On January 6th, we remember the wise men who traveled a great distance for their leader, the true leader of us all, in defiance of an unjust government. The celebrations today will be wonderful, but can you imagine the blessedness of having actually been there when the event took place? An event that changed the world infinitely for the better?
00:01:43.480Even more reasons to celebrate January 6th.
00:01:48.140You know, the celebration on January 6th is when it recognizes when the Magi following the star made it to Bethlehem to behold the baby Jesus.
00:02:01.820And to bring him gifts of frankincense and myrrh and gold.
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00:02:23.440I, frankly, I kind of feel like I made it.
00:02:45.280Because right now, inflation rates are higher than the interest on treasury bonds, which means that with every day that passes, the government owes less on its mountain of debt.
00:02:54.820Imagine if you had a negative interest rate on your mortgage.
00:02:57.660Would you be in any hurry to pay that off?
00:03:52.480And that makes perfect sense because today we celebrate this wonderful miracle, the star that leads the Magi to Bethlehem to behold the Lord of the world.
00:04:08.440Nothing of note as far as I'm concerned.
00:04:10.440The reason I keep bringing up January 6th as being the Feast of the Epiphany is, one, because it's a genuinely wonderful holiday and we should acknowledge it.
00:04:22.200But, two, because we need to just ignore the Libs histrionics about January 6th, the worst insurrection, the day that our sacred capital building was, the day that what happened?
00:04:38.440The day that some people busted into the Capitol, that some people were just allowed in, were welcomed in, threw open doors.
00:04:48.100No one died, as the newspapers told us they did.
00:04:53.600A guy in a horn hat danced around and some other smiley guy took Nancy Pelosi's lectern and now they're all rotting away in prison.
00:05:00.220The issue here that the left understands that the right apparently has forgotten is that all politics is religious.
00:05:12.400You might not want it to be religious.
00:05:14.020You might want to have a firm separation of church and state.
00:05:16.240Keep your religion out of my politics, but it's not possible.
00:05:18.900As Cardinal Manning says, all human conflict ultimately is theological.
00:05:22.380If we say that politics is downstream of culture, as many conservatives do, you've got to remember culture is downstream of cult, of religion.
00:05:29.980That's what's at the basis of all of our politics.
00:05:33.040And the left understands this and uses it to their advantage.
00:05:35.640This is how George Floyd, who was a career criminal, an unrepentant career criminal, became canonized as the greatest martyr and saint in recent memory.
00:05:46.880This is how January 6th became a sacred feast day, a major feast day on the secular liturgical calendar.
00:05:57.240All cultures have religious views, have religious practices, have religious feast days.
00:06:03.320And so what the left has done is kicked out all the old normal good ones and replaced them with their crazy secular saints and secular feast days and secular rituals.
00:06:11.720And this is also why the conservatives who are spending all day defending January 6th and defending the horn hat guy or whatever, they're a little bit misguided too.
00:06:26.020However you react to January 6th and the Capitol and the insurrection, however you react to it, you are playing into the left's hands.
00:06:33.860Whether you're defending it, whether you're bemoaning it and saying, I'm sorry, it was horrible, it was terrible.
00:06:39.280Either way, you are granting the left's absurd premise that this relatively trivial political event, especially trivial when you consider the actual insurrection that took place for a year with BLM riots attacking federal courthouses and killing dozens of people.
00:06:55.140When you look at this relatively trivial political event and you pretend and you accept the left wing premise that the horn hat guy dancing in the Capitol Rotunda was some sort of world historic event, which it was not.
00:07:30.960But in the truly, in the grand scheme of all the threats to our republic, of all the insurrections, of all the attacks on the Capitol, there have been many attacks on the Capitol, of all the insurrections, even from the year running up to January 6th, it just wasn't that important.
00:07:48.820Okay, so what I would recommend you do is spend January 6th praying.
00:08:10.580President Trump, I didn't even know he had scheduled this.
00:08:13.700But he had scheduled a press conference for the anniversary of January 6th.
00:08:20.020And had I known that he had done that, I would have advised him to cancel the press conference, but didn't even need to because he already canceled it.
00:12:08.040A lot of Republicans especially don't trust the results of the election with a lot of reason not to trust it.
00:12:13.420Democrats did not trust the results of the 2016 election.
00:12:18.320Actually, a higher percentage of Democrats did not trust the results of the 2016 election as Republicans not trusting the results of the 2020 election.
00:12:28.100So when you want to hear about eroding faith in democracy and a threat to our republic, look at the Democrats in 2016.
00:12:34.500And they had far less reason to because it's not as though that we changed all of the election rules right before the 2016 election.
00:12:40.080But still, there was not a lot of trust in that election either.
00:12:43.920Democrats in particular have sown distrust in the elections going back to the 2000 election.
00:12:48.780Terry McAuliffe, who was running for governor of Virginia, he just lost.
00:12:52.120He refused to concede the 2000 presidential election this year, this past election year.
00:12:57.580So there are a lot of questions about the elections.
00:13:00.420One thing I can tell you looking at these poll numbers right now, and it's not just the disapproval rating among Republicans, it's Democrats too.
00:13:06.920If Joe Biden were somehow to be re-elected in 2024, given his situation right now, nobody would believe it.
00:13:19.560Jill, Dr. Jill wouldn't even believe it.
00:21:01.260If we want to have a society that produces more kids, then we're going to have to have less stuff.
00:21:04.540You're not going to be able to buy as much nice stuff or go to as many nice restaurants or get as much delicious avocado toast or drink these expensive fruity seltzer drinks that I like so much that I usually just pilfer from the daily wire.
00:21:18.400You're not going to be able to have as many luxuries if you have kids.
00:22:07.740There's been a little bit of this Ayn Rand, fend for yourself, pull yourself up by your bootstraps ideology on the right that is shallow and doesn't work in every situation.
00:22:44.260Conservatives have tried to split the baby on this issue in recent years.
00:22:48.680And so they'll say, well, we'll give you a child tax credit.
00:22:50.820Well, we'll allow you to deduct certain things from your taxes and we'll allow you to file in this way and we'll allow you to save money in this way for college.
00:24:06.020That's your main resource as a country.
00:24:08.720And I think conservatives are getting woke, not in the leftist sense of woke, but they're just kind of waking up to the problems of some failed policy.
00:24:16.020And they're recognizing if we don't have people, we're not going to have a country.
00:24:53.360We do need a little bit of a warning here.
00:24:55.180There is a really sad story out of the Wall Street Journal about a grieving family who had a kid who had all sorts of problems and addiction and turns out that the addiction and the mental illness ran in the family and they didn't know that.
00:25:13.080They didn't know that because the baby was conceived using some other random dude's sperm that they plucked out of a catalog and they didn't do their due diligence and they didn't know the background of this guy whose sperm they purchased.
00:25:29.600And as a result, one, the child was conceived without knowing his natural father.
00:25:34.860And two, the child had to deal with all of these problems.