beyond anything reasonable. And if you are white, you are never given the benefit of the
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doubt. The worst motives are always assumed. And even the lies of criminals are to be believed,
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even if that's going to lead to your death. It's exactly the opposite. And you see this so often
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with liberalism. It's just what they claim is opposite day. It's always just opposite day.
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all the way up to the apotheosis of the liberal ideology, which is transgenderism,
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which says men are women and women are men. But it's always the opposite.
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They say we have a system of racial discrimination in this country. That was true
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in America. That was true. We had a system of racial discrimination. We still kind of do,
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except it's not the one that they say that exists. We have a system of racial discrimination when it
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comes to job applications, when it comes to college applications. But the racial discrimination
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is, if you're white, you're docked points. If you're white, you're disadvantaged. And if you
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can claim to be not white, you get all the benefits in the world. It's exactly the opposite.
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And of course, it's the opposite in the reaction. In the case of George Floyd,
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where the circumstances were completely dishonest, even in the earlier BLM incidents,
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the Michael Brown shooting, they said Michael Brown was executed, gentle giant. He was just
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trying to comply with the law. And then that racist cop showed up in Ferguson and blew his
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head off. Of course, it was exactly the opposite. Michael Brown had gone up, had charged at the
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cop. He had just committed a crime. He reached for the cop's weapon. He discharged the cop's
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weapon. It was totally the opposite. And what was the response to the lies of BLM? The response was
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looting, burning, pillaging, rioting, dozens of murders, billions of dollars in property damage.
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and you know what the response is going to be here to the mirror image of BLM the response is
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going to be basically nothing it's going to be a media blackout it's going to be politicians some
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politicians mention it and then they're all going to move on there aren't going to be any riots in
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the streets which is good we don't want vigilante violence but more to the point there's going to be
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very little political reform the only hope of political reform is to play that video everywhere
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This little segment here, going through, breaking it down, send it to your friends.
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Doesn't have to be my segment. I want it to seem self-serving. Just send the video around. Send
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the context of this around. You have to show people what this is. So much of the way that
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the left operates is just by creating an illusion, by creating a mythology, like the mythology of
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George Floyd, the mythology of BLM, creating an illusion, and that really persuading people,
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that really coloring the way they view the world. And the only way to crack through that is not
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I come back to it again and again. Joseph Conrad, the great writer, in the introduction to Nigger
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The Secretary of State Marco Rubio declares that the Iran war is over.
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Mr. Rubio, you keep telling us how we're winning this war.
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The president keeps saying completely annihilated.
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And yet the American people see how we're losing at the pump.
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Okay, so the big headline, the big headline, Secretary of State says the Iran war is over.
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But you see here in this exchange, it's actually not that big a headline because what Rubio is
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saying is what the administration has said for weeks now, namely the war, Operation Epic Fury
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is over. Now we are in a ceasefire. And this is very precise wording because the president has
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the unilateral authority as commander-in-chief to issue military strikes, but it is somewhat
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circumscribed by the War Powers Resolution. And even that, plenty of Democrat presidents blow
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past the limits of the War Powers Act. It's supposed to be 30 days, then you can extend it
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to 60 days. Barack Obama and Joe Biden extended it way, way, way beyond that. But in any case,
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I think what the White House is clearly delineating here is that there was this war.
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It went on well within the scope of the War Powers Act. Now that war is over. Operation
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Epic Fury is over. But we're in this ceasefire, and Iran still has the Strait of Hormuz closed.
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So the Strait of Hormuz is closed off. 20% of the world's oil and natural gas can't get through.
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Petrochemicals, fertilizer, a bunch of other stuff. The US responded to the Iranian blockade
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with their own double reverse UNO card blockade. And then for the last few days, we've been hearing
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that we're close to a peace deal. Then the Iranians say, no, you're not going to get a peace deal.
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We're not negotiating anymore because the Israelis keep bombing Lebanon, and that should be included
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in the ceasefire. And the Israelis say, no, Lebanon's not included in the ceasefire. You
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just deal with the United States. But then the White House is saying, no, they actually haven't
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stopped negotiating. The negotiations are ongoing. And then there was this reported phone call between
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Trump and Netanyahu, as well as a call between the White House and Hezbollah. But let's zero in
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on the call between Trump and Netanyahu. Big headlines out of that, which I predicted on the
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show yesterday, even before this news broke, that the headline of that phone call is that
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Trump yelled at Netanyahu. According to Axios, Trump told Bibi, you're effing crazy. In other
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words, stop screwing up my ceasefire. Stop screwing up my peace negotiations. Lay off
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Southern Lebanon. We want to get a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz. So here's the reporting
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from Axios. The reporting from Axios is coming from Barack Ravid. Barack Ravid, who clearly has
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a lot of access to the White House. And we'll get to what that signifies in just a moment.
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First, though, the article says, President Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister
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Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's escalation in Lebanon in an expletive-laden call on Monday,
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two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call, told Axios. So it's not just
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one source. And if it's Barack Ravidi, he's probably getting pretty highly placed sources.
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It's two sources, plus a third source who wasn't on the call but heard about the call.
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Summarizing Trump's remarks to Netanyahu, the U.S. officials said, quote,
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you're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your derriere. I'm
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cleaning up the language a little bit. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of
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this. Clearly referring to the poll numbers that have really cratered for support of Israel
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across the political spectrum in the United States. A second source briefed on the call
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said Trump was irritated. I got to clean up the language. I don't like to go blue. This is a
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family show. Trump was irritated and at one point yelled at Netanyahu, what the eff are you doing?
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The US official said Trump knew Hezbollah had been shooting at Israel and that Israel needed
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to defend itself, but felt in recent days that Netanyahu was escalating in a disproportionate
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way. So when I saw this headline, everybody always takes the catnip. Everybody loves.
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And so you say, look, I think Barack Ravid has good sources in the White House.
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So I don't think he's making this up. I don't think this is someone just trying to gum up the
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works. However, you can't just take this all at face value. Whenever you're analyzing any political
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operation, you have to say, okay, who does it benefit? Why am I being told this now in this
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format? And my first instinct is to say, well, it benefits the White House to get this news out
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there. The White House does not want it to seem like Bibi Netanyahu is the senior partner in this
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alliance. The White House doesn't want it to look like Bibi Netanyahu's calling the shots and we
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don't have anything to do about it. I mean, the state of Israel is a relatively small country.
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We're the global hegemon. We cannot have that. So it's beneficial to the White House for this
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news to get out here. The question that then follows is, did this really happen? Now, Trump
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is known for his salty language, so I guess it could be the case. But Trump and Netanyahu have
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a famously good relationship. I mean, the state of Israel loves Trump so much they named a town
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after him. So how tense was this call? Netanyahu posts his own version. Netanyahu says,
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tonight I spoke with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking
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our cities and citizens, Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut. This stance of ours
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remains unchanged. In parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern
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Lebanon. So what's so funny about trying to read the political tea leaves is when I get reporting
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that says, according to senior White House officials, Trump screamed at Netanyahu.
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My natural skepticism of political communications is to say, oh, maybe that didn't happen.
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I don't know that that actually happened. People want us to believe that happened. I don't know
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if that really happened. But then I read Netanyahu coming out in this very measured way,
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not saying he got into a big fight with Trump, just saying, no, no, no, but I'm firm and we will
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continue to attack targets in Lebanon if we feel that they're threatening us. But it's very
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measured, very statesmanlike. And so I read that measured report and I say, oh, you know what? I
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bet Trump actually screamed at him. I bet that did happen because the White House wants me to
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believe this one thing. So I'm maybe going to take the other view, but then Israel wants me to believe
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the other view. So now I'm kind of going back to the first view. Maybe they actually did yell at
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each other. On top of this, you have Mark Levin, a very famous conservative commentator, definitely
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more on the neocon side of conservatism. He goes apoplectic about this leak. All caps, he posts,
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the leak in Axios was a violation of federal law and provided support to the Iranian regime and
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its Hezbollah proxy. And then in regular capitalization, whomever leaked that story
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to Barack Ravid at Axios did a grave, why did he say whom? It would be who, whoever leaked that
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story. Anyway, I'm nitpicking. Did a grave disservice to our country, to our president,
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to Israel, and to Israel's prime minister. Goes on and on and on. I mean, the guy's writing
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novels on X right now. So then I say, well, hold on. Mark Levin is a staunch supporter of Israel.
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He talks about Israel all the time. He is furious about this leak. Now I think, okay,
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I guess this was a really tense phone call and Trump was really giving it good to Netanyahu.
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But then I have to read even deeper into this and say, well, hold on.
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Is that just part of the political show of it all? Getting people to believe that Trump was being
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really harsh on Netanyahu and getting Mark Levin to believe that Trump was being really harsh on
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Netanyahu, to get Mark Levin to complain about it, to get the people who don't really like Mark
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Levin and who are skeptical of the war in Iran to be more on Trump's side. And the layers that
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you have to peel back of this political communications onion can leave us scratching
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our heads. Levin goes on. He says, this is all caps again, more regarding yesterday's leak about
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the phone call between POTUS and Bibi. Barack Ravid at Axios should be fired. He should be
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fired? What? Barack Ravid is one of the most trusted reporters on the Trump White House.
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If Barack Ravid is getting a story, I don't think it's behind the back of senior people at the
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White House. I think the White House is probably aware of this. They know that Barack Ravid gets
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a lot of good scoops. So he should be fired for reporting this? I don't think the White House is
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angry that this came out. Then Levin goes on again. He says, this is one of the reasons I
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posted last evening. There needs to be a criminal investigation of the leak to Barack Ravid at
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Axios. Goes on, this is good for Hezbollah, terrible for Israel, on and on and on and on and on.
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You know what I take away from all of this? All the drama, all the play acting, all the maybe
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legitimate emotions. What I take away from this is the situation between the United States and
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Israel and Iran is essentially unchanged. Once you get past all the emotion and the invective
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and the high blood pressure and he leaked this to him, but it wasn't real, but it was real.
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And the situation is unchanged. I described this on the show yesterday.
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The situation here is Trump clearly wants a deal. I think most Americans want a deal.
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There is no political appetite whatsoever for an escalation in Iran to a regime change war in Iran
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to an invasion of Iran. The United States is the global hegemon. We would need to be involved if
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that were to happen. And Americans don't want to do it. But Israel does want to do it. That's my
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read on it. I'm not talking to highly placed sources about this in either the White House
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or in the state of Israel. This is just common sense. The US and Israel are allies. And our
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interests align a lot of the time. But sometimes they don't align because we're different countries.
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And this is one of those instances where the interest of the United States and the interest
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of Israel are just diverging. The United States has an interest in stopping Iran from getting a
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nuclear weapon. The United States has an interest in weakening the Iranian regime. The United States
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has an interest in weakening the other geopolitical adversaries who support the
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Iranian regime. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But it's not that big a deal to us. It's really not worth
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from a matter of proportionality to go in and launch a ground invasion of Iran for a regime
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change war that can bog us down in another Middle Eastern quagmire like we saw in Iraq.
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People are sick of that, especially on the right. So we're not that interested. We would rather have
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a deal. And for the state of Israel, Iran poses a truly existential threat. They're right there
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in the neighborhood. Israel is looking at the poll numbers of support in the United States.
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They're seeing that support is cratering, including among Republicans. So they say,
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this might be our last shot. We have a good friend in the White House and Trump. So we got
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to take our shot. We got to go for gold here and replace the Iranian regime. So Israel does not want
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a peace deal. Israel wants an escalation of the war to once and for all cut off the head of the
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snake in Iran. That's totally understandable. If I were the prime minister of Israel, I would want
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the exact same thing. But if I were the president of the United States, I would want something
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different. And I, being an American, am more inclined to favor the American interest here.
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this does not have to be as so many pundits and tweeters and podcasters want to make it seem
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a matter of all or nothing some pure ideology pure ideology which by the way is contrary to
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the actual practice of politics you don't have to say that israel is the worst country in the world
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terrible leading us into all sorts of bad stuff nor do you have to say that israel's our greatest
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ally ever and our interests are perfectly aligned and you know george washington most of all would
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have wanted to invade Iran, you don't have to say that. You can say Israel's an ally. We work with
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them very well. A lot of the time, our interests are aligned. A lot of the time, we have a good
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relationship. Sometimes our interests diverge. And when our interests diverge, we sometimes need
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to bring them back in. We got to restrain them a little bit and we got to get what we want,
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even if that is not exactly what the Israeli state wants. That's really what it's about.
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That's the situation here. Whatever phone call took place between Trump and Bibi Netanyahu,
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whether it was fully yelling or whether they were being old pals, that fundamental situation
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does not change. And that's really what this is all about. Will Netanyahu go along with some
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kind of a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon? It seems like they will.
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Bibi Netanyahu has been supportive of Trump. And will Trump pursue this peace deal? And then,
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of course, the biggest wild card in all of this is totally beyond the US and Israel. It's whether
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Iran is going to come to the table. Furthermore, whether Iran can come to the table. Who are we
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even negotiating with? The government of Iran doesn't really seem to have control over the
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has control over the
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Strait of Hormuz. So it's a brutal, dicey, terrible situation, which is why Trump's messaging,
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his explicit messaging is always, don't worry, stop talking about it. It'll all work out in the
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end, just like it always does. In other words, Trump is saying, come on, enough of the chattering,
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don't worry, I'll figure it out. Trust me, trust me, trust me. And he's got a lot of credibility
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on foreign policy, so I kind of get it. But the intractable nature of the diverging interests of
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the two partners in this war on Iran is what makes this so difficult. And the durability of the
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regime, which is far greater than a lot of the war hawks were trying to persuade us of three
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months ago. That's what makes this situation so tense, so intractable. And however it will be
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worked out, it will not be worked out on the level of pure ideology. It will be worked out
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in a brutal but conciliatory and ultimately unsatisfying way. That is how politics actually
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works. Okay. Speaking of the Holy Land, James Tallarico, the hits just keep on coming.
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Pastor, would-be Senator Tallarico, please illuminate us with your deep theological wisdom.
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The Islamic mystic Rumi said, every religion has love, but love has no religion.
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God is so much bigger than our human categories.
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god is not a noun at all yeah god is a verb okay god is not a being god is being itself
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yeah god yeah fair enough love yes and that's why jesus is against anything that gets in the way of
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that love between neighbors including religion oh you almost ah you almost had me james i try to be
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open-minded i don't want to just take cheap dunks a lot of what he's saying here is fair he says
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God's not a Presbyterian. As a Catholic, I'm perfectly happy to affirm that. God is not a
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Presbyterian. No offense to our Presbyterian friends. But he says, God is not a Christian.
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Well, that's true. God is Christ. He is the subject of worship. He's not merely one who
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worships. He is who he is, which is why he says God is not a noun. Now, literally speaking,
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God is a noun because he's three distinct persons in one divine unity. But he is also a verb in the
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sense that when Moses is talking to God in the burning bush, he says, who shall I tell the people
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you are? And he says, God says, I am that I am. Which is a verb. He says, I am. I am being himself.
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Yes, very, very true. He says, and that's why God is love. Yes, God is love. We talked about that.
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I heard a wonderful homily in which a passage of Chesterton was read in which Chesterton points out that even the most liberal, watered-down, sappy religion will at least acknowledge that God is love.
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Even the people who hate doctrines and sacraments and rules and obligations and even the weakest form of religion will acknowledge God is love.
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but for god to be love implies the trinity this is one of chesterton's great observations
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he says for i think this is an everlasting man if god is merely alone
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existing from all time before creation then how can god be love love requires a relationship
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And so to say that God is love actually implies the Trinity.
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God from God, light from light, true God from true God.
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Begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father.
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That for God to be love, there is God the Father and God the Son.
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and indeed the bond of love between the father and the son is so real that he is a person whom
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we call the holy ghost the holy spirit so i actually like where tallarico is going and then
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he just kind of ruins it at the end he says that's why jesus doesn't want anything to come between
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you and love of your neighbor including religion okay you just lost me because religion is a habit
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a virtue that impels the person to, inclines the will to give to God what he deserves,
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the worship that he deserves. So yes, Jesus tells you to love your neighbor. But before he tells
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you to love your neighbor, he says, love your God above all things, with all your heart,
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with everything you have, love God. Tallarico, he says a lot of things that are true here,
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and he speaks in a way that is very slippery, very reminiscent of a certain creature on his
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belly in the Garden of Eden. Because it's almost right, but it's actually satanically wrong.
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He says, God doesn't want you to love God above all things. God doesn't want you to give to God
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what he deserves above all things, if that would impede your relationship with your neighbor.
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Well, no, no, no, no, hold on. Now what Tallarico is doing is replacing love of God with love of
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man. He is taking a religion that worships God and reducing it, inverting it really, to a kind
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of religion, a pseudo religion that worships man instead. And of course, that is what he's after.
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Because in the Tallarico version of Christianity, it's not really Christianity at all.
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It's nothing more than liberalism. It's the false religion of the worship of mankind
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to do whatever we want. There are no rules. There's nothing God really wants us to do.
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ignore it. You kill your baby. It's actually good to kill your baby. He justifies killing
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babies by pointing to the Virgin Mary. Can you imagine something so blasphemous?
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But keep your eyes out for him because it's really slippery. It's not enough just to make
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fun of this guy or to call him the gay P. Buttigieg or whatever. It's all fun and everything,
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but he's really slippery because he almost gets it right. He can cite, he can quote scripture.
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But that's really the whole project of liberalism.
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Liberalism endeavors to, from the very beginning,
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endeavors to take all the goods of Christianity,
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to just keep all of that, but take God out of it.
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and make instead a religion of man. No kings, no priests, only men.
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That's Tallarico. Tallarico is just the modern, weak, sappy version of that same
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awful replacement of Christianity that has destroyed our civilization.
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Okay, speaking of humanity, we have some numbers, some news, word to the wise of what is causing
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the existential threat of the decline in births. And it's not just that
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kids don't go out anymore. It's not just contraception. It's not just abortion. We'll
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get to what that is in a second. It's pretty basic. First, though, my favorite comment yesterday
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is from Scotty Adi Biscotti. What a name, who says, bad timing, but Michael looks great in
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light blue. Thank you. And I'm wearing light blue again. This is great. That was my favorite
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comment because it compliments me, and I like that. I enjoy that very much. Okay.
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the birth rate has been on the decline since 1971 the u.s has had a below replacement birth
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rates since then for almost 60 years now this is an existential threat to the country this is the
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chief motivating factor for mass migration which has further destroyed our country it's existential
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some political problems are bad but we don't need to worry about them too much like marginal tax
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rates or whatever they're bad i don't mean to undermine it but some are existential like you
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don't have a country anymore if you have this problem. And one of those is declining birth
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rates. Well, the Institute for Family Studies has identified the cause of the declining birth
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rates. And the cause is very simple. It's not contraception. It's not abortion. It's not
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technology. It's not social media. It's not whatever. It's just that people aren't getting
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married. 75% of the decline in U.S. fertility is attributable to declining marriage rates.
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You have a counterfactual here, which is you see that the fertility rate just absolutely plummeting.
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But if marital rates by age were stable at just 2007 levels, we're not even talking about 1950s
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levels, just 2007 levels, if that were the case, you would basically have no decline in the
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fertility rate since 2003. But instead, you have a massive decline in the fertility rate since 2003.
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So what is causing the decline in marriage? It seems to me there are three big factors.
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One is economics. And a lot of the more establishment Republicans don't want to
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deal with this. A lot of the neocon types, even a lot of the libertarian types,
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they don't want to deal with it. The ones who say that government causes all the problems
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and we just need to get the government out of it and lower taxes and then everything will be
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hunky-dory. That doesn't really work. One of the drivers of the decline in marriage is men with
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falling real earnings, especially in the median to lower percentiles. Those men, the men who are
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at the bottom of the economic ladder, so the steepest declines in marriage rates. On top of
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that, we're not just going to have an economic explanation. We're not Marxists. On top of that,
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you have norms. There's a greater acceptance of substitutions for marriage, cohabitation,
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single parenthood, fornication, long-term situationships, obviously all the weird gay
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and trans stuff, all of that, all of these, the redefinition of marriage, all of those factors
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give a sort of, they're kind of like a pressure release valve. All the things that were impelling
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people to get married before, those social restraints are gone. On top of that, a really
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under-discussed factor that anecdotally I'm quite confident of is that for the millennial generation
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and maybe the Zoomer generation, everyone's parents are divorced. Not like literally everyone,
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but the divorce rate's so spiked with the baby boomers into Gen X that everyone's parents are
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divorced. No wonder people are delaying getting married because they don't want to end up divorced
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too, because divorce sucks. But then the biggest predictor, the biggest driver, is the decline in
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religion. Now, that's a little bit of good news, or there's a silver lining there, because religion
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is ticking up ever so slightly again. The decline in religion, at the very least, has plateaued,
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and there's a lot of evidence that it's starting to tick up again. But of those three things,
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economic, social norms, and religion, the greatest predictor of marriage and having kids
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is religion. You really can't replace it. That's it. So my question for everybody out there,
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especially the establishment Republicans and neocons and the libertarians,
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coming from a more classical traditional conservative, a more religious conservative,
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here's my question. Are you willing to do things to change that? If we acknowledge that the below
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replacement birth rates are an existential problem, if we acknowledge that they're driven
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by the decline in marriage, which itself is an existential problem because marriage is the
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fundamental building block of society, then my question for you, establishment Republicans and
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neocons and libertarians is, are you willing to do something about it? Are you willing to craft
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economic policies that might violate the various shibboleths and taboos about small government
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in order to promote marriage? Are you willing to do that? Are you too much of an ideologue,
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a libertarian, say ideologue, to do that? I'm willing to do that, for sure, because I don't
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think that we're a country that serves a market. I don't think that politics exists to serve
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ideological theories. I think politics is just the practice of how people live together to advance
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the common good and to flourish for the general welfare and for ourselves and our posterity,
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as our founding fathers and framers wrote in the Constitution. Are you willing to do something
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about that? I would be. How about norms? Are you willing to discourage contraception? Are you
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willing to outlaw abortion? Are you willing to discourage cohabitation? Are you willing to
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re-redefine marriage so that it makes sense? Are you willing to put a cap on the weird sex stuff?
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Are you? I'm certainly willing to do that. Are you? Or do you think that's authoritarian?
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Do you think, oh, is that fascistic? Is that, okay, well, if you're not willing to do anything
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about it, okay, just don't say you weren't warned. If divorce is a big factor in this,
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are you willing to undo the liberalization of divorce laws? Don't forget, New York,
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freaking liberal New York did not have no-fault divorce until like 15 years ago.
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Are you willing to unwind that and make divorce harder to get and force people to stick by their
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vows that they make to God? Yes, but also to the public and to the government and to your neighbors
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when you get married? You're signing a contract and you're making a vow. Are you going to force
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people to live up to their vows or at the very least make it difficult to get out of your vows?
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Are you going to get rid of no-fault divorce? Are you willing to do that? I'm willing to do that.
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Are you? Or no? Is that too authoritarian? Is that too much trouble? Is that too, is that
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restricting people's license and liberty? Okay, don't say you weren't warned. And then when it
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comes to religion, are we willing to acknowledge that secularism and atheism and kicking religion
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out of the public square is bad. It's not what our framers intended. It's not what the men who
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came on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, by the way, intended. It's not what the
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people who put in God we trust on our money intended or in our Pledge of Allegiance or in
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our national anthem, all these references to God. It's not what any of them intended.
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Are you willing to promote religion in public life? Not just take the boot off the neck of
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religion, which would be an improvement, but to actually promote religion in public life.
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or no is that authoritarian and blah blah blah i'm willing to do those things the left obviously
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doesn't want to do those things but so it's my question is for the centrists the neocons the
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establishment the libertarians the squishier types are you willing are you willing to promote good
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things things that we know are good and even if you're not sure if they're good at the very least
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we can acknowledge are existential because if you're not then maybe we should just pack it up
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you know, because if you're not willing to improve things, to do the things that we know
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will improve the existential threat, then what are we doing? Then we're just rearranging deck
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chairs on the Titanic. Speaking of marriage, Jill Biden is on a book tour. Did you know that?
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Jill Biden is on a book tour, and she's got a whole host of excuses as to why she allowed her
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poor husband to drool all over himself from the Oval Office and on a debate stage. We will get
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to truth and reconciliation from the Biden administration. We don't have time to get to it
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today though. You know why? Because I'm going to the UK, baby. I will be debating at the Oxford
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Union. Very exciting debate. The resolution of the debate is this house believes that Trump has
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betrayed conservatism. I will be speaking in the negative. I don't think Trump has betrayed
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conservatism, but there are a lot of great speakers. I think Brett Stevens is speaking
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in the affirmative. I think we've got a couple of former Heritage Foundation people, directors,
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board members are going to be there. On my side, we've got more of the pro-Trump people.
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So anyway, it should be a good debate. I think it's going to be aired on the Oxford Union
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YouTube channel. Much more to get to. We'll have to get to it from the UK.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.