Pints With Aquinas - Donald Trump WINS!: Our Unfiltered Reaction

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

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Hi everybody. Thank you so much for being here So I want to begin this stream by saying I think it was over a year ago. I probably should. We should probably ask our guest producer if I'm in the shot. Am I in the shot? Yeah, yeah, you look great. I can see you. Look at you. Oh, I'm in the shot and in focus. Yeah. Good for me. It was at least before the Republican primaries. Yeah.

Yeah, I said I said during the right after the first debate, because you and I, I said I said during the right after the first debate because you and I I remember it was You were back for a week from Austria last summer was that it all I know is you told me Trump was gonna win the 20 this election Yeah, and I said that's an obviously not gonna happen. I Was convinced. Yeah, it was I think it was when we were watching the first. I don't remember what you were back for, but it was one of the weeks you were back for a week. And you and I had nothing to do one night. And the first Republican primary debate was on.

And you and I watched it purely for entertainment purpose because we both knew that like, like, well, I don't know what your purpose was. I wanted to watch it purely for entertainment purpose because I knew that the fact that Trump wasn't showing up meant that he knew he was gonna win the nomination and I thought he would win the election And so I said that I told you that at the first primary debate that he didn't show up to you that he would win the election Yeah, and You were right. It looks like it. Yeah

Looks like it. Yeah, It looks like it. Yeah. How are you feeling? I feel really good. Cause you're an unapologetic mega mega guy, right? So I went through a phase this summer. I really struggled with the abortion rhetoric. And I was at it for a time like publicly on Twitter or X, sorry, I'm gonna call it X now that Elon's like

definitively helping us out. I was on X for a couple months talking about how I didn't think that I didn't understand. This is a weird thing. I don't know how people are going to. I don't quite understand the nuance of the church's teaching on voting. I think Jimmy Akin has a really good take on it, but I've also heard some takes that basically like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. quite understand the nuance of the Church's teaching on voting. I think Jimmy Akin has a really good take on it but I've also heard some takes that basically like it says you have to vote for the most the candidate most in line with the Church's principles but it doesn't say like likely to win anywhere

and so when they were went from like not talking about abortion which was not a huge deal to me and we can get into why, if you want, to definitively saying like they would veto an abortion ban. I was at that point really, at that point I publicly said I was going to vote for the American Solidarity Party, even though I didn't like most of their other policies. But I kind of like really looked into it and I thought, I think in the long term Trump is actually the best case scenario for long term pro-life victory. And also, I think that Trump and Vance together are the ticket that has most cared about

the every man in America in my lifetime, possibly since the middle of the 20th century. Why do you say that? I don't know. It's kind of a feeling I can explicitly. I can tell you explicitly why I think Vance is Trump. I think it's just a feeling that everybody has that he actually cares about us. You know what I mean? Like everybody kind of everybody who is supports Trump has like a feeling that he actually cares about the everyman.

You know what I mean? But Vance, I can tell you explicitly because I read his book and because he's lived through it like all of the crap that I will say this if you haven't read JD Vance's book one you should read it you should read Hillbelly Elegy it's phenomenal I did cry at one point reading it. But if you live in middle America and you are struggling with anything that normal middle Americans might struggle with, family members or friends with drug addiction, grocery prices, the cost of extracurriculars

or even the cost of like, one of the things he talks about is the cost of the fact that he was smart enough to take advanced classes in his public high school, but his family was struggling to afford the supplies, you know And I I don't think like i'm not gonna like I didn't have any of those problems to that extreme But like if you are struggling with anything that a typical middle american struggles with I would bet that For 90 of people who fall into that category jd Vance has struggled with it to a worst degree,

to a scarier degree. And he made it out and he didn't just make it out. He made it out with the intention of making it better for everyone else. And so there's a significant difference, I think, between Trump caring about the everyman and JD Vance caring about the everyman, but also knowing what it's like. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think there's, I think, between Trump caring about the everyman and JD Vance caring about the everyman, but also knowing what it's like. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think there's, I'm not trying to like disparage, like Trump grew up rich, so he must not care. I think he does genuinely care, but JD Vance cares and he knows what it's

like for you and he's probably had it worse than you. what it's like for you and he's probably had it worse than you. And at a certain point I just couldn't get over the fact that I wanted somebody who understood what it was like for people like me and what it's like what the struggles I saw in a small town were, you know, like I had a great family, had a great childhood, my parents were amazing and where, you know, like I had a great family, I had a great childhood, my parents were amazing. And I, you know, but I saw all the stuff JD Vance was talking about, and that's why I got emotional reading his book. Because everything he described, I saw it.

I saw all of it. And it's like, you know, maybe this is unprincipled of me, but I can't, I could not get over the feeling that I, I just wanted to give the people who seem to care about me and people like me and wanted to make the lives of the people who I saw suffer where I grew up better. And I just couldn't get over that. Like I just could not shake that feeling, you know?

And I also, and it wasn't just that, like I think it would be less strong if the other candidate wasn't so blatantly and the other, not just the other candidate, but the other half of the country wasn't so blatantly and explicitly saying that they hated us and that they despised us. How did you receive that? How did they say that? I mean, Joe Biden called all of Trump supporters garbage, and then they edited a White House transcript.

I don't know if people know this. Everybody saw the garbage comment, and everybody saw the mainstream media trying to cover it up. People don't realize to the extent to which the Biden administration went to try to cover that up last minute. This stenographer writing the transcript of whatever that thing was, I don't quite remember,

she had written down supporters, plural, and the White House went into the transcript and added a apostrophe before the S to make it, instead of his supporters and their hatred, or his supporters' hatred, they made it his supporters' possessive talking about Tony Hinchcliffe, trying to make it seem as if Joe was meaning to talk about Tony Hinchcliffe.

And the way Kamala talks about like, the way she speaks, the way she used to speak in the Senate and she toned it down a lot for the presidential primary, but like the way she used to talk about, yeah, we have to ban fracking and we have to take the guns. And the only reason you say those things is if you don't care about the people who are fracking,

the people who are working their tails off day in and day out doing the only thing they know how to feed their families. And the only reason you talk about taking guns away from law-abiding citizens is if you think that the people who like are following the law and have guns are the reason that there's violence in this country and the only reason you would think that because there's no data to

support it there's no evidence to support it there's no even like anecdotal like there's not even like a significant number of anecdotal stories to support that that position The only reason you think that is if you want those people to be weak. That's the only reason. Like culturally, the only reason you come to that conclusion is if you want those people to be weak, if you don't want them to be able to defend themselves,

if you don't want them to be able to enjoy their hobbies and go out hunting, you know? And the way she talked, like she hates Catholics. She was explicitly in the Kavanaugh hearings. People forgot this and it didn't get brought up enough in the candidacy, in the campaign. But she explicitly called the Knights of Columbus a far right organization and was questioning

whether Catholics should be allowed on the Supreme Court because of their religious beliefs. She did that. Yes, on national television in a Senate hearing, in Kavanaugh's Senate, like confirmation hearings. And then she painted Amy Coney Barrett, who I don't think is perfect, and I think is like has some problems,

but she painted her being in the people of praise, which I once again, is I don't think a perfect, religious community, it's kind of like a non-denominational, like almost like all the denominations together kind of thing. I think there's a lot of problems with it, but she painted that, she painted her, she called her like, she said she was like

in extremist groups, you know? Like, and then all of a sudden she's in the rally and this went viral and everybody forgot about it in two weeks because how fast the news cycle moves. She was at her rally, I know you saw this video cause I sent it to you and somebody shouted Jesus is Lord. And she replied with you're at the wrong rally. Yeah. And then crowd cheered. So it's not just that she doesn't like us and her supporters are just like her

policies. It's that she doesn't like us because she's an avatar of the people who hate us for being Christian. She's the, she's an avatar of the people who hate us for being Christian. She's the, she's an avatar of the people who hate us because we, people like us work blue collar jobs to put food, to put food on the table for our families. And at a certain point, you have to make a decision whether you want to vote for someone because they are more pro-life when

abortion isn't even a federal issue, right? And that was the point of JD Vance and Trump's thing. They said it explicitly. We just don't want this to be a federal issue because we don't want to have to make it a cultural campaign issue on the national stage every time. And JD Vance said in the debates that the reason is because he wants us to do the work on the ground to change hearts and minds. He said he was pro-life, but that we're losing it. And so we need to do the work on the ground to change the hearts and mind. So you have to decide, are you gonna vote for the people who want to make,

like, are you gonna not vote for these guys because they just don't want this to be a federal issue, and they want you to do the work to change the hearts and minds because they agree with you? Or are you gonna throw your vote away with you or are you going to throw your vote away because of like some, you know, legal technicality that isn't even actually a factor. What do you say to people who, there's many people who say this and I think there's legitimacy to it.

I also think it's a form of virtue signaling when someone says I had to hold my nose to vote or. I it annoys me. Why does it annoy you? Well, I'll tell you because I don't think I don't actually like, I don't have a negative feeling towards those people. The reason it annoys me is because it demonstrates just how effective the media and the national consensus making apparatus is at painting someone for, as a,

like at, at, at changing the electorate's view on a candidate because everyone I know who goes through and just watches the rallies or just or watches both rallies or just tries to read both left and right and like those people might disagree with Trump for policy reasons, but none of them

think that he's unlikeable. Does that make sense? Well, I think they would say three things. They might not disagree with him for policy reasons, or they might. They might think he's likable. I think almost everybody thinks, I mean, clearly not, but I think he's clearly likable. But then I also think he has like many moral foibles that people would point to. OK, so that's a different question. That's what they mean.

OK, OK. So that's I thought you were saying holding your nose because he's like I don't like the guy personally or something like that. So I've heard that the first thing the my understanding of the question the reason I said that annoys me is because I think that

it is a it's a it's like a thermometer for the temperature and just how effective the consensus making apparatus is that even people who have the right principles can be, their perception on a candidate's character or like personality can be changed. The question to the moral foibles, I understand that.

I think that, I understand it, It's not a problem for me. And the reason is is because I Think since Trump has been trying to be a politician he's been a significantly different person Does that make sense? Like if you look at Trump before and after the a lot the escalator? Excuse me Sworn a bunch of hair over here. Um If you look at Trump before and after the escalator, excuse me, just want a bunch of hair over here. Um, if you look at Trump before and after the escalator, I think you're looking at a significantly different man, you know, he has the honesty problems. A lot of the case, the, the, um, the, the charges and the felony cases and all this stuff and whatnot are, they're from before, you know, they're from before he ran.

And I think if you look at the guy after he started running, that, you know, I'm not gonna say he's like a saint or he's like a perfect, but he's not like this like sleeping around playboy icon, right? If he were, would that bother you? If he were, it would bug me. Right.

I would agree with if he were right now, you know, but it would also, I think. Would it bother you enough not to vote for him? If he was like this cycle? No. Would it bother you enough not to vote for him? If he was like this cycle, no. Twenty sixteen, I wasn't able to vote, but I may probably wouldn't have supported him. I should say I wear this ratty old Maga hat because it's the same one I've had since I bought it. Knock off because I couldn't afford a real one in twenty sixteen when I was in high school. So I wear the same one. That's the reason I wear a knock knockoff MAGA cap because I've been wearing the same one since 2016

In 2016 it might have this time I don't think it would have because I think this time was less about Trump and more about sending a message That we we won't be forgotten that the forgotten man won't be forgotten But I do think that he's had a significant change of character. I think if you look at the way he interacts with people, I don't see the moral, he's prideful and he's brash and he's still kind of a narcissist, right?

But I don't see the rampant moral degeneracy that you would have seen when you thought of Trump in the 80s and the 90s, you know what I mean? And like even the Stormy Daniels thing, that's from like the early 2000s, you know what I mean? And I know that the Democrats don't care about that because I know they don't care about what people were doing in the early 2000s

because they celebrated Dick Cheney's endorsement of all people. So like, you see, I'm saying in the end and like. I know they don't actually care about people's character in the early 2000s. They only care about now. You know, it's what I found weird and I'm an immigrant in a way. Well, not in a way. I am a I'm legally a legally a citizen. But but came in and so kind of like got to like look at America.

It's going crazy. Oh, really? It's probably texting saying they see online. But yeah, what I what I found is it's been really interesting how presumptuous. Democrat supporters are compared to Trump supporters. I find there's a lot of not this time so much, but certainly 2016, a lot of sort of embarrassment or this fear of social ostracization. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Whereas the Democrats don't feel that at all. That's why when they were talking about

the silent Kamala voter, it didn't make any sense. I've got two examples. I remember when Trump beat Hillary, I was in a Trader Joe's and this old fella bumped into me and went, oh, g'day, no worries, excuse me. He went, where are you from? I went, oh, well, I live here, I'm from Australia. And he apologized to me on behalf of the country that they elected Trump.

I was like, don't worry about it. I'm all right. But it was weird that he would be that presumptuous. Secondly, we have someone who lives close to us in Florida who came over to our house and just said, well, yeah, your mother and I, we're all, she's talked about my wife, right, to my kid. Your mother and I, we're voting for Kamala. How presumptuous. And my wife's like, actually, no. And then there was this charitable, but slightly awkward conversation

she had to get into. The reason for that, though, seems to be clearly the mainstream media that shames you, that told us back in 2016 that the only reason we wanted to vote for Trump is because we were racists and sexists. And the same thing again again and maybe Nazi sympathizers It's so pathetic. I'm so sick of it. I think the country sees right through it Yeah, yeah, I think this brings to mind I don't know if I sent this to you But I'm sure that people a lot of people have seen it

There's this Well, I think Wade starts made a video and I know you want to go I he's fantastic You and I both really like Wade Wade videos Wade Stott's made a video on it called heat maps and hurricanes And he was talking about hurricane Helene and he was mentioning this this chart that is pretty popular on like right-wing Twitter It's a heat. It's two heat maps side by side. And what it is, is it's two sets of concentric circles. Okay. And the circles represent in the middle, the question being asked is who do you care about most?

Like what's your biggest concerns? Basically like what do you value the most? And the middle circle represents your immediate family, and then your extended family, and then your extended family and your friends, and they go out and the outer circle is something insane like all Objects everywhere in the universe, you know what I mean? Like literally, okay, and

The reason they did this is they were trying to get data on the value Values like what the what conservatives and liberals value? Okay, so and they were plot they had everybody plot them So they had asked him a set of questions, right? To not like just which do you care about because that would be insane right to just be like they're doing a study So they ask the each side they ask liberals and conservatives sets Each of the same set of questions and then they plot their answers

somewhere along the heat along from the middle to the outer edge and the conservatives came back nearly almost in the center, a little bit outside, which makes sense because conservatives, while we do care very much about our families, immediate families especially, but we also tend to be in communities where we value our extended families and friends also very highly, you know. And the liberals came back closer to the outer edge with all objects in the universe Than to the center and so You're you're the thing you're describing about that guy who you bumped into and then said he apologized for trump

last night And i'm I was up till four watching Once it got called for trump. I was I just started watching like msnbc. I started rotating between msnbc and cnn called for Trump, I was, I just started watching like MSNBC. I started rotating between MSNBC and CNN and for just because it was, you know, I remember it was so fun in 2016. I remember it. Um, I kid you not, they were talking about, they, they weren't talking about, oh, we, this morning they're talking about, oh, we don't understand the nation, you know, about, oh, this morning they're talking about, oh, we don't understand the nation, you know, and oh, here's what's going to happen to the economy.

And oh, why is the economy doing the thing it's doing right now? Because the Dow is up like something insane, like 10%. From last, since last night? Yeah. Bitcoin's up, which is just like all these financial markers that suggest that like the people who, you know, have a lot of money in in the economy which decides how the economy is going to function just fundamentally That's how it works think that the economy is about to do better that that's what they're talking about this morning But last night I kid you not

One of the first things when I turned on MSNBC Was I think it was joy read and Rachel Maddow talking about how? Was I think it was joy read and Rachel Maddow talking about how? Ukrainian soldiers are gonna feel that the United States elected Donald Trump and look I Feel for the soldiers in Ukraine. I feel for Ukraine I feel for the soldiers in Russia because I think a lot of them are being thrown in I think they're both being thrown Into a conflict that they don't have saying I feel for both of them, but I'm sorry if you're more concerned for both of them. But I'm sorry, if you're more concerned with how Ukrainian soldiers are going to react to the election of Donald Trump, then even to the people who voted for Kamala that you supposedly think are the people who need to be saved in this country, actually,

there's something fundamentally wrong with you. Right? Like, right? Yeah, like even if you like you see what I'm saying like even if you like I would expect oh What about you know? The the racism what about like people of color right? Yeah, like the the like there's gonna be more center I'm back to the center like but it's not it's not even like the people of the United States who they say they care about Yeah, their first thought Mmm was people in a different country. Who Trump has said over and over and over and over every time he's been asked about it. I just want the war to end so no more people die.

And their first thought is the emotions of these guys like. Like, that's a fundamentally different way of viewing the world that I just can't even comprehend. Yeah. Yeah, you could you could get to that point after you've gone through. How will this affect us and our loved ones and those who are suffering in our country? But to begin there and make your way back in if that's what they were doing. Yeah. Seems weird. Yeah. I saw some super chats. I don't have thank you for being here, everyone. Hey, before we begin. I want to say, please subscribe to the channel. We're trying to grow it.

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What else do you get streams from me? Get to ask our guests questions and you just get to support, I hope is a good channel that's helping people. So that's the first thing I want to say. Second thing I want to say, I just want to like witness for a little bit as our Protestant brothers and sisters say, there's a lot of people saying Christ is King. Amen. Praise King Jesus. Christ is King. But along with that has to come our own personal repentance because a political party is not going to, or a political figure is not going to, heal a country that is in rebellion against God. It is up to you and to me. When we say Christ is King, we are first and foremost laying down our own arms and repenting from our own heart.

It can be so easy especially in politically divided times to focus on the sins of our enemies But Christianity would have us focus on our own sin not so that we would despair But so that we would lay it before the king and the only one who can heal us So there you go. There's my little witness for the day. Um, can we shout out the episode? That's going up on locals today that early because it's my favorite episode we've ever done really. Yes, please Well, you know why. Well, yeah. Yeah. It's not mine. Mother Natalia and Shane Smith, my godson, Shane Smith and my mother, Natalia, my dear friend who I love dearly.

I love them both dearly. Two of my favorite people in the world. They were on the show together. Yeah. So please together, if you want to see that a week early, I it's my favorite episode we've ever done. Is that yeah. Or is it about to be? It's I mean, it's a. Yeah. So if you want to see that early, go to locals.

Yeah. Sips with Sarah. Thanks, Sips. Great to have you here. Calling him Sips. Yeah. I'm going to drive my laptop so I can see the chat. Yeah. Go for it.

You're a little blurry, but. Okay. Sips with Sarah. Thanks for being here, mate. And everyone should go check out SIPs with Sarah's channel because he's doing excellent work. He says, what do you think about the idea that we should be charitable in victory

and not use this to, quote unquote, dunk on the libs? What does that look like to you? Do you want me to answer that? Do you want to answer that? Because I bet we might have different answers. Well, yeah, let me think. No, I think I think what this ought to be is a harsh like it should have been the first time around, a harsh wake up call to the machine.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with. Pressing it in their face to help them wake up if they're not waking up quickly, and that might feel uncharitable, if that makes sense, but I don't think it is. I think it's saying, don't you see? Like you've got this woman running around accusing another man of being Hitler, accusing of his supporters of being Nazis. Like this is absolutely despicable rhetoric and it trivializes the actual evil that was done by Hitler and the Nazis.

And, yeah. So like shame on you. And if you can't see that that's a despicable thing to do when you lie about Trump wanting to shoot Liz Cheney, et cetera. Like, if you're not accepting reality, you know, then stop. Then yeah, like maybe it's going to feel uncharitable as this gets pushed in your face a little bit. What do you think, though? Because obviously we should be charitable.

OK, I think what I don't what you what your understanding charitable to mean by I don't think we should be doing that. I don't know what Sips but Sarah means by it. What I'm hearing a lot of is he needs to be gracious and defeat and unify the country or grace, gracious and victory and unify the country. I want to remind everyone. And this was said a couple of times on Fox last night. So people who watch Fox coverage may have heard it. Um, and it was said, um, I forget what podcast it was set on recently. Um,

one of the podcasts with the huge interview, Trump JD Vance brought this up. And I love JD, but this is one of the things I do disagree with him on pointed out the Trump wanted the supporters wanted Hillary in jail and he got into office and he said you know what actually it would be too much for the country I'm not gonna do it because I don't want to shatter the like fracture the country The Democrats had the opportunity to reciprocate and not only did they have the opportunity to reciprocate They had to like the 34 felonies thing that he got found guilty of in New York

Don't know how many people know this a lot of our viewers will know this a lot of them won't those 34 felonies The statute of limitations was up. They had to make a specific exception to charge Trump with them Right. So not only did they not Reciprocate but they went back and went out of their way to bend the law specifically to go after him when there was less hard evidence and less reason Than for Trump to go after Hillary The 51 US intelligence agents who said that the hunter-biden laptop was Russian dis. We don't want to comment on the 2020 election live on air. The the questions with whatever the technical term we're allowed to say is.

But let's say that you accept the mainstream narrative that Biden got 81 million votes, okay? And that all of the votes were legitimate. There were no illegitimate votes counted. There was no cheating. Let's just take that at face value with those votes, with those numbers. If the Hunter Biden laptop story is reported, this is hard data. Everyone accepts this. The election would have gone the other way.

Trump would have won in 2020 if the Hunter Biden laptop story had been reported with all of the vote. I'm not saying like if you don't count certain votes and then you add this, I'm saying if you count all those votes and just add this, that's how much more he would have gotten. Right. And those guys that's that's that there's now documents from the FBI that have come out that a lot of them knew that it was real That's treason. Those guys lied to the american people for political purposes. They need to go to prison Trump will not put them in prison but I think that the opportunity the time for Well, you you have to be willing to play the game the same way your enemies are playing the

game if you don't want to end up like this is not like I'm not saying like go after everyone who's done anything wrong. I'm saying the people who want to put you in prison when you told them, well, like we don't want to do this and they chose to do it. I think they now need to realize that they have to, like, they can't just get away with this. Because if we don't enforce some kind of concrete consequences on these people, they will do it again. This isn't about vengeance. This is about these people will do this again if we don't put up some barrier. Does that make sense?

Yeah, I think the question, question I may have been asking too about those who are grateful for the Trump victory. How do they talk to their friends about this in a way that's charitable? And in that sense, I think obviously we have to be charitable. I mean, Christ calls us to love our neighbor, to love our enemies. Yeah, we're talking about two different things. So, you know, for example, as I already said, we live in Florida. We have some some people who live by us who just assumed my wife would be a Kamala supporter because she's a woman.

And you know, no one usually responds positively positively when you rub their face in something, especially in a context of friendship and neighborliness. And so we wouldn't want to do that. We would want to point out why we chose to go the way that we did and why it may not be as bad as you Thought and why you may have heard some things that weren't true You can't make people listen to you So there might be people might not want to listen to you, but I think we should try we got a ton of questions here

Let's see Ryan Gavin McInnes's producers sent us a chat. Okay the top of the viewer activity Let me go all the way up the top here Was that the viewer activity page? Oh, yeah, you can read them here. What's that? The viewer activity page on the stream. Yeah, you can read them. Oh, okay. Ryan Katsu Rivera, who is Gavin McInnes's producer, said, I'm very dumb. Can someone explain, can you explain

the crystals joke to me? I don't know where the crystals joke originated, but the joke was that like in Superman, where general, the old Superman from like the seventies, that like in that movie that we were gonna put liberals and disloyal Republicans in crystals for 50,000 years when Trump became president. So that's the joke. Alan Harris gave us $5.

Thank you. He says thoughts on how to get along with angry liberal friends. Love and patience is good, but how do you like to defend your values while respecting theirs? I think I'd ask them how they would feel if we had equivocated Kamala Harris to Stalin and said that she wanted to kill 50 million people and then ask them to just put themselves in our shoes and understand that we are happy and jubilant because it's proof that you can't just call us insults all the time and ask for them to reciprocate the grace we showed them not only in the campaign, but

in the ways that we handled our rhetoric. Investment Joy gave us $10. Thank you so much. He says Team Ohio checking in. Cool. Ave Christus Rex says, try lizard. Thank you. James Strong gave us $10 and says, I understand voting for Trump as lesser of two evils, but this time around, many Christians are enthusiastic about his win.

How is it Christ like to be so happy about such an immoral person winning? You kind of responded to this already, but yeah, I think that I mean I cannot I'm trying to think how to phrase this without sounding like a total jerk. I I don't think it's Christ like either to be holding 40 year old vices over somebody's head who's done so much good for you 40 year old vices over somebody's head who's done so much good for you. That's honestly how I feel. I'm not saying like, I don't wanna, and I only phrase it that way because it's like,

it was phrased, how is it Christlike to behave this way? You know what I mean? And it's like, if you had said, you know, like what about this thing? But if you're gonna accuse me of like, vaguely imply that I'm being unChristlike, I'm gonna vaguely ask you back, how is it Christ-like for you to hold these vices

over this guy's head? Yeah. You know? And I'm not saying, does that make sense? Yeah. Like there's just some- I like that a lot. I'm just saying like, you missed a couple at the top,

I'm just gonna read them, they're not questions. Sure. Giovanni GD, $20, thank you. Christ Deniers and Absolute Shambles, insanely common,, $20 thank you. Christ deniers and absolute shambles, insanely common Christ W. Thank you. Geovani JD also said, Matt made the best argument weeks ago, I think, quote, I'm going to vote for the party that doesn't have visible disdain for me and our Lord. Yeah.

I mean, just think about that, eh? Like, just think if JD and Trump came to Subinville, and let's say they had the time to kind of mingle with us and learn about our way of life and our first. I just did when he was running for Senate. Exactly. He did. He was at a pub up the road and I just know that they wouldn't hate me. I feel like if Kamala is actually listening to me and wasn't lying to me that I have good reason actually to think that she would despise me.

So part of this, when you say like, how was a Christian? Can you be jubilant? Well, let's let's like think of a hypothetical situation. Let's think about two wicked emperors The democracy has been Abolished and we have just emperors now and and one is persecuting Christians and the other doesn't care so much about Christians So stops persecuting them, but is a rather wicked and immoral man himself much about Christians who stops persecuting them, but is a rather wicked and immoral man himself. Shouldn't the Christians rejoice if the second emperor is, you know, thank God we can live

our lives in peace a little bit more. So like even under that crazy hypothetical situation, if you can understand why a Christian might be somewhat happy. I know that there's a hyperbolic examples. I completely agree. I think the analogy works. I think that there's something to a reductio ad absurdum article our argument especially in sociological matters where you need to see the Contrast it helps to turn up the contrast to understand what's happening

Tim Sweeney gave us $20 He says the thoughts of this election drove me to pray more fast more reach out to my parish more if it makes an individual Lash out more, hate more, calamniate more, pray that they repent of this. Very true. Can I just, I want to do a shout out to my beautiful daughter, Chiara, who I love so much. Yes, please tell the story. She's so great. She's so beautiful. Well, this is a different one, I think. I mean, there was a, people were trying to vote in more abortion access in Florida. It was number four. And so there were a lot of signs that were being put up, you know, vote no on number four.

And I guess we, my wife came in from church one day and we had a ton of these little post, postcards vote no on number four. And there was just so many of them. It was, I didn't know what we were going to do with them. So we go to the car wash, you know, the kind of where you vacuum yourself. And we just had so much stuff in the car that I was just like, if in doubt, throw it out. Let's just get rid of everything that we have. And there was a bunch of those cards and, you know, obviously I care about it, but I didn't know what we were going to do with it. So I'm like, just it's OK.

Let's we can get more. Just get rid of no dad. So this beautiful 12 year old girl, she's like aware the babies are being murdered and we should not want that and we should want Less of that actually starts placing him in different places and I'll be honest and God have mercy on me a sinner I was quite cynical. I really thought well, what's the point? Like it's just they're gonna make they're gonna rule it in they're gonna They're gonna get what they want. And so there was kind of this defeatist attitude. But here's my beautiful 12 year old daughter praying in our nightly rosary or other prayers about this. And so for her to wake up this morning and be told, yeah, Florida voted no on number four, babe.

How beautiful she actually wrote to me today. Let me see. We have like a house mobile phone that they share. And she said. That's such a great thing. My parents did that when I was well. What was it? Instead of having a home phone, they just had like a flip phone that sat on the counter. And then one of when one of us was going to be gone for a longer time and like they wanted to get a hold of us, they would give it to us

to take and then we would have to set it back. It's a wise phone to point that out to people. So just like your parents were smart enough to put a dumb phone there. It's a wise phone. So they didn't have the option. Yeah, mine was before there was smartphones. So, yeah, well, fair enough. Yeah, so we have a dumb phone that the kids use.

So she writes to me and, yay, God is so good. And I say, glory to Jesus Christ. And she wrote back, I forgot the response. Embarrassing. She's so cute. I love her so much. I just love my kids to death. They're beautiful. So children are wonderful.

Yeah, they are bloody wonderful. And just one more thing before we get to more questions. Like I, you know, to see JD Vance on Rogan's show and to see him accidentally talk about his children and how he interacts with them. He talked about being doing putt-putt golf with his kids when the phone call came in. He talked about making Oreo cakes with his kids because he likes to interacts with them. He talked about being doing putt-putt golf with his kids when the phone call came in. He talked about making Oreo cakes with his kids

because he likes to bake with them. This is a normal human being. You missed my favorite one. Okay, what was the? JD Vance's oldest son talking about Pokemon and Trump wanting to talk about Pokemon with his son because he heard his son in the background. Yeah.

Like that guy's like sitting, like he's not in an office where while his wife is paying a nanny to take care of his kids. He's sitting with his son talking to his son about what his son loves. Yeah. And then the president, you know, Trump Donald Trump,

the president calls him and says, will you be my running mate? And he has to like he doesn't like send the kid off or run away to an office. He wants to sit. He sits there with the kid while he's taking the phone call. Yeah, I mean just Normal right everybody who called him weird is lighted. I mean, I mean they're weird, but they're also just columnist columnist Yeah, he's yeah the most normal

I've said this to you, but I'll say it since work. I can't speak highly enough of him I think he's I think I mean he's obviously clearly to anybody watching my favorite politician on the national stage in quite some time But like he's simultaneously the most normal and Simultaneously like cares about the everyday man and I think he's also maybe the smartest national politician ever like he's all three in one That's really smart. He's just it's crazy intelligent. I mean now I want to I want to point out Kamala didn't come out last night and say hey everybody go home We don't know enough. We'll know more in the morning. Thank you for your support. What happened there?

Do you know so they did send a press release out and they told everybody to leave because they thought people they thought they were Going to get the votes in the morning. Mmm Has anything happened since then apparently she's speaking at six tonight They thought they were gonna get the votes in the morning. Has anything happened since then? Apparently she's speaking at six tonight. Seems odd that there's a time delay on that. Maybe she couldn't speak this morning. There were significant rumors. I will say these are all rumors.

And the only reason that I wanna talk about the rumors is because of how willing they are to just assign rumors to us as if they're true and I'm going to not assign them as if they're true I'm just going to say that there was a significant number of rumors to this effect that Kamala Harris may have something of a drinking problem and that the cocaine found in the White House might not have been hunters, but hers. And there was also some reports I saw on Twitter last night that she was livid and drinking. So, have mercy on her.

No, I wasn't. Have mercy on her. Yeah. But it seems odd also that she's not coming out this morning. It's not like she. Oh, I see. You know what I mean? It's not like she's like coming out tonight

because they're expecting the results to be in. They've been in for over 12 hours now. You know, one of the greatest punishments for our wise is that we end up believing them. Yes. And so we really should pray for this poor woman that she would repent and come to Jesus Christ. And I know that sounds like an easy thing to say, or you might think that I'm saying that just to kind of like make fun of her in a holy way. And even if I was doing that, which I hope I'm not, still it's the case that Christ died for Kamala Harris and wants her to be saved. And so, yeah, we do pray for her. Yeah, that's why I said have mercy on her. But I don't know why. I think maybe that they

were expecting, I will also say that a lot don't know why. I think maybe that they were expecting, I will also say that a lot of people know this, but the Republican Party and the RNC, much to Laura Trump specifically and to Scott Pressler's credit, had a lot of Republican poll watchers in the battleground states all. And like they had something like,

I think if I read it right, if I remember correctly, 500 lawyers on call all night last night, helping like with like 230,000 poll watchers just in the battleground states. That's Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, um, and Arizona. And also lawyers on call in all those states to place lawsuits and threaten lawsuits and ensure that the integrity was followed. So my instinct is that maybe they expected, they expected the votes to not be in, you know what I mean? And that,

and that the Republican party was successful in ensuring that there was counting through the night and night of a result. And they were not expecting that to be the successful thing. Al Salazar says, call me crazy, but I feel Trump was saved from assassination attempts for a reason I want to just I want you to respond to that But I just want to go back to what I said earlier about the kind of shame people feel they feel they'll be socially Ostracized if they say I'm happy for Trump as if you're allowed to be happy for Kamala Even though she does all these wicked things, but you're not allowed to be happy for Trump unless he's perfect

That's the kind of feeling you get both from mainstream media and from some Catholics, right? So let's point out that if we're going to talk about Trump's. Also, your hands are very Trumpian right now. Jaina, let's point out that if we're if we're all going to like talk about Trump's 20 year past vices of the sexual nature, we should point out that it's an open secret how Kamala got into politics and it's also it's not that it's not that she had some unrelated sexual vices that she's being judged for but it's that she got her start in politics for engaging in sexual vice. I just want to say real quick

about that that that is I can't think of a better photograph actually I mean there might be another one, but in US political history how incredible is that and the fact that an American can't just go that was amazing even have a photo of it or even wear it on his shirt and be like I'm Proud of this guy like how wild is he there? get up like that and Anyway, I mean you and I both obviously believe in a higher power. So I will also say, look, there's a lot of things I.

I have a hard time. Thinking that God didn't save Donald Trump from that bullet. Yeah, I mean, we both know Father Jason Schroen, who led the prayer and also was praying with Trump and telling Trump that people were Going to come for him 20 like not 20, but like several minutes before That bullet happened. Yeah, I mean wanted to pray for him wanted to pray for safety He thought somebody was gonna do something and father Jason Schroen is a very holy man So I'm inclined to think that father Jason Schroen having an inclination that that was gonna happen. I know

Is a not not insignificant. Yeah, but also like the how close that thing was going to happen on. Yeah. Is not not insignificant. Yeah. But also like the how close that thing was, the timing of the head turn. I mean, it just doesn't like it's. It's nearly impossible for someone who is a believer to look at that situation and look at all the circumstances surrounding it and not feel that something miraculous happened. I think you have to be like, yeah, if you were writing that down, let's say YouTube and video and modern communications

didn't exist, you would write that down. If you. Yeah, exactly. They wouldn't believe it. But I was going to say to is like sounds almost biblical, like how this took place. It was if you were to write it down and recount it to somebody. Yeah. Yeah, nobody would believe that if it was fiction. Oh, only reason we believe is because we saw it with our eyes. I also want to let people know that because Catholic Samurai says that amazing

dirty stash is making Matt look like a real true Bogan. Get this bloke a pint and snag a set. Yeah, I want to let people know you might not know this, but it's actually you all actually have to like my mustache. I it's not an option. You're not allowed to not like it. Everyone has to love it. And tell me that repeatedly, just in case you were not aware of that.

Yeah. Let's see, Zach Osborne says many on the left have fallen to spiritual darkness. Yes, yes, yes, that is clearly true, right? Many on the right of final spiritual. That's right. Yes, that's true. That's true. But you know what I will say? I went to this little place in Pittsburgh yesterday that's extremely blue. And it's just a lot of sad looking people.

They're sad looking people everywhere. I'm not saying there's not sad looking people on the right. But the way people seek to make themselves look unhuman, there is a particular darkness that you see of people who are anywhere. Many on the left have fallen spiritual darkness he says And have been given over to their own sinful desires and futile thinking as judgment from God Romans Can they be won over with reason? I love that you immediately pushed back on that and said yeah in the writers on the right as well

Yeah, I I will say that this is one of my biggest frustrations with the current right-wing is the the fact that, like this happened several months ago, but let's not forget that a right wing beer company during the Bud Light's protest, during the Bud Light boycott thought, oh, you know how we get back at the libs

is we have a bunch of conservative women pose in swimwear, pose in their underwear on a calendar for a beer company, because we're gonna go back to traditional values where men have- Objectify women? Where men objectify women and have calendars of scantily clad women up in their garages.

Yeah. I do worry about that. The kind of binary option. Like if the left is falling into evil, then the right must be the city on the hill, the perfect ones. It's like, no, we have our own wretchedness. And I worry about the fact that we're not allowed to just say outright that we have a sexual vice problem in this country everywhere Yeah, and that I do worry even further that because but that a lot of the people who see that that we do have it everywhere aren't willing to acknowledge

where they're Where they're like aren't willing to acknowledge that there is a Okay, I had this thought recently I was explaining this to somebody This I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do the Trump weave. Okay, I'm gonna weave. Okay. Yeah the reason that sodomy

cries out to heaven for vengeance and fornication does not It's because one is a violation of the natural law. Yeah, and one is a violation of the divine and moral law cries out to heaven for vengeance and fornication does not. It's because one is a violation of the natural law and one is a violation of the divine and moral law, right? And as much as I lament and am frankly quite scared by the acceptance of sexual vice on both the left

and the right, the left's exception of sexual vice is an exception, they're accepting a sec, they are accepting with an A, sexual vices that are violations of the natural law. And the rights accepting of sexual vices generally tends to lead towards those that are in violation of the moral law. And I think that it's much easier to convert a culture that believes in the natural law

than one that totally rejects it. Does that make sense? Yeah. So that's my weave. Yeah. So I think there are sexual advice everywhere, but I think we should be willing to... That's the fear, right? That with the Republican Party taking certain things out of their platform, that we'll just

give up on certain issues. But you've got a lot of people on the conservative side who are saying Christ is king, but they're accepting things like sodomy and contraception and IVF and abortion in certain Circuits like to say abortion rape and incest. Are you insane? What you're saying is it's okay to kill Small human beings if they come about in a violent way. Yes. Yeah, that's evil. Yeah, so I Understand this desire for a big tent, but we need to evangelize people in our tent I understand this desire for a big tent, but we need to evangelize people in our tent. Yeah, yeah We need to we also need to I think that a lot of the people who are

willing to say that you can't be saved by a public figure or like a bi politician or you shouldn't put your salvation or your hope your civic hope or your more like religious hope in a political figure are not willing to extend that to the logical conclusion which I agree which is also you can't put the onus and the duty for converting a culture on political figures. Does that make sense? Like you can't say don't put your religious hope in public politicians and then be upset when the politician isn't evangelizing on your behalf.

You know what I mean? And I agree with the first part. So that's why I'm saying the second part, Yeah, and then be upset when the politician isn't evangelizing on your behalf You know what I mean? Yeah, and I agree with the first part So that's why I'm saying the second part the logical conclusion is you need to be doing the evangelizing Yeah, you know if you you know, and it would be better if they were evangelizing. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be but You got to take both. Yeah, you know, yep Skellock who gave us $20 because this person is incredibly kind. Thank you very much. Very lovely of you, says, Hey, Matt, I'm the guy that talked to you at the oh, my goodness. This is wild at the Am I racist premier about the Sunni Catholicism? Wanted to tell you that I'm under OK.

I'm not sure if it tell me, Skelok, if this is you. This was beautiful. I had a few people at this am I racist premier? Come up to me and say that pines is helping them on the way to conversion. This one fella ran up to me because he was just at a movie that was taking place at the same time. And so he runs up to me and I guess he saw me post something about it on Instagram. And I just so happened to be in the same building as him and said that he's open to Catholicism. I gave you a rosary, I believe. So let me know if that's you, if you're somebody else. But praise God, man, thank you so much.

It's really beautiful to hear from you. And I'm glad you stuck around. And I'm glad Pines has helped you despite the failings of its host. He says, wanted to tell you that I'm undergoing cataclysis now. I'd love to tell you my full story, my conversion someday. Thank you. I'd love to hear it. Yeah, praise God. Everything OK? Yeah, I just was warm.

Oh, Roman A.C.C. gave us $10 and says Happy Day is SW Ohio, Southwest Ohio here. Been attending Catholic Church for four years in O.C.I.A. Now, every time I wake up last night, woke up last night, I would say Hail Mary for Trump. God bless you. Good for you. Keep doing that. I was afraid to get up today, but we came through. Can I say something speaking of praying for Donald Trump? Yeah. If you thought that the on the ground leftists were angry enough to

if not, if you thought if the on the ground leftists were angry enough to try to kill Trump twice when he was just running, it's going to keep happening. Yeah. How angry do you think they are now and how much more? Especially after all this news about him apparently being Hitler. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So let's let's continue to keep him in our prayers. And also JD Vance and his family because. Yes. Oh, can I just say this at the acceptance speech last night? I'll let that a second at the acceptance speech last night Trump asked was speaking about JD. You know saying he was a great pick You should have seen the look of admiration on his wife's face. Did you notice that? Yes, she saw this picture and can I tell you what I tweeted? Yes I at this point I was gonna like I was gonna try to avoid just gushing over Vance in the family. I don't care anymore

And I just don't care anymore. Like let's just talk about like we're here to party and have a good time So let's just continue to talk about the things that are making us happy This picture I mean gosh, yeah, and okay, so I tweeted I saw this picture. I quote to you I said Usha isn't a Christian. I wish you were. That said, Ushah has undoubtedly helped JD stay sane while he was on his absolutely historic run of rallies, debating journalists, and going on podcasts for months. We love Ushah for her loyalty and support to our guy.

And somebody said the way she looks at him is all a man wants from his wife. It is. And what a wife wants from a husband is a kick- ass guy like him. Yeah. And I said, for real, get yourself a woman who supports your dreams. Like Usha supports JD's. Beautiful. I mean, gosh, I wish she would convert, but also like just seeing that picture

and just the way she like this. There were little things about this campaign that she had to pay really close attention to notice. But like JD on Rogan said multiple times that Usha was traveling with him. Yeah. You know, like she was going everywhere with him. So when he was doing four rallies a day and podcasts and going on the news, can we just take a moment to talk about that? Say incredible wife. Yeah, absolutely. Could you add the Stannema of Donald Trump?

That man is insane. Joe Rogan was referring to the podcast where he had Trump on the day after he said The man comes in he didn't need to piss He didn't stop throughout to piss and then we left and he got on his plane without like who is there? Anyone did it and he did a rally for three out three more hours. Who is he? That's nuts. That is so just a little differently I don't know. I mean just built a little differently. What's so funny is I have this is on I have another show tonight. I have to record right? Yes I didn't know we were gonna be doing this but I was planning on having a nap in the middle of the day cuz I Have two podcasts and that man is a 80 something year old 78 78. Oh my gosh

Hey the pipe cottage. Good to see you here. Thanks for your $50 Wow, that's Alan, right? Yeah Okay Good to see you here. Thanks for your $50. Wow. That's Alan, right? Yeah Okay He says glad to see the celebration Trump's victory is a major win for a culture war that began in the 1960s Trump won Carpe Diem, what will you do with it? Are we worthy of the traditions to which we are heir? I Think we are This is I don't know if this has been said on the show before but it's something i'm very very proud of My family on my father's side has been in this country

Since before it was a country my ninth great uncle george rogers clark fought was the general of the westernmost battles in the revolutionary war in his brother William clark as in louis and clark Was one of the great explorers of this of this Front of the frontier of this great continent. I'm very proud of that. I was I told Matt that I was I won't say the exact words I used because I was being brash and over-the-top and funny because that's our relationship but I was very worried that that Kamala

would be the woman in charge of the country my ancestors founded. So I think we are worthy of the traditions to which we are. And I think we also are worthy of our we need to make our ancestors worthy of us. We need to do things that make. Their sacrifice is worth it. So the fellow I just referenced a moment ago who saw me at the M.I. Racist premiere, he responded, he says, yes, I still carry your rosary. TLDR. What's that?

Too long, Didn't read. Is that that mean? Oh, I see. Wow. I'm glad you're here. Drove around the country. First stop, I met you at the theater. Last stop, I ended up in Lander, Wyoming. Just in time for Wyoming Catholics. Visitor Weekend. Glory to Jesus Christ, brother.

Welcome to the church. I know you're on your way into the church. It's wild and wooly and we're glad to have you. A dose of the church. I know you're on your way into the church. It's wild and wooly and we're glad to have you. A dose of theosis. I'll make Derek Cummins one of the best people you'll ever meet or that I've ever met in my life. Honest to God. Can I look down this camera and say, Derek, Derek, I love you.

He says, I heard that if you listen to three Rogan episodes without peeing, Trump will fill your stocking with French fries. French fries cooked in tallow. Make America healthy again. Am I right? So what do you think about? Yeah, what do you think is going to happen here with. RFK and Elon and Ron Paul might be involved in the Department of Government Efficiency, which is awesome.

Yeah. I, I, I am imminently thrilled that they all came together and that they are all planning to work on things which they are knowledgeable about. I think that's one of the, the fact that we've got in this crazy coalition, in this crazy timeline, a group of men who are all planning to work together for a common vision, but split the work such that they're all doing the things that they're best at. I don't know if you know this, I don't know if all the listeners know this,

but Robert Kennedy Jr. has been suing and running lawsuits and class actions and huge lawsuits for health issues against pharmacy companies, against the government, against health mandates, and various things for decades. Like he didn't just pop onto the scene one day with, you know, he's been working in this field and knowledgeable about it,

and knowledgeable about it from the legal and government and big pharma perspective for decades, right? And Elon is obviously a business genius. He's obviously a genius at how to run large organizations efficiently. I do worry that the United States government is a different kind of bureaucracy than a private organization. So I worry, I do think that Elon will be effective. I think he'll be able to do some really cool things.

I don't think he will be as effective as some people think he will be. That is not to say that he should not try. Another guy I really like to listen to for political commentaries names, Oren McIntyre He did a podcast episode recently where he was talking about the fact that if Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy and JD Vance and all these and Tulsi Gabbard were to Run the executive branch like the Constitution says they should as the sole Executor with total power over the executive branch, right? Not total power over the country, total power over the executive branch.

Because the current American populace has so imbibed that something like the executive branch is the entire government, and if one person has control over it, they're a dictator, that if they were to run the government like the Constitution actually says they should, they would be perceived as dictators. Um, we'll leave it there, but I, I think that, I, I think it's a good thing. I think they're all going to do great stuff. I don't know how effective they will be, but that's not what we're talking about today. Today.

We're just happy that we don't have the worst. I want to give Cheryl Hines a shout out. is the wife of RFK jr. What a lady Well, here's why I want to do that. I mean I have no idea. I mean my suspicion is What do I know I know nothing but my suspicion is that she was really Probably disappointed and scared when RFK jr. Joined Trump because she lived I mean that was she's the wife of, or was the wife of, what's his name in Curb Your Enthusiasm. I mean, she's a huge actress.

Yeah, huge actress. And she lives in the bluest part of the blue and to have her husband do that, and I don't know what her reaction has been, but seriously, what courage from RFK Jr. to be able to put aside the amount of hatred that would have come at him after he made that decision. And I love that he was nuanced, too. It's like, yeah, we don't agree on everything. Yes. But we

need to make America healthy again. So God bless him and God bless his wife. I hope they're doing well. Yeah. Yeah. Also, I've said this to you. I just want to say this on the show. People have kind of caught on to this because Trump said it every time but I Guarantee you that Donald Trump didn't just do the podcast that he like though It wasn't like he was only asked he didn't say yes to every podcast right the ones he said yes to were like he got Asked lots more right and the ones he went to every single time he was on it He said baron told me to do this show so let's point Let's all let's just all take a step back and realize that the most effective part of the campaign was Trump's podcast

Appearances even MSNBC was saying that it was a podcast It wasn't it wasn't primarily ground game. It wasn't primarily this, you know It was primarily about podcasts and let's point out that Barron was the guy who said do this show and every single one of them Was a knockout Amazing it Like was amazing. Yeah. So let's point out that the most effective part of the campaign was run by instinct on Trump's 18 year old son's part. That's insane.

Somebody just gave us a hundred. Oh, my. Oh, my gosh. Someone just gave us 300 euro. Sorry, I didn't mean for that to eclipse one hundred dollars. We'll get to you. But Ian, you know, that's why I was referring to eclipse the $100. We'll get to you. But Ian, you know, that's why I was preferring to this is ridiculous. Thank you.

Well, isn't this 300? Is that 300 euro? I know, but I just saw the red and figured it out. That is 300 US dollars. What does it say? Euro? But I just did the conversion. And what is it?

322 US dollars. Yeah. But after four years, 300 euros is going to be two American dollars. Well, the euro is down versus the dollar this morning Ian you're very kind. I feel embarrassed at your generosity. Thank you. He says father Blount blunt blunt, okay Thank you asked pray that your enemy receive a greater state of grace than you in heaven prayed from Malta EU for election and you all

Prayed from Malta EU for election and you all. US has impact on global perceptions as well. Looking to 2025, new USA movement, Carlo Acutus, ordination? I think he might mean. Yeah, candidization. Bishop Barron becoming more prominent. Yeah, I just want to give a shout out to America. I freaking love this country so much.

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But thank you, MattFrad.locals.com. Only if you can afford it. If you can't, please don't, obviously. And I do beg your prayers. You know, one of the things we did here at Pines with Aquinas before it really took off is I wrote about 300 letters to over 300 convents around the world begging these sisters to pray for the mission of pines with Aquinas. I know that I'm a schmuck. I'm very aware, not aware as I should be of my own failings, my own stupidity. Very often I'm regretting things that I accidentally said or could have said better. I'm aware of that, but I know that our Lord,

he can use my bullcrap as manure for the growth of others. He can use all things for his good. And with your prayers, I know that he'll be able to do that more. Yes. What do you what you get your hands up in the air? You're looking at the polling. I'm looking at Twitter. OK. First thing I saw, what would you see is a report and I haven't verified this at all but it looks authentic that the Trump transition

team has contacted Thomas Massey who is a big who is a one of the best congressmen he's one of the only guys who's saying no foreign money no foreign influence from anybody to be their agriculture secretary. And he is also a huge raw milk advocate, just to give you an idea of how great he is for farmers and understanding food and health and agriculture. So that's a huge win. If Thomas Massey becomes agriculture secretary, I mean, just like, I mean, they're already starting to put together the, like they already had a great team, but it looks like they're

putting together an even better one. I just, are you tired of winning yet? Oh, can I just check this out? Yeah. Uh, Vespa is in the chat. Oh, hi, Vespa. She said it's Vespa. Matt, what a blessing to hear this.

So glad it's making a difference. You're a beautiful woman, Vespa, and you're incredibly talented. And we're so glad that we were so honored to have you on the show. Thank you. We still have your books on our bookshelf. They made the, they made the trip from Ohio to Florida. So that should say something about how excellent an author you are. Michigan was called since we started.

So he's a two ninety two now. Well, look at this. I'm looking at Daily Wire's election page. Is it real, real clear policy? Is that what they say? Look at that. Says everyone but Arizona is being called. Oh, Nevada's gotten called. Arizona looks really good.

So right now, reporting he's up almost five points. Right. Oh, wait. Three hundred and one is up four point seven points. So he's up almost five. Nevada. Yeah, Nevada looks Nevada looks done. So, yeah, I mean, it looks like Alaska is like definitely too close to officially call, but like Alaska has not gone blue for, you know, 30 years or something insane. I don't remember the last time, but. I mean, it looks like he could literally sweep every swing state. You know, Mike Jones, I was just asked why Matt Fred looks like Ned Flanders.

Also, the popular. No, I want to go back to the Ned Flanders. Also, the popular. No, I want to go back to the Ned Flanders thing. They want to know why I look like Ned Flanders. And it's because you hit an age where you just stop caring. And it's a wonderful, liberating place to be. Also, Ned Flanders is hot. Tobias Rock says, Hoi from. Lick Stein Lichtenstein. God bless you. Prayed for the election consecrated by Father Ripper.

The last few days, America. Americans made me come to Christ. We're happy to strong arm you into Christianity. Praise the Lord. What were you going to say? The popular vote margin has gotten even wider. Um, it's at. 4.8 million now. Someone just quoted me.

Net Flanders is hot. Matt Fratt. Yeah, I put my head in my hands. I don't think my camera was on. We're on my camera angle for that. But let it be known for the record that Josiah was ashamed. I did face Palm. Oh, someone Lucas, Lucas, says, I missed his super chat.

I'm so sorry. Let me. Once you post it again and I'll be sure to read it. I'll go back and find it. Drew, the Catholic shired me out. Thanks, Drew. Oh, someone saw the facepalm. That's good. So you're on record being disappointed. Lucas, let me go back and look. OK, I'm so sorry if we missed you super chat, we do apologize.

They're coming in hard and fast. Feel free to post them again and we'll do our best. Michael Bozhan gave us two dollars. Here's one of them that we missed. This is Hammer of the Church. Hopefully he means on behalf of the church. It says everyone should dedicate a green scapula to Trump's family. How do you handle?

What is that? Ultra? Ultra crepidarians, I know what that is. Protestant of 29 years converted three years ago. Thank you. And the Catholic Church, keep it up. Glory to Jesus Christ. He's so good. Jesus is so good, friends. He loves you so much.

He's closer to you than your skin. He loves you. You are the beloved of his heart Just turn to him now and say Jesus. I love you. I repent of my sin. Save me say it now Save me Lucas swazik says greetings from Poland gave us 25 Polish dollars which based on the color of the super chat looks like it equivocates to roughly

Polish dollars, which based on the color of the super chat looks like it equivocates to roughly five USD. So thank you for that. Did you read out what he said? I missed it. Greetings from Poland. Oh, God bless you, Poland. We love we love Poland. Rossi says, been seeing some cringe online criticism for this podcast getting into politics.

Thank you for having courage to tell people that they should absolutely work against people that want to kill infants. Yeah, that's the other thing. Like Tim Walls literally passed a law in Minnesota that said, you don't have to provide aid if a baby is born alive during an abortion procedure. So he is for post post-birth abortion. So like, let's not pretend that we had two equally pro-choice sides here. We had one who was post-birth abortion pro-choice and one who was like,

let's not make it a national issue currently pro-choice, you know? Yeah. Like Alain Simone, me, forgive me, I clearly butchered you or your name service or service. Here in Germany, they just passed a law incriminating misgendering. Even parents can get in jail for two years. Be thankful for Trump. God have mercy. May the madness end. Britain is also going through some terrible things right now.

You know, we had Joseph Pierce on and we talked about the riots that happened. Yeah. And they're arresting people for saying that the guy who did it was a Muslim terrorist. Turns out that that guy had an-Qaeda manual in his house. So it seems like maybe they were right. You've been doing good work against the false religion of Islam is Cameron Batusi. He's been crushing it, knocking out of the park lately. Cameron is a wonderful fella and his channel is exploding right now and for good reason.

Go give him a subscribe. Yeah, awesome. He's doing a lot of work, you know, helping, helping show the errors of Islam. Well. Looking at the regular chat now, I'm not seeing any supers, but. This is fun. I know. Congrats from Slovenia. Thank you.

I think we already pointed this out when my wife was on my show last time. We talked about how wonderful Slovenia was and how much we loved it. So I was, again, disappointed that Melania wasn't there to say hi. But whatever, it's fun. Sips with Sarah says Cameron Batusi is amazing, been following him since before he converted to Catholicism. is amazing, been following him since before he converted to Catholicism. Can we just point out how hilarious Trump's Catholic,

what was that called, Al Smith dinner was? So funny. I mean, don't get me wrong. Oh, we missed one. What was the comedian? What was his name? That is Fat Jim Gaffigan. Jim Gaffigan was funny. Absolutely. 100 percent. He was funny in that. Yeah, he actually really fat. Jim Gaffigan. Jim Gaffigan was funny. Absolutely. 100 percent. He was funny in that.

Yeah, he actually really was. Yeah, he was funny. He did a great job. One joke about his wife making me Catholic was annoying to me. Yeah, that's annoying to me, too. But Trump was funny. Yeah, Trump was funny. Okay. How blown if someone had told you 10 months ago that Joe Rogan would have come out

before the election and publicly endorsed Trump, what would you have thought? I wouldn't have been shocked by it. Yeah. I would have thought out before the election publicly endorsed Trump. What would you have thought? I would have been shocked by it. Yeah, I would have thought it was a long shot, but I would not have been shocked by that. Make the name five euros. Thank you. Very somebody. Oh, we missed one for 20, 27, 99 Canadian. I'm Matt Josiah, Canadian local supporter here.

I work for National Pro Life Group in Canada. I'm so glad to be working change hearts and minds in this insane in my insane country. Hope to see you at the DC March for Life. Very neegers, man says atheist to believer, but heard a lot of anti-Catholic stuff. Learned some was fake, fell away. Golly, I'm missing it. I think it.

I don't know how to use a computer, just so. My my stream thing is also came back to the faith and. Have a meeting to become Catholic soon. Praise God. Oh, we have another super to become Catholic soon. Praise God. Oh, we have another super chat. Ten dollars. Thank you so much, James. This is please press from Missouri.

We legalized abortion, confusing wording on the proposition. Of course it is propaganda bullcrap from demons. We overwhelmingly voted red, but still voted to kill our children. I just I need to I want to tell you about my new best friend. His name's Victor. He says stashes glorious Matt. So he's your new best friend. My new best friend. Yeah. You know, all the, all the work I do to discourage parasocial behavior in the chat. And then you say things like this live on air next time in Europe,

come to Poland, a hundred percent hoping to be in Europe next next year, actually, maybe in the summer. Matt McCloskey, who goes by Matt, the tobacconist, and who is the most extraordinary tobacconist in all of student below Ohio and is a general manager at our cigar lounge, says, yes, please pray for all the states that legalized abortion bills like Colorado, and Missouri and then Veronica and maybe you can explain this as wait Thursday's name is Josiah do you want to just give a real quick explanation as to why you changed yeah I can tell people I started therapy

for something else unrelated did a lot of work in therapy realized that I was using Thursday as a second person so I could not be myself because I didn't like me very much. I really like you. Thank you. So at the time when I realized that I just decided to not go by that name anymore to force myself to like be myself all the time and made good progress. I feel better now but that's why I changed it. So yeah that's the answer. I'm glad there is official because I think people thought I was dead naming you

as something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charles Coulson just gave us 20 bucks. Thanks, mate. He says, I found your channel about a year ago when I was going through O.C.I.A. I love listening to your interviews and videos when I'm at the gym or driving. Thanks for all the great vids and crisis king. Amen. 10 McCricken chicken gave us six euro. Thanks, mate. You guys should

invite some Irish Dominicans onto the podcast. We were exploding with vocations in Ireland. The Irish House of Studies is full. Hugh, this is amazing. I just was in Dublin and Belfast evangelizing recently. And one of the Dominicans there said the number one thing people say when they ask why they become a Dominican first is Thomas Aquinas but then they say pints with Aquinas I'm so happy to be a gateway drug to the Dominicans. You skip on there GKJSO37 Canadian. Can Josiah speak to Vance and convince him to give Canada some manifest destiny?

You know, I would love to speak to JD Vance. I wrote him a letter during the campaign. We were in touch with these people. I'm still not giving up hope that we could have him on the show. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I will also say, JD, if you see this, if IU beats Ohio State November 23rd, you have to sign my copy of Hillbelliology and come on the podcast. Christopher Hover says, how should pro-life men talk to pro-abortion women about why

abortion is wrong? I mean, you could begin with logic and kindness. So it's always wrong to kill innocent human beings. Abortion kills an innocent human being. Therefore, abortion is always wrong. And if somebody tells you you can't have an opinion on that because you're a I don't know white male Well that actually makes them a sexist racist The idea that you can't have an opinion on something because you're not a woman is ridiculous

absolutely ridiculous But I also think like there's a lot of women. Hey, can I do this? Hey, look at me. If you're a woman who's had an abortion, we love you so much. We love you so much. You like me and like Josiah have been born into the aftermath of the sexual revolution, which has lied to us and it told you it would be liberating. I am so sorry for what happened to you.

And I want you to know that when we speak strongly against abortion, we are not speaking against you. You are a beautiful, beloved daughter of the Heavenly Father, and he loves you. And just like I need to repent of my sins, you need to repent of yours. So don't walk. Run to the sacrament of confession and Confess this sin that you have committed and receive the mercy of God

Because your sin when it goes up against God's mercy is like a drop of water being flicked into a forest fire It doesn't stand a chance. You don't have to live under the shame You don't have to buy the bullshit rhetoric from the pro-choice side, so-called, who try to alleviate your guilt by telling you that you're some kind of heroine. You don't have to do that. You can reject that and instead accept the mercy of Christ and live a much more beautiful life. I love you. You know? So, you're welcome here. I am checking something. Yeah, no worries.

And it looks like since we've been lying, Kamala has called and conceded. Really? Let's see what Kamala said real quick. Someone asked me if I moved to Florida. Yeah, we would. I've said this multiple times, but for those who don't know, we were in Austria for six months. My wife health was significantly better. Not perfect, but definitely better. We came back and she got sick again. And so I said to my wife, if we come back and you're sick, I'm throwing you over my shoulder and taking you to Florida. That's what happened. I won't get into nitty gritty details, but it was bad. And so that's what we did. And we're very sad to have left

here. I love this place so much. It wasn't what we chose to do. In fact, my sister and her husband moved here shortly before we got back. It was not a plan for us. We did not want to do it. But I ask, I say this to myself, you know, if my daughter was suffering because of an environment and I didn't move because I liked this town, I'd be a bad father. And if I wasn't gonna tell my wife We're leaving we're not gonna let you put up with this anymore. I'd be a bad husband I love her too much to make her in do with that. So that's why we moved to Florida Looks like she's about to deliver a concession speech

Should we go or should we do I Don't know if you can keep the chat entertained I might be able to get it set up to stream it live reaction if you want taken down though would it get pinged for this has been such a fun stream I'd have a look thing but like let's not worry about it let's just let's just go until she okay until she takes the stage yeah already Jesus Christ roughly I'm gonna turn off the super chat so we don't when she gets on miss anybody's super chat To make sense. I didn't hear you what? Go ahead and turn off any more super chat. Yeah, so that we don't miss anymore Yeah, please don't give us any more super chats. You guys have been super generous

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Only if you can afford it. MattFrad.locals.com. Big thanks. You want to read the last couple of chats while I turn this off? Yeah. This guy said two things I agree with. He said, MattFrad is a tool. Yeah, I agree with that.

And then he says, um, God's tool. Oh, OK, I can't tell if he's being mean or nice, but either way. Oh, well, either way. Thank you. Again, from Slovenia, I'm a father, Matt's former neighbor, but I somehow missed your talk. I'm sorry that you missed it. The best kind of tool. Glory to Jesus Christ.

Amy King says, turn them off. That's how you save babies. Live the gospel. Yes, be pro life, not just pro abortion. Not just anti-abortion, I think she was saying. Yeah, praise God. I can't figure out how to turn them off. Don't give us any more money.

You don't give me my money. Stop giving us money. Comacross says, Matt, whose idea was it to make the new Catholic lo-fi retro 8-bit lo-fi theme? That was me. I have another channel. Hi. Look at me. Look at me. I have another channel. Thank you. It's called Catholic Lo-Fi, and it's really beautiful. I think we have an amazing animator named Joshua Masterson.

He is absolutely second to none. None of what we do over at Catholic lo fi is AI generated. So we have people who help. We come together with the music. Joshua does an amazing job over there. So please go follow us. If you'd like lo fi, if you don't even know what it is, just type in Catholic lo fi and give it a listen. You might like it's really great to listen to while you're working or resting or gaming or whatever else. The idea was to create a space online where people could chill and just relax

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The show that is Jews, I are still single? Do you want me to? Let me hold on. So beautiful. Oh, I bumped the camera. No, okay. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Oh, I'm so happy.

My girlfriend is in the other room. I was trying to figure out if she was going to feel outed. Beautiful young woman too. I'm so happy have both of you And for you, did you guys can I tell her the text you sent me the other day what you said? Hold on I don't know I'm gonna say cuz I think you'll be okay with it. You said this woman's way too beautiful for me I did say that's what and I wrote back and went no way dude. You're a stud

So you both blessed? Thank you. I appreciate say that's what I wrote back when no way, dude, you're a stud. So you're both blessed. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think I bumped your camera. Did you answer my question? White said honestly, I think they both could have done better. Do you remember that line from twice? So confusing. Margaret Phillips, did you read that? God bless from Argentina.

Thank you so much. Very kind of you. What else? Margaret Phillips, Margaret Phillips. And I read it for 99 for Margaret Phillips. I don't know. I read it for 99 for Margaret Phillips. Thank you so much. Any tips on how to convert converse with people who take voting for Trump? Personally, a friend of mine asked me point blank who I voted for and refuses to talk.

Hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can't you can't make people engage with you if they if they you can't make people not hate you. But you can just be bold. Yeah, I absolutely voted for donald trump That's who I thought was the best choice and that's why I voted Um, and then you can do your best you could say look i'd love you if you voted for kamala I don't want to not talk to you. Why do you want to not talk to me? Um, but if they don't want to talk to you, well, okay, that's their loss, I guess

But if they don't want to talk to you, well, OK, that's their loss, I guess. Should we wrap up? I'm looking at this, the comma stream, she's still not out. There's somebody else at the podium. I'm going to grab my ear buds so I can listen. Well, I actually have another meeting to get to at three. So I should probably wrap up. Yeah, you should. We love you guys. We're so grateful for your support, for subscribing to the channel.

I also want to give Josiah a shout out. He's been doing editing and producing work here with pints for a while. He's gone from good to great. I would never say that to his face. He's amazing, super talented guy. So proud of him. Again, would never say that to his face, but between you and me, love him. Awesome guy. Say a prayer for him and maybe give him some love in the comment section below. Let him know what you think about his excellent work. Also, if you want to talk about how great my mustache is, even if you want to lie about it, I'd be okay with that. Yeah. Yeah, no, I would. I'd be okay with it. God bless you all. Thank you.