The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2044 - Hasan Piker Does Dance Routine To Mock Charlie Kirk

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00:01:06.320 day funding up to 500 000 at cardiff.co slash knowles leftist thought leader hassan piker

00:01:12.180 kicks off a live podcast show with a song and dance routine making fun of charlie kirk's

00:01:17.520 assassination to a packed house of his hideous guffawing fans we are coming up on one year

00:01:24.000 since Charlie's murder, and huge swaths of the left have not stopped laughing since.

00:01:29.760 Then, Vice President J.D. Vance takes a big swing at the business wing of the GOP

00:01:34.540 as the Beltway establishment continues to seethe at the Vice President's apostasy

00:01:39.440 from the economic slogans of 1987.

00:01:42.480 And speaking of, young men leave the workforce, that's bad, but they are entering the church.

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00:01:50.560 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:47.400 I really want to get into the Hassan story because it just tells you everything. It tells

00:03:51.120 you everything about our political moment. But before we get into that, I do have to get to

00:03:55.760 AOC. I am sorry to report that AOC is taking her clothes off again. 1.00

00:04:03.140 Female member of Congress, don't take your clothes off challenge. Completely impossible. 1.00

00:04:08.420 It cannot happen. Do we, producers, do we have the clip? Do I have to play the clip?

00:04:12.880 I think we might have to. AOC, after she had just been filming herself, lifting up her shirt

00:04:22.320 and injecting herself with some egg freezing poison, she has now gone back on live to take

00:04:31.960 her shirt off just to show you her tummy, just to see if we have the, do we have the clip? 1.00

00:04:35.460 We don't have the clip. The producers, I'm tempted to say the producers have failed me.

00:04:40.380 Maybe they've helped me. Maybe they've bailed me out. Okay, we'll get to AOC stripping in a moment.

00:04:45.520 First, though, let's talk about Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is on a tour. He's doing live

00:04:50.580 podcast shows. This is not the usual campus tour that the conservatives do, where the conservatives

00:04:55.820 show up to schools and then audiences come. They show up because there are a lot of curious young

00:05:00.600 people who might be conservative, and then there are hordes of leftists who want to throw rotten

00:05:04.300 tomatoes at us. This is a much more manicured thing. They sold tickets to this, packed out

00:05:08.820 some theater. And how does Hassan Piker kick off the tour? He kicks it off by singing and

00:05:15.480 dancing, joking about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

00:05:38.820 do you get it do you get the joke they murdered him

00:06:05.900 Do you get the joke? A leftist made good on the many and increasing threats that leftists have

00:06:14.500 made against right-wingers speaking on campus for a decade. One of them made good on those threats

00:06:20.400 and murdered him. And that's really funny to Hassan Piker. That's a big joke. He's not just

00:06:26.860 going to laugh about it on his live stream. He's not just going to make snide remarks. He's not

00:06:30.880 just going to justify it and defend it. He's going to show up to a theater and sing in jubilation

00:06:37.240 and mockery about the fact that a leftist murdered Charlie Kirk. Ha, ha, ha, ha. He's not going to

00:06:44.680 just stop there, by the way. He's also going to mock Charlie's religion. He's going to mock the

00:06:50.240 fact that Charlie spread the gospel and he was an evangelist, and they're all going to laugh. 0.83

00:06:56.420 And then the people, Hassan couldn't fill the house on his own, so he had to bring some other 0.73

00:07:00.260 miscreants around. And so he had these other left-wing streamers who I've never heard of on

00:07:04.900 stage. And they're all laughing. They're just cutting it up, man. They're laughing. They're

00:07:09.760 taking out their cell phones. Like in the old days at a concert, people would use a lighter,

00:07:13.220 but now no one smokes. So they just use the cell phones way weaker. And so they're waving that.

00:07:18.560 They're all giggling. They're laughing. And then at the very end there, you have this hideous

00:07:23.940 audience laughing, cheering, applauding. Ha ha ha. Yes. One of us killed Charlie Kirk.

00:07:30.400 That's the joke. Hassan Piker, who is on stage wearing an actual clown suit. He's wearing 0.95

00:07:35.520 this suit that is modeled after Chairman Mao's suit. So he's wearing this like foreign antiquated. 0.99

00:07:42.920 It's like Joe Pesci and my cousin Vinny wearing a silly clown suit. But there's a grain of truth 1.00

00:07:49.040 to that joke, which is that he is a communist. But he's up there wearing his clown suit laughing 0.95

00:07:53.260 about how the left succeeded at murdering Charlie Kirk. If I'm taking the most charitable view I 0.89

00:08:02.220 possibly can, it is that if I'm Hassan Piker and I have Hassan Piker's audience, I have to do that.

00:08:11.600 I have to. Because put aside for a second the Tyler Robinson of it all. Put aside for a second

00:08:16.660 the actual person who murdered Charlie and the tranny boyfriend and the leftist ideology and 1.00

00:08:21.500 all of that. Even putting all of that aside, we know for a fact that after Charlie was murdered, 0.99

00:08:28.300 the mainstream left celebrated that and they justified that. Hassan Piker had words printed

00:08:32.560 in the New York Times about this, and young leftists in particular were extraordinarily

00:08:37.460 likely to justify Charlie's assassination. So if I'm Hassan Piker and I have that audience

00:08:42.840 and I've got to make these seals clap, what am I going to do? I'm not going to give a lecture 0.64

00:08:47.180 on economics. I'm not going to discuss history in any sober way. I'm certainly not going to say

00:08:55.080 anything that is good or uplifting. I'm going to make fun of the murder because that's what gets

00:09:00.300 the seals clapping, and that's what they are doing. The most charitable thing I can say about

00:09:05.360 Hassan Piker is that he got the audience he deserves. The left gets the audience they deserve.

00:09:10.660 In media, I guess the audience is always right. I'm also reminded of a term that's cropped up

00:09:16.280 online, which is bio-Leninism. And it's this kind of joking jargon, bio-Leninism,

00:09:25.060 the idea that there's this Leninist, Marxist view of the oppressed and the oppressor and

00:09:32.840 class solidarity. But the bio-Leninism brings this biological component into it. And the real upshot

00:09:38.000 of the whole term is that leftists are ugly. And you look at the audience and they don't look 0.99

00:09:44.660 great. Now, I don't think that that term is, it's a funny joke, but it's not, I don't think it

00:09:49.540 actually fits. I don't think it's that ugly people are naturally leftists. I think it goes in the 0.71

00:09:54.300 opposite direction. I think leftism makes people ugly. You've all seen this. You've all seen the 0.96

00:09:59.660 nice girl in your class who comes from a good family, who was raised right, and then she starts

00:10:04.380 to go a little wrong. Maybe she went wrong in college. Maybe it was some crazy teacher or 0.87

00:10:08.060 whatever. And she starts to embrace leftism. And what does she start doing? She starts getting 0.90

00:10:11.800 random tattoos. She starts to look way uglier. She gets the bullhorn nose piercing. They start 0.95

00:10:18.880 to mess around with their gender and chop their hair off. So I think it's not that it's biologically

00:10:23.960 determinative that ugly people become leftists. I think it's more that leftism makes people ugly. 0.98

00:10:29.380 At a deeper level, it's that sin makes people ugly. These people look really, really ugly. 0.99

00:10:34.420 However, it tells you an important fact about what happened a year ago.

00:10:40.880 We are now very close to approaching the one-year anniversary of Charlie's assassination.

00:10:44.860 I'm going to be doing a speech for TPUSA shortly after that anniversary,

00:10:48.920 just as I did a speech for TPUSA days after Charlie was murdered,

00:10:52.600 a speech that I was supposed to do with Charlie, as a matter of fact, at the University of Minnesota.

00:10:56.800 And the show went on, and TPUSA has done a good job of keeping that up.

00:11:02.400 a lot of Charlie's friends have hopped in to help continue those tours. We're now almost one year

00:11:07.020 later. Nothing has changed. The left largely celebrated Charlie's assassination at the level

00:11:15.900 of media, at the level of elected politics, at the level of that woman who sits next to you at work.

00:11:20.760 They largely, 28% or something among young leftists, supported Charlie's murder or justified it.

00:11:27.120 And a year later, they haven't changed their tune.

00:11:31.120 They've actually become more emboldened.

00:11:33.920 This is in part because the right fractured itself, imploded among the media class for all sorts of reasons that we've discussed many times.

00:11:40.840 But that was probably always going to happen.

00:11:44.440 That's part of the reason they killed Charlie Kirk, because Charlie was one of the people who held the right together.

00:11:48.900 So in his absence, that was always going to collapse to a substantial degree.

00:11:53.640 Now they're so emboldened that weeks before the anniversary, they come out and they mock it.

00:11:58.980 Ha, ha, ha.

00:11:59.820 Charlie was a Christian. 1.00

00:12:01.560 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 0.99

00:12:03.060 And now he's dead.

00:12:04.420 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:12:07.080 And it's deeply distressing because it's on us.

00:12:12.760 The fact that these people have not been held to account, the fact that there has not been

00:12:16.840 a major crackdown on the American left, the increasingly violent left.

00:12:21.380 We've seen some of it from the federal government.

00:12:23.940 We've seen the CFO of the SPLC getting arrested.

00:12:28.520 Major expose that the SPLC, which is supposed to fight right-wing hate groups, was actually funding them because there was far more demand than supply.

00:12:36.680 We've seen a little bit.

00:12:37.800 We've seen some people getting fired from universities for celebrating Charlie's murder.

00:12:41.420 There was a woman who got fired for justifying Charlie's murder in the Washington Post.

00:12:46.220 But arbitration just reinstated that columnist.

00:12:48.440 And a lot of those professors who got fired, they're getting settlements, if not being reinstated.

00:12:55.240 The left was able to survive that, and they got a lot of benefit. Assassinations work,

00:13:02.380 that's why people keep doing them. And that guy who's up there making fun of Charlie and making

00:13:07.020 fun of Christians and celebrating the murder, that guy is campaigning with Democrat Senate

00:13:10.820 candidates. And some of those Democrat candidates at the federal level are going to win their

00:13:14.740 elections in November. I want to be too much of a doomer here, but we have to recognize the

00:13:24.240 reality that we're living in. The left committed a major act of political violence and basically

00:13:29.840 got away with it and has gotten stronger because of it. And it's not just some fringe actors.

00:13:37.620 That is now an organizing principle on the left. All of those people in that room and Hassan Piker

00:13:43.300 and whoever those other people are on stage. 1.00

00:13:47.000 They want you dead. 1.00

00:13:49.100 And if you were to die, 1.00

00:13:50.840 the only reason they wouldn't sing about you

00:13:52.340 is because they don't know your name.

00:13:53.520 If they knew your name, they would do it.

00:13:56.080 Very, very dark stuff coming in American politics.

00:14:00.280 And it's being reflected at the level of the elections.

00:14:04.180 Okay, we'll get to those elections too.

00:14:05.840 Abdul Al-Sayed just took a nasty swipe at Ushah Vance.

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00:15:18.400 Okay, palate cleanser. We move away from violent leftism to obscene leftism.

00:15:24.000 We have the clip. AOC once again taking her clothes off on camera.

00:15:30.080 Don't be weird. 0.73

00:15:31.520 Pretty.

00:15:34.220 Good. Pretty. Pretty.

00:15:36.100 and this bloating is before even the trigger shock okay that's all we have to see if i don't

00:15:42.300 want to watch the whole clip she the the the still frames of this are are really jarring but

00:15:49.300 perhaps they shouldn't be aoc a week or two after she lifts her shirt up and films herself injecting

00:15:54.800 this medication to freeze her eggs she's now back pulling her clothes up just to show you her belly 1.00

00:16:01.840 They just can't help themselves, and it's a certain personality of woman in both parties

00:16:10.360 that just has to take their clothes off on camera, but I'm reminded of that Reagan quote. 0.82

00:16:16.040 Do you remember the old Reagan quote? He said, you know, politics is the world's second oldest

00:16:22.820 profession, and the more I've been in politics, the longer I realize that the second oldest 1.00

00:16:28.120 proficient resembles the first, the punchline being that politicians are a bunch of whores. 1.00

00:16:33.560 And he meant this allegorically. He meant this metaphorically. And yet, 1.00

00:16:37.240 and yet I look around at politicians and they're literally taking their clothes off.

00:16:43.620 We are not a serious country. This woman is the leading candidate for president 0.99

00:16:47.900 among the Democrats in 2028. And she is attempting to build her presidential campaign

00:16:54.460 on taking her clothes off. You could give her a pass, maybe, for the egg freezing video, 1.00

00:17:01.960 because even though all she really wanted to do was just take her clothes off a little bit,

00:17:05.500 at the very least, the ostensible reason she was doing it was to show you this medical procedure,

00:17:10.120 to show solidarity with women who are freezing their eggs, which is a lot of people in AOC's

00:17:14.720 base, or to show you that she's hip to the times. She's the voice of the millennial generation.

00:17:19.780 But the second one, what is she doing? She's literally just saying like, hey, look at my belly. 0.71

00:17:23.660 Look at me.

00:17:24.140 I'm bloating a little bit, but I'm also kind of, am I caught?

00:17:26.580 Please tell me I'm hot.

00:17:28.420 What do you think?

00:17:30.000 We've degraded politics down to online influencers, and we've degraded online influencers down 1.00

00:17:36.880 to like OnlyFans ladies.

00:17:38.060 It's not, a country cannot long persist.

00:17:42.200 I can't even, I'm being as charitable as I can to the left, which I try to do, but you

00:17:47.980 almost can't knock them because people get the audience they deserve.

00:17:51.540 And I guess democracy is the political theory of getting the audience you deserve,

00:17:55.420 as the founding fathers and framers of the Constitution warned about constantly.

00:18:00.220 But that's where we're at.

00:18:01.300 This is the explanation of when John Adams says the Constitution is built for a moral and religious people.

00:18:05.160 This is why obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

00:18:08.960 The reason for that is the more you appeal to base desires,

00:18:14.180 the less capable you are of self-government because the less capable you are of rational thought.

00:18:18.660 This obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment because when you speak in a prurient way and you appeal to the base desires, people become less capable of rational thought.

00:18:28.980 And the whole point of the First Amendment is to protect not pornography but rational thought.

00:18:33.300 And that is an instrument to secure the blessings of liberty because if people are thinking rationally and deliberating, then in theory, they're supposed to come up with the best policy solutions. 0.62

00:18:43.460 But now it is chicks taking their clothes off. 0.89

00:18:47.280 And there's one frame of it. She's lifting her shirt up and cupping her boobs. I was trying to 1.00

00:18:56.560 think of a delicate way to say that. It's not a delicate thing. She's running for president by

00:19:02.680 jiggling around, lifting her shirt up. This is tribal, not even third world. I don't know what's

00:19:10.380 what's worse than the third world? It's like so degraded. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

00:19:17.580 rolling over in their graves. And she's leading, by the way. John Ossoff, lift that shirt up, John.

00:19:25.020 Lift that shirt up. By the way, not to sound like a total square, nobody wants to see a mid-30s

00:19:33.400 politician taking her clothes off. Okay, I'm not commenting on anyone's appearance. Just as a

00:19:39.000 general rule, nobody wants to see that, okay? If you want to get that kind of attention, just like

00:19:45.480 go meet a guy and get married. If you want that kind of attention, take that to Instagram. I guess

00:19:51.440 she is taking that to Instagram. But don't, please don't degrade our political system that way. And

00:19:56.300 also just don't do it, please. Okay. Now we turn back to the nastier leftists. Abdul El-Sayed

00:20:03.680 taking a swipe at Usha Vance, the second lady. And this, I think, was a big political mistake.

00:20:10.940 The setup for why the Senate candidate for the Dems, Abdul Al-Sayed, has taken the swipe at

00:20:16.700 Usha Vance, the setup is J.D. Vance's comments at a recent excellence speech, which we'll get to

00:20:23.220 before a lot of working-class voters in Ohio. The setup is that he took a shot at Abdul.

00:20:30.320 it's sometimes actually hard to understand like what do these modern democrats actually stand for

00:20:38.680 but look what they say pay close attention and they'll leave these little hints of what they

00:20:44.320 actually care about now el sayed this guy running for senate in michigan he once argued not too long

00:20:51.660 ago that criticisms of sharia law were rooted in white supremacy i'd love to go back in time

00:20:59.320 and tell my papaw that there's a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only

00:21:05.580 should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you're a white supremacist. That's not my

00:21:09.800 papaw's Democrat party, my friends. So he's speaking here at the plant that his grandpa,

00:21:14.560 his papaw, worked at. And he says, this is kind of crazy stuff. We got a Democrat Senate candidate

00:21:21.020 who is effectively defending Sharia law. What happened, man? What he's signaling is,

00:21:26.400 hey, ordinary working class Americans, the Democrat party is not your party. It used to

00:21:32.340 be your party. The Dems used to have a lock on ordinary working class Americans. The Dems have 0.89

00:21:36.360 sold that out. They have embraced radical religion, radical political ideologies. They're now the

00:21:43.160 party of Sharia law, not the party of kitchen table issues for Democrats. And in fact, they

00:21:49.180 sneer at the working class. They constantly do. So here's what Abdul El-Sayed posts. He takes

00:21:55.160 this clip, and he goes, so do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papa

00:22:01.900 or no? The implication here being that Papa, this working-class Ohioan, was obviously a nasty,

00:22:11.560 bigoted racist. JD, he would never take his Indian wife to meet his certainly racist, 0.99

00:22:18.640 bigoted closed-minded papa those filthy dirty working class people in ohio they would they've 1.00

00:22:26.720 never met a brown person they they didn't not like they they never met a brown person they 0.99

00:22:32.620 didn't hate and so i it's very reactive but i read this as abdul al-sayed maybe not being ready

00:22:39.620 for prime time put the sharia law stuff aside even put the socialism rhetoric aside you know

00:22:45.300 Abdul El-Sayed, he's had a schizophrenic campaign. One day, he's trying to appeal to

00:22:49.960 very serious conservative religious Muslims in Dearborn. The next day, he's trying to appeal

00:22:55.600 to his actual base, which is college-educated white liberal women. And so he switches from

00:23:02.260 the jihadi appeal to this kind of gay appeal where he posts these videos of him singing and dancing

00:23:06.840 like he's doing Gilbert and Sullivan singing, oh, I want to dance with somebody. So he's already 0.79

00:23:11.360 had this tension in his messaging. But here, he's just being purely reactive. He's hitting back

00:23:16.740 against this attack from the VP. And he says, yeah, well, your grandpa, your white working 0.61

00:23:21.280 class Ohio grandpa, he's a dirty racist, and I hate that guy. Not a good appeal when you're 1.00

00:23:27.140 running in Ohio, or when you're running in Michigan, for that matter. It's not a good

00:23:31.860 appeal. It reminds me of Francesca Hong. Francesca Hong, who talked about how much she hated white

00:23:36.620 people. She lost her primary, but she was running in Wisconsin. Running on hating white people is 0.95

00:23:42.160 not a good campaign strategy in a state that's 75% white. So the implication to Abdul El-Sayed's 0.97

00:23:48.640 retort is that working class Democrats are bigots. And so fine, you bring that on every day. I want 0.97

00:23:56.400 Abdul El-Sayed to have a big bullhorn. I want him to be talking about that every single day

00:24:00.220 because a big part of the Trump coalition,

00:24:04.660 a big part, assuming that J.D. Vance

00:24:06.140 does run for president in 2028,

00:24:08.020 a crucial part of his coalition,

00:24:10.060 probably the reason why Trump picked J.D. Vance

00:24:12.840 to be his running mate for the second term

00:24:14.180 in the first place is that J.D. Vance

00:24:16.380 brings working class appeal

00:24:17.660 because he has a lot of ethos on this issue.

00:24:20.280 He grew up poor in a dysfunctional family

00:24:22.580 in the middle of America,

00:24:23.900 and he succeeded now at the very highest levels

00:24:26.640 you can possibly succeed at in the country.

00:24:28.280 and he is intelligent and he's educated and he's worked in business. So he's not some

00:24:34.400 political radical or reactionary, but he has that appeal, that common touch appeal.

00:24:40.100 That is going to be crucial if the Republicans are to maintain the MAGA coalition. The MAGA

00:24:44.120 coalition, which was reconstituted in many ways from the Reagan coalition, the Reagan coalition,

00:24:48.300 which also appealed to working class people, working class Democrats who became disillusioned

00:24:53.740 with their party. Ronald Reagan was a disillusioned Democrat. He was a New Deal Democrat who said

00:24:57.760 that his party had left him. And so J.D. Vance comes out there. He says, all right, that's our

00:25:02.380 party now. And Abdul El-Sayed and the Democrats generally are saying, yeah, you're right. We're

00:25:06.680 not the party of the working class. We're the party of transing the kids, murdering all the 1.00

00:25:10.600 babies. We're the party of Sharia law, paradoxically. We're the party of mass migration, undercutting 1.00

00:25:15.880 working class and lower middle class wages in America. We're the party of globalism, 0.92

00:25:21.280 not the party of American development. Yeah, you take all those filthy working class people. 1.00

00:25:27.120 We don't want them. They're probably racist anyway. Okay, run on that, Abdul. Be my guest, 1.00

00:25:31.680 please. And Vance did not stop there. This speech in Middletown was really, really great.

00:25:36.360 From the mill that his grandpa worked at, Vance was not hiding the ball at all. He took a direct

00:25:43.980 swing at the business country club rhino wing of the party. We'll get to that in a second. First,

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00:26:24.860 all those things that you're eventually going to have to agree on if you want to build a life

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00:26:32.440 and that's important and everything. But we get down to the real stuff here with Catholic Match,

00:26:36.080 all the way down to liturgical preference. So here is the part that Catholic Match cannot do

00:26:41.280 for you. You have to actually ask the person out. The whole point is not to become excellent at

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00:26:54.340 Catholic Match is free to download on the Apple App Store and Google Play. It is free to create

00:26:58.400 a profile. J.D. Vance, he's not playing coy. He's not playing footsie with anything here. He is

00:27:05.180 speaking directly about what the future of the GOP looks like in his view. And in the Vance view,

00:27:11.680 from my understanding of it, the future of the GOP is much more about bringing in the working

00:27:17.620 class. It's much more about solidarity among Americans than it is about just giving tax breaks

00:27:23.740 to rich people. Now, in 1984, just to date myself a little bit, don't hate me. One month before I

00:27:30.560 was born, the Wall Street Journal, the voice of big business in the United States of America

00:27:35.560 proposed, and I quote, a five-word constitutional amendment. There shall be open borders.

00:27:47.620 Now, they weren't joking. They weren't being tongue-in-cheek. Because if you look at what

00:27:52.780 they tried to do over the next 40 years, they told you back then exactly what they were trying to do. 0.93

00:27:57.520 Being replaced by foreign workers, in other words, it was not an accident, my friends. 0.85

00:28:02.320 It was the desired outcome of a generation of American elites.

00:28:06.480 So this is a real data point here. It's not just vague insinuations and recriminations.

00:28:12.060 is this is Vance saying, hey, the leadership of the Republican Party back in 40 years ago,

00:28:19.420 the leadership of the GOP explicitly called for open borders. You have the Wall Street Journal.

00:28:25.380 I like the Wall Street Journal a lot, but the Wall Street Journal does speak to a certain

00:28:28.880 business-minded form of the GOP. The reporting actually leans liberal, but the editorial page

00:28:35.400 for a long, long time has leaned Republican, but it's business Republican. And so business

00:28:41.460 Republicans and more popular traditional Republicans agree on a lot of issues. But one

00:28:46.600 issue where they have traditionally disagreed is on immigration, because the business class

00:28:50.080 wants to import the whole world, and the popular, ordinary, traditional conservative people do not.

00:28:59.300 And the reason that the business class wants to do that is because it allows them to reduce wages. 0.99

00:29:04.760 If you import a slave class of Latin Americans, it just allows you to pay less for labor. 0.81

00:29:11.240 And so the Democrats wanted mass migration

00:29:13.500 because they felt it would give them

00:29:14.460 a permanent electoral majority,

00:29:15.480 and they have mostly been proven right about that.

00:29:18.780 The business Republicans say,

00:29:21.420 okay, well, we'll give the Democrats

00:29:22.580 a permanent electoral majority,

00:29:23.640 but at least we'll save some money.

00:29:25.540 And then meanwhile, you have disillusioned Democrats

00:29:27.400 and the traditional conservatives who are saying,

00:29:30.440 whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not gonna mortgage our country.

00:29:32.060 We're not gonna give away our sovereignty

00:29:33.260 just to save a few bucks on labor.

00:29:35.680 It might not even be right to save a few bucks on labor.

00:29:38.160 One of the sins that cries out to heaven

00:29:39.720 is defrauding a worker of his wage. It's like a very, very serious sin.

00:29:46.820 And so J.D. Vance is giving a real data point here. He's saying, you know, the leadership

00:29:49.980 of the GOP was calling for this in the mid-80s, and that's wrong. So what you're going to hear,

00:29:56.860 there's going to be screeching and gnashing of teeth from the Beltway types, the establishment

00:30:02.040 types, the more neo-conny types on this. And they're going to say, J.D. Vance is a socialist.

00:30:07.500 He's going after a statement of the Wall Street Journal from the 1980s.

00:30:10.940 He's suggesting that we should pay higher wages to working class people.

00:30:15.640 This guy's a socialist.

00:30:16.840 That is not socialism.

00:30:18.900 That is very much in the conservative tradition.

00:30:21.840 I was speaking to a reporter about that.

00:30:23.240 A reporter reached out to me on the state of play in the GOP right now.

00:30:27.380 What J.D. Vance is talking about here, you might disagree with it.

00:30:30.080 You might be totally on the side of we should have open borders.

00:30:32.860 you might be totally on the side of. We shouldn't care about wealth inequality. We shouldn't focus

00:30:38.600 on working class people. Maybe that's your factional view. But the one thing I can promise

00:30:42.340 you is what J.D. Vance is saying is certainly not socialism. It is very much within the

00:30:47.680 conservative tradition. This idea of a kind of solidarity, of the political order being oriented

00:30:54.120 toward the common good. That goes back to Aristotle and Cicero. It goes up through the

00:30:58.920 scholastics. It comes right up to our founding fathers and the framers of our constitution.

00:31:04.000 It speaks to the great developers of conservatism, whether we're talking about Edmund Burke,

00:31:09.060 the father of Anglo-American conservatism, whether we're talking about Russell Kirk,

00:31:13.940 whether we're talking about, I don't know, Roger Scruton or Michael Oakeshott or any of these dusty

00:31:18.140 old philosophers. This idea that you need some kind of solidarity, the idea that the palace is

00:31:23.700 never safe when the cottage is unhappy, that comes from Benjamin Disraeli, one of the most

00:31:27.020 prominent conservative politicians ever in the British tradition. This is very, very much within

00:31:33.720 conservatism. Frankly, that includes Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan, he loved his tax cuts.

00:31:39.160 He was on board in many ways with the Wall Street Journal. But Ronald Reagan would also

00:31:44.060 subvert those business expectations. He would protect U.S. steel. He would implement certain

00:31:48.300 tariffs. He was a union man. He was a union president. He defended the New Deal.

00:31:53.700 a lot of people like i i'll complain about fdr all day but ronald reagan did that that's how he

00:31:59.120 brought in that coalition and i think it's very very smart for jd vance to do this it's it's what

00:32:04.680 trump did so it's it's in keeping with the the the idea that that vance is trump's chosen successor

00:32:12.040 and uh in in some ways there are going to be a lot of attacks on jd vance because of this speech

00:32:18.160 from the other factions of the gop i think it's it's actually good for the vp though if you're

00:32:22.720 looking at the race right now, and you say there are four or five candidates who could plausibly

00:32:27.880 run for the Republican nomination, the fact that J.D. Vance will be attacked over this

00:32:32.920 is good news for the Vance team. It firmly plants him as having the same enemies that Trump had in

00:32:41.020 2016 for the same reasons, not the least of which was economic populism. It plants him as Trump's

00:32:47.240 handpicked successor. And so then the biggest worry for the Vance team would have to be,

00:32:50.460 well, Trump needs to remain popular. The administration needs to remain popular

00:32:54.680 because I think really anyone who runs for president, whether that's Marco Rubio,

00:32:58.420 whether that's Pete Hegseth, whoever runs for president from within the administration is

00:33:01.740 going to be running for Trump's third term. And a lot of that is just going to come down to Trump.

00:33:06.580 Okay. Now, speaking of the Wall Street Journal, a distressing report out at the Wall Street

00:33:11.860 Journal. It's going viral. It's getting zillions of views over the weekend. This is from

00:33:15.460 Mary Julia Koch on how young men are abandoning the workforce.

00:33:21.620 Where did all the guys in the office go?

00:33:23.840 American women now hold 176,000 more payroll jobs than American men. 1.00

00:33:28.140 That's a far cry from three decades ago when men held nearly 7 million more jobs than women.

00:33:32.500 What changed? 0.98

00:33:33.440 The largely male-dominated industries of manufacturing and construction have lost 0.99

00:33:37.260 employment for decades due to automation and offshoring.

00:33:40.520 Meanwhile, the healthcare industry, which is 78% female, is thriving.

00:33:44.420 The male unemployment rate is actually relatively low right now,

00:33:47.640 but the number of men who aren't even looking for a job has reached a nearly 20-year high.

00:33:52.120 Gen Z men grew up witnessing the effects of the Great Recession

00:33:54.500 and corporate America's push to bring more women into male-dominated fields.

00:33:58.260 That left many of them feeling pessimistic about their own employment prospects.

00:34:01.900 So for the guys who aren't working or even looking for work, what are they up to?

00:34:05.440 Many are living at home.

00:34:06.620 Some are even embracing the trend of being a stay-at-home boyfriend with a breadwinning girlfriend.

00:34:11.060 This is all while more and more of life is happening through a screen.

00:34:14.280 Social media, video gaming, sports betting,

00:34:16.840 further isolating men from real life.

00:34:18.620 But we can fix this.

00:34:19.780 We can encourage more men to enter education,

00:34:22.260 healthcare, and administration,

00:34:23.620 just as women were encouraged to pursue careers in STEM.

00:34:26.400 We could also expand vocational training and apprenticeships

00:34:28.680 for men who are skipping college.

00:34:30.020 It's time to bring a generation of young men

00:34:31.520 back in from the sad lines.

00:34:35.580 Great, great report.

00:34:36.980 You know, this is the pithy little video

00:34:38.380 that goes along with the full article,

00:34:40.380 which you can check out.

00:34:41.540 It's from last week.

00:34:43.620 or thereabouts. But notice what she says here. The key to understanding this phenomenon and

00:34:51.500 the key to understanding this op-ed is this one little phrase in there. She says,

00:34:56.520 as corporations were trying to pull women into their fields, into the workforce. 0.90

00:35:04.920 As corporations were trying to prioritize women, pull women into their fields,

00:35:10.160 that led to some of the tumult. Some of the tumult for men's employment is that their

00:35:15.960 traditional male jobs, like manufacturing, went away. Why did they go away? We'll get to that in

00:35:21.500 a second. And some of the fields that are more attractive to women, those started to grow. So 0.65

00:35:26.700 that was part of it. But then another part of it was the corporations wanted to hire women instead

00:35:30.260 of men. This number, everyone's dunking on the men now. They say, oh, these lazy men,

00:35:35.700 these stay-at-home boyfriends, what a joke. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps,

00:35:39.020 get back to work. The dirty little secret of it all is this was all by design. We know that. We

00:35:47.320 live through it. A lot of these Gen Z men saw it real up close and personal. For decades,

00:35:54.940 corporate America and the government came out and said, we want fewer men in these jobs. We want

00:36:01.060 women in these jobs. We're going to institute DEI mandates. We're going to institute DEI quotas. 1.00

00:36:06.540 we're going to give women an advantage in getting these jobs. We want to social engineer 1.00

00:36:11.280 and bring more women into these fields. Well, guess what? When you bring more women into a 1.00

00:36:16.700 finite number of jobs, guess what happens? You push men out. That is just social engineering. 1.00

00:36:21.940 Even down to the male-dominated fields that seem to have diminished, like manufacturing,

00:36:26.780 that was a choice too. Politicians made discrete political choices to outsource manufacturing jobs. 0.95

00:36:35.280 Politicians signed various trade agreements that were going to destroy those industries.

00:36:40.480 That's part of the discontent in places like Middletown, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

00:36:46.620 This didn't just happen because of the magical workings of the invisible hand of the free market.

00:36:52.380 Markets are regulated, cultivated things.

00:36:54.680 Markets are like gardens.

00:36:55.700 They're not like forests.

00:36:56.720 They don't just spring up out of nature.

00:36:58.020 They are cultivated.

00:36:59.180 There are guardrails, and there are incentives and disincentives.

00:37:02.420 And so for decades now, the entire political order has said, we're going to punish men and

00:37:08.780 we're going to reward women in the ways that we want. And then we look up one day and we say,

00:37:13.480 well, this is so weird. Why aren't men working anymore? Because you told them they couldn't.

00:37:17.460 Because you told them that they were going to have a disadvantage in hiring over women.

00:37:21.240 They were going to have a disadvantage in college admissions over women.

00:37:23.960 All of the things that bring you into the workforce. 1.00

00:37:27.480 And then the fields that were dominated by them, you just outsourced.

00:37:30.900 So yeah, no wonder. A really, really good report. And Mary Julia Koch is not hiding this at all.

00:37:38.900 She says, look, corporate America did this. There was a big political order here. And so

00:37:43.240 if the workforce has changed by conscious design and policy, what that means is that this is yet

00:37:50.300 another brutal blow to the establishment wing of the GOP, the laissez-faire wing of the GOP,

00:37:56.600 the more neocon slash libertarian wing of the GOP. It's a brutal blow because whenever you go

00:38:02.460 to that wing of the GOP and you say, hey, we need a policy that stops discriminating against men or

00:38:09.240 discriminating against white people or whatever, in any of the ways that we've socially engineered,

00:38:14.180 whenever you say that to them, they'll say, oh no, government can't fix anything. No, no,

00:38:19.520 politics is just downstream of culture. You've just got to change hearts and minds through

00:38:23.420 private institutions. But anytime you try to meddle with the government, by golly, you're

00:38:27.900 probably just a socialist. You're a communist just like Hassan Piker. The government won't

00:38:33.220 be able to succeed at doing that. Well, the government did succeed. Lawmakers, policy makers,

00:38:39.300 their counterparts in corporate America, they did succeed at changing the workforce.

00:38:43.660 They succeeded at changing the demographics of the country.

00:38:45.900 mass migration the fact that we now have taken in tens of millions of illegal aliens we have the

00:38:53.980 highest foreign born percentage of the population in american history we haven't even talked about

00:38:59.020 the legal immigrants who have come here a million a year the fact that that happened it didn't just

00:39:03.600 happen by accident it happened because very influential people called for open borders

00:39:10.380 and implemented open borders.

00:39:13.380 So this is what you are not going to,

00:39:14.840 if you are a Republican politician,

00:39:16.360 I obviously have my own views on this

00:39:17.980 from political philosophy and history.

00:39:20.020 But if you're a Republican politician

00:39:21.860 who just wants to run on the same old slogans

00:39:24.120 that have been stale for 30 years,

00:39:26.600 I'm just warning you, 1.00

00:39:27.940 that is not going to connect to Gen Z 0.50

00:39:29.520 because Gen Z knows it's a bunch of BS.

00:39:32.020 When you tell them,

00:39:32.880 oh, there's nothing we can do.

00:39:33.940 There's no policy here.

00:39:34.900 We just got to change hearts and minds

00:39:35.980 and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

00:39:37.340 Yeah, that's good personal advice

00:39:38.800 for personal development.

00:39:39.820 but that's not an excuse to ignore the political problem. You've had a political system that has

00:39:44.700 been disadvantaging and discriminating against white guys, straight white guys mostly, and

00:39:52.500 each of those components in different ways for a very long time. And we need a political solution

00:39:59.060 to that, which is at the very least, stop the discrimination, stop the affirmative action in

00:40:04.260 college admissions, stop the DEI quotas in hiring. And if the political party, the GOP is not going

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00:41:13.380 Wayfair, every style, every home. Okay, now we have better statistical trends going on

00:41:18.460 beyond the men dropping out of society. And that is, while men are leaving the workforce,

00:41:25.760 they are at the very least returning to religion. There's been a big, big debate,

00:41:31.280 a lot of dispute over whether or not Christianity and Catholicism in particular are really surging

00:41:36.500 in America. Is there really a kind of rebirth, an awakening of religion, or is that not real and

00:41:43.280 it's all kind of overhyped? We got more statistics to show that is really happening, and it's

00:41:49.660 specifically Catholic, and it's happening on campus. We'll get to that in a moment. First,

00:41:52.600 my favorite comment on Friday is from Arun Rami, who says, by the end of this, we're all going to

00:41:58.560 have PhDs in the study of Lindsay Clancy. I know. I know. It's almost like too much of a Lindsay

00:42:02.760 Clancy thing. It's an interesting phenomenon politically. The reaction to Lindsay Clancy

00:42:09.960 is much more interesting than the horrific crime that she committed. But a lot of people follow

00:42:15.180 this stuff just for true crime, gossipy. I don't know. It's just gross. I don't know. It's like

00:42:19.240 the same reason women watch Maury Povich during the day or like daytime soaps. It's not good for 1.00

00:42:25.400 your mind. Okay. What is good for your mind and your soul is returning to religion. And that

00:42:30.240 seems to be happening. There's a report out from Hallow, our great sponsor, Hallow,

00:42:34.940 which shows that among schools reporting data to Hallow, OCIA participation, that's the right of

00:42:43.040 Christian initiation for adults, people who are coming into the Catholic church, on average has

00:42:47.420 more than doubled from the 2024 to 2025 school year to the 2025 to 2026 school year. Within one

00:42:54.500 year, we've seen 115% growth of students entering into Catholic religious education.

00:43:04.780 So that's only among schools that are reporting to HALO. You might say, okay, well, those are the

00:43:08.580 most gung-ho schools. So what does it look like on average? Well, if you look at the data in

00:43:12.580 aggregate and you compare the total number of participants across all Newman centers, all of

00:43:16.360 these Catholic centers at schools in the data set from the 2024 school year through the 2025 school

00:43:21.880 earlier, OCIA participation increased 87.6%. So it's a little below the 115% figure,

00:43:28.540 but it's pretty close. There is something very clearly happening. And this dovetails in on a

00:43:34.700 point we were making last week, where the Duffies, Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, his

00:43:38.780 wife, Rachel Campus Duffy on Fox News, they have this reality show. They met on a reality show.

00:43:43.320 They were on The Real World. They have this new reality show going around the country,

00:43:46.540 the Great American Road Trip. And there was a scene that went viral of their daughter saying,

00:43:50.580 hey, if I get into Harvard, I got to go, right? And Sean's saying, I don't know if you should go.

00:43:54.040 I might put my foot down on that because Harvard has professionalized turning good young girls 0.79

00:43:59.440 into rabid leftists who are going to be self-destructive. So I don't know if I want 0.98

00:44:05.120 you to go to Harvard. I don't know if I want you to go to the oldest, most prestigious school in

00:44:08.340 the country. And then I guess there's another, I guess they went and checked out Harvard. And here

00:44:13.760 is an anecdotal report from Harvard's chaplain. We have the best Catholic center in the country,

00:44:21.760 so you should come here. Why do you say that? Student involvement, but the biggest one is

00:44:27.700 conversion rate. We have the largest class of people becoming Catholic in our history this

00:44:33.700 year. We'll have about 80 people entering the church. So there's something really exciting

00:44:38.420 here. Student mass attendance is great right now, definitely up 10 to 20 percent over the last

00:44:44.320 couple of years. Because of the fact that we have like very high achieving intelligence students,

00:44:48.900 the Catholic Center has a different feel. We can give talks on a range of issues and the students

00:44:53.860 ask great questions. I'm really grateful for what God is doing here. Great, but now I want to watch

00:44:59.520 the rest of the show. I want to see what school she goes to. But notice what he's saying. This

00:45:04.100 is the Harvard chaplain. So this is ground zero of atheism, leftism. He says, yeah, we've seen a

00:45:12.040 huge surge in people doing religious education. Mass attendance is way up. And in part, because

00:45:17.000 Harvard is filled with all of these type A people, they're differently interested in the church.

00:45:24.400 They're coming back in kind of interesting and novel ways. And it's happening even at Harvard,

00:45:28.280 along with all of those other schools.

00:45:31.620 And having gone to one of these schools,

00:45:33.160 I can attest,

00:45:34.580 most of what happens at those schools,

00:45:36.740 Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford,

00:45:38.300 all those kind of schools,

00:45:39.420 is you go there,

00:45:41.280 maybe kind of conservative

00:45:42.560 with a nice solid family,

00:45:43.940 and then you just become way more liberal.

00:45:45.560 And maybe you turn into 0.99

00:45:46.560 like a Muslim lesbian or something. 1.00

00:45:48.180 But that's what happens for most people. 0.99

00:45:52.020 However, for a subset of people,

00:45:54.260 you become much more conservative.

00:45:55.740 When I was at my very liberal undergraduate school, I became way more conservative.

00:46:00.760 I was a libertarian when I entered.

00:46:02.120 I was a traditional conservative when I left.

00:46:04.200 I was an atheist when I entered.

00:46:05.960 I was much more inclined toward religion when I left, and I returned to the church the following year.

00:46:12.560 That does happen, and that's what the chaplain at Harvard is observing going on here.

00:46:16.740 So why is this happening?

00:46:17.880 Why?

00:46:18.400 Why are you seeing a surge in religiosity among young people and specifically with Catholicism?

00:46:24.160 I attribute it to the Holy Spirit.

00:46:25.580 obviously. I think that is ultimately the explanation. But sociologically, I think what's

00:46:33.540 also going on here is that leftism reached a particular extreme. And that particular extreme

00:46:41.680 was the identity politics, the open discrimination against men and white people, and it was all very, 0.94

00:46:49.980 very nasty, but it reached its kind of apotheosis, pun intended, in the transgender ideology and 0.67

00:46:56.840 specifically transing the kids. That was so in your face. It was so undeniable that people realized 0.93

00:47:03.700 there was a real problem with leftism. For the same reason that the Democrats lost the popular

00:47:08.200 vote, for the same reason that they lost the popular vote because they lost the common sense, 1.00

00:47:14.200 people really began to question their judgment on every issue because of the transing the kids

00:47:17.760 issue. For that same reason, I think a lot of young people are saying, okay, well, hold on,

00:47:21.940 leftism is wrong. So then why are they turning specifically to Catholicism? Because as a purely

00:47:28.280 historical matter, Catholicism is leftism's ultimate enemy. I mean this in no way to slight

00:47:35.920 our Protestant friends. Many evangelical Protestants vote conservative and Republican

00:47:41.320 more reliably than Catholics do. That's also a political fact. But historically speaking,

00:47:46.240 Catholicism is the ultimate enemy of the left. The left is born in that term in opposition to

00:47:53.360 Catholicism in the French Revolution, where the people who hated the Catholic Church

00:47:57.160 sat on the left side of the National Assembly. It wasn't born in opposition to Methodism

00:48:03.260 or Episcopalianism or something like that. No offense to those people either. Historically,

00:48:08.960 it was about opposition to Catholicism. Part of that, ultimately I think it's spiritual,

00:48:14.860 But part of that is the Catholic Church is the only institution in the West that has endured since antiquity.

00:48:20.800 Every other institution has gone away.

00:48:22.680 That's the only one that has endured.

00:48:24.400 With all sorts of troubles, with all sorts of shakiness to the bark of Peter, with all sorts of bad actors and leftists trying to infiltrate it.

00:48:31.640 But it's just a fact.

00:48:32.680 and the church has held the line on marriage, on abortion, on sexual morality, on contraception,

00:48:41.820 on even the right of nations, even though you got some kind of open borders-y talk among some

00:48:47.640 bishops. Nevertheless, the Pope himself says nations have a right to determine who comes in

00:48:52.320 on all of these issues, on the male priesthood, on the fact that, and someone made this point,

00:49:00.060 maybe it was Taylor Marshall made this point over the weekend. The Vatican is the only sovereign

00:49:04.320 state that excludes women from the vote. Because there's only one vote that really matters, 0.99

00:49:09.760 which is the vote of the papal conclave, and that's only men. It's real trad. 0.79

00:49:18.000 Leftism has endeavored to destroy that, to crack that, to topple that from the beginning.

00:49:24.480 And so just, again, it's not, I don't mean to make this a sectarian thing,

00:49:27.800 just as a sociological matter. If you realize that something is just really, really rotten

00:49:36.140 about leftism, naturally, the thing that is going to attract you is leftism's enemy.

00:49:42.580 You know a lot about people by their enemies. Okay, one last bit. I know I'm running late.

00:49:46.060 I don't really care. I don't care, okay? Anna Faris, who is Chris Pratt's ex-wife,

00:49:52.340 She just made headlines because her son is part of this, this religious awakening among young people.

00:50:00.060 Her son is apparently Christian.

00:50:03.680 And in an older age, the kid would be rebelling and becoming an atheist, and the parents would say,

00:50:09.660 you've got to go to church, and you really don't abandon your religion, and now it's totally flipped.

00:50:13.500 The kids say, I want to go to church, and the mom says, really? Why? Religion sucks.

00:50:18.160 Here's just a clip. 1.00

00:50:19.000 i think my son is he's like as solid as a tugboat emotionally he just doesn't get easily

00:50:28.780 jarred he handles situations really well he is religious and are you religious no i didn't grow

00:50:39.340 up with religion okay he's asked me to accept jesus christ as your savior uh-huh okay and

00:50:48.940 I said I told him that I would do anything for him including this but it's gonna take a whole

00:50:57.380 lot of long conversations and he's impressive actually he's impressive because I try to

00:51:07.160 challenge him I'm like do you think it's a luxury that you get to be pro-life do you think that's

00:51:13.260 kind of a luxury because he was born you mean yeah that's like maybe or I'll say so what do

00:51:18.620 you think of this mega pastor that's kind of a grifter what do you what do you think he's like

00:51:23.460 oh mega pastors are the worst so it's like okay he's got we're getting there i mean i'm appreciative 0.86

00:51:31.960 that he's examining religion the way he is in terms of recognizing hypocrisy 0.96

00:51:39.580 starting to recognize hypocrisy and i'm appreciative that we can have these long conversations 0.98

00:51:47.420 Okay, now notice here, Anna Faris got dragged on the internet because it's very scandalous.

00:51:53.840 This is the verse that our Lord says about millstones. People who scandalize little kids

00:52:00.740 will have millstones tied around their neck. That's what this is about. It's about scandalizing.

00:52:04.280 It's about being an obstacle to the salvation, especially of innocent people and little kids. 0.59

00:52:09.000 And so that is kind of what she's doing. She's got this religious son, and she's trying to make

00:52:13.220 him not religious. But at a deeper level, listen to the way she's talking about him.

00:52:17.420 It sounds like the movement is actually going the other way. If you're really listening to

00:52:21.900 what she's saying, she's not saying, don't worry, I'm finally bringing my kid back to good old

00:52:26.020 atheism. What she's implying and even just kind of stating explicitly is, you know, he's kind of

00:52:32.040 pulling me over. He is actually kind of pulling me over. Listen to the way she's talking about it.

00:52:35.360 She goes, you know, my son, he's just really well-grounded. He just really deals with problems

00:52:40.240 very well, and it's really impressive. That, I think, is another aspect of the religious 0.59

00:52:45.420 awakening that's going on. This happened for me. This happened for friends of mine.

00:52:50.920 They said, even beyond the intellectual arguments for God, which I think are dispositive, and even

00:52:55.460 beyond the historical evidence for Christianity, which, again, I think is also extraordinarily

00:52:59.200 convincing, even beyond that, just, you know, you know the tree by its fruit, and you look at these

00:53:03.520 people, and you say, hold on, the guy who goes to church every week, the guy who avails himself

00:53:08.640 of the sacraments. It's not that he doesn't have any problems. It's not that he doesn't sin.

00:53:11.660 But those people do seem way more grounded. They seem way more normal. They seem to get along

00:53:18.660 better in the world. They seem to be less stressed and destructive and freaked out.

00:53:23.180 Huh, maybe there's something there. So that's how she opens it. She goes, yeah, my son, he's really

00:53:27.820 grounded. He reacts to the world well. But then I try to poke him and I say, well, look at that

00:53:33.280 grifter pastor. And he says, yeah, yes, some of those guys are really bad. I said, huh. 1.00

00:53:38.640 Oh, that didn't get rid of your religion? 0.74

00:53:40.080 Okay. 0.54

00:53:40.860 Well, what about, I mean, huh?

00:53:45.260 In a weird way, she seems to be a little further back in the process,

00:53:52.320 but she seems to be going through the same thing

00:53:54.160 that those 18-year-olds at Harvard are going through,

00:53:56.720 which is, huh, maybe I'm wrong.

00:54:00.300 Maybe I got this kind of thing wrong.

00:54:03.140 And maybe, it's kind of like when you hear people attack priests

00:54:08.220 for being celibate. They'll say, what does a priest know about giving me marriage advice?

00:54:11.580 He don't know anything about marriage. What does he know about sin? He's celibate.

00:54:15.520 And you think, well, in a way, he's probably the best guy to talk to

00:54:18.340 because he deals with temptation in a very, very direct way. He has maybe a clearer view of these

00:54:26.480 things than someone who is in the midst of all of these marital struggles. You think a priest

00:54:33.020 doesn't deal with temptation? You think a priest hasn't considered the nature of sin? I think they

00:54:37.180 think about it a fair bit. Same thing with young people. For the Gen X and boomer liberals who

00:54:45.440 just can't figure out why their kids are becoming super right-wing and religious and traditional,

00:54:50.760 maybe you just don't know anything about the world. You'll grow up. You'll become more liberal.

00:54:55.280 I don't know. Because the young people in particular are dealing with the acute consequences

00:54:59.640 of leftism and atheism. They are directly dealing with the awful racial and sexual discrimination

00:55:06.020 come about as a result of it. They are dealing with the blown up families, the divorce,

00:55:10.780 the radical gender ideology. They're dealing with the fact that a huge proportion of their 0.90

00:55:15.000 generation has been murdered through abortion. They're dealing with all of that fallout.

00:55:20.280 So maybe they actually see the situation a little more clearly than you do. Because for a lot of

00:55:25.200 the boomers and even the Gen X, they still grew up on the fumes of the solid civilization that 0.84

00:55:31.460 liberalism ate away, that liberalism mortgaged. They still grew up with a lot of that prosperity

00:55:36.960 and a lot of that social order and those high trust societies. But liberalism has eroded those

00:55:40.860 things. And it's really Gen Z has had to see the full effects of that. The fact that they are 0.59

00:55:48.180 returning to tradition, the fact that they're returning to God, most importantly, maybe that's

00:55:53.440 natural. Maybe that's rational. And maybe the older generations should pay attention. Okay.

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