The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1263 - Toxic Clouds And Conspiracies: NY Apocalypse?

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

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Over 100 million Americans are experiencing some of the worst air quality ever recorded as smoke from wildfires in America's top hat makes its way south. The scenes from New York City are downright eerie. A Broadway performer walked off stage during a matinee yesterday because she couldn't breathe. It is genuinely scary for people. And you know what that means? It means it's the perfect opportunity for liberals to push their fear-mongering climate change agenda. The smoke had just barely appeared in the sky when Randy Weingarten, the nation's teacher union boss and Democrat Party operative, but I repeat myself, she blamed the smoke on, you guessed it, climate change.

Weingarten tweeted, climate change is real. Please be careful today in NYC. But Winegarten, a well-known private jet enthusiast, neglected to mention how the wildfires in Canada are connected to global warming, or global cooling, or climate change, or whatever. And the reason for that omission, one suspects, is that there is no discernible connection at all. The wildfires in Canada have burned nine million acres of land. Pretty bad. But is it? historically bad. No, nine million acres is a lot, but nine million acres is nothing compared to the 49 million acres that burned 20 years ago during the Russian wildfires of 2003. Still, 2003, relatively recent. Maybe that was climate change too. Well, what about the 1987 Black Dragon Fire,

also in China, which burned 18 million acres, twice the Canadian burn that turned New York. York City Orange. Were the 1987 Chinese fires caused by climate change? Maybe, I guess, the libs have been shrieking about some sort of environmental catastrophe since the 70s. How about the Siberian wildfires of 1915, which burned a whopping 35 million acres of land in Russia? Was climate change already in full swing by 1915? Industrialization started in Russia in the late 19th century. So maybe would have had to act awful quick to blame industry for that one. How about the Black Thursday bushfires of 1851 in Australia,

which burned 12 million acres, 33% more land than the amount that has sent this historic plume to America from Canada? How about the half million acres that burned every single year in Oregon and Washington state alone since time immemorial, prehistory, before a European ever set foot on that land. Were those climate change too? Even a cursory glance at history shows that lots of North America, just like the rest of the world, has been regularly set ablaze long before any of the supposed causes of climate change

ever had any effect or even existed. But a photograph and some liberal demagogues with an agenda say that wildfires are, caused by your pickup truck and your air conditioning. They're choosing to exploit a natural crisis for their political purposes. They're confident enough that you were never taught any of that history. They're confident because they control the education system and the media and the big tech platforms on which you're seeing all those scary pictures. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nolan's show. Welcome back to the show. You want to talk about scary. A group of Christians was escorted by police away from a pride parade simply for praying. One man was arrested, actually. We will talk

to one of those Christians who is led away by the coppers. It wasn't in some liberal city either, by the way. It was right here in Franklin, Tennessee. It's one of the most conservative places in the country. We will speak to him a little bit later if we can get him on the line. First, though, up in Canada. Canada, not looking good, man, not looking good. Forget about the natural disaster that's going on. What about the ideological disaster? What about the political disaster. You know, the libs, especially on climate change, they're very, very concerned about the imminent death of all of humanity sometime in a hypothetical future. But in the present, they are actively killing humans. They're actively killing humans through abortion. Canada has one of the most

barbaric abortion regimes in the country. And they're actively killing old people and the poor and the homeless through what they euphemistically call M-A-I-D, medical assistance in dying. It's assistant. It's assisted suicide. They euphemistically call it euthanasia. It means good death. It's the opposite of a good death. And they're doing it at an alarming rate. I got this email. I got this email from a nurse yesterday who wishes to remain anonymous, so I'll leave her anonymous. But it gives a little personal side to the statistics we're seeing. We saw last year some 3% of Canadians died through assisted suicide. It's a shocking number, 3% of your country killing itself every year. Or 3% of deaths, rather. 3% and that number is way up from the previous number of suicides, and it shows no sign of stopping.

So this is what this nurse writes. She writes, quote, I'm a nurse in Canada. My specialty is in wound care. Today I had a patient who told me tomorrow he's receiving M-A-I-D, that is euthanasia. The patient has all his mental faculties, happily married as far as I can tell, and is not currently insignificant physical discomfort. I'm in shock. My job is to care for people physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I feel sick to my stomach to see a patient who still has so much opportunity to live life, choose euthanasia. So much for euthanasia being for rare cases, we are flying down the slippery slope. Of course. Of course we are. When the libs tell us that euthanasia, quote unquote, assisted suicide is just about these fringe cases of people who are imminently going to die.

They're an immense pain. They're very, very ill. We just need to put them out of their misery, allow them that choice. That was never going to remain there. It was always going to become widespread. That's what happened in the Netherlands. The Netherlands now, which has legalized children killing themselves. Legalized little kids killing themselves. The Netherlands where a woman who had previously assented to assisted suicide was told by her doctor,

okay, time for you to die now. And she said, no, I don't want to, not yet. And the doctor forced her to kill herself anyway, and her family held her down while she was resisting. That happened there too. And by the way, the Dutch courts and the Hague even, the international criminal court said, no, it's fine, no big deal. doctor was totally within his rights to do that. Of course this is spreading. Because the principle is either that life is good and you don't own yourself and you're not allowed to do anything that you want with your own body and therefore we can pass laws against suicide and therefore you're going to get a much lower suicide rate. Or the principle is you can do whatever you want with your own body and life is not necessarily good and the only purpose of life is not to seek God, to seek virtue, to suffer in a way that is sanctifying and edifying. No, the only purpose of life is to get pleasure. So whenever you feel like you're not getting enough pleasure, you can just off yourself. They're principles, okay? And principles and ideas have consequences. That's why transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire. Transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire.

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more. The worst air quality ever recorded in New York City, if you look at the pictures, it's bright orange there, it's weird, it's crazy and hazy. The wildest reaction to this came from some yuppies yesterday at Equinox. The Equinox is a fancy gym for rich urbanites. And the picture was taken and published, I think by the New York Times, but it was taken of this rooftop of some building in New York, where amid all the haze, the dangerous air quality, there are a bunch of wealthy young New Yorkers standing, doing some kind of yoga salutation, standing up arms in the air, like a religious worship ceremony, which is exactly what yoga is. If you were an anthropologist, you were an historian, and you came across this picture, 500 years into the future, you would

say, oh, this is an example of religion in 2023 in New York. This is an example of the kind of public worship that existed in liberal America in 2023. And a modern person right now would say, no, that's not true. They're just doing yoga. You don't understand, man. But the thing is, the historian would be right. This is an example of religious practice. All these little millennial yogis who, instead of going to church, they go to yoga and they go to brunch. That is a religious practice. They're risking something about their physical health here, which is the air quality. They're risking that because of something more important, which is what? It's the religion of self-actualization. It's the religion of being at one with the universe, man. It's the religion

of looking around and seeing the big, vast, beautiful view from the very, very top of the tower. It's the religion of self, the religion of do whatever you want, the religion of take a moment and relax from your busy work schedule. It's a religious practice. Yoga is an actual Eastern religious practice. That's why there's so much spirituality associated with it. And a lot of Westerners pretend they can divorce those things, but you can't. Whatever you do a lot, whatever you do habitually is going to have some tie in to religion. And in the case of yoga just happens to be much more directly. spiritual. Previously, during a natural disaster or some kind of crisis, you'd go in, you'd pray, that's what Christians would do. I don't know, maybe you'd go to church or something. But that is, that is the church in New York. And they're not going to shut down yoga church. During a natural crisis, the government might shut down your actual church. They might shut down a synagogue. They might shut down maybe a mosque. I don't know if they would actually shut down a mosque. But they're not going to shut down liberal church. Liberal church being the yoga studio and the brunch spot and the pot dispensary.

They're never going to shut those down. Now, speaking of the modern religious views, the Air Force has just joined the Pride Coalition, tweeted out, June is Pride Month. The Department of the Air Force proudly recognizes and celebrates generations of LGBTQI positive service members and their contributions to the Air Force and Space Force. And the image is a silhouette of an airman saluting in front of the pride flag. So because it's a silhouette, you don't know which way he's facing. If you look at his arm, it looks like it's his right arm. So it looks like he's saluting out away from the pride flag. I suppose you could also see it as the airman saluting the pride flag. Either way, it's basically the same effect. The rainbow flag is our new imperial flag.

The star-spangled banner might be our old national flag, but the liberal imperialists who don't believe in borders, who don't believe in particular people who think that their values are absolutely totally universal and they're going to spread them all over the world. They think it's the role of the U.S. military to spread these liberal values all over the world. A lot of people, probably the majority of our ruling class that believes that right now, for them, the American flag is the rainbow. They have much more loyalty to the rainbow. they show the rainbow flag much more respect than they would ever show to the star-spangled banner, which many of them openly protest in sports, in the NFL, even in elected office among Democrats. That's the flag. Flags are symbols. That's why flags really matter. That's why if you were raised right, you were taught that if the flag ever touches the ground, you've got to pick it up right away.

If the flag is desecrated, you've got to burn the flag in a way, not like a Jane Fonda kind of way, not in a hippie, I hate America kind of way, but in a respectful kind of way, like a funeral pyre because we treat symbols with the sort of reverence that we want to treat the thing that the symbol symbolizes. That's why they're symbols. So what is the American flag symbolized? The old one, the star-spangled banner. It symbolizes the 13 colonies. That's what the stripes are for. Symbolizes the 50 states in the stars on the blue background. And the red symbolizes what? Valor, hardiness, blood. The white. What does the white symbolize? Purity. innocence. You'll notice, I don't see a lot of white on the rainbow flag. I see a lot of, I don't

see the white, because we as a culture no longer value purity and innocence and modesty and chastity. We don't value those things at all. In fact, we mock those things. We say those things are evil and awful and oppressive and stupid and prudish. So, okay, there goes that symbol. What about the red of the valor and the hardiness and the blood and the sacrifice? Yeah, that's gone too. There's red in the rainbow flag, but it just symbolizes all sorts of eccentricity and variety and diversity for its own sake. What about the 50 states? Yeah, that's gone from the flag. The blue backdrop. It's gone. The blue is supposed to represent justice, perseverance, vigilance. Yeah, that's gone. No more justice. Just different flags. Different flags mean different countries. It means even different kinds of countries.

A national flag represents a nation, an imperial flag. That rainbow flag, you can fly. You can fly, that anywhere. You can fly that in Europe. You can fly that in the east. You can fly that in Kandahar. And that is what the liberals in our country want to do and do, in fact. The pride ideology is spreading like wildfire. There was a story yesterday. Matt broke this story. It came from one of our Daily Wire investigative producers, Greg, Greg Ray. Matt had Greg, producer Greg. go out and just see how easy it is to be approved by the official serious medical providers to have your testicles removed. Okay? And how long do you think it would take? I don't think anyone should be allowed to do that, save for some medical emergency like testicular cancer or something

like that. I don't think you should be able to have an elective surgery to remove your williams, okay, at any timeline. But at the very least, you say, well, maybe it should take a year. It should take a few years or a year of counseling or, I don't know, at least six months, right? You know the real answer? 22 minutes. Here is Greg speaking with one of these medical agencies whose job it is to approve or disapprove of male testicle removal. Give me a little bit of history with your gender disorder. That may kind of help me. I want to make this letter as, and be like this orchids, definitely need it. I'll tell you. I'm happy to. So when I was, I was in school, And I actually wrote a big essay for admission to a club about how I didn't feel like my

biological sex went along with how I felt. And I told people that and they thought it was ridiculous. Because they thought I just looked like a guy. So they're like, this is ridiculous. Okay, approved. So Greg comes up with probably the most ridiculous story to explain his supposed gender dysphoria, which is one time in school I wrote an. essay about how I'm a girl and people made fun of me. So can you chop my

golioni off? Oh yeah, sure. That's fine. Here you go. Here's the letter from Plum Health, which is one of these sham medical providers, which says, despite these interventions, she, referring to Greg, who went by Chelsea Bussie, that was his gnome to plume. She reports significant ongoing gender dysphoria. She's seeking orchideomy. I guess I should stop using the, Italian word, the Italian dialect word, gulions, and say it's an orchiectomy, she has the capacity to provide informed consent for this procedure. This procedure has been defined as medically necessary by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, W-Path to treat gender

dysphoria. W-Path is a bizarro organization, by the way. We'll get into them at some later date. That's the real big trans activist organization that is used as credible by medical providers. So anyway, 22 minutes, Plum says, okay, you got it. There's another one of these scam companies. Folks, F-O-L-X. Folk says, right on the website there, insurance companies usually require a medical diagnostic code for gender dysphoria in order to cover transition-related care is medically necessary.

You may not fit this diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for the surgery. A good example of this might be a person, might be a letter for a person who identifies as non-menomers. binary and does not have dysphoria, they might still need a gender dysphoria diagnostic code attached in order for insurance to cover the surgery. So folks here is laying it out in totally plain English. They're saying, hey, give us some money and we will commit insurance fraud with you. Give us some money and we'll just lie and say that you have gender dysphoria, even though we know that you don't,

you know that you don't, regardless of what you even think about gender dysphoria to begin with. Here you go. There it is. And a lot of people are. calling this a scam. And it's kind of a scam in that people are making money on it. People are cutting corners, breaking the rules, breaking the law, getting some money on people who are obviously having a rough go of it. People are scamming the system. Yeah, okay. But it's not just a scam. It's larger than a scam. It's part of a new national sacred right. It's a slightly dodgyer way to do something that is totally enshrined in our law and our culture now. And being pushed by our liberal elite.

Being pushed at schools around this country, being pushed at colleges, being pushed at workplaces, being pushed all over the place. It's the ritual, the right of transition, which is just a further extension of the ritual and the sacred right in liberalism of coming out. I remember when I was in college,

there was a big fancy ceremony on the quad for national coming out day. It was a big rainbow gate and you walked through the gate to say, I'm coming out. I previously adhered to a normal, traditional sexual ethic, but now I'm coming out and I'm gay or lesbian or bisexual or this sexual or that sexual. Back in those days, we didn't have all 56 of them or 72 or whatever we're at now. But that's a ritual. I'm Catholic. When I was a little baby, I was baptized.

That's a sacrament with really. spiritual effect, I believe, and the operation of the Holy Spirit, and also an outward sign. You put the baby in the baptismal font, and the priest performs an exorcism, and then put some water on the baby's head, and that's the ritual of it. I was then, I received First Holy Communion. Again, a sacrament that I am quite confident has real spiritual effect, real metaphysical working, and also an appearance and an outward sign that we know this ritual by you. Get on your knees. You open your mouth.

You receive the Holy Eucharist. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church. That's when the bishop is at least supposed to come, shows up and gives you all smack on the cheek, and then you're confirmed in the church. These are rituals. And as these rituals have ebbed away from society, new rites and rituals have replaced them.

And today, the rituals of the coming out, the ritual of the transition, those are treated as much, much, much more sacred by our state, by our ruling class than any old Christian right or ritual, any old Jewish writer ritual, any old Muslim writer, any old anything having any even slight connection to traditional and true religion. Now, one ritual that you probably don't like to do is to replace your propane tank, which is why you've got to go check out cinch. Right now, go to cinch.com, use code knolls.

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And the cops came up to her. Here's what they said. What are you here for today? Physically, I'm just standing here. Okay. Why here of all places? I know you don't live nearby? That this is an abortion something.

You praying? I might be praying in my head. So I'll ask you one. More, will you voluntarily come with us now to the police station for me to ask you some questions about today and other days where there are allegations that you've broken public spaces protection order? If I've got a choice, then no. Okay, well then you're under arrest. I can't suspicious of failing to comply with the public spaces protection order.

They're so British about it, which makes it somehow even more chilling. There's no screaming, yelling, fighting. It's just, what are you doing here yet? I'm just here. I'm just here. you just stand in here, physically, just stand in here. Spiritual issues, praying. Just physically standing here, yeah. You come down to the police station with us then voluntarily. And if I have a choice, no, I'm not going to do that. Well, all right, then you're under arrest for praying quietly, silently,

in your own head outside of an abortion clinic. And when that video came out, we said, well, at least that'll never happen in America, right? It's happening in America. There was a pride parade. Not in San Francisco, not in New York, in Franklin, Tennessee, just this past weekend. And there was a small group of Christians who showed up to pray very quietly, just pray at the pride parade. And when it became clear that they were praying, not that they were screaming, not that they were yelling through a big microphone about all sorts of things with the pride people, just quietly praying. that was when the pride organizers had had enough. Spiritualally, they couldn't bear the thought of silent prayer, quiet prayer for them.

So they sicked the cops on them, and the cops escorted them away. The cops apparently even arrested one of these guys. I'm being told that our connection is too weak to speak with one of the people who was escorted away. Maybe we'll try to get him later on in the week. But luckily, we have some clips anyway. Here's what happened. Praying at the Franklin Pride Festival held at a public park until this group, which opposes the event, was met by officers and an event organizer asking them to leave. We are here in support of pride. We are asking.

We are leaving on the next to the footprint of the airport. You may feel free to exercise your first amendment of rights, but that area is across the street over. Who's not in support of property? So we've heard multiple, like, we've been watching and listening to the conversation. But we just need to make sure that folks here are comfortable, safe, and so the event organizers have the discretion to ask folks to leave the folks. Officers escorting the group off the premises. Brian Sullivan and Jeremy Sladen say they came to pray for all at the festival. Some of those words to God also about what they believe is not a family-friendly festival.

We know that we all mess up and we all make mistakes. But when you start pushing things and agreeing and accepting what's going on, then then. that becomes an issue. So you see this type of prayer here, which is, hey, we all make mistakes. We all go through bad stuff. And so we're just going to pray for everybody here. Okay, that's great. Pride organizer can't take that. Probably the pride organizers would have preferred if the Christian group were out screaming, yelling, being really nasty. That makes for a really nice clip, and then they can claim to be oppressed and that they can have something to feel righteous indignation about. What they can't bear is just the quiet prayer.

the quiet reminder of moral and biological reality. That's too much. And so the people praying quietly gets sent away. That's happening here. There is no room for contrary forms of prayer in the present United States. We have an established church with established rights at the national level. It's the church of pride, the queen of all vices. And it's got its rights and its rituals. And If you contradict that, the cops are coming for you, and they're coming for you even in your red state. The answer to that is to vocally and confidently defend religious truth. The answer to that is not to pretend at religious neutrality. There is no such thing.

There never has been. There never can be. There's no such thing as a separation of church and state. We're either going to have one conception of the good or we're going to have some other conception of the good. We're going to have one set of rituals, or we're going to have another set of rituals. Are Christians willing to state religious truth? Christians joined by religious Jews, joined by religious Muslims for that matter, joined by normal people who might be a little bit agnostic and might not know exactly what they think,

but they know that the old way was better than the new way where we're chopping off people's ghoul yunes. Are we going to state? Yeah, actually, maybe the religion that built our whole civilization, that's the right one. We're going to follow that one. rather than the new religion of pride, which is an even more zealously, jealously established religion than the one that built our country. This is happening nationwide. You know, Bud Light, they pretend that they learn their lesson, Trans Heiser Bush.

They pretend that they, okay, we're sorry. Well, we're not exactly sorry, but we're going to back off the Dylan Mulvaney stuff. We're not going to push the trans stuff too much. Hey, come on, we're just going to have commercials of horses and cowboys now. please buy our beer again. But then at the same time, Bud Light is currently sponsoring an all-ages drag event in Flagstaff, Arizona. It's going to happen on June 17th. This was reported first by the Washington Free Beacon. It was then republished in the Washington Examiner. It's happening. It's unclear how many drag queens will be performing. Nine drag queens were featured on the flyer.

Attendees who are minors are more than welcome to come in. If you're 15 years old or older, no bit, you can just walk right in, no problem at all. If you're under 15, you can still come in, you just need to be accompanied by a parent or a guardian, according to the flyer. So it's for kids. It's for everybody. That's Transheiser Bush. Totally unrepentant. We've done a good job really weakening them. I mean, they've lost well over 20 billion in market cap. That's great news. The only thing that's going to work here, though, is political intervention. Because Transheuser Bush is caught between Iraq and a hard place because Transheiser Bush has signed on to all sorts of that are across corporations, across industries, across countries, which say that they're going

to promote pride as the new established religion of liberalism. They're going to promote it. And so if they don't promote it, if they turn against it, they're going to lose access to social media platforms. They're going to lose access to other advertising platforms. They're going to lose access to capital because the asset managers are pushing this stuff. So what is required here is not just all of us together in a grassroots way stop stopping our consumption. of Bud Light and Transciser Bush products, we need our elected officials to go in and intervene and break up these pride cartels that are pushing GARM,

you know, the big pro-liberalism, you know, pro-leftism organization that's now under the World Economic Forum banner or ESG environmental social governance policies and all the rest of it. We need the heavy hand of the state to go in as our duly elected representatives and break up that pride cartel.

tell. Now, speaking of the heavy hand of the state, we got a new presidential candidate in the race. And I know, you're thinking of a bunch of names. Always he talking about this new presidential candidate or this, I promise you, you're not thinking of the man that I'm about to name. Now, it would be North Dakota governor, Doug Bergam. Are you feeling the Bergam momentum? Are you? Take it away, governor. I grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota. Woke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day. A place where neighbors rally around you.

My mom was our rock, our hero. I started a shoe shine business, worked at the grain elevator, and has a chimney sweep. Paid my way through college, then earned an MBA from Stanford. I ignored those who said North Dakota was too small, too cold, and too remote to build a world-class software company. In North Dakota, something about, grew up and I had a software company, what are you going to do if you're president? America's facing new challenges, and how we respond will define our future.

We need due leadership for our changing economy. Innovation over regulation. Instead of shutting down American oil and gas, we should unleash. energy production and start selling energy to our allies instead of buying it from our enemies. High taxes, red tape, and inflation are choking every American. As governor, we cut red tape and took North Dakota from billions in the hole to a surplus. We balanced the budget every year and we did it all while passing the largest tax cuts in North Dakota history. A smart guy who's achieved a lot.

Doug Bergam for president, a new leader for a changing economy. He seems like a nice guy, so I don't want to be too harsh about this campaign ad and this. I mean, I already fell asleep during the year, so I guess I'm being a little bit harsh. This ain't it. Whatever it is right now, this ad and candidacy ain't it. And you see it right there at the very end. Doug Bergam, new leadership for a changing economy. Economy. Are we an economy with a nation attached to it, or are we a nation with an economy? Do we exist here in America so that we can serve the economy and markets and GDP?

or do we have prosperity and GDP and markets and everything to serve us the American people is the nation more than just the economy? For the 90s, for a lot of the 2000s, we were told that the whole point of government

is just so that we can make a little bit more money. That the nation is nothing more than that. People who happen to be living next to one another so that we can all just make more money. Separately, but I guess we'll have to have some bare minimum regulations so that we can continue to exist. in physical proximity to one another, but all we are really here to do is worship at the altar of the

free market. And that has led to absolute chaos such that now, between America and our neighbor up in the north, which is giving us plumes of smoke right now and is a crystal ball into America's future, we are killing babies, we're killing our children, we're killing our elderly, we're killing our poor, we're killing our homeless because they're not productive, they're kind of inconvenient, they're not going to serve the economy. We are chopping off people's genitals, we're creating a generation of Unix. And, well, frankly, one of the reasons we're doing it is so that scam companies like Folks and Plum can make some money, so that Big Pharma can make some money, so that even the whole system will create more perfect consumers who don't worry about these

extra things like family and raising children and all sorts of non-economic considerations. But they just exist out there to keep on working, good little worker bees who aren't going to have to worry about any of those things. We've destroyed the family. We've destroyed our borders in parts so that we can import more workers and make more money. You heard that. Just this strict focus on the economy hasn't served as well. It hasn't even served our economy, which is on the brink of collapse. Now, we've got a more plausible candidate who's just entered the race. We don't have time, I fear, to totally get to. Maybe we do. Maybe we've got a little bit of time. We'll fly through these candidates and then get to one last important.

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Become a member and see the truth when it finally comes out. My favorite comment yesterday is from Valerie Vaughn, Valerie, who says, someone needs to tell Michael that his Mayor Pete impression sounds more like Kermit. Ha, ha, does it really? Do you really think so? Do you think maybe someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection? Huh? The lovers, the dreamers, and me?

And by the dreamers, I of course mean 40-year-old Venezuelan immigrants. Yeah, ha, yeah, that doesn't. Never occurred to me, but I guess maybe it does. Pete Buttigieg obviously wants to be president. he's running that shadow race against Kamala Harris right now in case Joe Biden takes a nasty fall. Gavin Newsom too wants to be president. On the Republican side, we have yet another Republican candidate

who's officially announced. That would be former Vice President Mike Pence. It'd be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that's not how I was raised. That's why today, before God and my family, I'm announcing I'm running for president of the United States. We can bring this country. back. We can defend our nation and secure our border. We can revive our economy and put our

nation back on a path to a balanced budget, defend our liberties, and give America a new beginning for life. President Reagan described this as a shining city on the hill. And above all, he called on Americans to renew optimism and believe in themselves again, to believe in each other. Every time our nation has produced leadership that has called upon this country to do hard things, the American people have always risen to the challenge, and we will again. Okay. Okay, I got the message. This is a really great 2012 campaign launch. It's a really great 2012 campaign launch, but we are facing a regime-level crisis right now. And so Mike Pence, who I really like personally, seems like a really, really great guy, the, we're going to make

America stronger and our best days lie ahead and we're really going to be optimistic now and restore confidence in America, I believe in America, it just doesn't resonate. We all want to be hopeful, but we don't want to be optimistic. Optimism and pessimism are two sides of the same coin. They're just feelings that you pretend to have through sheer tyranny of will. Hope is a fact. It's a theological virtue and it's a fact grounded in reality. if we're going to be hopeful, that's got to be grounded in fact. And to be grounded in fact is to recognize that we no longer believe in our institutions of government. Neither side trusts the elections anymore.

Neither side trusts the other one to have a sensible understanding of the common good. We don't even really speak the same language anymore. We don't have borders. We don't have a functioning economy. So you've got to fix those problems first. It's a regime-level crisis, something about the way that the government itself is structured and operates is not working. That's why for all of modern American history, certainly in the 20th century, into up to 2016, you had candidates who were just running on these rosy, uh-huh, well, America's best days lie ahead. I believe in them. We have mourning in America. Both sides of the political aisle said that.

2016 something changed. Trump came out and he said, man, this country sucks right now. This is in really terrible shape. These people, these lives have completely destroyed our country. We got to fix it. We got to make it great again. But right now, it's terrible. And a lot of people said there's no way he's going to win.

That's a negative message. But that resonated for people because the country is in crisis. So Pence, very nice guy. But if he doesn't change the campaign note, he's going to be, he's going to be fighting yesterday's battles, 10 years ago battles. So now we're all just waiting on Chris Christie, the chrysons, Chris asance, for short. I've told you, I'm not even just joking about it. I think Chris Christie could have a moment in the race. I want to put a little bit of money, not a lot of money, but a little bit of money on it on the predicted markets. They're not even

showing Chris Christie yet on the betting markets for the presidential race. So, okay, we got to wait. We will await the chrisisans. We're in an extremely cultural battle right now. And we're getting some wins on it, too. Oklahoma just approved the nation's first ever religious charter school. It was a tight vote. One vote determined how it would turn out. A three-two vote, the Oklahoma statewide virtual charter school board approved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. So it's not a physical charter school. It's an online charter school. It's funded by taxpayers run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on Monday. St. Isidore named after the patron saint of the internet will include religious, which is,

that's a topic for another time, whether there is a patron saint of the internet or what it means to be a patron saint of the internet. But anyway, that's the idea with the school. It includes religious instruction, and it has a mission to, quote, educate the entire child's soul, heart, intellect, and body. Set to begin late next year, the school will offer online classes to around 500 students, K through 12, and receive an estimated $23.3 million in state funding for its first five years. Great stuff. Great stuff. Because it recognizes that all schools are religious schools. All schools educate the entire child, soul, heart, intellect, and body. The question is just how are they going to educate the child? Liberalism does it by having coming out ceremonies and Earth Day ceremonies and transition ceremonies

and diversity trainings and all the rest of it. Catholic schools do it through catechism classes. Jewish schools do it. I don't really know how Jewish schools do it, I assume in some kind of Jewish instruction. Muslim schools, I don't really know how they do it, probably through some Muslim instruction. That's why they have madrasas. But all schools do it. And the question is, do you want your kid educated in the leftist religion or in the normal religion, the true religion? There are going to be some religious conservatives who are worried about this. It's not just going to be the secularists and the Libs who are worried. Some religious conservatives are going to be where they're going to say, we don't want the state involved in our religious education,

because then the state is going to exert influence. So better to say no to the state funding and keep our own religious schools where we can totally control it, rather than get the state involved at all. I see that worry, but the greater threat lies in not wielding the political power. Look at the libs. Do you think that having state support has undermined the libs religious convictions? No, it's only amplified the Lib's religious convictions and all the rights and all the rituals and all the mantras and all the rest of it. No, the greater risk lies in not wielding that power because the state is going to be animated by some kind of religion.

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