Ep. 812 - Helter-Skelter Here Again
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According to a new Gallup poll, race relations are at an all-time low in the United States. Why is this happening? Is it because we re not talking about race enough? Or is it because race is not talked about enough?
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31st, 2025. TD. Ready for you. According to a new Gallup poll, race relations are at a 20-year
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low. The majority of Americans, 57%, say that race relations are somewhat or very bad, which is
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amazing to me because for the past couple of decades, all of our elite institutions have claimed
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that all whites are racist, blacks can't leave their homes without being hunted down on account
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of their race and that race is the single most important aspect of a person's identity. Given
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the prominence and influence of so many race-hustling hucksters, it's a wonder race relations aren't at
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an all-time low. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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country by about 40%. I feel like, I feel like I've really hit something. I feel like we're right over
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Race relations are at an all-time low. Now, what the libs will tell you, the libs who have
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dominated every institution for decades now, what they will tell you is the reason race relations
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are at an all-time low is because we're not talking about race enough. We're not having enough
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conversations about race. We're not focused on race enough. Now, of course, the strategy for the
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past 20 years has been to focus more and more and more on race and to push anti-racism and the
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consequences of critical race theory and various other leftist programs. So, the proof of the
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pudding tends to be in the tasting. The consequence of all of these racially conscious new ideas seems
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to be a decline in race relations and yet what the libs are going to tell us is that this is just
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evidence that we need even more of their racial theories. That's sort of like how the Ibram Kendi
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types, the anti-racist types, beg the question, sort of how they say, well, look, if you deny that
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you are a racist, that is only evidence that you are a racist. And obviously, if you admit that you're
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a racist, that's evidence that you're a racist. So, either way, you need to buy my book. Pretty
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brilliant marketing campaign. My point, though, on why we don't need to talk about race all the time,
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why it's detrimental to do that, is because there are other bad things. There are other bad things in
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the world than racism. For instance, so Pit Viper, which it makes the sunglasses from the 90s, you
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remember those, the colorful sunglasses? They are in a bind. They've been receiving a lot of pressure
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from leftist groups because apparently some evil, terrible, no good racists have worn Pit Vipers. So,
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they just, they wore the sunglasses. And so, Pit Vipers needs to make a statement. They made a
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statement specifically against the guy, Nick Fuentes. We've mentioned him on the show a few
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times, who has said plenty of unsavory things and has been entirely unpersoned because of it.
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You know, there are a lot of people who say unsavory things in this country who don't end up
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on the no-fly list and kicked off of all major social media and not permitted to use financial
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institutions. But because of his unsavory things, he has been unpersoned. So, Pit Vipers sent out a
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tweet. They said, new policy money received from confirmed racists will be donated in their name.
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Thanks for working against your cause, Nick Fuentes. And they donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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which is a vicious, vile hate group, if you ask me, one of the worst organizations in the country.
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Okay. So, the money that comes from the racists, that's going to, that's unacceptable. We won't
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keep that money. We're going to donate it to other groups. Are there other bad, bad groups of people
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in the country? So, okay, the racists, they're bad. Okay, fine. Got it. Racists, they're bad. What
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about the communists? What if you get money, Pit Vipers, what if you get money from confirmed
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communists? Are you going to keep that money? Communism killed, what, 100 million people in
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the 20th century? Vicious anti-human ideology. You're going to, I guess you'll keep that kind
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of money. What about money from guys who cheat on their wives? Because that's bad. It's bad to cheat
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on your wife. Are you, you're going to take money from guys who, who cheat on their wives? What about
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pedophile, confirmed pedophiles? I bet that some confirmed pedophiles have worn sunglasses at some
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point in their lives. Are you going to take money from them? What about abortionists? Oh my God,
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you're going to take money for, hold on. I get it. You don't want to take money from racists,
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but you're going to take money from people whose job it is to murder babies? A lot of bad people out
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there. A lot of bad things out there. But the only way that we can talk about evil and sin in this
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country anymore is by talking about racism. It's considered the only bad thing. Just like how among
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political movements, fascism is the only bad thing. This is why sometimes people will refer to Antifa
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as fascists or they'll refer to Democrats as fascists. They're not fascists. Antifa is made
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up of communists and anarchists and those are very bad people, but they're actually not fascists.
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And by, by pretending that the political movement that is only ever associated with the right wing,
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that that's the only bad thing in the world that plays to the leftist's hand. Speaking of communists,
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by the way, Governor Ron DeSantis, he's not a communist, but Governor Ron DeSantis now is clearly
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making a play for the 2024 presidential nomination. He's looking down what's going on 90 miles off the
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coast of Florida. And he is saying the United States ought to free Cuba. From day one, the people
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of Cuba have been protesting and demonstrating against the communist dictatorship in Havana.
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It's not because of vaccines. It's not because of these side issues. They want a new government.
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They want to free Cuba. And it's, I think, incumbent upon us in the United States to be supportive of
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those efforts. I've called on Joe Biden. The communist regime has shut down internet. Let's work to beam
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internet onto the island of Cuba. So these folks have a fighting chance to converse with one another,
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to send what's going on to the outside world. Let's build an international coalition so that the
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regime knows the free world stands with the people of Cuba. I think you're seeing people take to the
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streets here because we understand after 62 years, something is different on that island right now.
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We have an opportunity to really take a new chapter in history. And I think you point out in your monologue,
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Cuba would be a phenomenal ally of our country. If it was free, they would boom like probably few
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countries in the Caribbean. It would be a boon for the people of Cuba. And it would also be great
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for relations with the United States. So this will play very well for Ron DeSantis in Florida. Don't
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forget, he's got to win a gubernatorial election before he can, he's got to win reelection there before
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he can run for president. So this will play very well. Obviously, lots of Cubans in Miami, a lot of people
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very supportive to the people of Cuba against the communist regime. I'm not so sure that this kind
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of thing plays nationally though. This would have played nationally five to 15 years ago, really,
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actually five years ago to, I don't know, 50 years ago, back when anti-communism was the rallying cry of
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the conservative movement. And especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when regime change was
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sort of the name of the game on the Republican side. But I'm not convinced that the American people
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want to form any international coalitions to push for any sort of regime change anywhere in the world.
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Not because it's intrinsically wrong to do that in any way, but because the American people are kind
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of tired of those regime change wars of empire. I think they're tired. I mean, the Republican
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candidate ran against the war in Iraq, ran against remaining in Afghanistan in 2016 and 2020, I guess,
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for that matter. We're just pulling out of Afghanistan now. This is the first thing, I mean,
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look, I'm with DeSantis on standing against the communist dictatorship, but the overt calls for an
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international movement to go in and to institute regime change. I'm not sure that that is the political
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moment we're in because there are so many problems here in the United States that are not even just
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economic problems or not even looming problems of debt, say, or unfunded entitlements, but real
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problems of crime in the streets spiking. As we said, race relations, lowest in 20 years. We've got
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people burning down buildings. We've got people who don't trust our electoral systems. You know,
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a lot of problems here in the United States. And I strongly suspect that the candidate in 2024,
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the Republican nominee in 2024, is going to have a pretty strong domestic focus. Obviously,
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circumstances can change in the world. So who knows, some unforeseen event involving China or
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other geopolitical actor, maybe that could change things. But as of right now, I think the focus is
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Ron DeSantis, more than any governor in the country, generally speaking, has his finger on the pulse
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of where the Republican Party is right now. He's seen things a little bit ahead. Obviously,
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he's making this play right now for a Cuban vote in Florida, and he's standing against the
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communists, which is a little maybe out of step with where the Republican Party is because of
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this domestic focus, I think, that Republicans have right now. But generally speaking, he's ahead
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on these things. And I think you might start to see a shift in the way that the COVID vaccine is
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talked about. Ron DeSantis has led the COVID fight better than any other governor in the country.
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DeSantis now is actively encouraging people to go get the COVID vaccines.
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If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID
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is effectively zero. If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals,
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over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. And so
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these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality. Mortality in nursing homes, since we
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rolled out the vaccines in December, is down over 95 percent due to COVID. Mortality for elderly people,
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since we rolled out the vaccines, is down nearly 90 percent. And so we're proud in Florida that we put
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seniors first on that because they were the most vulnerable. We have 85 percent of our seniors that
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are vaccinated and about 75 percent of folks over the age of 50. We have no mandate. We've provided
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information to people and we've been very honest about any data that comes out. So fair enough. That's
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fine. The only problem I have with this statement and this new pivot among Republicans to start really
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pushing the vaccine, not with mandates. He's done a good job of saying, no, we're not going to have a
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mandate, but still really encouraging people to go get it, is it hides the ball on the question of
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prudence. It hides the ball on the question of which demographics are most at risk here. Because
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you're going to hear this statistic, 99.9999 percent of people who go to the hospital for COVID
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are unvaccinated now. And so you all need to get the vaccine, get the vaccine, sheep.
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But then notice what Governor DeSantis says. He says, the nursing home mortality from COVID,
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he has to say from COVID because nursing home mortality is 100 percent. Mortality for everyone
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is 100 percent in the long run. He says, nursing home fatality, mortality from COVID has dropped 95 percent
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since among people who got the vaccine. Yeah, of course, that makes sense. Mortality among the
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elderly from COVID has dropped 95 percent for those who got the vaccine. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Does that mean that an 18-year-old needs to go get the vaccine or should get the vaccine? No,
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that doesn't follow logically at all. From the very beginning, there have been people who have said,
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everyone needs to go get the vaccine immediately. There have been people who have said, no one should
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ever touch that vaccine because they're going to get 5G in their bodies and then their cell phones are
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going to work too well. That's not my position. My position is use prudence. This is an experimental
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drug. It received an emergency use authorization. There are side effects that we were initially not
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told about that then presented themselves that then the CDC and the FDA had to acknowledge,
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namely blood clots from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in women, mostly women, and myocarditis and
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periocarditis in young people who are otherwise healthy from some of the mRNA vaccines, plus a rare
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nervous system disorder that came from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine that's also been present from
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other vaccines. Slowly, they had to acknowledge those risks. If you are in a nursing home,
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probably the risk from COVID is greater than the risk from the vaccine, especially if we're talking
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about potential long-term side effects. Because if you're in a nursing home, the long-term is not
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your concern. To quote the great, actually not so great economist John Maynard Keynes, in the long
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run, we're all dead. If you are 15 years old, why would you get this vaccine? Here's the real answer.
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You might get this vaccine because your school makes you and then you've got to make a choice. Are you
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going to remain in the school or not? You're going to have to make a political decision there.
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But from a medical perspective, why on earth would you get the vaccine? There was that story of a 13
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year old who died just days after receiving the vaccine from inflammation of the heart. Not saying
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that correlation is causation, but seems kind of coincidental, doesn't it? And so that is the issue
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here because the people who are going into hospitals, the huge numbers of people that we're told are going
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into hospitals with coronavirus. It's actually not a very large number of people relative to the people
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who've been infected by it, but it's not generally speaking 15 and 18 and 25 year olds. It's much
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older, more, much older people rather. And so when you're making that decision, I think prudence is
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the answer. And so you're going to start seeing even Republican politicians start pushing this
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vaccine. I think we've still got to focus on prudence. That's going to be the answer. That is the
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conservative virtue. Now, Jen Psaki at the White House is attacking Ron DeSantis, not over his new
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measures to push the vaccine more and more, but because the man is not doing enough because he
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won't institute a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate. Florida Governor DeSantis was talking about mask
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mandates for kids earlier this morning. And he said, we're not doing that in Florida. We need our kids
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to breathe. We need our kids to be able to be kids. He said it's terribly uncomfortable for them to do it.
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That obviously goes against the CDC guidance for kids under 12 who aren't vaccinated. And what
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the president said last night, is that putting kids in Florida at risk?
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Well, as a parent myself, and I know you are one, if I were a parent in Florida, that would be
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greatly concerning to me because kids under the age of 12 are not vaccinated. They're not eligible yet.
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As the president said last night, obviously it's going to be led by the FDA, but certainly we hope that
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will be soon. But that puts kids at risk. It's not aligned with public health guidelines.
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We know masks are not the most comfortable thing. I will say my kids are quite adjusted to them,
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as I know many kids are. So certainly we would have concern about any step that doesn't abide
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by public health guidelines. And we think it puts people at greater risk.
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So you've got to put your seven-year-old in a mask or else you're harming the public health
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because you understand the vaccine is extremely effective. So it's so effective that if your six-year-old
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doesn't wear a mask, all the vaccinated people are going to die from the virus that doesn't pose
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a particularly large risk to most people. Jen Psaki is, I think, being pretty disingenuous here.
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I don't think that the public health geniuses and the politicians who are pushing the mask mandates
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and the vaccine mandates in some cases, and the strong push for the vaccines and the lockdowns and
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all the like, I don't think they're all that concerned about coronavirus. I don't think they
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think that coronavirus is nearly as big a deal as they have let on. Here's my evidence of that.
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The Texas Democrats who fled the state because they didn't want to do their job and have to
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recognize that the people of Texas want voter integrity laws, they fled the state on an airplane
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without wearing any masks because they're not afraid of coronavirus because no one's really afraid
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of coronavirus because except for a few demographics of people, most people don't face a great risk from
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coronavirus. They then got a lot of coronavirus. They go to DC, they mill about with members of
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Pelosi's staff, with legislators on Capitol Hill, with members of the White House, and now some of those
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people in the White House have come down with coronavirus. If this were the greatest public health
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threat we've ever faced, we would need those numbers. Certainly Jen Psaki would be telling us
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those numbers. But because it's not, she won't. It's been a couple of days since we talked about
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the breakthrough case on the campus here and that you acknowledge there were additional
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breakthrough cases. Can you give us now the number of breakthrough cases that have occurred
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during the Biden presidency? Well, I would say first that our medical experts, our health experts,
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have been conveying from the beginning, as have we, that there would be cases of individuals who are
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vaccinated who tested positive for COVID. There are 2,000 people who work on the campus. And of
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course, that means that just statistically speaking, there will be people who are vaccinated individuals
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who get COVID on the campus. What I announced yesterday or conveyed yesterday was what our policy
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would be moving forward. But no, I don't think you can expect that we're going to be providing
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numbers of breakthrough cases. No. On the one hand, this is hypocritical because whenever any
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conservative gets COVID, the left makes a big deal about this. Whenever anyone in a conservative state
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gets COVID, the left makes a big deal about this. So yes, it's hypocritical. On the other hand,
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yeah, of course they don't need to give us the numbers. It's not that big a deal. People are fine.
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They're fine. Okay. I know. Are you allowed to say that? I don't know, but I'm going to say that.
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Unless you're in a particularly at-risk group from coronavirus,
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it's fine. We don't need to report on how many people are getting it. We don't even need to
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report on how many people are going to the doctor from this because overwhelmingly they're recovering
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just fine. You saw the numbers yesterday in Australia, 188,000 tests for coronavirus.
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And then what was it? 800 some odd people who have got coronavirus and then one person died from
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coronavirus. So we're going to lock down the country. That doesn't make any sense. That's madness.
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Absolute madness. And it's not even the craziest thing Jen Psaki has been talking about.
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Actually, I think this is one of the more reasonable takes that Jen Psaki and the White
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House has had. No, we're not going to tell you how many people have coronavirus because it just
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doesn't matter. It's fine. It's a cough for most people. Okay. And they're already vaccinated. And so
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that kind of contradicts the narrative that the vaccine is extremely effective and it's going to
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prevent you from getting coronavirus anyway. What the White House is much more concerned about than
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controlling the spread of coronavirus is controlling the narrative so that even when the guidance changes
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from all the genius experts, even when the new rules and the mandates and the restrictions change,
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they are going to be able to control the flow of information. And the White House is making an even
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larger play than they have been in recent weeks. In recent weeks, they've been pressuring social media
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to take a greater hand of censorship of conservatives. They've been pressuring social
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Jen Psaki asked this question about whether or not the White House is pushing this kind of stuff.
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If the White House is going to continue to wield its political power to censor people on social media,
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A couple of the steps that we have, you know, that could be constructive for the public health
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of the country are providing for Facebook or other platforms to measure and publicly share
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the impact of misinformation on their platform and the audience it's reaching.
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Also with the public, with all of you, to create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their
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properties and provide transparency about rules.
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You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there,
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Remember, Donald Trump's lawsuit against big tech is they violated his First Amendment rights.
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The only way that this lawsuit works is if they can prove that the government is pressuring
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social media to act as a proxy for the government to censor people, and Jen Psaki is doing that.
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She's saying that if you are ostracized, if you violate the rule on one social media platform,
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you need to be completely kicked out of the public square.
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Like this is ancient imperial Athenian democracy, okay?
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And the people who wield the power are going to decide, usually in a somewhat arbitrary
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or capricious way, who gets booted from the public square.
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Speaking of un-personing people, Nancy Pelosi has a novel religious idea.
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She has a novel religious idea that one can be a devout Catholic and support abortion.
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It's an issue of health of many women in America, especially those in lower income situations
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and in different states, and it is something that has been a priority for many of us a long time.
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As a devout Catholic and mother of five and six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me
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with our beautiful family, five children, six years almost to the day.
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But that may not be what we should, it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do.
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And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.
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Two, you're saying, pretty ghastly thing, that you, a nice rich lady, should be able to have a lot of kids.
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But for poor people, they need to kill their kids so that they can go work in the widget factory or whatever.
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She says, I'm a devout Catholic, but I support abortion.
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And the thing is, and this is not just my opinion, this is the opinion of the Catholic Church,
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You cannot be an abortion supporter and a devout Catholic at the same time.
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Do you remember in 7th or 8th grade, you learned about rules of logic?
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Do you remember you learned the contrapositive?
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This is one of those things people learn when they're a kid and they forget.
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Your teacher wrote this on the board when you were in middle school.
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So, to give you a lesson on the contrapositive, on contraposition.
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If you are a devout Catholic, then you do not support abortion.
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If you support abortion, then you are not a devout Catholic.
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Thank you for attending my lecture on contraposition.
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So now some people have said, Michael, how dare you?
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I'm not damning her or sending her up to heaven.
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I don't have the power to do that, but I can judge the teaching of the church because
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And what Nancy Pelosi is doing right here is committing a public sin.
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A private sin would be, say, if Nancy Pelosi goes home at night and drinks three bottles
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And then I gossip around and I could start spreading these rumors or something.
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Or a private sin is she goes and cheats on her husband or whatever.
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You see, what she's committing is a public sin and she's making a claim that is demonstrably
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It is not possible to be a devout Catholic if you support abortion.
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Now, thankfully, the House GOP is defunding or is now trying to defund universities that
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This is very good stuff being pushed by representatives Mary Miller, Chip Roy, and Steve Daines.
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That Steve Daines, obviously, in the United States Senate, co-sponsoring legislation in
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response to this 2019 California bill that would provide chemical abortion pills to students
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What the Congress is saying now is they're going to defund them if they do this.
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There's also really good news here on the pro-life front.
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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is now asking the Supreme Court of the United States
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to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which was the affirmation of Roe
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These were two of the most unprincipled, preposterous, unconstitutional decisions in the history of
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Very probably the two worst decisions ever made in the history of the court.
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And there's a case right now working its way up the courts.
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It's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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This is the first major abortion case to be heard by the current court.
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It's going to be ruled on in the spring of 2022.
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And at issue is going to be a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks.
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At 15 weeks, a baby in the womb can suck its own thumb, okay?
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So the blob of cells argument is not really going to work very well here.
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Now, speaking of little boys and little girls, before we go, I do want to mention, and we'll
00:30:17.260
get into this a little bit later on, that the Girl Scouts right now, the Girl Scouts
00:30:24.720
They're pushing a guide that is being formed by critical race theory and these kind of insane
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A Missouri school district right now is paying $15,000 to a critical race theory professor
00:30:39.460
Don't let them tell you that critical race theory is not being taught in elementary schools
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But there are a lot of other problems in this country.
00:30:49.940
You know, killing babies that can suck their own thumb, that seems like a big problem.
00:30:53.640
You know, of forcing people to take experimental drugs if they're not at great risk of a virus,
00:30:58.880
shutting down the whole country, shutting down our churches, taking away people's constitutional
00:31:06.080
There are more problems, I think, than just race.
00:31:07.940
And if we're only going to focus on race, then I know it seems paradoxical to people
00:31:13.300
on the left, but actually racial relations are going to hit decades-long lows.
00:31:21.960
Maybe we should focus on some of the other problems, too.
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And then maybe we'll have a country that improves across all of these levels.
00:31:28.420
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First question up from JD who says, Dear Connecticut Casanova, thank you for recognizing one of
00:33:01.920
I dated a girl for a little over five years starting in college and going into my first
00:33:06.940
She broke up with me a while ago, but we continued a sexual relationship for about one year after
00:33:12.000
During this time, I was blocked on her social media.
00:33:15.900
And I was therefore unaware that she had a serious boyfriend throughout the time we were
00:33:25.700
Recently, she texted me out of the blue and confessed that she wants me back and still loves
00:33:31.380
This love apparently caused her to leave that guy to be with me or to be alone.
00:33:39.320
I have a girlfriend that is a red-blooded conservative that I'm incredibly happy with.
00:33:45.820
I know my ex-girlfriend was bad for me, but my question is, how do I get rid of this feeling
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that she is right for me and that I should be with her?
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It's not fair to myself or my girlfriend to be hung up on a past lover.
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Sincerely, yours, way too nerdy to be this wanted.
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It's the problem of, should I really lock myself down?
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It's the problem of infatuation, which is different than love.
00:34:16.040
Infatuation is when you are obsessed with an idea and it can feel a lot like love.
00:34:20.900
I mean, it can, you know, writers going back to ancient days have written about this feeling
00:34:29.080
But you know that this is not ordered properly.
00:34:32.740
Obviously, in the case of the strumpet that you were dating before, who's cheating on
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her boyfriend with you and who knows how many other guys.
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Obviously, you should stay with your girlfriend.
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One thing that might cure it is getting married.
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One thing that might cure it, I don't know if you're ready to get married yet or anything
00:34:53.340
But if you just make a decision and say, okay, this is my choice.
00:35:01.980
This chickie is over and I might still have feelings and I might still, oh, I still, but
00:35:08.360
And I might, you might, I don't even mean to make fun of you too much, but you might, you
00:35:19.860
Sometimes a wrong decision even is better than indecision, though in this case, it sounds
00:35:23.940
like sticking with your good conservative girlfriend is a way better idea than this
00:35:42.620
Dear Michael, the Olympics are about to kick into full gear.
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My question is, will you be watching the games?
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And what competition do you think is the best and which is the most ridiculous, pointless
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No, I won't be watching the games, not even because of all the un-American people who are
00:35:58.640
supposed to be representing our country, like the hammer throwing girl or whatever, the
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I guess I hope we win except for the women's soccer, except for the people who hate our country
00:36:14.500
But I hope that the people who like our country win, I guess, but I just don't care.
00:36:19.320
I've never seen a soccer game in my life, whether it's women or men, and I just don't, I don't
00:36:23.620
The one sport I like in the Olympics, as always, there's an exception, there's a caveat.
00:36:34.420
I think it's a whimsical, funny sport to watch.
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But otherwise, no, I probably will not be watching.
00:36:40.420
From Liam, dear connoisseur of Covfefe, you have spoken at length of how the political
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Has the political right made a religion of America's founding?
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I ask because one will often hear members of the political right say, John Adams says
00:36:56.320
such and such, and the Constitution says this and that, in the same way that Christians
00:37:00.360
argue, St. Paul says such and such, and the Gospels say this and that.
00:37:03.420
Also, you often quote Cardinal Manning, saying that all human conflict is ultimately theological.
00:37:07.400
Do you, as a practicing Catholic, have political disagreements with the Protestant founding
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fathers, respectfully, as somewhat practicing Catholic?
00:37:23.560
Abraham Lincoln called for the development of a civic religion, and I think all states,
00:37:29.940
So in our country, the president is the pope, and the senators are the cardinals, and the
00:37:35.960
founding fathers are the church fathers, and there are other doctors of the church, of
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the civic religion, and of course that's true, because politics ultimately is theological.
00:37:45.200
So of course, there are going to be parallels here.
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Do I have disagreements with the founding fathers?
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I mean, by the way, the founding fathers are not a monolith.
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So in some cases, I agree with Hamilton more than I would agree with Adams.
00:37:59.360
I generally would agree with Adams and Hamilton and Washington more than I would with Jefferson,
00:38:09.860
In some cases, I have strong disagreements with James Madison.
00:38:12.800
In other cases, Madison, you know, made very good points.
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It is important, I think, to have respect for your founding fathers, and to have respect
00:38:24.520
for the great statesmen of your history, and to have respect for your tradition, and
00:38:28.500
I don't think that's evil, or unjust, or idolatrous, or anything like that.
00:38:32.920
Love of country is an extension of filial piety, of the love of your own family.
00:38:38.240
And if we don't love the men who gave us our country, then we don't love our country, right?
00:38:46.140
Then we don't love ourselves, and we need to have a healthy love of our country if we want
00:38:57.120
Otherwise, people will make an idol and a religion out of politics, and that's bad whether it
00:39:05.300
So, if you have a healthy love of country, and you care about things that John Adams said,
00:39:08.700
and you care about things that the Constitution said, and you have that in its proper place,
00:39:15.720
beneath, say, love of God and respect for the eternal moral order, then that's a very
00:39:22.540
But it reminds me of Chesterton's point that heresy usually is not the promotion of vice
00:39:27.380
instead of virtue, but it's the promotion of one virtue to the exclusion of all of the
00:39:33.060
You don't, you don't, that is what idolatry is, right?
00:39:35.080
You don't want to make an idol out of those things.
00:39:44.640
As a practicing basic dude, my goals have always been to date women slightly above my
00:39:49.180
appearance level, fair enough, and have guys invite me to BYOB parties on Saturdays.
00:39:55.600
The problem is, now that I've started dating someone who I believe is at least a seven,
00:40:00.700
I have not been invited out with the boys in some time.
00:40:04.280
My question is, does this always happen when a lion is tamed by a slightly above average
00:40:09.820
lioness, or can you also maintain relationships and time with the boys?
00:40:15.940
Sincerely, these send-offs are getting tricky, so I'd just like to say Monica Lewinsky, you
00:40:20.800
I'm not going to read lewd comments about Monica Lewinsky on this show.
00:40:26.760
You know, Nick, you've had colorful questions in the past, and this is no different, but it
00:40:31.940
And sometimes men, they're cool guys, and they'll hang out with the dudes, and then they
00:40:40.160
And maybe it's that you guys don't like the girl, or maybe it's that you are changing with
00:40:48.340
This happens sometimes to guys, or you're allowing yourself to be led along by her, and you're
00:40:55.000
not assuming a role of leadership in the relationship.
00:40:58.500
That can happen, and you're going to have to look at yourself in the mirror and make sure
00:41:03.020
Because, well, obviously, it's very important to develop a good and healthy relationship
00:41:09.560
If I can bring together some of your other mailbag questions, that seems to be a problem
00:41:16.900
So you're going to want to do that, but you're also going to want to have balance in your life,
00:41:24.120
And if you give yourself wholly just to this lioness, who is a seven, as you say, or you
00:41:30.540
ignore the women, and you just hang with the boys like a derelict all the time, neither
00:41:35.500
of those are going to be conducive to human flourishing.
00:41:42.840
I was hearing you saying that you didn't want to live in a world where women were sent to
00:41:48.160
I'm a young woman in her 30s with a learning disability.
00:41:51.820
I'm too sensitive, and I agree with you that men and women are different.
00:41:54.420
Do you believe that women should not fight in the army and whatnot?
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I think there can be a role for women in the armed forces, and there always has been to
00:42:05.860
You know, there have been women who have provided support to the soldiers and played plenty of
00:42:11.120
roles in the military, but I do not support a political regime that sends women into combat.
00:42:19.100
In some cases, women can do it, though obviously women are less physically strong than men.
00:42:25.960
My issue is one from nature and one from politics.
00:42:30.660
I don't want to live in a world in which we are sending our women to go be shot and maimed
00:42:40.860
That's a disordered country, and we need to stop doing it.
00:42:43.940
And the sickos who are suggesting that women need to register for the draft need to be chased
00:42:53.680
I'm hearing Republicans for a long time now say how the internet and social media is the
00:42:57.500
new public square and should be a place for freedom of speech.
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If you draw that to its logical conclusion, public square is a place that you can speak
00:43:04.580
We all have the internet, but the internet is not free.
00:43:08.420
If the Republicans are arguing that the internet is a place for freedom of speech, doesn't
00:43:13.100
that conclude that the internet as a public square should be free or taxpayer funded at
00:43:22.920
I don't think that the internet should be funded by taxpayers.
00:43:26.420
I mean, the internet was developed, by the way, with a lot of money from taxpayers.
00:43:29.820
But let's just use the example of the physical public square.
00:43:36.540
Traditionally, people live a while away from the public square.
00:43:40.060
If you live in the country, then you would have to get a horse.
00:43:45.860
You'd have to get some way of driving to the public square.
00:43:49.980
That's not your wagon and horse are not funded by the taxpayers.
00:43:52.960
If you want to spread your message in the public square, you'd have to print flyers or
00:43:58.380
If you wanted to really engage in that way, there is some cost to you and there is some
00:44:05.560
Right now, it's very easy to get on the internet.
00:44:07.380
There are plenty of public resources to do that, including the public library.
00:44:10.300
So it's an interesting question, but I don't think that in any way the implication is that
00:44:16.260
the internet should be totally funded by the taxpayers.
00:44:23.740
Well, I watched a Jordan Peterson interview where he explains that intelligent women tend
00:44:29.520
I think this goes along with the do men value humor in a woman question from last week.
00:44:34.180
And whether men find significant value in these qualities.
00:44:38.820
I know men and women are different, but what are your thoughts on this sentiment?
00:44:41.320
I think sometimes women can be too picky and place too much value on menial qualities.
00:44:46.240
But for us level-headed women, what is your advice?
00:44:49.240
Side note, not saying I'm the smartest woman out there, but clearly as an avid listener of
00:44:55.320
Sincerely, please don't tell me smart means settle.
00:45:01.180
You know, sometimes, how do I put this delicately?
00:45:05.220
There are women who make an idol out of their intelligence, or they think that their only
00:45:12.260
quality, their most important quality is their intelligence.
00:45:15.740
And so, you know, if they have bad luck with guys, they'll say, you just can't handle a
00:45:25.900
I have, I think exclusively, not exclusively, I've almost exclusively dated smart women.
00:45:32.540
Um, and so I, I really like that, but there are other qualities.
00:45:36.380
Actually, getting back to the top of our show, we say, racism's bad.
00:45:46.640
Your grace, your kindness, how nurturing you are, how, what a sort of sense of humor you
00:46:03.360
So no, I, I think intelligent women are fabulous.
00:46:07.020
Um, but there are other things in the world too.
00:46:10.060
And I think you need to, one needs to be a balanced person, cultivate all of these things.
00:46:14.760
Although you, Camille, I think are probably a far more upstanding individual than Nick.
00:46:25.460
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