The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1432 - President Biden's Team Attacked Me

Episode Date: February 23, 2024

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I had a great time yesterday speaking at CPAC in Washington, D.C. I flew in for the day. I gave my speech. I flew back. Simple as. But before I could even board the plane to fly back, I noticed that Joe Biden's presidential campaign had attacked me over my speech. I was very confused.

This year's speech was relatively quite tame compared to last years. No calls for eradication. Not too much focus on the. trans issue? What could they possibly be upset about? And then I read the attack. They wrote, quote, top Trump advocate at CPAC echoes. There was a typo. They didn't spell echoes correctly, but I, you know, it's the Biden campaign. So top Trump advocate at CPAC echoes MAGA's Project 2025 plan to go after marriage equality during a second Trump term. And then it put a colon and they wrote out what I said, sort of. They also misspelled this and had all sorts of errors, but basically they

got the gist. They said, this is what this awful Michael says. And I said, marriage is between a man and a woman. So put their tweet aside for a second. Here is actually what I said in video, in audio at CPAC. They really believe that they are masters of the universe. They think they're gods, who can create the world anew through the power of their words. But they aren't, and they can't. They can't really turn men into women. They can't really turn a couple of men or a couple of women, or three men in a billy goat, for that matter, into a marriage. That's just not what marriage is. No disrespect is intended to anyone. Some people don't want to get married. Okay, There's no obligation, but marriage has a meaning. Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children. If you don't like that, don't blame me. I didn't set the rules. It wasn't the mean old conservatives who did this. We did not invent marriage. Marriage is a natural institution. It just is what it is.

The left will slander us as hateful for observing this fact. There's nothing hateful about it. There's nothing hateful about reality. Quite the opposite, actually. The Biden campaign was very, very upset that I articulated the view of marriage held by every single person everywhere throughout all of history until about five minutes ago. Not surprising. Not surprising at all, actually. I should have anticipated this.

The libs get triggered by common sense all the time. The awkward part, though, for the Biden campaign is that I was simply paraphrasing the view that President Joe Biden himself held until very, very recently. The Defense of Marriage Act, where we've all voted, not where I voted and others said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. Nobody's violated that law. There's been no challenge of that law. why do we need a constitutional amendment?

Marriage is between a man and a woman. What's the game going on here? I did not think that anything could top the crazy reaction to last year's CPAC speech. But this year might take the cake as the president of the United States is now attacking me for agreeing with him. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. The libs are up in arms, not just about me. They're also up in arms about Trump. because Trump said that Russia defeated Hitler, which it did. But the lives are upset about that because they've never cracked a history book in their entire lives. So we will talk about that in a moment. First, though, go to puretalk.com slash knolls. Free should mean exactly that free.

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They have got the best network in the country, and they share your beliefs, and you save a lot of money. PureTalk.com slash Knowles. Always great to be at CPAC. I have to tell you I was taken aback by the controversy. I know that the Libs believe that because five seconds ago, they said that marriage is no longer what it all.

always has been everywhere in the world. I know that they really believe that they did something, but still, I don't know. To me, that didn't seem like the craziest, most outrageous part of my speech. In my speech at CPAC, I said that historically speaking were not a nation of immigrants. I said that historically speaking, the notion that diversity is our strength is rather novel and silly and ridiculous. I don't know. There were a few lines in there that I felt, okay, the libs are really going to push back on this. But no, these guys, the only thing they cared about is I said that the view that Christians and Muslims and conservative Jews and pagans from antiquity through the present and pretty much that everybody has ever held about marriage continues to be true.

And it isn't different now just because some robed lawyers on the Supreme Court said so a few years ago. I, even I am surprised that the articulating the view of marriage that was held by virtually every single current prominent Democrat politician until at the earliest 2012, 2011, 2012, and then as late as 2015, that I hold that view. And then the Lib say, say, they are trying to take us back to the 1950s. I don't know, on this question, I'm trying to take you back to 2014. I'm trying to take you back to Joe Biden's view, the current president's view, not that long ago. But they really came after me, the Biden campaign, Governor Patrick Bateman over there in California, Newsom came after me personally and tweeted out the speech. Really, really silly

stuff. Now, I had to fly in and fly out, which is fine. I'm glad to be back in the studio today. There is, however, one great regret that I have. And that is, I was scheduled to, to meet the leader of El Salvador, Naïbe Buckele, possibly one of my favorite world leaders today. This is the man who took El Salvador from being the most dangerous nation in the world to being the safest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Really strong conservative leader.

He gave an amazing speech giving thanks to God after his recent election. This guy, I was, I don't know, within 20 or 30 minutes of being scheduled to get to shake this guy's hand and have a few words and just say, you are the man at Mr. Buckele, but my flight. My flight was my flight. It was the last one out of D.C. to get back to Nashville. And we're talking about matters of the heart now. Never doubt that I love you all,

that I would give up on shaking the hand of this great world leader, just to be back in the studio for all of you this morning. I hope, though, that I have the opportunity to meet Mr. Buckele at some point in the future, either when he's in the States or if I, I don't know if I go on a vacation to El Salvador or something like that. because this guy brought the house down. I say this with no false modesty and true humility. There was some buzz around my speech because it got so much play last year. By far, there's not even close. The most anticipated, most exciting speaker at CPAC yesterday was the leader of El Salvador. Myself included, I got to see a little bit of the speech before I had to head out.

The guy was electric. He was totally on fire. Here's what he had to say. They say globalism comes to die at CPAC. I'm here to tell you that in El Salvador, it's already dead. But if you want globalism to die here too, you must be willing to unapologetically fight against everything and everyone that stands for it. These dark forces are already taking over your country. You may not see it yet, but it's already happening.

You don't see it as clearly, because people are designed to see linear changes, not exponential ones. We don't always recognize how fast a problem can multiply and spiral out of control. The problem is much like the metaphor of the boiling frog. Once the water boils, it's already too late. People fail to see these things. It's our nature. Just like the frog, people become complacent and they don't realize how bad

things are getting until it's too late. This is a great insight. Now, if you want to hear more great insights like this, and then some insights on those insights, you've got to subscribe to the Michael Null's YouTube channel. Smash that bell right now. Subscribe, ring it, click it, ding it, whatever you got to do. Make sure that you subscribe.

Thank you very much. Naibu Kelle, not only says, look at what we've done in El Salvador. His whole speech was really terrific. He not only gives a warning to the United States, but he has this key insight. He says, people are designed to see, things in a linear way. We just expect that the way things are is the way things are always

going to be. We're not designed to see exponential changes. He said, what you don't understand is the dark forces at work in the world, they're here. They're already working on your country and you're not seeing it. So by the time you catch it, it's going to be a little bit too late. Think about the 2020 election. A lot of Americans realized that the election, the election, election had been rigged only on election night when we had to wait for all these mail-in ballots to come in or when we had to wait for all these different kinds of strange poll-watching shenanigans and the long voter counts because of different provisional kinds of voting. Well, that was all in place 12 to 18 months prior.

Mark Zuckerberg, to use just one example, was donating a lot of money. two left-wing organizations explicitly and directly to deny Trump the presidency. Those left-wing organizations were going in. They were setting up drop boxes for ballots that were far away from the county clerks. They were going in. There were ballot harvesting organizations that were going out to the areas where conservatives weren't going to go, and they were collecting those ballots. And they were doing all of this for months and months and months.

conservatives, some knew and were warning about it, but most people just said, oh, no big deal, whatever. We'll see. I think Trump will win the election. Biden's a terrible candidate. He's getting three people to show up to his rallies. Trump, he's had some missteps and some people don't like his tweets, but he's been a good president. We got peace. We got a good economy. We're in the midst of this pandemic. I guess we didn't see that one coming, but I don't know, how bad could it really be? And then fast forward to the election, you say, oh, okay, well, they changed the voting rules in all the places that counted, in some cases unconstitutionally, and they dragged this thing out, out for a week or more. And then what do you know, in the middle of the night, they stopped the

counting. And when we wake up in the morning, Joe Biden's leading all of a sudden, even though Trump had been leading the whole time. And you think, ah, darn, maybe we should have ballot harvested. Oh, darn, maybe we should have fought some of these ballot drop boxes. Oh, darn, maybe we should have fought the widespread mail-ins that were illegal and unconstitutional in some cases. It was too late. We just, you just don't think that way in America that a major political party is going to rig the election in a way that we've never seen before in the country. That's what Buckele is talking about. And it goes way beyond just the Democrats. You know, I mean, you think about who really rules the country now. Where are most laws made? Most laws are not made

in Congress, certainly. Most laws are made in the administrative agencies at the federal level, certainly, and at the state level. And a lot of us just aren't aware of that. A lot of us just, I don't know, we think that our government works like a bill up on Capitol Hill. but it doesn't. It doesn't work anything like that at all. Ukela's saying you've got to watch out for that. And there's a glimmer of hope here. It's not just, oh, the dark evil libs are out there lurking in the shadows. And we got us. I actually think the glimmer of hope is, yeah. And then I cooked them. They were trying to cook us in El Salvador. And then I cooked them because you know what I did?

I got elected. And I just rounded up all the criminals who were worshipping Satan and sacrificing people and committing the worst crimes you can possibly imagine. and then I humiliated them on a national level. And then you're going to be shocked what happened. I arrested the criminals and crime dropped. What I also love about the Buckele example is he shows you this isn't that complicated. These problems are difficult. They can be hard to achieve because of political conflict. But the principles at play here are not that complicated.

Buckele gets elected. He says, okay, I want crime to go down. I'll probably arrest the criminals. Simple as. I mean, this is what Ronald Reagan said. in his most famous speech of his early career, a time for choosing, he said, well, the liberals accuse us

of offering simple answers to complex problems. Well, maybe the answers are simple, not easy, but simple. They are simple. And then you have to have the courage to actually do it. You have to have the courage, like Bukkele, to stare some face tattooed demon in the face who's like actually worshipping Satan

and who's committing murder and rape and just the worst crimes imaginable. Yeah, look that guy in the face. Then you've got to arrest him. Then you got to arrest everyone he knows. knows, then you've got to make videos humiliating him and blast that out to the whole world. And then guess what? You fix your problem. You fix your problem. If only we could recognize simple answers and then have courage to implement answers. Obviously, America is a little different

from El Salvador, but we do the American version of it. Not such a bad idea. Now, you heard the libs when they were attacking me talking about the 2025 plan. What's the 20-25 plan? What's the 20- 2025 agenda that they're all so worried about. Well, Project 2025 is the brainchild of Kevin Roberts, who is an excellent leader of the Heritage Foundation, probably the most prestigious and important conservative think tank. And it involves many, many people from all around the conservative movement. And Project 2025 is designed to make sure that assuming a Republican administration comes into office in 2025, assuming we've got to be ready if a Republican manages to get elected in 2024, they will not have to worry about what to do, what policies to pursue, and who to hire.

That will be ready to go on day one. We've been working with all of them on one project since soon after Joe Biden took the oath of office before any conservative presidential candidates had even entered the race. As my friend and colleague Paul Danz before talked about brief. briefly, our project 2025 has developed a comprehensive policy agenda, but even more importantly, recruiting people, 20,000 people to go into the next administration, hopefully to help take back this country for you and for your audiences. We want no credit. We want the American people. If President Trump is elected again, President

Trump and his administration to take credit for that, but it will also be a great sign. if all of this is successful, that in fact, as we know in our prayer time, but maybe not every time when we're watching the news, that the Lord is still smiling upon America. Love it. Kevin is excellent. He is the best leader of the Heritage Foundation that I can imagine for this moment and certainly one of the best leaders ever in the history of that organization. And we need this kind of thing because this was the big challenge for Trump in 2017. When he took office, it wasn't really Trump's fault. I guess ultimately you'd say it's Trump's fault because Trump was off-putting to some people.

But, you know, again, so much of that was just media spin because they hated that he offered an alternative to the weak and impotent Republican Party that had always just kind of been the clown, the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism. Trump was not a Mitt Romney type. He was not a guy who was going to go in there and at the crucial moments cave and vote with the Dems. So they maligned him as Hitler 2.0. And because they did that, people didn't want to work with Trump. The Trump administration had a major problem getting personnel. And when you don't have personnel, you don't have great policy because personnel is policy. So it is estimated that in order to really turn the ship of the bureaucracy around, because our laws are not really made by Congress anymore. They're made by all these agencies. If you want to really start to turn that ship, we're talking about a federal bureaucracy that depending on how you count it, could be as large as 2 million people. you would, at the very least, have to swap out 40 to 50,000 people. Most presidential administrations, if they're lucky, swap out 4 to 5,000. So you'd have to go 10x. You just need a lot of people. You need people who are not just warm bodies, by the way. You have to have people with a clear political vision who are competent. So you've got to start working on that early. That's part of

Project 2025. And then, of course, the policy vision. That's the key. Trump is great. He's got the best political guts that I've seen, the gut instincts of any politician in my lifetime, which is how he managed to get elected to the highest office on earth the first time he really gave it a go to run for any office. It's very impressive. Even if you hate Trump, you've got to be kind of impressed by that. But, you know, the man can't do everything. And so on certain policy issues, he had one view, then he kind of moderated his view, then someone convinced him of another kind of view. And it's difficult. The man spent his whole career in business, in real estate, in television, in media and all these things. So he wasn't, you know, some dork sitting down, just reading dusty old books all the time wearing tweet and a bow tie.

I like those dorks. Those dorks are some of my best friends. But he wasn't doing that. And so he needs real top advisors. He needs people who have a very clear policy vision who are going to be able to say, okay, Mr. President, building on what you did in your first administration, this is the way we got to go here and here and here on everything, on the economy, on immigration, on family, on war, on peace, on diplomacy, on just, everything on transportation for goodness sakes so that we don't get stuck with mayor pete over there again you know calling the bridge is racist and letting trains get into crashes so the big takeaway i would say from this is they knock trump for saying he doesn't learn he's not he can't actually get stuff done he doesn't score victories i think he scored some pretty big victories you know the fact that the guy managed she at roe v weight overruled pretty pretty big in my book but if that's the knock on him Well, just recognize you've now got representatives of basically the entire conservative movement

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We have sold a shocking amount of these candles, so they probably will sell out, but get yours now if you want your home to smell, to smell like spaces of smells and bells. My favorite comment yesterday is from, Orza Jersey, who says, what's amazing is that Mid-Journey has no problem showing white people in stereotypically white roles. Yeah, yeah, it's weird, isn't that? The other AI services, when you ask them to depict things, they depict things as they usually look.

But the Google AI service erases white people from all of life and history. It's kind of weird. It's almost like the problem is not so much with the AI as with the Google. It's almost like Google. I'm beginning to get the impression. Google might not like white people very much. I'm not positive, but that's what I'm starting to think. Okay, speaking of Trump, Trump's in big trouble for making this historic claim.

You're really up against a war machine in Russia. Russia, what they do. They defeated Hitler. They defeated Napoleon. You know, they're a war machine. Cue all the social media posts. Trump thinks Russia defeated Hitler? Yes, they did.

They did. Correct. That's funny to, I'm watching a pretty good documentary on Netflix right now. I didn't think that sentence would leave my mouth ever again. But there's a pretty good one on World War II from the front lines. And it's good. It's like they gave the Peter Jackson treatment from World War I to World War II and they colorized things. It's really pretty interesting. And you kind of forget, even if you do read history books in America, you kind of forget that Russia defeated Hitler.

and that we had a little bit to do with it, but not that much. We defeated Japan and Britain held firm and, you know, they wouldn't give up and they will never surrender. But Russia really defeated Hitler. And you kind of forget that now. And especially because we're living at a time of intense anti-Russian propaganda because we're fighting a proxy war for some reason with Russia over Ukraine. Why? Because we want to bring Ukraine into the EU and into NATO for some reason. Again, because our genius statesman in the Joe Biden State Department clearly, are probably less historically literate even than these Twitter users freaking out over Trump, pointing out an obvious historical fact. But we don't know anything about history anymore. We don't know much about anything at all. I guess, look, we don't know the definition of marriage. I guess we don't know the definition very much of anything. But speaking of history class, big report out from Wall Street Journal, that half of college grads are working jobs that don't use their degrees. And I think this actually relates directly to people's historical illiteracy, their literary illiteracy, their philosophical, total ignorance these days, just even compared with 20, 30 years ago.

Half of college grads are working jobs that don't use their degrees. Good. Good. Good. The point of a college degree is not to train you for a job. That is what trade school is for. Some elitists look down on trade. I don't know why they look down on trade school. Trade school is great. Trade school trains you for a job. And everyone has to work a job at some point, unless you're of independent means and you're really going to go live some aristocratic life. Everyone's got to work a job. So everyone needs some kind of job training. And so you go to trade school. And trade schools can look all sorts of different ways. You can go to trade school to learn how to work on floors. You can go to trade school to learn

how to work as an electrician. You can go to trade school to learn as a work as a doctor or a lawyer. Those are other types of trade schools. But that's just where you learn your profession. And these days, if you learn how to be an electrician or a plumber or a carpenter or something like that, you'll probably make more money than the lawyers will because we have way too many lawyers because of the degradation of undergraduate education. The point of undergraduate education, liberal arts education, is not to learn how to do a job. It's to learn how to think. It's to learn how to read dusty old books and learn about your culture and cultivate your rational will and learn philosophy and learn history and and called and learn math, abstract mathematics

and just and to cultivate those things. The actual point of undergraduate education, liberal arts education, is to prepare yourself for leisure time. It's to prepare yourself not to work. And this frankly ties into Americans' addiction to working. It's good that we have a strong work ethic. in America, it's good that we're productive and we provide for our families. And having traveled a little bit in Europe, Americans work way, way harder than Europeans do most of the time.

I think of my own ancestral people, the Italians, many wonderful things you can say about the Italians. They're not the most motivated people when it, you know, they like a little Pizolino in the afternoon. And they're a little bit slower about it. So I do like that. That's a good thing about Americans. But Americans focus so obsessively on their work, they don't know what to do. when they're not working. And the reason they don't know what to do when they're not working is because we have no focus in

America on cultivating the inner life and cultivating your desires for hobbies, your desires for culture. So we lose that. And it's a political problem because when you don't have a culture that you love, when you don't have these customs and traditions and hobbies and habits, then it's very easy for political elites to go in and erase your culture. It's very easy for them to impose a new culture upon you. Half of college grads aren't working jobs that use their degrees. Or working jobs that do not use their degrees. That's a good start is what I call that. Should be. I mean, I guess my job

sort of uses my degree in that I talk about history and Italian literature. But it's only tangentially, okay? Only a little bit. Speaking of people working on jobs, Paul Ryan, former speaker of the House of Representatives is accusing Donald Trump of being the establishment of the Republican Party. And he makes half a good point. He says, I'm in the minority in my party right now. I'm not in the establishment.

I'm frankly an anti-establishment Republican. It's very funny to think of Paul Ryan. It's like he was constructed in a lab at the Coke factories or something. K-O-C-K, not C-O-K. He is, you know, establishment in the sense that he'd been in Washington, basically his whole life. But he says, no, I'm now anti-establishment. I think you can safely argue. I don't enjoy acknowledging this, that Trump is the establishment and Trump populism is the establishment,

and that Trump populism is this more isolationist strain that I think is wrong and dangerous and I don't support. But that does represent a large swath of Republican voters. I don't totally hate Paul Ryan. I know a lot of conservatives do. I like it seems like a straight enough shooter. and he is a little bit out of touch with where the political moment is, but I think he's trying to be a straight shooter here. I just think he's totally wrong.

You cannot argue to me that Trump is part of the political establishment when the actual political establishment is upending centuries of American political tradition to try to throw him in prison and hope that he dies there. Okay, they're prosecuting him on four fronts so that this man will die. I in prison never prosecuted a former president like this, never prosecuted a leader of the opposition like this. You can't tell me that guy's the establishment. What's confusing to Paul Ryan here is that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. And some people tried to challenge him for the nomination this cycle. It was never going to go anywhere. People thought he was a joke in 2016. Everyone was shocked when

when he just ran through the Republican Party and recrafted it after his own political vision. But the reason for that is that the liberals have taken over, I think at this point it's safe to say, every institution in society. There used to be a couple of holdouts, you know, the military say, but the top, I mean, obviously soldiers, sailors, Marines, you know, all. Our military service members tend to be pretty conservative. But the top brass of the Pentagon, they're big libs now. It's Mark Millie screaming about critical race theory and white rage. So even that part, I think, has been remade by the liberals. There is one sector of society, though, that remains conservative.

And it's the people. The people are pretty conservative. I'm not saying they're all rock-ribbed right-wingerers. I'm just saying they're pretty conservative. Whatever the political elites are saying, wherever they are on the political spectrum, The people are more conservative than they are. The people don't really think a man can become a woman. The people don't really want open borders.

The people don't really think that we ought to be risking America's sovereignty and treasure and certainly blood for Ukraine and NATO expansion or whatever. The people are more conservative. And Trump appeals to the people. That's the populism that Paul Ryan is talking about. But don't tell me that that therefore makes Trump the establishment. Quite the opposite. What that represents here.

I mean, Paul Ryan is on the board of News Corp. isn't he? This guy's a major part of the political establishment. It's just he's fallen out of favor with the voters. And the fact that there is a huge chasm now between the people and pretty much every other institution in society tells you something about where we are. Getting back to Buckelet's point, we're designed to see things linearly, not exponentially. Regimes change over time. And a lot of comparisons have been made about America to the fall of Rome. But the question is, is the fall of the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire. And Drew Claven answered this.

Drew and I have been talking about this for years at this point. People make this mistake and they think it's the fall of the empire. If you're going to draw the historical comparison, and I think comparisons to the fall of Rome are overused, but the comparison would be to the fall of the Republic. And then things start to change. And you don't even catch them changing as they are. But a major change would be that at the fall of the Republic,

the established institutions of Rome, in no way represented the people. The man who represented the people was Julius Caesar. So that's how he was able to take power. So the fear here among the people who are all worried about populism is misplaced. They need to ask themselves, why is it that the people broadly are turning against every established institution in society? If we're living in a republic of government of the people by the people for the people, Why have all the institutions turned against the people's interests?

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78 years old, tongue cancer. He was euthanized through the MADE program. There's a process to graph. skin from his arm to make a new tongue, but the wait list was like six months long. My dad started to refuse morphine appointments and called Maid. My whole family okayed it, except for me. It was four days between the appointment and the assisted suicide. It's 45 times quicker to kill yourself than to heal yourself here.

Okay. That's my rant. my question is really about prayer. In his late years, he apostatized the same time that I kind of started to find faith. And I prayed for him each of these four days that I knew he was going to die. But how do you pray for the dead? I've taken mortality for granted my entire life and I've hit a brick wall. We had unresolved issues and I have so many questions.

forum. How would you go about this? Thanks, Michael. God bless. Really, really sorry to hear of that sad end. One hopes that your father's culpability would be, and the culpability of your family would be somewhat reduced by the fact that the culture is diluting so many people. It's creating such an inducement to kill yourself. As you say, 45 times faster to kill yourself than to heal yourself. And suicide, of course, contrary to natural law. just a grave, grave evil that any government would encourage. So, so awful. I'm terribly sorry to hear it. And I can pray for you and your father, and you can pray for your father too. Prayer for the dead is biblical. You see it throughout the Bible, specifically in Maccabees.

It's funny as later on, certain books of the Bible were removed because they contradicted certain doctrines. But books of the Bible had been in there from the beginning. And so it seems to me the doctrines are pretty sound. one of which is to pray for the dead. Now, I have no idea where your father is. You have no idea where your father is. I don't want to give you some soft soap or wishful thinking, but I can tell you, as James tells us, that the prayers of the righteous are efficacious. And so this is another inducement. I was thinking about this yesterday or the day before. This is another inducement to be good, to try to avoid sinning and to keep yourself close to Christ and to avail yourself of the sacraments, is, is Not only because that's what you owe God and not only because it's good for you, but also it will make your prayers more efficacious. It will draw you closer to God. So you certainly ought to do that. There's a story about St. Padre Pio. I don't know if it's apocryphal or not that one time he was praying and he was asked who he was praying for.

He said, I'm praying for my great-grandfather or something like that. I'm sure I'm getting the story wrong. I said, you can't pray for your great-grandfather. Your great-great-grandfather, you know, died however many years before you. were born. And he said, that's how we experience time. It's not how God experiences time. And that part, of course, we know it's true for a fact because God is outside of time and space, except when he enters into time and space. So, though, even then, I guess he's also outside of time and space. So in any case, I would just pray for your father. You know, when I hear someone dies,

I say the RIP prayer. Anyone who objects to praying for the dead, ironically, probably has prayed for the dead quite a lot and does pray for the dead because r i p if you've ever written or said r ip that's a prayer for the dead it's requiescot in pache may he rest in peace and the prayer is requiem aternam requeum a domine at lukechua a luciate a requiescot in pache and no many patras to feel it to sancti amen you know eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. So that's a good prayer to start with, and then you can just say other prayers. You know, you can just kind of talk to God. You know, it doesn't need to, I like form and liturgy. I think that's good and it aids in our prayer life. But you can also

just talk to them, especially when you're this raw. So very sorry for your boss. Next one. Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here. On Tuesday, you were talking about your conspiracy expansion pack for your yes or no game. And it made me think of a conspiracy that I want to it's your take on. DEI always seems to put the least qualified people in charge, right? It doesn't seem like you just pick a random black person out of a hat. It doesn't seem like you pick the best black person you could find. It seems like you pick the worst.

That's how DEI works. Claudine Gay, worst. Katanji Brown Jackson, worst. Every DEI pick seems terrible. So my question is, since the people picking these people are, as we know, extremely racist Democrats, who would probably put black people in chains in a second. Do you think they pick the worst black people they can find on purpose to create a narrative that black people aren't good at things that will then lead into them being relegated

to the drugs of society again? Is this a big conspiracy? Thanks. I'm not totally persuaded by that, in part because Claudine Gay was pretty bad. Obviously, She plagiarized at least half of her academic corpus, and her academic corpus was extremely small. It was 11 papers. 11 publications is what you should have in graduate school, not when you're the president of Harvard. Katanji Jackson is probably a little bit more impressive.

I believe she went to law school with Ted Cruz. And Katanji, I mean, she doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the pack, but she doesn't seem dumb either. She's probably pretty intelligent and just is totally wrong. I mean, she's pretty radical. So I don't think they pick the very worst. I mean, if you really wanted to pick the very worst sort of stereotype, you'd think of. If you remember the old Martin Lawrence show, Martin Lawrence had this character that he would do,

which was the most extreme caricature of a really ghetto black woman, and the character's name was Shannay. You know, Shinnay would be the version of that. And they don't, that's not Claudine Gay and that's not Katanji Jackson or anybody. So, no, I don't think that's it. and there are black people who have been promoted to the very heights of civic life who are extremely impressive, including on the Supreme Court, most notably Clarence Thomas. But I think there you see the problem, right, which is Clarence Thomas is extremely impressive

and obviously very intelligent and educated and has good judgment and is conservative. So, you know, they're just trying to ask for so many things. But the most important lens is the ideological lens. so they have to pick some leftist, and the people they're picking are getting less and less impressive, I think, because they're making more ideological demands that preclude reason and right judgment. Next question. Hi, Michael, it's the Shuckmeister. In quantum physics, there's this concept known as the poly-exclusion principle, which basically states that two electrons cannot have the same quantum

numbers at the same time. So to speak, if a 22-year-old electron has the quantum numbers of enjoying brunch and dancing on stage, a 65-year-old electron could not. However, you've spoken about something I'd dub the Dolly Exclusion Principle, meaning that the laws of physics and the natural order apply to everyone except for Dolly Parton. How did you come to this breakthrough in physics, and when can we expect you'll receive the Nobel Prize? Thanks. I'll be waiting for the Nobel, but the breakthrough is just so clear. When did I come to it when I observed Dolly?

I like the name the Dolly Exclusion Principle. it's true. Sixty-five-year-olds, or I don't know how old Dolly is now, they don't get to dance around in short shorts and crop tops unless they're Dolly Parton. And I don't know, I mean, again, I didn't make the rules, but that is the case. So what you're really asking me is, how can there be exceptions and exclusions to rules? That's a good question. I mean, we know in physics, there are all sorts of exceptions that have upended models for a very long time. I mean, it seems to me every few months now we're reading about some new revelation about the nature of dark matter or dark energy because we have these, we fill in the gaps on

things that we don't know that don't quite match our models to say nothing of like the general theory of relativity or anything like that, where the models don't totally match up with reality and then there's, so, okay, in part that could just be our own ignorance and we'll discover a way to perfect that. All models are wrong, but some are useful. But furthermore, there are even to the laws of nature themselves. And those are called miracles. It's what a miracle is. A miracle is something that in the natural course of events would not occur.

So it's supernatural. And that happens. That's part of the created world. A lot of the materialists don't want to acknowledge this, but then they're left scratching their heads when miraculous things do happen. So to what do I attribute Dolly's unique character? Is it our ignorance or is it just a miracle? How should I know?

Next question. Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. As you know from a previous voicemail of mine, I am deeply fearful of these criminal indictments against Donald Trump. The basis of that fear is my observation that most Americans, i.e. those outside of the creme de la Cremont, and certainly most liberal voters,

possess a dangerous combination of political apathy, ignorance, a lack of attention span, and an enthusiasm to vote with reckless alacrity. Now, admittedly, I live in a sort of bright-wing bubble, since all of my friends and family are politically conservative. And I know you have previously assured me that most Americans would be horrified by the spectacle of a former president and current presidential candidate behind bars on the eve of an election. But I do live in a large liberal city, and when I go out to bars and other public places, I often make it a point to talk to random people about politics. And while these people tend to have fairly reasonable opinions, they nonetheless have a baseless trust in the federal justice system and almost always say that they would not vote for Trump if he is convicted. of a crime. And this is not just my anecdotal observation. At least one recent poll showed that 55% of Americans would not vote for Trump if he were convicted. Now, I think that Donald Trump was the greatest American president since Lincoln, since Washington, and even since King Ashoka of ancient India.

But I donated to Vivek because, as he put it, to nominate Trump as to send him into a buzzsaw. Alas, it appears that Trump will be our nominee, and of course he has my full support, but I still lack confidence in our fellow Americans. My question for you is twofold. From whence do you drive your trust in the wisdom of the American public? And should Trump be convicted in the months leading up to the election, how do we convince the American electorate to vote for him? Thank you, as always, for your wisdom. Great question, is always a ruin.

Well, you mentioned large liberal city. That's where you're talking to these people. So I have no doubt that that's what they believe, and they do have a mindless trust, not only in the justice system, but in most aspects of government in these large liberal cities. So that doesn't surprise me. I guess the reason I still have a great deal of confidence in the American people is, one, because they're American, and Americans have always been a little bit more conservative than say the French or something like that. But two, because I have trust in people more broadly to maintain some of the common sense. This is what Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist theorist, bemoaned about the communist revolutions, as he said, these radicals, they lost the common sense. And if you don't

hold on to the common sense, you're not going to have an effective revolution because the people aren't going to like your theories. They're going to like their stuff and their habits and their way of life more than they like your theories. So I think we still, the American people still possess a great deal of common sense. And then how do you convince those people to vote for them? Well, you're not convincing the people in the big liberal cities generally. It's just a waste of time, probably. You're convincing people in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Arizona and those sorts of places, Georgia, to vote for Trump. And how do you do it?

You tailor it to each state to use just the example of Michigan, you know. You make an appeal to the large Muslim population in Michigan that the Democrats have encouraged to come in and you say, hey, do you want to vote for Joe Biden, who is like completely insane and wants to chop off kids' genitals and, you know, upend everything that's normal? Or you want to vote for Trump, who is just kind of normal. You probably want to vote for the normal guy, right? I think in a lot of these swing states, you just, you need to convince people that Trump is the more normal person. And it's weird because he's a billionaire playboy from New York, who's a TV star and a real estate mogul.

And I know he doesn't seem normal for most of Joe's career. Joe's schick was that he was normal. But he's not normal. He's opened our country to an invasion of over six million people. Joe Biden is saying that either, you know, they're going to threaten taking your kids away from you if you don't trans them. They're going to bring the weight of the federal government to bear on not only transgenderism, but even transing the kids. Joe Biden is the one who's going to get us into World War III. He's not normal. And so we've talked recently because of my favorite Twitter account,

Edmund Smirke's theory of normality about how it's really important to hold on to normality. It's the same insight that Gromshy is pointing out. You need to have, you need to seem like you're the normal common sense person. And can Trump do that? Yes. Will he do that? That remains to be seen. If you want to join us for the Membrum Segmentum, it will be fake headline Friday. So head on over there.

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