The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 850 - Biden Cracks Down on Law & Order

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00:00:30.340 The countless thousands of Haitians pouring across our southern border have divided Americans. 1.00

00:00:35.960 Conservatives argue that nations need borders and we cannot tolerate a flood of foreign nationals 1.00

00:00:41.460 violating our most basic laws.

00:00:44.360 Leftists argue that we owe it to the people of Haiti to take them in.

00:00:48.420 As many as want to come should be allowed to come

00:00:51.360 and border patrols should not lift a finger to stop them.

00:00:55.620 Up until now, President Joe Biden has remained quiet on the issue.

00:01:00.000 But at long last, we finally have video of President Biden's view of Haitians

00:01:05.520 and their island nation as it pertains to the national interest of the United States.

00:01:11.460 If Haiti, a god awful thing to say, if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet,

00:01:18.240 it wouldn't matter a whole lot in terms of our interest.

00:01:21.360 Well said, Mr. President.

00:01:23.540 Now, in fairness, Joe Biden said that back in 1994,

00:01:27.740 back when people still had at least the semblance of a sliver of common sense.

00:01:33.840 Today, the Biden administration is attacking its own border patrol agents

00:01:37.300 for in any way attempting to enforce the law.

00:01:40.200 So is it any surprise that Americans fed up with the lawlessness

00:01:44.060 are beginning to take the law into their own hands?

00:01:47.000 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:47.680 It's The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:55.660 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:56.600 I saw my favorite comment yesterday from Thor Darson, who says,

00:01:59.540 if the Democrats are able to enact their global vision,

00:02:02.560 we will have an embassy in every country that flies Hunter Biden's paintings just below the pride flag.

00:02:07.720 That comment is actually even more profound than the commenter probably knew.

00:02:13.560 Because, yes, it's true.

00:02:14.700 The symbol of American imperial hegemony these days is just the gay pride flag. 0.85

00:02:18.420 And we're going to raise it in Kandahar.

00:02:19.460 And we're going to raise it all over the place.

00:02:20.780 But this is not because of some coherent moral philosophy that is being pushed by the liberal imperialists.

00:02:30.740 It's mostly just a grift.

00:02:32.600 What the left is doing is appealing to our most base passions and our appetites,

00:02:37.620 consumerism, sex, whatever.

00:02:40.260 They're appealing to all of that to entrench their power for this oligarchy

00:02:46.400 that is basically just enriching themselves by selling Hunter Biden's stupid finger painting for half a million dollars.

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00:04:14.140 The crisis at the border is supposed to play well for Democrats.

00:04:19.700 That was the idea.

00:04:20.580 You're going to open it up.

00:04:21.600 The poor, oppressed, insert whatever foreign nation in the world is pouring over our border. 1.00

00:04:26.880 We've got to let them across.

00:04:28.180 We're the cause of all their problems.

00:04:30.580 And we're such a terrible country.

00:04:32.600 And that's why we've got to let them into our terrible country. 1.00

00:04:36.140 And we owe it to them.

00:04:37.380 And we're the only nation on earth that shouldn't have borders.

00:04:40.760 So knock all of them down.

00:04:41.980 And I think the American people are sick of that.

00:04:44.340 I think that doesn't work.

00:04:45.720 And so the main way that the left tries to gin up this kind of division is through race hustling.

00:04:52.900 And in this case, because it's a bunch of Haitians pouring over the border. 0.97

00:04:56.660 How did they get here?

00:04:57.340 I don't know.

00:04:57.820 You know, I know that the Biden administration, Jen Psaki, is saying that they don't plan to

00:05:02.300 stay very long.

00:05:03.240 And yeah, the Haitians just made it all the way over to Mexico. 0.89

00:05:06.080 And then they're running across the border just for a long weekend away or something.

00:05:10.880 But because they're Haitian, now you have an added element of Black Lives Matter, right? 0.97

00:05:17.180 These are black people.

00:05:18.300 And so obviously the only reason to keep foreigners out of our country is because they're black. 1.00

00:05:22.580 So Al Sharpton, the race hustler par excellence left in our country, flies down to the border and he,

00:05:31.960 and he starts to give one of his stupid race hustling lectures.

00:05:35.120 But he's not as well received down there in Texas as he often is.

00:05:40.600 Actually, he gets heckled while giving his extremely dumb remarks.

00:05:45.260 Why are you trying to come and propose for violence?

00:05:49.740 Why are you here advocating for violence?

00:05:52.640 Why are you here advocating for violence?

00:05:56.400 Del Rio is not a racist city.

00:05:58.880 Del Rio is a loving, caring community.

00:06:01.740 We don't want your racism in Texas.

00:06:04.080 Get out of here.

00:06:04.880 Nobody wants to hear your racist nonsense in Del Rio.

00:06:09.860 You're a racist.

00:06:12.360 Nobody wants you in Texas.

00:06:14.860 Nobody wants you in Texas.

00:06:17.700 Wow.

00:06:18.180 You know, I didn't expect to hear such common sense remarks in that speech.

00:06:21.440 I wasn't hearing it from Al Sharpton.

00:06:22.620 I was hearing it from the hecklers in Texas.

00:06:24.500 And it's true. 0.56

00:06:25.160 Al Sharpton is a disgrace.

00:06:26.700 I mean, he's been a hustler and a pimp his entire career.

00:06:29.440 He launched his career on a rape hoax, the Tawana Brawley hoax.

00:06:33.720 Virtually everything else the guy's been involved in is a hoax.

00:06:36.320 And it's just a shakedown so that anytime he can claim some sort of racial offense,

00:06:41.960 he can shake down corporations and local communities and enrich himself.

00:06:46.360 Frankly, I had a greater deal of respect for Al Sharpton back when he was a big fat guy

00:06:51.640 wearing those expensive pinstriped suits, just walking around New York,

00:06:56.040 shaking people down like the mobster that he is.

00:06:57.980 Now that he looks like a shriveled up little raisin and he's wearing his kind of more, 0.99

00:07:01.620 you know, put together higher, higher class, more muted, you know, 0.55

00:07:06.140 little vest and his little, his little nice shirt.

00:07:09.040 I don't know.

00:07:09.640 It doesn't, it doesn't play as well to me.

00:07:11.540 It's sort of sad.

00:07:12.780 And I don't think the American people are really buying it either.

00:07:15.700 But the problem is, the problem is the libs still have all the power and we don't really

00:07:22.460 have the power.

00:07:23.100 So yes, people are shouting down Al Sharpton.

00:07:25.620 If you look at public opinion polls, the immigration crisis at the border is a disaster

00:07:29.920 for Joe Biden's poll numbers, but they're not going to change course because they have

00:07:34.480 all of the institutional power.

00:07:36.600 So Jen Psaki was asked about, about this.

00:07:39.340 She was asked about that complete non-traversy, that fiction, that border patrol agents were

00:07:45.680 using whips against Haitian illegal aliens who were pouring across.

00:07:51.480 They weren't using whips.

00:07:52.300 They were holding reins so they could ride their horses.

00:07:54.960 And based on this lie, Jen Psaki is now saying, yeah, we're going to punish the border patrol.

00:08:00.380 They're no longer allowed to use horses.

00:08:02.520 What he has asked all of us to convey clearly to people who are understandably have questions,

00:08:07.680 are passionate, are concerned, as we are about the images that we have seen, is one, we feel

00:08:13.500 those images are horrible and horrific.

00:08:15.640 There is an investigation the president certainly supports, overseen by the Department of Homeland

00:08:19.920 Security, which he has conveyed will happen quickly.

00:08:23.560 I can also convey to you that the secretary also conveyed to civil rights leaders earlier

00:08:28.940 this morning that we would no longer be using horses in Del Rio.

00:08:32.840 So that is something, a policy change that has been made in response.

00:08:36.820 But separately, all related, it's also important for people to understand what our process and

00:08:42.360 our immigration process is and what the steps are that are taken.

00:08:46.500 Now, I agree with Jen Psaki here. 0.51

00:08:47.920 The images we saw were horrible and horrific because a lot of the criminal migrants were 1.00

00:08:54.180 getting through.

00:08:54.880 That was what was horrible.

00:08:56.360 What was horrible is not that law enforcement was attempting to enforce the law.

00:09:00.820 What was horrible is that they weren't doing it very effectively because the politicians,

00:09:06.300 notably people in the White House, were tying their arms behind their backs.

00:09:09.360 Now, the White House is saying no more can Border Patrol use horseback in this area.

00:09:17.060 What are they going to use?

00:09:18.940 They can't, in certain areas, they can't take a Humvee.

00:09:21.900 They can't take a Crown Victoria.

00:09:25.320 They can't take these cars into these.

00:09:27.260 They can't even take 4x4s into these areas.

00:09:30.040 So what are they going to, they can ride on horseback, but now they're not allowed to

00:09:34.080 ride on horseback.

00:09:35.480 Oh no, what a mistake.

00:09:37.640 What incompetence, some people say from the Biden administration.

00:09:40.660 Please, please, don't give me that.

00:09:44.340 It's amazing to me that some Republicans still say this is incompetence.

00:09:48.340 It's not incompetence.

00:09:50.100 It's the point.

00:09:51.660 But if you get rid of horseback, then they won't be able to enforce the law.

00:09:56.960 Right.

00:09:58.060 That's the point.

00:09:58.920 They don't want to enforce the law.

00:10:01.580 The law is good for the American people.

00:10:03.700 It's good for the national integrity of our country, but it's bad for Democrats because

00:10:08.840 then Democrats can't flood the country with future voters.

00:10:11.400 Statistically, illegal aliens are overwhelmingly likely to identify with Democrats with the

00:10:17.120 destruction of voter integrity measures.

00:10:18.920 They can probably vote in the next election, but even if they can't, because of our understanding

00:10:24.160 of birthright citizenship, the idea that if you are a foreigner who comes here and has

00:10:27.460 a kid, the kid automatically gets citizenship, then they're certainly going to get a lot

00:10:32.360 of voters down the line.

00:10:33.560 And with the mass amnesty that the Democrats keep trying to cram through, they'll probably

00:10:36.620 get it much sooner than that.

00:10:39.180 So they've got the power and they're going to do it.

00:10:41.380 And that's just the way it goes.

00:10:44.460 I wonder when AOC is going to go down to the border and start crying like she did under 0.87

00:10:48.340 Trump.

00:10:48.680 You remember that?

00:10:49.800 The kids in cages.

00:10:50.780 She wasn't actually crying in front of kids in cages.

00:10:53.160 She was crying in front of a parking lot in that white suit and she pretended to cry. 0.51

00:10:56.880 And it was not exactly a Marlon Brando kind of performance, but it got the message across.

00:11:02.420 AOC has not done that.

00:11:04.360 She's not going to do that because now it's the Biden administration which is enforcing 0.95

00:11:09.200 this sort of stuff.

00:11:09.740 So it's not good PR.

00:11:11.080 She has been crying though.

00:11:12.160 She's crying because she was not able to stop the Congress from giving a billion dollars

00:11:20.220 to Israel to fund their missile defense system.

00:11:24.980 And so she just starts crying.

00:11:26.320 You can see video of her on the floor of the house just sobbing.

00:11:29.500 Oh no, the Jews are going to be able to protect themselves. 1.00

00:11:33.580 No.

00:11:35.420 This is defensive missiles, by the way.

00:11:37.200 It's not offensive missiles.

00:11:38.300 It's the Iron Dome system.

00:11:39.520 No, those Jews are going to have defensive weaponry. 1.00

00:11:44.420 No, now the Muslim terrorists in the Palestinian territories can't shoot at them.

00:11:49.000 No.

00:11:49.680 First of all, hysterical people should not be in public life.

00:11:52.600 Okay.

00:11:52.800 If this woman can't keep her emotions together while she's on the floor of the Congress, 1.00

00:11:56.960 she shouldn't be there.

00:11:58.180 She's too frivolous a person to be there.

00:12:00.840 It's not good.

00:12:01.400 I understand she might get reelected, but it's bad.

00:12:03.540 It's not good for public life.

00:12:05.500 But it's also worth pointing out why she is crying.

00:12:09.520 She's crying because we're paying for Israel's defensive missiles.

00:12:12.420 A lot of conservatives don't like foreign aid.

00:12:14.720 Some conservatives don't like Israel.

00:12:16.400 I'm not making a point on either of those things right now.

00:12:19.200 I am asking you to consider why she is crying.

00:12:23.800 She's crying that Israel can defend itself because she and her ilk view Israel as an extension

00:12:29.840 and really a creation of Western imperialism.

00:12:33.500 They view the modern nation state of Israel as an expansion of Western imperialism in the

00:12:38.580 Middle East as a symbol of Western civilization, which they hate, which they want to subvert. 0.99

00:12:43.220 That's why they want to get rid of Israel. 1.00

00:12:44.920 So regardless of your views on modern nation state of Israel, regardless of your views on

00:12:50.080 us giving foreign aid willy-nilly all over the place, don't get confused here.

00:12:55.760 The reason that AOC hates Israel is because she hates you and because she hates this civilization

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00:14:14.360 The defining feature of the left, of the libs, the kind of liberal rule more broadly, is that

00:14:23.320 it wants to tear down that which distinguishes the West.

00:14:28.260 Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go, as Jesse Jackson said while he marched through

00:14:33.500 Stanford University.

00:14:35.960 Tear down the statues.

00:14:37.780 Tear down our traditions.

00:14:40.280 Tear down our system of law.

00:14:42.260 Tear down our borders.

00:14:43.400 Tear down the things that distinguish us and set us apart from the rest of the world.

00:14:48.620 You're seeing this right now in a specific way in Michigan.

00:14:51.720 The Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, is very upset about the pro-life law in Texas.

00:15:00.480 And there's actually some really good news on that from around the country, which we'll

00:15:03.180 get to in a bit.

00:15:04.480 But she says, quote, adultery is a felony in Michigan. 0.85

00:15:10.640 The prohibition was passed the same year as Michigan's abortion ban.

00:15:14.820 Do those who support the Texas abortion law also support granting standing to private citizens

00:15:21.080 to sue adulterers when they violate the law?

00:15:24.640 What say you, Michigan legislators?

00:15:26.980 Ha, got you there.

00:15:28.280 What?

00:15:28.880 What, do you think that adultery should be a crime too?

00:15:33.760 Yeah, sure.

00:15:34.500 Why not?

00:15:35.740 Why not?

00:15:36.240 I mean, I don't think that adultery, I don't think that cheating on your wife and killing

00:15:42.220 a baby are on the same level.

00:15:45.100 I think one of those things is graver than the other.

00:15:49.060 But yeah, they're both pretty bad.

00:15:50.840 And I don't think that we should really encourage either of them.

00:15:54.260 And yeah, they both were illegal for a very long time for most of our civilization's history.

00:16:00.560 So yeah, why, why wouldn't we do that?

00:16:02.440 What?

00:16:03.240 Wait, what?

00:16:03.820 You think that?

00:16:04.640 Yeah, we do think that.

00:16:06.040 This, this is just like when the libs, when the Texas abortion law came out and the libs 0.99

00:16:09.940 said, huh, well, I'll tell you what.

00:16:11.360 Rachel Maddow made this point, my doppelganger.

00:16:13.440 I made this point over on MSNBC.

00:16:15.400 She said, well, you know, if we're not going to allow legal abortion, then we should hold 0.87

00:16:20.080 the men responsible for staying with their children.

00:16:24.060 Okay.

00:16:25.120 Yeah, sounds great.

00:16:25.640 Oh, we should make no fault divorce harder?

00:16:28.320 Yeah, I agree.

00:16:29.220 That's a good idea.

00:16:30.220 You're coming around, Rachel.

00:16:31.520 You're coming around, libs.

00:16:32.880 You're coming around, Michigan attorney general.

00:16:36.280 Of course we should.

00:16:36.980 At its most basic level, all polities, all political communities attempt to pursue good

00:16:47.340 and avoid evil.

00:16:48.660 That's what we do.

00:16:49.680 And how do we do that?

00:16:50.540 Well, by protecting certain liberties here, by protecting the integrity of these institutions,

00:16:54.220 or by keeping some power separate in this government, the local government versus the,

00:16:58.380 but what we are trying to do, and it's just the most simple level, do good, avoid evil.

00:17:05.160 Adultery is bad.

00:17:07.220 We shouldn't have it.

00:17:09.260 And so, yeah, I guess we should discourage it.

00:17:11.140 That's pretty basic stuff.

00:17:13.880 Politicians are really misunderstanding this political moment.

00:17:18.320 A woman on the New York City subway showed the political moment.

00:17:23.180 I just saw these when I was in New York.

00:17:24.960 A ton of really gross dating app ads where it's people, like, licking each other's mouths

00:17:30.140 and simulating sex.

00:17:32.440 And in some cases, like, they got people propped up on countertops and little things.

00:17:36.760 So this woman sees them and just starts ripping them down. 1.00

00:17:39.640 Is that okay?

00:17:48.320 For kids to be looking at this gross stuff on the subway?

00:17:50.440 It's propaganda.

00:17:51.560 Yeah.

00:17:52.060 It is propaganda.

00:17:52.880 Normalizing.

00:17:53.800 Normalizing.

00:17:54.240 It's like back to the next generation.

00:17:55.660 You're normalizing all these kind of sick, weird gender stuff. 1.00

00:17:58.380 Like, no one sees this.

00:17:59.800 Weird, gross sex stuff all over the subway.

00:18:01.700 The TV told them not to get upset and wear the mask.

00:18:06.500 We're going over there.

00:18:07.560 Let's go to the back.

00:18:09.640 I also love that just very few people are wearing masks on the subway.

00:18:13.780 Like, some people are, but a lot of people are not.

00:18:15.980 When I was there, I didn't wear the mask on the subway.

00:18:18.820 What is this?

00:18:19.720 What over here?

00:18:20.060 If you look up, it's like, oh, gross.

00:18:22.120 It's like someone with their finger going through an apple, obviously, simulating some

00:18:25.480 gross stuff.

00:18:26.120 That's pretty good.

00:18:27.020 Also some garden of eating imagery there.

00:18:29.600 Romantic.

00:18:30.440 Yeah, it's gross.

00:18:31.220 People with their tongues in each other's mouths.

00:18:32.560 So, the debate is, what is freedom?

00:18:38.220 Living in a society where anyone can put any kind of gross, obscene, weird porn stuff all

00:18:44.460 over the subways for everyone to see, including little kids, or is the free community the one

00:18:49.040 that can band together and say, no, we don't want this crap on our subways, and we don't

00:18:53.820 want to allow sick, degenerate corporations to enrich themselves by rousing up all our basest 0.93

00:19:01.160 passions and having porn everywhere.

00:19:02.540 However, which is it?

00:19:04.040 What is the freedom?

00:19:05.060 You can kind of see an argument either way, right?

00:19:08.000 So, I think the people who are missing the moment, the libs, and to some degree, the libertarians,

00:19:15.260 the ones who say, like, you know, the greatest freedom is to just look at porn everywhere, right?

00:19:19.380 I think those guys are misunderstanding where people are.

00:19:21.840 I think most of the American people, especially younger Americans, are with that woman saying,

00:19:26.360 we don't want this filth, we don't want this degeneracy everywhere, okay?

00:19:30.700 It's not good for us personally, it's not good for our political community, it's not good

00:19:34.620 for our country.

00:19:38.320 You know, this gets to a debate that we had on the last episode of Backstage, okay?

00:19:46.640 I'll give you the perfect example of it.

00:19:48.880 Nancy Pelosi.

00:19:50.880 Nancy Pelosi was just asked, as a Catholic, allegedly, to defend her views on abortion.

00:19:56.840 Catholic Church says, you can't have abortions, you can't encourage abortions if you're a politician,

00:20:01.580 you can't go along with abortion.

00:20:03.440 She says, well, I have a difference of opinion with the Catholic Church on that.

00:20:06.880 And she makes a ridiculous moral argument for why that's the case. 1.00

00:20:12.920 Yeah, I'm Catholic.

00:20:13.760 I come from a pro-life family, not active in that regard, different in their view of

00:20:22.900 a woman's right to choose than I am. 1.00

00:20:25.640 In my right to choose, I have five children, six years in one week, and I keep saying to

00:20:32.040 people who say things like that, when you have five children in six days, six years in

00:20:36.880 one day, we can talk about what businesses of any of us tell anyone else to do.

00:20:42.660 For us, it was a complete and total blessing, which we enjoy every day of our lives, but

00:20:48.600 it's none of our business how other people choose the size and timing of their families.

00:20:53.960 My, the, my, the Archbishop of the city, that area of San Francisco, and I have a disagreement

00:21:01.820 about who should decide this.

00:21:04.440 I believe that God has given us a free will to honor our responsibilities.

00:21:10.420 We need to have legal abortion because God gives us free will. 0.99

00:21:15.700 And so it's actually wrong.

00:21:17.240 It's unchristian to prevent people from exercising their free will.

00:21:21.660 Yes, I think abortion's wrong. 1.00

00:21:23.740 For me, I would never kill any of my precious children, but poor people and disproportionately 1.00

00:21:28.300 black people.

00:21:29.200 Yes, they should be able to kill their kids. 0.98

00:21:30.820 We have a lot of them, don't we?

00:21:31.720 Yeah.

00:21:32.400 All those little poor people running around. 0.98

00:21:33.820 Yes.

00:21:34.000 No, look, I would never do it.

00:21:37.940 Why would you never do it, Nancy?

00:21:40.780 Because it's wrong.

00:21:42.460 But you think that it should be legal to do wrong things.

00:21:46.160 God gives us free will and it is therefore unchristian to outlaw things that are manifestly

00:21:52.720 wrong, even killing babies.

00:21:54.120 This gets to a debate that we had on the last episode of Backstage, actually.

00:22:01.340 There were the kind of the more traditional concern, you know, it was me, Matt, to some

00:22:07.520 degree, I think Drew were saying, no, you should not be able to do that kind of stuff.

00:22:11.260 And then Ben and Jeremy were making the point that you should have the right to sin.

00:22:16.620 Now, I think we would all agree abortion should not be legal, okay?

00:22:19.440 So we would all agree on that point, but, and I think we would all agree, but Nancy Pelosi

00:22:24.300 might not agree, that a theft should be illegal.

00:22:27.580 Murder should be illegal.

00:22:29.420 Hey, Nancy, God gave you free will, so should you have the ability to go steal something?

00:22:35.180 It's wrong, you shouldn't do it, but should you have the, you have the right to do it,

00:22:38.660 you have the freedom to do it, you just need to choose not to do it, right?

00:22:41.760 No, nobody thinks that.

00:22:43.440 Well, God gave me free will, so murder should be legal.

00:22:45.900 I don't think we should commit murders, but murder should be legal.

00:22:48.160 Well, no, everyone should choose for themselves if they want to commit murder, if they want

00:22:51.760 to commit theft.

00:22:52.480 No, I don't think so.

00:22:53.760 But then I think where the divide might be is, you say, okay, look, you don't have the

00:22:57.580 right to commit a sin that harms someone else, but you do have the right to commit a sin that

00:23:03.760 harms yourself.

00:23:04.860 Now, first of all, there is no sin that doesn't harm anyone else.

00:23:07.120 It has, we all live in a society, it has effects on the world, but the most private sorts

00:23:12.140 of sins, let's say drugs or something.

00:23:17.100 In American history, I mean, it's completely anti-historical, ahistorical to say that, you

00:23:23.360 know, it's deeply American to have the right to harm yourself, to commit a private personal

00:23:27.280 sin.

00:23:27.820 We've had laws against drugs, we've had laws against certain sexual behaviors, we've had

00:23:31.920 all sorts of laws that prevent you from doing that.

00:23:34.000 But now, the more libertarian argument is, you should be allowed to overdose on drugs if

00:23:38.120 you want, you should be allowed to do whatever you want with your body, as long as it doesn't

00:23:41.340 scare the horses in the street.

00:23:42.600 And the conservative argument is, no, you shouldn't.

00:23:46.100 What it comes down to is this question, do you have the right to sin?

00:23:50.880 It would seem to me that error has no rights, okay?

00:23:54.300 You don't.

00:23:55.020 You don't have the right to commit theft, you don't have the right to commit murder, you

00:23:57.360 don't have the right to kill your baby, you don't, at least for now, have the right

00:24:00.180 to do a bunch of illegal drugs, you don't have the right to mutilate yourself, you don't

00:24:05.160 have the right to kill yourself.

00:24:06.520 You actually don't have those rights.

00:24:09.180 There are just certain moral realities that you cannot transgress, okay?

00:24:15.660 But that's the debate of our time right now.

00:24:17.980 That's the big debate going on.

00:24:19.620 This notion of radical individual autonomy, I can do whatever I want, just don't tell me

00:24:24.720 no, or this notion of, do we want a good society?

00:24:27.600 And I think the way it plays out is, you got porn all over the subways, or you've got something

00:24:33.620 of the society that we seem to have lost, a more ordered society where things make a

00:24:37.200 little more sense.

00:24:37.800 Which society do you want to live in?

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00:26:00.400 We got some really good news right now out of Florida.

00:26:05.920 And I was hoping that this would happen, but now it seems to have happened.

00:26:09.880 So we got the Texas Pro-Life Law.

00:26:11.940 I asked some of the people who were involved in drafting the Texas Pro-Life Law,

00:26:14.960 will this Texas Pro-Life Law be replicated in other states or is it just peculiar to Texas?

00:26:22.940 And the legislator who drafted the law and came up with it said it can be replicated in

00:26:28.600 other states.

00:26:29.060 You need some tweaks, but it could work.

00:26:31.980 Well, that's already happening.

00:26:33.040 Florida Republican state lawmaker on Wednesday introduced a bill that is modeled after a strict

00:26:38.680 Texas law prohibiting abortions after six weeks, that wonderful Pro-Life Law.

00:26:43.160 It's called House Bill 167.

00:26:45.480 It's by Representative Webster Barnaby, and it does the same thing.

00:26:48.940 You can sue people if they're committing abortions, if they're involved in abortions.

00:26:53.300 This is really great stuff.

00:26:55.240 We need to go on the offense.

00:26:58.800 And it ties in with this broader theme we've been talking about.

00:27:02.120 Where is the future of the right and where is the future of the country?

00:27:07.340 For a great many decades, the right could only agree on one thing in particular, maximize

00:27:14.380 individual autonomy, choice.

00:27:17.180 Do whatever you want.

00:27:18.060 Just don't make me pay for it.

00:27:20.640 I think we have seen that that is insufficient.

00:27:23.540 I think that having lost our institutions, having lost the definition of marriage, having lost the

00:27:30.860 nature of sex itself, having lost education, having lost everything other than occasional

00:27:38.160 tax cuts, I think we've realized that vision is insufficient because all societies need to

00:27:44.540 do something.

00:27:46.760 All societies need to value certain things and oppose other things.

00:27:50.180 And if we're not going to offer a vision of what we think the good is, then the only

00:27:55.320 vision you're going to have is from the left.

00:27:56.680 And then the left, because nature abhors a vacuum, is going to take over.

00:27:59.980 So I think this is good stuff.

00:28:02.360 I think all the other states with Republican governors and legislatures need to go on the

00:28:06.700 offense, need to start passing this stuff.

00:28:08.880 Okay?

00:28:10.080 Move the culture in that direction.

00:28:12.460 That's going to be difficult for some squishy Republicans who even, some squishy Republicans,

00:28:17.980 even on the issue of abortion, say, well, I don't know.

00:28:20.440 Can't we, ugh, can't we just avoid the culture wars?

00:28:23.440 Let's just talk about, you know, bumping up GDP a little bit.

00:28:27.160 Can we, can we, let's just talk about tweaking the healthcare system. 0.97

00:28:30.260 No, let's talk about justice.

00:28:32.040 Let's talk about virtue.

00:28:33.940 Let's talk about the kind of society we want to live in.

00:28:37.720 Do you want to live in an angry, crazy, senseless society that's just saturated in filth?

00:28:43.520 Or do you want to live in a society that's not perfect, it's never going to be perfect,

00:28:47.880 this is a fallen world, but it's just a little bit nicer, where, where things are a little

00:28:51.840 more stable, where the family's a little more stable, where our local communities are a little

00:28:55.380 more stable, where you, you can take your kid onto the subway without seeing creepy, you

00:29:00.460 know, gender-bending porn.

00:29:02.720 Which, which one do you want to live in?

00:29:04.020 I think we would all agree.

00:29:06.260 The latter.

00:29:06.840 But one of the big holdups to getting back to a normal society is that the liberal establishment

00:29:13.380 has just taken a ton of power.

00:29:16.540 They've taken a ton of power away from you, and they've done it through our COVID regime.

00:29:22.140 As long as the emergency of COVID lasts, then these rulers can rule however they wish, with

00:29:29.900 whatever whims and caprices they like.

00:29:32.960 15 days to slow the spread is now well over a year and a half.

00:29:37.200 Now, this is probably going to be censored, but I'll say it anyway.

00:29:40.600 The creator of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a very, very important scientist, Professor Dame Sarah

00:29:48.920 Gilbert, has just come out and said that eventually, COVID will just be a cold.

00:29:54.500 It'll just be a common cold.

00:29:55.560 Some of us have been saying that for most people, it is a cold already.

00:29:59.480 For some people, it's very serious, but for most people, it's just kind of like a cold.

00:30:03.680 It's like a bad cold, but it's fine.

00:30:04.860 But she says, eventually, it's just going to be a cold for everyone.

00:30:08.400 This is what happens.

00:30:09.620 She says, quote, we already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don't

00:30:13.980 really ever think about very much.

00:30:15.360 And eventually, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, the Wu flu, will become one of those.

00:30:19.460 It's just a question of how long it's going to take to get there and what measures we're

00:30:22.980 going to have to take to manage it in the meantime.

00:30:26.220 Why does this happen?

00:30:27.100 Because, quote, viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily, and there's

00:30:31.180 no reason to think that we will have a more virulent version of COVID-19.

00:30:35.760 We tend to see slow genetic drift of the virus, and there will be gradual immunity developing

00:30:39.840 in the population as there is to all the other seasonal coronaviruses.

00:30:46.080 Good news.

00:30:47.340 But how long is this going to go on for?

00:30:48.660 One of the vaccine manufacturers, I forget which one.

00:30:50.740 I think it was Moderna, but who knows?

00:30:52.500 It's one of them.

00:30:53.380 Says, you know, I think COVID, I think these difficult COVID measures are going to go on

00:30:57.400 for another year.

00:30:58.700 Oh, do you?

00:30:59.620 Do you?

00:31:00.040 You people who are most profiting from coronavirus, you think it's going to, other than Amazon,

00:31:04.300 who's profiting the most, you think it's going to go on another year.

00:31:06.740 I bet in a year you're going to hear, oh, it's going to go on another year, another two

00:31:09.660 years, another three years.

00:31:11.640 This stuff is not going away until we tell it to, until we make it go away.

00:31:19.500 You know, Leanna Nguyen, who's the former president of Planned Parenthood, she now goes 0.98

00:31:23.540 on CNN all of the time, and she talks about her health advice.

00:31:27.300 She says we are nowhere near allowing kids to lose masks in schools.

00:31:33.600 I agree that masks are a very powerful layer of protection, but it's one layer.

00:31:39.600 And if we have so many other layers that are present, masking may be one that could go

00:31:44.240 away.

00:31:44.600 But I would say that, let's say a school where it is, or a particular class, everybody is

00:31:49.680 vaccinated in that class.

00:31:51.240 And also the level of community transmission is declining.

00:31:55.280 I could imagine that situation being where we remove masks because we have all these other

00:31:59.640 layers.

00:32:00.120 Or if we have rapid testing, imagine if every child and teacher were tested every morning

00:32:05.160 and also they're vaccinated.

00:32:06.960 You can imagine that situation, even if there's high levels of community spread, that maybe you

00:32:11.200 can remove masks at that time.

00:32:12.900 But we are nowhere near that yet.

00:32:14.880 And I think what we really need to do is get the vaccines authorized for children as soon

00:32:18.580 as that's possible.

00:32:19.620 And also really ramp up testing, because that is a powerful tool that we're just not using

00:32:24.960 across the country as we should be.

00:32:26.560 We're just, we're nowhere near where we need to be to let little kids take off the masks,

00:32:30.900 even though kids statistically face virtually no risk.

00:32:33.520 Very, very, very, very little risk from the coronavirus.

00:32:36.820 And then the people who are vaccinated, we are also told face very, very little risk from

00:32:41.900 serious disease.

00:32:42.840 So you can't worry that the kids are just going to spread it to the vulnerable people because

00:32:46.540 the vulnerable people already have the vaccine, unless the libs are lying about something

00:32:50.000 somewhere down the line.

00:32:52.000 Nowhere near it.

00:32:52.920 But you could see a world, you can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

00:32:55.380 Just allow us to keep power for a little while longer.

00:32:57.500 Leanna Nguyen is a curious figure because she's talking about the health of children. 0.75

00:33:05.800 And she, of course, is best known for running an organization that kills hundreds of thousands 1.00

00:33:10.420 of children a year, that their job is to kill little babies. 0.98

00:33:14.400 But Leanna Nguyen was also pushed out because she wanted to de-emphasize abortion at Planned 1.00

00:33:19.120 Parenthood.

00:33:19.500 She wanted to at least have a little cover at Planned Parenthood to say, no, that's not 0.96

00:33:22.960 all that we do here.

00:33:24.300 And so they booted it.

00:33:25.020 They said, no, that is, that is all that we do.

00:33:27.020 So you're, you're out, Leanna Nguyen.

00:33:28.540 So she's a, a confounding figure.

00:33:30.360 I think she's a good representative of the quote unquote moderate liberal view.

00:33:36.700 She isn't very moderate at all.

00:33:38.480 It's, it's quite extreme to the left.

00:33:40.660 But I think that if you look at what Leanna Nguyen is saying here, that is the voice of

00:33:44.120 the establishment.

00:33:45.840 Yes, there's a world in which we can almost go back to normal, even though we're still

00:33:50.580 going to have the power to do whatever we want.

00:33:52.760 But we're nowhere near that yet.

00:33:55.240 Oh, we're not just a little bit longer.

00:33:57.020 Just a little bit longer.

00:33:58.240 How much longer are we supposed to wait before we all start taking down signs in the subway

00:34:01.940 like that lady in New York? 1.00

00:34:03.840 You know, systemic corruption infects our institutions and all of the elites blame you.

00:34:08.880 We've been talking about that on this show.

00:34:10.020 Well, Drew is going to talk about that today on the Andrew Klavan show.

00:34:13.500 So go check that out.

00:34:14.900 Also subscribe and listen to Morning Wire on Apple, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts

00:34:19.680 and leave a five-star review.

00:34:21.420 If you like what you hear, we'll be right back with The Mailbag.

00:34:35.820 Welcome back to the show.

00:34:37.380 My favorite, not my favorite comment.

00:34:39.920 These are my favorite time of the week.

00:34:41.440 This is The Mailbag.

00:34:42.940 First question from Daniel.

00:34:44.020 Michael, I started dating my girlfriend a couple weeks ago.

00:34:47.320 However, I have had strong feelings for another girl who has expressed that she wants to be

00:34:51.660 with me, but doesn't want to be in a relationship.

00:34:55.520 Uh-huh.

00:34:56.240 The situation is rather difficult as we see each other very often and the chemistry is

00:35:00.120 still there.

00:35:01.020 I want to be with this girl, but I would rather be in a serious relationship rather than just

00:35:05.820 something meaningless.

00:35:06.740 Is there anything I can do?

00:35:07.820 So you're telling me, so you got this girlfriend who seems nice enough and then there's this

00:35:14.320 other girl who you've got the hots for and she's got the hots for you, but she doesn't 1.00

00:35:18.820 want to be in a relationship with you because she's got the hots for other guys too. 1.00

00:35:22.320 And so what you want to do is dump your good girlfriend to go hang out with this strumpet 0.73

00:35:26.760 so you can have casual sex on those happy occasions when she's not having casual sex with

00:35:31.380 other guys.

00:35:32.200 That's what you're saying.

00:35:34.860 Ah, to be young, to be young and stupid.

00:35:37.380 Gosh, it's been a while, but I know, I know, I know.

00:35:42.020 Guys, think this way.

00:35:43.260 Young people think this way, but I hope that my describing the situation to you, my just 0.59

00:35:48.720 repeating back to you what you have told me will let you see clearly.

00:35:53.260 You should definitely not be with this strumpet.

00:35:55.200 That's not a good idea.

00:35:56.740 You maybe should not even be in a relationship with your girlfriend because it sounds like

00:36:00.860 you're not ready for a relationship.

00:36:03.660 You're just kind of settling for her or something like that.

00:36:07.380 I would recommend trying to work on a little bit of chastity. 0.93

00:36:13.100 Easier said than done.

00:36:13.980 It's easier for an old man like me, an old married man with a kid to talk about this,

00:36:18.300 than a young person like you. 0.88

00:36:20.920 But I think that it's quite clear that what would be better for you and for society is

00:36:28.980 for you to be in the more kind of steady relationship with the girl who's not going to lead you astray.

00:36:34.700 So either do that and take that seriously and make a decision and work on that.

00:36:39.780 Or don't.

00:36:40.700 Break up with both girls.

00:36:41.900 You know, don't just take this, your girlfriend as a consolation prize if you're really not into her.

00:36:46.120 And, you know, wait until someone that you do like comes along.

00:36:51.540 But I would not, good grief.

00:36:53.980 It's amazing.

00:36:54.440 I mean, I know that men think this way.

00:36:55.940 I was young once, so I do know.

00:36:58.460 But it reminds me of this joke that Drew Klavan talks about.

00:37:01.180 The joke about the guy who walks into a bar with an orange for a head.

00:37:05.400 And the short version of it is the bartender says,

00:37:07.800 All right, are you going to tell me how you got an orange for a head?

00:37:09.860 He says, well, you know, I walked on the beach.

00:37:11.160 I found a magic lamp and a genie came out.

00:37:13.720 I wouldn't believe it.

00:37:14.520 He said, I'll give you three wishes.

00:37:15.620 I said, okay, well, if you're really a genie, I want you to give me a million dollars.

00:37:19.260 I go home.

00:37:19.800 Oh, my gosh, Publisher's Clearinghouse shows up a million dollar check.

00:37:22.540 I go, okay, you know, I want to sleep with every playboy playmate, you know, of the last year.

00:37:28.400 I knock, knock, knock on the door.

00:37:29.740 Oh, my gosh, all these women show up. 1.00

00:37:30.880 Wow, that's amazing.

00:37:32.320 He says, okay, well, what happened then?

00:37:33.800 He goes, well, you know, I had one more wish.

00:37:35.960 And here's the part that's, well, I asked to have an orange for a head.

00:37:41.940 And some people really don't get that joke, but it's a joke about the perversity of mankind.

00:37:47.760 We just, we are self-sabotaging creatures.

00:37:50.340 And that's what you're doing, buddy.

00:37:51.480 You're sabotaging yourself.

00:37:52.420 So don't do that.

00:37:53.300 From Seth, dear Michael, I've been watching your show almost daily since I discovered it two years ago.

00:37:58.200 Thank you.

00:37:58.620 And have purchased speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

00:38:00.700 Thank you.

00:38:01.220 Oh, man, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

00:38:02.920 I agree with you on probably everything but the death penalty.

00:38:07.340 Do we sinners have the authority to condemn somebody to death?

00:38:11.840 Does justice not belong to God?

00:38:14.260 And as it does, if the death penalty also isn't as effective as a deterrent in life in prison,

00:38:20.280 then what argument is left to prefer the death penalty over mercy

00:38:22.940 and giving ourselves every bit of time to try to convert these criminals?

00:38:26.100 Hope to hear from you soon.

00:38:27.100 Love you.

00:38:27.680 Sincerely, the ghost of Saddam Hussein. 0.95

00:38:29.580 Okay, well, first of all, your hypothetical there is a big if.

00:38:32.720 If it's not a deterrent.

00:38:34.120 I actually think the death penalty is a deterrent when it is implemented.

00:38:37.720 Right now, we don't really implement it all that much.

00:38:39.460 So when studies come out and say it's not really a deterring crime, well, right, we don't really implement it.

00:38:44.080 It seems like a decent deterrent to me.

00:38:46.160 But deterrence is not the primary purpose.

00:38:49.300 Now, you mentioned shouldn't we have time to convert the people who are on death row,

00:38:54.420 the people who otherwise we would execute.

00:38:56.420 Well, you're getting to rehabilitation now, which is another reason.

00:39:00.540 It's another argument for the criminal justice system.

00:39:03.460 But it seems to me that hanging concentrates the mind.

00:39:07.260 It seems to me you might have a far better chance of converting someone

00:39:09.780 if he knows that he's on the brink of death, that he's facing the gallows.

00:39:14.480 So the rehabilitation aspect, I think, is already there.

00:39:17.220 And then you say, well, what's the point?

00:39:19.700 The point is neither deterrence nor rehabilitation primarily, but justice.

00:39:24.100 The point is justice.

00:39:25.700 Do I think that we lowly sinners have the right to kill people?

00:39:28.280 No, but I think that, or in self-defense, I suppose we do, which is one argument for the death penalty.

00:39:34.020 But rather than me or you, I think that the civil authority has the right for capital punishment.

00:39:40.500 Actually, the Bible says so too.

00:39:42.300 St. Paul makes it very clear.

00:39:44.820 The Old Testament makes it very clear.

00:39:46.640 He who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.

00:39:51.040 I think that history makes it very clear.

00:39:54.320 I think that if we have the right to throw people in prison for 70 years or 50 years,

00:40:02.380 why would we not have the right to kill them?

00:40:06.300 I don't, we, through the civil authority.

00:40:08.960 I don't really understand that.

00:40:10.360 It seems to me you're taking justice to one of these, to this extreme of we should never pass any judgments whatsoever.

00:40:19.780 We need to have justice in society.

00:40:21.860 Or I don't think there's anything Christian or biblical or right or just about letting the cruel rape the earth. 0.98

00:40:27.380 Now it needs to be, it can't be revenge.

00:40:29.080 It can't be just vigilantism all over the place.

00:40:31.420 But we have a criminal justice system in place.

00:40:33.160 It's relatively effective.

00:40:37.100 So it seems fine to me.

00:40:39.560 One of the arguments you'll hear is Catholics cannot support the death penalty.

00:40:43.540 First of all, Catholics, many Catholics support the death penalty.

00:40:46.020 As Pope Benedict says very well, there can be a legitimate disagreement about the implementation of the death penalty among Catholics.

00:40:51.500 And in fact, many popes have carried out the death penalty.

00:40:55.300 And blessed Pope Pius IX carried out a lot of executions in the papal states.

00:40:59.100 So that just seems to me very modern, a kind of modern liberal or libertarian argument that does not hold a lot of historical water.

00:41:08.360 From Michael, Master Knowles, I would like to know your opinion on the idea of putting a fleece before the Lord, referencing the story of Gideon in the Bible.

00:41:16.340 I have a family member who often urges me to do this as a way to find direction from God.

00:41:20.300 However, it makes me feel as though I'm seeking God to be my personal genie rather than living by faith and wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

00:41:25.600 The only time I feel biblically confident in testing God would be in finances.

00:41:29.580 Specifically with tithing, okay?

00:41:31.960 Putting a fleece before the Lord just feels icky to me.

00:41:34.080 What are your thoughts on this?

00:41:35.000 P.S. My wife is jealous of how much I admire you.

00:41:37.400 Let's be friends.

00:41:38.180 Sincerely, a fellow Michael.

00:41:39.160 Oh, thank you.

00:41:39.840 So for those who don't know, putting a fleece before the Lord is basically asking for a sign.

00:41:44.440 You know, Lord, I have to make this difficult decision.

00:41:46.200 So, you know, tell me what I should do.

00:41:49.360 People pray for this sort of thing.

00:41:50.740 It's very nice to get these sorts of things.

00:41:54.120 But don't forget that it is an evil generation that seeks for signs and wonders. 0.90

00:41:59.100 My priest, Father George Rutler in New York, very wise man, points this out.

00:42:03.660 He says it's an evil generation that seeks for signs and wonders. 0.98

00:42:06.120 But it is a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders.

00:42:08.840 Very often you will get some kind of, you will see some kind of symbol in the world.

00:42:14.520 I myself have had this happen.

00:42:16.900 You know, I was an atheist for a very long time.

00:42:18.900 Then I started to revert and I became intellectually convinced.

00:42:23.480 And then during the period where I really, my faith solidified, I was, it was a really wild time.

00:42:31.660 I mean, I was having what you would call religious experience that was happening quite a lot.

00:42:35.640 And there were these sort of numinous events and symbols and maybe coincidences, you would say.

00:42:40.420 But I really don't think there are many coincidences.

00:42:43.260 So, what does that mean?

00:42:45.320 What does it mean when you get a sign from the Lord?

00:42:49.260 I try not to interpret these things and divine their special meaning and, you know, act like a sorcerer or a magician.

00:42:56.620 To me, the meaning of the sign is that the Lord is there.

00:42:59.320 There is an order to the universe.

00:43:00.540 There is such a thing as providence.

00:43:01.640 And the good Lord has endowed you with moral reasoning, judgment, conscience.

00:43:06.440 And I think you should rely on that and not just, you know, try to read the tea leaves.

00:43:10.840 I think I agree with your feeling that that generally is icky to put the Lord your God to the test.

00:43:16.360 From Schaefer.

00:43:17.340 Hi, Michael.

00:43:17.960 My wife and I are about to have our first baby and we're looking to confirm that our baby's godparents need to be of the Catholic faith.

00:43:24.000 And good standing and confirmed is this accurate.

00:43:25.960 I've done some research and it seems that this is the case, but we heard from others that it's not necessary.

00:43:30.420 We will ask our priest on Sunday, but if you could address this before then, I don't want to leave him speechless.

00:43:35.980 We don't know the answer to this.

00:43:37.280 Love the show.

00:43:38.160 Yes, if you are Catholic and you're going to raise a kid Catholic, then the godparents need to be Catholic.

00:43:44.080 That's true.

00:43:45.120 That's true.

00:43:45.660 It's just the way it is.

00:43:46.780 From Jamie.

00:43:47.500 I recently got engaged to a wonderful man.

00:43:49.300 We will be getting married in about six months or according to Dr. Fauci, less than 15 days.

00:43:54.080 Both of us are active churchgoers and strong believers in Christ.

00:43:56.480 We recently started marriage counseling with one of the ministers from the church my fiancé grew up in and we've been reading The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller together as well.

00:44:04.240 Do you have any advice for us as we move through the rest of our engagement and into young married life that might help our marriage be successful and of strong faith?

00:44:11.820 My now fiancé is the one who turned me on to your show and we started dating.

00:44:15.400 So as you might imagine, we're both huge fans.

00:44:16.860 That's great.

00:44:17.260 Sounds like you found a very excellent man with sound judgment and good taste.

00:44:21.480 My fiancé and I are looking forward to any advice you might have to offer.

00:44:23.980 Yes, I will give you the advice that actually ties in with the theme of this show.

00:44:28.540 Do you have the right to commit sin?

00:44:30.960 Do we have the right to adultery? 0.99

00:44:33.220 Do we have the right to sort of pursue our own tastes and appetites everywhere?

00:44:37.220 This is advice that Drew Clavin gave me before I got married.

00:44:40.080 I said, Drew, you've been happily married a long time.

00:44:42.060 What's your advice?

00:44:42.700 He said, here's my advice.

00:44:44.060 Don't sleep with other people.

00:44:46.320 He used more colorful language.

00:44:47.840 I'm going to clean that up because this is a family show.

00:44:49.580 Don't sleep with other people and you'll have a good wedding.

00:44:54.620 Or a good marriage, rather.

00:44:56.640 I asked Jeremy for advice.

00:44:58.000 Jeremy gives me good advice, too.

00:44:59.240 He said, you know, if you have to, go to bed angry.

00:45:01.500 If you go to bed angry, you're still married in the morning.

00:45:04.820 But if you make this thing, I won't go to bed angry and you just keep some argument going on and on

00:45:09.200 when you're all tired and angry and at your wits end, that's not going to be good either.

00:45:13.500 Now, these are both men who have been married longer than I have.

00:45:16.520 I have probably a bit more wisdom in that area than I do.

00:45:18.900 But I think that's pretty basic stuff, yeah.

00:45:21.300 Do the right thing.

00:45:22.280 Respect your, you know, wives submit to your husbands. 1.00

00:45:24.700 Husbands love your wives. 0.97

00:45:25.780 I'm not sure which one is more difficult at certain times.

00:45:27.760 They're both difficult.

00:45:28.780 They're both calls to do things that we are not, through our broken nature, normally inclined to do.

00:45:33.380 And, you know, have respect for your spouse in all things.

00:45:41.760 I mean, you know, in the Drew advice, that means don't cheat on your spouse.

00:45:44.940 And in the sort of Jeremy advice, it is recognize you're in this thing.

00:45:49.800 You know, you're in this thing together.

00:45:52.020 And have respect for them.

00:45:53.720 Don't just always try to win every single point and every single argument.

00:45:56.720 I mean, you know, you'll grow together, ideally.

00:46:00.220 You'll grow together or you'll grow apart.

00:46:01.580 So make sure that you do that.

00:46:04.360 And recognize that this other person is now part of you.

00:46:08.220 You know, when the good Lord says you're one flesh, I mean, that is a very profound image.

00:46:13.760 It's part of you.

00:46:14.880 So you wouldn't want to abuse some part of yourself.

00:46:19.600 And whether that's emotionally, physically, obviously, spiritually.

00:46:23.320 But I guess in our culture, we think that we do have a right to abuse ourselves.

00:46:27.180 We do think that we have a right to sin and error.

00:46:29.920 But I don't think that you do.

00:46:32.100 So don't do that either.

00:46:33.460 You know, the way that you treat your spouse and the way that you treat your own body are sort of the same thing.

00:46:39.280 You should treat them both well.

00:46:40.620 From Jesse.

00:46:41.480 Sweet Nephew Knowles.

00:46:43.080 I have been in many different conversations with my friends about the draft and the future of warfare.

00:46:46.780 All of them have told me that war will never be fought in the same manner, hand-to-hand, trench warfare, etc.

00:46:50.420 This constitutes the elimination of the draft.

00:46:53.520 Because normal people cannot operate complicated equipment.

00:46:55.820 For instance, drones.

00:46:57.560 What are your thoughts?

00:46:58.380 Has warfare changed forever with the advent of drones and nukes to the point of eliminating the draft?

00:47:02.020 If so, should women be included in a draft? 1.00

00:47:04.020 Because physical combat is no longer necessary.

00:47:05.600 Congrats on Sweet Baby June.

00:47:06.540 Well, if you're saying, if the premise is there's not going to be any draft anymore, then I guess women should not register because there's not going to be any draft. 0.99

00:47:14.360 But no, I think that the military is a very broad place.

00:47:19.280 There's lots of different jobs in the military, lots of supportive roles.

00:47:22.000 And so I don't think there's ever going to be a world in which our wars are fought by 10 people.

00:47:25.780 I think that the draft is still necessary because a nation has to defend itself.

00:47:30.260 And I don't think women should register for the draft. 1.00

00:47:33.700 I think that's wrong.

00:47:35.520 I think it is.

00:47:36.380 You're right.

00:47:36.780 It does not maximize individual autonomy.

00:47:39.020 It does, this particular view of mine, it does not eliminate the biological constrictions of sex and nature.

00:47:46.800 But that's just the way it is.

00:47:48.160 I think that we need to stand up for what is right.

00:47:50.620 And we need to embrace and enforce such a vision.

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