The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2084 - Priest Killed by Falling Crucifix During Mass： Here's What People Don't Get

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00:02:13.900 The new White House press secretary steps down after just a week on the job.

00:02:17.900 France is burning to the ground, and most people are getting the reason why wrong.

00:02:21.940 and an Ecuadorian priest is killed in horrifying viral footage after a crucifix crushes him during

00:02:29.200 mass. And in that case, most people are getting the reason why really, really wrong. Confusion

00:02:36.040 abounds. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.940 Welcome back to the show. You know how much I hate to say I told you so.

00:02:59.180 You remember a few weeks ago, well, I've been saying it pretty consistently. I said, hey,

00:03:02.720 if the Democrats win the midterms, it's not that they're going to pass a bunch of bad policy.

00:03:07.120 They won't. Trump will stop that. The problem is they're just going to go after not only Trump,

00:03:12.420 not only his administration, but everyone even vaguely around Trump, everyone within a three

00:03:17.880 billion mile blast radius of Trump. Remember I said that? I said, that's the thing they're doing.

00:03:22.280 Well, Democrat Senator Alyssa Slotkin has just admitted on camera that that is correct. She said

00:03:28.120 that what the Democrats have to do is imprison Trump supporters and therefore discourage anyone

00:03:34.100 from ever even considering, down to a teenage kid, even considering supporting a Republican

00:03:38.880 in the future. We'll get to that because we are weeks away, less than, gosh, what is it? Two weeks

00:03:43.960 away now from midterm elections when all of that could happen. First though, let's start with

00:03:47.120 France. France is just on fire right now. There was a viral video going around yesterday of the

00:03:52.940 historic Limoges Town Hall, which has stood since 1876, burning and collapsing. Now, we see images

00:04:02.020 of France on fire with some frequency, and often it's confined to one area or another, some

00:04:06.800 neighborhood of Paris. In this case, France is just on fire. I've been hearing from people who,

00:04:13.220 friends and friends of friends who are in France, this is not just confined to the ghetto no-go zone

00:04:20.320 neighborhoods here. Even the really nice neighborhoods of Paris, even towns around

00:04:25.900 France are on fire right now. And people don't really know what this is about. So the consensus

00:04:32.200 view is that this is because of all the migrants, because of all the Muslim migrants in France, 0.99

00:04:37.380 that is why France is burning to the ground. And there's a kernel of truth in that, 1.00

00:04:41.460 but it's missing the bigger picture. So these protests and riots and arson attacks and looting

00:04:48.700 and assaults and all the rest, this began as a student movement. A student, as it so often does,

00:04:57.340 it begins as a student movement in the poorer neighborhoods. And then it's spread everywhere.

00:05:02.660 So far, there are about 550,000 to 800,000 rioters. So you're now approaching upwards

00:05:08.680 of a million people rioting and burning down France all around the country. There have only

00:05:13.700 been 2,400 arrests. Doesn't take a math PhD to know. If you got 800,000 people burning down the

00:05:18.840 country and only 2,000 to 3,000 people being arrested, you have roughly 797,000 people who

00:05:26.340 are still burning down the country. 1,000 police and gendarmes and other security personnel have

00:05:31.260 been injured. And so everyone's blaming it on the migrants. And I'm all for blaming the migrants,

00:05:35.380 and I think they should all be deported in their country, in our country, in all the countries in 1.00

00:05:39.680 between. So I don't think I'm going soft in any way on the migration issue, which remains one of, 0.98

00:05:44.580 if not the top issues in the entire West. But we need a little bit of historical perspective here,

00:05:52.100 folks. I almost didn't even cover this story today. You know why? Because France burning down

00:05:58.460 in riots is not a man bites dog story. France is always burning down because of riots.

00:06:07.040 And sometimes that involves immigrants and sometimes it doesn't. This has happened in 0.71

00:06:13.940 France about 80 times over the last 237 years. Since the French Revolution, this very scene,

00:06:22.080 the assaults and the looting and the burning, that has happened about 80 times. It kind of

00:06:27.060 depends on how you score it. And sometimes multiple protests and riots blur together,

00:06:31.780 but it's anywhere from 60 to 80 times, which means if it's been 80 times over the last 237 years,

00:06:37.260 that means that this happens in France on average about every three years.

00:06:42.660 And it's been going on a lot longer than Muslims have taken over France. 0.96

00:06:48.140 Some more historical context, Muslims have been trying to take over France since the eighth 0.95

00:06:53.280 century. And they got pushed back at the Battle of Poitiers by Charles Martel in 732. But they've

00:06:58.180 been trying again and again and again over the years, sometimes more and less successfully.

00:07:02.780 This has been going on since the French Revolution. And so people are coming to

00:07:08.280 a backwards conclusion. They are saying that migrants are causing the burning.

00:07:16.120 That is literally true because after the student movement started to take hold, a lot of 1.00

00:07:21.640 migrants and criminals and Muslims opportunistically decided to join in and steal stuff and burn stuff 0.99

00:07:26.440 down and settle all grudges and all the rest. So I guess it's literally true that migrants are 1.00

00:07:32.940 causing the burning, but the deeper truth and the harder truth is that the burning caused the 0.94

00:07:39.640 migrants. That's the one that people are going to have trouble accepting, and even if they do

00:07:44.800 accept it, they're not going to know what to do with that. The burning started in 1789.

00:07:50.880 The burning really started in 1789, and it's been going on intermittently, consistently,

00:07:57.100 ever since. And so what happened in 1789 is you had the overthrow of Catholicism,

00:08:04.920 of Christianity in France. You had France, the eldest daughter of the church, so-called. 0.71

00:08:09.680 You had the overthrow of the Ancien Regime of the French monarchy, and you had the implementation

00:08:16.480 of liberalism. The French Revolution was the liberal revolution. The American Revolution,

00:08:22.700 which preceded it, was not really a liberal revolution. We sometimes think of it that way

00:08:27.740 today because of a retconning from the end of the 20th century, but it wasn't really a liberal

00:08:31.740 revolution. In fact, writing at the time, Edmund Burke, the father of Anglo-American conservatism,

00:08:37.040 Edmund Burke pointed out that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution.

00:08:41.580 It was done in a pretty orderly way through principles of subsidiarity.

00:08:45.520 Even though it did upend the political order, it maintained the political institutions that

00:08:51.040 the American colonists had inherited from the English. It was relatively orderly.

00:08:56.280 The American colonies looked much the same after the American Revolution as they did before.

00:09:00.760 rather than overthrowing the English political order, what the American colonists did in Burke's

00:09:07.160 telling was to assert their very rights as Englishmen. Here's another point in favor of

00:09:14.400 the American Revolution being relatively conservative. The old regime in France 0.83

00:09:19.320 supported the American Revolution. It's the only reason we won. Okay. 0.98

00:09:23.140 Compare that or contrast that to the French Revolution. They remade everything. First of all, 0.98

00:09:28.340 They lopped off the head of the king and the queen.

00:09:30.040 Then they lopped off the head of basically everybody else,

00:09:32.580 including many of the revolutionaries, including Robespierre.

00:09:35.440 They looted, vandalized Notre Dame de Paris.

00:09:40.280 They took down the Blessed Mother, and they installed the goddess Reason,

00:09:44.460 and they turned it into a temple of reason.

00:09:46.200 They redid the neighborhoods.

00:09:47.400 They redid the measuring systems.

00:09:48.740 They redid all of education.

00:09:50.260 It was a true liberal revolution.

00:09:53.220 And on the principles of liberté, égalité, and fraternité, what did you get?

00:09:58.340 You got the implementation of liberalism taken to its fullest conclusion, which includes these ideas of egalitarianism, which ultimately, after many subsequent republics and the undoing of the revolution and the fulfillment of the revolution through Napoleon and on and on and on through the centuries, you get to this moment where we're all equal, we're all brothers, we're all free in the liberal sense of the word, we can do whatever we want.

00:10:22.780 And what that leads to is arson and rioting and open borders and migration.

00:10:28.900 So, yes, look, it'd be great, I guess, if Marine Le Pen wins the election,

00:10:32.640 if the right-wing party in France wins the upcoming elections

00:10:35.140 and tries to do something about the migrant problem.

00:10:40.100 Although, when the right-wing parties were elected in the UK on the migrant issue,

00:10:44.160 guess what happened? Immigration went up.

00:10:45.940 So I'm not even convinced that the right-wing party in France 0.85

00:10:49.780 will actually do anything about it.

00:10:51.220 But, okay, let's hope. Let's hope we deport a lot of the migrants 1.00

00:10:53.580 and we bring a little law and order and we stop France, 1.00

00:10:56.720 the eldest daughter of the church, one of the epicenters of Western civilization from burning 0.82

00:11:00.540 to the ground, you're still not going to fix the problem. You're not going to fix the problem.

00:11:05.400 This is in part why the election of conservative parties in the UK didn't fix the problem,

00:11:09.000 or the election of the conservative party in Italy didn't fix the problem,

00:11:11.840 or the election of the conservative candidate in Hungary even, which is pretty illiberal,

00:11:16.980 didn't totally solve the problem because Brussels, the center of European liberalism,

00:11:20.400 was able to finally oust that guy. It's liberalism is the big issue. That's the big

00:11:26.300 problem. It's not that the migrants caused the burning. It's that the burning caused the 1.00

00:11:30.180 migrants. And now you're stuck in this Ouroboros, this vicious, vicious cycle. Are we ready for 0.73

00:11:35.480 that conversation? I don't know. Many American conservatives are not even ready for that

00:11:38.820 conversation. You just contrast it. The Pope was just in France. Remember that like two,

00:11:43.100 three weeks ago, the Pope was in France, open air mass, almost a million people out there.

00:11:47.400 It's orderly priests hearing confessions on the street. There was no burning when the Pope was

00:11:51.100 there. When the pinnacle of Christian civilization returns to France, everything was great. They 1.00

00:11:59.580 were living in paradise. And then the Pope leaves and you get more liberalism with the migration,

00:12:06.780 with the self-interestedness, with the looting, and what happens? France goes on fire. Which way,

00:12:12.380 Western man? Are we going to be the Christian civilization? That's how some people think of 1.00

00:12:17.880 the West. The West is Christendom. To quote Hilaire Belloc, the faith is Europe and Europe

00:12:22.920 is the faith. There's that view. And then there's the idea, no, no, no. The West is the

00:12:27.700 enlightenment. The West is liberalism. The West is pride parades. The West is individual autonomy.

00:12:33.920 That's a different, contrasting, alternative vision of the West. One of them is beautiful.

00:12:40.140 One of them is fire. Which way? Which way? Those are your choices. There's no syncretism there.

00:12:47.140 They don't go together, they don't complement each other.

00:12:49.780 Liberalism is the replacement for Christianity. 0.90

00:12:52.880 Which one do you want?

00:12:53.680 Okay, hope we can clear the air on that.

00:12:55.800 Speaking of Christianity, a viral, viral video yesterday,

00:12:59.080 really, really horrifying of a priest in Ecuador

00:13:01.400 who is celebrating the mass

00:13:04.240 and who is killed when a crucifix falls and crushes him.

00:13:07.560 We will get to that because people,

00:13:09.360 you think they don't understand what's going on in France,

00:13:10.980 people really don't understand how to interpret this.

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00:14:42.240 Video everywhere, all over the headlines.

00:14:45.180 all over social media

00:14:46.180 of a priest in Ecuador,

00:14:47.320 Father Patricio Alfredo Sanchez Molinari

00:14:49.820 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

00:14:52.520 It's a pretty disturbing video.

00:14:53.800 I think the editors have blurred out

00:14:55.440 the actual moment of his death,

00:14:56.900 but here's just a brief glimpse

00:14:59.080 of what happened.

00:15:08.760 So the last word he says

00:15:11.040 is the Lord, Señor.

00:15:13.540 Last word he says is Lord,

00:15:15.020 and you hear some screaming out there,

00:15:16.700 a crucifix falls down and crushes the priest

00:15:19.180 as he's celebrating mass.

00:15:21.060 And people looking at this through secular eyes

00:15:24.780 are drawing a completely opposite conclusion

00:15:28.560 from people who look at this

00:15:29.680 through the Christian perspective.

00:15:31.360 So just a little indicative, illustrative view

00:15:34.920 of the comments on social media.

00:15:36.800 Someone looks at that and says,

00:15:38.420 seems like a sign from God.

00:15:41.740 A lot of people looking through secular eyes,

00:15:43.940 They say, oh yeah, well, this is divine retribution.

00:15:46.280 This is judgment.

00:15:48.240 The priest must have done something wrong.

00:15:49.840 That's what someone else says.

00:15:51.100 Someone says, Jesus is punishing him directly

00:15:53.520 for eating tithes.

00:15:54.800 What does that mean?

00:15:55.860 What does that mean?

00:15:56.360 They obviously know nothing about this priest.

00:15:58.400 Most priests live in significant poverty

00:16:03.020 and they dedicate their lives to serving the Lord

00:16:06.820 and they give up a lot.

00:16:07.960 They give up a lot of material wealth.

00:16:10.720 They give up a lot of private property.

00:16:12.160 they give up the opportunity to get married and have families. They give up a lot to serve God.

00:16:16.940 This is why it's a real calling. It's a real vocation to be a priest. And they're severely

00:16:21.280 overworked and underappreciated. But someone just looks at this, they say, well, the crucifix fell

00:16:25.740 on him. Jesus must be punishing him for something. Maybe it's eating tithes. Another reaction,

00:16:31.840 another secular reaction says, ha ha, and people think God will save you. Where was his God?

00:16:38.680 Where was his God?

00:16:39.660 Look what happened to him. 1.00

00:16:40.560 Shows you Christians. 1.00

00:16:41.620 Boom, dunk. 1.00

00:16:42.800 Tip the fedora. 0.78

00:16:44.420 Reddit owns you.

00:16:45.740 Take that.

00:16:47.260 And what's so amazing about the reactions

00:16:49.540 is the reactions themselves are straight out of scripture.

00:16:54.660 Of course, the people who are dunking on the priests

00:16:56.460 know nothing about Christianity.

00:16:58.280 They know absolutely nothing about scripture.

00:17:00.420 And they don't realize that their own reactions are foretold.

00:17:03.920 They appear in scripture.

00:17:05.640 The first line of scripture that came to me,

00:17:07.220 seeing not just what happened, but seeing the reactions, is from Job. Job chapter four,

00:17:13.060 verses seven through nine. Because this is the argument that Job's friend Eliphaz makes to him.

00:17:17.640 When Job, who is a righteous man, when Job is tested, when God allows the devil to test Job

00:17:23.700 and test his faith, all these bad things start happening to him and Job remains faithful.

00:17:29.120 And what happens? His friends who he's hanging out with, they say, well, Job, you must have done

00:17:32.980 something wrong. If something bad happens to you, you must have done something wrong. You must have

00:17:37.640 sinned. Eliphaz says, think now who that was innocent ever perished or where were the upright

00:17:44.720 cut off? As I have seen those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same by the breath of

00:17:48.960 God, they perish and by the blast of his anger, they are consumed. And it's so funny. The first

00:17:52.360 line is so funny. It should tip off the reader who has any awareness to say that Eliphaz doesn't

00:17:57.100 know what he's talking about. He says, who that was innocent ever perished? You say, I don't know

00:18:01.360 everyone? I don't know. Well, I guess no one is actually fully innocent, but people who are

00:18:07.000 substantially innocent, little babies, little kids get cancer and die. It's so awful. That is a real

00:18:13.180 test of our faith. It makes us grapple with the issue of theodicy. But on the surface, you say,

00:18:17.900 who that was innocent ever perished? You say, I don't know, all the innocent people who have

00:18:22.540 perished? Clearly something else is going on here. Reminds us of what our Lord says in Matthew

00:18:28.260 chapter five, which is that God makes his son rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain

00:18:34.740 on the just and on the unjust. The wicked do, in fact, sometimes flourish, seem to flourish at

00:18:41.360 least. And what does Christ say? He says, follow me. You will have travails in this world.

00:18:47.620 You will have troubles in this world. What else does Christ say? He says, are not two sparrows

00:18:52.160 sold for a penny, and not one of them will fall on the ground without your father's will,

00:18:55.720 but even the hairs of your head are numbered. I fear not, therefore, you are of more value than

00:19:00.760 many sparrows. So now you see this interesting contrast. You say, okay, the good are punished

00:19:06.680 sometimes, and the wicked do flourish sometimes. And God does make the sun to rise and the rain

00:19:15.240 to fall and the unjust alike. And yet also, God is ultimately in control of everything.

00:19:21.960 a sparrow doesn't fall from the sky without your father's knowing all the hairs of your head are

00:19:27.620 numbered and you're worth more than many sparrows then you go back to job for a second what is job

00:19:34.220 after all of this after all of his buddies say hey all these bad things are happening to you

00:19:37.440 because of it's your fault somehow you got to figure out why it's your fault and job by the

00:19:42.440 end he's exasperated he says come on man what have i done like why this isn't fair this isn't right

00:19:46.460 this isn't just and what does god say to job it's my favorite verse in the bible job 38 4 through 7

00:19:51.520 he says as job demands answers he says where were you when i laid the foundation of the earth

00:19:59.620 tell me if you have understanding who determined its measurements surely you know or who stretched

00:20:06.680 the line upon it on what were its bases sunk or who laid its cornerstone when the morning

00:20:11.780 stars sang together and all the sons of god shouted for joy where were you oh surely you know

00:20:18.660 you have so much understanding come on he sounds like an italian new yorker he said oh come on no

00:20:23.220 you know come on tell me tell me you know surely you were there didn't you you were there right

00:20:27.240 did you lay the foundations of the earth do you understand you understand my plan really

00:20:33.020 i don't think you do

00:20:35.180 think about even what last verse from scripture also in matthew what christ says when peter you

00:20:43.480 at the beginning of the Passion, when the Romans come with Judas to capture him, and what does

00:20:49.060 Peter do? He slices off the ear of one of the Roman soldiers. And Christ says, no, no, no, no,

00:20:52.920 put your sword back into its place for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

00:20:57.240 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my father, that he will at once send me more than 12 legions

00:21:02.020 of angels? But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so? The Romans who are

00:21:08.800 mocking christ on the crucifix they say ha he saved some money many can he save himself let's

00:21:14.540 see him save himself now he says you you think i can't save you think i can't call on my father

00:21:19.540 and he would send 12 legions of angels but then the the scriptures would not be fulfilled

00:21:25.700 and this is the answer to theodicy this is what god is getting at when he's talking to job at the

00:21:31.520 at the end of the book, he says, you know, there's a plan here. I have a plan. And whether you believe

00:21:39.120 that or not, whether you have faith or not, the thing you can know for certain is you don't have

00:21:44.740 a plan. You cannot comprehend the fullness of the plan. You weren't there when the foundations

00:21:51.160 of the earth were laid. You don't know. You have a very modest store of reason. And so if there is

00:21:58.600 a plan, you are not in control of it. And so the reaction is illustrative, look, we should pray for

00:22:05.120 this priest. Some people don't like to pray for the dead, but of course, if you've ever said R.I.P.,

00:22:11.640 you are praying for the dead. R.I.P. means requiescat in pace, in English, rest in peace.

00:22:17.360 You say, requiem maternum donae dominat lux perpetua lucet e requiescat in pace.

00:22:23.900 You know, let perpetual light shine upon him.

00:22:25.960 May he rest in peace.

00:22:27.200 So you are, if you ever say RIP,

00:22:28.820 you are praying for the dead.

00:22:29.540 But in any case, we should pray for the dead. 0.90

00:22:31.540 From the Christian perspective,

00:22:32.720 this is not the worst way to die. 1.00

00:22:34.360 This might be the best way to die.

00:22:35.820 This is a priest celebrating mass

00:22:37.500 in the real presence of God.

00:22:39.120 The last words out of his lips are Lord. 0.98

00:22:41.700 We're all gonna die someday. 0.93

00:22:42.840 Either you're gonna die in a hospice starving, 0.99

00:22:44.860 or you're gonna die in a hospital 0.56

00:22:45.940 with a bunch of tubes plugged into you. 1.00

00:22:48.120 Or you're gonna die because some Muslim bandit in France, 1.00

00:22:50.960 you know, stabs you or burns you. 1.00

00:22:52.420 or you're going to die. But you're going to die. You're going to die. You know no one here gets 1.00

00:22:56.980 out alive, right? So the question is, how are you going to die? What is a good death?

00:23:01.920 We forget all of these things. Traditionally in Christianity at the end of the year,

00:23:06.040 especially during Advent, you think about the four final things, death, judgment, heaven,

00:23:10.860 and hell. Now we spend our whole lives trying to avoid thinking about those things.

00:23:13.500 We think a good death is when you kill yourself. We think that a good death is

00:23:17.600 death coming to you unawares without preparing your soul for it.

00:23:24.060 The modern culture that impels this reaction is the culture of karma.

00:23:30.360 Well, there's karma.

00:23:31.360 Karma is not a Christian concept, okay?

00:23:33.320 Karma is not a Western concept.

00:23:35.440 Karma is an Eastern pagan import that we, now that we, after the Enlightenment,

00:23:40.300 have increasingly turned back toward paganism, we have appropriated.

00:23:44.740 But ain't nothing good about karma.

00:23:47.580 Karma is the idea that when the little kid dies from cancer, he probably deserved it.

00:23:51.660 He had to have deserved it.

00:23:52.680 That's the law of attraction.

00:23:54.140 The best-selling book that Oprah promoted for years, The Secret.

00:23:59.120 Do you remember that book?

00:23:59.980 Rhonda Byrne, was it?

00:24:01.060 One of the most evil books of, certainly of my lifetime.

00:24:04.460 The Secret said that everything that happens to you is your own fault

00:24:07.780 because you attract it through some woo-woo new age juju.

00:24:11.840 And so if you want good things to happen to you, you just have to think right.

00:24:15.140 And if bad things are happening to you,

00:24:16.600 if the rain falls on you

00:24:17.600 and you think that you're just,

00:24:18.740 you're not just.

00:24:19.580 You're doing something wrong.

00:24:22.540 That's the view. 0.99

00:24:23.540 Look, if you want to live like a pagan society, 0.99

00:24:26.660 if you want your society 0.99

00:24:29.340 increasingly to resemble societies

00:24:31.400 in East Asia or South Asia

00:24:33.200 or pre-Christian Latin America

00:24:36.680 or something like that, 0.68

00:24:37.640 if you want widespread human sacrifice,

00:24:39.960 which we have now,

00:24:40.660 we have 1.2 million babies a year we sacrifice. 1.00

00:24:42.580 if you want Dionysiac orgies that disrespect women, 1.00

00:24:47.740 but also degrade men. 0.75

00:24:49.000 We got that at Cornell now, if you want. 1.00

00:24:50.660 If you want that, you can return to the pagan society. 0.96

00:24:55.360 But for at least roughly 2,000 years, 0.95

00:24:59.640 well, solidly at least 1,000 years in there,

00:25:02.680 we had a Christian society. 1.00

00:25:04.880 And it was better.

00:25:06.120 It was the greatest society that ever lived.

00:25:07.540 It was the society that built Notre Dame de Paris,

00:25:10.140 all the Gothic cathedrals,

00:25:11.240 that established our flourishing systems of government

00:25:13.400 that once really did flourish,

00:25:15.100 that conquered the world for good,

00:25:18.320 that made the world better,

00:25:19.840 that was so good that all the rest of the world

00:25:21.240 wanted to become like us

00:25:22.120 and wanted to come to our countries.

00:25:24.220 That's how you know that when we conquered the world,

00:25:25.760 it was for good,

00:25:26.340 because all those other people that we conquered,

00:25:28.100 they're not trying to run away

00:25:29.520 from their supposed oppressors.

00:25:30.800 They're battering down the doors

00:25:34.760 to try to get into our societies.

00:25:37.240 And that's what we're giving up.

00:25:38.360 Your take on the priest being crushed by the crucifix is going to tell you where you're at on this spectrum, from Christian society to pagan society.

00:25:48.060 If your first take is, well, that's karma, okay, well, you're like a lot of modern people.

00:25:54.320 But that's not the view in the Bible.

00:25:56.340 I mean, there are like actual stories in the Bible about your reaction. 0.99

00:26:01.420 Don't be Eliphaz. 0.99

00:26:02.340 Do not, as a general rule, do not be Eliphaz. 0.81

00:26:06.100 Okay. Now, speaking of unexpected turns of providence, the White House press secretary

00:26:11.180 is out after one week. We will get to how that went down because everyone, the left is making

00:26:18.140 a lot of jokes about this. Some people on the right, I think, are being pretty cruel about this.

00:26:22.120 I think actually there's a lot of glass half full in the whole episode, not just because I'm a

00:26:26.760 generally sunny kind of guy, but because of what it shows you about the people involved from the

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00:28:06.800 tax relief advocates real solutions for real people katie zachariah is named white house

00:28:13.540 press secretary about a week ago and she the first day was columbus day then her first press 0.98

00:28:19.700 briefing was on tuesday she stumbled out the gate then she went on for some tough interviews

00:28:24.520 the following morning. They didn't go all that well. And then the left started really digging

00:28:29.300 into her and raised this question about whether or not she was really an attorney. She said,

00:28:33.040 I'm not an attorney. I'm a lawyer because she has a law degree. But then she moved to China 0.94

00:28:36.800 with her husband almost right after law school. So she didn't pass the bar. She didn't take it

00:28:40.920 again. She wasn't really going to practice law. And so then it got all in the weeds on, well,

00:28:45.160 what's the distinction between a lawyer and an attorney? And when you're explaining,

00:28:47.900 you're losing. And it didn't work out well. So President Trump was asked when she was on the

00:28:51.260 ropes. Before she stepped down, he said, hey, are you going to fire your press secretary? 0.99

00:28:57.700 Katie Zacharias didn't pass the bar, and how would you rate her performance? 0.56

00:29:01.120 Well, Katie's been treated very badly by the media, very, very badly, very unfairly, I think.

00:29:06.620 And I just spoke to her about it. I said, Katie, is this for you? Because, you know,

00:29:11.260 she's been treated very rough, and she's a nice person, very nice person. I've watched her for

00:29:17.360 years on television but i said is this for you katie because honestly you don't need this you

00:29:23.480 don't have to be treated i would say the fake news but just generally the media has been

00:29:28.520 very rough is that that you didn't disclose uh passing the bar or not passing the bar

00:29:33.960 well i wasn't hiring her to be a lawyer i was hiring a press secretary so nobody really went

00:29:39.120 crazy over that uh i would say it probably wouldn't have mattered i know many people

00:29:44.800 many people many very smart people some of them take the bar four exams the bar exam four times

00:29:50.940 but uh i wasn't hiring as a lawyer i hired as a press and she's been very good you know she's

00:29:57.640 been loyal to me from day one for a long time but it's not an easy job and i think she was really

00:30:03.580 treated very unfairly so i'll speak to her about it i told her i think you're better off being

00:30:08.740 happy. And I'm not sure you can ever be happy at this stuff. Look at this. Look at how he handles

00:30:14.560 this. Because Trump has this reputation of being disloyal. I don't think that's true. Everything

00:30:20.560 I know about Trump, I've been kind of close to Trump. I'm close to many people around Trump.

00:30:24.220 Everything I hear is he's a very loyal guy. But he's got this reputation, at least in the left

00:30:29.200 wing media. Oh, he'll fire people by tweet. He'll throw people out. You know, his whole punchline,

00:30:34.540 his whole catchphrase on The Apprentice is, you're fired. And he'll just toss them out willy-nilly.

00:30:38.740 Look at what he does here. She stumbles out the gate. A lot of people predicted she would not 0.99

00:30:43.080 stay in the role very long. And what does Trump do? Instead of saying, yeah, it was terrible.

00:30:46.580 I don't know who hired her. This was a big mistake. They shouldn't, it ain't gonna run

00:30:49.380 the vetting. But instead of doing that and going after, he says, she was treated very unfairly by

00:30:54.220 the media. Whether you agree with that statement or not, it's a very loyal way. It's a very gracious

00:31:00.000 way to react to that question. And he says, she's a very nice person. I can attest, she's a lovely

00:31:05.780 person. I know Katie a little bit, and we have mutual friends, close mutual friends. She is a

00:31:10.140 lovely person. She is one of the loveliest people I've ever met in politics, okay? And I'm not even

00:31:14.840 judging. That sounds like I'm grading on a curve, because people in politics are nasty, evil 0.99

00:31:18.380 monsters a lot of the time. But she is just so lovely, earnest, sincere, talented. But she did

00:31:26.320 stumble, I think. There's no question about that. And Trump says, no, no, no, she's great. And so I

00:31:32.620 casters, you know, you've been treated so unfairly. I want you to be happy. She does it. She's got

00:31:36.820 four kids. Is this, you know, is this really for you? It's a very gentle way of saying. Now,

00:31:40.180 obviously, the president of the United States, if he says to someone who's working for him,

00:31:43.000 hey, is this really for you? That is a sign to say, okay, you're going to move into some other

00:31:46.360 role in life. But he does it in this very, very gracious way. And for Katie Zacharias' part,

00:31:51.640 look at what she says. After this, where she's been absolutely brutalized in the media, 0.78

00:31:57.380 she comes out, she posts a picture with the president and says, President Trump is a kind,

00:32:00.260 wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and hardworking man. I wish more Americans

00:32:03.660 appreciated him. No one will ever make America great the way he has and continues to. It was an

00:32:07.620 honor to work for him. And all these nasty people are making fun of her and trying to dunk on her 1.00

00:32:12.620 and all this. That's a class act right there. That is a class act. It would be so easy to say, 1.00

00:32:18.760 yeah, I was treated unfairly, and this isn't right, or to go silent out of embarrassment or

00:32:23.620 whatever. She doesn't do that. She faces this media onslaught head on, even after getting the

00:32:29.400 job and losing the job in a week. She comes out there. She says, everything I thought about Trump

00:32:33.740 beforehand remains true. All the reasons I was eager to work for him are the reasons that I want

00:32:38.940 to continue to support him now. And even if I only got to work for him for a week, it was an honor to

00:32:42.560 work for him. That's a class act. It takes a lot of guts to do that. It takes a lot of moral clarity

00:32:48.940 to do that. And so anyway, yeah, it's unfortunate. I don't know. I think the reporting out of the

00:32:54.200 White House now is that they're not going to rush to replace the press secretary. And they don't

00:32:59.680 really need to. President Trump is, whether you love him or hate him, he is the most transparent

00:33:03.180 president we've ever had. He just talks to reporters on the right, on the left, friendly,

00:33:09.340 hostile, on the reg. They just call him. A lot of them have his cell phone number. He invited the

00:33:13.440 press into the cabinet meetings. He invites them in all the time. He talks to them off the cuff all

00:33:17.860 the time. Whatever you want to say about Trump, you cannot say he's hiding from the cameras.

00:33:21.760 He does more press conferences in a day than Joe Biden did in four years, okay?

00:33:26.760 And so between him, the vice president is very good at communicating with the press.

00:33:31.680 A lot of members, Rubio is great, Hegseth, all these guys go out there.

00:33:35.540 There's a lot of access.

00:33:36.400 I don't know that you need a press secretary right away.

00:33:38.800 For most of American history, the president did not have a press secretary.

00:33:42.360 So in any case, probably they'll wait until after the midterms.

00:33:46.140 I think that would be a good idea anyway.

00:33:48.080 way. All that to say, in a very intense moment when tensions are really running high days before

00:33:54.900 midterm elections, it's so hot, it's so hard. The fact that Trump and Katie Zachariah both showed

00:34:01.440 this much class and maturity and grace in how this was handled, I find very impressive. I don't think

00:34:06.620 it's just, yeah, of course, you wish it had worked out. You wish that there wasn't a stumble. Yeah,

00:34:11.020 I acknowledge all of that. But the story is going to be almost entirely forgotten in about three

00:34:17.320 days. And the way both of them handled it, I think actually reveals a lot about their character.

00:34:21.780 Okay. She was always, one last point on this before we all move on from the story and everyone

00:34:27.360 goes on. Also again, in Katie Zachariah's defense, there were three things going on.

00:34:34.020 Yes, she stumbled out the gate. And she started explaining why that was and saying, well, you know,

00:34:38.720 I was underslept and I jet lag and I just got the job yesterday and I went straight to the

00:34:43.320 briefing today. So she stumbled out the gate. The administration was clearly not prepared for

00:34:47.220 some of the attacks that were going to come on her. But also, the media were going to be savage

00:34:53.360 on her. Whether or not you think the media really were deservedly brutal or gratuitously brutal,

00:34:59.580 they were always going to be brutal because they couldn't land a glove on Caroline Leavitt.

00:35:03.500 That was the issue. They wanted to brutalize Caroline Leavitt, but Caroline Leavitt, 0.97

00:35:07.980 especially with all that momentum, all that popular support at the beginning of the administration, 1.00

00:35:12.220 Caroline Leavitt ran over them like a tank. I mean, she just absolutely wrecked them. 1.00

00:35:16.820 And they were furious because Caroline is a pretty, young, blonde girl who's extremely articulate, who was able to beat them and outmaneuver them at every step of the way.

00:35:26.680 So the press were frothing at the mouth.

00:35:28.820 They were champing at the bit to get whoever the next person was.

00:35:31.360 Because of those three reasons, Katie was always going to have a hard time.

00:35:35.840 And anyway, they'll move on now, probably after the midterms. 0.74

00:35:39.380 Okay, now speaking of those midterms, President Trump is talking about a Senate candidate's derriere again. 0.89

00:35:46.520 He's a male Seneca. 1.00

00:35:48.560 He's talking about a man's butt. 0.99

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00:37:45.940 real solutions for real people. My favorite comment yesterday is from Overtoast, who says,

00:37:51.060 clickbait, Matt does not sit in Michael's lap as it shows in the thumbnail. I know, is that,

00:37:55.740 are we clickbaiters? Are we, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't make the thumbnail, and I would certainly

00:38:00.960 never have put matt walsh sitting in my lap but we did yeah matt came on for friend friday on friday

00:38:05.180 and we had we typically you know matt he and i are like yin and yang uh we and i we're very we're

00:38:12.620 kind of complimentary personalities you know a little smile a little frown anyway if you didn't

00:38:16.920 catch that show it's up there for friday uh let's turn speaking of men sitting in men's laps president

00:38:22.120 Trump is once again talking about a male Senate candidates. But he came up and he was talking

00:38:31.200 very nicely. And I stood right over here and I examined his ass. I never did that. 1.00

00:38:38.820 No, I never did that with a man before. I examined his ass and then I looked at his shoulders. I 1.00

00:38:45.140 looked at his feet i looked at his hand i looked at his jawline studying he's got a jawline this

00:38:52.780 is like you would be very unfortunate if you picked a fight with him at a bar someday you

00:38:58.000 want to give me that seat no i'm not going to give you the seat but uh i then patted him on

00:39:03.580 the shoulder and it was like a piece of steel i sort of i'm still recovering my head i was like

00:39:09.940 and i explained it to the crowd i said this is unbelievable and you know he's picked up like

00:39:15.980 nine or ten points since i talked about that what did i tell you you know i hate to say i told you

00:39:23.800 so the first time trump did this a week or two ago he starts he goes i look there i'm looking 0.98

00:39:28.260 he's strong he's got his ass he said that he said he didn't have the word ass was really crucial 0.99

00:39:33.680 there and it goes viral and the left starts calling him gay and a lot of people on the right 1.00

00:39:37.580 I said, what is he talking about? 0.97

00:39:38.620 Why doesn't he shut up?

00:39:39.460 He's got to stay more on message.

00:39:40.880 And I said, you don't get what's going on here.

00:39:42.580 This is like watching Michelangelo paint the ceiling.

00:39:45.140 All right.

00:39:45.520 Trump knows exactly what he's doing.

00:39:48.260 What I said, why is he talking about this random Senate candidates?

00:39:52.320 But he's doing it because now he, one, he's painting a picture.

00:39:58.120 Notice all he says here.

00:39:59.100 He doubles down.

00:40:00.140 He triples down and he just opens up.

00:40:01.400 He goes, yeah, you know, like a comedian using one of his great bits.

00:40:03.680 He goes, yeah, the other week I was like, I don't know.

00:40:05.560 I got in trouble. 1.00

00:40:06.120 people were always, because I stood there, I was looking at this candidate, and I examined his ass. 1.00

00:40:12.480 And they go, woo! It's like, you know, it's just, it's like Chappelle getting up, doing a bit, 0.99

00:40:17.060 or I don't know, Rodney Dangerfield. You all know my doctor, Dr. Vinny Boombat. It's like,

00:40:20.080 the minute he sets that up, you know you're going to get this routine. And Trump's like,

00:40:23.520 and so I examined his ass. And then he goes on this whole thing. His feet, his hands, 1.00

00:40:30.240 his shoulders like steel. He's painting an image. And I said at the time, the first time he did,

00:40:34.200 I said, the reason Trump is doing this is because previously you were not talking about

00:40:38.820 Mike Rogers because Mike Rogers is kind of boring.

00:40:40.960 You were not talking about him.

00:40:41.860 And a lot of Republicans didn't even know that he was the Republican candidate running

00:40:44.700 against Abdul El-Sayed.

00:40:46.380 Everyone's just talking about Abdul.

00:40:47.660 No one's talking about Mike Rogers.

00:40:48.880 And now you're talking about Mike Rogers.

00:40:50.700 And when you think of Mike Rogers, what are you now thinking?

00:40:54.540 Handsome guy, athlete, good looking, strong.

00:40:58.020 That's the image that Trump is planting in your mind.

00:41:01.100 And he is doing that. 0.97

00:41:02.320 He's using the word ass because he knows that that is going to go viral and it's going to get 0.96

00:41:06.640 you to think of that image that he's implanting. So you think of Abdul El-Sayed, crazy, gay, 1.00

00:41:11.220 jihadi. And then you think of Mike Rogers, strong, athlete, Superman, Hulk. That's why he's doing it. 0.99

00:41:17.940 And Trump does it again. And then he says at the very end there, he might as well have said,

00:41:22.760 and Michael's analysis was totally right. Okay. I don't want to brag. I do want to brag actually,

00:41:28.160 because he's acknowledging what he was doing. He said, yeah. And you know the funny thing?

00:41:32.220 It was like the perfect little coda, perfect little punchline there. 0.99

00:41:35.660 He goes, I love his ass and his shoulders, and he's strong, and he's a hug. 0.99

00:41:39.300 I've never done that to a man before, right? 0.99

00:41:41.240 He's joking around.

00:41:42.120 He's not doing it to women all the time, but I've never done it to a man before. 1.00

00:41:45.220 He's doing this gay thing, and it's funny because it's incongruous because no one thinks 0.85

00:41:48.740 Trump is gay. 0.96

00:41:49.400 Whatever you think about Trump, nobody thinks he's gay. 1.00

00:41:51.500 I had dated supermodels for 50 years, and he goes there at the end.

00:41:54.780 He goes, and you know the funny thing about that?

00:41:57.520 Now he's up nine or ten points.

00:41:59.220 Good night, everybody.

00:42:00.980 That's it.

00:42:01.460 That's what he was doing.

00:42:01.960 and it clearly worked. And things are starting to look a little bit better in the race. Right now,

00:42:08.520 the polls are improving a little bit for the Republicans. Insider Advantage poll in Texas

00:42:14.840 has Ken Paxton slightly ahead of Tallarico. So, 49 to 48, it's statistically tied.

00:42:21.820 Tallarico had been leading by single digits in recent polls, but now it's tied. In Maine,

00:42:28.480 Susan Collins had been behind Troy Jackson, like 47 to 49. But Collins does seem to be coming back

00:42:39.260 from behind. So in any case, this is really, really close. If you get out there, vote early,

00:42:46.600 vote often, you'll be in a, you're in a position where we could win. We're probably going to lose

00:42:53.860 the House. The Senate is still very, very much up for play. Some of the governorship's still

00:42:57.900 very, very much up for play. And then the question from the Republicans, especially some of the

00:43:03.780 disillusioned younger Republicans is, well, why would I vote for Trump? You know, I don't like

00:43:08.240 the Iran war. Why would I vote for Trump? Because the Iran war has put pressure on energy markets,

00:43:13.400 which is increasing the cost of goods a little bit. Nowhere near the inflation we saw under

00:43:16.860 Biden, but it's still expensive. It's still a little tough out there, isn't it? So why would

00:43:20.980 I vote for Trump? He's only deported 3 million foreigners. I wanted him to deport 4 million

00:43:25.640 foreigners. And sure, I want him to deport 10 million foreigners, but why would I vote for 1.00

00:43:29.940 Trump? I had higher expectations. And I say, okay, well, look, you agree or disagree on the 0.78

00:43:36.820 Iran war. I think that reasonable minds can disagree on it. I think that there was an

00:43:42.840 argument, just as there's been a strong argument for decades, to do something about Iran's very

00:43:46.860 obvious nuclear ambitions, whether or not they were very close to a bomb, whether or not they

00:43:51.520 were close to immunity because of their conventional weapons, whether or not it was

00:43:55.840 wise to do it this time or that. Yeah, I get it. I totally get it. I totally get it.

00:44:01.420 The economy had been doing historically well before the Iran war and is still doing quite well.

00:44:09.300 On top of that, you have mass deportations. The southern border shut down. That stops 3 million

00:44:14.340 illegals from coming in every year. And then you've got 3 million people deported on top of

00:44:17.900 that, two and a half million of which are illegal aliens. So, you've got a net swing of, what is

00:44:22.140 that? Six million? And approaching, now that we're moving further into the year, plus seven million

00:44:29.180 from the foreign-born population that had been the highest ever as a percentage of the population,

00:44:33.280 now that's down. It's no longer the highest ever. That's pretty good. Okay, this, that, and the,

00:44:37.460 but maybe that's not convincing you. Maybe that's not convincing you. You say, yeah, well, I wanted

00:44:41.020 the economy to be doing better, and I really didn't want the Iran war, and I didn't want this, 0.98

00:44:44.440 I wanted, okay. Do you know what's going to happen if the Democrats win, especially if they

00:44:50.420 win the Senate? They're not going to pass socialist health care. They can't do that yet.

00:44:54.620 They could do it if they win in 2028 presidency. They're not going to flood the country with

00:44:59.640 illegals yet. They'll certainly do that if they win the presidency. They're not going to destroy 0.99

00:45:04.640 the Supreme Court yet, but they will do that if they win the presidency, very likely.

00:45:07.480 what they're going to do is they're going to punish their political opponents and you might

00:45:15.060 even say who with a little maybe a little less loyalty than president trump you might even say

00:45:19.380 well i don't care if they punish trump i don't care if they punish trump's kids i don't care

00:45:22.840 if they punish trump's staffers i don't care but that's not what they're going to do they're going

00:45:29.700 to punish you. They're going to bring the force of the state against you simply for being a

00:45:38.400 Republican, for being a Trump supporter. Even if you're not a Republican, if you voted for Trump,

00:45:42.940 they're going to come after you. You don't need to take my word for it. The senator from Michigan,

00:45:47.060 the Democrat senator from Michigan, Alyssa Slotkin, just said this openly at UChicago.

00:45:52.880 So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the

00:45:58.280 president but on the people who enabled him i want young people coming out of school to say

00:46:03.520 should i go work for the trump administration like that sounds fun i might get an opportunity

00:46:07.340 i want them to be like lord that might be buying myself a ton of problems that i don't want and so

00:46:14.280 let me avoid participating in that i want that deterrence message this is so amazing that they're

00:46:21.820 they're speaking at the the institute of politics at u chicago this prestigious institution these

00:46:27.460 are supposed to be the adults in the room. These are supposed to be the brave principled defenders

00:46:31.060 of democracy. And what is she saying? She's saying, yeah, the people elected Trump.

00:46:37.420 And I really don't like that. So what I am going to do is try to imprison. I, a US senator,

00:46:45.300 she's not just some activist. She's not just Hassan Piker. She's a US senator.

00:46:48.900 I am going to, if I ever have the power, imprison everyone who supported Trump to the degree that I

00:46:57.060 can. Not even just the really high level people. She says, these are her words. She says, I want

00:47:03.840 a teenage kid. I want a kid in college who might be considering working for the popularly elected

00:47:12.580 president of the United States. I want that kid to be afraid and to avoid working for him because

00:47:20.080 he knows that we Democrats will imprison him for the crime of disagreeing with us and helping to

00:47:26.080 support the president, who effectively won the popular vote, that's what they're going to do.

00:47:33.740 They're coming for you. Remember under Biden, they were invading your churches, and they were

00:47:38.480 calling parents at the PTA terrorists, and they were imprisoning pro-life grannies because they

00:47:44.480 prayed a little too much at abortion clinics. Remember that? That was the amuse-bouche to the 0.98

00:47:51.920 banquet of political persecution that the Democrats are promising to unleash if they

00:47:59.180 get the power. Do you feel motivated to vote? Because I do. Had I been on the National Security

00:48:06.200 Council, I would have urged restraint on the Iran war. I would have. There were a few things I would

00:48:10.720 have done differently if I worked in the White House. Nobody was asking my opinion. And you know

00:48:15.260 what? It doesn't really matter. I happen to love Trump. I think Trump is the best president of my

00:48:21.520 lifetime. I think he's been right about 99.3% of the time. Okay, nobody's right 100% of the time.

00:48:27.400 He's right pretty close. But maybe you don't. Maybe you think he's only been right 80% of the

00:48:31.320 time. I don't know. 90%, 70%, whatever. Trump is, in a terrestrial political sense,

00:48:40.240 a cataconic figure, to use a favorite phrase of Peter Thiel's and some of the online right.

00:48:45.900 He's this restrainer figure who is keeping the Alyssa Slotkins of the world at bay.

00:48:51.520 the Alyssa Slotkins who want to imprison you, according to her own words.

00:48:59.120 Are you going to go vote? Who are you going to vote for? I think Alyssa Slotkin or Donald Trump?

00:49:04.240 The woman who wants to imprison you or the guy who doesn't want to imprison you?

00:49:06.980 And the guy who is helping you, actually. Are you going to vote? Do you feel motivated? Okay,

00:49:11.220 well, maybe you'll feel motivated from behind bars, but then it'll be too late.

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