0:00

believe that America's core ideals are

0:02

very much linked to its

0:04

Christian faith. So, since it's

0:06

Easter season, I thought this would

0:08

be a good time to take a closer look

0:10

at the state of our national religious life

0:12

and then weep quietly and say it was a

0:15

great country while it lasted. According

0:17

to a Pew poll, 62 % of

0:19

Americans identify as Christian. This is

0:21

a slight drop from the 1697 poll,

0:23

which showed 99 .9 % of Americans

0:25

were Christian, with one heretic hiding in

0:27

the woods, hoping some guy with

0:29

a buckle on his hat wouldn't blow

0:31

his head off with a blunderbuss. But

0:34

today's religious landscape looks different

0:36

depending on political affiliation. On

0:39

the political left, 43 %

0:41

of those who identify as

0:43

progressives say they have abandoned

0:45

Christianity and become Episcopalians. 14

0:47

% of progressives say they have

0:49

renounced the corrupt beliefs of

0:51

colonizing white men, have returned to

0:53

the innocent and beautiful natural

0:55

religion of indigenous peoples, and

0:57

were preparing to sacrifice a virgin to the volcano

0:59

god until they realized that by the time they

1:02

were sure she was a virgin, she wasn't a

1:04

virgin anymore, and if they threw her into a

1:06

volcano, there'd be no one left who knew how

1:08

to make breakfast. Other progressives

1:10

say they are sick of the

1:12

sort of restrictive religions that ruin

1:14

the 1950s by making everything so

1:16

great. Instead, they have turned

1:18

to more modern faiths, with practices

1:20

that reflect the moral progress of mankind.

1:24

These practices include yogic

1:26

meditation, ritual mindfulness, and

1:28

tantric sex. followed by butchering

1:30

any unborn babies conceived during tantric

1:32

sex, then celebrating the mass

1:34

slaughter by dancing around a pole

1:36

in a wild, blood -drenched frenzy,

1:38

getting a full -body tattoo featuring

1:40

goat -headed demigods with flaming eyes,

1:43

then running naked through a

1:45

forest while grunting inarticulately and listening

1:47

to music that's mostly composed

1:49

of drum beats and shrieking because

1:51

classic rock is just the

1:53

best. Among Christians

1:55

on the extreme right, 17

1:57

% say they believe in Christ so

1:59

hard they'll kill anyone who disagrees

2:01

with them. 14 % say their faith

2:03

is so strong they might even be

2:05

willing to go to church as long

2:07

as porn is provided. And 8 %

2:09

say their worship mostly involves posting unspeakably

2:11

cruel remarks on social media to people

2:14

who aren't as christly as they are. Among

2:16

more traditional conservatives, Four percent of Christians

2:19

say they have abandoned their own egos

2:21

for Christ's sake and have thus elevated

2:23

their souls into a state of suffering,

2:25

yet serene agape love and are now

2:27

hiding in the woods hoping some guy

2:29

with a buckle on his hat won't

2:31

blow their heads off with a blunderbuss.

2:34

The remaining 57 percent of right -wing Christians

2:36

spend most of their time quietly murmuring,

2:38

oh God, I'm a miserable sinner, please

2:40

have mercy on me and don't send

2:43

me to hell or California. As

2:45

far as other American religions go,

2:47

94 % of Muslims identify as

2:49

limousine drivers, 16 % of Christian women

2:51

pretend they're Buddhists, and 82 %

2:53

of Jews control 90 % of everything

2:55

except which parts of Ivy League

2:57

campuses they're allowed to walk on

2:59

without some professor pointing at them

3:01

and making that horrible insect noise

3:03

like Donald's Sutherland at the end

3:05

of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

3:08

Approximately 29 % of Americans have no

3:11

religion whatsoever, and they say that makes

3:13

life much easier because they're able

3:15

to rotate their heads 360 degrees and

3:17

spider walk across the ceiling, which

3:19

comes in very handy when they're trying

3:21

to escape from the exorcist. Around

3:24

the world, the religious landscape is

3:26

much more varied. For instance, in Great

3:28

Britain, while 47 % of the people

3:30

identify as Christian, 70 % of them

3:32

say that Islam is also absolutely

3:34

great. Totally fine. Really wonderful, and not

3:36

a problem at all. No, really,

3:39

it's fantastic. They're not just saying that

3:41

because they'd be arrested for telling

3:43

the truth. In France, 49

3:45

% of the population used to be

3:47

excited by religion because they thought

3:49

they belonged to a dark, obscure mystery

3:51

cult with elaborate secret rituals until

3:53

they found out they were actually just

3:55

Catholics. And in China,

3:57

23 % of high -ranking communists identify

3:59

their kidneys as Uyghur. Trigger

4:02

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a joke is played out, I mean, I

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a joke is played out, we just let

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it go. It is time to let it

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go. All right, let's get to today's episode,

5:59

which is Democrats for National Suicide. I want to

6:01

start the show by reading you a

6:03

brief passage from Thomas Jefferson. Some of you

6:05

may remember him. He founded

6:07

your country or helped found your

6:09

country. When he was president in

6:11

1803, his ambassadors

6:13

arranged the famous Louisiana Purchase, which is

6:15

this huge piece of land right in

6:18

the center of the continent, very important

6:20

to our... over the continent or unifying

6:22

the continent as the United States of

6:24

America. But the Constitution didn't give the

6:26

federal government the power to acquire foreign

6:28

territory. This is back in the days

6:31

when we still had what were called

6:33

enumerated powers. The Constitution granted certain powers

6:35

to the federal government. And if they

6:37

weren't granted in the Constitution, the federal

6:39

government did not have that power, right?

6:41

That's why Madison at first didn't want

6:43

a First Amendment because he said, They

6:46

don't have the, we didn't give them

6:48

the power to control speech. So they

6:50

don't have that power. And everyone was

6:52

like, Jimmy, Jimmy, take my word for

6:54

it. They're going to seize the power

6:56

if we don't stop them. And those

6:58

people were right. So the idea was

7:01

the constitution only gave the government the

7:03

power that was specifically stated in the

7:05

constitution and no other. But Jefferson overcame

7:07

his doubts and he accepted the foreign,

7:09

he said that the government didn't have

7:11

the power to take foreign land, but

7:13

he, overrode those doubts. And this

7:16

is what he said. He said, a

7:18

strict observance of the written law is

7:20

doubtless one of the high duties of

7:22

a good citizen, but is not the

7:24

highest. The laws of

7:26

necessity, of self -preservation, of saving

7:28

our country when in danger are

7:30

of higher obligation. To

7:32

lose our country by a scrupulous

7:34

adherence to the written law would

7:36

be to lose the law itself.

7:38

with life, liberty, property, and all

7:40

those who are enjoying them with

7:42

us, thus absurdly sacrificing the ends

7:44

to the means, right? Gotta

7:47

obey the law, but sometimes you gotta

7:49

obey the higher law of self -preservation. This

7:51

is why the Roman Republic fell in a

7:53

lot of ways, because people were more

7:55

free under Augustus, as Romans, they were more

7:57

free under Augustus, and they had been

7:59

under the late -stage republic, which had basically

8:01

shut down. But it also tells us something

8:04

else. Christianity, does not scale.

8:06

There's a reason that Jesus said render unto

8:08

Caesar the things that are Caesar unto

8:10

God, the things that are God's, because he

8:12

was here to save you. He was not

8:14

here to change the world. He never

8:16

said the world was gonna get any better,

8:18

although I think if more people allowed him

8:20

to save them, the world would get

8:22

better, but he didn't say that. He said,

8:24

the world will be the world. In the

8:26

world, you're gonna have trouble. The poor

8:28

will be always with you. He was trying

8:30

to save you. So you have the right

8:32

and maybe even the responsibility sometimes to

8:34

sacrifice yourself to speak the truth, to do

8:36

what's right. But you don't have the right

8:39

to sacrifice somebody else to do what's

8:41

right. You have an obligation to give charity

8:43

to the poor, mostly to teach yourself to

8:45

let go of the things of this

8:47

world, but you don't have the right to

8:49

take somebody else's money and give it to

8:51

the poor. That's called stealing, right? That's

8:53

something the Ten Commandments say you shouldn't do.

8:55

So today I want to take a look

8:57

at a lot of ways leftism whose

8:59

purpose is the destruction of Western freedom in

9:01

the name of utopian government from on high.

9:03

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9:05

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9:07

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9:10

have overturned this simple piece of

9:12

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one, the Pope is

10:27

dead. Obviously Pope Francis

10:29

passed away, and I want to say up

10:31

front that I don't think non -Roman Catholics

10:33

have a right to pass judgment on

10:35

the Pope as a Roman Catholic. I mean,

10:38

how do I know whether he was

10:40

good for Roman Catholicism or not? I have

10:42

no way of judging what it means.

10:44

You know, when they started to downplay and

10:46

then get rid of the Latin Mass,

10:48

I didn't like it. I think the Latin

10:50

Mass is beautiful, but... Catholicism is not

10:52

a movie for me to review. It's a

10:54

system the church is supposed to be

10:56

a vehicle for passing on Christian wisdom and

10:58

faith. And since I choose to find

11:00

that vehicle in Anglican Catholicism, I can't say

11:02

whether Roman Catholic Church is better or

11:05

worse without the Latin Mass. I have my

11:07

opinions, but my opinions don't count. But,

11:09

but, so I say that I just

11:11

want to make it clear that I'm not

11:14

criticizing or praising the Pope for what

11:16

he was as the Pope, because that's not

11:18

my, my business really. But

11:20

he's also a major public figure with

11:22

power, and I want to talk about

11:24

him that way, and how I saw

11:26

him from a point of view as

11:28

a person and an American and a

11:30

believing Christian and an Anglican Catholic who

11:32

deeply respects Roman Catholic theology and shares

11:34

most of it, but is not a

11:36

member of his church. So from my

11:38

non -Roman Catholic position, I have to tell

11:40

you, I live through two of the

11:42

greatest popes of all time, St. Paul,

11:44

John Paul II and Benedict XVI. These

11:46

were incredible giants. The fact that they were

11:49

even in the Vatican at the same moment

11:51

is like the fact that Thomas Jefferson and

11:53

Ben Franklin were in the same room and

11:55

George Washington were in the same room during

11:57

the founding. Just clearly an act of God.

12:00

John Paul II. can

12:02

remember in 1979, June of 1979, he

12:04

was the first Polish pope. He made

12:06

a trip to Warsaw and Poland. The

12:08

Soviets, who were then had the communists,

12:10

had a lockdown of power over the

12:13

Poles, and they didn't want this guy

12:15

to show up, and they tried to

12:17

play it down, and they were giving

12:19

classes in school about how he was

12:21

Catholicism was the enemy, God was the

12:23

enemy. They upped security to try and

12:25

keep the crowd small. Nothing worked. over

12:28

a million people showed up in

12:30

the streets chanting. And if you can

12:32

see this on YouTube, it'll break

12:34

your heart. It just is so touching.

12:36

They're chanting, we want God. There

12:39

they are under Soviet slavery, under atheist

12:41

slavery. They're chanting, we want God.

12:43

And you can watch the faces of

12:45

the security guards thinking, oh, I

12:47

think we're in trouble. So he was

12:49

just a massive, massive hero of

12:51

his time. Pope Benedict XVI, great

12:54

genius. I've read many, many of his

12:56

books. deepened my understanding of

12:58

my faith and of theology. His

13:00

resignation was shocking and made me wonder

13:02

just how corrupt the church bureaucracy might be

13:04

that he had to step down. I

13:06

don't really know the full answer of that.

13:09

But the experience of these two popes

13:11

shaped my sense of what a pope should

13:13

be as a non -Roman Catholic. And to

13:15

me, you know, Pope

13:17

Francis seemed to me lacking in some

13:19

of those, you know, abilities. The

13:21

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan. is

13:24

one of, I think, I think it's

13:26

10 American Cardinals who participate in the Conclave,

13:28

which as you know from Hollywood, Hollywood

13:30

teaches us, that's where Cardinals get together to

13:32

select a pope who has both kinds

13:34

of genitals. I saw that in the movie,

13:36

so I assume that must be true.

13:39

No, seriously, they vote, they get together, they

13:41

vote on a pope, and if the

13:43

vote doesn't bring a new pope, they send

13:45

up black smoke, I think, through the

13:47

chimney, and then if they do select a

13:49

pope, they send up this. We're gonna

13:51

win so much. We're gonna win at every

13:53

level. We're

13:57

gonna win economically. We're gonna win

13:59

with the economy. We're gonna win with

14:01

military. We're gonna win with healthcare

14:03

and for our veterans. We're gonna win

14:05

with every single facet. We're

14:12

gonna win so

14:14

much, you may even

14:16

get tired of

14:18

winning. You

14:21

say please, please, it's too

14:23

much winning. We can't take

14:25

it anymore. I feel pretty,

14:27

oh so pretty. I feel

14:29

pretty and witty and gay. We

14:31

have to keep winning. We have to

14:34

win more. We're going to win

14:36

more. All

14:48

right, that's just a little Catholic lore for

14:50

those of the people who aren't familiar with

14:52

church customs. But here's, let's go back to

14:55

Cardinal Dolan. Here's what he said he's looking

14:57

for in a new Pope cut form. When

14:59

you get to be 75 like I am,

15:01

you kind of got in your memory bank

15:03

past Popes. And you kind of are always

15:05

dreaming of a blend of them. I'd

15:07

love to see somebody with the vigor.

15:09

and the conviction and the fortitude of John

15:11

Paul. I'd love to see somebody with

15:14

the intellectual wattage of a Pope Benedict. I'd

15:16

love to see somebody with the heart

15:18

of a Pope Francis. How we

15:20

can blend them all. We're

15:22

not in some laboratory doing genetic

15:24

mutations here. But that's probably

15:26

what we would look for. Somebody

15:28

with the same style of

15:30

Francis that warped that heart, that

15:32

smile, that goodness, that embrace. And

15:35

maybe within a little bit of a

15:37

blend with John Paul and Benedict, when

15:39

it would come to more, what

15:41

would I say, more clarity and teaching,

15:45

more refinement of the church's tradition, more digging

15:47

in the treasures of the past, to

15:49

remind us of what Jesus expects of us

15:51

now. Probably a blend of the great

15:53

popes that we've recently had. That's what we'd

15:55

be looking for. So I

15:58

don't know. To me, if you read between

16:00

the lines, he seems to be saying, you

16:02

know, Pope Francis, lovely guy. that people loved

16:04

him too bad he wasn't a Catholic. He

16:06

just seemed to be saying, it's a little

16:08

short on the actual Catholicism. So again, from my

16:10

outsider perspective, I thought Pope Francis

16:13

did not do the kinds of

16:15

things that John Paul II did. He

16:17

didn't stand up to the Chinese,

16:19

for instance. The Chinese were picking their

16:21

own bishops, I believe, and he

16:23

said, well, we'll collaborate with you on

16:25

the bishops, which may have... a

16:27

compromise in one sense, but the Chinese

16:29

are oppressive to Christians. They oppress

16:31

Christians and Catholics, and I don't understand

16:34

why you should recognize their government's

16:36

ability to appoint anybody, and he should

16:38

have called them out, I think.

16:40

And I don't think, you know, he

16:42

doesn't seem to have cleaned up

16:44

the church corruption. Maybe that's impossible. Pope

16:46

seems to be in a very

16:48

similar position to Donald Trump, is that

16:50

he's like this one guy as

16:52

honest as he may be. There's this

16:54

incredible bureaucracy. trying

16:57

to stop him. I

16:59

remember this one point where

17:01

he brought in an

17:03

Australian cardinal named George Pell

17:05

to reform the... finances,

17:07

which apparently scandalously corrupt, and

17:10

Pell was accused of this incredible

17:12

series of sexual things. He would

17:14

have had to have been a

17:16

devil from hell to have committed

17:18

the sexual things. They put him

17:20

in solitary confinement, and then the

17:22

High Court overturned the conviction, and

17:24

Pell said that he thought his

17:26

enemies in the Vatican bureaucracy had

17:28

come after him. And, you

17:30

know, we didn't hear too much about that. He

17:32

just kind of disappeared. Maybe there were some things that

17:35

maybe he had done that were wrong. We've all

17:37

done wrong things, but it sounded like a hit job

17:39

to me. And the media loved

17:41

him, right? Because he was definitely more

17:43

liberal than Benedict when he came to doctrine.

17:45

And, you know, people would say, you

17:47

know, he had this famous remark about gay

17:49

priests. He said, if someone is gay

17:51

and he searches for the Lord and has

17:53

good will, who am I to judge?

17:55

And, you know, I can sort of see

17:57

that, that point of view that we're

17:59

not here to judge one another. But still,

18:01

you know, and everybody sort of said

18:03

he hasn't changed Catholic teaching that he still

18:06

was saying that homosexual sexuality was inherently

18:08

Disordered that's what the Catholic Church says and

18:10

and but but you know It did

18:12

change the tone because Pope Benedict had said

18:14

that if your homosexuality is deeply rooted

18:16

You probably shouldn't be a priest. So that

18:18

does seem like a kind of change

18:20

But the big one for me was migration

18:22

of this is the one that They

18:25

love this illegal immigration and

18:27

this mass migration. And

18:29

here's ABC reporting on Pope Francis and

18:31

who he was, this kind of lovely,

18:33

and of course making it an attack

18:35

on Donald Trump, cut 16. You're always

18:37

touching base, essentially, Diane, to issues that

18:39

are happening right here, right now, right?

18:42

It's easy to say that maybe some

18:44

people don't have any direct relation to

18:46

any of these problems that are going

18:48

on, but the migrations, the

18:50

refugees that we've been seeing just

18:52

across the world, and so many

18:54

of these things that he's been

18:56

leaning into. Pope Francis has been

18:58

vocal, speaking out against ways that

19:00

the Trump administration has handled migrant

19:02

issues to also issues across Europe

19:04

when we've seen other instances with

19:06

migrants seeking refuge across of European

19:08

and African countries. So, you

19:10

know, there were renegade priests.

19:13

There still are renegade priests who

19:15

really got, you know, shut down by

19:17

Francis, who also shut down people

19:19

who wanted to call out China. Here's

19:22

a guy with a different take on migration

19:24

in Europe. His name is

19:26

Bishop Anastasius Schneider. And

19:28

he said, here he's saying something.

19:30

He's a very controversial guy. And

19:32

here he said something very blunt,

19:34

cut 17. This is very

19:36

serious. Now we are witnessing

19:38

an invasion. There are

19:40

no refugees. No,

19:42

this is an invasion

19:44

of mass Islamization

19:46

of Europe, which already

19:49

went on for

19:51

at minimum 50, 60

19:53

years. I think

19:55

the Islamic faith, speaking bluntly,

19:57

is in some ways more

19:59

alive. than Christianity has been

20:01

for a while. I think

20:03

Muslims understand that a country

20:05

rests on faith. A culture

20:07

rests on your founding cult. You

20:10

know, all of your traditions come

20:12

out of the religions that shaped your

20:14

minds over centuries. Those don't go

20:16

away because one or two guys don't

20:18

believe in things. Those have shaped

20:20

the way we look at things, and

20:22

ours is a Christian faith. And

20:24

that's worked great for many people because

20:26

Christianity is supposed to be a

20:28

tolerant accepting religion that loves strangers. It's

20:30

worked really well for Jewish people

20:32

because Jesus was a Jew. You know,

20:34

I know they always say, well,

20:36

Judeo -Christian doesn't make any sense because

20:39

there's all these big differences, very, very

20:41

big differences between Judaism and Christianity,

20:43

but Judeo -Christian does work as a

20:45

sort of technical, you know, kind of

20:47

short. cut way of saying that

20:49

a lot of the ethical teachings of

20:51

Jesus, maybe not the spiritual ones,

20:53

but the ethical teachings of Jesus are

20:55

Jewish teachings, you know, be good

20:57

to the poor, love justice and all

20:59

this stuff, and the centrality of

21:01

love. And so,

21:04

I'm not trying to put out a hit

21:06

on the many lovely Muslim people that

21:08

there are and that I meet all the

21:10

time, but a living faith by

21:12

nature wants to be evangelical because you feel

21:15

that you have the truth and it also

21:17

wants to override false faiths. Now, you don't

21:19

have to do that with cruelty. You don't

21:21

have to do it with violence and that's

21:23

the Islamist way and that's wrong. Just

21:25

as a friendly outsider, I think

21:27

you need a pope who sticks to

21:29

the teachings of the church very

21:31

aggressively and very openly and without fear

21:34

of the current fads and also

21:36

says, you know, yes, this is the

21:38

true faith. I mean, Pope Benedict

21:40

had to apologize when he basically quoted

21:42

an old story about how Islam

21:44

had spread through violence, whereas Christianity

21:46

had spread through conviction, which is true,

21:48

right? I mean, not that there's

21:50

no violence in the Christian world at

21:53

all. I'm not saying that at

21:55

all. But in terms of the way

21:57

that Christianity spread, it's spread through

21:59

martyrdom, not through violence and power. But,

22:01

you know, you want a pope

22:03

who sticks to the Great Commission to

22:05

make believers of all the nations.

22:07

And that quote I read you by

22:09

Thomas Jefferson is sometimes shortened to

22:11

the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

22:13

Well, neither are the Gospels. The

22:15

Gospels are not a suicide pack. Sometimes

22:17

you have to go and give

22:19

yourself over to death, as Christ did,

22:21

to do the right thing, as

22:23

the martyrs did, to do the right

22:25

thing, as soldiers and police officers

22:27

sometimes do, as Christian men or people

22:29

based in Christianity, to do the

22:31

right thing. But you can't call on

22:33

the society to die so that

22:35

you can say that you are a

22:37

Christian, and you can't say that

22:39

Christianity should die in order to be

22:41

Christian. That doesn't make any sense.

22:43

The Gospels are not a suicide pack,

22:45

and I hope as they pick

22:47

a new pope and may, you know,

22:49

Pope Francis rest in peace and

22:51

may he see the face of God,

22:53

but I hope when they pick

22:55

a new pope, it is somebody who

22:57

will stand up for this, which

22:59

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23:01

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2, humanity is

24:47

dying. So this is

24:49

from the Wall Street Journal. Births

24:52

in America this week. Births in

24:54

America hovered near record low rates

24:56

last year. More than three Sorry,

25:00

more than 3 .6 million babies were

25:02

born in the US in 2024,

25:04

a less than 1 % advance from

25:06

the year prior, according to federal data

25:08

released Wednesday. The total fertility rate

25:10

was around 1 .63 births per woman

25:12

in 2024, slightly higher than a record

25:14

low rate recorded in 2023, but

25:16

far below the rate needed for a

25:18

generation. to replace itself. And by

25:20

the way, when a generation is not

25:22

replacing itself, the fall off is

25:24

very, very quick. It actually kind of

25:26

compounds like interest. We can disappear

25:28

in a real big hurry. The latest

25:30

snapshot of U .S. births and fertility

25:32

rates reflect a continuing trend as

25:34

Americans contend with a confluence of economic

25:36

and social challenges, pushing some women

25:38

and families to forgo or delay having

25:40

children. I don't agree with that

25:42

assessment. I don't think that's the problem,

25:44

but that's what the Wall Street

25:46

Journal says. The long -term declines in

25:48

American birth rates have become my focus.

25:50

of the Trump administration, President Trump

25:52

on Tuesday expressed openness to giving baby

25:54

bonuses to those who have children.

25:57

This was a little exchange with a

25:59

reporter here at Cut 9. The

26:19

left is saying, oh, no, you're going

26:21

to give $5 ,000. What good is $5 ,000?

26:23

Whoopi Goldberg was going on. What good

26:25

is $5 ,000 when the cost of child

26:27

rearing is so great and all this? And

26:30

what we need, she says, are childcare and we

26:32

need maternity leave and all that. But they have

26:34

that in other countries. And in other countries, birth

26:36

rates are falling off as well. Moms

26:38

in the West are quitting motherhood. Women in

26:40

the West are quitting motherhood. Elon Musk has

26:42

been talking about this for a while, which

26:45

is probably what's brought it to Trump's attention.

26:47

And what he says is a lot darker

26:49

than that is cut eight. The

26:52

birth rate is very low in almost

26:54

every country. And

26:56

unless that changes, civilization

26:58

will disappear. America had

27:00

the lowest birth rate, I believe, ever that was

27:02

last year, places like Korea.

27:04

The birth rate is one third replacement rate.

27:06

That means in three generations, Korea will

27:09

be three or four percent of its current

27:11

size. And nothing seems

27:13

to be turning that around. Humanity

27:15

is dying. And

27:19

people, it's just not

27:21

something we evolved to

27:23

react to. And

27:27

I mean, I worry

27:29

generally about the strength

27:31

of America. You

27:34

know, America is the

27:36

central column that holds up

27:41

holds up all of Western civilization. So

27:43

I feel like if we've got the

27:45

temple of Western civilization, America is the

27:47

central common. If that common fails, it's

27:50

all over. All of that is quite

27:52

true. Well, not all of it is true.

27:54

I'll go back to that in a minute.

27:56

Musk, of course, has his solution, which is

27:58

that every woman should have his baby. That's

28:00

his idea. I think he has 14 that

28:02

we know about. So his

28:05

idea is that we need more

28:07

of his genetic makeup, which, by the

28:09

way, I completely completely disagree with.

28:11

Nature and nature's God give us the

28:13

occasional Elon Musk, and I think

28:15

that is quite enough. That's all we

28:17

actually need. We do not need

28:19

everybody to be Elon Musk. That would

28:21

be a disaster. The guy is

28:23

brilliant and does wonderful, wonderful things, but

28:25

he is not. He's

28:27

not a full person. He's autistic

28:29

a little bit. And I think, look,

28:31

God bless him. I'm glad he's here

28:33

and he's done wonderful, wonderful things. But

28:36

we don't need the rank and file

28:38

of humanity to be Elon Musk. That's

28:40

actually a mistake. And the other thing

28:42

he says that I don't agree with

28:44

is that we haven't evolved to deal

28:46

with the fact that humanity is dying.

28:48

In fact, I think that racism, for

28:50

instance, tribalism, let's say, isn't one of

28:52

the ways that we have evolved to

28:54

deal with threats to ourselves, to our

28:57

people, and to the culture that we're

28:59

in. I think that the modern world,

29:01

even if you look at World War II,

29:03

after all that death, people came home

29:05

and had babies. That's where the baby boom

29:08

comes from. But I think that the

29:10

problem is the modern world has detached us

29:12

from necessity. evolutionary

29:15

systems for self -preservation don't always go

29:17

off and sometimes we have to

29:19

warn people that this stuff is happening.

29:22

But next to finagling us, this

29:24

is the reason I say, and

29:26

this is where I disagree with

29:28

the Wall Street Journal and the

29:30

causes of the baby dearth, is

29:33

that to my mind, next

29:35

to finagling us out of our

29:37

founding religion, the greatest triumph

29:39

of the left, the anti -west,

29:41

anti -freedom left, is that by

29:45

commandeering the reasonable complaints of feminism for

29:47

their own purposes. As I've said, feminism

29:49

is now just leftism in the skirt. Everything.

29:52

Our attempts, civil rights are just... Leftism

29:54

in blackface. That's all it is. You

29:56

know every single movement in America that

29:58

ceases to its attempts to deal with

30:00

the problem is Immediately taken over by

30:03

the left and put to the service

30:05

of bigger government. That doesn't mean that

30:07

the problem doesn't exist It means we're

30:09

using the wrong solution and they're not

30:11

really solving the problem. I don't think

30:13

that they have done anything I don't

30:15

think the left has done anything for

30:17

black people literally nothing for black who

30:19

they made their life worse I think

30:22

the Democrat Party is a cancer on

30:24

the lives of black people and I

30:26

think that You know, they take over

30:28

civil rights to install. Again, it's the

30:30

ideas to get their brilliant elite utopian

30:32

ideas in power and make sure that

30:34

nobody else has anything to say. So,

30:36

but the incredible triumph of the left,

30:38

almost unbelievable, is that they have managed

30:41

to make the central joy of earthly

30:43

life, which is the love of a

30:45

man for a maid and her love

30:47

for him problematic. I mean,

30:49

there are always problems between men

30:51

and women, but they have made

30:53

it Like it's not, those problems

30:55

are not supposed to be overcome.

30:58

Like the problems outweigh the joys.

31:00

You know, we have lost two

31:02

generations of love. to feminism, either

31:04

on the right where men, on

31:06

the left, I mean where men have

31:09

ceased to uplift and cherish their manhood,

31:11

or on the right where they're so

31:13

angry at women, they think a man's

31:15

power lies in the ability to dominate

31:17

and abuse them, which is going to

31:19

get you into a really bad situation

31:21

too. I mean, I see this in

31:23

young Right wingers

31:26

of the last two generations that they were

31:28

angry. This is the first thing I noticed

31:30

when I came to work at the at

31:32

the daily wire where everybody was 20 years

31:34

younger than me that they were angry at

31:36

women in a way that I had not

31:38

seen in my generation we all you

31:40

know men and women roll their eyes and

31:42

make fun of one another because of our differences

31:44

that's great but usually we do it with

31:46

great affection and love and some of that has

31:48

disappeared and now you've got these gropers and

31:50

others on the extreme right who will say if

31:52

you're a loving husband you're a simp and

31:54

listen I am the picture next to simp in

31:56

the dictionary and then you look up the

31:59

words to say my picture is there I am

32:01

my wife's love slave I mean I adore

32:03

her and yeah she you know she treats me

32:05

like a king but that's just her clever

32:07

way of of making a slave out of me

32:09

because look look the fact is and this

32:11

is what Andrew Tate and others who talk about

32:13

you know enslaving and dominating women this is

32:15

what they're getting at a good woman will do

32:17

anything for a good man who loves her

32:19

And a good man will do anything for the

32:21

love of a good woman. Some of these

32:23

groipers ought to try that out for a change

32:26

instead of what they're doing now. The

32:28

system actually works out really well

32:30

if there is love involved. Turning

32:33

like angry in -cell

32:35

porn, loving right -wingers, turning

32:38

angry in

32:41

-cell... turning

32:43

right -wing men into angry, incel, porn -loving

32:45

people is something the left works

32:47

at very hard. It's intentional. I don't

32:49

know if you're following this case

32:51

in the Supreme Court, Maryland, Maryland County

32:53

was forcing children in pre -kindergarten. These

32:55

are little, little people, you know,

32:57

it's like toddlers, tiny tots. They're forcing

32:59

them to listen to LGBTQ propaganda

33:01

books, books like Born Ready, the True

33:03

Story of a Boy Named Penelope.

33:05

So this is like the, this girl

33:07

named Penelope. He thinks she's a

33:09

boy and her mother says, it's what's

33:11

on the inside that matters most,

33:13

untrue. If you feel like a boy,

33:15

that's fine. And Penelope says, I

33:17

don't feel like a boy, I am

33:19

a boy. It was also not

33:21

true. And other books love Violet about

33:23

two little girls who fall in

33:25

love and all that stuff. So this

33:27

case has brought together in this

33:29

county, Muslims, Christians, and Jews, they were

33:31

allowed to opt out and say,

33:34

hold their kids home. But when they

33:36

all did it, All these kids

33:38

stayed home from school. They said, no

33:40

more opting out. Forget that. So

33:42

Brett Kavanaugh is questioning the school district's

33:44

lawyer. There's Alan Schoenfeld and saying,

33:46

well, you know, every other county in

33:48

America, every other school district in

33:50

America has opt -outs. What's the

33:52

problem here? There's cut seven. I

33:54

guess I'm just not understanding the

33:56

whole goal, I think, of

33:58

some of our religion precedents is

34:01

to look for the win -win,

34:03

to look for the situation where

34:05

you can respect the

34:07

religious beliefs and accommodate the religious

34:09

beliefs while the state or

34:11

city or whatever it may be

34:13

can pursue its goals. And

34:15

here they're not asking you to change what's taught

34:17

in the classroom. They're not asking

34:20

you to change that at all. A

34:22

lot of the rhetoric suggests that they

34:24

were trying to do that, but that's

34:26

not what they're trying to do. They're

34:28

only seeking to be able to walk

34:30

out so that they don't Half

34:32

the parents don't have their children exposed to

34:34

these things that are contrary to their own

34:36

beliefs. So, right, you know, exactly. Gay rights

34:39

started out as leave us alone to live

34:41

our lives, which of course, I think as

34:43

Americans, we can leave people alone to live

34:45

their lives. But then it was like, bake

34:47

me a cake or I'll destroy your business

34:49

and now it's your kids belong to me,

34:51

right? What pains me about this?

34:53

What pains me listening to some of the

34:55

testimony in this case? was that not one justice

34:57

got down to the underlying facts. And I

34:59

think obviously they're supposed to talk about the law,

35:01

but I think the underlying facts do affect

35:03

the law. The great Thomas Sowell,

35:05

his name be praised, talked about the

35:07

start of public school sex education. Listen

35:09

carefully to this, this is one of

35:11

his books. And I love his

35:14

books. He says, girls

35:42

and venereal diseases among both

35:44

sexes. What were the actual

35:47

facts as of the time

35:49

of this crisis? Supposedly an

35:51

urgent need of a solution by preempting

35:53

the role of parents. Venereal diseases

35:55

had been declining for years. The

35:57

rate of infection for gonorrhea declined every

35:59

year from 1950 through 1958, and

36:01

the rate of syphilis infection was by

36:03

1960, less than half of what

36:06

it had been in 1950. The pregnancy

36:08

rate among teenage females had declined

36:10

for more than a decade. As for

36:12

the facts about what happened after

36:14

sex education was why widely introduced into

36:16

public schools, the rate of teenage

36:19

gonorrhea tripled between 1956 and 1975, the

36:21

rate of infection for syphilis continued

36:23

to decline, but its rate of decline

36:25

from 1961 on was nowhere near

36:27

as steep as its short rate of

36:29

decline in earlier years and, of

36:31

course, pregnancy. unwed pregnancy,

36:34

just skyrocketed. So if the justice

36:36

had done their homework, they might have

36:38

asked the following question. On what

36:40

evidence of your expertise are you basing

36:42

your right to teach children about

36:44

sex at all? Our children can't read,

36:47

they can't do math, they're being

36:49

passed from one class to another, from

36:51

one grade to another, without the

36:53

ability to read. these people

36:55

are claiming that they have an

36:57

absolute right to take your child

36:59

and educating about sex where and

37:01

what is that right based, right?

37:03

Because the death of motherhood is

37:06

not a casualty of leftist feminism.

37:08

It's the purpose of leftist feminism.

37:10

I have said this a hundred

37:12

times, motherhood is not a power

37:14

center. That is the complaint of

37:16

leftist feminism is that mothers don't

37:18

have power. Right. Motherhood is not

37:20

a power center. It is a

37:22

love center which all power ought

37:24

to serve. You want to talk

37:26

about Christianity in practice? That is

37:28

Christianity in practice. A woman sacrifices

37:30

a lot when she stays home

37:32

to take care of her baby.

37:35

She sacrifices money. She sacrifices power.

37:37

She sacrifices... Fais is an early

37:39

career and a bigger life in

37:41

the world. And as a representative

37:43

of Mother Mary on Earth, she

37:45

is proclaiming with her very being

37:47

that money, power, career, and the

37:49

world are at her service, not

37:51

she at theirs. You know, we

37:53

don't need $5 ,000 to have babies.

37:55

We don't need maternity leave or

37:57

anything else. We need to remember

37:59

that the two great commandments aren't

38:01

about passing judgment on anyone. They

38:03

are about putting love at the

38:06

center of life. Because if you

38:08

don't, guess what? life dies out.

38:10

The Constitution is not a suicide

38:12

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38:14

is feminism. If you want to

38:16

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38:18

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38:20

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38:22

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38:24

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three, give us back our

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gangsters. If ever this idea

39:44

of the Constitution as a suicide

39:46

pact is being acted out in

39:48

front of us, it is the

39:50

way that leftist judges and leftist

39:52

Democrats are moving everywhere to stop

39:54

Trump from deporting people who poured

39:56

into this country under Joe Biden

39:58

while Joe Biden lied to us

40:01

and his head of Homeland Security,

40:03

Mayorkas, lied to us, said the

40:05

border was secure. Joe Biden said,

40:07

oh, there's nothing I can do.

40:09

I can't do a thing. I'm

40:11

sorry. I'm sorry. I can't do

40:13

a thing to stop this influx

40:15

of this invasion of migrants. Trump

40:17

did it, I mean, it must have taken Trump like

40:19

half a day to shut down the border, you

40:22

know, and so everything that Biden, and

40:24

nobody, nobody is reporting the fact that

40:26

Biden was just lying about this continually.

40:28

So all we're hearing is that these,

40:30

we've got, give us back our gangsters.

40:32

You're stealing our gangsters. You are taking

40:34

our gangsters off the streets and sending

40:36

them to foreign countries and putting them

40:38

in prison. And it's just not right.

40:40

Do process, do process, do process. Which

40:43

by the way, a lot of these

40:45

guys are getting the due process they

40:47

are supposed to get, but is all

40:49

has centered around Kilmar, Abrego, Garcia, the

40:51

Maryland man as they keep this illegal

40:53

immigrant. So already he's illegal from El

40:55

Salvador has been sent back to El

40:57

Salvador. And here's AOC, who's

40:59

obviously running for president. I've told you,

41:01

she's the most dangerous politician in the country

41:03

and she is the most dangerous politician

41:05

in the country and also a dope. And

41:08

here she is at one of her

41:10

many rallies talking about this cut 18. on

41:14

the return of Kilmar Abrego

41:16

Garcia, who's in El Salvador.

41:21

This is America. We

41:24

demand our rights. We demand

41:26

our freedoms, our due process, and

41:28

we don't just point a

41:30

finger and lock someone up without

41:32

their day in court, never. So

41:35

by the way, she's good, you

41:37

know? She's a very scary person. It

41:41

turns out, not only have several

41:43

judges said this guy was a member

41:45

of MS -13, one of the worst

41:47

gangs in the world, and

41:49

not only was he here illegally

41:51

and ready to be deported, It

41:53

turns out, this is from Fox

41:55

News Digital. It turns out he

41:57

was previously pulled over by a

41:59

highway patrol officer while driving a

42:01

car belonging to a confessed human

42:03

smuggler. Multiple sources in DHS confirmed.

42:05

Abrego Garcia was pulled over driving

42:07

an SUV belonging to Jose Ramón

42:09

Hernandez Reyes, another illegal alien who

42:11

in 2020 confessed to human smuggling

42:13

across the U .S. Mexico border. So

42:15

Trooper saw this car weaving back

42:17

and forth and noticed that there

42:19

were eight people in the car

42:21

with Abrego Garcia driving. And he

42:23

told the trooper that he had

42:25

begun driving three days prior from

42:27

Houston, Texas to Temple Hills, Maryland,

42:29

via St. Louis to quote unquote

42:31

perform construction work. The report on

42:33

the stop states that the trooper

42:36

suspected it was human trafficking as

42:38

there was no luggage. Additionally,

42:41

the individuals in the car reportedly

42:43

gave the same address as Abrigo

42:45

Garcia's home address. So they were

42:47

all living at his house. So

42:49

White House Smoke Show Caroline Levitt

42:51

says this, cut three. Well, the

42:53

Democrat Party is full blown crazy.

42:55

Their motto should be illegal immigrant

42:57

criminals first and American citizens last

42:59

because that's exactly what they are

43:01

doing. You have seen Democrat elected

43:03

officials who swear in oath to

43:05

stand up for their constituents in

43:07

law abiding American citizens, spending more

43:09

time advocating for illegal alien criminals,

43:11

gang bangers and wife beaters in

43:13

the case of a brago Garcia

43:15

from Maryland. It's despicable. It is

43:17

disgusting and we are going to

43:19

continue to call them out and

43:21

this administration is going to continue

43:23

to fully enforce our nation's immigration

43:25

laws. And how can we live

43:28

in a sovereign country where the

43:30

previous President Joe Biden was allowed

43:32

to illegally traffic tens of millions

43:34

of illegal aliens into our country

43:36

and the courts did nothing to

43:38

stop him. But now you have

43:40

President Trump who is duly elected

43:42

overwhelmingly by the American people to

43:44

deport these illegal criminals from our

43:46

communities and you have rogue district

43:48

court judges that are trying to

43:50

stop him at every turn. That

43:52

is exactly right. How can you

43:54

let one president break the law

43:56

continuously without doing anything about it?

43:58

And then when the other new

44:00

president tries to enforce the law,

44:02

oh no, that's illegal. You can't

44:04

enforce the law. You know, I

44:06

have to say I make jokes

44:08

about Caroline Leavitt because I have

44:10

stupid sexist jokes about how pretty

44:12

she is because that's my job.

44:14

I'm here to make stupid jokes

44:16

and sexist jokes because to

44:18

remind you that stupid jokes are

44:20

one of the joys of life and

44:22

we shouldn't have to walk on

44:24

eggshells. She is the best White House

44:26

press secretary of my lifetime. She

44:28

is doing an amazing job communicating the

44:30

Trump agenda and defending the Trump

44:33

agenda from hostile media. And you could

44:35

just hear, I mean, she's not

44:37

reading off a script. She's

44:39

talking, she's incredibly eloquent and articulate and

44:41

just really nails the important points. And so

44:43

I will continue to make silly sexist

44:45

jokes about her. Like I said, that's what

44:47

they pay me for. But I want

44:49

you to know I respect her incredibly. She's

44:52

just doing a great job. So

44:54

last week I always also give you tomorrow's

44:56

news today here and last week I told

44:58

you that Congress can and should limit the

45:00

scope of these judges power because they're not

45:02

in the Constitution There are no federal judges

45:04

in the Constitution except for the Supreme Court

45:06

and then Congress has the right to create

45:09

them and give them the powers that they

45:11

have and I what I said was I

45:13

thought that they should Limit them by law

45:15

and even if they can't get that law

45:17

through the Senate they will

45:19

at least let the judges know that it's

45:21

coming, especially because if they don't get the

45:23

law through the Senate, Trump will, as I

45:25

predict he will anyway, win the midterms, and

45:27

then they will get it through. And apparently

45:29

now, Darrell Issa, congressman, has done that in

45:31

the House, his passage along the House, and

45:33

Grassley is taking it on in the Senate.

45:36

I heard Newt Gingrich say that he

45:38

thought it would pass in the Senate.

45:40

I don't see how it can, but...

45:42

still think judges will take notice if

45:44

they get close enough, if they get

45:46

enough support for it, and it will

45:48

keep them from doing what they're doing.

45:50

But let's just take a listen to

45:52

what JD Vance says. He also gets

45:54

to the heart of what's going on

45:56

here is cut too. And I think

45:58

there's actually a deeper issue going on,

46:01

which is that you see some radical

46:03

judges at the district court level who

46:05

are trying to layer so much quote

46:07

unquote process on top of the immigration

46:09

system that it makes it impossible to

46:11

function. We have over 20 million illegal

46:13

aliens in the United States of America.

46:15

Are we not allowed to deport them?

46:17

Because if we're not allowed to deport

46:19

them, then what these district courts are

46:21

saying is fundamentally they reject the will

46:23

of the American people as it was

46:25

expressed in November of 2020. before. We

46:27

just reject that. I believe the American

46:29

people elected President Trump to do many

46:31

jobs, but perhaps the most important job

46:33

was to bring down the number of

46:35

illegal immigration in this country. That's what

46:37

he's trying to do. We're going to

46:39

keep on doing it. It's absolutely true,

46:41

and it's not just rejecting the will

46:43

of the American people. It's rejecting the

46:45

existence of America. It is rejecting the

46:48

existence of America just as Pope Francis

46:50

is rejecting the power center

46:52

of Catholic Christianity by letting Europe

46:54

be taken over just as we

46:56

are ending life itself by telling

46:58

women that motherhood is a second -rate

47:00

job instead of the glorious center

47:02

of all human civilization and human

47:05

life. I'm gonna read Jefferson one

47:07

more time. A strict observance of

47:09

the written law is doubtless, one

47:11

of the high duties of a

47:13

good citizen, but it is not

47:15

the highest. The laws of necessity,

47:17

of self -preservation, of saving our

47:19

country when in danger. are of

47:22

higher obligation. To lose our country

47:24

by a scrupulous adherence to the

47:26

written law would be to lose

47:28

the law itself with life, liberty,

47:30

property, and all those who are

47:32

enjoying them with us, thus absurdly

47:34

sacrificing the ends to the means.

47:36

A movement by which I mean

47:39

leftism that uses the precepts of

47:41

religion, the precepts of fairness, and

47:43

the precepts of the law to

47:45

get rid of religion, children, and

47:47

the law It is not, it's

47:49

not doing it by accident. This

47:51

is moving our culture towards suicide

47:53

and they are doing it on

47:56

purpose. One more time, their idea

47:58

is that if they could rule,

48:00

everything would be absolutely perfect. But

48:02

the people are standing in the

48:04

way. Love of country is standing

48:06

in the way. Faith is standing

48:08

in the way. And more than

48:10

anything, so help me, mothers,

48:13

at -home mothers specifically are standing in. the

48:15

way, and they mean to get rid

48:17

of them. They mean to talk them

48:19

into killing themselves by using the very

48:21

values that they cherish. It should not

48:23

be done. It cannot be done. It

48:25

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chapter, a time for men.

49:59

One reason I wrote The Kingdom of Cain, and really,

50:01

please pre -order this book, you're going to love it. If

50:03

you like the show, if you like the show even

50:05

a little bit, you're going to love this book. And

50:07

as I used to joke all the time that when

50:09

you say something's going to change your life, you should

50:11

first ask, will it change my life for the better?

50:14

Yes, it will change your life for the

50:16

better. You will like this book. I

50:18

think you'll love this book, Kingdom of Cain.

50:20

the finding God in the literature of

50:22

darkness pre -order on Amazon, it is very

50:24

helpful. But one reason I wrote this book

50:26

is to answer the question, why do

50:28

you write the things you write? I get

50:30

this all the time. You call yourself

50:32

a Christian and yet you write books full

50:34

of murder, full of obscenity, full of

50:36

evil women, evil men. Why do you do

50:38

that? And the reason is, is I

50:40

don't believe in God because I think God

50:42

is good for me or because I

50:44

think society is a better place if people

50:46

are religious. I believe in God because

50:48

God is real. And it simply stands to

50:50

reason that if God is real, he

50:52

is the core and nature of reality. It's

50:54

his creation. It expresses his nature. And

50:56

so we know reality. only when we know

50:58

God. In the same way we know

51:00

how to behave, only if we know that

51:02

gravity exists, even though we haven't seen

51:04

it. And experience and faith will tell you

51:06

that God exists. And one

51:08

of the chief sources of knowledge of

51:10

God, obviously there's scripture, but what is

51:12

the scripture? The scripture is literature. And

51:14

when Jesus was resurrected, the first thing

51:16

he did was come back and teach

51:19

the people how to read their literature.

51:21

And I think that literature and the

51:23

arts are a source of knowledge of

51:25

God. And if an artist or

51:27

a writer speaks truthfully and well, he

51:29

will tell us something about our relationship

51:31

with God, and that's what the Kingdom

51:33

of Cain is about. It's about even

51:35

when you're writing about evil things, if

51:37

you write truthfully, God will come through,

51:40

or something about our relationship with God

51:42

will come through. Now, the

51:44

last great upsurge of an art was

51:46

the golden age of television, which was

51:48

the 2000s, early 2000s, and you had

51:50

a lot of stories, I've mentioned this

51:52

many times, a lot of stories about

51:55

bad guys, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Shield,

51:57

Deadwood, even a show like House were

51:59

about outlawed men. And the reason for

52:01

that was because men had been outlawed,

52:03

so only outlaws could be men. And

52:05

men essentially set the terms of the

52:07

future. If manhood goes down the drain,

52:10

it's not like the future is female,

52:12

it's like the future is down the

52:14

drain. That is simply the way it

52:16

works. For reasons I'll talk about in

52:18

a second, but still, that's the way

52:20

it works. And now the arts went

52:22

dead for a minute. for about five

52:25

years the arts have been virtually dead

52:27

except of course for my Cameron winter

52:29

novels because the arts are seeking for

52:31

ways to show men being good men

52:33

but they can't find those ways because

52:35

it requires women to be women to

52:38

be worth fighting for to be worth

52:40

standing up for to be worth being

52:42

good for women who are sacrifices centered

52:44

on love instead of power are going

52:46

to move men to use power to

52:48

protect good women. And just as the

52:50

most gripping stories about women are about

52:53

them in relation to love, pride and

52:55

prejudice and Jane Eyre and even sex

52:57

in the city in its way. It's

52:59

gripping because it is about women seeking

53:01

love in a sexualized world. The

53:03

greatest stories about men are about the stories

53:05

of men using power for something beyond themselves.

53:07

And this is what my Cameron Winter mysteries

53:10

are about. How do you move from using

53:12

power one way to using another for being

53:14

a bad guy, an antihero to being a

53:16

hero. And I've talked about this too, but

53:18

it's It's been a long time since I've

53:20

talked about it. I want to bring it

53:22

back. As you know, Casablanca is, in fact,

53:24

the greatest movie ever made. You

53:27

probably know the story. It is

53:29

about a man who has become

53:31

bitter because he's lost his love.

53:34

He's living in Casablanca, in

53:36

Morocco, in Vichy France,

53:38

in France that is basically not under...

53:40

by the Nazis, but is basically

53:43

in service to the Nazis. And he's

53:45

just said, I'm not sticking my

53:47

neck out for anybody. I'm too bitter

53:49

about it. And then the woman

53:51

he loves, Ingrid Bergman's Humphrey Bogart plays

53:53

Rick, and Ingrid Bergman plays Elson.

53:55

She comes back into his life. And

53:58

in the end of this book,

54:00

which was the Oscar -winning best picture

54:02

for 1944, He sacrifices

54:04

their love for a greater cause. Here

54:06

is what has to be maybe next

54:08

to the shower scene in Psycho. has

54:10

to be the most famous scene in

54:12

movies where he tells the woman he

54:14

loves to get on the plane with

54:16

another man, her husband. This is cut

54:18

19. We'd

54:33

always had Paris. We didn't

54:36

have, we'd lost it until you came

54:38

to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

54:41

When I said I would never leave you. And

54:44

you never will. But I've got a

54:46

job to do too. Where I'm going, you can't

54:48

follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any

54:50

part of. It was, I'm no good

54:52

at being noble, but it doesn't take much to

54:54

see that the problems of three little people don't amount

54:56

to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday

55:00

you'll understand that. I'm giving up the thing

55:02

I love best in life because the problems

55:04

of three little people don't amount to a

55:06

hill of beans in this crazy world. Fifty

55:08

years later, the English patient wins the best

55:10

picture of the Oscar, a picture I despise,

55:12

which also takes place during World War II.

55:15

And it's about the fact that the

55:17

only thing that really matters is love.

55:19

The love between a man and a

55:21

woman. And in fact, the hero, quote

55:23

unquote of this story, in order to

55:25

save his love, gives up secrets to

55:27

the Nazis. And Jews are depicted,

55:29

the Jews are depicted as well. They

55:31

were kind of annoying the Nazis, so

55:33

they had the right to torture them

55:35

and kill them. There really is an

55:37

anti -Semitic picture as far as I'm

55:39

concerned. And here is what the woman

55:42

says at the end of the English

55:44

patience, cut 20. I want all this

55:46

marked on my body. We're

55:49

the real countries. Not

55:52

the boundaries drawn on maps. The

55:56

names of powerful men. I

56:08

know you'll come and carry me out into

56:10

the Palace of Winds. That's

56:20

all I've wanted. To

56:23

walk in such a place with you. So

56:26

in Casablanca, you have a man telling

56:28

a woman, look, we love each other,

56:30

but unfortunately, I've got to go fight

56:32

World War II. In the English patient,

56:34

you have a woman telling a man

56:36

that countries don't matter, it's just our

56:38

body. It has been shown by some

56:40

of these transgender experiments that when you

56:42

inject men with female hormones, they become

56:44

less interested in the news and more

56:46

interested in domestic matters. This makes sense.

56:49

Women are made for home and family.

56:51

Men are made to look for threats

56:53

coming to the home and family from

56:55

outside. And as a result, men are

56:57

built to protect and serve, and women

56:59

are built to live in that protection.

57:01

So right now, things are kind of

57:03

difficult with the Trump administration. His polls

57:05

are looking bad besides his, you know,

57:07

his border enforcement. His polls on the

57:10

economy are looking bad because he has

57:12

committed the great sin of looking beyond

57:14

the profits of the moment. to

57:16

correct our path for the future. And I've

57:18

explained this before, I can't go into it

57:20

now, but you know, he's looking at China,

57:22

he's looking at our trade deals and he's

57:24

saying, no, we've got to bring this in,

57:26

we're no longer the country, we were in

57:28

1945 when not only our enemies were in

57:30

tatters, but our rivals, our friends, friendly rivals

57:33

were also destroyed so that we had a

57:35

clear field. We don't have that anymore, other

57:37

countries have to compete, we have to compete,

57:39

the competing level has to be fair in

57:41

order to not put us under a position

57:43

where China tries to take over the world.

57:45

and we can fight them as long as

57:47

they'll sell us the bullets. That's not the

57:49

position we want to be in. And that

57:51

means that sad things are going to happen.

57:53

You know, there's going to be men who

57:56

are deported and maybe it wasn't entirely fair.

57:58

There are going to be people in the

58:00

bureaucracy who are good people who get fired.

58:02

And the world is going to be unfair

58:04

because women are going to have to produce

58:06

babies instead of being anchor women on TV

58:08

reading off a teleprompter. But

58:11

that's the way it is. And sometimes men

58:13

have to explain this to women. Sometimes men

58:15

have to explain this to women. Sometimes men

58:17

have to stay a little cool, a little

58:19

calmer, not be affected by every teardrop and

58:21

say, yes, this is bad. This is tough

58:23

what Trump is doing. It is tough what

58:25

Trump is doing. And he may fail. Because

58:27

sometimes when you take on big things, you

58:30

fail. I hope he won't. I

58:32

don't think he will. But he may fail. But

58:34

this is a time to stick it out,

58:36

to see if we can save the future. Because

58:38

I'll tell you something. The Constitution is not

58:40

a suicide pact. The Bible is

58:42

not a suicide pact. Feminism is not

58:44

a suicide pact. Life is not

58:46

a suicide pact. Life is for life.

58:48

Life is to make more life.

58:50

That is what life is for and

58:52

ultimately it is eternal life that

58:54

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I'm talking, of course, about Man

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Bear Pig. Yeah!

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All right, remember at the end of the

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clapbacks, the letters I will be giving

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you something to read if you want to.

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So the next member block, we can

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talk about that if you would like to

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send in a clapback. It's clavinclapbacks at

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dailywire.com. Clavin with a K, clapbacks with a

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K at dailywire.com, ask us anything you

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want about politics, your personal life, whatever you

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want, we will be here and we

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will try and answer the question. First letter

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is from Ty, Supreme Chancellor Clavin. You

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responded to my mailbag on April 29th of

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2022 in which I detailed that my

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wife, Alyssa, had miscarried a baby girl and

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lost another daughter prematurely in a seven

1:00:38

month period. You outlined that there was not

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a philosophical answer other than seeking God

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in prayer. I write to update you that

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my wife and I now have two

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twin girls that just turned 18 months. that

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I can attribute our blessings as the

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outcome of prayer, specifically for twin daughters. I

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was incredibly moved by your message to

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us amid our deep grief and wanted to

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offer up those as just one more

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example of God's grace, even when we cannot

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see a way through Well, I usually

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don't read. these letters on the air because

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I don't want to make a fool

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of myself, but the glory is to God

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and that is great. I'm so happy

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to hear that. That is a wonderful, wonderful

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thing. Life is life. Life is beautiful. From

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Kurt, Andrew, my wife has completed the first book

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of what she desires to be a published series.

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It's a Christian novel. She's now struggling

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to navigate the process of publishing

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the entire process. Has her head spinning?

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What advice? Would you give a

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writer that is seeking to publish their first

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book? Thanks. I love the show Kurt You

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know there are lots of books about this

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and lots of online information about this one

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There is there's a book called writers market

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and there are versions of that book like

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Christian writers market and the thing is if

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to start out with you should really follow

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the process you you write a query letter

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to an agent Maybe you you'll see in

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the book exactly how to do it Maybe

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including you know the first five to ten

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pages of of your work and wait and

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see if they'll ask for another. The books

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will tell you how to do it, I

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can't explain it. And then

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there are self -publishing things, but that's

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a very different process, very, very

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difficult to make that work. But

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there are Christian publishers, they do

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publish fiction. I publish with

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Thomas Nelson, they still have a very

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healthy fiction department. But you should

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find out how to do it because people

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do it wrongly and it just makes them look

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bad. So that's the answer. From

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Dean McKinley P. I

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have perhaps a special problem which has

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caught me between personal and geopolitical issues. My

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wife is from Ukraine. We've been married

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seven years. She's beautiful, resourceful, educated, a great

1:02:36

housekeeper and cook. We were very happy

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for years. She helped me rebuild my life

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after some serious setbacks, including a heart attack.

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But then the war with Russia started.

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She steadily became obsessed with the war, spends

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hours a day listening to the news and

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bloggers from her home. Meanwhile,

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my wife lost her mother to a heart

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attack during a Russian air raid. The conflict

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is affecting our marriage. The war is a

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dark cloud. over a house, I feel powerless

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to improve things. Do you have any suggestions?

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I will try anything. Thanks.

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Yeah, my suggestion is that you

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have some sympathy for her. This

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is a horrible event in her

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life. Her mother died in this.

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She has been there for you when you

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had a heart attack. And I think

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that it sounds to me like you're being

1:03:19

annoyed that she is obsessed with this.

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And yes, maybe she is too obsessed, but

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she would be a lot less obsessed. probably

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if you would give her a little

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bit of sympathy, if you would share her

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concerns with her, you know, this is

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a real thing, is there a trauma for

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her? And you may disagree, you know,

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you write in the letter that you disagree

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with some of the things that were

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done before and thinking maybe it's time to

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pull out and all that, but you

1:03:45

know, this is where the political opinions are

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not the main thing. I mean, she

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lost her mother and her homeland is being

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bombed. but you know wrongly and terribly

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it's injustice wrong and you know try try

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talking to her about it and sitting

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with her over it and listening to her

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concerns because I think this is a

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real thing that's happening to your wife and

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you know she is the partner of

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your life. All right next week in the

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member block I'm going to talk about

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a poem it is called you've probably heard

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of it Ode to the West Wind

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by Percy Bish Shelley if you go online

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and just search for Ode to the

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West Wind, the Poetry Foundation will come out

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and they print very, very clear, readable

1:04:23

copies. It's a short poem. So here's my

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suggestion. Poetry is harder to read than

1:04:27

prose. You know, in prose you say he

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walked into a room, we all get

1:04:31

it right away. poetry is meaning condensed into

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music, essentially. And so a little

1:04:36

tougher to understand. If you read it for the

1:04:38

music, read the poem first time for the

1:04:40

music without worrying about the fact that you don't

1:04:42

understand it, which you won't if you read

1:04:44

it quickly, go through it slowly,

1:04:46

look some stuff up, and then after you

1:04:48

understand it a little better, go through it

1:04:50

carefully one more time, should not take you

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more than 15 to 20 minutes to do

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that. So again, I can only offer this

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to members only. I'll be talking about it

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in the member block. It's a real Really,

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it's one of the most beautiful poems ever

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written. It's fascinating. It has really interesting things

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to say and reveals interesting things that the

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poet didn't mean for it to reveal. So

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